4chan sucks editionAlso watch Lucy ruin some dumbass kid's life over bad flirting.
Holy shit, Lucy, is it not that fucking serious. The fuck is she glaring at Daisy for?
>>155073678Preview & commentary.Next chapter will be called "Accountability Buddy" and has a preview of Mike. Do with that what you will.
>>155073678>Lucy's upset that Daisy has no dick and therefore cannot save her from smelly icky boysIs bow cat even worth trying to unravel?
>>155073693>"Accountability Buddy"I wish there was a word in the English language that meant "ominous but in an obnoxious kind of way."
>>155073693>"Accountability Buddy" and has a preview of MikeThis is gonna be not fun.
>>155073689Daisy is being nice and showing happiness as the idea of getting to know her more. How FUCKING insensitive can Daisy be!?!
>>155073678>He's actually so smart, you know?Literally one chapter ago we saw him as being book dumb. Now apparently he's becoming as smart as Daisy in a short amount of time so that he can follow her to college. That is where taeshi/suit is driving this contrived, artificial dogshit ship And people say Mike's the Gary Stu, come the fuck on.
>>155073693>Augustus is going to cling on to Mike to check his self-pity so that Taeshi can state to her audience that Mike is in the wrong and Augustus is totally a good guy now.I swear to fucking god, Taeshi.
>>155073809>Literally one chapter ago we saw him as being book dumb. Now apparently he's becoming as smart as Daisy in a short amount of time so that he can follow her to college.I dunno' how you got that from Daisy hyping up her boyfriend lol
>>155073733Taeshi has a tendency to start a chapter with one character and then move on to the actual main character for the chapter after a few pages.I think it makes more sense for Augustus to be Lucy's "accountability buddy", but he needs to beat up Mike first so he can figure out how he should comfort Lucy.
>>155073678>Where were you while I was being RAPED in the middle of the cafeteria, huh Daisy? As expected of you!>No if course I won't say it out loud you should come to this conclusion on your own
>>155073689>i'll beat youbut that's Lucy's line
>>155073678>More of white cat insanityFuck's sake, when will it end? Save us the trouble, Lucy, and just become Mike's sex slave.
>>155073809You know, normally I'm against offscreen development and Tell-Don't-Show. But Paisy is such hogwater dogshit that I'm absolutely fine with it getting relegated to background noise. It's sure better than three months wasted trying to show how smart Paulo is, only to absolutely fail at every turn and undermine its own claims.
>>155073689>picLucy would absolutely despise this girl. How dare she attempt friendship?
>>155073678
>>155073693Well, considering how irrelevant the current chapter title was, the next one probably won't be either, so I wouldn't bother right now.
God this story is getting exhausting
>>155074264The chapter title was highly relevant. Just probably not the way Taeshi intended.
>>155074099>How dare she attempt friendship?>Dubs of truthGenuinely, what friend does Lucy actually like when they aren't a hanger-on or there to give her male attention?>Seems not to nto care about Sue or Amaya :D>Diasy and her aren't really friends.>She doesnt hang out with the seniors or Jasmine much.
>>155073678I really didn't get Lucy's expression on that panel.What is making her pissed? The dude? Daisy? The situation? The fact that she has to pretend to tolerate Daisy's vile existence?>>155074295It has been exhausting for at least 10 years now.
>>155074353>Genuinely, what friend does Lucy actually like when they aren't a hanger-on or there to give her male attention?Lucy's occasional lapse into social competence reads like a mask these days. I don't think she really likes anyone besides Augustus.
>>155074363>I really didn't get Lucy's expression on that panelLucy is not worth trying to understand. That's what this chapter has taught me. Mike was right to not engage, even if his reasons were entirely too kind.
This is your start-of-thread reminder that David has attempted murder multiple times, and is at the root of EVERY problem ANY character in the comic has:>the constant endangerment of Mike & Lucy directly worsens Lucy's dependency issues...>...which indirectly leads to Mike resenting having to sacrifice his happiness and wellbeing to keep Lucy safe and stable>"jokes" about Sandy not being real and participates in beating Mike for "cheating", instilling the hangups that will haunt Mike for the rest of the comic>instigates Paulo's homophobia>fuels Lucy's sense of abandonment and isolation by encouraging Paulo's worst tendencies at a specific time...>...in ways that also wreck Paulo's reputation and self image >"jokes" about Lucy being dead while she's gone, fueling Mike's guilt and Paulo's misery>instigates Paulo's gay panic>steers Paulo into destroying every relationship he's ever had...>...and needles and mocks Abbey and Daisy's relationship until they break up for good...>...all in order to set up Paisy, which he's already started sabotaging too>needles and mocks Madison for being diet Lucy>needles and mocks Sue's play until she cries>stokes Mike's sense of guilt and isolation until he's depressed and miserable almost all the time>stalks Mike and drags Paulo and Daisy along just to humiliate all three in the most efficiently cruel way possible>joins track pretty much just to sabotage THAT set of social supports too>sets up the events leading to LitS by insisting on running outside rather than practicing any other time...>...then once Augustus and Lucy confront Mike, delivers the finishing blow and hustles Lucy inside so she can hang out with the friends she hates and have panic attacks (he also tells James they can just run at normal practice after school, claims credit for bringing Lucy back inside, and claims credit for "killing" Mike, implying the whole thing was malice aforethought somehow)>holds and rigs impromptu contests
>>155074353At this point probably Augustus loosely because asshole=honest. You can cross over any female character since Lucy hates those. Paulo is a tool to her and if I recall right directly said they weren't friends. Mike is her unhealthy obsession but they definitely aren't friends at this point. David's David and she doesn't give a shit about trackfag
>>155073678What the fuck is this crazy bitch's problem now?? What???
>>155074363I assumed it was Skater Dog's presence reminding her how shit chain reactioned into her encounter with Mike because he did some harmless flirting which triggers her. Maybe Daisy's droning intensified her annoyance but skater dog is what shifted her from helpless parasite mode to annoyed mode
>>155074442>asshole=honest.Still such a retarded belief, when not a single asshole in this story is honest. Literally, Paulo and Lucy are, for almost the entire comic, not being honest with anyone, even themselves.>Lucy doesnt give a shit about anyone besides her emo and technically her old teddyWhich makes the suicide attempt pretty funny since it was really all about Mike, with her not giving a shit about the others & he couldn't even treat her teddy bear right.
>>155074465>>155074476She can't believe how Mike did this to her.
>>155074476the most important thingskater dog did literally nothing wrongdon't allow the demented sycophants of taeshi discord gaslight you into thinking otherwise
>>155074524I'm not sure that Taeshi actually believes assholes are more honest than nice people. It sounds more like a public cope she hopes will lend credibility to her highly questionable personal preference.
>>155074556He didn't no. Just something any average teenage boy might when a hot chick with a nice rack bumps into em at the time. Granted these days, the poor guy would've been condemned for daring to have a sex drive.
>>155074401This chapter further proved Mike is in hell with no way out.Even when he does his best to comply and not engage with her or the others, pain and misery (Lucy) follows him like a shadow.>>155074476>I assumed it was Skater Dog's presenceThat's what I guess it is meant to be, but either way come on man, why treat that whole interaction as Alejandro 2.0?Dude was just a dumbass, just leave it be.
