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Clear goals

by David M Willis on March 5, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trystin' in the Wind
└ Tags: becky, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 5, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    FULL COMMITMENT OR NOTHING

    BECAUSE TRYING THINGS IS FOR INDECISIVE WISHY-WASHY CHUMPS WHO WANT TO DICTATE THEIR LIFE-ALTERING DECISIONS BASED ON REAL EXPERIENCE INSTEAD OF CONVICTION BASED ON DOGMA

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 5, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      “Exactly what you just said, except without being sarcastic.”

      • clif
        clif
        March 5, 2024 at 2:00 am | #

        Exactly what you said, but with even more sarcasm.

    • Marianne
      Marianne
      March 5, 2024 at 2:48 am | #

      Exactly what you said, but replace “life altering decisions” with “dumb video game purchases”.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 5, 2024 at 3:55 am | #

      “Do or do not, there is no try.”

      – Kermit or something, IDK.

      • stePH
        stePH
        March 5, 2024 at 10:36 am | #

        Grover said it, not Kermit.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 5, 2024 at 3:55 pm | #

          No, I’m pretty sure the character was green.

          Maybe it was Oscar, or Sherlock Hemlock?

          • Taellosse
            Taellosse
            March 5, 2024 at 8:14 pm | #

            It was The Hulk, right?

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              March 5, 2024 at 11:40 pm | #

              THE GREEN HORNET

    • anon
      anon
      March 5, 2024 at 11:50 pm | #

      LOL i wonder how many ppl do ‘get it right’ on the first try, even tho there is more effort to put into the relationship during of course, but i wonder if it’s more likely to win the lottery in comparison

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        March 6, 2024 at 2:52 pm | #

        I got it the second try, so pretty close.

  2. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    March 5, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    mmmmm so slippery

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      March 5, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

      It’s like a slip-n-slide.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        March 5, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

        Slip-n-shine?

        • BarerMender
          BarerMender
          March 5, 2024 at 9:52 am | #

          It’s a toy. A long strip of plastic that you run water over. The kids run and belly-flop on it and slide for 8 or 10 feet.

          • BarerMender
            BarerMender
            March 5, 2024 at 9:55 am | #

            Oh, I just caught on to the floating text: Becky is visualizing Misha slipping and sloping.

  3. StClair
    StClair
    March 5, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    I don’t even know where to start, here

  4. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    March 5, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    The irony is Becky, you’re right!

    SURRENDER TO TEMPTATION EARTHLING! ENGAGE IN PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY >:D

    • Dara
      Dara
      March 5, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Is this where Joyce got that? For real, I mean… she like… plays with the words and decides she likes them. And we hear them from her later, after all.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 5, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

      About Misha or secular music?

      Also, I know what they mean by ‘pre-marital hanky-panky,’ but some small part of me always equates that with hacky sack, the very nonsexual game where players continually slap a soft ball-filled bag against their flesh, either alone, in pairs, or in a circle.

      • Bash
        Bash
        March 5, 2024 at 1:49 am | #

        PRE-MARITAL HACKY-SACK!

      • clif
        clif
        March 5, 2024 at 12:24 pm | #

        If it’s very nonsexual, you’re doing it wrong.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      March 5, 2024 at 7:19 am | #

      Becky is not the irony; commas are important people; I am, however, Temptation Earthling. Surrender to me!

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      March 5, 2024 at 7:49 am | #

      Who are you to say that? The Space Pope?

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        March 5, 2024 at 11:07 am | #

        An alien parasite who’s seen the future in which she engages in the most beautiful premarital hanky-panky with an ungodly partner :p

    • anon
      anon
      March 5, 2024 at 11:51 pm | #

      well, she did say she was picturing misha on the slippery slope 8D

  5. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    March 5, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Yes, keep picturing Misha, that’ll drive out any thoughts of hooking up with guys.

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      March 5, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      Becky picturing Misha’s … slippery slopes

  6. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    March 5, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m just thinking of Becky as one of the Beckys from IRovedOut.com.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      March 5, 2024 at 8:12 am | #

      _Love_ that comic!

