I mean, all you gotta do is watch a food commercial, and you stop being hungry.
..oh, well, I guess there’s also the “pick up a phone”, “dial a phone”, “deal with the hassle of communicating your desires”, “making payment”, “waiting patiently”, “interacting with a delivery person and hoping for no complications”, “consuming the food”, and “initiating digestion of the food”.
I’m sure all of those things are pretty inconsequential, though. Clearly it’s mostly the watching of the commercial that assuages the hunger, yeah.
..wait, I’m too poor to order food, what am I even talking about.
Commercials suck.
My favorite in the series is Julia Gray and the Chamber Full of SteveXBucky Fic That’s Totally Not Porn In The Eyes of God Because There’s No Pictures and Anyway it’s Art.
I don’t think Joyce is really into gay sex, at least that we’ve seen. She got flushed when Ethan mentioned the existence of dude smut, but I think that’s more just about the existence of dude SMUT rather than DUDE smut.
At that point I think it was mostly the concept of dirty pictures of guys, while her conception of smut was pictures of girls for guys to look at. So she started imaging pictures of naked guys.
Yes, and if you’re into guys, the good news is that in gay porn, you get at least TWO guys instead of just one like in straight porn! You don’t have to be gay to watch gay porn, maybe you’re just so much into guys that you need the extra one 😀
She is upset because she hurt Jacob. Superficially this is the same as being upset because it ruined her chances with Jacob (since it was by ruining her chances that she realized she hurt Jacob) but significantly different.
For every two steps forward with Joyce ot is also one step back isn’t it? I’m still betting we won’t see her buy any form of “personal” product until 2025.
It’s a great store! (The name is “Oh My” in real life.) Joyce would certainly be welcome, though Northampton is a bit far from Bloomington. I’d say there must be another excellent sex shop near there, but we’re talking about Indiana so probably not. Closest good place I can remember is Ann Arbor, and that’s still rather a hike. Yup, having Oh My access wasn’t one of my main reasons for leaving the Midwest but it’s certainly a nice perk. 🙂
Considering Indiana University was the home grounds of Alfred Kinsey (yeah, THAT Alfred Kinsey, the one who founded the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at IU in 1947), I think it’s safe to say that Bloomington is not quite as strait-laced as all that and one would not have to look far to find a shop specializing in such, ummm, articles.
Oh, I’ve been to the Kinsey Institute. Admittedly I lived in Bloomington back when Roomies! was in the IDS, so it’s been awhile. Still, remember that we’re talking about what’s in town, and those Cutters aren’t always on the same page as the Hallowed Halls of Academe. My memory is that the local sex shop was pretty sketchy back then, but it’s been 20 years so that could’ve changed completely. The Kinsey Institute has probably changed less; as you point out they’ve been doing pioneering work for a good 70 years and it remains important now.
(Though some things have certainly changed at the Kinsey Institute too. Of all the displays there, the most fascinating to me was just the series of staff photos over the years. You could watch as it went from the 1950s when only men worked there excepting a secretary or so, followed by a gradual shift over 30-40 years until the staff was almost exclusively women. I do hope that’s balanced out some since then.)
And then you hit your late 20s and realize you’re starved for sincere affection in a way that those party years of sexual gratification can never fulfill…
Everybody is different I guess. I was shy and nerdy in high school then I came out of my shell in my early 20s and started going out and hooking up a lot. It was a rush at first but now it just hurts to feel like I’m valued for my body and not who I am. I wanna be held, not fucked. Sex is a grass is greener thing. It’s not real human connection
It really depends a lot on your character and sexuality. For me it was totally ok to have different sexual relationships and great friendships at the same time. Sometimes I really preferred that to one partner.
I think that is too much of a generalization. Anonymous sex maybe, but there are so many ways to have sex that expressen a LOT of real human connection. not only the “stare into each others eyes lovingly“ kind of sex. Any kind of sex can be done with a really deep connection.
Dorothy took that much better than I thought. Given her recent (in universe) frustration with Joyce about what she was trying to do to Jacob I kinda figured she’d be upset or even “I told you so”
Well, self-anger is easier to process than trauma, because you can just mitigate with the former. And Dorothy is way better at mitigation than confrontation.
I doubt she is thrilled, but she can probably read the room enough to tell Joyce needs a friend right now. You can not approve of someone’s actions while still not wanting to punish their honesty, if that makes sense.
I think Dorothy can see that Joyce is already well into beating herself up about it. And Dorothy isn’t the person who got hurt in all this. There isn’t really any need for Dorothy to be angry at this point.
And yeah, yeah, I know, I was one of the Puritans who thought Joyce did a shitty thing but like….on the scale of shitty things, yeah, she manipulated her way into a date and kissed a guy in a relationship, she didn’t kill a man. It’s nothing that can’t be recovered by giving her head a shake.
Or, y’know, paralyzing religious anxiety works too I guess. Oh, Joyce, honey, your upbringing is just ….you deserved better, okay?
To be fair, Jacob kissed her, and it was his decision to break up with Raidah. Not that Joyce didn’t play her part, as Raidah clearly noted, but still.
