We can hope.
Although I’m guessing we aren’t going to be getting a Joyeuse slipshine for a while yet. This feels like it’s going to need some time to progress.
Yotomoe
It’ll be glorious once it happens though. I’ll be honest I spent a long time not particularly liking Joyce but more and more recently I’ve begun to like her a biiiit more. And starting to find her kinda hot, unexpectedly. Though that could be how Willis’ art style shift has effected her proportions.
Barf Ninjason
I’ve been an atheist since I was 12, although only around then was I a super-obnoxious version of one, so, it surprised me but when Joyce rejected her fundie BS upbringing, that was what made her hot to me; I guess as long as she’s not thinking that she’s evil for wanting to “snap and suck a billion dicks” then it’s like the mental block going “Ew, no, crazy fundie” is lifted. I’ve always liked her though, her heart’s almost always in the right place even if she has no ass-idea in fuck-nowhere of how to behave considerately someitmes.
Yotomoe
I’m not gonna lie. It was actually the Joyce and Walky married life strips that got me. was introduced through DOA , going back and reading Its Walky and seeing Joyce as like…a grown adult woman in a marriage and not like…an annoying teen who sticks her head in everybody’s business.
… why is November the month when people do weird pointless challenges?
I’m speaking, of course, of NaNoWriMo. Seriously, novels need careful planning and take time to construct. You can’t just speed run them. **grumble**
Savail
I think, typically, people who participate in NaNoWriMo are doing it to force themselves to sit down and write. It doesn’t matter if half of what they bang out gets trashed, it’s making them sit down and think about what they’re writing and forcing themselves to work through blockades.
At least, that was always how myself and others I knew approached it.
Savail
She said, including a glaring grammar mistake in a comment about writing. Oh well.
eh, whatever
What do you mean? “Myself” strikes me as a bit more emphasis than I expected, but it’s not a mistake.
That and if they like the concept then they can treat the WriMo like a first draft and give it a “fine tuning” in the second.
Just because the goal is to write a book in a month doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the draft you have to publish after all. Unless there’s something in the challenge’s fine print I’m missing.
Miri
Yeah, my understanding was that the concept is this way you know you can physically sit down and write a book. Plus the discipline of routinely writing.
Also they have a young writers platform where kids can do any length (words and timewise), any time challenges so my eldest can say she wrote her first novel aged 7 (it’s 11 chapters and I think 3800-ish words. It’s a story mash-up and ridonkulous and my kiddy hadn’t yet learnt about various punctuation rules so that made for fun times – but it’s also probably about as long as the main type of books I’d say it’s sort of in the style of, and gloriously cracktastic, imaginative, addresses a thematic issue that bugs us both about that series…). I’m super-proud of her for doing it!
Yotomoe
Games are fun. Our meager existence is so full of challenges where failure means that we can’t eat or have a house or something. Challenges like this give us an opportunity to do something difficult where the worst case scenario is “damn, I guess I failed. I’ll try again next year.” Plus there’s the sense of community. You and a bunch of other people of their own volition attempting a challenge at one. It’s a unifying experience. I love challenges and trying new stuff and having to work within certain parameters I’m uncomfortable with. Limitations make art more fun to create, in my opinion.
Or in the case of NNN, to test one’s willpower. It means nothing if you don’t particularly care about nuts but if you’re someone who quite enjoys nuts then you may wanna see how good you are at abstaining from nuts. Just to see if you can :3
StClair
I don’t get what the big deal is. The only kind of nuts I really like are almonds, and I’m already trying to cut down on those for environmental reasons; abstaining from those for a full month is easy enough. Peanuts would be a lot harder, but those are technically legumes, not nuts – that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.
Yotomoe
But they have nut in the name, don’t they. You must also abstain from donuts, despite the fact that those too,are not true nuts. Also Peanut butter, Coconuts and coconut oil, and also the phrase “That’s nuts”
davidbreslin101
I would love to do NaNoWriMo one year. Trouble is, November is always the month when lots of things got wrong. In between Stupid Crisis 11,405 and Stupid Crisis 11,411 there’s not a hell of a lot of room for writing.
I manange February Album Writing Month most years. February is drab but uneventful.
Nova
My experience with Nanowrimo is exactly the same. November is “guess what broke today” month.
Kazuma Taichi
Last year it was my car and my psyche
This year I’m hoping it’s just like, a pencil or something
Taffy
Can’t shave, can’t jack it, and ya gotta write a whole-ass book, all in the same month as Thanksgiving (in the USA)? That’s too many things. We’ve got perfectly uneventful months with no Big Money Holidays, may as well take advantage of the peace and quiet for at least one of ’em.
