Many years ago, a friend of mine, who had an abundance of freckles (about which they were very self conscious), happened to be at a party and a very drunk person came up to them and said, “Oh, wow, I like love your freckles! Your freckles are so sexy, I wanna count your freckles!”
They were not so self conscious about their freckles thereafter.
(And to be fair, their freckles were pretty sexy…).
How about freckles on someone with dark brown hair?
Signed, a dark brown haired person with freckles all over the face, shoulders, and arms. For real though it was hilarious, I worked with kids and one little girl looked at the freckles on my forearm and we had the following exchange.
“That’s dirty, you need to take a bath.”
“Oh that’s not dirt, hon, those are freckles. See? *rubs at arm, freckle stays put*”
“Ohhh. I don’t have freckles. I just have face.”
I had freckles on my face when I was younger but they are now gone. Only the ones on my arms remained and I though for the longest time I wasn’t taking a bath properly and when ask my mom she was ”Honey are you stupid?”
Freckles are scars from severe sunburn, and a potential starting point for skin cancer. I can’t consider them any cuter than the scars from physical child abuse.
(Boy that should raise a few hackles.
Don’t tell anyone, but I think Willis likes freckles. After he saw Terry Farrell portray “Dax”, who is a Trill with spotted skin, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, he found his new love.
Or was that me? It’s so long ago, I can’t remember.
Canada isn’t all a frozen wasteland in winter. It is a big country with several different climates, southern Ontario/Quebec doesn’t get all that cold, just a lot of snow. Lower mainland British Columbia panics if more than a few snowflakes fall, and winter is just a time that you cut the grass twice a month instead of weekly. Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba don’t even start to put on light jackets until it is -20.
She’s from Kaladar, Ontario, about halfway between Ottawa and Toronto. I assumed it would have kind of the same winter climate as northern Vermont and upstate New York. (Sort of like Buffalo but without the lake effect snow.)
At the very least it must be colder than it’s been here in the Rhode Island area. It was 50 freedom degrees outside today.
Actually, Ruth, Jason and Jennifer as a polycule where he gets dominated the hell out of by both girls sounds like it would work really well on most levels… But I think there’s probably quite a large age gap between him and Jennifer? Like, he’s been old enough to bartend all “year” (I think? Although cast page indicates change of profession rather than that he was supporting his income previously…). Ruth is just about 21 (think she’s just had her birthday? Was that the disastrous date with Jennifer’s boss?) but 21 and (say) 24 or 25 is a relatively small gap. Cusp of 20/21 and 18/19 is only a year and was only problematic because Ruth being an RA meant there was an inherent power gap – age difference itself is tiny.
But 18/19 and living away from home from the first time, and (probably) 24/25 and living in a foreign country, negotiating international work visas, etc, seem like reasonably different life stages…
I’m pretty sure Jason was established as not being Much Older than Sal way back when. Willis answered an ask about it or something. It was a whole “yes there’s some problematic here but it’s the TA position and her thinking she was sleeping with him for grades, not a big age gap” thing.
Jason’s a grad student iirc, meaning he’s 21-22 at youngest, and I personally wouldn’t put him much older than that since a lot of stuff that would have been happening the whole time (Penny sleeping with students, mostly) were new/unfamiliar to him, indicating that he hadn’t been a TA that long. I’d guess ceiling age 23, or about 4-5 years older than Jennifer depending on whether she’s 18 or 19.
I can hear Ruth’s voice in that last panel. And at the risk of sounding repetitive, god they miss each other so much the UST is insane, I can’t even. Thank you (???) Dorothy for putting an end to this clownery.
I’m kinda picturing Jennifer now, realizing Dorothy has freckles like in those teen movies where the Love Interest realizes the Protagonist was ~beautiful all along.~ (Those makeovers were always such a downgrade imho TwT)
hey you’re an absolute sweetie thank you for your adorable message yesterday <3 <3 <3 (not sure what i've implied but i'm happy you like the implications too haha <3)
MILU MILU I HOPE YOU SEE THIS, I’m replying here because you aren’t around for the next strip yet (timezones, I bet) but I’ll do a copypasta tomorrow (Saturday) just in case if you don’t ;DD
SO. IMPLICATIONS!!!Well, for starters, there’s the drawing orgies ;DD BUT DLGJFSK. More seriously — It’s about how much you care about other human beings.
