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Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.
Good for them
Wait for it.
IKR?
The ghost of Toe Dad about to burst through the window and kidnap Joe or something
I come from a comic one day from now. Right thought. Wrong digit.
Awwww the romance
Welp, I admit I was wrong. Guess we’re doing this.
Is this still Paramore? What’s the funniest Paramore song this could be soundtracked too.
Hard Times
Misery business
Misery Business
Pressure
Let the flames begin
Or, ironically, Ain’t it Fun
Though Hard Times and Misery Business definitely are great choices too!
For real. No shoes in bed
A beautiful night culminates in something absolutely wonderful. 🥲
*plays “Beautiful Fantasy” from Sailor Moon Music CD on hacked muzak*
I really, really hope this goes well for them and that she doesn’t have a mid-act hang up. I want them to be happy.
…that was supposed to be its own comment and not a reply, but oh well!
would honestly be more worried about Joe having the hang-up
if joe needs emotional reassurance mid-pankying i think we might get an entirely new type of Joyce Face
I feel like, between them, Joe might be more likely to hit the breaks, though right now, he certainly doesn’t seem apt to.
I was thinking Joe would be more likely to try to slow things down, but he certainly doesn’t seem to be doing that and I think he’d be more likely to do it early.
I could still see Joyce panicking in the middle, which Joe isn’t likely to.
Counterpoint: There’s a lot of kissing and holding and not a lot of clothes off — in some sense, this IS slowing things down (in the sense of “a lot of foreplay is also a lot of time for everyone to decided where and if they want to put on the brakes before any escalations”).
yea this
slipshine away!
NEW ON SLIPSHINE! ~<3
The moment Willis makes the announcement I am reinstating my subscription
Reinstate Slipshine Subscription speedrun any% XD
The Other Patreon is also a good choice.
The hankiest of pankies!
You know the nearer your destination, the more your slipshining away.
You’re…..
This is really off to a good start.
I have a feeling it’s going to fail, but I can’t figure out why
Either
A. Joyce is having a good time but is suddenly triggered thinking about Roofie McStabbed-By-Amber guy. Its not Joe’s fault but he clumsily thinks it is and his attempts of helping Joyce fuck up because he thinks she’s having a Jesus-y Cult breakdown and not a Attempted SA Trauma breakdown. (Was thinking of that time Joyce had a sex dream of Ethan only for him to turn into Roofie guy so there is precedent).
B. Joyce actually DOES have a moments hesitation because of her upbringing and Joe internalises her asking him to wait a sec that he ends up psyching both of them out of it. He’s trying too hard to be supportive and accommodating for her first time but is also thinking back to Sarah’s sister and what Dina said about her time with Becky he’s clearly projecting and terrified.
C. Joyce says Dorothys name during and Joe puts two and two together.
God C would be peak Damn You Willis.
I’m hoping for C
I want good things for Joe but dammit I know this’ll go wrong somehow and it NEEDS to be C
C is the least dangerous option, I’m also here for C
Nah, *peak* damn you Willis is she doesn’t think about Dotty at all in the moment, and we cut away to Dotty crying for maximum emotional damage.
This seems likely. Joyce has been gearing up to this for a while.
I think Dorothy musical choices are going to keep making it weird
Nah. Peak Damn You Willis is we cut away after at most one more strip, we go watch Carla or Booster antics for awhile, and then when we FINALLY cut back to these two, they’re acting all strange and weird and distant, and we don’t find out why ’til 2026.
D: Joe gets too up in his head about doing this with someone he actually cares about leading to little Joe not being up to the task at hand.
Choice D is that he can’t give her the D. Wow
I think it’s this one. Maybe not “someone he actually cares about” so much as it being about her pUrItY / upbringing / the stuff he discussed with Roz / him hearing Liz saying “I almost ruined myself forever”. Even though obviously the Joyce/Dorothy tease is the most recent thing and freshest in the reader’s mind, I feel like we’ve really been building towards the Joe Gets In His Head stuff.
E: Everything gets derailed when they hear rustling in the closet, only to find Dorothy hiding within.
Nah, I’m fully expecting the next strip to cut away to her being miserable at the apex of the buildup of Joe/Joyce banging. It’s been almost a couple days since the last Damn You Willis.
G: Everything gets derailed when they see Dorothy under the quilts, taking notes on what Joyce likes so she can give tips later on
F: (which i think we missed) As they roll over, Mike is there in the bed with them.
