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July 1, 2026

Compressed

by David M Willis on May 21, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – The Only Exception
└ Tags: joe, joyce

Discussion (208) ¬

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  1. ZombieKyrik
    ZombieKyrik
    May 21, 2025 at 12:01 am | #

    Whoa, Joyce may not have been ready for sex, but Joe was not prepared for this.

    • Rose by Any other Name
      Rose by Any other Name
      May 21, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      Joyce may not be prepare for penetration, but she could probably finish Joe off with a few good wiggles from right where she is. And I doubt he’d mind.

      • ZombieKyrik
        ZombieKyrik
        May 21, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

        I’m curious as to how Joyce would react; pleased for him finding her sexy, or uncomfortable because she wasn’t expecting it?

        • DJTsurugi
          DJTsurugi
          May 21, 2025 at 12:33 am | #

          probably a little of A. and a little of B. but definitely all of the D. ~<3

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 21, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

        GOLLY.

    • Opinion
      Opinion
      May 21, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

      Yeah I would think Joe walked into this date fully expecting Joyce to get nervous/upset/guilty/anything else and that nothing overly physical would happen. He’ll he might be more shocked by the events of last night than Joyce.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    May 21, 2025 at 12:01 am | #

    Rated NC-17 for Graphic Depictions of Smooshery.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 21, 2025 at 10:25 am | #

      I can’t _believe_ Willis just posted this here! Not even on the other patreon or slipshine! :O

  3. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    May 21, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    XD we really doing this

    *plays “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails on hacked muzak*

    • TheFungus
      TheFungus
      May 21, 2025 at 12:40 am | #

      Feel like Head Like a Hole is a better pick here TBH.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      May 21, 2025 at 1:18 am | #

      I’d link “Kodou -get closer-” by Psychic Lover (from Witchblade’s anime) but the only vid has a very NSFW cover.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        May 21, 2025 at 10:27 am | #

        Whaddaya mean? It’s just a cheeky cover!

    • Laura
      Laura
      May 21, 2025 at 1:27 am | #

      Obligatory Muppet “Closer”:

      https://youtu.be/Z7c28KhPEpo

      Trigger warning: um, the song.

      • Laura
        Laura
        May 21, 2025 at 1:38 am | #

        Obligatory Kirk/Spock (Sprrk/Kock?) “Closer”:

        https://youtu.be/3uxTpyCdriY

        Trigger warning: SV

        Played on the hacked theremin…

        • Laura
          Laura
          May 21, 2025 at 1:54 am | #

          Although Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – would work just as well:

          https://youtu.be/gAjR4_CbPpQ

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          May 21, 2025 at 10:39 am | #

          Slash fiction treatments of their relationship are _the_ pioneering fanfic of the modern era. The trope namer! 🙂

        • Bleuryder
          Bleuryder
          May 21, 2025 at 8:05 pm | #

          Spork?

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        May 21, 2025 at 10:38 am | #

        I…had not seen that. Now…I have seen that. My worldview is now changed. :O

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      May 21, 2025 at 7:50 pm | #

      “I wanna compress you like an animal”

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        May 21, 2025 at 8:01 pm | #

        If no one has said that to a neurodiv s.o, then humanity is failing me.

  4. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    May 21, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    HORDOR!!!

  5. John Campbell
    John Campbell
    May 21, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    The doom of Joyce/Dorothy: Dorothy doesn’t weigh enough to smoosh her properly.

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      May 21, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      (Obviously she’ll have to date both of them and just stack them up on top of her.)

      • ZombieKyrik
        ZombieKyrik
        May 21, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

        Excellent work; modern problems need modern solutions.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 21, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

        Naw…Sandwhich.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          May 21, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

          ya gonna eat that? o3o

        • Puppeteer Nessus
          Puppeteer Nessus
          May 21, 2025 at 9:18 pm | #

          Yotomoe, have you been drawing lately?

      • BSD
        BSD
        May 21, 2025 at 12:51 am | #

        Real Giles Corey hours over here.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        May 21, 2025 at 10:40 am | #

        Not the threesome I _was_ expecting, but the threesome I am now.

  6. Longshot97
    Longshot97
    May 21, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    That was quite the long game you played there, Willis.

