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(this doesn’t actually change Walky’s chances, it just makes Daisy rip off his shirt, which causes Joyce to get all flustered, which causes Daisy to start smelling Joyce pheremones, which leads to SLIPSHININ’)
I mean, I’m really bi and pretty damn thirsty, and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t evne notice the mark on his shirt much less construe that it involved saliva other than his own.
Seeing as Lucy described herself as het (by way of implying that Joyce was a white, bisexual version of herself)? that Gaydar must be very, very broken.
It is a gay radar that detects the wimminz, and I forgot to come up with a clearer name when I appended the parentheticals bc I was instead drawing Way Too Much Cat
This would also require Lucy to want to lick Walky’s shirt every day. Which, while it made her blush earlier, i doubt Lucy would want to do that every day.
By the fifth day the shirt is actively trying to kiss back, puckering up (wrinkling up?) its little linty lips in expectation?
You must draw it. Emp. Palpatine says, “Do it.!” So I guess you must.
Estrogen and testosterone cause really different pheromones. I know there’s a massive difference in the smell of my sweat and urine and genital stuff on testosterone vs off. I have not noticed a change in my saliva scent but it’s not infeasible.
I feel like it’s more a case of reminding us that she’s still the same Daisy we’ve always known and loved/hated after some strips in the last couple of storylines where she had some nuance, or at least some less one-note scripting. More of a two steps forward, one step Flanders.
Daisy’s thirst is rapidly spiraling into self parody. This is disappointing, but I suppose she had to redeem herself after accidentally displaying *gasp* functional, sentient non-horny thoughts in the last strip
I still have some faith. Admittedly the conceit of this joke is kind of ridiculous but I really doubt a lick on a shirt is really going to affect the decision here. It just helps even the playing field from what was essentially a guarantee Joyce would get the gig.
I get that. I’d even be fine if it was less of a logical leap — most of Daisy’s other punchlines have worked, because her horniness slots plausibly into the story around her. She was already talking about a female superhero, or Billie’s ex, or similar.
But this is just flat-out impossible. Why would she see Walky wearing a licked shirt and assume he didn’t lick it himself? It’s like she wandered into a Target, saw a toaster, thought “women buy toasters sometimes” and then accosted the nearest employee to introduce her to some toaster-purchasing women.
This is right up there with Ross saying “clever girl” when Dina attacked him. It’s a goofy moment, sure, but it completely breaks the scene. Which is a rare misstep, because I usually love this comic’s respect for its own world.
I’m assuming Daisy will catch herself in the next strip (and apologize) and that this is mostly a dumb gag rather than something that derails the entire scene, but we’ll see
Uhhhh Daisy, how would you know something like that? And surprisingly, it actually looks clean.
Is this going to get Walky the job? Will Daisy choose Joyce just because she wants two of her characters to be together? Find out on the next episode of Drago- I’m sorry wrong show.
You know, I suspected Lucy licking the sauce off of Walky’s shirt was going to drive something in the plot forward in a big way, but I’ve gotta admit I thought it was going to be some kind of sexual awakening in Walky, not summon every damn ounce of Daisy’s thirst.
Well there is a chance it did awaken something in walky. After all he was late getting to the newspaper office… Maybe he and lucy had… Stuff… To do together.
Julia Gray has way more story potential. If Willis let Joyce win, he’d have to show Joyce’s comics every once in a while. LAWsome is a one-note strip and Willis has already showed it, so he won’t have to show it again, and can do more with the real DoA story.
…Or maybe it’s just that I don’t enjoy brutality-for-comedy, and I’m missing something genuinely hilarious about LAWsome…
On the third hand, Willis is good enough to use Julia Gray as a real contribution to the storytelling – foreshadowing, Greek chorus, character development, the possibilities are many and various. So if he wants, he could certainly show Julia Gray strips without detracting from DoA.
I hate that “threesome except i’m just watching” is a thing I would actually agree to. (Not sure if that would count as cuckoldry though cuz I would absolutely want constant validation that one or both the parties still love me.)
Meh. Sex is tiring sometimes. I’ve never had one but I imagine a threesome is probably a lot of work. As long as everyone’s having a good time who cares?
From what I gather it’s more work the more penises are involved. I’ve only been involved in threesomes where mine was the only penis, but speaking to a bi woman who has more varied experience two penises is much worse, and that’s with the guys both being verified bi. As to no penises being best, that’s speculation on my part.
I think Daisy’s idea of a threesome (“Are you open to a third, and you can stand in the corner?” = bring your girl and then make yourself scarce) isn’t quite the same scenario as your version
I’ve never even had the sex part! Mostly cuz I’m just a bit bad at the courtship part. But I’ve definitely developed a love of femdom but NOT masochism. So I just wanna watch someone other than me get dommed
Naw, to Sirksome. But tbh I find chastity cages to be the antithesis of sexy or enjoyable. But that’s just me. (Now Robe bondage. That’s some hot shit.)
please don’t use any material of rope. cotton can stretch so not good for suspensions unless you know how to work with it. certain thicknesses (6/8-10/12mm standard are better for different body parts so you don’t impact circulation). some people like the roughness of jute but most don’t like the potential rub off / “splinter” potential.
sorry, that might of been a joke and i might have gotten too serious- but please be safe. I am rack over ssc, but risk measures must be mitigates. and have TWO emergency cutting devices , most people have a hook and safety sheers.
there’s every shade of nerd here I LOVE IT
please, everyone, if you’re ever tempted to read a post way too literally and respond with highly specific PSA or trivia
YES
PLEASE DO
(…besides i think this was actually a serious conversation? probably? sort of)
Its one that worries me because there’s a lot more that can affect “bite” and some can dangerously slip etc… but it’s one of those activities where people tend not to mess around once you go past harnesses/decorative/hand binds. Even body type effects how you’d tie someone. Basically – please research anything that puts you in highly vulnerable positions and can effect circulation.
I think it only counts as cuckoldry- as a kink- if the watcher is into it for that reason. It’s a whole thing of getting turned on by a certain mental aspect of the situation. So it’s cuckoldry only if that’s what you’d be into!
(The reassurance or including you verbally wouldn’t sway it either way imo. And I’m not looking for more information from you than you feel compelled to share, just sharing my own thoughts.)
Anyway, I don’t see it as a bad thing. I’d agree to it myself- with the right partners. I don’t think I’d particularly sexually enjoy watching my husband with another partner, but I can see it being an appealing way of sharing sexual intimacy and pleasure.
Nnnnot as comfortable with Daisy’s approach, mind you…
I wonder if Willis actually sometimes is thinking “Let’s see him try pull off drawing this if he’s such hot shit” while he’s drawing these to subliminantly baiting you into a challenge.
I mean how many pizzas are we talking? Or is it like a time limit during whcih I can order as many free pizzas as I like. And is he gonna last a long time or is he quickshot? And how much of a blowjob? Like does he have to reach orgasm? Do I have to swallow? There’s a lotta factors.
yes but you’re so GOOD AT ITTTTT
i mean humour is a skill right?
granted, much of that skill is just confidence???
but anyway i admire you cuties who can just be casually filthy, i have to work way hard to just admit to being turned on by anything, ok this is about to turn into a therapy session BYE BYE
God I love a sudden pivot from seriousness or sincerity into total farce. 10/10, would lick this strip except that would be gross and taste awful and get the paper and/or screen wet.
I am a little confused Daisy has shown more interest in the potential aftermath of woman spit over say y’know the actual living breathing woman who totally put a bunch of gay subtext in her comic right in front of her. I guess imagination will always trump reality.
It’s more that it takes a reagent of about .05 drams of lasciviousness to kickstart Daisy’s thirst chain reaction. Joyce didn’t provide that reagent of lasciviousness. A licked-clean shirt did.
I can’t tell if this is better or worse than my original thought that Daisy would demand that Joyce increase Juliet Grays bust size dramatically if she wanted to be published.
I mean I guess if you take the comedy element out this does read like Daisy asking someone she’s supposed to interview for a job is she can bang their girlfriend which is pretty inappropriate.
I’m gonna go ahead and predict that this will not be the last we hear a discussion on this issue in general or as it relates specifically to Daisy. It would not be the first time a serious issue presented as a punchline in one strip only to be followed up with a more sober discussion and/or serious consequences. It would also not be the first time in this strip or media in general where comedy is used as a way to examine and discuss harsh or sensitive issues. If that’s not something that interests you or something that’s going to impact your ability to enjoy the comic I think its best not to continue reading it.
Well this comic have two fired teacher because of inappropriate behavior with students. Third Times a charm.
And obligatory comment: reverse gender in this scenario. Yeah right
Though she’s also a boss, so this remains inappropriate in that sense. Both Penny and Jason were also students anyway. Grad students and TAs, but still students, not faculty.
But seriously this is gross even without the power disparity.
Daisy’s always been pretty bad about that, back in the early days when Ruth made a pass at Billie while they were still in the petty trying to kill eachother stage and not the sexy trying to kill eachother stage, Billie tells Daisy that Ruth, the RA, sexually harassed her and Daisy was turned on by Billie’s story instead of, you know, horrified.
Billie said the RA kissed her, Daisy got Interested and called it litigious, and then Billie started straight up reenacting the whole “shoving you into a wall and staring you in the eyes for a long minute” thing, leaned in even closer, and then Daisy thought she was gonna get smooched.
Billie never said, specifically, “Daisy, my RA just forced herself onto me.”
Seriously, I’m surprised Walky didn’t say “This counts as a third date, right? I didn’t really want the comic gig anyway, hey, did you know Booster’s gonna be gone for like 4 hours?”
