…This deal is getting worse all the time. You want Harrison Ford in carbonite, too? If not, I was planning on using it as a wall decoration. Really gives the kitchen a special touch.
The fact that Joyce seems to be unintentionally leading Becky along because she still is harboring some feelings for her. It’s not something you easily get over entirely in just a couple of days.
I’m thinking that, as we know already that Sarah is right about Becky not being over Joycy yet, perhaps Becky should go crash in one of the other girls’ rooms for a while?
I’m thinking maybe she could share with Amber and Dinah? 😉 or Billie and Sal, Sal’s not even there half the time. 😛
But they have macbooks. Grab a couple thrift store mugs, fill’em with coffee, turn to a hipster with a macbook, and say:”Quick! Hold these coffees!” Take their stuff and run. They won’t be able to chase you without dropping the mugs. Mugged hipsters!
I have being the first to post on a few occasions mainly because the people who normally posted first has technical issues with their servers which allowed me to be the first one but ever since the delay to the new comic showing up was increased from 00:01 New York Time to 00:02 New York, I haven’t been able to do any better than 3rd post.
Couldn’t agree more, but remind me–was Sarah right about the situation not being as great as Joyce was expecting in general, or the situation not being as great as Joyce was expecting specifically because of beckys feelings?
That will be a long while, if ever, but if it happens, that one will break me. The SP! Robin/Leslie one almost did already. Too much cute! Of course Dina and Becky almost break me already and they aren’t even officially dating.
you know, i’m starting to think that dina’s super power is that she can read the comments section. it would explain much. it’s like how dexter douglas became freakazoid after absorbing the internet. yeah, who remembered that being the premise?
I, too, was surprised that Dina knows what a roofie is. But I’m glad she knows. Maybe all the freshmen go to an orientation where they learn about date rape drugs. That ought to be standard procedure now, right?
It should be standard procedure. Unfortunately, I doubt that’s the case. Dina may have learned of roofies from other overheard conversations. With everything she overhears from behind doors, and when people forget she’s there, one can never know what secret information she might have gathered over time. She could really use that to her advantage one of these days.
If by unrequited love, you mean where your love is romantic, but the object of your affection returns only non-romantic feelings, but still cares deeply about you, as is the case here, no, it’s really not like getting stabbed. It’s not really that bad. Though sleeping next to the object of your affection could be stir up some unpleasant feelings, I would guess; and Becky is being smart here.
Indeed, last time I was stabbed, I didn’t feel it. Didn’t notice at all until I saw the blood. Of course, I was also experiencing the opening stages of hypothermia at the time.
The story is not nearly as exciting as what I’ve shared implies.
The last time I was in that situation, it was like everyone expected me to feel far worse than I actually did. I wasn’t exactly cheerful, but more concerned with salvaging some kind of friendship from the whole mess than feeling all hurt and betrayed.
My objection to the simile is not so much the level of pain as it casts the person who doesn’t share your feelings as consciously doing something to hurt you, which is not the case.
1) everyone finding Davic & Dotty in front of Joyce’s door tomorrow would be hilarous. Well save for Mike I guess.
2) Dina “uh, so, if she likes her, why was she making moves on me ? This is not logicial”
Hm…. you’re good. But now I’m going to ask a question only the true MeghaTheWorldEater/TheAllKnowing would know… If we’re discussing the latest page of Dumbing of Age on the third Tuesday in November, and it’s not hailing outside after we toss soft serve from the windows, what do we do?
Go outside and clean up the soft serve because campus security caught us on camera performing our cryogenic dairy product ballistic testing without the proper paperwork being submitted or the test range being cleared and prepped.
Well technically it’s like that episode of the Fairly Odd Parents where Timmy can’t be wrong so if he says something incorrect reality just rewrites itself but that’s pretty much the same as being all knowing.
I don’t know. This is Dina we’re talking about here. I’m not sure she’d view it as anything other than an bullet point on her ‘About Becky’ mental index card.
I think Sarah has the right to savor this particular ‘being right’ moment. She tried to tell Joyce that Joyce was not doing Becky any favors sleeping with her and insisting she stay right under her thumb.
Joyce crossed over the line so far with her attack on Sarah over this subject, that if their friendship ever gets back to normal it will be one of Joyce’s miracles.
