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June 1, 2026

Godot

by David M Willis on March 13, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Joementum
└ Tags: amber, joe

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 13, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Joyce STILL doing laundry…? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 13, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

      And laundry is still doing her.

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        March 13, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

        Now on Punhub?

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          March 13, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

          Number 1 porno site in Xanth.

          • saltchocolate
            saltchocolate
            March 13, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

            The overlap of our cultural references is a single circle.

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              March 13, 2023 at 1:01 am | #

              Gigglesnort! Wheeze!

              • morleuca
                morleuca
                March 13, 2023 at 5:09 am | #

                You just know that Gigglesnort Wheeze is somebody ‘s dnd character.

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  March 13, 2023 at 2:24 pm | #

                  Well, it is now.

                • Wizard
                  Wizard
                  March 14, 2023 at 8:41 pm | #

                  Or possibly a Discworld dwarf.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 13, 2023 at 8:31 am | #

          Punhub sounds like a legit good idea for a website.

    • bagge
      bagge
      March 13, 2023 at 3:34 am | #

      Maybe Joe can help her with that?

  2. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    March 13, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    “Not what we are about”, eh? We‘ll just see about that, Joe!!! The way I see it, we can do whatever we want!!! ✌😈

    Parasite Powers: Horny Hypnosis!!!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 13, 2023 at 8:59 am | #

      Really? Considering “fully informed mutual consent” is his north star?

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        March 13, 2023 at 2:51 pm | #

        Joe wished for this long ago, he got it. But it is not Joe that’ll be fixing Joyce, but the other way around! I can hardly wait!!! XD

  3. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    March 13, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Today’s Reddit post is another HeadCannon theory from me (they won’t all be like this don’t worry): https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/11pzijj/doa_headcannon_kaitlin_still_has_strong_lingering/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    Also this should be day 5 of the “greats rivalries in Dumbing of age” poll: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/11ob9xb/greatest_nemesis_type_rivalry_in_doa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      March 13, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      Also thank God I was going through Amber withdrawals, Though I’m glad she’s enjoying her peace.

      But I got to say at this point Amber might back seat drive Joe into a ditch, but then on the other hand if it’s the same type of ditch Jennifer finds herself in at times I’d say maybe that’s not entirely a bad thing.

  4. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 13, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Amber is the BEST sister, I dunno what y’all are talking about.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 13, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

      She can be … odd, but has the heart of hero.

      • AbacusWizard
        AbacusWizard
        March 13, 2023 at 1:25 am | #

        And the wings of a bat. Because it’s midnight.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 13, 2023 at 9:01 am | #

          Liquid and leather, in equal measure
          Champagne glass
          Mix ’em together

        • Aura
          Aura
          March 13, 2023 at 9:22 pm | #

          For some reason I always hear the first line in the sloshy version in my head, and then the second line in limozeen :S My brain is a strange land.

          • AbacusWizard
            AbacusWizard
            March 14, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

            What an amazing teamup concert that would be…

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              March 14, 2023 at 3:51 am | #

              I had the digital EP on my iPod way back when.

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7z8eCgGc4o

    • EpochFlame
      EpochFlame
      March 13, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

      she is a good sister indeed

    • brionl
      brionl
      March 13, 2023 at 1:16 am | #

      *My* sister never helped me get a date.

      • Bogeywoman
        Bogeywoman
        March 13, 2023 at 2:44 am | #

        I have to hide from my sister trying to get me dates

      • Hof1991
        Hof1991
        March 13, 2023 at 12:25 pm | #

        My sister felt it was her job to vet potential in-laws before they could join the family. Not my spouse, but only because I’m older than her.

    • zee
      zee
      March 13, 2023 at 1:51 pm | #

      I like her best when she’s doing sister things. It’s fun

  5. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 13, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    I love these two as siblings. Their dynamic is low key one of the best in the whole webcomic these days.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 13, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      I second this opinion.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 13, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      They really did slip into the dynamic like a glove, didn’t they?

    • CallynD
      CallynD
      March 13, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      I’m continuously amazed by how Amber can be a normal human being around Joe and yet it feels real.

  6. miz
    miz
    March 13, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    an HOUR? oh, joe.