Eh, there’s an extent to which getting the fantasy out of your head and onto the page does help, but I don’t think it helps as much as people seem to think? Like… I don’t think making porn actually addresses horniness for anyone actually involved in the making except maybe for specifically any actual actors. The camerapeople, scriptwriters, film editors, etc. aren’t exactly doing it with one hand.
I’m not sure that means the people who told you otherwise were lying to you; there definitely is a tension released by putting to words your imagination. But imagination and horniness are different things. Related, but not the same.
I’m more okay with it knowing it was a thing she did while experimenting with a strawman atheist life of consequenceless debauchery. Doesn’t make what she did any better, but we can see what she’s learned from it and that she’s not going to continue.
The funny thing is, I doubt that fib/lie has been cleared up yet. Has Jacob had a heart to heart with Harrison about it? Has Jacob owned up to disappointing his brother? Will he tell him about Raidah, even though she’s not really a factor anymore?
If not, there’s still a question of “Hey little bro, where is Joyce, who is pretty and you obviously get along with and who likes you and who was and still is your girlfriend?” “Um…”
Depends how invested Harrison actually is in this. It’s college, finding out your kid brother isn’t dating someone anymore isn’t actually THAT big a deal at that age.
I was absolutely floored the first time I met one of my younger cousin’s girlfriends for the second time. They were all nice, most relationships just don’t last very long at that age.
I mean, in Harrison’s story, it’s wacky hijinks his little bro got up to.
In Jacob’s story, it’s a bit of an earth-shattering lie that’s got him re-evaluating things, and to move forward, he’s got to come to terms with the Harrison that lives inside Jacob’s head, not the actual Harrison. Talking with the actual Harrison might help with that, since it’d help him re-calibrate the one he has on a pedestal, but Harrison himself doesn’t need closure or anything.
Less being pushed into random elevators, maybe, but that’s just the kind of punchline this comic goes in for and I’m cool with it.
(And for completeness, in Joyce’s story, this is the discovery that she is capable of being a bad person on a different level than the Ding-dong Bandit stuff.)
While it wasn’t explicitly shown, we DID see him breaking up with Raidah which I would imagine would have come some time after Jacob collected Harrison from the elevator; that is assuming Harrison wasn’t riding the elevator the whole time Jacob ran off to find Raidah.
My assumption was that he packed Harrison into the elevator to go home, then had first the chat with Joyce and then Raidah. No collection of Harrison involved.
Also, I wouldn’t recommend going around kneecapping orphans where you are, you two. The nearest available orphan is Ruth, and she knows her way around a femur.
So where are the best Orphan Kneecapping areas these days, eh? ;p
The thing Joyce feels worst about is none of that, and rather its hating the way she acted. She’s realizing that she hurt someone she cared about and someone else that she likely didn’t care about but didn’t specifically wish ill on through a quick, selflishly thoughtless action.
Joyce, you may have replaced faith with empirical evidence, but empirical evidence shows that ruining a relationship doesn’t ruin the world, unless you were dating a powerful superhuman being, or you made mobsters want to kill you. How many break ups and broken friendships happen each day and the world continues? You can move on, even with the pain that will always be there. It’s like a reminder that you can’t erase your sins, but you can’t let those mistakes rule how you live your life from now on. Of course, this would futile to say to edgelords and people with clinical depression.
I have to say how refreshing it is to see Dorothy take it this way. Admittedly, she doesn’t know the whole story and may be a little more judgmental upon hearing it, but its nice to hear “I mean, sure, that’s bad but…” considering how much venom the situation was turning up in the comments. I am not saying what Joyce did was any less bad, just glad Dorothy isn’t flipping over it.
I suspect Dorothy’s reaction would have been different if Joyce was still in the middle of it, not angsting over how bad she was for doing it.
I suspect the same is true for most of us in the comments. I at least thought it was a bad thing for her to do and wanted it to be a growth and learning experience for her, rather than a rom-com shenanigans happy ending. Which is exactly how it turned out, so I was happy in the end.
Yeah… How things turned out is exactly how I wanted it to turn out.
Joyce doesn’t get rewarded. Joyce’s relationship with Jacob has a minor, but not irreparable, setback. Joyce realizes what she did was shitty (this being why she can repair her relationship with Jacob – she knows she fucked up, so she’s unlikely to do it again).
Nobody wanted her pilloried, but people wanted some proportionate consequences for her bad behavior.
well…. she has coveted a neighbor boyfriend, stolen said boyfriend and commited kiss-kidtery (while thinking OH, MY GOD, thus taking the name in vain). Also, lied and dishonoured her parents on a churchless sabath. And just confessed her Venus worshipper ways. What’s left? she’s baaaad! 🙂
Julia Gray and the space alien
Julia Gray and the alien monster from space
Julia Gray saves the president
Julia Gray’s hot date, which she didn’t ruin with a stupid lie.