(i’ll let you decide whether he’s alive or dead)
You can only have Mike if someone’s mom is there too
Well, after the Amazi-condom breaks/slips when Mike’s presence startles Joe into an unfortunate movement, someone’s mom WILL be there….
corpse!Mike is in the bed, and ghost!Mike is sitting at the desk grading their performance
H: Joe says Dorothy’s name during it.
I: They both say Dorothy’s name during it, at the same time, but then they just decide to go with it and save the issues for later.
Hey, I’m still holding out for a truck comes smashing through the wall and destroys the Monkey Master poster.
Eh. Joe’s gonna hit his head on the ceiling and wake up an amnesiac regressed version of himself.
It’s pretty obvious, guys. His hair is scrapin’ the popcorn off, look at how close the ceiling is!!
There’s also option E.
Dorothy is in the bottom bunk and joins in
I’m a little worried the music is gonna make Joyce think of Dorothy immediately before (or during!) sex. I’m hoping it doesn’t, though!
Because it’s the start of a chapter, not the end of one, and if were going to cut away to after sex it’d be more reasonable to have that be a chapter end.
I give it a 50/50.
since Joyce got -0 sex education, I wonder if she will say that they don’t need a condom, since she’s on birth control.
It feels like Joe would get tested regularly and being a virgin Joyce is unlikely to have been exposed to anything so the only likely risk is pregnancy and if she’s been taking her pills properly . . . well the pill and a condom are better than just the pill but unless Joyce has fucked up somewhere the last statistics I’m aware of are that the difference in contraception between the pill (taken properly) and a condom and just the pill is pretty much a statistical blip.
Yeah, the key for both of those it the “if used properly” part. Using both covers for mistakes in either one.
Depends on what kind of statistics you’re doing. A 1% failure rate can be a statistical blip compared to a 0.01% rate, but a hundredfold increase
NGL I don’t think Joe would accept. I know they’re 18 and the idea of hitting it raw might prove overwhelming and yet Joe is on par with Roz in my head with “people who would have unsafe sex” (as in. they wouldn’t.)
Joe is really concerned about doing right by Joyce.
I don’t think she would’ve mentioned condoms to Dorothy if she were planning on raw dogging it.
Plus Joe still has the Amazi-condom.
That Amber poked a hole into as part of her 4d chess game to get everyone to fuck each other!!!
…Okay, definitely not. But it’d be fun, right?
Kind of a shitty plan, if it requires a sabotaged condom.
The sexiest sweatervest worked!
How could it not? It screams intelligence, but has multiple drawing the eyes to a vibrant pink target over her heart (and cleavage).
Honestly, I’m not sure how she can be so shameless as to wear that in public.
Oh, I’d assumed Nono was referring to Joe’s sweatervest.
Now it’s the sweatiest sexervest
it’s always a threesome: you, the other person, and jesus
“and when you looked back and saw only one wet spot on the bed, that was me sleeping in it for you”
Thanks, now I can’t un-read that
Bahahaha! +1
Whoa! That Jesus guy _really_ sleeps around!
I wish we could post images so I could respond with the Spongebob “That’s Hilarious/That’s Fucked Up” meme.
I’m pretty sure Joyce is not yet ready to be spit roasted, but I’m sure Jesus can stand by patiently for when she’s ready.
Occurs to me Jesus has a really frustrated sex life. Been waiting 2,000+ years for a second coming?
Ahhh life’s truest hedonistic pleasure: screen time.
Hey it can be a very slim Jesus.
Emaciated and anemic, even.
Exsanguinated?
please stand up?
I guess this is one way to get her brain to imprint that as her new favorite music.
I’m equal parts happy for Joe/Joyce, and excited for the nsfw content.
Forget Jesus, what about Sarah?
I bet Tony offered to let her stay over with him instead of being sexiled. He seems chill like that.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/03-me-and-who-you-say-i-was-yesterday/all-right/ Sarah already has plans to stay the night with Tony, so Sarah’s definitely all good!
But what about Beef, then?
*grunt*
Beef presumably went back to his room once the game was over.
This was excellent timing with Sarah being over at Tony’s. Nobody had to sexile anyone, and Joe didn’t even have to deploy The Doorknob Sock.
Oh thank god, I really thought we were gonna drag it out for 10 more strips when Amazi-Girl showed up at the Gazeebo
alskfjlsk Is that Dorothy’s playlist? World’s most circuitous threesome
That is absolutely Dorothy’s playlist.
