Without any exaggeration – yes. She sees her lack of shenanigans as a personal flaw that prevents her from reaching her goals, so in a very Dorothy way she takes step to improve herself.
Finding weird connection to these adorable dofuses past is a favorite pasttime of mine 🙂
Well… given that she just broke up with Walky the timing is not THAT weird. She has a need for both shenanigans and Joyce-time, and Dorothy is great at multitasking.
Also… and now I might be stretching a bit (I admit to no such thing in my previous statements) – Dorothy might be just a smudge jealous of happy, carefree, flippant Becky who Joyce adores and broke into a house together with. They have a connection Dorothy can never hope to match, but that can inspire to a certain degree of subterfuge within certain outlined parameters.
ShinyNeen
The thing for me is that yeah, Dorothy wants to have fun plenty, but she’s really good at denying that part of herself because she thinks she has to work all the time. I mean, it’s a big part of why she broke up with Walky after all.
That being said I might be overemphasizing that aspect of her character, because hey yeah here she is casually stopping work to do shenanigans! And shenanigans with Joyce too, even after how yesterday went.
wrt that last bit about Becky, I read this more as Dorothy going “okay, I should get Joyce to stop doing this Bad Thing, but I’ll convince her in her language- by making it fun!”. You could totally be on to something though!
Yeah, but that’s something of an excuse I think. Or an ideal she can’t live up to, though she thinks she should.
Remember her trying to talk herself out of getting together with Walky in the first place, calling it “self-sabotage” and a “distraction”, but she goes ahead and knocks on his door and kisses him anyway.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. The ability to direct people’s attention where you want it and be ignored when you need it is…something she would cultivate!
What color the walls were?
If it was all a dream?
Just how high you really were?
If your college memories are actually just implanted memories to make you believe you went to college?
How many iguanas you just walked past without noticing?
If at some point in college you learned and then later forgot how to do instant transmission?
Just how many questions vague wondering can inspire?
Who wrote the book of love?
I love how the day is going according to plan for Dorothy.
She decided she wanted some shenanigans, and here she is sneaking out dressed in Sierra’s shirt and a very dapper hat, with her bestest pal with an Iguana on her head.
He, methings with Walky out of the picture, she needs an outlet for her… slightly less than goody two shoe side.
If the Seeburg music is too lively for you, try the 3M Orchestra on for size, courtesy of the 3M Cantata 700 background music system. Over 24 hours of music on one 9″ square tape cartridge built like a sandwich!
Funny enough, Techmoan on YouTube has covered both these formats. Check those videos out if you have an hour to kill, he digs up all kinds of esoteric recording systems.
Now I kinda want to walk into an elevator and find that they somehow fit a live band inside just to play Theme from a Summer Place or somesuch audio wallpaper. And then stand in silence staring at the doors so I don’t make eye contact with them.
Apparently getting an iguana off the place it wants to be can be… painful. This is actually probably less suspicious than Joyce and Dorothy leaving the room with a box and Joyce with long scratch marks that are probably bleeding on her forehead.
(Head wounds bleed like a motherfucker, even trivial ones, and there’s a reason I worried about Joyce getting scratched on her arm after seeing pictures – iguana claws can in fact break skin and the way something like that would end up looking would be incredibly worrisome. Like, ‘Becky would very possibly be seriously triggered’ worrisome.)
Iguana claws are designed to either go into VERY HARD bark or to let them hang on to rocks while taking crashing waves to the face. If an iguana doesn’t want to move, you’re not moving it.
Regalli
Yeah, Joyce definitely shouldn’t have gone down the hallway with her new hat (and even into her own room without knowing Sarah knew and was onboard was super risky, even for just ‘can you help me slowly coax this iguana off’,) but removing Fuckface is going to be an Event, especially without anyone who actually knows how to handle him.
I think they also each need toys in each hand — a Transformer and a Decepticon; Batman and Joker; a predatory dinosaur and a hunter (or maybe mixed up a little) — enacting a classic conflict scene.
And hang their phones/tablets on cords around their necks, playing videos of explosions/car chases/other loud conflict.
The counterpart to Decepticons is Autobots…’Transformer’ is the overarching name for all of them – Autobot, Decepticon, Maximal, Predacon, Mini-Con, and every other faction.
Totally. Rather, having been to multiple colleges and universities over the years, I’m reading these comments and thinking “Man, have any of these people ever even been to a college before?” 😛
I mean, in college somewhere, someone is always up to hijinks. It’s required.
Unfortunately, I don’t think Malaya will believe them when A) Fuckface is on her head and B) Fuckface likes to wander but he also seems pretty lazy – he seems to pick a spot and hang out there for a while and C) Neither of them are that good of liars. 😛
Yes, please. ‘Keeping a secret means keeping him INSIDE. Because he is my iguana. What part of this don’t you understand?’ (Only probably insert more cursing here.)
Right? “Wait – you said you’d keep him fuckin’ secret and then went around showing him to everybody? Are you fucking stupid?”
