the heat death of the universe sure arrived quickly
=(
[I have this idea of pasting Sarah over, but that idea makes me sad–I hope she just means she has one friend for talking and one friend for shutting the hell up]
One of Becky’s defining characteristics is being jealous of people having a similar relationship to Joyce that Becky herself does. This is explainable by her dire shortage of friends and support, but it remains the case that Becky has skillz at muscling friends-of-friends out.
Lurlock
The friend of my friend is my enemy”.
That’s how that saying goes, right?
hmm. This doesn’t ring true to me somehow. As someone who spent some time being secretly (even from myself) in love with my best friend when I was a kid, I think Becky is jealous of those around JOYCE because she had a whole lot of feelings and no way to properly assess and process them. Now she has a lot better understanding of the way she feels (she knows she is gay now, boy did that drastically change my relationship with my bffl once I figured that out!) and she has addressed her feelings with Joyce, been rebuffed and is in a place where she feels she can move on (that can change, though). I don’t think she will come at this jealously.
But I am an optimist.
Greenygal
Additionally, I think part of the reason she’s so jealous of Dorothy is that Joyce is literally her only friend in the world right now. If she can form more relationships, she won’t have to cling so hard to just one of them. (Plus, Sarah has made it quite clear that she has no interest in kissing Dina, so she’s not competition in that area.)
Kinoko
Also, Joyce has been her best friend for basically her entire life. Even discounting her romantic feelings, a lot of girls would feel irrational jealousy that their best friend has apparently made another one while they were away. Becky’s only 18 – she has time to rationalize her jealousy and grow past it.
John
I think that is because Joyce was not reciprocating Becky’s affection. If Joyce reciprocated I doubt Becky would be so aggressively possessive.
I’ve heard a lot of people say this, which means I am apparently best of friends with basically all my friends, since being able to do this is essentially a requirement to being my friend.
Exactly. I can be a chatter-box, and don’t mind other people being chatty sometimes, but I also just like sitting in silence sometimes without anyone feeling forced to fill it.
Dunno about that – the first rule of being friends with an introvert is learning how to be companionably silent with them. Introverts need that to be sociable. It’s not that difficult to do, either.
I’m sure if I ever meet David Willis at a convention or receive enough mad money for the task, my art commission assignment for him would be the scene of Ruth catching me tampering with the dorm building’s PA systems.
Khrene
A while back my college played Muzak over the PA system to test the Tsunami alert system was fuctional.
Um no? Silence isn’t the key so much as lack of communicating, which is what both Dina and Sarah find awkward.
Assuming neither of them understand sign language, having Marcie sit with them would be no different from a person who tries to talk to them in say French a few times before giving up. It’s not the same.
I got the reference because Teen Titans Go but I’m guessing the characters are originally from some comic book or other?
Doctor_Who
They’re from the old Hannah Barbera Superfriends show.
madock345
The Wonder Twins. From Superfriends.
I’m 22, dammit. Stop making me feel old!
Commenter
Sorry, if you keep on living, you ARE gonna get old: that’s the trade off!
madock345
Hmmm…. That’s a pretty tough call…
Yet Another Laura H.
Naw, being old is pretty damn awesome, as long as you are reasonably healthy and you like your kids (if any). Most people who tell you differently are trying to sell you things.
saki
Would it make you feel better if I told you I’m barely younger than you and the only reason I don’t know this is because I didn’t grow up in the US and therefore never saw this on TV? 🙂
madock345
It would XD
Disloyal Subject
I’m only 20, DID grow up in the US, and never really watched TV until Netflix came along, so I am only vaguely familiar with the Wonder Twins through the jokes the Internet’s cracked at them.
Does that help at all?
Captain Batson
I only know about it because I used to watch Boomerang ALL the TIME.
Deanatay
*sigh* I’m old enough to have watched the original airings, when I was a kid. So old…
jesslin
Hearts, flowers, and Geritol, my friend. We can be old and tell the kids to get off our lawn together.
196 thoughts on “Favorite”
Jen Aside
the heat death of the universe sure arrived quickly
=(
[I have this idea of pasting Sarah over, but that idea makes me sad–I hope she just means she has one friend for talking and one friend for shutting the hell up]
Disloyal Subject
Dorothy doesn’t quite count as a friend?
Justin
That may depend on which one of them you ask.
Spencer
I don’t think Sarah is a friend of Dorothy.
Rowen Morland
Do another one with a different dinosaur running in the opposite direction and have the first in the background.
Deanatay
Or, maybe Becky is… more than a friend…
DarkVeghetta
Pretty much what I was thinking. Also you can have more then one besties!
Mr. Random
Yay functional silence!
Cholma
I like these kind of friends! Double bonus if they also like the same kind of games as me!
Leorale
I so love seeing these two win at socializing. Yaaaay ^.^
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Ahhhhhh, companionable silence. 😀
Tom Speelman
FRIENDSHIP TO THE MAX
newllend(henryvolt)
Silent Friendship.
Deanatay
BFF’S 5 EV-
SHHHH!
(er, bffs 5-evah)
Booyahman
Silent but Friendly!
Disloyal Subject
Only the best of friends can pull this off. Here’s hoping the Beckster doesn’t get jealous.
gkheyf
becky can’t get jealous because her relationship with dina is like this, only with more dino facts and repeated ‘hypothesis testing’
begbert2
One of Becky’s defining characteristics is being jealous of people having a similar relationship to Joyce that Becky herself does. This is explainable by her dire shortage of friends and support, but it remains the case that Becky has skillz at muscling friends-of-friends out.
Lurlock
The friend of my friend is my enemy”.
That’s how that saying goes, right?
