ODDLY ENOUGH I can’t sleep on my back without some X-TREEM pillow contortioning bc, of all things, substantial weight loss has made my tailbone particularly pronounced, and I feel pressure on it when lying on my back and WTF BUTT
so I take back any desires I might have had to have a tail, that would piss me off I think
I assume you would have to put pants around your ankles, pull them up to your knees or butt, whichever is easier, and THEN thread the needle of fitting that tail through the tail hole of your pants. It would absolutely be a pain in the ass.
See, when I thought about it, actual tail-havers who are also pant-wearers would be practiced enough at it to get gud at using a tail sleeve, not a pain
Then you pull your trousers up with the opening at the back and button the waistband above your tail, with it sticking out through the opening at the bottom of the fly.
I feel like it depends on the kind of tail. If it’s a cat tail then the benefits are pretty good. What if you could get cat flexibility to go with a cat tail?
Thirded. I use one too, even for those occasions when I lie down for a short nap.
Now, falling asleep in the La-Z-Boy in front of the TV? That’s an entirely different ball of wax.
I can’t fall asleep on my back in the first place, so sleeping is one area I don’t expect I’d have issues with a tail
Now if I consider how often I knock things over with my hands and feet (not often but more than I’d like), and how often dogs knock things over with their tail (constantly), then I start to see an issue
I introduced my husband to the wonders of Midol for headaches back when we were dating. Never underestimate the magical healing powers of acetaminophen and caffeine. Ibuprofen is my achey-arthritis-joints-friend.
…Unless the headaches are caused by something else, like, say, low B12 that comes up normal on labwork.
Could also be sinus related, especially since having a raised head seems to help. A decongestant can help then. Steam can also help too.
Women in my family get hormonal migraines, and the acetaminophen, ibuprofen and caffeine mixture is the only thing that works on them.
I get pretty bad migraines. I’d heard of people using Midol to treat them, but I ended up running across Excedrin. It’s a stack of 250mg acetaminophen, 250mg ibuprofen (advil) and 65mg caffeine. It’s very effective, but makes me think my liver is going to explode if I use it too often.
But now that I look it up, Maybe Midol’s even more terrifying. 500mg of acetaminophen, 60mg caffeine, and something to put you to sleep.
Eat a liver and see if that improves anything :V
(no seriously, last time I had a (minor) depressive episode, I ate an entire fried pig liver and got WAY better)
I’ve eaten pigs’, calves’, geese’s, chickens’, and ostrich’s livers. Ostrich was best — tasted a bit like hazelnuts for some reason.
Liver tastes fine if it’s fresh, but gets bitter if it isn’t cooked promptly. The texture is a bit odd if you’re used to meat having fibres, but not unpleasant. Nevertheless the easiest way to like it is as a pâte or in sausages.
A little bit of pork-liver pâte is the secret ingredient in my ragù alla Bolognese.
Joyce needs to invest in one of those shaped memory pillows, they make sleeping much easier, even when I have a migraine. A bonus as well, if you want to sleep on your side instead of your back it can be adjusted for that.
You can find generic memory foam pillows from really any store that sells pillows, like Macy’s or something. Just be careful since some can have a bit of a smell to them and some are thicker than others.
I use them since I mainly sleep on my side, I tend to prefer them.
I find it’s generally better for the back itself to do that. Also if it hurts for any reason: pillow under the knee. Though it’s been a while since I’ve had to do that.
bugs: people sleep on their back? that’s scary. what if i want to walk around all over them and eat their dead skin and skin mites, now i have to look out for that wet hole they have
Same. I always seem to get them on bright sunny days where I have to go to brightly lit rooms like when I was in school. Fucking. torture. Sitting there and feeling painful and nauseous until hours later you feel the sweet bursts of warmth that mean your headache is FINALLY breaking up.
I like that Joyce is wearing the pajamas from that cartoon show she likes but not the shirt or hat. I gives the comic strong sense of continuity and makes Joyce seem like a real person, as it suggests that after the initial obsession that comes with a new found fandom, she has calmed down and no longer has to wear all the merch as a set, but still has the stuff lying around.
