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Lizard
Posted on September 21, 2024 by David M Willis

227 thoughts on “Lizard”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    Terrible Lizbians II: The Girlfriending

    1. Rose by Any other Name

      “Which ones are the Terrible Lizbians II?”
      “The red head and the one in the green hat.”
      “That doesn’t narrow it down!”

      1. Doctor_Who

        “One’s very noisy and the other kind of socially awkward.”
        “Still not helping!”

        1. Dante

          “Oh! The redhead is taller than the behatted one.”

          “Come on.”

        2. Michael Steamweed

          “Also, there was some kind of rooming issue previously with the redhead.”
          “I am no longer talking with you.”

        3. JasonAW3

          “The read head who wears glasses?”
          “Go away…”

        4. Taffy

          At least we can eliminate Becky with this intel.

        5. Michael Steamweed

          “The redhead who keeps smiling too much.”

          “I am getting a restraining order.”

        6. LaGrosseLegume

          This comment section saved my life

  2. NGPZ

    Dino Friendship Power activate!!! <3

    YIPPEE!!! ^^

    (stimming in place SHO MUCH)

    *plays “Yoshi Star Galaxy” on hacked muzak*

  3. JepMZ

    dang, the new page doesn’t load for two minutes?

    1. Lux

      Used to be 17 minutes, this is an upgrade

    2. JepMZ

      Oh never mind, you guys are just fast a second earlier lol

      1. JepMZ

        Honestly. I think this is the only site I know where the time stamp is inaccurate ?

        1. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Functionally, there’s a zero percent chance that any of them are accurate. Even synchronized clocks are going to be out from the world standard time pieces. And those are endlessly arguing about what time it “really” is. Automated fortunately, but never perfect.

        2. Prior Semblance

          Sure but this the only server I know of where that time difference can be measured in minutes.

        3. ktbear

          This is like the clock in my car which slowing creeps forward in time. At the moment its one hour and seventeen minutes ahead, because we are on winter time. At some point I’ll start freaking out about being late for work, will check the actual time and find out its crept forward another minute.

        4. Librain

          My car clock is about 1 hour and 35 minutes slow, and I can’t fix it. The button doesn’t seem to work unless the repair guy presses it. Like, it doesn’t matter who else tries, they can’t make the button perform it’s primary duty, but when my regular mechanic tries it works perfectly first time every time…

    3. Kyrik Michalowski

      My clock said 5 minutes past before the new comic loaded. It is all over the place, but Lux is right that it has been ridiculously long in the past.

      1. JepMZ

        Oh yeah true. I forget about that sometimes. I just noticed the comic itself has timestamps too. 12:01. I wonder if there’s some kind of infrastructure upgrade recently

        1. Cholma

          Just wait until the USA does the stupid time change shtick on Nov 3rd, when we “Fall Back an hour”. (the server time doesn’t change, so you have to get used to a new update time for the Winter)

        2. Agemegos

          The really annoying thing about it is that the clocks in Australia are going to leap forward just a few weeks before the clocks in the US autumn back, which means that I am going to have to re-schedule all my international stuff twice.

        3. Needfuldoer

          I wish we’d just stay on “daylight savings” time. More daylight later in the evenings, please! It sucks when it’s already dark out at 4:30 in the evening!

        4. BarerMender

          That was tried under Nixon in 1970. He had to undo it because country kids were going out at 4 a.m. sun time to catch the school bus and were getting hit by cars. Drivers didn’t expect pedestrians in the dead middle of the night.

        5. Mark

          It sucks when it’s still dark at 06:00 and I want to get started with outdoor stuff.

        6. Nathan

          I am inclined to agree more with the “stick with standard time” side, but I mostly just want us to stick to ANY time. Time change causes car accidents and heart attacks and a lot of minor annoyance

        7. elebenty

          Yes, I agree. I am definitely team Standard Time, because I have animals to feed before I head to my 7am job.

        8. Yumi

          Also team Standard Time, it’s so much harder to wake up and get going in the morning when you know it’s going to be dark for another two hours.

        9. Needfuldoer

          That’s my morning every day, year-round. It feels wrong driving to work during the part of the year where sunrise coincides with my commute.

          At least there’s no traffic. :/

        10. StClair

          I would prefer Standard Time simply because it’s… standard, and my ND brain would much rather that the whole US wasn’t on a permanent one-hour offset from the normal progression of timezones.

