Carla: … I think she’s trying to be an ally? But that was weird, right? Even for Jugs?
Ruth, facepalming: You have to stop calling her that, but yes, I think yet again her heart is in the right place and both her feet are wedged in her mouth so far it’s surprising we can hear her so clearly. Surprising , and distressing. I’ll talk to her.
In my experience at least, hyper focusing your attention on something kind of loses the sexual appeal of it, especially in a academic environment. It’s kind of like if you say a word too much it feels like it loses its meaning.
Many years of camping with naked Pagans will also desexualize nudity for you.
Annamal
Or accidentally checking into a clothing optional camping ground after a grueling two day family hike.
I was 13ish and honestly it wasn’t even remotely exciting.
If the class is being run properly. You’ll be in such a hurry to transcribe the information in front of you effectively that that task will occupy your whole brain. The rapid gesture poses will hammer all other thoughts out of you, and by the time you get to longer poses you’re just grateful to even have a little more time to get things done. If you’ve got time for other feelings to crop up significantly it’s either because the class is boring or your drawing is boring and you should just try a different composition.
Yup. The person in front of you rapidly becomes just a very complex object, a collection of lines and curves, surfaces and shadows.
Dday
I had a professor that insisted we try to forget we are looking at humans. Instead, imagine we are looking at massive Egyptian statues.
Loki
Why Egyptian in particular?
Dday
Maybe the stark way the light hits them, and the fact that they are very angular and iconic and only somewhat figurative compared to say, the elaborate naturalism of Greco-Roman statuary. He wanted us to draw with harsh, decisive lines, nothing too loose or fluid. That class was all about building up serious hand/eye coordination.
Dan
Massive you say
Adept
Huge. Weighty. Possibly girthy”
morleuca
I had several friends in college who did nude modeling. The one guy who did it that I knew liked to remind people that the studio was cold, and to be kind.
Michael Steamweed
A few friends o’ mine reported the same. Those little portable heaters don’t help nearly as much as one supposes.
While flaccid wienders are funny inherently, there’s always that weird expectation of judgement, as if everyone is expected to be at full sail and ready to perform 24/7.
I find it happens pretty quickly in a lot of scenarios
I remember years ago when I was still full of hormones, I came across a video from what I can only assume was a nudist event of some sort. women everywhere, none of them wearing clothes (strangely the men were wearing clothes), and I was getting ready to be all gooner about it, and then like 15 seconds in I wasn’t horny at all and my brain had already registered it as perfectly normal
turns out Syndrome was right: if everyone’s naked, then no one is
There’s a photographer who does mass nude photos. Recently there was 5000 nude people on the Story Bridge (big bridge in Brisbane, Australia). Great way to show that bodies are just bodies and reminds me why I’m so mad I have to wear a top at the beach.
Also Joyce is absolutely going to talk to Ethan about how she’s been talking to Carla and he’s accidentally going to say something revealing about Joss, right?
I want Jocelyne to get to come out to Joyce herself, but I can definitely see it heading toward, “I was talking to Carla about that thing from earlier!” “Oh, yeah, she’d probably be a good person to talk to about your sister.” “Wait, what?”
Kammon
It’d honestly be the best way to get this long delayed plot thread finally rolling.
That was awhile ago, even in-universe. Since then, Carla’s helped rescue her from the kidnapping, did her makeup to help her get into a bar, and they’ve had this interaction: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/01-everybodys-looking-for-nothing/butter/
Carla assumed Joyce knew she was trans and was chill about it, so this has got to be extra confusing for her.
Look closely when a lot of these characters greet one another. Their hands and arms frequently enter this half-up state, like they’re going for a hug but never quite committing.
Jeremiah
I always interpreted like they are doing a “There you ard, I found you” kind of montion, like pointing at them with their arms.
I don’t make sure of anything. I just walk closer to them and maybe wave, like a normal person. These guys are ready to scoop each other up at a moment’s notice.