Surely Joe had his own sex playlist and they are not listening to Paramore. I cannot imagine fucking to Still Into You.
At least that’s a romantic one
Too much of a bop for fornication!
What’s your favorite music for the occasion?
In my younger days I was always partial to Bond music.
Friend of mine has used Prince music all his adult life.
Trip Hop hits the right beats and is sexy without being too intrusive
Jet Set Radio Future soundtrack, when it’s time for a severe fuck.
I suppose that’s one way to make a statement of intent, though it probably makes a difference whether it’s more “the concept of love” or “shut up and eat”.
Both are excellent and both are played.
Understand, understand
Understand understand
Understand understand
Understand the concept of love, OOF
For those seeking to elevate their funtimes, here’s the vid.
https://youtu.be/ugo6ASPVu9g
Did it once to Carnival of the Animals and that is very confidence inspiring on the crescendos.
Laibach? Honestly I’m not sure, but definitely not the douchebro with the acoustic having a porch party next door just outside my frickin window.
there was one girl in college who’d put on Dead Can Dance, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, or Medieval Babes, and my contribution was Bauhaus, Siouxie and the Banshees, or Type O Negative
Isochronic tones and solfeggio frequencies, said to induce Alpha wave activity.
Sorry, that came across as creepy. I just mean, for cuddle time, cuddle-sensitive auditory brainwave stimulation can help me stay present in the moment.
I gotta say, though, the Fauré Requiem, especially the Pie Jesu movement, is the SEXIEST groove I have heard in a long time.
Not even Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana movement, “Veni, veni veni venias,” (which translates roughly to, “Come come baby, baby baby, come come…” is as sultry and exciting.
Damn, we got Sephiroth lyrics in the chat.
Sephiroth? I was thinking K7…
Oh, OK, got it. Orff’s lyrics. Not K7’s.
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/One-Winged_Angel_(theme)
(Meant to be a 2nd reply to Taffy.)
I’m not really a fan of music during sex– very possible I’ll just get distracted by it.
There’s a couple of slow versions of “Still Into You” that are supposed to be like, wedding-first-dance ballads. Those could be fuckworthy.
Joyce and Dorothy were listening to this playlist. One of these songs will reminder her of Dorothy.
This is how I’m seeing it, yeah. On some level, associating sex with Dorothy.
Dorothy truly is insidious. She picked Joyce’s sweater-vest to ensure maximum fuckitude, and now she’s using operant conditioning to brainwash joyce into sex.
Monkey Master should also be tagged, but he’s not going anywhere.
I agree with this.
Dorothy watching from the closet (pun intended): Why did I do this this was not a good idea
I do not believe room for Jesus will be left (though we might need paysite nfsw strips to prove this). Good thing, too.
I immediately checked the tags for Dorothy and was disappointed.
The question is, when she shouts Dorothy’s name later on, will she be tagged? Or will it only be when Dorothy crawls out from under the bed?
Is it wrong I hope Sara is walking in and just deadpans “Called it” before walking back out?
Not wrong, but unlikely since she’s staying the night with Tony.
Follow-up: How murderous will the Joyce/Dorothy shippers get if the scene concludes with no mention of Dottie?
I mean, I’m kinda expecting it to? We already had a record scratch with Dotty, I doubt Willis is going to go to that well again right away, and Joyce seems to have successfully blocked Dotty out of her mind for the date. Honestly as soon as Joe showed up and Joyce lunged into his arms for smooches right in front of Dorothy moments after THAT, I was resigned to at least six months of angst before anything is resolved with this situation.
more likely to get Dorothy imploding her relationship with Walky first. If she decides to continue to obsess over Joyce.
Yeah, I mean, narratively, I feel like Dotty/Joyce is pretty likely to happen at some point, their relationship is too central to the series to just evaporate, and Dotty definitely has it too bad for them to easily transition back to being just friends. When it was possible that Joyce wouldn’t reciprocate and Dotty was staring down the barrel of being Becky 2.0, I think it would’ve been possible for Dotty to grow past her crush and move on and still be friends with Joyce, but after that bed scene, my money’s on those two being endgame.
But only after a looooot of angst.
unless she decides her best course of action is to remove herself from the situation, and this is the impetus for her accepting Yale.