It’s unusual to find someone whose self-care may involve activism and I think that’s incredibly cool! A++ on the dinosaurs, the ACAB, and the Palestine solidarity (in French! Are you French or Canadian?) And hey, if you gave this to your parents, this also means they’re pretty cool too? So idk, I was like “wow, how nice to have met this person” :’33
Ruth’s lip bite in the last panel means it’s a close one as to who breaks things off first, between Jennifer and Asher. Seeing as how they’re both one well-timed sneeze away from cheating.
Honestly, at this point I wonder whether it might make sense to offer her a threesome to save face.
(And now I’m thinking of that Seinfeld episode where George offers a woman a threesome as part of a mind game, but is completely floored when she takes him up on it.)
Reading this webcomic after catching up with decades of strips is like watching someone move 2 dolls with pages of backstory together millimeters at a time before an inevitable now kiss and i am deeply invested
The worst part about binge-reading webcomic archives is the inevitable crash back to reality when you catch up. You’re invested, and your mind is still “in” the comic’s world, but suddenly you’ve got to wait a day to find out what happens next.
Found that Community quote:
“I think you two like to partner up on curtesy capers and hold hands in the dark so you can address your urges in semi-acceptable scenarios.”
As if all the talk about Jennifer’s tank tops last strip weren’t enough, now this. Somewhere Becky is presumably very frustrated that these two are definitely now flirting the way she pretended to think they were during that fight in Gender Studies, many moons ago.
Ruth, I’m sure you know full well that the intersection of the sets “teenage girls who have freckles” and “teenage girls who think freckles look stupid” is nontrivial.
hello, since this is my first comment I assume you will read it to approve it but you don’t actually have to approve it since my only goal was for you to read it.
yesterday, I knew nothing about you or any of your works, but I read the bad guy dies at the end, which is a fanfic of dumbing of age written by the user Nonymos on archiveofourown, and I liked it so much that today I blasted through the entirety of dumbing of age. it’s a very good fanfic, and I think it would warm your creator heart to know that you’re gaining new readers because someone out there loved your work enough to write (very good) fanfic for it.
since I’m done with dumbing of age I’m going to read Walky! next and then probably Shortpacked! Thanks for writing and drawing all these years. I’m loving the universe and characters you’ve created. 🙂
They are def going to. Again.
( Billies motivations have been bafflingly opaque. Ostentatious, baroque. downright by anyone.
Its one thing to add a a dash of mystery and intrigue to a character but it’s weird to make them baffling even to themselves ( Damn am I complaining about Ethan or Jennifer? )
Who is this character and why do they do what they do.
We saw Halloween but we’ve never seen what came after? We’ve never seen Billy being enmeshed with Raidah. Dating her now exbf.
She’s been a stranger to herself but we’ve never seen the flipside, what she’s been home to and how and why. Was she Romanced? Did Raidah set them up? Did Billy pursue Ruth after Halloween? How long did that go on .
( So we know she always planned on Ruth coming back once she stopped drinking and Ruth dated someone else female.. its a little odd shes only jealous of Ruth dating men and not other women.
I would think it would be the reverse.
Because we’ve not seen Jennifer’s normal life her breaking everything so casually because of Walky being Walky . Is this a self hatred thing where Walky reminds her of herself. Or a negative self image?
Will she want Asher back more after he bangs Ethan?
This is where her motivations are too opaque. is it in her character to copy Asher and go after Ruth or to chase him because he’s less obtainable and more gay?
The time jump made these characters too unknowable and kept them that way.
“yeah, but HERS look STUPIDT”
“stupid sexy freckles”
It’s like she’s wearing no sleeves at all!
Many years ago, a friend of mine, who had an abundance of freckles (about which they were very self conscious), happened to be at a party and a very drunk person came up to them and said, “Oh, wow, I like love your freckles! Your freckles are so sexy, I wanna count your freckles!”
They were not so self conscious about their freckles thereafter.
(And to be fair, their freckles were pretty sexy…).
Yeah but they look WAY better on her!
Blonde freckles superior to red head freckles?
….. We cannot agree in this one, my good scholar.
Sacrilege! Red heads have the best freckles. It is scientific fact and religious doctrine rolled into one. Or many. Depends on the freckles.
All freckles are beautiful.
All freckles matter.
How about freckles on someone with dark brown hair?
Signed, a dark brown haired person with freckles all over the face, shoulders, and arms. For real though it was hilarious, I worked with kids and one little girl looked at the freckles on my forearm and we had the following exchange.
“That’s dirty, you need to take a bath.”
“Oh that’s not dirt, hon, those are freckles. See? *rubs at arm, freckle stays put*”
“Ohhh. I don’t have freckles. I just have face.”