    Well played.

  7. SevenFerns
    SevenFerns
    May 21, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    Ah, the autistic desire for evenly spread and comfortable pressure, I’m familiar

    • Rose by Any other Name
      Rose by Any other Name
      May 21, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

      Ayup.

    • Dante
      Dante
      May 21, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

      I absolutely repressed the memory of messing up my bed as a kid… Because I was on the floor. Using it as the best blanket ever.

      It came back like, months ago (and thanks to Joyce lmaoo)

      • cain
        cain
        May 21, 2025 at 6:20 am | #

        i have definitely also spent time underneath a mattress. it’s so PRESSURE

    • TheLurkerAbove
      TheLurkerAbove
      May 21, 2025 at 12:43 am | #

      Is that an autistic thing? Wife likes being squished too, from the top though, not the side against the wall like this.

      • Phil
        Phil
        May 21, 2025 at 2:34 am | #

        It’s one of the more common autistic things, yea.

      • YggiDee
        YggiDee
        May 21, 2025 at 2:56 am | #

        It can be several things, one of which is an autistic thing. For me it’s an ADHD thing. Got a weighted blanket and now I sleep like the dead all winter (summer too hot for blanket)

        • SomeRando
          SomeRando
          May 21, 2025 at 7:46 am | #

          You should look into Silk and Snow’s blankets – I was hesitant at first since they’re a bit spendy and I live in a hot climate, but I got the heaviest one and haven’t regretted it a single day and use it year ’round. It’s pleasantly chunky.

        • deliverything
          deliverything
          May 21, 2025 at 6:48 pm | #

          I got a cooling blanket for precisely this reason: so I can use the weighted blanket (on top of the cooling blanket) in warmer weather too.

      • Leadsynth
        Leadsynth
        May 21, 2025 at 12:26 pm | #

        I was gonna say. Being squished into the mattress by a large person sounds nice to me, but the WALL? The hard wall? That’s too much for me. Next level squish

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      May 21, 2025 at 11:01 am | #

      or, at least, to sleep with any blanket. But never without nothing

  8. Bluesnake463
    Bluesnake463
    May 21, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Well this is a way to wake up

  9. Nono
    Nono
    May 21, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Autistic horny people: what if it was a weighted blanket… that fucks???

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      May 21, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      for reals tho there a kickstarter or something for that o3o

    • Queen Anthai
      Queen Anthai
      May 21, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

      I WILL BUY FIFTY

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 21, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      God don’t do this to me. I’ve loved being squished and being on the bottom so much. Don’t tell me this is a THING.

      • Rose by Any other Name
        Rose by Any other Name
        May 21, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

        It is very much a thing.

      • jeffepp
        jeffepp
        May 21, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

        It can just be a kink. I think.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          May 21, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

          That’s what I always assumed. I’m a bit of a degenerate after all.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            May 21, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

            well depends on context.

            do you also hate eye contact, hate conversations with two or more people at once, have hyperfixations like sonic, pokemon, etc that last decades, etc…

            • Marianne
              Marianne
              May 21, 2025 at 1:44 am | #

              Can vouch, I’m in my fourth decade of being an obsessive Trekkie! Live long, and prosper 🖖

              • NGPZ
                NGPZ
                May 21, 2025 at 1:45 am | #

                Hava nagila! ^v^

                • Ray
                  Ray
                  May 21, 2025 at 2:03 am | #

                  Have two or three nagila (they’re very small)

                • Steamweed
                  Steamweed
                  May 21, 2025 at 10:41 am | #

                  *applauds you for your bilingual punning

                • Doom Shepherd
                  Doom Shepherd
                  May 21, 2025 at 12:37 pm | #

                  Have a Nagilum, Where Silence Has Leased.

                • NGPZ
                  NGPZ
                  May 21, 2025 at 2:25 pm | #

                  except it ain’t a pun I intended?

                  I intended it as a subtle reference to the Jewish origins of the Vulcan salute XD

            • Kevin K
              Kevin K
              May 21, 2025 at 4:06 pm | #

              do sardines count as pokemon for the purpose of this conversation?

