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June 14, 2026

Pervert

by David M Willis on November 2, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Bring Me to Life Drawing
└ Tags: joe, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 2, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    dang, don’t break your neck jumping to conclusions, Joyce

    …

    wait

    your parents divorcing makes YOU a pervert??

    SINS OF THE FATHERS (and mothers) HUH

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 2, 2022 at 12:51 am | #

      Obviously divorce causes children of the broken marriage to not respect marriage and thus be perverts. OBVIOUSLY.

      • Yet_One_More_Idiot
        Yet_One_More_Idiot
        November 2, 2022 at 8:41 am | #

        Can confirm this is the case. 🙂

        Source: my parents divorced when I was 19.

      • Liara
        Liara
        November 2, 2022 at 11:28 am | #

        Can also confirm. My parents’ divorce (and the involved costs) is absolutely the main reason I don’t ever wanna get married.

        • Harmony
          Harmony
          November 2, 2022 at 3:55 pm | #

          Can confirm. My parents are still married, and I’m totally not a pervert. (Please ignore the whips, straps, costumes, assortment of vibrators, etc. in my bedroom collection.)

          • Kazuma Taichi
            Kazuma Taichi
            November 2, 2022 at 6:54 pm | #

            That doesn’t sound like an assortment of items I want to ignore though.

            …except maybe the whips, I’m not a fan of pain

            • Librain
              Librain
              November 3, 2022 at 5:55 am | #

              I mean if you find a willing volunteer you don’t need to be a fan of pain to use them to good effect?

              … Not that I’m volunteering or anything…
              <..>

              • Joe Angel
                Joe Angel
                November 3, 2022 at 4:01 pm | #

                I am filling a spray can with holy water for this comment section.

          • Liara
            Liara
            November 2, 2022 at 9:13 pm | #

            Same, but those are separate of the divorce lol

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 2, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    Joyce is having a Tomato in the Mirror moment.

    • deliverything
      deliverything
      November 2, 2022 at 4:56 am | #

      Except it’s not a mirror, it’s a painting that her upbringing hung where a mirror should be.

      • Nova
        Nova
        November 2, 2022 at 6:55 am | #

        I’ll be stealing this phrase to describe this concept, thanks. It’s so fucking accurate.

      • Librain
        Librain
        November 3, 2022 at 8:05 am | #

        This painting doesn’t happen to look several years older than the real Joyce, does it?

    • keithcurtis
      keithcurtis
      November 2, 2022 at 2:24 pm | #

      What’s the trope namer on that? I don’t feeling like opening a thousand folders to find out, then waking up after a 3 day binge on TVTropes.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        November 2, 2022 at 4:47 pm | #

        Need to somehow pretend I’m working, so I’ll fall on the bullet*

        “Variation of Tomato Surprise”

        which itself is:

        “from a set of writer’s guidelines distributed circa 1980 by Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, written by its then-editor, George Scithers. The guidelines named the trope and gave as one of the examples hiding the fact that the hero is, in fact, a tomato.”

        *Friend: “Guess I’ll fall on the bullet ”
        Spouse: “That’s not going to hurt much!”

      • CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
        CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
        November 2, 2022 at 7:59 pm | #

        According to “Tomato Surprise” one link deeper:

        “The trope name comes from a set of writer’s guidelines distributed circa 1980 by Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, written by its then-editor, George Scithers. The guidelines named the trope and gave as one of the examples hiding the fact that the hero is, in fact, a tomato. “

        • CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
          CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
          November 2, 2022 at 8:00 pm | #

          Lol, really shoulda hit refresh before trying to answer 🙂

      • keithcurtis
        keithcurtis
        November 7, 2022 at 4:17 pm | #

        Thank you both. 🙂

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    November 2, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Pervert godless atheist is open for business in the get naked room!

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      November 2, 2022 at 1:06 am | #

      That’s what it says on my business card

  4. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    November 2, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    God doesn’t hate you.

    He’s a pervert just like you!

    Right, Willis?

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      November 2, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

      God made Joyce, who drew the ding-dongs. God drew ding-dongs by proxy.

      • Kimi
        Kimi
        November 2, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

        In that case, didn’t God make the ding-dongs which can be drawn? If we really get down to it in Genesis, wasn’t God fine with humans running around naked?

        • deliverything
          deliverything
          November 2, 2022 at 4:54 am | #

          As I recall, the first sign of humans sinning in Genesis was when they STOPPED being ok with nudity. Clearly, we should strip for God!

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 2, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

        God drew the first ever ding-dong, while designing humans. Then he called over Michael and Gabriel to have a laugh at it.

        Lucifer just rolled his eyes and said they were being immature, and that’s when the trouble started…

        • justin8448
          justin8448
          November 2, 2022 at 5:44 am | #

          I would like to hear some more of this heaven fan-fiction. Please and thank you.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 2, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

      Every single sex act, every kink, and weird shit people have done, God has watched and is also involved in the inception of most of it. He’s the kinkiest one of all.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 2, 2022 at 12:53 am | #

      Don’t be silly. “God” has long since graduated from pervert to Internet Porn Lord.

  5. Blibdoolpoolp
    Blibdoolpoolp
    November 2, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Announcing you’re on birth control in front of a guy like Joe would have been like bleeding in front of a shark a while ago. Now I weirdly expect some restraint from my boy.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      November 2, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

      Joe’s on the “fish are friends, not food program” now

      • GeekyWarrior
        GeekyWarrior
        November 2, 2022 at 6:04 am | #

        Food that talks is not food!

