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May 8, 2026

Date idea

by David M Willis on October 28, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: joe, joyce

Discussion (182) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 28, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    leave it to Dotty to grok Joyce-grade foreplay

    • Rose by Any other Name
      Rose by Any other Name
      October 28, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

      I wasn’t previously aware that Mac & Cheese was a fetish.
      I should have known. I don’t know why this came as a surprise to me.

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        October 28, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

        If there’s one thing that I’ve learned in the time that I’ve been on the Internet, it’s that everything is somebody’s fetish.

        • a/snow/mous/e
          a/snow/mous/e
          October 28, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

          soggies may rule 34

          • Furie
            Furie
            October 28, 2024 at 5:12 am | #

            We call them daddies now.

        • Nono
          Nono
          October 28, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

          The act of fetishizing may, in fact also be a fetish.

        • Freezer
          Freezer
          October 28, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

          That’s Rule #49, in fact.

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        October 28, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

        idk if the exact meal is part of the fetish here. probably just the boyfriend cooking, subverting all the gender roles she’d been taught as well as just being endearingly thoughtful

        • Corronchilejano
          Corronchilejano
          October 28, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

          Joe just hit the nail in the had. It’s a lot easier when it was already placed there.

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/01-everybodys-looking-for-nothing/work-3/

          • Tan
            Tan
            October 28, 2024 at 12:59 am | #

            It is worth noting that this led directly into Joyce and Dorothy winding up in bed together.

            https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/01-everybodys-looking-for-nothing/mrmmrrmrmimo/

            • Michael Steamweed
              Michael Steamweed
              October 28, 2024 at 9:57 am | #

              A scandalous episode, to be sure. Shocking! :O

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        October 28, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

        This is not actually Joyce’s fetish, but making Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheese for her is one of her love languages. She will think you care about her if you maker her Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheese by the instructions. If you care or not is strictly up to you, but she will think you do.

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          October 28, 2024 at 1:51 am | #

          Explain to me how Joyce can eat Mac ‘n’ Cheese – which is elbow macaroni and cheese sauce mixed together – when she can’t eat a taco without dissecting it first.

          • jflb96
            jflb96
            October 28, 2024 at 2:41 am | #

            One type of thing mixed with one type of sauce into a homogeneous glop is OK. Multiple things all jumbled up with various sauces interspersed throughout is not.

          • Felian
            Felian
            October 28, 2024 at 4:57 am | #

            Because MacAndCheese is an unseparable unit. It has always been eaten together and always will be. It’s not Mac ….. AND …. Cheese, it’s MacAndCheese!

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            October 28, 2024 at 6:48 am | #

            When the milk and butter reconstitute the cheese powder, it ceases being its constituent ingredients and becomes one food: “macaroni and cheese”.

            A taco is a bunch of ingredients piled together. They didn’t “become” the taco, they’re merely “part of” the taco.

            It could also be a mouthfeel/texture thing. Macaroni and cheese (especially the boxed kind) generally has one consistency, but adding something like chopped-up hot dogs would add unexpected lumps. Tacos are a variety of textures and temperatures (shredded lettuce, lumpy meat, diced tomato, and of course the shell), which can trigger alarm bells for some people.

          • Yeet
            Yeet
            October 28, 2024 at 9:51 am | #

            food needs are not always logical

          • S.R.
            S.R.
            October 29, 2024 at 8:40 pm | #

            In much the same way that a tortilla is a single food despite being made of multiple ingredients, or that ground beef with salt in it is still just ground beef, mac and cheese has ceased to be two ingredients and is now one food.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        October 28, 2024 at 12:51 am | #

        It’s half of the fetish. “By the instructions” is the other half.

        • Mark
          Mark
          October 28, 2024 at 6:59 am | #

          Oooo!

        • Michael Steamweed
          Michael Steamweed
          October 28, 2024 at 9:59 am | #

          You must be willing to submit yourself to the domination of the package’s instructions.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        October 28, 2024 at 1:50 am | #

        I mean it IS thick n creamy o3o

      • zee
        zee
        October 28, 2024 at 8:30 am | #

        What good pussy sound like and all that

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 28, 2024 at 9:52 am | #

        For certain values of the word ‘talk’.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        October 29, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

        did you forget

  2. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    October 28, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Goddamn, now I really want some macaroni.

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 28, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Jump his bones, Joyce. You know you want to. Do it.

