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Excellent revelations about Carla provided by this strip.
1) Has “mischief senses” that are 1000% more effective than her “does this person like me” senses.
2) Not only stole Jason’s book, carries it around just in case an opportunity to do a shenanigan with it happens.
3) Casual appreciation for Joyce’s assets. She may not remember unimportant info like your not-Carla-name, but she’ll gladly greet you via your relative cup size.
Yeah, that joke has been played before when Carla was talking to Ruth and Carla said “The one with the jugs” and Ruth was like “Well, yeah, if we’re gonna use descriptors that are gonna get me (re)fired” or something like that.
Also, Dorothy is “not-jugs” because of that one storyline where Carla was trying to figure out who was Joyce, thought she was Dorothy, and only realized her mistake when she remembered that time she made milk-jug-shoes for Joyce!
Shapeshifting Powder sounds so much cooler
Not interested in makeup personally, though I can appreciate the artistry people put into it.
But I assume it would feel like Uncomfortable Texture on Skin.
Misread as “shapeshifted into some cookies” your way makes more sense. Please don’t get eaten, unless you wish to (in which case, presumably “in the fun sense” is implied).
I’m not trans but I learned how to use makeup as disguise when I was in theater. Shave my beard and apply a little foundation and blush and I can look completely different. The beard does most of the work, but applying a darker color under my cheekbones and a paler cover over them and I lose 20 pounds visually.
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Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers
are proud to present
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Yesterday, it was just cigarettes and now Pikachu is already at a bong – my god, at this rate Ash start hiding the old Game Boy, or before he knows it Pikachu will be on Pokemon Crystal.
Ooooh my God I feel prescient because I just posted how much I want Carla to show up for a makeover montage. Yesssss this is good I want more of this plzkthx.
Yeah I feel like Joyce’s tracts of land are generally unappreciated when hidden under sweater vests. She does select her clothes to downplay her physical attributes; unsurprising given her upbringing but also prone to make us forget she’s stacked.
Maybe she knew someone back in high school with bigger ones, then moved on to Jennifer. And we definitely know she’d never looked at barely any non-Christian media so all her reference points are skewed.
I am loving this like, a lot actually. Great way to work Carla in, too, because holy shit is presentation a big deal in the trans community, more than most.
On panel 2 business, it really ruffles my jimmies how in the US you can own a car, a gun, and go get killed for oil in the middle east at 18, but booze? Too much of a child for booze.
To be fair, the drinking age thing was pushed by MADD in the late ’70s through early ’80s to reduce the number of young drunk drivers. It worked, but only by dint of correcting for the symptom (the confluence of inexperienced drivers and inexperienced drinkers in that age cohort at any given time) rather than trying to correct any of the underlying symptoms (mass reliance on individually owned vehicles due to poor public transportation infrastructure and civil design principles enshrined in law, an age ban making overindulgence of various intoxicants more of a right of passage to young people, etc)
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I did, aye. It’s a modified sprite from Final Fantasy 2 (I think the character is named Guy), changed into my usual alien avatar, Yff-At. I made it because my usual D&D group switched to a system called Fabula Ultima, which is designed to be a tabletop JRPG, and I was able to make basically the perfect character. The UFO is a wee little drone called the LFS Mk. VIII, which follows Yff-At around and zaps people for them.
Remember that Jugs is her subugject and a pathetic display like this would reflect badly on Carla. She’s not helping, she’s demonstrating her superiority to the bugs around her.
For all her misanthropic schtick Carla has a bit of a big sister streak, doesn’t she? Helping Amber with her head wound, jug-shoe engineering, assisting Joyce and Dorothy with these shenanigans. Of course, the first person to point this out will get a lemon meringue makeover…
This is a nice observation. She also repeatedly checked in on Ruth past obligation and noticed the severity of her suicidal crisis, then literally picked a protesting Billie up and dragged her over there to get Ruth help.
