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"hey amber, say your catchphrase!" "I DON'T LIVE HEREtm"

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Andrea Andrew

Walky’s still in angry at Joyce mode (Amber will help him through that), and hasn’t seen Dorothy. Amber/Walky/Booster threesome incoming, perhaps.

Logibear

Dumbing of Age Book 16 "Ow! It Hurts When I'm Aroused"

Harold

It hurt itself in its arousal

Logibear

"Then who's that up in bed with you under the covers?" "What? You gonna steal them from me too? Fuck. Outta. Here"

jafortee

me when my ex-girlfriend and her lesbian break into my room and demand to see my situationship

Harold

@Andrea Andrew: Amber/Walky/Booster/Joyce/Dorothy fivesome

KiasyonSFM

That's gonna hurt for at least another day now.

Maude Reads Things

Yeahhhh, you know where she is now and that someone is with her so listen to Walky and GTFO now XD

Logibear

Fuckpile! Fuckpile! Puckfile!

Lazuli

joyce brown: "hah! i was right!"

Astariel

Probably not the most believable lie Walky could have come up with.

Irene Knapp

heroic effort on Walky's part, and well intentioned

Irene Knapp

like realistically anyone who knows where she is, is in danger

Harold

@Astariel: Sadly, it may very well *be* the best he could do

5099 5618 v2.0

Booster often does sound like Amber, Joyce. Just ask your *New Girlfriend*. She's been in this room [1] often enough to know this. [1] - Naked!

5099 5618 v2.0

@Logibear That sounds dangerous. All those knees and elbows...

Tessea

Looking for Amber in all the wrong places.

GundamBradley

God, Joyce is a dweeb. Go bother someone else.

Rubia

Hey, no nasty mockery this time! She's growing. It's been... what, two days since the raid? I hope Walky and Amber come out of this okay.

Tessea

And they STILL forget to lock the door!

Shane Wegner

Conservatives can't decide if they want it on a ban list, or required abstinence-only reading to scare teens straight.

Rob McBobson

"And when I say 'they' I mean it in the plural sense, as in 'Amber and Amazigirl SOUND like Amber'."

tifani

He said get the fuck out Joyce. Get the fuck out.

tifani

She gets absolutely no credit on growth. She shouldn’t be there. She shouldn’t be questioning. The second he said get the fuck out she should have left. Why is she still there???

tifani

Saying “knock knock” AFTER you open the door fucking infuriating. Like “hey I already violated your privacy and I’m going to pretend to be cute about it” then the lingering and questioning after he told her to leave?

tifani

Yeah like why is she still there? Why is she pressing him? She walked in on two people in an intimate moment who clearly do NOT want her there and keep telling her to go! What is with that face in the last panel? Yeah it is Amber. So the fuck what? Someone who is hiding from you does not want to see you Joyce! GO AWAY!

Rubia

I'm cutting Joyce some slack here, since despite her recent attempts at embodying the strip's title and other flaws, she's a good person and her trying to find out where Amber is comes from a place of concern. What she's doing isn't acceptable behavior, though.

tifani

Feels like some Joyce’s mom behavior.

tifani

He shouldn’t even have to lie. But I think Amber herself wants no one to know she’s in there. You and your girlfriend aren’t in her inner circle Joyce. Leave both of them alone!

tifani

Ha just realized Walky aroused Amber with the thought of him spooning Booster and that was what the “ow!” was about. (It was very obvious I just didn’t notice until reading the whole comic a second time) I think Booster would be fully into a threesome btw.

tifani

Admit nothing ever Walky. Joyce does not get the satisfaction of being proven right about this.

tifani

She is NOT trying to find out where Amber is out of concern. They know Amber is fine. It’s been four days since the incident. Dorothy has texted multiple times and has likely been left on read. There is no special reason Dorothy is entitled to know where Amber currently is except that it’s on her check list for the day. Joyce however just wants to be proven right. If this was coming from legit concern she and Dorothy had multiple other options for finding this out before coming to Walky. Off the top of my head they could have sucked it up and asked Dina because Dina likely know or could easily find out and isn’t someone Walky and Amber are avoiding. She is also someone Amber would trust to know her location.

