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Regrettably
Posted on March 13, 2025 by David M Willis

243 thoughts on “Regrettably”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “whoops, it is now my lock screen”

    1. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

      Hey Ana/Sue/Jen, I was hoping I could take you aside (ha ha) for a moment and say that today, literally just today, even though I first saw you here in the comments as Jen Aside like 12 years ago; I only just a few hours ago suddenly realized what Jen/Sue Aside is a pun for and I feel like a total idiot

      1. Isactuallyabear

        NGL, I had no idea Ana Chronistic and Jen Aside were the same person until now.

        1. clif

          Though admittedly they are the same person, are you just going to accept the word of some random person on the Internet that as far as you know could be me, Taffy, or Willis’s friend who inspired Mike?

        2. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

          Especially one that just admitted to being a dumbass who took 12 years to notice a simple pun!

          (Although funny enough I got what Ana Chronistic was a pun for the first time I saw her use that name)

        3. Leadsynth

          Don’t be hard on yourself! I never noticed “Jen Aside” was a pun either. To me, the pun is a LOT more obvious on “Ana Chronistic” than “Jen Aside” — probably because “aside” is a common word by itself, whereas “chronistic” isn’t a common word at all, so clearly it must have a joke/pun/etc. to it.

        4. Amós Batista

          Sometimes ago, I thought Ana would be an alt for Willis.

        5. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Naw naw. Chronistic is the alt for Willis. Ana is the alt for Damn You!

      2. DJTsurugi

        0 dad energy. ~<3

      3. Bogeywoman

        My stage name is Suzie Cidal!

      4. eh, whatever

        I still don’t get it.

        1. eh, whatever

          …oh. Oh no.

    2. Rose by Any other Name

      Yeah, I’m going to bed. No one’s gonna have a better comment than Ana tonight. Can’t beat perfection.
      Cheers!

      1. Needfuldoer

        And she’s back in her rightful spot at the top of the comments, too!

        1. Miafillene

          All is right I’m the universe. All is calm.
          Who am I kidding? This is a freaking amazing shit show.

        2. Needfuldoer

          All is right in this little corner of the universe, for now.

  2. Doctor_Who

    I’ve decided that the campus is cursed by the Spirit of Mike, who causes Naughty Selfies to go to the wrong recipients in order to sow chaos.

    So Leslie’s sexy shot for her cranky girlfriend is 100% going to Robin to be mistaken for a seduction attempt, Lucy’s pic for Jacob is going to Tony to infuriate Sarah, Joe’s attempt to send a (explicitly requested!) dick-pic to Joyce will go to Galasso.

    Why Galasso? Because everything involving Galasso and sexuality is comedy gold.

    “I think this is a coded order for a medium sausage.”

    1. Bladeglory

      Joe: MEDIUM!?

      1. Proxiehunter

        Jason is the one with the large sausage according to Sal.

      2. Deanatay

        Nono, ‘medium’ as in “one who communicates with the dead”. You know, for Ghost Mike.

        1. Deanatay

          And Mike does canonically enjoy sausage.

          …

          ON HIS PIZZA, PERVS!!

        2. elebenty

          Eh, both.

        3. morleuca

          yeah, I’m pretty sure he’ll take it any way

        4. thejeff

          Joyce also canonically enjoys sausage.

          But not on her pizza.

  3. shadowcell

    surprise! you have become lesbian

    1. Rolf of Many Doors

      *bi

      1. Wonderer

        Thank you for this!! (Also accidentally hit the report button whilst trying to to reply, I am sorry)

  4. Sirksome

    I’m not drunk enough to decide where Jen potentially sending Walky anything falls on anything.

    1. Jo_cubstar

      She considers him like a brother because they grew up together

      1. John Campbell

        She grew up with Sal, too, and she clearly wants to hit that.

        1. Sirksome

          To be fair Billie was very drunk during that moment and the wider implications of that moment mean it’s probably a very good thing Jennifer has stayed sober.

        2. John Campbell

          It wasn’t just a moment. The attempted kiss didn’t just come out of nowhere. Though it hasn’t been so much a thing lately because they’re not living together anymore.

        3. Airyu

          Would you mind posting the link? I can’t find it. Thank you!

        4. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

          I believe they’re referring to this strip:
          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/03-the-first-step-towards-recovery/unimpressed/

        5. Airyu

          Thank you!

