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by David M Willis on August 9, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: dina, jennifer, joyce, sarah

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  1. Nexev
    Nexev
    August 9, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Joyce has a point, her luck outside is shit.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 9, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      At least she scored some Ugg boots if nothing else.

      • HeatPhoenix
        HeatPhoenix
        August 9, 2012 at 6:06 am | #

        But then there’s the problem that the Ugg boots are trashy shit.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 9, 2012 at 8:50 am | #

          Ugg boots are like fashionable sweatclothes, comfortable.

          • Aydr
            Aydr
            August 9, 2012 at 12:34 pm | #

            Yeah, “fashionable”. Like spraytans.

            • JA
              JA
              August 9, 2012 at 6:12 pm | #

              I never understood the point of Uggs…or why people wear [non-work] boots when it’s not winter (sexy leather platform boots and goth boots notwithstanding).

              • Krashthemystro
                Krashthemystro
                August 9, 2012 at 11:47 pm | #

                But they are soooo comfy… I put them in the same ranking as pajama Jeans.

                • Shnon
                  Shnon
                  August 10, 2012 at 2:22 am | #

                  Same category as crocs, for me. far far below pajama jeans.

                  Can toss those stupid million layer short skirts in there too, yick.

              • BlueMario
                BlueMario
                August 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm | #

                I wear coats when it’s not cold.
                Heavy winter coats.
                Just because I want to.
                People wonder how I don’t get super hot and sweat like crazy.
                I have do idea how I do it.

                • Somebody
                  Somebody
                  November 13, 2012 at 3:21 am | #

                  How are they trashy or anything like spray tans? I guess it makes sense if you’re a total douche. And they resemble tribal boots like the iniuts wear, so by bashing them you’re kind of being prejudice toward indigenous people…or at least their style of dress.

                • Somebody
                  Somebody
                  November 13, 2012 at 3:22 am | #

                  How are they trashy or anything like spray tans? I guess it makes sense if you’re a total douche. And they resemble tribal boots like the Inuits wear, so by bashing them you’re kind of being prejudice toward indigenous people…or at least their style of dress.

                • Somebody
                  Somebody
                  November 13, 2012 at 3:24 am | #

                  Whoops double posted while trying to correct.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 9, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

      The story of my life. If anything bad could happen to me, it can and it will. Judging by my luck, I’ll be dead when I’m 30, alone and unloved.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 9, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

        That’s everyone’s life story. It’s called Murphy’s Law

        • cdotsq
          cdotsq
          August 9, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

          its called ‘the universe is a fuckin dick’

      • Khrene Cleaver
        Khrene Cleaver
        August 9, 2012 at 1:35 am | #

        Save up 1 dollar a day until you have enough cash to by you a hooker. Problem solved.

        • Shade
          Shade
          August 9, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

          So if your Mike that means a nickel every hour for someones mum?

          • Ziaheart
            Ziaheart
            August 9, 2012 at 3:50 am | #

            That’s a lot of moms.

            • Shade
              Shade
              August 9, 2012 at 5:16 am | #

              23 technically, since when measuring in mums you have to round own.

              • Shade
                Shade
                August 9, 2012 at 5:36 am | #

                Oh wait my math fails me 19 mums, with a left over of 1.

            • Shade
              Shade
              August 9, 2012 at 5:16 am | #

              *down

  2. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 9, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Sarah’s feeling very guilty right about now.

    • SkepticJ
      SkepticJ
      August 9, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      I really do like Sarah, but her position of moral authority is pretty shot right now.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 9, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

        Former God, now fallen angel.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          August 9, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

          Eh, better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            August 9, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

            no it’s not.

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              August 9, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

              Well to some people, it is better.

            • Jacob
              Jacob
              August 9, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

              Whoosh! That was the sound of a literary reference going right over your head.

              • Valdrax
                Valdrax
                August 9, 2012 at 11:21 am | #

                What, just because someone first wrote it 350 years ago, you can’t comment on it?

                • Jacob
                  Jacob
                  August 9, 2012 at 2:45 pm | #

                  If you think that the statement was intended to be agreed with tehn, yeah you probably shouldn’t be commenting on it.

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              August 9, 2012 at 10:33 am | #

              (Putting aside the factual debate below-)-this depends on your specific definition of better, and for that matter on your specific definitions of heaven/hell/the rest of the cosmology.

