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Isn’t that how her nose always looks? And I thought that was a shadow under her nose, not a nostril. Noses are hard as hell to draw and I think the shadow under Joyce’s nose is quite effective at showing that she has a small, pointed nose.
OMG, Today’s strip is even funnier after being reminded of that one. Now I have a mental image of Joyce pushing the vibrator towards Sarah’s hoohah making ‘Vroom Vroom’ noises!
Now I’m even more confused. I recalled that strip (well more accurately I recalled Sarah saying something to the effect that she didn’t need a boyfriend because she had toys) but what does that have to do with Joyce’s nose?
I’m really sorry if I’m being incredibly air headed. I could put the blame on the meds I take nightly, but I was pretty ditzy and scatterbrained before I had to start taking them already.
That was my first thought as well. Then i reasoned that it is just meant to be the undershadow. Then i started to realise how much it made her look like Hitler. Then i wrote this comment.
The uvula is a thing hanging in the back of your throat. If you’ve ever seen a cartoon depiction of a WIDE-open mouth and seen that little pendulous thing hanging down, that’s the uvula.
If you plug “zäpfchen” in to Google Translate the first translation it gives is “suppository.” WHY is the word for uvula the same as the one for suppository?!? Eeep!
Gkk! Who would want to get their uvula pierced??? Piercings are for stimulation, but some reflexes are not meant to be constantly triggered… esp not the gag reflex!
I like to interpret panel 4 as Joyce accidentally turning it on Level 11 (Warning: not to be used near any fault lines) and getting knocked off her feat by the force as it spins in the air under its own power.
I imagine it more as one of those slipping “wwWOOOOP” sounds. Like her feet have slipped out from in front of her and she has gone full horizontal before landing on her back.
Not seen: Joyce’s legs doing that Scooby-Doo running away thing where they move back and forth rapidly without the upper body moving for a second or two, then dashing off.
You know… I think the general practice of if you don’t know what something is, the last thing you should do is stick it in an orifice… Now Sara has to clean off the nose gunk.
What surprises me more is that she put it in her nose knowing (or assuming) that its been used by someone other than herself. Theres innocence and then theres…Oh Joyce..
I just love how clinical Sarah is in describing its nature and function. She’s not trying to break Joyce or weird her out. she’s just trying to make sure that Joyce has a clear grasp of the subject at hand.
First panel of the next strip: Joyce lying flat on her back, looking up at Sarah, as Sarah reads her the riot act about going through other people’s things, with the object in question in her hand.
Either that, or Sarah decides to demonstrate. Either one could be fun.
I kinda thought that was just to differentiate her lips on her face and that the rouge on her cheeks was just standard ‘flushing’ that happens to skin when exposed to warm/hot water for a time. I’m white but my skin sometimes looks like I’m sunburnt after a warm shower, or if I soak in a spa for more than 3 minutes, but it returns to normal fairly quickly.
Yotomoe, when you refer to Sarah’s “lady lips”, the first thing that comes to my mind is a very different part of her anatomy. However, I recently learned not to call them that. Not all females have labia.
Also, not all people with labia (labias? What’s the plural?) are female.
When I was a teen I used the term “girlie parts” (I know, such a mature phrase to use, right?) and got a pretty stern talking to by a trans-gender friend. Never made that mistake again.
By “never make that mistake again” I didn’t mean “I never used such a phrase around him again” and I didn’t mean that my friend going off on me made me scared to use such terms at all. I stopped using those kinds of words and phrases because I felt like he had a very good point. One I’d never even considered before.
I don’t mind if other people say “lady bits” or “girlie parts” or whatever, I just choose not to use such terms.
It was the only way. Trying to euphemize it to Joyce would only have deepened her confusion, and made the final reveal worse in the end. The bandage had to be ripped off. And, let’s face it, if you need a bandage ripped off, Sarah is the person to do it. It’s her way.
Google “Rabbit vibrator” without the quotes and leave safe search off. ONly the third time I had to explain this to someone today… you would think people never learned to craft a simple search string…
If you don’t know it’s called a ‘Rabbit Vibrator’ how are other fleshlings supposed to know to search for it? Also, wasn’t one of the previous times today on the previous comic? Your fellow fleshlings may not have read the previous day’s comments section.
Of course, you could just tell them. Internet searches have a way of displaying unhelpful responses sometimes. If you tell your fellow fleshlings directly, you can be sure that they get the information you want them to know.