Sarah is the modern day Cassandra: always tells the truth and no one believes her. So yeah, let her briefly enjoy being right.
I think Becky’s spent enough time being dishonest to herself and others about stuff for a lifetime. Though I do get the feeling she was always the straight-forward type. Nuking her closet only exacerbated that, probably.
I am still wondering if looking for help with Leslie could be a viable solution… because they will have to find Becky a place to stay sooner or later and she probably needs to get a job.
Considering how things went when she was over at Malaya, she might prefer being the one to have Malaya over in the future, and not having a roomie to interfere.
I was also wondering about Marcie, but then again they don’t know her (yet) and are not close enough to Sal (yet) for them rooming to be a posibility (yet)
Socially inept Dina is dinosaur wallpaper and Sarah is the raven sitting on the bust of Pallas while this emotional train wreck is occurring. Joyce has just been hit with Becky’s clue bat and still doesn’t realize it. Maybe it will finally knock some reality into her little fundie brain.
The problem is Sarah’s answer REEKS of privilege. “Yes, her biggest problem, is the unrequited love angle and NOT BEING HOMELESS.” That is exactly the thing you need to worry about.
Um, no? It’s possible to work on more than one problem at a time, and there’s nothing wrong with “the current alternative to homelessness is really painful for her, so we need to find a better one”.
She literally said she wanted Becky to “find a better place to live,” ie a non-homeless alternative to the current, emotionally not great living situation. Considering how nobody else so far seemed to be thinking much about what to do with Becky long-term *or* how she’s being affected by the awkward sleeping arrangements in the short-term, Sarah is being more proactive about helping Becky than anyone, really.
No, Dina, it’s more of a ‘things that shouldn’t have been hidden and that Joyce and Becky need to let out” thing.
In fairness to Sarah, she’s right quite a lot. It’s just that she’s so naturally acidic and unpleasant in her way of expressing herself that people don’t listen to her.
If she knew becky’s situation, amber would probably be pretty okay looking after her, considering what she did for ethan. she could also really use some extra friendship, so if becky hanging out in their room meant another female for amber to connect with, that’d be pretty nice IMO.
I dunno, when you’re just trying to figure relationships out, you don’t want to accidentally put your foot into anything serious. A rebound is a good first start – you’re helping someone process their feelings, learning from a more experienced partner, and both just having fun.
I don’t think Dina would object to the fact that Becky is still trying to sort her feelings out. After all, Dina is only at the “repeated testing to demonstrate veracity” stage herself.
Maybe the confluence of Malaya’s roomie deciding to leave the room to give the lovebirds some privacy, Amazi-Girl having some aggravation to work off and Sal wandering around feeling lonely might lead to a curious confluence of events.
I’m kind of wondering what Danny’s weird grin from a preview panel for the near future might have been about and watching Amber and Sal save the day together might be it. He is a comic book geek, after all. Amazing team-ups are part of the scene!
Oddly enough, I don’t think Sal would care too much. If anything, her ‘I stand up for the little guy in the face of The Man’ conceit would actually impel her to abet this little bit of facility abuse.
Given how much time people spend telling Sarah that she’s a horrible person and that all her decisions are wrong, I can honestly see how she would want to see firsthand confimation that, yes, the impression she acted under WAS right.
She’s not saying “I told you so” to Joyce and Becky, or turning the moment to make everyone focus on how she’s right. She’s saying it as a quiet aside to Dina, asking her not to distract her because she wants to see how this unfolds. I don’t really see how that makes her an asshole. I also don’t really see why everyone thinks Sarah is so much more acidic than anyone else in this series – certainly most of the male characters have been equally sarcastic at times, with less justification.
She’s not just waiting to see it unfold, she’s doing that because she wants to prove she was right to Joyce. If this were something lighthearted it would just be mildly douchey, but the very real pain Becky is going through right now should not be used so Sarah can get one over Joyce, even just to herself.
As for the male characters, and ignoring Mike because that is genuinely a whole different can of worms, Ethan rarely acts that sarcastic or rude, and Walky and especially Danny get criticized fairly often. I don’t see how this is something unique to Sarah.