        6. furubatsu

          To be fair, Walky himself seems to recognise that the has a more “sibling-like” relationship with Jennifer than his own twin, because Sal was sent away for like, 4 years where it seems the Walkertons just pretended she didn’t exist after that.
          Jennifer not really feeling “as close” to Sal makes sense

        7. Yumi

          I feel like even before that, Jennifer was closer with Walky than with Sal. Like, their early bonding came when they were in the same kindergarten class, and Sal was in a different class. (https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-12/04-dont-stop-billie-ving/bighouse/ )
          So not only does she have that same four year gap with Sal, they weren’t at a “sibling” level to begin with.

    2. Thag Simmons

      Seems pretty cut and dry, she finds the idea repellent

    3. Li

      Y’all, Sirksome is just talking about the “is anyone cheating on anyone else by sending and/or looking at these lewds” debate that started when Joe confronted Dorothy about her photo.

      Jennifer HYPOTHETICALLY sending Dorothy’s monogamous boyfriend a lewd is definitely in something of a fuzzy area, since Jennifer encouraged Dorothy to pass it off as a photo of herself. Like, that’s not a typical AITA post scenario, haha.

  5. Nono

    Joyce you have a boyfriend

    1. mindbleach

      Right, so the girlfriend slot is open.

      1. mindbleach

        And Dina can be her kismesis.

        1. Rolf of Many Doors

          Kiss me sis you say?

        2. clif

          That’s what I heard.

        3. Amara

          I want you to know that I hate you for this comment because you’ve activated my lizard homestuck brain and now I’m tryin to puzzle out if Joyce’s moirails would be Jennifer, or if it would be Amazi-Girl. It can’t be Sal, because Sal is everything Joyce ever wanted to be.

          Blast it all, I never intended to return to this nonsense.

        4. mindbleach

          It’s plainly Sarah, be fucking serious.

        5. AlexanderHammil

          the joe gravatar is killing me here. just imagine if his secret nerd vice was homestuck instead of transformers. dude accidentally mentions his trollsona in front of amber and every horrible gremlin neuron in her brain fires off simultaneously

        6. AlexanderHammil

          aaaand i’m amber, this is perfect

        7. StClair

          that’s most of them, yes?

        8. Proxiehunter

          You know not only has she read it she’s written tons of Dirk/Dave.

        9. mindbleach

          There’s a line in the Epilogues referencing an argument she had.

          I mean can you imagine.

        10. Proxiehunter

          Wouldn’t that be Walky?

        11. Hoboturtle

          Honestly you could make a convincing argument for Roz considering Joyce’s response for Roz making her cry is “I need someone to call me out on my bullshit sometimes. Keep doing that.”

        12. Hoboturtle

          As a man who once said that Sarah was Joyce’s moirail, I will never escape Homestuck.

      2. Gojira007

        this is one of the best comments i have ever read on here

      3. Opus the Poet

        +1 for noting that.

      4. Reltzik

        *adds new euphemism to list*

    2. JA

      Polyamory is the only way forward.

    3. Nymph

      And? Literally what is she doing wrong rn other than being surprised by a boob pic she didn’t expect and maybedefinitely liking it?

      1. Li

        How dare she have eyes that occasionally take in other attractive people!!

        Poly definitely isn’t for me, but at least I can recognize that toxic monogamy exists, pff.

        1. Taffy

          How’s that Bible quote go? “If my eye offends you, cut yours out” or something?

        2. clif

          Something like that.

    4. DailyBrad

      I think Joyce knows Joe isn’t terribly likely to be concerned about her looking at boobs.

      That said, she was the one who was trying to get Walky to show her the naughty selfies he got from her, so she’s nothing if not fairly inappropriate.

  6. Schpoonman

    The angle of the “camera” in the last three panels make Joyce look like a Pokemon trainer from the first generation or three.

    1. mindbleach

      A sudden Dorothy appeared! And she’s gone wild.

      1. John Campbell

        Sudden Dorothy!

    2. NGPZ

      Joyce wants to battle!

    3. Alexander Krizak

      Joyce is confused! She hurt herself in her confusion!

    4. DailyBrad

      Giving me some major Safari Zone flashbacks, you bringing that up.

      STAY IN THE GODDAMN BALL, CHANSEY!

  7. GholaHalleck

    So whats’ the over under on the comments going bonkers with people hating Joe for not instantly telling Joyce he saw the cleavage shot?

    1. Needfuldoer

      Didn’t that already happen?

      Sounds like sitcom hijinks are going to ensue, because neither of them knows the other knows about it yet.

      1. GholaHalleck

        It only ends when Joe sends a pic to all three of them wearing one of Amber’s bras. With his cleavage being the best looking of the entire lot.

        1. Schpoonman

          That, and Dorothy being pissed Joe has a better bust, Joyce turned on, and Amber being confused because he’s already registering as “brother” is the best possible outcome.