I sleep with a body pillow shaped like an inverted U. it is called a pregnancy pillow because apparently the time adults are socially allowed to be cozy and comfy is when they are literally growing another human.
As a person who has been pregnant but has chronic pain always, I think everyone should buy a pregnancy pillow if it would help them.
Eat the foods you crave when it seems wise as well! It irritates me that the only time most people think you should listen to cravings is when you’re pregnant.
I appreciate the realistic detail of the pajama pants assuming their natural wedgie state. The people who make PJ pants have to be using a special weave designed to shove the middle third of the fabric directly into the wearer’s asscrack at the first sign of motion, right? Is that just me?
Sometimes, the human body is forced to draw a fine ass. I can’t draw to save my life, but several times when I’ve been idly doodling, I’ve drawn the most absolutely perfect ass or boobs that could be drawn in that moment. It’s like a hard-coded signal in our DNA.
To be honest I’m much more of a boob guy but lately I’ve been gaining an increasing appreciation for a good butt. Every now and again I manage to draw one that gets even me a bit hot and bothered.
I would check in the Artists’ Handbook, but as you are an artist I don’t think you are allowed to become aroused at the nude human form. Artists can only do that if the model is not nude, but ‘naked.’ Or is that butt naked?
I’ve never been aroused by drawing a nude model for life drawing. Mostly because I’m too busy breaking their body down into simple shapes and rhythms for the purpose of drawing. But like if I see a nice butt or boobies in any other context, my eyes pop out of my head and I make an aoooga sound like a cartoon wolf.
mine is the opposite, when i sleep over at people’s for some reason they never believe or remember that i don’t want a pillow so they always give me one (or several) anyway, and i promptly push them out of the way before snuggling down nice and flat on my stomach ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lost that ability to be flat on the stomach somewhere in my thirties, now my favourite way to get asleep in a bed/floor that isn’t mine is flat on the back.
Pillows are for fighting.
I am a confirmed side-sleeper and, while I’ve never slept with anyone, if I ever do I’m all trained to remain in a position that will give her cuddles the whole night through.
You know, before I read the text and remembered that she’s not feeling well, I thought we were getting a Valentine’s Day strip about Joyce dating herself. If you know what I mean.
(Masturbating. The visuals made me think that Joyce might be masturbating.)
You’re dehydrated, Joyce. That’s something that has the potential to actually happen to you now that you’re over 18. Happens to all youngpeople as they make the slow transition to adulthood. Drink an entire dinner glass of water and wait fifteen minutes.
I usually just take some pain medicine before trying to sleep with a headache. Also, I’ve gotten so used to sleeping with two pillows under my head that only one pillow feels weird to me.
hey it me
ODDLY ENOUGH I can’t sleep on my back without some X-TREEM pillow contortioning bc, of all things, substantial weight loss has made my tailbone particularly pronounced, and I feel pressure on it when lying on my back and WTF BUTT
so I take back any desires I might have had to have a tail, that would piss me off I think
Not to mention a tail would make it really hard to put on pants.
But think of the benefits!!! ?
Nah, you just need pants with a second fly in the back.
Why would it be any harder than shoving arms/hands through sleeves or feet/legs through pants?
I assume you would have to put pants around your ankles, pull them up to your knees or butt, whichever is easier, and THEN thread the needle of fitting that tail through the tail hole of your pants. It would absolutely be a pain in the ass.
Why not just wrap it around your waist like Saiyans do? ?
Unironically one of the reasons why Toriyama got rid of Goku’s tail is that he said he couldn’t figure out how Goku would put on pants.
See, when I thought about it, actual tail-havers who are also pant-wearers would be practiced enough at it to get gud at using a tail sleeve, not a pain
and if it IS a pain, they wear kilts
KILT KILT KILT KILT!
Put a button fly above the tail, instead of or in addition to a fly in front.
Then you pull your trousers up with the opening at the back and button the waistband above your tail, with it sticking out through the opening at the bottom of the fly.
