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by David M Willis on September 6, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Everybody's Looking for Nothing
└ Tags: joe, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    September 6, 2023 at 12:01 am | #

    I would say, shame if at least one of those isn’t the pony versions but I guess that’s a bridge too far for then-Joyce

    • Paradoxius
      Paradoxius
      September 6, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

      Quick, what would the apostles cutie marks be?

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        September 6, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

        Judas Iscariot gets a pile of coins. Peter, inverted cross. Thomas a monocle. Mary a condom. Jude (judas Greater) could have a question mark, as in, who is this guy?

        • Laura
          Laura
          September 6, 2023 at 12:36 am | #

          Matthew gets a ledger.

          John gets a heart.

          • Laura
            Laura
            September 6, 2023 at 12:37 am | #

            James, son of Zebedee gets a fish.

            • Laura
              Laura
              September 6, 2023 at 12:39 am | #

              (No, sorry, a scallop shell. D’oh!)

          • Maveric1984
            Maveric1984
            September 6, 2023 at 12:01 pm | #

            By your powers combined, I am CAPTAIN JESUS!

            • RoyanRannedos
              RoyanRannedos
              September 6, 2023 at 3:13 pm | #

              (Music) Captain Jesus, he’s our savior!
              Gonna punish all that bad behavior!
              His apostles are so white,
              All of them, except that Judas guy~

              CAPTAIN JESUS: The power is…Yeah, it’s kinda still mine.

              • Maveric1984
                Maveric1984
                September 9, 2023 at 1:02 pm | #

                I love you

            • RoyanRannedos
              RoyanRannedos
              September 6, 2023 at 3:14 pm | #

              Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1QYQpHdzpw

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          September 6, 2023 at 1:58 am | #

          I utterly refuse to believe that Young Joyce would know what a condom looks like.

          I’d bet folding money Current Joyce doesn’t either. Roz handed them out once, but if Joyce (in the stage she was in at the time) saw that she either blocked it out or thought she was passing out weird moist towelettes.

          • Laura
            Laura
            September 6, 2023 at 2:09 am | #

            Mary could have a veil. 🙂

          • Samniel
            Samniel
            September 6, 2023 at 1:34 pm | #

            Didn’t Roz have Joyce help her distribute condoms with a comical dildo hat on her head? If she didn’t before, I’m sure she knew after that.

        • BadRoad
          BadRoad
          September 6, 2023 at 6:01 am | #

          Peter could have a cornerstone.

        • Pylgrim
          Pylgrim
          September 6, 2023 at 6:20 am | #

          Mary gets a dove since she was made pregnant by the Holy Spirit and that’s a common depiction of it.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          September 6, 2023 at 2:15 pm | #

          P.S. Despite not being at the last supper, Paul should have a big dildo because he’s such a dick.

      • Paprikahoernchen
        Paprikahoernchen
        September 6, 2023 at 6:55 am | #

        Didn’t expect to read answers to this question today.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        September 6, 2023 at 9:41 am | #

        Thomas’s mark would be a hole getting fingered.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          September 6, 2023 at 2:16 pm | #

          I’m changing my vote from my suggestion to this. 100% Perfect christian symbolism.

        • Taellosse
          Taellosse
          September 6, 2023 at 6:10 pm | #

          You are hereby awarded +500 internetz. Pure brilliance!

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    September 6, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    One hell of a cathartic bonfire awaits!!! Speaking of which…

    *stims out to “Charlie’s Inferno” by The Handsome Devil on hacked muzak*

    • Laura
      Laura
      September 6, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

      Thanks, NG.

      …In case anyone else is, like Joyce, and, like me, stressing out right now, here’s some more audiosoothe…
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=techmgGVOhk

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        September 6, 2023 at 12:36 am | #

        🥲 Oh thank you Laura, I’ll be honest here, I am on the verge of autistic meltdown and really need to take it easy 😥

        • Laura
          Laura
          September 6, 2023 at 12:40 am | #

          We’re here, hon’.

          We can do this. Si, se puede.

          (( <3 ))

  3. Mym
    Mym
    September 6, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    How many ponies did Joyce share a ride on in these drawings

    • Tawdry Quirks
      Tawdry Quirks
      September 6, 2023 at 1:39 am | #

      I will be very disappointed if there isn’t a drawing of Joyce and Becky holding hands on the back of a giant pony, with the caption “Besties Forever” written at the top.

      • PirateTawnee
        PirateTawnee
        September 6, 2023 at 2:29 am | #

        That’s the next bonus strip for Willis to draw sorted I guess.

      • Lokitsu
        Lokitsu
        September 6, 2023 at 5:46 am | #

        What I’d they were riding on the back of a giant Jesus instead?

        • Dana
          Dana
          September 6, 2023 at 11:18 am | #

          When there were three sets of footprints…

  4. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    September 6, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    Unpacking a lot while unboxing these memories, ain’t we.

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 6, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Is it autism or her upbringing? What are the odds at?

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      September 6, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

      It’s both, and we can’t unscramble that egg.

    • AY
      AY
      September 6, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

      Nature AND nurture

      • milu
        milu
        September 6, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

        Narture.

