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I’m afraid to ask which one is masturbating, or how.
I’m assuming it is Malaya who is the Switch. Neither she nor Marcie strike me as a dedicated bottom, so a certain amount of power exchange would be necessary.
DoA Joyce, on the other hand, is probably a total Pillow Princess, unlike her IW counterpart.
Another term that is less derogatory would be “paper“ as the opposite of “stone“.
Paper is someone who is into being sexually touched, but not into giving sexual touch; and Stone is someone who is into giving someone else sexual pleasure, but not liking to be sexually touched. It’s not about being “too lazy“ or having issues, it simply are possiblities of sexual desire.
The term is not very popular (not as much as “Stone Butch“ is) and i can’t find where i read about it, otherwise i’d have been good and posted a source for further reference.
Later…
It has been 72 hours since anyone has last heard from weirderthanweird. It can only be assumed that they have disappeared into the infinite black hole that is TV Tropes. It is likely that they will never return, and thus we are holding this wake. God rest their overcurious soul.
Yup, despite all her good qualities, Dorothy does not perform great when she’s put on the spot (compare and contrast Billie who is a fudging BONGO QUEEN short term, but… less than stellar long term).
That makes the “what, what?” look she shares with Joyce in the last panel even funnier!
Ooh, or Walky. Recently demonstrated with how he got Jason his job at Galasso’s. Spur of the moment, while drunk, and having just broken up with Dor’.
Dorothy, meanwhile, is all about laying out a plan and isn’t great at adjusting on the fly. Although, flexible planning totally seems like a skill she’d want to build…
End Credits is her giving the stone to Galasso, who rewards her with an open tab at the bar. Jason is markedly uncomfortable and British in the background.
A very anti-climactic ending, and somehow that makes it REALLY funny to me (especially in lieu of all the bickering about it over the last little while).
She just basically challenged Joyce to run around with an illegal exotic pet she doesn’t know a thing about. I like her a whole lot less now. This is not how you care for a pet. Especially not for an illegal feral pet that can get dangerous for humans and has high needs concerning temperature and air humidity. She’s not handling her responsibility very well.
Maybe not on the common definition of “cool“. I personally agree with Alanari that there’s nothing cool about bad pet care and carrying a pet around just for coolness. Same with rats. Lots of people carry them around and claim that the rats like it, when in fact, rats are territorial and get stressed in unfamiliar surroundings… it’s not cool to put your needs to be seen as cool above what your pets need!
I’ve always assumed it was more of a therapy animal thing. If the rat primarily remains in its pouch, is it in unfamiliar territory?
I grew up with mice, be bred a boy so nice he wouldn’t let a mom eat her babies. Only pick up the ones that walk into your hand, put them down when they get squirmy. I had rats briefly, they are domesticated. One got out and woke my dad up rubbing on his face. With 4 cats and 2 dogs in the house, we think she must have gone straight for him. They can be bred to REALLY like attention.
You said yourself that you only pick up the ones that walk into your hands and put them down when they get squirmy. Already you are showing respect for your pets and giving them space when they need to, and presumably, you’re not just carrying them around everywhere, but also giving them opportunity to explore.
That’s vastly different from what the comment you’re replying to was talking about, which I assumed is pet owners that just grab at their pets no matter what and constantly hold/carry them around, regardless of what the pet wants or needs. Like… think about how people let children grab at and mishandle animals, treating them much they would inanimate toys, and thinking it’s fine because they’re just ‘playing’. If you don’t see a difference in that, or if you don’t see how that behavior can be abusive or harmful for a pet, I can’t help you.
At the least it’s nice to see Malaya being consistent. This approach fits nicely with what she claims to respect.
Of course, it also wouldn’t be out of character for her to be inconsistent and get really mad at Joyce about this, so I wasn’t sure what to expect.
Crap, right, Malaya’s a reflexive contrarian even if there’s probably good reasons not to do a thing (like the iguana being secret).
Ah well, I guess it’s more dramatically appropriate if its someone closer to Joyce who does the ‘boundaries matter’ thing rather than the girl who Joyce just kinda wants to be friends with (and frankly, Malaya doesn’t really give a damn about other’s boundaries herself so).
