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In terms of it being a thing in this comment section, it was a thing Stephen Bierce (whose name I hope I’ve spelled correctly) used to leave in the comments, picking a song to represent the strip of the day. According to the deep lore (my half-memory of a time he explained it), way back in the olden days young rapscallions with the right know-how used to convince the machines that played store-muzak to play their records
I don’t think it was handed over so much as hijacked, it was kinda his schtick and then he gradually stopped trying after NGPZ took it up. If there was ever an actual message from him saying “all yours” I missed it, but would love to know because it’s always kinda bummed me out for him.
…and how is that quote an invitation to read books? Do I »want« to get my hands on the pernicious life-blood of a master spirit? I bloody well don’t. What’s that even supposed to mean? Again, obviously written by someone who considered »himself« a master-spirit writing for the ages.
Amber took the pictures of/for Dorothy, Jennifer took one of herself for Dorothy. This one has freckles and Dotty’s striped shirt, so it’s the one Amber took.
1) I have decided I’m hetero (“a zero on the Kinsey scale” I think she said?)
2) therefore everything I do is hetero
3) should I ever do anything gay, please refer to 2)
Okay, so… Since the previous attempt to resend, Jennifer sent a pic of her own breasts from Dorothy’s phone, there was the whole Incelboy encounter, Dorothy met up with Joyce & co, Joyce went to an entire class while Dorothy hung out with Jocelyne, Joyce finished class and came back, and then at least another hour has passed since then (as per Jocelyne saying she has an hour before she needs to go meet up with friends, then saying it is time to go meet up with friends). This has been at least a few hours.
There was no previous attempt to resend. Dorothy did not hit the button back then.
Also, Jennifer just took a pic and gave Dorothy permission to send it, which she didn’t either.
Joyce: Dorothy, why are you and Jennifer sending boob pics to me? Are you accidentally sending them because you’re having an affair? If so, it’s okay, I’m cool with the gay now. I have a leather jacket.
Besides, I do not see how Dorothy is in any way cool with “time-sharing” Joyce. Is “polycule disaster with extremely possessive person” what everyone‘s cheering for?
This type of technology glitch is the worst. You agonize over a decision: “Should I risk email this question?” “Should I expended more time to quadruple check before I submit this project?” “Did I go the right direction with this letter?”, etc. Then click send and you feel such relief because right or wrong, at least it is finally over and you can stop agonizing over the choice for a while. Then the email or text doesn’t go through and all the anxiety comes flooding back in.
Right? Especially if you didn’t notice that it didn’t send right away so you have the added anxiety of “Oh G-d, they never got this!” “Are they angry?” “Is it too late to send it now?” “Do I try to explain what happened?” “Will trying to explain make me look like I’m making up excuses?”, etc.
mhmm! I already take forever to send emails to people. One time I struggled for 6 months to send an email to a Rabbi i’d already talked to! But if that hadn’t gone through idk, it could have ended up being a full year before I finally followed up
I’ve found I can lower my text/email anxiety by schedule sending things. Also because I might be working up the nerve to say something at 2:37am, but they don’t need to know that, have an email timestamped 8:13am, I am so normal.
Future historians generally agree that:
1. This date was the “Archduke Franz Ferdinand”-type flashpoint that started the World Boob Pic War.
2. Dorothy and Joyce were just good friends.
I mean, not necessarily. There are plenty of reasons to show off your boobs in a not gay way (hey look how well the surgery went! hey look at this new bra!) but this moment? In the comic above?
I dunno. A lot of people aren’t really wanting the throuple.
First off, Joe and Dorothy don’t really have any romantic chemistry together, and it’s not really a throuple unless all three members are mutually dating the others. While they could develop something down the line, there’s not really anything there right now.
Secondly, a throuple leaves Walky out in the cold, and he and Dorothy are nice together.
So for me: polycule yes, throuple no. Joyce and Joe date, Joyce and Dorothy date, Dorothy and Walky date. At least as a starting point.
Thing is, I don’t think it would be a threesome; more likely, after seeking Joe’s permission, Joyce would start an additional relationship with Dorothy. (Dotty just doesn’t like or trust Joe enough to get naked in a room with him.)
Mind you, this scenario would require these characters to be capable of reflection, nuance and communication, so…. yeah.
On the one hand, I’ve absolutely been in the position of doing an “offhanded” thing only for it to fail to post/send/share/etc. and then face the decision of re-sending multiple times to not waste the effort spent in the initial act, each time making the action less and less casual, until a sense of desperation creeps in and poisons the entire thing with its empty earnestness.
