I would have been so hyped by that as a preview panel that if the actual strip were a letdown I would be psychologically incapable of recognizing it and would have simply hallucinated something sufficiently gay
Wack'd
trying to imagine a scenario in which that panel could’ve been a fakeout
“it is a shame becky and i broke up, but at least i will always have this life-sized standee of her bare legs to remember her by”
It wouldn’t have needed to be a fakeout. After four months of context-free anticipation, my brain would have iterated through thousands of possible scenarios. Each gayer and more convoluted than the last
I hope she doesn’t trip, but the awkwardness of twirling in such a state could be hot; Dina does not strike me as having BDSM tendencies but it’s conceivable she could get the “pants euphoria” (it’s like the vapors, only cool) from the humiliation aspect.
Z
Based on her actions here and comment towards Joe she does come off as very much a top with a science fetish.
You may have a very limited idea of bdsm if you think it’s just humiliation.
Barf Ninjason
Uh, I am in the BDSM, er, “family”; it is quite broad, of course, but in this specific case it seemed like there’s potential for Dina to get pantalones felicidades over humiliation.
Oh! You’re a scientist too? Your particular field?
True Survivor
Its my dream! I’m still in college but will soon be on to grad school (or at least some menial lab job to build out my resume first). My major is in biology with a minor in Genomics. I am particularly intrigued by synthetic biology and neural genetics. What is your field?
Originally it was engineering, but relatively quickly I decided to switch to physics! I plan to work in some kind of tech company like 3M or something after I get my PHD.
Amidst many setbacks, I still keep at it at a steady pace. Right now I’m also learning to program so that’s fun too!
Wizard
And sometimes pausing to put on pants is all it takes to forget a good idea.
As cute as this is, I’m kinda concerned about what happens if/when Becky finds out that Dina might just not get turned on. Even if it’s not by her specifically… she might still take it as such.
I think we’re past the point where Becky is gonna regret stuff later, at least in any way that matters. There might be some “this was a big change for me and that’s a little scary” stuff–years of fundie programming don’t just vanish–but she seems as comfortable as is possible with this whole situation. If Becky and Dina do have sex at this juncture, it’ll be because Becky wants it: all she has to do to get it to stop is go “no, this isn’t just my brain being bad, I want to stop,” and it’ll stop.
I do think “none of this works and Becky takes it as a slight” is the bigger risk here, but equally, there is zero chance Dina’s gonna have a bad time, which will hopefully mitigate any worries Becky has about her own desirability somewhat.
Rose by Any Other Name
I started to write this twice earlier, but got distracted by life, and now probably no one will read it, but fuck it.
Okay, so I think Becky is going about this wrong. Nudity is not a turn-on for everyone. My wife and I are very into sex, but while we like one another’s naked bodies, they aren’t really a turn on since neither of us really consider nudity (or sex) a taboo. Plus we’re just naked around one another a lot.
As such, even a highly sexual person might not find mere nudity to be arousing. Pleasing – which Dina says as much – but not arousing.
Personally, I find touching and being touched far more arousing.
Meanwhile, my wife is most aroused by stories – not sexy stories, but ones about adventure. Talking about a good book she’s read – or analyzing how a bad one could have been better – is what gets her going. Tabletop gaming does it for her too because she gets to participate in a story.
As such, if Becky wants to turn on Dina, I think she’d be better of doing so by reading a biology text book to her about how sexual stimulation effects the brain. That blends the sexual and the scientific in a way that I suspect would work well for Dina, seducing her with the idea of sexual brain chemistry. And, once she’s in that headspace, I think some mutual touching would probably work wonders.
Becky’s problem, IMO, is that she’s only thinking about how her own arousal works. And that arousal is based on a look-dont-touch upbringing that places far too much emphasis on covering the body – which is why that’s her fetish. Hence the hat thing and related Becky steam-outs.
Consider the setting Dina last got pants euphoria, the biology lab doing either a dissection or an experiment (I don’t remember and also don’t feel like an archive crawl)
Given how good the two of them are at communicating and being patient with each other, I’m not at all worried. Even if Dina never gets the pants euphoria I’m sure figure it out and have fun all the same :3
Yeah, even if Dina does have a fetish of some kind, knowing Emperor Willis, we’re gonna encounter it at the most RANDOM time ?
