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Today’s strip is brought to you by the letter P
Because of electron-orbitals?
Yes, the electron orbitals that make you get up frequently in the night. They are, of course, the d-orbitals. ‘d’ stands for diuretic. It’s a scientific name, after all.
I mean, other orbitals too?
Ethanol produces it’s diuretic effects in earthlings by inhibiting production of vasopressin in the pituitary gland, a hormone which regulates kidney function and blood pressure (this is also partly responsible for ethanol’s effects as a vasodilator).
gesundheit!
–David, srsly, i did understand those references
People never adequately warn the newbies about that little side effect.
…does Jo(yc)e have object permanence?
[sadly, if I got up multiple times like this, Spouse would switch positions in the meantime and not leave me room to squeeze in]
See, I relate to this a LOT.
I have done this exact thing – both the sleeping with my wife cuddled behind me like that (with me as Joyce, my wife as Joe) and the part where I slip out to go to the bathroom, sometimes multiple times, while she remains unmoving.
The only difference is that, in the morning, I’ll ask if I kept her up, and she’ll be like “you got up?”
What
Going number one!
Going number one!
Going number one!
🎵 HEY HEY! 🎵
Does this work?
https://youtu.be/AVRbzDgNKWQ?si=90hgeXaYaNW2zURc
I assume Joyce has to get up multiple times because she just drank a lot.
yep, that much alcohol means she has to pee a lot, at least she’s getting up and not so drunk that she doesn’t. ~<3
Her Dorothy-teleporting powers keep kicking in while she’s sleeping, and she has to keep coming back. Inconvenient for all concerned, really.
While Joyce can teleport to Dorothy’s side, as suggested by Sarah when Joyce was walking around with Fuckface on her head(book 9, Chapter 1, Teleport, published October 25, 2018), she’s also perfectly capable of just teleporting to a known space, as shown when she first met Malaya and materialized behind a box as Malaya set it down (Book 8, Chapter 1, Helping, published November 13, 2017).
TL;DR she’s probably just teleporting to and from the restroom.
Dranksequences.
I got no idea what is going on
don’t ya know?
ethanol is a diuretic
That or she’s freaking out because of being next to a boy or she’s freaking out because said boy notices her being next to him.
Or all of this.
She doesn’t look particularly freaked out to me.
What Rose by Any Other Name said. I also feel like that’s a thing Willis would show us instead of skipping over it.
…actually, that would definitely explain this.
Also an emetic, potentially.
You can only rent it…
Liquids in, liquids out.
I’m willing to bet next strip tells us where she keeps going. My bet is puking. Place your bets now!
pissing.
They don’t tell you that apart about drinking. It comes outta ya one way or the other.
This is also something that is never mentioned in vampire fiction.
Thanks to a suddenly failed graft site on the roof of my mouth, I once spent an entire night swallowing my own blood, and, let me tell you, I had to pee a lot.
Was the pee blood too?
our kidneys do a more awesome job of filtering than most people realize
see, they’re filtering out the water, urea, and other trace waste products too directly FROM your blood
so … no, if there’s blood in your urine, something’s wrong OTHER than “you drank a quantity”
–Dave, on the other hand, that WILL show up as black tarry stool for a bit
When you drink blood, does it even enter your bloodstream? I figure the stomach and intestines would take care of it before it even reaches your bloodstream, and you’d probably poop dehydrated blood, kidneys wouldn’t be involved much.
We don’t digest our own blood terribly well. It’ll turn your feces black, but it’s generally not great to consume.
As a nurse I can tell you: no.
But: his next couple of poops probably looked like coffee grounds
As a man with an undiscovered bleeding stomach ulcer, I can also attest to black stools. Unfortunately, I had just started some high fiber cereal, so I thought that was the cause. About a week later at hospital I had a doctor ask me why my blood count was half of the normal. Check your poops people. Easiest self diagnosis you can make.
To underscore your point, here’s an informative song from Scrubs.
https://youtu.be/pnIk0npINiE
Could be both.
That actually makes a lot of sense, I hadn’t thought of that. My money is on you being right.
Judging by Joe’s face in Panel 5, he can see her or hear her making use of his trash can so I think you’d be right.
Sudden need to do laundry
reverse joyce specific object impermanence?
she’s lost control of her teleport-to-Dorothy superpower whilst drunk, that’s all
–Dave, good thing the door’s unlocked
ps: oh hey, new storyline title … Taylor Hebert goes to IU?