              For example I consider myself too moral to serve the Christian god as I understand it, leaving me with little choice but to take the low road.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            August 9, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

            As someone who was raised on the SDA religion, the idea that Satan and his devils get to rule Hell instead of suffering alongside the lost amuses me.

            • HeatPhoenix
              HeatPhoenix
              August 9, 2012 at 6:07 am | #

              It’s as if they don’t even know that Jesus rules hell now, haha plebs.

              • vlademir1
                vlademir1
                August 9, 2012 at 8:41 am | #

                Heh. The variety of variations on the cosmological, theological and moral constructs within Christianity are legion. For all but the most basic you can typically find a denomination that holds an opposite view

                • begbert2
                  begbert2
                  August 9, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

                  Actually I’m pretty sure that you can find variation on even the most basic stuff too, up to and including whether a given person even is a Christian.

                • Aydr
                  Aydr
                  August 9, 2012 at 12:36 pm | #

                  If they aren’t a Christian, then that’s not really “within Christianity” now is it.

                • begbert2
                  begbert2
                  August 9, 2012 at 3:27 pm | #

                  I meant when a person thinks they’re a christian and other christians think they’re not one. In theory the disagreement might be mutual. I can see the potential for epistemological confusion, but I see no way for us to objectively define which person’s opinion should or shouldn’t be counted.

                  You know a group isn’t unified by agreement when they can’t even agree on who’s in the group.

                • Rex Hondo
                  Rex Hondo
                  August 9, 2012 at 10:10 pm | #

                  For example, there are some protestant sects that do not consider Catholicism to be truly “Christian,” as well as the inverse. Many people do not consider Mormons to be “Christian,” even though Jesus is right there in the name (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), because they use an extra book or two. And on and on…

              • drs
                drs
                August 9, 2012 at 2:20 pm | #

                You mean Duma Christopher Rudd Elaine.

                #obscurecomicgeek

          • drs
            drs
            August 9, 2012 at 2:14 pm | #

            Of course, all the other fallen angels swapped serving in Heaven for serving in Hell. Whoops!

      • swissaboo
        swissaboo
        August 9, 2012 at 10:04 am | #

        What moral authority?

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          August 9, 2012 at 10:36 am | #

          Well, she started out with a leg up due to the whole “studying is better than illegal drugs and/or reckless partying” thing, but granted that since then most of her authority has been derived from force of will and a baseball bat.

          • swissaboo
            swissaboo
            August 9, 2012 at 1:37 pm | #

            “studying is better than illegal drugs or partying” is a matter of opinion. For example, in Islam various schools of sufi mysticism have at times held drugs and partying to be a way to get closer to god. (Willis plz give Sarah a sufi roommate if you ever get to “next year”)

            • drs
              drs
              August 9, 2012 at 2:15 pm | #

              Do Sufis say it’s okay to bug and disrupt your college roommate with your theological partying?

              • swissaboo
                swissaboo
                August 9, 2012 at 2:41 pm | #

                That’s not the moral dispute in question, its “studying vs drugs and partying” not “studying vs drugs and partying and being a jerk.”

                • begbert2
                  begbert2
                  August 9, 2012 at 3:31 pm | #

                  No, the dispute was “studying vs illegal drugs or partying”, if you want to get pedantic. And by “illegal” we mean “could get Sarah thrown out of college and/or into jail for merely allowing her roommate to keep them in the room.”

                  If that’s the sort of drugs the Sufis party with, I have no objection to saying that Sarah would have the moral high ground opposing practices that can ruin the lives of those around you.

                • slicedtoad
                  slicedtoad
                  August 9, 2012 at 4:29 pm | #

                  you been to college begbert? Every other person is on drugs and most people party. You don’t get thrown out for having a druggy room mate.

                  If the situation is bothering you enough that it’s hurting your studies or making you loose too much sleep, there are better ways to deal with your room mate then to get them kicked out. I don’t know the details of Sarah’s room mate problems so I can’t be sure but from what we know, Sarah was a bit of a dick handling that problem.

                • swissaboo
                  swissaboo
                  August 9, 2012 at 4:38 pm | #

                  Legality on its own is not a moral issue, so I left it out.

                • swissaboo
                  swissaboo
                  August 9, 2012 at 4:45 pm | #

                  Also I kinda figured we were talking in the general case: studying IN GENERAL vs drugs and partying IN GENERAL. Since Sarah’s stance on this issue does in fact extend passed where she’s personally involved (see: her opinion on billie) this was fair I think? I mean wouldn’t everyone say studying is morally superior to getting your roommate kicked out of college?

