#Dorothy Keener

[inbarfink]

[dumbingofage]

it's like poetry, it rhymes

[huesatlight]

[valdvin]

THEY CAME TOGETHER FOR ONE LAST, STRANGE JOB:

...in a ROUSING SPECACTULAR about

DRINKING UNDERAGEDLY...

...to become

MOM FRIEND, JUGS, and SPEED.

Coming soon to a theater near you in an all-ages, all-genders show.

[prince-atom]

Anyone could find you hot, Joyce. Like, just picking someone at random, for instance, Walky?

[jadeyarts]

needed to draw dorothy so bad

[kaereth]

Joyce Brown and Dorothy Keene from the webcomic Dumbing of Age being sweet for a kofi

[candoaltitude]

PROGRESS TOWARDS DOROTHY’S EXPLOSION

[itswalky]

over at the NSFW Patreon, it's... joyce watching dorothy/walky with one eye covered, as the lord intended

it's probably not canon

[dumbingofage]

Dumbing of Age Book 13 Kickstarter update!

We've hit $40k!  And as marked and promised, we've got new LAUNDRY JOYCE, LAUNDRY DOROTHY, and... LAUNDRY JOYCE AND DOROTHY MAGNET tiers!  Pledge for just one!  Pledge for just the other!  Pledge for both together!  (why one and not the other, really)

They're each 2"x4" and demand a home on your refrigerator.  Want three magnets of your choice (plus the free Lucy magnet) from this Kickstarter?  Pledge for the PICK THREE MAGNETS tier!  Want five magnets of your choice (plus the free Lucy magnet) from this Kickstarter?  Pledge for... yes, PICK FIVE MAGNETS, that's the tier, it's in the name. 

and now that there's more than five non-lucy magnets, that tier finally makes sense

Want them all?  Well, that's what we've got COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tiers for.  

Next up: SOMEBODY™ at $45k!  

I'm just trying to narrow it down to who's next, is all.

pledge today

[reddslym]

Oh man Dorothy and Joyce are gonna have drunken premarital hanky panky in this chapter arent they

I was wondering why it was "Trystin in the Wind" instead of Tristan...

[valdvin]

Becky's rule: LEAVE ROOM FOR JESUS

And His twelve friends.

[prince-atom]

Questions to ask now and get out of your system before you meet your sister.

[regallibellbright]

Of all the things I love about Dumbing of Age (and Willis’s work as a whole,) the Superheroic Action Sequence As Vehicle For Character Development is one of my favorites. I loved the kidnapping arc! Was it realistic? Eh. This comic had a superhero. Do I care? Of course not. My all-time favorite moment they’ve ever written is “I die because I’m fucking awesome. (You die because you’re a shitstain.)” My second-favorite, though the last Shortpacked wedding is a close runner-up in third, is probably when across continuities, Blaine finally realizes that Amber is everything, without him. (Second link’s the strip that the first link calls back to, there, if you’d rather have it in chronological order.) Realism can get fucked if it spurs a good action sequence/defiant reason you suck speech.

One of my OTHER favorite things about Dumbing of Age is how Willis can give us a moment where a character gets to be totally awesome, and the audience cheers, and then a few months or say, three years down the line he pulls that moment out again only this time we get to see how THAT EXACT MOMENT seriously traumatized the character doing it, because we didn’t get a key piece of their perspective at the time and THEY are not viewing it as the audience. The classic for me is, of course, “Amber punches her shitty abusive dad in the face (and then as commenters at the time pointed out, smartly gets the fuck out of there and puts a bunch of people who try to deescalate things between him and her) -> Amber is horrified by her capacity for violence and the fact that she ENJOYED punching her shitty abusive dad in the face.” There are others.

And today, it’s Dorothy’s turn as we take the “Future commander-in-chief” strip from earlier in that arc and explore the idea that over the timeskip, Dorothy tried to capitalize on it… when it’s also the moment she left a man to die, and now she’s having second thoughts. (To be clear, he had it coming and there was likely nothing she and her fellow hostages could have done to stop it. Also, he was literally holding her hostage. But do you really think traumatic reactions care about that shit?)

*Admiringly* Damn you, Willis.

[bettysimovitch]

made a few dumbing of age characters while testing out how i want my game to look like.