Couldn’t he also come in from the side? Have her lean on one shoulder and turn her head to him?
Idk kissing is not one of my things (as it is one of the things my brain screams germs at).
I may be in the minority, but I absolutely hate 69. Can’t focus on either giving or receiving in that position and just find it extremely unenjoyable. ?
That’s the consensus of… almost everybody I know, myself included. It’s really uncomfortable and hard to focus well enough on either oneself or one’s partner.
Oo, as someone who has never enjoyed receiving significantly because I don’t like the… less interactive nature of it? 69 is actually much better for me to be able to relax at all.
Also yes, competitive oral is a great approach, haha.
I have a very long torso and short legs, Fred Flintstone body. I literally can’t reach for 69 if the woman is doing anything to me unless she’s a WNBA player. Ditto on her doing anything to me while I’m doing her, same caveat.
i like 69 on occasion. mostly i think the visuals are amazing? but TB completely H the awkwardness is part of the appeal too?? i think 69 has primo comedic potential. some of my most memorable sexytimes had derision and fabulous states of excitement folded into one another.. um yeah. dialectics baby. idk
I mean, I’m roughly a foot taller than my wife. My brother has a similar gap in his current marriage and had 18 inches on his ex-wife. You can make it work.
Honestly good job on Willis. These aren’t very easy angles to draw. They ain’t perfect but as someone who’s tried to draw the same angles with the same characters, game recognize game.
An upward turn to the left with some shoulder twists and a downward turn to the right with a forward lean would probably work better for you, you two.
Me personally, I imagine upside down kissing probably works best when one of you is hanging upside down from a web strand, preferably in the rain.
But doing it while at least one of you is lying down on the bed is easier when neither of you have the proportional strength of a spider, the ability to stick to vertical surfaces, and the biochemical know-how to produce webs.
I can’t draw, but this might work: Him holding her up by the butt in a seated position, she has her arms around his neck over his shoulders and her legs wrapped around his torso.
Hanging off his shoulders by her knees just sounds like a one-way ticket to abdominal pain unless he’s supporting her with his arms around her back.
Joyce: I don’t care how many upside-down noseprints I get on my glasses, I’m going to do an upside-down spider-man kiss and it’s gonna be romantic as hell!
Now waiting for awkward nose-bumps (not from this angle, though) or difficulties in syncronizing mouth openings to the same size. (unfortuantely, only Joyce wears glasses so we can’t have tangled glasses hijinks!)
Sure, Joe is experienced, but I’m not sure how experienced he is at actual romance rather than one-and-done, and really it only takes one to be adorkably clumsy.
joe go to the SIDE not over her head good lord man
you’ll get a fucked up back leaning down all the time, I speak from experience, but it can be worth it
Joyce, why’d you change your undies if you intend to do more things that are going to wet your next undies too? 😀
i mean, i get it, it’s annoying af for my neurodivergent body to wear wet undies, but, ummmmm you’re gonna need more changes in a few min 😀
you underestimate how much Joe indeed wants blowing
also, top-of-head kisses are a thing
(tho some people call that blowing)
Yeah, in that position, I would have gone with the head kiss instead of complaining about how we were sitting.
(or back of the neck; that’s a good spot)
Couldn’t he also come in from the side? Have her lean on one shoulder and turn her head to him?
Idk kissing is not one of my things (as it is one of the things my brain screams germs at).
All of these are top tier solutions. Pity Joyce didn’t take a course in basic kinesiology.
I read that as kissology. I’m sticking to it.
Joe, on the other hand, has no excuse for not having thought of any of this…
Just a good excuse for DW to flex his mastery of drawing faces from awkward angles.
Drawing anatomy at awkward angles?
He reads 9CL daily. He’s studied the master.
There’s drawing anatomy at awkward angles, and then there’s drawing *plausible* anatomy at awkward angles. Also, Joyce is not 80% legs.
Joyce clearly wants the full Spidey kiss though.
Maybe they should ask Amber to ask AmaziGirl for some advice.
she remembered something
this is cute. that is all
HIS SMILE AWWHH
These two continue to be absolutely adorkable.
My wife would not try to do this with me. She’d expect me to dove into a 69 position……and she’d probably be right.
I may be in the minority, but I absolutely hate 69. Can’t focus on either giving or receiving in that position and just find it extremely unenjoyable. ?
