im ashamed to admit that it took me way too long to realize she looks different because her glasses are absent
SillyGoose
Oh no, the Clark Kent effect is real!
Also, she looks hotter like that, which also makes the “average girl turning prom queen” trope true.
Or maybe it’s “wow you look better when having a normal conversation instead of spewing hate!”
Indeed. Evil being automatically ugly is one of the worst cliches in popular culture. One of the best changes in the cinematic adaptation of a certain wildly popular school fantasy series was casting an attractive actor in a role described in the text as looking like a toad. Said actor, being skilled in the thespian art, managed to convey the character’s evil nonetheless.
Vulcanodon
In Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy is surprised that Glinda is a witch but is beautiful, she responds; “Only wicked witches are ugly!” Even as a little kid, it struck me that was total bullshit.
Renadt
It really comes down to physiognomy, where attractiveness is seen as virtuous and “ugliness” as evil. This is taken to its logical conclusion in The Beauty and the Beast where Gaston is evil but beloved and the Beast is seen as “evil” for being merely a beast.
I don’t think Mary is ugly, but she usually strikes me as pretty plain compared to most of the female cast members, which is why she took me by surprise today. But, yes, her inner ugliness makes her very unattractive.
Baptism is a central ritual in pretty much all of Christianity. It’s what “indelibly” makes someone a Christian. Like during the Spanish Inquisition, non-baptized Jews and Muslims were expelled, but if they got baptized then they were under the church’s jurisdiction and the church would burn them at the stake if they said they were faking.
It’s the wet hair and frustration with shower sex. If it were any other strip she’d be doing these things while calling for a stoning, but in a vacuum honestly I’d do the same set of things
The wet hair definitely helps. It looks like it’s falling naturally instead of being “that cartoon character’s hair shape” like Dorothy, Joyce, and Rachel. They all look like they walked out of hair and makeup and only found out it’s an early morning scene when they walked on set.
She’s not immediately going the god-botherer route. I’m thinking plenty of people who aren’t sex-shaming fundies might still object to sexy shenanigans in a public shower room
dinerkinetic
Yeah I like sex and don’t like when people I don’t want to have it next to me. It’s great the rest of the time though
joyce touches one(1) yucky thing and in her panic, drowns dorothy in the 0.5 inches of water and grime on the bottom of the shower. the worst timeline commences.
Bee-Tee-Dubs, I never had any troubles with the old site; whatever Hiveworks did with the new site, it either needs optimization or they need to add more servers to handle all the traffic.
The old site definitely had problems. New strips took increasingly long to actually show up after they were posted and the site frequently struggled to handle the traffic of all of us refreshing the new strip.
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Those problems were mostly around the site update, but they definitely existed.
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Today’s issue was a server problem (generally), though, and it definitely would’ve happened with the old site too because it was still hosted by Hiveworks. Willis didn’t change hosts, they just finally gave up on a very old, very abandonware theme for DoA in exchange for this theme, which is still getting its kinks worked out but is at least still supported and getting security updates, etc.
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(I have my gripes with the new theme too.)
Cholma
I never had problems loading the old site, even at comic posting time. (except for the notorious sliding timeclock) Never had the page refuse to load nor get get “404 Page Not Found” or “504 Gateway Timeout” errors. I get those EVERY NIGHT now, and most likely means Hiveworks doesn’t have enough login servers (or Load Balancers) to handle the traffic, so it fails to serve the pages.
Li
Right but it was on Hiveworks before. It’s always been on Hiveworks. So those things are not because of the change we can see with our eyes.
in in before all the 504 gateway blocked learn to get in sideways from yesterdays strip.
now willis just has to get rid of all the autoplaying video ads on adsense , slowing the site to a crawl
usually the one on their knees is giving the sexual favour, ie being the bottom.
Li
No no no, you misunderstand me. What on earth makes you say Joyce doesn’t have top energy? I could not agree more strongly haha.
Li
No no no, you misunderstand me. What on earth makes you say Joyce doesn’t have top energy? I could not disagree more.
