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by David M Willis on December 22, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Look Straight Ahead
└ Tags: jennifer, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 22, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    why tf is Walky so “imprinted like a baby duck” with BillieJennifer alla sudden

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      December 22, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

      He’s getting along well with his actual sister lately, so he needs an outlet for his “jerk brother” snark.

      See also his recent behavior toward Joyce.

      • Mr D
        Mr D
        December 22, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

        Being a big brother, I can confirm.

        • StClair
          StClair
          December 22, 2020 at 4:33 am | #

          I was always the “boring, responsible eldest”. Mostly it was my middle brother starting trouble, and the youngest following him into it.

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            December 22, 2020 at 2:11 pm | #

            Likewise.

            I’m still the boring one. Watching the DuckTales reboot, I relate 1000% to Huey.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          December 22, 2020 at 8:44 am | #

          Can also confirm. My sister is a badass, though, she can handle both my nice and jerky sides.

          • Sunny
            Sunny
            December 22, 2020 at 10:56 am | #

            For a moment there I thought you were talking about food when I read “nice and jerky sides”.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        December 22, 2020 at 1:19 am | #

        I hope it gets called out on his behavior a little at some point cause it’s getting just a tad inappropriate now. He was REALLY roasting Joyce over a sensitive issue for her that was barely provoked. Almost like he was punishing her for suggesting he give Jennifer some space. He even quoted Booster at her. Dude needs to chill.

    • Fuzzy
      Fuzzy
      December 22, 2020 at 4:06 am | #

      His roommate just died and he isn’t handling it well. Billie was his closest friend for a long time, and he doesn’t have any other close friends in college now that he’s not talking to Dorothy or (probably) Amber. He probably really, really wants to feel safe and secure right now, and he usually feels safe with Billie.

      Though maybe not so much when she’s trying to ignore his existence, and not in a “haha ugh you’re so annoying” way but a “I’ve grown away from you and am no longer interested in associating with you” way.

      • Fuzzy
        Fuzzy
        December 22, 2020 at 4:07 am | #

        Sorry, Jennifer.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 22, 2020 at 8:27 am | #

        Or because he realizes that she’s in trouble and is worried about her. I’m not buying the idea that this change is any way “growth” or healthy for her.

        At least not until we get a close enough look to know she’s not drinking again. Maybe not even then.

  2. Johan
    Johan
    December 22, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    Haha Jennifer cares about Walky haha

  3. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    December 22, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    Not sure I wanna know how she drastically changed in 6 months.

    • Johan
      Johan
      December 22, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

      3. It’s Ja
      nuary.

      • ADLegend21
        ADLegend21
        December 22, 2020 at 4:09 pm | #

        EVEN WORSE.

    • Stu
      Stu
      December 22, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

      Well, she DID mention going to therapy – wouldn’t be surprised if she actually stopped drinking, and the relationship with Ruth was… well, probably not a very healthy one, all things considered, especially when you factor in the whole “I’d die for you!” nigh-suicide pact they had going for a while.

      • Blindness
        Blindness
        December 22, 2020 at 2:03 am | #

        I don’t think that helped as much as it appeared, I think she has a lot of issues that she’s still dealing with and her way of dealing with them is to move away from everyone.

        It’s not the first time that she’s done this, to be frank I think she reverted to where she was at the start but has a lot more people trying to be around her but sees them as causing her issues.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 22, 2020 at 8:30 am | #

        Maybe. Though I’d expect Ruth to be a lot more supportive of the therapy and not drinking than Asher would be.

        And people getting in new relationships and isolating themselves from their existing support networks sets off a ton of red flags for me.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 22, 2020 at 2:44 am | #

      Part therapy, part acting the role she wants.

  4. Yumi
    Yumi
    December 22, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    I hate wearing scarves, and Jennifer’s bugs me vicariously.