          The Amber bit needs working.

        2. GholaHalleck

          AG, by herself, looks and says “Nice” with a whistle. There’s a silent beat panel, then she says “He’s not MY step brother.” and looks again.

        3. Leorale

          Joe’s delighted that all the ladies are into his manly cleavage hair.

    2. Li

      I mean, I never underestimate anyone’s capacity for irrational hatred of fictional characters, but most of what I’ve seen so far for Joe has been getting quickly shot down instead of gaining traction?

      Like there were a couple of “why is he snooping through Joyce’s phone” comments but they were all being told, “he’s not, we know he’s not, we saw the notification come through while he was holding it just like he said”.

  8. NGPZ

    LMFAO IM DEAD XD

    *plays “Pa$$ the Time Neutron Star Remix” on Joyce’s totally jailbroken/rooted phone*

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Since you’ve rooted it, can you tell us how many hundreds of unread messages she’s got?

      1. NGPZ

        LOL not sure, probably only a couple dozen considering the time dilation of this comic

        also not really sure if it’s a jailbreak or a root, given all we know is that Ruttech is a stand-in for Apple and Samsung, apparently XD

      2. Needfuldoer

        There’s probably a dozen from “Dad”, and over 300 from “Carol Brown”.

  9. Sirksome

    Joyce and Jen have entered a new friendship challenge! Will they leave Walky’s stuff there to potentially be stolen? Lets find out!

    1. Embe13

      Wonderful +1

    2. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

      I bet it’s already been stolen

    3. Cimorene

      I’m just imagining a DoA themed Seek and Find book like Where’s Waldo? but it’s just Walky losing clothing across campus until he gets to Dorothy’s room.

      1. ValdVin

        Wondering if his underwear is outside, in the hallway, or somehow still on after he got into Dotty’s room.

    4. GholaHalleck

      Mary walks past and thinks the Rapture happened and goes into full catatonic shock.

      1. eh, whatever

        Isn’t she Catholic?

        1. eh, whatever

          …wait… no…

    5. I'm Not Great

      If I remember my college days right, when you see clothes on the ground you absolutely don’t want to touch them, let alone steal them.
      I went to a pretty horny college (even by college standards) and you simply don’t touch strange articles of clothing you find laying around.

  10. Suet

    Walky, ever the red herring. Would Jennifer still feel sick if that shot was meant for… this was last night?

    I fear no man, but this thing… It scares me. Not as to why, but who.

  11. Shakes

    Jennifer is simply ignoring that Dorothy sent Joyce a pic of her tatas huh. Sharp as a tack.

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Expert-level reporter. Misses nothing.

    2. furubatsu

      Joyce said “she must’ve sent it to me by accident…twice” so Jennifer “Bisexuality is only a porn category” Billingsworth is probably going to believe that.

  12. DailyBrad

    The jacket and bag on the floor reminds me of when Walky used to fuck with Joyce by pretending he got raptured.

    1. Jeremiah

      I greatly misread that sentence.

      1. clif

        But not by much. The Walkyverse is worth perusing.

      2. Reltzik

        Yeah. Maybe “used to screw with Joyce” would have been clea-…

        … nope.

  13. RassilonTDavros

    …okay, “hinky” is a new one on me. Is that a Midwestern thing?

    1. Doctor_Who

      Yes, though the alt-text I assume is referencing this John Mulaney routine.

      1. clif

        Hinky is a perfectly valid word. You can find it in dictionaries and everything.

        1. showler

          I believe you mean that it is a perfectly cromulent word.

        2. Leadsynth

          The cromulent-est!

    2. abi

      It was also a huge thing in the first seasons of NCIS, which helped spread it as slang to other places (Abby used it a lot). Not sure where “hinky” first originated, so I don’t know if this is “organic” slang to Indiana or something Joyce picked up through the cultural zeitgeist.

      1. Mark

        Mademoiselle from Armentières?

    3. jeffepp

      No. It’s a common word in wide use in the English language.

      1. Doopyboop

        I’m from the South so like Rassilon, I assumed hinky was a Midwestern slang word. I’ve never heard it before.

      2. Thing2

        If it means “nervous, jittery, worried, or similar it is plain “English”, if it is slang and means something else, it is probably USA English.

        1. Reltzik

          It’s got connotations of “weird” and “unsettling” and “suspect”.

        2. nicoleandmaggie

          I’m midwestern– I think of it also having connotations of “sketchy”, but sometimes it just means odd or off (like a door or door joist can be hinky if the door doesn’t set right). I don’t think of it as nervous/jittery/worried etc.

        3. Reltzik

          Hmm… I guess I was thinking of something feeling hinky meaning that it makes the person looking at it feel nervous/jittery/worried.