Rubia

Yes, that was the joke from the previous strip. She wanted to know where she was before that exchange with Dorothy.

tifani

Yes and? Just proves Joyce is not doing this out of any kind of concern.

tifani

Joyce isn’t a lesbian.

Rubia

Yeah, okay. Judging from this and other comments, you're far more invested in this than I am, and I've no interest in debating the finer points when I agree with you that she's violating their privacy and should leave. I'm backing out of this conversation now.

tifani

Hey maybe Joyce is just tying to cover her bases and use Booster’s proper pronouns because even though she feels she’s probably right she’s willing to consider a tiny chance that is Booster. I think it would be funny if she leaves this moment thinking maybe that was Booster. She always runs away from them the second they’re around. Maybe she never noticed how similar their voice is to Amber’s? Walky should text Booster about it and Booster should agree to say that was them just to fuck with Joyce. Joyce never gets to know for sure!

Sajuuk-Khar

Theory: Amber is as big a sub as AG is as big a dom

Dan Rabin

I note the comic-art conventions at work here: Joyce's knock, Walky swooshing the covers over Amber, Amber's little Asterisk of Speaking to give the speech pointer something to point to. Although Joyce has impolitely opened the door on her own initiative, she resumes the usual protocol of knocking once she can see inside, and she treats the edge of the door as a boundary for the rest of the strip. Joyce and Walky's previous interaction: https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/sorest/ And Joyce throws a forefinger in the third panel.

Lazuli

i had the same thought here

Packy Anderson

She doesn't have visual confirmation, so she still doesn't know where Amber is.

joe mcguire

“Then who’s that up in your bed under the covers?” “Your mom!! Get the hell out!”

tifani

Good!

tifani

She currently says a lot of shit. I’m not going to humor her. She’s not a lesbian. Words mean things. And she’s privately nursing a heartbreak we just saw before our eyes not a half an hour ago her time that was her realizing she’s in love with a man at the same time she loses him as a consequence to her own lie of omission. So calling herself a lesbian is clearly denial/coping. If real actual bisexual women want to call themselves lesbians I have no power to stop them. But Joyce isn’t real and we all know she is not calling herself a lesbian or gay as a catch all. She’s calling herself that because she wants to deny the actual reality of her actual desire which is that she is a bisexual woman in love with a man at the same time she is in love with a woman and lying to herself and both of them about it. Because it’s just one more story she’s telling herself today. And given this is a story and I am a bisexual woman frequently presented with bisexual erasure regularly I am even more determined not to play along. Even if the character doing the bisexual erasure is the character themself. She has proven herself to be an unreliable narrator of her own life when it comes to thoughts and feelings she’s still processing. Dorothy too. I don’t judge them for it. I’m rooting for their growth. But I’m not going to be like “whatever you say is the truth” about it.

Empress of Robots

This four way is just a little soggy! It’s still good! It’s still good!

Andrea Andrew

Maybe Joyce is pan. I’d love to see less pansexual erasure.

tifani

There, there. It’s time to call it. There are so many flies and it’s starting to mold but hey look what I just pulled fresh out of the oven? Why it’s the chances of a Walky/Booster/Amber threesome! Fresh and hot!

Harold

@Dan Rabin: Soon to be followed by two fingers from Walky, and two more from under the covers. ("And Booster's hands *look* like Amber's." "GET THE FUCK OUT")

tifani

Please know that I so much consider bisexual and pansexual to be the exact same thing and have such deeply personal feelings about the word bisexual and if the pansexual label need exist that when you see a comment written by me about this coming in to specify pansexuality get a mention is not only unnecessary it’s actually kind of a trigger. We’ve discussed our views on the labels before and I’m not trying to fight about it. I would just personally appreciate you not doing this in response to a thing I just said. We’re on the same side of this issue ultimately. But we gotta agree to disagree on the labels.