Although, Joyce feeling affirmed in her bad boundary habits is also how she’s been justifying it when confronted so yeah, probably gonna have to be drastic. Too bad, I like Joyce and don’t really want to see her sad, but I suspect it’s gonna go down that way.
Malaya did terrify Joyce by getting within her boundaries, though (panel 3). That at least shows that Joyce has some innate understanding of boundaries, and Malaya quietly used that to intimidate her. (Look at her face: there’s no way she’s just getting close so Fuckface can migrate back.) So possibly she’ll prove to have softened Joyce up for the sermon on keeping your distance.
Though I suspect Malaya is mostly jealous of Sal. And the things she claims to not like about Sal are bullshit – the whole you’re just a poser rebel thing.
Sal’s given her plenty of reasons to dislike her, but those don’t seem to be her real reasons.
Also the ‘Sal is unhappy to have a heat lamp shone in her face/Malaya calls her an animal hater’ strip. The two of them just have a ton of friction and at least half of it seems to be them trying to justify why when they simply never clicked.
Yeah, though that was well past the point they already were pissed at each other.
Though it’s not explicit, since we don’t see how they first met, I think most of it on Sal’s part was just her reflexive “I don’t want anyone else intruding on Marcie and me”.
Malaya’s also just kind of obnoxious. For some, that is certainly a selling point, but for someone whose default is more mellow, it grates on Sal, probably.
Then again, Sal did warm to Joyce, so it’s not impossible she’ll warm to Malaya. She already did some by Malaya acknowledging that Marcie misses Sal.
Well, her ‘poser rebel’ schpiel was after Marcie was mad at her, and Malaya admitted to Marcie she’d been giving Sal a slightly harder time because of that. It’s why Marcie asked her to be nicer.
And yeah, there’s plenty of reasons for Malaya not to like her, although it’s Malaya, so she’ll come up with whatever.
She did rant about the “Sal is awesome” cult when they had their fight, which was before the Sal/Marcie fight, which at least points in the same direction. Not the rebel thing necessarily, but that Sal loves the attention she claims to disdain.
There was an earlier strip where Sal said she hated when people did that (and, tbf, the things Malaya was listing, the motorcycle rides and hair brushing, are kinda creepy) and it resulted in Malaya leaving, which isn’t where Willis wanted it to go.
But yes, it’s true, Malaya’s thought at least parts of Sal were fake (or at least, that Sal didn’t like her because Malaya didn’t buy into her hype) but she stepped it up after the rally. Hence why I said ‘slightly harder time’.
Goddammit Malaya, it was handed to you in a silver platter to tell Joyce off and you blew it. Dos this mean you’re okay with people messing with your stuff since it’s sticking it to the man (you)?
Maybe…maybe. But does she know how many licks it takes to get to the chocolate Tootsie roll center of a Tootsie pop? Hell no! She can stay an enigma and stay humble.
Nah, she’s pretty straightforward really. She wants to reject authority and encourage others to reject authority. I actually wonder if she had already guessed that she could trust Joyce with Fuckface or if Sal told her that he would be okay with ‘Pollyanna’.
See, MALAYA gains charisma when Fuckface is on her head.
…. maybe it’s like 2nd-ed gauntlets of giant strength where they only raise your stat to a specific point and no higher, so only people with low stats benefit from them?
I mean, this is the comments section of a webcomic. I’m willing to believe there are some non-nerds here, but the ratio of nerds to non nerds must be pretty skewed in these parts.
… We could do a survey and draw up some charts or something, but I feel like that’d just overly illustrate the point.
If you were really a nerd, you’d remember that in AD&D they were gauntlets of ogre power (18/00 Strength) or girdles of giant strength (19-24 Strength, depending on the type of giant).
Really wish I had seen this comic before right now but here we see Joyce teleporting to and teleporting away from Sarah instantly, (or maybe just Sarah being sad) Either one works.
That is just Sarah hallucinating the auditory cue of what Joyce would say due to missing her and due to it being a pattern of her doing so but Joyce is at home during that strip.
And that’s what Malaya was aiming at. Messing with Joyce is no challenge. Crashing Dorothy, however, is a coup, and combining the two has made Malaya’s day.
And my brain has now associated Malaya with HMS Malaya, a very powerful battleship with an unfortunate tendency to catch fire.
