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If’n I were one of them sexy lesbians (ed. note: if only) I would affix the qualifier sexy lesbian” to everything I ever did. “I’ll be a little late to the meeting; I have to get my car a sexy lesbian oil change first.”
So you were the 5th Lesbian! Do you feel bitter for leaving the group just a few months before they became “bigger than Jesus” and enjoyed an unprecedented level of success?
Yeah. “Walk Like a Babylonian” was a complete sell-out cut. I couldn’t even believe they were the same group that did that amazing cover of “I’m on Fire”.
I think Ruth is actually momentarily happy, which is why she is suddenly kinda nervous about her future. She’s done enough that she ought to have been fired already.
Ruth is more into murder-suicide. If Billie should commit suicide, Ruth will murder Billie’s death, thereby creating ZomBillie. In a world where people regularly wish they could hate each other to death, this will be the first time anyone has hated someone to life.
And how would you pronounce it? “Slip”? As in, slipshine?
Is Willis giving us unbelievably subtle foreshadowing knowing we’d eventually get to band names, or am I just ridiculously tired? I mean, it’s probably the latter but he’s certainly capable of the former…
Yes, Ruth, THAT’S what you need to be fired over. Not the threats, not the violence, not that theft and sundry felonies, not even the alcohol, nope, this is your biggest problem.
(Granted, the whole Billie thing IS worthy of getting fired over, but still.)
Well I can see how the campus management would prefer to have employees who plan to stick around, yeah, but I would hope the “lesbian” part isn’t what Ruth expect to get fired for. Idk if an RA dating one of “her students” would count as sexual harassment, but there’s a worrisome power imbalance happening here that I’m sure commenters have addressed before.
Ruth does seem to be working her way toward choosing her job over Billie though and I’m not sure how I feel about that.
As a RA at a large public university, the problem (at least at my university) with Ruth and Billie’s relationship wouldn’t be the fact that it is homosexual relationship but because she is in a relationship with a resident. She is in a position of power and (at least at my university, again) has access to a key that could let her into Billie’s room.
That being said, the threats and all that other stuff would also be grounds for firing too. However, in this comic universe, who knows what policy is? Only David! I just want these two to be happy.
I’m not familiar with the RA concept… Not something I remember from college back in Europe. Is this a full-time job, or is the typical RA a college student themselves?
They are college students. My older daughter was an RA as an undergrad, spent 2 years in charge of 40 upperclassmen. My younger daughter was the graduate assistant who oversaw the RAs for the 3 dorms on her campus.
Almost always these days are they college students. In the past it wasn’t this way but the move this changed because residents usually trust and relate to their peers better.
At my university it is considered a 20-hour job.
We could start the Worldwide Internet Famous Sexy Lesbian Psychiatrists Mailorder School. In Froid we trust. Sanity is overrated. Special everyday on Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pacts.
Grounds for firing? Only if they find out. And how would they find out? It’s not like anyone is going to come looking for Billie. Like the girl only has about two friends in the entire school.
Yeah, it’s not like those two friends care or anything. Or having not seen her in some time and being aware that she’s going through some stuff would attempt to find her. Totally not a thing that could happen.
Yeah this is a point I find really interesting. I think Ruth just suddenly finds herself caring about what happens to her, because unlike Ruth we’ve seen in the entire length of the strip, this Ruth is actually happy.
It’s a vicious cycle!
Depression leads to drink, drink leads to Billie, Billie leads to revived love of life, love of life leads to considering the future, considering the future leads to depression.
Well, no, but there are at least a few things she’s done not in regards to Billie that aren’t firing offenses. Like awkward conversation with Amber after suplexing Blaine: totally doing her job!
That’s actually something of a myth: life expectancies in the past were low mostly because there was so much child mortality going around, lowering the average. If you managed to make it to 25 you could expect to live to a respectably old age so long as you dodged disease and war.
Median life expectancy was even more correlated with social class during the Renaissance than it is now. A peasant would live about 40 years, while a nobleman would live somewhat longer. (And the gendered forms of the noun were entirely conscious here — childbirth was a quick route to the grave.)
Agh how I hate that song…it’s not bad enough she misinterpreted Romeo and Juliet, she had to throw in a reference to “the scarlet letter” in the song, which leads me to believe she just picked a few books from a high school summer reading list and wrote a song about them without bothering to actually read them.
