Naps are fantastic, until you sit down to have one after work and next thing you know your alarm clock’s going off because it’s time to get up and go to work again.
I had a spec on my screen that lined up perfectly with the “n” in “not” on your comment that made it look like “riot” instead and while more confusing, it made the sentence a lot more fun.
I actually don’t like naps, they are always too short to be actually restful in my experience, I either wake up several hours later and it wrecks my sleep schedule or I set an alarm and when I wake up I feel even more exhausted than I did before I took my nap because my body isn’t ready to be awake yet.
MsMollieMac
hard agree. I’d rather spend an hour half-laying on the couch playing on my 3DS and feel recharged afterward than 3 hours unconscious and feel the same or worse.
/hj naps are praxis, fight the captialist mode of production with sleep and downtime
When did she get drunk before?
I’m drawing a blank.
Kyrik Michalowski
The party where Joyce was planning to watch Frozen with everyone, because it was a banned movie in their religious upbringing. Amber also got mad at Danny for drinking, and Ethan tried to intervene.
drs
Joyce’s party, the one where Becky and Dina met and joined up. Billie was free with her booze.
HueSatLight
If Jennifer only had one typically sized flask, then Walky, Dorothy, Ethan, Danny, and Jennifer each had about a shot each (I expect Jennifer pre-partied).
I expect that day, and the time she drank with Jennifer (forshadowwing) she’d at least eaten beforehand.
I don’t think she’s eaten all day.
Cool, thanks.
I only remembered Walky drinking.
And I’m still drawing a blank on the second one despite seeing it.
DailyBrad
I had remembered the Joyce party but not this, heh.
I do kind of wonder if, of all people, it’s Billie/Jennifer who Dorothy ends up commiserating with next, despite their last encounter. Stranger things have happened, I suppose.
I’m guessing that was her second or third of those little bottles, so not quite as bad as Walky. However, she is still a lightweight, which is actually a good thing in my opinion. It is far cheaper to be a lightweight if you are planning to get drunk.
Going by Ruth’s “There. Have your little victimless rebellion,” it seems like the first bottle.
Otherwise, it’s a little weird to have Ruth sit there in silence and suddenly say that after two or three bottles.
The “There” part implies Dorothy’s goal was achieved, and said goal should either be to drink or to be drunk.
If the state of being drunk is represented by the bubbles, then that means Dorothy hasn’t reached it when Ruth starts talking.
But the goal of having a drink has been reached.
Of course, it could be that Ruth simply calculated the number of bottles it would take for Dorothy to be drunk, just like she calculated she would immediately fall out.
Kyrik Michalowski
Ruth did seem awfully sure about how things were going to go. Guess that is the power of the RA brain and instincts.
Needfuldoer
Ruth’s a recovering alcoholic. She’d definitely have an estimate of how much hard stuff someone Dorothy’s size who doesn’t drink regularly can tolerate at once.
It is clearly the best way to show being drunk. After all, comics don’t have the benefit of sound, and movement to demonstrate the “drunk voice,” and “drunken gait.”
I think someone would notice if she did that. Clearly humans need to be cyborgs so we can be disassembled, carried to a destination, and then reassembled. I see no flaws in this plan whatsoever.
Biggest team? People living outside Toronto might disagree with that assessment. I do find their tendency to crash and burn in the first round to be amusing.
During the fall semester, when Dorothy was talking about her heavy course load, I wondered exactly how many classes she was taking. I probably missed some, but I found sixish shown or implied, and I would not be surprised if Willis wasn’t keeping track 100% of the time and periodically named a new class she was in and a thorough reading turned up a dozen.
Anyways, she’s right in panel two. Crashing+burning isn’t her only option, though. I mean a little bit would be ok, she should drop a class or two, because I’m guessing she’s enrolled in the maximum number of credit hours again. And stop being a self-appointed mentor, especially when she’s not been asked and especially especially when she’s been asked not to.
If it takes making some new friends, to practice being the new her without expectations, she can have two sets of friends. Even though one of them shares a half-bath with Walky.
I do hope she figures things out, but at least voicing some of her problems is a good step.
I still figure Walky is unlikely to hold things against her for the conversation, but that she’s likely going to avoid him for a bit out of embarrassment, so I wonder who she’ll hang around. Joyce and Joe, perhaps, though she might feel like she’s cramping their style, or it might reinforce to her how lonely she is.
Unless, of course, she’s a silkworm, in which case she’ll be killed by boiling before she can digest the cocoon, which will be patiently spooled onto sticks to be made into silk bowties for Jason.
Evidently, they turn into goo, which then re-forms into a butterfly. Which still remembers stuff from being a caterpillar. So…sentient goo. Goo with recollection. And then butterfly.
