Oh I knew from the moment I started shipping them that it was only gonna happen with a monkey’s paw curl. The only question was when, and in what direction it would curl in.
But are they going to do whites, colours, or just throw it all in together? Honestly, I wasn’t expecting segregation-kink story-lines outside of Linda’s head.
Just lookup egg fusion for lesbians. I wrote a porno about a post-apocalyptic future with one male and millions of women living with their girlfriends and kids and some wanted to be straight and get pregnant the old-fashioned way. There is the possibility of another male child if they’re lucky.
Walky deserves better but he doesn’t know it, so Dorothy can, ironically, probably get away with this.
Joyce? I don’t know if Joyce can get away with this, with Joe.
zims
Walky has shown a surprising amount of self-respect before, hasn’t he?On the other hand, Joe is a horn-dog, and even if he’s trying to do better the lure of being cucked by a hot chick might outweigh the “being cucked” part.
Throwatron
My biggest fear this whole time has been an outcome where “Joe and Walky actually aren’t super comfortable with a Joyce/Dorothy polycule situation, but neither of them have the spine to admit it to themselves, because what kinda man puts a stop to hot girls banging?” You’re right that maybe they’ve grown past that, but that’s like long-term the worst thing for everybody, were that to happen.
Biggest fear #2 is just that Joe or Walky is really crushed for the obvious justifiable reason. But that outcome almost doesn’t feel MESSY ENOUGH for how this might go.
not someone else
I honestly feel like, while Joe might be legitimately up for it, he’s going to be devastated, and a loooooot of people are going to be mad at Dorothy enough that one of them might try to do something to her. (Like socially, not like violently. Ar least none of the main cast.)
Eric
Whew! At first I thought you meant one of US might snap
What could anyone do to Dorothy socially? I guess they could ostracize her, but frankly it’s not like she hangs out with most of the group anyway. She’s already kinda seen as Joyce’s definitely-not-gay hanger-on, to some extent.
Tatterhood
I really think Joe might have been up for a polycule. His statements that he just wants Joyce to be happy and his total lack of posturing or anger when trying to get Dorothy to acknowledge being attracted to Joyce make me think compersion is a concept he gets. What I do NOT expect him to be okay with is being cheated on, and this …is cheating. By Joyce’s own definitions of sex, after she defined them.
Wally I’m less sure about. He’s already experienced caring about Dorothy more than she was willing to show him back. Not a good position to make agreeing to a polycule feel healthy. I think he could do casual where cheating wouldn’t matter either, but not with her. Question is how much he thinks he deserves.
GholaHalleck
I am so tired of the joe is horn dog thing. Joe has trauma where he felt he couldn’t be monogamous because his father is a cheating ho, and he carries his father’s sin.
He has not been horn dog Joe since before the doughnut thing.
thejeff
Joe might be up for a poly situation, though I’m far from convinced of that.
He’ll react really badly to being cheated on. That’s his big thing.
GholaHalleck
It’s the cheating yeah. He’s already shared Danny with Dotty, though they were heterosexual life buds. Well… Het and Bisexual life buds.
But the cheating? His entire sexual history is wrapped around NOT being a cheater, and now the first time he steps out of the man ho bubble this happens? And you know he’s getting no support once this hits and the spiral starts.
thejeff
He’s already what?
GholaHalleck
Since I can’t reply to the other one:
Joe and Danny were friends first. Dotty was basically the hanger on, because she had a terrible case of Lisa Simpson Syndrome.
We’ve seen nothing of her having any friendships outside of Danny, with Joe being part of the Danny Package. So to remain friends with Danny, Joe had to share him with Dorothy, and since she is SO antagonistic towards him, that infers Joe gave them couple time where he wasn’t part of the “Group.”
So Joe is already used to sharing people he loves (platonic wise at least) with Dotty.
Li
It would be interesting if Willis someday reveals that Joe’s dad cheating was also the result of trauma.
Like, legitimately, his cheating ruined his marriage, and it could just be that he was a jerk and Joe’s expressed certainty that his dad was going to cheat on Amber’s mom and break her heart any day now is only the (completely understandable!!!) reaction of a son who’s still feeling the hurt of his dad breaking up the family as a child.
But it might also speak to a pattern of behavior where Joe’s dad was a compulsive cheater, which is self-destructive, and could speak to deeper issues for the man himself, too.
thejeff
It’s at least strongly implied that Richard is a compulsive cheater (or at least a regular and frequent one).
I doubt we’ll see any deep look into why, anymore than we’ll get deep looks into why the other parents are the way they are. They’re not the main characters. They’re important because of how they affected the protagonists, not for their own histories.
