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god damn it
Being the eternal first comment should be used only for good! You were the chosen one!
I had a better idea but SOMEBODY distracted me from finishing on time
there you go
Saw the URL, expected Chopper from Star Wars Rebels. 🙁
Manufactured drama, tons of shouting, somehow the projects always came through at the last minute…
American Chopper truly was harbinger of the “Yellin’ Guys Garage” genre that now dominates History and Velocity, wasn’t it. Oh the relative innocence of the early 2000s…
Also, B^U to that first post.
It was also the only good one.
Fantomworks is pretty good, though it would be better if it got fan edits that took out the repetition.
The only other good car TV shows are Top Gear, The Grand Tour, Gearz, Chasing Classic Cars, and Wheeler Dealers before Edd left. The rest fall into the same tired formula and focus too much on “shop drama” or celebrity cameos. They’re basically sitcoms set in car shops.
If you want good car videos you have to look online. Mighty Car Mods, Jay Leno’s Garage, Regular Car Reviews, Roadkill…
Best use of the meme. Now it can end since no one can beat it.
Read it in Sarah/Joyce’s voice, or how my brain think they sound anyway. XD
*reaches for the Loss Paddle*
Took way more research than expected to understand that “joke”. Welp, now I do.
Well stop trying to set your mom up with Jacob, Sarah.
(Though that might actually work. SP!Jacob was not opposed to the occasional Mom.)
Sarah’s mom: “Do you have anything you have to tell me?
…
Sarah’s mom: “Do you have an evil plan?”
…How are your plans going for World Domination?
Oh thanks heavens. Every page of these interaction between Jason and Walky creeped me more than the last.
yay Sarah \o/
You were sensing their enormous sexual tension.
Hey, Walky has a history with uptight intelligent blondes, and Jason has a history with people who look just like Walky give or take a chromosome or two, so it’s not like it would be entirely out of character for either of them.
As we see with the fact Faz isn’t a biological relation of Amber, we’re in uncharted territory! Like Sulu in Star Trek Beyond, the sexuality of characters is all in the air!
Maybe Walky is Bi! Jason could be Pan! THE POSSIBILITIES ARE LIMITLESS!
Well screwing would certainly loosen Jason up, and Walky nees to get past those machismo ideas he has.
He already offered Jason a BJ so clearly Walky is down for it. Situational sexuality! The situation of wanting good grades.
Seriously Walkerton twins need to realize that Jason’s dick isn’t an instant “A+” lever… and definitely not now.
My only concern here is who would be the one getting the stick
I know shippers gonna ship, but ugh.
Jason screwing before didn’t loosen him up.
Those aren’t the kind of machismo ideas Walky has, so this wouldn’t help him get past it at all.
Walky’s got a girlfriend and the pause was a lie.
That Walky’s bisexual is fairly tenuous and there’s been no hints that Jason is at all.
And it still has all the ethical problems that Sal and Jason had in the first place.
It’s a terrible nonsensical idea…which is why it should happen!
Joyce’ confidence is shook. Worst part is Sarah probably doesn’t even see what she’s doing as bad, so she’ll probably be super casual when she reveals her scheme
I think it will edge more into defensive.
“WHAT, I’m not doing anything wrong and anyway I’m right to do it and anyway I’m doing you a favor and anyway Raidah deserves it and anyway who cares about anyone’s feelings and anyway you KNEW I’m a bongo so just lay off me, oh jeeeeeez.”
Fun fact: This was the first time in a long, long time I wrote “Bongo” rather than the word autocorrect switches to Bongo. I can’t believe after all this time I forgot about the bongo filter.
Though it’s still funny being bongo, I kinda wish it autocorrected to “batch” so it’d be grammatically correct pluralized or verbized =o
I think Sarah knows. Like, if Joe hadn’t confronted her, maybe she’d be more blase about it, but she knows what she’s doing is fucked up. She may think of it as just being shitty to do to Joyce, I doubt she gives a rat’s ass about Raidah and probably shouldn’t, but she knows she’s wronging Joyce and may also recognize it’s not fair to Jacob.
She should absolutely care that she’s being shitty to Raidah on top of Joyce and Jacob.
I honestly don’t know why the fanbase seems to buy into Sarah’s view of Raidah unquestioningly, Raidah is not only a supportive person to Jacob but seems like a genuinely good person. Like did everyone get amnesia about Sarah actually physically assaulting Raidah and Raidah letting it go without pressing any charges?
