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Dina's name is pronounced "DEE-na."

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Dude, David Willis.

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I don’t know if you guys read either of David Willis’s comics—he makes Shortpacked! and Dumbing of Age. And one of his comics just made me really happy in a sex positivity related way:

I love that David Willis spends time combating rape culture, promoting sex positivity, making comics with queer characters—Ethan, the protagonist of Shortpacked! is gay—and refusing to let his politics overwhelm what he’s really making: funny, solid, usually lighthearted comics. Partly because he knows he’s an ally, and his voice shouldn’t be the center of these political conversations. And he’s really talented, and oh man, basically just, David Willis appreciation post.

Anyway, this comic pinpoints something that’s important and doesn’t get talked about enough.

So yeah, if you’re a queer geek and/or a feminist geek I really recommend this guy’s work.

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Sometimes amidst all this praise, I remember I’m still partly that little mal-educated fundie boy from backwater Indiana, and I worry I’ve raised everyone’s expectations regarding my Progressiveness unreasonably high. WHAT IF I SCREW UP???

If I’d drawn sexist jerk comics all these years, nobody’d expect anything from me! But now I’m trapped. TRAAAAPPED.

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If we reach $20k, when do the Saturday comics start?

From the Dumbing of Age Book 2 Kickstarter FAQ:

I’ve decided that Saturday comics will start on the first Saturday after $20k is reached. Meaning if this thing hits $20k by the end of this Friday, I’ll flush out the entire buffer and renumber and reupload and re-everything for this Saturday. It is an amazing amount of work, but I want to reward you all! (also i have a huge buffer and i want to share it with you more quickly because cool-ass shit happens in it)

It might mess with some intended weekend cliffhangers, I admit, but that is up to you, now. Maybe a feature, even! WHAT HAPPENS NEXT might be found out in 24 hours instead of 72!

Unless somehow this milestone happens while I’m at Phoenix Comicon at the end of May. If that’s the case, it’d have to wait until the following Saturday. But at the current rate of pledges, I doubt it’ll come to that.

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My Patreon thinger started yesterday!
We’re about halfway to the first goal, which is when everybody gets Joyce & Walky! subscription comics, and about a quarter on the way to the following goal, which is MONTHLY PATREON-EXCLUSIVE BONUS DUMBING OF... — **My Patreon thinger started yesterday!**

We’re about halfway to the first goal, which is when everybody gets Joyce & Walky! subscription comics, and about a quarter on the way to the following goal, which is MONTHLY PATREON-EXCLUSIVE BONUS DUMBING OF AGE COMICS, HOORAY.

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A large version of a panel from today’s Dumbing of Age. — A large version of a panel from today’s *Dumbing of Age*.

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Probably one of my personal favorite Dumbing of Age strips. — Probably one of my personal favorite *Dumbing of Age* strips.

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Less than $1500 to go until Sunday updates are unlocked for a year!
Dumbing of Age would update all seven days a week until next spring! It also means I gotta draw another 52 comics this year! I better get crackin’. — **Less than $1500 to go until Sunday updates are unlocked for a year!**
*Dumbing of Age* would update all seven days a week until next spring! It also means I gotta draw another 52 comics this year! I better get crackin’.

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Here’s a screencap of my CONVENTION APPEARANCES table from the website as a reminder of where I’m gonna be in upcoming weeks/months!
In two weeks I’m making my yearly visit to Dumbing of Age’s home in Bloomington, Indiana. I don’t think we’ve set a... — Here’s a screencap of my CONVENTION APPEARANCES table from the website as a reminder of where I’m gonna be in upcoming weeks/months!
In **two weeks** I’m making my yearly visit to Dumbing of Age’s home in **Bloomington, Indiana**. I don’t think we’ve set a specific time yet, but in the past two years it’s started at 5pm (and lasted until 7 or 8), so show up at **Vintage Phoenix Comics** at 5 and you’ll totes find me there. I’ll have Book 3!
And in December I’m returning once again to **Webcomic Rampage** in **Austin, Texas**, along with all of my webcomic pals like Danielle and Spike and my convention wife Joel. Keep that on your calendar, too!

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The kids are alright, just uncomfortable, but they will live

So you’re young and queer and everything you know about sex has come from porn because nobody’s teaching it to you at school and frankly some of what you’ve witnessed is terrifying. You’re intrigued by sex and your hormones are raging and you want to have sex but you don’t want to get fisted while someone beats you with a cheese grater. You’re young and your baseline state of being is *uncomfortable* and *powerless* and you just want some semblance of control and something resembling comfort and you want to find people who don’t make you feel so weird all the time. You see queer people reveling in being weird, and you’re panicking that people think you’re like that because the last thing you want is to be seen as weird. You’re gay but you’re not gay-gay, you’re normal if you can just ignore this one small difference.

And then here comes a group of people who commiserate with you, but only on the surface. They, too, hate how weird Pride is, how weird queer culture is, how terrifying queer sexuality is, how awful kink is. They tell you that your discomfort is actually a form of harm, that nobody should ever make you think about the things you don’t want to think about, that you should be protected from it. They use the language of social justice and it feels like social justice to you. People are doing things to you! Without your consent! It’s psychic rape! How dare they?

But then you get older and you scratch beneath the surface and remove the masks and find that underneath, those people who told you that you were being harmed were intense homophobes, who found queer sexuality terrifying because they found queer people terrifying. They don’t “consent” to queers being sexy or kinky because they don’t “consent” to queers existing. They consider all sex bad, and queer people as inherently sexual, so queer people are inherently bad unless they go out of their way to desexualize themselves as much as possible. And you find that they’re transphobes and terfs and they consider trans identities to be fetishes and this is why they want to hide fetish. As soon as they’re done driving all the sexy, kinky, trans queers into hiding with your help, they can move onto the less outrageous queers. They’re moving onto you, even though you’d never call yourself queer because you’re young and uncomfortable and afraid of being weird. They’re uncomfortable and they learned that their discomfort was harm and they never sat down to examine those feelings. They’re the Karens of the world calling the cops on black folks for just existing in their vicinity. They think children should be completely sheltered from all that liberal nonsense.

And the queer elders try to speak up, try to tell the young ones about our history, but it’s so hard when we keep getting entire generations wiped out in the holocaust and the AIDS crisis. Our books burned and our people left for dead. Half of those left only survived through assimilation and internalizing that they needed to shed all of their queerness and become plastic Barbies and Kens, perfect and sexless, and this worked for them, in a way, in that they survived, so they think that this is a reasonable solution. Just cover up and get married and live quietly. Disown the loud queers, the ones still demanding more, the ones still pushing boundaries, the ones who don’t want to hide, who question the rules. They rewrite history to say gay rights were won when marriage was won and now the fight is over and anyone who is still complaining should shut up, lest our overlords hear and take away what little we were allowed to have.

The truth of the matter is that people are more naked at the beach than at Pride. Kink harnesses are normalized in fashion everywhere. Overt displays of heterosexual sexuality are everywhere. Children are not harmed by this. They will not be harmed by all of this in a queer context. No one will be harmed by this because discomfort is not harm and it was never about that. It was about hijacking discomfort for an anti-queer agenda. It’s being driven largely by sheltered teens and homophobes taking advantage of them. But the internet is a big stew where those people have the same platform and reach as queer historians and activists and hot takes spread faster than research and knowledge. We don’t have to engage. It’s settled. It’s done. Wear your gimp mask to Pride. The kids are alright.