Kazuma Taichi
Just live in Canada, get thanksgiving outta the way way early on and then you got all of November to bask in the Halloween afterglow and use the discount candy to fuel your way through all the challenges
What makes me so happy about this is that regardless of the improbability Joe has been able to express himself Romantically to Joyce in a way that hasn’t made Joyce feel as though she needs to give an immediate yes/no answer.
His feelings can simply exist, and be known, and acknowledged without definite reciprocation and that’s fine.
I know that this is the ideal. But that Joyce can reach this point with Joe given their history is so very very wholemsome.
Matthew Davis
I think there’s a part of Joe that doesn’t want her to answer, because answering makes it a Thing, and making it a Thing means it’s Real, and it being Real means that he could break it because he is No Good. So it being out there but the waveform not collapsed is sort of the perfect place for now.
Honestly, I am squeeing for her. She’s been harbouring feelings for him herself, and I can say unequivocally that there is nothing like that initial feeling when you find out that someone you really, really like like feels the same way about you! ^_^ <3
Cerusee
Yeah! I think there have definitely been a few moments when she suspected he was attracted to her (or maybe I should say, was *still* attracted to her, after their dumpster fire of a date) but he would literally run away every time she tried to bring it up. And here he is, admitting that yes, yes he does, and without even being directly asked about it!
ischemgeek
Same.
And somehow Joe’s revelation is actually *less* awkward than my partner’s confession was.
(Accidentally on Valentine’s Day. Had been that couple that everyone ELSE knows months and months ahead of it becoming official for 2 years. Literally when we became official one of our friends just said “fucking FINALLY! Holy crap I was wondering if you two were ever going to shit or get off the pot.” Was trying for Friday the 13th because he knew I’d find it hilarious. Accidentally romantic instead which is somehow even funnier. And he told me he was “fond of me” and I replied that the feeling was mutual in pretty much those words. Much awkward, such romance, wow.
But hey we’re still together over 10 years later so guess it worked out for us.
I will never not find our start of official relationship funny though.)
“Come Sail Away with Me by Styx” sounds like a vaguely nihilistic or mournful song about death and grief. Yet, it is a famously fantastic and uplifting piece about overcoming adversity and moving on to new adventures.
On an semi-related note, have you ever read “Lore Olympus?” I have some highly nitpicky issues with it, but over all I think it is a fantastic and definitely well drawn webcomic. Still it lack a fun small community like this – every update has something like a thousand comments.
Miri
I follow it!! It’s a coming of age romance story with a heck of a kick…
I think Sal would be a bit perturbed seeing this side of Joe. It’s SUCH a departure from “hey there, ridiculously hot female-Walky”… “Could love make me act that goofy? Ah better run for the hills, screamin’, while ah still can! You comin’, Danny?”
Kazuma Taichi
you most often find your destiny gushy romantic side on the path you take to avoid it
296 thoughts on “Feelings Boy”
Ana Chronistic
how is this so wholesome ToT
The Wellerman
not for long! ??
Rose by Any Other Name
We can hope.
Although I’m guessing we aren’t going to be getting a Joyeuse slipshine for a while yet. This feels like it’s going to need some time to progress.
Yotomoe
It’ll be glorious once it happens though. I’ll be honest I spent a long time not particularly liking Joyce but more and more recently I’ve begun to like her a biiiit more. And starting to find her kinda hot, unexpectedly.
Though that could be how Willis’ art style shift has effected her proportions.Barf Ninjason
I’ve been an atheist since I was 12, although only around then was I a super-obnoxious version of one, so, it surprised me but when Joyce rejected her fundie BS upbringing, that was what made her hot to me; I guess as long as she’s not thinking that she’s evil for wanting to “snap and suck a billion dicks” then it’s like the mental block going “Ew, no, crazy fundie” is lifted. I’ve always liked her though, her heart’s almost always in the right place even if she has no ass-idea in fuck-nowhere of how to behave considerately someitmes.
Yotomoe
I’m not gonna lie. It was actually the Joyce and Walky married life strips that got me. was introduced through DOA , going back and reading Its Walky and seeing Joyce as like…a grown adult woman in a marriage and not like…an annoying teen who sticks her head in everybody’s business.
Also this comic is just kinda hot. I’ve even made a few references to it.This one and This one, especially
Decidedly Orthogonal
Thank you. I’ve been living with only Sarah’s imagination for so long…
Decidedly Orthogonal
Well, and your lovely work of course
Mravac Kid
Now imagine the ancient glory days of forums with a veritable flood of NSFW artings of both official, canon and fan varieties and galleries thereof… 🙂
someone
Joyeuse?
Are there any ships named Durandal or Courtaine? Tyrfing? Tizona?
Shadowsnail
Beefrose, Beece, and Beens
Rose by Any Other Name
I mean, given the right characters involved, those would all make fantastic ship names.