      3. Mr D phone posting

        This is the first time in my over 30 years of life I’ve read this word.

      4. Yumi

        I wouldn’t exactly say it’s common. It’s familiar to me and has been since I don’t know when, but I am Midwestern, so that doesn’t say much about if it’s prevalent in other regions… I do think being a less often used word is where some of its (to me, often humorous) impact comes from.

    4. Michael Steamweed

      Hinky has been around in most American southern and western regions for a century or more.

    5. GholaHalleck

      Technically British! de Mademoiselle from Armentières didn’t get to know the bulk of the Army to be forgotten!

    6. GT

      I read it as “Kinky” . . .

  14. Justnobodyfqwl

    I guess it’s like…they’re not even really step siblings, I guess they’re about as close as whatever step siblings are up to in stereotypical bad porn?

    There’s a hypothetical universe where they’re a lot more casual about their relationship growing up. But in the comic itself, it seems like the dynamic is seen as gross and upsetting on a unambiguous “ew that’s my brother” way

    1. anon

      i mean even without the pseudo-sibling like dynamic, i still wouldn’t want walky or a walky-like person to see something like that unless i was already ‘charmed’ by him before. Tho at least it’s not like they were actually exes bc that’d also be bad too if a current partenr sees that over your shouldesr

      1. thejeff

        Something about “a walky-like person” specifically? Because Jennifer seemed fine letting Dorothy send it to anyone as long as it wasn’t him?

      2. DailyBrad

        Jennifer is… complicated. She undoubtedly DID seem to have a crush on him when they were younger, but I think that obviously got a good deal more complex as they got older, to where sending the boobs pic to him would really wig her out.

        Do recall that she tried to kiss Sal while drunk, something I think she would be kind of appalled by while sober, and that’s the sibling she is nowhere near as close to. I think she’s got a lot of crossed wires about all of this.

    2. Li

      If I shipped them, it probably wouldn’t stop me. At least the over the top “ew!!” seems to be one-sided — I think Walky has mostly been amused by the idea, probably because Jennifer is so vocally opposed.

  15. Nono

    Walky got Raptured again!

  16. Derek

    what does hinky mean?

    1. Bedovian

      Basically means fishy, suspect, shady

      1. StClair

        “sus”, as the Youth say

    2. anon

      at first i thought it said ‘kinky’ lol

      1. Reltzik

        There’s overlap!

  17. jeffepp

    And, the hamster gets jiggled awake, and starts turning it’s wheel.

    1. mindbleach

      The hamster’s name is Maytag.

  18. Animedingo

    When was the last time dorothy and joyce actually talked to each other

    1. Sirksome

      Like a meaningful one? It has actually been a few days. They chatted briefly post Incelerator incident but Joyce was more understandably invested in her sister that day. Before that the last real talk they had was charting a guide to Joyce’s first sexual encounter. Joyce has actually been spending more time with Joe. That’s likely what lead to these recent Dorothy developments finally surfacing.

      1. Li

        +1

        1. Li

          By “+1” I mean, yeah, I think Joyce pulling away from Dorothy to spend more and more time with Joe is part of what got Dorothy to start feeling more recognizably jealous. When Joyce was still jumping at the chance to spend time with Dorothy, Joe probably felt… well not less like a threat (since she definitely still registered him as potentially bad for Joyce), but not a threat to Dorothy’s relationship with Joyce.

          It’s also undoubtedly important that Dorothy had already intellectually decided to back off and let Joyce be happy? Because she no longer had a platonic reason for feeling upset about their relationship, but the feelings were still there.

    2. jeffepp

      I think it was the drank party, which I think was last Tuesday.

  19. Lawzlo

    By the aging of my dumbs,
    Something hinky this way comes.

    1. ian livs

      I wish there was a “like this comment” option for this specifically

      1. Micki

        Same

    2. Michael Steamweed

      I applaud you!

    3. Leorale

      ♡

  20. V98

    she saw it!!!! joyce saw it!!!!!!!!!

  21. Dara

    joyce

    joyce

    you can save dorothy from walky

    it is in your power

    you can do it

    also don’t complain you were literally just asking walky for the joyce pics when this whole time you had one all your own

    this is delicious, trash goblin is gleeful 😀

    1. mindbleach

      Walky even showed her the proper course of action: shed clothing, run toward booty. Like the no-pants Sunday nachitos thing. But stickier.

    2. Joyfulldreams

      At this point I really do think it’s more saving Walky from Dorothy.

      1. Dara

        Not from Joyce’s point of view ^_^

        1. StClair

          “A certain point of view?“

    3. Reltzik

      The smut was inside you(r phone) all along!

