It’s all well and good for Billie to play reasonable now with “does someone [ahem] suggesting you’re bad at something irk you?” when it was in fact she herself that rolled up and directly accused Dorothy of not sorting out Joyce’s problem (which is going a little further than “you’re not good at something” into “you’re causing direct harm through lack of action” territory). Which more or less resulted in the present situation. Good ol’ Billie. So charismatic.
She chipped in to paying Ross’s bail, essentially enabling the Asshole Dads in their kidnapping (and Blaine’s subsequent threats of murder against Joyce).
While she might not have been directly involved, her cult bullshit literally endangered her daughter’s life and last we saw her she felt no remorse or introspection about that, so it’s not surprising that the kids have cut through the bullshit and drawn the more direct throughline.
Yup. Carol’s first instinct after hearing that her daughter had been kidnapped and two people had been killed was to TRY TO RE-KIDNAP JOYCE. She was even ANGRY that Joyce got away.
It’s less she TRIED to kill her and more Facilitated a situation that could very well lead to her murder. Less hitting her with a car and more leaping out of the car doing 90 with Joyce strapped in the back seat.
Huh, I expected Billie/Jennifer to be a dick about it, I was not expecting this. However I’m happy that at least they’re at least done yelling.
Dorothy is the only kind of person that I could imagine handwriting an apology note, or an apology note of any kind. However it is a very Dorothy thing to do. Am I wrong?
To be fair, I find Dotty plenty relatable here. That’s a form of charisma, right?
(Or it’s just me being the same kind of idiot as her. Probably that.)
I feel for Dorothy so much. Billie is just as condescending as ever and richly deserves an extremely thorough, rudely accurately clapback. Dorothy is just going to keep stuffing it all down forever.
Honestly that’s one of my biggest worries. There are neverany Dorothy storylines that focus on her and her mental health, and I feel like it’s a real problem that isn’t being addressed. I know that there have been Dorothy storylines before, but they’re always about her relationship with someone else, whether it be Walky, Dorothy, Amber, or someone else, and it’s always more focused on the other person.
Basically, I just want Dorothy to look at herself, and if she’s not gonna, for someone to do it for her.
thejeff
Even the arc about her overwork just seemed to gradually dissipate when she and Walky broke up. There was never any attempt to address any underlying issues.
seregiel
It is hinted at a lot, though – her lack of hygiene/eating when stressed, hiding letters from Yale, going to a therapist, people pleasing to the extreme. She’s a neurotic labrador.
MrBookBoy
True, but there’s never even been any set up for a more in-depth story; heck, even though she’s one of the main characters, she hasn’t gotten a chapter title named after her, which is something even Faz managed to do.
lol i know sarah is the ‘big sister’ but i wouldn’t really consider becky (assuming that’s one of the ppl she’s referring to) as the other ‘mom’ figure
Dr. T
I found myself wondering who the moms were myself. Dotty, Sarah, and ???? While Joyce may refer to Sarah as big sis (literally, I mean), she’s been a bit of a mother hen as far as she goes.
Jennifer flipping nailed it. College is about finding freedom to make dumb mistakes, and Joyce has kind of been put in a weird place where her mistakes and imperfections are used as a reason to deny her respect and agency. You know, “we have to save Joyce from herself”.
That was fair when she was still in a homophobic death cult. But now she’s… not. Now she’s just a mostly typical messed-up college kid trying to work herself out, and respecting and trusting her to eventually take care of herself without nonstop mommying is the right step.
I mean, it’s not the only situation where a lot of young people are thrown together, without parental supervision and only nominal oversight by other adults, and have to figure out (often entirely on their own/with only their peers) how to be functional adults themselves… just one of the most common, in our society.
Needfuldoer
As long as they don’t just get into something that kicks the “learning how to adult” down the road by a decade or so.
Clif
The trick is to learn to fake being an adult just enough to kick actual adulting down the road until never. Note – This is incompatible with having a kid and some marriages.
temperaryobsessor
So long as your not dragging a kid into it or forcing others to adult for you.
thejeff
The real trick is to realize that the adults are faking it too. Even the ones with marriages and kids.
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves”
I assume Dotty, Sarah and Becky are her campus moms (assuming Jennifer is not referring to herself as an absent mom in which case she would take the place of Becky). I don’t have a clue who her four at-home moms are aside from her real mom.
Forget about “Booster is secretly Mike”, this is “Jennifer is secretly Booster”. Or endowed (… nope) with similar insight – exclusively directed outward, of course.
Haha of course directly only at others from her smug tower of illusory maturity. The smugness of “Jennifer” is infuriating.