How the fu-….Why would that be-….Daisy needs to take a week of Absence to get herself sorted out, go on Tinder, do blind speed date events, meets some people don’t care just someone get her some help.
So I like Daisy and don’t want her to get into to too much serious trouble BUT I feel like SOMEONE needs to report her for this type of nonsense at some point. Like it’s getting too ridiculous for it to say “haha parody” for too much longer.
If this keeps up I can see someone being like “ok we need more serious leadership because Daisy is just way to distracted.” Then they just take a vote like she’s being recalled.
I do wonder why Daisy is being portrayed as being so eager to date but unsuccessful at finding a partner.
She is drawn to be relatively attractive (well, as much as you can tell from a comic), and other than being overly eager, she doesn’t seem to have any personality traits that would be a deal-breaker. And given her eagerness, she probably isn’t too… picky, nor does it doesn’t seem like she would shy away from internet dating, etc. You would figure she would be able to find someone for either something casual or a steady girlfriend.
Does she have some sort of flaw which is not obvious from the comics? Or is she like Joe… actually does date, but is completely shallow and eager to find her next conquest?
Some people are just forever alone. I mean all those traits more or less describe me…I hope and I’m also forever alone :P. Not everybody finds somebody. Or has casual hookups. Turns out a lot of the good people are taken or not into you.
I mostly meant the 1st part, though one could argue I am sorta shallow too. But yeah I’m also super needy and desparate and horny. Though it’s not as quirky cuz I’m a straight guy. But I’m shy enough that I don’t act like a WEIRDO.
I quickly looked back and her date with Ruth literally involved her going “I’m so excited I’m gonna poop” and running off to stress poop at the prospect of getting laid. Now, that’d be enough for me to tap the brakes- it wouldn’t scare me off but I’d be like “okay, I’m not going to bed with you until I’m either more comfortable or more eager” ‘cause the other party being WAY more eager than you is generally off putting. Some people would absolutely be scared off by that.
Also some people (myself absolutely included) are really bad at knowing how to connect with people, either for relationships or relations. It definitely gets harder when you’re any sort of queer too.
Also is it just me or does this feel like sexual harassment? I know Walky isn’t the target of her thirst but I still feel like this is at least toeing the line a bit
I know it’s a joke: but there is a big difference between a potential employer asking for sexualised material from an artist and actualling asking for them to participate in threesome. This is getting a bit uncomfortably close to the way some disgusting people in positions of power really misbehave in interview-settings.
I’m a little surprised I had to go as far down the comments as I did to see people finding Daisy’s reaction uncomfortable, but I’m glad to see it wasn’t just me. Because yikes, Daisy. Yikes.
Jesus CHRIST, Daisy. I’m betting this sort of behavior is exactly why you don’t get laid. Your first reaction to a guy you’ve seen once before attempting to apply for a job is to assume a woman licked his shirt, physically grab said shirt, and sound him out on ‘can I bang your girlfriend’? Creepy. Harassy. Do not want.
How many non-Billie non-Joyce women work at this campus paper? What discomfort fills their journalistic lives?
The number of people in the comments here taking this super seriously as sexual harassment or something like… dang y’all, she just clocked him as having a woman’s dry saliva on his shirt from across the room and you think there’s something serious happening? I thought it was definitely too cartoony to be something we should try to read as a real thing.
It’s more that this is getting uncomfortably close to that for some people, and I don’t blame them. I’m assuming this is meant as a dumb gag in the same way that Dina hompk!ing Amber was, not something to take super seriously and probably something that will be apologized for, but I can’t blame anyone for getting bad vibes
A number of people in this comic seem to have unrealistic physical or mental powers. It still feels creepy if they use them in a way that makes the other characters uncomfortable.
Master Roshi levels of trying and failing to tread the electrified fence between a slapstick cartoon joke and just straight up portraying sexual harassment which tbh there’s an argument for sexual assault here even.
haha ok i have to say, that video totally tickles me, the idea of men masturbating into machines right next to other men? pretty hot somehow lol
ok but anyway, the article i linked to, and i admit i haven’t gone and read the sources, but while it says that a healthy sex life has various benefits it hardly goes as far as to suggest that sex is necessary to stay healthy. in fact it states outright that “there is no evidence that celibacy or asexuality is actually physically or psychologically unhealthy.”
so while i’m sure a deeper dive would push this conversation into more interesting and specific territory as far as sweeping statements go i think that’s a stronger takeaway than “sex may correlate with lower risks of various conditions”.
Well for various things like stress relief, lower blood pressure and especially decreased risk of prostate cancer, you don’t “need” sex or masturbation, the same way you don’t “need” a balanced diet.
Sure you could go without it, but it’s just REALLY difficult to find a viable substitute that can provide ALL of those health benefits simultaneously.
i’m not trying to own you on semantics, it’s just, this whole thread started with me reacting to Zaxares saying “this is one of those rare instances where i can say, Daisy you NEED to get laid” and me saying “uh, really??”
like, i enjoy a hypothetical tangent as much as the next nerd but are we at the very least talking about the same general topic here?
I have never liked this attempt at “role reversal is funny” in particular because it really obliterates the experience of a lot of men who already feel like societal norms dictate they can’t speak up about it.
Unless Walky and Joyce team up tomorrow to report her to the Title IX office. That’d be an interesting direction for the story to run off in.
Anyway glancing over the comments as I have, this didn’t read to me as sexual harassment, as in the actual crime as detailed, in that:
– It’s the last panel of a series of strips where Daisy displays an ounce of professionalism and then resets to status quo.
– She’s a cartoon, a caricature of an actual person, and thus has a wild cartoon reaction to sell how pathetically desperate she is to get laid, not just grabbing Walky’s shirt but being able to pinpoint that Girl Saliva has touched it and therefore Walky’s girlfriend is probably a freak.
– Knowing that Daisy has zero power in any scenario, and has so far only expressed (in one panel of a strip from like 9 years ago now) a willingness to be bribed with sexual favours as opposed to trying to extort them, I don’t feel threatened for Walky in this scenario or anyone who would be in Walky’s position.
(I avoided gendered language here but the reality is that this is something that’s a lot heavier to talk about with women as the specific context of “an authority figure exploiting power for sexual favours” is something that is more widely understood as something that happens to women)
But then the problem with that thinking, the way it is in a whole lot of crappy media and media that isn’t crappy and yet still indulges it nonetheless, is that some weirdo groping you and getting away with it actually happens to people in real life, less so the part where you punch someone out the window into the stratosphere.
That last part probably gets to the root of it, I think, in that some asshole humiliates and degrades someone and then not only does no one step in to help, the only consequence they receive is ultra cartoony and then they bounce back no worse for wear and go back to being some kind of intended to be funny character.
I don’t think it’s enough to just leave it at “Daisy’s a cartoon so it’s fine” if I want to approach it the way I have been, this is on the same level of how plenty of DoA strips play out and with the same level of expectation and consequence that is adjusted for the scenario (Dina aggressively hompfking Mary to death to chase her away, and then doing the same to Amber and tearing her pants off so now Dina has to apologize and go buy her a new pair, because we like Amber and therefore Dina can’t just hompfk in her direction without some acknowledgement from the plot), that does invite much stronger reactions in the specific context of desperately grabbing someone’s clothes in the hopes of getting laid.
“– Knowing that Daisy has zero power in any scenario, and has so far only expressed (in one panel of a strip from like 9 years ago now) a willingness to be bribed with sexual favours as opposed to trying to extort them, I don’t feel threatened for Walky in this scenario or anyone who would be in Walky’s position.”
I mean, this isn’t true? Daisy is a prospective… let’s go with employer. Walky and Joyce are applying to a paid position. Daisy gets to pick which one of them gets it. This isn’t “no power”.
Also, if you get a say in people’s income, “telling them you can be bribed with sexual favours” and “extorting sexual favours” is a distinction without a difference.
Good point, I didn’t get that across the best way.
It’s not that Daisy isn’t in a position of authority where she can abuse her power, it’s that it’s Daisy and we’ve never gotten a hint that she’s willing to engage with such a thing the way Jason and Sal bonked and it was a Whole Thing where it wasn’t really morally unethical but it sure was professionally unethical, Jason struggled with it on top of struggling with being a shitty teacher, and then it ultimate got him fired when he decided it was more important to own up to his mistake.
I brought up the “man, no one ever thinks to bribe me with sexual favours” line, as in it was one line in one panel, to make the point that Daisy, hypothetically, as in it was a joke to go “haha Daisy is sexually frustrated”, would only violate her professional standards if she was asked to, and Walky and Joyce are definitely not going to ask on the grounds of, respectively, being a dude while Daisy is a lesbian and Joyce being straight while Daisy is not Dorothy.
That’s Jennifer’s motivation, as in she wants Daisy to get laid so she’ll be more receptive to her, but I don’t think that factored into Daisy wanting to meet Ruth and then they actually hit it off and Daisy showed the most character depth she has in the whole series.
As for Walky, well, yeah, you’re right, that’s a scenario where Daisy could bribe Walky with a job if he introduces her to his girlfriend, but by that point I’m digging like five layers in to find why Daisy is being Problematic in this one panel.
She’s asking him right now, when he’s come to her office to compete to a job, if “she’s bi and open to a third and can he stand in the corner”. While grabbing him.
Yeah, it’s all overblown and played up for laughs and the job in question is pathetically minor, but there’s really no hypothetical introduction to his girlfriend involved. This is straight up asking for sex.
Okay but there’s a difference between “Daisy wants to bang Lucy” and “that, so Walky can get a job.”