The day Julia Gray went to a restaurant and ate things that touched other things
Julia Gray and the thing that touched other things
and the bonus chapter – Julia Gray squeezes out any horniness
Julia Gray and the Muscular Gentleman
Julia Gray vs the Tight Pants Boys
Julia Gray and the Possibility of Butt Touches
Julia Gray and the Very Heterosexual Lady President
Julia Gray Has An Extremely Normal One
The Fighter Jet That Loved Julia Gray
Julia Gray and the Mystery of the Space Pervert
One day, Julia Gray met the president. The president was the smartest woman in USA, just as Julia Gray was the bravest.
The president was also a perfect autumn blossom in every way. Even Julia Gray found her heart beating faster as the president shook her hand and smiled at her.
Julia was happy that they were both heterosexually married, or else she might have developed strange and inappropriate feelings for the President.
Each and every one of these stories will involve the entirety of the five-year chaste courting period before the couple gets married; with similar time-frame speed as this comic.
A quick fermi estimation means that each of these hot stories will require roughly…
4 500 000 panels of story before we get to the naughty parts.
My fermi estimation “calculations”, if you’re interested:
This comic is ten years old in fermi estimation. That’s roughly 3 600 comics. With four panels in every comic, this means that this comic’s had about 144 000 panels, round up to 150 000.
This story has been going on for (again, roughly) two months in comic time. So a full comic year year will require six times that, or 900 000 panels. Multiply that with five… and you get one hell of a build-up before the sex finally starts.
At which point, Julia Gray better be having some really wild and good sex, Willis!
So Bagge already mentioned how this discussion is, in a way, a continuation of the time when Dorothy talked still believing in something as an atheist (“We believe in people. Of our own choosing.”).
And horniness was a part of that discussion too; albeit mostly focusing on Dorothy’s problems with being horny.
And you can make an argument that once again, a kiss is a catalyst for Joyce and Dorothy starting the discussion about faith, morality, and hormones. Sure, in this strip, Joyce is focusing on the lie; but if Jacob hadn’t kissed her the way he had, his words to her might very well not have had the impact they had.
Of course, this isn’t simply a repeat of the first scene where this happened. That would be trite. However, it seems to me that Willis is using the similar set-up precisely to show how Joyce is still struggling with a repressed sexuality; because being able to leave all the shame and wickedness instilled into you as a child is very, very difficult.
Having Dorothy as your support should improve the odds somewhat, though. So hang in there, Joyce!
It’s kind of Dorothy to try to make light of the situation but, given her expression in panel 4, she’s perfectly well aware just how serious this situation is for Joyce’s self-image and how it’s impacting on her. Telling lies for selfish reasons if never ‘good’ and the fact that this just slipped out of Joyce probably says things about just how desperate she was to have her dream ‘happily ever after’.
So… If We were to say that, maybe, hypothetically, there was some person who may or may not be some sort of emperor; and this hypothetical person may or may not have written a Julia Gray HIGH LITERATURE ART thing… I mean, that probably didn’t happen. We’re just speculating here, of course.
And even if it did happen, it surely would be in the crassest of taste to actually post a link to it. So We won’t.
I mean, that was simply just obvious. As I stated elsewhere, -every- Julia Gray story involves a five-year chaste courting period before they get married.
One does not just squeeze out horniness. It is merely suppressed, sated for but the moment, but it will return, especially in the presence of that which it desires the most.
Well, they ain’t wrong. You also need a wild twisting motion, like you’re trying to use a socket wrench to make a pretzel one-handed. If acute angles aren’t involved, then you might be doing it incorrectly.
See, everyone in those games is unreasonably hot and the plot is super horny. Expose Joyce to Garrus and Tali’Zora, and she’ll be writing all kinds of wild zero-G smut.
It’s basically a retelling every time. Julia meets Blake, Julia saves the world by being best space force fighter, Julia courts Blake in a chaste manner for five years, Julia and Blake gets married, Julia and Blake make wonderful love; probably in a somewhat different way than the last story.
Dorothy is a true friend. She try to help Joyce telling her that she’s has done what has done because the excitement she feel for Jacob. She’s not saying Joyce was innocent, but that she was under circumstances that make peoples do stupid things.
Willis has sown himself among the weeds and constructed his house upon the sand. He is the bandit while exalting himself as the Samaritan. He has cast off his eyes and ears not because they were sinful, but because they were showing him truths which he was desperate to ignore. He has corrupted his own soul and unwilling to repent now tempts others to the fire.
It’s strange because I’ve seen them before in the comments section and they didn’t seem like… this. Like, I actually remember them saying they were raised Catholic but stopped going to church. I’ve been searching past comments in this book/storyline and none of their comments are like this.
They’ve been around at least a few weeks. They told me to get over myself when I was annoyed with Joyce over the Joyce/Jacob stuff. Didn’t strike me this though. Maybe they were hacked?
Willis is the terror that flaps in the night. He has strayed out of thought and time and wandered far on roads that he will not tell. He doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. He is the senate. And he will have his vengeance, in this life or the next.
A little bit late to the party, (not to mention de-lurking) but I think Joyce may be exaggerating things. Yeah, she fucked up, and is reeling from the consequences, but I don’t think it falls into “ruined forever” territory. I think it’s a holdover from all the fundamentalist teachings she’s been subjected to, mainly that you only have one chance to “get things right.”
