Makes me think of Becky wearing a t-shirt that reads ‘Trolly Problem’ with the classic trolley problem image and the trolley is being driven by the troll face.
I don’t expect it to happen, but I could see Joyce trying in her well-meaning but very hamfisted and uneducated way to be really supportive of finding us hot and unintentionally doing it in a way that gives mad chaser energy, and then either doubling down out of stubbornness or putting her foot in her mouth and really showing her ignorance when called on it..
Tan
Joyce stuck in a loop whether failing to find Carla attractive is transphobic, or finding Carla attractive is fetishizing and therefore also transphobic, fails to realize that Carla is a gorgeous goddess and everything else is moot.
Yes, she knows. She asked Ethan for advice and Ethan, thinking she was asking for advice about Jocelyne, accidentally directed Joyce to act really weird and overly-familiar with Carla.
I’m not sure if Carla would be more offended at not being on the Do List because she’s trans, or at not being on the Do List because Joe doesn’t know who she is.
Li
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/bestow/
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Well, as per the lengthy conversation last time the topic came up, it’s the first reason you listed. Joe had growing to do! He still does. Most people do, in one arena or another, and definitely all the main cast.
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(And no, the list wasn’t just people he personally finds attractive, it WAS a list of every woman he even saw hanging around, many entries didn’t have names and were instead things like “perky brunette”, let’s please not relitigate this, it is an exhaustively settled question.)
Li
CLARIFICATION: not saying you specifically were gonna make those arguments, just getting ahead of the topic in GENERAL.
Dandi_Andi
No need to worry about it, Li. I’m the one with a beef with Joe and I don’t think you’ll need to worry about me chiming in anymore.
I’m impressed by carla’s ability to roller skate while carrying a TV. Also I’ll say it if Joyce won’t, Carla’s very hot. And her hair looks very pretty here. (I see that blush though joyce, you’re not fooling anyone)
Becky, I know you don’t believe in a god anymore, but you’re still doing the work of a saint.
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So among Becky’s questions about girl hotness; who is she going to ask about that has no good answer?
There’s really no other time to talk about this but I just feel like mentioning Carla sits in a weird sort of privileged position with Tony of all people where they both have private rooms with enough space for big tv’s. I don’t know if this is a money thing, an age thing, possibly a trans thing for Carla specifically, or just a perk of knowing the right people. It’s just something I notice and think about that’s probably inconsequential to anything really….Maybe Ruth fits here too actually. I don’t think she has a big tv though. Cause she’s not that cool.
I don’t know that it was ever explicitly addressed, but my money is on the University not wanting to deal with the possible fallout of assigning a Mary as Carla’s room-mate.
BYM!
I think it was said that Carla has her own room because she is trans, yes. Parents may have factored in too, I don’t recall.
If it’s a money thing, it’s probably not that much money. Singles just cost a little more room and board. There’s singles at the end of the hall too, and on the top floor IIRC. Being a billionaire or the kid of a dean isn’t necessary.
They have private rooms because their respective parents paid for private rooms. In Carla’s case, they may have been encouraged to pay for a private room because she’s transgender; however, given their massive wealth they might’ve considered the cost of a private room trivial anyway.
But you don’t get your own room for being non-binary… I was really happy not knowing a birth gender for Booster until I suddenly realised they would not have been put in with Walky if…. Another reason for not putting people 2 to a room!
(Can’t be having those penes in female spaces, like vaginas, as Mary explained)
I thought Tony had a roommate? He’s also a junior or senior if I remember right, so maybe that’s part of it? (Of course being one of the deans’ sons helps. Life is as much who you know as much as it is what you know.)
Athletes in top schools often have their own dorm. Coaches like a controlled environment so they don’t get into trouble. Plus they have weird schedules.
Tony’s probably a sophomore. Walky says he’s an underclassman, and it’s pretty clear that he’s not a freshman. That doesn’t quite match up with him assuming freshmen want him to buy them beer, but maybe he took a gap year or something.
he’s on the concussion ball team, he may have spent a year or 2at a junior college playing tier 2 ball before transfering into IU
Big Z
Also common for D1 college football players to sit around and not play their first year at college specifically so they can have another year of training before they start playing for real, and IU’s football program is plenty prestigious enough to afford to keep even those guys in single rooms — they were #1 in 2025 hard enough that they were 16-0 and second place was 13-3.
