Do you understand the depth and potential story and character growth the Sock x Jacob pairing has? It would destroy the fabric of this comic and reshape it! People see the vision!
I mean I don’t wanna hate. I just like Jennifer and shipped Jacob with Sarah. So this strip kinda stings. I predict things will get worse for me in the future though.
??? I didn’t even read that as a burn until you just mentioned it. Now I’m kind of questioning if it was mean spirited or not? I generally assume all comments are in good fun since I try my best for that even if I fail sometimes.
Makes sense. I do think the nature of jennifers arc is to probbbbably eventually come back around to to being more active in the story anyway, thanks specifically to this breakup, but its possible it’ll be a long road
Sexiled because her roomate, who unabashedly likes what she likes with no pretensions and has recently learned what self-esteem is, got to have her very first sexing with the hottest dude of Read Hall – on a single night, first try.
AND he actually wants to (and gets to) hang out with said roommate, out in the open, and do all the romantic mushy stuff Jennifer secretly craves and resents herself for wanting – The latter being why she was yo-yoing Asher so hard until she lost him: Babygirl is convinced she can only accept a honeymoon phase if it comes within a regular crash-and-burn cycle.
That’s why she and Ruth are perfect for each other (for better or worse), they just understand each other’s quirks well and eventually even started improving one another.
Yep in her mind Lucy cheated by going straight for the honeymoon phase without even having the courtesy of feeling extreme shame afterwards. curious how she’s going to try to explain herself to them.
It’s worth noting this is coming immediately after her relationship imploded. Granted, the relationship had clearly needed to end, and she’s still very blatantly in love with Ruth, who in turn has her own boyfriend, and now her ex has a dude, too, which Raidah basically told her about if I recall?
So, getting kicked out so Lucy could get her horn on and now the two being uber-sappy is going to be more obnoxious to her than it otherwise would be.
And a couple of days after the “I’ll go to church with you to make my not-particularly-religious parents stop being racist” shenanigans she had to put up with.
I doubt this has too much to do with Lucy and Jacob, and more with her own self-image about being the person who knows how things work being shattered once again when Asher simply ignored her and broke up, rather than changing and doing whatever she wanted to get back with her.
If Asher had gone back to her she’d probably riding her high horse about how her brooding angst-ridden relationship was more real than Lucy’s saccharine fling with Jacob.
But she’s the main character! Why wouldn’t Asher change everything about himself in pursuit of the moving goalposts in her passive-aggressive guessing game?
Jennifer just bombed her relationship on purpose because it reminded her of something she doesn’t like about herself. She was denied drama from it too.
Not only was she sexiled by the people she’s walking to class with, they’re also (to her) probably rubbing their healthiness and sincerity in her face because that’s something she can’t do.
i mean she was literally booted out of her room/sexiled, it’s fine as a comedic punchline/end to a strip but irl i would hope most roommates would be considerate enough to ask/text for some privacy lol but yeah it’d make more sense if sarah was skulking behind them at a distance and just silently fuming
to be fair Jennifer did previously give Lucy’s last bf that exact treatment unprompted and the last time Lucy tried to hook up in her room Jennifer deliberately stayed to cockblock them the last time Lucy was polite about it. I saw her being more forceful as her saying to Jennifer you will not ruin it for me this time.
They fucked. He put his penis inside of her vagina and then moved it around a bunch. She got her boobs out and he touched them on purpose. It’s canon and there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it.
Welp, Walky’s ex girlfriend along with Joyce’s ex attempt-at-home-wrecking/Sarah’s ex attempt-at-sharing-her-feelings are about to meet up with said Walky, Joyce, and Sarah so they can all go to class.
And this won’t be awkward at all, especially not because Walky saw Jacob’s Other Jacob in the shower once and can make a reasonable guess about where it’s been.
