>>152802314
The fuck David means by Mike not carin about Paulo or Daisy anymore? I'm actually liking this direction cuz it shows David is biased and not just a strawman as always. Then again who knows if that's taeshi's intention.

>>152802329
I'm sure this is taeshi directly telegraphing to the audience what they're supposed to think about Mike right now

which thread are we using now

>>152802314
This looks like David making shit up to further damn Mike in Paulo's eyes. But given Taeshi's recent descent into the deepest bowels of hackdom, he's probably meant to be imparting divinely-inspired knowledge.

>>152802329
Remeber how Mike came to bat for Paulo and Daisy by telling David and James to can the gossip? I bet Taeshi doesn't.

>>152802314

>Mike still wanted to hang out with James despite turning him down because Mike's needy.

Mike turned him down to date. He never turned him down as a friend.

>Kinda like with Lucy-Baby!

How did david even reach this conclusion regarding Lucy?! What knowledge and events would he even needed to have witnessed to even think this?!

>He gets jealous over people who still crush on him and that's why he stopped caring about You n Daisy.


James left him high and dry for david. He was actively trying to stay away from Lucy because of his own guilt with that situation. He didn't stop caring about Paulo and Daisy. David actively played a role in him being booted from the table.

Oh my god this nigga is insufferable and the dialogue is Taeshi trying to TELL readers how they should feel about Mike. David is a retard and his dialogue doesn't feel organic.

the colour is so odd it reminds me of those pictures with a small amount of paint on them and you use a wet brush on them to paint it

>>152802374
No fucking idea, I guess this one?

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>>152802329
>Then again who knows if that's taeshi's intention.
seems like it is

>>152802411
This one has more replies already so it makes more sense to

I hate this stupid fucking comic. This shit is already more insufferable than LITS with Lucy getting James, Paulo being oblivious, and David's bullshittery.

these characters are written to be more unlikable with each passing year

>>152802412
I put no faith in this woman's ability to remain objective. She's one BPD split away from pulling another cancel campaign on her own characters.

>>152802412
Is this not sarcasm

>>152802314
>you are needy if you start focusing on new people that are (at least at first) treating you better than your old friends
>Mike definitely stopped caring about the people he talks to every day. And spent his childhood with. And is currently freaking out about losing.
Is David supposed to be ragebait?
These are the worst friends ever.

>>152802314
>>152802314
This art style/color scheme is so eye-searingly bad it is now competing with the writing for which is more of a biblical trainwreck.

>>152802450
>I put no faith in this woman's ability to remain objective.
I mean she can change it, doesn't mean that this wasn't her initial intention

Something has to change with David. Either Taeshi just has to lean into him being an asshole or something in universe has to happen to make him stop treating the other characters like he's aware of the fourth wall. It's actually jarring how he can still act like this comedy meme character when every other character has to be serious in their actions.

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>Mike's needy even though he turned James down
>kinda like with Lucy-baby
Unironically what the fuck is he talking about. What has David actually witnessed that would lead him to this conclusion. Why is so much of the comic about Mike adamantly refusing to interact with Lucy if this is supposed to be the takeaway.

>he gets jealous over people who still crush on him
>that's why he kinda stopped caring about you 'n Daisy
I thought the problem was that they stopped crushing? What?

>>152802351
The page description kinda goes in the other direction but it really isn't enough to beat the pure author mouthpiece vibes in the page itself. Like we had Augustus, now this, who's next in line to monologue to the audience about what Mike's problem is?

>>152802374
This one's slightly older and properly formatted the subject line, so I'm staying here

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>>152802482
she doesnt have to do shit because you bump her husbands free advertisement and introduce more people to it you blithering subhuman retard

>>152802481
That's the problem, anon.

>>152802314
Taeshi trying to hard to tell people why they should hate Mike, when she's just gonna get mad that people hate mike too much when it comes time to make him sympathetic in the narrtive.

>David schizobabble

>>152802453
yes, anon was wondering if david's bias was intentional and her sarcasm points to that

>>152802314
Either Paulo is like "Damn, I feel for Mike" and gets a new asshole torn into him by David and James. Or he's like "Wow Mike's an asshole, fuck thay guy." And proves himself to be as much as a snake as James.

Either way, there's no right answer for Paulo-boy.

>>152802496
>The page description kinda goes in the other direction but it really isn't enough to beat the pure author mouthpiece vibes in the page itself. Like we had Augustus, now this, who's next in line to monologue to the audience about what Mike's problem is?


She has to keep having characters tell the audience what he's done wrong because there's nothing in the comic actually showing it. It's why she had those tumblr blog rants about being bothered that people wanted Mike to just move away from his friends and that people had sympathy for him and hate for the other four in LitS.

>>152802531
Conversely, Paulo telling David that he's full of shit because orange cat actually knows scarf cat would resolidify some of his lost chad energy.

At this point I'm convinced all the tumblr posts were all just a smokescreen/ragebait to keep everyone guessing. Because none of it lines up with what happens in the comic.

>>152802314
>the leak was real

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>>152802314
> he gets jealous about people who still crush on him
I must be thinking slow because I don't really know what this means, James? James wasn't crushing on him, and the David bringing up Lucy has left me a tad confused.
Also what's up with the dutch angle for the last three panels

Also picrel delievery for >>>152780715
I'll try and do the other suggestion but I got busy sadly

>>152802531
Losing David and James is a plus, the only reason it would be a problem is because they've glued themselves to Lucy, whom he's sworn a blood oath to.

>>152802314
Can David please die already?
Such an annoying ass character holy fuuuck.

Also this is some weird ass backward explanation from Taeshi?
Pretty sure Mike is just the type of person who needs to external validation from peers at all times and when he isn't the center of attention spirals.
Not this jealousy weird narrative they are spinning?
Mike pretty much is the same as Lucy but instead of being prickly and pushing people away, he needs validation or he spirals. He goes out of his way to interact and sort of help his friends out where he can but they quickly abandon him.
Meanwhile Lucy does nothing and gets all the support.

>Taeshi with more insane ramblings

>>152802597
Mike seems fine not being the center of attention on a regular basis.

>>152802314
David isn't bringing up Mike's unfulfilling relationship, how people trivialized his abuse or pursued him like he's a trophy. It's not wrong of him to want James or Lucy to like him, or to envy Paulo's and Daisy's fulfillment. Either David doesn't understand or just doesn't really care. His "I killed him" implies that Mike was hurt by his words about choosing Lucy, but that he thinks Mike won't be bothered and easily get over it.

>>152802593
>I must be thinking slow because I don't really know what this means, James? James wasn't crushing on him, and the David bringing up Lucy has left me a tad confused.


Taeshi has been trying to push the narrative that Mike hates not being the center of attention and thats why he was so bothered by James swapping him for David because Mike turned him down romantically. She's trying to apply the same to Lucy but that goes against how Mike had been actively avoiding Lucy the whole time since EF, except for the mall, and all he did was apologize there.

>>152802597
Even the center of attention angle doesn't really work. He seems pretty fine not being focused on. The guy seems to just simply want a genuine healthy relationship of some kind at this point

>>152802314
WHY. IS. IT. WRONG. FOR. MIKE. TO. HANG. OUT. WITH. SUPPOSED. FRIENDS.
Also totally don't address how hard James lovebombed him and tried to get him to cheat on his girlfriend let's ignore that.

>>152802412
Bull fucking shit, meme characters are the voice and hand of the author the second they're not just used as comedic relief, she's just giving herself an out if she catches flak.

>>152802593
Allegedly James "still liked Mike" according to himself and the track team, he just liked David a lot more. But Paulo and Daisy moved on from Mike (allegedly), so David is claiming Mike doesn't care about them anymore because of that. It makes no sense though

>>152802623
He wants to be important to like one person and is usually satisfied with that, but it's still too much to ask. Lucy has the unqualified loyalty of every member of the cast and a personal, live-in attack dog, and it's still not enough. Mike "spiraling" outwardly manifests as being kind of clingy and trying to participate in a conversation.

>>152802597
This not being the center of attention thing doesn't work. He's never done anything bad with it besides get mopey, which is increasingly annoying but hasn't harmed anyone in the comic itself.
Plus James, the fucking retard to end all retards, had plenty of time to hang out with David after school so there is nothing wrong with Mike wanting some attention from his friends in the one place he sees him now. Unless Mike was following James outside of school, fuck, Augustus does more stalking than anyone here and gets a free pass.

>>152802597
>Pretty sure Mike is just the type of person who needs to external validation from peers at all times and when he isn't the center of attention spirals.


