Plausible deniability. It was just a joke between friends. Really good friends. Really good friends who go horseback riding together. This weekend? Just the two of us? Alone? Oh, sure, Joe can tag along; there’s an area he can just kick back and watch.
JOE: This is going to sound pretty wild. Somehow, we’ve entered what seems to be a temporal causality loop. We think we’re stuck in a particular fragment in time, and we’ve been repeating that same fragment over and over again.
JOYCE: Is this what’s causing our déjà vu?
JOE: Yes, but it’s more than that. In déjà vu, you only think you’re repeating events. We actually are. Every time the loop begins again, everything resets itself, and starts all over. We don’t remember anything that happened before, so each time through the loop, we think it’s the first.
JOYCE: You mean we could have come into this room and had hanky-panky a dozen times already?
JOE: A dozen, a billion, it’s impossible to tell.
You know what, Intended this to be a joke but I don’t know what scarier that fact that it’s not funny at all or that it’s to real on the account of the different politicians I can name the fit this description.
Yeah, not a smart move. Both of them have boyfriends and that Joyce will not likely find this manner of friendly tease, assuming that is what this is, funny. However, even ignoring those facts, I was thought that one should never put that kind of image of yourself out into the cloud forever. That it is dangerous.
Dotty is far smarter than this. Which is why I wonder if she is not thinking with her brain.
I don’t think even an actively malicious agent getting ahold of a closeup of cleavage can do much harm with it, and we have no reason to think Dorothy has any enemies
In different ways and times, Joyce has called Carla, Jocelyne, and Sarah her sister. She has not called Dorothy her sister. So clearly the two are the goodest of gal pals.
look I’ll put Dorothy’s face on in-game coins for whatever that’s worth
but as much a monumental novelty a lady POTUS would be, there are MUCH better ways Dorothy could and SHOULD be helping people than via our broke-ass government
hell even the tradition that there has to be a SINGLE person with all that power representing our massive diverse population is still part of the problem
The ship needs a figurehead – it doesn’t necessarily do much of anything, but it represents the ship, and when things go right, it gets to take the credit for leading the ship to success, and when things go wrong, we blame it for failings that are really the fault of the crew and/or the ship’s passengers.
It’s really hard to think of better ways to help people than by running the government. Easier ways to start certainly, but not more effective if you manage to get there.
And even if a single person having all that power is part of the problem that doesn’t change the fact that it’s how we’re set up now, so someone is going to have that position and thus who that person is remains critically important.
Unless you’re asking for unarmed combat tips or tips on certain games asking Amber for advice is a bad idea. At least with Amazi-girl you know she won’t tell you to do anything illegal or unethical. Other than engaging in vigilantism.
lol omg Dorothy, chaos monkey won that round. Why not, what the American people want in a president is a felon, an adulterer, an instigator, an inciter of violence, a guy who can’t finish a sentence. Dorothy should start a crime spree and rip people off with crypto or meme stocks to get filthy rich. That’s how you become president now. Just buy the election.
That it is time for new conflicts to be generated for Joyce, so I agree, I mean, things have been going too well lately.
But hey, I didn’t want Dorothy to be involved, yes, I know that no one is saved in this comic, but the girl is getting out of one problem and getting into another.
Please don’t let this go in a direction that breaks up Joyce and Joe… Please don’t let this go in a direction that breaks up Joyce and Joe…
Like, yesterday I was all for Dorothy doing this. And I’d love the fanfiction version of all this where Joyce has her boyfriend Joe and her friends with benefits Dorothy. But I think Joe might need a monogomous relationship right now (this is his first rodeo with romance instead of sex). And I have trouble seeing Joyce being ready for a non-fairy tale version of romance where who you’re with and what the boundaries are requires a flowchart. And who the fuck know what the fuck Walky would make of this!
All I know is that, yesterday, I wanted this. But the moment Dorothy sent the pic, I got scared.
I really hope this isn’t how Willis is planning to break our hearts and break up Joe and Joyce.
I’m disappointed, Dotty is usually the kind of person to go out of her way to do something properly, but she’s just making the same amateur mistakes as Joyce.
You:
1. Set the timer cam
2. Hold the phone in your teeth, pointing down
3. Use *both* hands to hold open your collar properly
4. Lean towards the nearest light source
I honestly believe that the confusion and embarassment this causes (remember, Joyce still doesn’t actually know she’s been sending the pics to Dorothy) will delay any possible lesbians by at least a month. Their time.
