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186 thoughts on “Adorable”
Ana Chronistic
some folks want a… headrest?
faceplant?
Ana Chronistic
hood(ie) ornament?
Shitbird
Does Sal horny?
True Survivor
No she’s just in looooove.
ReverendJ
Both can be true.
ThunderNight
backplant
Bicycle Bill
I think Sal might have been looking for – and found – ‘a-dork-able’.
brionl
Hey, I was going to say that!
Ryan
Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.
Tenzhi
Or do they just want prosthetic Danny on their forehead?
Ana Chronistic
Throw the crib door wide
Let the Danny come inside
Jim
I didn’t realize a Venn diagram existed between the set of people
who read this webcomic and fans of They Might Be Giants…
Geneseepaws
Do not underestimate the DOA fans.
himura
Sal wants Adorkable. Just different enough from adorable to be it’s own category.
Decidedly Orthogonal
I see you Alt-text. Totes, say I! totes.
The Wellerman
Awe, the adorable just keeps coming!!!! ?
*plays “Beautiful Fantasy” from Sailor Moon CD on hacked muzak*
Doctor_Who
It’s nice that Sal has an Emotional Support Dork.
Clif
It’s that smile in the last panel that sells it. Sal knows she’s being adorable and is fine with it.
StClair
Yup.
But unlike some people, she doesn’t have a compulsion to broadcast it. She’s perfectly happy just being who she is, with the person she’s into.
Needfuldoer
And Danny’s happy to let her figure that out at her own pace, no expectations or quid pro quo attached.
Fay
Eh, Sal does have the opposite compulsion of hiding it, though. I guarantee if anyone else she knew saw her right now she’d be embarrassed, not because she’s being cutesy with Danny, but because she’s being cutesy with anyone.
Steve C.
What Fay said. Sal’s tried of being looked up to by some (e.g., Joyce off the top of my head) and being looked down upon/ignored by others (e.g., Asher’s circle.) She’s tired of being the resident bad ass, but doesn’t know how or where to move on from it (or if she even wants to move on.) With Danny she can “be herself”, and Danny’s perfectly willing to wait patiently while she figures out what that means. BTW, I appreciate this comments section. Whenever I have a WTF reaction to a strip, you all tell me what’s up. Thanks.
Innocent Bystander
Also a structural support dork, if she leans any farther.
thakoru
Somewhere, somehow, a chill goes up Malaya’s spine.
alongcameaspider
I mean Sals right, not everyone wants adorable
Sal absolutely does though
Proxiehunter
No, Sal wants adorkable there’s a difference.
Vukodlak
Are you saying Dina isn’t adorkable?
powerpowerpow
Dina is way too cool to be adorkable. Besides, Danny’s dorkiness dwarfs that if anyone..
himura
While Dina is adorkable herself, Dina and Becky are adorable.
Sal wants her own adorkable. And that’s Danny.
Stephen Bierce
I’ve got a vague memory of a Calvin Klein fragrance commercial. But which one?
Clif
Nothing comes between me and my fragrance but Brooke Shields?
To soon?
not someone else
D’awwwwwww.
Reltzik
D’awwwwwwdorable.
RassilonTDavros
…my heart just grew three sizes.
Clif
Sounds painful tho.
King Daniel
“Yeah, turns out your heart growing three sizes is bad for your health.”
Agemegos
Dilated or hypertrophic?
Yotomoe
She said maybe not everyone.
That doesn’t mean she’s not one of them.
Deathjavu
Hopefully Danny is, because Sal is being adorable.
carl320
Adorbs how Sal’s so comfortable that her hair goes natural.
anonymsly
Sal’s hair has been natural since the time skip, I thought?
Rabbit
It’s equally cute and sad for me to see this comic cuz like. We know Sal is tired of people seeking her out as cool and vying for approval.
but i am happy she has Danny
Yotomoe
https://i.imgur.com/J1PhCi8.png (NSFW)
Guys. I just like drawing Billie. She’s got a lot of fun shapes.
Story so far…
https://imgur.com/a/9Ob1cy3 (NSFW)
The Wellerman
Wii Gii!!!! ?
Bicycle Bill
Just in case no one else has said it …
Thank you for doing this on Imgur instead of making me sign up for something like DeviantArt in order to see this.
The Wellerman
You said it!
The censors can suck my octagon!!!
Sporky
I’m glad you like drawing her because the way you draw her is A+
Taffy
Shirt on boob sometime better than no shirt on boob. Consult doctor.
milu
hey, i’m curious, what do you use as reference?
do you have someone around you can ask to pose? do you take pictures of yourself in roughly the position you want? do you find pictures online? or have you just had so many live sketching sessions in art school that you can draw basically any position from memory now? i’m just really impressed with Billie’s positions and gestures in today’s strip.
Yotomoe
It’s all from my head. Sometimes I’ll use art I like or Willis’ art for reference but 9/10 I just sorta make up the poses from my head.
milu
no shit!?
wow. that is a sick superpower to have.
Sarah Andersen: it’s practice =D
also Sarah Andersen:
GeekyWarrior
There are also pose apps you can get. I use to date an artist and she had a few apps like Magic Poser on her tablet.
