Eyes on the road editionSite: https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/Previous thread: >>151923758
>>151972733Commentary + taeshi lore + preview
Car accident incoming
Taeshi posting a long autistic tangent about the New Jersey highway and why she doesn't drive anymore.I guess BCB takes place in Jersey (explains a lot)
>>151972747Most likely she tried to merge without looking or some shit and got hit as a result.
What question did Daisy want to ask? Is it related to the condoms she bought with Abbey?
>>151972772Probably that or something related to fucking
Since bcb takes place in New Jersey, that strip that depicted Amy's dad as a mafioso is prophetic.
>>151972733>Hey, Paulo? I'm... pregnant.>And it's not yours.
>>151972733That very same red car on the page is on it's way to tbone Madison, as she damn well deserves
Here’s the progress so far on characters. At the very least 80%~ of them are done, after I get the other 20% done I’ll be focusing on the tiles for other things like the overworld, towns, items and what not
>>151972747It's so fucking lazy of vero to make the cast anthropomorphic cats and just leave it at surface level. Bojack Horseman did it extremely well, giving the anthro characters animalistic habits
>>151972829Great work. I like the pink knight-looking one.
>>151972829is it princess sandy and her tracking team knights?
>>151972894Yes, I thought it would be a fitting role for them as a group
>>151972855It's cause her and Suitcase have some weird pride about "Not being Furries" in spite of living off a furry webcomic.It's also why they have weird sonic feet and not human feet or cat feet.Taeshi does extremely little world-building, we just know Cats and Dogs can't interbreeed and-- what, that's it.Clothes are optional.
>>151972733Wait, these characters are old enough to drive?I thought they were middle schoolers.
>>15197312316. High schoolers.
Alright I know one of you read FitR 2. Give it to me straight, it's just more Mike Bad slop, isn't it?
>>151972976cute
Time for road head
>>151972747This crazy bitch being from Jersey actually explains a lot.
>>151972747I feel like this must've happened shortly before she wrote Paulo getting t-boned.
>>151973148More of an 'everybody's a jerk'. But to be completely honest, it was a consensual one-night-stand, and Mike had no idea they had another kid.
>>151972733I'll never get tired of the fluffy lovestruck cuties dating.>>151972829Good job.
>>151972855They used to have some animal qualities like claws going out and shit & why some girls sometimes wore clothes (periods). Shit got tossed.
>>151973359Still canon, though.
Imagine being the lucky bastard that gets to shoot her full of baby batter
>>151973395True but underused. When is the last time someone's come out? I have no idea why BCB even has dog people; literally none of them are important.
>>151973457>the lucky bastard that gets to shoot her full of baby batterSo, Francis?
>>151973457>baby batterThe most unsexy term for sperm
>>151973490W sure Francis wasn't gay, and that is why it didn't work out? How would Sandy find the only straight hairdresser in the fashion world?Aside from Lucyspace.
>>151973481If Taeshi leaned more into it again, that'd be good. But if you want animal people, try Murphy and Mitzi
>>151973535>Murphy and MitziAlready watched them & like it. Back to on topic. I cannot see how they stretch this chapter out. Tiff, at best, would stay for 5 to 10 pages before fucking off. She herself has never stayed long. Are they gonna take this seriously?
>>151973322Spoil it for us anon, what happens in part two?
>>151973535>If Taeshi leaned more into itShe most likely won't. Gotta keep reassuring herself and her fans that this totally isn't a furry webcomic and all that
>>151973511I prefer "ball snot" myself.
>>151973523I doubt that Taeshi bothered to come up with a plausible reason.
>>151973580Haven't read it yet in entirety because of Line In The Sand ruining my mood for a while, but her kid runs away from home after Lucy keeps favoring her other kid more or something along those lines, and eventually returns.Correct me if I'm wrong
>>151973322>everybody's a jerkI wanna believe you, but I can't help but get Line in the Sand flashbacks when I hear that phrase. Posts from other sites are not filling me with confidence. But I'll try to take your word for it until I have a reason not to.
>>151973729What did Mike do to make everyone want to kill him?
>>151973735Yeah, Line In The Sand was the worst chapter thus far, and I hope Taeshi gives Mike a break when she gives Lucy and Augustus some suffering.
>>151973756Augustus and Lucy lying.
>>151972976I'd be very interested in hearing about your thought process while making these. Like, what's everyone's general themes and correlations?
>>151973763>I hope Taeshi gives Mike a break when she gives Lucy and Augustus some suffering.>Lucy ever sufering
>>151973810Yeah, I don't really expect consequences anymore. It's clear that Lucy is just Taeshi's se;f-insert.
>>151973729Yeah that's the premise, I was talking about the specifics of the story if anyone else wants to share it.