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 2, 2022 at 12:32 am | #

      I was thinking the same thing.  But I also think Joe has scruples, and here’s where we get to see them.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 2, 2022 at 12:32 am | #

      Says a lot about me that I didn’t even register “I’m on birth control” as a “oh she’s down to clown” until you just said that.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        November 2, 2022 at 8:14 pm | #

        Where did you get “down to clown”? It’s one of my favorite phrases and I’ve been using it for years but have never remembered its origin if I ever knew it.

    • Ophidiophile
      Ophidiophile
      November 2, 2022 at 2:19 am | #

      Joe is confused because Joyce jumped ahead in the script.

    • RowenMorland
      RowenMorland
      November 2, 2022 at 2:54 am | #

      Ironically Amber saying something along the lines of “someone is going to be that person for her, why are you the worst choice.” the other day is probably heightening that as much as his recent Joe behaviourisms.

  6. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    November 2, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Joyce is such a wiener sometimes.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      November 2, 2022 at 4:08 am | #

      When you realize you are in a trap, betray your companions immediately.

  7. Qube
    Qube
    November 2, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Joe, ironically, may have just found God

  8. Cheshrin
    Cheshrin
    November 2, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Don’t make me sic the shiba on you, Joe.

    (All jokes aside, that is a hilarious way for Joe to find out that little detail. It’s a whole new topping on his emotional crisis pizza.)

  9. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    November 2, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    What a wonderful coincidence, Tumblr as is allowing Lewds again!!!!

    It’s a Halloween demon miracle!!! 🥹 ✌️😈

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      November 2, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      Not a full ban-life but since the porn restriction was enforced from the outside their bans probably can’t get much more relaxed than this without getting them in major trouble with Apple and others.

      Given that Twitter is currently under new ownership who are in the process of stripping all the copper wire out of the barely functioning machine to pay their enormous debt, Tumblr may actually claw more of it’s old userbase back.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        November 2, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

        I won’t hold my breath. I’d rather migrate to Pillowfort than Tumblr at this point. They’re loosening the chains but we ain’t free yet.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          November 2, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

          🤘 “We will remain a soldier ’till the war is won!!!!”

          sorry couldn’t help myself 😆

        • Bridgebrain
          Bridgebrain
          November 2, 2022 at 1:49 pm | #

          I’m sorry, what is Pillowfort? Because there’s like 10 directions that could go from the name alone >_>

      • Vanessa
        Vanessa
        November 2, 2022 at 1:43 am | #

        Nice analogy. Musk does have a gigantic debt to service every single year, and he owes part of it to a pretty bloodthirsty group of bone-sawers. And he owns two large businesses that are extremely dependent on two diametrically opposed governments.

  10. Awaiting Moderation
    Awaiting Moderation
    November 2, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    Ah, good! Back to JoJo! A potential relationship that isn’t horribly toxic. Much more my speed!

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      November 2, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

      You could say we… got back to where we once belonged.

    • Felgraf
      Felgraf
      November 2, 2022 at 3:05 pm | #

      let’s follow this Bizzare Adventure with them!

  11. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    November 2, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    Can you hate something you don’t beleive exists? I am sure you can but it seems redundant.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 2, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

      You can hate something conceptually. Existence isn’t actually important for something to gain my ire.

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      November 2, 2022 at 1:14 am | #

      Well, I hate fictional characters. Or perhaps to be more precise, I hate what those character represent. And the ones I hate the most are those characters with power that loves using it for oppression.

      And you don’t get much more “a being with power that totally abuses it and fucks over people than the Biblical god.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      November 2, 2022 at 4:10 am | #

      Umm, lots of people in the comments here hate various DoA characters who don’t exist.

      • MegaBee
        MegaBee
        November 2, 2022 at 7:29 am | #

        applause.gif

    • Nerrin
      Nerrin
      November 2, 2022 at 1:12 pm | #

      It’s also really common language and an accusation about atheism from the Christian right-wing in the US: that people actually “know” God exists but choose to hate him because they’d rather just sin instead of be Good True Christians.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 2, 2022 at 3:24 pm | #

      Considering how many people hate some fictional characters in the entertainment they enjoy, I’d definitely say yes.

  12. toby
    toby
    November 2, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Is Joe… carrying both their jackets? 🥺 cute…

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      November 2, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

      I agree.

    • Cerusee
      Cerusee
      November 2, 2022 at 6:02 am | #

      I think so! I’m not sure if we got a look at Joe’s jacket, but several strips back, at the end of biology class, Joyce was wearing a pink jacket with no dark colors, and he’s got what looks like something black and something pink on his arm.

      Adorbs~~~~

  13. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    November 2, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    None of that is perverse, Joyce.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 2, 2022 at 12:56 am | #

      I mean, “god hating atheist” is kinda perversely paradoxical….

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        November 2, 2022 at 8:18 pm | #

        “god” can refer to the concept of gods in general, too.

        English is funny and stupid that way. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  14. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    November 2, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    God-hating atheist seems oxymoronic.

    Also why does panel 5 remind me of the whole “Always Was” meme? I think its the dialogue and character stances.

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      November 2, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      I dunno, I hate a lot of fictional things.

      – Said as Religious Person

    • Leadsynth
      Leadsynth
      November 3, 2022 at 4:23 pm | #

      Right? Joyce, you can’t be God-hating AND atheist. You have to pick one!

