I just figured that it was sort of her reverting towards her old-self where she was obsessed with popularity and superficial status.
Sirksome
I don’t think it’s actually reverting back. Jennifer’s always been like this and ultimately the changes we saw last semester where maybe a brief moment in her life. And frankly that moment in particular was a pretty emotionally taxing one, dating Ruth, so it makes sense she’d go back to her old priorities, minus the stress of that relationship.
C.T. Phipps
I think it’s telling that Becky, the ultimate shipper, thinks Jennifer and Ruth should stay the Hell away from one another.
Spencer
Okay but Becky’s a big stupid idiot dumb dumb because she saw two people who don’t want to talk to each other and decided they’ll definitely fall in love again and kill themselves, so she harassed them a whole bunch in class in front of their teacher so one or them would drop out.
So like maybe Becky’s opinion is worthless and only correct in the sense that these two people who don’t want to date are still not dating, and to solve this she forcibly outed them in a public space in front of their new teacher.
thejeff
Whatever the very real problems with that relationship, those old priorities were pretty messed up as well. The obsession with popularity and status, especially based on past glories as a cheerleader. Not to mention the alcoholism.
And I’m not sure I see the difference between “go back to her old priorities” and “reverting back”.
That said, we don’t know how much she’s reverted back – the uniform went up on the wall when she first moved into the new dorm, so it’s not really a sign of any change.
I don’t think it was ever framed, just pinned up on the corkboard (that also explains how Ruth was able to get her hands on it so easily).
Custom-framing something can run into some serious money. I once had a panoramic picture (about 36″ by 11″) mounted and custom-framed and it cost me pver $200 – and that was just a picture. For something like a skirt and top the overall dimensions would be huge by comparison, and because of the thickness would need to be something more like a shadow-box – and that could run into beaucoup bucks.
drs
Billie’s family is rich, remember.
King Daniel
Jennifer herself has a habit of handing $20 bills to multiple characters just to get them to stop talking.
Thag Simmons
Yeah it’s not actually framed, but I may have a bad habit of using frame to refer to any sort of deliberate placement because my brain is so used to talking about things that exist within frames.
I’m not sure this is a healthy dynamic? Walky’s cool but Jennifer’s been pretty clear she doesn’t to interact with him so I don’t know how to feel here.
For now, no, but like 6 months-ish back, it was his bunk she was retreating to when she wanted a comforting presence. I kinda get the feeling she appreciates that the option remains open.
True, but I can only go by what Jennifer’s said and her actions depicted. So trying to respect that it’s clear she’s put a lot of work into trying to redefine herself and have a fresh start this semester. Even if the whole reinventing thing is a regular occurrence for her she might relapse on, and Walky might know her better than we do, it’s still a little weird to me.
Devin
Most of what she’s said and done seems to indicate that this semester is a take two on the same attempt she made in the first semester, which is to say redefine herself as a cool kid. The fact that she’s been marginally more successful so far and has found a group to feed into a sense of superiority does not change the fact that not all reinventions are created equal, or that she’s expressed no actual grievance with Walky, and we’ve seen nothing that indicates she’s not just cutting him off because he’s a dork and she feels like she’s moved up in the world.
If nothing else, she seems to have absolutely no justification to have sufficient boundaries drawn to bar Lucy from bringing her boyfriend to their room. Sure Walky is needling her here, but she definitely made the first shot in that exchange.
Blue
Well he’s kind of immature and annoying, and gets a big kick out of teasing her. I think a couple days ago in-comic he followed her around calling her “Babe” to make fun of an endearment she uses with her boyfriend. I can understand why she’s not thrilled to see him here.
thejeff
Sure, but she’s hassled him far worse in the past and she’s still turned to him and he’s tried to support her in her worst moments. On a surface level it’s understandable, but it’s also part of an unhealthy pattern for her.
Needfuldoer
Unhealthy pseudo-sibling bickering.
Blue
That’s completely fair. She doesn’t want to see him or interact with him until she’s in crisis and needs emotional support. But I disagree with the idea that she doesn’t want to associate with him only because of social status. Walky is a lot sometimes and people may need a break.
thejeff
That might be why you wouldn’t want to associate with him. Who knows, maybe she’s changed her reasons too. She’s been pretty clear about it in the past.
Devin
I’ll also remind you that she could have ignored him here, or just said nothing. Jennifer is the one who started this exchange with a snipe at Walky.
