>>152061583
Woe, Daisy be upon ye.

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>>152061583
>this is where we fell in love
>this is where my girlfriend admitted her crush on me out of desperation and to no one in particular and I took advantage of this opportunity in a silver plate because I also felt desperate
You might want to keep that to yourself Paulo

>>152061583
So the hair twirl is a blatant tell for Daisy's whore mode, right? Or am I just reading some basic storytelling ability into the background static of Taeshi's general incompetence?

>>152061689
It's not like either of them have recognized the context anyway.

Why would you bring up your ex's. Is the writers slut?

They end up banging in the closet and Paulo gets arrested for public indecency.

>>152061733
Daisy is.

>>152061583
Maybe Tif is just the only sane character in the BCB world

>>152061768
It's funny how Taeshi portrayed turbo hostile bitch Madison that way only for her to just come across as an unlikeable sperg.

The least believable part of this arc is Daisy not knowing how everything in the menu tastes already, or maybe she's lying before the guy at the cashier greets her by nickname and points to a picture on the wall of her wining the anual all you can eat burgertron-marathon

>>152061733
I think Paulo is panicking that Abbey might see them together, and find out, and Daisy just reminisced about things he did for her despite not liking them himself

>>152061768
Funnily enough I get the feeling it's because she's the only character here that doesn't want to fuck someone else in the scene.

>>152061583
So this is the Tess or whatever girl that keeps getting brought up
I did not know this entire time Jordan was into bleach

>>152061809
>I think Paulo is panicking that Abbey might see them together, and find out
And then immediately shifts into salty bitch mode over some imaginary slight. Truly, their budding friendship is one for the ages.

>>152061809
The stardust burger premiered, so that's the only thing she doesn't know.

Post fork in the road 2 blease

>>152061583
Tiff always on the phone like Mike was. Lets dive into the parallels already

>>152061965
Unintentional parallel that both Lucy and Jordan can't take no for an answer. Also, Taeshi said that Lucy acted like an incel and was bitter Mike rejected her in a tumblr post.

>>152061922
Based on info that it's just more "Mike sucks, feel sorry for Lucy despite her being objectively terrible," perhaps just a thorough summary would be the superior choice.

>>152062023
>tumblr post
Post it

>>152062039
Haven't even read my copy because Line In The Sand took a lot out of me.

(Off-subject, but I'm just going to read Lackadaisy and The Summoning before FITR 2)

>>152061965
Sure. Lucy keeps using others for her own gain despite not being interested in them as people. She's Tiff but worse. Everyone else is a clueless Jordan. This was, naturally, not at all Taeshi's intent, which will be revealed as far less sane and a ridiculous stretch.

>>152062039
hi suit

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>>152062054
I've personally never heard people calling Lucy an incel, though

>>152062057
No one could possibly blame you.

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>>152061583
>Abbey is smarter, kinder, and has better taste than either of us
>Anyways, let's side-hug!

Tiff is right, this is uncomfortable to watch. It's like ntr, but noone is "winning", it's just a closed loop of disappointment.

>>152062081
Thanks for the understanding, Line In The Sand was just miserable. I ended up getting an actual headache from it.

>>152062099
I think they call this the Honeymoon Phase, but it's doubtful that Taeshi is even aware of the concept.

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>>152061583
Fix your fucking dialogue placement Taeshi! It's so fucking basic and she keeps fucking it up.

>>152062099
>It's like ntr
If only, at least then we would get something out of this boredom of a chapter.

>>152062057
Lackadaisy kinda sucks but the art is 11/10 which is why I read it anyways.

>>152062080
The closest this gets is Taeshi admitting that Lucy has "incel-coded habits," not that she actually acted like an incel. But you're right, I've never heard anyone call her that in particular. Mostly because there are so many other, far more accurate terms. I guess Suitcase let only the most mild and easy to dismiss criticisms through the filter.

>>152062154
It's still hilarious that Taeshi admits that Lucy acts like an incel and is angry that Mike rejected her (when he was taken).

>>152061583
that shit is still going? I swear it's been like 20 years, God damn! finish it already

>>152062179
But Taeshi just got finished rewriting the entire crux of the comic in her head to justify another one, maybe two more decades of Mike torture. She can't just stop now!

>>152062179
She does it because it pays and she lacks the confidence to finish it and tell another story. It won't end until the money does.

>>152062080
>Lucy is the one I've seen called an incel
I don't think this is her agreeing but being offended by the implication. Also I've only heard her being called so when gender swap is involved, this reads more like her being defensive
Also the points she's taken from the analysis (see how Veronica "I don't allow for AI" Vera isn't complaining about it) are that people that defend Mike are reading the comic while people that defend Lucy are being asked to do so, this gives me an idea that one side is trying to make sense of the work as a whole and the other is just watching Taeshi play dolls (I love the anon that came up with this analogy) because the character shouldn't be bothered by consequences

>>152061583
>You guys are gross
I wanna shove her into a washroom trip her to the ground put her in a full nelson and destroy her asshole I aint stopping still she cums in shame and even then I still aint stopping she she cums even harder


Poor stupid deaf cat such horrid taste in women why is he going after someone like his sister.

>>152062212
Is Lucy's side the one watching Taeshi or is it Mike's side?

>>152062220
>same personality
>same height
>same blue eyes
The urge to inbreed is deeply embedded into white cat genes

>>152062268
Keeping the best genes in the family.

>>152062203
It's good to hear someone honest, anon

>>152062242
Both, but Mike's side is frustrated she keeps changing the rules of the game and the other side just cheers her on

>>152062339
Yeah, now the goalpost is that Mike didn't abandon Sandy for Lucy in a heartbeat.

>>152062220
Well considering Sam is also a siscon I think inbreeding just runs that deep on the family, thats why the dad works very far away from the home, for Lucy's safety, and why she ran away from the family gathering

>>152062371
It's why Lucy is half deaf, the side effects are showing.