(And she was basically assaulting Joyce at the same time, physically trying to drag her away against her will.)
Raidah bullied Sarah for a whole year after the Dana incident, and was uninterested in hearing Sarah’s side of the story. That’s pretty shitty of her
In the context of behavior that’s actually demonstrated by characters in the comic, it’s hard to call insulting someone in passing when you happen to see them “bullying,” and if we do make that determination, then Sarah is one of the prime offenders.
This analysis is wrong anyway; Raidah *did* hear Sarah’s side of the story:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/05-saturdays-all-right-for-slighting/better/
It’s just that, and I’m honestly staggered that so many fans who consider themselves such cutting-edge analysts of human morality and social justice fail to see this, Sarah’s side of the story is SHIT.
What Raidah sees is correct: Sarah narced on Dana, who had been a good friend to her, for doing “illegal drugs”- which as far as we can tell seems to strictly mean weed- getting her kicked out of college and taken to a home environment she knew little to nothing about, in respond to her depression spiral CAUSED BY THE FUCKING DEATH OF HER MOM causing Sarah’s midterm grades to underwhelm.
Like Sarah tries to dress this up as “saving Dana’s life” but there’s no actual evidence of that happening. What she actually says fairly explicitly is that her motivation was entirely selfish; her concern with her own grades and her deciding that her grieving roommate was too much of a distraction to that end.
There is no Earthly reason why Raidah should accept this rationale or forgive Sarah, who has not even expressed any regret for her behavior. Her analysis of Sarah is totally correct and kind of validated by a ton of what we see of Sarah’s behavior; violence, misanthropy, lying and deceit.
There is no reason whatsoever Sarah should have been expected to endanger her scholarship for the sake of enabling Dana’s maladaptive coping mechanisms on the completely baseless assumption of some kind of abusive home life. Both Raidah and Sarah are at fault in this mess they’re just too pigheaded to see it.
> There is no reason whatsoever Sarah should have been expected to endanger her scholarship for the sake of enabling Dana’s maladaptive coping mechanisms on the completely baseless assumption of some kind of abusive home life
That should have been the basis. The basis should have been that, “My roommate smoking pot and grieving over her dead mother for a few weeks is causing my grades to dip a bit, time to narc her out” is fucking sociopathic and incredibly evil behavior.
Emily is right. What you’ve described is what Raidah saw.
Sarah’s grades didn’t just “dip a bit”, they were getting low enough to put her scholarship – and thus her ENTIRE FUTURE – at risk. It wasn’t something she did lightly, or without compassion.
OTOH, Dana was being overwhelmed by the depression spiral and Raidah was and as far as we can tell still is, completely oblivious to that.
Sarah obviously should have done nothing, allowed the spiral to continue with no end in sight and, just as a side effect, lost her own scholarship and her only chance at college, quite ruining her own life as well. Maybe it was the wrong choice – the home situation worse than Sarah had any reason to believe, but what else was she supposed to do?
As for Sarah’s stated motivation – remember that Sarah tries hard to cloak her motivations. She can barely admit to caring about Joyce, though she clearly does. I’d be shocked if that same pattern wasn’t there in her telling the Dana story.
“spiral to continue with no end in sight”
My dude
1) We literally have no reason whatsoever that Dana’s “illegal drugs” are anything but pot. Which like lol at the idea of talking about spiraling out on that.
2) Sarah rats Dana out after midterms of their first semester. We know they must have spent several weeks in the described bonding period where Sarah was getting to know Dana and her friends. The *maximum* amount of time Sarah could possibly have given her is like, maybe a month. To get over her fucking *mom* dying. Like. No. Bullshit. I call bullshit on this entire premise of suicidal spiral. It’s absolute nonsense.
“Spiral” can mean more than ‘more severe drugs”. Dana is using weed more and more, and in the dorm and is ditching her friends and staying home all the time. In other words, she is getting worse, not better.