And with these two is confident that (a) they NEED her help to successfully achieve their intended shenanigans, (b) will put up very little opposition to her imposing it on them, (c) will appreciate it, (d) could well need her to go along as babysitter while they experience their drunken escapades… (She may be a bit hazy on the details but wasn’t she part of Sal’s motorbike rescue crew who turned up to help when they were kidnapped? And she now roller derbys with Amber. She definitely approves of Becky in a “the world needs more red-headed girls who love girls and make a noise about it” general way… I suspect under the layers of “I’m too cool to know who you are” – which are a self-defence mechanism – she may be somewhat protective of these “babies”!)
One theory is that’s part of why she wears skates so much – so people will attribute her height to the skates and won’t think so much about how tall she is.
Tall enough to look down on our pathetic not Carla beings, as she rains the pies of judgement on for us as punishment for our severe lack of awesomeness.
Initially I thought the Jugs name was pointed at Dorothy because of her beanie (it isn’t similar to Jughead’s crown cap but ehh, close enough?). Then I remembered the milk jug shoes.
actual comment on today’s strip: they borrowed Sal’s clothes with permission…right? right?
because taking someone’s clothes without asking is a fucking asshole thing to do
Like this is a different jacket, but I think we can assume she double-checked about borrowing more clothes off-panel, since Sal has definitely indicated it was okay in other contexts.
Re: poll
Joyce is hot, so it follows that shirt Joyce wears is hot. The shirt can only become hot when the wearer is hot. We’ve all seen people who can suck the hotness out of anything. In high school I had a math teacher who was probably in her 60’s. She liked to wear pink spandex tights. Not working so well for her.
Aye. I’m not saying that Joyce isn’t hot exactly, just that she’s at mid-level hotness. It’s a good foundation for hotness, only an asshole would say she doesn’t look great, but for perverse sexual lust, you need an outfit that’s more than just a simple tight-fitting, low-cut black shirt, and supreme self-confidence.
And you only know that you and most of the other high school students didn’t find the math teacher in the pink spandex tights very hot. Which is probably a good thing. But did the chemistry teacher? Or the gym teacher? or maybe she found _herself_ hot, and spent some alone time proving it. You don’t know what she got up to in her own time!
I don’t want to know what she got up to in her own time. My main issue was the appropriateness of the outfit for the setting. Teachers should not be going for the hot look. There are too many inappropriate relationships with students. And with weird restrictive dress codes at most schools, you should not wear outfits that students might get in trouble for if they wore the same thing.
Dunno, we had a dude always in a skirt, nobody bat an eye… Of course, that was Europe. In Asia dress codes are probably stricter than in the US – but at least consistent.
Idk, assuming that by “spandex tights”, you mean leggings, I live in leggings because they’re comfortable. I am not trying to be attractive.
Also, like, students should be allowed to wear leggings. Teachers who get uncomfortable about being able to more clearly see student bodies should try not looking. No sympathy whatsoever.
It’s really irritating that those filthy pervert puritans get to dictate who wears what. They’ve got nothing but lust on their minds, but they deflect it into everyone else and make it our problem. If you don’t want to see underage asscheeks, literally don’t look at them, like you said. They’re just telling on themselves constantly and yelling at everyone else for hearing them.
Ugh I don’t like the combination of words I would up with here.
My points were:
1. Most bra straps are boring. They’re just like visible tank top straps except for thickness.
2. Training bras or sports bras, the kind of thing most teens wear, are even more plain and indistinguishable from the straps on an undershirt except thickness and sometimes placement on the shoulder.
3. It is especially gross that this kind of policing happens to girls young enough to be wearing training bras specifically, but it absolutely does. Tweens and preteens DO get “dress coded” for visible training bra straps.
SO YEAH just kind of mashed thoughts about even most adult bra straps being visually boring into thoughts about training bras being especially a gross thing for adults to sexualize and wound up with a comment that implies training bras can EVER be provocative, ugh.
