at the time, which I think would have been when even ROZ might hesitate to Roz at me, all I knew was I craved some kind of intensity, and that was how to make it happen
So once when I was a tween my mom walked into the bathroom while I was taking a bath (normal in our household) and freaked out and told me to move / move the spout (I no longer remember the specifics) because it was directly over my girly parts and I guess my mom thought I shouldn’t masturbate? This honestly isn’t like her but I guess I was little?
Anyway I had been feeling 0 stimulation because there was the entire bath full of water between the flow and my girly parts. But now that my mom told me about it, I naturally realized I should absolutely try it without the water (with the door locked).
(It’s good, if the pressure and temperature are sufficient)
Joyce: It has to be completely accidental, we can’t do anything to help me along. Now, I need to shift positions so I can imagine I’m on a trapeze, and queue up some Gorillaz tracks on my phone. If you want to help, read me some entries from a recipe blog in Batman’s voice.
I am kind of wondering at this point if Willis is going to show us the entirety of this strange awkward interaction. I mean there’s probably a lot in the way of character moments to be mined from this scenario for both characters involved, but also this does a little bit feel like watching a train wreck occasionally punctuated with sweet moments.
Kyrik Michalowski
Trainwrecks are interesting to watch, you have to admit. There is something about danger and/or embarassment, being so fascinating to watch that people will stop everything they are doing to watch.
JohnnyO
Train wrecks are so interesting to watch that they used to be staged as entertainment (idk if I can post a link but look up “staged train wrecks” on Atlas Obscura and there’s an article about it)
We’re going to see a two-panel comic that’s a supercut of everyone going about their day in one panel, and then in the next, a massive exclamation of pleasure and their collective reactions to hearing it.
Would depend on day of the week and time of day as well. Some hours are a lot slower in the laundry room, in my college experience.
Also in my college experience, laundry rooms had security cameras, but I’m assuming that’s something that’s been considered and found/(decided) not to be the case here.
Cameras were one of my main worries. MAYBE no cameras for privacy reason “since a lotta girls might come down here dressed down, but y’know…this isn’t a changing room/bathroom so I’m not even sure if that holds up.
Sirksome
Yeah cameras in a college laundry room seem a little creepy to me but I guess security differs by location. I would at the very least expect some sort of obvious signage that you’re being filmed.
Yotomoe
The only reason why I’d think they might have cameras in the laundry room is that I honestly think it’d be the most likely place for stuff to get stolen.
Yumi
Yeah, people leave their stuff there unattended all the time, so the security cameras make sense to me. (Also, sometimes people get pissed and take someone’s stuff out of the machines for whatever reason– maybe it’s just been sitting there too long, maybe no machines are available and the person just decides they’re more important– and dump them somewhere else, like on the floor, or once, to a friend of mine, in the trash.)
Bicycle Bill
I would expect security cameras in literally every common area in a dorm – lobby, elevators, study areas, laundry rooms, bicycle racks, the whole shmear – if for no other reason than to protect the university if someone says something went on. Then they’ve got video footage to confirm or refute any allegations. (it would also be useful if someone is breaking-and-entering the laundry machines to rip off coins or tokens, or stealing laundry)
Sorry to say it, but that’s the sort of world we’re living in today.
IIRC there was security footage that absolved Amber for slicing and dicing Ryan’s face with his own knife before the timeskip. As in even when Amber took the knife away Ryan didn’t stop tryin to get it back and hurt someone until Amber made him look like a dimestore Freddy Kruger.
other than being able to go home to your parents once a month or so, i imagine being ‘free’ wouldn’t necessarily make ppl prioritize stuff unless they already had their own habit of doing their own laundry ingrained lol.
Free laundry? I’d assumed this were coin-operated, or token-operated. Though these days you can also use a website or an app. Isn’t that what those pink* rectangles with the blue* circles on the right side of the top of the machine are?
* I’m color-blind, and color-ignorant to boot.
anon
i meant free as in more freedom away from being under ur parents thumb , but it would also be a pain if you had to always keep some spare quarters on you, but i have seen ‘hacks’/tips on like getting a laundry key or those wires that’d let you have free rinses w/o paying lol
Yumi
As someone who once got majorly sick in the middle of the night and suddenly had to do a bunch of laundry but didn’t have enough quarters on hand… yes, very annoying.