Well that can be solved with a #BanPants
Reject pants, return to skirt
My puppy (middle aged puppy) gets tense tail muscles and requires butt scritches.
I feel like it depends on the kind of tail. If it’s a cat tail then the benefits are pretty good. What if you could get cat flexibility to go with a cat tail?
What would it do besides get caught under rocking chairs
(more accurately, in closing doors)
I dunno, I could use the enhanced sense of balance in my day to day life!
Eh, i can’t sleep on my back either, not only do i snore at triple the volume, i also suffocate a little bit while i’m doing it.
Consider a sleep test. Apnea doesn’t get better with age. A disturbed sleep
Is a form of torture.
Seconded. Magic nose machine changed my life.
Thirded. I use one too, even for those occasions when I lie down for a short nap.
Now, falling asleep in the La-Z-Boy in front of the TV? That’s an entirely different ball of wax.
Eh, that’ll be eternally put off since i can just sleep on my side without issues.
I can’t fall asleep on my back in the first place, so sleeping is one area I don’t expect I’d have issues with a tail
Now if I consider how often I knock things over with my hands and feet (not often but more than I’d like), and how often dogs knock things over with their tail (constantly), then I start to see an issue
And Willis delivers pain for Valentine’s Day, as it was foretold.
Better headache than heartache!
For which I’d have to play some Bonnie Tyler!
Eh. I’ve been suicidal from headaches, but not from heartaches.
Fortunately, better hydration habits seem to have helped. And other stuff.
Heartbreak once again. The relationship between Joyce and her brain may truly never recover.
Tell me about it! ?
Joyce has never been more relatable.
Well played, Willis! ?
Sleeping in on Valentine’s… tale as old as time
If I sleep on my stomach, I feel like I should be hugging some cold hard ground
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL
UNBEARABLY SO
Poor gal.
Just take some ibuprofen and call it a day.
But what if the ibuprofen doesn’t like being called a day?
Then maybe the ibuprofen would like to go back into the dark, cramped medicine cabinet with the rest of its friends.
That or just drink a lotta water. Hydration is underrated.
I introduced my husband to the wonders of Midol for headaches back when we were dating. Never underestimate the magical healing powers of acetaminophen and caffeine. Ibuprofen is my achey-arthritis-joints-friend.
…Unless the headaches are caused by something else, like, say, low B12 that comes up normal on labwork.
Could also be sinus related, especially since having a raised head seems to help. A decongestant can help then. Steam can also help too.
Women in my family get hormonal migraines, and the acetaminophen, ibuprofen and caffeine mixture is the only thing that works on them.
I get pretty bad migraines. I’d heard of people using Midol to treat them, but I ended up running across Excedrin. It’s a stack of 250mg acetaminophen, 250mg ibuprofen (advil) and 65mg caffeine. It’s very effective, but makes me think my liver is going to explode if I use it too often.
But now that I look it up, Maybe Midol’s even more terrifying. 500mg of acetaminophen, 60mg caffeine, and something to put you to sleep.
“low B12 that comes up normal on labwork”
Has that happened to you? how does that happen? and how else do you test for B12 levels other than with a blood test?
Eat a liver and see if that improves anything :V
(no seriously, last time I had a (minor) depressive episode, I ate an entire fried pig liver and got WAY better)
How’d it taste? I can’t decide if fried pig liver sounds great or awful.
Let’s say is an acquired taste.
There’s always Liverwurst – no frying required.
I’ve eaten pigs’, calves’, geese’s, chickens’, and ostrich’s livers. Ostrich was best — tasted a bit like hazelnuts for some reason.
Liver tastes fine if it’s fresh, but gets bitter if it isn’t cooked promptly. The texture is a bit odd if you’re used to meat having fibres, but not unpleasant. Nevertheless the easiest way to like it is as a pâte or in sausages.
A little bit of pork-liver pâte is the secret ingredient in my ragù alla Bolognese.