I’d agree with you if I thought she was going to rub Joyce’s face in it later – but I really can’t see Sarah doing that, or even saying anything to Joyce about it later on. I don’t think she has a history of doing that – despite what her in-comic enemies think, she hasn’t shown herself to be malicious. My comment about the male characters was only in relation to the way that her acidity apparently gets in the way of people listening to her – I just find it odd that nobody in-comic has a problem listening to the viewpoints of other, equally sarcastic male characters.
I don’t think she’ll rub it in Joyce’s face (Sarah likes heckling her but she does care about her a lot) but that doesn’t mean taking pride in witnessing her “victory” is any less crappy.
I won’t say she’s actively malicious, certainly not how Raidah describes, but she’s also been pretty volatile at times for no real reason to some of the other cast members. Of course, she’s also capable of tremendous acts of love and a lot of her issues are rooted in her difficulty with expressing herself to other people.
In regards to her acidity, that’s probably why people have difficulty dealing with her or listening to her advice. Has any other male character consistently acted as volatile as Sarah? I think they all have their moments where they act genuinely hurtful, but I don’t think it’s as ingrained as it is for Sarah.
This is a pivotal moment. Even if Sarah said nothing, she would still quietly watch without interfering. Joyce might need her, or Joyce and Becky might need privacy. We won’t know until the next strip but it seems reasonable for Sarah to stay close by for now.
As for her comment to Dina, it was said quietly,just between the two of them. It’s not much different that if she had said, ‘I knew this was going to happen.”
Despite how it sounded, Sarah is worried about Joyce. She’s Joyce’s “Big Sister” and so she is looking after her.
Well, what do you WANT her to do then? There is literally nothing at all Sarah can do at this particular moment to make anything better for either of these girls. Don’t forget, Becky made a very hurtful comment some strips ago to Sarah, with knowledge that Sarah put into her hands, because she TRUSTED her. God forbid if she says some mean shit to herself and it doesn’t actually affect the outcome of anything. The people who don’t have those kinds of spiteful thoughts occasionally, they’re the weird ones, and Sarah’s got more reason for it than most.
She doesn’t have to make anything better. She can just not be a prick. That would be nice.
As for the moment you’re referring to between Joyce and Sarah, if I’m expected to forgive Sarah’s constant crabby, unlikeable, bitter behaviour, should I seriously not extend the same to Joyce the first time she’s ever said anything hurtful to her, as a direct result of Sarah offering advice in the most blunt, hurtful way possible?
I like Sarah a fair bit. She’s incredibly interesting and complex, and being a nice person isn’t necessary to being a good character, but I don’t think it’s irrational of me not to squee in delight when she’s acting like an asshole.
The point that I think is easy to miss is that Joyce is so close to Becky that she considers her as good as a sister. That’s a considerable level of emotional intimacy and I wouldn’t blame her for not wanting to lose it. It would be entirely understandable if she became embittered over feeling that she has to put emotional and behavioural walls between her and Becky because of her sexuality.
On an unrelated note, It’s Pregnancy! is kinda weird for me to read considering Joyce and Walky look exactly the same as teenagers as they do in their mid thirties.
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who needs friends when you can be RIGHT
[Cookie Monster is sad, but Sarah’s used to having no friends, so whatevs]
Well played, Jen. Or should I say…
SIRI???
Sarah Is Right xInfinity?
Props on the fitting gravatar.
“No, Walter, you’re not wrong, you’re just an ASSHOLE.”
“Well okay then.”
Sarah-the-right.
Sarah deserves to savor her rightness!
Sarah: “Exactly what you said, but without being sarcastic”
Dina: “I wasn’t being sarcastic…?”
Sarah: “Never mind.”
Sarah-the-correct!
Sarah-the-unfallabled
Sarah-the-not-wrong
Sarah the Observant?
Sarah-the-true
Sarah the SHHH!
I hope someone picks up that phone, because I fucking called it!
DBZ abridged for the win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsqmU3v0hVA
Sarah, don’t rub it in. It’s not nice.
It rubs the notion in its skin, or else it gets the scorn again!
i have only this handshake to offer you, sir, but i pray you accept it.
…Can I barter for a handshake AND a high five?
I am altering the deal.
You shall instead take this fistbump and like it.
Pray I do not alter it any further.
…This deal is getting worse all the time. You want Harrison Ford in carbonite, too? If not, I was planning on using it as a wall decoration. Really gives the kitchen a special touch.