Even aside from it being an intentionally wacky last panel, that doesn’t actually have to matter to anyone who’s bothered by it, it’s something I have to dig for the most negative interpretation possible when it starts with Daisy sniffing out Girl Saliva, pathetically begging to be let into Walky’s non-existent polyamourous relationship that being a reader means I know doesn’t exist, and then after that, something the comic has not and will not touch on unless this was for drama purposes, now I can dig into something wildly inappropriate like Daisy trying to get Walky to pimp Lucy out to her in exchange for a job instead of merely normal levels of inappropriate like what we have here.
hm. it’s your prerogative to read it as harmless comedy, but i’m not convinced.
like, we know Daisy is thirsty, that’s her #1 character trait, and she has communicated that repeatedly and in a number of less problematic ways in the past, like that joke about getting bribed: no one was in the room, whatever. that didn’t feel quite as serious. What i mean is: this here? it wasn’t necessary from a writing perspective. it doesn’t bring anything new to the table in terms of Daisy being sexually frustrated in a cringe way. it’s over the top, and i think that’s on purpose.
Besides — we’re never led to believe that she’s willing to cross red lines, you say? i mean, she was totally about to kiss Jennifer that one time. So when a few months later that same editor she tried to kiss, and who she regularly gets into professional arguments with, and who knows (bc everyone knows) that she’s desperate for a shag, sets her up for a date?? yeah, i think Daisy has to be aware that she’s being sweetened.
I mean, that girl has a serious problem. The fact that her character was recently fleshed out quite a bit, and made very endearing, and that today’s outburst is especially outrageous makes me think it doesn’t serve to “reset the status quo” so much as build up to a more serious arc for her.
I mean yeah I think it’s harmless comedy in that I don’t think it reveals something dark about Daisy’s character, I think it’s only harmful in how an actual person can read it and react to it.
As for Daisy and Jennifer, well, Jennifer straight up reenacted Ruth slamming into her a wall and kissing her to the point of getting real up close and personal on Daisy, as in I think it’s safe to read that as Daisy getting caught up in getting bullied by a cheerleader. Jennifer’s definitely trying to put herself in Daisy’s good graces by hooking her up with Ruth, but we’ve never gotten any indication that Daisy herself knows of that intent, as far as Daisy conveyed it to us Jennifer just tried to hook her up with her ex-girlfriend she talked up a whole lot.
Daisy got an ounce of character focus when she was with Ruth, in that I think their date comprises a total quarter of Daisy’s screentime since the start of the comic, but she’s still Daisy. She’s still a constantly thirsty gag character, we just started to see other aspects of her character and if she continues to develop that one gag is going to get downplayed into non-existence. This is just the first time we’ve seen that gag since Daisy got some character writing.
Like how all Dina used to do was hide behind doors.
i mean, you’ve said so yourself: whenever you predict something, the opposite happens. which is very convenient! thank you. you’re sort of like, a reverse Cassandra?
and maybe on account of being a writer yourself? also you seem SO invested in these characters. i don’t think i truly understand that sort of emotional intensity towards pixel people. which, you know, good 4 u, as Olivia Rodrigo might say
When your brain runs on hyperfocus as long as mine has, you get attached.
Anyway it’s not really complex for me or anything, it’s just a thing I like and like to think about and I’ve started to be able to do that uninhibitedly now that my brain got glued back together.
yeah, i understand that sort of obsession as people have often told me i have an enviable talent for learning languages. and they tend to frame it in terms of effort and sacrificing time i could’ve spent otherwise, and i tell them “i don’t know about talent or hard work, but i know foreign languages are mad interesting to me, so to me it doesn’t feel like an effort at all, actually i think i’m especially lazy when it comes to pushing myself to do things i have no interest in doing”
and maybe, that’s a big part of what talent really is?
I mean yeah I kinda think that’s where this is going if Daisy shows up again, which I’m not totally unconvinced about since she’s been in the comic since like 2011 and this year gave her more character focus than she’s ever had.
What’s Daisy like when she’s not a one note gag? When she is complaining about her thirst? Well:
– She’s neurotic about making a good impression in front of strangers, and is so bad at handling awkward social situations that she’ll run away, buy a coat as a disguise, go back, and then do it all over again when that awkward social situation happens again.
– Meets Ruth, makes a pretty good effort at first date small talk without any immediate “omg plow me already” reactions.
– She passively dances around Ruth’s issues until Ruth says she’s too functional to be with her, whereupon Daisy has enough self awareness to say she’s scared out of her mind but likes Ruth enough that she wants to try and then asks if Ruth likes her too, which is maybe the scariest thing to ask someone you are trying to impress.
– Actually gets Ruth to talk about how weird being in the US feels and, pointedly, when Ruth starts talking about her suicidal ideation, Daisy puts her hand on hers instinctively because she was worried about what Ruth was saying. That’s when she panics at the prospect of sex with Ruth, who goes home with Jason. Daisy just kind of feels bad about it until Ruth sends her a deepfake tiddy pic.
And now we got this scene with her and Joyce, where:
– She’s just actually being a calm professional with Joyce to the point of giving a really good piece of advice that Joyce is a freshman and all her plans for the comic might not work out because by the end of her time in college she’ll be a completely different person.
– Says she likes the romantic tension of the comic, and then clarifies she meant the one Joyce put in on accident, noting without any hidden intent how Absurdly Gay the Saga of Captain Julia Gray is with the relationship between its title character and President Doris. If there was any point in this time for Daisy to act like a horny gorilla it was when she had reason to believe Joyce was showing off her self-insert yuri fanfic, and all she really had to say was that her audience might read something into it that Joyce didn’t intend and have a bad reaction.
Joyce drawing a comic for the IU newspaper is the kind of thing that will involve at least one conversation with Daisy so it’s entirely possible we just needed her to show up and not be the insufferable one-note joke when an actual human conversation needed to take place instead, but the fact that we got this so soon after her date with Ruth showing more depth to her character than has ever been hinted at, let alone ever been interested in hinting at, I’ll call that intentional. In hindsight, Daisy responding to Ruth calling her functional by talking about how she was a weird mess herself and wanted to try anyway felt like Daisy taking an assessment test for supporting character status.
Joyce getting passed up for Walky based on something this cartoonishly stupid is hitting some surprisingly painful nerves for me.
Not that she’s ACTUALLY gotten passed up yet – Daisy could absolutely turn around tomorrow and say “no, regardless of whether LAWsome has potential as comedy, Julia Gray clearly is the better choice”. But even the idea, oof.
Daisy does, however, seem like the type to make bad decisions based on how horny she is, regardless of how effective those decisions will be at getting her laid.
Julia Gray actually ISN’T the better choice. It would be the better choice for, saaayyy, and I’m just spitballing here, right off the top of my head, don’t know why it occurred to me, an online webcomic where people can access any strip at any time.
For a college newspaper? Not so great. The people who start college in future years miss the start. The people who graduate in a year or 2 aren’t going to be interested because, well, imagine if there was this show that you were told was plotted for three seasons but were ALSO told it’d only run for one. Would you bother watching that one season, knowing that absolutely nothing would be resolved before you had stop watching?
On the other hand joyce can arrange the comic so that each school term tells a complete story. So those graduating earlier won’t be left on a cliff hanger and new readers can get caught up easily.
Plus, if you are trying to increase readership, you do not necessarily care if your readers leave early… You just care if they “tune in” while they are around. A well written plot-based comic might just do that.
She could in theory, but can she? This is the first thing she’s ever tried to write other than her smutLiterature. Her plans are grandiose, she seems far more concerned with the big picture than with making it work episodically.
A well written plot-based comic certainly could work. The introduction to a sprawling epic, with the payoff years down the line probably can’t. Everything we’ve heard about this makes it sound more like the latter to me.
Most comic strips are probably a gag-a-day (or may have short story arcs that run a few strips).
I think the problem with Walky’s LAWsome comic is… Walky himself. With his penchant to get easily distracted, he may leave the strip after a few months (assuming he doesn’t flunk out due to bad grades caused by untreated ADD). Plus, I’m not sure how much creativity Walky has. (His whole “laugh at someone/dropkick” maybe good as a 1-off, but does he have anything outside of that?)
This aspect of Daisy’s character is getting kinda tiresome. It was funny when it was stress pooping on a date with Ruth and like subconsciously miming scissoring, but it’s been too long it feels like it needs to either tone down or be deployed… better than this?
If Daisy’s going to start showing up more, if that date with Ruth was a glimpse into who she is and we’ll see more of it, doesn’t she gotta start at her worst?
‘Cause the phrase “man I can’t for Daisy to show up again” has never once before now crossed my mind in the seven years I’ve been reading.
Yeah this seems an egregiously spiteful interpretation of her kissing Joyce when she first visited. I assume that’s what the previous commenter is talking about cuz I cannot think of anything else
Like it’s the only thing I can think they’re referring to and just
Not only was Becky super fucked up by having her entire life upended and so ran away to Joyce because she was the only fixture of any kind of comfort and stability that still existed, like two days later she found out about Ryan and immediately associated her action with Joyce being attacked, as in Becky was utterly horrified to discover that she could have triggered Joyce’s trauma by kissing her.
That’s like the least okay reaction to “having committed sexual assault” that could possibly exist.
Yeah like I think there’s a stark difference between like kissing ur friend you’ve had a crush on for a thousand years cuz you’re misreading signals and a bit manic cuz ur life is completely sideways and sexual assault. Especially considering Becky’s behavior after the incident
“Sexual assault”, much like assault in general, is an incredibly broad category.
Yes, technically Becky’s kiss was sexual assault. Mostly because it’s fiendishly difficult to write laws or definitions that cover the subtleties of human interactions thoroughly. Practically and realistically, due to the circumstances and reactions of both characters, no one would ever treat it as such.