I do honestly wonder if Dorothy remembers that’s why Joyce is ‘Jugs’, given that while it’s a reasonable nickname it’s not as obvious as she seems to be implying here. Particularly since everyone in the strip where Carla explained it immediately leaped to ‘it’s because Joyce has bewbs hur hur’.
I wonder why she’s in socks. Only two possibilities I can think of. Either she was hanging out with Charlie in her room, like say on a bed, or she’s waiting on new ones because the old ones are starting to get too big.
I have multiple pairs of slipper socks. If I’m not going outside, I vastly prefer these to shoes.
Kinda wonder if it wasn’t specifically arranged here so that we can see Carla’s full height though, because the other two girls are both in shoes, so this really emphasizes how much taller Carla is.
(Aside from the actual horrible crimes) this is another reason I hate Cosby so much; he destroyed literally everything he ever did. MJ&S was a fun movie with some good moments and it goes in the bin with every other instance where he appears.
Don’t be a Cosby. One of the worst things I thought he did (before I learned he did much worse things), was he bought the rights to Lil Rascals so it would never be shown on tv again because he felt some characters were offensive. Don’t banish good things because a part of it offends you. Don’t be a Cosby.,
Amazing Carla. With her experience she will be able to make them succeed! But right now, I just hope they will meet Charlie in Carla’s room and be informed she’s Carla’s girlfriend. I want to see their reaction!
I love how the more they try to build up this artifice, the more datelike it starts to become. “Let’s go get drunk” has turned into “well obviously we have to choose sexy outfits to get booze” has turned into “well we better get our makeup done first”. Next up, they’ll get kicked out of the bar and decide to go get dinner instead, and why not catch something at the cinema while they’re at it?
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there are two types of people
Jugs and Not-Jugs
Jugs are really into hamburgers and never seem to open their eyes all the way.
And in case you haven’t noticed, they’re weird. They’re weirdos. They don’t fit in. And they don’t want to fit in.
I thought jugs were into eating foods which were not mixed up with other foods.
Jugs like to wear inverted fedoras with the brim cut to resemble a crown.
TIL I never knew Jughead was the inspiration for Indiana! Jones cousins ftw!
They also exude serious slacker vibe but are low-key smarter than everyone else in the room.
Inside you there are two wolves-
Inside you are two wolves. Mozart was a genius, he had like six or seven wolves. that’s why they called him Wolfgang.
Inside you there are two wolves-This is a serious medical emergency. Get to a hospital immediately.
Now say that again, but in Clint Eastwood’s voice ^^
Excellent revelations about Carla provided by this strip.
1) Has “mischief senses” that are 1000% more effective than her “does this person like me” senses.
2) Not only stole Jason’s book, carries it around just in case an opportunity to do a shenanigan with it happens.
3) Casual appreciation for Joyce’s assets. She may not remember unimportant info like your not-Carla-name, but she’ll gladly greet you via your relative cup size.
4) Makeup skills on-point?
“Jugs” may also refer to the fact that Carla made shower-shoes for Joyce out of empty milk jugs.
I was also going to make this joke, but the alt-text beat us both.
It’s not a joke if you are simply correctly identifying the callback.
It is, however, a knowing nod among people whose monocles do not pop out when Carla calls someone “Jugs”.
If Joyce and Dorothy had monocles would that help them get into a bar?
Archie’s friend is Jughead.
Dorothy’s friend is Jugfeet.
Joyce is quite insistent that she’s not a friend of Dorothy
What do you mean?
“Sorry we don’t cater to people who look like massive dorks. You’re better off at this place near campus called ‘The Herman B Wells Library’. Next!”
(Yes I looked up the name of the IU library just to make this comment.)
Would those be Single-Use Unlubricated Monocles?
…I feel that alt-text wasn’t there when I first read it.
I can say with relative certainty that it was.
Yeah, that joke has been played before when Carla was talking to Ruth and Carla said “The one with the jugs” and Ruth was like “Well, yeah, if we’re gonna use descriptors that are gonna get me (re)fired” or something like that.