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      March 13, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      Even if there’s some self-deprecating exaggeration there and it’s not a full hour, he is still early enough to be awkward. But also adorable

  7. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 13, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    Once upon a time I took my sister’s World Lit textbook and opened it out of curiosity…and hit Lucky’s motormouth monologue out of Waiting For Godot.

  8. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    March 13, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    Which of the characters in this comic would be the most likely to reference “waiting for godot”? I kind of lean Walky but only because he saw it in a cartoon

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 13, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      What is godot? I searched the internet but all I came up with was a game-design engine, which does not seem to fit this context.

      PS. I’ve been trying to figure this out: Is you’re avatar half moth or half rabbit?

      • Vanessa
        Vanessa
        March 13, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

        It’s play by Samuel Beckett, classic. Two characters just talk while this dude Godot never shows up. We had to read it in HS, Walky probably did do.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot

      • Derek
        Derek
        March 13, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

        “Waiting for Godot” is a play by Samuel Beckett where (spoilers) the eponymous Godot fails to show up

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        March 13, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

        “Waiting for Godot” is an absurdist play about two dudes waiting for a man named Godot who never arrives.

        My avatar is one of the characters from the game Potionomics. She’s a moth person.

        • True Survivor
          True Survivor
          March 13, 2023 at 12:43 am | #

          Thanks.

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            March 13, 2023 at 12:51 am | #

            If I had a nickel for every time I’ve used an online avatar of a four-armed bug person from a video game whose extremely online characterization would have bothered me more if I didn’t love everything else about them I’d have two whole nickels, which isn’t a lot but I’m surprised I’ve done it twice

            (the other one is Mithrax from Destiny, for the record)

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      March 13, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

      Walky is secretly smart and well-read. I would vote for him too! He had to take all the hard classes to please his mom and was smart enough to breeze through them. I betcha he is a speed reader and writes convincing bullshit very quickly. At least convincing enough for high school work!

    • Savail
      Savail
      March 13, 2023 at 1:12 am | #

      I honestly can’t ever help but to think Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire when I see/hear “Godot.”

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        March 13, 2023 at 5:20 am | #

        My 8 year old has a fuzzy alligator named Winslow….

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          March 13, 2023 at 3:10 pm | #

          Winslow is best boy in Questionable Content.

    • huesatlight
      huesatlight
      March 13, 2023 at 10:05 pm | #

      Leslie knows the play, Robin knows of the play because of reading the tvtropes for Waiting for Guffman.

  9. Carla's #2 Fan
    Carla's #2 Fan
    March 13, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    Yes Joe, that is too early. And I am an anxious earlier arriver with dyscalculia, so you know it’s true.

    • Carla's #2 Fan
      Carla's #2 Fan
      March 13, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      *early not earlier

    • huesatlight
      huesatlight
      March 13, 2023 at 9:50 pm | #

      I blame Danny.

  10. CMasta1992
    CMasta1992
    March 13, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    The strip title is true: Joyce is the prosecutor for the third Ace Attorney game

  11. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 13, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    “You fuck yet?”
    Amber’s a real straight shooter.

    • CMasta1992
      CMasta1992
      March 13, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

      She speaks for the people

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        March 13, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

        She is the Lorax, but only for the hard woods.

        • BarerMender
          BarerMender
          March 13, 2023 at 1:14 am | #

          She is the Lor-ass. She speaks for the the Joes. (Apologies to Jeff Jacques.)

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          March 13, 2023 at 1:59 am | #

          *angry internet-giving noises*

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 13, 2023 at 12:57 am | #

      No wasted words

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      March 13, 2023 at 2:22 pm | #

      “You fuck yet?”

      Good God, Amber, Joyce can’t even bring herself to SAY the word – and you’re asking Joe if she and he have DONE it?!?

  12. Vanessa
    Vanessa
    March 13, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    Adorable Joe is adorable and even Amber recognizes it.

  13. Raen
    Raen
    March 13, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

    Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say…

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      March 13, 2023 at 12:54 am | #

      Gesundheit.

    • milu
      milu
      March 13, 2023 at 11:00 am | #

      very random, but love it =D
      athambia? absence of miracles?

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      March 13, 2023 at 6:49 pm | #

      Are these the lyrics to an anime opening?

      • Raen
        Raen
        March 14, 2023 at 4:22 am | #

        It’s part of a monologue from Waiting for Godot.

  14. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    March 13, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

    I read “Godot” as “Go Dotty” and it’s sticky in my mind forever

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 13, 2023 at 1:59 am | #

      Does it help if I tell you the t is silent?

