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May 12, 2026

Cross purposes

by David M Willis on May 31, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – Hompk!
└ Tags: jason, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    May 31, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    If I’ve learned anything from Saiki K., it’s that nice people can definitely think terrible things, so maybe consider that and save your kidneys

    (idk for absolute certain tho, I’ve had limited “nice vs. not nice” sexual experience)

    • JaneDoe
      JaneDoe
      June 1, 2021 at 12:55 am | #

      I hope nice people can think terrible things because it they can’t then I’ve been fooling myself by ever thinking I was nice…

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    May 31, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    I’m a little worried now but also weirdly optimistic about the Ruth x Daisy ship?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      May 31, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

      It’s probably doomed, but hopefully it’ll ultimately be a positive thing

      • Clif
        Clif
        May 31, 2021 at 1:19 am | #

        Hey, Jennifer specifically told Daisy not to let Ruth drink. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/hooking/
        Whatever happens now is definitely Daisy’s fault.

        • Ray Radlein
          Ray Radlein
          May 31, 2021 at 2:14 am | #

          Hard to blame her for things Ruth does while she is literally not even in the same room

        • Demoted Oblivious
          Demoted Oblivious
          May 31, 2021 at 8:13 am | #

          Gotta agree with Ray here. Ruth is an adult, literally of age, and is not under any sort of authority of Daisy. Hell, if she were, this would be inappropriate. But even were Daisy present, Ruth’s drinking is not Daisy’s responsibility and it would start an unhealthy dynamic were it so.

        • Ed Rhodes
          Ed Rhodes
          May 31, 2021 at 6:34 pm | #

          Daisy’s in the bathroom. She doesn’t know this is happening.

        • dej
          dej
          May 31, 2021 at 6:43 pm | #

          Is she supposed to Spidey-Sense it and come running out of the bathroom?

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          May 31, 2021 at 10:43 pm | #

          Look at all these people who don’t get Clif.

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            June 1, 2021 at 10:35 am | #

            I know, right?

            Everyone knows it’s Danny’s fault, he woke up today.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      May 31, 2021 at 6:06 am | #

      At least Daisy might finally get laid, but I’m not sure if they’ll actually become a couple.

  3. Regalli
    Regalli
    May 31, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Yeeeeep. Definitely self-loathing and self-destruction going on. Definitely something that alcohol won’t aggravate further!

    Hoo boy.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      May 31, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      It’s really worrying that she’s drinking not because she’s depressed but because she doesn’t know how to positively interact with a person. It feels more like alcohol as a coping mechanism to any stress and less a side effect of depression.

      • StClair
        StClair
        May 31, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

        probably, yeah. 🙁

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        May 31, 2021 at 12:39 am | #

        I mean, we already knew she was an alcoholic. Part of her depression-alcoholism hellspiral was that she hated the fact that she was drinking, because her parents were killed by a drunk driver, but then she kept drinking and that further fueled the self-loathing. That wasn’t going to go away with antidepressants, because it’s a behavior pattern as well, and it was worrying coming out of the timeskip that her takeaway on why she shouldn’t drink was ‘bad with the old meds’ and ‘underage,’ not ‘this would have been seriously concerning for someone in their thirties.’ Since alcohol is also a chemically addictive substance, her drinking again at all is a serious flag that Nothing Good Can Come Of This. (I’d been hoping they were jokes, damn it.)

