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Already
Posted on May 25, 2024 by David M Willis

152 thoughts on “Already”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    ridin’ bareback

    no hats

    1. Steamweed

      So shocking! Just throwing all caution to the winds like that!!

    2. Decidedly Orthogonal

      I do hope they’re using some kind of protection.

      Also, Sal implying that she’s bottoming *and* doing the work… isn’t the power move she may think it is. Unless she learned more about being power bottom than is normal at that school she went to.

      1. clif

        Honestly, I’m not sure if she’s doing a self-paroding shtick or unintentionally channeling her mother.

        1. Proto

          Definitely the former. Without realizing it.

    3. Rose by Any Other Name

      I absolutely loved the “no hats” line. So fun.
      And yeah, right there with ya Sal.
      Except for the ‘Danny’ thing, but… yeah.

      1. Ana Chronistic

        YOU’RE a hat

  2. Wack'd

    it’s a little retro and a bit passé
    but you know you make her feel a-ok
    and she feels alright, the stars are bright, the missionary position

    and the acrobats, well they tend to scoff
    all you know is that you can get her off
    and you feel alright, the stars are bright, the missionary position

  3. Sirksome

    Anything can be a reverse cowgirl with enough spin.

    1. True Survivor

      Is that why my centrifuge keeps spitting out Minotaurs?

      1. cain

        This is an incredibly funny response, thank you

      2. Mturtle7

        Oh is THAT what kids are calling it these days…

      3. Opus the Poet

        Female minotaurs I presume?

        1. True Survivor

          Well I figured the reverse of a cow girl would be man-bull. I don’t know – I wrote that when I was very tired.

    2. Schpoonman

      Now I’m thinking of Bruno.

      1. Ed Callahan

        We don’t talk about Bruno. Also, I didn’t mean to hit the Report button.

        1. Decidedly Orthogonal

          I wonder if the accidental reports anxiety amongst the commentariat is enough to appeal for a confirmation dialogue?

          You’re far from the first person to hit it by accident. It’ll be ok, Willis or their mod apply real intelligence to reviewing reports. Also, I think they don’t even look unless multiple reports register.

        2. NGPZ

          Willis AFAIK is the sole moderator of the comments

      2. Bruno

        me

        1. NGPZ

          apparently we don’t talk about you XD

        2. Bruno

          well you should

      3. Chris M.

        The webcomic?

  4. NGPZ

    Universities are indeed places of Geometric Identity Transformations!

    MATHEMATICAL!!!! ^-^

    1. Ryan

      Topologically, all positions are reverse cowgirl.

    2. Steamweed

      See, Sal? There’s your math problem right there! You’re not an algebra girl; you’re a geometry girl!

      1. Decidedly Orthogonal

        But she just mentioned that Joyce hadn’t used Sal’s bra…

  5. Adam Black

    weird thinking Billy got here first

    1. Nymph

      Billy got where first?

      1. PedanticJerkass

        Billy?

        1. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Perchance they meant Danny.

        2. clif

          I was thinking they missed Anna’s invisible post.

    2. Plaaaaaa

      Well now I want a slipshine of Billy and Sal going at it while they were roommates.

  6. Reltzik

    “… let Joe back in and get dressed.”

    … interesting order of operations there.

    (Admit it, you were thinking it to. … or if you weren’t, you are now.)

    1. DailyBrad

      I think he meant to let Joe get dressed, since even he probably would rather not attend class in his underwear.

    2. Reltzik

      Or, wait, does he mean let JOE get dressed?

      On the one hand, he’s got shorts and a T-shirt on on… and the shorts are differently-colored than the boxers he was wearing when in bed with Joyce, so either he had time to change boxers or he pulled actual shorts on over the boxers or both.

      On the other hand, it’s winter in Indiana and shorts and a t-shirt are probably a poor choice for outdoor wear.

      1. vlademir1

        It could be doable, depending on various factors. In my own youth I used to run around the Dayton, OH, area in shorts from around late March or early April through December with no issues and the weather in Bloomington is near identical.

    3. Steamweed

      D: “C’mon in, Joe. Now watch us perform a duet inverted 180 degree reverse strip tease.”
      J: “…I’m into it.”

      1. StClair

        How many points is that worth in Tony Hawk?

  7. Icalasari

    I have this impending sense of doom that Danny is about to Dan it up

    1. Esolo

      lalalalalalala I can’t hear youuuuuuuu

    2. Steamweed

      This here’s Dan’s redemption arc.

      1. Decidedly Orthogonal

        Which is the *perfect* time to Dan it up if he’s living a tragedy.

