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It’s kind of weird to think about the fact we’re never going to get to see these guys graduate, or even finish their first year. We’ve been following them for so long…
Eh, Willis has said he didn’t plan on having the strip last longer than freshman year. Luckily, at this rate, we’ll still get another coupla decades of DoA.
My life expectancy at this point is about 50-60 years, so I might see towards the end of Sophomore year. Depends on what Willis’ own life expectancy is though… xD
Neither will Willis, but thanks to the dude’s work ethic our descendants will be able to enjoy the strip in the centuries to come. I can only hope they thank his holographic reconstruction at a con someday.
Of course it won’t end well, it’d be no fun for Ethan! for it to end well he’d need to scoot over next to Ethan and save a spot for Amber on his other side!
I’m a robot, STDs are nothing to me, not gonna knock anyone up, count me in! Why you laughing Daniel the Human? No I would NOT freeze up again! That was only once. Cause it was hot. My processor overheated. YES IT WAS A HOT NIGHT! In Winter. Wha, ah scrap, auto-dictation’s still on. At least I didn’t say
Reminds me of the empty seat straight dudes leave between themselves when they go to see a movie with a bro, lest anyone get the impression they’re on a date or something. My friends and I called it “the empty seat of heterosexuality”, although I guess now we’d call it “the no homo seat”
I went to the movies at an older theater not so long ago, and should have left one of these seats between me and the next person, because the seats weren’t wide enough for my shoulders or the shoulders of the people on either side of me. That was a cramped 105 minutes.
That really more than anything else is why I leave a space unless it’s my wife. I’m a pretty big guy and I have an outsized sense of personal space. On the other hand, I sit in the very back of the theater so I don’t block anybody’s view accidentally and I worry about taking up extra space on planes and subways. So I guess it’s all relative.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a movie with anyone who did that. We’d have mocked the hell out of anyone who tried to space out like that, even back in the 70s and 80s when casual homophobia was a lot more widespread.
Is this really a thing these days? My theater-going has been almost all stage plays since about 2000, movies are too easy to watch at home with friends now.
Ah, ten years is nothing. Remember, there is absolutely no definite empirical evidence that you’re mortal, and from your point of view there never will be.
Well, I’m shooting for at least 2076. I’ll only be 116 years old, and I can tell all those young punks about how the bicentennial was way better than the tricentennial.
So, there were a few people in 1976 who might have remembered 1876, but none of them seem to have been older than 10 or 12 in 1876. Which means that 2076 will probably be the first American centenary where people can recall the previous one*… Which I find fascinating!
* Assuming 1) the survival of the USA as a state till 2076, and 2) the survival of humanity till 2076 with current longevity trends.
If I make it that long and the US is still a country, I’m looking forward to collecting tricentennial quarters to go with all the 1976 ones I’ve hoarded. Them and wheat pennies, my only numismatic weaknesses.
I kinda want to know Dorothy’s reaction to the fact that we’ve had a bunch of presidents who have done hard drugs, let alone drink a bit of underage alcohol.
I mean, her thought process is two-fold, right?
1. Can’t get involved with drinking and such because I need to focus on studying, and
2. Can’t get involved with drinking and such because what if I got in trouble/someone took a picture, it could ruin my political career.
Both of which are kind of legitimate… until you pick it apart and realize that taking a night off won’t make you fail, and Obama admitted to using cocaine and everyone kind of shrugged and went “eh.”
I don’t think she’s delusional enough to believe that a little underage drinking in college could endanger a political career. It isn’t true now, and it will be even less so when she starts jockeying for a serious office ten or fifteen years down the road.
I would hope that that road’s been paved for her by then, too. Twenty-four years (while the minimum is 35, the youngest president was 42) is quite a while.
Yeah, but the real shit-slinging doesn’t start until you’re running for president, as witnessed by all this stuff that gets dredged up every four years when governors and senators are running.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not denying that double standards exist. Rather, you can still get away with some things as a woman without ruining your political career.
The thing is that those presidents had a lot of advantages that she doesn’t. All of them being male is a big one (and Christian, for that matter) but there’s also the matter of things like money and political connections that many if not all of them lucked into, which she doesn’t want to have to count on. There’s a reason most people don’t even get close to being President, after all.
That said, I don’t understand how she’s managed to pick up this level of workload in her first semester at what seems to be a pretty standard college. I can understand doing all she can do, but even all she can do shouldn’t call for this much schoolwork.