    • DashWallkick
      DashWallkick
      September 6, 2023 at 6:49 am | #

      at this point it’s like the “what is the most evolved” trick question from a few years ago. Her fundamentalist upbringing gave her a structure for her life that she could adopt. She then autistically obsessed over it for her entire childhood. Asking which is doing this is like trying to separate soda water from concentrate after it’s become Sprite.

      • Mark
        Mark
        September 6, 2023 at 7:14 am | #

        To separate soda water from concentrate, just drink the Sprite. In a few hours it’s all sorted.

      • SeanR
        SeanR
        September 6, 2023 at 9:42 am | #

        I’m pretty sure reverse osmosis would work for that. There’s not going to be much in a beverage that has a molar weight lower than 18.

        • DashWallkick
          DashWallkick
          September 6, 2023 at 10:50 am | #

          ….How am *I* the one with the Dina avatar and *you’re* the one with Joe??

    • Spriteless
      Spriteless
      September 6, 2023 at 10:29 am | #

      I wonder if her parents are a little autistic, making the structure of fundamentalism more appealing.

  6. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    September 6, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    I hobestly wonder how much weird shit I internalized that I still haven’t figured out.

  7. Kravis
    Kravis
    September 6, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Is a fudgeload more or less than a brazilian?

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      September 6, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

      I’ve seen a fudgeload cover a brazilian, so I’d wager it’s more. And if you mean the non-sexually euphemistic fudgeload, way more!

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        September 6, 2023 at 5:32 am | #

        Personally I’ve been procrastinating my brazilian because it’s going to cost a fudgeload. 800 up front for 8 months of getting shot with lasers.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        September 6, 2023 at 11:48 pm | #

        I worry that I understood that too quickly; I might need a break from the internet for a day or two.

        Also if you meant a literal fudgeload on a Brazilian, that could be sexy. Hard to clean up, and only good for that night, but still worth it.

  8. Nono
    Nono
    September 6, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    …Were the ponies also white?

    • Devin
      Devin
      September 6, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

      All but one

      • Pylgrim
        Pylgrim
        September 6, 2023 at 6:21 am | #

        More like they were all bright, primary and secondary colours but one.

    • Bin
      Bin
      September 6, 2023 at 1:04 am | #

      Only best pony.
      Also Celestia.

  9. AlexaSpuds
    AlexaSpuds
    September 6, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    The lengths American Christians will go to indoctrinate their children into being racists never ceases to amaze me, it’s wild.

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      September 6, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      It tends to be in the fundamentalist sects more then other sects but fundamentalism regardless of religion trends towards racism, bigotry and fear of outsiders.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      September 6, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

      Yeah… that’s not limited to Americans or Christians.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      September 6, 2023 at 1:15 am | #

      I mean, a lot of them don’t even know they’re doing it, is the scary part.

      Like I said in an earlier post, a big trend in christian conservative coalitions and alt-right movements in the US is that a big part of it depends on members keeping themselves carefully ignorant of their own beliefs. For not only would it scare the SHIT out of them if they actually realized what they believe in, but knowing and being obliged to defend a coherent worldview would otherwise impair their ability to argue effectively.

      Is socialism anti-God, or should we not take the Bible literally when it tells us that it’s impossible to serve both wealth and God? Is the Bible a defense for policy you don’t agree with, or isn’t it?

      Should we defend gun-ownership rights because “what if we need to overthrow the government some day”, or should we take cops at their word when they shoot a POC for “looking like they might have a gun”? Should we distrust authority, or love cops and the troops?

      Does the diversification of children’s TV show characters, clothing and school history texts entail “subliminal leftist brainwashing”, or is subconscious racism bullshit? Can ideologies be subconsciously embraced or can they not?

      For the conservative, the answer is whatever wins the argument with a leftist at the given moment. And by “winning”, what that usually entails is what they interpret as a “forfeit”, which in actuality is the moment when we leave the conversation because we feel it’s unproductive or possibly even unsafe to continue.

      The more “wins” they get like this picking up and throwing rhetoric the conservative christian media machines crank out and throwing it at leftists, the more they are convinced there must be something to it, the more superior they feel, and so on in this cycle.

      The only true abiding principle for them is self-interest — all other principles and viewpoints are but tools to pick up and drop depending on their utility. From the high-schooler willing to defend the Japanese Interment camps of WWII and the “lost cause” of the confederacy just to feel superior to their peers, to the middle schooler rewarded for being able to believe one thing in science class and another in church service, much conservative culture encourages practical ignorance of their own beliefs at all stages.

      Honestly, that fucking terrifies me.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        September 6, 2023 at 1:20 am | #

        Aaaaand wow i haven’t made a mega post like that in a long time. Guess I needed a bit of catharsis as well, hehehe

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        September 6, 2023 at 2:00 am | #

        Not to bring politics in this, but a minister recently called a bunch of Jesus’ beliefs weak and compared him unfavorably to Trump. The Prosperity Gospel and Southern Fundamentalist Christianity are basically antithetical to Christianity as it is taught with a massive number of beliefs designed to basically invert the faith regarding poverty, pacifism, and universal salvation.

