I recall her describing transformers stabbing each other with their naughty bits and I do mean “stabbing” so I’m not sure I truly understand how her “only one bed” trope can be exploited non-painfully
Let’s see. Walky is a young college age student with an incredible metabolism she has a sweet spot for. I am a complete stranger who is a tired post 70’s man now entering into the mandatory body-falling-apart stage.
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Eh, I guess we’ll never know.
Amber is cute even when she’s in pain. I really hope that she and Walky end up dating again; they seem to have good chemistry. Especially if Amber is thinking about fanfiction while sharing a bed with him.
She definitely has a wound on the right side of her stomach, when Sal found her there was blood there, you can kinda see the patched up wound here and in the next strip Sal mentions Amber being patched up with surgical glue, but I don’t think it’s been stated how she got the wound. My assumption is a laceration, but unsure from what.
Dina later told Dorothy she wasn’t shot to reassure her. I can’t think of a any standard SWAT gear that would stab or pierce like this, makes me wonder if Dina lied.
Doopyboop
It could be a friction sort of tear. I just don’t imagine Dina would be the type to sugarcoat something as serious as a wound.
butting
Surely if there’d been any gunshots they would have been heard and reported? And possibly even mentioned on the front page alongside the THIRST?
Doopyboop
Also another suggestion, Amber’s injury could also have come about from the environmental while fleeing the cops. For example, she was found in the woods so maybe while running she brushed against a branch that scraped her. Or, in a more urban setting like the park the protest was in, maybe she got hurt on a fence, or brushing past a car.
embe13
she could have taken piercing damage from the chain link fencing. also if hit hard enough with a blunt object (like a police baton) the trauma can lead to bleeding. thankfully never experienced it but have seen images as part of workplace safety training. NEVER BREAK LIGHTBULBS! ENSURE PROPER FOOTWEAR WHEN CLEANING THEM UP!
All we know is that she wasn’t shot. If we didn’t know the cops inflicted it I would have assumed a stab wound.
My read was that she took a severe blunt force impact to the lower chest that was exacerbated by her having to flee the scene into the forest and collapsing in the underbrush.
She was injured in a way that precluded going to the medical center. Any injury from a fall would not need to be reported, a gunshot wound or a stabbing would be reported to the police. If gunshot is eliminated, then a stabbing is implied since she needed to seek unofficial medical help.
How dare you compare this to “there’s only one bed”. No, no, Walky has plenty of bed to find, it’s just that he’s too emotionally damaged to use it. This is the advanced “Rather be with you than with my feelings” trope.
I mean, plenty of “there’s only one bed” fics happen in situations where other beds technically exist? I don’t think Walky considers Dorothy’s bed a real option.
Ah, the abdomen lesson is a hard one to learn. I got food poisoning once, spent all night/morning projectile vomiting (and sometimes missing the toilet…), threw up to the point that I tore my throat. A good safety lesson! If you see something brownish with the consistency of coffee grounds in your vomit, that’s blood! It gets that look because of the way blood mixes with stomach acid! I had to spend all weekend recovering from how much it tore up my abdomen muscles, and that was without getting sliced like Amber did. I couldn’t even sit up to get out of bed, I had to do an awkward roll…
Is anyone else having issues with commenting? Whenever I successfully write a comment the site says page not found, but the comment goes through anyway. Also it still refuses to save my name and email despite me having the little box checked.
Yes, I and many others have this problem, most of the time. Sometimes you don’t get the error and have a 10 minute edit option, but even then your name and email are not saved, regardless of checkmark.
i do not know why but that stopped for me a week ago, it takes 10 seconds for the site to update when i post, but it has gone through everytime, i wonder if it has to do with the site cookies, the save your name and email are saved but i have to click and they autofil.
on pc
The error message probably happens depending on how long it takes the type the comment and how active the comment section is. Data on a server uses a database format, your browser downloads a HTML representation of that data. The identity and size of the comment section of that HTML document are dynamic. With many comments being posted the size and identity change too much to be re-integrated and generate an error condition. This is fixed by reloading the website.
On a similar point, has the Buffer Watch stopped showing up for anyone else?
Cause the alt text made me curious if Willis meant Valentines day last year or this year (as in a very recent insert strip), so I went to check if he was again a full year ahead – and nothin. No Buffer Watch.
Edit: Oh wait. Buffer Watch appears on the Main DoA Page. It just doesn’t appear when on comments – which I always am.