Remember she told Raidah and those social climbers her name was Billie several times! She corrected Raidah about misnaming her, now she’s completely under their frenemie spell.
lol i’d love to receive an apology note , i might not keep it, or might be annoyed depending on who it’s from but it’d be amusing to like frame it and take a pic and send it to someone occasionally each time if we were still on friendly terms
187 thoughts on “Sporadically”
Doctor_Who
But the apology note will not be done in calligraphy, nor delivered in an embossed envelope.
That’s the Dorothy equivalent of being slapped with a glove.
Ana Chronistic
“it will include a painstakingly hand-rendered golfclap.gif”
shadowcell
but they were all of them, deceived
for another mom was made…
Clif
One mom to rule them all,
And in the darkness bind them,
In the land of Morder
where the shadows fib.
foamy
*Momdor
Ryek Hvek
where the Hussies hiss.
The Wellerman
? Woah. For once, Billy is actually right. REALLY right. ?
Now if only Booster could perform a psychic ray attack on Dorothy. ?
Clif
Even a broken Billie is right twice a semester.
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It’s all well and good for Billie to play reasonable now with “does someone [ahem] suggesting you’re bad at something irk you?” when it was in fact she herself that rolled up and directly accused Dorothy of not sorting out Joyce’s problem (which is going a little further than “you’re not good at something” into “you’re causing direct harm through lack of action” territory). Which more or less resulted in the present situation. Good ol’ Billie. So charismatic.
UrsulaDavina
“BUT I WONT USE MY CALIGRAPHY PEN!”
Needfuldoer
“And I won’t bother to rewrite it if I smudge the ink!”
But she will rewrite it instead of crossing a word out. She can’t help it, she’s no monster.
Stephen Bierce
*biting back the urge to quote Jimmy Buffett for “talk like a pirate day”*
Joe Moose
YARRRRRRRR
PirateTawnee
but for me, it was Tuesday.
Sirksome
Meh, no one in this comic knows how anything works. It’s a feature not a bug.
Nono
Carol tried to kill Joyce???
Is this a specific reference to something (like her setting Ross free), or did we miss something
Cattleprod
Yeah, she helped secure the release of someone who was an active threat to the school, and then he actively threatened the school again.
Hoboturtle
Pretty sure it’s the Ross thing.
Cheshrin
She chipped in to paying Ross’s bail, essentially enabling the Asshole Dads in their kidnapping (and Blaine’s subsequent threats of murder against Joyce).
While she might not have been directly involved, her cult bullshit literally endangered her daughter’s life and last we saw her she felt no remorse or introspection about that, so it’s not surprising that the kids have cut through the bullshit and drawn the more direct throughline.
Bryy
Yup. Carol’s first instinct after hearing that her daughter had been kidnapped and two people had been killed was to TRY TO RE-KIDNAP JOYCE. She was even ANGRY that Joyce got away.
Thag Simmons
It’s definitely referencing the Ross thing.
Yotomoe
It’s less she TRIED to kill her and more Facilitated a situation that could very well lead to her murder. Less hitting her with a car and more leaping out of the car doing 90 with Joyce strapped in the back seat.
Illjwamh
As Avatar Kiyoshi once said, “Personally I don’t really see the difference.”
Johan
I read later as latte. (I read this on my phone so tiny print)
I now will only accept lattes for apologies.
Laura
You and me both, Johan!
Saida
I always enlarge the strip, or turn the screen…
But, I would absolutely accept a apology latte!
Koms
An apology latte with the note written with latte art
BBCC
Look, Dorothy’s leaning in on her appeal to the grandma demographic.
She’s gonna nail it.
Kyrik Michalowski
Huh, I expected Billie/Jennifer to be a dick about it, I was not expecting this. However I’m happy that at least they’re at least done yelling.
Dorothy is the only kind of person that I could imagine handwriting an apology note, or an apology note of any kind. However it is a very Dorothy thing to do. Am I wrong?
drs
Did Dorothy force Walky to write thank-you notes to his parents when they were dating?
Kyrik Michalowski
I don’t remember that but it would be in character for her to do so.
BarerMender
Yep
Thag Simmons
They are being a dick about it but it’s something Dorothy needs to hear
Masumi
To be fair, I find Dotty plenty relatable here. That’s a form of charisma, right?
(Or it’s just me being the same kind of idiot as her. Probably that.)
Vanessa
I feel for Dorothy so much. Billie is just as condescending as ever and richly deserves an extremely thorough, rudely accurately clapback. Dorothy is just going to keep stuffing it all down forever.
BarerMender
I’m afraid I don’t see the condescension. Jennifer seemed perfectly reasonable to me.
MrBookBoy
Honestly that’s one of my biggest worries. There are neverany Dorothy storylines that focus on her and her mental health, and I feel like it’s a real problem that isn’t being addressed. I know that there have been Dorothy storylines before, but they’re always about her relationship with someone else, whether it be Walky, Dorothy, Amber, or someone else, and it’s always more focused on the other person.