  15. thakoru
    thakoru
    November 2, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Joyce, you can’t hate God if you don’t believe He exists.

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      November 2, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      Maybe she can hate the concept of God but yeah saying g your a God hating atheist is kind redundant.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      November 2, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      You can hate something that you consider fictional.

      It’s extremely easy actually

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      November 2, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

      I genuinely hate Kylo Ren.

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        November 2, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

        Do you hate the character himself, or the absolute mess of contradictory writing decisions masquerading as his “redemption arc”?

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          November 2, 2022 at 12:56 am | #

          Speaking for myself? Yes.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        November 2, 2022 at 1:37 am | #

        I don’t know what you’re talking about, Kylo Ren is great.

        I love a villain who the creative team made loathsome in a genuinely compelling way while forgetting that they had to redeem him and spending the last film futilely trying to dig themselves out of the hole they’d made

        • C.T. Phipps
          C.T. Phipps
          November 2, 2022 at 1:59 am | #

          I am confused why they would have Kylo Ren kill one of the most beloved characters of all time, refuse redemption a second time, and apparently turn just because he likes being evil if they intended to redeem him.

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            November 2, 2022 at 2:18 am | #

            Because Han Solo needs to die since we barely got Harrison to shoot this movie, and who else is going to do it? Hux?

            They also wanted to introduce Kylo as a mysterious masked villain and have it be a dramatic twist that he’s Han and Leia’s kid. Unfortunately that means they introduce Kylo by having him butcher an unarmed old man in a fit of rage and ordered a village massacred, and the sympathetic qualities (beyond being the son of characters we like) don’t get introduced until the next fucking movie.

          • Kimi
            Kimi
            November 2, 2022 at 2:29 am | #

            I thought that Luke’s character arc in that second “recent” star wars movie was weird. This is the guy that thought his father, who was a horrific mass murderer, could still have good in him and tried to get that to emerge. For him to suddenly turn against Kylo Ren just due to visions/nightmares just seems so counter intuitive without any development to get to that point. If there was backstory to set up how he got to that point with them actually spending time on it, it would have been fine. Instead he just felt like a completely different person than what he was in the original trilogy. You don’t just take the former main character and completely twist his character like that without building it up for the audience. Not even getting into how having that chase in space was weird, as I don’t understand how no one could pop in front of the escaping convoy. A cat and mouse game from planet to planet with them supposedly narrowing the time gaps between them leaving and the enemy arriving.
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            • Thag Simmons
              Thag Simmons
              November 2, 2022 at 2:35 am | #

              Well the thing is that the previous movie established that Luke’s Jedi failed miserably and he exiled himself when the galaxy needed him most, and his character in Last Jedi is built around that decision.

              Also don’t think about Star Wars logistics. It doesn’t make sense and it’s never going to make sense

              • Kimi
                Kimi
                November 2, 2022 at 2:47 am | #

                Depression from having all of your students killed (and therefore isolating yourself to keep from getting attached to others and possibly getting them killed) is completely different from starting that massacre by contemplating killing your nephew while standing over him in the middle of the night while he is sleeping. Luke leaving everyone to protect them fits his former character (especially if there was a traumatic event like that). Triggering that event with an out of character action requires more set up (since it wasn’t even hinted as his fault in the first movie) than what they did in the second, in my opinion. It isn’t that it couldn’t be done, but that they didn’t spend any time setting it up and just expected people to believe Luke had changed that much out of the blue. Leia would have made more sense than Luke in that position, as she was less inclined to find the good in her father (exploding her home planet right in front of her didn’t endear him to her, and would create a trauma that could trigger her contemplating killing her son).

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          thejeff
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          The problem was that there wasn’t a “creative team”. Each movie has its own team and they didn’t plan anything out ahead of time. None of them were necessarily bad, but they had different ideas and no one in charge of making them turn it into something coherent.

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            A disorganized creative team is still a creative team!

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              November 2, 2022 at 10:27 am | #

              Maybe? I’m not really sure in this case.
              More like each movie had a team, but they didn’t really consult. The 2nd and 3rd movies feel like they’re each arguing with the previous one. Or at least trying to twist the overall arc back in a direction that makes sense to them.

              If someone writes the first half of a story and hands it to me to finish, without any discussion of where they were going or of what I wanted them to set for what I wanted to do, are we a “team”?

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      November 2, 2022 at 1:57 am | #

      All of Joyce’s troubles have been because of the entity she used to believe in.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        November 2, 2022 at 3:14 am | #

        I feel like blaming God versus the awful community of abusive psychopaths she comes from is a bit counterproductive. Especially as God clearly is a shield for them and a source of strength for Becky.

        Which is why we need to separate deities and go back to polytheism. That way we can helpfully label one Lawful Evil and one Lawful Good as they do in Dragonlance.

        • Nova
          Nova
          November 2, 2022 at 7:00 am | #

          Two things can be true – she has in no way suggested that she blames God instead-of the people of her churches growing up rather than as-well-as.

          I find it interesting that what you took from Joyce’s proclaimed atheism was a need for more gods, not zero.

    • Francoinblanco
      Francoinblanco
      November 2, 2022 at 2:13 am | #

      better for God not to exist because if it does, it has a lot to explain

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        November 2, 2022 at 3:14 am | #

        “I have come to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels.” – Homer Simpson

    • Benjamin Geiger
      Benjamin Geiger
      November 2, 2022 at 8:29 am | #

      Allow me to introduce you to any character played by Louise Fletcher. (Kai Winn is one I love to hate.)

