For a second I didn’t realize Joyce was looking away from Joe and instead thought she was brought to tears from the image of her chomping on some buns.
I’m not saying they need to fuck in the street (it’s cold outside), but a little light making out in the nearest unoccupied nook/cranny might help ease the tension.
I love that Joe’s having to show his sensitive self to her, and Joyce is needing to show her thirsty side to him. The two are intermingling their insecurities and it’s glorious.
But I feel like it’s too early in the new story arc for happy endings. Last arc was about the Evil Dads and Amazi-girl. We don’t know what the antagonist for this book will be yet, though the emerging theme is “people change, but friends don’t want to let them.” Which is a fine theme but doesn’t quite seem like enough. I feel like there’s at least one more shoe left to fall.
And that should happen right as this cute budding romance hits the “complication” stage. When things that were going well start going horribly wrong.
20 bucks says it’s Dorothy. She’s overall a good person, but…
-Has major anxiety issues when she feels like she’s not in control of things she cares about.
-Cares about Joyce. A lot.
-Has a tendency towards logical but rigid thinking, and is just prideful enough to resist efforts to change her mind once she’s made a decision.
-Knew Joe at his worst and long ago settled her opinion of him as an irredeemable playboy.
She’s gonna pressure them both to end this for Joyce’s “own good”. And as that fails to work, is going to double down until her anxiety triggers a meltdown.
Only question is if said meltdown comes before or AFTER Joyce has enough of it and snaps at her. Either way, Dorothy’s gonna feel miserable and powerless. And that’s gonna suck to watch, not gonna lie.
Dorothy can see that it’s morally wrong to use her trauma as a way to get ahead in the presidency.
But can she see why Joyce likes the taste of Cinnamon Joe’s Tush?
Tbh, a surprising percentage of my autistic friends (myself included)** use biting as one of the highest signs of affection, so Joe should be honored, lol
**Might be some overlap between that and my kinky friends. Or maybe my friend group is just weird in general, idk
i mean im gonna level, the lifetime venn diagram between my most kinky friends, and my most neuro-divergent friends, is practically a circle. there’s just the sliver of aces along the one edge, otherwise!
To be fair the Aces aren’t exempt from being kinky. I’ve known many Aces that will partake in the most degenerate and disgusting Fic known to man or beast
…that explains the inexplicable urge to bite my ex all over when he came to visit the first time. He got annoyed i wasn’t directing it at the “fun parts” to bite lik
Now i can’t tell whether it’s because i’m kinky or because i miiight be autistic or i’m kinky *because* i’m autistic or…… well, doesn’t matter. But yes. Both small soft-ish bites „just to taste you“ and also „oh damn i want to eat you up and the closest i can get is sink in my teeth hard“, definitely expressions of love.
Interesting for me in that, while I don’t actually bite people, I do bite at the air towards people as a sign of (platonic) affection. It’s a weird habit that I’m not sure when I started doing, but it comes out unintentionally from time to time– especially when I forget to be “on.” (Or forget to be masking? Hard to say.)
Go for it y’all
and nothing wrong with butt acne but that’d def be an inopportune time for that to pop xP sry for the gross intrusive thought (unless y’all are into that but be sure to properly sterilize either way)
Oh gosh. I relate to both of them so much right now, but especially Joyce. My best friend and I have the kind of relationship where hanky-panky occasionally happens, and he brings out my inner Joyce in this exact way. So I guess now I gotta ship this, just for the sake of consistency and because I want them both to be happy.
“Joe” doesn’t scan, is the problem, so kinda need to use his full name.
Except with blurry morning eyes it occurs to me we could just draw it out like that annoyingly singular T. Or swap them over, ‘cos the diphthong/sibilant pairing in “Joyce” is practically a syllable and a half, right?
I don’t think she’s seriously trying to hide—she is characteristically trying to bury the sincere remark she just made in a pile of embarrassed histrionics.
Joyce is easy to find: just look under the pile of embarrassed histrionics.
Them being at the stage where Joyce is able to start to voice her desires (bit by bit) but not actually act on them, is going to be INCREDIBLY HOT for Joe (who is worried about going too fast and potentially Ruining Things with sex). Hopefully it will also be a place where Joyce is a little scared but in an exciting way, like lining up for the rollercoaster. She’s not ready to go on the rollercoaster yet, but just standing in line together with Joe is part of the thrill. Standing in line holding hands, talking about how going on the rollercoaster together could be fun, but if they get to the front of the line and Joyce is still scared, they’ll go get cotton candy instead and get back to the rollercoaster some other time. No rush. The rollercoaster will always be there. The Ferris wheel is also nice.
