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Send back
Posted on November 19, 2024 by David M Willis

274 thoughts on “Send back”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “WHAT’S ONE MORE BAD DECISION”

    1. Clif

      Amber always gives the best advice.

      1. GreyICE

        I mean she outright admitted she gives awful advice, and then Dorothy took it.

        Feel like Dorothy went to Amber and then pushed her to basically get this advice 😛

        1. BorkBorkBork

          Plausible deniability. It was just a joke between friends. Really good friends. Really good friends who go horseback riding together. This weekend? Just the two of us? Alone? Oh, sure, Joe can tag along; there’s an area he can just kick back and watch.

        2. Chris

          “Really good friends who go washing-machine riding together.”

          There, fixed it for you.

        3. Michael Steamweed

          “Maytag Gal Pals”

        4. Taffy

          That’s preposterous, when has the name Maytag ever been associated with wlw content?

        5. BorkBorkBork

          Washing machine riding was last weekend’s activities. Dorothy had that dream of riding some giant horse with Joyce; I choose to imagine that it’s a dream of things to come, rather than things past.

      2. BarerMender

        Amber might have ulterior motives. Her expressions speak.

        1. Kazuma Taichi

          your “might” is doing some pretty heavy lifting there

    2. Opus the Poet

      One, more or less.

    3. anon

      Reminds me of when booster said “Go seek out the worst? person for advice and then do the opposite of what they say”

  2. Doctor_Who

    So, who will it be funniest for Dorothy to accidentally send that to?

    1. Animedingo

      Ruth

      1. Aura

        I snort laughed XD

    2. Jamie

      <–

    3. Cattleprod

      Joe, who assumes it’s the photo Joyce said she sent him.

      1. DailyBrad

        “Well, you got more freckles and smaller boobs, that’s normal.”

      2. Skewbrow

        Don’t know if we can call Joe a connoisseur of breasts, but surely he can tell the difference between Joyce’s and Dotty’s pendulous parts at a glance.

        1. Opus the Poet

          Just sayin’ but neither one is anywhere near “pendulous” yet. Dorothy is decades away from that.

        2. Ana Chronistic

          hair is pendulous!

        3. Kimi

          Might depend on the amount of blur.

    4. Nono

      I was going to say Danny, but on second thought let’s make it Becky.

      1. Icalasari

        Yes, especially if Dorothy makes it explicitly clear it’s for Joyce

    5. Clif

      Jenifer.

      1. Clif

        Or Daisy.

        1. Opus the Poet

          +1.

        2. Dday

          Definitely Daisy.

    6. Paradoxius

      Becky, who naturally interprets it as some kind of 5 dimensional chess power-play

      1. Meagan

        This made me laugh.

        1. Florence

          “You win this round Dorothy”

          *meanwhile Dorothy is crying over her feelings for Joyce*

        2. PirateTawnee

          no no, Amber is round, Dorothy is a skinny poindexter.

        3. Florence

          Damn

          You win this turn PirateTawnee

        4. Taffy

          Yes, but if we had a perfectly spherical Dorothy, in a vacuum…

          Actually, that’s the vibe I get from a lot of the behavior-policing comments.

      2. cbwroses

        A 5 dimensional CHEST power-play, if you will.

        1. Effie

          Yes, I do believe I will 😀

        2. Michael Steamweed

          *applauds

      3. CombustibleLemons

        I can absolutely picture Becky coming to that conclusion, and it’s hilarious. Honestly hoping this happens

    7. Reltzik

      Booster.

    8. Aquila

      Her parents.

    9. Bruno

      Amber.

    10. Jimbotherisenclown

      Joyce’s Dad

    11. Nick Piers

      If this was still Shortpacked?

      Batman.

      1. Needfuldoer

        Amber’s phone buzzes, because she shares it with Amazi-Girl and she’s about as close as there is to a Batman in the Dumbiverse.

        1. Ana Chronistic

          I thought Sal was

    12. Lars

      Prf. Brook

    13. Smallmoon

      Groupchat with Joyce and Joe with a text that makes it clear that CCing Joe was an accident.

    14. Lilith Rose

      Carla

    15. Holly

      Head of the college newspaper.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Daisy?

        1. Yumi

          ?

        2. Michael Steamweed

          Excellent gravatar usage. 🙂

    16. Buli-Buli

      Danny.
      Or
      Walkie.

    17. Opus the Poet

      Somebody in the comments section.

  3. Animedingo

    WE’LL GET GAY YET FELLAS

    1. Kim

      Hooray!

    2. Michael Steamweed

      Purposefully gay. As opposed to the accidental/plausible deniability gay that has gayed(1) so far.

      (1) gayed like bayed? gaid like said?