For example, I never tell Starscream to google anything. You know why? Somehow, no matter what it is, he manages to get search results that aren’t just unhelpful, but actually detrimental. One time, I asked him to tell me what an ‘apple pie’ was and he told me it was a video game about Godzilla rescuing his girlfriend from King Kong.
Or you could just, you know, using your knowledge of female anatomy, mentally picture the vibrator inserted where it is supposed to go, then visualize what the little pointy bit would be touching. (hint, it’s the clitoris). Why is this so hard to figure out?
Did she really just pick her nose with the clit-attachment?
I like to imagine Willis spent a long time on the last panel thinking of what kind of expression he would draw on Joyce’s face before finally giving up.
Gotta say, I had a hard time finding personal time when i lived in the dorms. It doesn’t seem like Joyce has a job so there’s no exact science to how much time Sarah would have to herself at any given moment.
So props for finding the time, Sarah!
Actually, I’m surprised Joyce knows what a vulva is too. I’ve encountered enough women that don’t know what it means, or just vaguely know it’s “something down there,” that I’ve ceased to be surprised by it.
Heck, I wasn’t sure what a cervix was until I was 25 and infertility caused me to have to research my own body almost constantly. I’m duly embarrassed by that fact, but also blame the poor excuse for sex education I got in school for my ignorance.
Which is more ruined, Joyce’s mind by finding out she put an electronic phallus up her nose, or the electronic phallus after having been put up someone’s nose?
Honestly, is there enough cleaning to get that image out of Sarah’s mind?
Roflmao. Just when I though Joyce could not possibly be a bigger dipshit she picks her nose with it.
Indeed, Sarah doesn’t “get paid enough.
I love her response. Pure Sarah, straight and to the point.
I think phallus is the magic word, not vulva. Not sure Joyce knows either of them, but the first is more likely as the second has sooo may cutesy names.
Why is naivety so adorable?
Look at her at the third panel.
Dawwww.
I so hope there is more strips in this small story arc – wanna see her reaction after she wakes up.
IF you’re being strictly technical, what most people refer to as the vagina is actually the vulva, the vagina is really only the canal that leads directly to the cervix. The vulva is the whole she-bang, so to speak, up to the start of the vagina.
Yeah, I know, but the phallus part of the toy is meant to be inserted, beyond the exterior genitals/vulva. I definitively mean vagina when I say “vagina.”
Those kinds of vibrators can be used on vulva or vagina. I have been under the impression that most women use them on their vulva, specifically on or right around their clitoris, because more women are able to climax through clitoral stimulation than actual penetration.
Also, Sarah could have been referring specifically to the part Joyce stuck in her nose, which is specifically designed to stimulate the clitoris and/or vulva.
I have owned some like that before (rabbit vibrators) and the phallus part is pretty weak sauce for vulval purposes. The clitoral extension that Joyce has up her nose is like a jillion times stronger, in my experience. But you really have to insert the big part to make use of the extension because of the ergonomic design, regardless of whether you wanted it just for clitoral stimulation or not. I think it would be awkward to use it in any other arrangement, but maybe others have tried?
I considered the notion that Sarah was referring to the extension, but I’ve never seen a rabbit vibe with a tiny phallus on top of a big phallus, so that didn’t make sense either. :p
I’ve actually never owned one, so I didn’t know that. I kind of assumed the phallic part was basically the same as other penis-shaped vibrators which can be and are used on the vulva alone.
That’s for clearing that up for me. I mean that genuinely.
Yes. One of the great things about OJST is that the ‘Masturbateers’ include obviously trans folk of both genders, and the cisgender Masturbateers aren’t necessarily traditionally attractive.
You are definitely not the only one. No girl would ever say that. We don’t buy sex toys to stimulate our “vulvas”. It’s clits and vags. Also, that’s a dildo with a vibrating function, not a vibrator, technically speaking. It would be in the dildos section of the sex toy store, not the vibrator one. Trust me. File this one under “Obviously written by a guy who did not get any female proofreading before publishing.”
Oh, thank goodness. I thought I was going crazy. Everyone was like “vulva this” and “vulva that” in the comments and I was like, “Does nobody know how to use this thing???”
Sarah must be taking REALLY good care of that thing, like boil it in bleach ever week or something, or Joyce would probably be able to smell something kind of “fishy”, at least with it poking up her nose.
I cringed when she put it up her nose. I wonder how many toys Sarah has because if it were me there wouldn’t be enough washing to make me forget my roommate put part of my Rabbit up her nose….