>>151972829Following with interest.
>>151973457Her only redeeming quality is how hot she is, that's it.
>>151973857what took you so long?
>>151973881Nah, still holding out a sliver of hope. I'm honestly just here for Mike X Amy since Mike is apparently Taeshi's torture toy.
>>151973857This comic is literally going full circle now. Mike does something new that his "friends" don't like, they side with Lucy, punish Mike, guilt trip him into taking Lucy back. Rinse and repeat
>>151973913Mike's only 'sins' were not dumping his GF for his abuser, and chewing out his abuser (Which he apologized for right after).Maybe Taeshi is just projecting her being rejected by someone else and taking it out on Mike.
>>151973148I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest given there isn't a single BCI that gives Mike a happy ending, cept for perhaps 2, and they both involve Daisy. Funny how that works.
>>151973729I haven't read it but I know Taeshi's shitty writing from a mile away.>Lucy adult has her affair bastard from Mike (Chloe) and remarries (some rando) pops out a new kid (likely a girl) she dotes on >Her bastard is angy and emo so runs away to find her dad>Mike is unhappily married to Sandy and has his baby with her Porche or w/e-Porche and Chloe bond, Mike smokes and acts cagey-Lucy (likely talking with Sue or Daisy) admits she has been having an affair with Mike "for awhile" tho both are married - alternatively Lucy keeps having kids by guys and they keep dumping them-Mike is a DIRTYDIRTYDIRTY cheater being two faced-Chloe, "Lol my dad sucks, hey mom Im sorry Dad is such a fucking asshole and two timed you and Sandy."-Lucy *breaking down* "I never fucking asked for this!! But its okay I didn't spill ALL my ketchup kiddo =)"-The End
>>151973959If I were Mike I think I would genuinely think of offing myself if I was forced to end up with white bitch cat
>>151973985The lobotomized randos in the discord would praise Lucy for whatever reason whole demonizing Mike for "taking advantage" of Lucy, pumping and dumping her. Never mind that Fork In The Road depicts everyone as their worst selves.
>>151973988Yeah, the abusive BPDemon cat is just a stain on the narrative.
>>151973985The only surprising things I could think is Mike saying he was happy Lucy tried to off herself when they were teens or having a dating site account and cheating with other randos.He could also tell his bastard Chloe it'd be 'better if she was never born' because she makes things complicated for him and Sandy.All it is is Taeshi painting Mike in the worst light with the worst possible ending to squeeze more money out ouf pay-piggies.
>>151973988Mike literally wouldnt ot die if he tried to kill himself, though.>>151974032>the abusive BPDemon cat is just a stain on the narrative.Has been since she came back, really. She isn't really a part of anyone's need for growth or arcs. Even Michael, who has had the most effect on her, could easily grow if you removed her from the story.
>>151974056Taeshi said Mike would eventually have a happy ending, but it's probably just him being mentally broken down until he can't say no to Lucy, and his fears confirmed that the only way he can have friends is if he's in Lucy's good graces.
>>151974056Call me a salty faggot, but I'll never forget one of her Christmas BCI comics which depicted that everyone's lives would've been better off if Mike wasn't born. Sure you argue it was a joke comic, but Poe's Law is a bitch. It made me realize that taeshit is always gonna make sure Mike is never happy.
>>151972733Boring as fuck couple of months, got it.
>>151973988Said white cat wouldn't allow you. And if you did manage to off yourself, it wouldn't change anything. Mike's curse is such that not even death can save him.
>>151974086>his fears confirmed that the only way he can have friends is if he's in Lucy's good graces.I mean, by that point, the fear will be gone just like everything else about Mike, so the story can pretend it's a good thing. The story would be better if it were a tragedy.
>>151974144Hell, white cat would've just berated him for trying to kill himself. Call him selfish and whatnot for not thinking how it would affect HER, not giving a fuck about his mental state.
>>151974149It'd be better if Lucy ends up in a passionless marriage with the husk of a Mike she created, eventually ending her life after she realizes she can't get the Mike she wanted back.
>>151973870At least she has a redeeming quality to offer
>>151974124I need a fic where Mike just cuts everyone off from his life and he begins to steadily improve, both mentally and physically. It'd be the culmination of years of abuse from others. The realization that you are the only one that can make yourself happy. Who needs friends if all they do is let you down? Who needs lovers if all they do is break your heart? You make your own fate, your own happiness, you alone walk this path.
>>151973091>It's cause her and Suitcase have some weird pride about "Not being Furries" in spite of living off a furry webcomic.She's probably the type that thinks they don't count as furry because they don't fursuit. But furry is a spectrum and BCB absolutely counts, especially with the lack of humans.