Emily and thejeff have covered most of it pretty well, but I’m just going to say if Sarah really were the cutthroat monster who didn’t give a shit about anything but her scholarship, she’d have reported Dana to the cops or the school on their first day together for having weed. If they got caught with that in the room, Sarah absolutely could be punished for it, even thought it wasn’t her’s and she very well could have lost her scholarship. She DEFINITELY would have when it got to the point Dana was smoking in their room. That would have been her ‘that’s it, that’s my last straw, get out or I’m getting you thrown out’ moment if Sarah really was the person Raidah described.
Calling Dana’s dad also wasn’t Sarah’s first step. She wanted Dana in therapy. Dana wouldn’t listen and her friends refused to believe there was a problem, so Sarah couldn’t get them to support her on that. Raidah and Carl in particular insisted she just needed time and ignored Sarah’s scholarship issue. She seems to have asked her friends for help MULTIPLE times, but they ignored her because Dana put on a happy face whenever she was functional enough to go out.
And even though, again, Sarah’s chance at going to school was in jeopardy, she did not inform the authorities or the school. She called Dana’s father and he took her home. It’s possible her dad is abusive, but we don’t know for sure and Sarah most definitely does not know. I don’t know about you, but I don’t tend to assume people’s parents are abusive without knowing them or having a reason (bearing in mind Sarah was an 18 year old who doesn’t seem to be more than average in reading potential red flags).
So, should Sarah have let Dana stay and risk her own chance in college so that Dana can remain in school and not go back home? Why is Dana staying in college more important than Sarah getting to stay? Especially since Dana’s father seems independently wealthy and could probably afford to re-enroll her once she feels better (she was withdrawn, not kicked out or failed out) and that she probably would have flunked out anyways at the end of the year if her depression was keeping her from getting work done (and since all she did was smoke and cry, it probably was).
Absolute nonsense.
1) Can we not pretend that the American legal system is fair and that rich white kids of law firm owning parents get in actual legal trouble for smoking pot? Thanks. Notice that there’s no mention of police when Sarah DOES narc her out, she’s just taken home and maybe goes through rehab.
2) Holy shit this is such an absurd standard, as long as Sarah isn’t a pure monster then she’s not being shitty here and isn’t in the wrong re: Raidah? Yeah okay. This is clearly the same kind of standard that the comments section applies to Malaya, Joe, etc., not to mention freaking Raidah who you’d think murdered puppies based on the shit people say and try to justify Sarah’s shitty behavior towards her.
3) I again find it interesting that there’s so much nominal pretense of a social justice platform amongst most of the fandom here and this idea of supporting people with mental illness for instance, but there’s such an immediate and knee jerk defense of narcing out and ruining the life of someone dealing with serious grief and depression over a fucking GPA. Like. No, bullshit, someone who puts their GPA over their friends is just a jerk. I have stayed up nights and missed work and otherwise sacrificed performance at school and at jobs to help friends and family and I don’t consider this unusual or heroic, this is how normal people behave. And yes sometimes it does legitimately hurt your schoolwork for a semester to help a friend dealing with severe depression or grief. Suck it up.
4) Also the idea that Sarah was going to get kicked off her scholarship or face academic penalties for getting a C+ average in a semester where her roommate’s mom died is laughable. ffs just talk to your professors, talk to the dean’s office, like these things do in fact happen and people are willing to show some accommodation because they’re not monsters.
1) Sarah can still face consequences for having the weed in her room. It has happened before. And unlike Dana, Sarah is not a rich, white girl. Also, Sarah didn’t narc Dana out to anyone who would have the authority to expel her or have her arrested even if it WERE statistically likely. All she did was call Dana’s dad and tell him Dana was an emotional wreck, which was true, and he withdrew her from school.
2) I never said Sarah wasn’t doing something wrong by trying to get Jacob and Joyce together. She absolutely is. I did say she’s not the cutthroat monster Raidah describes who doesn’t care at all about anybody. Also, probably bad examples to use since Malaya is one of my favourites and I like Joe (though I disapproved of his behaviour towards women before the list was leaked).
3) People struggling with mental illness deserve support. However, they are not entitled to any given individual taking care of them at their own expense. Sarah is not Dana’s mental health professional, there is no reason she should have been the only one taking care of her. However, she DID take care of her for long enough that it impacted her grades. When it was getting too much to handle, she went to Dana’s other friends and voiced her concerns. She also suggested they recommend Dana get a therapist, someone who could ACTUALLY help her. Dana’s friends brushed her off. And yet, Sarah CONTINUED taking care of Dana, even while she got worse (spending less and less time going out, crying and smoking more) until her grades came in. Yes, you should try to take care of your loved ones, but you have the right to take care of yourself and your own boundaries. If someone can’t take care of friend because they have to work and don’t want to lose their job, that’s not unreasonable. If people treat them like a monster because of it, THEY are the ones being jerks. Sarah is not Dana’s full time caregiver.
