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Good hint, very subtle.
Danny’s a bad wingman.
#neverforget
Is he worse than Joe though?
Danny is so bad at being Joe’s wingman that he’s wingmanning Dorothy by mistake. And he’s doing that badly too.
Is this the return of Danny Dannying up things?
Yes, but it’s okay because Sal finds it to be an endearing character trait
dottys gonna be pissed
I’m happy for Joyce, you can tell she loves teasing Joe.
Instilling guilt is always sexy.
Though this may be more in the nature of a hint.
*insert “why not both?” meme here
Playful guilt is definitely sexy. Like, “Oh man, sure is a shame that neither of us is going down on the other. What a really unfortunate situation. If only something could possibly be done about this dreadful situation we find ourselves in.”
And then one of you mentions boba and so you go get boba first/instead.
gdi now I want boba
A teasing hint is known as a taunt.
Or maybe a dare.
you gotta hanky that panky my guy
And that’s why Joe and Carla can never get along.
Because she’s incapable of talking about anyone but herself?
Because Joe is about wings and Carla is about wheels.
Ultra Car very much has wings.
hey, that’s not entirely true!
she’s incapable of *caring* about anyone else, it’s a big difference
she can be both. these things are not mutual exclusive.
in fact these to “qualitys” coalesce quite often.
She seems to be doing a pretty good job of faking it then.
Directed at Qube, with reference to Charlie.
Carla seems to care about Charlie a lot. Enough to provide her an endless supply of buttered toast…
At the very least, Carla cares about whether Charlie cares about Carla.
Carla cares, but she pretends she doesn’t care. Because she cares so much.
That’s so ironic, considering the original universe.
Only Joyce could make that line work so well.
He now has NO CHOICE but to hanky that panky
Pretty much exactly my reaction, how the heck did she make that work?
She turned it all into art and I’m hella impressed ngl
But not as much as Joe
I am also highly impressed at this turn of the conversation to Joyce finagling for Hanky and/or Panky.
Only Joyce would need to.
God I need so many people to fuck in this comic
you can say that again XD
God I need so many people to fuck in this comic
…you mean like, now??
Not necessarily all at once– like, I’m kind of onboard for Dorothy and AG AND Walky and Amber, which might be… tricky. But you know. Maybe there’s a montage.
[Ineedahero.mp3]
Twinsies!
Aw yis!! [/hi5]
Huh? Oh right. [/hi5]
Okay I just had a terrible thought and I apologize
“No, see, it’s NOT polyamory! Amazi-Girl is dating Danny, and Amber is dating Walky. Two completely separate relationships.
(And we should all go on a double date together.)”
Oh, UNFAIR, I need this to be canon now sdlkjgs
And yet I don’t think Sally wants to share.
Walky and Amber could have a 3-way with AG, but I’m not so sure AG would be down with that, or Walky for that matter. But the logistics would be easier to manage with only 2 bodies and 3 personalities. Also AG and Danny broke up before the time skip so that wouldn’t work as a 4-way either.
Not sure if you meant to reply to Effie, but it’s posted as a reply to me, so I’ll just say– I wasn’t bringing Danny into this at all.
Managing the flux on this polycule is definitely taking up all the pushpins and red yard.
Perfect avatar is perfect.
This comment is amazing with your icon being Daisy
your avatar works so well for this statement. ~<3
Yes. Fully agree, Yumi.
Well, there is a Patron just for that.
I did not know that patreon existed. Huh.
Does this mean that Willis has no further plans to post on Slipshine?
The Sal/Danny one was posted while the Patreon’s been around.
I feel like “If it ain’t gonna be ME, then I NEED it to be SOMEONE” is an appropriate motto for several of our people.
themz an “i wanna fuck” face if ive ever seen one XD
I don’t know who’s been edged more at this point: Joe, Joyce, or us
yes
Thumbsup emoji. +1!
That side eye! DARLING! [gay chuckle]
I can’t tell is that the “aroused as fuck” face?
Or is it the “I have complex emotions around being seen as a primarily sexual being and want to base my self worth on things that aren’t necessarily sex” although, a little less explicit.
I think it’s the “oh my god my issues about sex are making Joyce feel undesired even though I desire her SO BADLY but my issues are about not wanting to HURT her but THIS is hurting her too??” kinda trapped feeling.
How do you desire badly? I had a high school teacher who liked to say, “You can only ‘feel badly’ if your paralyzed or dead.” Does that apply to “desire badly?”