A different unwanted kiss under different circumstances? Could well be treated that way.
This is basically a reprise of when Robin invaded Leslie’s house and refused to leave after being asked, being told, and being forcefully thrown out.
Half the comments were “aw, but this is sweet” but somehow I was the bad guy for pointing out that none of them would be saying “aw, but this is sweet” if Robin had been a dude.
Aren’t there like a dozen different “find a fuck-buddy” apps you can get on a smart phone these days? She could grab one and be grinding crotches with another woman within an hour!
okay okay -- spider-man reboot idea
the lizard is still dr connors, but he's dr PHIL connors, and he wakes up every day and it's groundhog day and he's a lizard
is this anything
a plague has hit our house
both children singing billie eilish's "what was i made for" but entirely in "meows"
we can't get them to stop
it's been weeks
please send help
The plantation burning reminds me of when the residential school burnt down in Shubenacadie.
I was very young. Not understanding why we were all there watching a scary looking building burning. Cars lined up all over both sides of the road. It seemed like the entire rez population (1)
Someone is citing the MA constitutional provision explicitly allowing the state to impede federal marshals enforcing the fugitive slave act, DAMN the average citizen is radicalized
you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.
Me if I ever see Tony Hawk: Hey you’re Tony Hawk the famous skateboarder. That’s right I recognise you. Won’t be able to get any content out of this will you, you piece of shit
How to read all 28 issues of my Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane run on Marvel Unlimited:
1: The first four issues were published as the miniseries "Mary Jane."
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that
is some gaydar
(this doesn’t actually change Walky’s chances, it just makes Daisy rip off his shirt, which causes Joyce to get all flustered, which causes Daisy to start smelling Joyce pheremones, which leads to SLIPSHININ’)
[…maybe]
Is this gaydar? It feels more like a thirstometer to me.
I mean, I’m really bi and pretty damn thirsty, and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t evne notice the mark on his shirt much less construe that it involved saliva other than his own.
So she’s bloodhound/detective all applied to extreme thirsty/bi.
As a rather-un-thirsty-due-to-being-sated bi in a poly relationship, this amuses me…
but… da——n girl, tone it down a notch! This has gone beyond thirsty and just into desperate territory. Make a dating website profile and calm down.
This
Daisy should also stand down from her supervisory duties. This is not an okay way to treat applicants for a job.
Seeing as Lucy described herself as het (by way of implying that Joyce was a white, bisexual version of herself)? that Gaydar must be very, very broken.
It is a gay radar that detects the wimminz, and I forgot to come up with a clearer name when I appended the parentheticals bc I was instead drawing Way Too Much Cat
That’s a very nice cat. It’s reminiscent of the Norse when Thor luckily failed to a lift a cat off the floor and nearly ended the world.
haha that is Way Too Much Cat!
Sure, if by “gaydar” you mean “wishful thinking”.
PornoSenses tingling!
“That must be the best tingle.”
‘It really is.’
Dabbler certainly thinks so.
She is on Sir Willis’s Patreon?
Daisy: “If I lick your shirt, then that counts as me kissing her, right?!”
Walky: “Uh, sure.”
Daisy: “You’re hired! Be here every day for shirt licks!”
Walky: “And turning in comic strips?”
Daisy: “Sure, whatever!”
This would also require Lucy to want to lick Walky’s shirt every day. Which, while it made her blush earlier, i doubt Lucy would want to do that every day.
If she gets to lick Walky everyday I’m sure she’d agree. Or if Walky licks her.
Mutual assured licking. The cold war of tongues.
Me- “but we didn’t even see that. …Did we?”
Turns out yes we did so thank you for inadvertently getting me to read a strip I’d missed.
Indirrect kiss via shirt? You’ve awakened something in me.
By the fifth day the shirt is actively trying to kiss back, puckering up (wrinkling up?) its little linty lips in expectation?
You must draw it. Emp. Palpatine says, “Do it.!” So I guess you must.
Oh no
Oh,yes.
Oh, maybe?
Definitely, no.
Perhaps not
Absolutely not.
yes no maybe i don’t know
Can you repeat the question?
assuredly yes
Reply hazy, try again.
Postively, definitely maybe.
Are you trying to summon Kool Aid man? Because that is how you summon Kool Aid man.
And there’s the horny!
Daisy, the Horny Sherlock Holmes. XD
That’s Daisy’s secret, she’s always horny.
Return of the horny
To paraphrase Prince, “Horny never left.”
How could she possibly know that?
Ckearly her sexual drive is going critical and she has developed some power related to women’s saliva.
Presumably it’s powered by the same source that allows Joyce to teleport and Dina to hide behind doors.
I do not know.
Doesn’t everyone see that sort of thing? No? Well then it’s about time those of us with food-sex-dar had representation!
Maybe her sense of smell is so good it can tell the difference between man saliva and woman saliva and other kinds too?
Otherwise I’m all out of guesses.
Estrogen and testosterone cause really different pheromones. I know there’s a massive difference in the smell of my sweat and urine and genital stuff on testosterone vs off. I have not noticed a change in my saliva scent but it’s not infeasible.
She sensed a disturbance in the fleece.
That’s bad … so bad, in fact, that’s it’s gone all the way around and is approaching ‘good’ coming from the other direction.
Clearly Daisy has a superpower that allows her to instantly detect this sort of thing.
I’m sorry WHAT?
That was a hella quick Flanderization.
My thoughts exactly. Daisy is funny, but this is just next-level stupid.
It’s a bit of a jarring shift into cartoonish silliness.
This is honestly at worst a lateral move. One of her first appearances was her making two pairs of scissors go at it without thinking.
Eh, that was cute and insignificant and didn’t require, like, super saliva detection powers.
This is on the same level of ridiculousness for me as Dina’s hompk!ings and the superhero shenanigans
and I hate all three, so in my biased opinion, this strip is stupid
I feel like it’s more a case of reminding us that she’s still the same Daisy we’ve always known and loved/hated after some strips in the last couple of storylines where she had some nuance, or at least some less one-note scripting. More of a two steps forward, one step Flanders.
no, per Dana, just reverting to (stereo)type.
Yeah, my only response is, um, “… what?”
Dodged a bullet. For a whole strip before, she was almost an actual relevant, solid and interesting character.
But that’s solved now.
Well then
Trust Daisy to cut to what’s important.
This is… bad
Daisy’s thirst is rapidly spiraling into self parody. This is disappointing, but I suppose she had to redeem herself after accidentally displaying *gasp* functional, sentient non-horny thoughts in the last strip
I still have some faith. Admittedly the conceit of this joke is kind of ridiculous but I really doubt a lick on a shirt is really going to affect the decision here. It just helps even the playing field from what was essentially a guarantee Joyce would get the gig.
I get that. I’d even be fine if it was less of a logical leap — most of Daisy’s other punchlines have worked, because her horniness slots plausibly into the story around her. She was already talking about a female superhero, or Billie’s ex, or similar.
But this is just flat-out impossible. Why would she see Walky wearing a licked shirt and assume he didn’t lick it himself? It’s like she wandered into a Target, saw a toaster, thought “women buy toasters sometimes” and then accosted the nearest employee to introduce her to some toaster-purchasing women.
This is right up there with Ross saying “clever girl” when Dina attacked him. It’s a goofy moment, sure, but it completely breaks the scene. Which is a rare misstep, because I usually love this comic’s respect for its own world.
At least “Clever girl” was subtle and didn’t actually impact the plot in any way. This joke is asking way more from us.
There’s also the Rule of Funny.
I’m assuming Daisy will catch herself in the next strip (and apologize) and that this is mostly a dumb gag rather than something that derails the entire scene, but we’ll see
I’d say it’s possible the teasing of Joyce’s comic might have caused her to be more predisposed to let herself overcome by her thirstiness.
She was still thirsty for lesbian romance in the last strip.
Uhhhh Daisy, how would you know something like that? And surprisingly, it actually looks clean.
Is this going to get Walky the job? Will Daisy choose Joyce just because she wants two of her characters to be together? Find out on the next episode of Drago- I’m sorry wrong show.
There’s the Daisy we remember!
Walky was apparently the one sucked DRY.
Who knew it was Daisy who was gonna be so damn THIRSTY?!?!
Everyone….. I’m pretty sure the answer is everyone did.
You know, I suspected Lucy licking the sauce off of Walky’s shirt was going to drive something in the plot forward in a big way, but I’ve gotta admit I thought it was going to be some kind of sexual awakening in Walky, not summon every damn ounce of Daisy’s thirst.
I think that counts as close though.
Well there is a chance it did awaken something in walky. After all he was late getting to the newspaper office… Maybe he and lucy had… Stuff… To do together.
There’s the Daisy we all know and love.
Hoping Joyce still pulls a win, here. As funny as LAWsome is, I feel like Julia Gray has more interesting story potential.
Julia Gray has way more story potential. If Willis let Joyce win, he’d have to show Joyce’s comics every once in a while. LAWsome is a one-note strip and Willis has already showed it, so he won’t have to show it again, and can do more with the real DoA story.
…Or maybe it’s just that I don’t enjoy brutality-for-comedy, and I’m missing something genuinely hilarious about LAWsome…
On the third hand, Willis is good enough to use Julia Gray as a real contribution to the storytelling – foreshadowing, Greek chorus, character development, the possibilities are many and various. So if he wants, he could certainly show Julia Gray strips without detracting from DoA.
I hate that “threesome except i’m just watching” is a thing I would actually agree to. (Not sure if that would count as cuckoldry though cuz I would absolutely want constant validation that one or both the parties still love me.)
I don’t think it counts as cuckoldry unless you are also not “getting any” as a result.
