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Snuggling
Posted on May 24, 2024 by David M Willis

138 thoughts on “Snuggling”

  1. Maveric1984

    Cuddling is awesome.

    That’s it. That’s the comment

    1. Switchchris26

      It is indeed “The Best”.

    2. Maveric1984

      Re Alt-Text: Her hair, and Danny’s hand…

      1. clif

        His hand is on her back. Her hair and arm maybe?

        1. Decidedly Orthogonal

          His arm is on her back. His hand is on her side. His fingers are…

    3. Rose by Any Other Name

      It is indeed awesome.

      Love me some good cuddles.

    4. Zaxares

      Post-coitus cuddles are even better, but I’ll never turn down a regular one too. ^^

      1. Furie

        Post coitus cuddles WITH a bucket of chicken you timed the delivery on, gave the driver a bit of a shock when you answered the door, and is still nice and hot.

        Note – the cuddles are two people enjoying chicken, not one person cuddling chicken, although that’s also nice.

        1. Eric

          . . . and it’s the driver who’s still nice and hot?

        2. Opus the Poet

          LOL (not Lucifer Our Lord, regardless of what the Religious Reich says).

        3. Taffy

          That’s what I call an “Everybody Wins Situation™”. You and your partner get to afterglow while enjoying Earth’s signature food, the chicken place gets business, the driver gets to see a naked person, and the bucket of chicken gets to fulfill its life’s dream of being eaten.

        4. Zaxares

          Oh no no, no food in the bed! Ironclad rule of mine! 😛

  2. Hazel

    Aww. Cute.

  3. goggleman64

    HE’S A GOOD EGG

    1. Rose by Any Other Name

      Egg?
      Huh. That’s something I didn’t know about Danny. Well, good for her.

      1. june gloom

        “He’s a good egg” has been around longer than the term has been in use for non-realizant trans people.

        (I’m transfem myself and this misunderstanding bugs me which is probably one of those many signs I’m on the spectrum)

    2. DaveM

      Well evidently he’s a good lay, so you’d expect him to be a good egg…

      BTW: TvTropes informed me last night that the phrase “He’s a good egg” is from the “mostly accurate” English translation of Final Fantasy X. It’s always good when you learn something new.

      1. Nymph

        That phrase has been around way longer than video games.

        1. Agemegos

          Yes, it’s British upper-class schoolboy slang from around 1900, which has been mocked and used ironically since the 1920s.

        2. Minibit

          The report comment button really needs a fucking confirm or at least alike “What concerns you?” Dialog. Anyway I tapped it by accident on yours I am so sorry

        3. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Eh not to worry. Nothing happens automatically. If the human becomes overwhelmed, they’ll improve the button/link.

        4. Taffy

          Reported for tattling

        5. a/snow/mous/e

          Jay Gatsby was a good egg from West Egg

      2. Taffy

        TV Tropes frequently lies.

        1. Pergola

          citation needed

        2. clif

          “TV Tropes Frequently Lies.”, Taffy, in Dumbing of Age, Book 14, Section 4: For Me It was Tuesday, Snuggles Commentary, https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/04-for-me-it-was-tuesday/snuggling/#comment-1797796.

        3. HueSatLight

          https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy

  4. SailorCakes

    Cuddling only dangerous people do it ?

    1. brionl

      Extreme Snuggling!

    2. StClair

      Very dangerous. You go first.

  5. Blume

    LET’S GOOOOO (lol)

    1. VanVelding

      I think they already came.

    2. Lysbeth

      No, don’t! Think of the CONSEQUENCES (obligatory “consequences” callback. I can’t believe no one else did it yet)

  6. Blibdoolpoolp

    The thought of Danny pulling out any sort of weapon is beyond my comprehension. Now his ukulele to play a song? That’s well within the realm of possibility.

    1. Thag Simmons

      Hey, that’s a blunt instrument

      1. Noribushi

        Goddamn. I can’t tell if I love you or hate you for that one. Well played.

        1. Michael Steamweed

          If it’s not well played, keep practicing.

      2. clif

        It resides in ukulele space.

      3. Rook

        Never underestimate the power of music.