          (Yes, I’m aware the existing map has several irregularities and exceptions, but there’s no need (still IMO) to add more to it.)

        11. clif

          I’m all for year round daylight savings time. Mornings I’m going to be 3/4 asleep whether the sun is up or not. Extra time when it will do me some good would be great, thanks.

        12. Adam Black

          where i live its 4pm. awful

    4. Thag Simmons

      We’re still in relatively well synced territory compared to how off it can get.

    5. Dante

      Lags like Charlie but neither ever fail to catch up!

      1. JepMZ

        haha, I love how this conversation and your gravatar is so appropriate here

      2. Miri

        … How does one apply gentle pressure to the head of a server? Is putting an iguana on it safe?

        1. Dante

          I’ve been told green snack bags do the trick :33c

        2. Mark

          I haven’t tried iguanas, but Network Time Protocol works very nicely.

  4. Kyrik Michalowski

    This is a great moment, and I am fully in favor of more people wearing dino-hats.

    1. Coatl

      Something tells me that Dina has a full set and only gives it to those she deems worthy.

      1. Clif

        The alt-text was disappointing though. I was hoping for Dino-hat-space.

        1. Needfuldoer

          I don’t care what the alt-text says; if she wants to, Dina can instantly spawn another one of those hats by trying to take the original one off. (Just like that one Dexter’s Laboratory episode where a villain is trying to unmask Major Glory, but every time they rip his cowl off there’s another one underneath.)

        2. Pergola

          Or Bartholomew Cubbins.

        3. Jon

          Yes!!! I feel seen.

      2. Shadowsnail

        Somehow, Sal’s dino hat turns black and grows metal spikes down the middle as soon as it touches her head. Doodles in math class are no longer required.

  5. True Survivor

    If those things have a tinfoil lining, I owe some people an apology. I should also probably go off the grid for a while.

    1. Reltzik

      Well, they’re certainly not FLEECE-lined. That would make someone MORE fuzzy-headed, not less.

      1. Opus the Poet

        Take my imaginary upvote!

  6. Yumi

    Oh, I love these two together. And Dina especially.

  7. HMRC4EVR

    Never assume Dina doesn’t have extra hats at her disposal.

    1. Deanatay

      When Dina was small – I mean, young – I MEAN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – bullies taunted her by stealing her Dino beanie. This taught her to keep spares on hand.

  8. ian livs

    I would die for this new friendship <3

    1. anon

      maybe they can go on a double date or so lol

  9. BBCC

    Hooray, progress!

  10. DailyBrad

    I love this for them.

  11. NGPZ

    BTW totally called it on the dino hat having similar effect! ^^

    1. Dante

      You so did! Excellent!!

    2. bubba0077

      I award you one internet

      1. Clif

        Batteries not included.

  12. Cattleprod

    Oh jeez, Fuckface sitting on people’s heads was just a variation of Dina’s hats all along.

    1. Dante

      ……….. And Joyce felt so confident and powerful. Oh.

      1. Holly

        Joyce in a hat: The next* president

        *Well maybe after a few years actually

      2. clif

        Yeah.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      Now I’m wondering about Malaya’s NT flavor.

    3. foamy

      I wish it was this simple for me.

  13. staszu13

    Oh

  14. Coatl

    Wow….how many dino hats will she have?

    1. Azhrei Vep

      At least one more than she ends up needing.

  15. Red

    THIS IS DELIGHTFUL

  16. Lia

    my hat army is ever growing, and soon i will overthrow the world. very beautiful, very powerful

    1. Lee

      I commend you on your memery.

  17. Pan

    Oh my God is this why I like to wear hats?!

  18. Jo_cubstar

    Huh. Now I wonder if wearing a hat would help with my ADHD lmao ?
    Oddly enough, I used to wear a nicer hat to my office job, cause it passed as business casual… And I waaaaaas really damn good at that job. Maybe I do need to wear hats again lmao

    1. Dante

      I HAD A COLLECTION WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, maybe I should get back into the habit?? Is this what they call a Thinking Cap??

      1. Masumi

        I need to know if this is a real thing. Also I need one of these magical dino hats.

        1. Michael Steamweed

          For some, yes, having the constricting pressure on the head is a helpful focus. Before English had “thinking caps”, French had “considering caps” (“cap” is from “chapeau”). Even Sherlock Holmes had his thinking cap.