I always figured that Romeo and Juliet was supposed to be an object lesson in how being a stupid hormonal teenager was gonna get you killed, and it’s included in so many high school curricula as a sort of public service announcement. Unfortunately this backfires because its high school audience is all stupid hormonal teenagers so they take entirely the wrong lesson from it.
My favorite memory of reading r&j in my freshman year was when we were watching a movie of it (wanna say 60s/70s adaptation) and one of my male classmates exclaimed “God Romeo you’re such a girl!” when Romeo was getting his mope on at the start.
Ah, Ruth is going to be fine, she just discovered she’s capable of being happy. Now to work on Billie.
Romeo and Juliet were 16 and 14 respectively if I recall HS English class. Romance was second to hormones, as is most teen attractions. They just suffered from an over abundance of stupid (imo)
I believe the solution to this presents itself as obvious. Upgrade the sucide-pact to marriage. Young hetero couples do impulsive super-shorterm marriages all the time. It’s not dating if she’s your spouse. ;p
Where is the music of “The Singing Nun” now when we need it? Oh yeah, that’s right….she died in a sexy lesbian suicide pact some several years ago……OK….then how about….THE FLYING NU….Oh forget it!
It’s weird, I like both characters, but I’d like to see this relationship crash and burn. Maybe because I like just about every other girl/Ruth better than Ruth/Billie. The abuse has forever soured me on it.
Next time try drawing the yawning panel last. That way the yawning pic won’t make you yawn while you’re drawing the bulk of the strip.
On an unrelated topic, I wonder if the word “yawn” can also have the same effect on people as seeing a yawn. Do you think it would make people yawn if some jerk were to type out the word “yawn” a bunch?
Wait..I remember wanting this kind of relationship when I was younger..I hate being broody! I have to go! Tell my wife I love her. BURY ME WITH MY HAMMER!
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Firing: a fate worse than sexy lesbian suicide
Sexy lesbian suicide : A fate better than most suicides
I wonder if it involves scissors somehow…
Now that’s just horrible.
Do continue.
I would but there might be children around.
(They cover the scissors with dildos)
As long as they don’t run with them, they should be fine!
“Don’t run with dildos” the life advice you never get until it’s too late.
The life advice Joyce never got.
Sexy Lesbian Suicide: One of the worst Sexy Lesbian activities, however.
I’m hard pressed to think of other sexy lesbian activities that might be bad.
Sexy lesbian genicide would be worse, way worse.
Sexy lesbian homocide is bad as well, but also redundant if you’re of a mind for puns.
You were supposed to scale up, not down. Sexy lesbian xenocide.
You’re right. Xenocide was terrible.
Damn you, Orson Scott Card!
I’m pretty sure I saw than movie on TBS at like two in the morning.
Sexy lesbian shortage.
Sexy lesbian omnicide
Anything you have to construct a Sexy Lesbian Death Star to do.
Would Sexy Lesbian Genocide be a Genocide perpetrated against Sexy Lesbians, or a Genocide perpetrated by Sexy Lesbians against some other party?
Either way, not good.
pogo scissoring? That sounds painful, at the least.
That was the reason a friend of mine and her girlfriend split up.
sexy lesbian shortage would be damn bad too.
Remember kids lesbianism doesn’t have to lead to suicide regardless to how sexy it might be.
could be worse. You could be…. *expellled*
He needs to straighten out his priorities.
Yes, Expelled
Aww, this is too cute. Now GO GET PROFESSIONAL HELP, DAMMIT. BOTH OF YOU.
Get sexy lesbian professional help!
So…Make it a threeway, basically?
I’m sure Leslie is around the campus somewhere…
Or there’s Daisy. I think that’s her name. The editor of the campus paper. Not sure if she’d be considered professional though…
*In her office, Leslie’s head pops up*
Sexy Lesbian senses… tingling…
Gah! I know I’m the only one who read that and thought of Zlay from Strawberry Shake Sweet. And that’s sad >_<
If’n I were one of them sexy lesbians (ed. note: if only) I would affix the qualifier sexy lesbian” to everything I ever did. “I’ll be a little late to the meeting; I have to get my car a sexy lesbian oil change first.”
“One sexy lesbian latte, please. With whipped cream.”