        A theology teacher of mine (I had a very interesting education) basically said that the extremist Christian ideologies of America are inherently tied two things:

        1. Being descended from violent Protestant exiles from England.
        2. Slavery

        The 2# basically said that Christians in the 14th century knew slavery was evil but when the corrupt Borgias re-legalized it (it had already died out) for financial reasons, they paid extensive amounts of money to find various biblical justifications for it. The Southern baptists split with mainstream Baptism over it and more or less rewrote Christianity as a whole to justify slavery as an institution in Southern america.

        Hence the racism isn’t a bug, it is the entire point.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          September 6, 2023 at 2:34 am | #

          I read an interview with Leonard Cohen or maybe someone else, wish I could remember exactly. He said something like the devil tempted Jesus at the high place with dominion over all peoples, and Jesus said no, but the church said yes.

          • C.T. Phipps
            C.T. Phipps
            September 6, 2023 at 2:47 am | #

            The Bible is fascinating if you read it from an anarchist perspective (as I do being an anarchist comedy writer).

            Everything Jesus hated about fundamentalists, the rich, and war is as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago.

            In any case, props to Willis for so many fantastic jokes about a sensitive topic.

      • deliverything
        deliverything
        September 6, 2023 at 4:42 am | #

        Another subject that often seems relevant to people arguing in bad faith (even, perhaps, when they’re not aware they’re doing it) is implicature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature

        I’m probably too tired to summarise properly right now, but it’s generally about what’s implied (hence the name) versus what’s actually said. So, when certain people say “the Jews killed Jesus”, they can defend their words biblically by pointing to the verses in which a crowd of Jews called for the execution of Jesus, while glossing over how they’re using it as an excuse to hate Jews in general, never mind that Joe (for example) wouldn’t have been involved in the event in question, or that Jesus would’ve been a Jew himself… but, when raising their children to be as bigoted as they are, they take full example of the “hate all Jews except the ones we implicitly consider not to be Jews” implication.

        Actually, come to think of it, that might be a better example of the motte-and-bailey fallacy. Too tired, as I mentioned; sorry.

      • Mark
        Mark
        September 6, 2023 at 7:17 am | #

        Sounds like WOPR was right: the only way to win is not to play.

        • Firseal
          Firseal
          September 6, 2023 at 5:05 pm | #

          The problem with not playing with such individuals is they regard the other side not playing as a win. If one gives up arguing with them, then that’s a win. If their troll logic somehow wins, that’s a win. Basically, unless the people doing the bad faith arguments are soundly confronted and out-argued, they feel like they win. Then they come back the next day with the exact same topics, arguments, and mindset, because they like the superior feeling when they ‘win’ against whomever they are arguing with.

      • Allandrel
        Allandrel
        September 6, 2023 at 8:31 am | #

        I have personally watched conservatives adopt, discard, and re-adopt “deeply-held core beliefs” over the course of a single conversation. Any number of times.

        The only thing that they appear to truly, consistently believe is “Us Good, Them Bad.”

  10. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    September 6, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    She probably also drew the disciples on ponies.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 6, 2023 at 2:20 am | #

      *as ponies.

    • Bin
      Bin
      September 6, 2023 at 2:44 am | #

      Meanwhile Jesus rode in on a donkey.

  11. Erica
    Erica
    September 6, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    Ahhh, so Judas was drawn as a Jew. Which makes it more personally uncomfortable for Joe I’m sure

    • Erica
      Erica
      September 6, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      I was thinking he was drawn either Middle Eastern or Black but weirdly it didn’t even occur to me he was drawn as a Jewish stereotype (but I suppose that’s cuz Joe said “non white” and I don’t consider myself and other Jews to not be white)

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        September 6, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

        Racism’s one of those things where you don’t win regardless, you just lose a little less than everyone else. Jewish is white until it’s time to vilify them for all our problems because they secretly run the world or whatever the stereotype is. I’m sure Joe’s dealt with his share of bs too.

        • Erica
          Erica
          September 6, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

          100%

      • jflb96
        jflb96
        September 7, 2023 at 9:25 pm | #

        Exactly the same here – I had to dig up a Google Books pdf of the actual book to see what he’d actually been drawn as

    • OnyxIdol
      OnyxIdol
      September 6, 2023 at 3:34 am | #

      “white” is arbitrary and always interpretated in the way it benefits whatever agenda the elite is trying to promote. At some point the Irish weren’t considered white.

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        September 6, 2023 at 5:11 am | #

        Similar thing with Slavs, especially if Nazis were involved.

      • someone
        someone
        September 7, 2023 at 2:13 am | #

        According to Ben Franklin, only the English (not the British, just the English specifically) and the Saxons are white. Every other European ethnicity is not white but “swarthy”.

  12. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 6, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    I wonder if MLP was allowed at the Brown household. Joyce was probably the perfect age to grow up with the highly popular Lauren Faust series. Would the series be considered secular? They do worship an immortal deities that control the sun and moon among other things? I don’t know where it lands. Is the magic of friendship anti-bible?

