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(it was many years ago, I have glasses now and am a better artist than I was then. But that’s okay, close enough.)
You can look at the last time you did grav roulette, assuming you do them in a reproducible order, or leave hints in the comment text what your capitalization was.
So we can confirm that Walky and Joyce both can help Dorothy hit the relax button, right? Not that this comes as a shock to anyone but what does it mean for Dorothy long term.
More seriously, I think there’s been a role reversal, or at least a change in their dynamic. Joyce feels the amount of helpingness between them has been tragically uneven. And now she’s helping not because she’s obligated, but because she can and Dorothy needs it. She’s tucked her in after she drifted to sleep, that’s symbolic. Joyce is a mom friend now too.
Because the old argument about whether eternal damnation means instant annihilation or ongoing torment is being worked out in the DYW-verse too. And alas, so far it looks like no matter how much we damn Willis, we’re somehow being set up to be tormented over and over and over in return.
You would think that everything would be fine, for the moment perhaps, but we know that Dorothy has to be honest sooner or later. Leaving that aside, they cannot deny that
Dorothy looks very beautiful in these panels
In my head;
Dorothy doesn’t have the nightmare tonight, and locks in, consciously or unconsciously, that being near Joyce reassures her and keeps the nightmare away. She keeps ‘nodding off’ next to Joyce for the rest of the year, and once they’re no longer in the dorms and now in a house that Joyce, Joe, Sarah, Carla, Walky, and Sal are renting together, Joyce twigs onto “Is Dorothy narcoleptic?” and frog-marches her to a sleep specialist in a mirror of how Dorothy frog-marched her to the ophthalmologist.
Whatever I may feel about Dorothy not telling Joyce about her problems is erased by Joyce’s unconditional caring about her friend. I have been out-unconditioned by a fictional character.
Is it way too much to say I enjoy all the Joyce/Dorothy baiting specifically to spite the sealion on Patreon that drove me to nuke my account there?
But really, it was incredibly irking to have literally every comment section for any given JoJo strip to be riddled with “BuT DoRoThY” including “Joyce is only interested in Joe for his body,” alongside the strip where Joyce was explicitly disappointed with Joe for being a “libido with a face.”
Couldn’t decide whether I wanted to comment something shippy but I’m preeetty sure my last Grav roll was Daisy so pretty much any comment I could write is gonna come off as wanting these two to kiss so… yeah.
The fifth frame confused me for a second. Is Joyce grabbing– No, she’s pulling up a blanket. Yeah, that would’ve been weird. Still, I’m a little disappointed.
It’s very insightful and sweet that Joyce has enough emotional intelligence to see Dorothy is struggling, give her some problems to fix, and subtly comfort her about things she can’t control. Joyce can be devious in her own way and fixing the problem so they Dotty doesn’t even know she did anything is so smart.
Oh yeah, she’s had her own glasses like a week now, it’s the perfect time to learn about how expensive it gets to forget about them and roll over them in bed. Why not make it two pairs for one.
On your face or in their case! Never on a surface someone is likely to walk or sit on!
One time in middle school a teacher got pissed at me for reading a book in my lap, so she grabbed the book and violently slammed it down on the desk, partially brnding my glasses. They blamed me because I was “reading wrong”.
if you're ever sad alone silently, consider this:
- i hold a copyright on being like that
- you are encroaching on my intellectual property
- i will send you a cease & desist
- i will possibly take you to court
so please make yourself legally distinct by talking to someone about it
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What this should tell you is that I'm always down to cause chaos and good trouble
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so i'm thinking, okay, i took some extra photos of this set of doors this year so i could draw some other angles, it's an important set of doors, so let's pull up my new reference photos...
....and do you see a problem, do you see an issue
Well, Lizard is here, and I've been telling myself for... years that I'd take down my Endgame shelf and put up Spider-Man:No Way Home once the final villain was out.
So.
That's a thing I gotta do.
okay okay -- spider-man reboot idea
the lizard is still dr connors, but he's dr PHIL connors, and he wakes up every day and it's groundhog day and he's a lizard
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Aw. This is sweet.
They’ve been very cute this chapter.
I was going to post Dumbing of Age 14: Mrm mrr mrmimo, but then I looked over at the Willis XTwitter feed.
You don’t have to call it X.
…and its current sorry state is better indicated with Q anyway. That can be Q for QAnon, but primarily Q for Quitter.
Xitter, with the X pronounced as “sh”
Like in Nahuatl!
I’m quietly amused by all the explanations out there that might as well have been phrased, “X, which is really Twitter.”
Nobody actually calls it X! It’s a horrible rebrand.
“This is an X Twitter!”
In his position I would have had trouble resisting the urge to go with “Dumbing of Age 14: One more episode?” just to mess with the audience.
ok lets hope she has a better dream this time around
this time, she pets the horse
Now kiss
lol i wonder how sarah would feel about joyce ending up with dorothy over joe haha
Dorothy over Joe would be a different kind of Slipshine.
