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Devils Panties 03/10/2025 (thedevilspanties.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the rave arc continues.

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[+] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Uh oh, weird possibly sexist guys

Nvm they are just gay dudes that have the same style

after that im also lost

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Molly is MDMA,

It’s apparently burning man and all the problem guys are freaked out by the bears tripping Molly and just staring.

The last pannel, the dude on the left is a Molly bear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s the missing link. It’s been about 20 years since I knew anyone who took mdma, and back then they called it eckies.

At risk of sounding out of touch, there’s no way I could have known what anything in panel 4 was supposed to mean.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Speaking as a perpetual wallflower who has never been to a rave in my life, I found it understandable. Admittedly I've heard the term "molly" in reference to ecstasy, but you see as guy wide-eyed staring at someone who looks incredibly uncomfortable about it. Seems pretty obvious that's the "molly bear" that uses "prolonged eye contact" to make "uh-ohs" so uncomfortable that they either leave or at least don't come to another one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Understood the spirit of the comic, not the detail or terminology.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

So... there was a possible way you could understand something in panel 4...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

its in portland and he calls it burning man camp so im thinking its something like the old bar camp but instead of being tech its like a side party for folks who attend burning man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A burning man camp is a pre/post burning man meetup where you can get a feel for new people to the group and make plans. Generally easier to pile 6 people into one car rather than try to get 6 cars into the desert.

My dude owned a suburban that he only used for taking his people to burning man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a man not a bear though, what does bear mean in this context?

Life is strange haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Well, if it's using the term in the same way as the first couple panels, it's a big hairy gay man.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe the joke is not to judge a book by its cover? Or that it's nice to go to safe events where bad people are harassed until they leave?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought it was a smidgen of self awareness about how quickly we judge people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That was my thought in the first two panels but the last two seem to reverse that. But hell I probably already put way more thought into it than I needed to already.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Thanks, i thought i was having a stroke

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Frat boys are college guys who are apart of a fraternity.

Bears are gay men that are fat and/or hairy. (Wikipedia's words, not mine)

Raves are a type of party with light shows, glow sticks, etc, to produce a certain aesthetic.

Burning Man is a specific week-long party that happens out in the desert. Many camps are erected and it becomes a caravan city, essentially.

The comic is saying that the character who keeps get bad vibes from the bears formerly went to Goth parties and likely had bad experiences from frat boys at those parties.

In this case, though, because burning Man costs a ticket fee and alot of other things to go to, and because all the bears are gonna flirt with every guy and anyone who is even slightly homophobic is gonna get uncomfortable and leave, there are only bears around in the place they're at.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

None of these words are in the Bible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what are the goth clubs in Atlanta? The Heretic? Masquerade?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] any of those sound familiar?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is this comic even about at this point?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

the comic is a kind of diary so its about whatever beens going on in her life. She tries to keep track of amusing stuff. Think of it about things you might tell as a story to your friends while hanging out. Some can come off as straight out jokes but some are like: Ok ok. so im at this rave and man this total frat boy comes in and is looking at me and waving and im like. whoa. I want to get away from this guy. So just as im looking to get as far away as I can. Get this. He starts macking on this other dude. Not just any dude but he practically looks like he could be on field and stream. Anway Im telling my buddy about how my douchedar is way off and hes all like. Oh no worries there. Our bears strung out on molly make eye contact with anyone coming in to where the douches just skaddadle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't the Burning Man a dude from New Vegas ?