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Ana Chronistic
Dotty: down in one
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srsly, naps are fantastic, take endless naps
Kyoulkoa
All the naps
Kyrik Michalowski
As someone with severe narcolepsy, I can confirm that naps are the best. I love them so much I sleep most of the day. 😛
I don’t get anything done, and it makes me worthless as a person, but at least I have naps on my side.
Kaiyalai
Absolutely does not make you worthless as a person, as evinced by the value you bring to this very comment section.
TulipKitten
“Endless naps”
Isn’t that… a coma?
Alex Boston
5 out of 5 cats agree; naps are where it’s at.
Needfuldoer
Naps are fantastic, until you sit down to have one after work and next thing you know your alarm clock’s going off because it’s time to get up and go to work again.
Clif
Done that.
But not in a very long time.
Psychie
I had a spec on my screen that lined up perfectly with the “n” in “not” on your comment that made it look like “riot” instead and while more confusing, it made the sentence a lot more fun.
Psychie
I actually don’t like naps, they are always too short to be actually restful in my experience, I either wake up several hours later and it wrecks my sleep schedule or I set an alarm and when I wake up I feel even more exhausted than I did before I took my nap because my body isn’t ready to be awake yet.
MsMollieMac
hard agree. I’d rather spend an hour half-laying on the couch playing on my 3DS and feel recharged afterward than 3 hours unconscious and feel the same or worse.
/hj naps are praxis, fight the captialist mode of production with sleep and downtime
Sombrero
Siesta!!
NGPZ
Sweet dreams, Dorothy. ?
*plays “Acceptance” by Ridiculon on Ruth’s Phone*
True Survivor
That was a very creepy song given the title. Is that from the “Binding of Isaac?”
NGPZ
Why yes it is! I thought it would be fitting given it sounds like the world’s most cold-comforting lullaby.
True Survivor
That’s smart thinking. Or should I say Keen?
NGPZ
If that is a pun or reference, I do not know. But thanks! 🙂
Doctor_Who
Gonna assume that we’re seeing her first swig in panel 1, and her tolerance for alcohol is about on par with Walky’s.
Thag Simmons
She seems to have better tolerance than Walky, if I recall the last time she got drunk. Not exactly a high bar to clear though
cbwroses
When did she get drunk before?
I’m drawing a blank.
Kyrik Michalowski
The party where Joyce was planning to watch Frozen with everyone, because it was a banned movie in their religious upbringing. Amber also got mad at Danny for drinking, and Ethan tried to intervene.
drs
Joyce’s party, the one where Becky and Dina met and joined up. Billie was free with her booze.
HueSatLight
If Jennifer only had one typically sized flask, then Walky, Dorothy, Ethan, Danny, and Jennifer each had about a shot each (I expect Jennifer pre-partied).
I expect that day, and the time she drank with Jennifer (forshadowwing) she’d at least eaten beforehand.
I don’t think she’s eaten all day.
Doopyboop
Two times. First at Joyce’s party https://www.dumbingofage.com/comics/2015-06-19-confidentially.png (the next strip after this one also has Dorothy mentioning trying wine when she was in Paris with her parents)
Then with Billie https://www.dumbingofage.com/comics/2017-01-07-special.png
cbwroses
Cool, thanks.
I only remembered Walky drinking.
And I’m still drawing a blank on the second one despite seeing it.
DailyBrad
I had remembered the Joyce party but not this, heh.
I do kind of wonder if, of all people, it’s Billie/Jennifer who Dorothy ends up commiserating with next, despite their last encounter. Stranger things have happened, I suppose.
Kyrik Michalowski
I’m guessing that was her second or third of those little bottles, so not quite as bad as Walky. However, she is still a lightweight, which is actually a good thing in my opinion. It is far cheaper to be a lightweight if you are planning to get drunk.
cbwroses
Going by Ruth’s “There. Have your little victimless rebellion,” it seems like the first bottle.
Otherwise, it’s a little weird to have Ruth sit there in silence and suddenly say that after two or three bottles.
The “There” part implies Dorothy’s goal was achieved, and said goal should either be to drink or to be drunk.
If the state of being drunk is represented by the bubbles, then that means Dorothy hasn’t reached it when Ruth starts talking.
But the goal of having a drink has been reached.
Of course, it could be that Ruth simply calculated the number of bottles it would take for Dorothy to be drunk, just like she calculated she would immediately fall out.
Kyrik Michalowski
Ruth did seem awfully sure about how things were going to go. Guess that is the power of the RA brain and instincts.
Needfuldoer
Ruth’s a recovering alcoholic. She’d definitely have an estimate of how much hard stuff someone Dorothy’s size who doesn’t drink regularly can tolerate at once.
Pocky
Hopefully she’s a Lightweight in more ways than one lol
DailyBrad
Luckily, Dorothy’s probably not very heavy, she’s a jogger and seems like one of the slimmer castmembers.
