No faustian bargain is wroth it. Firt you are promised to be a magical girl and get your ship become canon, and then the ship breaks after a few months and you are trapped in a contract that forces you to hunt witches and avoid becoming one just because some furries wanted to avoid entropy.
I’m pretty sure I’ve already told the story of how, when I was the age of the DoA cast, four different alarm clocks, set to go off at slightly different times, were still not sufficient to wake me up in the morning.
I’m not a morning person by any means, but mornings and I have come to an understanding since I start work in the middle of the night. I use a floor lamp on a timer, a real alarm clock, and an old smartphone with half a dozen alarms spaced 5 minutes apart. The lamp’s maintenance-free, but everything else gets shut off every morning and turned back on again every evening.
This system has failed me exactly twice in the last five years, and both were because of my idiocy: one evening I forgot to turn any of them back on in the first place, and another time I was so exhausted I shut them all off and went back to sleep.
Yes, but the morning people can’t actually make someone else’s phone alarm go off without hacking into the other person’s phone, or at least not yet. Best someone non-technical could pull off is sending a bunch of texts and crossing their fingers the phone isn’t in ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode.
Yeah, the main thing wrong with The Time Machine was that we never got to see the advanced Morlockian civilization created by advanced thinkers working through the night. Well, that and an obvious bias against carnivores.
No blame there. I get whiplash from just thinking about how quickly Sony rebooted cinematic Spiderman. Then I realize the Toby Maguire movies started over half my lifetime ago. Does this make me feel old or young? What even is time???
Okay, we need Sir David Attenborough style descriptions of the rest of the cast now!
“Behold the common Polyanna, risus triangulum. As hard as she tries to please everyone, her relationships with the other characters of the region range from adoration to begrudging tolerance. She is frequently spotted in the company of labore adsiduo flavum, with which she shares a sisterly bond. While they can be found separately, risus is known to have the power of teleportation, appearing by flavum‘s side at will. Ex-trod-nury.”
Disclaimer: that Latin was just machine translated.
While that’s a compelling consideration, I’m pretty sure that exorcisms performed at twilight have the very same exact efficacy as those performed in the morning.
Honestly, I would lose my shit if I had a roommate who bothered me every morning before I even wake up. Chick needs to learn boundaries. She may think she’s being nice, but she’s being seriously rude.
She was technically awake, but she hadn’t woken up. She had literally opened her eyes just that second, she was probably still in that weird dream state where everything seems wrong. Give a girl some time to recalibrate. Or, honestly, just don’t talk to them before they’re showered and dressed unless it’s absolutely necessary.
In conclusion, Lucy and Joyce are the most problematic characters in this comic.
Billie woke up and then Lucy greeted her, not the other way around. I mean, I enjoy my sleep and privacy a lot, but Lucy didn’t ruin those in this instance (like Billie is used to Joyce doing)
I would too, but Lucy waited until she heard Billie stirring and only said good morning. She’s not hovering over her, getting in her face and coming uninvited in Billie’s room.
She isn’t breaking any boundaries. She literally said good morning from across the room because she noticed Billie waking up. This is literally their shared room so she is allowed to exist here. Not being a morning person isn’t an excuse to be a bongo to people for daring to say two words to you.
True, but it is really insufferable to have roommates who are determined to make friends. Roommates are basically associates in a partnership. Trying to make it more than that is… aggravating. And stressful.
I’m a person who needs a good amount of time to get comfortable around others. Phase 1 is being in the vicinity of each other and seeing how they generally behave, this will eventually include greeting each other. Phase 2 is extremely basic communication, like “can I borrow a pencil real quick? Sure *hand it over. Thanks *scribble* here you go.” In phase 3 it becomes ok to start conversations about common topics, so if you notice the other person’s listening to the same music as you or watching a movie you’ve also seen and liked you can start talking about those. Phase 4 is when this thing called “friendship” can begin to evolve. Phase 1 can take up to a week or even two, phase 2 can go on for several weeks, phase 3 can go on for months or over a year.
Lucy is definitely a nice person, but she would not be a good roommate for me. She would be talking up a storm about all kinds of things, wanting to show me fanart she found online, and possibly even sharing personal things about herself or asking me about my life and family and whatnot. Meanwhile, I would still need to figure her out on a far more basic level, but common courtesy would demand that I react in some way I wouldn’t be comfortable with yet. It would absolutely be stressful.
