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step three: have sex with her!…almost
Jennifer: “Wait, does that mean I’m going to have sex with her, or are you?”
Joyce: “Yes.”
“The almost sex will be with me. That will cause the actual sex to be with Alice. See?”
“I didn’t say I wanted to have sex with her, I said I wanted to be friends with her again.”
“Yes, but you also said that friends could bang once.”
“Yeah. … um… kinda already hit my limit on that one.”
“But if you become friends with her again, that’s the start of a SECOND friendship with her, which means…”
“OMG JOYCE WE NEED TO ALMOST-BANG RIGHT NOW!”
Joyce continues to be shockingly good at information gathering, she’d make an excellent spy.
Is this not a normal autistic thing? I lose track.
People are occasionally surprised by how easily I can track them down in Final Fantasy XIV, even in large zones. As if it’s not blatantly obvious by my friends list showing they’re a level 87 Miner in Ultima Thule, meaning they’re likely at a specific set of rocks or turning in materials at the local trade hub.
I feel spies also need a degree of deceptive ability, coolness under pressure, and capacity to go unnoticed by not hyperventilating about their being extra foods in their food.
But think of how little anyone would suspect her.
Field agents, yes. Maybe she’s an intelligence analyst.
How soon we forget the escapades of the lesbian love sleuth.
Is Joyce propositioning Jen to flirt with her? Probably not, but I’m gonna pretend she did.
Jennifer can’t keep track of who she’s almost slept with, but Joyce is there to help.
Joe, too. He has spreadsheet experience.
Oh, dang, I just re-read that and saw a horrible innuendo that I hadn’t seen at first.
Shh, just pretend it’s intentional, it lands.
@Steamweed actually that’s hilarious and actually made more so by it being unintentional
I would honestly love to see Joyce’s social media theme since she kicked the Jesahol.
I bet it’s just super cute and wholesome, with occasional moments of crazy.
I would say the mix probably has a lot more of Joyce’s specific neuroses than just occasional.
It’s nothing but macaroni and cheese reviews.
“apolitical”? what’s that? XD
Answer: Posting pictures of puppies, kittens, and food. Like, no one could ever make a picture of a head of lettuce political, right?
If they did I’m sure that would be a very short-lived moment ^^
I Understood That Reference
Short-Lized, please.
Hey, I don’t, but it makes for a better joke if I say I do think that trussed-up lettuce picture looks really strong and stable, and not like a crazed pug with a coke habit…
OK, spoiler tags don’t work here…
Also too tired to remember that I either go with
Hey, [spoiler tags which don’t work] I don’t, but it makes for a better joke if I say I do [/spoiler] think that trussed-up lettuce picture looks really strong and stable
OR add the and not, which indicates my feelings about her already…
Actually, at the rate things are going, even posting pictures of sad puppies might soon be earning the ire of Homeland Security.
Time to break out the Winnie the Pooh.
Good thing they don’t live in China.
Better make it the public domain Pooh, just to be safe. No need to get the feds and the mouse on your case.
“Red shirt on bear? Copyright! Beware!
If nude be he, that Pooh is free.”
Ok I’m making things worse, did you know the Sad Puppies are/were a reactionary right-wing sci-fi fan group? Full name was something like ‘the sad puppies think of the children’ and they were the equivalent of the anti-dei/anti-woke brigade.
*googles*
… I feel that I should be more surprised to learn that right-wingers have pre-ruined sad puppies.
I am annoyed I didn’t get to post that but I assumed it was a clever reference.
Sad Puppies was a conservative group influencing the Nebula Awards several years back, that overlapped with Gamergate.
So, that ship sailed.
Or a can of soup, or Winnie the Pooh.
You are familiar with UK politics and short lived PMs?
“she’s very pretty” ^_^
yup, noticed that too.
(Joyce noticed it first!)
The “Dorothy realizes that she isn’t straight” chapter has had a lot of “Joyce probably isn’t straight either!” to go along with it.
Indeed she is.
Probably but it’s too late now!
When did Jennifer almost bang Joe? I don’t remember that one. Was it right before Danny?
It was after in this: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/billingsworth/
That is a follow up to https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/notsure/ and the next strip. So Joe can be referring to either.
Wow that cheerleader had a pretty unique character design for an untagged nobody. What role could she hypothetically have?
She’s the secret final boss of the entire comic.
Maybe she’ll find out that Ruth was the one who stole her cheerleading uniform
That’s Martina. She’s a sex addict and sells vinyl decals on Etsy.
