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and Joyce was never seen again
…
but if you’re alone in the laundry room, they say you can sometimes hear the faint sound of ♥ ♥ ♥ near the dryers
“Far below life-laden shadows beat to unrelenting rhythm of a beating heart”
I hear Bulmeria always needs more missionaries…
Strangely enough, their posting stamps look familiar…
Oh yeah!! New Gravatar time!!!!
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of horny virgins? The
ShadowJoyce knows!”So you’re the monster under Joyce’s bed (well besides Sarah when she’s angry).
Awe, you’re making this little gay symbiote blush!
aw that last panel. my heart
For real!!!
Possibly my favorite Joycefaces.
Joycefave
I like Sarah.
She’s one of the good ones.
Truly
She’s adorable
is she an asshole? yes. is she still good? also yes.
Joyce looks like a cranky Pac-Man ghost and that makes me smile.
Me too!!!!
🥰
If I was her, I’ve stole Sarah’s toy.
That sounds less than sanitary.
They make cleaning products specifically for such… Novelties.
Cleaning products or not, my god. That’d be like borrowing someone’s toothbrush.
Which, believe it or not, some of us are completely fine with
I won’t speak for others butI only have done that when fluid-bonded with someone.
“fluid-bonded” is the best way to describe someone you’re boning.
that’s not what it means. it means someone you’re boning without IST protection (ie condoms and dental dams)
Ignoring that most people wouldn’t be okay with that, Joyce is also some level of germophobe (see: her milk gallon sandals she need to use the communal showers so she doesn’t touch someone’s hair in the stall)
Is she also turning into the Batman?
the ‘Bateman
‘Bate…Woman?
this dumb joke got away from me
Google the pillow fort that Overly Sarcastic Productions made for Achilles.
i love them
Blanket creature!Joyce is honestly a little alarming and I’m a huge fan.
considering ‘electric’/heated blankets are a thing i imagine they could prolly get her a vibrating one too lol
These two have a really sweet relationship, in their own way.
Everyone will be so disappointed when they learn Asma is actually Sarah’s favourite person., Except for Asma.
This was all very cute, from Joyce’s blanket form to Sarah’s loving teasing.
Joyce look like that evil guy from careberears.
I’m so ashamed that I know you’re talking about No Heart.
Thanks for liberate this from memory …
*plays Jermaine Jackson’s “Do What You Do” on the hacked Muzak*
Surely “She Bop” would be the more appropriate tune?
But this song has that “curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal” thing going on with it.
Perhaps ‘My Guilty Hand’ by the Dear Janes would fit.
This reminds me of that Robin and Leslie strip a few years ago (when Robin was invading Leslie’s apartment) where the two discussed the media attention on them despite their completely platonic interactions thus far. Robin points out they might as well have done something and Leslie bites her lip with desire
Leslie might be the ultimate form for Daisy, the sexually frustrated student newspaper editor.
Sarah *has* a favorite person?! Le gasp!
That doesn’t mean that she actually LIKES anyone. Just that Joyce is the one she dislikes less.
Although I thought Dina was her favorite.
There’s no way to ask this without sounding a least a little creepy, but has Joyce, I guess “evolved” her technique? Graduated to actually touching herself in some capacity? Because if she still uses Dorothy’s method then she literally can’t do it in their room. Dorms don’t have dryer hookups.
I mean it’s been less than a day. Give her time.
I had assumed when she kicked Dorothy out of the laundry room she was doing so because she was going to actually touch herself
That was my guess too.
I assumed it was because she didn’t want Dorothy in the room when she hit the high note, because having someone else there was one step away from them being the reason. Which was one step too far.
That’s what I assumed too, but honestly trying to read what was actually happening in that situation might be impossible. I don’t think Joyce is even 100% sure.
It’s heavily implied, since Dorothy suggested exactly that in the previous strip.
I know it’s being said during a wind-up, but I’m loving Sarah’s last line this strip and her smile.
Reminds me of the Hannibal Burress joke about just embarrassing his cousin by bringing up masturbating.
“Hey, you jerkin’ off?”
“No! I’m not jerking off! I’ve never jerked off and I never will! Get out of here!”
“Why do you want me to get out of here? So you can jerk off?”
Very specific
Reminds me of that joke from Pigeon in Mike Tyson’s Mysteries.
“Starting to notice the girls, huh? Let me ask you something, you jackin’ off yet? Because if you are it’s weird. Nobody does it, you’re the only one.”
God I love Pigeon. That hoarse laugh after he says that is so good. RIP Norm Macdonald.
Reminds me of Kinsey being asked about his results showing that 96% of American males masturbated. “What does that say about American males???” “It says 4% of them are liars.”