    • Hexx
      Hexx
      October 28, 2024 at 10:20 am | #

      She want’s the D… SO MUCH.
      He want’s to not be a D… SO MUCH.

      • Rolf of Many Doors
        Rolf of Many Doors
        October 28, 2024 at 3:27 pm | #

        And, apparently, he has SO MUCH D

  4. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    October 28, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Someone please make a dirty wordplay related to Mac and cheese because I have nothing.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 28, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      A friend of mine come up with “Mac and Yak” what’s your judgement on it?

      • mindbleach
        mindbleach
        October 28, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

        Yech.

    • Mano308gts
      Mano308gts
      October 28, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      Well, ‘mac on’ and ‘macking’ both exist as sexual/potentially sexual slang terms, and cheese could be stretched into being used as one of many, many euphemisms for semen, sooo… it’s entirely possible to accomplish that.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        October 28, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

        Mack and Please?

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        October 28, 2024 at 2:27 am | #

        Mack on cheese?

        I’m not good at this.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 28, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

      they gonna do the Mac-arena ^^

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 28, 2024 at 10:05 am | #

        Eyyy

    • Doki
      Doki
      October 28, 2024 at 2:47 am | #

      I think Joyce really wants to do some caNOODLEing, if you know what I mean. ;D

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 28, 2024 at 2:51 pm | #

        Oof, that’s bad. I’m gonna look pasta your puns and appreciate you nonetheless.

    • anon
      anon
      October 28, 2024 at 4:44 pm | #

      lol well sharing food together is already pretty intimate but i half expect someone to interrupt the mb/c i assume that door doesn’t lock even if joyce closed it unless she also barricades it

  5. Viga
    Viga
    October 28, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Macaroni and Sleeze

    • Dday
      Dday
      October 28, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

      Mac-a-boner and Squeeze

  6. Jo_cubstar
    Jo_cubstar
    October 28, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Oh my gosh this is too cute. Cooking her autistic safe food. That’s love right there

    • Pinkie
      Pinkie
      October 28, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

      And if he does the dishes afterwards? Keep that guy around.

    • Felian
      Felian
      October 28, 2024 at 4:43 am | #

      Yes this is peak autism love language. Nothing says “i love you” quite like “i truly understand what it is you need to feel safe with me“ <3

  7. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    October 28, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    This is cute as hell.

    Also ok yeah Dorothy is 100 percent Cyranoing this shit

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 28, 2024 at 1:02 am | #

      Somehow I never put together how well the Cyrano plot would work with the Cyrano role as a gay character

      Honestly a little embarassed

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        October 28, 2024 at 1:59 am | #

        The Half of It (2020)

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        October 28, 2024 at 8:17 am | #

        Make the Cyrano’s love interest the person they are helping to get a different person, as opposed to the third person being their shared love interest.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          October 28, 2024 at 2:39 pm | #

          I feel like that’s a different plot then

          • NickG
            NickG
            October 28, 2024 at 3:30 pm | #

            It’s certainly an ‘Oglaf’ strip.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          October 28, 2024 at 5:16 pm | #

          That sounds like a Steve Martin movie.

  8. JA
    JA
    October 28, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Horny mode activated.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      October 28, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

      +1

  9. Dday
    Dday
    October 28, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    calllllllled ittttttttttt

  10. Corronchilejano
    Corronchilejano
    October 28, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    Joyce having a freudian moment right now.

  11. brionl
    brionl
    October 28, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

    Yes.
    Talk.
    With our lips.
    And tongues

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 28, 2024 at 10:07 am | #

      Proper communication also requires body language.

      Lots of body language.

  12. Suet
    Suet
    October 28, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    Closed that door so skillfully 😳 We’re gonna see them next time in the morning then

    DorothyxJoyce shippers will rue the day Joe made… F○○k-aroni and J○zz

    • Dday
      Dday
      October 28, 2024 at 3:01 am | #

      Idunno it’s basically proof that Dotty knows exactly how to get into Joyce’s pants like Mission Impossible

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 28, 2024 at 6:50 am | #

      Forkaroni and Jazz? Is that a regional brand or something?

      • Mark
        Mark
        October 28, 2024 at 7:01 am | #

        It’s a band that plays at county fairs.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      October 28, 2024 at 1:30 pm | #

      Fuckaroni and find out?

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 28, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    Ah yes, talking time. “Talking”

  14. Derek
    Derek
    October 28, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    Joyce don’t fuck your boyfriend in the shared dorm kitchen, that’s bad form

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 28, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

      Okay but consider… Boyfriend hot.

