*teleports behind you*Nothing personnel, kid.Website: https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/Booru: https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/candybooru/Previous thread: >>151730158
>>151758575Commentary:> Veronica: How sweet of you to.. barely remember this character! You tried!
>>151758575White cat jumpscare.
>>151758575I fucking hope it's Lucy doing her teleporting shit again, taking Paulo from Daisy because she's not done with him
>>151758575Well, this interaction was sort of cute, I gotta admit, despite not being romantic. I'd give a point for Paisy.Also who's that coming up? Lucy?
>Inb4 it's Sandy
>>151758575Aww shit here we go again>>151758641Wouldn't explain Daisy's shocked expression in the preview more than Lucy just taking Paulo aside because fuck you
>talking shit about a S class esper and not expecting to find out Rookie mistake
most boring reveal would be Abbey, who the hell cares about Paisy and its consequences >>151758629I would love for Lucy to start actively fucking with their relationship, the comments would have a meltdown trying to defend her >>151758687very cute art, still shit though
>>151758575If i had to guess, it's abbey or possibly lucy. Seems like they're showing specifically the white part of his arm to trick you into thinking it's a white cat, but the opposite could be true since they were just talking with/about abbey and his appearance would be more predictable here.
Daily reminder that Mike was right
it's abbey, the white fur in his arms reach all the way to his elbow
>>151758787Sadly now I agree it will be him, I'll have to believe they are stupid enough to not check their surroundings before talking about their "relationship", and explains Daisy having a meltdown believing she's been found out more than just taking the blunt force trauma of Lucyspace in one go
>>151758600Jasmine or Rachel hand?
>>151758856Neither of them would get such a reaction from both of them, right? It's either Abbey (the feel caught), Lucy (they get a DREAD AGAINST THE AUTHOR) or any other character beat up and bleeding
>>151759048All of you are wrong, but I won't spoil it.
>>151758575Augustus or Lucy's bro
>>151759048I though Abbey at first, but the hand looks like it's reaching up. Though, that may just be bad composition planning.
>>151759070Oh, so it's Augustus
>>151758575It's abbey based on the angle of the arm in last panel, but while approaching them he is barely levitating, cool!
>>151758575Nothing will happen
>>151759087>>151759083Augustus arm is black, the only other one left is Jordan
enter abster"oh hi polo wanna hang out with me and my SISTER and daisy can come along if she wants""oh oh abraham oh gosh hahah you scared me and im just walking with the d-ster haha nothing going on here haha!"
>arm reaching up>whiteguys...
>>151758575>Rips Paulo's arm off>"Haha, got your arm!"
>>151759151Those aren't gloves?
>>151759224He has returned! And his hands look very delicate.
>>151759070how, who else could it possibly be that would make sense being here
>>151758856>>151759070Lucy heard Daisy talking shit and teleported behind them to put her in her place, right?
>>151759281Thankfully not, no worstcat.
>>151759237no
>>151759070The dumbest possible option, for multiple reasons, would be Sandy. Gotta force that double date.
>>151759422Again, not the answer.
>>151759439I didn't say it was.
>>151759070Could it be Molly? Are her hands white too?
>>151759500Molly may be best girl, but sadly not her.
>>151759422Taeshi said this chapter would be a breather, Sandy is like the main force of drama in this comic so it's not gonna be her, and I highly doubt Lucy too for similar reasons. It's either Abbey and that anon is bullshitting, or Jordan since he hasn't actually denied that one.
>>151759519you're at a 50/50 now.
It's Sam, isn't it?
>>151759569which one is sam
Any anons that would be willing to share their Fork in the road books?
>>151759569Sam is in the Winnie the Pooh world with the Yashi and others.
It's nice to see that Polo show is back in full force, with all that boredom, nothingburger pages and radio silence in threads. At least old polo show had seniors/slutpup, sex, partying and alcohol. But we ain't gonna see any of that in the sanitized BCB
>>151759070Ah, it's probably Rachel. It'd explain the embarrassment.
>>151759714We're at a 25% now.
I don't remember the calmer chapters ever having threads this slow toobeedesu
>>151759723It's not fucking Lucy's mom is it
>>151759723Who the fuck cares? It's Paisy. No option would bring anything to the table.
>>151759733Because the newer chapters are far more tame compared to the 2000s.
>>151759723Jordan.
>>151759733I do, sometimes it would take an hour for a thread to be made because no one cared, they would at most get 200 replies before they got archived.
>>151759733Paisy is unbelievably boring. The only thing to look forward to is them having a fight, and Taeshi will never deliver the goods.
>>151759793They can also be far, far, FAR dumber and rage-inducing.
>one retard spams the whole thread just to guess it was Jordan's handWow guys we're so active!
>>151759733No Mike = Everything dies. I'd even take sperg kermit Mike over this.
>>151759838>one retard spams the whole thread just to guess it was Jordan's hand?
>>151759838I'm so sorry Mr. Janitor Jr, we will make better use of the threads
>>151759838>spamsWhat else is there to talk about with this page?
anons share your fork in the road books to save discussion!! >>151759629
>>151758771>hand that small>clearly shorter than Paulo>Daisy immediately freaking out next pageNo way is it Abbey.
>>151759224lmao the superman spoiler image is perfect for this
>>151758600Dude's get gut punched or something.
Or we can spam BCB yiff.
>>151759973Gross.
>>151759973Just create a /trash/ thread.
>>151759973hot.
>>151759968I honestly cannot decipher Daisy's expression on the preview. She seems scared and flustered, but the red background suggests that something violent is happening, and it just doesn't add up.
>>151760033Didn't last thread die almost instantly? There's nothing new
>>151760071I didn't know that. Sad times.
>>151759921Well, the proportions in this comic tend to be a bit all over the place, so it could be... but I still bet it's Rachel, despite what >>151759723 said. It can only be her or Jasmine, assuming it's none of the others.
>>151760069>Daisy's reaction screams violence >It's Jordan who's a wimp>But Paulo is an even bigger wimpI know! Jordan found about the baby Lucy "left" with her aunt!
>>151759224>Paulo. Daisy.>I'd like to talk to you about the ROSEVILLE initiative.
>>151760069Logically, it would be her freaking out about getting found out by...someone, I guess. Again, logically, it should be Abbey.
>>151760071Hey, you can always bump them everytime thread hits page 10. You know, like anons that do it with /co/ threads.
This comic edges closer and closer to that one Twilight Zone episode with the kid who was a reality warper that kept an entire town prisoner and everyone was afraid to make him angry because he'd erase them from existence or something.
>>151758600>AAAAAGH MY MINDOh no, Lucy's launching psychic attacks on Daisy for speaking ill of her momentarily!
>>151760069Yeah, that background seemed a bit exaggerated, it indicates something serious and stuff.Then again, you have characters in the comic blushing all the time for no reason, often completely out of place for the situation, so who knows.
>>151760148Taeshi really wants to convince her readers that Paisy is something that is worth caring about, on any level at all.
>>151760140Another chain must be yanked.
>>151760140Get out of my head, Lucy!
>>151759302I fucking hate this fucking piece of shit so much now.He used to be one of the few semi-okay character in the comic.. but now everything truly is a rotten corpse festering in the hot sun with BCB.
>>151758600>Daisy realizing how lame and boring her endgame ship is
>>151760331I agree with the anon last thread who said that Good Guy Retcon Augustus always kind of sucked.
>>151760376He's never been good.
>>151760412I was okay with Gus as a villain whose "genius" plot blew up in his face.
>>151760441I'm still waiting for said rapecat to get consequences. Maybe in a few years when Taeshi's taken away everything from Mike for him saying no when he had a GF.
>>151758600>Burgertron is closed for maintenance
>>151760069>Augustus shows up and throws Paulo into traffic.