Li
(Tried to stop the first comment when I noticed its hilarious typo, but couldn’t, and now I can’t delete either! Oops. :)
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But yeah, I have always thought Joyce was toppy. She’s extra toppy with Dorothy, though.)
RassilonTDavros
She had a single top bone surgically implanted for the sole purpose of topping Dorothy a couple storylines ago.
She got the donor bone from Ruth’s personal femur stash, no questions asked.
This.
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Like her previous longest running relationship was WALKY. She, as in Joyce, topped the heck out of Walky. She topped the heck out of Joe. She would probably also have topped Jacob! I’m pretty sure the closest Joyce has ever come to dating a top in any universe is Ethan? Who I would still classify as more of a switch than a top. Plus, you know, she was never going to actually interact with him in that way, so it wasn’t really relevant to their dynamic.
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I feel like insisting Joyce could never top anyone is really confusing a (former) lack of sexual experience and therefore confidence with “being a bottom”.
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(And of course we are all somewhat confusing “bottom” and “top” with “sub” and “dom”, but that’s fine, it’s a colloquial usage, as long as no one starts insisting sexual position preference has to match whatever personality type it’s fine.)
Actually I just figured out what Rachel, Roz, and Mary have in common that annoys me. It’s not they they’re just or opinionated or anything. It’s that they each try to push their moral code on everyone they meet.
Mary is somehow almost relatable when she interacts with these two specifically.
Which is funny, cause I’m honestly a Joyrothy Enjoyer for the most part.
ffff
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also, in other news: I GOT A JOB. :) It wasn’t an application I expected to go anywhere, but bam! It went places. :D And it is a significant raise over my last job, too. \o/ Starts in April. :)
Thank you! <3 The relief is beyond intense, it's been more than a year. :')
StClair
For me too. -_-;
Congratulations, and good luck!
AK
Congratulations on escape from job search hell and hella congrats on doing it with a pay raise, that’s rad! Hope the new place is a good environment to be in.
embe13
PARTY AT LI”S PLACE!!!!
i hope your good fortune lasts til last call at the restaurant at the end of the universe!
130 thoughts on “Baptize”
Astariel
Nice try, guys. Absolutely love the faces in panel 4. They look so earnest.
Somehow, wet hair makes Mary almost look attractive.
QueenofSodor
dorpy looks like a bug you’d find under a rock (complimentary)
Throwatron
im ashamed to admit that it took me way too long to realize she looks different because her glasses are absent
SillyGoose
Oh no, the Clark Kent effect is real!
Also, she looks hotter like that, which also makes the “average girl turning prom queen” trope true.
Or maybe it’s “wow you look better when having a normal conversation instead of spewing hate!”
Needfuldoer
Mary’s ugliness is on the inside. (And it’s what’s inside that counts.)
MAC089
Indeed. Evil being automatically ugly is one of the worst cliches in popular culture. One of the best changes in the cinematic adaptation of a certain wildly popular school fantasy series was casting an attractive actor in a role described in the text as looking like a toad. Said actor, being skilled in the thespian art, managed to convey the character’s evil nonetheless.
Vulcanodon
In Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy is surprised that Glinda is a witch but is beautiful, she responds; “Only wicked witches are ugly!” Even as a little kid, it struck me that was total bullshit.
Renadt
It really comes down to physiognomy, where attractiveness is seen as virtuous and “ugliness” as evil. This is taken to its logical conclusion in The Beauty and the Beast where Gaston is evil but beloved and the Beast is seen as “evil” for being merely a beast.
Astariel
I don’t think Mary is ugly, but she usually strikes me as pretty plain compared to most of the female cast members, which is why she took me by surprise today. But, yes, her inner ugliness makes her very unattractive.
Wizard
Mary could easily make herself more attractive, if she could somehow ease up on spewing hateful bullshit.
NGPZ
Baptize?
Joyce you were in the Baptist church for like, 2 years max! XD
Jeff K!