    • Dday
      Dday
      October 28, 2024 at 2:56 am | #

      But he made mac n cheese, you forgot that part.

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        October 28, 2024 at 8:21 am | #

        And let’s be honest, we’ve only really seen Joyce able to perform in shared spaces so far….

    • Rolf of Many Doors
      Rolf of Many Doors
      October 28, 2024 at 3:29 pm | #

      Well at least they’re not shitting where they eat… just fucking.

  15. Davus
    Davus
    October 28, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

    I hope this goes over well.
    Joyce, don’t jump Joe’s bones before he gives consent. It’s a bad idea for many reasons, including being morally wrong.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 28, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      Jesus this comment really does have an issue with jumping noncon conclusions.

      • Bruno
        Bruno
        October 28, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

        *guy in the dumbing of age comments section* boy i hope this repressed christian girl with autism doesn’t rape this guy

        • Felian
          Felian
          October 28, 2024 at 4:49 am | #

          While i am not worried in this specific pairing (i think Joe is at least decent at stating his boundaries, he proved that with the drinking), i do think we should normalize that sexualized violence CAN be done from a party perceived as physically weaker (a small woman vs a big man). Sexualized violence ≠ overpowering someone by sheer force, it can also be done by coercion, blackmail, emotional manipulation, intoxication, etc.
          We need to stop disbelieving male victims!

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            October 28, 2024 at 8:03 am | #

            That’s all well and good, but nobody here is doing any of that.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          October 28, 2024 at 9:20 pm | #

          dude the FUUUUCK? 😬

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        October 28, 2024 at 1:57 pm | #

        Literally. It’s gross, I’m so sick of it.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 28, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

      Shut the fuck up.

      • Mr D
        Mr D
        October 28, 2024 at 11:39 am | #

        Reading the comments from bottoms up, seeing this as a response was quite a thing before I got to the comment you answered to

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          October 28, 2024 at 2:23 pm | #

          You’re welcome.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      October 28, 2024 at 1:36 pm | #

      I hope this goes over well.
      Joyce don’t murder Joe as a means of starting your killing spree. It’s a bad idea for many reasons, including being morally wrong.

      That’s how you sound. Like someone reaching so hard it should be an olympic fucking sport. PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE AND DISPLAY SEXUAL INTEREST WITHOUT IT MEANING THEY’RE GOING TO ASSAULT THE OBJECT OF THEIR INTEREST. Say that to yourself as many times as it takes to stop these wild comments.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 28, 2024 at 2:31 pm | #

        Look, it’s very simple. The first one to display intent or interest is a rapist, okay? Regardless of context, there cannot be such a thing as consent. Nobody can consent unless they haven’t received signals that the other party is interested, and those signals immediately nullify the chance for consent. So if we see somebody start to signal, we have a moral fucking imperative to jump instantly to the worst conclusion. The octopus that lives in my brain said so.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      October 28, 2024 at 9:26 pm | #

      ….. fuck off with that abelism.

    • S.R.
      S.R.
      October 29, 2024 at 8:52 pm | #

      You know what would probably happen if she did decide to, say, march up to him right now and attempt to shove him into the bed, and it turns out he wants not to be shoved into the bed for immediate sex? He would say something along the lines of “woah, hold up”, she would stop, and it would be awkward but fine. They are in fact capable of talking to and perceiving the actions and needs of each other.

      Also, if you’re dating someone who you can reasonably believe would like to have sex with you, find yourself in a situation where you think they’re trying to initiate sex, and try to jump their bones, that is not morally wrong. That is, at worst, a misunderstanding. Yes, consent is good and sexy and vital, but that doesn’t mean that every situation in which someone attempts to jump someone else’s bones when the someone else has not yet given explicit verbal consent is automatically sexual assault.

  16. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    October 28, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

    I’d honestly expect Joyce to be more experienced with closing doors with her foot. That looked like an amateurish close tbh.

    • ian livs
      ian livs
      October 28, 2024 at 1:19 am | #

      She’s a biiiiit distracted at the moment. One time, I speed-walked into a doorframe in front of *both* my bosses because a cute guy was flirting with me *by text*. Shit happens, lmao

  17. Lingo
    Lingo
    October 28, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

    “Yes, if you define talking as ‘something we’ll do with our lips, tongue, and possibly teeth, while making noises,’ then we will definitely talk.”