If Joyce wasn’t mind-wiped in the DoA universe, Anti-Joyce might not exist as a component of her schismed personality. Everything seems much healthier here, so Joyce may pursue seemingly Anti-Joycian behaviors (such as trying to emulate Sal) instead of automatically repressing them. Unless there’s a big reveal coming, you may want to pin your hopes on a well-aimed frying pan/bowling ball–or a cousin, perhaps. An identical cousin, just the same.
Nah, that’s a cynical bid to play on Sarah’s sororal (Is that a word? It totally should be. Merriam-Webster says yes, but Mozilla’s word-squiggler doesn’t like it. It’s fine with “fraternal”. Quit being sexist, Mozilla.) feelings in hopes of gaining leniency despite knowing that she’s totally guilty and caught red-handed.
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Did she really just stick that up her nose?
Did she really gain nostrils just to do that?
Those nostrils look reeeealy wierd to me in panels 2 & 3.
OH MY SHIT!
There are no nostrils in those panels.
Just one each panel, and it’s huge…
She only has one nostril.
She’s Nosferatu
More like Nostrilatu, amiright?
Noseferatu, dammit!
Nostrildamus.
I think you win.
Nostrdildamus
Isn’t that how her nose always looks? And I thought that was a shadow under her nose, not a nostril. Noses are hard as hell to draw and I think the shadow under Joyce’s nose is quite effective at showing that she has a small, pointed nose.
The Joke
Your head
The joke had over a year of setup, in fact!
OMG, Today’s strip is even funnier after being reminded of that one. Now I have a mental image of Joyce pushing the vibrator towards Sarah’s hoohah making ‘Vroom Vroom’ noises!
(Yes, I realize I’m a perv.)
In other words, it was a Brick Joke.
Now I’m even more confused. I recalled that strip (well more accurately I recalled Sarah saying something to the effect that she didn’t need a boyfriend because she had toys) but what does that have to do with Joyce’s nose?
I’m really sorry if I’m being incredibly air headed. I could put the blame on the meds I take nightly, but I was pretty ditzy and scatterbrained before I had to start taking them already.
That was my first thought as well. Then i reasoned that it is just meant to be the undershadow. Then i started to realise how much it made her look like Hitler. Then i wrote this comment.
Did Sarah wait for Joyce to do that before explaining what it’s for?
Even if it WAS a nose picker – why would anyone stick someone else’s nose-picker in their nose? That’s just – gross any way you look at it.
You can pick your friends,
You can pick your nose.
But you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
you can pick you friends,
you can pick your nose,
but you can’t use your friends vibrator to pick your nose.
You can totally pick your friend’s nose AND with a vibrator.
You just won’t have friends afterwards.
Idk those fetishes, am I right
NOT THE NOSE!
Pfft, darn it Joyce
Well, at least she knows something about her own body.
Anybody else see “Hemo The Magnificent” and the character Dr. Anatomy?
You mean, “Where the Boogers are”?
It is actually.
“You meant uvula, didn’t you?”
“…eew.”
From the content of certain adult videos, I’m sure it COULD stimulate your uvula.
Well, it’s the implication that she would do that after it’s been touching both Sarah’s vulva AND the floor.
10 second rule. It’s fine.
At least where the floor’s concerned.
Preeeeeeetty sure it took longer than ten seconds for her to decide to come down off the bunk, though.
Not to mention the inside of Joyce’s nose.
That sounds like it’d lead to projectile vomiting.
Technically, it’s some kind of ‘stimulation’ – just not the kind you’d normally want to experience.
Unless Deep Throat is based on a true story.
Stimulation of the gag reflex, to be precise.
I’m not sure I know what an uvula is. Is it something I have to know?
Uh… open wide and say aah…
The uvula is a thing hanging in the back of your throat. If you’ve ever seen a cartoon depiction of a WIDE-open mouth and seen that little pendulous thing hanging down, that’s the uvula.
Ah, that’s what an uvula is! The things a religious upbringing can teach you…
It’s the dangly thing in the back of your mouth.
Thanks, guys. We just call it “Zäpfchen” here, if we even have to speak about it at all.
If you plug “zäpfchen” in to Google Translate the first translation it gives is “suppository.” WHY is the word for uvula the same as the one for suppository?!? Eeep!
