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by David M Willis on August 25, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: asher, ethan, joyce

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  1. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    August 25, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    >:D Polylylylylylylylyy….

  2. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    August 25, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Does jennifer know

    • General Tekno
      General Tekno
      August 25, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

      I suspect she’s going to find out shortly.

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        August 25, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

        This conversation is going to be fun, considering Jennifer doesn’t respect boundaries and actually thinks that is how you flirt.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      August 25, 2024 at 10:46 am | #

      Jennifer: Really? Hmph. He’s just trying to make me jealous. He’ll come crawling back soon, You’ll see.

      *30 years later*

      Old maid Jennifer: Any day now… You’ll see…

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        August 25, 2024 at 9:34 pm | #

        48 is “old maid”?

        • anonymsly
          anonymsly
          August 25, 2024 at 10:56 pm | #

          I’m pretty firmly spinsterized at 44, so maybe? (Of course, that’s 100% intentional so maybe I’m not a useful statistic)

    • GreyICE
      GreyICE
      August 25, 2024 at 3:02 pm | #

      Given that she caused it? Probably not.

  3. EpochFlame
    EpochFlame
    August 25, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    finally, they’re over!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      August 25, 2024 at 8:52 am | #

      [ Strong Bad voice ]

      IT’S OVERRR!

      • Aura
        Aura
        August 26, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

        ‘Tis ne’er ‘e’er o’er, m’lo’er o’ ‘clo’er

        (I probably misspelled that here and there, oh well!)

  4. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    August 25, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    *Geoffrey Rush voice* Ye’d best start formulatin’ emotional responses to polycule things, Miss Brown…

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 25, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      Until proven otherwise, I’m just going to assume the polycule in the dorm has been slowly adding new members in the background this whole time, and will eventually assimilate the entire cast.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        August 25, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

        Obligatory XKCD

        • Effie
          Effie
          August 25, 2024 at 4:55 pm | #

          I was SO sure it was going to be this one”!! But I was wrong.

          • Dana
            Dana
            August 25, 2024 at 11:52 pm | #

            Me too

      • staszu13
        staszu13
        August 25, 2024 at 11:57 am | #

        Resistance is futile

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      August 25, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

      Ooohh I just watched him deliver that line tonight! Barbosa

    • Ambadi
      Ambadi
      August 26, 2024 at 6:21 am | #

      You’re in one

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    August 25, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Everyone decided not to trust Asher yesterday but I’m here to say I was distrusting of him back before it was cool!

    • General Tekno
      General Tekno
      August 25, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

      Mind you, having just glanced back to reread the last few strips with him and Billie, she did everything she could to push him away, and he actively did make an effort to have her as a girlfriend.

      She’s an idiot.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        August 25, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

        I feel like maybe this was in response to someone else? Also yeah dating Jennifer does earn Asher some sympathy points but don’t fall for that! She was a bad girlfriend, but he still suspicious! You can be more than one thing.

      • staszu13
        staszu13
        August 25, 2024 at 11:58 am | #

        I don’t anyone has ever accused Jennifer of being a super genius

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      August 25, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      I used to be really distrustful of Asher as a new reader in the early days of the timeskip, but at this point I’m really liking him and the distrust is pretty much gone for me. I could be proven wrong yet again, though.

      • jflb96
        jflb96
        August 25, 2024 at 4:36 am | #

        I’m reading him as the type of gangster where he wants out, but these goddam circumstances keep conspiring to prevent that. Hopefully he won’t be in a situation where selling out his boyfriend’s best friend is his best path forward.

      • Wereg
        Wereg
        August 25, 2024 at 4:14 pm | #

        I’ve decided to take Asher at face value over the whole “wanted to get out of the game” thing. I’m probably wrong to do so, but I like Asher and it makes things more enjoyable for me.

    • Seralyna
      Seralyna
      August 25, 2024 at 1:41 am | #

      asher rules and im happy to be ahead of the curve on liking him

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        August 25, 2024 at 6:14 am | #

        Agreed and seconded. I like him and idc what other people say.

        • zee
          zee
          August 25, 2024 at 11:18 am | #

          Same. Asher Stan since he first showed up as an adult. Slay king, get that education

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      August 25, 2024 at 5:24 am | #

      I like Asher. He’s fun and charming as a character

      I do not trust him. There is a reason we learned that Sal’s motorbike is gone because she was only allowed to have it because a parent pulled strings after it was shown that Asher suddenly had one

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      August 25, 2024 at 7:32 am | #

      You hipster, you.

  6. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    August 25, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Amber’s fics have her prepared for this eventually. And her next load of laundry.