It really ties the room together.
throw in a brownie and i’ll make it up high and down low
…With or without nuts?
look, man, i don’t know what kind of high-fives you’re used to…
…Yeah, I walked right into that one.
Be right back, I need to go buy some milk to squirt out my nose.
Well played.
Obligatory “used to Deez nutz” comment.
Also, holy shit, that had me laughing for a good several minutes, thank you, you win the internet this night.
Definitely one of those things that need to be agreed beforehand!
What’s she being proven right about again?
The fact that Joyce seems to be unintentionally leading Becky along because she still is harboring some feelings for her. It’s not something you easily get over entirely in just a couple of days.
about this
I’m thinking that, as we know already that Sarah is right about Becky not being over Joycy yet, perhaps Becky should go crash in one of the other girls’ rooms for a while?
I’m thinking maybe she could share with Amber and Dinah? 😉 or Billie and Sal, Sal’s not even there half the time. 😛
HOW DO YOU POST SO FAST?
The benefits of Patreon I guess.
Anyone can if they devote enough time and effort to it.
Yeah but having Patreon means you can have already read and understood the comic and prepared your comment text.
and if you don’t, you can take a serie of guesses as of what the next page will be about and prepare a bunch of comments to copy paste.
Patreon, you say? One moment. Gotta go mug some hipsters.
Might wanna find someone else, all the ones I find never have much money…
…What…?
But they have macbooks. Grab a couple thrift store mugs, fill’em with coffee, turn to a hipster with a macbook, and say:”Quick! Hold these coffees!” Take their stuff and run. They won’t be able to chase you without dropping the mugs. Mugged hipsters!
I like the way you think…
Jen has a special link so she can comment a couple minutes before the strip is posted.
Probably.
Jen has bridge time and space using the raw power of fanon
actually it’s the power of cockblocking anyone trying for “FIRST”s b/c if they can beat me, why the hell are they just posting “FIRST”
I WILL DEFEAT YOU EVENTUALLY!
So you’re our guardian against those ne’er-do-wells? Praise be!
I just want to be first with a witty yet relevant comment… ONE DAY!
Replace fast with first, good with witty, and cheap with relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksdd9sIm8Gc
I have being the first to post on a few occasions mainly because the people who normally posted first has technical issues with their servers which allowed me to be the first one but ever since the delay to the new comic showing up was increased from 00:01 New York Time to 00:02 New York, I haven’t been able to do any better than 3rd post.
I think the real question is how you manage to post so very slow.
All it takes is the ability to warp time and space. You have to be careful not to overshoot though.
I’m still practicing, but I can never get to within three days of my target time, for some reason.
You were here Dina? Sorry I didn’t see you there.
Who’s Dina, again? I don’t recall seeing anyone like that in this series.
STOP SAYING THINGS LIKE THAT. It makes me want to hug her forever, and that’s totally not fair. =<
Hugging Dina forever is not fair? =o
Not to her, it isn’t!
Emotions inbound! READY THE PROTOCOLS!!!
Dina is present and I dig that.
Dina demonstrates her awesome ninja skills of hiding in plain sight.
Dina has trained dinosaurs to become ninjas. How do I know? You ever see a dinosaur?
it’s that kind of logic that helped make jurassic world possible
Hide in plain sight is a shadow dancer class skill.
Words cannot describe how happy I am to see that Sarah’s finally getting her moment.
Couldn’t agree more, but remind me–was Sarah right about the situation not being as great as Joyce was expecting in general, or the situation not being as great as Joyce was expecting specifically because of beckys feelings?
She told Joyce a while back that continuing to share a bed with her would be less than ideal for Becky’s mental state.
And also that they eventually need to find long-term legal living arrangements for Becky.
Yeah, but that part’s not coming up in this conversation.
Word! =0 Sarah cares so much and a lot of characters really don’t understand that and it breaks my heart =(
There’s never been a better feeling in the world than being right. Loneliness be damned.
Almost as good as being able to say those three beautiful words: “Told You So”
The full saying is: “I’m right, but more importantly, you’re wrong.”
Sounds like something Mike would say.
I wonder who would end up singing this song…
Can’t Becky sleep in Dina’s room?
Too soon.
