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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
“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.
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. 🙁
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
ridin’ bareback
no hats
So shocking! Just throwing all caution to the winds like that!!
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.
Honestly, I’m not sure if she’s doing a self-paroding shtick or unintentionally channeling her mother.
Definitely the former. Without realizing it.
I absolutely loved the “no hats” line. So fun.
And yeah, right there with ya Sal.
Except for the ‘Danny’ thing, but… yeah.
YOU’RE a hat
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
Anything can be a reverse cowgirl with enough spin.
Is that why my centrifuge keeps spitting out Minotaurs?
This is an incredibly funny response, thank you
Oh is THAT what kids are calling it these days…
Female minotaurs I presume?
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.
Now I’m thinking of Bruno.
We don’t talk about Bruno. Also, I didn’t mean to hit the Report button.
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.
Willis AFAIK is the sole moderator of the comments
me
apparently we don’t talk about you XD
well you should
The webcomic?
Universities are indeed places of Geometric Identity Transformations!
MATHEMATICAL!!!! ^-^
Topologically, all positions are reverse cowgirl.
See, Sal? There’s your math problem right there! You’re not an algebra girl; you’re a geometry girl!
But she just mentioned that Joyce hadn’t used Sal’s bra…
weird thinking Billy got here first
Billy got where first?
Billy?
Perchance they meant Danny.
I was thinking they missed Anna’s invisible post.
Well now I want a slipshine of Billy and Sal going at it while they were roommates.
“… 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.)
I think he meant to let Joe get dressed, since even he probably would rather not attend class in his underwear.
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.
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.
D: “C’mon in, Joe. Now watch us perform a duet inverted 180 degree reverse strip tease.”
J: “…I’m into it.”
How many points is that worth in Tony Hawk?
I have this impending sense of doom that Danny is about to Dan it up
lalalalalalala I can’t hear youuuuuuuu
This here’s Dan’s redemption arc.
Which is the *perfect* time to Dan it up if he’s living a tragedy.
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
i never thought i would relate this hard to sal but here we are
Well, it’s a…work in progress. Good luck Sally
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.
Heavens forbid Carla’s deadname is ever revealed…
We would be up to our expectations in TERFS.
Sal still calls Jennifer Billie.
It could be an honest mistake. Pretty easy for auto correct to make Sal into Salesforce.
Wait
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.
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.
Almost any character reading the comments all, “WHY DO I GET MORE DEATH THREATS THAN MIKE!?”
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?!?!!?
Still worth the read, really hot sex in there ^^
It could be footy… if he was ballin’.
Was Joe even going to class today? He definitely had spooning Joyce on his schedule before Sal decided it was fuck time.
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
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.
Kneesy
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.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/batman/
Wow, you have an incredible memory.
Fer job and life and stuff, not so much. 😀
Not the sex position she wants, just the sex position she needs.
*eyeslits narrow*
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.
The joke is that they were doing Missionary position, and Sal’s trying to find a way to call it a Cowgirl variant :D.
Correct.
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.
Stupid auto correct, i wanted my Sal gravatar for that comment.
How does/did autocorrect change your gravatar?
By changing their email input, presumably.
Auto-correct: the worst kind of correct.
(as opposed to technically correct: the best kind of correct)
It does change it from ironic, to ironic and judging, a little ?
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!
What’s Joe’s Tuesday/Thursday morning class? Probably Fundamentals of Jazz Theory. I bet he’s going to get back into string bass.
I’ll never understand why she was called fakey…
It’s probably because of Malaya’s externalised self-doubts.
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.
I mean, it’s always a shield. Doesn’t mean everyone’s gonna like it.
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.
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.
Dumbing of Age 14: A very advanced kinda reverse cowgirl
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!
Sal, you’re allowed to enjoy snuggles and being content and calm. Especially after sex.
No! No comfort! Only gritty!
Please don’t bring Gritty into this
No wanting Gritty to come during sex sounds selfish.
Sal scattering gravel on her bed and laying in it to show how hard-boiled she is.
I didn’t think naked Danny would be sexy, but he is! Sal saw it first! ?
Technically Dorothy saw it first
And she threw it away!
That’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that.
Bah, touch screens are such a horrible interface. Sorry, I accidentally reported you just while scrolling.
When I say tsun, you say dere
TSUN (baka)! DERE (baka)!
You so rarely get pure uncut tsundere in Western media. *chef’s kiss*
I would absolutely believe that Sal could top from a bottom position.
Power bottom
Lewdsome….
Damnit Danny, the only appropriate response in that situation is “Yes ma’am”.
No! I’m not soft! I’m just… an advanced type of horny that most people can’t even do!
“AH DO NOT *LIKE CUDDLES* AND AH WILL FIGHT YEH!”
“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’.”
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.
To be clear, is she suggesting spooning?
She wants naked cuddles, like Joe and Joyce (almost) had, except she can’t bring herself to say that’s what she wants.
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.
Spoilers for the Slipshine?!?
You know something’s gone strange in your life when you’re contemplating the thought of spoilers in porn.
speaking of, I can’t tell today’s screen. It looks kind of like a pokemon giving someone the bird, mid climax.
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.
You know, Sal has never reminded me so much of Walky
Well they are twins…
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. 🙁
She’s still learning to do emotional vulnerability with people who are Not Marcie. She’ll get there.
Why is this called vulnerability?
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.
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.
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.
Omg you are so right
I hadn’t thought of it from that angle.
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.
Sure, sweetie, whatever you say. xD
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.
No one?
No, that doesn’t make sense.
Joe, obviously, for being inconsiderate and cutting Sal’s snuggle time short, duh.
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
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
>implying Danny has arms
Ethan is not here to view with alarm. So inconsiderate of him!
Malaya’s voice sipping in through the crack in the door like it’s the “Ominous” sound effect from Jojo
“Faaaaa keeeeey.”
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.
If the claims are validated, are they really bullshit claims?
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
Each of us is just an incredible simulation.
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.
Ah, a rare show of Sal where she applies Walky Logic.
Well, she IS his sister, after all…
Inverted 180-degree reverse cowgirl is something I will have to restrain myself from saying in this kind of situation.
Sal puttin’ her mathematical studies to work for the powers of evil!
‘To the untrained eye’ That means Joyce, doesn’t it?
Where do you get training in this sort of thing? Are there certifications?
I’m sure joyce could learn things from sal but she’s prolly read enough of amber’s fics to know specific positions
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.
“something they both need, want, and deserve.”
Thus the Batman logo.
Danny comes in a handy amirite (I am not right)
Interesting to still be ’emotionally constipated’ after already being intimate, wonder how booster would react
It’s ok Sal the two of you will get into pegging soon enough.
Careful, Danny. Sal’s getting pretty close to actually lashing out against the change in her persona.