A reconciliation between her and Jacob may seem unlikely right now, but it’s not impossible.
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wonk wonk horniness doesn’t work that way!
it’s like a rash, scratch that itch and it spreads
…wait no
Not for teenagers, anyway.
As a romance novelist, I can attest – writing sexy stories does not make one LESS horny. Rather the opposite.
Yeah, I mean it’d be convenient if I just had to watch a cooking show to stop being hungry
right ?
I mean, all you gotta do is watch a food commercial, and you stop being hungry.
..oh, well, I guess there’s also the “pick up a phone”, “dial a phone”, “deal with the hassle of communicating your desires”, “making payment”, “waiting patiently”, “interacting with a delivery person and hoping for no complications”, “consuming the food”, and “initiating digestion of the food”.
I’m sure all of those things are pretty inconsequential, though. Clearly it’s mostly the watching of the commercial that assuages the hunger, yeah.
..wait, I’m too poor to order food, what am I even talking about.
Commercials suck.
I suppose that would work for a particularly terrible cooking show
Like, uh… *Google* Disgusting Food Museum?
As someone who may or may not have written a Julia Gray story a few hours ago, I will neither confirm nor deny this.
So is Julia Gray the self-insert for Dorothy Brown, then?
–“Seeing Me ‘N Julia Down By The School Yard”
*cues up “Crazy After All These Years” on the hacked Muzak*
As previously seen.
College: where hyperbole doesn’t exist.
Much is suddenly explained
“Julia Gray”?
Ace Space Force pilot Julia Gray!
Holy crap, it worked!
You rock!
Plus, maker of mac and cheese, host of her own kiddie TV show. Really, she’s quite a catch.
I wonder if Joyce will ever publish those chapters as a book. I could see them being popular like the other lewd fanfictions that turned into sellers.
I am very much opposed to “Julia Gray” having anything to do with the PHNX Force.
That never ends well.
Second time reading this I finally understood the joke.
Comment rising from the ashes.
Joyce’s novel-in-progress, entitled:
“Fifty Shades of Julia Grey”
…you’re welcome. ;D
At 6 chapters a day that’ll take her just over 8 days to complete. I look forward to reading it! 🙂
And at the pace of this comic in terms of real time©, those 8 days would take her approximately….what, a year and a half? xD lol
Not going to lie. Little surprised Joyce is capable of saying the word “horny.”
thats what horny people do, joyce
My favorite in the series is Julia Gray and the Chamber Full of SteveXBucky Fic That’s Totally Not Porn In The Eyes of God Because There’s No Pictures and Anyway it’s Art.
I don’t think Joyce is really into gay sex, at least that we’ve seen. She got flushed when Ethan mentioned the existence of dude smut, but I think that’s more just about the existence of dude SMUT rather than DUDE smut.
Are we forgetting this little incident?
I did, but again, I’ve read it as more like it’s more the smut that turns her on, rather than the idea of attraction between two men.
I think you could show Joyce lesbian porn and she’d be into it, not because she’s a lesbian, but because it’s PORN.
At that point I think it was mostly the concept of dirty pictures of guys, while her conception of smut was pictures of girls for guys to look at. So she started imaging pictures of naked guys.
Yes, and if you’re into guys, the good news is that in gay porn, you get at least TWO guys instead of just one like in straight porn! You don’t have to be gay to watch gay porn, maybe you’re just so much into guys that you need the extra one 😀
LITERATURE
But is she upset because she lied, or because it ruined her chances with Jacob?
We need a DoA “What-If?” series.
I think it could be both.
Definitely both.
Both is good.
But not as good as being upset because it hurt other people.
To quote yesterday’s Joyce “Turns out other people still have feelings and you still care about those feelings.”
She is upset because she hurt Jacob. Superficially this is the same as being upset because it ruined her chances with Jacob (since it was by ruining her chances that she realized she hurt Jacob) but significantly different.
Yeah, this.
Joyce is a good person at her core, so the fact that she fucked up and hurt somebody is obviously going to upset her.
Oooooh, Joyce, that’s not how horniness works.
For every two steps forward with Joyce ot is also one step back isn’t it? I’m still betting we won’t see her buy any form of “personal” product until 2025.
Look Dorothy is THIS CLOSE to just buying her one already.
They should go to that little old lady’s store in QC.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1379
I totally forgot about that place, but yes Dorothy and/or Sarah should absolutely drag Joyce there.
It’s a great store! (The name is “Oh My” in real life.) Joyce would certainly be welcome, though Northampton is a bit far from Bloomington. I’d say there must be another excellent sex shop near there, but we’re talking about Indiana so probably not. Closest good place I can remember is Ann Arbor, and that’s still rather a hike. Yup, having Oh My access wasn’t one of my main reasons for leaving the Midwest but it’s certainly a nice perk. 🙂
Considering Indiana University was the home grounds of Alfred Kinsey (yeah, THAT Alfred Kinsey, the one who founded the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at IU in 1947), I think it’s safe to say that Bloomington is not quite as strait-laced as all that and one would not have to look far to find a shop specializing in such, ummm, articles.
