See, now I’m picturing a line of Dotty Dolls, like Barbie.
Naturally there’s also a Presidential Dotty, Exercise Dotty, and In Extreme Denial About Her Feelings For Joyce Dotty (comes with giant horse and no pants!).
Weirdly, the comment times are all 10 minutes slow, but that would mean the comic is posting at 12:05 server time.
Cholma
Yeah, the time drift is getting ridiculous. Who’s in charge of this server? Is it Hiveworks? They need to get their act together. Why don’t they have auto time synchronization enabled?
Cholma
(I posted this at 12:22 ET, but the post shows 12:11. Pathetic.)
Jamie
I mean, it doesn’t actually matter. The comics go up around when they’re supposed to and the comments post fine.
clif
Hey now, we can’t be having people wrong about the time on the Internet.
Cholma
It probably *doesn’t* matter for us readers, but as someone who works in IT, it’s annoying because some applications won’t work if a server time doesn’t match the user’s computer’s time. (even worse, the error message often doesn’t say the time is the issue; the app just fails to work)
Straximus
And it’s not like configuring NTP is difficult. It would likely take all of five minutes.
All-Purpose Guru
The longer the skew gets, the more stuff starts failing until something like server certificates stop working.
I should introduce you to the chiming clock someone put in at work that randomly goes off-hour and chimes 8 minutes late (and when chiming “on the hour”, it’s either an hour or an hour and 8 minutes late)
As the forces of entropy push all matter in the universe ever farther apart, gravitational lensing effects distort the very fabric of space-time, causing time-dilation anomalies to become increasingly apparent.
Ehn. Ms Billingsworth isn’t being dead-named. I’ve mad respect for folks who need to change their name to correctly match their identity. Ms Billingsworth’s antics seem more about trying to outrun her past behaviour/reputation. That is hardly a noble.
Some Ed
Her name change wasn’t just about trying to outrun her past, but trying to distance herself from friends who aren’t problems to cozy up to people who are. I’m not sure what’s to be respected about that. It’s just sad.
ian livs
The thing is, as a trans person, I think we have to respect people’s name changes no matter the reasons for them. Even if they’re “stupid” reasons. To me, not doing so feels icky because it sends the message that using somebody’s correct name is a privilege that can be revoked as a punishment. I know Jennifer’s fictional, but this kind of logic gets applied to real people a lot, so I’m leery of it.
Thomas
Agree. I think – especially within a queer-friendly community – the signal value of respecting preferred names over disavowed names trumps the need to hate on fictional characters. There are other ways to express your disapproval of Jennifer.
Taffy
I don’t do it to “punish” or “hate on” the character, I just do it because Billie is the name I prefer for the character. She doesn’t have feelings to hurt.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Also, it’s not a dead-name. It’s a nickname. She was gifted it by Walky. (n.b. Walky’s nickname is similarly structured.) I fully support the trans-community and that’s why I don’t use Ms Billingsworth’s nickname here. But I also reject her pretensions on this, as previously detailed.
Well it wasn’t as much as she blew on Asher as she was dismissive and indifferent to him and she probably fell like she come out on top on her interaction with Ruth.
She is, but we’ve also had that happen already, so I dunno if I necessarily want to see her chew out Jennifer again, like it could be satisfying but I also feel like that’d be a little obvious.
Weirdly, I feel like we might be angling to see some sort of accord spring up between them re: the Walkerton situation, but I dunno.
I have to say I’ve been freaking out about the TCAF announcement for like a week now and so excited also that it no longer says that he’s not doing con appearances due to the world ending or whatever it used to say for a few years lol
And again, Billifer shows her utter absence of empathy.
Any further doubt she’s just out to watch things burn today? I hope she sees Sal and gets tossed out a window. Or at least, get called out as fakey by her roomie.
I personally hope Sals somewhere away from all this and Jennifer gets the brunt of Malayas thoughts on being fake concerned anyway. Sal really shouldn’t have to give anymore thoughts to her toxic parents then need be. If Jennifer does have news about the Walkerton parents that’s important she can tell Walky or follow Ruth’s advice on text message.
I’m sure I’m not the only one excited for this for not-just-Jennifer-destruction-reasons! I feel like we’re about to finally get a glimpse into Jennifer’s mindset here, and maybe get some progression for both of their doomspirals. These are the exact right characters to challenge one another here.
That’s…actually a really good point, somehow I didn’t think about it but they’re each other’s mirror. Dorothy is rigid self-control that is spiraling as she struggles to figure out how to unclench, Jennifer is a total absence of self-control held back by shame and a need for validation.