>>151758575>>151760266
>>151759048I read that in Derek's voice.
>>151760294>PAISY EXISTS BECAUSE I ALLOW IT>IT WILL END BECAUSE I DEMAND IT
>>151760140It's real good that you sent Daisy to the cornfield, Lucy. Real good.
>>151760112>Deep down you know there's something unbearably wrong with the world. This is your chance to find out.
a scary white hand appears
>>151758575Paulo has the exact same broken arm that Lucy did at the table, are you serious right now?
>scary white hand out of nowhere>both Paulo and Daisy look scared>preview is Daisy screaming >actual comic comes out, Paulo and Daisy blankly blaming Mike for everything, preview panel nowhere to be seenLucyspaced
>>151761369>Readers going 'wtf'>Many re-check the previous page>Lucy's hand is no longer thereN-NANI!?
>>151761369>>actual comic comes out, Paulo and Daisy blankly blaming Mike for everything, preview panel nowhere to be seenThe fuck are you talking about?
>>151760770Good
>>151761369>>151761473lmao>>151761479you might be a lil' slow, anon
>>151761728>you might be a lil' slow, anonYeah, probably, it's just that fake-out spoilers sound retarded. Plus it made me think of how it could go from this talk to somehow blaming Mike till I remembered line in the sand happened.
>>151758633Yeah, this is about the most charming moment Paisy's had. But it's still about getting "caught" by Abbey, who doesn't actually care about either of them anymore but Daisy can't get wet unless she feels like she's doing something taboo. So I'm still withholding the point until Paisy find something to get mutually excited over that's not hoping to make other people jealous.
>>151761115Where is this from?
>>151761115Lucy masturbates with a baseball bat. What can we infer from this?
>>151758600>??? Used Mindfuck!>Daisy gets confused!
>>151759224If he returns I will scream like a little bitch
>>151762104Certified size queen. After David, she couldn't go back to normal sizes
>>151762200She couldn't go back because she died Reminder it's canon Lucy saw a dick so big it would kill her and chose to die rather than not fuck it
>>151761858>I'm still withholding the point until Paisy find something to get mutually excited overOdd thing to touch on, but for how much we see of Paulo do we have any idea of hobbies or interest for him? Being a wagie can't be it. Everyone else at the table are at least nerds, bar Lucy.
>>151762703His only interest is drama involving his friends. Maybe sex with his friends too, but he might be castrated now.
>>151762703Considering his dad seems to be pretty much working all day he doesn't have any, it's just work.afyer school and helping his dad in the house
>>151762200>>151762565Why does Lucy want dick big enough to kill her? Is she stupid? She's tiny, and even a normal sized woman couldn't take a baseball bat without debilitating internal injury. Does Lucy fantasize about being tinkerbell-sized or something?
>>151763480Lucy got raped when she was five by her cousin, she chases unrealistically large dicks and men twice her height like Paulo and David because she just wants to feel like she's a kid again, she feels guilty wanting this but that's just how she deals with the trauma
>>151759224OH FUCK, I WANT IT SO MUCH PLEASE BE TRUE. Fuck, at this point who cares if they were fan characters? Just bring back him and Kizuna.
>>151763704Kizuna's off the table because the original creator wasn't happy with the way Taeshi was using the character, and so Taeshi unceremoniously (and very clumsily, when she made retroactive changes to replace Kizuna's role with either Katie or Sue) wrote her out.Taeshi does effectively have carte blanche permissions with McCain and Tess from their respective creators, however.
>>151763834Isn't Augustus a fan character, too? I could have sworn he was made by a deviantart user called metalkitty
>>151763640Too dark, anon. It's fun with Lucy because she's a psychotic fictional catgirl, not a real person.
>>151764041Some brief searching has turned up one empty deviantart "MetalKitty" profile and one "Metal-Kitty" profile that is full of MLP stuff and appears to have been abandoned about 3 years ago. Both are, interestingly, 21-year-old accounts. I have found nothing suggesting any connection to BCB in either one, and no evidence anywhere that Augustus was a fan creation.With all due respect, anon... what the hell are you talking about?
>>151764712cool art but what order am i supposed to read this in
>>151764779Lucy is just Taeshi in cat form, ergo anything Taeshi writes Lucy wanting she wants herself
>>151763480Their faces are strange. I do not like them.
>>151762703Do twinks count as "an interest"? Because he IS interested.
>>151764712Taeshi too much of a CHICKENSHIT BITCH to put Lucy in place of Sandy and Sandy in place of Daisy for her dumbass School Days fanart - bitch you know that's what you based BCB on.But hey, can't have her fursona being too cwaazzzy
>>151760266This is extremely cool, who made it?
>>151762703If I recall, he does play some vydia, and he likes some movies and cartoons.
>>151766410I agree with David for once
>>151761357Just skimmed the thread to see if anybody else noticed. What is she doing that she's made this incredibly specific error twice?
>>151767050>>151761357
>>151766585Some anon a few threads back who didn't want to share an artist handle because they didn't want to be associated with BCB.
>>151767050>>151767074It's what happens when you ignore anatomy and spatial reasoning and just hold out your own right hand in front of you with the thumb sticking out as a reference.Generally when people gesture behind themselves with their thumbs, their elbow is still in front of their torso, and the thumb points over the shoulder. Taeshi doesn't seem to be aware of this.
It's gonna be Abbey isn't it
>>151767050>>151767074Taeshi's stopped taking her meds because she wants to get pregnant. So she's making boneheaded mistakes because has a Chef Boyadee's alphabet soup of disorders
>I did not expect people to bat for Mike so readily and eagerly to the point of villainising Lucy and Augustus (and even James!)!>yeah Mike being mopey and sad has definitely earned him a lot of leeway despite no actual change on the behaviour that is causing him this kinda trouble in the first place lol>He still uses Lucy when convenient and spirals when he can’t, he still wants James/Paulo/Daisy to pine for him even though they’ve all moved on.Lmao wave goodbye to your hopes of this impending Lucy/Augustus suffering being anything other than pity bait.
>>151767515>I feel with Mike - I wanted to show victim trauma responseCool story Taeshi, why's he traumatized again?
>>151767515So she really is just fucking insane.
>>151767571Yeah I'm officially back to having nothing to look forward to. Augustus and co. maybe facing consequences sounded like a fun possibility. But I said I didn't give a shit anymore at the end of Eternal Flame and I'm still here so, lord knows I'll keep reading this garbage.
>>151767625My favorite part of December 2: Electric Boogaloo is finding out that, yes, Augustus' verbal beatdown was supposed to be fully justified and not transparent gaslighting or vilification. All because Taeshi thinks that copy/pasting one of Lucy's many hangups onto Mike--out of nowhere and very poorly supported by past examples--could ever be organic. Taeshi really tipped her hand here and now I'm actually quite happy to abandon the comic like I did back during the Paulo Show.
>>151767515>He still uses Lucy when convenient and spirals when he can’t, he still wants James/Paulo/Daisy to pine for him even though they’ve all moved on. He assumes they’ve all abandoned him when there’s no evidence of that. Say what you will about James’ one-track romantic mind prioritising David, but James has never actually been bothered with Mike joining him and David. He is HAPPY to see him! He is HAPPY for him to be around!>This does not look like a person who wants to abandon Mike. This is just a person who doesn’t want to prioritise Mike, and that drives Mike crazy. He is used to being prioritised, being the most important person. He wants what he had with Lucy, he expects it, even. And he’s not getting it - not from Sandy, not from anyone - and it makes him spiral.lmao I was exactly right, the reason why mike went outside to chase james instead of sitting with any of his other friends was a preemptive proof of augustus reading him like a book, narratively that whole chapter is supposed to be his fault, and aug was just completely correct
>>151767625I'm here to see how bad it'll get.
