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Ungenuine
Posted on January 18, 2020 by David M Willis

113 thoughts on “Ungenuine”

  1. BBCC

    It’s okay, Lucy. I enjoy it too.

    1. CC

      ….. I wonder if Lucy knows what a kismesis is

      1. Laladoria

        I’d have to say yes purely based on how fandom-y she is in both this universe and the Shortpacked! universe. I honestly cant imagine that she didnt read homestuck.

  2. DailyBrad

    Fair play, Lucy.

  3. ktbear

    What? Theres no way Im first…

    1. David M Willis

      well good news

    2. LeslieBean4shizzle

      OooO! You got in trouble!
      /5 year old

      Also, Willis’ gravatar looks extra grumpy this evening. THat’s the same image as always and I’m just projecting based on the comment, right?

      1. Reltzik

        I’m sure he went to all the work of digging out the old file and slightly recoloring it to make it a hint more glowery just for ktbear. That’s totally something Willis would do.

        … or maybe he did that years ago and he’s got a dozen different subtle variations and he’s been trolling us for years with change blindness to see how long it takes for us to notice. That’s totally something Willis would do.

        1. Geneseepaws

          Willis is NOT so webcomic god. He’s just an artist who happens to be/have godlike powers, … At the “Damn You” level of art,….artistry,… Ok.
          Webcomic god. I sit corrected.

  4. shadowcell

    Dumbing of Age Book 10: No Enjoying How Cute You Think We Are!

    1. Ascension

      Y’know, accurate.

    2. Clif

      Yeah, that beats DOA Book 10: Shut Your Stupid Face.

      1. ValdVin

        “Shut Your Stupid Face” seems like the perfect tsundere Valentine’s Day card. Not that Billie or Ruth would have any experience there.

  5. ktbear

    Dammit, SO close…

  6. Stephen Bierce

    Oh no, she didn’t say “Lucy Says”.

    1. StClair

      Classic ref.

    2. Josh Spicer

      Damn that hits hard.

    3. Fiddler115

      It’s a damn shame that Flashbeagle isn’t available on streaming anywhere.

      1. Needfuldoer

        There’s a few copies on YouTube.

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMR58e891o

        I like the dolly zoom that makes it look like Snoopy’s moonwalking up the street. Ah, 80s animated corner-cutting!

        1. Needfuldoer

          Okay so that’s not the entire special, but looking for it sent me down a rabbit hole. I finally popped out of it with two interesting bits of trivia:

          – The special was directly inspired by Flashdance. Charles Shultz drew Snoopy in Alex’s dance/exercise getup after seeing the movie in theaters.

          – Fergie voiced Sally Brown.

          If you’re still looking, there’s a full copy floating around the web and it’s also a bonus feature on the Snoopy’s Reunion DVD.

  7. Wraithy2773

    …yeah, that is soooooo adorable. 😀

  8. Wraith_Ferron

    The comic has been up for 9 minutes, and Ana Chronistic has not commented. Call the cops.

    1. Woomy

      This but unironically?

      1. Reltzik

        Last time, it was because Ana was writing a flame over hotel online cancellation policies. I don’t think the SWAT team is needed just yet.

  9. Mr D

    …Can someone Define ungenuine?

    And don’t be a smartass going “the lack of genuine-ness”.

    1. ktbear

      If you’re not going to accept not genuine the Collins would have us believe it means false.

    2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Not to be confused with anti-genuine.

    3. He Who Abides

      I think it’s her way of saying “fakey”, but this way doesn’t make me want to bellow in her face.

    4. Delicious Taffy

      If you have to exclude the obvious answer when you ask a question, then you’re just answering yourself.

    5. Sam

      Ungenuine: Lacking in sincerity or authenticy e.g. saying things that aren’t meant, lying, reacting with anger to cover up embarrassment or using sarcasm and snark to deflect from vulnerability are all ungenuine. Someone being genuine is being honest and meaning what they say and not disguising their feelings – someone ungenuine therefore has to in some way not be being so. It is also a far more polite way to refer to it than calling someone a damn liar, fakey or other such words that have an aggressively negative tone to them and stronger negative connotations.

      1. Laladoria

        So you’re saying ungenuine is just…tsundere

        1. DailyBrad

          More or less, yeah.

        2. Reltzik

          That’s one form of ungenuine, yes.

      2. Clif

        Ie. Not genuine.

        1. Clif

          Pretend that was just below Sam’s post.

    6. Keulen

      That is the literal meaning of it though.

    7. Lawzlo

      One who is not Ginuwine.

      1. Clif

        All wines should be Genuwine.

    8. DSL

      In my day, we simply said someone was full of sh!t.

  10. Sunmaster57

    Maybe Lucy has “other things” on her mind?

  11. Bicycle Bill

    Somebody commented a couple days ago about the freckles on Ruth’s shoulders.  Looks like she’s got them on her thighs, too (panel three).

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Oh, she’s got ’em all over.

      1. Geneseepaws

        Are you saying that DYW draws all those damn freckles all over her and then draws her clothes over that? If that’s the case, I’m never having a character with freckles/dalmation spots.

        1. Geneseepaws

          Dalmatian

        2. Delicious Taffy

          Do you not draw your characters layer by layer, staring with the skeleton and working your way to the clothes?

        3. Geneseepaws

          Why yes I do. Doesn’t everyone do it that way? Is there another way? :—p

        4. King Daniel

          You could always start with the clothes and work your way in to the skeleton.

        5. Freemage

          This conversation is managing to be very creepy.

        6. Marsh Maryrose

          Oh, we can make it much creepier. Let’s start by re-reading Ray Bradbury’s short story “Skeleton.”

    2. ValdVin

      That was me, about her shoulder blades.

      I really ought to scrape together the Slipshine $$$ to find out where the rest of her freckles are.

      And part of me wants to know if she loses some of her freckles when DofA gets into deep winter (if it’s ever going that far).

      1. Clif

        She has freckles on her but she is fine.

        1. ValdVin

          “But”?

          Freckles are quite up there on my list, along with glasses. Those are two reasons I like Dorothy.

        2. ValdVin

          (I hit Post early)

          …and Ruth.

          Given there are at least two non-redheads with freckles (Rachel is the other) I wonder if there’s some author appeal at work.

  12. Suet

    I, too, would have a glazed smile after a good ribbing.

    Even if they are pretty good at the ingenuine divisional.

  13. Charles Phipps

    Billie is fully justified in slaying Lucy to protect her image.

  14. Regalli

    Lucy, honey, you have to build up significant trust before it comes off as good-natured ribbing and not ‘shit she might be serious.’ Save it for finals week.

    1. Agemegos

      Yeah, Lucy. Everything you try is at least slightly awkward. Quit trying.

      1. DSL

        Well, then, how will she ever get unawkward?

    2. Reltzik

      … didn’t Lucy cover up for Billie and probably save the relationship? If that doesn’t build up trust, then it at least created a pretense in which Billie should pretend that trust had been built in order to maintain that cover.

      1. Delicious Taffy

        Eh, she made one save. That doesn’t exactly tie them together in any sort of implicit trust bond.

        1. miri

          Also Ruth knows that she’s hideously insecure and does stupid things sometimes. It’s not that she wasn’t being cruddy about the relationship but she and Ruth would get past it.

  15. Lingo

    It’s Lucy versus Lucy Van Pelt.

  16. abysswatcher1993

    Billie, you suck at ungenuinousness. You are a raging bad liar in both walkyverse and dumbingverse, you actually care for others but try to hide it with alchohol and violence threats, and no lie you have told has benefited you. You are no different than Walky and Joyce.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      She’s hotter than Walky, so at least she’s got that silver medal.

      1. Freemage

        In-universe, I’m not sure that’s the case. Walky has been compared to a carmel lollipop. She’s a different type of hot, yes, but Walky’s technically outperformed her in terms of getting significant others, too. (2:1, which doesn’t seem like a lot, except of course for the fact that we’re just a couple months into freshman year.)

    2. Reltzik

      … so she’s ungenuine in her ungenuineness. Doesn’t that makes her even more ungenuine.

      1. DSL

        Genuinely so.

  17. Bathymetheus

    So . . . that’s why she was sitting watching them? She was enjoying how cute they are?

    1. Opus the Poet

      I mean, wouldn’t you?

      1. Bathymetheus

        Yeah, probably. But that means the whole ‘I’m not being creepy’ spiel was improv. That’s very quick-witted of her.

        1. Clif

          yu

        2. Clif

          ?? Yes, but to be fair, she has an entire day between scripts to think about it.

        3. Bathymetheus

          Har, har. My point (such as it is) is that Willis has depicted her as naïve, socially awkward, and a bit needy, but also intelligent. This probably has no great significance – I can easily imagine Willis likes writing such characters – but it is possible that it will be relevant to some future plot point (Chekhov’s IQ).

    2. DailyBrad

      Eh, she was just in the room and studying. They woke up and she looked over, from the sounds of things. It’s honestly not particularly weird.

      1. thejeff

        It certainly didn’t look like that in the earlier strips though. She wasn’t at her desk looking around at them. She didn’t have books or a computer in front of her.
        She was sitting in the chair facing them. It’s really hard to read that as anything other than sitting there watching them sleep.

        1. Freemage

          What IS possible is that she was in the room (maybe standing), and then when they started moving/talking, she saw an opportunity to engage in some light trolling of her roommate. This would explain why she sat down the way she did–it was a deliberate attempt to appear like she’d been watching them cuddle. That fits better with this strip’s dialogue, I think.

  18. Josh Spicer

    Yo like I love Lucy but there’s still this level of creepy and uneasiness with her.

    1. Ascension

      Her fangirl tendencies have been extended to, basically, being a fan of her in-universe friends, which… pretty well is creepy.

      Lucy is our ongoing reminder to never write real-person fic.

      1. DailyBrad

        I think that’s kind of unfair, I think she’s just got an awkward sense of humor, combined with Billie being obtuse as fuck sometimes.

        That, and like how Joyce once thought Lucy was mocking her, she’s just kind of like a tamer version of early Joyce. Very earnest and bubbly, bit naive. Though, not literally pairing people she knows off like Joyce did way back when, like Joyce shipping Walky and Billie initially.

        1. Wizard

          I’m actually liking Lucy here. She may be a little naive, but she seems like a genuinely nice person. A little gentle ribbing hardly strikes me as an outrageous response to Billie’s bad temper.

  19. King Daniel

    Dumbing of Age Book X: No Enjoying How Cute You Think We Are

  20. Opus the Poet

    Touche’ alt text, touche’

  21. Laladoria

    Lucy, stop trying to distract from how creepy you were being!

  22. Pocky

    She can’t stop it; now that its all out in the open like this. . .

  23. Clif

    Changing the subject, there’s this character that was occasionally prominent in Shortpack and the main Walkyverse. He was a bit of a jerk, but I wonder why Willis never used him in DOA.

    1. King Daniel

      What was his name again? Mark Warning?

      1. Keulen

        Marty Washington?

        1. Clif

          I know it started with an M.

    2. Reltzik

      Let’s see.

      There was Ninja Rick, who was basicly a single gag over and over again and Willis isn’t bringing into a deep story like DoA. (Though I hope to at least see a background cameo of him dressed like a ninja on Halloween.) Then there was Ronnie who… I think is now a poster on Mary’s wall, and isn’t featured more thoroughly for obvious reasons. Jake Manley hasn’t been shown to us yet but is in the story. Other than that, I don’t know who….

      … you mean Batman, don’t you.

      …. nope, can’t figure out who you’re talking about.

      1. Geneseepaws

        Name was Marcus Whiner, yellow hair, blue shirt, jeans, … lived in McNutt hall. Argued like udly with his dad, Blame, who was visiting. Nobody paid attention. Was shown first week, didn’t care for Joyce, and was fell from favor, and was dropped after that.

        1. He Who Abides

          Come now. Clif clearly just forgot that Guns is female.

        2. Clif

          No fair making me snort milk through my nose. I should know better than to catch up on the comments while eating breakfast.

        3. He Who Abides

          ?

      2. Wizard

        I choose to believe that Ninja Rick has actually been in every single DoA strip. If you haven’t seen him, well, what part of “ninja” didn’t you understand?

        1. Clif

          Kind of makes you wish you could hack Willis’s account and go back and leave Ninja Rick tags at random.

      3. Needfuldoer

        Headcanon says Ninja Rick is a landscaper at IU, we just never see him because he’s a ninja.

  24. Sunmaster57

    Maybe Lucy has ” other things” on her mind?

  25. ValdVin

    Per Dora, “I’ll stop when you stop being so adorable!”

  26. DarkoNeko

    Lol, mais most of us assumed it REALLY was a checklist. We don’t give that gal enough credit.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Maybe if Lucy could write using a recognisable language, instead of thick horizontal lines, we wouldn’t have these sorts of mixups.

  27. Bagge

    AAAAAAAAAAAALPHA SWEEEEEEEEETIE!

    Heh, sure got them, Lucy. And me, for that matter.

    I still ship Lucy with Dorothy, however.

    1. Zee

      Thank you. She is Very Good and deserves praise and friendship

  28. JediMB

    Not to be confused with ingenuity.

  29. Lone Duck

    If it was Dorothy (or Joyce attempting to be like Dorothy), it would’ve been a full on checklist. (Or Dina, she could’ve had a checklist.)

  30. Lone Duck

    Also, for the most part, Lucy is well adjusted and decidedly not creepy. Billie is wrapped up in her high school insecurities, and Malaya is mostly misanthropic. Lucy’s just had a bad run of roommates.

  31. Pylgrim

    Alt-text: I blame it on the fact that they keep releasing their most powerful ungenuinemons.

    1. Clif

      You should explain that Ungenuinemons are the anti-particles of the virtual carriers of the Genuinemon Quantum Field, which completes the Unified Substandard Model of physics.

      1. Roborat

        So they aren’t one of the pokemon in the most recent game release? Guess that explains why I can’t find them anywhere.

  32. Rabisch

    Come on Billie, what should she do, put a hand in front of her eyes?

  33. ArcaneDarkness

    She is learning fast.

  34. JessWitt

    What are regionals?

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      The Regional Ungenuineness playoffs.

    2. Roborat

      Qualification round for nationals.

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