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by David M Willis on October 24, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: dorothy, joe

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  1. ian livs
    ian livs
    October 24, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    Joe is being very chill about that fact

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 24, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

      It occurs to me that we never saw Dorothy draw that picture on the last strip, and she seemed to produce it without a lengthy break in the conversation.

      …Did she just happen to already have one on her?

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        October 24, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

        There comes a time in every friendship with Joyce Brown where you realize you need quick access to a crude drawing of her naked form for reference.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          October 24, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

          Gonna be hilarious when Becky realizes she’s the only member of Joyce’s friend group who doesn’t own one.

          • Michael Steamweed
            Michael Steamweed
            October 24, 2024 at 8:20 am | #

            She can borrow Amazi-Girl’s. AG is always prepared with emergency extra copies of crude drawings of her naked friends. (Just as Amber is always prepared with emergency extra copies of crude smut of her naked friends.)

        • Vanessa
          Vanessa
          October 24, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

          I think Joyce drew those, she also prepared the printouts. Joyce is the artist in this friendship.

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            October 24, 2024 at 2:24 pm | #

            If the backs of the paper have butts on them, then you’re right. If there’s no Joe butt, definitely Dorothy. If the butts are on a second sheet, probably Dorothy.

            I don’t know if this explanation enough, but Dorothy wouldn’t put the second diagram where it would be difficult to use at the same time. And Joyce would put the butts where they go.

            • SpongegirlCircleskirt
              SpongegirlCircleskirt
              October 24, 2024 at 9:30 pm | #

              Also dicks. Joyce will draw dicks where they go. Like on everybody’s dorm room White boards.

        • Aquila
          Aquila
          October 24, 2024 at 3:45 am | #

          How long, do you think, until they all start carrying around those “anatomically correct dolls” child therapists use?

          • Michael Steamweed
            Michael Steamweed
            October 24, 2024 at 8:22 am | #

            “Okay, show me on this crude drawing of your naked friend Joyce where she said she wanted you to touch her.”

      • Furie
        Furie
        October 24, 2024 at 5:52 am | #

        *checks files*

        Which Doctor number are you so I don’t bring the wrong image out to prove a point?

        • Michael Steamweed
          Michael Steamweed
          October 24, 2024 at 8:25 am | #

          The one who (Who?) flies around in a small blue box and occasionally puts new acquaintances into mortal danger.

    • mindbleach
      mindbleach
      October 24, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

      Game recognizes game.

  2. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 24, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    “you look like you already have a good start there”

    • Clif
      Clif
      October 24, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

      It’s becoming more apparent that Joe and Joyce are currently wanting different things from their relationship. Who else is willing to ship new Dorothy and new Joe?

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        October 24, 2024 at 5:58 am | #

        Yeah, I’m sure Joyce doesn’t want a romantic date and Joe doesn’t want sex within certain confines.

        Maybe, just maybe, they’re both UNCOMFY about different things rather than singularly focused with no interest in the other’s wants/needs.

  3. JA
    JA
    October 24, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Amazing how Joe is…cool with Dorothy studying a naked Joyce?

    • Wraithy2773
      Wraithy2773
      October 24, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      I think he understands their friendship well enough to not be threatened by it :D.

      • jeffepp
        jeffepp
        October 24, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

        He keeps trying to suggest that if Joyce and Dorothy want to… at which point starts going “la la la”.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 24, 2024 at 3:26 am | #

        They’re pals!

        • Rose by Any other Name
          Rose by Any other Name
          October 24, 2024 at 6:58 am | #

          Roomates even!

          … you might even say ‘roomies’.

      • LiamKav
        LiamKav
        October 24, 2024 at 5:17 am | #

        Also, like, of all the ways to find out your other half is cheating on you, finding someone with a crude naked cartoon drawing of them with arrows listing the various bases seems like it would cause more confusion than outrage.

      • Akane
        Akane
        October 24, 2024 at 3:18 pm | #

        I think he’d be fine if they hooked up and started dating, as long as he can still be with Joyce and support her.

    • DashWallkick
      DashWallkick
      October 24, 2024 at 1:32 am | #

      Half of the dorm thinks Joyce and Dorothy have a ‘we’re just really, really good friends’ thing going on.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        October 24, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

        That would be due to the “We’re just really, really good friends” thing they have going on.

