Now I’m imagining Joyce as Patricia Tannis from Borderlands.
“I have determined two additional things: firstly, that Sal finds it irritating when others pluck out strands of her hair under the guise of needing them for scientific experimentation, and secondly, that they taste like olives — wait, no — fried pickles.”
lipstick_suckerpunch
I was just replaying that game last night. I love Tannis
“I’ll just take a little clipping…
Hmm. Let’s even it out so she doesn’t notice…”
*four hours later*
“I can just.. glue a wig to her scalp.. she’ll never notice…”
The dorm I lived in for my last two years of college had a similar arrangement. Two rooms connected by a bathroom area. If I recall correctly, you could lock the door to the bathroom area from your room’s side of the door. It’s been awhile though so my memory might be sketchy on that. (I graduated in 1998).
I too am familiar with this setup and cans say it hasn’t changed since 1998. I think the doors have locks but Sal and Billie leave them open because they aren’t threatened by Joyce in the least.
Unless it’s confirmed there are no locks and I missed something.
Marc in MN
I imagine it would vary from person to person when (and if) they locked the doors. I’m sure some people would leave it wide open even when they aren’t home. I think I usually had the door unlocked, but closed except when I wasn’t in the room or asleep. I may have even just had it shut when I was asleep. I remember my roommate and I didn’t really hang out with the people on the other side of the bathroom much, so it’s not like people were dropping in all the time. 🙂
No, that’s how ours worked, and it was fine because as long as my own deadbolt was done, next door could be as irresponsible about door-locking as they wanted to be w/o compromising my own safety.
The arrangement for THESE dorms is the opposite–the bathroom can lock [so whoever’s inside can maintain privacy], but you can’t lock out the neighbour w/o completely denying them bathroom access. Joyce thinks this is “neat” and Billie despises it.
Sure, for my dorm, that meant someone could be locked in the bathroom, but it meant that my security was not dependent on like-minded neighbours I’d never met [which is the case here, evidenced by Dorothy’s complete obliviousness to sharing the bathroom with Amber].
Considering Billie isn’t exactly responsible, Sal probably left the door unlocked so that she could get in if she stumbled back in drunk and without her keys. Alternatively, the door wasn’t locked because Sal is awake, so not really needed.
That is, until Sarah gets up to heaven and then refuses to enter.
Yotomoe
I always thought heaven had a “no killing my flock” policy. But I honestly don’t know WHAT can be prayed away. According to Moses Murder is no worse than Lying.
4th Dimension
“But I honestly don’t know WHAT can be prayed away.”
ANYTHING
Well not prayed away but repented for and prayed for forgiveness.
Yotomoe
That makes it seem pretty easy to go to heaven.
Kryss LaBryn
As I understand it you honestly have to mean it, though, and actually try to change.
Apparently “repent” has connotations of stopping traveling down the path one is on, and actively changing to a new path.
–Which means probably that bad Christians who do terrible things and then “repent” on their deathbeds because they don’t want to go to Hell won’t actually fool God, which at least is a comforting thought with some of these assholes.
There’s another religion (I can’t remember for sure but it maaaay be some form of Islam?) where after you’re dead you just have to walk across a bridge to get into Heaven. The trick is, the worse a person/religious adherent one is, the narrower the bridge is, and if you fall off, then Bad Things happen.
How to get into various afterlives is an interesting discussion…
thekit10666
Remember kids, don’t trust tight rope walkers in that version of heaven
Yotomoe
I’d heard that everyone, except perfect people,(meaning literally noone) goes to purgatory. But Purgatory is the most painful feeling in all existance and you are purged for every individual sin you’ve commited. Like getting burned to death repeatedly until you’re purged.
gwalla
That’s really only a Catholic belief though. Protestants reject the doctrine (they don’t accept 2 Maccabees as scripture), and it’s not really present in Orthodox Christianity either.
lightsabermario
Maccabees sounds delicious! Or like a Final Fantasy enemy.
kelticat
There’s an interesting form of ancestor worship in a part of Africa where if you don’t recieve forgiveness from those that you sinned against before you die, your ancestors beat the shit out of you after you die until you have paid for your sins.
Deeply, and thoroughly ( female ) Homosocial
Ironically it’s what fuels her attraction to having a relationship with Ethan
( Obviously, she is also physically attracted to him )
Willis confirmed this at some point, he alt-texted something like ‘Joyce thinks everyone is awesome —unless you are a Heterosexual male ‘
She briefly freaked with Billie when Billie Pointed out the close connection between these homo-social tendencies of Joyce, and Bi-curiousity.
My opinion is that Both gender typically at, or after puberty go through a stage of Idealized Homo-sociality.
( But Post-puberty I was suppressed closeted bisexual, so I my opinion may be biased )
For some of us, there is no boundary between homosociality and increased intimacy, its just a continuing spectrum
For some us thats true of all friendships intimacies with humans,
and the preset relationship boundaries society offers us, do not fit.
