Later, Booster reveals having learned Joseph Joestar’s secret of knowing what people will say before they say it, except without the them saying it part
Booster’s cheating a little, someone had their phone out at that meeting and Jennifer getting bodyslammed went viral on TikTok and even inspired a brief dance craze.
Yes, the floating timeline means that TikTok was now a thing at the start of this story. Of course, by the time next semester rolls around we’ll all be receiving our memes in pill form, so this comment will be dated.
They see Ruth looking at Billie like *that* in the background, especially when her new boyfriend gets mentioned, and connected the dots that they’re exes.
Just like this, but videos. Minor nit: there will be no “finally” except until there is so much media produced that entire IP’s just get forgot. Or Sol explodes or something.
Yotomoe
Well finally in this context would be “the most recent format as of this comment I just made.”
They are both thick of body, and the hair length is sorta comparable, but yeah I otherwise don’t see it so much.
Wack'd
I mean if that’s all, Amber and Jennifer have both always been thick once the art stopped making everyone’s heads ginormous, anyway
Yotomoe
Everyone in DOA definitely got a bit thicker as the art evolved.
Wack'd
Honestly I kinda feel like Joyce has gotten a little skinnier since the beginning. (I remember a lot of discourse around her no longer being a twig back in 2010.)
Yotomoe
I disagree. She was like…the character I most noticed feeling more filled out. Like early on she read as pretty small/skinny. Now she’s got a bit of a shortstack vibe.
Angel
cept ethan but the emo/malnourished ’emaciated’ thing was def a plot point. though hopefully he can get back on track even if he doesn’t rly go back to ‘normal’ or so
Y’know, it occurs to me that I’ve never really thought about how much boobs weigh, numerically. What do 15-pound boobs even look like? It sounds like they’d be huge, but again, I’ve never put one in a scale.
Yotomoe
Well if it all went straight to her boobs that means it only would’ve increased by 7 1/2 lbs per breast. Which still sounds like a lot actually.
Googled it, and according to some website, the average breast size (36C) corresponds to a weight of around 2lb per breast, while a D cup might mean up to 3.5lb/boob. The same page cautions that these are rough averages and actual weight will vary and even hilariously describes how to use the Archimedes principle to measure your own boobs’ weight.
But i guess the takeaway as far as this crucial conversation is concerned, is that jennifer’s breasts do not weigh 15lb, that is a probably morbidly high weight
Dammit
I got all perky about a chance to link to a Rachel Bloom song and failed to grab the ball and bounce it back
Sorry i flashed my incompetence to y’all
Yotomoe
Naw I really appreciate the video. Song has a real bounce to it. It was a happy accident. At least you’re abreast of the situation. Depending on your preference boob puns may not B your Cup of tea.
EA West
More if you’re lactating!
Schpoonman
I’m sure there are a dozen gross anime with vaguely that plot.
Walky DID already tell that story. Remember, the floor meeting? “Walky said you’d probably bodyslam someone and then date them, and I have to see that.” What they picked up on was the tension between Ruth and Jennifer, and connected the dots that way.
I just always remember how weirdly horny some of the commercials were.
Wack'd
The 2000s were an aggressively het time
zee
Hey remember when a website building tool used soft core porn on cable to advertise?
I’ve been getting GoDaddy ads again. They’re not horny anymore just annoying
So, I’m wondering: does anyone have any leading theories on whether/where the name “Charlie” comes from in the original Walkyverse? There’s no obvious connection. Booster’s named for the Power Booster Rod, but that doesn’t give me any easy leads. The PBR is also a Transformers reference, but it’s an obscure one, though Transformers DOES has a lot of Charlies, not to forget Charlenes and Charlottes…?
This may be a little wild, but is it possible that her name is meant to be a distant, humanized corruption of “The Cheese”? The PBR and Cheese were pretty closely connected, but the Cheese is already in DOA as a cartoon character, and it’s a big stretch.
I vaguely remember hearing that Booster was not deliberately named after the Rod, although I can’t be bothered to go back and check
We’re at the point where the Walkyverse characters are pretty thoroughly exhausted, not much left to incorporate unless you want to start picking extras out of crowd shots
ok but if Booster was named after the Power Booster Rod it’d be fun if their birthname was Rodney (rod for short) before they decided to go by booster.
Wack'd
Let’s not speculate on folks’ deadnames please thanks
Yotomoe
Thanks, you’re welcome, I appreciate it, thank you, please.