On the other hand, Dorothy clearly has something more going on here than normal shame in trying too hard to be casual.
I suppose the second question Joyce would probably be asking (y’know, after the obvious question of why her best friend sent her a titty pic) is how she managed to do it with no hands.
The only way I can see this going is Joyce getting the picture while Joe happens to be looking at her phone, her asking him if she should escalate as a joke, and then half an hour later Dorothy gets a tastefully-shot photo of Joyce in her underwear, holding a math book.
I do believe people who say it happens, but… It hasn’t been my experience. As an AFAB pan person who has had other women show me / send pictures of their boobs or butt to me, under “platonic” contexts (“look at my cute new bra!”) these gestures have almost exclusively come from women who (either previously or later on) expressed direct and explicit sexual interest in me.
In the couple of cases where it wasn’t like that, it was straight women who talked an awful lot about their list of hot women they would sleep with if they were bi or would be “cool with their boyfriend sleeping with”. As someone who was once deep in denial myself, this is why I look little sideways at women who get especially defensive about how totally platonic their spicy photos to their bestie are.
Some people swear it’s a thing though, and I try to believe in other people’s experiences. It’s just challenging for me because one of the people I knew who swore it was a thing was also a person who sent me a ‘platonic’ bra pic and a few months later asked me if I wanted to hook up lol.
I have friends who have sent pictures to friends in a platonic way, though nobody involved was cis or het. They’d say affirming things and I guess the goal was to help with body positivity.
I have a straight female friend who is very comfortable with discussing her sexual activities with other female friends. She’s kind of like Roz, to use a DoA point of reference. Anyway she’s send me boob pics out of outrage that they didn’t elicit awestruck responses from her then boyfriend (“don’t my tits look great here?” and yeah they did).
So that’s one data point, but certainly a very different type of gesture from what Dorothy is doing here!
Now that Joyce has received a picture of Jennifer’s boobs followed by a picture of Dorothy’s boobs, I’m imaging Joyce trying to figure out what she’s supposed to do with them. “Am I supposed to compare them? Does she want feedback? Should I find a gold star to give her? And not tell her that tell her that I’m giving Jennifer two stars?”
By their next interaction, Joyce has created a report card for Dorothy’s boobs, and Dorothy learns more about her kinks.
Oh, like Dorothy doesn’t already know that a graded report card would turn her on.
The REALLY fun bit will be when Joe finds out what Joyce is doing, when she asks him for a second opinion to make sure she’s doing her homework right, and he has to explain why ranking women’s bodies is wrong.
I love the look on Dorothy’s face at the end. She realizes she’s done something with unpredictable & irreparable consequences. Whatever happens, I’m glad she sent the photo. The unspoken between her and Joyce was becoming too much.
As a person who has been a fan the idea of Joyce and Dorothy as a couple…the possibilities of where this could go are certainly exciting.
At the very least, I hope this is the spark that finally gets Joyce and Dorothy to at least have a conversation about them (because healthy communication is important).
Staring out the window, I nod sagely.
“Yes… ha ha ha… yes,” I whisper to myself.
On my shirt is written the word “Sickos”. I ignore it, confident that I know what’s good.
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*plays “Filthy/Gorgeous” by Scissor Sisters on hacked muzak*
OH HONEY.
HONEY WHY.
(WE KNOW WHY SDLKGJDSLKJ LET’S GOOOOOOO)
LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO! ^^
(stimming in place rn)
*plays “Easy Breezy” by chelmico on hacked muzak*
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
[sunglasses.gif]
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ISTG I FEEL LIKE THE “YESSSSS…. YESSSSS!!” SICKO.JPEG
THAT IS ME WITH EVERY TEASE
ITS TOO GOOD
still not beating those allegations. ~<3
What is the origin of “on the hacked muzak”?
In terms of it being a thing in this comment section, it was a thing Stephen Bierce (whose name I hope I’ve spelled correctly) used to leave in the comments, picking a song to represent the strip of the day. According to the deep lore (my half-memory of a time he explained it), way back in the olden days young rapscallions with the right know-how used to convince the machines that played store-muzak to play their records
Someone came up with it ten years ago or so and said it every day. Then handed that responsibility to someone else. The rest is history.
I don’t think it was handed over so much as hijacked, it was kinda his schtick and then he gradually stopped trying after NGPZ took it up. If there was ever an actual message from him saying “all yours” I missed it, but would love to know because it’s always kinda bummed me out for him.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”?
