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Mrm mrr mrmimo
Posted on November 7, 2023 by David M Willis

147 thoughts on “Mrm mrr mrmimo”

  1. Sirksome

    Aw. This is sweet.

    1. Thag Simmons

      They’ve been very cute this chapter.

      1. clif

        I was going to post Dumbing of Age 14: Mrm mrr mrmimo, but then I looked over at the Willis XTwitter feed.

        1. Thag Simmons

          You don’t have to call it X.

        2. Thomas

          …and its current sorry state is better indicated with Q anyway. That can be Q for QAnon, but primarily Q for Quitter.

        3. Chris Phoenix

          Xitter, with the X pronounced as “sh”

        4. FlamestAndLight

          Like in Nahuatl!

        5. Mark

          I’m quietly amused by all the explanations out there that might as well have been phrased, “X, which is really Twitter.”

        6. Thag Simmons

          Nobody actually calls it X! It’s a horrible rebrand.

        7. thejeff

          “This is an X Twitter!”

        8. Xaeon

          In his position I would have had trouble resisting the urge to go with “Dumbing of Age 14: One more episode?” just to mess with the audience.

  2. quark

    ok lets hope she has a better dream this time around

    1. Ana Chronistic

      this time, she pets the horse

  3. Mym

    Now kiss

    1. Angel

      lol i wonder how sarah would feel about joyce ending up with dorothy over joe haha

      1. Nono

        Dorothy over Joe would be a different kind of Slipshine.

      2. Schpoonman

        Sarah fucking sucks right now so anything that goes counter to her current characterization is almost certainly a positive for whoever encounters it.

        1. Mym

          I’m still a believer that Sarah can turn it around. If this comment section can desperately cling to Lucy/Walky, I can also have dreams

    2. Amós Batista

      One day, Mym, one day

      1. Mym

        There are so many breadcrumbs for this ship, I’m clinging

    3. butting

      Only Lucy has the power.

      1. Mym

        Listen, if Lucy brings my ship to fruition, I will take back all my Anti-Lucy propaganda and I will pray to her above the false got Yoto

  4. Kyrik Michalowski

    This is a very sweet scene… so what is going to come along the next day and ruin it?

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      I don’t even know who that even is.

      1. NGPZ

        Lyle, Lucy’s brother!

        1. Kyrik Michalowski

          Ah, I totally forgot about him.

        2. Pergola

          Is he responsible for the grav reshuffle? Except that I still have Lucy?

        3. NGPZ

          Nah. Post-timeskip Jacob got added last

          Also, lucky you still got Lucy because the spinner just happened to land on her (1/30 chance)

      2. Kyrik Michalowski

        Nice, but not Sal.

        1. Kyrik Michalowski

          Fuck no.

        2. Kyrik Michalowski

          Excellent, but not Sal.

        3. Kyrik Michalowski

          Not again!

        4. Kyrik Michalowski

          HOORAY!!!

        5. NGPZ

          ?

        6. Reltzik

          And there it is.

        7. Masumi

          What do you have against me me?

        8. Kyrik Michalowski

          Reminding me of a teacher with similar social skills that I hated.

        9. clif

          But congrats all the same.

        10. Jess

          this thread is EXTREMELY entertaining to read

        11. Mym

          Team Sal!! Let’s have everyone be Sal lol

        12. Cholma

          You DO know you could just save your favorite Sal image, then upload it as your permanent avatar on the Gravatar site, yes?

        13. clif

          That’s …. That’s… that’s cheating! [/scandalized voice tone]

        14. Dara

          You can even clip your own from the comic that isn’t one of the general options and upload it and now people think it’s part of the rotation because you clipped it from the comic ^_^

        15. Leorale

          Or you can choose whichever default avatar looks most like you, and edit it in MS Paint for a kinda Willis-style version of your face, and then upload *that* to the Gravatar website.

          (it was many years ago, I have glasses now and am a better artist than I was then. But that’s okay, close enough.)

        16. HueSatLight

          You can look at the last time you did grav roulette, assuming you do them in a reproducible order, or leave hints in the comment text what your capitalization was.

        17. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Or even a picture from some other webcomic, or your favorite anime.

        18. Vulcanodon

          Highly recommend Gravatar site

    2. HueSatLight

      Next chapter name is from a lyric in That Thing You Do. So maybe just Joyce being with Joe is going to give Dorothy heartache she doesn’t understand.

  5. NGPZ

    ? ?
    aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeee

    1. NGPZ

      *plays “Emerald Tide” by Michael J. Murphy on Hacked Muzak*

      1. Plain Marie

        Hey, where is StevenB these days? Hacked Muzak is usually his thing too.

        1. NGPZ

          I dunno, hopefully he alright.

          (he has ADHD and might be taking a much needed sabbatical ^^)

  6. Grimey

    So we can confirm that Walky and Joyce both can help Dorothy hit the relax button, right? Not that this comes as a shock to anyone but what does it mean for Dorothy long term.

