Early update for August 20, 2023
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I really can't see Joyce and Dorothy working out long term unless it's outside the canon of this universe (i.e in the future as adults) because you can't make everything about your SO your responsibility. I just think it's really unlikely. Joyce/Joe has had build up over literal decades of both comics, I think if anything they'd be the long-haul ship for Joyce and Joe in this comic specifically. I take the lighthearted ribbing towards Joyce as shifting from 'cuz it makes her fundie brain explode' to more of an inside joke if anything.
Rabbit
2023-08-20 03:02:21 +0000 UTCI have no idea how I want to feel about all this Joyce/Dorothy stuff. On one hand: I'm a lesbian, I want to see Sapphic couples in fiction and I actually do really like Joyce and Dorothy and think they could be sweet together. But Joyce also *just* got together with Joe. And I can't see that relationship ending so swiftly, not with all the time and buildup that was done. They may not be together forever, but unless there's a big swerve soon, it'll likely be actual years before we'd get to a breakup, much less any follow-up. So what is there to get excited about? Willis has certainly handled queer characters and topics well enough that I really, really wouldn't call this queer baiting...queer teasing, maybe. But I only like being teased if there's a reasonable chance it'll move on to something more. I had assumed that pharmacist and her wife were a sort of last gift to the ship, the "What If?" right before Joyce and Joe became official. So now I'm just kinda like, confused and a little frustrated. Is this supposed to be a serious option, or just endless jokes about how Joyce often acts like a deeply closest bi person?
Jayne Lindgren
2023-08-19 22:28:29 +0000 UTCSeems more like Dorothy may have gone to check on Joyce after HER dream, and half-to-mostly asleep Joyce saw her and incorporated that into her own dream when she fell all the way back to sleep.
Darastrix
2023-08-19 19:11:35 +0000 UTCUh, Sarah, get queerer expectations 🖕🏻
Terra Bruder
2023-08-19 10:22:09 +0000 UTCThe previous strip with Dorothy takes place much earlier in the morning: it's possible Dorothy actually *couldn't* get back to sleep and had to go check on Joyce, who woke up enough to glimpse her, fell back asleep, and regarded it as a dream. On the other hand, Joyce dreaming a complement to Dorothy's dream is not particularly more magical than Joyce's "Dorothy sense". Willis usually doesn't usually use the deviations from realism to put magic into the DoA world, but rather to be funny or condense the storytelling, or both. With this in mind, we can guess that the upshot here is that Dorothy's general suffering has a big admixture of feeling that she's not protecting Joyce well enough, and that Joyce senses this and dares to make light of it, whether or not Dorothy actually came into her room.
Dan Rabin
2023-08-19 06:32:28 +0000 UTCI approve of this trolling
darklion
2023-08-19 05:55:48 +0000 UTChear hear!
Simon Magid
2023-08-19 05:04:26 +0000 UTCGet straighter dreams. Pffft, no. Get gayer dreams
Bagge
2023-08-19 04:53:14 +0000 UTCWhat in the hell? So the ones saying they were having a shared dream were right?....or was that real?
HenryVolt
2023-08-19 04:50:03 +0000 UTCDorothy: “Surprise, Joyce! I got you sapphic feelings AND codependency with a side of trauma bonding!!!”
Sajuuk-Khar
2023-08-19 04:48:03 +0000 UTCExactly! Feels like it’s been months since they actually talked, despite both clearly thinking about the other.
Andrea Andrew
2023-08-19 04:28:44 +0000 UTCJoyce and Dorothy are overdue for a long conversation, about MANY things.
Harold
2023-08-19 04:27:23 +0000 UTCOf course, of course
Magic Chopstick Games
2023-08-19 04:18:32 +0000 UTCOkay, I actually laughed at that punchline.
Populuxe
2023-08-19 04:10:06 +0000 UTC