Second, your assertion that Sarah ruined her life is completely groundless. Dana was not arrested, charged, or kicked out. She was withdrawn by her father because she was distraught. That is hardly life ruining. There is no reason she can’t return if and when she feels better. Especially since she IS rich and well connected.
4) That may have been your experience, but it is not universal. My school, for example, only offers accommodations for family emergences and personal health crises. It would be a hard sell to get it for taking care of Dana. Besides, Sarah’s scholarship may not even be from the school. All we know is her scholarship is extremely demanding, strict, and unforgiving. It’s entirely possible they’d say ‘Nope, you’re done’. And Sarah relies on the scholarship to go to college. Scholarships, especially full rides like it seems Sarah’s is, are hard to come by, especially if she got one revoked already.
I think it’s pretty impossible to pass judgement on the Sarah/Dana situation without being their seeing it go down. I think their is a threashold of depressive behavior that does warrant Sarah’s response, but figuring out where to draw the line is really really tricky. Without seeing it go down we have no way of knowing whether or not Dana going home is for the best.
But there’s also a difference between whether it was for the best and whether Sarah is a horrible self-obsessed monster for doing it.
It’s quite possible that it was a bad call, but a reasonable one.
We’d need to see what Dana’s going home TO as well.
Also, the couple of glimpses we’ve seen of Raidah with her friends make her seem much less of a good person than when we’ve seen her with Jacob. Her condescension and their insults to Dina in that first scene and her more recent chat about Joyce’s threat to her and Jacob’s relationship makes it seem like much of her good behavior is just a front.
I think at this point she’s still justifying it to herself as Joyce and Jacob being a good match, and that hurting Raidah is just a nice side bonus. So I’m not sure she’s really seeing how this could end up hurting Joyce yet.
Sarah is easily one of the most self-aware characters in the comic. She knows EXACTLY what she’s doing is wrong, which will make it that much worse for Joyce.
I think Sarah will admit to it and offer an apology for manipulating Joyce and Joyce will easily forgive her.
Sarah will follow the script: I didn’t do it. Maybe I did. If I did it wasn’t that bad. I did and it was good thing. I did and it was the only logical move.
Not sure what’s gonna be worse, Sarah having to admit the plan, or Joyce’s reaction if/when Sarah admits what’s up.
What would be Joyce’s reaction?
Let’s see here. The possibilities are:
* Extreme surprise that Sarah, like Joe, would think she and Jacob would have a chance.
* Utter terror that such a relationship is possible and, therefore, possible to screw up.
* Mid-conversation derail into sexy daydream reverie.
* Shock and offense that Sarah would want to break up the happy relationship between Raidah and Jacob just to play matchmaker.
* Upset that Sarah was manipulating her.
* Recognition of the hypocrisy of either of the above.
* Wanting to tell Jacob.
* NOT wanting to tell Jacob.
* Praying to God for guidance and getting a different answer every time she asks.
…. I’m predicting “all of the above”.
she’s still in denial eh?
I get the feeling Joyce knows Joe’s not full of shit on this, but wants him to either be wrong, or wants there to be some handy explanation for it that isn’t, “oh, I was a pawn in my friend’s scheme, and didn’t see it because maybe I WANTED it to succeed.”
Joyce is making the best faces Sarah will never see.
Awww, Joyce…
:C
Joyce: Dear Sarah, Joe is an awful awful person but he has this THING where if you make a commitment to someone then you’re supposed to honor it even if it stands in the way of TRUE WUV. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I mean, how selfish can Joe be! In any case, I’m going to go for the Jacob now.
Joe should understand cheating is a GOOD thing as long as the two parties aren’t married or in love.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no.
I do imagine that’s why Joe is uncomfortable with Sarah’s plan, though. It’s his one big spot because his mother and dad had such a miserable marriage due to Joedad’s cheating.
There is too much of a chance that that wasn’t sarcasm.
It’s called growing a spine and ending your relationship before starting the one you want.