        • morleuca
          morleuca
          October 24, 2024 at 6:54 am | #

          Yeah. I mean, they’re not even roommates!

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 24, 2024 at 8:27 am | #

        At least half of all archaeologists and historians in the future think that Dorothy and Joyce were just really, really good friends.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      October 24, 2024 at 4:25 am | #

      maybe we will be sure tomorrow, because last panel is used for joke

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      October 24, 2024 at 1:36 pm | #

      This was also more or less the same sentiment Joe showed when Joyce casually brought up “doing laundry with Dorothy” after making it clear that “doing laundry” was a euphemism for masturbation. Confused, and maybe a tiny bit worried, but not offended or angry at all.

      I’m pretty sure that at this point, he’s 100% convinced that Joyce and Dorothy and f*cking, but feels like it would be hypocritical for him, the Resident Horndog, to raise any objections to this. Which is…actually, maybe not the most healthy attitude for him to have here, to be honest!

      • Bridgebrain
        Bridgebrain
        October 24, 2024 at 9:51 pm | #

        I think he’s new to having feels, so his auto-instinct is “why would I complain about my girlfriend getting experimental with a girl, that’s hot” without examining it deeper. If it actually happened, he’d probably be really confused that he felt hurt about it (if he felt hurt about it, that might be his actual emotional reaction after all)

    • S.R.
      S.R.
      October 25, 2024 at 1:26 pm | #

      Bit of a “yeah that seems about right actually” vibe there, huh

  4. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 24, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Re: alt-text.

    Let’s hope we don’t get a wacky sitcom mix-up where Dorothy turns in the wrong thing and Robin teaches a class on Joyce’s erogenous zones.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      October 24, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      Probably less work than planning Joyce’s deflowering.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        October 24, 2024 at 5:59 am | #

        “deflowering” ew.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 24, 2024 at 8:29 am | #

        Or Joe’s.

    • Miri
      Miri
      October 24, 2024 at 4:48 am | #

      That would be amazing. Do you think Joyce would ever recover?

      If that happens, for maximum horror, it has to be a class her mother sits in on in the attempt to talk at her some more and convince her that she has everything wrong and selling Joyce’s childhood home to fund the church that sided with the guy who tried to abduct her best friend at gunpoint and then abducted her and more of her friends and pointed a gun at all of them was the pious, right thing to do. Because a church building matters, somehow, and the church is infallible despite this recent lunacy. And she’s Joyce’s mother so Joyce has to agree with her because that’s what respecting your elders means, and if only Becky weren’t gay, none of this would have happened, so why isn’t Joyce blaming her? Or the transsexuals for influencing her?

      [Note: I think an eavesdropping Carla might own this if she got to punch Carol. Ruth would definitely want to punch her… Joyce might need her wrist brace back, assuming she hasnt literally passed out from the embarrassment of having Robin present a guide to bringing her to climax in different ways…]

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:28 am | #

      The Joyce reaction would be epic. Like, the follow-up next-day comic would just be 5 panels in a row of Joyce Face (TM).

      • Throwatron
        Throwatron
        October 24, 2024 at 12:17 pm | #

        I think the Joyce face would be one panel, except that panel would be arbitrarily MUCH BIGGER than every other panel ever in the comic. Just 4 normal size panels, and one 100000 square pixel Joyce Face.

  5. Doopyboop
    Doopyboop
    October 24, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    The cycle continues until Joe and Joyce one day approach Dorothy, fingers tapping in unison, “Do you wanna join us and become a throuple?”. I mean, she’s planning the sex, planning the dates… she might as well hop aboard as a plus one at this point.

    • drs
      drs
      October 24, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

      Make it so!

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        October 24, 2024 at 2:23 am | #

        As the seamstress said to the Singer repairman.

    • Rose by Any other Name
      Rose by Any other Name
      October 24, 2024 at 7:03 am | #

      That does seem to be where this is heading.
      At least, I hope it is.
      For many reasons, not the least of which is that my lovely wife called the Joyce Throuple years ago, and we will feel very vindicated should it become cannon.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:31 am | #

      At least 1 AO3 story has been written (prolly more?) of Dorothy’s presence being the catalyst and/or lubrication for Joyce/Joe’s first sexing.

    • Throwatron
      Throwatron
      October 24, 2024 at 12:18 pm | #

      Maybe Dorothy, all this time, has simply had an administration kink?

