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When I have an ‘eh, f*ck it, it’s good enough’ moment, in my head a mail-clad soldier does an elaborate check mark on a piece of parchment and announces “The candidate passes!”
…And if you’re using a stapler to fasten the words to this song…
You’ll find that a staple is just about a centimeter long!
Divide a Meter by Decimeters, you’ll find that there are ten
Divide a Meter by a hundred–you’ll have a hundred Centimeters then!
–Metric Marvels cartoon, circa 1979
I love Joyce and Walky interactions. Like, it’d be funny anyway without knowing they were married in another universe, or that they’re both attracted to one another and yet very repulsed (Joyce crushed on boys from her Christian kid show that Walky turned out to be on; Walky admitted to Dorothy’s amusement that Joyce was beautiful as to how he got the inkling before being told that Ethan was gay, that Ethan didn’t seem to look at her like that)
It’s just this friendship of mutual belligerence with shared fandom and genuine care holding it together, combined with stubbornness.
Walky admitting he thought Joyce was gorgeous? Or Joyce having a thing for the boys from the show when she was younger, and Dorothy, Joyce, and Walky realizing one of the kids was Walky?
I lost a toenail after running a marathon. I actually did hold it on with a Band-aid for a couple of weeks until it fell off most gently – and by then, there was a new nail under it.
I’m wondering how Joyce has got to this point in her life without ever encountering a part of her anatomy dropping off. Doesn’t she remember her milk teeth? Hasn’t she ever had a scab over a cut?
Okay, it’s gross but her over-reaction has gone beyond ignorant naivety and has reached open silliness!
I can kinda relate to Joyce. I had my wisdom teeth out when I was 22 and was irrationally upset about losing “a part of me”. Over ten years later, I think I was being a bit silly.
Well, people know that milk teeth are supposed to fall out, and scabs aren’t really ‘a part of anatomy’. Having a toenail fall off really feels very differently to that…
I’m in my early 20’s and the worst that’s ever happened to me was spraining my ankle when I was 7. Losing a toenail definitely counts as body horror for me, as silly as it sounds.
I’m 45 and the idea of losing a big toenail is frightening as fuck. I think the root of the fear is the idea that the underlying exposed skin would be extremely, unbearably sensitive to the touch for a long time. This idea is supported by every time I’ve cut my toenails too short.
Joyce, think. It”s dead, but you’re forcing it to behave as if it’s alive. That’s necromancy, and is how the zombie apocalypse starts. Keep your toe zombies to yourself, before it spreads and kills us all.
Good god no. Tell her any of the icky, bloody, bodily function infused parts of pregnancy or birth and I guarantee she will run away screaming.
My advice for Joyce? Adopt. You get the cute baby, the joys of raising children, and none of the body horror.
Until she interacts with how children actually behave, especially when they’re tiny, at which point she will run away screaming again. Can’t really help her there.
This pretty much confirms that she never had a foot wart contracted from the gym. Yeah, she as home schooled, but they borrowed the high school’s gym sometimes, right? But they didn’t use the showers???
I think that Walky’s entire role in this arc is talking Joyce down… and maybe also starting a horribly ill-considered emotional rebound from wanting to ‘let go’ Dorothy with Joyce.
When something way less painful happened to me the new toenail was already long enough to not be creepy by the time the old one fell off, but if it happened sooner it might have been gross and painful. The way I remember it I think I got the same cool I’m basically healed feeling you get when a scab falls off to reveal healthy skin. Anyways stapling it back on seems like more body horror than the nail falling off will be.
Okay, I know that toenails falling off is a thing. But I have to question what expertise Walky, WHOSE NEVER ACTUALLY EXAMINED JOYCE’S INJURY, is bringing to bear on whether THIS toenail is going to fall off.
Wait, y’all have had scabs fall off? I didn’t even know they could do that. Mine just get smaller and smaller, until they’re nothing but scar tissue. Is that not normal? Am I gonna find out I have some kind of immune system disorder?
The way I understand is that, if you don’t fiddle with them, they dry out from the edges toward the middle, and tiny little dry bits progressively come off the outsides, making the area of scab get smaller until it’s all flaked off, so gradually that you don’t notice.
People whose scabs *come off* usually can’t leave them alone for the healing to finish happening by itself.