Well done Dorothy! Great Amber with her advice. Now let’s see if it ends here, with some laughter and a little embarrassment, or will continue with other photos.
In my very personal opinion that isn’t meant to upset anyone I just don’t like her but she’s fictional so that’s fine please don’t be mad at me I’m very sensitive
You know, the funny outcome would be Joyce and Dorothy starting a secret texting relationship like the one she and Joe had before but with naughty pictures.
Joyce and Joe are likely closer together in Dorothy’s contacts than Joe and Dorothy are in Joyce’s. This both opens the door to hilarity and some questions about how Joyce managed that while still texting Joe.
We had the answer to this in a previous comment section (I’m not going hunting) essentially Dorothy is saved in Joyce’s phone as something closer to Joe’s name. I can’t remember what it was, but we’ve seen it on screen before.
So if we want to theory-craft a little, Jennifer Billingsworth or Sarah Clinton could be next to Joyce Brown on Dorothy’s contact list. That is, if Dorothy actually does make the same mistake.
I think one thing to consider re silly jokes like that, is time elapsed. If it’s within a few minutes as a joke it’s a lot less weird than if you do it 2 days later.
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“WHAT’S ONE MORE BAD DECISION”
Amber always gives the best advice.
I mean she outright admitted she gives awful advice, and then Dorothy took it.
Feel like Dorothy went to Amber and then pushed her to basically get this advice 😛
Plausible deniability. It was just a joke between friends. Really good friends. Really good friends who go horseback riding together. This weekend? Just the two of us? Alone? Oh, sure, Joe can tag along; there’s an area he can just kick back and watch.
“Really good friends who go washing-machine riding together.”
There, fixed it for you.
“Maytag Gal Pals”
Amber might have ulterior motives. Her expressions speak.
One, more or less.
So, who will it be funniest for Dorothy to accidentally send that to?
Ruth
<–
Joe, who assumes it’s the photo Joyce said she sent him.
“Well, you got more freckles and smaller boobs, that’s normal.”
Don’t know if we can call Joe a connoisseur of breasts, but surely he can tell the difference between Joyce’s and Dotty’s pendulous parts at a glance.
Just sayin’ but neither one is anywhere near “pendulous” yet. Dorothy is decades away from that.
Might depend on the amount of blur.
I was going to say Danny, but on second thought let’s make it Becky.
Yes, especially if Dorothy makes it explicitly clear it’s for Joyce
Jenifer.
Or Daisy.
+1.
Definitely Daisy.
Becky, who naturally interprets it as some kind of 5 dimensional chess power-play
This made me laugh.
“You win this round Dorothy”
*meanwhile Dorothy is crying over her feelings for Joyce*
no no, Amber is round, Dorothy is a skinny poindexter.
Damn
You win this turn PirateTawnee
A 5 dimensional CHEST power-play, if you will.
Yes, I do believe I will 😀
*applauds
Booster.
Her parents.
Amber.
Joyce’s Dad
If this was still Shortpacked?
Batman.
Amber’s phone buzzes, because she shares it with Amazi-Girl and she’s about as close as there is to a Batman in the Dumbiverse.
Prf. Brook
Groupchat with Joyce and Joe with a text that makes it clear that CCing Joe was an accident.
Carla
Head of the college newspaper.
Daisy?
Danny.
Or
Walkie.
WE’LL GET GAY YET FELLAS
Hooray!
Purposefully gay. As opposed to the accidental/plausible deniability gay that has gayed(1) so far.
(1) gayed like bayed? gaid like said?
Amber’s power is enviable!
Trash Goblin Power, MAKE UP!!!! XD
She played it magnificently and is truly the queen of trash goblins 😀
Even Amazigirl doesn’t have this kind of power.
Amber is the Mistress of the Tropes. The Tropestress.
alas, another scandal to beset the Keener Campaign forty years hence
All is proceeding as Mike has forseen.
So when is Joe going to grow a billion dicks?
Well, not till Joyce snaps.
Cause and effect?
Emergent temporal coherence.
Events which are not temporally coherent wind up in different parts of Hilbert Space.
Cause and Effect, you say…
JOE: This is going to sound pretty wild. Somehow, we’ve entered what seems to be a temporal causality loop. We think we’re stuck in a particular fragment in time, and we’ve been repeating that same fragment over and over again.
JOYCE: Is this what’s causing our déjà vu?
JOE: Yes, but it’s more than that. In déjà vu, you only think you’re repeating events. We actually are. Every time the loop begins again, everything resets itself, and starts all over. We don’t remember anything that happened before, so each time through the loop, we think it’s the first.