But yeah, I heard someone else refer to Joe/Joyce that way and loved it. Joyeuse (the sword) shows up in my romance novel series, so…
King Daniel
: D
Clif
I’m torn between “How are Your Feelings Now, Feelings Boy” and “God, Help Me, I Just Like It When You Smile At Me” for the book title.
eh, whatever
That’s “God help me” in the ‘present subjunctive’, without a comma: “may God help me”, “I wish God would help me”, that kind of thing.
See also: “Britannia rule the waves”.
Yotomoe
o3o I’m happy with this. I’m happy with this result.
Also I’m drawing a thing.
Cmasta1992
We are doubly blessed this November night
The Wellerman
Ha ha if anything Yotomoe’s Porn Lord Power is enough to cancel No Nut November! ??
Yotomoe
I do have a goal of making people fail NNN. But I’m too slow and lazy to draw anything sexy enough to accomplish that goal.
The Wellerman
Oh I dunno. One of your fully inked / colored Jennifer x Walky strips might do the trick (even if that cuts it close).
The Wellerman
close to the end of November, that is
Rose by Any Other Name
… why is November the month when people do weird pointless challenges?
I’m speaking, of course, of NaNoWriMo. Seriously, novels need careful planning and take time to construct. You can’t just speed run them. **grumble**
Savail
I think, typically, people who participate in NaNoWriMo are doing it to force themselves to sit down and write. It doesn’t matter if half of what they bang out gets trashed, it’s making them sit down and think about what they’re writing and forcing themselves to work through blockades.
At least, that was always how myself and others I knew approached it.
Savail
She said, including a glaring grammar mistake in a comment about writing. Oh well.
eh, whatever
What do you mean? “Myself” strikes me as a bit more emphasis than I expected, but it’s not a mistake.
Psi Baka Onna
That and if they like the concept then they can treat the WriMo like a first draft and give it a “fine tuning” in the second.
Just because the goal is to write a book in a month doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the draft you have to publish after all. Unless there’s something in the challenge’s fine print I’m missing.
Miri
Yeah, my understanding was that the concept is this way you know you can physically sit down and write a book. Plus the discipline of routinely writing.
Also they have a young writers platform where kids can do any length (words and timewise), any time challenges so my eldest can say she wrote her first novel aged 7 (it’s 11 chapters and I think 3800-ish words. It’s a story mash-up and ridonkulous and my kiddy hadn’t yet learnt about various punctuation rules so that made for fun times – but it’s also probably about as long as the main type of books I’d say it’s sort of in the style of, and gloriously cracktastic, imaginative, addresses a thematic issue that bugs us both about that series…). I’m super-proud of her for doing it!
Yotomoe
Games are fun. Our meager existence is so full of challenges where failure means that we can’t eat or have a house or something. Challenges like this give us an opportunity to do something difficult where the worst case scenario is “damn, I guess I failed. I’ll try again next year.” Plus there’s the sense of community. You and a bunch of other people of their own volition attempting a challenge at one. It’s a unifying experience. I love challenges and trying new stuff and having to work within certain parameters I’m uncomfortable with. Limitations make art more fun to create, in my opinion.
Or in the case of NNN, to test one’s willpower. It means nothing if you don’t particularly care about nuts but if you’re someone who quite enjoys nuts then you may wanna see how good you are at abstaining from nuts. Just to see if you can :3
StClair
I don’t get what the big deal is. The only kind of nuts I really like are almonds, and I’m already trying to cut down on those for environmental reasons; abstaining from those for a full month is easy enough. Peanuts would be a lot harder, but those are technically legumes, not nuts – that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.
Yotomoe
But they have nut in the name, don’t they. You must also abstain from donuts, despite the fact that those too,are not true nuts. Also Peanut butter, Coconuts and coconut oil, and also the phrase “That’s nuts”
davidbreslin101
I would love to do NaNoWriMo one year. Trouble is, November is always the month when lots of things got wrong. In between Stupid Crisis 11,405 and Stupid Crisis 11,411 there’s not a hell of a lot of room for writing.
I manange February Album Writing Month most years. February is drab but uneventful.
Nova
My experience with Nanowrimo is exactly the same. November is “guess what broke today” month.
Kazuma Taichi
Last year it was my car and my psyche
This year I’m hoping it’s just like, a pencil or something
Taffy
Can’t shave, can’t jack it, and ya gotta write a whole-ass book, all in the same month as Thanksgiving (in the USA)? That’s too many things. We’ve got perfectly uneventful months with no Big Money Holidays, may as well take advantage of the peace and quiet for at least one of ’em.
Kazuma Taichi
Just live in Canada, get thanksgiving outta the way way early on and then you got all of November to bask in the Halloween afterglow and use the discount candy to fuel your way through all the challenges
AbacusWizard
She does indeed have an awesome smile.