Where i went to college, you could pay to have a private room. You were essentially paying for both spots, plus a bit extra. I don’t know anyone who actually did that though. RA’s also got a private room as part of the gig.
When I was in college, private rooms cost more AND there was a hierarchy of who got them. For most dorms, the older students got first dibs on signing up for room requests (as opposed to random assignments) and once you had a room you had the right to stay there for the rest of your university career.
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Which means that the occasional underclassman got lucky if a single opened up and no one noticed before room signups were open to the kids lower on the priority list.
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My own dorm was hotly contested and signups were still mostly on paper — people would line up like it was a black friday sale, the housing folks would actually call people to make sure if you were, for example, trying to move into a spot vacated by a buddy who was going to an apartment to make sure you weren’t unfairly bumping him from a room he’d been in for years, that kind of thing.
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Carla is absolutely the kind of person I can imagine chilling at the front of such a line two hours before it starts. “Hey, losers. Carla gets what she wants because Carla got here first.”
thejeff
Sure, but Carla is absolutely in that single because she’s trans. For good or ill, whether she wanted it or not, that’s why she’s got a single. Not because she’s stubborn enough to stand in line, not even because of the family money.
What if Joyce did bet her ass and then lost the bet, so that Becky ended up owning Joyce’s ass? How would that exacerbate Becky’s conflicting feelings toward Joyce? Would Dorothy have to negotiate with Becky in order to have sex with Joyce, thus making their roommate situation even more awkward? Since Dina owns Becky’s ass, would that mean that Joyce’s ass also belongs to Dina through the transitive property?
110 thoughts on “Gang way”
Doctor_Who
Ask her about Dina, Becky.
There is no possible answer to that question that won’t cause the drama to increase 10x, and Joyce’s brain will melt trying to find one.
Icalasari
If she’s in an extra trolly mood, she could then follow up, “Ah, guess that one is hard for you. Am I hot?” and see if Joyce shuts down
Ana Chronistic
“How ’bout would it be faster to ask who ISN’T h—”
“MARY”
Hottie Birthday, Willis
Rowen Morland
Makes me think of Becky wearing a t-shirt that reads ‘Trolly Problem’ with the classic trolley problem image and the trolley is being driven by the troll face.
Astariel
Carla is definitely hot.
Honestly, I’d be perfectly happy with Becky and Joyce taking a week to go through the whole female cast.
Olofa
Define “going through”
Steamweed
“Yes.”
Astariel
Well, I meant discussing whether Joyce finds them hot or not, but I’m open to the innuendo interpretations of the phrase.
Kammon
And once they’re done rating all the female cast, they can put the list up on an internet site with shoddy security!
NGPZ
Happy birthday to you!
The world is a zoo!
You look like an Ultra Car!
And you smell like one too!
🥳 🪅 🎉 🎂 🎈 🎊 🎁
TrueSurvivor
Happy Birthday, Mr. Willis!
Also, what does an ultracar smell like?
NGPZ
like a transformer probably, with just a hint of gasoline for that perfect bliss ^^
Dot
I do not currently trust Joyce to be normal about finding trans women hot.
NGPZ
what ya think she gonna be a chaser now? XD
Summer
I don’t expect it to happen, but I could see Joyce trying in her well-meaning but very hamfisted and uneducated way to be really supportive of finding us hot and unintentionally doing it in a way that gives mad chaser energy, and then either doubling down out of stubbornness or putting her foot in her mouth and really showing her ignorance when called on it..
Tan
Joyce stuck in a loop whether failing to find Carla attractive is transphobic, or finding Carla attractive is fetishizing and therefore also transphobic, fails to realize that Carla is a gorgeous goddess and everything else is moot.