    Also, anyone else have dreams about DoA? I’ve been having a bunch, complete with comment sections. I wake up confused as to what’s actually happening in the comic.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      December 22, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

      I’ve had a couple!

      • Megz
        Megz
        December 22, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

        I feel like he had a similar relationship with Dina in the “It’s Walky” universe. Not really emotionally abusive but not great and kind of done for not-great reasons.

        • Megz
          Megz
          December 22, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

          This replied to the wrong post. I meant this as a reply to the post about the Walky/Lucy relationship dream. Sorry.

    • theKOT
      theKOT
      December 22, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

      I had a dream that Walky started a relationship with Lucy because it was easy and he is lazy and wanted to take advantage of that. In the dream, he was uncaring at best and emotionally abusive at worst. It’s silly but it has made me dislike him quite a bit whereas before I was neutral to slightly positive.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        December 22, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

        Walky dating Lucy because it’s easy just makes me think he’s next gonna fall for an Amazon courier and have to fight her seven evil exes.

        • wwwhhattt
          wwwhhattt
          December 22, 2020 at 7:26 am | #

          Nah, Lucy’s not way too young for him.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      December 22, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

      My most recent dream had a lot of details, but part of it was that there was a wlw support group type thing going on, facilitated by Leslie and including Anna, Mindy, Becky, and Dina, amongst others. In the same space, there was a support group going on for like…self-improvment? And in attendance there were Roz and Joe.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        December 22, 2020 at 9:36 am | #

        Tonight’s dream featured Becky being both an undergrad student and, somehow, the dean of the school.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          December 22, 2020 at 6:06 pm | #

          She can do it! I trust her.

    • Blindness
      Blindness
      December 22, 2020 at 2:04 am | #

      I’ve never successfully worn a scarf. I don’t know why, but I just can’t wear something that could choke me easily…I guess it’s from actually being choked by bullies for years that put me off of them

    • Diane
      Diane
      December 22, 2020 at 5:04 pm | #

      I have had a couple of dreams of the comic, on patreon, and get a little confused in the morning when I check the update and go “That’s not what happened…”

      And full agree, scarves are annoying and feel uncomfortable. It’s been a nice thing about the plague, with wearing a mask, I now don’t need a scarf to keep cold air away from my asthma lungs. So I guess I just don’t like things around my neck.

      *hits avatar randomizer button by slightly changing email* C’mon not Becky or Walky!

      • Diane
        Diane
        December 22, 2020 at 5:05 pm | #

        Curses…Ah well, I’ll take Walky.

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 22, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    Note she does not argue he’s wrong.

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    December 22, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    *plays The Pretenders’ “Room Full Of Mirrors” on the hacked Muzak*

  7. Megz
    Megz
    December 22, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    I get the feeling that Walky is getting dangerously close to getting told to back off and give Jennifer some space. He’s trying too hard to cling to an old dynamic when what he should be doing is growing and maybe growing up a little. I don’t know what Jennifer’s current deal is but it’s not wrong to want to get some space and change. Could be good change. Could be bad change. But she has a right to try it out and Walky is trying too hard to stop it to keep “Billie”.

    • TemporalShrew
      TemporalShrew
      December 22, 2020 at 12:35 am | #

      I get this perspective, but I also get the perspective of someone who’s known a person for years and years and who’s (in their eyes) being suddenly, inexplicably shut out and brushed off – even more than usual, in this case. She has a right to engage in self-change, but I don’t think it’s totally right to say Walky shouldn’t be allowed to at least *try* reaching out, even if he is doing it in a characteristically annoying-dweeb way.

      Now, if she *specifically* tells him to leave her alone and he continues to be an annoying dweeb, there will be a clear-cut problem, but as of right now, he’s basically just… tried to talk to her twice, and all she’s said is that she’s been “busy.”

      Generally speaking, Walky needs to grow up, yes, but trying to talk to your friend and comparing the current arrangement of zero communication to a prior time when you talked more isn’t de facto “clinging to an old dynamic.”

