History WebComic / GirlsWithSlingshots

* ImagineSpot: What Clarice would ''really'' like to do to [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-442/ bad customers]].

* IndulgentFantasySegue: The Revenge of the [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-442/ Porn Store Queen]].

* HalloweenCosplay: One year, the characters in-strip go the route of pop culture, dressing as [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-188/ Ghostbusters and Smurfs]] at Halloween. The next year, all the female characters dress as each other. [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-355/ This ends about as well as one might expect.]] [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-811/ The year after that]], they dress as [[MemeticMutation internet phenomena]], including RickAstley, WebAnimation/HomestarRunner, Two Girls One Cup, and more.

WordOfGod[[note]]see for example the author's blog post for March 16, 2015[[/note]] on the origin of the strip's name is that before she started the comic, the artist would get a lot of requests to draw pictures of girls with guns. As she doesn't like drawing guns she would draw girls with slingshots instead. In-universe, a slingshot is the name of a [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ strong drink]].

Corsetto [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-ending-announcement/ announced on 12/29/14]] that at some point in 2015, GWS will end as a webcomic, but will not be the last we see of the characters. The final strip as we know it [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-2008/ appeared March 13, 2015]]. Since then, the comic is being re-released from the beginning in color, with this version referred to as "GWS Chaser."

!!''Girls with Slingshots'' contains examples of:

-->"This is about as close to post-apocalyptic storyline as you're ever gonna get from me." -- Danielle Corsetto

-->'''Maureen:''' Jamie, your breasts are...legendary.\\

* CampGay: Darren, all the way, with a heaping helping of HaveIMentionedIAmGay. The rest of the gay cast are, by comparison, StraightGay.

-->'''Hazel''': Cats only have two emotions -- "feed me" and "fuck you."

** Despite being rather [[ManChild immature]], Hazel is an extremely talented writer and [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1243/ apparently took accelerated calculus]]...although Vincent claims to have given her a lot of help with her calculus homework and implied that she wasn't very good at it.

* EverybodyKnewAlready: Subverted - with Jamie "discovering" that Thea and Angel aren't just [[UnusualEuphemism "playing board games"]]. Only to discover on her "proof" video that [[spoiler:it wasn't Thea with Angel on the tape]].

** Subverted with Jamie's younger - and more buxom - sister Fiona, who never realizes how her cleavage affects all the guys she tries to hook up with [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws1525 until Jamie gives her a coloring book titled "Our Boobies Are Magic."]]

** Jamie and Erin are mutually disinterested-- Jamie isn't into girls sexually, Erin is just plain asexual. Their relationship gets kind of shaky when Jamie has to deal with sexual frustration, and neither one is into the [[IfItsYouItsOkay obvious solution]].

* InformedAbility: According to everyone who sees her photos, Jamie is a really amazing photographer. However, the audience hardly sees any of her work and what little glimpse we get by way of the background of her gallery show appears to be nothing more than some pedestrian pictures of flowers -not exactly the stuff of solo gallery openings (though the fact the gallery showing Jamie's work is apparently out of touch with the rest of the art world and hasn't had an opening in decades might count as a lampshading of this trope).

* MarshmallowHell: Jamie's ...[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail tracts of land]] are so large that her poor [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws443/ kitten frequently ends up lost in her cleavage.]] One strip, however, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-638 implies that in a former life]], the kitten was a soldier who died a virgin, so in a way, he's getting his wish. He also wanted to come back as a kitten. If that soldier ''is'' that kitten, this a definite [[EarnYourHappyEnding hero's reward.]]

* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Hazel doesn't like dressing in "girly" clothes. She panics when Jamie takes her lingerie shopping - in her own words, she doesn't wear lingerie, she wears ''underwear''.

* TokenMinorityCouple: A story arc built around subverting Type B: the two lesbians in the regular cast finally meet, with a long buildup to their first date...only to find that they have nothing in common. They do have a lengthy friendship with benefits, though.

* KarmaHoudini: [[JerkAss Candy]] tried to rape Chris. Everyone's response? Get her a job as a dominatrix so that she has a healthy outlet. She finally gets her comeuppance for everything--after her [[MoralEventHorizon prank at the wedding]], the entire group turned their backs on her. She hasn't appeared in the strip since...unless you count some stuttering steps toward redemption in crossover strips from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''. She eventually reappeared, greatly alarming Jameson. The way he acted, you'd think he was the one she tried to rape.