134 thoughts on “Solidarity”
Doctor_Who
Panel 1: Attempted Sisterhood Solidarity.
Panel 2: Actual Sisterhood Solidarity.
NGPZ
Redhedz 4 ever <3
Decidedly Orthogonal
You called?
Decidedly Orthogonal
Oh right, my ginger profile deets ain’t on DoA. ?
Opus the Poet
+1
Miri
Carla: … I think she’s trying to be an ally? But that was weird, right? Even for Jugs?
Ruth, facepalming: You have to stop calling her that, but yes, I think yet again her heart is in the right place and both her feet are wedged in her mouth so far it’s surprising we can hear her so clearly. Surprising , and distressing. I’ll talk to her.
Jo_cubstar
Oh Joyce, no.. no no no
Sirksome
Nudity desensitization happens pretty quick in life drawing.
Taffy
What, like nerve damage from exposure?
Sirksome
In my experience at least, hyper focusing your attention on something kind of loses the sexual appeal of it, especially in a academic environment. It’s kind of like if you say a word too much it feels like it loses its meaning.
Taffy
In other words, you’ve never experienced a titty fugue.
Opus the Poet
Many years of camping with naked Pagans will also desexualize nudity for you.
Annamal
Or accidentally checking into a clothing optional camping ground after a grueling two day family hike.
I was 13ish and honestly it wasn’t even remotely exciting.
Dday
If the class is being run properly. You’ll be in such a hurry to transcribe the information in front of you effectively that that task will occupy your whole brain. The rapid gesture poses will hammer all other thoughts out of you, and by the time you get to longer poses you’re just grateful to even have a little more time to get things done. If you’ve got time for other feelings to crop up significantly it’s either because the class is boring or your drawing is boring and you should just try a different composition.
StClair
Yup. The person in front of you rapidly becomes just a very complex object, a collection of lines and curves, surfaces and shadows.
Dday
I had a professor that insisted we try to forget we are looking at humans. Instead, imagine we are looking at massive Egyptian statues.
Loki
Why Egyptian in particular?
Dday
Maybe the stark way the light hits them, and the fact that they are very angular and iconic and only somewhat figurative compared to say, the elaborate naturalism of Greco-Roman statuary. He wanted us to draw with harsh, decisive lines, nothing too loose or fluid. That class was all about building up serious hand/eye coordination.
Dan
Massive you say
Adept
Huge. Weighty. Possibly girthy”
morleuca
I had several friends in college who did nude modeling. The one guy who did it that I knew liked to remind people that the studio was cold, and to be kind.
Michael Steamweed
A few friends o’ mine reported the same. Those little portable heaters don’t help nearly as much as one supposes.
Taffy
While flaccid wienders are funny inherently, there’s always that weird expectation of judgement, as if everyone is expected to be at full sail and ready to perform 24/7.
Kazuma Taichi
I find it happens pretty quickly in a lot of scenarios
I remember years ago when I was still full of hormones, I came across a video from what I can only assume was a nudist event of some sort. women everywhere, none of them wearing clothes (strangely the men were wearing clothes), and I was getting ready to be all gooner about it, and then like 15 seconds in I wasn’t horny at all and my brain had already registered it as perfectly normal
turns out Syndrome was right: if everyone’s naked, then no one is
Bogeywoman
There’s a photographer who does mass nude photos. Recently there was 5000 nude people on the Story Bridge (big bridge in Brisbane, Australia). Great way to show that bodies are just bodies and reminds me why I’m so mad I have to wear a top at the beach.
Thag Simmons
I wonder how long it’s going to take for Carla to piece together that Joyce just found out that she’s trans.
Thag Simmons
Also Joyce is absolutely going to talk to Ethan about how she’s been talking to Carla and he’s accidentally going to say something revealing about Joss, right?
