I’mma drink me a drank
Then i’mma take you long with me
I got money in the bank
Dawtty whachu think bout that
I’ll be in the place Becky works
We in the bar like
Ooh ooh ohh, ooh ooh
We in the bar like
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh
I’m heading to university this year and I am almost positive I will never do “a college” unless you count having a terrible sleep schedule and studying all night in which case I’ve been doing a college for years.
Also very clever tactics, Joyce. You can always get someone to come along if you’re in danger and they’re impulsively protective.
Honestly, I thoroughly recommend doing a college. Yeah a lot of them are not going to be as much fun as you hope, but occasionally something will come along and completely change the your entire life. If I hadn’t gone to the uni I did, joined the clubs I did, met the people I did… my life would be so different as to be unrecognisable.
Sure I made mistakes, but that’s how you learn. How you grow. How you become a better person.
Always have a designated mom friend lol (tho i wonder how many designated drivers actually feel like they’re acting like a parent/older sibling on the times they go out with friends and don’t drink or they just kinda chill and go after the after math of them throwing up in the bathroom so they don’t have an accident in their car )
When I was the non-drinking friend at university, I’d keep a few large trash bags in the trunk, and break a neck-sized hole in the bottom, belt the drunkies students in my back seat, a bag pulled over each one like a gown, heads out the open windows, and get them back to the dorms safely. Why was I the non-drinking friend? I’d had earlier experience with alcohol, and discovered that when I drank enough, I started fights and broke furniture. No drinkie for me.
As a responsible adult I can’t in good faith encourage anyone to drink. But I can say that college taught me to be comfortable around alcohol. That has proved to be a very valuable life skill socially, economically, and from a safety perspective.
It’s worth trying at least once. Drunk/high people can be pretty fun company even when you’re completely sober. And if you’re not liking their company when you’re sober you probably won’t like it when you’re not.
Also, you probably won’t have time for it after your first year or two. And grad school is so stressful most people just drink alone.
I believe the full term is “badonkadonk.” She’ll need to start doing a few more squats and maybe up her calorie intake a bit, though, the rest of Joyce wasn’t even visible as she walked out the door.
Compromise: I want this to 95% succeed and help Dorothy get back to a fairly healthy place, but for the remaining 5% to come back and bite everyone in the ass in hilarious and unexpected ways.
I want them to kiss and then Joyce has to be like “uh oh oops” and Dorothy is like “Good I am the superior partner” and Joe is like *sad puppy face* but then Joyce is like “Why choose” and dates them both but then Dorothy and Joe have a rivalry going on and have a shenanigan filled secret conflict
Casi
With Danny providing a backing track to their shenanigans on the Ukulele
As far as I can tell, at the moment, Joyce’s definition of successful is “get Dorothy to open up and relax”, whereas Dorothy’s definition of successful is “nothing catastrophic happens and Joyce gets home safely”. They’re not the same, but they’re not incompatible.
Other people WERE definitely drinking at the party, though. Including Billifer, who was kinda-sorta supposed to keep an eye on her and didn’t do a very good job as a result. My best guess is that Joyce specifically has trauma around alcohol at parties, and Dorothy’s failing to pick up on that nuance? I’m not sure that entirely makes sense, but it’s the best I can come up with.
HueSatLight
Dorothy has trauma about Joyce around alcohol. She thinks it’s her fault because she invited Joyce and left her alone.
Seralyna
I’m not confidant joyce has either? She obviously has trauma about That party, but i can’t remember any instances of her having problems with alchohol that we’ve seen. There might have been something at the party where Dina kissed becky but i feel like if anything that was dorothy being worried on her behalf.
Weatherheight
Good point – Joyce, it is possible to get fudgin’ sloshed at the karaoke bar, if we can believe anime on this method of “Doing a college”.
Much safer when you have better control on who can (easily) participate.
And who else wants to see drunk Dorothy and Joyce singing romantic ballads to each other?
thejeff
Joyce showed trauma about parties months ago, not long after the incident while she was still afraid to walk alone outside.