>>151767775You'd think that Taeshi would have set up literally any of this beforehand. I think the singular "clear" example was Mike getting bummed out that Paulo and Daisy were dating, and it still feels like Taeshi took the most uncharitable interpretation of that scene she could find and decided that would be one of Mike's major character flaws.
>>151767515LOL how will people cope now?
>>151767831About how dogshit the writing is?
>>151767847Yes
>>151767852Basic pattern recognition suggests baffled disgust as the predominant reaction.
>>151767515>assuming they're all gonna "leave him"James did this (no scare quotes, he just literally did) on the words of a stranger to go chase David's tail. Lucy literally just compelled Paulo to not support Mike OR EVEN CHECK ON HIM - she's trying to force people to "leave Mike". I just do not understand how this woman can be so unaware of events in a comic that SHE WRITES.Also, I fucking told you all she'd already forgotten about Mike getting kicked in the gut. She's somehow completely oblivious to that being where a lot of the support for Mike is coming from.
>>151767515I've argued in these threads that Mike is a pity-baiting fuckup who causes his own problems, and I stand by that - but Taeshi is making that case in the worst way possible. She's talking about Augustus, Lucy, David, and James as if they DIDN'T just actively sabotage Mike out of malice. And even worse, she's talking like Mike would be "fixed" if he got with Lucy, when Lucy is like 80% of why he's all fucked up. The remaining 20% is Paulo and other miscellaneous head trauma.Taeshi, you damn hack, if you wanted to set up "Mike fucks up and isolates himself preemptively", it was EASY: Lucy's back and Mike feels guilty, he lashes out thus making himself feel guiltier, then Lucy's suicide attempt gets confirmed and he feels guiltiest. Mike goes into penitent self-exile thinking no one will ever forgive him, meanwhile the other characters (including Lucy if you want to make her look good) go "wait, where's Mike? He looked sad, why isn't he talking to me?". Boom, Mike alone due to his own machinations (but still sympathetic!), no-one else is at fault.Why did we get this ridiculous mean-girls shit with Lucy negging her friends, David spreading misery for fun, and Mike's gay stalker turning on him for no raisin? Why introduce a bunch of new characters just to make them irrelevant? Why is Lucy's suicide attempt in a fucking superposition of everyone and noone knowing about it? Why does Taeshi keep playing it up as Mike VS Lucy if she doesn't want people picking sides and going all consolewars? Why am I still reading this fucking mess?
>>151767942Her apparent plan and execution of it are damn near contradictory.
>>151767515>this does not look like someone who wants to abandon Mike
>>151767942Yeah I can see you interpretation working but as the saying goes it's not paranoia if everyone really is out to get you.
>>151767822It's been set up the entire time, you guys are willfully ignorant about any negative behavior Mike has or just retroactively justify it by pointing out any other character's flaws.
>Wake up>Mike was right>Patreonkiddies already damage controllingMr. Sun came up, and he smiled at me! So anyway, how will Vero redeem Mike? Will it be Lucy coming from the Heavens and purging his chud negativity? Him ending up at hospital due to the lack of food and Lucy telling him to eat more? What will it be?
>>151768424Munchausen by proxy scenario where Lucy traumatises Mike to keep him reliant on her.
>>151767515This lady thinks she unironically deserves to live
>>151768512>Mikejeet wishing death on Taeshi for exposing his self insert as anything less than perfectMy favorite part of the threads.
>>151767050"Ladies" and gentlemen, this Is what people call a true artist!
>>151768424All Mike has to do is break the connection between him and that BITCH Sandy. Then embrace the communion of Lucy and all will be forgiven, all will be right. And for her forgiveness, Mike will have the privilege of kissing his new Goddess' feet forevermore.
>>151767515Bitch be crazy. Thankfully she wont have a kid to torture
>>151767515Taeshi's Word Of God is irony-poisoned and frequently retconned. Never take what she says seriously.
>>151765040I just remember 1,000 years ago, back when people like Tess' creator were still active on deviantart. There was this account that would put out these mspaint comics about a half-demon (he seemed like a inuyasha rip off) siamese cat edge lord that Augustus looked a lot like (same piercings). All these teenaged sonic fans were in kinda the same art spheres. So I just figured he retired the character and gave it to Vero, since that's basically what happened with Tess. All I can really remember name wise is metalkitty. I honestly wouldn't be shocked if he got into mlp. All those deviantart furfags got super into that shit when the show came out.
>>151767515How can she possibly be surprised people hated James' bullshit?
>>151768512Don't worry, Taeshi is living in her own personal hell>Can't have kids (adoption will never fill that hole btw)>No one will take care of her in her twilight years>Will die, and her gravestone will be removed after ~25 years, because there will be no one to take care of it or renew the cemetery leaseSee? I don't even need to attack her mental deficiencies or her art. She has no future
>>151768424>redeem MikeDefine redeem. Mostly everyone is expecting it'll be some round 2 with Al where Mike "redeems" himself by helping the gang and almost dying for Lucy (again). Then they "reconcile" with Lucy still being a passive aggressive bitch and they return to the status quo with nothing having really changed but everyone acting like it has.
>>151769796I would laugh if they did return to status quo and Augustus just disappeared. Guy fulfilled his role as temporary replacement for Mike in Lucy's life but now he is in the way so delete
>>151767515>I like to use this little thing called "nuance", it helps keep the story interesting and makes the reader think for themselves about why certain characters act the way they do :)>Btw there's no nuance, Lucy good Mike bad. Just trust me broEven if you take "actually never take what Taeshi says as fact unless shown in the comic" as guidance this is over the top "stop feeling bad for character! You're supposed to think this and that and cheer for my fursona!", it's the kind of thing a NORMAL reader will see and decide they don't want more of this bullshit. The cult and you, anon, we are not normal readers. We could be if we stop believing things can change
>>151767515I think what baffles me the most is how little this feels like an actual author discussing her comic with the readers, it comes more like gossip, discussion in bad faith, it's full of "I can see why your think that" and eye-rolling. It's almost like the idea that people feel different than she does comes as offensive and she has to come and defend her favorite party, as if they are poor and pitiable and people just don't get it. You're messing with her toys and that makes you an enemy, either play correctly or fuck off. The tone just does her no favors and only feeds the idea that yeah, this is just a revenge fantasy, a masturbatory tale, the reader might come to their own conclusions but the reader is an idiot who should be thinking the way I want. This kind of thing feels demeaning even to people that follow her own train of thought because it makes the whole thing railroaded. I usually joke that her closer Patreon group, the one she herself left, is a cult, but it becomes more clear when you see shit like this where it goes from "we all happen to believe in the same thing" to "we are following the same script and we know we are right to"Now get out of my blog
The time has come. We MUST bully Sue. Or post cute Amaya :D pics. This decision is not up for debate.
>>151767515I can't believe I once pitied her, for suitcase not giving her a kid. Now I see he might have been self-aware enough to know the kid woulda have been fucked with them as parents. Taeshi would have unironically been the Devouring Mother.
>>151767564>Cool story Taeshi, why's he traumatized again?Pick one or all since the trauma depends on what you think the issue is:>Lucy tug of war with heart strings>Lucy physically abusing him>Lucy attempting to kill herself than using it as a cudgel when she can?>Lucy gaslighting and blaming Miek for shit Lucy actually did like stringing along?Bad other friends aside, Lucy is the cause of a lot of Mike's issues. Lucy is just a lame toxic childhood friend. In any other story, she would be an/the antagonist.
>>151767515MIIIIIIIIKE. YOU NEED TO RUN AWAY RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!