* BarSlide: Taken to extremes in [[https://girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws563/ this strip]].

* BarSlide: Taken to extremes in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaster-563/ this strip]].

* DoubleStandard/ DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Discussed and ultimately condemned. Even though Candy tried to rape Chris, Jamie seems horrified at the idea of him [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-270/ macing a girl]]. However, this was more a demonstration of the gut reaction many people would have; two strips later Jamie defends him from the possibility of Candy macing ''him'', pointing out that it should only be used for self-defence, which makes her feelings clear. Meanwhile Hazel's (and initially Jameson's) reactions are more to do with their views on sex (way to miss the point, Hazel), though Hazel later pinpoints Candy as not a feminist but a straight-up misandrist.

* KarmaHoudini: [[JerkAss Candy]] tried to rape Chris. Everyone's response? Get her a job as a dominatrix so that she has a healthy outlet.
** She finally gets her comeuppance for everything--after her [[MoralEventHorizon prank at the wedding]], the entire group turned their backs on her. She hasn't appeared in the strip since...unless you count some stuttering steps toward redemption in crossover strips from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''. She eventually reappeared, greatly alarming Jameson. The way he acted, you'd think he was the one she tried to rape.

** She also slips and refers to Maureen as "Blog Bitch" to her boyfriend. He's understandably [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws92/ furious]].

* DidYouJustHaveSex: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-432/ Hazel get laid?]] [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws631/ Hazel get laid!]].

* HalloweenCosplay: One year, the characters in-strip go the route of pop culture, dressing as [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws188/ Ghostbusters and Smurfs]] at Halloween. The next year, all the female characters dress as each other. [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws355/ This ends about as well as one might expect.]] [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-811/ The year after that]], they dress as [[MemeticMutation internet phenomena]], including RickAstley, WebAnimation/HomestarRunner, Two Girls One Cup, and more.

* MarshmallowHell: Jamie's ...[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail tracts of land]] are so large that her poor [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws443/ kitten frequently ends up lost in her cleavage.]] One strip, however, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-638 implies that in a former life]], the kitten was a soldier who died a virgin, so in a way, he's getting his wish. He also wanted to come back as a kitten. If that soldier ''is'' that kitten, this a definite [[EarnYourHappyEnding hero's reward.]]

* OhCrap: The reaction of pretty much everyone (in-universe and outside) of Hazels reaction [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/index.php?id=1828 here]].

-->[[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ "Everything tastes better with an umbrella."]]

'''AltText:''' This is that moment where Hazel goes 'How do I not have a billion STDs.'

* EskimosArentReal: The old man of Dinosaur Land [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1979/ claims]] that the [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs dinosaurs were taken by aliens]] to the planet "Bloopiter", which "Is just like Jupiter, only real".

* {{Adorkable}}: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws565/ Zach]], Joshua and Tucker.

* AllGirlsLikePonies: Referenced in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws452/ this strip.]]

** Jamie gets pretty much everything she wants from strange men, thanks to her endowments. When she covers them up, she is shocked that drinks suddenly [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws290/ cost more]]. Played creepily straight by every male customer of the porn store.

** Hazel assumes what Zach wants when he [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws236/ offers to drive her home]].

* BarSlide: Taken to extremes in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws563/ this strip]].

* BestialityIsDepraved: A one-off character named Joshua [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws418/ describes how his ex-girlfriend was cheating on him with his best friend]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jamie is sweet and kind until you [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws168/ mess with one of her friends]].

* BillBillJunkBill: With [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws436/ email]].

** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws227/ Hazel in this strip]].

** Hazel freaks that her comment was [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws243/ supposed to be "inner dialogue."]]

* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: Played with in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws464/ this strip.]]
* DidYouJustHaveSex: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws432/ Hazel get laid?]] [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws631/ Hazel get laid!]].
* DirtyOldWoman: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws623/ Hazel's neighbor]], who has ordered strippers and had to have her stomach pumped after a wild party.

