Maybe Carla and Lucy are actually really good friends. I could see Carla being into Rifftrax, it’s all about mockery, so maybe they have a shared interest.
She’s taking Lucy on as her protege, it’s entirely business-related social interaction and not because she’s bored and actually likes Lucy or anything 😉
Damn, and now that I see what’s going on, I’m not sure how I feel about it. Is Ruth going to apologize? Surely not, she was standing up for herself. Well, maybe apologizing for how it was delivered, but the message was legit. Is she actually going to try to support Billie through her problem, while Billie is still in the denial stage, while still in the baby steps of her own recovery?
I would speculate that she is only there to finalize a breakup, but the conversation with Walky implies otherwise, if I understood that correctly. That was what that Walky convo was about, right? Being good to/for Billie?
If she’s not good for Billie, they need to break up. That could be the direction here.
Needfuldoer
Billie’s flippant toxicity is no good for Ruth’s recovery. For her own mental health Ruth needs to either offer Billie an ultimatum or sever and move on.
Considering Ruth has opened up to Carla before, and Lucy has picked up on a few subtleties of their relationship, I think this is the perfect set-up for that to play out.
Coming back to this I now remember (thanks to other commenters) that Billie now rooms with Lucy. She’s going to react so well to the combination of Ruth, Lucy, and Carla together.
This strip strains my ability to care about who lives with who in which dorms and what their names even are, (dorms and characters), but lots of people seem to have those mappings down no problem.
I think that relationship was pretty strange even before Ruth’s crash and reinstatement, given that a) Ruth run her wing like a bully tyrant and behaved exactly like a person an RA is supposed to be on the lookout for, and b) Chloe indicated that even for that, Ruth was the only competent one of the bunch.
Given that Chloe has shown all the classic signs of being an idiot combined with what seems to be fairly tame conditions in other dorms, I’m going to go out on a limb that she has it backwards, and only thought Ruth doing well was simply an absence of complaints.
Other dorms get stuff like “My RA wrote me up for using a homophobic slur,” or “My RA wouldn’t let me in his room to keep punching my floormate for (insert horrible reason X).”
“Helllllloooo, person who’s love life I helped maintain. My, my how the tables have turned, now people like you are coming to people like ME. Please, enter. Enter the room of the Alpha Sweetie”
First a new friend, THEN a person in an “it’s complicated” relationship that Lucy actually has helped. I’m pretty sure Lucy enjoys this.
oh man i totally forgot that strip existed but it reminded me of <a href = "https://youtu.be/nnxwpcW5EFw" title = "suicide squad live for me scene")this
The human mind is a strange thing. Or at least mine is.
When I saw the title of the strip (“Seventh”), some part of my brain instantly went to “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago. “Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz!” I don’t know where that part of my brain was going with that, but I can tell you this:
She had it coming, she had it coming,
She only had herself to blame,
If you’d have been there, if you had heard it,
I betcha you would have done the same!
What I liked was that, in their last appearance together, Carla frankly told Lucy that she could be annoying, self-centred and pushy but Lucy has decided to invite her over despite that. I hope that Carla has finally found someone who can like her despite her many bad qualities and encourage her to good qualities. After all, if Carla gets acceptance, she may not feel the need to be so abrasive anymore.
I’m pretty sure Pl0x is just theorizing that Spencer might be non-binary or a trans man
Pl0x
Or she could be a trans woman who doesn’t have breasts. But I don’t actually think that’s likely, because if she didn’t take HRT, how did she ‘prove’ to doctors and officials she’s a trans woman? Would bottom surgery be enough, in that case?
And yeah, I’m theorizing the possiblility of Spencer being transgender or nonbinary.
81 thoughts on “Seventh”
Ana Chronistic
quick Lucy get a wig so we can have a redhead convergence
(and invite Becky too I guess)
Doctor_Who
Maybe Carla and Lucy are actually really good friends. I could see Carla being into Rifftrax, it’s all about mockery, so maybe they have a shared interest.
LookingIn
She’s taking Lucy on as her protege, it’s entirely business-related social interaction and not because she’s bored and actually likes Lucy or anything 😉
King Daniel
“Y’know, newbie, I like you. You’re okay.”