    • Gunslinger
      Gunslinger
      September 6, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      If you’re fundie enough, literally any depiction of magic or special powers that aren’t explicitly proclaimed as a miracle from God is paganism.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        September 6, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

        The hypocrisy is great, though. Star Wars? Fine. Scooby Doo. Fine. Harry Potter? Satanic.

        My wife explained the rules varied on how much the local church needed to make an example.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          September 6, 2023 at 1:20 am | #

          She most definitely wasn’t allowed Harry Potter or Scooby Doo. I’m not sure about Star Wars – I seem to vaguely recall her saying she wasn’t allowed to watch it but I know Willis was.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            September 6, 2023 at 1:27 am | #

            Okay I double checked and she was only allowed the parts of Star Wars about trade embargoes. So like….a tiny part of Episode I.

        • Username Taken
          Username Taken
          September 6, 2023 at 9:05 am | #

          Willis did a great comic about that ages ago with Harry Potter and Aslan.

        • anonymsly
          anonymsly
          September 6, 2023 at 10:16 pm | #

          Scooby Doo should absolutely not be judged fine by fundamentalist parents, so it tickles me that apparently it sometimes is? A show all about asking questions and finding answer for yourself and putting the screws to superstition? You’d think it would be so, so anathema.

    • Bin
      Bin
      September 6, 2023 at 1:03 am | #

      All magic is demonic young lady. >:(
      (Granted that’s not true. All prayer is magic. And Moses was magic too. But these people ain’t read their scripture.)

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 6, 2023 at 8:48 am | #

        Yeah, all magic that isn’t explicitly tied to the Christian God. If your movie has Christians getting a miracle, that’s fine.

    • Vulcanodon
      Vulcanodon
      September 6, 2023 at 3:56 pm | #

      Pretty hard to imagine the Browns being OK with stories about The Princess of Friendship when her element symbol is “Magic”. Sounds really pagan to me.

      Also the episodes where Starlight Glimmer founded a religious cult with her as leader… I don’t know, maybe they’d have liked that one. Hard to guess.

  13. milu
    milu
    September 6, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    Hello, made more silly &/or horny fanart, good night <3

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      September 6, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

      You’re doing the good work milu. Sleep well.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      September 6, 2023 at 4:35 am | #

      Omg, the Proserpina reverse 🗣️🗣️🗣️

      • milu
        milu
        September 6, 2023 at 6:21 am | #

        Oh right haha. Glad you like it ^^

  14. BBCC
    BBCC
    September 6, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

    Neither the ponies or the propaganda depictions of Judas surprise me.

    • drs
      drs
      September 6, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

      ponyganda

  15. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    September 6, 2023 at 12:28 am | #

    You know, I think in a world where her upbringing wasn’t a dumpster fire, Joyce would be a great archaeologist of Roman occupation Judaic lore. It’d be interesting to see her study things of the time period as an atheist. She wouldn’t even be the only one.

  16. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 6, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

    Hey y’all. What was an obsessive thing about a piece of media you wouldn’t let go of.

    • Laura
      Laura
      September 6, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

      Trobed slash fic for the TV show “Community”. It is DEVOURING MY BRAIN these days!

      …What about you, Yoto?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 6, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

        I was the anime kid. I injected anime words into my speech. I was a menace. Hate that kid. Glad he turned into me eventually.

        • Laura
          Laura
          September 6, 2023 at 3:02 am | #

          I sure am glad, too!

    • Bin
      Bin
      September 6, 2023 at 1:01 am | #

      For me: so many webcomics. Sluggy Freelancer, GPF, Sam and Fuzzy, Dead Winter, and obviously: Walkyverse.
      And I be basic: DBZ. Like everyone else.

      Ethan: Transformers
      Amber: Nintendo

      • Dday
        Dday
        September 6, 2023 at 11:36 am | #

        Sluggy Freelance is still goin strong, I still read it every week! I think Pete is getting pretty close to the conclusion after a whopping 26 years of telling one continuous story: https://sluggy.com/

    • milu
      milu
      September 6, 2023 at 1:33 am | #

      I just can’t stop doing Teddy Bear the Porcupine impressions. Even when I’m not eating tiny raw pumpkins

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      September 6, 2023 at 1:42 am | #

      Pokemon indigo league, Invader Zim, ClueFinders, Pajama Sam, Dragon Ball Z, SpongeBob Squarepants, and dozens of flash games, the list only goes on 😂🥰

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        September 6, 2023 at 12:10 pm | #

        oh man, ClueFinders and Humongous Entertainment games (my fave series were Pajama Sam and Spy Fox) were so good <3

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 6, 2023 at 1:59 am | #

      I can still recite full episodes of spongebob from memory.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        September 6, 2023 at 3:55 pm | #

        I went through phases, no one thing completely dominated, but Spongebob and Pokemon were probably the big two.

    • Carla's #2 Fan
      Carla's #2 Fan
      September 6, 2023 at 2:18 am | #

      I used to annoy my family with Doctor Who so much. 15ish years later, I’m still very into it, but I’ve learned how to not info dump without consent. Fandoms are my special interests, but this is definitely the one that best fits the prompt.

      • Laura
        Laura
        September 6, 2023 at 3:01 am | #

        Oh yeah! Dr. Who and Red Dwarf, all spoken in accent, of course!