Also, all of these current and former presidents had the advantage of not growing up in the age of smartphones and the internet, where every transgression (real or perceived) remains forever.
They don’t have dozens of half-century-old pictures of college parties hanging over their heads. The point is, there are probably transgressions that have remain unnoticed that wouldn’t be so easily missed were they to occur today.
She’s trying oh so very hard to impress Yale, so she’s got to make sure her life is going exactly according to plan. And once she’s in Yale, she’s gonna be doing her best to be the absolute top of her class, so as to be super duper impressive. However, I feel like she might be wasting her time chasing a fool’s ideal. I don’t think the average voter really gives much of a care where someone went to college. Otherwise, people would talk more about how Hillary Clinton was once ranked among the top 40 lawyers in the country.
Maxed out her credit load and maybe talked her advisor into letting her go beyond that, maybe? And she does have a fair amount of non-class stuff going on, playing reporter and doing volunteer work. And a boyfriend, which may not have been in her plans originally.
Speaking of Christians, being Atheist is a BIG electoral handicap at present. Will that change by the time Dorothy is ready to run for some elective office?
If Willis is going for realism re: Dorothy, she’ll work and work at Doing Everything Right to prepare herself for her goal, only to get to the brink of it and find the rules have changed and everything she had been doing right was suddenly all wrong.
Yeah don’t normally comment but “slipped” myself some alcohol. I just really wish, at a certain point, we’ll see Billie actually happy at some point. I mean, the only time we see it is with Ruth which is, as much as I like both of them, a somewhat toxic relationship (although I couldn’t say to what degree). Can’t there be a weekend where all of these crazy kid just have honest, no angst included fun? I imagine it would be (in real time) at least a year from now but, you know,
– what is Dorothy doing with her right arm in the second panel..?
– ruth: “go to the party and see if there’s anything I need to know about”
Billie: “it’s a Joyce party, not like anyone is going to bring booze”
Billie: *brings booze*
– this third bullet point is just to make it three so I don’t have to change “few” to “couple” because I’m too lazy to do that but not too lazy to type this out
-That little change would have probably been less effort overall, but then again, you would have to reach for the mouse, or move the icon to the right place…..Yeah, alright, I see your point…
-Her mobile’s in her right hand, so she’s probably resting her wrist, letting it line up with her arm properly, with us seeing it as an added bonus. I mean, it’s not like there are fictional characters who interact with the real world, that’d be silly- wha, who’s Deadpool…
Gotta give Mr Willis credit for building up a bloody good buffer. It’s almost as if he’s been doing this kinda thing for a while :P. Pretty sure there’s plenty of other web comic artists who would be VERY jealous of a full 3 month buffer…
That was a surprisingly respectful and open discussion between Billie and Dorothy.
I can’t really put my finger on why I expected them to be more antagonistic towards each other, but I’m glad they don’t. Maybe they both feel a bit protective about Walky and Joyce.
Phones are crappy writing media, Dorothy. Write a draft on paper and transfer it to your computer later tonight.
Yeah Dorothy has been cool. While whatshername, Joyce’s roommate, is super uptight and judgey about anything fun, Dorothy is more “Eh, it looks like you’re having fun, and I don’t plan on partaking at this moment, but if it’s working out for you, more power to you.”
I can see how the party girl vs. studious workaholic dichotomy seems like an obvious source of tension. But I think Dorothy is far too diplomatic of a person to fall straight into that, and at this point in her character development even Billie knows not to be so superficial and start petty conflicts for little reason.
It helps that Billie is being forward and honest here. I imagine if she had been difficult or layed on too much sarcasm she may have gotten a rise out of Dorothy.
Oh, and depending on the exact device and software used, typing relatively large documents on a phone isn’t too bad. It’s much easier to copy+paste multiple pages of hurried, phone-typed text to a larger device, then do a spellcheck/formatting pass opposed to the writing out multiple pages once, then having to type it all out again word-for-word to transfer it to a computer.
Personally, if I were in her shoes I would’ve brought my laptop, social inappropriateness be damned.