As for the other part, I don’t know, I didn’t really do laundry with any regularity at home, but I found it easy enough to start doing so when I went to college.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
I never did laundry until I went to college, but like cooking, had no trouble doing so. You just read the instructions on the box and the machine.
Granted, I never saw the point of ironing or cared about fashion or style.
Yumi
I think I was taught how to iron in middle school home economics, but it didn’t stick. As an adult, I’ve gotten a little intimate sewing, and it can be helpful to iron out fabric first, so when I started, I had to be like, “Hey, how do you, uh… know when it’s done…”
anon
i think for most part with some clothes these days you don’t need to separate the darks from the whites, and most college students wouldn’t really own clothes that ‘need’ ironing or going to the dry cleaners other than maybe a fancy/formal suit for some reason but even then as long as it isn’t excessively wrinkled i don’t think most ppl would care either
Yumi
Could be free. The spots I think you’re referring to (which are blue on blue to me) seem like the could be something else, or they have been how the machines were previously coin operated but weren’t anymore. My college moved to free laundry in the dorm a bit ago… the year I moved to off-campus housing actually.
Mark
Probably one of those things you can pay with your student ID card, supposing you have money on it.
I imagine they haven’t been there that long yet. It’s been a week for us, but a laundry room that didn’t have anyone come in for 10-15 minutes isn’t that wild.
It’s been a while since I lived in a “dorm” (actually, US Navy Barracks). We were mostly NCOs, and you were “encouraged” to pay for maid service to clean the rooms and do your laundry. It was actually fairly reasonably priced.
The last apartment I lived in had a laundry room, but it was pretty scuzzy, so I never used it. I went over a couple blocks to a coin-op laundry and played Pokemon games vs the owner’s kids whilst laundrifying.
It appears to be early morning, and possibly on a weekend, so most folks in the dorms will be sleeping in. Or, if it’s a weekday, they’d only get up this early for class, not laundry.
The laundry room would often have long periods of no one there when I was in college. Admittedly, I usually hung out and read or sketched or wrote ReBoot fanfic rather than…other extracurriculars, so I didn’t really care if anyone walked in.
I feel like Dorothy is A: leading Joyce down a weird path, B: leading Joyce to expose her see-you-next to countless not-so-innocent women just looking to wash their clothes.
Even that aside, given how she was hesitant about seeing an eyedoctor, it makes me wonder if she’s had a checkup with the gynecologist yet (For some reason I was only taken once and never again lol. tho if we were living in canada/another country for free healthcare maybe it’d be easier)
She’s had a checkup with a gynecologist, it’s how she got prescribed the pills
Jay
That US doctors make irrelevant pelvic exams a requirement for medication will never stop being surprising to me.
thejeff
The closest we got in that visit was the doctor saying perhaps performing a physical examination.
Which seems a reasonable possibility considering she didn’t just go in wanting birth control, but with something clearly wrong.
Victor
That’s only sort of the case.
Any doctor can write a birth control prescription. In some states a pharmacist can do it. In some states you can get the prescription online.
But… it’s typically written by a gynecologist, and there’s a general recommendation that everyone with a cervix get an annual pelvic exam to look for cancer, and most gynecologists follow that recommendation and won’t write anything without following it.
There are other routes to the meds if you really don’t want the exam.
thejeff
Since this was a walk-in at the health center, it likely was a general practitioner, not a gynecologist anyway.
Mark
Something tells me the IU School of Medicine could find them a gynecologist.
thejeff
I’m sure they’ve got them, but I’d still guess if you walk in, you’re going to talk to a GP first.
Johan
You gotta remember that US States all have different laws and also maybe your insurance requires it.
If it’s her first time she’s getting an orgasm, I’m sure it will be an explosive sensation. I wonder how could a person could hold it until their 20’s…
Eeeeh, maybe not that explosive. I didn’t fully until I was 18, and maybe it’s because I’m autistic like Joyce likely is, but one day when I was home alone I was like “oh right, people do that. I guess I better figure it out before college.” The result was more of an “oh, for three seconds that felt neat!” than anything explosive. Some things take practice.
