Dumbing of Age

tfw joyce and joe are both switches

Woops, I appear to have rubbed my groinular area against your muscular shoulder.

Is anyone else a little weirded out by the teaser panel for the bonus Patreon strip? I may be reading too much into it, but given what we know about Carol, I can't help but wonder what she means by that question.

If there's any implication from Carol's speech, it is not expanded upon in the following pannels.

It's just this weird thing that happens immediately after birth where people are inexplicably and suddenly concerned with whether the child is intersex.

I really wish it wasn't the norm

Eh, my first impulse is that she's asking if the baby really is healthy. Much like infertility, pregnancy complications are more common than you might think, and are one of those things that have long been hidden. Carol may have lost more than one child in the past, and so it's natural for post-partum experience to wonder if the child is truly healthy, or if there's some lurking ticking time bomb where it will turn out the heart isn't properly formed, or the brain isn't going to continue developing past the age of 3.

Joyce is also the youngest of four siblings. And there's enough of an age gap that the second youngest is already graduated. Advanced parental age increases the chance of birth defects.

, Fair points all around.

I don't think butts are going to fix this one

Butts Disease strikes again

I want details on her 7 part poverty plan.

If Sarah and Jacob get touched this storyline this may be the horniest its been for a while. Joyce/Joe, Becky/Dina, Dorothy/Walky with a potential Walky/Lucy, Ethan/Asher, its getting crazy in here!

Charles has his weaknesses, but but he's absolutely right in this strip.

So Dorothy wants to be president because she has a compulsion to solve everybody's problems?

There's a reason my most-used adjective for Dorothy is "busybody".

She gotta get that body busy, alright.

If she wants to solve everybody's problems, she really picked the wrong job to aspire to, though.

Speaking of which, bout time we addressed this revolving door behavior of hers

She's abandoned her dream, now she's all "OK, now what?"

And until she figures that out, she shouldn't be trying to put anyone with anyone. I mean, I miss Walkcy (do people still do that?) but maybe they should just be friends. On their own, without any assistance from confused former presidential candidates.

Walky needs to mature a bit before Lucky can happen properly. Assuming Lucy doesn't get a new boyfriend in the meantime.

Edited by VampireBuddha on Mar 9th 2024 at 8:35:10 PM

Lucy also needs to get over the thrill of dating for dating's sake.

I feel like Walky getting back with Lucy at this point for him would mostly be motivated by guilt.

Honestly for all the game Walky clearly has he probably would benefit from staying single for a time so he can work on his friendships with his exes free of monogamy anxieties.

Edit: unrelated, but I wonder if Walky and Sal have ever had an opportunity to talk to their paternal grandparents about race and their parents, as presumably the grandparents have been dealing with this situation with their parents since before Sal and Walky were born.

Edited by Whowho on Mar 9th 2024 at 3:15:39 AM

I'd call it the hedgehog dilemma, but they'd need to be physically closer

I want to make a crack about how the hedgehog can never be buggered at all, but the context doesn't really allow for it...

I don't even get what Sarah's trying to do (and I'll bet she doesn't either). Because she's just being creepy and weird and admitting that she's being creepy and weird while refusing to do anything about it.

Doing anything about it would mean that she'd have to allow herself to be emotionally vulnerable.

Edited by Willbyr on Mar 10th 2024 at 2:37:49 PM