    2. Mark

      If a guitar can be an “axe” then why not a ukelele?

      1. Decidedly Orthogonal

        Because you don’t want it to become a real hatchet job.

    3. moriarty70

      Ukulele cover of “I Just Had Sex”?

      1. Decidedly Orthogonal

        And I jizzed in my pants.

  7. DailyBrad

    Danny sassing her back is too cute.

    1. Schpoonman

      “Ah’m dangerous!”

      “-ly cute, you mean.”

    2. Needfuldoer

      Sal’s givin’ a time.

      https://youtu.be/arT7yCgtlQo?t=112

  8. Animedingo

    Ok so thats one, walky and dorothy is two

    Can we get a third lay today?

    1. CrazyJ

      Jennifer managed to screw herself. Does that count?

    2. Reltzik

      There was an implied Ethan/Asher…

    3. darkoneko

      Well, dotty/walky may have met lucy on the way back

      1. Sajuuk-Khar

        One hopes not.

      2. DailyBrad

        I mean, if she wants to join in, sure.

    4. Amós Batista

      I’m sorry. Willis has wasted all his mana in 17 pages of Slipeshine to them.

      1. GoblinBagsSumo

        “Mana” was wasted making the porno… Yessss. “Mana.” Right.

    5. HueSatLight

      Walky and Dorothy have tentative plans to have sex. Last we saw, they were on a giant snow pile near McNutt, where neither of them have a room, but Beef, Asher, and Lyle do.

  9. Sirksome

    I mean it could be true if Sal fucks Amber at some point.

    1. Tawdry Quirks

      Amber probably would be down for a threesome with them. Or at least would write several fics about it.

  10. RassilonTDavros

    She’s the Sal, baby.

    this is the dumbest fucking reference i have ever typed

    1. AbacusWizard

      Was… was that a Scrubs reference?

      1. Aura

        MST3K, right? “I’m the wind, baby.” That one gets quoted here regularly enough that I recognise it just from that!

    2. Daibhid C

      If we’re doing dumb references, I thought “How the Saladin Got Her Scar”.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        I could get into Willis doing a whole Slipshine series of Just So stories. 🙂

  11. Cattleprod

    Oh, the ad for the new Slipshine is at the top of the Twitter feed, finally dethroning ‘WALDO HAS A WARIO??????’ that’s been on top ever since it broke.

  12. NGPZ

    YIPPEEE!!!! ^-^

    *plays techno remix of “Athletic” from Yoshi’s Island OST on hacked muzak*

  13. shrub

    Good on Danny for, playfully, calling her out

    1. Reltzik

      IS Danny being playful here?

      … I mean, that was my first thought, but his expression seems to be getting progressively more annoyed with each panel.

      …. at least I think it is. I don’t faces well.

      1. HueSatLight

        yes, he’s being playful.

      2. AY

        Seems playful to me. You can see the corner of his mouth still curling upwards

      3. Jamie

        FWIW, as someone who is also bad at faces, I can see where you’re coming from. But just based on their historical vibes and the dialogue, it feels playful and gentle, tbh.

      4. Azhrei Vep

        You can be both playful and annoyed!

      5. Bash

        He teased her about snuggling because he knew she would react this way. He is making those faces because he’s playing along with the joke.

  14. Esolo

    I LOVE THESE TWO holy shiiiiiiiiii

  15. William

    Hot, Cute, Adorable, all together.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Hot, Cute, Adorable

      1. clif

        Hot Cute, Adorable, but separately because we don’t follow instructions very well.

    2. William

      Also, anyone else besides me believe that, despite what the slipshine comic seemed to suggest at the start, this relationship really isn’t “casual”. I’m thinking Sal went and found love and happiness without realizing it.

