I mean, all you gotta do is watch a food commercial, and you stop being hungry.
..oh, well, I guess there’s also the “pick up a phone”, “dial a phone”, “deal with the hassle of communicating your desires”, “making payment”, “waiting patiently”, “interacting with a delivery person and hoping for no complications”, “consuming the food”, and “initiating digestion of the food”.
I’m sure all of those things are pretty inconsequential, though. Clearly it’s mostly the watching of the commercial that assuages the hunger, yeah.
..wait, I’m too poor to order food, what am I even talking about.
Commercials suck.
My favorite in the series is Julia Gray and the Chamber Full of SteveXBucky Fic That’s Totally Not Porn In The Eyes of God Because There’s No Pictures and Anyway it’s Art.
I don’t think Joyce is really into gay sex, at least that we’ve seen. She got flushed when Ethan mentioned the existence of dude smut, but I think that’s more just about the existence of dude SMUT rather than DUDE smut.
At that point I think it was mostly the concept of dirty pictures of guys, while her conception of smut was pictures of girls for guys to look at. So she started imaging pictures of naked guys.
Felian
Yes, and if you’re into guys, the good news is that in gay porn, you get at least TWO guys instead of just one like in straight porn! You don’t have to be gay to watch gay porn, maybe you’re just so much into guys that you need the extra one 😀
She is upset because she hurt Jacob. Superficially this is the same as being upset because it ruined her chances with Jacob (since it was by ruining her chances that she realized she hurt Jacob) but significantly different.
For every two steps forward with Joyce ot is also one step back isn’t it? I’m still betting we won’t see her buy any form of “personal” product until 2025.
I totally forgot about that place, but yes Dorothy and/or Sarah should absolutely drag Joyce there.
Northamptonian
It’s a great store! (The name is “Oh My” in real life.) Joyce would certainly be welcome, though Northampton is a bit far from Bloomington. I’d say there must be another excellent sex shop near there, but we’re talking about Indiana so probably not. Closest good place I can remember is Ann Arbor, and that’s still rather a hike. Yup, having Oh My access wasn’t one of my main reasons for leaving the Midwest but it’s certainly a nice perk. 🙂
Bicycle Bill
Considering Indiana University was the home grounds of Alfred Kinsey (yeah, THAT Alfred Kinsey, the one who founded the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at IU in 1947), I think it’s safe to say that Bloomington is not quite as strait-laced as all that and one would not have to look far to find a shop specializing in such, ummm, articles.
Northamptonian
Oh, I’ve been to the Kinsey Institute. Admittedly I lived in Bloomington back when Roomies! was in the IDS, so it’s been awhile. Still, remember that we’re talking about what’s in town, and those Cutters aren’t always on the same page as the Hallowed Halls of Academe. My memory is that the local sex shop was pretty sketchy back then, but it’s been 20 years so that could’ve changed completely. The Kinsey Institute has probably changed less; as you point out they’ve been doing pioneering work for a good 70 years and it remains important now.
(Though some things have certainly changed at the Kinsey Institute too. Of all the displays there, the most fascinating to me was just the series of staff photos over the years. You could watch as it went from the 1950s when only men worked there excepting a secretary or so, followed by a gradual shift over 30-40 years until the staff was almost exclusively women. I do hope that’s balanced out some since then.)
And then you hit your late 20s and realize you’re starved for sincere affection in a way that those party years of sexual gratification can never fulfill…
Everybody is different I guess. I was shy and nerdy in high school then I came out of my shell in my early 20s and started going out and hooking up a lot. It was a rush at first but now it just hurts to feel like I’m valued for my body and not who I am. I wanna be held, not fucked. Sex is a grass is greener thing. It’s not real human connection
lensi
It really depends a lot on your character and sexuality. For me it was totally ok to have different sexual relationships and great friendships at the same time. Sometimes I really preferred that to one partner.
Felian
I think that is too much of a generalization. Anonymous sex maybe, but there are so many ways to have sex that expressen a LOT of real human connection. not only the “stare into each others eyes lovingly“ kind of sex. Any kind of sex can be done with a really deep connection.
Dorothy took that much better than I thought. Given her recent (in universe) frustration with Joyce about what she was trying to do to Jacob I kinda figured she’d be upset or even “I told you so”
Well, self-anger is easier to process than trauma, because you can just mitigate with the former. And Dorothy is way better at mitigation than confrontation.
I doubt she is thrilled, but she can probably read the room enough to tell Joyce needs a friend right now. You can not approve of someone’s actions while still not wanting to punish their honesty, if that makes sense.
I think Dorothy can see that Joyce is already well into beating herself up about it. And Dorothy isn’t the person who got hurt in all this. There isn’t really any need for Dorothy to be angry at this point.
And yeah, yeah, I know, I was one of the Puritans who thought Joyce did a shitty thing but like….on the scale of shitty things, yeah, she manipulated her way into a date and kissed a guy in a relationship, she didn’t kill a man. It’s nothing that can’t be recovered by giving her head a shake.