              • NGPZ
                NGPZ
                May 21, 2025 at 5:26 pm | #

                autistic comfort foods ya mean? sure! ^^

    • Joe Moose
      Joe Moose
      May 21, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      Announcer: Introducing the WeightedBlanketFucker 9000!

    • Dante
      Dante
      May 21, 2025 at 12:24 am | #

      Can I preorder

    • Jerach
      Jerach
      May 21, 2025 at 12:19 pm | #

      I think an artist I follow was drawing a comic about that.

  10. Bwsab
    Bwsab
    May 21, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    I love that Joyce is comfy being in her underwear around Joe. It’s so cute. 🙂

    • Laura
      Laura
      May 21, 2025 at 1:40 am | #

      And that UNDERWEAR! Yum!

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 21, 2025 at 10:42 am | #

      It is good to have direct confirmation of her choice regarding orange or pink.

  11. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    May 21, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Joyce im guessing you can feel why

  12. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    May 21, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    o3o This DOA project thing I alluded to a while ago is taking longer than I’d hoped. But I did finish the first “part” of it. Should I
    A. Wait to post it until I finish more
    or
    B. Post what I have so far as a teaser for the full thing

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      May 21, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

      Impatient me votes B, but either’s valid, honestly.

    • ZombieKyrik
      ZombieKyrik
      May 21, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

      I’d say A; as much as I want to see it now I feel like waiting will be worth it.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 21, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

      I’ve gotten in the habit of just plopping it on the table when it’s ready, previews and teasers be damned.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        May 21, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

        yeah same here, when I made Joyce’s Nightmare I didn’t bother with none of that stuff XD

    • EpochFlame
      EpochFlame
      May 21, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

      definitely wait so it doesn’t get cliffhangered

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 21, 2025 at 1:15 am | #

      ADHD me says B also.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 21, 2025 at 3:12 am | #

      Option B, no question.

    • Rose by Any other Name
      Rose by Any other Name
      May 21, 2025 at 9:35 am | #

      B! I vote B!

  13. ZombieKyrik
    ZombieKyrik
    May 21, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    Joe needs a cold shower and/or some time alone to use the internet.

    That being said his reaction is cute; he seems to be worried about something poking her…

    • Freezer
      Freezer
      May 21, 2025 at 3:48 am | #

      Don’t think he’d need the internet ATM.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      May 21, 2025 at 3:52 am | #

      I really don’t think he needs the internet at this point.

      He might need to do some laundry, though.

      • Freezer
        Freezer
        May 21, 2025 at 12:17 pm | #

        Been there, done that, was both impressed and scared by the size of the stain.

  14. Shorduie
    Shorduie
    May 21, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    Bro is fighting for his life

  15. HMRC4EVR
    HMRC4EVR
    May 21, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    Smoosh, there it is!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 21, 2025 at 1:16 am | #

      I was waiting for that comment, and you made it.

  16. drs
    drs
    May 21, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    someone tell Joyce about humping/grinding, dry (clothed) or otherwise

    • Freezer
      Freezer
      May 21, 2025 at 3:51 am | #

      If the naughty Patreon is to be trusted, they’ve already sailed those seas.

  17. JA
    JA
    May 21, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    Joe, just don’t wiggle or let Joyce wiggle and you’ll be fine. Maybe.

  18. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    May 21, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    Both have cute undies and nice butts. Bisexuals eating well, as per usual.

  19. Pappenheimer
    Pappenheimer
    May 21, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

    Young, healthy male? Joe may be good for 2 or 3 showers before his libido gives it up for a…wash

    (eyeroll monkey ba dum tish clip)

  20. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    May 21, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

    I guess I’m one of those weird autistics who doesn’t feel any need to be compressed.

    • Risky
      Risky
      May 21, 2025 at 1:10 am | #

      It’s the spectrum of life…… 🎶

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      May 21, 2025 at 3:00 am | #

      I mean what’s “weird”?

      it’s shown that neurodivergents brains including autistics show more diversity among each other than the whole of all brains in the entire human species

      as it turns out, theres many many ways to diverge

      • adrianghc
        adrianghc
        May 21, 2025 at 4:34 am | #

        How can there be more diversity among divergent brains than among all brains, when the former is a subset of the latter? And how is diversity defined?