  22. Yotomoe

    Dang. This really puts a dang ol’ hitch in my Walky/Billie comic.

    Also Jennifer asked Dorothy if she was gonna send it to Walky and Dorothy said No so if she did send it to him that’d be pretty messed.

    1. Sol

      Everything is possible in fanfiction land, Yoto! 😀

    2. John Campbell

      Eh, Billie’s always had more than a hint of tsundere in there.

      1. Yotomoe

        Do tsundere’s usually gag at the idea of getting with their crush. That’s a LOTTA tsun.

        1. ian livs

          As a former Lotta Tsun, I definitely did that in high school

        2. ian livs

          performatively of course

        3. Thag Simmons

          No, but I’ve seen shippers work their way past much worse

        4. Opus the Poet

          OK so she’s mostly Tsun-tsun with Walky, and very little Dere-dere, But how much of that gagging was performative?

      2. anon

        @ John: there’s a fine line between tsundere and real contempt, while western chars might tech fall under that archetype i think in some animanga it’d be a bit more clear when a tsundere likes a person, tho not that i’ve watched a ton of content lately but romance aside i think there’s been charas that are tech ‘tsundere’/standoff-ish to everyone rather than just the love interest

        someone like billie would prolly drunkenly admit to maybe being attracted to walkys body but not personality if not “Yeah i’d totally hook up with Sal”

    3. AMagicalDuck

      I’d have thought the frequently referring to each other a siblings would have been hitch enough

      1. Yotomoe

        Didn’t stop her from tryin’ to smooch Sal, tbf.

        1. Rowen Morland

          She’s worked on her sibling dynamic with Walky a lot more, with Sal she tends to get stuck.

        2. HueSatLight

          usually someone drops the term “Westermarck effect” by now, but maybe they stopped doing it because it’s for kids who are actually raised together as siblings before the age of 6, not two kids meeting each other for the first time on the first day of grade school.

        3. Adept

          Wanna bet? It’s not that clear cut.

        4. HueSatLight

          womp womp

    4. Li

      Pff, you’re fine. You’ve just been jossed, in the fine tradition of fandom people everywhere.

    5. anon

      i mean they don’t always have to be ‘in chara’ tho i guess being able to immerse with their personalities would be fun

      or maybe a ‘personality swap au’ XD

    6. Jeremiah

      Don’t worry, it was already really out of character,, if you didn’t care about that then you don’t gotta care about it now

      1. Li

        Jeez, that’s rude.

        1. Jeremiah

          Eh, I am okay with that, I don’t particularly like yoto. Though I mean it, if he didn’t care then, he doesn’t have reason to care now.

        2. Li

          I read them, and the characterization seemed fine to me, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Your opinions on what’s IC and what isn’t are not universal.

    7. toaster

      Where is that nowadays? I remember you first posted it on imgur but its probably been purged from there.

  23. Segnosaur

    So now we know Joyce saw the cleavage pics, but still doesn’t know why they were sent to her (nor that she was sent them in response to Joyce’s initial send mistake)

    I wonder if Joe will tell her or if she will figure things out on her own

    1. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

      I was gonna say she’ll probably figure it out pretty quick when she just scrolls back a bit.

      But then I remembered how oblivious she was when she was actually sending them sooooooooo maybe not

      1. Li

        Doesn’t the way Joyce’s conversation with Dorothy is being rendered in the panels here kind of suggest that the photos she sent to Dorothy aren’t there anymore?

        It kind of looks like mostly text bubbles now with just one photo.

        Which….. I’m actually not sure is how things work. I think Dorothy can delete Joyce’s photos from her own version of the conversation, but I don’t think she could have deleted things from Joyce’s side without Amber or Amazi-Girl’s assistance…?

        Could be wrong!

  24. Josh Spicer

    I would also not be a fan of sending pics unintentionally to my sibling (pseudo or otherwise).

  25. Reltzik

    At this point you should just set up a group chat, that way at least everything gets to the intended recipient.

    1. anon

      Should totally be named after that ouroboros polycule comment walky mentioned haha

  26. BBCC

    Well I can see no hilarious hijinks resulting from this misunderstanding.

  27. Michael Steamweed

    Excellent logic and reasoning all around! Jennifer, yes, that boobage image was for Walky. Don’t send any more. Joyce, you should definitely keep that pic. Refer to it frequently. 😀

  28. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

    I wonder how long until the poll switches to asking if Joyce is into Dotty

  29. Yotomoe

    Oh yeah I forgot I drew Dina
    Dina in a suit smoking a cigarette

    1. Li

      ❤️

    2. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

      I feel like we can make this happen in canon. Just gotta get Dina to hang out with Sal more

    3. Jeremiah

      I confused the smoke with a big year in her clothes which knowing you wasn’t particularly surprising.