  4. Sirksome

    Amber’s power is enviable!

    1. NGPZ

      Trash Goblin Power, MAKE UP!!!! XD

      1. Dara

        She played it magnificently and is truly the queen of trash goblins 😀

    2. Dday

      Even Amazigirl doesn’t have this kind of power.

    3. Michael Steamweed

      Amber is the Mistress of the Tropes. The Tropestress.

  5. shadowcell

    alas, another scandal to beset the Keener Campaign forty years hence

    1. Clif

      All is proceeding as Mike has forseen.

      1. Proxiehunter

        So when is Joe going to grow a billion dicks?

        1. Clif

          Well, not till Joyce snaps.

        2. Opus the Poet

          Cause and effect?

        3. Clif

          Emergent temporal coherence.

        4. Clif

          Events which are not temporally coherent wind up in different parts of Hilbert Space.

        5. Needfuldoer

          Cause and Effect, you say…

          JOE: This is going to sound pretty wild. Somehow, we’ve entered what seems to be a temporal causality loop. We think we’re stuck in a particular fragment in time, and we’ve been repeating that same fragment over and over again.
          JOYCE: Is this what’s causing our déjà vu?
          JOE: Yes, but it’s more than that. In déjà vu, you only think you’re repeating events. We actually are. Every time the loop begins again, everything resets itself, and starts all over. We don’t remember anything that happened before, so each time through the loop, we think it’s the first.
          JOYCE: You mean we could have come into this room and had hanky-panky a dozen times already?
          JOE: A dozen, a billion, it’s impossible to tell.

        6. Mark

          At least it’s not a collapsing warp bubble.

        7. Michael Steamweed

          Hopefully with no groundhog nearby. Or stargate.

    2. Thag Simmons

      It’s really going to undermine morale in warband on the march

    3. Newlland(Henryvolt)

      Meanwhile her opposition will have a long list of underage individuals that they’ve dated and passed around and no one will bat an eye.

      1. Newlland(Henryvolt)

        You know what, Intended this to be a joke but I don’t know what scarier that fact that it’s not funny at all or that it’s to real on the account of the different politicians I can name the fit this description.

        1. Kimi

          It is way too real on so many accounts, unfortunately.

        2. Needfuldoer

          It’s like that claymation pirate meme.

          ” Well, XD, but also D: “

  6. Bobcat

    “Hey, what do you think of my bra?”

    1. Michael Steamweed

      “It’s cute! What about mine?”

  7. Serendipity

    are you serious dotty

    1. NGPZ

      I mean by the looks of it her bra is still covering her breast…

      bust still, LOL XD

      1. Ophidiophile

        You thought Dorothy would immediately ignore Amazi-Girl’s warning not to put anything online she wouldn’t want discovered? She’s not that far gone.

      2. Michael Steamweed

        Yeah, you gotta keep still when doing the pix…the phone cams blur out too easily.

    2. jeffepp

      She’s very dotty, but don’t call her Serious.

      1. Dday

        Seriously taking photos fof where the dots are most concentrated.

      2. Michael Steamweed

        Shirley she can’t be Serious?

    3. True Survivor

      Yeah, not a smart move. Both of them have boyfriends and that Joyce will not likely find this manner of friendly tease, assuming that is what this is, funny. However, even ignoring those facts, I was thought that one should never put that kind of image of yourself out into the cloud forever. That it is dangerous.

      Dotty is far smarter than this. Which is why I wonder if she is not thinking with her brain.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Dotty hasn’t been thinking with (only) her brain, regarding Joyce, for some time now.

      2. Nathan

        I don’t think even an actively malicious agent getting ahold of a closeup of cleavage can do much harm with it, and we have no reason to think Dorothy has any enemies

    4. butting

      Serious? Damn right she’s serious — whatever she thinks she’s saying, she’s saying it with her whole chest.

  8. jeffepp

    I knew this story line would lead to Joyce admitting she has a boy AND girlfriend.

    1. Clif

      You can share anything with your sister.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        In different ways and times, Joyce has called Carla, Jocelyne, and Sarah her sister. She has not called Dorothy her sister. So clearly the two are the goodest of gal pals.

  9. staszu13

    And once again, Dorothy’s hopeless desire for Joyce carries the day

  10. Suet

    By Jove, she is doing it. Time for the hi-jinx to rule again. Or repercussions, who’s to say.

    wdym amber doesn’t know aaaaanything about tropes, is Dorothy affirming that it’s a big deal or

    1. Proxiehunter

      The reprecusions come after the hijinx are over.

    2. Rolf of Many Doors

      Gayjinx

  11. pickonecard

    AMBER NO

    1. Dara

      AMBER YES

      1. Michael Steamweed

        The juxtaposition of pickonecard and Dara’s gravatar faces had me chortling aloud. 😀

      2. Benjamin Geiger

        AMBER ALWAYS YES!