Because badly can mean “to a great or serious degree or severely”.
Saying “I desire her badly.” Means “I desire her to a great or serious degree or severely.”
Sorry your teacher went the “obnoxious quips” route instead of teaching the class about parts of speech.
She was making the point that the required modifier was an adjective, not an adverb. You don’t feel badly, you feel bad.
I’m not even sure who he could go to for advice. I mean, I know characters I might suggest, but I don’t know that Joe would think of them.
Joe’s basically thinking “OMG this woman is going to be the end of me (and I’m into it?? (Should I be into it????))”
DINGDINGDING we have a winner!
Also, spoiler alert: he should be into it. They’re a really cute couple!
Both.
Take these broken wings
And learn to fuck again
And learn to hump so free
oh, bravo. Bra-vo
[audience-clapping.gif]
I am assuming that’s not a petra reference because the third line doesn’t fit, but it’s pretty neat that the first two lines work so well for at least two songs ^^
Scansion suggests “Blackbird” by Lennon and McCartney.
More likely “Broken Wings” by Mister Mister?
But Willis my birthday isn’t for another 12 days and you give me such a gift
happy early birthday to you! ^^
Possibly the hottest way I’ve seen “please actually fuck me” phrased since WPaS’s “just stick it in already”
What comic or (?) does WPaS stand for?
Probably not “Welfare & Pension Administration Service”.
You’ve failed me, Google.
Walky Performs a Sex
Oh god, Was I right?? Is it gonna happen? I”m gonna be so stupidly giggly if I called Dottie walking in on them mid hank…
She can and she DID, alt text!
Re: poll, based on observed behaviour (ratio of male characters Dorothy’s shown interest in : female characters she’s shown interest in) I think maybe a 2, but I added one on to compensate for comphet
Also, speaking of off-topic things, Maggie did a great job on the kickstarter video!
Welp, Joe, you know what to do
He knows what she wants him to do. To her. Repeatedly.
Joyce will have sex. Then go to tell Becky she had sex and act all high and mighty about being first. Then find out Becky already had sex and told literally everyone but her while also telling everyone not to tell her.
Joyce already knows.
Becky told her, (but Sarah told her first).
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/02-turning-saints-into-the-sea/effin/
JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!! (I was going to type many more exclamation marks but my thumb got tired)
don’t let your dreams be dreams
I feel like poor Jennifer needs to show up and go, “NO! This is supposed to be about me!”
And make her adorable faces.
I love these dorks dynamic so much! My OTP continues to thrive in this continuity
Same! I didn’t expect Joyce and Joe, but it is super adorable!
the most important part of being a wingman is knowing not to fly too close to the sun, there’s precedent for this
side note: it’s funny that she can say “fuck” now, but still not in it’s original context
But you don’t want to fly too low, either. People always forget that part.
They’re always “hey don’t fly too high” and never “hey was the view cool”. People fr forget too many things ;AA;
I had a clever reply to this but I can’t recall what it was.
My brain reacted to the alt text with “She’s winging her person too close to the sun!” which doesn’t actually track as a response yet I enjoyed enough to share anyway.
A++ love it, might even steal it 0w0
Neither hanked nor panked.
Unlike her mother, who was definitely Hanked.
It just struck me how very strange it is that Joyce uses that term. It is almost as though she is using her dad’s name a slur.
oh no this not a connection i want to exist in my brain
No, he’s “Dad”, that’s his legal name. “Dad Brown”. To Joyce, anyway.
Don’t make her cringe so hard her uterus cramps!
No, she’s on the hussy pills now. No more bad cramps.
*Jon Stewart eating popcorn gif*
$20 says Joe understands and wants the same thing, but tells Joyce they should take it slow and make sure it’s real-real before doing the deed.
That suggests they haven’t been taking it slow so far.
They’ve been taking it slow already. Now Joyce wants them taking it a bit faster. She was kind enough to let Sal get her hankety-pankety first. But now it’s Joyce’s turn.
They say hanky-panky to mean sex, but for some reason part of my brain still reads it as playing patty-cake. Which makes this entire strip feel very different and makes Joyce’s last line read far less horny and far more sad (in “a none of the other girls would play games with me when I was little kind” of way).
Toons consider hanky-panky to mean sex.
Wasn’t there a song?
You do the hanky-panky and you turn yourself around.
That’s what it’s all about.