        • Big Z
          Big Z
          May 21, 2025 at 8:34 am | #

          I can’t tell if the person above you meant “more diversity in neurodivergent brains than in non-neurodivergent brains” or if they meant “measured by average distance from the mean, the neurodivergent set is more diverse than the total set”. Either or both being true wouldn’t surprise me.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        May 21, 2025 at 11:47 am | #

        Dowsing, fortune telling, fortune changing.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          May 21, 2025 at 11:59 am | #

          Are you saying those are forms of neurodivergence, calling them weird, or giving them as examples of ways to diverge in general?

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            May 21, 2025 at 6:15 pm | #

            Other meanings of the word “weird”. Probably the other two are derived from fortune telling.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              May 21, 2025 at 6:29 pm | #

              Right, but you were posting gibberish from the Rational Wiki the other day, so I kind of assumed you weren’t talking about the supernatural meanings.

              • HueSatLight
                HueSatLight
                May 21, 2025 at 7:44 pm | #

                I don’t follow

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  May 21, 2025 at 8:08 pm | #

                  Well, you’re apparently some kind of big-brain Reddit skeptic, based on that “woo” nonsense, so I figured you wouldn’t bother referencing supernatural or spiritual ideas on purpose because it propagates magical thinking, or whatever you people talk about.

                • HueSatLight
                  HueSatLight
                  May 21, 2025 at 9:16 pm | #

                  ah, so you were trying to troll me.

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  May 21, 2025 at 10:44 pm | #

                  This is like the third time you’ve interpreted a basic question from me as “trolling”. Do you just not understand what trolling is? Do you go to a restaurant and accuse the waiter of trolling you when they ask what you’d like to drink? It would be a waste of my time and life to bother trolling you, and it’s just as much of a waste for you to spend so much time paranoid that I’m doing it. You’re like obsessed with the idea, to the extent you’ll bring it up over a normal fucking request for clarity. If you can’t get over your paranoia, genuinely seek help, or at least find another person to point it at. Jesus Christ, dude.

      • Wilde
        Wilde
        May 21, 2025 at 1:17 pm | #

        Which is why I get a little grouchy when people categorize a standalone behavior or preference as proof someone has a specific condition, esp when it’s not even a listed diagnostic criteria for the condition. We are weird and legion!

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          May 21, 2025 at 3:28 pm | #

          Um, this is very offensive because my grandma drank room temperature water instead of cold water at restaurants, and that means she 100% had [30 words of medical jargon] autism.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 21, 2025 at 10:44 am | #

      Getting compression is one common form of stimming. But not universal to us all. Lots of other ways to get stimming.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      May 21, 2025 at 3:03 pm | #

      Well, you know what they say: If you’ve been one autistic person, you’ve been one autistic person…

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        May 21, 2025 at 3:06 pm | #

        (This autistic person is highly claustrophobic and appreciates the bedcovers being tight for approximately ten seconds before becoming convinced I can’t breathe.)

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        May 21, 2025 at 4:03 pm | #

        Perhaps you meant “seen” instead of “been”…perhaps not. Either way is good! 🙂

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          May 22, 2025 at 2:18 pm | #

          I meant “been”. That was by way of being the joke, such as it was.

  21. Cheshrin
    Cheshrin
    May 21, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

    Orange stripes it was, I see.

  22. Liara
    Liara
    May 21, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

    This storyline makes me figure out that I’m less into dudes than I thought recently, so at least there’s one good thing to pull from the Joe/Joyce interactions

    • Laura
      Laura
      May 21, 2025 at 1:42 am | #

      Congratulations!

      • Liara
        Liara
        May 21, 2025 at 2:32 am | #

        Thanks I guess? Idk, this whole “will Joyce finally have cishet sex” is starting to make me uncomfortable, might have to come back in a few weeks and just binge past it

        • Florens
          Florens
          May 21, 2025 at 5:29 am | #

          I don’t read this storyline like this at all. The story or characterization is not about “will Joyce finally have cishet sex”, it’s about Joyce dealing with her internalized baggage and preconception of “will I finally have [cishet, penetrative] sex?”