At a guess? Leading cheer.
“Nope! Not with me!”
Once again, Joyce is unintentionally throwing shade.
Combing perfectly with “she’s very pretty”.
Surely Joyce’ feed is non-threatening and apolitical by now – she spent all that time scrubbing all of the nothing-offensive-because-she-never-said-anything-like-that-you-can’t-prove-anything off her social media
so, does expressing a desire to climb into someone’s cleavage and be safe and warm forever count as almost having sex with them?
… asking for a friend.
No, I don’t think “expressing desire” translates into “almost realized that desire”.
I would very much like to have a million dollars, but I have never even come close to actually having a million dollars.
“the world is cold and hard, but tiddy is warm and soft”
-oglaf
Oglaf is a national treasure, and must be protected.
Very pretty. Just saying. In a totally heterosexual way.
that’s one long way of saying “no homo” XD
I don’t think anyone has any illusions about how bi Joyce is, including Joyce. She did go into why she couldn’t make out with Dottie, due to being in an official relationship with Joe, and that would be cheating.
Wow Jennifer and Joe are only in 14 strips together
Joyce will one day gain full awareness of her bisexuality. In the meantine, she’s keeping us fed with the kind of casual girl-loving material Becky fell for.
….. Also, Joyce babe don’t assume apolitical is best. Maybe Alice sleeps with Das Kapital under her pillow. Maybe she’s reappearing with blue hair and pronouns next time we see her. Keep an open mind!
That’d be a quick dye job
In fairness, most people use pronouns. Just most people don’t think about their pronouns all that much, I think? (I think I genuinely don’t care but most people would feel odd calling the short, curvy, high-pitched person with non-feminine pronouns but if somebody asked if they could practice using a different set that don’t feel instinctive on me in a low stakes environment, I’d be completely OK with it, if I knew them and had no reason to think they were somehow being unkind..?)
I just wish all of these people who keep complaining about pronouns would actually stop using pronouns. It’d be hilarious.
John means John wishes all the people complaining about pronouns would stop using pronouns. John would find John’s proposed scenario hilarious.
Smallmoon wonders what it would sound like if
theythat group were to actually engage in the behaviouryouJohn Campbell requested. Probably liketheythat group suffers from a collective compulsion towards illeism.Note that I couldn’t even get through the thought without needing three (well, two, one of which was used twice) pronouns.
I do feel like the “she’s very pretty” is meant toward Jennifer as a “your Totally Not Girlfriend is pretty” approval sort of thing. but also: Joyce, still not beating the bi allegations, lol~
how about food reviews for original flavor snacks?
The only ethical food review would blur out the product’s container and not refer to it by its brand name. Unfortunately, Joyce has used brand names in her reviews, making her an unpaid shill.
Some people might feel that a review without the brand name to identify just what you are reviewing is kind of useless.
Am I one of the some people?
Maybe.
Instructions unclear, Alice will be friends with Jennifer again, but won’t befriend Joyce.
I presume Tristan is one of the reasons for step two…
“Normal”? SO over-rated. Abby is all the rage these days. Abby Normal. SO hot.
Alice: Eww, this girl prepares Kraft mac and cheese strictly according to the instructions, unfriended.
I’ve found pictures of cute animals to be mostly nonthreatening and apolitical.
ok this is already getting creepy loàl
While you’re at it, yes please remind ME of what is normal, I’ve been immersed in [waves hands around wildly] all THIS for the last god-knows-how-long
Saying “This is not normal” is the new normal.
I forgot that I still had the css enabled that inserts the last two panels of yesterday’s strip when I opened this, and was caught off guard by Walky’s removal of pants at the end of the strip.
*snrk* oh my god
Why is a phantom hand rubbing Joe’s titty through his jacket?
Joyce psychically claiming her territory in front of Billie.
It’s not a phantom. It’s clearly coming from Joyce’s backpack. She’s testing a new system for Carla.
The pie magazine hasn’t been loaded yet.
it’s Mike
I cannot wait for this to blow up spectacularly in Jennifer’s face.
I hadn’t realized how few times Joe and Jennifer had interacted with each other.
We need Tristan to show up. Then reveal he has ChatGPT set up for his parents to read and is a gay punk rocker.
“didn’t you almost have sex with you and your roommate” is a weird statement to say in front of your girlfriend. Or it’s just accepted there, I don’t know…
Unfortunately the drug of Dorothy’s feelings being confirmed have made every other strip an extension of that
There could be a strip that’s just Sal smoking a cigarette and I would see the connections