    1. DailyBrad

      That she has only a handful of people she lets get that close to her, I’d think.

  7. Bryy

    This is so good.

  8. HueSatLight

    And here she is still under the covers–!!

    1. Aura

      Ohh, very nicely done!

    2. HueSatLight

      More seriously, I think there’s been a role reversal, or at least a change in their dynamic. Joyce feels the amount of helpingness between them has been tragically uneven. And now she’s helping not because she’s obligated, but because she can and Dorothy needs it. She’s tucked her in after she drifted to sleep, that’s symbolic. Joyce is a mom friend now too.

      1. nicoleandmaggie

        Fingers crossed!

    3. Hazel

      This might be enough to make me believe that Joyce/Dorothy could be endgame.

  9. Dday

    Good gravy willis why do you keep doing this to us

    1. jeffepp

      Sadism.

      1. Jo_Cubstar

        😮 is Willis an emotional sadist… interesting

        1. clif

          And we keep returning day after day. And what does that say about us?

        2. Jo_Cubstar

          I mean, it’s nothing I didn’t already know about myself ??

    2. butting

      Because the old argument about whether eternal damnation means instant annihilation or ongoing torment is being worked out in the DYW-verse too. And alas, so far it looks like no matter how much we damn Willis, we’re somehow being set up to be tormented over and over and over in return.

      1. Mark

        You’ve gone and reminded me of that ST:TNG episode in which Picard and that Cardassian jailer were torturing each other to see who breaks first.

        1. Dday

          My favorite part was the dramatic ending where Picard holds up the half-eaten sandwich to the jailer and declares
          THERE
          ARE
          FOUR
          BITES

    3. Plain Marie

      Because this is life. Maybe not our personal life(or maybe it is sometimes), but still.

  10. Taffy

    AAAAWWWW

    1. clif

      Yeah.

  11. Coatl

    You would think that everything would be fine, for the moment perhaps, but we know that Dorothy has to be honest sooner or later. Leaving that aside, they cannot deny that
    Dorothy looks very beautiful in these panels

    1. Smallmoon

      In my head;
      Dorothy doesn’t have the nightmare tonight, and locks in, consciously or unconsciously, that being near Joyce reassures her and keeps the nightmare away. She keeps ‘nodding off’ next to Joyce for the rest of the year, and once they’re no longer in the dorms and now in a house that Joyce, Joe, Sarah, Carla, Walky, and Sal are renting together, Joyce twigs onto “Is Dorothy narcoleptic?” and frog-marches her to a sleep specialist in a mirror of how Dorothy frog-marched her to the ophthalmologist.

  12. Rotunda

    Whatever I may feel about Dorothy not telling Joyce about her problems is erased by Joyce’s unconditional caring about her friend. I have been out-unconditioned by a fictional character.

  13. DarkoNeko

    That’s really cute, but I beg of you, put the glasses somewhere less risky

    1. Aura

      Please listen to this cat ?

      1. NGPZ

        I mean at this point it may force Dorothy to take another much needed day off if they DO break. So win-win, really.

      2. HueSatLight

        There’s a meganekko pun here somewhere.

    2. Ana Chronistic

      Joyce hasn’t had them long enough to know not to break them =p

  14. BBCC

    Awwww, this is so sweet. I hope Dorothy feels better tomorrow.

  15. Masumi

    Cute!

    But don’t put those glasses there, they’re gonna get sat on o.o

    1. Coatl

      haha, maybe it’s an excuse for Joyce to help Dorothy

  16. Jo_Cubstar

    Damn you Willis and your end of storyline!!!! I wanted more from this cuteness MORE!!!!!

  17. Schpoonman

    Is it way too much to say I enjoy all the Joyce/Dorothy baiting specifically to spite the sealion on Patreon that drove me to nuke my account there?

    But really, it was incredibly irking to have literally every comment section for any given JoJo strip to be riddled with “BuT DoRoThY” including “Joyce is only interested in Joe for his body,” alongside the strip where Joyce was explicitly disappointed with Joe for being a “libido with a face.”

    1. RassilonTDavros

      …wait, what happened on Patreon again? What’s this sea lion thing?

  18. jeffepp

    So, as they sleep cuddled together, Dorothy will wake from a troubled dream, and find herself in Joyce’s arms. She’ll then… [Blank]

    1. clif

      [Blank]? Everybody’s looking for nothing and now at long last we have found it.

    2. StClair

      Charles Nelson Reilly!

      1. jeffepp

        Ah, a fellow person of taste.

        1. Needfuldoer

          Giddyup, Gene!

  19. Yotomoe

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtkofUmGiw

  20. RassilonTDavros

    Couldn’t decide whether I wanted to comment something shippy but I’m preeetty sure my last Grav roll was Daisy so pretty much any comment I could write is gonna come off as wanting these two to kiss so… yeah.

    It cute

  21. BarerMender

    The fifth frame confused me for a second. Is Joyce grabbing– No, she’s pulling up a blanket. Yeah, that would’ve been weird. Still, I’m a little disappointed.