Probably because they are similarly shaped. Zäpfchen is also the diminuitive of Zapfen. Happy googling.
there is nothing happy about googling, only sadness and pain
No, there is EVERYTHING happy about Googling. XD I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. XD
That was actually a joke in Daria…
except they prolly couldn’t actually say vulva
They didn’t. Here’s the quote:
[Daria is looking through a catalog of piercings]
Daria: You spelled “uvula” wrong.
Axl (Body Piercer): That’s not uvula.
Gkk! Who would want to get their uvula pierced??? Piercings are for stimulation, but some reflexes are not meant to be constantly triggered… esp not the gag reflex!
I’m familiar with it, just saying they prolly weren’t allowed is why they didn’t say it
I like to interpret panel 4 as Joyce accidentally turning it on Level 11 (Warning: not to be used near any fault lines) and getting knocked off her feat by the force as it spins in the air under its own power.
Sorry, panel 6. I can’t count, apparently.
I imagine that could be a problem for a time traveller with multiple distinctly different incarnations.
A supersonic screw-driver?
Dildocopter!
This one goes up to eleven?
Nostrils? Stop making up anatomy, Willis.
Did he draw lips again?
[or fingernails]
At least he’s never given Joyce pupils. That would just look wrong somehow.
I think it would be good to give Joyce pupils so they could constrict when she was shocked like in this strip.
…as in, when she needs her femurs to live?
shit, wait, that’s dilate
Dilating femurs? Is that what happens to slender Italian women after marriage?
No, that’s pasta. (As all my Italian relatives pepper me with [bad] meatballs)
Joyce is a mutant!
I love imagining the pratfall sound effect for the final panel.
Can’t decide if I like this one or this one better.
Add in the cat sound effect and we’re good to go.
The first one with the yowling cat getting stepped on at the end.
I imagine it more as one of those slipping “wwWOOOOP” sounds. Like her feet have slipped out from in front of her and she has gone full horizontal before landing on her back.
Pratfall sounds are my favorite, right behind the Wilhelm scream.
“Is that like a Volvo?”
Nah, it’s that video game company, right?
No its that creepy weird character from those Soul Caliber games.
Isn’t it that annoying thing people blow at the World Cup?
[sorry, I got nothin]
Is it like a Revolver?
Kinda. I mean…have you ever felt the sensation of sliding a long silver bullet into a well oiled chamber?
That depends. Do you love the smell of cordite? You know, that sulphury smell?
Did this just turn into SLEDGE HAMMER all of a sudden?
No, me and Yoto were quoting Revolver Ocelot.
You’re pretty good.
Just what I expect from the man with the same codename as the boss.
Okay, Joyce needs to deactivate the safe search on her search engine.
That would destroy her. So yeah. She should.
Yay, destroying Joyce!
Electronic nose picker. *giggles*
It also gets really good hang-time, apparently.
Must’ve been the deluxe model.
Anything can get good hangtime with enough RPM.
AHAHAHAHAHA
Wrong orifice Joyce, try again.
You’ve got 7-11 guesses.
Only three chances. If she guesses wrong…..right up the BUTT!
It’s not implicitly wrong. There are people…
Nasal sex! It’s the next big thing, boss!
…
YOu know you’ve reached a new low when you feel the need to quote from ‘Meet The Feebles’… DX
Not seen: Joyce’s legs doing that Scooby-Doo running away thing where they move back and forth rapidly without the upper body moving for a second or two, then dashing off.
Shit, the comic didn’t fully load for me, so I assumed she ran away. GUESS MY JOKE DOESN’T WORK AFTER ALL, OH WELL.
Maybe she tried to run away and then slipped?
The faces in this strip are literally all gold. Every single one. But especially Sarah’s ‘I’m 100% done with you’ face in panel 4.
Sarah’s face is pretty cute in this comic, actually.
I don’t think that’s an ‘I’m done with you’ face so much as a ‘god, you really are that naïve, fuck now I can’t even be mad’ face.
I love her faint blush in Panel 4.
She thinks it’s a car.
Well it does make a vroom noise.
If you need a car to pick your nose, you are probably in a situation where your medical would cover plastic surgery.
Dear lord… I can’t wait to see how they reassemble Joyce’s shattered brain-meats.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild her brain. We have the technology.
“But we don’t want to spend too much.”
Scene cut to Joyce’s brain being replaced with a Magic 8-ball.
So, every time Joyce wants to make a decision, she just rattles her head?
Like she doesn’t already?
@Opus the Poet: LOL!
“Reply Hazy. Try Again.”
I would pay good money to see Joyce’s face in that last panel.