It depends how thick they are. A thick scab detaches from new skin at its base faster than it can erode at the margins. They develop a loose edge that sometimes gets caught on things and tears the attached scab off. I have sometimes trimmed the edge of a scab with scissors to prevent its catching.
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“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
I believe you have my stapler.
The most important question: is Leslie’s stapler a Swingline or a Boston?
Probably.
Dunno. Joyce hasn’t toed me.
Oh, sure. Just keep toeing the line.
Nailed it.
The puns are afoot!
Toe be, or not toe be; that is the question.
That’d be a good title
They’d all be good titles, Brent.
They’re all great titles, Brant.
That’s some dedicated toe protection
How did he do that?
And can this power be learned?
Not from a Jedi.
Please don’t.
He has nipples. Jedi milk nipples!!!!!!
I think that font signifies yodeling.
…..
…. by which I mean, I declare it official fanon.
Sung to the Harry Potter theme.
With a British accent, of course.
[LAUGHS IN HARRY POTTER]
Now’s our chance! Quick, everyone talk Willis out of “Up Here We Can Be Garbage”!
joyce stop
please
Yeah, that’d be fantastic.
Amazi-Girl isn’t the only one with vocal typeface powers.
grumpy joyce
quiet tonight
Pretty sure at this rate the sequel will be titled “Joyce Brown and the Chamber of Gangrene”.
Joyce Brown and the Stapler of Azkaban
Joyce Brown and the Goblet/Chalice of Jacob’s church
Joyce Brown and the Order of the Hospital.
Joyce Brown and the Half-Numb Foot
Joyce Brown and the Needed Femurs (Part 1)
Joyce Brown and the Accursed Digit
Joyce Brown and the Case of the Toe-Jam.
That’s right, I went old school, Hardy Boys.
And the prequel spin-off, Broken Toes and How to Heal Them.
Just remember: the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. (The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon.)
I’ve seen that movie (or, at least, that ditty from that movie)
What about the vessel with the pestle?
!!YES!!
When I have an ‘eh, f*ck it, it’s good enough’ moment, in my head a mail-clad soldier does an elaborate check mark on a piece of parchment and announces “The candidate passes!”
Joyce Brown and the Goblet of Episcopalianism
(maybe a little snappier:)
Joyce Brown and the Goblet of Heresy
H E R E S Y!
Goblet of Backwash.
Goblet of HERSHEY ummmarglebargle chocolate
Joyce Brown and the stationary stationery.
Followed by ‘Joyce Brown and the Prisoner of Denial’.
Leslie, you better get in there quick, before the stapler makes things worse. o-o
The universe is held together by duck tape,staples and and gum.
You bet your ass it’s going to hold her toe nail!
Hovertext still isn’t working on my iPhone. I can tell one is there but the text doesn’t show.
“maybe this should’ve been the title of this storyline”
“maybe this should’ve been the title of the storyline”
It says, “maybe this should’ve been the title of the storyline”.
New storyline title idea!
“Maybe This Should’ve Been The Title Of The Storyline”
Maybe that should’ve been the title of this storyline?
What? “New Storyline Title Idea”?
I’unno, lacks rhythm.
Oh, in case no one’s transcribed the hover text for you, it’s: “maybe this should’ve been the title of the storyline”
aw I was hoping to continue that convo with Joe and Sarah
You and me both.
Different couple that ain’t a couple… Yet.
…And if you’re using a stapler to fasten the words to this song…
You’ll find that a staple is just about a centimeter long!
Divide a Meter by Decimeters, you’ll find that there are ten
Divide a Meter by a hundred–you’ll have a hundred Centimeters then!
–Metric Marvels cartoon, circa 1979
With rhymes that stretch-y and corny, it’s no wonder the Metric system never took off in the US…
By that logic no one should be cooking with gas stoves anymore.
Nonono, it’s toeNAIL, not toeSTAPLE.
You could try a toescrew, but then Willis would have take it to Slipshine.
I simultaneously hissed in horror and chuckled, and ended up making a noise like boiling water on the bus. So thanks for that.
“Joyce Brown and the Mediocre Body Horror” should be the title of the next book.