Joe, your eyebrows seem to have shot off into space again. They sure do happen around Joyce a lot, don’t they?
*They sure do that
YO THAT’S SMOOTH HOLY SHIT LOOK AT HER EYEBROW
And he’s _absolute putty_ in her hands. Might as well collar the guy, Joyce, I get the feeling he’d bark on command.
NGL Joyce domming Joe like that is something I’d absolutely LOVE to see XD
Malaya and Roz both let us know Joe enjoys consensually getting treated like a fucktoy, Dina diagnosed him on sight, and Joyce…
Joyce has been reveling in her power ever since he confessed. Hell, they’ve both have issues but I’m not unconvinced this doesn’t count as edging.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/02-ill-leave-you-a-phantom/tedium/
Joe is definitely into being dominated. May not view Dina like that – they seem to have a genuine, respectful friendship – but he definitely gets what Becky sees in her!
It’s kind of all over the place once you start looking. I remember when his list came out and Joyce noted that she wasn’t on it and asked, ‘What [score] was I, before i hurt you Joe?’, and his response was to leg it out of there.
Even in an interaction like that where he has to admit to having a genuine crush, mixed with someone having power over him… it causes quite the reaction.
Perhaps Dina might serve as wingwoman for Joyce. But to train her in DS. Not sure what to call that. Wingdomwoman? Domwingwoman? Womwoman? Dingwoman? My linguistics degree is right failin’ me on this.
Let’s not prematurely rule out Wingding-woman.
Oh dang I didn’t even think of that! My brain failed me!
Lots of gorgeous suggestions, I’m gonna have severe echolalia over them.
Currently leaning towards Wingdomme but I’m not sold-sold
I love Dina and Joe’s friendship and I agree – hence the “diagnosed”.
Dina didn’t have to feel a nanogram of a pull, she just looked at Joe and went very matter of fact “indeed, flawless specimen”
Genuinely one of my favorite dynamics is just “character you’d initially think would dom; subs” + “character you’d initially think would sub; doms.” It’s so fun, these two are so fun
Especially good when it’s casual, like Dina telling Becky to take off her pants without even looking at her.
Love it when she does it all casual, absolutely certain of the effect she has. My brain also has fond memories of the more purposeful, tho. “You misunderstand, Becky — Your ass is mine” was a crowning moment.
She just needs a comically oversized bone, so she can ask him to help her bury this.
I got a vision of Joyce wearing Joe’s “DIG IT” bone pun shirt + nothing else. Would that work?
can’t speak for Joe but ngl that image is doin it for me
Joyce is thinking about finally getting that wrecking. Joe is thinking about Liz.
oh, shit
I think it’s so interesting how the multiverse collapses into a single point in this one comment section. In my comic there is absolutely zero evidence of Joe thinking about Liz, just a guy being into his romantic partner and blushing/lip biting about it.
This right here. Plus a non-zero amount of self-conscious worrying he’s pushing Joyce or toxifying their relationship (despite zero evidence for that).
If you wing-man yourself you could go blind
I wish so badly that I could like this comment
(Also, if you take “wing-man yourself” as a euphemism, it’s a *double* pun)
Or get hair on your palms.
NIC CAGE SMOOCHES GOOD.
joe.exe has stopped responding. Reboot (y/m)?
Or, it’s all hanky-panky in which she is erroneously saying that her hanky is left mysteriously unpankied, since her hanny was peeneed by her own actions.
Gesundheit.
It’s 4AM right now, do I have to study Kinsey Scale?
There’ll be a test.
They gon fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Joyce really does have incredible pull.
That panky isn’t gona hank itself, Joe
Didn’t expect a line that smooth from Joyce. Impressive.
Joe is at his hottest when he’s completely hotandbothered by Joyce
Joe has a sudden need to re-adjust his trousers.
(Sees the hacked muzak unattended, puts on “My Baby Does the Hanky Panky” by Tommy James and the Shondells.)
I cannot self-wingpersonate.
You must lower me into the thirsties.
*one thumb up
Uh-huh. She’s figuring out better than…(blinks, reads last panel. Reads it again, makes same face joe did then) FGBLOL oww, made my back hurt more. Oh that look.
Joyce walking to the side, making room for whatever’s happening below the panel.
For now.
that side-eye tho
Joyce was promised an uninhibited sex-machine. What’s with the lack of hanky-panky?
Damn, Joyce.