Besides, I think that Amber might object.
and have her accidently find out about Amber’s double life?
i suspect that becky would say something wacky and immediately defuse the tension of that moment…or re-purpose it
Yeeeeaaaah. Becky is many things, but I dunno if I’m ready to trust her not to blurt out everything about Amazigirl just yet…
DANGIT I just remembered my original comment was gonna be “Becky sleeps with Sarah… or even better, Sarah sleeps with Joyce!”
Sarah has slept with Joyce before. They’re sisters, remember?
Sh, dear, we’re thinking.
She can move off campus to wherever Marcie’s living. And thus begins Lesbian Roomies!
Joke’s in you, Marcie’s one of them bikesexuals
Just like Joyce?
That’s called “go get a roomie” 😀
I think LT has enough roomies for a while. ^^;
And the Dina and Becky scene will be the one that makes me buy the Slipshine subscription…
That will be a long while, if ever, but if it happens, that one will break me. The SP! Robin/Leslie one almost did already. Too much cute! Of course Dina and Becky almost break me already and they aren’t even officially dating.
That’s what I was wondering too!
you know, i’m starting to think that dina’s super power is that she can read the comments section. it would explain much. it’s like how dexter douglas became freakazoid after absorbing the internet. yeah, who remembered that being the premise?
also, hey! dina knows what a roofie is. that’s good, i suppose…useful for navigating college life
the interesting thing was freakazoid absorbed the 90s internet… how nuts would he be if he had absorbed our current internet
he would be catatonic from cat videos 😀
Less nuts… Gone are the wild and wooly days of ‘…ate my balls’.
Probably more hostile, though.
I, too, was surprised that Dina knows what a roofie is. But I’m glad she knows. Maybe all the freshmen go to an orientation where they learn about date rape drugs. That ought to be standard procedure now, right?
It should be standard procedure. Unfortunately, I doubt that’s the case. Dina may have learned of roofies from other overheard conversations. With everything she overhears from behind doors, and when people forget she’s there, one can never know what secret information she might have gathered over time. She could really use that to her advantage one of these days.
Of course, there’s also TV, and the internet.
Or even the fact it was due to a ” Pinnacle” chip bug…
Ahh the ’90s, when it was All About the Pentiums, baby… or maybe when it was all about posting weird ass silly shit on your Geocities/Anglefire/et al site.
Unrequited love with a close person is like getting casually stabbed by a lifelong chum.
For that comment, your avatar really, really NEEDS to be Julius Caesar.
“Et tu, gaudium?”
If by unrequited love, you mean where your love is romantic, but the object of your affection returns only non-romantic feelings, but still cares deeply about you, as is the case here, no, it’s really not like getting stabbed. It’s not really that bad. Though sleeping next to the object of your affection could be stir up some unpleasant feelings, I would guess; and Becky is being smart here.
Yeah that’s more like getting hit with a broomstick. Or a riot baton.
Maybe I’m just sensetive. Or am completely underselling the pain of getting stabbed.
Stabbing is kinda “meh” on the pain scale. especially compared to getting your face ripped apart on concrete. Now that’s uncomfortable!
Indeed, last time I was stabbed, I didn’t feel it. Didn’t notice at all until I saw the blood. Of course, I was also experiencing the opening stages of hypothermia at the time.
The story is not nearly as exciting as what I’ve shared implies.
Unrequited love sucks, 100 percent truth, Tomoe. Still would rather go through it than literal stabbing, of course.
The last time I was in that situation, it was like everyone expected me to feel far worse than I actually did. I wasn’t exactly cheerful, but more concerned with salvaging some kind of friendship from the whole mess than feeling all hurt and betrayed.
My objection to the simile is not so much the level of pain as it casts the person who doesn’t share your feelings as consciously doing something to hurt you, which is not the case.
Now kiss!!!
MeghanTheWorldEater was right yesterday, Joyce did forget about Dina again~
Also
1) everyone finding Davic & Dotty in front of Joyce’s door tomorrow would be hilarous. Well save for Mike I guess.
2) Dina “uh, so, if she likes her, why was she making moves on me ? This is not logicial”
In light of these recent events I’m considering changing my name (legally) to MeghanTheAllKnowing.
you’ve got the gravatar for it!
All knowing huh? I’ll be the judge of that. How much does a Krabby Patty cost… on WEDNESDAY!??