I was thinking that all the couples would meet up unknowingly to walk their significant others to class, leaving Sarah and Jennifer as the odd women out, but, looking through previous strips, I saw no confirmation of that potential drama.
not sure Radiahs group is even popular, Lucy thought it was because she looks up to Jennifer, besides her i don’t see anyone being impressed by them. Radiah wants it to be the students of elites clique but so far she’s doing a terrible job keeping people in.
Raidah is charismatic, manipulative, outgoing, has good grades, and knows some people with high-class connections outside of school. Also, she usually has at least one or two friends on hand to back her up at any given time. Most of the cast has at least a few of those qualities, but not all of them, and thus Raidah is able to present a much more convincing impression of “popularity” than anyone in the main cast!
Sure, there’s a pretty high TURNOVER in her group of minionsfriends, between Dana, Sarah, Jacob, Chan, Char, Asher, and (possibly) Jennifer, but that should be fine as long as she keep finding NEW suckerslonely people in need of a kind, supportive, group of friends with strong leadership and organization!
the more I think about Radiahs high turnover and the fact that she doesn’t have a single person from her own year besides Carl makes it even worse then I originally thought, apparently only people younger and less experienced at student networking then her are impressed with her and Carl.
My assumption is still that she’s still got the other two girls, but is keeping them at arm’s length from Asher & Jennifer because they’re not subtle enough to keep from spoiling the long con.
I was just thinking ‘Is there anyone other than Jacob’s roommate and Jacob’s occasional gym buddy who would have a problem with not hanging out with the happy couple any more?’
I don’t know if she can GET more irrational. From the lunch with Raidah where Jennifer spent the whole time being ashamed of Walky as a reminder of her childhood while at the same time desperately clinging to Walky as a reminder of her childhood and onward, she has seemed to me completely consumed by the irreconcilable difference between what she wants out of life (nerd stuff, the comfort of family relationships) and what she’s telling herself she wants (high status hobbies, drama and friends who will make her look important and cool).
To have your boyfriend stolen by a socially awkward nerd with depression whose first willing social interaction in probably months was hitting on your boyfriend XD
it was Jennifer that decided Asher wasn’t really her boyfriend so she cany have something she never had to begin with stolen. I know she flips back and forth but that was definitely what she communicated the last time to Asher.
Aw I actually find Lucy and Jacob’s dynamic really sweet, it’s nice to see them both with partners who actually joke around with them and they vibe well with. I really hope we get a plot line w/ them both
I’m liking the seeds this storyline is planting. Things are moving in a sort of visceral direction. Not car chase visceral, probably, but still pretty satisfying. Just from the potential!
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walk, accompanied by shame
i think she’d be more cranky than shameful but maybe asher dumped her via text versus face to face lol
She dumped Asher to his face actually.
@ nymph i thought that was more so like ‘act like a ”good” bf’ or so/some kinda bs game/’test ‘ or so versus “we’re through” but yeah
They’re the same picture.
well according to the majority vote you should be dating a SOCK, so yeah, “””shame””” XD
socks are very versatile! no shame in that 😀
I knew Sarah would never win the vote, but I can’t believe they both got beat by a sock.
Do you understand the depth and potential story and character growth the Sock x Jacob pairing has? It would destroy the fabric of this comic and reshape it! People see the vision!
Sock x Power Booster Rod
Better the sock than Lucy, as far as I’m concerned.
“Beat by a sock”
i just keep thinking of that ‘sock princess’ adventure time fan comci XD;
https://sabertoothwalrus.tumblr.com/post/727767214231552000/i-wanted-to-revisit-sock-princess
I have no regrets for voting for the sock. He wouldn’t be saying shit like “my walk of blessed privilege” to a sock.
He’d be saying “my walk of this is kind of warm and squishy, ew”.
I just keep losing. Almost every part of this strip seems designed to hurt me personally.
How so? If you don’t mind me asking.
I’m guessing relationship problems, or lack of relationship may be the case.
Both haha
I mean I don’t wanna hate. I just like Jennifer and shipped Jacob with Sarah. So this strip kinda stings. I predict things will get worse for me in the future though.
Them’s the breaks.