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          September 6, 2023 at 4:31 am | #

          Judas, do you have any conception of the penalty for describing the son of God as a smeghead?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 6, 2023 at 2:29 am | #

      It’s kind of unsettling how much Homestar Runner corrupted my vernacular.

      • Aura
        Aura
        September 6, 2023 at 7:27 am | #

        It really did a good jorb of that on a lot of us

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 6, 2023 at 1:58 pm | #

          Sewiously.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      September 6, 2023 at 3:28 am | #

      (Straightens Death-on-Binky mousemat, sips from Clarecraft figure mug, glances at official Discworld calendar)

      You know, I’m not sure there was one…

    • pig
      pig
      September 6, 2023 at 3:59 am | #

      I was generally obsessed with Teen Titans and Avatar: the Last Airbender. There was a point where my sister and I sat down and listed out from memory every episode title of every season of both of those shows in order (Teen Titans had I think 5 seasons of 15-20 episodes each, and ATLA had 3 seasons of like 20 episodes each).

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      September 6, 2023 at 7:24 am | #

      Not trying to, I memorised every line of both seasons of a British radio series called The Hitch-hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. (My British cousins sent me tapes before it was broadcast here, and I played them for a lot of friends.)

    • Mark
      Mark
      September 6, 2023 at 7:28 am | #

      Tolkien’s legendarium. Not just The Hobbit and <The Lord of the Rings but The Silmarillion, all of his son’s History of Middle-Earth etc.

      When the Big Bang Theory characters find a One Ring from LOTR The Movie, I snicker at them: they can only recite from memory the translation of the inscription.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 6, 2023 at 8:55 am | #

        Ditto. Though the Histories weren’t out till I was older.
        Memorized a bunch of the poems and drove my parents nuts reciting them at random moments.

    • Spriteless
      Spriteless
      September 6, 2023 at 11:17 am | #

      In the Amber series, clearly the shifting continuity of charactes’ past relationships with each other was deliberate signs that the Amberites even make shadows of each other. But uhh, after reading other works of Zelazny, I think he just came up with good ideas partway through, and used those good ideas where he could fit them in next, rather than trying to edit them into where they would make the most sense.

    • Dday
      Dday
      September 6, 2023 at 11:30 am | #

      I was subscribed to Nintendo Power in the 90s, so I learned about Pokemon before it came out stateside. I got really, badly obsessed, just quivering with anticipation for when it would finally get released and I could play it. Because of this experience, gen1 was throughly seared into my brain (also got pretty burned out on the franchise) and I refused to learn a single thing about anything that followed, to this day I barely know anything about post-gen1 pokemon.

    • Stanistani
      Stanistani
      September 6, 2023 at 1:52 pm | #

      Since I was pre-Internet, Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels. All 57 books, including the short stories.

    • eskimolos
      eskimolos
      September 6, 2023 at 4:19 pm | #

      I don’t even remember anymore, but there have been. so many. Earliest memory is memorising every episode of I Love Lucy and relating how funny the chocolate conveyer belt scene was to my poor mother who was really just trying to rest after a long day.

    • anonymsly
      anonymsly
      September 6, 2023 at 10:17 pm | #

      Which is the best Scooby Doo character, and WHY IS IT FRED.

  17. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    September 6, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

    Now I’m wondering if the Picture Bible was bigoted against Jews somehow.

    • Erica
      Erica
      September 6, 2023 at 12:33 am | #

      Whaaat? Impossible!

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      September 6, 2023 at 5:03 am | #

      The most awkward thing is that Jesus and all the Apostles were Jews… but somehow only Judas got the Evil Jew treatment… it takes some mental hooplas to work with this.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        September 6, 2023 at 6:47 am | #

        I really was expecting Judas to be black in Joyce’s drawing.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 6, 2023 at 8:59 am | #

        I think the argument is the distinction between the Jews who accepted Jesus as Messiah and those who rejected him. The Jews were given the first opportunity for salvation, but most of them rejected it.

        It’s still bigotry, but if you buy into the basic Christian message, it’s a logical extrapolation.

        • C.T. Phipps
          C.T. Phipps
          September 6, 2023 at 5:35 pm | #

          I mean it depends what you consider the basic Christian message.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            September 6, 2023 at 11:08 pm | #

            Not really?

            I mean, Jews didn’t become Christian, however you want to define that. That’s why they’re still Jews.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            September 6, 2023 at 11:14 pm | #

            When it was first written, by Jews and for Jews, claiming “the Jews killed Jesus”* would’ve been a claim of “oh nooo, we ourselves killed our own guy, we need to look inwards and reckon with that terrible mistake we made” (with a side of “see, Romans? we are going way out of our way to make these teachings very palatable to you. please don’t kill us.”)

            But then, within a few hundred years, the early Christians split off and stopped being a sect of Judaism at all, so “the Jews killed Jesus” quickly became “oh dang, those sneaky badguys over there did it! Get ’em!!”