Daisy FLAT
>>155074621Likely a cope combined with pessimism. If someone is mean then it's them showing you their worst by default and they're "honest" Someone being nice hasn't shown you their negatives yet.
>>155073693Mike suicide arc when?
>>155074465She's jealous the rapist dog is more well socially adjusted than she is
>>155074686I still can't get over how psychotic taeshi's worldview is
>>155074621I want to add to this discussion how much emphasis she put on Mike's "mask falling off" during LitS when he shoved Augustus to the ground as if reacting to hostility and hounding with anger reveals what people are truly like. Funny that no one's mask felt off when Lucy pushed Mike's shit out of his stomach with a kick
>>155074661Taeshi hates men in general, according to her diary comics. Perhaps her fursona is acquiring that trait.
So, has Lucy gained schizophrenia now? Almost everything she did in this chapter is mixed messages from all over the place. Almost NO ONE can tell what is going through her head anymore.
>>155074736Lucy x rape dog OTP
How can we fix this comic?
>>155074801Honestly he seemed like an alright dude. Though I wouldn't wish him to suffer Lucy's crazy ass.>>155074810Unironically put Mike on a bus for awhile like Lucy was and have Lucy deal with the fallout of her own actions / lack thereof.
>>155074810ending it once and for all
>>155074686>>155074783Believing that truly nice people don't exist does make more sense from a projectionist standpoint. It would let Taeshi pretend that her inability and/or disinterest in being a better person is not a glaring personal flaw but instead a result of moral superiority.
>>155074681I thought fat girls usually have huge titties?
>>155074791>Nightmare stays unexplained, or how this is supposed to be the last time we'll see it>Bitchy attitude waved off with "she just didn't notice she thought she was being kind :3">The table gets lobotomized to ignore her hostility and her leave, or her return>Panic attack out of nowhere >Seeing her other school classmates only adds more mystery to her time away, solves nothing>Tries to use Mike as teddy bear, doesn't work, we're not even told what "she can't do anymore">Switches back to smug mode on a dime like a psychopathThis chapter answered NOTHING
>>155074810Zachary Sitdown 2.0 in which someone calls Lucy's crazy ass out and she can't ignore or weasel out of it.
>>155074810Mike just needs to slap Lucy a few times and she will fall into line without question. Or maybe willingly try earning herself more punishment. It could go either way.
>>155074884Only if your fat distribution is lucky
>>155074898>or how this is supposed to be the last time we'll see itI am honestly baffled that nothing actually happened to change Lucy's mental equation. Thought for sure that had to happen. But nope! I guess the nightmares served their pity party begging purpose and so will be unceremoniously ejected from the comic.
>>155073678So in the end who WAS the victim complex title about?It was Mike wasn't it?
>>155074810Everyone forcing an intervention on Lucy to finally get some answers>What is the deal with your nightmares?>Why did you come back if you hate everyone?>Why do you continuously torture the person you supposedly "love"?>On the flip side, why do you insist on being in his presence when said presence supposedly hurts you more than anything else?>What do you ACTUALLY fucking want?
>>155074952Lucy is the victim and her situation is complex (so you the reader should feel bad for her). I called as much from pretty early on while hoping to be wrong.
>>155074810Lucy actually being raped. It'd probably end up getting her to chill out somehow.
>>155074556He came on a little too strong, but that's not a sin. His spotted cat friend seems to be trying to tell him how to more effectively chat up girls without spooking them.Skater boy's only real mistake was not spotting the red flag coming. If he HAD successfully chatted up Lucy (which one apparently does by grabbing her arm and refusing to let her leave), he'd be doomed, and he has no idea that he just dodged a bullet.
>>155074952I think it's supposed to mean the situation is complex and both Mike and Lucy are victims.
>>155074952No one if you can fucking believe it, someone went to suck Taeshi's ass on her blog and she replied that she was testing how people saw Mike as a victim in comparison to how they saw Lucy as a victim, and that she was pleased with the results, aka people feel bad for Mike because THEY HATE WOMEN
Maybe the nightmares will still happen but we won't be subjected to more repetitive replays, just the implication they're continuing to degrade Lucy's mental state. Which I suppose is an improvement of sorts.
>>155075037Interesting interpretation. Can't say I agree with it.
>>155074295>gettingWhat're you talking about, it's BEEN exhausting.Also nice edit. With how rapey BCB already is hornyverse!Daisy's strat might even work.
>>155075015I find it hilarious how the ways to avoid Lucyspace are the same to save yourself from bears: either act dead or be bigger and noisier
>>155073678Oh hey, it's almost literally the meme I made last thread.
>>155075068That's fair, I went a bit to hyperbolic, but the blog question was about how the people feeling sorry for Mike forgot everything he had done before, and how they instead saw Lucy being a victim as her trying to get attention and a pity party and how she was responsible of her own misery unlike Mike, and her reply agreed with the misogyny angle, still riding that other question about the female characters
>>155074978But if that's the intention, why not call it "Complex Victim"?Am I too esl to understand the joke?
>>155075158Because it subverts your expectations! Dat's nuance baby!
>>155075158"victim complex" is a saying, it means someone feels like they're always the victim
>>155075234This, and I'm sure that Taeshi meant it ironically. A kind of narrative sneer at people who would dare think Lucy might be overreacting. Can they not see how Lucy deserves boundless sympathy and understanding? Clearly that's the whole point of the chapter! Only a complete dullard couldn't see that!
>>155074785Taeshi also hates women in general, though. I think she's just sexist generally.And I think her fursona already has; Lucy seems to think "boys don't cry, it's okay to hit/rape them" and boys should be grateful for her attention. Whenever Mike used to complain about her attitude she'd accuse him of being a fruit, so she has a history of leaning into the "a REAL boy would be tough and take it" thing. Plus there's still the whole ongoing implication that Lucy might have a rape fetish.>>155075091Lucy's preferred target is "whichever boy she can reach who won't fight back". If that isn't available, she'll default to whichever girl won't fight back, but she won't be happy about it.
>>155073678How dare that boy exist! How dare Daisy not realise Lucy's pain!
>>155075137To be honest, I wasn't sure what the hell Taeshi meant since she was vagueposting to sound wiser than an old potato sack full of rocks. I am however 100% sure that Lucy was meant to be the victim here.
Consider the range of emotions Lucy experienced in the spam of 5 or 6 pages, jesus christ, and she's not even fazed by it. Complete schizo bitch
>>155073678Excuse you this is the REAL version we are meant to be reading.
>>155073678Is she actually reacting to what Daisy said or just to the boys?It looks like she doesn't even listen.
>>155075395>penis penisSo majestic...
>>155075450
>>155075395I hadn't considered this angle. Lucy getting so pissed at Daisy for prattling on about her love life instead of focusing on the much more important matter of reading bow cat's mind.
>>155075304>Taeshi also hates womenTaeshi hates everyone.
>>155073693>Accountability BuddyThat phrase is originally used by Alcoholics Anonymous, and Taeshi keeps pushing the idea that Mike is Lucy's "addiction". But also Taeshi loves misdirection, so who knows, maybe it's a fucking Paisy chapter.