I love Joyce and Walky interactions. Like, it’d be funny anyway without knowing they were married in another universe, or that they’re both attracted to one another and yet very repulsed (Joyce crushed on boys from her Christian kid show that Walky turned out to be on; Walky admitted to Dorothy’s amusement that Joyce was beautiful as to how he got the inkling before being told that Ethan was gay, that Ethan didn’t seem to look at her like that)
It’s just this friendship of mutual belligerence with shared fandom and genuine care holding it together, combined with stubbornness.
Please please can you link that strip? It’s ok if you don’t also…
Walky admitting he thought Joyce was gorgeous? Or Joyce having a thing for the boys from the show when she was younger, and Dorothy, Joyce, and Walky realizing one of the kids was Walky?
All three?
Dorothy,Joyce and Walky realize Walky’s secret Sin and Shame
the other two I couldn’t find after a 30 minute search, and I can’t narrow it down any further than some time after Becky popped up.
It’s so sweet of you to put in the effort. May you be blessed with super fast internet always.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/secularmedia/ (“cute little mice boys”)
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/unpretty/ (not exactly the word “gorgeous,” but…)
Thanks! (you too, khyrin)
Heh, well, I guess I remembered it more strongly than he phrased it, but still. Thank you for the people who posted the links
I hope Walky keeps Narrating this for the rest of the chapter
Yes, Joyce, put a staple in your possibly broken toe. That will help.
But that is what overpriced, overworked, caffeinated medical personnel are for.
No, no, Joyce — use duct tape, not staples.
I mean, it won’t actually work, but it’s less painful.
I lost a toenail after running a marathon. I actually did hold it on with a Band-aid for a couple of weeks until it fell off most gently – and by then, there was a new nail under it.
If duct tape doesn’t work, then you aren’t using enough duct tape.
…. I suppose you COULD make a splint with enough duct tape.
Gorilla Tape is my go-to followed by Duct Tape as opposed to gaffers tape aka Duck Tape.
What exactly does Walky’s voice sound like in that last panel I wonder?
I imagine it as a cross between Jim Dale and Vincent Price.
Possibly a bit of Stephen Fry.
Vincent Price or Billy Van as the Librarian from Frightenstein
OMG, does that bring back memories.
Native Bridgeporter here, so when someone says Jim Dale, I go straight to Phineas T. Barnum.
I also imagine Walky can sing pretty nicely.
Let go of the toe, Joyce. It must fly free!
JOYCE NO
The last thing that toe needs is more trauma, girl. Band-aid?
joycenoahhh
It dead, man
Rip in peace.
Technically a toenail is dead from the moment it appears.
“Omae wa mou shindeiru.”
“Nani‽”
Everyone will think I’m referencing Fist of the North Star, but I’m actually referencing Dragon Ball Super referencing Fist of the North Star
This is actually an extreme body horror and I fully support Joyce’s decision to keep her sock on for a month.
I still don’t understand why nobody did the “poke hole in nail to let out blood” trick.
It’s not “Clever First Aid Tricks of Age”.
Also, I don’t think Joyce would react better to blood pouring out of her toenail.
Maybe Willis didn’t want to draw that. It was icky enough seeing Jeph do it in QC when Martin had to have it done.
Oh this is a metaphor for Joyce not being able to let things go is it *taps side of nose knowingly*
Who nose?
Aren’t you supposed to tap your forehead, not your nose?
… he had Phil Foglio writing the title for the last panel? XD
Can’t be, no hat.
I was already grossed out by the rest of the comic, and then Joyce’s last line made me nope out of existence.
oh nooooo i had not picked that uuup 8l
I’m wondering how Joyce has got to this point in her life without ever encountering a part of her anatomy dropping off. Doesn’t she remember her milk teeth? Hasn’t she ever had a scab over a cut?
Okay, it’s gross but her over-reaction has gone beyond ignorant naivety and has reached open silliness!
*looks at camera like jim from the office*
I can kinda relate to Joyce. I had my wisdom teeth out when I was 22 and was irrationally upset about losing “a part of me”. Over ten years later, I think I was being a bit silly.
Well, people know that milk teeth are supposed to fall out, and scabs aren’t really ‘a part of anatomy’. Having a toenail fall off really feels very differently to that…
how does she deal with periods?
