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Early update for August 13, 2025 (Patreon)

Published:
2025-08-12 03:55:01
Imported:
2026-06

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the 2L of sprite persists

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Heatth

"Oh yeah, these *aren't* my hussy pills"

Andrea Andrew

Joyce, you could have a child with Dorothy.

MrShoggoth

It’s a step forward

C

Sooner you rip off the bandaid, the less it'll hurt. Have the conversation, figure out your relationship statuses...THEN make out to your heart's content based on decisions made.

Smoochie

Oh Dorothy—it was already foretold that Joyce would prat fall like this. <.<

Vivian

Joyce continues to be down bad

GPanda

Joyce is kinda bringing out the worst in you too Dorothy

voyager-ngc5195

Oh Cheese, Joyce's world has been flipped too many times recently; she accidentally fell back into heteronormative thinking.

Harold

"Does she have a secret weenus?"

AE Gonzalez

Joyce, you literally sucked Joe’s dick last night.

Andrea Andrew

I think they have a donor option or adoption.

Andrea Andrew

I’m glad Joyce is dedicated to Dorothy, and able to reassure her.

AE Gonzalez

Dorothy being the wife, making sure Joyce has taken her medication, getting her glasses for her.

voyager-ngc5195

I'm just saying that I'd buy it as justification for Willis to bring Martian tech into Dumbing of Age.

Harold

I'm sorry. Joyce and Dorothy may be Cheating Cheaters Who Cheat, but the way they reassure and take care of each other is wonderful.

Smoochie

Yes but from the sounds of it, Joyce has already decided that relationship is over.

Harold

@AE Gonzalez: Pregnancy seems like a rather unlikely outcome of that

Railway Series Book Club

Those first two panels are everything to me. Dorothy continuing the train of thought from Laundry Redux where she noticed how much of Joyce's current identity has been based on her own, now by taking the next logical (i.e; self-sabotaging anxiety-brained) step in questioning if she's MAKING JOYCE WORSE! Of course, Joyce is always going to (rightly, imo) say "no, of course not, don't be silly," but that won't ever be enough to vanquish The Demon Anxiety. This shit is why Dorothy's my favorite character now, she's so in her own head about everything and her resulting anguish is delicious.

Grace Serenity

I think it was more church thinking. Birth control is VERY frowned upon in some fundie churches.

Railway Series Book Club

also jesus christ joyce that glib comment is gonna get you massacred in the main site comments tomorrow, girl no

Megh

Are the main site comments really that bad these days? I haven't really checked them in several weeks now

Heatth

It just occurred to me that one of the reasons Joyce freaked out so much about the pills was not just because an imagined fear of other people perceiving her as a hussy who has a ton of sex. But also because, in the back of her head, her brain was going "sweet, now I can have a ton of sex".

Sajuuk-Khar

She’s gonna get demolished in effigy

Maude Reads Things

Yeah, I can imagine she'll still need to be reminded a few times she doesn't have them for Harlot Reasons.

Railway Series Book Club

honestly they've gotten a bit more normal over the last week as Consequences begin to materialize and Paladins and Sickos begin finding common ground re: enjoying that, but like. normal still isn't that good lol

Sajuuk-Khar

It’s very very cute, yes. (It’s a little too cute, tbh. It makes Dina and Becky look volatile.)

Devin Shrier

This is exactly my wife about her birth control pills. She told me a few months ago she was talking to her psych doc about going off of them and I said, "Okay, cool. Did you have something else prescribed?" And she just gave me a confused look, so I had to gently remind her that she wasn't on them to prevent getting preggers, but because her internal organs hate everything and the pills help regulate her hormones/cycle.

Calder Johnson

Man, this is an interesting strip... I'm reminded of a very apt comment from yesterday, something along the lines of Joyce treating every new step in her evolution as an 'endgame' development, with unbridled committment and intensity - lot of paralells to the atheism storyline - She's discovered she's queer and now birth control pills immediately get thrown out the window. Dorothy's response to Sarah is to voice doubt and concern (although I think, as par for Dorothy, she's overstating the situation) Joyce's response is to double-down. ... and as we saw with the atheism storyline, that epoch-shifting level of certainty can make Joyce act in ways that...aren't always fair or wonderful to the people around her. If I had to guess at Joyce's internal experience, it's something like, "This new experience (discovering atheism, queerness) makes me feel a particular way. And those feelings are so intense, EVERYTHING about this new experience must be true and right." And I have a lot of personal sympathy for that. But wow, that kind of blazing certainty can really burn yourself and others.

