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Kiri Blackthorn

good to know jennifer can slip like this with people other than dorothy. keep it up, you wonderful dumbass.

C

Raidah: I was already topped by Sarah today-I MEAN DOMINATED-I MEAN-DAMMIT JENNIFER!

Sajuuk-Khar

Alice would love to see that. Wouldn’t you love to see that, Alice? She would LOVE to see a dominant Billie. In friendship. Just a really strapping lass.

Andrea Andrew

Wow, Raidah. You…are something. Good on Billie/Jennifer for further showing Alice how decent/dorky she is.

Vivian

Aw yeah, givin' in to her straight, Billy

Railway Series Book Club

admirable restraint to not have alice sipping on a soda cup as jennifer keeps going in that last panel

DonnieRamesJio

So Raidah's just bad. Get fucked, stay fucked girly.

Logibear

"Maybe I Only Hang Out With You Because I Wonder What It'd Be Like To Top You" - A Dumbing of Age Pornographique

Laura

Is Jennifer attracted to all women who are mean to her? Alice you need to insult her ASAP

Sajuuk-Khar

She’s just thinking about how Billie could top both of them, friendship-wise

Fart Captor

ah yes. this is very reasonable and normal "friendships" all around, excellent work ladies

Ria

Dumbing of Age WILL be EVEN GAYER next year

Harold

Alice [thinking]: "Perhaps I need to be more explicit about my cooch-on-cooch desires. Not really sure how I could be, though."

Logibear

I mean, maybe that would solve some of her problems? Its just a shame that it won't happen because her personality is a septic tank

Aubrey Bryn

Asma's glare is sending me

Harold

@DonnieRamesJio: That's what Billifer is *trying* to do

ArdieBea

'Straight' *snerk!*

ArdieBea

Poor, Billifer; caught between the magnetic poles of her past friendships and future ambitions.

I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams

admittedly this looks very bad but a little part of me is going “this can work billie’s type has always been women who are very mean to her”

Joe Crow - Words & Pictures

Also, Raidah, if you KEEP throwing matches at every bridge you find, eventually they are all gonna catch. We believe in you!

Astariel

Damn, didn't even notice her back there.

Sajuuk-Khar

Also god Raidah someone should like, play back the things you say set to the Imperial March sometime so you gain some self-awareness lmaoooo fucking “redouble our efforts” Billie, draw her a picture of her as Dedra Meero and you as Krennic. You know, for uhhh meme reasons. Not because you’re a big Star Wars nerd.

Astariel

Dammit, Jennifer, don't hit on other girls in front of Alice!

Railway Series Book Club

she's malding as she watches this interaction and slowly realizes alice has the hots for Miss DUI (as an aside i do hope that at some point asma gets to have more interactions with billifer and ruth, nearly all her pre-protest strips had her bouncing off their bullshit and i really liked whenever that popped up)

jafortee

The story demands it, we need amsa to be happy

Lazuli

jennifer. dig up, stupid.

Maybeeus

Asma in the background just realizing that she dodged a bullet with Joyce getting the wrong person. Asma in the background also thinking "damn i'm about to join the firefight aren't i?"

VengeanceKnight

Raidah, you are human tennis elbow. You are a pizza burn on the roof of the world's mouth. You are the opposite of Batman. You are this comic's Britta. You are The Worst.

Maybeeus

She's super into Tsundere on Tsundere she's bought the Oops All Asuka's cereal and loving every bite.

Astariel

Sorry, I'm shipping the star-crossed lovers.

Packy Anderson

Billifer never does anything appropriate.

Packy Anderson

Dumbing of Age is on an exponential gayness curve. Eventually, it's gayness won't fit in a single strip anymore.

voyager-ngc5195

It's like watching Temu Lex Luthor attempting to form a Legion of Superjerkery

Star Ringer

THEN YOU'RE NOT REALLY FRIENDS, NOW ARE YOU

Logibear

"You are this comic's Britta" Whoa whoa whoa. Lets not be too harsh.

Gale Tazzin

kinda amazing Raidah has any friends at all since her catchphrase is "i don't like you, just your social capital" and she says it out loud to her friends all the time

Tessea

..... Raidah, please leave the building. You clearly have no friends here. Hopefully Alice can get it through Jennifer's head that high-school-style social patterns are for kids and that Raidah's obviously not a good friend. Also Asma is clearly not paying attention to her book. Hopefully she caught Alice's name! 😄

Gale Tazzin

it's hilarious how hard Raidah is working to try to earn nepotism, the point of which is to win things you *didn't* have to work for

Tessea

Who is Britta? I don't know this reference.

Shane Wegner

Walky is 110% savvy to Raidah’s ways and spent the entire lunch NBA Jam 360 dunking on Billie for being so thirsty to be in the club.

Shane Wegner

“Now is the optimal time to swoop in”

T Campbell

The more Raidah frays at the edges, the more she reminds me of the blatant users I had to learn to avoid or defy in my own life. I will say it's interesting she seems to have dropped any masking around Jennifer at this point, and yet she still seems to consider her a friend. Thing is, I don't think Raidah's concept of "friendship" goes very far beyond "useful connection, with whom I can have pleasant interactions when things are going my way, to be treated as a peon otherwise until replaced or restored to my good graces." The real shock in this interaction is that on some level, Jennifer still looks up to that. What Raidah's been doing...up to a point...is the same kind of maneuvering Jennifer pulled in high school and then failed spectacularly to replicate in college. And she's been thinking that if she just keeps learning from the master, eventually she'll surpass her. All this is incompatible with her development of a network of real friends that has nothing to do with Raidah, but unexamined contradictions in behavior are nothing new to her. But she's going to have to make a choice soon. With Alice by her side and real friendships in her pocket, she seems to have all the right tools to make the right choice. But she's had that kind of support network before and still chosen stupid.