>>152062358
I thought it was supposed to be letters shit. As in "oh noes you were still pining for a girl while being nice to and taking care of Lucy, that makes you a horrible cheating manipulator!"

>>152062457
Yeah, it's hilarious. Mike was Lucy's caretaker, platonically speaking.

>>152062457
https://www.tumblr.com/bittersweetcandybowl/805216642315468800/revisiting-early-chapters-like-unfulfilled-fantasy

>>152062358
Like you KNOW we would be stocked about Lucy being a manipulative asshole if only the comic let the character confront that, assholes are fun actually, but Taeshi's constant need to justify her and forcing the story to kiss her ass is grating. It comes off as this Mike VS Lucy thing when actually is "you can be biased but at least make it make sense! Let it flow naturally!" VS "I just like the character, she should be able to do whatever she wants"

>>152062481
That would mean that Fork in the Road and Eternal Flame's versions of Mike are morally superior for getting over Lucy completely in favor of Sandy.

>>152062491
I do wish Lucy could have a proper villain arc that's stated to be one by the narrative, she's had one for a while but it's never acknowledged.
>>152062506
Unfortunately, Whitecat must always win.

>>152062358
>Just take some other girl, which said no btw
>While you're with somebody else
What a great moral, what a hill to die on Taeshi.

>>152062110
Lmao fuckin brutal

>>152062544
Yup, apparently the solution is to either dump your GF for your abuser or just have two GFs after you rape the girl who said no.

>>152062546
It wasn't meant to be a commentary on her own dysfunctional relationship but rather Taeshi's chronic lack of knowledge about basically anything.

>>152062561
>or just have two GFs after you rape the girl who said no.
Maybe if it was still School Days-esque. But now? It's too late for that and comic wants to take itself "seriously"

>>152062110
Oof

>>152062592
That's the part that makes me chuckle, the comic wants to take itself seriously EXCEPT when it's not convenient to take itself seriously and it's just doing things because it's funny, so you're left with this narrative that you're expected to interpret as convenient to the author's will

>>152061583
Paisy is 95% running victory laps for existing and 5% actual chemistry, and I'm being generous to the chemistry there.

>This is where we fell is love
I thought the whole thing was they were already in love.

>>152061583
Daisy ain't beating the slut allegations. Who the fuck brings up an ex like that?? On the first fuckin date no less. And of course Paulo's being a spineless wimp in response. And Jordan isn't even worth mentioning.

Beginning to think Tiff is becoming more and more justified in ditching these retards.

>>152062572
Not sure if that's any better imo
Vero is most certainly a sheltered individual

>>152062640
To be fair Paulo brought it up (not beating his own slut allegations), but Taeshi has really been playing it up with this and her being excited at the possibility of Augustus joining them in the table

>>152061768
She's probably the only REALISTIC character in the entire series. A lot of teenage girls act like Tiff IRL.

Something occurred to me when I was thinking of "Lucy with Mike, Abbey, and Paulo" comics: Why didn't Lucy just get together with Paulo? The comics made her seem like she really likes him, and he was falling all over her for years.
It kinda feels like we're in a Midsummer Night's Dream situation, where everyone is dating/fixated on the wrong person. Maisy and Pucy would fix everything and I can't think of a good reason why they didn't happen.

>>152062797
>does Abbey like Burger Tron?
>He's normally busy on saturdays
there

>>152062154
Im sure I did once. Or I wanted to write a full essay about it but it's Lucy so I didnt care that much

>>152062976
Because Lucy isn't about love or being loved, she's about obsession, she's about forcing herself on a kid that's too nice to say no, about putting all her mental wellness on a single person with no compensation at all. Paulo could be the embodiment of sexy and she still wouldn't be able to get over her obsession

>>152062487
This means Lucy knew about Sandy and still groomed Yashi into seeing Mike as surrogate father, since she never stopped it with serious talk (eyebeam Is not valid you spastic) and even when Mike asked Lucy to tell Yashi about Sandy.. she refused lololololol

>>152062797
She wishes to be groomed again, but Lucy cut of Augustus's balls.

>>152063068
That’s another thing people gloss over, why would you want to hang out with someone who wants to convince someone else (who’s a little shit) that you two are a thing and begs you to not mention your actual girlfriend around them? Another reason why Mike shouldn’t hang out with her

>>152062976
Don't try to find a reason in this story. Everything forced to hell and back

>>152062457
>"oh noes you were still pining for a girl while being nice to and taking care of Lucy, that makes you a horrible cheating manipulator!"


If anything that would build resentment. Because everyone's put the responsibility of her entire well being on his shoulders. Combined with the tsundere shit and Mike eventually getting fed up is a natural outcome.

>>152062487
>https://www.tumblr.com/bittersweetcandybowl/805216642315468800/revisiting-early-chapters-like-unfulfilled-fantasy

Taeshi retconning stuff again. Lucy started the comic a violent tsundere. She got worse as things went on. Her trying so hard to put in this hamfisted narrative that Mike was some kind of master manipulator shows just how stupid it is.

Especially since it's just trying to wring out even more sympathy for Lucy.

>>152063264
It's obviously bullshit considering Mike himself is a fucking idiot. Nigga isn't manipulating shit.

>>152062976
At first it was traditional anime love triangle stuff. After all the shit that's happened though, I'd say that she wanted Mike more still.

Paulo was good for moments where Mike wasn't there to fulfill some emotional need she had. The moment Mike shows up, paulo drops down a tier in priority.


Lucy fucked both of them up on some level with her need to always have a security blanket, no matter who it is.

>>152063264
>Taeshi retconning stuff again.
Wasnt the guilty look because he knows how Lucy felt about him pursuing Sandy and leaving her alone?