I’m imagining the “I NEED MY FEMURS TO LIVE” face
I’m imagining the “Oh God. Why?” face.
My guess…
I’m imagining the ‘GASP’ face.
I imagined it being pretty blank because she fainted from the shock.
Well at least she didn’t try to make it a combination nose picker/tongue scraper.
It’s kinda big to be a tongue scraper.
Have you seen Joyce’s mouth? Nothing is to big for that!
It’s a type of car, right? Right?
Well, you can ride it to work but I doubt you’ll get much done.
Did Joyce died?
From embarassment.
And today Joyce learned a valuable lesson, don’t stick strange things up your nose.
I think the lesson is, ALWAYS stick strange things up your nose.
But now that she knows what it is, it’s okay, right?
Sarah just doesn’t pull any punches XD XD
I had hoped that Sarah would give Joyce a hands-on demonstration.
Hahaha, what a story, Joyce.
So anyway, how’s your sex life?
Oh hai, Yotomoe.
Aizat, you’re just a chicken. Chip chip chip cheeeriipeeerreeeep.
Everybody betrayed me. I fed up with this world.
You are TEARING ME APART, YOTO.
You know… I think the general practice of if you don’t know what something is, the last thing you should do is stick it in an orifice… Now Sara has to clean off the nose gunk.
I’m sure that’s snot a problem for her. I don’t think it’d really bug her.
Could have been worse, could have thought it was a vibrating back scratcher
How can that be worse than sticking random things you don’t know in your orifices?
Back scratchers are awesome, though – not that I’d ever need one.
People scratch in very low places with back scratchers.
Back scratchers are one of humankind’s greatest inventions!
As I said – I have not need for them. Most people need them because there’s this one spot on their back they can’t reach with their arms.
I can.
Me too!
I thought that was what the cat was for.
Kind of makes me wonder what she does and doesn’t know now.
What surprises me more is that she put it in her nose knowing (or assuming) that its been used by someone other than herself. Theres innocence and then theres…Oh Joyce..
Yeah. I don’t want other people’s boogers in my nose…that’s…gross.
Joyce learned from Dorothy that that’s a sexy thing adults do.
I just love how clinical Sarah is in describing its nature and function. She’s not trying to break Joyce or weird her out. she’s just trying to make sure that Joyce has a clear grasp of the subject at hand.
First panel of the next strip: Joyce lying flat on her back, looking up at Sarah, as Sarah reads her the riot act about going through other people’s things, with the object in question in her hand.
Either that, or Sarah decides to demonstrate. Either one could be fun.
Particularly if she decides to demonstrate it on Joyce.
Sooo … why didn’t anybody ask the obvious question here:
When will “Sarah teaches Joyce a lesson … or two” be online at slipshine?
Ahahahahaha
She put it up against her throat last strip. Does that technically count as 3rd base?
Aaaaand Sarah leap frogs into first place for most best character on this strip
Towel Sarah is SO FRIGGIN’ CUTE THOUGH.
For once, can’t believe I ever admit it but she is….how does she still have make up on early in the morning after a shower?
By putting it on after getting out of the shower?
She’s always wearing make up though what does she look like without it?
I kinda thought that was just to differentiate her lips on her face and that the rouge on her cheeks was just standard ‘flushing’ that happens to skin when exposed to warm/hot water for a time. I’m white but my skin sometimes looks like I’m sunburnt after a warm shower, or if I soak in a spa for more than 3 minutes, but it returns to normal fairly quickly.
I can’t tell if it’s makeup or those are her black lady lips.
If that’s the case, that’s a pair of luscious lips.
Still not Jacob level lips…
They’re less purple than normal and closer to her skin color so I’m gonna say that’s her natural lip color sans lipstick.
Yotomoe, when you refer to Sarah’s “lady lips”, the first thing that comes to my mind is a very different part of her anatomy. However, I recently learned not to call them that. Not all females have labia.
I’m not referring to “Lady Lips”. I’m referring to her Black Lady Lips. Like how Jacob Has Black Dude Lips.
Freely acknowledged. It is my mind that is in the gutter, not your mouth.
Haha, not that that would stop me! I don’t censor myself.
Also, not all people with labia (labias? What’s the plural?) are female.
When I was a teen I used the term “girlie parts” (I know, such a mature phrase to use, right?) and got a pretty stern talking to by a trans-gender friend. Never made that mistake again.
Lucky for me my trans friend is pretty lax about that kinda stuff.