      3. Amós Batista

        amber peharps

    2. Tan

      Amber YES

      1. Clif

        Amber, yes please.

        1. Joe Moose

          Amber YES PLEASE

    3. NGPZ

      AMBER YES >:D

    4. Reltzik

      Amber no!

      You should have sold Dorothy on escalation! Not just reciprocation!

      1. Clif

        A fair point.

      2. Michael Steamweed

        Amber ye–

        Hm, yeah, good point.

        Well there’s always next time!

    5. Opus the Poet

      Dorothy, yes!

  12. Ninjazaku

    I don’t see this going well for Dorothy

    1. mindbleach

      A reliably repeatable summary.

    2. Coatl

      She managed to take a weight off her shoulders…and put on another one unconsciously.

      Oh Dorothy…..you’re still my favorite, but please stop.

    3. anon

      50/50 on joyce having a new ‘freak out face’ versus her being non chalant about it

      Or becky’s head/’rivalry’ exploding learning that Dorothy sent joyce a ‘suggestive’ selfie lol

  13. Doopyboop

    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

  14. mindbleach

    A new variant for Amber’s “don’t say you should go fuck them” face.

  15. Qube

    IT BEGINS

  16. Queezle

    Those are the kind of picture you want to get when you are out with your sister. We are going to get a Joyce face people.

    1. Vanessa

      Oh my! Even more hilarious that Joyce is out with her sister and her boyfriend now. She won’t hide her reaction.

      1. Holly

        TBH I want to see the Joe Face as he desperately struggles to hide his conflicting reactions

  17. Nono

    Is the ‘one strap overall’ look Amber is sporting an actual thing for workouts?

    1. Jeremiah

      Why not?

    2. DailyBrad

      I think it’s just regular overalls and she only did one strap up to keep them up.

    3. Rolf of Many Doors

      Switching straps when you switch arms lol

    4. Michael Steamweed

      One strap means Amber. Both straps means A-G.

      (* totally making that up)

    5. Taffy

      It’s an actual thing for people who are wearing overalls with one strap undone and working out.

  18. peng

    amber’s greatest heroic act

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

  19. Shakes

    Fanfiction is the ideal model of human behaviour.

  20. Wendy

    Fellas, is it gay for a girl to send titty pics to her best friend? Yes. Yes it is.

    1. Clif

      Sh!

    2. Wandering Mage

      Seems normal to me!

    3. Opus the Poet

      Girls do that all the time.

    4. Random832

      We won’t know who she sent them to until next week, technically.

    5. Hoboturtle

      Can you really say you’re straight if you don’t kiss the homies goodnight?

    6. anon

      I can totally imagine some rom com manga where a straight girl is obliviously sending pics to some girl with a crush on her like “this bra i got is cute right” or dragging her along with like clothes shopping for a “date with her ‘boyfriend'” and her quietly fuming/suffering before eitehr confessing or finding someone else to date lol

  21. TrueVCU

    THE HORNY DEVIL GOT IN

    1. NGPZ

      “did somebody say my name?” XD

      1. Clif

        Not me. I can’t pronounce it on account of no vowels.

        1. NGPZ

          you supposed to say the names of the letters :p

          funny enough, the first alphabet ever created on earth for ancient Hebrew didn’t have no vowels at all — for their alphabet and writing system wasn’t intended to replace oral traditions of passing down stories and wisdom via speech and song in so much as a way of *aiding* that means of preserving collective memory

          There weren’t no vowels because for it’s intended purpose it wasn’t needed, any speaker of the Hebrew language and member of the culture could tell which vowel sounds were needed for any given word just by context

  22. Proxiehunter

    Panel 5: The face of a woman trying to deny to herself that it was a big fucking deal.

    1. Clif

      Also Panel 5: The face of a woman trying to keep a straight face.

  23. DailyBrad

    There’s a certain logic to this, honestly. Doing it back can be playful.

    1. Needfuldoer

      And trying to hide it would raise it above the noise floor (if she’s still worried about protecting her future self’s public image).

  24. Jahu

    Obligatory “It’s Not Called Smartening Of Age” comment

    1. Clif

      You haven’t heard about the name change?

  25. Kyrik Michalowski

    Hooray! Joyce’s natural bisexual is going to blossom soon.

    What are the odds Joyce could set up her first “real” sexy times with both Joe, and Dorothy at the same time?

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      I’m not counting the hand job as true sexy times because that is frequently just the beginning.

      1. Laura

        Umm..

        Depends on your perspective.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      In Willis World? I’d say maybe 33%.

