>Veronica: :(So the mom definitely cock blocked Lucy from her previous school right?
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>>154175251The mom looks like she ages a decade every time she interacts with Lucy, and who can blame her.
what are the chances lucy's new love interest is a dog, I'm tired of all these damn cats
>>154175251First, the vibe I get is Taeshi cribbing from Flak0ps's own work. Second, while it's good to see Lucy showing *some* regret over how her chronic hostility affects others (even if it's on a very self-centered level), there's a strong chance that Lucy will just get deflective and pissy. Even if that doesn't happen, I really cannot work up a single fuck to give for Lucy's sake.
>>154175324"if you still don't hate me"Lucy hates everyone, and only views "love interests" as tools for her own gain.
>>154175251>>154175324It's nice to see the mom throwing shit back at Lucy, if you see it that way. The mom, Carol, seems like she was pretty hurt by Lucy's words a while back. That or it's a major insecurity for her.
>>154175363No no her hostility is just the mask, don't you know? It doesn't matter how naturally it comes to Lucy even when she's alone. She's actually super fun and sweet and caring which is why she can tear other characters down without feeling a shred of regret!
>>154175363Lucy's mom showing where Lucy got that behaviour from.Then again, Lucy's mom protecting her daughter from whatever scumbag was trying to fuck her (or whatever reason she had to push the new Mike away) probably works out better in the long term
>>154172676>Mike gets surrounded by gays again, like middle schoolIt's the scarf, right?>>154174463> no one but a future murder victim would tolerate Lucy as a partner.FTFYI can feel a level of sympathy for everyone around Lucy, but not Lucy herself. I don't know why, despite the attempts at pity baiting.
kek
>>154175420Probably accidentally saying that corny line Taeshi said, forever twaumatizing poor wittle wucy and making her scream and cry and piss herself for hours.
>>154175413Unironically that's the most infuriating part of Lucy. Take away her schizo turbo cunt attitude and she seems like a genuinely fun and decent person to be around. Despite her cuntiness, she does care, she hates that she cares, cuz she cared too much and it broke her in the end. Now she's here fighting herself, wanting to push everyone away and wanting to be with everyone else again like old times.
>>154175387Lucy regularly takes shows of concern from her family as personal attacks and refuses to open up about her mental state. For a mom trying to do her best for a recently suicidal daughter, this situation must be absolutely exhausting.
>>154175431>I can feel a level of sympathy for everyone around Lucy, but not Lucy herselfProbably because she's done nothing to deserve that sympathy the comic keeps begging for. When Lucy keeps getting her ass kissed and powdered in-universe, when she acts like a delusional selfish brat with no consequences, and when her hangups either do not make sense or are entirely self-inflicted (quite possibly both), what is there for anyone to feel sorry for?
>>154175509I wonder if Carol has a stash of wine. One bottle for everytime Lucy successfully goes to bed without killing herself.
>>154175493That's Lucy in theory. The practical Lucy is just a habitual asshole with random flashes of regular person behavior.
>>154175349BCB is not worth that level of effort.
>>154175251>No Lucy you can't have a train run on you. This is a private school Lucy>I HATE YOU MOMLucy definitely obsessed over some poor fucker and Carol had to put her foot down.
>>154175740>have a train run on youLucy doesn't want multiple guys. She wants one guy all to herself. Specifically, she needs a man to keep her in check.Looking at Lucy's family and her genetic deafness, it's more like>No, Lucy, you cannot fuck your cousin. Your genes are already fucked up enough, imagine what your kids will look like>FUCK YOU MOM I LOVE HIM
>>154175740Then Carol happily took Augustus into her home. Did Taeshi just not think through this at all or are we being way too logical with our assumptions again and the ACTUAL reason will be impossibly retarded? Because that keeps happening when it comes to the Goldiemalding plot.
>>154175324>cribbing from Flak0ps's own work>The main mother we see is literally mentally retarded>The other tries so hard is a single mother working a shitty deadend job dealing with a little monster, who most likely turned into a serial killer Lucy's mother is loving and not retarded
>>154175251'Auggie'? They're in pet name terms already?Also, I hate to see this constant Augustus ass kissing.>So the mom definitely cock blocked Lucy from her previous school right?Very likely. Another narrative asspull. If it'll get further detailed, who knows, but either way it's going to be shit.The so-called 'Lucy suffering' will never come.