>>151974244In the old strips during Confrontation, there was actually a fat, balding, middle aged human in the bar leering at the girls. It was fuckin weird.
>>151973959It's incredible that the unintentional lesson of BCB seems to be "Just let yourself be abused to keep the status quo. Don't try to go against it or else it'll ruin your life!"
>>151973870I argue she's the victim of character assassination, to make it look like Mike made the "wrong" choice
>>151974278That is the lesson, it seems- until Taeshi gets the balls to give her Lucy Sue some actual punishment. I don't expect it anymore, but one can hope.
>>151974234Are you okay?
Since the comic takes place in New Jersey 2009, you think any of the kids witnessed 9/11 first hand from across the river? Or had any relatives that died?
>>151974324Is any of us?
>>151974244>But furry is a spectrum and BCB absolutely counts, especially with the lack of humans.eh... barely, 100% can tell taeshi just draws cute cats because she can't draw humans
>>151974174>eventually ending her life after she realizes she can't get the Mike she wanted back.How bout instead that still happens, but after a while, we see the old, good Mike return, while raising their spawn, who was too young to remember her mother(like a few months out the womb), and Mike remarries to Amaya. Leads to a form of this.
>>151974375Yeah, but Taeshi hates Mike for some reason until proven otherwise, and won’t allow him to be happy.
>>151974411Which is why we're here. We to kill taeshi and wrest control of the comic to give our boy a happy ending
>>151974336David saw it because he flew the second plane.Taeshi doesn't seem interested in world building more than anything that justifies her current hyperfixation, whether it's Mucy or something else.
>>151974423I miss Amy
>>151974273Justice for ball scratch guy
>>151974446A damn shame, because maybe taeshi would've been forgiven for her shitty characterization if she crafted a decent world.
>>151974483Hell, a decent world would at least allow for more natural tension and better characterization by having an external factor that is intertwined with the character actions. Two birds one stone situation,
>>151972747with how she acts, it's hard to believe that she didn't cause the accident herself.
>>151973779Eh for the most part I’m just kinda winging it with some of the characters. At the time though here’s my take currently>Mike and Amy still remain in contact with each other through letters.>Amy is a history teacher for her local area and occasionally gardens while raising her son (Art)>Art is a mama’s boy and a rascal who tends to get into fights he didn’t intend for>Amy is friends with Daisy and she was the one who helped her give birth to the twins>Daisy is a depressed drunk who raises her kid alone, Augustus is usually away from home doing outsourced work>Abbey got cheated on by Daisy and since then has trained to become a leader of Sandy’s military>Mike is a teacher at an academy where his daughter (Oly) goes to and gets stressed overworking himself>Oly is a spoiled child who practices in magic she doesn’t get the hang of, isn’t the best at defending herself against her bully (the sue x paulo kitten)
>>151974289This. No way taeshi would let Sandy look sympathetic or put her in any situation that would keep mike from thinking he made the wrong choice.
>>151974669Sorry for not having a good answer to your question
>>151974086>Taeshi said Mike would eventually have a happy ending,Nobody should believe her saying this.
>>151974669looking back at the sprite sheet, why is david covered in blood
Still waiting for the Mike x Amy fanfic
>>151974677If taeshit wasn't a hack, there were infinitely better solutions. Make them actually incompatible, the LDR being too difficult to maintain between two teenagers, have Sandy break up with Mike because she wants him to be happy, anything other than the jerking around we got in Eternal Flame, or Sandy blasting Mike when they met up for being childish.
>>151974779Oh right, yeah I thought he looked to bland and because I hate him I turned him into a freak/weirdo who beats people till they bleed
>>151972733So is Daisy just hovering her feet over the pile of trash Paulo shoved into the foot well? Is that what she was going to mention?
>>151973148>Lucy remarries some guy named Adrian who is Liam V2>She has a baby with him and is happy, everyone at her office loves her>Chloe runs away to find her dad because she's jealous of the new baby>Mike is a miserable shithead who treats his daughter like his best friend because his wife is a cheating whore who's never around>Chloe and Porsche get friendly and Mike resents this, Taeshi draws a parallel to David taking James>Chloe realizes her dad sucks and she hates him>She returns home and Porsche says she wishes she could come along because her mom sounds cool>Mike loses his daughter emotionally and he's still trapped in a dead marriage, pan out as he looks miserable>flashback of Mike giving Porsche a blue bow exactly like Lucy's so Taeshi can let you know Mike has actually been pining for her the entire time while Lucy moved on to an unrelated dude
>>151973148Chloe is the key. She is the chosen one that can fix everything... In maybe part 3. If that ever happensThere's some other things I wanna say, but that might be a spoiler
>>151975084Holy shit if this is true then taeshit truly is full of shit for saying Mike will eventually get better. We better drop this comic soon for our own mental sanity
>>151975103>>151975084Ok fuck it, if you read it:The new guy Lucy is going to marry is basically (You) since we do not see HIM, but HIS POV. So this is a win/win to be honest
>>151975162Is Fork In The Road 2 made to give us mind blinding rage? Is it true that it's basically just how Lucy moves on and gets to be happy while Mike is a fuckin loser and just is just miserable 24/7? Fuckin pathetic, how are people even glazing this shit? It's literally just more Mike tortureporn and Lucywank
Taeshi wakes up and flips a coin, if it's heads she tortures Mike because he's an asshole piece of shit who deserves it.If it's tails she still tortures Mike but it's because he's a good boy and this is her only method to garner sympathy.
