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Supposing Plenty of Fish or w/e isn’t an option
*wouldn’t know, has never computer dated*
Depends on how big your catchment is. In my demographic out of a 150k person city, there is a limited number of people on such services, and they tend to be on all of them. Two years Daisy? Y’all sound like Glorious Sons’ “I haven’t touched a pretty thing in 40 days.” Try three years and counting, six depending on what she means by successful. I mean, I sympathize, but suspect that her situation is more by choice than by chance. (as is mine)
Three years? Heh, try never.
It was 8 years of NOTHING before I met my wife. I was 16 for my first relationship, 20 for my next three, and then 28 before I met my wife.
I’m deathly afraid that it is multiplying and if I ever screw things up, it will be 16 years before I get into another relationship.
Oh and dating computers themselves is awesome. They have different accessories to suit your needs, with provided whatever kink you’re into at the time, and through a complete lack of emotional availability, they also never seek to hurt your feelings. Any pain that remains is like Morpheus says, “residual self image.”
Harsh…and yet, I’d totally go for this dynamic in a relationship……I may have unresolved narcissistic tendencies……self reveal burn, excuse me a moment!
“Good news, Daisy. You’ve been appointed God-Empress of the Universe!”
“NOOOOOOO!”
Nah once you get to that stage you’re probably allowed to have like, consorts and things.
if you become God-Empress, you just get killed by your son, and then have your corpse strapped to a chair and fed psychic souls to keep you running for 10,000 years. 3/10 would not recommend.
Speaking from experience?
I thought it was more of a ‘four millennia of brutal dictatorship for the greater good until an assassination attempt is allowed to work, p.s. you are now a giant worm’ type deal.
Wait, that sounds like…HERESY!
I thought it was more establish a kingdom and go to sleep for thousands of years, wake up when the time is right to find your kingdom now a fascist, war mongering empire who uses the pain of victims tortured to insanity to nuke entire cities at a time with curses.
But you get power armored, bolter wielding badass nuns who have hots for you!
God-Empress of the Universe gets to make the rules, though.
Daisy’s own personal hell is upper-middle management: plenty of subordinates, no power to change the policies she’s held to.
Say hello to an army of Bolter-wielding fanatical nuns who have hots for you.
Hey, that feels like it would be great if your a dom, and shit if you like to sub.
Oh the double edge of “godhood” what a strange thing it is.
Is Daisy good or bad at her job? I guess it doesn’t matter no way it will help her get laid tonight.
Daisy seems to be mostly competent at her job save the one glaring weakness, which admittedly has made up a lot of her characterization after her initial appearances.
In the words of Rosa Diaz
“She needs to Bone!”
BONE?
It doesn’t matter anyway, she’s a newspaper editor in the 21st century.
Maybe she can switch to being a telegraph operator, or deliver milk.
Is she good with technology? I hear these guys are hiring!
Local television journalism is a thing too, ya know! Daisy seems like she’d make a competent executive producer.
Now, just why would more subordinates lead to FEWER women?
Just seems mathematically impossible…
It’s a little thing called “professional ethics”, I think
The number of women in the world stays the same, but there are more who she isn’t allowed to think of naked.
She stabs the women, obviously.
You’re not allowed to schtup down your chain of command in most professional settings.
You can THINK of them naked; you just can’t act on it,
I mean, in the sense that no one can stop you from thinking it, I guess, but they’d prefer you didn’t.
maybe Daisy is one of these people who can’t really keep her body language wholly unaffected by her dirty thoughts.
but really, i read it as Daisy herself would prefer not to be burdened with tantalizing crushes on women she is not supposed to pursue.
So the solution is to chain them up next to yourself then?
Oh hey, it me
Switch “woman” to “man”, tone down the bits about being important/impressive, and you’ve got essentially what runs through my head right before every first date I’ve been on
See, that’s definitely something that she and Ruth have in common. They’ve got some common ground, so it’ll be interesting to see how things go from there, even if Ruth/Billie is still very much my OTP. I’m loving that Daisy is becoming an actual character now.
…sorry, Ruth/Jennifer. Second time in one-more-than-as-many days I’ve made that mistake…
Ruth/Billie is a great ship, but I don’t think we’ve seen enough evidence to say that Ruth/Jennifer is, so you can probably let yourself off the hook in this case. (This is why people think I should have been a lawyer.)