This feels like a trick question to me. Jennifer is on a very bad patch, but we’ve seen her long enough to know that she can be better. We’ve seen her be kind, we’ve seen her act to protect others, we’ve seen her lost in self-loathing and fear and shame. This is Jennifer in complete free-fall. And even in free-fall, yeah, she’s a thousand times better than that mom.
feels like when Walky makes a smartass joke, “he’s just a goofball”, but when Jennifer does it, “she is incapable of empathy”. leave yourselves some room to hate her more when she’s being truly terrible and not just obnoxiously 19
We’ve seen that she’s fully capable of being kind, but also that’s not mutually exclusive with her being a jerk. She can be both. I don’t think she’s just a jerk though.
Discussion (133) - “B+”
Ana Chronistic
Bad Day Dotty™ is better at Not Taking Your Shit than Good Day Dotty™
anon
if ethan and asher do hookup, then jen can kiss/screw dorothy, make things even 8D;
Doctor_Who
See, now I’m picturing a line of Dotty Dolls, like Barbie.
Naturally there’s also a Presidential Dotty, Exercise Dotty, and In Extreme Denial About Her Feelings For Joyce Dotty (comes with giant horse and no pants!).
Needfuldoer
Bad Day Dotty comes with hoodie, undereye bags, sweatpants, and existential crisis. Day planner sold separately, batteries not included.
Taellosse
Now I really want to know what the “existential crisis” accessory looks like!
Maybe once I know what form they take, I can throw mine away…
Erica
Off topic question, but these comics used to drop at 12:00, then 12:07, now like 12:15. It’s something off with the server’s clock or something?
EpochFlame
clock drift or something
nobodybasically
Weirdly, the comment times are all 10 minutes slow, but that would mean the comic is posting at 12:05 server time.
Cholma
Yeah, the time drift is getting ridiculous. Who’s in charge of this server? Is it Hiveworks? They need to get their act together. Why don’t they have auto time synchronization enabled?
Cholma
(I posted this at 12:22 ET, but the post shows 12:11. Pathetic.)
Jamie
I mean, it doesn’t actually matter. The comics go up around when they’re supposed to and the comments post fine.
clif
Hey now, we can’t be having people wrong about the time on the Internet.
Cholma
It probably *doesn’t* matter for us readers, but as someone who works in IT, it’s annoying because some applications won’t work if a server time doesn’t match the user’s computer’s time. (even worse, the error message often doesn’t say the time is the issue; the app just fails to work)
Straximus
And it’s not like configuring NTP is difficult. It would likely take all of five minutes.
All-Purpose Guru
The longer the skew gets, the more stuff starts failing until something like server certificates stop working.
Ana Chronistic
I should introduce you to the chiming clock someone put in at work that randomly goes off-hour and chimes 8 minutes late (and when chiming “on the hour”, it’s either an hour or an hour and 8 minutes late)
Jo_cubstar
I noticed that as well
Taellosse
As the forces of entropy push all matter in the universe ever farther apart, gravitational lensing effects distort the very fabric of space-time, causing time-dilation anomalies to become increasingly apparent.
Opus the Poet
This used to happen only at the switch from Standard to DST and back again, but the last couple of years it happens 01/01 as well.
quark
does dorothys free day have time allotted for a slap fight
Yumi
It does if she cancels her afternoon rumination!
Doctor_Who
She’s booked solid!
anon
it would count as exercise lol.
followed by a handwritten note apologizing for her behavior
nobodybasically
I am honestly surprised no one has punched Billie in the face yet. She has just been actively antagonizing everyone who crosses her path lately.
nobodybasically
Sorry, Jennifer.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Ehn. Ms Billingsworth isn’t being dead-named. I’ve mad respect for folks who need to change their name to correctly match their identity. Ms Billingsworth’s antics seem more about trying to outrun her past behaviour/reputation. That is hardly a noble.
Some Ed
Her name change wasn’t just about trying to outrun her past, but trying to distance herself from friends who aren’t problems to cozy up to people who are. I’m not sure what’s to be respected about that. It’s just sad.
ian livs
The thing is, as a trans person, I think we have to respect people’s name changes no matter the reasons for them. Even if they’re “stupid” reasons. To me, not doing so feels icky because it sends the message that using somebody’s correct name is a privilege that can be revoked as a punishment. I know Jennifer’s fictional, but this kind of logic gets applied to real people a lot, so I’m leery of it.
Thomas
Agree. I think – especially within a queer-friendly community – the signal value of respecting preferred names over disavowed names trumps the need to hate on fictional characters. There are other ways to express your disapproval of Jennifer.
Taffy
I don’t do it to “punish” or “hate on” the character, I just do it because Billie is the name I prefer for the character. She doesn’t have feelings to hurt.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Also, it’s not a dead-name. It’s a nickname. She was gifted it by Walky. (n.b. Walky’s nickname is similarly structured.) I fully support the trans-community and that’s why I don’t use Ms Billingsworth’s nickname here. But I also reject her pretensions on this, as previously detailed.
anon
I mean, Ruth technically has? Or other forms of violence. IDK if anyone’s punched “Jennifer” yet
Pylgrim
Honestly, that might be what she wants, deep inside. Might make her feel anything if only because it will remind her of what Ruth made her feel.