Did Kinsey actually say that? That seems weirdly insensitive and incurious. The more interesting hypothesis is that the data is right and it contradicts your prior assumption that masturbation is universal among males. Then you get to investigate that.
Kinsey was widely known to be insensitive and incurious about most things that contradicted his earlier findings . . . which were themselves based on some rather flawed methodology.
fair enough, i don’t know much about Kinsey save that he was one of the earlier postwar sexologists. i understand that most of his findings have been superseded since then, but somehow i had a neutral-to-positive opinion of him? based on nothing more than his mainstreaming of bi-awareness through the eponimous scale.
Well it’s a funny quote at least.
I do wonder how people with that equipment deal with, I’ll call it morning inconveniences without masturbating. I mean what if you really need to pee? Ik my ace boyfriend says he does it in the morning for that reason.
It’s also a good sleep aid apparently.
have penis, can testify:
being hard never prevented me from peeing. you just have to sit down, which i do anyway because cocks are sprayers not snipers. if i can go outside then it still works, it just goes wheee in a funny and satisfying arc.
i have gone months without ejaculating, i was fine. (well, my mental health was shit but i believe that was a cause not a consequence.) eventually (after maybe 2-3 weeks?) release would occur in my sleep, presumably because sperm continually builds up in the testes.
also, morning wood just goes away by itself after a few minutes. in my case at least. i’m 35, but i don’t recall it being much different when i was younger
(oh and also i pee sitting down because i’m a feminist-pilled beta cuck, that goes without saying~)
When I was young (15 or 16) bladder-induced erections could be eliminated by urinating, no jacking off required. I did have problems urinating when there was another reason for the erection, like a scantily-clad young lady in close proximity.
“Bladder-induced erection”? That’s a thing?
Informative, thank you
I’ve never had a dick and they honestly mystify me
Just a pipe made of some stuff that does a thing when there’s blood in there. Sometimes a fluid of some description comes out, but that’s about the most elaborate thing it does. Also most of the people who have them are literally obsessed with everyone else’s, for reasons none of them really understand, but it’s not gay to think about them nonstop all day every day, because they say it’s not.
Anytime!
I’m only speaking for myself of course, but I’m definitely a sniper, not a sprayer. I didn’t know spraying was a thing?
i exaggerate but most people with penises are famously incapable of not leaving drops on the toilet seat. It’s honestly weird to me that dudes won’t sit down. Unless you’re very short, toilets are just too far down for you not to make a mess. Peeing upright is a lot of fun but not when i can plainly see that there will be droplets on surfaces to be cleaned up.
If you’re talking about morning wood, I think most of us just do our best to fortify our resolve and aim as well as we can. Keeps the mind sharp and the reflexes active.
*Fortunate Son begins playing*
Man, this gives me big “The bongo In Apartment 23” vibes.
“NO I WASN’T!!!!”
“This must be how moms feel on the first day of kindergarten! Stand up, give me a hug!”
I remember that show. Kinda underrated. Cancelled too soon.
The reverse smiles vampire strikes again.
Oooh, now I hope Sarah bumps into some of the other cast members. She and Dina were fun last time this happened, and then of course there’s a world of possibilities if she encounters her hate-sink, Joe.
Omen from Valorant looking a little different today
Damn, that sibling energy is strong.
Okay Willis, I can’t thank you enough for these Joyce faces!!!
🥰
fr panel 3 is the best
Sarah is right, also, awww.
Besides, Sarah does it in the room, so it’s not like she’s going to judge you, Joyce.
I think thinking of Sarah indulging in a Ménage à moi would be even more unsettling to Joyce than thinking of herself doing it.
I get that, but she knows this already, she got kicked out of the room so Sarah could use Other Jacob before.
Holy shit. I’m Sarah. I will rib my lil sis to heck and the first thing I say when people ask about her is that she’s my favourite person.
Didn’t Joyce use this exact tactic on Sarah like forver ago, when she had picked up a cute outfit for Sarah and got her to wear it?
Revenge is a dish best served cold in Sarah-land!
No. Joyce laid out clothes for Sarah to wear, and Sarah decided to check out the clothes. Sarah’s telling Joyce she’s going to assume she masturbates no matter what she does.
One of these is a lot less comfortable than the other.
*extremely Faith No More voice* What is it? It’s it
Speaking as a sibling, it’s the reaction.
It just makes it so fun.
Darth Vader vibes.
sarah is SUCH an older sister, i love her
Yeah, this is a classic Older Sister™ way of teasing
This is the most Big Sister she has ever been and it’s so wholesome. Sarah the tru GOAT.
You won’t see the Joyce-ler.
Don’t knock at her door.
She stays inside jerkin’ with laundry in store.
She stays inside, jillin’, under laundry room roof,
where she warms her own clothes and her miff muffered moof.
