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SECOND BONUS STRIP FOR JULY 2025 - JOYROTHY

The second bonus strip for July is a real strip that I yanked out to make room for that earlier Asma strip! It would've run (obviously) after today's regular website strip with Incredulous Sarah.

It was intended to be a culmination/subversion of the end of the previous storyline, where Joyce and Dorothy were in Joyce's bed playing music NOT smooching. But it's the most easily droppable strip, so YOINK to Bonus Strip Land it goes! Look, we get it, they're digging on each other!

plus its removal gives relationship paladins a small reprieve from the grievous sins occurring, i suppose

also, yes, joyce has at some prior point brushed her teeth, i swear

6/25 second bonus strip: https://www.patreon.com/posts/second-bonus-for-133814010

8/25 second bonus strip: https://www.patreon.com/posts/second-bonus-for-138351045

SECOND BONUS STRIP FOR JULY 2025 - JOYROTHY

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Clearly totally platonic. Just gals being pals.

BriSK

all of them

David Willis

In the morning, Sarah returns to the room, followed by Becky. They see Joyce and Dorothy, still asleep, entangled in each other's arms. Becky: "Heh-heh. Lookat'em, Sarah! Anyone who didn't know better'd think they'd actually been doin' lesbian stuff with each other." Sarah: [Stares at Becky with look of incredulity]

Harold

which paramore song is playing on this one

faerevolt

So many terrible things in the world right now and the reminder that people are still falling in love honestly makes me cry. I've said it here before, but queer people (and especially queer neurospicy women) choosing to embrace a new self-understanding is an incredible act of resistance against the stochastic terrorism of Christofascism and compulsory heterosexuality. It's so much more dangerous than it seems. It's just less dangerous than living a lie.

Terra Bruder

No comment. But its cute

Jay

Seems like a pretty plot-heavy strip to cut! But maybe it'll be redundant with the next time we see 'em. Probably will.

T Campbell

It's even better that starting in panel one they're not even touching hands. Willis does a great job with hands (and it doesn't matter he doesn't draw fingernails): https://www.tumblr.com/valdvin/789911167249301504/joyce-first-kisses?source=share

ValdVin

SICKOS.jpg and all that :3

Jasmijn Wellner

@Tessea Look, she tried.

5099 5618, Earth 80085

Sarah is clearly neglecting her 'Keep Them Honest' duties.

Tessea

❤️

faerevolt

I loved the Joyce's hands detail

Amós Batista

@HueStL Seconded.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Ragtime Yup! She's going to have to reckon with that, and clean up what she can of the mess they're making.

5099 5618 v2.0

Just realized that Dorothy is a MASSIVE hypocrite. She is doing just what she criticized Joyce for with Jacob.

Ragtime

(This one comes from Mrs. 5618): "maximum easy dick move: dorothy waking up in her dorm alone, next strip"

5099 5618 v2.0

I think you answered your own question. Sometimes I doesn't matter if you did everything right. True love is a deep, carnal instinct. Though it doesn't excuse it, it transcends commonplace morality. It doesn't matter how good things are with who you've got. When you know, you know. Now, what you choose to do with that and how you go about it... That's the part I agree is being haphazardly, selfishly botched here... But they're young, stupid, and their adolescent willpower has been near-razed by the consecutive string of traumas they've been enduring. They're still kids. We're watching them learn how to be good people, the way you and I learned. But that's not an excuse, of course - They'll very very likely face consequences for this, and hopefully learn from them.

Jake Howard

(The laptop is probably fine. It fell onto Joe's blanket, I assume)

5099 5618 v2.0

T he Almost Kiss, The First Kiss, and now this; Joyce started by caressing Dorothy’s face.

AE Gonzalez

I'm struggling here, because I was rooting for Joe and Joyce long before they got together. And freaked out how, by kissing one time, they realize they have to break up with the guys without even explicitly saying it. I thought when they were going to "tell them" I thought it was, "tell them we made a mistake before they hear about it from someone else," not "tell them we're breaking up." I like these two together, but it seems mean to Joe who has been so patient. And Joyce was really into him... how can she drop him so easily?

Carl Cravens

I like that they're not using the weighted blanket. Feeling /some/ guilt, but not enough to stop. edit: I'm going to start calling the weighted blanket the guilt quilt.

