Anyway it seems like Joe is intentionally antagonizing Dorothy now, which is maybe not the best idea, but seems like a lot of fun so I can’t really blame him tirof
It looks to me like he’s winning her over. Dorothy is starting to smile.
anon
To me it looked more like “Guess i don’t have to worry too much after all” imo
StClair
I get an “Oy” vibe, myself.
Mano308gts
I would certainly interpret that last panel expression as humor/relaxing tension, Dorothy seems to be enjoying seeing Joyce being lightly ribbed… (But then, such a pass time is rather cliche among this friend group)
Dorothy was just judging him for being a one-dimensional hornball thirsting after Joyce despite his protests to the contrary.
And now he’s being his usual One-Dimensional Hornball Joe, in Joyce’s general direction, while Dorothy is still present.
So yeah, I can kinda see it. It might also be something like “I am nudging the line but never crossing it, and Joyce can see it and respect that in her own way,” which still would be a sort of defiance to Dorothy’s insistence that he just stop.
Nova
Being himself is antagonistic?
Someone being upset at you about something does not mean YOU have upset them. If Dorothy is antagonized by a perfectly friendly conversation, that’s on her, not on Joe. He shouldn’t have to change who he is and how he talks to Joyce for fear of Dorothy’s opinion on it. He’s not trying to date Dorothy.
And so does Menage a 3, and a couple of other PG13 or MA web comics. Like Curvy. Actually going through Slipshine’s listing there’s the Ma3 comic, Les3, the GGaR spinoff, the damnYouWillis comic and that’s pretty much it for SlipShine. There might be other webcomics on Filthy Figments, but I don’t subscribe to that service, and there are several comics with adult levels on Patreon, that I do subscribe to, but there are some that have been deplatformed from Patreon because of artistic differences over what characters are minors and which ones aren’t, with any female characters not depicted as smuggling basketballs in their bras getting labled as kiddy porn in spite of storylines having them in college or working post-college.
Re: deplatformed for alleged depictions of minors, I’m starting to wonder now if that’s why Dina was decided as more chubby than usual in the slipshine ?
“with any female characters not depicted as smuggling basketballs in their bras”
Ah yes, because as we all know, women universally grow massive titties as an inevitable product of aging, so you can reliably tell how old a woman is based on her cup size.
There exist adults who are less than 5 feet tall. There exist adults who are cup size A and less. I would REALLY wish people would stop referring to us as “children”. It’s fucking OFFENSIVE. ?
Opus provided zero specifics. do you have info that i don’t? i wasn’t able to find a news story on their anecdote.
maybe bad decisions were made but if patreon is actually trying to root out pedophilic content, i’d say that’s *probably* a net good. idk, i might be wrong on account of how, again: no context. feel free to provide sources.
thejeff
Agreed – but …
It’s also a character design often used to appeal to a certain crowd while still maintaining a facade it being okay. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Patreon went overboard trying to police it, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if there was a real problem they were trying to address.
It’s hard to tell, but a lot of the characters are naked.
Carms
the whole comic is highly transgressive flatland porn
Sylvie Wrath
Yeah actually, what kind of dignified upper-class Flatlander attaches linesegments to their body? it’s positively obscene!
RassilonTDavros
…huh, did a quick search and apparently the internet hasn’t actually gotten to Flatland yet. Honestly, I’m kind of surprised. Especially since I vaguely recall there being an explanation of how the residents of Flatland reproduce somewhere in there.
not someone else
There is, annnnnd frankly it’s mind-meltingly racist and misogynistic, which is probably why most people nope out.
Neat math in that book. Very very clear in some places that it was written around the same time people were fucking around trying to make viable electric lighting.
3oranges
I had heard it’s meant to be a parody of how misogynistic Victorian society was, although Poe’s law applies just as well to historical writings.
Xkcd has definitely gotten to Flatland anyway.
Daibhid C
Poe’s law applied at the time, which is why Abbot actually added a foreword to later editions saying “No, this isn’t how I view women, it’s how society views women. And it’s bad.”