( if that describes you email/google me, maybe )
To her possible detriment I would probably let joyce enact boundary crossing behaviors that others would find creepy, because I would look into those blue eyes and find her sincerity intoxicating,
But when I got the courage to do it return I would freak her out
( because she is repressed )
I grew up with very, very long brown hair and other girls always wanted to brush it and play with it. My mom contained it in long tight braids. I always made girls mad because I wouldn’t let them brush my hair, but they didn’t believe how bad it tangled when you mess with it.
Then today a boy got mad because a kid wouldn’t let him touch his buzzed hair cut. We had a long discussion about respecting personal space and keeping your hands to yourself.
160 thoughts on “Crash”
Jen Aside
Augh, I can’t get over the dorm arrangements! I would’ve installed a goddamned deadbolt SO FAST.
ESPECIALLY with a JOYCE next door!
MrSirk
No it’s fine. The worse Joyce could do is steal some of Sal’s hair and hide it under her pillow to gain some of her coolness.
Doctor_Who
Now I’m imagining Joyce as Patricia Tannis from Borderlands.
“I have determined two additional things: firstly, that Sal finds it irritating when others pluck out strands of her hair under the guise of needing them for scientific experimentation, and secondly, that they taste like olives — wait, no — fried pickles.”
lipstick_suckerpunch
I was just replaying that game last night. I love Tannis
Ghola
“I’ll just take a little clipping…
Hmm. Let’s even it out so she doesn’t notice…”
*four hours later*
“I can just.. glue a wig to her scalp.. she’ll never notice…”
FuryOfFirestorm
She could make a voodoo doll out of it.
Vangeln
She could make an “other Sal” out of it.
Marc in MN
The dorm I lived in for my last two years of college had a similar arrangement. Two rooms connected by a bathroom area. If I recall correctly, you could lock the door to the bathroom area from your room’s side of the door. It’s been awhile though so my memory might be sketchy on that. (I graduated in 1998).
MrSirk
I too am familiar with this setup and cans say it hasn’t changed since 1998. I think the doors have locks but Sal and Billie leave them open because they aren’t threatened by Joyce in the least.
Unless it’s confirmed there are no locks and I missed something.
Marc in MN
I imagine it would vary from person to person when (and if) they locked the doors. I’m sure some people would leave it wide open even when they aren’t home. I think I usually had the door unlocked, but closed except when I wasn’t in the room or asleep. I may have even just had it shut when I was asleep. I remember my roommate and I didn’t really hang out with the people on the other side of the bathroom much, so it’s not like people were dropping in all the time. 🙂
Jen Aside
No, that’s how ours worked, and it was fine because as long as my own deadbolt was done, next door could be as irresponsible about door-locking as they wanted to be w/o compromising my own safety.
The arrangement for THESE dorms is the opposite–the bathroom can lock [so whoever’s inside can maintain privacy], but you can’t lock out the neighbour w/o completely denying them bathroom access. Joyce thinks this is “neat” and Billie despises it.
Sure, for my dorm, that meant someone could be locked in the bathroom, but it meant that my security was not dependent on like-minded neighbours I’d never met [which is the case here, evidenced by Dorothy’s complete obliviousness to sharing the bathroom with Amber].
Kurai Seraphim
Considering Billie isn’t exactly responsible, Sal probably left the door unlocked so that she could get in if she stumbled back in drunk and without her keys. Alternatively, the door wasn’t locked because Sal is awake, so not really needed.
Mr. Random
The smile belies the NEED.
Plasma Mongoose
The NEED to stop overdosing on speed.
Lume
And drugs
Lanval
Speed is one hell of a drug.
sonic
GOTTA GO FAS
Atomix26
Lol
Opus the Poet
“Ah’m hiding your brushes” You need to hide yours Sal.
madd
Sal said “hide brushes” I think she means ALL the brushes.
Opus the Poet
The Willis giveth, and the Willis taketh away. My quote was accurate when it went up, but the line was changed between your post and mine.
MrSirk
That got really creepy really fast!
AgentKeen
Joyce, too much.
etybolik
Go brush Sarah’s hair, Joyce. I’m sure you’ll get a better reception from her.
Yotomoe
I mean you’ll be dead, but afterward you guys won’t argue anymore.
liahansen
That is, until Sarah gets up to heaven and then refuses to enter.
Yotomoe
I always thought heaven had a “no killing my flock” policy. But I honestly don’t know WHAT can be prayed away. According to Moses Murder is no worse than Lying.
4th Dimension
“But I honestly don’t know WHAT can be prayed away.”
ANYTHING
Well not prayed away but repented for and prayed for forgiveness.
Yotomoe
That makes it seem pretty easy to go to heaven.
Kryss LaBryn
As I understand it you honestly have to mean it, though, and actually try to change.
Apparently “repent” has connotations of stopping traveling down the path one is on, and actively changing to a new path.