I don’t know why I expected Malaya to actually care that Joyce took her pet that she’s not supposed to have in the dorm without her permission, but I did. I should know better than to expect decent behavior from Malaya.
Oha… suddenly Joyce realizes such a thing as personal space boundaries… although i suppose this will need to happen a few more times until Joyce begins to draw a connection that this is the same kind of invasion of personal space as e.g. being in Sal’s face when she wakes up…
Although it would be nicer if it was given to her in words than in reverse boundary crossing behaviour.
Malaya could have at least announced what she was doing in advance. But i guess she was mad and it added drama, and Malaya doesn’t really care about other peoples’ boundaries anyway… unlike Joyce, who just isn’t aware at all that this is a problem… when the shoe drops, like it did with acceptance for gay/lesbian, i think she will take it serious.
I really should have expected Malaya to have been sort of: “Hey, you’re a rebel! Cool!” If there is anything that would leave Joyce with mixed feelings, it was a response like this!
And I can add another tic to the “Malaya is a bad pet owner” category under the heading of “Cares more about childish contrarianism than about strangers wandering off with her pet.”
Oh boy I can imagine Joyce running (well, walking very fast) to Sal while yelling (well speaking slightly louder than normal)
“Sal! I’m a rebel just like you, Malaya said so!”
“Sure you are”
What we know of Malaya so far:
She hates Sal because she has decided Sal’s anti-authoritarian attitude is fake.
She bonds with Carla over how much they hate people.
She wants people to endanger or abuse her pet to prove their anti-authoritarianism.
Malaya is a textbook case for psychology. Her dislike for Sal but approval of Joyce may be some arbitrary and perosnal choice AKA she is just a jerk with double standards.
Or it could at least be partly a result of Sal’s dislike for her. The first interaction between them that we see shows Sal’s dislike already established.
Mostly I think they’re fighting over Marcie.
Or is it because I changed my name and I need to be re-confirmed? THIS COMMENTS SECTION IS BEING TRANSPHOBIC
As is anything that crosses me now. They’re out of donuts at the meal hall? SUPER transphobic. Unbelievable.
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“ain’t got time for anyone who can’t get into even MILD shenanigans, after all”
Joyce Brown, Queen of Drunks and Rebels Without a Clue
bate-‘n’-switch
I’m afraid to ask which one is masturbating, or how.
I’m assuming it is Malaya who is the Switch. Neither she nor Marcie strike me as a dedicated bottom, so a certain amount of power exchange would be necessary.
DoA Joyce, on the other hand, is probably a total Pillow Princess, unlike her IW counterpart.
I had to Google “pillow princess”, but now I know how to describe my partner.
thaaaat doesn’t sound like an ideal situation
Only if Taffy isn’t into that.
Another term that is less derogatory would be “paper“ as the opposite of “stone“.
Paper is someone who is into being sexually touched, but not into giving sexual touch; and Stone is someone who is into giving someone else sexual pleasure, but not liking to be sexually touched. It’s not about being “too lazy“ or having issues, it simply are possiblities of sexual desire.
The term is not very popular (not as much as “Stone Butch“ is) and i can’t find where i read about it, otherwise i’d have been good and posted a source for further reference.
Is there a “scissors” in this context?
I don’t know if Malaya’s respect is worth the effort.
Your Approval Fills Me With Shame: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame
NooOOOOOOO!!! Why would you do this to me???
Later…
It has been 72 hours since anyone has last heard from weirderthanweird. It can only be assumed that they have disappeared into the infinite black hole that is TV Tropes. It is likely that they will never return, and thus we are holding this wake. God rest their overcurious soul.
It probably has at least some rarity value.
And thus Joyce became the badass takes-shit-from-no-one chick she always dreamed of being, but only in Malaya’s head
I feel like panel 1 Dorothy is like “welp I tried my best but I guess Joyce is getting murdered now”
Good thing Malaya refuses to play into our expectations! At least, I think that’s a good thing.
Yup, despite all her good qualities, Dorothy does not perform great when she’s put on the spot (compare and contrast Billie who is a fudging BONGO QUEEN short term, but… less than stellar long term).
That makes the “what, what?” look she shares with Joyce in the last panel even funnier!
Ooh, or Walky. Recently demonstrated with how he got Jason his job at Galasso’s. Spur of the moment, while drunk, and having just broken up with Dor’.
