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🕑 Added 2020-05-12 01:13:12 +0000 UTC

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Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Oh Gawd... espresso beans dipped in dark chocolate... you just gave me an awful Crave

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

That's only for weddings. ;)

Lord Travis Lance the 3rd Matheson esq

Is it just me, or does it look like Bubbles' Chair is looking longingly at Dora here?

Diana

Well also dark blood red for special occasions

Randall Norman Pick

Or a festive dark gray for special highlights.

Jim Feldman

Espresso jelly beans with real coffee beans inside.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

And everything's black.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Dark-roasted jelly beans, right?

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Now I literally cannot live without that coffee mug. Full-sized.

Diana

Dora's lying about this being the first time she's check out a decorating blog. She's a former goth, Goths are completely obsessed with fashion and decorating, it's just a different style than other, but it's still interior design.

Mark

I was expecting Faye to point that out, but I guess that she didn't want to dilute her acknowledgement that Dora got her.

Andrew Mitchell

Now I **want** a big mug of jelly beans too!! <3

Jeph Jacques

College is wild

Somebody Else

🎶 jelly bean is not my coffee https://youtu.be/Zi_XLOBDo_Y?t=87

Cryptic

I think Jeph is lying about the jelly beans.

Thomas A. Dennis

Been there, done that.

I really love the way panels 3 & 4 were laid out.

I know I just CAN'T be the only one who wants Dora's coffee mug, amirite?

Thisguy

There were comics where she got stones in the back room. Of course, there was also a comic where Martin caught two senior members of the faculty doing it in the copy room. The library is just a strange place.

Bagge

and Dora has hardly murdered anyone lately.

BioYuGi

I mean, whether you come into work stoned or get stoned on the job, both are bad.

Michael Boettger

Tai is in charge of the library on a day-to-day basis. I don't recall her actually taking drugs on the job, but before she came in. Nobody either noticed or cared. And she wasn't closely supervised.

PixelThis

Welcome to the real world where "fair" never comes into play.

BioYuGi

I'm glad someone brought this up, honestly. It always seemed to me that Tai's drug usage was way worse than Faye's alcoholism until the incident that put Faye in the hospital. Tai was frequently coming into work high, and not just on marijuana either, thinking back on the comic where she was seeing Marten as a dragon. Faye got drunk at work once and was appropriately fired for it, but Tai was able to get away with multiple stoned shifts without reprimand, I never thought that was fair.

SilverbackRon

Is it just me or is Dora the cutest thing ever on this page? I am continually impressed by Jeph's ever evolving art style.

Jeph, thanks for sharing your experience with us through the fabulous Faye. 💚

Joseph Bonnar

I love that. Thank you, Jeph. I stopped drinking, had to. And for quite a while afterwards I was pretty tense about others drinking; it took a while for it to sink in that although I had a problem, maybe you didn't.

awgiedawgie

I have had a mug of jelly beans like that on more than one occasion. It's quite satisfying.

Grace Kieser

I have to do no such thing! It's legal in Washington!

Diptych

I think, in this case, "domesticate" means "to make accustomed to the comforts and manners of a domicile".

Angus, the man she finally fell in love with, moved to the city to take his dream job and she elected to stay behind and break up the relationship rather than take a chance and pull up stakes and move with him. It broke her heart and she started drinking move heavily (she was always a drinker) to "drown her sorrows."

Jamal Taylor

Can someone remind me what caused Faye to drink?

Michael Boettger

When you think of it, Dora is talking about a step into adulthood. One's residence becomes less of a place where one merely sleeps, eats, and bathes, and starts to become a home. Permanent, as opposed to ad hoc.

Matt

I wanna hug full of jelly beans...but now I'm worried about choking hazards.

Peter McDevitt

gotta weed out those bad habits.

Hugh Eckert

I love how she goes from side-eye to compassionate understanding almost immediately.

Devin Gates

It's jelly beans

Hugh Eckert

Domestication requires generations of artificial selection, so isn't Dora really *taming* Tai? Sorry, I've been binge-listening to "The Common Descent Podcast"...

Hugh Eckert

Caffeinated jellybeans.

Tamara Macadam

okay but home decoration is fun

Grace Kieser

Gorram, Dora! That's a lot of coffee this late!

Michael Boettger

And remember, Faye WAS in a serious accident!

Diptych

Oh, I get that. I was in a car accident and for a year afterwards I braced myself whenever I saw a car approaching a crossroads.

Bailey Tighe

In my case, it was driving the drunk idiots home so they wouldn't die.

Miyaa

I think because I went to so many funerals during high school where my peers died in a car crash where alcohol was involved, I never developed a taste for alcohol.