Mitzi B.
never forget the time Joyce started asking whether the trans woman on her floor had a secret weenus: https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/magazines/
Alongcameaspider
Does Joyce actually know Carla is trans yet?
Last I remember she knows that somebody she knows is trans but not who it is
Astariel
Yeah, Mary outed her and Joyce proceeded to act weird in an oversupportive way. It was shortly before Jocelyne reappeared.
Dot
Yes, she knows. She asked Ethan for advice and Ethan, thinking she was asking for advice about Jocelyne, accidentally directed Joyce to act really weird and overly-familiar with Carla.
Rov
Nope, it was Mary. But, Joyce did ask Ethan for advice immediately after: https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/gutted/
Sirksome
I love this energy! 😈
Thag Simmons
Do you trust this energy?
Jon
Don’t trust energy.
RassilonTDavros
I mean she’s never really been normal about anything, so… 😐
Lys
I don’t think Joyce has ever managed to be normal about her attraction to anyone.
Adept
I know what you mean Dot.
I’ll just add that currently I don’t expect Joyce to be normal about pertty much anything really.
Pocky
honestly would love to see Joyce tackle that mental conundrum for a newly reformed christian lol
Sirksome
Is Carla on Joyce’s do-list? Will she get the inevitable apology donut?
Dr. T
That makes me wonder if Carla was on Joe’s Do List.
Doopyboop
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/accepting/ She wasn’t.
Dark_T_Zeratul
I’m not sure if Carla would be more offended at not being on the Do List because she’s trans, or at not being on the Do List because Joe doesn’t know who she is.
Li
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/bestow/
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Well, as per the lengthy conversation last time the topic came up, it’s the first reason you listed. Joe had growing to do! He still does. Most people do, in one arena or another, and definitely all the main cast.
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(And no, the list wasn’t just people he personally finds attractive, it WAS a list of every woman he even saw hanging around, many entries didn’t have names and were instead things like “perky brunette”, let’s please not relitigate this, it is an exhaustively settled question.)
Li
CLARIFICATION: not saying you specifically were gonna make those arguments, just getting ahead of the topic in GENERAL.
Dandi_Andi
No need to worry about it, Li. I’m the one with a beef with Joe and I don’t think you’ll need to worry about me chiming in anymore.
Stormtide Leviathan
I’m impressed by carla’s ability to roller skate while carrying a TV. Also I’ll say it if Joyce won’t, Carla’s very hot. And her hair looks very pretty here. (I see that blush though joyce, you’re not fooling anyone)
Amós Batista
It’s the power of rage
ZombieKyrik
Becky, I know you don’t believe in a god anymore, but you’re still doing the work of a saint.
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So among Becky’s questions about girl hotness; who is she going to ask about that has no good answer?
Jon
Dina. Or Becky herself.
Thomas
Neither of them have ever believed in Saints, though. That’s a Catholic thing and they were Evangelicals, who consider Saints to be false idols!
ZombieKyrik
I just meant doing something “holy”; not actual saints or anything like that. Guess I could have just said “god’s work” instead.
HueSatLight
55″ LGBTV
Ray Radlein
Much better than RGBTVs
HueSatLight
An RBGTV is when you should have replaced it years ago, and then it dies at the worst time.
Throwatron
i snorted
Sisyphus
Is Carla mad about the statement of the obvious, or something else? I know she has shit going on
Taffy
Some worthless cop smashed her TV during the pee raid.
RassilonTDavros
Thanks, I’d forgotten that. Link for reference.
clif
Her TV was broken during the police search.
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I’d be mad too.
Bill Erak
She may actually be plotting revenge. And I have a feeling that TV has to do with it.
(Also yes Carla is definitely top 3 most attractive girls in DoA, competing with Sal and Billie imo)
HueSatLight
Her TV was broken when Charlie checked after the cops searched all the rooms.
Sirksome
There’s really no other time to talk about this but I just feel like mentioning Carla sits in a weird sort of privileged position with Tony of all people where they both have private rooms with enough space for big tv’s. I don’t know if this is a money thing, an age thing, possibly a trans thing for Carla specifically, or just a perk of knowing the right people. It’s just something I notice and think about that’s probably inconsequential to anything really….Maybe Ruth fits here too actually. I don’t think she has a big tv though. Cause she’s not that cool.