                • Rex Hondo
                  Rex Hondo
                  August 9, 2012 at 10:48 pm | #

                  Why do the people condemning Sarah and defending the druggie assume Sarah did not try to talk to her first? The Sarah haters seem to be so fond of “getting the whole story,” they forget about that part, don’t they?
                  You can debate the “morality” of drug abuse til you’re blue in the face, but the indispuable fact is that the roommate knowingly and willingly broke the law as well as campus policy.
                  While Sarah may not have been kicked out merely because her roommate was doing drugs, the roommate was disruptive enough that Sarah was in fear of losing her scholarship. Said scholarship was the only thing keeping her in school.
                  I would submit that, depending on how out of control the roommate was and what drugs she was on, Sarah’s moral obligation to her roommate (doubly so if they were friends) was to get her help to get her clean. Like somebody mentioned a couple strips ago, it would be very interesting if the ex-roommate was actually grateful to Sarah for turning her life around.
                  Long and short , Sarah fulfilled her legal obligations, as anybody should, but especially somebody wanting to go to law school. These are all supposedly adults, and part of being an adult is accepting responsibility for one’s own actions and their consequenses. Only gangsters and junior high studends blame the person who reports a crime.

              • yo
                yo
                August 9, 2012 at 4:09 pm | #

                The true collegiate answer is to study illegal drugs
                and partying.

                Getting thrown out can greatly facilitate your college
                experience by reducing your class load.

                Sufis are a mixed bunch, from frumpy uptight fundies
                to expand your mind for god. Also centuries of
                persecution means what they say in private is different
                from what they say in public.

  3. Joe H
    Joe H
    August 9, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    Good going, SARAH.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 9, 2012 at 10:41 am | #

      To be entirely fair, she didn’t even want to come in the first place. Joyce wheedled her into it.

      So yes, it really is all Joyce’s fault.

      • Aydr
        Aydr
        August 9, 2012 at 12:37 pm | #

        To be entirely fair, Joyce never asked her to come and Sarah insisted.

        So no, it’s not Joyce’s fault.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          August 9, 2012 at 3:40 pm | #

          I just reviewed the conversation in question, and reading it again all at once (as opposed to over several days), it’s got pretty odd flow. Sarah first imposed herself as a replacement for Billie (on the notion that Billie was going to damage Joyce), but seemed to completely abandon the idea in frustration when Joyce stated that she thought Sarah hated her. (Hated Joyce, that is.) Then Joyce turned the situation around and stated that she wished that Sarah would do small nice
          things with her, and lo and behold Sarah decides to join the two of them, rather than usurping Billie. So in a way we’re both right – though in the end it was Joyce’s prodding that sealed the deal.

          This sort of messy-looking writing would seem problematic, except that’s how people actually act.

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 9, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    I thought she was gonna say “I can’t take you guys anywhere” but this works too.

  5. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 9, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    cue quirky seinfeld music*

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 9, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      Which character is Sarah then? Neuman?

      • Volkai
        Volkai
        August 9, 2012 at 6:07 pm | #

        All of them.

  6. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 9, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    That’s the cover album image for their new band, the … Bad Jurassic Super Dinosaurs.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 9, 2012 at 6:44 am | #

      Includes the hit single “my fist makes you bleed.”

  7. Jhonka12
    Jhonka12
    August 9, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    (insert canned laughter here)

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 9, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      (insert canned booing here)

      • Jhonka12
        Jhonka12
        August 9, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        (insert that canned whooing noise when two characters kiss unexpectedly)

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          August 9, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

          (Insert canned applause)

          • Piper
            Piper
            August 9, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

            (Insert canned peaches.)

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              August 9, 2012 at 6:03 am | #

              (Insert canned orders over loudspeaker)

              • Volkai
                Volkai
                August 9, 2012 at 6:08 pm | #

                (Insert the city of Cannes)

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 9, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

          (please insert girders)

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 9, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        (insert anal-beads anywhere)

        • Bekah
          Bekah
          August 9, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

          *except the mouth

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            August 9, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

            unless they were washed with soap and boiling water first.

            • LuckyStar7
              LuckyStar7
              August 9, 2012 at 9:57 am | #

              Doesn’t that take the fun out of ANAL BEADS??!!!