            *the Jews did not in fact kill Jesus, historically.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              September 7, 2023 at 9:11 am | #

              Much faster than that. Christians are estimated to be mostly Gentile in origin by the end of the first century. By the time the Gospels were written, they saw themselves as distinct. I don’t see much “need to look inwards and reckon with that terrible mistake we made” in the texts. Even in Paul – where he does do that to an extent, it’s about his persecution of Christians before his conversion, not about Jews in general.
              The Gospels, coming along later have a focus on Jews rejecting Jesus and Gentiles believing him (in addition to the blame for his execution), but that’s more a reflection of how the new religion was spreading in their day.

  18. BMBLB
    BMBLB
    September 6, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

    Panel 4; ummm… what? First time I’ve heard that, not sure that’s true…

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      September 6, 2023 at 3:45 am | #

      According to Wikipedia, Matthew and Mark have a disciple named Thaddeus where Luke and John have a different Judas; Mark and Luke have a tax collector called Levi, whose conversion is exactly the same as Matthew’s, but still call the apostle Matthew; and John has a Nathaniel who doesn’t get mentioned anywhere else, and doesn’t name most of the others at all (it’s believed that Nathaniel is the disciple the others call Bartholomew, but it’s disputed).

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        September 6, 2023 at 4:34 am | #

        I’m not surprised in hindsight (two gospels mention Joseph’s father by name, and the names are different), but I had no idea.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 6, 2023 at 9:06 am | #

        What seems to me likely is that Jesus had a bunch of followers, some of whom everyone agreed in later days were important and others who were less so.
        But they needed a list of twelve to match the twelve tribes and the later traditions didn’t all agree on who they were. Matthew and Luke copied Mark’s list, but worked in a couple names they knew. John didn’t know Mark and doesn’t seem to have a list of his own.
        Whether or not Jesus himself ever designated twelve or whether that only happened after his death isn’t really clear.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      September 6, 2023 at 3:57 pm | #

      A document piecemealed together over hundreds of years depicting “events” thousands of years in the past is inconsistent?

      No.

  19. Thomas
    Thomas
    September 6, 2023 at 1:14 am | #

    I don’t think Fudgeload is part of the Mane Five, Joyce. Unless they have different names over the course of the franchise. Maybe she’s the same one as Clusterflip?

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      September 6, 2023 at 3:24 am | #

      As I understand it, they kind of do — the creator of Friendship is Magic based the main characters on the main ponies of past eras, but then learnt there were rights issues or something and gave them the names of less well-known ponies or completely original names. Maybe Fudgeload is the FiM version of Sodomuffin.

      Also please tell me the sliding timescale hasn’t reached the point where Joyce grew up watching FiM, because if so I may just crumble into dust right now.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        September 6, 2023 at 3:31 am | #

        Thirteen years ago???

      • Thomas
        Thomas
        September 6, 2023 at 6:04 am | #

        Classic character names they wanted to use were trade-marked by other companies. This is a frequent issue for Transformers as well. Remarkably, there’s no such problem with Saints in the Catholic Church.

        • Spriteless
          Spriteless
          September 6, 2023 at 9:43 am | #

          That’s why we got Rainbow Dash instead of Serenity. I think the Sonic Rainboom is a lucky side effect!

    • Dday
      Dday
      September 6, 2023 at 12:05 pm | #

      I’d hate to see Fudgeload’s cutie mark

      • Thomas
        Thomas
        September 7, 2023 at 4:45 am | #

        It’s a bowl of fudge candy. Not sure why you’d hate that.

  20. Suet
    Suet
    September 6, 2023 at 1:17 am | #

    Howzabout apostles on ponies? White, red, black and green ponies?

    They really forced a stereotype onto him, eh? …Jew-das.

  21. 0xKruzr
    0xKruzr
    September 6, 2023 at 1:31 am | #

    oh GOD he loves her so much.

  22. milu
    milu
    September 6, 2023 at 1:37 am | #

    “I was also preoccupied with pony-related inconsistencies. Don’t get me started.”

  23. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    September 6, 2023 at 1:47 am | #

    Sorry if this is still too early to ask, but…

    I feel like I’m on the verge of an autistic meltdown right now, if any of you have like some tips, chill happy music or good vibes, I’d very much appreciate them 😖

    • Carla's #2 Fan
      Carla's #2 Fan
      September 6, 2023 at 2:23 am | #

      Not sure if this will be quite the vibe you’re going for, so I’ve also included a more energetic playlist:
      Cozy Fantasy: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3f2jxdCOzIPssD0T7PHJDP?si=9-9qL3hxQg2QHDJWicVfLg

      Motivational Songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6OrSusbDdTrpGxLSBYbBrY?si=l6G20mrvSuqGgHoRCg5WSQ

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      September 6, 2023 at 2:23 am | #

      like Mushroom Jazz?

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        September 6, 2023 at 2:29 am | #

        I mean sure. Anything that you’d play to reduce stress and heal yourself

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          September 6, 2023 at 6:26 am | #

          Wintergatan is my neurodivergent music of choice. Somehow it’s like the same resonant frequency as my brain. Made with love from Sweden.

    • Spriteless
      Spriteless
      September 6, 2023 at 9:45 am | #

      Might be late, but here’s some soft piano video game arrangements. https://hexrae.bandcamp.com/album/vulnerable

    • Dday
      Dday
      September 6, 2023 at 12:17 pm | #

      I don’t know the particulars of your sitch, but I do mostly listen to music that soothes my overactive brain. This chills me out every time, used to let it play on my earphones while I had to sit still for long ice treatments at PT. Recommend you play it softly cause it does build up over time:
      https://youtu.be/OxgVmpAk538?feature=shared

      Also, ambient, instrumental music (with added beach sounds) from Steven Universe is pretty dang cozy/relaxing:
      https://youtu.be/N_kxpJBObLI?feature=shared

      Good luck, take it easy

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      September 6, 2023 at 2:28 pm | #

      this is a bit melancholy perhaps but I like it a lot 🙂 it’s from the visual novel Ever 17
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6wrKtdUo2A

  24. tyersome
    tyersome
    September 6, 2023 at 3:13 am | #

    Not particularly new, but I find pretty much everything I’ve ever listened to by “Vienna Teng” delightful. If you want upbeat and happy “Level up” is spectacular — I would, however, avoid “The Hymn of Acxiom” (from the same album) if you’re not ready to be creeped/freaked out.

    May your brain allow you to have a steadily improving night …

    • milu
      milu
      September 6, 2023 at 6:23 am | #

      Wow, she’s kind of incredible! Thank you for sharing.

      • tyersome
        tyersome
        September 6, 2023 at 2:41 pm | #

        You’re very welcome!

        Yes she is — and seems to be a genuinely good person as well as breathtakingly talented. In addition to her original work, she’s done some amazing covers/mashups. She has recently started combining activism with touring so I have hope there will be more …

  25. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    September 6, 2023 at 3:46 am | #

    Show us the poniiiiiies
    “my mom didn’t bring those”
    “oh”

    • Gwyn
      Gwyn
      September 6, 2023 at 8:37 am | #

      I was wondering that too. Were the pony drawings lovingly preserved with the Jesus ones or tossed because they weren’t “worth” holding onto?

  26. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    September 6, 2023 at 4:09 am | #

    Key question, did she draw Apostles riding those ponies to far off lands to spread the Word of Christ?

  27. eh, whatever
    eh, whatever
    September 6, 2023 at 4:37 am | #

    Joyce made a gospel harmony, continuing a tradition that started right about when John’s ink was still drying.

  28. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    September 6, 2023 at 4:41 am | #

    Of course John is the clearshaved one. Even in movies, he’s the smaller and younger between the other disciples.

  29. Pun-ter the Harharharbarian
    Pun-ter the Harharharbarian
    September 6, 2023 at 6:25 am | #

    Tbh I’d like to see what they made Judas look like, cuz in the first Picture Bible result I found from a quick google search (Sergio Cariello), he just looked like The Spaniard from Pirates of the Caribbean.

    • Durandal_1707
      Durandal_1707
      September 6, 2023 at 8:58 am | #

      I assume it’s this. At least, Peter and John match Joyce’s description:

      https://viewcomiconline.com/the-picture-bible-tpb-part-7/

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 6, 2023 at 9:12 am | #

        Thanks. I was looking for that yesterday, but my google-fu was weak.

        I wonder when Joyce drew these – she’d have to already have been a pretty decent artist to get the stereotype across. I was picturing mostly human shaped blobs with the mentioned beards and sashes to distinguish them.

  30. Mark
    Mark
    September 6, 2023 at 7:34 am | #

    FWIW Sarah’s image is winking today.

  31. morhek
    morhek
    September 6, 2023 at 8:28 am | #

    But did she ever draw Jesus and Judas riding a unicorn?

  32. Jdorr
    Jdorr
    September 6, 2023 at 12:07 pm | #

    I like how when he realized she felt hurt over her past actions because propaganda reasons, he deflected her attention onto something ridiculous to lighten the mood
    Also as an autistic person, trying to iron out inconsistencies is a mood

  33. Lumino
    Lumino
    September 6, 2023 at 12:11 pm | #

    Apostles, Joyce. Jesus had thousands of disciples, but only 12 Apostles. I THOUGHT YOU WERE FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN?!

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      September 6, 2023 at 12:44 pm | #

      The terms are used nearly interchangeably in the Gospels. Apostles becomes dominant in references to them after his death.

  34. Arcee
    Arcee
    September 6, 2023 at 1:55 pm | #

    Did Joe already know about Joyce’s autism diagnosis? I doubt it would matter to him that much, but just curious.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      September 6, 2023 at 2:00 pm | #

      Joyce doesn’t know about her autism diagnosis. She talked to a doctor about something else entirely, the doctor noticed her behaviors and recommended she look into getting assessed, and then she hasn’t followed up on that yet.

    • miz
      miz
      September 6, 2023 at 5:54 pm | #

      aside from the above…yes, he knows. his reaction was “neat” and assumed it was good news because his own mom had struggled to get one: https://www.dumbingofage.com/grist/ (here and the next page)

  35. eskimolos
    eskimolos
    September 6, 2023 at 4:22 pm | #

    so re: the alt-text, is Joyce a sandy blonde, or would that be more of a dishwater kinda blonde… ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • Pergola
      Pergola
      September 6, 2023 at 5:14 pm | #

      I kinda resent the attempts by various brunettes to pass themselves off as sorta blondes. As if brunettes can’t be wonderful in their own ways…

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        September 6, 2023 at 9:05 pm | #

        I miss the days of looking like I’m from Midwich. Now I’m a weird kind of brunette with the prettiest red tones that get more noticeable in the summer

  36. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    September 6, 2023 at 6:54 pm | #

    So this is something completely unrelated… but it makes me wonder if Carla is partially inspired by Ranma…

    • morleuca
      morleuca
      September 6, 2023 at 9:06 pm | #

      But she doesn’t turn into anything when she gets wet?

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        September 7, 2023 at 4:59 am | #

        Of course she does. She turns into Really Annoyed Carla! Carla who swears vengeance!

    • Lia
      Lia
      September 7, 2023 at 10:39 pm | #

      i think carla was inspired by like a firetruck or something

  37. Bruno
    Bruno
    September 6, 2023 at 8:01 pm | #

    Please I want Joyce to canonically self-diagnose as autistic so bad. I don’t want her to see a psychologist about this. I just want her to be like okay yeah.

  38. DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
    DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
    September 6, 2023 at 10:01 pm | #

    So it’s because of her 700 Club-assed picture bible references? Understandable.

  39. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    September 7, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Your twenties are where you start to unlearn the stuff you were programmed, or rather… choose what you want to keep.
    In a very literal sense, this is part of the process of growing up.

    It never stops.

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Approximately 10 minutes later, Williams sent a text message to the Los Angeles Mayor and several high-ranking city officials in the Mayor’s office and falsely reported, “Bomb threat: I received phone call on my city cell at 10:48 am this morning. The male caller stated that ‘he was tired of the city support of Israel, and he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda.’ I immediately contacted the chief of staff of LAPD, they are going to send a number of officers over to do a search of the building and to determine if anyone else received a threat.” In fact, Williams had not received such a call.
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This is now available with zero markup (that means I don't make any money on your purchase) at the link below. teaberryblue.net/product/cal-...
A long sleeve white tee shirt that says
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I just think they’re neat! 🙂‍↕️
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Over on my patreon, I just posted a big batch of daily diary comics from my trip to Alaska for comics camp! Here's a freebie :) patreon.com/mgillman
A three panel black and white diary comic called
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He's definitely gonna fuck those wisterias.
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Reblogging because 30 seconds of clickity-clacking on a keyboard could save MILLIONS of lives. How could you not want to be a part of that?
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George Wendt murdered by nephew's incantation
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I experience comedy as it was intended: as a blurry screenshot of an original post then shared by a unrelated sketchy aggregrator account and finally posted as an image on cracked dot com
it's the post threaded below, if you click through the individual images have alts. it's better
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I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario
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kid asked what "sexy" means we said oh that's when somebody is looking or acting in a way that makes you want to be romantic with them, in a kissing way, not a friendly way kid: oh so like how turk and jd are like on scrubs
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me and jeffrey!!!
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Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).
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Simply drawn comic in black and white with blue-gray spot color.

Panel 1: A rabbit looks at a book. 
Rabbit: this comic is very popular, but i don't like it!

Panel 2: The rabbit flips through the book.
Rabbit: that's cool! i wonder what about it is resonating with people
SFX: flip

Panel 3: White text on black background spans the width of the page.
Caption: why don't i like it?
Caption: what would i do differently?
Caption: what can i learn from this?

Panel 4: Borderless panel. Sequential drawings of the rabbit reading the book.
Rabbit 1: flip
Rabbit 2: hm!
Rabbit 3: huh
Rabbit 4, looking up from the book: comics are neat!
Two panel comic drawn simply with black lines and blue-gray spot color.

Panel 1: Rabbit looks at a book.
Rabbit: this comic is very popular, but i don't like it!

Panel 2: The rabbit closes the book with a peaceful smile.
Rabbit: well, good for them!
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Excerpt from a Comicsbeat article by E.B. Hutchins about Alex Graham's racist ass comic:  

Is there somewhere in this article where I could talk about the very real feeling of jealousy and how it can make even the nicest people into assholes? No, that’s not this article. It’s not this article because we’ve let appealing to white people’s comfort get in the way of progress to the point where our culture, democracy, and future is at stake. Appealing to white people’s comfort is how we got to where BIPOC and LGBT people are being erased from history all together because the dark history of this country makes white people uncomfortable.
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It's Bigger Than Alex Graham's Comic: An Instagram post has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy by suggesting that comics by marginalized groups are overrated
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Commentary: It’s Bigger Than Alex Graham’s Comic (With An Update)
An Instagram post by Alex Graham has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
And only Luigi is being charged with murder
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UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.
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Free Luigi Mangione
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If you’re lost, in a nutshell, artist Alex Graham posted a whiny little comic about how comics she thinks are bad win acclaim because of the white guilt of comic readers bsky.app/profile/jesn...
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If you'd like context for what comics bluesky is talking about, it's this short comic by Alex Graham: www.instagram.com/p/DJ2v_leSN5...
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