Joyce needs to invest in one of those shaped memory pillows, they make sleeping much easier, even when I have a migraine. A bonus as well, if you want to sleep on your side instead of your back it can be adjusted for that.
That sounds useful. Do you know the name of the brand?
I do not unfortunately. I double checked the pillow but it isn’t labeled. Sorry :/
No problem. Thanks for looking, kind internet stranger.
You can find generic memory foam pillows from really any store that sells pillows, like Macy’s or something. Just be careful since some can have a bit of a smell to them and some are thicker than others.
I use them since I mainly sleep on my side, I tend to prefer them.
Do people sleep on their backs? That’s scary. What if a bug?
I find it’s generally better for the back itself to do that. Also if it hurts for any reason: pillow under the knee. Though it’s been a while since I’ve had to do that.
Bugs can be banished if need be.
bugs: people sleep on their back? that’s scary. what if i want to walk around all over them and eat their dead skin and skin mites, now i have to look out for that wet hole they have
Submit a bug report, and the issue might get patched in a future update.
That’s a feature not a bug.
*That’s a creature not a bug
Migraines are the wooooooorst. I feel Joyce on this.
Indeed, I wonder if she has the blinds pulled shut. I make sure every possible light source is as diminished as is reasonable
Same. I always seem to get them on bright sunny days where I have to go to brightly lit rooms like when I was in school. Fucking. torture. Sitting there and feeling painful and nauseous until hours later you feel the sweet bursts of warmth that mean your headache is FINALLY breaking up.
I really should invest in one of those sleeping masks that covers your eyes. If nothing else it’ll help with the light at least.
I like that Joyce is wearing the pajamas from that cartoon show she likes but not the shirt or hat. I gives the comic strong sense of continuity and makes Joyce seem like a real person, as it suggests that after the initial obsession that comes with a new found fandom, she has calmed down and no longer has to wear all the merch as a set, but still has the stuff lying around.
Well, at least Willis didn’t break up a couple this Valentines Day.
Obviously the answer is MORE PILLOWS.
I sleep with a body pillow shaped like an inverted U. it is called a pregnancy pillow because apparently the time adults are socially allowed to be cozy and comfy is when they are literally growing another human.
As a person who has been pregnant but has chronic pain always, I think everyone should buy a pregnancy pillow if it would help them.
Eat the foods you crave when it seems wise as well! It irritates me that the only time most people think you should listen to cravings is when you’re pregnant.
I appreciate the realistic detail of the pajama pants assuming their natural wedgie state. The people who make PJ pants have to be using a special weave designed to shove the middle third of the fabric directly into the wearer’s asscrack at the first sign of motion, right? Is that just me?
o3o that or Willis just has terminal butts disease.
Sometimes, the human body is forced to draw a fine ass. I can’t draw to save my life, but several times when I’ve been idly doodling, I’ve drawn the most absolutely perfect ass or boobs that could be drawn in that moment. It’s like a hard-coded signal in our DNA.
To be honest I’m much more of a boob guy but lately I’ve been gaining an increasing appreciation for a good butt. Every now and again I manage to draw one that gets even me a bit hot and bothered.
Well, scientifically speaking, butts *are* the boobs of the ass.
here’s your “spit take of the month” plaque. congratulations
I would check in the Artists’ Handbook, but as you are an artist I don’t think you are allowed to become aroused at the nude human form. Artists can only do that if the model is not nude, but ‘naked.’ Or is that butt naked?
I’ve never been aroused by drawing a nude model for life drawing. Mostly because I’m too busy breaking their body down into simple shapes and rhythms for the purpose of drawing. But like if I see a nice butt or boobies in any other context, my eyes pop out of my head and I make an aoooga sound like a cartoon wolf.
oh, I miss life drawing…
try on the side
o3o I’m drawing a thing.
So am I LOL
Also, side note, has anyone seen Dina’s trollsona?
I can’t seem to find it ANYWHERE :/
https://imgur.com/a/PePjPyb (NSFW)
THE THRILLING CONCLUSION
Excellent. I chuckled before I found it hot, but only just.