Jennifer is still Billie, the timeskip wasn’t that long.
It was long enough.
Long enough that Jennifer became Mike.
Clif out there, spreading the gospel of Mike’s resurrection =D
We might not have Martian tech in this universe, but if anyone could will themself back to life purely out of spite it WOULD be Mike
Hey, the Doctor only takes a couple of minutes, and one episode of adjusting.
Not sure you’re wrong. Jennifer will probably have to go back to being Billy before she can go back to Ruth.
Okay, it’s good you’re trying not to think of your subordinates that way, Daisy, but maybe don’t bring that up on a date. Might be why it’s hard to get them to be successful. XD
I mean, in this particular case her date might empathize.
True, but I’d still say its not the best conversation opener in the world. XD
Also I think in general thanks to human free will you’re allowed to think of whoever you want naked, you just have to recognize when it’s inappropriate or an abuse of power to act on those thoughts. So think to your hearts content, Daisy! Your only limitation is your imagination!
This, plus a lot of the time thoughts aren’t 100% voluntary, so anyone getting fussy or high-roading someone over them is basically just jacking off.
Funny because I feel like a lot of sexual harrassment happens because people don’t jack off enough! XD
I dunno about that one.
Don’t get me wrong, masturbating isn’t a magical cure all for sexual harassment, but I do think some people feel pressure and end up trying to force their desires when it’s abuse of power or inappropriate instead of learning to take care of it themselves. Sarah’s a decent example. Once upon a time she was (and maybe still is) very horny for Jacob, but she never once aggressively pushed her desire toward him, even recognizing they both wanted different things in a relationship and ultimately weren’t compatible. I don’t think it’s a coincidence “Other Jacob” exists. Sarah knows how to take care of herself, compared to Daisy here, who is also very pent up, and once nearly tried to kiss “Billie”, and despite apparently being remarkable accomplished in her field is also kind of a bad boss for having a preference for stories that arouse her over others. Whose to say that wouldn’t at least be mitigated a bit is she had an “Other Amazi-girl” or something. Just something to think about.
Of course, you’re only assuming that Daisy doesn’t masturbate.
I think I’ve unintentionally taken this topic too far, but if Daisy actually masterbates with any sort of regularity and is still this horny (which is already slightly concerning to me since it effects her work) I’d start to be very worried about her mental health. I know everyone has their own level of sexual desire but I personally couldn’t comprehend how she’d get through the day.
There is a difference between sex and human companionship with sexual gratification. One need can be filled by masturbation, the other requires a partner, and not just any warm body a willing and cooperative person.
@Opus the Poet. I do understand that, but in Daisy’s case I don’t think need for human companionship and gratification fully justifies some of her behavior. I don’t think she’s done anything truly bad, but it has been inappropriate and to say she needs human companionship just feels like a weak justification for it. But maybe now that Daisy is getting more focus we can see other sides of her personality beyond just being a joke about sexual frustration and loneliness.
Sexual satisfaction doesn’t always work that way (where it’s all about the orgasm, after which the orgasm-haver feels satiated, and then they’re set for a bit).
But either way, I’m looking forward to Daisy’s development into a more complete personality.
Yeah the real problem isn’t thinking of them naked, it’s abusing your power by acting on those thoughts.
Yeah Daisy, let’s just ignore the fact that you kissed Billie.
Huh, I had completely forgotten about that. Weird.
Last comment on the next page from that link! “If Billie isn’t interested, she should hook up Daisy with Ruth”
It’s happening!!!!
*reads the next comic*
… well. Wow, Willis. I’m impressed.
Huh. Wait… does that mean that this whole bit is a Brick Joke from 8ish years ago?
I’m impressed.
Willis loves to play the looooooooooooooooooooooooooong game.
Meh, for now I wouldn’t give Willis that much credit. Like even if he did have this eventual plot in mind back then, i don’t think that there’s a sense that it was truly “set up” in a way that is now”paying off” because this arc would work perfectly fine just the same.
However I wouldn’t put it past him to have Daisy bemoan the temptations that come with a position of authority just now, specifically to remind readers of that time she kissed Jennifer and then asked for her GF’s number maybe! He’s still a mighty canny writer.
Oh yeah, forgot that. I mean, she was clothed, at least, but that’s a low bar.