  15. EpochFlame
    EpochFlame
    March 13, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

    amber is a mood

  16. Just an Armadillo
    Just an Armadillo
    March 13, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

    I love how dignified Joe is trying to act at the start of this and yesterday’s strip. He’s trying so hard not to freak out and it’s precious. Also Amber. Those little smiles she’s got are just fantastic to see. Happy for her.

  17. BOOSTER SHOT
    BOOSTER SHOT
    March 13, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

    So who’s gonna be leashed up, crawling around, with chicken bones?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 13, 2023 at 1:27 am | #

      Wow that’s pretty kinky, ngl.

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      March 13, 2023 at 1:31 am | #

      Jason. You’ll have to ask Ruth about why.

  18. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    March 13, 2023 at 12:44 am | #

    Actually Joe has died and is in Hell, the Hell of Eternal Anxiety and Anticipation.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      March 13, 2023 at 12:55 am | #

      Hell is getting off a plane and spending eternity at the luggage carousel.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 13, 2023 at 1:28 am | #

      God hell is definitely just like…being right on the cusp of something great and never achieving it. Just being edged for all eternity.

  19. Carms
    Carms
    March 13, 2023 at 1:02 am | #

    man this is a weird dynamic. I mean not weird. but also yes weird. who are these people. What did they do with Joe and Amber.

  20. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    March 13, 2023 at 1:05 am | #

    He seems eager
    Let’s hope that washing machine did a good job

  21. Yeet
    Yeet
    March 13, 2023 at 1:06 am | #

    an hour early? joe. buddy.

  22. Bryy
    Bryy
    March 13, 2023 at 1:32 am | #

    I’m really annoyed at Amber. It’s Joyce. She should know better.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      March 13, 2023 at 5:18 am | #

      Yes, it’s not likely, but supposing they had and she didn’t ask? She might never know!

  23. PirateTawnee
    PirateTawnee
    March 13, 2023 at 1:46 am | #

    How many of the other residents know Joe well enough to ask him what he’s doing and then hang around to help him wait?

    Will there be a crowd scene when Joyce finally opens the door/returns from the laundry room?

    Fingers crossed!

  24. Dday
    Dday
    March 13, 2023 at 1:49 am | #

    Anyone here old enough to remember in Roomies when *Joyce* was the overzealous stalker?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 13, 2023 at 1:59 am | #

      I mean…I wasn’t around when Roomies was new, but yes. Honestly liked that side of her.

  25. huesatlight
    huesatlight
    March 13, 2023 at 2:17 am | #

    Anti-Joe.

  26. Bogeywoman
    Bogeywoman
    March 13, 2023 at 2:46 am | #

    Waiting for Joyjo

  27. bagge
    bagge
    March 13, 2023 at 3:34 am | #

    Amber is helping

    • Clif
      Clif
      March 13, 2023 at 3:50 am | #

      She’s Amazing.

  28. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    March 13, 2023 at 4:00 am | #

    Joe an hour is WAY too early

  29. anon
    anon
    March 13, 2023 at 4:37 am | #

    lol even if joyce is ‘busy’ you’d think she’d hear a knock unless she did go to the laundry room instead of staying in bed lol

  30. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    March 13, 2023 at 5:19 am | #

    “Shall we Joe?”
    “Yes, let’s Joe.”
    [They do not Joe]

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      March 13, 2023 at 7:19 am | #

      Commas are important people!

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        March 14, 2023 at 5:28 am | #

        “Shall we, Joe?”
        “Yes, let’s, Joe.”
        [They do not, Joe]

        …I feel like that’s significantly less funny on multiple levels. Although I do liike the idea of the stage directions calling the reader Joe.

  31. Plaaaa
    Plaaaa
    March 13, 2023 at 5:35 am | #

    Check the laundry room.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      March 13, 2023 at 6:46 am | #

      pff 😀

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      March 13, 2023 at 11:22 am | #

      Little bit of money on her coming back from the laundry room while he waits.

  32. Masumi
    Masumi
    March 13, 2023 at 6:52 am | #

    Honestly if I was that early I’d mostly just freak out about “what I’d we meet with too much time to spare and then there’s a lot of awkward silence and they’ll never want to spend time with me again because they got bored”

  33. AlaninDC
    AlaninDC
    March 13, 2023 at 7:14 am | #

    Did Joe and Amber boink before college? Im having a tough time keeping up with pre-University relationships.