Yes, though I assumed it refusing to remember my name and email was an issue with my browser and/or plugins because site’s not remembering me happens everywhere now.
The only “wetness” Amber can do at this moment is bleed, but hopefully she’ll live up to her own fanfiction expectations once she isn’t in so much pain. Knowing Amber she’ll probably try before she’s fully recovered, but not tonight.
I can’t help but think Amber feels like she deserves this by her own logic. She (thinks she did at least) played a part in what broke Walky and Dorothy up so she deserves to suffer, laying up close and in pain.
She certainly nudged them in that direction. And she intended to break up Joe and Joyce for her own benefit. But a stab wound is by far too much to pay. She could have had a bit of regret without a risk of infection and jail time. Guess she could have gotten Mike hallucinations again, so who’s to say which would have been worse.
Heh. Reminds me a bit of Just Stab Me Now…. (Book/audiobook/Youtube channel, plotline is about an author who periodically enters into her own novel to confront the heroine, who is absolutely NOT down with the whole “enemies to lovers” trope and its associated elements, including There’s Only One Bed.) Highly recommend!
off topic but useful tip for a mental health boost:
I just installed a chrome extension which removes all side bar videos when using YouTube, cuz let’s face it, the algorithm cares about nothing but traffic and has so much endemic rage bait it’s just not worth the trouble anymore
having had my appendix removed recently, and making the mistake of moving a bit too much after the surgery, I can confirm that your doctor will get very upset with you, and sit you down to explain how much of what you do requires your core lol
Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but when I was in college I’m pretty sure the beds weren’t big enough for two people to sleep side-by-side in one bed comfortably. I guess Indiana University has bigger beds than we had at my college years ago? This isn’t really a complaint, I genuinely like today’s strip.
I shared a twin size bed with someone for like 3 years; you learn to adapt. Although we slept while holding each other which meant the lack of space wasn’t a problem.
Amber’s comment in panel 2 about how much of her is connected through her lower abdomen just made me think of Vic Michaelis asking “Am I a bag Hank?” and being worried about the answer.
If enough people are:
a) determined to read this comic and
b) hate Joyce or Dorothy or both
given that this is a comic about Joyce…. maybe someone should set up one of those websites like “Is it snowing in Dunedin”, only “does DoA feature Joyce & Dorothy today” then those people can check and give it a miss on Joyce&Dorothy days.
But maybe I’m reading it wrong. Maybe there are simply people who love loudly hating Joyce&Dorothy
92 thoughts on “Perfect gentleman”
Astariel
If only real life was more like fanfiction…
OLD
This is pretty close to fan fiction though. Maybe she just doesn’t appreciate hurt/comfort stories as much.
Lysbeth
I recall her describing transformers stabbing each other with their naughty bits and I do mean “stabbing” so I’m not sure I truly understand how her “only one bed” trope can be exploited non-painfully
Sirksome
Don’t trust uninspired smut scenarios in fanfiction. Do better Amber.
clif
I’m not sure I could do a better Amber.
eh, whatever
Commas are important people!
clif
Some Commas are *very* important people. Comma Jones , for example, supports their entire family.
jabbingQuirker
i mean walky could probably do amber better
clif
Let’s see. Walky is a young college age student with an incredible metabolism she has a sweet spot for. I am a complete stranger who is a tired post 70’s man now entering into the mandatory body-falling-apart stage.
—
Eh, I guess we’ll never know.
IntangibleMatter
“There was only one bed in the hospital room, so he had to sleep with me!”
deliverything
“He kept going on about something called ‘medical ethics’, though.”
ZombieKyrik
Amber is cute even when she’s in pain. I really hope that she and Walky end up dating again; they seem to have good chemistry. Especially if Amber is thinking about fanfiction while sharing a bed with him.
Stormtide Leviathan
I mean tbf it’s a safe bet that amber is thinking about fanfiction at any given moment. But yes, true
Needfuldoer
Amber and Walky have more chemistry together than all the other current main character pairings, except maybe one or two.
Allen Alberti
Amber and Walky and Sal and Danny are my faves.
Quinn
Do we know what kind of injury she has? I think they said she wasn’t shot.
Doopyboop
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/anesthetized/
She definitely has a wound on the right side of her stomach, when Sal found her there was blood there, you can kinda see the patched up wound here and in the next strip Sal mentions Amber being patched up with surgical glue, but I don’t think it’s been stated how she got the wound. My assumption is a laceration, but unsure from what.