Was that a kiss? I always thought Daisy was just leaning in for a kiss and Billie stormed off.
Same.
Thirded
Fourthed
Well, in the next strip she says “that was an accident waiting to happen, I’d say we’re both pretty much blameless” so it sounds like something inappropriate happened
Leaning in for a kiss when someone is trying to show you a thing that happened to them that they have mixed feelings about is inappropriate enough for me!
oh for sure. i mean, i wouldn’t’ve called it inappropriate necessarily except for the fact that Jennifer is her subordinate (i don’t know about american college newspapers, but from what Daisy’s saying here it sounds like it’s enough of a “real job” that an editor-in-chief holds real authority and so this sort of behaviour is not ok)
Inappropriate even without that – Billie was describing a sexual assault.
Oh right, i guess im letting later developments colour my memories of that scene.
*plays A-Ha’s “The Sun Always Shines On TV” on the hacked Muzak*
We are all impressed I’m sure, Daisy
[Doge] Bonk.
If there was a horny jail, Daisy would already have been in there a long time ago.
She escaped and needs to be recaptured. That’s why her appearances are so sporadic…when she’s away, she’s doing a stint in the Thirst Stir.
OK SO I’VE HAD THIS EXACT THOUGHT.
I’m like..super lonely, touch starved and I fall in love at the drop of a hat and have so far been unsuccessful at love. And I fear I will gain more PROFESSIONAL power than I will actual experience with women and flirting and like…I don’t wanna be in that position. I wanna be at the bottom rung so I can feel like I’m not accidentally asserting some power dynamic by flirting.
Just don’t date within your workplace and you’ll be fine. Join a fun social activity in which to flirt. Good luck!
What you said, and also make sure you always go somewhere with air hockey if at all possible. Air hockey is perfect for dates.
That uh…that doesn’t mesh well with the “fall in love at the drop of a hat” thing. I get crushes SUPER easy. At my last job (Wendy’s) a girl flirted with me a LOT and sheesh I get so flustered.
Also I don’t go anywhere or do anything so work was the most I used to interact with people. (I mean now it’s understandable that I don’t go out and meet people)
Aw! Nothing wrong with being an open-hearted person. I hope you’ll start to feel a bit more balanced after you’re back in person for a long while, but either way, you needn’t solve anything in advance.
You have the option of quitting, too, if you find yourself in that position. If you actually get to the point of wielding real “professional power”, you’re also probably at the point where you can usefully get hired somewhere else for the same job for the same wages.
https://imgur.com/a/xdRx3rb
Also I drew this!
Thicc and wearing glasses. AKA the Velma type. I see you are a man of culture.
Velma is objectively the best character Hanna Barbera has ever produced.
I used to believe that Velma was the best. Now I’ve realized I love ALL of the Scooby Doo gang equally. They’re ALL great. You can rate how good a Scooby doo property is by how much the gang are friends in it.
Clearly Mystery Incorporated is the best, then, because at least in Fred’s head they’re all basically group married.
For me it’s the modern movies, starting from Camp Scare. That’s prime Doo.
Yes, Velma is awesome, but I’m not prepared to say she’s a better character than Dexter and Dee Dee….
… er, wait, which iteration of Velma are we talking about here? Because I don’t think all of them count as Hanna-Barbera characters and I’d like to get out of this conversation without a flowchart.
I’ve barely seen any of Dexter’s Laboratory, but Velma has something neither of the characters you mentioned do. See, Velma’s hot, is the thing.
…. oh, THAT kind of objectively best. Got it.
I do have my own thick glasses girl character who’s meant to be a bit of a butterface. I don’t like to post my own stuff on here buuuuuuut
Nice!
Nah, she can get it.
Then I have failed
Nice, kind of reminds me of Catalina from EGS.
Very nice, if not remotely surprising.
So, Yoto, you’re saying you like the copious nay nays?
If by that you mean breasts then yes. I love boobs more than I love oxygen.
good, cos in some situations you actually do have to choose between the two
I may or may not have specifically requested getting smothered in the very few intimate situations I’ve been privy too. Deep down I am super ok with dying in cleavage.
i mean, seeing as we’re all going to die anyway…
Yay Marcieeeeee <3
Interesting — Jennifer still uses her cheerleading photo as a profile picture. She hasn’t changed that much, then.