>>152063264
The only thing I can think of is that Taeshi's actually finding more dissenting opinions around her and this is her way to do damage control because she doesn't want different interpretations of the current narrative. Imagine that even if she were to actually agree Lucy is being an asshole she wants the reader to take her side so when she reveals in the comic itself that she is she can bring her hands to her face and scream "how can this be~" like forcing a natural reaction. I'm not saying she's capable of it but don't discard the possibility

>>152062110
It's probably a bad sign if a couple spends their honeymoon phase talking about how their ex(s) are smarter/kinder/harder/better/faster/stronger than they are. Paulo and Daisy are supposed to be going "OMG I luv uuuu", but every time it's preempted by them talking about how much they suck compared to Abbey. It's disconcerting.

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>>Hey anon~

>>152062976
The in-universe answer, as already given, is that Lucy is fucking insane and doesn't want love, she wants a loyal handler who she can also fuck.

But the real answer is that Taeshi used to like PauloXLucy, since they're on the same wavelength (dumb, desperate, and horny) and them getting together while Mike fucks off with Sandy and Daisy remains irrelevant meant everyone would get a happy ending. But Taeshi doesn't want to commit to wrapping things up, so PauloXLucy was torpedoed repeatedly so that things could continue indefinitely.

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>>152061583
Those are cute background characters.
Anyway, continuation of the Mike bellyrub saga from last thread, because I wanted to draw it too.

>>152063632
I can imagine young Taeshi creating a BCI about Daisy who turns into a rabbit, becomes extremely horny and causes a lot of chaos, and in the end somebody reveals that rabbits are usually not horny at all, cue Daisy's devastated stare. THE END.

>>152063680
I cannot believe the belly rubs arc just goes on and on. Amazing work!

> Those are cute background characters
Yeah, I wish Taeshi drew new characters more often. The dark dog girl is cute.

>>152063680
Please stop molesting Mike

>>152063632
Hii~!

>>152062976
Maisy never happening is a wasted opportunity, but it's not really that unreasonable. There was never a mutual interest like Pucy had.

In-universe, Paulo was fucked ever since he slept with Rachel and Jessica. It's actually kind of ironic that Lucy worries that she's only wanted for her body, but Paulo loses her by refusing her advances. After that point it's just the usual, Lucy refuses to trust anybody that doesn't selflessly and unwaveringly prioritize her over everybody else.

Out of universe, I can't make sense of Taeshi refusing to pull the trigger on Pucy. I honestly think it was her preferred endgame at a certain point, and she obviously still finds it more exciting than most other ships.

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>>152063739
Do you guys think cat-dog pairs frequently run into relationship problems because their species have different love language or intimacy practices?

>>152063792
They probably have a club that is designed to keep trying for one to no avail. But you never know

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>>152063680
He is getting SUCKED OFF!! DAMN!

I really like these they're so sensual.

>>152063680
This is super cute anon! Thank you!!

>>152063264
>If anything that would build resentment. Because everyone's put the responsibility of her entire well being on his shoulders. Combined with the tsundere shit and Mike eventually getting fed up is a natural outcome.
That was the original angle in the comic and it made sense once the slapstick and other antics were recontextualized as physical and emotional abuse.

>>152063498
I can't tell if it's because Taeshi has never really thought of how this couple should interact or she's supposed to be implying how much the "guilt" is eating at them but neither are really satisfying.

>>152063778
>Maisy never happening is a wasted opportunity, but it's not really that unreasonable. There was never a mutual interest like Pucy had.
While this is true, it would have also made a lot more sense from Double Down onward as Mike, burned out on Sandy's bullshit, tried out a relationship in which the girl very obviously loved him back.

>>152063739
It's the law for small small and soft things to be molestered. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them.

>>152063852
Amy's head game must be out of this world

>>152064040
It really only works if the two were canonically meant to be overcompensating.

Here are the only females in this comic i can name and recognize by looks
>Lucy
>Daisy
>Sandy
>Rachel
That is it, if you show me any other girl in this comic I could not correctly name them

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>>152064078
> I'm... unmemorable?

>>152064061
I think they're supposed to be? Paulo's sperged out about people thinking he's a moron and Daisy is No Self-Esteem The Cat. I could see them being bothered but three chapters have just been about them looking over their shoulder, boring to talk about a character that's basically been written out.

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>>152064078
who dis?

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>>152064090

>>152064095
Freaky Longfingers

>>152063778
It just feels like Mike and Daisy complete each other in some ways. Mike escapes the White Cat Torment Nexus to be with the sweet girl who loved him from the start and encouraged him to grow a spine. Daisy's ugly duckling syndrome and wandering eye are cured when her first choice finally acknowledged her.
>There was never a mutual interest like Pucy had.
I don't think Mike ever had zero interest in Daisy. He's not a cheater cheater cheater because of it, but he was very flattered by some of her flirting. In this hypothetical scenario where Puck doesn't enchant Mike and Lucy into thinking they're hopelessly in love with each other, I think she's well-poised to pick up the pieces after Eternal Flame.

>>152062080
I think of her more like a nice guy that feels entitled to sex with their friend. Obviously Lucy isn't nice or pretends to be but that's the closest trope I can think of since her character archetype usually gets the guy and the drama is her having to chose between 2 guys.

>>152063778
>but Paulo loses her by refusing her advances
Who cares, he already scored with her

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>>152061609
A single boy is not nearly enough for her.

>>152063680
Damn, her ass is up in the air
Very cute

>>152064094
They certainly SHOULD be but, well, see Line in the Sand and all of Taeshi's commentary regarding it. Sure, >>152063331 COULD be right but, well, would anyone here bet good money on that much?

>>152064169
>scored
That's not a good thing, given how he's gotten all tied up in her web of bullshit ever since.