>>155075590JAMES CHAPTER JAMES CHAPTER
>>155075195Sandy's daughter is adorable.
>>155075590>That phrase is originally used by Alcoholics Anonymous, and Taeshi keeps pushing the idea that Mike is Lucy's "addiction"Look, the one and only angle that would make me give a fuck is Augustus getting sick of his role and having a Mike 2, er, 3.0 epiphany.>maybe it's a fucking Paisy chapterOh fuck no, anything but that.
>>155075604No no, that's her twin sister Panzer
>>155075590i think we should have another chapter where David kidnaps a random child
Someone spoil the next page
>>155073678>Roasty gets MOGGED by chad dog moving on after being rejected
>>155075669It'll probably just be a page of depressive Mike panels. Nothing worth getting excited about.
>>155075954Anon, don't despair. Knowing taeshi, there will be some ragebait.
>>155075590>That phrase is originally used by Alcoholics AnonymousSuitcase, who came up with the idea for the title, so in addition to his gambling addiction, he also enjoys opening a cold one with the guys.
>>155075985Maybe halfway through the chapter.
>>155074363Probably a jab at how Daisy is talking about noticing all these "new" things about Paulo, but not noticing her distress coming across flirting fuckup dog. She's kinda a petty bitch like that.
>>155076030He probably got it from South Park.Also I don't get her reaction to the guy, she -wanted- him to keep harassing her? Fucking wom*n.
>>155076030>Title was disconnected from Taeshi and instead was from Mr "Nuance is when you withold information" himself
>>155073678man lucy is genuinely fucked in the head, our HEROES (mike and alejhandro) need to be cautious...
>>155074810end it
>>155075620If Sandy buys her daughter a stuffed tiger, then that'd be a Porsche Tiger.
>>155074810Mike kills himself.
>>155077430Beautifully done!
>>155074295I just joined this year and I'm already tired
>>155074810Mike goes gay, Lucy gets forever cucked and kills herself for real this time, everyone else graduates and leaves this shithole town
No Bleating Hearts today?
>>155074402Thanks anon, but I don't need MORE reasons to believe David is the only good character in the series. Absolutely goated.
>>155078157going by Grave Concern, if she kills herself, she'll be haunting Mike for the rest of his life (although she stopped being a bitch)
>>155074402Oh yeah that's right, David is supposed to be black
>>155078419Didn't it take her like more than a decade to stop being asshurt about Mike and for the lost of her life to actually hit her?
>>155073678legitimately, what the FUCK is she having a melty over? that two random ass people are happy???
>>155074381I reread most of the comic semi-recently, and with the benefit of hindsight the occasional glimpses of Lucy being nice or friendly kind of ALL read as a mask. Pic related is the very first social interactions we ever see Lucy have, where we immediately see her being salty and hostile towards Daisy for no reason and putting up with Paulo's shit because she finds it hot.
>>155074810There's two big options I see.A) Mike rapes Lucy, while beating her senseless. He then will randomly pull her aside and rape her again, to keep her in line. Literally the only thing that'll make that psychopath lucy happy.B) Mike gets killed and his soul is sucked into another dimension, somewhere where lucy can never touch ever ever ever
>>155074810I don't think it can be fixed, given the way things are usually handled. I would much rather for it to just end, so that I could finally be free from it once and for all.But an attempt would be for people to actually call out Lucy's and other untouchable characters' bullshit. The story will never progress as long as it refuses to hold them accountable for their misdeeds.Also:>have Lucy and the untouchables face the consequences for their actions, feel genuine regret, work hard to make amends and show growth, work through things together instead of chimping out.>make people (specially Lucy) value their friendships.>have them face Alejandro one last time and beat him for good. Have Mike and Lucy make peace, but agree to let go of each other for their own good.>have Mike dump Sandy and find peace and joy far away from it all. Let Lucy find value and focus on other things in life.>end the comic with each of them going their separate ways, but living happy and fulfilled lives each on their own way
>>155074810Make Lucyspace real leading up to an ending where everyone kills themselves and leaves her alone without her toys.Extra points if the only one left is Augustus.
>>155078419I think someone already did this joke.
>>155074810>Let Mike leave, someone "fixing" Mike is a stupid concept, specially if it's Lucy, so let him recover and learn on his own>Have Lucy face SOFT consequences, with that I mean have people let her down without falling for her ragebait to turn things into an argument she can be a victim of, basically have her run out of teddy bears because despite them all liking her no one can give her what she wants, keeps the thematic of the girl that has everything except what she really needs. Have her do a changing arc of her own volition >Do not waste time of things like Paisy, the anon that said it was more bearable as an offpanel thing is right, if you can't make it feel natural then don't waste the reader's patience >Give us more hanging out/slice of life chapters with minor stakes>Take the blog away from Taeshi, seriously
>>155078816lol
>>155073678Lucy developing a hatred of dogs. No wonder she ignores her biggest simp David.
>>155073678New lucy´s victims.
>>155073712The closest is abominable or baleful if you use obsolete English.
>>155074952Definitely Mike. Lucy has been characterized as wanting to hide her victim status.
>>155078574No! You don't understand! He made a horrible attempt at flirting with her! That totally deserves her hatred.
>Lucy: God I fucking hate dogs>Goes home and shamefully schlicks to hardcore Dog on Cat porn imagining rape dog and herself >She hates him even more after
>>155078230David kidnapping Lucy and offering her up to Mike is the only way to fix Lucy without getting Alejandro involved
>>155081171Mike no longer possesses a sex drive
>>155074964careful, that last question is the exact one that led to Paulo sticking his foot in his mouth with 'say the word'perhaps it was Lucyspace backlash for getting too close to the eldritch truth
>>155073712>>155080137pretty sure 'inauspicious,' at least the way it is normally used, is almost exactly the word you're looking for
>>155081161Lucy hates dogs because she can't baby trap them
>>155078595At this point BCB is just an instrument for Taeshi to show acceptance of one's fetishes, in this case hers, trying to say "it's ok to have a rape fetish with your loved one and with consent prior the spicy time, just dont endorse it irl" There is so much SA acceptance whenever is a guy being the victim, and how Vero keeps saying Lucy enjoyed Paulo harassing her, it must be that. No other explenation because I don't want to believe she is this mentally instable
>>155082500Lucy doesn't want to baby trap, she wants to BE baby trapped.
Dog managed to avoid a landmine
>>155082694She gets pregnant early in lots of BCIs but she very rarely wants it to happen before figuring out it's a way to keep a little bit of Mike/Paulo/Alejandro/that coworker guy with her forever
>>155078574That dog was hitting on her because she has huge tits and runs around naked so now she's traumatized.The characters being mostly naked is really fucking stupid sometimes.
>>155084434The whole thing is just a mess.>they're anthro cats, but this is NOT a furry story, according to Taeshi>some wear clothes, some don't>flips and flops between trying to make things 'realistic' and cartoony>shows something in the comic, tells another in the blog
>>155078574It's an interesting into the mind of the average millennial woman. They hate men but love dicks
>>155078574If you take anything from her nightmares then she's angry because she was in danger again and no one stepped up to protect her, less of all Daisy who was scared stiff last time and didn't even fight
>>155084997Didn't they Beat Sue and Paulo? What else did she expect them to do?Where was David when this happened? What did that retard dog even do?