Most Christian denominations involve some form of baptism or other.
The Baptists just really focus on how Catholics got the method wrong.
BadRoad
The Baptists think the Catholics got a *lot* of stuff wrong.
Aquila
I think the more relevant objection is that Joyce, right now, is an ATHEIST!
HueSatLight
Baptism is a central ritual in pretty much all of Christianity. It’s what “indelibly” makes someone a Christian. Like during the Spanish Inquisition, non-baptized Jews and Muslims were expelled, but if they got baptized then they were under the church’s jurisdiction and the church would burn them at the stake if they said they were faking.
NGPZ
I can’t believe how many of you didn’t get the reference XD
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/meeee/
IntangibleMatter
This is the most likable and relatable Mary has ever been in the strip, good for her.
dinerkinetic
It’s the wet hair and frustration with shower sex. If it were any other strip she’d be doing these things while calling for a stoning, but in a vacuum honestly I’d do the same set of things
Needfuldoer
The wet hair definitely helps. It looks like it’s falling naturally instead of being “that cartoon character’s hair shape” like Dorothy, Joyce, and Rachel. They all look like they walked out of hair and makeup and only found out it’s an early morning scene when they walked on set.
Bryy
Why?
Aquila
I think it’s the not-immediately-flying-off-the-handle-and-threatening-fire-and-brimstone … -ness … of her reaction.
Zaxares
I admit, I’m rather surprised she ISN’T immediately launching into a fire and brimstone harrangue at the two of them.
Wizard
She’s not immediately going the god-botherer route. I’m thinking plenty of people who aren’t sex-shaming fundies might still object to sexy shenanigans in a public shower room
dinerkinetic
Yeah I like sex and don’t like when people I don’t want to have it next to me. It’s great the rest of the time though
Doopyboop
Drown her, Joyce.
jabbingQuirker
joyce touches one(1) yucky thing and in her panic, drowns dorothy in the 0.5 inches of water and grime on the bottom of the shower. the worst timeline commences.
Jerna
And by that, squirt all over her face, Joyce!!
shadowcell
and tongues!
speaking in, that is
what did you think i meant
butting
“(inYOURendo)”
“(pfffft)”
Mary: continues to stare maryly
clif
You know it’s the first thing that crossed all our minds.
Risky
Martyrly Mary. Smell the suffering.
Cholma
“If you’d like to join us, Mary, we could perform an exorcism!”
Cholma
Bee-Tee-Dubs, I never had any troubles with the old site; whatever Hiveworks did with the new site, it either needs optimization or they need to add more servers to handle all the traffic.
Li
The old site definitely had problems. New strips took increasingly long to actually show up after they were posted and the site frequently struggled to handle the traffic of all of us refreshing the new strip.
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Those problems were mostly around the site update, but they definitely existed.
.
Today’s issue was a server problem (generally), though, and it definitely would’ve happened with the old site too because it was still hosted by Hiveworks. Willis didn’t change hosts, they just finally gave up on a very old, very abandonware theme for DoA in exchange for this theme, which is still getting its kinks worked out but is at least still supported and getting security updates, etc.
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(I have my gripes with the new theme too.)
Cholma
I never had problems loading the old site, even at comic posting time. (except for the notorious sliding timeclock) Never had the page refuse to load nor get get “404 Page Not Found” or “504 Gateway Timeout” errors. I get those EVERY NIGHT now, and most likely means Hiveworks doesn’t have enough login servers (or Load Balancers) to handle the traffic, so it fails to serve the pages.
Li
Right but it was on Hiveworks before. It’s always been on Hiveworks. So those things are not because of the change we can see with our eyes.
Nono
Okay but this means Mary and Rachel might interact again, and I would be seated for that.
Ray Radlein
Out of the Rachel-pan and into the Mary
Steamweed
Now I got a dirty and horrifying visual in my mind’s eye. Thanks for that.
Freemage
I’m gonna need a Sickos gif, stat!
darkoneko
phew.