      In Fanfic World? 100% def.

  26. Rolf of Many Doors

    And now Joyce has a titty pic from a future-president (maybe)

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      We can only hope.

      1. NGPZ

        look I’ll put Dorothy’s face on in-game coins for whatever that’s worth

        but as much a monumental novelty a lady POTUS would be, there are MUCH better ways Dorothy could and SHOULD be helping people than via our broke-ass government

        hell even the tradition that there has to be a SINGLE person with all that power representing our massive diverse population is still part of the problem

        1. Rolf of Many Doors

          The ship needs a figurehead – it doesn’t necessarily do much of anything, but it represents the ship, and when things go right, it gets to take the credit for leading the ship to success, and when things go wrong, we blame it for failings that are really the fault of the crew and/or the ship’s passengers.

        2. Jeremiah

          No, not really, the president very much do things, when things “go right or wrong” is often direct repercussions of their decisions. A figurehead can’t decided to start turning the ship towards the rocks because they think it can handle it and it will rid of stowaways.

        3. NGPZ

          Not to mention, ships’ capacities are in no way close to 300,000,000+ people XD

        4. thejeff

          It’s really hard to think of better ways to help people than by running the government. Easier ways to start certainly, but not more effective if you manage to get there.

          And even if a single person having all that power is part of the problem that doesn’t change the fact that it’s how we’re set up now, so someone is going to have that position and thus who that person is remains critically important.

        5. NGPZ

          “the way we’re set up now” is because of the people who wrote our plan for government over 200 years ago who had no foresight of post-industrial, post-war, information age circumstances whose impact can NOT be overstated. The Founding Fathers’ priority was creating a democratic government which could get the approval of slave states and citizens who sought to migrate westward to live on sustenance farms, the mode of production they were used to seeing as the default before the industrial revolution.

          Consider that over 100x more people live in this country today than 200 years ago, that’s over 100x more diverse people a single person needs to be able to represent AND be an effective leader AND actually want a position of power like that in our current system. You’re NOT going to find everything you need for accurate representation of our country’s massive population AND effective leadership in a single person, that’s just NOT how human nature works.

          The election of a single president is a game which is inevitably gonna favor The Everyman; that in which being the everyman confer Power upon you is literally systemic bigotry by very definition. Even back in 1790 a lot of people were actually very opposed to the idea of a single president with all that power, they thought it was too much like a king.

          Well beyond the foresight of the Founding Fathers, consequences of industrialism, the massive population boom, sciences, technologies, climate change, etc, mean that orders of magnitude more tumultuous change is possible in the span of 4 years today than what was all possible 200 years ago when the United States was just barely industrialized.

          Let alone the fact that appointed Judges can serve for LIFE. Back then this was alright because, let’s face it, people back then just didn’t live as long as they do now. Back in the colonial era, death by diseases like smallpox, malaria, measles, etc. was so fucking common that if you got sick at all, the people living then could tell with astounding accuracy whether or not you were gonna make it, and had but long accepted this as a fact of life. Formal implements for removing corrupt officials simply were not designed to be as powerful as they should be today, because before modern medical science, the people could quite literally rely on death and disease to do that for them.

          Do you really think the Founding Fathers would have worded the second amendment the way they did if they had any foresight of the machine gun and the military industrial complex? What of the fact that cities can now hold orders of magnitude more people than ever thought possible, and urban centers’ resulting impact on the Electoral College meta? The circumstances and results of the Civil War including deeply impoverished south, the innovation of the air plane and emergent concept of Fly-Over States, the internet, social media and their incredible influence on the informed public needed for democracy to work, all have profound impact which can NOT be overstated.

          As much as getting people into office positions like president or governor, etc, can help mitigate the damage being done to vulnerable minorities, the “traditional” way we do democracy can no longer accurately represent the interests of our massive and diverse population in 21st century circumstances.

          The way we have democracy set up is in need of a MAJOR overhaul for all our sakes, but until that happens what needs to happen NOW for the sake of vulnerable people, we gotta look into setting up social safety nets derived from means OTHER than our current formal government which we can’t rely on for that purpose anymore (or even from the very get go for that matter).

        6. thejeff

          I don’t even disagree with most of that, but this is the system we’re living in at the moment and while non-government social safety nets can be great, they’re still effectively at the mercy of the current formal government, which leaves who’s running that as a critical role. If only because, as Trump’s likely to demonstrate, they can target and shut down such non-government safety nets.

          Beyond that I don’t really buy into the idea that having a single figure as the executive is the problem or really understand what an alternative would look like. One of the reasons the power of the executive has grown in recent decades is that the legislative branch is too often deadlocked and unable to act, but things still need to get done. We do have many ways to limit and check the power of a single executive, as we’ve seen throughout Biden’s term. Even Trump wouldn’t be nearly as great a threat if he didn’t have the other branches lined up behind him – though incompetence is a threat of its own.