Yeah to me the definite tipping point to cuckoldry is if there’s a chastity cage involved.
I can’t say I’m a fan of chastity cages. I wouldn’t mind seeing less of them in hentai.
Meh. Sex is tiring sometimes. I’ve never had one but I imagine a threesome is probably a lot of work. As long as everyone’s having a good time who cares?
I’ve never had one either, but I imagine there’s gotta be at least one can of Red Bull involved.
And I’m low-balling it.
From what I gather it’s more work the more penises are involved. I’ve only been involved in threesomes where mine was the only penis, but speaking to a bi woman who has more varied experience two penises is much worse, and that’s with the guys both being verified bi. As to no penises being best, that’s speculation on my part.
I think Daisy’s idea of a threesome (“Are you open to a third, and you can stand in the corner?” = bring your girl and then make yourself scarce) isn’t quite the same scenario as your version
I’ve never even had the sex part! Mostly cuz I’m just a bit bad at the courtship part. But I’ve definitely developed a love of femdom but NOT masochism. So I just wanna watch someone other than me get dommed
Was that supposed to be a reply to mine?
Chastity cages aren’t always painful. There are ones made of rubber that are rather comfortable…
A little too comphy if you ask me.Naw, to Sirksome. But tbh I find chastity cages to be the antithesis of sexy or enjoyable. But that’s just me. (Now Robe bondage. That’s some hot shit.)
Just curious, can the ropes be made of ANY material?
Not any material. Not lava. Not electricity. Not human skin.
But I take it it could be anything else, as long as it’s not too dangerous or gruesome?
i am enjoying this exchange. please, continue
please don’t use any material of rope. cotton can stretch so not good for suspensions unless you know how to work with it. certain thicknesses (6/8-10/12mm standard are better for different body parts so you don’t impact circulation). some people like the roughness of jute but most don’t like the potential rub off / “splinter” potential.
sorry, that might of been a joke and i might have gotten too serious- but please be safe. I am rack over ssc, but risk measures must be mitigates. and have TWO emergency cutting devices , most people have a hook and safety sheers.
there’s every shade of nerd here I LOVE IT
please, everyone, if you’re ever tempted to read a post way too literally and respond with highly specific PSA or trivia
YES
PLEASE DO
(…besides i think this was actually a serious conversation? probably? sort of)
Its one that worries me because there’s a lot more that can affect “bite” and some can dangerously slip etc… but it’s one of those activities where people tend not to mess around once you go past harnesses/decorative/hand binds. Even body type effects how you’d tie someone. Basically – please research anything that puts you in highly vulnerable positions and can effect circulation.
Sadism/masochism and dominant/submissive are two different axes, though. You can perfectly have a domme who does not physically hurt you.
Look up “gentle femdom” sometime.
It may be a little “different”, but people pay me (very well) to do exactly that in Final Fantasy 14. It’s more common than I expected.
I think it only counts as cuckoldry- as a kink- if the watcher is into it for that reason. It’s a whole thing of getting turned on by a certain mental aspect of the situation. So it’s cuckoldry only if that’s what you’d be into!
(The reassurance or including you verbally wouldn’t sway it either way imo. And I’m not looking for more information from you than you feel compelled to share, just sharing my own thoughts.)
Anyway, I don’t see it as a bad thing. I’d agree to it myself- with the right partners. I don’t think I’d particularly sexually enjoy watching my husband with another partner, but I can see it being an appealing way of sharing sexual intimacy and pleasure.
Nnnnot as comfortable with Daisy’s approach, mind you…
That is one impressive superpower Daisy has
Also I feel like I’m being baited into drawing this….we shall see if it works out.
You didn’t need the time for that animation job anyway.
I wonder if Willis actually sometimes is thinking “Let’s see him try pull off drawing this if he’s such hot shit” while he’s drawing these to subliminantly baiting you into a challenge.
It’s very unlikely but it’s not 100% impossible. I’d be surprised if he thinks of me much at all other than “oh THAT GUY is posting again”
I seem to recall you being mentioned in at least one strip hovertext, for what it’s worth.
P sure that was Leslie’s sandwich board
Yes, it was! Good memory.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/sandwich/
(I had to Google “sandwich board site:dumbingofage.com” to find this one. I have more of a doodle memory than a photographic one.)
Looking at the expressions in the last panel, I half expect both Walky and Joyce to decide that working for Daisy is not worth the abysmal pay.
Hey, Walky has expressed a willingness to give a blow job for free piza before. So who knows.
I mean how many pizzas are we talking? Or is it like a time limit during whcih I can order as many free pizzas as I like. And is he gonna last a long time or is he quickshot? And how much of a blowjob? Like does he have to reach orgasm? Do I have to swallow? There’s a lotta factors.
2 large pizzas. 4 minutes. orgasm. swallowing not required. so?
oh shit that sounded SO CREEPY XD i’m no good with raunchy jokes sorry i’m retracting this one :facepalm:
Hmmm maybe for 3 I’d take that deal. And don’t worry about sounding creepy to me. It’s a premise I myself took to a level it may not have needed to.
yes but you’re so GOOD AT ITTTTT
i mean humour is a skill right?
granted, much of that skill is just confidence???
but anyway i admire you cuties who can just be casually filthy, i have to work way hard to just admit to being turned on by anything, ok this is about to turn into a therapy session BYE BYE
…STAY AWESOME
BYE
God I love a sudden pivot from seriousness or sincerity into total farce. 10/10, would lick this strip except that would be gross and taste awful and get the paper and/or screen wet.
You could print the strip on a t-shirt…
… Yeah, set myself up for that one.
How do you “lick” something “dry”?
Wait, no, don’t answer that!
Daisy is, just, damn, just totally on point.
Very carefully.
Have a dry tongue.
It helps if you’re a cat.
Ask your chapped lips sometime.
my first thought as well.
‘clean’ i would get – but ‘dry’?
then again you could also argue that saliva isn’t clean
I am a little confused Daisy has shown more interest in the potential aftermath of woman spit over say y’know the actual living breathing woman who totally put a bunch of gay subtext in her comic right in front of her. I guess imagination will always trump reality.
Hmm, Daisy likes the IDEA of dating a woman much more than the actual experience/opportunity? I’d buy that theory in a heartbeat.
My theory is that Daisy is a deep undercover agent for Jason’s father. That’s why she was able to tell that a girl licked Walky so easily.
Cuz clearly that woman is super super horny for another gal. Or just deep in denial. Or maybe Joyce just isn’t her type.
Joyce projects strong “straight woman” vibes as long as she’s not around Dorothy.
Proximity to Dorothy increases the gay signals being produced by Joyce.
It’s more that it takes a reagent of about .05 drams of lasciviousness to kickstart Daisy’s thirst chain reaction. Joyce didn’t provide that reagent of lasciviousness. A licked-clean shirt did.
I can’t tell if this is better or worse than my original thought that Daisy would demand that Joyce increase Juliet Grays bust size dramatically if she wanted to be published.
The thirst is strong with this one.
Of course, Walky knows perfectly well Lucy isn’t bi, ever since she said… er…
…oh, dear.
For reference.
(I think my reply got eaten, trying again)
A threesome where he stands in the corner?
There’s a word for that….
Tuesday night?
TACO Tuesday!!!!!!!
:eyeroll:
Voyeur Viernes
And it certainly isn’t “threesome”.
Alright, so I guess sexual harassment is a punchline now?
Always has been.
(that was supposed to have a </meme> after it)
I mean I guess if you take the comedy element out this does read like Daisy asking someone she’s supposed to interview for a job is she can bang their girlfriend which is pretty inappropriate.
Even with the comedy element it reads like that.
Because that’s exactly what’s happening.
Yeah. This is grotesque. Daisy is running a casting couch.
I mean its been a staple in a lot of comedian’s routines and a lot of shows…. as sad as that is…
I mean, if you’re gonna disapprove of this level of sexual harassment, you’ve kinda missed half the storylines in this comic.
A: no I haven’t.
B: I’m not sure if you think that makes it better or not?
I’m gonna go ahead and predict that this will not be the last we hear a discussion on this issue in general or as it relates specifically to Daisy. It would not be the first time a serious issue presented as a punchline in one strip only to be followed up with a more sober discussion and/or serious consequences. It would also not be the first time in this strip or media in general where comedy is used as a way to examine and discuss harsh or sensitive issues. If that’s not something that interests you or something that’s going to impact your ability to enjoy the comic I think its best not to continue reading it.
Well this comic have two fired teacher because of inappropriate behavior with students. Third Times a charm.
And obligatory comment: reverse gender in this scenario. Yeah right
Daisy isn’t a teacher. She’s also a student.
Though she’s also a boss, so this remains inappropriate in that sense. Both Penny and Jason were also students anyway. Grad students and TAs, but still students, not faculty.
But seriously this is gross even without the power disparity.
It definitely is, in that she’s an authority figure and that this is gross. It’s not her first time either.
I just wanted to clarify that she is, in fact, also a student because sometimes there’s a lot of confusion about that.
I assume she’ll either get called on it or catch herself and apologize in the next strip. I can’t see this going unaddressed.
I could disagree with you, but a funny experience can be a strange for others.
What do you mean “now”? It’s been the punchline of every strip with Daisy and Billie
Daisy’s always been pretty bad about that, back in the early days when Ruth made a pass at Billie while they were still in the petty trying to kill eachother stage and not the sexy trying to kill eachother stage, Billie tells Daisy that Ruth, the RA, sexually harassed her and Daisy was turned on by Billie’s story instead of, you know, horrified.
Not really.
