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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
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.
okay okay -- spider-man reboot idea
the lizard is still dr connors, but he's dr PHIL connors, and he wakes up every day and it's groundhog day and he's a lizard
is this anything
a plague has hit our house
both children singing billie eilish's "what was i made for" but entirely in "meows"
we can't get them to stop
it's been weeks
please send help
The plantation burning reminds me of when the residential school burnt down in Shubenacadie.
I was very young. Not understanding why we were all there watching a scary looking building burning. Cars lined up all over both sides of the road. It seemed like the entire rez population (1)
Someone is citing the MA constitutional provision explicitly allowing the state to impede federal marshals enforcing the fugitive slave act, DAMN the average citizen is radicalized
you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.
Me if I ever see Tony Hawk: Hey you’re Tony Hawk the famous skateboarder. That’s right I recognise you. Won’t be able to get any content out of this will you, you piece of shit
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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
“Exactly what you just said, except without being sarcastic.”
Exactly what you said, but with even more sarcasm.
Exactly what you said, but replace “life altering decisions” with “dumb video game purchases”.
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
– Kermit or something, IDK.
Grover said it, not Kermit.
No, I’m pretty sure the character was green.
Maybe it was Oscar, or Sherlock Hemlock?
It was The Hulk, right?
THE GREEN HORNET
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
I got it the second try, so pretty close.
mmmmm so slippery
It’s like a slip-n-slide.
Slip-n-shine?
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.
Oh, I just caught on to the floating text: Becky is visualizing Misha slipping and sloping.
I don’t even know where to start, here
The irony is Becky, you’re right!
SURRENDER TO TEMPTATION EARTHLING! ENGAGE IN PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY >:D
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.
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.
PRE-MARITAL HACKY-SACK!
If it’s very nonsexual, you’re doing it wrong.
Becky is not the irony; commas are important people; I am, however, Temptation Earthling. Surrender to me!
Who are you to say that? The Space Pope?
An alien parasite who’s seen the future in which she engages in the most beautiful premarital hanky-panky with an ungodly partner :p
well, she did say she was picturing misha on the slippery slope 8D
Yes, keep picturing Misha, that’ll drive out any thoughts of hooking up with guys.
Becky picturing Misha’s … slippery slopes
I’m just thinking of Becky as one of the Beckys from IRovedOut.com.
_Love_ that comic!
Jealousy is ugly
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.
NEVER
What was her name
i’ll take it to my grave
Grave seems like a weird name!
Less weird a name than “Never”, though.
She’s from Canada, you see. They have weird names there.
Goth subculture.
It was Trisha, wasn’t it?
Wild guess, but it could also easily be Tristin.
Isolde? Probably Isolde.
Beautiful, simply beautiful
Willis, thank you for sharing your childhood adventures!
They have brought….holy crap has it really been decades?
I can’t be 42.
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
Shut it, jailbait. I just hit sixty a couple weeks ago…
“There were no signs!”
“The sign said Slippery When Wet, but it didn’t say WHO”
We sure don’t see you throwin’ in with any random dudes Becky.
We sure don’t.
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.
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.
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’
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.
Framing is fun like that.
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.
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/
*must resist jokes about young women sharing a bush*
Future Becky does not resist such things. Why should you?
Yeah, quit beating around the bush.
(Also, I don’t think that’s a bush. Just foliage.)
This setup always makes me think of Burger King.
so what I’m hearing is Tristran in one’s hand is worth two in the bush
typing “slippery slope” into scrootoob search bar.
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.
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!
Hey, uhh i just was holding my phone wrong for a second and accidentally reported a comment, pls disregard l
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.
The fun part for me is that “Misha” is short for “Mikhail” in russian, that is, a male name.
Like the Heavy Weapons Guy!
I do believe this may be a sly Willis reference to a certain fellow webcartoonist
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’.
Yeah, just picturing Misha out on the slippery slope of Mount Baldy
No room for love at first sight?
That slippery slope is full of funny sound effects, like in the cartoons when you step on a banana peel.
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.
I was going to make a dumb joke but now it feels tasteless. We love you too.
Aww! Thanks, Bash! <3
*Plays "Shiny Happy People" on the hacked Ferris Wheel…*
<3
Thank you, findus. <3
Got to go to bed now. Good night, everyone!
Aaaaawwwweeee 🥹🥰
Thank you for always being so YOU, NG. <3
awe heeeheee
No problem.
I love that raised eyebrow, staszu13. I keep expecting to hear Mr. Spock say,
“Fascinating…”
Love you too Laura. <3 Thanks for being part of that community.
Your words help me so much, BBCC. <3. Thank you.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
She pretty heavily implies she figured it out at college.
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.
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”
“It’s that Tara, isn’t it? Is that who we’re stalking?”
“NOBODY IN PARTICULAR.”
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.
I get the feeling that Becky imagined Misha on that slippery slope later as well.
Oh no. Not the premarital hanky-panky. Anything but the premarital hanky-panky.
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.
So, um, why is this slope so slippery? Did someone lube it? Who has enough lube to lube an entire slope?
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.
If only we could upvote comments here.
I too envision Misha as the Obligatory Designated Bad Girl in that circle.
Sooooo tasty, that slope…
Joyce has covered Tristan well, instead told Becky he was the slippery-slope.
oh hey
this is the “who do you think thought her that phrase” from when becky woke up in bed with dina callback, right?
Yup.
PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY!!!!!
HE-MARITAL PANKY-PRANKY!!1!
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
Oh no!! SECULAR MUSIC!!! And after that, DANCING!! The horror!!!