The siren song of “oh my cuddle partner went to the bathroom and I’ve lose that comfort cuddle heat”.
“And I’m peeing and I’m peeing and I’m peeing and I’m peeing
It feels good, it feels good”
— Arin Hanson
Every time i see Egoraptor’s real name i think he’s a member of 90s teen pop band Hanson
That’s what Cats are for. Once they settle in with their hoomin they’re not moving until breakfast time.
Which may be several hours before the hoomin wants to wake up, of course.
Sometimes you gotta pee probably.
Penel 4: Joyce test-fits Wolverine claws
Or, typo of “panel” transitions to “penile” – take your pick.
*snikt*
Hey y’all! I made a Tierlist Maker for DOA relationships.
https://tiermaker.com/create/dumbing-of-age-relationship-tier-list-1004807
Let me know if I’m forgetting any major ones.
https://imgur.com/a/2CS83ld
Here’s mine. Share yours too 😀
Can anyone else see yoto’s tierlist? Cause I can’t for some reason. Also disappointed there’s no garbage tier so I can put Leslie x that awful negging dentist lady in the dumpster where it belongs.
I can’t see it, either.
I did place the relationships in their right and proper places, tho.
https://x.com/cbwroses/status/1784082156546929009?s=61
Oooh nice. Two Walky ships in the top tiers.
I won’t say I’m not biased, but they are two of the better romantic pairings (while they lasted), and they are the two I cared most about.
Me neither.
BTW, Yotomoe, thanks for picking up PokemonGO again! I swear I will open your gift eventually (I am a weirdo who likes saving Postcards and need room for more)
Haha I must’ve friended you at some point in the previous years 😛 Glad to be of service. My friend got me back into the game.
Yeah, it was a few years ago when Amber was making some PokemonGO jokes or some such and a bunch of folks here traded friend codes around in the comment section
Do Tell. I could use more friends in PokemonGO.
I can. I ranked it ‘Fave’ ‘Good’ ‘Like it’, ‘It’s fine but we don’t see enough of them/clearly just a one or two off’ and ‘Dislike’.
You can rename the Tiers yourself y’know.
https://i.imgur.com/q4bBsKg.png
Does this work?
Yes
New one is working.
i’ve never done this before so it will be interesting to see if this link works.
https://imgur.com/a/KvDIQKo
Weird: your works here; Yoto’s doesn’t.
Also, after looking at NoScript’s list for each: that is a boatload of hidden script sites.
Yoto’s first didn’t.
I think your tierlist is almost exactly the same as mine would be
heeeeeres mine
https://twitter.com/NGPZ_dev/status/1784078490532458584
Thank you very much. I don’t think you’re forgetting anything, but it’d be neat to put the parents in there too if you want!
I considered it but honestly outside of Amber’s mom and Joe’s dad most of the parents are just…with their spouses. ie. not very interesting or engaging.
Fair! Intention was to just rate them as a couple is all. I do enjoy the mix and match of this list, so I suppose they wouldn’t fit in.
Technically, Amber’s mom and Joe’s dad are also with their spouses! …. Now.
If you wanna be really detailed then you forgot Penny hooked up with Joe regularly. I think that qualifies for this if Joe and Roz or Joe and Malaya does. For those who don’t remember Penny was the other british RA. She had red hair and was somehow worse than Jason and got him justifiably fired for the lols.
DAMN Yeah. Penny would’ve qualified.
Plus she’s kinda hot.
English accent, green eyes, red hair, certainly.
But she’s a garbage person, even not considering she slept with a student.
So, like Candy at GWS.
I find Candy very hot too. I like garbage.
This one’s not half as bad as the other universe’s, who was a straight-up psychopath.
In other news, I recognized the right half of your gravatar several seconds before the left half, and had a moment of, “Wait, is Ellen macking on Danny?I?”
Heh. No, Jamie is sitting down in this shot, so his extreme height is not visible.
It’s part of a GIF I cobbled together from three very important panels. See https://imgur.com/a/nCOLsYO
Don’t forget the changes going on in Joyce’s family
Hope mine comes through, I also can’t see Yoto’s.
https://imgur.com/a/C2Ukq9o
Had to add a couple tiers because S isn’t high enough for Dinasaurus Becks and D isn’t low enough for anything involving Mary or Raidah.