He's not even that. He just wants someone that wont abandon him when they cant date him or when Lucy comes into the picture.

With James its less center of attention and more that he basically replaced Mike with David. He wasn't hanging out with both of them equally.

duck favid

>>152802744
>hanging out with both of them equally
I don't think James was obligated to give them equal treatment necessarily. I think it's his prerogative to give more attention to his crush. But you can do that without entering "it's like we don't even need Mike anymore" territory.

>>152802826
>I don't think James was obligated to give them equal treatment necessarily.


Normally I'd say the same. But with how james acted towards Mike up until Mike just wanted to be friends, I can't help but find it shitty. It wasn't like James gradually shifted from Mike to David. It was on spot the same night over a race.

>>152802826
James had all the time in the world to allot to David after school, but Taeshi selectively ignored this until it was pointed out to her somehow so she made a gag panel to lampshade it.
>Tee hee I eviscerated my supposed friend because I was dumb! Oh well it's Mike so no harm no foul... what? Apologize? Why would I do that?

>>152802826
James' problem is that he is a retarded flake and not a real friend in the first place. All he really seems to care about is being fast and gay (potentially bi if he starts swooning for Lucy now)

The guy didn't care for all the red flags or even once stand by Mike's side during the Augustus and Lucy shit. Mike even says she treated him like shit and when she literally gut punts him right in front of him that doesn't seem to register. This is also ignoring the bit of him trying to get Mike to cheat on his ""girlfriend"".

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>>152802826
James hit him with the full DENNIS system.

>>152802872
What's that from?

felix is going to win the mikebowl, trvst the plQn, pQtriots in cQntrQl

>>152802897
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

>>152802897
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg5ZrkaGlFA

bump

>>152803081
The last reply was just 15 minutes ago dude relax

>>152802314
Taeshi needs to stop writing as if her audience is a man that pissed her off somehow.
She never overtly or subtly tells you what the problem is, she just gives the smallest hints(or imagines she did) and expects you to have a come to God moment where you suddenly get it.
You can manipulate your partner this way but you can't write a decent story like this.
At this point Mike's crimes all occurred in Taeshi's dreams and she's angry that we didn't catch the hints that imply she had said dream.

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I don't trust or like where Flakops comic is going

>>152802744
It's not only the hanging out equally, he would also put down Mike for David during track, saying the team doesn't even need Mike anymore

>>152802314
Jesus fucking christ I want this faggot dead

>>152803110
wait is the sex comic supposed to be when the cheating starts?

>>152803110
this comic is genuinely so bad and boring, bcb is better

>>152803174
Maybe? I have a fear though that Clover will bring her husband and son to the dinner. But will still end up cheating with Devin while her family is in the same house.

Which will just obliterate any good will Clover or Devin have right now.

>>152803110
Bleating Heart is making me racist against anthropomorphic deer, this family is a blight on their community and themselves

Telling Paulo that Mike no longer cares about him and Daisy comes across as David being a petulent little shit. He knows full well Mike looked out for their wishes by telling him to shut his trap about them dating, which partly reinforces the notion that scarf cat is the superior best friend candidate for Paulo. So now it looks like David has been quietly seething about that ever since.

>>152803110
Why is his mom trying so hard to brush off his concerns about all this? What's wrong with her?

>>152803228
>Mike looked out for their wishes by telling him to shut his trap about them dating
Good catch anon, this makes David poisoning the well even worse. Yet you just know we're supposed to think David has a point, because Mike not being shown hanging out with Paulo and Daisy for a few chapters is more significant than anything he actually does.

>>152802314
Does this mean David knows James has a thing for him and isn’t shutting him down? Isn’t that the high crime and misdemeanor Mike was guilty of?

>>152803332
>Isn’t that the high crime and misdemeanor Mike was guilty of?
NOOOOOOO STOP NOOTICING

>>152803228
More likely Taeshi will selectively ignore that. David isn't allowed to face consequences for anything so he can't be wrong or even do things for bad reasons.

>>152803332
Yes but Taeshi will ignore it.

>>152803215
>I have a fear though that Clover will bring her husband and son to the dinner. But will still end up cheating with Devin while her family is in the same house.
Judging by the patreon's thumbnails that seems to be the case lmao. Clover's gonna get handsy with Devin, that seems about it.

>>152803352
More like Taeshi launches into some rambling diatribe about how Mike looking out for the couple's wellbeing doesn't count according to her goulish outlook on relationships.

>>152803308
A lot of things, even before her daughter got murdered

>>152802314
Imagine trying to read this with green color blindness.

>>152803596
There's a notion to plant on the tumblr or the discord.

>>152803596
Wouldn't that just make it look monochrome? I think colorblind readers might have it better in this case.

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>>152802314

David is on stilts

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>Mainly James becauusse Mike needy even when he turned James down
Ok, so Mike wanted to continue to hang out with a friend after he turned down romantic advances. Mike did not know James was gay or into him until he confessed/kissed.
>Kinda like Lucy-baby
Oh, fuck this retarded mutt. Lucy was not amicable and was overtly kingly despite Mike having a girlfriend. James dropped Mike as a friend with the way he was acting in LITS.
>Got jealous over people who still crush on him
So from David's ass, gotcha.
>killed him
Eeyup, David needs to be ejected from the table and comic. Comic would be more tolerable with just the cat characters, yes, David drags every dog down.

>>152803374
I didn't wanna believe it but Clover is a genuine honest to god Whore. I wonder how Adult Fauna would feel about this.

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>>152802556
>Mike to just move away from his friends and that people had sympathy for him and hate for the other four in LitS.
You're telling Mike to get as far from Taeshi as possible because she and her friends do nothing but harm him. Hitting her ego.
>James "still liked Mike" according to himself and the track team
James did himself no favors in the way he acted with Mike. If he was just complimenting David, eh, but he pretty much stopped talking to Mike & put him down to boost up David. LTS even throws that into question with that ending shittalking. Mike in LITS was gonna talk to James, but emobitch ruined that. An interesting complaint about the comic with some anons is that Mike isn't doing enough or is too passive, but the times he does something for himself, he gets arbitrarily/narratively punished.
> Relationship with Jaes was damaged by others
>He chose not to be bullied by augsuts who didn't care that Mike was hurting. .
>Lits is just him being puniished cause emotard thinks 30-45 minutes of lunch are gonna solve an issue when their neighbors& share classes.

>>152804179
I feel like it's also worth mentioning the circumstances with James. James didn't just confess, get turned down, and then drift away from Mike. James tried to actively sabotage/homewreck a relationship, prey on Mike being at his lowest, actively promised/requested that they stay friends, and then ignored all of his own promises to start shitting on Mike. James wasn't accidentally a bad friend, he was actively as shitty as he could be.

Its baffling how someone can hate their own character so much that they completely ruin a comic and bend all logic just to shit on them.

>>152804273
Damn I forgot Mike offered to quit track after James confessed. Guy who is desperate to stay first in the heart of everyone who has a crush on him behavior for sure.

>>152803308
they dated in high school and broke up years ago, but (spoilers for the sex comic) the implication is that devin and clover never stopped sleeping together, though i think they've gone long stretches of time without fucking. the vibe i got that devin can't handle seeing clover outside of those meetings, especially now that she's married and has a kid, because it reminds him of what he's lost.

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>>152804273
>James wasn't accidentally a bad friend; he was actively as shitty as he could be.
There is no coming back from
>blaming him for you not getting fucked. Nothing stopped him from hanging out with David after school. He met David after school, and he hung out with Mike after school. There is no way to make this work because that isn't even retard behavior, that is just bad writing to force an action.
>I feel sorry for your girlfriend.
I think James should be ejected from the comic after this, cause he both doesnt have the history with Mike to act so indignant and be such a sociopath. Don't know how you would even integrate him and Mike into the table if there were ever a reconciliation. At least Mike has history with the other to soften shit, not him.
>>152804318
Taehsi might actually just view acts of kindness as either tools of manipulation or weaknesses that justify you getting walked all over. Comic, after all, loves its assholes.

>>152804318
Yeah, it's baffling especially since David was also there for the entire conversation. James begged to stay friends, offered to leave track himself, etc. Then as soon as David revealed himself to be faster, he completely flipped. It's hard to understand how Taeshi doesn't see why people think he's a snake

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>>152802314
I found the backdoor into the meme character's mind and have made him spout my opinions on the subject instead.