Oh, I’ve been to the Kinsey Institute. Admittedly I lived in Bloomington back when Roomies! was in the IDS, so it’s been awhile. Still, remember that we’re talking about what’s in town, and those Cutters aren’t always on the same page as the Hallowed Halls of Academe. My memory is that the local sex shop was pretty sketchy back then, but it’s been 20 years so that could’ve changed completely. The Kinsey Institute has probably changed less; as you point out they’ve been doing pioneering work for a good 70 years and it remains important now.
(Though some things have certainly changed at the Kinsey Institute too. Of all the displays there, the most fascinating to me was just the series of staff photos over the years. You could watch as it went from the 1950s when only men worked there excepting a secretary or so, followed by a gradual shift over 30-40 years until the staff was almost exclusively women. I do hope that’s balanced out some since then.)
It’s based on a real store?
My wife and I have been to Northampton enough that I should have suspected as such.
Daft punk disco don’t. Nice.
Dong* bah autocorrect.
So, did anybody ever make that Daft Punk toy?
And then you hit your late 20s and realize you’re starved for sincere affection in a way that those party years of sexual gratification can never fulfill…
… or is that just me?
*shrugs* i never really got either of those.
Everybody is different I guess. I was shy and nerdy in high school then I came out of my shell in my early 20s and started going out and hooking up a lot. It was a rush at first but now it just hurts to feel like I’m valued for my body and not who I am. I wanna be held, not fucked. Sex is a grass is greener thing. It’s not real human connection
It really depends a lot on your character and sexuality. For me it was totally ok to have different sexual relationships and great friendships at the same time. Sometimes I really preferred that to one partner.
I think that is too much of a generalization. Anonymous sex maybe, but there are so many ways to have sex that expressen a LOT of real human connection. not only the “stare into each others eyes lovingly“ kind of sex. Any kind of sex can be done with a really deep connection.
You’re “squeezing” something out alright, Joyce…
Yeah, that definitely earns a “phrasing”.
Dorothy took that much better than I thought. Given her recent (in universe) frustration with Joyce about what she was trying to do to Jacob I kinda figured she’d be upset or even “I told you so”
Well, self-anger is easier to process than trauma, because you can just mitigate with the former. And Dorothy is way better at mitigation than confrontation.
I doubt she is thrilled, but she can probably read the room enough to tell Joyce needs a friend right now. You can not approve of someone’s actions while still not wanting to punish their honesty, if that makes sense.
I think Dorothy can see that Joyce is already well into beating herself up about it. And Dorothy isn’t the person who got hurt in all this. There isn’t really any need for Dorothy to be angry at this point.
Dorothy is good at this, and it’s how she treats Joyce when Joyce needs this kind of advice.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/first/
Oh, I totally forgot about Julia Grey.
Is the not half the purpose of fan fiction?
If not, several several people have lied to me.
And yeah, yeah, I know, I was one of the Puritans who thought Joyce did a shitty thing but like….on the scale of shitty things, yeah, she manipulated her way into a date and kissed a guy in a relationship, she didn’t kill a man. It’s nothing that can’t be recovered by giving her head a shake.
Or, y’know, paralyzing religious anxiety works too I guess. Oh, Joyce, honey, your upbringing is just ….you deserved better, okay?
Well, Dorothy is only learning about the first of Joyce’s transgressions. Joyce hasn’t told her about kissing Jacob or breaking up him and Raidah yet.
To be fair, Jacob kissed her, and it was his decision to break up with Raidah. Not that Joyce didn’t play her part, as Raidah clearly noted, but still.
Pretty much all of this, yeah.
Eh, there’s an extent to which getting the fantasy out of your head and onto the page does help, but I don’t think it helps as much as people seem to think? Like… I don’t think making porn actually addresses horniness for anyone actually involved in the making except maybe for specifically any actual actors. The camerapeople, scriptwriters, film editors, etc. aren’t exactly doing it with one hand.
I’m not sure that means the people who told you otherwise were lying to you; there definitely is a tension released by putting to words your imagination. But imagination and horniness are different things. Related, but not the same.
Could also be a different strokes thing (pun kinda intended?).
Not always “squeeze out” per se,
More like providing inspiration for a different form of “squeezing out”.
Nudge, nudge.
I’m more okay with it knowing it was a thing she did while experimenting with a strawman atheist life of consequenceless debauchery. Doesn’t make what she did any better, but we can see what she’s learned from it and that she’s not going to continue.
Definitely explains what she was thinking for sure.
Give in Joyce.
This Slipshine sub won’t pay for itself
The funny thing is, I doubt that fib/lie has been cleared up yet. Has Jacob had a heart to heart with Harrison about it? Has Jacob owned up to disappointing his brother? Will he tell him about Raidah, even though she’s not really a factor anymore?
If not, there’s still a question of “Hey little bro, where is Joyce, who is pretty and you obviously get along with and who likes you and who was and still is your girlfriend?” “Um…”
Depends how invested Harrison actually is in this. It’s college, finding out your kid brother isn’t dating someone anymore isn’t actually THAT big a deal at that age.