Panels 4 and 5 Joyce is very subtle. Much smooth. So acupuncture like. Joe will never notice. She’s definitely gonna get fu-, er, lai-, er, hanky-panky-ed.
Y’know, this is completely unrelated (probably), but there aren’t many fat guys in this comic, are there? Lotta buffboys and shrink-a-twinks, but not a lot of chubby hubbies, if you follow me.
huh. You are right. You could probably say the same about the girls in the comic too. Maybe Willis isn’t confident they can draw it in a way that wouldn’t suck?
See, I’m not as sure when it comes to the ladies. Amber’s pretty, stocky. Hot Rachel is the main big gal I think of, then Marcie (who might “just” be a shortstack), Billie and… Huh. Maybe it is just those four(ish).
I feel like with Amber, she’s kind of established as not really fat. Jennifer did put on some weight, it seemed, but still wouldn’t actually say she’s fat. Hot Rachel, yeah, Marcie idk about… but yeah, for the main characters, fatness is kind of absent.
Huh. All this time I’ve been picturing Amber as chubby, it’s just that her fat is layered over dense muscle — Which IMHO is like.. Female equivalent of a bear, and hot as sin generally speaking. Peak butch goals.
(Yes I know she’s not a lesbian, I just mean her body type.)
Just from looking at her, I wouldn’t think her body type meets female version of a bear (which I agree, sounds very hot)– and then this strip seems to suggest that she’s not actually squishy (so not much to the layer of fat): https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/defnitely/
That is still more that a lot of other media sadly.
The cast doesn’t look very American…
What’s…American?
Fat. They’re saying the cast isn’t fucking fat. Americans are known around for being fat, stupid, and obnoxious. They’re saying the cast doesn’t fit that stereotype. Now, that’s not where I was going with it, because I have some fucking tact, but it’s extremely obvious to anyone who’s sick of cheeseburger jokes what they meant. It’s not remotely clever or difficult to understand.
And any actual hat stereotype might have has less to do with Americans themselves and more how getting actually healthy food is prohibitedly expensive or flat out unaccessible for a lot of people and lack of government regulation on processed foods making them even more unhealthy that they should be.
For female characters, there’s two main characters that are at least chubby and a recurring character who’s more. It’s not shown as a negative for them, in fact when other characters are critical of Jennifer’s chubbiness, it’s to demonstrate a problem with them.
For male characters, you have to get to essentially background characters before there’s any with any body fat to speak of.
Not many, but there is buckets of blood guy
I’m guessing a relic of a lot of the characters coming from earlier comics where they are either superheroes or run-ragged retail workers who often threw their money at toys before food.
Walky’s gonna soften up a LOT the second his metabolism so much as twitches in a few years. Joe and Jacob probably will noticeably round out too as they get older and working-adult life risks taking time away from their exercise. I imagine Dan’s gonna stay a beanpole forever just because it’s the most Dan physique he could Dan.
Arnold and Jim
I don’t believe in Jim, but I did forget Arnold.
Jim is boring, that’s why this is an Arnold fan account.
Huh. Joyce pulls. Or well I suppose tugs. Pretty hard too.
I’m beginning to feel like I should reroll my gravitar…. Then again this comment is probably Amber approved.
“Joyce does a tug” was a good mini-arc. But has Joe returned the favor? No, he has not. So selfish, that Joe.
I know it was probably in jest but like still…. Dude has trauma, I don’t like the idea of stigmatizing joe’s behavior as ‘selfish’ even jokingly. It’s kind of reasonable given his past that he has some hesitation. On top of that. Joyce is the one who initiated mac n cheese time. Joyce self actualizes hankie. Whether or not pankie ensues is entirely a mutual decision.
I would have conjugated that as “un-hankied-panky”, but I’m no conjugal expert like Joyce.
I see what you did there.
perfect delivery
She is neither hanked nor panked.
She wants his panky in her hanky.
(it’s a sneezing metaphor. she’s chastising him for not carrying any tissue for allergies and dripping snot emergencies.)
“and yet here i am, unfucked” is such a raw line hold on
Contrast Joyce’s way of saying it to Joe vs Sal’s way of saying it to Danny.
“Yet here I am, un-hanky-pankied.”
“Why ain’t we fucked already?!”
Yess, Joyce! Please keep treating Joe like a sex vending machine so that he will break up with you. Then you can screw your best friend, guilt free!
I’m still not 100% convinced Joyce is bi. Could be and there is a good argument she is, but like, only Willis knows for sure.
