This month's first of two bonus strips is up at the Dumbing of Age Patreon! And I guess you guys voted for the lady in the red car who caught Amazi-Girl, sorta. So, sure. 
This month's first of two bonus strips is up at the Dumbing of Age Patreon! And I guess you guys voted for the lady in the red car who caught Amazi-Girl, sorta. So, sure.
Discussion (193) - “Scrapbook”
Ana Chronistic
“What about the scrapbook? ‘Hey, here’s the S from my irreplacable cheerleading uniform you MALICIOUSLY DESTROYED’? I totes want that”
Ana Chronistic
(and I totes would do that for you, alt-text, if it weren’t year end)
Fish Facade
And here’s the bottle cap from the seventeenth bottle of alcohol we shared that led to ruinous mistakes. Or was it the eighteenth?
EdHead
Undertale looks good.
Spencer
meh its ok i guess
i dont get why anybody likes it
Mr. Random
…. You seem sarcastic. I like that.
DarkoNeko
Sans is a born comic.
Roborat
I see what you did there.
Wire Segal
I like it a ton.
A skele-ton.
Spencer
I feel like I should give up this grav to you just because I didn’t make that pun/
Jacknoir
but then you’d be sans your skeletal avatar…
Durandal_1707
It is a really creative game, although it’s extremely sensitive to spoilers.
Lia47
?
EdHead
I was referring to Ruth acting like Undyne and Billie acting like Alphys.
Drake
Billie is absolutely not acting like Undyne. There’s way too little shouting and 100% PASSION going on here.
Spencer
Ruth really needs to CHERISH HARDER.
‘Sides, Amber would make a better Alphys.
Drake
Ruth I mean. Blagh.
lightsabermario
Ruth is Tsunderplane.
Just A. Thinker
Anyone willing to draw the scrapbook? 🙂
miados
I am really tempted but my art would make peoples eyes bleed to death sadly.
Disloyal Subject
If my eyes bleed to death, I’d much rather they do so angrily, or happily.
Ana Chronistic
gimme a week
AnvilPro
When this comic ends, I hope it ends with them getting pedicures and Billie pouting
Doctor_Who
That would be an interesting relationship dynamic. Ruth tries to be the ultimate tsundere by doing nice things for Billie that just aren’t quite the nice things she wanted.
“Billie, I brought you some ice cream, but because I hate you it’s butter pecan.”
Sambo
Butter pecan is far superior to chocolate, prepare for destruction.
Captain Button
Remember that soft serve is the great peacemaker.
Doctor_Who
I like butter pecan fine, it’s just the stereotypical “unpopular” flavor, so it’s what Ruth would buy to try to be mean without actually being mean at all.
Rum Raisin might work too, but I can’t see either of these girls being opposed to the flavor of rum.
Sambo
noooooooo you missed the reference xD
Doctor_Who
Oops. I fail at internet savviness.
Sambo
Sambo
I do too, apparently. That was meant to be “Enjoy” with this link:
https://youtu.be/nmIlL0gOTDY
Jacknoir
somebody needs to let Ruth know she’s only allowed to be that way once a week, on Tsunday.
Unerringly Errant
I have read a great many bad puns in various webcomic comment sections; you just made my new favorite. Being a fan of MSPA just wins you extra points. 😀
RubyDroplets
Ahem, it’s Wednesdays… Everything happens on Wednesdays.
RubyDroplets
I have seen the error of my ways. Excellent pun, went right over my head. but everything still happens on wednesdays… just to inform the public. I do apologize for my indiscretion.
Spencer
Well, it’s a good thing that Billie is moving past the suicidal idealization. She’s not just clinging to Ruth until they’re both dead; she genuinely gets something real out of this relationship and wants to keep it.
Mr. Random
… I mean, it could work once they leave college and….oh yeah.
Kernanator
And here’s the time we did The Drugs and thought that the world was being invaded by aliens.
Spencer
“I had this dream you died saving this one dork who white knighted his way out of my pants.”
Doctor_Who
I think it’s usually “into”. “Out of” makes it sound like he was being held in her pants against his will, but made a cunning escape that somehow involved white knighting.