* DopeSlap: Jameson [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws503/ gets one]].
* DoubleStandard/ DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Discussed and ultimately condemned. Even though Candy tried to rape Chris, Jamie seems horrified at the idea of him [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws270/ macing a girl]]. However, this was more a demonstration of the gut reaction many people would have; two strips later Jamie defends him from the possibility of Candy macing ''him'', pointing out that it should only be used for self-defence, which makes her feelings clear. Meanwhile Hazel's (and initially Jameson's) reactions are more to do with their views on sex (way to miss the point, Hazel), though Hazel later pinpoints Candy as not a feminist but a straight-up misandrist.

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Jamie nails Hazel with an intercom, letting [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws148/ Jameson know her nasty thoughts about his girlfriend]].

* TheFaceless: Tyler's mother, whose face is always [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws523/ covered by her speech bubbles]].

* GagBoobs: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws352/ Jamie]]. There's more to her than that, of course...

** While it didn't go quite so far, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws503/ it's not the first time]] someone got DistractedByTheSexy when talking to Jamie about her sex life.

** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws264/ Jamie enjoys this type of humor.]]

* HopelessWithTech: One of Hazel's many bizarre cognitive gaps is that she doesn't understand the internet at all, especially social media. She seems to think Website/{{Facebook}} is imaginary, forgets that email exists for months at a time, and doesn't realise that writing for a digital magazine means that people will be able to find, read and review her work online.

* IWantGrandkids: Both Hazel and Zach's mothers. His [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws630/ much more so]].

* ImagineSpot: What Clarice would ''really'' like to do to [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws442/ bad customers]].

* IndulgentFantasySegue: The Revenge of the [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws442/ Porn Store Queen]].

* InnocentInaccurate: Oddly enough, with a [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws516/ grown woman]].

** She [[spoiler:enters and wins a blog contest]] just to keep [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws174/ Maureen and Candy from fighting more]].

* MarshmallowHell: Jamie's ...[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail tracts of land]] are so large that her poor [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws443/ kitten frequently ends up lost in her cleavage.]] One strip, however, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws638/ implies that in a former life]], the kitten was a soldier who died a virgin, so in a way, he's getting his wish. He also wanted to come back as a kitten. If that soldier ''is'' that kitten, this a definite [[EarnYourHappyEnding hero's reward.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Scott [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws100/ had a tendency towards this]].
* MaternallyChallenged: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws612/ Hazel]] is terrified of kids. She can't even figure out [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws614/ how to hold one.]]

* MediumAwareness: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws471/ Here.]]

* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Hazel's ovaries [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws379/ start talking to her]]. She resists them at every turn, even threatening to cut them out and sell them if they don't shut up.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Jamie inverts it [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws219/ perfectly]].

* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws524/ discussed]], though legally, Tyler's mother's lack of understanding of what sex even ''is'' would make proper consent difficult if not impossible.

* NonHumanSidekick: [=McPedro=],the talking [[{{Scotireland}} Scirish]] cactus. [=McPedro=]'s mustache is, in turn, a NonHumanSidekick himself, as he runs away from [=McPedro=] and [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws540/ travels the world.]] And ''he's'' French. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot And gay!]]

* OnlySixFaces: Lampshaded [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws349/ when Clarice and Maureen are undecided on their costumes for Halloween]].
* PaintingTheMedium: "[[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws485/ I've never seen so many stars come out of one woman's crotch!]]"

** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws459/ Tweeney Sodd]], who eventually robs Jameson of his remaining tuft of hair.

* {{Scotireland}}: [=McPedro=]'s accent is supposed to be Irish, but he speaks stereotypical Scottish.[[FridgeBrilliance This may be due to his existence as a drunken delusion of Hazel's]], although he later points it out [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws331/ and refers to his accent as "Scirish."]]

* SexSells: Used [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws40/ very early on]].

* SpitTake: When Jamie tells Hazel she [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws535/ slept with her boss.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: Jamie's [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws273/ secret admirer]].

** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws31/ The graphing calculator has]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_(mathematics) functions.]]

* StripPoker: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws238/ Strip Scrabble]] and then later [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws770/ Strip Laser Tag]], complete with [[TheNudifier lasers that remove your clothes]].