And on special dark mornings all under her sheets,
she peeks out from the darkness, and sometimes she speaks.
And tells Sarah how Dorothy helped lift stress away.
She’ll tell you, perhaps, that it wasn’t that gay.
nice.
*applause*
I thought the Sand People had a tan cloak and red eyes…
Panel 4 is very classic Warner Brothers in the best way
“Oooh that Sarah makes me very angry! Very angry indeed!”
Where’s the kaboom? In the laundry room, that’s where.
It’s amazing to have a favorite person. For me, that person is my girlfriend. Some people don’t have one probably, and that’s fine too. But there’s no feeling like a person improving your mood just by existing.
Yeah! I guess that can be true of more than one person though?
That said i also have a favourite person, i think. And i get that feeling too, that “wow, I’m so lucky to be friends with them” fuzzy feeling. It is nice.
Btw you mention your gf sometimes, does she read doa too? Does she ever comment? Is she… among us???… If not, tell her i said hi
She’s read some of the comic, mostly in physical form. I think she’s maybe partway through the first book. Left a couple of comments too (like 3, tops) but I don’t remember her handle here.
Adorable Joyce-ghost in this strip.
Squeeee!! Can’t decide which joyce under blanket i like better!! Soooo cuuuuute!!
And ty so much for do what you do and she bop!! And very angry, and the poem
yes yes yes yes yes YES!!!! 🥰 aaaaaaa
Characters’ constant obsession over Joyce’s sex life, no matter how much she screams at them to butt the hell out, remains creepy as fuck.
I’m not seeing anything like a “butt the hell out” here. Here’s my hypothetical version of how this conversation would have gone if there had been:
Sarah: You have my permission to do you know while I’m out. Really go to town.
Joyce: a) I don’t need your permission. b) it’s none of your business if I do it or not.
Sarah: Absolutely right, good for you. Bye.
Unfortunately for Joyce, she didn’t say that, or anything remotely resembling it, and instead decided it was really important to her what Sarah thought she was doing.
Add a “(c) I’m going to report you for making inappropriate sexual comments at me” in there.
Imagine if Joe was going around saying to women he knows that he gives random women the right to masturbate and have lesbian sex. That’d be creepy-ass as fuck and considered sexual harassment.
Who ever gave Sarah the right to comment on Joyce’s masturbation habits or lack thereof, one way or another, to condemn or allow? Fuck off, Sarah.
Imagine if a completely different character who behaves in a completely different ways did something sorta similar to completely different people in a completely different context. Wouldn’t that make this specific scenario seem a lot worse?
also, imagine if we discussed every interaction in terms of contractual rights and obligations, would you not suddenly think i sound like a weird lawyer? wait no
ah yes the will smith theorem
Would you think it okay with Joe telling Joyce that he assumes she’ll be shortly masturbating and that he gives her permission to masturbate?
Wouldn’t you consider it sexual harassment? This is exactly what Sarah did.
“Would you think this thing that isn’t happening was fine?”
Miss me with that. I’m not even going to humor it as a hypothetical. Sarah isn’t Joe. The context is different. End of thought. I don’t judge situations based on what I’d think if they were different situations.
Oh, the weather is a little rainy, this rain noise is nice and relaxing. “OKAY BUT WHAT IF IT WAS HAIL, HMMMM?” Just a ridiculously paranoid way to view the world.
Genuinely what is wrong with you. You sound angry at something but it can’t actually be the comic because your arguments make no sense.
Over here arguing with Worzel Gummidge, I don’t get it.
I don’t understand the reference I’m afraid
Old British kids’ show starring Jon Pertwee.
Joyce did
A lot of people taking third-hand personal offense at things Joyce actively isn’t protesting or having a problem with, lately.
Joyce is protesting so much that she’s threatening to leave forever over how much she doesn’t like this thing that Sarah is doing to her.
I’m sure the author thinks it’s all fine so they’ll all stay friends and no harm will come of it, but in real life if you see someone behaving like Sarah, it won’t be as funny or harmless.
And you come to the amazing conclusion that joyce meant this literally… How exactly?
That’s what I’m sayin’.
Are you taking the piss? She’s so obviously not serious about leaving forever. Her reactions to teasing are always huge. It’s not a big deal.
con·text
/ˈkäntekst/
noun
the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.
Ex: “Sarah teasing Joyce, who she knows very well, about masturbation is a very different context than Joe deliberately approaching random women and telling them it’s okay to masturbate and fuck other women”
All her life she’s been surrounded by people obsessed with her sex life. From the time she was a little girl it was ‘purity’ this and ‘Jesus’ that, to the point where she felt compelled to hire a chaperone on her first date.