Actually he did give a message, about a month ago:
“Working a lousy job that takes so many of my spoons I can’t stay up to midnight most nights anymore. :\ “
which honestly really sucks, I too know what it’s like to be an ADHDer and struggle under late capitalism :(
Taking potshots at commenters isn’t cool.
We do know why.
….
It’s for shirts and jiggles.
[Standing Ovation]
[carried in triumph to the ceremony where one Internet is awarded]
I thought this was an unexpected The Good Place reference, but I caught the pun eventually.
She REALLY wants her to see them!
Oh Dorothy, you consistently make me smile, and hungry for chicken nuggets.
perfect gravitar XD ^^
I can’t believe I rolled Walky again.
Wally’s a wimp. Rolling him would be a piece of cake. Not sure it would get you much. Maybe a half-eaten bag of gummy bears.
Naturally, Milton is (mis)quoted right above her as Dorothy sends the text.
“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”
“Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?”
“Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.”
-John Milton (utterly devoid of much needed context)
It was actually “A Good Book is the Precious Life-Blood of a Casper-Spirit” but Milton’s handwriting was bad.
Fwiw, it’s “A Good Book is one precious life-blood of a casper-spirig”
Pretty odd set of words to throw together. XD
Casper the Friendly Spirit?
How is this version less readable than the one with what my dad used to call “effing esses”?
Luckily, it’s written in a font that says “I don’t want you to be able to read this,” so that’s all right, I guess.
Also, I haven’t slightest idea what the gibberish above is about. I don’t think Milton even »wanted« to be understood, the pretentious twat.
…and how is that quote an invitation to read books? Do I »want« to get my hands on the pernicious life-blood of a master spirit? I bloody well don’t. What’s that even supposed to mean? Again, obviously written by someone who considered »himself« a master-spirit writing for the ages.
… “-bater.”
**immature giggle**
Again, do I »want« to get my hands on the precipitous life-essence of a master-bater? I’d rather not, thank you.
Relax. I’m sure he’s protecting his…
Precious. Bodily. Fluids.
From us… Communist infiltrators!
That a Howard Hughes quote?
Man, I can picture the paranoia!
I’m sorry, I swear I hit the “Reply” link but it looks like I hit the Report link.
I was going to say, have the warnings of Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper already been forgotten?
It’s a quote from a movie character, Jack T. Ripper in the movie Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton, Areopagitica
Half of a sentence is confusing. Though the full sentence is too.
That’s a good face in that last panel
“My god, what have I done.”
“this is no longer a bit”
She agonized on it before and will agonize on it after. Her lawful ass knows this is know as Premeditation.
Hopefully she commits to the bit and gives it thorough effort. She won’t be satisfied with anything less than a full boudoir set.
“I am become Embarrassment, destroyer of worlds.”
Let the arms (er, boobs) race commence!
It’s the doctrine of MAD.
(Mammary Assured Distraction)
How I want to die.
May I refer you to the Monty Python Meaning Of Life scene of a man’s chosen means of execution?
That’s the picture that Jennifer took for Dottie?
I think those are Dorothy’s, not Jennifer’s.
Yes, but Jennifer took the picture for Dorothy.
I thought it was Amber who took the picture. Jennifer grabbed the phone and sent her own.
Jennifer only took a picture of her own and gave Dorothy the permission to send it, but that never happened (as far as we know)
I stand corrected: Joyce received Jennifer’s pic
Amber took the pictures of/for Dorothy, Jennifer took one of herself for Dorothy. This one has freckles and Dotty’s striped shirt, so it’s the one Amber took.
Amber did. Jennifer took a picture of her own.
Don’t tell the others I said this, Dorothy, but you’re my favorite.
(My favorite little disaster, but still.)
Valentines Day is coming. Be very very afraid.
Good friends totally send ironic titty pics as a joke.
any good friends i wanna have
And it’s important (for friendship) to really overthink it first.
Here in Latam we call it “reforzando la amistad” (strengthening [our] friendship.) It’s very heterosexual therefore valid
What a completely heterosexual practice, that’s so beautiful
Muchas tetas.
Muchos besos.
Reforzando la amistad.
Oh yes. And Dorothy is world class at overthinking. She’s gonna do a full boudoir portfolio and accompanying slide deck.
1) I have decided I’m hetero (“a zero on the Kinsey scale” I think she said?)