      • Jane
        Jane
        December 22, 2020 at 1:07 am | #

        Does it really need to be that specific, though? When someone repeatedly ignores you, sarcastically asks if you’re stalking them, and never initiates your interactions… That’s all essentially telling you to go away. Demanding they put it in those specific words seems like it would just end up hurting both parties.

        I mean, if Walky were one of my old friends, she’d be loudly complaining about how Jennifer was suddenly “too cool” to hang around with the people she’d been with her entire life, and brainstorming about how to take her down a peg – even if that’s not what Jennifer meant, that’s the message she’s sending very loudly to everyone else right now. Though, uh, the social dynamics of my old friends weren’t exactly the healthiest, so Walky should probably ignore that specific response.

        Besides, even if Walky’s “Annoy Jennifer Into Acknowledging Me” plan works out, that’s not really a healthy friendship, is it? It’s one where one party has to move heaven and earth just to get the other to make a token effort. And that’s just going to see this play out again in six month’s time, because they’ll inevitably end up drifting apart again when Walky has to focus on his classes instead of her, and Jennifer just can’t be bothered to include him in her social plans. Friendships just don’t work when one side is doing all the work.

        I mean, it’d be nice if there was some closure, certainly. But if that’s not the conversation Walky’s looking to have, he’s ignoring what Jennifer’s plainly saying.

        (Oh, and as a closing note that I couldn’t find room for elsewhere; their last attempted conversation seemed to suggest fairly clearly (at least in my opinion) that they’d had similar interactions over break.)

        • Rabid Rabbit
          Rabid Rabbit
          December 22, 2020 at 2:22 am | #

          On the other hand, there’s history there, from being friends as kids to Jennifer becoming a cool cheerleader and shoving him into lockers to them becoming pseudo-siblings again last term — much as I loathe Walky, his attempts at staying close to Jennifer have a background, and he has reason to believe that her sarcastic questions about him stalking her are jsut her being herself.

          One has to remember that one of his few moments of absolute sincerity (that we’ve seen) was when he told Sal that he’d been a bad brother to her, but wanted to be a good one to Jennifer if he could.

          From Jennifer’s point of view, it’s probably a bit of a “You can’t choose your family” effect, but considering the Christmas break it’s been implied the Walkerton siblings had (especially given that Walky very vaguely rebelled against his parents beforehand), Walky’s attempts to hold on to the sibling who WAS chosen (for being reasonably white-passing) do make a lot of sense.

          TL;DR: One can’t forget that Jennifer’s relationship to the Walkertons is more like family than friends. Hell, as she’s said, sometimes she calls Linda “Mom” by mistake. Which is horrific on all sorts of levels.

          • Rabid Rabbit
            Rabid Rabbit
            December 22, 2020 at 2:23 am | #

            (Hmm, I’ve changed from one cranky redhead to another. Well, I can deal with that, though being Canadian, I will always regret my days as Ruth.)

          • Jane
            Jane
            December 22, 2020 at 3:02 am | #

            To clarify, it’s not that I don’t understand what Walky’s doing here – it’s just that I think that, in the real world, his actions would end up causing him more pain in the end than if he’d just walked away. Because Jennifer is telling him quite clearly to go away, and it will be up to her to decide that she misses the past enough to invite him back into her life.

            And to be clear, that could well be what would happen; that she feels stable enough in her new life to feel comfortable inviting back old things that she likes, or that she decides this whole experiment was a mistake and that she she go go back to the way things were. But whatever it is she’s doing, she needs to come to these conclusions herself; until she does, he’s being a distraction at best, and an annoyance at worst. Sometimes, you just have to let these things play out on their own.

            That said, I’d also say that context plays a role here; if she’s been doing this for months, it’s time to give up. If she really did only start doing this when they got back to college, then his confusion is perfectly understandable. If he annoys her when they head to the same building together, that’s just acknowledging that they’re not strangers. If he waits outside an unrelated building for her like he did today, that’s just needless emotional self-harm.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              December 22, 2020 at 8:41 am | #

              They may well cause him more pain, but Jennifer’s practically his sister and he’s not going to let that go easily.