I mean, Jennifer hasn’t ever implied he did any sort of hurt to her that would mean he’s crossing any lines by being in her room when invited by her roommate. He’s not there to stalk her or anything, he’s there to spend time with his girlfriend. Jennifer is the one who initiated annoyed sibling style conversation. She may be re-inventing herself, but Walky is still allowed to make an effort to continue being her friend and to try to find a way that she’s still willing to have him in her life. And I think it’s being a good friend to remind her that there were some good parts of Billie that he loved. Maybe I’m reading a lot into “Hey, Buttface!” but I have siblings and friends who are like siblings, and that’s what I’d read into it if Walky were one of my sibling-friends.
And even if Jennifer makes it clear she doesn’t want to be friends with Walky, he’s still allowed to be there. He hasn’t done anything to cross her other than be geeky and maybe kind of annoying. She doesn’t have to give him the time of day, but she also doesn’t get to ban her roommate from inviting people over just because Jennifer arbitrarily doesn’t want to see them anymore.
I’m not sure it was ever a completely healthy dynamic, but at least they were friends who were close enough that they were almost siblings for a while there. Now that she’s with Asher, Jennifer seems to want to avoid Walky and all the people she befriended in the first semester of college, and I’m hoping we find out what caused that since I really don’t trust Asher.
I’m willing to be surprised, but at this point I’m expecting the only cause to be the end of hers and Ruth’s relationship, because this behavior is consistent with what she was trying to do in the very beginning of DoA. Just seems like a return to form to me.
So the consensus is that Jennifer has made no indication she doesn’t want to interact with Walky, except for just now, when she implied exactly that, which was a “first shot” that justifies Walky deliberately winding her up.
As an annoying brother myself, I really want to be on Walky’s side here, but my goodness, people are making it difficult…
I mean yeah what you said exactly but without being sarcastic.
Walky’s dating Lucy, he’s gonna be in her room sometimes. Also it’s probably really difficult to suddenly abandon a lifelong friend and probably worth at least some questioning as to why it’s happened, especially since Walky is one of like two people in the whole series she’s ever let herself be genuinely, entirely vulnerable towards.
In highschool my locker was next to this upper class man who was soon gorgeous to me and my friend. Until he started talking. Then he suddenly looked like his face was smashed in from the center.
…he got expelled for selling weed gummy bears to 7th graders a while later
125 thoughts on “Veritable feast”
The Wellerman
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Clif
Does a chess board count?
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I doubt it’d count much less than my Super NES… xD
True Survivor
Huh, she fixed and framed her old uniform. That seems an ominous symbol.
ThunderNight
didn’t she do that before the timeskip?
True Survivor
Maybe? Yes, yes. You are correct. Never mind.
Anyway, its funny because in frame it reads ‘Drag’ which is what Jennifer is being.
Sirksome
How? It’s been established from the start of the comic that Jen is very proud of her past cheerleading status.
True Survivor
I just figured that it was sort of her reverting towards her old-self where she was obsessed with popularity and superficial status.
Sirksome
I don’t think it’s actually reverting back. Jennifer’s always been like this and ultimately the changes we saw last semester where maybe a brief moment in her life. And frankly that moment in particular was a pretty emotionally taxing one, dating Ruth, so it makes sense she’d go back to her old priorities, minus the stress of that relationship.
C.T. Phipps
I think it’s telling that Becky, the ultimate shipper, thinks Jennifer and Ruth should stay the Hell away from one another.
Spencer
Okay but Becky’s a big stupid idiot dumb dumb because she saw two people who don’t want to talk to each other and decided they’ll definitely fall in love again and kill themselves, so she harassed them a whole bunch in class in front of their teacher so one or them would drop out.
So like maybe Becky’s opinion is worthless and only correct in the sense that these two people who don’t want to date are still not dating, and to solve this she forcibly outed them in a public space in front of their new teacher.
thejeff
Whatever the very real problems with that relationship, those old priorities were pretty messed up as well. The obsession with popularity and status, especially based on past glories as a cheerleader. Not to mention the alcoholism.
And I’m not sure I see the difference between “go back to her old priorities” and “reverting back”.
That said, we don’t know how much she’s reverted back – the uniform went up on the wall when she first moved into the new dorm, so it’s not really a sign of any change.
ValdVin
The last tim we saw her phone the avatar was still a picture of her in the uniform.