Nono
Honestly surprised she’s in such a good mood after blowing off Asher and seeing Ruth.
Jeremiah
Well it wasn’t as much as she blew on Asher as she was dismissive and indifferent to him and she probably fell like she come out on top on her interaction with Ruth.
Tan
Fuck all the way off, Jennifer.
Yumi
Actually feel like the Gravatar works here.
Mturtle7
Jennifer’s self-loathing personified!
StClair
act with integrity
no B grades
EpochFlame
jennifer is being an asshole, but these barbs might inadvertently help dotty
Coatl
Please, Jennifer, shut up, shut up, shut up now.
DailyBrad
I know Dorothy’s serious, and even I am kind of stunned, so Jennifer isn’t alone on that front.
Mym
Weird question…
Does anyone know if Dorothy is right or left handed? (Perhaps ambidextrous?)
Coatl
I don’t remember well, but I think she is ambidextrous.
anon
i feel like this might’ve come up once , (or maybe htat was joyce?) but wouldn’t be surprised if dorothy “trained” herself to be ambi lol
John Campbell
She’s left-handed.
Yumi
That’s what she wants you to think, so that you’ll be thrown off during the duel.
Aura
Now there’s someone who’s certainly studied her Agrippa!
Hazel
Jennifer is the perfect person for Dorothy to lose her temper with.
DailyBrad
She is, but we’ve also had that happen already, so I dunno if I necessarily want to see her chew out Jennifer again, like it could be satisfying but I also feel like that’d be a little obvious.
Weirdly, I feel like we might be angling to see some sort of accord spring up between them re: the Walkerton situation, but I dunno.
Jo_cubstar
I have to say I’ve been freaking out about the TCAF announcement for like a week now and so excited also that it no longer says that he’s not doing con appearances due to the world ending or whatever it used to say for a few years lol
Yumi
Yeah, I hope I’m able to go! I made it out there in 2019, it was a cool event.
M!a
And again, Billifer shows her utter absence of empathy.
Any further doubt she’s just out to watch things burn today? I hope she sees Sal and gets tossed out a window. Or at least, get called out as fakey by her roomie.
Archieve
I personally hope Sals somewhere away from all this and Jennifer gets the brunt of Malayas thoughts on being fake concerned anyway. Sal really shouldn’t have to give anymore thoughts to her toxic parents then need be. If Jennifer does have news about the Walkerton parents that’s important she can tell Walky or follow Ruth’s advice on text message.
JA
You know, I don’t think anyone would’ve been surprised or upset if Dorothy had just up and thrown a haymaker in the last panel.
Coatl
It’s Jennifer, at this point I think Dorothy is doing us all a huge favor here.
Coatl
It’s Jennifer, at this point I think Dorothy is doing us all a huge favor here.
Imogen
I’m sure I’m not the only one excited for this for not-just-Jennifer-destruction-reasons! I feel like we’re about to finally get a glimpse into Jennifer’s mindset here, and maybe get some progression for both of their doomspirals. These are the exact right characters to challenge one another here.
Coatl
Many have commented that both are opposites of each other… it is possible that this will happen later
DashWallkick
That’s…actually a really good point, somehow I didn’t think about it but they’re each other’s mirror. Dorothy is rigid self-control that is spiraling as she struggles to figure out how to unclench, Jennifer is a total absence of self-control held back by shame and a need for validation.
Animedingo
Ok whos worse
Walkys mom or billie
Jeremiah
Jennifer at least isn’t an fully grown woman that do this kind of things to her own kids. And you know, isn’t racist.
Imogen
This feels like a trick question to me. Jennifer is on a very bad patch, but we’ve seen her long enough to know that she can be better. We’ve seen her be kind, we’ve seen her act to protect others, we’ve seen her lost in self-loathing and fear and shame. This is Jennifer in complete free-fall. And even in free-fall, yeah, she’s a thousand times better than that mom.
DailyBrad
Walky’s Mom like two dozen times over.
Needfuldoer
Linda, by an order of magnitude.
Devin
Linda, hands down, 100%
AGV
Never lose your charm, Jennifer ?
Devin
She can’t lose it, she knows exactly where it is. Buried way down deep in a locked box.
HueSatLight
feels like when Walky makes a smartass joke, “he’s just a goofball”, but when Jennifer does it, “she is incapable of empathy”. leave yourselves some room to hate her more when she’s being truly terrible and not just obnoxiously 19
Coatl
It’s hard to know if she’s really a jerk or not.
Devin
We’ve seen that she’s fully capable of being kind, but also that’s not mutually exclusive with her being a jerk. She can be both. I don’t think she’s just a jerk though.