              I also wouldn’t be surprised if he’s thinking back to when she broke down over Ruth and he had no clue what was going on and he doesn’t want to wind up back there again.

  8. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    December 22, 2020 at 12:49 am | #

    So the other night on Paterson I asked the question “What even is Walkys major, telecommunications right? What Jobs would that hold for that major any way”?
    Then moments later someone hit me up with a list of professions related to it:

    Account executive
    Announcer
    Advertising copywriter
    Disc jockey
    Audio/video editor
    Electronic publication specialist
    Film director
    Media content creator
    Investigative reporter
    Multimedia specialist
    News writer
    Producer
    Publisher
    Radio/television newscaster
    Script writer
    Social media manager
    Web page designer
    Station programmer
    Sales representative
    News reporter
    Technical writer
    Television director
    Television engineer

    To me like 8 of these were kind of solid, if Walky was taking the superhero gimmick seriously you’re not horsing around I can see him going for “News reporter” or “investigative journalist” since Spider-man supes are of the same profession. But knowing him he’d probably go for “Film Director” to live out his dream to make a live action adaptation of “Dexter & Monkey Masters.”

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      December 22, 2020 at 1:52 am | #

      If he’s serious about telecommunications and doesn’t change his major later, I assume Walky would go for whichever job in that field requires the least amount of work and effort. I’m not sure which job of the ones listed that would be.

    • Blindness
      Blindness
      December 22, 2020 at 2:00 am | #

      …you listed the news and most of the information side of things, but there’s another major avenue that could be what he’s doing there: computer networking and network administration. You don’t have to be a genius or a programmer to do the jobs, but you do need math.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 22, 2020 at 2:52 am | #

        I got my degree in computer networking, now I fix TV equipment. There’s a lot of skills overlap, especially now that everything is a computer.

    • ktbear
      ktbear
      December 22, 2020 at 2:22 am | #

      The one that jumped out at me, having just read Joyce and Walky, was web page designer.

      • ktbear
        ktbear
        December 22, 2020 at 2:24 am | #

        What the…stupid avatar! Gimme back my Dina dammit!

        • StClair
          StClair
          December 22, 2020 at 4:34 am | #

          Yeah, I seem to have lost my Ruth in the latest shuffle.

  9. Bagge
    Bagge
    December 22, 2020 at 12:53 am | #

    Honestly, “too much overthinking” is not an uncommon trait in this cast

    • Bogeywoman
      Bogeywoman
      December 22, 2020 at 1:04 am | #

      Or my life

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        December 22, 2020 at 10:57 am | #

        same

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      December 22, 2020 at 9:14 am | #

      Walky is the exact kind of person to put 3x the thinking into doing something the easy way.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 22, 2020 at 10:45 am | #

        Those are the people who change the world.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          December 22, 2020 at 12:49 pm | #

          They sometimes do change the world/ However, they sometimes don’t take into consideration the effort v. payout.

  10. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    December 22, 2020 at 1:05 am | #

    So you’re telling me Walky’s excuse was just a line of bullshit and he’s actually just really annoying? That’s too bad.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      December 22, 2020 at 1:49 am | #

      I get the feeling you hate Walky. Just a tiny bit, maybe.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        December 22, 2020 at 2:11 am | #

        What? No! How could you imply that? I love Walky and totally believed him running into Jennifer was just a coincidence like he said! It is a little disappointing that he’s immaturely stalking and purposefully annoying an old friend, but I’m sure he has a good reason for it! The fact that she’s been cold to him is just a reason for him to try harder if you ask me! It’s probably even a cry for help.

        My new gravatar is actually very fitting for me right now!

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 22, 2020 at 8:42 am | #

      It was just an excuse and he’s not just being annoying.