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 28, 2024 at 10:10 am | #

      Don’t forget body language. Very important.

  18. Lightweight Baybee
    Lightweight Baybee
    October 28, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    You cannot set up a scene with the dorothy dinner framing while joyce is wearing the lesbian pride coded jacket lel

  19. Nono
    Nono
    October 28, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

    So help Joe if they ever invented oyster mac and cheese.

  20. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    October 28, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

    … I get the feeling that these two are after different things tonight.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      October 28, 2024 at 1:47 am | #

      I think the point where I finally started to pick up on the subtle hinting the narrative was laying down was when Joyce looked directly at the camera and said “I’m really looking forward to having sex with Joe soon” and then it cut directly to Joe saying “I’m really looking forward to a chastely romantic date with Joyce soon”

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 28, 2024 at 10:12 am | #

        And our entire Comments section is the Greek Chorus, alternating between lamentations of “Oh no poor Joe!’ and breathless exultations of “Get him Joyce!”

  21. AY
    AY
    October 28, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

    Seems to me like Joe might be about to finally address Joyce’s overt horniness towards him and his concerns about it all. And he seems to be doing it in a very comfy way (per Dotty). Good luck, Joe!

  22. Qube
    Qube
    October 28, 2024 at 12:49 am | #

    too many jokes to make. damn you choice paralysis!
    (and willis!)

  23. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    October 28, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

    This is going to go all kinds of goof, isn’t it.

  24. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    October 28, 2024 at 12:53 am | #

    Dorothy really came through for him, haha.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 28, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

      Seriously, give that woman an A+ and some head.

  25. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    October 28, 2024 at 12:58 am | #

    Because overcooked macaroni swimming in a soup of imitation cheese-food-product is Joyce’s love language.

    • morleuca
      morleuca
      October 28, 2024 at 8:23 am | #

      Oh please don’t overcook it! I can’t. I. No. Nope. Literally kicking in a gag reflex I didn’t know I still had…..ooooooof

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 28, 2024 at 9:51 am | #

      If that’s what you get trying to follow the directions on the box, you’re doing it wrong. Try again, but this time do it right.

    • Justnobodyfqwl
      Justnobodyfqwl
      October 29, 2024 at 9:39 pm | #

      You know that you control how cooked the macaroni is, right? Like you’re in charge of that part. It doesn’t come overcooked

  26. Pocky
    Pocky
    October 28, 2024 at 1:09 am | #

    I dunno; I’d feel too bloated after mac and cheese for sex . . .

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 28, 2024 at 10:15 am | #

      It’s all about portion control.

  27. mindbleach
    mindbleach
    October 28, 2024 at 1:37 am | #

    Proceed.

  28. Taffy
    Taffy
    October 28, 2024 at 1:39 am | #

    Y’know what? Joe asked for date advice and Dorothy delivered. Line ’em up, knock ’em down.

  29. Rolf of Many Doors
    Rolf of Many Doors
    October 28, 2024 at 1:39 am | #

    I have been waiting so god damn long to see Joyce jump Joe’s bones – even if it’s just a little bone-jumping, doesn’t have to be full-on jumped bones, even just some skeletal vaulting is fine – I’ll take what I can get!

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 28, 2024 at 1:41 am | #

      The look on her face implies she’s about to do an acrobatic fucking pirouette onto those bones.

  30. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    October 28, 2024 at 1:42 am | #

    As a husband to an autist, I can safely say that “cook her her favorite meal exactly the way she wants it” is the nitro into the romance buttons. For my wife it was “chicken strips and fries from scratch” but y’know, it still fits!

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 28, 2024 at 2:58 am | #

      I cannot agree with this hard enough. I make some bomb-ass chicken strips, and she lets me know it every single time. That cornmeal breading makes all the difference.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 28, 2024 at 10:18 am | #

        Oh yeah, crunchy cornmeal breading on thin chicken strips or patties … yeah.

        I don’t like ranch dressing by itself (texture issue), but with the right amount of cholula or similar hot sauce, no more issue, and it’s great on the chicken.

        • DashWallkick
          DashWallkick
          October 28, 2024 at 10:55 am | #

          Also: Stews and soups. No texture issues there!

          • Michael Steamweed
            Michael Steamweed
            October 28, 2024 at 2:49 pm | #

            Yaaasss!