Still sounds like a personal problem. The fact that it takes you like a month to be comfortable with small talk doesn’t mean that people without that issue are wrong or insufferable. My issue isn’t with not wanting to be friends with your roommate or taking a while to warm up with them it’s with acting like them wanting to be friendly with the person they live with is some grievous imposition on you. Take responsibility for your quirks don’t blame others for not sharing them.
Yeah, people are different and that’s mostly ok. It might take you a month to feel comfortable having a basic conversation, but Emily and I could probably go to strangling each other in no time at all.
You seem nice enough but I want to take things slow and they might not go anywhere and you have to be willing to accept that seems like a reasonable boundry, but its something you need to communicate with words.
If they were Joyce’s level of pushy then that’d get annoying but Lucy is literally just being generally friendly here. If you don’t want to see them as a friend, just take it as them being polite, be polite back, and carry on.
I feel the same way Billie. Some people are just too glurge-inducing sweet and friendly to stand, just being in their presence for five minutes makes you feel like you’ll go into insulin shock.
Yep. Her relatable addictions and coping mechanisms, her underlying concern for Walky and Ruth behind a thin layer of verbal hostility that fools no one. Her cheerleader problem solver coincidence. Her access to relative wealth and resources without it letting it define her. Her lovable foilibles such as the ability to immediately leap to the hilariously wrong conclusions. Yeah, there are a lot of reasons to love Billie. She’s not perfect, but no one here is, either in the comic or in real life.
Eh, those are all reasons not to like unreservedly hate her but I generally need like actual unmitigated positive character traits not things that simply temper their flaws. Like, “Is rich but isn’t a total douche about it” isn’t a reason to love someone it’s a reason to not start setting up the guillotine.
Generosity? When Billie goes out with the others (admittedly hasn’t happened much), she makes it rain. Heck, she does that even when she just wants things from them or they compliment her sufficiently.
Generosity when money means nothing to you really doesn’t feel like it should count. Outside of her parent’s money the only thing she’s generous with is unasked for bad advice.
Generosity is giving more than you have to. Billie has a lot of money, so she has a lot to offer, but she still does it without having to be asked. It’s not a huge sacrifice for her, that’s true, but that doesn’t make it worthless of her to offer.
It’s not worthless but it doesn’t really count for much especially when paired with how selfish and arrogant she is otherwise. It feels more like stroking her own ego because that’s the motivation for like 80% of everything she does.
I think Billie does like helping people. But yeah, that’s also wrapped up in her issues with being the ‘head cheerleader, problem solver’ because that’s where she felt she had value.
Yeah, I’m being a bit uncharitable. I’m sure that at least part of her motivation is a sincere desire to help but it’s all wrapped up in her ego and also her being not very good at helping unless it falls into her niche areas of expertise and not her areas of thinking she has expertise but does in fact not.
The way she sees it, waking up without being forced and being able to function and do stuff before noon sure is convenient, maybe even admirable, but it just isn’t right. She’s convinced there is some sort of dark magic pact between morning people.
I will never understand how some people can actually enjoy getting up earlier than about 10 or 11 in the morning. I prefer to sleep in late and stay up late.
Personally, I’ve been a lot happier since I started running on GMT to accomodate my crazy work hours. Waking up at 6:00 never worked for me, but somehow 1:00 does.
I can’t even sleep past 9 anymore and it comes from years of having to get up early for school or work and just shifting my sleep schedule to accommodate that and then acclimating. The fact that I immediately am fully conscious and ready to go within 3 seconds of waking is probably some inherent physiological thing though.
There’s probably something inherently physiological about the adjusting as well…years of secondary education and now working in secondary education have certainly made me get used to waking up early, but when I don’t have to, my body’s still like, “Oh, worm?” and lets me sleep (usually, unless there’s something I’m excited for or anxious about). But then, that could just be that I’ve fucked up my sleep so much in my life that I’m running on a continual deficit…or it’s the depression…or both!
For me it’s 6am (my brain can’t even process 3am as “early” rather than “late”), but sleeping in can mean noon, so… I guess that’s still in the range of difference.
I do like the morning, but…what I really like is some time with the absence of people, and I have an easier time staying up until 3am than getting up at 6am when I know I don’t have to in order to get that.
Side story: I remember when I was a kid, Nickelodeon would have these fake joke-commercials. One was for a box that just screamed at you to keep you awake. “Did you know the average person wastes 1/3 of their life sleeping?” the commercial said. And I lowkey believed it was a real product, thought sleeping that much seemed like a waste, and wanted a screaming box myself.