She’s gotten over a lot since then. The idea that she’s necessarily still traumatized by even parties with strangers, much less any contact with alcohol at all isn’t really textual.
Well, he had most of his face removed with a box cutter without anesthesia. Other than actually impairing his functions rather than “improving” his appearance I don’t see how he could get much worse and still be among the living. And killing him would be much too good for him given what he did and was trying to do to Joyce.
Actually, the last time Joyce drank alcohol she was at an Episcopalean church, no one sanitized the cup between parishioners, and that morning gave Joyce multiple panic attacks.
Yeah, people shouldn’t have to associate alcohol with chance of getting roofied. Which is exactly why vigilantes like Amazi-Girl exist to confront those perpetrators ’cause law enforcement is next to worthless there.
It was, to be fair to me, an honest (and spontaneous) answer. (I wasn’t trying to get out of jury duty, honestly! Also the trial lasted like 45 minutes.)
(That said, I will admit to bringing in a copy of Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed as my permitted reading material to a pool that was going to be for a possibly-six-month-long corporate legal case because I wasn’t gonna sit through that if I didn’t have to. That time, I absolutely was trying to get out of jury duty. xD)
Once upon a time I tried. It took me a couple of years to realize I was allowed to stay my weird self while drinking – and that was when I started to have fun for real while surrounded by other people. I like parties nowadays /o/
This. I feel so normal, so confident, everybody does talk to me, hug me…
I’ve read in some place, or in a video that explain alchool effect in some neurodivergent people.
Yes, it’s a dangerous way of think. But, anyway.
Dorothy’s got a tremendous ass, guess the running does the trick.
Seriously, though, I do kind of wonder if this is going to be an ultimately good thing for Dorothy. At the least, Joyce recognizing there is a problem is probably a good thing, though Walky and Ruth so far have only been able to do so much to help, so Joyce may have her work cut out for her.
208 thoughts on “A college”
Ana Chronistic
I’mma drink me a drank
Then i’mma take you long with me
I got money in the bank
Dawtty whachu think bout that
I’ll be in the place Becky works
We in the bar like
Ooh ooh ohh, ooh ooh
We in the bar like
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh
Decidedly Orthogonal
Reported for sick beatz!
NGPZ
*plays “To The GateWay” from Super Mario Galaxy Soundtrack CD on hacked muzak*
BohNo
these hacks are getting more impressive as we go along…
Roborat
I am more impressed with the storage capacity of that jukebox.
Dave Van Domelen
Perfect Easter episode.
Needfuldoer
Concern is risen indeed!
IntangibleMatter
I’m heading to university this year and I am almost positive I will never do “a college” unless you count having a terrible sleep schedule and studying all night in which case I’ve been doing a college for years.
Also very clever tactics, Joyce. You can always get someone to come along if you’re in danger and they’re impulsively protective.
Doctor_Who
Doing a college is overrated. Did a few, never enjoyed it as much as I hoped, always regretted it the next day.
The sleep schedule thing though, 100%. I worked nights.
Librain
Honestly, I thoroughly recommend doing a college. Yeah a lot of them are not going to be as much fun as you hope, but occasionally something will come along and completely change the your entire life. If I hadn’t gone to the uni I did, joined the clubs I did, met the people I did… my life would be so different as to be unrecognisable.
Sure I made mistakes, but that’s how you learn. How you grow. How you become a better person.
anon
Always have a designated mom friend lol (tho i wonder how many designated drivers actually feel like they’re acting like a parent/older sibling on the times they go out with friends and don’t drink or they just kinda chill and go after the after math of them throwing up in the bathroom so they don’t have an accident in their car )
Stanistani
When I was the non-drinking friend at university, I’d keep a few large trash bags in the trunk, and break a neck-sized hole in the bottom, belt the drunkies students in my back seat, a bag pulled over each one like a gown, heads out the open windows, and get them back to the dorms safely. Why was I the non-drinking friend? I’d had earlier experience with alcohol, and discovered that when I drank enough, I started fights and broke furniture. No drinkie for me.
