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Lied

by David M Willis on January 16, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - But the Sun Still Shines
└ Tags: jennifer, lucy, ruth, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 16, 2019 at 12:01 am | #

    “…so that’s the secret! LYING”

    *ticket to popularity ahoy*

    • lilyliv
      lilyliv
      January 16, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

      I mean, you’re not wrong.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        January 16, 2019 at 3:53 am | #

        right ?

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      January 16, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

      Now go run for President.

      • Jon Rich
        Jon Rich
        January 16, 2019 at 11:10 am | #

        I was hoping to find that line.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 16, 2019 at 12:40 am | #

      Lying is such an ugly word, better to use the term “creative truth-telling”

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        January 16, 2019 at 9:49 am | #

        Alternative Facts

        • Arawn
          Arawn
          January 16, 2019 at 2:16 pm | #

          Someone already used that one. It’s ok, though, Truth isn’t Truth anyway.

          • Ghostforge
            Ghostforge
            January 16, 2019 at 10:49 pm | #

            so sayeth MiniTru!

  2. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    January 16, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    “I forgot you there in my direct line of sight since you were off-panel.”

  3. butts
    butts
    January 16, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    this just in: Billie lies

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 16, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      Yeah, but Lucy lied too!
      (“Congratulations, I think you just found the world’s thinnest argument.”)

      • Killer Klown
        Killer Klown
        January 16, 2019 at 7:24 am | #

        Or every political debate ever.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 16, 2019 at 12:41 am | #

      You cannot spell Billie without lie, bi and bill.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        January 16, 2019 at 3:53 am | #

        bi lies ? :/

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 16, 2019 at 1:48 am | #

      In other news, water is wet.

  4. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 16, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    Then the Blue Fairy appears and assigns Lucy the job of being Billie’s conscience.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      January 16, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

      I made this joke on patreon, but it needs to be made here – that’s a full time job with a lot of stress and little potential emotional rewards. Billie better cough up a thriving wage and kick ass benefits.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 16, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

        Lucy will receive a golden badge and swank top hat.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          January 16, 2019 at 8:15 am | #

          Billie: Eh, how about I just give you 20 bucks every now and then to go away?
          Lucy:… That’ll do.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        January 16, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

        Billingsdad can probably afford it.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          January 16, 2019 at 12:37 am | #

          But will he?

          • Catman
            Catman
            January 16, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

            We have it on good authority (Billie) that the only way he knows how to show he cares about Billie is by flexing his wallet, so maybe for the sake of her improving as a person he might?

            Okay maybe Billie isn’t GOOD authority. Maybe, like, neutral-positive but unreliable.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 16, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      Lucy can handle that job. I mean, it’s only 25 hours a day, right?

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        January 16, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

        She has to do it to get her wings… Sorry, wrong movie.

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 16, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    So for those of you still doubting, yeah, Lucy’s being a button. Or an alpha sweetie as Bagge calls her, because Bagge is adorable.

    I mean, Billie’s totally going to be at movie night later, and that’s probably where the falling out with Ruth that Willis mentioned drawing on twitter will happen. But Lucy was concerned about Ruth’s feelings.

    • Piotr W
      Piotr W
      January 16, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

      What’s a “button”? I mean, aside from a thing you push?

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        January 16, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

        An adorable person. Agatha is also a button.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 16, 2019 at 12:42 am | #

          I thought button was slang for someone who butts in.

        • Dean
          Dean
          January 16, 2019 at 5:14 am | #

          I thought it was a replacement for a banned word, like bongo.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 16, 2019 at 3:06 pm | #

          I thought she was a spark.

          • 3-I
            3-I
            January 16, 2019 at 5:09 pm | #

            I’ll hetero YOUR dyne.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              January 16, 2019 at 9:57 pm | #

              hetero your dina?

              Wait. Dina isn’t hetero.

              • 3-I
                3-I
                January 17, 2019 at 9:46 am | #

                Wrong Agatha. Also, I refuse to hetero Dina.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 16, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

        Is it like being a cinnamon roll? Is being a cinnamon roll still a thing?

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          January 16, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

          I still call people that.

          Buttons seems to be a me thing. I got it from Degrassi but it doesn’t seem to have caught on.

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            January 16, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

            Degrassi!
            Also, for others, you can think of it like, “cute as a button.”
            (Does that come from something? Are buttons particularly cute? I’m too lazy to look into it right now.)

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              January 16, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

              I have no idea where that phrase comes from. All I know is apparently button was my first word because my mom’s friend was playing with me. Well, she was trying. I wanted to play with the buttons on her shirt.

            • Geneseepaws
              Geneseepaws
              January 16, 2019 at 6:52 am | #

              My great grandmother used to say, “cute as a button,” for a compliment if we were well dress and goomed. And she used say,” bright as a brass button,” if we did or said something that showed we had half a brain. (We were pretty often horrible kids)

          • lilyliv
            lilyliv
            January 16, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

            Is it related to “cute as a button?” Because Lucy definitely is that.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              January 16, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

              Sure, let’s go with that!

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                January 16, 2019 at 10:00 pm | #

                I’ve heard “bright as a button” as well.
                And even “sharp as a button”, though I don’t really get that one.

                Never “button” on its own.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 16, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

          I like cinnamon donuts better even if they are messy to eat.

      • Blanche Quizno
        Blanche Quizno
        January 16, 2019 at 1:16 pm | #

        “Cute as a button”?

