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Hey
OOOoooo-oooo-ooo
I do, I do, I do, I do-OOoo!
boy you got me helpless~ look into your eyes and the sky’s the limit
Down for the count and I’m drownin’ in ’em
(wow is my gravatar appropriate)
I have never been the type to revel in the spotlight
We were at a revel with some rebels on a hot night
Hey girl, hey girl
We can make it easy if we lift each other
What did you say? What’s going on?
Make hey where the sun shines. Or where the Lucy shines, as the case may be.
Hey
My, my
Rock and roll can never die
Don’t you… forget about me…
I’ll be alone… dancing, you know it baby…
Hey.
(with The Shoulder Move)
Legitimately thought that was going to be an ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ link of some description.
Good to know I wasn’t alone in that.
dang, that WOULD’VE been better, since that’s ALSO a pretty creepy move
Extended Edition.
Well played, sir.
Or madam. Or whatever honorific is appropriate.
Obviously its Doctor! Just Doctor though. Also yeah that was great. Now it makes me want to extend it even more lol but MST3K is the best finisher for it
Hey
*segues into Helpless*
forum doesn’t like my comment today huh
Forum prefers the He-Man version, maybe?
oh, it just hid it from me for some reason. it’s at the top now
HELLO THERE
General Kenobi!
How uncivilized.
DO IT
There are too many of them. What are we going to do?
I’ll try spining, that’s a neat tricks.
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
There’s always a bigger fish.
You don’t want to sell me any death sticks.
Now THIS is PODRACING!
Dumbing of Age Book 10: Hey
DoA Book 10: Hey
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!
Lucy. No. Creepy.
Well, she is sitting there in her own room.
But pulling up a chair to watch her roommate sleep with her girlfriend? Creepy.
And chiming in on their sleepily-waking-up greetings, which is just over-the-top rude.
At least Lucy announced herself before Ruth and Billie got too far along into whatever else might have ensued.
Well, I’m sure that Billie asked for permission before bringing someone over to spend the night in their shared living space.
So what’s next?
Lucy on the morning glomp menu?
No tackle hugs though, those are dangerous..
Isn’t that what a glomp is?
Nah, a glomp usually is simply a forceful and sudden hug, not necessarily involving a tackle component. Also, if you’re in an anime, hands will land somewhere inappropriate. (I’ve never seen a crotch-grab glomp, but I haven’t watched every anime out there, and it wouldn’t surprise me.)
I tackle hugged a girl once because I thought it’d be a good idea at the time. It wasn’t. Lost that friendship. Tackle hugs are only cute if you’re significantly smaller than the tackle-ee
This is true. And the reason why I’m never the glomper
It is not that Lucy is present (she is certainly allowed to be). It is not even that she offers a greeting. It is that -the entirety of her focus- is 100% on the two girls who were just sleeping a minute ago. She is pulled up in a chair directly to look at them, with no object anywhere at hand for even plausible deniability that she was doing anything other than watching them for some unspecified length of time.
If Lucy were just being in the room doing her own thing, heard Billie and Ruth waking up, glanced over her shoulder, and said ‘Hey’: not creepy. Possibly somewhat startling for Billie and Ruth in their still-waking-up state not really realizing they aren’t alone, but objectively A-OK, especially as it’s better to give them the heads-up sooner rather than later.
Or if Lucy were angry with Billie bringing Ruth home without notice, there’d be some justification for her to loom without actually waking them up. It’d be a little passive-aggressive, but not creepy. There is nothing in her expression that suggests even mild annoyance though.
This is being invasive into a relationship that is not hers. That’s creepy.
Take into account that
(1) Ruth has an unshared room that she and Billie could have used.
(2) Lucy was visibly present when Billie and Ruth came into the room.
And then explain why Lucy should not conclude that they want to be watched.
Because most of us moved past ‘But she was wearing a short skirt’ as an acceptable defense about a century ago?
THANK YOU! I knew at least one other person would find this creepy.
LUCY! I missed her.
Also, Ruth doesn’t seem as surprised, guessing since Billie’s facing away from Lucy, whereas Ruth isn’t. Ruth is also just generally less oblivious.
Billie missed her too.
But her aim is getting better!
I think it’s mostly that we can see Billie’s face more clearly. I’d read Ruth as more annoyance than surprise, but it’s hard to say from that angle.
Why would Ruth be surprised? She knows it’s Lucy’s room, and doubtless saw Lucy when she and Billie came in last night.
Speaking of what everybody knows, Lucy knows that Ruth has an unshared room she and Billie could have used.