Having said that, I am very much of the opinion that if I feel uncomfortable with certain portrayals of non-cis-white-het-male characters, a disclaimer saying “No, I’m parodying those views” doesn’t actually make me feel less uncomfortable reading it.
BOOSTER SHOT
I reread the first chunk recently, and was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable and relatable the satire was, even well over a century later. The misogyny would not be read as such at the time, and is some hilariously *literally* pointed satire of the society around the author, a society with rules that the author quite clearly feels trapped by. I didn’t actually get to much of the dimension hopping, I was having fun just hanging out with the Victorian parody. I don’t remember anything explicitly about race (and the striations in flatland society seemed to me more explicitly modeled after class rather than race), but I’ll have to pick it back up and reacquaint myself with the rest.
Another webcomic with in-canon porn: Love Not Found. And also that same author’s previous strip Red String (though the comic itself is no longer available online – but I think the Filthy Figments may be).
You know, I’m now starting to wonder what Julia Gray’s gradually-ever-more autobiographical OC who will eventually start drawing a webcomic’s name will be.
1 DoA day passes over the course of about every 66 real-world days. We can extrapolate that to 1 Gray day passing every 66 DoA days, and 1 Mauve day passing every 66 Gray days.
A Gray day worth of Julia Gray strips would take 4,356 real-world days to play out, and a Mauve day of Jackylyne Mauve strips would take 287,496 real-world days. That puts the first Mauve arc’s conclusin sometime in the 29th century.
That’s not accounting for the amount of time it’s going to take for Julia to reach her second semester, when she takes up cartooning.
Oh my God, I have just realised that the hidden joke there is that, while she’s obviously based on Dorothy in terms Dumbing of Age, if you consider Roommates!!! as a riff on Roomies!, Doris is actually in the Joe role to Julia’s Danny.
114 thoughts on “Confer”
Ana Chronistic
the only spoilers that exist are who bangs
milu
…ok, the only spoilers are when they bang
MIB4u
only spoiler is that all of them loose their bangs … and get a completely sexy hairstyle… XD
Sporky
In this strip, Joe represents the part of David Willis’s brain that added Billie to Roomies!
King Daniel
Can’t wait to meet Joyce’s new character, Guinevere “Tillie” Tillingsfield
Librain
Oh sweet, an actual original character that’s not “loosely” based on one of her friends!
Lux
Ok, I guess the nervousness about the walky and lucy storyline will wait till later.
Sirksome
Nervous? I bet they’ve already sorted everything out by now off panel and things will continue to be perfect for those two. Yup.
Queezle
Oh good! No need to be worried then. I was worried, silly me.
Sporky
Anyway it seems like Joe is intentionally antagonizing Dorothy now, which is maybe not the best idea, but seems like a lot of fun so I can’t really blame him tirof
Sporky
*for it… how on earth did that happen
Ryan
It looks to me like he’s winning her over. Dorothy is starting to smile.
anon
To me it looked more like “Guess i don’t have to worry too much after all” imo
StClair
I get an “Oy” vibe, myself.
Mano308gts
I would certainly interpret that last panel expression as humor/relaxing tension, Dorothy seems to be enjoying seeing Joyce being lightly ribbed… (But then, such a pass time is rather cliche among this friend group)
a/snow/mous/e
you went into the mirror universe and it reversed your text
Taffy
In what way is this even remotely antagonistic?
anon
feels like it’d be more under joyce’s skin with the sex talk even if she’s past all the stuff from the very first chapter
Nova
I don’t see it either. He’s just talking about one of Joyce’s important interests and being himself.
Gigafreak
Dorothy was just judging him for being a one-dimensional hornball thirsting after Joyce despite his protests to the contrary.
And now he’s being his usual One-Dimensional Hornball Joe, in Joyce’s general direction, while Dorothy is still present.
So yeah, I can kinda see it. It might also be something like “I am nudging the line but never crossing it, and Joyce can see it and respect that in her own way,” which still would be a sort of defiance to Dorothy’s insistence that he just stop.