>>155085037>What else did she expect them to do?Either not lose or be more effective meat shields
>>155073809To be fair this is Daisy, the same person who made a list of all the things she liked about Paulo and they were all things he isn't and Mike is, just scribbled over the name and wrote Paulo, so hyping her boyfriend isn't far off
>>155084997Probably this
>>155085054>>155085037
>>155084997Which would require mindreading or being absolutely focused on Lucy and analyzing her every reaction, then expressing the kind of concern she's previously rebuffed.
>>155085037I have a theory that Lucy has a very severe emotional blindness in which she can't read (or doesn't want to) people right away, she ignores them until it's right in her face. Saying that, let's say she sees the situation unfold and doesn't do shit when her friends are being best up because "it's not that bad" (she dissapeared in those pages), she doesn't pay attention to the current pain Paulo and Sue are in, and reacts when it's Mike because of her personal interests, then when she starts getting beat up too she wants help and can't understand why the friends in her mind aren't doing anything. You can say it's bullshit but we just got a great example of it this chapter with Lucy ignoring Mike's haggard estate and exhausting UNTIL it affected her, because she didn't care to read him when he first saw him, in her mind he was the same old Mike she feels comfortable withTL;DR: Lucy doesn't "see" other people until she's affected herself
>>155085151That has been practically this whole chapter, hasn't it?
>>155085154But why the hell are we the readers supposed to think she is correct, or that she 'cares' about her friends, when she treats them with either contempt, indifference, or just use them as she sees fit for the moment?Because despite Taeshi's attempts to say otherwise, that's what she has been doing. She doesn't care about anyone that is not to immediately serve her interests, and yet the story never even pulls her ear.
>>155074363I read it as Lucy seeing beanie dog having a pleasant conversation with a (white!) cat with no difficulty or awkwardness in stark contrast to her own interaction, cementing the idea that she's the problem, others get along just fine.
>>155085154This pic reminds me: did that one anon ever manage to fill his Lucy head USB drive with smut?
>>155085206That's exactly why Taeshi opening her blog again was such a bad idea, it clashes so much with her actual writing that it ruins the actual comic. It's the perfect example of what "death of the author" actually looks like, when the text gives itself a meaning it doesn't matter if the author says it's supposed to be some other thing. I'm of the idea this comic is better enjoyed ignoring side material including author comments
>>155085289Last I heard the guy was gathering fanfics on it still
>>155085336Just treat canon as dead.
>>155085206>>155085336Seems like the comic has become Taeshi putting her emotional blind spots and blatant dysfunctions on full display and insisting they are normal.
>>155085336>>155085656For real, I'm not even trying to rage blindly against Taeshi or Lucy or saying 'woman bad' or anything, it's just that it doesn't make sense no matter how I look at it, and I can't understand how she herself doesn't see why people do not agree with the things she shows in comic and says in her blog, as if they are normal and admirable behavior.
>>155085812Lucy resenting her friends for confrontation is never posed as a rational thing in the comic, you are blindly raging against the comic.
>>155085812I think it makes sense if Mike/Lucy really is her own little Goldiemald fixfic puppet show. Then the whole ordeal cannot be separated from her own beliefs on right vs wrong, fair vs unjust, victim vs perpetrator. Taeshi would not want to admit her core notions on these matters are fucking insane. Hence her attempts at deflection and rationalization, selective memory included.
>>155085853I am not. I have said previously that what sucks is that the comic never shows any effort of punishing Lucy for believing so, thus implying that she is correct.Also, Taeshi in her blog almost always defends Lucy, further implying that she is in the right.
>>155085925In the last month Taeshi has said Paulo's sexual harassment was both a super big deal, and in another post claimed it was just a dumb gag and Lucy liked it anyway.Don't use the blog as evidence of anything but Taeshi's stream of consciousness.
>>155085983Even so, the comic never making Lucy accountable for her actions is annoying, and to me it indicates that for some reason the story believes she is justified in the way she acts and the things she does.
>>155073678Ya know, it's crazy of vapid and fake Daisy is. She's so eager to eat people out in an effort to get them to like her more. She pays these nonsense compliments to her friends who don't really deserve it, like in this page where she's glazing Lucy. And during the dogshit "Made Fresh" chapter where she calls Paulo "mature", when bitchboi couldn't be anymore the opposite. Daisy just comes off as disingenuous and needy for approval
>>155086421Even more frustrating about those mature comments is they came of the heels of the guy whose kissed fewer boys than Mike being a gay love guru out of nowhere and killing any chances at MattxJordan.Not sure if that was Daisy glazing him or Taeshi using her as a mouthpiece to glaze him.
>>155086421>Daisy just comes off as disingenuous and needy for approvalI don't know about downright needy as she rarely seeks it out, but do think she wants to minimize personal friction and be thought of in a positive manner. And maybe in the moment she does focus on the positives (even if they are imagined or exaggerated in her head) so is being genuine--hence the Paulo glazing. But she also gets jealous and can certainly remember the bad shit just fine.
New Bleating Heart. Devin is going to destroy Mary's gift isn't he.
>>155081758Then Mike shall be the one tied up! Lucy would absolutely initiate a sexing.
>>155087262Would be nice if cool eyes boy and Mary ended up vibing.
>>155075590I called it so hard. Though rather it going back to Paisy, it's going to reintroduce Blur/the Pets. It might reintroduce that blasted hedgehog if the title is in reference to the pets.>>155085154headcanontextual reason why people's faces disappear all the time.>>155087262Even though it's only twice a week, the pacing and jokes are a lot better.
>>155087551
>>155086421I don't think Daisy's being disingenuous, I think she genuinely does have massive blind spots for people's flaws, especially when she has a crush on them. Even in private, she has to really be coaxed into speaking or thinking ill of anyone, and when she does it's super milquetoast.>>155087262Kieran's great. Now I'm gonna be shipping him and Mary so they can be little terrors together. I bet SHE'D appreciate his hard-won card and snail collections.
>>155087968I dislike Blur these days, despite him being one of the more tolerable pets. Abandoning Mike in favor of Yashi of all creatures...scarf cat should have cut off all contact after that.
>>155087262The marble of power!
>>155087262Fuck Marry Kill?Fauna, Mary and Devin
>>155090089Girls who can pee standing are hot
>>155090172Another win for Amaya
>>155089880I think a better question is Fauna, Mary, Devin, Clover, Kieran: you have to pick two and be their step-parent, raising them to be happy, alive, and not too fucked up. The others will still be their classmates, raised as they canonically are.Personally my picks are Mary and Fauna; their relationship is already fairly sisterly, so I don't think they'd bully each other or get incestuous. And their problems seem mostly down to the specific pressures of being raised by a single mother who doesn't understand autism and a pageant mom (respectively), so despite them being overtly weird I imagine they'd be easier to raise to be happy then Devin or Clover, who's depressive/anxious tendencies seem to be largely innate.
>>155085289That guy was also drawing some SandyxDog stuff that never came outI haven't seen him in forever, I hope he's doing alright.
Mike really liked Lucy's playfulness.
