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BECAUSE YOU DID A HORRIBLE, STUPID THING, JON. THAT'S WHY IT MADE YOU FEEL BAD.

Gonna be more yelling coming up soon, never fear.

*ninja last-minute punchline change!*

I don't think it counts as ninja-like when you notify people of the change. =P

No, see, that was why I had to notify you. Because you would have missed it otherwise. It so being ninja-like and all, you know. =3

I'll let sarcasticsra and sirdrakesheir do the YOU FUCKED UP JON screaming for me.

I'm really digging L!Stephen's sweatshirt and the idea of a bar where infinite Jons and Stephens relate their infinite problems to an infinitely patient barman.

XD Good strategy.

That sweatshirt's going to be around for a while. And, yeah, I imagine bartender!Jon has pretty much heard it all by now...

Man, has he ever! There's the genderswap universe, and the one where Stephen's MTF, and the one where he's happy, and like a dozen where Jon and Stephen never got together...it must be hilarious on a Saturday night.

Ohhh, it gets even better than that. Pick any given one of those, and there are infinite possible variations thereof. Including plenty of times where they overlap. (Like the genderswapped version of the universe where MTF!Stephen is happy...)

(Also, do note the last-minute punchline change!)

God. I want a day in the life of bartender!Jon story now.

AHA! I had a whole huge comment typed up to this comic that got eaten by my computer, so I went and commented on DA instead.

Then I saw this and remembered, part of my comment was pondering a version of Joan n' Stephanie meeting a version of Jon n' Stephen. I think Joan and Jon would still get along pretty well, but Joan would have reason to call bullshit on Jon once in a while. I...I honestly cannot fathom the interaction between Stephen and Stephanie O_O

Ooh, that does sound interesting.

Wriiiite iiiit. *waggles fingers hypnotically*

Silly Jon. Wondering why what l!Stephen said made him feel bad. He needs another slap on the head.

Meh, the question is "are you sure he was trying to be reassuring? Because I don't feel reassured, here."

It's a general feature of l!Stephen that he is terrible at comforting people. Partly because he tries to do it even when he pretty obviously shouldn't.

Why am I having chills at the thought of newly-empowered, angry, and protective-of-c!Stephen l!Stephen, with no firearms experience, with a gun in his hand?

Ooh. Now there's a plot twist and a half.

Don't worry, though - l!Stephen will not be going Axe Crazy. Not in this storyline, anyway.

But you can see how I could go there. And I'd be much more worried about him firing accidentally out of inexperience (i.e. hand shaking with emotion) than intentionally in anger and retribution.

Unfortunately, yes. Depending on how far you wanted to mine the guilt, there's a ton of darkfic potential there...

Ahaha. Oh, l!Stephen, you don't even know how much you blew the Jon's brains. For very smart men, they are so stupid...

I love the Jon's body language when l!Stephen drops the bombshell (and his recycle shirt!) so much it's ridiculous. Also the infinite Jon&Stephens... including Joan and Stephanie having a girls night? ♥

No kidding.

L!Stephen has a way of inadvertently saying that thing you were secretly afraid of but didn't want to hear out loud.

And, oh, yes, there are definitely a bunch of Joans and Stephanies who get around at this particular hangout :D

>>snip L!Stephen has a way of inadvertently saying that thing you were secretly afraid of but didn't want to hear out loud.

Um, yeah. ::shifty eyes:: As well as things that sound a lot more passive/agressive than I mean....unnh...HE means. Yeah, yeah. that's right. HE means. :)

Ohh, yes. And it's incredibly hard to realize that you're doing it, or to explain to someone else when they are.

Which leads to me trying to work out the details by writing l!Stephen fic. Poking at the dynamic via satire, seeing where it squeaks =)

BECAUSE YOU ARE HORRIBLE HUMAN BEINGS AND I HOPE YOU BOTH SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES, YOU THICK USELESS GOBSHITES.

I feel like cuddling C!Stephen, but I fear that he may shoot me in his heightened emotional state D:

XD

Don't worry, I'm sending someone in to take care of that...

I really like the facial expressions in this one.

Yes, l!verse-Jon did this to himself, but damned if he isn't the epitome of pitiful in the first panel, just munching on his toast in that miserable and lonely fashion. It makes me wonder what c!Stephen is doing, all alone, betrayed, and I can only hope that it's not something stupid (as in something that would hurt himself in the long-run, not that he'd go on a shooting rampage. That actually makes me feel a bit better about him for now, but still.) I'm liking the suspense and looking forward to seeing our dear c!Stephen soon.

Also, c!Stephen's Jon in the sixth panel and how he looks so stricken, when he finds out that his Stephen has figured it out and went off the deep end. For me, it's a great, "What did you think was going to happen, if this ocurred/but guess you didn't think at all" moment.

An honorable mention is how in the next panel Jon has the expression/body position like Mighty Mouse and "Here I come to save the daaay!" until l!Stephen drops that bombshell of truth and both Jons cringe. I really do like the visuals is all.

I could go on for much longer talking about how much I enjoyed watching l!Stephen, but I won't. He just looks so chill in the first panel, arms behind his back, leaning against the wall, looking off while the other Jon goes about his business. And when he does hear what happened with c!Stephen and the gun, I'm not sure if I'm interpreting his dialogue right, but the whole, tiny, "You can do that?" is perfect. It makes me feel like the Stephens are learning something from one another, something important in some roundabout way, not that it's healthy to pull out a gun and tell someone to get out or you shoot, but hey, saying, "I'm angry at you" in so many words and kicking someone out who deserves it isn't half bad.