>>151767896A lot of crazy people put up blocks to inconvenient memories.>How is Mike bad just for trying to hang out with someone but Lucy is good for being physically violent to everyone regularly?She can't answer that, so she refuses to even think about it and ends up forgetting.
>>151770626Runaway to what? How do you run from the demiurge?>>151770673>She can't answer that, so she refuses to even think about it and ends up forgetting.Then what the fuck is the point of adding it to the fucking story? So that Lucy can silence Mike since she couldn't just scream over him without looking like a toddler? What the fuck was the point of Lucy being an abusive ttwat and all the other parts of the story?
>>151767515>picking one victim over the other is not very empatheticMike is Lucy's victim. Lucy is ???'s Victim.Vero, just because Lucy has victim status(self-inflicted) does not automatically mean people will sympathize/empathize with her when she starts acting like an anime mindrape villain to victimize someone else. Also, people aren't just just being unempathetic towards Lucy because she's a violent asshole to Mike. She's a violent asshole to everyone that mildly upsets her. Or tries to force herself sexually on them.
>>151770749There is no point. It's just plain insanity. Do you think people joke when they say she's loco with no plan and just wings it 90% of the time?
>>151770673Don't forget that it is a looping delusion>Suitcase filters everything Taeshi sees, she can't handle her discord anymore and if she has a group for closer friends they're all bootlickers, as seen by her comics where they are oh so surprised and hyped for line in the sand>thus she mostly sees the reactions to her comic being good and supporting of her>suit specially filters the Tumblr asks, if the general tone of praise from all of them didn't tip you on it>Taeshi isn't completely blind to the negative reactions to her comic since she does look for fanart and some of the asks make a point of dissenting opinions>since there are "the unpopular opinions" she's free to disregard concerns and sees it as "you would think so" fodder, doubling down on her own narrative And thus the tail eats its snake
So does Suitcase have a real job or is he just a jannie with a salary?
>>151770749She does a lot of "felt like it" moments in the comic that weren't planned, like Mike slamming Paulo's head on the table, it was some sort of good story beat on how Mike was blinded by his "buyers remorse" adoration of Sandy and how Paulo was more mature by apologizing for pushing him too hard, and then Taeshi came out like "I just made that up because funny :)" giving more credibility to the idea she should shut up to avoid ruining her own comic
>>151767515Oh fuck, they will make mike act out of character and full retard again, kermit Mike will be back.
>>151770835>I just made that up because funny :)" giving more credibility to the idea she should shut up to avoid ruining her own comicI think the comic would have been better if it hadn't just run on vibes. Coming up with a new character arc is fine, but it's hard to take drama writing as good if you can just change a character with 10 pages without something drastic actually happening.
>>151770869Kermit Mike will be so back he might even try to Kermit suicide.
>>151769294She sounds pretty fucking serious, anon.
>>151770534>pitied herYou can only pity the molestation stuff really, nothing else. BPD? Treatable with therapy and/or lithium. They might as well rename it to 'Shit Person Disorder'.
>>151769796At this rate, I'd sooner expect Taeshi to have Mike randomly throw in with the gang and declare he was always a nasty little incel.
>>151770933Carlos, you son of a bitch!
>>151770937And she changes her mind on a whim. Nothing is serious if canon can be changed. Also, Mike just wants friends as shown in the New Year's chapter.
>>151770933I can only imagine it like that flash talking down a villain scene from JLTAS>Mike, are you ok buddy?>I'm fine, I'm doing fine>have you not been sucking up to Lucy enough recently?>I don't need to, I'm fine on my own>you're wearing the frog suit again Mike >huh, would you look at that
>>151767515sorry mike, you'll have to starve yourself to learn from your mistakes of... rejecting your abuser and wanting to be prioritized on at least one of your relationships
>>151770933I wish. He'd be able to escape the woman who has become more of a malicious vampire toward him than Lucy ever was.
So we all know Mike isn't long for this world - he's not eating and he's going through a lot. He's going to pass out - the only question is when. What do you think Lucy's reaction will be?I don't think she has it in her to realize she's the cause of this and change her behavior - I think she will double down. I see her sitting in the waiting room and keeping everyone who isn't family from visiting him. Talking about how this is just another attempt to manipulate them into chasing after him, prioritize him. How he did this to himself, to be dramatic and selfish.
>>151770943>They might as well rename it to 'Shit Person Disorder'.Isn't that implied by bipolar being an insult? Did taeshi stop doing threapy completely?
>>151771041I think she just legitimately believes whatever thr fuck she wants about her own comic, from moment to moment, as suits her whims. Because why not? These are her dolls, to play with as she pleases. It's HER masturbatory fantasy, first and formost. Her mental illness, so she gets to choose the coping mechanism, maladaptive as she ignores it to be.
>>151771230BPD is Borderline Personality Disorder, not BiPolar Depression.
>>151771224As if Taeshi could keep herself in track long enough for the starving thing to play itself out. It'll be resolved inside of this chapter.
>>151771230>>151771291History suggests that Taeshi uses BPD that way to appear above it all while quietly seething whenever the implication is brought up by anyone else.
>>151771291My apologies for getting them lumped together.>>151771296Nah, Mike will likely just get ditched by Paulo and Daisy because he isn't eating and they're gonna get mad at them or someshit. In fact, if they do a Lucy and Mike date, he won't eat at all.
>>151771333>My apologies for getting them lumped together.No worries, I used to make exactly the same mistake.
>>151771224My guess is that'll be the point she flips back to pining for Mike, blames Augustus to keep her hands clean.
>>151771224Kek its probably going to be a nothingburger. If he actually does end up hurting himself she'll probably have a momentary but fleeting "shit did I cause this?" only for the plot to kiss her ass and make it all about her and how Mike knows how SHE felt. Then she might visit in a cold bitchy way to try to mend things in an unsatisfying way.
>>151770962I don't think people understand how wet that turn of events would make Lucy "she doesn't say no" Whitecat. It's like a step away from her dream scenario.
>>151767515What makes me the maddest is how she wrote James.I think she doesn't understand how people act irl, James acted so weird after Agusutus said a bunch of shit to him that it felt disconnected not just from his character, but from the whole verisimilitude ascpect. Mike wasn't that much of a jerk in front of him, and no one would just flip after a weirdo came near him and said "well, this girl tried to kill herself over him, he kissed her, used her and threw it out out again". Even if James sat and heard every single sin mike commit i don't se a believable scenario that his reaction would be credible as a character. This part of the comic was written in a really sloppy way, you could see Taeshi's hands controlling the dolls instead of them acting and giving us the illusion that those characters are cat-people.Now she doesn't understand the readers reaction but the problem is, she made mike sufffer in a not proportional way at a point that anyone who isn't a teenage girl sees this as an ill dog being kicked in the floor again and again. We know that Taeshi tried REALLY HARD to make Mike act crazy, beating his friends and fucking up again and again, but that wasn't natural, it just felt like Mike got possessed by some entity and we must applaud when the ill dog is being kicked into a pulp while Lucy is rewarded again and again without taking actions to justify that. I get it, he's emotionally dependent in a toxic realtionship but the execution did take so many nose dives to make him look bad that at this point it's even funny to see, she reached a point that Mike could kill lucy in front of every character and it wouldn't feel that bad because she trashed the concept of a "mike" in this world.
>>151770933Motherfucker
>>151771420>only for the plot to kiss her ass and make it all about her and how Mike knows how SHE felt.Lucy decided to try and kill herself after an olive branch was extended. Lucy was directly involved in Mike's being isolated, and her + new lackeys were the ones who isolated him. Lucy isolated herself cause she had zero reasons not to trust Sue & despite everything Paulo had done before showing he cared about HER, she didn't believe him. In both these instances, she had zero reason to believe these two never cared, but in Lucy's own words to Mike:>"You were all that I had."