>>155090505He loves it!
>>155090505oh no thank you, I'm full.>>155090089This is the type of shit they were getting up to in sophomore year
>>155090505He did though.
>>155090505t. person who has never had to put up with someone being "playful" all time every fucking day
>>155090505It's obviously not the action itself but the context around it. Bitch was having a panic attack not 2 minutes before
>>155090544When it was playfulness, yes. But with Lucy there's no line between "playful" and "cruel"; it's all on the same continuum.Basically, "Mike liked it" is just the bait; the real hook of the ragebait there is taking Lucy being a manipulative little shit to dodge accountability and calling that "playful".
>>155090505I'm sure that he liked it when Lucy was indeed just being playful. Conflating that with Lucy's casual cruelty, emotional invalidation, and selfish user tendencies is rather poor form.
>>155090544There was a time when Mike himself excused it as Lucy's rough exterior, but Lucy herself came clean saying it turned into actual hostility in retaliation for the letters and to keep it away, so even if Mike was "ok" with most of it it can't be called "playful" from that perspective unless you say Lucyblied about that, which would only make her look worse since that was part of the argument that led to Mike's exile
>>155090375Choice 1:Devin and Kieran. Devin's a pretty decent person at heart, even his more craven future version, and with a warmer and more supportive parent will turn out fine. Kieran's a bit of a dick, but seems to overall be pretty sound and already gets along well with Devin, so making them brothers would only improve the dynamic.Choice 2:Clover and Devin. They'll be too busy fucking each other's brains out to get into trouble.
>>155090780Pairing Devin with Clover OR Kieran comes with a major risk of step-sibling incest, though, which might fall under the umbrella of "fucked up".I think Devin is a sleeper challenge; he seems normal and well-adjusted enough, so raising him to be alive and functional is easy. But his anxious/depressive tendencies seem to be genetic, which makes raising him to be happy MUCH harder.
>>155090653When has Lucy ever been honest? And fuck if I know what the answer is, the author is legally insane and the story has been retconned so frequently tht ll continuity and canon are dead.
>>155089880fuck fauna, marry mary and kill devin
>>155091220>When has Lucy ever been honest?I was going to give an answer, but I genuinely can't think of one. Everything Lucy's ever said or done is, every emotion she's expressed or relationship she's had, is dishonest on some level. She's such a mess that even her private internal monologue (what little of it we've seen) has contradictions.
>>155091769The author hardly does any thought bubbles, and I'm glad that I at least was accurate about Lucy.
>>155091769Because Lucy is not allowed to be anything that would put her up to judgement, it's why the narrative bends itself to make everyone love such a bitter and hostile person, why Taeshi needs to blog post to even give a hint of what's going on without actually putting words on Lucy's mouth (Taeshi has shown she lies in her blog answers by contradicting herself right away in the comic), it's why the biggest plot points involving her are initiated by someone else and why her presence feels forced enough to make it obvious (her teleportation powers) but now enough to say she's doing it on purpose, it's why it's so easy to blame everyone else when she has no actual involvement and why it's so easy to make up excuses when she will rarely give enough information to contradict them. As long as she stays an inexplicable blank slate just like this chapter she can be excused of anything. Lucy is dishonest by design
>>155092083>hardly does any thought bubblesPretty sure that's a "relatively" recent change. I remember during the watercolor days how often thought bubbles were utilized because she's still not great at showing instead of telling you what the characters think or do.
>>155092671Yeah. Like I always say, the lack of judgement towards Lucy's actions are what piss me off the most in this comic. She (and David) do shitty things and nothing happens, but if most other characters do, they are very, very likely to be punished.
>>155093243We haven't got any thought bubbles in years now.
>>155093338It's why I mentioned the watercolor years. And it's been AGES since watercolor was the main artstyle that wasn't supposed to make things feel "surreal."
>>155093394It looks like a poorly done attempt to emulate bleating heart.
>>155093532BCB had this artstyle first?
>>155094482I mean the color palette, didn't bleating heart do it first?
Man these last few threads have been dead.>>155090532Could I perhaps interest you in desert?Seriously though, this framing where Mike and Lucy both deserve sympathy because they're victims who're just lashing out doesn't work when the main thing they're a "victim" of is each other. If Mike's lapses are forgivable due to trauma and he's still sympathetic, then Lucy CAN'T be sympathetic, because she's the one who caused that trauma. And vice versa, if Lucy is still sympathetic then Mike can't be, because he's Lucy's ground zero. Two characters who have hurt each other repeatedly out of spite, going for low blows and manipulations, can't BOTH be sympathetic; either one of them is the villain and deserved it, or they're both just complete assholes.>>155094661Yes, Bleating Heart DID do it first. I hesitate to criticize because as far as I know Taeshi and Flak0ps are still friends, and if Flak's cool with it then I guess it's fine. But it is absolutely something Taeshi started cribbing.
>>155094661Not really
>>155094965I think people are conflating the pared down aesthetic of The Sex Comic with the pared down but now it's green aesthetic of the most recent chapter.Damn I wish I had that final panel isolated to the first two speech bubbles. Or even just Devin's line.
>>155085289>>155090476I'm still around, but a bit busy. Though, haven't read the new chapters after the style change.I was working on some things, but bit by bit. you can probably find me in a certain chatting program, IF you really really really want to>>155085368I was making some, but I stopped, unless that's someone else.Did write some comic scripts, but never really worked on finishing them. Some day perhaps.
>>155094727>picOh, so this "experiment" of hers is just Taeshi saying the audience should keep giving a shit about Lucy no matter how awful she gets, because victim. That figures.
>>155095533I feel that
>>155094727>so I think they really should look for other friends and not really be around each other>HAHAHA SURE SURE uh I shut up, I don't want to separate them because uuuuhThis is just another version of "X would get better if they just left" and Taeshi can't allow that
>>155095533You know how Lucy was all "I thought this is what you wanted" when she came back? I think Mike should have been allowed to tell her the same after pic related
>>155095322you didn't realize that the moment you read it?
>>155093532>>155094727>But it is absolutely something Taeshi started cribbing.>It looks like a poorly done attempt to emulate bleating heart.The absolute state of these threads. Nobody owns the color green, taeshi and flakops are allowed to borrow ideas from each other, and the limited palette thing has been done by taeshi before, see: more than half of fucking Omnibus/the first 40 chapters. Grasping at straws just lowers the quality of the thread even more.
>>155087262I have a crack theory. What if Devin is the one to kill Fauna? He gets so fed up with how shitty his life is so he decides to remove his sister from the equation who always got preferential treatment. Devin then throws Mary under the bus to protect himself. Then as a adult intense guilt sets in making him the irritable unstable depressive man he turns into.
Tell me anons, what was the moment that YOU lost hope for BCB?For me it was pic related. Previously, I knew BCB was seriously flawed in many ways, as a story. But I still had some faith that Taeshi was going somewhere, that she had some kind of plan even if wasn't one I'd like. But pic related was the proof that no, none of this is going anywhere, Taeshi is just dumb or apathetic. Taeshi clearly doesn't keep notes, check back, or plan forwards, and as a result she isn't writing a coherent story, she's writing vignettes that are slightly sewn together.