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/02-but-the-sun-still-shines/jello/
Meagan
It took me a good minute to figure out where this is going. Why is Carla there?
Yumi
Carla does what she wants. Like a cat.
Bagge
That’s a very apt description.
showler
Like a motherfucking goddess is a better description.
Zee
Cat goddess
Sunny
The old egyptians had some of those.
Michael Haneline
Carla for Bast 2019
Meagan
Damn, and now that I see what’s going on, I’m not sure how I feel about it. Is Ruth going to apologize? Surely not, she was standing up for herself. Well, maybe apologizing for how it was delivered, but the message was legit. Is she actually going to try to support Billie through her problem, while Billie is still in the denial stage, while still in the baby steps of her own recovery?
I would speculate that she is only there to finalize a breakup, but the conversation with Walky implies otherwise, if I understood that correctly. That was what that Walky convo was about, right? Being good to/for Billie?
GoblinScribe
If she’s not good for Billie, they need to break up. That could be the direction here.
Needfuldoer
Billie’s flippant toxicity is no good for Ruth’s recovery. For her own mental health Ruth needs to either offer Billie an ultimatum or sever and move on.
Considering Ruth has opened up to Carla before, and Lucy has picked up on a few subtleties of their relationship, I think this is the perfect set-up for that to play out.
LookingIn
It seemed like she was taking Lucy on as a protege for some reason…
Danielle
this could be bad or very fulfilling
Schpoonman
I don’t know why this is happening but I am so okay with it.
Schpoonman
Oh, panel 6 is supposed to fake us out by making us think its Billie. I never even considered that.
LookingIn
nah, she just knows Carla well enough to know that something is going on that it’s best not to know about…plausible deniability and all of that
Schpoonman
Coming back to this I now remember (thanks to other commenters) that Billie now rooms with Lucy. She’s going to react so well to the combination of Ruth, Lucy, and Carla together.
Bagge
That’s a pretty common reaction to Carla.
Stephen Bierce
Today’s strip is sponsored by FOX NATION. Hate everybody so you can fell like you love your country.
abysswatcher1993
Next week sponsor is Chick Fil A. We do delicious burgers, but we dont think a man should kiss another man.
Keulen
The week after that is sponsored by Alex Jones. Gay frogs or something, I don’t even know.
woobie
What burgers?
C.
Some people call chicken sandwiches “chicken burgers”. I don’t know either.
DSL
Grind the meat and make a patty and maybe you can convince people it’s a burger. Otherwise, “chicken sandwich.”
Dean
Look, if it’s on a bun, it’s a burger.
Clif
And if it ain’t got beans it ain’t chilli.
NF
Oh yes, we’re getting a Ruth visits Billie in Forest story! And bonus Carla!
Shane Wegner
This strip strains my ability to care about who lives with who in which dorms and what their names even are, (dorms and characters), but lots of people seem to have those mappings down no problem.
Spriteless Girl
look it was a plot point that Billie moved away from the dorm where her GF is an RA.
AntJ
Spencer calls Ruth by her last name. I wonder how this whole debacle has affected Ruth’s status among the other RAs.
DailyBrad
I wasn’t sure if Spencer was her last name, too, and it was just them both being all pro at each other.
Norah
I think Spencer’s first name is Carly.
Bagge
I think that relationship was pretty strange even before Ruth’s crash and reinstatement, given that a) Ruth run her wing like a bully tyrant and behaved exactly like a person an RA is supposed to be on the lookout for, and b) Chloe indicated that even for that, Ruth was the only competent one of the bunch.
Schpoonman
Given that Chloe has shown all the classic signs of being an idiot combined with what seems to be fairly tame conditions in other dorms, I’m going to go out on a limb that she has it backwards, and only thought Ruth doing well was simply an absence of complaints.
Other dorms get stuff like “My RA wrote me up for using a homophobic slur,” or “My RA wouldn’t let me in his room to keep punching my floormate for (insert horrible reason X).”
Stellar
Who IS that mysterious, tall redhead?
King Daniel
I have no idea, but she certainly seems cool!