Yes, that’s why I think these two are perfect (at least right here, right now. I don’t really know enough about each other’s long-term relationship goals to know if they’ll really be a good match for each other long term) for each other. Joe’s unfamiliarity with emotional connection in relationships dovetails nicely with Joyce’s unfamiliarity with sexual intimacy because it means that both of them will be nervous newbies learning together, but with both of them possessing knowledge that the other lacks to help guide each other on their mutual discovery.
At this point, I think it’s inevitable to Joyce and Joe being together.
Joe don’t have virtually no rivals, and Joyce just confessed she’s attracted to him.
To me, they are already a couple.
And even: my bet is they will sleep together in this storyline.
There’s only two things that can impede it:
– Joyce’s fear, because her fundamentalist past. But she looks more eager to that than Liz, so the risk she got afraid is fewer.
– Whatever bomb Dorothy are bringing to them.
It’s not that I don’t want Dorothy to be happy, it’s just that I want Walky to be faithful & Joyce and Joe to explore a healthy relationship with each other more 😅
That’s a really paranoid and pointless question. Nothing about what thejeff said could reasonably be read as “policing”. Your weird feud with Milu doesn’t extend to every single person who responds to you.
Thinking about this a second time, fuck it. Y’all can form your own factions and vendettas, and it doesn’t need to affect my day except as entertainment. Continue breaking down and telling people to eat shit or to go fuck themselves or whatever, it doesn’t matter.
Hey Willis I wanna go by my main alias here, NGPZ, more gender affirming, easier to type and not a reference to an earthling meme thing that’s now “dead”. Thanks in advance!
First of all, that’s not a complaing to the webcomic:
The weirdest part of DoA pace is that I already have thought and imaginated ALL of possibilites that could happen from now:
– Joe and Joyce starts dating in this storyline;
– They only in next;
– They never date;
– They have sex right after first kiss;
– Dorothy blows up everthing
– Somebody tries to seduce Joyce;
– Somebody dies
– Walky return to Dorothy, Walky seduces Joe, new character…
I’ve noticed a pattern that has lead me to the conclusion that it’s a near universal autistic experie to wanting to bite the people we like, be it for stimmy or kinky reasons, sometimes both.
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“Wait, Joyce said WHAT?“
That was very well done and made me smile. Thank you.
Made me think of the Scrubs scene lol (https://youtu.be/W5Mf6QwNGKM)
Why is Kevin up a tree and where did Joyce go?
“Look at your man, now look at me, now look at your man, now look at me, you can’t because I’m up a tree, now I’m biting your tushy.”
Well, now we’ve seen Thirsty!Joyce, we’ve seen everything.
Joyce was always thirsty.
“That’s my secret, Joe. I’m always thirsty.”
Joyce can really climb. This is until now an unknown ability of hers.
Sometimes it’s needed to teleport to Dorothy.
We have learned:
1) Joyce wants to nibble on Joe’s meaty bits
2) She climb trees really fast
Conclusion: Joyce is at least 25% leopard
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/guzzle/
as well as magically teleporting
I expected https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/helping/
that’s obviously what happened here. Cause there is no way she could have climbed that tree, not even if she could reach the branch.
Presumably she’s using the jetpack.
Maybe she teleported into the tree.
Or maybe she can out-climb Amazi-ber.
She and Joe are going to form a super couple: Jumping Joe and Spider Joyce.
Is she strong?
Listen, bud
She’s got spiders
In her blood
She’s getting her practice in for when it’s time to climb Joe.
To quote the great George Takei…
“Oh my!”
This is all I can muster. These two words. Takai has done us all a great service in leaving them there for us to use as needed.
Takei! (Ugh typos)
She really wanted to have his cake and eat it, too.
You. You right there.
You win an internet cookie.
I agree. I would also give you an internet cookie but I burned the Microsoft Edge.
Don’t give people your cookies! That’s how you get your YouTube channel hijacked and used to push crypto scams.
THAT’S what the new CEO of YouTube is doing now?!?! 😠
You know who else has cookies?
The Dark Side.
Join us.
Joyce’s squirrel powers really activated in this one.
Hmmm…Her name is Joyce BROWN her self-insert is Julia GRAY.
Think she secretly has another alter-ego named Doreen GREEN?
I’m guessing that’s Squirrel Girl’s real name.