>>154175876>Lucy's mother is...not retarded
>>154175251I really want to see what bullshit Taeshi would spew if asked how Lucy's mom would feel about Auggie's rapist past."Oh well she'd call Daisy to confirm it before blindly assuming Auggie was at fault, and Daisy would say she was asking for it!"
>>154175860She probably thought he was a fag kek
>>154176020I wonder what would have happened if Lucy kept pushing and Augustus did blow the rape whistle, so to speak.
>>154175431What exactly are we supposed to sympathize with Lucy FOR? Lucy's so all over the place it's hard to even understand what her problem is.Mike, Paulo, Daisy, Sue, Abbey- just about every other character who isn't a retarded meme like David can be explicable, so you can sympathize with their distress even if they are conflict avoidant cowards, soggy bitches, boy thirsty landwhales- whatever.Lucy's problems are a weird kaleidoscope that changes over time, and every time she unpacks it it's to thoughtkill that she should be grateful to her friends or to outright say she deserves more from them then they've already given.
>>154176090psych ward maybe
>>154175431It's because Taeshi wants Lucy to be both pitiable and proud, she wants you to feel for Lucy while showing she doesn't need anyone to feel bad for her, she wants you to take her convictions serious while she shivers and shits herself over Augustus keeping the phone without asking him to get rid of it, she wants you to see her as a victim while she victimizes someone else. The end result is that Lucy can't be taken seriously as a character, you never know what she's thinking or why she does things, just right now she has spent all interactions with her family being dismissive and cold and hates that her mom is an empty headed housewife, but now she's also worried about how her reactions affect her mom and is even being guilt tripped? Give me a break
>>154176297>The end result is that Lucy can't be taken seriously as a character; you never know what she's thinking or why she does things. Why the fuck is that less of an issue with Mike? When Taeshi isn't hijacking his brain for dumb shit to happen, you cna see internal logic and even internal monologues.>Mike follows James outside depsite possiblity fo hanging out with the rest of the track team cause James did a love bomb him at a low point and dropped him like a hot potato. Before Augustus, Mike was gonna ask James why.> Mike's depression is occasionally brought up, and shown that he just doesn't eat due to it. It's only gotten worse nad now he just avoids his "friends" due to the drawn line in the sand.>Sandy, at this point, seems more like a weird self-punishment for himself.Even in Lucy's dream, where she puts her friends next to her rapist, we can't tell what she is thinking. Because Lucy looks insane putting them next to him and Taeshi offers no alternative dialogue to read it differently, but always relies on out-of-comic blog posts for Lucy's supposed headspace.It's the same issue with calling Mike a master manipulator or main character syndrome. If anyone fucking has that, it's Lucy since she acts like sitting near her friend is such a challenge. Augustus is also a manipulative bastard; it's one of his defining traits and actions.Comic acts like Lucy was abused and neglected as a kid to get these trust issues, but we haven't seen shit of that. We have seen the exact opposite.Honestly, having Lucy have siblings was a mistake. To sell, she felt alone growing up would have made more sense for her to be an only child and for Mike to have siblings.
>>154175860>Then Carol happily took Augustus into her home. Did Taeshi just not think through this at all or are we being way too logical with our assumptions again and the ACTUAL reason will be impossibly retarded?Taeshi didn't even think of why Lucy came back until recently. Whatever happened in the past with this boy is going going to make Lucy look stupid no matter what. Either the same level of stupid or even worse than already. Might go the same for her family too
It turns out Uncle Steve is getting a discount for a reason!
>>154175420>Lucy and her Mom try to out-passive-aggressive bpd each other, bit they both know all the tricks.