Also, Dorothy is “not-jugs” because of that one storyline where Carla was trying to figure out who was Joyce, thought she was Dorothy, and only realized her mistake when she remembered that time she made milk-jug-shoes for Joyce!
1) Carla assumes everyone dislikes her and if they don’t yet they will soon.
3) Jugs is in reference to literal milk jug shoes
But deducing wherever the girl who hold her hand and smile at her and call herself her girlfriend likes her is beyond her ample skill.
4) we (transfemmes) tend to be well versed in the arts of the shapeshifting powder
Shapeshifting Powder sounds so much cooler
Not interested in makeup personally, though I can appreciate the artistry people put into it.
But I assume it would feel like Uncomfortable Texture on Skin.
Most makeup doesn’t feel like that, unless it’s theatrical makeup, or unless you use a lot of it.
I hope you’re talking about flour because that’s the only shapeshifting powder I have a hope in hell at achieving anything with.
Dangit now I wish I’d shapeshifted some into cookies today.
Misread as “shapeshifted into some cookies”
your way makes more sense. Please don’t get eaten, unless you wish to (in which case, presumably “in the fun sense” is implied).
Shh!
If the men find out we can shapeshift they are going to tell the church!
I’m not trans but I learned how to use makeup as disguise when I was in theater. Shave my beard and apply a little foundation and blush and I can look completely different. The beard does most of the work, but applying a darker color under my cheekbones and a paler cover over them and I lose 20 pounds visually.
Be careful with the shapeshifting powder: https://cohost.org/Lekon/post/1387198-where-the-animal-ear
2) Whe did she stole the book?
HELL YEAH CARLA APPEARANCE THIS IS A GOOD DAY.
She’s the best. And yes, grad school book is gonna help Dorothy.
Also it’s a relief that Juggs and not-Juggs are in good hands.
I agree that Carla is delightful
Joyce is definitely the jugs around anyone that’s not Jennifer.
or Amber. I think Amber has her beat.
She may need to wear her superhero boots to reach 5’5″, but in that regard I think you’re on the monet.
Get off the Monet quickly or it won’t be worth any money.
Do not be confused by the “Monet” autocorrect. My browsing and posting history includes a little art but is not that classy.
I had no idea Jennifer had issues with shower floors.
I mean, it’s because of the whole shower shoes thing, but I can’t exactly blame Dorothy for assuming the obvious :D.
Dorothy knows
Jesus christ did it take that long for a comic to be called “Jesus Christ”?
Yup. It’s Joyce who hasn’t heard it used as a nickname before.
(may never recover from Sarah’s face in that link though)
I can 100% buy that it skipped Dorothy’s mind in favor of the more obvious reference :P.
How is “Well, okay, if we’re going to use descriptions i can’t affirm without involving human resources” not a book title?
And any excuse to look at Sarah’s flabbergasted face there…
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Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers
are proud to present
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Holy shit, exactly the right girl to make this work found them.
The Jugs she referring to:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/framework/
Well, those are at least some of the jugs she’s referring to.
After all, the best references are multi-layered :D.
Yesterday, it was just cigarettes and now Pikachu is already at a bong – my god, at this rate Ash start hiding the old Game Boy, or before he knows it Pikachu will be on Pokemon Crystal.
Nah, Pikachu gonna try acid first XD
Ooooh my God I feel prescient because I just posted how much I want Carla to show up for a makeover montage. Yesssss this is good I want more of this plzkthx.
I guess now that opportunity will be given
God Joyce. It’s cuz of your big fat honkin’ huge titties. Don’t tell me you are somehow unaware.
I feel like even you, an artist who’s fantastic and generous with big fat honkin’ huge titties, can underestimate Joyce’s proportions
Yeah I feel like Joyce’s tracts of land are generally unappreciated when hidden under sweater vests. She does select her clothes to downplay her physical attributes; unsurprising given her upbringing but also prone to make us forget she’s stacked.