          The story itself actually counters this internalized standard quite a bit: both through characters telling Joyce to take her time and do what she wants; and through Joyce’s own realizations and ability to deal with her internalized baggage in real time (and/or blundering through some of it, and hopefully she’ll circle back and realize some more soon).

          • Liara
            Liara
            May 21, 2025 at 9:19 am | #

            Even if it’s about her baggage related to P-i-V sex, it’s still ultimately about will or won’t she have P-i-V sex with a man. Which I have realised the last couple days/weeks, is making me personally uncomfortable.

            • Wilde
              Wilde
              May 21, 2025 at 1:28 pm | #

              Kind of personally hoping that Willis is going to deconstruct that idea by Joyce talking to Roz again. Joyce says “we’ve done other stuff, but not sex” and Roz goes, “oh by a lotta people’s definitions, you’ve already had sex then! Sex can look like lots of things, hand-jobs, oral, mutual masturbation” That might shock Joyce and make her reevaluate her own experiences so far.

              I forget, has anyone dispelled the myth that hymens are the tell-all of sexual penetration for her? That panic could be coming down the line too.

        • Laura
          Laura
          May 21, 2025 at 8:51 am | #

          Good luck! I hope you get back into a comfy comfort zone smoothly.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          May 21, 2025 at 4:41 pm | #

          Damn, comic got so gay, people are getting uncomfortable with a reminder that straight people technically exist.

          • Liara
            Liara
            May 21, 2025 at 9:37 pm | #

            Nah, that’s me struggling with my own baggage in relation to masculinity/men. But tbf, by the time I got in, the comic was already pretty gay

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              May 21, 2025 at 10:47 pm | #

              Hell, we all got bags here.

  23. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    May 21, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

    Joyce need a weighted blanket but I don’t think anyone makes one in that weight range. I’m assuming Joe is in the 100 kg range (220-225 pounds in Freedom Units) and Joyce is claiming that is insufficient. The heaviest weight blanket I have seen advertised was about 40-50 pounds.

    • Dante
      Dante
      May 21, 2025 at 12:25 am | #

      Maybe if one gets two?

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      May 21, 2025 at 10:32 am | #

      “I need the DBZ edition.”

    • Kevin K
      Kevin K
      May 21, 2025 at 4:08 pm | #

      Need to get one from the Giles Corey brand

  24. Snoopy
    Snoopy
    May 21, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

    He can’t even be in his bunk, cause well, she is in his bunk. Conundrum!

    • cain
      cain
      May 21, 2025 at 6:25 am | #

      I think he’s in her bunk. Same bedspread we saw with Dorothy earlier.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 21, 2025 at 10:46 am | #

      As cain said. He is in her bunk (hurrhurrhurr). That’s one reason why Dorothy left the room.

  25. pope suburban
    pope suburban
    May 21, 2025 at 12:22 am | #

    Not so much the compression, but as someone who has historically dated men roughly my own size, I didn’t realize how comfortable a looming presence like Joe can be. It’s full-body comfort, like being in an oversized chair. I get this, for a given value of get this.

    • Big Z
      Big Z
      May 21, 2025 at 8:35 am | #

      As a Joe-sized man, I’m pretty sure this is why I had no trouble getting dates in college.

  26. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    May 21, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

    Just a thought:

    If Joyce’s main anxiety is doing “it” wrong, and she’s really into comprehension… What if Joe got a bunch of elastic bandages, and wrapped her up? All consenting, of course. She would let him take care of doing “it” right.

    • Dante
      Dante
      May 21, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

      I can see Joyce, some several years older, getting really into latex. And latex vacuum beds. Evenly applied pressure!

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        May 21, 2025 at 12:32 am | #

        awe now I want this to happen SO BAD T^T

      • Laura
        Laura
        May 21, 2025 at 1:50 am | #

        Oh… oh my.

        Today I learned…

        …I had no idea.