I was absolutely floored the first time I met one of my younger cousin’s girlfriends for the second time. They were all nice, most relationships just don’t last very long at that age.
I mean, in Harrison’s story, it’s wacky hijinks his little bro got up to.
In Jacob’s story, it’s a bit of an earth-shattering lie that’s got him re-evaluating things, and to move forward, he’s got to come to terms with the Harrison that lives inside Jacob’s head, not the actual Harrison. Talking with the actual Harrison might help with that, since it’d help him re-calibrate the one he has on a pedestal, but Harrison himself doesn’t need closure or anything.
Less being pushed into random elevators, maybe, but that’s just the kind of punchline this comic goes in for and I’m cool with it.
(And for completeness, in Joyce’s story, this is the discovery that she is capable of being a bad person on a different level than the Ding-dong Bandit stuff.)
While it wasn’t explicitly shown, we DID see him breaking up with Raidah which I would imagine would have come some time after Jacob collected Harrison from the elevator; that is assuming Harrison wasn’t riding the elevator the whole time Jacob ran off to find Raidah.
My assumption was that he packed Harrison into the elevator to go home, then had first the chat with Joyce and then Raidah. No collection of Harrison involved.
Should’ve written 7 that day
Sorry Joyce. That’s not going to help the fact that what you really want is to be squeezing the horniness out of Jacob, if you know what I mean.
(I mean you want to be squeezing his weenus.)
Also, I wouldn’t recommend going around kneecapping orphans where you are, you two. The nearest available orphan is Ruth, and she knows her way around a femur.
So where are the best Orphan Kneecapping areas these days, eh? ;p
The thing Joyce feels worst about is none of that, and rather its hating the way she acted. She’s realizing that she hurt someone she cared about and someone else that she likely didn’t care about but didn’t specifically wish ill on through a quick, selflishly thoughtless action.
Whoa, touching forearms is only a step below holding hands!
Joyce, you may have replaced faith with empirical evidence, but empirical evidence shows that ruining a relationship doesn’t ruin the world, unless you were dating a powerful superhuman being, or you made mobsters want to kill you. How many break ups and broken friendships happen each day and the world continues? You can move on, even with the pain that will always be there. It’s like a reminder that you can’t erase your sins, but you can’t let those mistakes rule how you live your life from now on. Of course, this would futile to say to edgelords and people with clinical depression.
I have to say how refreshing it is to see Dorothy take it this way. Admittedly, she doesn’t know the whole story and may be a little more judgmental upon hearing it, but its nice to hear “I mean, sure, that’s bad but…” considering how much venom the situation was turning up in the comments. I am not saying what Joyce did was any less bad, just glad Dorothy isn’t flipping over it.
I suspect Dorothy’s reaction would have been different if Joyce was still in the middle of it, not angsting over how bad she was for doing it.
I suspect the same is true for most of us in the comments. I at least thought it was a bad thing for her to do and wanted it to be a growth and learning experience for her, rather than a rom-com shenanigans happy ending. Which is exactly how it turned out, so I was happy in the end.
Yeah… How things turned out is exactly how I wanted it to turn out.
Joyce doesn’t get rewarded. Joyce’s relationship with Jacob has a minor, but not irreparable, setback. Joyce realizes what she did was shitty (this being why she can repair her relationship with Jacob – she knows she fucked up, so she’s unlikely to do it again).
Nobody wanted her pilloried, but people wanted some proportionate consequences for her bad behavior.
well…. she has coveted a neighbor boyfriend, stolen said boyfriend and commited kiss-kidtery (while thinking OH, MY GOD, thus taking the name in vain). Also, lied and dishonoured her parents on a churchless sabath. And just confessed her Venus worshipper ways. What’s left? she’s baaaad! 🙂
Killing Toedad!
That still might happen, probably not today.
Julia Gray and the space alien
Julia Gray and the alien monster from space
Julia Gray saves the president
Julia Gray’s hot date, which she didn’t ruin with a stupid lie.
The day Julia Gray went to a restaurant and ate things that touched other things
Julia Gray and the thing that touched other things
and the bonus chapter – Julia Gray squeezes out any horniness
Julia Gray meets the woman who will eventually become president; and starts having feelings for her that she didn’t know existed.
LITTERATURE!
We’re sure you of all people would not be interested in reading a full Literature, Bagge.
So We won’t mention there might be a comment below that has a link to said Literature…
Julia Gray and the Muscular Gentleman
Julia Gray vs the Tight Pants Boys
Julia Gray and the Possibility of Butt Touches
Julia Gray and the Very Heterosexual Lady President
Julia Gray Has An Extremely Normal One
The Fighter Jet That Loved Julia Gray
Julia Gray and the Mystery of the Space Pervert
That’s “Julia Gray and the Possibility of Tushie Touches”.
This is Literature, after all.
One day, Julia Gray met the president. The president was the smartest woman in USA, just as Julia Gray was the bravest.
