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Haha, I smell a “bless your heart” coming. The best revenge is often served with a smile. Maybe Sarah is trying honey instead of vinegar. Maybe mix them together to make a vinaigrette.
In my family, “Well, bless your heart” was the polite fu, while “Bless your ole heart” is both “You poor thing” and a kinder, gentler “you done put your foot in it”.
although, i know he and sarah aren’t exactly friends but i didn’t think she disliked him enough to basically ‘roast’ him in front of everyone like how sal was like “yep, two weeks exactly, called it”
unless there’s enough ‘misery’ to where she’d be in ‘smile vampire’ mode or so
Body swapping is a forever trope. It’s timeless like kids suddenly becoming adults, the one episode where grandma visits just to die, or any movie about a seemingly average man that’s actually a secret badass.
Since the last time Sarah looked this happy, it was from balance in the Force. So do we think the balance this time is coming from her own suffering, or from Jennifer’s?
Because I love inserting things like this: something close to an ACTUAL ‘kanji’ for Inverse Mood Method would be: 『感情状態の反転法』(read: kanjou joutai no hanten-hou, meaning “Emotional State Reversal Technique”)
We don’t get to see Jennifer and Sal bouncing off each other like this very often. I like it.
As for the brainworms thing, I am currently running through DoA characters in my head to determine which one would be most likely to eat a roadkilled bear. Right now I’m thinking Toedad.
I would put money on Malaya being the most likely to eat road kill. I do not think she is very smart and she could probably be convinced to do anything if she thought it would get under Sal’s skin somehow.
Freaky Friday is one of those story premises that will never age, so much so that I have to wonder if there are lost ancient plays or legends about switching bodies and having to learn lessons about empathy.
For the specific parent/child version, I think that’s roughly when people started caring what kids thought about things. Before then, kids don’t need to understand how tough being an adult is, they just need to do what they’re told. And adults certainly don’t need to understand how tough being a kid is.
The thing is I can’t really find earlier examples of a body swap in general.
I think impersonation might have filled the same dramatic role in earlier works, but the idea of two people swapping bodies seems to be a modern invention.
phew, there’s apparently a Buddhist legend that involves body swapping. A Pandita who transfers his mind to a dead elephant, to move it out of a village’s fresh water supply. While he’s doing that, someone else mistakes his unoccupied (and much younger) body for a corpse, and transfers their mind to the Pandita’s body. Then he comes back and has to put his mind in the other guy’s body.
Dampa Sangye is the name of one of the guys or the other, depending on the version of the legend.
My theory is she’s trying to be more like Lucy in a last ditch effort here. But it could totally be Jennifer’s suffering canceling things out cosmically.
There is always a chance Sarah has grown as a character. Maybe she just realized that being so guarded and misanthropic is what blew her chance with Jacob so she’s chosen to take the L with him and move on as a brighter person for the next guy. Hopefully someone even taller and with a better haircut.
To be fair, I don’t know if it’s not working for him or if, well, Willis’s art style just… doesn’t work for it. Because seriously, he looks like he’s got his previous buzzcut style, but someone slapped an omelet on his head. And, well, that last person we saw with a somewhat similar haircat (https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/arrangement/) didn’t look all that great either.
Aw, I like the bleached locks! I think they work for him, but also, I’m pretty intrigued how a guy so straightlaced decided this was something he wanted to do with his image?
… Is Jacob the kind of person who does stuff to their hair after a breakup?
I think it has more to do with the conversation with his brother? I forget the exact details but wasn’t it something like “You need to stop worrying about my approval.” or some such.
I think it’s just a popular black mail hairstyle. It’s been credited to Michal B Jordan’s look in the first Black Panther movie for breaking into the mainstream. Short, side swept dreads, sometimes dyed. It was actually a talking point amongst the black community this year for being overused in media, which it is.
I feel like it’s maybe that, or maybe her having that moment at the party where she realized she’d almost jeopardized her scholarship to try to get with Jacob, and decided she needed to put some distance there.
Hairstyle aside, even with character growth and new realizations, it’s very rare that people can completely shift their personalities overnight. That takes work and time.
She’d already been trying to open up to Jacob, with mixed success at best. If she’s trying to be less guarded and misanthropic here, it’s a mask. She’s just faking it, at least for now.
That sounds like the Crocodile Hunter. *Steve Irwin voice* It looks like we’ve discovered a trans person. Isn’t she a little beauty. The most important thing is not to freak out.
maybe she got post-nut clarity with ‘other jacob’? 8D; if not thinking something like “it’s lucy, it’s not gonna last with her” or so versus only wanting to hook up versus a long term relationship
Sal and Jennifer’s Statler and Waldorf act is pretty fun. Sal’s funner when she’s bouncing off of someone and not just being a smug prick on her lonesome.