I had freckles on my face when I was younger but they are now gone. Only the ones on my arms remained and I though for the longest time I wasn’t taking a bath properly and when ask my mom she was ”Honey are you stupid?”
Meanwhile, I’m growing them… there’s one in my eyelid D=
Freckles are scars from severe sunburn, and a potential starting point for skin cancer. I can’t consider them any cuter than the scars from physical child abuse.
(Boy that should raise a few hackles.
Late late comic
ooolala Jennifer XD
A lot of girls in this comic have visible freckles actually. Or maybe it’s just three.
Three can be a lot.
More than I know. Actually I can’t name one I know personally.
Dottie, Ruth, and.. Tall Rachel i think?
I was thinking Dorothy, Ruth, and Becky. Does tall, spiteful, Rachel have freckles too?
She does. So that makes four.
I’m so happy people are using “Tall Rachel”.
Ruth, Dorothy, Becky, Rachel, Penny, Vivian.
plus Malaya
after looking at a characters list: also Beatrice, Deborah Keener, Adinah Jackson, Bonnie MacIntyre,
GunsDon’t tell anyone, but I think Willis likes freckles. After he saw Terry Farrell portray “Dax”, who is a Trill with spotted skin, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, he found his new love.
Or was that me? It’s so long ago, I can’t remember.
Long ago? It’s only been … (Looks at current date.) Nevermind.
We’re closer to DS9’s in-universe construction, than to the start of the series.
(not actually, but it felt like the time to say it.)
Bell Riots in 8 months.
looking forward to seeing incongruous skin at coachella this year
They’re on after Babydoll Tee, right?
No, no, that one’s going to Lollapalooza. Here we’ve got only Titty Shirt (it’s pop punk).
Oh yeah I heard of them! I think the lead Singer actually got her start in Stupid Freckles before starting her own band.
I love this thread so much ♥
oh is there a band?
Yep. They’re on tour, and Whoosh is openning for them.
(Sorry, it was just a great setup. At least I *think* they’re all joking about band names. Maybe I’m the one being whooshed! ?)
Form an alliance against the freckle-less one. Freckless.
I think that would be fun, but feckless.
will they heckle her?
No, for they are heckless. They have no hecks to give…
Autocorrect does not appreciate this line of punning. Rude! ?
Quick! Someone grab a ukulele!
Did Danny ever put it down?
I can see him doing covers of Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq
Jennifer loves her freckles so much..
She does NOT.
(Yes she does.)
These two.
(Three, I suppose.)
IU must have a pretty good heating and air system.
Or maybe Ruth just runs warm; she is Canadian…
Canada isn’t all a frozen wasteland in winter. It is a big country with several different climates, southern Ontario/Quebec doesn’t get all that cold, just a lot of snow. Lower mainland British Columbia panics if more than a few snowflakes fall, and winter is just a time that you cut the grass twice a month instead of weekly. Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba don’t even start to put on light jackets until it is -20.
She’s from Kaladar, Ontario, about halfway between Ottawa and Toronto. I assumed it would have kind of the same winter climate as northern Vermont and upstate New York. (Sort of like Buffalo but without the lake effect snow.)
At the very least it must be colder than it’s been here in the Rhode Island area. It was 50 freedom degrees outside today.
This is going well
Seriously, ladies, just go back to Ruth’s room and bang it out.
Invite Dorothy if you want to.
They both have boyfriends, I hope not.
Billie can tell Asher he’s free on the way through the lounge.
Jason can watch.
I have no idea why, but I’m like. CERTAIN. Jason would be into it. While tied up. As Jennifer mocks him to his face.
I had like, A Vision.
Actually, Ruth, Jason and Jennifer as a polycule where he gets dominated the hell out of by both girls sounds like it would work really well on most levels… But I think there’s probably quite a large age gap between him and Jennifer? Like, he’s been old enough to bartend all “year” (I think? Although cast page indicates change of profession rather than that he was supporting his income previously…). Ruth is just about 21 (think she’s just had her birthday? Was that the disastrous date with Jennifer’s boss?) but 21 and (say) 24 or 25 is a relatively small gap. Cusp of 20/21 and 18/19 is only a year and was only problematic because Ruth being an RA meant there was an inherent power gap – age difference itself is tiny.
But 18/19 and living away from home from the first time, and (probably) 24/25 and living in a foreign country, negotiating international work visas, etc, seem like reasonably different life stages…
Minimum age to tend bar in Indiana is 21
I’m pretty sure Jason was established as not being Much Older than Sal way back when. Willis answered an ask about it or something. It was a whole “yes there’s some problematic here but it’s the TA position and her thinking she was sleeping with him for grades, not a big age gap” thing.