  7. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 5, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Jealousy is ugly

  8. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    March 5, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    I doubt Mr. Willis would ever answer this, but as Joyce is semi-autobiographical, I wonder if he had his own girl version of a Tristan when he was small.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      March 5, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      NEVER

      • Nono
        Nono
        March 5, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

        What was her name

        • David M Willis
          David M Willis
          March 5, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

          i’ll take it to my grave

          • Mr D
            Mr D
            March 5, 2024 at 2:26 am | #

            Grave seems like a weird name!

            • Jamie
              Jamie
              March 5, 2024 at 3:14 am | #

              Less weird a name than “Never”, though.

            • Pylgrim
              Pylgrim
              March 5, 2024 at 3:32 am | #

              She’s from Canada, you see. They have weird names there.

            • Steamweed
              Steamweed
              March 5, 2024 at 8:12 am | #

              Goth subculture.

          • Marianne
            Marianne
            March 5, 2024 at 2:52 am | #

            It was Trisha, wasn’t it?

          • katosen27
            katosen27
            March 5, 2024 at 8:46 pm | #

            Wild guess, but it could also easily be Tristin.

        • CallynD
          CallynD
          March 5, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

          Isolde? Probably Isolde.

          • morleuca
            morleuca
            March 5, 2024 at 2:35 am | #

            Beautiful, simply beautiful

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        March 5, 2024 at 8:21 am | #

        Willis, thank you for sharing your childhood adventures!

        They have brought….holy crap has it really been decades?

        I can’t be 42.

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          March 5, 2024 at 8:45 pm | #

          this week, the bass and I were thining and it looks like I’ve been in my current barbershop quartet for almost a _quarter century_ now. aaaaaggggh

        • M!a
          M!a
          March 5, 2024 at 9:00 pm | #

          Shut it, jailbait. I just hit sixty a couple weeks ago… 😛

  9. pickonecard
    pickonecard
    March 5, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    “There were no signs!”

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      March 5, 2024 at 8:46 pm | #

      “The sign said Slippery When Wet, but it didn’t say WHO”

  10. Devin
    Devin
    March 5, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    We sure don’t see you throwin’ in with any random dudes Becky.

    We sure don’t.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 5, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      I love how flashbacks can explore situations where the audience knows exactly when and where the other shoe eventually dropped, but the characters get to be completely oblivious to it for far longer than they ever would if it weren’t a flashback.

      • pope suburban
        pope suburban
        March 5, 2024 at 12:43 am | #

        Yeah this is just great. Joyce is really embodying Booster’s “change is easier than admitting this is who you’ve been all along,” with regards to lust and atheism, while Becky is just…well, Becky.

    • anon
      anon
      March 5, 2024 at 11:51 pm | #

      it makes me wonder if there was an added layer to their relationship with a lot of guys being rly into becky and hitting on her and joyce being not so subtly ‘jealous’

  11. thakoru
    thakoru
    March 5, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    I love that they appear to be having this conversation while hiding in a bush. I understand, intellectually, that they’re sitting on a bench behind the bush, but in my heart they’re in the bush.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 5, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

      Framing is fun like that.

    • McNitz
      McNitz
      March 5, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

      Huh, I did not realize until this comment that sitting on a bench was even a possibility. Are you sure they aren’t intended to be hiding in a bush? That just makes a lot of sense to my brain still for some reason.

      • Rotunda
        Rotunda
        March 5, 2024 at 1:07 am | #

        They are inside the glass windows, as can be seen in the last panel, where a bit of Becky’s hair is behind the vertical mullion separating the panes. They are in the same place as in https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/03-trystin-in-the-wind/atrium/, and their position inside is seen in https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/03-trystin-in-the-wind/program/

    • Jeff K!
      Jeff K!
      March 5, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      *must resist jokes about young women sharing a bush*

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        March 5, 2024 at 8:13 am | #

        Future Becky does not resist such things. Why should you?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        March 5, 2024 at 9:16 am | #

        Yeah, quit beating around the bush.

        (Also, I don’t think that’s a bush. Just foliage.)

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 5, 2024 at 3:59 am | #

      This setup always makes me think of Burger King.

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      March 5, 2024 at 8:47 pm | #

      so what I’m hearing is Tristran in one’s hand is worth two in the bush

  12. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    March 5, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

    typing “slippery slope” into scrootoob search bar.