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      January 16, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

      Where did Willis mention drawing their falling out on Twitter? I’m going to be very disappointed, though I full expect it at this point, if that turns out to be the case.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        January 16, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

        He mentioned a few months ago he was drawing a Ruth and Billie fight. That was around the time the buffer was in (late) February, towards the start of March. The next storyline starts in March.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          January 16, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

          I could always be wrong though. Maybe their ‘fight’ is more akin to when Ruth was chasing her around and they ended up making out. Hell, for all I know, my timing is way off and that was the fight in question.

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            January 16, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

            “Is this one of our sexy fights?”

            Time will tell.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            January 16, 2019 at 2:19 am | #

            My theory is that Ruth and Billie go to movie night in Forest Quad, and Billie poorly handles balancing the reality of their relationship with the legend she’s woven for her new neighbors. Ruth and Billie fight about this, which snowballs into fighting about Billie not detoxing and seeing the counselor like she said she was supposed to. The fight leads to at least a temporary breakup. Depending on how bad it gets, and how long the split lasts, Ruth starts slipping and gets tempted by the bottle again, and hopefully Billie realizes what she threw away just for meaningless clique-y high school bullshit.

            I hope I’m at least partially wrong about this; maybe posting it will rewrite comics that are already finished. Somehow, maybe out of pure spite.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              January 16, 2019 at 7:14 am | #

              I think at this point I’d be happier if it was Billie who went on the downward spiral after screwing up. Having to confront her drinking problem for her own sake, not just for Ruth.

      • ktbear
        ktbear
        January 17, 2019 at 1:51 am | #

        Here’s my take on it, which will be completely wrong of course. Ruth is going to a lot of effort trying to get better, taking meds, attending councilling, giving up drink. Billie isn’t doing any of that because she doesn’t have a problem and so long as she has the girls in Forrest dotting on her, Ruth to love and to be loved by, that is probably going to continue to be the case.
        Billie has already shown an almost callous disregard for the fact Ruth is trying to remain sober and happily suggests they go out for drinks. I can see this eventually becoming an issue for Ruth, what she is doing is damned hard enough without the person she loves trying to sabotage it. As a result it wouldn’t surprise me if next time that happens Ruth snaps at Billie and initiates the fight that Willis has alluded to. It could even result in them breaking up. I had two friends once who broke up because one of them stopped smoking and the other one wouldn’t.
        However, I feel this would actually be a good thing from the point of view of Billie loosing Ruth, or even if she just believes she will. Perhaps then she will re-evaluate things. If she is prepared to die for Ruth, is she also prepared to give up drink for her? Sounds simple, perhaps, but Billie is an alcoholic so there is no garauntee that she will pick Ruth over drink. Which would be incredibly sad as these are two of my faorite characters and I’d love to see them work through this.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 16, 2019 at 1:50 am | #

      I don’t understand how people were doubting her before. Lucy’s been an adorable, sweet cinnamon roll in every strip she’s been in.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 16, 2019 at 2:14 am | #

      Darn straight I’m adorable! As is Lucy.

      But that’s not QUITE what I mean with ‘Alpha Sweetie’. As I read her, Lucy tries to achieve a similar social position as Billie when she’s on the top of a game. The middle of the social circle, the one people come to with problems – and the one who can solve them, the one people wants to be friend with, and for good reason.

      A bit of a gossip, a bit of a busy-body, a bit of a ‘friend mom’. Both Joyce and Dorothy have similar tendencies.

      The difference between an alpha bongo and an alpha sweetie lies in the execution. While Billie shoves you in a locker, Lucy gives you a hug. But both wants to be on the top of the heap.

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        January 16, 2019 at 5:48 am | #

        Given your avatar, that really ought to be “Damn queer I’m adorable.” :p

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 16, 2019 at 6:27 am | #

          Now I really hope to hear Becky use that line at some point.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          January 16, 2019 at 7:54 am | #

          Seconded.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        January 16, 2019 at 11:12 am | #

        Makes sense, but I stand by saying Lucy is both.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 16, 2019 at 12:01 pm | #

          That is the truth.

  6. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    January 16, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    Lying.
    It solves ALL your problems.

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      January 16, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

      And that’s the truth.

      • Catman
        Catman
        January 16, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

        Is that a lie?

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 16, 2019 at 12:28 am | #

          The cake is, as is this statement.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            January 16, 2019 at 2:21 am | #

            This… sentence… is… FALSE! Don’tthinkaboutitdon’tthinkaboutitdon’tthinkaboutit

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              January 16, 2019 at 3:10 pm | #

              Ah, the famous Kirk gambit.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 16, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      That’s why I lie all the time. I’m probably lying right now.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 16, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

      Because people just cant seem to handle the truth, hence why we live in a post-truth society now.

    • showler
      showler
      January 16, 2019 at 5:33 am | #

      Lying is the alcohol of talking.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 16, 2019 at 6:31 am | #

      That’s one of Billie’s main relationship tools
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/separate-2/

    • karmax
      karmax
      January 16, 2019 at 10:46 am | #

      I thought that beer was the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

  7. Yumi
    Yumi
    January 16, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish a particular couple’s ba-thumping from the general noises of ba-thumping that may filter through a college dorm.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      January 16, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      I mean, Carla overheard ’em, but she thought it was Ruth taking her aggression out on the walls.

      She wasn’t ENTIRELY wrong.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 16, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      Play some music and see if after a few seconds the ba-thumping starts to sync up to the beat.