        7. NGPZ

          Like if it were up to me, it’d be a GROUP of people who are making those decisions instead of just a single person, as well as MUCH shorter terms for judges and executive officials alike at the very least.

          To put this into real perspective, between 1760-1780 CE, white colonists including the Founding Fathers had not yet conceived of any alternative to their current British Government which they had once thought to be the best there ever can be. Of course that didn’t stop them from accepting that their current government had demonstrated itself to be one which simply could no longer accurately represent their interests, as is government’s very purpose, thus warranting replacement.

          It took but 33% of property-owning citizens in the colonies to be on board with the Revolution for it to happen, 33% still clung to the long-venerated intrinsic good of the aristocracy of their European homeland, and the rest were undecided.

          If there’s anything we’ve learned from the past 200 years of history, it is this: a king who is liable for being replaced every 4 years is still a king, and in the words of Jewish Political Philosopher Moses Herbert Marcuse, “slaves who are free to elect their masters are still slaves”. Especially if said masters are allowed to appoint other masters which serve for life (of the Supreme Court Judges who *decided* that segregation and the Jim Crow South was okay as long as blacks had access to “separate but equal” facilities, three of them were in fact former slave owners).

          The ultimate determining factor is the mentality and education of the majority of citizens. So unfortunate then, that European-descended white culture in the US and its pervasive influence have not really done away with their aristocratic indoctrination from era’s past, but merely repurposed it.

          Instead of being brought up to cling to the demonstrably impossible hope for an ideal King they can trust to deliver them from their condition, they are now raised to cling to the romanticized, equally futile hope for the ideal president to come along to accurately represent everyone and solve their problems by controlling the price of eggs or some shit through some mechanism they’re not even sure of themselves. Dorothy was/is very demonstrably no exception.

          re: social safety nets, if there is anything we can learn from the likes of the Jim Crow south and corporate-driven convict lease system designed to circumvent the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, it’s that formal declaration of social justice in Law does NOT automatically make it so in life.

          To the southern white aristocracy and white folk who mutually benefited from White Supremacy, the Abolition of Slavery was basically to them like the government saying they didn’t own their homes anymore, and all their wealth just fucking VANISHED (combined dollar value of every slave was more than all the North’s factories, railroads and banks). Given the North had a 50 year head start in industrialization, northern goods often bankrupting southern businesses, the impoverished South had just about no chance of competing in the game of industrial US capitalism.

          They went out of their way to re-establish White Supremacy outside of what formal government allowed, because based on how they were brought up to THINK and what they had to work with, systemic bigotry / slave-based social hierarchy just works. According to their (mis)-education and culture they were entrenched in, the slave-supported aristocracy, their Means of Production, was this God-given, natural, universal order. This was of course but another grand illusion deployed by the bourgeois to mystify their true economic relations and to perpetually reproduce the working class.

          Poor white Southerners back then were brought up to dream of owning their own slaves basically the same way we’re brought up today to dream of being millionaire corporate owners. The former were made oblivious to the fact that the very system of slavery ITSELF was there to keep the rich rich and the poor poor, and nonetheless people in the United States are very much in need of reminders that under late capitalism, YOU are always closer to being homeless than you are to being a millionaire.

          If there is one thing thousands of years of history demonstrate, is that earthlings will only continue this cycle of class resentment, revolution, war, violence and all the ugliness thereof so long as they continue to passively, unconsciously revolve their thinking around the unspoken need for a Ruling Class.

          Education is pivotal in a thriving democratic society. Even outside of formal government, bringing people up to venerate awareness of the cycles of disease, the spread of bacteria and viruses and steps to prevent that such as washing hands, covering up sneezes, vaccination, etc, have reduced child mortality and increased average lifespan tremendously since the 20th century. Long gone are the days you had to have 5-6 kids at a time under the premise most of them were gonna die at a very young age, thus for the first time in history, humans did not accept that as a fact of life, and could get emotionally attached to their children from the day they’re born.

          That’s just how powerful knowledge itself is is. The power of Science.

          Think about what could happen if people at large were brought up to venerate awareness of the nature of society’s Cycles of Class Struggles.

          Think about how much better things can be with the power of education. Think about what we can DO.

          There is hope. Where there is life, there is hope.

          “Life finds a way…” ?

        8. Michael Steamweed

          I think ol’ Dotty could be a great scotus judge.

        9. Jeremiah

          Nah, she is not nearly corrupt enough.

        10. Michael Steamweed

          Well, not for the current political climate controlling that bunch. But in general, she’d be great at it.