“They’re bound to be miserable after last night, wondering if they’re doing it (heh) for the right reasons, just the right amount of misery to cause this happy state.”
*come out happy and holding hands*
“Okay, new theory, somewhere there’s someone being subjected to all the miseries of the world to balance these scales.”
“Do you hear that Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when the six-fingered man killed my father. And somewhere else in the world, a college student was having a pretty good day.”
I mean Jacob’s kindness was one of the (many) things that attracted Sarah to him. I going off of panel 2, I really do feel like she was hoping he would be patient enough to wait for Sarah to work through her issues. It could be she holds no one at fault but she’s taken a soberingly happy outlook that she doesn’t need to worry about romance anymore because she’ll never be good enough for anyone so why worry. Her scholarship will be secure and she doesn’t have to worry about ever putting herself out there even by a toe again.
Kinda dismal but I can see Sarah’s misery being so deep she flipped a switch in her brain.
lol, not that you can’t work through it with a romantic relationship, but feels like sarah needs like 2-3 more good healthy genuine relationships that aren’t with joyce before moving on to attempting to date someone (tho she’s young and a teenager so she’ll probably go by instinct/impulse as opposed to doing that lol)
I’m standing by my “emotions have been unplugged: Now I don’t have to be vulnerable again, yay!” from these last days…
But oh, you’re so, so right.
Remember Walky saying something about their peer group’s smooch chart being an ouroboros? This has done it. This has closed the loop of awkwardness. You’ve got Danny and Sal with Walky and Dorothy being there (Walky hates Danny, unrelatedly Dorothy is Danny’s ex), plus there’s Lucy and Jacob (Walky’s ex, plus a guy who’s in every way Better), and let’s not forget the freshly, freshly dumped Jennifer (whom Sarah does NOT like.)
Of course Sarah’s smiling, she just decided she’d face the future with her head on high, and dignity intact! Let’s wake up and smell the misery! [ifeelgood.mp3]
There’s no need to want her back or anything to feel awkward or guilty, though? Life is messy like that.
And Walky’s insecurity stemmed from perceiving Jacob as… Well, the beautiful, tall, emotionally and academically smart guy built like a brick shithouse that he is (and Walky is not.) Granted, this is an unkind self-assessment from his side, but then again – he’s seen his weenus in the shower to boot.
Sigh… that woulda been pretty spicy but Walky already said the most interesting part of last night was holding up Amber’s hair while she was barfing, and he said this early in the morning in bed with just Dotty. It’s not physically impossible but it’s not likely -_-
That’s what ppl said about carla and charlie, tho sarah herself said walky was too short for her lol , i’m sure there’s an explanation
although while some ppl would criticize the writing, it would be funny for some long running series for some charas to have a complete personality change and it’s never addressed/explained
Either she has a twisted form of happy-drunk which is happy-hungover
She’s feeding off of Jennifer’s unhappiness
Or
She never believed she really had a chance with Jacob because he’s “too good for her” and him hooking up with Lucy is just proof that she was right all along making her feel smugly vindicated
Honestly, my theory is that Sarah is realizing she’s asexual, but still very much into fantasizing about this. She doesn’t actually want to personally do Jacob, but the idea that someone she doesn’t totally despise gets to do him? Good enough!
I think that as well, not least because they’ve had that exact conversation with each other quite sometime ago.
Sarah’s stated position has been that she doesn’t want to be his girlfriend, she wants to use his body a few times and then move on. Over time, that got muddled up with ‘get him away from Raidah’, plus Joyce’s insistence on romantically shipping Jacob+Sarah, plus the fact that Sarah genuinely likes Jacob as a friend shape – it looked like romantic interest even to Sarah.
I think it’s possible that she expected seeing him with Lucy to hurt, and then it didn’t, and she’s reveling a bit.
Of course it’s also possible that ‘being vulnerable and open didn’t work’ and she’s doubling down out of spite instead of giving up and going back to her Feral Cat social style.
See, I don’t think that’s true at all, despite Sarah saying much of it. If it was just sexual, she would have moved on long ago. She’s scared of opening up enough for romance, but that doesn’t mean she’s not actually interested.
Though the scholarship risk there seems more theoretical than real. The chances of any real university consequences from a small mild drinking party seem pretty negligible.
Man, I am NOT looking forward to the Sarah complete & utter breakdown/rage that’s going to happen from this.