Sajuuk-Khar

Remember what I was talking about? World-Sage Joyce, who knows everything and is at the end of history? She’s definitely back! In sapphic form! (This shit is going to drive people up the WALLS, in comic and out. Joyce. My dear sweet baby. No.)

Jayne Lindgren

One thing I like is, they don't doubt their decision, only the way they're going about it.

Calder Johnson

Very true! But like, uh, pretty hard to have one unintentionally...

Calder Johnson

Your comment was exactly the one that I was referencing below, and you're so right! This strip clinched the paralells with the atheism storyline. She's all in, everything is figured out. It's gonna be a bumpy ride for a bit...

Lia

@Sajuuk-Khar eh weve already got ruth and billie and sal and amazigirl, these girls can do their parks and rec thing

Lia

i do kind of think a tiiny bit of cheating might be sort of reasonable in response to compulsory heterosexuality. like one of them thought she'd go to hell because of this stuff and the other thought shed go to atheist hell for not being able to become president because of this stuff

Calder Johnson

Eh. I'll still hold up Dina and Becky as the Ur-Healthy Couple. It's been less than 24 hours, fully ensconced in cataclysmic levels of NRE - I think there are latent issues between these two that they're gonna have to deal with sooner or later (like Dina and Becky have done multiple times) and I think resolving those isn't exactly going to be non-volatile. Dina and Becky have an seemingly un-ending capacity to 'bend towards one another', which I love. Dorothy and Joyce have a monolithic obsession with one another, but they also have a proven track record of digging into whatever position they are holding at the time, and it's not too unlikely that at some point they'll have to figure out how to deal with it when those positions are in opposition to each other.

Railway Series Book Club

@Sajuuk-Khar good news! it's entirely possible that the blast radius from this happening will make Dina and Becky *actually* volatile! that'll settle any sharing of ecological niches.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold I suspect neither of them does, at the moment, but that something along those lines will find its way into the shopping cart before too long.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold Unless we're talking about the elbow thing. Or the dance.

Calder Johnson

@QueenOfSodor I've been trying to 'run the simulations' of the cast's reactions to this, and Dina and Becky are so compelling! It would be interesting to see a relatively chill and supportive Becky - "Sure, I don't maybe love the cheating part but this is the path of True Lesbian Love" - contrasted with Dina being surprisingly unchill with the whole situation because 1) she's luke-warm on Joyce at best, 2) Joe is one of the few cast members to treat her with total normalcy and respect (in significant contrast to Joyce) and 3) her asexuality makes cheating on your partner seem particularly dumb and cruel.

Fart Captor

I don't wanna be That Chick but husbands can and should be nurturing and thoughtful. This is considered wifely behavior because society has conditioned people to consider such things the sole purview of women and thus Unmanly and shameful for men

Fart Captor

Yeah we may need to have The Talk

Heatth

@Calder Johnson I would argue that we have yet to know if Dina and Backy are, indeed, the Ur-Healthy Couple, but that we will find soon. The Sword of Damocles that have been hovering over them since the start is Becky's crush on Joyce. For as long as it is there, there is always remote possibility of Becky dumping Dina if she got an opportunity with Joyce. And, well, the chances of that happened just became a lot more plausible than they used to be. To be clear, I do think their relationship is much more solid than that. But I think it is just now that we will have the opportunity to put it to the test.

Mariah

the comments here were pretty bad yesterday I can only imagine the main site was fire and brimstone

Fart Captor

Nah, I think that's teenage hormones and the sudden overwhelming rush of unleasing long-repressed queerness severely compromising their judgment. Plus it's not like either of them have the track record when it comes to decisions about their love lives

GPanda

I mean that doesn’t excuse anything

Fart Captor

Women can do anything they set their minds to

Astariel

Aw, panel 2. I love it so much.

