I mean, I think that most of the things Amber does count on self loathing on some level, but that’s just because she has a LOT of self loathing and it has to find a release somewhere.
Regardless, getting mad that somebody changed your sheets because you think you deserve to lie in your own filth should DEFINITELY count as self loathing.
I don’t think Amber would even especially care about walking to her dorm in her undies, but no, pretty sure that’s just her blue shirt hanging down and she’s got some leggings on or something.
I hadn’t even noticed, but my headcanon is now that they are undies, and they’re worn over the leggings, because Amazi-Girl wants to dress as a superhero even if she’s not actually wearing a costume.
People will have you believe Dina is just insightful, that she can notice that Amber walks differently, or perhaps has a different speaking cadence. The truth is more clandestine in nature. No one notices the dino girl with a maxxed out stealth stat when she plants hidden video cameras and listening devices, or that her phone is currently streaming live footage from said hidden cameras. She’s been watching AG for hours. She saw the AG to Amber change briefly after Becky came down from her second orgasm. Those who pay attention know the truth.
The way Amber holds her face – particularly the upper half – is genuinely super different to Amazi-Girl, and it’s really consistent. This storyline in particular, it’s felt kind of exaggerated, even – possibly for this very reason.
Dina doesn’t do well with eye contact so she probably saw who it was out of the corner of her eye and — because of her autism and Dina-ness — went “oh, it is Amber,” and went back to her phone because she doesn’t need to stare now that she’s visually recognized her.
my roommate usuallt cant tell the which SPECIFIC alter is fronting (we have too many for that) but he usually has a pretty good guess on a couple that we could be at any one time. id imagine if there were just two of us it would be super easy. also amber seems to wear her glasses while amazi-girl doesnt.
I believe the real concern that prompted D & W to wash her sheets was the fact that two BOYS had stained them, and that Amber would, in response, refuse to EVER wash her sheets again, knowing this.
It can just be figurative, to express how she’s feeling. It’s fine if she likes her linens smelling like her instead of whatever detergent Dorothy and Walky decided to use. If the smell were as bad as everyone is imagining, then it’s only Amber, AG, and Dina who have a say, and Dina’s say extends as far as saying it has to be washed. Even as far saying she’ll wash them unless Amber says not to. Not doing it without permission.
I’ve had a roommate who was allergic to some detergents. I’ve had a roommate who needed the smell of something as part of their grieving process. I’ve had items ruined by being cleaned wrong, I’ve had detergent or softener whose smell made it hard to sleep.
And finally, it’s treating someone else like a baby. That the fake helper decides they need help and how to help and then does it, without regard to the person they’re fake helping. Because they are using the other person as a prop to make themselves feel like they’re helpful.
It would be very simple for Dorothy to have asked/offered Amber or AG. She asked/prompted Walky instead.
I’m just noting in panel 1 the placement of the speech bubble makes it look like the giant sex raptor is talking and that’s how I’ll be choosing to read this strip from now on. It’s alive. Don’t tell me it’s not. It probably deserves a tag.
It’s happened before:
* In United States of Tara, one of Tara’s alters started killing her other alters, before ultimately being killed by her primary self.
* Fight Club
horrible thought but Amber brought up the subject so it`s not my fault: do we think that her mattress is soaked through with menstrual blood? Because I have met women who have gotten to that point thanks to depression or other mental issues; it ain’t pretty
If her mattress is anything like the mattress I had at my dorm, it’s basically a big ole plastic covered… thing. Kinda looked more like a mattress you’d expect for a potty training kid, but I get it. It’s a mattress that’s gonna have a new person every year, so it needs to be easy to clean and not easy to get dirty. So thankfully, I don’t think it would be soaked. … … Her sheets and blankets on the other hand…
When I was her age, a single night at the wrong point in my cycle, with the largest size pads they made in places, still frequently led to bloodstained mattresses. A few decades, 3 kids, etc, later, I don’t bleed like that any more and can usually contain the flow (occasional smear on sheet, or needing to clean a towel because I didn’t realise the stuff is literally still trickling out of me after a shower…). I am, however, still on daily iron tablets with my iron levels just about maintaining normal. Some people menstruate heavily and yeah, washing your bedding is a decent idea but I was definitely not going to buy a new mattress every 3 weeks as a student to replace a rental one.
One of my exes from many a year ago has PCOS. Yeah, she menstruates somethin’ fierce, and for longer than usual. She always needs all the meat, all the garbanzo and kidney beans, and all the iron supplements.
IUD basically saved my life, by drastically reducing my flow. BOY OH BOY am I glad!!! Wish I had gotten an IUD at 12 and had one ever since! They’re PAINFUL at first, but honestly I wish they were made available to everyone. The hormonal stability you get eventually, after the pain subsides, is life-changing.