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>>152062506
And as he walked beyond the Roseville Lucyspace gates, he marveled at the beauty of the world, and was grateful for his many blessings.

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>>152064316
>Pops his crush's cherry
>Moves on to date his virgin childhood best friend

>>152063632
Screw college and her career as a doctor, Daisy needs to be bred like an animal in heat

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>>152061965
Many might fall in the face of Paisy. But not this one, not today.

>>152064021
Something after december switched in her because she basically walked back on that, or is trying to with the retcons and implications that Mike should have just shut up and kept taking Lucy's abuse.

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>>152064155
I hit the crystal a little too hard for that drawing.

>>152062080
I call her a femcel. She is a femcel. She doesn't give a fuck about anything except her weird obsessive trauma that Mike wasn't a girlfriend-free boy to make from the ground up.
>>152063264
That's not a retcon, that's just Taeshi being retarded and thinking tsundere are all tsun, zero dere. She's been saying that for years.

>>152064424
>gets guilt tripped/blackmailed into being Worst Cat's pet bitch
How long do you want to bet before Paisy implodes purely because Paulo can't possibly truly want another girl more than he did Lucy?

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>>152062976
Taeshi took too long bringing back Lucy and her sex drive was declining as she entered her 30s so she abandoned the Pucy plotline that took up the last 8 years before her return, her drying womb told her she needed- I mean LUCY needed stability and a provider, hence we revert back to her initial Mike Lucy dichotomy
Sandy getting retconned into a airheaded bimbo who cheats on Mike was just a byproduct, the relationship had no flaws and we couldn't have Mike in love with someone else now could we?

Another thing that's funny about Taeshi desperately trying to undo all the damage she did to Mike is now she has to bite the bullet on insane takes like "Mike actually found all the physical abuse romantic"

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>>152061965
Oh God Paulo and Daisy will see her constantly on the phone ignoring Jordan then go "yeah this is exactly what Mike was doing to Lucy I hate him now".

>>152064938
It'd be such a forced and counter-factual comparison that I could easily see it. That's regardless of whether Taeshi seriously believes as much or is trying to force pottery into the kiln.

>>152064896
Of course abuse is romantic and no means yes- this is why Alejandro is the best match for Lucy!

>>152062976
Somehow even Taeshi is selfaware enough that her favourite LucyxPaulo ship, despite spending years openly gushing over it in main comic and other drawings and still being one of her favs, would either not work at all and make both cats worse or work only if both cats were basically completely different characters with different personalities aka ship fanfic tier. Not only there's plenty of posts from her about that but a whole BCI (that isn't in thread archive yet sadly)

>>152063680
Amazing, I love that Haley doesn't even look at two dorks, but at the ruined sandwich on the floor instead

>>152063792
It would take Mike a while to figure out if Amy often licking him instead of kissing is normal for dogs or not, and he would be too polite to ask directly (because what if she stops doing so?)

>>152063680
Is this her first cat bf? I like the boxheads

>>152064896
She's really going full damage control, huh?

>>152065190
>Somehow even Taeshi is selfaware enough that her favourite LucyxPaulo ship, despite spending years openly gushing over it in main comic and other drawings and still being one of her favs, would either not work at all and make both cats worse or work only if both cats were basically completely different characters with different personalities aka ship fanfic tier.
But somehow she can't see this in Mucy

>>152065478
The sheer cognitive dissonance must suck after writing herself into this corner where she has to either acknowledge the metaphor for her own marriage is an abusive psychotic mess or just embraces her own delusions as a coping mechanism. I'd imagine she's rather insufferable to deal with right now.

>>152065190
I don't really think Pucy would make either side worse. Arrested development, maybe.
As for the BCI, I remember the problem being that neither of the two of them were over Mike/Tess. If Lucy's not semi-arbitrarily obsessed with Mike I think it could work.

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>>152064896
>Literal domestic abuser retoric

>>152066077
I wonder what would happen if someone irl told Taeshi that much.

>>152064058
Is she better than popular slut, Rachel or Daisy with the way she slurps down those burgertron chocolate shakes

>>152064058
No! Amy is pure! She's not a slut like the rest of these crazy bitches.

>>152063680
It’s cute seeing Mike purr, Amy is quite the good girl

>>152066077
Mike dies after getting the Charlotte treatment, that’s the canon ending.

>>152066077
>Mike gives in and gets back with Lucy
>everyone acts like its all happy days
>everyone ignores the bruises
>everyone ignores Mike slowly getting weaker
>one day he doesn't get back up after a "love tap"

>>152067623
Yup, that’s how it’d eventually go. Lucy gnaws on her chew toys and then replaces them.

Honestly, death is the only escape that Mike might get from this hell.

>>152067737
Minus Taeshi's apparent psychosis on the matter, I do wonder how a BCI in which Mike dies would go. A serious one, not that stupid It's a Wonderful Life parody.

>>152064768
Nta, but it’s still a cool Amaya nonetheless

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>>152067862
What's that?
You want a BCI about Paulo dying and how sad everyone is and how they can't live without someone as cool and awesome as him?
Coming right up

>>152068347
>A Paisy divorce
Damn I can't believe Daisy took the kids, if they all weren't aborted that is.

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>>152064896
C'mon anon, be fair. Taeshi is literally saying "{pic related} comes across as deranged if one reads it as a compilation of Mike & Lucy's 'best' moments". Her point is that Lucy is engaging in delusional cope to absolve herself, and that Mike has bought into that delusional cope before and is doing so again.

>>152067862
Lucy would probably actually kill herself or go catatonic in solitary

>>152068760
Giving Taeshi any credit at all seems like a mistake at this point.

>>152068347
I’m so sad

>>152069234
I'm not trying to give her credit, I'm saying she's a troll. She finds school days funny, and while she has to hide her power level a bit nowadays since the comic is her (and bagboys) livelihood, she still winks and nods at stuff like second confrontation. At least half of her flippant blogposts are clearly her deliberately kicking wasp nests because she thinks it's funny.