Dorothy, meanwhile, is all about laying out a plan and isn’t great at adjusting on the fly. Although, flexible planning totally seems like a skill she’d want to build…
That’s another great comparison, which is why they complemented each other so well. *cries*
And Joyce is getting there as well. Her getting them away from Mary just now is a good example.
Bongo Cat > Bongo Queen
These are not auto-corrects
She’ll probably also beat you up though
“Mischief MANAGED.”
Shenanigans sisters out!
*Roll Credits*
Gag reel ensues.
mid-credits scene shows Malaya receiving the hidden Infinity Stone hidden in Joyce’s hair from Fuckface
Nooooo! Her powers of teleportation is gone!!!
End Credits is her giving the stone to Galasso, who rewards her with an open tab at the bar. Jason is markedly uncomfortable and British in the background.
A very anti-climactic ending, and somehow that makes it REALLY funny to me (especially in lieu of all the bickering about it over the last little while).
YAY I’m Jason again
Forgot the Malaya tag.
That’s because Malaya was a ghost the whole time…oooooOOOOOOoooooo….
Or a life model decoy!
Or a skrull!
Or he just really hates writing her and blocked all mention of her from his mind
Malaya’s hatedom is the most dedicated in the whole fandom, I think.
And the Fuckface tag.
An interaction with Malaya doesn’t go poorly?
What are the odds?
I kind of like it since she hated Lucy
I mean Joyce being justified in her ignoring other people’s boundaries in favour of her own whims seems like a poor outcome to me.
She just did this to mess with all those people who wanted her to tear into Joyce, didn’t she? Malaya, trolling through the fourth wall.
Heh, that was a pure BOSS move.
I am very reluctant to admit it…. but Malaya is cool.
She just basically challenged Joyce to run around with an illegal exotic pet she doesn’t know a thing about. I like her a whole lot less now. This is not how you care for a pet. Especially not for an illegal feral pet that can get dangerous for humans and has high needs concerning temperature and air humidity. She’s not handling her responsibility very well.
There is some merit to the notion that ‘cool’ and ‘responsible’ are not necessarily the same things.
Maybe not on the common definition of “cool“. I personally agree with Alanari that there’s nothing cool about bad pet care and carrying a pet around just for coolness. Same with rats. Lots of people carry them around and claim that the rats like it, when in fact, rats are territorial and get stressed in unfamiliar surroundings… it’s not cool to put your needs to be seen as cool above what your pets need!
I’ve always assumed it was more of a therapy animal thing. If the rat primarily remains in its pouch, is it in unfamiliar territory?
I grew up with mice, be bred a boy so nice he wouldn’t let a mom eat her babies. Only pick up the ones that walk into your hand, put them down when they get squirmy. I had rats briefly, they are domesticated. One got out and woke my dad up rubbing on his face. With 4 cats and 2 dogs in the house, we think she must have gone straight for him. They can be bred to REALLY like attention.
Where’s the abuse?
You said yourself that you only pick up the ones that walk into your hands and put them down when they get squirmy. Already you are showing respect for your pets and giving them space when they need to, and presumably, you’re not just carrying them around everywhere, but also giving them opportunity to explore.
That’s vastly different from what the comment you’re replying to was talking about, which I assumed is pet owners that just grab at their pets no matter what and constantly hold/carry them around, regardless of what the pet wants or needs. Like… think about how people let children grab at and mishandle animals, treating them much they would inanimate toys, and thinking it’s fine because they’re just ‘playing’. If you don’t see a difference in that, or if you don’t see how that behavior can be abusive or harmful for a pet, I can’t help you.
Responsible pet ownership is super cool. Animal neglect is supremely uncool.
You just think that. Fuckface powers work better when she’s wearing him.
At the least it’s nice to see Malaya being consistent. This approach fits nicely with what she claims to respect.
Of course, it also wouldn’t be out of character for her to be inconsistent and get really mad at Joyce about this, so I wasn’t sure what to expect.
I did enjoy today’s adventure with Malaya, alt text.
So did I!
Same.
Huh.
I did not expect that, but in retrospect I feel like I should have.
The Mary card is still hanging.
Malaya you mind game playing mother fuckin
The other shoe dropped, only it was a clown shoe made of Nerf. And I respect that.