>>154176090Lucy's mother would be so saddened. Dude has suffered so much abuse and bullshit. Lucy offers help, they both agree there is nothing romantic between them.And Lucy forces herself on him not out of love but for her own selfish reason. He could blurt out, I'm just being paranoid and its just my dreams imaging you are raping me. You never had sex with me in my sleep right... RIGHT LUCY.>WHAT KIND OF FAGGOT CRIES WHILE HAVING SEX WHAT KIND OF FAGGOT CRIES IN HIS SLEEP WHILE GETTING FUCKED. NOT EVEN MIKE IS SUCH A PUSSY WHY WONT YOU HAVE SEX WITH ME DO YOU NOT FIND ME ATTRACTIVE AT ALL.>Oh god Lucy what have you been doing to Augustus. Has he not suffered enough in life, oh god how could you do this to someone do this to him. You told us there was nothing romantic between you two. REEEEEEEE WOMAN CANT RAPE MOM STOP HOLDING YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS AND HYPERVENTALTING AUGUSTUS GROW A FUCKING SPINE ITS SEX HOW CAN YOU NOT ENJO-*DOUBLE SLAP DOUBLE TEAM MOM&AUG slapped her at the sametime not even realizing it*REEEEEE *runs away* FUCK YOU IM GOING TO JUMP INFRONT OF TRAFFIC AND ITS ALL YOUR FAULT NO NONONONO PUT DOWN PHONE HOW DARE YOU CALL 911 NONONO WAIT WAIT WAIT NNONONONONONONONOREEEEEEEE STOP FUCKING CRYING AUGUSTUS YOU SPINELESS FUCKING COWARD STOP CRYING MOM I DID NOTHING WRONG
>>154176894I dont think taeshi herself has a good read on why Lucy does the things that she does. She just uses her to move the plot along and for Mike punishment. We have gone a decade without seeing her pov of things or any actual thoughts she's had.this and the things you listed about Mike go back to the theory some anons have about this comic. That whatever Taeshi thinks up in her head is different from what she's putting on the pages, and she doesn't realize it for some reason. She has characters in certain roles with their actions in her head but those actions are never put onto paper at all or put down in a way that makes everyone around them insane.
>>154175860>Then Carol happily took Augustus into her homeWell, if putting her foot down about the boy Lucy was obsessing over at the other school made Lucy so mad that she had to come back to Roseville and is STILL pissy about it, maybe Carol decided that giving in and accepting Augustus was both necessary and beneficial.>Fuck, Lucy's been back for a day and already found another boy to obsess over>If I say "no, you can't keep him" she'll crash out, screech at me, and might sabotage herself until I need to transfer her AGAIN>This boy does seems to need the help though, and at least SEEMS to be resistant to Lucy's attempts to bully and/or seduce him>Plus he called 911 for her, so maybe letting her keep him around will serve as an additional safety factor>Fuck it, what's the worst that can happen. It's not like she's going to sneak into his room at night and try to rape him
>>154176098I think you're supposed to sympathize with Lucy for being crazy and all over the place? Sort of a "oh no, Lucy is so traumatized that not even she knows what she feels or wants, how sad" kind of thing. But Idk, I'm just guessing.
>>154175509Parenting Lucy has always seemed like a nightmare, even in the early comic. I bet that when Carol gave Lucy a bow as a bit of comfort on the first day of kindergarden, she wasn't thinking Lucy would keep it for the next 10 years.
>>154177687There she is, so young and innocent, kind-minded and caring. Will you be able to see her the same way ever again?
>>154177687>that note also cover for the two other kids that actually don't need to be thereConvenient.
>>154177790It’s lunchtime
>>154177863My bad.
>>154177933I don't blame you, I had to go back a couple of pages to remember
>>154177582That might have worked if she hadn't been anything but a bitch that doesn't want any accountability since she came back.
>>154177774I dunno, she's already looking pretty suspicious.
>>154177773I still don't get what she was offering in the last page, calling Mikes mother and accusing him of being present at the school Lucy insisted on coming back to (seemingly after burning some bridges at the other one)? Demand he exists in a quieter fashion?
>>154178184I still think she was contemplating going >"Hey Ellen, Lucy came home in a pretty good mood today. Your son's still alive, right? He got home safe, no major bruises? Okay, good. Lucy said they didn't interact, but I just wanted to check."
>>154178234And the reply would likely be "iunno, probably?"
>>154178234>>154178325"Why would Lucy interact with Chris?"
>>154178325>>154178355Ellen remembers Mike exists, she just assumes he’s perfect. So it’d be more like “he’s doing great!” while he lies half-dead on the kitchen floor.
Who's ready for bittersweet haley bowl?
>>154178657And why doesn't Sue just fuck Lucy already?