113 thoughts on “Enjoyed”
Ana Chronistic
*shits self* “Ahhh, much better“
NGPZ
i got a genuine cackle outta that XD
shadowcell
Love Dares You to Change (Your Sheets)
ValdVin
Sometimes love gets lazy and only dares you to change your pillowcases because they’re easier and when they’re clean everything smells better.
Sirksome
Does this count as self loathing?
Doctor_Who
Selves loathing.
DashWallkick
Amber/AG are Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan levels of ‘self loathing.’
Sirksome
It’s kind of funny and sad that neither alter has anything good to say about the other.
Juanoku
Or themselves if you think about it
Just a big old ball of self loathing those two
Mturtle7
I mean, I think that most of the things Amber does count on self loathing on some level, but that’s just because she has a LOT of self loathing and it has to find a release somewhere.
Regardless, getting mad that somebody changed your sheets because you think you deserve to lie in your own filth should DEFINITELY count as self loathing.
Jenniffniff
Is Amber pants-less?
Amós Batista
Just like Becky
Jeremiah
Nope, leggings.
AY
No, it doesn’t match her skin tone. I think her shirt is just too long and hanging out, making the whole thing a bit visually misleading
DailyBrad
I don’t think Amber would even especially care about walking to her dorm in her undies, but no, pretty sure that’s just her blue shirt hanging down and she’s got some leggings on or something.
Daibhid C
I hadn’t even noticed, but my headcanon is now that they are undies, and they’re worn over the leggings, because Amazi-Girl wants to dress as a superhero even if she’s not actually wearing a costume.
anon
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/startingup/ based on this it’s part of her outfit?
MacareuxMoine
Thanks – now I can’t unsee the pantless-ness 😉
Jo_cubstar
How does Dina know it’s Amber walking through the door, before she’s said anything?
Raven
Different people have different footsteps. IDK if alters would have that level of difference but it’s possible
Doctor_Who
I could always tell which family member was coming upstairs by their gait.
Maybe Amber walks differently than Amazi-Girl. Also, she used the door.
Sirksome
People will have you believe Dina is just insightful, that she can notice that Amber walks differently, or perhaps has a different speaking cadence. The truth is more clandestine in nature. No one notices the dino girl with a maxxed out stealth stat when she plants hidden video cameras and listening devices, or that her phone is currently streaming live footage from said hidden cameras. She’s been watching AG for hours. She saw the AG to Amber change briefly after Becky came down from her second orgasm. Those who pay attention know the truth.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Is the DoAverse ready for Dark Dina?
Ray Radlein
She’s ready to become Oracle to Amber’s Batman, only without the whole Killing Joke thing
NGPZ
Dina’s got them autism powers ^^
Dara
The way Amber holds her face – particularly the upper half – is genuinely super different to Amazi-Girl, and it’s really consistent. This storyline in particular, it’s felt kind of exaggerated, even – possibly for this very reason.
BarerMender
Amber is clearly within Dina’s line of sight. Glasses, Amber hair, pink patches on her cheeks. Looks like Amber to me.
DashWallkick
Dina doesn’t do well with eye contact so she probably saw who it was out of the corner of her eye and — because of her autism and Dina-ness — went “oh, it is Amber,” and went back to her phone because she doesn’t need to stare now that she’s visually recognized her.
Chromatic Roses
my roommate usuallt cant tell the which SPECIFIC alter is fronting (we have too many for that) but he usually has a pretty good guess on a couple that we could be at any one time. id imagine if there were just two of us it would be super easy. also amber seems to wear her glasses while amazi-girl doesnt.
Jo_cubstar
Ah the glasses. That makes sense
Eyebrow
Dina has “behind the door” superpowers.
Mark
AmaziGirl wears a mask?
Michael Steamweed
Body language. The stance of Amber is different than the stance of AG.
Sirksome
Where were we on that Amber’s sheets were stained in her own juices debate? Cause this seems to corroborate that past info.
DailyBrad
Amazi-Girl has complained about waking up at times where Amber just kinda… didn’t attend to cleaning up after, so yeah, probably at least somewhat.
NGPZ
if a mad scientist gets a hold of that they gonna extract her juices and use it to discern the source of Amazi-Girl’s superpowers :0
Jeremiah
And it’s somehow MORE sexual that what I sounds.
Deanatay
I believe the real concern that prompted D & W to wash her sheets was the fact that two BOYS had stained them, and that Amber would, in response, refuse to EVER wash her sheets again, knowing this.
Michael Steamweed
Amber would roll around on those sheets like a dog rolling around on a dead skunk. And she might never leave the bed again.
