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June 14, 2026

Brown and tan

by David M Willis on August 11, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Vote for Robin
└ Tags: dina, drew, ethan

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 11, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    locking doors, a marvelous invention!

    🤷

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 11, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      Socking doors, a glorious alternative.

    • Twirls
      Twirls
      August 11, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

      True Story: My first college freshman roommate used to unlock the doors after I would go to sleep. Ugh.

      • Khyrin
        Khyrin
        August 11, 2019 at 3:05 am | #

        My college roommate locked me out because he was schtupping his girlfriend. He then passed out and I had to sleep on the couch.

        This was preferable to when, two months after i thought he started remembering to unlock the door, I learned that the reason he took the mattress off the frame was so he “won’t wake [me] up.”

        He’d started schtupping her with me IN THE ROOM AND ASLEEP.

        • Tim
          Tim
          August 11, 2019 at 4:04 am | #

          Well it could be worse, he could have been actually good at it. Because clearly he wasn’t if they were able to be that quiet.

          Then again, it could have been a lot worse and he had started schtupping her while she was asleep too

          • nlips
            nlips
            August 11, 2019 at 4:13 am | #

            My gf and I learned to be very, very quiet when we were going at it when her parents were in the other room…

          • huttj509
            huttj509
            August 11, 2019 at 4:35 pm | #

            Eh, people vary. My ex was always quiet, and got more so at, um, the climax…

        • LeslieBean4shizzle
          LeslieBean4shizzle
          August 11, 2019 at 6:40 pm | #

          Ah, that reminds me of the time I came back to my dormroom in the midafternoon while wearing headphones, unlocked the door, walked into the room, set my bag down, picked up my DVD player from my desk, turned around, and got an eyefull of my roommate riding her boyfriend very vigorously. Due to headphones, I hadn’t heard them, and due to their distraction, they hadn’t noticed me either.

          After a shocked moment, I grabbed a DVD and snuck back out of the room, relocking it behind me, and went to the lounge with my DVD player to watch some anime on the communal TV. Which is what I was planning to do anyway, but without that image burnt into my retinas.

          As far as I know, they never realized I’d been in the room. Which is probably for the best because, while obviously not adverse to sex itself, my roommate was almost Joyce levels of repressed when it came to _talking_ about sex.

          • Oberon
            Oberon
            August 12, 2019 at 8:57 pm | #

            It seems like you missed out on a perfect opportunity to torment her. You could just drop little tid-bits about things you saw into casual conversation, without specifying that you actually saw them. Soft of like “Hey, I was wondering if you preferred cowgirl or reverse cowgirl?” Then pause, and exclaim while she is sputtering “You’re a cowgirl (or reverse, whichever one she was doing that night) person, I just know it!”

      • Romanticide
        Romanticide
        August 11, 2019 at 10:55 pm | #

        WHY? D:

    • Crusading Barista
      Crusading Barista
      August 11, 2019 at 11:09 am | #

      I hath returned, with a gift of glad tiding to you all.

      https://youtu.be/WjeO84QSl5A

      Thou art all welcome.

  2. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    August 11, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Unauthorized sneaky makeout session.

    WITH HONOR!

    • ReFlex76
      ReFlex76
      August 11, 2019 at 7:12 pm | #

      “Makeout” . . . sure, that’s totally all they did.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 11, 2019 at 8:16 pm | #

        Honestly, most likely. At most. In someone else’s room, where they could walk in at any moment?

        • Oberon
          Oberon
          August 12, 2019 at 8:58 pm | #

          College…

  3. Some1
    Some1
    August 11, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    Is the strip small for anyone else or is that just me?

    • Dara
      Dara
      August 11, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      YES

      then I refreshed and it got larger

      it was zooming in i think

    • Cattleprod
      Cattleprod
      August 11, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      It was small initially, when I reloaded to see if anyone else commented on that it was normal.

      • miz
        miz
        August 11, 2019 at 2:42 am | #

        it’s still small for me. maybe by commenting this it will prompt the page to fix it?