Some relationships could be rated much higher if they get shown more/improve or plummet if they go sour. And yes I rated Dorothy/Joyce and Joe/Joyce at the same level. Joyce has two hands I tell you, two
Dina x Becky always P-rank ^^
People may disagree on S- and A-tier and the like, but everyone has put Jacob and Raidah in ‘D’
Huh. I did place them in D tier.
I didn’t put Jacob and Raidah in D.
I made a separate A tier for them and Mary/Peter so Ethan/Mike wouldn’t be tainted by the association.
F tier damn it. Not sure why I typed A.
yeh me too 😀
(and the two involving shamshobble j. englishboy, particularly when he was a TA because fuck that)
Welp, took a stab at it myself:
https://imgur.com/a/hGgtdwJ
You might be the only personother than me who didn’t put Mary and Peter in bottom tier haha.
At least Mary and Peter like each other and seemingly aren’t toxic. We don’t have to enjoy, but at least they do.
Well, not toxic to each other anyway.
I don’t know… he did not seem comfortable with his Halloween assignments, and she seemed fine with his discomfort.
I actually separated the tiers by how much I like the relationships, not whether or not they were good relationships.
So S is I hope they never break up/wish they never broke up.
A is I’m rooting for you.
B is there are issues, but I like y’all.
C is for relationships I don’t care about one way or the other.
And D is for those I do not like together.
Mary and Peter support each other in their religious attitudes, which is why I don’t like them together; otherwise, they seem pretty good together.
Mary and Peter are so awful and upset everybody around them so much that it makes them a blast to watch.
Basically, I base my ship ratings entirely on how much entertainment value they provide me.
Here’s one from me.
https://imgur.com/a/d8YRkvx
Probably should have put Mary/Whatshisface in toxic tier because of how toxic they are for everyone around them, come to think of it.
Jennifer+Danny
Jennifer+Walky
Danny+Dorothy
Probably reasonable not to include Ethan+Amber and Ethan+Joyce. Or Faz + the world.
and of course any future pairing(s) with Arnold that would need like a crystal space tier below which all other tiers would fade.
Jennifer + Danny
I considered it, since I kept a lotta hookups. But that one was pretty uneventful. Granted I guess I could say the same for Joe and Liz but that one at least felt like it had…Narrative weight? I dunno if anything really…came of The Billie/Danny almost hookup.
Jennifer + Walky
For OBVIOUS reasons I wanted to include it. But despite Joyce shipping it there’s not really a lot of evidence in-universe of them liking each other. I’d love to be proven wrong. For similar reasons I didn’t count Billie and Sal despite the fact that she literally tried to drunkenly kiss her.
Danny+Dorothy
I truly truly forgot about that. Not sure if I’ll include since they break up so quickly but then again it is a legit pairing and has more reason than some of the others I chose.
Was there a Carla and Malaya? I know they’re friends but did anything happen?
That one is a bit of a stretch. It definitely felt like Carla was harboring some sorta flame for Malaya. Of course it could just be bias due to their relationship in Shortpacked, but I figured it was notable to include here.
She did say Malaya was attractive. And I can understand the desire to include more Carla.
Ethan’s however many hookups and almost hookups, they’d be in the same “meh” tier as Joe’s hookups.
got mine:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/180dedfa0ab086fe332b52f6fb15b452/a2efac695f739563-27/s2048x3072/0a4d9994cdd5437b24e9c36aa6f7a8a56c819995.pnj
Originally I had nothing in the S tier, but I moved Becky and Dina up. Joeyce and Carla/Charlie (Charla? Carlie?) are in A because I like both but want to see more before committing to S (whereas even if Dina/Becky goes sour it definitely has been S tier).
B Tier I like/liked, C tier I’m pretty much neutral on, and D is mostly a collection of shitty situations
Forgot to say, but I really like the images you chose for each ship
Haha thank you! I searched the tags to find the best representative pictures. Some of which I already had in mind and some I was grasping at straws to find a picture of them together.
-I knew I had to do Ethan and Danny on the Grass
-I KNEW I had to do the first Ruth/Billie Kiss for them too.
-Joyce and Joe had a million examples but eating lunch holding hands was pretty perfect.
-Becky Dina also had a lot but that one looked cute and sparkly.
-I had forgotten about the Lucy shirt lick and…if you were gonna convince me of that ship, that’s the scene that would do it.
-I was gonna do Walky and Amber on the roof, but goddamn them chilling in the room is RELATIONSHIP GOALS.
-That picture of the polycule is like…the only picture I could find of Sierra, Grace and Mandy in the same frame at the same time.