I can just feel all the snarky comments she’s going to make the moment Walky & Dorothy are there.
Does no one else have such extreme anxiety around an uncertain potential romance that being rejected is a genuine relief just because you finally know what’s happening? Because it may not be all sunshine and roses but if I were in Sarah’s shoes, “sorry I don’t like you that way and I’m unavailable now” would be infinitely preferable to him refusing to give a straight answer.
Anyway that’s how I’m reading this. For now. Not gonna be surprised if there’s another shoe in the air though.
( could sarah have been with Walky as the unicorn ?)
esp if she’s with someone whos going to make jacob and Lucy jealous?
a twofer.
or Maybe she took pictures … emailed them to Raidah, and she knows Raidah is right behind her .
Lucy is suffiently Joyce like, this might irritate her.
( its possible she thinks this will be a flash in the pan and she will be there to scoop him up. Its possible she thought the same thing about Joyce, if so this would help her. There are certainly signs that Lucy is on the rebound, and she is overly clingy for Jacob. and Jacob wont prioritze a relationship timewise to the degree Walky did. Which will frustrate Lucy and cause her to pressure jacob and he will dump her ( because he likes emotional connection but also likes being very loosely attached )
IMHO his couple isnt going to last unless they change.
and shes not ready to date jacob but maybe is a few weeks, and Jcob getting sick of her ant wanting an anti-lucy, Sarah will be right there.
Not that I sit around thinking up ways for Walky to be put through the wringer, what if he’s personally walking Dorothy to all her classes, to make sure she’s going, and she has a class with Lyle whom they run into while they’re kissing or something. Walky and Dorothy. Not Lyle and Dorothy. Or actually, that would work too.
Okay so she’s clearly blindingly hurt and outraged, and if we get a normal storyline it’ll end with her admitting it’s because she’s mad at herself for being like this and putting herself in a situation where she was outflanked by someone like Lucy.
Or, moonshot here — her first attempts at a relationship that we’ve seen gets us a peek into why she’s so withdrawn, even before Dana. Possibly a boyfriend when she was a teenager or something.
Yeah, this happened to her before. There was a Christopher years back that her sister Liz made out with, with her having been withdrawn and apparently, that pushing him in Liz’s direction.
Somewhere, someone is so miserable that Sarah has to be incredibly happy no matter what she wants. And that someone… is also Sarah. Guys, she’s disassociating so hard.
Has everyone forgotten? Jeez. I read through the comments and everything.
Sarah happy equals someone else miserable. And here we have a double helping:
– Jennifer, and deservedly so,
– Walky, realizing how easily replaceable he was to Lucy, and wondering if he gravitated back to Dorothy just to follow the path of least resistance yet again.
Sheesh, guys. Have some coffee or something. jk luvu bai 🤭
At this point, Jacob has, whatever his passing interactions with Joyce and Sarah, only chosen to date… Raidha and Lucy. Both of whom… cause disquiet when they are in page. While the mechanisms and motives involved vary the end point is the same – interactions with either seem to end poorly for others, and neither will ever believe themselves to blame.
Jacob’s instincts for relationship partners are bad enough that I really do hope he decides to pick the sock.
Honestly lets see where this is going, I could absolutely see having a total attempt at honestly turning a new leaf after fumbling a dude who looks like Jacob.
Actually I could see that. Sarah was already changing and trying thanks to Joyce but wasn’t moving quickly. A big blow like losing a guy she was really into because of her emotional issued cpupd have been the final push to drive a turn around
After some careful analysis I’ve decided to turn against Jacob. I did ship him and Sarah and I still think they would be nice together, but I’m now with the crowd saying they aren’t compatible. Nothing to do with their personalities, I just think Jacob was playing games with Sarah and she deserves better than him. In hindsight he kind of fed her a lot of nice sentiments without really giving her back the answer she deserved.
Theory: Sarah’s happy because her view that shit is awful for her and will remain so was confirmed. It’s less that she’s good with what happened than her world view has been validated
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oh no, sarah wanting walky smells like spite
Haha, I smell a “bless your heart” coming. The best revenge is often served with a smile. Maybe Sarah is trying honey instead of vinegar. Maybe mix them together to make a vinaigrette.
Yeah, here in the South “Bless your heart” is considered a more polite way of saying “fuck you” (no I’m not saying where)
Sometimes it’s also a “You poor thing,” or “you done fucked up” depending on tone and context.
In my family, “Well, bless your heart” was the polite fu, while “Bless your ole heart” is both “You poor thing” and a kinder, gentler “you done put your foot in it”.