Billie said the RA kissed her, Daisy got Interested and called it litigious, and then Billie started straight up reenacting the whole “shoving you into a wall and staring you in the eyes for a long minute” thing, leaned in even closer, and then Daisy thought she was gonna get smooched.
Billie never said, specifically, “Daisy, my RA just forced herself onto me.”
Daisy.
Calm Down.
…she seriously needs to get laid.
You’d think she’d find SOMEONE over the past 6 months.
She did. Then Ruth found Jason.
Yes
Very
I don’t know
I can’t lie, yes
Yes
Seriously, I’m surprised Walky didn’t say “This counts as a third date, right? I didn’t really want the comic gig anyway, hey, did you know Booster’s gonna be gone for like 4 hours?”
Is Joyce going to be bothered by how unsexy it implies she is, that Daisy is more turned on by second-hand Lucy than first-hand Joyce?
I think that she might be more distracted between what she was told a moment ago and what’s going on now
“My lesbian sense is tingling!”
How the fu-….Why would that be-….Daisy needs to take a week of Absence to get herself sorted out, go on Tinder, do blind speed date events, meets some people don’t care just someone get her some help.
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dangit, panel 3 would have been a great place to slip in a loss.jpeg…
Dear lord I forgot how desperately horny Daisy could get.
Also, everyone else noticed the wet stain on Walkie’s shirt, right?
It’s very Abysmal.
Please Daisy for your own sanity download a dating app.
Oh, right, Daisy’s taste in women strikes. Oh dear.
I think that was a new record though, great job, Daisy.
Train, to the Rails: I am afraid this is where we must part
Rails: Yes, it appears you are about to embark on your own adventure, wildly off course. May your travels be well…
So I like Daisy and don’t want her to get into to too much serious trouble BUT I feel like SOMEONE needs to report her for this type of nonsense at some point. Like it’s getting too ridiculous for it to say “haha parody” for too much longer.
If this keeps up I can see someone being like “ok we need more serious leadership because Daisy is just way to distracted.” Then they just take a vote like she’s being recalled.
I do wonder why Daisy is being portrayed as being so eager to date but unsuccessful at finding a partner.
She is drawn to be relatively attractive (well, as much as you can tell from a comic), and other than being overly eager, she doesn’t seem to have any personality traits that would be a deal-breaker. And given her eagerness, she probably isn’t too… picky, nor does it doesn’t seem like she would shy away from internet dating, etc. You would figure she would be able to find someone for either something casual or a steady girlfriend.
Does she have some sort of flaw which is not obvious from the comics? Or is she like Joe… actually does date, but is completely shallow and eager to find her next conquest?
Some people are just forever alone. I mean all those traits more or less describe me…I hope and I’m also forever alone :P. Not everybody finds somebody. Or has casual hookups. Turns out a lot of the good people are taken or not into you.
You think you’re shallow?
I get the opposite impression after seeing your art on Twitter and not……
I mostly meant the 1st part, though one could argue I am sorta shallow too. But yeah I’m also super needy and desparate and horny. Though it’s not as quirky cuz I’m a straight guy. But I’m shy enough that I don’t act like a WEIRDO.
@yotomoe1, right?
I am.
I quickly looked back and her date with Ruth literally involved her going “I’m so excited I’m gonna poop” and running off to stress poop at the prospect of getting laid. Now, that’d be enough for me to tap the brakes- it wouldn’t scare me off but I’d be like “okay, I’m not going to bed with you until I’m either more comfortable or more eager” ‘cause the other party being WAY more eager than you is generally off putting. Some people would absolutely be scared off by that.
Also some people (myself absolutely included) are really bad at knowing how to connect with people, either for relationships or relations. It definitely gets harder when you’re any sort of queer too.
She lives in Indiana.
Yes she is. But she is also on a univeesity campus, which is more… Liberal… Than the population at large.
And of course we know there is at least one young, openly lesbian professor on the campus.
I have just one observation to make concerning Daisy’s actions as shown here.
EEEEEeeewwww!!
Jesus christ Daisy needs to get laid yesterday
Also is it just me or does this feel like sexual harassment? I know Walky isn’t the target of her thirst but I still feel like this is at least toeing the line a bit
It absolutely is sexual harassment, she’s literally grabbing him and asking to bang his girlfriend and make him watch.
I don’t think she actually cares if he watches, she just feels it’s less weird if she pretends she wants him involved. Which it really, really isn’t.
It would be moderately less weird if Lucy was there, but she’s aggressively pushing for it without even seeing her.
I mean here we have an employer at a hiring interview pushing the prospective employee to let her bang his girlfriend.
At this point I want them both to walk out and report her.
I mean, it’s kind of funny because it’s so over the top, but it’s still not anywhere near okay.
….. okay, Daisy.
I know it’s a joke: but there is a big difference between a potential employer asking for sexualised material from an artist and actualling asking for them to participate in threesome. This is getting a bit uncomfortably close to the way some disgusting people in positions of power really misbehave in interview-settings.
Yep. Daisy is operating a casting couch. Much less is at stake than with Harvey Weinstein, but her conduct is still grossly inappropriate.
I’m a little surprised I had to go as far down the comments as I did to see people finding Daisy’s reaction uncomfortable, but I’m glad to see it wasn’t just me. Because yikes, Daisy. Yikes.
The road to Hell is paved with solidarity.
This is terrifying! How can her know that? Walky, Joyce… RUN!!!
I mean, I’m sure Walky would at least consider it.
How in the ……WHAT IS GOING ON??!!!!
And any respect for Daisy has vanished in record time.
Like I’m impressed really. Horrified. Sleeved out. But that is some nose dive I have to say.
Will Joe have to stand next to her with his new shirt on until she gets some self control or reflection.
And she was going soooooo well in being strictly professional.
damn
She desperately needs to get laid…
Or fired.
She absolutely needs to bef ired.
What a fucking creep.
Jesus CHRIST, Daisy. I’m betting this sort of behavior is exactly why you don’t get laid. Your first reaction to a guy you’ve seen once before attempting to apply for a job is to assume a woman licked his shirt, physically grab said shirt, and sound him out on ‘can I bang your girlfriend’? Creepy. Harassy. Do not want.
How many non-Billie non-Joyce women work at this campus paper? What discomfort fills their journalistic lives?
Her lesbian sense is tingling.
(it’s a good thing she hasn’t hired Walky yet, cause I am pretty sure that would count as inappropriate working environment.)
Job interview.
It’s at least as bad.
Please dont pick walky over joyce as some karmic retribution over her being kind of a dick earlier
Please
Daisy noooo
oh, so Joyce isn’t hot enough to her? That’s … sad?
The number of people in the comments here taking this super seriously as sexual harassment or something like… dang y’all, she just clocked him as having a woman’s dry saliva on his shirt from across the room and you think there’s something serious happening? I thought it was definitely too cartoony to be something we should try to read as a real thing.
It’s more that this is getting uncomfortably close to that for some people, and I don’t blame them. I’m assuming this is meant as a dumb gag in the same way that Dina hompk!ing Amber was, not something to take super seriously and probably something that will be apologized for, but I can’t blame anyone for getting bad vibes
Shit, I don’t think HOMPK!ing reads well in all lower case
A number of people in this comic seem to have unrealistic physical or mental powers. It still feels creepy if they use them in a way that makes the other characters uncomfortable.
Daisy, NO.
ok that was a bit creepy, Daisy
Somebody get the spray bottle out, Daisy needs negative reinforcement.
Ah, there’s the Daisy we know…
Master Roshi levels of trying and failing to tread the electrified fence between a slapstick cartoon joke and just straight up portraying sexual harassment which tbh there’s an argument for sexual assault here even.
I hope this is the catalyising event for Joyce going back to believing in God.
Yeah that ain’t ever happening
See, folks?
You don’t have to give up on Ruth/Daisy after all.
Jason’s just gonna be there too, like a particularly involved lamp.
You didn’t necessarily need that “particularly involved lamp” part. I feel like it was already implied when you said “Jason”.
Wait, is Aide going to be there? I’m confused.
coat stand. they meant coat stand
I almost forgot how thirsty Daisy is for a few moments there.
This is one of the exceedingly rare situations where the line “You REALLY need to get laid.” is actually true. XD
or.. see a therapist? does anyone ever NEED to get laid?
“Sex is a strategy we use to meet our psychological needs and not a need itself.”
It fulfills physiological needs too, but as for getting laid, the NEED for a partner is gonna be much less strong once we invent better sex toys.
Or better yet, a human breeding mount.sex fulfills physiological needs? source?
Uh, the one you listed?
Also, I just found out that human breeding mounts actually do exist in some of China’s hospitals.
haha ok i have to say, that video totally tickles me, the idea of men masturbating into machines right next to other men? pretty hot somehow lol
ok but anyway, the article i linked to, and i admit i haven’t gone and read the sources, but while it says that a healthy sex life has various benefits it hardly goes as far as to suggest that sex is necessary to stay healthy. in fact it states outright that “there is no evidence that celibacy or asexuality is actually physically or psychologically unhealthy.”
so while i’m sure a deeper dive would push this conversation into more interesting and specific territory as far as sweeping statements go i think that’s a stronger takeaway than “sex may correlate with lower risks of various conditions”.
Well for various things like stress relief, lower blood pressure and especially decreased risk of prostate cancer, you don’t “need” sex or masturbation, the same way you don’t “need” a balanced diet.
Sure you could go without it, but it’s just REALLY difficult to find a viable substitute that can provide ALL of those health benefits simultaneously.
er
“sex or masturbation” ≠ “sex”
you know?