Same reason that Joyce has difficulty making friends with the more aggressive personalities in the university I guess: Some people just find their unrelenting positivity wearing!
Deja vu, I’ve just been in this place before
Higher on the street and I know it’s my time to go
Calling you, and the search is a mystery
Standing on my feet It’s so hard when I try to be me
woaaaaaah
“Okay everyone movie night! Line up and get your ice cream!”
“here you go, and sprinkles. here you go, and sprinkles. here you go, and sprinkles. here you go. here you go, and sprinkles.”
“Wait, why don’t I get sprinkles?”
“you don’t deserve sprinkles.”
It would be an incredibly petty, but also powerful, passive aggressive move. If someone makes an Elementary school version of Mean girls, it would be right n track.
…someone should do an Elementary school version of Mean girls.
Jennifer Billingsworth, ladies and gentlemen: Not a morning person.
Meanwhile, we are able to be more and more certain that Lucy is the alternate version of Joyce in this hall. I more and more want them to meet to see if they can stand the company of the other!
oooo, I like Slashficcer, though I’m tempted to recommend we truncate it to just Slasher for Amber having to explain “not like THAT! I mean, not NOT like that, but…”
Then again, that would defeat the therapeutic purpose of it all.
I mean, the therapeutic purpose is almost certainly gonna come crashing down when AG goes looking for her sidekick when she wants to do something important and Sal doesn’t show up.
I am with Billie on this. No matter your disposition on mornings, you should never be looking directly at someone when they wake up unless you are in bed next to them. (And are supposed to be there.)
Then I will not look over at you to check if the sound was you, I will just call Animal Control immediately under the assumption that it is an alligator next to your bed and that you are in immediate and serious danger.
As a morning person I gotta say it’s not our fault y’all are weak. You’re lucky we’re not prey animals anymore cuz your sleepy asses would all get eaten.
And who do you think it was that protected you early risers from night-time predators? It was our ancestors who preferred to stay up late and sleep longer in the morning.
Their ability to hear a noise and wake up and be fully conscious in less than 3 hours probably helped. You try to wake a non-morning person up to warn them about a predatory and they’ll roll over like “Oh well guess I’ll die”
I circumvented this issue by being both large and mean. If I were Sal, Joyce would be missing an eye right now, because if I wake up to a hovering face I’m not expecting, I’m gouging.
I KNOW this is true because “going for the eyes” is what kept 10-year-old bullies off my case when I was five, and there’s no way THOSE guys were smarter than an actual animal.
Shape up, Billie! That smile is, like, 0.2 Joyce Wakeups at most. It’s barely even triangular! And she’s supposed to be there in the mornings- it’s her room, too!
Hey, there were significant warning signs, the whole ‘Black Joyce/White Lucy’ thing. If Billie was too drunk to understand them, that’s not Lucy’s fault.
So of course when/if they meet, they will instantly hate each other, or their cheerfulness will merge and achieve critical mass, destroying the planet.
I find it so sad how Lucy is either ignored, bullied or hated on by every other character in this comic. That’s one thing why her meeting Joyce might be nice — I feel like they might connect, and Joyce in general is rarely, if ever, mean to people.
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farsighted ?
In the last panel, Billie thinks on her feet, even though she’s laying down.
LUCY AND
NATSUBILLIE!shenanigans imminent
But Billie hasn’t broken in, she lives there!
How much better it is to be annoyed by someone with easy access to you than by someone who actually has to make an effort.
Ignore that. I misread it as But Lucy hasn’t broken in, she lives there.
The sentiment still works, Billie would be a pretty unbearable roommate.
Ah! Who’s ready for 500+ chapters of will they won’t they PG-13 bullcrap! But only if Lucy gets to wear revealing outfits!
Make us a Faustian bargan we can’t refuse.
No faustian bargain is wroth it. Firt you are promised to be a magical girl and get your ship become canon, and then the ship breaks after a few months and you are trapped in a contract that forces you to hunt witches and avoid becoming one just because some furries wanted to avoid entropy.
Witches sound like a much more efficient means of harvesting emotional energy than wraiths!
If you’re ever interested in sacrificing yourself for the good of the universe, let me know.
Without us, you’d still be living in caves, I think. ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
Lucy’s actually a lot smarter than Joyce is.