Yeah, “bless your heart” is a lot more versatile a phrase than people not from the Southern U.S. give it credit for.
Someone might have to go get him, too. He’s … doing laundry. Which is also suspicious, come to think of it.
It suddenly occurred to me that Sarah knows and this is her secret plan to make them all late and cold out of spite.
That seems like such a low reach for Sarah. Not really good revenge.
That makes way more sense than I wish it did.
i mean not like walky wasn’th there/saw too
although, i know he and sarah aren’t exactly friends but i didn’t think she disliked him enough to basically ‘roast’ him in front of everyone like how sal was like “yep, two weeks exactly, called it”
unless there’s enough ‘misery’ to where she’d be in ‘smile vampire’ mode or so
Who is the secret trans person?
Carla. Mary told her.
It is Carla, probably.
For some definition of secret anyway.
who’s Carla?
Let’s say that one goth girl who doesn’t even get character tags.
I thought Bloodrose finally got tagged. I guess not.
I mean, it might get dated if nobody is aware that they’re still making new Freaky Friday movies.
Incidentally today I learned that they are still making new Freaky Friday movies.
Body swapping is a forever trope. It’s timeless like kids suddenly becoming adults, the one episode where grandma visits just to die, or any movie about a seemingly average man that’s actually a secret badass.
Yep big staple in gender bender manga
And somehow doesn’t get Darker And Edgier™ each time!
Sal and Billie are good in the Statler-Waldorf Alliance
They really are. I like their rhythm.
“When it was over! Oh hoh hoh hoh hoh!”
Nice comparison, but she hasn’t been Billie in some time, it’s Jennifer now. I would assume she becomes Billie again if she falls off the wagon
And brother, that wagon’s gettin’ real shaky…
What in the fuck is going on!?
Were you not paying attention: brainworms! We have to get the heck out of here before we’re infected!
Oh come on, surely not ALL us brainworms are that bad
So it is *your* fault Sarah is happy. You monster.
If I made her a baller goth with superpowers you’d be thrilled! XD
Well, yes. Can you do that?
I’ve been on the receiving end of unexpected superpower, I don’t recommend it.
Yep one of them kinda knocked RFK Jr out of the Presidential race
alien parasites are much preferable to the earthling variety
Since the last time Sarah looked this happy, it was from balance in the Force. So do we think the balance this time is coming from her own suffering, or from Jennifer’s?
Definitely Jennifer, Sarah’s logic is she’s normally the unhappy one and can only be happy when somebody else becomes unhappy.
Maybe she’s discovered a new variation on the Inverse Mood Technique (漢字) where she’s able to be friendly and smiley based off her own pain.
Please, “based on.” When you base things off things, they fall down.
Sorry. i might be a little obsessive.
…for the record, 漢字 (hànzì) means “Chinese character”.
Wow, hànzi looks pretty cool, I should get a tattoo of it.
Because I love inserting things like this: something close to an ACTUAL ‘kanji’ for Inverse Mood Method would be: 『感情状態の反転法』(read: kanjou joutai no hanten-hou, meaning “Emotional State Reversal Technique”)
Awesome! It sounds like a Sailor Moon attack.
Galactica Space Turbulence! Emotional State Reversal Technique! Star Gentle Uterus!
Joyce could use some of that last one, roughly once a month.
Every other month; only one of her ovaries really wants her dead
i mean, jen’s usually more miserable than happy so idk if it’d affect sarah even if they are’t rly friends
We don’t get to see Jennifer and Sal bouncing off each other like this very often. I like it.
As for the brainworms thing, I am currently running through DoA characters in my head to determine which one would be most likely to eat a roadkilled bear. Right now I’m thinking Toedad.
I’m not sure I believe RFK when he says that Bear was roadkill.
Willis is correct about Freaky Friday not being dated ever, but “brain worms” has been surpassed by “roadkill bear” and later “minivan whale head”.
Given the advance of his buffer this will happen.
Maybe he roadkill-ed it?
Also, Sal is actually calling her Jennifer (or at least a diminutive of it). Progress.
Siblings do tend to come together in a crisis.
I also like this Sal and Jennifer dynamic.
I would put money on Malaya being the most likely to eat road kill. I do not think she is very smart and she could probably be convinced to do anything if she thought it would get under Sal’s skin somehow.
“Malaya, ah’m absolutely not gonna cut that whale carcass open an’ sleep in it for warmth.”
“What, you’re not good enough to sleep in a whale carcass? It’s the best thing! Fakey!”
Good one!
Freaky Friday is one of those story premises that will never age, so much so that I have to wonder if there are lost ancient plays or legends about switching bodies and having to learn lessons about empathy.
