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I always loved how well the HP actors grew into their roles. In Neville’s case, his actor started looking badass just as his character was actually becoming badass.
Strange. Now I find Richard Dawkins slightly more attractive, and Emma Watson slightly less so. The strange part is, I didn’t really think Emma Watson was particularly attractive in the first place.
Oh god, I tried the eye-crossing trick* to overlap their faces, and the result was pretty freaky. Also confirmed that it’s a pretty good match. And that Richard Dawkins looks better than I had thought.
Richard Dawkins’ wife is Lalla Ward, aka Romanadvoratrelundar, former Lord President of Gallifrey. They were introduced to each other by Douglas Adams. No ship can really live up to the awesomeness of the reality.
Her face is much thinner than his, her jawline is much more rounded, her facial features have greater vertical spread, the top of her eyes are more curved, her eyebrows are shaped differently, her nose is more upturned…
They’re not two people who look alike, they’re two people who don’t look drastically different and are making the same facial expression.
According to dictionary.com, one of the valid ways of interpreting the word attractive is “providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring”. Doesn’t mean that she was sexually appealing as a young child, just cute.
Remember, though, Danny also said he’d rather find out Amazi-Girl’s identity in an accidental way. Amber has a LOT more wiggle-room with the truth ethically since Danny flat-out said that he doesn’t want to be told outright.
I think he’s gonna wanna wait to do it without an audience. This is going to hurt Joyce enough on it own. Its better not to do it in front of the group where Joyce might be hurt and publicly embarrassed.
He may want to do it somewhere he can escape from quickly. Depending on how Joyce takes this he may need to escape a few of her friends (sure, Dorothy and Billie aren’t likely to hurt him but Sarah has a bat and she’s demonstrated a willingness to use it).
No, not really. More like “according to the poorly-translated English version of the Bible”. In the original text, God is big on smiting temple prostitutes (not to be confused with regular ones!), and probably against trying to fight your natural sexual orientation (the way Rome did, by expecting EVERYONE to be bisexual, and the way we do today by expecting everyone to be heterosexual).
But don’t take my poor summary for it; read the whole site. Sodom and Gamorrea is especially interesting to me.
I don’t know about that. As I recall, Sarah gave her snarky blessing to the relationship early on. (“Congratulations on finding a sexless relationship.”)
Yeah, when Sarah said that all Joyce had done was bring him back to the room to watch cartoons. She probably didn’t realize how intense Joyce was going to get about him, and that actual heartbreak was in the cards.
You know, that kinda explains why Danny’s too blind to notice Amber and Amazi-Girl are one in the same: his pupils can never dilate to adjust to differing light, so he’s half-blind most of the time.
From the look on Joyce face I am predicting when they leave Ethan is going to decide to continue the charade, maybe out of a desire not to hurt this nice new friend he has made. Ethan annoys me at times but I perceive him as a gentle guy, no way he confesses to Joyce.This will force Mike do perform some amazing feat of dickery to rectify the situation.
Mike will kick everyone in the nuts (he actually has plastic surgeons on standby to make sure all people within range have nuts at the time of impact) and will tell everyone Ethan’s gay. Then off to the playground to punt children.
My hope he does it in a way that also cuts through everyone else’s bullshit (Dorothy, Walky, Ethan,Joyce, Amber, Billie, and on and on) in a massive Hannibal speech. OR as a call back to Shortpacked Ethan and Joyce get a bit touchy feely at a party, the next morning they are found by the rest of the cast, naked, in bed…..with Mike….(and their moms)
I hope not. I think it’d be easier to rationalize spilling the beans in the context of “Joyce is mad ’cause she thinks Amber was hitting on me or something just now, I might as well tell her why Amber really yanked me out of the restaurant.”
No, man. Joyce is gonna start laying into him about “what’s going on with this ex-girlfriend?!” and stuff, and he’ll be forced to bring out his orientation as his defense.
I second this, I really want him to show some principles. He is obsessed with a kind of safe little bubble. He wants to obsess over his toys and have his friends and have everything in order. Like he said to to Amber, he wants to be in control. I think everyone wants that. Admitting the truth to Joyce is the right thing to do, its going to be an uncomfortable experience to a degree and he does not know exactly how she will react. But it is the right thing to do, Sadly we tend to do things that seem safer at the moment rather then things that may be tough but is the best choice in the long run, we’ve seen that with characters in the strip so far.