    3. anon

      Short of bumping into another girl and kissing her in front of sal i don’t think it’d suddenly have a strain in their relationship even if he puts his foot in his mouth now lol

  8. Throwatron

    i never thought i would relate this hard to sal but here we are

  9. darkoneko

    Well, it’s a…work in progress. Good luck Sally

    1. Nymph

      She’s made it super clear she prefers Sal and only her abusive, racist parents call her Sally.

      Weird tendency in this comment section to call characters by names they specifically don’t like being called.

      1. PedanticJerkass

        Heavens forbid Carla’s deadname is ever revealed…

        1. Opus the Poet

          We would be up to our expectations in TERFS.

      2. Sean Smith

        Sal still calls Jennifer Billie.

      3. Monito

        It could be an honest mistake. Pretty easy for auto correct to make Sal into Salesforce.

        Wait

      4. Bruno

        I think Sally is a pretty reasonable nickname for Sal and she shouldn’t spend the rest of her life assuming nobody’s ever going to think of it.

      5. Taffy

        It’s fine, they’ll never know. And if they could read our comments, I feel like an unfavored nickname wouldn’t be in the top 50 most upsetting things we’ve said about them.

        1. Icalasari

          Almost any character reading the comments all, “WHY DO I GET MORE DEATH THREATS THAN MIKE!?”

  10. Suet

    Well that spoils the Slipshine ? “You only get a spooning, and that’s that.”

    ofc the hand is handy, what else would it be, footy?!?!!?

    1. NGPZ

      Still worth the read, really hot sex in there ^^

    2. Decidedly Orthogonal

      It could be footy… if he was ballin’.

  11. Sirksome

    Was Joe even going to class today? He definitely had spooning Joyce on his schedule before Sal decided it was fuck time.

    1. anon

      i imagine he can’t just be shirtless in teh halls forever assuming they didn’t go into joyce’s room or even sal’s room to get some extra clothes

      1. thejeff

        He wasn’t in the scene where Sarah met Joyce at the door, so I assume he didn’t go there. He did have a shirt and shorts on, so he’s okay for hanging out in the halls a bit I guess.

    2. Weatherheight

      Kneesy

  12. True Survivor

    I want to come up with a snappy comment, but all I can think about is how perfectly Sal’s hair frames the batman logo.

    1. Steamweed

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/batman/

      1. True Survivor

        Wow, you have an incredible memory.

        1. Steamweed

          Fer job and life and stuff, not so much. 😀

    2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Not the sex position she wants, just the sex position she needs.

    3. StClair

      *eyeslits narrow*

  13. Cholma

    Danny, no matter which way Sal is facing, it’s *still* cowgirl, not missionary. You need to double-check your copy of the Kama Sutra, bud.

    1. Wraithy2773

      The joke is that they were doing Missionary position, and Sal’s trying to find a way to call it a Cowgirl variant :D.

    2. saltchocolate

      Correct.

  14. Kyrik Michalowski

    Just trying to prove to my boyfriend that I’m only having sex with him because I want to prove that I’m doing this for myself and how cool I am.

    To a boyfriend who doesn’t care about how cool I am, and would love me either way.

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      Stupid auto correct, i wanted my Sal gravatar for that comment.

      1. GoodbyBallad

        How does/did autocorrect change your gravatar?

        1. JBento

          By changing their email input, presumably.

      2. Steamweed

        Auto-correct: the worst kind of correct.

        (as opposed to technically correct: the best kind of correct)

      3. Miri

        It does change it from ironic, to ironic and judging, a little ?

    2. Mturtle7

      You know, when you put it that way, it kind of sounds like there’s a LOT of similarity between Joe/Joyce and Danny/Sal. Chill boyfriends gently giving their girlfriends space to work through their sex-related neuroses, with the mutual understanding that it’ll be a slow and meandering process all around. It’s just that Joyce is reflexively desperate to prove how innocent and virginal she is, while Sal is reflexively desperate to prove the exact opposite!
      Gotta love these character foils!

  15. HueSatLight

    What’s Joe’s Tuesday/Thursday morning class? Probably Fundamentals of Jazz Theory. I bet he’s going to get back into string bass.

  16. shrub

    I’ll never understand why she was called fakey…

    1. Taffy

      It’s probably because of Malaya’s externalised self-doubts.

    2. furubatsu

      Malaya seems to think everyone is Fakey, it’s just directed specifically at Sal, either because of projecting or sensing Sal’s Sal-ness is an act (nobody can be THAT cool naturally!) When it’s more a shield.

      1. Bruno

        I mean, it’s always a shield. Doesn’t mean everyone’s gonna like it.