She could wake her friends WITHOUT being strangled.
Dear god, the morning people are evolving. Ugh!
Soon they will discover ever more benign methods of cheery wakefulness, and then… wait, no, that actually sounds good
I was thinking ‘not less benign, just harder to strangle’
In enough time there will be an app that wakes people up for them!…Oh wait, that’s just an alarm clock isn’t it?
I’m pretty sure I’ve already told the story of how, when I was the age of the DoA cast, four different alarm clocks, set to go off at slightly different times, were still not sufficient to wake me up in the morning.
I’m not a morning person by any means, but mornings and I have come to an understanding since I start work in the middle of the night. I use a floor lamp on a timer, a real alarm clock, and an old smartphone with half a dozen alarms spaced 5 minutes apart. The lamp’s maintenance-free, but everything else gets shut off every morning and turned back on again every evening.
This system has failed me exactly twice in the last five years, and both were because of my idiocy: one evening I forgot to turn any of them back on in the first place, and another time I was so exhausted I shut them all off and went back to sleep.
Yes, but the morning people can’t actually make someone else’s phone alarm go off without hacking into the other person’s phone, or at least not yet. Best someone non-technical could pull off is sending a bunch of texts and crossing their fingers the phone isn’t in ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode.
(Pops open skype)
RISE AND SHINE!!!!!
The Eloi are morning people.
The Morlocks are night people.
Evolution is what it is.
Yeah, the main thing wrong with The Time Machine was that we never got to see the advanced Morlockian civilization created by advanced thinkers working through the night. Well, that and an obvious bias against carnivores.
In general, Joyce prefer PASSIONATE before SMART. Lucy at least seems capable of at least a few nuances.
I’m with Billie, Lucy and Joyce’s smiles are both at least 300 watts, they should be required to wear lampshades on their heads before 9am.
*Sigh*, No Joyce, Fuckface does not count as a lampshade.
Are they full-spectrum smiles, or just soft white? Fuckface would like the full-spectrum smile, I imagine.
Is that Constantine or Castiel on the wall there?
Since Lucy is a confirmed DC comics fan in this ‘verse, I’d wager it’s Constantine.
I was thinking either Constantine or the Tenth Doctor.
P sure its David Tennant
That poster belongs to Billie. I forget who it’s of, but she had it up in the same arrangement when rooming with Sal:
I was trying to find a neutral strip, but here’s a sad one.
It’s Andrew Garfield. I figured he had a longer history of Spider-Man before him than there ended up being.
No blame there. I get whiplash from just thinking about how quickly Sony rebooted cinematic Spiderman. Then I realize the Toby Maguire movies started over half my lifetime ago. Does this make me feel old or young? What even is time???
Not a linear progression of cause to effect but more of a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff.
Is it weird if I say that I thought that was John Cusack
billie: <:<
Somehow I’m both of them at the same time…
Hey, don’t knock it, Billie. Sarah’d kill to be in your position. At least this one doesn’t hover over you while you sleep!
And hey, unlike Joyce, Lucy’s entitled to be in your room, so it’s not like you need to worry about someone coming from the next room into yours.
Given how this wing work, I’m pretty sure she HAS to worry about someone else coming in.
(“Behold the cheerleader sleeps. See that magnificent puddle of drool – a perfection such as us can only dream of.”
Okay, we need Sir David Attenborough style descriptions of the rest of the cast now!
“Behold the common Polyanna, risus triangulum. As hard as she tries to please everyone, her relationships with the other characters of the region range from adoration to begrudging tolerance. She is frequently spotted in the company of labore adsiduo flavum, with which she shares a sisterly bond. While they can be found separately, risus is known to have the power of teleportation, appearing by flavum‘s side at will. Ex-trod-nury.”
Disclaimer: that Latin was just machine translated.
That sounds like something Rose could do. She seems to have a flair for the melodramatic.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/legends/
God I forgot how incredibly weird all those nerds are.
Heh, sounds like something Billie could say verbatim.
I’m a weird nerd and I still think those guys are fucking weird nerds.
Aren’t Joyce and Sarah roommates?
Or are you saying Lucy has a right to be in the room but Joyce has no right to be on Sarah’s bed.
Oh I get it Joyce does that thing to Billie too.
Less booze would make waking up easier, you know.
“Less”? Which packie carries that brand?
Lucy must be related to Erik Estrada. (The MAD magazine parody of CHiPS included him causing a wreck by “flashing” his smile.)