That’s the consensus of… almost everybody I know, myself included. It’s really uncomfortable and hard to focus well enough on either oneself or one’s partner.
You have to treat it like a competition where you are trying to distract the other so much that they stop what they are doing.
That is indeed the way. Totally worth the neck cranking to notice you’re good enough for the to stop their part. Really good for the ego
Oo, as someone who has never enjoyed receiving significantly because I don’t like the… less interactive nature of it? 69 is actually much better for me to be able to relax at all.
Also yes, competitive oral is a great approach, haha.
@Jo_cubstar
Right there with you. It seems like fun on paper, but the logistics aren’t worth the hassle.
I have a very long torso and short legs, Fred Flintstone body. I literally can’t reach for 69 if the woman is doing anything to me unless she’s a WNBA player. Ditto on her doing anything to me while I’m doing her, same caveat.
i like 69 on occasion. mostly i think the visuals are amazing? but TB completely H the awkwardness is part of the appeal too?? i think 69 has primo comedic potential. some of my most memorable sexytimes had derision and fabulous states of excitement folded into one another.. um yeah. dialectics baby. idk
Well actually I wanna blo-
Yeah, I was pretty sure someone else would’ve beat me to it xD
-ck the vote? ?
*plays “Mystery Kindaichi Band” on hacked muzak*
In this strip: Joyce learns the structural challenges of smol/toll.
the challenges of smol/tall are why the good Lord invented stairs.
and apple boxes.
“Height differences matter less when you’re lying down.” – Miles Vorkosigan
BUJOLD REFERENCE LET’S FUCKIN GO!
**clears throat**
I mean, that was a very skillful usage of the Nebula award winning author’s work. Very good. *golf clap*
Given Miles’ preference for “mountain climbing,” he had to find SOME solution.
anything’s possible if youre flexible enough ;P
I mean, I’m roughly a foot taller than my wife. My brother has a similar gap in his current marriage and had 18 inches on his ex-wife. You can make it work.
“Joyce, I’m back from trying to get Dorothy to fix thiWHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON”
Cue JoyceFace Sarah.
not sure if she’d rly be that surprised given that she knows they’re a couple even if she is actively trying to interfere
I’m here for every pixel of this. It’s true though, kissing from behind like that is more complicated than one might think.
Honestly good job on Willis. These aren’t very easy angles to draw. They ain’t perfect but as someone who’s tried to draw the same angles with the same characters, game recognize game.
The moral of the story is that Willis can draw way better romantic smut than McEldowney could ever dream of.
Can you imagine the weird limbs and impossible angles McEldowney would give this?
What, people don’t dislocate their spines when they smooch?
Obviously they just don’t care enough to try harder.
let the clumsy fumbling begin
Flagged for not saying “clumbling”.
flumsy clumbling
C’mon, Joyce. You have kissed more people than Joe. You must know how to do this better.
i imagine she didn’t rly have to do this at ‘fun’ angles. or was maybe able to do this before with no problems but still aforeheadkis swould be cute
She smooched Ethan and Becky from side-by-side, and Jacob while she was standing up. Unless there’s more we don’t know about somehow, that’s it.
Way to suck the fun out of it, Joe!
If he has the ability to do that, she may be in the right spot to intercept. Muah.
This continues to be fucking adorable and fun.
May I introduce my fantasy movie cast and half the script for “The NightGuy Rises.”
https://reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/s/tnhQeJn55C
Seems like Joyce is using Twilight as a reference for their kissing positions.
Or that scene from one of the Spider-Man movies.
He did have a Christ allegory
What position did Judas kiss him in?
Budding Dom Joyce? But my birthday isn’t for another 6 months
It’s somebody’s birthday somewhere!
An upward turn to the left with some shoulder twists and a downward turn to the right with a forward lean would probably work better for you, you two.
Me personally, I imagine upside down kissing probably works best when one of you is hanging upside down from a web strand, preferably in the rain.
But doing it while at least one of you is lying down on the bed is easier when neither of you have the proportional strength of a spider, the ability to stick to vertical surfaces, and the biochemical know-how to produce webs.