Maybe she knew someone back in high school with bigger ones, then moved on to Jennifer. And we definitely know she’d never looked at barely any non-Christian media so all her reference points are skewed.
“Titties”? Is that what you young whippersnappers are calling milk containers now?
Boobs have nothing to do with milk. Mammals don’t lactate.
I am loving this like, a lot actually. Great way to work Carla in, too, because holy shit is presentation a big deal in the trans community, more than most.
I remembered the milk jug shoes immediately.
Oh wait, you are totally right.
Panel 2 is a little like the comedy-and-tragedy masks that represent Legit Theatah
On panel 2 business, it really ruffles my jimmies how in the US you can own a car, a gun, and go get killed for oil in the middle east at 18, but booze? Too much of a child for booze.
You do not ruffle jimmies, you rustle them.
Yeah, it’s THAT bad.
To be fair, the drinking age thing was pushed by MADD in the late ’70s through early ’80s to reduce the number of young drunk drivers. It worked, but only by dint of correcting for the symptom (the confluence of inexperienced drivers and inexperienced drinkers in that age cohort at any given time) rather than trying to correct any of the underlying symptoms (mass reliance on individually owned vehicles due to poor public transportation infrastructure and civil design principles enshrined in law, an age ban making overindulgence of various intoxicants more of a right of passage to young people, etc)
I’ll always give Carla credit for not being an awful shit. Someday the positive reinforcement might work!
Not “bossbongos”?
I, too, assumed she was referring to the milk jug shoes.
Joyce, today you want to act recklessly, are you seriously going to question that?
I’m actually very excited about this Carla intervention
Hee, more makeover! :3
Julia Grey-ish (in color)? We’re gonna need some prescription sunglasses, or *shudders* contacts.
No, the makeup won’t be pies… hey is that grad school book about political science—
ooo new poll
…”I harbor perverse sexual lust”? sounds familiar.
“Bongobosses”?? I know Joyce uses “Bongo” to replace “the B-word” but nobody would say [B-word]Bosses. They’d just say Girlbosses.
‘Cause she’s the queen of bongo, baby.
She’s the queen of bongo boss.
Antichrist-a!
Bongoboss!
We know your weakness!
Our Rockin’ Sauce!
If you’re gonna misbehave, you’d better do it properly.
Also: JUGS JUGS JUGS JUGS JUGS JUGS JUGS
Also also: This is funnier if I imagine Carla speaking with a 70% decent Wexford County accent.
BTW fantastic avatar! did you make that
They hand assembled it, pixel by pixel.
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I did, aye. It’s a modified sprite from Final Fantasy 2 (I think the character is named Guy), changed into my usual alien avatar, Yff-At. I made it because my usual D&D group switched to a system called Fabula Ultima, which is designed to be a tabletop JRPG, and I was able to make basically the perfect character. The UFO is a wee little drone called the LFS Mk. VIII, which follows Yff-At around and zaps people for them.
Sounds like this is going to be an interesting night.
Hooray! Carla is on the case!
The scheme begins to snowball!
Zaniness: rising.
helpful carla is my favorite carla by far
Helpful? There is no reason to insult her.
She’s spreading mischief leading them into temptation and showing that’s she superior at it .
Remember that Jugs is her subugject and a pathetic display like this would reflect badly on Carla. She’s not helping, she’s demonstrating her superiority to the bugs around her.
Carla is Great and we are all bugs!
I thought the skates were a big part of Carla’s height, but I was clearly wrong.
I was just thinking where are her skates?
She’s enormous in every way. Height, ego, intellect, humility. She’s the most humble! She’s a million times more humble than you!
Imagine how obnoxious she’d be if she wasn’t so humble.
I knew there was something I liked about Carla.