Thanks for sharing.
PS.
What the heck did you do to piss off Kyrik? They just came in swinging!
??? I didn’t even read that as a burn until you just mentioned it. Now I’m kind of questioning if it was mean spirited or not? I generally assume all comments are in good fun since I try my best for that even if I fail sometimes.
Yeah. I think it’s just that you come across as so earnest that I hurt you personally.
*sigh* that IT hurt you personally.
on the plus side, Sarah’s spared from hearing the phrase “walk of blessed privilege”.
I don’t really get his dig at Jennifer. All I see is her reasonable mood for a January morning.
Makes sense. I do think the nature of jennifers arc is to probbbbably eventually come back around to to being more active in the story anyway, thanks specifically to this breakup, but its possible it’ll be a long road
I can’t recall off the top of my head why Jennifer would be stewing.
Is it because Asher isn’t begging for her forgiveness? Or is it the sexile?
she’s frustrated she can’t beat Asher’s high score in the breakup game
Asher played games and got game last night (in-universe). Unbeatable combo.
¿Por que no los dos?
Sexiled because her roomate, who unabashedly likes what she likes with no pretensions and has recently learned what self-esteem is, got to have her very first sexing with the hottest dude of Read Hall – on a single night, first try.
AND he actually wants to (and gets to) hang out with said roommate, out in the open, and do all the romantic mushy stuff Jennifer secretly craves and resents herself for wanting – The latter being why she was yo-yoing Asher so hard until she lost him: Babygirl is convinced she can only accept a honeymoon phase if it comes within a regular crash-and-burn cycle.
Hit the nail in the head. I love this little trainwreck of a human being.
That’s why she and Ruth are perfect for each other (for better or worse), they just understand each other’s quirks well and eventually even started improving one another.
Yep in her mind Lucy cheated by going straight for the honeymoon phase without even having the courtesy of feeling extreme shame afterwards. curious how she’s going to try to explain herself to them.
Gravitar checks out.
I am assuming that her mood is not going to get better once she finds out about Asher and Ethan. But she 100% dug her own grave there.
Because Danny/Sal beat her in beating Amber in Super Mario.
Both. AND she’s upset that Lucy and Jacob are HAPPY.
It’s morning and cold, and her annoying roommate is still annoying.
Alright you two, tone back down the sweetness before you give everyone diabetes; especially Jennifer.
No, no I think they should amp it up. It might make people who are weird about them to leave.
In comic or irl?
Yes.
Seeth harder Jennifer!
It’s not a Walk of Shame unless you’re dressed in good quality eveningware in a terribly muddled and disheveled state. It’s just not.
Extra points, naturally, for a hangover.
Don’t forget There’s Something About Mary hair.
That is very detailed background in panel one. I hope Mr. Willis gets to reuse it, as all that work for one panel just seems cruel.
It used up all the scenery budget for the last panel, apparently.
Or maybe Jennifer is seething so much that she’s just surrounded by a white-hot corona of rage.
I assume panel 5’s blank background is so the distance between her and them could be abbreviated, she’s like 10x as far back in panel 1.
common Jennifer L
I’ve got to say, Jennifer’s reaction is WEIRD. Even for her.
Why is she taking this so damn personally?
Have you meet Jennifer? She takes EVERYTHING personally.
It’s worth noting this is coming immediately after her relationship imploded. Granted, the relationship had clearly needed to end, and she’s still very blatantly in love with Ruth, who in turn has her own boyfriend, and now her ex has a dude, too, which Raidah basically told her about if I recall?
So, getting kicked out so Lucy could get her horn on and now the two being uber-sappy is going to be more obnoxious to her than it otherwise would be.
And a couple of days after the “I’ll go to church with you to make my not-particularly-religious parents stop being racist” shenanigans she had to put up with.
I doubt this has too much to do with Lucy and Jacob, and more with her own self-image about being the person who knows how things work being shattered once again when Asher simply ignored her and broke up, rather than changing and doing whatever she wanted to get back with her.