>>152802667
>The guy seems to just simply want a genuine healthy relationship of some kind at this point
taeshi LITERALLY doesn't know what that is
probably because she has never had one even once in her life

>>152802314
The fun part is that he's just regurgitating Taeshi's blogpost logic, so HE'S full of shit

>>152804368
To be honest, Taeshi herself seems like quite the snake of a person, albeit an especially cowardly sort. LitS really was her big mask-off moment.

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>>152802496
>Unironically what the fuck is he talking about.
Mike gets mopey when his friends place him as a lower priority than other people/stuff, and this is terrible because jealousy is unbecoming or something.

>What has David actually witnessed that would lead him to this conclusion.
David swore to cause problems in order to make plot happen in exchange for keeping the ability to see past the 4th wall, and is thus marginally omniscient in ways that help him make every other character miserable.

>Why is so much of the comic about Mike adamantly refusing to interact with Lucy if this is supposed to be the takeaway.
Because Mike and Lucy both push people away by being hostile and withdrawing themselves when they feel upset or slighted, but this is actually them pulling a shit-test where they will resent being "abandoned" if given the space they claim to want. The "correct" answer is apparently for Mike and Lucy to continue being not-quite-romantically-involved friends, loyal to the end, no matter how much awful shit they say or do to each other.

>>152804585
>The "correct" answer is apparently for Mike and Lucy to continue being not-quite-romantically-involved friends, loyal to the end, no matter how much awful shit they say or do to each other.
Alternatively, rape.

>>152804603
Oh my God, you’re right. I don’t think this crazy bunt has realized what she’s written, but Lucy is absolutely the kind of fucked in the head where if Mike actually hauled off and assaulted her, physically and/or sexually, she’d contextualize it as him caring. She wouldn’t “forgive” him but she’d actually start trying to engage again, interest renewed.

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>>152804735
Well, yes. According to LitS, when Mike and/or Lucy say "no, leave me alone" they ACTUALLY mean "please, push past my boundaries", and are just putting up a front because they're shy/embarrassed/ashamed.

I think Paulo is meant to be the golden example, since he continues to blithely go "we're totally friends and I will support you" no matter what. Characters can explain in an annotated presentation that they hate him, tell him to fuck off, or sucker-punch him, and he'll still go "lol, my good buddy is so mad". I think that kind of "loyalty" in total disregard for stated boundaries is meant to be a virtue that other characters can learn from.

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>>152802314
>Mike wanted to hang with us because he's needy of James despite turning him down
Previous Taeshi logic: people can only be nice to each other if they're looking to fuck, else it's manipulation
>Just like Lucy
Taeshi's logic: the moment Lucy rejected him he had to either push harder or stay his loyal thrall wanting nothing in return, else being friendly with her is manipulative
>He's jealous over people who still cush of him
I don't get this one, James wasn't crushing over him anymore, this is still the "either spread your ass or fuck off" logic, you can't be just friendly you manipulative bastard

Man, Taeshi better have a good plan because forcing meme dog to be her herald is getting fucking annoying

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>>152803596
>>152803665
The comic does look better in monochrome

>>152802314
Something else just occurred to me. If James completely losing interest in Mike is something that Mike is just supposed to be immediately at peace with, then why is it a problem that Mike "stopped caring" about Paulo and Daisy? Isn't it completely acceptable to just drop people without warning?

>>152803944
real

>>152804585
>this is actually them pulling a shit-test where they will resent being "abandoned"
I genuinely don't think Mike in vol 2-3 was shit testing Lucy. She hugs him after he gives her cold medicine and he's just mad. She tries to chat with him while he's with Tess and he ignores her. The thought of doing a project with her causes him to spaz out in front of the entire class. It really looks like he just wants her gone.

>>152802474
This. I miss the water color art she used to do. It was actually unique and the coloring looked really good in some panels.

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>>152802314
David with the Captain Tsubasa proportions

>>152802314
Why is the panel layout particularly dogshit this time? Is it David's curse?

>>152805175
Even his reaction to Lucy’s text to Sandy backs that up. A Mike that was shi-testing her would have been thrilled, or at least interested what her text had to say. Instead he assumes she’s trying to hurt him, because he legitimately things she’s bad to him and wants her to go away.

>>152804368
>It's hard to understand how Taeshi doesn't see why people think he's a snake


LitS and her reactions to the reception to it have shown that this woman has a view of friendship that's garbage because she has no healthy relationships herself. Anyone with even 1/4th a brain could tell that people would come out of that situation, exactly how it played out, hating james. Having a character do that is normally when an author intends for them to be disliked.

This comic punishes characters if they get mad over their abuse and/or want a genuine connection with someone that wont blow up in their face.

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>>152804758
>>152804735
It's why these hit so hard, it's the darkest truth in the comic.

>>152802872
Shockingly accurate

>>152802872
the bcbfannel guy could legitimately just put cutout heads on that scene and make it a 1:1. James would be Dennis but who would be the others?

>>152806418
bcb cast are bunch of wetblankets, closest thing would be Sue as Dee

>>152806418
It’s interesting that he doesn’t pop up as much in here trying to make discussion like he used to.

>>152806582
I miss him and PolitcalBCB. Hamlet's the last good thread character.

>>152806418
Nobody in BCB is anybody from Always Sunny, because unlike the writers of that show, Taeshi isn't aware of what a bunch of manipulative little psychos and bitches she's written by accident and just thinks they're "complicated".
I want so bad for her to go on some normal pills, re-read the comic, and have that realization, next deciding that the only sensible route is just to own it and be self-aware of what assholes everyone is.

>>152806582
rob doesnt like bcb anymore

>>152806418
Why do I have to be the one to do it?
>>152806582
This comic god damn sucks and I'm over it. I just steal images from these threads now.

>>152806676
Ah I'm sorry then, didn't mean it in a "HE HAS TO!" way. Just thought it was akin to something you would do, though I guess that's not the case now.
Are you looking to go to other comics like Theo's and I believe agent chimendaze (I can never spell it) has one too though it's not not furry
>>152806629
Paulo COULD be Mac

>>152806670
Yeah, that's what a Taeshi "magnum opus" does, LItS got rid of whatever interest was left from Eternal Flame, and THAT was such a dumpster fire that it got rid of at least 5 drawfags and edit anons

>>152806745
The increase in plotholes and total retcons in Volume 8 has driven a lot of people away.

>>152806745
I legit forget a bunch of you actually enjoy the comic or the characters, I mostly come here to be a hater, like the more of a dumpster fire a chapter is, the more entertaining. If these threads ceased to exist I wouldn't even bother to keep up with the comic.

>>152805175
>I genuinely don't think Mike in vol 2-3 was shit testing Lucy.
He does genuinely wants her gone, but then when she does distance herself from him he takes that badly, too. This is the paradox of the shit-test: every answer is wrong, just for different reasons. If Mike tries to stay close to Lucy he's leading her on and violating her boundaries, if he tries to stay clear he's abandoning and isolating her. If Lucy ignores Mike she's being immature and rude, if she tries to make it up to him she's being manipulative and trying to reel him back in.

You can see it in their interactions with other characters, too: Lucy is offended when Paulo/Augustus ignore or refuse her advances, but will get mad and go cold if they do show interest. Mike is frustrated with Daisy/Stacy when they try to flirt and win him over, but if they stop he gets sad and tells them he found it really sweet.

>>152802314
>stopped caring about Paulo
Wait, didn't Mike hang out with Paulo in his room not too long ago?

>>152806856
just_trust_me_bro.png

>>152806856
Mike never stopped caring about them. All the shit that's happened to his emotional state has him believing that they've moved on from him because he isn't datable and that he's staying away from them all for their sake's because he's internalized that he's horrible after the gaslighting.

>>152806418
James is Dennis, naturally
Sue is Dee (straight man)
Daisy is Frank (wildly overcompensating for perceived insecurites)
Jordan is Charlie (stupid beyond all measure)
Paulo is Mac (gay)

>>152806972
>Daisy is Frank
I look forwards to when Daisy finally decides she's had enough and solemnly declares that she's going to spend the rest of highschool getting real weird with it.

>>152806629
“Reality ensues” would be a great way to end this comic. Have it be like Megg Mog and Owl before the multiple endings and just have Mike fucking leave (his parents getting him somewhere after his inevitable physical and/or mental breakdown), never to return, and the subsequent fallout as Lucy continues to unravel and everybody’s bullshit collapses in.

>>152806826
It’s worth remembering that Mike is actually kind of shit. It’s just that he’s a little turd with some trauma among full blown sociopaths, bipolar and historonics.