99cents with it being 2.99 on all other days BLAM!
Hm…. you’re good. But now I’m going to ask a question only the true MeghaTheWorldEater/TheAllKnowing would know… If we’re discussing the latest page of Dumbing of Age on the third Tuesday in November, and it’s not hailing outside after we toss soft serve from the windows, what do we do?
Go outside and clean up the soft serve because campus security caught us on camera performing our cryogenic dairy product ballistic testing without the proper paperwork being submitted or the test range being cleared and prepped.
I know the answer to this one but based on my recent medical mishaps with soft serve my lawyer has advised me to not answer.
Lies. You do not know all. I insist you call yourself at most Meghan-the-reliably-knowledgable.
Well technically it’s like that episode of the Fairly Odd Parents where Timmy can’t be wrong so if he says something incorrect reality just rewrites itself but that’s pretty much the same as being all knowing.
Dina, the obvious solution is that Becky sleeps in your bed.
Awwww. It’s sad and its beautiful. I love how open and honest Becky and Joyce are with each other.
It really shows how close they have been for a long long time.
“But Becky, I like sleeping with you!”
(cue walky’s sleep-talking wise-assery)
That would actually be a good skit, WALKY UNBOUND.
Poor Dina. Her new girl can’t even remember she’s there while confessing that she’s still carrying a torch for her previous love interest.
Also, the obvious solution is Becky sleeps in Billie’s bed, but I’m not sure Billie’s ready to volunteer that she’s not using it anymore.
We all know how Joyce would reaction to that revelation…
Sal would also have to agree to the arrangement.
When you’re not completely over someone, the classy thing to do is to NOT mention it in front of the other person you like.
Oh shit, yeah, that could be a very awkward conversation in a strip or two.
I don’t know. This is Dina we’re talking about here. I’m not sure she’d view it as anything other than an bullet point on her ‘About Becky’ mental index card.
I would tend to agree.
Dina’s curse…
Or greatest power! Imagine the secrets she can unfold.
Including a lot of secrets she didn’t want to know about.
This power, it is both a blessing & a curse…
I think Sarah has the right to savor this particular ‘being right’ moment. She tried to tell Joyce that Joyce was not doing Becky any favors sleeping with her and insisting she stay right under her thumb.
Joyce crossed over the line so far with her attack on Sarah over this subject, that if their friendship ever gets back to normal it will be one of Joyce’s miracles.
Sarah is the modern day Cassandra: always tells the truth and no one believes her. So yeah, let her briefly enjoy being right.
I do like how Becky is flat out honest.
Sarah Cassandra Clinton.
I think Becky’s spent enough time being dishonest to herself and others about stuff for a lifetime. Though I do get the feeling she was always the straight-forward type. Nuking her closet only exacerbated that, probably.
I am still wondering if looking for help with Leslie could be a viable solution… because they will have to find Becky a place to stay sooner or later and she probably needs to get a job.
Does Marcie need a roommate?
Considering how things went when she was over at Malaya, she might prefer being the one to have Malaya over in the future, and not having a roomie to interfere.
Rent would be easier to pay once Becky gets a job.
As far as I can tell, Marcie isn’t even a student, so I’m not sure exactly what her housing situation is.
I was also wondering about Marcie, but then again they don’t know her (yet) and are not close enough to Sal (yet) for them rooming to be a posibility (yet)
ok at first it was cute, but now you being cheeky every time your right about something is starting to get annoying.
Don’t worry, Dina, I suspect it’s more of a forgetting who does and doesn’t know thing.
Is Dina also about to be privy to the details of Becky’s living situation?
I think that it pretty much is a logical next thing for Becky and Joyce to talk about.
Dina also knows a few secrets about her teachers she wished she didn’t, as well as some bank account numbers.
Once again, Dina proves that she is the best ninja… saur.
Ninja Rick would be so insanely jealous.
I really like that Joyce trusts Becky.
Triple Penny!
What do we win?
The row collapses and disappears, taking your comments with them. >:}
Nothing, until it’s five pennies, at which point you win a nickel donated by Mike in lieu of spending it on someone’s mother.
A bloody battle royale in “It’s Walky”, like as not.