For all her misanthropic schtick Carla has a bit of a big sister streak, doesn’t she? Helping Amber with her head wound, jug-shoe engineering, assisting Joyce and Dorothy with these shenanigans. Of course, the first person to point this out will get a lemon meringue makeover…
This is a nice observation. She also repeatedly checked in on Ruth past obligation and noticed the severity of her suicidal crisis, then literally picked a protesting Billie up and dragged her over there to get Ruth help.
(*Jennifer, retroactively)
Carla cares about others more than she feels like she can afford to let on.
And with these two is confident that (a) they NEED her help to successfully achieve their intended shenanigans, (b) will put up very little opposition to her imposing it on them, (c) will appreciate it, (d) could well need her to go along as babysitter while they experience their drunken escapades… (She may be a bit hazy on the details but wasn’t she part of Sal’s motorbike rescue crew who turned up to help when they were kidnapped? And she now roller derbys with Amber. She definitely approves of Becky in a “the world needs more red-headed girls who love girls and make a noise about it” general way… I suspect under the layers of “I’m too cool to know who you are” – which are a self-defence mechanism – she may be somewhat protective of these “babies”!)
Also Carla is at least moderately fond of Joyce as a person. She doesn’t make shower shoes for everyone!
Dear lord I forgot how tall Carla is
She’s a very attractive height.
She is exactly Carla-height, which is obviously the best possible height to be.
I don’t know why but I thought it was because she had skates on. But i’m happily suprised
One theory is that’s part of why she wears skates so much – so people will attribute her height to the skates and won’t think so much about how tall she is.
as the flashback strip tied to this one clearly shows
she is taller than SARAH
Tall enough to look down on our pathetic not Carla beings, as she rains the pies of judgement on for us as punishment for our severe lack of awesomeness.
Initially I thought the Jugs name was pointed at Dorothy because of her beanie (it isn’t similar to Jughead’s crown cap but ehh, close enough?). Then I remembered the milk jug shoes.
Jughead’s hat isn’t a beanie or a crown! It’s a fedora (or trilby) with the rim folded up and triangles cut out of it!
Dorothy’s hat looks like a regular toque with no pom-pom.
Not related to today’s strip, but I feel like Joyce drew this in her teenage years
https://shiftythrifting.com/post/746514491595964416/5-dollars-in-nj
Where the heck was she hiding that book?
Book space.
It’s adjacent to hammer space.
Here’s Ginrei pulling a rocket launcher out of her cleavage:
https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1673631
Jason’s bag, obviously. She says right there that she stole it from him.
That just raises further questions!
Look, she bought it from him, using the money she saved by stealing it.
suspended in the massive ponytail, obviously
–Dave, were it gelled straight up she’d be 8’6″
speaking of shoes, Joyce has close enough shoe size as Sal to wear her boots.
actual comment on today’s strip: they borrowed Sal’s clothes with permission…right? right?
because taking someone’s clothes without asking is a fucking asshole thing to do
Not going to search through to find it, but she has Sal’s permission.
It was right after the first kidnapping attempt where she chased down Toedad and punched him into prison.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/buds/
This is a silly comment.
I think Sal gave Joyce some of her clothes when they were both trying to be a little different.
Yup.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/teal/
Like this is a different jacket, but I think we can assume she double-checked about borrowing more clothes off-panel, since Sal has definitely indicated it was okay in other contexts.
Carla to the rescue! It is the way of my people. So many bathroom makeovers.
“More non-hanky-panky”,
yeah Carla really spelling it out XD
(comment #69, you know the drill)
Nice
Re: poll
Joyce is hot, so it follows that shirt Joyce wears is hot. The shirt can only become hot when the wearer is hot. We’ve all seen people who can suck the hotness out of anything. In high school I had a math teacher who was probably in her 60’s. She liked to wear pink spandex tights. Not working so well for her.
Aye. I’m not saying that Joyce isn’t hot exactly, just that she’s at mid-level hotness. It’s a good foundation for hotness, only an asshole would say she doesn’t look great, but for perverse sexual lust, you need an outfit that’s more than just a simple tight-fitting, low-cut black shirt, and supreme self-confidence.
