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Showering
Posted on February 7, 2018 by David M Willis

164 thoughts on “Showering”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “the SICKEST fuckin’ vanilla”

    1. Arawn

      As in… “That Vanilla is SICK!” or “Vanilla Ice is sick, nyquil and a Vanilla Ice pack, stat!”?

    2. Rodrigo

      Disliking hair anywhere else in the body is sick or vanilla?

    3. Yossarianduck

      When there’s so much vanilla essence it overwhelms all of your senses until you pass out and see your hot, behatted girlfriend checking to see if you’re okay, and the cycle begins anew.

    4. Stu

      To steal from El Goonish Shive – “In which Amber is momentarily possessed for one panel by the readership as a whole.”

      1. Meamoi

        Sage words.

  2. AnvilPro

    That’s the most true thing Amber, or maybe anyone in this comic, has ever said

    1. Mad_Academic

      You have a point there.

  3. Roger

    im gonna use that line with my friends.

    1. Danni

      “so dya think shes wearing her hat in there or”?

      1. Doctor_Who

        “The only word I heard out of that was “Slash”.”

        1. SgtWadeyWilson

          “…oh.”

        2. Mr. Bulbmin

          “Good morning-slash-afternoon!”

      2. Kamino Neko

        ‘Showering.’

        1. HeySo

          I’m caught between “Super Vanilla” [No doubt, a combination of six different flavors of vanilla ice cream] and “Dino-Girlfriend”.

        2. Kryss LaBryn

          Pretty sure “Super Vanilla” is actually French Vanilla.

          That stuff is the bomb, yo.

  4. Cheesy1

    . . . yes?

  5. DailyBrad

    French Vanilla.

    1. Joy

      owo

    2. JessWitt

      mmmm, French vanilla. *drools*

    3. Deanatay

      Oooh, with the little beans!

  6. Schpoonman

    Becky, you deviant.

  7. Doctor_Who

    Becky will faint when she learns Dina puts a shower cap on OVER her hat in the shower.

    1. Dean

      Don’t be ridiculous. She wears a plesiosaur hat in the water.

      1. Doctor_Who

        Plesiosaurs aren’t dinosaurs, though. And if I know that, Dina definitely does.

        1. Mollyscribbles

          But does she dislike Plesiousaurs, or just dislike it when they’re referred to as dinosaurs?

        2. Bagge

          Plesiosaurs ARE cool, though. I’m not sure how Dina handles that, if it’s OK to like plesiosaurs too or if that’s a betrayal of her “dinosaur-chick” core identity.

        3. hof1991

          But Plesiosaur fossils are found in Indiana, while dinosaur fossils are not. Same is true of my Midwestern state. Grew up with a fossil collection which we displayed locally. We dreamed of dinos, but settled for marine reptiles.

        4. Bagge

          That’s cool!

          So…. those areas are old seafloor?

        5. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Yeah, she wears a penguin hat.

      2. Justin Yates

        Current theories suggest Spinosaurus aegyptiacus spent most of it’s life in the water, and could have been evolving into an aquatic dinosaur…. so Dina’s wearing a Spinosaur shower cap, lol.

        1. Bagge

          The solution is so obvious in hindsight.

  8. Rukdug

    Flip a coin.

  9. Yumi

    Both: like drinking straight up vanilla extract

    1. ProfessorDetective

      No, eating whole vanilla beans like beef jerky.

      1. Mr. Bulbmin

        Every time I tell myself I’ve thought of all the disgusting things I could possibly see in a day . . . I get reminded that my creativity is not limitless.

        You people sicken me.

      2. Meamoi

        I’ve eaten vanilla beans that way…

        …. after the third, it’s kind of addictive and kind of expensive.

  10. Regalli

    She’s baaaaack! Just in time for Bad Things to happen… Yay?

  11. Passchendaele

    Better yet, she has more than one hat, and stacked them on top of each other. 😛

  12. Nono

    But which slash, like ‘I’mma slash your throat, Cap’ or ‘I’mma write a slashfic between you and Bucky, Cap’?

    1. David M Willis

      you know the answer

      1. Chris Phoenix

        Well, she writes slash fic… but also, slashing is uncomfortably close to stabbing. So no, I don’t actually know the answer… maybe both?

      2. Reltzik

        Well she writes romance slashfic and gore slashfic, but it’s Cap and Bucky, so probably the former.

        1. Mr. Bulbmin

          Alternatively, it’s both. Bloodletting as a method of getting the romance started, using sadism/masochism/vampirism as an excuse for bloody, bloody sexual descriptions. Tons of characters could fit that mold . . .