Or, y’know, paralyzing religious anxiety works too I guess. Oh, Joyce, honey, your upbringing is just ….you deserved better, okay?
To be fair, Jacob kissed her, and it was his decision to break up with Raidah. Not that Joyce didn’t play her part, as Raidah clearly noted, but still.
191 thoughts on “Kneecapped”
Ana Chronistic
wonk wonk horniness doesn’t work that way!
it’s like a rash, scratch that itch and it spreads
…wait no
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Not for teenagers, anyway.
LeslieBean4shizzle
As a romance novelist, I can attest – writing sexy stories does not make one LESS horny. Rather the opposite.
Ana Chronistic
Yeah, I mean it’d be convenient if I just had to watch a cooking show to stop being hungry
DarkoNeko
right ?
HeySo
I mean, all you gotta do is watch a food commercial, and you stop being hungry.
..oh, well, I guess there’s also the “pick up a phone”, “dial a phone”, “deal with the hassle of communicating your desires”, “making payment”, “waiting patiently”, “interacting with a delivery person and hoping for no complications”, “consuming the food”, and “initiating digestion of the food”.
I’m sure all of those things are pretty inconsequential, though. Clearly it’s mostly the watching of the commercial that assuages the hunger, yeah.
..wait, I’m too poor to order food, what am I even talking about.
Commercials suck.
Ana Chronistic
I suppose that would work for a particularly terrible cooking show
Like, uh… *Google* Disgusting Food Museum?
Emperor Norton II
As someone who may or may not have written a Julia Gray story a few hours ago, I will neither confirm nor deny this.
GoblinScribe
So is Julia Gray the self-insert for Dorothy Brown, then?
Stephen Bierce
–“Seeing Me ‘N Julia Down By The School Yard”
*cues up “Crazy After All These Years” on the hacked Muzak*
Baf
As previously seen.
Nono
College: where hyperbole doesn’t exist.
Zaidyer
Much is suddenly explained
PHNX
“Julia Gray”?
Dean
Ace Space Force pilot Julia Gray!
Dean
Holy crap, it worked!
Bagge
You rock!
ValdVin
Plus, maker of mac and cheese, host of her own kiddie TV show. Really, she’s quite a catch.
James Rye
I wonder if Joyce will ever publish those chapters as a book. I could see them being popular like the other lewd fanfictions that turned into sellers.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
I am very much opposed to “Julia Gray” having anything to do with the PHNX Force.
That never ends well.
showler
Second time reading this I finally understood the joke.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Comment rising from the ashes.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Joyce’s novel-in-progress, entitled:
“Fifty Shades of Julia Grey”
…you’re welcome. ;D
Liquid Len
At 6 chapters a day that’ll take her just over 8 days to complete. I look forward to reading it! 🙂
Yet_One_More_Idiot
And at the pace of this comic in terms of real time©, those 8 days would take her approximately….what, a year and a half? xD lol
JetstreamGW
Not going to lie. Little surprised Joyce is capable of saying the word “horny.”
Danielle
thats what horny people do, joyce
Doctor_Who
My favorite in the series is Julia Gray and the Chamber Full of SteveXBucky Fic That’s Totally Not Porn In The Eyes of God Because There’s No Pictures and Anyway it’s Art.
Nono
I don’t think Joyce is really into gay sex, at least that we’ve seen. She got flushed when Ethan mentioned the existence of dude smut, but I think that’s more just about the existence of dude SMUT rather than DUDE smut.
Doctor_Who
Are we forgetting this little incident?
Nono
I did, but again, I’ve read it as more like it’s more the smut that turns her on, rather than the idea of attraction between two men.
I think you could show Joyce lesbian porn and she’d be into it, not because she’s a lesbian, but because it’s PORN.
thejeff
At that point I think it was mostly the concept of dirty pictures of guys, while her conception of smut was pictures of girls for guys to look at. So she started imaging pictures of naked guys.
Felian
Yes, and if you’re into guys, the good news is that in gay porn, you get at least TWO guys instead of just one like in straight porn! You don’t have to be gay to watch gay porn, maybe you’re just so much into guys that you need the extra one 😀
Ana Chronistic
LITERATURE
Slartibeast Button, BIA
But is she upset because she lied, or because it ruined her chances with Jacob?
We need a DoA “What-If?” series.
Norah
I think it could be both.
DailyBrad
Definitely both.
Emperor Norton II
Both is good.
Agemegos
But not as good as being upset because it hurt other people.
thejeff
To quote yesterday’s Joyce “Turns out other people still have feelings and you still care about those feelings.”
Tan
She is upset because she hurt Jacob. Superficially this is the same as being upset because it ruined her chances with Jacob (since it was by ruining her chances that she realized she hurt Jacob) but significantly different.
Kamino Neko
Yeah, this.
Joyce is a good person at her core, so the fact that she fucked up and hurt somebody is obviously going to upset her.
Dara
Oooooh, Joyce, that’s not how horniness works.