>>155094727Good victims don't throw their trauma at everyone else.
>>155096594Taeshi might as well be smoking crack these days. I don't know what she goes on about half the time.
>>155098016Has to be witch hunt for me>Everyone is ok with hanging with Augustus to get to be with Lucy>Miss "I hate them and don't want to be their friend" happily hanging with everyone >Sperg goblin Mike>Daisy, the most wet towel character, exploding at Mike to defend Lucy>Paulo forgiving Lucy "because">Those awful as fuck proportionsIt's probably not as heavy on the "author fucking up" department but it was so bitter it destroyed my enjoyment in the rest of the comic. And then Eternal flame happened
>>155098016What the hell is that page? What was the point of the differences between them???
>>155099699Taeshi forgot that Sue had broken her leg and was still in a cast, dubsman.
>>155099632Witch Hunt was pretty bad, essentially the culmination of that obnoxious Lucy girlboss/Mike sperg era. But for me it was pretty much everything that happened once Lucy returned, when Taeshi started getting her rocks off and the writing quality dove off a cliff. Lucy still had a fuckton of personal issues and it became clear that Taeshi wanted to ignore those in favor of evening the score between her two neckwear cats. There is no point in Mike and Lucy's story if only one of them is ever held to account.
>>155100348Never was a point, the ending is predetermined and the canon is long dead. The ship is pure ass in concept and execution too.
>>155100369I am 100% sure that Taeshi's path toward endgame ship Mucy has changed substantially along with her worsening BPD. I don't know for certain that a pre-breakdown Taeshi could have pulled off a convincing reconciliation between the two. But I am pretty sure the ship would look a whole lot less disgusting than what she's triple-nuked into radioactive sludge.
>>155100406The end result is still going to be the same though, so there's really no point in reading more.
>>155100369Taeshi is close if not already there to making said ending unobtainable, "they're so bad for each other but they can't live without each other" doesn't work when it keeps reading like it's meant to end on an abusive relationship where the abused gives up to make the other side happy. They're bad for each other the way a wrecking ball and a wall are bad for each other
>>155100603I'm pretty sure it is going to end on an abusive relationship where it's framed as a good thing. That's why I said there's no point in reading more since the ending of Mucy is already predetermined.
>>155100621The point of it is the big stupid fucking internet fight we are going to have over it!
Oh my how saucy, Mikey in the shower and Haley/Mom calling after him cuz he didn't invite her in.
>>155100767
>>155100767A cat denied his track team
>>155100594No, I want to see how stupid it gets along the way
>>155100767When will Mike throw his tarnished scarf aside?
>>155100767Preview & commentaryI guess it's his mom?
>>155100822You can just smell the barely concealed spite from here.
>>155100767I like how this looks like it's a beautiful day except for Mike who is naked and has his personal rain cloud. Really could use a different palette you know
>>155100821Only when Taeshi is willing him to cast both white cats aside for good. So never.
>>155100851>Mike watching the nuke go off.
>>155100822She's wetting herself just thinking of how many ways she can fuck him over this chapter, you can tell
>>155100845How many times did she even :) last chapter?
>>155100767What's the name of this chapter?
>>155100885Salivating like a cartoon wolf spotting a roast ham.
>>155100859The symbolism is horribly confused. Any halfwit writer could solve it with ease.>Lucy is hung up on mixed symbolism i.e. scarf and tree>scarf clarification is tainted now>Mike throws away scarf to symbolize a clean break from either cat>Lucy experiences character development>they start over again>Lucy gives him a new piece of neckwear to symbolize a new bond
>>155100406>worsening BPDI know nobody in these threads knows shit about mental illness that didn't come out of a psychiatry handbook from the 1980s, but BPD is like the one disorder that consistently improves with age even without treatment.
>>155100987Too bad the opposite has all too clearly happened in Taeshi's case.
>>155100851>>155100866>the blast wave didn't reach him, so he has to take the long way out>Mike enjoying the nuclear fallout rain
>>155100936>46 pagesyeah, I'm out
>>155101017That's generally been the way of things for a while now.
>>155100987>consistently improves with agenot the version of it that runs in my family, apparently
>>155101058The condition "often" improves with age. It's no sure thing, and only some aspects lessen in severity while others may resist change.
>>155100936Oh, it's so over Haleybros, it was good while it lasted.
>>155100985That might have worked if it had been done earlier. At this point in time the ship is too radioactive and Lucy offering a new scarf may as well be compared to her trying to put a new chain on him.Have him wear a fucking hat or something
>>155100987you got that from a psychiatry handbook from the 2010s that say men can get pregnant?
>>155101068what i know about it is it's almost impossible to actually treat. it's notorious among mental health professionals. one of the only disorders i know of where the patients might threaten suicide (and actually go through with an attempt - though the former happened in my family, the latter thankfully has not) just to get attention/their way.
>>155101082>Mom assigns Mike or Haley to look after the other>this exacerbates Haley's golden boy envy Taeshi pulled out of her ass>altercation ensues>Mike feels even worse now>Haley comes out looking like a retarded turbobitch while Taeshi runs schizo interference on her blog
>>155100936>46 pages
>>155101068Fair enough. I still think people like to misattribute random things Taeshi does to it when there's no real connection.
>>155101111the digits are cruel but honest
>>155100936>HaleyOh so the ragebait will come early, huh?
>>155101096When I say "character development," I do mean an absolute fuckton. Also required is the total abandonment of Taeshi's mindset combined with a hard narrative U-turn.
Anons, it's been over a year now since Line In The Sand was released. God the pacing sucks
>>155101146You would require a sizable time skip to make it reasonable. Having them hook up again in the current timeframe just doesn't work with all the shit that's happened between them.
>>155101173>Anons, it's been over a year now since Line In The Sand was released.You're lying.
>>155101122>Taeshi keeps writing insane shit>has admitted to having a disorder that imparts a fundamentally insane mindset>relationship with her husband is rife with BPD symptomatic behavior>reflected in her diary comics as wellPeople have every reason to assume a connection.
>>155100936>Oh you didn't sympathize with Lucy and her (unexplained and senseless self inflicted) struggles?>Let's see what you think after I put Mike through the marrow furnace again
>>155101179>You would require a sizable time skip to make it reasonableA fuckton of character development cannot be squeezed into a short timeframe unless Lucy is put through an absolute crucible of personal hell, then throws herself into the task of making things right. Which would probably be the more entertaining option, come to think of it.
So what dumbshit is Haley gonna do or say that drags her character into hell?
>>155101285>at least our mother fucking loves you
>>155101122i mean, a lot of what she says in her blog really does fit the bill, and a lot of what she has certain characters do can often fit the bill as well (though sometimes it doesn't, and it's almost impossible to tell if this is accidental or not).>>155101173>>155101185only the first few pages, it did take over 3 months to fully release, to be fair.but it exploded these threads because it was absolutely packed with bullshit for that whole period. Sandy venting at Mike and being oblivious to his silence, that random meaningless Lucy nightmare aside, Augustus stalking Mike and intentionally driving him into a rage in front of James and David, Lucy kicking him in the stomach, James' sudden but inevitable betrayal, David suggesting they all go back inside to leave Mike alone out there, Lucy keeping Paulo from going out to check on him - it just kept getting worse and worse for the whole 3 months.