>>151975339No, Mike came out to love his daughters, he deep down wants them to meet, but can't get himself to do it. Even though Sandy is a bitchass mom that doesn't show up to her daughter's events (and her daughter hates that about her)I bet if Sandy's daughter knows that she has a sister, she would probably hop to Lucy.But it's written in a "BCB" "Bittersweet" sense, where you know there may be a good end, but it's always in a semi realistic way.I donno how to explain it, but even if you get spoiled, I had a good experience reading it, because she does a good job with the black and white panel manipulations while writing it
>>151975441>>151975339To be honest it comes out as people with not a lot of experience, learning about life problems, and making bad decisions. But as time goes on, they get older, the regrets pile up. It's a harsh reality. But through a comic and fictional characters.Though, all we Anons can do is now make content around these stories and character designs!
>>151974958kek>>151975084>Mike is a miserable shithead who treats his daughter like his best friend because his wife is a cheating whore who's never around>Chloe and Porsche get friendly and Mike resents thisinteresting, who's getting the best friend treatment, chloe or porsche?
>>151975441You're just posting about stuff the previews showed us.
>>151975014I think he stashed it into the glove box
>>151975620I mean I kinda don't wanna spoil, but I haven't looked into the previews at all. I did post a spoiler, but deleted lol.I can post a picture of a page soon if you want. Name your page number. We have 90 pages I think?
>>15197564074Why are you afraid of spoiling?
>>151975668I don't wanna spoil the joy of reading it, I mean, even if I spoil it, the joy is the journey of reading it? Give me a bit, I will take a pic
>>151975704No one here is going to buy it, so no one here will ever have the "joy of reading" unless one of you two dump it.
>>151975704>the joy of reading it,>Taeshi's writingI doubt any of us care enough to pay. Keep your secrets.
>>151975790Real. It doesn't even sound like it's worth it if it's just more Mike torture porn.
>>151973870Nah, Sandy is based and blameless.>Patiently sends her childhood crush love letters and gifts until he finally noticed and responded>Puts in the effort to get in contact with him and maintain communication>Gives him the advice and support he needs during some deep conversations (that she had to start)>Gets very little back - he doesn't understand modeling as an interest or as a job, actively steers away from serious topics, and always has the same slightly-overeager superficial attitude>Falls out of messaging him literally every day, he starts getting sour and sending passive-aggressive texts about how it'd be nice to hear her voice sometimes>Still plans dates with him, since he never plans anything on his end
>>151975668Close>>151975790>>151975859Ok I guess I should not post more here.Let's talk about something different, when is the next /trash/ thread?
>>151975704Anon I'm glad you enjoyed it because I'm not one of the people who has an irrational hatred for the comic, but your coy shit is getting to the point of annoying, either leak it or don't.
>>151976026I'm sorry Anon, I will stop
>>151975084>Chloe and Porsche get friendly and Mike resents this, Taeshi draws a parallel to David taking JamesAwesome that this is the plot point his character is going to revolve around forever now. I couldn't be more ready for the Korat Century of Humiliation, prompted by him selfishly going outside to be with somebody who allegedly wants him around.
>>151975162>Mike character assassinated into little bits and pieces>I have to marry L*cyTaeshi needs to be tried at the Hague>>151975579Put your trip back on mother fucker
>>151975084What an impressive level of dogshit mixed with projection.
>>151975634>Hey, Paulo?>Why does your car smell like rancid grease?
>>151976160>Put your trip back on mother fuckerI knew this taeshi asslicking was familiar
>>151976160I don't have one, but here you got
>>151975162> This is a win/winIs it really, though?
>>151976277It's not almultimavenger as evidenced by the fact he can actually draw, I think you guys need to chill out and stop sperging over him not leaking a comic you pretend to hate.
>>151976303>not wanting to wife LucyI donno Anon. The guy she's about to marry is literally (You)
>>151975084Wow? People actually paid for this?And what, the fans get mad at Mike and project the AU Mike's mistakes onto the canon verison?
