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May 22, 2026

An island

by David M Willis on January 6, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – The One Where Jocelyne Returns
└ Tags: sarah, tony

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 6, 2025 at 12:01 am | #

    Scoliosis might help you there, Sarah /s

    • feli
      feli
      January 6, 2025 at 5:14 am | #

      As someone born with it, it does not. It just gives you back pain.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        January 6, 2025 at 8:04 am | #

        I prefer to present my medical conditions as superpowers.

        As a childhood epileptic, I can claim I used to have prophetic visions.

        • Delavan
          Delavan
          January 6, 2025 at 11:24 am | #

          My spouse has PNES… I should remind him of this… or maybe not since its often traumatic memories.

          Honestly, some of these medieval saints really read as undiagnosed PNES seeking theology as help.

          • Charles Phipps
            Charles Phipps
            January 6, 2025 at 4:52 pm | #

            As a religious person still, SUPER-liberal, I believe God can work through mysterious ways but I think he’d probably not need my seizures to help.

            Same as my autism doesn’t give me superpowers.

            I’m smart AND autistic. Not smart because of it.

            Just like Dina. 🙂

            • Charles Phipps
              Charles Phipps
              January 6, 2025 at 4:53 pm | #

              And yes, I am directly contradicting myself.

              Which I can do.

              Because I’d have no standards at all if not for double. 😀

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        January 6, 2025 at 8:35 am | #

        Same. Got it all fixed as a kid, but, yay lifetime of slowly increasing shoulder and neck pains.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 6, 2025 at 12:01 am | #

    If you want to have a good time, flick your eyes quickly between panels 4 and 5 while listening to this sound effect.

    • Lumino
      Lumino
      January 6, 2025 at 2:11 am | #

      I knew what this was before I clicked it.

      • Aquila
        Aquila
        January 6, 2025 at 2:18 am | #

        Really? I thought it was going to be one of those slide whistles.

        • Bobcat2022
          Bobcat2022
          January 6, 2025 at 11:55 am | #

          yeah I thought it was going to be an accordion noise

      • Guerisso
        Guerisso
        January 6, 2025 at 3:44 am | #

        I’m disappointed it’s not a rickroll

    • AbacusWizard
      AbacusWizard
      January 6, 2025 at 2:47 am | #

      Perfect; it’s like one of those flip-o-rama pages from DogMan!

    • Keith
      Keith
      January 6, 2025 at 8:07 am | #

      (giggles at ad before sound effect) From cool techno to mario brothers. As my goddess MANDY says “Perfect”.

  3. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    January 6, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    long aways from the Island,

    SaraTonyn ship runs full steam ahead!!! ^^ <3

    YIPPEE!!!

    • anon
      anon
      January 6, 2025 at 12:35 am | #

      Well it seems ‘cute’ but based on hre reactin the last panel i think she might back out or think “oh this is going too well” and such and try to mess it up versus “having coffee and immediately running off” with the combined anxiety + caffeeine/any snacks there

      • Rolf of Many Doors
        Rolf of Many Doors
        January 6, 2025 at 1:27 am | #

        Maybe it’s a “Guys don’t like girls taller than them/gals don’t like guys shorter than them” thing?

        • clif
          clif
          January 6, 2025 at 4:03 am | #

          I’m not altogether sure what the last panel is indicating.

          • AndysDrawings
            AndysDrawings
            January 6, 2025 at 4:56 am | #

            My first take was that she was shuddering in shock but now I’m reasonably sure it’s Sarah trying to be shorter.

          • someone
            someone
            January 6, 2025 at 5:12 am | #

            One of Sarah’s hang-ups is that she thinks boyfriends should be taller than their girlfriends. Like it was one of the reasons she was into Jacob; she’s a tall girl and he’s one of the few people in the cast who are taller than her.

            So she’s now trying to shrink herself to be shorter than Tony. It’s ridiculous and weird, but she has to realize the reason she’s doing that is even more so.

            • brionl
              brionl
              January 6, 2025 at 4:37 pm | #

              My sister is taller than her husband. They’ve lasted 48 years.

          • Michael Steamweed
            Michael Steamweed
            January 6, 2025 at 8:36 am | #

            I view it as Sarah trying to en-shorten herself. Due to self-conscious concern about being taller than him.

        • anon
          anon
          January 6, 2025 at 8:29 pm | #

          well she did state she preferred ‘taller’ guys but it’s not as if he’s half her height versus a few inches diff (tho i do half- expect her to freak out and like ‘things are going too well’)

  4. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 6, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    Enjoy drinking coffee? You’re on the island. The island in question grows coffee beans you’ll enjoy it.

    • Kimi
      Kimi
      January 6, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

      Is there a tea island? Is Admiral Zhao on it? I would like to go to that island please.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        January 6, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

        is there an island with weed, dinosaurs and democratic socialism?

        cuz that my jam for realz

        • KM
          KM
          January 6, 2025 at 3:16 am | #

          So, definitely not Singapore, lol

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          January 6, 2025 at 10:41 am | #

          The Netherlands has democratic socialism (sorta… it’s a fuzzy category) plus a famously permissive stance towards cannabis use, and its territory includes several islands with a significant variety of therapod dinosaur species.

          I don’t know about people being sent there for shower-clogging, but Netherlands is one of the places I think of when i think of clogs.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            January 6, 2025 at 6:25 pm | #

            The Netherlands are social democratic, not democratic socialism.

            The former seeks to reform capitalism through varying degrees of government intervention and strong welfare state as an ends to itself.

            By contrast, the goal of democratic socialism long-term is to see to it that capitalism is abolished, specifically by having a mixed economy of government-owned industries to provide for citizen’s most basic living necessities and worker cooperatives to provide for things in the market.