I’m looking forward to Joyce/Dorothy and not worried about it! The feelings are clearly there, and there’s more drama if we get to see Joyce having a happy relationship with Joe first while Dorothy slowly dies inside.
Well, 0%, since the word you chose was “murderous” and not like “angry” or “hurt” or “betrayed”. SuperCorp is easily the most militant f/f fandom I’ve ever seen and they still didn’t threaten to kill anyone (to my knowledge, lol!). Maybe someday? The more normal it gets for f/f and m/m to actually Be Canon in media, the more shippers of those things will come to expect them, and be as weird and rude about it as shippers of m/f.
(Which is to say, most of them will still be polite and normal instead, but the fringe will look more like the fringe of m/f shippers than it currently does. We’re not better, we’re just waaaaaay more used to disappointment on average.)
Speaking for myself: don’t confuse my attempts at predicting the wend and weft of Willis’s narrative with entitlement to any particular outcome. I think there’s another shoe here, but I’m not gonna be like…….. mad if it isn’t one of the shoes I thought it would be? I’ve been saying I thought Joyce wasn’t going to regret this and would have a nice night, like, this whole time.
She’s just not visible yet.
That was my first thought too: What if she’s still up there sobbing or something?
For real tho, YouTube playlists stop when they reach the end, they don’t loop around, do they. And that playlist is unlikely to be several hours long. If its still been playing, it’s entirely possible Dorothy was here fairly shortly ago.
(orrr of course Joyce just opened the laptop lid which woke it and made the list resume playing. But that’s boring.)
Normally even then YouTube still stops it like every thirty minutes like “Are you still watching?” And doesn’t normally autoplay when the laptop is woken up (especially since she’d have to log back in to the laptop.)
I just assumed they were watching some other video and got distracted. My husband and I used to end dates with Air Crash Investigation. Probably not the best tone for sexytimes though.
Dorothy is thorough. Of course the playlist is several hours long.
“My jaw got tired after an hour, so this should be an hour and ten mins long for refractory reasons.”
Calling it in advance: this scene will be somehow interrupted by Dunn Meadows with a steel chaaaaairrrr!
please let my triangle smiled girl just have a nice night and not get interrupted bro pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease
Willis (rubbing his hands in glee): “No.”
niiiiice.
I still don’t believe it’s gonna happen tonight but still. Very nice.
Soon we’ll find out which panties Joyce decided to go with; did she choose the orange, or the pink stripes?
Anyone want to start making bets on the subject?
Personally I’ve got 20 down on pink stripes.
A lazy 10 on Joyce not wearing any at all
Yo, to be fair, I don’t think Dorothy ever answered her. She couldn’t risk making the wrong choice!
lace, silk and nylon are never a bad choice (not cotton)…if she wants some feedback
I agree, love a man in lace panties.
Commando with jeans? Absolutely not. Thats how you friction-burn your pubes out of their follicles.
She couldn’t make the decision without Dorothy, so is wearing both. On top of each other.
Tonight’s gonna be a good night for them.
I really hope so; I don’t want something to happen, and ruin everything.
People seem really convinced that something bad has to happen in a scene for it to be worth portraying and I don’t get it. Something characterful that advances the story needs to happen for a scene to be worth having, and I would bet on some kind of conversation in here that matters, but I don’t know why people are so convinced something has to go horribly wrong for this to be a scene.
You mean things can happen between the scenes and Joyce isn’t wearing Chekhov’s underwear?
To be fair, an expectation that things will go horribly wrong can also come from occasional instances of “Damn You Willis” that then colors expectations beyond what is actually probable. And Willis uses this as a tool as well. Since this isn’t working on you (yet) I have to ask how long you have been reading his comics.
Like six years? But like. It tends to stand out much more to me the places he subverts expectations of explosive drama by having people behave like real people and the subtler more honest feeling storytelling that results.
“Joyce does a Horn’t” a Slipshine exclusive
Or “Zounds that girl is hornt.”
They didn’t put a sock on the door!!!
The sock is implied.
At least they closed the door. (er i hope)
I don’t want this to go wrong but I know in my heart of hearts this will go wrong.
Joe has some trauma from that Jesus girl who broke down just before, but he is also Joe so probably more resilient
Joyce, meanwhile, has religious trauma and was drugged at a party with the drugger having intent to “have his way” with her
I’m betting on something accidentally triggering Joyce, and it leads to Joe flashing back to that one encounter and spiralling and the two will become spiralling messes
Or it could just flash forward to the morning after like most of the non-Slipshine hanky panky scenes have. #FingersCrossed
Flash forward to the morning after with a Slipshine (or Other Patreon) announcement.