Yumi
I want Jocelyne to get to come out to Joyce herself, but I can definitely see it heading toward, “I was talking to Carla about that thing from earlier!” “Oh, yeah, she’d probably be a good person to talk to about your sister.” “Wait, what?”
Kammon
It’d honestly be the best way to get this long delayed plot thread finally rolling.
NGPZ
her expectations for Joyce don’t seem that high to begin with?
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/unraveling/
Thag Simmons
True, and it may just never actually come up.
Envy
That was awhile ago, even in-universe. Since then, Carla’s helped rescue her from the kidnapping, did her makeup to help her get into a bar, and they’ve had this interaction: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/01-everybodys-looking-for-nothing/butter/
Carla assumed Joyce knew she was trans and was chill about it, so this has got to be extra confusing for her.
Michael Steamweed
Carla might be so distracted now by Charlie, that she could be the last one to see that Joyce is no longer a “God chick”.
Felian
No time at all. Every trans person is unfortunately very familiar with these wellmeaning microaggressions.
peng
what the
fuck
Taigan
Carla and Ruth have synchronized. That feels unnatural
Taffy
The reason it feels unnatural is that Carla dyes her hair.
Michael Steamweed
OMG I finally clued in! Carla is a transredhead! :O
That’s what this redhead sisterhoodness has been about!
(well thank goodness i finally woke up and smelled the coffee.)
😀
Rolf of Many Doors
That brings up the question – when is it transredhead vs redhead appropriation?
Bogeywoman
You missed the opportunity to say transginger
Taffy
He’s doing the hand thing. It’s happening again.
Jeremiah
What hand thing?
Taffy
Look closely when a lot of these characters greet one another. Their hands and arms frequently enter this half-up state, like they’re going for a hug but never quite committing.
Jeremiah
I always interpreted like they are doing a “There you ard, I found you” kind of montion, like pointing at them with their arms.
Taffy
That’s weirdly ominous, to me. Like indie horror game vibes.
clif
A hug occured between panel 3 and 4. You can’t show everything or this comic would still be in its first week, their time.
Taffy
If this is the real answer, that’s complete bullshit. I wanna see these hugs. It’s my right as an American, written in the Constitution.
Jeremiah
I doubt that is true but reading the constitution is for nerds so I guess I gotta believe you.
Dan
The right to bear hugs
Michael Steamweed
The right to hug bears.
(the folsom street fair type of bears…like in california…don’t hug the actual wild animal bears like in Alaska or Oregon.)
eh, whatever
Thumbs as finger guns.
Mark
Yes. I doubt that Joe is aware of it. It’s kind of like discharging all of that seeking energy.
Amós Batista
Glad someone figured it out, I wasn’t the only one
Tan
When you approach someone, do you make sure your arms are locked straight and slightly behind?
Taffy
I don’t make sure of anything. I just walk closer to them and maybe wave, like a normal person. These guys are ready to scoop each other up at a moment’s notice.
Yeet
joe is prepping to lift joyce over his head
Amós Batista
first panel
Taffy
No no, the third one. What Joe’s doing.
True Survivor
I’ve forgotten – what is the hand thing?
Taffy
I will never explain it.
clif
You know. The hand thing.
Cholma
Is that like a knee-job?
Reltzik
The hand thing.
Clif
Oh, is that DYW doing that?
Yumi
Joe spends his time alone pretending to be a forklift. He’s often still in forklift-mode when he first sees Joyce.
Bogeywoman
Someone with access to a computer Photoshop them all into a conga line!!
ADLegend21
Joyce what the fuck
Thag Simmons
I mean, better than it would have been only a few months earlier, but yeah, what the fuck.
Jeremiah
Ha, Joyce actually had to got to life drawing class, it wasn’t an excuse to run away from sexuality.
Yumi
Or it was both
jeffepp
I’m glad someone else noticed. Or noted.
The rush to class broke her horn for a while. But, it’s back.
Carla's #2 Fan