  11. ElectricBlue
    ElectricBlue
    December 22, 2020 at 1:51 am | #

    No! You’ve turned hangin’ out here on dumbingofage dot com to read comics into thinking about how I haven’t networked even once in university and I don’t really know what I’m gonna do with myself when I graduate this year! Damn you, Willis!

    • ElectricBlue
      ElectricBlue
      December 22, 2020 at 1:56 am | #

      Also, I just noticed Jennifer ties her scarf in the back, I guess to keep it out of the way? That’s pretty smart. Also-also, apparently it’s actually Asher’s scarf, per the archives and my gravatar. (The main purpose of this comment is secretly so I can get a different gravatar and see if I like it better)

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        December 22, 2020 at 2:41 am | #

        Personally I think Dorothy is an upgrade from Asher.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 22, 2020 at 2:43 am | #

          Username Gravatar checks out.

        • Dara
          Dara
          December 22, 2020 at 11:54 pm | #

          Oooh, let’s see what I get! My old one looked like someone had pudding dumped on her head.

          • Dara
            Dara
            December 22, 2020 at 11:54 pm | #

            No more pudding! I’ll take it.

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      December 22, 2020 at 10:59 am | #

      aaaaaaaaaa

  12. BenRG
    BenRG
    December 22, 2020 at 2:24 am | #

    You can’t help but wonder when the great big tank of ice cold water called ‘reality’ will be upended onto Walky’s head and whether he’ll be able to adapt to it.

  13. AGV
    AGV
    December 22, 2020 at 4:07 am | #

    Narrator: The building was hard to draw from the inside

  14. Lingo
    Lingo
    December 22, 2020 at 4:09 am | #

    Yeah, I’m just here to check out the new gravatars.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      December 22, 2020 at 4:10 am | #

      Score!

    • Lorien Inksong
      Lorien Inksong
      December 22, 2020 at 5:46 am | #

      I am jelly, this avatar is too powerful. XD

    • Minim
      Minim
      December 22, 2020 at 8:26 am | #

      I shall do the same.

  15. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    December 22, 2020 at 4:32 am | #

    Walky: “I miss Billie.”
    Jennifer: “She wasn’t worth missing.”

    Also, welcome to It’s Stalky!, a new webcomic starring David “Stalky” Stalkaton.

  16. Lorien Inksong
    Lorien Inksong
    December 22, 2020 at 5:45 am | #

    Aw kids, growing up is hard to do. TBH while Walky is being unrepentantly immature I don’t think he knows another method of dealing with the changes in Billie. His concern and clinginess but inability to honestly communicate that is sad in a puppy in the rain kind of way, you know?

    Also while I’m still concerned about Billie (is Asher a safe good BF? ;; ) I have to say the haircut she’s picked does look really nice.

    • Lorien Inksong
      Lorien Inksong
      December 22, 2020 at 5:46 am | #

      (Oh thank goodness my new Avatar is a character I like a lot more)

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        December 22, 2020 at 6:10 am | #

        Who was your old one?

        • Lorien Inksong
          Lorien Inksong
          December 22, 2020 at 8:12 pm | #

          Raidah I think… Someone who when on screen was a butthead most of the time.

  17. Kagimizu
    Kagimizu
    December 22, 2020 at 6:00 am | #

    Seeing some of these conversations and debates really hit close to home.

    • Kagimizu
      Kagimizu
      December 22, 2020 at 6:00 am | #

      …..This gravatar is ironic to an almost cruel level, and part of me actually wishes it were possible to change it.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        December 22, 2020 at 6:12 am | #

        Tinker around with capitalization in your email address each time you post. That nets you a different character.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          December 22, 2020 at 9:00 am | #

          Also, you can select your own Gravatar that only changes when you want it to.

