To be fair, John wears the same style of glasses, and we don’t know what Jordan’s glasses looked like.
Needfuldoer
There are a few variations, like the half-frames Roz wears, but most of the characters’ glasses are either ovals (Dorothy, Joss, John, Lucy, Billiefer) or square/rectangular (Ruth, Carla).
They’re probably easier to draw consistently that way.
I don’t know… given the way her eyes are drawn (bright blue, larger size) I thought she’d look better with a larger pair… do a better job at ‘framing’ her eyes.
After more than 45 years in aviators I went with the tiny ovals because I can see pretty good close-up without them, so I bought frames with lenses I could peek under and avoid the costs of bifocals.
Dean
Aviator frames are no good if you have a strong prescription, as the weight of the lenses drags the glasses down your nose. This probably isn’t something that Joyce has to worry about (yet).
That would just make Jacob sad, I think. We haven’t seen those 2 interact since the timeskip, but the way they parted seemed pretty final, and Jacob seems like the type to stick to his guns when he makes a moral decision.
Sam
I agree. The Joyce/Jacob ship was sunk and I doubt there will be a plot twist life raft when Joyce did a lot of wrong things he may have been complicit in, but did not endorse as a practice. Now that he has distance from it, friendship might be on the table again one day but he doesn’t have to be willing to be friends either with how it went last time. Just as Ethan doesn’t have to make up with Danny for what he said at the hospital.
Casi
I agree, and while i do hope they can become friends again, Jacob is definitely under no obligation to extend the olive branch. It would have to come from Joyce, if reconciliation happens at all.
Bang on, Joyce! That was my first thoughts as well, as I wore my new glasses in High School for the first time. “How do people wear these things?” I wondered as they seemed to sit so heavily on my nose. Now, I often forget I’m even wearing them. I’ve literally gasped and said, “I forgot my glasses!” while driving down the road, only to put my hand to face and hit the glasses.
or the fun opposite of that “oh my glasses must be dirty” but actually everything is blurry because you’re not wearing your glasses and then you poke yourself in the eye by accident
Same as the frames on the side. You hear complaints about new glasses wearers – “I can’t see, the frames get in the way!” – but after a few weeks you just don’t see the frames.
The Joyce in the mirror is cute. Glasses work well for her. I don’t even remember what she looks like without them. Clearly, this is the real her.
…Oh, that doesn’t actually work when she can’t hear me? And probably wouldn’t even if she could? Ah, well. Joking aside, glasses do work well for her.
That said, if I were Joyce, I’d actually be getting annoyed with Dorothy by this point. I get she’s trying to be reassuring, but it’s not what I’d find comforting, and doesn’t seem to be what Joyce finds comforting. Still, good work in getting her to get her eye issues resolved.
There’s a message in the wire
And I’m sending you this signal tonight
You don’t know how desperate I’ve become
And it looks like I’m losing this fight…
As I posted once before (Oct 18, 2019), we celebrate DUMBING DAY on whatever date (month and day) in real life that happens to correspond to the current in-story date of DoA, according to the deductions and assumptions of the DOA wiki — and, in this case, on deductions and assumptions I’m making. In particular, I’m assuming that this storyline is set on the first day of classes, that it’s a Monday, and that it’s scheduled when IU usually schedules the spring semester (in non-pandemic years), i.e. the second week of January. Thus, if the wiki dating is correct in that the first day of DOA was on a Sunday, August 29, then the first day of the spring semester would fall on Monday, January 10. (Of course, we’re currently on a Sunday, whereas the DOA storyline isn’t, but we ignore that part.)
Time will tell if these assumptions will fall in line with Willis’s own storytelling plans (I figure we’ll at least get to Valentine’s Day before another giant time skip).
What’s the date of the next Dumbing day so that I can prepare to celebrate properly? Oh wait, it depends on how many in-comic days pass. So probably around Jan 15, 2022 then.
King Daniel
Since (barring mentioned-in-narration-box timeskips) one chapter equals one in-universe day we’ll probably be able to see the next Dumbing Day at least a few weeks to a month or so in advance, but yeah, we don’t know when the next is currently.
Lingo
As I said last time, guessing when the next Dumbing Day will be is part of the celebration of Dumbing Day! Put me down for January 15, 2022.
Lingo
Oh you already guessed January 15! Okay, I’ll go with January 16.
or it could be Dumbing Day tomorrow, in which case Happy Dumbing Eve!
i still assert there’s no reason to think this would be the 2011 calendar; timeskip changes everything
Hm, an additional thought.