Jason’s a grad student iirc, meaning he’s 21-22 at youngest, and I personally wouldn’t put him much older than that since a lot of stuff that would have been happening the whole time (Penny sleeping with students, mostly) were new/unfamiliar to him, indicating that he hadn’t been a TA that long. I’d guess ceiling age 23, or about 4-5 years older than Jennifer depending on whether she’s 18 or 19.
I’m going to say this is his first year as a TA and as a grad student. And I’d put him at 21 shortly before the fall semester started
He’s like 22 isn’t he?
Yotomoe we need you! Someone light the Yoto-Signal. Or throw stupid money at Willis. Or something!
Jennifer’s current boyfriend status is questionable, and the next book is called “trystin’ in the wind”
So we’re finally going to meet the boy Joyce was crushing on back at home in church, what does that have to do with Ruthifer?
I can hear Ruth’s voice in that last panel. And at the risk of sounding repetitive, god they miss each other so much the UST is insane, I can’t even. Thank you (???) Dorothy for putting an end to this clownery.
I’m kinda picturing Jennifer now, realizing Dorothy has freckles like in those teen movies where the Love Interest realizes the Protagonist was ~beautiful all along.~ (Those makeovers were always such a downgrade imho TwT)
hey you’re an absolute sweetie thank you for your adorable message yesterday <3 <3 <3 (not sure what i've implied but i'm happy you like the implications too haha <3)
MILU MILU I HOPE YOU SEE THIS, I’m replying here because you aren’t around for the next strip yet (timezones, I bet) but I’ll do a copypasta tomorrow (Saturday) just in case if you don’t ;DD
SO. IMPLICATIONS!!!Well, for starters, there’s the drawing orgies ;DD BUT DLGJFSK. More seriously — It’s about how much you care about other human beings.
It’s unusual to find someone whose self-care may involve activism and I think that’s incredibly cool! A++ on the dinosaurs, the ACAB, and the Palestine solidarity (in French! Are you French or Canadian?) And hey, if you gave this to your parents, this also means they’re pretty cool too? So idk, I was like “wow, how nice to have met this person” :’33
I hope you’re having a great day!!
Ruth’s lip bite in the last panel means it’s a close one as to who breaks things off first, between Jennifer and Asher. Seeing as how they’re both one well-timed sneeze away from cheating.
….. huh. I actually totally see Jennifer cheating with Ruth as some sort of fucked up way to try to keep authority.
Oh no the stakeout’s ruined! Scatter!
At least the AD is gone
Had to get rid of the ADs, since nobody was Reading them.
Honestly, at this point I wonder whether it might make sense to offer her a threesome to save face.
(And now I’m thinking of that Seinfeld episode where George offers a woman a threesome as part of a mind game, but is completely floored when she takes him up on it.)
It was Jerry, attempting to switch girlfriends, who were roommates. George was assisting in the planning.
Yeah, I checked in the interim. Just seemed like such a “George” thing to do.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendshippolycule.Beautiful like only natural disasters can be ♥ The best kind
Dbza voice: hate boner triangle
Reading this webcomic after catching up with decades of strips is like watching someone move 2 dolls with pages of backstory together millimeters at a time before an inevitable now kiss and i am deeply invested
The worst part about binge-reading webcomic archives is the inevitable crash back to reality when you catch up. You’re invested, and your mind is still “in” the comic’s world, but suddenly you’ve got to wait a day to find out what happens next.
I remember doing that with this webcomic… a whole decade ago.
I’ve done that multiple times with this comic.
The Futurama line in the alt text had me choking
If there is one thing Canadians are good at, it’s selecting a winter coat!
And yeah, Dorothy is biased on that score.
[a horrendous mukbang video but every pizza roll is a different letter of this comic strip’s dialogue]
I have no idea of what this means but fam, I LOVE the vibes. It feels right.
Assuming each of those pizza rolls is 35 calories, that’s over 8000 calorie challenge woah 😮
Found that Community quote:
“I think you two like to partner up on curtesy capers and hold hands in the dark so you can address your urges in semi-acceptable scenarios.”
Is that about Troy and Abed?
Jeff and Annie, iirc.
“Larry, I’m on Duck Tales.”
I feel this period of the comic has to rank high for ambient unfulfilled horniness in the air. Someone’s gonna bone, but who? And when?
Maybe Sal and Danny, why not, right?
Every single character is so unbelievably horny, and it’s gotten distracting. Something has to snap.
