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Good things came in a small package
…
wait no?
came hurrrhrhrhrhrhhhhrrruuru
whoa, TMI
(joking)
TPI
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Do we know it was a small package? Tony could be bigger than he looks.
You’re canonically saying Tony’s dick is bigger than the rest of him.
There’s not much correlation between overall height and penis size. Until we get a description or a Slipshine, it’s anybody’s guess just what he’s packing. (Fun fact: male porn actors tend to be shorter than average, which has the advantage of making their dong look proportionately bigger.)
That’s not the point. Tony’s 5’6″ with a 6’0″ penis.
He’s a grower not a show-er!
He doesn’t shower?? Gross, can’t believe Sarah likes him
Maybe he prefers bathing? Not everyone thinks showers are golden.
That’s 6′ wide, 0″ long, mind you
What is it, a friggin’ PS1 billboard graphic? Y’know, those “objects” that aren’t a 3D model but instead a flat plane with just a .jpg of something, to fill the space without overloading on polygons?
It’s probably average size, just prehensile.
The other way around, I think.
No, Sarah’s tall.
Doesn’t need to be big to get the job done.
Ladies been doing it for themselves or each other with a single finger which is only (pauses to measure own middle finger) 3 inches (7cm) long. Big or small, thick or thin, the only thing that really matters is finding what one’s partner likes and doing that.
More like Small packages came into good things. Hope the small package had a small package around his pack.
Why you calling Sarah a small package?! She’s tall!
well something’s clearly gone wrong, Joyce and Sarah are smiling in the same panel
It is the smile singularity upon us. The smilarity of you will.
Singu-hilarity
Do we know what happened yet?
Presumably getting coffee with Tony went really well
Potentially better than really well
Hopefully _very_ well.
She’s twitterpated!
Yet another term possibly ruined by Elmo.
Don’t associate that creature of a man with that poor, sweet, innocent red muppet. He doesn’t deserve that.
speaking of,
would anyone happen to know of good countries us queer and trans folk could move to before the incoming monorail disaster?
We’re on our own bruv. Everyone else has the same, “refugees and immigrants BAD,” bug.
You have allies here in Canada, and we do accept some refugees. I’m just worried that’s like fleeing to Austria or Poland c.1937
my now-dead grandparent is a holocaust survivor who was firsthand witness to what happened in Austria. When I still talked to him about what it was like to watch it happen, is definitely a far cry from how you learn about it in school
like, historical narratives put into US schoolbooks tend to make turning points in history seem so obvious in hindsight — not so much the case for people going about their lives at the time it was happening
it wasn’t like oh, you just wake up one day and suddenly there’s troops in the streets doing 21 salutes, swastikas everywhere, books getting burned, homes being looted, etc.
all of these happened at different dates, spread over a long period of time, in what the majority of people living there still called a democratic republic all the while, because they were not able to identify any particular event as a point of no return, no more than we are today
reactionaries in Germany in and out of government proceeded to slowly and steadily exaggerate the alleged threat of violence from leftists, Jews, Romas, Slavs, queers, etc, such that when they were violent against US, it looked to enough people like it was self-defense
Even as shit started getting gradually worse, normies just started turning a blind eye, hoping the problem to be fixed on it’s own, this collective cynicism grew, the Nazi movement took as much as it did because of the willingness to give up on things being better, and just wanting things to run smoothly
— cuz let’s face it, they didn’t care about the collective effort needed to make free, fair society happen as long as they got their chicken sandwiches
Oh. My goodness.
Thank you for this beautiful analysis, NG. I so appreciate you.
I so appreciate you.
Nope. Wrong avvy.
Oh, hej, by the way, apparently there’s now another Laura in the comments section.
“Hi, other Laura!” (*waves*)
So I’ll always use this avvy so folx can tell us apart.
I’m glad you find it beautiful, for what that’s worth
as history repeats itself, some very ugly, horrific and unspeakable things are going to happen in the country I grew up in, to countless vulnerable homies
I do not want to risk winding up in the same position as my grandparent was in nearly 100 years ago, for I may not be nearly as lucky T_T
I’m sorry, that came out wrong.
