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New storyline begins today!: "Fools' Spring"

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C

That's a fucked up nightmare, yeesh.

wyatt

oh excellent

Populuxe

Yikes. That is some trauma.

Andrea Andrew

Oof. Now that Dorothy has been honest with Joyce, she now needs to face her fears and worries.

Logibear

At least the horse is safe

Railway Series Book Club

YESSSSS MORE DOROTHY TRAUMADREAMS storyline's already off to a banging start

KittyKai

Dorthy is fine

Lazuli

i think its been like a decade since ryan showed up?

AE Gonzalez

Time for more therapy sessions.

IAmDeltaS

Ooof, Dorothy's trauma is certainly still present

Harold

This is not what Joyce had in mind when she manifested Dorothy screaming in bed

AE Gonzalez

At least she has Joyce to hold her when she snaps awake.

Logibear

Smashcut to the waking world where Joyce has gone to pee

el

Holy shit.

EnterTheHero

when you realize you don't stop being traumatized just 'cause you have a girlfriend

Dan Rabin

1. As her parents start to transform into Ryan and Ross in panel 3, Dorothy's attire changes from a pullover shirt to buttoned full shirt and vest, and the colors change from the green of safety to the purple of violet violence. 2. Dorothy was certainly traumatized by Ryan's attack on Amber at the door to Read, but Ross wasn't there, and *neither was Joyce*. 3. Panels 1, 3 and 5 all place the characters in roughty the same positions, but Dorothy's apparent size keeps shrinking until the last panel as her confidence erodes. 4. The ragged lower edge of Deborah's clothing as she starts to transform in panel 3 is continued with Ryan's clothing in panel 5. 5. Panel 6 has a glint at the tip of Ryan's knife, but I can't make out what's at the end of the spiraling black scrawly thing. 6. Panels 2 and 4 show Dorothy's left hand with dialogue beckoning Joyce to safety, but in panel 4 the hand becomes droopier, and in panel 6 the hands are the purple of danger. Editorializing: I'm sorry to see that Dorothy's urge to protect Joyce is back in prominence. This will almost certainly be important, but I hesitate to speculate how.

GundamBradley

As I suspected, this wasn't going to magically make her not have PTSD she is actively hiding from her therapist and loved ones.

ArdieBea

I suspect that the smoky spiral object is a phone.

NinjaZaku

Ah yes there's the ptsd Dorothy was desperately trying to shove into a box instead of dealing with it

Kelly (they-them)

So, now that Dorothy doesn't want to be president anymore, she can stop lying to her therapist. She's gonna stop lying to her therapist now, right? Right??

5099 5618 v2.0

@voyaget-ngc5195 Not if the crew of the USS Shipstream have anything to say about it!

5099 5618 v2.0

@Lazuli Only in proper time. In strip-time, it's been a few months, at most.

5099 5618 v2.0

Headcannon: this is the equivalent of hyperspace, except a lot of *time* is passing by.

Shane Wegner

Dorothy is okay with events that were unfolding previously.

Shane Wegner

Are those swords stabbing the psionic dream defense door?

Tessea

I worry about how much Dorothy is still terrified for Joyce on some level. These nightmares CAN'T be good for her.

ArdieBea

Nope. Now that I'm on the desktop I can see that it's (of course) a tear-gas canister. One of the many benefits of not been a USAmerican is that it's not the first thing I think of when there's trails of smoke... We're thinking of you guys.

Shane Wegner

I don’t hesitant to speculate how Dorothy’s neurosis of needing to protect/help/heal everyone (with Joyce as an avatar) will be important- I’ll happily say it’s fundamental to her character arc as Primary flaw. Once she accepts she doesn’t have, and doesn’t need, the power and responsibility to fix Joyce/Bulmeria/her local corrupt cop department/the entire United States Executive Branch, she’ll be more at peace and whole as a person. The narrative is free to continue handing her consequences of refusing that call. In-universe I think the single best help might be an appropriate mentor.

Empress of Robots

"Good news everybody! Dorothy's attraction to Joyce wasn't a mere trauma response! It was a whole separate thing that did nothing to influence her attraction to Joyce!"

joe mcguire

Ohhh right….the horrible trauma….i remember now.

Harold

@Shane Wegner: As far as a mentor is concerned, reminder that Dorothy is planning to meet up with Jocelyne today.

Andrea Andrew

Meet the parents was always an underrated movie.

William Lewis

Nothing magically cures PTSD but things like Joyce being so very in love with her will help, it's just, gah, such a long fucking road.

Ilana Feldman

The artistic choices here actually feel more chaotic than the dream we were shown at the start of Book 14, with the stretched faces/clothing in panel 3 and whatever is going on with arms in panel 6. Also two closeups specifically on Dorothy's hand. I wonder what that's telling us about Dorothy's actual mental state right now.

Moon Goat

Um, maybe put another trigger warning on the main site? It's kinda warranted this time too.

Kelly (they-them)

I was reading them as the switch blade that Gashface had

meh

yes deborah your izabel cosplay is fantastic but now really is not the time