Bill Erak
Probably a money thing.
Ruth’s a special case since she’s the. What was the term? RA? The supervisor, basically.
clif
I don’t know that it was ever explicitly addressed, but my money is on the University not wanting to deal with the possible fallout of assigning a Mary as Carla’s room-mate.
BYM!
I think it was said that Carla has her own room because she is trans, yes. Parents may have factored in too, I don’t recall.
HueSatLight
If it’s a money thing, it’s probably not that much money. Singles just cost a little more room and board. There’s singles at the end of the hall too, and on the top floor IIRC. Being a billionaire or the kid of a dean isn’t necessary.
C Baker
They have private rooms because their respective parents paid for private rooms. In Carla’s case, they may have been encouraged to pay for a private room because she’s transgender; however, given their massive wealth they might’ve considered the cost of a private room trivial anyway.
Thing 2
But you don’t get your own room for being non-binary… I was really happy not knowing a birth gender for Booster until I suddenly realised they would not have been put in with Walky if…. Another reason for not putting people 2 to a room!
(Can’t be having those penes in female spaces, like vaginas, as Mary explained)
Needfuldoer
I thought Tony had a roommate? He’s also a junior or senior if I remember right, so maybe that’s part of it? (Of course being one of the deans’ sons helps. Life is as much who you know as much as it is what you know.)
Doopyboop
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/all-right/ He’s got a single room.
Hof1991
Athletes in top schools often have their own dorm. Coaches like a controlled environment so they don’t get into trouble. Plus they have weird schedules.
Astariel
Tony’s probably a sophomore. Walky says he’s an underclassman, and it’s pretty clear that he’s not a freshman. That doesn’t quite match up with him assuming freshmen want him to buy them beer, but maybe he took a gap year or something.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/plebs/
embe13
he’s on the concussion ball team, he may have spent a year or 2at a junior college playing tier 2 ball before transfering into IU
Big Z
Also common for D1 college football players to sit around and not play their first year at college specifically so they can have another year of training before they start playing for real, and IU’s football program is plenty prestigious enough to afford to keep even those guys in single rooms — they were #1 in 2025 hard enough that they were 16-0 and second place was 13-3.
Kirdei
Where i went to college, you could pay to have a private room. You were essentially paying for both spots, plus a bit extra. I don’t know anyone who actually did that though. RA’s also got a private room as part of the gig.
Big Z
When I was in college, private rooms cost more AND there was a hierarchy of who got them. For most dorms, the older students got first dibs on signing up for room requests (as opposed to random assignments) and once you had a room you had the right to stay there for the rest of your university career.
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Which means that the occasional underclassman got lucky if a single opened up and no one noticed before room signups were open to the kids lower on the priority list.
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My own dorm was hotly contested and signups were still mostly on paper — people would line up like it was a black friday sale, the housing folks would actually call people to make sure if you were, for example, trying to move into a spot vacated by a buddy who was going to an apartment to make sure you weren’t unfairly bumping him from a room he’d been in for years, that kind of thing.
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Carla is absolutely the kind of person I can imagine chilling at the front of such a line two hours before it starts. “Hey, losers. Carla gets what she wants because Carla got here first.”
thejeff
Sure, but Carla is absolutely in that single because she’s trans. For good or ill, whether she wanted it or not, that’s why she’s got a single. Not because she’s stubborn enough to stand in line, not even because of the family money.
Astariel
What if Joyce did bet her ass and then lost the bet, so that Becky ended up owning Joyce’s ass? How would that exacerbate Becky’s conflicting feelings toward Joyce? Would Dorothy have to negotiate with Becky in order to have sex with Joyce, thus making their roommate situation even more awkward? Since Dina owns Becky’s ass, would that mean that Joyce’s ass also belongs to Dina through the transitive property?
Papers due Monday.
Amós Batista
Alt: I know Willis is talking about Joyce and also talking to us.
NGPZ