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Billie is changing; which is a good thing?
Not even Billie/Jennifer, right now she’s just Billie… I think.
I mean, she’s Jennifer so long as that is the name she wishes to go by.
That fact is in… semi doubt, since she didn’t correct Alice, but until she confirms it one way or another (or the tags do), the polite thing is to continue on with Jennifer.
Thank you. Unless she says otherwise, we should call her Jennifer like she said
(As for correcting Alice–I feel like Jennifer still doesn’t like her old nickname, but she just wants Alice back in her life badly enough that she’s not going to say anything. After all, if she wants things with their ‘friendship’ to go back to how they were, she shouldn’t be allowed to complain about Alice calling her by her old name from that era. Seems a bit too thoughtful for Jennifer? maybe. but that’s just my read)
Alice seems smart enough to catch on. It just takes time to get used to it. And this is just the norm with her and Jennifer. I’m sure Jennifer doesn’t want to take her first chance to visit with her old (and clearly dear) friend by coming on strong with ground rules. It’ll probably come up in conversation eventually.
“So your friends are calling you Jennifer now?”
“Yeah. I decided to drop the nickname when I got into the whole introspection thing.”
Something like that
The irony of Ms Billingsworth claiming she became Jennifer when she got into introspection is phenomenal. That was/is the pinnacle of her self-denial.
Part of that self denial was getting off booze, which is pretty substantial. She may not want to go back to being Billie purely for that reason.
She’s not rejecting Alice calling her that but she’s not made an affirmative statement in either direction. Feels like it could go either way at this point
It might even turn out that only Alice is allowed to call her that.
Honestly I just use the tags.
Until the tag changes from Jennifer to Billie, I think it’s best to go by Jennifer. Even if she leaves her new toxic friend group, she still might prefer Jennifer to still make a point about not wanting to be the person she was before.
Jebinnillifer
Jennifer changing may or may not be a good thing, but that’s a very personal question she’s asking.
On the other hand, if Joyce doesn’t answer, she will conclude that it’s Sal.
Joyce said “best friend” so Jennifer/Billie is unlikely to imagine Sal.
Also yes it is a personal question, but Joyce brought the subject up, so Jennifer’s/Billie’s question isn’t unwarranted.
Tangentially, I just realized that Joyce has been bumped out of the “Billie’s best friend” position.
Dorothy isn’t used to being sneaky, it doesn’t come naturally to her, so she can’t resist doing this.
She should have brought out the Velma wig
There is no Velma wig, she dyed her hair brown
She might as well have a big bright green diamond hovering over her head.
Or a big exclamation point that randomly goes “VRRRRT!!!”
D-10 Bi-hog go VRRRT!
“Agh, she’s doing her own theme music?“
You don’t have your own theme music? Mine is Staying Alive, form obvious reasons.
Mine switched between Ray Lynch’s Deep Breakfast and Isabella Bunny Bennett’s Transform
I had the exact same thought! I was imagining Dorothy doing Kronk’s ‘stealth song’
Is Dorothy just sneaking to avoid Joyce or she can actually hear the conversation and trying to stay out of Joyce line of sight?
I somehow knew exactly what that was going to be before I even clicked on it (and despite being thrown off by Velma references).
Here’s what I though: “I GOT A 4!!!” https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0090.html
That Joyce face lol
Dotty, your timing is statistically excellent.
STEALTH CHECK: Natural 1
No, the boots add +2 too, so “I GOT A 3!”
yeah but this is PF2e, so a natural 1 automatically results in one degree of success worse than what your total allows, and i think she still critically fails
Pride Month is off to a great start!
Wahoo Pride!
WiiGii Pride! To be consistent with the author.
…huh. I wonder what the sorting that one out is going to look like for Jen and Alice.
… Huh.
I’m kinda wondering if this is leading up to Alice confronting Jennifer’s bi erasure and making it clear that their Sapphic relationship was important to her.
God, yes please.
She already seemed to pick up on that and corrected though?
Jennifer stammered a BS correction to cover her ass. I’m talking about actual growth where Jennifer realises it wasn’t a casual fling for Alice – it was a serious romantic relationship – that Jennifer then blew off.