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>>152802314
The white outlines are the worst part of this new pastel vomit colouring style. I get it’s to prevent the characters from blurring into the background but it makes the comic look like it was made with one of those old comic maker programs

>>152802351
I don't take what says seriously. All I took is David is an arrogant bully and is Acephobic since he doesn't believe friendships are meaningful.

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>>152806856
>we told Mike every action he does is manipulative and causes inmense pain to those he THINKS he just wants as friends
>so he must be avoiding you guys out of malice and apathy

>>152807788
David exists to cause pain, as does James. They aren't even characters anymore, just plot devices.

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>>152806856
I think that was a flashback, but they had a heart-to-heart at New Years if I'm not mistaken.
I think the "stopped caring about you and Daisy" bit has to do with his muted reaction to Paisy's big coming out party, which at the time felt more rooted in a fear that his friends would leave him behind than any need to be crushed on.
Could also be that he insisted on continuing to hang out with James instead of staying at the table, but that perspective requires you to believe that him hanging out with James was also a mortal sin and not a fear of his friends leaving him behind.

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>>152806676
>I just steal images from these threads now.
Join us, Fannelguy. Imagine: all the shitposts you could ever want. All you have to do is put on the mask.

Reminder: If you hate this webcomic so much, you just stop reading it. I said this in this general year ago, half a year ago and just now.

Why do you guys enjoy being so miserable?

>>152808855
Because sometimes it's fun to read something that's absolute garbage, and discuss with other people how garbage it is.

I just caught up. I'm sad to say I'm not a fan of the art style change. Or at the very least the color pallet. It's hard on the eyes.

>>152808855
It's not making me miserable. I look forward to updates, and when the threads aren't up I miss them. I just think it's fun to throw poop at a comic.

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>Taeshi: Mike and Lucy love each other, Mucy is my OTP Uoooh!
>never has them interact romantically, or even positively in the main story or even little bit comics
>if at any point she is forced to put them in the same comic it's shit like this

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>Also Taeshi: meh, I'm not a big fan of Augustus and Lucy, they wouldn't work or some shit
>writes this scenes like this for them constantly and poses them as a perfect match
I'm starting to think she just lives in opposite land where if you love someone you treat them like shit and hate them, and if you don't feel anything for someone you're just crawling all over them with affection like Paulo and Augustus.

>>152808952
desu just because you don't think a ship won't work doesn't mean you can't play pretend for a little bit

>>152808952
Augustus X Lucy is gross, but I can at least see why someone would ship it. It's one of the rare ships that the comic seems to support, despite what Taeshi says.

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>>152808932
Sandy Sweep, she cannot stop winning.

>>152808952
What's even the context here, why is Augustus freakin' out?

>>152808952
The ol' Liam/Larken/alt universe Paulo Mike replacement syndrome rears its head again.

>>152808855
Hi, welcome to 4chan.

>>152808952
This looks better than the main comic. At least something is progressing

>>152808875
But why it's fun to read garbage? For me if something's garbage I just drop it. I hated Girl who leapt time, but I don't spend hours on weekly dwelling on it. I think last time I expressed my distate of it five years ago once.
>>152808911
So you just enjoy being petty or angry? Respectable.

>>152809396
>But why it's fun to read garbage?
For me, it's because it's nice and low-investment. If I'm gonna read/watch something I actually respect, I want to pay attention and allow it to effect me emotionally, and I don't always have the energy for that. Consuming schlock and kvetching about it on the other hand takes zero effort.

>>152809003
>What's even the context here, why is Augustus freakin' out?
They were watching a movie, and Augustus had a small panic attack when a scene in the film reminded him of Alejandro.

>>152809595
Good honest answer that I kinda expected. It's not like I didn't like the comic, I still have the original vol.1 book in my shelf, but I myself don't just care about it anymore.

I definitely get the idea of lathcing on to old media, but what I don't get is the need of getting consantly upset about the current things. You can just stop and do something else, rather than seek enjoyment through victimhood.

I'm just speaking in general, not at you personally. But stuff like this is exactly the mindset that also gives all the support for censorship. It's really popular right now across the political landscape.

>>152802645
>Either David doesn't understand or just doesn't really care
Pretty sure it's both

>>152809854
What a wuss.

>>152809930
Didnt you suggest stop reading the comic? Or am I mixing anons. Maybe Im just stupid as I cant correlate reading whatever you want, regardless if you like it or not, with censorships.
I think overly positive and overly negative are equally bad. But negative and positive emotions are part of us, and we should accept them without exaggerating
At least 4chan doesnt ban whoever has a different opinion, we just quarrel like toddlers (which, as an outsider of the daily argument, is quite amusing), altho there is one user I would gladly see out of here permanently

>>152808855
Why do you keep asking the same pointless question? If people don't wanna discuss the comic, then there'd be no threads. But guess what? People wanna talk about the comic, whether they hate it or not.

>>152802314
>He wanted to hang out with his friend even though he didn't want to fuck him
how terrible of him

Here's a little writing tip for Taeshi: if you feel the need to have characters state a motive of another character multiple times to try to make your audience get it, you should probably reconsider if this motive makes any sense

>>152808932
At this point I don't even feel bad for Lucy, because she's right. She's right and wont put in the work to get better, so what's the point?

So the chances are hight that David is just gonna be like this for the rest of the comic no matter what, huh?

Despite him having a major role in the current set up of the friend group, he's just gonna be "Funny meme dog from 08'" while everyone else has to actually deal with shit seriouly.

>>152810851
Suppose for the same reason people make these thrreads to shit out their bad takes instead of just fucking off.

It gives me a short fleeting sense of superiority by shitting on to worse people.Literal autistic mouth breathers. You do not need to engage with media you hate.Fact that these generals just keep going even if you hate it so much. You're just so woke.

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shes a bit manipulative tho

>>152811141
These threads are made by the comic's staff for advertisement purposes. It's why there's a guy that freaks out when there isn't a fresh thread for the newest page.

>>152811251
wait, what's this from?

>>152811285
intermission: on call

>>152811260
Plenty of threads just die off with one or few replies. These would too if there wasn't an army of degenaretes soiling themselves like early schizophrenic boomers, bumbing these furry threads up.

>>152811251
Okay...what if none of the intermissions were cannon. What happens then?

>>152811311
Yeah, when the page is boring. All of these senior webcomic threads are like tame kiwifarm fests. I'm just explaining why they get made.

>>152811350
Nothing is canon. Retcons turn stories into nothingburgers

>>152811350
canon doesnt mean much when the author constantly goes back and retcons shit and creates plotholes

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>>152811260
>These threads are made by the comic's staff for advertisement purposes.
yeah, they really want the 4chan audience it's not like they ban anyone from their patreon or discord for having different views

>>152811488
As long as they don't talk, they'll take their money. They used to to openly use this site and talk about lolis.

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>>152811488
bagfag is a fucking weirdo. you never see anyone misgender a cis person over them having a different opinion

>>152811488
SuitCase is... a weird person. I wouldnt feel comfortable around him
Also did this PYP kill their cat? otherwise I dont understand all this hostility

>>152811554
The hostility is the point, they're awful people behind doors and they know it which is why the most damning evidence of it gets taken down as copyright infringement, Suit is or has people scouting every fandom space out of his cult

>>152811488
Same people that think they're above furries and that BCB isn't a furry comic.

>>152810851
Dude's probably pissy his own threads don't nearly get as much engagement as these threads.

>>152802314
I'll eat my all my words and slander if taeshi manages to form proper consequences for everyone involved, mainly Lucy, David, Augustus, and James. Taeshi isn't stupid, even from her author notes she lampshades David being biased af here. She wouldn't have done that if David is just some joke character who's her strawman. Mike really needs his issues sorted out properly, but it was handled in the worst way possible. I'm hoping to see the cast realizing they fucked up big time.

>>152811260
1) That's always been a stupid idea that never made any sense but keeps getting repeated by midwits. Or discord cultists, hoping in vain it finally shut these threads down with enough whining.

2) Everyone who has been here long enough knows there was a long stretch when each new thread without a virgin page got deleted. New page gets posted on an old thread hurling toward autosage? Tough shit, no new thread for that page, by janny decree. Most anons in these threads know better than to push their luck, but there is always one salty retard who'd rather rock the boat.

>>152811251
>finally put out an official answer as to what the fuck happened during that phone call
>it doesn't even make sense based on the ending of Eternal Flame or Burnt Bridges
>keep it up for a week and then paywall it
Bravo, Taeshi. What a fucking clownshow.