She’s actually said in this comic that this ISN’T her first orgasm. “I’ve made it before that way.” Plus, there’s wet dreams. I doubt it’s her FIRST first.
Yumi
Well, she says she *thinks* she’s reached orgasm that way before, but that might not actually be the case
Much easier than you think, honestly. Joyce has it pretty bad but that libido bell curve goes pretty far in both directions, not to mention the number of medications out there these days that will absolutely break your drive, even as a teenager.
436 thoughts on “Fingers”
Ana Chronistic
legit used to do it through external pressure (used like a balled-up sock or something, also didn’t wanna touch except to wash it in the bath)
Rose by Any Other Name
Yeah, that has never worked for me. Rubbing my thighs together (as Joyce is doing) just leads me to chafing.
When I was a tween, I used to hump a pillow – that sometimes worked, and was how I first discovered orgasms, but it wasn’t the best.
The Wellerman
Same here! It was so intuitive to me to achieve, it was some years before I discovered what I was doing had a name and all that.
Also I think I accidentally invented anime pillows in my horny wake. ?
cain
I used to use the heel of my foot.
Ana Chronistic
at the time, which I think would have been when even ROZ might hesitate to Roz at me, all I knew was I craved some kind of intensity, and that was how to make it happen
obvs it feels better doing it a different way =3
Decidedly Orthogonal
Everyone is offering up suggestions, comments, comparisons, and criticisms. Me, I’m just pulling for you Joyce!
Marianne
As Archer would say… “Phrasing!”
Opus the Poet
Both definitions of the phrase could be true simultaneously. Which doesn’t negate the admonition.
Liliet
So once when I was a tween my mom walked into the bathroom while I was taking a bath (normal in our household) and freaked out and told me to move / move the spout (I no longer remember the specifics) because it was directly over my girly parts and I guess my mom thought I shouldn’t masturbate? This honestly isn’t like her but I guess I was little?
Anyway I had been feeling 0 stimulation because there was the entire bath full of water between the flow and my girly parts. But now that my mom told me about it, I naturally realized I should absolutely try it without the water (with the door locked).
(It’s good, if the pressure and temperature are sufficient)
Doctor_Who
Joyce: It has to be completely accidental, we can’t do anything to help me along. Now, I need to shift positions so I can imagine I’m on a trapeze, and queue up some Gorillaz tracks on my phone. If you want to help, read me some entries from a recipe blog in Batman’s voice.
LivingInYourWalls
suspiciously specific …suspecific
Ana Chronistic
am now thinking maybe it happened before while riding with Sal?
DarkoNeko
I thought there’s be a convenient switch to other rooms and characters. I was wrong.
Doctor_Who
No, we’re here for the long haul.
Possibly the VERY long haul.
AKP
I am kind of wondering at this point if Willis is going to show us the entirety of this strange awkward interaction. I mean there’s probably a lot in the way of character moments to be mined from this scenario for both characters involved, but also this does a little bit feel like watching a train wreck occasionally punctuated with sweet moments.
Kyrik Michalowski
Trainwrecks are interesting to watch, you have to admit. There is something about danger and/or embarassment, being so fascinating to watch that people will stop everything they are doing to watch.
JohnnyO
Train wrecks are so interesting to watch that they used to be staged as entertainment (idk if I can post a link but look up “staged train wrecks” on Atlas Obscura and there’s an article about it)
Nathan
Here’s the link:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staged-train-wrecks
Azhrei Vep
At some point someone is bound to interrupt. Surely.
Yotomoe
Yeah I was expecting a smash cut of some kind.
Proxiehunter
But who’s going to be smashing?
Nio
Mike, your mum, for a nickel.
wilddeath
Mike is Dead!!!!! (Really hoping i get emo ethan as my gravatar for this comment.
AlaninDC
Oh-h, let it be Mary!
Ana Chronistic
I was gonna say “MONTAGE!”
but uh, that’d be weird XD
JA
We’re going to see a two-panel comic that’s a supercut of everyone going about their day in one panel, and then in the next, a massive exclamation of pleasure and their collective reactions to hearing it.