I don’t see a stammer, but I would also really like to see Billie and Alice talk about their relationship
and immediately hop right back into itSaying “it’s not a big deal…” and then saying “of course it’s important!” 2 seconds later isn’t an actual correction, it’s just pure denial, carefully refined to the level of Orwellian doublethink.
Jennifer has a problem for a LONG time now where she’s VERY passionate about her sapphic relationships right up until the point where that becomes inconvenient to her, at which point she just pretends (to everyone, including herself) like she never cared about them for a moment. And vice versa! I think having to deal with that constant flip-flopping of searing passion and condescending apathy is a large part of why Ruth actually broke up with Billie, tbh. And it’s almost certainly why Alice cut her out of her life, so yeah they’re due for this conversation.
You’re too paranoid. Things can be important without also being a big deal.
Is Dorothy wearing a mask?
I think it’s that her expression is like this: 8|
Ah, she’s a South Park Canadian.
She’s showing a LOT of teeth.
Oh, I get bi with a little nookie from my friends
I would continue on with the next lyric, but that is the only one I remember from that song.
“I get high with a little help from my friends
Gonna try with a little help from my friends.”
You’re allowed to bang your friend, like, once.
“Come on, join the fun, lend a hand….”
(Different song, but…)
“Come together,
Over me”
At first it looked like the whole bottom half of Dorothy’s face was one big smile, and it was unsettling.
Is that not what it is? That’s the only thing I see.
It’s a Schrodinger’s grin. At first, yes, in both last panels, it looks like a wide-mouthed grin. But then you notice that in Dorothy’s first appearance, it could be a frowny face — either it’s a wide-mouthed grin, or it’s a very closed-mouth frown, and what you thought was her bottom lip is actually her chin. And if that’s correct, then in the last panel her mouth had gone full-on straight-line :|hur hur hur, straight), and the whiteness isn’t her teeth, it’s how much she’s blanching.
Yeah, pretty sure it’s an ” 8| ” expression. If you really zoom in, you can see that the colors in the bottom half of her face match parts of the top half; she’s just very white.
Yeah…no, I’m still not seeing it.
Is that a grimace, or a grin. Dottie. Well.
Calling it now: Dorothy’s attempt to sneak past Joyce unnoticed will be foiled when she falls down because her shoelaces are tied together. Somehow.
When Alice, Jennifer, and Joyce try to walk over to help her up, they also fall down, since their shoelaces are tied together. (like all of them tied together)
The more impressive because they’re all wearing boots without laces.
Revealing the true depth and mastery of Charlie’s prank
She has never been hotter to Carla.
Like the bit in Schlock Mercenary where their weapons get disabled by having the safeties fused shut. Tagon notes that these are military weapons, they don’t have safeties, and Kevyn points out that they do now.
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-16
And then they all crash into Joe, who just got back from his shower, accidently dislodging his towel and revealing his still-erect penis
No.
Why does joyce think this was technically nooky? Nothing happened other ghan a caress on the cheek.
her definition of sex being “someone you love helping you have an orgasm” would include the Laundry Incident
She isn’t thinking of that, she’s thinking of Dorothy helping her get off using a washing machine.
And, when attempting to come up with a definition of sex, she formulated one that technically included said washing machine escapade.
If your buddy Joyce was stuck on a washing machine, would you get Joyce off?
“Step-Dorothy, I’m stuck”
Y’know, the time they masturbated together while holding hands.
Hmm, tags say that is Dorothy dancing in the background where Charlie was last time.
That’s the prank.
Charlie castled.
Dorothy *fortnite dancing* about this is immediately hilarious to me, and approximately as plausible as that being her actual attempt to sneak away.
Alice is a saint
Also: I think Willis started drawing Billie diferently, she looks great
I think she’s just smiling for the first time in a while.
Possible
I’m wondering what in the world Ruth said to her.
Dorothy making loony toons orchestral sneaking noises.
*suspenseful pizzicato plays softly in the background with a xylophone accompanying*
@Nymph – love the lesbian pride flag on your grav!