The president was also a perfect autumn blossom in every way. Even Julia Gray found her heart beating faster as the president shook her hand and smiled at her.
Julia was happy that they were both heterosexually married, or else she might have developed strange and inappropriate feelings for the President.
Now this is starting to sound like The Heterodyne Boys titles on crack.
Heterodyne Boys titles are already on crack.
Doctor Heteronormative
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526
If there is not an entire inuniverse subgenera of Heterodyne stories where they touch dongs, someone is not doing their job right.
I like where this is going
Oh, COME ON.
No-one did the “Julia Gray and the Chamber of Secrets” pun yet? I’m disappointed in all of you! IN ALL OF YOU!
*bows head in shame*
I… I am better than this.
*Dorothy pops up from the computer*: “Bagge, you are better than this.”
And then she makes you write an apology note to your better self. She wants to see CURSIVE.
*looks haughtily at JBento*
-Some- of us were too busy creating an Art, thank you very much.
There’s no greater art form than PUNS. Uncultured lout.
My Julia Gray Literature disagrees with you.
But your Julia Gray literature isn’t made of puns, and is therefore inferior to puns.
So Dorothy and Joyce talking about being horny is how we get to that April Fools pic from a couple years ago becoming a reality, right?
…Please?
Won’t that make her go blind?
If it’s done right, it may make her see stars.
Just hope her Julia Gray fics don’t become like 50 Shades of Gray.
I Am NOT Horny: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique Compendium
Each and every one of these stories will involve the entirety of the five-year chaste courting period before the couple gets married; with similar time-frame speed as this comic.
A quick fermi estimation means that each of these hot stories will require roughly…
4 500 000 panels of story before we get to the naughty parts.
My fermi estimation “calculations”, if you’re interested:
This comic is ten years old in fermi estimation. That’s roughly 3 600 comics. With four panels in every comic, this means that this comic’s had about 144 000 panels, round up to 150 000.
This story has been going on for (again, roughly) two months in comic time. So a full comic year year will require six times that, or 900 000 panels. Multiply that with five… and you get one hell of a build-up before the sex finally starts.
At which point, Julia Gray better be having some really wild and good sex, Willis!
Aaand I just realised that I completely screwed up.
It’s going to take only half a million panels before the sexy stuff starts
It’s closer to 3,000 strips (3,074 as of this moment apparently), but 5 is also probably a better average panels per strip, so that’s a wash.
Ya squeeze it out, but it’s just zero sum. Lewds ahoy, oh boy.
Tummy… wand…? What’s the SpaceJet been discovering lately??
So Bagge already mentioned how this discussion is, in a way, a continuation of the time when Dorothy talked still believing in something as an atheist (“We believe in people. Of our own choosing.”).
And horniness was a part of that discussion too; albeit mostly focusing on Dorothy’s problems with being horny.
And you can make an argument that once again, a kiss is a catalyst for Joyce and Dorothy starting the discussion about faith, morality, and hormones. Sure, in this strip, Joyce is focusing on the lie; but if Jacob hadn’t kissed her the way he had, his words to her might very well not have had the impact they had.
Of course, this isn’t simply a repeat of the first scene where this happened. That would be trite. However, it seems to me that Willis is using the similar set-up precisely to show how Joyce is still struggling with a repressed sexuality; because being able to leave all the shame and wickedness instilled into you as a child is very, very difficult.
Having Dorothy as your support should improve the odds somewhat, though. So hang in there, Joyce!
It’s kind of Dorothy to try to make light of the situation but, given her expression in panel 4, she’s perfectly well aware just how serious this situation is for Joyce’s self-image and how it’s impacting on her. Telling lies for selfish reasons if never ‘good’ and the fact that this just slipped out of Joyce probably says things about just how desperate she was to have her dream ‘happily ever after’.
Indiana University amazing response to bigotry:
https://provost.indiana.edu/statements/index.html
hope a link is okay here. I think this is great.
I make sure to squeeze out my horniness 2-3 times a day 😀
Can vouch, have seen the Discord server.
It suddenly occurs to me that I want Willis to write those Julia Grey stories so that we all can enjoy them.
So… If We were to say that, maybe, hypothetically, there was some person who may or may not be some sort of emperor; and this hypothetical person may or may not have written a Julia Gray HIGH LITERATURE ART thing… I mean, that probably didn’t happen. We’re just speculating here, of course.
And even if it did happen, it surely would be in the crassest of taste to actually post a link to it. So We won’t.
Now THAT was Art
And I’m certainly not reading it and upvoting it.
That noise I just made was not human, I swear.
Would you say that your avatar is rather appropriate for this comment?
Maybe, but it’ll be changing soonish.
Well, glad I helped you… make noises…
Hot!
I really like the “five years later” callback.
I mean, that was simply just obvious. As I stated elsewhere, -every- Julia Gray story involves a five-year chaste courting period before they get married.
Bwahaha! That was the funniest (and slightly most painfully repressed) thing I have read in a long time. Well done.
Oooooh yeaaaah
Joyce, there are more effective ways of “squeezing out horniness” than writing fanfics.