    4. NGPZ

      she ain’t just hot, she SMOKIN’ XD <3

      for reals Yoto, chef kiss with this one bruh B)

      *plays “Low Rider” by War on hacked muzak*

    5. anon

      lol i need a bartender spinoff manga with her as the lead XD

    6. Carpetbag

      Link no longer works ?

    7. Dave

      Link no longer works ?

  30. Li

    Welp, that definitely caused me to do a not-un-Joyce-like squee.

  31. DashWallkick

    Now that we’ve had the Dorothy bisexual panic, I guess we’re gonna find out if we get the Joyce bisexual panic.

    1. Bryy

      Well, we already know Jennifer is in Bisexual Panic.

      But in a different sense.

      She’s biphobic, you see.

      and possibly homophobic

      1. Florence

        Scientist: In the beginning, the bisexual panics were spaced by twenty four weeks. Then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. The last one, in Sydney, was a week. In four days we could be seeing a bisexual panic every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes. Marshal, we should witness a double event within seven days

        1. Taffy

          ?♭ 4/4 |♪♪♩ ♪♪♩•

        2. Li

          Ffff amazing

      2. Jeremiah

        I don’t see how she is homophobic? Having internalized biphobia maybe but I don’t remember her ever showing any particular dislike of gayness in general.

    2. Thag Simmons

      I would assume not immediately, but who knows

  32. Zamperla

    Whatever else is going on with her, Jennifer *does* still have some good advice about trying to delete pics

    1. Schpoonman

      Something something she carries terrible and useful knowledge something.

    2. clif

      Why would we “delete” a picture by copying it into a folder the user doesn’t know about? We might want to let the user recover a file they’ve accidentally deleted, but then why wouldn’t we provide an undelete feature, or at least tell the user about the folder? Well suppose the user was running out of memory space and trying to delete pictures to get more space instead of paying to upgrade their service. Well, we certainly can’t have that.

      1. StClair

        Or the programmers are still working from the old desktop and folders/Recycle Bin paradigm, while Kids These Days don’t know any of that stuff because all is phone.

        1. Taffy

          It should be mandatory for schools to teach kids how computers work. There are lots of really handy things even my shittiest laptop has been able to do that I could never do on my best phone, without ever downloading a new program.

      2. John Campbell

        The purpose of user data is to train our AIs. Why would we want to let them delete it? In fact, let’s just force them to keep it on our servers where it’ll be safe, from them.

  33. Proto

    I mean that folder usually purges everything after 30 days, Jennifer. (At least it does on my phone). I don’t think Joyce is at risk unless the cops/government is gonna be taking her phone to extract deleted lewds.

  34. Li

    Also? Masterful setup and payoff here.

    I’d actually been assuming Joe had held onto Joyce’s phone since the previous night, since we saw it in his hand earlier when he was asking about her music tastes. (Not for malicious reasons, just until he could check in with Dorothy.) But the series of events here makes so much sense and really came together in a lovely way.

    – Joyce mis-sends something intended for Rosenthal, Joe to Roll, Perfect Cinnamon (Dorothy)*
    – Dorothy, though initially stunned, quickly shifts into annoyance as she realizes who the photos must be for, and goes to Amber for help deleting them
    – Amber instead encourages Dorothy to send a retaliatory photo because she’s “a trash goblin who craves mess”
    – Dorothy does so, but the photo doesn’t go through
    – While Dorothy is deliberating over this, she runs into Jennifer, who “helps” out by taking a selfie of herself and sending it to Dorothy’s mysterious paramour, but ONLY after making sure Dorothy wasn’t sending lewds to Walky
    – This photo, Joyce sees immediately and is puzzled by, but she’s also distracted and doesn’t think much of it**
    – Dorothy eventually gets up the courage(?) to send the photo again
    – Since Joyce’s phone is currently in Joe’s hand while Joyce and Becky dance and sing along to music that’s playing on it, Joe is the one who happens to see the photo come in
    – This means the text is no longer unread, so Joyce no longer has a notification to spot
    – …until today, when she opens the text message conversation SPECIFICALLY to reassure Jennifer that the photo of her boobs was “accidentally” sent to her, not Walky

    Like, this is a truly impressive cascade, and I’m leaving out some parts (Jennifer’s nightmare, running into Alice, having a fallout with Raidah, spotting Ethan and Asher — all necessary to put her into the position of being here, now, to witness Dorothy’s flood of lewds for Walky, so that she can realize who her own photo got sent to and be distressed about it).