  4. butts
    butts
    August 11, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

    • butts
      butts
      August 11, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      i am, of course, talking specifically about dina’s dinosaur sweatpants

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        August 11, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

        There are teeth on the inner legs.

        As with the “dig it” shirt, she may have missed a possible innuendo.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 11, 2019 at 9:54 am | #

          Really, though, is V. Dentata really an image you WANT to evoke?

          • Tarpo
            Tarpo
            August 12, 2019 at 12:39 am | #

            Vagina Dentata What a Wonderful Phrase!
            Vagina Dentata ain’t no passing phase.
            Its a vag you see, whats full of teeeeeth
            Vagina Dentata

            • elebenty
              elebenty
              August 12, 2019 at 3:01 pm | #

              Once more I’m left wishing DoA had an upvote button.
              Nicely crafted earworm you have there.

  5. Dark
    Dark
    August 11, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    Eww, gross, Drew.

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 11, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    Maybe Fred will finally win the fight
    And the cat will stay out over night
    When you’re with the Flintstones…

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      August 11, 2019 at 6:54 am | #

      You’ll have a
      gaaaaaayyyy
      oooooold
      tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        August 11, 2019 at 9:29 am | #

        WILMA!

  7. Sean Dillon
    Sean Dillon
    August 11, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    Hello Boyfriend.

  8. Poskie
    Poskie
    August 11, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    That’s DINA’S primo makeout spot, god dammit!

  9. purblebirb
    purblebirb
    August 11, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    Is Drew also a TF nerd in this verse?

  10. Nono
    Nono
    August 11, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    Ah, Drew. I really hope he works out better in this universe.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      August 11, 2019 at 6:57 am | #

      He could just be a casual fling.
      Though that’d probably still count as “working out better”

  11. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    August 11, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    That is Dina’s velociraptor purchased with blood money. Only she and her Aaron Burr kind of girlfriend can have intimacy over it.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      August 11, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

      Blech. No way is she anything like Aaron Burr. For one thing, she’d know better than to include Wilkinson in a conspiracy.

      • jeffepp
        jeffepp
        August 11, 2019 at 10:11 pm | #

        Wilkinson was such a backstabber.

  12. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 11, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Oh. Great. Drew’s back.

    Yaaaaay.

    Anyways, you two, don’t make out on someone else’s bed, that’s icky. 😛

    • Sol Karas
      Sol Karas
      August 11, 2019 at 12:38 am | #

      Been a while since I read Shortpacked!… Drew was the guy who was being utterly ridiculous about Ethan’s collecting habits, right?

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        August 11, 2019 at 12:42 am | #

        The very same.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        August 11, 2019 at 1:18 am | #

        I don’t think I could handle Ethan’s collecting habits either, myself.

        But I wouldn’t turn it into “Something is WRONG with you, Ethan, and you need to completely abandon this thing that is so central to your life, if you want me to not consider you a freak unworthy of my affection.” I’d be more like, “I know this is really important to you, but it’s really difficult for me to deal with, and maybe we’re not meant to share living quarters.”

        DoA Drew may be different from SP! Drew, of course. But SP! Drew clearly considered Ethan to be a) damaged goods, and b) morally responsible for not controlling his (Ethan’s) interests in a method that he (Drew) considered socially acceptable.

        tl;dr: fuck Drew

        • Nono
          Nono
          August 11, 2019 at 1:47 am | #

          SP! Drew started off fine, I think. He just pointed out that the sheer amount of toys that Ethan had made him slightly claustrophobic. And did some lighthearted teasing.

          The issue did go both ways – Ethan was highly dependent on his toy collecting for comfort, and was very defensive about it. The split came when they couldn’t reconcile their differences and kept expecting the other to suit them.

          • jimbotherisenclown
            jimbotherisenclown
            September 1, 2019 at 4:20 am | #

            After the split is when Drew really became an asshole if I remember correctly.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          August 11, 2019 at 3:11 am | #

          This.

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          August 11, 2019 at 9:25 am | #

          I think the message I’m getting is more don’t f–k Drew. Unfortunately, it would appear to have come too late for Ethan.