And we still don’t see the unveiling? But we do see a very perturbed Joyce: Ethan hitting on Danny: Danny still clueless to everything. Amber trying to do the socially correct thing?
The realistic characters and real world tone of this comic added with Danny not being able to see that Amber is Amazi-girl makes me have this irrational hatered of Danny that I doubt I’ll ever get over. I seriously want nothing more then to see his life in ruin.
I feel like he’s figured it out by this point. He’s being…sardonic or ironic or some damn thing here. Why would he feel compelled to mention his insecurity compared to Amber’s ex otherwise? By framing it as ‘dating Amazi-Girl’, he’s able to put the insecurity out there without dumping it ‘directly’ on Amber.
I also applaud all involved in the creation of this. I believe my traceroute goes something like this:
Dave Willis => Kernanator => Dave Willis => Kernanator => Heavensrun => Kernanator => Mike’s penis => nickel => Your Mom => Dave Willis
Drama…postponed! Huh.
Amber seems to be catching Joyce’s death glare. Maybe she knows the reason Joyce is upset, and if Ethan decides not to tell her — again — and Joyce confronts Amber about “hitting” on her boyfriend, it’ll be up to Amber to tell the truth. With Joyce being shocked she would spread such horrible lies just to try to get Joyce to dump him.
I mean, I guess saying “I’m glad I’m not dating you” to somebody YOU SHOT DOWN probably just comes from being awkward about said shooting down, but still, yikes, Danny. Way to completely miss the other person’s perspective.
Panel 1 Joyce: Stare Hard
Panel 2 Joyce: (offscreen) Stare Hard 2: Stare Harder
Panel 3 Joyce: Stare Hard with a Vengeance
Panel 4 Joyce: (offscreen) Live Free or Stare Hard
Stare Hard 6: This Time It’s Personal
Stare Hard 7: Disa-stare
Stare Hard 8 (with the eight turned on its side, like an infinity sign): The Dare to Stare
Old testament pretty clear. Any male who lies with a male as with a woman shall be put to death.
New testament pretty clear. Merely coming out, being openly homosexual even if you never act on it means excommunication and eternal damnation. You are required to never act on it, and required to stay in the closet. Don’t ask, don’t tell, and don’t have gay sex.
This is in fact easier than it sounds. A survey of close kin of those who died of aids found no homosexuals. Presumably they had all been scared straight.
Actually, the Old Testament sections that were against homosexuality were ruled null and void by the first Pope. Interestingly, All of Leviticus was tossed out, hence the line “since the time of St. John the Baptist, we are no longer under the Law, but under Grace.” Leviticus was the book of law for the Hebrews. This is why people also won’t be put to death for having tattoos (Yup, it’s in Leviticus)
In the authentic writings of Paul, he indicates that Peter had trouble rejecting the Law in favor of grace. Discarding the Law was Paul’s thing, and we don’t know if Peter ever came around on that argument. It was a large point of disagreement in the early years of the Church — we know Paul’s side eventually won, but we’ll probably never know if Peter eventually agreed with him.
(By Peter I mean the real actual Peter, not the two guys who wrote the New Testament letters each pretending to be Peter.)
Correction: You will be happy to hear that lesbian sex is no problem, though really you should keep it with the family, as in having sex with your husband’s concubines.
Optimus Prime broke down and cried on the set of "Transformers" (2007) due to the extensive use of green screen filming. He reportedly said, "This is not why I became an actor."
“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
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Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.
they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up
though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
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Hailey Piper 
Even Danno cannot resist Ethan! Can he resist Walky’s shirt?
Spontaneous flash of inspiration for some fan art! It involves makeouts, and also Mike.
I think you forgot to mention it would involve your mom too. Honestly though, I think I can see why you’d want to keep that quiet.
#eventheguyswanthim
What the… how did Danny steal my secret?
Ethan basically hit puberty the same way the guy who played Nevile Longbottom did.
All at once, right?