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                August 9, 2012 at 4:56 pm | #

                The shitty taste is fun?!

          • Pyr05
            Pyr05
            August 9, 2012 at 1:07 am | #

            Bekah, your grav is too perfect for your comment.

  8. madock345
    madock345
    August 9, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    I really like the subtly changing shadows in the first two panels, it makes it clear that time is passing, and you’re not just recycing panels, but at the same time, it’s subtle enough that they manage to look the same to the casual observer.

  9. KresyAntics
    KresyAntics
    August 9, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    At least Joyce didn’t blow it for Billie not making friends with the Sophomores.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 9, 2012 at 10:12 am | #

      AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  10. Bekah
    Bekah
    August 9, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    Oh buck up Sarah. The fact that you feel bad about it means that deep down, you really are a good person. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone punches a bongo sometimes.

    You’re like a cat who expresses affection with her claws instead of her purrs. It’s ok. With enough belly rubs and a trip to the vet, you’ll learn to purr again. Of course, afterward you’ll be an indoor cat, but Joyce will make sure you get lots of exercise.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 9, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      I wonder if spaying Sarah will help.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        August 9, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

        At the very least, it’ll stop the yowling when she’s in heat.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 9, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

          She might even be less grumpy.

          • lordphulish
            lordphulish
            August 9, 2012 at 9:03 am | #

            probably gain weight though

    • Resne
      Resne
      August 9, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

      Except Joyce said it.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        August 9, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

        I’m referring to the look on Sarah’s face, not the words coming out of Joyce’s mouth.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 9, 2012 at 1:07 am | #

          Can’t nobody understand the words coming out of her mouth!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 9, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

      They’re gonna have to cut Sarah’s fists off so she doesn’t use them again.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        August 9, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

        No, just her fingers. Can’t make a fist without fingers.

        • Joebo
          Joebo
          August 9, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

          Perhaps not, but that doesn’t mean she can’t shove her finger-less stump into other people’s faces.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            August 9, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

            Fingerless PUNCH!

          • Historyman68
            Historyman68
            August 9, 2012 at 4:58 am | #

            That would freak people out way more.

        • Shade
          Shade
          August 9, 2012 at 1:49 am | #

          Palm strike?

          http://www.ehow.com/how_12871_perform-palm-strike.html

          • LuckyStar7
            LuckyStar7
            August 9, 2012 at 10:01 am | #

            Thanks, Shade!
            Imma learn Tae Kwon Doe now.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 9, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

        That will never work, they broke the hands of many slaves years ago and tas he result, they invented Capoeira, the dancing, kicking based martial art.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 9, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

          Damn you for telling me this while I’m playing as Christie Monteiro from Tekken

        • NaptownSnake
          NaptownSnake
          August 9, 2012 at 2:07 am | #

          Lol Capoeira. That made my night.

        • Cybersnark
          Cybersnark
          August 9, 2012 at 10:49 am | #

          I prefer to believe that capoeira was invented by an Airbender and a Waterbender in love.

          “Dance with me.”

    • Volkai
      Volkai
      August 9, 2012 at 6:10 pm | #

      Somehow doubt that Sarah would be agreeable to declawing.

  11. Leorale
    Leorale
    August 9, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    Joyce is the only one here who acted socially flawlessly, but she thinks it’s *herself* she can’t take anywhere.. Internalized guilt is sad.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 9, 2012 at 6:48 am | #

      I don’t think it’s so much that she feels she did wrong, I think she’s noticing that she tends to attract strife and wackiness.

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        August 9, 2012 at 8:42 am | #

        It’s hard to tell whether she’s making a tongue-in-cheek observation or genuinely being down on herself. Her body language could go either way, and the wide shot doesn’t give us a close view of her facial expression. I certainly hope TheLastOutlaw is right, though.

        • LuckyStar7
          LuckyStar7
          August 9, 2012 at 10:05 am | #

          I think it’s because of her innocence.
          Either someone wants to defend it or take it away from her.
          Even though Raidah wasn’t doing anything wrong, Sarah still wanted to
          defend her because of how Raidah treats her.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 9, 2012 at 10:15 am | #

      Internalized guilt? In a religious person? Noooo.

      (saying that as a not very religious Jew)

    • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      August 9, 2012 at 2:28 pm | #

      Codependance is contagious.

  12. John
    John
    August 9, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    Well… actually, yeah, Joyce has been the thread tying together most of the bad events.