Regalli
Malaya wasn’t even present when Joyce met Fuckface – she appears to be an early riser or super-heavy sleeper because the only ones there were Sal and later Carla. (That, or Malaya didn’t spend the night in her dorm room. Maybe Carla was actually called in to check in on Fuckface but finds claiming she’s capable of teleportation based on hearing her name more fun? I’d buy it from Carla.)
150 thoughts on “Trafficked”
Doctor_Who
The look on Rachel’s face says “I’m either too high to deal with whatever that was, or not high enough.”
chris2315
Which Rachel?
Needfuldoer
Rachel, not Other Rachel.
Clif
Otherwise known as panel 5 Rachel.
fire_daws
Or your gravatar
pablo360
The Rachel whose face we see.
Bathymetheus
My personal interpretation is that she’s reacting to hearing the word “heist”.
Ana Chronistic
or, it’s college and why would any of this bat an eye in the first place
foamy
There’s some pretty strong side-eye game going on with Rachel there.
ShinyNeen
Nobody warned me that Dorothy was actually totally good at shenanigans! I was not prepared for this turn of events!
King Daniel
Didn’t you hear? She’s cool! She’s hip! She’s chill!
Bagge
CATCH YOU ON THE FLIP SIDE
butts
WHAT’S CRACKALACKIN’
Tacos
GET JIGGY WITH IT.
Marsh Maryrose
HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW COOL KIDS?
mrnoidea
WHAT UP HOMESLICE
marianne
BOOM SHAKALAKA!
Clif
We’re really linear today!
ShinyNeen
NO SQUARES HERE
Bagge
The shoe-thing with Walky was a slight forshadowing, but yes, we have not seen her unlock her full potential.
ShinyNeen
She worked to better herself in every arena that mattered, right? You’re right- we’ve only begun to see her true shenanigan expertise!
Bagge
Without any exaggeration – yes. She sees her lack of shenanigans as a personal flaw that prevents her from reaching her goals, so in a very Dorothy way she takes step to improve herself.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/02-everything-youve-ever-wanted/gambit/
ShinyNeen
Shoot, she’s even wearing the same shirt as back then! U-under the floral one, anyway. Seriously, Bagge. Unequaled archive-digging powers.
Even with that in mind, this is still kind of a weird moment for her to decide to start getting shenanigans practice, but whatevs.
Bagge
Finding weird connection to these adorable dofuses past is a favorite pasttime of mine 🙂
Well… given that she just broke up with Walky the timing is not THAT weird. She has a need for both shenanigans and Joyce-time, and Dorothy is great at multitasking.
Also… and now I might be stretching a bit (I admit to no such thing in my previous statements) – Dorothy might be just a smudge jealous of happy, carefree, flippant Becky who Joyce adores and broke into a house together with. They have a connection Dorothy can never hope to match, but that can inspire to a certain degree of subterfuge within certain outlined parameters.
ShinyNeen
The thing for me is that yeah, Dorothy wants to have fun plenty, but she’s really good at denying that part of herself because she thinks she has to work all the time. I mean, it’s a big part of why she broke up with Walky after all.
That being said I might be overemphasizing that aspect of her character, because hey yeah here she is casually stopping work to do shenanigans! And shenanigans with Joyce too, even after how yesterday went.
wrt that last bit about Becky, I read this more as Dorothy going “okay, I should get Joyce to stop doing this Bad Thing, but I’ll convince her in her language- by making it fun!”. You could totally be on to something though!
Bagge
I think Danny might actually give us a clue about how Dorothy ticks here: She does fun things for calculatedly rational reasons http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/mowgli/
thejeff
Yeah, but that’s something of an excuse I think. Or an ideal she can’t live up to, though she thinks she should.
Remember her trying to talk herself out of getting together with Walky in the first place, calling it “self-sabotage” and a “distraction”, but she goes ahead and knocks on his door and kisses him anyway.
Bagge
Very good point! And right now she’s bottling out, so she might need to find a new outlet sooner before later.
This, however, I expect is a deliberate, scheduled amount of fun shenanigans with her bestest pal Joyce. In an hour she will be studying again.
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
I mean, she was planning on going into *politics*, so…
Shadlyn
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. The ability to direct people’s attention where you want it and be ignored when you need it is…something she would cultivate!
Shiro
She’s making it work though
Doctor_Who
New!Dorothy and New!Danny can bond over their hip styles.
Architex
I remember my dorm hallways being pretty quiet most of the time.
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
Come to think of it, I don’t remember my dorm hallways at all.
Hmm, I wonder…
SgtWadeyWilson
Wonder what?
What color the walls were?
If it was all a dream?
Just how high you really were?
If your college memories are actually just implanted memories to make you believe you went to college?
How many iguanas you just walked past without noticing?
If at some point in college you learned and then later forgot how to do instant transmission?
Just how many questions vague wondering can inspire?
Who wrote the book of love?
Bagge
I love how the day is going according to plan for Dorothy.
She decided she wanted some shenanigans, and here she is sneaking out dressed in Sierra’s shirt and a very dapper hat, with her bestest pal with an Iguana on her head.
He, methings with Walky out of the picture, she needs an outlet for her… slightly less than goody two shoe side.
SHENANIGANS SISTERS.