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          October 28, 2024 at 2:20 pm | #

          I got a massive ego boost when she said the strips didn’t even need any sauce, the way I’d spiced them. She’s a fiend for some S&S on her chicken. That’s how you know you did well.

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      October 28, 2024 at 1:25 pm | #

      ok yeah chicken strips are pretty great

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        October 28, 2024 at 1:26 pm | #

        and homemade fries are amazing uwu

  31. Dev
    Dev
    October 28, 2024 at 1:44 am | #

    [Input the vine of someone making mac and cheese and another going “that’s what good p**** sounds like” here]

  32. Queezle
    Queezle
    October 28, 2024 at 2:02 am | #

    What is happening in panel three? I am confused.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      October 28, 2024 at 2:13 am | #

      Joyce is disappointed that Joe thinks a good meal can be achieved by following instructions on a package without adding fresh ingredients. Like, obviously.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        October 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm | #

        Those boxes are fresh from the store idk what you mean.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 28, 2024 at 2:50 am | #

      Neuron activation.

    • Dday
      Dday
      October 28, 2024 at 3:03 am | #

      It’s the exact moment Joyce realized she won’t need to anymore outside help figuring out what kind of sex to have.

      • Big Z
        Big Z
        October 28, 2024 at 7:57 am | #

        ^ this. What she MEANS is “you know me well enough to make me one of my favorite foods without judging me for it being simple or childish…”

        For as much shit as Joyce takes from many other people for being a picky eater, this is practically a separate love language.

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        October 28, 2024 at 10:59 am | #

        Correct. Cooking is a very intimate act because it involves patience, care, attention to detail, and intent. Joe heard from Dorothy that she likes plain Kraft from the box so he’s doing that for her now.

        Joyce has never had that level of kindness or sweetness and it has completely solved the “but do I *want* to for the right reasons or am I just horny” issue. She is now feeling the girl urge of ‘oh my god he’s so goddamn wonderful and thoughtful and kind to me I’m going to go crazy if I don’t fuck him.’

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          October 28, 2024 at 1:41 pm | #

          “Joyce has never had that level of kindness or sweetness”

          Other than when Dorothy did exactly this a little while ago (I think a few days ago in comic?)

          • DashWallkick
            DashWallkick
            October 28, 2024 at 2:40 pm | #

            Sure, but imagine that same loving, tender energy coming from the boyfriend you’ve had a grand total of like, a few weeks at most. Her loins are on fire right now.

          • Jeff K!
            Jeff K!
            October 29, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

            And if Joyce had Dorothy on her *conscious* list of “people I would be happy to pre-marital hanky-panky”, Dorothy would have gotten the full treatment. As that has not hit her active consideration yet, Joyce didn’t. (But I don’t remember if that was before or after Joyce decided to take her on a date to get drunk.)

  33. TulipKitten
    TulipKitten
    October 28, 2024 at 3:07 am | #

    I don’t think Joe is into this. He seems to want to take things slow, and Joyce is wanting to take things really fast. He’s been giving her hints that he’s not 100% ready to jump into things with her. :/

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 28, 2024 at 3:24 am | #

      I don’t see much of a problem on the way. Unless one of them says something really extra crummy, Joe turning down immediate sex doesn’t seem likely to cause more than a temporary bout of disappointment in Joyce, and Joyce angling for said immediate sex doesn’t seem likely to cause Joe more than some slight boneration.

      • Clell65619
        Clell65619
        October 28, 2024 at 8:16 am | #

        This talk with ‘take it slow, Joe’ might mean an early Laundry night for Joyce… Or maybe another fully clothed sleep over.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          October 28, 2024 at 9:33 am | #

          Now I’m imagining them basically negotiating an appropriate level of intimacy after eating, eventually settling on Joyce sleeping over completely naked with some cartoons on, if Joe isn’t quite ready for a fuckination yet.

          • Nymph
            Nymph
            October 28, 2024 at 8:54 pm | #

            That’s honestly so cute and romantic and I want it to happen.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 28, 2024 at 10:22 am | #

      I see no long term problem. The Joyce/Joe dynamic is very different than the Lucy/Walky dynamic. Lucy just wanted sex by any justification; she’s not concerned with long-term. Joyce wants sex and more long-term from Joe. If she doesn’t get the sex right away but does get the ‘more’ (which getting some fresh-cooked per-instructions mac’n’cheese is a definite part of that), she’ll still be fine.

