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▲[http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html Girls with Slingshots] is a [[Mundane Fantastic]] webcomic by Danielle Corsetto about the lives of [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Hazel and Jamie]], their [[Non Human Sidekick|talking cacti]], and their friends. The strip takes a lot of its humor from switching the standard gender arrangement of common sex comedy tropes.
The name appears to come from [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ a rather strong drink].
The comic started in 2004, and as of 2021 is still being updated.
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* [[
* [[A Date
* [[Accidental Unfortunate Gesture]]: Hazel and Jamie imagine how Chris the Pirate attempting ASL could [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-883/ go horribly wrong].
* [[Actually, I Am Him]]: Hazel sends Erin to spy on Jamie and her "new boyfriend Aaron"...when Jamie's actually starting a lesbian relationship with Erin.
* Adorkable: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws565/ Zach].
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Hazel, a petite woman, is to the [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1141/ point] of showing no signs of intoxication until her ''ninth'' beer. [[Played for Laughs]], big time.
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'''Clarice:''' Yeah, but I've been counting bottles and you've crossed your faux-sober threshold.
'''Hazel:''' ''Eight''? Holy shit, I leveled up! }}
* [[All Girls Like Ponies]]: Referenced in [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws452/ this strip.]
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: 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].
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Let's just say that when all the [[A Date
** [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1204/ It's started]
*** [[Word of God|"This is about as close to post-apocalyptic storyline as you're ever gonna get from me."]]
* [[Alt Text]]: Starts with [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1054/ strip 1054.]
* [[Anatomically
* [[Anything That Moves]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws689/ Zach's past].
* [[Art Evolution]]: Over time, the art style has become more stylized and loose.
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* [[Beta Couple]]: Jameson and Maureen become the stable background couple after they get married.
* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]: Hazel has "length" and "girth" requirements for a man.
* [[Bill, Bill, Junk, Bill]]: With [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws436/ email].
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: See [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Hazel.
* [[Brains and Bondage]]: Clarice, one of the more intelligent members of the cast, is a dominatrix. But she dreams of being a librarian.
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** Most of the major gay/bisexual girls are [[Lipstick Lesbian|Lipstick Lesbians]]. Even Mimi is more [[Shorttank]] than she is butch.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Jamie, all the way.
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'''Jamie:''' You can say it twice. I consider them each a separate legend. }}
* [[Camp Gay]]: Darren, all the way, with a heaping helping of [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?]]. The rest of the gay cast are, by comparison, [[
* [[The Casanova]]: 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.
** [[Chivalrous Pervert]]
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: A variety of female (and male) characters with simple but wildly varying body shapes and faces. Even when they dress up as each other for Halloween, it's still possible to tell which character is which.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121228010232/http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/sp-thanksgiving-guest-strip/ Discussed and then subverted].
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* [[Character Development]]: Chris started out as a compulsive exaggerator who was universally known for wearing an eye-patch, but becomes a solid recurring character. One strip also [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on this trope when no one recognizes Chris until he puts on his eye patch, which he no longer actually needs. He remarks that he knows what his only distinctive characteristic is. It turns out he has another one, but he works pretty hard to keep that one under wraps.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws227/ Hazel in this strip].
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* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Hazel's neighbor who has upstaged and hijacked her parties more than once.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1082/ How Thea and Mimi meet].
* [[Crossover]]: [[Something
** A breakdown of the cats and their crossovers is included in [https://web.archive.org/web/20121228010232/http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/sp-thanksgiving-guest-strip/ this strip].
* [[The Cutie]]: Jamie. Mimi makes a good case for herself too.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: Hazel freaks that her comment was [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws243/ supposed to be "inner dialogue."]
* [[Did the Earth Move For You, Too?]]: Played with in [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws464/ this strip.]
* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws432/ Hazel get laid?] [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws631/ Hazel get laid!].
* [[Dirty Old Woman]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws623/ Hazel's neighbor], who has ordered strippers and had to have her stomach pumped after a wild party.
* [[Disabled Love Interest]]: Chris and Melody, although it is played very well and the relationship is fleshed out and realistic.
* [[Disability Superpower]]: Do not question Soo Lin's [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws795/ Daredevilness].
* [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named]]: Played with. Thea catches a STD from fooling around with Angel. {{spoiler|[[What Do You Mean
* [[Distracted
* [[Dope Slap]]: Jameson [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws503/ gets one].