Jennifer Novelli

@tifani It's 'cuz she doesn't see them as people. Main Character Syndrome as a motherfucker...

tifani

I thought about the idea of diagnosing a fictional main character with main character syndrome and my nose started bleeding.

tifani

Okay now I’m just wondering if Joyce’s face in that last panel is her reacting to Walky wanting her to leave and Amber very obviously hiding from her. Like okay so giving her the benefit of the doubt because I feel like she crossed a line here that makes me think she’s getting off way easier than she actually deserved but now looking past this I’m just going to focus on the fact that she really seemed to think she could just walk inside this room and find Amber there and it wouldn’t be a big deal. Thinking back on her whole “no hard feelings” attempt with Walky. I think she is finally actually letting herself feel that her behavior has altered her social fabric in a way she doesn’t like. Like she clearly thought before this that Amber is someone who would want Joyce to know she was okay if Joyce was showing up saying she was concerned about her. Now she’s finding out no actually that is not their relationship. I think she and Dorothy were both under the impression that they were better friends with Amber than all evidence shows they are. And this shouldn’t be a surprise. I think Booster who has known Amber for way less time clearly has a better understanding of her than Joyce or Dorothy when he says she doesn’t trust easily. But I think them perusing her this hard shows they do not know her that well, do not get her, and have not earned that trust they just assumed they had.

Sajuuk-Khar

She did say earlier today that she goes both ways (UP TOP!) so she’s really Dorothy’s bisexual (owner)

Sajuuk-Khar

Also god DAMMIT Walky, you can’t invent a Booster/Amber/you threesome while my brain is still trying to dislodge thoughts of Jocelyne and Sarah having a [SISTERHOOD] contest using Tony’s [SOUND, LOGICAL JUDGMENT]! D:

Sajuuk-Khar

A little soggy, wee bit of internal bleeding, smells off, but it’s absolutely fine!

Harold

In fact, it may rule

tifani

Cut to Booster crawling into bed between Walky and Amber to make the spooning thing retroactively true. Amber passes out from horniness induced pain.

tifani

I think it would be really funny to put in the alt text that canonically Booster and Amber actually have similar sounding voices when this posts on main.

tifani

Also tag Booster as being there like that time they didn’t tag Dorothy because she was “In perceivable”. Just gaslighting for funsies. I so believe in this being an extremely funny thing to do I have also messaged Willis on tumblr about it. And if it works it will be the greatest impact I have had on this comic since that time I convinced them to edit in a pizza box solving the “did Hank get the girls pizza” mystery once and for all. Though I do recall Hank died for it. His sacrifice was not in vain.

5099 5618 v2.0

@tifani I don't think Joyce's mind could survive acknowledging that this is just like stuff her mom did to her, right now. That might actually trigger a fugue state and/or be the first in-strip appearance of anti-Joyce.

5099 5618 v2.0

@tifani Is there a name for the Walky/Booster/Amber ship, yet?

Girlycore

bisexual or other multisexual label! There are many, and she honestly might fit some more than others.

Sajuuk-Khar

@5099: Joyce has Dorothy ownership papers in my heart, god dammit, and that’s where it REALLY counts

Beck Chonigman

The Brown sisters really like being up in everyone's fries, huh?

Harold

@5099 5618 v2.0: I was thinking about Walky and Booster being roommates, and Amber having a headmate, and suddenly "Max Headroom" popped into my head as a ship name. Amazi-Girl wouldn't be part of the ship, though, so it doesn't track 100%.

Berry

I sense booster coming in next panel.

tifani

@empressofrobots: oh I’m aware. I almost just typed “it’s gone” as my original reply.

Harold

Phrasing!

Sajuuk-Khar

Booster stepping through the door and nutting immediately from the intense dramatic spiciness would be on brand

5099 5618 v2.0

@Jennifer Novelli (/Milhouse intensifies, evolves into THRILLHO)

5099 5618 v2.0

@S-K Intriguing. How do we test this?

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold (/And now, a reference to something no one else [ likely | should ] remember, from 'Bebo, the Cat What Has Facial Hair') Walky: "Wow, that was a really interesting story!" Joyce: "So, you see we--" W: "GET THE **** OUT OF MY [ROOM]!!!"

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold "C-C-Catch the wave!" Also: "Say, would someone mind checking the [forum]? [We] seem to have an audience or two."