Nova
Being himself is antagonistic?
Someone being upset at you about something does not mean YOU have upset them. If Dorothy is antagonized by a perfectly friendly conversation, that’s on her, not on Joe. He shouldn’t have to change who he is and how he talks to Joyce for fear of Dorothy’s opinion on it. He’s not trying to date Dorothy.
Wendy
Dumbing of Age spoiler alert Joyce eventually starts making comics for ShineSlip, an acclaimed NSFW webcomics platform,
The Wellerman
Speaking of which, just how many other webcomics have official canon porn?
Thag Simmons
I don’t know if I’d call it common but it’s definitely not unheard of
The Wellerman
Any examples?
Thag Simmons
Not off the top of my head, no.
milu
GoGetaRoomie has a spinoff on slipshine
Opus the Poet
And so does Menage a 3, and a couple of other PG13 or MA web comics. Like Curvy. Actually going through Slipshine’s listing there’s the Ma3 comic, Les3, the GGaR spinoff, the damnYouWillis comic and that’s pretty much it for SlipShine. There might be other webcomics on Filthy Figments, but I don’t subscribe to that service, and there are several comics with adult levels on Patreon, that I do subscribe to, but there are some that have been deplatformed from Patreon because of artistic differences over what characters are minors and which ones aren’t, with any female characters not depicted as smuggling basketballs in their bras getting labled as kiddy porn in spite of storylines having them in college or working post-college.
Rant over.
The Wellerman
Re: deplatformed for alleged depictions of minors, I’m starting to wonder now if that’s why Dina was decided as more chubby than usual in the slipshine ?
The Wellerman
*depicted as more chubby than usual
I could have sworn I typed that right -_-
Taffy
“with any female characters not depicted as smuggling basketballs in their bras”
Ah yes, because as we all know, women universally grow massive titties as an inevitable product of aging, so you can reliably tell how old a woman is based on her cup size.
Why are people so stupid?
milu
alternative question: is there anything more to this story than what Opus chose to share.
The Wellerman
Seriously tho, WTF?!?!?!
There exist adults who are less than 5 feet tall. There exist adults who are cup size A and less. I would REALLY wish people would stop referring to us as “children”. It’s fucking OFFENSIVE. ?
Rant over.
milu
Opus provided zero specifics. do you have info that i don’t? i wasn’t able to find a news story on their anecdote.
maybe bad decisions were made but if patreon is actually trying to root out pedophilic content, i’d say that’s *probably* a net good. idk, i might be wrong on account of how, again: no context. feel free to provide sources.
thejeff
Agreed – but …
It’s also a character design often used to appeal to a certain crowd while still maintaining a facade it being okay. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Patreon went overboard trying to police it, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if there was a real problem they were trying to address.
Doctor_Who
XKCD.
It’s hard to tell, but a lot of the characters are naked.
Carms
the whole comic is highly transgressive flatland porn
Sylvie Wrath
Yeah actually, what kind of dignified upper-class Flatlander attaches linesegments to their body? it’s positively obscene!
RassilonTDavros
…huh, did a quick search and apparently the internet hasn’t actually gotten to Flatland yet. Honestly, I’m kind of surprised. Especially since I vaguely recall there being an explanation of how the residents of Flatland reproduce somewhere in there.
not someone else
There is, annnnnd frankly it’s mind-meltingly racist and misogynistic, which is probably why most people nope out.
Neat math in that book. Very very clear in some places that it was written around the same time people were fucking around trying to make viable electric lighting.
3oranges
I had heard it’s meant to be a parody of how misogynistic Victorian society was, although Poe’s law applies just as well to historical writings.
Xkcd has definitely gotten to Flatland anyway.
Daibhid C
Poe’s law applied at the time, which is why Abbot actually added a foreword to later editions saying “No, this isn’t how I view women, it’s how society views women. And it’s bad.”
