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Now That's What I Call Surrendering Autonomy To Skydaddy! Vol. 29

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Kazo

So? Everyone ignores or misinterprets lyrics, you're not special.

The25th

You have to listen to a song couple of times just for the vibes.

C

"I JUST REALIZED SONGS HAD WORDS!"

el

talking about your boyfriend to your girlcrush ohhghh joyce you are a disaster bisexual and you may want to use that referral you got

Grace Serenity

SO many Christian songs I used to love are all terrible now that I'm not a believer!

E

Damn you Willis!! I saw the poses in the first panel and was expecting it to get more sapphic! I wasn’t shipping these two for most of the comic. But after the past few strips I’m kinda sold.

Andrea Andrew

Is this the only reason Joyce is with Joe? Is she only bringing up Joe to dodge her real feelings? (Editors note: I may have misread the comic when I wrote this post. I was busy doing something else and couldn’t appreciate this comic.)

Jeremy AR

I am actually the world most special little guy.

Sajuuk-Khar

Joyce is: 1.) Correct about The Only Exception, sorry, Dotty, I know you were casting yourself in one role but like 2.) *SO* BISEXUAL AND *SO* INCLINED TO POLYAMORY LMAO

TobyTura

Ayyy shoutout to my joejoyce playlist having that song in it because it ALSO reminded me of Joe in 2022

Sajuuk-Khar

Andrea, friend, uh, where are you getting that

Sajuuk-Khar

I mean it’s still pretty sapphic! She’s all like “I wanted to be remade in your image!” Girl is just in love with two people, and also autistic

Andrea Andrew

I honestly don’t know. Maybe I’m just tired of these two dragging this out.

Crunchos cereal

I like that they are having this conversation in the crowded laundry room.

Sajuuk-Khar

I have very bad news for you about the predictable direction of this entire arc! Like, I believe in DorJoJo but I do not think this arc will resolve in poly at aaaaalllllll

Dan Rabin

Nice symmetrical strip with alternating two-shots and Joyce solo panels. The central panel has the most-enthusiastic Joyce face and least-enthusiastic Dorothy face in the strip as Dorothy remains wary of explaining everything to Joyce. As in the previous strip, Dorothy's arms remain crossed throughout, even after Joyce bestows a Medium Touch of Reassurance. Joyce's eye-lines and head-positions are worthy of study here. Perhaps if Dorothy were to sing her message twenty times Joyce would start to get it, but that could also be why Dorothy doesn't sing her message twenty times.

Railway Series Book Club

Dorothy's face in panel 3 is everything to me. Every point of chip damage she takes from her yearning is delicious. "Oh yeah, that song we listened to while we shared an intimate almost-smoochy moment really makes me think about My Boyfriend, Joseph Rosenthal, whom I just had sex with last night and whom you've spent the better part of your teenage years absolutely loathing. Thanks for sharing it, Dorothy! :D"

Megh

Honestly I bet conversations like this one happen there all the time Just another Saturday

Fart Captor

They just keep saying gayer and gayer things at each other but somehow not kissing??

Morgan Byrd

I think ignoring lyrics because the music makes you feel something is simply peak autism

Sajuuk-Khar

I like to imagine Dorothy’s shoulder angel is screaming at her like the Genie to “Prince Ali” in that same voice, and Dorothy’s shoulder devil is just sobbing on the floor and keening “JOOOOOYYYYYCE”

Sajuuk-Khar

If you don’t kiss, you’re not giving in to the trauma response

Sajuuk-Khar

The only guaranteed outcome to this arc is turmoil

Fart Captor

That's EXACTLY what the trauma response wants them to think!

Mariah

this further emphasizes for me how much she cares about joe and how little I think she is intending to cheat malicously like some people are implying.

Astariel

Okay, that part of the music thing is pretty different from me. I've always been a lyrics-first person.

Kelly (they-them)

You could use that to describe their entire relationship arc throughout the whole comic

Kelly (they-them)

Joyce listens to music the exact same way I listen to music

Kelly (they-them)

I assume Joyce and I listen to music the exact same way David Willis listens to music based on other shared idiosyncraties they have with Joyce

Kelly (they-them)

I listened to Superchic and Reliant K when I was in middle school. Officially, I was Catholic, but the extent of my religious upbringing was being lifted 2 children's bibles and a baptism. I vaguely knew that they were religious groups but didn't notice or understand this in their songs. Superchic has a whole ass song about belonging to God. It's not subtle, but I still managed to miss it

Berry

God I really want Joyce and Joe to stay together but their chemistry is so good ;;

Gale Tazzin

real. i have to read the lyrics separately to hear them in a song

Sajuuk-Khar

*whispers malevolently* DorJoJo….OT3eeeeeee…*wolf howl, thunderclap*

Ria

No hrmp is sweeter than the "okay fine I guess you're in love with me too" hrmp

Jesse

I once had to explain to my mum that Maxwell’s Silver Hammer was about a serial killer.

