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Dina wins by a landslide!  Let's give the people what they want.

9/21 bonus strip: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-strip-for-56720530

11/21 bonus strip: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-strip-for-58955147

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Kyle

Welp.

BlackDove

Yeah but to Dina pleasuring herself just means reading science about dinosaurs. Most pleasurable indeed

VengeanceKnight

Holy crap. Does that beat panel at the end mean she’s not kidding?

Adam Legend

one of two things is happening. Either Dina is telling the truth and doing something she loves is considered pleasuring herself OR she really was rubbing one out and both are equally hilarious.

C

...Well. At least she's having fun.

Doran McEowen

I think this is my favorite Dina/Amber interaction to date.

Spencer

Broke: Leaving the penultimate panel empty. Woke: Leaving the last one empty.

Jacob Glad

I 100% cannot tell if she's joking or not...

Michael Grogan

This comic was definitely what I wanted!

Regalli

Yeah, Amber Really Not Getting the nuances of asexuality is one of those things I understand as a character thing (and is clearly meant to be a flaw on her part) while still responding with a sigh.

Seth Aaron Hershman has they/she pronouns

I'm totally cool with Amber having this blindspot but the audience uncritically taking her side because they don't even realize it is a side and surprise/amusement that Dina might masturbate is not a neutral position is uuuuuuuuugh

Cliomancer

I had read it as more an autism thing, like Amber assuming Dina just wasn't able to think of a good lie.

Cliomancer

So this is fun in that there's yet another uncertainty.

VengeanceKnight

Geez, Seth. I think I speak for all of us when I say, “I’m sorry.”

SSPeanutButter

Hoping there's a second strip with a reprise of the "I am not a child" speech

Spencer

Yeah it's been a recurring theme to Amber and Dina's dynamic that Amber presumes a lot about Dina, when Dina's the one who's pretty consistent in growing and understanding herself.

Spencer

If this is an acceptable question, Seth, how do you process that audience reaction? Like not even in universe misunderstanding like Becky has, but when other people express them?

Spencer

Oh sorry. Like, when you read this strip and understand "wow Amber is being ignorant on this", and then actual real life people act like Amber is by treating it as "haha Dina masturbating is transgressional."

Kimberly Herman

Amber misunderstanding asexuality and autism x2 combo lmfao rip

Spencer

Yeah,I probably should have just rolled with your posts here instead of directly asking, like, you're pretty clear on how those reactions are making you feel here.

Spencer

Sorry, I hope I didn't make this weird for you.

Spencer

Worth pointing out that Dina has expressed interest in sex to Sarah and has been shown to be aroused by Becky in certain circumstance. She just got interested enough to give it a whirl.

Jonah Sanville (firelight_waltz)

i think a lotta folks also forget that at her birthday party she told becky that she was ready to have sex when becky was

Sajuuk-Khar

“Not everyone feels the need to create a mess or is too lazy to put their clothes back on after such a session, Amber.”

Pax

Respectfully, there is another interpretation besides "She must be joking because Dina can't have a sexuality," and it's "She must be joking because telling your roommate you just masturbated, especially with "strenuous" thrown in there, is super TMI for most people." (FWIW I do agree with you, but I don't think aphobia is the only possible reading of this as a joke.)

Seth Aaron Hershman has they/she pronouns

It's been well established at this point that Dina is incredibly candid about these things, so Amber has no real reason to assume this time is different. (Granted, Dina's candidness about sex has been its own little running gag, and I don't think we're not supposed to find it funny--but it's not the strip's punchline!)

Spencer

Yeah this is how Dina talks about sex. Joe just asked her if bio class made her aroused not because he's a creepy weirdo, it's because that's how Dina processes questions that we've just decided are taboo

Moon Goat

Congratulations, Willis. You have just about mastered the art of ambiguity in creating humor.

Moon Goat

@Clio, and what would that be?

Ty34er

Probably the closest we'll ever get to a Dina Slipshine and it's technically ambiguous. I respect that.

Regalli

Second ace butting in: People Not Getting your orientation and treating it as the butt of the joke is also very much a thing you get used to. I don’t stop being frustrated by it, but I’m not surprised by it. (As an autistic ace in particular, the infantilizing subtext here is also familiar.)

Bagge

.... I THINK she's sincere.

Shane Wegner

“Ah, lovely, I see in my inbox a Bonus Comic has arrived. I will soon click on it to open it! Yet, just before I do, let me take a great big mouthful of this brimming full beverage I have here in my hand….”

C-Cubed

Imagine if Becky walked in and asked that, her brain would’ve fried immediately I think.

Lars Hoffmann

OK. Why is this "just" a bonus script? I thought Bonus Scripts are just for one off jokes but here we have progress in character development that could be essential for future strips.

Moon Goat

Yeah! She could very well be acting like a dinosaur that has lots of funny limb positions. As she stated herself, "inaccuracy is more painful".

Dean Reilly

Ensure that your monocle is firmly in place!

Moon Goat

Has no one seriously considered the possibility that she was imitating a dinosuar that had lots of funny limb positions?!? 'cause that's really pleasurable to her and also really strenuous, but as she stated herself, "inaccuracy is more painful".

Moon Goat

Dude this probably IS an off-joke. And I'll say, Willis is rather lazy with this one, for it appears to be the readers' brains that are doing most of the funny work.

Edwin I Callahan

Referencing her dinosaur obsession, have we learned what Dina’s major is? IU has a paleontology department with a good reputation so it’s logical she would be going for a paleontology degree. I don’t know if it has been established in the strip.

WillowD

Actually, that was my first thought. And for my second thought... see my first thought.

Moon Goat

Willis may not have done any BDSM slipshines, but by the looks of all the comments he's HELLA good at teasing and denial!

Shane Wegner

I should set my teapot on the stove so it's JUUUUUST shy of boiling right before I read it!

Edwin I Callahan

Thanks. I haven’t read any of the compilations. I wonder if they’re available as e-books.

Sean Murphy

I know that look. That's the "I'm not done, please get the f*** out of the room" look.