Li
Totally true and totally fair! And I think I was also forgetting at least one comic where Richard (Joe’s dad) acknowledges that he has problems staying faithful, so drop that possibility; it had just occurred to me while typing that maybe Richard’s problems were something Joe was distorting in his own mind, the way we sometimes do when our parents have a messy divorce.
Not like “Joe is wrong about his dad” so much as “it would actually be fair and reasonable for Joe to mistrust his dad even if his dad only ever had the one affair”. “Cheating on your mom” is the kind of thing that most people don’t forgive easily, especially if it happened when you were young
But yeah, again, pretty sure Richard has acknowledged his problems with his attention span shall we say before. Lotta comic!
I was going to comment on the next comic, but we got a shift from Joyce to Joe.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/04-but-dont-give-yourself-away/cheating-2/ that strip and the one after it might confuse Joyce into thinking “doing laundry (with or without Dorothy) isn’t cheating. Pair that with Jennifer saying it’s normal for gal pals to get into some subversive hanky panky and Joyce might not realize it is cheating. She’s trying to course correct from being abstinent to all forms of sexual exploration to trying to figure out what morals and ethics are okay or not ok for her personally. And that’s what a lot of young adulthood is, figuring out what our own boundaries and desires are. Hormones plus mixed messages she might tell Dorothy Joe said it wasn’t cheating. How Joe feels about them doing it again since they are dating we’ll have to find out.
Okay well Jennifer specifically said “Once” and this would be a clear second incident. Joe cleared masturbation but uhhh… Yeah so Joyce defined this as a form of sex she’d be having with Dorothy
Cimorene
I just have a lot of empathy for them. I remember being so sad that It’s Walky verse Joyce and Joe didn’t get together. And coming from a sexually conservative background I know what it’s like being a young adult figuring it out. I broke up a friendship because a friend of mine cheated on their partner and I was enraged. By the time I got out of high school and into college it seemed less unforgivable and things would be better if people could talk about their feelings for others.
But I grew up to be a big, queer, pan poly trans guy and just want my imaginary characters to resolve their 20 year drama and have a happily ever after. Even if “cheating” happens/happened, it can be discussed and worked through. I just love them all so much and want the best for them.
Strawb
Yeah that’s true I just think it’s OOC for Joyce to be this blasé about it. Dotty seems to be struggling withe her feelings but Joyce doesn’t even seem a little bothered. Which would be fine if she was like “hey I think I have a crush on you” but when she’s just as casual about referring to them having sex (by her definition) it just doesn’t feel accurate to me. Now obviously I’m not saying no one has ever acted like Joyce but it is making me question how good a person she is. Compared to if she was more worried about it.
But yeah I also like to see couples and friends work things out. I just don’t like how this is going down.
553 thoughts on “Almost happened”
TheFungus
*the monkeys paw curls*
Thag Simmons
Years of teasing this ship only for it to come in at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Couldn’t ask for a better disaster
RassilonTDavros
Oh I knew from the moment I started shipping them that it was only gonna happen with a monkey’s paw curl. The only question was when, and in what direction it would curl in.
Steamweed
Monkey’s Paw Curling of Age
Lysbeth
What, you think the monkey had EDS?
Purple Floof
Very much the curse of Dorothy’s love-life throughout the entire series
Adept
I mean, it’s practically the exact same thing as with Walky here:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/04-for-me-it-was-tuesday/projects/
Jeff K!
Oh wow that’s almost exactly the same!
Amazing catch!
Decidedly Orthogonal
But are they going to do whites, colours, or just throw it all in together? Honestly, I wasn’t expecting segregation-kink story-lines outside of Linda’s head.
DJTsurugi
they are somehow backpedaling forward? bold move Cotton, let’s see how this works out. ~<3
Furie
That only happens when Danny remembers he’s had that hat for ages and it’s time to wash it.
NGPZ
*plays “Filthy/Gorgeous” by Scissor Sisters on hacked muzak*
showler
I feel like you could set that last question to music.
mindbleach
Don’t you put that evil on us.
NGPZ
420+ comments!!! blaze it!!!! XD
butts
wow, great rationalizations guys! let’s go jill off together
Throwatron
you just described the life of every lesbian couple i’ve known, and in so few words. poetic
butts
thanks! i came into this knowledge through many years of interacting with and studying lesbian couples in the wild
Steamweed
You are a very brave person! Wild lesbian couples can be dangerous. Mind you, not as dangerous as single wild lesbians. (*shudders)
DashWallkick
“I’m not gay,” and you’re already making out and pulling off each other’s clothes.
The 25th
My mind is screaming yes and no simultaneously
Taffy
Silence the part that screams no. It doesn’t know what it wants.