Wikipedia lists the earliest examples as having been late 1800s, which I do find surprisingly recent as an origination point.
For the specific parent/child version, I think that’s roughly when people started caring what kids thought about things. Before then, kids don’t need to understand how tough being an adult is, they just need to do what they’re told. And adults certainly don’t need to understand how tough being a kid is.
The thing is I can’t really find earlier examples of a body swap in general.
I think impersonation might have filled the same dramatic role in earlier works, but the idea of two people swapping bodies seems to be a modern invention.
Mary Shelly invented the body swap?! That sounds both incredibly true and incredibly false.
phew, there’s apparently a Buddhist legend that involves body swapping. A Pandita who transfers his mind to a dead elephant, to move it out of a village’s fresh water supply. While he’s doing that, someone else mistakes his unoccupied (and much younger) body for a corpse, and transfers their mind to the Pandita’s body. Then he comes back and has to put his mind in the other guy’s body.
Dampa Sangye is the name of one of the guys or the other, depending on the version of the legend.
Maybe Sarah actually got laid last night off-screen and she’s happy how’s
Im scared
Uhm…okay. That is a bit scary.
Maybe she has Schadenfreude. But I’m still leaning towards her feeling freed from what was making her anxious.
this is actually terrifying the body snatchers are here
My theory is she’s trying to be more like Lucy in a last ditch effort here. But it could totally be Jennifer’s suffering canceling things out cosmically.
I hope that it’s the she’s trying to change and better herself and be more like Lucy.
Stepford smiler incoming, eta end of day.
There is always a chance Sarah has grown as a character. Maybe she just realized that being so guarded and misanthropic is what blew her chance with Jacob so she’s chosen to take the L with him and move on as a brighter person for the next guy. Hopefully someone even taller and with a better haircut.
Well, that last one should be easy, that bleached hair look is not working for him.
I know what he’s going for but I think it’s just in an awkward length phase right now. If he can grow it out more it won’t look like a bad wig.
To be fair, I don’t know if it’s not working for him or if, well, Willis’s art style just… doesn’t work for it. Because seriously, he looks like he’s got his previous buzzcut style, but someone slapped an omelet on his head. And, well, that last person we saw with a somewhat similar haircat (https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/arrangement/) didn’t look all that great either.
Aw, I like the bleached locks! I think they work for him, but also, I’m pretty intrigued how a guy so straightlaced decided this was something he wanted to do with his image?
… Is Jacob the kind of person who does stuff to their hair after a breakup?
I think it has more to do with the conversation with his brother? I forget the exact details but wasn’t it something like “You need to stop worrying about my approval.” or some such.
I think it’s just a popular black mail hairstyle. It’s been credited to Michal B Jordan’s look in the first Black Panther movie for breaking into the mainstream. Short, side swept dreads, sometimes dyed. It was actually a talking point amongst the black community this year for being overused in media, which it is.
Maybe. I can certainly imagine a hairstyle with this general vibe that looks good.
I thought it looks like ramen noodles, but omelet works too.
As a penalty for actually having more panel time is that he got redesigned to have this dumb fuck boy hairstyle.
I feel like it’s maybe that, or maybe her having that moment at the party where she realized she’d almost jeopardized her scholarship to try to get with Jacob, and decided she needed to put some distance there.
And maybe Walky and Dorothy are late because they found that unicorn.
… if they’ve found the unicorn, what does Dorothy need Walky for?
OH. Different unicorn. Never mind.
Or someone shorter, but they’re a thousand times more compatible.
Hairstyle aside, even with character growth and new realizations, it’s very rare that people can completely shift their personalities overnight. That takes work and time.
She’d already been trying to open up to Jacob, with mixed success at best. If she’s trying to be less guarded and misanthropic here, it’s a mask. She’s just faking it, at least for now.
What we’ve seen isn’t a shift in personalities, it’s a shift in mood. It’s probably going to fade, but that doesn’t mean it’s fake.
That’s fair, though I’m responding to a post that seems to be claiming more than just a mood shift.
I’ve been foiled again by nesting
Nothing but good things can happen here. I don’t even notice that other shoe dangling precariously.
That sounds like the Crocodile Hunter. *Steve Irwin voice* It looks like we’ve discovered a trans person. Isn’t she a little beauty. The most important thing is not to freak out.
Who are you, cheerful smiling woman, and what have you done with Sarah?
maybe she got post-nut clarity with ‘other jacob’? 8D; if not thinking something like “it’s lucy, it’s not gonna last with her” or so versus only wanting to hook up versus a long term relationship
Wait for Walky?