  8. Illithid
    Illithid
    January 16, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Yay for thick dorm walls!

    Boo for lying in relationships.

    Although I’m sure I did the same or worse. I can remember being young and stupid, but the details sometimes blur.

  9. Electriccombines
    Electriccombines
    January 16, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Nah Billie, they just assumed Ruth had a sudden surge of unchecked aggression…
    Plus frustrated shouting and annoyed moans of course. How could anyone figure it out unless they walked in?

  10. Catman
    Catman
    January 16, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    God Lucy is adorable

    AND SO IS HAPPY RUTH! This whole comic is filled to the brim with dorbs!

  11. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 16, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    *too many songs titled “Little White Lies”–I can’t decide*

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      January 16, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

      Can’t go wrong with Fleetwood Mac!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 16, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

      Just curious — what are the songs that beat out Thompson Twins?

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 16, 2019 at 3:12 pm | #

        Any song ever written.

  12. Deadjolras
    Deadjolras
    January 16, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    Bless Lucy for being the first character to point out that private conversations in a hallway outside other people’s rooms aren’t so private after all.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 16, 2019 at 12:46 am | #

      If the floors are carpeted, it’s not so back but tiled floors carry “private conversations” longer distances than most would like.

  13. chris73
    chris73
    January 16, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    So did Billie genuinely think that she could keep her relationship secret? Like I don’t know far apart the dorms are but it seems a little short sighted on her part, also Walky doesn’t deserve Lucy…maybe a Jacob or a Joe instead

    • Catman
      Catman
      January 16, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

      One of few people I’ve seen who would rank Joe higher than Walky in terms of relationship material

      • Matthew Davis
        Matthew Davis
        January 16, 2019 at 12:40 am | #

        I’m not sure I’d rank Joe higher, but since the list and talking heart-to-heart with Joyce he seems to be on a path to being better. And he’s always, always been about consent, which puts him higher than some of the Joe-haters want to place him.

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          January 16, 2019 at 1:04 am | #

          If he’d always been about consent beyond the absolute bare minimum that whole arc that ended with Joyce explaining why treating women like objects was bad never would’ve been necessary

          There’s hope for him now that he’s gotten that into his thick skull, but jfc he was NOT “always, always about consent”

      • geno
        geno
        January 16, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

        I’d definitely rank Joe at this point higher than Walky, and if he ends up half as successful as he does in Walkyverse then he would definitely be one of the higher rated dudes in the comic. Walky is a nice idiot. That is it.

      • chris73
        chris73
        January 16, 2019 at 1:06 am | #

        If you want a relationship with a 14 year old (emotionally and physically) then yes Walky would be a good choice

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      January 16, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

      Walky and Jacob would not work well, but his pretend marriage with Joe seemed promising. 😉

      • Catman
        Catman
        January 16, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

        Nice

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 16, 2019 at 12:53 am | #

      She apparently thought that she could keep the fact that she wears glasses secret, even though she seems to wear them everywhere except Forest. So I’m going with, apparently she did think that.

      The official IU-Bloomington housing site divides the dorms/apartments into four neighborhoods, and both Read and Forest are in the same neighborhood. According to Google Maps, Read and Forest are about 5 minutes walk from each other.

      But don’t forget — IU-Bloomington is enormous in terms of student population — for undergraduates, 15th largest public university in the US. It’s possible someone from Forest might graduate without ever knowingly running into someone from Read.

    • Blanche Quizno
      Blanche Quizno
      January 16, 2019 at 1:21 pm | #

      Lucy is Jacob’s sister – we can’t go shipping that.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 16, 2019 at 2:50 pm | #

        Not sure if serious, but no, she’s not.
        Jacob hasn’t mentioned a sister. She’s mentioned an older brother, but Jacob’s also a freshman.

  14. DSL
    DSL
    January 16, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    Dorm walls thick enough to block sound from the other side? All right, NOW I’m calling bullsh!t.

    • Catman
      Catman
      January 16, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

      Might be enough to just obscure the words

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 16, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

      Hearing distinct words is different from hearing human voice noises.

  15. Roger
    Roger
    January 16, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    Billie’s gotta listen to Lucy to become a remotely better person

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      January 16, 2019 at 12:25 am | #

      Billie’s better than when the strip began, but yeah, it’s a work in progress. She’s changed, but not to the level Joyce has, or Sal at the rate we’re going with her.

  16. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    January 16, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Lucy has now been promoted from Billies shadow to her damage control. Honestly I pitty her because it’s a lot of work and there are no good benefits.

  17. mrnoidea
    mrnoidea
    January 16, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    In my experience, the walls are thick enough. The doors, not so much.

  18. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 16, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    Wow, that’s the nicest thing anyone said about Lucy this entire comic (and coming from Walky who genuinely cares about Billie, worries about it and have a difficult time expressing it, that says something) . Bask in it while you have the chance, Lucy.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      January 16, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

      Walky loves Billie like a sister, but he is also very familiar with her short-sighted decision processes.

  19. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 16, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

    The walls are not THAT thick…

    Go Leafs

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/sure/

    • stoodmuffin
      stoodmuffin
      January 16, 2019 at 2:52 am | #

      I had forgot. Thank you

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      January 16, 2019 at 1:58 pm | #

      I think that’s more because Carla has the adjacent room to Ruth, so it’s easier to hear people one room over mashing against the closet door.