            As much as the Netherlands aren’t technically socialist, something tells me they may be inclined to steer that way rather soon after watching a much imminent failure of capitalism unfold across the pond…

      • shanunu
        shanunu
        January 6, 2025 at 4:15 am | #

        Wait don’t we not like Admiral Zhao. Wasn’t Admiral Zhao the antagonist of season 1? Don’t you mean uncle Iroh?

        • Kimi
          Kimi
          January 6, 2025 at 8:02 pm | #

          I probably got the names mixed up, sorry. What I get for commenting at midnight.

      • Mark
        Mark
        January 6, 2025 at 4:51 pm | #

        Tea Island sounds nice. If there’s Internet too then I’m all set.

  5. Dante
    Dante
    January 6, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Sara pls you’ve got a good thing here EMBRACE SHORT KINGS, look at this dude. He’s built. He’ll love you as you are kldsjgksld FREE YOUR MIND, GURL

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      January 6, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      YES. FREE YOUR MIND WITH HOT COFFEE ^^ <3

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        January 6, 2025 at 8:39 am | #

        It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion
        It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed
        The hands acquire shakes
        The shakes become a warning
        It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

        • Dante
          Dante
          January 7, 2025 at 1:53 am | #

          Dude, this is gorgeous, I kinda wanna embroider it to hang it on my wall.

          (I don’t know embroidery. But I do have ADHD.)

    • Skewbrow
      Skewbrow
      January 6, 2025 at 12:38 am | #

      Yeah. Tony seems to be comfortable with his height. Unless the team brochure says he is 5’8″ … and 3/4.

      • Kimi
        Kimi
        January 6, 2025 at 12:56 am | #

        From what I have gathered, most people would be fine with their height relative to their partner if it wasn’t for the side comments from the peanut gallary (aka the general public). A taller woman dating a shorter man is statistically rare enough that I think some people just can’t hold it in. People can also be really bad at telling how old someone is (speaking from personal experience, as I once had a doctor forget that wasn’t a teenager but instead in my 30s). I don’t think either person in a relationship appreciates comments about them taking their son to dinner, etc. People just need to stop with the assumptions.

        • ian livs
          ian livs
          January 6, 2025 at 1:24 am | #

          Yeah, people are weird. My sister (who was still forced to present as a guy at the time)’s first 2 girlfriends were like half a foot taller than her–same age, just… she had a Type, lol–and most people were *so* weird about it. Like at least have the decency to keep unsolicited opinions of strangers’ harmless relationships to yourselves, y’know? Even to my sister, who *liked* the height difference, the constant comments got grating af.

        • feli
          feli
          January 6, 2025 at 5:22 am | #

          Heck, I am not tall at all. But I went out with 2 guys who were roughly my height (only) and they both had to *talk* about it. Like, one of them talked about it the whole time we had coffee. And walked to the cafe. And on the way back. He talked about how his height clearly didn’t bother him and was not problem at all and the fact that I was the same height (literally the same, it must have been hard for him to find someone smaller tbh) was great.
          No, there was no 2nd coffee.

          So I hope Sarah quickly gets over it cause these kinds of things are not.. cute.

          • Adept
            Adept
            January 6, 2025 at 9:30 am | #

            Agreed. Not cute.

    • Wraithy2773
      Wraithy2773
      January 6, 2025 at 1:06 am | #

      Its not even like Tony’s short, Sarah’s just tall.

    • Shade
      Shade
      January 6, 2025 at 7:10 am | #

      Tony isn’t a short king?

      But she’s also not unreasonable to want someone closer to her height. What’s silly here is Tony is very close to her height.

      • Dante
        Dante
        January 7, 2025 at 1:55 am | #

        Yeah, no, the sport he plays requires him to be tall, right? We… kinda don’t have it here, so I’m basing myself on pop culture, lmaooo

        That said, TO SARAH he is.

  6. butts
    butts
    January 6, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    i know a dude who says he can make a guy taller by breaking his legs

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      January 6, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

      This is a real procedure actually. It’s very painful and you have to spend basically a year in grueling physical therapy to re-learn to walk but it is possible.

      • Freemage
        Freemage
        January 6, 2025 at 5:41 am | #

        Featured in the fil Gattaca.

      • Morleuca
        Morleuca
        January 6, 2025 at 7:57 am | #

        I actually discussed this with my pediatrician. He said wait until after puberty. then he had a heart attack and died, and I came back around to the realization I had been cosplaying as a guy the whole time, and wanted to be taller to make it more believable. Went from short for a guy to average height for a woman, and all it required was ego death.

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          January 7, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

          misread that as YOU were the one who had a heart attack =O

          yeah though, that feels like a lifehack, throwing off that cosplay!

        • Thing2
          Thing2
          January 7, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

          Whereas I’m finally gunna turn into the shortest guy on the block at (wait, translating) five feet and one inch.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        January 6, 2025 at 8:44 am | #

        Same procedure is used when teens or adults have legs that mismatch. The platform shoe will help a little, but the surgery is needed to prevent problems (hip, knee, etc) later. Get some leg breaking, some metal pins, some therapy, and you’re set.

  7. Nono
    Nono
    January 6, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Sarah consider that Tony will CLIMB you instead.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      January 6, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

      But Sarah is the protagonist!

    • butting
      butting
      January 6, 2025 at 2:53 am | #

      The height difference won’t matter once they’re lying down. Oh shit that’s going to be the next slipshine, isn’t it?

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        January 6, 2025 at 5:29 am | #

        Women are the same height lying down dot dot dot

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        January 6, 2025 at 8:45 am | #

        Coming to Slipshine in Summer 2025! 🙂
        (hopefully)

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          January 6, 2025 at 9:44 am | #

          +1!

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          January 6, 2025 at 8:38 pm | #

          upvote ++

          hehehe are we using Slipshine as a catch-all term for DoA pornos now XD

          im just sayin this cuz Slipshine commissions Willis for those when he puts them there, not the other way around

          thus if anything we’re overwhelmingly likely to get them on the NSFW Patreon, which is even more fantastic if you ask me ^^

  8. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    January 6, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    I love how these two are meshing. Kind of worrying, though, but hey who cares!