      2. Bogeywoman

        Before I was diagnosed and medicated I did, in fact, have a thinking cap. I wore it while studying for head pressure, plus eat flaps and brim to reduce sensory input. It went with swimming goggles that had a tunnel-vision effect.

        I also have an emotion-regulation head band that has bees on springs on top. The combined pressure from the band and the movement of the springs is oddly calming.

        1. BarerMender

          Huh. Deely-bobbers for serenity.

        2. Mark

          Now that is a name that I haven’t heard in a long, long time.

    2. Autogatos

      It’s definitely not universal. I have ADHD and pressure on/around my head just makes me anxious and triggers migraines. :/

      Pressure on the rest of my body actually does help when I’m anxious though, and it’s fantastic for chronic pain.

  19. Serendipity

    …Oh my god. I need to try this.

    1. anon

      i remember seeing a few anime where there are cliche students studying for exams or so wearing a headband around their head but it was just more a ‘determination’ thing with like ‘victory’ written on it versus it being an actual focus thing but it would be interesting to see studies on when it helps

  20. betsumei

    This feels like it should have a link to a merch store selling the hat.

    1. Chaucer59

      Ooh, there’s a thought.

  21. Chaucer59

    The power of the spectrum shines brightly for these two lezbisaurs.

    1. Dante

      It’s so, so beautiful.

      1. NGPZ

        ^^

        *plays “Bamboo Dreams” by Elvira Björkman on hacked muzak*

  22. EpochFlame

    the hat noms another

  23. Blume

    YESSS! I hope she gets herself a nice hat! Can’t keep copping Dina’s style even if it’s great

  24. Davus

    Does anyone have designs for/somewhere we can find for purchase Dina’s Hat?

    1. Bogeywoman

      Give me a week and I can make a crochet pattern. 50$ and permission from DW and I’ll make one for you

      1. Michael Steamweed

        I’m kind of surprised that the dino hat type of DoA merch doesn’t exist already…

  25. Taffy

    Sometimes I need to be wearing a hat to function, but sometimes I can’t stand having anything whatsoever touching my head. Mostly I wear sunglasses and/or headphones though, because they allow better air flow to the scalp, and the shades help create a barrier between me and pointless eye contact.

  26. Nerrin

    Wait, is this… is this a thing? Should I be trying out slightly tight hats or headbands or whatever to see if that helps? I mean it probably won’t, that’d be too convenient, but even so.

    1. Alongcameaspider

      I mean you lose nothing from trying aside from maybe like 10 bucks if you need to go buy one

      1. AK

        Why are they all like $40 to $60 on the internet? Can you direct me to the place where you’re finding them for 10 bucks? I’m curious about this but I don’t know that I’m $40 to $60 curious about this before I have any idea if it works.

        1. AK

          I guess I looked up weighted hats. I could probably just adjust a hat too tight and get some sense of something.

        2. Alongcameaspider

          Yeah that’s what I was thinking, a cheap baseball cap just to test the theory then if you want something more personalized or higher quality go from there

        3. Rectilinear Propagation

          Wait, weighted hats are a thing too?

    2. Dante

      Right there with you! I hadn’t connected the dots before tonight ksldgs but the ASD/ADHD/AUDH crowd benefits from stuff like weighted blankets and applied pressure.

      The body kinda needs to re-calibrate.

    3. Deathstalker

      I am also wondering this.

      Don’t have any hats right now. Hrm. Might have to try something. I used to wear headphones all the time, and now they are earbuds, so not the same. Interesting.

    4. Jamie

      Huh. I don’t think it’d help me (it’s not like I don’t wear hats ever, but it always felt wrong), but it’s tempting to believe.

    5. Doopyboop

      Everyone’s different, but pressure from hats, jackets, and weighted blankets do have a nice grounding effect. Something I discovered for myself was realizing how much it helps to have something to fiddle with for my hands.

      For example, I had gone out to eat with my friends, but it was at the end of a very long a busy day. Add to that that the restaurant was playing very loud music and the people around us were loud as well, I got very overstimulated. However, I’d bought myself a fidget cube and had it in my backpack, so I was able to discretely fiddle with it under the table which eased a lot of my anxieties and general overwhelmed feelings. Wish I’d known about that when I was younger…

      1. Koname

        My first experience with fidgets floored me. I’ve had stuff going on with my brain for my whole life but, like Joyce, been juuuust functioning enough to go unnoticed. Then I was taking a class for Teacher Ed about Universal Design for Learning and was handed a tangle. 40 minutes later I had forgotten I was playing with the tangle and I was more locked in on class than ever before in my life.