HueStL

Aww, this is so sweet. I love it and I love these two so much. I'm sorry this one got pulled, but I'm very glad we got to see it as a bonus.

Astariel

@BBCC I doubt they'd fool passing aircraft, at this point.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Rice She ...er... seems to have other things on her mind.

5099 5618 v2.0

I'm happy we get to see this and I want them to be together

Charlotte KL

adding amber to the list of characters whose feelings matter more than joyce's and dorothy's, and should be prioritized by the narrative at all costs lest the comic become problematique

QueenOfSodor

You're kissing. Amber is bleeding out in the woods, and you're kissing. Edit: to be clear, I'm making a reference to the "you're laughing" meme (meme explained in this link https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/murrays-youre-laughing). I'm not earnestly implying that Dorothy and Joyce don't care about Amber. I know they think she's safe. I actually think this is a very sweet, cute moment.

Kelly (they-them)

ugh, I love them so much

Amós Batista

Agatha has entered the chat

Harold

One for the sickos

Acebender

dorothy when she realises those lips touched joe's dick like 10 minutes ago:

Rice

I'm actually so relieved they aren't using the blanket. That feels like an even bigger betrayal.

Green

Cute but also yeah, I'm gonna guess they're not gonna fool Sarah

BBCC

OH MY GOD I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT!! Oh my GOD, something tells me you don't want to sleep in clothes that potentially have tear gas residue or something. I know neither got a direct heat, but they were still surrounded by it, sort of like second hand smoke.

Green

i'm most worried about Joe. Like this could potentially set him so far back in his character development... I hope he handles it well and maybe we get Poly Joyce out of it, but im still so anxious.

Tsa

This is INFURIATING, they are still in their PROTEST CLOTHES why haven't they SHOWERED

A Lorelei V

(/laptop falls to the ground) (/Brief pause. Nothing else heard) (/Resumption)

5099 5618 v2.0

D'aww

5099 5618 v2.0

Also, lol @ the toothbrushing

Uniquitous

Very sweet.

Uniquitous

Feels like the right call to swap this one out for the Asma strip, but I'm also very glad I'm a Patreon member to see this gem (of course, will end up in the collections, as is tradition).

C

yes of all the strips from these few weeks, it was the most implicit

David Willis

At any other time this would be the cutest possible thing and I would be grinning and bouncing and flapping my hands, but as it is now, I'm just so distressed over how much hurt will follow :')

Green

Very cute, and they didn’t make out under Joe’s blanket!

Naff

Damn. I'd buy that last frame as a poster. It's so impossibly innocent and sweet. Thank you, Willis.

William Lewis

Also, I love the last panel as a piece of art. I feel like it captures honest unfettered intimacy in a way that transcends its context.

Morgan Byrd

There will be Consequences™️, but also d’aww these goobers

Morgan Byrd

I will never not drop a like for a Galaxy Quest reference, please take it good sir

MrShoggoth

It came before the Sal/Amber strip that published on the main site today

David Willis

Sarah, off panel, yelling "Oh... That's not right!" like Sam Rockwell in GALAXY QUEST

Harold

Hahah oh god they would be so mad if they saw this one. Last I saw they were trying to figure out how to construct the digitizer from TRON so they could be beamed into the internet and force Joyce and Dorothy to apologize, repent, and enter a nunnery

Anna Phylaxis

It’s a story pacing thing, and also Asma fit way way better in the main storyline thing

Sajuuk-Khar

this is gonna be the last strip in Book 15, right? feels fitting for that! i love these fruits so much

QueenOfSodor

This might be because I haven't drunk any tea today, but why would one strip need to be yanked out to make room for another one? Isn't having more strips a good thing? Or is it a story pacing thing?

Rob McBobson

Me: it’s happening! It’s happening!🥹 Also me: omg, it’s happening. 😨

Taigan

I mean, frankly, this strip was implicit anyway.

Heatth

Honestly, like, honestly honestly, it’s *extremely* for the best this goes in Bonus Land, you made the right call

Sajuuk-Khar

Or, like, the Bush era

Rob McBobson

I mean, prior point includes the night before 🤷

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