Depends on how big your catchment is. In my demographic out of a 150k person city, there is a limited number of people on such services, and they tend to be on all of them. Two years Daisy? Y’all sound like Glorious Sons’ “I haven’t touched a pretty thing in 40 days.” Try three years and counting, six depending on what she means by successful. I mean, I sympathize, but suspect that her situation is more by choice than by chance. (as is mine)
It was 8 years of NOTHING before I met my wife. I was 16 for my first relationship, 20 for my next three, and then 28 before I met my wife.
I’m deathly afraid that it is multiplying and if I ever screw things up, it will be 16 years before I get into another relationship.
Oh and dating computers themselves is awesome. They have different accessories to suit your needs, with provided whatever kink you’re into at the time, and through a complete lack of emotional availability, they also never seek to hurt your feelings. Any pain that remains is like Morpheus says, “residual self image.”
if you become God-Empress, you just get killed by your son, and then have your corpse strapped to a chair and fed psychic souls to keep you running for 10,000 years. 3/10 would not recommend.
King Daniel
Speaking from experience?
jflb96
I thought it was more of a ‘four millennia of brutal dictatorship for the greater good until an assassination attempt is allowed to work, p.s. you are now a giant worm’ type deal.
Aethelred the Unready
Wait, that sounds like…HERESY!
Spencer
I thought it was more establish a kingdom and go to sleep for thousands of years, wake up when the time is right to find your kingdom now a fascist, war mongering empire who uses the pain of victims tortured to insanity to nuke entire cities at a time with curses.
Eldritchy
But you get power armored, bolter wielding badass nuns who have hots for you!
Daisy seems to be mostly competent at her job save the one glaring weakness, which admittedly has made up a lot of her characterization after her initial appearances.
Switch “woman” to “man”, tone down the bits about being important/impressive, and you’ve got essentially what runs through my head right before every first date I’ve been on
See, that’s definitely something that she and Ruth have in common. They’ve got some common ground, so it’ll be interesting to see how things go from there, even if Ruth/Billie is still very much my OTP. I’m loving that Daisy is becoming an actual character now.
Ruth/Billie is a great ship, but I don’t think we’ve seen enough evidence to say that Ruth/Jennifer is, so you can probably let yourself off the hook in this case. (This is why people think I should have been a lawyer.)
woobie
Jennifer is still Billie, the timeskip wasn’t that long.
Clif
It was long enough.
Long enough that Jennifer became Mike.
milu
Clif out there, spreading the gospel of Mike’s resurrection =D
NotThatDrew
We might not have Martian tech in this universe, but if anyone could will themself back to life purely out of spite it WOULD be Mike
Rabid Rabbit
Hey, the Doctor only takes a couple of minutes, and one episode of adjusting.
Okay, it’s good you’re trying not to think of your subordinates that way, Daisy, but maybe don’t bring that up on a date. Might be why it’s hard to get them to be successful. XD
Also I think in general thanks to human free will you’re allowed to think of whoever you want naked, you just have to recognize when it’s inappropriate or an abuse of power to act on those thoughts. So think to your hearts content, Daisy! Your only limitation is your imagination!
Funny because I feel like a lot of sexual harrassment happens because people don’t jack off enough! XD
Delicious Taffy
I dunno about that one.
Sirksome
Don’t get me wrong, masturbating isn’t a magical cure all for sexual harassment, but I do think some people feel pressure and end up trying to force their desires when it’s abuse of power or inappropriate instead of learning to take care of it themselves. Sarah’s a decent example. Once upon a time she was (and maybe still is) very horny for Jacob, but she never once aggressively pushed her desire toward him, even recognizing they both wanted different things in a relationship and ultimately weren’t compatible. I don’t think it’s a coincidence “Other Jacob” exists. Sarah knows how to take care of herself, compared to Daisy here, who is also very pent up, and once nearly tried to kiss “Billie”, and despite apparently being remarkable accomplished in her field is also kind of a bad boss for having a preference for stories that arouse her over others. Whose to say that wouldn’t at least be mitigated a bit is she had an “Other Amazi-girl” or something. Just something to think about.
thejeff
Of course, you’re only assuming that Daisy doesn’t masturbate.