I didn’t mean to say that what happened was beautiful at ALL!
Just that the way you framed it so succinctly: your words did a beautiful job of explaining how it all happened.
Sorry for any ambiguity!
hey it alright, I got what ya were tryin to express
With most places, it depends on your work experience/skills and/or money.
Before moving to another country, you might at least consider moving to another state within the USA! The new administration’s efforts are disastrous, but they’re not equally disastrous across the nation. A lot of them, like California or Colorado, are really actively resisting federal pressures to be more queerphobic. Here’s a pretty recent risk assessment map, if you’re interested in the details: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/erins-anti-trans-risk-map-early-legislative?utm_source=publication-search
Interesting that Illinois is all blue on that graphic, when I’m pretty sure half my neighbors would gladly provide extra gasoline if any of them lit me on fire in the street. Must be that Chicago influence skewing the results yet again.
That or trans people really like meth.
Everyone really likes meth if they try it a few times.
The color ratings are based on state law and protections/persecutions (so, yes, influence from the Chicago area)… I’m glad I at least live in a low-risk state, and also that I live in a relatively safe area within said state. All states, including the safest, have areas where trans people are unsafe, including from local government.
I mean I’m already in California,
but anti-trans legislation is only one domino to fall at the very least,
is good idea to know some back-up countries,
the next 2000 days are a very good time for trans, queer, POC, low-immune system and other vulnerable homies to have a “hope for the best, prepare for the WORST” attitude, emphasis on the worst
Could you go south to Baja, maybe camp out there for a while? I know Mexico’s got its own persecution, but at least the health care is cheaper there.
yeah I mean it’s an option?
I’m also visibly Jewish and barely white-passing, auDHD and physically disabled.
Canada’s been getting a lot more right wing and everyone else gonna be having the same idea, thus straining their healthcare systems and compelling their government to make difficult choices
so ideally I’d want to be as far away from the north American continent as possible, so maybe somewhere in Europe or even South America?
I really wish there were a map of countries or something in order of how accommodating they are to disabled/trans/queer/Jewish/autistic refugees from the United States
cuz I don’t have much money to begin with, let alone to move, so when I’m able to move I REALLY need to make it count
Well, from an immigration law perspective, migrating anywhere with refugee status from the US is likely impossible.
Disabled folks with SSDI income may qualify for a “retiree” or “pensioner” visa. Many are limited to people over age 40, though. (No SSI payments outside the US.)
For someone of your coding skills, likely the easiest “migration niche” to slide into would be as a “digital nomad”. Although that might require presenting yourself as more financially stable than you are, to gain admission.
If you are a US Citizen, you should be able to enter Mexico and many EU countries without even needing a visa, through the visa waiver program. Staying long-term or engaging even in self-employment, though, is much harder.
In the past, I believe many across the world used to hold out hope for Israel, at least symbolically, as a place to find some refuge, at least from antisemitism, but you know how things are there, now. *Shaking my head.*
As a “Digital Nomad,” though, Malta scores highly.
https://gaydigitalnomads.com/best-countries-for-digital-nomads/
https://aparthotel.com/blog/best-countries-for-transgender-expats/
https://expatsi.com/legalities-rights-freedoms/transgender-countries/
heh, Sweden is on the trans-accommodating list, which was actually one of my first thoughts, given their track-record for personal freedom, education, and social safety nets (plus one of my friends from the GameMaker community actually lives there)
thank you, very much appreciate these lists Laura, I’m sure my trans and queer homies will too ;-;
Thanks, friend.
I share many similar intersectionalities with what you describe. I’m just fatalistic about it all, though. Either that or too heavily medicated to have an emotional investment in the future. Jury’s still out on that question…
:-/
hey, hey, we just gotta keep a steady pace when making our exit plans,
and even as these events our happening, sharing resources like you do and other organizational efforts will help us mitigate the damage — the ship may be sinking, but we can continue to get more and more vulnerable homies on the life boats as that’s happening
I KNOW a better future is possible. I don’t know whether or not it’s likely, but it’s possible.