^ <3! It squeaked as it bounced, too.
Crap, right, Malaya’s a reflexive contrarian even if there’s probably good reasons not to do a thing (like the iguana being secret).
Ah well, I guess it’s more dramatically appropriate if its someone closer to Joyce who does the ‘boundaries matter’ thing rather than the girl who Joyce just kinda wants to be friends with (and frankly, Malaya doesn’t really give a damn about other’s boundaries herself so).
Although, Joyce feeling affirmed in her bad boundary habits is also how she’s been justifying it when confronted so yeah, probably gonna have to be drastic. Too bad, I like Joyce and don’t really want to see her sad, but I suspect it’s gonna go down that way.
Malaya did terrify Joyce by getting within her boundaries, though (panel 3). That at least shows that Joyce has some innate understanding of boundaries, and Malaya quietly used that to intimidate her. (Look at her face: there’s no way she’s just getting close so Fuckface can migrate back.) So possibly she’ll prove to have softened Joyce up for the sermon on keeping your distance.
Yep.
Sigh. Oh, Malaya.
And with that Malaya has gained more respect for Joyce than she has for Sal.
That’s not really an achievement. I’m pretty sure Malaya respects Fuckface’s droppings more than Sal.
Malaya would probably respect a boiled cabbage more than Sal and that is entirely Sal’s fault.
entirely? eh, I say it’s 80% Sal
Though I suspect Malaya is mostly jealous of Sal. And the things she claims to not like about Sal are bullshit – the whole you’re just a poser rebel thing.
Sal’s given her plenty of reasons to dislike her, but those don’t seem to be her real reasons.
Also the ‘Sal is unhappy to have a heat lamp shone in her face/Malaya calls her an animal hater’ strip. The two of them just have a ton of friction and at least half of it seems to be them trying to justify why when they simply never clicked.
Yeah, though that was well past the point they already were pissed at each other.
Though it’s not explicit, since we don’t see how they first met, I think most of it on Sal’s part was just her reflexive “I don’t want anyone else intruding on Marcie and me”.
Yeah, that is worth noting—Malaya is a jerk to Sal, but Sal definitely started the fire by trying to monopolize Marcie’s time and friendship.
Malaya’s also just kind of obnoxious. For some, that is certainly a selling point, but for someone whose default is more mellow, it grates on Sal, probably.
Then again, Sal did warm to Joyce, so it’s not impossible she’ll warm to Malaya. She already did some by Malaya acknowledging that Marcie misses Sal.
On the other hand, Sal doesn’t really mind Carla hanging around with them, so Malaya’s personality probably plays a role in it.
Well, her ‘poser rebel’ schpiel was after Marcie was mad at her, and Malaya admitted to Marcie she’d been giving Sal a slightly harder time because of that. It’s why Marcie asked her to be nicer.
And yeah, there’s plenty of reasons for Malaya not to like her, although it’s Malaya, so she’ll come up with whatever.
Hmmm. I’d thought that had come up earlier.
She did rant about the “Sal is awesome” cult when they had their fight, which was before the Sal/Marcie fight, which at least points in the same direction. Not the rebel thing necessarily, but that Sal loves the attention she claims to disdain.
There was an earlier strip where Sal said she hated when people did that (and, tbf, the things Malaya was listing, the motorcycle rides and hair brushing, are kinda creepy) and it resulted in Malaya leaving, which isn’t where Willis wanted it to go.
But yes, it’s true, Malaya’s thought at least parts of Sal were fake (or at least, that Sal didn’t like her because Malaya didn’t buy into her hype) but she stepped it up after the rally. Hence why I said ‘slightly harder time’.
Funnily, I’m pretty sure Sal and Malaya respect Joyce for the exact same reason – she’s true to herself
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/diner/
That is a damn good punchline.
Meh… Malaya still sucks. Fuckface is cool though.
Goddammit Malaya, it was handed to you in a silver platter to tell Joyce off and you blew it. Dos this mean you’re okay with people messing with your stuff since it’s sticking it to the man (you)?
I love Fuckface here. “Ah, yes, my regular endotherm. Goodbye, other endotherm, you were a semi-adequate replacement endotherm.”
Fuckface is the best lizard character in this comic.
