answering that tumblr ask from a year ago, or am i
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Joyce: Becky! I'm back from life drawing!
Becky: Didja get to draw any tiddies today? Can I see?
Joyce: No, it was a man today.
Becky: Dang. Yer lucky y'get a treat either way.
Joyce: It's not really like that.
Joyce: But hey! Grab your coat! I'm gonna take you out DRINKY-STYLE! Just you and me!
Becky: Hot damn! I--
Becky: --I actually don't think that's really a GREAT IDEA, right now. Imagine if you were Dina, what the optics'd be fer that.
Joyce: Imagining I'm Dina... Imagining I'm Dina... I have feelings on how to pronounce Diplodocus.
Becky: Y'did it wrong.

Either way
Posted on May 21, 2026 by David M Willis

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101 thoughts on “Either way”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    Dipe-LOA-dock-YOUSE

    1. Taffy

      dee-APA-lo-COD-ee-ose

      1. Dara

        Be-NE-dict-cum-BER-batch

        1. Giffem

          ya beat me to it lol

        2. Rose By Any Other Name

          Sta-CEE-DeEN-Nings.

        3. clif

          These are very strange ways to pronounce Diply O’Docus.

        4. snek

          Su-per-CALI-frag-ill-I-stick

    2. Ray Radlein

      “chumley”

      1. Needfuldoer

        The guy from Pawn Stars?

      2. Olofa

        The walrus from Tennessee Tuxedo?

      3. AndysDrawings

        No, you see, it’s *spelt* “Chumley” but it’s *pronounced* “Throatwarbler-Mangrove”

        1. Steamweed

          Confound this English language and its severity!

      4. Willoughby Chase

        I see someone chose violence today

    3. Theluxland

      Much easier in french, for once you spell all the letters how it’s supposed to be. Di-plow-doh-cuss.

    4. armepos

      Ann Ah Chrome E-Stick

    5. Makkabee

      Throat-warbler-mangrove.

  2. Dara

    Strong disagree, Becky. She did it exactly right.

    1. Leadsynth

      It’s pronounced gif, not gif!

      1. BethofDeath

        Sorry, it’s actually pronounced in the Old English style, gif.

  3. IntangibleMatter

    Okay aside from Joyce’s accurate but useless model of Dina’s behaviour for this, I feel like panels 3 and 4 are deserving of 800,000,000 edits. The change in Becky’s expression is too priceless to leave it.

    1. IntangibleMatter

      Update: it has been done

  4. Cholma

    If she said it wrong, then why didn’t Dina appear to correct her? CHECKMATE, Becky!

  5. Doctor_Who

    Side effects of envisioning yourself as Dina may include eating your body weight in breakfast cereal.

    1. Wack'd (Mod, Click Name for Rules)

      my body weight or dina’s body weight? one of those seems like the better option

      1. Jon

        Well, Dina’s body weight is like three or four bowls, so…

        1. Astariel

          By the commutative property, this means that one bowl of cereal weighs approximately as much as one atrociraptor

  6. QueenofSodor

    there’s this idea that’s been rotating around in my head of Becky and Joyce getting drunk together, where as they muse about their lives and relationship, Joyce kisses Becky in a reversal of the Book 5 moment where Becky kisses Joyce all surprise-like, purely just to test see there’s still no spark there. for all Joyce knows, maybe the surrogate sister boundary she imposed on Becky was made out of anxiety and denial, so maybe she should test that boundary…? And then, whatever happens after that happens…

    all i’m saying is this strip is ticking at least one box for me. go team ‘churchgirls drunken one-night-stand’!!!

    1. jabbingQuirker

      MORE YURI DRAMA! MORE YURI DRAMA

      1. IntangibleMatter

        Gagarin or lesbians?

        1. OngoingConversation

          What drama did Gagarin get up to?

          (Aside from going to space. I assume that was pretty dramatic.)

        2. Theodora

          If it was Yuri Gagarin drama there’d be a lot more Russian execptionalism and who’s invited to the parties where everyone dresses up like greek gods and gets drunk off the wazoo this week?

        3. Ray Radlein

          Valentina Tereshkova autoslash

    2. Fail Earnhardt

      Hey, Joyce cheated once and everything seemingly worked out for her. I could see her rolling the dice again in the right circumstances.

    3. Wack'd (Mod, Click Name for Rules)

      they’re not related by blood, so it’s technically okay

      1. clif

        Which is the best kind of okay.

