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May 8, 2026

Awaken

by David M Willis on August 22, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Bring Me to Life Drawing
└ Tags: joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 22, 2022 at 12:01 am | #

    great way to bend your legs

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      August 22, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      Never heard them called “legs”. I usually say “arms” myself, unless talking to the optometrist.

      • Ryan
        Ryan
        August 22, 2022 at 12:56 am | #

        Temples?

        • Cholma
          Cholma
          August 22, 2022 at 1:05 am | #

          Heh. Perhaps you should hover your mouse over the word “legs” in Ana’s post. 🙂 (I have no idea how people do such a thing on mobile; I’m strictly a PC boy)

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            August 22, 2022 at 5:26 am | #

            Far as I can tell, it’s not doable without shenanigans. It’s just letters with dots under it, for all I know.

            • Cholma
              Cholma
              August 22, 2022 at 4:19 pm | #

              Oh. That’s a shame. On PC, if you hover over “legs” you get an ALT Text that says “ok the official name for those bits is ‘temples’ I GUESS”

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          August 22, 2022 at 1:59 am | #

          temples — the ‘official’ term for the pieces that extend back from the front of the glasses and hook over the wearer’s ears.  So named, I’m guessing, because they rest against the user’s temples.

          When I was a kid I’d go through a lot of them until my optician ordered up a pair of all-metal ones to replace the plastic ones (I didn’t want to go with wire-rims; not in 4th grade, anyway).

  2. temporalshrew
    temporalshrew
    August 22, 2022 at 12:01 am | #

    blep

    • Kazuma Taichi
      Kazuma Taichi
      August 22, 2022 at 12:22 pm | #

      blep

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        August 22, 2022 at 11:57 pm | #

        bleep

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 22, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    Perfect strip for the start of a new Monday.

  4. StClair
    StClair
    August 22, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    “… nah.”

  5. Johan
    Johan
    August 22, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    Same

    • Nicoleandmaggie
      Nicoleandmaggie
      August 22, 2022 at 7:52 am | #

      It me.

  6. Joan
    Joan
    August 22, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    Monday mood

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      August 22, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

      everyday mood, honestly

  7. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 22, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Panel 5 joyce is adorable

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      August 22, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

      … and yet pitiful?

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      August 22, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      Joyce sticking out her tongue to the new day is pretty cute, and yet I worry for the safety of her glasses.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 22, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

      Finding Joyce adorable and at the same time worry about her is the usual Sarah experience

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 22, 2022 at 8:21 am | #

        It’s becoming a Joe experience too.

  8. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    August 22, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    I know it must only have been a day for Joyce but it’s rough to still see she’s in bad shape.

  9. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    August 22, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Glad to see I’m not the only one who has a hard time getting out of bed.

    I’m part of the best club: “Wake up, set alarm for another hour and go back to sleep.”

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 22, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      I’ve suffered from insomnia my entire life, and this honestly helps. Set the alarm for 6 every morning even though I don’t need to be up until 7, so it feels like I get an extra hour.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        August 22, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

        Tell me about

        • Kyrik Michalowski
          Kyrik Michalowski
          August 22, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

          Tell me about it. I’ve got narcolepsy and insomnia, which constantly fucks with me and my energy levels. I didn’t even know it was possible to have both until I experienced it first-hand.

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            August 22, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

            I choose to believe the truncated first comment was due to an attack of narcolepsy.

      • Masumi
        Masumi
        August 22, 2022 at 1:50 am | #

        My insomnia is the opposite. If there’s ANY alarm set, my brain freaks out about how if I don’t fall asleep NOW, I won’t sleep enough before I’m woken up – instead of, you know, sleeping.
        So I’ve become the person who goes to bed at like 9pm so I’ll wake up naturally before anything important happens XD

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        August 22, 2022 at 2:03 am | #

        Since I retired, I don’t even worry about any kind of stinkin’ alarm.  I go to bed, I sleep, and I get up whenever I wake up.  Eight, nine, ten AM – ain’t no difference to me!