My boss and I have a sexy lesbian one-on-one meeting once a month…
“I can’t come to work tomorrow, I’m getting a sexy lesbian root canal”
That qualifier just makes everything better, doesn’t it?
It works with fortune cookies too, just like “…in bed” and “…except in bed” and “…with Batman”.
“All things are difficult before they are sexy lesbian easy.”
. . . I’m hard-pressed to combine those phrases. “Unless you’re sexy lesbians in bed with Batman?” That just doesn’t make sense.
Of course it does. He’s Batman.
He practiced hard to be the best at EVERYTHING, right? Presumably that includes lesbianism.
Guys can lesbian, too. Makes them really popular in some gatherings.
And “…in my pants.”
, from a great height.
This is my new favourite thing.
Why is the cream whipped? Is it a sexy lesbian SM latte?
Ohp. Characters are happy.
Guess someone’s dying this chapter.
I haven’t seen Dina in a while.
Hahahhahaha… oh wait he’s right, where is she?
You have to guess which door she’s behind.
“You were there?”
“Always.”
That line would have worked better if I was using my Matoi grav.
Yes, but you gave me the right feed line.
Of course, there’s, “Sister shows off a little.”
Right behind you.
RAWR
Clever girl.
We haven’t seen Blaine neither.
I’m not convinced that Ruth is happy at all.. in fact, she seems pretty “WTF did I just do” about all of this.
Hurrah for sexy lesbian suicide pacts!
This particular lesbian suicide pact probably involved too much boozy farting while asleep to entirely qualify as sexy.
Nothing wrong with a little fartin’. Happens to everyone – even sexy bisexuals in a lesbian relationship.
Ya know, it’s probably a bad thing, but Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact just has such an awesome ring to it.
I used to play bass for Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact.
So you were the 5th Lesbian! Do you feel bitter for leaving the group just a few months before they became “bigger than Jesus” and enjoyed an unprecedented level of success?
I was listening to Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact before they went all commercial.
Yeah they really lost their touch and started farting out all that generic “up in the club” dance music.
Yeah. “Walk Like a Babylonian” was a complete sell-out cut. I couldn’t even believe they were the same group that did that amazing cover of “I’m on Fire”.
That’s the name for 4 of my screen plays.
Yeah, it needs to be a book name, or a chapter name, or a Willis-porn name, or something.
A suicide pact? Now I’m getting Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei flashbacks.
I’m in Dispair!
…The fact that lesbian suicide pacts can lead to job loss has left me in despair!
The fact this isn’t a Slipshine has left me in despair!
The fact that life does not follow the plot of shounen manga has left me in despair!
The fact that shounen anime often doesn’t depict sexy.lesbian suicide pacts has left me in despair! (Now we’re back on track)
I always thought despair came before sexy lesbian suicide pacts.
The fact that it doesn’t has left me in despair!
No, no suicide pact for you both! Get help and be cute together!
More like Sexy Lesbian Self-destruction Promise.
I think that’s the name of my local ramen shop.
No wait, it’s an attack from Sailor Moon.
Sailor Neptune…
Can’t unsee! Then again, why would I want to?
Every now and then Ruth manages to say something that totally cracks me up, despite my complete dislike of this incarnation of the character.
The best kind of suicide pact.
No it isn’t, because you know its not going to last.
People die in suicide pacts.
People dye in suicide blonde pacts.
people dye in suicidal blonde packs.
But they get cured in concrete blonde pacts.
But do they die when they are killed?
I think it lasts forever.
I think Ruth is actually momentarily happy, which is why she is suddenly kinda nervous about her future. She’s done enough that she ought to have been fired already.
Ruth, you’re an ass
Really. I think Billie thinks that she’s the TITS.
Oh ha ha very funny
Yes, very
Ruth is more into murder-suicide. If Billie should commit suicide, Ruth will murder Billie’s death, thereby creating ZomBillie. In a world where people regularly wish they could hate each other to death, this will be the first time anyone has hated someone to life.
And Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will write the resulting spin-off!
Oh David Willis, you always know-
*YAWN*
-how to cheer us up!
I wish you would… *YAWN* …stop that, it’s… *YAWN* …catchy.
Emperor Kiva never….*YAWNS* DAMMIT!
New band name: Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact.
Maybe just Lesbian Suicide Pact. The first one’s a bit wordy for a band name…
Damn, beat me to the “band name” idea.