Having said that, I am very much of the opinion that if I feel uncomfortable with certain portrayals of non-cis-white-het-male characters, a disclaimer saying “No, I’m parodying those views” doesn’t actually make me feel less uncomfortable reading it.
BOOSTER SHOT
I reread the first chunk recently, and was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable and relatable the satire was, even well over a century later. The misogyny would not be read as such at the time, and is some hilariously *literally* pointed satire of the society around the author, a society with rules that the author quite clearly feels trapped by. I didn’t actually get to much of the dimension hopping, I was having fun just hanging out with the Victorian parody. I don’t remember anything explicitly about race (and the striations in flatland society seemed to me more explicitly modeled after class rather than race), but I’ll have to pick it back up and reacquaint myself with the rest.
Nono
I mean, there are the comics which are porn to begin with, like Rock Cocks.
Yotomoe
Mine, if I ever make one.
anon
I would say “menage a 3” but it’s pretty much a porn with plot to begin with
ANeM
Barbarous has a “rare, unofficial adult fanzine” that they sell at cons that just happens to have the same art style as the main comic.
Felis Dee
Another webcomic with in-canon porn: Love Not Found. And also that same author’s previous strip Red String (though the comic itself is no longer available online – but I think the Filthy Figments may be).
Azhrei Vep
There’s a pretty decent number that do. And most of the ones I’ve read don’t have it off on a separate pay site, it’s just part of the comic.
You just gotta look for the right webcomics.
Regalli
You know, I’m now starting to wonder what Julia Gray’s gradually-ever-more autobiographical OC who will eventually start drawing a webcomic’s name will be.
Sirksome
We’re not ready to read the incredible exploits Jackylyne Mauve. Race car driver by day, dimension traveling hero by night.
Clif
Speak for yourself.
Needfuldoer
1 DoA day passes over the course of about every 66 real-world days. We can extrapolate that to 1 Gray day passing every 66 DoA days, and 1 Mauve day passing every 66 Gray days.
A Gray day worth of Julia Gray strips would take 4,356 real-world days to play out, and a Mauve day of Jackylyne Mauve strips would take 287,496 real-world days. That puts the first Mauve arc’s conclusin sometime in the 29th century.
That’s not accounting for the amount of time it’s going to take for Julia to reach her second semester, when she takes up cartooning.
Sirksome
If people are banging in Julia Gray I’m suddenly way more interested in reading it.
anon
Joyce graduates, becomes webcomic artist and works from home for webtoons and spends all her free time with everyone
HueSatLight
They’ve been banging, the difference is that Joyce is no longer destroying those immediately after writing or drawing them.
Schpoonman
In one month in-universe Amber is going to stumble across Joyce’s amassment and even she will be shocked at the smut.
Sirksome
Probably not. Joyce’s smut is apparently real vanilla. A veteran smut goblin like Amber wouldn’t even flinch at her content regardless of her output.
ADLegend21
There’s a Character that goes “I am the one who bangs”
Adam Black
Tin Roof… rusted.
Adam Black
^ accidentally flagged yer comment when replying. sorry.
there is no undue
Daibhid C
That was very nearly President Doris’s other personality trait, until Dorothy vetoed it.
Daibhid C
Oh my God, I have just realised that the hidden joke there is that, while she’s obviously based on Dorothy in terms Dumbing of Age, if you consider Roommates!!! as a riff on Roomies!, Doris is actually in the Joe role to Julia’s Danny.
Stephen Bierce
Every silver lining’s got a…Touch of Grey…
Bicycle Bill
Oh, yeah. She definitely bangs.
Nono
So who’s Jakkar based off on? Jacob?
Though it would be funny if it was Harry Styles.
BBCC
Okay, now I’M curious about this story. XD Damn you Willis for torturing us
And points for the Wizard of Oz reference.
RassilonTDavros
Fifty Shades of Julia Gray: a Roommates!!!! Pornographique
The Wellerman
??? 10/10 ???
Adam Black
: a hankyPankique
milu
*upvote*
Opus the Poet