>>151976328>He wants BPD wreck as a wifelol
>>151976319Man I fucking hate that it's paywalled, if it was cheaper, I'd gift you fuckers some patreon access, but man, $20 per Anon would bankrupt me>>151976345I... can fix her...
mike & amy's grown-up kids quickie
>>151976319>leaking a comic you pretend to hate.>what makes you think the hate is pretend?>>151976350No you fucking can't.
>>151976319>It's not almultimavenger as evidenced by the fact he can actually draw? who is this who can actually draw
>>151976373>No you fucking can'tThe only way I can fix her is elaborating more on the sex scene in part 2 by drawing more fanart of that moment. It will be a POV anyway, between (You) and Lucy. It's the perfect setup, like, it's ASKING to be made!Just give me some time, it is my goal to do this, but I have some other things to finish first
>>151975430>If it's tails she still tortures Mike but it's because he's a good boy and this is her only method to garner sympathy.Sympathy from who? Her whole fanbase hates his guts and believes anything bad about him.
>>151975430Unnervingly accurate.>>151976328(I) am not marrying some self-hating titty streamer size queen.
>>151976417>Taeshi drew a POV scene of Lucy getting fuckedThis is the power of Taeshi when she doesn't have suitcase in her ear telling her to ruin all her stories by removing sex, thought bubbles, passion, excitement, etc.I wish we could have BCI!Taeshi every day.
>>151976473>size queenOoh, so that's why you're not marrying her
>>151976489Sorry, it's more like, aftersex cuddles. Hence why, drawfags now need to complete the other parts :^)
>>151976372What was the name of the kids again?Full/nicknames?
>>151976489The rest of you are free to march directly towards the siren's song, but I'm not so easily fooled. This is just the latest expansion of Lucyspace! She tried to use sex appeal to manipulate Paulo and Augustus, and now she's using it on the audience itself!
>>151976025Depends when someone has nsfw ready to show
>>151976489Honestly the part where (You) fuck Sandy while Mike gives you a thumbs up was a brilliant juxtaposition between this scene
>>151976373>No you fucking can't.>>151976417You'd be surprised how much you can fit in her empty brainNeed to keep making more until there's no more space.
>>151975339Isn't that just 99.9 percent of her sychophantic fanbase in Discord anyways?>>151975084Kek, boring shit as ALWAYS!Taeshi can't even do interesting drama.Wanna make Sandy a total irredeemable bitch - why not have her financially exploit Mike + cheat + possible domestic violence..BUT HEY, that'd make Mike too sympathetic and you are suppose to hate this POS for not choosing Lucy.Lucy being a shit-heel of a mom by favoring new guy and new baby and ignoring her bastard with Mike? Naaah she's actually SO cool and her baby is SO cute and the office LOVELOVELOVES Lucy and new baby!Lucy only gets shat on a bit by reflecting how shitty Mike was when drunk and how she doesn't deserve love (but gets a fairy tale ending) . That's it.Man, what a hack.
>(You) POVDear God. We're really on the level of cringe Reader fics from AO3.
>>151974197all my money to her
>>151976651I use to enjoy character x you first though. Not this.
>>151976626That's not fixing her, that's breaking her down.Don't get me wrong, I understand the appeal of grinding off Lucy's rough edges, but she isn't wife or girlfriend material. A relationship is built on mutual respect and trust, and Lucy does not function if respected and trusted with autonomy. Treat her as a person and she implodes, but control and supervise her and maybe she can be made useful.
Leak the BCIs or else
>>151976651The difference is at least we get the reader fics for free. Taeshit expects us to cough $69 for this garbage
>>151976935Again, a BCI membership is 20 dollars with the highest patreon tier.
>>151976947You can probably read all the BCIs in a month, no?
>>151974472Suitcase??
>>151976979Yes someone could, right now, sub for 20 dollars and download everything, immediately leak it and the next page and they couldn't do anything about it except refund your money (Or let you continue leaking pages for the rest of the month), I'm positive it will be changed soon.It's a very stupid model for access to a library which is why I'm certain it's suitcase's idea and it will eventually be removed from the 20 dollar tier, their idea is that they want to incentivize people to relinquish their legacy 5$ pricing on a basic patronage now that the basic patron tier for the new page is 10$ but it's incredibly short sighted and naive.
>>151976025>when is the next /trash/ thread?All the new NSFW stuff I've seen is sloppa so we may need to wait a while for art anons>>151976626I applaud your mission anon, may you fill your Lucy with the smutty thoughts she craves
>>151972855She writes those so badly already, I don't think she needs any more layers to fuck up.I grew up in Jersey in the mid-2000s, so it just makes me facepalm at her teenage cast's characterization and dialogue that much more. She's writing nothing but crazy anime girls, not teens from NJ.Needs more wiggers.>>151972798This one?