        But also, I wouldn’t be shocked if part of her is unconsciously trying to wreck the date with Daisy (as a comparison, consider Jennifer’s pre-skip hall meeting and how it went from ‘I’m not a perfect cheerleading goddess’ to ‘my current relationship was originally founded in mutual self-loathing and I have a drinking problem and holy shit I’m only now connecting that it almost killed me and my best friend, no wonder she doesn’t want to talk to me anymore’. Same Brain Trying To Sink Other Relationships So People Don’t Waste Their Time On Garbage Like You impulse, slightly different manifestations.) Which is very much a depression thing, born out of low self-worth. Just because Ruth isn’t currently suicidal doesn’t mean she’s not slipping. Probably in part due to her isolation – waking up alone seemed to remind her how she screwed up with Jennifer, and despite hall sweethearts like Sierra and Agatha trying to include her, the fact that she’s RA definitionally sets her apart. Also from experience, singles can make it very easy for you to isolate yourself if your brain’s already being troublesome. Especially since symptoms of depression often include physical fatigue and exhaustion, so you might just think ‘oh, I’m a bit more tired than usual’ and not notice you’re taking four-hour afternoon naps and going to bed at 8 PM to sleep until 10 AM. Easier for a roommate to tell the door’s not just closed to study. (Not that that’s definitely going on with Ruth yet, but an example that someone who hasn’t trained their brain to recognize their early signs might miss.)

        • RassilonTDavros
          RassilonTDavros
          May 31, 2021 at 11:44 am | #

          “Also from experience, singles can make it very easy for you to isolate yourself if your brain’s already being troublesome”

          This. Seconded to hell and back.

          • Leah
            Leah
            June 3, 2021 at 4:27 pm | #

            Just came here to second that as soon as I read it. So… thirded?

      • Alanari
        Alanari
        May 31, 2021 at 1:11 am | #

        That is what alcohol is for an alcoholic. It can be difficult to deal with basically anything if you’re used do drown everything in alcohol.

  4. NotThatDrew
    NotThatDrew
    May 31, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Going for the Walkyverse Mike approach I see

  5. Kagimizu
    Kagimizu
    May 31, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    I know it’s humor, possibly self-depreciating, but I can’t help but be bothered by Ruth’s notion that it’s traditional for her to bully and insult her partners. Like I get it’s not so simple and she’s an overall good person, but describing it that way…

    • Kagimizu
      Kagimizu
      May 31, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      ….I feel like my icon is ironic given my post.

    • MrSmith
      MrSmith
      May 31, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

      Juries still out whether she is, overall, a good person

      • Samantha
        Samantha
        May 31, 2021 at 5:17 pm | #

        I think she is at heart a good person struggling with an unhealthy mental mindset she was lashing out due to her self loathing but felt bad about it and got much better quickly when helped but we see here she’s not recovered yet and it will be hard she definitely is worried about how she treats people

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          May 31, 2021 at 5:52 pm | #

          It depends on your definition of a good person, ’cause like, the nicest thing you can say about pre-character development Ruth is that she did her job sometimes in between focusing her abuse on Billie to the extent that the rest of the dorm never really dealt with it, to the point where Rachel apparently feels guilty she never stood up to Ruth for it.

          I don’t know what makes a truly good person, but to me a truly bad person who knowingly and systematically breaks down your safety and comfort for their own gain. That’s Blaine, that’s Clint, that’s Ross no matter what he told himself, and, well, that used to be Ruth.

          • Samantha
            Samantha
            June 1, 2021 at 7:06 am | #

            Th a ts fair but she also was pretty early on obviously felt bad about her worst tendencies and started improving quickly once she got some help which makes her seem less malicious and more sympathetic. She seems to have turned her abusive streak inward even more which is not a good thing. No one in this series is okay exactly accept Dinah and Sarah

        • MrSmith
          MrSmith
          May 31, 2021 at 6:12 pm | #

          In my country there is a belief that prisoners are “good people who’ve done bad things”, this idea is noble but extremely flawed

          You may have good intentions but if your actions are bad (or harmful or whatever) then you are a bad person, it doesn’t mean you can’t change but, for now, you are a bad person because you do bad things to people (mental illness aside)

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            May 31, 2021 at 6:47 pm | #

            It sounds like your country has it right more than you do. Prison exists to rehabilitate, not punish, and if a prison exists only for punishment, if it continues to punish you after you’ve left, then it doesn’t deserve to exist.

            Life ain’t so binary.

            • MrSmith
              MrSmith
              May 31, 2021 at 7:03 pm | #

              You are incorrect. Prisons are, in effect, time out.