>>152811488
I've got pretty low self-esteem but if the two curators of a Patreon talked about me like this in public even I'd leave.
Like if you both hate this person so much, why not just ban them?

>>152812104
Is the party line "Mike stayed with Sandy because he needed her attention" or am I ragebaiting myself?

>>152812158
Randos who don't matter get banned. Longtime "friends" ignite public spats because Suit and Taeshi have poor impulse control/a need to believe themselves correct.

>>152812166
It's incoherent. The napkin doodle basically spells out that Mike is doing it for Sandy's sake out of guilt. But "later" in Burned Bridges we're told it's sunk cost fallacy plus Mike being retarded. This whole Mike-needs-attention thing wasn't brought up until now and doesn't make sense in retrospect.

>>152811905
>Taeshi isn't stupid, even from her author notes she lampshades David being biased af here. She wouldn't have done that if David is just some joke character who's her strawman. Mike really needs his issues sorted out properly, but it was handled in the worst way possible. I'm hoping to see the cast realizing they fucked up big time.


The problem is Taeshi's mental state. She could have one thing intended, then shit suddenly switches up because she has a BPD episode.

>>152810059
Still it's less out of maliciousness and more out of blissful indifference.
>>152806676
>>152806745
>>152808855
I feel like, but am not the only one who loves this and sees the character/emotional depth. The fandom is diverse and passionate.

>>152812230
>This whole Mike-needs-attention thing wasn't brought up until now and doesn't make sense in retrospect.

It's taeshi fishing for a reason for why Mike deserved LitS. Him needing attention and being this manipulative type of guy are things she pulled out her ass recently. She tries to say that Lucy hanging out with Paulo after she confessed her love for Mike is an example of the attention thing, but it doesn't work because Mike saw it as her just saying and doing whatever to have a secrutiy blanket.

>>152808952
>>152809003
These are fucking cute.
>>152808986
All the characters are beautifully written to the point that any ship would pique interest for how it would go, Augustus and Lucy have one of the sweetest friendships even if now it's more mutually based on how toxic they can be towards Mike.
>>152802314
The folks who claim to hate the story are the same ones making passionate analysis are powerful, deep, emotionally heavy stories about it. Maybe a minority does but I don't buy it. Toxicity and hatred curates jealousy, attention seeking, gossip, and sensationalism as much as it saps time.

>>152811905
>Taeshi isn't stupid
Citation very much needed.

>>152812515
I can't decide whether that is the case or if Taeshi is just so thunderously bad at setting up coherent plotpoints. Like she intends something, gets distracted, sabotages her own narrative, then tries to force it anyway.

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Alright then Taeshi

>>152812003
>It doesn't make sense because.. it just doesn't okay!
Wow great reasoning

>>152812828
My condolences on you getting dropped on your head as an infant.

>>152812777
Taeshi's really committed to giving the Mike x Lucy kid the worst hairstyle huh?

>>152812848
Don't bother anon, it's a troll.

>>152812591
I'd say its the latter. I think in her mind she has intended plot points that need to be hit but fails at making them connect properly.

Mike being cast out from the table was gonna happen eventually, everyone here knew that, but she had the whole thing go down in such a retarded way that it felt more like a big currtain pull on how she thinks. The tumblr blog answers have not helped at all

>>152812777
Ha, imagine if she's like "Hey kids, you know I had a crush on your daddy growing up, he's missing out on this plump, fat ass!"

>>152812591
The characters exhibiting flaws and regression make them more immersive, not poorly written. Everyone has a reason for doing what they do. From what I've seen the characters simply doing negative things for narrative are the root of why people didn't like Eternal Flame or Line In The Sand. Their flaws make the story more emotionally heavy.

>>152812777
this is something rachel would do

>>152812777
Goddamn my girl Rachel deserves better than this. This reeks of middle-aged crisis topped off with peaked in high-school.

>>152812591
Taeshi writing is best summarized by Darth Vader's quote from that one scene in ESB:
>I am altering the lore, pray I do not alter it any further.

>>152811251
>one little mistake I kept making, and I stopped talking to you unless my ego was bruised, and you'll no longer love me.
FTFY. Can any girl claim to like Mike at one point in this story without being a manipulative bitch? Scratch that, it's unique to the girls either, actually?

>>152802391
>kinda like with Lucy baby

I mean it’s like 10 years ago now but when Mike rejected her and she clung to Paulo Mike got pissy about it for no reason

>>152813763
Didn't she say she loved him, and then promptly went to Paulo afterwards? Sorta solidified Mike's idea that she was just using him as a teddy bear.

>>152813763
>I mean it’s like 10 years ago now but when Mike rejected her and she clung to Paulo Mike got pissy about it for no reason


She said she loved him and went to cling to Paulo basically right after. From Mike's POV it looked like she was just saying she loved him to get him to stick around, and since that didnt work, she'd start to cling to Paulo as a blanket instead.

>>152813812
Why would that make Mike angry, he was already convinced that's how she felt and already told her to fuck off in Another Shoulder

>>152814124
Because it's proof she was playing emotional games with him the entire time.

>>152814124
>write off ex-best friend and former crush as a user and abuser who sees you as replacable
>after years of obfuscatory bullshit she confesses her love for you
>oh fuck she sounds sincere for once
>turn her down but feel guilty
>get shat on by everyone else for not playing along
>she whips out a new flavor of annoying bullshit
>tell her off once and she immediately throws herself into the arms of another guy
>apparently reconfirms you always were her interchangeable teddy bear-punching bag
Yeah, I dunno man. It's a real mystery why Mike got upset.

>>152814350
>Said guy was also your second biggest abuser and the guy leading the charge against you after you turned that girl down

>>152814124
saying you love someone is is heavy. Her running around with paulo like that basically right after made it feel like she she was just saying whatever to get mike to stay around.

Doesn't help everyone got on his ass about not dating Lucy and he got beat up for it

>>152811251
The issue with Sandy is that Taeshi clearly wants to make her out as a villain, and she has potential to be a great one, except Taeshi isn't interested in making great characters. She just wants to make a point. And making that point is literally Sandy's only purpose now, characterization be damned. It's aggravating.

>>152814648
That's odd considering in one of the tumblr answers, she made sandy "Sacrificing things to make the relationship work" like it was supposed to be sympathetic.


So i guess she wants sandy to be bad but for you to still feel bad for her. Not sure how you can pull that off with a cheater.

>>152814682
Taeshi is a moron, but even she knows (or remembers from time to time) that going completely mask-off about her psychotic outlooks makes her look bad.

>>152808855
Because it's fun to gather around the metaphorical campfire and talk shit about an awful webcomic.

>>152809003
It really is hilarious just how thoroughly Sandy has utterly destroyed Lucy despite probably not even remembering she exists. Taeshi has to keep her offscreen for fear that the moment she steps foot in Roseville again, Lucyspace will collapse entirely.

>>152814350
You're acting like Mike was intending for them to still be friends after telling her off, he tells her flat out he doesn't want her around him anymore.
So yeah those would be good reasons for him to be mad if he secretly likes her still but Mike was done with her romantically and as friends by the time he heard of Lucy's rebound.
>Girl you don't like and already stopped talking to undermined the confession you turned down
Ok? Why would any of this shit matter?

>>152815009
>You're acting like Mike was intending for them to still be friends after telling her off
I'm not sure how you managed to infer as much, other than through a failure to understand how personal invalidation from someone you deeply cared about sucks ass. Particularly if they got you reconsidering whether you'd been wrong and they really did care about you after all. Congrats, you got tricked again. Fool.

Truly, it is the deepest of mysteries as to how this could inspire any strong feelings of resentment.

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At least... in death he will be granted peace he never had in life...

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>>152813763
He got pissed cause he found her love confession fake, especially since she abused him. It reinforced that she doesn't care about boys intrinsically but wants codependency comfort blankets. Which she does now.
>>152814556
She did mean her confession but wanted to soften the rejection by seducing Paulo. It was mostly selfish of her.
>>152814896
Sandy destroyed her by being a good person and boyfriend. Lucy should learn from her. I get she cheated once out of isolation but she's not a future hubbie beater.
>>152802314
Bunnies can get pissy nonetheless. Wonder if Thea's confessing she bit someone.

