As it turns out, and much to Dina’s profuse confusion and frustration, the Anchiornis was the Library’s librarian (as per the librarian outfit and ID card on said outfit) didn’t have feathers and was scaled like a lizard (as per the employee photo on the ID card), and was human-sized height-wise (all the skeletons we’ve found up until now were just juveniles or hatchlings).
Mary and Velociraptor (an actual velociraptor – whom looks exactly like the ones from Jurassic Park, much to Dina’s unending frustration – that goes by the name Velociraptor, whom Dina and Charlie find in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon working as a gardener, as mentioned by Doctor_Who earlier).
She’s at least learning to jump to that inclusion, which I wouldn’t recommend for most people, but…Joyce may need that instinct baked into her thinking, at least for a few years, until she’s used to not instinctually devouring her own feet.
Sort of? This whole thing strikes me as not entirely unlike when she she dumped Ethan — not the fact she did just how over the top she went with it — crossed with a side order of when she met Booster (https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/uses/) and didn’t understand about pronouns and wanted to make up for it.
Plus, you know, a lot of other Joyce moments.
It’s possible getting diagnosed as potentially autistic has led her to at least ask the question a lot earlier than she would have otherwise. As well as maybe overcompensating for lots of her previous… less ideal reactions except in the other direction. Or mayve just provided her with a way to phrase the question.
You know, like privileged people who suddenly find out about the concept of privilege and start acknowledging it every three seconds even when it’s really, really not necessary.
(This may have got away from me, I’m not entirely sober.)
Well, at least Sarah is being nicer about it than she would’ve been (although she is fairly kind to joyce either way) as opposed to her gloating/mocking if it was someone else making such a huge social faux pas
it’s quite possible that this may be a set-up for somethin we least expect
remember in Trial-and-Sarah? it ain’t no coincidence that Liz was getting picked up (Sarah along for the ride), Joyce had her shark week, etc, which just so happened to leave a lot of room for Dina and Becky to do SCIENCE
similarly, them homies splitting up and spreadin far apart may very well be settin the stage up for somethin HUGE
@NGPZ well, hopefully it’s not leading to a breakup tho with “love dares you to change” i would hope it’d be a step forward in a positive way for some ppl’s relationships
No.
IMPROVEMENT is positive.
If I enter my study to discover I now need dry socks because there’s water on the floor and the solid oak floorboards have deformed, that’s “change”, because the floor was previously bone-dry and in excellent condition.
Well, it is a little odd Dina wouldn’t respond to becky’s texts if not a specific ringtone
Unless her phone’s at their room or so versus her and Charlie being in the middle of ‘vault hijinks’ to where she couldn’t respond/no signal lol
Tho it’s probably more so becky’s insecurity possibly being jealous as opposed to thinking “oh no they’re in trouble” even tho carla has concerns about their “combined traits” or so
Conceivably, she’s been there at least one semester. She’s still alive, still enrolled, and (seemingly) still doing well. I’m guessing the various accommodations and supports she has had so far (Booster, university, instructors, roommate [does she have one?], etc) have been enough to help her stay successful so far in her college life.
The problem some have here is that the characterization we’re shown of her doesn’t fit with that background story. She doesn’t know where she is most of the time. She gets distracted in the hall outside class thinking about something else and doesn’t bother going in. We’ve never seen any accommodations or supports.
Pretty sure Dorothy would just rather hang out with Joyce and Sarah over Becky and Carla, if it weren’t so clearly the inefficient option. Which, fair. If there are two characters I would LEAST want to be around irl, it’s Becky and Carla.
She’d definitely rather hang out with Joyce and Sarah, but it’s a pretty big step for her that she realises she doesn’t NEED to — Joyce’s social-whatever can be sorted out without her being the Mom Friend.
Becky’s worry makes a lot of sense to me, since she’s lost both her parents. After I lost my mom, anytime I came home and my cousin and her son were NOT home, and I did NOT anticipate that they’d be gone, I would start to worry and freak out a bit. Definitely an overreaction, because clearly my cousins were always fine, but after that death my first thought would be “oh god, oh no, where are they, are they dead”.
You know what, I’m proud of Sarah here. Not only is she forcing herself to cope, she actually provided a useful suggestion to get Joyce to stop digging herself into an ever-deepening hole.
She may well find that the difficulty of keeping it up is lesser than the difficulties she was bringing on herself by being a fuckin’ b-hole all the time.