Yeah, it’s much more enjoyable with a partner, isn’t it?
i’m not trying to own you on semantics, it’s just, this whole thread started with me reacting to Zaxares saying “this is one of those rare instances where i can say, Daisy you NEED to get laid” and me saying “uh, really??”
like, i enjoy a hypothetical tangent as much as the next nerd but are we at the very least talking about the same general topic here?
and you replied before i managed to clarify my own reply (network failure)
so, if we ARE off on a tangent…
…i don’t know if it’s much more enjoyable with a partner, it depends what IT is =D
i’m having hella fun diddling myself these days, but i am also single and lonely and would love to touch some skin? so i guess, yes and no
And there she is.
Damn it, Daisy.
Dating apps exist Daisy, dating apps exist…
Low-key great Joyce face in that last panel
Joyce has really become unlikable lately
By stating facts?
Ugh…Daisy… Someone be her girlfriend so she can not be a crazy hornball.
Introduce her to whatever Sierra/Grace/????? have going on, I’m sure she’ll love it!
Honestly, no one be her girlfriend. Stay the hell away from her.
She was pretty sweet and supportive on that date with Ruth. I was hoping she’d be more than a punchline after that, but I guess not.
Ah. Sexual harrasment as comedy.
A lot less funny if you’ve experienced it yourself.
Yeaaah. Totally agree.
I have never liked this attempt at “role reversal is funny” in particular because it really obliterates the experience of a lot of men who already feel like societal norms dictate they can’t speak up about it.
Unless Walky and Joyce team up tomorrow to report her to the Title IX office. That’d be an interesting direction for the story to run off in.
It sure is.
Anyway glancing over the comments as I have, this didn’t read to me as sexual harassment, as in the actual crime as detailed, in that:
– It’s the last panel of a series of strips where Daisy displays an ounce of professionalism and then resets to status quo.
– She’s a cartoon, a caricature of an actual person, and thus has a wild cartoon reaction to sell how pathetically desperate she is to get laid, not just grabbing Walky’s shirt but being able to pinpoint that Girl Saliva has touched it and therefore Walky’s girlfriend is probably a freak.
– Knowing that Daisy has zero power in any scenario, and has so far only expressed (in one panel of a strip from like 9 years ago now) a willingness to be bribed with sexual favours as opposed to trying to extort them, I don’t feel threatened for Walky in this scenario or anyone who would be in Walky’s position.
(I avoided gendered language here but the reality is that this is something that’s a lot heavier to talk about with women as the specific context of “an authority figure exploiting power for sexual favours” is something that is more widely understood as something that happens to women)
But then the problem with that thinking, the way it is in a whole lot of crappy media and media that isn’t crappy and yet still indulges it nonetheless, is that some weirdo groping you and getting away with it actually happens to people in real life, less so the part where you punch someone out the window into the stratosphere.
That last part probably gets to the root of it, I think, in that some asshole humiliates and degrades someone and then not only does no one step in to help, the only consequence they receive is ultra cartoony and then they bounce back no worse for wear and go back to being some kind of intended to be funny character.
I don’t think it’s enough to just leave it at “Daisy’s a cartoon so it’s fine” if I want to approach it the way I have been, this is on the same level of how plenty of DoA strips play out and with the same level of expectation and consequence that is adjusted for the scenario (Dina aggressively hompfking Mary to death to chase her away, and then doing the same to Amber and tearing her pants off so now Dina has to apologize and go buy her a new pair, because we like Amber and therefore Dina can’t just hompfk in her direction without some acknowledgement from the plot), that does invite much stronger reactions in the specific context of desperately grabbing someone’s clothes in the hopes of getting laid.
“– Knowing that Daisy has zero power in any scenario, and has so far only expressed (in one panel of a strip from like 9 years ago now) a willingness to be bribed with sexual favours as opposed to trying to extort them, I don’t feel threatened for Walky in this scenario or anyone who would be in Walky’s position.”
I mean, this isn’t true? Daisy is a prospective… let’s go with employer. Walky and Joyce are applying to a paid position. Daisy gets to pick which one of them gets it. This isn’t “no power”.
Also, if you get a say in people’s income, “telling them you can be bribed with sexual favours” and “extorting sexual favours” is a distinction without a difference.
Good point, I didn’t get that across the best way.
It’s not that Daisy isn’t in a position of authority where she can abuse her power, it’s that it’s Daisy and we’ve never gotten a hint that she’s willing to engage with such a thing the way Jason and Sal bonked and it was a Whole Thing where it wasn’t really morally unethical but it sure was professionally unethical, Jason struggled with it on top of struggling with being a shitty teacher, and then it ultimate got him fired when he decided it was more important to own up to his mistake.
I brought up the “man, no one ever thinks to bribe me with sexual favours” line, as in it was one line in one panel, to make the point that Daisy, hypothetically, as in it was a joke to go “haha Daisy is sexually frustrated”, would only violate her professional standards if she was asked to, and Walky and Joyce are definitely not going to ask on the grounds of, respectively, being a dude while Daisy is a lesbian and Joyce being straight while Daisy is not Dorothy.
Of course, she’s not asking for Walky, she’s asking for Walky to provide her with his girlfriend. Which shifts the tone a bit.
It’s also worth pointing out that, depending how you read it, Jennifer has already tried bribing her with a date with Ruth.
That’s Jennifer’s motivation, as in she wants Daisy to get laid so she’ll be more receptive to her, but I don’t think that factored into Daisy wanting to meet Ruth and then they actually hit it off and Daisy showed the most character depth she has in the whole series.
As for Walky, well, yeah, you’re right, that’s a scenario where Daisy could bribe Walky with a job if he introduces her to his girlfriend, but by that point I’m digging like five layers in to find why Daisy is being Problematic in this one panel.
She’s asking him right now, when he’s come to her office to compete to a job, if “she’s bi and open to a third and can he stand in the corner”. While grabbing him.
Yeah, it’s all overblown and played up for laughs and the job in question is pathetically minor, but there’s really no hypothetical introduction to his girlfriend involved. This is straight up asking for sex.
Okay but there’s a difference between “Daisy wants to bang Lucy” and “that, so Walky can get a job.”
Even aside from it being an intentionally wacky last panel, that doesn’t actually have to matter to anyone who’s bothered by it, it’s something I have to dig for the most negative interpretation possible when it starts with Daisy sniffing out Girl Saliva, pathetically begging to be let into Walky’s non-existent polyamourous relationship that being a reader means I know doesn’t exist, and then after that, something the comic has not and will not touch on unless this was for drama purposes, now I can dig into something wildly inappropriate like Daisy trying to get Walky to pimp Lucy out to her in exchange for a job instead of merely normal levels of inappropriate like what we have here.
Honestly I doubt Daisy is intentionally trying to do so. She doesn’t have to be consciously trying to make the deal for it to be wildly inappropriate.
And quite possibly legally actionable – if not, it’s only because she’s just a student editor and that stakes are so incredibly low.
Daisy is currently in a position of power here, actually? She’s the deciding force of if Walky gets the job or not.
hm. it’s your prerogative to read it as harmless comedy, but i’m not convinced.
like, we know Daisy is thirsty, that’s her #1 character trait, and she has communicated that repeatedly and in a number of less problematic ways in the past, like that joke about getting bribed: no one was in the room, whatever. that didn’t feel quite as serious. What i mean is: this here? it wasn’t necessary from a writing perspective. it doesn’t bring anything new to the table in terms of Daisy being sexually frustrated in a cringe way. it’s over the top, and i think that’s on purpose.
Besides — we’re never led to believe that she’s willing to cross red lines, you say? i mean, she was totally about to kiss Jennifer that one time. So when a few months later that same editor she tried to kiss, and who she regularly gets into professional arguments with, and who knows (bc everyone knows) that she’s desperate for a shag, sets her up for a date?? yeah, i think Daisy has to be aware that she’s being sweetened.
I mean, that girl has a serious problem. The fact that her character was recently fleshed out quite a bit, and made very endearing, and that today’s outburst is especially outrageous makes me think it doesn’t serve to “reset the status quo” so much as build up to a more serious arc for her.
I mean yeah I think it’s harmless comedy in that I don’t think it reveals something dark about Daisy’s character, I think it’s only harmful in how an actual person can read it and react to it.
As for Daisy and Jennifer, well, Jennifer straight up reenacted Ruth slamming into her a wall and kissing her to the point of getting real up close and personal on Daisy, as in I think it’s safe to read that as Daisy getting caught up in getting bullied by a cheerleader. Jennifer’s definitely trying to put herself in Daisy’s good graces by hooking her up with Ruth, but we’ve never gotten any indication that Daisy herself knows of that intent, as far as Daisy conveyed it to us Jennifer just tried to hook her up with her ex-girlfriend she talked up a whole lot.
Daisy got an ounce of character focus when she was with Ruth, in that I think their date comprises a total quarter of Daisy’s screentime since the start of the comic, but she’s still Daisy. She’s still a constantly thirsty gag character, we just started to see other aspects of her character and if she continues to develop that one gag is going to get downplayed into non-existence. This is just the first time we’ve seen that gag since Daisy got some character writing.
Like how all Dina used to do was hide behind doors.
wanna bet your grav? =P
That was a low blow >:(
i mean, you’ve said so yourself: whenever you predict something, the opposite happens. which is very convenient! thank you. you’re sort of like, a reverse Cassandra?
Like most fans who are in too deep I have a remarkably theoretical grasp on the subject.
and maybe on account of being a writer yourself? also you seem SO invested in these characters. i don’t think i truly understand that sort of emotional intensity towards pixel people. which, you know, good 4 u, as Olivia Rodrigo might say
When your brain runs on hyperfocus as long as mine has, you get attached.