GundamBradley

Honestly, they've totally been worse before, so, swings and roundabouts.

GundamBradley

I love that, in the last two panels, she doesn't drop the lip bite.

Astariel

The title for the fourth chapter of this book suggests something Dina-focused is coming up.

Astariel

It's beautiful.

Astariel

They don't need an excuse.

Calder Johnson

@Heatth You're totally right that we're about to find out! And I totally admit bias in this situation, but I'm really putting my chips on Becky not dumping Dina or otherwise spiraling out. I dunno, I'm obviously guessing at an author's intentions, but I feel strongly like one of the central theses of this comic is that people can and do change (which is probably the thing I love most about it - that and the endless soap opera) Becky crashing out over this would feel like a backslide into an older version of Becky, and my gut tells me that she's experienced enough of what a healthy relationship feels like that this isn't going to effect her in the way that Dorothy and Joyce are obviously terrified that it will. And it would rhyme with a theme we've just seen with Sarah (from both directions), that the people you know grow and change when you're not looking, and who they are now doesn't always align with the past version you have 'saved' in your own mind.

Fart Captor

No, it was still a bad thing and Sarah was completely right to call them out, it's just not a result of either of them influencing the other

Tom @ Magic Chopstick Games

The dude who literally makes sure his wife has taken her medication and who gets her glasses for her appreciates this, FC 😊 (Challenge level: “where are they, hon?” “I put them down somewhere…”)

Smoochie

“She’s back, and she’s got a new trick! World-Sage Joyce is ten times as slick as the last time, The last time you saw her, and now you can see why we don’t really adore her!”

Grace Serenity

I know that I had "All are wickedly sinful" and "Guard your heart like a thief" were drilled into my head when I was a believer. We were convinced that we'd go on a murder/sex spree if we let our guard down! Fundamentalism is a hell of a thing

Calder Johnson

Yeah, I would phrase it less like 'bring out the worst', which is a bit much really, and a bit more like they mutually cut the last remaining brake-lines they have in their libidos.

Calder Johnson

@QueenOfSodor I get none of these references but nonetheless you have my whole-hearted support.

AE Gonzalez

Peak sign of Joyce Horniness.

Sajuuk-Khar

@SMOOCHIE: HOLY SHIT A CORE MEMORY FROM COLLEGE CAME BACK TO ME LIKE LIGHTNING LMAOOOOO

Lea

I mean, just because someone's trying to explain why someone would do something, doesn't mean they're trying to "excuse it." "Why's you steal and wreck my Ferrari?!" "The car seemed cool, I was bored, and I wanted to know how fast it could go." "That doesn't excuse it!!!" "...well, duh."

Lea

Chiming in as the atypical ADHD wife with mostly neurotypical husband - I'm incredibly grateful for all the "traditionally wifely" things he handles to keep us running as a unit. From meds reminder to "Have you eaten yet today?" to "Next week's Mother's Day; wanna pick out some flowers to send her, and I'll place the order for you?" The only "worst part" is that he sometimes feels uncomfortable about others hearing how much he handles, because others see them as "the girly responsibilities." So he doesn't often get full credit for all he does.

Smoochie

@Sajuuk Mission accomplished (I really didn’t know if this joke was gonna land lol)

Sajuuk-Khar

I’m not certain that anything but a poly triad with Joe will bring this ecosystem back to equilibrium, my fellow shipper scientists, and my upcoming paper will prove—No, YOU have confirmation bias! And you SMELL! (jkjk…unless….)

Sajuuk-Khar

It’s really really funny because who was on the front lines of mending the fallout from Faith/Off? Dorothy. YEAH THAT AIN’T HAPPENING NOW. 😂

ScrimpArt

ight placing bets rn Walky will maybe not care, he's been checked out for a while now. Becky will be dissappointed Joe will crash out (depression)

ScrimpArt

I reread a strip from 2 months ago and Walky is going to care I fear.