      Or, for modern audiences, Dolores Umbridge.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 2, 2022 at 3:34 pm | #

      Lots of people hate fictional characters in movies, TV shows, books, etc. It’s not that unusual to hate things that you don’t believe actually exist.

  16. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    November 2, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    The way I see it, one of two things will happen: 1) The model is female and Joyce tries to get Joe to not look and will cause an embarassing scene for both of them. or 2) The model is male and Joyce gets all hot and bothered and suddenly wishes she had a vibrator to handle it. And she will have a dream about the model being Joe.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      November 2, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

      You forgot 3): the model is female, both Joe and Joyce get hot and bothered, and the latter’s attempts to suppress/hide it get the former even hotter and bothered-ier.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        November 2, 2022 at 12:37 am | #

        or 4) The model is a bowl of fruit and they both get incredibly turned on and realize they just wanna fuck fruit.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          November 2, 2022 at 12:57 am | #

          Now that’s just bananas.

          • Kavonde
            Kavonde
            November 2, 2022 at 1:37 am | #

            What a pear of rascals.

            • Tan
              Tan
              November 2, 2022 at 3:57 am | #

              How do you like them apples?

              • Leorale
                Leorale
                November 2, 2022 at 5:16 pm | #

                They haven’t even had a good date, they can’t-elope.

                • Reltzik
                  Reltzik
                  November 2, 2022 at 6:37 pm | #

                  That fig-ures.

                • Slartibeast Button, BIA
                  Slartibeast Button, BIA
                  November 2, 2022 at 10:58 pm | #

                  The disappointment will make the all melon-choly.

        • wrog
          wrog
          November 2, 2022 at 2:46 am | #

          I’m sort of waiting for
          5) the expected model doesn’t show up and they ask Joe to be the model.

        • Slartibeast Button, BIA
          Slartibeast Button, BIA
          November 2, 2022 at 4:12 am | #

          Only if it contains passion fruit.

  17. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    November 2, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    And Then Joyce Was A Pervert.

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndThenJohnWasAZombie

  18. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    November 2, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    What is up with the chair/benches/desks(?) in the classroom? They look like beach loungers but with sketchpads. Where are the chairs?

    • Darastrix
      Darastrix
      November 2, 2022 at 1:27 am | #

      It’s what you see in a lot of art classes. You sit straddling the bench with your drawing pad, which is usually about 18×24 inches and clipped onto a large clipboard (running from one end of campus to the other carrying your portfolio bag is good exercise ) propped on the vertical part, with the base fitted into one of several grooves cut into the bench to adjust the slant and keep it in place. And if I’m remembering right, they can also be set down another way for you to work on them while standing up

      • Rogue 7
        Rogue 7
        November 2, 2022 at 8:49 am | #

        I got led down the garden path on your parenthetical comment and thought you meant that there was a large clipboard running from one end of campus to another. I was all “wow, art schools are *different*!” before I finished reading lol.

  19. Cmasta1992
    Cmasta1992
    November 2, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

    Dang Joe isn’t the model

    • v.gay.person
      v.gay.person
      November 2, 2022 at 1:43 am | #

      YET.

  20. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    November 2, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

    Silence
    Music’s original alternative
    Roots grunge!
    –Todd Snider

  21. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    November 2, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

    Prediction:

    “Our first day will be drawing fruit.”

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      November 2, 2022 at 1:08 am | #

      “The local reptile house has kindly let us borrow one of their alligators for the day.”

  22. Doc Harleen
    Doc Harleen
    November 2, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

    Joe’s brain visibly breaking in half at the words “birth control”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 2, 2022 at 12:37 am | #

      “So…technically speaking…how much control have you gained over birth?”

      • AbacusWizard
        AbacusWizard
        November 2, 2022 at 12:59 am | #

        “Bwahahahaha! Foolish mortals; you do not understand the extent of my power! Soon I shall have control over birth itself!!!”

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          November 2, 2022 at 3:25 am | #

          “A birth control to surpass Metal Gear.”

          “I know now, without a doubt. Kingdom Hearts… Is birth control!”

          “A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES BIRTH CONTROL!”

  23. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    November 2, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    “It’s me, hi, I’m the pervert, it’s me”

  24. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 2, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    Damn, guess they’re gonna have to have sex right there. There’s just no other options.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      November 2, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

      Even better, the model fails to show up so the teacher asks Joe to be the model. So now Joyce has to see someone she knows naked and draw them. Her brain will probably explode.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        November 2, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

        You aren’t thinking farcical enough for this comic.

        The teacher shows up and just assumes Joe is the model and hustles him up to the little stage and Joe’s so flummoxed by what Joyce just said he goes through with it without thinking until it’s too late and he’s stripped off his clothes and people are already drawing his ding dong.

        • Yeet
          Yeet
          November 2, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

          and then the real model walks in and it’s jacob

          • Nono
            Nono
            November 2, 2022 at 1:15 am | #

            And then they make out.

      • segnosaur
        segnosaur
        November 2, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

        She already saw him naked. (Not live, but after he was in the sex video with Roz there was a cartoon that showed Joyce watching part of it, then closing the laptop cover in shame.)