          • Daibhid C
            Daibhid C
            August 11, 2019 at 9:26 am | #

            Darn, I was being so Joyce about actually writing “f–k”, I forgot to check the italic tags.

        • Sam
          Sam
          August 11, 2019 at 1:20 pm | #

          I wouldn’t be able to handle it either. Drew let his apprehension build into resentment at the sight of them instead of having a more chill conversation that while displaying them was cool, he was collecting them at such a rate, there was nowhere to display anything else and that it was suffocating when it was leaking into other rooms and that his interest was overwhelmingly pervading into their every moment together. Like, there are efficient ways to display things – it’s why display cases are a thing which could have condensed how much space they took up, so there were definitely ways to fix it, but Drew wasn’t looking to offer solutions to the problem, he was just getting annoyed about it.

  13. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    August 11, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

    I spent a couple minutes looking at this comic trying to remember drew and then went “ohhhhh that’s catman”

  14. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    August 11, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

    I hope Drew is less of a douche in this universe.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      August 11, 2019 at 3:13 am | #

      I hope so too.

  15. Questionor
    Questionor
    August 11, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

    What’s a Drew?

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 11, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

      An Ethan boyfriend.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 11, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

      A jerk.
      A hot jerk.

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        August 11, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

        A hot MESS who is also a jerk.

    • Spriteless Girl
      Spriteless Girl
      August 11, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

      Unwilling to compromise about certain things that are central to Ethan. Hope they’re just bangin.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      August 11, 2019 at 1:33 am | #

      Drew is who David drew down next to Dina’s dino.

      • Lieutenant Dan
        Lieutenant Dan
        August 11, 2019 at 7:22 am | #

        According to the tags, Dina drew Ethan.
        😏

        • Jess
          Jess
          August 11, 2019 at 10:25 am | #

          Naw, that’s Willis’ job!

    • nobodybasically
      nobodybasically
      August 11, 2019 at 7:24 am | #

      A miserable pile of secrets.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        August 11, 2019 at 5:08 pm | #

        *claps* Good answer! Good answer!

  16. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    August 11, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    Dina’s raptor is too awesome, it’s become irresistible. Hope she knows how to wash it.

  17. ScarletSabre
    ScarletSabre
    August 11, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

    Oh dear, we finally see Drew in Dumbiverse… do you think he’ll figure out he’s bi while with Ethan, or think he’ll leave Ethen thinking he only likes girls at some point?

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 11, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

      Hopefully this is the last we’ll see of him.

  18. Clif
    Clif
    August 11, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

    How did Ethan find out about it?

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 11, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

      Because his best friend is Dina’s roommate?

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        August 11, 2019 at 2:35 am | #

        Amber: Dina’s girlfriend gave her a giant dinobot-looking plushie, but neither of them are into Transformers, so they can’t properly appreciate it!

  19. Tan
    Tan
    August 11, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

    Both Amber and Dina predicted this. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/04-vote-for-robin/legitsorries/

    (I also discovered, while looking this strip up, that the June 15, 2019 strip’s alttext predicts that Asher will eventually be teaming up with Walky. So perhaps that bodes better than expected. Or it’s a throwaway alttext joke. Who can say.)

  20. CMasta
    CMasta
    August 11, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    More breaking and entering. I weep for the future of this nation

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 11, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

      One of the doors was probably unlocked.

    • Solenoid
      Solenoid
      August 11, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

      Presumably these statements are somewhat unrelated, given, you know. *waves arms widly* everything

    • Zero
      Zero
      August 11, 2019 at 1:42 am | #

      I’m glad you’re optimistic about it.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      August 11, 2019 at 3:11 am | #

      Or maybe Dina just forgot to lock her door.

  21. Tacos
    Tacos
    August 11, 2019 at 12:30 am | #

    Well to be fair, who wouldn’t want to sit and/or make-out on a giant Velociraptor plushy?

    • StClair
      StClair
      August 11, 2019 at 1:22 am | #

      Me. Sounds potentially uncomfortable, really.