    4. Amós Batista

      As Joyce x Dorothy situation wasn’t fireable enough

    5. SaffronComic

      I’ve been rooting for Joyce to pity-cheat on Dorothy with Becky for a while. It makes juuuuust enough sense to be in character and it’d be VERY funny. I’m very much on team Sickos in basically all conceivable situations so I’m in favor.

      (Of course, I also want a Becky/Mary ship where both were secretly trying to “convert” the other into being good/evil which makes no sense and will never happen but I think there’s actually good comedic chemistry there, which says something about my tastes I think)

      1. GreyICE

        Mary/Booster is the obvious sicko ship. She keeps trying to “deconvert” them back to their assigned gender, they keep gaslighting her about which that is. So she keeps inventing increasingly elaborate ways to find out, without of course doing anything sinful.

        But truthfully they fell in love because of a shared passion for giving awful advice to people so they show up as a couple to Greek chorus.

        1. SaffronComic

          See, the thing there is that Booster isn’t an evangelical so there’s no common ground there and you can’t get any character development out of it. Plus I don’t think Booster could pretend to be interested in Mary for too long, they’re not really the elaborate prankster type. What makes Becky/Mary such a fun crackship is that they have enough shared experiences that they could actually bond a little, and Becky would be more forgiving of Mary’s Mary-ness than, say, Carla, and more invested in the idea of finding the good in her. Then when it inevitably failed and Becky realized Mary is irredeemable you could milk it for drama and maybe even have Mary do the Robotnik thing where she talks about how much happier she’d be if she’d stop being evil and just live a normal life with a woman she loved, before deciding to be evil anyway out of sheer commitment to being a hater. Get a strip teasing an actual redemption arc before yanking it (even though Mary can’t ever be redeemed simply because what’s the point of her if she’s not evil. I should probably write this fanfic at some point but I’m procrastinating on my *actual* toxic yuri comic enough as it is.

      2. I Know Why The Mowed Lawn Screams

        Re: The Robotnik-esq Heel Affirmation, I’m 1000% down for that, if only because there is something very directly funny about potentially subverting/lampshading the handful of failed attempts to make Mary a semi-sympathetic core character during Roomies-era Walkyverse that tickles me the say way Julia Gray does

    6. AMagicalDuck

      Wait you’re cooking with this. Now we just need to get Dorothy involved too somehow

      1. QueenofSodor

        i’ve also been pining for some sort of dorothy/becky fling for a while now so i would hope she’d get involved if joyce and becky hooked up!!! they need to make a poindexter sandwich out of her

    7. Erzsi

      oh man i want this so happen so bad now lol

    8. Tequila Mockingbird

      now that you’ve put the idea in my head, i kinda wanna see this now.

  7. Thag Simmons

    Now the question is if Joyce is pulling out a hypothetical example or if there’s a Dina rant that’s burned itself into her brain.

  8. Dot

    “I know just what my best friend who’s just emerged from a suicidal depressive spiral needs! Alcohol!”

    1. StarryMoon

      Depression and alcohol do seem to go well together

      1. Rimwalker55

        But alchohol and water is a true solution.

        1. Stanistani

          How miscible!

    2. Bill Erak

      She’s just using Ruth and Jennifer as an example!

    3. Pocky

      *sighs and taps sign that says “Dumbing of Age”*. We ain’t reading Smarting of Age here. Just be glad they haven’t made a sapphic suicide pact like our other disaster duo lol

  9. Alongcameaspider

    Does it make the joke funnier if I’m imagining she’s pronouncing Diplodocus wrong here?

  10. Stormtide Leviathan

    Has Joyce been showing Becky her titty drawings this whole time? Now that’s best friendship right there

    1. Steamweed

      Seems like a great idea for an entire Other Patreon compilation!

    2. Dr T

      Honestly, it’s kind of my own head canon now that all of the Slipshine strips were retroactively drawn by Joyce seeing how she is about as invested in everyone’s love lives as Amber is.

  11. Cattleprod

    However you, the reader, think it should be pronounced, Joyce is not doing that.

  12. Astariel

    It’s really good to see Joyce and Becky being friendly again, and it’s also good to see that Becky wants to repair her relationship with Dina. For awhile there, it was looking like she didn’t think she should even try.