2) therefore everything I do is hetero
3) should I ever do anything gay, please refer to 2)
Totally sensible. No logical errors detected.
She said, “probably zero, best I cal tell. I guess that estimate could change” the
correctthing to say, so she’s immune from fluidity unless she plans for it.Goodest of good friends
YAY!
Still MIA, and not in this comic. Yay Newfriend is in Questionable Content.
God I wish QC used a tag system like DoA does. It’d make it a helluva lot easier to look up half-remembered plot points.
THATS SO LATE DOROTHY
Yeah, but probably way less late than it feels like it is to us. xD
time dilation is one hell of a drug :p
Okay, so… Since the previous attempt to resend, Jennifer sent a pic of her own breasts from Dorothy’s phone, there was the whole Incelboy encounter, Dorothy met up with Joyce & co, Joyce went to an entire class while Dorothy hung out with Jocelyne, Joyce finished class and came back, and then at least another hour has passed since then (as per Jocelyne saying she has an hour before she needs to go meet up with friends, then saying it is time to go meet up with friends). This has been at least a few hours.
There was no previous attempt to resend. Dorothy did not hit the button back then.
Also, Jennifer just took a pic and gave Dorothy permission to send it, which she didn’t either.
I stand partly corrected: Joyce received Jennifer’s pic
Link did not work: second try
Dorothy discovers the ohnosecond.
Post pic clarity
*ensues self-slut-shaming
(shut down hard at Joyce’s return salvo)
((titty torrent))
(((booby blitzkrieg)))
Joyce: Dorothy, why are you and Jennifer sending boob pics to me? Are you accidentally sending them because you’re having an affair? If so, it’s okay, I’m cool with the gay now. I have a leather jacket.
OMG
For the next year (our time), Joyce tries to get Dorothy and Jennifer to admit their forbidden lust for each other.
Lesbian Love Sleuth investigation underway
She must solve the case of her two breasties
I mean her two besties
*hits imaginary Like button*
Jennifer did not sent her boob pic to Joyce, she merely gave Dorothy permission to do so, but Dorothy did not sent it either (as far as we know).
I can unironically say I have been in this situation before.
Just tell Joe you’re time-sharing Joyce. He’s already said he’s cool with it, if you or Joyce bothered to listen.
He did?
That is not a universal read. https://www.dumbingofage.com/startled/ https://www.dumbingofage.com/iloveyous/
Besides, I do not see how Dorothy is in any way cool with “time-sharing” Joyce. Is “polycule disaster with extremely possessive person” what everyone‘s cheering for?
As I said yesterday, the amount of potential Toxic Yuri in this comic has skyrocketed again recently, and I, for one, am thrilled about that.
Yessss same!
I’d expect the environmental protection people to show up in sealed suits and seal off the area to prevent toxin spread…
Except they probably don’t do that anymore.
Not anymore, no. The new acting head-puppet just fired their clean air advisory committee and general science committee.
We’re getting invites to a full-on banquet here
One could even say a smorgasbord.
Hurrah for all the crack ships!
Tamsyn Muir would approve I hope.
Just in time for my reread of Onii-chan Ha Oshimai
THIS IS WHAT I’M HERE FOR
Been in a shit mood today but this is nice.
I’m sorry. I hope you feel better soon.
This type of technology glitch is the worst. You agonize over a decision: “Should I risk email this question?” “Should I expended more time to quadruple check before I submit this project?” “Did I go the right direction with this letter?”, etc. Then click send and you feel such relief because right or wrong, at least it is finally over and you can stop agonizing over the choice for a while. Then the email or text doesn’t go through and all the anxiety comes flooding back in.
Right? Especially if you didn’t notice that it didn’t send right away so you have the added anxiety of “Oh G-d, they never got this!” “Are they angry?” “Is it too late to send it now?” “Do I try to explain what happened?” “Will trying to explain make me look like I’m making up excuses?”, etc.
mhmm! I already take forever to send emails to people. One time I struggled for 6 months to send an email to a Rabbi i’d already talked to! But if that hadn’t gone through idk, it could have ended up being a full year before I finally followed up
I’ve found I can lower my text/email anxiety by schedule sending things. Also because I might be working up the nerve to say something at 2:37am, but they don’t need to know that, have an email timestamped 8:13am, I am so normal.
Ohhhhhh, finally one of the big domino’s falls
We are not at the full chaos moment but this is definitely at least some of the gasoline
Future historians generally agree that:
1. This date was the “Archduke Franz Ferdinand”-type flashpoint that started the World Boob Pic War.
2. Dorothy and Joyce were just good friends.
“No one can know they were ever more than good friends”
The plot thicckens.
