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Early update for May 28, 2026 (Patreon)

Published:
2026-05-27 03:55:01
Imported:
2026-10

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she probably won't

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Andrea Andrew

So Billie never went by Jennifer before. And now she has everyone in her now who would happily call her Billie. So why continue to hang on to an identity she doesn’t need to distance herself from everyone?

Sajuuk-Khar

Billie: Wait, is this song GAY????? I just picked it to be MEAN, to YOU

Morgan Byrd

Chappel Roan has struck DoA

Logibear

So... Joyce's master plan to occupy Becky's time was to drop her in a room filled with the entire spectrum of Lesbian/Bisexual Angst?

Maude Reads Things

Jennifer was telling people to call her Billie like five seconds after she got to kindergarten, this is very clearly her trying to get some distance from her past and it's only half working

Sajuuk-Khar

1.) The assumption by Billie that she is poison and everyone deserves better despite her addiction to social clout 2.) The impossible dream of fucking Raidah while Raidah yells angrily that she cannot BELIEVE Billie is fucking her 3.) More of #1

Logibear

... and she wants to help get Becky and Dina back together?

Andrea Andrew

More like it’s not working. Walky, Sal, and Alice are in her life again, whether she likes it or not, which she does, but won’t admit it.

KiasyonSFM

Hmmm we're not about to throw comphet at a bisexual are we Ruth...?

Harold

@Logibear: No, her master plan was to get Becky drunk. This is better, although not by much.

Sajuuk-Khar

Joyce: I don’t have a *plan*, I’m like a dog chasing cars

Harold

Dumbing of Age, Book 16: In the Interest of Decorum, I Will Only SEETHE Sarcasm Instead of ERUPT with It

GundamBradley

Oh my God. Also, it's kind of wild that it took this long for Alice to ask this question.

Harold

I hope Asma's song is "Once in a Lifetime," because I guarantee she's asking herself, "Well - how did I get here?" right about now

voyager-ngc5195

Wasn't expecting Ruth to be a Stranger Things fan.

Sajuuk-Khar

I have said before that Joyce is like Harrier Du Bois with Tiddy and I’m right, her “plan” for tonight was purely to listen to Electrochemistry for as long as her and Becky stayed conscious and non-kissing When this failed she fell back on Esprit De Corps (Sapphic) and Ruth, the Harbormaster, who clearly is the most experienced lesbian in the wing

Fart Captor

They could stand to make out about it but yes it's very good

Sajuuk-Khar

“This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful Alice in bowling shoes!!”

Kelly (they-them)

Willis, THANK you. I really needed this strip today. This storyline has been hit after hit for me. I've been looking forward to this plot point being brought to the surface

Amós Batista

*trap under roof starts to shake*

Sajuuk-Khar

Alice: Really?! In front of my pining?!? Becky: Wait, were ya pinin’? Aw! I know that feeling… Asma: (REALLY??? In front of MY PINING?????)

Lazuli

oh im gonna be fascinated by tomorrows strip. i went and looked at the bookmark. "dont talk during her song"

Astariel

I'm going to have to look up the lyrics to this one, aren't I?

Brian Danger Hicks

[Ruth puts on a clear raincoat] Most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should.

Lazuli

do it.

5099 5618 v2.0

These are clues, [ Billie | Jennifer ]. They're why people check their phones during movies, lately [1] [1] - if they like the movie.

5099 5618 v2.0

@S-K It's not gay, it's just sometimes you want to taunt your ex. And sometimes you still have Electric Six [1] chemistry with said ex. And sometimes that ex is a tall redhead with rage issues you wanted to introduce to your parents, once upon a time, and you still catch yourself blushing anytime you hear the words "Go Leafs". [1] - DANGER! DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!

5099 5618 v2.0

@Logibear Less the entire spectrum, more like the "pre-Ultrviolet Catastrophe" spectrum.

5099 5618 v2.0

@S-K That's the thing about Chappel Roan lyrics. They're *fair*.

5099 5618 v2.0

(/reads the lyrics) Jesus Christ, Ruth. If she doesn't get it by the second verse there may be no hope for this.

5099 5618 v2.0

Kinda starting to wonder if Ruth and Billie don't end up with a relationship more or less like the one in Maka-Maka, at this rate. Or if that kind of interaction without any official status would just not be enough for them.

5099 5618 v2.0

(I just wanna know how they keep starting fires ...)

Sajuuk-Khar

And besides, SHE’S the asshole who broke up with YOU! So SHE’S the one kissing a hundred boys in bars and shit! She can’t call YOU out! It’s not like YOU swan dove into a relationship purely for clou— Well— But— FUCKING GOD DAMMIT, RUTH (Narrator: And then they angrily made out for an hour.)

5099 5618 v2.0

@S-K (/Later, Billie starts to wonder what role imagining Ruth kissing all those boys had in where things went, that night. And also where Jason learned to flip an omelette without tearing it)

C.T. Phipps

I mean it's a very gay song about a lesbian pissed that her bi (?) ex-girlfriend is with a dude.

C.T. Phipps

Uh, Ruth, you're not selling your relationship with Jason very well if you have a song about a woman betraying her girlfriend by hooking up with a dude.