Kelibath
Seriously, don’t? Your reply is reading as too sardonic to parse properly, but just, don’t.
maybe it’s new? Wasn’t malaya only created in shortpacked /something that happened outta spite because others were complaining about other pocs or so having rep
She’s kind of wild in that she is sometimes so flustered by certain things, yet she’s also someone who gives zero fucks sometimes about walking around the campus in her underwear other days.
191 thoughts on “Switch”
Ana Chronistic
Later, Booster reveals having learned Joseph Joestar’s secret of knowing what people will say before they say it, except without the them saying it part
AGV
They’re more like Rohan with Heaven’s Door really
Gbz
Of course! Heavens for in read only mode.
Doctor_Who
Booster’s cheating a little, someone had their phone out at that meeting and Jennifer getting bodyslammed went viral on TikTok and even inspired a brief dance craze.
Yes, the floating timeline means that TikTok was now a thing at the start of this story. Of course, by the time next semester rolls around we’ll all be receiving our memes in pill form, so this comment will be dated.
Thag Simmons
Booster has at least been told that Ruth bodyslammed someone during a floor meeting, although I don’t know if they specifically know it was Jen
Peng
They’ve also heard Ruth scream “I didn’t ‘lose’ Billie!” Probably put together the pieces from there.
But I prefer the dance craze theory.
butting
She screamed that about Billie/Jennifer right in the middle of being psych-profiled by Booster, too, so it’s a double connection.
Meeting starts here, and it’d make a pretty sweet TikTok too.
Ophidiophile
Thanks for the link. I love people posting links. Also, Booster’s line in that strip is hilarious.
Caro
They see Ruth looking at Billie like *that* in the background, especially when her new boyfriend gets mentioned, and connected the dots that they’re exes.
Yotomoe
I am just imaging an old school youtube video morfing into a vine converting to an instagram video and finally becoming a tik-tok over time.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Just like this, but videos. Minor nit: there will be no “finally” except until there is so much media produced that entire IP’s just get forgot. Or Sol explodes or something.
Yotomoe
Well finally in this context would be “the most recent format as of this comment I just made.”
Bicycle Bill
For those who don’t remember, from almost 13 years ago – https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/pun/
What’s really interesting is to see how much the characters have changed as Willis has honed his art skills over the intervening years….
JepMZ
Didn’t you know? TikTok is old school two decades ago
C.T. Phipps
Jennifer is looking more Amber-like. Is she getting ready to date Walky? 🙂
Thag Simmons
She’s slowly realizing that she already is dating a Walky
Wack'd
I’m not seeing either of these things.
DailyBrad
They are both thick of body, and the hair length is sorta comparable, but yeah I otherwise don’t see it so much.
Wack'd
I mean if that’s all, Amber and Jennifer have both always been thick
once the art stopped making everyone’s heads ginormous, anywayYotomoe
Everyone in DOA definitely got a bit thicker as the art evolved.
Wack'd
Honestly I kinda feel like Joyce has gotten a little skinnier since the beginning. (I remember a lot of discourse around her no longer being a twig back in 2010.)
Yotomoe
I disagree. She was like…the character I most noticed feeling more filled out. Like early on she read as pretty small/skinny. Now she’s got a bit of a shortstack vibe.
Angel
cept ethan but the emo/malnourished ’emaciated’ thing was def a plot point. though hopefully he can get back on track even if he doesn’t rly go back to ‘normal’ or so
Yotomoe
Well, I probably don’t need to say that I’d absolutely approve of THAT.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Do what you do best. Express yourself in your art. Please. (And then share it here ❤)
Yotomoe
https://imgur.com/a/VWWEEgL
Pylgrim
Honestly all this hostility is getting too tsundere-like to ignore.
Kyrik Michalowski
Lucky guess.
Kyrik Michalowski
I intended to write more before I accidentally hit the post comment button, but you know what? It is probably better this way.
Wack'd
? dogs
bark and they know their breed
knows where they went last night
knows their masters toooooo ?
Schpoonman
Get wrecked, Jennifer.
Schpoonman
Yoto, you’re getting to me, why has Jennifer been so much hotter since the timeskip?
GholaHalleck
Her freshman 15 went right to her boobs.
Taffy
Y’know, it occurs to me that I’ve never really thought about how much boobs weigh, numerically. What do 15-pound boobs even look like? It sounds like they’d be huge, but again, I’ve never put one in a scale.
Yotomoe
Well if it all went straight to her boobs that means it only would’ve increased by 7 1/2 lbs per breast. Which still sounds like a lot actually.
milu
Googled it, and according to some website, the average breast size (36C) corresponds to a weight of around 2lb per breast, while a D cup might mean up to 3.5lb/boob. The same page cautions that these are rough averages and actual weight will vary and even hilariously describes how to use the Archimedes principle to measure your own boobs’ weight.