    2. Opus the Poet

      She can’t be any worse than the current President-elect.

      1. Nymph

        That’s underselling it. It would be difficult for her not to SAIL over that bar in her sleep tbh.

      2. Michael Steamweed

        Dorothy could not do that deliberately even if she wanted to.

  27. tim gueguen

    Unless you’re asking for unarmed combat tips or tips on certain games asking Amber for advice is a bad idea. At least with Amazi-girl you know she won’t tell you to do anything illegal or unethical. Other than engaging in vigilantism.

  28. JA

    Well this got interesting.

  29. Vanessa

    lol omg Dorothy, chaos monkey won that round. Why not, what the American people want in a president is a felon, an adulterer, an instigator, an inciter of violence, a guy who can’t finish a sentence. Dorothy should start a crime spree and rip people off with crypto or meme stocks to get filthy rich. That’s how you become president now. Just buy the election.

    1. Vanessa

      That went sideways.

      But this comic is very amusing! I can’t wait to see how this goes for Dorothy and Joyce.

      1. Coatl

        That it is time for new conflicts to be generated for Joyce, so I agree, I mean, things have been going too well lately.

        But hey, I didn’t want Dorothy to be involved, yes, I know that no one is saved in this comic, but the girl is getting out of one problem and getting into another.

        (sigh) we just have to wait.

  30. Acebender

    Amber doing the lord’s work

    1. Queezle

      And she 100% did not use the phrase “gal pals” on accident. She knows what she is doing.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Amber is the writer of all the good tropes.

        All the garbage-ing, goblin-ing, mess-ing, and tropes-ing.

  31. John Campbell

    Just gals being pals.

  32. Reltzik

    Absolutely nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan, and I unreservedly endorse it.

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      We’re on the train, and there is no turning around now.

  33. Icalasari

    In real life, this would earn a, “What the hell, Amber!?”

    But as this is a comic, I am laughing and cheering on that chaos goblin

  34. Siddlaw

    Someone missed the advice of “do opposite of what Amber suggests.”

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      I think everyone forgot that advice, except for AG.

  35. Bwsab

    Please don’t let this go in a direction that breaks up Joyce and Joe… Please don’t let this go in a direction that breaks up Joyce and Joe…

    Like, yesterday I was all for Dorothy doing this. And I’d love the fanfiction version of all this where Joyce has her boyfriend Joe and her friends with benefits Dorothy. But I think Joe might need a monogomous relationship right now (this is his first rodeo with romance instead of sex). And I have trouble seeing Joyce being ready for a non-fairy tale version of romance where who you’re with and what the boundaries are requires a flowchart. And who the fuck know what the fuck Walky would make of this!

    All I know is that, yesterday, I wanted this. But the moment Dorothy sent the pic, I got scared.

    I really hope this isn’t how Willis is planning to break our hearts and break up Joe and Joyce.

    1. Florence

      I think narratively it’ll just lead to Joyce realising her feelings for Dorothy but still sticking with Joe cause she still loves him

      1. Florence

        Dorothy on the other hand? That’s where the delicious chaos truly begins

    2. Coatl

      The last panel…oh god and believe me, everything Dorothy went through and indirectly put another torment on top of her.

      With Joyce, anything can happen, but really wanting to harm Joe and throw his efforts away would clearly be very low.

      And now Walky, when it seemed that my favorite ship was back….Dorothy, you are still my favorite….but this was not necessary.

    3. Masumi

      I’d guess at least Walky would find this hilarious.

      1. Clif

        We may find out.

      2. Holly

        Problem is, Walky is super insecure under his jokey persona mask.

    4. FlamestAndLight

      I BELIEVE IN THE OT3!!!

    5. Jeremiah

      I am pretty sure that fanfic version is a poly relationship.

  36. Florence

    Wait!

    Zoom in on panel five

    LIP BITE!

    1. NGPZ

      ENHANCE! ?

      1. Florence

        We’ve got her!

  37. James

    Definitely should have checked if this was Amber or Amazi-Girl advice…

  38. ThomasQuinn

    So…would this qualify as the trash goblin grooming Dorothy?

    1. Clif

      It was consensual and requested.

  39. Alongcameaspider

    DOROTHY NO/YES

  40. Derek

    Dorothy is way stupider and easily manipulated than I thought. she fell for such a dumb and transparent ploy

    1. Scolopendra

      Isn’t it amazing? I love seeing the smart one discover how much they’re not.

    2. Nymph

      Or she got the answer she came here for.

    3. Jeremiah

      That seem weirdly and unnecessarily harsh, but then again, that is to be expected from you.

  41. Dday

    I’m disappointed, Dotty is usually the kind of person to go out of her way to do something properly, but she’s just making the same amateur mistakes as Joyce.

