Dumbing of Age

>>94369346
I like this Mary, but what's her end game?

>>94369346

>tfw misgendering Carla has so utterly damaged "her" that the mere sight or contact with Mary drives her into panic
Truly a broken mind
>Panels 3 & 5
Billy looks really fucking weird with that mouth thing she's got going on. You wouldn't think somebody who's drawn the same fucking thing for 20ish years would churn out something that looked bad but I suppose he's triggered by effort.

>>94369426
She looks like a Ninja Turtle

>>94369346
the fuck happened to Billie's mouth in the fifth panel
she looks like a goddamn frog or something

Anyways, the odds are ever increasing that Mary's being chipper over something that's either dramatically ironic or completely inconsequential. I'm not holding my breath that this ends with Mary escaping the day without harm.

>>94369389
Half the problem is that Willis wants to put a focus on Mary being happy, but without actually doing anything about it.

"Mary's annoyingly happy." Okay, why? "I'm not saying." Fair enough; could you drop some clues? "No." Why not? "No spoilers." You don't have to say anything outright. Just one or two implications. "Not a chance." They can be contradictory. "Get out of my house." Not before I piss on your Hot Rod shrine. "Go ahead. I have seven. One in every room of my house."

>>94369346
Mary is too happy. No doubt she has some plan concocted by Satin himself to rid the floor of tranny and lesbo trash if Willis has his ways.

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>>94369346
>Do you want a bite of my d-
Yikes.

>>94369389
I dunno, but I have a feeling that this is gonna end up being targeted at the "she was studying" people. I don't really know how, but that's my feeling.

Maybe she said something that'll get Carla in trouble?

It would be pretty good if she was just being nice as a change and everyone was reacting poorly and it drove her back to being mean, but I'm entirely sure she's done something super evil in the eyes of the average DoA commenter.

>>94369346
>plain cake donut
More and more proof Mary is perfect.

Oh, hey, an update on the porn comic:
https://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/163654133547/how-is-keeping-it-clean-coming-along#notes

>I got several pages penciled before realizing that it was going in a possibly non-porny and decidedly thoughtful direction for which Slipshine might not be the best vehicle? I dunno. It’s aggravating, because I actually was really liking what I was writing, but, like, there was barely even any nudity in it. It was just a character piece. It was, in fact, being kept very clean.

>And so I was like arrrgh and then put it aside to work on other things I knew I could actually get finished so I could have SOME productivity. I’ll be returning to it now because I need to finish something so this pornlord’s pornoverlords don’t get mad at me.

>>94369346
>>94369506
Also, the password is "cake".

>>94369549
How hard is it to make porn? Just draw two (or more) characters fucking for christ sake. When does porn ever have story other than "girl likes guy, they then do the business."

>>94369627
Well I don't know about you, but I need a really convoluted narrative to get off.

>>94369535
>I dunno, but I have a feeling that this is gonna end up being targeted at the "she was studying" people
But of course. Willis never lets anything go. He's going to reveal this was all some sort of plan, and that anybody who is optimistic about Mary is a bigoted fool.

>>94369549
He was triggering himself too much.

>>94369389
She realized that everyone on the floor is a cynical myopic asshole and that any form of joy and warm feelings is a red flag to them, so she's waiting for one of them to pull some emotionally motivated stupid crap, and destroy them for it. And if they don't then the dorm just gets better overall.

>>94369655
I dunno, I like the silly and inventive plots in porn.

Willis' plots are just rote and kinda sad when you think about them. I guess that grappling hook one is okay, but it was fake all along.

>>94369426
Her glasses literally stop and start around her freakin' eye. There's this creepy space in the frame. So she has disembodied rims next to carefully placed hairs out of her ponytail.

Creepy.

>>94369506
>"Mary's annoyingly happy." Okay, why? "I'm not saying." Fair enough; could you drop some clues? "No." Why not? "No spoilers." You don't have to say anything outright. Just one or two implications. "Not a chance." They can be contradictory. "Get out of my house." Not before I piss on your Hot Rod shrine. "Go ahead. I have seven. One in every room of my house."
Pretty much.

>>94369526
>Satin himself
All hail the fabric king.

>>94369535
>It would be pretty good if she was just being nice as a change and everyone was reacting poorly and it drove her back to being mean, but I'm entirely sure she's done something super evil in the eyes of the average DoA commenter.
Kill them with kindness?