* [[Double Standard]]: Even though Candy tried to rape Chris, Jamie seems horrified at the idea of him [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws270/ macing a girl].
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws268/ Jameson initially thinks]. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her [[Straw Feminist]] pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.
* [[Drag Queen]]: Darren
* [[Dresses the Same]]: Thea at [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1172/ Mimi's party]. For bonus awkwardness, it's the same top as her girlfriend's ''mother''.
* [[Drunken Master]]: Hazel is an amazing writer when she's drunk. Her publisher even tells her straight-up that she doesn't have to read an article to know it's quality as long as she knows Hazel wrote it drunk.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: In one early series, Hazel drags Jamie to [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws43/ spy on Jameson & Maureen's date]. Jamie wholeheartedly disapproves of this, and leaves Hazel to spy alone. This is completely reversed (and ignored) later on when Jamie becomes a spying romance detective and Hazel is the disapproving one.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Jamie, who eventually decides that she wants the girls too. {{spoiler|But only from the waist up.}}
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* [[The Friend Nobody Likes]]: Candy. Candy Candy Candy. A rotten bitch to pretty much everyone, but she's an old friend of Jameson's, so they kind of have to put up with her when Jameson decides to bring her along. Then she pulled that stunt at Jameson's wedding, and Jameson woke up to the fact that "Hey wait, ''I'' don't really like Candy either."
* [[Gag Boobs]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws352/ Jamie]. There's more to her than that, of course...
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* [[Gargle Blaster]]: The titular slingshot.
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Hazel mistakes [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws696/ Jamie's girlfriend Erin] for a man named Aaron.
** Which makes panel three [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1367/ here] something of a [[Brick Joke]].
* [[Girl
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Tucker was trying to get Clarice's attention. Boy, [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1219/ did he get it].
* [[Gonk]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123030158/http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws864/ The Bearded Lady Fetishist that followed Darren home.]
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: We see Thea's [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1178/ here].
* [[Grammar Nazi]]: Maureen [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-849/ cuts Jameson off] over a grammar mistake.
** Thea corrects one of Hazel's [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1315/ speech bubbles].
* [[Groin Attack]]: Candy jokingly suggests Clarice do this when meeting men to see if they are into BDSM. [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1359/ Clarice momentarily considers it].
* [[Halloween Cosplay]]: 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 [[Memetic Mutation|internet phenomena]], including [[Rick Astley]], [[Homestar Runner]], Two Girls One Cup, and more.
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: Hazel has had to remind people of her hetero-ness more than once, especially in earlier strips when she isn't getting any.
* [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1152/ hee hee, come].
* [[Hollywood Sex]]: Mostly averted, except [[Rule of Funny|when it's funny.]] One strip even has [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1328/ Mimi explaining the ways lesbians protect themselves during sex.]
* [[Hot Librarian]]: Averted in Clarice, who tells everyone that she's a librarian when in reality, she is a porn-store clerk moonlighting as a dominatrix. She really does want to be a librarian, though.
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* [[Hulk Speak]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws432/ This strip].
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: After insisting that they couldn't sell a cat food that wasn't nutritious, Hazel [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws731/ buys Twinkies].
* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: Jamie. She even forgoes using a coat in the winter because she can't function without the attention.
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: Hazel needs one at the end of [https://web.archive.org/web/20140812165720/http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1137-2/ this strip].
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Both Hazel and Zach's mothers. His [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws630/ much more so].
* [[I Taste Delicious]]: Hazel and Maureen get a moment of this after they get into a fight and spray each other with root beer.
* [[If Jesus, Then Aliens]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws667/ Bizarre form].
* [[Imagine Spot]]: What Clarice would ''really'' like to do to [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws442/ bad customers].
* [[Indulgent Fantasy Segue]]: The Revenge of the [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws442/ Porn Store Queen].
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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Clarice is a ''librarian'' working at a ''book store''.
* [[Instant Web Hit]]: Jamie's {{spoiler|[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1365/ "I Just want somebody to Ravage me"] outburst}}.
* [[
* [[Jerkass]]: ''Candy''. Hazel has her moments of this.
* [[Joisey]]: Various cities and towns in New Jersey are mentioned as being close by. It seems to take place in the New Brunswick<ref>Not the province</ref> area. When Hazel goes to the [[Big Applesauce]] she takes the train. The writer is probably a local.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: [[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 [[Moral Event Horizon|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 [[Something
*** She recently 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 [[Canon
* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: Poor [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-902/ Thea].