*sniffs wineglass* Ah yes, a subversion of a running gag, excellent vintage.
Subversion or continuation?
She’s standing across the room, rather than literally hovering over them as is typical for the gag.
Agreed. Very well crafted.
In contrast to Sarah, Sal and Billie I really look forward to the mornings. My favorite so far is when Sarah woke Joyce up with an enormous smile.
Look forward to mornings? Damn. Where is my cross and holy water when I need it. Has your wife tried an exorcism?
She’s considered it, but that would mean leaving the bed, so…
While that’s a compelling consideration, I’m pretty sure that exorcisms performed at twilight have the very same exact efficacy as those performed in the morning.
Honestly, I would lose my shit if I had a roommate who bothered me every morning before I even wake up. Chick needs to learn boundaries. She may think she’s being nice, but she’s being seriously rude.
I concur.
Billie’s awake in panel 2.
someone standing in the room staring at me would wake me up too
She was technically awake, but she hadn’t woken up. She had literally opened her eyes just that second, she was probably still in that weird dream state where everything seems wrong. Give a girl some time to recalibrate. Or, honestly, just don’t talk to them before they’re showered and dressed unless it’s absolutely necessary.
In conclusion, Lucy and Joyce are the most problematic characters in this comic.
Billie woke up and then Lucy greeted her, not the other way around. I mean, I enjoy my sleep and privacy a lot, but Lucy didn’t ruin those in this instance (like Billie is used to Joyce doing)
I would too, but Lucy waited until she heard Billie stirring and only said good morning. She’s not hovering over her, getting in her face and coming uninvited in Billie’s room.
It’s funny because in this one circumstance Lucy is almost the anti-Joyce but with the same outcome and hate apparently.
Lucy embraced Guilt free sex?
and wore cutoff shorts?
Ya know, I’d almost be willing to pay to see Lucy dressed in the anti-Joyce outfit from It’s Walky!
She isn’t breaking any boundaries. She literally said good morning from across the room because she noticed Billie waking up. This is literally their shared room so she is allowed to exist here. Not being a morning person isn’t an excuse to be a bongo to people for daring to say two words to you.
True, but it is really insufferable to have roommates who are determined to make friends. Roommates are basically associates in a partnership. Trying to make it more than that is… aggravating. And stressful.
That sounds like more of a you problem than an actual thing.
I’m a person who needs a good amount of time to get comfortable around others. Phase 1 is being in the vicinity of each other and seeing how they generally behave, this will eventually include greeting each other. Phase 2 is extremely basic communication, like “can I borrow a pencil real quick? Sure *hand it over. Thanks *scribble* here you go.” In phase 3 it becomes ok to start conversations about common topics, so if you notice the other person’s listening to the same music as you or watching a movie you’ve also seen and liked you can start talking about those. Phase 4 is when this thing called “friendship” can begin to evolve. Phase 1 can take up to a week or even two, phase 2 can go on for several weeks, phase 3 can go on for months or over a year.
Lucy is definitely a nice person, but she would not be a good roommate for me. She would be talking up a storm about all kinds of things, wanting to show me fanart she found online, and possibly even sharing personal things about herself or asking me about my life and family and whatnot. Meanwhile, I would still need to figure her out on a far more basic level, but common courtesy would demand that I react in some way I wouldn’t be comfortable with yet. It would absolutely be stressful.
Still sounds like a personal problem. The fact that it takes you like a month to be comfortable with small talk doesn’t mean that people without that issue are wrong or insufferable. My issue isn’t with not wanting to be friends with your roommate or taking a while to warm up with them it’s with acting like them wanting to be friendly with the person they live with is some grievous imposition on you. Take responsibility for your quirks don’t blame others for not sharing them.
Yeah, people are different and that’s mostly ok. It might take you a month to feel comfortable having a basic conversation, but Emily and I could probably go to strangling each other in no time at all.
You’d have to get the ball rolling I don’t generally employ violence unless you’re a Nazi or you started it.
You seem nice enough but I want to take things slow and they might not go anywhere and you have to be willing to accept that seems like a reasonable boundry, but its something you need to communicate with words.
Oh I get it Joyce would do that to Billie too.
Sorry replied to the wrong comment.
If they were Joyce’s level of pushy then that’d get annoying but Lucy is literally just being generally friendly here. If you don’t want to see them as a friend, just take it as them being polite, be polite back, and carry on.