      • Rabisch
        Rabisch
        November 2, 2022 at 3:28 pm | #

        The problem with this theory is that this is what happened in the Strip “Luann” and it would likely have the same result, with Joyce hiding during the class and never coming back to take a drawing lesson again.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      November 2, 2022 at 6:12 am | #

      That was the very first thing Joyce thought of when she saw she was alone in a room with Joe. The very first thing. And she’s almost fully conscious of it.

  25. Suet
    Suet
    November 2, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    oh please, Punk’d ended years ago—

    Did you or did you not pay attention as to when the class starts? Odd-looking drawing stations though.

  26. William
    William
    November 2, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

    Is Joe going to have a sudden panic/despair moment hearing Joyce is taking birth control and thinking it’s because she’s already seeing someone? I can see Joyce being embarrassed about letting that info slip in front of Joe, trying to explain it away, and Joe having doubts.

    • poofdepoof
      poofdepoof
      November 2, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

      omg until I saw this comment I didn’t see that Joyce had mentioned “on birth control” in her panel and thought that Joe was just snidely adding that to her list — thank you for helping me read the comic through correctly! Now I’m very excited to see the next adorable part of these adorable kids’ conversation 😀

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 2, 2022 at 2:25 am | #

      I don’t think he’d suspect she’s seeing someone, because he would’ve already found out about them by now.

      But of course this is how he finds out about the BC.

  27. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    November 2, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

    Every time Joyce has a potential secret, she ends up telling Joe. Sometimes it’s very serious and touching. Other times, like now, it’s just funny

    • Cerusee
      Cerusee
      November 2, 2022 at 5:57 am | #

      It speaks wonders about her comfort level with him that she’ll just mention things to him that she’d be cagey about with anyone else, because they make HER uncomfortable.

  28. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 2, 2022 at 12:40 am | #

    By the way I am OFFENDED that Joyce is implying that Just because you’re atheist, have divorced parents and are on birth control, you’re a pervert. WE PERVERTS work HARD to achieve our title. It is something that takes years of dedication and hard work, and for someone to claim that they’ve become one so casually, really dismisses the struggles we go through to achieve the status of pervert.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      November 2, 2022 at 6:26 pm | #

      EXACTLY. This isn’t some club where you get to just show up, point at unrelated data, and claim membership. Being a pervert is effort. Dirty jokes in mixed company. Innuendo at funerals. Waggled eyebrows at _everyone_. Being too horny for my ex-spouse. These took **years** to craft and deliver and live with.

      Also: divorced **already**!.!?!!? Holy hell that was fast. I mean, props, Willis didn’t want to drag it out over then next century, but still. Wow that’s a fast divorce.

  29. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 2, 2022 at 12:41 am | #

    Alright guys. I’ve kept it secret long enough.
    It’s me. I’m the model.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      November 2, 2022 at 6:02 am | #

      I could join this life drawing session.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      November 2, 2022 at 6:27 pm | #

      Pics or it didn’t happen. Let’s have a nervous pervert-Joyce drawing Yoto sketch! You have it in you! (every great artist does a sepf portrait, you can do this!)

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        November 2, 2022 at 6:31 pm | #

        A self-portrait even!

  30. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    November 2, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

    That… might not be the thing to focus on right now, Joe.

    Joyce, you’ve had a lot of practice at unpacking the toxic prejudices of your upbringing. This should be old hat by now… In fact, you’ve done this SO much that you should be done by now and can’t possibly have anything left to reexamine, so can just let yourself get blindsided every time something new crops up because nothing ever will. After all that practice, you basically have no more real learning to do. THAT’S the ticket.

    • Mark
      Mark
      November 2, 2022 at 8:58 am | #

      Knowing this, and feeling it, are two distinct accomplishments, and often don’t come at the same time.

  31. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    November 2, 2022 at 1:00 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 11: Oh No! I AM The Pervert!

  32. Nono
    Nono
    November 2, 2022 at 1:05 am | #

    And that’s why I think this relationship shouldn’t happen now. Joyce has way too much self repression that dating Joe would not be good for him. Is she going to panic any time someone brings up that she’s dating known campus pervert Joe? Or is she going to think she’s throwing herself into the craven pits of the lust wolves?

    To paraphrase The Worst Friend: “You should be with someone who wakes up everyday and think, ‘Oh My God, I’m with Rachel! :D”.

    • thumb
      thumb
      November 2, 2022 at 9:28 am | #

      Sometimes you gotta find your happiness even while you’re working through your issues. Can’t wait until you’re right for someone to be with anyone.

      • Adept
        Adept
        November 2, 2022 at 10:16 am | #

        Because that might be never.

  33. PB
    PB
    November 2, 2022 at 1:06 am | #

    How are those mental hiccups coming along, Joyce?

  34. DiDi
    DiDi
    November 2, 2022 at 1:51 am | #

    Oh dear… Joe would zero in one that particular part of the statement.

    I’d think Joyce would just easily explain what it’s for but considering how insane she got about taking it to begin with? This might just become a clusterfuck of miscommunication.

  35. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    November 2, 2022 at 2:22 am | #

    You have to take the pills to be “on” them, Joyce.

    I bet at least one of them is going to sit on those drawing chair things like a chaise.

    • Kimi
      Kimi
      November 2, 2022 at 2:36 am | #

      At least they aren’t the size of horse pills like some antibiotics and other meds are. I wonder if taking them with a carbonated beverage would help? Also, I am guessing that this is before they made the ones that they put under your skin that lasts for several years? Though they might not start with that size they are trying to fix a problem and some meds might not help.