Haven
Those are Sierra’s clothes, aren’t they.
Larkle
Probably.
BenRG
I’m sure that, if they are, Sierra will demand pics for her wall of memories.
Stephen Bierce
*plays dull, soothing, actual Muzak music on the hacked Muzak*
Keulen
Something like this, perhaps?
Keulen
Or maybe this?
Googling “elevator music” found me several videos with music like these.
Needfuldoer
Here you go! Genuine background music.
Needfuldoer
If the Seeburg music is too lively for you, try the 3M Orchestra on for size, courtesy of the 3M Cantata 700 background music system. Over 24 hours of music on one 9″ square tape cartridge built like a sandwich!
Funny enough, Techmoan on YouTube has covered both these formats. Check those videos out if you have an hour to kill, he digs up all kinds of esoteric recording systems.
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
Now I kinda want to walk into an elevator and find that they somehow fit a live band inside just to play Theme from a Summer Place or somesuch audio wallpaper. And then stand in silence staring at the doors so I don’t make eye contact with them.
merbrat
Wrong song, but maybe they take requests?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYu_kmy3Hbg
Irredentist
Genius
Dana
I prefer to believe it’s her shirt.
Dana
That was supposed to be a reply to Bagge
Bagge
Two very possible alternatives.
They are both adorable
JessWitt
Early Halloween getup, Dorothy?
Also wouldn’t it be easier to wear the hat over Fuckface? Or would he mind?
Randrius
In my experience with iguanas, they mind most things…
ditrysia
Thanks. Now I desperately want to see an iguana with a hat over it.
Irredentist
I like how no one considered putting the iguana in a box or something.
Owlmirror
Imprison the noble iguana, even for a brief period of time? That’s animal cruelty!!!!!
(Yes, I remember that Malaya was just foot-scooching his box along until she got
a suckerPeter to help shift it.)Regalli
Apparently getting an iguana off the place it wants to be can be… painful. This is actually probably less suspicious than Joyce and Dorothy leaving the room with a box and Joyce with long scratch marks that are probably bleeding on her forehead.
(Head wounds bleed like a motherfucker, even trivial ones, and there’s a reason I worried about Joyce getting scratched on her arm after seeing pictures – iguana claws can in fact break skin and the way something like that would end up looking would be incredibly worrisome. Like, ‘Becky would very possibly be seriously triggered’ worrisome.)
JBento
Iguana claws are designed to either go into VERY HARD bark or to let them hang on to rocks while taking crashing waves to the face. If an iguana doesn’t want to move, you’re not moving it.
Regalli
Yeah, Joyce definitely shouldn’t have gone down the hallway with her new hat (and even into her own room without knowing Sarah knew and was onboard was super risky, even for just ‘can you help me slowly coax this iguana off’,) but removing Fuckface is going to be an Event, especially without anyone who actually knows how to handle him.
JBento
If a strip doesn’t include Dina, Carla, Marcie, Roz, or Jocelyne, there’s pretty much no chance of anyone braining properly.
Sal and Rachel get half a point each.
Owlmirror
I think they also each need toys in each hand — a Transformer and a Decepticon; Batman and Joker; a predatory dinosaur and a hunter (or maybe mixed up a little) — enacting a classic conflict scene.
And hang their phones/tablets on cords around their necks, playing videos of explosions/car chases/other loud conflict.
/overkill
Kamino Neko
The counterpart to Decepticons is Autobots…’Transformer’ is the overarching name for all of them – Autobot, Decepticon, Maximal, Predacon, Mini-Con, and every other faction.
Regalli
Transformers also includes the ones who weren’t even involved with the war, like the lost colonies in IDW.
Tacos
You’re at college. Walking down a hall with an iguana on your head is pretty much par the course.
HeySo
Totally. Rather, having been to multiple colleges and universities over the years, I’m reading these comments and thinking “Man, have any of these people ever even been to a college before?” 😛
I mean, in college somewhere, someone is always up to hijinks. It’s required.
BBCC
This is gonna be fun!
Y’know, until they get back and realize Malaya is in her room and demands to know what the screaming red fuck they were doing with her lizard.
Reltzik
“Returning him. Don’t know how he got out. You should be more careful in the future, you could be in trouble if Ruth spots him.”
BBCC
Unfortunately, I don’t think Malaya will believe them when A) Fuckface is on her head and B) Fuckface likes to wander but he also seems pretty lazy – he seems to pick a spot and hang out there for a while and C) Neither of them are that good of liars. 😛
Regalli
Yes, please. ‘Keeping a secret means keeping him INSIDE. Because he is my iguana. What part of this don’t you understand?’ (Only probably insert more cursing here.)
BBCC
Right? “Wait – you said you’d keep him fuckin’ secret and then went around showing him to everybody? Are you fucking stupid?”
Regalli
Malaya wasn’t even present when Joyce met Fuckface – she appears to be an early riser or super-heavy sleeper because the only ones there were Sal and later Carla. (That, or Malaya didn’t spend the night in her dorm room. Maybe Carla was actually called in to check in on Fuckface but finds claiming she’s capable of teleportation based on hearing her name more fun? I’d buy it from Carla.)