        • Alan in DC
          Alan in DC
          August 22, 2022 at 7:06 am | #

          Same here, BB. But I do have a spouse still working and I’m kinda obligated to get up and out of bed with her.

          It’s hard to stay asleep when every light in the room and the clock radio are throttled up like space shuttle engines.

          • khn0
            khn0
            August 22, 2022 at 9:45 am | #

            Whenever I worked earlier than my s.o. (that is, most of time), I used to prepare anything I need the day before in another room, so I don’t have to make light. Also I’m strongly in the “wake up before the alarm” club, so I get to stop the alarm before it rings. I prefer to respect that first wake bc I found out that if I try to sleep a bit more, I end up needing even more sleep. Also, a fat chance that I’ll worry about the alarm not functioning and won’t sleep again until the last minute, which is, well counterproductive.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      August 22, 2022 at 8:27 am | #

      I have about 20 alarms set on my phone, and at least a dozen on an old phone as a backup, and a ‘real’ alarm clock that goes off at crunch time.

      When you start work hours before sunrise, you gotta do what you gotta do.

      The worst part is taking an afternoon nap, waking up at 5 PM, and panicking because all you saw through your groggy haze was the 5 and you think you’re late for work the next day. (One time I almost made it to the highway, but there was a little league game at a school I drove by. My inner dialogue went “what kind of jackass would make little kids play baseball at… 5… AM…” like it was some kind of comedy movie, and I turned back around.)

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 22, 2022 at 11:29 am | #

        I’ve done similar things, though not in a long while. On a more regular schedule now.
        Tactic these days is to have the alarm across the room, so I actually have to get up to turn it off. Minimizes the chances of falling back asleep. Normally I’m awake first really and it just provides the motivation to get up and start moving.

        I do remember one time long ago in high school when I had a alarm clock radio and lying there half asleep listening to it and hoping the alarm didn’t go off soon because I really liked the song that was playing …

        • elebenty
          elebenty
          August 22, 2022 at 12:00 pm | #

          I’m part of the ‘put the phone/alarm out of reach’ crew, too. I can’t guess at how many times I turned the alarm off on autopilot (instead of snooze). Best now to have the alarm far enough away that I have to wake up a little before interacting with it.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            August 22, 2022 at 2:35 pm | #

            To be honest though, it only sort of works.
            I get up to turn it off. Then I might as well go downstairs to pee. Then I’ll go check the internet rather than go back to bed. Then I’ll be late to work. 🙂

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              August 22, 2022 at 6:18 pm | #

              How late I am to work depends on how spicy the DoA comments are that morning.

  10. Nono
    Nono
    August 22, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Nooo Joyce it’s a slippery slope after you sleep with your glasses on for the first time.

    • cookie1995
      cookie1995
      August 22, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      I my experince it is a good way to lose or break your glasses

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      August 22, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

      When I was a kid, I broke multiple pairs of glasses because I went to sleep with them on. Now I have a hard case to put them in right by my bed, and I generally wear contacts now.

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        August 22, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

        Contacts are a great *idea*, but it squicks me out even thinking about putting something in my eye. Plus you have to keep them suckers CLEAN; my glasses don’t care if they get smudged or whatever.

        • Nono
          Nono
          August 22, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

          Even dealing with eye drops was a nightmare for me.

          Unfortunately it’s been a decade since the last time I got proper eye care and my eyesight has deteriorated to the point I’ll probably have to face the prospect of laser surgery again.

          • Laura
            Laura
            August 22, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

            Good luck, Nono!