    Nicely done, Willis!

    1. aSnowyEvening

      I had been trying to figure out how on earth Joyce managed to accidentally send those first pics to Dorothy instead of Joe. Accidentally tapping on Roll vs Rosenthal makes sooo much sense and finally solves the mystery for me.

      1. Segnosaur

        “roll vs Rosenthal” makes sense for why Joyce picked the wrong person to sent the shots to.

        But even without that, another possibility is that instead of going into her list of contacts to text, she just looked at existing text threads. Since she probably communicates with Joe and Dorothy most frequently, those 2 message threads will probably both be at the top of her list of text exchanges.

        1. Li

          This is true. I would beeeeet Joyce has an iPhone, of the options, and iPhones definitely do that.

          Still, I love the Roll, Perfect Cinnamon setup. My * on it was going to be that I think it’s super IC for Joyce to have her contacts set up like this. A lot of folks just put people in by their first names, but of course Joyce would have both.

          My ** was going to be that I think it is SOME sort of foreshadowing that Joyce was so unmoved by Jennifer’s cleavage, since her “crawl into them and be warm and safe forever” moment back in like 2012 is one of the moments Bi Joyce Truthers probably remember very clearly.

          That she was unmoved by them could have meant a lot of things (and still can!), but it is currently serving as an eyebrow-raising contrast for her tiny wibbly whispered speech bubbles wrt Dorothy’s.

    2. Li

      ALSO: while I maintain that Joe holding onto Joyce’s phone would be one of those “oh, maybe he shouldn’t have done that” things that’s actually TOTALLY forgivable especially for teenagers, ESPECIALLY if he wanted to give Dorothy a shoulder to lean on and help her parse through her feelings (which it does kind of seem was one of his motivations)…

      I think him giving her back her phone was probably something Joe did very conscientiously, because he IS trying very very hard here. It brings to mind how, when a tipsy Joyce flopped back in his lap to demand smooches, he immediately held up both his empty hands to prove he wasn’t so much accidentally touching her in a Lewd Way. And he announced it as such, too.

      There is a (not difficult to understand & sympathize with) degree of self-consciousness here, which I think would exist no matter what, but which I imagine HAS BEEN magnified by conversations he’s had with both Sarah and Dorothy.

      So, like, on reflection, of course he wouldn’t hold onto her phone. He’d have been too aware that that’s something Scummy Boyfriends do, and he is trying so hard not to be a scummy boyfriend.

      (Maaaaan do I want a poly thing to happen here where he and Dorothy are both dating Joyce; where years from now, he might tease Dorothy for having been overprotective, because in hindsight it’s obvious to all of them that a certain percent of that overprotectiveness was sublimated bi feelings. That teasing is just extremely cute in my head.) (I also like to think about how the three of them are all still learning & growing in different ways, and how they’d each have different things to offer each other, very much including Joe+Dorothy, even if the two of them keep it queerplatonic.)

  35. Proto

    Man for a bunch of kids who (at this point on the sliding timescale) were probably born after the first iPhone, this bunch really just send pics blindly without even checking the name it’s going to, huh?

    1. Jeremiah

      Being fair only Joyce and Jennifer did that. Joyce has been very sheltered and only just got onto the world of sexting. Jennifer is just Jennifer, doing things blindly without thinking of consequences is how she rolls.

      1. Li

        Jennifer didn’t care who it was going to, as long as it WASN’T going to Walky.

        (She also deliberately cropped out her head, and honestly sending lewds is a lot safer if they aren’t super identifiable as you.)

        So, honestly what hoisted her by her own petard here was not being interested ENOUGH in Dorothy’s personal life to care who else Dorothy might be sending lewds to, haha.

    2. yak

      I’m pretty lax on checking who the pics are being sent to because I almost exclusively send my SO pictures of weird bugs. Doesn’t really matter who I send those to.

      1. clif

        The Committee for Bug Privacy would like a word with you.

    3. Li

      Also, Gen Alpha is… not great with tech, actually. From all reports we’ve really failed them by assuming they’re all digital natives. Awareness of stuff like “the internet is forever, don’t upload it if you don’t want it leaked” really does not seem to be common knowledge.

  36. TheCozburger

    …and…now she has.

  37. Mr.Morningstar

    Walky dont just leave your coat and bag there.

  38. IntangibleMatter

    Something hinked this way comes…

  39. Acher4

    I know Walky is Walky…
    but seeing him toss clothes and Backpack willy-nilly…
    just doesn’t sit well. :O

    1. Leadsynth

      I LOL’d at the coat and backpack just lying there. Love a good visual gag

  40. Buck Ripsnort

    Dorothy’s trying to jump-start a threesome?