    3. Mturtle7

      What I will always find hilarious about Sal & Malaya’s dynamic is that Sal is really only “fakey” (i.e. insecure) when she gets called out on it. Like, she genuinely seemed to enjoy smoking, riding motorcycles, wearing leather jackets, etc., even when there was nobody else around. But as soon as she thinks somebody’s doubting her Cool Rebel Cred, all of that sincerity just goes right out the window. Which of course just goads Malaya into visibly doubting her even more, creating a feedback loop that just keeps going until one of them either leaves in disgust or throws hands. I honestly think Marcie’s basically the only reason they haven’t killed each other yet.

      1. Imogen

        IDK, what prompted her to initially lie to Danny and say she liked death metal way back when? I think Sal’s just a kid who sometimes likes feeling cool and edgy. She’s got complicated feelings about it.

  17. Blibdoolpoolp

    Dumbing of Age 14: A very advanced kinda reverse cowgirl

  18. Tyler

    That last panel runs as a joke on two different levels, the position itself and the fact that the drawn image from the slipshine was a rotated draft of a previous model, if I remember what David said on the patreon. Very good comedy there!

  19. JA

    Sal, you’re allowed to enjoy snuggles and being content and calm. Especially after sex.

    1. TrueVCU

      No! No comfort! Only gritty!

      1. Illjwamh

        Please don’t bring Gritty into this

        1. JBento

          No wanting Gritty to come during sex sounds selfish.

      2. Da Boy

        Sal scattering gravel on her bed and laying in it to show how hard-boiled she is.

  20. saltchocolate

    I didn’t think naked Danny would be sexy, but he is! Sal saw it first! ?

    1. Plaaaaaa

      Technically Dorothy saw it first

      1. Da Boy

        And she threw it away!

        1. StClair

          That’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that.

        2. John Campbell

          Bah, touch screens are such a horrible interface. Sorry, I accidentally reported you just while scrolling.

  21. Sajuuk-Khar

    When I say tsun, you say dere

    1. Freezer

      TSUN (baka)! DERE (baka)!

  22. Freezer

    You so rarely get pure uncut tsundere in Western media. *chef’s kiss*

  23. Vukodlak

    I would absolutely believe that Sal could top from a bottom position.

    1. Plaaaaaa

      Power bottom

  24. Ray

    Lewdsome….

  25. Plaaaaaa

    Damnit Danny, the only appropriate response in that situation is “Yes ma’am”.

  26. IntangibleMatter

    No! I’m not soft! I’m just… an advanced type of horny that most people can’t even do!

  27. DashWallkick

    “AH DO NOT *LIKE CUDDLES* AND AH WILL FIGHT YEH!”

    1. Steamweed

      “But first, jus’ another five minutes of layin’ next to you, skin-to-skin, while ah hold you down so’s ya can’t move. BUT THIS AIN’T CUDDLIN’.”

      1. deliverything

        Well, holding someone down so they can’t move is called “pinning” in wrestling, and wrestling’s fighting, and fighting’s the sort of badass stuff that Sal does.
        Totally not cuddling, because that’s cute and romantic and not what Sal’s doing here. Obviously. It’s all advanced cowgirl stuff that we mere mortals cannot comprehend.

  28. GUIGUI

    To be clear, is she suggesting spooning?

    1. Needfuldoer

      She wants naked cuddles, like Joe and Joyce (almost) had, except she can’t bring herself to say that’s what she wants.

  29. Dellaran

    My favorite part of this interaction is just that Sal is actually allowing herself to be silly. The Sal who started the school year would never have shown that much vulnerability.

  30. All-Purpose Guru

    Spoilers for the Slipshine?!?

    1. Taffy

      You know something’s gone strange in your life when you’re contemplating the thought of spoilers in porn.

      1. HueSatLight

        speaking of, I can’t tell today’s screen. It looks kind of like a pokemon giving someone the bird, mid climax.

  31. DaveM

    Panels 3-4

    “I know I ain’t passion, cos I’m too cool.
    Don’t wanna you think I’m a romantic fool.
    It’s a habit of mine to want no-one around
    Even if I like you, we should impersonally pound.”

    Yes, the tune is Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins. Go sue me, I have some very good memories from back then that so match this comic.

  32. Steelbright

    You know, Sal has never reminded me so much of Walky

    1. Opus the Poet

      Well they are twins…

  33. Needfuldoer

    Can Sal just have a little emotional vulnerability, as a treat? She’s making up excuses for why she has to be unattached and distant again, and that’s all from the trauma Linda inflicted on her. 🙁

    1. BBCC

      She’s still learning to do emotional vulnerability with people who are Not Marcie. She’ll get there.

    2. eh, whatever

      Why is this called vulnerability?

      1. JasonAW3

        Because way too many people would take advantage of others emotions,
        and turn on them. Love is something rare and beautiful, but can be fragile,
        delicate, and can be crushed over time, if ignored or abused.
        This can leave people alone and bitter, chained to self loathing, and isolated
        from life. That is why people should be careful with their feelings.