Joreen Green, her cousin.
WOW Joyce, I appreciate the honesty to tell you the truth. 🤣
✌😈 *plays “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails*
best Prince song
Joyce eats ass confirmed.
Don’t worry Joyce, you aren’t the only one. There are dozens of us across the world.
whatever works, though depending on your sensitivity i feel like being bitten might take some getting used to XD;
Maybe more like nibbled.
Let them fight!
I TOLD YALL
Also happy for you Joice, being clear about your goals is the first step in successful communication.
Being clear about your goals is the first step to an arboreal lifestyle.
Fixed that for you.
Squirrel Tactics!!!
BITE MY FLESHY HUMAN ASS.
I can’t believe it.
“Maybe we can pencil that in for after class?”
For a second I didn’t realize Joyce was looking away from Joe and instead thought she was brought to tears from the image of her chomping on some buns.
She’s thinking about how hard she’d bite. It wouldn’t be a cute fun bite. It’s the kind of bite he wouldn’t recover from. And that saddens her.
Nothing like a dental imprint to claim something as yours.
She made it all the way through that before bolting, that’s progress! Now let’s see her get stuck in the tree and have to get caught on the way down
Oh my gosh they’re going to h*ld h*nds
And they’re gonna fuck
I’m not saying they need to fuck in the street (it’s cold outside), but a little light making out in the nearest unoccupied nook/cranny might help ease the tension.
I love this.
I love that Joe’s having to show his sensitive self to her, and Joyce is needing to show her thirsty side to him. The two are intermingling their insecurities and it’s glorious.
basically this, yep
“General MacArthur…and General Admission!” (Cannonball Run 2)
Willis please announce the Slipshine
happy Portals release day, everyone
This was a triumph.
I’m making a note here —
“Huge Success”.
I hope this ends well.
But I feel like it’s too early in the new story arc for happy endings. Last arc was about the Evil Dads and Amazi-girl. We don’t know what the antagonist for this book will be yet, though the emerging theme is “people change, but friends don’t want to let them.” Which is a fine theme but doesn’t quite seem like enough. I feel like there’s at least one more shoe left to fall.
And that should happen right as this cute budding romance hits the “complication” stage. When things that were going well start going horribly wrong.
20 bucks says it’s Dorothy. She’s overall a good person, but…
-Has major anxiety issues when she feels like she’s not in control of things she cares about.
-Cares about Joyce. A lot.
-Has a tendency towards logical but rigid thinking, and is just prideful enough to resist efforts to change her mind once she’s made a decision.
-Knew Joe at his worst and long ago settled her opinion of him as an irredeemable playboy.
She’s gonna pressure them both to end this for Joyce’s “own good”. And as that fails to work, is going to double down until her anxiety triggers a meltdown.
Only question is if said meltdown comes before or AFTER Joyce has enough of it and snaps at her. Either way, Dorothy’s gonna feel miserable and powerless. And that’s gonna suck to watch, not gonna lie.
I can definitely see that happening. I imagine Jennifer, Walky, and Lucy will also be a part of the spiral.
Yuup.
I have an X-TREEM MUG worth of theater popcorn ready for that day.
YAY FOR BEING DEAD WRONG!
Joyce isn’t going to snap and suck a billion dicks, she’s going to snap and bite one tushy a billion times.
Ouch
Doing another poll for a reddit post, “Best post time skip character redesigns”: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/1279k3h/who_had_the_best_glow_up_in_their_character/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Joyce being lowkey kinky and becoming more high key would be a helluva development
Order of the Stick fans reading the Alt-Text:
XD
Honestly, Joyce as Elan fits in a very oblique yet nevertheless perfect way.
Especially in the context of the Draketooth story.
Truly, these two are masers of ass comedy.
She… She really wants to bite Joe’s heinie like Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Dotty’s foaming at the mouth as we speak.
Dorothy can see that it’s morally wrong to use her trauma as a way to get ahead in the presidency.
But can she see why Joyce likes the taste of Cinnamon Joe’s Tush?
Honestly this is precious
Tbh, a surprising percentage of my autistic friends (myself included)** use biting as one of the highest signs of affection, so Joe should be honored, lol
**Might be some overlap between that and my kinky friends. Or maybe my friend group is just weird in general, idk
ah love bites, the cat-way of showing affection 8D
I mean, cats are basically autistic people, so.
i mean im gonna level, the lifetime venn diagram between my most kinky friends, and my most neuro-divergent friends, is practically a circle. there’s just the sliver of aces along the one edge, otherwise!