  7. Jo_cubstar
    Jo_cubstar
    August 25, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    I kinda like Asher. I think he’s good for ethan

  8. EtchJetty
    EtchJetty
    August 25, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    i love the consistency of her bringing the jugshoes with her, it’s adorable

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      August 25, 2024 at 1:03 am | #

      Yeah, like… she returns from the shower. It’s pretty consistent of her to bring back what she brought there.

      • JustBeth
        JustBeth
        August 25, 2024 at 1:33 am | #

        I think they meant the consistency of Willis drawing her carrying them every time she goes to shower. Not every artist would remember to include them every time, but he does.

        • Thomas
          Thomas
          August 25, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

          Willis is adorable for his consistency. Got it.

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 25, 2024 at 3:08 am | #

            Be fair. Willis is probably adorable in other ways as well.

    • Bash
      Bash
      August 25, 2024 at 2:35 am | #

      I think it’s pretty cute that Carla made them for her and she’s still using them months later. Often DIY projects are just a novelty for a week or so, but she actually incorporated them into her routine.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 25, 2024 at 3:09 am | #

        I suspect that the shower floors haven’t gotten any better.

        • WillowD
          WillowD
          August 25, 2024 at 8:34 am | #

          Yuch. I do NOT want to think about the shower floors. And now I can’t get them out of my mind.

          I’ve gone camping at campgrounds where there is a wooden slat platform on top of the shower floor and the campground can’t be bothered to clean them.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        August 25, 2024 at 7:33 am | #

        Methinks Carla’s constructed works have durability.

        • WillowD
          WillowD
          August 25, 2024 at 8:38 am | #

          When Carla makes something it will be durable and eternal so that Carla will be noticed, observed and appreciated.

          The Carla is a Goddess and WILL be worshipped. (In the eyes of the Carla.)

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          August 25, 2024 at 8:10 pm | #

          She wouldn’t want to associate her name with shoddy craftsmanship.

          (And she designed them so the plastic jug parts could be easily replaced when they wore out.)

  9. Meagan
    Meagan
    August 25, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    Why does Ethan seem pissed at Joyce? Is this just him being flat affect or is he mad at her for some reason? Delayed resentment about the unhealthy nature of their relationship?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      August 25, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      I doubt he’s pissed at her. Ethan can’t even give his oldest friend anything better than the minimum emotional effort. Even Joyce’s naturally cheerfulness won’t break his depression. He’s not mad at her. This is just who he is now.

    • anonymsly
      anonymsly
      August 25, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

      I think it’s just flat affect. Also Joyce being cheery at him when he’s just woken up, maybe.

      • Mark
        Mark
        August 25, 2024 at 8:28 am | #

        Abruptly awakened by someone else, in a place he hadn’t meant to sleep and is now hurriedly vacating, after a night of drinking. I’d be no more than halfway present, under such circumstances.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      August 25, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

      To tell the truth, it is the first time that they meet again after everything that happened, I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem like he is upset with her, although it is very likely that they will argue about it.

    • egon
      egon
      August 25, 2024 at 2:12 am | #

      he’s just a downer now

    • Shade
      Shade
      August 25, 2024 at 4:08 am | #

      He seems like his usual self to me. Well the usual self he is now.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 25, 2024 at 2:31 pm | #

      I don’t seen him being pissed? His expression looks pretty neutral. (This remind me how often my parents think I am mad because I have a “pissed off face” when I thought I was just not expressing anything).

      • Meagan
        Meagan
        August 26, 2024 at 2:45 am | #

        I’ve been accused of this too. And yet – I’m used to a one-word “[Name]” address with a blank expression being a sign of hostility or at least coolness in visual fiction.

  10. Freezer
    Freezer
    August 25, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    Real talk: I’m impressed that Joyce A) knows what a “polycule” is B) is sufficiently not-freaked out by the concept that she can actually say it out loud.

    • Nono
      Nono
      August 25, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

      I mean she already encountered a poly relationship with Mandy/Grace/Sierra.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 25, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

      Well she does know about Sierra dm the other two girls whose names escape me right now, so it isn’t an entirely new thing for her.

    • drs
      drs
      August 25, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

      One of the Patreon bonus strips had Joyce asking Sierra et al about their “group thingy” and how they coordinated “snuggling”. When she said she’s fit 3 people into her dorm bed, they asked who was in her polycule.

      • Jerach
        Jerach
        August 25, 2024 at 8:05 pm | #

        Dang, it sounds like I’m missing out not being on the Patreon.

    • TulipKitten
      TulipKitten
      August 25, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

      Not to mention, Joyce said that she wanted to watch Dorothy and Walky have sex, which kind of teeters on ethical non-monogamy.

    • Ray Radlein
      Ray Radlein
      August 25, 2024 at 1:34 am | #

      Hey, lots of Bible folks had multiple wives

  11. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    August 25, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    Jennifer does knows they broke up, she is just also expecting that he comes to win her back eventually. She is in for quite a shock.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      August 25, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

      I wonder what kind of reaction she would manifest?
      it will be interesting

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      August 25, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

      Let’s be honest: Jennifer’s idea of “breaking up” is not really breaking up. She views it as a game.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        August 25, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

        Ruth had to break her own door handle with a freaking hammer!

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 25, 2024 at 2:26 pm | #

          To be fair to Jen there, that didn’t come out of the blue. Part of the Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact was “Billie. Please don’t [leave me]. Ever. Not even if I get stupid and make you. Stay.”

          That’s messed up in all sorts of ways, but different ones

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            August 25, 2024 at 4:07 pm | #

            This. I think people really misunderstood that Ruth basically coached Billie into not believing a breakup between them was real. That is not an indictment on how Jennifer treats every relationship. Ruth locked herself away from Billie because she expected Billie to fight for her, and even post breakup Ruth hypocritically wants to still resent Jennifer for not succeeding in keeping the relationship together in spite of her self sabotage. Ruth said all of this herself by the way. Somehow Jennifer is still the problem though.

            • NGPZ
              NGPZ
              August 25, 2024 at 6:13 pm | #

              “[Jennifer] has trouble expressing love in ways that isn’t buying stuff for people.”

              — alt text of a pre-timeskip comic

            • Jeremiah
              Jeremiah
              August 25, 2024 at 7:47 pm | #

              They can both be the problem.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                August 25, 2024 at 9:10 pm | #

                They definitely both have problems. The SLSP was deeply problematic from the very start, but “Ruth had to break her own door handle with a freaking hammer!” or “Jennifer’s idea of “breaking up” is not really breaking up. She views it as a game” are not reasonable descriptions of those problems.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      August 25, 2024 at 1:30 pm | #

      I’m gonna make a gamble here and say Jen will not care. Asher already told her point blank he made out with Ethan and she called him desperate. Jennifer has been hurt so badly by Ruth and maybe to a lesser extent Alice, that she is likely incapable of investing in anyone romantically. Raidah said get back together with him, his connections are good for my plans to control the world. Jen was like whatever.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/04-for-me-it-was-tuesday/slipaway/

      Dating Asher was never anything more than a status move to show how much better she was doing and how totally over Ruth she definitely is. Asher having options will likely sting more than him actually being off the table to Jennifer.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 25, 2024 at 2:19 pm | #

        The hurt definitely goes back before Ruth and even before Alice, basically to her parent’s emotional neglect. It’s hard to tell though how much she’s incapable of investing romantically and how much she’s incapable of admitting it. She was already incapable of recognizing what was really going on with Alice, from what little we’ve seen of the flashbacks.

        Kind of wish we’d seen more of Asher and Jennifer together. We didn’t really get a look at how they interacted privately until they started to fall apart.

      • TerribleTransit
        TerribleTransit
        August 25, 2024 at 4:25 pm | #

        My two cents: she won’t care when she finds out they’re broken up. She’ll care some when she realizes he’s not coming back. She’ll care more when she finds out them breaking up evicts her from Raidah’s clique. Which would really say a lot about her priorities.

  12. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    August 25, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    Don’t look now but “a sock” is winning 😗

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 25, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      Is that like an actual sock, or is this just earthling slang of which of which i am not familiar?

      • Straximus
        Straximus
        August 25, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

        An actual sock, yes.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 25, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

        An actual sock. Some penis-havers like to whip on onto their dongus right as they’re finishing up a J.O. session, for easy clean-up. It’s mostly a convenience thing, and if you do it, you better be cleaning the damn sock, or you’re fucking nasty and need to reevaluate certain aspects of your life.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 25, 2024 at 10:55 am | #

          Ah, one goes on the dick, the other on the doorknob. THAT’S why they come in pairs!

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            August 25, 2024 at 2:43 pm | #

            Don’t cum on your doorknob.

            • Nymph
              Nymph
              August 25, 2024 at 9:29 pm | #

              What are you, a cop?

              • NGPZ
                NGPZ
                August 25, 2024 at 9:52 pm | #

                “Remember, licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.”

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      August 25, 2024 at 8:30 am | #

      Lucy to the sock: Do what you must, Argyle-kun. I’ve already won.

  13. Kitschensyngk
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    August 25, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

    Better let Jennifer know.

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      Wraithy2773
      August 25, 2024 at 6:43 am | #

      Bah, she knows that he’s just playing hard to get! /s

  14. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 25, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

    Well at least one of them knows it’s over.

  15. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 25, 2024 at 1:01 am | #

    rough morning for Joyce

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 25, 2024 at 1:01 am | #

      I mean it’s a hangover, of course it’s gonna suck

  16. DorJoJo
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    August 25, 2024 at 2:26 am | #

    Joyce can only take so many new things in one morning

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      Proxiehunter
      August 25, 2024 at 4:36 am | #

      Fortunately Joe’s thing isn’t new. It’s as old as he is.

      • Adam Black
        Adam Black
        August 25, 2024 at 6:02 am | #

        Did you have to? really?

        Thankyou fopr inventing a nonsensical aversion I am going to keep thinking about basically forever.

      • Sajuuk-Khar
        Sajuuk-Khar
        August 25, 2024 at 8:29 am | #

        It’s important to ease that old thing in, though, and really accept its nuances. Trying to process it all at once could lead to a mishap. With your laundry. 😏

        (I don’t apologize at all.)

  17. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    August 25, 2024 at 3:47 am | #

    Joyce has made good progress and we’re all very proud of her and I hope she knows that

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 25, 2024 at 4:06 am | #

      She’s changed a lot over the course of 14 years. Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t read the comic.

  18. foducool
    foducool
    August 25, 2024 at 7:03 am | #

    does Jennifer know that it’s over?

    • Random832
      Random832
      August 25, 2024 at 8:13 am | #

      My understanding is that she has been informed but she does not believe it.

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        August 25, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

        I might be wrong but her most recent reaction seemed to be “Well I don’t need no man to be popular and successful!” after Raidah told her to get her man under control.

      • staszu13
        staszu13
        August 25, 2024 at 11:55 am | #

        Yep, Jennifer is not very big on seeing things as they are

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      August 25, 2024 at 8:25 am | #

      She told him he wasn’t her boyfriend, and is now waiting for him to “fix himself and come back”. So she has absolutely no reason not to know it’s over, but doesn’t anyway.

  19. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    August 25, 2024 at 7:30 am | #

    Joyce has the soul of a natural shipper, but she hasn’t yet studied any organic polycule chemistry.

  20. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    August 25, 2024 at 11:01 am | #

    “See, without a prepared emotional response for a situation, I default to one of my freak-out faces. You wouldn’t want that.”

  21. staszu13
    staszu13
    August 25, 2024 at 11:54 am | #

    Asher obviously not prepared to blurt out “AMAZI-GIRL IS REALLY AMBER” yet.
    Which given so many people already know, I have to think might not be useful

  22. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 25, 2024 at 12:38 pm | #

    I’m expecting the breakup news to spread like wildfire, or at the very least a controlled blaze in Jennifer’s dorm given her fanbase.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      August 25, 2024 at 6:11 pm | #

      Maybe after Jennifer hears about her breakup from fifteen different people she’ll figure out it happened. Should be fun, for us.

  23. Cass
    Cass
    August 25, 2024 at 3:53 pm | #

    It’s not like we didn’t already know it, but holy cow does Joyce look like her sister when her hair’s pulled back like that. I was looking towards the left side of my screen when the strip loaded and even with the different glasses for a second was fully thinking “Wait, was the title of the next chapter a lie and now is when Jocelyne returns?”

  24. Dday
    Dday
    August 25, 2024 at 8:16 pm | #

    What the heck is a “prepared emotional response”?
    Do you attempt to prepare an emotion so you can feel it at the right time?

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 25, 2024 at 8:32 pm | #

      It’s an emotional response that you prepare. Hope this helps. (Seriously though, I heard some other autistic call something similar “scripting” when you kind of practice an interaction in your head so you are sure what you will say or respond to a specific situation)

      • Dday
        Dday
        August 25, 2024 at 10:27 pm | #

        Sounds like how wizards have to prepare daily spells every morning in DnD.

        • Felian
          Felian
          August 29, 2024 at 5:23 am | #

          Autistic wizards unite!

      • Kelibath
        Kelibath
        August 26, 2024 at 7:46 pm | #

        This, I’d also go so far as to say making sure your face is making an expression of an appropriate type can be part of that preparation too. If you’re overly processing everything in that moment you might well forget.

  25. thumb
    thumb
    August 25, 2024 at 9:01 pm | #

    You can use my “prepared emotional response”, Joyce. Which is usually nothing and involves me being there not responding emotionally, or on my way to anywhere else not responding emotionally. Look, some of us had a dumbing of age and did not fix it over the next 20 years.

  26. anon
    anon
    August 26, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

    ‘didn’t have prepared responses’ mood lol, although surprised she would bring it up to begin with if so (although it’s not like she hasnt’ seen other throuples before; i guess if she considers herself friends with jen it’d affect her more even if she hadn’t been gushing to joyce about how much she liked asher)

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