But i guess the takeaway as far as this crucial conversation is concerned, is that jennifer’s breasts do not weigh 15lb, that is a probably morbidly high weight
Yotomoe
MYTH. BUSTED.
milu
sorry to disappoint Yoto. otoh you can still do some damage with some double-D’s.
Yotomoe
Also I made a boob pun
milu
Dammit
I got all perky about a chance to link to a Rachel Bloom song and failed to grab the ball and bounce it back
Sorry i flashed my incompetence to y’all
Yotomoe
Naw I really appreciate the video. Song has a real bounce to it. It was a happy accident. At least you’re abreast of the situation. Depending on your preference boob puns may not B your Cup of tea.
EA West
More if you’re lactating!
Schpoonman
I’m sure there are a dozen gross anime with vaguely that plot.
Caro
Walky DID already tell that story. Remember, the floor meeting? “Walky said you’d probably bodyslam someone and then date them, and I have to see that.” What they picked up on was the tension between Ruth and Jennifer, and connected the dots that way.
Yotomoe
Have you ever french kissed in a Quiznos?
RassilonTDavros
…you just made me remember Quiznos. And with it, the Spongmonkeys.
…I hope you’re happy
Schpoonman
Look, I’m also envious of their pepper bar, don’t take it out on the early 2000s abominations.
Yotomoe
I just always remember how weirdly horny some of the commercials were.
Wack'd
The 2000s were an aggressively het time
zee
Hey remember when a website building tool used soft core porn on cable to advertise?
I’ve been getting GoDaddy ads again. They’re not horny anymore just annoying
Nono
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
RassilonTDavros
Ruth: is silently in distinct discomfort throughout this conversation
cbwroses
I didn’t pick up on that at first, but you’re right.
Blackdrazon
So, I’m wondering: does anyone have any leading theories on whether/where the name “Charlie” comes from in the original Walkyverse? There’s no obvious connection. Booster’s named for the Power Booster Rod, but that doesn’t give me any easy leads. The PBR is also a Transformers reference, but it’s an obscure one, though Transformers DOES has a lot of Charlies, not to forget Charlenes and Charlottes…?
This may be a little wild, but is it possible that her name is meant to be a distant, humanized corruption of “The Cheese”? The PBR and Cheese were pretty closely connected, but the Cheese is already in DOA as a cartoon character, and it’s a big stretch.
Thag Simmons
I vaguely remember hearing that Booster was not deliberately named after the Rod, although I can’t be bothered to go back and check
We’re at the point where the Walkyverse characters are pretty thoroughly exhausted, not much left to incorporate unless you want to start picking extras out of crowd shots
Yotomoe
ok but if Booster was named after the Power Booster Rod it’d be fun if their birthname was Rodney (rod for short) before they decided to go by booster.
Wack'd
Let’s not speculate on folks’ deadnames please thanks
Yotomoe
Thanks, you’re welcome, I appreciate it, thank you, please.
Kelibath
Seriously, don’t? Your reply is reading as too sardonic to parse properly, but just, don’t.
CrazyJ
Have we seen Ninja Rick yet?
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
I think Willis has said we will not see Ninja Rick because that character started out inspired by a real-life person.
Leorale
My headcanon is that Ninja Rick is a campus therapist, who is not so good at his job.
GholaHalleck
Charles Entertainment Cheese. Charlie is the Big Cheese.
Needfuldoer
The original Charles Entertainment Cheese looks like he has the current Chuck E Cheese tied up in the trunk of his 1968 Cadillac Eldorado.
Family entertainment rodents are not to be messed with…
Wack'd
We’ve not actually seen the Cheese in Dumbing of Age as a cartoon. David Powers, Joyce’s old youth pastor, is this universe’s equivalent.
Booster is not named for the Power Booster Rod.
Angel
maybe it’s new? Wasn’t malaya only created in shortpacked /something that happened outta spite because others were complaining about other pocs or so having rep
Nik
Jennifer of all people declaring boastfully that she is unknowable is a beautiful example of dramatic irony.
Schpoonman
She’s an exercise in Willis going “How on-the-nose can I make a character’s dialogue before it stretches SoD too far?”
James
Honestly “I am unknowable” feels perfectly believable and in-character for Jennifer’s specific neuroses.
DailyBrad
She’s kind of wild in that she is sometimes so flustered by certain things, yet she’s also someone who gives zero fucks sometimes about walking around the campus in her underwear other days.
Angel
Other than some gritty superhero stuff, how many ppl say “i am an enigma!” unironically and it actually being true lol.