Seth Aaron Hershman has they/she pronouns

yeah i don't think their respective loves of joe and walky are because of comphet but i do absolutely believe comphet forms a backbone of joyce and dorothy's experiences

Smoochie

I suspect he will go the opposite way and rage

Sajuuk-Khar

Lmao I was gonna fucking say Joyce: Pffttt Dorothy, I’m totally over Joe! I don’t need birth control! I’m ready to break up with him right NOW. Watch, I’ll go do it TWO HOURS LATER Joyce: *panting, disheveled, teary-eyed* So we made love. Twice. Dorothy: 😑

MiqoRems

"ugh, FIIIIIIIINE, I'll stop actively cheating on my boyfriend until we're OFFICIALLY broken up" jesus christ Joyce

MiqoRems

And as we all know, it's not cheating so long as you've decided to end it later on!

Sajuuk-Khar

“The 2L of Sprite persists” *clears throat, assumes the most concern trolling voice possible* DAVID NOOOOOO!!! Nooooo you’re gonna give her diabeeeeetes! Nooooooo!!!! You can’t let her do it! Look I’m DEFINITELY not fatphobic but DIABEEEEEETEEEEEESSSS! It’s not fatphobia! If you get diabetes your LIFE is OVERRRRR! Nooooooooo!!!!

Sajuuk-Khar

(I am a diabetic and let me fucking tell you, I loved seeing that kind of shit all. Over. The main site comments. I loved it one thousand times. It was: a love story.)

ScrimpArt

when you realize joyce is lowk not a good person

Smoochie

@Calder lemme tell you—the image of Joyce going up to Dina and saying “How do you do, fellow atheist lesbian on the spectrum?” and Dina’s reaction of disdain (at a minimum) is COMPELLING.

etherealDesign

just gotta give a shout-out to the LIGHTSWITCH! onomatopoeia in panel four. my new favorite character. Joyce and Dorothy being adorable is great too I guess but LIGHTSWITCH steals the show

Jeremy AR

I think it would make me want to throw rocks at people. No wait, it did make me want to do that.

Harold

Joyce: "Dina! I'm just like *you* now! I am perfect, and autistic, and gay!" Dina: "I am fairly certain that you are only one of those things."

Harold

Probably not eligible for bonus strip voting, though

Megh

Since when has a character being ineligible ever stopped us from voting for them?

AE Gonzalez

She was going to break up with him a few hours ago, his presence and him being good to her was all it took for her to do something very much the opposite of breaking up.

AE Gonzalez

Calling it: Breaking up with Joe will be harder on Joyce.

AE Gonzalez

Please be That Chick, you make excellent points. Caring Spouse would certainly be a better option.

Harold

Picturing the day's potential events unfolding like Little Bill in BOOGIE NIGHTS dispassionately going through the scene sequence on shooting day: "Joyce goes to break up with Joe. They end up going at it. Joyce comes back, apologizes to Dorothy. *They* go at it. Dorothy goes to break up with Walky, and they go at it. Then Amber walks in..."

Rob McBobson

I don't get the alt text. What about the Sprite bottle?

Harold

@Rob McBobson: Joyce washes down her daily dose of birth-control pills with an entire 2-liter bottle of Sprite.

Girlycore

Well I know what I'm suggesting on the next poll.

Girlycore

BUT HER NAME IS JOYYYCE NOT WILFRED BRIMLEYYYYYY. Seriously though, when the comments decides to be weird about a thing you ARE or HAVE it's fucking wild. Calling it out gets you told you're paranoid because you can hear the dog whistle they can't hear and ignoring it is sucky for other reasons.

Mariah

This may sound weird but I kind of like that joyce is not showing the kind of guilt and shame paladins may expect or demand of her. It took joyce a long time to process her fundie related shame and I kind of don't want to see her go back to that you can ackowledge that you did something wrong without liking tearing at your clothes in agony. I agree that cheating is wrong but this need that some paladins have to need her not just to break up with joe or get yelled at by their friend but to SUFFER in a way that just makes me uncomfortable I don't want to give them the satisfaction of seeing that.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold Oh god. That sounds....challenging

Kazo

But Joyce was so caught up in the euphoria of kissing Dorothy she forgot she was taking birth control for actual medical reasons and not as a contraceptive.

Mariah

"there are no good guys or bad guys we are all just guys" That is to say I think there are good or bad actions that make up the kind of person we are. Right now joyce is doing a lot of bad actions but I don't think that makes her a bad person.