>>154178706Lucy hates lesbians.
>>154177163Goddamn you made me feel bad for Lucy holy shit
>>154178325>>154178355>>154178608Wouldn't it be the opposite? Mike is Ellen's golden child. If anything she'd neglect Haley or Chris. Carol probably has to be careful with her words regarding Mike with Ellen
>>154178657I fear that Taeshi is gonna fuck up Haley and make her look worse than she really intends. That jealousy thing is super easy to fuck up if you dont manage it just right.
>>154179076You can safely assume she will. It's just a matter of how she will manage to be worse than the worst expectations
>>154178657Yeah, Haley is just going to end up another knife in Mike's back and Taeshi will declare it character development.>>154178706Something about Taeshi squeeing over her own comic, even sarcastically, disgusts me.
>>154179144>Haley lays into Mike for making her life worse by being the golden boy their mom loves>ignores her own agency>if he was really that great then he'd stop their parents from divorcingThis will be treated as legitimate and Mike will sympathize with Haley while hating himself even more.
>>154177687>make a comic featuring child characters >make a canon(?) timeskip side comic where one of the children grows up to be a sadistic whore>normal comic resumes, character is a child again If The Sex Comic(tm) is canon then it's like we were just shown the last 20 minutes of Empire Strikes Back and now have to watch the extended cut of the prequels. Darth Jacker's shadow darkens every new page
>>154177687La Creatura
>>154177582>I don't WANT choicewhat did she mean by this
>>154178608It is because Ellen understands that while many might fall in the face of chaos, it will not be her son. Not today.
>>154179351The number of contradictions under the hood make it a genuine chore to understand her.
>>154177582Watch what Lucy said here be redefined by whatever Taeshi cooks up for Lucy's post-jump timeskip
>>154179243I won't mind if she blows up on him because it's not like she can blow up on her mom, and I won't mind when Mike believes it because he hates himself, but I'm gonna have an aneurysm when Tae goes on Tumblr and lists all the ways Mike could have "done better" to manage his mom's relationship with his sister or dad because being the only adult in the house is his responsibility as a sixteen year old boy. You bet your sweet ass I'm projecting onto Mike right now.
>>154179018She's all-round neglectful, Mike is the favored child because he copes with this better, at least as far as she can tell, as soon as the 404 Mike not found saga reaches its climax its probably going to be the catalyst for her peacing out altogether.
>>154177163Lulz you know what makes this really funny. Because a lot of them have hetrochromia desu desu eyes hearing damage/half deaf/deaf and etc problems. It means they're inbred, and because Lucy's father is a NASCAR driver. I bet they are from the south and they are closely related like not even cousins. Like half sister or someshit toppest of kekeroonies.Lucy doesn't have a family tree, she has a family root on a rotting shrub. Lucy's father is barely home because when he is home. He drinks like a fish and beats his step sister wife, and if the neightbors call the cops it will fuck with his teams sponsors which in turn will cause him to drink and do a bunch of meth not sleep for days and end up killing his family&self or at least his wife.Lucy is all fucked up because he started molesting her hardcore at age 2 till 8, she has completely mentally blocked this and doesn't even remember it. Dearest brothers asshole was perma GAPED by age 4, just bending over he no longer had a brown starfish just a gaping hole wider than a 1$ coin. He was forcefully molested and raped up to the age of 12. Hence why he is so weird when it comes to sex and really wanting to do it with a chick and being horrible with ladies. He wants to wash all the memories away the thousands of times he's taken to getting seeded in the ass not just by his father but family too and even friends of the family and work. IT ALL MAKES SENSE These last 3,4 pages are now 1488% canon Tae is the one who made these shoops. They are a cry for help she is tired of having to deal with the discord trannies, as we can see from all the cope&lies in her ask&tell blog. She can still be funny&witty as we seen from that bleating heart drawing a few weeks ago. Shes just forced into the hell mines that is BCB unable to finish her story or even progress it quicker.