I’ll add my voice to the chorus of “That? I’d subscribe for that.” that’s shown up elsewhere.
My bet is goes fine, especially for a first time.
assuming Dotty is still on the bed until evidence is presented otherwise
Can’t believe they also left the door open the entire time
And Dina is behind the door. Random Teledooration incident
She’s under the bed. She finds the shadows calming.
Or in the closet.
Well, she can’t still be on the bed since the last time we saw her she was in the hall.
I’m wondering if Dorothy left a bare-all heartfelt letter to Joyce on that laptop. What’s the worst moment to see it?
I didn’t want to comment because I didn’t wanna ruin comment 69. Temptation was too strong however
Nice
More evidence backing up my previous remark about Joyce having no attraction to Joe.
…hah?
Teach me your ways, master.
That’s sarcasm, right? I hope that’s sarcasm.
Of course it is. Nobody who reads this comic is stupid enough to say it in earnest.
I’ve learned never to underestimate the Internet’s ability to be utterly, blindly stupid.
That’s a needlessly cynical thing to say, and smells like wishful thinking on your end.
Less “wishful thinking” and more “hangs out in political forums far too much.”
You’re thinking too broad-scale. I don’t bother wasting my brain on The Wider Internet’s overwhelming stupidity. I was suggesting you assumed I was stupid enough to genuinely think Joyce isn’t attracted to Joe.
I mean, they don’t really know you, it is a sadly reasonable possibility with how things in ANY comment section goes.
This is the true naïveté. I am omnipresent, known to all and knowable by none. To assume the worst is to commit fraud upon thine own soul, and thus are all the worse off.
Little melodramatic isn’t it?
I mean, this entire subthread is a write-off anyway, so it doesn’t really matter.
Eh, there is plenty of evidence to back up that claim just everywhere. It’s not really cynical to point out what is readily apparent. Cynical would be for then to jump from that to saying all people are inherently stupid or that there is point in anything because of it.
Have you *seen* who’s president?
Sure, but that has nothing to do with anything valuable.
She doesn’t seem into it. She’s just performing for the camera. Terrible of her to just assume Joe would be okay with it since he’s an established sex tape veteran.
The thought bubble with Dorothy’s face in it is the only thing keeping her going.
Is that sea lion still on Patreon? Are they still blowing up every comment?
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
I think they are referring to the term sealioning, according to google:
“Sealioning refers to the disingenuous action by a commenter of making an ostensible effort to engage in sincere and serious civil debate, usually by asking persistent questions of the other commenter.”
So there are probably asking about some specific commenter on the Patreon whobacts like this, which I had seen a fair amount in the past.
No, I know the term. I just don’t know what sea lion they mean.
Playing the playlist Dorothy made…could it distract her??
yes
* Puts on “Tonight” by Ready For The World in the background *
hahaha imagine thinking it will go poorly. These kids are way too horny for that.
Good for them I guess. And I hope Dorothy is doing ok.
You know what would be perfect here? A Walkyverse callback.*
“It gets better, right?”
“Hey, we have all night!”
*Minus the destructo nookie, of course.
Once again giving me hope that, at least in fiction, someone can get lucky despite the fact that they sleep in a mass produced loft bed.
People get lucky all the time at college. No fiction necessary.
*Careless Whisper intensifies*
Slide whistle version?
Leave a chair for Jesus.
Jesus gets the cuck chair.
in a sense, isn’t the garden of Gethsemane is the ultimate cuck chair? I’m not a theology expert.
“THE CHAIR! THE CHAIR!” #IYKYK
While I’m glad its still on going I would also have been ok with this: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/04-the-only-exception/midnight/
being the final strip
The transition from the door to the bed reminds me of that one scene from Scott Pilgrim where Scott and Ramona made out before having the argument where Ramona revealed she knew about Scott cheating on her with Knives. Let’s hope this doesn’t go that way.
I dont think Joe has cheated on Joyce with Knives
I don’t remember that, and I’ve read thd comics and seen the live adaptation works. Didn’t Scott cheat on Knives with Ramona rather.
“Is there a difference?”
“You… weren’t wronged?”