JOYCE: You mean we could have come into this room and had hanky-panky a dozen times already?
JOE: A dozen, a billion, it’s impossible to tell.
At least it’s not a collapsing warp bubble.
Hopefully with no groundhog nearby. Or stargate.
It’s really going to undermine morale in warband on the march
Meanwhile her opposition will have a long list of underage individuals that they’ve dated and passed around and no one will bat an eye.
You know what, Intended this to be a joke but I don’t know what scarier that fact that it’s not funny at all or that it’s to real on the account of the different politicians I can name the fit this description.
It is way too real on so many accounts, unfortunately.
It’s like that claymation pirate meme.
” Well, XD, but also D: “
“Hey, what do you think of my bra?”
“It’s cute! What about mine?”
are you serious dotty
I mean by the looks of it her bra is still covering her breast…
bust still, LOL XD
You thought Dorothy would immediately ignore Amazi-Girl’s warning not to put anything online she wouldn’t want discovered? She’s not that far gone.
Yeah, you gotta keep still when doing the pix…the phone cams blur out too easily.
She’s very dotty, but don’t call her Serious.
Seriously taking photos fof where the dots are most concentrated.
Shirley she can’t be Serious?
Yeah, not a smart move. Both of them have boyfriends and that Joyce will not likely find this manner of friendly tease, assuming that is what this is, funny. However, even ignoring those facts, I was thought that one should never put that kind of image of yourself out into the cloud forever. That it is dangerous.
Dotty is far smarter than this. Which is why I wonder if she is not thinking with her brain.
Dotty hasn’t been thinking with (only) her brain, regarding Joyce, for some time now.
I don’t think even an actively malicious agent getting ahold of a closeup of cleavage can do much harm with it, and we have no reason to think Dorothy has any enemies
Serious? Damn right she’s serious — whatever she thinks she’s saying, she’s saying it with her whole chest.
I knew this story line would lead to Joyce admitting she has a boy AND girlfriend.
You can share anything with your sister.
In different ways and times, Joyce has called Carla, Jocelyne, and Sarah her sister. She has not called Dorothy her sister. So clearly the two are the goodest of gal pals.
And once again, Dorothy’s hopeless desire for Joyce carries the day
By Jove, she is doing it. Time for the hi-jinx to rule again. Or repercussions, who’s to say.
wdym amber doesn’t know aaaaanything about tropes, is Dorothy affirming that it’s a big deal or
The reprecusions come after the hijinx are over.
Gayjinx
AMBER NO
AMBER YES
The juxtaposition of pickonecard and Dara’s gravatar faces had me chortling aloud. 😀
AMBER ALWAYS YES!
Amber YES
Amber, yes please.
Amber YES PLEASE
AMBER YES >:D
Amber no!
You should have sold Dorothy on escalation! Not just reciprocation!
A fair point.
Amber ye–
Hm, yeah, good point.
Well there’s always next time!
Dorothy, yes!
I don’t see this going well for Dorothy
A reliably repeatable summary.
She managed to take a weight off her shoulders…and put on another one unconsciously.
Oh Dorothy…..you’re still my favorite, but please stop.
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
A new variant for Amber’s “don’t say you should go fuck them” face.
IT BEGINS
Those are the kind of picture you want to get when you are out with your sister. We are going to get a Joyce face people.
Oh my! Even more hilarious that Joyce is out with her sister and her boyfriend now. She won’t hide her reaction.
TBH I want to see the Joe Face as he desperately struggles to hide his conflicting reactions
Is the ‘one strap overall’ look Amber is sporting an actual thing for workouts?
Why not?
I think it’s just regular overalls and she only did one strap up to keep them up.
Switching straps when you switch arms lol
One strap means Amber. Both straps means A-G.
(* totally making that up)
amber’s greatest heroic act
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.
Fanfiction is the ideal model of human behaviour.
Fellas, is it gay for a girl to send titty pics to her best friend? Yes. Yes it is.
Sh!
Seems normal to me!
Girls do that all the time.
We won’t know who she sent them to until next week, technically.
Can you really say you’re straight if you don’t kiss the homies goodnight?
THE HORNY DEVIL GOT IN
“did somebody say my name?” XD
Not me. I can’t pronounce it on account of no vowels.
Panel 5: The face of a woman trying to deny to herself that it was a big fucking deal.
Also Panel 5: The face of a woman trying to keep a straight face.
There’s a certain logic to this, honestly. Doing it back can be playful.