      • Shadow Dreamer
        Shadow Dreamer
        November 2, 2022 at 3:03 am | #

        Long term ones like that tend to Not be what they first start you on, yeah. I’d imagine a fizzy beverage would help though, it’s always helped with mine.

  36. RowenMorland
    RowenMorland
    November 2, 2022 at 2:51 am | #

    Plot twist, there is no life drawing class scheduled, Dorothy just set this up at a time with an empty room so she could model for Joyce one on one.

    • Rabisch
      Rabisch
      November 2, 2022 at 3:03 pm | #

      That would be amazing!

  37. Taffy
    Taffy
    November 2, 2022 at 3:10 am | #

    Wait wait wait, Joyce can’t hate the symbol of her oppressive cult upbringing and no longer consider herself part of that cult! That’s a paradox! I know what a paradox is, it’s when something isn’t stated in a literal enough manner or in a way that conforms to my preconceived notion of what things are and aren’t.

    Also, where’s this idea coming from that only Joe is gonna be mistaken for The Model? For all we know, there’s meant to be two models of distinct body configuration and they’re both gonna get bamboozled into stripping down and posing.

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      November 2, 2022 at 3:16 am | #

      I don’t see any real value to the “you can’t hate what you believe doesn’t exist.” I mean, Joyce can hate the idea of God, the influence of her faith, the actual being as constructed by her church, and so on. Acknowledging that anger is important and helpful.

      It also is an immense pain to Becky.

      Pretending she’s not angry and wants to tear it all down won’t help.

  38. StClair
    StClair
    November 2, 2022 at 3:57 am | #

    Joe’s like “wait, back up, what was that middle part?”

  39. chuckroast
    chuckroast
    November 2, 2022 at 5:18 am | #

    Joe offers to let her draw HIM?

  40. Dot
    Dot
    November 2, 2022 at 6:07 am | #

    Divorce already went through? That’s remarkably quick.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 2, 2022 at 6:57 am | #

      Maybe not on paper, but they’ve certainly had enough time to implement it in practice.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      November 2, 2022 at 7:05 am | #

      Might not be official yet, but it’s definitely coming

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      November 2, 2022 at 10:47 am | #

      Dunno about Indiana, but mine in Texas only took 2-3 months once the paperwork was filed.

  41. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    November 2, 2022 at 6:07 am | #

    I’m… uncomfortable with these chair position. Aways thought we sit around the model, so you can change your place, whenever you wish

    • thumb
      thumb
      November 2, 2022 at 9:26 am | #

      You can also move your chair. Even chairs like these.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        November 2, 2022 at 10:31 am | #

        True, but with a set up like this, with the model on stage at one end of the room, you can’t really move to the other side of them. You’re stuck with a limited angle.

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          November 2, 2022 at 4:57 pm | #

          In a cultural center where I used to go, the chair were put in a circle.
          And the model is on flor, at same level of us.

          • Amós Batista
            Amós Batista
            November 2, 2022 at 5:07 pm | #

            * the chairs were put in a circle around the model.
            And they is on floor, at same level of us.

  42. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    November 2, 2022 at 6:18 am | #

    As a person living in a latin country, happy All Souls’ Day, or Dia de Los Muertos, if you’re a spanish speaker.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      November 2, 2022 at 7:25 am | #

      uh, interesting, Toussaint (all saints) was yesterday in France

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 2, 2022 at 10:53 am | #

      I don’t know much about Dia de Los Muertos but what I do know about it sounds like a baller holiday. I wanna make an Ofrenda someday.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      November 2, 2022 at 6:14 pm | #

      🤘😈 🤘 😍

  43. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    November 2, 2022 at 7:24 am | #

    it CAN’T be confortable drawing on those horse-chairs

    • Hello
      Hello
      November 2, 2022 at 7:25 am | #

      Not as bad as they look but if your period is coming up and you sneeze on one, it decides to show up earlier.

      • Alex
        Alex
        November 2, 2022 at 1:40 pm | #

        What?

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          November 2, 2022 at 6:55 pm | #

          It’s true, I’ve seen stuff like that happen in real time. The first couple of instances were truly mystifying and confusing, but it’s just sort of A Thing.

  44. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    November 2, 2022 at 7:31 am | #

    “They’re the god-hating atheist on birth control, with divorced parents” is almost a line before they pull the mask off in a modern Scooby-Doo.

  45. Insanenoodlyguy
    Insanenoodlyguy
    November 2, 2022 at 9:03 am | #

    It’s time to draw Joe naked. It’s fine if it’s art!

  46. JohnnyO
    JohnnyO
    November 2, 2022 at 9:26 am | #

    Why did Joe come here?

    Are we about to find out he’s the model?

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      November 2, 2022 at 10:32 am | #

      Because Joyce asked him to.

  47. Adept
    Adept
    November 2, 2022 at 10:15 am | #

    Jos heard the important part, and missed everything else.

    • Freezer
      Freezer
      November 2, 2022 at 12:32 pm | #

      To be fair “Everything Else” was “Joyce Freaks Herself Out”, part eleventy billion.

      • Adept
        Adept
        November 2, 2022 at 1:43 pm | #

        Fair

  48. Adept
    Adept
    November 2, 2022 at 10:18 am | #

    Btw, is Joyce tiny or Joe huge? Is it both?

