#raidah rasheed

[queenofsodor]

historical re-enactment of the way i initially misread this panel when it ran last night on patreon

[dumbingofage]

Raidah!

[nyanifesto]

[apocryphascribe]

SHEESH.

On the one hand, excellent mean & petty bitch energy from Raidah in tonight's comic, top tier antagonist, even got the homophobic microaggression in there for ugly flavor.

On the other hand, I don't trust the commentariat to thread the needle on discussing her due to how badly it's been about basically every woman of color criticizing DoJo (and hey, psst, Willis, quick question! Why *has* it only been women of color?)

On the other OTHER hand, this is LITERALLY one of the points I was talking about in my long-ass post about the cheating being empty and perfunctory to this story arc (shameless plug here); namely that Joyce and Dorothy are not actually experiencing any repercussions from the cheating (a choice they made with their own agency as characters, albeit one influenced by emotions running hot), and instead are continually being raked over the coals for...being publicly gay for each other? Which is objectively a victimless act that hurts nobody?

And I cannot stress enough how awful that is to read, for multiple reasons.

[prince-atom]

Hey Raidah!

Is this you?

[twilightofthesandwiches]

[queenofsodor]

every time alice opens her mouth you can kinda understand why she'd let high school-era billie do all that

[apocryphascribe]

gotta be real

even with the alt-text help I'm having a hard time parsing what Raidah means in the last panel of today's strip. Like, if she's referring to Joyce's last bubble, in an inference/confirmation that Joyce's attitude and mindset is what she's "done"

it's probably one of the clunkiest ways to do that