    • DashWallkick
      DashWallkick
      October 28, 2024 at 2:41 pm | #

      Joe is worried about taking advantage of and breaking her. I think that if she climbs onto him and makes eye contact and says, “I’m ready,” that’s going to be an easier deal to make than after the party when she was drunk.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 28, 2024 at 3:02 pm | #

        Maybe.
        That’s basically what Liz did and she wasn’t ready.

  34. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    October 28, 2024 at 3:50 am | #

    Oh, there’s gonna be maccin’ tonight, in one form or another.

    • Plain Marie
      Plain Marie
      October 28, 2024 at 5:55 am | #

      Here, have a ribbon. This one says “Best in Show.”

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 28, 2024 at 10:23 am | #

      ‘Mac’, yes. I’m unsure about the ‘cheese’. Maybe ‘cheesecake’ instead.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 28, 2024 at 11:56 am | #

        It ain’t easy bein’ cheesy.

  35. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    October 28, 2024 at 4:37 am | #

    Put a sock on the handle!

  36. Acher4
    Acher4
    October 28, 2024 at 4:56 am | #

    Joyce ending up having sexual acts in public spaces,
    was not on my 2024 bingo card…
    but what can you do? 😛

    • Clif
      Clif
      October 28, 2024 at 8:41 am | #

      There were a lot of things not on my bingo card for this year, and here we are.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 28, 2024 at 10:25 am | #

      For the pool on ‘Where does Joyce first give head?’, I’m putting my $5 on Blowjob Cat. It’s public and thematic.

  37. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    October 28, 2024 at 5:27 am | #

    “Talk me against a wall”

  38. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    October 28, 2024 at 5:59 am | #

    Personal rooms don’t have cooking material so this is… a floor’s common kitchen or something ?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 28, 2024 at 7:00 am | #

      Yeah, it’s not unusual for each wing to have at least one kitchenette. Not sure if it’s in its own room, or if it’s on one side of the common room (where Ruth has her floor meetings).

      Frankly I’m kind of surprised they haven’t all been replaced by banks of microwaves, since that’s all that most kids these days know how to use.

      • Big Z
        Big Z
        October 28, 2024 at 7:55 am | #

        If it’s anything like where I went to school, the kitchenette would get closed off for a year every couple of years because someone did something goddamn stupid like “burn easy-mac” and the powers that be would decide the best solution to that was take away something from all fifty kids on the floor because one was an idiot.

        OTOH, we all had microwaves in our rooms, back in the 1990s.

      • Colin McKenzie
        Colin McKenzie
        October 28, 2024 at 9:03 am | #

        If it’s a dorm kitchenette, how does it have a door she can close (and presumably, lock and bolt)?

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          October 28, 2024 at 9:33 am | #

          Somebody installed one during construction or renovation? How else does a room get a door?

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          October 28, 2024 at 10:54 am | #

          If there are only certain hours it’s available (why would they limit the times it can be used? Idk, colleges love to restrict things), it would make sense to have a door so it can be locked (with the key kept at the front desk). Might not be able to be locked from the inside.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          October 28, 2024 at 1:43 pm | #

          A room has a door. The height of unrealistic.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          October 28, 2024 at 2:57 pm | #

          Since she’s kicking it closed with a foot, I think presuming there’s a lock and bolt is a bit of stretch.

          • Nymph
            Nymph
            October 28, 2024 at 8:51 pm | #

            Joyce’s prehensile feet are actually canon, she was clearly locking that door, bolting it, pulling the chain across and sliding a little note under the door that said “back in 5!”

        • Big Z
          Big Z
          October 29, 2024 at 10:54 am | #

          The ones in my dorm did, so that they could be denied to students if there were cooking mishaps that annoyed the residence life staffers too much.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        October 28, 2024 at 10:51 am | #

        Having a microwave in your room seems pretty standard, or at least was ten years ago. Even if a lot of students don’t know how to cook, still serves a purpose for those who do (and also for those times when one suddenly learns their friend can’t cook and is overwhelmed by the need to teach them).

  39. Alan in DC
    Alan in DC
    October 28, 2024 at 6:50 am | #

    That sound you hear is the plippety-plip of estrogen, cascading through Joyce.
    It only *sounds* like macaroni water boiling.

  40. Mark
    Mark
    October 28, 2024 at 7:10 am | #

    Huh. Why did I never think of this?

  41. Bleuryder
    Bleuryder
    October 28, 2024 at 8:33 am | #

    Plot twist: He really does want to talk.