          And to think that I don’t read much fanfiction.

        2. merbrat

          Steve and Bucky= Stucky (that is what it is called)

    2. Stephen Bierce

      Being a Pittsburgh fan, I hear “Slash” and think Kordell Stewart. 🙂

      1. Doctor_Who

        I think both Guns n Roses and Ninja Turtles.

      2. Stephen Bierce

        Smiling Faces,
        Wonderful Places…

        1. Stephen Bierce

          And as a bonus, in honor of the fifth anniversary of the contraversial “Shortpacked!” strip:
          *plays Don Henley’s “Not Enough Love In The World” on the hacked Muzak*

        2. Architex

          More like, “Not Enough Anal in the World”

          It’s a thing on Twitter, I swear.

      3. Jamal K.

        Was thinking of the Pokemon move Slash, but I forgot that was Stewart’s nickname (go Blitzburgh, stairway to 7)

  13. Josh Spicer

    I mean…a hat isn’t the weirdest thing.

    It’s not even close, even.

    1. Big D

      It’s not that Becky finds the hat itself attractive, it’s that she’s never seen Dina without it. It’s like the forbidden fruit. We want that which is denied to us, even if it’s something super benign, sexually speaking. Its why back in the day, seeing a woman’s bare ankles was considered scandalous.

      1. Victor

        Ahem.

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/dislike/

        1. HeySo

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/substitute/ a few pages later, is still one of the cutest strips so far.

        2. HeySo

          ^Warning: NSFW – Full Scalp Nudity.

      2. Felian

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GU4GgtsVco which reminds me of a german song that was quoted at me when i was a kid. i actually never heard it before today. i’m not sure whether it was one of the beneficial moments of having access to the internet.

        (the chorus line is translated “i saw your knee, this wasn’t allowed to happen“)

        i didn’t do any in depth-research, but from what i was told with it as a kid, seeing someone’s knee gave you the obligation to marry her. and even without research, i’d believe it to be a likely old custom.

  14. Kernanator

    Of course she isn’t, Becky.

    She’s wearing a shower cap.

    1. Schpoonman

      But does the shower cap have dinosaurs on it?

      1. Raijin

        I would be surprised if it didn’t have a dinosaur theme. This is Dina we are speaking of here!

        1. Raijin

          Nope, let’s try that gravroulette again.

        2. Raijin

          …just keep getting worse.

        3. Doctor_Who

          3 in a row! Blaine next?

        4. Schpoonman

          It’s worth spending a minute to set your gravatar. I’ve had this Joyce since that comic came out.

        5. Bagge

          And a glorious Joyce it is! Makes your comments that much more funny, somehow.

        6. Raijin

          True, but that would take the surprise thrill away when commenting. Sure there are times when you end up in a bad streak (as seen above) but that’s part of the fun, no?

        7. Raijin

          Haha, this streak will not end. 😀

        8. EvilMidnightLurker

          I only go without the Evil Midnight Bomber what Bombs at Midnight if I’m not allowed to pick my own. (Paizo forums, I’m glaring at you.)

        9. David DeLaney

          And I’ve had this as my desktop since the mid-90s, having grabbed it off Usenet. It’s spectacular at full size. So naturally it became my “little photo goes here” thingy when tech started asking for that.

          –Dave, but try to Google me, good luck

        10. Inahc

          Ohhhhh, Usenet! So that’s a sig you’re doing at the end of every comment. I thought it seemed weirdly familiar. 🙂

        11. Kamino Neko

          Yeah. I like being Kitty Tedd. Kitty Tedd is the me-est possible gravatar that’s not inflicting an actual photo of me, or my art, on people. >_>

        12. Leorale

          I’m all for editing DoA gravatars in MS Paint to make them look like oneself. I’m a curlified Joyce.

      2. Needfuldoer

        The hat gets a little shower cap of its own, like the head on Wade’s life preserver from Garfield and Friends. A regular size shower cap goes over both.

    2. Felian

      i can imagine Dina’s hat to actually be one of these swimming caps, so there would be no reason not to wear it to the shower. also, if Dina needs the head an an anxiety-lowering item, the question is how much anxiety Dina connects with public shower rooms.

  15. Inspector whatevsman

    Is there a rule sayin it can’t be a lil bit o both?

  16. Tacos

    As my people say: “Por que no los dos?”

  17. segnosaur

    My question… How does Amber know about Becky’s particular kink/fetish? I don’t think she was in the room when Becky was explaining things to Joyce, and I can’t see Becky spilling things like that to Amber.

    1. No Name

      I think the mere fact that Becky is asking Amber about Dina’s hat is beans enough.