    Did they even know each other before college?

    • Formerly Glenn
      Formerly Glenn
      March 13, 2023 at 7:33 am | #

      Joe and Amber are step siblings with a sibling relationship.

    • Aletheia
      Aletheia
      March 13, 2023 at 7:34 am | #

      AFAIK, they didn’t know each other before college, and they never had the chance to boink really before things got weird due to their parents dating each other.

    • GeekyWarrior
      GeekyWarrior
      March 13, 2023 at 7:50 am | #

      No, Amber knew Ethan and Mike and technically met Sal before college. Joe knew Danny and Dorothy before College.

  34. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    March 13, 2023 at 8:04 am | #

    Peharps Joe turned to be a good thing to Amber.

  35. Pergola
    Pergola
    March 13, 2023 at 10:00 am | #

    Joyce has escaped thru the half-bath.

  36. milu
    milu
    March 13, 2023 at 10:11 am | #

    Howdy y’all,

    Third installment of my Marcie/Malaya fan comic, set in Marcie’s apartment =) (N very SFW) (but not explicit) (…YET)

    At this point, a few words!

    1) thanks for the sweet folks who commented yesterday and the day before that! (All 3 posts should be visible on my Pixelfed profile. if not let me know. I set them to “unlisted” as opposed to “public” so i’m not sure how that works)

    @BarerMender haha, thank you. I am not a “real artist” under most definitions. i had a few years’ drawing lessons as a teen, but mostly it’s that i’ve been sketching and inking obsessively for a few months and after a while of that, what do you know, one does Get Good B)

    @crys: This isn’t set after a roller derby drill, but that’s the idea. They’re both pumped from doing crazy sportsy outdoorsy stuff. The intro is sketched out, it still needs inking scanning and so on

    @Vanessa: i love drawing hands =D that said in today’s post some of them are a bit janky. eh

    @Amos: <3

    2) Context: This is an idea i've had floating in my head for a couple months. I think it started with Yotomoe asking for prompts, and i was like "MARCIE x MALAYA D/S PLS PLS PLS" and then went on to headcannon what that might look like. my idea (SPOILERS i guess?) is that Malaya is actually an absolute, if unruly, bottom, and Marcie an effortless top. It's a lot of fun to try to imagine that sexual dynamic for them.

    2) the whole "story" is kinda sketched out in my head, but i haven't been drawing it in order, quite. So what you get are more-or-less chronological snippets, but with gaps in the continuity. Spoil yourselves now or wait for me to finish and polish it, i guess (though knowing me, this may happen never. Or take forever. No promises pets <3) (in any case, there's no major twist. They fuck, pretty much)

    3) Here's where i ask for help: anyone know ASL and want to be my, like, consultant? That would be Very Appreciated. I'm currently working off of online dictionaries and have very vague general ideas about grammar, so any help would be precious. email address, miluburner at protonmail dot com

    4) So I don't art very well (yet!..??), as you can, see my style and technique swing around wildly throughout these various panels. Partly it's that i'm a beginner at this (drawing from imagination, rather than from life), and i'm just trying out a bunch of things. If you like, good, if you don't what can i say, go look at stuff made by proper artists. i'm learning by doing and sharing the variously successful results.

    But i'm also figuring out the technicalities as i go. i just realized i was working on terrible TERRIBLE paper (did yesterday's panel on a new sketchpad and whoah, it's like night and day) (but today's update i'd made earlier so it's also from the terrible sketchbook, sorree). I ink mostly with a fine brush, and while i LOVE it it takes like 3 times as long as with a pen, so, i might switch to that at some point. I've tried using blue ink for Marcie's hands when she's signing, in line with Willis's convention, but that doesn't really render very well once digitized. I use an old printer-scanner that no longer prints, and i clean up the pics with GIMP (mostly just some white balance and wiping of smudges). Anyone feeling moved to give pointers as to how to make this whole process less baffling and time-consuming for me, please stand up <3

    5) i'm currently trying out Pixelfed because its code is open-source and i'm very basic, i see "open-source" i click. imgur wanted my fucking phone number to set up a profile and i was like "yah fuck that". But it's not very user-friendly, i can't seem to upload a webtoon-style vertical strip, which i'd prefer, and there doesn't seem to be a way to edit a post??? 0_0 anyway, if you have recommendations (that don't require a retinal scan and criminal record or whatever the fuck 2-step identification means these days)

    6) any constructive feedback on other aspects, obviously, very welcome. As is fawning praise, obviously, as long as it's sincere.

    aight peace ✌️

    • milu
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      March 13, 2023 at 10:25 am | #

      also @Willis, am i doing ok by you? i think you’re fine with fanart and obviously you’re credited. but do let me know.