I would even say the best poikilotherm! Sorry, loose cricket, but you just didn’t receive enough character development.
Malaya once more showing herself to be the best non Dina character b in the comic.
Malaya is an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a porcupine
Maybe…maybe. But does she know how many licks it takes to get to the chocolate Tootsie roll center of a Tootsie pop? Hell no! She can stay an enigma and stay humble.
Fuckface knows, but he’s not telling.
Tootsie rolls are chocolate?!
Yes and no, they contain cocoa powder but not cocoa butter. They are scientifically chocolate but not legally chocolate.
Sounds like the tuatara. Looks like a lizard but not classified a lizard.
Nah, she’s pretty straightforward really. She wants to reject authority and encourage others to reject authority. I actually wonder if she had already guessed that she could trust Joyce with Fuckface or if Sal told her that he would be okay with ‘Pollyanna’.
Yeah, but it seems to me her rejection of authority is performative, much like she accuses Sal’s of being.
The way I read it, Malaya’s not a reflexive anti-authoritarian, she’s a reflexive contrarian.
Malaya’s still best girl.
Malaya is *fantastic*.
Mood Whiplash! Call my lawyer, I’m ready to sue!
Iguana is skewing my statistics.
See, MALAYA gains charisma when Fuckface is on her head.
…. maybe it’s like 2nd-ed gauntlets of giant strength where they only raise your stat to a specific point and no higher, so only people with low stats benefit from them?
…..
…. I’m a nerd, ain’t I?
They do that in 5e too, don’t worry about it
I mean, this is the comments section of a webcomic. I’m willing to believe there are some non-nerds here, but the ratio of nerds to non nerds must be pretty skewed in these parts.
… We could do a survey and draw up some charts or something, but I feel like that’d just overly illustrate the point.
If you were really a nerd, you’d remember that in AD&D they were gauntlets of ogre power (18/00 Strength) or girdles of giant strength (19-24 Strength, depending on the type of giant).
….. I am shame.
*Comments on webcomic*
Yeah, nerd status checks out.
Cursed Iguana of Perceived Charisma: Doesn’t actually do anything except to people stupid enough to believe it does and it might shit on your head.
I maintain that everyone is a nerd, and people just fail to acknowledge it when it’s over something like Nascar, real estate, or celebrity gossip.
Really wish I had seen this comic before right now but here we see Joyce teleporting to and teleporting away from Sarah instantly, (or maybe just Sarah being sad) Either one works.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/wakeywakeywakey/
You found the perfect example!
That is just Sarah hallucinating the auditory cue of what Joyce would say due to missing her and due to it being a pattern of her doing so but Joyce is at home during that strip.
‘Dorothy.exe’ has crashed. The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Or at least I think the idea that something like this could happen with no consequences would break her brain.
And that’s what Malaya was aiming at. Messing with Joyce is no challenge. Crashing Dorothy, however, is a coup, and combining the two has made Malaya’s day.
And my brain has now associated Malaya with HMS Malaya, a very powerful battleship with an unfortunate tendency to catch fire.
My father seved in [i]HMS Malaya[/i] in 1941. He got to spend four months in New York.
I don’t know why I expected Malaya to actually care that Joyce took her pet that she’s not supposed to have in the dorm without her permission, but I did. I should know better than to expect decent behavior from Malaya.
Next thing you know, Joyce will be getting past those two werewolves on the bridge, in Bloodborne. She’s just that cool.
Those things stop taking damage at some point, I swear.
I love Malaya just unrepentantly messing with Joyce here.
I love Malaya. Like, yeah, she’s an asshole, and I wouldn’t want to know her. BUT I LOVE HER.
Oha… suddenly Joyce realizes such a thing as personal space boundaries… although i suppose this will need to happen a few more times until Joyce begins to draw a connection that this is the same kind of invasion of personal space as e.g. being in Sal’s face when she wakes up…
Although it would be nicer if it was given to her in words than in reverse boundary crossing behaviour.
Malaya could have at least announced what she was doing in advance. But i guess she was mad and it added drama, and Malaya doesn’t really care about other peoples’ boundaries anyway… unlike Joyce, who just isn’t aware at all that this is a problem… when the shoe drops, like it did with acceptance for gay/lesbian, i think she will take it serious.
Careful, Joyce, careful now!