By “never make that mistake again” I didn’t mean “I never used such a phrase around him again” and I didn’t mean that my friend going off on me made me scared to use such terms at all. I stopped using those kinds of words and phrases because I felt like he had a very good point. One I’d never even considered before.
I don’t mind if other people say “lady bits” or “girlie parts” or whatever, I just choose not to use such terms.
Actually, ‘labia’ is plural, meaning ‘lips’. A single ‘lip’ would be ‘labium’.
BTW, both men and women (of either sex) have labia. On their faces.
I find the implication here that all languages are interchangeable and indistinguishable vaguely disturbing.
As usual, SMBC has it covered:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2889
It actually does mean the same thing in English, though usually in technical contexts like medicine and linguistics.
Funnier than her playing with it!
Oh noes Sarah you broke Joyce! D:
It was the only way. Trying to euphemize it to Joyce would only have deepened her confusion, and made the final reveal worse in the end. The bandage had to be ripped off. And, let’s face it, if you need a bandage ripped off, Sarah is the person to do it. It’s her way.
Why? She didn’t have to make up that gross lie: she could have confessed that it was her sonic screwdriver and taken Joyce in as her companion! TwT
Joyce died and only true love’s kiss can revive her
I nominate Billy
I nominate Sal’s Bike.
I nominate Sal’s hair.
I nominate Ruth.
I nominate Faz.
I nominate the Ethan,wait…guess she ain’t wakeing up.
You can love someone without wanting to bone them, so Ethan would be fine if he actually loved her.
“Oh Anna. If only there were someone out there who loved you!”
Sorry. I had to.
I accept the challenge.
I nominate Walky.
….What?
I want to see tears and screams of ‘NO NO NO YOU CAN’T MAKE ME’.
It is a surprise that Joyce knows what a vulva is! I figured she’d know it by some euphemism.
Like the Fairy Cave?
Oh, that’s an interesting one.
But the vulva isn’t cave-like. The vagina is.
Hey, don’t blame me. I have no knowledge of the female genitalia.
She would probably say that calling it a “fairy cave” would promote paganism.
Maybe she doesn’t, and was shocked by the word or concept of a mechanical phallus alone.
Sarah’s not paid enough for this.
Wait, she got paid?
Nope, which is the point exactly!
In all honesty, what does that appendage of it… do?
Google “Rabbit vibrator” without the quotes and leave safe search off. ONly the third time I had to explain this to someone today… you would think people never learned to craft a simple search string…
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=rabbit%20vibrator
You’re welcome
If you don’t know it’s called a ‘Rabbit Vibrator’ how are other fleshlings supposed to know to search for it? Also, wasn’t one of the previous times today on the previous comic? Your fellow fleshlings may not have read the previous day’s comments section.
Of course, you could just tell them. Internet searches have a way of displaying unhelpful responses sometimes. If you tell your fellow fleshlings directly, you can be sure that they get the information you want them to know.
For example, I never tell Starscream to google anything. You know why? Somehow, no matter what it is, he manages to get search results that aren’t just unhelpful, but actually detrimental. One time, I asked him to tell me what an ‘apple pie’ was and he told me it was a video game about Godzilla rescuing his girlfriend from King Kong.
No joke.
Personalized search results. But you do know what an apple pie is now, don’t you? Did you google it yourself?
Or you could just, you know, using your knowledge of female anatomy, mentally picture the vibrator inserted where it is supposed to go, then visualize what the little pointy bit would be touching. (hint, it’s the clitoris). Why is this so hard to figure out?
People don’t have the knowledge of the anatomy.
No, really. Read yesterdays comments in particular to see how pitiful US education is in regards to human biology.
I know, and that knowledge both makes me very sad, and glad that I was lucky enough to be born in Canada.
This is exactly the kind of question that the internet has porn for.
Hasn’t this question been answered already, multiple times, in the past two days of comments? Or were you just being sarcastic?
Don’t be ridiculous, Sarah. She didn’t hear a word after “phallus.”
Oh Joyce! What are we going to do with you?
It’s endearing that Joyce thinks of Sarah as a big sister.
I don’t think the term “vulva” reached Joyce’s ears. She heard “phallus” and that was it.
Is Sarah looking at and talking to the ‘camera’ in that last panel?
I think she’s speaking to herself. Speaking to the camera would involve looking at us.
And she’s not looking nearly horrified enough for that. >_>
She was looking at the core of her soul where her heart is located at, metaphorically
Did she really just pick her nose with the clit-attachment?