>>154179351From what i've gathered, especially with LitS. Lucy doesn't like choice because she doesn't want to pick "Wrong" and it blows up in her face. She doesn't wanna be a part of something going south. Which is why when Paulo asked her if she wanted Mike exiled from the table, she slapped him to avoid it. But with Augustus, he did it all on his own and Lucy was just there along for the ride aside from her kicking Mike and gaslighting. She did those two things but she was just going off what Augustus had already set in motion without asking her.She wants a boy to just GO for her instead of having to pick between different ones. She wants Mike to feel emotional pain like she did but not have her hand in the paint if something worse comes from it. She wants no real accountability
>>154177687ʕ ◉‿◉ ʔHey do you really wanna win that contest>Form a contract with me>Also>SEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>Why do you always ask me to form a contract with you, and why is it always so weird. You know I'm always going to say no! But yes to the sex part,always yes to the sex.ʕ◉ᴥ◉ʔ One day you'll finally accept my offer and form a contract TRUST ME IT WILL BE TO DIE FOR. Now lets go have sex in your brothers bed before he gets home, our scent needs to be in his bed. It makes me so horny knowing he masterbates sniffing all over his bed at night, but he doesn't have the courage to say he knows what we're doing, Or better yet come into room when we are doing it and instead pretending he's not home even tho we can hear him or peaking into the room.>STOP MAKING THIS WEIRD >C-can I join in on the sex today>NO>NO>O-okeys
>>154179329Can't look at her the same now lmao
>>154178706>>154178769Sue has no self respect.
>>154175251I hate Augustus so much it's unreal.It'd be one thing if he changed but he's still the same manipulative piece of shit that tried to rape Daisy, Lucyspace just favors him is all.
>>154181213you might as well get ready for him tto get away with it all too. Taeshi already said he and David wont get karma for LitS
>>154181213Same man. I despise every single character favored by Lucyspace, specially David and Augustus.Ironically, I don't hate Lucy herself as much as I do the others, but she sucks too.It pisses me off that they never get any sort of punishment, despite doing and saying a bunch of awful shit.Mike is an idiot, but it's ridiculous that he is the only one getting bashed all the time.
>>154181213No wonder Taeshi claims the comic doesn't bother with any sense of morality. It's actually that she's inverted the concept altogether.
This comic could never go viral because she wouldn't be able to handle all the new eyes on it. Especially if people start pointing out the unintentional stuff like the comic saying Mike should have just taken Lucy's abuse forever.The Blog answers trying to justify my getting raked over the coals like he has don't help.Someone could also point out that that the only gay male character is a total snake and she gets hit by the "Bad representation!" accusations.
>>154181644>Someone could also point out that that the only gay male character is a total snake and she gets hit by the "Bad representation!" accusations.Matt exists, but you are not entirely wrong, Taeshi would get eaten alive out there. From shipping gay men with women to Taeshi's lack of interest towards her female characters, or hell, even watering down Augustus assault. There's a lot of ammo to choose from.
>>154178138The warning signs were always there
>>154181644>>154182060Some time ago she whined that no established artists give her comic any love or attention. It would be interesting to see the outcome of one such artist demolishing it.
>>154181644With the exception of Matt and Madison, every gay character is at minimum aggressively forward, and at worst a sexual predator.
>>154182115flakops old art used to look so good, I do wonder why she dropped the chibi anime-esque style
>>154182115So why doesn't she love him anymore?
>>154179487Yeah, that's kind of the same mindset I have. I wouldn't mind Mike getting put through the ringer and picking bad coping strategies if not for Taeshi going "haha, stupid idiot should have known better, it's his fault" as if Mike has a responsibility to perfectly navigate all situations, even when others are actively fucking with him.
>>154181644To be fair, going viral and be forced to be scrutinized by everyone sucks pretty hard for every artist. It stifles one's creativity and takes away the joy of making the art.In BCB's case I sort of wish it happened, just so she'd listen to people other than her echo chamber, and reflect that maybe her asshole characters aren't as cool as she thinks.But again like I said, it sucks, I don't think I'd wish it even for Taeshi. The pressure can be terrible.
>>154182060>>154182154I can’t tell wether or not it’s funny that Matt’s biggest moments in the comic are just him being sad and gay which then Paulo ends up making it all about himself.
>>154179351You know damn well what she meant why else would she latch onto Augustus so hard.
>>154182332She does, she was lying her ass off in that page.>You're not a bad person (he is)>He never did anything wrong (he has)>She doesn't love him at all anymore (she does)
>>154182332She never did. She's incapable of love