>>152815116
>I'm not sure how you managed to infer as much
Because you're asserting that Mike telling Lucy to kick rocks one time means anything, as if she should've stuck around after Mike telling her off "Just one time"
Are you listening to your own arguments
>Particularly if they got you reconsidering whether you'd been wrong and they really did care about you after all
There is zero indication Mike was reconsidering anything, the last interaction they have is Lucy slapping Mike in the face for no reason.
What the Fuck are you Talking about

>>152815262
>Because you're asserting that Mike telling Lucy to kick rocks one time means anything, as if she should've stuck around
What the fuck are YOU talking about? The problem wasn't that she left, it was her immediately jumping into another guy's arms the moment she felt bad. Which is taken as a sign that he was completely and utterly replaceable and never meant anything to her. Because Lucy only ever seeks comfort from one designated guy.

>There is zero indication Mike was reconsidering anything
Oh of course not, anon. That's why Mike felt so unhappy about turning Lucy down despite making it clear he was over her romantically. It's because he had completely written her off by that point, of course! That makes perfect sense.

>the last interaction they have is Lucy slapping Mike in the face for no reason
Naturally, this would not further compound any feelings of invalidation or resentment at all. Being reminded of how worthless you always were in another person's eyes should have no effect at all, unless you still like them. Naturally.

>>152815262
Not that it was okay but Lucy slapped him assuming that he would be chill with her violence, accepting that "That's just Lucy", she thought it would be a petty acceptable way to playfully spite him, and pitied him for being a soft wus. Going by her expression, that's the best conclusion, but that was the last straw that did the most damage. After apologizing to her for losing his temper, she reverts straight back to the shit she knew Mike had a problem with. Then after that he cuts her out completely. Then a year later she has the audacity to expect Mike to date her, when all he wanted was friendship and a healthy relationship with Sandy, which he's currently burned out from.

>>152813559
Is that not the whole comic

>>152815250
>She did mean her confession but wanted to soften the rejection by seducing Paulo. It was mostly selfish of her.


Taeshi confirmed Lucy uses Paulo every time she's reeling from Mike not liking her, but refuses to call lucy shitty because of it.

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>>152812230
Don't forget that Mike is happy with Sandy and enjoying the more continuous contact the morning after and in the new years chapter, but is sad about it in Double Down and LitS.

I'm on Sandy's side regardless, desu. Despite being characterized as a ditz she's clearly smarter than Mike or Lucy - she knows herself and what she wants, while those two clearly don't. And according to side material, Mike being her house husband while she works leaves her and Mike happy, and even Lucy will eventually get over it after a couple decades. Sandy both deserves to win everything, and her doing so is this dumb love triangle's happiest ending.

>>152814556
>Doesn't help everyone got on his ass about not dating Lucy and he got beat up for it
The girls were mad at him for half of one page, after Lucy told them her version of what happened, leaving out details of how it happened. Then Mike reminded them that Sandy exists and showed a photo to prove she's real, and everyone dropped the matter while Paulo congratulated Mike on managing to date someone so far out of his league.

Also Mike getting beat up was earlier and mostly unrelated - Paulo was being a shit and using the "cheater" bit as an excuse.

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>>152816435
Or....

>>152816257
>refuses to call lucy shitty
I mean she said Paulo deserves better and that she wasn't very nice to him. She knows Lucy fucking sucks I just think she enjoys that. The three-way adversarial relationship between what Taeshi thinks she wrote, how she feels about it, and what she wants the audience to think produces many strange phenomena.

>>152816435
>she knows herself and what she wants
>"what she wants" is what her mom forced her to want since she was a kid
>so insecure about her persona that even the thought of breaking character by racing up a hill throws her into a fit of rage
>goes from dropping Mike like a sack of dirt to begging to have him back in the span of one night

Sandy is a MESS. Sandy is a WASTE.

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I think she's like actually pissed at this point, these askers have forgotten the lesson McCain taught us

what kind of 3rd grader can't pronounce michael

>>152816875
"in the middle" implies 50% of Michael's suffering is done.
we've been at this for a decade. another 10 years mayhaps?

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>>152816803
>>152816435
She becomes a sweet hot mommy.

>>152816875
His suffering is the core emotional weight, it's probably going to be a suicide attempt or assault by Alejandro.

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>>152816875
Blorbo?

>>152817033
Blorbo is a term for someone's favorite character that originated from a tumblr post.

>>152816875


Wow, people dont like it when a character does nothing but suffer for years in real time? Who would have thought?

Mike doesn't have to be someone's "Blorbo" for them to feel like this. She's been dealing him a shitty hand for over a decade now. She can say "It's not always going to be this way" but on top of those moments being far spread apart, she's shown with the mall outings and the movie date that Mike can't have something end on a good note without lucy or someone else being the cause of his mood being dashed.

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>>152816894
10 more years, at least.
Mike's actually the kid from Omelas.

Oh, and I stand by what I have said before. LITS is just punishing Mike for everything Lucy did & projecting her sins onto him. All of which Lucy displayed in the chapter itself.
>Manipulative & Abusivve
>Leading people on
> Actively manipulating "friends" to keep them in line.
If Lucy never jumped, it would be impossible to defend her action, and the only defense is to treat her like a 7-year-old cripple. I need Amy's content.

>>152816875
I think the experience would be better for everyone, fans, haters, and Taeshi herself, if she paid less attention to fan feedback. I know that sounds backwards, and I'm not saying she'd spin gold on her own, but having to write the response to the response to the backlash to the criticism of the tumblr post about the response to the etc isn't going to write a good story either. Half the reason everyone's Mike Doomposting is because she made a Tumblr post suggesting Lucy was mostly in the right in LITS.

>>152817051
Does that mean like a fake fan that only likes a character for the fanart? I'm still on the confused side.

>>152816875
>Autistic Mikefags trauma dumping about Taeshis own character to her again

>>152816875
Yeah and the update schedule would be less of an issue if her page economy wasn't so shit that she devoted 3 fucking pages to Augustus smugly letting his phone vibrate.
And it's not that Mike's being tortured, it's that everyone has to act like a fucking retard for half the torture to happen.

>>152817330
I guess blorbo can be derogatory if you're trying to accuse somebody of being too attached to them but it's not really generally used that way. It just means a character you like to fawn over, more or less. Your pet character.

>>152817384
I've been meaning to ask you, a few Tumblr posts back Tae said Lucy was setting Augustus' needs before her own by going back to the table "like she always does." You read Lucy the most generously of anyone I know, where is this pattern of selfless behavior?
(Suicide tour doesn't count, a couple of days as a part of ideation isn't a pattern)

>>152811538
>you never see anyone misgender a cis person over them having a different opinion
That happens all the time. "tranny" or "dilate" are buzzword insults, and the protein-rich bean plant known in japan as edamame was so overused it's in the word filter here.

>>152817435
NTA, but I think you may be conflating different anons.

To chime in, I think Taeshi's more referencing the prior times Lucy's told Augustus to go play with the senior squad. One could also maybe read Lucy returning to the table as a microcosm of her returning to Roseville - putting herself back amidst people she hates for the sake of closure(?), or something.

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>>152811538
Yeah because it doesnt effectively insult normal people enough, and if youre deliberately trying to insult someone youre going to strike at shit you think they'll actually take seriously. For normal people it slides off. If its someone who cut his dick off over gender identity bullsnit he'll probably have a panic attack and fuck off. Do i really have to explain the concept of shit talk to you, moron?

>>152816875
This lady genuinely thinks she deserves to live

Here's a fun and slightly uncomfortable fact for you all- did you know that one of the former head mods for the BCB subreddit had their own NSFW subreddit called "fitness fetish" , and regularly posted on hypnohentai and hypnofur? They also had 100+ followers, so there's a pretty good chance a lot of the newer members of the subreddit actually like that stuff too.

>>152818131
we know and we dont give a fuck
and we also know bagfag&co mass reported that guys account causing it to get suspended

>>152817306
I finally have Spring Break for college, and false start and some blog posts gave me some ideas for the beginning of the first chapter, so that's definitely starting soon. However, I might start with chapter 2's alternative ending: "(I'll love you) Until the last petal wilts" as a nice warmup.

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>>152816875
Christ taeshi is gonna turn Mike into THIS isn't she

Christ I miss Amy...

>>152818131
The anthro characters are a major part of BCB's appeal, it's a furry comic - of course it's going to attract furries. And hypnofetishists are based.

>>152818201
She was fun but she'll never be canon... and it's pretty hard to motivate artfags when the comic itself is so bad.

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>>152818131
That bitch's crazy, good for him. Do you expect 4chan to be throwing rocks at someone's fetish? Have you seen the namefag that can't keep it in his pants when kids are mentioned?