The 25th
You’re so right
Mr D
Most of your comments remind me of my granny watching telenovelas and screaming at the scream for the single most drama creating event to happen lol.
Taffy
Some days, I am that grandma.
Taellosse
Is that not what telenovelas are for?
Purple Floof
MY MIND IS TELLING ME YES
BUT MY MI-IND
MY MIIIII-IIIIIIND IS ALSO TELLING ME NO!!!
Nono
YOOOO
anon
inb4 the laundry room is full b/c there was some mess in the dining hall or some after party of ppl cleaning up booze and pizza stains lol
Pocky
All I know is my mind says “maybe”
The 25th
Joining the war on the side of the sickos
Clif
Welcome to the sicko side of the force. We have chocolate covered cheese and gravy and bean sandwiches.
DailyBrad
This feels like it’s gonna be an issue.
Taffy
Yesssss
Steamweed
Nooooo. (And by that, I mean, yesssss.)
shadowcell
listen to your uterus, dorothy!
Purple Floof
No, Dotty’s uterus says go back to Walky
Her clit is what’s telling her to go with Joyce
Taffy
Her uterus? Is Joyce gonna get her pregnant or something?
mindbleach
She’s eager to try.
Taffy
Y’know what? Valid.
Opus the Poet
Just lookup egg fusion for lesbians. I wrote a porno about a post-apocalyptic future with one male and millions of women living with their girlfriends and kids and some wanted to be straight and get pregnant the old-fashioned way. There is the possibility of another male child if they’re lucky.
Purple Floof
Like, yeah that’s what I’m saying – also your pfp is gorgeous (though she looks a lot more like her mom like that)
Ray Radlein
this is fine
Lumino
Now this, THIS is cheating. Joe deserves better than this from you, Joyce.
HueSatLight
And probably Walky deserves better too
Purple Floof
Walky at least deserves to watch, like in that other-patreon pic
Throwatron
Walky deserves better but he doesn’t know it, so Dorothy can, ironically, probably get away with this.
Joyce? I don’t know if Joyce can get away with this, with Joe.
zims
Walky has shown a surprising amount of self-respect before, hasn’t he?On the other hand, Joe is a horn-dog, and even if he’s trying to do better the lure of being cucked by a hot chick might outweigh the “being cucked” part.
Throwatron
My biggest fear this whole time has been an outcome where “Joe and Walky actually aren’t super comfortable with a Joyce/Dorothy polycule situation, but neither of them have the spine to admit it to themselves, because what kinda man puts a stop to hot girls banging?” You’re right that maybe they’ve grown past that, but that’s like long-term the worst thing for everybody, were that to happen.
Biggest fear #2 is just that Joe or Walky is really crushed for the obvious justifiable reason. But that outcome almost doesn’t feel MESSY ENOUGH for how this might go.
not someone else
I honestly feel like, while Joe might be legitimately up for it, he’s going to be devastated, and a loooooot of people are going to be mad at Dorothy enough that one of them might try to do something to her. (Like socially, not like violently. Ar least none of the main cast.)
Eric
Whew! At first I thought you meant one of US might snap
Clif
Always a possibility.
Taffy
What could anyone do to Dorothy socially? I guess they could ostracize her, but frankly it’s not like she hangs out with most of the group anyway. She’s already kinda seen as Joyce’s definitely-not-gay hanger-on, to some extent.
Tatterhood
I really think Joe might have been up for a polycule. His statements that he just wants Joyce to be happy and his total lack of posturing or anger when trying to get Dorothy to acknowledge being attracted to Joyce make me think compersion is a concept he gets. What I do NOT expect him to be okay with is being cheated on, and this …is cheating. By Joyce’s own definitions of sex, after she defined them.
Wally I’m less sure about. He’s already experienced caring about Dorothy more than she was willing to show him back. Not a good position to make agreeing to a polycule feel healthy. I think he could do casual where cheating wouldn’t matter either, but not with her. Question is how much he thinks he deserves.
GholaHalleck
I am so tired of the joe is horn dog thing. Joe has trauma where he felt he couldn’t be monogamous because his father is a cheating ho, and he carries his father’s sin.
He has not been horn dog Joe since before the doughnut thing.
thejeff
Joe might be up for a poly situation, though I’m far from convinced of that.
He’ll react really badly to being cheated on. That’s his big thing.
GholaHalleck
It’s the cheating yeah. He’s already shared Danny with Dotty, though they were heterosexual life buds. Well… Het and Bisexual life buds.