I think you greatly underestimate people’s thresholds for perverse sexual lust.
That should probably be overestimate.
I’m sure Joe would disagree with your assertion
And you only know that you and most of the other high school students didn’t find the math teacher in the pink spandex tights very hot. Which is probably a good thing. But did the chemistry teacher? Or the gym teacher? or maybe she found _herself_ hot, and spent some alone time proving it. You don’t know what she got up to in her own time!
I don’t want to know what she got up to in her own time. My main issue was the appropriateness of the outfit for the setting. Teachers should not be going for the hot look. There are too many inappropriate relationships with students. And with weird restrictive dress codes at most schools, you should not wear outfits that students might get in trouble for if they wore the same thing.
Ah, America…
Like America’s the only country that polices the clothing of any kid who’s not a white cishet male from at least decent means.
Dunno, we had a dude always in a skirt, nobody bat an eye… Of course, that was Europe. In Asia dress codes are probably stricter than in the US – but at least consistent.
Japan at least does uniforms, which makes dress codes mostly unnecessary. (I’m not familiar enough with “all the rest of Asia” to generalize.)
Bold of you to assume there were other teachers.
“Working” for her?
Idk, assuming that by “spandex tights”, you mean leggings, I live in leggings because they’re comfortable. I am not trying to be attractive.
Also, like, students should be allowed to wear leggings. Teachers who get uncomfortable about being able to more clearly see student bodies should try not looking. No sympathy whatsoever.
It’s really irritating that those filthy pervert puritans get to dictate who wears what. They’ve got nothing but lust on their minds, but they deflect it into everyone else and make it our problem. If you don’t want to see underage asscheeks, literally don’t look at them, like you said. They’re just telling on themselves constantly and yelling at everyone else for hearing them.
Yeeeeeep.
The idea that visible bra straps on friggin TRAINING BRAS are inherently provocative is so incredibly creepy tbqh!!
Ugh I don’t like the combination of words I would up with here.
My points were:
1. Most bra straps are boring. They’re just like visible tank top straps except for thickness.
2. Training bras or sports bras, the kind of thing most teens wear, are even more plain and indistinguishable from the straps on an undershirt except thickness and sometimes placement on the shoulder.
3. It is especially gross that this kind of policing happens to girls young enough to be wearing training bras specifically, but it absolutely does. Tweens and preteens DO get “dress coded” for visible training bra straps.
SO YEAH just kind of mashed thoughts about even most adult bra straps being visually boring into thoughts about training bras being especially a gross thing for adults to sexualize and wound up with a comment that implies training bras can EVER be provocative, ugh.
Hey, so while we’re on the topic….
We’ve seen Joyce’s proportions, and we’ve seen Joyce’s moms proportions.
..Politely, is middle aged Joyce going to be kinda dummy thick?
I know Carla likes to look down on others but dang is she looking tall today.
She’s 6’3″.
I actually forgot about the milk jug shoes and honestly think that’d be a pretty reasonable reason for her to have that nickname lol
I do honestly wonder if Dorothy remembers that’s why Joyce is ‘Jugs’, given that while it’s a reasonable nickname it’s not as obvious as she seems to be implying here. Particularly since everyone in the strip where Carla explained it immediately leaped to ‘it’s because Joyce has bewbs hur hur’.
Dorothy was there for that explanation, so it’s likely she’d remember it. And her comment here to Joyce “You’ve got to know” seems to point that way.
But if you didn’t know about the milk jug shoes, what else would you assume?
Carla’s….
…helping???
Well, on paper this is helping them.
But knowing Carla, she probably has an ulterior motif. Oh screw it, I’m almost certain of it.
her ulterior motif is PIES
–Dave, and she’s gonna get them pie-eyed
I wonder why she’s in socks. Only two possibilities I can think of. Either she was hanging out with Charlie in her room, like say on a bed, or she’s waiting on new ones because the old ones are starting to get too big.