Okay, now I’m getting worried.
Walky and Dorothy come out yelling at each other?
edible with her breakfast cereal?
Sal and Jennifer’s Statler and Waldorf act is pretty fun. Sal’s funner when she’s bouncing off of someone and not just being a smug prick on her lonesome.
Oh jeeeeez, Sarah isn’t going to chainsaw a whale’s head off and strap it to her car now?
Sarah’s here for the chaos
New theory: She self-medicated and she’s currently high/drunk AF.
uncanny valley UNCANNY VALLEY *UNCANNY VALLEY*
I’m gonna be honest Joyce looks a lot like Jocelyn in this one.
They have the same face.
Joyce, shut up
“They’re bound to be miserable after last night, wondering if they’re doing it (heh) for the right reasons, just the right amount of misery to cause this happy state.”
*come out happy and holding hands*
“Okay, new theory, somewhere there’s someone being subjected to all the miseries of the world to balance these scales.”
“…is it me?”
“I wasn’t going to say it, Jenny.”
“I do hate being called that, it’s true.”
“Do you hear that Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when the six-fingered man killed my father. And somewhere else in the world, a college student was having a pretty good day.”
Mom come pick me up I’m scared
I mean Jacob’s kindness was one of the (many) things that attracted Sarah to him. I going off of panel 2, I really do feel like she was hoping he would be patient enough to wait for Sarah to work through her issues. It could be she holds no one at fault but she’s taken a soberingly happy outlook that she doesn’t need to worry about romance anymore because she’ll never be good enough for anyone so why worry. Her scholarship will be secure and she doesn’t have to worry about ever putting herself out there even by a toe again.
Kinda dismal but I can see Sarah’s misery being so deep she flipped a switch in her brain.
lol, not that you can’t work through it with a romantic relationship, but feels like sarah needs like 2-3 more good healthy genuine relationships that aren’t with joyce before moving on to attempting to date someone (tho she’s young and a teenager so she’ll probably go by instinct/impulse as opposed to doing that lol)
Ah. People, the reason she’s happy is that she expects Walky to come out and make this whole situation awkward and painful for the group.
I’m standing by my “emotions have been unplugged: Now I don’t have to be vulnerable again, yay!” from these last days…
But oh, you’re so, so right.
Remember Walky saying something about their peer group’s smooch chart being an ouroboros? This has done it. This has closed the loop of awkwardness. You’ve got Danny and Sal with Walky and Dorothy being there (Walky hates Danny, unrelatedly Dorothy is Danny’s ex), plus there’s Lucy and Jacob (Walky’s ex, plus a guy who’s in every way Better), and let’s not forget the freshly, freshly dumped Jennifer (whom Sarah does NOT like.)
Of course Sarah’s smiling, she just decided she’d face the future with her head on high, and dignity intact! Let’s wake up and smell the misery! [ifeelgood.mp3]
Where does Walky say he hates Danny, and is the feeling mutual?
If Danny, and Sal get married then the both of them will have to learn to keep their hate to themselves.
I don’t know if Walky hates Danny, but he’s disdainful towards him. It’s Walky’s toxic masculinity, he tends to be a little shit to other guys.
Dignity intact! Dignity intact!
i mean walky and her already talked things through unless he somehow feels threatened by jacob and suddenly ‘wants her back’ or so lol
There’s no need to want her back or anything to feel awkward or guilty, though? Life is messy like that.
And Walky’s insecurity stemmed from perceiving Jacob as… Well, the beautiful, tall, emotionally and academically smart guy built like a brick shithouse that he is (and Walky is not.) Granted, this is an unkind self-assessment from his side, but then again – he’s seen his weenus in the shower to boot.
…did Sarah hook up with someone and we didn’t see?
From our POV we might as well blacked out that night so who knows what happened with her after Lucy & Jacob hooked up.
imagine if she somehow hookedup with walky(tho i doubt it lol)
or she talked to ‘amazigirl’ and seeing their issues put her own stuff into persepctive
Sigh… that woulda been pretty spicy but Walky already said the most interesting part of last night was holding up Amber’s hair while she was barfing, and he said this early in the morning in bed with just Dotty. It’s not physically impossible but it’s not likely -_-
That’s what ppl said about carla and charlie, tho sarah herself said walky was too short for her lol , i’m sure there’s an explanation
although while some ppl would criticize the writing, it would be funny for some long running series for some charas to have a complete personality change and it’s never addressed/explained
“Agatha all along” is playing in a loop in my head right now.