Kyrik Michalowski
Ruth is very sweet, even if she tries to be a femur breaker most of the time.
Joe Moose
Well then…
Clif
Yeah, end of storyline seems a little abrupt this time.
Stephen Bierce
*plays “Airborne: Three Moods” from the Airport 1975 soundtrack on the hacked Muzak*
Roborat
You confused me with this one. I thought that this didn’t sound like the kind of music an Australian heavy metal band would play.
True Survivor
I like that the drunk characters in this comic get the 1940s cartoons style bubbles around their heads.
Thag Simmons
The boozles are great
Kyrik Michalowski
It is clearly the best way to show being drunk. After all, comics don’t have the benefit of sound, and movement to demonstrate the “drunk voice,” and “drunken gait.”
Spacey
Jeph also does it in Questionable Content.
Jamie
That’s an experience I could have used in college. =/
Clif
Falling asleep drunk in your RA’s room?
DarkoNeko
Cutting and transporting in parts is always an option
Kyrik Michalowski
I think someone would notice if she did that. Clearly humans need to be cyborgs so we can be disassembled, carried to a destination, and then reassembled. I see no flaws in this plan whatsoever.
morleuca
Hot swappable body parts is a heady fantasy indeed.
Sombrero
Difficult to reassemble if you keep the femurs.
jeffepp
Dotty is clearly a half-ass human.
RassilonTDavros
The End of Drunk Dorothy?????
Hazel
Poor Dorothy. She still thinks she crashed and burned, even though she barely stumbled and singed. I wonder where these absurd expectations came from.
Suet
Hey now, Dotty isn’t wholly ass. It just depends on what she’ll do after the next few simulated days.
Sweet dreams, Toronto Maple Leafs. Your Joementum is coming to an end also. hums Emperor’s New Clothes by Panic at the Disco on the way out
Kyrik Michalowski
I think she is referring to Dorothy’s eight, not her characteristics. Though I could be wrong, or you could be making a joke. I’m not sure.
Kyrik Michalowski
Weight* not eight.
Suet
I could be prone to reading some things they say like Mitch Hedberg– which is weird, cause I still don’t have his vocal impression down flat.
At least she’s much easier to be carried
Thag Simmons
Biggest team in Canada for our national sport and it’s an achievement when they make the playoffs. Fucking embarrassing
Roborat
Biggest team? People living outside Toronto might disagree with that assessment. I do find their tendency to crash and burn in the first round to be amusing.
BBCC
I’m hoping she feels better soon and this is as bad as her spiral gets.
Kyrik Michalowski
I don’t think one night of drunkenness is enough for her to feel better, but fingers crossed that it is done after this.
HueSatLight
During the fall semester, when Dorothy was talking about her heavy course load, I wondered exactly how many classes she was taking. I probably missed some, but I found sixish shown or implied, and I would not be surprised if Willis wasn’t keeping track 100% of the time and periodically named a new class she was in and a thorough reading turned up a dozen.
Anyways, she’s right in panel two. Crashing+burning isn’t her only option, though. I mean a little bit would be ok, she should drop a class or two, because I’m guessing she’s enrolled in the maximum number of credit hours again. And stop being a self-appointed mentor, especially when she’s not been asked and especially especially when she’s been asked not to.
If it takes making some new friends, to practice being the new her without expectations, she can have two sets of friends. Even though one of them shares a half-bath with Walky.
DailyBrad
I do hope she figures things out, but at least voicing some of her problems is a good step.
I still figure Walky is unlikely to hold things against her for the conversation, but that she’s likely going to avoid him for a bit out of embarrassment, so I wonder who she’ll hang around. Joyce and Joe, perhaps, though she might feel like she’s cramping their style, or it might reinforce to her how lonely she is.
Devin
Compromise Ruth, take her femurs first.
Clif
Have an Internet. We’ve got plenty.
Amós Batista
The 2nd pannel hits hard.
Dorothy’s feeling like she’s giving up. She knows there’s no more way to be the same Dorothy.
NGPZ
Dorothy is a caterpillar.
College is her cocoon.
She may soon undergo,
a beautiful metamorphosis.
Rotunda
Unless, of course, she’s a silkworm, in which case she’ll be killed by boiling before she can digest the cocoon, which will be patiently spooled onto sticks to be made into silk bowties for Jason.
Needfuldoer
Burma-Shave
Clif
I miss those signs.
HueSatLight
one sec, searching: what happens inside a cocoon
pope suburban
Evidently, they turn into goo, which then re-forms into a butterfly. Which still remembers stuff from being a caterpillar. So…sentient goo. Goo with recollection. And then butterfly.
JA
Whole ass-human.
Steelbright