Mattie
hmm. This doesn’t ring true to me somehow. As someone who spent some time being secretly (even from myself) in love with my best friend when I was a kid, I think Becky is jealous of those around JOYCE because she had a whole lot of feelings and no way to properly assess and process them. Now she has a lot better understanding of the way she feels (she knows she is gay now, boy did that drastically change my relationship with my bffl once I figured that out!) and she has addressed her feelings with Joyce, been rebuffed and is in a place where she feels she can move on (that can change, though). I don’t think she will come at this jealously.
But I am an optimist.
Greenygal
Additionally, I think part of the reason she’s so jealous of Dorothy is that Joyce is literally her only friend in the world right now. If she can form more relationships, she won’t have to cling so hard to just one of them. (Plus, Sarah has made it quite clear that she has no interest in kissing Dina, so she’s not competition in that area.)
Kinoko
Also, Joyce has been her best friend for basically her entire life. Even discounting her romantic feelings, a lot of girls would feel irrational jealousy that their best friend has apparently made another one while they were away. Becky’s only 18 – she has time to rationalize her jealousy and grow past it.
John
I think that is because Joyce was not reciprocating Becky’s affection. If Joyce reciprocated I doubt Becky would be so aggressively possessive.
Jones
I’ve heard a lot of people say this, which means I am apparently best of friends with basically all my friends, since being able to do this is essentially a requirement to being my friend.
Jones
The first sentence of disloyal subject, not the second, that is.
Disloyal Subject
Jeeze… Normally I like magnificent scheming villains, but your matched name & gravatar fill me with rage.
I guess that means Mary’s a good writer.
aroree
Exactly. I can be a chatter-box, and don’t mind other people being chatty sometimes, but I also just like sitting in silence sometimes without anyone feeling forced to fill it.
Deanatay
Dunno about that – the first rule of being friends with an introvert is learning how to be companionably silent with them. Introverts need that to be sociable. It’s not that difficult to do, either.
saki
Awwwww
Undrave
DinAAAAAAAW you mean? :p
saki
Indeed. 🙂
ChaosEngine
DinAWWWsaurus.
Opus the Poet
Dina makes it work!
Stephen R. Bierce
*plays “Enjoy the Silence” on the Muzak*
Plasma Mongoose
You seem to like recommending muzak a lot.
Plasma Mongoose
A vast improvement over the original Wonder Twins.
Stephen R. Bierce
I’m sure if I ever meet David Willis at a convention or receive enough mad money for the task, my art commission assignment for him would be the scene of Ruth catching me tampering with the dorm building’s PA systems.
Khrene
A while back my college played Muzak over the PA system to test the Tsunami alert system was fuctional.
IT WAS YOU WASN’T IT????
Deanatay
That’s Stephen’s thing. I’ve borrowed the PA before, it’s a nice system. 😉
Plasma Mongoose
All we need now is Marcie here and they all can be silent besties together…
gkheyf
-_________-
…and yet, i approve
Plasma Mongoose
That’s the spirit! ^_^
Disloyal Subject
Throw in Amber with her DS while you’re at it.
gkheyf
and ethan’s midriff vaguely in the background
Disloyal Subject
Just the midriff? I’m pretty sure he needs that to live.
Li
Um no? Silence isn’t the key so much as lack of communicating, which is what both Dina and Sarah find awkward.
Assuming neither of them understand sign language, having Marcie sit with them would be no different from a person who tries to talk to them in say French a few times before giving up. It’s not the same.
Bagge
Yeah, Marcie likes to do shit.
Deanatay
Marcie isn’t an introvert – she can’t speak, but communication is very important to her socialization. She wouldn’t be happy just sitting.
Bagge
As noted
L!ghtn!ng
So cute, and that sounds like an awesome way to spend a meal to me!
Captain Batson
Super Best Friends, assemble!
Doctor_Who
“Form of…A dilophosaurus!”
“Form of…Old Testament God!”
brionl
If Dina gets to be the animal, then Sarah has to be the bucket of water.
dailybrad
“Form of… Wet Blanket!
GoldStarz
There is an easy solution to both of your criteria…
“Form of… The Great Flood!”
Doctor_Who
“Form of…a wet blanket!”
Doctor_Who
Dammit. Beat me to it.
Ollie
Oh god I got the reference and I laughed hysterically
jpic89
…beware her power?
saki
I got the reference because Teen Titans Go but I’m guessing the characters are originally from some comic book or other?
Doctor_Who
They’re from the old Hannah Barbera Superfriends show.
madock345
The Wonder Twins. From Superfriends.
I’m 22, dammit. Stop making me feel old!
Commenter
Sorry, if you keep on living, you ARE gonna get old: that’s the trade off!
madock345
Hmmm…. That’s a pretty tough call…
Yet Another Laura H.
Naw, being old is pretty damn awesome, as long as you are reasonably healthy and you like your kids (if any). Most people who tell you differently are trying to sell you things.
saki
Would it make you feel better if I told you I’m barely younger than you and the only reason I don’t know this is because I didn’t grow up in the US and therefore never saw this on TV? 🙂
madock345
It would XD
Disloyal Subject
I’m only 20, DID grow up in the US, and never really watched TV until Netflix came along, so I am only vaguely familiar with the Wonder Twins through the jokes the Internet’s cracked at them.
Does that help at all?
Captain Batson
I only know about it because I used to watch Boomerang ALL the TIME.
Deanatay
*sigh* I’m old enough to have watched the original airings, when I was a kid. So old…
jesslin
Hearts, flowers, and Geritol, my friend. We can be old and tell the kids to get off our lawn together.
…Okay, never mind, we’re not *that* old 😀