>>151771434To add to your point, what enrages me is that she isn't even using Mike's actual sins as shown in the comic, as forced as they are, and instead talks about this narrative that paints him as some sort of evil vizier that strings a willing and docile Lucy along for his nefarious purposes and is always trying to make everything about him, and she just paints him as this emotional manipulator who thinks to himself "how do I use these people for my purposes?" between panels. And none of that is shown in the comic, ever, her main example being James is fucking stupid because I'm her logic if someone lifts you up and promises you friendship that won't change and tells you you're a great person then it's completely normal and expected when they decide that, since you're no longer their priority (let's leave "people as character priorities" aside for now) to drop all niceties and barely acknowledge your presence, and that Mike is the monster here for expecting more
>>151771434Maybe this that whole BPD splitting thing that's been talked about now and then. Taeshi's mood has declared Mike the enemy again, for no good reason, and so she--lacking any inhibition that isn't tied to personal timidity--is gleefully dragging Mike through the mud. He obviously deserves more punishment and so a fresh new millstone would look ever so fetching around his neck. So she quickly cooked something up that appeals to her, damn the logic, and now has to deal with people who care way more about the latter than the former.Or (and I suspect this is more likely) perhaps Taeshi speed wrote out another lazy scenario after failing to put in the footwork for the nteenth time, depicted Lucy as in the wrong (assuming, incorrectly, that she was now mentally ready to deal with the implication), seethed, and THEN split to cope. Making this sad little entry an attempt to convince herself and others that Mike really is terrible and absolutely deserved everything that happened out there.
>>151771663You can tell it's just as you said because no matter how much she paints him as the scrounge of the earth and wants everyone to hold that opinion she CANT commit to doing so in the comic, she can dish the torture and have characters just start thinking pests of him but still she won't show him doing or thinking any of the things she accuses him of out loud, deep down she knows her character too well. She can make him wear green, shrink him and make him a rabid little goblin, but she can't commit to make him the evil abuser
>>151767515>Why are people angy at Lucy, Aug and James?!?Because they got rewarded for bullying someone whose worst crime was manipulating them into hanging around him. What has he DONE that makes the niceness so nefarious?>Lucy punishes outwardsYeah so why doesn't everyone hate her for it instead of making excuses for her? She's still hitting people.>Shouldn't you understand where both are coming from?Punish Lucy for hitting everyone all the time first.>Mike's behavior didn't change and he gets leewayWhat fucking leeway? Is he secretly stealing money from the people he's nice to? If you wanted to go this way leave him alone, let him be alone, instead you keep having pricks ruin his day which accidentally proves his point that his friends are assholes who only care about Lucy right.>James was happy Mike was around.YOU LITERALLY HAD HIM SAY "Is this why I haven't had any alone time with David?">He wants what he's had with LucyBeing hit all the time?>He left Paulo and Daisy!GEE GOLLY WHIZ I WONDER WHY?10/10 ragebait, I'm now angrier about what's to come because I know Taeshi has no fucking idea how her writing looks to non-BPD people.
>>151771975You have to understand she views being generally nice as being manipulative while being an asshole as being honest. Unironically if Mike went full dickhead and actually forced himself on Lucy (like she secretly wants) he would be more favored as wacky as it sounds
>>151771975>What leeway?You don't think she believes readers taking pity on him or siding with him bothers her enough to call it having leeway, right? Because that would explain a bit too well why she keeps explaining herself outside of the comic instead of actually showing it, because she wants THE READER to condemn him too no questions asked?
>>151771633Oh believe me, she's trying to show it in the comic by slowly re-writing old pages to make Mike look like more of an asshole. She just has to play dumb about it until her rewrite is complete, then she can point and go:>See?! Mike was always manipulative and evil, just look at this old page from a decade ago that I rewrote last week to show he was always the asshole!Imagine being Mike, and being such a torture doll that your creator actively changes your past to give people a bigger reason to hate you. The only thing that gets deeper in this comic is the layers upon which Mike is being tortured.
Damn, i think the only solution is to rape Mike until he's chill.
>>151771518This is your threadly reminder that threatening suicide over not getting their way is a well-known behavior of people with BPD.>>151771663>>151771752At one point she said she added pages to Line in the Sand to "twist the knife," so it's possible a lot of that was spur of the moment additions based on her own mood towards Mike (all negative in this case instead of all positive - those are the only two options).Even with the retcons to both characters, she's never made Mike guilty of anything close to what Lucy is still guilty of. The relative culpability makes any comparison untenable for people aware of nuance, but as someone who struggles to see nuance she may just see both as "guilty" and thus comparable because her analysis stops there.I've said before, it's like she's not able to see nuance in her own work. It's truly bizarre to witness, I've never seen anything like it.
>>151772452>by slowly re-writing old pagesWhy people even bother reading this shit when author does it? None of it matters. That insane whore can rewrite everything to somehow force whatever ending she wants, and people will eat it up.
>>151772103I think observation suggests that Taeshi is supper bugged about people not reading her mind. Either they hate Mike too much or not enough. You should have seen how annoyed she got, shortly before Lucy's suicide attempt I think? The comment box was decked out in these flashing siren gifs because she and Suitcase acted like the readers were so stupid they needed her to spell everything out there. Instead of her just, you know, being terrible at communicating intent.
>>151772571At this point I can assure a good 70% of her reader base is here less for the actual plot and more to see the mental gymnastics developing in real time>>151772553I'm willing to bet that was a lie and the real work was on how to make Lucy not look like a psychopath. In any way she fucked up because even in the twisting she didn't expect people to hate James and she's been trying to shill for him since
>>151769749Yeah she sees Mike's manipulation by being nice to people as evil... yet there's nothing wrong with James lovebombing Mike, encouraging him to cheat on his girlfriend, demeaning him in front of the track team in favor of David, getting mad at him for interrupting his 'David time' when he could just hang out after school, and then twisting the knife by saying he feels "sorry" for the girlfriend he tried to cuck.I don't think she has any fucking clue who he is so she doesn't apply any standard to him at all. He's just fujobait and another land-mine for Mike to step on.
>>151772553>I've said before, it's like she's not able to see nuance in her own work.Which is really odd, given she absolutely believes her characters are super nuanced. It sounds like she is incapable of grasping the concept but dislikes the negative implication, so enjoys the more comfortable delusion.
I hope someone is actually writing good bcb fiction rn, sick of this Taeshi slop
>>151772760Come to think of it, Mike is both the obvious Suitcase voodoo doll AND a transparently better person than Taeshi's blatant fursona is. That's a double whammy of vindictiveness and jealousy which can explain why she loves fucking him over.
Can we just kill Mike so the plot moves on?
>>151772926I mean I guess falling down a chasm can be considered moving faster
>>151772907I think there has been a major lull in it because Taeshi has aptly demonstrated there is no hope of logic to fantasize over. You can fix a broken structure with enough work and glue if a solod foundation exists. The same can't be said if that foundatiom is made of play-doh wads haphazardly mashed together and left out to dry. All that can be done is toss the whole mess into the trash.
>>151767515The other retarded thing here is she doesn't know wtf she wrote with this inward/outward punishment bullshit.Mike is punishing himself inwardly, but the world also keeps outwardly punishing him as well anyways.Lucy on the other hand lashes out at the world outwardly, but the world itself refuses to throw anything back and instead all of Lucy's "punishment" is self-inflicted shit like nightmares or self-isolation.The world does not react when Lucy lashes out, this cannot work until it does.
>>151770962Never gonna happen. I fucking wish she had Mike go villain. At least that'd be interesting to watch. Though like >>151771428 said that'd make her obsessed with him even more.