    • Dana
      Dana
      August 11, 2019 at 1:25 am | #

      Randall Munroe.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      August 11, 2019 at 9:33 am | #

      Literally anyone who has ever attended an InGen-funded amusement park.

  22. Zellgato
    Zellgato
    August 11, 2019 at 12:42 am | #

    Erm.. wait did he sneak in his boyo… Into Dina’s room? On the girl’s floor?
    the f09k?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      August 11, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

      It’s not a girl’s floor. It’s the same floor, separate wings, the only thing you need to do to get to the other wing is walk down the hall.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        August 11, 2019 at 9:34 am | #

        Also, Billie and Amazi-Girl have done that to the boys wing. More than once.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          August 11, 2019 at 9:59 am | #

          Walky did that too, but he was in Dotto-trance at the time.

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/divert/

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/pervert/

  23. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    August 11, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

    Fuck Drew. If you can’t accept Ethan at his Transformers Nerd then you don’t deserve him at all, period.

    • Zero
      Zero
      August 11, 2019 at 1:43 am | #

      I believe that was Ethan’s intention, yes.

  24. DuckDuckMoose
    DuckDuckMoose
    August 11, 2019 at 12:59 am | #

    DAVID. SERIOUSLY. DREW. WHAT THE SHIT. THIS IS ALL OF THE UNCALLED FOR.

  25. BarerMender
    BarerMender
    August 11, 2019 at 1:02 am | #

    I wonder how Dina would’ve acted if she’d caught Ethan on the down stroke.

  26. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    August 11, 2019 at 1:18 am | #

    Eh, I never hated Drew.
    He did get kinda shitty at the end though.

    Spoilers for Shortpacked!
    If you wanna read that decade of comics that ended ~4.5 years ago.

    (My favorites are the Big No and when Willis had to beg his fans to stop sending him porn.)

  27. Kyle
    Kyle
    August 11, 2019 at 1:27 am | #

    dinosaurs are queer magnets i speak from experience

    • Zero
      Zero
      August 11, 2019 at 2:01 am | #

      Really.

      …where can one obtain one of this “dinosaurs”?

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        August 11, 2019 at 2:13 am | #

        Fuck the dinosaurs. Where can I obtain the queers?

        • Wizard
          Wizard
          August 11, 2019 at 3:42 am | #

          Judging from the darker reaches of Amazon, a lot more people than I would have expected are into fucking dinosaurs.

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            August 11, 2019 at 9:35 am | #

            You heard him, Zero. Find a dinosaur and drop yer pants.

            • Zero
              Zero
              August 13, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

              I feel that you have fundamentally misunderstood the objective here.

      • Zero
        Zero
        August 13, 2019 at 12:34 am | #

        By getting the dinosaurs. That’s why I want them.
        Keep up.

  28. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    August 11, 2019 at 1:42 am | #

    I realized that I am being tempted to respond to every comment that mentions Drew, and that’s when I realized that I need to back off right now.

    But here’s what I feel I need to say: there’s nothing wrong with falling in love with someone, and then eventually realizing that the two of you are incompatible. That’s painful for everyone involved, but it’s not wrong.

    What’s wrong is blaming the other person for not being compatible with you. If the other person structures their world around One Piece, and you thought it was cute until you realized that it wasn’t just pretend, and you can’t deal with that? That’s not your fault, but it’s not their fault, either, it’s just incompatibility.

    (And of course I am not talking about when the other person does things that hurt other people or are self-destructive. But in general a collecting habit is neither of those.)

    Anyway, ’nuff said.

    • Nono
      Nono
      August 11, 2019 at 2:06 am | #

      I actually agree. It’s fine to realize that you guys don’t work. It’s how you handle the fallout that’s the problem.

      Their breakup was fine. Drew’s last few moments in the strip weren’t, they were a little bitter (which, to a small degree, he’s allowed to be, but he still handled it pretty crappily).