  6. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    October 24, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Dorothy is just going to know so much about Joyce losing her virginity.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      October 24, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      ….. yeah. Yup.

    • Dante
      Dante
      October 24, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

      Of course she will! She’s gonna be there

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        October 24, 2024 at 1:37 am | #

        Finding it?

      • DJTsurugi
        DJTsurugi
        October 24, 2024 at 7:37 am | #

        she was already present for her first time flicking the bean so… ~<3

  7. Rebecca
    Rebecca
    October 24, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Ain’t it always the way. Dorothy finally got over her need to make all her friends into projects, and suddenly everyone’s coming to her desperate to be a project.

    • Throwatron
      Throwatron
      October 24, 2024 at 12:19 pm | #

      That’s the mortifying ordeal of being known, baby. That’s the price we all pay for Having Traits and Doing Things

  8. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 24, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Dorothy should just accept she’s in some sort of fledgling poly relationship. It seems unavoidable.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      October 24, 2024 at 1:41 pm | #

      I mean, joking aside, it is actually EXTREMELY avoidable, if Dorothy would finally admit to herself that special interests do not trump consent, and she doesn’t actually HAVE to say yes to everything related to her hobby.

  9. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    October 24, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    It’s not your fault Dorothy, your author just think doing this to you it’s really funny. And unfortunately for you, he is right.

  10. Yeet
    Yeet
    October 24, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    to be fair here dorothy, asking one of someone’s best friends what to do for them romantically is actually a pretty solid move

  11. Taffy
    Taffy
    October 24, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Dorothy’s not beating the allegations. Thinking about Joyce’s thighs, that stuff Joe said, the 5-strip makeout scene that leaked on Gaytreon, it’s all adding up.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      October 24, 2024 at 6:01 am | #

      Woowwwww all the Gaytreon supporters promised not to talk about Joyrothygate. You swore a solemn vow!

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 24, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

        I had my fingers crossed behind my back. And it wasn’t a pinky promise anyway. Doesn’t count. Twice over!

  12. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    October 24, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    This is the most dysfunctional polycule I’ve seen

    • Meagan
      Meagan
      October 24, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

      May your innocence be preserved.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      October 24, 2024 at 6:01 am | #

      lmao you must not see many polycules.

    • Azhrei Vep
      Azhrei Vep
      October 24, 2024 at 7:05 am | #

      This is the most functional polycule I’ve seen.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 24, 2024 at 8:37 am | #

        ^^^ This here. This RIGHT here.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:36 am | #

      Laughed aloud today when I saw this. Laughed even more when I saw Azhrei Vep’s response.

  13. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    October 24, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Crude, but he can still tell it’s Joyce.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      October 24, 2024 at 4:15 am | #

      It’s the hair.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:38 am | #

      I think it’s the jugs.

      (that carla made for her)

      ((very distinctive))

  14. Red
    Red
    October 24, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    🤣🤣🤣

  15. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    October 24, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

  16. Dara
    Dara
    October 24, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    thank you for why the fuck am I doing this, Dorothy

    i mean you could be working with the real person

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      October 24, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      I just fucking love that panel.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 24, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

      she’d rather interact with charts and stuff then people,

      she gotta scratch em autistic itches but want/need them to be something else

      • drs
        drs
        October 24, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

        I mean Dorothy has had repeated sex with two main characters, and apparently also a third. Plus WTF she did with Joyce and “laundry”.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          October 24, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

          I mean i wanna believe she gonna do it with her

          i really do

    • Effie
      Effie
      October 24, 2024 at 11:58 pm | #

      Dumbing of Age Book 15: Okay Why the Fuck am I Doing This

  17. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    October 24, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Dorothy is either going to have to be coaching both of them via radio, or she’s going to go full dominatrix director.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:41 am | #

      Might just do texting (sexting?) via phones or outright Facetiming / Zooming.

      But, yeah, totally better to just be there in-person and take charge.

  18. Nono
    Nono
    October 24, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    My only assumption is this is going to end with the scene in Little Mermaid where Dorothy is singing to Joe to “kiss the girl”.

    • mindbleach
      mindbleach
      October 24, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

      Or Stephen Colbert angrily slamming his finger into his other hand.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 24, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

      They’re going to do one of those things where Dorothy gives instructions on what to say or do through an earpiece, only she’ll be feeding lines to both Joyce and Joe.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        October 24, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

        And then we get the comedic bit where half way through she gets the channels mixed up and the instructions get fed to the wrong one but they keep going.