… Wait, is Joyce still refusing to masturbate? O.o That… explains a lot.
Oh, so now Joyce admits she writes these stories because of being horny?
Not just “literature” anymore, I see 😉
That’s Literature with a capital L, thank you very much!
𝕷𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊!
Thank you, bhtooefr. We hereby award you one (1) Imperial Internet Point for ensuring the classiness of Joyce’s Art making.
She also knee-caps six orphans everyday to keep away the horniness! No shame for that though!
That’s not how you squeeze out horniness. Someone give poor Joyce a sex ed class.
Sounds like a job for Billie
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/booklet/
Oh, she knows all about sex.
First, you are in a chaste relationship for five years, before getting married…
I’m not an expert, but I don’t think spending time creating sex-stories every day will lead to less thoughts about sex.
One does not just squeeze out horniness. It is merely suppressed, sated for but the moment, but it will return, especially in the presence of that which it desires the most.
Are you doing it right?
(…I’ll show myself out)
Well, they ain’t wrong. You also need a wild twisting motion, like you’re trying to use a socket wrench to make a pretzel one-handed. If acute angles aren’t involved, then you might be doing it incorrectly.
This is making an assumption about which organs Kaz is endowed with that I am not comfortable making.
That’s one powerful euphemism
One of these days, Joyce is gonna stumble across some Mass Effect fanart. That night, Sarah will conveniently sleep over in someone else’s room.
*headtilts*
I’m not sure why ME porn in particular would have such an effect? (…Uh, pun not intended, but I can’t think of a better wording to avoid it…)
See, everyone in those games is unreasonably hot and the plot is super horny. Expose Joyce to Garrus and Tali’Zora, and she’ll be writing all kinds of wild zero-G smut.
So… next slipshine will be Julia Grey and the Wedding Night?
Each and every Julia Gray story involves a wedding night. Otherwise, it would be sinful smut, instead of Literature.
In theory, it could be “after the wedding night” porn. The smut doesn’t have to be the couple’s first time.
But this is not porn. It is 𝕷𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊!
𝕷𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊! can’t take place after the wedding?
It has to. It’s a series.
Otherwise Julia’d have to divorce between episodes, to be free to marry again. And that would be sinful.
(Actually, Joyce is probably okish with divorce, but I doubt it would fit the genre she’s aiming for.)
Oh, it’s not a divorce.
It’s basically a retelling every time. Julia meets Blake, Julia saves the world by being best space force fighter, Julia courts Blake in a chaste manner for five years, Julia and Blake gets married, Julia and Blake make wonderful love; probably in a somewhat different way than the last story.
Dorothy is a true friend. She try to help Joyce telling her that she’s has done what has done because the excitement she feel for Jacob. She’s not saying Joyce was innocent, but that she was under circumstances that make peoples do stupid things.
Dorothy trying hard not to laugh in the last panel
Let this be my last comment ever:
Willis has sown himself among the weeds and constructed his house upon the sand. He is the bandit while exalting himself as the Samaritan. He has cast off his eyes and ears not because they were sinful, but because they were showing him truths which he was desperate to ignore. He has corrupted his own soul and unwilling to repent now tempts others to the fire.
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The jumble of letters is intentional and not meaningless. It is my final response to Willis. I am done here.
OK, fundie.
I’m going to assume they are not actually a real poster.
Did a search. Seems real enough.
It’s strange because I’ve seen them before in the comments section and they didn’t seem like… this. Like, I actually remember them saying they were raised Catholic but stopped going to church. I’ve been searching past comments in this book/storyline and none of their comments are like this.
But, then again, Willis is the moderator so there’s a chance he’s seen much more of this poster than any of us.
They’ve been around at least a few weeks. They told me to get over myself when I was annoyed with Joyce over the Joyce/Jacob stuff. Didn’t strike me this though. Maybe they were hacked?
Who the heck?
Cool. Door, ass, etc.
Willis is the terror that flaps in the night. He has strayed out of thought and time and wandered far on roads that he will not tell. He doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. He is the senate. And he will have his vengeance, in this life or the next.
You just noticed that he’s a recovering fundie? Impressive.
Just as well, if they stayed longer they might notice that there are gay people in the comic too.
There are WHAT!?!?
Your Nailed God has no power here, and neither do you, weakling. Begone.
oh shit, this dude’s speaking in tongues
Christ on a stick, but fundies are fools.
The mouse over caption….that had me rolling on the floor laughing. Tummy wand. LOL.
So; Joyce is going to go on to be the greatest erotica novelist of our times, isn’t she?
Dangit Joyce, stop being someone I can relate to.
Who tf is Julia Gray?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/02-but-the-sun-still-shines/juliagray/
A little bit late to the party, (not to mention de-lurking) but I think Joyce may be exaggerating things. Yeah, she fucked up, and is reeling from the consequences, but I don’t think it falls into “ruined forever” territory. I think it’s a holdover from all the fundamentalist teachings she’s been subjected to, mainly that you only have one chance to “get things right.”
A reconciliation between her and Jacob may seem unlikely right now, but it’s not impossible.