…I know people have made the ‘save room for Jesus’ joke, but this reminded me of a Catholic school my friend went to. (and yes, I know that none of the main cast is catholic) At school dances, the teachers would patrol and if they saw students dancing too close together, they would separate them by making a chopping motion between the students while saying “Make space for the holy spirit!” (I told my friend to say ‘but I don’t want to grind on the holy spirit’ at the next dance, but she wouldn’t do it)
I like how Danny’s suggestion to leave space for Dorothy means both that he’s not so close to Ethan that he’ll be overwhelmed AND that no one else is going to get between them unless Dorothy shows up. D’awwwwww…
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So that’s, what, three years?
dang, hovertext beat me to it (and actually did math)
*An Englishman walks in* The word is Maths with an S!
Mathematical Anti-Teleharsic Harfatum Septomin
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Man, All This Hurts Squishybrain…
I made a Look Around You joke yesterday and no one noticed and that’s not a fate I want to befall anyone else.
Thanks, Aside. Thaside.
they didn’t look around them =(
Dang hovertext. I’m hovertext-deprived ever since my compy crashed.
It shouldn’t have been drinking
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Man, panel one Ethan still has that bod. Dina graced us with this.
Glad you admitted it this once, Danny.
Ethan Slipshine. *sigh* Someday.
I’ll be stalking the site everyday until one is up.
Not enough people thank Billie. She’s like the booze fairy, handing out intoxication where it’s needed.
She would be a lot more popular if she was the Green Fairy.
And some of us are old enough to know what that means…
Parental Bonus
Though not old enough, well read enough to get the reference.
Not old enough will google search
It’s no longer just old geezers and bookworms who get that reference: the Green Fairy is coming back in style! At least in Europe, it is ^^
Also the Green Fairy appeared as a character in the movie Eurotrip. ;D
Also in Moulin Rouge
Billie’s taking a ride on the Wilde side.
All work and no foreplay makes Dotty a dull girl.
She looks like she’s about to snap
If she also crackles and pops, she becomes a cereal killer.
Seven internets for you.
In that case, she should get Life.
Pour the girl a drink already, Billie. And take her phone away for the night.
Which is probably what several pages of at least one of her research papers says.
?? But she has been gettin’ those Slip Shiny Goodtimes…
Could that be a euphemism? “I was slipshining him/her/them…”
seems a reasonable thing to do at a party, I mean who needs fun when you have homework!
Amber sitting between Ethan and Danny, eh. That… why… Danny, I get where you ‘re coming from but that won’t end well, i feel XD
It’s kind of weird to think about the fact we’re never going to get to see these guys graduate, or even finish their first year. We’ve been following them for so long…
Ack! Sorry, wrong section.
wait, why won’t we?
Eh, Willis has said he didn’t plan on having the strip last longer than freshman year. Luckily, at this rate, we’ll still get another coupla decades of DoA.
He might just skip right to graduation at the end of the strip. Its like dorothy and amber are eating lunch and then 3 years later…end of strip!
At about an in-universe week to a real-world year, we’re looking at almost 30 years just to get to the end of Freshhman year.
I don’t really expect to be alive when spring break rolls around. >_>
And my expectancy of remaining life is only about twelve years.
My life expectancy at this point is about 50-60 years, so I might see towards the end of Sophomore year. Depends on what Willis’ own life expectancy is though… xD
By that time, he will have another 50 years worth of buffer.
Although, I have to wonder if the breaks will pass faster.
Neither will Willis, but thanks to the dude’s work ethic our descendants will be able to enjoy the strip in the centuries to come. I can only hope they thank his holographic reconstruction at a con someday.
Of course it won’t end well, it’d be no fun for Ethan! for it to end well he’d need to scoot over next to Ethan and save a spot for Amber on his other side!
Workaholism is a disease.
Salt is a cure.
So is pepper and sugar.
Workahol in moderation.
Billie is like a workaholic, but for booze. :-p
I want to say there’s a word for that, specifically, but I just can’t quite form it…
Boozaholic, of course.
Everybody knows the cure for stress: Orgy!
That kinda has been her coping mechanism so far… if caramel boy counts as an orgy.
all the joking about sex I do aside, I think an orgy would seriously stress me out
if STDs weren’t a thing and I were sterile, maybe
I’m a robot, STDs are nothing to me, not gonna knock anyone up, count me in! Why you laughing Daniel the Human? No I would NOT freeze up again! That was only once. Cause it was hot. My processor overheated. YES IT WAS A HOT NIGHT! In Winter. Wha, ah scrap, auto-dictation’s still on. At least I didn’t say
Wait – research papers? Plural? Damn, that’s some serious multitasking going on there.
Poor girl has got to learn to relax.
And just plain insane for a college freshman.