When you’re just self-conscious enough to know you do the awkward, stupid thing, but not self-conscious enough to stop yourself as a preventive measure.
jump-cut to Dina and Charlie
who have located the Library of Alexandria
and a new specimen of Anchiornis that they name lizbian
Dina: “How did we get to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?”
Charlie: “We’re in a garden?”
As it turns out, and much to Dina’s profuse confusion and frustration, the Anchiornis was the Library’s librarian (as per the librarian outfit and ID card on said outfit) didn’t have feathers and was scaled like a lizard (as per the employee photo on the ID card), and was human-sized height-wise (all the skeletons we’ve found up until now were just juveniles or hatchlings).
Not sure how I feel about a librarian who isn’t an orangutan. (Ook)
My mind was going there too.
Either an orangutan (Discworld series) or a Cheshire cat (Thursday Next series).
jump-cut to Dina and Charlie
They are watching one of Gris Wrestling matches while sitting on Davans and Rorys shoulders.
Technically, if one navigates through space, then one navigates through spacetime.
If DC is Dina-Charlie, who’s Marvel?
Mary, and an as of yet unintroduced character. Up to you how cursed this pairing might be.
Yeah, I wracked my brain and I couldn’t think of any characters with a V in their name.
Well, Amazigirl is marvelous.
Mary and Vella.
Close. Mary takes up with a member of the Scooby gang.
…who is a confirmed lesbian.
Mary and Velociraptor (an actual velociraptor – whom looks exactly like the ones from Jurassic Park, much to Dina’s unending frustration – that goes by the name Velociraptor, whom Dina and Charlie find in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon working as a gardener, as mentioned by Doctor_Who earlier).
I *do* believe JP Velociraptors are confirmed lesbians as well, due to their frog DNA, which makes them lesbifibians.
I approve of this ship, since it will result in Mary’s permanent absence from the comic.
Marcie and Sal
Dark Horse, meanwhile, will have to be made up of Dorothy and Hank. Which definitely qualifies as a dark horse pairing.
“How Dorothy became the literal mom friend”
You win, but I’m gonna play anyway.
Image is just Linda Walkerton.
Does this mean Joyce recognizes she was being inappropriate?
She’s at least learning to jump to that inclusion, which I wouldn’t recommend for most people, but…Joyce may need that instinct baked into her thinking, at least for a few years, until she’s used to not instinctually devouring her own feet.
Learning to jump to that conclusion is truly part of the autistic experience 🙃
(At least the afab enby/girl autistic experience)
If jumping to conclusions were in any way actually calisthenic, I would have the endurance of marathon runners.
If i was joyce i’d prolly assume it’d be inappropriate 80% of the time although hopefully she’ll be able to have a better convo with jocelyne
Sort of? This whole thing strikes me as not entirely unlike when she she dumped Ethan — not the fact she did just how over the top she went with it — crossed with a side order of when she met Booster (https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/uses/) and didn’t understand about pronouns and wanted to make up for it.
Plus, you know, a lot of other Joyce moments.
It’s possible getting diagnosed as potentially autistic has led her to at least ask the question a lot earlier than she would have otherwise. As well as maybe overcompensating for lots of her previous… less ideal reactions except in the other direction. Or mayve just provided her with a way to phrase the question.
You know, like privileged people who suddenly find out about the concept of privilege and start acknowledging it every three seconds even when it’s really, really not necessary.
(This may have got away from me, I’m not entirely sober.)
-…Am I acting poorly?
– You are acting according to expectations.
– Oh, NO.
Perfection.
I am pleased/saddened/entertained that Joyce understands that that is a negative thing. Good job Willis, you did good.
Well, at least Sarah is being nicer about it than she would’ve been (although she is fairly kind to joyce either way) as opposed to her gloating/mocking if it was someone else making such a huge social faux pas
Yes, this dialogue was flawless
I mean. Dina and Charlie are fully capable young women. Is it possible this is a bit of an overreaction?
What could go wrong?
Four words. An ancient incantation of four words. And the universe (a brat) loves hearing them.
Yes.
it’s quite possible that this may be a set-up for somethin we least expect
remember in Trial-and-Sarah? it ain’t no coincidence that Liz was getting picked up (Sarah along for the ride), Joyce had her shark week, etc, which just so happened to leave a lot of room for Dina and Becky to do SCIENCE
similarly, them homies splitting up and spreadin far apart may very well be settin the stage up for somethin HUGE
(munches popcorn)
Other Rachel is about to commit arson.