>>151972855She compared her writing of Mike to fucking Bojack Horseman, the shameless hack that she is.
>>151977074Haven’t even received the BCI that I got from purchasing FITR yet, it better be soon.
>>151977148I have to work on that MikexLucy animation... It's so rough right now
>>151977521Maybe a stupid question but, do you mean you haven't received your FitR booklet or is there some other thing that you get for purchasing it?
>>151972733>>151972747Human hands with five fingers look really fucking bad in cartoony and chibi characters. Only shitty artists draw like this.
>>151977297>>151973457All the girls in general are emotionally deep and fuckable. Lucy and Daisy are likely the best for baby juice cumflation and breeding. Unless canonically Sandy the pregnant teenage model is appealing on the runway.>>151974197Trashbadger's killing as usual.>>151974375The Daddy's Girls Universe.>>151976372Lovely!>>151977508My biggest inspirations are Veronica and the fanfiction writers so I really have no analogy for drama other than to them.
New Bleating HeartThe NPC continues his attempt to communicate with the PCs. Perhaps he will return Mary's toy if she can collect five police badges from around the school.
>>151977913>Oh, great. The cops are here.I love this kid, she's hilarious.
>>151977913Is she going to bite his face off?
>>151975162>reveal in the next one that the guy never seen on screen is just Mike in groucho marx glasses
>>151972733So in this revalatory issue we learneda) the car journey from Daisy's house to Burgertron is taken by road (torpedoing the popular burgertron is in space theory)b) they choose not to talk about anything during the tripThis definitely was a page that needed to exist.
>>151978001Wait.... What if it's Alejandro with a new identity??
>>151977913Grayson needs to step aside. Diane can only be my loyal, obedient sex sub and baby machine. Okay, I'll share with other anons.>>151978172Or Liam or Larken. But Alejandro would be horrifying. Third Confronation.
>>151972733>Ah Paulo>C-can you>MULTILANE DRIFTU~~~~>*Eurobeat starts blasting*>Hold my cock&balls and watch this!>Speeds up to 125mph(?)>Hits the brakes to hard>AHHHHHHHHHHHHH>OH FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK>WHOOSH CREEEEEEEEEEEK K A BOOOOOOOOM FLOOOOOOOOOSH *mushroom fireball in the ditch*>"Ghost Paulo well shit I uh fuck we're dead t-t-this is yo- I SAID DRIFT YOU RETARD NOT DO A DOZEN BARREL ROLLS AND THEN SEND US OFF THE OVERPASS 100M IN THE AIR TO THE GROUND">Ghost Daisy "BAWWWWWWWWW WE'RE DEAD NOW WHAT YOU STUPID FOOL-HEY THIS IS YOUR FAULT YOU TOLD ME TO DRIFT FUCK IT can ghosts have sex wooooo ghost blowjobs come on Daisy turn that frown upside down and blow me now! QUICK I CAN TOTALLY END UP IN HELL DAISY! Y-you could too!>Come on ghost blowjob in the burning wreak it'll be epic!>BAWWWWWWWWW I HATE YOU
>>151975084>Porsche says she wishes she could come along because her mom sounds coolI'm so sick of Lucy it's not even funny. There's just nothing THERE, she's a textbook Mary Sue, no one can stay mad at her even if she treats them like garbage, and perfect strangers idolize her.
>>151978468If only Tae and cuckcase had the balls to do a story/arc where Lucy is finally outted. For the sociopathic BPD bitch whore psychopathic attention screeching monster she is.That it not only causes her to try and an hero again. But she ends up trying to take a bunch of people with her out of spite and rage. It fails massively the police&ambulance show up, shes really hurt a few other people are slightly harmed but basically fine no need to go to the hospital other than getting ok'd by a doctor.This cry for attention and pissy rage fit gets her in lock up standing in front of a judge. Who goes lolfucknobitch you are clearly insane no bail you need to get ok'd by a criminal psychiatrist. I don't care if you're a minor you have already tried to kill yourself once in the past. But to not only do it again, not only infront of a bunch of your peers&friends as an act of petty revenge and rage. But you very clearly tried to harm maim and kill others taking them with you.I refuse to set a dollar amount of bailBail is denied. I sentence you to 6 weeks of psychiatric evaluation&holding. If the psychiatrist gives you a clean bill of health you are to be held at the juvenile detention center until your next court date in 5 months.For the love of god child please listen to the medical staff and try to understand why what you have done is just horrifying immoral reckless and deranged.Court is adjourned *bang bang*
>>151973763Reminder, she won't because she at worst thinks they're in the right but didn't quite handle being right as well as they could have.