      1. Bagge

        Yeah, Becky spills the beans this very comic. If Amber had NOT know about the hat thing, she would have asked a confused “what?”, giving Becky the perfect setup to explain… explain this thing:
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/relief/

        It’s not a huge stretch that a very similar conversation has taken place before.

        Also, Amber is Dina’s confidant in matters of carnal lust (to her great confusion). I bet Dina has asked Amber for advice about Becky’s thing for hats.

        1. Kamino Neko

          I think No Name’s point, which I agree with, is that under the circumstances, she doesn’t need to be told that – there’s really only two circumstances the words Becky uses would be said – either this sitch, or in a ‘making fun of her’ way.

          Even if Amber didn’t think she could dismiss the idea of Becky mocking her girlfriend behind her back (and given her history, I’d wager there’s a good chance she wouldn’t automatically do so), her tone of voice would presumably indicate the ‘bow chicka bow wow’ interpretation.

        2. No Name

          I did, but I think Bagge got that.

        3. Bagge

          Honestly, I was mostly taking the opportunity to ramble about Becky 🙂

        4. Opus the Poet

          It’s not like she hasn’t satisfied that fetish. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/substitute/

    2. Fart Captor

      Well, Becky and Dina have been dating for a couple weeks now, and as we can see, Becky is not at all good at hiding her thirst. I’ll bet Amber figured it out on her own

      1. Conuly

        Has it been that long already?

        1. Fart Captor

          Well, if I’m reading John’s timeline correctly, it’s the two-week anniversary of them smooching at Joyce’s party

        2. Marsh Maryrose

          The link make have crashed John’s site tonight, but according to the Walkypedia timeline it’s Tuesday, Oct. 12, two and a half weeks after the first smooch.

  18. StClair

    Lewd.

  19. Keulen

    Are there people who actually shower with a hat on? Because that seems like it would make showering more difficult, and you’d have to wear a wet hat all day too.

    1. Tacos

      Probably a shower cap if they don’t want to mess up their hair for some reason. A normal hat in the shower is for being silly.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        A shower cap for your hat.

      2. Dave M

        Strangely enough there IS a reason to wear a normal hat in the shower. I own an Akubra (sort of something like a wide brimmed fedora), and the brim can warp and get out of shape due to normal wear and tear. The approved method is to get the hat wet and then iron the brim. The problem is you need to get the brim quite wet without ruining the inner lining. So I experimented with wearing it in the shower. Works perfectly, and saves water at the same time (we’re on tank water at the farm, so every drop saved is worth it).

        So wearing a hat in the shower in this specific case is not only practical, it’s also water conscious!

    2. King Daniel

      Depends on the definition of “hat”.

  20. Plasma Mongoose

    Betcha she’s also into “happy sex”, “hand holding” and “head patting”… that monster. :P~~~

  21. Lone Duck

    This coming from the girl who writes vore fanfic.

    1. Lone Duck

      Correction, Guro fanfic.

      1. Bagge

        Yeah, that’s what bugs her in the final panel. She’s afraid of being upstaged.

        1. Bagge

          Or she’s just fishing for fanfic material.

          “Why, Bucky,” Captain America said, yet again cursing his bad luck in having the laser radiation destroying specifically his pants and nothing else. “That’s a magnificent hat you wear.”
          “If you like it,” Bucky said with a smirk – only slightly marred by the fact that his pants had been destroyed in a completely unrelated train crash – “imagine if i were to take it off”

        2. King Daniel

          I didn’t realize that Captain America rode with the Jaegermonsters.

        3. Bagge

          VE HUNT!!!!!!

        4. ValdVin

          Hey! Niiiiizzze hat!

          http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gilsnicehat_3200.jpg

        5. J

          Ha! De Baron’s boy! Dot’s a guy hyu can follow! Iz no plesiosaur hat, but nizzze!

  22. kitty

    here is kitty’s finnish word(s) of the day!

    minä tiedä (i don’t know)

    yea

    have a nice dayl

    1. Dellaran

      Aren’t you missing an ‘en’ in there?

  23. Some1

    Dungeons and Dumbing Part 14

    Later night that, Ophelia has been put to bed and the fire’s embers burn low like a setting sun. Danny sits awake with his ukulele and watches everyone else sleep. Quietly he gets up and walks into the cold with a heavy wool coat on.

    The wind pierces his face as he strums a tune on his ukulele. This time with the moon only slightly obscured by clouds the avatar appears before him shining radiantly.

    Avatar of Luna: Why have you summoned me?

    Danny: Why couldn’t you help back then?

    Avatar of Luna: I explained, I can only appear when the moon can see you.