        • Masumi
          Masumi
          August 22, 2022 at 1:56 am | #

          I used to be the same – the first time I tried contacts, it took TWO optometrist ladies pulling my eyes open and upwards of half an hour to get those things in. Bought them anyway because running in rain with glasses through forest trails is a bad idea. Went travelling, got my glasses stolen the first day (yeah I don’t get it), was forced to put in contacts every day – an somehow, a week in, it didn’t bother me anymore *at all*. Two weeks in, I could remove them without looking, just lying in bed.

          • Chris (the other one)
            Chris (the other one)
            August 22, 2022 at 6:12 am | #

            Damned optometrist would not let me out of his dungeon till I could put them in and take them out on my own. Took me forever. Probably and hour, I guess.
            I haven’t worn contacts for 20 years now (my eyes have too much everything, bad eyesight, too much astigmatism, what have you, so I don’t wear them anymore). To this day, I can squick OTHER people out by pushing on my eyeballs without an issue.

            • Taellosse
              Taellosse
              August 29, 2022 at 7:58 am | #

              *shudder* You can squick me out just by describing doing that!

        • Yoder of Kansas
          Yoder of Kansas
          August 22, 2022 at 3:10 am | #

          I was the same, but you get used to it after a week or so.

        • JBento
          JBento
          August 22, 2022 at 6:56 am | #

          My ophtalmologist says I have great eyes for contacts, because they’re big. What it turns out I have is TERRIBLE eyes for contacts, because I have recurrent epithelial erosion, and things pressed up against my eyeball is a great way of making me basically allergic to light.

          Fortunately, instance one only happened when I was already suffering the effects from instance two (did you know you could have ulcers in your cornea? Well, now you do), so I dodged the whole “stick shit to your eyeball” thing.

          • Taellosse
            Taellosse
            August 29, 2022 at 8:02 am | #

            That sounds absolutely horrifying! I’m so sorry you have to deal with such afflictions. I am suddenly far more at peace with my severe nearsightedness, mild astigmatism, and occasional migraines.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          August 22, 2022 at 1:43 pm | #

          Same. I’ll just wear glasses for the rest of my life, thanks.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      August 22, 2022 at 1:01 pm | #

      Sleeping with your glasses on is a good way to get smudges on the lenses that are annoying to clean off. I would not recommend it.

      • Taellosse
        Taellosse
        August 29, 2022 at 8:40 am | #

        Merely getting irritating smudges on the lenses is basically the best possible outcome of sleeping with one’s glasses on.

        I have had glasses fall into near-impossible-to-recover nooks and crannies, scratched the lenses, popped them right out of the frames, bent the frames, outright broken the frames, and even injured myself thanks to sleeping with them pressed into my face for too long.

        Once, I fell asleep reading in bed and at some point in the night my glasses wound up on the floor with the temple arms still open. Come morning, my glasses aren’t on my bedside table, so everything’s dimly-colored blobs. No sign of them anywhere in my bed, so I get up to start expanding the search – promptly stepping on said glasses, and thus hurting my foot, bending the frame between a hinge and the weld-point joining it to the lens holders (which is extremely difficult to bend back into place), scratched one lens on a grain of sand, popped the other lens out, and partially tearing one of the nose cushions.

        Took me more than 45 minutes to jury-rig the damned things back into a wearable state, and it was days before I’d made enough tiny supplementary adjustments for them to both feel comfortable on my face again and not keep giving me headaches because they were subtly distorting my vision all the time. And I never quite got used to that scratch – it was big enough to be visible to me when I wore them, but far enough from the center of my field of view that I’d only actually notice it intermittently.

  11. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    August 22, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    *plays “Wake Up Song” from Lazy Town on hacked muzak*

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 22, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

      Since it’s the title of the strip, I was going to suggest Awaken by Dethklok.

      …It actually makes a great wake up alarm.