  9. Liara
    Liara
    January 6, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    The last two panels look like the beginning of Sarah’s Animorph transformation

    • Shakes
      Shakes
      January 6, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      snapping turtle

      • Carm
        Carm
        January 6, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

        Excellent take, good job, take the rest of the off you’ve learnt it

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        January 6, 2025 at 2:52 am | #

        Alligator Snapping Turtle.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 6, 2025 at 12:22 am | #

      Laughing!

  10. Shakes
    Shakes
    January 6, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Sarah planning a date to a shoe shop specialising in elevators.

    • KM
      KM
      January 6, 2025 at 3:09 am | #

      Kinda feel Tony may be low key offended this means so much to Sarah. Or maybe he will take it in stride and go if that’s what makes you comfortable I’ll do it but..mmm.

  11. Nono
    Nono
    January 6, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    I will say this: Sarah is more smiley than Tony. I don’t think he’s ever cracked a grin.

    • Rolf of Many Doors
      Rolf of Many Doors
      January 6, 2025 at 1:29 am | #

      Sarah is making an active effort to smile more – Tony is Tony.

    • Shade
      Shade
      January 6, 2025 at 7:14 am | #

      Some people just don’t smile much. I know I sometimes get flack because I don’t smile all the time even though it’s not like I’m upset or anything.

      • brionl
        brionl
        January 6, 2025 at 4:43 pm | #

        No shit, there I was…
        When I was in US Navy boot camp the other guys were commenting that I never smiled. So I convinced them that I had a medical condition that prevented me from smiling because the muscles were atrophied. And many of them bought it. We were doing “cleaning” duty once, and I overheard an officer asking one of the other recruits and he trotted out my BS story. I had to try so hard to keep from busting up laughing.

        I haven’t thought about that in decades.

  12. Yumi
    Yumi
    January 6, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

    Ah, time to rant about group projects, a classic tradition…
    I’m taking classes again (grad school) after being out of school for a while, so I’m getting reacquainted with this experience. Last semester, we had a group project that was research+ slide show+ video presenting it, and I did more than my share in the first two, and then I was like, hey, could literally anyone else do the narration for this, I have a speech impediment and should not be our top choice. And then no one responded and it was due, so I just ended up doing that too.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      January 6, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      for reals? that SUCKS, sorry to hear they hung ya out to dry like that

      you know that that means -> 🏝

    • AY
      AY
      January 6, 2025 at 12:24 am | #

      I once had a project partner who didn’t show up for a single group meeting or do a single thing for our prep work and then still got full credit because she read off the slides and answered questions during the presentation. Like, I asked the prof about it and that was the answer I got, even though this wasn’t prearranged with the group, it was just one girl piggybacking and then talking over the rest of us. It’s been a decade and tbh I’m still salty.

      • Kimi
        Kimi
        January 6, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

        One of the benefits of google slides for presentations and assigning people a set amount of slides. They can do their own slides whenever they want (without having to send it to someone to have it added into the presentation, which can be a pain for everyone), and have a better set division of work. Of course, they could still probably try to work around that by trying to claim someone else’s slides and talking over people, but maybe that could be cut off beforehand with an email to or chat with the professor right before class with the fact that the person didn’t do their assigned slides. That requires the professor to care, which I know isn’t always the case.

    • Kimi
      Kimi
      January 6, 2025 at 12:48 am | #

      I am surprised that happened in grad school. I went from having to do all the work in high school, to having to fight to do my part (instead of someone taking it over) in undergrad, to people being control freaks in grad (where I had to do my part the style that they wanted rather than how I wanted to do it, not really anything about substance). Undergrad I blame on it being biology, and the people aiming for med school are cut-throat. They will duel a professor over a single point on a quiz, and trust absolutely no one to do a project the way they want it to be. I was more on the ecology side, which is grouped together with the med side for the required biology major classes (aka biochem, microbiology vs applied ecology). The ecology side is way more laid back until you are applying to grad school.
      It is an interesting balance that you have to maintain on group projects. I have had a class of people in high school, seniors even, that couldn’t read 2 pages of Hamlet (theater script) over 2 days. I have also had group partners in grad school that don’t like how I worded things, and so wanted to redo everything into their tone instead of my own, and it was my own slides. I was only called colloquial once back in undergrad freshman year in a 1 credit non-biology class that I loathed, so it wasn’t that my work was poor. I have always been a proponent of not having other people’s work relect on your grades, as in, any group work that counts towards your GPA should be distinct enough to be able to grade each person separately on their own work. As long as GPA matters for getting scholarships, getting into graduate/med schools, and other things, I believe that it should be based on the individual’s capability, not whichever random people they got paired with. It wasn’t even random at my high school, as the teachers would purposefully put one excel/AP student with people who were doing poorly (normally from refusing outright to do any work). Excel students were supposedly supposed to benefit from being able to teach their fellow classmates (teaching without pay anyone?), which might have some truth in theory. The problem is when you are paired with someone who absolutely refuses to learn and would much rather try to burn down posters or other sorts of destruction. You realize how much of a joke it is at that point, and I would sincerely hope that anyone that is attempting to do something similar, rather than doing their job at their workplace, would be fired.
      Also, sympathies on the speech impediment. As someone who had speech therapy starting around 3yrs old through some of elementary, and still have trouble with s and sh sounds, I fully understand the hate of being recorded. It feels like the video just highlights all of the flaws in my voice.