And I don’t think it’s too long. You could always abbreviate it SLSP.
And how would you pronounce it? “Slip”? As in, slipshine?
Is Willis giving us unbelievably subtle foreshadowing knowing we’d eventually get to band names, or am I just ridiculously tired? I mean, it’s probably the latter but he’s certainly capable of the former…
Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact is the name of my new band.
pff, eveyone knows “dot tumblr dot com” is the new “band name”
Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact dot tumblr dot com… probably already taken
It is not.
Ruth looks quite different without her glasses.
Yes, Ruth, THAT’S what you need to be fired over. Not the threats, not the violence, not that theft and sundry felonies, not even the alcohol, nope, this is your biggest problem.
(Granted, the whole Billie thing IS worthy of getting fired over, but still.)
Give Ruth some credit! It was only a few felonies.
Billie: Suicide Pacts? No, no, that’s silly.
Ruth: Your license got taken away, right?
Billie: Uh-huh.
Ruth: So its really unlikely that you’ll decide to drive drunk into the path of an oncoming 18-Wheeler, right?
Billie: …..uh….I think so? Where the hell did that come from?
Ruth: I dunno. It just suddenly felt really, really important to ask about all of a sudden…
No regrets!
No out-references. Besides, had to be the two most DamnYouWillis moments, the first one having no regrets and the second one being such a blast.
(And now all you virgins are going to have to go find out who died and where.)
Ruthie, baby, shut up and go down.
That’s what she said.
You really know how to sweet talk a girl.
A suicide pact that’s working itself really slowly.
Well I can see how the campus management would prefer to have employees who plan to stick around, yeah, but I would hope the “lesbian” part isn’t what Ruth expect to get fired for. Idk if an RA dating one of “her students” would count as sexual harassment, but there’s a worrisome power imbalance happening here that I’m sure commenters have addressed before.
Ruth does seem to be working her way toward choosing her job over Billie though and I’m not sure how I feel about that.
As a RA at a large public university, the problem (at least at my university) with Ruth and Billie’s relationship wouldn’t be the fact that it is homosexual relationship but because she is in a relationship with a resident. She is in a position of power and (at least at my university, again) has access to a key that could let her into Billie’s room.
That being said, the threats and all that other stuff would also be grounds for firing too. However, in this comic universe, who knows what policy is? Only David! I just want these two to be happy.
I’m not familiar with the RA concept… Not something I remember from college back in Europe. Is this a full-time job, or is the typical RA a college student themselves?
They are college students. My older daughter was an RA as an undergrad, spent 2 years in charge of 40 upperclassmen. My younger daughter was the graduate assistant who oversaw the RAs for the 3 dorms on her campus.
Almost always these days are they college students. In the past it wasn’t this way but the move this changed because residents usually trust and relate to their peers better.
At my university it is considered a 20-hour job.
I wonder if Leslie’s grad studies are aimed at becoming a sexy lesbian psychiatrist.
We could start the Worldwide Internet Famous Sexy Lesbian Psychiatrists Mailorder School. In Froid we trust. Sanity is overrated. Special everyday on Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pacts.
Grounds for firing? Only if they find out. And how would they find out? It’s not like anyone is going to come looking for Billie. Like the girl only has about two friends in the entire school.
Yeah, it’s not like those two friends care or anything. Or having not seen her in some time and being aware that she’s going through some stuff would attempt to find her. Totally not a thing that could happen.
And they’re totally not going to ask her RA for help in their fear.
Well, at least they probably won’t shin-kick their way in and find them half-naked in bed together.
Walky: “Dammit, Billie, all you had to do was answer ONE TEXT and I could still be asleep right now!!”
BILLIE: “My choices were text you or try to lick Ruth’s freckles off. I think I made the right decision.”
WALKY: “Point taken. Sorry for the interruption and I think Dorothy’s got something on her thighs I need to go help her with…”
JOYCE: “She does? Where? I want to help her too!”
+1
Sexy lesbian DRINKING pact. Much less depressing.
Ruth, I’m pretty sure everything you’ve done with regard to Billie since the beginning has been grounds for firing.
Yeah this is a point I find really interesting. I think Ruth just suddenly finds herself caring about what happens to her, because unlike Ruth we’ve seen in the entire length of the strip, this Ruth is actually happy.