I wonder if she’s changed it.
Thag Simmons
She’s always had her uniform framed. Her fixing the damage Ruth did might be a sign but I can’t tell if she has.
Bicycle Bill
I don’t think it was ever framed, just pinned up on the corkboard (that also explains how Ruth was able to get her hands on it so easily).
Custom-framing something can run into some serious money. I once had a panoramic picture (about 36″ by 11″) mounted and custom-framed and it cost me pver $200 – and that was just a picture. For something like a skirt and top the overall dimensions would be huge by comparison, and because of the thickness would need to be something more like a shadow-box – and that could run into beaucoup bucks.
drs
Billie’s family is rich, remember.
King Daniel
Jennifer herself has a habit of handing $20 bills to multiple characters just to get them to stop talking.
Thag Simmons
Yeah it’s not actually framed, but I may have a bad habit of using frame to refer to any sort of deliberate placement because my brain is so used to talking about things that exist within frames.
Delicious Taffy
Love their dynamic, tbh.
DailyBrad
Yeah, it’s one of my favorites, in its way.
Schpoonman
…Yeah, that tracks.
Doctor_Who
Siblings in all but blood.
Deanatay
If Walky gives her enough shit, we might see that, too.
DailyBrad
Honestly, even if Jennifer’s doing her own thing these days, I do think she’d miss it if Walky went all David instead.
Doctor_Who
Last panel: Jennifer wondering which of them she should name her oncoming migraine after.
BarerMender
You missed a panel. The last one is Walky.
King Daniel
The Doctor operates on a different plane thanst thee, and can see a panel otherwise hidden.
milu
Thanst!!!
Sirksome
I’m not sure this is a healthy dynamic? Walky’s cool but Jennifer’s been pretty clear she doesn’t to interact with him so I don’t know how to feel here.
DailyBrad
For now, no, but like 6 months-ish back, it was his bunk she was retreating to when she wanted a comforting presence. I kinda get the feeling she appreciates that the option remains open.
Sirksome
True, but I can only go by what Jennifer’s said and her actions depicted. So trying to respect that it’s clear she’s put a lot of work into trying to redefine herself and have a fresh start this semester. Even if the whole reinventing thing is a regular occurrence for her she might relapse on, and Walky might know her better than we do, it’s still a little weird to me.
Devin
Most of what she’s said and done seems to indicate that this semester is a take two on the same attempt she made in the first semester, which is to say redefine herself as a cool kid. The fact that she’s been marginally more successful so far and has found a group to feed into a sense of superiority does not change the fact that not all reinventions are created equal, or that she’s expressed no actual grievance with Walky, and we’ve seen nothing that indicates she’s not just cutting him off because he’s a dork and she feels like she’s moved up in the world.
If nothing else, she seems to have absolutely no justification to have sufficient boundaries drawn to bar Lucy from bringing her boyfriend to their room. Sure Walky is needling her here, but she definitely made the first shot in that exchange.
Blue
Well he’s kind of immature and annoying, and gets a big kick out of teasing her. I think a couple days ago in-comic he followed her around calling her “Babe” to make fun of an endearment she uses with her boyfriend. I can understand why she’s not thrilled to see him here.
thejeff
Sure, but she’s hassled him far worse in the past and she’s still turned to him and he’s tried to support her in her worst moments. On a surface level it’s understandable, but it’s also part of an unhealthy pattern for her.
Needfuldoer
Unhealthy pseudo-sibling bickering.
Blue
That’s completely fair. She doesn’t want to see him or interact with him until she’s in crisis and needs emotional support. But I disagree with the idea that she doesn’t want to associate with him only because of social status. Walky is a lot sometimes and people may need a break.
thejeff
That might be why you wouldn’t want to associate with him. Who knows, maybe she’s changed her reasons too. She’s been pretty clear about it in the past.
Devin
I’ll also remind you that she could have ignored him here, or just said nothing. Jennifer is the one who started this exchange with a snipe at Walky.
dinajoyce
I mean, Jennifer hasn’t ever implied he did any sort of hurt to her that would mean he’s crossing any lines by being in her room when invited by her roommate. He’s not there to stalk her or anything, he’s there to spend time with his girlfriend. Jennifer is the one who initiated annoyed sibling style conversation. She may be re-inventing herself, but Walky is still allowed to make an effort to continue being her friend and to try to find a way that she’s still willing to have him in her life. And I think it’s being a good friend to remind her that there were some good parts of Billie that he loved. Maybe I’m reading a lot into “Hey, Buttface!” but I have siblings and friends who are like siblings, and that’s what I’d read into it if Walky were one of my sibling-friends.