    • Francoinblanco
      Francoinblanco
      August 22, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

      I cry when angels deserves…

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        August 22, 2022 at 1:07 am | #

        Heh. Now I’m hearing the Richard Cheese rendition of that song in my head, instead of the original. 😀

    • Laura
      Laura
      August 22, 2022 at 1:20 am | #

      I’m listening to “Levanta la Mano,” by Kinto Sol — need a little motivation to get up and do what needs to be done…
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq259zM8fyM&t=1814s

  12. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    August 22, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    Was planning to pick some random line of dialogue from tonight’s strip and claim the first “Dumbing of Age Book X” comment, but there really isn’t anything but Joyce’s alarm clock so uh

    …

    Dumbing of Age Book Thirteen: Featuring Beep the Meep from the Beep May Meep series

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      August 22, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book 13: Meepbeep meepbeep meepbeep meepbee-

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        August 22, 2022 at 11:59 pm | #

        Dumbing of Age Book *blep*

  13. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 22, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Shiver in my bones just thinking…about the weather
    A quiver in my voice–I might cry

  14. Chazkuangshi
    Chazkuangshi
    August 22, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    I can never do this as my glasses would hurt my face and I’m also paranoid AF about bending them. Joyce living on the edge

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      August 22, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

      I was super worried about that too when I first got glasses, but one day I accidentally fell asleep without taking them off and everything was fine.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 22, 2022 at 8:33 am | #

        I don’t want to acknowledge it, just in case that somehow causes the lucky streak to end…

      • Taellosse
        Taellosse
        August 29, 2022 at 8:53 am | #

        I have slept with my glasses on many times without anything bad happening to them or me. But I have also, several times, woken to discover they’ve been damaged in the night (sometimes only a little, or in an easily-repaired way, others more significantly) – I once outright broke them and had to get them replaced, wearing an older prescription until the replacements were ready.

  15. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    August 22, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    My Fall Semesters starts next week and this is what I am dreading most.

    Mitochondrial Genetics I can handle. However, the sweet siren song of snooze button is, ironically, the stuff of nightmares.

    • Laura
      Laura
      August 22, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

      Good luck, True Survivor!

  16. thakoru
    thakoru
    August 22, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

    Mood.

  17. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    August 22, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

    Hope she doesn’t toss and turn, good way to mess up your glasses.

  18. Chris Ashtear
    Chris Ashtear
    August 22, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    Looks like someone has a case of the MONDAYS

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 22, 2022 at 2:11 am | #

      Except I’m pretty sure it’s Tuesday for her.

    • CrazyJ
      CrazyJ
      August 22, 2022 at 4:09 am | #

      I believe you’ll get your ass kicked saying something like that, man.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      August 22, 2022 at 10:26 am | #

      Maybe some more pieces of flair would make her feel better.

  19. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 22, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

    Wow, actual footage of me. XD Especially when it’s cold.

  20. anon
    anon
    August 22, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

    ngl mood/same

  21. Rotunda
    Rotunda
    August 22, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

    Panel 5 Joyce is a nearly perfect thing. The entire thrust of today’s strip, if not of all of human existence, is present in that face.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 22, 2022 at 5:06 am | #

      All Willis experience in his comic comes to this panel 5.

  22. AGV
    AGV
    August 22, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

    She mlems

  23. Suet
    Suet
    August 22, 2022 at 12:40 am | #

    ♪ Wake me up (wake me up inside) ♪
    ♪ I can’t wake up (wake me up inside) ♫

    I’ll give her 15 minutes. Always happens.
    Wonder what shenanigans this arc will have?

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 22, 2022 at 5:05 am | #

      She will discover the life drawing. It WILL have a lot of shenanigans …

    • Taellosse
      Taellosse
      August 29, 2022 at 9:01 am | #

      Given what she started suffering from the day before, I suspect her insides’ level of wakefulness may well be the problem.

  24. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    August 22, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

    Giga mood

  25. Ray
    Ray
    August 22, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

    Panel 5… listening to Gorillaz…. doing her Noodle impression…..

  26. Dr. Gonzo
    Dr. Gonzo
    August 22, 2022 at 1:04 am | #

    Boo, no old faces. I want to hang out with Jennifer and all her new pals.