>>152817412
It can be derogatory in a "fan of the fandom" way, the Tumblr version of the waifufag

>>152818131
Okay? Any particular reason why we should care?

>>152816875
These Tumblr Q&As are gonna cause Taeshi to snap and commit a murder-suicide with Suit.

She has no out, right now it's Mikefags bitching to her about how he's oppressed by the narrative. When the "Mike Misery Arc" ends, it'll be the Mikehaters/Lucyfags bitching next about how he doesn't deserve happiness yadda yadda.

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>>152818925
>Mikefags bitching to her about how he's oppressed by the narrative.
Funny thing, a lot of the people question arent even Mikefags. Lucy & posse acted like such assholes that people feel they need clarification on this shit.

>>152819086
I think even people who previously hated Mike and liked Lucy were taken aback by LitS. With Augustus & David being hostile, Lucy going for the low-blow while Mike was mid sentence, and James being a snake, it's hard to not read it as them bullying Mike where no-one will see. Especially when they react to "what happened?" by basically going "shut up if you know what's good for you".

>>152818131
Why the fuck would we care? People need to stop trying to turn this into a retarded furry kiwifarms

>>152819086
This. LitS was just blatant bullshit with the Lucy Squad being objective cunts and James being a flake. Apparently she is somehow surprised people got pissed at the shit James pulled

I've been reading this comic for like a decade now, and after i finished my first read-through, its genuinely been nothing but hate-reading.
It's weird, isn't it. It's great in the start, but then you get further in, and then the ketchuping happens and the lucyspace kicks in.
God, this comic has been stuck in a weird loop of nothing happening for so long. Eternal flame was the final nail in the coffin, and experiencing it in real-time was surreal.

>>152816875
Funfact, people have emotions and can get affectionated to ficitional characters! Ahaha wow incredible right? I couldnt continue to read a comic after my favorite character got batshit killed in a horrible way, and my second favorite got almost the same fate... But the difference is, the comic was still good! And after taking my time, I finished reading it. Because it's natural, not something to be pissy about (´▽`ʃƪ) Demanding people to be a certain way towards something that is supposed to be bad is weird

>>152816875
Her response is less cringe than that ask, honestly. As least Taeshi can spell.

>>152820092
she's surprised because she made up a bunch of reasoning plot points in her head that she somehow never put onto the pages

>>152822172
I think it is less reasoning plotpoints and more she made shit up after the fact. Taeshi had several chapters to show these traits leading up to lits but instead we got Mike doing the opposite.

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Enough of all this shit, time for the real discussion.

Who's the most comfy to cuddle with and why is the answer Daisy?

>>152822793
she a fatty

>>152822793
Daisy would be top tier if she just decided to own the fact that she's big

>>152822444
I dontt think she could have gotten away with the "Mike Manipulaties People" stuff regardless because that would require retcons going back years.

She could have done the "Mike projects Lucy onto James and it hurts their friendship because his actions are centered around it" accusation point if she actually decided to take her time instead of railroad shit.

>>152822951
> if she actually decided to take her time instead of railroad shit.
Even then, it wouldn't work. James didn't act like Lucy in the slightest before LITS. We even get an in-universe comparison of Daisy and James. Anons here speculated that James was likely formed from an aborted dating Daisy plotline because they were so blatantly similar.I'd believe it cause Daisy did Jack shit during that arc.LITS wouldn't work with Daisy with the way this shit is written, especially since Daisy and Lucy are barely friends.

>>152822793
I would treat Daisy so right. I'd bring her to my room and we'd cuddle in front of my tv as we watch anime together. I could smell the shampoo she uses on her fur and it suits her well. We'd look at each other and grin, happy to be together before leaning forward for our lips to meet.

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>>152822793
These two bisexual angelic cuties with cuddleable soft fur.
Matt too for his chub, Paulo's got a lot of rough fur but they're too cute and submissive not to hold down and dominate.

>>152822793
Anime Amaya!
Or Amaya ( ＾▽＾), if you will

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>>152822793
Daisy and Sandy, and secondarily Lucy, Paulo, Sue, Jessica, and Rachel, I imagine are the fluffiest.

But no way in hell I'm gonna pass up on the opportunity to squeeze this fatass teddy bear. Hope David does one day.

>>152822793
Those hairstyles are so bad
Anyways, Daisy is the best and she’d be even better if she just started Puruglymaxxing.

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>>152823429
Have you seen her mom? If Daisy got over her need to be dainty and shy and started working out she'd be thicker than Taeshi's skull

>>152817384
Based Mikefags

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>>152823558
Who's the most fuckable MILF?

>>152818131
This is a glowcultist post.

>>152816875
Theae sorts of questions are going to make Taeshi split even harder on Mike and inflict yet more punishment. I wonder if we are seeing the start of a viscuous cycle.

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>>152823577
I do love Rose Muir, Carol, Ellen, and David's mom, but she'll always be my favorite. Blursedshipsbcb did say that in their universe, Mike wound up picking her over the others, making them pissed. Wonder what the odds are Mike, Paulo, David and the other boys would fuck their own moms. Way more likely in Trashbadger's, Victor's, Familyanon's, Louis' or any other fan's headcanons. We'll see.

>>152823635
I'm glad you only ever post other peoples' art now.

>>152823577
Paulo's mom certainly has it going on, but I think I'd like to fuck Mike's mom. She must be absolutely pent up. I feel like she'd throw her entire being into fucking, the sheer sexual frustration being released would make her cum like a faucet. The office ladies are always the best.

>>152823577
If Mike really did impregnate Augustus's mom and she keeps it, would he act like a good sibling towards it?

>>152823558
I actually don’t remember her mom at all

>>152823585
Dude, I'm doing this because I'm that guy. /CO won against Suitcase and Discord, and they're seething so much that Taeshi insulted the subreddit multiple times in her blog posts, said something along the lines that Lucy would think the subreddit is lame, and any mention of the subreddit gets you permabanned.

>>152823685
Makes sense considering how stressed and alone she can be. Acethepenlord wrote about her and Lani fucking primarily for that. An adult Sandy, Sabrina (Sandy's mom), and Augustus' mom likely experience the same.
>>152823702
It's such a divergence for the main timeline, an unusual norm for him to consider fucking another girl than Sandy, let alone any of the moms. But since he wants to be nice and doesn't want anyone to suffer cause of him, I imagine he would try his best. It would be a nightmare for him since he's a 16-year-old in high school, even if he was 18 and a fresh graduate, he'd be in deep stress raising any child of a woman he knocks up.
I'd think he'd feel a thousand times more comfortable impregnating Sandy or any of the other girls he knows in a polycule, cause currently he'd consider knocking up one of the moms to be cheating.

>>152823731
Pretty odd thing for you to do, then, phrasing it like some sin we are supposed to care about. As if you come from some community where shaming is regularly weaponized and just assumed 4chan worked the same way.

>>152823775
I'm just trying to piss off Suitcase, he stalks the threads from time to time.

>>152823716
She makes a prominent appearance at Daisy's birthday party.

Subjective, but hypothetically if any of the boys happened to date their friend's moms, I imagine it would be Mike and Carol through venting about his failed relationships with Sandy and Lucy, and that she tries to comfort him, cheating on her husband due to his absense. Something similar with Paulo and Ellen. Secondarily that either of them would date Lois, Lola, Rose (Augustus' mom).

I think the incest pairings (MikexEllen, PauloxRose Muir, Davidxhis mother) are too divergent to occur in the main timeline. But like in the fanfictions, some event can cause them to branch out to try it.
>>152823731
You're Calligrapher/BCBsimp?
>>152823775
> You assume 4chan is a community where shaming is weaponized.
It's not?

>>152823787
So you are trying to piss off Suitcase by feeding him a talking point in his favor. Great strategy. I can confidently say, whether you are indeed a bumbling cultist or not, that you are really bad at stirring shit.

>>152823805
You are shamed because you actually 100% deserve it.

Who fuckin cares about bagfag stalking these threads? If he wants to waste his time watching the circlejerk here then let him. Hell, he probably isn't even here, it's more likely the rabid, dogmatic, white knight "fans" looking through these threads voluntarily to keep an eye out for leaks so they can report them.

/co/ is likely an afterthought for suit and yet he lives rent free in most of yall's heads

>>152823761
>Acethepenlord wrote about her and Lani fucking primarily for that

I'm gonna need sauce for that chief

>>152823859
>/co/ is likely an afterthought for suit
I'm afraid he is far too pathetic of a control freak for that to be true.