She’s used to being the only Brown sister. The only girl, in a family of boys. (She’s not, but she doesn’t know that – yet.) And, until now, the only one who doesn’t wear glasses.
So now she’s having to give that bit of uniqueness up as well.
My bet with Jocelyne is ‘dramatically upped her timeline for coming out to Joyce and Becky, cautiously optimistic about Hank, but not out yet because this made it abundantly clear Carol cannot EVER know and that Steps Need To Be Taken to ensure safety from Carol before going No Contact.’ (By which I mean: when your mother is backing the man who kidnapped your sister with a mobster in his SECOND attempt to kidnap and de-gay his daughter? Do not let her know where you live. And ensure she can’t ‘casually’ bump into you around town.) Not that the divorce delayed it so much as the ‘welp, Mom is actively dangerous to me’ factor.
Regalli
That said, I still think she’s coming out sooner rather than later. (Or at least, I hope so.) Maybe not immediately, but I’m hoping by the end of next book, at least.
I feel like Joyce will take to contacts like a slug takes to salt but maybe if Dorothy suggests them then Joyce will realize glasses aren’t that bad. Or at least not that bad for her.
I personally love my contacts and couldn’t wait to stop wearing glasses, because I feel like I look stupid in glasses. I also sleep in my contacts even though I’m not really supposed to because I hate feeling blind when I wake up.
I used to, but now I don’t think I have a pair of glasses. If I do, the prescription is way out of date
crow
Even so, I think it might be worth fumbling around a bit every morning to preserve your eye health. You only have two eyes, and wearing contacts 24/7 seems like it could be very bad for them!
I used to do that too. Then I ended up with an infection that could have cost me my eyesight. It was incredibly painful and one of the scariest moments ever for me. The proteins built up and I still have a small scar on my eye to this day. This was when I was 19 and I’m 35 now and it still haunts me. Please please please please don’t go blind in one of your eyes for the sake of a couple minutes of blindness in the morning. If you know your contact prescription you can get a pair of glasses from Zenni optical for $10-20 if you go bare bones.
I also hate wearing glasses but will never again risk that. I use them for maybe 15 minutes a day total now. A few minutes at bedtime and when I wake up or if I need something in the middle of the night.
175 thoughts on “Wireframe”
Ana Chronistic
oh no family resemblance to family *shock*
BBCC
Yaaaas! Go for the Joss look!
Leorale
Twist: not actually one of her brothers. I wish we could see this soon, but since it’ll be a long time I’ll settle for a glasses montage.
Dara
ikr? “No, hon, you look like your sister.” xD
Fuzzy
To be fair, John wears the same style of glasses, and we don’t know what Jordan’s glasses looked like.
Needfuldoer
There are a few variations, like the half-frames Roz wears, but most of the characters’ glasses are either ovals (Dorothy, Joss, John, Lucy, Billiefer) or square/rectangular (Ruth, Carla).
They’re probably easier to draw consistently that way.
ValdVin
“Glasses montage.”
I love being alive in the age of the internet, elsewise I might think my attraction to women* in glasses is rarer than it is.
(*That’s just me, of course. Both megane and meganekko exist for a reason.)
JBento
That was my first thought: “Huh, so that’s what Joss would look like with long hair.”
UnfrozenNeanderthal
Well, they look good on her
clif
I must admit, I thought the glass trying on montague was going to be off screen.
King Daniel
What about the glass trying on capulet?
Demoted Oblivious
Careful Mercutio, it doesn’t end well for Romeo’s comedian.
clif
Damn you, tablet autocorrect.
NotPiffany
Embrace the unintentional comedy of the auto carrot.
King Daniel
Are you implying that I’ll be found a grave man, should any ask for me tomorrow?
Makkabee
This joke is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve.
Casi
exit left, pursued by bear
King Daniel
A pun o’ both your houses!
segnosaur
I don’t know… given the way her eyes are drawn (bright blue, larger size) I thought she’d look better with a larger pair… do a better job at ‘framing’ her eyes.
James Rye
They do, but personally I feel like some colored frames might fit her better due her large blue eyes.
Throwatron
oh my god i did not realize how cute she was about to be because i am a dummy
Doc Harleen
She’s ADORABLE in glasses!!
Reltzik
Go for Julia Gray aviators.
misanthropope
they’re real cool, some people say
Opus the Poet
After more than 45 years in aviators I went with the tiny ovals because I can see pretty good close-up without them, so I bought frames with lenses I could peek under and avoid the costs of bifocals.
Dean
Aviator frames are no good if you have a strong prescription, as the weight of the lenses drags the glasses down your nose. This probably isn’t something that Joyce has to worry about (yet).
