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It’s $46,521 o’clock over at the Dumbing of Age Book 13 Kickstarter!  Which means it’s time for a SURPRISE SAYID MAGNET reveal!  This 2″x4.5″ music major dude can be bundled along with your book now with the SAYID MAGNET tier!  Or: choose him and some other magnets at the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers!  OR or: COMPLETE MAGNET POWER, baby.  You know you want it.

At $50K, we’ll unlock the LYLE MAGNET tier!  (That’s Lucy’s brother.)  That rounds out the usual 12 magnets, but what if I told you there could be a 13th magnet?  WELL IT’S TRUE, if we get to $55K, there’ll be a new JENNIFER MAGNET!  Hot dang!

CAN WE GET THERE?  Just one week remaining!  Pledge today!

#dumbing of age #kickstarter

[itswalky]

#reblog #that's the correct amount of cheese imho

Cheese Pizza (x)

[itswalky]

basically

So did your parents ever explain why you shouldn't get involved in anyhting potentially occult or supernatural? Or why the focus was on stuff like Dungeons and Dragons or Harry Potter and not characters who predated them like Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate?

Most of this question can be answered by noting that most of these examples were irrelevant to my childhood either by How Old I Am or I Didn't Know They Existed.

Harry Potter didn't exist until I was in college! I remember the day, while I was employed at the Warner Bros Studio Store during art school, that the managers had a meeting and told us that The Next Big Thing, By Corporate Decree, would be something called Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone. And we would sell it. And we would have exclusive rights to sell it. And by god it was going to be the big thing or fucking else.

So that didn't come up much with my parents, no.

Also, I'm not sure I knew who Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate were until I was in my twenties. They wouldn't be an example I'd know to bring up.

And so the focus was on contemporary things I knew about, like He-Man or Disney's Gummi Bears or the Black Cauldron PC game I got for my birthday and got to play like five minutes of before it was discovered that there was magic in this.

(five minutes was enough to get frustrated and stuck in it, anyway, so not the hugest loss)

I got to watch Star Wars, which ""promoted eastern religion," because "it was good."

so

[itswalky]

So did your parents ever explain why you shouldn't get involved in anyhting potentially occult or supernatural? Or why the focus was on stuff like Dungeons and Dragons or Harry Potter and not characters who predated them like Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate?

Most of this question can be answered by noting that most of these examples were irrelevant to my childhood either by How Old I Am or I Didn't Know They Existed.

Harry Potter didn't exist until I was in college! I remember the day, while I was employed at the Warner Bros Studio Store during art school, that the managers had a meeting and told us that The Next Big Thing, By Corporate Decree, would be something called Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone. And we would sell it. And we would have exclusive rights to sell it. And by god it was going to be the big thing or fucking else.

So that didn't come up much with my parents, no.

Also, I'm not sure I knew who Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate were until I was in my twenties. They wouldn't be an example I'd know to bring up.

And so the focus was on contemporary things I knew about, like He-Man or Disney's Gummi Bears or the Black Cauldron PC game I got for my birthday and got to play like five minutes of before it was discovered that there was magic in this.

(five minutes was enough to get frustrated and stuck in it, anyway, so not the hugest loss)

I got to watch Star Wars, which ""promoted eastern religion," because "it was good."

so

[itswalky]

some more folks unlocked

Dumbing of Age Book 13 Kickstarter update!

We've hit $40k!  And as marked and promised, we've got new LAUNDRY JOYCE, LAUNDRY DOROTHY, and... LAUNDRY JOYCE AND DOROTHY MAGNET tiers!  Pledge for just one!  Pledge for just the other!  Pledge for both together!  (why one and not the other, really)

They're each 2"x4" and demand a home on your refrigerator.  Want three magnets of your choice (plus the free Lucy magnet) from this Kickstarter?  Pledge for the PICK THREE MAGNETS tier!  Want five magnets of your choice (plus the free Lucy magnet) from this Kickstarter?  Pledge for... yes, PICK FIVE MAGNETS, that's the tier, it's in the name. 

and now that there's more than five non-lucy magnets, that tier finally makes sense

Want them all?  Well, that's what we've got COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tiers for.  

Next up: SOMEBODY™ at $45k!  

I'm just trying to narrow it down to who's next, is all.

pledge today

#kickstarter #dumbing of age

[itswalky]

Me talking about Phil Lynott, the songwriter of "The Boys Are Back In Town"

#mary worth

[itswalky]

DADS also happens retroactively

Was Amber developing dissociative identity something you'd had planned for a while, or was it something that just started happening and you decided you wanted to lean fully into it?

It's something I eventually decided to lean into. Honestly, when I first started Dumbing of Age, in execution Amber was just going to be this fun superhero sometimes. Amber and Amazi-Girl only got separate tags to begin with because Amazi-Girl's civilian identity was supposed to be a "surprise"! And then dads happen, I guess. Dads happen retroactively.

#dumbing of age

[itswalky]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

#mary worth

[itswalky]

WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon

“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”

[itswalky]

DUMBING OF AGE BOOK 13 KICKSTARTER UPDATE

At $45K, HALLOWEEN BECKY is now unlocked!  This magnet is 2″x4″ of in-your-face dinosaur rustlin’.  Pledge for just her at the Halloween Becky tier, OR (or!) pledge for the HALLOWEEN BECKY and HALLOWEEN DINA magnets tier!  Both, obviously.  Both is good.  Dinosaur eats man, woman inherits the earth.

And, of course, the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers are out there, if you need more than just those two goofballs.

And, yeah, the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tier is getting pretty dang enticing at this point, huh!  And that’s even with a few more magnets still to come!

Pledge today!  10 days remain.

#dumbing of age #kickstarter

[itswalky]

face it, tiger, i just hit the shopping mall

praise beth from whom all blessings flow

[itswalky]

verdict: half-correct

Prediction: the storyline “Trystin’ In The Wind” ends with Joe and Joyce cuddling and Joyce saying “Who cares what’s in the Bible.”

*looks at today's strip* a bold prediction let's see how this plays out

#dumbing of age

[itswalky]

[itswalky]

the circus was in town that day 🤡

[itswalky]

Was Amber developing dissociative identity something you'd had planned for a while, or was it something that just started happening and you decided you wanted to lean fully into it?

It's something I eventually decided to lean into. Honestly, when I first started Dumbing of Age, in execution Amber was just going to be this fun superhero sometimes. Amber and Amazi-Girl only got separate tags to begin with because Amazi-Girl's civilian identity was supposed to be a "surprise"! And then dads happen, I guess. Dads happen retroactively.

#dumbing of age

[itswalky]

We’re halfway through the Dumbing of Age Book 13 Kickstarter!  Here’s a surprise magnet tier reveal:  it’s JOE!  He’ll be a 2″x5″ magnet, and if you pledge for the JOE MAGNET tier, he’ll be slid into your  copy of Book 13 along with your free Lucy magnet.

If you’ve pledged for either the PICK THREE MAGNETS or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers, he’s now eligible to choose!  And of course he’s added to your pile if you’ve gone in for COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!

Next up is still the HALLOWEEN BECKY MAGNET tier!  She unlocks at $45K, which isn’t too far away right now.

Pledge today!

#dumbing of age #kickstarter

[itswalky]

Gender Nonconforming Jesus: A look at art history. CW: religion, transphobia, artistic nudity, depictions of open wounds (Long post)