BarerMender
Dina discovers she is skoliosexual (attracted to the gender-indeterminate). Becky is too female for her, Joe is too male. She ends up with Walky. Or Malaya.
bemisawa
Oh no, Dina/Malaya (Dinaya? Maldina?) is the crack pairing I never knew I didn’t want.
I’m trying to picture how that relationship would work, and… other than suspecting it involves turning Dina into an expert in spite who is, above all, concerned about Fakeyness, I’m really coming up with nothing.
(Although admittedly, this is because while we’ve seen a little bit of Malaya’s emotional depths in interacts with Carla, we’ve mostly seen them from the outside.)
Throwatron
I thought we already encountered it. She is *literally aroused by uncovering mysteries, scientifically.* She got rapidly horny right away when her and Becky were gonna do science together, until Joe ruined it.
So, Dina may not have any explicit attraction to Becky’s body, as an object isolated from Becky’s person-concept in Dina’s mind. But I suspect, that *investigating Becky’s body, and its reactions, with Becky’s enthusiastic consent and request,* might be stimulating enough for her, with or without any pants euphoria.
As far as I can tell, Becky’s endgoal (with sex or not) is that she be sexually attractive to Dina, and Dina doesn’t do sexual attraction in that overt/easily accessed way. Dina’s also made it clear that Becky’s in for sex, that Dina becomes so overpowered with lust that she forces herself onto Becky, is completely impossible.
If this turns out for the worse, I could see it being down to Becky feeling unwanted even though she’s stripped naked.
Maybe Becky could just pull out the dinosaur onesie again and it’d all work out.
(TMI warning)
Man this is so weird to me, I was doing sexual things with partners long before I was comfortable with them actually seeing my naked body in full light. Nakedness somehow feels more vulnerable?
That’s true for many people. Sexual activity can be normalized but having your body viewed is different in a lot of ways. You can have confidence in your ability while lacking confidence in your body.
With how excited Dina got about turning Becky on it wouldn’t surprise me if she’s more turned on by being seen in a sexual light. I’m sure there’s a word for it but I don’t have it on me.
ma chère yotomoe, it is with deepest pride
and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight
and now we invite you to relax
let us pull up a chair as the dumbing room proudly presents
your dina
if i had a nickel for every time “it’s the rain” got incorporated into a sex scene in dumbing of age, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice
141 thoughts on “Prelude”
Ana Chronistic
=O
THEY’RE GOING ALL THE WAY!
Ana Chronistic
alt-text: imagine if I then used it as a grav =o
Fart Captor
I would have been so hyped by that as a preview panel that if the actual strip were a letdown I would be psychologically incapable of recognizing it and would have simply hallucinated something sufficiently gay
Wack'd
trying to imagine a scenario in which that panel could’ve been a fakeout
“it is a shame becky and i broke up, but at least i will always have this life-sized standee of her bare legs to remember her by”
Fart Captor
It wouldn’t have needed to be a fakeout. After four months of context-free anticipation, my brain would have iterated through thousands of possible scenarios. Each gayer and more convoluted than the last
ThunderNight
we’ll have t osee
The Wellerman
She’s an ace player in more than one way! ?️
Dina hits the big time!!!!! ?
??? ??? ???
*plays “Francis Battle” by Naoko Mitome on Becky’s Phone*
pdp15
When I saw those emojis in your comment my first thought was that you were posting your WORDLE outcome …
Ray Radlein
Twirling, twirling, into the future
Doctor_Who
The glorious future of hanky panky.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Twirl? While she’s got her panties around her ankles?
Yep, that seems like a great way for Becky to trip herself up and crash down naked at Dina’s feet… 😛
Barf Ninjason
I hope she doesn’t trip, but the awkwardness of twirling in such a state could be hot; Dina does not strike me as having BDSM tendencies but it’s conceivable she could get the “pants euphoria” (it’s like the vapors, only cool) from the humiliation aspect.
Z
Based on her actions here and comment towards Joe she does come off as very much a top with a science fetish.
You may have a very limited idea of bdsm if you think it’s just humiliation.
Barf Ninjason
Uh, I am in the BDSM, er, “family”; it is quite broad, of course, but in this specific case it seemed like there’s potential for Dina to get pantalones felicidades over humiliation.
Sirksome
Who knew you could do science without underwear?
The Wellerman
A fair number of scientists sometimes write their research papers fresh out of the shower with barely any cloths on!
Don’t ask me how I know that.