Andrea Andrew

I heard the discord is being crazy about this new couple, hating them (Dorothy, especially).

Andrea Andrew

I hope Joyce abandons soda. I’ve abandoned soda (and alcohol, but that’s neither here nor there).

David M Willis

hating dorothy is as old as dumbing of age ever since she dumped danny and had self esteem

Megh

If that's when the Dorothy hate started then I've just decided it's my Number 1 Favorite Dorothy Moment Edit: number 1 in a "fuck them haters" sense, just in case that wasn't clear

Maybeeus

I have nuanced feelings on suffering in fiction i really don't want people to get mixed up on. A lot of my favorite characters in fiction are ones who suffer a WHOLE lot and it's never "just" it's arbitrary and cruel but the most important part to me is ultimately they always win. A lot of people are VERY weirdly into the whole them being punished angle. I've said that i would find it fun for Joyce to "go bad" but it has never been my belief that they "deserve" to suffer and anyone who does is a massive prick. Also there were two versions of this comment with one i posted too early i had to delete.

Maybeeus

The way i view it is they bring a new definition to the term "disaster bisexuals" in that them getting together has been like a natural disaster but they're also both good enough people that afterwards they try to go back and make amends and mitigate as much damage as they can in the process.

Ilana Feldman

I relate a lot to Dorothy a lot, so Dorothy haters should know they are also hating me, random innocent person in the comment section.

Railway Series Book Club

if Dorothy has a million fans, i'm one of them if Dorothy has five fans, i'm one of them if Dorothy has one fan, that one is me if Dorothy has no fans, i'm no longer alive if the world is against Dorothy, i'm against the entire world

Mariah

yeah I don't have a problem with suffering or even consequence but thats not what I feel like people want. I think what they want is a moral lesson in the hayes code immoral actions are permitted as long as they are punished. Dorothy and Joyce relationship was started in cheating or "sin" if you will. Therefore it can never be functional or healthy. If they don't break up then the narrative is condoning cheating glorifying it even. Doomed is also a very common narrative to queer female relationships in general to fall into trope wise. I just don't think there will be a resolution that will satisfy them.

GPanda

Honestly that’s one of the few things I will stand by Dorothy on Willis. Dorothy was right in that instance

AE Gonzalez

There’s a Dumbing of Age Discord?

Railway Series Book Club

@Mariah: i gotta wonder how many people voted for "cheating is bad but joyce/dorothy can still atone" on the main site poll with an idea of atonement that hues closer to "frightening body horror manifesto re: punishing the undutiful"

Heatth

@Andrea, the Discord is from the subreddit yes? I glanced at the subreddit for a few days at the time of the kiss and the level of discussion there was horrendous. I do not trust that place or a discord run by its members. I do wish there was a nicer Discord though.

Maybeeus

Honestly i've come around to the cheating aspect, as someone who is currently in the middle of coming out or closeted to most people i do know i can say that it this close to home. It adds an extra layer of tension to it all.

Railway Series Book Club

@Calder Johnson: those are what Leslie used in Shortpacked! to get Robin pregnant

Seth Aaron Hershman has they/she pronouns

tired: dorothy dumping danny sucked because she should've stayed in a relationship she wasn't happy with wired: dorothy dumping danny sucked because her expressed reason for doing it, becoming a war criminal someday, was real bad inspired: 2010!danny dodged a bullet by not dating an aspiring war criminal

Seth Aaron Hershman has they/she pronouns

there was a nice gulf between the 90s and the 10s where it appeared to me, as an outside observer, everyone had finally chilled the fuck out about diabetes

Calder Johnson

Yeah, there seems to be a major trend of some subreddits/discord servers turning into hate cesspools directed at whatever fandom they're supposed to be about - because all communication on the internet must drift towards polarization and enshitification. The subreddit for this comic is teeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrible and I'm sadly not surprised the Discord also sucks. It's wild that the hate is mostly directed at Dorothy though! Since she's objectively being a million more times concerned about/trying to be responsible about this than Joyce is... And I think that probably also gets at what @Miranda was pointing at - that a chunk of the Paladin camp is like "Hey, it'd be super-cool for everyone involved if you two were making some better choices - Joyce, maybe consider some of the consequences of your actions" ... and then there are those folks who are all "I want these two jezebels to live in shame, regret, and public humiliation for all eternity", and no realistic level of remorse/consequences/whatever is going to atone and....woof. something something the quality of mercy is not strained.