    • DinaJoyce
      DinaJoyce
      January 6, 2025 at 2:17 am | #

      In undergrad, I had to do a boom report presentation with a girl who wasn’t known for being a great student. I took the intro, conclusion, and several main chapters in the book, and gave her the more minor parts. When it came time to present, I had to correct several mistakes in her presentation and answer several questions from the class about her section of the boom. The prof was a good one, so he figured out exactly what was happening. I’m still friends with him and he talks about that as one of the worst group projects to this day. Anytime somebody on fb complains about group projects, he tags me and tells them I had it worse than them and still managed a A on the project

      • DinaJoyce
        DinaJoyce
        January 6, 2025 at 2:18 am | #

        *book report presentation. Stupid autocorrect

      • Pergola
        Pergola
        January 6, 2025 at 12:46 pm | #

        Dang. Am now wondering what a ‘boom report’ might be.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      January 6, 2025 at 6:57 am | #

      I hated group projects more because I always had to be in the worst group. I mean I liked most of the people, but everyone else in my class divided smoothly into (mono-gendered) friend groups with established dynamics and balanced skillsets, and we were the leftovers with no leadership or public speaking or social skills, and we’d spend hours trying to divide up tasks of which no one wanted to do any until the two girls who were friends would overrule each of the others to decide who did what, and then we’d not collaborate in any way that would suggest it was a group project. Worst of all, I realized the whole point was to learn to work in groups, but there was no teaching going on – our teachers didn’t have to do anything once they assigned a group project – and ultimately all I learned was that I didn’t know anything about working in groups and should avoid it.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 6, 2025 at 8:48 am | #

      Retired HS teacher here. I learned this problem in college. So I made my kids split up equally all the work tasks, track who got what task, and when it got done. Every group project was 70% grade per the individual’s work and 30% grade per the group’s overall work. Smaller projects earlier in the year, to show the coasting kids that coasting doesn’t work, train them slowly into stepping up. Worked most of the time, but not with all.

      • brionl
        brionl
        January 6, 2025 at 4:46 pm | #

        Good for you. But that sounds like a lot of extra work most people aren’t going to want to do.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 6, 2025 at 10:34 pm | #

          🙄 How’s the weather in La Brea?

      • Kimi
        Kimi
        January 6, 2025 at 11:22 pm | #

        You sounds like you were so much better than the hs teachers I had that would grade us during a mock trial project on how well our “witnesses” did with knowing the information. There was one group who had a student witness recall information from the movie rather than the book (“Of Mice and Men”), which was inaccurate. I believe the book was considered to be the police report, if I am remembering correctly. It was an odd book to do a mock trial on anyway, as the murder wasn’t exactly in doubt, and then they also included a lot of limitations on what the defense lawyers could do (adding new things that they couldn’t do after each year to the list, so it got longer). It wouldn’t have been much of a problem, except you were graded on the outcome of the trial along with how your witnesses did. It felt very biased to one side and everyone who got a lawyer position absolutely hated it. I would hear people younger than me complaining about it on the bus ride to school and how frustrating it was. The mock World Health Organization conference we did was better, because the parts were more separate and graded separately.
        The best group interdisciplinary project that I have ever done was one on Lewis and Clark back in 7th grade. You would do activities together in a group, such as the hiking trip up a mountain, the calculation of a tree’s height, plant ID, and figuring out a budget for a trip like that. The grade came from the journal you personally submitted at the end though, so while you could help people find the answer during the activity, everyone would still have to sum it up nicely and submit it later. Since they would use the same plan every year, it would cut down a bit on some of the work, though I am sure it was still a fair amount of work for the teachers. I remember both teachers and students looking forward to it every year though.

  13. Axel
    Axel
    January 6, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    I’m glad he at least doesn’t seem concerned about height (you know, assuming he’s intentionally taking her on a date).

    • KM
      KM
      January 6, 2025 at 3:10 am | #

      I wonder if he’ll be understanding of Sarah’s obvious issue around being taller than him..

  14. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    January 6, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    You know, Tony is basically Mike but toned down to a actually palatable state. No wonder they get along.

    • Nono
      Nono
      January 6, 2025 at 12:22 am | #

      They’re not even close. Mike went out of his way to be antagonistic. Tony mostly just stayed to his lane unless people are being douchebags.

    • cachew sequel
      cachew sequel
      January 6, 2025 at 12:24 am | #

      yeah there’s a big step between “thinks people suck” & “actively working towards making them feel miserable”

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        January 6, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

        That is why I say “toned down to a palatable state”.

    • JD
      JD
      January 6, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

      tony’s a normal guy who tries to be down to earth and patient but is constantly surrounded by people who test that patience. and mike who refused to have any and chose to test the patience of others. love ’em both with my big stupid gay heart but this is like apples to oranges.

    • Charlotte
      Charlotte
      January 6, 2025 at 3:12 am | #

      From what little we’ve seen of Tony in this comic, I don’t see that at all.

  15. Pocky
    Pocky
    January 6, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    he might like an amazon to his short king status, don’t hate.

    • anon
      anon
      January 6, 2025 at 12:36 am | #

      shoes/clothes don’t need to be begendered buti wouldn’t be surprised if there were steel toed boots/high heels ‘ for men’ or so lol. tho wouldn’t matter on the bed ;P unless sarah likes to do it standing up for some reason XD

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        January 6, 2025 at 12:50 am | #

        “Elevator shoes” look flat but have little wedges inside to give you an inch or two. “Lifts” are wedge-shaped insoles that you can put into any shoe (also useful for people with one leg longer than the other). Or you can just wear boots with thick soles, such as workboots, cowboy boots, hiking shoes, etc.

        Tony seems pretty comfy with his height, though. Sarah may have to get over her idea that she needs to be shorter than the fellow.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          January 6, 2025 at 12:57 am | #

          Oh yeah they could also just stand on some stairs from time to time. This super doesn’t need to be a big deal.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 6, 2025 at 8:00 am | #

          Yeah, this seems more like Sarah’s hangup than anything else.

      • ian livs
        ian livs
        January 6, 2025 at 1:26 am | #

        re that last bit: honestly, if that was the case, their height difference would probably make it *easier*

      • Regret
        Regret
        January 6, 2025 at 12:34 pm | #

        High heels were originally only for men. Some French king started the trend.