Kyrik Michalowski
For every two steps forward with Joyce ot is also one step back isn’t it? I’m still betting we won’t see her buy any form of “personal” product until 2025.
Nono
Look Dorothy is THIS CLOSE to just buying her one already.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
They should go to that little old lady’s store in QC.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1379
Kyrik Michalowski
I totally forgot about that place, but yes Dorothy and/or Sarah should absolutely drag Joyce there.
Northamptonian
It’s a great store! (The name is “Oh My” in real life.) Joyce would certainly be welcome, though Northampton is a bit far from Bloomington. I’d say there must be another excellent sex shop near there, but we’re talking about Indiana so probably not. Closest good place I can remember is Ann Arbor, and that’s still rather a hike. Yup, having Oh My access wasn’t one of my main reasons for leaving the Midwest but it’s certainly a nice perk. 🙂
Bicycle Bill
Considering Indiana University was the home grounds of Alfred Kinsey (yeah, THAT Alfred Kinsey, the one who founded the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at IU in 1947), I think it’s safe to say that Bloomington is not quite as strait-laced as all that and one would not have to look far to find a shop specializing in such, ummm, articles.
Northamptonian
Oh, I’ve been to the Kinsey Institute. Admittedly I lived in Bloomington back when Roomies! was in the IDS, so it’s been awhile. Still, remember that we’re talking about what’s in town, and those Cutters aren’t always on the same page as the Hallowed Halls of Academe. My memory is that the local sex shop was pretty sketchy back then, but it’s been 20 years so that could’ve changed completely. The Kinsey Institute has probably changed less; as you point out they’ve been doing pioneering work for a good 70 years and it remains important now.
(Though some things have certainly changed at the Kinsey Institute too. Of all the displays there, the most fascinating to me was just the series of staff photos over the years. You could watch as it went from the 1950s when only men worked there excepting a secretary or so, followed by a gradual shift over 30-40 years until the staff was almost exclusively women. I do hope that’s balanced out some since then.)
ValdVin
It’s based on a real store?
My wife and I have been to Northampton enough that I should have suspected as such.
James Starkey
Daft punk disco don’t. Nice.
James Starkey
Dong* bah autocorrect.
Opus the Poet
So, did anybody ever make that Daft Punk toy?
GutterChick
And then you hit your late 20s and realize you’re starved for sincere affection in a way that those party years of sexual gratification can never fulfill…
… or is that just me?
sunflowerofice
*shrugs* i never really got either of those.
GutterChick
Everybody is different I guess. I was shy and nerdy in high school then I came out of my shell in my early 20s and started going out and hooking up a lot. It was a rush at first but now it just hurts to feel like I’m valued for my body and not who I am. I wanna be held, not fucked. Sex is a grass is greener thing. It’s not real human connection
lensi
It really depends a lot on your character and sexuality. For me it was totally ok to have different sexual relationships and great friendships at the same time. Sometimes I really preferred that to one partner.
Felian
I think that is too much of a generalization. Anonymous sex maybe, but there are so many ways to have sex that expressen a LOT of real human connection. not only the “stare into each others eyes lovingly“ kind of sex. Any kind of sex can be done with a really deep connection.
Kravis
You’re “squeezing” something out alright, Joyce…
Needfuldoer
Yeah, that definitely earns a “phrasing”.
Robbie
Dorothy took that much better than I thought. Given her recent (in universe) frustration with Joyce about what she was trying to do to Jacob I kinda figured she’d be upset or even “I told you so”
Nono
Well, self-anger is easier to process than trauma, because you can just mitigate with the former. And Dorothy is way better at mitigation than confrontation.
DailyBrad
I doubt she is thrilled, but she can probably read the room enough to tell Joyce needs a friend right now. You can not approve of someone’s actions while still not wanting to punish their honesty, if that makes sense.
justin8448
I think Dorothy can see that Joyce is already well into beating herself up about it. And Dorothy isn’t the person who got hurt in all this. There isn’t really any need for Dorothy to be angry at this point.
ValdVin
Dorothy is good at this, and it’s how she treats Joyce when Joyce needs this kind of advice.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/first/
DailyBrad
Oh, I totally forgot about Julia Grey.
BBCC
Is the not half the purpose of fan fiction?
If not, several several people have lied to me.
And yeah, yeah, I know, I was one of the Puritans who thought Joyce did a shitty thing but like….on the scale of shitty things, yeah, she manipulated her way into a date and kissed a guy in a relationship, she didn’t kill a man. It’s nothing that can’t be recovered by giving her head a shake.
Or, y’know, paralyzing religious anxiety works too I guess. Oh, Joyce, honey, your upbringing is just ….you deserved better, okay?
Nono
Well, Dorothy is only learning about the first of Joyce’s transgressions. Joyce hasn’t told her about kissing Jacob or breaking up him and Raidah yet.
Rabid Rabbit
To be fair, Jacob kissed her, and it was his decision to break up with Raidah. Not that Joyce didn’t play her part, as Raidah clearly noted, but still.
Regalli