  18. Clif
    Clif
    December 22, 2020 at 6:04 am | #

    Avatar roulette ‘ spin 1

    • clif
      clif
      December 22, 2020 at 6:06 am | #

      spin 2

  19. CLIF
    CLIF
    December 22, 2020 at 6:07 am | #

    spin 3

    • CLIF
      CLIF
      December 22, 2020 at 6:08 am | #

      looks like we got a winner.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        December 22, 2020 at 8:09 am | #

        I don’t know what the other two were, but, yeah, you’ve got a 20 and you should hold. (Wait, that’s not roulette. Eh–that’s as much as I know about the glamorous world of gaming.)

      • Kliph
        Kliph
        December 22, 2020 at 3:37 pm | #

        Absolutely not going to go with The Commenter Formally Known as clif.

        But it’s nice to have options.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          December 22, 2020 at 11:10 pm | #

          (Just in case – it’s changing the capitalization of your email address that changes your gravatar, not the capitalization/spelling of your username. At least from appearances you’ve only been changing your username, which seems to have been why it’s all Becky.)

  20. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 22, 2020 at 6:44 am | #

    The alt text is the most ominous thing I’ve read this week

  21. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    December 22, 2020 at 7:27 am | #

    Poor Walkie. He can’t accept the fact that his “sister” just do not want to see him anymore. Go away Walky. You will easily find better people.

  22. Nono
    Nono
    December 22, 2020 at 8:12 am | #

    Ah, avatar check time.

    • Nono
      Nono
      December 22, 2020 at 8:13 am | #

      I’m… going to miss Joe, huh.

      • Nono
        Nono
        December 22, 2020 at 8:13 am | #

        And spin 3?

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        December 22, 2020 at 9:04 am | #

        Wait, you’re rejecting the ‘Joyce with aviator glasses’ avatar? Welp, to each their own…

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 22, 2020 at 10:43 am | #

          That’s not Joyce. That’s Julia Gray.

  23. Nono
    Nono
    December 22, 2020 at 8:14 am | #

    Nnnope.

  24. hoop
    hoop
    December 22, 2020 at 8:30 am | #

    as someone with borderline crippling ADHD, i find the sentiment in the final panel a little too real

  25. cmasta1992
    cmasta1992
    December 22, 2020 at 9:05 am | #

    Jennifer got her shit together over winter break. I’m happy for her. I know people don’t just magically fix but I do hope this sticks and she goes on about her uni life happy

    • cmasta1992
      cmasta1992
      December 22, 2020 at 9:06 am | #

      I AM UNHAPPY WITH MY NEW AVATAR.

    • Lordhaw
      Lordhaw
      December 22, 2020 at 9:16 am | #

      Not certain if she got her shit together or if something else is going on. She does seem happier though…not right now with Walky doing the annoying brother routine but still…

      • Lordhaw
        Lordhaw
        December 22, 2020 at 9:16 am | #

        hmm…twinsies on the gravatar

        • Lordhaw
          Lordhaw
          December 22, 2020 at 9:16 am | #

          again?

  26. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    December 22, 2020 at 9:55 am | #

    Careful Walky or Jennifer will strangle you with her scarf.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      December 22, 2020 at 9:56 am | #

      Oh dear god not this gravatar.

  27. Arianod
    Arianod
    December 22, 2020 at 10:09 am | #

    Billie actually has a very good point there.

  28. egg egg
    egg egg
    December 22, 2020 at 10:21 am | #

    Man, I know Jennifer is potentially in danger considering she’s dating Asher, but I wish Walky would stop letting her treat him so poorly. This is like the second time she’s tried to ignore him like he’s less than her, not including all the Popular Kid in High School cruelty she inflicted on him during their childhood.

    Is her therapist recommending she cut people off because she has a history of being toxic to her family and loved ones? Like her high school gf pointed out? That’s the only reason I could see her justifying this. You don’t beat alcoholism by cutting off people who still want to help you at your lowest points.