Surprised that Lucy is sitting there staring at them, not that she’s there at all. Or, alternately, still waking up and coming to awareness of the world beyond her and Billie, so surprised she’s not in her own room, even if she’ll remember that as soon as she’s awake.
A question with no good answer: Your place or mine?
But the answer should always be “whichever place doesn’t have roommates who can go full Edward on us.”
Footnote: My mental DJ spun up Van Halen’s “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”, but I decided against playing it on the hacked Muzak as a service to you.
It’s not off Van Halen III, so it gets a pass.
This seems appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8pQlygClhQ
(Charles Hayward – Watching You)
I think the real question is: Why isn’t Andrew Garfield tagged?
An oversight, I’m sure.
Yeah that’s definitely not creepy, and a great way to improve relations with your roommate. Watch them sleep while they cuddle!! What could go wrong.
Worst case, you could wind up falling headfirst from a fire escape.
Sans femurs.
But you need your femurs to live!
And Best case is a Pillow barrage and a tickle punishment followup, though that all depends on how ticklish Lucy is.
Nobody expects the tickle inquisition. Especially from these two.
Hey
Hey
Warning, the EP cover associated with the below link may not be safe for work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNu0EKnrv8U
The one that goes with this one, on the other hand is just a bit weird.
Way to ruin a moment Lucy. Granted if they wanted a moment alone they probably should be in Ruth’s room instead.
Yeah. Choosing Lucy’s room over Ruth’s for this is pretty gross and inconsiderate.
Unless, of course, Billie and Ruth knew that Lucy was a voyeur, and put a show on for her.
With Lucy’s consent.
“put on a show”?
I mean, they could have, but more likely they just came home and went to sleep.
Right. I don’t suggest that that is what Ruth and Billie did. I gave it as an example of something that they might have done that would have ended up in this situation, but that would not have been gross and inconsiderate of Lucy.
What I suppose they actually did do was to barge in to Lucy’s bedroom when she was asleep, remove their shoes and trousers, then go to bed together and react with hostility to Lucy for being there when they woke up.
Lucy, you’re pulling an Edward.
Never go full
sparklepireEdward.RESPECT THE SOCK, LUCY! (even if it’s only a metaphoreical sock.)
The Sock is only to be respected if it comes OFF when your done, or if the roommate has ANYWHERE else to go.
My roommate first term sophomore year got in the habit of locking the door and falling asleep IMMEDIATELY post-coitus. Meaning he was locking me out of my bedroom until he woke up in the morning.
Then he took his bed off the frame so he and his girlfriend wouldn’t ‘wake me up’. It took me a few days to realize they decided that it was okay for them to initiate WITH ME IN THE ROOM, ASLEEP.
I eventually just claimed the couch in the common room as my bed.
I have no properly considered the tricky bylaws of sock etikett.
also: …ouch! I’m sorry. Sounds like quite an experience.
Yea its not like your desire to sleep should be respected less than your roommates desire to fuck. Honestly I think the proper way to go about it is to assume you won’t have privacy that long and thus plan ahead with your room mate if you need privacy longer than it takes you to change.
Honestly I’m pretty socks are for visitors and maids not those who have equil right to be there as you.
Well, it’s a courtesy, so that you’re warned what to expect, not an absolute bar.
I remember walking in on my roommate and his girlfriend once midmorning. I needed a textbook or something for my next class. I wasn’t going to screw up class just to be polite about his sex life.
That makes more sense.
this is at least less weird than when I first looked and thought it was all in Ruth’s room
Nah, the murder cave is blue now.
I like to watch.
I LIKE.
TO WATCH.
Thanks, I choked on my Sun Chips.
Billie must be feeling better. Or she was until Luch heyed.
Lunch heyed? I think it’s more likely that Lucy is breakfast.
She might be toast.
Oh sure that’s not creepy at all Lucy…
What is this, a Lego City commercial?
Ach! *Lucy*
AWWWWWWWwhuh?
Hey!
And then people wonder why Billie isn’t Lucy’s biggest fan
Lucy, c’mon, don’t watch people sleep.
She knows what they did, now here’s a surprise…
At this rate, I expect the last student we’ll see wake up is Mike himself, probably in the hospital with serious shit going down.
At least he’ll wake up if my gut’s right there. Blaine doesn’t get to wake up, I don’t think.
Or Mike just wakes up in his own bed, with no acknowledgement of anything. Takes a jab at Walky for not coming home last night.
Or in an intense torture/interrogation setting!