*angry glare*
It was in Volume 5, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe. It was before Scott went to fight the twins. And you are right, he technically cheated on Knives, since he started dating Ramona while he was still in a relationship with Knives. But as Knives herself put it, he cheated on both of them.
This why I prefer take off.
seeing a very significant uptick of wordless strips this year…
I misread that as worthless and was ready to fight you lol.
Please Willis…. just let this one night end good.
They all need this.
We all need this.
Ooohhh that’s gotta be Dorothy’s playlist.
But even if it wasn’t, I think eventually Joyce will panic a bit about not knowing what to do, will either purposely or inadvertently remember Dorothy giving her advice to try to help, including “just know what you want,” and then the action will stop.
Or maybe it keeps going and Joyce is thinking about Dorothy throughout.
I think, ultimately, the second one might be harder on Joe. Maybe not if he’s cool with Dorothy also loving his girlfriend, but I think it would really be a kick in the teeth for him to find out that Joyce was thinking about someone else. I remember the Slipshine with Malaya where it was really clear that they were just in it for the physical aspect, and Joe was wishing it would have been with Joyce… I dunno*, I think that would hit him hard.
*The anticipation of Dunn Meadow had me do a double take at “dunno” and ugh I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. For all we know maybe they get interrupted by a frantic call from Jocelyn before she gets arrested and THAT’S what cock-blocks them…
I want this to go well for them. Truly I do – I genuinely love this ship. And also my Spidey Senses are going berserk and it’s dreadful.
Oh, random thought, I wonder if she’s going to remember the drunk night with Dorothy and Frosty with “avert your eyes”. Frosty being tagged has not left my mind.
I don’t really get why everyone keeps waiting on the Dunn Meadows shoe to drop, but protests in my state haven’t really ended in a way that involved mass arrests that would certainly have ended up on the news (and most protests I’ve attended and heard of have been in the last four months, not a year ago where the buffer was I think.)
But wtf would Jocelyne hope to gain by calling Joyce mid-arrest other than traumatizing her sister? That’s like an egregious violation of older sibling law. Idk if Joyce is even old enough to get a bondsman in the room on her sister’s behalf or if it’s like renting a car and she has to be 25. I would really hope she could either call Hank, or barring that for obvious reasons that she has friends her age who could help her out.
Basically, I feel like calling Joyce specifically might be a bad use of time and resources because she can’t actually help.
I’m nervous about the idea of anything happening at at Dunn Meadow anywhere close to Joyce’s first time. We have solid evidence that she’s already got the Religious Guilt primed about premarital sex, and she may feel like it’s godly punishment.
On the other hand, I could see that being a topic Willis wanted to explore, since it’s a common experience for people raised puritanically (esp women/AFAB people). My hope then would be that Jocelyn would knock that notion out of her head, and be like “neither you or a guy in the sky are taking my agency away here, thanks.”
I do think the danger of the protest is often overstated here. The vast majority of people who go to protests, even occupation ones like this that will likely eventually be broken up, walk away without incident.
There are certainly risks, but the chances of being gunned down or beaten to a pulp by the cops are statistically low. The chances of some tear gas or of spending a night in jail are definitely higher.
Also, this is a drama series, so the odds of something dramatic happening are higher than in reality, but I suspect a good part of the reason for this set up was to get Jocelyne on campus and thus into the main cast for awhile, which suggests any serious fallout won’t be tonight, but sometime off in the future.
Thank you for providing such a great example of folks being worried about this who aren’t, actually, like anti-Joe/Joyce.
Clearly we aren’t all feeling tension here but it’s definitely not all wishful thinking, either — a fair few folks who have expressed nerves about this getting interrupted or going sideways have wanted that NOT to happen! (On a pure “what would be nice for the character levels”, I actively don’t want Joyce’s first time to be awful in any respect, personally.)
FWIW I think we are getting a smashcut to slipshine tomorrow and then a different scene. Maybe not straight to next morning, maybe more Dorothy angst or Amazi-Girl adventures or Jocelyne at the protests (though I currently suspect the protests are going to stay reasonably vague)… and my previous thought that maybe we would see Jocelyne get arrested in a fairly peaceful way but need to be bailed out by Hank.
(Like there’s drama potential there even without necessitating any police brutality or ICE horror show.)
But mostly because I doubt there would be as significant an emotional / plot beat as Joyce thinking of Dorothy in the middle of things on the NSFW Patreon… maybe a tiny hint, but Willis has been pretty solid about doing plot stuff at least first on the main site and echoed in a Slipshine, rather than the other way around? I think?