  13. RassilonTDavros

    it’s pronounced like “hydraulic” and “velocity” smooshed together and i reject any and all evidence to the contrary

    1. Taffy

      Water bottle moving quickly

  14. Pocky

    Life drawing has this magical effect of making the subject of your work the least appealing thing to you; regardless of if they are conventionally attractive. At least for me; it was dealing with trying to draw something as difficult as the human form, that stopped it from being sexy lol

  15. Barf Ninjason

    Dina seems like the exact kind of person who’d look past “optics” (uh, no pun intended there) to the actual intent of an action, so I wouldnae worry.

  16. redcaela

    You heard the lady who probably can’t pronounce diplodocus either. It’s time to get fucked up on root beer floats!

  17. Taffy

    It’s pronounced “gif”

    1. StClair

      Why don’t you just roll a golden apple into the room while you’re at it?
      you monster

    2. ZombieKyrik

      I have strong feelings on this matter, but I shouldn’t start a fight in the comments about the pronunciation of a file format. Oh well, I’ll have that fight somewhere else.

  18. Qube

    dih-PLOD-ih-kuss
    like a transformer
    or a roman guy

    1. Kimi

      Sounds like the bbc thinks there are possibly 4 ways of saying it. “Dinosaur names are made up from Latin and Greek, so they’re not real old words,” Crispin Little, a palaeontology lecturer at Leeds University. “It’s up to you how you pronounce them.”

      DIP-lo-DOH-cus: I think what they say people in the UK grow up knowing it as.

      Dip-LOD-er-cus: some others, especially the scientific community say it that way (and I am personally weirded out by them throwing an e sound in).

      “DIP-low DOCK-us”: according to the Natural History Museum, which says “this is because its name is the combination of the two Greek words – diplos (double) and dokos (beam), a reference to the formation of bones on the underside of its tail”. (Oddly this is what I thought before looking it up.)

      “digh-PLOD-uh-kuhss” : the “digh” sounding like “high”

      1. 3oranges

        Two Greek words, but since the second one has a short open vowel the traditional stress in the compound falls on the syllable before it.

        1. eh, whatever

          The Latin stress. Where the Greek stress goes is a much trickier question.

      2. Thing 2

        Grew up in the UK, thinking DIP lo DOH cus was a joke pronunciation…

  19. ZombieKyrik

    Becky, have you considered trying to talk to Dina 1 on 1, and being honest? If you still care about Dina, then you should tell her that. It’s not going to be fixed by on conversation, but it could be made worse by /not/ having a discussion.
    .
    What are y’alls thought on this?

    1. Rose By Any Other Name

      I mean, Becky would have to FIND Dina first.
      And if Dina doesn’t want to be found…

  20. Corey C.

    It’s so in-character for Joyce to do the right thing at precisely the WRONG time. I love that Becky is super appreciative of the gesture but knows that it could lead to another “Joyce tossing” moment. Whether it’s her lunch or her body is anyone’s guess.

  21. Soren

    Becky’s awareness of potentially hurting Dina, with something she actually would like to do, is refreshing to see. I’m usually team Sickos, but a caring choice amid all that chaos deserves credit imo. Good for her!

  22. Sajuuk-Khar

    It is only right and good that Becky is a Breast Girl, to contrast Joyce’s eternal dedication to The Bumper (The Bumper is Dorothy’s ass)

  23. Giguioto

    At least Joyce didn’t get on her knees to see the world from Dina’s POV…

  24. Darkoneko

    Oh boy.

  25. Taigan

    I feel like panel 4 is the most autistic reaction Joyce has ever had.

  26. Lamppost

    Might be because I come from a culture very different to where these kids are from, but I don’t get why Becky having drinks with her best friend Joyce would be bad optics, even given the circumstances of Becky and Dina’s breakup. Could someone explain?

    1. Paladin

      Because the whole problem is Becky still mooning over Joyce? Dina is also friends with Joe, and may have some extra beef with Joyce over how he was treated.

    2. Corey C.

      Dina knows Becky still holds an ember of a torch for Joyce, and she also knows that Joe felt the same way about Joyce while Joyce was publicly declaring Dorothy as her one true love. Theoretically, seeing Joyce and Becky drunkenly have a good time could make Dina assume either that that Joyce is trying to date Becky AND Dotty at the same time, or Joyce is stringing Becky along romantically as she did with Joe.

      Dina being told that she needs to be more selfish like Joyce, and selfishness in love is the only way it can prevail, would further sour Dina’s outlook if she saw the two together.

    3. Astariel

      I don’t think it has anything to do with Joe. Dina knows that Joyce and Dorothy went out for drinks shortly before getting together, and that Becky was extremely jealous about it. So she would likely see Becky and Joyce going out for drinks as yet more evidence that Becky is still hung up on Joyce.