Kazuma Taichi
as it turns out, it’s less laying in her own filth and more just laying in filth
HueSatLight
It can just be figurative, to express how she’s feeling. It’s fine if she likes her linens smelling like her instead of whatever detergent Dorothy and Walky decided to use. If the smell were as bad as everyone is imagining, then it’s only Amber, AG, and Dina who have a say, and Dina’s say extends as far as saying it has to be washed. Even as far saying she’ll wash them unless Amber says not to. Not doing it without permission.
I’ve had a roommate who was allergic to some detergents. I’ve had a roommate who needed the smell of something as part of their grieving process. I’ve had items ruined by being cleaned wrong, I’ve had detergent or softener whose smell made it hard to sleep.
And finally, it’s treating someone else like a baby. That the fake helper decides they need help and how to help and then does it, without regard to the person they’re fake helping. Because they are using the other person as a prop to make themselves feel like they’re helpful.
It would be very simple for Dorothy to have asked/offered Amber or AG. She asked/prompted Walky instead.
Suet
Be jealous that you don’t get the opposite of what she’s being treated.
so then, which characters have skipped a storyline
Clif
What?
Jeremiah
“Now my outer space doesn’t match my inner space!”
Zamperla
This reminds me I oughta change my sheets……..
Needfuldoer
Change them into what?
Clif
Parachutes are occasionally handy.
Speedball
The hell crawled up your shirt today, Amber?
Jeremiah
Hangover.
Newlland(Henryvolt)
So what’s the conflict here Amber? Your headmate holds herself to a higher regard while you want to keep making yourself feel shit?
Sirksome
I’m just noting in panel 1 the placement of the speech bubble makes it look like the giant sex raptor is talking and that’s how I’ll be choosing to read this strip from now on. It’s alive. Don’t tell me it’s not. It probably deserves a tag.
drs
last panel: Dina giving social advice to Amber!
Laura
I don’t quite catch what Amber is referring to. What pity does AG receive?
Taffy
The changing of the sheets, performed by Walkus and Dorothotty.
Jeremiah
Would she be more or less upset if we told her the pity was mode directed at her that AG?
Azhrei Vep
And that it wasn’t so much pity as concern that she would in fact enjoy it too much.
Needfuldoer
It says more about Amber’s self-esteem that she sees kindness and assumes it’s pity.
Laura
Ah. Thank you for the clarification!
Taffy
If she’s so displeased, she could try murdering Amazi-Girl in a jealous rage. I don’t see any way that could backfire.
Nedlum
It’s happened before:
* In United States of Tara, one of Tara’s alters started killing her other alters, before ultimately being killed by her primary self.
* Fight Club
Derek
horrible thought but Amber brought up the subject so it`s not my fault: do we think that her mattress is soaked through with menstrual blood? Because I have met women who have gotten to that point thanks to depression or other mental issues; it ain’t pretty
Doopyboop
If her mattress is anything like the mattress I had at my dorm, it’s basically a big ole plastic covered… thing. Kinda looked more like a mattress you’d expect for a potty training kid, but I get it. It’s a mattress that’s gonna have a new person every year, so it needs to be easy to clean and not easy to get dirty. So thankfully, I don’t think it would be soaked. … … Her sheets and blankets on the other hand…
Miri
When I was her age, a single night at the wrong point in my cycle, with the largest size pads they made in places, still frequently led to bloodstained mattresses. A few decades, 3 kids, etc, later, I don’t bleed like that any more and can usually contain the flow (occasional smear on sheet, or needing to clean a towel because I didn’t realise the stuff is literally still trickling out of me after a shower…). I am, however, still on daily iron tablets with my iron levels just about maintaining normal. Some people menstruate heavily and yeah, washing your bedding is a decent idea but I was definitely not going to buy a new mattress every 3 weeks as a student to replace a rental one.
Michael Steamweed
One of my exes from many a year ago has PCOS. Yeah, she menstruates somethin’ fierce, and for longer than usual. She always needs all the meat, all the garbanzo and kidney beans, and all the iron supplements.
Laura
IUD basically saved my life, by drastically reducing my flow. BOY OH BOY am I glad!!! Wish I had gotten an IUD at 12 and had one ever since! They’re PAINFUL at first, but honestly I wish they were made available to everyone. The hormonal stability you get eventually, after the pain subsides, is life-changing.
Laura
*Mirena progesterone-only. What a relief!
Dean
Between Amber’s unwashed sheets and Dina’s sex plushie, that room has gotta have some funk.
IntangibleMatter
That room doesn’t just have funk, it has the complete James Brown discography.
Needfuldoer
Tear the roof off the sucker.
Opus the Poet
@Intangible Matter +1
IntangibleMatter