See? magically, the deceit and betrayal for convenience DISAPPEARS!
Judging from the OP and C.T.’s past posts in the forums, they’re (? Sorry, unsure of pronouns here) definitely being sarcastic.
Ah, but do you wait for the person you want to end their relationship, before starting your seduction attempt – even if you expect to break their relationship up before anything physical happens.
It’s not like Joyce is going to have sex with Jacob before he breaks up with Raidah, so it’s not really cheating, right? Even if there’s already deceit and betrayal involved.
Joyce isn’t going to have sex with Jacob until their married – or at least that’s what her intention would be if she admitted she wanted a relationship with him at all.
I think it’s kind of tragic that Joyce’s awakening to being a sexual and desirable person is coming from the fact she’s trying to break up a happy couple. It would be an awful way to begin two otherwise well-matched people (mind you, I would fully expect her parents to react horrifically because, well, the Obama as the Anti-Christ comic).
So, yes, very sarcastic.
Keep in touch with Mama Kin (chung chung chung!)
Tell her where you gone and been (chung chung chung!)
Living out your fantasy (chung chung chung!)
Sleeping late and suckin’ tea!…
Text to Sarah: How do you feel about Utah?
Is Joyce the puppy or the hedgehog?
Puppy, obvs. Sarah’s the hedgehog.
Damn it, you got me thinking of what Sarah’s Sonic OC would look like.
nothing personnel, kid
Lets see… one is stereotypically very open, happy and loving everyone around it while the other is prickly, hard to get close but can be very friendly if you give it time…
…No idea. I suppose we will never know.
Dorothy is the puppy.
From wanting to slap Walky in yesterdays strip because of his facial expressions to wanting to…not sure, hug maybe in panel 4
Oh, Joyce. Honey. </3
And pfft, I love Sarah.
“So, Sarah, there is a favor I need to ask you. Could you babysit this kid Faz for a little while…”
“Faz is sure only good things will come from this.”
I doubt Joyce would dump Sarah on her. one, because it wouldn’t work, and two, because Faz is the only reason she’s not alone in public right now, which is probably why she didn’t bail on Joe like she initially seemed ready to, when Joe was stuck with Faz.
Any port in a storm…. You know, if that port is Faz there is no shame in just giving up and take up a new life as mermaids or something.
FWIW, I’m wondering if Faz is going to develop on Joyce the fixation that he had on Amber in the Walkyverse.
Who knows, maybe blunt force trauma to the head will fix his personality…
Nothing can go wrong with this plan, and I unreservedly endorse it.
That last text and video link is Joyce’s autocorrect. 😛
So does that mean Sarah knows what this is about ?
The video title is “We can’t even set each other up with the same guy.”
In the video, the puppy and the hedgehog are each concealing their efforts to get the other to date a nearby chinchilla.
It took Joyce a while to find the perfect video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73dLdeWOI-o
Someone had to do it.
I am disappointed that the hedgehog is not named Sonic.
Sarah: Joyce, if you liked comic books to understand what I’m trying to do, I recommend you check out Daredevil: Born Again.
Joyce: It’s about Christianity?
Sarah: No.
Joyce: Then it’s misleading!
Fun fact regarding the blowjob cat magnet: The real thing is located on the front of the grounds of an elementary school.
Another fun fact: The school has a free standing chimney in the back. A different building was torn down to make room for it, but they discovered that one of the fireplaces in the old building had an endangered hawk nest in it. Fearing they couldn’t move it safely, they left it standing so that the nest would be undisturbed. Granted, it might be torn down now if the hawk moved on. I don’t know about that.
The elementary school in question has actually appeared in the comic (and a photo of the real-life Blowjob Cat serves as Willis’s itswalky tumblr background): http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/border/
I didn’t know about the hawk, though! That’s cool.
So breaking up a relationship to get Jacob with Sarah is just fine, but doing it to get him with Joyce is an evil plan. Is this naivete from watching too many Disney movies or just massive amounts of self loathing?
I…honestly don’t know.
From Joyce’s point of view: Sarah is her friend. Jacob is her friend. Raidah is not her friend, and is her friend Sarah’s nemesis. What’s evil about Joyce wanting her friends to end up together?
But if Sarah wants to use both Joyce and Jacob — without their knowledge or consent — to get back at Raidah, that’s a different thing.