True Survivor
Hey I get it. I some of my best thinking in the shower.
The Wellerman
Oh! You’re a scientist too? Your particular field?
True Survivor
Its my dream! I’m still in college but will soon be on to grad school (or at least some menial lab job to build out my resume first). My major is in biology with a minor in Genomics. I am particularly intrigued by synthetic biology and neural genetics. What is your field?
The Wellerman
Originally it was engineering, but relatively quickly I decided to switch to physics! I plan to work in some kind of tech company like 3M or something after I get my PHD.
Amidst many setbacks, I still keep at it at a steady pace. Right now I’m also learning to program so that’s fun too!
Wizard
And sometimes pausing to put on pants is all it takes to forget a good idea.
True Survivor
Archimedes (apocryphally).
Yotomoe
I do everything without underwear!
Josh Spicer
I knew there was a reason I related to you Yoto.
Marsh Maryrose
The Kinsey Institute is at IU, pretty sure they know
Amós Batista
You didn’t wonder how many people have adhered the “underwearless” in their home office during pandemic…
True Survivor
Spinning that’ a good trick.
Nono
As cute as this is, I’m kinda concerned about what happens if/when Becky finds out that Dina might just not get turned on. Even if it’s not by her specifically… she might still take it as such.
True Survivor
Yeah. Equally concerning is if Dian does and they do something Becky regrets later.
Wack'd
I think we’re past the point where Becky is gonna regret stuff later, at least in any way that matters. There might be some “this was a big change for me and that’s a little scary” stuff–years of fundie programming don’t just vanish–but she seems as comfortable as is possible with this whole situation. If Becky and Dina do have sex at this juncture, it’ll be because Becky wants it: all she has to do to get it to stop is go “no, this isn’t just my brain being bad, I want to stop,” and it’ll stop.
I do think “none of this works and Becky takes it as a slight” is the bigger risk here, but equally, there is zero chance Dina’s gonna have a bad time, which will hopefully mitigate any worries Becky has about her own desirability somewhat.
Rose by Any Other Name
I started to write this twice earlier, but got distracted by life, and now probably no one will read it, but fuck it.
Okay, so I think Becky is going about this wrong. Nudity is not a turn-on for everyone. My wife and I are very into sex, but while we like one another’s naked bodies, they aren’t really a turn on since neither of us really consider nudity (or sex) a taboo. Plus we’re just naked around one another a lot.
As such, even a highly sexual person might not find mere nudity to be arousing. Pleasing – which Dina says as much – but not arousing.
Personally, I find touching and being touched far more arousing.
Meanwhile, my wife is most aroused by stories – not sexy stories, but ones about adventure. Talking about a good book she’s read – or analyzing how a bad one could have been better – is what gets her going. Tabletop gaming does it for her too because she gets to participate in a story.
As such, if Becky wants to turn on Dina, I think she’d be better of doing so by reading a biology text book to her about how sexual stimulation effects the brain. That blends the sexual and the scientific in a way that I suspect would work well for Dina, seducing her with the idea of sexual brain chemistry. And, once she’s in that headspace, I think some mutual touching would probably work wonders.
Becky’s problem, IMO, is that she’s only thinking about how her own arousal works. And that arousal is based on a look-dont-touch upbringing that places far too much emphasis on covering the body – which is why that’s her fetish. Hence the hat thing and related Becky steam-outs.
Opus the Poet
Consider the setting Dina last got pants euphoria, the biology lab doing either a dissection or an experiment (I don’t remember and also don’t feel like an archive crawl)
thejeff
Well, there’s one, but it’s more hypothetical and less catastrophizing.
Fart Captor
Given how good the two of them are at communicating and being patient with each other, I’m not at all worried. Even if Dina never gets the pants euphoria I’m sure figure it out and have fun all the same :3
The Wellerman
Yeah, even if Dina does have a fetish of some kind, knowing Emperor Willis, we’re gonna encounter it at the most RANDOM time ?
BarerMender
Dina discovers she is skoliosexual (attracted to the gender-indeterminate). Becky is too female for her, Joe is too male. She ends up with Walky. Or Malaya.
bemisawa
Oh no, Dina/Malaya (Dinaya? Maldina?) is the crack pairing I never knew I didn’t want.
I’m trying to picture how that relationship would work, and… other than suspecting it involves turning Dina into an expert in spite who is, above all, concerned about Fakeyness, I’m really coming up with nothing.