To be fair the Aces aren’t exempt from being kinky. I’ve known many Aces that will partake in the most degenerate and disgusting Fic known to man or beast
I’d argue that not having a libido is about as sexually deviant as it gets.
I do really wanna sink my teeth into someone. Lovingly of course.
…that explains the inexplicable urge to bite my ex all over when he came to visit the first time. He got annoyed i wasn’t directing it at the “fun parts” to bite lik
Now i can’t tell whether it’s because i’m kinky or because i miiight be autistic or i’m kinky *because* i’m autistic or…… well, doesn’t matter. But yes. Both small soft-ish bites „just to taste you“ and also „oh damn i want to eat you up and the closest i can get is sink in my teeth hard“, definitely expressions of love.
Interesting for me in that, while I don’t actually bite people, I do bite at the air towards people as a sign of (platonic) affection. It’s a weird habit that I’m not sure when I started doing, but it comes out unintentionally from time to time– especially when I forget to be “on.” (Or forget to be masking? Hard to say.)
She’s going to get stuck up that tree now, isn’t she
Joe standing to one side as the fire department sets up a ladder.
I’d call the firefighters, but maybe a bunch of burly men wouldn’t help
Hannelore would strongly disagree.
I will never get sick of seeing QC references in the DoA comment section lol
Joyce is a cat confirmed?
Dang, Joyce going for it eh
Go for it y’all
and nothing wrong with butt acne but that’d def be an inopportune time for that to pop xP sry for the gross intrusive thought (unless y’all are into that but be sure to properly sterilize either way)
This reminds me of the the “___ in Death” series by JD Robb.
Dallas is always thinking about biting Roarke’s ass.
Now I kinda just want to see Joyce as Pac-Man chasing Joe as a ghost with a butt
Christ ALIVE that is some horny shit. I know it’s not exactly zero to a hundred but also, blimey, zero to a hundred in ten seconds flat
Oh gosh. I relate to both of them so much right now, but especially Joyce. My best friend and I have the kind of relationship where hanky-panky occasionally happens, and he brings out my inner Joyce in this exact way. So I guess now I gotta ship this, just for the sake of consistency and because I want them both to be happy.
Horny ’98 by Mousse T. in the background
Huh. I guess they do have something in common after all.
Namely, insisting they’re invisible when they’re clearly not.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/tabling/
Joyce certainly looks invisible to me there.
Or is it just ventriloquism?
Something about biting into peaches, I dunno
Careful! She’s bitey! 😀
Wouldn’t have figured Joyce for a biter
Me either! That’s why I’m rather pleased about it ^_^
Joyce decided her bark is not worse than her bite.
Squirrel Instincts taking over
Joyce and Joseph, up in a tree
B — I — Teeeeeee — I — N — G!
Not Joseph. We need him handy after Dorothy reclaims Walky to sweep up Lucy as the Joyce substitute he craves.
And by Joseph I mean Jacob.
What’s up with all the J names.
Senior moment on aisle 4!
“Joe” doesn’t scan, is the problem, so kinda need to use his full name.
Except with blurry morning eyes it occurs to me we could just draw it out like that annoyingly singular T. Or swap them over, ‘cos the diphthong/sibilant pairing in “Joyce” is practically a syllable and a half, right?
Eh. Maybe next time?
Biting’s like kissing except there’s a winner!
One of my all time favourite episodes.
With how fast she got up that tree I’m pretty sure Joe really wouldn’t have seen her if she didn’t start shouting.
I don’t think she’s seriously trying to hide—she is characteristically trying to bury the sincere remark she just made in a pile of embarrassed histrionics.
Joyce is easy to find: just look under the pile of embarrassed histrionics.
Joyce is just throwing herself into independence, I see.
Them being at the stage where Joyce is able to start to voice her desires (bit by bit) but not actually act on them, is going to be INCREDIBLY HOT for Joe (who is worried about going too fast and potentially Ruining Things with sex). Hopefully it will also be a place where Joyce is a little scared but in an exciting way, like lining up for the rollercoaster. She’s not ready to go on the rollercoaster yet, but just standing in line together with Joe is part of the thrill. Standing in line holding hands, talking about how going on the rollercoaster together could be fun, but if they get to the front of the line and Joyce is still scared, they’ll go get cotton candy instead and get back to the rollercoaster some other time. No rush. The rollercoaster will always be there. The Ferris wheel is also nice.