Danny and Ethan are reminding me of my school where there was a rule about always being a Bible width apart.
Save space for Jesus! He enjoys being the middle of the sandwich.
Today I learned that Jesus was a bit of a kinky dude.
Reminds me of the empty seat straight dudes leave between themselves when they go to see a movie with a bro, lest anyone get the impression they’re on a date or something. My friends and I called it “the empty seat of heterosexuality”, although I guess now we’d call it “the no homo seat”
Which…is basically the context here, really.
neeks – that’s nothing compared to “urinal etiquette”.
I went to the movies at an older theater not so long ago, and should have left one of these seats between me and the next person, because the seats weren’t wide enough for my shoulders or the shoulders of the people on either side of me. That was a cramped 105 minutes.
That really more than anything else is why I leave a space unless it’s my wife. I’m a pretty big guy and I have an outsized sense of personal space. On the other hand, I sit in the very back of the theater so I don’t block anybody’s view accidentally and I worry about taking up extra space on planes and subways. So I guess it’s all relative.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a movie with anyone who did that. We’d have mocked the hell out of anyone who tried to space out like that, even back in the 70s and 80s when casual homophobia was a lot more widespread.
Is this really a thing these days? My theater-going has been almost all stage plays since about 2000, movies are too easy to watch at home with friends now.
Jesus likes to be in the middle.
2075 our time?
I’ll be well into my second century by then. And hopefully reading this strip in my apartment on the Moon.
So far the 21st century has not lived up to what I was promised as a child.
I wonder if I would even be still alive in 2025 let alone 2075.
Ah, ten years is nothing. Remember, there is absolutely no definite empirical evidence that you’re mortal, and from your point of view there never will be.
There is empirical evidence in my case that I’m not mortal, so who knows how long I might live?
I’ll bIte. What evidence is that?
Well, I’m shooting for at least 2076. I’ll only be 116 years old, and I can tell all those young punks about how the bicentennial was way better than the tricentennial.
I used to own a Spirit of ’76 Vega. It was craptacular in Red White and Blue.
We’re coming up on the Sestercentennial in 2026: the USA’s 250-year anniversary. Damn, we should start preparing! I’ll bring the Sprite.
Since we’re celebrating the birthday of a nation of over 300 million people, that’s going to be a lot of Sprite.
Aaaawwww the USA is only 100 years older than my house.
How cute
So, there were a few people in 1976 who might have remembered 1876, but none of them seem to have been older than 10 or 12 in 1876. Which means that 2076 will probably be the first American centenary where people can recall the previous one*… Which I find fascinating!
* Assuming 1) the survival of the USA as a state till 2076, and 2) the survival of humanity till 2076 with current longevity trends.
If I make it that long and the US is still a country, I’m looking forward to collecting tricentennial quarters to go with all the 1976 ones I’ve hoarded. Them and wheat pennies, my only numismatic weaknesses.
Poor Danny/Dorothy, unable to have fun because of “stuff”. Different species of “stuff”, but it all ends up smelling pretty much the same.
Well it was all of sixty-five years ago
When the world was the street where she lived…
and a young man sailed on a ship in the sea
with a picture of Veronica…
Saw that last panel coming.
I kinda want to know Dorothy’s reaction to the fact that we’ve had a bunch of presidents who have done hard drugs, let alone drink a bit of underage alcohol.
I mean, her thought process is two-fold, right?
1. Can’t get involved with drinking and such because I need to focus on studying, and
2. Can’t get involved with drinking and such because what if I got in trouble/someone took a picture, it could ruin my political career.
Both of which are kind of legitimate… until you pick it apart and realize that taking a night off won’t make you fail, and Obama admitted to using cocaine and everyone kind of shrugged and went “eh.”
I don’t think she’s delusional enough to believe that a little underage drinking in college could endanger a political career. It isn’t true now, and it will be even less so when she starts jockeying for a serious office ten or fifteen years down the road.
Fair, but the media and voters are much less likely to shrug off a woman candidate’s youthful (and otherwise) indiscretions than a man’s.
I would hope that that road’s been paved for her by then, too. Twenty-four years (while the minimum is 35, the youngest president was 42) is quite a while.
She’ll probably have to run for lesser offices before trying for the Oval Office, so a bit sooner than that.
Yeah, but the real shit-slinging doesn’t start until you’re running for president, as witnessed by all this stuff that gets dredged up every four years when governors and senators are running.