      2. Plain Marie

        I tend to use whatever is in my hands as a fidget. I have been known to craft things out of folded or mangled paper napkins. Just yesterday, visiting with family at a restaurant, and I ended up with… some kind of shape.

    6. Wise Old Guru

      I personally find my big chunky headphones have the same effect, and so do earmuffs. Having my ears covered and a bit of weight on my head really makes me feel less overstimulated and more comfortable. Dunno that it helps me *focus*, but it certainly helps. Do recommend.

  27. Dante

    [AND THE MULTITUDE GOES CRAZY! EVERYONE CHEERS!!] Hell yeah, I’m delighted!! Carla, congrats on your gf. Dina, congrats on your new friend. Charlie….?

    …. Charlie, you’re perfect. And yes, babygirl, go put on a hat. Accommodations ftw, and you’re rocking it, now I kinda wanna see your spin on it :DDD!

    1. Mark

      Carla could give Charlie her bright red cowboy hat.

  28. zims

    Wait, would that work?
    (Love this interaction btw.)

  29. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    So, a thinking cap?

    1. Needfuldoer

      That’s a colander with some wires attached to it.

      1. Marrow

        How did you remember a comic from 31 years ago? I can’t even remember what I’ve had for lunch.

        1. Mark

          I thought it was from Back to the Future.

        2. Plain Marie

          I thought it was from a children’s book.

        3. Mark

          Oh, dear, I’m hearing a memory saying “let’s put on our thinking caps.” Is that a line from Captain Kangaroo? (A children’s TV show from the 1960s, if you didn’t know.)

        4. Needfuldoer

          Because Calvin and Hobbes is an all-time classic.

          (Also I’m in numerous shitposting groups on Zuckbook and a C+H themed group is one of them.)

  30. mneme

    Yes, charlie apparently needs a hat (and also has ADHD, but I have not seen hats have a magical effect in the real world). Possibly a better variety of hats than dina hats, because otherwise we will start getting confused on which one is Dina and which one is booster’s sister in a dina hat.

    1. AbacusWizard

      “but I have not seen hats have a magical effect in the real world”

      You haven’t seen my hats.

      1. Mark

        Or Rankin-Bass’ Frosty the Snowman.

        1. Mark

          Ugh, “real world,” scratch that.

  31. AbacusWizard

    As Monty Python once tried to tell us, the problem with today’s world is that people aren’t wearing enough hats. I’m glad Dina is doing her part to improve things.

  32. pdp15

    Hammerspace will hitherto be referred to as Hatspace.

  33. Queen Anthai

    Dina/Charlie best friendship ACTIVATE

  34. General Tekno

    Huh. I tried this once with a padded Megaman helmet with the idea of it helping me focus.

    I didn’t keep doing it but I don’t think it was a detriment in any way.

  35. Amós Batista

    …none experience is unique, isn’t?

  36. JessWitt

    Huh, maybe I should get my own hat.

    1. Amós Batista

      I wonder if my taste for hats came because my neurodivergence. I often get myself uncomfortable without nothing in head.

  37. 3oranges

    Charlie is cool, but I do still think Carla is wrong and the one with the best girlfriend is actually Becky.

  38. Dday

    Ohhh!

  39. IntangibleMatter

    Dina: The all-powerful neurodivergent

    1. NGPZ

      I want to be with her power so much T_T

      *plays “Maenam” by Jami Sieber on hacked muzak*

  40. MisterJinKC

    Not all dinosaurs walked upright. Ankylosaurus, brontosaurus, and Stegosaurus are most definitely dinosaurs and moved on all fours.

    1. Prior Semblance

      Different meaning of the word upright. Dogs stand like dinosaurs, lizards don’t because their legs spread out to the side.

      1. NGPZ

        *plays “Infotain Me” by Ochre on hacked muzak*

      2. Ray Radlein

        Ironically, there were “bird-hipped” and “lizard-hipped” dinosaurs, and the big quadrapedal armored dinosaurs were bird-hipped, while the actual birds were lizard-hipped

        1. Mark

          “Therapod” and “sauropod” if you want to annoy your friends.