Puberty hit me bloody hard, I went from 4’8″ and smooth at 12 to 5’9″ and hairy by 13.
How many times that year did you have to buy new clothes?
I would have to ask my mother that, I didn’t exactly keep track of that sort of thing when I was a kid.
I always loved how well the HP actors grew into their roles. In Neville’s case, his actor started looking badass just as his character was actually becoming badass.
And Hermione got hot because of reasons.
It’s a pity that Emma Watson looks a lot like Richard Dawkins.
That’s not a pity at all.
Strange. Now I find Richard Dawkins slightly more attractive, and Emma Watson slightly less so. The strange part is, I didn’t really think Emma Watson was particularly attractive in the first place.
Oh god, I tried the eye-crossing trick* to overlap their faces, and the result was pretty freaky. Also confirmed that it’s a pretty good match. And that Richard Dawkins looks better than I had thought.
* cheapest method for 3D-viewing
brilliant!
Somebody’s found pics of them both with their heads at similar angles and similar expressions on their faces, and blended their features together.
So feel free to find Emma Watson hot, and Richard Dawkins not, or vice versa depending on taste and orientation!
Good eye.
It was photoshopped…the fact that she doesn’t really look that masculine makes it obvious enough. It also SAYS they photoshopped her to resemble him.
Even without photoshopping, they look a lot alike.
I think I’m starting to fancy Richard Dawkins XD
If you happen to fancy both, you could always become a RichardxEmma shipper.
Richard Dawkins’ wife is Lalla Ward, aka Romanadvoratrelundar, former Lord President of Gallifrey. They were introduced to each other by Douglas Adams. No ship can really live up to the awesomeness of the reality.
Where’s the like button when you need it?
I disagree.
Her face is much thinner than his, her jawline is much more rounded, her facial features have greater vertical spread, the top of her eyes are more curved, her eyebrows are shaped differently, her nose is more upturned…
They’re not two people who look alike, they’re two people who don’t look drastically different and are making the same facial expression.
Good enough! :)=
That’s not sad that’s brilliant.
Hermione was always hot, she just never cared enough to put in the work to show it off. Her teeth were really her only physical flaw.
I’m pretty sure I would’ve been kicked out of Hogwarts quickly for severely cursing Malfoy or Pansy every time they messed with Hermione.
“Always hot”? You do realize she was *nine years old* in the first movie, don’t you.
I think he was referring to book!Hermione. Mind you, she was 11 years old in the first book, so your argument still stands.
That doesn’t mean she wassn’t attratcive, just that nobody was looking yet.
You’re aware you’re digging yourself deeper and deeper into a very internet-characteristic hole, right? (Though I watch anime so I’m not one to talk.)
Is it creepy if you grew up at the same age as the characters while the books and movies were coming out?
Well, I do like holes.
According to dictionary.com, one of the valid ways of interpreting the word attractive is “providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring”. Doesn’t mean that she was sexually appealing as a young child, just cute.
Not creepy when you’re the same age as she is…
Danny is a man after my own heart.
I don’t know whether this is an insult to me or Danny.
Just prey he isn’t a man after your femurs.
Or Knees.
He’s going to prey on my femurs??
Preying COULD help with that.
And of course, you can count on Joyce to pray for them.
But Kernanator needs Kernanator’s heart to live!
Not as much as she needs a FAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!
Um… more than, actually.
ROFL! I am in love with your new grav!
Me too. I’m still thankful to Heavensrun for making it.
God dammit Danny!!!
Joyce initiated gorilla stare!
It’s not very effective.
it worked on me
Oh, right, Amber. You were saying something about deceiving people?
Hey Pot, I’m Kettle.
All we need now is Cauldron and the set is complete.
What about Skillet?
My bad, I shouldn’t have forgotten Skillet and also Hot Plate.
And Wok. Gotta fill the Asian quota.
Unless there is a black kitchen left unmentioned, I believe that the list is complete.
There’s the Dutch oven…
Are Dutch Ovens usually black?
Everybody has some special reason why their lies don’t count.
This may be the most insightful thing ever said in a DOA comment. Good job.
But my reason really is special! Honest! I’m different from everybody else!