Nono
I’m already anticipating Joyce in glasses to highly confuse, scare and/arouse any of Becky, Joe, Walky and/or Ethan.
Reltzik
1) Roomies (or maybe it was a Roomies cameo in IW) already did that storyline.
2) Joyce already confuses, scares, and arouses Joe.
RacingTurtle
Danny has a glasses fetish. That could cause some awkwardness.
Anna
What about…Jacob?! :-/
Taellosse
That would just make Jacob sad, I think. We haven’t seen those 2 interact since the timeskip, but the way they parted seemed pretty final, and Jacob seems like the type to stick to his guns when he makes a moral decision.
Sam
I agree. The Joyce/Jacob ship was sunk and I doubt there will be a plot twist life raft when Joyce did a lot of wrong things he may have been complicit in, but did not endorse as a practice. Now that he has distance from it, friendship might be on the table again one day but he doesn’t have to be willing to be friends either with how it went last time. Just as Ethan doesn’t have to make up with Danny for what he said at the hospital.
Casi
I agree, and while i do hope they can become friends again, Jacob is definitely under no obligation to extend the olive branch. It would have to come from Joyce, if reconciliation happens at all.
Cholma
Bang on, Joyce! That was my first thoughts as well, as I wore my new glasses in High School for the first time. “How do people wear these things?” I wondered as they seemed to sit so heavily on my nose. Now, I often forget I’m even wearing them. I’ve literally gasped and said, “I forgot my glasses!” while driving down the road, only to put my hand to face and hit the glasses.
angie
or the fun opposite of that “oh my glasses must be dirty” but actually everything is blurry because you’re not wearing your glasses and then you poke yourself in the eye by accident
ischemgeek
I can’t see my hand in front of my face without glasses.
I once lost my glasses on my face and didn’t wonder why I could see well if they were “lost”.
ADHD is a trip.
Uly
Same as the frames on the side. You hear complaints about new glasses wearers – “I can’t see, the frames get in the way!” – but after a few weeks you just don’t see the frames.
Wizard
Never really bothered me. I was just happy to be able to see.
Jane
The Joyce in the mirror is cute. Glasses work well for her. I don’t even remember what she looks like without them. Clearly, this is the real her.
…Oh, that doesn’t actually work when she can’t hear me? And probably wouldn’t even if she could? Ah, well. Joking aside, glasses do work well for her.
That said, if I were Joyce, I’d actually be getting annoyed with Dorothy by this point. I get she’s trying to be reassuring, but it’s not what I’d find comforting, and doesn’t seem to be what Joyce finds comforting. Still, good work in getting her to get her eye issues resolved.
Rosicrucian
She’s totally going to put on the fanfic sunglasses and just bump into everything for weeks.
“They’re prescription!”
Stephen Bierce
There’s a message in the wire
And I’m sending you this signal tonight
You don’t know how desperate I’ve become
And it looks like I’m losing this fight…
Lingo
HAPPY (probable) DUMBING DAY!
As I posted once before (Oct 18, 2019), we celebrate DUMBING DAY on whatever date (month and day) in real life that happens to correspond to the current in-story date of DoA, according to the deductions and assumptions of the DOA wiki — and, in this case, on deductions and assumptions I’m making. In particular, I’m assuming that this storyline is set on the first day of classes, that it’s a Monday, and that it’s scheduled when IU usually schedules the spring semester (in non-pandemic years), i.e. the second week of January. Thus, if the wiki dating is correct in that the first day of DOA was on a Sunday, August 29, then the first day of the spring semester would fall on Monday, January 10. (Of course, we’re currently on a Sunday, whereas the DOA storyline isn’t, but we ignore that part.)
Time will tell if these assumptions will fall in line with Willis’s own storytelling plans (I figure we’ll at least get to Valentine’s Day before another giant time skip).
Anyway, Happy Dumbing Day 2021!
Kyrik Michalowski
Happy Dumbing Day to you too.
RacingTurtle
Happy Dumbing Day!
Geneseepaw
Dumming Day, Hurrah, huzzah, rah, rah, rah!
Only with confetti.
King Daniel
After Dumbing Day 2020 was cancelled (due to the timeskip, but still another thing that accursed year took from us), this is nice.
BBCC
*noisemaker* WHEEEEE! Happy Dumbing Day!
WanderingLynx
Wooo! WE’VE BEEN HERE FOR TEN YEARS, GO US! What a cute idea ^^
Lingo
FYI, the previous Dumbing Days:
Oct 18, 2019
Oct 14, 2018
Oct 10, 2017
Oct 4, 2016
Sep 27, 2015
Sep 23, 2014
Sep 18, 2013
Sep 12, 2012
King Daniel
Of those, I believe Dumbing Day 2019 is the only one to have been actually celebrated day-of, if I recall.