In the first scenario Joyce and Sarah are united in manipulating Jacob and also the purpose is True Wuv. In the second, Sarah is manipulating Joyce into manipulating Jacob and the purpose is Sarah’s Revenge.
Joyce has an odd idea of ethics. She clearly thinks that doing something like this is okay so long as she doens’t personally benefit. You can’t help but have a furrowed brow or two about that.
Maybe from her prospective, doing selfish things for an unselfish reason negates the selfishness of the thing she is do but if she did the selfish thing for herself, that becomes double selfish.
Lots of people are more willing to forgive a bad thing if its done to help another than if its done to help oneself.
A selfish act is an act where you put your wants and needs ahead of the wants and needs of others and almost inherently describes your reasons.
Selfishness is not always bad and sometimes doing certain things for unselfish reasons when the other person thinks your doing them for selfish reasons can feel like a betrayal. Which is why I dislike Rainbow Falls from MLP FIM, I have no reason Fluttershy would feel anything but betrayed Rainbow did the “right” thing from the beginning.
If nothing else, it means that Sarah’s been deceiving and manipulating her too, which isn’t a good revelation.
It also means she’s going to have to come face to face with all those thoughts she’s been having about Jacob, if she’s going to continue. No pretense that she’s a good little Christian girl, completely not motivated by lust.
Whenever someone mentions “a happy couple” ….
https://youtu.be/VdkoZLdEz_U
Here’s the thing about Joyce… She’s very much not selfish*. She really, truly, believes that having friends means that you try and set things up for them to be happy. Things she’d never have wanted to, or dared doing for her own sake, are things she’s willing to do if it can help her friends. In many ways, she’s like a well written episode of Pinkie Pie.
I mean, do you see her being willing to break and enter a house to get something she needs herself? I don’t. But when Becky needed her help with doing just that, she was there. In fact, most of what we’ve seen of her relationship with Becky is that she will gladly put herself out of her own comfort zone for Becky’s sake.
And so it is with this whole Sarah situation. She would never, ever, consider trying to break someone up so that she could be together with someone. Not in a million years. The shame of just considering it would break her before she started trying. But she adores her “big sister”, and would like to do anything to make her happy.
And also a reminder that yes, in her world, what she’s doing is something that would play out as “cute”** in a romantic comedy movie, because the end goal here is to get two people that, in her opinion, belong together. Heck, not just that, she thinks they Belong Together. And so the Happy Ending™ surely justifies any means.
Joyce is at her core a good person. Better than most of us. But she’s yet to fully learn that often, what counts as good in movies (or what her church taught her) doesn’t count as good in real life.
This situation is about to become another lesson for her in that respect.
*Pseudo-philosophical arguments that’s all “yeah, but can anyone -truly- be unselfish”? can feel free to -not- reply to this comment. We’re talking about the commonly accepted definition of selfish, OK?
**Until someone actually analyzes it, that is.
The two things are pretty different. Joyce was trying to do something good for her best friend. Sarah is trying to do something mean to her nemesis.
I don’t really see the evil here… Leastways no moreso than with Joyce’s plan to setup Jacob and Sarah.
I mean to start with it means that Sarah lied to her face. Joyce’s behavior here has been bad but she hasn’t directly lied to anyone as far as I recall, her plan is more indirect. “Tell Jacob that Sarah is great enough times and he’ll realize that she’s totally a better option than Raidah.”
Also I mean the plan was already pretty evil, it’s just being confronted with Sarah’s deceit even towards her is what shocks Joyce into awareness of it being evil.
Just gotta say, your avatar is kind of creeping me out.
If you define this as evil, you’ll soon run out of words to describe actual wrongdoing, and be never able to talk about large-scale wrongdoing like warmongering, genocide and the like,
Most evil acts pale in comparison to genocide, but that doesn’t make them any less evil. Actively conspiring to make others suffer is evil, and that is the purpose of Sahara’s plan.
If you count Raidah being sad for three days because she lost Jacob and being livid for weeks because she lost against Joyce whom she doesn’t respect in the least (we can all see that there’s much more of her ego invested in that relationship than love) your concept of suffering differs from mine.
It must be exhausting to think yourself surrounded by evil all the time.
I have seen four people in this comic act in a way I would consider evil: Toedad, Blaine, that bad excuse of a grandfather of Ruth’s, and Mary.