    Extra plot twist: he wants to talk about the incident with Liz.

  42. Just_IDD
    Just_IDD
    October 28, 2024 at 8:54 am | #

    This is how this ends…

    Joyce and Joe, their bodies writhing together in a hot tub coated in saran wrap, lightly greased with KMC original cheese sauce.

  43. Taffy
    Taffy
    October 28, 2024 at 9:34 am | #

    Fucking behave yourself. No really, knock it the fuck off.

  44. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    October 28, 2024 at 9:51 am | #

    For certain values of the word ‘talk’.

  45. Taffy
    Taffy
    October 28, 2024 at 9:53 am | #

    I’m now reminded that on Saturday, my town had a Halloween parade, and right at the end there was a float that, instead of tossing out candy, was handing people boxes of Kraft mac ‘n’ cheese. It was the best attraction in the parade by far.

  46. Yeet
    Yeet
    October 28, 2024 at 11:27 am | #

    need me a partner like that

  47. Mr D
    Mr D
    October 28, 2024 at 11:33 am | #

    Page tomorrow, simply that meme of the girl doing a selfie right next to a guy who got sucked dry.

  48. Banana Slamma
    Banana Slamma
    October 28, 2024 at 12:09 pm | #

    Is Joe seriously about to make 5 boxes of mac and cheese? He’s a hungry boy!

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 28, 2024 at 2:44 pm | #

      Joe taking advice from Joey in Friends: “Well, you might wanna make a little extra, because, ya know, you’ll probably be hungry after the sex.”

  49. Nymph
    Nymph
    October 28, 2024 at 1:46 pm | #

    Ew, David.

  50. Devin
    Devin
    October 28, 2024 at 2:51 pm | #

    I really appreciate the commitment Joe seems to have made here. He bought a 5-pack!

    • Banana Slamma
      Banana Slamma
      October 28, 2024 at 3:03 pm | #

      It’s soooo much mac and cheese, but considering that next-day mac is even better reheated, I fully support the over-commitment.

  51. :0
    :0
    October 28, 2024 at 3:37 pm | #

    It’s happening let’s gooooooo

  52. anon
    anon
    October 28, 2024 at 4:41 pm | #

    …and then joyce gets indigestion/a stomachache from the cheese/dairy and distracts her from any horny thoughts lola

  53. Jay
    Jay
    October 28, 2024 at 4:55 pm | #

    Is this it? Is this Joyce’s slipshine moment

    • GholaHalleck
      GholaHalleck
      October 28, 2024 at 11:11 pm | #

      She’s tired of being afraid, and knows it’s time to get furious…

      …ly…

      FU-

      *Is dragged off the stage before being able to finish the sentence.*

      • Jay
        Jay
        October 29, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

        Joe’s gonna
        Mac her cheese 😎😎😎
        *puts on NCIS theme*

  54. wakeangel2001
    wakeangel2001
    October 28, 2024 at 5:31 pm | #

    she might not have room for the mac n cheese after she finishes eating her lower lip

  55. Mark
    Mark
    October 28, 2024 at 5:55 pm | #

    So did Dorothy also suggest a topic to talk about? Bet she did!

  56. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    October 28, 2024 at 6:02 pm | #

    “what a peculiar way you’ve said ‘fuck’, what accent is that?”

  57. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    October 28, 2024 at 7:54 pm | #

    WTF dude this ain’t 4chan, plz CHILL

  58. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    October 28, 2024 at 8:59 pm | #

    This is what gets her going?
    Yeah shouldn’t be shocked

    • GholaHalleck
      GholaHalleck
      October 28, 2024 at 11:04 pm | #

      Have you never had to stir the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner while it was cooking?

      Truly, there is nothing closer to the sweet, sweet sounds of sexual pleasure then churning a wooden spoon through Kraft Brand Macaroni And Cheese Dinner.

      Porn Foley Artists the world over have known this truth since the early days of Merkin McGii.

  59. Zamperla
    Zamperla
    October 28, 2024 at 10:25 pm | #

    TONIGHT THIS MUSIC SEEEMS SO LOUD I WISH THAT WE COULD LOOOSE THIS CROWD

  60. Andru
    Andru
    October 30, 2024 at 9:14 pm | #

    Little did she know, in another life premarital hanky panky saved somones life.

  61. buddy
    buddy
    October 31, 2024 at 5:17 pm | #

    helluva leg stretch

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