Socially inept Dina is dinosaur wallpaper and Sarah is the raven sitting on the bust of Pallas while this emotional train wreck is occurring. Joyce has just been hit with Becky’s clue bat and still doesn’t realize it. Maybe it will finally knock some reality into her little fundie brain.
The problem is Sarah’s answer REEKS of privilege. “Yes, her biggest problem, is the unrequited love angle and NOT BEING HOMELESS.” That is exactly the thing you need to worry about.
How can someone so cynically smart be so dumb?
Um, no? It’s possible to work on more than one problem at a time, and there’s nothing wrong with “the current alternative to homelessness is really painful for her, so we need to find a better one”.
She literally said she wanted Becky to “find a better place to live,” ie a non-homeless alternative to the current, emotionally not great living situation. Considering how nobody else so far seemed to be thinking much about what to do with Becky long-term *or* how she’s being affected by the awkward sleeping arrangements in the short-term, Sarah is being more proactive about helping Becky than anyone, really.
I worry Sarah might take the wrong message from this…
At least it’s not “welp I4ll stop interacting with everyone forever”
No, Dina, it’s more of a ‘things that shouldn’t have been hidden and that Joyce and Becky need to let out” thing.
In fairness to Sarah, she’s right quite a lot. It’s just that she’s so naturally acidic and unpleasant in her way of expressing herself that people don’t listen to her.
You could share Dina’s bed! Eh?
Dunno if Amber would be down tho
If she knew becky’s situation, amber would probably be pretty okay looking after her, considering what she did for ethan. she could also really use some extra friendship, so if becky hanging out in their room meant another female for amber to connect with, that’d be pretty nice IMO.
Poor Dina, just starting to experiment and finding out she’s a rebound.
Always a sucky situation…
I dunno, when you’re just trying to figure relationships out, you don’t want to accidentally put your foot into anything serious. A rebound is a good first start – you’re helping someone process their feelings, learning from a more experienced partner, and both just having fun.
Aw, it’s equal parts endearing (that Joyce absolutely, trusts Becky) and sad (that Becky still isn’t over Joyce). I love these characters.
I don’t think Dina would object to the fact that Becky is still trying to sort her feelings out. After all, Dina is only at the “repeated testing to demonstrate veracity” stage herself.
May I just say Dina gave this entire storyarc like a +10 charisma bonus? I seriously enjoyed it so much more because of her unassuming adorability.
Wait wait wait do you think Billie might be like “Yo Becky I’m not gonna be staying at my place tonight, you can crash on my bed”
That would be really really cool of her.
Sal might be less enthused, however.
Whatever happened to Sal, anyway?
I think she just went back to her room to play Mario Kart and/or learn math
Maybe the confluence of Malaya’s roomie deciding to leave the room to give the lovebirds some privacy, Amazi-Girl having some aggravation to work off and Sal wandering around feeling lonely might lead to a curious confluence of events.
I’m kind of wondering what Danny’s weird grin from a preview panel for the near future might have been about and watching Amber and Sal save the day together might be it. He is a comic book geek, after all. Amazing team-ups are part of the scene!
Oddly enough, I don’t think Sal would care too much. If anything, her ‘I stand up for the little guy in the face of The Man’ conceit would actually impel her to abet this little bit of facility abuse.
Wow, Sarah.
Totally in character for her. And considering earlier unpleasant interactions between her and Joyce I think she kinda needs this right now.
I know it’s in-character. This is why I think she’s an asshole.
This is a very serious moment for Joyce and Becky. This is not the fucking time for “I told you so”.
Given how much time people spend telling Sarah that she’s a horrible person and that all her decisions are wrong, I can honestly see how she would want to see firsthand confimation that, yes, the impression she acted under WAS right.
She’s not saying “I told you so” to Joyce and Becky, or turning the moment to make everyone focus on how she’s right. She’s saying it as a quiet aside to Dina, asking her not to distract her because she wants to see how this unfolds. I don’t really see how that makes her an asshole. I also don’t really see why everyone thinks Sarah is so much more acidic than anyone else in this series – certainly most of the male characters have been equally sarcastic at times, with less justification.
She’s not just waiting to see it unfold, she’s doing that because she wants to prove she was right to Joyce. If this were something lighthearted it would just be mildly douchey, but the very real pain Becky is going through right now should not be used so Sarah can get one over Joyce, even just to herself.