Quinn
Dina later told Dorothy she wasn’t shot to reassure her. I can’t think of a any standard SWAT gear that would stab or pierce like this, makes me wonder if Dina lied.
Doopyboop
It could be a friction sort of tear. I just don’t imagine Dina would be the type to sugarcoat something as serious as a wound.
butting
Surely if there’d been any gunshots they would have been heard and reported? And possibly even mentioned on the front page alongside the THIRST?
Doopyboop
Also another suggestion, Amber’s injury could also have come about from the environmental while fleeing the cops. For example, she was found in the woods so maybe while running she brushed against a branch that scraped her. Or, in a more urban setting like the park the protest was in, maybe she got hurt on a fence, or brushing past a car.
embe13
she could have taken piercing damage from the chain link fencing. also if hit hard enough with a blunt object (like a police baton) the trauma can lead to bleeding. thankfully never experienced it but have seen images as part of workplace safety training. NEVER BREAK LIGHTBULBS! ENSURE PROPER FOOTWEAR WHEN CLEANING THEM UP!
Whirlakitty
Yeah, you can get some pretty nasty wounds just being active outdoors even without tear gas and armed thugs to contend with.
Thag Simmons
All we know is that she wasn’t shot. If we didn’t know the cops inflicted it I would have assumed a stab wound.
My read was that she took a severe blunt force impact to the lower chest that was exacerbated by her having to flee the scene into the forest and collapsing in the underbrush.
Rimwalker55
She was injured in a way that precluded going to the medical center. Any injury from a fall would not need to be reported, a gunshot wound or a stabbing would be reported to the police. If gunshot is eliminated, then a stabbing is implied since she needed to seek unofficial medical help.
Bill Erak
How dare you compare this to “there’s only one bed”. No, no, Walky has plenty of bed to find, it’s just that he’s too emotionally damaged to use it. This is the advanced “Rather be with you than with my feelings” trope.
ZombieKyrik
Amber doesn’t know that, so she’s going with the most common trope she knows/writes about.
clif
It’s complicated.
flake
thank you! i’ve been writing this trope and been struggling to put my finger on it
Li
I mean, plenty of “there’s only one bed” fics happen in situations where other beds technically exist? I don’t think Walky considers Dorothy’s bed a real option.
Big Z
There’s also the little matter that none of the “available” beds belong to him, nor has he been invited to use any of them
Li
Tapping this comment vigorously because Yes.
Dave Van Domelen
The whole “Hurt/Comfort” thing is working less well than in fanfic as well.
Isalis
Oh no, she’s genre savvy
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Hurt/Comfort fic
Doopyboop
Ah, the abdomen lesson is a hard one to learn. I got food poisoning once, spent all night/morning projectile vomiting (and sometimes missing the toilet…), threw up to the point that I tore my throat. A good safety lesson! If you see something brownish with the consistency of coffee grounds in your vomit, that’s blood! It gets that look because of the way blood mixes with stomach acid! I had to spend all weekend recovering from how much it tore up my abdomen muscles, and that was without getting sliced like Amber did. I couldn’t even sit up to get out of bed, I had to do an awkward roll…
Leorale
C-section.
It’s a pretty crazy operation, and then they hand you a baby to take care of.
Doopyboop
“Happy surgery, have a baby!”
ZombieKyrik
Is anyone else having issues with commenting? Whenever I successfully write a comment the site says page not found, but the comment goes through anyway. Also it still refuses to save my name and email despite me having the little box checked.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Yes, I and many others have this problem, most of the time. Sometimes you don’t get the error and have a 10 minute edit option, but even then your name and email are not saved, regardless of checkmark.
Alongcameaspider
This has been an issue since the new site went live
embe13
i do not know why but that stopped for me a week ago, it takes 10 seconds for the site to update when i post, but it has gone through everytime, i wonder if it has to do with the site cookies, the save your name and email are saved but i have to click and they autofil.
on pc
Rimwalker55
The error message probably happens depending on how long it takes the type the comment and how active the comment section is. Data on a server uses a database format, your browser downloads a HTML representation of that data. The identity and size of the comment section of that HTML document are dynamic. With many comments being posted the size and identity change too much to be re-integrated and generate an error condition. This is fixed by reloading the website.
Rose By Any Other Name
On a similar point, has the Buffer Watch stopped showing up for anyone else?
Cause the alt text made me curious if Willis meant Valentines day last year or this year (as in a very recent insert strip), so I went to check if he was again a full year ahead – and nothin. No Buffer Watch.