People who hold double standards are annoying, but it’s okay when it’s me.
Doctor Gregory Syndrome: When everybody’s a liar, nobody is.
And gangler reads the Dresden Files…
What are you referring to?
Good point. Amber’s as honest as can be!
Dina, on the other hand…
Remember, though, Danny also said he’d rather find out Amazi-Girl’s identity in an accidental way. Amber has a LOT more wiggle-room with the truth ethically since Danny flat-out said that he doesn’t want to be told outright.
Ethan sure dodged that bullet… for now.
In Rioplatense Spanish there’s an euphemism about Ethan’s orientation that includes a bullet and not dodging it.
YAY for unintentional Bilingual Bonus.
And what would that be? Just curious.
Um wasn’t Ethan supposed to own up today? Isn’t that what was going to happen? That is not what I see here.
“Today” as in real life time? Or today as in webcomic time? Because that may take until mid April.
I think he’s gonna wanna wait to do it without an audience. This is going to hurt Joyce enough on it own. Its better not to do it in front of the group where Joyce might be hurt and publicly embarrassed.
He may want to do it somewhere he can escape from quickly. Depending on how Joyce takes this he may need to escape a few of her friends (sure, Dorothy and Billie aren’t likely to hurt him but Sarah has a bat and she’s demonstrated a willingness to use it).
According to the Bible, The Old Testament God was known for striking down homosexuals with extreme prejudice…
On the plus side we may finally get to see who’d win in a fight: Old Testament God or Amazi-Girl.
Only if criticisms are a brand of baseball bat.
I say this as an atheist, but going impartially between two fictional characters, I gotta give that one to Yahweh.
Whole cities at a time, if I remember right.
http://hoperemains.m.webs.com/
No, not really. More like “according to the poorly-translated English version of the Bible”. In the original text, God is big on smiting temple prostitutes (not to be confused with regular ones!), and probably against trying to fight your natural sexual orientation (the way Rome did, by expecting EVERYONE to be bisexual, and the way we do today by expecting everyone to be heterosexual).
But don’t take my poor summary for it; read the whole site. Sodom and Gamorrea is especially interesting to me.
I don’t know about that. As I recall, Sarah gave her snarky blessing to the relationship early on. (“Congratulations on finding a sexless relationship.”)
Yeah, but Joyce wasn’t broken hearted and crying at the time. That can change someone’s reaction to a scenario pretty fast.
Yeah, when Sarah said that all Joyce had done was bring him back to the room to watch cartoons. She probably didn’t realize how intense Joyce was going to get about him, and that actual heartbreak was in the cards.
‘I like your hair’? How… interestingly lampshaded.
Also, thank you. Now I can’t unship Ethan/Danny.
We cannot cancel shipping, it has already begun.
If we are not careful, one will be introducing his port into the other’s starboard.
I don’t think that’s how it works.
You’re right, I should have said introducing his bow into the other’s stern, my bad.
Must… resist… “poop deck” joke…
Poop deck? This is a perfect opportunity to amke a sea men joke!
Don’t forget about the ‘docking’.
Since when is poop MORE classy than semen? :O
What’s more likely to be involved between the two? XD
Prepare the boarding parties!
Oh, all right:
Don’t forget to have the seamen swab the poopdeck!
Oh snap, a double play!
Danny’s actually insecure about the fact that Ethan has eye whites and he doesn’t. Is that something girls look for in a man?
Whites of the eyes are over-rated, Mike has being doing plenty of mums without them.
Beady eyes are damn sexy.
You know, that kinda explains why Danny’s too blind to notice Amber and Amazi-Girl are one in the same: his pupils can never dilate to adjust to differing light, so he’s half-blind most of the time.
They still dilate, but he doesn’t have scleras to reflect back excess light and the other useful things they do, so he’s still half-blind.
Sort of like how Barney is too blind to see that Fred is actually a pretty crappy friend?
He traded them for superior piloting skills.
From the look on Joyce face I am predicting when they leave Ethan is going to decide to continue the charade, maybe out of a desire not to hurt this nice new friend he has made. Ethan annoys me at times but I perceive him as a gentle guy, no way he confesses to Joyce.This will force Mike do perform some amazing feat of dickery to rectify the situation.