  27. bejouled
    bejouled
    August 22, 2022 at 1:46 am | #

    I thought “but she was fine yesterday!” and then remembered that the whole Halloween arc was a flashback

  28. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    August 22, 2022 at 2:05 am | #

    Relatable.

  29. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 22, 2022 at 2:23 am | #

    WAKE ME UP INSIDE

    • Brian K. Pittman
      Brian K. Pittman
      August 22, 2022 at 2:27 am | #

      I am only disappointed that you beat me to it.

      • Taellosse
        Taellosse
        August 29, 2022 at 8:57 am | #

        S’okay – Suet beat you both by nearly 2 hours. ;-P

  30. saltchocolate
    saltchocolate
    August 22, 2022 at 3:18 am | #

    Can’t . . . or WON’T??

  31. Reaver
    Reaver
    August 22, 2022 at 3:38 am | #

    I can feel her uterus pain from here

  32. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    August 22, 2022 at 4:25 am | #

    Wow. Joyce’s face in the 5th panel is funny and kinda adorable. I wonder if she’s still feeling terrible or if it’s a little better.

  33. Laura
    Laura
    August 22, 2022 at 5:01 am | #

    If anyone feels like sending luck-vibes and support for getting to sleep, I’ve got a job interview this afternoon.

    Thank you friends.

    • Spriteless Aunty
      Spriteless Aunty
      August 22, 2022 at 8:25 am | #

      Here you go 🍀

      • Laura
        Laura
        August 22, 2022 at 8:27 am | #

        Thank you, Spriteless Aunty!

    • wwwhhattt
      wwwhhattt
      August 22, 2022 at 8:30 am | #

      Good luck and sleep well! Unfortunately I don’t really have any useful advice (doing interviews in a second language sort of helps, because then you’re too focused on stringing words together competently to be nervous, but I that’s probably not applicable here).

      • Laura
        Laura
        August 22, 2022 at 11:49 am | #

        Not for this interview, but it’s a good idea! Thank you!

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 22, 2022 at 11:54 am | #

      You will gonna pass it and win this job!

      • Laura
        Laura
        August 22, 2022 at 11:55 am | #

        Thank you, Amós!

    • JBento
      JBento
      August 22, 2022 at 5:56 pm | #

      Probably too late by now, but best of luck!

      • Laura
        Laura
        August 22, 2022 at 7:51 pm | #

        Thank you, JBento! Thank you everyone! Here’s hoping… fingers and toes crossed!

    • Laura
      Laura
      August 22, 2022 at 7:53 pm | #

      QC feels the nervousness…

      https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4856

  34. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    August 22, 2022 at 5:03 am | #

    Joyce, showing your tongue is offensive in, like, a dozen of countries.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 22, 2022 at 5:24 am | #

      That’s weird. Mildly impolite I can almost get, but outright offensive? It’s a body part that everyone has (barring mishaps), people don’t usually form cultural taboos against body pa- oh.

      Anyway, she’s barely sticking it half an inch out of her mouth, in her own room, with the lights off. Doesn’t count.

      • Amós Batista
        Amós Batista
        August 22, 2022 at 5:40 am | #

        Sorry, I forgot to put *kappa* to show sacarsm.
        Comment at 4AM is hard, ahahah

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          August 22, 2022 at 7:49 am | #

          *Commenting at 4AM is hard
          See? Even grammar is shit. 4AM is a place for nobody.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            August 22, 2022 at 2:36 pm | #

            Agreed. Fuck 4:00 AM. Everyone I know hates 4 in the morning. The real villain of the strip is 4am

    • Rabisch
      Rabisch
      August 22, 2022 at 9:54 am | #

      She’s doing the Charlie Brown’s confused face. It’s not offensive.

