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Book 14 Kickstarter $60k update: THE DREAMHORSE MAGNET tier unlocked! Final hours!

by David M Willis on May 6, 2025 at 12:28 pm
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With 11 hours left in the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter, we’ve unlocked the thirteenth magnet and final stretch goal at $60K!  That’s right, it’s THE (not homoerotic at all) DREAMHORSE magnet!  Clocking in at a relatively enormous 5.5″x5″ size!  (that’s 14cmx12.7cm for all you still-free-world people)

Pledge at THE DREAMHORSE MAGNET tier to get a The Dreamhorse magnet along with your book!   (And don’t forget you get a free DOROTHY magnet in there too!)  Or if you’re aiming for The Dreamhorse plus two or four other magnets of your choosing, huzzah, there’s the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers!  And if you want all of them unlocked during this campaign?  Well, there’s a few tiers that hand you COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!

That’s it!  That’s the final update before… THE END!

Finish line at 11:45pm Eastern tonight!

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$55K Book 14 Kickstarter update: LIPSYNCING LUCY MAGNET tier unlocked!

by David M Willis on May 4, 2025 at 9:55 am
Posted In: Blog

Three days left in the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter, and BOOM!  The Lipsyncing Lucy magnet is unlocked at $55k!  Pledge at the LIPSYNCING LUCY MAGNET tier to get a Lucy magnet along with your book!   (And don’t forget you get a free DOROTHY magnet in there too!)  Or if you’re aiming for Lucy plus two or four other magnets of your choosing, huzzah, there’s the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers!  And if you want all of them unlocked during this campaign?  Well, there’s a few tiers that hand you COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!

Unlocking next at $60K is… the final, thirteenth magnet: THE DREAMHORSE!  It’ll be 5.5″x5″ which would be… probably definitely the largest magnet I’ve ever done.  It won’t be to exact scale with the others, mind you, since that magnet’d be like a foot tall and wouldn’t fit in a book, much less a stamped envelope, but it’ll be to scale with… your BJ Cat magnet, if you have that one.

And just under three days remaining!  This thing shuts down Tuesday night.

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Dumbing of Age Animated: Dream Big!

by David M Willis on April 29, 2025 at 1:12 pm
Posted In: Blog

Hey, Maggie’s doing some Dumbing of Age animations.  DO YOU WANT TO SEE DOROTHY AND JOYCE RIDE A DREAM HORSE of course you fuckin’ do

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$50K Book 14 Kickstarter update: JACOB MAGNET tier unlocked!

by David M Willis on April 29, 2025 at 9:12 am
Posted In: Blog

The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter is finally past $50k! And that means JACOB is unlocked! Pledge at the JACOB MAGNET tier to get a Jacob magnet along with your book! (And don’t forget you get a free DOROTHY magnet in there too!) Or if you’re aiming for Jacob plus two or four other magnets of your choosing, huzzah, there’s the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers! And if you want all of them unlocked during this campaign? Well, there’s a few tiers that hand you COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!

Up next are LIPSYNCING LUCY at $55K and…. DREAM HORSE at $60k!  That’s right, it’s Dorothy and Joyce on a horse!  Let’s make DREAM HORSE happen!

One week remaining!  This thing ends next Tuesday just before midnight (Eastern)!  So pledge today!  or between now and then, whichever

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Patreon bonus strip for APRIL 2025 — KAITLIN

by David M Willis on April 27, 2025 at 2:09 pm
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Every month at the Dumbing of Age Patreon there’s two new exclusive bonus strips — one that patrons get to vote on, and another that’s my choice!  This month, folks voted for KAITLIN, Becky’s former roommate at her original college who was gay exactly once and then stopped that forever after she learned her lesson, probably! Read this bonus strip and hundreds of previous at the Dumbing of Age Patreon!

Also, if you pledge up to $5 or more per month, you can read TOMORROW’s strip RIGHT NOW, every day!

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tomorrow's strip early on patreon, if your hamstrings aren't on fire...
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Why doesn't Jetfire ever fight Devastator?
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the bible
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(Optional) Is there anything else you want to share about your views on AI?
It is a wasteful, unlawful, unethical and transparently exploitative. It is being championed by the same people who championed NFTs and the blockchain, and look at how those turned out. It is immensely frustrating as an artist barely making enough to live to see people use generative AI as a means of not hiring real living artists. 

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Feels good to do this Patreon user survey and answer every single question about AI with "I FEEL EXTREMELY NEGATIVELY ABOUT AI"
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there has GOT to be a better place to pray over somebody for fifteen minutes than DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE GODDAMNED POP DISPENSER
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a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf
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Our disabled son has CP and bladder spasms so urologist is recommending Botox treatments and we read your article and are concerned about the presence of mRNA in the Botox.  

Is mRNA in all brands?
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personally, i'd recommend you follow the advice of your doctor.  but what do i know, i'm just a random person you emailed.  I have no more formal education around botox than the author Naomi Wolf, whose advice I assume you were actually seeking.  but since you emailed me, my suggestion is that you listen to your kid's urologist, who is a trained medical professional, rather than seeking out medical advice from someone with an english degree and a history of making significant errors in her research.

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Are straight men okay? Seriously.
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