Fellas, it is in fact gay to send titty pics to your best gal pal.
I mean, not necessarily. There are plenty of reasons to show off your boobs in a not gay way (hey look how well the surgery went! hey look at this new bra!) but this moment? In the comic above?
SUPER gay.
‘Twas a joke.
Breasties for the besties
“Some Kinsey Zero you are”
♫ Give yourself over to absolute pleasure…
Swim the warm waters of sins of the fle-e-esh! ♪
Hey waiter! There’s a transvestite in my soup!
Shhh! Or everyone will want one.
well done, Dorothy
Once is a mistake. Twice is a circumstance. Thrice is something else cause Joyce isn’t reading back.
Post-send clarity is when she will have to answer for this in the future.
Joyce is going to receive every one of those failed sends, right?
“Dorothy, why did you send me 20 picture of your boobs?”
Joe is gonna need so much therapy after this disaster…
or some more condoms :p
Look some years ago I would’ve never say this but, I just want him to be happy :’33
Why not both
therapy condoms.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained…..
In for a penny, in for a pounding?
“Mom, I really don’t need to know this.”
“And I really was.”
Oh okay I guess we’re doing this again.
Noooooo dorothy nooo
Yeeeeas Dorothy, yeeeeas.
I’ll totally cop to being the weird one here but I *really* want this throuple to happen
I think it’s not wanting it to happen that would make you the weird one in this crowd lol
I dunno. A lot of people aren’t really wanting the throuple.
First off, Joe and Dorothy don’t really have any romantic chemistry together, and it’s not really a throuple unless all three members are mutually dating the others. While they could develop something down the line, there’s not really anything there right now.
Secondly, a throuple leaves Walky out in the cold, and he and Dorothy are nice together.
So for me: polycule yes, throuple no. Joyce and Joe date, Joyce and Dorothy date, Dorothy and Walky date. At least as a starting point.
And Joyce watches Dorothy and Walky have sex (While carefully blocking her view of Walky with her hands.)
I don’t think that makes you weird.
Throuple! Throuple! Throuple!
(I said it three times – for obvious reasons).
Having given us back Walky and Dorothy, Willis is teasing us with Leslie and Robin, Ruth and Jenifer, and Joyce and Dorothy.
Unless it’s not teasing.
Well then! Everyone loves a callback!
I’m having a hard time remembering, has Joyce even responded since she got the “other” one?
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/02-the-one-where-jocelyne-returns/sitin/
Maybe this will remind her.
Hopefully she’ll at least scroll up
(to finally notice what she sent in the first place, I mean)
There is no heterosexual explanation for this.
Joe: I need to stop acting like such a horndog. Time to settle down and not just focus on sex.
Joyce: so I’ve been looking into this thing called a ‘throuple’ and want to know your thoughts.
RIP Joe Rosenthal.
oh man that threesome would be *so* awkward.
Thing is, I don’t think it would be a threesome; more likely, after seeking Joe’s permission, Joyce would start an additional relationship with Dorothy. (Dotty just doesn’t like or trust Joe enough to get naked in a room with him.)
Mind you, this scenario would require these characters to be capable of reflection, nuance and communication, so…. yeah.
On the one hand, I’ve absolutely been in the position of doing an “offhanded” thing only for it to fail to post/send/share/etc. and then face the decision of re-sending multiple times to not waste the effort spent in the initial act, each time making the action less and less casual, until a sense of desperation creeps in and poisons the entire thing with its empty earnestness.
On the other hand, Dorothy clearly has something more going on here than normal shame in trying too hard to be casual.
She’s obviously got an itch only a woman can scratch.
The realization you took a joke too far only comes in hindsight.
I suppose the second question Joyce would probably be asking (y’know, after the obvious question of why her best friend sent her a titty pic) is how she managed to do it with no hands.
Pah, any aspiring president needs to know how to delegate. That’s no mystery.
The only way I can see this going is Joyce getting the picture while Joe happens to be looking at her phone, her asking him if she should escalate as a joke, and then half an hour later Dorothy gets a tastefully-shot photo of Joyce in her underwear, holding a math book.
Oh the escalation would be so good
Soon there’ll be sets and elaborate costumes with hidden meanings, the whole campus will somehow be pulled in
Future historians generally agree this was the day that the World Titty Pic War started.
Trash goblins that crave mess rejoice.