Cerberus
Still a better plotline than the Danny-Billie relationship in “Roomies”.
Spencer
You think so? Much as I rip on Roomies, the Danny/Billie stuff was pretty good.
Like all things Roomies, it got better in It’s Walky!.
Cerberus
Eh. I really like Willis, but the Danny/Billie stuff was what got me to stop reading his stuff back in the Roomies days (well, that and the awkwardness of his early attempts at queer inclusion). And definitely agree on It’s Walky! and then later Shortpacked! as where things really started to find their groove.
Cerberus
One of the ironies of being such a huge fangirl now is back then I kind of felt he was a bit of a holy roller. It’s funny in hindsight knowing his growth and development over the years. And I think the artist story there is as much of an inspiration as his dedication to inclusion and the amount of representation I find in his work now.
Kryss LaBryn
I love how inclusive and representative it is. –Do you know, it has not one, but two trans characters? That we know of? (Yeah, I know, but it just now hit me afresh, lol).
You know what might be awesome? If Jocelyn met Carla. Awesome for Jocelyn, I mean. Especially if, while it was happening, Joyce (in front of her) found out Carla was trans and didn’t care.
She always said she did wish she’d had a sister…
Man, I can’t wait to see Jocelyn again. Maybe when Joyce goes home soon.
modulusshift
Well, both Carla and Jocelyn are in storylines in March, we might get lucky.
Mr. Mendo
I like how it looks like Billie’s not wearing any pants. It keeps the scene from being too heavy. 🙂
Sara Hysaro
Who wears short shorts? She wears short shorts! :p
Sambo
She’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers?
Carriethedragon
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find that what you’re looking for is someone who doesn’t try to place herself above her romantic competition by slut-shaming?
John
Billie’s cheerleader thighs make everything better.
Stephen R. Bierce
Bed of Roses/Bed of Nails…
Cerberus
That’s a really apt metaphor for their relationship. Or maybe just the bed of roses part. It’s sweet, it looks nice, it may even feel nice when you first stretch out on it, but the thorns keep pricking.
Captain Button
Remember that the trick with a bed of nails is to keep the weight evenly distributed. Carefully lie down on all of the nails at the same time.
inqntrol
Yeah sure, if I were a fakir!
Skizz
Now KISS!
anonymsly
My, Ruth. You’re putting a lot of thought into a future you claim not to want.
newllend(henryvolt)
Or she does want but knows and just admitted won’t last.
tim gueguen
Does anyone else think Joyce is a scrapbook kind of person?
Bladeglory
I think she was a scrapbook kind of person. Now any scrapbook would just be full of happy memories with telling gaps in its history.
Steven
I am sure that Joyce has a scrap book dedicated to each of her friends, even now she has a fully black scrap book titled “Lie” in death metal scroll.
Cerberus
… I’m imagining the Becky scrapbook just being filled with obvious in hindsight moments that foreshadowed her coming out.
Spencer
She probably didn’t get too much done because she was too busy playing with her scissors.
Cerberus
“Becky, stop scissoring and help me with this friendship scrapbook. Now, which picture of you kissing my cheek best encapsulates our eternal friendship and mutual support in following the paths Jesus has set for us?”
Rosicrucian
I would not trust Joyce with scissors lately…
Steven
Oh woe is the idiot who thinks sitcoms and romcoms are real life. Ruth is just in love with her own sadness
Spencer
Okay no. nonononono.
Ruth isn’t “in love” with her own sadness. She’s in a state of mind where it’s one of the only things she can process.
-Sentinel-
Are you speaking from personal experience?
Spencer
Kind of. At my worst I was in a point where I basically ran a mental checklist of why I deserved to be miserable. I just started feeling numb to everything.
FTR I’m okay with talking about my personal experiences and I think it’s healthy to share them if you want to, a good step I’ve taken is to be able to talk about it without thinking it’s embarrassing or shameful, but a prompt like that isn’t really okay unless the person you’re talking to is clear that they want to talk about it.
Cerberus
Yeah, the numbness is annoying and it really sucks pulling out of it and just being stuck with numbness and sadness as the two emotions you can feel. I’m still regaining my full range of emotions, but I’m glad I’m no longer there.