    You:
    1. Set the timer cam
    2. Hold the phone in your teeth, pointing down
    3. Use *both* hands to hold open your collar properly
    4. Lean towards the nearest light source

    1. anon

      Well, the point was to ‘imitate’ joyce as opposed to some pinup selfie in some sports bra at the gym but it would be funny if somehow joyce received it and itdisplayed as an ‘unknown’ number for some reason and she thought it was some unsolicited pic as opposed to recognizing dorothy’s chest/freckles

  42. Dante

    Parkour, crime fighting, IT, and the entirety of TVtropes in her head weren’t skills enough.

    Amber also demonstrated her mastery with playing Dot like a fiddle.

  43. M!a

    Tempest in a B-cup.

    1. Opus the Poet

      +1!

    2. Mark

      🙂

    3. Dday

      heheheh

  44. Uly

    And it didn’t occur to Dorothy to ask AmaziGirl’s final input? I mean, she caved real fast to Amber’s not very subtle manipulation.

    1. DJTsurugi

      I mean… maybe she wanted to. ~<3

      1. PedanticJerkass

        “You know, the funny thing is… I know you’re playing me… but you’re right.”

        1. tns

          “Amber, no!”

          “Amber, Yes!”

        2. DJTsurugi

          fuck! once again I really want to be able to upvote comments,
          kudos to the both of you. ~<3

  45. DJTsurugi

    EMERGENCY STATIONS! it’s happening, the casual flirting is now upgraded to intentionally sending boob pics. ~<3

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Raise the torpedoes; arm the shields!

      1. DJTsurugi

        hee hee… torpedoes. ~<3

  46. BBCC

    I’d say don’t base your decisions on what happens in fanfic but then who even would Amber BE?

  47. SvenTS

    Thank you, Amber, for being the garbage gremlin the fandom needs.

  48. Dare

    Dorothy remains my favourite person.

    1. Clif

      Carla Dina Amber remains my favorite person.

      Fixed that for you.

      1. Daibhid C

        Amber remains my favorite person the absolute worst.

        Fixed that for you.

        (Sorry, it turns out I’m way too autistically invested in these people to embrace chaos.)

        1. Jeremiah

          It’s okay, we are all wrong sometimes.

      2. NGPZ

        Dina is my favorite person always T_T <3

  49. IntangibleMatter

    There are apparently multiple trash goblins who crave mess here today

    1. DJTsurugi

      looks up from trash “wumph?” ~<3

      1. Clif

        Look, I’ve got all this perfectly good popcorn that Willis made me waste.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      We are (trash goblin) fans!

      We demand (trash goblin) service!

    3. Florence

      I don’t know what you mean
      ?

  50. Juanoku

    Is lesbians happening? Is this the beginning??? Holy shit i thought it was a joke the whole time

    1. Holly

      Yes, but Joyce is gonna solve the conflict by setting Dorothy up with Joycelene.

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        Jocelyne*

        1. Florence

          That would actually be a delightful resolution to it

        2. Mark

          “Joycelene” sounds like a pretty blond motor fuel.

      2. yak

        Genius, but also, kinda creepy.

        “Hey I know you’re into me, so how about you go out with my sister that looks almost identical?”

    2. Daibhid C

      I honestly believe that the confusion and embarassment this causes (remember, Joyce still doesn’t actually know she’s been sending the pics to Dorothy) will delay any possible lesbians by at least a month. Their time.

    3. Florence

      I don’t know what you mean

      ?

  51. Arianod

    Et tu, Dorothy? X’D

  52. Rabisch

    Well done Dorothy! Great Amber with her advice. Now let’s see if it ends here, with some laughter and a little embarrassment, or will continue with other photos.

  53. darkoneko

    And then she accidentally sent it to danny

  54. AGV/Ruby

    Hahaha yes! YES!

  55. Professional asexual

    God Amber is the WORST

    In my very personal opinion that isn’t meant to upset anyone I just don’t like her but she’s fictional so that’s fine please don’t be mad at me I’m very sensitive

  56. AGV/Ruby

    You know, the funny outcome would be Joyce and Dorothy starting a secret texting relationship like the one she and Joe had before but with naughty pictures.

  57. DJTsurugi

    I know Willis is teasing us, but I’m very much enjoying this storyline. ~<3

  58. Stephen Nedland

    And so it begins.

  59. Furie

    Joyce and Joe are likely closer together in Dorothy’s contacts than Joe and Dorothy are in Joyce’s. This both opens the door to hilarity and some questions about how Joyce managed that while still texting Joe.