Mike will kick everyone in the nuts (he actually has plastic surgeons on standby to make sure all people within range have nuts at the time of impact) and will tell everyone Ethan’s gay. Then off to the playground to punt children.
My hope he does it in a way that also cuts through everyone else’s bullshit (Dorothy, Walky, Ethan,Joyce, Amber, Billie, and on and on) in a massive Hannibal speech. OR as a call back to Shortpacked Ethan and Joyce get a bit touchy feely at a party, the next morning they are found by the rest of the cast, naked, in bed…..with Mike….(and their moms)
I think you might be right, now that Amber isn’t there to burn a hole in the back of his head with her ferocious stare.
Amber’s stare shall burn through buildings, Ethan will constantly feel the burn until he breaks it off.
I hope not. I think it’d be easier to rationalize spilling the beans in the context of “Joyce is mad ’cause she thinks Amber was hitting on me or something just now, I might as well tell her why Amber really yanked me out of the restaurant.”
No, man. Joyce is gonna start laying into him about “what’s going on with this ex-girlfriend?!” and stuff, and he’ll be forced to bring out his orientation as his defense.
I could easily imagine him backing down even then but like I said above, I hope he doesn’t.
I second this, I really want him to show some principles. He is obsessed with a kind of safe little bubble. He wants to obsess over his toys and have his friends and have everything in order. Like he said to to Amber, he wants to be in control. I think everyone wants that. Admitting the truth to Joyce is the right thing to do, its going to be an uncomfortable experience to a degree and he does not know exactly how she will react. But it is the right thing to do, Sadly we tend to do things that seem safer at the moment rather then things that may be tough but is the best choice in the long run, we’ve seen that with characters in the strip so far.
+1 Insightful.
And we still don’t see the unveiling? But we do see a very perturbed Joyce: Ethan hitting on Danny: Danny still clueless to everything. Amber trying to do the socially correct thing?
Danny’s just a really smooth dude huh?
Smooth as cheap toilet paper.
Smooth as a porcupine’s butt.
Smooth as a brier patch.
Smooth as sandpaper.
Smooth as a field of rocks to a skydiver.
Smooth as some thing that isn’t smooth.
Smooth as the absolute value function in the region of x = 0.
Smooth as a cat’s tongue. Garnished with gravel.
He still isn’t out to her! Aaah! And now we have yet another weekend for the tension to continue to build!
I can express my feelings about this only in this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnPlHvXIJPs
Joyce is…unappreciative of that little break Amber & Ethan took.
Your current gravatar makes that statement all the better.
Boys are like pillows to Joyce, she does not share.
The realistic characters and real world tone of this comic added with Danny not being able to see that Amber is Amazi-girl makes me have this irrational hatered of Danny that I doubt I’ll ever get over. I seriously want nothing more then to see his life in ruin.
He already has to be Danny. Isn’t that punishment enough?
“I’m Danny Wilcox and I have to live with that every daaaay.”
I read that in Hagan’s voice, awesome. XD
I would like to believe that Danny actually knows already, but is playing along because it’s expected of him as part of the superhero genre.
Sadly, I know this is probably not the case.
I feel like he’s figured it out by this point. He’s being…sardonic or ironic or some damn thing here. Why would he feel compelled to mention his insecurity compared to Amber’s ex otherwise? By framing it as ‘dating Amazi-Girl’, he’s able to put the insecurity out there without dumping it ‘directly’ on Amber.
If that makes sense.
Having someone else support my crazy theory feels really validating.
Now that is a death glare
I am oh so tempted to make that my gravatar. Should I? Or should I just keep it as the Condom Cap?
But you’re good ol’ “Condom Cap Kernanator! If you change I won’t recognize you!
For reference, I am referring to Joyce’s face in the third panel.
http://imgur.com/VbOXDim I’ll just leave this here.
Oh god I laughed so hard it hurts!
GLORY!!
That’s superb.
Now that’s what I call an edit!
I’m making it my Gravatar right now.
It is a thing of beauty.
