Just breaking down the word I assume “flang” is a combination of the words “flaying” and “wang”. Naturally extrapolating that to mean flaying a wang, which I gotta admit is pretty kinky. Whatever Joyce is into I guess.
On the other hand, santorum doesn’t tell us what it is because of the structure of the word, but rather by who it’s named after. Richard Santorum is a giant asshole named Dick. As a result, he motivated others to create a definition which relects that. Fittingly, the winner is (paraphrased), “the frothy mixture that remains after a dick plays in an asshole.”
It has little to do with the composition of the word though. Just an opportunistic counter example.
The Good News: Dorothy decides to take this assignment very seriously, and come up with a scientific method to determine where Joyce’s interests lay with pinpoint accuracy. She enlists the aid of Carla, whose technical brilliance (and complete lack of interest in sex herself, so she won’t judge or gossip) allow her to use AI and put together a full profile accurate to within 30 milliKinks.
The Bad News: Carla uses Ruttech servers to gather her data, and because every tech company is spying on everything you do online, it discovers Joyce’s tastes when it comes to Amber’s fanfics and incorporates them into the dataset.
SkyNet takes over the world, draws ding-dongs on everything.
mindbleach
My god, it’s already started.
Council
Skynut*
thanks to Thor
Michael Steamweed
The first Tongueinator-800s are mass produced in 2025 and begin infiltrating college dorms everywhere, beginning with American’s interior states like Indiana.
Ah yes, the old “I deep dived into the Internet before experiencing a relationship so I’m somehow WAY kinkier and ALSO more repressed than everyone around me.”
What household you grew up in doesn’t always account for your knowledge or level of repression. I had an older sister who didn’t know that penetration happened until her friends forced the information on her late in high school. I have no idea how she got through all the sex talks with our mom, health and biology classes, reading fantasy and fiction books that contained sex scenes (provided they didn’t tend to be explicit and would use euphemism a lot) all while being a theater/music wing student. My best guess is just purposeful blatant ignorance from either feeling uncomfortable with it or not being interested. Sure left me with an interesting thing to fix when I went to the same high school (we were 3 years apart). Now provided, I was unfamiliar with certain slang like douch, other than it was used as an insult, but it wasn’t as if our household was extremely restrictive on the sex talk either.
On an unrelated note, perfectly fine with talking about my parents having sex or looking nice, but got super weirded out by a roommate calling my grandpa sexy in college. I noped out of that conversation fast.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that no adult had ever actually explained what sex was to me and I had just gathered everything I knew slowly in little pieces from highly questionable sources.
AP biology textbook was fairly detailed about the mechanics of everything. Butt stuff was something I stumbled upon during an interdisciplinary project on HIV/AIDS in my second year in high school (WHO/UN conference/assembly style, and I was assigned as a scientist). I was a bit with Dorothy on not knowing so many parts of the body could be considered applicable crevices or holes after getting in the rabbit hole a bit at that point.
Or at least Willis is. Whether he intends the reader to draw any inferences about Dorothy and her drawing ability is unknown.
Daibhid C
Willis can also draw a pretty good Joe (citation: Joe’s appearances in the strip), so the fact it doesn’t look like Dorothy even tried is almost certainly meant to suggest something, if only “Ew, it’s Joe.” (Not necessarily meaning continued judgeyness on her part, based on panel 2 she seems to have reached the point of being amused by the situation. But it wouldn’t be surprising for her to still have an automatic squick factor over actually thinking about it.)
AND in private and for select clientele only, a very NSFS (not-safe-for-school) version. One in which their kinks shine forth. But kinkiness is a slippery slope, so quickly they get more and more explicit. In their slippery-slope-shiny drawings.
I support that! An entire Dorothy episode, simply charting out the Joyce erogenous zones and manipulator appendages cross correlated with the Joe erogenous zones and manipulator appendages. A short version of the Kama Sutra done up by Dorothy.
AbacusWizard
It’s gonna be like the Dumbing of Age version of The Family Circus by Bil Keane (And Jeffy)
That makes sense, given the reason Joyce even began that class was due to Dorothy giving her constructive criticism on her art, the “front butt” conversation.
If she gets scared even thinking about describing what parts of a guy she would want to touch that really shows that she’s not emotionally ready. It’s okay to not be ready but it feels like she basically wants to get drunk and use that to push through emotional barriers, which would kind of prove Joe’s fears right.
Joyce wants to know what she should try “first,” so I think Dorothy could start off with finding the chiller options on the list. I was going to suggest “topless cuddling,” but they’ve literally already done that. Maybe “things done and enjoyed” can be another list.
166 thoughts on “Kinkier”
Ana Chronistic
“You’ve listed… crunt-knockling, self-saucing, combat ejaculation, nipplotism, and… flang? Do you REALLY want to do flang?”