      But yeah, sometimes people just move in different directions. It stinks, but that’s how life goes. It doesn’t make the actual relationship a mistake.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        August 11, 2019 at 3:16 am | #

        Breaking up was fine, but ‘the breakup’ wasn’t – Drew tried to frame it not as incompatibility, but as Ethan’s being unwilling to ‘change his bad habits’ – that is, his collecting.

        Given his post-breakup appearances, I suspect that Drew was just trying to spark a fight, because he really seems like a dramasexual.

        • Nono
          Nono
          August 11, 2019 at 4:45 am | #

          Well that is, in the sense, the issue of it – Drew saw the collecting as unhealthy. Ethan pointed out that he managed his finances fine, and he was even putting away some of his toys for him. Drew also indulged in some of Ethan’s own eccentricities – doing roleplay sex and going to cons with him, but he also needed a break from being about toys all the time.

          Did Ethan hoard too much? Possibly. Was he doing in a stable manner, and was allowed to? Yes. The problem came when trying to accommodate Drew made him unhappy, and Drew wasn’t satisfied with Ethan’s compromising.

          And yeah, Drew really didn’t handle the last bits well – which is a shame, since I did see him as more fleshed out than Manny, and was wondering if Willis just wanted to end SP! soon so he could get started on DoA.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            August 11, 2019 at 12:12 pm | #

            Dumbing of Age and SP ran concurrently for a while.

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              August 11, 2019 at 3:22 pm | #

              4 and a half years, or thereabouts, specifically.

              Also, Drew’s first appearance was only 7 months before DoA started, and the breakup was just over a year after it did. His final appearance (not counting being mentioned in the T Campbell-written text story) was in 2013.

          • TemperaryObsessor
            TemperaryObsessor
            August 11, 2019 at 7:57 pm | #

            A major problem was Drew increasingly used shame to get his way over the toy issue convincing Ethan that the something that made him happy was wrong.
            Eventually Ethan realized that toys were not ruining his life and wanted Drew to accept that his way of life isn’t inherently better. Drew refused ended that conversation by telling Ethan that Ethan had decided before the conversation started because Ethan ordered his drink to go.
            Honestly I think ordering the drink to go just meant that Ethan was open to the possibility that Drew wouldn’t co operate.

  29. Deadjolras
    Deadjolras
    August 11, 2019 at 1:57 am | #

    As someone who has never read Shortpacked, the comments section here is kind of amusing.

  30. BarerMender
    BarerMender
    August 11, 2019 at 2:17 am | #

    Is it strange that I love DoA, but when I went back and checked the older comics, I didn’t like any of them? I’m not knocking them. If that’s what it took to get The Willis to DoA, that’s great. I’m really glad he got here.

    • Sam
      Sam
      August 11, 2019 at 1:28 pm | #

      Nah, that’s fine. The only other comic I have been interested and engaged by was Shortpacked but it was definitely tonally way more wacky shenanigans than DoA so I do like DoA a lot more.

  31. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    August 11, 2019 at 2:33 am | #

    Wow Ethan gets to move fast in this universe , he already got the local Drew to accompany him to the big velociraptor plush on Dina’s room

  32. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 11, 2019 at 2:56 am | #

    Dina? Maybe you want to wash down the plush with a damp cloth soaked in disinfectant. Just saying.

    • StClair
      StClair
      August 11, 2019 at 11:26 am | #

      Definitely.

  33. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 11, 2019 at 2:59 am | #

    See, Dina, your problem was that you left your room. You shouldn’t have left your room. You already knew the solution, and you blew it. You are better than this.

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/04-vote-for-robin/plunge/

  34. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    August 11, 2019 at 3:08 am | #

    Talk about disrespecting other people’s property.

  35. Keulen
    Keulen
    August 11, 2019 at 3:12 am | #

    I wonder how many people know about Dina’s huge velociraptor plushie by now.

  36. etherealdesiign
    etherealdesiign
    August 11, 2019 at 3:29 am | #

    wait no i didn’t want to see him here ever

    how long until he joins the new axis of something

  37. Aelfwine
    Aelfwine
    August 11, 2019 at 4:25 am | #

    What the hell. Merely lying on another person’s bed without permission is a violation of boundaries (and Ethan isn’t that close to Dina as far as I can remember).