ValdVin
I wanna wear a jacket with her name on it, for some undefined reason.
Pl0x
God, me too.
Clif
Who wouldn’t?
Bagge
For whatever reason I feel like a bug in her presence.
Shane Wegner
Don’t worry, she’ll tell you repeatedly.
fire_daws
“Don’t thank me yet. Here’s the thing about me liking somebody: either I’m nice to ’em or I bug the everlovin’ shit outta ’em forever. There’s no middle.”
Seems like Lucy got the latter.
ValdVin
But Carla is, almost, the person who can be “nice to them” and “bug the everloving shit out of them” at the exact same time. Isn’t she?
Bagge
“Helllllloooo, person who’s love life I helped maintain. My, my how the tables have turned, now people like you are coming to people like ME. Please, enter. Enter the room of the Alpha Sweetie”
First a new friend, THEN a person in an “it’s complicated” relationship that Lucy actually has helped. I’m pretty sure Lucy enjoys this.
abysswatcher1993
Ruth: “What is going on? And I want a gay explanation.”
Carla: “We are watching She-Ra.”
Ruth: “Okay.”
Bagge
So let’s recap where Billie’s and Ruth’s relationship are at the moment
“Worth dying for, but never worth living for.”
…yeah, I BET Ruth enjoys having CARLA here for the next bit. 🙁
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/02-but-the-sun-still-shines/worth/
tirachokko
oh man i totally forgot that strip existed but it reminded me of <a href = "https://youtu.be/nnxwpcW5EFw" title = "suicide squad live for me scene")this
tirachokko
ah nuts i fucked that up
Marsh Maryrose
The human mind is a strange thing. Or at least mine is.
When I saw the title of the strip (“Seventh”), some part of my brain instantly went to “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago. “Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz!” I don’t know where that part of my brain was going with that, but I can tell you this:
She had it coming, she had it coming,
She only had herself to blame,
If you’d have been there, if you had heard it,
I betcha you would have done the same!
BBCC
Well, this’ll be fun.
Deanatay
You thinking “intervention”?
I’m thinking “intervention”.
newllend(henryvolt)
Good to see Carla and Lucy still getting along.
BenRG
What I liked was that, in their last appearance together, Carla frankly told Lucy that she could be annoying, self-centred and pushy but Lucy has decided to invite her over despite that. I hope that Carla has finally found someone who can like her despite her many bad qualities and encourage her to good qualities. After all, if Carla gets acceptance, she may not feel the need to be so abrasive anymore.
Geneseepaws
Can anyone explain to me why she isn’t there for movie night? I feel like I missed something. I don’t feel like I’ve missed an up date?
Bagge
Movie night was last night, with Lucy and Walky. Billie was there in the end.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/02-but-the-sun-still-shines/circleoffriends/
Keulen
I forgot that Spencer was the name of Billie’s new RA in Forrest Hall, it’s been so long since we last saw her.
Pl0x
Either Spencer wears a binder, or she got surgery, or she never had breasts in tthe first place.
Holly
Nah, with A and AA cups a couple of layers of loose hanging baggy clothes can give that effect, especially if heavy material.
Pl0x
That doesn’t rule out the possiblities of what I said, though.
Charlotte
Why are we still commenting on the size of women’s breasts?
Fart Captor
I’m pretty sure Pl0x is just theorizing that Spencer might be non-binary or a trans man
Pl0x
Or she could be a trans woman who doesn’t have breasts. But I don’t actually think that’s likely, because if she didn’t take HRT, how did she ‘prove’ to doctors and officials she’s a trans woman? Would bottom surgery be enough, in that case?
And yeah, I’m theorizing the possiblility of Spencer being transgender or nonbinary.
tropicalfreeze
Carla has a Switch! I wonder what games she has. Since she’s blowing bubble gum I’ll assume she’s enjoying a certain game with Dixie Kong in it.
tropicalfreeze
I swear I’m not a paid Nintendo drone my username just happened to work perfectly with this situation
JessWitt
Whoa, first Switch sighting. And not in Amber’s hands either.
David M Willis
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/doubleten/