turning a big dial that says "gay" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for disapproval like a contestant on the price is right
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To be fair, Rogue7 says (minus a vowel) that you're prioritizing *romantic* homosexual relationships. Perhaps they'd prefer a focus on non-romantic casual hookups, same-sex friends with bennies, and a plotline to figure out who drilled a gloryhole in stall #3 of the second floor men's room.
jul 28, 2025, 1:48 pm • 12 0 • view
It's always difficult to search for clues at a gloryhole. You're all looking for metal shavings on the floor and analyzing the surrounding graffiti, and then yet another person pops into the other stall and, well, it'd be rude to leave them hanging (so to speak) wouldn't it?
jul 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 4 0 • view
the gloryhole dingdong bandit!
jul 28, 2025, 1:51 pm • 5 0 • view
Look, I've read enough stuff where het is the default for one lifetime, and it's turned me into the gay joker.
jul 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 6 0 • view
Hey now... depending on the era/writer, that's just normal Joker.
jul 28, 2025, 2:08 pm • 4 0 • view
I really hope you saw the movie The People's Joker because it's perfect
jul 28, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 28, 2025, 1:54 pm • 10 0 • view
In the continuing spirit of kayfabe hostility: Did you borrow the dial from Rebecca Sugar?
jul 28, 2025, 7:22 pm • 1 0 • view
in the audience screaming "Higher! Higher!" with the thumb repeatedly pointing upwards.
jul 28, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Heck yeah an agenda is being pushed: The GAY AGENDA!! It's back, in pog form
jul 28, 2025, 9:06 pm • 115 3 • view
@damnyouwillis.bsky.social in pog form lol go team gay pogs :D
jul 28, 2025, 9:40 pm • 3 0 • view
@damnyouwillis.bsky.social [goes back and catches up on comments] holy shit uh willis don't take this the wrong way but do any of your straight readers actually read your comic? because at this point i am not convinced. xD
jul 28, 2025, 10:04 pm • 21 0 • view
@damnyouwillis.bsky.social actually i should clarify: your straight _commenters_.
jul 28, 2025, 10:05 pm • 14 0 • view
@damnyouwillis.bsky.social i mean you literally had an _editor_ tell your _self-representational character_ that you couldn't do all this gaybaiting without some kind of payoff and i was all like "oh, they're endgame, how cute!" and how many memos they gonna miss?
jul 28, 2025, 10:07 pm • 28 0 • view
Daisy, Daisy, give me the answer do.
jul 29, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I was like “oh, when was that?” and went “Random”-ing to see if I could get near it. Didn’t, but *very* quickly ran into this instead. Real “Mr. Policeman, I gave you all the clues” hours lmao 🤦🏻♀️
jul 29, 2025, 9:42 am • 10 0 • view
Straight commenter (and reader), here and yes, I have read the comic. I guess I should apologise for those morons. You see many straight people get really confused when heterosexuals aren't the center of attention.
jul 29, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
You realize that there are a lot of non-straight people that are against what's been happening...right? Being LGBT doesn't mean you have to be in favor of every non-straight pairing.
jul 29, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
Don't tell the others, but I haven't read even one panel of Dumbing of Age since it started.
jul 29, 2025, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
I’ve been really behind in keeping up Dumbing of Age, and had kind of forgotten where I’d last been reading it regularly, so I went back to start a re-read, and. Like. Joyce and Dorothy have been so so so weird about one another since literally the first day they met.
jul 29, 2025, 1:07 am • 7 0 • view
Apparently (according to Willis on Tumblr) very early on it was, indeed, still mostly unintentional or a joke. But 7-10 years ago (so, at least half of the comic length so far), they decided that, yeah, this is happening. I honestly can't comprehend people who say it came out of nowhere.
jul 29, 2025, 3:51 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I'm aware! But even when Willis decided to start building it deliberately, it wasn't like it was being built on a foundation of nothing. It's been there since the beginning, and it being a joke and not something done deliberately doesn't make it any less of a foundation.
jul 29, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, that is what I was saying! We are agreeing.
jul 29, 2025, 4:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, I also thought we were agreeing, so sorry if my tone came across as combative! I was trying to “yes, and” there.
jul 29, 2025, 4:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol, all good!
jul 29, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
So no, I don’t think most of the straight readership has been picking up what Willis has been putting down, like, from the beginning of the strip. It would have been weirder if Joyce and Dorothy HADN’T eventually kissed.
jul 29, 2025, 1:08 am • 5 0 • view
me when two cartoon women kiss
jul 28, 2025, 9:08 pm • 82 3 • view
I mean, to be a bit fair, I think some people are just worried about how Joe and Walky are gonna be hurt by this. I don't think it's entirely anti-queer sentiment, as they probably would've bailed on the strip a long time ago if that was the case.
jul 28, 2025, 10:13 pm • 2 0 • view
okay yeah but there's been a weird amount of actual explicit anti-queer sentiment last couple comics, this is not that, that is irrelevant
jul 29, 2025, 7:21 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe I'm simply being naive then, I guess. I confess, I don't usually read the comments for the strips. I just know that I hate seeing characters I'm attached to get hurt, and I have grown quite fond of Joe and it sucks knowing he's about to have his heart broken. I'm happy for Joyrothy fans.
jul 29, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
yeah. there's a whole valid discussion about Joe, and I hope he finds happiness, but this thread is about people who really are being homophobic in the comments section. good luck
jul 29, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
time for "joe" and "walky" to "go" and "walk" up to each other and kiss i guess
jul 29, 2025, 12:02 am • 1 0 • view
But when will we get two cartoon men kissing?