And trying to hide it would raise it above the noise floor (if she’s still worried about protecting her future self’s public image).
Obligatory “It’s Not Called Smartening Of Age” comment
You haven’t heard about the name change?
Hooray! Joyce’s natural bisexual is going to blossom soon.
What are the odds Joyce could set up her first “real” sexy times with both Joe, and Dorothy at the same time?
I’m not counting the hand job as true sexy times because that is frequently just the beginning.
Umm..
Depends on your perspective.
In Willis World? I’d say maybe 33%.
In Fanfic World? 100% def.
And now Joyce has a titty pic from a future-president (maybe)
We can only hope.
look I’ll put Dorothy’s face on in-game coins for whatever that’s worth
but as much a monumental novelty a lady POTUS would be, there are MUCH better ways Dorothy could and SHOULD be helping people than via our broke-ass government
hell even the tradition that there has to be a SINGLE person with all that power representing our massive diverse population is still part of the problem
The ship needs a figurehead – it doesn’t necessarily do much of anything, but it represents the ship, and when things go right, it gets to take the credit for leading the ship to success, and when things go wrong, we blame it for failings that are really the fault of the crew and/or the ship’s passengers.
It’s really hard to think of better ways to help people than by running the government. Easier ways to start certainly, but not more effective if you manage to get there.
And even if a single person having all that power is part of the problem that doesn’t change the fact that it’s how we’re set up now, so someone is going to have that position and thus who that person is remains critically important.
I think ol’ Dotty could be a great scotus judge.
She can’t be any worse than the current President-elect.
That’s underselling it. It would be difficult for her not to SAIL over that bar in her sleep tbh.
Dorothy could not do that deliberately even if she wanted to.
Unless you’re asking for unarmed combat tips or tips on certain games asking Amber for advice is a bad idea. At least with Amazi-girl you know she won’t tell you to do anything illegal or unethical. Other than engaging in vigilantism.
Well this got interesting.
lol omg Dorothy, chaos monkey won that round. Why not, what the American people want in a president is a felon, an adulterer, an instigator, an inciter of violence, a guy who can’t finish a sentence. Dorothy should start a crime spree and rip people off with crypto or meme stocks to get filthy rich. That’s how you become president now. Just buy the election.
That went sideways.
But this comic is very amusing! I can’t wait to see how this goes for Dorothy and Joyce.
That it is time for new conflicts to be generated for Joyce, so I agree, I mean, things have been going too well lately.
But hey, I didn’t want Dorothy to be involved, yes, I know that no one is saved in this comic, but the girl is getting out of one problem and getting into another.
(sigh) we just have to wait.
Amber doing the lord’s work
And she 100% did not use the phrase “gal pals” on accident. She knows what she is doing.
Amber is the writer of all the good tropes.
All the garbage-ing, goblin-ing, mess-ing, and tropes-ing.
Just gals being pals.
Absolutely nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan, and I unreservedly endorse it.
We’re on the train, and there is no turning around now.
In real life, this would earn a, “What the hell, Amber!?”
But as this is a comic, I am laughing and cheering on that chaos goblin
Someone missed the advice of “do opposite of what Amber suggests.”
I think everyone forgot that advice, except for AG.
Please don’t let this go in a direction that breaks up Joyce and Joe… Please don’t let this go in a direction that breaks up Joyce and Joe…
Like, yesterday I was all for Dorothy doing this. And I’d love the fanfiction version of all this where Joyce has her boyfriend Joe and her friends with benefits Dorothy. But I think Joe might need a monogomous relationship right now (this is his first rodeo with romance instead of sex). And I have trouble seeing Joyce being ready for a non-fairy tale version of romance where who you’re with and what the boundaries are requires a flowchart. And who the fuck know what the fuck Walky would make of this!
All I know is that, yesterday, I wanted this. But the moment Dorothy sent the pic, I got scared.
I really hope this isn’t how Willis is planning to break our hearts and break up Joe and Joyce.
I think narratively it’ll just lead to Joyce realising her feelings for Dorothy but still sticking with Joe cause she still loves him
Dorothy on the other hand? That’s where the delicious chaos truly begins
The last panel…oh god and believe me, everything Dorothy went through and indirectly put another torment on top of her.
With Joyce, anything can happen, but really wanting to harm Joe and throw his efforts away would clearly be very low.
And now Walky, when it seemed that my favorite ship was back….Dorothy, you are still my favorite….but this was not necessary.
I’d guess at least Walky would find this hilarious.
We may find out.