Rae Farnsworth

Tried to Google the lyrics on my phone, typed “good lick babe”. Yes, indeed.

Tessea

Ruth has already said flat-out she'd dump Jason in a heartbeat if Jennifer wanted her back.

Zesstra

Reminder for those who forgot: dumbingofage.com/bloodinthewater/

Zesstra

Reminder that Billie listed Chappell Roan (eventually) among the artists she likes when Joyce needed help finding new music, but apparently paying attention to the lyrics played no part in that assessment. dumbingofage.com/discussion/

Sajuuk-Khar

We know that, and Ruth knows that. Does Billie know that, though. And even if she knows that does she actually GET it, given this is Billie Jennifer “Bisexuality Is Fake and Gay” Billingsworth.

C.T. Phipps

Yeah, it was one of the lowest of all Ruth moments.

Sajuuk-Khar

No no, that happens later tonight

Sajuuk-Khar

Also if we’re talking about Billie/Ruth in the context of “betrayal by hooking up with a dude” (we shouldn’t do this!!) Billie absolutely got with Asher, a known dude, LONG before Jason and Ruth became a thing

Sajuuk-Khar

Like, yada yada kettle is still fuckin black and whatever, but these girls are mutually throwing stupid pissy bricks at each other’s supposedly comphet glass houses.

Sajuuk-Khar

@C.T.: I think “actively trying to drink herself to death” might be, uh, lower than “pathetically attached to ex”

Julian Williams

Jennifer is *superhumanly* unobservant when it comes to her own flaws.

Melenynder

I love the implication that Ruth is really into modern pop music

Shane Wegner

GPT! Knowing you can’t (any longer) show entire song lyrics (as you once could, before we lost nice things), and me not knowing the song, can you highlight the passages from “Good Luck, Babe” most relevant to Jennifer as Ruth asserts in Dumbing of Age for today’s early update? —— (Thought for 48 seconds) For “Good Luck, Babe!” lyrics, I can show up to 10 words at a time from the song. So: not Verse 1, not the chorus, and not a line-by-line excerpt. “This is normal; everyone feels this sometimes.” Jennifer is doing exactly that in the karaoke strip when she says Alice thinks she can brag about gay thoughts even though “everybody does sometimes.” That is almost suspiciously on-the-nose for the song’s emotional territory: normalizing the feeling so hard that it becomes avoidance. (https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/layme/) “You can try to choose the safe/legible life, but the feeling follows you.” This maps to Jennifer’s whole Billie/Jennifer identity tension: not necessarily “closeted,” but repeatedly trying to rename, reframe, socially reposition, or outrun messy truths about herself. “The person singing sees through the dodge.” Alice/Ruth/Becky all function as mirrors around Jennifer right now. Ruth’s presence makes Jennifer’s history impossible to sanitize; Alice’s attention makes the “bestie” label feel unstable; Becky just says the gay part out loud as social weather. The recent karaoke setup explicitly pulls Jennifer, Alice, Becky, Ruth, and Asma into one sapphic pressure cooker. (https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/exchurchgirl/) “Future regret is the threat.” The song’s sting is not just “you’re denying this now,” but “this will cost you later.” For Jennifer, that could mean fumbling Alice, refusing to deal honestly with Ruth, or discovering that “everyone has gay thoughts sometimes” was a load-bearing rationalization.

Lazuli

"these lyrics resonate. HMMM I WONDER WHY"

Johanne

Jennifer refuses that label though. She thinks she's straight and that it's normal for straight women to have gay thoughts - see last strip.

Harold

@Julian Williams: Nice choice of words, given her Amazi-Girl-related obliviousness as well

Sajuuk-Khar

Have gay thoughts, have sex with their bestie once, have a semester-long actual relationship with Ruth where you wanted to have her meet your parents, it’s all heterosexual

Tessea

Joyce, seeing Alice and Asma, Ruth and Jenifer, thinking to herself "I can fix this!" Dorothy, seeing the look on Joyces face. "Am I going to have to roll up a newspaper and bonk you on the head? Don't even think about it."

Johanne

I think Chat GPT has got the wrong song here haha

Shane Wegner

I did get the feeling that the Shadow Music Industry Wizards have put several curses on LLM's ability to know lyrics.

Jesse

People don’t always pay attention to the lyrics, but they should! For example, Huey Lewis & the News’ classic song; Hip to be Square…

Harold

Is that a raincoat?

Harold

@5099 5618 v2.0: Fire in the disco! Fire in Galasso's Pizza (and subs)!

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold (/Aggressive make-outs atop a taxidermied moose ensue)[1] [1] - I wonder if that would be more or less compelling to Ruth, as a Canadian...

5099 5618 v2.0

@The Deliberate Myth WOW! (/crazy guitar solo) (/Rhythmic clapping) (/Quite a lot of Abraham Lincoln)

5099 5618 v2.0

@S-K Yeah, all heterosexuals do those things. Especially in college. (/j)

KiasyonSFM

The lyrics of the song that Ruth is telling her to pay attention to are about being a lesbian when Jennifer is clearly bisexual.

Jesse

Yes, it is!

Tessea

It's pretty clear to the readers that Jason is just a rebound fling for Ruth who just doesn't want to be alone. But does Jason realize this?