  20. Yumi
    Yumi
    January 16, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

    I made a Zuko (from Avatar, not, like, Danny Zuko) fanvideo. Current copyright claims may or may not have it currently visible to others, though, so could someone tell me if they’re able to view it?:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWjDxsxoTUo

    (Also, this means the DoA video I have planned should be next on my list…so much image gathering to do, though…)

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 16, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

      Oh, ALSO, the video uses Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt,” which is entirely this comic’s fault.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        January 16, 2019 at 12:37 am | #

        Huh. An angsty teenager who did legitimately awful things but wants to be better, while still having anger at a terrible societal system that hurt the whole world including them, and confronted (and helped defeat) an abusive parent and a favoured sibling?

        Somehow, I think Sal would approve.

        (I mean, it’s not an exact parallel – Zuko and Sal have very different societal problems hurting them but still).

  21. fire_daws
    fire_daws
    January 16, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

    With each adorable comic the greater the next DYW moment will be.

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      January 16, 2019 at 9:29 am | #

      It’s okay! The comic two days ago was dramatic enough to siphon off some of the DYW energy. We should be good to enjoy the adorbs for a little while longer, at least.

  22. mister gray
    mister gray
    January 16, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

    woah wall is thicc

  23. William Leonard Reese Jr.
    William Leonard Reese Jr.
    January 16, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

    . . . Well know we KNOW that this is a fictional universe. The dorms at my college were paper thin. So thin that you could literally hear your dorm mate and next door neighbors walking across their floors.

    • Matthew Davis
      Matthew Davis
      January 16, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

      Do you know when your dorm was built? Most mid-century dorms that first housed WWII-era or Boomer students are concrete block construction, but lack the apartment-like amenities that universities have convinced themselves students (or more likely, their helicopter parents) want. The dorms built to have said amenities tend to be built like modern apartment buildings, so as inexpensively as possible. Soundproofing costs money that could go to marble countertops and the like — you know, things that can be shown off in brochures.

      • Liquid Len
        Liquid Len
        January 16, 2019 at 10:13 am | #

        Yeah, my freshman dorm was one of those. Even had the tilt-out windows for ventilation. No AC, and no individual thermostats for the heat. So even in an upstate NY winter you might have a window open because it was too hot in the room

  24. Questionor
    Questionor
    January 16, 2019 at 12:41 am | #

    I’m very glad to have been wrong about Lucy

  25. Lux
    Lux
    January 16, 2019 at 12:41 am | #

    Ok, NOW I think Lucy’s a good character. I didn’t like the pseudo-flirting with her and Walky (mostly because I think Walky shouldn’t be within a mile of a relationship right now)

    • Matthew Davis
      Matthew Davis
      January 16, 2019 at 12:45 am | #

      You can’t blame Lucy for that, though — it’s not like she knows that about him and we have it on good authority he’s some kind of caramel hotness if you like nerdy guys.

    • geno
      geno
      January 16, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

      So I have reread that bit a few times now, and I don’t see where any flirting occurred. Multiple people have suggested it did though, so I guess I am the weird one

      • a4lbi
        a4lbi
        January 16, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

        That makes two of us, then.

      • brokshi
        brokshi
        January 16, 2019 at 1:44 am | #

        she’s just being nice and most people take that between 2 people of opposite genders as flirting for some reason

        • C.T Phipps
          C.T Phipps
          January 16, 2019 at 2:14 am | #

          I don’t ship Walky and Lucy hard. It’s amazing how sink-ship it.

        • Emily
          Emily
          January 16, 2019 at 7:50 am | #

          I mean there was blushing and asking him for contact info so it’s got some grounding. Lucy can and should do better though.

        • MK15
          MK15
          January 16, 2019 at 11:15 am | #

          Maybe not everyone’s thinking back to the chat in Billie’s dorm about Walky’s relationships, but Lucy was keenly interested in the thought of being with Walky then when Billie casually brought it up.

      • Miri
        Miri
        January 16, 2019 at 5:02 am | #

        This comic? Where her response to “guy apparently on the rebound should book up with you once he’s ‘got boning another girl out of his system'” is to blush, smile, then try to connect with him on social media? This reads as non-flirtatious friendliness? I apparently went on one or two dates I didn’t realise were dates when I was about their age and was also dumped by somebody I didn’t realise I was supposedly in a relationship with as a teen – I don’t tend to see flirting when there isn’t – and I’m calling flirting.

  26. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    January 16, 2019 at 12:49 am | #

    Ooooooooooooooooh. I seeeeeeeeee.

  27. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    January 16, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

    Walky isn’t wrong. People like Billie always need others to be reminded about how to be a good person. Hmmm… that would make Lucy the exception of the trend that the roommates in this story are enablers: Sarah doesn’t care about stopping Joyce; Walky is Mike’s metaphorical punching bag; Dina doesn’t understand that Amber’s vigilantism is dangerous.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 16, 2019 at 12:59 am | #

      Joyce on the other hand completely fails to enable Sarah in her misantropic quest of isolation.

      Stupid Joyce.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        January 16, 2019 at 1:58 am | #

        I don’t know; I think that Joyce succeeded in some ways but not in the way she hoped. Sarah has come out of her shell somewhat because she thinks she needs to be there for Joyce, who has managed to work herself into quite an emotional mess during her short time at IU.

        • DailyBrad
          DailyBrad
          January 16, 2019 at 2:02 pm | #

          Yeah, due to Joyce’s direct or indirect actions, Sarah is more social than when the strip began, even if she still sometimes goes into shutdown mode and shoves people out.