>>151772926Mike dying means the plot ends. Like it or not, the whole shit show revolves around Grey Cat and White Cat
>>151772644Taeshi is like that "1% more autistic meme" only with her it's hating Mike 1% too much or 1% not enough.
>>151771975>YOU LITERALLY HAD HIM SAY "Is this why I haven't had any alone time with David?"It's kind of a contradiction, isn't it? In order for Mike's pining to be the problem she says it is, then it has to actually negatively affect people, but James was actually fine with him being around until he learned Mike's feelings. And I don't think we've seen Paulo or Daisy feel any affects whatsoever of this stuff. For the most part Mike is straight up being punished for thought crimes, not anything of substance.His only real "victim" is Lucy, and even then, she kinda shot herself in the foot with the scene where he gets back with Sandy. If you judge solely by Eternal Flame, then yeah, it's a somewhat understandable takeaway that Lucy was just a "convenient" (don't laugh!) pick-me-up before his real true love was available again. But the call upends that entirely. And trying to present this as some kind of trend is absurd, because I can only remember Mike doing this kind of thing twice in his life. The rest of the time Lucy voluntarily clings to him, and he tries to do what he thinks is best for his clearly mentally ill friend. The worst thing you can accuse him of is still having feelings for her, but again, it's just thought crimes. He doesn't actually lead her on or use her at all.>>151772926Nope, Mike apparently gets a happy ending at the end of all this, according to the author. It's kind of surreal to feel dread instead of reassurance at this. I'd rather he just successfully die.
>>151773283The problem is ending up with Lucy is an ending only Taeshi can see as happy.
>>151773283>Ending up with Lucy >Happy ending
>>151773283Taeshi just blatantly copy-pasted one of Lucy's personal derangements (her clinginess and need to be wanted even after she's rejected the person) onto Mike in a rushed attempt to forge pottery she was too lazy and unfocused to shape over something like two fucking decades. I tend to give Taeshi's younger self a lot more credit, though, and am willing to believe that she didn't have such a juvenile notion in mind back when she was genuinely trying to improve as a writer.
>>151773323>>151773446She'll turn herself around, just you wait, anons! Mike will be the happiest he's ever been! It will only cost him one little soul.
>>151773513>Mike will be the happiest he's ever been! It will only cost him one little soul.Lucy will eat his soul and puppeteer his body?
>>151770461What about bullying Sue for being cute?
>>151773283>Mike apparently gets a happy endingFirst - source, unless you mean when Tae talked about "older Mike will look back at school years with "damn, everyone and everything was so dumb" on tumblr aeons ago, second - define "happy ending" both in old and current Taeshi's meanings for this cat. It could range from inevitable Mucy to "and then he died" (or less extreme but narratively basically the same "and then he is removed from the plot and not part of lives of Lucy and the table, for example by moving away to WhoCaresVille for a few years or forever, both cats finally get over each other, comic ends on "it was trully a bitter sweet bowl", maybe moves to the same place where pets are)
>>151773604It's not his soul she wants, but the White imposter'
>>151773513https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V31PVkwzpEY
>>151773638>maybe moves to the same place where pets are)>The comic is now about Mike but more of an "Everybody hates Chris" style show. As he tries to earn back his bird son's Love.>Literally everyone was superfluous to the main money maker.>Lucy will likely follow cause lol, fuck youI can see it happening.
Step 1: Grasp Lucy FIRMLYStep 2: Throw her through the FUCKING WALL
>>151773769Choke her! But then, she'll probably like it
>>151773638>sourceI meant this: https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/799423493833998337/this-chapter-is-killing-meeeeee-i-like-seeing-mikeI'm not sure if this is the one you were referring to.Maybe "happy ending" isn't quite accurate but I do think her saying it won't be a "downer ending" precludes any possibility of Mike dying or just moving away with unresolved issues.
>>151771633It's bizarre. Like I said above, setting up "Mike isolates himself out of guilt/anger/depression" would have been piss easy, all it required was a bit of clarity. But instead Mike is isolated because Lucy, Augustus, and David actively conspired to make him miserable. So the theme isn't "Mike feels guilty and is self-sabotaging", it's "Lucy and Co. are guilt-tripping Mike into letting them sabotage him".I still wanna know why Lucy's suicide is in a fuckin' superposition of known and unknown.
>>151773789>Have faith in Mike, he'll be able to get out of this.By what? Admitting he was wrong for not tolerating Lucy's constant abuse and giving her whatever she wanted while knowing when no meant yes?
>>151772678>how to make Lucy not look like a psychopathI cannot comprehend that being Taeshi's intent, because Lucy looks so ridiculously anime-villain evil. She kicked Mike in the nuts/guts so he couldn't talk then filling the silence with her version of events, Augustus asked her if events were proceeding as she wanted and her response was "yes, all according to keikaku", she was hitting the fuckin' Gendo Ikari pose while manipulating the table into accepting her back no questions asked. If this were an anime Lucy would be one and a half episodes away from monologuing on how she intends to cleanse the world, leaving it as pure as her own snow-white fur.
Honestly I wish I could forget about this stupid fucking comic. Bitch Vero will mindbend Mike to be the bad guy always. WHICH, would've been fine if he wasn't a main fucking character. Like what is the point of all this? Either just kill Mike and move the plot forward, or stop making him so pathetic. She has the audacity to make it sound like James/Lucy/Augustus are all innocent parties, DESPITE Mike trying to improve. Like come the fuck on.
>>151773889He's going to finally learn how to be Lucy's friend instead of callously keeping her hopes alive while using her as a Sandy replacement. How are we, the audience, to differentiate between these two states? I honestly think the only distinction will be Sandy no longer being in the picture. Kind of odd how Lucy's standards for being Mike's friend include there being no romantic competition for him but don't think too hard about that.
>>151773323I think Mike x Lucy is kinda cute to be honest, would be happy with it, if she writes them moving on from the drama and going back to have fun together, i would love to see lucy and mike living happily ever after.
>>151774015>Just ignore everything that happenedBased simpleton
>>151774015The issue with this is that it's over ten years since we've seen them act "cute" with each other. The closest was during Eternal Flame, and even then it was still toxic.
>>151773999Why would anyone want to be friends with Lucy though?
>>151774015That cause you have shit taste. You cannot just write off that bullshit especially when Lucy will continue it. This would have been different if this was after the burying the hatchet talk and Lucy offscreen managing to stop the move. But we aren't working with that.
>>151774078Because she's important right now. No further questions.
>>151773283The big problem with punishing Mike is (unless it was retconned by now) Even when his resentment of Lucy's behaviour was near its peak, Mike still didn't think twice about throwing himself off a bridge to save her. The accusations of being self centred and manipulative just bounce off "I provably consider you more important than my own life"
>>151774090But-
>>151774166
>>151774226If only...
>>151774104Did Mike ask for consent before saving Lucy? Didant think so!
>>151774296Mike would never hit Lucy as hard as she hits him. She is a girl.