              Saying prisons (or society) can force a criminals behaviour to change is like saying an addict can be forced to go clean

              It isn’t going to work, in most cases, because change only happens when the prisoner (or addict, in most cases both at the same time) wants to and chooses to change

              Also I work in my countries prisons as a Corrections Officer so this isn’t theory for me

              • Spencer
                Spencer
                May 31, 2021 at 7:23 pm | #

                It’s probably a good thing I didn’t say they can be forced to change, and if you don’t believe in rehabilitation you probably shouldn’t work in a prison.

                • MrSmith
                  MrSmith
                  May 31, 2021 at 7:32 pm | #

                  You probably shouldn’t tell someone that has been involved in riots, staff assualts and suicide attempts (and remained relatively unscathed) where they should or shouldn’t be working because I’ve earned the right, through time on the floor, to have the opinions I have

                  I didn’t say I don’t believe in rehabilitation. I said that without the prisoner wanting to and choosing to rehabilitate then rehabilitation won’t work

                  You can lead a horse to water maybe a cliche but it only became a cliche because of the element of truth to it

                  Yes you didn’t say they can be forced to change but the point I’m making is without the prisoners buy in rehabilitation, virtually, never happens

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  May 31, 2021 at 10:53 pm | #

                  You have the right to your own opinions and your experiences, but the data available says that Spencer is right and that rehabilitative approaches are more successful and that they lower reoffending rates. That’s why prison reform and prison abolition have both been picking up steam lately.

                • MrSmith
                  MrSmith
                  May 31, 2021 at 11:44 pm | #

                  “rehabilitative approaches are more successful and that they lower reoffending rates.”

                  Of course rehabilitative approaches are more successful than not rehabilitating.

                  That is not in dispute.

                  The point I’m trying to make is you can’t make someone rehabilitate that doesn’t want to.

                  You can make them sit in the chair, you can coerce them, you can use any number of inducements but you can’t make them learn it once they’re in the room

                  So yes if someone wants to rehabilitate and use the courses available then they’re less likely to reoffend but how do you make someone want to rehabilitate in the first place

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  June 1, 2021 at 1:09 am | #

                  You seem to be under the impression I’m talking about rehab being voluntarily undertaken. I’m referring to rehabilitative approaches given as part of a sentence, whether the person wants to do them or not. Those still have higher rates of success and cutting on re-offending than prison.

              • Yumi
                Yumi
                May 31, 2021 at 10:48 pm | #

                Hm, this is pretty yikes.

                Anyway, prisons are a mess. Here, at least, and it certainly sounds like it in your country too.

                • MrSmith
                  MrSmith
                  May 31, 2021 at 11:45 pm | #

                  They certainly are and its actually worse than people think

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      May 31, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

      I think its actually quite clear Ruth is a terrible girlfriend. That was never not canon.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        May 31, 2021 at 1:49 am | #

        I mean, it seemed like she was getting better, before Willis took Halloween away from us.

  6. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    May 31, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    I watched all of Cheers last year (because 2020), so I’m just gonna assume Jason is cutting up lemons or limes that will never get used in panel 3.

    It’s the go-to bartender stage business.

    • Dean
      Dean
      May 31, 2021 at 12:58 am | #

      That, or he’s polishing a glass that’s already clean

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      May 31, 2021 at 1:50 am | #

      NORM!

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        May 31, 2021 at 8:15 am | #

        Good afternoon Mister Peterson.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        May 31, 2021 at 9:59 am | #

        “How’s life treating you, Norm?”
        “Like a baby treats a diaper.”

        If you want more of the Cheers universe, try Wings. (Yeah, Frasier is also in the same universe, but it’s more of its own thing.) Fun fact: Cape Air still owns and operates the plane used to shoot the intro.

  7. Bagge
    Bagge
    May 31, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    Things are going… I don’t know what the right word is.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      May 31, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

      Inexorably forward through time?

      • Clif
        Clif
        May 31, 2021 at 12:46 am | #

        To hell in a handbasket?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        May 31, 2021 at 1:22 am | #

        Parallel to entropy.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      May 31, 2021 at 1:17 am | #

      Wibbly wobbly.