      1. Miri

        I think they both know it and that it causes her some quite intense discomfort because she never thought herself “the type” but, damnit, sometimes the concept of being with somebody you don’t need to pretend to be other than yourself with, and have sexual chemistry with, who supports you, makes you smile, and who you know is good for you because even just thinking about them makes you happy is kinda appealing (if you’re not aromantic)… Even if you’re really not used to being treated with almost unerring respect and kindness (and in fairness she probably doesn’t know that he’s commented that Walky is very unlikely to continue his “dating Danny’s exes pattern” with her and that’s a plus… And he doesn’t usually let the lingering resentment towards her twin who looks like her gender-swapped self bleed into their relationship; I’m not sure how aware of it she even is)…

        I think Danny also recognises that this schtick comes from her not being used to saying “yes, I like cuddling you. I feel safe and happy snuggling you. This feels good, and safe, and releases all sorts of happy brain chemicals like serotonin and endorphins. I require regular snuggles from you, I have decided.” and is reminding her that he knows her, and he’s there for her and will remain there for her, in a way that she will be able to hear…

    3. Amós Batista

      People get more beautiful after sex. In comics and in real life.

  16. Kyrik Michalowski

    This is a heart warming, and adorable moment. It’s also still hot and I am jealous of both of them.

    Where is my dream where we have a threesome? Stupid brain won’t give me that.

  17. Coatl

    That calm look of Sal really makes you fall in love

  18. HueSatLight

    What do you think happened to the knife? A cop getting a free knife out of evidence, either to keep or plant on someone, isn’t unlikely. But what if it was returned to Charles and Linda. What if Linda keeps it stashed somewhere, as a memento that she thinks she’s right about Sal. Or maybe Charles has it stashed…

  19. Kyrik Michalowski

    Want to go for a round 2?

    Just for impersonal reasons, of coure.

  20. Shakes

    Danny has banged both the stabber and the stabee now.

    1. Nymph

      Nature is healing.

  21. NGPZ

    re: alt-text, what is meant by “composition reasons” exactly?

    1. AY

      Sal’s hair is covering her nipple

    2. Michael Steamweed

      This is a family(1) comic. We can’t have any ol’ nipnops(2) just hanging around on show here(3)!

      (1) dysfunctional family, of course
      (2) girly nipnops, that is; danny’s are okay to show
      (3) that’s what slipshine is for.
      😀

      1. thejeff

        “male presenting nipples”

    3. DashWallkick

      Same reason Aphrodite in Hades always has locks of hair covering the important bits.

  22. Loki

    I had a bit of trouble finding the sampler, so here it is: https://www.orgymania.net/sampler/comic/dumbing-of-age-pornographique-page-1/ (NSFW obviously)

  23. Suet

    The 60s called, they want their, erm, composition back.

    That means he’s Danny Danger… I can’t call him that, he’s Wonderbread all the way

  24. Sajuuk-Khar

    “…Wonderbread, what if…”

    “Sal, we are not becoming a throuple with someone just to lie to them.”

    “Gaddangit! D:< Fine, yer gonna feel real stupid when fuckin’ Joyce beats us ta the super hot threesome punch on account a’ yer ethics or whatever!!”

    1. Michael Steamweed

      A Joyce threesome, you say? Here, have some fanfic:

      https://archiveofourown.org/works/55752664

      1. Sajuuk-Khar

        This is a real Pagliacci the Clown moment for me, as I am in fact the author of that fanfic. ?

        1. Michael Steamweed

          Oh! Then I must bow to you in acknowledgement! AND (now that I have a captive audience) exhort you with greatest pressure to _write more of that dang stuff_! The sequels! The series!! Joyce directs more of her own education! Joe recreates his starring role in his video! Dorothy generates a spreadsheet to manage every possible combination and permutation of their nascent trinity! This is a crucial need, and what so-called “life tasks” can you possibly have that outweigh all this?? 😀

        2. JBento

          But, doctor, I AM smutlliaci!

  25. darkoneko

    D’awww

  26. BBCC

    Excuse me, I’ll be over here absolutely dead. My girl is so HAPPY <3

    1. Coatl

      That smile is genuine, so yeah

  27. Francoinblanco

    Sweet talk about scars in bed like in a action movie. So cool

  28. GUIGUI

    D’AWWWWW…

  29. Icalasari

    Oh my, Danny is a snack

    1. Bash

      For real!

  30. IntangibleMatter

    Curse this not being a random hookup!