>>151773789Nah, the one I thought of was many years old, close to his sperg era ending, but this post has similar to that one vibes despite talking about what we are witnessing right now, despite posts like "Mike deserved worse (Line in Sand and what comes next) given his motivation for doing this (December and ignore of Lucy) all related to insecurity over his relationship" and >>151767515 and etc on the same tumblr. Guess the happy ending is gonna be Mike transforming into a "better, true self" through those ordeals and who knows which self that would be, most likely Tae's favourite Cool Funny Asshole that drops his evil and manipulative kindness or whatever.And quite likely Gus will break hearts of all his fans in official server/patreon one day if his actions in last chapter still didn't, since to work as parallel he's supposed to be like Sandy in December, an intentional catalyst for one cat to tear down another one, and we know what happened to Mike and Sandy relationship and what was later revealed, time for Gus to push Lucy to make amends with Mike and remind her what real Mike is like, only to later tell her she was just his golden ticket out. Btw tumblr posts pretty curious, aside from still treating it like universe simply has to personally fuck over Mike a bit more to finally equalize the amount of suffering Mike-Lucy caused to each other, Tae's implying a LOT of the incoming planned stuff in there like James getting his punishment for all this in the form of David having 0 romantic interest in the snake, he's only a cool fluffy friend to him, wonder how many plans will end up abandoned or forgotten on a whim
>>151773626I will commit the ultimate Sue bully
So, remember how during Line in the Sand, Taeshi's author commentary was so bafflingly off-base that some of us assumed it had to be a parade of sarcasm or her egging the fanbase on? Something something terminal irony? Then >>151767515 dropped and it turns out, on dear, she was being completely sincere. This leads me to construct a sequence of hypothetical events as an attempted explanation. Let's call it a working theory.>Taeshi decides to finally move the plot forward by pulling a December 2.0 on Mike as pottery demands>writes a clumsy Mike Was Right scenario that fulfills his ancient paranoia that everyone would willingly abandon him for Lucy one way or another>gets to torture Mike harder than ever before while theoretically acknowledging Lucy's flaws if you squint so she can feel like a real writer>naturally she is under no obligation to explore that direction until she is good and ready say oh maybe a decade or two from now?>adds more pages to "twist the knife" and revel in her BPD>peruses her work now that the buffer has been built out a bit>bilbo_fingers_the_ring.jpg>decides that she actually made some excellent arguments as to why Mike is legitimately terrible>starts "calling him out" in the comments accordingly
>>151773626Just wish she weren't swimming in Lucyspace
>>151774465Thank goodness for death of the author, our voices have the same weight as Taeshi's. She already ruined the concept of canon, so we are left to define it.
>>151774390Nah I've seen shit like that happen in high school. No one hits a girl that acts like one, but an aggressive cunt who thinks she has a pass to hit or insult everyone at every opportunity or generally act obnoxious eventually takes a serious blow.I didn't interact personally with the chick it happened to, but everyone in the school knew her since she was an obnoxious, loud idiot. The second everyone heard she got rocked it was like "Yep, we all knew that was gonna happen" and no one gave a shit who hit her. Lucy deserves it because she still thinks physical violence is a solution to irritants.
>>151774601At the very least, it's a surprise that none of the other girls have ever slapped Lucy. I guess it must be due to her mostly focusing her wrath on boys.
>>151774531Can you really benefit from death of the author when the author raises her zombie hand and decides to modify the text to her convenience and the progress on a whim?
>>151774675Taeshi the Lich Queen.
Reposting from the /reddit/.
>>151774601>Lucy deserves it because she still thinks physical violence is a solution to irritants.We agree anon but it's just Mike wouldn't hit Lucy that hard. Even when it came to Abbey he didnt and claws were out.
>>151774675Yes, that’s the point. Nothing is real because she changes and rewrites all the time, so we’re left to interpret it in our own ways.
>>151774753In a way, it's almost cute, the way she tries to reassert authority over a narrative she's essentially abandoned in favor of short-term gratification. As if there is any reason to listen to her when she cannot even decide who knows about Lucy's suicide attempt.
>>151774752Taeshi made some comment during LitS that she can't remember Mike ever really hitting Lucy anytime during the comic.
>>151774843Spanking Lucy woulda fixed her.
>>151774834Damn, that's creepy.
>>151774834I just noticed how fucked up Daisy's hand looks in the second to last panel. Actually, look at how uneven the size of Paulo's hands are in the third. On top of the second failure to draw a thumb pointed back over the shoulder, this is a whole page of hand fuckups.
*destroys your Lucyspace and kills your Taeshi*
>>151774834subtle
>>151774752How many white cats do I need to sacrifice before I can make Alejandro manifest onto the next page and rock her shit?
>>151774891Man she really does not give a shit anymore I wouldn't be surprised if she was using AI to quick draw most of it then just editing it to hide the evidence.
>>151762565where was this from?
>>151773785It turns out that Lucy's dream freakouts are her realizing she wants Mike to be the one who runs her down.
>>151773999but he chose Lucy first. It's her own damn fault she doesn't have Mike already.
>>151775099The BCI where David kills Lucy with his dick
>>151774015The ship sailed with Eternal Flame. As clumsy and stupid as it was in the moment, that was the chance to sort shit. Instead she veered into a brick wall and went scorched earth on that relationship when Mike went full retard by getting guilt tripped again (in a blocked off conversation that should have been part of the chapter proper) and Lucy going on to reveal her true colors and prove everything she had said to him that night were all lies.
>>151767515Suitcase if you actually read these threads you need to get the fuck out of this relationship She WILL kill you one of these days
>>151774834I know its been said a lot but this shit would be way more interesting and entertaining if it was a supernatural horror or World of Darkness kind of thing.
>>151768074>>151768280The problem is that my reading of Mike makes sense most of the way, but then Taeshi yanked the wheel and swerved to James being flighty and Lucy/Augustus/David deliberately sabotaging Mike. So suddenly Mike's not alone because he's withdrawing out of his overactive guilt, and he's not depressed because he wants more attention than his friends can give - he's alone and depressed because Lucy actually IS conspiring to make him jealous, miserable, and steal his friends. So now his attitude towards Lucy doesn't look like guilt-induced paranoia, it looks like he's the only one who's experienced just how spiteful and petty she really is.>>151774629Only mostly. Lucy's still awful to girls, she just doesn't gravitate to them like she does boys. She's hit Daisy and Jessica, is a condescending backbiter with Daisy and Sue, and called every girl she's known a dumb whore.
>>151774834whose health bar is that?
>>151775672Not Mike's, that's for sure. Too full
>>151775672The Hand was draining the life force of that NPC but switched targets when Paulo's succulent main character soul walked by.Also fuck these new captchas goddamn
SEXOOOOOOOOIGod DAMN Lucy is stacked
>>151767822> was Mike getting bummed out that Paulo and Daisy were dating, and it still feels like Taeshi took the most uncharitable interpretation of that scene she could find and decided that would be one of Mike's major character flaws.He wasn't even that bummed out. He was happy for them and cheerful, before his own torturous existence came crashing back in on him and returned him to burnt out husk mode.
>>151776517An obvious trap, even if Fork in the Road Lucy is her most sympathetic self.
>>151771224>keeping everyone who isn't family from visiting him.I have seen such fell bitchery only once before. It didn't work out for that girl, I pray it doesn't work out for Lucy either.
>>151767822I didn't get him being bummed as having anything to do with them at all, more the litany of far worse things going on in his life:>I'm starving and working myself to the bone to keep excelling at school and trying to match David in track.>That's nice you two are dating, too bad my supposed girlfriend lives far away so I can't see her when I need to.>Oh god why did I take her back what the hell is wrong with me.To get that he's sad because neither Daisy or Paulo will pine for him is an interpretation you can only get by hating Mike or knowing the author hates him and thinks he's pure evil.
Taeshi you hack, you can't do "you hurt me, I hurt you" pottery with the same two characters. You can only do a betrayal/"we aren't friends anymore" arc once, the same thing but with the roles reversed isn't a tragic falling out anymore, it's just revenge.If you didn't want Lucy to be at fault then why'd you make it her fault? Mike is already prone to self-sabotage and self-pity, it would have been perfectly in character for him to choose to be alone WITHOUT Augustus keikakuing him into it.
Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one. Not today.
>>151758575>bittersweet lucy bowlyawn, what a one note hack
>>151774629Didnt Jessica slap her because Lucy called her a whore?
