I may be biased cuz I’ve loved S.S JoJoyce since Willis’ early days but hurgle turgle.
(I shipped Joyce/Joe more than Walky/Joyce, which is something)
Sol
I also really liked the Joe/Joyce dynamic in Its Walky! when they had their brief relationship thingy, though I knew it was doomed since I was coming in long after the comic finished.
Sol
The irony of my gravatar being Walky….
AK
I mean. I am nervous about this plotline because it offers to either validate or repudiate my queerplatonic reading of these characters and if romantic potentially mess with the Joyce/Dorothy friendship dynamic which I really like. But I would be shocked if it broke up Joe and Joyce in the process regardless of how it goes.
That relationship is too stable of a situation with too much setup and too much still to be explored for me to feel like it’s at any risk. At most we may see polyamory (hybrid or romantic).
System of Eleven
Saaame! We don’t get nearly enough queerplatonic representation! Or polyamory representation, but personally I’m cheering for queerplatonic. I can easily see why both of them would struggle to recognize (or know about, especially in Jouce’s case) QP intimacy, and have the emotional roots of their behavior separate from the logical explanations that reinforce their hetero sexual/romantic orientations. “I’m not interested in having sex with Joyce, but she clearly struggling here, so I’m willing to hold her hand while she learns to masturbate, because I want her to feel safe.” “I don’t want to have sex with Dorothy, but I’m curious and scared of exploring sexuality, and I feel safe seeing a demonstration from her. (And Walky, but I’ve so completely removed him from my concept of sex and romance that I haven’t considered the implications of his participation in this demonstration. )”
I think it’s more likely that Joyce told him about it rather than showed it to him, but I suppose it’s also possible he saw it over her shoulder or it popped up on the screen while they were watching a movie or something.
Thag Simmons
Joe was holding the phone when the text came through, so he definitely had the means to intercept
Man in a hat
Went back to check, right after the resend of the pic, he’s holding a phone that’s buzzing. Totally missed it the first time
Yumi
And it’s quite possible that Joyce hasn’t actually seen it.
Anna
I actually presume Joyce hasn’t seen it. To add to the confusion, Joe hasn’t seen Joyce’s pic.
Needfuldoer
Joe knows Joyce was trying to send him photos, but he doesn’t know who received them.
I forget if he was there when Joyce received the photo Jennifer took of herself with Dorothy’s phone, but he was holding Joyce’s phone when she received the elaborately staged one that Amber took.
She could have mentioned it to him, but that wasn’t seen and fair to think it didn’t happen.
Steamweed
The phone buzzed, while he had it. Then we cut away to other people. Very likely he would have looked at the screen so he could tell Joyce who it was from. And, voila (flourish) and viola (instrument), he saw cleavage. 🙂
Jennifer’s pic didn’t fail to send the first time, and we saw that Joyce received it.
Sirksome
Clearly Jennifer is into Joyce.
Rolf of Many Doors
Clearly Jennifer is Amazigirl
Decidedly Orthogonal
That would explain why Ms Billingsworth can’t figure it out. She’d still be wrong anyways, but at least she’d have an excuse of being ill, instead of just willfully ignorant.
Walky’s gonna have to earn himself some Joyce-neuron-circuits. Can’t just expect to get some simply because of some alternate universe Walky-and-Joyce goings-on.
I think she’s upset that her “moment of weakness” had consequences and witnesses, kind of reminding her that whenever she does something “wrong” it will always harm her, somehow.
I suspect it’s mostly that she’s been lying to herself that her FUNNY JOKE is perfectly innocent, and she’s been steeling herself to play off said FUNNY JOKE as a FUNNY JOKE when Joyce brings it up, y’know unless Joyce seems kinda into it, and it had never occurred to her that someone other than Joyce would confront her about it, and she is woefully unprepared.
I hereby smash a champagne bottle on the ship, and send it forth into the waters. (which is superfluous, since that ship’s been floatin’ for years now) 🙂
better time
Say that to an Ace and you will always get an earful
depends on if she interprets it as him snooping through joyce’s phone or joyce seeing it and telling joe but i imagine if joyce seen it she would’ve also replied as well
To be fair to Dorothy the context of the pic was meant as response to Joyce sending her a tit pic first. So we can’t really play the “monogamous gf” card here. Dorothy is in the same spot as Joyce in this.