“I don’t even know what it IS!”
“That’s sort of my point!”
Sirksome
Just breaking down the word I assume “flang” is a combination of the words “flaying” and “wang”. Naturally extrapolating that to mean flaying a wang, which I gotta admit is pretty kinky. Whatever Joyce is into I guess.
Decidedly Orthogonal
On the other hand, santorum doesn’t tell us what it is because of the structure of the word, but rather by who it’s named after. Richard Santorum is a giant asshole named Dick. As a result, he motivated others to create a definition which relects that. Fittingly, the winner is (paraphrased), “the frothy mixture that remains after a dick plays in an asshole.”
It has little to do with the composition of the word though. Just an opportunistic counter example.
Azu
Sorry, that definitely happened in that order? I’d thought it was just a coincedence that provided an easy way to disparage the guy
Annamal
Oh yes it was absolutely in that order. I remember Dan Savage setting it up due to some really awful stuff Santorum said. It was amazing.
Inahc
same.
AlexanderHammil
i do appreciate a good oglaf reference
Decidedly Orthogonal
Don’t we all? Imagine how beautiful life would be if we could all come together because of Oglaf.
Actually no. We can’t handle a Noah-scale flood of sexual release.
Mark
Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote an amusing short-short on that theme, but I can’t recall the title.
I was also reminded of an unusual statistic from Stanisław Lem’s One Human Minute.
Proxiehunter
At least she didn’t list fetch. That’s never going to happen.
Laura
LOL! Stop trying to make fetch happen!
Just_IDD
It isn’t fetch…its feLtch. If you are going disgusting practices given a name, at a minimum you should at least be able to spell them correctly.
sarda
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stop-trying-to-make-fetch-happen
AbacusWizard
CaptainAmericaUnderstoodThatReferenceButDoesntWantToAdmitIt.gif
Michael Steamweed
Yay! for Oglaf!
Roborat
I knew those sounded like Oglafisms. I really found the combat ejaculation funny.
Felian
you made me google “combat ejaculation” and are now responsible for what it’s gonna do to my algorithm
Ana Chronistic
You’re responsible for your OWN algorithm!
Doctor_Who
The Good News: Dorothy decides to take this assignment very seriously, and come up with a scientific method to determine where Joyce’s interests lay with pinpoint accuracy. She enlists the aid of Carla, whose technical brilliance (and complete lack of interest in sex herself, so she won’t judge or gossip) allow her to use AI and put together a full profile accurate to within 30 milliKinks.
The Bad News: Carla uses Ruttech servers to gather her data, and because every tech company is spying on everything you do online, it discovers Joyce’s tastes when it comes to Amber’s fanfics and incorporates them into the dataset.
Joe’s in for a few surprises.
Ray Radlein
All subsequent AIs have Joyce’s sexual preferences hard-wired into them
Doctor_Who
SkyNet takes over the world, draws ding-dongs on everything.
mindbleach
My god, it’s already started.
Council
Skynut*
thanks to Thor
Michael Steamweed
The first Tongueinator-800s are mass produced in 2025 and begin infiltrating college dorms everywhere, beginning with American’s interior states like Indiana.
Opus the Poet
Is that such a bad thing to happen?
Jeremiah
It depends on your opinion on big men you can climb like a tree.
Mr. Random
Ah yes, the old “I deep dived into the Internet before experiencing a relationship so I’m somehow WAY kinkier and ALSO more repressed than everyone around me.”
Davus
Same (Well, I assume I’m kinkier), except I grew up in a Progressive household, so what’s my excuse?
Kimi
What household you grew up in doesn’t always account for your knowledge or level of repression. I had an older sister who didn’t know that penetration happened until her friends forced the information on her late in high school. I have no idea how she got through all the sex talks with our mom, health and biology classes, reading fantasy and fiction books that contained sex scenes (provided they didn’t tend to be explicit and would use euphemism a lot) all while being a theater/music wing student. My best guess is just purposeful blatant ignorance from either feeling uncomfortable with it or not being interested. Sure left me with an interesting thing to fix when I went to the same high school (we were 3 years apart). Now provided, I was unfamiliar with certain slang like douch, other than it was used as an insult, but it wasn’t as if our household was extremely restrictive on the sex talk either.
On an unrelated note, perfectly fine with talking about my parents having sex or looking nice, but got super weirded out by a roommate calling my grandpa sexy in college. I noped out of that conversation fast.
Strain of Thought
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that no adult had ever actually explained what sex was to me and I had just gathered everything I knew slowly in little pieces from highly questionable sources.