    That he brought along his fuckbuddy-of-the-week with him, to make-out-or-worse on it, is so gross that it enrages me.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      August 11, 2019 at 7:03 am | #

      I feel the same. What the fuck, Ethan?

    • StClair
      StClair
      August 11, 2019 at 11:27 am | #

      Ever since he decided “fuck it, I’m just gonna go with it”, Ethan’s been thinkin’ with his dick a lot. Like, a lot.

    • Sam
      Sam
      August 11, 2019 at 1:30 pm | #

      I agree. I wouldn’t be very happy with Ethan right now.

  38. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 11, 2019 at 6:38 am | #

    Aha! I was wondering if Drew would show up here from Shortpacked. Hope he’s less of a jerk this time.

  39. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    August 11, 2019 at 6:51 am | #

    Looks like Amber’s prediction was right.

  40. Macunaima
    Macunaima
    August 11, 2019 at 8:23 am | #

    Check that dinosaur with some ultraviolet light, Dina!

  41. JBento
    JBento
    August 11, 2019 at 8:40 am | #

    Is a complete lack of acknowledging boundaries an American trait? ‘Cos I swear, pretty much EVERYONE in this comic needs a shock collar.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      August 11, 2019 at 9:37 am | #

      Not all Yanks are like this, but more of us are than I’d like.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 11, 2019 at 10:26 am | #

      It’s also largely a college dorm thing. It’s a weird kind of transitional space. Part of the point of it is to learn how to share space with other people – outside of your immediate family.

    • Su Xing
      Su Xing
      August 11, 2019 at 12:28 pm | #

      A complete lack of boundaries is common human trait that is most definitely not limited to any one nationality.

      Also what thejeff said: young people on their own for the first time frequently do have to stumble through learning a lot.

    • wynne
      wynne
      August 11, 2019 at 12:32 pm | #

      This is Ethan going beyond the bounds of normal behavior for the funny, not something that would actually happen. I hope.

      Like, idk about anyone else but we didn’t leave our rooms open & unlocked nearly as often as these kids do, especially if we weren’t in them (unless you were going to the bathroom or something, like Dina here). And you wouldn’t barge in on someone’s room unless you were close enough to have a tacit invitation. And even then… you knocked first.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 11, 2019 at 12:38 pm | #

        Well, Ethan is close enough to Amber to have a tacit invitation. And with no one there, he might well have knocked first.

  42. Jason Rivest
    Jason Rivest
    August 11, 2019 at 9:02 am | #

    Aww, Ethan wanted to check-out the giant DINOBOT plushie. And then he got embarrassed.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 11, 2019 at 2:56 pm | #

      He broke into someone else’s room to have sex on their furniture. He should be embarrassed.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 11, 2019 at 4:35 pm | #

        He went to his best friend Amber’s room and sat on the giant plushie. The evidence that he had sex or even intended to is damn slim. May have made out. May not have.

        Let’s not exaggerate how bad this is.

        • Alan in DC
          Alan in DC
          August 11, 2019 at 8:58 pm | #

          But its FUN to do so…

  43. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    August 11, 2019 at 10:10 am | #

    “Oh, Drew!”
    “Oh, Ethan!”
    “Oh, Dinobot plushie!”
    “He is NOT a Dinobot plushie!!”
    “Oh crap, Dina!”
    “OUT!!!!”

  44. Pat Myers
    Pat Myers
    August 11, 2019 at 10:48 am | #

    That’s not Duncan! My ship will never leave port.

  45. wakeangel2001
    wakeangel2001
    August 11, 2019 at 1:11 pm | #

    of course Ethan would want to have sex on Dinobot’s back

  46. Micki
    Micki
    August 12, 2019 at 1:07 pm | #

    I wonder if it’s a coincidence that he looks like a combo of Danny and Joyce. lol

  47. Felian
    Felian
    August 12, 2019 at 8:34 pm | #

    Diiina why would you alienate the only other person who really, really appreciates a giant stuffed dinosaur?!

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