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NGPZ
Aaaaaaand there it is! XD
(Munches popcorn)
Mr D
Drama, Drama, Drama!
Mr D
(Chanted in the intonation of cheering for an outcome)
clif
All is proceeding as Mike has forseen.
Steamweed
The Great Prophet Mike foresaw these events. He was martyred for our sakes.
(and for our moms)
((and for nickels))
Rabbit
Oh boy. This plotline.
AK
Honestly if this had to get confronted this is as sane of a way as I could imagine it happening, so I’m just glad there’s not more secondhand cringe.
Rabbit
I may be biased cuz I’ve loved S.S JoJoyce since Willis’ early days but hurgle turgle.
(I shipped Joyce/Joe more than Walky/Joyce, which is something)
Sol
I also really liked the Joe/Joyce dynamic in Its Walky! when they had their brief relationship thingy, though I knew it was doomed since I was coming in long after the comic finished.
Sol
The irony of my gravatar being Walky….
AK
I mean. I am nervous about this plotline because it offers to either validate or repudiate my queerplatonic reading of these characters and if romantic potentially mess with the Joyce/Dorothy friendship dynamic which I really like. But I would be shocked if it broke up Joe and Joyce in the process regardless of how it goes.
That relationship is too stable of a situation with too much setup and too much still to be explored for me to feel like it’s at any risk. At most we may see polyamory (hybrid or romantic).
System of Eleven
Saaame! We don’t get nearly enough queerplatonic representation! Or polyamory representation, but personally I’m cheering for queerplatonic. I can easily see why both of them would struggle to recognize (or know about, especially in Jouce’s case) QP intimacy, and have the emotional roots of their behavior separate from the logical explanations that reinforce their hetero sexual/romantic orientations. “I’m not interested in having sex with Joyce, but she clearly struggling here, so I’m willing to hold her hand while she learns to masturbate, because I want her to feel safe.” “I don’t want to have sex with Dorothy, but I’m curious and scared of exploring sexuality, and I feel safe seeing a demonstration from her. (And Walky, but I’ve so completely removed him from my concept of sex and romance that I haven’t considered the implications of his participation in this demonstration. )”
Yarrr
Respect to Joe, he’s being direct but not mean.
Rectilinear Propagation
Whoopsie doodle!
Thag Simmons
Did you forget Dorothy?
cbwroses
Just didn’t think Joe would see it on Joyce’s phone.
King_Salty
I think it’s more likely that Joyce told him about it rather than showed it to him, but I suppose it’s also possible he saw it over her shoulder or it popped up on the screen while they were watching a movie or something.
Thag Simmons
Joe was holding the phone when the text came through, so he definitely had the means to intercept
Man in a hat
Went back to check, right after the resend of the pic, he’s holding a phone that’s buzzing. Totally missed it the first time
Yumi
And it’s quite possible that Joyce hasn’t actually seen it.
Anna
I actually presume Joyce hasn’t seen it. To add to the confusion, Joe hasn’t seen Joyce’s pic.
Needfuldoer
Joe knows Joyce was trying to send him photos, but he doesn’t know who received them.
I forget if he was there when Joyce received the photo Jennifer took of herself with Dorothy’s phone, but he was holding Joyce’s phone when she received the elaborately staged one that Amber took.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/forgetyou/
Yumi
Joe was nearby when she got the pic of Jennifer, but they were definitely apart enough to not hear each other’s conversations. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/02-the-one-where-jocelyne-returns/sitin/
She could have mentioned it to him, but that wasn’t seen and fair to think it didn’t happen.
Steamweed
The phone buzzed, while he had it. Then we cut away to other people. Very likely he would have looked at the screen so he could tell Joyce who it was from. And, voila (flourish) and viola (instrument), he saw cleavage. 🙂
anon
maybe b/c joyce didn’t confront her about it she might assume she hadn’t seen it yet?
Bogeywoman
Oh, she remembers, I just don’t think it occurred to her that this was a likely interpretation
Heavensrun
I mean, I think it *occurred* to her that this was a likely interpretation, she just wasn’t expecting JOE to be the one interpreting.
Sirksome
Multiple titty pics technically. Jennifer is in there.
Nurts2That
Maybe that’s the excuse – she was asking for a comparison to a friend… You know, like-y-dooooo.
anon
i think she only clicked send on the one that failed rather than selecting multiple pics/manually choosing jen’s pic too
Yumi
Jennifer’s pic didn’t fail to send the first time, and we saw that Joyce received it.
Sirksome
Clearly Jennifer is into Joyce.
Rolf of Many Doors
Clearly Jennifer is Amazigirl
Decidedly Orthogonal
That would explain why Ms Billingsworth can’t figure it out. She’d still be wrong anyways, but at least she’d have an excuse of being ill, instead of just willfully ignorant.
peng
man u know i forget they were originally danny friends not joyce friends
Thag Simmons
Hilarious that Joyce is super close with both Danny’s ex and Danny’s BFF and yet she still doesn’t even remember his name
Dana
It’s because Joyce not giving a shit about Danny in this universe tickles Willis’ funnybone.
Thag Simmons
It’s funny even without the meta gag of how she was originally written
Steamweed
Walky’s gonna have to earn himself some Joyce-neuron-circuits. Can’t just expect to get some simply because of some alternate universe Walky-and-Joyce goings-on.
jpnr
roundabout way of saying “threesome?”
Thag Simmons
They would be the worst polycule, Joe and Dotty might actually kill each other in that scenario
Nono
Which would be worse: Joe/Joyce/Dorothy, or Joe/Joyce/Sarah?
anon
https://pixietrixcomix.com/menage-a-3/going-out-with-a-bang-end-of-vol-8
I imagine something like this at first lol buuuut i guess there wasn’t any sexual tension with her and joe the same way there was with sonya/yuki
MisterJinKC
Not sure what I expected, but the Sharpshooter was definitely a surprise.
Steamweed
Yuki had far more violent energy than Dorothy. Hell, only the current Amazi-Girl and Dina could match Yuki, I think.
Rectilinear Propagation
I went back to the beginning for context and now I’m on page 157 and I’m holding you personally responsible.
Heavensrun
Joe is definitely aware that Dorothy isn’t interested in him, and probably isn’t really interested in her either at this point.
jpnr
Joe will show interest in any cute woman his girlfriend desires.
He is open to making such sacrifices.
Taffy
He’s such a noble soul for that. Braver than da troops.
John
Joe is about to give Dorothy notes on how to take a proper tiddy pic
Jacob Crawford
Do you think she’s more upset that she was caught sending the pic, or that this means Joe saw it?
Samniel
I think she’s upset that her “moment of weakness” had consequences and witnesses, kind of reminding her that whenever she does something “wrong” it will always harm her, somehow.
clif
She knew it was a bad idea both before and after she sent it, but she sent it anyway.
Go Dorothy!
Heavensrun
I suspect it’s mostly that she’s been lying to herself that her FUNNY JOKE is perfectly innocent, and she’s been steeling herself to play off said FUNNY JOKE as a FUNNY JOKE when Joyce brings it up, y’know unless Joyce seems kinda into it, and it had never occurred to her that someone other than Joyce would confront her about it, and she is woefully unprepared.
Rectilinear Propagation
Yeah, all of this.
Jo_cubstar
It’s a fair question, considering she sent a pic to his monogamous gf
Dara
Monogamous as far as we’ve seen so far.
AGV/Ruby
Never say never
Steamweed
I hereby smash a champagne bottle on the ship, and send it forth into the waters. (which is superfluous, since that ship’s been floatin’ for years now) 🙂
better time
Say that to an Ace and you will always get an earful
anon
depends on if she interprets it as him snooping through joyce’s phone or joyce seeing it and telling joe but i imagine if joyce seen it she would’ve also replied as well
Sirksome
To be fair to Dorothy the context of the pic was meant as response to Joyce sending her a tit pic first. So we can’t really play the “monogamous gf” card here. Dorothy is in the same spot as Joyce in this.
thejeff
Sort of. Joyce’s was an accident. Dorothy replying without knowing that gives her more intention than Joyce had.
a/snow/mous/e
Yeah, but Joyce did it twice. So obviously Dorothy had to send two pictures back… For karmic balance, or something.
darkoneko
Freckles.
jeffepp
“Do they go all the way down?”
Ghostforge
If they do, she’s secretly a Trill
Reltzik
Or a redhead.
Reltzik
Or both.