I’m not sure my imgur upload is working but here goes: https://imgur.com/a/zTAvK8S
They mostly got put in the “No” tier. I am more negative than I realized.
It’s not showing up for me.
Let’s try from the laptop: https://imgur.com/a/aVBbDPe
Haha nice.
Also yeah, Leslie’s dating life can be a bit forgettable.
Yeah, may as well.
https://imgchest.com/p/9249a5bpb7n
Wow. Really high showing for Mary and Peter. Also is that like…a hateship of Becky against Dorothy?
Since you went through the effort I wanna ask what got ya into Dina and Ruth?
Mary and Peter skeezing out the rest of the dorm is Peak Content, I’m always here for it. Becky 🚫 Dorothy is also very funny to me, because Dorothy just seems a little confused about it still and puts up with it. Dina/Ruth is pretty much a Reese’s Cup ship for me. I like both of them separately, so why not combine them into one tasty little treat?
That’s exactly why I love Mary and Peter. It’s fun seeing pure christian girl Mary THAT hot and bothered for someone. Girl is thirsty.
Hehe if I was gonna include crackships I definitely woulda thrown Walky/Billie in there. Or several of my polyships for situations where I like 2-3 characters equally and can’t choose.
As hot and bothered as she is she’s definitely made use of the loop hole.
https://bolha.photos/i/web/post/689753254541872682, Please, don’t judge me. 🥺🥺🥺
…Judging you a LITTLE BIT, I’m not gonna lie.
Might be the highest I’ve ever seen Jacob and Joyce!They were kinda cute, weren’t they?
Thing I disliked most about how that whole thing went down is how it torpedo’d any chance of them working. I think they would have been good together.
here y’go!
(if that doesn’t work right you can try here I guess?
All gay Top-tier <3
Obviously 😀
https://imgur.com/a/C1GM8DL
There’s mine, with explanations
Ooooh Explanations!!! I should’ve done explanations.
I really dig seeing your reasoning for why every ship made it to the tier it was on. Also yeah I said it earlier but Leslie’s relationships are a bit forgettable. I think we last saw them in like…2017.
https://twitter.com/Bala_Niranna/status/1784244062083571860?s=19
changed the tier names for better clarity on my thought process. Amber/mazi x Danny got moved around a lot bc they had cute as hell chemistry (moreso with amber imo) and I shipped it hard back in the day, but they treated him terribly
Ethan out here just gaming the system by being cute.
Cute and hot. Much like then entirety of zutara he’s coasting off of pure vibes and fantasy
Turns out I can be fussy about ships. https://i.imgur.com/8lvrIln.png
Okay, here’s mine.
https://i.imgur.com/GjfKPj6.png
It’s mostly impulsive based on how well I think the characters work with each other, and a little biased based on how much I like them individually. Becky/Joyce is only D tier because that pairing feels kinda incestuous.
The chart’s resemblance to a hand gesture is purely coincidental.
Same S-tiers club!
Ah Joyce, finally reaching that age where you blink in and out of reality.
All girls do. It coincides with needing to pee a lot.
I especially like the one where she is holding his hand.
i like the sequence – holding arm muscle, holding hand, holding arm muscle
Dorothy did say something about Joyce needing to get some water in her; it’s also probably Joyce’s first time getting drunk and she probably got sick.
So my guess is that the intervals are about both puking and peeing.
As I said, she WOULD be visiting the litterbox.
i am so impressed by joe sleeping in the same position all damn night. man hasn’t moved a MUSCLE.
moving that much muscle takes EFFORT sir/ma’am/both/neither
To our knowledge Dorothy and Joyce had one well drink each and five shots split between two people. I highly doubt they’re puking from just that. Wouldn’t be surprised if they spent all night pissing like racehorses though, especially if Dorothy called for that pitcher of water like she suggested.
Wouldn’t puking be closer in time to the drinking too. They got back before midnight, the sun’s rising around 8 am.
Once you hit a certain age this becomes every night.
“‘intervals’ sounds like some high school poetry anthology title”
Don’t sell yourself short Willis, it also sounds like a perfectly viable Taylor Swift album name
It’s cute that he wakes up every time she gets up.
She’s fine Joe, I’m sure.
His expression strikes me more as “Oh no, she’s gone. Now I am without cuddles. Was I dreaming?”
Pretty much same here.
I think he’s not consciously aware of her intermittent presence, and wondering why he keeps waking up.