If Asher had gone back to her she’d probably riding her high horse about how her brooding angst-ridden relationship was more real than Lucy’s saccharine fling with Jacob.
But she’s the main character! Why wouldn’t Asher change everything about himself in pursuit of the moving goalposts in her passive-aggressive guessing game?
Jennifer just bombed her relationship on purpose because it reminded her of something she doesn’t like about herself. She was denied drama from it too.
Not only was she sexiled by the people she’s walking to class with, they’re also (to her) probably rubbing their healthiness and sincerity in her face because that’s something she can’t do.
she’s also bitter because in her mind theres a hierarchy of who gets the hot guys first and Lucy totally cut in line!
It is absolutely savaging her conceptualization of “hot people” and “nerds” to watch her roommate score a total fucking hunk, yes.
Billie crawling through the microwave hallway, except the microwave emitters are people who live outside her bizarre perception of reality
i mean she was literally booted out of her room/sexiled, it’s fine as a comedic punchline/end to a strip but irl i would hope most roommates would be considerate enough to ask/text for some privacy lol but yeah it’d make more sense if sarah was skulking behind them at a distance and just silently fuming
to be fair Jennifer did previously give Lucy’s last bf that exact treatment unprompted and the last time Lucy tried to hook up in her room Jennifer deliberately stayed to cockblock them the last time Lucy was polite about it. I saw her being more forceful as her saying to Jennifer you will not ruin it for me this time.
I’m too broke for the porn patreon, are these two banging yet or just at the hand/mouth stage?
I mean, there was a ad of the Slipshine on the blog showing them fucking.
Technically, it’s a one-page splash, not a “proper” Slipshine.
But it definitely confirmed coitus, nonetheless.
I am subscribed, and they had intercourse, yes.
They fucked. He put his penis inside of her vagina and then moved it around a bunch. She got her boobs out and he touched them on purpose. It’s canon and there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it.
This is so explicit. My poor eyes. Reported for writing kinky fanfic on site.
He put his sex in her sex and they had sex.
Welp, Walky’s ex girlfriend along with Joyce’s ex attempt-at-home-wrecking/Sarah’s ex attempt-at-sharing-her-feelings are about to meet up with said Walky, Joyce, and Sarah so they can all go to class.
And this won’t be awkward at all, especially not because Walky saw Jacob’s Other Jacob in the shower once and can make a reasonable guess about where it’s been.
Dang son whoa
These two flirting is very good for my soul.
It is kind of cute. And very sappy.
Sometimes sappy is exactly what you need.
I was thinking that all the couples would meet up unknowingly to walk their significant others to class, leaving Sarah and Jennifer as the odd women out, but, looking through previous strips, I saw no confirmation of that potential drama.
I mean, Walky’s still working on getting Dorothy to go to class…
bwahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahha they’re so cute together
Who’s the chick behind them?
I don’t know, but they look like they have issues.
Mike.
I think that’s Jennifer, the earthling formerly known as “Billy”.
That’s one of Raidah’s friends.
Maybe Jacob is faceblind, he met Lucy’s roommate. twice.
Yeah? He didn’t imply he didn’t know her, he just call her Lucy’s friend.
By friends, does she mean Raidah’s group?
“Raidah’s group.” That’s like one guy at this point. I don’t get how she got that popular status when the main cast group is much bigger.
not sure Radiahs group is even popular, Lucy thought it was because she looks up to Jennifer, besides her i don’t see anyone being impressed by them. Radiah wants it to be the students of elites clique but so far she’s doing a terrible job keeping people in.
probably because it’s immediately obvious she and everyone she hangs out with are kinda terrible
Raidah is charismatic, manipulative, outgoing, has good grades, and knows some people with high-class connections outside of school. Also, she usually has at least one or two friends on hand to back her up at any given time. Most of the cast has at least a few of those qualities, but not all of them, and thus Raidah is able to present a much more convincing impression of “popularity” than anyone in the main cast!