GholaHalleck
reuse of the shot of Sal wondering why the dogs are going nuts, only it’s dark out.
TheScreenJockey
Willis is gonna be mad he didn’t think of that one.
Sirksome
This laundry room must not be very busy which says not good things about their dorm’s hygiene.
Wraithy2773
I mean, they ARE college students…
Yumi
Would depend on day of the week and time of day as well. Some hours are a lot slower in the laundry room, in my college experience.
Also in my college experience, laundry rooms had security cameras, but I’m assuming that’s something that’s been considered and found/(decided) not to be the case here.
Yotomoe
Cameras were one of my main worries. MAYBE no cameras for privacy reason “since a lotta girls might come down here dressed down, but y’know…this isn’t a changing room/bathroom so I’m not even sure if that holds up.
Sirksome
Yeah cameras in a college laundry room seem a little creepy to me but I guess security differs by location. I would at the very least expect some sort of obvious signage that you’re being filmed.
Yotomoe
The only reason why I’d think they might have cameras in the laundry room is that I honestly think it’d be the most likely place for stuff to get stolen.
Yumi
Yeah, people leave their stuff there unattended all the time, so the security cameras make sense to me. (Also, sometimes people get pissed and take someone’s stuff out of the machines for whatever reason– maybe it’s just been sitting there too long, maybe no machines are available and the person just decides they’re more important– and dump them somewhere else, like on the floor, or once, to a friend of mine, in the trash.)
Bicycle Bill
I would expect security cameras in literally every common area in a dorm – lobby, elevators, study areas, laundry rooms, bicycle racks, the whole shmear – if for no other reason than to protect the university if someone says something went on. Then they’ve got video footage to confirm or refute any allegations. (it would also be useful if someone is breaking-and-entering the laundry machines to rip off coins or tokens, or stealing laundry)
Sorry to say it, but that’s the sort of world we’re living in today.
Opus the Poet
IIRC there was security footage that absolved Amber for slicing and dicing Ryan’s face with his own knife before the timeskip. As in even when Amber took the knife away Ryan didn’t stop tryin to get it back and hurt someone until Amber made him look like a dimestore Freddy Kruger.
anon
other than being able to go home to your parents once a month or so, i imagine being ‘free’ wouldn’t necessarily make ppl prioritize stuff unless they already had their own habit of doing their own laundry ingrained lol.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Free laundry? I’d assumed this were coin-operated, or token-operated. Though these days you can also use a website or an app. Isn’t that what those pink* rectangles with the blue* circles on the right side of the top of the machine are?
* I’m color-blind, and color-ignorant to boot.
anon
i meant free as in more freedom away from being under ur parents thumb , but it would also be a pain if you had to always keep some spare quarters on you, but i have seen ‘hacks’/tips on like getting a laundry key or those wires that’d let you have free rinses w/o paying lol
Yumi
As someone who once got majorly sick in the middle of the night and suddenly had to do a bunch of laundry but didn’t have enough quarters on hand… yes, very annoying.
As for the other part, I don’t know, I didn’t really do laundry with any regularity at home, but I found it easy enough to start doing so when I went to college.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
I never did laundry until I went to college, but like cooking, had no trouble doing so. You just read the instructions on the box and the machine.
Granted, I never saw the point of ironing or cared about fashion or style.
Yumi
I think I was taught how to iron in middle school home economics, but it didn’t stick. As an adult, I’ve gotten a little intimate sewing, and it can be helpful to iron out fabric first, so when I started, I had to be like, “Hey, how do you, uh… know when it’s done…”
anon
i think for most part with some clothes these days you don’t need to separate the darks from the whites, and most college students wouldn’t really own clothes that ‘need’ ironing or going to the dry cleaners other than maybe a fancy/formal suit for some reason but even then as long as it isn’t excessively wrinkled i don’t think most ppl would care either
Yumi
Could be free. The spots I think you’re referring to (which are blue on blue to me) seem like the could be something else, or they have been how the machines were previously coin operated but weren’t anymore. My college moved to free laundry in the dorm a bit ago… the year I moved to off-campus housing actually.
Mark
Probably one of those things you can pay with your student ID card, supposing you have money on it.