\0/
Amber rejoices!
let Trash Goblin Chaos reign! >:3
Is tomorrow’s strip titled “Joe, can you read me my texts?” by any chance?
LOL!
Poor Dotty
Oh, that’s a nice pic
Yep, and we didn’t even see all of it. My mind is racing with the idea of freckled bosoms goodness.
Don’t look at me Dotty, i have no responsability in this
Is it normal for women who are friends to send each other boob pics, as a joke? I wouldn’t know as a man.
I do believe people who say it happens, but… It hasn’t been my experience. As an AFAB pan person who has had other women show me / send pictures of their boobs or butt to me, under “platonic” contexts (“look at my cute new bra!”) these gestures have almost exclusively come from women who (either previously or later on) expressed direct and explicit sexual interest in me.
In the couple of cases where it wasn’t like that, it was straight women who talked an awful lot about their list of hot women they would sleep with if they were bi or would be “cool with their boyfriend sleeping with”. As someone who was once deep in denial myself, this is why I look little sideways at women who get especially defensive about how totally platonic their spicy photos to their bestie are.
Some people swear it’s a thing though, and I try to believe in other people’s experiences. It’s just challenging for me because one of the people I knew who swore it was a thing was also a person who sent me a ‘platonic’ bra pic and a few months later asked me if I wanted to hook up lol.
I have friends who have sent pictures to friends in a platonic way, though nobody involved was cis or het. They’d say affirming things and I guess the goal was to help with body positivity.
That’s not what’s happening here, though.
I have a straight female friend who is very comfortable with discussing her sexual activities with other female friends. She’s kind of like Roz, to use a DoA point of reference. Anyway she’s send me boob pics out of outrage that they didn’t elicit awestruck responses from her then boyfriend (“don’t my tits look great here?” and yeah they did).
So that’s one data point, but certainly a very different type of gesture from what Dorothy is doing here!
Now that Joyce has received a picture of Jennifer’s boobs followed by a picture of Dorothy’s boobs, I’m imaging Joyce trying to figure out what she’s supposed to do with them. “Am I supposed to compare them? Does she want feedback? Should I find a gold star to give her? And not tell her that tell her that I’m giving Jennifer two stars?”
By their next interaction, Joyce has created a report card for Dorothy’s boobs, and Dorothy learns more about her kinks.
Oh, like Dorothy doesn’t already know that a graded report card would turn her on.
The REALLY fun bit will be when Joe finds out what Joyce is doing, when she asks him for a second opinion to make sure she’s doing her homework right, and he has to explain why ranking women’s bodies is wrong.
Oh I want to see THAT conversation!
I cannot *wait* to see what trainwreck way Joyce misinterprets this.
“Haha oh I get it we’re sending titty pictures as a joke!” (Sends one to Jennifer)
for the love of all that is lesbian please have this trigger joyce reaching out to her sister about the confusing feelings it causes
For those keeping score, this is also plot. And it does indeed thicken
I thought Amber was Thicc Dorothy.
Exactly! Dorothy feels inadequate, so she’s trying to catch up.
JOYCE: “Aww! It’s so sweet of Dorothy to celebrate my sister’s coming-out like this! I’ve got to send this to Jocelyn right away!”
Aww yeah! Are they on their way to being roommates? If Joyce does become roommates with Dorothy, Becky is gonna be beyond pissed on so many levels.
I love the look on Dorothy’s face at the end. She realizes she’s done something with unpredictable & irreparable consequences. Whatever happens, I’m glad she sent the photo. The unspoken between her and Joyce was becoming too much.
*manifesting gayness, to make this ship cannon*
holy shit it’s happening
And Dorothy’s small frontal lobe grew three sizes that day.
As a person who has been a fan the idea of Joyce and Dorothy as a couple…the possibilities of where this could go are certainly exciting.
At the very least, I hope this is the spark that finally gets Joyce and Dorothy to at least have a conversation about them (because healthy communication is important).
Dorothy quickly sending a follow-up text: “Does that freckle look strange to you? Should I see a doctor?”
Joyce: “I can’t really see; maybe I should look at it in person.”
It’s a fakeout. She’s just sending it to Walky :p
oh that would be a delightful tease
Staring out the window, I nod sagely.
“Yes… ha ha ha… yes,” I whisper to myself.
On my shirt is written the word “Sickos”. I ignore it, confident that I know what’s good.
Ahh, the Impulsive Screen Poke. one singular BOOP and no takebacks.
LMAO LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO