Ayo Realizes Something
Added 2025-01-17 02:05:42 +0000 UTCGREAT
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I *so* wish my husband got this… it would easily reduce our disagreements, by half, at least!
Melissa Wilson
2025-01-21 17:16:22 +0000 UTCI love Hanners' self-awareness.
Matt Pedone
2025-01-21 15:28:36 +0000 UTCSomeone should license Jephs deprecated characters and start a second comic.
J.C. Hewitt
2025-01-20 02:06:21 +0000 UTCDidn't Bembo and Gordon record that 'Lady Godiva' song?
Sleepy John
2025-01-20 01:11:50 +0000 UTCAnd Crushbot
David Durant
2025-01-20 01:11:22 +0000 UTCAyo's storyline is bringing a LOT of stuff up for me, personally. Which is a testament to Jeph's writing! But also, OOF. I felt Ayo's last line here.
Charlotte Grubbs
2025-01-19 23:19:14 +0000 UTC"Tilly the Relentless!" ...with special guests, Bembo and Gordon!
Ursus Ridens
2025-01-19 23:09:28 +0000 UTCTrue enough. That part may be to do with the fact that this comic started in the early 2000s and its economic setup has remained basically the same xD But yes, the fact that Faye hasn't had any issues keeping up her part of the rent even though Union Robotics canonically barely earns any money is also proof. Maybe QC has universal basic income and it's just that no-one ever mentions it xD
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-19 11:24:55 +0000 UTCThat could be very fun!
Carrie
2025-01-19 00:26:54 +0000 UTCYes! So very!! My phone and the cloud have a number of lists for the variables life throws at us while seemingly tossing us into a quagmire if we're not on top of things. Without making any lists things grind into a sludgy mess in my head.
Carrie
2025-01-19 00:24:28 +0000 UTCI miss Tilly. I wish there was a whole comic about them.
J.C. Hewitt
2025-01-18 15:30:52 +0000 UTCIIRC we didn't last time. As we'd already had the Monday comic the previous Friday, there wasn't a new one (Tuesday's) for us until Monday.
Mark
2025-01-18 10:53:08 +0000 UTCWouldn't we still get a comic on Sunday like the main site? Since uploads are normally Sunday through Thursday (unless we're supposed to be going off Hawaiian time or something) Edit: I had this backward. It's a M-F comic/U-R Patreon in the whole East hemisphere, while in the West hemisphere it's a U-R comic/S-W Patreon.
Bill Silvia
2025-01-18 07:13:18 +0000 UTC“Neurospicys”? Stealing it.
Corvus Cardia
2025-01-18 04:46:03 +0000 UTCNot complaining, just wondering if it was a thing now.
Mark
2025-01-18 03:56:31 +0000 UTCJeph, I don't think that anyone is actually complaining.
Ursus Ridens
2025-01-18 03:39:16 +0000 UTCWe think, or anyway we'd like to believe, that Ayo is just getting off the train she was loaded onto so that she can figure out where she actually wants to go -- and that's hard for her.
Ursus Ridens
2025-01-18 03:38:22 +0000 UTC"My son is also named Jorph."
Sammitch
2025-01-17 23:08:52 +0000 UTCSomewhere at EuroDisney some security guy yells out that they are out of Jorph engraved keyblades.
Miyaa
2025-01-17 23:08:16 +0000 UTCIt definitely was the fear that society placed on parents which then was placed on us in the 1990’s. At least this generation may be more aware that is not necessarily true anymore. The downside, that places fears to parents that their children will not be better off than they were. Whether they act or ignore this fear is another matter.
Miyaa
2025-01-17 23:03:47 +0000 UTCYes I understand that need to over share. Plus my disaster was extreme, I was literally killed by a DUI.
Opus the Poet
2025-01-17 21:35:47 +0000 UTCThat would be too much cute in one place, Massachusetts would collapse into a singularity.
Opus the Poet
2025-01-17 21:23:36 +0000 UTCEhh,Vlad deserves it. You did target his "summer home" didn't you?
Opus the Poet
2025-01-17 21:20:47 +0000 UTCI guess that was her story in regards to Clinton. She helped him get over Emily (who also has been absent for a while), not only by talking to him, but also introducing him to Elliot. She also humanized Renee (a mirror image of Faye). However, it feels a little sad that she never really got the chance to have her own story.
Andrea Andrew
2025-01-17 20:23:41 +0000 UTCSome writers get to a point with a character and either don’t know what do with them or feel that their part of the overarching story is complete. And that’s fine.