I like to imagine Willis spent a long time on the last panel thinking of what kind of expression he would draw on Joyce’s face before finally giving up.
O God! Can’t breathe. Think I just peed myself. Too funny. Wonder how long Joyce’s coma will last.
Gotta say, I had a hard time finding personal time when i lived in the dorms. It doesn’t seem like Joyce has a job so there’s no exact science to how much time Sarah would have to herself at any given moment.
So props for finding the time, Sarah!
You can shove it around and I get to make the noises.
‘Stop. Talking.’
Darn it, Rigby.
Well that takes care of that.
Actually, I’m surprised Joyce knows what a vulva is too. I’ve encountered enough women that don’t know what it means, or just vaguely know it’s “something down there,” that I’ve ceased to be surprised by it.
Heck, I wasn’t sure what a cervix was until I was 25 and infertility caused me to have to research my own body almost constantly. I’m duly embarrassed by that fact, but also blame the poor excuse for sex education I got in school for my ignorance.
Kids today have the wikipedia in their pockets, but aren’t allowed to use it so as not to embarrass their teachers.
* Edits wikipedia page to make it mainly about Swedish cars *
(checks within minutes to see that it’s already been edited back)
Which is more ruined, Joyce’s mind by finding out she put an electronic phallus up her nose, or the electronic phallus after having been put up someone’s nose?
Honestly, is there enough cleaning to get that image out of Sarah’s mind?
Not just anybody’s nose, but Joyce’s. Poor electronic phallus just can’t stop shaking.
Why? I think we’ll be safe to say that this was the first phallus inside Joyce. So does this count as defloration?
Roflmao. Just when I though Joyce could not possibly be a bigger dipshit she picks her nose with it.
Indeed, Sarah doesn’t “get paid enough.
I love her response. Pure Sarah, straight and to the point.
I think phallus is the magic word, not vulva. Not sure Joyce knows either of them, but the first is more likely as the second has sooo may cutesy names.
Joyce seems to have an excellent vocabulary, even of scientific terms. Her home-schooling was no half-assed job, I will concede.
Dang edit…” so MANY cutesy names”
Why is naivety so adorable?
Look at her at the third panel.
Dawwww.
I so hope there is more strips in this small story arc – wanna see her reaction after she wakes up.
Am I the only female confused by the fact that Sarah said “vulva” and not “vagina?” Have I been using these mechanical phalluses wrong? >_>
IF you’re being strictly technical, what most people refer to as the vagina is actually the vulva, the vagina is really only the canal that leads directly to the cervix. The vulva is the whole she-bang, so to speak, up to the start of the vagina.
Yeah, I know, but the phallus part of the toy is meant to be inserted, beyond the exterior genitals/vulva. I definitively mean vagina when I say “vagina.”
Those kinds of vibrators can be used on vulva or vagina. I have been under the impression that most women use them on their vulva, specifically on or right around their clitoris, because more women are able to climax through clitoral stimulation than actual penetration.
Also, Sarah could have been referring specifically to the part Joyce stuck in her nose, which is specifically designed to stimulate the clitoris and/or vulva.
I have owned some like that before (rabbit vibrators) and the phallus part is pretty weak sauce for vulval purposes. The clitoral extension that Joyce has up her nose is like a jillion times stronger, in my experience. But you really have to insert the big part to make use of the extension because of the ergonomic design, regardless of whether you wanted it just for clitoral stimulation or not. I think it would be awkward to use it in any other arrangement, but maybe others have tried?
I considered the notion that Sarah was referring to the extension, but I’ve never seen a rabbit vibe with a tiny phallus on top of a big phallus, so that didn’t make sense either. :p
I’ve actually never owned one, so I didn’t know that. I kind of assumed the phallic part was basically the same as other penis-shaped vibrators which can be and are used on the vulva alone.
That’s for clearing that up for me. I mean that genuinely.
No problem.
For the record, turn it upside down and you’re good to go. No insertion needed.
Yer welcome :3
I present this NSFW comic for illustration of my previous comment. :p
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/ina2/
Uhh, is the naked one supposed to look like a dude with a vulva?
“You watched it! You can’t un-watch it!”
Yes. One of the great things about OJST is that the ‘Masturbateers’ include obviously trans folk of both genders, and the cisgender Masturbateers aren’t necessarily traditionally attractive.
Yeah, I like that about OJST too. Very inclusive and diverse!
Yea, that was my read on it also.