Thank youuuu!
Perfect sneaking Dotty. Absolutely flawless. No one will ever know.
UNHAND HER, Dan Backslide!
Gosh, Alice is pretty.
I do really like that Billie/Jennifer *isn’t* shouting that bit in panel 3, and doesn’t look like she’s backpeddling. Like, I think she is legitimately clarifying that whether or not it was a big deal, so to speak, it was still meaningful to her.
I cannot tell what Dorothy is doing. Is she trying to sneak by? Pretending to edge along a narrow ledge on a cliff? Interpretive dance?
It would appear that Dorothy is too far away to have heard the conversation. If this is the case, then we have to conclude that Dorothy is simply trying to avoid having an awkward conversation with Joyce. But Joyce is facing away and so the side shuffle, instead of turning and walking away seems odd. The combination of the reddish face and the huge grin also seems odd. On the other hand, if we assume that, however unlikely, Dorothy has overheard the conversation AND makes the connection that Joyce considers her to be the one she had sex with by accident, say if Dorothy was closer but hidden by Joyces head in yesterdays strip, then with that big IF it would explain Dorothy’s big grin, her red face and her attempt to side shuffle away without attracting notice.
Charlie may appear to be watching Dorothy, but in reality she is just thinking about the way in which the taste of tea depends on the temperature at which it was brewed.
I don’t think it’s a huge grin. I think that’s her natural jawline happening to intersect with a
🫥 sort of expression with a grimacing kind of vibe.
Zoidberg: “Alright, we get it! You’re nonchalant!”
ngl, I’d rather not know whether this arc is just coincidental for Pride Month, BUT
you’re no Clouseau, Keener
i need zoomed-in/hi-res stealth dorothy so bad.
i SEE YOUUUUU
Hope for Jennifer character development is stable.
Someone please use Dorothy’s face here as an avatar oh my fucking god that is hilarious
Nobody can truthfully say I’m not a people pleaser.
It depends on the people.
I am a people. I am pleased.
Yessss thank youuuu
That time when Charlie is NOT the most awkward person in the room.
Charlie isn’t awkward, she’s oblivious.
extremely funny strip
don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious
Dorothy has amazing sneaking skills. Solid Snake would be impressed at how good she is at sneaking around.
Joyce:
The best part is that Charlie, despite being the only person in this strip who sees Dorothy back there, is nonetheless the one who has the least chance of making the connection because she hasn’t heard a word the other three have said.
INCONSPICUOUS
I feel like Jennifer will not offer great advice about this topic but this ought to be funny. And hey, she’s being a teeny bit more emotionally honest.
Still trying to decide if that’s cause Alice is there or cause she’s performing for Alice.
If Alice isn’t in a strip, other characters should be asking “Where’s Alice?”
Love the PFP.
Three idiot bisexuals attempt to have a polite conversation about a fourth.
Good summary.
A+, no notes.
A: Dorothy, you’re so obviously even Charlie has noticed you unprompted
B: Okay, Jennifer, don’t Danny it up this time, come on…
C: Joyce you’re sweet, just chill the eff out
The “Dannying” thing is weird for people to hold onto as like a meme thing here because it genuinely feels like we’re approaching like 5 years of him not being anywhere near the most awkward dude in the cast, stringing together faux pas. At this point, people just kind of sound like his parents when they say this.
It’s okay, he’s not a real person and can’t be upset by it. It’s just a harmless bit of fandom shorthand.
I’m aware he isn’t real, and no harm’s being done, it’s just an increasingly useless fandom shorthand considering it has little relevance anymore.
Honestly at this point we should retire “Danning” and replace it with “Dotting”
Or Jennifering. Dan only tripped up because he didn’t have the necessary information. Jen usually has enough clues to figure it out, but still draws the wrong conclusions or can’t stop stepping on rakes.
Jesus Christ has been real quiet since this dropped.
I mean, I watched “Mrs Davis”. It’s not impossible.