Hay is for horses, but it’s better for cows.
(Not actually a Dad, but I partake of the essence of Dad Jokes.)
Of course, by the time the strip gets to graduation, People will think the mouseover is about *President* Garfield.
The fact that President Andrew Garfield wasn’t elected until years after the strip ran will really confuse them.
It’s cool that Lucky has a signed photo of the Ninth Doctor. I always enjoy a good Dr. WHO referents.
Many people have woken up in weird romantic arrangements in this story arc. I just hope the next person waking up is Mike in a hospital bed and not dead. If Mike is dead I am going to riot.
Full-on Riot, like with torches and pitchforks, and peasants in the streets? Per Frahnkensteen? (Or Frankenstein?)
For it to be a romantic arrangement in the hospital, does that mean Mike would wake up next to a pretty nurse or doctor or orderly or someone’s mom or just a fellow patient with or Blaine?
This strip will be displayed in a future museum, next to a plaque explaining that during the Renaissance civilization, Andrew Garfield was more often depicted as a corpulent orange cat.
What? No popcorn?
So… I guess Lucy has …. MORE boundaries than Joyce?
Well Lucy is waking up someone who doesn’t consider her a friend unlike Joyce so…no?
Joyce started with the hovering waking up before any of them were really friends, so probably yes.
OTOH, Joyce is getting better about it. She’s learned to knock before going in to Sal’s room.
Funny how violent choking makes people respect your boundaries REALLY FAST.
And they say violence never accomplished anything.
Except it didn’t really. She kept doing it after at least the first couple violent chokings. I think it was more of a general change than the violence.
Got it, consistent violence AND stern lectures are how you handle disputes as an adult.
Lucy didn’t wake them up. She said ‘hey’ after they woke up.
Shoulder touch?
He CAN’T do it ON COMMAND.
hey-</a hey, guess they did leave sometime after midnight
What a wonderful kind of day
If you can learn to work and play
And get along with each other
Wow couldn’t have asked for a better Gravatar on this comment
Dammit Billie! That was for the whole situation, not anything specific to today’s comic.
Breaking and entering to watch people sleep is always creepy, Lucy. It’s vampire stuff. Don’t be a vampire.
Not sure she has to break and enter into her own room, which I’m fairly sure this is.
Yeah, but if I fell asleep with my partner in a dorm room and woke up to my roommate sitting backwards on a chair watching us, I’d be creeped out as hell.
Sorry, misttook it for Ruth’s room.
But yes, creepy as F.
You can’t exactly criticise Lucy for not respecting boundaries if, as I suspect, Bille and Ruth are snuggling in Billie and Lucy’s room!
I doubt it. I’d put a small amount of money that you could find people who would criticize Lucy for not respecting boundaries even if Billie and Ruth were snuggling in Lucy’s bed.
Well, some context would help clear things up. If we find out that they woke Lucy up via mad shagging, or left her a note asking to keep an eye on them because of Billie detoxing, or she starts with something like “so, ask next time you want to bring a guest over”, that’s understandable. If she saw them and just decided to stare because she’s into that, that’s different.
Also, Clif, we (my fiancee and I) did find out why she lived with my family for a while. Apparently her parents had to move back to Japan because of a visa-related SNAFU, and they asked my father to take her in since she was already a citizen and they didn’t want to uproot her while they were taking care of it.
That was generous of your father, and I’m glad everything worked out for everyone.
Hm. Are we going to have to wait ’til Amber becomes AG, this evening, to get info on Mike, maybe?
Mike who? None of us recall any Mike. You must be thinking of some other Willisverse.
I genuinely keep forgetting that Mike is a thing.
Mike and Mike! What IS Mike?
Or what is this Mike of which you speak?
I’m not waiting on a status update for Chuck Cunningham, either.
WARNING! Link to TVtropes!
Hey, Lucy. What are you doing here?
It’s her room
Billie is still absolutely not used to being seen in Lesbian Mode
Yeah, for all the critique of Lucy watching, it’s great to see that Billie’s dropped enough pretense to bring Ruth over to her dorm. I wonder if we’ll see the rest of the floor’s reaction.
Masterful, Author Willis.
Room-mating at college is a weird custom.
For starters, how does one mate with a room? Do you just hhhhwhip it out and start jamming stuff wherever it’ll fit?
I imagine so. I have no experience of the custom, though.
Bedknobs and broomsticks.
ok, the bed is at floor level, so it’s Ruth room isn’t it ? What is that gal doing there lol
Wait, no, it’s Billie’s uniform, not Leafs
At least Billie doesn’t look as sick as she did yesterday.