>>151978889Sometimes you can forget how insane taeshi is.
>>151978889This whole answer post is insane because she's trying so hard to make mike at fault too and act like she didn't write James just not giving a fuck about Mike like he did before once he got david. Like he's wrong for not just moving on from the fact that the guy that hyped him up and told him he wasnt a bad person dropped him like a rock the same night.this is why her "Mike is a manipulator!" thing doesn't work to anyone that actually remembers how he and lucy fell apart.
>>151978889>I didn't expect people to bat for the bullied kid and even end up hating James!Man, what a psycho.
>>151976502Oh hey Taeshi, how's it going?
>>151979194Truly she is.>James was never bothered by Mike joining him and David.She literally had him bitch at Mike for 'not getting his alone time with David'. How the fuck she forgot something that prominent and recent is beyond me. I've never seen someone try to gaslight their own audience this hard.
>>151979157>dropped him like a rock the same night.>Meanwhile two chapters after you pretend Mike got dropped like a rockHonestly, Taeshi was 100% right in her assessment of Mikefags, and despite calling out how wrong the argument "Mike got dropped" is you guys will just pretend you didn't see it and continue grasping at straws to justify Mike fighting to be James' #1 focus only AFTER James moved on.
RUIN HAS FOUND YOU AT LAST! My anons- my friends- our predictions were correct. The BPD equation is unbalanced. The webcomic spins on a cruel and capricious axis and everywhere...undeserved consequences. The comic is a wasteland of failures, and you must ride out into it, unafraid.
>>151979642Take this- it is Hope. The very last of it. It is yours now. You were bold once. Be bold once more. Free yourself from this suffocating Lucyspace, fix your gaze on the horizon, and face the fearsome madness...of the Bittersweet Candybowl.
>>151977508I can kinda see the comparison, honestly. I'm basing this on hazy memories of an incomplete viewing of the series, but I remember an endless cycle of Bojack fucking up, getting dressed down for fucking up, being melancholy for a while, and then repeating the whole thing. I think I was kind of annoyed at the time that the show didn't really seem to believe in redemption.BCB really suffers from having none of the saving graces of Bojack. It's also a questionable decision to apply the same philosophy to a teenage cat that was applied to a rich and famous actor.>>151979425To be honest I'm not sure what she could have said to this one. Valid opinion but kind of odd to slot it into the author's asks instead of posting somewhere else on socials. Like the ship is already underway, what do you want? I guess it's odd that Tae replied at all, by that same token.
Just a reminder that a r63 Abbey would be the following: fiercely protective of her little brother, had their mother beat their dad and little brother and fatally shove their dad down the stairs, and absolutely adore men in the same way the canon Abbey treats women.If you want philandric and motherly wife material, you’ve got it with r63 Abbey.
>>151979592Look man, nothing you post can circumvent "It's like we don't even need Mike anymore with you on the team!" Does Mike going trick-or-treating with Lucy and giving her some cough medicine after rejecting her mean he wasn't actually shunning her?>>151979436The situation is designed to make Mike as wrong as possible, but it's overengineered to the point of being counterproductive to its own ends. As it stands, James had no resentment of Mike's behavior until his motivations were revealed by Augustus. It's necessary for James to have been fine prior to the confrontation in order for Mike's abandonment issues to be obviously stupid and unfounded. Unfortunately this leaves nothing for James to be mad about other than some feelings Mike has. We really should have had at least a scene or two of Mike overstepping his bounds while James becomes increasingly frustrated.What's really confusing to me is why LitS parallels December so closely if I'm not supposed to think the Mike analogues did anything wrong. James is obviously supposed to stand in for Mike as he distanced himself from Lucy, and Mike insisting on staying outside is supposed to correspond to Lucy insisting on resurrecting their friendship. But instead of Mike's December blow-up being the result of months of increasing tension, our parallel December gives us a sudden heel turn after months of obliviously ignoring Lucy.
>>151980054>What's really confusing to me is why LitS parallels December so closely if I'm not supposed to think the Mike analogues did anything wrong. James is obviously supposed to stand in for Mike as he distanced himself from Lucy, and Mike insisting on staying outside is supposed to correspond to Lucy insisting on resurrecting their friendship. But instead of Mike's December blow-up being the result of months of increasing tension, our parallel December gives us a sudden heel turn after months of obliviously ignoring Lucy.Taeshi just wants to get to certain plot points not matter what. So characters will switch up on a dime just to get there. It's the equivalent of driving from one place to another, but instead of using the road smartly, you just drive through everything in your path no matter what it is.