  13. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    March 5, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    Despite the fact that they’re both spouting strange fundie brainwashing, something about this really just hits the nail on the head for middle school or early high school vibes. The wacky energy is just spot-on.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      March 5, 2024 at 2:58 pm | #

      Awkwardly, but with a completely unreasonable amount of confidence given your minimal life experience, trying to navigate the brand-new expectations of sex and romance that society has suddenly placed on you is a VERY universal tween experience!

  14. Dday
    Dday
    March 5, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

    Hey, uhh i just was holding my phone wrong for a second and accidentally reported a comment, pls disregard l

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 5, 2024 at 4:00 am | #

      Don’t worry, it takes 5 reports on the same comment before anything happens.

      But when it happens, the consequences are dire. I hear everyone whose comment gets reported is cursed so all their descendants are born naked.

  15. Bobcat
    Bobcat
    March 5, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

    The fun part for me is that “Misha” is short for “Mikhail” in russian, that is, a male name.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 5, 2024 at 4:02 am | #

      Like the Heavy Weapons Guy!

    • staszu13
      staszu13
      March 5, 2024 at 8:40 am | #

      I do believe this may be a sly Willis reference to a certain fellow webcartoonist

  16. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 5, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

    This is a conversation Joyce will look back on one day and cringe at and Becky will look back on and go ‘ohhhhh that makes sense’.

  17. Suet
    Suet
    March 5, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

    Yeah, just picturing Misha out on the slippery slope of Mount Baldy

    No room for love at first sight?

  18. Lingo
    Lingo
    March 5, 2024 at 1:16 am | #

    That slippery slope is full of funny sound effects, like in the cartoons when you step on a banana peel.

  19. Laura
    Laura
    March 5, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

    OT, but just wanted to reach out and thank you all for being a mostly safe and supportive community. The Internet can be a cold, unforgiving, and dangerous place out there. It can really hurt people. I just wanted to thank you folks for proving the pessimists wrong… that not all online commenters are out to hurt people, and that caring, wise, funny, and even sparky people are here online too. Thank you for helping me feel better about people online in general.

    • Bash
      Bash
      March 5, 2024 at 1:50 am | #

      I was going to make a dumb joke but now it feels tasteless. We love you too.

      • Laura
        Laura
        March 5, 2024 at 1:56 am | #

        Aww! Thanks, Bash! <3

        *Plays "Shiny Happy People" on the hacked Ferris Wheel…*

    • findus
      findus
      March 5, 2024 at 1:56 am | #

      <3

      • Laura
        Laura
        March 5, 2024 at 1:57 am | #

        Thank you, findus. <3

        Got to go to bed now. Good night, everyone!

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      March 5, 2024 at 5:31 am | #

      Aaaaawwwweeee 🥹🥰

      • Laura
        Laura
        March 5, 2024 at 1:47 pm | #

        Thank you for always being so YOU, NG. <3

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          March 5, 2024 at 9:19 pm | #

          awe heeeheee ☺

    • staszu13
      staszu13
      March 5, 2024 at 8:39 am | #

      No problem.

      • Laura
        Laura
        March 5, 2024 at 10:32 pm | #

        I love that raised eyebrow, staszu13. I keep expecting to hear Mr. Spock say,
        “Fascinating…”
        🖖

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      March 5, 2024 at 11:54 am | #

      Love you too Laura. <3 Thanks for being part of that community.

      • Laura
        Laura
        March 5, 2024 at 1:48 pm | #

        Your words help me so much, BBCC. <3. Thank you.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      March 5, 2024 at 3:08 pm | #

      Well, shucks, @Laura. You’re gonna make me blush!

      I’m glad our short, silly, comments made you feel better! It sounds like you’re in a pretty dark place right now, so my heart goes out to you, and let me just say: it does get better. This little candle, bright as it is against the dark, is nothing compared to the blazing hearth of close-knit community I’m sure you’ll find someday, or the light of the sun that will make you wonder how you could ever have felt so alone. Keep going, you got this!

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        Laura
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        Wow, Mturtle7! That brought tears to my eyes! What a kind, sweet thing to say. Thank you so much. That really did make me feel better.

  20. Sharaku
    Sharaku
    March 5, 2024 at 5:51 am | #

    So i’ve kind of lost track. Did Becky know she was gay at this point and was generally hiding it, or did she only truly realise when she got to Anderson?

