Oh Joy Sex Toy – Meeting Again by Joey Hagan

Joey Hagan draws with a thin line in a detailed, cartoon-y/manga-y style. He uses a color palette of rich blues, purples, magentas, and teal.

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On a crowded dance floor, the ocean of blue-lighted people parts just enough to reveal Jude in a bright pink light. As a transmasculine person, Jude uses all pronouns for themself, alternating between them, even in the same sentence. She wears locs in a mullet style and circular glasses, headphones, a septum ring, and snake bites against their maroon-purple skin. He wears a hoodie, t-shirt, and cargo pants. They peer straight at the viewer, studying them.

Across the room, the exact scenario plays out with Lizzie, who is revealed in pink light among a mass of blue-lighted dancers while the music thumps. Transfeminine and nonbinary (using she/they pronouns), she has long, wavy hair with side bangs that brush against her pale pink skin. They are wearing a dress layered over a shirt and leggings. She has dangly puffball earrings and a nostril piercing. She also looks straight to the reader, with an expression of surprise.

“Oh, my God…” Jude marvels to Lizzie while pulling off his headphones. “It IS you!” The two are now standing next to each other, the dark, dancing crowd replaced with a bright white background and their former high school IDs blown up huge behind them. Jude’s shows a younger version of themself with shoulder-length straight hair and no piercings, while Lizzie’s shows her younger self with a mop of fluffy curly hair partially obscuring her eyes and wearing a masculine top with a thick collar.

“No way…” The modern day Lizzie replies in amazed yet delighted surprise.

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“Oh!” Lizzie exclaims, turning serious as the dark purple party lighting brings them both back to the present moment. “But I thought you didn’t like parties?”

“Yeah…” Jude laughs while the music beat pulses around them. He raises his voice, half-yelling, “Turns out it was just the volume I didn’t like-”

“Let’s go somewhere quieter then!” Lizzie half-yells back.

Outside of the house on an elevated back porch, Lizzie and Jude stand at the handrail while the pink light of the party glows through the windows in the background. The music is muffled now, though a few “DUN DUN” beats still seep through the dark blue background.

“So…” One of them begins.

“So…” Starts the other.

“So…” Someone tries again, or maybe they said it simultaneously.

Breaking the frozen moment, Jude finally announces with a laugh, “Here, you go first…”

“ahahaha” Lizzie nervously giggles. “ok, um…”

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“Do you remember my OC?” Asks Lizzie playfully, averting her eyes with a little embarrassment. “The one I was always drawing?” A very anime raver cat girl manifests from her memories beside them.

“LISETTE?!” Jude exclaims, grabbing Lizzie by the shoulders to shake her in excitement at this memory blast from the past.

“But you can call me Lizzie!” She laughs. “She/they!”

“Lizzie!” Jude laughs, settling back down and releasing his long lost schoolmate. “So cute! It really suits you!”

“Thanks…” Lizzie giggles, blushing. “Um… your turn!”

“Oh ok~” He starts.

Star-like sparkles glow around them and the background disappears, replaced with bright white as they are lost in this moment together.

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Thrusting her hand out, he announces, “I’m Jude! Short for- you know. He/they/she/whatever is cool.”

“Jude…” Lizzie’s expression turns thoughtful and serious as she study’s their face, his eyes. “You seem…”

The star sparkles begin to flit around them again. Jude looks apprehensively back at Lizzie. He looks vulnerable.

“…so much happier.” Lizzie concludes as the stars burst and swell around Jude.

“You do too.” Agrees Jude with a smile.

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Lizzie smiles back with a trail of little fluffy white flowers crowning her head.

The view pulls back out above the young people, showing them standing on the porch.

“Wanna head back in and dance?” Asks Lizzie.

“Oh! Lemme get your number before I forget.” Replies Jude as they pull out their phone.

The view pulls back in more closely again as Lizzie replies, “I got it- I’ll text you!”

With a teasing look, Jude asks, “Wait- You still have my number?”

“Ah!” Lizzie exclaims, panicking. “I didn’t mean it like- ugh! You know!!” Recovering her composure, she grabs him by the and pulls them to the door, concluding with “I’ve waited long enough to dance with you again!” while Jude giggles happily.

Transcribed by Erika Moen on July 18, 2025 for ohjoysextoy.com