Sarah fucking sucks right now so anything that goes counter to her current characterization is almost certainly a positive for whoever encounters it.
I’m still a believer that Sarah can turn it around. If this comment section can desperately cling to Lucy/Walky, I can also have dreams
One day, Mym, one day
There are so many breadcrumbs for this ship, I’m clinging
Only Lucy has the power.
Listen, if Lucy brings my ship to fruition, I will take back all my Anti-Lucy propaganda and I will pray to her above the false got Yoto
This is a very sweet scene… so what is going to come along the next day and ruin it?
I don’t even know who that even is.
Lyle, Lucy’s brother!
Ah, I totally forgot about him.
Is he responsible for the grav reshuffle? Except that I still have Lucy?
Nah. Post-timeskip Jacob got added last
Also, lucky you still got Lucy because the spinner just happened to land on her (1/30 chance)
Nice, but not Sal.
Fuck no.
Excellent, but not Sal.
Not again!
HOORAY!!!
🥳
And there it is.
What do you have against me me?
Reminding me of a teacher with similar social skills that I hated.
But congrats all the same.
this thread is EXTREMELY entertaining to read
Team Sal!! Let’s have everyone be Sal lol
You DO know you could just save your favorite Sal image, then upload it as your permanent avatar on the Gravatar site, yes?
That’s …. That’s… that’s cheating! [/scandalized voice tone]
You can even clip your own from the comic that isn’t one of the general options and upload it and now people think it’s part of the rotation because you clipped it from the comic ^_^
Or you can choose whichever default avatar looks most like you, and edit it in MS Paint for a kinda Willis-style version of your face, and then upload *that* to the Gravatar website.
(it was many years ago, I have glasses now and am a better artist than I was then. But that’s okay, close enough.)
You can look at the last time you did grav roulette, assuming you do them in a reproducible order, or leave hints in the comment text what your capitalization was.
Or even a picture from some other webcomic, or your favorite anime.
Highly recommend Gravatar site
Next chapter name is from a lyric in That Thing You Do. So maybe just Joyce being with Joe is going to give Dorothy heartache she doesn’t understand.
🥹 🥰
aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeee
*plays “Emerald Tide” by Michael J. Murphy on Hacked Muzak*
Hey, where is StevenB these days? Hacked Muzak is usually his thing too.
I dunno, hopefully he alright.
(he has ADHD and might be taking a much needed sabbatical ^^)
So we can confirm that Walky and Joyce both can help Dorothy hit the relax button, right? Not that this comes as a shock to anyone but what does it mean for Dorothy long term.
That she has only a handful of people she lets get that close to her, I’d think.
This is so good.
And here she is still under the covers–!!
Ohh, very nicely done!
More seriously, I think there’s been a role reversal, or at least a change in their dynamic. Joyce feels the amount of helpingness between them has been tragically uneven. And now she’s helping not because she’s obligated, but because she can and Dorothy needs it. She’s tucked her in after she drifted to sleep, that’s symbolic. Joyce is a mom friend now too.
Fingers crossed!
This might be enough to make me believe that Joyce/Dorothy could be endgame.
Good gravy willis why do you keep doing this to us
Sadism.
And we keep returning day after day. And what does that say about us?
I mean, it’s nothing I didn’t already know about myself
Because the old argument about whether eternal damnation means instant annihilation or ongoing torment is being worked out in the DYW-verse too. And alas, so far it looks like no matter how much we damn Willis, we’re somehow being set up to be tormented over and over and over in return.
You’ve gone and reminded me of that ST:TNG episode in which Picard and that Cardassian jailer were torturing each other to see who breaks first.
My favorite part was the dramatic ending where Picard holds up the half-eaten sandwich to the jailer and declares
THERE
ARE
FOUR
BITES
Because this is life. Maybe not our personal life(or maybe it is sometimes), but still.
AAAAWWWW
Yeah.
You would think that everything would be fine, for the moment perhaps, but we know that Dorothy has to be honest sooner or later. Leaving that aside, they cannot deny that
Dorothy looks very beautiful in these panels
In my head;
Dorothy doesn’t have the nightmare tonight, and locks in, consciously or unconsciously, that being near Joyce reassures her and keeps the nightmare away. She keeps ‘nodding off’ next to Joyce for the rest of the year, and once they’re no longer in the dorms and now in a house that Joyce, Joe, Sarah, Carla, Walky, and Sal are renting together, Joyce twigs onto “Is Dorothy narcoleptic?” and frog-marches her to a sleep specialist in a mirror of how Dorothy frog-marched her to the ophthalmologist.
Whatever I may feel about Dorothy not telling Joyce about her problems is erased by Joyce’s unconditional caring about her friend. I have been out-unconditioned by a fictional character.
That’s really cute, but I beg of you, put the glasses somewhere less risky
Please listen to this cat
I mean at this point it may force Dorothy to take another much needed day off if they DO break. So win-win, really.
There’s a meganekko pun here somewhere.
Joyce hasn’t had them long enough to know not to break them =p
Awwww, this is so sweet. I hope Dorothy feels better tomorrow.