I like this possibility a lot. Her mood is improved enough to allow her to imagine her future (other than relapse and death).
Imagining her future of course leads to depression and drink.
It’s a vicious cycle!
Depression leads to drink, drink leads to Billie, Billie leads to revived love of life, love of life leads to considering the future, considering the future leads to depression.
Not just with regard to Billie…
Well, no, but there are at least a few things she’s done not in regards to Billie that aren’t firing offenses. Like awkward conversation with Amber after suplexing Blaine: totally doing her job!
Fear of being fired didn’t stop her from drinking in a dry dorm, so…
Oh Ruth, just make sure Billie keeps this quiet, and you’ll be fine.
Just stick her in your cleavage again if she talks too much.
Now brush your teeth, then kiss. Morning breath sucks.
Or at least use a mouthwash.
They might use whiskey. Same active ingredient.
Before I leave brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack
That sounds painful. Does a bottle have any benefits compared to a toothbrush?
Ke$ha, is that you?
What is a sexy lesbian suicide pact? I like Ruth’s and Joyce’s eye color a lot.
Exactly what it sounds like.
I wonder when Walky and gang will barge in and how will Joyce react?
She’ll turn so red and melt through the floor.
HOMOSEXUAL ALCOHOL-FUELED PREMARITAL HANKPANKY!
Too wordy, how about GAY BOOZE-BASED HANKPANKY!
Coochy-Hoochy Hanky-Panky!!!
No, it should be Hoochy-Coochy, otherwise the hooch is coochy, and that wouldn’t taste right.
But Hoochy-coochy has a separate meaning that has nothing to do with alcohol.
Okay, I’m going to go with my backup joke then:
Shooter-Cooter Hanky-Panky
Boozy-Floozy?
+1
I am offended by how DAMN ADORABLE THESE TWO ARE
JUST LOOKING FOR REASONS TO BE OFFENDED
People yawning fills me with a murderous rage.
The orange of Ruth’s shirt offends me.
FUCK THE COLOUR GREEN.
GREEN IS NOT A CREATIVE COLOUR!
God I hate love. And sweetness. And sexy lesbians, god those nauseate me. And what’s with all the boobs?? Worst comic EVAR!
I was once offended by an offended person so I find that offensive.
The best defense is a good offense
Therefore if I offend enough people, I will be INVINCIBLE
I have never been offended in my whole life and so I find your being offended to be very offensive!
I am offended by people who have never been offended.
And the Dutch.
A pact is only as good as the paper it’s written on, so as long as there’s nothing in writing Ruth, you’re in the clear.
You guys, stop! Sexy lesbian suicide pacts are not funn!……Okay, THIS one is, but that’s entirely beside the point!
*funny
What about hetorosexual platonic suicide pacts, Cuz a lot of people seem to really think Romeo and Juliet is romantic for whatever reason?
I think the people who think Romeo and Juliet are an ideally romantic couple are people who don’t actually know how it ends.
Looking at you, Taylor Swift.
Or are teenagers themselves, and just as stupid and hormonal.
To be fair, that was the popular view during the Romantic period.
But then, the Romantics thought The Sorrows of Young Werther described an ideal to be emulated. The Romantics were dipshits.
Eh, hundreds of years ago you got to live to be like 25 anyway, so it’s much more worth it to go out super-dramatic with that in mind.
That’s actually something of a myth: life expectancies in the past were low mostly because there was so much child mortality going around, lowering the average. If you managed to make it to 25 you could expect to live to a respectably old age so long as you dodged disease and war.
Fine, then they were both in crazy violent mob families intent on killing each other!
Welllllll…sort of
Median life expectancy was even more correlated with social class during the Renaissance than it is now. A peasant would live about 40 years, while a nobleman would live somewhat longer. (And the gendered forms of the noun were entirely conscious here — childbirth was a quick route to the grave.)
Agh how I hate that song…it’s not bad enough she misinterpreted Romeo and Juliet, she had to throw in a reference to “the scarlet letter” in the song, which leads me to believe she just picked a few books from a high school summer reading list and wrote a song about them without bothering to actually read them.
To be fair, if the alternative is reading The Scarlet Letter…
So she basically wrote a song that plays to her audience? Sounds better than most of the music industry anymore.