Lingo
Yeah, I didn’t come up with the idea until 2019, and in any case the dates weren’t really nailed down until the October 1 storyline.
clif
What’s the date of the next Dumbing day so that I can prepare to celebrate properly? Oh wait, it depends on how many in-comic days pass. So probably around Jan 15, 2022 then.
King Daniel
Since (barring mentioned-in-narration-box timeskips) one chapter equals one in-universe day we’ll probably be able to see the next Dumbing Day at least a few weeks to a month or so in advance, but yeah, we don’t know when the next is currently.
Lingo
As I said last time, guessing when the next Dumbing Day will be is part of the celebration of Dumbing Day! Put me down for January 15, 2022.
Lingo
Oh you already guessed January 15! Okay, I’ll go with January 16.
a/snow/mous/e
Happy Dumbing Day!
a/snow/mous/e
or it could be Dumbing Day tomorrow, in which case Happy Dumbing Eve!
i still assert there’s no reason to think this would be the 2011 calendar; timeskip changes everything
Suet
Grow numb to them, I guess. Or have a new persona.
*plays I Can See Clearly Now by Jimmy Cliff on my way back*
*brings up the Dorothy clone counter to 2*
Mr D
Or adjust them to SUMMON a persona.
But first you have to confront your Shadow! THE TRUE SELF!
StClair
Hm, an additional thought.
She’s used to being the only Brown sister. The only girl, in a family of boys. (She’s not, but she doesn’t know that – yet.) And, until now, the only one who doesn’t wear glasses.
So now she’s having to give that bit of uniqueness up as well.
Rosicrucian
Also Joyce totally has the idea that she’s different from the Brown brothers factory because she’s the girl, doesn’t she?
Hasn’t yet realized she’s not the only Brown sister.
If anything, the impending divorce probably delayed Joss coming out to anyone in the family.
Axel
Unless she’s like ‘fuck it, they’re splitting up anyway’
which I’m hoping for because I don’t want to wait five-ten more years for her to come out (at least to Joyce. She can take her time with anyone else).
Regalli
My bet with Jocelyne is ‘dramatically upped her timeline for coming out to Joyce and Becky, cautiously optimistic about Hank, but not out yet because this made it abundantly clear Carol cannot EVER know and that Steps Need To Be Taken to ensure safety from Carol before going No Contact.’ (By which I mean: when your mother is backing the man who kidnapped your sister with a mobster in his SECOND attempt to kidnap and de-gay his daughter? Do not let her know where you live. And ensure she can’t ‘casually’ bump into you around town.) Not that the divorce delayed it so much as the ‘welp, Mom is actively dangerous to me’ factor.
Regalli
That said, I still think she’s coming out sooner rather than later. (Or at least, I hope so.) Maybe not immediately, but I’m hoping by the end of next book, at least.
Kyrik Michalowski
I feel like Joyce will take to contacts like a slug takes to salt but maybe if Dorothy suggests them then Joyce will realize glasses aren’t that bad. Or at least not that bad for her.
I personally love my contacts and couldn’t wait to stop wearing glasses, because I feel like I look stupid in glasses. I also sleep in my contacts even though I’m not really supposed to because I hate feeling blind when I wake up.
crow
Don’t you have a pair of glasses to wear when your contacts aren’t in?
Kyrik Michalowski
I used to, but now I don’t think I have a pair of glasses. If I do, the prescription is way out of date
crow
Even so, I think it might be worth fumbling around a bit every morning to preserve your eye health. You only have two eyes, and wearing contacts 24/7 seems like it could be very bad for them!
You’re welcome for the unsolicited advice.
RZT
I used to do that too. Then I ended up with an infection that could have cost me my eyesight. It was incredibly painful and one of the scariest moments ever for me. The proteins built up and I still have a small scar on my eye to this day. This was when I was 19 and I’m 35 now and it still haunts me. Please please please please don’t go blind in one of your eyes for the sake of a couple minutes of blindness in the morning. If you know your contact prescription you can get a pair of glasses from Zenni optical for $10-20 if you go bare bones.
I also hate wearing glasses but will never again risk that. I use them for maybe 15 minutes a day total now. A few minutes at bedtime and when I wake up or if I need something in the middle of the night.
Moon
maybe gold wire frames would kinda slap
He Who Abides
I dunno, I kinda wanna see her with some thick-framed glasses myself.