    • Shade
      Shade
      January 6, 2025 at 7:16 am | #

      How is Tony a short king? He’s close to Sarah’s height, that’s tall.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        January 6, 2025 at 8:50 am | #

        I’m seeing him at about average male height. But Sarah’s taller, so the difference is clear. But I hope Sarah’s self-consciousness doesn’t stay long.

  16. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 6, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    I gotta say I don’t feel like Tony is even that short. Shorter than Sarah, sure but she’s likely tall for a woman. Also Walky and Danny both exist as fellow short princes and I think Tony could steal their lunches easy.

    • Dawn
      Dawn
      January 6, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

      I’m guessing 5’8″ or 5’9.”

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        January 6, 2025 at 12:41 am | #

        Yeah, that’s not short. Medium king.

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          January 6, 2025 at 1:10 am | #

          This king is too short.
          This king is too tall.
          This king brought myrrh?

          • TCS
            TCS
            January 6, 2025 at 1:17 am | #

            And he’s still here!

            • Leorale
              Leorale
              January 7, 2025 at 12:33 am | #

              Happy Three Kings Day (to Christians who celebrate that one)!

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 6, 2025 at 12:55 am | #

      Years ago I saw an ad for a Tall Singles Group, minimum 6′ for men and 5′ 10″ for women.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        January 6, 2025 at 8:52 am | #

        Yeah, I was a member of a college group (back in the early college days). Only women I met of my height or taller were from the college lady’s basketball team.

  17. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    January 6, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    What is she doing in the last panel

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      January 6, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

      my guess is she’s crouching to compensate for the fact that Tony is shorter than what she otherwise desires in a partner

      but she seems to value him for the person he is on the inside more than anything

      • Mark
        Mark
        January 6, 2025 at 8:14 am | #

        Or might be crouching because she thinks he would find her more attractive if she weren’t so much taller than he.

        I agree that they seem to be connecting mostly on a non-physical level, at least for now.

        This semester seems to be about people discovering new qualities in themselves and how they relate to others.

    • Drew Hargrave
      Drew Hargrave
      January 6, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

      Trying to be shorter

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      January 6, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

      Walking

    • StClair
      StClair
      January 6, 2025 at 12:44 am | #

      I don’t think she’s actually doing anything, that’s just what’s in her head at the moment.

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        January 6, 2025 at 5:32 am | #

        It’s drawn the same as reality. The background has the same color and resolution.

    • DashWallkick
      DashWallkick
      January 6, 2025 at 1:46 am | #

      Sarah is very very tall and likes big beefy masculine men who make her feel small. Tony is very short and squat. She is making do.

      • SignSeeker
        SignSeeker
        January 6, 2025 at 6:09 am | #

        Does she like them tall? She seems to like Tony plenty so far. I get the feeling that she usually avoids dating shorter men because the guys have been weirded out by having a taller girlfriend and it ends up spoiling the relationship. I think she’s trying to avoid making him feel small, rather than trying to feel small herself out of enjoyment.

        • Regret
          Regret
          January 6, 2025 at 12:35 pm | #

          She thinks she does at least.

      • Shade
        Shade
        January 6, 2025 at 7:21 am | #

        He’s definitely not very short? He’s very close to Sarah’s height.

  18. Taffy
    Taffy
    January 6, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    Sarah would look wrong short. Don’t get me wrong, I love me a short gal with some wideness (is there a term for that?), but tall gals are where it’s at.

    • Nono
      Nono
      January 6, 2025 at 2:32 am | #

      I mean Liz is basically the ‘short gal with some wideness’ that you’re talking about.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        January 6, 2025 at 5:33 am | #

        No, Liz isn’t Sarah. I’m talking about Sarah. You’re gaslighting me.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 6, 2025 at 7:57 am | #

      Hell yeah

  19. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 6, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

    Heh, that’s the thing about having a type: it almost certainly WILL be challenged by developing an attraction to someone who doesn’t entirely fit it. This is fine, and doesn’t mean you don’t still have preferences, obviously, but it just kind of showcases the amount of variables in how people look, dress, etc.

    • Erica
      Erica
      January 6, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

      I’m not even sure that it’s that he’s not her type, but rather that she’s afraid he’ll realize she’s taller than him and lose interest

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        January 6, 2025 at 12:21 am | #

        It is specifically that Sarah has expressed a few times that she like men taller that her. Tony now being the exception due to their great chemistry buts he still like more is he was taller, hence the crouching.

      • KM
        KM
        January 6, 2025 at 3:13 am | #

        I.. Can’t imagine Tony not already aware of the height difference. Even if he doesn’t care, he’s still gotta notice she’s obviously taller than him

        • winter
          winter
          January 6, 2025 at 6:19 am | #

          Think you and Jeremiah are taking this a bit too literally. It’s not that Tony hasn’t noticed Sera is taller than him. It’s that there’s a difference between shorter men not being Sera’s type, and Sera being afraid that her being taller than him will make him or others decide she’s not feminine enough to be with him.

          • Jeremiah
            Jeremiah
            January 6, 2025 at 12:45 pm | #

            I don’t see how talking about a specific thing that has come up a few times about Sarah’s taste in men that is relevant to this moment is taking things “too literally”.

  20. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    January 6, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

    Get some sort of digging tool to create a trench ahead of you as you walk.

    • Mark
      Mark
      January 6, 2025 at 8:23 am | #

      It’s been done.

    • GLaDOS
      GLaDOS
      January 6, 2025 at 4:36 pm | #

      She’s a star. She doesn’t get a million dollars to act out of a trench.

  21. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 6, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

    Wait, are all the people who are listed as That Annoying Kid already on the island?

    Sarah puts quite a lot of thought into the various ways she doesn’t want to interact with others.