But, honestly, if it were revealed tomorrow that Hillary Clinton engaged in underage drinking decades ago, would anybody care?
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not denying that double standards exist. Rather, you can still get away with some things as a woman without ruining your political career.
She said as much at one point — that she had to be twice as careful because she was a woman. I can’t recall the specific comic, though.
Here you go.
The thing is that those presidents had a lot of advantages that she doesn’t. All of them being male is a big one (and Christian, for that matter) but there’s also the matter of things like money and political connections that many if not all of them lucked into, which she doesn’t want to have to count on. There’s a reason most people don’t even get close to being President, after all.
That said, I don’t understand how she’s managed to pick up this level of workload in her first semester at what seems to be a pretty standard college. I can understand doing all she can do, but even all she can do shouldn’t call for this much schoolwork.
Also, all of these current and former presidents had the advantage of not growing up in the age of smartphones and the internet, where every transgression (real or perceived) remains forever.
Except their transgressions did remain long enough to matter if they would have mattered, as witnessed by the fact that we know about them.
They don’t have dozens of half-century-old pictures of college parties hanging over their heads. The point is, there are probably transgressions that have remain unnoticed that wouldn’t be so easily missed were they to occur today.
She’s trying oh so very hard to impress Yale, so she’s got to make sure her life is going exactly according to plan. And once she’s in Yale, she’s gonna be doing her best to be the absolute top of her class, so as to be super duper impressive. However, I feel like she might be wasting her time chasing a fool’s ideal. I don’t think the average voter really gives much of a care where someone went to college. Otherwise, people would talk more about how Hillary Clinton was once ranked among the top 40 lawyers in the country.
Oops, I meant to say that Hillary was TWICE ranked among the top 100 most INFLUENTIAL lawyers in the country. My bad, yo.
The average voter, no. But, if you go to place like Yale, there’s a chance that your average megadonor is also your old classmate.
Maxed out her credit load and maybe talked her advisor into letting her go beyond that, maybe? And she does have a fair amount of non-class stuff going on, playing reporter and doing volunteer work. And a boyfriend, which may not have been in her plans originally.
I think it’s mentioned that she does a bunch of “extras,” so there is a thin justification for a first year freshman having that much workload.
It’s probably better not to dissect it, but I can’t help flashing back to my college years and shouting (in my head) “Just RELAX a little!”
Speaking of Christians, being Atheist is a BIG electoral handicap at present. Will that change by the time Dorothy is ready to run for some elective office?
I think that’ll be Dorothy’s biggest handicap, and she isn’t the type to fake belief for the sake of politics.
If Willis is going for realism re: Dorothy, she’ll work and work at Doing Everything Right to prepare herself for her goal, only to get to the brink of it and find the rules have changed and everything she had been doing right was suddenly all wrong.
Ruth for presidennt, if you want t keep your femers.
As Billie gets more drunk her standards for “what constitutes a party” lower.
well she may be like “this sure is some sort of party but it’s so not a college party”
Yeah don’t normally comment but “slipped” myself some alcohol. I just really wish, at a certain point, we’ll see Billie actually happy at some point. I mean, the only time we see it is with Ruth which is, as much as I like both of them, a somewhat toxic relationship (although I couldn’t say to what degree). Can’t there be a weekend where all of these crazy kid just have honest, no angst included fun? I imagine it would be (in real time) at least a year from now but, you know,
She was pretty happy at the first party, at least up until the incident with Ryan interrupted the festivities.
Please, for the love of happiness, give that poor girl some hard cider and some fun game nights.
A few thoughts:
– what is Dorothy doing with her right arm in the second panel..?
– ruth: “go to the party and see if there’s anything I need to know about”
Billie: “it’s a Joyce party, not like anyone is going to bring booze”
Billie: *brings booze*
– this third bullet point is just to make it three so I don’t have to change “few” to “couple” because I’m too lazy to do that but not too lazy to type this out
– appropriately numbered fourth thought: Dorothy is breaking the fourth wall in the last panel cuz she sure ain’t showing her phone to Billie
She knows were here and that means…she’s knows about the slip shine!
I’m sorry Dorothy!
You’re not actually sorry.
Well given that I never payed for the slip shine. I am not.
-Billie butt grab
? She’s approaching from behind, so probably poking her in the back to get her attention.