Sirksome
I think I’ve unintentionally taken this topic too far, but if Daisy actually masterbates with any sort of regularity and is still this horny (which is already slightly concerning to me since it effects her work) I’d start to be very worried about her mental health. I know everyone has their own level of sexual desire but I personally couldn’t comprehend how she’d get through the day.
There is a difference between sex and human companionship with sexual gratification. One need can be filled by masturbation, the other requires a partner, and not just any warm body a willing and cooperative person.
Sirksome
@Opus the Poet. I do understand that, but in Daisy’s case I don’t think need for human companionship and gratification fully justifies some of her behavior. I don’t think she’s done anything truly bad, but it has been inappropriate and to say she needs human companionship just feels like a weak justification for it. But maybe now that Daisy is getting more focus we can see other sides of her personality beyond just being a joke about sexual frustration and loneliness.
Leorale
Sexual satisfaction doesn’t always work that way (where it’s all about the orgasm, after which the orgasm-haver feels satiated, and then they’re set for a bit).
But either way, I’m looking forward to Daisy’s development into a more complete personality.
Huh. Wait… does that mean that this whole bit is a Brick Joke from 8ish years ago?
I’m impressed.
Sombrero
Willis loves to play the looooooooooooooooooooooooooong game.
milu
Meh, for now I wouldn’t give Willis that much credit. Like even if he did have this eventual plot in mind back then, i don’t think that there’s a sense that it was truly “set up” in a way that is now”paying off” because this arc would work perfectly fine just the same.
However I wouldn’t put it past him to have Daisy bemoan the temptations that come with a position of authority just now, specifically to remind readers of that time she kissed Jennifer and then asked for her GF’s number maybe! He’s still a mighty canny writer.
Well, in the next strip she says “that was an accident waiting to happen, I’d say we’re both pretty much blameless” so it sounds like something inappropriate happened
141 thoughts on “Apprehensive”
Ana Chronistic
Supposing Plenty of Fish or w/e isn’t an option
*wouldn’t know, has never computer dated*
Demoted Oblivious
Depends on how big your catchment is. In my demographic out of a 150k person city, there is a limited number of people on such services, and they tend to be on all of them. Two years Daisy? Y’all sound like Glorious Sons’ “I haven’t touched a pretty thing in 40 days.” Try three years and counting, six depending on what she means by successful. I mean, I sympathize, but suspect that her situation is more by choice than by chance. (as is mine)
I am Nothing
Three years? Heh, try never.
TemplarKnight
It was 8 years of NOTHING before I met my wife. I was 16 for my first relationship, 20 for my next three, and then 28 before I met my wife.
I’m deathly afraid that it is multiplying and if I ever screw things up, it will be 16 years before I get into another relationship.
Demoted Oblivious
Oh and dating computers themselves is awesome. They have different accessories to suit your needs, with provided whatever kink you’re into at the time, and through a complete lack of emotional availability, they also never seek to hurt your feelings. Any pain that remains is like Morpheus says, “residual self image.”
BRYAN SCOTT LANGLEY
Harsh…and yet, I’d totally go for this dynamic in a relationship……I may have unresolved narcissistic tendencies……self reveal burn, excuse me a moment!
Doctor_Who
“Good news, Daisy. You’ve been appointed God-Empress of the Universe!”
“NOOOOOOO!”
Nono
Nah once you get to that stage you’re probably allowed to have like, consorts and things.
Casi
if you become God-Empress, you just get killed by your son, and then have your corpse strapped to a chair and fed psychic souls to keep you running for 10,000 years. 3/10 would not recommend.
King Daniel
Speaking from experience?
jflb96
I thought it was more of a ‘four millennia of brutal dictatorship for the greater good until an assassination attempt is allowed to work, p.s. you are now a giant worm’ type deal.
Aethelred the Unready
Wait, that sounds like…HERESY!