    • OBBWG
      OBBWG
      May 31, 2021 at 1:41 am | #

      blargh?

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        May 31, 2021 at 1:43 am | #

        That’s the one!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 31, 2021 at 10:00 am | #

      They were going okay-ish enough, but Ruth’s self-sabotaging inner voice of doubt won’t shut up.

  8. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    May 31, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    I think Booster was definitely on the nose about Ruth trying to play the part of herself and act like she did at the beginning of the year. She seems torn between acting like a version of herself she’s “comfortable” with, and trying to move on. Panel 5 gives me hope, but Panel 6 has me uncertain.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      May 31, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

      Booster tends to be on the nose, like generally

      • Otl1973
        Otl1973
        May 31, 2021 at 2:36 am | #

        Well, since Willis uses Booster as a Greek chorus, yeah…

        • Sombrero
          Sombrero
          May 31, 2021 at 5:34 am | #

          The old Greek chorus is dead (maybe), long live the new Greek chorus!

  9. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    May 31, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

    I don’t wanna fuck a nice person. I wanna fuck a real piece of shit.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      May 31, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

      (cue Lenny and Squiggy) — “Hello!”

      • StClair
        StClair
        May 31, 2021 at 12:37 am | #

        oh lord, it’s been I-don’t-wanna-think-how-many decades and I can still hear that line.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 31, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

      Ruth asks Daisy to roleplay a mean person.

      Daisy: “Grrr, I hate puppies. Watch me do littering. Is this working?”

      Ruth: “No, sorry.”

      Daisy: “Rats. Hey, you have a Maple Leafs poster, cool. Aren’t they actually kinda bad though?”

      Ruth: “TAKE ME NOW!”

      • Dean
        Dean
        May 31, 2021 at 1:15 am | #

        “….Wear the Dave Keon jersey, though.”

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      May 31, 2021 at 12:26 am | #

      So… anal?

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        May 31, 2021 at 1:30 am | #

        No, scatophilia.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          May 31, 2021 at 10:03 am | #

          Ruth’s foreplay involves her in a Leafs jersey and her partner in a jersey from whichever team that’s currently leading their division.

          2girls1stanleycup

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        May 31, 2021 at 4:54 am | #

        I thought you were supposed to clean up first, before you do that. Not that I would know.

        • Demoted Oblivious
          Demoted Oblivious
          May 31, 2021 at 8:19 am | #

          Hmmm.. I wasn’t really expecting an analysis, butt.. It’s presumably a bit tidier if you do (clean up first), but really it boils down to what’s desired and consented to between partners. And presumably the heat of the moment.

  10. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    May 31, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

    Go and get it…With Your Good Credit
    No limits…With Your Good Credit
    (Don’t Leave Home Withou~out It!)

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      May 31, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

      You don’t need no green to make your scene!

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      May 31, 2021 at 12:23 am | #

      You can get anything you seek,
      For a dollar down, and a dollar a week.

  11. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    May 31, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    There’s maybe four ways that this can go where everything works out nicely, tops – and something like 2¹² ways this is going to go completely to shit.

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      May 31, 2021 at 12:20 am | #

      So which Avenger has to die this time? Because I’m willing to sacrifice Hawkeye and maybe even a couple of Guardians if it’ll help Ruth out.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        May 31, 2021 at 12:39 am | #

        Let’s be real Strange was completely full of shit when he said there was one timeline where they won

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          May 31, 2021 at 12:54 am | #

          Is it really winning if he still has to put up with Tony Stark at the end of it?

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          May 31, 2021 at 4:56 am | #

          Yeah, he checked like twenty timelines, tops, and got bored right away.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          May 31, 2021 at 5:40 pm | #

          Yeah, he never considered the Ant-Man solution.