–She knew noone would bring booze, so she corrected that mistake herself…
-That little change would have probably been less effort overall, but then again, you would have to reach for the mouse, or move the icon to the right place…..Yeah, alright, I see your point…
-Her mobile’s in her right hand, so she’s probably resting her wrist, letting it line up with her arm properly, with us seeing it as an added bonus. I mean, it’s not like there are fictional characters who interact with the real world, that’d be silly- wha, who’s Deadpool…
I’m on mobile and moving the cursor around to alter stuff is a bit of a pain in the ass on the small and occasionally oversensitive screen.
I feel for ya, Dorothy. I’m attempting a balancing act between grad school work and leisure (aka living my life) – it’s hard stuff.
Wait until you’re dissertating.
Oh Ethan… so innocent, so unaware of your inner SEXO LOCO
Always the cute ones who are unaware of their SEXO LOCO.
So 2075 in this world is….2500 our time?
i would like to congratulate future dorothy on her break
Dorothy, Billie, stop chitchatting and sit on the floor already!
When kids play games the parents stand around, making sure no one is fighting, and I think that’s how those two regard themselves at this party.
Billie is also steadily getting herself drunk, and has already gotten one of the kids drunk.
Maakes me wonder what the tally will be by the end of the night. But there’s only a limited quantity of alcohol.
an artist’s rendition of Walky at this present moment:
o3o
Buffer currently in September. Willis can technically take a summer vacation.
Gotta give Mr Willis credit for building up a bloody good buffer. It’s almost as if he’s been doing this kinda thing for a while :P. Pretty sure there’s plenty of other web comic artists who would be VERY jealous of a full 3 month buffer…
Dorothy is rapidly becoming a great girlfriend
Not sure if sarcasm
Not sarcasm at all eg has sexy times with Walky, likes the same cartoons and sees the benefits and having a few drinks every now and then
Sounds like a pretty good girlfriend to me because not everything has to be drama
Bordering on flawless, although she puts too much pressure on herself a lot of the time.
That was a surprisingly respectful and open discussion between Billie and Dorothy.
I can’t really put my finger on why I expected them to be more antagonistic towards each other, but I’m glad they don’t. Maybe they both feel a bit protective about Walky and Joyce.
Phones are crappy writing media, Dorothy. Write a draft on paper and transfer it to your computer later tonight.
It takes some effort sometimes, but Dorothy always manages to avoid being a jerk to people.
Yeah Dorothy has been cool. While whatshername, Joyce’s roommate, is super uptight and judgey about anything fun, Dorothy is more “Eh, it looks like you’re having fun, and I don’t plan on partaking at this moment, but if it’s working out for you, more power to you.”
I can see how the party girl vs. studious workaholic dichotomy seems like an obvious source of tension. But I think Dorothy is far too diplomatic of a person to fall straight into that, and at this point in her character development even Billie knows not to be so superficial and start petty conflicts for little reason.
It helps that Billie is being forward and honest here. I imagine if she had been difficult or layed on too much sarcasm she may have gotten a rise out of Dorothy.
Oh, and depending on the exact device and software used, typing relatively large documents on a phone isn’t too bad. It’s much easier to copy+paste multiple pages of hurried, phone-typed text to a larger device, then do a spellcheck/formatting pass opposed to the writing out multiple pages once, then having to type it all out again word-for-word to transfer it to a computer.
Personally, if I were in her shoes I would’ve brought my laptop, social inappropriateness be damned.
I bet there would be tension were they roommates. Well, not at present, with Billie having effectively moved into Ruth’s room.
Make space for the holy spirit!
…I know people have made the ‘save room for Jesus’ joke, but this reminded me of a Catholic school my friend went to. (and yes, I know that none of the main cast is catholic) At school dances, the teachers would patrol and if they saw students dancing too close together, they would separate them by making a chopping motion between the students while saying “Make space for the holy spirit!” (I told my friend to say ‘but I don’t want to grind on the holy spirit’ at the next dance, but she wouldn’t do it)
Gimmie that Christian Side Hug!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa0EtdtPi8w
If you find that one funny, there’s a follow up song.
for a second i thought that said 2015 and was like damn willis this buffer has gotten out of control
I love dorothy!
Billie has her addictions, and Dorothy has hers.
If its any consolation, you’ll probably be dead.
I like how Danny’s suggestion to leave space for Dorothy means both that he’s not so close to Ethan that he’ll be overwhelmed AND that no one else is going to get between them unless Dorothy shows up. D’awwwwww…