Joel
As a responsible adult I can’t in good faith encourage anyone to drink. But I can say that college taught me to be comfortable around alcohol. That has proved to be a very valuable life skill socially, economically, and from a safety perspective.
Reltzik
Don’t forget your Freshman 15!
Devin
That definitely counts. Congratulations on being ahead of the curve…I think?
Yak
It’s worth trying at least once. Drunk/high people can be pretty fun company even when you’re completely sober. And if you’re not liking their company when you’re sober you probably won’t like it when you’re not.
Also, you probably won’t have time for it after your first year or two. And grad school is so stressful most people just drink alone.
Xujhan
That was savage, nicely done Joyce.
Zero
It’s impressive.
I don’t know that it was a good thing to do, but it was done very skillfully.
Frank M.
Oh, Joyce has learned to weaponize her damage.
Schpoonman
Becky, your as–your an–your evaluation of Dorothy’s ‘donk is a little inaccurate.
Proxiehunter
Would you say her donk qualifies as badonka?
Schpoonman
I believe the full term is “badonkadonk.” She’ll need to start doing a few more squats and maybe up her calorie intake a bit, though, the rest of Joyce wasn’t even visible as she walked out the door.
milu
Well you know what they say is 20/20,
Sajuuk-Khar
She got that bubble butt
Bubble butt
Bubble bubble bubble butt
Schpoonman
Lil’ Jon’s Get Low was about doing squats for that bubble bubble bubble butt.
Jeremiah
In your face deniers! (I’m just kidding, I’m sure most of you were just joking)
Grimey
I want this to be successful so badly. Just for Dororthy’s sake.
Jeremiah
I want this to be fail so badly. Because I love drama.
Doctor_Who
Hey you two, stop commenting on webcomics, grab your harp and pitchfork, and get back on my shoulders where you belong. 😉
David DeLaney
Time Angels
–Dave, don’t have blinked
Reltzik
Compromise: I want this to 95% succeed and help Dorothy get back to a fairly healthy place, but for the remaining 5% to come back and bite everyone in the ass in hilarious and unexpected ways.
Jeremiah
I think you are onto something…
FlamestAndLight
I want them to kiss and then Joyce has to be like “uh oh oops” and Dorothy is like “Good I am the superior partner” and Joe is like *sad puppy face* but then Joyce is like “Why choose” and dates them both but then Dorothy and Joe have a rivalry going on and have a shenanigan filled secret conflict
Casi
With Danny providing a backing track to their shenanigans on the Ukulele
anon
joyce and dorothy’s definition of ‘successful’ might be diff XD
Daibhid C
As far as I can tell, at the moment, Joyce’s definition of successful is “get Dorothy to open up and relax”, whereas Dorothy’s definition of successful is “nothing catastrophic happens and Joyce gets home safely”. They’re not the same, but they’re not incompatible.
Taffy
It was just a drank, bro
BP
OK but last time she wasn’t drinking alcohol, she was drinking soda. Anything she should feel safer around alcohol than soda right now.
/THIS COMMENT IS A JOKE, TRAUMA IS REAL AND RYAN WAS A DICKBAG
Alongcameaspider
I mean you’re comment is a joke but makes a good point, she has no real reason to associate alcohol with that moment
Also Ryan is a dickbag and deserves far worse then what he got
RassilonTDavros
Other people WERE definitely drinking at the party, though. Including Billifer, who was kinda-sorta supposed to keep an eye on her and didn’t do a very good job as a result. My best guess is that Joyce specifically has trauma around alcohol at parties, and Dorothy’s failing to pick up on that nuance? I’m not sure that entirely makes sense, but it’s the best I can come up with.
HueSatLight
Dorothy has trauma about Joyce around alcohol. She thinks it’s her fault because she invited Joyce and left her alone.
Seralyna
I’m not confidant joyce has either? She obviously has trauma about That party, but i can’t remember any instances of her having problems with alchohol that we’ve seen. There might have been something at the party where Dina kissed becky but i feel like if anything that was dorothy being worried on her behalf.