  35. Akane
    Akane
    August 22, 2022 at 5:53 am | #

    Adorable and relateable and almost forgot this is happening right on top of her period pains and the referral thing.

  36. Ryek Hvek
    Ryek Hvek
    August 22, 2022 at 6:29 am | #

    Hopefully those specs have spring hinges. I expect Dorothy would have seen to that.

  37. the jighole man
    the jighole man
    August 22, 2022 at 7:11 am | #

    Don’t do that.
    i’ve lost many a pair of glasses like that.

    Don’t put your glasses on until you are ready to start moving.

  38. Abel Undercity
    Abel Undercity
    August 22, 2022 at 7:34 am | #

    Most relatable comic strip ever.

    EVER.

  39. Bruceski
    Bruceski
    August 22, 2022 at 7:42 am | #

    Everyone’s focused on the glasses, I assumed the alarm was for her pills.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 22, 2022 at 11:03 am | #

      wait, so did she refused to take medication?

      • alongcameaspider
        alongcameaspider
        August 22, 2022 at 1:24 pm | #

        Probably more she’s so tired it slipped her mind why she even set that alarm

        It’s happened to me before

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 22, 2022 at 2:38 pm | #

          I doubt it has anything to do with the pills. Birth control is once/day usually and it wouldn’t really make any sense to schedule that for middle of night/early morning.

    • Seregiel
      Seregiel
      August 22, 2022 at 5:28 pm | #

      Maybe for Church still too?

  40. Spriteless Aunty
    Spriteless Aunty
    August 22, 2022 at 8:30 am | #

    Ooog, wearables. She’s a double cyborg now due to the future sliding norms

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 22, 2022 at 4:24 pm | #

      My addled brain conflated “wearables” with “edibles” and now I’m just left wondering what wearable pot would be. Candy bracelets?

  41. Bryy
    Bryy
    August 22, 2022 at 9:43 am | #

    So that’s how this storyline is gonna go.

  42. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    August 22, 2022 at 10:37 am | #

    Didn’t you get all happy when you’re living enough to reach a kind of milestone?

    • Laura
      Laura
      August 22, 2022 at 11:54 am | #

      Don’t have an Instagram account so can’t see what you linked to, Amós.
      But if it’s the current XKCD strip on age milestones (https://m.xkcd.com/2661/), here’s another one that’s on point:

      https://m.xkcd.com/594/ (period)

      • easrng
        easrng
        August 22, 2022 at 12:40 pm | #

        Here’s an archived version

        • Laura
          Laura
          August 22, 2022 at 1:22 pm | #

          Cute!

  43. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    August 22, 2022 at 12:55 pm | #

    WAKE ME UP INSIIIIIIIDE

  44. Alex
    Alex
    August 22, 2022 at 3:40 pm | #

    This reminds me, I get glasses today! Hopefully it helps with my eyestrain and I’m able to look at screens without pain.

  45. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    August 22, 2022 at 3:50 pm | #

    Wake up, Joyce! Kill! Eat!

    • The Oracle
      The Oracle
      August 22, 2022 at 4:22 pm | #

      Pretty sure that’s a video game reference, isn’t it?

  46. Allandrel
    Allandrel
    August 22, 2022 at 4:35 pm | #

    Awaken
    Awaken
    Awaken
    Awaken
    Take the land that must be taken
    Awaken
    Awaken
    Awaken
    Awaken
    Devour worlds
    Smite forsaken

    • Alex
      Alex
      August 22, 2022 at 5:07 pm | #

      Wow I have not thought about this in a LONG time.

  47. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    August 22, 2022 at 7:22 pm | #

    Careful with your glasses Joyce, thats how they get bent and suddenly they keep slipping off your nose.

  48. Grayfinity
    Grayfinity
    August 22, 2022 at 8:00 pm | #

    Relatable Joyce is relatable. I do that a lot.
    Then I remember I have a job. Fun…

    Alt text: SAAAAAAVE ME!

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