New socks?
3rd possibilty: many of the dorm residents go shoeless, unless they’re planning to go somewhere else.
4th: it’s easier to draw socks than shoes.
Counterpoint: socks without shoes is worse than either shoes or going barefoot.
but the only times we’ve seen her without her skates on is involving Charlie. I don’t think we even saw them off during the whole Mary fiasco.
I have multiple pairs of slipper socks. If I’m not going outside, I vastly prefer these to shoes.
Kinda wonder if it wasn’t specifically arranged here so that we can see Carla’s full height though, because the other two girls are both in shoes, so this really emphasizes how much taller Carla is.
Carla doesn’t have skates on and she’s still a FOOT taller than Jugs and not-Jugs!
Oh crap, they’re, I really meant to say they’re.
Every character in this strip is a she. Not a single they in sight.
We know who Jugs is. Carla is clearly Mother. That makes Dorothy Speed.
Ew, Cosby
(Aside from the actual horrible crimes) this is another reason I hate Cosby so much; he destroyed literally everything he ever did. MJ&S was a fun movie with some good moments and it goes in the bin with every other instance where he appears.
Don’t be a Cosby. One of the worst things I thought he did (before I learned he did much worse things), was he bought the rights to Lil Rascals so it would never be shown on tv again because he felt some characters were offensive. Don’t banish good things because a part of it offends you. Don’t be a Cosby.,
Let mommy Carla landle this~
…they’re totally gonna end up at Galasso’s, won’t they ?
If Carla doesn’t look like so young, I could call her Mom easily.
Willis, that bongobosses line, that might be my favorite sentence in this entire story. What an absolute treat.
The “first time making-up” trope…
Joyce is not behaving normally. Hog-tie her and call the poison hot line, somebody.
Joyce is jugs because Carla made her a pair of milk jug shoes. Why else?
Beaten by alt-text!
I find it funny that Dotty tried to quiet Joyce. What do you think Carla is gonna do? Stop you? Call the cops? HA! You don’t know Carla XD
There is absolutely no way Joyce would know.
Re: alt text’ Ah, yes, the milk jugs, of course, of course!
love the implication that carla just took that without knowledge she’d need it
Maybe they can trade the book for a couple of drinks. Just need the right bartender. Chekhov’s book.
The right bartender being Jason?
I never realized how tall Carla was. I thought it was just her rollerskates adding +5 to height.
Damn, what’s Carla been eating these days???
Food
us
:mission impossible theme:
I’m pleasantly surprised at this sequence of events!
But really, “Wait, why am I ‘jugs’?” as she sticks her chest out is just an excellent punchline.
She genuinely desn’t know.
It is a mystery
oh right, Joyce is also reacting to seeing the road not taken on facebook.
Amazing Carla. With her experience she will be able to make them succeed! But right now, I just hope they will meet Charlie in Carla’s room and be informed she’s Carla’s girlfriend. I want to see their reaction!
Re: the survey.
“I harbor perverse sexual lust” is winning! We’re (mostly) a bunch of self-aware perverts.
Has Carla always been a foot taller than everyone? She is an amazon!
In her own words, there’s a reason for that.
DAMMIT YOTO where’s the fanart??
You can’t rush ART.
I love Carla’s attitude here. “If you’re gonna do something wrong, at least do it right.”
Aww, Carla’s gonna get them dolled up for their date!
I love how the more they try to build up this artifice, the more datelike it starts to become. “Let’s go get drunk” has turned into “well obviously we have to choose sexy outfits to get booze” has turned into “well we better get our makeup done first”. Next up, they’ll get kicked out of the bar and decide to go get dinner instead, and why not catch something at the cinema while they’re at it?
i’ve never heard anyone using ‘pass muster’ as a phrase before let alone someone 18-20s lol
Is it me or has Carla mellowed a little since she got a girl friend?