(Although admittedly, this is because while we’ve seen a little bit of Malaya’s emotional depths in interacts with Carla, we’ve mostly seen them from the outside.)
Throwatron
I thought we already encountered it. She is *literally aroused by uncovering mysteries, scientifically.* She got rapidly horny right away when her and Becky were gonna do science together, until Joe ruined it.
So, Dina may not have any explicit attraction to Becky’s body, as an object isolated from Becky’s person-concept in Dina’s mind. But I suspect, that *investigating Becky’s body, and its reactions, with Becky’s enthusiastic consent and request,* might be stimulating enough for her, with or without any pants euphoria.
Jeff
I am confident that they will discover something that gets her turned on, but it will likely be some form of intellectual exercise/kink.
Spencer
I’m kinda wondering if this is how it shakes out.
As far as I can tell, Becky’s endgoal (with sex or not) is that she be sexually attractive to Dina, and Dina doesn’t do sexual attraction in that overt/easily accessed way. Dina’s also made it clear that Becky’s in for sex, that Dina becomes so overpowered with lust that she forces herself onto Becky, is completely impossible.
If this turns out for the worse, I could see it being down to Becky feeling unwanted even though she’s stripped naked.
Maybe Becky could just pull out the dinosaur onesie again and it’d all work out.
Darkoneko
for science !
(don’t trip over your pants)
True Survivor
This gives me the mental image of a thousand beltless nerds charging into battle. It made me chuckle. Thank you.
Doctor_Who
That’s why Urkel and the 11th Doctor wear suspenders.
Geneseepaws
She led the charge with little Jacob held aloft, crying, “Sansabelt!”
RassilonTDavros
after everything that’s been happening in the world, i’m so glad tonight’s comic was this. i could really use some happy thoughts right now.
Fart Captor
Happy gay girls doin’ nude science is exactly what I needed
The Wellerman
Me too!!!! ?
Joe Moose
And if that doesn’t work, maybe do some sexy poses naked? For science!.
newlland(Henryvolt)
Twerk naked for science, the experiment won’t work otherwise.
Raen
And this is the day Dina switched to premed.
Fart Captor
I’m so proud of Becky for her brave commitment to the gay sciences ?
Suet
Well, you gave us a picture of a building way back as a preview, so there’s that
*plays Undressed by Kim Cesarion on the PA* It sure makes for a good movie poster, people always love a good “between the legs”
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Plays “She Blinded Me With Science” on hacked Muzack
Derek
(TMI warning)
Man this is so weird to me, I was doing sexual things with partners long before I was comfortable with them actually seeing my naked body in full light. Nakedness somehow feels more vulnerable?
Anon A Mouse
That’s true for many people. Sexual activity can be normalized but having your body viewed is different in a lot of ways. You can have confidence in your ability while lacking confidence in your body.
Beef
With how excited Dina got about turning Becky on it wouldn’t surprise me if she’s more turned on by being seen in a sexual light. I’m sure there’s a word for it but I don’t have it on me.
Yotomoe
BECKY GOT BACK.
The Wellerman
You got that right bruh!!! ?
*plays “Filthy/Gorgeous” by Sissor Sistors on Hacked Muzak*
Adept
That has yet to be established empirically.
DailyBrad
Ooh, stripes.
Bagge
Dinas smile <3
Sporky
Yoto has just been served free content on a silver platter
Wack'd
ma chère yotomoe, it is with deepest pride
and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight
and now we invite you to relax
let us pull up a chair as the dumbing room proudly presents
your dina
Delicious Taffy
Becky’s chest! Naked breast!
Put our Dina to the test
Tie your tube sock ’round your knob, cherie
And we’ll provide the rest
Sporky
I love this comment section. You guys rule.
BarerMender
She’s a girl. She doesn’t have a knob.
Delicious Taffy
It’s 2022, girls can have knobs. Also doors have had them for ages now, which was more the point of that line.
Yotomoe
I accept this gift graciously.
Shadow Dreamer
…Hey. Hey Willis.
Did you MEAN to echo “She accepts all that she sees” from the precursors?
Willis??
Wack'd
if i had a nickel for every time “it’s the rain” got incorporated into a sex scene in dumbing of age, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice
Wack'd
(the first time is january 19, 2014. do not know why both this site and the patreon hate it when i use hyperlinks)
RassilonTDavros