          Still, we have stuff like her Dina interactions that suggest to me that Sarah doesn’t mind an outlet, it’s more she’s got a lot of “I reject you before you can reject me” hangups leftover from the Raidah fallout.

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            January 16, 2019 at 3:47 pm | #

            And she dislikes teenage drama, which is a real handicap in this comic.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      January 16, 2019 at 1:14 am | #

      Calling Walky an enabler is ridiculous. He’s never more than put up with Mike’s bullshit, and has stood up to him multiple times.

      It’s also unfair to assume Dina doesn’t understand that Amber’s vigilantism is dangerous. She’s not a child. She’s simply decided to trust that Amber can handle herself.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        January 16, 2019 at 1:20 am | #

        If by ‘dangerous’ OP meant Dina isn’t stopping the increased split – that’s unfair, imo. Dina doesn’t know how bad it’s gotten. She probably thinks the vigilantism is dangerous in the sense getting into any fight is dangerous.

        • Zatar
          Zatar
          January 16, 2019 at 3:26 am | #

          Also she’s not a therapist. It’s not her job to stop the increased split and the idea that she would even be capable of doing so is ridicules.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            January 16, 2019 at 11:15 am | #

            Well, yes, but I guess hypothetically she could suggest one if she’d noticed. Though that still relies on Amber listening.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 16, 2019 at 7:25 am | #

        She also thinks that Amazi-Girl saved Becky (and she’s right), so it’s a hell of a big ask for her to respond with “That was too dangerous, you shouldn’t do that” instead of thanking her and helping her.

      • Charlotte
        Charlotte
        January 16, 2019 at 11:19 am | #

        Agree. Calling Walky an enabler of Mike’s assholery is really cynical — Walky has suffered from Mike’s abusive behaviour on multiple occasions. That’s not enabling.

    • JBento
      JBento
      January 16, 2019 at 7:30 am | #

      I don’t think you understand what “enabler” is. It’s not merely NOT STOPPING people from doing stuff. If there’s an alcoholic and you don’t stop them from going drinking, that’s not enabling; lending them cash that you know they’re going to spend on booze is.

  28. Owlmirror
    Owlmirror
    January 16, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

    Walls may be thick, but doors can be slightly cracked open. And have eyes and ears at the cracks.

    Right, Mary?

  29. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    January 16, 2019 at 1:40 am | #

    I really hope that suspicions of outright villainy on Lucy’s part will die down now.

    I mean, seriously, guys. It’s not like she’s a parent.

  30. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 16, 2019 at 1:40 am | #

    When will the lies end?!

  31. brokshi
    brokshi
    January 16, 2019 at 1:47 am | #

    why DO people think lucy’s a villain? she’s been nothing but thoughtful and nice so far. this entire segment is because all her friends blew her off because billie Might Potentially Have Other Plans and she’s trying to find out how billie was handled in the other dorm. there hasn’t been room for Secret Sinister Motivations because all her reasonings have been clearly communicated so far.

    • C.T Phipps
      C.T Phipps
      January 16, 2019 at 2:13 am | #

      Probably because she’s snooping into Billie’s personal life. You know, versus just accepting her friends don’t want to go to movie night.

      • Doopyboop
        Doopyboop
        January 16, 2019 at 3:48 am | #

        If her friends had normal reasons for going, that’s fine. But they switched on a dime because Almighty Billie won’t go. If I were Lucy, I’d snoop just a tad too, if only because this entire situation is uncanny. I’d be concerned that Billie had mind control powers.

        Plus her only questions have been “how did you deal with Billie’s supernatural popularity” which isn’t very nosy because it’s focused more on the others and NOT Billie, as well as “what would entice Billie to a party?”. I think Lucy thought the answer would be centered on favorite movies, or snacks. Lucy you absolute monster.

        • Doopyboop
          Doopyboop
          January 16, 2019 at 3:48 am | #

          *not going, feck

      • Emily
        Emily
        January 16, 2019 at 7:54 am | #

        This does not qualify as snooping. She asked people who knew Billie about what kind of things Billie likes this is not an invasion of privacy.

        • Charlotte
          Charlotte
          January 16, 2019 at 11:17 am | #

          Agree. She’s not snooping. She’s trying to find out how to be nice to Billie to get her to be friends (or at least friendly).
          She can’t know that this is doomed to fail.

    • Tadpole7
      Tadpole7
      January 16, 2019 at 7:31 am | #

      I think some of it came from her trying to engage Billie as she was just waking and ignoring the very obvious signs Billie wasn’t interested. Maybe not for the first time. Which IMO is rather rude and not likely to get her what she wanted. Plus she’s having some issues with her dorm mates hero worship which has made her a little stressed out.

      Honestly it’s spillover from that rather then her being a villain.

      I personally think Lucy is a rather sweet girl who has a desire to be socially successful. She does need to let people say no to participating in things.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      January 16, 2019 at 11:44 am | #

      People project themselves onto other people and assume they’re acting in the same way they would in that circumstance.

  32. Robbie
    Robbie
    January 16, 2019 at 1:50 am | #

    I read Lucy’s part with the voice of Connie (SU) in my head.

    • Arianod
      Arianod
      January 16, 2019 at 2:05 am | #

      Thank you. Now it’s part of my headcanon too.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 16, 2019 at 11:19 am | #

      Are you just trying to get us to like Lucy more? Because that’s how that happens.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 16, 2019 at 11:20 am | #

        (I’d like to ETA, “that’s one way how that happens”).