  22. Radiance

    Aww. They’re such good friends.

    1. morleuca

      They could even be roommates!

      1. Needfuldoer

        They are pals!

  23. UrsulaDavina

    This is so damn sweet i can’t take I have headbutt something to balance it out .

    1. NGPZ

      If you’re serious about that, good news. Bob Knight is now dead. Really.

      1. Schpoonman

        Good fucking riddance.

      2. UrsulaDavina

        I have this qued up for such occasions https://youtu.be/cXVZVCoaxM4?si=C0ePChrI5oVj049L

      3. Schpoonman

        Jeeeeesus fucking Christ, the shitstain supported Trump? He should have died decades ago.

        1. Amós Batista

          Ehh, due to his nature…

  24. Amós Batista

    Gokuro-sama, Dorothi.

  25. Bicycle Bill

    One more episode of what?

    1. Angel

      i assume either that monkey masters series or another thing they’re both into lol

      1. butting

        Nah. Something with horses.

      2. HueSatLight

        like last time https://www.dumbingofage.com/fun-3/

  26. skel

    As a bi fem person I am genuinely shipping them as exactly what they are.

  27. TrueVCU

    Ok, raise your hand if for a second you thought Joyce gave Dorothy’s boobs a feels

    1. Rowan

      Appropriate gravitar ?

      1. TrueVCU

        The gods have favored me this day

    2. Weatherheight

      ::raises a front hoof::

      1. butting

        *looks up from notes*

        Sorry, was that a yay or a neigh?

        1. JR

          Well done. I somehow never tire of that joke.

    3. Leadsynth

      Yep, I definitely did. But it’s probably because I looked at that panel first before reading anything.

  28. Suet

    Wonder what Dotty summoned with that, that’s a hard thing to utter

    If you act like this again tho, Joyce, it’s on you now.

  29. ADLegend21

    [chanting] throuple throuple throuple!

    1. justin8448

      Joyce cannonically knows what polyamory is…

    2. Mym

      Good gravatar for this one

      1. ADLegend21

        gotta love when Gravatar helps with a joke

    3. jeffepp

      This has been the clear solution for some time.

    4. DailyBrad

      Joe and Dorothy as sister wives, just since I can’t picture Joe and Dorothy hooking up. Neither would be super comfortable with that.

    5. Bo

      joe gets to live his ‘multiple b*tches’ fantasy but PLOT TWIST it ISNT b*tches its the WOMAN he loves and her romantic best friend! :0

  30. DashWallkick

    It’s very insightful and sweet that Joyce has enough emotional intelligence to see Dorothy is struggling, give her some problems to fix, and subtly comfort her about things she can’t control. Joyce can be devious in her own way and fixing the problem so they Dotty doesn’t even know she did anything is so smart.

  31. Acher4

    Mmmr Rrrmmrr Mrmmmr mmmrrmrmrmm! 😀

  32. Needfuldoer

    It’s-a me, mrmimo!

    1. Suet

      It’s my favouwite Disney pwincess, mrmimo

      1. J.Gawain

        If ye could be bwave, would ye? mrmimo would.

        1. Bo

          im merobiba!

  33. Vulcanodon

    Awww, this is sweet. A very nice ending to the storyline.
    (Whispers to Joyce: “Put the glasses someplace safe”)

    1. Amelie Wikström

      Oh yeah, she’s had her own glasses like a week now, it’s the perfect time to learn about how expensive it gets to forget about them and roll over them in bed. Why not make it two pairs for one.

      1. Needfuldoer

        Been there done that.

        On your face or in their case! Never on a surface someone is likely to walk or sit on!

        One time in middle school a teacher got pissed at me for reading a book in my lap, so she grabbed the book and violently slammed it down on the desk, partially brnding my glasses. They blamed me because I was “reading wrong”.

        1. vlademir1

          I’ve heard, and experienced, some real horror stories regarding teachers but “reading wrong” both tracks with that and yet is entirely novel.

  34. Sigivald

    End of storyline … or … surprise end of entire strip?

    (Naw, but you could do a lot worse for an ending.)

    1. Null Set

      Willis already has comics uploaded thru the end of May.

  35. Adept

    Aww… That was cute.

    1. Adept

      But my avatar is still wrong 🙁

  36. Booyahman

    Not quite sure what Joyce is doing with her expression in Panel 4. She’s got like a frazzled look??? I guess she’s holding in a laugh?

    1. DailyBrad

      I think it’s just a little fond smile.

      1. Booyahman

        I’m more on the eyes than the lips, the dot eyes transition is different from the other panels

  37. GoblinBagsSumo

    I love it. I feel like right now we’re all Jennifer in the last panel of this comic: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/truce-2/

    1. Daibhid C

      I mean, I’m sure there are some people who want to spray them with a garden hose, but I’m not sure it’s the consensus opinion.

  38. Lia

    THIS is yuri

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