>>94370064
Half-fake. It partially happened.

>>94369346
Best girl is happy.
Worst >girl is cranky.
Fuck that whore, protect mary's smile!

>>94369346
Everyone is capable of redemption & deserving of second chances, except filthy Christians.

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>>94369549
Ahh... paywall porn, where the real money flows in.

>>94369627
Just crop out a face and add a NYEEEAAARGH and call it abstract implied pornographique.

>>94370247
This image never fails to make me think it would piss me off if I actually gave a fuck about this shit. Why is Mary so demonized.

>>94370381
Because she's Traditional Christian, as opposed to Joyce's Modern Christian whose faith shatters the second she faces any tension.

Fortunately Joyce is on the way to becoming a Jaded Modern Girl like everyone else on the floor.

>>94369544
I didn't know this was a distinction, and I looked up a bunch of donuts and now I really want some.

I really love Sour Cream Old-fashioned donuts which are cake style, but I don't go to shops for them that often. I like the plain glazed yeast ones they sell at the grocery store too.

>>94369346
No, they're not. They're resistant to it to an extent, but they're not fully immune. That's idiotic considering how absolutely fuck-you-up some venoms are. The Australian brown snake's venom, even when diluted to 1/17,000th of a mg is still fucking fatal.

>>94369346

Fuck off Willis.

>>94370381
Well, she's cantankerous, snide, and sardonic like pretty much everyone else. Normally, Willis tries (and fails) to frame such negative traits as quirky and endearing. But Mary believes in god, which for some reason means all her bitchiness is bad instead of cool.

Also she committed the cardinal sin of making a snide comment to a trans person and is thus damned to to endless torment at Willis' hands.

>>94372066
its impossible to actually explain or justify willis's treatment of mary since all of her flaws are things he chose to write in the first place, but for what its worth if she openly talked about running on spite and didnt act like shes above everyone else hed probably be passing that off as endearing too

the real answer is just that shes demonized because thats the whole point of her character

>>94369970
Makes sense. Probably Amber. Or Joyce for whatever reason.

>>94372252
Pretty much. Willis wanted a opposite Joyce but didn't want to put any effort into it.

She just went from snarky asshole to straight up "I'm gonna' break up these lesbians and fuckin' shit on this trans asshole", and even then he fucks it up! None of her plans have worked once, but he still treats her like the biggest villain for some goddamn reason.

He had a fucking rapist with a face scar running around that he treated less villainy than he did Mary.

>>94372334
Speaking of Ryan, how is he doing?

>>94372424
Stabbed in the penis/balls

>>94369346
Wow, Carla I thought you were smart. That's like, actually false.
Willis couldn't be bothered to google this?

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>>94369389
I figure she figured out if she acts 'too nice' they'll think she's up to something and it will drive them nuts trying to figure out what and how to stop it. Kill 'em with kindness.

My secret hope is that if this is the case, Carla finds out and pulls the same shtick, and they end up playing friendship chicken, that leads to fuckbuddy chicken, and then somewhere along the line they end up just fucking like animals because they played themselves.

>>94372464
Carla's scare tactics worked similarly when she had her stupid machine and the box with a pie in it.

I'd like to see their relationship develop as well.

>>94372334
It's amazing how he's still trying to make Mary >>94370247 some big villain when he's had a literal rapist/knife-stabber. Really shows you how Willis takes petty things way too serious and props them up to actual real dangerous situations.

Willis is the type of guy who considers a person leaving a mean comment on a video as the same as a chainsaw serial killer. Willis has a messed up view of the world.

>>94369346
Why are we supposed to dislike Mary?

>>94369506
Willis somehow failed to understand that making a frown involves moving the corners of the mouth downward, not the front.

>>94369346
If actual, regular eyes are supposed to humanize characters and let them be expressive, why give them to Mary and not Billie?

>>94372464
Carla and Mary getting in an escalating prank war which lead to friendship would have been worlds more entertaining than the pointless drama bullshit that we got.

>>94372461
Of course not, Willis thinks he's smart himself and doesn't need anything that might confirm the contrary.

>>94369346
Every time I see this thread, I am reminded of the fact that Ethan hasn't fucked Danny yet. Why can't Willis be a hack in the one way that interests me?

>>94370800
A traditional Christian would condemn the homosex while still being kind to the people around her.

...Actually she's technically doing that now isn't she.

>>94372424
good news: His singing voice is now much higher and more pure