    • Liara
      Liara
      November 2, 2022 at 11:24 am | #

      even going back to It’s Walky!, Joe has always been a head taller than most of the cast. He’s just a tall fella

      • Adept
        Adept
        November 2, 2022 at 1:46 pm | #

        Between Jacob and Joe, our rather compact sized Joyce seems to have a thing for big, beefy guys. Nothing wrong with that, of course.

        • Liara
          Liara
          November 2, 2022 at 9:16 pm | #

          I can’t really emphasize with the “guys” part, but I’m with her on the “big, beefy” part

    • Francoinblanco
      Francoinblanco
      November 2, 2022 at 3:53 pm | #

      Joe height? taller than you.

  49. vulcanodon
    vulcanodon
    November 2, 2022 at 11:33 am | #

    Joe picks up an important detail…

  50. Freezer
    Freezer
    November 2, 2022 at 12:31 pm | #

    Okay, Joyce? You know how your besties have been kind of patronizing to you? Like you’ve forgotten how to (Young) Adult properly?

    This shit right here? This is why.

  51. Wereg
    Wereg
    November 2, 2022 at 1:35 pm | #

    Everyone’s joking about Joe smelling blood or whatever, but the lad just looks genuinely confused. Like the implication hasn’t even crossed his mind, he’s just wondering why Joyce would even be on birth control.

    The next update will almost certainly make me eat my words.

    • Alex
      Alex
      November 2, 2022 at 1:39 pm | #

      I think most people who know Joyce but aren’t familiar with her medical situation would be confused.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        November 2, 2022 at 5:26 pm | #

        People who menstruate will get it.

    • Cerusee
      Cerusee
      November 2, 2022 at 2:18 pm | #

      I do think he’s just confused. He certainly knows enough about her to know BC is probably a Big Deal, for whatever reason she’s taking it for, atheist or not, and she just dropped it there in front of him like it was nothing.

      I suppose you could argue that it’s none of Joe’s business whether Joyce might be sexually active/considering becoming sexually active, but he is in love with her and it’s starting to look like he might be willing to open up about it, which is a thing that could theoretically lead to dating, so it’s not like…totally irrelevant, what Joyce’s current stance on sex (and her having it) might be.

      (Dating, of course, does not always include sex, but just making assumptions without bothering to talk to the person you’re dating about them is what leads to stuff like Dorothy needing to explicitly tell Walky he could touch her breasts after they’d made some mutually contradictory unspoken assumptions about what level of physical intimacy was on the table between them, based on having very different dating backgrounds.)

  52. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    November 2, 2022 at 1:38 pm | #

    Not exactly a subtle way to inform Joe about that particular fact. But seem to work. Now let’s see who will be the next student arriving in the room. Maybe Mary? Maybe Malaya? Maybe Mary and Malaya together talking about something art relate as good frenemy?

  53. Turbojet
    Turbojet
    November 2, 2022 at 2:28 pm | #

    RE that alt-text: I’m having serious trouble believing Joyce has a clue what Candid Camera was–that was even longer in the dim past than To Catch a Predator. I GUESS she might have heard an elder make the old “Smile, you are on Candid Camera!” comment, maybe.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      November 2, 2022 at 5:28 pm | #

      It kinda makes sense that kids in that community would watch reruns/recordings of old shows that their elders are familiar with. Can’t let impressionable kids have access to shows we haven’t screened for them.

  54. Keulen
    Keulen
    November 2, 2022 at 3:29 pm | #

    Maybe they got there too early, maybe the class got moved to another location without them knowing, or maybe Dorothy was wrong about when and where the life-drawing class was going to be. And they could both be perverts, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

  55. Reed
    Reed
    November 2, 2022 at 5:04 pm | #

    Inb4 the teacher shows up and mistakenly thinks Joe is the model. Ah hijinks.

    But funniest possible answer for the art model?? Or is it just going to be Mary’s boyfriend?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 2, 2022 at 5:22 pm | #

      Funniest answer possible? …. Danny. One more adventure into finding-himself territory.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        November 2, 2022 at 8:21 pm | #

        Joyce and Danny see each other later and she still doesn’t recognize him.

        • Liara
          Liara
          November 2, 2022 at 9:19 pm | #

          “The model can’t have been him, he wears a hat!”

  56. Kaz
    Kaz
    November 2, 2022 at 11:17 pm | #

    Surprised Joe’s eyebrows didn’t go into orbit ngl

  57. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    November 3, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

    Did Joyce’s stock with Joe go up when he discovered she was on BC?

  58. Joy
    Joy
    November 3, 2022 at 3:19 pm | #

    Panic attack Joyce. I hope she feels better soon.

    (Sometimes I wonder if she needs, like, panic medication. The meds that work for that can have pretty nasty side effects in high dosages, and up until recently, doctors had a really poor understanding of how much counts as high (a lot lower than they thought, which means a lot of people who did actually need medication were accidentally overdosed on it)

  59. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    November 4, 2022 at 8:41 am | #

    “Oh no! Now JOE thinks I’m a s-word!”