I really should have expected Malaya to have been sort of: “Hey, you’re a rebel! Cool!” If there is anything that would leave Joyce with mixed feelings, it was a response like this!
Joyce: “That’s not true! I take orders from lots of people!”
(Basically anyone who knows Joyce): “Do you though? Do you really?“
I have a newfound respect/affection for Malaya.
That’s a nice turn of events.
Heh invading people’s personal space, you know how that feels now Joyce?
And a nice anti-authoritarian twist from Malaya XD
I now half-expect Joyce to shout ANARCHY! in terror.
I really don’t like that Malaya cares more about rebellion than her pet.
It wasn’t hurt in any way and seemed to be satisfied with his situation so no need to start drama.
Because “No need to start drama” really describes Malaya.
Especially if the drama isn’t about her personally.
I guess it’s a question of priorities with her, Fuckface is safe Appreciating a fellow rebel.
Um. It’s not “drama” to be pissed off about someone taking risks with your pet.
My point was that since Fuckface was fine, Malaya was okay with it enough to focus on appreciating a fellow rebel.
Fair enough. It was the phrasing that bothered me.
It reminds me of that bit where she shone the heat lamp in Sal’s face and then when Sal was (understandably) upset called her an animal hater.
*scowls in the distance* B*tch…
And I can add another tic to the “Malaya is a bad pet owner” category under the heading of “Cares more about childish contrarianism than about strangers wandering off with her pet.”
To be fair, it’s hard to find things Malaya cares about more than contrarianism.
In her defense, Fuckface appears to have magic teleporty powers.
It’s hard to be worried about someone running off with your pet when it can teleport.
I have enjoyed this arc.
Saaaame. Gonna miss this side story once it’s gone. Though the whole chapter has been good, so that helps.
Dotty, Joyce.
It may not seem like it.
But today?
Ya done good.
Joyce: *le gasp*
I can be rebelz?!
Dotty: NO.
Dotty: Sure. Within certain carefully outlined parameters.
Oh boy I can imagine Joyce running (well, walking very fast) to Sal while yelling (well speaking slightly louder than normal)
“Sal! I’m a rebel just like you, Malaya said so!”
“Sure you are”
pollyanarchy?
Only Joyce would want that XD
That was surprisingly calm for a jerk like Malaya. Now Joyce and Dorothy are confused.
I think that this is the first time that Joyce has met someone with as strange social instincts as she has herself!
What we know of Malaya so far:
She hates Sal because she has decided Sal’s anti-authoritarian attitude is fake.
She bonds with Carla over how much they hate people.
She wants people to endanger or abuse her pet to prove their anti-authoritarianism.
Have I missed anything?
She has sex with attractive yet socially ostracized jigolos to jointly rile hatred against both of them.
She had sex with Joe to get a higher rating on his list than Sal, under the mistaken idea that Sal was only pretending not to care.
Oh, and she is attracted to people she perceives as better than herself who tolerate her presence.
Malaya is a textbook case for psychology. Her dislike for Sal but approval of Joyce may be some arbitrary and perosnal choice AKA she is just a jerk with double standards.
Or it could at least be partly a result of Sal’s dislike for her. The first interaction between them that we see shows Sal’s dislike already established.
Mostly I think they’re fighting over Marcie.
I don’t think she’s thinking of Joyce as “endangering or abusing her pet”. She was worried about them getting caught, not about Joyce hurting him.
Now kiss
Okay, I’m gonna test something about this comments section.
Okay, confirmed that it’s not just “awaiting moderation” any post of mine that mentions Malaya. Am I, like, on a watchlist now or something?
Or is it because I changed my name and I need to be re-confirmed? THIS COMMENTS SECTION IS BEING TRANSPHOBIC
As is anything that crosses me now. They’re out of donuts at the meal hall? SUPER transphobic. Unbelievable.
You’ve got two comments above that I can see. Are you supposed to have more?
Changing name does go to moderation, yeah. Otherwise I’d change mine all the time.
Malaya is a true antagonist for the comments section.
She’s replaced Danny, who seems to have escaped that role for a while now, though she’s not Mike levels yet. Maybe over Joyce, but not quite Roz?
I kind of appreciate the fact that Malaya is consistent with her rebelliousness to the point where she encourages people to rebel against her.