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I love Dotty's body language here.
Gosh it's weird as a Brit hear people talk about alcohol the way people talk about weed. Drinking is so abundantly commonplace here that it's hard to believe anyone at eighteen wouldn't have some understanding of what effects alcohol would have.
It's legal to drink in the UK in your own home from the age of 5. (Which yes, is definitely weirder than what the states have going in with their drinking ages)
Edited by Whowho on Apr 13th 2024 at 1:21:47 AM
Either Dorothy is a serious light weight, or she's been looking for an excuse to goof off for a very long time.
Edited by Kayeka on Apr 13th 2024 at 5:39:02 PM
I feel like her whole latest storyline is definitely the second.
Considering she hasn't even drained her juice yet, I'm going to have to agree. No one is that light.
The alcohol is serving as permission.
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She got tipsy pretty quickly back when she threw a party for Joyce in the dorm, and they played Apples to Apples. While she is clearly making a conscious, deliberate effort to goof off and have fun, she is pretty clearly a lightweight.
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Joyce came here to get sloshed, and is still on target. Gotta appreciate the efficiency.
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Oh, this is not going to end well, is it.
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Probably worth noting that the disinhibiting effect of alcohol is very much influenced by the placebo/nocebo effect. People like an excuse to let go.
That is too much, but maybe the whisky will taste gross enough they won't have that much?
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Jen and Joe's reactions are the best. Joyce brings out the best in them, and the two of them look genuinely happy for her. While I have no doubt this night is gonna turn fubar later, at the very least, these two being happy for her is what's important right now. I've said before
how they tended to be the only ones who didn't reject Joyce changing as a person, and it really shows here, as this behavior is as far from who Joyce was last semester as possible, but they're nothing but supportive of her.
Oh Becky :'(
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She's going to give Dorothy a "Wakey wakey", isn't she?
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I think Becky is increasingly legitimised in her concerns about Dotty getting to have a type of friendship with Joyce she never could.
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If I were Becky I'd probably be feeling threatened too if I saw this
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But Joyce is still gonna need to work hard for that one
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At the start of this arc, I predicted that this would be the day Joyce has sex. I retract that prediction; instead, she will proposition Joe for sex, but Joe will turn her down because she's drunk. That would make for a nice parallel to when she propositioned him back in It's Walky!.
Speaking of Joe and Joyce, I realised that Dorothy can't keep Joe out of her life. First she dates Joe's best friend. She dumps him, but then her new friend starts dating Joe.
Edited by VampireBuddha on Apr 18th 2024 at 4:46:49 PM
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Is it me or does evert comic with these two seems like they are extremely close to having a drunken kiss?
I am begining to buy into the theory that Dotty does have an attraction to Joyce she's not aware of, and Joyce is just conditioned to expect this kind of behaviour from her female best friend.
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Thought that was someone else for a second
Put like that, I half expect things to go the other way around, with Joyce having to be Dorothy's minder.
Edited by sgamer82 on Apr 12th 2024 at 9:32:55 AM