The tonal dissonance between Mike and Lucy's gaslighting spiral and Paisy talking about nothing is part of the joke. Like how Lucy's suicidal depression arc was interspersed with Augustus going "lol kys bitch lmao" and Daisy trying to coax Abbey into sex.

I just don't think she pulls off the joke very well. The jerks are too mean-spirited to be funny, and the victims never get a win to balance things out. Characters who get enough screentime to have played both roles Paulo, Mike, and Lucy come across at best as pathetic and unable to take what they give, and at worst as using pity as a manipulation tactic.

>>152068442
This is unironically how the story treats mike lmao

>>152070078
They may as well write Mike out of the story, given how much the author and story hates him.

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Line In The Sand in a nutshell.

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>>152062203
why doesn't she start a second story on the side?

>>152070309
They’re too scared that their subscriber count would drop once BCB is finished

>>152070386
I'm saying keep BCB going and make a second comic that has some loose ties to the first. See if you can build a base before BCB ends.

>>152070433
Yeah, that’s would work. They used to have the ships ahoy thing (which the email is still broken for), and they have BCI (which I hope they physically publish sometime) but I think they could publish something similar to what BCB was in the beginning, something lighthearted and fun.

>Dream about walking somewhere important like work, go through a rural farm area to go there quicker. Get distracted by big fuzzy sheep, I fall back as one circles around me and jumps over me. More start to join in and I’m mesmerized, then the dream is over and I’m sad

>>152070114
She can't because then she loses her and the fandom's prime anger target. Mike is the most hated character in BCB right now. She writes him out, she can't torture the other characters as much and have her reader base go along with it as easily.

Not to mention she'd be forced to be stuck with Lucy. With how that charcter is, there's a chance people will either start to second guess her or get tired of her doing the same old thing. If more and more people start calling Lucy out and not Interpreting the story like she wants, then she gets increasingly pissed off.

>>152070709
And by hated they mean having the narrative and author punishing him at every turn for not taking his abuse like a good little victim.

>>152069923
>I'm not trying to give her credit, I'm saying she's a troll.
That IS giving her credit. It's assigning a level of intelligence and self-awareness based on the idea that no one could possibly be so stupid and delusional that they missed the obvious implications in their own work. The problem is that Taeshi has demonstrated herself to be very dumb and openly subscribes to a broken worldview.

>>152068347
Oh great, Paulo show back in full force. I never fucking asked for this.

>>152068442
Ah yes, I remember this one. This was when I began to realize just how fucked Mike was. Taeshi was literally driving the narrative against him, he stood no chance. He was never gonna get better, he was doomed to become to punching bag while Paulo takes his place as the "golden boy".

>>152070709
This is the Shield Hero Rising dilemma. When you make the focus on a single conflict that induces rage, people get invested for the sole purpose of wanting to see "justice." It gets resolved, 80% of readers drop it, satisfied and not wanting to taint their sense of "victory". Drag it out and it rightly gets called tortureporn.

>>152071237
Mike has gone from the protagonist to just a prop for Lucy.

>>152068347
Fuckin called it. Paisy was doomed from the start. Daisy is too much of a slut and Paulo is a limp dick loser. They're never gonna last past high school let's be real. Daisy has ambitions while Paulo is content being a blue collar.

>>152064268
She's a little more clear-eyed about these two as flawed beings than Lucy, so I could see her pulling a "gotcha" about the relationship by having it crumble out from under them through insecurity. Won't result in satisfying growth or interesting consequences for either of the characters, so the action of Taeshi doing it is the best we have.

>>152071335
These are BCIs and thus things that will never happen in-story. Basically, we are stuck with Paisy. Forever.

When’s the arc when Abbey says that Abraham was romantic, and that Charlotte was just a wimp who couldn’t handle his wonderful love? Oh, and make him scream at his sister because she was hogging all the beatings.

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>>152068442
>ends up in hell for not loving your abuser

LOL this is it. Taeshi truly is a fucking lunatic who is never gonna beat the victim blaming allegations.

>Vero
>Troll
>The girl that got mindbroken by someone younger than her on Sonic forums
>The girl that stayed with some random male fan for 2 weeks over muh breakdown
>The girl that was in a psychward
>The womanchild that's now sheltered from the world by her failure of a fiancé
20 years of gayops, eh?

>>152068442
Based god for smiting asshole meme dog

>>152071447
>mfw we get Pauloshow BCIs

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>>152071454
>goldie's fw taeshi is still malding over her

Someone please draw amy with this expression

>>152071653
Lucy is pretty much Taeshi's idealized self as a cat. Much as she'd deserve to get smugged at, I'd personally rather see Amy treat Lucy with open disgust for having gone full unapologetic BPD on Mike.

>>152071688
I think everyone here wants to see that desu. Amy is our last hope and saviour after all

It's funny seeing these threads being more active than the discord. Turns out no one likes heavily moderated discussions.

>>152071752
I figure it's mostly due to the comic's own content. Paisy is quite boring. The discussion it does get here is roundly negative, which is likely not allowed on the discord. The metatextual criticism is certainly verboten. So the discord members are left with very little to talk about. Now, Taeshi's blogposts could absolutely fuel more talk about how much Mike sucks (always a favored pastime) and I'm surprised if that is not the case.

>>152071802
Not only that, but Amy discussion is actually allowed here as well. Whereas it's a instaban on discord. I wouldn't be surprised if the few people that managed to see her there, flocked over to reddit to find more art of her, which in turn leads them to here

>>152071397
I think the closest was the Disaster Dominos BCI where it depicted EVERYONE as extremely shitty except for Mike lmao. Paulo was a walking std bank, Abbey became his father, Lucy was extremely depressed and suicidal (when isn't she?), I forgot about the rest, it's been a while since I've read it. But it's fucking hilarious that Mike was the normal one in that comic and got run over by a bus so that Lucy commits suicide.