But the cheating? His entire sexual history is wrapped around NOT being a cheater, and now the first time he steps out of the man ho bubble this happens? And you know he’s getting no support once this hits and the spiral starts.
thejeff
He’s already what?
GholaHalleck
Since I can’t reply to the other one:
Joe and Danny were friends first. Dotty was basically the hanger on, because she had a terrible case of Lisa Simpson Syndrome.
We’ve seen nothing of her having any friendships outside of Danny, with Joe being part of the Danny Package. So to remain friends with Danny, Joe had to share him with Dorothy, and since she is SO antagonistic towards him, that infers Joe gave them couple time where he wasn’t part of the “Group.”
So Joe is already used to sharing people he loves (platonic wise at least) with Dotty.
Li
It would be interesting if Willis someday reveals that Joe’s dad cheating was also the result of trauma.
Like, legitimately, his cheating ruined his marriage, and it could just be that he was a jerk and Joe’s expressed certainty that his dad was going to cheat on Amber’s mom and break her heart any day now is only the (completely understandable!!!) reaction of a son who’s still feeling the hurt of his dad breaking up the family as a child.
But it might also speak to a pattern of behavior where Joe’s dad was a compulsive cheater, which is self-destructive, and could speak to deeper issues for the man himself, too.
thejeff
It’s at least strongly implied that Richard is a compulsive cheater (or at least a regular and frequent one).
I doubt we’ll see any deep look into why, anymore than we’ll get deep looks into why the other parents are the way they are. They’re not the main characters. They’re important because of how they affected the protagonists, not for their own histories.
Li
Totally true and totally fair! And I think I was also forgetting at least one comic where Richard (Joe’s dad) acknowledges that he has problems staying faithful, so drop that possibility; it had just occurred to me while typing that maybe Richard’s problems were something Joe was distorting in his own mind, the way we sometimes do when our parents have a messy divorce.
Not like “Joe is wrong about his dad” so much as “it would actually be fair and reasonable for Joe to mistrust his dad even if his dad only ever had the one affair”. “Cheating on your mom” is the kind of thing that most people don’t forgive easily, especially if it happened when you were young
But yeah, again, pretty sure Richard has acknowledged his problems with his attention span shall we say before. Lotta comic!
SarahTerra
Imagining Booster telling Walky that and my left eye did an involuntary squintch
HueSatLight
Booster ponders for a moment if they should include “probably”.
Deanatay
Dorothy: This… this is not cheating! It’s… just.. two friends.. helping each other reach orgasm!
Joyce: *turns beet red*
Cimorene
I was going to comment on the next comic, but we got a shift from Joyce to Joe.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/04-but-dont-give-yourself-away/cheating-2/ that strip and the one after it might confuse Joyce into thinking “doing laundry (with or without Dorothy) isn’t cheating. Pair that with Jennifer saying it’s normal for gal pals to get into some subversive hanky panky and Joyce might not realize it is cheating. She’s trying to course correct from being abstinent to all forms of sexual exploration to trying to figure out what morals and ethics are okay or not ok for her personally. And that’s what a lot of young adulthood is, figuring out what our own boundaries and desires are. Hormones plus mixed messages she might tell Dorothy Joe said it wasn’t cheating. How Joe feels about them doing it again since they are dating we’ll have to find out.
Brendan of 6
Okay well Jennifer specifically said “Once” and this would be a clear second incident. Joe cleared masturbation but uhhh… Yeah so Joyce defined this as a form of sex she’d be having with Dorothy
Cimorene
I just have a lot of empathy for them. I remember being so sad that It’s Walky verse Joyce and Joe didn’t get together. And coming from a sexually conservative background I know what it’s like being a young adult figuring it out. I broke up a friendship because a friend of mine cheated on their partner and I was enraged. By the time I got out of high school and into college it seemed less unforgivable and things would be better if people could talk about their feelings for others.
But I grew up to be a big, queer, pan poly trans guy and just want my imaginary characters to resolve their 20 year drama and have a happily ever after. Even if “cheating” happens/happened, it can be discussed and worked through. I just love them all so much and want the best for them.
Strawb
Yeah that’s true I just think it’s OOC for Joyce to be this blasé about it. Dotty seems to be struggling withe her feelings but Joyce doesn’t even seem a little bothered. Which would be fine if she was like “hey I think I have a crush on you” but when she’s just as casual about referring to them having sex (by her definition) it just doesn’t feel accurate to me. Now obviously I’m not saying no one has ever acted like Joyce but it is making me question how good a person she is. Compared to if she was more worried about it.
But yeah I also like to see couples and friends work things out. I just don’t like how this is going down.
Dara
they are gonna do
so
much
laundry
Arianod
ALL the laundry
all of it
Sirksome