Sure, there’s a pretty high TURNOVER in her group of
minionsfriends, between Dana, Sarah, Jacob, Chan, Char, Asher, and (possibly) Jennifer, but that should be fine as long as she keep finding NEWsuckerslonely people in need of a kind, supportive, group of friends with strong leadership and organization!the more I think about Radiahs high turnover and the fact that she doesn’t have a single person from her own year besides Carl makes it even worse then I originally thought, apparently only people younger and less experienced at student networking then her are impressed with her and Carl.
My assumption is still that she’s still got the other two girls, but is keeping them at arm’s length from Asher & Jennifer because they’re not subtle enough to keep from spoiling the long con.
I think she means Joyce-Sarah-Walky, which will not be awkward AT ALL.
Let’s not forget that it’d also include Sarah…
Oh, best grav for that. lol
omg Raidah is going to burst a blood vessel.
Careful Jacob, you might change your tune once you guys get to the dorm and Jennifer finds out her new relationship status.
“Walk of Shame” was always a dumb phrase but I’m sorry “Walk of Blessed Privilege” is just dripping with goopy syrup, ick.
And I am eating it up!
Note: Please do not ingest the goopy syrup. Goopy syrup contains lead and carcinogens.
u repeat urself
I didn’t realize that shame was a finite resource.
Don’t think that’s shame, looks more like irritation
Challenge: Name someone in Lucy’s “other friends” that they’re going to meet up with who is on friendlier terms with Lucy than with Jacob.
I was just thinking ‘Is there anyone other than Jacob’s roommate and Jacob’s occasional gym buddy who would have a problem with not hanging out with the happy couple any more?’
Is Billie getting even more messed up and irrational?
That’s what tends to happen when you are 18 and think your emotions have peaked.
but but she has so much more adult experience and social clout then Lucy!! is probably what Jenniferis thinking.
It would help if most of those adult experiences weren’t bad decisions she made XD
I don’t know if she can GET more irrational. From the lunch with Raidah where Jennifer spent the whole time being ashamed of Walky as a reminder of her childhood while at the same time desperately clinging to Walky as a reminder of her childhood and onward, she has seemed to me completely consumed by the irreconcilable difference between what she wants out of life (nerd stuff, the comfort of family relationships) and what she’s telling herself she wants (high status hobbies, drama and friends who will make her look important and cool).
She’s walking down a sidewalk.
Damn women, always walking on concrete.
To have your boyfriend stolen by a socially awkward nerd with depression whose first willing social interaction in probably months was hitting on your boyfriend XD
it was Jennifer that decided Asher wasn’t really her boyfriend so she cany have something she never had to begin with stolen. I know she flips back and forth but that was definitely what she communicated the last time to Asher.
Cool, let’s meet up with Lucy’s ex and probably also Jennifer’s ex. Whose new boyfriend is the roommate is Lucy’s new boyfriend.
This has good potential. I like it.
Why stop there? let’s also have a chance meeting with Jacob’s ex too!
This sex group is getting inbred. All the babies will be born with two heads.
Finally, Dumbing of Age will have some Blessed Siblings representation.
The family tree is slowly becoming a wreath.
Aw I actually find Lucy and Jacob’s dynamic really sweet, it’s nice to see them both with partners who actually joke around with them and they vibe well with. I really hope we get a plot line w/ them both
Me too.
I’m happy for them but this is so sappy gives me the ick lol
Jennifer is still seething about the crimes of Taco Bell
I’m liking the seeds this storyline is planting. Things are moving in a sort of visceral direction. Not car chase visceral, probably, but still pretty satisfying. Just from the potential!
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Uh, there was a mirror behind me and my reflection died, but I’m still around? Is that how it’s supposed to work?
i don’t know how that happened, what happened to your reflection may have been a hallucination or something
i dunno i just pissed rn and sippin at booze
also PayPal management should fuckin expect gorilla shit in their mail box
Amém, Insha’Allah, Asé … let it be, Satan do you goddam work