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C

Sleep rescuing is a new one.

Railway Series Book Club

yessssss yESSSSSSS THE MORTIFYING ORDEAL OF (your traumadreams) BEING KNOWNNNNNN

Fart Captor

A little TOO convenient… 🤔

Astariel

Huh, is Dorothy sleeptalking in panel 4?

Logibear

Ohhhhh. Turns out that the Blair Witching was involuntary... which makes it 100x more terrifying

Joe Crow - Words & Pictures

Hey, cool, trauma sleepwalking! That seems like it’s gonna be fine! Well, Joyce, it looks like the only reasonable solution is to rail your girlfriend back to sleep until she’s too tired to sleepwalk!

Logibear

"Gonna replace your trauma with a much more sexy trauma"

Gale Tazzin

what would it actually take for Joyce to dump Dorothy

MST3K.fan: The Cheesy Movie Essays

Also damn, it’s been a decade or so in real time but just 3-4 months for them since they were all traumatized. The whole cast needs therapy.

Harold

@Astariel: It certainly appears that way. Either that, or a psychotic break.

AE Gonzalez

Yup, as well as sleepwalking.

Maude Reads Things

Oooof. Yeah, sleep walking is rough. I did that a couple times when I was little. Scared the bejesus out of my friend's mom at a sleepover when she found me about to leave her garage door

Kiri Blackthorn

it's a real shame the therapists there aren't very good. ...so walky's been told.

Harold

"How do I know you're the *real* Joyce?" "Walky's a dick." "... OK."

Fart Captor

Dorothy flailing her little paws and whimpering in her sleep

AE Gonzalez

Your casual reminder that Dorothy saw a guy get slashed with a knife repeatedly, another guy beaten to death with a pipe, and her close friend kidnapped under threat of death.

Maybeeus

SACCHARINE JOYCE AND DOROTHY SHIT!!!!

Tessea

Oh damn... That's _really_ not good. Please get this girl a therapist.

Tessea

I think it would require Willis to have a traumatic sleepwalking/writing/drawing incident of their own.

Lisa

I don't understand the "is she in the well" comment. I'm guessing it's a reference to something?

Sajuuk-Khar

Ohhh it wasn’t just Blair Witch depression shit it was actual sleepwalking hallucination hours! Neat! Horrifying, but also: neat!

Morgan Byrd

Webster’s American English Dictionary defines “Post-traumatic stress disorder” as

Irene Knapp

there was a mid-20th-century television show called Lassie, about a dog. the dog is noted for being important to the family of farmers they live with, doing things such as letting the others know when young Timmy is trapped in a well. it was extremely popular in its day, which caused it to be remembered even by people such as myself who were too young to have really watched or cared about it much. someday this, too, will be forgotten; all things are impermanent...

5099 5618 v2.0

Sleepwalking night terrors? It tracks, but damn is that worrisome.

NinjaZaku

As someone who used to sleepwalk when i was young This is not a good development

Sajuuk-Khar

GOD will Willis ever stop RUBBING it in our FACES

Irene Knapp

no, yeah, that checks out. it's easy to forget, and a lot of comics would forget it.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold Moments later, Dorothy inadvertently blasts a hole in the wall with punches from the punch dimension.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Gale Tazzin Demonic possession, I assume. Of Willis, specifically.

Astariel

It was a hammer, not a pipe. But yeah, she's got (very understandable) issues.

William Lewis

As a US Army vet, this SCREAMS PTSD. Goddamn it Joyce, get both of you to REAL therapy. Both of you have suffered so much damage in a really short (what? six months story time?) period that you need real REAL help. Love can only help so much...

Gale Tazzin

I've had it happen to me before where I planned an endgame ship but then the plot caught up to the characters and it turned out to only be a middlegame ship

Girlycore

I'm confused by this question and the timing of it. Do you think Joyce should dump Dorothy over this or was it more just idle wondering?

Simon Magid

@Gale Tazzin: Demonic possession? I can't say I've ever had it happen to me. Though one of my player groups did once arrange to have me exorcised. Afterwards they complained it hadn't helped much.

joe mcguire

I remember a million years ago she mentioned that she already sees a therapist, but idk if that’s still in play or if she actually reveals the actual problems she has

Andrea Andrew

That sounds like a terrible idea, turning your endgame couple into a middle ship. It’s like John and Shayera breaking up and JLU ending with them still friends.

Shane Wegner

Me: “Ha! got my honorable discharge after 10 years with no serious issues!” Also me: Embarrassed explanations to significant others that I was frantically sleepwalk-pulling all the drawers of a hotel dresser out “to find the hidden bugs planted by enemy agents” or sleep-smashing the alarm clock “because it had been infected with malware.” I empathize with what Dorothy is feeling luciding up like this.

Grace Serenity

I believe she has one, but knowing Dorothy, she researched the right things to say because she knows she's "fine" and doesn't "need" therapy.

Grace Serenity

Therapy only works if the patient is willing, and so far the cast has not shown they are willing (except for Ruth, who is actually healing)

Grace Serenity

That's terrible advice, but if it means we get a second slipshine with these two, I'm willing to sacrifice Dorothy's mental health!

Gale Tazzin

@Girlycore of course not, they've already been through so much together. but Joyce hasn't really seen Dorothy like this, obsessing over saving her from everything. it might be a little off-putting! it just made me wonder what sort of threshold that would be, if it even existed at all, for Joyce to realize she prefers someone more gently supportive like Joe to Dorothy, the "mommest" of all her options as Jennifer pointed out