The people around her now just want her to hurry up and get over that lifetime of repression, hurry up and conform to what seems normal to them.
Nobody is rushing her. In fact, they are literally telling her they don’t really care what she does, because it’s not a big deal, and they’re making sure Joyce knows that masturbating is a normal thing to do.
Yup. Leave the poor girl alone to assimilate some of this nonsense, anyway.
Ah i knew someone would have an issue with this strip eventually
took a solid 3 and 1/2 hours though. progressss
I am very much missing the absence of this stuff.
Then read another comic.
The monster under the sheets > the monster under the bed
Is it just me, or does anyone else imagine Joyce’s “noooo” do e with the voice of Darth Vader at the end of revenge of the Sith?
Well now I do.
Then my work here is done.
There goes our Joyce, changing her name to Kate and moving to Oregon.
Does the study group come with a dryer?
Joyce all “I hate you! I haaaaate you! I’m gonna go do a sex to Joe, THEN you’ll be sorry!!”
all: *actually are sorry*
Joyce: wtf, that worked
Also Joyce: pls stop now, i need your help unfucking the extensive sexual shame i’m experiencing as a result of this
i don’t think sarah would mind as much as long as she doesn’t get pregnant/would prolly prefer joyce having sex with joe over liz
Blanket monster Joyce is a very funny sight.
It’s super cute! Especially the angry face.
Anyone else now curious if Joyce is the silent type, the screamer type, or the moaner type? XD
*insert Sal’s “why are the dogs going nuts?” frame here.*
As long as it comes with a smile like in her first Big “O” strip, I’m all for it!!!
Note for future historians: Michael B Jordan was an actor who could make a young woman do things with her jaw that would bend steel and require expensive dentistry, just by taking off his shirt. (On one occasion in the 2020s a lady became Internet famous for doing just that, and Jordan ended up charitably paying her dentist bill.)
I thought saying this gave me deja vu, turns out I made an almost identical comment the last time Sarah mentioned Michael B Jordan, like five years ago. How uninspired!
This was really funny
Genuine friend.
Sarah is smiling and happy. Necessarily, Joyce is miserable. It’s the true circle of life.
The forces have to balance themselves out, otherwise *mumbles incoherently for a solid 25 seconds* and then the earth’s crust cracks and lava pours over all of Indiana.
Joyce has become Darth Joyce.
Joyce is the terror that jills in the night. She is the wet spot on your dryer. She is Saying Fuck!
Joyce looks like No-Heart from Care Bears…
Damn now that’s a reference I didn’t expect to see or agree with today
I love those looney tunes eyes under the blanket. I love them so much.
“You do you Joyce, as often as you need.”
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Honestly, been like this before. It’s pretty much a no win situation since you’re not in control of what others think and will just have to accept it.
Such excellent “friends” to have when dealing with your entire worldview upended.
What, you mean supportive friends who don’t care what you do as long as you aren’t being hurt? Friends who will put themselves at risk to save you and you’re best friend from a gun toting maniac? Fuck off.
Eat shit.
Ah, so you’re bitter because you yourself have no friends, so you take out your frustrations on fictional characters and commenters by defending a character in a comic strip you somewhat identify with. No one is going to pity you.
Go sit in the corner, you’re mad about nothing.
That’s fair. I just really think that guy is a dick.
I kinda feel bad for Joyce, I imagine anyone would be mortified if someone started randomly talking to them about their masturbating habits.
She’s fine.
Not sure whether anyone else here reads ‘Scandinavia and the World’, but Joyce in this comic reminds me of North Korea.
I see what you mean. That’s great!
Joyce looking and sounding like the ghost of Christmas fapped atm
This comment singlehandedly makes up for every little squabble, headache, and meltdown that’s happened in these comments within the past two years. Thank you for your service.
Ghost of Christmas Fapped. Fucking genius.
She’s also the Ghost of Christmas Yet to…. I’ll see myself out.
lol i cant imagine joyce living on her own let alone moving to another state. makes me wonder if she’d somehow be roommates with becky with a lot of room-space to give her and dina distance versus just being next door neighbors
Truly, there are few sweeter relationships in the comic than between these two; it’s all the older sister type guidance without edging into the weirdly patronizing motherly caretaker thing that Dorothy’s relationship with Joyce edges into, although the latter certainly provides more fodder for like, theoretical spanking fanfic. Okay, I’ll just lock myself in the horny jail on the way out tonight.
I would absolutely be Joyce in this situation. Just infinity percent mortified. Masturbation can only happen if we’re all pretending it doesn’t! And I would have to stop on principle.
DISCLAIMER: This is not a complaint about Sarah! The comic is funny!
Joyce: NOOooOOooOOooOOoo
Sarah: Ah, my favorite sound