Plus you probably won’t get rain all up in your nose.
think of all the people who died so we could have nostrils that align with gravity. we owe them everything
right, all these hapless primates born with upwards-facing nostrils who died young because they kept drowning in a drizzle
rip
Joyce, if he could kiss _there_ he wouldn’t have left his room to begin with
Cue Sarah in 5 4 3 2 1…
This option is still on the table.
But sure let’s think of more kissing positions that gives Joyce a net advantage – kissing Joyce while Joe does push-ups, the sideview Spiderman…
Sitting on his shoulders craning his head up towards hers and macking on him like a gremlin.
Like this https://imgur.com/a/aK6uYGk
90% sure this is impossible unless you’re really short but that’s my idea.
I can’t draw, but this might work: Him holding her up by the butt in a seated position, she has her arms around his neck over his shoulders and her legs wrapped around his torso.
Hanging off his shoulders by her knees just sounds like a one-way ticket to abdominal pain unless he’s supporting her with his arms around her back.
As someone who really appreciates strong sexual dimorphism…. whoooooooo??
Dumbing of Age, Book 15: Lower More! MORE!
Joyce: I don’t care how many upside-down noseprints I get on my glasses, I’m going to do an upside-down spider-man kiss and it’s gonna be romantic as hell!
“Our first kiss will be incredibly romantic, once I can figure out the logistics to do the Spider-Man/MJ kiss while sitting down”
Just slide to the side! It’s exactly the same!!
Spider kiss? Spider kiss!
Now DIP ME, my love! Lower! LOWER! *wham* …….lowerrrrrr
Slipshine but it’s 12 pages of Joyce and Joe awkwardly trying and failing to upside down kiss
Ending with Joyce calling in Amber to tie him upside down.
(Bonus last panel of Sarah walking in with a bat chanting “pinata! Pinata!”)
She ties a cord to Joe’s leg, then she points her grappling gun at the ceiling and fires XD
Now waiting for awkward nose-bumps (not from this angle, though) or difficulties in syncronizing mouth openings to the same size. (unfortuantely, only Joyce wears glasses so we can’t have tangled glasses hijinks!)
Sure, Joe is experienced, but I’m not sure how experienced he is at actual romance rather than one-and-done, and really it only takes one to be adorkably clumsy.
Joe just casually doing a nope.avi in panel 4 like it ain’t no big deal
Of course.
Of course.
Of COURSE there would be a few thousand posts from people reading into what Joyce meant by “blowing”.
But what I don’t get is, why are there none about what the alt text meant by “nailing”?
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION!
What did Willis mean when Joyce said “Insert your penis into me, please”?
I’m baffled by “let us now do coitus together, and by that I mean sexual intercourse.” I know it’s a metaphor, but not sure what for.
this is just adorable i swear
She didn’t say where. A kiss on the neck seems feasible.
His chin is in the way 🙂
I mean, if YOU just keep arching back Joyce you’ll be in a good position to kiss something ELSE. 😉
where doing this man
where MAKING THIS HAPEN
joe go to the SIDE not over her head good lord man
you’ll get a fucked up back leaning down all the time, I speak from experience, but it can be worth it
“Docking sequence not complete. Alignment mismatch. Commence realignment sequence.”
ah, yes. Nailing.
Joyce, if you want to be kissed like that sit in your desk chair.
So I hear.
Yes! My partner and I often do a little upside-down kiss when one of us is sitting down and the other is standing behind.
Noooooooooooooo upside down is the most awkward way to kiss aaaaaaaaaaaaah
Maybe if one of you hung upside down?
I get the idea that Joyce has spent a long, LONG time imagining how things like this are supposed to play out.
And her imaginings have nothing to do with anatomical realities.
*bonk* “Joe, I think your chin just bent my glasses” “This was your idea.”
With my first partner, he had glasses, and him taking off his glasses was always a sign of “oooooh we’re gonna make out aren’t we“. hehe.
God, this is so cute. You’re killing me here.
Joyce watched Spider-Man 1 and clearly hadn’t really thought about the logistics of how hard an upside-down kiss would be
The secret is to watch Spider-Man 2 where MJ reenacts it with Junior with him on the couch.
Joyce, why’d you change your undies if you intend to do more things that are going to wet your next undies too? 😀
i mean, i get it, it’s annoying af for my neurodivergent body to wear wet undies, but, ummmmm you’re gonna need more changes in a few min 😀