Cute!
But don’t put those glasses there, they’re gonna get sat on o.o
haha, maybe it’s an excuse for Joyce to help Dorothy
Damn you Willis and your end of storyline!!!! I wanted more from this cuteness MORE!!!!!
Is it way too much to say I enjoy all the Joyce/Dorothy baiting specifically to spite the sealion on Patreon that drove me to nuke my account there?
But really, it was incredibly irking to have literally every comment section for any given JoJo strip to be riddled with “BuT DoRoThY” including “Joyce is only interested in Joe for his body,” alongside the strip where Joyce was explicitly disappointed with Joe for being a “libido with a face.”
…wait, what happened on Patreon again? What’s this sea lion thing?
So, as they sleep cuddled together, Dorothy will wake from a troubled dream, and find herself in Joyce’s arms. She’ll then… [Blank]
[Blank]? Everybody’s looking for nothing and now at long last we have found it.
Charles Nelson Reilly!
Ah, a fellow person of taste.
Giddyup, Gene!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtkofUmGiw
Couldn’t decide whether I wanted to comment something shippy but I’m preeetty sure my last Grav roll was Daisy so pretty much any comment I could write is gonna come off as wanting these two to kiss so… yeah.
It cute
The fifth frame confused me for a second. Is Joyce grabbing– No, she’s pulling up a blanket. Yeah, that would’ve been weird. Still, I’m a little disappointed.
Aww. They’re such good friends.
They could even be roommates!
They are pals!
This is so damn sweet i can’t take I have headbutt something to balance it out .
If you’re serious about that, good news. Bob Knight is now dead. Really.
Good fucking riddance.
I have this qued up for such occasions https://youtu.be/cXVZVCoaxM4?si=C0ePChrI5oVj049L
Jeeeeesus fucking Christ, the shitstain supported Trump? He should have died decades ago.
Ehh, due to his nature…
Gokuro-sama, Dorothi.
One more episode of what?
i assume either that monkey masters series or another thing they’re both into lol
Nah. Something with horses.
like last time https://www.dumbingofage.com/fun-3/
As a bi fem person I am genuinely shipping them as exactly what they are.
Ok, raise your hand if for a second you thought Joyce gave Dorothy’s boobs a feels
Appropriate gravitar
The gods have favored me this day
::raises a front hoof::
*looks up from notes*
Sorry, was that a yay or a neigh?
Well done. I somehow never tire of that joke.
Yep, I definitely did. But it’s probably because I looked at that panel first before reading anything.
Wonder what Dotty summoned with that, that’s a hard thing to utter
If you act like this again tho, Joyce, it’s on you now.
[chanting] throuple throuple throuple!
Joyce cannonically knows what polyamory is…
Good gravatar for this one
gotta love when Gravatar helps with a joke
This has been the clear solution for some time.
Joe and Dorothy as sister wives, just since I can’t picture Joe and Dorothy hooking up. Neither would be super comfortable with that.
joe gets to live his ‘multiple b*tches’ fantasy but PLOT TWIST it ISNT b*tches its the WOMAN he loves and her romantic best friend! :0
It’s very insightful and sweet that Joyce has enough emotional intelligence to see Dorothy is struggling, give her some problems to fix, and subtly comfort her about things she can’t control. Joyce can be devious in her own way and fixing the problem so they Dotty doesn’t even know she did anything is so smart.
Mmmr Rrrmmrr Mrmmmr mmmrrmrmrmm!
It’s-a me, mrmimo!
It’s my favouwite Disney pwincess, mrmimo
If ye could be bwave, would ye? mrmimo would.
im merobiba!
Awww, this is sweet. A very nice ending to the storyline.
(Whispers to Joyce: “Put the glasses someplace safe”)
Oh yeah, she’s had her own glasses like a week now, it’s the perfect time to learn about how expensive it gets to forget about them and roll over them in bed. Why not make it two pairs for one.
Been there done that.
On your face or in their case! Never on a surface someone is likely to walk or sit on!
One time in middle school a teacher got pissed at me for reading a book in my lap, so she grabbed the book and violently slammed it down on the desk, partially brnding my glasses. They blamed me because I was “reading wrong”.
I’ve heard, and experienced, some real horror stories regarding teachers but “reading wrong” both tracks with that and yet is entirely novel.
End of storyline … or … surprise end of entire strip?
(Naw, but you could do a lot worse for an ending.)
Willis already has comics uploaded thru the end of May.
Aww… That was cute.
But my avatar is still wrong
Not quite sure what Joyce is doing with her expression in Panel 4. She’s got like a frazzled look??? I guess she’s holding in a laugh?
I think it’s just a little fond smile.
I’m more on the eyes than the lips, the dot eyes transition is different from the other panels
I love it. I feel like right now we’re all Jennifer in the last panel of this comic: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/truce-2/
I mean, I’m sure there are some people who want to spray them with a garden hose, but I’m not sure it’s the consensus opinion.
THIS is yuri