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Roomie and Lillian.
Go Get a Roomie! is a comedic webcomic centered around the wacky hijinx of the eponymous Roomie and her friends and ran from May 8, 2010 until Christmas day (December 25th), 2020. These mainly consist of a gaggle of girls whom she has slept with as payment for letting her sleep over at their place — thus her nickname. Other recurring cast members include her favorite bartender, fraternal twins named Richard and Ramona (a sub and a dom, respectively), and Matt, a rather confused vanilla guy who can only look on in mild horror at her lifestyle. Soon she meets the introverted, nigh-perpetually-slumbering Lillian, or "Lazy Tyke" as Roomie likes to call her, who is far more at home in her dreamscapes and imagination than in the waking world. Lillian, who loves sleep but is utterly unconcerned with the idea of sleeping with anyone, is perhaps the one person who has no designs upon Roomie — and, of course, Roomie becomes fascinated with her. Despite LT's halfhearted protestations, Roomie ends up becoming her steady roommate — and just as unusual for the restless Roomie as this extended period of consistent lodging, is the break in her pattern of omni-amorous unattachment. What follows is a romance of sorts as they grow closer together, and a study of the character features and flaws which have resulted in their deeply unique, and often heartwarming, personalities.

The comic is definitely NSFW: a running gag involves Roomie's aversion to clothes, in keeping with her decidedly hippie value set. It was initially published on DeviantArt by batlesbo (formally nana-51) in a folder of her gallery but was eventually moved onto its own website. Since the current strip (and hence the main page) may be NSFW, here is the first.

Has nothing to do with a musician YouTuber Roomie.


This webcomic provides examples of the following tropes:

  • Actually Pretty Funny: Even dry-witted Lillian gets a chuckle out of Roomie making her eggs that look like boobs.
  • The Alcoholic: Roomie, who despite having what seems to be a pretty decent alcohol tolerance winds up drunk on an astonishingly regular basis (including a highly suggestive ode to beer).
  • Allergic to Love: Played for Drama with Roomie, whose turbulent lifestyle inevitably causes anguish to anyone who has serious feelings for her. This becomes even more prominent in Chapter 26 when Roomie realizes she can't avoid the fact that she has fallen in love with Lillian.
  • Ambiguous Ending: In the final strip, WOC, watching everyone's antics, closes her eyes and lowers her head as her lover appears at her side out of nowhere, leaving it up to the reader to decide if she's merely gone to sleep or has died.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: Wordlessly done by Roomie to Lillian.
  • Roomie for Watch and Richard. She even goes as far as to help Richard kidnap Watch for a quick outing by distracting WOC. The distracting doesn't work, but WOC lets Watch run off with Richard.
  • Now we can add Lillian's formerly estranged mother to the Roomie/Lillian ship, despite her first meeting with Roomie being quite...interesting.


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