Eh, the top could stand to be a little shorter. IRL it’d probably be fine since you can see textures etc, but here the blue blends with her daisy dukes and makes it look like a onsie. If we could see more of the shorts that probably wouldn’t happen as much.
I’ve never found that whole ‘pockets sticking out of the bottom of the shorts’ look attractive. Yes, by all means wear REALLY short shorts if you’ve got good legs, but lose the pockets, please.
The pockets thing actually has a lot of semiotics and culture-war bound up in it. The most obvious is that we are seeing something traditionally hidden. The inside part of pants pockets is classically private, invisible, only to be seen when pants are coming off. By allowing that part to show, she is crossing a barrier, and tweaking the mundane, but without, y’know, having her ass hanging out of the back of her pants or whatnot.
Further, there’s the whole fashion war over women’s clothing having pockets. Most women’s clothing has no pockets, decorative pockets, or very shallow pockets (as Walky & Dorothy discussed a while back). Carla here is demonstrating that she has *real* pockets, consarnit, and she refuses to hide them just because the fashion industry says she shouldn’t have pockets. Asking her to hide them can thus be seen as a form of “correction”, as discussed by Leslie way back re: The Muppets.
…Or am I bluffing?
Doktor doktor professor
You’re totally bluffing. I can tell because you talk like social scientists talk when they want people to think they’re scientists. “Semiotics” is a code word for “here comes bullshit”.
Yet Another Laura H.
I’ve found that being aware of how we talk and think about things clarifies the apprehension of our environment greatly— and by “clarifies” I mean “increases the effectiveness,” and by “the apprehension of our environment” I mean “our grant proposals.”
As for the actual topic, I think it’s a signal that “I cut these off for comfort, not sex,” although it’s probably more likely that the jeans had a tear in them and cutting the legs off was faster than mending them in a way that didn’t look like spider vomit and cheaper than buying a new pair of shorts.
I think Sal’s jealous that Marcie, with whom she previously had a pretty exclusive superclose friendship, is now also friends with Malaya. Rather than expand the circle and skate with them, she’d rather ignore anything involving Malaya. I can understand this, seeing as I was the Sal figure in a very similar situation in fourth grade, but… I mean, c’mon. That was fourth grade.
Oh… I thought maybe Sal had romantic feelings for Marcie.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
The two aren’t mutually exclusive…
Carriethedragon
Also an option. I’m a fan of that option.
Jason
But how would that explain why she doesn’t roller-derby?
timemonkey
She doesn’t like sharing Marcie with other people.
Doctor_Lantern
Maybe Marcie has romantic feelings for Malaya…? And Sal don’t like it? Or it could really just be replace “romantic” with “friendly” in above comment. I have no clue.
Freemage
Roller derby involves a lot of close physical contact. It’s not uncommon to end up in a heap together. If you’re not as blind to your own feelings as, say, Danny, but are also not comfortable with them, you will make sure you avoid situations where Joe is likely to jump out of the bushes and shout, “Now KISS!”
Sal is jealous/miffed over any activities that involve Marcie hanging out with people who aren’t Sal.
Must suck to finally get back from psudo-prison/private-school in another state and have your childhood best friend hanging out with other people over you.
I thought Sal stuff consisted of Riding A motorcycle up and down a street just for the sake of it, doing her Math Teacher but not her Math Homework, playing Mario Kart and verbally tearing her brother a new one.
No wonder she’s voiceless in this universe: Mister Torgue can’t not explode things while he speaks– if not with actual explosives, then by the sheer volume of his words.
I think Sal liked that Marcie primarily pays attention to her and doesn’t like sharing their time together. She won’t derby because then she’s sharing Marcie with the teama nd she doesn’t like Malaya hanging out with them either.
198 thoughts on “Sleuthed”
Jen Aside
sorry Sal, she has done ALL THE THINGS
Wire Segal
There are no things left to do. Therefore… *mind enters horrible tangents theorizing what she’s done*
All Hail Dina
Ah, but has she done… THE MIKE?!?!