You are definitely not the only one. No girl would ever say that. We don’t buy sex toys to stimulate our “vulvas”. It’s clits and vags. Also, that’s a dildo with a vibrating function, not a vibrator, technically speaking. It would be in the dildos section of the sex toy store, not the vibrator one. Trust me. File this one under “Obviously written by a guy who did not get any female proofreading before publishing.”
my wife is a female
Is your wife very fond of the word “vulva?” D:
That’s a coincidence, so is my mom!
Oh, thank goodness. I thought I was going crazy. Everyone was like “vulva this” and “vulva that” in the comments and I was like, “Does nobody know how to use this thing???”
Joyce’s facial expressions already made her the most animated character in this comic. She is the Jim Carrey of webcomics.
But the slapstick drawings in this story arc make her the most dynamic character is all webcomics.
Joyce is the James Brown of webcomics.
Joyce Brown is the James Brown of webcomics!
James Brown is the Joyce brown of comedy!
I…Do you know who James Brown is?
This one?
That would be the one. I get the impression that LuckyStar was assuming he was a comedian, though.
I was seeing how many people would catch that. Good job!
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
Oops … that went in the wrong place …
Like the dildo.
And here I was thinking Mike was going to swoop in to yield some of his immortal wisdom.
The Bazooka Joe pratfall is priceless.
Yes. Heh.
Well, I was kinda right.
I wonder if Sarah ever went through this with her own little sister.
NO JOYCE – DON”T LOOSE YOUR COOL!
Sarah must be taking REALLY good care of that thing, like boil it in bleach ever week or something, or Joyce would probably be able to smell something kind of “fishy”, at least with it poking up her nose.
Sarah really needs to rise that thing off better. ‘Knocked Joyce right off her feet.
Vaginas don’t smell like fish. If you smell a vagina and it has a fishy odor, that person has an infection. A fishy smell is NOT normal.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never seen any genitals produce juices entirely without scent. >_>
It shouldn’t smell if she just *washes* after each use. o_O
Healthy vaginas are more kind of yogurty smelling, IMO.
I pray to God she cleans her toys after use…
It would be weird if she didn’t, seeing as not cleaning your toys after use puts you more at risk for an infection
I cringed when she put it up her nose. I wonder how many toys Sarah has because if it were me there wouldn’t be enough washing to make me forget my roommate put part of my Rabbit up her nose….
Would it be more than the washing required to forget you placed your roommate’s rabbit in your nose?
If you’re trying to make me fall in love with Sarah, mission accomplished.
Not gonna lie…. it was kinda hot how clinically she stated that….
Now I’m imagining a kazoo noise as Joyce falls back and the dildo spins in the air.
Also: Mechanical Phallus is an awesome band name.
Surprising, as far as I can tell, it’s not taken yet, although mechanical tampon fish is.
Detachable Penis is a song name, though.
I have to admit, Joyce handled that a lot better than I thought she would.
Shunting memory to Anti-Joyce and rebooting.
I totes want Anti-Joyce to legitimately be a student here.
If Joyce wasn’t mind-wiped in the DoA universe, Anti-Joyce might not exist as a component of her schismed personality. Everything seems much healthier here, so Joyce may pursue seemingly Anti-Joycian behaviors (such as trying to emulate Sal) instead of automatically repressing them. Unless there’s a big reveal coming, you may want to pin your hopes on a well-aimed frying pan/bowling ball–or a cousin, perhaps. An identical cousin, just the same.
She thinks Joyce knows what a vulva is, but I think she heard the word “phallus” and was already done.
Guessing she is down for the night?
I hope this is the last we see of the mechanical phallus.
I’m thinking Joyce doesn’t actually know “vulva” or “phallus”, but is vaguely aware that “stimulate” means something dirty.
She did google strap-ons. Possible she did more than look at images, and read a wikipedia article. (Though I find it hard to imagine that.)
It’s kind of adorable she called her “Sis.”
Nah, that’s a cynical bid to play on Sarah’s sororal (Is that a word? It totally should be. Merriam-Webster says yes, but Mozilla’s word-squiggler doesn’t like it. It’s fine with “fraternal”. Quit being sexist, Mozilla.) feelings in hopes of gaining leniency despite knowing that she’s totally guilty and caught red-handed.
In fact, the whole strip is the same as if it was a younger sister rummaging through her older sister’s sh-stuff.
So, er… OK… now… um…
I’ve actually got a Biology degree, but I’m STILL not sure which one of the pair is now going to want to sterilise that contact area more thoroughly.