Maybeeus

@QueenOfSodor full disclosure i voted atone but my definition of atonement is "Tell the boyfriends and say sorry for the mess you made and then go back to being gay." while i'm sure there were people who meant it in a way more vile way.

Sajuuk-Khar

Seth you can’t just say that. Willis is listening. A character from the future will show up named Grand Slam and we’ll have to take them 100% seriously and it’ll be implied they get with Joe

Astariel

Well, Dorothy has never really liked Joe, so it probably won't be very hard on her.

Lia

which strip

Railway Series Book Club

@Calder Johnson: i've been under the impression that a lot of the bad-faith takes re: Dorothy are the result of people being mad at her for initiating Laundry, which then funneled into the "Dorothy is being manipulative and dangerous by not telling Joyce she's bisexual" in the lead-up to the Paramore Vibes Sesh, which has cascaded into what we see today. people just really seem to like interpreting her traits in the worst possible light, which makes me very very sad because she's my favorite!!! @Seth Aaron Hershman: my friends and i have a server for scholarly discussion and emote storage, occasionally i think about opening it up to outsiders, but moderating even reasonable DOA discussion sounds scarier than any of the other moderation gigs i do, so idk

GPanda

That’s more or less where I’m at though considering they are still skirting the line of cheating by not telling their partners and as Sarah said giggling and talking in hushed tones while trying to hide it which means they know full well what they are doing. Also since we are Bringing up Danny I honestly think why one of the reasons Dorothy is kinda annoying me slightly is because her decision to drop Yale and stick around following Joyce is exactly the same behaviour she dumped Danny for

Mariah

I think its different for a few reasons she was not in love with danny she no longer wants to be president honestly don't think dorothy knows what she wants career wise and yale was a part of a plan that lead to being president. I agree its not health behavior.

GPanda

I mean it’s not that different, she’s pinning her hopes on following one person and making them a sole focus over her own goals in her own life (true she doesn’t want to be president anymore but still this was floating around in her head before she decided to drop that goal as she was considering not going to Yale before then) and like she is showing zero self awareness for it and I think we are supposed to be going “awww gay mess” but like all I can think of is how unhealthy the foundation for this is but some of it seems to be framed as cute so I’m getting a lot of mixed messages about what I’m supposed to be feeling. Like at least Billie and Ruth was framed as unhealthy and self destructive right out the gate and the Ethan and Asher situation had far more nuance as Billie/Jennifer was sending Asher a lot of mixed signals and treating him badly but still even he waited until he was absolutely sure Jennifer was being stubborn and not communicating in a healthy way before dropping her and decided to go for Ethan

Andrea Andrew

I noticed the pink shadow color palette changing to a normal color palette. Genius.

Calder Johnson

@QueenofSodor - Yeah, that's been my observation as well. And in context, yeah the Laundry Incident isn't great...but like I feel like it's extremely human to look back at something you did and realize 'Holy shit! I clearly had motives I wasn't even consciously aware of', so I agree it's really unfortunate that some folks want to see everything she does in the worst possible light because, sure, a huge amount of what she does is problematic, but I see it in a deeply sympathetic way - she's scrambling to make sense out of a gigantic amount of life changes that have piled on top of themselves. And sure, a lot of the time she comes up short in her actions, but she's clearly always trying her best and questioning how she could be doing better. It's really disappointing to not see some grace extended. @GPanda - I totally agree that there's a huge amount of irony in that she's doing literally everything that she criticized Danny for. And I hope we (and I suspect) will see a convo between her and Danny where that is pointed out (in a reasonable way.) And I believe she'll swallow that pill, bitter though it may be, since, yeah, I think we've seen that Dorothy is constantly doubting and questioning and trying her best to assimilate new learning and information. And I totally can get finding this irony annoying, but I suppose I don't because, again, it feels very human? One of those hard but necessary discoveries you make in life where you realize that values and constants that you thought you were sure of in yourself actually aren't that constant at all. Its all why I, again, feel a lot of sympathy for Dorothy, flailing and trying her best in an incredibly personally chaotic situation. Joyce, on the other hand...I'll be curious to see how it all goes, because the longer she resides in this space of 'I have discovered True Lesbian Love and everything is figured out and unalienably right', the more she's gonna end up alienating a lot of people around her.