    1. zaratustra

      Dorothy’s trying, like, four different things at cross-purposes right now.

    2. Segnosaur

      Problem with a threesome is, Dorothy probably has no romantic interest in joe (on account of his old horn-dog days, among other things) so Dorothy-joyce-joe is out, and Joyce (probably) has no interest in walky so dorothy-joyce-walky is out. And Jennifer is in a weird headspace so Dorothy -joyce-jennifer is out.

      Not sure how Joe or Walky would react if offered a 3some. Old joe would have jumped at it but now he might reject it because he is trying to change/be better. Walky might just be confused.

      1. Li

        Don’t forget that Dorothy already tried to float the idea of a threesome with Joyce in the afterglow, and Walky WAS weirded out. Possibly to head off any chance of repeating themelf, and possibly because the irony is very funny, Willis has had both Joyce and Walky repeatedly express some level of disgust at the idea of being together.

        (I bet Joe would be super nervous, but we know from some things he’s said about Sarah that at least the fantasy of sex with a woman who’s glaring at him the whole time does kinda do it for him. So some of the nerves might also be excitement, though I’m sure New Joe would want to quadruple check that Dorothy and Joyce were both okay with the idea of him touching Dorothy.)

  41. Stephen Nedland

    Joyce: “I SHOULD delete this tiddy pic that Dorothy sent me, but since it doesn’t really get rid of it, I should just keep it…”

  42. Rowen Morland

    Just realised I missed yesterday’s page. Intially a little weird with the dialogue jump, then just saw Walky had been vaporised and it twigged.

  43. thumb

    Walky getting arrested for indecent exposure on the way to his hook up.
    Meanwhile, Joyce deletes Jennifer’s pic. And ONLY Jennifer’s pic.

  44. nicoleandmaggie

    I do not miss being this full of hormones.

    1. StClair

      There was a time when I seriously considered taking a bus across state lines for the possibility of a booty call.

      1. StClair

        With/from, now that I think back on it, someone who I had never actually met or even (because this was the 90s, before we had phones) exchanged pictures.
        I was – like the kids in this comic – very dumb, young, and horny.

    2. Icalasari

      I’m 33. I’m still this full at random

      help me i don’t want to become roshi

  45. Looney

    “regrettably”, you say? do tell us more, joyce.
    i actually don’t hate walky/dorothy (i was gonna make a playlist for them a while back but i never got further than “love you madly” by cake), but dorothy clearly doesn’t know what she wants, or rather she has multiple conflicting desires. i hope she finds a combination and a compromise which satisfies her.

  46. Tan

    This is the straightest possible response to the straightest possible response to the original accidental lewd selfies. We’re just straighting all over the place.

    1. Maddie B

      Truly as straight as the straightest of boomerangs.

      1. Li

        When you straight so hard that it loops back around to being gay again.

    2. Steamweed

      Fun fact! If you straight your way toward the horizon, you will eventually return to your starting point. Total spherical unstraighted travel by straighting! Clearly, QED, the harder you het, the sooner you hom. That’s just match.

      1. Steamweed

        *math

        (*sighs)

  47. BorkBorkBork

    The thick plottens…

  48. DorJoJoe

    Holy heck is my name finally happening? Are we linking back up with the good timeline?

    1. Li

      Prayer hands for The Good Timeline.

  49. Kyulen

    Wonder how long it’ll be before Joyce realizes Dorothy didn’t accidentally send those pics to her.

  50. HueSatLight

    the hidden folder advice sounds familiar. Like there’s a strip where someone’s giving it to Jennifer type of familiar. The closest I can find is Dorothy asking Amber if she can delete a photo off the cloud.

  51. morleuca

    the thick, it plottens

  52. Morhek

    Keep it secret. Keep it safe.

  53. Icalasari

    I misread Hinky as Kinky

    1. Michael Steamweed

      We’re not here to hink-shame.

  54. Bwsab

    …Jennifer is going to recommend that she sends one back as a joke, isn’t she? And then Joyce, not realizing that she (accidentally) sent one earlier, sends a a new titty pic to Dorothy. Cut to Dorothy, naked in bed with Walky, having just ravaged each other, with Dorothy thinking that she’s finally overcome any feelings of horniness towards Joyce via Walky sex. Then she gets the new Joyce titty pic. And all those feelings towards Joyce come back all at once, but now with a Walky right next to her. And the cycle continues.

    1. Li

      Pfff, that would be super awkward. Big DoA energy. Fingers crossed!

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