It occurs to me that we never saw Dorothy draw that picture on the last strip, and she seemed to produce it without a lengthy break in the conversation.
There comes a time in every friendship with Joyce Brown where you realize you need quick access to a crude drawing of her naked form for reference.
Doctor_Who
Gonna be hilarious when Becky realizes she’s the only member of Joyce’s friend group who doesn’t own one.
Michael Steamweed
She can borrow Amazi-Girl’s. AG is always prepared with emergency extra copies of crude drawings of her naked friends. (Just as Amber is always prepared with emergency extra copies of crude smut of her naked friends.)
Vanessa
I think Joyce drew those, she also prepared the printouts. Joyce is the artist in this friendship.
HueSatLight
If the backs of the paper have butts on them, then you’re right. If there’s no Joe butt, definitely Dorothy. If the butts are on a second sheet, probably Dorothy.
I don’t know if this explanation enough, but Dorothy wouldn’t put the second diagram where it would be difficult to use at the same time. And Joyce would put the butts where they go.
SpongegirlCircleskirt
Also dicks. Joyce will draw dicks where they go. Like on everybody’s dorm room White boards.
Aquila
How long, do you think, until they all start carrying around those “anatomically correct dolls” child therapists use?
Michael Steamweed
“Okay, show me on this crude drawing of your naked friend Joyce where she said she wanted you to touch her.”
It’s becoming more apparent that Joe and Joyce are currently wanting different things from their relationship. Who else is willing to ship new Dorothy and new Joe?
Also, like, of all the ways to find out your other half is cheating on you, finding someone with a crude naked cartoon drawing of them with arrows listing the various bases seems like it would cause more confusion than outrage.
This was also more or less the same sentiment Joe showed when Joyce casually brought up “doing laundry with Dorothy” after making it clear that “doing laundry” was a euphemism for masturbation. Confused, and maybe a tiny bit worried, but not offended or angry at all.
I’m pretty sure that at this point, he’s 100% convinced that Joyce and Dorothy and f*cking, but feels like it would be hypocritical for him, the Resident Horndog, to raise any objections to this. Which is…actually, maybe not the most healthy attitude for him to have here, to be honest!
I think he’s new to having feels, so his auto-instinct is “why would I complain about my girlfriend getting experimental with a girl, that’s hot” without examining it deeper. If it actually happened, he’d probably be really confused that he felt hurt about it (if he felt hurt about it, that might be his actual emotional reaction after all)
That would be amazing. Do you think Joyce would ever recover?
If that happens, for maximum horror, it has to be a class her mother sits in on in the attempt to talk at her some more and convince her that she has everything wrong and selling Joyce’s childhood home to fund the church that sided with the guy who tried to abduct her best friend at gunpoint and then abducted her and more of her friends and pointed a gun at all of them was the pious, right thing to do. Because a church building matters, somehow, and the church is infallible despite this recent lunacy. And she’s Joyce’s mother so Joyce has to agree with her because that’s what respecting your elders means, and if only Becky weren’t gay, none of this would have happened, so why isn’t Joyce blaming her? Or the transsexuals for influencing her?
[Note: I think an eavesdropping Carla might own this if she got to punch Carol. Ruth would definitely want to punch her… Joyce might need her wrist brace back, assuming she hasnt literally passed out from the embarrassment of having Robin present a guide to bringing her to climax in different ways…]
I think the Joyce face would be one panel, except that panel would be arbitrarily MUCH BIGGER than every other panel ever in the comic. Just 4 normal size panels, and one 100000 square pixel Joyce Face.
The cycle continues until Joe and Joyce one day approach Dorothy, fingers tapping in unison, “Do you wanna join us and become a throuple?”. I mean, she’s planning the sex, planning the dates… she might as well hop aboard as a plus one at this point.
That does seem to be where this is heading.
At least, I hope it is.
For many reasons, not the least of which is that my lovely wife called the Joyce Throuple years ago, and we will feel very vindicated should it become cannon.
Ain’t it always the way. Dorothy finally got over her need to make all her friends into projects, and suddenly everyone’s coming to her desperate to be a project.
I mean, joking aside, it is actually EXTREMELY avoidable, if Dorothy would finally admit to herself that special interests do not trump consent, and she doesn’t actually HAVE to say yes to everything related to her hobby.
Dorothy’s not beating the allegations. Thinking about Joyce’s thighs, that stuff Joe said, the 5-strip makeout scene that leaked on Gaytreon, it’s all adding up.
