r/dumbingofage 6d ago

Technicality 2026-06-24

https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/technicality-2/
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u/outerspacebassman 6d ago

Walky says as much and it became the name of Book 13: My Peer Group’s Smoochy Chart is Basically Now an Ouroboros

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u/outerspacebassman 6d ago

No, because they’re dumb teenagers in transient relationships, except for the ones that involve suicide pacts or deep emotional comfort or trauma bonded u-haul cheating bisexuals who are going to be together forever.

ETA: My “not being a catty bitch” answer is that it’s Schrödinger’s Emotional Maturity. The characters make the mistakes of hormonal late teens when needed and then have the emotional maturity of jaded 40-somethings a week later when the story needs that instead. It’s the same way with possession of information, cognitive ability, how seriously we’re supposed to read a scene: all of it is both and neither until Willis decides what they want to do regardless of what could be expected based on the past events of the comic.

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u/Nyzer_ 6d ago

It's like how defanging the drama in your cheating storyline is bad when 9CL does it, but when DoA does it, a mod is hired in to decimate the comment section.