Dina, behind the door: “…so this is how Becky feels ALL THE TIME”
–Dave, *scribbles in her notebook
I will never understand the structure of your comments 😮
Jennifer “totally over Ruth” Billings worth
Also, informal petition to make these two the new Team Rocket
Dorothy of course can be Meowth
To protect our peers from devastation!
To unite us all in lustful sensation!
And just when you think we’ve had enough!
We’ll double down when we show you the stuff!
Jennifer!
Ruth!
Anywhere there’s trouble in our school,
We’ll surely be there to prove that we rule!
What are you talking about? She’s over Ruth! Completely over Ruth! All over Ruth!
Like
ladymaple syrup over a stack of flapjills (like flapjacks but you know)I think angry Dorothy is doing something for Ruth.
Yes, but it’s Ruth’s freckles specifically.
“I don’t need to bone, she needs to bone.”
As if all the talk about Jennifer’s tank tops last strip weren’t enough, now this. Somewhere Becky is presumably very frustrated that these two are definitely now flirting the way she pretended to think they were during that fight in Gender Studies, many moons ago.
Ruth, I’m sure you know full well that the intersection of the sets “teenage girls who have freckles” and “teenage girls who think freckles look stupid” is nontrivial.
I didn’t fully recognize that beat panel right before the end when I read this last night. Never change, Jennifer.
(Please for all that’s holy, unholy, and everything between change for the love of Montressor)
Was that a Treasure Planet reference, or a Cask of Amontillado one?
Cask.
Excellent. A+ reference.
Billie calling Ruth a slut because of how openly she’s baring her freckles is probably the funniest and Billie-ist thing she’s done.
Billie is nothing if not diligent in maintaining her brand.
I guess Dorothy is gonna be their auspistice
If you didn’t have freckles, just live long enough and you’ll get some. Then it’s time to see a dermatologist. Hope you used sun screen.
Not that I like freckles, b-b-b-baka!
Oh man, fighting like an old married couple, how toxic, they need to stay away from each other etc. etc.
Anyway I still ship it.
hello, since this is my first comment I assume you will read it to approve it but you don’t actually have to approve it since my only goal was for you to read it.
yesterday, I knew nothing about you or any of your works, but I read the bad guy dies at the end, which is a fanfic of dumbing of age written by the user Nonymos on archiveofourown, and I liked it so much that today I blasted through the entirety of dumbing of age. it’s a very good fanfic, and I think it would warm your creator heart to know that you’re gaining new readers because someone out there loved your work enough to write (very good) fanfic for it.
since I’m done with dumbing of age I’m going to read Walky! next and then probably Shortpacked! Thanks for writing and drawing all these years. I’m loving the universe and characters you’ve created. 🙂
you frighten me, good J
for no other reason than you managed to go through the whole of the comic’s backlog in but a single day
even with a high reading speed, that takes some incredible devotion and a free thursday no less
You read the entire archive in one day, that is impressive, and a little frightening. Now do it again, but this time also read the comments.
I hope Dorothy sees the humor in this.
no such thing as stupid freckles
I love them all
I just realized. I could cosplay today!Ruth. I have that shirt and some overalls.
I’d say “Just fuck already”, but they already did and it didn’t make things better ^^u
They are def going to. Again.
( Billies motivations have been bafflingly opaque. Ostentatious, baroque. downright by anyone.
Its one thing to add a a dash of mystery and intrigue to a character but it’s weird to make them baffling even to themselves ( Damn am I complaining about Ethan or Jennifer? )
Who is this character and why do they do what they do.
We saw Halloween but we’ve never seen what came after? We’ve never seen Billy being enmeshed with Raidah. Dating her now exbf.
She’s been a stranger to herself but we’ve never seen the flipside, what she’s been home to and how and why. Was she Romanced? Did Raidah set them up? Did Billy pursue Ruth after Halloween? How long did that go on .
( So we know she always planned on Ruth coming back once she stopped drinking and Ruth dated someone else female.. its a little odd shes only jealous of Ruth dating men and not other women.
I would think it would be the reverse.
Because we’ve not seen Jennifer’s normal life her breaking everything so casually because of Walky being Walky . Is this a self hatred thing where Walky reminds her of herself. Or a negative self image?
Will she want Asher back more after he bangs Ethan?
This is where her motivations are too opaque. is it in her character to copy Asher and go after Ruth or to chase him because he’s less obtainable and more gay?
The time jump made these characters too unknowable and kept them that way.
I’m so sorry, this is why I ship Billie and Ruth