    – Sal

  31. Da Boy

    “Would you like to know how I got this scar?”
    “I know how you got that scary, dear.”
    “Dangit, there goes my coolness.”

  32. sdrainbow

    and it would be terrible if sal was genuine for one second! can’t let that happen!

    1. bhtooefr

      Cue Malaya calling her fakey.

  33. Jesse

    Does the porn spin-off include the ahegao face? It only works for me if it involves the ahegao face.

    1. Adept

      Gao (kao) means face, so you’re saying the face face.

      1. Da Boy

        It’s like Naan Bread, it’s that specific face only produced in Japan XD

        1. Lysbeth

          As soon as it refers to a particular type of bread and not all breads, it’s no longer repetition as such. If I call a banana-and-cranberry cake a “zwip” and it becomes something other people want to try, they’re probably going to present it as a “zwip cake” because then people who speak English and know the normal English words can infer that it’s a type of cake.
          Similarly, ahegao is really specific. No one except a pedant will bat an eye at “river Avon.” Now “the Los Angeles angels” might cause a snicker or two, but speaking both languages is more common here, and it’s also fairly transparent

        2. superglucose

          the the angles angles of Anaheim are my favorite baseball team name!

        3. wwwhhattt

          And there are tamago egg rolls

        4. Michael Steamweed

          “It’s only ahegao if it’s produced in the Agehao Yamanashi prefecture; otherwise, it’s only sparkling face.”

    2. CianM1301

      See, now I’m imagining the DoA characters doing ahegao, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

    3. Taffy

      It would be nice if that dumb expression would die. It keeps popping up in otherwise-perfect porn and ruins the whole mood. Like, even live action stuff has it now, and they all look fucking ridiculous.

      1. HueSatLight

        It’s a genuine reaction, nobody fakes anything in porn. The reason you didn’t see it before was the editors cut it out.

        1. Taffy

          Oh dear, I’ve never done the ahegao during sex. My partner must be doing it wrong.

  34. ADLegend21

    man, Sal is just so beautiful.

  35. Lysbeth

    Time to sleep with Amber!

  36. MacareuxMoine

    I was baffled at first by the scar being on her palm as well – before realizing that’s how stabbing works. I blame it on my lack of personal experience.

    1. GholaHalleck

      Rage stabbing don’t quit. She probably put it through the hood of the squad car and had to wriggle it out of the metal too, because she HILTED that thing, and it got yanked out.

    2. anon

      other than immediate disinfectant, i wonder if it’s ‘worse’ than it originally would’ve been b/c who knows if they actually prioritized taking her to the ER versus arresting her and putting her in jail/a detention center for the night, versus handcuffing her to a hospital bed

  37. Matrix

    The use of her hand to show her vulnerability is just so perfect

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Sal isn’t really naked until she takes the gloves off.

  38. JoeCovenant

    You know….
    I could stop reading this strip here and be content… 🙂

    (I’m not GONNA – but, still….)

  39. Michael Steamweed

    Hot, steamy BDSM stuff!

    (stands for Bondage, Danny, Sal, and Mammaries [tastefully but unfortunately covered])

    1. NGPZ

      What do you mean unfortunately?

      That only allows Willis to draw more of what’s below them, Sal’s beautiful naked body <3 T_T

      1. Michael Steamweed

        That sounds like a Danny statement.
        Sal’s rejoinder is to blush and scoff.

  40. Mel

    Post coitus snuggles is the best and only way to do “man and woman in bed naked but we have to hide the breasts. Fuck you, impossible blanket!

  41. Yeet

    I forgot how big her scar is, that’s the whole damn hand
    oof

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Yeah, it was not a small knife.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/down/

  42. Pergola

    Today’s lesson: it’s only safe to fuck strangers.

  43. Rabisch

    They are so sweet.

  44. Kazuma Taichi

    as a long hair haver, I do understand the benefits, compositionally speaking

    1. anon

      i’d love to have long hair without having to deal with the shampooing (tho i got a ‘tingly’ conditioner that feels nice) and the ‘weight’ of it (or just some illusion/projection lol)

  45. Weatherheight

    Based on James Bond, cuddling altogether too often has extremely negative consequences for those without Plot Armor.

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