Spencer
I thought it was more establish a kingdom and go to sleep for thousands of years, wake up when the time is right to find your kingdom now a fascist, war mongering empire who uses the pain of victims tortured to insanity to nuke entire cities at a time with curses.
Eldritchy
But you get power armored, bolter wielding badass nuns who have hots for you!
Needfuldoer
God-Empress of the Universe gets to make the rules, though.
Daisy’s own personal hell is upper-middle management: plenty of subordinates, no power to change the policies she’s held to.
Eldritchy
Say hello to an army of Bolter-wielding fanatical nuns who have hots for you.
annarchy
Hey, that feels like it would be great if your a dom, and shit if you like to sub.
Oh the double edge of “godhood” what a strange thing it is.
Sirksome
Is Daisy good or bad at her job? I guess it doesn’t matter no way it will help her get laid tonight.
Thag Simmons
Daisy seems to be mostly competent at her job save the one glaring weakness, which admittedly has made up a lot of her characterization after her initial appearances.
Eldritchy
In the words of Rosa Diaz
“She needs to Bone!”
Axel
BONE?
Doctor_Who
It doesn’t matter anyway, she’s a newspaper editor in the 21st century.
Maybe she can switch to being a telegraph operator, or deliver milk.
Is she good with technology? I hear these guys are hiring!
Needfuldoer
Local television journalism is a thing too, ya know! Daisy seems like she’d make a competent executive producer.
Wagstaff
Now, just why would more subordinates lead to FEWER women?
Wagstaff
Just seems mathematically impossible…
King Daniel
It’s a little thing called “professional ethics”, I think
Chris
The number of women in the world stays the same, but there are more who she isn’t allowed to think of naked.
Delicious Taffy
She stabs the women, obviously.
Needfuldoer
You’re not allowed to schtup down your chain of command in most professional settings.
Bicycle Bill
You can THINK of them naked; you just can’t act on it,
Tan
I mean, in the sense that no one can stop you from thinking it, I guess, but they’d prefer you didn’t.
milu
maybe Daisy is one of these people who can’t really keep her body language wholly unaffected by her dirty thoughts.
but really, i read it as Daisy herself would prefer not to be burdened with tantalizing crushes on women she is not supposed to pursue.
Sunny
So the solution is to chain them up next to yourself then?
NotThatDrew
Oh hey, it me
NotThatDrew
Switch “woman” to “man”, tone down the bits about being important/impressive, and you’ve got essentially what runs through my head right before every first date I’ve been on
RassilonTDavros
See, that’s definitely something that she and Ruth have in common. They’ve got some common ground, so it’ll be interesting to see how things go from there, even if Ruth/Billie is still very much my OTP. I’m loving that Daisy is becoming an actual character now.
RassilonTDavros
…sorry, Ruth/Jennifer. Second time in one-more-than-as-many days I’ve made that mistake…
Rabid Rabbit
Ruth/Billie is a great ship, but I don’t think we’ve seen enough evidence to say that Ruth/Jennifer is, so you can probably let yourself off the hook in this case. (This is why people think I should have been a lawyer.)
woobie
Jennifer is still Billie, the timeskip wasn’t that long.
Clif
It was long enough.
Long enough that Jennifer became Mike.
milu
Clif out there, spreading the gospel of Mike’s resurrection =D
NotThatDrew
We might not have Martian tech in this universe, but if anyone could will themself back to life purely out of spite it WOULD be Mike
Rabid Rabbit
Hey, the Doctor only takes a couple of minutes, and one episode of adjusting.
Joe Helfrich
Not sure you’re wrong. Jennifer will probably have to go back to being Billy before she can go back to Ruth.
BBCC
Okay, it’s good you’re trying not to think of your subordinates that way, Daisy, but maybe don’t bring that up on a date. Might be why it’s hard to get them to be successful. XD
Regalli
I mean, in this particular case her date might empathize.
BBCC
True, but I’d still say its not the best conversation opener in the world. XD
Sirksome
Also I think in general thanks to human free will you’re allowed to think of whoever you want naked, you just have to recognize when it’s inappropriate or an abuse of power to act on those thoughts. So think to your hearts content, Daisy! Your only limitation is your imagination!