No talky until the coffee kicks in. Period.
I feel the same way Billie. Some people are just too glurge-inducing sweet and friendly to stand, just being in their presence for five minutes makes you feel like you’ll go into insulin shock.
Oh no! Billie’s back!
I hope Willis does something to redeem her… these days, she behaves like a really awful person.
Billie has always behaved like a really awful person. Willis has just given us reason to love her anyway.
Wow, when you put it that way… that’s like half the cast.
#ReallyAwefulPeopleWeHaveBeenGivenReasonsToLoveAnywayTheComic
There’s a reason this comic is called ‘dumbing’ of age.
It’s true. I don’t think there’s anybody in the cast page I don’t like, even if I think some of them need a good shake sometimes.
He has?
Yep. Her relatable addictions and coping mechanisms, her underlying concern for Walky and Ruth behind a thin layer of verbal hostility that fools no one. Her cheerleader problem solver coincidence. Her access to relative wealth and resources without it letting it define her. Her lovable foilibles such as the ability to immediately leap to the hilariously wrong conclusions. Yeah, there are a lot of reasons to love Billie. She’s not perfect, but no one here is, either in the comic or in real life.
Eh, those are all reasons not to like unreservedly hate her but I generally need like actual unmitigated positive character traits not things that simply temper their flaws. Like, “Is rich but isn’t a total douche about it” isn’t a reason to love someone it’s a reason to not start setting up the guillotine.
Generosity? When Billie goes out with the others (admittedly hasn’t happened much), she makes it rain. Heck, she does that even when she just wants things from them or they compliment her sufficiently.
Generosity when money means nothing to you really doesn’t feel like it should count. Outside of her parent’s money the only thing she’s generous with is unasked for bad advice.
Generosity is giving more than you have to. Billie has a lot of money, so she has a lot to offer, but she still does it without having to be asked. It’s not a huge sacrifice for her, that’s true, but that doesn’t make it worthless of her to offer.
It’s not worthless but it doesn’t really count for much especially when paired with how selfish and arrogant she is otherwise. It feels more like stroking her own ego because that’s the motivation for like 80% of everything she does.
I think Billie does like helping people. But yeah, that’s also wrapped up in her issues with being the ‘head cheerleader, problem solver’ because that’s where she felt she had value.
Yeah, I’m being a bit uncharitable. I’m sure that at least part of her motivation is a sincere desire to help but it’s all wrapped up in her ego and also her being not very good at helping unless it falls into her niche areas of expertise and not her areas of thinking she has expertise but does in fact not.
I think that sums up a lot of the cast actually. They want to do good, but they have to navigate that against their backstories and baggage.
Most of the cast don’t smugly offer advice like they’re the ultimate authority on the matter while clearly having no idea what they’re talking about.
Hey, I said they WANTED to do good. I never said they had to be successful. 😛
I was honestly thinking just last night, “I hope Lucy will pop up again soon.”
And here we are! Good to see her!
Thanks for bringing Lucy back to us 🙂
Lucy is on the other side of her room.
Her smile is everywhere
Billie sleeps pissed off.
Of course.
She can’t drink while sleeping
Fair point.
Tales of the Morning People sounds like a horror title to me. Oh, no! Billie is transforming into a morning person.
That’s my wife’s take on it.
The way she sees it, waking up without being forced and being able to function and do stuff before noon sure is convenient, maybe even admirable, but it just isn’t right. She’s convinced there is some sort of dark magic pact between morning people.
I will never understand how some people can actually enjoy getting up earlier than about 10 or 11 in the morning. I prefer to sleep in late and stay up late.
Their circadian rhythm is wack. Probably some genetic shit going on there, I dunno, I’m not a scientist.
Personally, I’ve been a lot happier since I started running on GMT to accomodate my crazy work hours. Waking up at 6:00 never worked for me, but somehow 1:00 does.
Ivy, I think my doctorate let’s me play a scientist on TV or something like that, but my guess is no better than yours.
I’ll stay up until 3am (outside if school) but I hate waking up at 11 or later. I just get so hot and dehydrated, I don’t get how people can do it
I can’t even sleep past 9 anymore and it comes from years of having to get up early for school or work and just shifting my sleep schedule to accommodate that and then acclimating. The fact that I immediately am fully conscious and ready to go within 3 seconds of waking is probably some inherent physiological thing though.