L!Stephen is just so calm and composed, until his Jon begins to get to the heart of the matter, to apologize, and then we get that big smile, and (headdes) he's doing his Stephen thing again, poor thing, and mentioning, though it's in his own twisted way, the exact offense that was committed. Last panel is love, the Jons beginning to realize how badly they've screwed up and l!Stephen's smile is gone; it's like he's gone back to listening or observing again. And I may be reading too much into all of this, but it's a lot of fun.

In conclusion, after the addition of this installment of the comic, l!Stephen oficially has the best wardrobe ever. And there's a surprise that there are a bunch of different universes with Jon; I didn't see that one coming. At first I thought the bartender was another dimension-jumper, but apparently he's another Jon, and that's just fun.

The one question I have, though, after all this jabber (and this is probably my last comment like this, so no worries,) is about l!verse Jon's pants. They're black with a little gray squiggly line, and are those leather or just a fabric design? Because now I'm pondering all the things a Jon could be doing with spare leather pants. Yeah, I'm so done. -_-;

You'll get a hint about what c!Stephen is up to in a couple of strips. He's not coping very well - but of course you know that...

Meanwhile, his Jon is so used to being in "protector" mode that he's not adjusting very well to being the one c!Stephen needs protecting from.

It makes me feel like the Stephens are learning something from one another

YES. Thisthisthisthisthis. Hasn't gotten very far yet, but the first l!Stephen hears about c!Stephen's reaction, that's also when he gets his first glimmer of "Wait...I could do this differently, I could even be aggressive, and the world wouldn't end..."

But for the most part l!Stephen is still in total doormat mode. Alas.

And, ohhhh yes, there are a ton of 'verses with Jons and Stephens. Some of them will even show up in comics, once this storyline is over =D

The pants are supposed to be like tuxedo pants - you know, with the ribbon on the side? Fancy dress. Comes with the bartending uniform.

*CRINGE*

I'm just gonna concentrate really hard on the lovely thought of a Bar At The Center Of The Universe(s), so that I don't cry at how fucked up everything is.

It'll get better, I promise!

I call it the Interdimensional Colbert Café :D

*Joins in on wishflower's CRINGE*

The "so it's almost like is wasn't rape at all" line just breaks my heart...

(There was more to this comment, but mostly it just involved screaming at the Jons for not doing something as simple as ASKING if the Stephens would mind them switching for a while. Shame, shame, shame on you Jons. *beats both over the head with Sweetness*)

I suppose, in fairness, it could have been worse...but it could have been a whole lot better, too.

(They've definitely earned a few good whacks on the head.)

Okay...liberal Stephen was really nice about it but that comment about rape was...odd? Can't wait to see more!

He's trying to be nice when he really shouldn't, which has a tendency to lead to dissonance.

More is on the way!

...as well as mental and emotional contortions to see the other guys' train of thought/point of view on this.

HEE NEW COLBERT IS CUTEST, LOOK AT HIS SWEATSHIRT FDJKF LOOKS COMFY

AND OH MY GOD THE EIGHTH PANEL

DYING

DYING

DYING

PLUS, HE WAS ENJOYING IT AT THE TIME SO REALLY IT WASN'T EVEN TRAUMATIZING UNTIL AFTERWARDS WHEN HE DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD EVEN BEEN VIOLATED AT ALL! SO THAT'S NOT TOO BAD, RIGHT?

ALSO HMM I DO WONDER WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MY ORIGINAL FLAVOR BB. MY VOTE IS FOR EITHER DROWNING HIS SORRROWS IN A BOTTLE OF BACARDI OR SEEKING COMFORT IN THE LOVING AND DYSFUCNTIONAL EMBRACE OF TAD THE BUILDING MANAGER

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THIS LET'S TALK ABOUT BARTENDER!JON'S LEATHER PANTS

WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY THEY'RE ACTUALLY TUXEDO PANTS

I DON'T CARE IN MY MIND THEY WILL ALWAYS BE LEATHER PANTS THIS WORK OF ART LEFT YOUR CONTROL WHEN YOU PUBLISHED IT BLAH BLAH BLAH INTERPRETATION IS LEFT UP TO THE VIEWER ETC ETC IN CONCLUSION

LEATHER

PANTS

WHAT IS THIS COMMENT I DON'T EVEN KNOW

WHATEVER WHATEVER XOXO ILU STAY FIERCE SORRY FOR THE LATE COMMENT I SEE THE NEW ONE IS UP I'LL GO READ THAT ONE NOW

HE WAS ENJOYING IT AT THE TIME SO REALLY IT WASN'T EVEN TRAUMATIZING UNTIL AFTERWARDS WHEN HE DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD EVEN BEEN VIOLATED AT ALL! SO THAT'S NOT TOO BAD, RIGHT?

See, this is a thing - I mean, not making excuses for the Jons, but I don't feel like the Stephens should go up to someone who was violently raped while begging for mercy and say "I know exactly how that feels!" Because - different experience, right?

Some food for thought:

With an infinite multiverse containing every possible Jon, it follows that there are many, many versions of Jon who wear leather pants on a regular basis. If not daily.

(And, yeah, these can totally be leather pants if you like :D)

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