    • Some1
      Some1
      January 16, 2019 at 7:06 pm | #

      I thought I was the only one!

  33. BenRG
    BenRG
    January 16, 2019 at 1:57 am | #

    It probably says a lot about Billie’s issues that she immediately fell back on the 12-year-old’s defensive strategy of: “Well, yeah but you do it too!”

  34. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    January 16, 2019 at 2:06 am | #

    Lucy….in the words of Samuel L. Jackson.

    “Shut the blanket blank up, large person. This ain’t none of your blanket blank beeswax.”

    Well, as read by Joyce.

    Seriously, you should stay out of other people’s affairs. It’s NOSY!

    • Emily
      Emily
      January 16, 2019 at 8:07 am | #

      No. When people’s actions are hurting others you don’t “stay out of their affairs.” That’s moral cowardice talking. Really I think Lucy should have ripped the band-aid off and told Ruth what a piece of shit her girlfriend has been being because all this has accomplished is delaying the inevitable moment when she finds out for herself.

      • Adam Black
        Adam Black
        January 16, 2019 at 8:23 am | #

        Yes, Lucy should have told the truth!
        Lets see, “im billies roommate. She left this morning because she ssaid my cheerfulness was irritating her at 7am. So i came here to old floor to meet her friends, commiserate what a stone cold bongo Billie is, and try to get blackmail material to manipulate Billie into coming to my nerd movie parties — or no one will show up.

        Then she could have added, “Billie didn’t tell me much about you, im going to smugly presume shes ashamed of your relationship, one which is no ne of my business, and not because she values her privacy ”

        Lucy has graduated from sweet nice girl , to passive aggressive Cu Next Tuesday. She has out Mar ied Mary.

        • Emily
          Emily
          January 16, 2019 at 9:08 am | #

          Yikes.

          • Zee
            Zee
            January 17, 2019 at 6:50 am | #

            Big Yikes

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 16, 2019 at 10:53 am | #

          I echo the “Yikes”, but in particular it’s not just that Billie didn’t tell her much about Ruth, it’s that she let everyone assume she was a sexual conquest, not a romance.
          Nothing to do with valuing privacy.

        • 3-I
          3-I
          January 16, 2019 at 5:17 pm | #

          Uh, hi, just gonna throw this out there: Screw you. Mary literally attempted to blackmail a depressed lesbian into looking the other way so she could be a transphobic bigot to Carla, because she fundamentally believes she is morally superior to literally everyone and has no qualms about using that to hurt people for her own amusement.

          Lucy, even if we ACCEPT your ridiculously inaccurate read of the character, has gone to try and figure out what Billie likes because her entire friend group abandoned her for Billie and she wants to remain friends with them, noticed someone being really really shitty, and reacted to someone being embarrassed as hell by a shitty action on Billie’s part with a white lie about Billie saying nice things about Ruth. Meaning she is willing to alter her actions to stay friends with people and she cares about the feelings of other human beings when you think she shouldn’t.

          These. Things. Are. Not. Equivalent. And the latter sure as hell is not worse. And I and every other trans person in these comments are sick of being your collateral damage. Knock it off.

          • Emily
            Emily
            January 16, 2019 at 5:29 pm | #

            Yeah that was like the bulk of the yikesness of that comment. Everything Lucy has ever done bad in this comic combined doesn’t even match Mary telling Carla she belongs in the men’s dorm let alone the rest of the vile crap she’s pulled.

          • the final pam
            the final pam
            January 16, 2019 at 5:57 pm | #

            I just want to make a correction: Ruth’s not a lesbian, she’s bisexual. Same with Billie.

            • 3-I
              3-I
              January 17, 2019 at 9:47 am | #

              Fair point!

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            January 16, 2019 at 9:52 pm | #

            I mean theoretically, if Lucy winds up blackmailing Billie with this information as some people apparently expect (for no reason I can see), she’d get a lot closer to Mary, though she’d have to push it pretty hard to match her.

            It’s possible I’m misreading Lucy completely, as some have made excuses for villains in this comic before, but I just can’t see it. I don’t see the red flags that have been there in other cases and I don’t see anyone in the comments pointing them out either, despite the claims she’s a monster.

  35. FacelessDeviant
    FacelessDeviant
    January 16, 2019 at 3:13 am | #

    “I told you that I would never lie, that was the first time that I did it”.

    Kinda sad that Billie reacted like that, a relationship that needs lies to survive can’t be very good :/

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 16, 2019 at 4:27 am | #

      I’ve got this feeling that Billie lies to everyone, including herself, on an almost constant basis. She does this in order to sustain the illusion that she tells herself is the only possible life she can at least tolerate.

    • Seregiel
      Seregiel
      January 16, 2019 at 12:50 pm | #

      Their entire relationship was started around lies/ misdirection and then hidden with more lies/misdirection to their dorm as a mutual decision. This dorm accepted them when they were honest…. except those that didn’t and used it to argue about power dynamics, etc – besides the popularity side effect, she just might not trust and or care enough about new dorm to enlighten them.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 16, 2019 at 9:56 pm | #

        If you look back at that first strip where they ask her about seducing her RA, it’s clear she’s hesitant at first but seems like she’s going to tell the story (or a sanitized version of it – without the alcohol and suicide), but when they react with awe to her as a bad ass, she plays right into it. That’s when she lies about the relationship.
        It’s not that she doesn’t trust or care enough to enlighten them, it’s that she’s enjoying the way they react to the false story.

