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Incongruous

by David M Willis on January 12, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – It's The Love I Haven't Got
└ Tags: dorothy, jennifer, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 12, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    “yeah, but HERS look STUPIDT”

    • anon
      anon
      January 12, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

      “stupid sexy freckles”

      • RoyanRannedos
        RoyanRannedos
        January 12, 2024 at 10:22 am | #

        It’s like she’s wearing no sleeves at all!

      • Weatherheight
        Weatherheight
        January 13, 2024 at 8:52 am | #

        Many years ago, a friend of mine, who had an abundance of freckles (about which they were very self conscious), happened to be at a party and a very drunk person came up to them and said, “Oh, wow, I like love your freckles! Your freckles are so sexy, I wanna count your freckles!”

        They were not so self conscious about their freckles thereafter.
        (And to be fair, their freckles were pretty sexy…).

  2. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 12, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Yeah but they look WAY better on her!

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      January 12, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

      Blonde freckles superior to red head freckles?

      • Dante
        Dante
        January 12, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

        ….. We cannot agree in this one, my good scholar.

      • Rose by Any Other Name
        Rose by Any Other Name
        January 12, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

        Sacrilege! Red heads have the best freckles. It is scientific fact and religious doctrine rolled into one. Or many. Depends on the freckles.

        • Maddie B
          Maddie B
          January 12, 2024 at 5:03 am | #

          All freckles are beautiful.

          • RoyanRannedos
            RoyanRannedos
            January 12, 2024 at 2:53 pm | #

            All freckles matter.

        • Doopyboop
          Doopyboop
          January 12, 2024 at 5:40 am | #

          How about freckles on someone with dark brown hair?

          Signed, a dark brown haired person with freckles all over the face, shoulders, and arms. For real though it was hilarious, I worked with kids and one little girl looked at the freckles on my forearm and we had the following exchange.

          “That’s dirty, you need to take a bath.”
          “Oh that’s not dirt, hon, those are freckles. See? *rubs at arm, freckle stays put*”
          “Ohhh. I don’t have freckles. I just have face.”

          • Theluxland
            Theluxland
            January 12, 2024 at 7:58 am | #

            I had freckles on my face when I was younger but they are now gone. Only the ones on my arms remained and I though for the longest time I wasn’t taking a bath properly and when ask my mom she was ”Honey are you stupid?”

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              January 12, 2024 at 11:54 pm | #

              Meanwhile, I’m growing them… there’s one in my eyelid D=

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 12, 2024 at 8:17 pm | #

      Freckles are scars from severe sunburn, and a potential starting point for skin cancer. I can’t consider them any cuter than the scars from physical child abuse.
      (Boy that should raise a few hackles.

  3. Adam Black
    Adam Black
    January 12, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Late late comic

  4. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    January 12, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    ooolala Jennifer XD

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 12, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    A lot of girls in this comic have visible freckles actually. Or maybe it’s just three.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 12, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Three can be a lot.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 12, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

        More than I know. Actually I can’t name one I know personally.

    • Casi
      Casi
      January 12, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      Dottie, Ruth, and.. Tall Rachel i think?

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        January 12, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

        I was thinking Dorothy, Ruth, and Becky. Does tall, spiteful, Rachel have freckles too?

        • RassilonTDavros
          RassilonTDavros
          January 12, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

          She does. So that makes four.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        January 12, 2024 at 6:19 am | #

        I’m so happy people are using “Tall Rachel”.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      January 12, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

      Ruth, Dorothy, Becky, Rachel, Penny, Vivian.

      plus Malaya

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        January 12, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

        after looking at a characters list: also Beatrice, Deborah Keener, Adinah Jackson, Bonnie MacIntyre, Guns

        • Cholma
          Cholma
          January 12, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

          Don’t tell anyone, but I think Willis likes freckles. After he saw Terry Farrell portray “Dax”, who is a Trill with spotted skin, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, he found his new love.

          Or was that me? It’s so long ago, I can’t remember.

          • clif
            clif
            January 12, 2024 at 5:00 am | #

            Long ago? It’s only been … (Looks at current date.) Nevermind.

            • Decidedly Orthogonal
              Decidedly Orthogonal
              January 12, 2024 at 9:07 am | #

              We’re closer to DS9’s in-universe construction, than to the start of the series.

              (not actually, but it felt like the time to say it.)