      • JBento
        JBento
        May 31, 2021 at 5:40 am | #

        I’m willing to sacrifice the entirety of the DC Murderverse, except Shazam!. And I don’t want anything in return.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      May 31, 2021 at 6:09 am | #

      Better odds than trying to win against Thanos then.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      May 31, 2021 at 8:33 am | #

      Ruth is drinking. This has already gone to the bad place.

  12. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    May 31, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

    Ruth, you don’t need to drink in order to be around Daisy. Even if this is just a one time thing, you can celebrate with her and not have to feel guilty.

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      May 31, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

      Ruth is apparently displeased this isn’t a train wreck that she can go yell at Billie about. She clearly didn’t come here expecting to like Daisy.

      • dralou
        dralou
        May 31, 2021 at 1:29 am | #

        Also, she didn’t expect Daisy to still be down for business. Ruth very clearly stated that she’d be awful for Daisy (both because she believes it and because she doesn’t want things to work out with her) and yet, Daisy is still there.

        It’s the second time that a woman is willing to give her a chance, while being forewarned of her shittiness. As Ruth said, “things are just different enough”. Last time had… mixed results, from what we’ve seen. Would it be the same with Daisy ?

  13. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    May 31, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

    I wonder if she had a crush on Rachael at some point.
    And did something fucked up in the prequel year.

    • MrSmith
      MrSmith
      May 31, 2021 at 12:23 am | #

      I would like to see Rachaels experiences with Ruth but also concurrently from Ruths pov (if that makes sense)

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      May 31, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

      Maybe? Might even have been reciprocated a little

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      May 31, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

      It was *two* years previously. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-10/01-birthday-pursuit/blankslate/

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      May 31, 2021 at 12:46 am | #

      Ruth has said that she and Jennifer found out together that Ruth is into girls, which would preclude a scenario of Ruth being attracted to Rachel two years previously.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        May 31, 2021 at 1:21 am | #

        Eh. Just because Ruth has some self-awareness doesn’t mean it’s complete.

        • RassilonTDavros
          RassilonTDavros
          May 31, 2021 at 11:29 am | #

          We also know that Ruth doesn’t remember her freshman year with Rachel due to memory loss.

          Not sure if there’s been any indication of Rachel being bi, but it’s not like there’s been anything flat-out saying she isn’t.

  14. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    May 31, 2021 at 12:22 am | #

    I’d honestly be down for both of them just doing shots and talking.

  15. BBCC
    BBCC
    May 31, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

    I say again – RUTH NO.

  16. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    May 31, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

    I’m betting $5 that she ends up having sex with Jason instead.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      May 31, 2021 at 12:44 am | #

      Well, based on Penny, he definitely doesn’t object to redheads.

    • Alex
      Alex
      May 31, 2021 at 3:36 pm | #

      I love Daisy but this is a way more interesting scenario to me.

  17. StClair
    StClair
    May 31, 2021 at 12:34 am | #

    and we are now firmly in “Ruth no” territory. 🙁

  18. Tawnee
    Tawnee
    May 31, 2021 at 1:04 am | #

    I recognise this. This is the ol’ “one is too many, two is not enough” as previously demonstrated by Vimes in the Discworld books.

    Ruth! Noooooooooooooooooooo!

  19. Kravis
    Kravis
    May 31, 2021 at 1:19 am | #

    But the only nice person in the whole campus is freakin’ Dina and she is otherwise “unavailable”.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      May 31, 2021 at 1:32 am | #

      Agatha’s pretty nice too, I hear.

      • JBento
        JBento
        May 31, 2021 at 5:42 am | #

        So are Sierra, Mandy, and Grace. And Lucy.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          May 31, 2021 at 10:08 am | #

          The pod people over in Forest seem okay too, just ignore Rose’s petty knife larceny.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      May 31, 2021 at 5:40 pm | #

      This is Lucy erasure.

  20. DSL
    DSL
    May 31, 2021 at 1:48 am | #

    “And by ‘Tab’ I mean the vile-tasting stuff in this vaguely magenta can that looks like it’s been sitting here behind the bar since the Carter Administration.”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 31, 2021 at 10:26 am | #

      It must have been, that stuff was discontinued way back in… *checks* DECEMBER?!