Grace Serenity

Yeah, that's real smooth Billie. You are DEFINITELY allaying those rumors that you're queer. Super straight...

Joe Crow - Words & Pictures

(Alice gradually realizing that she’s gonna hafta sit Billifer down and explain to her that “Yes, you are, in fact, A Bi, and that’s ok!”)

Grace Serenity

Raidah wishes she was Temu Lex Luthor

Grace Serenity

It really doesn't help that Billie is very dumb about these kinds of things

Grace Serenity

She's a brown skinned woman. She was always going to have to work, even with connections.

HeroGirlsVT

"She did it again! She topped me! TOPPED me! TOPPED ME!!"

Zesstra

I didn't notice her! My Asma Stats spreadsheet would have been ruined!

Beck Chonigman

Raidah... that's.... that's not friendship. You know that's not friendship right? Like, damn girl, who hurt you? Besides the institutionalized racism of society. Or is it mainly that compounded into a certain "core memory" type moment?

Joshua MacDougall

If Raidah gets a redemption arc one day, I'll be on board, but as of right now, I really dislike her in a "this is an interesting and good character" way.

IAmDeltaS

You're coming off as super straight right now, Billifer

Logibear

"I need to dominate you, SHIT.!I mean I need you under me. FUCK! I mean I need to deprive you of oxygen with my thighs DANGNAMNIT! i mean I'm a friend in the way that I will make you lose count of the orgasms FUCKINGSHITGODDAMNIT!!!" *Alice's eyes are now elevated above her forehead and her curious smirk now extends three centimeters off panel* "We're... we're friends right?"

Crunchos cereal

It's kind of annoying Asma is working and cannot get up and talk to Alice right now. Maybe she can call Alice to the desk, hopefully without Jennifer.

Tessea

I don't feel that's ever been one of Jennifer's goals.

Tessea

Raidah's view of how 'friendship' works: - Keep useful people close as needed - Scorn people that are of no use - Obstacles and Rivals are to be stepped on and/or humiliated

Sajuuk-Khar

WILLIS SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY

Sajuuk-Khar

Really thrusting to the point of the matter. No, wait! I mean uhhh, hitting it. Wait! No! I mean, uhhh she’s bang on, she’s—no! Shit! Uhhh, she’s really pounding at Raidah’s—no! She’s just really slamming—fuck!! She’s got her all fucked—GODDAMNIT

Girlycore

Jennifer "bisexuality isn't real" "it's fine to fuck your bestie just once" "that was a phase" Billingsworth? I feel like that's been a large goal of hers for a long time.

VengeanceKnight

Watch Community sometime. It’s great except for the mercifully short Season 4.

The Deliberate Myth

Im having a hard time deciding how to read Billie's hesitation in panel 3. She either did not actualy realize the blatantly cold machinations of Raidah's "friendship" and is lying to Raidah, or she completely knew and is/has been lying to herself about it. Either way, this whole strip makes me sad. For all of them, really, but especially for Billie.

Sky Starlight

Alice, I see you staring at Jennifer's chest in the last panel!

Mitzi B.

Raidah's willingness to tell people "I am using you for your connections and find you annoying on a personal level" is one of her funniest personality traits.

joe mcguire

Right? Like there’s gotta be something that hurt her other than just her sad friend getting taken home by her dad for doing too much weed. And I’m sure when we find out what it is I’ll be like “oh poor baybeeeeee 😭😭😭” and completely flip my position, but right now she’s insufferable

Harold

@Sky Starlight: I thought she was just staring at Jennifer's abject obliviousness. But I suppose it could be both.

Harold

Alice contains multitudes

Sajuuk-Khar

traveled to dominance and back again (to galasso’s, you see, for subs)

Sajuuk-Khar

Alice is both a.) yearning and b.) practicing Billingsworth Dobhonkero Awareness

Sajuuk-Khar

Billie: “Shyeah, Alice, of course. Remember that time we had sex, as friends?” Alice: 🥰 *has never, ever forgotten it*

Sajuuk-Khar

Given that Raidah is MEANGIRL.EXE this is really starting to look like Sapphic Toxicity 2.0 has horrifying, radially symmetric legs

Sajuuk-Khar

Ruth: Look, I basically suplexed her and then she ended up in my bed eating me like groceries. Alice: *has been denied so much context and is running with this strat anyways* Alright, LET’S DO THIS! AAAAAALLLLIIIIIICCCE CHEEEEEENNNNNNNNNN

David M Willis

feeeed the birds topping a friend topping topping topping a friend

HenryVolt

This conversation feels like it's taken a turn.

Harold

At Least Alice Has Chicken: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique

Maude Reads Things

...Oh, okay, she's hot for Raidah. That explains a lot. Girl, please, I am begging you to grow a taste in women

Sajuuk-Khar

She has a taste in women! It’s “bad bitches”, literally!

Maude Reads Things

@ Kelly - True enough. That is an improvement I'll grant