              • HueSatLight
                HueSatLight
                January 12, 2024 at 2:33 pm | #

                Bell Riots in 8 months.

  6. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    January 12, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    looking forward to seeing incongruous skin at coachella this year

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 12, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      They’re on after Babydoll Tee, right?

      • Dante
        Dante
        January 12, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

        No, no, that one’s going to Lollapalooza. Here we’ve got only Titty Shirt (it’s pop punk).

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          January 12, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

          Oh yeah I heard of them! I think the lead Singer actually got her start in Stupid Freckles before starting her own band.

          • Megan Rivera
            Megan Rivera
            January 12, 2024 at 5:22 am | #

            I love this thread so much ♥

      • shadowcell
        shadowcell
        January 12, 2024 at 1:05 am | #

        oh is there a band?

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          January 12, 2024 at 9:09 am | #

          Yep. They’re on tour, and Whoosh is openning for them.

          (Sorry, it was just a great setup. At least I *think* they’re all joking about band names. Maybe I’m the one being whooshed! 😅)

  7. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    January 12, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Form an alliance against the freckle-less one. Freckless.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      January 12, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      I think that would be fun, but feckless.

    • PirateTawnee
      PirateTawnee
      January 12, 2024 at 1:13 am | #

      will they heckle her?

      • Miri
        Miri
        January 12, 2024 at 3:44 am | #

        No, for they are heckless. They have no hecks to give…

        Autocorrect does not appreciate this line of punning. Rude! 😉

        • morleuca
          morleuca
          January 12, 2024 at 5:07 am | #

          Quick! Someone grab a ukulele!

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            January 12, 2024 at 9:10 am | #

            Did Danny ever put it down?

            • Morleuca
              Morleuca
              January 12, 2024 at 7:54 pm | #

              I can see him doing covers of Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq

  8. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    January 12, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Jennifer loves her freckles so much..

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 12, 2024 at 2:40 am | #

      She does NOT.

      (Yes she does.)

  9. StClair
    StClair
    January 12, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    These two.
    (Three, I suppose.)

  10. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 12, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    IU must have a pretty good heating and air system.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 12, 2024 at 2:41 am | #

      Or maybe Ruth just runs warm; she is Canadian…

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 12, 2024 at 4:39 pm | #

        Canada isn’t all a frozen wasteland in winter. It is a big country with several different climates, southern Ontario/Quebec doesn’t get all that cold, just a lot of snow. Lower mainland British Columbia panics if more than a few snowflakes fall, and winter is just a time that you cut the grass twice a month instead of weekly. Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba don’t even start to put on light jackets until it is -20.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 12, 2024 at 9:31 pm | #

          She’s from Kaladar, Ontario, about halfway between Ottawa and Toronto. I assumed it would have kind of the same winter climate as northern Vermont and upstate New York. (Sort of like Buffalo but without the lake effect snow.)

          At the very least it must be colder than it’s been here in the Rhode Island area. It was 50 freedom degrees outside today.

  11. Red
    Red
    January 12, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    This is going well

  12. John Campbell
    John Campbell
    January 12, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    Seriously, ladies, just go back to Ruth’s room and bang it out.

    Invite Dorothy if you want to.

    • Nono
      Nono
      January 12, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

      They both have boyfriends, I hope not.

      • John Campbell
        John Campbell
        January 12, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

        Billie can tell Asher he’s free on the way through the lounge.

        Jason can watch.

        • Dante
          Dante
          January 12, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

          I have no idea why, but I’m like. CERTAIN. Jason would be into it. While tied up. As Jennifer mocks him to his face.

          I had like, A Vision.

          • Miri
            Miri
            January 12, 2024 at 4:09 am | #

            Actually, Ruth, Jason and Jennifer as a polycule where he gets dominated the hell out of by both girls sounds like it would work really well on most levels… But I think there’s probably quite a large age gap between him and Jennifer? Like, he’s been old enough to bartend all “year” (I think? Although cast page indicates change of profession rather than that he was supporting his income previously…). Ruth is just about 21 (think she’s just had her birthday? Was that the disastrous date with Jennifer’s boss?) but 21 and (say) 24 or 25 is a relatively small gap. Cusp of 20/21 and 18/19 is only a year and was only problematic because Ruth being an RA meant there was an inherent power gap – age difference itself is tiny.