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Dina is so small and quiet that she goes completely unnoticed by most people for long stretches of time. She doesn’t talk much — she prefers to observe. People and how they interact is a puzzle to Din...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 14h
today in #9chickweedlane i learned that we're memory-holing edda being on bed rest for the back half of her pregnancy because of complications
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s health. don’t say kristi noem died from getting her ass stuck in a wooden barrel and floated off a waterfall and her head hit every tree branch on the way down and an eagle flew by and grabbed her hat. don’t say stuff like that
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
the caaaave! remember your failure in the cave!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
Dumbing of Age: "Kerning" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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The Tricerahoodie Dina plush has reached 200 pledges!  It's happening!  And there's one day left to throw your pledge in!   Run over there before this Petition segment ends!...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
WE DID IT! 200+ pledges! *confetti*
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
www.makeship.com/petitions/tr... Wanna Tricerahoodie Dina plush? GO PLEDGE FOR ONE! We need 200 people to make it happen! Pledge period will end in 10 days!
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Dina is so small and quiet that she goes completely unnoticed by most people for long stretches of time. She doesn’t talk much — she prefers to observe. People and how they interact is a puzzle to Din...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com ⋅ 1d
MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
esqueer.net's user avatarAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net ⋅ 1d
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts granted class status to trans people in the passport gender marker change case and extended the prelim. injunction to the class. Trans people will be able to update their gender markers on their passports immediately. ecf.mad.uscourts.gov/doc1/0951130...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 21h
www.ebay.com/itm/23615537... My Siege Astrotrain is up for sale! because i finally found that last goddamn rifle!!!!!!!!!!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Some SDCC-ass packaging here
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
it may be a strong indictment of my design philosophy that i can sculpt a reasonable dorothy out of a joyce mesh in like 15 minutes, but boy does it come in handy
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Alt Shiv Posting Service @nameshiv.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Hortman was a catholic who ensured children got fed and her killer was in a psycho church that demanded violent prayer and guess which one is getting the"Christian" coverage
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
two days to go! www.makeship.com/petitions/tr...
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
www.makeship.com/petitions/tr... Wanna Tricerahoodie Dina plush? GO PLEDGE FOR ONE! We need 200 people to make it happen! Pledge period will end in 10 days!
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Dina is so small and quiet that she goes completely unnoticed by most people for long stretches of time. She doesn’t talk much — she prefers to observe. People and how they interact is a puzzle to Din...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
had a personal trainer for a couple years now, and still i get folks trying to um, actually the situations present in my exermacise strips
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Other 3D printing adventures: bought this Velocity head on Cults, sized it down a tiny bit (it's meant for Velocitron Override), then painted it and gave it to my Velocity custom made from Legacy Arcee.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
two days to go! www.makeship.com/petitions/tr...
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
www.makeship.com/petitions/tr... Wanna Tricerahoodie Dina plush? GO PLEDGE FOR ONE! We need 200 people to make it happen! Pledge period will end in 10 days!
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Tricerahoodie Dina Plushie
Dina is so small and quiet that she goes completely unnoticed by most people for long stretches of time. She doesn’t talk much — she prefers to observe. People and how they interact is a puzzle to Din...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "How many" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Two days left to collect pledges for a Tricerahoodie Dina plush!  If we reach 200 pledges by Thursday, Dina will be made! That sounds pretty rad, I dunno!  Run over there if you want to help make this...
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Kashana @kashana.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Can’t believe nobody wants to go to a soccer game to be kidnapped by ICE
phillewis.bsky.social's user avatarPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post
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FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium
Tickets to the opening match that were once $349 (and up) could be had for just $4.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Three days to go! www.makeship.com/petitions/tr...
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
www.makeship.com/petitions/tr... Wanna Tricerahoodie Dina plush? GO PLEDGE FOR ONE! We need 200 people to make it happen! Pledge period will end in 10 days!
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Tricerahoodie Dina Plushie
Dina is so small and quiet that she goes completely unnoticed by most people for long stretches of time. She doesn’t talk much — she prefers to observe. People and how they interact is a puzzle to Din...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
www.ebay.com/itm/23615364... selling my studio series 86-11 perceptor! with *jazz hands* instructions!!!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
....got into spx on the waitlist dreams are real!!!!!!!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
hey guess who's getting sold next
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
ACAB means Dolly
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Three days to go! www.makeship.com/petitions/tr...
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
www.makeship.com/petitions/tr... Wanna Tricerahoodie Dina plush? GO PLEDGE FOR ONE! We need 200 people to make it happen! Pledge period will end in 10 days!
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Tricerahoodie Dina Plushie
Dina is so small and quiet that she goes completely unnoticed by most people for long stretches of time. She doesn’t talk much — she prefers to observe. People and how they interact is a puzzle to Din...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
I think you mean the Slug-Maker
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
today in #9chickweedlane i guess we're memory-holing again that 1997 story where amos and edda kissed for the first time after she, uh, got shot at school
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
this has real "leia comforting luke for losing a guy he just met after her planet got exploded" energy
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Dumbing of Age: "Locate" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
butts disease
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Unnatural Selections @soundmirrors.bsky.social ⋅ 4d
It’s been awhile since I’ve more seriously read up on Ugaritic and Canaanite religions (alas, w/semi dated scholarship), but this is interesting, and not in a peaceful matriarchal fantasy kind of way.
theradr.bsky.social's user avatarRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social ⋅ 22d
If you do a close read not only of the Bible but the archeology, it starts to look like the Israelites, & all but a couple of Judean kings, worshipped a goddess for pretty much the whole First Temple era. The implications of this are... far ranging-- & her name might not be what we've believed.
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Israelite Goddess Mystery Quest
smashing pillars / tracing echoes
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Have some sticker ideas for Toyhax
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