Yotomoe
Oh I’m well aware. If I run into a pose I’m having trouble with I’ll probably use that. Probably more likely when I get to lining this behemoth. But for now I’m keeping it simple and loose.
GeekyWarrior
Gotta say your art is very impressive! Can’t wait to see the updates!
The Wellerman
Magic Poser…
Tell me human, please, is there a free alternative to this for Windows, that can be used with pre-made 3D models?
GeekyWarrior
Ya got me! No longer dating an artist and I can barely use mspaint!
Always the possibility of running bluestacks to emulate android though
The Wellerman
Thanks for replying anyway! ?
You good with sound or searching the web for sounds and music?
I’m making a a free DOA game and highly appreciate all the help I can get!!!
Amós Batista
Maybe I’ve said before that your draws are getting better and better…
mrj
Kaguya-sama’s Narrator: That was a lie.
Jonah Sanville
aww
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
Not everything is about gaining acknowledgement and impressing people. Sometimes people are just excited about something and want others to share in their excitement.
Reaver
When that thing is ” WE FUcKEd” Thats not appropriate to ” share” with other people, especially without consent.
milu
…why is that an inappropriate thing to share though? (i’m still fielding answers to that question because i’m honestly puzzled by the number of people saying some variation on that, and i’d like to understand.)
Subjektivity
Some people are uncomfortable with sex…. either culturally or because they find managing the feelings difficult. Some people intensely delineate between public and private personas and dislike it when people cross the boundaries. Honestly there could be all sorts of and combinations of reasons.
milu
do you fall in either of these categories?
i guess my unease about this is down to how much i LOVE hearing personal stories, including about sex. (i don’t think i’m aspirational in that ftr, i just live vicariously through others most of the time lol) so my instinct is to be like “let people tell you they’re happy, that doesn’t obligate you in any way”. but i’m wondering maybe that’s an insensitive thing to say. maybe it’s also a culture thing, in my circles talking about sex is widely welcomed and considered emancipatory, so i may be out of touch with the larger culture.
I would find it obnoxious if someone carried on talking about it after the other person has expressed disinterest or irritation, but i feel like drawing the line at “just don’t talk openly about sex, period” is kind of skirting with socially conservative attitudes (especially when directed towards people of marginalised orientations, although i personally don’t mind anyone talking about sex).
i can also appreciate that being openly stoked about getting laid might hit a nerve with people who are lonely, or just broke up maybe. but again, should you avoid talking about it at all for that reason?
Also, i know i’ve been insensitive about ace-spec folks before, so maybe this is relevant here. Maybe ace people would rather sexuality be less omnipresent in public discourse. But Dina is ace, so what does that mean? Is she out of touch, is she an outlier, is her characterization problematic here? Or is this all beside the point.
i’m also curious how people come to react negatively to these interactions in the context of, well, reading DOA, a story very much about romance and sex.
and of course i realize different people will have different reasons for finding Becky & Dina irritating or insensitive here. Just curious what those reasons might be.
Miri
So… Talking about sex in workplaces is in general inappropriate because it can create an atmosphere others can find offensive but feel stuck with and this can amount to sexual harassment. Telling your friend you had sex is different because there isn’t the sort of power dynamic that means you can’t tell them if it’s too much and making you uncomfortable… Telling people you had sex but not to tell somebody also puts you in a position of having to keep a secret or potentially being expected to lie to somebody, and that’s not really fair. These two aren’t going into graphic detail, or continuing after people are asking them to stop, so my main concern is that Joyce will [over]hear talking about this and get upset about them keeping it specifically from her…
milu
oh definitely there are contexts where this would constitute harrassment, but this isn’t that sort of situation.
otoh sure the “don’t tell Joyce” thing is weird. fair point, that does make it awkward and unpleasant.
Reaver
As a person that identifies as Ace myself, I find talking about sex just as uncomfortable and “Ew tmi” as when a friend cooes about the most satisfying dump they just took, it’s natural, most people are capable of doing it, and I didn’t ask for that information.
This isn’t Becky and Dina talking to a few close friends, and telling a story, it’s them loudly announcing what they do in their private time to literally anyone with ears.
Some people just aren’t comfortable hearing about your bodily functions, or sexual acheivements.
Not because “They are lonely or just broke up” and not because “You should avoid talking about it”
They can talk about it if they want.. *with their friends*
They barely know Walky, Dina has never to my knowledge had a conversation with Lucy either.
They are going up to people who are on friendly terms at *best* and announcing their sex lives.
It’s rude, don’t burp in people’s faces, don’t tell the checker at the store “Lol me and my girlfriend totally fucked each other raw last night” either.
And Dina is “following Becky’s lead” as she said, and Becky is obnoxious and shove in your face about things.
milu
Yeah ok, i think i see what you mean. Thank you for sharing and sorry if that came off as prying.
Reaver
Naw, you’re fine! 😀
Amelie Wikström
Being in the same zipcode as Joe may have given them the wrong idea as nobody complained very much when he was comfortably going around talking about his penis’s feelings and achievements with women whose names he never bothered to learn, and very little else. (And when they did, it was his objectification they complained about.)
Probably they won’t realize it bothers anyone until they’re told about it.
BBCC
Becky and Walky are friends.
Not sure about Lucy but it seems like she’s been hanging out with them for a while, and Walky’s hung out with them almost every day since October.