Delicious Taffy
This, plus a lot of the time thoughts aren’t 100% voluntary, so anyone getting fussy or high-roading someone over them is basically just jacking off.
Sirksome
Funny because I feel like a lot of sexual harrassment happens because people don’t jack off enough! XD
Delicious Taffy
I dunno about that one.
Sirksome
Don’t get me wrong, masturbating isn’t a magical cure all for sexual harassment, but I do think some people feel pressure and end up trying to force their desires when it’s abuse of power or inappropriate instead of learning to take care of it themselves. Sarah’s a decent example. Once upon a time she was (and maybe still is) very horny for Jacob, but she never once aggressively pushed her desire toward him, even recognizing they both wanted different things in a relationship and ultimately weren’t compatible. I don’t think it’s a coincidence “Other Jacob” exists. Sarah knows how to take care of herself, compared to Daisy here, who is also very pent up, and once nearly tried to kiss “Billie”, and despite apparently being remarkable accomplished in her field is also kind of a bad boss for having a preference for stories that arouse her over others. Whose to say that wouldn’t at least be mitigated a bit is she had an “Other Amazi-girl” or something. Just something to think about.
thejeff
Of course, you’re only assuming that Daisy doesn’t masturbate.
Sirksome
I think I’ve unintentionally taken this topic too far, but if Daisy actually masterbates with any sort of regularity and is still this horny (which is already slightly concerning to me since it effects her work) I’d start to be very worried about her mental health. I know everyone has their own level of sexual desire but I personally couldn’t comprehend how she’d get through the day.
Opus the Poet
There is a difference between sex and human companionship with sexual gratification. One need can be filled by masturbation, the other requires a partner, and not just any warm body a willing and cooperative person.
Sirksome
@Opus the Poet. I do understand that, but in Daisy’s case I don’t think need for human companionship and gratification fully justifies some of her behavior. I don’t think she’s done anything truly bad, but it has been inappropriate and to say she needs human companionship just feels like a weak justification for it. But maybe now that Daisy is getting more focus we can see other sides of her personality beyond just being a joke about sexual frustration and loneliness.
Leorale
Sexual satisfaction doesn’t always work that way (where it’s all about the orgasm, after which the orgasm-haver feels satiated, and then they’re set for a bit).
But either way, I’m looking forward to Daisy’s development into a more complete personality.
Keulen
Yeah the real problem isn’t thinking of them naked, it’s abusing your power by acting on those thoughts.
Nono
Yeah Daisy, let’s just ignore the fact that you kissed Billie.
RassilonTDavros
Huh, I had completely forgotten about that. Weird.
AndieStardust
Last comment on the next page from that link! “If Billie isn’t interested, she should hook up Daisy with Ruth”
It’s happening!!!!
Jamie
*reads the next comic*
… well. Wow, Willis. I’m impressed.
Rose by Any Other Name
Huh. Wait… does that mean that this whole bit is a Brick Joke from 8ish years ago?
I’m impressed.
Sombrero
Willis loves to play the looooooooooooooooooooooooooong game.
milu
Meh, for now I wouldn’t give Willis that much credit. Like even if he did have this eventual plot in mind back then, i don’t think that there’s a sense that it was truly “set up” in a way that is now”paying off” because this arc would work perfectly fine just the same.
However I wouldn’t put it past him to have Daisy bemoan the temptations that come with a position of authority just now, specifically to remind readers of that time she kissed Jennifer and then asked for her GF’s number maybe! He’s still a mighty canny writer.
DailyBrad
Oh yeah, forgot that. I mean, she was clothed, at least, but that’s a low bar.
Delicious Taffy
Was that a kiss? I always thought Daisy was just leaning in for a kiss and Billie stormed off.
BBCC
Same.
RacingTurtle
Thirded
King Daniel
Fourthed
milu
Well, in the next strip she says “that was an accident waiting to happen, I’d say we’re both pretty much blameless” so it sounds like something inappropriate happened