Basically, I just want Dorothy to look at herself, and if she’s not gonna, for someone to do it for her.
thejeff
Even the arc about her overwork just seemed to gradually dissipate when she and Walky broke up. There was never any attempt to address any underlying issues.
seregiel
It is hinted at a lot, though – her lack of hygiene/eating when stressed, hiding letters from Yale, going to a therapist, people pleasing to the extreme. She’s a neurotic labrador.
MrBookBoy
True, but there’s never even been any set up for a more in-depth story; heck, even though she’s one of the main characters, she hasn’t gotten a chapter title named after her, which is something even Faz managed to do.
RassilonTDavros
Mom and Mom and Mom and Mom are fighting again
Laura
Joyce has four mommies. Heather only has two.
anon
lol i know sarah is the ‘big sister’ but i wouldn’t really consider becky (assuming that’s one of the ppl she’s referring to) as the other ‘mom’ figure
Dr. T
I found myself wondering who the moms were myself. Dotty, Sarah, and ???? While Joyce may refer to Sarah as big sis (literally, I mean), she’s been a bit of a mother hen as far as she goes.
Plaaaa
Ruth, as RA is also a mother figure.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
“Gee Joyce, how come your daddy lets you have FOUR mommies?”
Cerusee
My Mother, My Mother, and Me! MMMMAM, hot new campus podcast.
FlyingFish
Pronounced “MOOOOOOOOOOM!” (with an exasperated tone).
Imogen
Jennifer flipping nailed it. College is about finding freedom to make dumb mistakes, and Joyce has kind of been put in a weird place where her mistakes and imperfections are used as a reason to deny her respect and agency. You know, “we have to save Joyce from herself”.
That was fair when she was still in a homophobic death cult. But now she’s… not. Now she’s just a mostly typical messed-up college kid trying to work herself out, and respecting and trusting her to eventually take care of herself without nonstop mommying is the right step.
woobie
>freedom to make dumb mistakes
Not learn from others’ mistakes?
Some mistakes last a looooong time.
ninja_jesus
All knowledge is better learned second hand, but some must be first hand.
Azhrei Vep
Really? I thought college was about getting degrees that you can hopefully use to pierce the filters and get an application through at a decent job.
Huh. Maybe I was better off not affording it after all. I made enough mistakes, I didn’t need the freedom for more.
StClair
I mean, it’s not the only situation where a lot of young people are thrown together, without parental supervision and only nominal oversight by other adults, and have to figure out (often entirely on their own/with only their peers) how to be functional adults themselves… just one of the most common, in our society.
Needfuldoer
As long as they don’t just get into something that kicks the “learning how to adult” down the road by a decade or so.
Clif
The trick is to learn to fake being an adult just enough to kick actual adulting down the road until never. Note – This is incompatible with having a kid and some marriages.
temperaryobsessor
So long as your not dragging a kid into it or forcing others to adult for you.
thejeff
The real trick is to realize that the adults are faking it too. Even the ones with marriages and kids.
walterw
what’s the old will rogers quote?
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves”
Yoder of Kansas
Who are the Seven Moms?
Proxiehunter
Joyce Brown and the Seven moms with Sarah as Grumpy . . .
CrazyJ
I assume Dotty, Sarah and Becky are her campus moms (assuming Jennifer is not referring to herself as an absent mom in which case she would take the place of Becky). I don’t have a clue who her four at-home moms are aside from her real mom.
Otl1973
There aren’t 7, there are 4 – Carol plus the 3 school pseudo-Moms.
justin8448
Thanks for explaining. This took me a while.
Chris M.
I also completely misunderstood that.
Keulen
Same, I legit thought Jennifer was saying Joyce had 4 moms plus the 3 fellow student “moms”.
Taffy
Is that a Snow White and the Seven Dwarves reference?
Clif
No, it’s either a Jesus and the seven disciples reference or a Blackbeard and the seven seas one. It’s hard to tell which.
StClair
Forget about “Booster is secretly Mike”, this is “Jennifer is secretly Booster”. Or endowed (… nope) with similar insight – exclusively directed outward, of course.
Vanessa
Haha of course directly only at others from her smug tower of illusory maturity. The smugness of “Jennifer” is infuriating.
Remember she told Raidah and those social climbers her name was Billie several times! She corrected Raidah about misnaming her, now she’s completely under their frenemie spell.
anon
lol i’d love to receive an apology note , i might not keep it, or might be annoyed depending on who it’s from but it’d be amusing to like frame it and take a pic and send it to someone occasionally each time if we were still on friendly terms
DailyBrad