        • Seregiel
          Seregiel
          January 18, 2019 at 4:18 pm | #

          I’m not saying that isn’t true – it’s a lot harder to change behavior when it gets you a result you like. But it’s not mutually exclusive and truth/trust was already the hard way and not necessarily the one she would have been comfortable with anyways because of the past.

  36. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 16, 2019 at 3:52 am | #

    The walls are thick. The doors, on the other hand…

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 16, 2019 at 4:16 am | #

      I think that Lucy is overestimating the number of people who might care. I mean, there’s Mary but the day Ruth and Billie nearly went through with their suicide pact proved that no-one in authority actually cares what Mary says or thinks.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 16, 2019 at 6:17 am | #

        I assume the person who might care is Ruth, who shouldn’t really overhear about how Lucy lied about Billie lying about their relationship.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        January 16, 2019 at 7:39 pm | #

        And Carla only thought Ruth was banging against the wall
        which… was true, but not in the way she thought.

  37. Miri
    Miri
    January 16, 2019 at 5:48 am | #

    Anybody wondering if “I lied for you! You owe me! [Insert blackmail here]” may follow? 😉

    Not sure if I think it will. I haven’t really warmed to Lucy yet although she may well be the least ridiculous person who started off their college life at that Halls… I don’t know. As somebody who has a chronic health condition or three worsened by lack of sleep, her “I’m cheerfully and loudly talking at you at 7:30 AM. Deal with it” is something that gets to me. When my now-husband thought he was being helpful when we first started living together and my alarm would go off and I’d say I needed to sleep for 5 more minutes and he’d respond by stealing the covers, turning the lights on and being loud, if the conversation had gone like that we would not have stayed together. (In fairness, when he was “person to call in the middle of the night when an alarm is going off” at his work, he gave them my number because he is HARD to wake up and his phone ringing wouldn’t do it, but I’m a lot more likely to answer mine. His current wake-up system involves a systematic set of alarms over 1.5 hours, including ones that make him do maths problems and ones that make him take a photograph downstairs, and prescription medication. He genuinely thought this was me being half-asleep and trying to make the morning go away, based on what he does, when I was actually waking up enough to assess that based on my level of energy, headache and muscle pains, I needed at least 5 more minutes of sleep to physically accomplish anything that day, and was therefore trying to go back to sleep before I woke up too much to do that, because being late is better than being completely absent and near tears with pain.) I know it’s a completely different situation, but genuinely nice people don’t usually goad other people to the point that their best option appears to be going on a 5 minute walk in a vest and knickers with their pillow to sleep elsewhere. And yes, Billie is fuelled by spite and somewhat tetchy – but You Don’t Mess With People’s Sleep.

    Seriously. I have a preschooler and a baby, and a husband who sleeps more heavily than some people who are comatose. If you don’t respect other people’s need to sleep I will almost definitely not like you. Husband gets a pass because if he’s nor working and I need to spend the day in bed he tries to keep the kiddos downstairs/out of the house so I can recharge. And coz I appreciate that he does in fact REALLY struggle to get up but also needs to go to work. The children get passes because they are waking me up due to their biological needs. My health is at a state where I may need to make use of a disability act this year… If you don’t HAVE to wake me up, don’t.

    • Adam Black
      Adam Black
      January 16, 2019 at 8:34 am | #

      Shes here for blackmail material. She hit it

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 16, 2019 at 10:57 am | #

        Good to see the “Evil Lucy” contingent is still around.

    • Deadjolras
      Deadjolras
      January 16, 2019 at 4:09 pm | #

      Lucy had the audacity of talking to her roommate when she noticed said roommate was waking up, which means she’s obviously the kind of person that would blackmail others.

      • Emily
        Emily
        January 16, 2019 at 7:19 pm | #

        Have you forgotten that morning people are literally the devil?

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          January 16, 2019 at 7:32 pm | #

          I haven’t.

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          January 16, 2019 at 7:41 pm | #

          I suspect they merely naturally produce caffeine

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          January 16, 2019 at 7:49 pm | #

          I mean, they are, but not because Lucy said good morning when she saw her roommate wake up.

  38. JediMB
    JediMB
    January 16, 2019 at 6:45 am | #

    Billie needs to learn that trust and respect are a lot more valuable than popularity. You’d think she would, since she seems to find superficial adoration to actually be annoying?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 16, 2019 at 7:13 am | #

      Yes, she finds it annoying but she also finds it upbuilding and she really doesn’t know any other way to judge her own self-worth.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 16, 2019 at 10:02 pm | #

      Does she? Isn’t that more Sal’s thing?

      Billie seems to bask in it. I can’t remember her finding it annoying.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        January 17, 2019 at 9:35 am | #

        She finds the admirers annoying. The admiration itself? Far less so.

  39. egg
    egg
    January 16, 2019 at 7:35 am | #

    so many cute ruth faces in this arc

    i am happy

  40. Zee
    Zee
    January 16, 2019 at 7:48 am | #

    Lucy is best girl and I will fight any and everyone for her

    • Charlotte
      Charlotte
      January 16, 2019 at 11:15 am | #

      I do hope she gets some character development! So far she’s been a pleasant person, and I’ve felt sorry for her a lot because of how badly everyone treats her, but I’m sure she has a lot more to contribute to the comic.