Weird shit to say
Keep doing the thing you’re not doing, sure.
I certainly intend to keep doing that thing that I’m not doing.
If her version of flirting makes him break up with her without a single attempt at a conversation about his (supposed, but unseen by me) discomfort… that’s really a him problem, buddy.
Oh, and I’m conpletely serious here. I would love for this to happen, and I’m sincerely cheering for it!
In which case, it may be useful to amend “keep” to “start”.
oh, I see where this is headed. the sex gazebo
Not the Gazebo!! Those things are dangerous!! :O
“What is it doing?”
“It’s just sitting there. On fire. Doing nothing. Because it’s a _gazebo_.”
“Daaang, that thing’s invincible!”
Found a preview panel of the sex gazebo. The date’s passed, but I’m guessing it’s a typo. Prediction: sex gazebo around May 7th.
OMG the gazebo is gonna be reality! :O
Hold up. Jennifer isn’t really trying to HOOK UP with Allison here. Doesn’t she just want her friend back? Or her former social status back? Joe’s use of “wing-woman” here seems uncalled for, because Joyce isn’t doing any hanky-panky-facilitating. Unless Jennifer is actually wanting to get in Allison’s pants.
…Yeah, Jennifer and Alice fucked.
that’s not what leadsynth asked. The question is not “did they have sex in the past?” it’s “is Billie trying to have sex again with her in the future?”
It was relevant to “want her friend back,” in thinking of what their relationship was and what getting that back would be. And it seems possible Joyce has inferred there was a romantic element there and acting along those lines. Honestly, a lot of people still miss those details of Jennifer and Alice’s history, and having missed that seemed like a possible reason someone would think “wing-woman” couldn’t fit– rebuilding their relationship could very much mean hanky-panky-facilitating.
Jennifer considers it perfectly normal to have sex with your same sex best friend at least once. I don’t think her desire to be friends with Alice again rules out that she has other desires. She clearly still holds some love for Alice.
Also not sure why you are calling her Allison when she has only been called Alice with no indication it is short for anything.
It’s hard to remember easily-confirmed information like the names of characters in a comic that uses tags.
I don’t think there’s an equivalent colloquialism for wingperson in the context of friendships rather than hookups and relationships though
… Auspistice
Oops, I obviously meant Alice and not “Allison” here
What’s number two, Joe?
I think… she somehow wingmanned… for the wrong girl.
For God’s sake just have a conversation or fuck already. Joyce has made it extremely clear she wants to have sex. Joe seems reluctant so freaking TALK about it, but cut it out just awkwardly not acknowledging the hints while getting all hot and bothered.
Magnet predictions:
Horse
Halloween Sarah Skeleton. Not in a costume. Sarah’s Skeleton.
Arnold
Jacob
Popeye the Bouncer
Enby Malaya
Dorothy’s looming sense of dread
Marcie, this outfit
Please don’t have sex with her until she can be mature enough to call it by a name that isn’t for children’s ears.
Please Joe have sex with her before that. I want to hear “hanky panky me, hanky panky me so fucking hard” so much. You have no idea.
If that exact line does not appear in the upcoming and inevitable Slipshine, I will be _sorely_ disappointed in Willis.
Look, if grown women can baby-talk at their boyfriends and scream “DADDY DADDY DADDY” during sex, this is honestly nothing by comparison.
Truth
Whatever they want to do to make it more fun is their business, but I do think there’s something to the idea that you should also be able to talk about it with grown up words.
You should also get to decide what “grown up words” means in your own life, instead of letting others determine that for you.
Deeply wish something else kink-wise could have gone mainstream instead.
It’s all fun and games until you get Urianger with it. “Father, pray fornicate with mine posterior”
You mean coitus?
Intercourse, even?
Joe wingman your girlfriend
Joe is kinda Dorothy’s wingman for Joyce.
Joe, stick chicken wings in your girlfriend.
I never expected these two to be such a happy couple.
(I am happy to be the 500th backer of the KS).
woo hot dang
God, I wish I could see just…five more pixels of panel 5 here for Joyce’s expression. I don’t know if Joyce is playfully suggesting sex or seriously being passive aggressive about not getting *enough* sex.
that fifth panel, oh yeah baby !!
Come on dave! We’ve been waiting long enough. Give Joyce what she needs in the storyline!
Joyce: Mistress of Delayed Gratification and Denial
dang Joe, I feel ya
that side eye got my knees feeling weak