Miyaa
2025-01-17 19:36:11 +0000 UTCAyo's parents seem like the type that told her "You have to get a college degree or you will never amount to anything". Then when she dropped out of school and got a job in a coffee shop, they said "See? Told you so." (edit: Maybe that is just in Ayo's head. Or maybe just in MY head and I am projecting a level of parental toxicity that is far darker than anything Jeph has in mind.)
SilverbackRon
2025-01-17 18:15:35 +0000 UTCYes, having Anh consult with Pintsize would be hilarious.
SilverbackRon
2025-01-17 17:30:21 +0000 UTCWhy? Is Brun too hard to write for?
Andrea Andrew
2025-01-17 17:25:33 +0000 UTCAlso, people with retail level jobs (e.g. Renee and Brun) can afford nice apartments together.
Hugh Eckert
2025-01-17 17:18:55 +0000 UTCShe hasn't been back in touch with Pintsize that we've *seen*. :D Actually, given Pintsize's run of being a listening ear for various peeps, it would be SO EASY to have Anh pop up as one such person and I really hope that happens.
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 15:47:01 +0000 UTCJeph's director's commentary on Brun suggests we aren't likely to see her again any time soon. I'm assuming that we also may not see Renee, although given that we see Elliot, who also works at the Secret Bakery, there's a higher chance she'll pop up. And Millefeuille might be around.
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 15:45:16 +0000 UTCI feel like that might make it harder to keep track of 🤔 At least by Friday both site and Patreon users are in the same place. Our schedule is just a day ahead. Actually, before I supported Patreon I did think that it worked the way you're describing and that Patreon supporters weren't subjected to Friday cliffhangers because they would simply get the next comic. But it's more equitable if everyone has to suffer for a minimum of two days before they get a resolution 😄
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 15:42:16 +0000 UTCIt’s definitely more optimistic, as Medicare for all seems like a thing, their AI is actually living and human (and not something we need to reign in), and Dora seems like a good business owner.
Andrea Andrew
2025-01-17 15:31:02 +0000 UTCBeen a while since we’ve seen Brun, her Ai girlfriend, or her roommate.
Andrea Andrew
2025-01-17 15:26:13 +0000 UTCI wonder if Ayo and Liz are staying in contact.
Andrea Andrew
2025-01-17 15:21:56 +0000 UTCVery strong vibes that she was pushed into a very academic path that she never actually wanted to pursue in the first place, and now she is out from under her parents' thumb, she does not want to go back - "It's over and I'm glad it's over".
Stephen Wells
2025-01-17 14:57:34 +0000 UTCOuch, I feel you Ayo, I feel you. <3
joFinndian
2025-01-17 14:52:02 +0000 UTCIris can operate the cannon, but May has dibs on being the wall. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4133
BookBeard
2025-01-17 14:14:41 +0000 UTCI think that Anh eventually git the message that Hanners wouldn’t be interested, even if the process was tangled up with her confused bisexual realisation. I imagine that she’s been conducting some chaotic and inconclusive experiments ever since, along with acquiring an expensive rainbow-themed wardrobe. I’m still slightly surprised that she hasn’t been back in touch with Pintsize.
Philip Masters
2025-01-17 14:12:01 +0000 UTCImo, it could be a good thing for you to only release on weekdays. Everyone, patrons and the site gets the new comic at the same time, but Patreon gets ”the next one”
legobil
2025-01-17 13:49:02 +0000 UTCI keep doing this!!!!
Jeph Jacques
2025-01-17 12:53:23 +0000 UTCOoof. That is a tough panel 1 comment Ayo.
legobil
2025-01-17 12:40:54 +0000 UTC”Need to bring it home for extra verification. The cannon, that is.”
legobil
2025-01-17 12:35:14 +0000 UTCYes, but you would get the tuesday comic :3
legobil
2025-01-17 12:34:26 +0000 UTCThe trick is to get to the point where you've internalized the process. Break up your production cycle into individual, monomania compatible tasks. Write them down. Indicate prioritization. The pick whatever needs to be done soonest, and forget about everything else, including the "when". Just blindly progress from start to finish, then cross it off and return to the list. Personally, my kicker is when someone else is relying on me. My personal space is an absolute mess. Stuff gets done sporadically, or not at all. But any common areas are immaculate. And if I've told someone I am going to do something and they're relying on me getting it done, that's a sacred oath.
Daryl Sawyer
2025-01-17 12:30:21 +0000 UTC“Do you expect me to talk?” “No, I expect you to clean up this mess! Mr. FluffyBunny threw up this morning and made me launch my missiles to Russia instead of to the USA as planned! I am very vexed!”
Miyaa
2025-01-17 12:15:38 +0000 UTCIris gets to operate the dildo cannon.
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 11:51:59 +0000 UTCAm I going to have to wait until Monday for the next comic like.... like some ORDINARY READER?? 😱
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 11:51:38 +0000 UTCThat meeting of those particular minds, yeah. That would be a fucking disaster We would love it though
dcy665 .
2025-01-17 10:40:07 +0000 UTCThis is a lesson in balancing independence & found family vs dependence & family. Yeep!
Sparky
2025-01-17 09:27:15 +0000 UTCI wonder if she ever called the bus company 🤔
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 07:03:51 +0000 UTCIs it really more optimistic than ours if you ignore the sentient robots? Actually, if you take into account the level of capitalistic control over robot bodies, it's arguably more dystopian. Just with sentient robots.
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 07:03:19 +0000 UTCI don't think they exchanged contact details (I'm pretty sure Hanners would have avoided doing that)
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 07:01:16 +0000 UTCAyo isn't doing nothing. She's deciding her own path for a change, which based on what context we have about her parents and studies, it doesn't sound like she did before this point. Going home to obey whatever her parents decided she should do with her time would be the passive option.
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 06:59:02 +0000 UTCTHIS. Logan Nix. Was sitting at a meeting trying to explain to my boss this week the importance of her giving me tight deadlines, so I can feel the pressure enough to make myself actually bother with the task. But if they’re too tight I just get stressed and either work so hard I burn myself out or risk going into freeze mode from the stress. It’s a very fine tuned need. Not very easily calibrated I’m afraid. :/
Freid
2025-01-17 06:47:10 +0000 UTCSitting here at my breakfast table snort-laughing at “Jorph” for some reason xD
Freid
2025-01-17 06:42:28 +0000 UTCMixed feeling on this. Actually angry at a fictional character digging her heels in against being responsible for self because of some nebulous need to do what she wants even if it's nothing.
Darnel D Cooper
2025-01-17 06:40:41 +0000 UTCIn Ayo's defense, it's been, like, two days.* *This is a joke about the passage of time in QC
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-17 06:36:13 +0000 UTCAs Jeph's version of Earth is more optimistic than our somewhat hellish one, perhaps there Ayo could risk moving out on her own without immediate financial disaster, but even relatively financially stable characters like pre-vtuber Marigold fretted about being able to afford it.
Mark
2025-01-17 06:14:29 +0000 UTCIt's not really in one place, but the space station arc (starts around https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2106) might help, and also the introduction of Hanners' mom https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=913
Mark
2025-01-17 06:07:07 +0000 UTCIt's exactly because of shit like this that Ayo doesn't do self reflection
Bagge
2025-01-17 06:03:24 +0000 UTCAre we Patreon folk getting Monday comics on Fridays now?
Mark
2025-01-17 06:00:58 +0000 UTCTilly: "Photoshop? That picture was taken during a particularly hostile merger settlement. Apparently, Mrs Ellicott-Chatham "called in a favour"."
David Paul
2025-01-17 05:12:18 +0000 UTCNext week: Willow and Iris gets interviewed by Beeps for quality assurance tester positions at the adult toy factory.
Miyaa
2025-01-17 05:05:04 +0000 UTCYemisi was actually the one who reminded Ayo that, as an adult, her parents can't really *make* her do anything. Good to see she was listening. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5140
BookBeard
2025-01-17 04:24:56 +0000 UTCI really need to go back and read Hanners' origin story.
Jason Roberts
2025-01-17 04:20:32 +0000 UTCBARS
Bill Silvia
2025-01-17 04:16:55 +0000 UTCA steady job (which tends to be a lot stricter about attendance than college) can do that for some. Though I don't see Dora paying Ayo enough to get her own place, or Ayo being able to co-exist with most roommates.
Bill Silvia
2025-01-17 04:16:13 +0000 UTC“…and my dad is basically Q.”
Magic Chopstick Games
2025-01-17 03:57:11 +0000 UTCI know right? Tilly was great.
BookBeard
2025-01-17 03:48:55 +0000 UTC“Not to be competitive, but my mom is basically a Bond villain.”
Taigan
2025-01-17 03:42:53 +0000 UTCAyo and Brun should meet.