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      March 5, 2024 at 6:35 am | #

      Anderson I think? Like before she was let out into the wider world she probably didn’t even know gay people existed. And if she did she thought they were evil.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      March 5, 2024 at 6:39 am | #

      I’ve got the impression she has always known she liked girls (especially Joyce), though she had to go to college to learn to verbalize any part of those desires and attractions. At this point she doesn’t have any language OR any allowance in her philosophies to express the concept of being lesbian, though it’s clearly the only thing on her mind.

    • TerribleTransit
      TerribleTransit
      March 5, 2024 at 8:34 am | #

      She pretty heavily implies she figured it out at college.

    • staszu13
      staszu13
      March 5, 2024 at 8:38 am | #

      I’m inclined to think Becky knew for sure at Anderson. She probably already had it going on subconsciously, her sexual dislike of men is already apparent. But it’s clear from the context she only sees it from her evangelical background now.

    • anon
      anon
      March 5, 2024 at 11:57 pm | #

      i’m sure ppl can think/ say stuff without realizing later and then looking back on it like “oh yeah that makes sense”

      when i was younger and didn’t know gay/pan was a thing i was thinking like “if i met a ‘soulmate’ then it wouldn’t matter if they were a guy or a girl”

  21. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    March 5, 2024 at 8:07 am | #

    “It’s that Tara, isn’t it? Is that who we’re stalking?”
    “NOBODY IN PARTICULAR.”

  22. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    March 5, 2024 at 9:13 am | #

    Many fundies look forward to sitting in heaven (on clouds because that’s ancient iconography) and watching sinners burn. That’s a very weird idea of eternal joy. This seems very much like that.

  23. torrent29
    torrent29
    March 5, 2024 at 9:14 am | #

    I get the feeling that Becky imagined Misha on that slippery slope later as well.

  24. Superducked
    Superducked
    March 5, 2024 at 11:23 am | #

    Oh no. Not the premarital hanky-panky. Anything but the premarital hanky-panky.

  25. raultsi
    raultsi
    March 5, 2024 at 2:44 pm | #

    i grew up as a catlick in the ’60s and ’70s, and I had a lot of resentment against it as a teenager. I had no idea what fundamentalism was like but I thought it was what I was experiencing. I truly and genuinely pity the young who grow up under that level of indoctrination.

  26. Some Ed
    Some Ed
    March 5, 2024 at 3:04 pm | #

    So, um, why is this slope so slippery? Did someone lube it? Who has enough lube to lube an entire slope?

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      March 5, 2024 at 3:18 pm | #

      Misha, obviously. The Misha in Becky’s imagination has TONS of lube, and she applies it to so many things – bikes, hinges, slopes, etc. – that she can’t help getting quite a lot of it on herself. Luckily, in this hypothetical scenario, she has Becky right by her side to help her clean it off in a slow and sensual fashion. Also, this is actually all a metaphor for cleansing Misha of sin or something, so fantasizing about it is just a sign of Becky’s pure-hearted devotion, and not something God would be upset about at all.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        March 5, 2024 at 5:36 pm | #

        If only we could upvote comments here.

      • M!a
        M!a
        March 5, 2024 at 9:02 pm | #

        I too envision Misha as the Obligatory Designated Bad Girl in that circle.

        Sooooo tasty, that slope…

  27. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    March 5, 2024 at 4:20 pm | #

    Joyce has covered Tristan well, instead told Becky he was the slippery-slope.

  28. Yeet
    Yeet
    March 5, 2024 at 5:17 pm | #

    oh hey
    this is the “who do you think thought her that phrase” from when becky woke up in bed with dina callback, right?

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      March 5, 2024 at 6:47 pm | #

      Yup.

  29. Moonie
    Moonie
    March 5, 2024 at 6:14 pm | #

    PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY!!!!!

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      March 5, 2024 at 11:58 pm | #

      HE-MARITAL PANKY-PRANKY!!1!

  30. anon
    anon
    March 5, 2024 at 11:49 pm | #

    lol has joyce never heard of breaking up? then again given her upbringing maybe she’s used to seeing ppl marry their first bf/gf

  31. Ray
    Ray
    March 6, 2024 at 1:29 pm | #

    Oh no!! SECULAR MUSIC!!! And after that, DANCING!! The horror!!!

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