(I’ll admit I haven’t read the Malaya/Joe one, but Joe’s feelings for Joyce were already established, I thought, even if not super concrete…)
Dotty: Um…I’m…I’m still here, guys.
God forbids a girl to have desires.
Struggling a little to read the tone on that, but for the record *I* was just making a stupid joke about the camera panning over to reveal that Dorothy was just sitting off to the side there.
Don’t be ridiculous.
She’s clearly in frame, just buried under that suspiciously large blanket mound.
I’m sorry, I wasn’t going to reply your comment.
(and I laughed reading it, haha)
I call the music reminding Joyce of Dorothy and shutting her down next strip. Could be wrong.
The problem with leaving room for Jesus is, he always wants to come into your heart…
That sounds unsanitary.
*Gasp* PRE-MARITAL HANKY-PANKY???
I really like how the Semme band seems to show up in the key moments. It should get a tag.
I am very curious to see if they actually follow through on this. Not for any particular reason, just because it’s weird for them to have a regular experience without some unknown force fucking it all up and permanently traumatizing them. I’ve come to expect it
Odd. My experience with Willis is that when things get to this point, people have sex. Even more so, the sex tends to be satisfying to both, athletic and fun.
Plenty of people in the comic have had regular experiences without it getting fucked up. There’s also a LOT of trauma, but I think it’s a 50/50 shot.
climbing up with the shoes on…
Well happy Monday to you too.
People sure love to theory-craft reasons why this will go badly, get interrupted etc.
I think we’re watching two 18 year olds who are into each other getting it on. Any complications, worries, thoughts about other people are not in the room right now, and won’t be for some time.
4th panel: Better not have those wet, muddy, snowy shoes on in bed!
5th: Whew.
Let’s hope they will not be interrupted. Seriously!
Not sure if this has been asked yet, but does anyone know how much DoA time had elapsed between this moment and Joyce’s inaugural affair with the washing machine?
Basically 9 days. That was a Wednesday and this is just after midnight the next Saturday.
That was “Turning Saints Into The Sea”, each chapter is one day, not counting the Halloween flashback. No timeskips since the end of book 10.
I am less concerned about anything involving Dorothy or sex right now and more just wide-eyed at the screen going “no Joyce, stop, you’re almost definitely gonna knock your laptop off the side and break it!”
My own dorm experience (which was admittedly at the dawn of the laptop era) suggests that there are two kinds of people who use their laptop in bed:
– the kind who have figured out where to place it so it can’t get jostled off the side no matter what level of hanky-panky is happening
– the kind whose laptop is sitting with Geek Squad waiting for a new screen
As the laptop is clearly here and not at Best Buy, I assume Joyce is tthe first one.
I mean, to be fair, this is explicitly Joyce’s first hanky-panky, it’s not like her laptop placement skills have had the opportunity to be stress-tested before this.
I just got to wondering, does Sarah know this plan? Is she going to come home and get the wrong idea?
Sarah is spending the night with Tony.
Joyce did you seriously climb the bed ladder with your boots on ? You lunatic
Joe threw her up there like a football
Okay since the past week has been really fun for tinfoil hat speculation here is another:
Joe suddenly starts having weird visions of Jacob as he does horny stuff which leads to him feeling weird. It get’s later revealed that Joyce is a sort of ‘awakening stone’ for latent homoerotic feelings and the only thing keeping the background gaydiation from seeping into the entire campus is her not realizing her attraction to Dorothy. This causes Joe to have a ton of weird feelings and needing to talk to someone about the weird experience even though he definitely enjoyed his time with Joyce.
Joe and Walky start having weird in their pants feelings whenever they meet and they both play it off as ‘they always meet each other when around the people they fuck’ until it’s revealed that Joyce finds out about ethical poly and the weirdest possible polycule happens due to Joyce’s minor reality bending powers of queer.
Okay, I’m here for that plotline.
Eventually Carla detects Joyce’s power and works with Dina to reverse engineer Joyce’s radiative queerness and concentrate it in a set of rosary beads. They leave it on Mary’s door with a note signed, “Peter”. Mary wears it long enough to counteract her high toxicity homophobia and have a healing revelation. She starts performing infiltration missions into homophobic institutions with Carla, Dina, Becky, and Charlie, and they call themselves “Charlie’s Gay-ngels”.