jul 29, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
Every time Ethan and Asher are on-panel!
jul 29, 2025, 2:04 am • 3 0 • view
Very good
jul 29, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
(I will say, bi people not being allowed to be in het-appearing relationships is an actual problem irl, like, bi folks with different gender partners really shouldn't be portrayed as "less queer" than ones with same gender ones)
jul 28, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
a nefarious plan to make two cartoon women kiss, a thing that real women never do at all ever in the history of the multiverse because they are always just roommates or cousins or something
jul 28, 2025, 9:19 pm • 4 0 • view
my favorite part is all the people acting like all the LGBTQ stuff in the comic is new or something. ~<3
jul 29, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
I forever love seeing just how many comic artists out here use hetero annoyance as a reason to make comics even gayer!
jul 28, 2025, 9:51 pm • 16 0 • view
Examining the gender of every fictional work I brush up against while mumbling "there are no coincidences".
jul 28, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Gay harder Willis, they can't hear you in the nosebleeds!!!
jul 28, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
You just need to make more girls smoochin in the background of other strips
jul 28, 2025, 9:22 pm • 5 0 • view
like at the end of rise of skywalker
jul 28, 2025, 9:24 pm • 6 0 • view
I think what we really need is a 1 month hiatus from anything Joyce/Dorothy related, but they're in the background of each comic making out when they think no one is watching.
jul 28, 2025, 9:37 pm • 10 0 • view
people are finding any and every reason to be angry at you because the gays are gaying "wrong" in a comic you write and have been writing for 15 years, as if they own it and you are some intruder. its so funny (derogatory) to watch happen every new strip devolve into petty accusations
jul 28, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I swear people don't know what the word 'agenda' even means.
jul 28, 2025, 10:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I love the energy of Malaya saying they feel like there's an agenda being pushed when it's just something they personally don't like that was very obvious but they weren't paying attention. It's not the phrasing they'd use, perhaps, but the energy is spot on.
jul 28, 2025, 10:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Dumbing of Age Gay Pogs when?
jul 28, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
that's redundant, all pogs are gay
jul 28, 2025, 9:11 pm • 7 0 • view
Well yeah, but when
jul 28, 2025, 9:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Why the fuck are people like this even reading your comic?
jul 28, 2025, 9:42 pm • 4 0 • view
The Gay Agenda… what is this, a Doctor Who Forum in 2005?
jul 28, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Please keep pushing the gay agenda™, I would love that
jul 28, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
it has been absolutely hilarious to watch people claim this comes out of nowhere, as if we're not talking about the same character who responded to "you'd be gay for Sal, right" with "GOD i wish".
jul 28, 2025, 9:28 pm • 28 1 • view
Haha, I used to say I wish I was gay when I was that age. Came out as bi at 35.
jul 28, 2025, 11:12 pm • 9 0 • view
i got the other flavor of that, just a tiny baby four year old, wishing i could become a girl. turns out, i *could*! after, like, a few decades of self loathing, but still.
jul 28, 2025, 11:26 pm • 10 0 • view
Oh, I did that too.
jul 28, 2025, 11:33 pm • 6 0 • view
yo, basically the same, I was 8, it's been like 36 years... but I'm getting there. ~<3
jul 29, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
A lot of people used this precise panel to argue that Joyce is clearly hetero because she was only attracted to Sal's head. Which, like, is a valid interpretation. But it is equally valid to remember Joyce is massively repressed and would say stuff like that regardless.
jul 28, 2025, 9:35 pm • 9 0 • view
I would love to know the context for that excerpt.
jul 28, 2025, 9:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Hell yeah
jul 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 4 0 • view
I need to know what this bit was and who Jimmy was interviewing. He’s such a little turd.
jul 29, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
Never stop turning it
jul 29, 2025, 3:54 am • 0 0 • view
The gay girls are just a distraction from the as of yet unsolved conspiracy behind why both you and jeph simultaneously started storylines involving wealthy girls questioning the morality of their parent's companies.
jul 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 8 0 • view
look i started mine a year ago, he hacked my buffer somehow
jul 28, 2025, 1:54 pm • 11 0 • view
ONE GAY DOLLAR DREW
jul 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Shades of Captain Rebecca Sugar ordering that the ship be made even more gay!
jul 28, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Just imagine me and my dogs hootin and hollerin for ever crank towards the GAAAAAAAYYYYY peg
jul 29, 2025, 12:35 am • 1 0 • view
"ONE. MORE. TURN. ONE. MORE. TURN! ONE! MORE! TURN!"
jul 29, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view
I'm still hoping that you'll bully @ass.golf into transing Marten on Cubetown
jul 29, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 0 • view
Not sure bullying would be required
jul 29, 2025, 12:47 am • 3 0 • view
Oh man, t4t Claire and Marten would kick so much ass Like, all the other MCs have taken a long, hard look at their lives, but Marten has always been the "default" character. Just a basic cishet white guy on autopilot
jul 29, 2025, 12:54 am • 1 0 • view
Cishet? You're sure? Claire never specified if she'd gone in for surgery, but when she was first naked with Marten she was afraid he'd see something he'd run away from...
jul 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
That's a good point, but I just figured Marten was basically an open minded vanilla dude. I wasn't thinking about it too much
jul 29, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
...speaking as a "vanilla dude", that's more than just "open-minded".
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