You know, this particular strip was a lot funnier to me before I knew that she was kinda guilt-tripped into this by Carol pretending to be on death’s door.
Like, when I first read it I thought it was kinda cute and adorable! And now the back of my mind is like “she’s being forced to do something she’s deeply uncomfortable with by her fundamentalist mother who values her only as a baby factory.”
Like, I don’t actually think that Joyce is only doing this because Carol guilt-tripped her, and I still like the It’s Pregnancy! stuff, but it’s hard to get out of my head completely.
I think the IDEA of pregnancy, especially as it was almost certainly sold to Joyce within the sacred bonds of marriage and all, was probably fine.
The reality of pregnancy… probably much less so. They don’t really advertise the tiny baby hands visible through your abdomen part. And you don’t have to be Dumbingverse Joyce to find THAT one deeply offputting.
She definitely wanted to have kids from what we’ve seen in the past, so that is the bright side. Carol just blackmailed her on the timing, not the pregnancy.
Unfortunately, having a baby requires someone to be pregnant, and Joyce strikes me as the type who’d want to do things the old-fashioned way at least right up until this particular moment.
I’m starting to think Joyce and Walky wanting Kid #2 is somehow responsible for Joe developing the Science Thing that lets you replace genetic material with someone else’s for six months. To our knowledge, it was exclusively sperm, but like. There’s workarounds. I could see Becky being down for Best Friend Ridiculous Science Surrogacy just because it’s cool and sci-fi.
Well, surrogate pregnancy isn’t even something that’d require Joe’s Ridiculous Science™ to achieve for an F/M couple like Joyce and Walky – it was specifically something developed for F/F couples (and possibly M/M couples as well). F/M couple surrogacy’s something that’s been practiced in our universe for decades at least, no need for that whole Replacing Genetic Material deal. 😛
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wasn’t there an animated version also, maybe a fan version?
Eat your heart out, Alien.
Or is Bobby an alien?
(Just noticed Maggie’s also attributed. Surprising, yet fair)
Yeah, apparently either I or my brother did that late in the pregnancy and a family member saw and had about the same reaction Joyce does.
And this is why I find the concept active body horror, and respect anyone who is willing to subject themselves to nine months of shit like this.
Yup.
I mean, yeah, that’s pretty much how it goes.
You know, this particular strip was a lot funnier to me before I knew that she was kinda guilt-tripped into this by Carol pretending to be on death’s door.
Like, when I first read it I thought it was kinda cute and adorable! And now the back of my mind is like “she’s being forced to do something she’s deeply uncomfortable with by her fundamentalist mother who values her only as a baby factory.”
Like, I don’t actually think that Joyce is only doing this because Carol guilt-tripped her, and I still like the It’s Pregnancy! stuff, but it’s hard to get out of my head completely.
…is the idea of pregnancy something Walkyverse!Joyce is deeply uncomfortable with?
I think the IDEA of pregnancy, especially as it was almost certainly sold to Joyce within the sacred bonds of marriage and all, was probably fine.
The reality of pregnancy… probably much less so. They don’t really advertise the tiny baby hands visible through your abdomen part. And you don’t have to be Dumbingverse Joyce to find THAT one deeply offputting.
I have a feeling that’s something people either find deeply disturbing or weirdly cool and endearing. With no way to tell which until it happens.
She definitely wanted to have kids from what we’ve seen in the past, so that is the bright side. Carol just blackmailed her on the timing, not the pregnancy.
Unfortunately, having a baby requires someone to be pregnant, and Joyce strikes me as the type who’d want to do things the old-fashioned way at least right up until this particular moment.
I’m starting to think Joyce and Walky wanting Kid #2 is somehow responsible for Joe developing the Science Thing that lets you replace genetic material with someone else’s for six months. To our knowledge, it was exclusively sperm, but like. There’s workarounds. I could see Becky being down for Best Friend Ridiculous Science Surrogacy just because it’s cool and sci-fi.
Well, surrogate pregnancy isn’t even something that’d require Joe’s Ridiculous Science™ to achieve for an F/M couple like Joyce and Walky – it was specifically something developed for F/F couples (and possibly M/M couples as well). F/M couple surrogacy’s something that’s been practiced in our universe for decades at least, no need for that whole Replacing Genetic Material deal. 😛
True, it’s just cooler if it involves a super soaker.
A+ if your baby actually has a smitch of Alien DNA in him.
Oh, I remember those days. My child introduced me to one of my best friends by pushing her away in a crowded room, in utero.
Why do I hear “twinkle twinkle little star” with each bump,
and then silence….?
Man babies would be way cooler if they bursted out of your stomach
Agreed. C-Sec all the way.
I will fully stand behind C-Sec all the way.
“Natural” birth is bullshit, and I hate it.
As long as they don’t kill you chestburster-style if they did that, I suppose it’d be kinda cool.
Huh. I was unaware that Joyce was with cone.