I’m in my early 20’s and the worst that’s ever happened to me was spraining my ankle when I was 7. Losing a toenail definitely counts as body horror for me, as silly as it sounds.
I’m 45 and the idea of losing a big toenail is frightening as fuck. I think the root of the fear is the idea that the underlying exposed skin would be extremely, unbearably sensitive to the touch for a long time. This idea is supported by every time I’ve cut my toenails too short.
Joyce, think. It”s dead, but you’re forcing it to behave as if it’s alive. That’s necromancy, and is how the zombie apocalypse starts. Keep your toe zombies to yourself, before it spreads and kills us all.
Yeah, next thing you know we’ll have a zombie Toedad on our hands.
Then we can definitely say trouble’s afoot.
I see what you did there.
Not to imply that you were hiding what you did there, I just felt like it deserved some recognition.
Don’t risk any permanent toe damage.
Exactly. No sense taking a risk when you can make sure it happens.
THIS squicks Joyce out?
I mean, yes, okay, it’s moderately disturbing, but to the point that you want to STAPLE the toenail on???
THIS counts as body horror for Joyce?
….
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Joyce thinks she wants to have kids, but JOYCE DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE KIDS.
Good god no. Tell her any of the icky, bloody, bodily function infused parts of pregnancy or birth and I guarantee she will run away screaming.
My advice for Joyce? Adopt. You get the cute baby, the joys of raising children, and none of the body horror.
Until she interacts with how children actually behave, especially when they’re tiny, at which point she will run away screaming again. Can’t really help her there.
Get a Tamagotchi
I’ve dealt with a few in-growns, but ye gods may I never go through a falling nail in my lifetime.
This pretty much confirms that she never had a foot wart contracted from the gym. Yeah, she as home schooled, but they borrowed the high school’s gym sometimes, right? But they didn’t use the showers???
Wait until this comic covers staph infections.
The high school gym was borrowed for use as a church auditorium, IIRC.
Oh, I think you are right, I misremembered.
Crap, maybe you should go with something less painful like tape ?
I think that Walky’s entire role in this arc is talking Joyce down… and maybe also starting a horribly ill-considered emotional rebound from wanting to ‘let go’ Dorothy with Joyce.
It’s a stapler to staple Walky’s mouth shut
I have to agree that I think Joyce is in a bad enough mood to be contemplating violence against Walky.
There’s that one scene in Bakemonogatari
not gonna lie. I’d react just like Joyce
Ouch
When something way less painful happened to me the new toenail was already long enough to not be creepy by the time the old one fell off, but if it happened sooner it might have been gross and painful. The way I remember it I think I got the same cool I’m basically healed feeling you get when a scab falls off to reveal healthy skin. Anyways stapling it back on seems like more body horror than the nail falling off will be.
Soulmates.
I’m handicapping the prime timeline asserting itself here at 33.bone %
33.bone% is my favorite Undertale speedrun
Future title suggestions underneath. (Unofficial, duh)
Mine is: “Not this again…”
Staple-Toe is Joyce’s spirit name…
Okay, I know that toenails falling off is a thing. But I have to question what expertise Walky, WHOSE NEVER ACTUALLY EXAMINED JOYCE’S INJURY, is bringing to bear on whether THIS toenail is going to fall off.
Was Joyce allowed to read Harry Potter? Can she appreciate how much effort Walky put into learning how to speak like that?
lmao sometimes i forget they’re not married in this universe
Wait, y’all have had scabs fall off? I didn’t even know they could do that. Mine just get smaller and smaller, until they’re nothing but scar tissue. Is that not normal? Am I gonna find out I have some kind of immune system disorder?
Nothing is wrong with you I remember it a scab falling off once but I think your way is what usually happens.
The way I understand is that, if you don’t fiddle with them, they dry out from the edges toward the middle, and tiny little dry bits progressively come off the outsides, making the area of scab get smaller until it’s all flaked off, so gradually that you don’t notice.
People whose scabs *come off* usually can’t leave them alone for the healing to finish happening by itself.
It depends how thick they are. A thick scab detaches from new skin at its base faster than it can erode at the margins. They develop a loose edge that sometimes gets caught on things and tears the attached scab off. I have sometimes trimmed the edge of a scab with scissors to prevent its catching.