Fay
And even if Jennifer makes it clear she doesn’t want to be friends with Walky, he’s still allowed to be there. He hasn’t done anything to cross her other than be geeky and maybe kind of annoying. She doesn’t have to give him the time of day, but she also doesn’t get to ban her roommate from inviting people over just because Jennifer arbitrarily doesn’t want to see them anymore.
Ophidiophile
I’m going to go with reaction formation.
Sombrero
I have the feeling if someone says “healthy” in this room everyone will look at them like “are we making up words now?”
milu
Oh, oh, i’ve got one! “well-adjusted”!
Keulen
I’m not sure it was ever a completely healthy dynamic, but at least they were friends who were close enough that they were almost siblings for a while there. Now that she’s with Asher, Jennifer seems to want to avoid Walky and all the people she befriended in the first semester of college, and I’m hoping we find out what caused that since I really don’t trust Asher.
Devin
I’m willing to be surprised, but at this point I’m expecting the only cause to be the end of hers and Ruth’s relationship, because this behavior is consistent with what she was trying to do in the very beginning of DoA. Just seems like a return to form to me.
justin8448
Returning to form, but labeling it as progress.
Daibhid C
So the consensus is that Jennifer has made no indication she doesn’t want to interact with Walky, except for just now, when she implied exactly that, which was a “first shot” that justifies Walky deliberately winding her up.
As an annoying brother myself, I really want to be on Walky’s side here, but my goodness, people are making it difficult…
Spencer
I mean yeah what you said exactly but without being sarcastic.
Walky’s dating Lucy, he’s gonna be in her room sometimes. Also it’s probably really difficult to suddenly abandon a lifelong friend and probably worth at least some questioning as to why it’s happened, especially since Walky is one of like two people in the whole series she’s ever let herself be genuinely, entirely vulnerable towards.
jeffepp
She will never admit she’s kinda in love with him. Still.
C.T. Phipps
I am with Joyce in shipping them!
The Wellerman
Ugh. Jennifer. ?
Oh. Jennifer. ?
If she wasn’t such a bourgeois prick, I might just call her hot.
I’m almost willing to send my parasite spores to rescue that beautiful body from that repugnant brain. ? ? ?
Too bad I’m busy.
jmsr7
I can’t tell you how many people i was attracted to – until they started talking.
zee
In highschool my locker was next to this upper class man who was soon gorgeous to me and my friend. Until he started talking. Then he suddenly looked like his face was smashed in from the center.
…he got expelled for selling weed gummy bears to 7th graders a while later
Yotomoe
I’d call her hot in addition to be a bourgeois prick. In fact, it makes her hotter.
The Wellerman
Purely purely hypothetically speaking…. how much hotter would she be if she were possessed by parasite spores?
Yotomoe
Not at all, actually.
The Wellerman
Not even if they made her throw yourself on you? ?
Yotomoe
Naw. Free Will is the sexiest thing in the world.
The Wellerman
Does that mean you’d turn down a sex robot?
Yotomoe
Probably. Unless it had a highly sophisticated AI that allowed it to make its own decisions. I want my lover to be free.
The Wellerman
Alright then! All the more reason for me to learn Python!!! ?
Kinda fitting isn’t it? Making a robotic Eve with the help of a talking snake… ?
Regalli
Ah yes, the elusive Walky Triangle Smile.
All is well with the world.
The Wellerman
Ooo! Speaking of which, always great to see you here Regalli!!! ?
Did you recover any more of your spoons since you were last here?
Also, did you see the new Slipshine?
Stephen Bierce
*plays Peter Gabriel’s “Steam” on the hacked Muzak*
Thag Simmons
Hmm… Good Talk…
The Wellerman
Damn it! I forgot to include an option for Guns as a game character! ?
Sorry maybe next time!
Clif
Well, that completely invalidates the previous poll. You’ll have to start over.
Thag Simmons
literally nobody would vote for her
The Wellerman
Nah, I might add her anyway.
She could be like a boss or something and have the power to grow guns out of her arms and legs! ?
Thag Simmons
Despite her name, Guns never struck me as a particularly skilled gunslinger