Anyway it’s not really complex for me or anything, it’s just a thing I like and like to think about and I’ve started to be able to do that uninhibitedly now that my brain got glued back together.
yeah, i understand that sort of obsession as people have often told me i have an enviable talent for learning languages. and they tend to frame it in terms of effort and sacrificing time i could’ve spent otherwise, and i tell them “i don’t know about talent or hard work, but i know foreign languages are mad interesting to me, so to me it doesn’t feel like an effort at all, actually i think i’m especially lazy when it comes to pushing myself to do things i have no interest in doing”
and maybe, that’s a big part of what talent really is?
For a minute there I was starting to like Daisy, and then she started acting like, well, Daisy again.
Ugg, her shtick is well past worn out at this point.
I mean yeah I kinda think that’s where this is going if Daisy shows up again, which I’m not totally unconvinced about since she’s been in the comic since like 2011 and this year gave her more character focus than she’s ever had.
What’s Daisy like when she’s not a one note gag? When she is complaining about her thirst? Well:
– She’s neurotic about making a good impression in front of strangers, and is so bad at handling awkward social situations that she’ll run away, buy a coat as a disguise, go back, and then do it all over again when that awkward social situation happens again.
– Meets Ruth, makes a pretty good effort at first date small talk without any immediate “omg plow me already” reactions.
– She passively dances around Ruth’s issues until Ruth says she’s too functional to be with her, whereupon Daisy has enough self awareness to say she’s scared out of her mind but likes Ruth enough that she wants to try and then asks if Ruth likes her too, which is maybe the scariest thing to ask someone you are trying to impress.
– Actually gets Ruth to talk about how weird being in the US feels and, pointedly, when Ruth starts talking about her suicidal ideation, Daisy puts her hand on hers instinctively because she was worried about what Ruth was saying. That’s when she panics at the prospect of sex with Ruth, who goes home with Jason. Daisy just kind of feels bad about it until Ruth sends her a deepfake tiddy pic.
And now we got this scene with her and Joyce, where:
– She’s just actually being a calm professional with Joyce to the point of giving a really good piece of advice that Joyce is a freshman and all her plans for the comic might not work out because by the end of her time in college she’ll be a completely different person.
– Says she likes the romantic tension of the comic, and then clarifies she meant the one Joyce put in on accident, noting without any hidden intent how Absurdly Gay the Saga of Captain Julia Gray is with the relationship between its title character and President Doris. If there was any point in this time for Daisy to act like a horny gorilla it was when she had reason to believe Joyce was showing off her self-insert yuri fanfic, and all she really had to say was that her audience might read something into it that Joyce didn’t intend and have a bad reaction.
Joyce drawing a comic for the IU newspaper is the kind of thing that will involve at least one conversation with Daisy so it’s entirely possible we just needed her to show up and not be the insufferable one-note joke when an actual human conversation needed to take place instead, but the fact that we got this so soon after her date with Ruth showing more depth to her character than has ever been hinted at, let alone ever been interested in hinting at, I’ll call that intentional. In hindsight, Daisy responding to Ruth calling her functional by talking about how she was a weird mess herself and wanted to try anyway felt like Daisy taking an assessment test for supporting character status.
This is extreme even by the previously established standards.
Joyce getting passed up for Walky based on something this cartoonishly stupid is hitting some surprisingly painful nerves for me.
Not that she’s ACTUALLY gotten passed up yet – Daisy could absolutely turn around tomorrow and say “no, regardless of whether LAWsome has potential as comedy, Julia Gray clearly is the better choice”. But even the idea, oof.
Daisy doesn’t seem like the type to be impressed by LAWsome.
Daisy does, however, seem like the type to make bad decisions based on how horny she is, regardless of how effective those decisions will be at getting her laid.
Like I said, it’s not a foregone conclusion.
Julia Gray actually ISN’T the better choice. It would be the better choice for, saaayyy, and I’m just spitballing here, right off the top of my head, don’t know why it occurred to me, an online webcomic where people can access any strip at any time.
For a college newspaper? Not so great. The people who start college in future years miss the start. The people who graduate in a year or 2 aren’t going to be interested because, well, imagine if there was this show that you were told was plotted for three seasons but were ALSO told it’d only run for one. Would you bother watching that one season, knowing that absolutely nothing would be resolved before you had stop watching?
On the other hand joyce can arrange the comic so that each school term tells a complete story. So those graduating earlier won’t be left on a cliff hanger and new readers can get caught up easily.
Plus, if you are trying to increase readership, you do not necessarily care if your readers leave early… You just care if they “tune in” while they are around. A well written plot-based comic might just do that.
She could in theory, but can she? This is the first thing she’s ever tried to write other than her
smutLiterature. Her plans are grandiose, she seems far more concerned with the big picture than with making it work episodically.A well written plot-based comic certainly could work. The introduction to a sprawling epic, with the payoff years down the line probably can’t. Everything we’ve heard about this makes it sound more like the latter to me.
LAWsome might actually be the better choice for a newspaper. A gag-a-day strip is a more natural fit than a lore-heavy serial drama.
Most comic strips are probably a gag-a-day (or may have short story arcs that run a few strips).
I think the problem with Walky’s LAWsome comic is… Walky himself. With his penchant to get easily distracted, he may leave the strip after a few months (assuming he doesn’t flunk out due to bad grades caused by untreated ADD). Plus, I’m not sure how much creativity Walky has. (His whole “laugh at someone/dropkick” maybe good as a 1-off, but does he have anything outside of that?)
But LAWsome is more one gag per career than one gag per strip.
This aspect of Daisy’s character is getting kinda tiresome. It was funny when it was stress pooping on a date with Ruth and like subconsciously miming scissoring, but it’s been too long it feels like it needs to either tone down or be deployed… better than this?
Well, look at it this way:
If Daisy’s going to start showing up more, if that date with Ruth was a glimpse into who she is and we’ll see more of it, doesn’t she gotta start at her worst?
‘Cause the phrase “man I can’t for Daisy to show up again” has never once before now crossed my mind in the seven years I’ve been reading.
Little did we know, Daisy is part bloodhound.
Tbh I’m half expecting Mary to come in in the last second.
Mallard Fillmore with anime eyes.
Plot twist: it’ll be Malaya.
That is repulsive levels of desperate thirst.
Someday Daisy will have a real personality besides “lol horny lesbian.” That day is not today. Sigh.
Are you telling me that Becky and Daisy are nearly identical?
Hey that is a wildly oversimplified read on Becky’s character.
She is a horny lesbian who feels really bad about the horny thing, and also she feels really bad her girlfriend isn’t horny for her.
Sorry, I meant that to be read in sarcasm quotes.
My bad.
I mean, they both seem to be ok with committing sexual assault, sooooooo…
Aight let’s just sidestep Daisy for a minute.
Becky is okay with this?
Yeah this seems an egregiously spiteful interpretation of her kissing Joyce when she first visited. I assume that’s what the previous commenter is talking about cuz I cannot think of anything else
Like it’s the only thing I can think they’re referring to and just
Not only was Becky super fucked up by having her entire life upended and so ran away to Joyce because she was the only fixture of any kind of comfort and stability that still existed, like two days later she found out about Ryan and immediately associated her action with Joyce being attacked, as in Becky was utterly horrified to discover that she could have triggered Joyce’s trauma by kissing her.
That’s like the least okay reaction to “having committed sexual assault” that could possibly exist.
Yeah like I think there’s a stark difference between like kissing ur friend you’ve had a crush on for a thousand years cuz you’re misreading signals and a bit manic cuz ur life is completely sideways and sexual assault. Especially considering Becky’s behavior after the incident
I hate to break it to the both of you, but “kissing someone who doesn’t want you to kiss them” is textbook definition of sexual assault.
How the heckers do you process fiction like that
The actual motivations of the characters and emotional tribulations they’re going through shouldn’t be secondary!
“Sexual assault”, much like assault in general, is an incredibly broad category.
Yes, technically Becky’s kiss was sexual assault. Mostly because it’s fiendishly difficult to write laws or definitions that cover the subtleties of human interactions thoroughly. Practically and realistically, due to the circumstances and reactions of both characters, no one would ever treat it as such.
A different unwanted kiss under different circumstances? Could well be treated that way.
Also, Becky is not at all okay with committing sexual assault, even if we concede that she did it.
… dammit, Daisy.
Leslie should harness Daisy’s super-thirst to solve sexy mysteries.
#walkytoo
Uh oh. Joyce has panic face, I think she’s gonna do something stupid.
Had Daisy been a man, this scene would’ve been way creepier…
I mean its pretty creepy already
And frankly I’m not a fan of “when the roles are reversed its funny” idea
This is basically a reprise of when Robin invaded Leslie’s house and refused to leave after being asked, being told, and being forcefully thrown out.
Half the comments were “aw, but this is sweet” but somehow I was the bad guy for pointing out that none of them would be saying “aw, but this is sweet” if Robin had been a dude.
Like, it’d be creepy even without the power dynamic here (she decides who gets the job and is presumably their boss afterwards)
(Also:)
Joyce: (presents comic with apparent gay lady subtext)
Daisy: (reasonable feedback)
Walky: (walks in with a damp spot on his shirt from his heterosexual girlfriend cleaning sauce off of him)
Daisy: OMG DID GURL LICK LET ME SMELL IT
Put your comics on the internet, Walky. A comic in the school paper isn’t worth this.
Who knows? Walky might just do a guest strip for Julia Grey one of these days!
Aren’t there like a dozen different “find a fuck-buddy” apps you can get on a smart phone these days? She could grab one and be grinding crotches with another woman within an hour!
Walky, that is sexual harassment, and you don’t have to take it!
Someone better get Daisy a fucking vibrator. And a Costco-pack of batteries.