–Which means probably that bad Christians who do terrible things and then “repent” on their deathbeds because they don’t want to go to Hell won’t actually fool God, which at least is a comforting thought with some of these assholes.
There’s another religion (I can’t remember for sure but it maaaay be some form of Islam?) where after you’re dead you just have to walk across a bridge to get into Heaven. The trick is, the worse a person/religious adherent one is, the narrower the bridge is, and if you fall off, then Bad Things happen.
How to get into various afterlives is an interesting discussion…
thekit10666
Remember kids, don’t trust tight rope walkers in that version of heaven
Yotomoe
I’d heard that everyone, except perfect people,(meaning literally noone) goes to purgatory. But Purgatory is the most painful feeling in all existance and you are purged for every individual sin you’ve commited. Like getting burned to death repeatedly until you’re purged.
gwalla
That’s really only a Catholic belief though. Protestants reject the doctrine (they don’t accept 2 Maccabees as scripture), and it’s not really present in Orthodox Christianity either.
lightsabermario
Maccabees sounds delicious! Or like a Final Fantasy enemy.
kelticat
There’s an interesting form of ancestor worship in a part of Africa where if you don’t recieve forgiveness from those that you sinned against before you die, your ancestors beat the shit out of you after you die until you have paid for your sins.
Khaner
Why does this seem REALLY creepy?
And not in a funny way?
Foxhack
Probably because it is.
Yotomoe
Because you don’t offer to brush the hair of a girl you’ve known for 3 weeks. I don’t like people I’ve known for YEARS to touch my hair.
newllend
I know what you can do for her, first strip down .
Cephalo the Pod
Then put your clothes right back on, screw with her head completely. It’ll keep her awake for the rest of the day and fix her sleep schedule.
Maveric1984
Is that David Tennant on the back of the door?
Keroshino
I hope so! 😀
Chef Excellence
I was thinking Castiel, personally.
Catullus
It’s Andrew Garfield, I think.
Khaner
Knowing Joyce, it’s Robert Pattinson.
4th Dimension
This is Sal/Bille’s side of the door, so the posters are theirs.
Jen Aside
it’s been covered before
JessTheBest
Ah yes, Joyce “Friend of Dorothy” Brown
LeslieBean4Shizzle
Well, she does want everyone to know she’s a friend of Dorothy… guess she wants to make sure Sal got the message.
**grin**
Rosicrucian
Okay, so maybe Joyce is a little bit gay.
Bill
Not necessarily gay; just never outgrew doing the hair on her “My Size Barbie”.
Kernanator
A little, he says.
Rosicrucian
A smidge.
Kernanator
Just a pinch.
Rosicrucian
Pinches are involved, yes.
saltchocolate
A touch. (A “touch” . . . )
Karfsma778
YOU’VE GOT THE TOUCH!
SilentRain
i love all of y’all so much right now
Rosicrucian
Joyce can win.
If she dares.
Adam Black
Deeply, and thoroughly ( female ) Homosocial
Ironically it’s what fuels her attraction to having a relationship with Ethan
( Obviously, she is also physically attracted to him )
Willis confirmed this at some point, he alt-texted something like ‘Joyce thinks everyone is awesome —unless you are a Heterosexual male ‘
She briefly freaked with Billie when Billie Pointed out the close connection between these homo-social tendencies of Joyce, and Bi-curiousity.
My opinion is that Both gender typically at, or after puberty go through a stage of Idealized Homo-sociality.
( But Post-puberty I was suppressed closeted bisexual, so I my opinion may be biased )
For some of us, there is no boundary between homosociality and increased intimacy, its just a continuing spectrum
For some us thats true of all friendships intimacies with humans,
and the preset relationship boundaries society offers us, do not fit.
( if that describes you email/google me, maybe )
To her possible detriment I would probably let joyce enact boundary crossing behaviors that others would find creepy, because I would look into those blue eyes and find her sincerity intoxicating,
But when I got the courage to do it return I would freak her out
( because she is repressed )
Plasma Mongoose
“Grandma Sal why are you so tired?”
“Who are you calling grandma you whippersnapper!”
saltchocolate
Perfect grav award!
Plasma Mongoose
I was planning on a different grav but with the way Joyce is acting, this one just seems so right.
saltchocolate
Don’t fight the flow. : )
Deanatay
Creepster Joyce is srsly creepy.
John
Ah, there’s the stalkeriffic Roomies! Joyce we all know and… know.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
And love. You can be annoyed by people you love.
Lonas
Is it just me or is Joyce going to be our eyes and ears for a little bit?
Keroshino
Aww come on, let Joyce brush that hair!!!
Cimorene
I grew up with very, very long brown hair and other girls always wanted to brush it and play with it. My mom contained it in long tight braids. I always made girls mad because I wouldn’t let them brush my hair, but they didn’t believe how bad it tangled when you mess with it.
Then today a boy got mad because a kid wouldn’t let him touch his buzzed hair cut. We had a long discussion about respecting personal space and keeping your hands to yourself.
Annie