Adam Black
why is mary even asking ?
in in before all the 504 gateway blocked learn to get in sideways from yesterdays strip.
now willis just has to get rid of all the autoplaying video ads on adsense , slowing the site to a crawl
jabbingQuirker
everytime i see “Dorothy bottoms” info in DoA i flinch just a little. Joyce doesnt have a single top bone in her body.
Li
…? Why would you say that?
jabbingQuirker
“i’m going to come on my knees”
usually the one on their knees is giving the sexual favour, ie being the bottom.
Li
No no no, you misunderstand me. What on earth makes you say Joyce doesn’t have top energy? I could not agree more strongly haha.
Li
No no no, you misunderstand me. What on earth makes you say Joyce doesn’t have top energy? I could not disagree more.
Li
(Tried to stop the first comment when I noticed its hilarious typo, but couldn’t, and now I can’t delete either! Oops. :)
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But yeah, I have always thought Joyce was toppy. She’s extra toppy with Dorothy, though.)
RassilonTDavros
She had a single top bone surgically implanted for the sole purpose of topping Dorothy a couple storylines ago.
She got the donor bone from Ruth’s personal femur stash, no questions asked.
Dwampre Scorrigank
She doesn’t have a Calvaria?
FrivYeti
TBH, that just sounds like you haven’t known enough service tops, which is basically Dorothy’s whole deal in 90% of interactions with Joyce.
Astariel
Joyce is such a top. If Joyrothy never happened, she would have been topping Joe in about a (in-universe) week.
Li
This.
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Like her previous longest running relationship was WALKY. She, as in Joyce, topped the heck out of Walky. She topped the heck out of Joe. She would probably also have topped Jacob! I’m pretty sure the closest Joyce has ever come to dating a top in any universe is Ethan? Who I would still classify as more of a switch than a top. Plus, you know, she was never going to actually interact with him in that way, so it wasn’t really relevant to their dynamic.
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I feel like insisting Joyce could never top anyone is really confusing a (former) lack of sexual experience and therefore confidence with “being a bottom”.
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(And of course we are all somewhat confusing “bottom” and “top” with “sub” and “dom”, but that’s fine, it’s a colloquial usage, as long as no one starts insisting sexual position preference has to match whatever personality type it’s fine.)
tim Rowledge
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Dean
Dorothy will feel the presence inside her!
Slartibeast Button, BIA
“Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.” – Marx
Cassie
Are we gonna get Roz yelling tips next strip, just to round out the frustration brigade?
Cassie
Actually I just figured out what Rachel, Roz, and Mary have in common that annoys me. It’s not they they’re just or opinionated or anything. It’s that they each try to push their moral code on everyone they meet.
Freemage
And thus far, Mary is being far less judgeyjudge than Rachel, this arc, which is… something.
Dot
At this point the formula with DoJo scenes is that we’ll have 2-3 strips of cute fluff before getting to the damn point so I’m kind of tuned out rn
clif
You have to pick up speed before you can have a decent train wreck. But you want to watch it in slow motion so you don’t miss anything.
RassilonTDavros
Mary is somehow almost relatable when she interacts with these two specifically.
Which is funny, cause I’m honestly a Joyrothy Enjoyer for the most part.
Dara
okay
i actually like panel 3 mary
it’s a st. patrick’s day miracle xD
Li
ffff
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also, in other news: I GOT A JOB. :) It wasn’t an application I expected to go anywhere, but bam! It went places. :D And it is a significant raise over my last job, too. \o/ Starts in April. :)
Ray Radlein
Congrats!
Li
Thank you! <3 The relief is beyond intense, it's been more than a year. :')
StClair
For me too. -_-;
Congratulations, and good luck!
AK
Congratulations on escape from job search hell and hella congrats on doing it with a pay raise, that’s rad! Hope the new place is a good environment to be in.
embe13
PARTY AT LI”S PLACE!!!!
i hope your good fortune lasts til last call at the restaurant at the end of the universe!
Li
Bawww thank you all ;o;
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PARTY!!!!
Dara