Calder Johnson

The lighting and color composition lately has really been A++

AE Gonzalez

I found their cope hilarious. Besides all the usual Dorothy Hate (she’s Jewish, an atheist, and kinda coded as a lesbian; of course Reddit hates her): “This is badly written!” (Never get into specifics) “This is not Joyce, this is Nega Joyce! My precious Joyce would never do this!” “Dorothy corrupted Joyce by making her masturbate in a public place!” “David Willis has turned Dumbing of Age into his fanfic!” (Someone really wrote this; even the other Reddit chuds called him out)

Calder Johnson

@Smoochie - I had no idea this existed, and one Google search later I feel immeasurably culturally enriched.

Calder Johnson

@AE Gonzalez - I mean, all the rest are just sad. But accusing an author of turning their OWN work into a fanfiction crosses over into a whole other level that totally has to give me a grim laugh!

Maybeeus

This has gotta be the funniest way the polycule happens. Everyone shakes hands Dorothy and Walky break up under amicable terms (for him and Dorothy his sitcom rivalry with Joyce is only going to come back stronger) but Joyce just keeps trying and failing to break up with Joe long after it's become very known by literally everyone that her and Dorothy are in a relationship. Dorothy has already talked things over with Joe about this meaning the only person in the story unaware of the fact they're a polycule is Joyce herself who for arbitrary reasons is in denial about it being a polycule.

Annie

From this I feel that anything brand new in Joyce's life that she likes, she goes "all in". Atheism, Dexter and Monkey Master, thinking there would be no consequences going after Jacob while he had a gf because G*d doesn't exist. Apart from being trauma bonded with Dorothy, this is all new to her and I feel that's why it has her whole attention. Joyce enjoys the honeymoon stage.

Heatth

It is specially funny because DoA is, quite literally, a College AU. Yeah, this is a Walkyverse fanfic. It has always been, lol.

Heatth

Anyway, "This is not my Joyce" type of reaction are great because that is basically exactly what Sarah said, lol. Willis really preempted the fans.

GPanda

Yeah I’m honestly more sympathetic towards Dorothy because yeah her spiral has been well set up ect Joyce on the other hand feels like she’s been replaced by some anti Joyce variant

GPanda

I think the term they are going for is parody of itself

Kelly (they-them)

*Joyce develops diabetes from all the Spritr* Dorothy: Whoa, Joyce, why are you injecting so much insulin? Joyce: I'm about to take my birth control *Joyce tosses her pill in her mouth and chases it with 2L of Sprite*

zee

The comments about Sarah today make me want to drive my head through a wall. The misogynoir is going crazy

zee

At least Dina and Becky have visual contrast and enough of a personality clash to make fun sparks. They handle things healthily but the way they get there is fun

zee

Can, should, often aren't enough that its a whole societal issue. Not to discount those who are or even to say it's the majority, it's just kind of an unfortunate fact that it's common enough to be a shared experience

tifani

Honestly at this point I think Joe is going to dump her. Like he’s going to find out about the kiss and break up with her as a way of stepping aside because of his own hang ups about not being good enough for her and I don’t think Joyce is going to actually realize that she’s not 100% gay or 100% monogamous until after this and then she and Dorothy will have to have the conversation about opening their relationship to include Joe for Joyce and Joyce and then Dorothy and Joyce work together to bring him in. I think Walky and Dorothy might end up with a more scorched earth thing at least for awhile.

tifani

Hey you guys think there’s gonna be any follow up to Mary a character notoriously into blackmail being at the protest? (Thinking of ways Joe and Walky find out before the girls say anything).

tifani

Joyce really thinks she’s never going to sleep with Joe. Girl he bought you a weighted blanket and you were so turned on you blew him. When he says he’s going to step aside so she can be with Dorothy his eyes all wet and shiny looking like a Disney prince she is going to sit on his face.