Okay, this is bad and I admit it – she’s not even a mother yet.
Nurrah
Grumpy Sal and Mike… I could uh, get into that. (I don’t normally ship folks but I think tumblr is wearing off on me) >.>
tim gueguen
I suspect Sal is too much of a lightweight in the misanthropy department to appeal to Mike.
Roborat
Wait, IU has a misanthropy department?
The_Master
Yes, they call it Indiana University.
Deanatay
Marcie not only did the mike, she dropped it.
*thump* *feedback*
JWLM
Is this thing turned on?
vic
mike could arrange that for a nickel
NCP19
And then some?
podian
WE HAVE LEARNED ALL THE KNOWLEDGE.
Spencer
Grumpy Sal is adorable.
newllend(henryvolt)
I know right !?
la6uɐ mous
True
Deanatay
Is Sal being what you call ‘tsundere’? Cuz I’m thinkin’, tsundere.
Plasma Mongoose
Never realised Sal was such a party-pooper.
Khantalas
Apropos of nothing, Carla looks quite nice in this outfit.
TheLurkerAbove
So does Sal. But it is Sal. <3 Sal.
-Sentinel-
Sal looks nice in any outfit. Or even in NO OUTFIT AT ALL.
F.
dun dunn dunnn
Viktoria
Eh, the top could stand to be a little shorter. IRL it’d probably be fine since you can see textures etc, but here the blue blends with her daisy dukes and makes it look like a onsie. If we could see more of the shorts that probably wouldn’t happen as much.
Stifyn Baker
I’ve never found that whole ‘pockets sticking out of the bottom of the shorts’ look attractive. Yes, by all means wear REALLY short shorts if you’ve got good legs, but lose the pockets, please.
Jonathan Woodward
The pockets thing actually has a lot of semiotics and culture-war bound up in it. The most obvious is that we are seeing something traditionally hidden. The inside part of pants pockets is classically private, invisible, only to be seen when pants are coming off. By allowing that part to show, she is crossing a barrier, and tweaking the mundane, but without, y’know, having her ass hanging out of the back of her pants or whatnot.
Further, there’s the whole fashion war over women’s clothing having pockets. Most women’s clothing has no pockets, decorative pockets, or very shallow pockets (as Walky & Dorothy discussed a while back). Carla here is demonstrating that she has *real* pockets, consarnit, and she refuses to hide them just because the fashion industry says she shouldn’t have pockets. Asking her to hide them can thus be seen as a form of “correction”, as discussed by Leslie way back re: The Muppets.
…Or am I bluffing?
Doktor doktor professor
You’re totally bluffing. I can tell because you talk like social scientists talk when they want people to think they’re scientists. “Semiotics” is a code word for “here comes bullshit”.
Yet Another Laura H.
I’ve found that being aware of how we talk and think about things clarifies the apprehension of our environment greatly— and by “clarifies” I mean “increases the effectiveness,” and by “the apprehension of our environment” I mean “our grant proposals.”
As for the actual topic, I think it’s a signal that “I cut these off for comfort, not sex,” although it’s probably more likely that the jeans had a tear in them and cutting the legs off was faster than mending them in a way that didn’t look like spider vomit and cheaper than buying a new pair of shorts.
Halloween Jack
Oh, good grief, they’re just Daisy Dukes.
Kang the Unbalanced
John, they’re only Daisies.
Freemage
She really, really does.
MeghanTheWorldEater
Carla going back on her word? Heaven forbid.
Plasma Mongoose
HOW CAN THIS BE??? 😛
Dude
Wait, I know I must be super dumb or something, but I don’t get it.
Carriethedragon
I think Sal’s jealous that Marcie, with whom she previously had a pretty exclusive superclose friendship, is now also friends with Malaya. Rather than expand the circle and skate with them, she’d rather ignore anything involving Malaya. I can understand this, seeing as I was the Sal figure in a very similar situation in fourth grade, but… I mean, c’mon. That was fourth grade.