  41. Whaatt
    Whaatt
    January 16, 2019 at 8:42 am | #

    For once Walky is right. I don’t think that Billie woulda crashed into a tree in a car if Lucy was there.( mainly because she has already convinced her to go to a party and was suffering through a Pokémon battle or something)

  42. Emily
    Emily
    January 16, 2019 at 9:12 am | #

    You are cynical to the point of straight up paranoia dude.

  43. Megan
    Megan
    January 16, 2019 at 9:15 am | #

    Can Lucy be a main character in this comic now please? I really like her.

  44. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    January 16, 2019 at 9:26 am | #

    I’m still fairly sure apathy does more to protect the privacy of the residents than the walls do.

    And this is maybe kind of a random time to be thinking this, but I’ve really enjoyed how, I dunno, normal Ruth feels so far this storyline. Slept in, got breakfast and had some mild shenanigans with her girlfriend, and all her reactions to things so far have just felt really grounded and reasonable. I might be grasping at straws, the emphasis this storyline is on Billie’s problems and not Ruth’s necessarily, but still. It’s nice.

  45. JBento
    JBento
    January 16, 2019 at 10:08 am | #

    “What does Billie like?” is NOT fishing for blackmail material, unless what Billie likes is EXTREMELY bad. I DO think Lucy shouldn’t be doing this, but that’s mostly because literally no-one in Forest Quad seems to be worth the time. Like, Nash is outright horrible, combining the worst features of Carla and Joyce.

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      January 16, 2019 at 4:58 pm | #

      Arguably, alcohol is pretty bad.

  46. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    January 16, 2019 at 10:34 am | #

    Just stretch a bit more.

  47. 3oranges
    3oranges
    January 16, 2019 at 11:03 am | #

    Not only is there no textual evidence for any of that, but I think it’s pretty insulting to suggest that simply being a gossip and blackmailer is enough to make her worse than Mary, who tried to profit by continuing a potentially suicidal situation and asked to be “given” a trans person to torment.

  48. Charlotte
    Charlotte
    January 16, 2019 at 11:14 am | #

    Yeah, really not sure we’re reading the same comic.

  49. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    January 16, 2019 at 11:38 am | #

    So is Lucy the new Dororthy? Where we somehow twist everything she does into the worst possible interpretation.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      January 16, 2019 at 12:35 pm | #

      Seriously, I can understand to an extent people saying Lucy should just accept her friends are being assholes and not try to get Billie to go somewhere she doesn’t want to go. I raise my eyebrow when they insist she’s aiming at blackmail when both this strip and last pretty clearly indicate she was acting out of concern for Ruth’s feelings.

      So, yeah, time to add Lucy to the list of ‘characters the comment section gets REALLY REALLY weird towards, beyond the bounds of reasonable criticism’ along with Sal, Amber, Dorothy, Carla, Becky, and Ruth.

      • JBento
        JBento
        January 16, 2019 at 1:28 pm | #

        Wait, Ruth?

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          January 16, 2019 at 2:10 pm | #

          Not so much lately, but there was back in the day. And I’m not talking about people who criticized her as a shit RA or the health of her and Billie’s relationship, but there were plenty who crapped on her for being depressed and acted like she was exaggerating or misinterpreting her grandfather’s abuse.

          I did not enjoy those days in the comment section.

          • JBento
            JBento
            January 16, 2019 at 3:27 pm | #

            Thanks.

      • Emily
        Emily
        January 16, 2019 at 4:55 pm | #

        Don’t forget Roz, who IIRC the reaction to her being like mildly harsh in her critique of Joyce was so disproportionate and vitriolic it inspired the “bongo” filter.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          January 16, 2019 at 6:26 pm | #

          Yes, dear GOD, yes.

  50. rtmq
    rtmq
    January 16, 2019 at 12:07 pm | #

    @ Adam Black: Yikes, my dude. “All my friends said they’ll come if Billie comes, so let’s find out what it takes to get her to come to the party from the only other people that might have that knowledge” is not “Let me find something to blackmail her into coming and paint myself as the victim!”

    Lucy is legit being treated kinda shittily by her dormmates in this arc (flat out telling her that they care more about what Billie thinks than spending time with someone who is ostensibly their friend). Lucy is the new Collateral Damage, this time it’s of Billie’s obsession with being the Alpha and the one everyone envies and centers their life around. She’s acting a little desperately and crossing a vague/thin boundary by talking to Billie’s friends and neighbors, but we’ve seen zero evidence it has any malicious intent. Certainly she hasn’t been seeking out any gossip so far, hasn’t manipulated anyone, and just helped Billie save face with her girlfriend.

    Don’t count your Marys before they’ve schemed.

  51. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 16, 2019 at 1:29 pm | #

    All the faces in the last panel are wonderful.

  52. 3-I
    3-I
    January 16, 2019 at 5:19 pm | #

    Oh, good, you spammed this mary apologia all across the entire comment section. Good. Great. Awesome. Outstanding. Amazing.

  53. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 16, 2019 at 6:27 pm | #

    Unless and until a character blackmails someone until they’re suicidal AND CONTINUES AFTER KNOWING THEY ARE SUICIDAL, and then afterwards asks to be ‘given’ a person to torment in a similar fashion, they will not have out Maryied Mary.

  54. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    January 16, 2019 at 11:55 pm | #

    Did we lose some comments during the day?

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