Weatherheight
Good point – Joyce, it is possible to get fudgin’ sloshed at the karaoke bar, if we can believe anime on this method of “Doing a college”.
Much safer when you have better control on who can (easily) participate.
And who else wants to see drunk Dorothy and Joyce singing romantic ballads to each other?
thejeff
Joyce showed trauma about parties months ago, not long after the incident while she was still afraid to walk alone outside.
She’s gotten over a lot since then. The idea that she’s necessarily still traumatized by even parties with strangers, much less any contact with alcohol at all isn’t really textual.
Opus the Poet
Well, he had most of his face removed with a box cutter without anesthesia. Other than actually impairing his functions rather than “improving” his appearance I don’t see how he could get much worse and still be among the living. And killing him would be much too good for him given what he did and was trying to do to Joyce.
Opus the Poet
Well, my mistake. It appears to either be a lockback or regular hunting knife, kinda hard to tell with most of the handle covered in fist.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/wellyikes/
thejeff
It was a phone.
Reltzik
Actually, the last time Joyce drank alcohol she was at an Episcopalean church, no one sanitized the cup between parishioners, and that morning gave Joyce multiple panic attacks.
NGPZ
Yeah, people shouldn’t have to associate alcohol with chance of getting roofied. Which is exactly why vigilantes like Amazi-Girl exist to confront those perpetrators ’cause law enforcement is next to worthless there.
Proxiehunter
Joyce weaponizing Dorothy’s over protectiveness.
Proxiehunter
I notice Dorothy didn’t get her coat.
Taffy
Or her shoes.
Needfuldoer
Overrated!
ValdVin
Maybe they’re going drinking with Sierra. That sounds like fun and also a scene without troublemakwrs.
Amós Batista
What Dorothy can do about this? To cut Joyce’s allowance???
Omg, this is wonderful…
Caro
oh shit i love this scheme
Amós Batista
Don’t worry. The worst that can happen is Joyce, during the drinking, to turn herself neurotypical.
Proxiehunter
I’ve never been that drunk.
BP
You can GET that drunk?!
Azhrei Vep
Well, if you drink until you pass out, then you are now in the same headspace as a NT would be in the same situation.
Masumi
I certainly become much more able to talk to people
Still weirdly though
The sweet part is, drunk people don’t care if I’m weird!
Dara
I got thrown off a jury once for answering “What words come to mind when you think of intoxicated people?” with “unintentionally entertaining”
(defense team cracked up. prosecutor gave me The Look and I was like “whelp I’m out” xD )
zee
Damn, great way to get out of jury duty
Dara
It was, to be fair to me, an honest (and spontaneous) answer. (I wasn’t trying to get out of jury duty, honestly! Also the trial lasted like 45 minutes.)
(That said, I will admit to bringing in a copy of Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed as my permitted reading material to a pool that was going to be for a possibly-six-month-long corporate legal case because I wasn’t gonna sit through that if I didn’t have to. That time, I absolutely was trying to get out of jury duty. xD)
Dante
Once upon a time I tried. It took me a couple of years to realize I was allowed to stay my weird self while drinking – and that was when I started to have fun for real while surrounded by other people. I like parties nowadays /o/
anon
well there are anxious ppl that use alcohol as a ‘social lubricant’ it’s fine as long as you don’t overdo it
Needfuldoer
That’s the thing, I don’t trust myself not to overdo it so I only drink NA.
Amós Batista
This. I feel so normal, so confident, everybody does talk to me, hug me…
I’ve read in some place, or in a video that explain alchool effect in some neurodivergent people.
Yes, it’s a dangerous way of think. But, anyway.
DailyBrad
Dorothy’s got a tremendous ass, guess the running does the trick.
Seriously, though, I do kind of wonder if this is going to be an ultimately good thing for Dorothy. At the least, Joyce recognizing there is a problem is probably a good thing, though Walky and Ruth so far have only been able to do so much to help, so Joyce may have her work cut out for her.
Proxiehunter