    4. FluffyLlamacorn

      Yeah, I also don’t think it would be a problem? I think Becky’s logic is that it would look like she’s (basically) going on a date with Joyce, but that’s a very amatonormative way of looking at interactions. Yes, Becky isn’t nearly as over her crush as she should be, but it should be fine to hang out with your friends, even the ones you have a weird crush on. It’s one thing if Becky would otherwise be trying to talk to Dina and show an interest in fixing their relationship, but if she was planning on giving Dina space, she should be allowed to hang out with her friend.

  27. Ornathe

    Aww. I honestly just find it so refreshing to see Becky and Joyce being buddies again. Juicy as the drama has been, I’ve missed their friendship with all the ribbing and bluntness, and with both of them having had a little time to process their respective ends of the drama, it’s really, really nice to see them finally be able to gently bond over being queer together without either of them immediately flinching. They’re both making such an effort to repair things and it’s really sweet to see them working on it together here, even with the Dina situation still being a work in progress for Becky.

  28. Steamweed

    /dˈa͡ɪ plˈə͡ʊ dˈə͡ʊ kˈʌs/ :D

  29. BCGeiger

    Di-PLO-di-cus
    DIP-lo-do-cus
    🎼Let’s call the whole thing off. 🎶

  30. AC

    No no it’s not pronounced diplodocus, it’s diplodocus

  31. David

    It is interesting that everybody appears to have read the comic differently than I did. For me “Y’did it wrong.” referred to Joyce’s way of imagining to be Dina.

    1. temporaryobsessor

      That’s how I initially interpreted it.

      1. Mia

        I thought the joke was that she did both wrong….

    2. Daibhid C

      That’s how I read it, then I thought “But it’s funny that it could also sound like she pronounced ‘diplodocus’ wrong.”

    3. ResRam

      Both.
      Thats what makes it funny.

  32. Jerna

    Lesbian Love Sleuth: Prompt from “Reconnecting”: “Check your life insurance policy to see if you can now collect on it.”
    You go to your insurance office and ask to cash in on your life insurance policy. The clerk eyes you with suspicion, but you explain to them how you died but then got brought back to life by giving yourself a heart massage. The clerk asks if there were any witnesses to that event. You say that there were restaurant visitors and the owner, Mario Mario, and his staff, all with lush Italian moustaches. And do you know any of those witnesses? Eh no, you say. They will probably have left the restaurant. And Mario Mario has this policy of not letting him and his staff interfere with other instances. The clerk stands up and goes to the back of the room. He opens a door to the office where the boss is residing. You can’t see the figure in the back, only that he looks young and has blond hair. The clerk returns and says: “Sorry, Miss. But I spoke with the boss, and while it’s true that we pay out insurances for anyone who has escaped death, you’re going to need to do better than that. And he should know, he has done that and run off with the money to make this office.” You start huffing indignantly, trying to use some exclamations. But it comes out as a series of non-sequitur syllables. To emphasise your anger, you slap a stack of papers on the floor in the hope they flutter everywhere around the place and the clerk has to pick them all up. Unfortunately they stick together and fall as one massive block. You say some things as you leave, but to no avail. That’s the last time you take a policy at YOUR MOM FOR A NICKEL insurances. What will you do next?

    1. deliverything

      This seems like a dead end (no pun intended) right now. Head back to review your case files, failing to notice the person shadowing you for an embarrassingly long time. It turns out one of the random vocalisations you produced in your anger was actually the password someone was waiting for…

  33. Astariel

    It would be funny if we cut to Dina thinking about the pronunciation of Diplodocus, like the time Joyce read Walky’s mind. Joyce having unexplained superpowers is always funny.

    1. anon

      i think just mentioning it would bring it to her mind like the ending strip of walky and lucy talking about dinosaurs and a panel of dina looking liek she was gonna pounce them

  34. geno

    Honestly I would really enjoy it if this somehow turned into Becky and Dorothy getting together

  35. Stormtide Leviathan

    Anyone know what tumblr ask from a year ago the alt text is talking about?

  36. anon

    i mean, dumb teenage hormones aside you can still be platonic, although it would be interesting to see how becky would be drunk

  37. Meadow

    *writes this down in a notebook with “PLURAL JOYCE” written on the cover*

  38. Grimothy

    Yeah most people don’t realize how unsexy life drawing is. I know the comic made some jokes about it but Becky does not read the comic, so alas.

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