Yes, that’s why I think these two are perfect (at least right here, right now. I don’t really know enough about each other’s long-term relationship goals to know if they’ll really be a good match for each other long term) for each other. Joe’s unfamiliarity with emotional connection in relationships dovetails nicely with Joyce’s unfamiliarity with sexual intimacy because it means that both of them will be nervous newbies learning together, but with both of them possessing knowledge that the other lacks to help guide each other on their mutual discovery.
“bit by bit” i see what you did there
(but also great metaphor)
Yeah, Joyce. Tell him, that his tush has a gravity
Oh they gonna fuck
Ah, but not before MONTHS or possibly even YEARS of delicious sexual tension.
So, like, by the end of the week, in story.
At this point, I think it’s inevitable to Joyce and Joe being together.
Joe don’t have virtually no rivals, and Joyce just confessed she’s attracted to him.
To me, they are already a couple.
And even: my bet is they will sleep together in this storyline.
There’s only two things that can impede it:
– Joyce’s fear, because her fundamentalist past. But she looks more eager to that than Liz, so the risk she got afraid is fewer.
– Whatever bomb Dorothy are bringing to them.
Joyce is only up there so she can get a clean shot on Joe with her sawn-off sniper rifle.
They’re gonna kiss and Dorothy (not me, the blonde one) is gonna walk in on them
Probably after getting shot down by Walky, too
That’s a no good very bad day.
I would enjoy that day though 🤔
It’s not that I don’t want Dorothy to be happy, it’s just that I want Walky to be faithful & Joyce and Joe to explore a healthy relationship with each other more 😅
I’ve been on this date.
I’ve been on both sides of this date.
Applause for Joe, who not only did not skip leg day, he also attended tushie day.
She was able to express a sexual desire, good for her.
Seems like they might be able to come to an agreement.
The Tree of Chagrin grants your wish for invisibility, oh bashful one.
Definitely just platonic feelings, huh, Joyce?
She worked everything else out doing laundry earlier.
Are you following me around policing my comments as well now?
Ummm, no.
What?
That’s a really paranoid and pointless question. Nothing about what thejeff said could reasonably be read as “policing”. Your weird feud with Milu doesn’t extend to every single person who responds to you.
Thinking about this a second time, fuck it. Y’all can form your own factions and vendettas, and it doesn’t need to affect my day except as entertainment. Continue breaking down and telling people to eat shit or to go fuck themselves or whatever, it doesn’t matter.
Cosigned.
I think thejeff was supporting you in their comment, not pointing out a deficiency
please, chill
She climbed up a tree? How Freudian!
god this is so cute I love it
Ah! Cat rules!
YEAAAAA GET IT JOYCE !!!!!!!!!! WHOO WHOO WHOO !!!!!
both their little blush lines are very adorbz
Wow wow wow 🙂
Joe in panel 5 is Considering It
Hey Willis I wanna go by my main alias here, NGPZ, more gender affirming, easier to type and not a reference to an earthling meme thing that’s now “dead”. Thanks in advance!
First of all, that’s not a complaing to the webcomic:
The weirdest part of DoA pace is that I already have thought and imaginated ALL of possibilites that could happen from now:
– Joe and Joyce starts dating in this storyline;
– They only in next;
– They never date;
– They have sex right after first kiss;
– Dorothy blows up everthing
– Somebody tries to seduce Joyce;
– Somebody dies
– Walky return to Dorothy, Walky seduces Joe, new character…
The speed of the history have drained all my daydreaming, I don’t have anymore possibilty to imaginate.
Obs: I was thinking in this strip while I’m written this text.
Becky and Dina get to react next, biology class is next (pun not intended). They both like Joe, so I think that’s when the Joementum builds.
Joyce’s dad and Joe’s mom are both single, though. What if…
When you say Dorothy blows up everything, are you being figurative or literal?
Cause literal feels kinda more likely than some stuff.
Baby step and giant leap in one go.
Baby step: openly acknowledging appreciation of male butt and not talking around it.
Giant leap into the tree in embarrassment.
I’ve resisted Slipshine this long, but this… this ship might break me.
for a sec i thought panel 4 was joyce’s eyes squeezed shut as she started crying and not her actual pupils
Joyce is allowed to be invisible today. She’s not trans, after all.
Carla can’t hide, though.
Is this PSL or is this her cannibalistic urges emerging?
I’ve noticed a pattern that has lead me to the conclusion that it’s a near universal autistic experie to wanting to bite the people we like, be it for stimmy or kinky reasons, sometimes both.