  22. Suet
    Suet
    January 6, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

    Billingsworth? Bad news? You jest.

    Just an island? What if they get sent to Tahiti

    • Carm
      Carm
      January 6, 2025 at 12:25 am | #

      The island isn’t a punishment, it’s just somewhere out of your misery, that’s difficult to get back from. Tahiti is fine.
      I have a plan for when I rule the world, to put all the billionaires on an island. It’s a nice island. Humane. There is going to be reality TV coverage, but it’s public places and otherwise opt-in.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        January 6, 2025 at 12:30 am | #

        Why do they get a nice island? They’re not people.

        • Dana
          Dana
          January 6, 2025 at 12:55 am | #

          Surely you’re not championing cruelty to animals?

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            January 6, 2025 at 1:40 am | #

            Billionaires aren’t animals, either. Animals have vital parts to play in their ecosystem, billionaires are fully devoid of value. Cremate them on the spot and use their ashes to grit your driveway, it’s best for everyone.

            • NGPZ
              NGPZ
              January 6, 2025 at 2:05 am | #

              suffocate them in boiling hot molten gold, forever preserving their expressions of agony, and put them on display in a museum

              that way future generations can learn how NOT to have their unfortunate attitudes

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                January 6, 2025 at 2:29 am | #

                Nah, I don’t wanna look at ’em. Besides, that gold could go in a Nintendo, something people actually enjoy.

                • NGPZ
                  NGPZ
                  January 6, 2025 at 2:42 am | #

                  at that rate it’s better off going and staying IN Nintendos and other consoles, given it’s usefulness as a conductor

                  interesting fact, over 90% of the gold ever mined on earth is still in use today, you can have gold that was mined thousands of years ago in your Game Boy LOL

                • NGPZ
                  NGPZ
                  January 6, 2025 at 2:42 am | #

                  wat that i could have sworn you said “on” a nintendo, huh

              • eh, whatever
                eh, whatever
                January 6, 2025 at 5:38 am | #

                It can’t be easy to get someone anywhere near boiling gold (2970 °C, ​5378 °F). They’d evaporate.

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  January 6, 2025 at 6:06 am | #

                  Um actually, I watched Game of Thrones and they just tossed a couple gold chains in a cauldron for like ten seconds and it was liquid enough to pour over a man’s head. No way a horseman’s campfire is 5300°, and those actors weren’t evaporated at all.

                • Mark
                  Mark
                  January 6, 2025 at 8:28 am | #

                  Melting point 1947.52 °F. GoT is playing fast and loose with the facts.

            • Morleuca
              Morleuca
              January 6, 2025 at 8:05 am | #

              and besides, the Ozempic they are hoarding has probably ruined the flavour of their meat anyway.

        • Mark
          Mark
          January 6, 2025 at 8:30 am | #

          A nice volcanic island?

        • spriteless aunty
          spriteless aunty
          January 6, 2025 at 9:11 am | #

          They’re america’s fastest growing demo. O_O

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        January 6, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

        The great part about exiling billionaires is nobody has to go. You just have to give away some surplus money…it’s not like you won’t still have more than you’ll ever need. So everyone on the island deserves it.

        • spriteless aunty
          spriteless aunty
          January 6, 2025 at 9:12 am | #

          Oh I like this reason! Yay!

  23. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    January 6, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

    I like this pairing

  24. saltchocolate
    saltchocolate
    January 6, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

    Did not see this whole Tony thing coming, back when the “Sarah smiles” arc began! Willis, you’re rewarding her for her efforts!! And I think she just realized it . . .

  25. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    January 6, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

    And here we see the wild Sarah retreating into her shell so as to not provoke the insecurities of her potential mate.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 6, 2025 at 9:00 am | #

      What she instinctively thinks are the insecurities of her potential mate. I’m expecting that Tony won’t care. Might, in fact, even like the tallness.

  26. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 6, 2025 at 12:30 am | #

    Heeeeeelp they are SO CUTE!

  27. synnerman
    synnerman
    January 6, 2025 at 12:44 am | #

    No Sarah! Don’t fuck this up with that bullshit!

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 6, 2025 at 9:03 am | #

      *Sir David Attenborough’s voice: Will she manage to avoid fucking up this potential pairing with her bullshit? Let’s see.

  28. StClair
    StClair
    January 6, 2025 at 12:46 am | #

    As some day it may happen that a victim must be found
    I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list
    Of society offenders who might well be underground
    And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 6, 2025 at 12:57 am | #

      It really doesn’t matter who you put upon the list

  29. Ty34er
    Ty34er
    January 6, 2025 at 12:46 am | #

    I swear Willis, if you make them break up or whatever because Sarah can’t handle the height difference, I will track you down and break a Transformer collectible in front of your face.

  30. Jamie
    Jamie
    January 6, 2025 at 12:49 am | #

    Yeah, just send them to England.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      January 6, 2025 at 12:54 am | #

      The irony is that’s exactly what England was thinking over 300 years ago when they sent volatile cultists and violent criminals they were desperate to get rid of to the North American continent.

      Can you guess what happened as a result?

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        January 6, 2025 at 12:58 am | #

        They revolted and wouldn’t take any more, so they started sending them to Australia instead.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          January 6, 2025 at 1:05 am | #

          “Let’s take our problems and push them elsewhere! Who cares if they gonna come back to bite our descendants in the butt? By then we’ll be long dead and sipping champagne in heaven so white!”

        • Bogeywoman
          Bogeywoman
          January 6, 2025 at 2:07 am | #

          Now we’re a country of people with issues with authority whose prime minister’s frequently get nicknamed shit like “milky bar kid”, “Scummo” “Scotty from Sales” “Turncoat Turnbull” and “Budget Morrison”

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 6, 2025 at 7:51 am | #

          Advisor: “Your Majesty, the incarcerated criminals are revolting!”

          King: “Finally, you say something I agree with.”