      2. Yumi

        Because being open can lead to you getting hurt. Like how (especially if you want to think about pirate-times, but not exclusively pirate-times) a port city is vulnerable to attack– but if you close off the port, cut off all trade and whatever in the name of security, you’re going to miss out on a lot.

    3. GUIGUI

      This is her being emotionally vulnerable right now. Danny know she doesn’t mean it and she knows that he knows.

      It’s just silly act of posturing.

      And now that I am thinking about, one of the reason Danny know how to navigate with that kind of thing is that it’s not that dissimilar to what Joe is doing.

      1. Francoinblanco

        Omg you are so right

      2. Jerach

        I hadn’t thought of it from that angle.

    4. furubatsu

      To be fair, she had to deal with Linda what? A day, two at tops, ago. So Amy posturing is to be expected. But Danny’s indulging her, he’s letting her pretend to be the scary biker chick she portrays herself as while also playfully ribbing on her for it, letting her know she doesn’t have to be that wit him. Man’s basically letting her have her cake and eat it too.

  34. BBCC

    Sure, sweetie, whatever you say. xD

  35. Taffy

    This is the least serious conversation ever. Nobody’s even misbehaving slightly. As a reader of this comic, I don’t understand who I’m supposed to be upset with.

    1. GUIGUI

      No one?

      1. Taffy

        No, that doesn’t make sense.

    2. JBento

      Joe, obviously, for being inconsiderate and cutting Sal’s snuggle time short, duh.

    3. Sajuuk-Khar

      Obviously Sal because she’s not being 100% emotionally honest and that’s a sign she’s actually uh using Danny as a dildo or something

      She probably learned it from Dorothy, the most evil woman in the entire comic and also history

      1. Sajuuk-Khar

        Also Danny is doing something awful because of Roomies! and his arm is positioned in a manner similar to one of the strips where his (deeply inferior, awful) Walkyverse version was like, flirting with Mary or something

        1. Taffy

          >implying Danny has arms

    4. Mark

      Ethan is not here to view with alarm. So inconsiderate of him!

  36. Da Boy

    Malaya’s voice sipping in through the crack in the door like it’s the “Ominous” sound effect from Jojo
    “Faaaaa keeeeey.”

    1. Schpoonman

      I actually kinda hate that Sal last semester was full-tilt “cool by not caring about being cool” and this semester is validating Malaya’s bullshit claims.

      1. JBento

        If the claims are validated, are they really bullshit claims?

      2. Yeet

        eh, everyone cares about how they’re perceived
        those claims are still kind of bullshit, people trying to control how they’re perceived aren’t “fakey” maybe they just don’t want people climbing up their ass about, like in Sal’s case, their emotions or scars
        plus the idea that Sal doesn’t count as kind of a badass because she also has emotions and stuff is… just kind of ridiculous
        Malaya’s not wrong that Sal didn’t show everyone everything about herself or act 100% like True Sal, whoever that is, but I sure as fuck don’t want everyone I meet knowing all my emotional crap, let alone someone who acts like Malaya

        1. Mark

          Each of us is just an incredible simulation.

        2. HueSatLight

          People have an idea of themselves, it’s fine. Malaya’s working their way through their Holden Caulfield phase, projection and denial that they have an idea of themself.

  37. FacelessDeviant

    Ah, a rare show of Sal where she applies Walky Logic.

    1. JasonAW3

      Well, she IS his sister, after all…

  38. ValdVin

    Inverted 180-degree reverse cowgirl is something I will have to restrain myself from saying in this kind of situation.

  39. Steamweed

    Sal puttin’ her mathematical studies to work for the powers of evil!

  40. Pergola

    ‘To the untrained eye’ That means Joyce, doesn’t it?

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Where do you get training in this sort of thing? Are there certifications?

    2. anon

      I’m sure joyce could learn things from sal but she’s prolly read enough of amber’s fics to know specific positions

  41. JasonAW3

    This has just gone beyond simple sex, and has evolved into…
    Well, its definitely too early to tell, but I think it’s something
    they both need, want, and deserve.
    Sal is just having problems facing genuine affection, without
    her tough filters.

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      “something they both need, want, and deserve.”

      Thus the Batman logo.

  42. Valerie

    Danny comes in a handy amirite (I am not right)

  43. anon

    Interesting to still be ’emotionally constipated’ after already being intimate, wonder how booster would react

  44. Null Set

    It’s ok Sal the two of you will get into pegging soon enough.

  45. Formedras

    Careful, Danny. Sal’s getting pretty close to actually lashing out against the change in her persona.

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