Kimi
AP biology textbook was fairly detailed about the mechanics of everything. Butt stuff was something I stumbled upon during an interdisciplinary project on HIV/AIDS in my second year in high school (WHO/UN conference/assembly style, and I was assigned as a scientist). I was a bit with Dorothy on not knowing so many parts of the body could be considered applicable crevices or holes after getting in the rabbit hole a bit at that point.
Michael Steamweed
Most sadly, this is the experience of millions of people of my generation in my country. 🙁
Pylgrim
Hey! Who gave you the right to call me out in the open like that.
Lilith Rose
*sigh* I remember those days. Made the sex really good when it finally did happen, though.
Reltzik
Alt text: Sarah’s stressing right now and she could use the laugh.
Doopyboop
Dorothy isn’t a half bad artist
Corronchilejano
That’s a pretty good Shortpacked Amber.
Decidedly Orthogonal
More short and stacked. Am I right?.gif
Amós Batista
Dorothy is able to draw a decent Joyce and a pretty basic drawing of other male. If it isn’t an unrequited thing, my name is not Lawrence
Otl1973
Or at least Willis is. Whether he intends the reader to draw any inferences about Dorothy and her drawing ability is unknown.
Daibhid C
Willis can also draw a pretty good Joe (citation: Joe’s appearances in the strip), so the fact it doesn’t look like Dorothy even tried is almost certainly meant to suggest something, if only “Ew, it’s Joe.” (Not necessarily meaning continued judgeyness on her part, based on panel 2 she seems to have reached the point of being amused by the situation. But it wouldn’t be surprising for her to still have an automatic squick factor over actually thinking about it.)
Jeremiah
Calling it now: By the end of the comic Joyce and Dorothy will publish Julia Grey comics together.
Michael Steamweed
AND in private and for select clientele only, a very NSFS (not-safe-for-school) version. One in which their kinks shine forth. But kinkiness is a slippery slope, so quickly they get more and more explicit. In their slippery-slope-shiny drawings.
AbacusWizard
Does Dorothy get to be a guest artist on the next Slipshine?
Michael Steamweed
I support that! An entire Dorothy episode, simply charting out the Joyce erogenous zones and manipulator appendages cross correlated with the Joe erogenous zones and manipulator appendages. A short version of the Kama Sutra done up by Dorothy.
AbacusWizard
It’s gonna be like the Dumbing of Age version of The Family Circus by Bil Keane (And Jeffy)
DailyBrad
That makes sense, given the reason Joyce even began that class was due to Dorothy giving her constructive criticism on her art, the “front butt” conversation.
Joy
LMAO
Amós Batista
Illidan Stormrage ?? Dorothy
JA
18 years later and I can still hear his voice.
Kimi
His voice being used as a raid alert in an addon probably helps cement it in some people’s minds.
Queen Anthai
20th anniversary events started today- *looks at calendar* -yesterday, so don’t forget to head over to Silithus and pray you have a good GPU.
Loki
God, I can still hear some of those bosses.
BASK IN MY RADIANCE
Still you fight. Still you cling to misguided principles. If you survive, you’ll find me in the center ring.
I see.. only darkness… for me.
Kimi
I still have stuff from baldur’s gate get stuck in my head, especially “You must gather your party before venturing forth”.
Opus the Poet
So, how invested in the process is Joyce? Really?
Jeremiah
To the extent that it scare her.
Needfuldoer
That’s not a high bar.
MisterJinKC
Joyce is absolutely not ready for sexy times to occur.
Queen Anthai
Thank you for saying it because WOW have I been thinking it.
Michael Steamweed
Is that sweat on Joyce’s temple in panel 3?
Jerach
If she gets scared even thinking about describing what parts of a guy she would want to touch that really shows that she’s not emotionally ready. It’s okay to not be ready but it feels like she basically wants to get drunk and use that to push through emotional barriers, which would kind of prove Joe’s fears right.
Nono
Monica: so there are the 7 basic erogenous zones.
10 minutes later:
Monica: 7! 7! 7! 7!7!7! …*holds up seven*
Yumi
Kathy, running into Monica’s place later: Oh! *hugs her* Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! Yes! Thank you! *leaves the apartment*
NGPZ
Who is this Monica character? :0
Sirksome
Damn, Joyce cut off in the middle of the foreplay.
Endplanets
“I thrust you”
Wait…
Jeremiah
You gotta give it to Dorothy, when she has a task, she put everything into it even when it is objectively ridiculous.
Yumi
Joyce wants to know what she should try “first,” so I think Dorothy could start off with finding the chiller options on the list. I was going to suggest “topless cuddling,” but they’ve literally already done that. Maybe “things done and enjoyed” can be another list.
Laura
They should team up with Dina! Nothing beats [off like] the scientific method!
Taffy