>>152071867
Wdym Amy is an instaban in the discord. I refused to believe this idiocy

>>152070433
She can draw fast and consistently, if she ditched the bullshit BCIs and concentrated that energy on something new she could manage it.

>>152072005
But that would mean less time to play Pokemon Go!

>>152071977
Amy originated on /co/ and is popular in reddit, both are persona non grata on the discord.

>>152068442
Even the author thinks Mike's only escape is the sweet release of death lmao. Do it you coward, free him.

>>152071752
Tbh a lot of discussion here is just treading the same rhetorical circle over and over again.

>(Dead)
...is bagfag still DMCAing shit from here? lol...

>>152072145
Suitcase lurks in these threads to snipe any leaks that get posted here. Possibly posts sometimes defending his failwife.

>>152072192
i just figured they wouldnt bother anymore but i guess thats a high expectation when they admitted to having google alerts for whenever anything new is indexed for bcb

>>152071977
I expected that, she's literally inspired by the Goldie situation.
Shipping her with Mike is playing with her insecurity that Suitcase would've been better off with Goldie. There's no way she wouldn't be instaban material unless both her and Suitcase were initially unaware of what she was.

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>>152071902
Worse, Disaster Dominoes Mike was ran over by David who was """special""" and barely talking nor processing stuff around him, implying he escaped his caretaker or did something to her and/or car owner to end up driving a car onto school's tracks. Which is surprisingly consistent: David is the one person who either caused or didn't help during all Mike's life threatening situations, and given how both the comic and bci's go in general, maybe some of those moments as intentional as David being ass to Mike in general. Can't score white cat with grey cat still around

>>15207197
No idea if Amy is a ban material, but reddit and /co/ are stuff they don't like being mentioned and that will most often get you no appealing silent ban despite mods posting mere warnings in public chat. So maybe that anon assumes that Amy mention will be equal to "I'm from those baaad places, banhammer me now!", but I doubt they are aware of doggo or would care, they got their own white and fluffy safe space with it's own atmosphere of "Not on our vibes? You are not welcome then"

>>152070309
>>152070433
Funny enough, she has exactly such plans since she misses simplier times without context and drama souring nearly all bonds and clearly wants to write something different, to the point of rewriting this comic into "something different". Between random memes and drawings there's sketches and comics on Bsky of how bcb cast would look in simplier and 4koma styled comedic material with less consequences, but since it's been way more than a year since then, she either abandoned those plans or being lazy or using kickstarter, book release, trying for a baby or preparations to move out as excuses to delay

>>152071977
>>152072429
I messed up the typing, I meant to quote you

>>152072429
It was probably just a whim before she went into turbo BPD mode.

>>152071454
>The girl that stayed with some random male fan for 2 weeks over muh breakdown


Wait, what?

>>152070433
At first I thought that BCB had hit rock bottom.

Then I heard to what happen to Sinfest, and I'm both glad and horrified that there is still something lower than this.

>>152072493
Nta, I dont know the exact details, but I think she flew to Australia to stay with a fanfic writer that she commissioned before to write some hardcore, torture Mucy smut in deviantart. In that two week period after her spat with suit, many speculate that she and that fan fucked like rabbits to get back at suit.

>>152072619
Author's name is DarkMaverik in deviantart. The fic is still up btw, named True Colours. Our very own tripfag, Almutimavenger commented on it back in August.

>>152071802
I firmly believe the discord has people who hate Mike DESPITE Lucy, meaning they know she's actually not in the right and it's debatable if she has any real reason but Mike still deserves some of the shit he gets, and even they could be discouraged after seeing Taeshi try to force the narrative that, somehow, Lucy was always right and Mike always wrong, and see they are just wasting their time when even if they dislike him there really is nothing of worth on Lucy the Mary Sue doll

>>152073138
Outright hating Mike while not liking Lucy seems so strange to me. At worst, he is annoying and disappointing. I've seen Mike framed as too woe-is-me, but what sort of autist would get hyper tilted by that?

>>152072429
>BCB 4koma
After reading her attempts at sonic humor Im not sure she can pull that off

>>152072619
>Nta, I dont know the exact details, but I think she flew to Australia to stay with a fanfic writer that she commissioned before to write some hardcore, torture Mucy smut in deviantart. In that two week period after her spat with suit, many speculate that she and that fan fucked like rabbits to get back at suit.


Wow that is...some Lucy shit if anything is. Normally that's grounds for a divorce right there.

>>152073321
It's been that way since he told Lucy to fuck off in December. Then the suicide attempt happened and Taeshi has been absymal at making Mike look good for over ten years. So hating him no matter what is just the eventual vibe.

>>152073538
>So hating him no matter what is just the eventual vibe
I just pointed out how stupid it would be to get genuinely pissed at Mike if the person isn't sucking on Lucy's metaphorical dick.

>>152073619
Are you sure it wasn't intentional to make Mike suffer? Taeshi seems to clearly hate Mike.

>>152073702
I don't think you understand my meaning. It would be very stupid for a non-Lucystan reader to get so bothered by Mike being an annoying sadsack that they genuinely hate him, regardless of Taeshi's intent.

>>152073797
Fair enough, I'm just saying that I believe Taeshi is trying to replace Mike as the protagonist and reduce him to an eternal punching bag for the Mary Sue that is Lucy.

>>152073816
I do think she's moving Lucy back into the limelight, bringing her back to the table and all. The focus on Mike could be reduced in turn, but I sort of doubt it. That means less time and fewer opportunities for stomping on his balls.