@NGPZ well, hopefully it’s not leading to a breakup tho with “love dares you to change” i would hope it’d be a step forward in a positive way for some ppl’s relationships
“Change”, I would think, is positive.
No.
IMPROVEMENT is positive.
If I enter my study to discover I now need dry socks because there’s water on the floor and the solid oak floorboards have deformed, that’s “change”, because the floor was previously bone-dry and in excellent condition.
And trust me, it is not positive.
That…is an oddly specific example of negative change. Did such an event occur recently in your experience? :O
(if so, sympathies! i’ve had a wood floor go to warp drive due to flooding also)
“Let’s split up, gang!” is just one of the things you’re obligated to do in the third act when you’re solving a mystery as a group.
Good results when you’re in a Scooby Doo gang.
Bad results when you’re in a D&D party.
I really do think Becky’s freaking out because of the kidnapping. Carla I think is just thinking of their endless capacity for hijinks.
Well, it is a little odd Dina wouldn’t respond to becky’s texts if not a specific ringtone
Unless her phone’s at their room or so versus her and Charlie being in the middle of ‘vault hijinks’ to where she couldn’t respond/no signal lol
Tho it’s probably more so becky’s insecurity possibly being jealous as opposed to thinking “oh no they’re in trouble” even tho carla has concerns about their “combined traits” or so
Dina, maybe, but Charlie seems like she wouldn’t know where her own feet were unless you stuck her head in a vice and drew her a map
Or, you could put an iguana (or similarly weighted hat) on her head.
what makes you think Charlie is a fully capable person? She can’t walk to her own dorm room without getting lost
Conceivably, she’s been there at least one semester. She’s still alive, still enrolled, and (seemingly) still doing well. I’m guessing the various accommodations and supports she has had so far (Booster, university, instructors, roommate [does she have one?], etc) have been enough to help her stay successful so far in her college life.
The problem some have here is that the characterization we’re shown of her doesn’t fit with that background story. She doesn’t know where she is most of the time. She gets distracted in the hall outside class thinking about something else and doesn’t bother going in. We’ve never seen any accommodations or supports.
Sarah is going to have a stroke by the end of the day if she keeps this up.
I felt a little guilty at laughing at this, but that *SNAP* is going to be spectacular!
Don’t worry, Dorothy, her big sister’s got this.
Pretty sure Dorothy would just rather hang out with Joyce and Sarah over Becky and Carla, if it weren’t so clearly the inefficient option. Which, fair. If there are two characters I would LEAST want to be around irl, it’s Becky and Carla.
Which is why they need Dorothy.
She’d definitely rather hang out with Joyce and Sarah, but it’s a pretty big step for her that she realises she doesn’t NEED to — Joyce’s social-whatever can be sorted out without her being the Mom Friend.
Dotty, I see you checkin’ out Becky’s ass. Not even trying to be subtle about it.
Becky’s worry makes a lot of sense to me, since she’s lost both her parents. After I lost my mom, anytime I came home and my cousin and her son were NOT home, and I did NOT anticipate that they’d be gone, I would start to worry and freak out a bit. Definitely an overreaction, because clearly my cousins were always fine, but after that death my first thought would be “oh god, oh no, where are they, are they dead”.
Oooh yeah. I had the same reaction post paternal abandonment. If someone was running late I would immediately jump to the worst possible explanation.
Point did the self awareness to Joyce. As late as it is.
You know what, I’m proud of Sarah here. Not only is she forcing herself to cope, she actually provided a useful suggestion to get Joyce to stop digging herself into an ever-deepening hole.
Agreed, I’ve been down in Sarah for a long time but this is good, hopefully she’ll keep it up
She will under no circumstances keep it up.
She may well find that the difficulty of keeping it up is lesser than the difficulties she was bringing on herself by being a fuckin’ b-hole all the time.
That’s probably the most polite way to say you don’t want to be associated with someone I’ve seen.
“Oh no!”
“Oh no!”
“Oh no!”
She’s at least learning to let go a little.
Me searching the backgrounds for arrows or silhouettes indicating that they are literally right over there… possibly as timeless ghost beings.
Oh hey. Joyce is me in this strip.
Damn Sarah, that was the smoothest way to say “You are up to your usual nonsense” I have ever seen.
How many people does it take to search a Dorm Room
2 people to look
1-5+ to be there to “help” but actually hinder
Panel 2 Joyce is very relatable.
When you’re just self-conscious enough to know you do the awkward, stupid thing, but not self-conscious enough to stop yourself as a preventive measure.
“I’m not even visible to them, am I ?” — Dorothy