Joyce remains on campus, delightfully oblivious to her enormous power, having loads of sex.
We can call it the Joyceverse because walky got his own whole god damn comic why not.
I don’t know why I feel like putting this on Slipshine would be weird, but I feel like putting this on Slipshine would be weird…
I don’t know why you feel like that either.
This is something that’s been built up to for a veeeery long time, and it’s a very emotionally vulnerable moment for both parties. Slipshines seem to have more of a casual, fun vibe to them?
Some of the most serious emotional ‘happen to be sexual in focus’ stories I’ve ever read are on Slipshine. It’d be in fine company.
I haven’t read the Slipshines, but wasn’t Becky’s first sex with a lady/Dina in face of a lot of anxiety from her homophobic upbringing a very vulnerable situation too? That is what I’ve gathered from others’ comments about it, anyway.
Yes! It’s about her losing her virginity to Dina! I would absolutely love to see this as a slipshine comic because I think it could be incredibly sweet to see. I think these two are about to make love and not fuck, and I want to see that!
Also I’d find it pretty hard to enjoy a porn that is explicitly about Dorothy’s heart and dreams being crushed into paste to the soundtrack of the playlist she made for the girl she likes.
I mean, Joe and Joyce are very cute. I like their relationship! But this development definitely has some very rough, very relatable collateral damage for me.
Have fun, you two.
…She doesn’t share a wall with Dorothy, does she?
No. There are a minimum of two rooms, implied more, between them.
[Ruth][Carla][Agatha+
GunsSierra][mystery pair][Joyce+Sarah][Sal+JenniferMalaya][…indeterminate zone…][Dina+Amber/AG][Dorothy+SierraBecky][Forbidden Single]Mystery pair is either Meredith and Bloodrose or unnamed and probably unseen people. Guns and Bloodrose inferred, not outright stated.
with linebreaks, grouped by half-baths
[Ruth]
[Carla]
[Agatha +
GunsSierra][mystery pair]
[Joyce + Sarah]
[Sal +
JenniferMalaya][…indeterminate zone…]
[Dina + Amber/AG]
[Dorothy +
SierraBecky][Forbidden Single]
People have made wild ass-guesses that a song on the playlist might remind Joyce of Dorothy, or that Dorothy left a note or something for Joyce on the laptop, so I thought I’d just add my own wild ass-guess that Dorothy made a soul-baring apologetic confessional private video, and added it to the end of the playlist.
Most dramatic, heart-wrenching beep-blocking ever.
Or, depending on when it plays, afterglow-quenching.
Man we’ve come a LOOOONG way since that disastrous first date at Galasso’s
Mike isn’t here to face-punch Joe.
Guess Joyce will have to take on that role.
No one seems to have suggested that Dorothy left the laptop’s webcam on…
That’s probably because nobody thinks she’d ever do that.
Wow, what an unnecessarily weird suggestion, NickG.
Totally unrelated: Nymph, where did you get that gravatar?? :O
It’s from a super secret THIRD patreon where you pay for random comics from the futureI photoshopped it!Sorry, should have phrased that better to indicate I was joking. So many commentators try to assign the worst motives to Dorothy and I was trying to riff off of that : unsuccessfully obviously.
No. If they leave room for Jesus, Joe will have to pretend to be a woman so Jesus doesn’t have to gay it up. At least I believe that is what that one Xian cult was saying.
Thank you for the image of Joe pretending to be a woman. There is not enough brain bleach in the world………
It seems like we have consensus that Dorothy is in the closet, covering one eye so she can just look at Joyce.
oh is that why they all have J names?
Jesus, Joe, and Joyce. The Three Jays!
FFS Let her have this ONE thing!
She’s currently having it. How much more it do you want her to have?
We will see, there is still several panels for the writer to torment them. Somebody walks in, the fire alarm goes off, she freaks, his doubtless blue balls fail on him early. Dorothy comes in and declares her undying love. Anything is possible. NEVER say “What could possibly go wrong?”
Oh my gosh I’m so excited! Dorothy and Joyce would be very cute yes, I agree. But I ship Joyce and Joe so hard this is making my heart so happy to see THEM so happy! If Joyce ends up fully cheating on Joe with Dorothy though, I’m going to cry. At least do him the honor of breaking up first.
The thing is, and this might seem dumb, but in a way, it’s Joe losing a kind of virginity too. The kind where you really love the person you are with. I suspect he’s never felt that before.