DailyBrad
I imagine they haven’t been there that long yet. It’s been a week for us, but a laundry room that didn’t have anyone come in for 10-15 minutes isn’t that wild.
brionl
It’s been a while since I lived in a “dorm” (actually, US Navy Barracks). We were mostly NCOs, and you were “encouraged” to pay for maid service to clean the rooms and do your laundry. It was actually fairly reasonably priced.
The last apartment I lived in had a laundry room, but it was pretty scuzzy, so I never used it. I went over a couple blocks to a coin-op laundry and played Pokemon games vs the owner’s kids whilst laundrifying.
TheScreenJockey
It appears to be early morning, and possibly on a weekend, so most folks in the dorms will be sleeping in. Or, if it’s a weekday, they’d only get up this early for class, not laundry.
thejeff
It’s not early morning. This is later the same day they went to class and Joyce yelled at Dorothy and Roz for getting all up her business.
GeekRyuu
The laundry room would often have long periods of no one there when I was in college. Admittedly, I usually hung out and read or sketched or wrote ReBoot fanfic rather than…other extracurriculars, so I didn’t really care if anyone walked in.
Raen
I feel like Dorothy is A: leading Joyce down a weird path, B: leading Joyce to expose her see-you-next to countless not-so-innocent women just looking to wash their clothes.
Rose by Any Other Name
If you want a shorter version, you could go with the latin. Cunnus.
Proxiehunter
B is why she was volunteering to watch the door. So nothing gets shown to anyone.
anon
Even that aside, given how she was hesitant about seeing an eyedoctor, it makes me wonder if she’s had a checkup with the gynecologist yet (For some reason I was only taken once and never again lol. tho if we were living in canada/another country for free healthcare maybe it’d be easier)
darkgloomie
She’s had a checkup with a gynecologist, it’s how she got prescribed the pills
Jay
That US doctors make irrelevant pelvic exams a requirement for medication will never stop being surprising to me.
thejeff
The closest we got in that visit was the doctor saying perhaps performing a physical examination.
Which seems a reasonable possibility considering she didn’t just go in wanting birth control, but with something clearly wrong.
Victor
That’s only sort of the case.
Any doctor can write a birth control prescription. In some states a pharmacist can do it. In some states you can get the prescription online.
But… it’s typically written by a gynecologist, and there’s a general recommendation that everyone with a cervix get an annual pelvic exam to look for cancer, and most gynecologists follow that recommendation and won’t write anything without following it.
There are other routes to the meds if you really don’t want the exam.
thejeff
Since this was a walk-in at the health center, it likely was a general practitioner, not a gynecologist anyway.
Mark
Something tells me the IU School of Medicine could find them a gynecologist.
thejeff
I’m sure they’ve got them, but I’d still guess if you walk in, you’re going to talk to a GP first.
Johan
You gotta remember that US States all have different laws and also maybe your insurance requires it.
Neither my state nor my insurance requires this.
The Wellerman
Awe look how frustrated she is! Poor Joyce really needs release! ??
Amós Batista
If it’s her first time she’s getting an orgasm, I’m sure it will be an explosive sensation. I wonder how could a person could hold it until their 20’s…
Yumi
It’s not always a choice.
AY
Eeeeh, maybe not that explosive. I didn’t fully until I was 18, and maybe it’s because I’m autistic like Joyce likely is, but one day when I was home alone I was like “oh right, people do that. I guess I better figure it out before college.” The result was more of an “oh, for three seconds that felt neat!” than anything explosive. Some things take practice.
Imogen
She’s actually said in this comic that this ISN’T her first orgasm. “I’ve made it before that way.” Plus, there’s wet dreams. I doubt it’s her FIRST first.
Yumi
Well, she says she *thinks* she’s reached orgasm that way before, but that might not actually be the case
not someone else
Much easier than you think, honestly. Joyce has it pretty bad but that libido bell curve goes pretty far in both directions, not to mention the number of medications out there these days that will absolutely break your drive, even as a teenager.
The Wellerman
Medications? Are you referring to birth control or just prescription drugs in general?
Decidedly Orthogonal
Anti-depressants and other psycho-pharmaceuticals have a brutal reputation for crushing sex drives and even sensitivity.