    What the heck, Joyce.

  13. thomas0comer
    thomas0comer
    August 9, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

    So… you copy-pasted everything from the first panel to the second (and the background again to the third)… but you re-did the shadows/highlights?

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      August 9, 2012 at 1:30 am | #

      Its so he could recolor the boobies 😉

  14. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    August 9, 2012 at 1:04 am | #

    There is hope for all of them, they are sitting together. Joyce stayed with Sarah because I think she knows Sarah was trying to protect her, just not why.
    Dina stayed because Sarah dragged her, after that no one knows why she’s still there, but Dina.
    Billie stayed ? no idea, she could have given Joyce the money to pay for her clothes and stayed with the sharks she’s dying to get in with. So why in heck is she still there?
    I love Joyce, she’s right, she really can’t. Even when it’s not her fault.

    • Tom T.
      Tom T.
      August 9, 2012 at 8:43 am | #

      I think they’re all together because they’re waiting for the same bus.

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 9, 2012 at 10:09 am | #

        Hopefully not with Aslan.

  15. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    August 9, 2012 at 2:29 am | #

    Cue Price is right fail horn…
    http://www.losinghorns.com/

  16. Edd
    Edd
    August 9, 2012 at 3:12 am | #

    Expressions from left to right:
    Boredom
    Awkward sadness
    Regret
    Man, that lizard moves fast.

    • Ziaheart
      Ziaheart
      August 9, 2012 at 3:56 am | #

      I think Billie’s is more “annoyance at the lost chance to get an in with the sophomores*

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 9, 2012 at 10:12 am | #

      But it does move fast.

  17. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 9, 2012 at 6:20 am | #

    Everything you touch turns into disaster, Joyce. You are the destroyer.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 9, 2012 at 2:19 pm | #

      She’s like a reverse Mcgyver, she can turn anything into crap

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 9, 2012 at 2:20 pm | #

      She’s like a reverse Mcgyver, she can turn anything into crap o3o

  18. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    August 9, 2012 at 6:55 am | #

    They are making me the sad! D:

  19. Rennik
    Rennik
    August 9, 2012 at 9:14 am | #

    Thanks for the comics! It’s been a great way to start my day at the office…

    Here’s a picture 🙂
    http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q509/rennik_/dress1.png

  20. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    August 9, 2012 at 10:19 am | #

    Still waiting on Billie to start stabbing all the things.

  21. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    August 9, 2012 at 10:55 am | #

    Dina’s just like, randomly there all the time. Dunno what she’s even doing there!

  22. Wravv
    Wravv
    August 9, 2012 at 11:17 am | #

    Oh, Joyce. You can take yourself wherever you want! Other people just mess it up.

    Private college life with other Jesus lovers is probably looking pretty cushy to her right now.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      August 9, 2012 at 10:51 pm | #

      She wanted to experience the “real world.”

      Well, here it is. Ta-dah!

  23. ixupihunter
    ixupihunter
    August 9, 2012 at 12:21 pm | #

    Dina does not know what she is doing there. Maybe doesn’t even know where there is. Could be just wondering where the Discovery Store is.

    • Volkai
      Volkai
      August 9, 2012 at 6:14 pm | #

      Dina knows what she is doing there – she’s partaking of a social event that includes people. She probably isn’t sure what that means she should be doing, so she’s taking her cues – or trying to – from the others around her. Which at this point means sitting around doing nothing.

      She’s probably given up on the Discovery Store at this point, though it’s possible she hasn’t and will bring it up in an upcoming comic. But I doubt it.

  24. icepyrox
    icepyrox
    August 9, 2012 at 12:48 pm | #

    Isn’t this that magical point where Dina disappears again and teleports back to the dorms? Or is Sarah in some kind of overprotective even though she regrets it so would definitely notice mode?

  25. Ryan Balis
    Ryan Balis
    August 9, 2012 at 1:38 pm | #

    The girls gang is forming up. I like it <3, poor Joyce.

  26. Ryan
    Ryan
    August 9, 2012 at 9:21 pm | #

    Couldn’t roll my eyes any harder at Billie.

  27. newllend
    newllend
    August 14, 2013 at 11:36 pm | #

    Ya NO SHIT joyce

  28. Camachri
    Camachri
    September 15, 2014 at 7:19 pm | #

    Oh no. Joyce is being literal and nobody’s paying attention. Poor bby :C

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