To be fair I rarely change my profile pics. Heck the one you’re looking at right now has been my icon for a decade and I do NOT wear this hat anymore.
The shoulder kitten in my profile picture is… fourteen and a half years old now?
If you get the right profile pic, why change it?
MLP:FiM ended a year and a half ago, but I’m probably gonna keep using this Twilight Sparkle profile pic that I’ve had for at least a couple years now for a very long time.
I mean, *gestures to Amethyst Princess of Gemworld*.
The bicycle in my picture was stolen in 2009. Since then I had an off the bike hip injury that prevents me from even getting on a bike. I miss riding a bike, I mostly miss eating everything in sight and not gaining weight except for leg muscles.
THIS comic, more than anything else, tells you that it couldn’t have been written before the 20teens.
NOT abusing your power to sexually harass your employees? GASP WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO
(i sometimes enjoy speculating on how people from past times would have reacted to this comic if it was published then)
They’d probably just say something racist, chain smoke for 45 minutes straight, buy a house for $5, and ask you how to use the VCR.
All while scoffing at you for not saying “what you’re AcTuAlLy thinking”, not smoking, renting, and knowing how to use the VCR you’re programming for them.
um Taffy??? that was hilarious
Oh hey its Daisy and her trait.
And what a fun trait it is.
I think we just learned about a second trait she has! Success burdens her and conflicts with her self-image.
She immediately relates this to bonking girls, sure, but we gotta stay consistent.
ooh, good point! of course she tells herself the reason she hates getting responsibilities is because that translates to having to keep her perviness in check, but clearly there’s more to it than that, like she has trouble identifying with her achievements and is uncomfortable with the expectations that come with it.
Yeah, exactly! You can see it from the context of the previous panels, she has to Remind herself she is doing well. There is clearly some dissonance between who she is, who she feels she is, and who she wants to be. Which is a bad combo, but I’m rooting for her!
I got to admit that was a smooth transition from the last scene. Jennifer pretty much baton passed to the character in the next scene over.
That was a Calrissian-smooth segue.
Just like my segues to our sponsor, Glasswire!I think you’re allowed to think of them naked, you’re just not allowed to make a move
Wait, is Daisy permitted to poach students? Or is her job not a position of power?
Students who work for her specifically, just like Ruth wasn’t supposed to get in a relationship with the students in her wing (because she’s the RA). There wouldn’t be a problem with her dating another student, so long as they don’t work for her at the paper.
As long as IU doesn’t have a rule against relationships between student employees who aren’t in each others’ chain of command, there shouldn’t be any HR reason Daisy and Ruth can’t date each other.
In fact, since Jennifer moved dorms, there is/was no rule against them dating either.
Wait… so, Daisy is actually awesome? This is really unexpected! Her continuous thinking about women gave me the impression she was just a maniac consumed by desire! But if this is true…. if she and Ruth really hook up, Daisy will be able to react her full potential and become the great journalist in her University history!
There already is a great journo in the school’s history, Pulitzer winner and they named the school of journalism for him. I’m sure you know about Ernie Pyle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Pyle
Oh yeah, Gomer’s cousin.
Daisy can be a real person and not a one-note running gag. This pleases me.
Kinda hoping things go well for Daisy and Ruth, but since Willis is making this I’m worried it’ll go badly. I’m also worried that the Walky/Lucy ship will sink before it sails very far, for the same reason. I have multiple Damn You Willises prepared just in case.
Hopefully she sees Ruth in time to stop saying all this aloud.
I think we’re reaching the point where Daisy is less endearingly thirsty and now getting to be the female Joe.
…Daisy was “endearingly thirsty” so far????
I can’t come up with examples right now, but I find this a lot more endearing than some of her earlier thirstiness
Yeah, makes it clear that, her interactions with Jennifer aside, she really IS concerned about power dynamics, and her fantasies about be-chest-windowed superheroines don’t stop her from running a competent campus paper. Previously I had doubts about both!
You can certainly continue to THINK of them naked if you want, Daisy.
You’re not a robot. Just don’t ACT inappropriately towards them, or allow your feelings to alter your ability to treat them fairly and with equanimity.
I like seeing Daisy get some actual character development. This promises to be entertaining.
She’s gonna confuse her with someone else, right.
Somehow i see that happening