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>>152822793
>daisy

funny way to spell rachel anon

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>>152823685
Not all MILFs but still, rabbits make the best breeding sluts. Plus, Thea's characters reproduce across species, they're the perfect baby machines.
>>152823875
https://comics.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600061117
Here it is. Summary, Lani comes over to discuss Mike's home life and grades, Ellen is tired and unfulfilled, Lani simps for her and they have a hot bisexual pussy fucking and MILF boob sucking.

>>152823893
Hell yeah! I adore how Apsel draws her squishy, plump, breedable dog ass and boobs. She's slutty and hot nonetheless but not as fluffy as Daisy.
>>152823815
I'm sure he does but he really shouldn't, he has a very fulfilling life, a loving wife who makes money off their fire webcomic story. I doubt he'd reduce himself to acknowledging ragebait here.

>>152820092
James doesn't even look like just a flake, a flake would abandon Mike here but a flake wouldn't stop to twist the knife like that, and a flake sure as shit wouldn't blame Mike for him not getting alone time with someone he can just hang out with after school.
He only comes out looking like a cruel and petty little shit so desperate for David's approval that he goes into overdrive liking what David likes and hating what David hates.

>>152824027
It's funny how James' judgmental side came out of nowhere like that. Before that moment, you'd almost think he would be too much of a friendly stupid ditz or to care all that much.

>>152822793
Daisy is too needy, insecure, and awkward to enjoy a good cuddle. Lucy would probably be a good cuddler once her tsundere nature stops resisting you.
Jasmine might also be a good cuddler because her Christian ways won't allow her to have sex before marriage so heavy cuddles will have to satisfy her cravings for physical contact

Furthermore:
Matt is the best big spoon
Amaya is the best little spoon

>>152823635
this just looks like mike helped her transition

>>152824153
Makes sense. That's basically what Mike did to Paulo.

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>>152824390
>That's basically what Mike did to Paulo.
But all Mike did was talk to Paulo about how he isn't gonna call him a faggot. He didn't make him soggy; that was Paulo's very gay thoughts.

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regarding james, we had all the signs and still ignored them. and by we I meant everyone, Taeshi included

>>152824671
No one gray cat should have all that power.

>>152824706
James' excuses make no sense. He sits one table across from Paulo during lunch.

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>>152825191
so what happens on this version of LitS?

>>152824706
First they came for Paulo, and I said nothing because I was already unsympathetic to his eternal, one-sided jealous beef with Mike

Then they came for Mike, and I knew it was coming but holy fuck

>>152825222
Paulo's jealousy could be interesting given how conflicted it makes him feel about Mike, but the problem is how that dynamic never goes anywhere. We are currently at an inflection point where Paulo could do the interesting thing and side with Mike when everyone else is pushing for the opposite. You know, make good on all that alleged character growth he's been going through. But I am 100% sure that Taeshi will go the laziest, most boring route possible. Either Paulo's kneejerk malding will plant his flag firmly in the Lucy camp or paralyze him with indecision.

>>152823815
Honestly if you just want to piss off Suitcase, you can just remind everyone in the discord that he had a huge loli fetish and tricked an autistic kid to write a fanfiction about child porn.

>>152813763
Turns out she literally wasn't even interested into Paulo. This bitch is a fucking whore.

>>152825329
I mean if we now know that we're only in the middle of Mike's misery arc then there's no way Paulo actually does anything. And it sucks because all the people currently ruining Mike's life have also dicked Paulo around or made him feel worthless. It's just sheer inertia keeping him in Lucy's camp at this point.

I'm gonna spoil BCB for you guys
It's all about Mike learning to have empathy for Sandy being a dog fucking slut, he opens up their relationship so he won't make Sandy feel bad for fucking and sucking other dudes.

Can I just vent how irritated I get that so many comics get ignored here and often will die off after the storytime ends (if they get a thread at all), yet somehow this garbage and Homestuck get 24/7 generals with hundreds of posts a day always on page 1?
Homestuck at least was huge at one point to justify this

>>152825674
bcb is better than homestuck

and we're just a little extra autistic, thats why bcb has been a constant

>>152825200
Yknow, I get why Daisy wants to whore herself out now

>>152825625
>we're only in the middle of Mike's misery arc
Why does Mike's misery arc involve everything inside and around him being destroyed? Lucy's misery was both self-inflicted, and her family was never ever threatened with being destroyed. I wouldn't be questioning this with any other webcomic, but fuck me.

>>152825674
I understand your frustrations anon because I've been there but you really can't compare, for example, a finished comic book/comic book series to almost 20 year old webcomics that are still ongoing.

>>152825973
It's not Taeshi's fault you're too biased to see that almost all of Mike's problems are self inflicted.

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>>152824390
In a way but he just helped Rose out of poverty and depressioin.
>>152824671
I loved this arc, from bully to rival to aquaintance to friend to confidant for bisexual feelings, to a crush. I love how Mike's kindness and suffering is a huge reason for why Paulo wound up crushing on him.
Give into the gayness Paulo!

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>>152825329
Paulo's crush on Lucy seems to be way stronger even than for Daisy, more than any affection towards Mike or David. Even if Lucy is entitled he can't bring himself not to care.
>>152825390
I read the fanfic either he or someoen else wrote of Abbey apparently marrying and fucking a 10-year-old Molly, it's pretty cute and interesting, quite the divergence.
>>152825626
This story is polyamory bait, that's the only way these lovestruck horny cats will be happy. Disagreement with a partner? Fuck someone else in the circle till they beg you back.

>>152826137
Everyone's problems are self inflicted honestly. If you allow somebody to put you in a situation then that's kind of a skill issue

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>>152825973
>Why does Mike's misery arc involve everything inside and around him being destroyed?


Because Mike must pay for daring to be fed up with Lucy's abuse. The one time he blows up at her and even apologizes for it, his life starts breaking down.

That and probably because Taeshi is tired of people having sympathy for Mike because they "Just don't get it" when ti comes to why Mike needed to suffer in LitS

>>152826137
That's true in general, but not in LitS. Augustus, Lucy, and David directly attacked Mike, and he was only responsible in that he put himself in front of them and then failed to defend himself. He was "breaking his promise" to Augustus, but that promise was made under duress, so eeeeh.

>>152826564
That promise was retarded in general. There comes a point where they need to get Lucy help instead of expecting Mike to alter his entire life around her bad dreams that he's not even aware of.


Unintentionally, Taeshi has shown that people still leave Lucy's entire mental state up to Mike.

>>152826520
Why is fem!Augustus so hot

>>152826949
messy goth looking hoe.

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>>152826549
>That and probably because Taeshi is tired of people having sympathy for Mike because they "Just don't get it" when ti comes to why Mike needed to suffer in LitS
Wouldn't that just cause more sympathy to form? His parents' divorce would just increase sympathy. Mike getting his dad killed by accident would have better odds at decreasing sympathy.
>>152826580
>Taeshi has shown that people still leave Lucy's entire mental state up to Mike.
So Mike was right.

>>152827691
>Wouldn't that just cause more sympathy to form? His parents' divorce would just increase sympathy. Mike getting his dad killed by accident would have better odds at decreasing sympathy.


Taeshi has periods where she wants the audience to feel bad for a character and periods where she doesnt want them to feel bad for a character. That doesn't mean she can control it. LitS was one of those moments where readers were supposed to agree that Mike was getting what he deserved for his actions (that he didnt actually do)

His parents diviorce might be a moment where she wants the audiecne to feel bad but she shits on him so much that they'll say he deserves it instead.

>Mike was right.

Nothing in the comic has proved Mike wrong about how he sees Lucy's treatment of him. The comic just decided to punish him for his december rant and it started with Lucy jumping.

>>152827763
its sort of funny as I remember people back them saying her jumping was stupid since he did try to apologize for going too far (he really didnt) and the dumb bitch jumps anyway

>>152827784

Honestly I think Taeshi's mental state was so bad that she just decided to have lucy jump. I remember when she came back girl bossing, she said she regretted making Lucy act so pathetically during december. But it turns out she also just didn't have a proper reason for Lucy coming back considering she just recently revaled she came up with one.

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>>152827882
>Honestly I think Taeshi's mental state was so bad that she just decided to have lucy jump.
Pretty sure is known here that Taeshi had a mental break around that time.
>she just recently revaled she came up with one.
ANy reaosn sint gonna make much sense.
>Not there for mom or Jordan
> Didn't know Aguasatsu was there
>Pets are with Aunt
>Lucy does not give a shit about her friends and puts them next to her attempted rapist.
A non-mike reason to come back doesnt really exist.