>>155100936I'm just hoping more sibling interaction will lead to more sibling art. Regardless of what will happen in the chapter
>>155101285Dumbest approach would be her blaming him on the deterioration of the family when he's proven to be the only reliable one while she does jack shit.More based approach is that she is aware of the whole Lucy/Augustus/Sandy situation and goes off on him to just cut all those assholes out of his life because his perpetual depression incited by them is fucking retarded.
>>155101285Good timeline: Haley confronts Mike about his starving zombie attitude and how he can't see how his own family is falling apart because he's too busy feeling sorry for himself, he confesses what's going on because might as well and Haley asks if his family and himself stent enough to put an effort for. They get a closer bond and Mike starts focusing more on his family than on his sorry ass situation as a footholdTaeshi's vengeful mind: Haley tells him that he's a fuck for being sad and sorry and looking at his phone while things are crumbling and how it's his fault because he's not doing enough and that she's always resented him for overshadowing her
Chris will save Mike and Haley. Trust the plan.
>>155101285>>155101346The absolute dumbest thing Haley could do is focus on the Lucy shit and tell Mike he's awful for it, despite having zero interest or connection to bow cat's "troubles."I agree the best possible scenario is Haley giving Mike a much needed smack upside the head and telling him to stop giving a fuck about these people. Basic sympathy would be nice, but I'd rather something that actively moves the story forward and pushes Mike into a better mindset.
Haley will learn the truth and go to murder Lucy. On her way she meets Augustus, who is on his way to murder Mike. They fall in love.
>>155101683Haley ask Mike for the scarf for one day, confronts everyone
>>155101683I like this because it further fucks with Daisy
>>155101683I feel like Haley would get sick of Gus' shit real quick. Like the moment he acts smug or tries one of his "master manipulator" moves.
>>155101882>Haley's bold cuntiness is the natural predator to gus' autistic mumbling>He can't even get a word in
>>155101882>>155101983I can't believe I'm getting sold on Gus x Haley. Genuinely they have more in common than Paulo and Daisy.
>>155101683nah, give Augustus nothing.
>>155102044Haley's the biggest obstacle. First, significant age gap. Second, she's proven hostile to most other characters, especially male ones. She wrote Paulo off as a loser and would do the same to Gus, or worse.
>>155102118>Haley's the biggest obstacle. First, a significant age gap.Hasn't stopped Augustus from getting laid before.
>>155090505Mike didn't mind the playfullness. what Mike minded was the physical hitting, her failing to be upfront with him and then getting upset he dated another girl, and the fact that she would blatantly run to paulo if he wasn't around to cling on.>>155094727Someone taught her the word "Empathy" and she just uses it to act smart. That Empathy she claims to have goes away if someone brings up mike escaping everything by moving or if empathy for one character done dirty means going against one of her favorites.
Movement 1 is 12 segments, Movement 2 is 20 segments. I am bashing my head against the laptop and seeing what happens. 2 segments took me like 2.5 hours to do.
>>155102179>she would blatantly run to paulo if he wasn't around to cling on.Especially when she thought he was dead.
I have dug my own grave by insisting Chapters1 and 2 becoming Movements 1 and 2 of the combined chapter 1.
Oh my god, Taeshi is gonna giga-fuck Hairly over by having her do a "Shit on mike" rant and then wonder why everyone hates her just like with James, isn't she?
>>155102179Don't forget routinely giving no fucks about his feelings, mocking him to protect herself, generally devaluing him, etc. I think it's the last one there that really got to Mike.
>>155101285The most likely thing is going to be that she blames Mike for their family falling apart. Even if she regrets it, it'll be her big character moment so it's stuck with her forever.
>>155102253>The most likely thing is going to be that she blames Mike for their family falling apart.I've bitched about this a few times, but how about screaming at the 2 adult parents who are getting a divorce vs her brother? Even in grief, it makes no sense unless Taeshi does some retarded bomb hell like Mike forced his parents together because he was an accident. Which still wouldn't be Mike's fault, btw.
>>155102273I think it's going to be more of a feather that broke the camel's back kind of situation, the parents can mostly ignore Mike because he's a good kid that does well at school, so there's no need to worry about him. Chris is too young to give big problems and while Haley could be considered the black sheep of the family she's still being ignored mostly and Mike covering for her looking after Chris keeps the problem at bay. Most of their energy is spent working, doing the minimum to be on their kid's lives, and arguing. Now, if Mike fucks up their perception of him then the blame game will start, then the comparisons with Haley, etc. Mike doesn't have to be the reason but the detonator
>>155102273I don't mind Haley blowing up on Mike, to be honest. It's irrational but I remember when I was a kid and my parents were going through their own struggles I blamed my brother a bit. It feels safer than blaming/blowing up on the caregivers. I bet my brother blamed himself some, and probably me too. I feel like an asshole about it now, but kids are assholes.My problem is gonna be all the grown adults with fully formed prefrontal cortexes and no complex emotional relationship to the situation who agree with her that things would be better if only Mike were less of a burden to his family and didn't have so many of those troublesome needs. It hits too close to home, that's exactly the attitude I'm working through in therapy right now.
>>155102253>>155102273The only sane response to Haley flipping out and blaming Mike is to ask in turn what the hell SHE is doing to fix things. After all, if she thinks Mike has any say in what's happening, that means Haley does too.Pretending for a moment that Taeshi isn't dumb enough to blow her own foot off with a round or two of buckshot? I think the most likely scenario would be Haley venting her more generalized frustrations toward Mike. Like that one rumor suggests, maybe she lays into him for apparently not caring about the family situation. Which would be stupid of her but still understandable coming from a secretly frightened teenage girl too wrapped up in her own problems to have much perspective.
>>155100767Is Mike the kind of guy that would pee in the shower?
>>155099632Witch hunt did fucking suck. Even aside from all the OOC shit you mentioned, it kicked aside tons of potentially interesting plots just by going "nevermind, they don't care / got over it" in order to focus exclusively on dunking Mike. And Eternal Flame was a complete clusterfuck of contrived nonsense in which every single character involved acts in ways that don't make any sense and aren't explained (Why did Sandy cheat offscreen? Why'd she confess and break up then immediately change her mind? Why is Mike running outside and moodswinging like a crazy person? Why the fuck is Lucy there at all?) in order to facilitate a facile, ridiculous plot.Those two chapters did frustrate me, but I still thought "okay, I clearly don't LIKE what Taeshi's doing, but she is doing it deliberately; she has some sort of plan and remembers what she set up". I figured that I probably wouldn't enjoy the conclusions Taeshi was building towards, but she WAS building towards something, and I was curious to see what it was.But then that mistake where she straight up forgot that Sue had a broken leg happened, and I realized "OH, Taeshi just doesn't give a shit". Then Paisy happened, then a few chapters later the fucking "everyone found out Lucy had tried to kill herself the day after" realitybomb dropped. At this point I am convinced that Taeshi doesn't see BCB as a story, she sees it as a setting, and not a deep or consistent one. Taeshi isn't telling a coherent narrative with characters that change or learn, she's still doing what she started with: episodic comics that just share a cast.