Whatever Sarah has planned… I hope it isn’t a “plan” “plan” just “life” “lifing” kind of thing with awkwardness for everyone.
That “you deserve Jacob” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
We can infer a lot from that. Maybe too much.
Comments have been already made elsewhere so I’ll just jot down here
Sarah DOES look like her little sister when her smile reaches her eyes (?) like this. Holy shit.
Either she has a twisted form of happy-drunk which is happy-hungover
She’s feeding off of Jennifer’s unhappiness
Or
She never believed she really had a chance with Jacob because he’s “too good for her” and him hooking up with Lucy is just proof that she was right all along making her feel smugly vindicated
if she didn’t get a ‘boost’ of happiness for joe lying to joyce about getting drunk b/c i don’t think she’d be too happy with them hooking up soon too
I think she’s hurt, but showing that would make her vulnerable. Instead she has overcorrected to a degree that is freaking everyone out.
Sarah is gonna make everyone as uncomfortable as she is. Joyful out of spite.
Sarah has definitely broken, hasn’t she?
Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Sarah scares me and I don’t like.
lol if sarah being ‘peppy’ is making everyone uncomfortable i’d do it for longer too lol
Honestly, my theory is that Sarah is realizing she’s asexual, but still very much into fantasizing about this. She doesn’t actually want to personally do Jacob, but the idea that someone she doesn’t totally despise gets to do him? Good enough!
I think the opposite, that her feelings are mostly sexual and she knows Jacob wants something very different.
I think that as well, not least because they’ve had that exact conversation with each other quite sometime ago.
Sarah’s stated position has been that she doesn’t want to be his girlfriend, she wants to use his body a few times and then move on. Over time, that got muddled up with ‘get him away from Raidah’, plus Joyce’s insistence on romantically shipping Jacob+Sarah, plus the fact that Sarah genuinely likes Jacob as a friend shape – it looked like romantic interest even to Sarah.
I think it’s possible that she expected seeing him with Lucy to hurt, and then it didn’t, and she’s reveling a bit.
Of course it’s also possible that ‘being vulnerable and open didn’t work’ and she’s doubling down out of spite instead of giving up and going back to her Feral Cat social style.
See, I don’t think that’s true at all, despite Sarah saying much of it. If it was just sexual, she would have moved on long ago. She’s scared of opening up enough for romance, but that doesn’t mean she’s not actually interested.
Yeah, putting your scholarship at risk just to talk to a guy seems like an odd move if Sarah wasn’t in to him for more than a physical relationship.
Though the scholarship risk there seems more theoretical than real. The chances of any real university consequences from a small mild drinking party seem pretty negligible.
I think that was a wake up call for her
Huh. This sounds cool, I could def get behind it. Asexual, or Aroace? :33
Walky and Dorothy.
Man, I am NOT looking forward to the Sarah complete & utter breakdown/rage that’s going to happen from this.
I can just feel all the snarky comments she’s going to make the moment Walky & Dorothy are there.
So she just.. let go. And feels happier as a result. Or pretend to, at least
Texas Chainsaw massacre didn’t happen yet only because the Amazon courier didn’t arrive yet with the chainsaw.
Mom come pick me up I’m scared.
Does no one else have such extreme anxiety around an uncertain potential romance that being rejected is a genuine relief just because you finally know what’s happening? Because it may not be all sunshine and roses but if I were in Sarah’s shoes, “sorry I don’t like you that way and I’m unavailable now” would be infinitely preferable to him refusing to give a straight answer.
Anyway that’s how I’m reading this. For now. Not gonna be surprised if there’s another shoe in the air though.
I’m getting Mike-Happy-Drunk vibes off Sarah.
OK, who Did Sarah hook up with at the party?
( could sarah have been with Walky as the unicorn ?)
esp if she’s with someone whos going to make jacob and Lucy jealous?
a twofer.
or Maybe she took pictures … emailed them to Raidah, and she knows Raidah is right behind her .
Lucy is suffiently Joyce like, this might irritate her.
( its possible she thinks this will be a flash in the pan and she will be there to scoop him up. Its possible she thought the same thing about Joyce, if so this would help her. There are certainly signs that Lucy is on the rebound, and she is overly clingy for Jacob. and Jacob wont prioritze a relationship timewise to the degree Walky did. Which will frustrate Lucy and cause her to pressure jacob and he will dump her ( because he likes emotional connection but also likes being very loosely attached )
IMHO his couple isnt going to last unless they change.
and shes not ready to date jacob but maybe is a few weeks, and Jcob getting sick of her ant wanting an anti-lucy, Sarah will be right there.