As for the male characters, and ignoring Mike because that is genuinely a whole different can of worms, Ethan rarely acts that sarcastic or rude, and Walky and especially Danny get criticized fairly often. I don’t see how this is something unique to Sarah.
I’d agree with you if I thought she was going to rub Joyce’s face in it later – but I really can’t see Sarah doing that, or even saying anything to Joyce about it later on. I don’t think she has a history of doing that – despite what her in-comic enemies think, she hasn’t shown herself to be malicious. My comment about the male characters was only in relation to the way that her acidity apparently gets in the way of people listening to her – I just find it odd that nobody in-comic has a problem listening to the viewpoints of other, equally sarcastic male characters.
I don’t think she’ll rub it in Joyce’s face (Sarah likes heckling her but she does care about her a lot) but that doesn’t mean taking pride in witnessing her “victory” is any less crappy.
I won’t say she’s actively malicious, certainly not how Raidah describes, but she’s also been pretty volatile at times for no real reason to some of the other cast members. Of course, she’s also capable of tremendous acts of love and a lot of her issues are rooted in her difficulty with expressing herself to other people.
In regards to her acidity, that’s probably why people have difficulty dealing with her or listening to her advice. Has any other male character consistently acted as volatile as Sarah? I think they all have their moments where they act genuinely hurtful, but I don’t think it’s as ingrained as it is for Sarah.
This is a pivotal moment. Even if Sarah said nothing, she would still quietly watch without interfering. Joyce might need her, or Joyce and Becky might need privacy. We won’t know until the next strip but it seems reasonable for Sarah to stay close by for now.
As for her comment to Dina, it was said quietly,just between the two of them. It’s not much different that if she had said, ‘I knew this was going to happen.”
Despite how it sounded, Sarah is worried about Joyce. She’s Joyce’s “Big Sister” and so she is looking after her.
Well, what do you WANT her to do then? There is literally nothing at all Sarah can do at this particular moment to make anything better for either of these girls. Don’t forget, Becky made a very hurtful comment some strips ago to Sarah, with knowledge that Sarah put into her hands, because she TRUSTED her. God forbid if she says some mean shit to herself and it doesn’t actually affect the outcome of anything. The people who don’t have those kinds of spiteful thoughts occasionally, they’re the weird ones, and Sarah’s got more reason for it than most.
She doesn’t have to make anything better. She can just not be a prick. That would be nice.
As for the moment you’re referring to between Joyce and Sarah, if I’m expected to forgive Sarah’s constant crabby, unlikeable, bitter behaviour, should I seriously not extend the same to Joyce the first time she’s ever said anything hurtful to her, as a direct result of Sarah offering advice in the most blunt, hurtful way possible?
I like Sarah a fair bit. She’s incredibly interesting and complex, and being a nice person isn’t necessary to being a good character, but I don’t think it’s irrational of me not to squee in delight when she’s acting like an asshole.
The point that I think is easy to miss is that Joyce is so close to Becky that she considers her as good as a sister. That’s a considerable level of emotional intimacy and I wouldn’t blame her for not wanting to lose it. It would be entirely understandable if she became embittered over feeling that she has to put emotional and behavioural walls between her and Becky because of her sexuality.
Dina has actually been in every strip so far, and no has noticed. (But wouldn’t that have been great!)
She has been taking lessons from the cat in the “Camp Weedonwantcha” webcomic.
Waiting for Dina to offer her bed.
That last panel’s my two favorite characters (Amber’s a close third).
“Just wake them up.”
“That’d be less fun.”
I can relate….
On an unrelated note, It’s Pregnancy! is kinda weird for me to read considering Joyce and Walky look exactly the same as teenagers as they do in their mid thirties.
It’s probably the gene-splicing. It wouldn’t surprise me if the surviving Abductees all enjoy abnormally long lives.
Hey Guys! Silly question incoming. Can I read It’s Walky anywhere? You know, the comic before this masterpiece here.
There’s a link on the front page in plain view. It’s right below the Shortpacked link.
Also, Its Walky has nothing to do with Dumbing of Age, aside from seeing the original incarnations of some of the DoA characters.
i wish all the characters in this comic were gay like people said they were so that joyce and becky could be together :c
Dina gets the experience of doing a Dumbing of Age archive readthrough!