A few more seconds of this and then it leads into them breaking out into singing “Helpless” because lets keep the Hamilton references going.
Oooh, I do I do I do I doooo~
Sorry.
Malaya was apparently right.
Lucy really DOES ruin EVERYTHING.
This is a litte bit…. I know they are really cute together, but stare at them when they are asleep is…creepy.
Reminds me of the Far Side comic where barking dogs get translated and they are all saying “hey”. https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/dog-bark-translator/
And then Lucy was hit a rolled-up newspaper, sprayed with water, relieved of her femurs, and never seen again.
Why do so few people in this comic have a concept of boundaries?
Wooden stake and mallet. Watching you during your sleep is classic vampire behavior.
Lucy woke up this morning to find an unexpected guest in her bedroom. Instead of demanding an explanation she was considerate enough to dress and prepare to face the day without making loud noises and waking them. Then she sits quietly in a chair on her side of the room waiting for them to wake and gives them a friendly “hey” when they do.
Lucy is obviously the one with no boundaries.
It is weird that she’s apparently sitting there watching them. Would be much less so if she’d been sitting at her desk and turned around to say “hey” when they talked.
Lucy woke up this morning to find her roommate was snuggling with her girlfriend. Instead of going about her day she decided to set up a chair and stare at them while they slept.
You’re right about disrespect of boundaries being widespread in this comic.
Last night Ruth and Billie could easily have got their snuggle on in Ruth’s unshared room. Instead they chose to do it in the room that Lucy has to share.
“you two got really freaky last night damn”
We’re the Monkees?
No, that’s just two ‘Hey’s.
It’s Fat Albert!
Thank you.
As a fellow freckled, I don’t remember that we’ve seen the freckles on Ruth’s shoulder blades already.
HI, I’m Daisy!
I haven’t encountered this many “Hey”s without an associated “Adora” in a long time.
It’s got one more “Hey” than the meme, but this reminds me of that TikTok trend that uses the opening riff from Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love”. (The “What?” part of the meme being Billie’s face)
Lucy, being in her own room, doesn’t owe them having to secile herself. She COULD pretend not to hear and not chime in. But they are putting her in a weird place by adding people to the room without consulting her probably. Plus it’s weird that Ruth is an RA. By dorm policy, guests probably aren’t supposed to stay overnight. I mean imagine how weird it would be for Lucy if a giant football linebacker was who Billie was cuddling with on the couch all night in her room. Ruth isn’t really less weird than that just because she is a woman.
It’s a little passive aggressive, but Lucy is kind of saying ‘uh right so I can still see and hear you, strange and uninvited roommate who I am TRYING to be cool and sunny about despite not myself getting laid.
I dunno about policy, but people sleeping over isn’t exactly uncommon in college. I do believe back when Becky was staying the dorms there was talk here of something around a 3 night limit.
It’s a courtesy to check with your roommate, but it’s not really weird or shocking not to. Rude, certainly.
What’s offputting about Lucy’s behavior isn’t that she hasn’t left or that she’s talking to them, but that the scene is framed to make it look like she’s been sitting there staring at them while they slept. If she’d been sitting at her desk and looked over her shoulder to say “hey” when she heard them talking, I doubt anyone would object.
I don’t think Lucy is being rude by existing in her own room. I do think watching Billie and Ruth sleep like that is creepy and rude.
I like to think she was doing something else, but she turned around when she heard them stirring. It negates the weirdness of Lucy just watching them sleep.
I love just how hard we’re ignoring Mike at this point! XD
Who?
Honestly I thought that was Jack Quaid.
so…she likes to watch eh?
And they like to be watched.
If they wanted privacy they could have had it — in Ruth’s room.
I am like itching with anticipation to see what happened to Mike, is he dead? I’d never have expected this comic to suddenly turn that dark O_O
Being drunk is a pretty poor excuse, but Billie and Ruth weren’t even drunk when they came back to the dorm. They could have gone to Ruth’s room. Instead, they chose to sleep together in Lucy’s bedroom. Quite apart from being rather rude to Lucy, that gives them no expectation of privacy. Indeed, if Lucy had construed it as an exhibitionist act that invited voyeurism you couldn’t say that that interpretation was unreasonable.
They been dogging. Sober.
oh hey- wait a minute
Hey-
I dunno why, I wanted panels 3 and 4 as 1 image.
here is my fairly crappy attempt
https://imgur.com/a/SwBeWKX