I always figured that Romeo and Juliet was supposed to be an object lesson in how being a stupid hormonal teenager was gonna get you killed, and it’s included in so many high school curricula as a sort of public service announcement. Unfortunately this backfires because its high school audience is all stupid hormonal teenagers so they take entirely the wrong lesson from it.
My favorite memory of reading r&j in my freshman year was when we were watching a movie of it (wanna say 60s/70s adaptation) and one of my male classmates exclaimed “God Romeo you’re such a girl!” when Romeo was getting his mope on at the start.
Ah, Ruth is going to be fine, she just discovered she’s capable of being happy. Now to work on Billie.
Romeo and Juliet were 16 and 14 respectively if I recall HS English class. Romance was second to hormones, as is most teen attractions. They just suffered from an over abundance of stupid (imo)
The priest didn’t help.
Or the nurse.
Or the murder rap.
What, after openly assaulting, threatening and stealing from several students, NOW she’s worried about grounds for firing?
This is the first time we’ve seen Ruth feeling happy enough to care about what happens to her.
Ouch, right in the feels
Don’t forget kidnapping.
(She tracked students down and physically forced them to come back to the floor meeting.)
So, the college’s no-sexy-lesbian-suicide-pact policy. Would you say that it’s…
explicit?
YEAHHHH!! B)
Bless this comment section.
Ruth freak-out in 10…9…8…7…
damn you RA no dating your residents rules!
Quick! Billie move to a different building!
I believe the solution to this presents itself as obvious. Upgrade the sucide-pact to marriage. Young hetero couples do impulsive super-shorterm marriages all the time. It’s not dating if she’s your spouse. ;p
Okay, this is the Title for Book Five.
Suggestions are closed, everyone can go home and wait to order one’s copy of “Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact”.
Where is the music of “The Singing Nun” now when we need it? Oh yeah, that’s right….she died in a sexy lesbian suicide pact some several years ago……OK….then how about….THE FLYING NU….Oh forget it!
Suicide pact?
Isn’t that what every marriage is?
Till death part us and so on.
It’s weird, I like both characters, but I’d like to see this relationship crash and burn. Maybe because I like just about every other girl/Ruth better than Ruth/Billie. The abuse has forever soured me on it.
Today’s strip just killed me.
Ruth’s lines are amazing.
Hehehehe
Her curves are also amazing.
They may be sexy and lesbians, but suicide pacts aren’t quite sexy. Maybe that’s just me though?
is it necessary to call a suicide pact “sexy”? Twice? Seems like that kind of works against us taking it seriously and feels a little weird.
It is consistent with how Ruth would talk about it, though, especially if she wants it to seem like no big deal (which, in her situation, I would).
Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact is my Dresden Dolls cover band.
I believe it.
Now I want “Stupid Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact” to have its own TVTropes page.
Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact…
For once when I say ‘I read that manga’ I’m not joking.
(Unfortunately, I can’t find it to reread, since I’ve forgotten the title…)
I have to call my bandmates and tell them we are now called “Lesbian Suicide Pact”
I would go to literally every performance for a band called “Lesbian Suicide Pact”
call me crazy, but I think Lesbian Suicide Pact trumps getting fired
What about sexy lesbian fired? That sounds preferable to suicided.
too true.
Next time try drawing the yawning panel last. That way the yawning pic won’t make you yawn while you’re drawing the bulk of the strip.
On an unrelated topic, I wonder if the word “yawn” can also have the same effect on people as seeing a yawn. Do you think it would make people yawn if some jerk were to type out the word “yawn” a bunch?
graghgh
I yawned while reading this post.
No.
Wait..I remember wanting this kind of relationship when I was younger..I hate being broody! I have to go! Tell my wife I love her. BURY ME WITH MY HAMMER!
I wish I could be in a sexy lesbian suicide pact. *sigh*
Death by scissoring? I’m sorry.
Is this that thing you call… “happiness”?
Don’t worry, it won’t last. Happiness has a short half life. It’s very unstable.
I think ive found my new band name, Sexy Lesbian Suicide pact sounds good for a punk jazz quartet right?
Several syncopations tonight~
This probably won’t go well, but eh, I love seeing Billie happy.
Good, she’s getting some self-awareness. There may be hope yet.
Every time I read that alt text I yawn.
Damn you Willis!
Oh oh, I’m in one of those!
So, Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact… name of book 5?