  21. carms
    carms
    May 31, 2021 at 1:57 am | #

    Dammit I forgot I was skipping todays post
    PEE QUICKLY DAISY

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 31, 2021 at 10:23 am | #

      Not the first time her bladder’s gotten in her way. (Remember her bonus strip that takes place during the Desanto rally?)

  22. Nono
    Nono
    May 31, 2021 at 4:08 am | #

    Did Ruth ‘bully’ her boyfriend in Canada, too?

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      May 31, 2021 at 5:36 am | #

      Things are slightly different in Canada, usually nicer.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        May 31, 2021 at 8:24 am | #

        It’s cool. They just played hockey together.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        May 31, 2021 at 8:28 am | #

        And it’s ok here, but we still have our fair share of assholes, criminals, rapists, murderers, business people, lawyers and politicians too.

        Why yes, that is an ordered list. And yes it goes from bad to worse.

        • Minu
          Minu
          May 31, 2021 at 9:49 am | #

          That list is not funny.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          May 31, 2021 at 10:24 am | #

          Why the repetition? You could’ve just said “politicians”.

  23. Keulen
    Keulen
    May 31, 2021 at 6:12 am | #

    Damn it Ruth you don’t need to drink to be with someone nice.

  24. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    May 31, 2021 at 6:26 am | #

    Maybe this is a good sign. Maybe Ruth is really starting to feel something for Daisy. Maybe this will be a whole new type of relationship for her♡. Let’s hope Daisy is not just horny and they would be happy together.

  25. Amos Batista
    Amos Batista
    May 31, 2021 at 9:18 am | #

    Alchoolism is a hell of a addiction…

  26. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    May 31, 2021 at 10:15 am | #

    “It’s like a hatedf–k, but I don’t hate her! Is there even a word for that?”

  27. Jhon
    Jhon
    May 31, 2021 at 12:23 pm | #

    I predict the date will go beautifully. But Ruth won’t remember any of it.
    The second date will be Daisy telling her all the best parts. (because journalism major)

  28. Samantha
    Samantha
    May 31, 2021 at 5:14 pm | #

    I am concerned we see that Ruth is better than she was *positive* she’s taking her meds and trying to move on even if poorly and clumsily but not doing super well *still using alcohol to cope* and some very worrying self-destructive talk im sad

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      May 31, 2021 at 7:27 pm | #

      Yes, Ruth is not nearly as “in recovery” as she claimed to be. I think Halloween will show that Ruth bullied and intimidated Billie a lot before the latter found out she was still drinking and thus a complete hypocrite.

  29. Moonie
    Moonie
    May 31, 2021 at 8:52 pm | #

    Can someone please explain to me the references to Halloween? I am confused!!! tia

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      May 31, 2021 at 9:09 pm | #

      There was a time skip and Billie broke up with Ruth over something that happened on Halloween.

  30. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    June 1, 2021 at 5:50 pm | #

    Technically “cheapest” is a superlative

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look a better question is why isn't EVERYTHING all angst-riddled queer women
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I don’t know who needs to see this beyond 99% of users here
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today in #9chickweedlane i learned we have to be shown children learning and relearning what sex is, for Reasons, even though they already clearly know and have prepared nuanced questions about it! also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
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one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
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hey, FANTASTIC FOUR got an Eisner nomination for best ongoing series!! I think this news is... really great! Fantastic even :0
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btw if you're one of those rando bluesky weirdos who doesn't know me but sees me in the wild being sarcastic and don't know i'm being sarcastic because you haven't taken like 30 seconds to, like, maybe look at my user profile or something, keep walking, you're not going to score internet points here
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Politico: Ever been slapped by breasts?
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Here's an entertaining cite at the bottom of the first page
The problems with this prosecution are legion, but most immediately, the
government cannot prosecute Judge Dugan because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her official acts. Immunity is not a defense to the prosecution to be determined later by a jury or court; it is an absolute bar to the prosecution at the outset. See Trump v. United States,
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