GoogerGeiger
Oh… I thought maybe Sal had romantic feelings for Marcie.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
The two aren’t mutually exclusive…
Carriethedragon
Also an option. I’m a fan of that option.
Jason
But how would that explain why she doesn’t roller-derby?
timemonkey
She doesn’t like sharing Marcie with other people.
Doctor_Lantern
Maybe Marcie has romantic feelings for Malaya…? And Sal don’t like it? Or it could really just be replace “romantic” with “friendly” in above comment. I have no clue.
Freemage
Roller derby involves a lot of close physical contact. It’s not uncommon to end up in a heap together. If you’re not as blind to your own feelings as, say, Danny, but are also not comfortable with them, you will make sure you avoid situations where Joe is likely to jump out of the bushes and shout, “Now KISS!”
Kris
Who’s to say we all aren’t still in fourth grade? Isn’t life just boiled down to the cruel dog eat dog world of the afternoon blacktop?
MichaelHaneline
A few minutes reading the comments section on any mainstream site makes it seem that AT LEAST 90% of the population seems to be stuck at that age.
Rycan
And this is Dumbing of Age, where we work through issues from elementary school.
OrtyBortorty
Me neither…
Beachfox
Sal is jealous/miffed over any activities that involve Marcie hanging out with people who aren’t Sal.
Must suck to finally get back from psudo-prison/private-school in another state and have your childhood best friend hanging out with other people over you.
Yotomoe
Sal stuffs.
newllend(henryvolt)
I thought Sal stuff consisted of Riding A motorcycle up and down a street just for the sake of it, doing her Math Teacher but not her Math Homework, playing Mario Kart and verbally tearing her brother a new one.
Kris
Also public drinking/smoking and jet skiing.
Doctor_Who
Baked a ham? Yes.
Assembled a particle accelerator from chewing gum and twine? Yes.
Wrestled a shark wearing a bolo tie? Yes.
Which one of them was wearing the bolo tie, Marcie or the shark? Yes.
Marcie has done all the things.
Plasma Mongoose
Marcie’s last name is MacGyver?
WHOA!
Tacos
Has she patted her head while simultaneously rubbing her tummy?
Doctor_Who
And wearing a bolo tie.
Gigafreak
Marcie was Mister Torgue in a previous life?
No wonder she’s voiceless in this universe: Mister Torgue can’t not explode things while he speaks– if not with actual explosives, then by the sheer volume of his words.
Plasma Mongoose
Last panel Carla is extra cute. ^_^
Regalli
Seriously, she’s adorable but if we said that to her face she would kill us both.
Plasma Mongoose
That’s the perils of the tsundere/yandere.
grantimusmaximus
The perils are worth the payoff sometimes!
StClair
Agreed to all of the above.
Me, I get it from the new default gravatar of her too. Dat smirk.
Gamaran Sepudomyn
Not kill us, but she would definitely fall over laughing due to the sheer number of insults overloading her brain.
Kris
If you weren’t being so sour on Malaya all three of you could have done all the things together Sal. Malaya might actually be dare I say….fun.
Kernanator
Oh, I get it! It’s because… because…
Okay, I have no idea.
Jason
Me neither.
grantimusmaximus
Oh thank zeus i thought i was the only one who has not figured it out.
MeghanTheWorldEater
Carla hasn’t actually figured it out either she just wants to appear superior.
timemonkey
I think Sal liked that Marcie primarily pays attention to her and doesn’t like sharing their time together. She won’t derby because then she’s sharing Marcie with the teama nd she doesn’t like Malaya hanging out with them either.
Tacos
Apparently Sal doesn’t like it when Marcie hangs out with other people.
timemonkey
Sorry Sal, Malaya has satisfied all or Marcie’s needs. Now she must sleep before round two begins.
Yotomoe
That’s actually how skaters breed is prolonged rollerblading.
Dean
All of Marcie’s needs. All of them.
Plasma Mongoose
I never realised that Malaya was soooo talented. 😀
timemonkey