>>152073923
Yeah, there's genuinely no reason to hate the protagonist to such a degree, I can't wait until Lucy gets her turn to suffer.

>>152063632
Looks like it’s rabbit season

>>152073816
>Replace Mike as the protagonist
Mike wasn't the protagonist for almost the entire story, it's only the last two volumes he got any kind of focus again.

>>152073975
>Implying Lucy's "suffering" wont be some mundane bullshit that gets brushed off as she bitches about never wanting it.
Kek

i soft-started developing my own animal comic
not out of spite for bcb because it will be nothing like it but bcb's downward spiral inspired me.
idk if anything will come out of it but thanks vero

>>152074771
Link it when you make it

>>152072506
What... Happened there..

>>152074740
She's never going to suffer, the only true cycle in BCB is
>To justify torturing Mike Taeshi makes him do something excessively mean and OOC
>She hates him for it and has him be a pathetic worm who gets bullied by the entire cast and somehow the narrative bends against him to shit on him
>She feels bad for him and wants to repair his image, gains a little spine and stands up for himself %1
>Taeshi gets mad at Mike for hurting Lucy's feelings by standing up for himself
>Taeshi makes Mike do something excessively mean and OOC to justify torturing him
All the while she's talking about how Mike will someday recover from this in a future we will never see.

>>152074932
The author got dropped by a girl so hard he went to one extreme of the political spectrum and then to the other so hard the actual political shit poster comics look stupid next to him

>>152075108
And the funny part is that line in the sand was a very step bump on this cycle because all Mike did was disobey an extreme order to stop showing up outside and got his whole world rocked, and she really is struggling to make this look like something he deserved to the point of posting a lot of blog comments about how you're supposed to hate him for this and going back to old pages to edit text because she doesn't know how to extract more sins from him without outright killing him socially

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>>152074932
That guy's a pussy, sinfest became gigabased, it's like foxford but without all the harsh words so it's palatable to normies.

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>>152075218
Mike should join a gang of loyal homies

>>152073816
I'll be honest I don't think Mike can be replaced as the main character, the Paulo show demonstrated she isn't capable of sticking with actual progress and development, Daisy and Sue have no actual POV in the comic and their struggles are the most boring of the bunch as shown by Paisy and the whole cheerleader flop. And Lucy? Taeshi has put so many locks and regulations on how to use that character herself that it makes Mickey mouse blush: she can't be outright wrong, she has no hobbies, she despises her friends, she can't be a driving force, she can only react to things happening around her, she's constantly sour and angry, she doesn't care, she never asked, any hostile action she dishes is well deserved including attempted rape and any she takes is unfair, she is loved by her family but she also loathes them, etc. A comic with Lucy as the main character would need to weed everyone else slowly to give her something to work with or it becomes the "sitting and grunting" show

>>152073138
I'm not from the discord and that's my position. Lucy is a monster - gaslighting, manipulative, abusive, cruel, and selfish. But Mike sucks too and I'm sick of him.

>>152074932
Paranoid schizophrenia.

>>152075218
She's trying her ass off to do everything to make it look like mike is so bad that he deserved it, and then she's going to get pissy when, no matter what she does after, everyone reading on her end just hates Mike. She can't just switch people off over a decade of hating a character like she thinks. If she IS thinking that she can.

>>152075351
Polo shows actively kill the activity lol. He's such a shit character, but women love him so oh well, what can you do?

>>152075360
I could be convinced of this but the astronomical difference in scale between Lucy and Mike's awful behavior and the extent to which every character seems to give Lucy a million extra miles of leeway gives me some sympathy for Mike by default.

>>152075218
>and going back to old pages to edit text because she doesn't know how to extract more sins from him without outright killing him socially
What has she actually altered in service to Line in the Sand, though? The rework to Mike's dialogue when he first kissed Lucy has been around forever by now.

>>152075480
It seems that Taeshi has not internalized that other people have actual lasting convictions about other individuals and characters because they don't experience arbitrary BPD splitting.

What would Amy interrupting Line In The Sand look like?

>>152076518
If you want it to feel not so forced have her intervene when Augustus starts cornering Mike away from the retard duo, he already looks like a bully and Amy looks way more muscular than any of the other three, so she could easily impose herself

>>152076777
>"aww gonna hide behind your girlfriend Michae-"
>"fuck off rapist"
I figure at that point, faced with someone he can't talk down to, Augustus folds like a cheap suit. Prompting an altercation with Lucy once she comes over and makes some snide remark. Amy is unaffected by Lucyspace so can tell Worst Cat off to her face. Which would piss her off, and at that point it's up in the air whether she'll sperg out or take Augustus and go seethe elsewhere.

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>>152071701
There's more little rays of sunshine. Tho I'm pretty sure it would be better if Amy and Lucy never met, at least not until Amy and Mike move from friendly to serious. If white cat wants Mike this much out of her life, why not give her exactly what she wants with no take backsies?

>>152076886
>"why the hell do you want a guy you seem to hate so much? explain it to me"
And of course, Lucy can't without sounding completely insane.

>>152062110
holy shit

>>152076959
She'd have a psychic break on the spot because not only is she losing Mike, but she's losing Mike to a girl that isn't stuck texting and is leagues above Sandy and herself.

Lucy would crack being unable to handle it and have to potentially face the fact that she fucked up.

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>>152076518
Nut punt Augustus with zero warning much to everyone's shock

>>152076777
>Amy looks way more muscular than any of the other three
I like to imagine Amy takes wrestling classes (to complement/combat Lucy's karate).

I do warn about making Amy have this sort of confrontation with Lucy and Gus, namely on how she goes about it. If her personality flip flops to different extremes, it comes across as her being a literal mouthpiece of the author, rather than her doing it in a way that would be character consistent.
Well, I mean, more than a mouthpiece she already is, but I’m not putting that as a bad thing as long as she’s actually a character. Don’t turn her into /bcb/‘s Brian Griffin or Lisa Simpson.