Social progress, multiculturalism, is all about knowing that there’s 100 ways forward, and only one way back, so many ways we could share power and make better social outcomes such that everyone’s a winner, if we could just let go of the establishments of ages past, of capitalism, of hierarchy, of bigotries guising themselves as “traditions”
Not the way it looks for the territory which currently calls itself the United States — the system is broken and can clearly no longer accurately represent our interests, and normies unwilling to give up even a chicken sandwich, let alone social media and other capitalist habits for our sake.
TL;DR there’s still hope for the future, just not over here
here, especially in the US “heartland”, it looks like all roads lead to Rome
Thank you, my friend. I do so appreciate you for talking through all this here. It helps me so much. So much.
I like the term “muskolini”.
I prefer…”pumpkin spice Palpatine.”
Muskrat?
Musky odor?
Elongated Muskrat
Ooh! I like that one!
She spend the night with Tony?
OK, Joe, that’s not really evidence of anything.
After all, depending on how hard she hit, you might not have any lasting memories of it anyways.
You and the alt-text make a fair point.
Yeah, but we see no evidence of head trauma or scarring on Joe.
Looks like Tony being shorter wasn’t that big of a hurdle for her after all.
No, a smaller hurdle probably.
Everyone’s the same height in bed…
Sadly not. It can make kissing during missionary a real challenge.
That, yeah, definitely.
*nods in 2-meters-vs-1.4-meters
Who’s to say a baseball bat isn’t involved in sex with Tony?
Wait he’s a quarterback, maybe a football instead.
I don’t think I’ve seen a football bat, what do those look like?
Well, you take a football and then you add wings.
Only if the football drinks Red Bull.
Those are bird wings.for a football bat you need a dracula. Not a generic vampire, specifically a dracula.
You just forgot about the hitting because of the brain damage, Joe.
Yeah, if she’d done it right, he wouldn’t know.
acid jazz
Ah, Joyce is suffering her first bout of toxic nostalgia. So precocious.
Wait, “the last few days”? Did I miss a time-skip between the previous storyline and this one?
No. Sarah has been doing the fake it till you make it approach for a few days. They don’t know about Tony yet.
Nope. The last few days has been after Sarah watched Lucy and Jacob kiss and her reaction was to forcibly smile and be incredibly pleasant.
It lasted long enough to feel normal somehow.
It’s implied that Sarah slept somewhere else last night.
So that’s why she’s smiling all weird, biting her lip over her teeth and such. She doesn’t want them to see she hasn’t brushed her teeth yet. It all make sense now.
That would be convenient for Joyce x Joe, but then….
These sleepovers set up kind of a magic-square puzzle, don’t they? Except the empty square that makes play possible is the chairs down in the lobby.
Kind of a weird implication, since Joyce and Joe would know that before they even noticed she was acting different, but they haven’t commented on it at all.
Less weird than that she’s just, like … been there this whole time.
She’s not Dina.
I guess. Could have slept there and gotten up earlier than them.
And lo, there was much ardvarking
Did she and Tony get to know each other… biblically?
Nah, just cinematically.
everybody’s sexy, but nobody’s horny
Just like in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
She jumped onto him doing the superhero landing pose.
Titanically
Biblically
Bodily
Cinematically
Intimately
Patreonly
Sexily
Slipshinily
One of the best ideas that a friend of mine during my teenage years had was a “music exchange program”. This was post-Napster, so we both had mp3s aplenty, and what we did was pick one track to swap every day.
It exposed me to a pretty nice variety of stuff that I hadn’t gotten elsewhere, especially videogame music from games I’d never played.
Oh, that’s cool!
Now I’m feeling nostalgia for mp3.com and all the other places I used to find random, cool music.
Well, if she did it properly, you wouldn’t remember it, Joe.
While it’s entirely possible, I’d be very surprised if Sarah and Tony slept together after one spur of the moment coffee date, especially since the last time we saw her, she and Tony hadn’t even held hands (other than him helping her up off the ground)m he was offscreen throwing away his cup, and Booster was sitting in Tony’s seat encouraging Sarah to experience character growth via football player sex.
I think she’s just happy because she met a guy she likes that likes her back and who also vibes with her in a way no one else has done in the comic.
Well, you’re probably right, but why deny shippers the fun of speculating?