There’s probably something inherently physiological about the adjusting as well…years of secondary education and now working in secondary education have certainly made me get used to waking up early, but when I don’t have to, my body’s still like, “Oh, worm?” and lets me sleep (usually, unless there’s something I’m excited for or anxious about). But then, that could just be that I’ve fucked up my sleep so much in my life that I’m running on a continual deficit…or it’s the depression…or both!
When I say early I mean like 3-5 AM so I don’t think not being able to sleep 5-7 hours past my usual wake-up time is particularly unusual.
For me it’s 6am (my brain can’t even process 3am as “early” rather than “late”), but sleeping in can mean noon, so… I guess that’s still in the range of difference.
I do like the morning, but…what I really like is some time with the absence of people, and I have an easier time staying up until 3am than getting up at 6am when I know I don’t have to in order to get that.
Side story: I remember when I was a kid, Nickelodeon would have these fake joke-commercials. One was for a box that just screamed at you to keep you awake. “Did you know the average person wastes 1/3 of their life sleeping?” the commercial said. And I lowkey believed it was a real product, thought sleeping that much seemed like a waste, and wanted a screaming box myself.
You have a very astute wife. This is an English phrase which, roughly translated, means I completely agree with her.
Your wife is right. Morning people should be made to live on the surface of the sun if they love it so much. 😛
This time of year, I’d consider it.
I’m not a morning person, but can I get in on this? Surface of the sun sounds nice. It’d be just like huddling up against a vent for warmth, right?
I see no problems with this plan.
Well, you DO need to make it past the corona, which is hotter…
The secret is to go through the corona at night.
Clif, I think you deserve half an internet for that one. Can’t justify awarding you a whole one, but a half I can do.
GENIUS!
Let me know how you feel in summer.
Why is everyone so mean to Lucy, she is so nice.
Like Joyce, she bears the curse of the dreaded morning person.
Like, 95% of the meanness comes from Malaya and Billie.
Malaya and Billie kinda are meanies.
Because all of the people she interacts with happen to be terrible people.
Same reason that Joyce has difficulty making friends with the more aggressive personalities in the university I guess: Some people just find their unrelenting positivity wearing!
Aggressively cheerful/friendly people are something I need to be awake for and prepared for. They can be very exhausting and overly aggressive.
I like Lucy but I would need the ability to exit when needed. The best friendly people are the one who know when to give you space.
Humans as a whole tend to be annoying in the morning…but Lucy and Joyce both might be human caffeine…
I like Lucy’s cheerful nerdiness, but I’m also not a morning person so I can relate to Billie here.
Deja vu, I’ve just been in this place before
Higher on the street and I know it’s my time to go
Calling you, and the search is a mystery
Standing on my feet It’s so hard when I try to be me
woaaaaaah
Music nerds. (Well done)
I usually hate when people post lyrics but this I kind love
Lucy is the best.
I do hope our dear sweet sweet dearest Lucy stands up for herself against Billie’s habitual insults, they’re largely undeserved and plain mean.
Lucy doesn’t really do “standing up for herself.”
But if Billie keeps it up, she might not get sprinkles on her ice cream at movie night. Hah! That will show her.
That would legitimately be heartbreaking.
Just imagine:
“Okay everyone movie night! Line up and get your ice cream!”
“here you go, and sprinkles. here you go, and sprinkles. here you go, and sprinkles. here you go. here you go, and sprinkles.”
“Wait, why don’t I get sprinkles?”
“you don’t deserve sprinkles.”
It would be an incredibly petty, but also powerful, passive aggressive move. If someone makes an Elementary school version of Mean girls, it would be right n track.
…someone should do an Elementary school version of Mean girls.
You mean, real life?
Yeah, but packaged as an exaggeration to serve as a mirror of real life.
You know, art.
(One of my life goals is to set up Kafka’s das Schloss as a theatre set in middle school. It would be awesome!)
I read Lucy’s Good Morning in Uncle Grandpa’s voice.
And here is another example of Billie being a bongo that I can’t stand and only like when she interacts with Ruth.
Man, morning people are the worst!
Jennifer Billingsworth, ladies and gentlemen: Not a morning person.
Meanwhile, we are able to be more and more certain that Lucy is the alternate version of Joyce in this hall. I more and more want them to meet to see if they can stand the company of the other!
Smiles… together… so… blinding…
Ah, a strong contender for the triangle smile.