You drew and colored all that in under an hour?? That’s impressive, dude.
Naw I started at 11:15 so it it actually took me 2 hours :T
Very impressive tho! I’d take me a whole DAY or even more to make something of this caliber
HA HA HA ?
Great work Yoto!!!
YO INK
hahaha =D
that feels super in character, great job =)
Great job, Yotomoe!
(If my comment got spammed, I’m sorry. The site keep blocking my posts, I don’t know why).
A hoot and a half!
I now realize this comic has been my equivalent of Walky’s comic. With the exact same “punchline over and over again.
And yet, that is precisely what would happen.
It’s a constant battle Joyce, I’m pretty sure comfortable sleep is a myth perpetuated by big pillow to sell more pillows
I used to sleep comfortably anywhere and all night long.
Then I got older.
What I do is find the most confortable position and put more pillows over my head until I am surrunded by them.
mine is the opposite, when i sleep over at people’s for some reason they never believe or remember that i don’t want a pillow so they always give me one (or several) anyway, and i promptly push them out of the way before snuggling down nice and flat on my stomach ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lost that ability to be flat on the stomach somewhere in my thirties, now my favourite way to get asleep in a bed/floor that isn’t mine is flat on the back.
Pillows are for fighting.
This is what it’s like to be old (in your late 20’s)
Mid-30s here. Can confirm. :\
I have several kids older than you by double, you’re not old yet, I’m barely old.
There’s nothing that makes you feel old like the kids complaining about being old.
yup
Side-sleeping is an option – and my most adopted position.
I am a confirmed side-sleeper and, while I’ve never slept with anyone, if I ever do I’m all trained to remain in a position that will give her cuddles the whole night through.
You know, before I read the text and remembered that she’s not feeling well, I thought we were getting a Valentine’s Day strip about Joyce dating herself. If you know what I mean.
(Masturbating. The visuals made me think that Joyce might be masturbating.)
I mean to be fair I don’t see her hand in those last 2 panels.
My life.
See, if she hadn’t left God this wouldn’t have happened.
Devout Christians don’t actually sleep on beds. They just levitate slightly above it.
…isn’t that demonically possessed people?
There’s very little difference.
Plus one upvote.
Have yet another upvote!
You’re dehydrated, Joyce. That’s something that has the potential to actually happen to you now that you’re over 18. Happens to all youngpeople as they make the slow transition to adulthood. Drink an entire dinner glass of water and wait fifteen minutes.
Then another fifteen and go pee.
Then need another glass.
Welcome to adulthood, Joyce. Time to hit up Target for a foam pillow with three different heights.
Joyce is 30 years old today 😛
Joyce is only 3 years older than me.
Don’t worry, someday you too will have random inexplicable pains you can’t soothe without causing other random inexplicable pains.
Sarah: “Here’s some Tylenol. Now STFU, I’m trying to sleep!”
That would work if Sarah wasn’t currently in a car driving to Muncie
You forgot about robo-Sarah?
#SideSleepingSuperioritySquad
Yes!
If only my arm didn’t fall asleep in the middle of the night if I use it to prop the pillow up… Waking up to discover it’s dead weight is disturbing.
She needs a third pillow in front of the other two, to lift her shoulders so her neck isn’t bent so much.
if somebody finds a fix for this conundrum, let me know.
*Points at the comment above yours*
I usually just take some pain medicine before trying to sleep with a headache. Also, I’ve gotten so used to sleeping with two pillows under my head that only one pillow feels weird to me.
I’m in this image and I don’t like it.
This is fully me with a migraine. Poor Joyce
This is why i don’t sleep and just stay in my PC
It’s not the most immediate thing that’ll kill me
why are pillows so goddamn impossible
I just put some blanket behind my neck to support it then pile the rest of the blanket plus pillows on top
The neck might hurt, but turn on your side and now your SHOULDER will hurt.
You will…you will get used to the pain.
Wow, I know the comics have been running for a long time, but I’m still surprised to see Joyce enter her 40s whilst still in college! 😛