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Hazel can start a fire boiling water. Protip: Don't do it in a cast-iron skillet ''in the microwave''.
* [[
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Jamie's ...[[Monty Python and
* [[Maternally Challenged]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws612/ Hazel].
* [[Meat Versus Veggies]]: Candy Versus Maureen.
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Often and explicitly.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: "[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-973/ Best ER story ever.]"
* [[Non
* [[The Not
* [[The Nudifier]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws770/ Lasers] that remove your clothes, and [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws774/ save them for later], used in playing [[Strip Poker|Strip Laser Tag]].
* [[One of the Boys]]: Hazel, to the point where she hangs out with the guys during the bachelor party and is repeatedly mentioned as actually being the guy in her relationship (including shallowness and refusal to think about the "future" beyond lovemaking).
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* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Candy, to Jameson. She tells herself that her vitriolic attempts to sabotage his relationship with Maureen are just harmless pranks that Maureen is too sensitive to appreciate, until finally she pushes Jameson to the breaking point at the wedding.
* [[Prince Charming Wannabe]]: Jim doesn't get that his romantic gestures come off as creepy.
* [[Punny Name]]:
** [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws459/ Tweeney Sodd], who eventually robs Jameson of his remaining tuft of hair.
** Melody, who is deaf.
* [[Rule
* [[Scotireland]]: McPedro's accent is supposed to be Irish, but he speaks stereotypical Scottish.[[Fridge Brilliance|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."]
* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Hazel can't seem to grasp that lesbian sex isn't limited to strap-ons.
* [[Shared Universe]]: With ''[[Something
** Also, Robyn from [[All New Issues]] is apparently Hazel's cousin.
* [[Ship Sinking]]: Hammered home when Angel not only screws someone else behind Thea's back, but tells Thea they were never in a real relationship to begin with. ''Ouch.''
* [[Shout
** One in poor taste in a [https://web.archive.org/web/20121228005711/http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/guest-comic-by-dave-barrack/ guest comic.]
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Maureen.
* [[Silent Snarker]]: [[The Speechless|Melody.]]
* [[The Speechless]]: Maureen's sister, who is deaf. She can still sign and text people, though.
* [[Stalker
* [[STD Immunity]]: Averted with Angel and Thea, where the latter picks up a scorching case of {{spoiler|restless leg syndrome.}}
* [[Stealth Pun]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130627053115/http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws810
** [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws31/ The graphing calculator has] [
* [[Straw Vegetarian]]: Maureen gets ill at the ''mention'' of eating meat.
* [[Strip Poker]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws238/ Strip Scrabble] and then later [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws770/ Strip Laser Tag], complete with [[The Nudifier|lasers that remove your clothes]].
* [[Technical Virgin]]: Jamie, despite having several dates that had "happy endings," has never gone all the way. She seems to believe as long as she has an intact hymen she counts as one since she had (implied disastrous) sex with her girlfriend Erin before she left for England but mentioned later when Hazel had an STD scare that she was still a virgin.
* [[The Talk]]: Hazel and Clairce give it to not only Tyler but also his mother when they discover neither knows where babies come from.
* [[Token Minority Couple]]: 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.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Threatening to beat a dominatrix has no effect except her [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws752/ admiring your weapon].
* [[Umbrella Drink]]: Because even a [[Gargle Blaster]] tastes better with umbrellas.
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* [[Unnecessary Makeover]]: [[In
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Hazel's at least close, especially early on. She often crosses the line from [[Deadpan Snarker]] into just plain being a jerk, and she's also pretty selfish, and this usually appears for the sake of a punchline. However, on other occasions she shows that she's a [[Jerk
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Angel and Thea playing board games in the back room.
** "Giant Sea Cucumber!"
* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]:
** Jamie. She keeps the world's luckiest kitten in there.
** And Fiona, {{spoiler|Jamie's sister.}} She keeps booze in there.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Darren, the resident Drag Queen.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Hazel and Zach, Thea and Angel.
* [[Worth It]]: Seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123024713/http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws853/ here].
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Tucker thinks his stalking behavior will work because of [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1257/ romantic comedies].
* [[Your Mom]]: [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1015/ seen here].
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