I wonder what Alice thinks, deep down. I hope it’s something like “yep, she’s still very full of sheep”
The sound I made when I noticed Dorothy in the background ahahaha
I know that Dorothy is sneaking around in the background but I like to imagine that that’s a little dance she’s doing
She’s a bard, and her Performance skill is (Interpretive Dance). This is her “Sneak! Sneak! Sneak! Sneak past my best girlfriend!” dance.
AKA “My bard is a master songsmith! I, myself…”
The LAST person who has not figured out she is an atheist. But Billie is also the only one who does not know who Amazing Girl is so she isn’t exactly sharp to begin with.
You sure you didn’t mean a different word?
Joe also doesn’t know who Amazi-Girl is. I’m sure there are lots of others, but this one seems particularly egregious when you’re singling out someone who has had way less one-on-one time with Amber.
It’s not JUST that she doesn’t know who Amazi-Girl is; it’s that she doesn’t know (and insists on her own idea of who she is) despite being told.
As for the atheist thing, it makes sense that’s something she’d need to be told directly as well, and unless she’s told and then thinks it’s a joke or something, it’s not going to be on the same level as the AG stuff.
I mean, she’s not omniscient. Has Joyce told her?
That said, Joyce DID talk to her about being frustrated about people not letting her change, and she did state earlier that Joyce had normalized a good bit, so she’s presumably razzing her, anyway, rather than being serious.
You made me put on reading glasses to see Dorothy’s expression. Well played Willis… Well played.
Dorothy looks like awkward Bigfoot.
Let’s try to HTML this picture in:
If that doesn’t work, then: https://i.imgur.com/spEY5Dy.png
Okay rude but at least I know how it works:
Awkward Bigfoot Dorothy
That saved my day.
Aww I’m glad
Lol, excellent work.
Now I’m imagining Dorothy in that Bigfoot scene in A Goofy Movie.
Okay, I’m guessing “stuffies” is a slang for stuffed animals/plushies? Or just “stuff” in general?
got it in 1
its a little harder to stay in the closet if you keep pratfalling out the door, is the thing.
Oh hell even Charlie is paying attention
And then there’s Dorothy even FURTHER in the background
We need a series of strips where each character that’s ever been shown in the comic being even further in the background of the previous strip
What is even Dorothy doing???
Also, it’s way too funny that even Charlie noticed her.
ROFL!
And. Wtg Jennifer!! YEEEEEE!!!
Sneaking.
Seriously wondering if Dorothy can overhear this conversation. Adds a layer to the sneak.
Someone had asked yesterday what Charlie was looking at and I boldly claim that here we have our answer
“Dorothy!
“…do you know who she’s talking about?”
If anyone wanna cheer with me: Deltarune tomorrow!
Deltarune tomorrow!
Deltarune today!
Dorothy looks like she’s singing her theme song to herself, like Kronk when he’s sneaking off to dispose of Kuzco in the canal.
Just keep on truckin’, Dorothy.
Truckin’ on down the line!
It’s Dorothy!
*audience cheers*
Real inconspicuous, they’ll never know!
“Now all of Bloomington knows you’re gay.”
This is going to wind up being three days of people going in and out of scene increasingly ridiculous ways, isn’t it? Possibly with doors involved.
Doors and sardines, that’s what it’s all about. Doors and sardines! That’s farce! That’s the theater! …that’s LIFE.
That’s Showbiz baybeeee
as the saying goes
once doesn’t count
second time with a friend
and third time resets the counter
I wonder if Charlie has tied all of their shoelaces together yet.
It has never been more happening than in this moment
Not awkward at all.
1. Billifer jumping right back into her superiority trip, I see. Yeah, big change
2. Alice is being awfully patient with New & Improved Billifer.
3. I can hear cartoony pizzicato violins playing as Dorothy tries to sneak past.
And only *now* do I see that someone beat me to the pizzicato reference. When will I learn to read ahead??
Stuffies? Is that some kind of regional American term?
It might be a combination of regional and generational; I never used or really heard that term when growing up, but as an adult, I’ve worked with kids in the same area I’ve always lived in, and they do use the term now.