    • milu
      milu
      March 13, 2023 at 10:30 am | #

      oh and extra request: i’m altering the designs a tiny bit, and i think i want Marcie to have tattoos. And maybe Malaya too? though i’m not sure. i haven’t yet drawn them but i will add them later if needed; in any case if you have body mod ideas that would fit their characters, let’s hear’em =D

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 13, 2023 at 2:05 pm | #

        I’m not a huge tattoo guy but I could totally see Marcie with those like… black bands around her arm. Don’t known what those are called.

        • milu
          milu
          March 13, 2023 at 3:06 pm | #

          you know what, i was thinking about that. just bands you mean, not sleeves? don’t know what they’re called either. i might want her to have hand tattoos underneath these mittens too =P

          She’s also def gonna have some kind of skull somewhere, and probably some creepy-crawly which i am headcannoning she got done together with Sal, when Sal got her spider =D maybe a centipede. haha

    • Yotomoe
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      March 13, 2023 at 10:36 am | #

      Yo! This is really well done. I really like the way you conveyed the sign language. And the body language haha. I can’t wait to see more! 😛 I guess now we’re partners in smut <3

    • The Wellerman
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      March 13, 2023 at 7:56 pm | #

      *rubs eyes*

      When did you make all this? This looks awesome!!! 😀

      • milu
        milu
        March 13, 2023 at 8:55 pm | #

        Thank you! Over the last few days!

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          March 13, 2023 at 9:24 pm | #

          ha ha lol sorry if I didn’t catch them earlier, way too preoccupied making the audio system for my indie team’s game, it’s a metroidvania platformer called Trek of the Oddities if you’re interested 😉

          also working on the prototypes for Dumbing of Age games!

  37. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 13, 2023 at 10:43 am | #

    Also I REJECT the idea that you’re not a real artist! Not only is this art pretty damn good but you’re trying out pretty interesting poses and angles. Art isn’t some 0-sum game. You’re arting so you’re an artist! And about the kinda loose Storyboard format it’s all good! Haha my Walky/Billie comic mostly started as me just trying to sketch out thumbnails to get it out of my head and now I’ve been working on it for like half a year. I can’t wait to see what else you got planned (I’m partly happy I could inspire it in some small way. Even if it’s by NOT drawing something).

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 13, 2023 at 10:44 am | #

      Meant for @milu

    • milu
      milu
      March 13, 2023 at 11:18 am | #

      oh my god, no, you inspire me so much!!!

      yeah, i should’ve said that at the top, mostly it’s cos i didn’t wanna compare myself to you or whatever, (i feel like this bunched up creature looking up to you with dewy eyes haha) but you’re like my number 1 inspiration in doing this, after Willis i guess =D

      i love your art, what i think most inspires me about it is how… idk, confident you seem, through your art. not entirely in terms of technical confidence (though obviously, there’s that and it’s highly earned) but also just, having sparks of ideas and just going for it, and putting it out there. you’re awesome that way =D

      and yeah, i was definitely thinking of your own Walky/Billie spinoff when starting off on this longform fan piece.

      once i started trying to draw things from imagination a few weeks ago, and was shocked to find i was actually decent at it, i immediately had that thought of, omg. i have the power? i can emulate Yoto now??? *0*

      and sure sure, i’m an artist as a person who arts. i agree with that i suppose BarerMender’s comment yesterday sounded like… nah but whatever, you’re right, it’s just beginner/imposter syndrome. we ARE fellow smut artists now yay <3

      anyway, thank you for your comments, it truly means a lot.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 13, 2023 at 12:09 pm | #

        Haha gosh! It honestly makes me really honored to hear I inspired ya! I’m really surprised I exude an air of confidence at all cuz I’m always second guessing myself haha. For me my biggest reason for making the comic was a desire to see the kinda stuff I’m into. Make the kinda smut I wanna see in the world. My biggest concern is that it’s too self indulgent and it’ll end up being only hot to me, but everyone else seemed to like it! So that gave me more confidence to be even more self indulgent.