          – Mildly adapted from Chicken Run

      • Morleuca
        Morleuca
        January 6, 2025 at 8:07 am | #

        to be fair the cultists went to Europe first, then left for N.A. because they didn’t like that their kids were becoming too “continental”.

  31. Qube
    Qube
    January 6, 2025 at 12:55 am | #

    look Sarah all I’m gonna say is play your cards right and it won’t matter who’s taller because you won’t be aimed that direction

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 6, 2025 at 9:04 am | #

      Horizontal people are much more equal in height.

  32. morhek
    morhek
    January 6, 2025 at 12:57 am | #

    “Huh. Normally when I smile there’s a feeling of tension from putting it on. This this…is this what a REAL smile feels like?”

  33. Seralyna
    Seralyna
    January 6, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

    buy him high heels

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 6, 2025 at 2:15 am | #

      Maybe Ruttech hovershoes?

      • butting
        butting
        January 6, 2025 at 2:59 am | #

        ITYM jugs.

    • morhek
      morhek
      January 6, 2025 at 7:50 am | #

      Maybe she appreciates a short king?

  34. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    January 6, 2025 at 1:14 am | #

    Don’t bother, Sarah. He’s clearly not intimidated by your height.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 6, 2025 at 9:06 am | #

      1. He’s a college star athlete. He knows his body very well.
      2. He asked _her_ out.
      Definitely not intimidated. Definitely interested.

  35. Jesse
    Jesse
    January 6, 2025 at 1:24 am | #

    But if everyone with a podcast is exiled to a remote island, how will Boston’s Favorite Son, Jonathan off Road Rules raise his profile??

  36. moon
    moon
    January 6, 2025 at 1:46 am | #

    the real reason they made total drama island

  37. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    January 6, 2025 at 1:58 am | #

    …don’t sell yourself short, Sarah

  38. Bogeywoman
    Bogeywoman
    January 6, 2025 at 2:00 am | #

    Surprised herself with a genuine smile?

  39. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    January 6, 2025 at 2:47 am | #

    genuine LOL IRL at the final panel; this is the best visual gag I’ve seen in a while

  40. Bryy
    Bryy
    January 6, 2025 at 3:00 am | #

    Raidah’s gonna say this is all part of Sarah’s evil plan to thwart her, to which Jennifer will go “of course!”.

  41. Getes
    Getes
    January 6, 2025 at 4:02 am | #

    I mean this in the nicest way possible; I hope they’re very miserable together. ❤️

  42. KM
    KM
    January 6, 2025 at 4:24 am | #

    I just realized Sarah has “has a podcast” as worth exile. What about “has a YouTube channel”(devoted to reviewing snacks) …

  43. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    January 6, 2025 at 4:31 am | #

    No Sarah, don’t lower yourself!
    Seriously, it’s bad for your neck.

  44. Maddie B
    Maddie B
    January 6, 2025 at 5:00 am | #

    Be the Tall Queen, Sarah!

  45. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    January 6, 2025 at 5:07 am | #

    Don’t compress your spine Sarah, be proud of your short king!

  46. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    January 6, 2025 at 5:17 am | #

    These two are great together, and I hope Sarah doesn’t worry too much about the fact that she’s taller than Tony. Also, I always hated group projects in school, I usually ended up doing most of the work.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      January 6, 2025 at 5:43 am | #

      So that’s why you want communism!

  47. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    January 6, 2025 at 5:44 am | #

    Tony needs Joyce’s jugs.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 6, 2025 at 7:47 am | #

      I’m sure Carla would be more than happy to make him a set. More adulation for Carla!

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 6, 2025 at 9:08 am | #

      Don’t we all?

  48. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 6, 2025 at 5:52 am | #

    Let’s hope Sarah will stop try to do whatever what she’s doing in the last panel is very soon or this promising new couple is doomed.

  49. Emperor Norton II
    Emperor Norton II
    January 6, 2025 at 6:38 am | #

    You make comic strips? The island!

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 6, 2025 at 9:09 am | #

      Hell, you read ’em and leave comments under ’em? Definitely The Island!

      …wait…

  50. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    January 6, 2025 at 7:22 am | #

    Do not do it Sarah your back will thank you for your good posture. also thinking about how Tony might stand on his tippy toes to get a kiss and that would be so cute

  51. Dot
    Dot
    January 6, 2025 at 7:44 am | #

    Don’t you dare, Sarah! Embrace the joys of having a short king!

  52. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    January 6, 2025 at 7:50 am | #

    Sarah spends the next couple of days memorizing the locations of holes she can stand in to kiss Tony.

  53. Keith
    Keith
    January 6, 2025 at 8:13 am | #

    OH Sarah, you poor gel. I know that feeling, oh mandy’s tits do I know it. That same feeling hit me at 22…and getting married was HER idea. And yes meeting SWMBO was almost exactly like this without the 3rd wheel getting jelly… oh and we weren’t talking islands. I just offered to run with with her for a couple miles. 30+ years, surprised she hasn’t fired me or given me the old “Arsenic and Old Lace” treatment.

  54. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    January 6, 2025 at 8:23 am | #

    I’m bad at guesstimating heights, even IRL, so I can’t tell how much of a difference in inches is between these two.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 6, 2025 at 9:12 am | #

      Roughly 2, maybe 2.5 inches, I’d say. (Sarah’s hair has its own height, so that makes it a wee tricksy.)

  55. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    January 6, 2025 at 8:33 am | #

    Oh, no, Sarah, no. He saw you were tall immediately and responded positively immediately. Please listen to your own rationality and not the stupid societal beauty standard of “man tall/woman short”.

    • Caro
      Caro
      January 6, 2025 at 10:26 am | #

      no, it’s been established that sarah just has a preference for tall guys. waaaaaay earlier in the comic, smth about ‘i’m the protagonist, i climb him he doesnt climb me’, but also more recently, earlier in book 15 when she’s remarking on lucy hooking up with jacob- “thats why they make boys who are [short], for the tiny little lucies of the world”. it’s not that she thinks he won’t like her, she’s trying to reconcile it w/her own preexissting preferences

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        January 6, 2025 at 12:03 pm | #

        That was actually just after the timeskip, when everyone suddenly noticed that Walky was hot.

        • Caro
          Caro
          January 6, 2025 at 5:31 pm | #

          oh man it was wasnt it. i gotta up my game…

  56. Coco
    Coco
    January 6, 2025 at 8:46 am | #

    Sarah, just be content you won’t ever attract the police because they think a man is dating a minor in broad daylight. (Yes it happened to someone I know)

  57. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    January 6, 2025 at 9:19 am | #

    I guess what that final scene is indicating is that Sarah is….

    Shortpacked.

    *puts on sunglasses*

    YEOW

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 6, 2025 at 9:41 am | #

      No the thing after the sunglasses was The Who’s Won’t be Fooled Again, respect the classics. and the line was “YEAH!!!!!!”

  58. Adept
    Adept
    January 6, 2025 at 9:26 am | #

    Poor Sarah with that height thing. I hope she can stop obsessing about it.

  59. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    January 6, 2025 at 9:27 am | #

    Goddamit Barney stop pretenting you are uni student and go back to Betty, Bambam crying

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 6, 2025 at 5:46 pm | #

      He’s the strongest toddler in the whole land
      Tears your arm off when he’s shaking your hand

  60. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    January 6, 2025 at 9:38 am | #

    You’re going to give yourself a terrible crick in the neck if you don’t stand up straight, Sarah.

  61. Jammy
    Jammy
    January 6, 2025 at 10:14 am | #

    I may not be a short dude, but as a slightly tall dude, I couldn’t care less if a lady is taller than me.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      January 6, 2025 at 12:51 pm | #

      But Sarah does care if a guy is taller that her so she can climb him like an obstacle course.

  62. Caro
    Caro
    January 6, 2025 at 10:25 am | #

    obligatory overanalysis comment: this is a good sign. she’s spent her whole screentime looking for a physical relationship, something superficial short and sexually satisfying, and the most important element of it to her was the guy being taller than her. just happens to be her preference. this emotional connection is enough that she’s willing to go out of her comfort zone a little to pursue it, even though most of her is used to The Usual Criteria and is trying to reconcile it with this new approach. it COULD definitely lead to this being nothing- whether it’s a classic sarah angry backpedal or a canon-atypically-normal ‘hey i dont know if this is going to work out im sorry- but it could ALSO lead to her building a good new relationship bc she took a chance. i really like this

  63. Plaaaaaa
    Plaaaaaa
    January 6, 2025 at 10:32 am | #

    Offer to buy a coffee? You go to the island

  64. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    January 6, 2025 at 10:34 am | #

    I find it interesting that this is how Tony becomes relevant to the story, having only really having quick cameos and single lines of dialogue at best considering his importance in “It’s Walky!”

  65. Owlmirror
    Owlmirror
    January 6, 2025 at 11:44 am | #

    Speaking of podcasts, as one does, Popehat just recently boosted this one for fans of history:

    https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

  66. Jonah (firelight_waltz)
    Jonah (firelight_waltz)
    January 6, 2025 at 11:55 am | #

    oh no now i love them

  67. Owlmirror
    Owlmirror
    January 6, 2025 at 11:56 am | #

    Looking at the first panel, it looks like Sarah had her own idea with “on an . . .”, and just agreed with Tony after he said “an island”.

    I wonder what she could have originally intended?

    ” put on an . . .”

    ” . . . electronic ankle bracelet system, so you can see where she is and avoid her?”
    ” . . . early warning system?”
    ” . . . intercontinental one-way flight to anywhere?”

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      January 6, 2025 at 12:53 pm | #

      I think it is a case of “finishing each other sentences”.

    • KM
      KM
      January 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm | #

      “…a bus” is suitably tvtrope meta lol

  68. Kaffeeteria
    Kaffeeteria
    January 6, 2025 at 2:43 pm | #

    Sarah, PLEASE don’t make yourself smaller for a man.

    • gears
      gears
      January 6, 2025 at 9:51 pm | #

      Most short guys would not take it well.

  69. RockstarRaccoon
    RockstarRaccoon
    January 6, 2025 at 2:44 pm | #

    Poor Sarah! I feel your pain! :V

  70. Sev
    Sev
    January 6, 2025 at 3:52 pm | #

    Please for the love of Cheese, let Sarah have this. She deserves it.

  71. Beck
    Beck
    January 6, 2025 at 5:06 pm | #

    i ship it.

  72. SillyGoose
    SillyGoose
    January 6, 2025 at 5:26 pm | #

    Can you buy her coffee? Fuck yeah you can! I mean Yes, I’d love that.

  73. GoblinBagsSumo
    GoblinBagsSumo
    January 6, 2025 at 6:52 pm | #

    Sarah: He’s not self conscious about his height, so you don’t be either. Relax. Be yourself with this dude.

  74. Zamperla
    Zamperla
    January 6, 2025 at 9:05 pm | #

    Nah nah, you gotta go the other way. Start wearing heels. Own it girl, you can just sit down to get your face in there. Real men can use a stepladder.

    Jokes aside this cracks me up a bit since my mom has the same problem. My stepdads a lovely guy, I really adore him. He’s also 6’10.

  75. Gin
    Gin
    January 7, 2025 at 3:19 pm | #

    Yeah she’s going to be hung up on the height thing. And sure. Short kings are great but if you want a tall king that’s also acceptable, I don’t see why we have to force Sarah to accept people romantically that she doesn’t want to accept

  76. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    January 9, 2025 at 3:37 am | #

    well I guess I go to the island… I have a podcast… we talk about witches and duels and we just finished all episodes of gundam witch from mercury… XD

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