Seems a standard move. They are stuffed toy animals. They are cute, small, and huggable, so they get the affectionate diminutive treatment, hence stuffies. I have an ex-girlfriend to whom I will forever be Cliffy.
It might have been regional? But it’s been used in enough at least national marketing that it no longer is. Probably US though
This strip is so funny
And just a masterful use of character positioning and movement/gaze-direction 
Man zooming in on Dorothy’s face is downright terrifying lol
Oh, great, now I can’t unsee it. That is horrifying. Mouths are not supposed to do that.
Wow, even Charlie noticed Dorothy’s atypical entry.
For a moment I thought it was Dotty entering the frame at break neck speed to intercept. But now it looks like she’s comically trying to very unsuccessfully sneak out of frame. Luckily, it’s Jennifer. The only way she’d be even less likely to notice is if Dorothy was wearing an Amazi-Girl costume.
I love that EVERYONE is looking at Dotty except the one who is about to say her name. ~<3
Well, I didn’t see her until the last panel, so it’s not all fail.
Sneaky Dorothy is great, but I also love Joyce’s squiggly mouth of embarrassment in the last panel. Poor girl is regretting bringing up that topic.
Just to be sure – on the last panel, Alice and Jennifer are looking at Dorothy, right? Or are they looking at Joyce’s extremely uncomfortable expression?
I ask because during the rest of the conversation, these three are doing that cartoon thing that when they’re talking together, they’re not looking at each other, but at some sort of midpoint between each other and the fourth wall, so that we see them in profile. Then suddenly on the fourth wall they’re looking directly at Joyce, but with Dorothy framed far behind them, visible to the audience.
It seems to read to me visually that the intention here is to imply that they’re looking at Dorothy, but drawn in such a way that we can see their facial expressions. Just like before, how a face-to-face conversation happens with them somewhat facing the fourth wall, this one happens while keeping the fourth wall in peripheral vision.
It’s throwing me off a little because Charlie IS clearly looking at Dorothy, but is turned fully towards her, which seems odd because her angle would be less severe than Jennifer and Alice’s angle. I would expect to see Charlie’s eyes and not Jennifer and Alice’s.
If someone could weigh in and let me know whether these two are looking at Joyce or Dorothy, that’d seriously help me out in calming this minor neurosis.
I think your analysis is right.
Blocking sure is weird!
If you mean by that, that they angle themselves towards the fourth wall, it normally feels like the most natural thing in the world.
After all – if there was a character standing where the fourth wall was, and was a part of the conversation, Joyce, Alice, and Jennifer would naturally angle that way to include them in on the conversation. Having these three stand that way is an unconscious welcome to the reader – signaling that they’re not eavesdropping or spying on a conversation, we’re a part of it.
I guess it was just Charlie who threw me off. But considering the sharp change of direction, it seems obvious that they’re not looking at Joyce, but turned to look into the background.
I feel like this is the most explicit confirmation we’ve yet seen of how far it went with Jennifer and Alice, it felt kind of ambiguous before.
I guess technically, but to be honest it felt pretty clear even when we first met Alice. The strip really drove in “Billie gets into codependent relationships with women she refuses to acknowledge”.
Wait wait it’s actually GOOD that Dorothy’s here so she knows that Billie is the one who said this to Joyce and they can all set the record … uh … level. Not straight.
we held hands while riding a washing machine like a discount sybian…does that count?
Of course, Dorothy’s attempts to hide from Joyce are pointless, because Joyce can just teleport to her at any time.
I dated someone severely Catholic for a few months and, as far as I could tell, their conception of marriage was a three-way between the two humans and Jesus.
Obviously I missed something. Where’s the comic where she technically had sex with (presumably) Dorothy?
Dotty used a Maytag and hand holding to get Joyce off. thankfully no in college actually washes their clothes.
Laundry room sequence, by her new definition of “someone you love helps you orgasm.
Thanks! I was thinking more like… she explained it to her. This is a little more direct.
Don’t worry Dorothy just has a bad bout of vertigo
new power unlocked: Charlie can transform into Dorothy when comically appropriate
wait, no, there she is
pranked again