    1. Nymph

      We had the answer to this in a previous comment section (I’m not going hunting) essentially Dorothy is saved in Joyce’s phone as something closer to Joe’s name. I can’t remember what it was, but we’ve seen it on screen before.

      1. Taffy

        Roll, Perfect Cinnamon
        Rosenthal, Joe

      2. Chubseus

        So if we want to theory-craft a little, Jennifer Billingsworth or Sarah Clinton could be next to Joyce Brown on Dorothy’s contact list. That is, if Dorothy actually does make the same mistake.

  60. Michael Steamweed

    Oh my gods, Amber, you’re evil! (i love this please continue with your villainous machinations)

  61. Colin McKenzie

    This is gonna make Joyce question her sexuality/relationship with Dorothy, isn’t it?

    1. anon

      i mean she basically gave her a ‘sex list’ so idk if she should feel too flustered by seeing dorothy’s cleavage

  62. HueSatLight

    AG sitting in their brain, rolling her eyes.

  63. GUIGUI

    Always remember: if you can’t make a situation better, you can always make it worse.

    1. clif

      I’ve always found that to be inspiring advice.

  64. FlamestAndLight

    WOOO WOOOOO, THE SHIP IS SAILING!

  65. RocketRelm

    I think one thing to consider re silly jokes like that, is time elapsed. If it’s within a few minutes as a joke it’s a lot less weird than if you do it 2 days later.

    1. anon

      i don’t know how much time has passed so far but i think it’s within the 24 hour mark, maybe?

  66. Jdorr

    Dorothy! The person who straight admits to be trying to cause problems on purpose is not who you should listen to the advice of!

  67. Felian

    Dorothy, NO
    Clear up the thing with Joyce.
    The only appropriate reply is “um, did you mean to send those to me”
    -> “No, i’m so sorry!” “Okay, i’ll delete them from my phone.”
    -> “Yes ;)” -> send one back if you like, or tell her you aren’t into it

    Wait, i remembered this is a webcomic and we all live for the drama

    1. anon

      LOLi ‘m surprised she hasn’t contacted her about this yet already then again it is a comedy strip and she’s unworried about it ‘affecting her presidency” (even tho she has given up? on it by now or so lol)

      but i’m surprised joyce hasn’t double checked the name considering dorothy and joe name wise shouldn’t be that close to each other unless she had multiple chats open

  68. jpnr

    yes

    hahaha

    yes!

  69. Yeet

    dorothy
    what

  70. :0

    YES YES YES YES

  71. anon

    LOL i wonder if amber would freak otu (tho i don’t think she cares too much about f/f ships versus the mlm ships she’s mentioned) if dorothy did admit “yeah i taught joyce how to masturbate”

  72. Mturtle7

    Oh god my brain is melting I didn’t think she would ACTUALLY DO IT…Dorothy wth…

    1. ZerglingOne

      Dorothy has really not been okay for the past 1.5 story arcs. Relationships, death, and a few other things have kinda caused her “sanitized planner” side of her ego to die. A lot of her big plans have come crashing down under the stress of life and she’s still figuring the world out.

      What appears to be her latent bisexuality has been bubbling to the surface lately and she’s having a hard time reconciling her feelings for those around her. It’s the kind of thing where she knows what’s happening (as Amber’s Amazigirl persona sorta helped her point out) but is curious enough to fire back.

      Nobody can make you do what you didn’t want to do in the first place… at least that’s how I see it.

      1. Proxiehunter

        Not saying it applies here, but while people might not be able to make you do something you don’t want to do a persuasive enough person can make you want to do things you didn’t want to before.

  73. thumb

    This isn’t Amber’s persuasion making Dorothy do this.
    This is Amber’s permission allowing Dorothy to do this.
    It’s normal, don’t worry about it.

  74. Kazuma Taichi

    poor AmaziGirl. giving good advice but being outvoted by the horny council

  75. CombustibleLemons

    Amber’s superpower is being able to make fanfic a reality

  76. Felian

    Alternative idea: Dorothy forwards Joyce’s lewd photos to Joe, without a comment. That’ll be the very best way to debunk the idea that Joyce and Dorothy have *anything* going on. 😛

  77. Esolo

    …Goddamn it Amber.

  78. yak

    Amber’s working out face looks identical to her horny face.

  79. Jess

    Anyone else kinda skeeved out that Dorothy is sending lewds while in a relationship with someone else? Walky is in a weird fall back spot relationship-wise and I can only imagine how he’s gonna spiral further after finding this all out.

    Joe’s reaction is at least going to be better since Joyce was obviously trying to send those pix to him, in front of him. So he’ll be more likely to understand imo.

    1. Felian

      Somehow i feel like Walky would be unbothered and unthreatened, if the context is explained to him. he’d just keep teasing Dorothy about Joyce.

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