Baqly

She doesnt even realize ……

Megh

Okay wait Joyce woke up singing the song, but if what she says here is true the only time she could have listened to it a bunch and memorized it was during her date with Joe right? But when they woke up today Joyce seemed a bit surprised Joe knew the song. So I guess she just had earbuds in half the date? Or maybe put in her earbuds while she was falling asleep? Idk why I'm so obsessed with the logistics of this all the sudden

Maude Reads Things

I can be like that sometimes, especially if I'm doing something else.

Railway Series Book Club

I think the binge-listening probably happened between Joyce's "oh my god laundry was sex" realization and her running into Jennifer and Alice in the lobby?

Megh

Around that time is a good candidate you're probably right I went back and reread the strip where they wake up just now, and she's not actually singing the song just humming it, so she might not have actually learned the lyrics at that point like I was thinking. The only exception to that of course being the line "the only exception" cause she did at least say that part out loud in the morning

Daniel Adams

Relatable. Lyrics do not retain for me.

Shane Wegner

“You love Joe, I loathe Joe, so compatible!”

Sydney Ashcraft

Every time I hear Martina McBride's "Independence Day" in a retail store's SUMMER HOLIDAY FUN playlist, I die a little inside. Same with The Cranberries' "Zombie" for Halloween.

Sajuuk-Khar

The tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns are for the undead apocalypse, surely!! Right?!? …RIGHT?!??

Dan Rabin

Did you also have to explain "late nights all alone with a test tube"?

Kelly (they-them)

You mean to tell me my favorite Beatles song is about a serial killer? That makes sense now that you say it

Anna K

Weirdly, I'm autistic and have a lyrics-first approach to music: my favourite songs are the ones where the words make me feel something; everything else is kind of secondary.

Grace Serenity

@Andrea I was more of a Newsboys and dc Talk kind of Christian. Delirou5 and Jars of Clay were also in the rotation. Lemme tell you, Breakfast is pretty horrifying to re-listen to as an apostate!

Grace Serenity

@Kelly Anthem by Superchick is a pretty legit song. I always liked it, and it's only gotten better as I've transitioned!

Uniquitous

Big same. "Wait, that song said what??"

Harold

@QueenOfSodor: I have to think that - thanks to the way Joyce decribes the song - it's also slowly dawning on Dorothy that she's been nudging Joyce towards being unfaithful to someone who has a bad history with cheating thanks to his dad. (Having known Joe for years, Dorothy surely is well aware of his family history.)

Packy Anderson

Oddly, it seems to be what most people do. If you ask them what the lyrics are, they'll respond with "*mumble*mumble* WORDS IN THE HOOK *mumble*mumble* WORDS IN THE HOOK".

Andrea Andrew

You listened to Breakfast in Hell too?

Girlycore

I don't think it's been Dorothy doing the nudging tbh.

Brian Scott

I'm grateful that my christian music of choice was Five Iron Frenzy and they mostly hold up

zee

Me on my eighth replay if Cadmium Colors by Jamie Paige: wait is this song about lead poisoning? In my defense I didn't know what Cadmium was prior

Andrea Andrew

Me too, Brian. I’m actually friends with the band members. I appreciate how they allow their non religious members to continue in the band and they oppose right wing Christian nationalism.

zee

I'm really not sure she realizes that it's still cheating if it's with a girl, aided by billie's "it's super normal to fuck your best friend". Like i can super easily see her going from "masturbating has to be cheating" to "oh well I'm just messing around with a friend and she doesn't even has a thingie to put in me so it's fine" in the same day.

zee

I kinda get this, especially since half my favorite songs are in Japanese (YABAIBAINA!) but I don't really understand how people can blank super hard on lyrics sometimes if the singer is easy to understand. Like I don't get how people didn't realize pumped up kicks was about being school shooter, it was in the hook, dudes words were pretty clearly annunciated.

zee

Finding out twenty one pilots was Christian in my deeply atheïst youth was very conflicting. Still held on strong till i started college but i can never listen to Screen again without cringing a little

Maybeeus

Joyce making the same observations me and some others about the lyrics makes me feel immensely called out... So much of this chapters beginning felt like a reprise of the very first as a framing device but it also gives season finale vibes. i still get the same bittersweet feeling as the sweater vest scene the previous night. Dorothy has given up every piece of herself over the course of the last few books and even her own anguished declaration of love was turned into more ammunition against her while Joyce is none the wiser. My ultimate theory here, is that there is one key difference between the two Dorothy hasn't picked up yet but is going to sooner than later. That difference is that Joyce is a Top.

Andrea Andrew

I had no idea twenty one pilots was christian's

MrShoggoth

I’ve listened to Dark Side of the Moon a thousand times (literally) and I don’t want to say how long it took me to properly listen to the Us & Them lyrics

Sajuuk-Khar

It’s worth noting that the person wielding the weapons and ammunition against Dorothy is, of course, Dorothy

Maybeeus

I've believed for awhile now that Jorothy is one of the strongest ships in the comic if not the absolute strongest but it has to deal with two problems named Joyce and Dorothy. It's like the unstoppable force meets the immovable object but both are just Dorothy while Joyce is lighting gunpowder trails for literally no reason in the background and Dorothy is too busy being a metaphorical dilemma to stop her.