>>151980301>Taeshi just wants to get to certain plot points not matter what. So characters will switch up on a dime just to get there.So, breaking the story(even more) worse than Sue's leg? Then acting surprised people end up hating characters and seeing them as villains when you attempt to ram symbolism/parallels that don't work?
>>151980054Yeah I couldn't give a shit WHAT analogue she was going for, nobody's actions made any goddamn sense or were beyond hypocritical.
Then again, none of what the author says matters if she retcons things and changes characters whenever she wants.I’ve accepted that nothing about this comic will end in a way I like, and that it won’t ever be the charming comic I used to grow up with.I suppose I’ll just finish up the first chapter of my Mike X Amy fic, and just try to have fun with what remains of what happiness this comic used to give me.Besides, whatever fans do with the characters is always better written.
>>151975084Oh for fuck's sake, can Mike have a relationship with ANYONE without the demiurge snatching them away and giving them to Lucy?
>>151980417You already know the answer to that. In the cosmic horror that is BCB, Mike can never escape Lucy's influence.
>>151973511I dunno, spaff is pretty unsexy, particularly as a verb.
>>151980417>Mike have a relationship with ANYONE without the demiurge snatching them away and giving them to Lucy?Mike belongs to Lucy even when he doesn't, anon. It's why he is alive.
>>151979817r63 Abbey would get the Taeshi brand forcefield from plot tho, so instead of trying to better herself and learn to stop holding grudges about other girls without trying to understand where they're coming from she would become the most violent member of BCB. Paulo is lucky he just got wrecked, Paula would have gotten a nice scar across her face
>>151974446Please drawfag, if you're in here, draw this I would lose my shit at this
>>151976626fucking kek
>>151979817I always imagine r63 BCB as only the kids being flipped, so r63 Abbey's violent tendencies stem from a fear of men and a hangup about not being a victim. She idolizes Danny because his sweet and gentle nature means he's the only boy she's ever met who she can properly relax around.>>151980553I imagine Abigail as being hyper paranoid. Luke gets a knife pulled on him when he shoves her away, and Augusta gets stabbed rather than just pulled off of Danny. And their eventual breakup is a LOT more venomous.
>>151980773Ah, I imagined r63 as a total one throughout the whole au.Honestly, I’ve all but fallen out of love with this comic, so I’ll take a break from it for my own sanity.Just focusing on creating fanfic, and hope that Mike is allowed happiness or a way out. Sometimes wish I didn’t care about these characters, considering how much Lucy is allowed to get away with. I really dread reading my copy of Fork In The Road if it’s true that Mike loses his other daughter emotionally in favor of Lucy. I just want Mike to have a sliver of happiness, and be allowed to move on from his abuser.
>>151980824>Ah, I imagined r63 as a total one throughout the whole au.I think it's more interesting if it's just the kids, since that creates interesting variations to their canon counterparts:>Abigail the borderline-yandere who's terrified of men>Danny the dorky boy who's embarrassed by how much he takes after his mother>Paula the tomboy raised by a single fatherAnd so on. I think if you r63 EVERYONE then the dynamics and characters don't really change enough to be interesting, you know?>Honestly, I’ve all but fallen out of love with this comic, so I’ll take a break from it for my own sanity.Yeah, that's fair. I don't get why Taeshi is so fond of setting something up, foreshadowing it, then veering off course with some nonsense. Combined with her kludging details to make the plot work, even immediate ones like "where is X character standing", and it's like she's more interested in trolling readers than in actually writing.
>>151972733damn. i went and read one of these silly comics for the first time in months.
>>151975084Thanks I hate it
>>151979669>I guess it's odd that Tae replied at all, by that same token.That's what I found notable. She got an ask complaining about Paisy (For good reasons, Paisy sucks) and rather than just ignoring it, or going "here's why Paisy is actually good", she used it as an opportunity to dunk on one of her own characters, and by proxy everyone who likes him. I don't get it - why put down someone for expressing sympathy with a character she wrote?
>>151978889The more Taeshi talks the more retarded and low IQ she sounds. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how humans work?? Or writing?IDK, I feel like you need a certain understanding of people to write well and obviously Taeshi is too insane to do this. WDYM "Omg why isn't EVERYONE hating on Mike, he-- he's such an asshole for wanting James to be his friend and not to be harassed by Augustus?! UM ACKSHUALLY, even though James totally abandoned Mike he liked having him around?? Until he didn't of course, but let's not focus on that!"Do you think she has dementia or something?I mean how do you forget and misunderstand the very thing you wrote so poorly?Of course people are gonna side with Mike, because he is perpetually being kicked and abused by the narrative!You want people to hate him, make him do something hateable that isn't rooted in him just responding to people shitting on him??Like how are you this dumb lady?
