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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].
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* [[555]]: Poor Jim is given such a number [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1252/ by a girl].
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Masturbation is treated a as a casual, fact of life topic.
* [[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].
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* [[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 on Male)]]:
** 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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* [[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
* [[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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* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: Hazel needs one at the end of [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].
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: Hazel can start a fire boiling water. Protip: Don't do it in a cast-iron skillet ''in the microwave''.
* [[LOLcats]]: Hazel's "special" cat is shown to think in [[You No Take Candle|LOLspeak]].
* [[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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* [[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.
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* [[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].
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* [[Unnecessary Makeover]]: [[In-Universe]]. [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.
* [[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 with a Heart of Gold|fairly decent person]]. This seems to have come to a head, in-universe, with Hazel and Zach having a major fight over her immaturity.
* [[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 It's Not Heinous?]]: Angel gave Thea {{spoiler|Restless Leg Syndrome}}! *GASP!*
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Darren, the resident Drag Queen.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Hazel and Zach, Thea and Angel.
* [[Worth It]]: Seen [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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