        …I’ll be in my bunk…

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          May 21, 2025 at 2:37 am | #

          my reaction EXACTLY o3o

        • hell yeah
          hell yeah
          May 21, 2025 at 7:52 pm | #

          you think thats bad, i have to work with an industrial plastic wrapper and lemme tell ya, i am totally normal about the idea of getting inside it >_<

          • Dante
            Dante
            May 22, 2025 at 12:01 am | #

            Sometimes the Job Hazards do be compelling, honest. They can be So Texture

        • Dante
          Dante
          May 22, 2025 at 12:00 am | #

          Ahahah, I’m glad I could bring y’all something new! It wasn’t my thing, but the venn diagram for kinksters and neurodiversity is almost a circle, and I watched some demos back in the day. Def saw why people would like it ^^

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        May 21, 2025 at 3:14 am | #

        As long as she never tries to use one alone, and whoever’s running the vacuum minds her ears.

        • Dante
          Dante
          May 22, 2025 at 12:01 am | #

          Ah yeah that’s like asphyxiation. Never do it alone :’DD

  27. BBCC
    BBCC
    May 21, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

    The great thing about those dorm showers is that they run out of hot water fast, eh, Joe?

  28. Dante
    Dante
    May 21, 2025 at 12:30 am | #

    Joe: This better not awake anything on me
    Joe: The word smoosh, I mean. The rest was there already

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      May 21, 2025 at 12:36 am | #

      Joyce got her a nice hot cup of morning Joe,

      and now, some delicious hot shmoes <3

      • Laura
        Laura
        May 21, 2025 at 1:44 am | #

        “The best part of waking up is Joe in your ‘cup’…”
        🎼🎵🎶☕️

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 21, 2025 at 10:48 am | #

      Joyce whispers “Smoosh me harder” into Joe’s ear.
      Joe’s brain shuts off. RIP Joe.

  29. TheFungus
    TheFungus
    May 21, 2025 at 12:35 am | #

    I think my new read on Joyce is that she’s on her villain arc and blueballing as many people as humanly possible to spread the agony she’s suffered for the entire stories run and this will endgame with her going full green goblin and starting a rivalry with Amazi-Girl that’s going to turn into some really weird shit.

  30. ian livs
    ian livs
    May 21, 2025 at 12:38 am | #

    Get you a big dude who will happily act as your weighted blanket/smoosher when asked (can confirm, they’re 10/10)

  31. I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams
    I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams
    May 21, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

    i would say “insert comment about getting a weighted blanket here” but now having had the chance to use them a few times this year, they straight up don’t weigh enough for that nice slightly feeling crushed feeling. they need to be made heavier !!!

    • Looney
      Looney
      May 21, 2025 at 12:43 am | #

      my girlfriend and i have a weighted blanket, and we both like it, but it’s just nowhere near the ecstasy of the full weight of her body crushing my ribcage.

    • kiva
      kiva
      May 21, 2025 at 12:49 am | #

      I stack two of them on my partner when they require blanket based smoosh

    • Zamperla
      Zamperla
      May 21, 2025 at 7:31 am | #

      I always wish you could just buy a blanket made out of chainmail. It’d be cool in the summer, but could be layered over a blanket….

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        May 21, 2025 at 10:51 am | #

        You can get one made to order (check with any Renaissance Fair chainmail vendor), but…costly…might be $500 or more!

      • Dante
        Dante
        May 22, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

        OH, I SAW A POST ON TUMBLR. Someone had taken the matter at hands and _woven themselves a chainmail blanket,_ it was the coolest thing. They put a duvet cover on it and everything so it didn’t chafe. I needed it so bad

  32. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    May 21, 2025 at 12:46 am | #

    Joyce, I- I would not be screaming that at the top of my lungs

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      May 21, 2025 at 6:49 am | #

      …she isn’t…?

  33. Fuzzy
    Fuzzy
    May 21, 2025 at 12:53 am | #

    Someone buy this girl a weighted blanket yesterday.

  34. Bryy
    Bryy
    May 21, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

    The fucking last panel cutoff is perfect.

    • Laura
      Laura
      May 21, 2025 at 2:15 am | #

      F-ing indeed!

  35. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    May 21, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

    what are you, a .rar file ?

    • Wilde
      Wilde
      May 21, 2025 at 1:30 pm | #

      Eyyyyy!

    • Sarah Lea
      Sarah Lea
      May 21, 2025 at 4:41 pm | #

      This needs an update button.