I guess you’re ready to exercise, now that you’re done doing all those stretches.
oh god they broke sarah
And then somebody woke up and realized it was just a dream. I vote for Jennifer
Not that I sit around thinking up ways for Walky to be put through the wringer, what if he’s personally walking Dorothy to all her classes, to make sure she’s going, and she has a class with Lyle whom they run into while they’re kissing or something. Walky and Dorothy. Not Lyle and Dorothy. Or actually, that would work too.
that was not meant to be a reply here.
I vote for Horse though.
Okay so she’s clearly blindingly hurt and outraged, and if we get a normal storyline it’ll end with her admitting it’s because she’s mad at herself for being like this and putting herself in a situation where she was outflanked by someone like Lucy.
Or, moonshot here — her first attempts at a relationship that we’ve seen gets us a peek into why she’s so withdrawn, even before Dana. Possibly a boyfriend when she was a teenager or something.
Yeah, this happened to her before. There was a Christopher years back that her sister Liz made out with, with her having been withdrawn and apparently, that pushing him in Liz’s direction.
And Jimmy, though Liz didn’t know he was seeing Sarah.
I actually forgot about that!
it’s her eyes that are unnerving for me, somehow her smile is creepy. ~<3
Somewhere, someone is so miserable that Sarah has to be incredibly happy no matter what she wants. And that someone… is also Sarah. Guys, she’s disassociating so hard.
Ah. THERE you are, Sarah.
Seriously, props to Sarah for holding it together this far.
Sarah wanting Walky there *could* work out in a sarah-as-we-know-it way, maybe she wants to watch the Lucy-Walky dynamic.
Has everyone forgotten? Jeez. I read through the comments and everything.
Sarah happy equals someone else miserable. And here we have a double helping:
– Jennifer, and deservedly so,
– Walky, realizing how easily replaceable he was to Lucy, and wondering if he gravitated back to Dorothy just to follow the path of least resistance yet again.
Sheesh, guys. Have some coffee or something. jk luvu bai 🤭
PS. Greetings from my new home in Argentina
Plus, if Jacob’s with Lucy, he’s not with Raidah. So that’s a third miserable person.
I also think that Walky and Dorothy will not last long. But I’m pretty sure that right now they are busy cleaning Amber’s stuff.
Sal, get far away from Jennifer, she’s also toxic waste, today.
…
At this point, Jacob has, whatever his passing interactions with Joyce and Sarah, only chosen to date… Raidha and Lucy. Both of whom… cause disquiet when they are in page. While the mechanisms and motives involved vary the end point is the same – interactions with either seem to end poorly for others, and neither will ever believe themselves to blame.
Jacob’s instincts for relationship partners are bad enough that I really do hope he decides to pick the sock.
Sarah, you are a gracious loser, as long as raidah is still losing.
Honestly lets see where this is going, I could absolutely see having a total attempt at honestly turning a new leaf after fumbling a dude who looks like Jacob.
Actually I could see that. Sarah was already changing and trying thanks to Joyce but wasn’t moving quickly. A big blow like losing a guy she was really into because of her emotional issued cpupd have been the final push to drive a turn around
Literally the only thing that got in her way was… her. And she took a big risk to do it! It COULD have happened.
It’s not just Walky. It’s Walky and Dorothy. He was upset that Lucy moved on with a clear upgrade. And Dorothy was in the background.
There are rocks ahead for that ship.
After some careful analysis I’ve decided to turn against Jacob. I did ship him and Sarah and I still think they would be nice together, but I’m now with the crowd saying they aren’t compatible. Nothing to do with their personalities, I just think Jacob was playing games with Sarah and she deserves better than him. In hindsight he kind of fed her a lot of nice sentiments without really giving her back the answer she deserved.
I think Jacob’s more oblivious and less in control than he portrays. His intentions might have been good, but he’s easily swayed.
…Has Sarah been replaced by a pod person?
Theory: Sarah’s happy because her view that shit is awful for her and will remain so was confirmed. It’s less that she’s good with what happened than her world view has been validated
Dunno what happened, but I like this new Sarah. I hope she lasts at least a few more strips.
Sarah waiting for Walky is calculated to cause Lucy to stumble. That’s my late hot take, without reading comments
Oh please don’t let this be Sarah trying to “rebound” her own feelings onto Walky.
I can’t think of anything more bizarre here so I’m sticking to that until I’m proven wrong.
I genuinely cannot picture Sarah being interested in Walky
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/yappin/
Yes… Ha ha ha… YES!
Oh Joyce, if only everybody was like you.
There it is
oh thank god theres the sarah i love <3