    • egg egg
      egg egg
      December 22, 2020 at 10:22 am | #

      oh hey i got amber, that’s neat

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 22, 2020 at 3:40 pm | #

        It is.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 22, 2020 at 10:41 am | #

      I really hope not. That would be a horrific therapist. Reinforcing her worst traits. “Cut yourself off from people because you’re poison” is not something that should come from any therapist.

      More likely she’s doing it on her own for that reason. Possible Asher’s “helping” her think that way, to isolate her and make her more vulnerable.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      December 22, 2020 at 10:50 am | #

      Sorry but I have to disagree with you on this one. Jennifer hasn’t been treating Walky like less of a person. And I’m not saying this just because I have a bias against Walky. She’s just not giving him the kind of attention he wants. The first time she ignored him was because it was really cold outside which it still is and this second time she even stopped to talk to him while it was still cold out probably because he was so upset she ignored him the first time. Even now when Jennifer’s starting to get a little short with him it’s because he said he’s specifically there to annoy her.

      Jennifer is clearly making some changes in her life that seem pretty abrupt and maybe there is some valid reason to worry there because Asher is involved, (I don’t even think Walky’s totally in the wrong here) but she’s not being a jerk to Walky. In fact I think she’s trying to avoid being that person since she’s even mentioned old Jennifer “Billie” use to shove him in lockers.

      I really think it’s just Walky acting out because for whatever reason he’s not getting enough attention. But that’s not on Jennifer.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 22, 2020 at 3:02 pm | #

        Except it’s not just these two scenes – because it’s cold and Walky’s being annoying.
        She was described when they first returned as “elusive”, suggesting Sal and Walky hadn’t seen her at least over the break, if not for more of the timeskip. And Dorothy commented on having “lost Billie”, which means it’s not just Walky she’s been eluding. Nor just Ruth either.

        Walky’s not “acting out”, he’s worried. Support through annoyance has long been their pattern – not just his.

  29. DSL
    DSL
    December 22, 2020 at 11:28 am | #

    And right there Billiefer sums up social media in a sentence.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      December 22, 2020 at 11:38 am | #

      “It’s actually wise to hang out here.”

      ….

      That is TOO a sentence she just said!

  30. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    December 22, 2020 at 11:39 am | #

    Oh, hey, new gravs…. lemme give this a spin…

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      December 22, 2020 at 11:40 am | #

      Nope nope nope

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        December 22, 2020 at 11:40 am | #

        One more try before I call it quits today…

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          December 22, 2020 at 11:40 am | #

          … same one. Huh.

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            December 22, 2020 at 2:55 pm | #

            How are people switching their grav icons anyway?

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              December 22, 2020 at 3:04 pm | #

              It’s based on a hash of your email address.
              Email isn’t case sensitive, but the hash is, so change the capitalization of your email and you’ll get a different gravitar.

              I’d play with it, but I’m happy with new Sarah.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      December 22, 2020 at 4:55 pm | #

      These new gravs are neato

  31. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    December 22, 2020 at 2:17 pm | #

    [tests new Gravitar]

    • Joe Moose
      Joe Moose
      December 22, 2020 at 2:17 pm | #

      Booo

  32. Spencer
    Spencer
    December 22, 2020 at 2:32 pm | #

    Wait did Walky switch to Journalism?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      December 22, 2020 at 6:09 pm | #

      Telecom is in the media building too.

  33. Spookyfox
    Spookyfox
    December 22, 2020 at 4:12 pm | #

    oh new gravs?

  34. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 22, 2020 at 5:59 pm | #

    . . . is that why Jennifer is suddenly “back on track” ? Someone at home had a big talk with her about “her future” and bam

  35. Mr D
    Mr D
    December 22, 2020 at 7:41 pm | #

    Does Billie look skinnier to anyone else?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 22, 2020 at 10:14 pm | #

      Well, she lost at least 10 pounds of hair…

  36. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    December 22, 2020 at 8:26 pm | #

    I miss billie

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