168 thoughts on “Fairly safe”
ian livs
Joe is being very chill about that fact
Doctor_Who
It occurs to me that we never saw Dorothy draw that picture on the last strip, and she seemed to produce it without a lengthy break in the conversation.
…Did she just happen to already have one on her?
Sirksome
There comes a time in every friendship with Joyce Brown where you realize you need quick access to a crude drawing of her naked form for reference.
Doctor_Who
Gonna be hilarious when Becky realizes she’s the only member of Joyce’s friend group who doesn’t own one.
Michael Steamweed
She can borrow Amazi-Girl’s. AG is always prepared with emergency extra copies of crude drawings of her naked friends. (Just as Amber is always prepared with emergency extra copies of crude smut of her naked friends.)
Vanessa
I think Joyce drew those, she also prepared the printouts. Joyce is the artist in this friendship.
HueSatLight
If the backs of the paper have butts on them, then you’re right. If there’s no Joe butt, definitely Dorothy. If the butts are on a second sheet, probably Dorothy.
I don’t know if this explanation enough, but Dorothy wouldn’t put the second diagram where it would be difficult to use at the same time. And Joyce would put the butts where they go.
SpongegirlCircleskirt
Also dicks. Joyce will draw dicks where they go. Like on everybody’s dorm room White boards.
Aquila
How long, do you think, until they all start carrying around those “anatomically correct dolls” child therapists use?
Michael Steamweed
“Okay, show me on this crude drawing of your naked friend Joyce where she said she wanted you to touch her.”
Furie
*checks files*
Which Doctor number are you so I don’t bring the wrong image out to prove a point?
Michael Steamweed
The one who (Who?) flies around in a small blue box and occasionally puts new acquaintances into mortal danger.
mindbleach
Game recognizes game.
Ana Chronistic
“you look like you already have a good start there”
Clif
It’s becoming more apparent that Joe and Joyce are currently wanting different things from their relationship. Who else is willing to ship new Dorothy and new Joe?
Nymph
Yeah, I’m sure Joyce doesn’t want a romantic date and Joe doesn’t want sex within certain confines.
Maybe, just maybe, they’re both UNCOMFY about different things rather than singularly focused with no interest in the other’s wants/needs.
JA
Amazing how Joe is…cool with Dorothy studying a naked Joyce?
Wraithy2773
I think he understands their friendship well enough to not be threatened by it :D.
jeffepp
He keeps trying to suggest that if Joyce and Dorothy want to… at which point starts going “la la la”.
Needfuldoer
They’re pals!
Rose by Any other Name
Roomates even!
… you might even say ‘roomies’.
LiamKav
Also, like, of all the ways to find out your other half is cheating on you, finding someone with a crude naked cartoon drawing of them with arrows listing the various bases seems like it would cause more confusion than outrage.
Akane
I think he’d be fine if they hooked up and started dating, as long as he can still be with Joyce and support her.
DashWallkick
Half of the dorm thinks Joyce and Dorothy have a ‘we’re just really, really good friends’ thing going on.
Proxiehunter
That would be due to the “We’re just really, really good friends” thing they have going on.
morleuca
Yeah. I mean, they’re not even roommates!
Michael Steamweed
At least half of all archaeologists and historians in the future think that Dorothy and Joyce were just really, really good friends.
Amós Batista
maybe we will be sure tomorrow, because last panel is used for joke
Mturtle7
This was also more or less the same sentiment Joe showed when Joyce casually brought up “doing laundry with Dorothy” after making it clear that “doing laundry” was a euphemism for masturbation. Confused, and maybe a tiny bit worried, but not offended or angry at all.
I’m pretty sure that at this point, he’s 100% convinced that Joyce and Dorothy and f*cking, but feels like it would be hypocritical for him, the Resident Horndog, to raise any objections to this. Which is…actually, maybe not the most healthy attitude for him to have here, to be honest!
Bridgebrain
I think he’s new to having feels, so his auto-instinct is “why would I complain about my girlfriend getting experimental with a girl, that’s hot” without examining it deeper. If it actually happened, he’d probably be really confused that he felt hurt about it (if he felt hurt about it, that might be his actual emotional reaction after all)
S.R.
Bit of a “yeah that seems about right actually” vibe there, huh
Doctor_Who
Re: alt-text.
Let’s hope we don’t get a wacky sitcom mix-up where Dorothy turns in the wrong thing and Robin teaches a class on Joyce’s erogenous zones.
Opus the Poet
Probably less work than planning Joyce’s deflowering.
Nymph
“deflowering” ew.
Michael Steamweed
Or Joe’s.
Miri
That would be amazing. Do you think Joyce would ever recover?
If that happens, for maximum horror, it has to be a class her mother sits in on in the attempt to talk at her some more and convince her that she has everything wrong and selling Joyce’s childhood home to fund the church that sided with the guy who tried to abduct her best friend at gunpoint and then abducted her and more of her friends and pointed a gun at all of them was the pious, right thing to do. Because a church building matters, somehow, and the church is infallible despite this recent lunacy. And she’s Joyce’s mother so Joyce has to agree with her because that’s what respecting your elders means, and if only Becky weren’t gay, none of this would have happened, so why isn’t Joyce blaming her? Or the transsexuals for influencing her?
[Note: I think an eavesdropping Carla might own this if she got to punch Carol. Ruth would definitely want to punch her… Joyce might need her wrist brace back, assuming she hasnt literally passed out from the embarrassment of having Robin present a guide to bringing her to climax in different ways…]
Michael Steamweed
The Joyce reaction would be epic. Like, the follow-up next-day comic would just be 5 panels in a row of Joyce Face (TM).
Throwatron
I think the Joyce face would be one panel, except that panel would be arbitrarily MUCH BIGGER than every other panel ever in the comic. Just 4 normal size panels, and one 100000 square pixel Joyce Face.
Doopyboop
The cycle continues until Joe and Joyce one day approach Dorothy, fingers tapping in unison, “Do you wanna join us and become a throuple?”. I mean, she’s planning the sex, planning the dates… she might as well hop aboard as a plus one at this point.
drs
Make it so!
Agemegos
As the seamstress said to the Singer repairman.
Rose by Any other Name
That does seem to be where this is heading.
At least, I hope it is.
For many reasons, not the least of which is that my lovely wife called the Joyce Throuple years ago, and we will feel very vindicated should it become cannon.
Michael Steamweed
At least 1 AO3 story has been written (prolly more?) of Dorothy’s presence being the catalyst and/or lubrication for Joyce/Joe’s first sexing.
Throwatron
Maybe Dorothy, all this time, has simply had an administration kink?
Opus the Poet
Dorothy is just going to know so much about Joyce losing her virginity.
Bryy
….. yeah. Yup.
Dante
Of course she will! She’s gonna be there
Proxiehunter
Finding it?
DJTsurugi
she was already present for her first time flicking the bean so… ~<3
Rebecca
Ain’t it always the way. Dorothy finally got over her need to make all her friends into projects, and suddenly everyone’s coming to her desperate to be a project.
Throwatron
That’s the mortifying ordeal of being known, baby. That’s the price we all pay for Having Traits and Doing Things
Sirksome
Dorothy should just accept she’s in some sort of fledgling poly relationship. It seems unavoidable.
Mturtle7
I mean, joking aside, it is actually EXTREMELY avoidable, if Dorothy would finally admit to herself that special interests do not trump consent, and she doesn’t actually HAVE to say yes to everything related to her hobby.
Jeremiah
It’s not your fault Dorothy, your author just think doing this to you it’s really funny. And unfortunately for you, he is right.
Yeet
to be fair here dorothy, asking one of someone’s best friends what to do for them romantically is actually a pretty solid move
Taffy
Dorothy’s not beating the allegations. Thinking about Joyce’s thighs, that stuff Joe said, the 5-strip makeout scene that leaked on Gaytreon, it’s all adding up.
Nymph
Woowwwww all the Gaytreon supporters promised not to talk about Joyrothygate. You swore a solemn vow!
Michael Steamweed
I had my fingers crossed behind my back. And it wasn’t a pinky promise anyway. Doesn’t count. Twice over!
Icalasari
This is the most dysfunctional polycule I’ve seen
Meagan
May your innocence be preserved.
Nymph
lmao you must not see many polycules.
Azhrei Vep
This is the most functional polycule I’ve seen.
Michael Steamweed
^^^ This here. This RIGHT here.
Michael Steamweed
Laughed aloud today when I saw this. Laughed even more when I saw Azhrei Vep’s response.
Dave Van Domelen
Crude, but he can still tell it’s Joyce.
eh, whatever
It’s the hair.
Michael Steamweed
I think it’s the jugs.
(that carla made for her)
((very distinctive))
Red
???
Chaucer59
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Dara
thank you for why the fuck am I doing this, Dorothy
i mean you could be working with the real person
Bryy