A Dark Planet, Lit By No Sun
2025-01-17 03:41:02 +0000 UTCNo joke. Being #actuallyautistic (and in my case, some extras thrown in) having structure and routines is absolutely necessary. However, not only did it take years (and lucky it wasn’t longer!) and the most diligent partner one could hope for- like taking meds, you KNOW you have to, but some days it just feels like…. Furchtbar. Can I get a reroll on my stats pls kthnx. Edit- it’s = it
Corvus Cardia
2025-01-17 03:33:42 +0000 UTCNow I have the mental image of Tilly crashing through the wall like the Kool-Aid man, pausing to repair the damage to the wall, and then giving a detailed PowerPoint presentation on why Hanners can empathize with Ayo. Somewhere in that presentation is an image of Beatrice Chatham adorned with horribly photoshopped devil horns and matching goatee.
Alias Fakename
2025-01-17 03:32:04 +0000 UTCHey, at least she's getting there. Her progress resembles that of an arthritic frog, but she's getting there.
Doc Gumby
2025-01-17 03:23:22 +0000 UTCI wonder if Hanners has heard from her bisexual rich girl.
Andrea Andrew
2025-01-17 03:21:55 +0000 UTCAs someone who has gone no contact with my parents, I feel this in my soul.
Everett Bradshaw
2025-01-17 03:21:31 +0000 UTCIt's one of the reasons most of my friend group are neurospicys! They understand that I'm trying to relate and not "win". It's very freeing to be able to be myself
Grace Kieser
2025-01-17 03:10:36 +0000 UTCLooking over the comments on this strip and the previous one, it sure looks as if Jeph is hitting some stuff that lots of us have fought with. Another reason to love the strip. (I don't discount all the wonderful bad gags, though.)
Ursus Ridens
2025-01-17 03:10:00 +0000 UTCI guess he really did miss drawing the strip.
That Blair Guy
2025-01-17 02:43:07 +0000 UTCADHD can cause similar inadvertent jerk-seemingness. It's not that I don't understand social cues, but I forget to look for them lmao.
MayLaBelle
2025-01-17 02:41:04 +0000 UTCConsidering her dad is up in space, him crashing down would be an absolute disaster
KingAtticus
2025-01-17 02:40:27 +0000 UTCJorph, we've been over this. It is Thursday.
Sammitch
2025-01-17 02:37:28 +0000 UTCThat's the one right there.
Ken
2025-01-17 02:37:14 +0000 UTCIndeed!
Carrie
2025-01-17 02:32:41 +0000 UTCSounds like she needs Dr pint-size
wyatt wustrau
2025-01-17 02:20:23 +0000 UTCdebilitating ADHD can be so annoying because it can demand a fine balance of freedom & structure. too much freedom and you can't build the momentum to do anything, too much structure and it starts to feel dehumanizing
Logan Nix
2025-01-17 02:18:26 +0000 UTCHonestly, it seems like she needs more strict lifestyle. Without her sister or Hanners now, she'd keep spiraling
PatronTurtle
2025-01-17 02:16:42 +0000 UTCOoof.
John Fiala
2025-01-17 02:16:28 +0000 UTCShe keeps discovering all this baggage she didn’t even realize she owned… been there, doing that…
Melissa Wilson
2025-01-17 02:15:10 +0000 UTCAww I miss Tilly
DVW
2025-01-17 02:13:41 +0000 UTCI relate to Hanners in that last panel, just as a general talking-to-people thing.
Cas Wanden
2025-01-17 02:10:32 +0000 UTCAyo didn't move in with much stuff, but she's still unpacking.
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-17 02:10:17 +0000 UTCAh, the constant autistic struggle of trying to relate with someone by sharing a similar experience and inadvertently making them think you're a jerk, avoided!
Matthew Delahaye
2025-01-17 02:09:40 +0000 UTCI been there. My parents could be mean as shit (or at least with a massive temper)
Tannerbot
2025-01-17 02:09:20 +0000 UTCPoor Ayo! Ngl, I can to some extent relate too 😞😒🥲
Jon
2025-01-17 02:09:17 +0000 UTCStop telling everyone the story of my life with Ayo, geez
Lynn Shepard
2025-01-17 02:09:05 +0000 UTCBig Parents are watching you...
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-17 02:08:55 +0000 UTCNobody from Hannelore's family should be crashing through anything unless they're delivering a pizza.
Bill Silvia
2025-01-17 02:08:25 +0000 UTCDang, I miss Tilly
Alcaria Swain
2025-01-17 02:08:16 +0000 UTClight bulb full of darkness. good job hanners
Brendan Luster
2025-01-17 02:08:12 +0000 UTCOh yeah!
Brenda Allen
2025-01-17 02:08:00 +0000 UTC