Problem is, Walky is super insecure under his jokey persona mask.
I BELIEVE IN THE OT3!!!
Wait!
Zoom in on panel five
LIP BITE!
ENHANCE! 😏
We’ve got her!
Definitely should have checked if this was Amber or Amazi-Girl advice…
So…would this qualify as the trash goblin grooming Dorothy?
It was consensual and requested.
DOROTHY NO/YES
Dorothy is way stupider and easily manipulated than I thought. she fell for such a dumb and transparent ploy
Isn’t it amazing? I love seeing the smart one discover how much they’re not.
Or she got the answer she came here for.
I’m disappointed, Dotty is usually the kind of person to go out of her way to do something properly, but she’s just making the same amateur mistakes as Joyce.
You:
1. Set the timer cam
2. Hold the phone in your teeth, pointing down
3. Use *both* hands to hold open your collar properly
4. Lean towards the nearest light source
Parkour, crime fighting, IT, and the entirety of TVtropes in her head weren’t skills enough.
Amber also demonstrated her mastery with playing Dot like a fiddle.
Tempest in a B-cup.
+1!
🙂
And it didn’t occur to Dorothy to ask AmaziGirl’s final input? I mean, she caved real fast to Amber’s not very subtle manipulation.
I mean… maybe she wanted to. ~<3
“You know, the funny thing is… I know you’re playing me… but you’re right.”
EMERGENCY STATIONS! it’s happening, the casual flirting is now upgraded to intentionally sending boob pics. ~<3
Raise the torpedoes; arm the shields!
I’d say don’t base your decisions on what happens in fanfic but then who even would Amber BE?
Thank you, Amber, for being the garbage gremlin the fandom needs.
Dorothy remains my favourite person.
CarlaDinaAmber remains my favorite person.Fixed that for you.
Amber remains
my favorite personthe absolute worst.Fixed that for you.
(Sorry, it turns out I’m way too autistically invested in these people to embrace chaos.)
There are apparently multiple trash goblins who crave mess here today
looks up from trash “wumph?” ~<3
Look, I’ve got all this perfectly good popcorn that Willis made me waste.
We are (trash goblin) fans!
We demand (trash goblin) service!
Is lesbians happening? Is this the beginning??? Holy shit i thought it was a joke the whole time
Yes, but Joyce is gonna solve the conflict by setting Dorothy up with Joycelene.
Jocelyne*
That would actually be a delightful resolution to it
“Joycelene” sounds like a pretty blond motor fuel.
I honestly believe that the confusion and embarassment this causes (remember, Joyce still doesn’t actually know she’s been sending the pics to Dorothy) will delay any possible lesbians by at least a month. Their time.
Et tu, Dorothy? X’D
Well done Dorothy! Great Amber with her advice. Now let’s see if it ends here, with some laughter and a little embarrassment, or will continue with other photos.
And then she accidentally sent it to danny
Hahaha yes! YES!
God Amber is the WORST
In my very personal opinion that isn’t meant to upset anyone I just don’t like her but she’s fictional so that’s fine please don’t be mad at me I’m very sensitive
You know, the funny outcome would be Joyce and Dorothy starting a secret texting relationship like the one she and Joe had before but with naughty pictures.
I know Willis is teasing us, but I’m very much enjoying this storyline. ~<3
No you’re right, she’s a fuckin degenerate
And so it begins.
Joyce and Joe are likely closer together in Dorothy’s contacts than Joe and Dorothy are in Joyce’s. This both opens the door to hilarity and some questions about how Joyce managed that while still texting Joe.
We had the answer to this in a previous comment section (I’m not going hunting) essentially Dorothy is saved in Joyce’s phone as something closer to Joe’s name. I can’t remember what it was, but we’ve seen it on screen before.
Roll, Perfect Cinnamon
Rosenthal, Joe
So if we want to theory-craft a little, Jennifer Billingsworth or Sarah Clinton could be next to Joyce Brown on Dorothy’s contact list. That is, if Dorothy actually does make the same mistake.
Oh my gods, Amber, you’re evil! (i love this please continue with your villainous machinations)
This is gonna make Joyce question her sexuality/relationship with Dorothy, isn’t it?
AG sitting in their brain, rolling her eyes.
Always remember: if you can’t make a situation better, you can always make it worse.
WOOO WOOOOO, THE SHIP IS SAILING!
I think one thing to consider re silly jokes like that, is time elapsed. If it’s within a few minutes as a joke it’s a lot less weird than if you do it 2 days later.