I also applaud all involved in the creation of this. I believe my traceroute goes something like this:
Dave Willis => Kernanator => Dave Willis => Kernanator => Heavensrun => Kernanator => Mike’s penis => nickel => Your Mom => Dave Willis
I approve this solution to the dilemma!
Drama…postponed! Huh.
Amber seems to be catching Joyce’s death glare. Maybe she knows the reason Joyce is upset, and if Ethan decides not to tell her — again — and Joyce confronts Amber about “hitting” on her boyfriend, it’ll be up to Amber to tell the truth. With Joyce being shocked she would spread such horrible lies just to try to get Joyce to dump him.
Oh, that would be an interesting turn of events.
Come on Joyce, turn that frown upside down!
Done.
This expression terrifies me. What is she plotting….?
BONUS POINTS FOR Robbie C!!!!!! well done, sir! Yon win an internets
Excellent!
PLANS
Good god Danny makes me cringe so hard.
I mean, I guess saying “I’m glad I’m not dating you” to somebody YOU SHOT DOWN probably just comes from being awkward about said shooting down, but still, yikes, Danny. Way to completely miss the other person’s perspective.
Plus, there’s the stealth-confession: “Even if I was dating you, I’m so bland/you’re so fickle that you’d go for a better dude any day.”
He makes Amber hard, too.
Panel 1 Joyce: Stare Hard
Panel 2 Joyce: (offscreen) Stare Hard 2: Stare Harder
Panel 3 Joyce: Stare Hard with a Vengeance
Panel 4 Joyce: (offscreen) Live Free or Stare Hard
Joyce is hoping that “staring daggers” isn’t just an idiom
She stared so hard it made Dina vanish from existence, never to be seen again.
Stare Hard 5: The Empire Strikes back
Stare Hard 6: This Time It’s Personal
Stare Hard 7: Disa-stare
Stare Hard 8 (with the eight turned on its side, like an infinity sign): The Dare to Stare
Stare Hard 9: Electric Boogaloo
IRTA “The Empire Stares Back” …
Also: “Ethan left his awkward teenage years like a boss.” Straight into his awkward adult years.
I read you were changing your avatar and felt a twinge in my heart as an era passed.
But that…that is golden.
It’s great, because you can interpret it as Joyce being displeased she is being forced to wear it.
“Safe sex! Only do it after marriage, so you can trust–ow!”
“Follow the script.”
Joyce looks like an angry chimp for some reason.
Old testament pretty clear. Any male who lies with a male as with a woman shall be put to death.
New testament pretty clear. Merely coming out, being openly homosexual even if you never act on it means excommunication and eternal damnation. You are required to never act on it, and required to stay in the closet. Don’t ask, don’t tell, and don’t have gay sex.
This is in fact easier than it sounds. A survey of close kin of those who died of aids found no homosexuals. Presumably they had all been scared straight.
And yet nothing is said about lesbians. Granted, there’s like…ONE passage that may or may not reference it, but it’s very vague.
Only Romans 1:26 in the New Testament comes close to mentioning lesbians and even that is not conclusive.
Romans 1:26 “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.”
The verse is so vague that it could be just as likely to be refering to beastiality as lesbianism.
Actually, the Old Testament sections that were against homosexuality were ruled null and void by the first Pope. Interestingly, All of Leviticus was tossed out, hence the line “since the time of St. John the Baptist, we are no longer under the Law, but under Grace.” Leviticus was the book of law for the Hebrews. This is why people also won’t be put to death for having tattoos (Yup, it’s in Leviticus)
In the authentic writings of Paul, he indicates that Peter had trouble rejecting the Law in favor of grace. Discarding the Law was Paul’s thing, and we don’t know if Peter ever came around on that argument. It was a large point of disagreement in the early years of the Church — we know Paul’s side eventually won, but we’ll probably never know if Peter eventually agreed with him.
(By Peter I mean the real actual Peter, not the two guys who wrote the New Testament letters each pretending to be Peter.)
Correction: You will be happy to hear that lesbian sex is no problem, though really you should keep it with the family, as in having sex with your husband’s concubines.
Joyce’s face in Panel 3:
I know, it’s the best.
Archives time! Now that the Luigi Death Stare is a thing, I think that a picture of Joyce driving in Mario Kart giving her Death Stare is in order.