Yeah, that panel 3 is definitely “Something’s missing. I don’t know what but it was good”
I’m starting to think that this is an issue with Joyce’s whole deal? Like, she *wants* to sleep with him (in both meanings), but the moment she starts to feel him wake up she scampers off, only to come back.
WHY IS THE SITE SO SLOW OMG CHUG
It’s always like this on mobile so I didn’t even notice.
Heh, it’s been a hot minute since ya posted here as Jen Aside, nice ^^
This is me, getting up every couple of hours to pee.
Hopefully, just peeing, and not vomitting!
I laugh knowing this would absolutely be me if I had a fundie upbringing
did she get it up to pee several times or what?
Yes
Does Joyce not exist?
Joyce has been dead for 20 years.
closeup of four hands writing book report
*look of horrified, dawning realization* JOYCE IS MI-
*screams*
🥺🥺
Alcohol does do that. We just came back from our wedding anniversary where my wife could drink as much as she wanted, she asked me to stop three times in an hour.
She IS a cat!
A, the post-boozer pee fest.
Wee few, wee happy few, we band of pissers….
😆💕
am going to be 60 this year
still not at this stage
–Dave, partly because getting up out of my cot & unwinding myself from my blankets both require actual effort, so once i’m up, i’m generally up
For real, or for poetics?
real cot, real blankets. real alarm clock placed past foot of bed, so as to require either getting up off cot, or waiting it out for an hour, to turn it off
🎵 Is this the real liiife 🎵 Is it just fantasyyy 🎵
Like a cat.
Oh God my phone was zoomed in funny so it cut off the final panel, it looked liked Joe woke up in the rosy light of dawn alone and wondering if it was a dream.
I’m glad there was another panel.
Also, hang on, did she seriously at no point turn around and bury her face in the pecs?
Is this the same night, or are we seeing a weekly time skip?
Looks like it’s progressing a few hours til daybreak
She went to pee 2 times?? I mean same, but I’m pretty sure that’s also not good when it’s me.
Oh nice gravatar :> I was wondering who I was gonna get.
Maybe pee, maybe barf, she drank quite a bit after all
Joe is misbehaving somehow, I just know it.
He’s unintentionally and unwittingly taking a page from Becky’s upbringing and applying a wooden spoon to Joyce.
She seems to be into it.
… sir
Layers
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.
The Dorothy avatar is appropriate.
“A” for effort, Joyce.
Argh ! the sun ! it burns it buuurrrrrns
…Shrödinger’s Joyce
Phenomenal cosmic liquids!
(itty bitty bladder space)
the spoonening
tbf, today’s comic is a very high school poetry anthology kind of strip.
Clearly the lighting today is saying Joyce and Joe are bi
… in which Joe is startled to discover that Joyce is not in fact a cat, but rather a blink dog.
How is she getting out of that bed without waking him? like it has a ladder but still
(as someone who already has a tiny bladder i feel this, glad i have my bed close to the bathroom for drunken nights)
I really dig the passage of time being shown by the daybreak lighting.
(Or it’s a bi flag. But probably it’s the first one.)
Joyce: gets up to go pee
Joe: why do i feel like someone just left my bed? i don’t remember sleeping with someone. (falls back asleep)
Joyce: returns to bed and they sleep happily.
Joyce: gets up to go pee
Joe: Seriously, why does my bed feel emptier than before? I didn’t go to bed with anyone!
Poor man is being gaslit by his own girlfriend’s micturitions.
She’s getting out of bed to go fart in Danny’s bed.
She’s either getting up to pee, or she’s getting up to… “go do laundry”. It might be peeing, but I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone else suggesting she might be “doing laundry”
That is exactly what I thought at first, this is a girl who was that aroused from casual touches. But I’m pretty sure she would also have to pee a lot after a night of drinking.
Just had a dream where there was a new strip that doesn’t exist. In this strip, Danny was walking to Sal’s dorm, watching a YouTube Poop on his phone, and Mandy was walking by, looking weirded out and sorta disgusted(?). And he’s just minding his own business but the phone has a little speech bubble with complete fucking nonsense, like “Youoy gotta SuS the diiiiiii, the FUF, a real rear, SAYAS” or whatever and he doesn’t notice he’s getting weird looks.
Anyway, then I woke up and I’m mad it’s not real.
My arms would complain if I mimic Joyce’s arms in panel 1. Look at those elbows!!
Yet she always sleeps facing away from Joe.
Is that how DoA Mike slept with Ethan and Amber?