        • Miri
          Miri
          October 24, 2024 at 4:50 am | #

          Pegging after all? Or P-in-V after all? Or P-in-B..?

          • Throwatron
            Throwatron
            October 24, 2024 at 12:21 pm | #

            We’re talkin’ all kinds of consonants, in all kinds of vowels!

        • Mturtle7
          Mturtle7
          October 24, 2024 at 1:43 pm | #

          Thank you both so much for this image, it is INDESCRIBABLY perfect. I can absolutely see this actually happening in the strip!

  19. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 24, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    Maybe Dorothy should write a strategy guide for how to sexually pleasure Joyce Brown. Whatever happened to strategy guides anyway? I used to collect them but they don’t even make them anymore. Dorothy should bring back strategy guides.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      October 24, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      There’s no money in them when people will do it for free on the internet.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 24, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

      Those things got replaced by increasingly granular wikis. Just another think wikis have ruined.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 24, 2024 at 3:30 am | #

      Fan wikis killed strategy guides.

      It’s too bad Fandom is the go-to platform for that; it’s practically unusable on mobile.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 24, 2024 at 8:11 am | #

        The big loss here is personality. Wikis are always so stuffy and rigid, but any old strategy guide I read has actual commentary on the things in the game and more informal language. Everyone thinks they’re writing for some academic council’s approval now, and it’s disgusting.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          October 24, 2024 at 7:59 pm | #

          Eh I think wikis are fine if the site is good. I personally don’t really care about a guide or whatever having personality, I just want the information I am looking for delivered in a easy to understand manner. Difference in perspective I guess.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            October 24, 2024 at 11:16 pm | #

            Don’t get me wrong, I like direct information as much as the next person. There’s just something about “Walk into the room with six Emergent Apathys to find the chest containing a Marvin’s Fingernail” , with each of those terms being a link to a different page, that doesn’t do it for me.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            October 25, 2024 at 3:21 am | #

            Thing is, there are so many poorly written wikis on Fandom. (Especially for things like plot synopses.) I’m not asking for professional novel quality, but it seems like anything niche gets written up like a third grade book report.

            The platform’s ads don’t help either.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:43 am | #

      “The Keener Playthrough Guide to Joyce Brown’s Body”

  20. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    October 24, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    Dorothy, handing Joe the stack of papers: “Here’s your study guide. Good luck.”

  21. Jamie
    Jamie
    October 24, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    So, I guess Joe also forgot that life drawing class got moved to tonight.

    • Effie
      Effie
      October 25, 2024 at 12:00 am | #

      Did it get moved though? I’ve been wondering if Joyce just made that up

  22. Wraithy2773
    Wraithy2773
    October 24, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    Okay, dinner wise… just had a thought, would Joyce maybe find a way to like something like Korean BBQ? She has a thing about foods touching, and its just meat you grill in front of you and stuff to dip it in if you like but don’t have to.

    Its foreign to her, sure, but maybe it’d be enough to get her to expand her horizons a bit, try something a bit different, but still not set off any of her issues?

    …also, I figure Joe would go for any place that dumped raw meat in front of him to cook and devour. 😀

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      October 24, 2024 at 1:05 am | #

      OK, I kinda hate you for making me think this… so would Joyce be fine with giving Joe a BJ up until the moment he came, because then the meat and the milk/cream/mayo/choose your own nauseating food-related euphemism would be touching?

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        October 24, 2024 at 6:04 am | #

        I reported this comment because you made me read that with my own eyes.

      • Throwatron
        Throwatron
        October 24, 2024 at 12:23 pm | #

        I mean, a gentleman is supposed to give warning, just saying. Every date I ever spilled the entire jar of mayo on, didn’t call back.

      • Wraithy2773
        Wraithy2773
        October 24, 2024 at 1:24 pm | #

        …….I take no blame or credit for those thoughts. All on you, mate. 😀

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 24, 2024 at 2:28 am | #

      dammit now i hungry for Korean BBQ thanks a lot

  23. sultryglebe
    sultryglebe
    October 24, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    I am remembering Dorothy’s consternation at always getting involved with virgins (Danny, Walky). The more things change…

    • drs
      drs
      October 24, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

      Dorothy the Deflowerer

      Joe starts worshipping her as his new goddess.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        October 24, 2024 at 6:04 am | #

        “Deflowerer” ew.