All the rest of them sometime act stupidly, thoughtless, full of anger, with intent to hurt even, and a lot of other things, but none of them act “evil”. Even though I thoroughly dislike Raidah and think she’s a bully and a manipulative asshole, I haven’t seen her act in a way I’d describe as “evil”.
And with Sarah wanting to break up Raidah and Jacob, I don’t think she actually lingers on wanting to hurt Raidah. It’s more like a think she started not very well thought out and it gained is own momentum because there’s chemistry between Joyce and Jacob.
And Scarface. Don’t forget Scarface.
Maybe not hurting Raidah, but definitely not letting her win. She’d basically given up an Jacob until he showed up at the party with Raidah and then she was all “I’m not going to let her have him.”
Right, I forgot Scarface on the list of people who act in an actual evil way.
I’m not even sure if Sarah’s still busy with “not letting Raidah win”.
Like I said, what she started gained momentum of its own by the chemistry between Jacob and Joyce. It should be interesting to see what she says whe Joyce confronts her.
Come on, Joyce, Sarah is evil and you know it.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Sarah is everyone’s favorite antihero.
Is your gravatar Philémon?
Yeah. I got stuck with Danny in the last grav roulette here, so I obviously had to finally give in and set a custom one. And I’d recently been awarded Philémon in the grav roulette on Frivolesque, so I stole him to use everywhere.
*snrk* I see Blowjob Cat is now a magnet. Does this mean Blowjob Cat is now part of the cast?
Blowjob Cat has got a tag, which is more than we can say for some others’ appearances despite them appearing more often *cough*BloodroseAndTagTheCricket*
I’m kinda surprised Faz hasn’t tried to escape from Joyce yet.
She’s a lady who is willing to talk to him, and even give him tips about how to have positive interactions with women (lead with his humanity), and he doesn’t like abandonment. I think it’s a solid case for sticking around.
I really hope that Amber comes back and is really confused when she discovers that Faz has had massive character development, pulled a heel face turn and become a true companion with the rest of the cast all within a couple hours.
Amber, automatically suspecting the worst? Nahh, that would never happen.
This complete failure to confront Sarah (even from the comforting distance provided by technology) is basically Joyce from beginning to end, bless her. It isn’t good for this situation but it is in-character and shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Totally. Joyce was definitively not taught that she could have healthy conflicts with people.
Joyce… please… so close
Joyce, this isn’t something you want to ask Sarah over text. Meet her in person and ask her face to face.
Ignore the fact that I have done this same thing way too many times. >.>
With BIG TRUSTING EYES!
Next up: Sarah’s running for the hills
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I’m hoping the only reason Joyce hasn’t marched back to the dorm face-to-face is her inherited obligation to keep Faz out of it.
You couldn’t blame Joyce for not wanting to have a confrontation with her roommate with such huge implications for their future ability to bear to be in each other’s company.
Joyce and Sal in the same room whilst Malaya is sentenced to deal with Sarah (and vice-versa)?
Joyce believes she is Sarah’s only friend (Probably true) and does not want Sarah to be friendless again.
Any wrestling fans think of Matt Hardy while reading the DELETE DELETE DELETE
Joyce is between a rock and a hard place, and unlike Homer Simpson’s situation, this is just sad. Also, puppies and hedgehogs are adorable, Sarah!
Her plan’s only as evil as Joyce’s plan
Joyce’s plan isn’t ‘evil’, it’s delusional. I have absolutely no idea how she proposes to go from ‘seduce Jacob’ to ‘Jacob and Sarah twuwuv4eva’ and multiple babies.
She doesn’t plan to seduce Jacob, she’s supposed to be talking up Sarah to him so he realizes how great she is.
She’s just horribly bad at it and tripped up by her own crush.
Joyce’s plan doesn’t involve seducing Jacob at all — she’s already as much as said she didn’t think that would even be possible.
I mean, she’s totally been seducing Jacob, but she is entirely unaware of this — only Sarah, Becky, Joe and, well, literally everyone except her and possibly Jacob can see it. (Including Raidah, IIRC.)
I dont know why but i really like the joyce’s 2nd panel face its adorable lol
Sarah just wants them to have the best couple name ever: Joyson.
Reality is gonna hit poor Joyce like a freight train
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