I said irks possible.
I just like to do my speculating with less leaps; I like more support for my theories.
Sure, but maybe Sarah’s totally DTF on the first date and doesn’t care about incrementally escalating physical affection.
This take honestly fits Sarah’s previous behavior better. She has seemed DTFuck and not DTFeelings so far.
That’s definitely been Sarah’s vibe and one of the main reasons Jacob didn’t work out. Tony also has no time for buffoonery which may translate to being down to fuck if you’re serious about it. Not wasting his time playing the coy dating game.
Y’all are missing my point.
It’s not about whether or not Sarah would have sex on the first date.
I think she would, but I believe she’d need more than what we’ve seen so far.
More to the point, I believe Willis would show us more than what we’ve seen.
Neither of them expressed a willingness or desire to have sex, no physical intimacy had been shown, and the last time we saw either character, they weren’t onscreen together.
Sarah is a major character and Tony is looking like he could be a character of significance; when has Willis not shown more build up of such characters’ first time together?
Lucy and Jacob might be the fastest main character hookup we’ve seen, and even then we saw them make their way to her room after dancing and kissing.
The only thing I can think of is Ethan’s hookups after Mike, but those characters weren’t significant.
Long story long, I believe Sarah’s first time with this particular man, regardless of how fast it happened, would be shared more with the readers than sprung on us as an afterthought.
It’s possible it could have happened and we get a flashback later, but that’s different than how it normally happens.
I’ve also got to assume that if she hadn’t been home all night, then Joyce or Joe would have commented on that rather than just the smile.
First the fucks.
Then the follies.
Then the feels.
It’s all in reverse alphabetical order, you see.
as the years go by i can confirm dad groaning is a real affliction
im not a dad but im 30 and always grunting when i did not used to. im in better health than i was so idk what it is. my soul crying for help?
That is a look of someone either in love or someone who got some.
Money’s on red.
#whynotboth.gif
SCP-8257 is a facial expression known as a “genuine smile” which has manifested on Sarah’s face. This is a heretofore unprecedented event and as such requires further study.
Is this a potential euclid class?
Depends on how hard it is to contain, but probably. It can likely manifest even if already removed, but it’s also likely easy to cause it to disappear. Can’t be safe because it’s unpredictable, but can’t be keter because it’s not extremely difficult to contain.
You sure about that? It’s already spread to Joyce’s face.
Joyce was probably Patient Zero.
Note the white bubbles appearing on her corneas, this is a symptom of infection.
Other symptoms may include:
– A ray of sunlight that follows her around,
– Birds singing nearby, alighting on her shoulders in advanced cases
– Unreasonable feelings of optimism or positivity
Consult a doctor immediately if feelings worsen, or if you have thoughts of matrimony.
One of the few problems* with crowdsourcing and wikifying the SCP greatness is that you’ll get multiple, conflicting entries for any given number. Case in point: SCP-8257 is either Sarah Smiling or a Cyberpunk Corgi.
*It’s not a bug; it’s a feature!
I consider myself fortunate that some people are making new “80s” music 40 years later.
Now if they’d only get around to the 60’s.
What do you miss from the sixties clif?
Nixon’s evils and scandals were the worst we’d ever seen. Ahhh, such innocents we were then.
Sarah is being exactly like Joyce when she came back from canoodling with Joe.
Wait, has she washed her hands yet?
Note that, after the initial greeting, she’s holding them behind her back. Very prosocial of her.
Is it really so hard to believe that she went clubbing?
Yes. Extremely. This is fucking Sarah. If anything going clubbing might actually make her want to hit people more.
Reltzik meant the kind of clubbing that involves hitting other things, I think. It was a good pun if so, if not then I claim the pun as my own.
I think it might be rude to call Tony a “this”.
This is a top shelf pun and you should be very proud. It makes me happy.
Time to crank up the stereo on Joyce’s behalf…looks like all the sarcasm and spite migrated to my playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qynu8yNiTrY&t=1s
Yay Sarah!!!!!! I like Sarah!!!!!!!
Gods I want Sarah to finally find some genuine happiness.