    Danny: But you appeared during the day.

    Avatar of Luna: You can sometimes see the moon during the day can’t you?

    Danny: Oh. Hey, I was wondering if you could explain somethings to me.

    Avatar of Luna: what do you desire to know?

    Danny: When we first came here, there was a voice. Was that you?

    Avatar of Luna: Your are asking if that was the goddess?

    Danny: *nods head*

    Avatar of Luna: No.

    Danny: Could it be…the other one?

    Avatar of Luna: Solis? Perhaps, but I doubt he could conjure the required power to breach the dimensional barriers in such a way. Both of the gods powers are strictly limited to our world. Listen climb this mountain, at the top there should be a observatory where you can talk directly with the goddess.

    Danny: okay.

    Right after the avatar dissapears, Danny hears a pop above him. He watches as a fedora floats down in the wind and lands at his feet. Picking it up he observes the clean brim and notes a name tag printed on the inside in thick blue sharpie. “JOYCE BROWN”

    1. Sam Cornick

      Is there a place with all of these together?

      1. Some1

        Here is every comic with an installment of this current series besides this one.

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/bass/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/tuned/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/coin/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/bargain/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/sense/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/mansomeone/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/fancy/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/dating-2/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/flowers/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/antagonizing/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/needle-2/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/dirt/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/flourished/

  24. Lingo

    I vote for vanilla.
    Also, I’ve lost track of what day it is. Is it Saturday again already?

    1. Lingo

      ALSO also, is Faz going to try to compete with Becky for Deena’s love?
      (The answer is yes, of course he is.)

    2. Marsh Maryrose

      On the vanilla thing, I think Becky might disagree with you:

      “I’ve been havin’ sexy dreams ’bout scalps, man. It ain’t right.”

  25. Marsh Maryrose

    Baby keep on your coat
    That’s fine
    And keep on your shoes
    Wear your shoes
    Baby keep on your dress
    Yes yes yes

    Can you take your hat off?
    Can you take your hat off?
    Can you take your hat off?

    1. Dave M

      This comment (Takes hat off and holds it over heart as a mark of respect). 🙂

    2. Inahc

      🙂

  26. Bagge

    DON’T LOOK AT THE SCREEN UNTIL AMBER HAS HAD THE CHANCE TO ALT-TAB AWAY!!!!

    1. Kamino Neko

      It’s Amber…she’s had so much practice that alt-tabbing out of the window was probably what caused her to consciously notice Becky was there.

  27. brasca1

    If this was a sitcom that would be the cue for Faz to pop in.

    1. DSL

      Did Dina ever untie Faz and let him go after Parents’ Weekend?

      1. nightsbridge

        Dina gave faz to Ruth as lost property

        1. Emperor Norton II

          And I suppose Ruth threw him down the garbage chute; and that this was in fact what ended up blocking that tube so that Billie had to kick it loose.

          (NOTE: I have not checked to see if this checks out timeline-wise. If it does, I am wise beyond mortal reckoning. If it doesn’t, then I’m going to pretend it does, so I can still be wise beyond mortal reckoning. I mean, let’s face it, it’s what -should- have happened anyway, actual time-line be damned.)

  28. Bea

    …..the storyline title is making me nervous

    1. Bagge

      Why, just look at this chart that plot all the ways this storyline is great in a way that perfectly correlates to Faz’ penis

    2. Sporky

      I was gonna say “all of them do that”, but then I scrolled back up to read the title and… oof.

  29. newllend(henryvolt)

    Amber that’s either your guilt or your PTSD talking.

    1. Fart Captor

      huh?

      1. newllend(henryvolt)

        Second panel.

        1. Kamino Neko

          That is more likely her fangirl talking. She’s read and written several tons of slashfic.

  30. ValdVin

    Becky’s blush and lip-bite in the last panel are a hoot.

  31. Gen

    If Amber had heard some of the things Becky said to Dina, she’d probably lean more toward “sickest fuckin’ shit.”

    …Maybe she’s just a really good guesser along with having an active imagination?

  32. robertskitch

    Amber in the Amazi-Cave.

    1. David DeLaney

      … with a candlestick?

      –Dave, board games are PERFECTLY innocent pastimes, I tell you!

      1. Emperor Norton II

        (NOTE: NSFW LINK! Nothing particularly horrible*.)

        Suuuuure they are.

        *You know, except for the fact that a fair few “adult” games can be pretty horrible in terms of actually spicing up your bedroom life and at best be fun to try out once

  33. jmsr

    On a completely unrelated topic, i’d like to recommend the Kurzgesagt video about time for Becky since she needs “to blast out all those creationist cobwebs.”

    It’s called “The History and Future of Everything — Time” and it’s at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkV6IpV2Y0

    just a thought

  34. Reltzik

    Is anyone encountering these ads where it just yanks the browser’s scroll bar back to focus on it and makes it impossible to scroll down and stayed scrolled down long enough to properly interact with the comments?

    Anyone know how to turn that “feature” off? Or at least report the damn things? Without an adblock that turns off the only way I have of supporting Willis?

    1. BenRG

      It’s happened to me once or twice but not today so far, thankfully.

    2. Kamino Neko

      I suggest getting a scriptblocker and blacklisting anything that does that.

    3. Needfuldoer

      Yeah, I get one of those once in a blue moon. Try an incognito tab, maybe? (That should give you random ads like a fresh reader.) I think the last one I had do that was a video that automatically played.

      Sometimes on mobile I get pop-ups that redirect to some random site with a newfangled TLD like .xyz or .travel, then pop open a message box that says something along the lines of “Congratulations, [phone OS] user! You are having been chosen as winner of free cruise! Click OK to claim your free prize!” Since there’s no way to close the dialog box or page without clicking OK, I have to kill Chrome, then go into airplane mode, relaunch, and finally kill the tab. No idea which ads are causing it.

      Anyone else get those?

      1. Tim Kai

        Not recently, but absolutely!

        I really hate those bastards. Eugh!

  35. Opus the Poet

    Back when I was a spoken word poet with groupies, I would wear an Army sun hat on stage, which I started doing after I had a particularly bad hair day.

    Sometimes I was asked to wear the hat in bed.

  36. BenRG

    To be honest, Amber, I can think of worse things for Becky to obsess on other than the top of Dina’s head! Meanwhile, the Beckyblush is extra cute today!

  37. ProfessorDetective

    Haw, I bet Dina swaps to disposable shower caps with cartoon dinosaurs printed on them.

  38. erejnion

    I bet they are even into… HANDHOLDING! Sick deviants! Be into guro like the normal people!

    1. Itama

      “My kink is women who love me…”
      “HOW DARE YOU, YOU MORALLY DISTURBED PANTIE GOBLIN!?!”

  39. Nobody

    Both

  40. Kaunisenkeli

    Come on, Amber, don’t judge.

  41. FacelessDeviant

    At first I was like “That’s pretty vanilla”.

    But then I thought about how her hair would be all damp and unwashed and it got upgraded to “somewhat sick”.

  42. missilentmurmur

    I like how honest Amber is with Becky. I friendship them

    1. BenRG

      Amber really isn’t fooled by ‘happy go-lucky Becky’. Maybe it’s her personal experience of trying to pigeon-hole aspects of her life into false personae?

  43. KSClaw

    you’re one to talk miss “mask or no mask.”

  44. Owlmirror

    I wonder what morning-afternoon slash would be like?

    Say, anyone remember the Pixar short “Day and Night”? Maybe more than a little like “Day/Night”?

    I mean, just read this suggestive description:

    When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! But as their suspicions turn to curiosity, they are delighted to find that this budding friendship can offer a new perspective on the world.

    Nudge, wink, say no more!

  45. TemperaryObsessor

    I’m leaning towards either vanilla or neither.

  46. Yablueboy

    Dayman! Fighter of the Nightman!

  47. Griffin

    The fact that Dina wearing the hat every time she showers would mean her hair never gets washed, so I’m gonna lean towards the sickest shit

  48. Lulu

    Does Dina also wear a tiny hat on her hair down there? ^^

    1. David DeLaney

      Do you mean … a merkin?

      –Dave, English is vast, it contains multitudes

  49. Makkabee

    Schroedinger’s Kink!

  50. Billy Baggins

    Amber, you want filth? Watch ‘Pink Flamingos’ and get back to me. John Waters, you are a dirty, dirty man.

  51. Elsendor

    repression is a hell of a drug (speaking from experience lmao)

  52. Some Random Name

    …wait, is it “sick” being used in the good way or the bad way here?

    1. ǝ snow ʍousɐ

      I think it’s being used as a synonym for “pervy”.

  53. Cmd1095

    But… now I’m curious… DOES she wear her hat in the shower? does she have a special aquatic dinosaur hat for showering? WE NEED ANSWERS WILLIS

    1. C.T Phipps

      We actually saw her put a shower cap over it before showering.

      1. Bagge

        In a patreon-only bonus strip, but still!

        1. Emperor Norton II

          You sure that was a Patron strip and not a Slipshine strip?

        2. Bagge

          She kept the hat on, didn’t she?

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