      • Smallmoon
        Smallmoon
        October 24, 2024 at 6:24 am | #

        Joe: *Stands on Dorothy’s desk* Oh Captain, my Captain!
        Dororthy: What the fuck, Joe?
        Joe: I just had an overwhelming urge to do that for some reason.

      • Throwatron
        Throwatron
        October 24, 2024 at 12:24 pm | #

        Damn, maybe Dorothy is cut out to be president. She’s got the voracious sex pest bit fully down!

  24. Dday
    Dday
    October 24, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    “Look, Joe, just make her some mac n cheese and giver a kneejob.”

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:56 am | #

      Eh, I’ve had worse dates.

  25. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    October 24, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    Panel’3 is very reuseable hahaha

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:57 am | #

      A good DoA book title!

  26. Pocky
    Pocky
    October 24, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

    just be glad he didn’t see you with that naked Joyce doodle on a really raunchy page.

    Something like; holding hands, or cuddling.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 24, 2024 at 8:58 am | #

      Oh c’mon you can’t just mention that stuff here! At least put a CW or NSFW tag up front, will ya?!?!

  27. Meagan
    Meagan
    October 24, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

    Can Dorothy get these two together and mediate a conversation?

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 24, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

      And then fuck them both.

    • Mark
      Mark
      October 24, 2024 at 6:43 am | #

      Yeah, I was imagining her rounding up both of them, dragging them to a study room, making them sit, and glaring at them while they stumble through the conversation they should have had by now.

      Dorothy: so you’re agreed?
      Joyce: [small voice] yes?
      Joe: [small voice] uhhuh?
      Dorothy: Good. Do that. Without me. [storms out]

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 24, 2024 at 8:59 am | #

        Without her?!

        🙁

        • Throwatron
          Throwatron
          October 24, 2024 at 12:24 pm | #

          Yeah. Zero chance Joyce lets her leave. She needs the moral support!

      • Mturtle7
        Mturtle7
        October 24, 2024 at 1:49 pm | #

        5 minutes later, Dorothy sits at her desk with her head in her hands. “Goddamnit, I’m finally DONE with it all! I finally got them to stop creepily forcing me into the middle of their relationship, after weeks of pushing and persuading and complaining! …So WHY can’t I stop picturing them making out?!?”

  28. Qube
    Qube
    October 24, 2024 at 12:49 am | #

    well “romantic” may be a stretch there, but definitely keep it in mind for later. you never know!

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      October 24, 2024 at 6:04 am | #

      Can something not be romantic AND sexual?

      • Mark
        Mark
        October 24, 2024 at 6:45 am | #

        Yes, but they’re separate dimensions of a relationship, or an interaction.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          October 24, 2024 at 9:11 am | #

          I disagree with that, and I think it’s sad that people feel that way.

          You can have romantic sex and sexual romance, it’s not necessary to separate them unless you’re only into one half of that equation.

  29. Florence
    Florence
    October 24, 2024 at 12:56 am | #

    I can’t wait til Dorothy wears a paper mask of Joyce’s face while going on a date with Joe

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 24, 2024 at 3:32 am | #

      We see Dorothy wearing a paper mask but Joe just sees Joyce, like the Spy from Team Fortress 2‘s disguises.

      • Florence
        Florence
        October 24, 2024 at 4:32 am | #

        Joe: I feel such a deep connection right now
        Dorothy, monotone: I also feel a deep connection Joe

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        October 24, 2024 at 7:10 pm | #

        Unfortunately Joe will see right through it because he’s really watching her eyes.

  30. Bryy
    Bryy
    October 24, 2024 at 12:57 am | #

    LOVE IT.

  31. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    October 24, 2024 at 12:57 am | #

    Dorothy is considerate.

    If Joyce hadn’t asked for this it’d be creepy, but she’s considerate.

    • Francoinblanco
      Francoinblanco
      October 24, 2024 at 2:20 am | #

      In Jensen voice “she asked for this”

    • Bash
      Bash
      October 24, 2024 at 3:41 am | #

      I mean yes, obviously this would be creepy if she did it unprompted. It’s a little creepy even now.