Rose by Any Other Name
Plus, you can tell she liked Joe’s answer because she gave him more of what he likes.
fridge_logic
What makes me so happy about this is that regardless of the improbability Joe has been able to express himself Romantically to Joyce in a way that hasn’t made Joyce feel as though she needs to give an immediate yes/no answer.
His feelings can simply exist, and be known, and acknowledged without definite reciprocation and that’s fine.
I know that this is the ideal. But that Joyce can reach this point with Joe given their history is so very very wholemsome.
Matthew Davis
I think there’s a part of Joe that doesn’t want her to answer, because answering makes it a Thing, and making it a Thing means it’s Real, and it being Real means that he could break it because he is No Good. So it being out there but the waveform not collapsed is sort of the perfect place for now.
Schpoonman
Joyce can definitely pierce Joe’s AT Field.
Felis Dee
Honestly, I am squeeing for her. She’s been harbouring feelings for him herself, and I can say unequivocally that there is nothing like that initial feeling when you find out that someone you really, really like like feels the same way about you! ^_^ <3
Cerusee
Yeah! I think there have definitely been a few moments when she suspected he was attracted to her (or maybe I should say, was *still* attracted to her, after their dumpster fire of a date) but he would literally run away every time she tried to bring it up. And here he is, admitting that yes, yes he does, and without even being directly asked about it!
ischemgeek
Same.
And somehow Joe’s revelation is actually *less* awkward than my partner’s confession was.
(Accidentally on Valentine’s Day. Had been that couple that everyone ELSE knows months and months ahead of it becoming official for 2 years. Literally when we became official one of our friends just said “fucking FINALLY! Holy crap I was wondering if you two were ever going to shit or get off the pot.” Was trying for Friday the 13th because he knew I’d find it hilarious. Accidentally romantic instead which is somehow even funnier. And he told me he was “fond of me” and I replied that the feeling was mutual in pretty much those words. Much awkward, such romance, wow.
But hey we’re still together over 10 years later so guess it worked out for us.
I will never not find our start of official relationship funny though.)
toby
GOD HELP ME I JUST LIKE WHEN YOU SMILE AT ME
love has made joe such a romantic cheeseball
Needfuldoer
Always has been. He’s just been too afraid/guarded to show it.
Blume
MY HEART!!!!
Sirksome
Joe has feelings. What a loser!
Sirksome
A loser that’s also winning somehow.
Vanessa
A loser who might actually have won the girlfriend of his dreams. ?
Puppeteer Nessus
He really does owe Amber now
anonymsly
She’s going to be perfect someday, you know.
Reltzik
…. wait, what’s the point of being a winner if you’re not allowed to have feelings about it?
Thag Simmons
to be a winner, obviously
NerdHerder
Ladies, gents, and enbys, the ship has officially sailed.
The Wellerman
? *plays “Come Sail Away With Me” by Styx on hacked muzak*
True Survivor
“Come Sail Away with Me by Styx” sounds like a vaguely nihilistic or mournful song about death and grief. Yet, it is a famously fantastic and uplifting piece about overcoming adversity and moving on to new adventures.
On an semi-related note, have you ever read “Lore Olympus?” I have some highly nitpicky issues with it, but over all I think it is a fantastic and definitely well drawn webcomic. Still it lack a fun small community like this – every update has something like a thousand comments.
Miri
I follow it!! It’s a coming of age romance story with a heck of a kick…
Opus the Poet
Lore Olympus is a tale covering decades in less time than DoA covers a week. Probably because it doesn’t dwell on day-to-day minutia.
alongcameaspider
I’m not sure it’s set sail yet but they’re definitely pulling up the anchor to get ready to set sail
bagge
d’awwwwwww
Danny will be most smug
Matthew Davis
I predict Danny wants to double date. Joe and Sal are not nearly as excited about the idea.
Miri
I think Sal would be a bit perturbed seeing this side of Joe. It’s SUCH a departure from “hey there, ridiculously hot female-Walky”… “Could love make me act that goofy? Ah better run for the hills, screamin’, while ah still can! You comin’, Danny?”
Kazuma Taichi
you most often find your
destinygushy romantic side on the path you take to avoid itelebenty
Take my upvote
Caro
this is so cute this is So Cute. I’m melting down this is the best
How are you going to break us after giving us this cuteness
ProjectXa3
Awwww. I’m happy. Thanks.
Ethan
The biggest twist in Walkyverse: Joyce is a dom
poofdepoof
?
True Survivor
Why the sad face? Is everything ok?
The Wellerman
I think that might mean they find this unbearably cute.
Taffy
Is that emoji meant to be sad? I only know it as a signal that somebody’s a bottom.
Nova
please help, I did not come to this comments section to be attacked like this.