Edit: Oh wait. Buffer Watch appears on the Main DoA Page. It just doesn’t appear when on comments – which I always am.
Rectilinear Propagation
Yes, though I assumed it refusing to remember my name and email was an issue with my browser and/or plugins because site’s not remembering me happens everywhere now.
Thag Simmons
I mean this is still pretty sweet and intimate, although I’m given to understand that Amber’s fanfic leans a lot… wetter than this.
ZombieKyrik
The only “wetness” Amber can do at this moment is bleed, but hopefully she’ll live up to her own fanfiction expectations once she isn’t in so much pain. Knowing Amber she’ll probably try before she’s fully recovered, but not tonight.
QueenofSodor
walky should consider being a perfect Lovely Lady
Aura
I bet he could be such a good girl 😇🥰
Stormtide Leviathan
Yesterday with the whole “would it be weird or intrusive, cuzza my maniless” thing is definitely another note in the egg file
Grimey
I can’t help but think Amber feels like she deserves this by her own logic. She (thinks she did at least) played a part in what broke Walky and Dorothy up so she deserves to suffer, laying up close and in pain.
HueSatLight
She certainly nudged them in that direction. And she intended to break up Joe and Joyce for her own benefit. But a stab wound is by far too much to pay. She could have had a bit of regret without a risk of infection and jail time. Guess she could have gotten Mike hallucinations again, so who’s to say which would have been worse.
Freemage
Heh. Reminds me a bit of Just Stab Me Now…. (Book/audiobook/Youtube channel, plotline is about an author who periodically enters into her own novel to confront the heroine, who is absolutely NOT down with the whole “enemies to lovers” trope and its associated elements, including There’s Only One Bed.) Highly recommend!
NGPZ
off topic but useful tip for a mental health boost:
I just installed a chrome extension which removes all side bar videos when using YouTube, cuz let’s face it, the algorithm cares about nothing but traffic and has so much endemic rage bait it’s just not worth the trouble anymore
NGPZ
goddammit! sorry for the double post :/
Ray Radlein
that’s okay I just installed an extension which takes care of that
Pocky
having had my appendix removed recently, and making the mistake of moving a bit too much after the surgery, I can confirm that your doctor will get very upset with you, and sit you down to explain how much of what you do requires your core lol
Yotomoe
I love Walky and Amber so goddamn much y’all have no fucking idea.
ZombieKyrik
I agree. The only couple I equally love is DannyxSal, so a world where both of these pairings continue is a world I can enjoy.
Billie/JenniferxRuth was a nice relationship, but I feel like AlicexBillie/Jennifer could be better.
However I’m mostly rooting for DannyxSal, and AmberxWalky. The Walkertons are some of my favorite characters; not counting their garbage parents.
Kyulen
Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but when I was in college I’m pretty sure the beds weren’t big enough for two people to sleep side-by-side in one bed comfortably. I guess Indiana University has bigger beds than we had at my college years ago? This isn’t really a complaint, I genuinely like today’s strip.
ZombieKyrik
I shared a twin size bed with someone for like 3 years; you learn to adapt. Although we slept while holding each other which meant the lack of space wasn’t a problem.
Leorale
I think Willis once mentioned that they consistently widen the beds when you’re looking into them, to make more things possible.
Vukodlak
Guess she actually wants cuddles.
ZombieKyrik
I think she was secretly hoping Walky would join her in bed the whole time, but she’s in too much pain to enjoy it as much as she normally would.
Zamperla
Alas, fanfiction really leaves out the amount of interference incredible pain can do on romantic scenarios. For the best, mind, for the best.
Tawnee
Amber’s comment in panel 2 about how much of her is connected through her lower abdomen just made me think of Vic Michaelis asking “Am I a bag Hank?” and being worried about the answer.
Miroku2235
Ten Dimmadollars says that we get the irritating cheaters tomorrow.
Leorale
You can look at the Patreon if you want the blurred spoiler of who is in tomorrow’s strip.
clif
As long as I don’t look, I can pretend it’s the one where Jennifer and Ruth get back together.
Thing 2
If enough people are:
a) determined to read this comic and
b) hate Joyce or Dorothy or both
given that this is a comic about Joyce…. maybe someone should set up one of those websites like “Is it snowing in Dunedin”, only “does DoA feature Joyce & Dorothy today” then those people can check and give it a miss on Joyce&Dorothy days.
But maybe I’m reading it wrong. Maybe there are simply people who love loudly hating Joyce&Dorothy
Taffy