  32. BarerMender
    BarerMender
    October 24, 2024 at 1:12 am | #

    Apropos a previous conversation:
    “Cultural appropriation is a joy-killing, curiosity-shaming, inclusion-discouraging theory that divides people naturally inclined to cross boundaries that ought to be crossed.” –Reason Magazine, October 24, 2017

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 24, 2024 at 1:18 am | #

      Damn, they been wrong for seven whole years now.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 24, 2024 at 1:43 am | #

      Congrats you are a whole week late to be weird about this topic

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      October 24, 2024 at 6:07 am | #

      All I’m hearing is “white people should never be told ‘no’ about anything because it makes me sad”.

      Cultural appropriation doesn’t shame curiosity, it is a concept that aims to explain the preservation of culturally important practices that shouldn’t be stolen, monetized, and stripped of all meaning.

      Some things are not for you. Children learn this, you can too.

      • Big Z
        Big Z
        October 24, 2024 at 8:06 am | #

        And honestly, it’s amazing how FEW things are not for sharing if you approach them with a sincere “hey, that looks really interesting and I’m curious — is it okay for me to learn?” rather than a “hey, I love that aesthetic, I’m going to lazily copy it regardless of what meaning it has for you”.

        • BarerMender
          BarerMender
          October 24, 2024 at 9:40 am | #

          I should beg permission of others to learn about ideas and techniques that are presented in public? Where do you get off? And some people lazily copy, while some people enliven their culture with a merging of ideas, and you don’t get to say in advance which is which.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            October 24, 2024 at 1:22 pm | #

            Who said beg? Nobody said that but you. Nobody’s making advance judgement calls, either. You’re arguing against points nobody is making, and that’s worthless. You’d get more value screaming into a hole, because at least you might startle an ant. It’s extremely easy to see the difference between learning about a culture and appropriating, and if you’d stop this childish “Ooh something’s being taken from me when you say I should ask first” shit, maybe you could spend that energy learning things instead.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        October 24, 2024 at 9:35 am | #

        All I’m hearing is “white people shouldn’t borrow from other cultures because it makes me feel guilty.”

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          October 25, 2024 at 3:25 am | #

          Yes, indeed, white people should not “borrow” things that are not meant to be practiced by outsiders. Nobody should be. There’s so many cool things that are not closed practices that you can partake in – food, sports, many forms of dance or art, lots of clothes, and of course learning about things is almost always fine. You don’t need to partake in things that outsiders aren’t allowed to partake in to do that. Most of the time it’s something sacred, ritually related or something with a lot of cultural context that should not be removed from that context. Hell, there are things from white cultures like that.

    • drs
      drs
      October 24, 2024 at 1:53 pm | #

      So, I think a lot of “cultural appropriation” claims are overblown myself, but let me give something that made me go “uh, wait a minute.”

      Bill Willingham’s comic _Fables_. It has its flaws, but I liked a lot about it, especially early on. Anyway, it has a special volume, 1001 Nights, where main character Snow White is emissary to the Arabian fables, and gets trapped into the “I’ll kill you in the morning” scenario, which she avoids by telling stories. So far, so good; Snow White was a very established very main character, and letting her borrow the Scheherazade tactic is fine by me. But.

      Eventually she gets out of the situation, and is leaving, and passes the ‘real’ Scheherazade going in to be the next victim… *and gives her the idea of storytelling to save her life.*

      This is, like, cultural appropriation _within_ the story. Meta-appropriation. Taking the idea traditionally attributed to Scheherazade, having it be invented by the whitest of white women, and having her give it back to Scheherazade.

      Eww.

      I could still re-read Fables, because there was a lot of cool stuff about the story. But a lot of sour notes too, and that was a big one.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      October 24, 2024 at 2:00 pm | #

      Libertarian Magazine, lol

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      October 24, 2024 at 3:53 pm | #

      why would you admit to reading that thing where people can see

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      October 24, 2024 at 6:38 pm | #

      I mean, I’ve seen people shaming those who’d wear foreign clothes… offered to them BY the foreign people whose countries they were visiting so there is something to that.
      Like I get the issue but seriously, calm down about it and don’t try to lynch people who are just bonding with others.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 24, 2024 at 6:47 pm | #

        White people sure love putting on a yukata and sombrero so they can get up on the cross they built themselves in shop class and scold brick walls for putting them up there

        • Mark
          Mark
          October 24, 2024 at 10:09 pm | #

          I have never ever done that.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            October 24, 2024 at 11:04 pm | #

            That’s what someone would say if it was all over their Instagram and they didn’t want us to find out.

        • Da Boy
          Da Boy
          October 25, 2024 at 4:22 am | #

          Naah that’s just Americans, like with their DNA tests “Ooohhh, I’m percentage of this and percentage of that and” no, you’re not. You are American, born and bred. Stop appropriating.

  33. foducool
    foducool
    October 24, 2024 at 2:29 am | #

    in comedy, timing is half the joke already

  34. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    October 24, 2024 at 4:28 am | #

    You asked for it

    Jaina Proudmore 🤝🏻 Joe

    (I’m feeling kinda nostalgic for Wow lately, and plot doesn’t help me to avoid it)

  35. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    October 24, 2024 at 5:07 am | #

    Joe’s fingers (not fingering) are a hoot. They really give away how new this is to him.

  36. Suet
    Suet
    October 24, 2024 at 5:39 am | #

    Crude (and nearly accurate) Joyce drawing next to a Joe drawing with stick hair.

    A cure to self-consciousness is helping them embrace it

  37. Stephen Nedland
    Stephen Nedland
    October 24, 2024 at 6:36 am | #

    Just make the throuple already!

  38. Matrix
    Matrix
    October 24, 2024 at 7:31 am | #

    This is your own fault, Dorothy

  39. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    October 24, 2024 at 8:17 am | #

    Joe totally takes in stride the fact that Dorothy has a crude drawing of naked Joyce next to a sheet of paper that says “Fingering”.

    He’s a good Joe. 🙂

  40. goggleman64
    goggleman64
    October 24, 2024 at 8:48 am | #

    Regarding the alt-text: Willis, don’t you see? Joyce just wrote the textbook *for* her. All Dorothy needs to do is bind up all those papers 🙂

  41. Jammy
    Jammy
    October 24, 2024 at 10:02 am | #

    Maybe there’s still time for Yale and becoming President in the next 40 years. Seems easier.

  42. bejouled
    bejouled
    October 24, 2024 at 11:50 am | #

    I hadn’t been checking this for a while, very happy I decided to catch up.

    I hope Dorothy tells Joe that Joyce really wants to have sex with him and just doesn’t know how to articulate it

  43. Jdorr
    Jdorr
    October 24, 2024 at 12:46 pm | #

    He’s git you there Dorothy

  44. Banana Slamma
    Banana Slamma
    October 24, 2024 at 1:10 pm | #

    Dorothy, this is the part where you teach a Joyce or Joe to fish rather than doing it for them. You’re enabling something unhealthy I’m not licensed to diagnose (so I don’t know exactly what it is).
    But they’re good kids, they’ll figure it out or break up. Both are healthy outcomes.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 24, 2024 at 3:13 pm | #

      I mean I don’t think it’s anything that can be be diagnosed and just young adults trying to navigate a new relationship.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      October 24, 2024 at 3:35 pm | #

      Teaching them is literally what she’s being expected to do, though.

  45. Mturtle7
    Mturtle7
    October 24, 2024 at 1:56 pm | #

    “Joe, I assure you there is a PERFECTLY INNOCENT EXPLANATION for this!”
    “…Really? How?”
    “…”
    “…”
    “…Ok, so there definitely isn’t. But there IS a HETEROSEXUAL explanation for this!”
    “Cool, cool. Let’s hear it then.”
    “See, Joyce doesn’t want to have penis-in-vagina sex yet, so she asked me to teach her how to – OK, wait, that still sounds super gay, let me start over – “

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 24, 2024 at 6:41 pm | #

      Eventually, Joyce returns and finds Dorothy and Joe still at the table, except they’re trying to piece together a clear sentence in plain English that doesn’t make this look gay.

  46. Zamperla
    Zamperla
    October 24, 2024 at 8:58 pm | #

    I don’t think the polycules ever working out, and yet I think somehow legally this is almost a polycule.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 24, 2024 at 9:04 pm | #

      By Indiana State law, Dorothy and Joe would have to have cohabitated for at least one day, for it to count.

  47. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 25, 2024 at 3:18 am | #

    He has a point, Dorothy! XD Accept your place as their regulator.

  48. brumagem
    brumagem
    October 27, 2024 at 6:05 pm | #

    Joe needs help arranging an “interest meeting”

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