      • Sarah Lea
        Sarah Lea
        May 21, 2025 at 4:42 pm | #

        *eyeroll*
        UpVOTE button, danged autocorrect.

  36. Wereg
    Wereg
    May 21, 2025 at 1:15 am | #

    Look, she’s just making sure there’s no room for Jesus.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 21, 2025 at 1:50 pm | #

      Aww, but Jesus likes threesomes!

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      May 21, 2025 at 10:08 pm | #

      yeah, must be LESS than one bible length apart XD

  37. Risky
    Risky
    May 21, 2025 at 1:35 am | #

    Knowing of very similar situations, oddly, you gotta tell her the power she has to make you cream your shorts right now, because she may gleefully oblige. She may in fact cackle. In at least one of the situations I’m aware of, it was years before things got much beyond that, much like it will be 2035 before jojo is consummated.

    • Laura
      Laura
      May 21, 2025 at 2:23 am | #

      Smooshing me was my late partner’s favorite sex act. Fellow was a giant dude. Man, I miss that…

      Also occasionally an elegant solution to the impediment posed by GU pain…

      • Meagan
        Meagan
        May 21, 2025 at 2:45 am | #

        Condolences, and congratulations on happy memories.

        • Laura
          Laura
          May 21, 2025 at 8:55 am | #

          Thanks, Meagan. He passed 20 years ago next month. Bittersweet, happy and sad, all at once.

  38. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    May 21, 2025 at 1:53 am | #

    I wonder how long until she uses the secret technique of the butt wiggle as a little spoon.

  39. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    May 21, 2025 at 2:20 am | #

    Coming soon in your DoA store: a Joe weighted blanked.

    • Arianod
      Arianod
      May 21, 2025 at 3:26 am | #

      Coming soon indeed.

  40. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    May 21, 2025 at 2:30 am | #

    Someone get this girl a weighted blanket, NOW!

  41. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    May 21, 2025 at 3:14 am | #

    Squish that cat Joyce.

    • Adept
      Adept
      May 21, 2025 at 9:51 am | #

      Pepperidge Farm Remembers

  42. Arianod
    Arianod
    May 21, 2025 at 3:26 am | #

    Well, that’s one way to do it.

  43. Joe Covenant Lamb
    Joe Covenant Lamb
    May 21, 2025 at 4:10 am | #


    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 21, 2025 at 5:38 am | #

      You don’t say.

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        May 21, 2025 at 6:47 am | #

        Word.

      • Joe Covenant Lamb
        Joe Covenant Lamb
        May 21, 2025 at 9:51 am | #

        I hate non working HTML !!! 🙁
        I mean.. clearly the site’s fault.. not *mine* !!

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          May 21, 2025 at 10:53 am | #

          Damn those computers for doing only what we precisely tell them and not what we vaguely want from them!

          • Joe Covenant Lamb
            Joe Covenant Lamb
            May 22, 2025 at 4:08 am | #

            IKR!??!?!?! 🙂

  44. Joe Covenant Lamb
    Joe Covenant Lamb
    May 21, 2025 at 4:13 am | #

    *plays FInland’s Entry for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest on the Hacked Muzak*

    (Hope this works this time!)

  45. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    May 21, 2025 at 4:56 am | #

    Joe, unironically: “I need to go…do laundry.”

    • Longshot97
      Longshot97
      May 22, 2025 at 1:19 am | #

      Yet another example of what I am convinced is Willis’s long game.

  46. Adept
    Adept
    May 21, 2025 at 5:42 am | #

    Ok, I can see Joyce enjoying having sex with Joe very much, with the correct positioning. Joe must weigh a lot.

  47. Zamperla
    Zamperla
    May 21, 2025 at 7:31 am | #

    Ohhhhhhhhhh crushed against wall by big man. Joyce might be new to this but she damn well knows how to have an Autistic Good Time.

  48. thumb
    thumb
    May 21, 2025 at 7:59 am | #

    Pre coital bliss

  49. Big Z
    Big Z
    May 21, 2025 at 8:38 am | #

    *points at screen* Oooh, that’s my fetish.