She has the look of someone who thought she’d never find a kindred spirit, but now has hope
Thrilled for Sarah!! Thrilled!
May Ọ̀ṣun never allow Liz figure out about Sarah.
You could have a concussion, Joe.
I’m sure there’d be signs.
I had an accident I don’t remember, but the blood and broken bones sort of clued me in.
Also different? Several huge white dots on her eyes!
Are we sure Sarah doesn’t have sudden-onset cataracts?
New solution: Join the music majors cause writing music for yourself is the only way in the world you’re going to get new music that fits that criteria. And even you might have to work like, 40 years to figure it out.
Or maybe take up drinking. That can make most things feel like they did when you were five, or at least numb enough not to care about the difference.
IT’S A MIMIC KILL IT
Ack-shull-ee, a doppelganger. Mimics copy stationary objects (which can, yes, include stationery). The mobile kind are a distantly related species, called doppelgangers.
WE’LL SORT OUT TAXONOMY LATER
PREFERABLY THROUGH DISSECTION
Seeing Sarah so happy is so beautiful, so touching. It makes me hope that she will tell Joyce everything and then she will hug her, full of happiness for her.
Please let Sarah be happy. Please let Sarah be happy. Please l-
I’ve really been enjoying Joe as the straight man to Joyce’s idiosyncrasies now he’s relaxing and becoming unafraid to sass her.
It was a job, but she got him to relax around her. She’s got him well in hand.
That’s because she abandoned her interest in baseball and is into American football now.
Good morning to you toooo
I’m assuming this means Sarah is still getting along well with Tony.
okay so… karaoke round 2?
or maybe joyce could actually go dancing like she said to joe she’d like to do way back when, just not locked in her room with parental supervision
it’s a lot easier to get into new music when you have a good time with it
Oh, Joe, not everything’s about YOU. There are plenty of other people Sarah’d enjoy hitting with a baseball bat.
Joe, there was hitting, definitely. Just not you. And not with a bat. And for certain alternative values of “hitting”.
Well, that depends on how metaphorical we’re getting with “bat.”
Tony has replaced the other Jacob.
She really enjoyed that date huh?
Joyce can write happy uplifting chorus for her music:
“Kidnap Becky
Held a gun to my head
Mom sucks
But not as much as Toedad”
Not that they aren’t always good, but today’s strip is really, really funny.
A week ago, people literally wanted Tony dead. Now everybody’s glad he and Sarah likely had sex.
The internet is real funny to me.
Nobody wanted that, you liar.
Top comment literally said “death’s too good for him” and I got roasted by a bunch of people for thinking murder was an overreach. You can go back and read the comments, friend.
Feb. 4: So 2 weeks ago, my bad, y’all.
That isn’t Tony. That’s a different person entirely who is a rapist, which would be why people wanted him dead. Jennifer even calls him “Chester” in that specific strip.
You’re right. The internet is funny.
are you like… mixing up chester and tony…?
They are, yes.
Absolutely. I confused two blond football players with similar faces who are both new to the strip at a similar time and have been off-panel for weeks (January 23rd for Chester).
We can all move along. Forget everything about the internet being full of murder lust and lust-lust within this fandom. They’re 2 completely different guys, lol.
They look so different, holy shit lol. And we’ve only seen one in flashback-blue… did you think they were the same guy when those prom strips were coming out? That sounds like a wild reading experience.
lmao
just stop doubling down for a second. its understandable and okay to be wrong occasionally (or frequently!). if you’re being high and mighty at the moment you’re being wrong, you’re going to take an extra helping of crap over it, which is also okay.
*either* put a higher quality of effort into rendering judgment, or keep some of the self-satisfaction out of your voice while pronouncing that judgment.
No, you got grilled with onions and cilantro for acting high and mighty about it. That whole “ooh you guys are soooo tough :eyeroll:” vibe was worthless and got called out for a good reason.
lol i expected a ‘meta’ comment from a ‘love sleuth’ like joyce to be able to see the hearts in her dialogue
Joyce is just a lesbian love sleuth. All ambiguity in that phrase fully intentional.
Sarah’s smiling because she’s thinking about butts, it’s even evident in the way she’s talking.