            But 18/19 and living away from home from the first time, and (probably) 24/25 and living in a foreign country, negotiating international work visas, etc, seem like reasonably different life stages…

            • morleuca
              morleuca
              January 12, 2024 at 5:09 am | #

              Minimum age to tend bar in Indiana is 21

            • Li
              Li
              January 12, 2024 at 5:18 am | #

              I’m pretty sure Jason was established as not being Much Older than Sal way back when. Willis answered an ask about it or something. It was a whole “yes there’s some problematic here but it’s the TA position and her thinking she was sleeping with him for grades, not a big age gap” thing.

              • anonymsly
                anonymsly
                January 12, 2024 at 6:14 am | #

                Jason’s a grad student iirc, meaning he’s 21-22 at youngest, and I personally wouldn’t put him much older than that since a lot of stuff that would have been happening the whole time (Penny sleeping with students, mostly) were new/unfamiliar to him, indicating that he hadn’t been a TA that long. I’d guess ceiling age 23, or about 4-5 years older than Jennifer depending on whether she’s 18 or 19.

                • Morleuca
                  Morleuca
                  January 12, 2024 at 8:14 pm | #

                  I’m going to say this is his first year as a TA and as a grad student. And I’d put him at 21 shortly before the fall semester started

            • zee
              zee
              January 12, 2024 at 10:48 am | #

              He’s like 22 isn’t he?

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            January 12, 2024 at 9:12 am | #

            Yotomoe we need you! Someone light the Yoto-Signal. Or throw stupid money at Willis. Or something!

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        January 12, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

        Jennifer’s current boyfriend status is questionable, and the next book is called “trystin’ in the wind”

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 12, 2024 at 2:43 am | #

          So we’re finally going to meet the boy Joyce was crushing on back at home in church, what does that have to do with Ruthifer?

  13. Dante
    Dante
    January 12, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    I can hear Ruth’s voice in that last panel. And at the risk of sounding repetitive, god they miss each other so much the UST is insane, I can’t even. Thank you (???) Dorothy for putting an end to this clownery.

    I’m kinda picturing Jennifer now, realizing Dorothy has freckles like in those teen movies where the Love Interest realizes the Protagonist was ~beautiful all along.~ (Those makeovers were always such a downgrade imho TwT)

    • milu
      milu
      January 12, 2024 at 11:33 am | #

      hey you’re an absolute sweetie thank you for your adorable message yesterday <3 <3 <3 (not sure what i've implied but i'm happy you like the implications too haha <3)

      • Dante
        Dante
        January 13, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

        MILU MILU I HOPE YOU SEE THIS, I’m replying here because you aren’t around for the next strip yet (timezones, I bet) but I’ll do a copypasta tomorrow (Saturday) just in case if you don’t ;DD

        SO. IMPLICATIONS!!!Well, for starters, there’s the drawing orgies ;DD BUT DLGJFSK. More seriously — It’s about how much you care about other human beings.

        It’s unusual to find someone whose self-care may involve activism and I think that’s incredibly cool! A++ on the dinosaurs, the ACAB, and the Palestine solidarity (in French! Are you French or Canadian?) And hey, if you gave this to your parents, this also means they’re pretty cool too? So idk, I was like “wow, how nice to have met this person” :’33

        I hope you’re having a great day!!

  14. Hazel
    Hazel
    January 12, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    Ruth’s lip bite in the last panel means it’s a close one as to who breaks things off first, between Jennifer and Asher. Seeing as how they’re both one well-timed sneeze away from cheating.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      January 12, 2024 at 1:10 am | #

      ….. huh. I actually totally see Jennifer cheating with Ruth as some sort of fucked up way to try to keep authority.

  15. Suet
    Suet
    January 12, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    Oh no the stakeout’s ruined! Scatter!

    At least the AD is gone

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      January 12, 2024 at 9:15 am | #

      Had to get rid of the ADs, since nobody was Reading them.

  16. Raen
    Raen
    January 12, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    Honestly, at this point I wonder whether it might make sense to offer her a threesome to save face.

    (And now I’m thinking of that Seinfeld episode where George offers a woman a threesome as part of a mind game, but is completely floored when she takes him up on it.)

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      January 12, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      It was Jerry, attempting to switch girlfriends, who were roommates. George was assisting in the planning.

      • Raen
        Raen
        January 12, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

        Yeah, I checked in the interim. Just seemed like such a “George” thing to do.

  17. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    January 12, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship polycule.

    • Dante
      Dante
      January 12, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

      Beautiful like only natural disasters can be ♥ The best kind

    • anon
      anon
      January 12, 2024 at 12:43 am | #

      Dbza voice: hate boner triangle

  18. Lightweight Baybee
    Lightweight Baybee
    January 12, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

    Reading this webcomic after catching up with decades of strips is like watching someone move 2 dolls with pages of backstory together millimeters at a time before an inevitable now kiss and i am deeply invested

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 12, 2024 at 2:49 am | #

      The worst part about binge-reading webcomic archives is the inevitable crash back to reality when you catch up. You’re invested, and your mind is still “in” the comic’s world, but suddenly you’ve got to wait a day to find out what happens next.

      • ellskiii
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        January 12, 2024 at 11:06 am | #

        I remember doing that with this webcomic… a whole decade ago.

        • Jamie
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          I’ve done that multiple times with this comic.

  19. Pan
    Pan
    January 12, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

    The Futurama line in the alt text had me choking

  20. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 12, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

    If there is one thing Canadians are good at, it’s selecting a winter coat!

    And yeah, Dorothy is biased on that score.

  21. Taffy
    Taffy
    January 12, 2024 at 12:55 am | #

    [a horrendous mukbang video but every pizza roll is a different letter of this comic strip’s dialogue]

    • Dante
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      January 12, 2024 at 1:42 am | #

      I have no idea of what this means but fam, I LOVE the vibes. It feels right.

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      Assuming each of those pizza rolls is 35 calories, that’s over 8000 calorie challenge woah 😮

  22. VanVelding
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        Jeff and Annie, iirc.

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      “Larry, I’m on Duck Tales.”

  23. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 12, 2024 at 2:11 am | #

    I feel this period of the comic has to rank high for ambient unfulfilled horniness in the air. Someone’s gonna bone, but who? And when?

    Maybe Sal and Danny, why not, right?

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      January 12, 2024 at 2:14 am | #

      Every single character is so unbelievably horny, and it’s gotten distracting. Something has to snap.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        January 12, 2024 at 2:37 am | #

        Dina, behind the door: “…so this is how Becky feels ALL THE TIME”

        –Dave, *scribbles in her notebook

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          January 12, 2024 at 6:01 pm | #

          I will never understand the structure of your comments 😮

  24. AGV
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    Jennifer “totally over Ruth” Billings worth

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    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      January 12, 2024 at 2:37 am | #

      Dorothy of course can be Meowth

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      January 12, 2024 at 2:51 am | #

      To protect our peers from devastation!

      To unite us all in lustful sensation!

      And just when you think we’ve had enough!

      We’ll double down when we show you the stuff!

      Jennifer!

      Ruth!

      Anywhere there’s trouble in our school,

      We’ll surely be there to prove that we rule!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 12, 2024 at 2:57 am | #

      What are you talking about? She’s over Ruth! Completely over Ruth! All over Ruth!

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        January 12, 2024 at 7:59 pm | #

        Like lady maple syrup over a stack of flapjills (like flapjacks but you know)

  25. Bash
    Bash
    January 12, 2024 at 3:06 am | #

    I think angry Dorothy is doing something for Ruth.

  26. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    January 12, 2024 at 4:58 am | #

    Yes, but it’s Ruth’s freckles specifically.

  27. Dara
    Dara
    January 12, 2024 at 5:17 am | #

    “I don’t need to bone, she needs to bone.”

  28. Li
    Li
    January 12, 2024 at 5:32 am | #

    As if all the talk about Jennifer’s tank tops last strip weren’t enough, now this. Somewhere Becky is presumably very frustrated that these two are definitely now flirting the way she pretended to think they were during that fight in Gender Studies, many moons ago.

  29. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    January 12, 2024 at 6:11 am | #

    Ruth, I’m sure you know full well that the intersection of the sets “teenage girls who have freckles” and “teenage girls who think freckles look stupid” is nontrivial.

  30. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    January 12, 2024 at 6:25 am | #

    I didn’t fully recognize that beat panel right before the end when I read this last night. Never change, Jennifer.

    (Please for all that’s holy, unholy, and everything between change for the love of Montressor)

    • Lee
      Lee
      January 12, 2024 at 9:20 am | #

      Was that a Treasure Planet reference, or a Cask of Amontillado one?

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        January 12, 2024 at 7:57 pm | #

        Cask.

        • Lee
          Lee
          January 13, 2024 at 9:44 am | #

          Excellent. A+ reference.

  31. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    January 12, 2024 at 7:01 am | #

    Billie calling Ruth a slut because of how openly she’s baring her freckles is probably the funniest and Billie-ist thing she’s done.

  32. RF
    RF
    January 12, 2024 at 8:56 am | #

    Billie is nothing if not diligent in maintaining her brand.

  33. Yeet
    Yeet
    January 12, 2024 at 9:01 am | #

    I guess Dorothy is gonna be their auspistice

  34. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    January 12, 2024 at 9:25 am | #

    If you didn’t have freckles, just live long enough and you’ll get some. Then it’s time to see a dermatologist. Hope you used sun screen.

  35. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 12, 2024 at 9:45 am | #

    Not that I like freckles, b-b-b-baka!

  36. WizardPantaloon
    WizardPantaloon
    January 12, 2024 at 10:02 am | #

    Oh man, fighting like an old married couple, how toxic, they need to stay away from each other etc. etc.

    Anyway I still ship it.

  37. J
    J
    January 12, 2024 at 10:09 am | #

    hello, since this is my first comment I assume you will read it to approve it but you don’t actually have to approve it since my only goal was for you to read it.

    yesterday, I knew nothing about you or any of your works, but I read the bad guy dies at the end, which is a fanfic of dumbing of age written by the user Nonymos on archiveofourown, and I liked it so much that today I blasted through the entirety of dumbing of age. it’s a very good fanfic, and I think it would warm your creator heart to know that you’re gaining new readers because someone out there loved your work enough to write (very good) fanfic for it.

    since I’m done with dumbing of age I’m going to read Walky! next and then probably Shortpacked! Thanks for writing and drawing all these years. I’m loving the universe and characters you’ve created. 🙂

    • Kazuma Taichi
      Kazuma Taichi
      January 12, 2024 at 2:36 pm | #

      you frighten me, good J
      for no other reason than you managed to go through the whole of the comic’s backlog in but a single day

      even with a high reading speed, that takes some incredible devotion and a free thursday no less

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 12, 2024 at 4:46 pm | #

      You read the entire archive in one day, that is impressive, and a little frightening. Now do it again, but this time also read the comments.

  38. Nicoleandmaggie
    Nicoleandmaggie
    January 12, 2024 at 1:50 pm | #

    I hope Dorothy sees the humor in this.

  39. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    January 12, 2024 at 2:35 pm | #

    no such thing as stupid freckles
    I love them all

  40. Caro
    Caro
    January 12, 2024 at 6:29 pm | #

    I just realized. I could cosplay today!Ruth. I have that shirt and some overalls.

  41. Arianod
    Arianod
    January 12, 2024 at 8:50 pm | #

    I’d say “Just fuck already”, but they already did and it didn’t make things better ^^u

    • adam Black
      adam Black
      January 13, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

      They are def going to. Again.
      ( Billies motivations have been bafflingly opaque. Ostentatious, baroque. downright by anyone.

      Its one thing to add a a dash of mystery and intrigue to a character but it’s weird to make them baffling even to themselves ( Damn am I complaining about Ethan or Jennifer? )

      Who is this character and why do they do what they do.

      We saw Halloween but we’ve never seen what came after? We’ve never seen Billy being enmeshed with Raidah. Dating her now exbf.

      She’s been a stranger to herself but we’ve never seen the flipside, what she’s been home to and how and why. Was she Romanced? Did Raidah set them up? Did Billy pursue Ruth after Halloween? How long did that go on .

      ( So we know she always planned on Ruth coming back once she stopped drinking and Ruth dated someone else female.. its a little odd shes only jealous of Ruth dating men and not other women.
      I would think it would be the reverse.

      Because we’ve not seen Jennifer’s normal life her breaking everything so casually because of Walky being Walky . Is this a self hatred thing where Walky reminds her of herself. Or a negative self image?

      Will she want Asher back more after he bangs Ethan?
      This is where her motivations are too opaque. is it in her character to copy Asher and go after Ruth or to chase him because he’s less obtainable and more gay?

      The time jump made these characters too unknowable and kept them that way.

  42. Monster
    Monster
    January 15, 2024 at 1:43 pm | #

    I’m so sorry, this is why I ship Billie and Ruth

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