I wonder if a running joke in this chapter is how Lucy gives Read Hall residents Joyce flashbacks?
OK, enough of this. DERBY NAMES!
Stabitha McSlash
The Fonzette
Admirable Hipper
Snake-Eyes.
For the three from last strip?
Carla: Motherfucking Goddess
Sal Walkerton: Corpsewalker
Amber: Slashficcer
oooo, I like Slashficcer, though I’m tempted to recommend we truncate it to just Slasher for Amber having to explain “not like THAT! I mean, not NOT like that, but…”
Then again, that would defeat the therapeutic purpose of it all.
I mean, the therapeutic purpose is almost certainly gonna come crashing down when AG goes looking for her sidekick when she wants to do something important and Sal doesn’t show up.
‘Sidekick’. I am not validating AG on that dammit.
I am with Billie on this. No matter your disposition on mornings, you should never be looking directly at someone when they wake up unless you are in bed next to them. (And are supposed to be there.)
“unless you are in bed next to them”
Joyce: CAN DO!
“And are supposed to be there.”
Joyce: *hesitates* “Sisters can share beds, right Sarah?”
Sarah: “GET OUT!”
Robin feels called out.
Then I will not look over at you to check if the sound was you, I will just call Animal Control immediately under the assumption that it is an alligator next to your bed and that you are in immediate and serious danger.
As a morning person I gotta say it’s not our fault y’all are weak. You’re lucky we’re not prey animals anymore cuz your sleepy asses would all get eaten.
And who do you think it was that protected you early risers from night-time predators? It was our ancestors who preferred to stay up late and sleep longer in the morning.
Their ability to hear a noise and wake up and be fully conscious in less than 3 hours probably helped. You try to wake a non-morning person up to warn them about a predatory and they’ll roll over like “Oh well guess I’ll die”
Hey, we can function when we wake up!
We’re just pissy about it. 😛
I can honestly say I have never once had trouble, or resented, being woken in the morning to deal with a life-or-death situation.
It’s not being allowed to sleep when there is nothing on the line that is annoying. Extra so for people imagining it’s virtuous not to let you.
Agreed. If I have nothing to do in the morning and I want to sleep, everyone else better let me fucking sleep or I will be a BEAR.
I circumvented this issue by being both large and mean. If I were Sal, Joyce would be missing an eye right now, because if I wake up to a hovering face I’m not expecting, I’m gouging.
I KNOW this is true because “going for the eyes” is what kept 10-year-old bullies off my case when I was five, and there’s no way THOSE guys were smarter than an actual animal.
I’m itching to see Joyce and Lucy meet. But that will probably not be for another year or so.
Billie frequents both residence halls, and attracts both of them whether she wants to or not- they could totally meet any storyline now!
At least, I hope so, because yeah I wanna see them meet, too.
If they meet tomorrow in story time it WILL be another year or so our time!
I want to see this, too.
Shape up, Billie! That smile is, like, 0.2 Joyce Wakeups at most. It’s barely even triangular! And she’s supposed to be there in the mornings- it’s her room, too!
Hey, there were significant warning signs, the whole ‘Black Joyce/White Lucy’ thing. If Billie was too drunk to understand them, that’s not Lucy’s fault.
I maintain those sound like awesome drink names.
I hope Lucy and Joyce make friends. They seem very similar in personality!
So of course when/if they meet, they will instantly hate each other, or their cheerfulness will merge and achieve critical mass, destroying the planet.
I like how Willis got the “early morning” shading here. But shouldn’t Lucy’s smile, on Billie, be casting its own shadow?
I met one of these “morning people” when I was getting coffee. She was more or less beaming and bubbling at me.
Needless to say, it was pretty frightful.
One of my friends taught me this.
“See, when you say “Good morning”, you are either trying to be sarcastic or you are lying. Good and Morning doesn’t fit together like that.”
Usually I reply “I just said morning. You just assumed I said it was good.”
I find it so sad how Lucy is either ignored, bullied or hated on by every other character in this comic. That’s one thing why her meeting Joyce might be nice — I feel like they might connect, and Joyce in general is rarely, if ever, mean to people.
She isn’t mean, but she is innocently a bigot at times and invades personal spaces. Her yandere status is still debatable in this universe.
Oh no. In Willis’ social media he has shown images from future pages, and in one Lucy looks sad. This is going to be a painful arc, isn’t it?
Billie is DEFINITELY NOT a morning person!