    Seriously, though, as the complement to a lot of other comments in this thread, many of us big dudes REALLY like it when the little spoon likes a good smoosh (and knows how to deploy a good butt wiggle).

  50. S.R.
    S.R.
    May 21, 2025 at 9:15 am | #

    Joe, I dunno that “this is hot actually, is there any chance you want to do another sort of non-penetrative sex activity” is gonna go over as badly as you seem to think it will.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 21, 2025 at 12:26 pm | #

      Maybe he just wants to jack off. There’s no evidence he thinks [thing you said].

      • S.R.
        S.R.
        May 21, 2025 at 7:33 pm | #

        Well, yes, there’s no outright evidence, but him being worried about pushing Joyce too far seems more likely than him deciding he’d rather jack off at the moment than participate in further two-person sexy times.

  51. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    May 21, 2025 at 10:23 am | #

    Several great DoA titles here:
    DoA Book 16: I Am Not Being Smooshed Enough!
    DoA Book 16: Smoosh Me Against The Wall!
    DoA Book 16: Smoosh Me Harder!
    DoA Book 16: Harder!

  52. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    May 21, 2025 at 1:16 pm | #

    sis, you’re gonna kill him

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      May 21, 2025 at 3:41 pm | #

      But what a way to go

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        May 21, 2025 at 6:58 pm | #

        “God, I wish that were me.”

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 21, 2025 at 4:01 pm | #

      RIP Joe Rosenthal

  53. Lightweight Baybee
    Lightweight Baybee
    May 21, 2025 at 2:15 pm | #

    dude’s gonna have one of those scary movie 4 boners

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 21, 2025 at 6:01 pm | #

      Could you be kind and explain this?

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        May 21, 2025 at 6:25 pm | #

        reference to Scary Movie 4, where in one seen some dude looks like he has one of those giant German sausages in his pants XD

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          May 21, 2025 at 6:59 pm | #

          I’ve only seen the intro to that movie one time and I still have the image of Charlie Sheen swinging a bottle of vodka burned into my brain.

  54. Suet
    Suet
    May 21, 2025 at 3:05 pm | #

    gone are the days of smooshing butt to butt… long live Joyce Brown, Queen of Innuendo.

    Queenuendo

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      May 21, 2025 at 4:01 pm | #

      In-you-whatnow??

  55. Alan in DC
    Alan in DC
    May 21, 2025 at 4:21 pm | #

    Smoosh me flat!
    Then fold me in thirds and drop me off at the nearest UPS depot.

    What can “Brown” do for you today?

  56. Kazuma Shouri
    Kazuma Shouri
    May 21, 2025 at 7:40 pm | #

    hmmm, good point Joyce. men are generally the ones with the build most suitable for neurospicy compression
    I don’t think it’s made me any more bi, but I understand straight women a little more now

  57. SvenTS
    SvenTS
    May 21, 2025 at 8:29 pm | #

    Premarital weighy-blanky!

  58. MK15
    MK15
    May 21, 2025 at 10:33 pm | #

    BUTTS

  59. Felian
    Felian
    May 22, 2025 at 12:22 am | #

    i’m so here for Joyce’s era of “OMG having a partner means i can meet my autism needs???“
    i hope she discovers stimming & soothing mechanisms that don’t require another human being. Like weighted blankets.
    But as long as other-human is happy to do it, go for it!

  60. wetmonstersmell
    wetmonstersmell
    May 22, 2025 at 5:34 pm | #

    I have never sympathized as much with Joyce as I do in this strip.

    (why am I not at home right now with a large soft woman sitting on me hnnngh)

  61. SpongegirlCircleskirt
    SpongegirlCircleskirt
    May 22, 2025 at 9:55 pm | #

    I think it’s hilarious that Joyace has no idea what’s she is doing to Joe. And Joe deserves this discomfort from being the sex pest he used to be. Joe has rediscovered his own innocence. It’s kind of cute.

  62. Yugnat
    Yugnat
    May 28, 2025 at 5:50 am | #

    I feel called out.

  63. Suet
    Suet
    June 7, 2025 at 2:50 am | #

    I firmly believe at this point that Joe’s secondary role is to be Joyce’s hydraulic press

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