        2. StClair

          … today I finally put together what those terms actually mean.
          fml, smh

        3. Pergola

          Saurischian.

      3. Yakumo

        First, I thought about the same two dinosaurs as you MisterJinKC.

        Second, I am just going based on the pictures that depict what they should look like, unless our understanding of stegosaurs has changed immensely, I don’t see stegosaurs rearing up on hind legs even like horses, let alone dogs (I mean, I can’t imagine a horse staying up two legs as long as a dog, even if trained. I cou;d be wrong about that). I highly doubt it for the brontasaur but maybe a quick rise could happen).

  41. Aquila

    Dina : (angry face-twitching)… Upright!? TRICERATOPS! TRICERATOPS! TRICERA- … hold on, you used present tense on “ambulate”… that’s all right, then.

  42. Rabid Rabbit

    It probably won’t happen, but I admit I would die laughing (well, fine, come close to dying laughing) if this made Charlie suddenly realize “Wait! My girlfriend is a fucking narcissist!” and dump Carla on the spot.

    Leading to endless shenanigans of Carla trying to steal Charlie’s hat(s).

    1. Jeremiah

      I don’t know where this idea come from that Charlie just doesn’t have any idea what kind of personality Carla have She choose to be her girlfriend I would think that she got to know her and liked her anyway

      1. Mark

        It could even be that that’s one of her traits that Charlie likes. Carla’s self-centeredness does have a kind of grandeur that’s pretty rare.

    2. JD

      remarkably ableist and unnecessarily cruel to think of narcissism as inherently being a problem, and completely unfounded to think it’s something charlie would dump carla over. you should reexamine these beliefs.

      1. Jeremiah

        To play devil advocate they probably didn’t mean the narcissism condition and more in the general sense of someone being really self absorbed.

        1. JD

          and even in that case i still believe it’s an unnecessarily cruel perspective and that they should reexamine why they think it’s really such an issue if active harm is not being caused.

    3. tunasammich

      Maaaaaaaaaan I dunno why you all hate Carla so much 🙁

      1. clif

        All?

  43. Danae Jay, Local Gay

    .. wait, is this why my autistic ass likes tight beanies and headphones.

    1. Jeremiah

      I like headphones for kind of the opposite reason: They help me unfocus better for the world around me so noises doesn’t overwhel me and I can start listening to stuff anytime I want .

    2. Michael Steamweed

      As with most of us autistic types, yyyyyup.

    3. Pseudowolf

      Could be. It’s similar to why some of us like weighted blankets.

    4. StClair

      I believe those are meant to be worn on the other end, but hey, you do you.

  44. sultryglebe

    Dina is magic and this strip is delightful.

  45. DashWallkick

    My wife had a minor RSI injury in her wrist and had to start wearing compression gloves to try and keep the pressure off it. Now she wears them because autism go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Comparing Autistics and Warthogs is not something I’ve considered before, yet now that I have, it will reside in my mind for decades.

  46. Evain

    pressure on my head good. Wish that particular need didn’t conflict with my spine injury. Things on my head are too much extra strain for my neck to hold up, so the ‘add pressure to my head’ can only be done when I’m laying down.

    Pressure other places nice too. Love the extra support for my wrists and ankles and stuff.

  47. Chris Phoenix

    Re the alt text: …And Becky loves to take them off one… by one… by one… And Dina loves to change up how many of them she’s wearing…

  48. Jesse

    Does that mean dinosaurs were hot-blooded all along?

    1. Michael Steamweed

      The real dinosaurs were the hot-bloods that we found inside us along the way.

    2. StClair

      check it and see

  49. anon

    i feel like my hair would get too mess up/i don’t rly like tight hats versus sunhats but that would be interesting. sucky if ur not allowed hats like these on exams

    1. Taffy

      What kinda rinky-dink shrimpfucker doesn’t allow hats during exams?

      1. Jeremiah

        In my high school at least it was a rule that you weren’t allowed to were hats at any time during class. I don’t know why.

        1. Shadowsnail

          I think it’s to prepare you for the real world where you aren’t allowed to wear hats at work and you don’t know why.

        2. Taffy

          The shrimpfucker allegations aren’t being escaped.

        3. Yumi

          School dress codes exist to let adults in school have random little power trips. When I was student teaching, the school had a strict dress code, but not long into the school year, it became clear that it usually wasn’t enforced for a lot of things (it was a newly merged school that year). So most of the time, most of the kids were out of dress code in someway, and it was fine. But sometimes a hall monitor or teacher or whoever would decide they didn’t like a kid’s attitude and now it’s a problem they were wearing jeans.

      2. Michael Steamweed

        I don’t know about most secondary schools today, but most corporate secure exam sites don’t allow hats (unless the testers have medical exemptions). No hats, water bottles, bringing one’s own pens or pencils, long sleeves, etc.

        1. Colin McKenzie

          I assume it has something to do with avoiding “crib notes”, although I don’t know quite how you’d smuggle answers in your hat.

        2. Taffy

          See, you stuff a bunch of paper slips in there, set the hat on the table/desk, pull out a random slip, and write whatever’s on it for your answers. Can’t be cheating if your answers are up to chance.

        3. Taffy

          What the fuck is people’s problem? No water bottles, what a stupid fucking rule. God forbid you get a small drop of water on their plastic-sealed plywood desk. Pens and pencils also make no fucking sense. The most I could see being justifiable is limiting the pen colors to the ones a machine can read easily. Like, what am I gonna do, bring an enchanted pencil that writes the correct answers on its own? Long sleeves being banned is the only even semi-justifiable one, and even then it’d be really hard to read answers out of a sleeve without being obvious.

        4. Michael Steamweed

          In my experience, those corporate testing sites can hold their own against the worst of TSA invasive and restrictive security checks.

    2. Mark

      I favor “Greek fisherman” hats with a heavy leather sweatband. They just sit atop my head, but it takes a rather awesome wind to blow one off.

      Hats don’t do anything for my focus, so I can’t comment on their effectiveness for that. I wear a hat because the slightest breeze will blow my hair all about until the roots hurt. (And because, these days, I’d get a sunburnt scalp if I went out hatless.)

  50. Acher4

    This… this is so very wholesome!
    We need more of them together pls. 🙂

  51. Wereg

    I hope Dina and Charlie become very good friends

  52. Deanatay

    A NEW SPECIES ADDED TO THE CLADE

    1. Deanatay

      Doasaurus Sanchezi, originally believed to belong to the Columbaves clade (pigeons and cuckoos), has been reassigned to the doasaurus clade after the discovery of new evidence of skull-binding ritual behavior first noticed in D. Sauruyamensis.

      1. StClair

        (I love this, particularly the previous classification)

  53. Opus the Poet

    You never know when you’re going to find someone who needs gentle pressure to the skull to focus themself, so always carry a spare dino cap.

  54. M!a

    Huh. Learned something new today.

  55. foducool

    lmao it’s like a reverse Brain Slug

  56. Arianod

    I believe in Dina supremacy

  57. Maddie B

    This is the cutest and best and dinosaurically accurate.

  58. PrinceofFoxed

    wait is that why We like our big headphones so much we thought it was just the noise canceling

  59. Icalasari

    Waaait, wait wait, I KNOW this disorder! I KNOW I’ve heard of it before, I just can not remember its *name*! Also, guess now we see if Carla genuinely loves Charlie or just loved the idea of somebody helpless who incidentally ignored her some by sheer mistakee

    1. Icalasari

      Like 90% sure it isn’t autism, but something related to it. Pressure can help, yes, but brain fog until pressure to head feels too specific…

      1. Icalasari

        Ok pretty sure this has to be ADHD. Also I apparently need to try tight dino hats

    2. Jeremiah

      Carla very much doesn’t like Charlie because she is “helpless”. I have no idea where you could have get that idea.

  60. Jeremiah

    This is so precious I might actually die.

  61. Lingo

    Is Charlie just Dina?
    …
    Is Carla just Becky?

    1. Da Boy

      Redheaded and mildly annoying… huh you have a point.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      “Which ones are the Terrible Lizbians II?”
      “The red head and the one in the green hat.”
      “That doesn’t narrow it down!”

      “One’s very noisy and the other kind of socially awkward.”
      “Still not helping!”

      “Oh! The redhead is taller than the behatted one.”
      “Come on.”

      “Also, there was some kind of rooming issue previously with the redhead.”
      “I am no longer talking with you.”

  62. Zamperla

    Its so nice when someone UNDERSTANDS things, you know?

  63. darkoneko

    Oh no. The headhuggers are multiplying

    1. Michael Steamweed

      We gotta nuke ’em from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

  64. Corey C.

    I seem to remember Dina loaning out a spare dino-hat to Ethan, so of course she’d have a whole drawer full of them.

  65. jubs

    … huh, I wonder if this is partly why I used to wear a hat at work in the past… Certainly felt like I worked better with it on…

  66. Mj

    I can’t overstate my happiness for a doa strip that acknowledges that birds are dinosaures. AT FUCKING LAST

    1. Mark

      When I first heard this notion, I was charmed by the thought of going out early in the morning and hearing dinosaurs roaring in the trees.

    2. Deanatay

      Uh, DoA had a whole chapter (HOMPK!) where Dina recognized this, and changed her behavior to suit current scientific knowledge. Her remarks in Panel 1 of this comic reflect that paradigm shift.

      Or did you mean this sarcastically? Sometimes I miss that.

    3. Da Boy

      And they never forgot, trust a guy who was on the receiving end of a rooster’s wrath more than once.

    4. StClair

      It was, of all things, A Bug’s Life that brought this home for me. At the appropriate scale, a finch is as terrifying as anything from the JP movies.

  67. Michael Steamweed

    Charlie and Dina are now my favorite neurodivergent duo in action.

  68. Daibhid C

    …okay, now that I know this is an actual thing, I’m starting to wonder if it’s an actual thing I have. All this time I thought I just liked sci-fi baseball caps, needed to shade my eyes because photophobia, and was self-concious about developing a bald spot in my thirties.

  69. CianM1301

    Havung sparw hats on hand is just a cover story. Unbeknownst to them, Dina’s hat functions similarly to Japanese Spiderman’s mask: as soon as she takes it off, there’s another one right underneath it.

    1. CianM1301

      Dangit, the video link didn’t work. It should link to this.

  70. TheLurkerAbove

    Huh, I had no idea; went to do some searching and it does seem it helps for some people on the spectrum. TIL.

  71. Mark

    I immediately began to wonder how many thousand emails Charlie has waiting, and how far back they go.

    1. Mark

      The last hundred are all “you have reached your 15gB limit, would you like to buy more storage?”

  72. FacelessDeviant

    Wait, is this a thing, with the hats?
    Does it work on ADD as well?

  73. Colin McKenzie

    Unfortunately, I run hot, so hat-wearing would cause me to sweat uncontrollably.

  74. Joshi

    is.. is that a thing. should i be wearing a hat.

  75. Dev

    …does…this actually work? Maybe I need more hats.

  76. Joe Moose

    BEHOLD THE POWER OF LOVETRON!

    Wait wrong line…

  77. spriteless aunty

    I mostly use my hats to block the light and reduce migraines. Also always wear sunglasses. Like prescription glasses.

    1. Chijima

      I mainly like my hats because they sligthly muffle all the turbulence that’s trying to get in to my ears without going full earplug mode.

  78. Tesset

    Really thought Willis would have learned their lesson with Danny, now we’ve got a 3rd hat person in the cast!

  79. Catrlgril

    THIS IS SO CUTE AND WHOLESOME

  80. John

    It is now my head canon that Dina has access to Hammerspace and just stores hats there.

  81. Felian

    Appease the Dina with correct Dino facts, unlock the neurodivergent life hacks!!

  82. Raja

    Suddenly realized why my best friend always wears a beanie and says she can’t do anything without wearing it HMMMM

  83. Mr. Random

    Is that a thing for Neuro-diverse people where the slight head pressure allows focusing to be easier?
    Like how the weighted blankets ease things for a commonality, but not all?

  84. Spongegirl Circleskirt

    WAIT A MINUTE!!!! IS THIS A THING? When I was a kid in the 80’s, I loved wearing hats. At 50 something, I wear hoodies in the house all day long. I was only dXed with ADHD two years ago. THIS IS A THING! OMG Thank you Willis!!!!

  85. ADLegend21

    Sorry Carla, Dina just became best girlfriend again.

  86. Squishy

    Is… Is that why I feel safer wearing my hat when I drive even though I keep it off at all other times? I know I’m somewhere on the spectrum, but I didn’t know hat pressure could do this for some people

  87. Mel

    …oh my god is that why I always have to have my snapback on or a toque???

  88. CombustibleLemons

    aw hell yeah!! gentle pressure on the head helps me with focus so much and it’s a nice comfort. it’s actually the reason I wear headphones: not actually because of the noise-cancelling aspect, but rather the pressure it provides

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