        I think you’ve nailed the core appeal of a thing like this and focus on the characterization. Instead of trying to force your own characterization on the characters.

        • milu
          milu
          March 13, 2023 at 1:03 pm | #

          Oh yeah, i can imagine you’ve built up the confidence over time =D

          yeah, i also learnt that from you in part, about meeting the characters where they’re at and trying to figure out what would make sense for them in a new (smuttier) situation. i’ve also read a lot of fanfic and always admired it so much when the voice was this smooth blend of the original character and the writer’s own influence.

          i’m glad you’re saying that i’m doing that right because while, yeah, that’s what i’m hoping to do, i’m very unsure how to strike that note. i mean for malaya, it’s easy, you have them say they’re not fakey while showing them being fakey and that pretty much clinches it lol

        • milu
          milu
          March 13, 2023 at 1:08 pm | #

          …and as for your motivations, same i guess. i also have to say, in a way i am glad you never went for that fantasy i suggested because i quickly realized i had something fairly specific in mind, and your smutverse is very cute but (if i may, i hope no offense) not all that hot to me actually, like we obviously have different, ah, triggers =D so here i am, making the smut that i wanna see in the world as you so well said XP

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            March 13, 2023 at 2:20 pm | #

            HAha that’s fair. Honestly I’m very much into stuff like domination and busty ladies so that’s the stuff I focus on. Honestly I’m more of an above the waist kinda guy. Honestly a lot of the stuff in the comic was moreso out of a desire to appeal to a wider audience than just myself :P. Also based on other slipshine I just sorta looked at the stuff Billie and Walky seemed to enjoy and made that happen. Though with a little bit of a femdom bite to it on Billie’s side. Partly cuz it’s in character but mostly as MY self indulgence. <3

            • milu
              milu
              March 13, 2023 at 3:02 pm | #

              And so you should. be self-indulgent, that is. when creating your art, for free =D

              and i shall strive to do the same. We’ll see how i do, though. I’m still fuzzy on the business specifics. i think i’m gonna want to explore power play, and like Malaya being vulnerable yet trying to salvage their pride by being a brat and claiming arbitrary wins, and Marcie being (mostly?) confident and chill. TBD, i know how to get there but i’m not yet confident i can actually make it sexy, even just for me. oh well, stepwise motion. and i have a good feeling! this has all really been rolling off the pencil so far. and it makes me giddy, so anyone else enjoying it as well is great, but in an icing on the cake sort of way, yknow =P

              • Yotomoe
                Yotomoe
                March 13, 2023 at 5:48 pm | #

                Can’t wait. And lemme know if you wanna bounce ideas or brainstorm or just chat or something :3. I just really like talking about this sorta stuff/figuring it out.

                • milu
                  milu
                  March 13, 2023 at 7:23 pm | #

                  hey thanks! i may take you up on that. is there a way i can DM you? feel free to email me, i wrote my address up there, it’s linked in my handle too <3

                • milu
                  milu
                  March 13, 2023 at 7:35 pm | #

                  ohwait i just rememberd you’re on patreon 😉 that’ll do it

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  March 13, 2023 at 8:47 pm | #

                  Yep, Patreon, I’m almost always on discord if you wanna talk through there, or twitter or something.

  38. Wendy
    Wendy
    March 13, 2023 at 11:21 am | #

    I did not expect Joe and Amber to be such adorable siblings.

  39. Joyfulldreams
    Joyfulldreams
    March 13, 2023 at 12:19 pm | #

    For an HOUR FROM NOW?? Oh, Joe. This is adorable.

  40. ian livs
    ian livs
    March 13, 2023 at 2:12 pm | #

    “Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than hell itself… That is coffee.” …Oh, wait, wrong Godot.

  41. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 13, 2023 at 2:44 pm | #

    How cute! These two look like they were born to be brother and sister. It’s nice to see Amber so full of vitality. I wonder what Joyce will say seeing both of them at the door and if Amber will defend Joe from Sarah’s wrath.

  42. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    March 13, 2023 at 5:50 pm | #

    hold up, if he’s an hour early now, how much earlier was he too early by when he first came by and knocked?

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