** It was discussed earlier [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws346/ when giving advice to]] DoggedNiceGuy Jim about lavishing attention on a woman prior to dating, particularly the last panel.
* UnnecessaryMakeover: InUniverse. [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws362/ Maureen]], after sex-toy-purveyor Clarice questions her ability to be sexy. Somewhat averted as the makeover doesn't take, and it is specifically stated that the makeover took away what made her sexy in the first place.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Hazel is negligent of her friends and family, incapable of rationally advancing her own interests, and often completely oblivious to the world around her. She drinks to excess, carries a host of unexamined prejudices, and pursues her own sexual appetites obsessively while acting prudish and judgemental towards others. Her complete unwillingness to change or compromise leads to the end of one relationship and prevents her from starting any new ones, and her friends are left to accept her as a jerk with some fundamentally decent qualities.

* {{Crossover}}: [[SomethingPositive Davan]] attended Maureen and Jamison's wedding, and recently Sprinkles gave birth to Choo-Choo Bear's babies, one of whom went to [[Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}} Leslie and Robin.]]

''[[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/ Girls with Slingshots]]'' is a MundaneFantastic webcomic by Danielle Corsetto about the lives of [[HeterosexualLifePartners Hazel and Jamie]], their [[NonHumanSidekick talking cacti]], and their friends. The strip takes a lot of its humor from switching the standard gender arrangement of common sex comedy tropes.

* HulkSpeak: A very cute version ensues after [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws432/ Hazel gets back from being with Zach]]. Lampshaded in the alt text.

* HulkSpeak: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws432/ This strip]].

* IdealizedSex: Mostly averted, except [[RuleOfFunny when it's funny.]] One strip even has [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1328/ Mimi explaining the ways lesbians protect themselves during sex]], and before that there was an entire storyline about what happens if you don't.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Masturbation is treated as a casual, fact of life topic. Not that any of the characters are willing to discuss the topic with their mothers, which is the source of a RunningGag with Hazel's mom mistaking various toys as "back-massagers".

Corsetto [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-ending-announcement/ announced on 12/29/14]] that at some point in 2015, GWS will end as a webcomic, but will not be the last we see of the characters. The final strip as we know it [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-2008/ appeared March 13, 2015]].

* InstantWebHit: Jamie's [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1365/ "I Just want somebody to Ravage me"]] outburst]].

* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: Hazel and Jamie imagine how Chris the Pirate attempting [=ASL=] could [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-883/ go horribly wrong]].

* AllWomenAreLustful:
** Let's just say that when all the [[ADateWithRosiePalms AA batteries]] disappear, a mob of women are seen wandering the streets as though society had collapsed.
** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1204/ It's started]].
--->[[WordOfGod "This is about as close to post-apocalyptic storyline as you're ever gonna get from me."]]

WordOfGod[[note]]see for example the artist's blog post for March 16, 2015[[/note]] on the origin of the strip's name is that before she started the comic, the artist would get a lot of requests to draw pictures of girsl with guns, but as she doesn't like drawing guns she would draw girls with slingshots instead. In-universe, a slingshot is the name of a [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ strong drink]].

* MarshmallowHell: Jamie's ...[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail tracts of land]] are so large that her poor [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws443/ kitten frequently ends up lost in her cleavage.]] One strip, however, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws638/ implies that in a former life]], the kitten was a soldier who died a virgin, so in a way, he's getting his wish. He also wanted to come back as a kitten. If that soldier ''is'' that kitten, I'd call this a definite [[EarnYourHappyEnding hero's reward.]]

** She finally gets her comeuppance for everything--after her [[MoralEventHorizon prank at the wedding]], the entire group turned their backs on her. She hasn't appeared in the strip since...unless you count some stuttering steps toward redemption in crossover strips from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''. She eventually reappeared, greatly alarming Jameson. The way he acted, you'd think he was the one she tried to rape (although it's possible the entire attempted date rape has entered CanonDiscontinuity since none of the characters ever mention it even when mention other bad things Candy's done.

* TheCasanova[=/=]ChivalrousPervert: Zach, who is arguably a trope subversion as he considers the three hundred women whom he has serviced as a gift to the community. Prior to hooking up with Hazel, he gave virgins a good first time and helped service the elderly to make them feel loved again.

* {{Irony}}: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1750/ Tucker giving relationship advice to Clarice]].