>>152076870
Amy doesn't need to be physical in any way, and I prefer her being a normal girl and not wanting to make it physical unless necessary. Just keep nailing in that Augustus is a rapist and when Lucy says anything just keep nailing in that all she does is hit everyone and whatever issue she has with Mike was completely self-inflicted.

But then again Lucy is a psycho and might actually make it turn physical for daring not to agree with her, at that point several people from both sides would just need to pull them apart, likely detention for everyone but Lucy and Augustus would come out looking like pieces of shit.

>>152076518
...well, it IS in a New Jersey inspired area in the mid-late 2000s.
https://youtu.be/P9owMEbqGxk?t=68

I think Amy would, depending on what she can figure out from the situation, come along asking Mike what's wrong, almost like she's oblivious to how tense the moment is.

Mike, one of the white cats, or James or David says something and then Amy starts showering Mike with complements. It appears she didn't understand anything they said negative about him but she's using them to reassure him and then caps it off with a good hug.

Then she tells Mike he needs to come somewhere with her and they leave.

James is confused, Augustus and Lucy are confused and possibly angry too. Not only did the verbal beatdown on Mike not work, but it didn't work because he had an admittedly better looking girl to lift him up out of a potential funk. Lucy takes that part Extremely hard inwardly.

>>152078604
There are only so many sane responses to what Gus and Lucy pulled.

>>152078795
Who said it had to get physical? Amy seems too well adjusted to throw a punch over such bullshit when it's easy to tear Gus apart with words. So the ball is in Lucy's court there, as you said.

>>152079027
I’d say the best option is just to have her say that Lucy can have Augustus, and that she is having Mike.

>>152079063
Excellent idea. Lucy can mald over that, making Augustus feel inadequate and undervalued.

>>152079183
I figured it was the easiest and (there's no real defined in-character for Amy) in character response. Even better if Amy thinks Lucy and Augustus are a pair and just scoops up her BF and leaves.

>>152077063
>>152079183
Are you guys incapable of enjoying any of Mike's ships for their own sake and not just because it would spite Lucy?

>>152079380
I personally love Mike X Amy because it's wholesome, not out of spite. Hopefully this ship remains wholesome and not spiteful.

>>152078929
Maybe to give Amy another reason to seek Mike out is she got paired up with him on some sort of project and she interrupts the situation and gets him out of there with that as an excuse. Heck maybe she just makes that excuse up on the fly because she’s seeing a nice guy getting brutally, verbally berated

>>152075305
ngl, Mike with a 'scarf' of chains would look rad

>>152079380
Mike is a good boy who deserves someone who loves him for him and will treat him with respect. Amy is all that for him.

It's just that Mike and Lucy are so intertwined that conflict will be inevitable. So there's always gonna be some sort of conflict between Mike, Amy, and Lucy. Especially so since they're hormone-addled teenagers.

>>152076886
A couple of little freaks

>>152078929
I think the main thing that needs to be pinned down is when she shows up to the utter plot contrivance/crapshoot of LitS.
>She could show up in place of Lucy
This could either be where she notices Mike is uneasy and turns the conversation to "normal people" or at least "lighthearted" movies that don't have such heavy themes and then swipes Mike away to talk more.
This would still keep Lucy out of it for later, and it would take the wind out of Augustus sails by ignoring him and splitting off from his convo.
Would take away from showing everyone else be idiotic, but I think an off screen "Augustus sways James subtly" than what we got would be better anyway
>When Mike pipes up the first time
Could be Amy hearing it and just injecting common sense of "why don't we just use the vastness and expanse of the outdoors to appreciate it separately" and taking Mike away to where she eats her lunch break outside.
It still would bring up the stupidest demand of LitS (in my opinion).
>When Mike pushes Augustus to the ground
Could ironically be her getting suprised at Mike doing this and rushing over, though I don't know why she would single him out positively other to congradulate him for beating up Augustus (with who she might have bad blood with already, like working at the place he steals from lol).
Could have a Lucy glare, but if Augustus actually got punched like he should have, she'd be too busy. To deal with James, David could just run inside to tell Paulo/Sue/whoever what just happened, with James following on his psychic leash. Maybe have Lucy run to get the nurse knowing David is retarded (but not let Augustus narc because the residual feelings). I think this is my favorite one because it sets up her relationship with Augustus too.
(1 of 2)

>>152079380
1. No, it's just a bonus.
2. It's unavoidable because of Lucy's autism, so it might as well be enjoyed alongside the main event.

>>152082027
>When Lucy is monologuing
Just have Lucy be so wrapped up after kicking Mike in the gut, she's mumbling to herself while Amy notices Mike gurguling on the grass, and helps him up to sit on a bleacher and drink some of her water.
This keeps Lucy's latest sin in it, but it would still be a bit hard to not have Lucy try to swoop in. I think this would be the most jokey version, but Augustus isn't accounted for unless he scatters because he realizes it's the one cashier that catches and berates him for being sleazy.
> When everyone leaves
Simplest, and could just pick up where LitS left Mike. Maybe have her have a different lunch period and meet Mike as he's trying to get back to class. (So it's a not "I was stalking you for a bit" like James). Maybe she coaxes him into playing hooky the rest of school time to get to know him better, and also because she wants too. Also opens up a scene change or actually exploring Rosevile. Doesn't really set up/show a relation to any other character which I think is a weak spot, but it does seem the most natural. Maybe she can take him to where she works and buy him a candy bar while having a little gripe about the cat in the stupid leather jacket that thinks camera don't see him. I believe this is the most natural out of the options.
If you can't tell, I like the idea of Amy not liking Augustus from the get go because of him being a backsliding scalawag that contrasts Mike being not that.