>It's Mike's fault he is sad, he should just tell his friends how bad he's feeling>also last time he tried the person he was venting about jumped off a building and the guilt has been eating him alive>actually yeah, just bottle it all up Mike, press it down deep where it can't hurt anyone but yourself
>>151777443No, Lucy slapped Jessica while calling her a whore.
>>151777546So other than Alejandro and the ground, has anyone physically hit Lucy?
>>151767515>impending Lucy/Augustus sufferingLucy's impending suffering is going to be seeing Mike suffer and feeling bitter about it.
>>151777573Lucy's suffering is going to be everyone loving her and supporting her instead of falling for her provocation and hostility, and she'll cry herself to sleep saying "why can't they understand me?"
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>>151767515>>151776842>>151777505It would be SO EASY for Mike to implode on his own, lashing out, hurting people around him, cutting off connections "for their sake" - basically destroying his own support network. Practically writes itself.Instead, we get Sandy being totally uninterested in Mike as a person (ironically using him in a similar way to what Lucy does), Augustus word vomit insults and scheming, James abandoning him over an overheard rumor, Mike shoving Augustus to the ground (and Augustus being unhurt enough to be smug about it) followed by Mike being kicked in the stomach to silence him by his literal abuser, and finally Paulo, literally the one friend who cared enough about Mike to want to check on him, being held back by a threat of social blackmail (directly from his abuser, no less).None of this is "punishing outwards" or "punishing inwards." None of it has anything to do with Mike's apparent sin of... not being enough of an asshole, I guess. Mike isn't self destructing here, it's all other characters pulled into (or fueling) a Mike torment nexus.The story is so thematically incoherent that I struggle to care about anything in it. I'm so checked out of this eternal shitshow that now it struggles to even make me upset. Paulo's resets don't even really register to me anymore and he's my favorite of the main cast. Mike being inexplicably tormented by everyone around him for reasons the author seems incapable of explaining... is downright banal now. Just more of the same.Kindness and empathy will continue to be conflated with romantic interest/invitation (that entitlement is very much a YOU problem, Taeshi), and Mike's greatest "flaw" will remain the basic decency that Lucy and the author's shared twisted perception sees as "leading people on."No one will grow or change as a person. Nothing will be learned. Resolution will never come. Everyone will continue to suffer.So it goes.
>>151777689>For reasons the author seems incapable of explaining See >>151767515So basically "just trust me bro"
>>151777689Stop feeling bad for Mike, Lucy may be orchestrating his complete isolation but she's a victim too, in a dream she had.
>>151767515>Shouldn't you understand where both are coming from, even when you disagree with their actions?I like how she says this like its some kind of moral failing of the readers, and not her writing being god awful. Where IS Lucy's bad behavior coming from? She was difficult and mean before Mike even met Sandy.
>>151777852>Where IS Lucy's bad behavior coming from?Lucy wasn't born right. That is the only way to understand her actions.
>>151771434It's especially crazy because if you're aiming for "Mike hates when he's not the first in someone's heart even after he turns down their romantic advances," all you have to do is have James continue to be Mike's friend, like he said he would, but ask him to back off a little so he can go get dicked and have Mike get angry or refuse. It's a layup. Why was James suddenly acting like a huge asshole to him? Why was he doing stuff that might actually, sincerely make someone feel isolated if his only role in the narrative is to be someone that Mike only thinks is trying to isolate him?
>>151777689>It would be SO EASY for Mike to implode on his own, lashing out, hurting people around him, cutting off connections "for their sake" - basically destroying his own support network. Practically writes itself.That's what WAS happening, FFS. Mike was a hostile asshole for a while, and felt guilty about it even after everyone forgave him. Mike found the track team and it helped, but he worried they only liked him because they didn't know him very well.But then Taeshi had David, Lucy, Augustus, and James all kick Mike while he's down. So Mike's isolation ISN'T the natural result of his moodswings and self-sabotage, it's just the Lucysquad isolating him out of spite. But now Taeshi is talking like Mike's desire for affection/attention is what made everyone leave, and Lucy could provide all that for him. But Mike's friends already forgave and forgot everything he did, so the only reason he's alone is because Lucy is conspiring to make him suffer. And SOMEHOW Taeshi is acting surprised that Lucy's getting the blame?
>>151777987>Just make it lazy and hamfisted so even the dumbest people can get itSounds fun
Yet another repost from the /reddit/.This drawing was apparently inspired by transfem!Mike discussions on Discord.
>>151767515Lucy stopped being empathetic a while ago unless you're a crazy bitch who self inserts as her.It's so baffling to me that after re-framing her abuse as a bad thing, post-suicide attempt she's STILL hitting people over petty shit.>>151767692That's the big issue for me too. I memed about Lucy and Augustus facing no consequences for their actions, but I was hoping especially with how Lucy was acting in the lunch room that Taeshi was setting her up for a big fall. You're right that she tipped her hand here, now I know she thinks these two did nothing wrong.
>>151778253Maybe she'll change her mind eventually. Or maybe I should continue never taking her at her word and accept this is a pro-abuser narrative.
Taeshi just keeps alternating between Mike self-flagellating, and Mike suffering at the hands of Lucy, and both are so fucking boring at this point. I get it, Mike is sad. I'm sick of watching him and Lucy be all dysfunctional and toxic, just let the fuckers murder-suicide already. I don't care who gets what part, I just want them both dead.
>>151777605The monkey's paw punishment is her constantly being surrounded and bothered by the people she claims to hate, while the one person she is obsessed with completely avoids her "for her own good" because of what she said and did.
To think about, there was a wave of "girl picking on boy" manga some time ago, they look pretty similar to early BCB. Nagatoro did far worse than lucy, and it wasn't interpreted as an product of mental disorder. I think how BCB would be if the author was young at the time we got those mangas (Nagatoro, Takagi san and uzaki chan), she would probably take some inspiration from them and other mangas like komi san. It would change, don't know it would be for the better, but surelly would be something different.
>>151778782>Nagatoro did far worse than Lucy,She was a psycho in the pre-manga, but after the mangaka got purified by Naruhina, she was tuned way down.
>>151775882https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcD52wKrA94
>>151758696Need this but with Alejandro and David on Lucy's side.
>>151778862She was still a psycho in the first couple of chapters of the manga proper. If I lived through those I would have stopped going to school.
Vero--oh excuse me "taeshi", that BPD mentally ill cuck, is such a mediocre writer. Reading her author comments shows how clueless and stupid she really is.
>>151779423EF was such a clusterfuck it's like Taeshi is trying to retcon the entire chapter.
>>151776517>Her breasts doubled in size after having a couple kidsTaeshi with the coomer kino
>>151779423YAAAS QUEEN SLAY! You KICK that abuser and put him in his place! That's what he gets for all his sins!
>>151777987I think the problem is that Taeshi knows that Mike would never blow up on James for failing to show him enough attention. Regardless of what she wants to believe at any given moment.
>>151778066I know /bcb/ readers are not used to good writing but I can assure you that consistency is better than changing things because "i feel quirky today"It doesnt even have to be the classic Mike spergout
>>151780201Two dollars to get feline AIDS from hussy Lucy? What poor sucker would fall for that?
I love Lucy she's best girl
>>151776842>then why'd you make it her fault?it's not lucy's fault, it's mike's fault for chasing james outside, out of an unhealthy need to be prioritized instead of staying inside with people who like him but don't romantically idolize him, mike caused this, mike must pay for it
>>151781776This unironically, Mike would be fine right now if he just stayed with Felix, or he could let go of being someone's sole focus and do something else for lunch besides trying to wedge himself between David and James.
>>151758575smug daisy a cute
>>151759519>>151759723Yeah, Jordan it is.
Best girls coming through