>>155102429Right now he would be. Who's going to know?Some redditor pointed out that Taeshi's commentary implies Mike's only cleaning himself for appearances sake, as if he wouldn't shower otherwise. Personally, he always struck me as the sort who would feel too gross for that to happen.
>>155102440I at least understand the Sandy cheating thing in theory. But it does depend on Sandy's offscreen lobotomy, which is bad writing.
>>155102494Taeshi's just doing that spiteful passive aggressiveness thing she always does with Mike>oooh Mr good boy is taking s bath! Do you think maybe that'll wash your sins away? Who are you trying to manipulate by pretending you're not filth? :)"And then she wonders why people hate Mike
>>155102522You know what they say of the fashion industry and cocaine, you get a lot of shit done really fast before it's even time for breakfast
>>155102440>oops all bitter
>>155102546It really is grating especially when he at least made a genuine attempt to reconcile which is more than can be said of the other party. I don't think Lucy has ever genuinely apologized for her behavior and actions
>>155102546It almost reads like she's trying to convince herself like Mike really is terrible and disingenuous. Because otherwise Lucy and her male simp squad would look pretty bad right now.
>>155099632>Witch huntYes I absolutely agree.While it was probably not THE worst chapter, I remember back in the day when I read it I was like 'wtf even happened here? Why is Mike being such a sperg? Why is everyone tolerating Augustus? Why is everyone kissing Lucy's ass?' so to me it signalized the point of no return for the comic.But to be fair, Eternal Flame made me fucking rage more than Witch Hunt due to the sheer amount of bullshit and nonsense, so maybe it is the true choice.
Dammit, head's spinning like a carousel but I'll try to get at least 2 more segments of the fic done tonight.
>>155102745Witch Hunt was emblematic of everything wrong with that period of the comic. I can understand Paulo and Daisy siding against Mike given the former was fed up with him and the latter was feeling self-conscious after Lucy's soapboxing followed by the Sandy spergout. But Paulo suddenly trying to patch things up with Lucy and everyone being cool with Gus? That only made sense if they were all huffing Lucyspace gas.
>>155102722It's not even a new thing, back when she tried doing a more lighthearted chapter where Mike and the track team hanged out in the mall she kept putting shit like "yes Mike enjoy your guilt free diversions, forget the people you wronged :)" or "what would the girlfriend you choose over everyone think about this Michael? :)" in the author comments. And those couple chapters were supposed to be the "good" PR for Mike
>>155102856Those comments would suggest the kind of bitter, insecure possessive mentality Taeshi has become known for thanks to her own Season of Mourning.
>>155100985The ironic part is that all the symbolism and parallels point towards Sandy, not Lucy:>The old scarf (the one that Mike claims he picked to match Lucy's eyes) got tattered, thrown away, and is presumably rotted to nothing by this point>Mike's current scarf was a gift from Sandy she got explicitly so it'd match her ribbon>The tree is where Mike and Sandy fell in love and had many nice moments together>Sandy gifted Mike a bonsai with little handmade figurines to symbolize them sitting under that tree>Lucy only starts hanging out under the tree to be close to Mike, who's there pining after Sandy>Lucy still goes to the tree, apparently mainly to mald and kick itSandy's the one who put effort into making and growing these points of meaningful connection, Lucy is just trying to squeeze herself in so she can have some too. Like some kind of parasite.
>>155103057So it naturally follows that Lucy comes to appropriate all these symbols without having to put in much if any effort. By comic's end, the bonsai tree will have a little Lucy figurine under it instead.
>>155100805NO ONE HEARS A WORD
>>155100851This nudist is always fuckin' naked. I wonder how long it takes these furries to dry their bodies after a shower.
>>155101102haven't seen that one, can you share it with the class?
>>155101102Which BCB character would make the best pregnant man?
>>155102494The point of Taeshi's comment is clearly that Mike is depressed and if he lets himself go like depressed do other people would notice, so he's doing it to keep up appearances that he's fine.You guys are reaching.
>>155103428>Taeshi says Mike would act out of character Many such cases!
>>155102522Sure, but that's just headcanon to try and fill in the massive cavernous gaps that Taeshi left. We are to assume that Sandy was lonely and felt like Mike didn't really understand her, or was too nice or too immature for her, or something, and thus cheated/got groomed. But none of that is ever explained; at best it's alluded to.The best things that Taeshi writes are the things she doesn't. The most interesting/sympathetic characters are the ones Taeshi blatantly doesn't like or care about; setups still have the *potential* for a satisfying payoff until she remembers and "resolves" them. The less she writes something the easier it is to fill in yourself. And in headcanon, characters can be active, have motives, causes can have effects, effects can have causes, things other than Mucy can matter, and all without getting reset!
>>155100767>>155100822Haley watching her brother walk out of the shower and heading straight for school, lusting after his merely scarf-clad body as he passes by
>>155103623>Sure, but that's just headcanon to try and fill in the massive cavernous gaps that Taeshi leftNot at all. Sandy's prior visit showed readers quite clearly that she had been downgraded to a vapid airhead much more adapted to her modeling career than in the olden days and with very little in common with Mike. Sandy's explanation that she just ended up vibing better with a guy on hand IRL made plenty of sense under those circumstances. No headcanon required, just disappointment and annoyance.
>>155101346>More based approach is that she is aware of the whole Lucy/Augustus/Sandy situation and goes off on him to just cut all those assholes out of his life because his perpetual depression incited by them is fucking retarded.If Haley told Mike "Who gives a fuck about Lucy? Stop feeling so guilty you dipshit, every time you have a dissociative episode I have to check your posture and wipe the drool off your chin like you're fucking Chris." then she'd immediately be one of the most based characters in the comic.
Looks like even the fan characters get their own commissioned porn now
>>155103703Oh, yeah, I did pay for that one: It was actually half off!
>>155103664>Sandy's prior visit showed readers quite clearly that she had been downgraded to a vapid airheadKeep telling yourself that, Sandysperg.
>>155103782(Is this what we're doing to max out the thread now?)
>>155103815Well, I hope not. But like I said, the best things that Taeshi writes are the things she doesn't, which can then be filled in with interesting headcanons. Such as side characters who haven't shown up enough to be conclusively proven to be shallow and despicable. Like half the interesting stuff in BCB is pure fancanon, made by people taking the potential Taeshi leaves on the floor and running with it.Those headcanons are the only redeeming feature BCB has left, so I'm fairly defensive of mine.
>>155103782What the fuck is this post even trying to imply?
>>155103815Today wasn't much of a page aside from the ragebait chapter description and author comment, it'll probably pick up on Friday when we see how responsive Mike is to his family
>>155104178Unhealthy attachment to poorly written cats, unwisely advertised.
>>155104219I can't believe Mike's mom is barging in on him while he's in the shower.
>>155103112The funny part is that if you think about it, Sandy's not the one who broke Lucy's link to Mike, she's the one keeping it on life support:>Creates/maintains several things which Mike associates with comfort and love, and semi-incidentally also associates with Lucy (the scarf, the tree, being a white cat)>Invited Lucy along while she and Mike were hanging out in elementary>Is the origin point of almost every memory Mike has of Lucy being nice to him>Advises Mike to ask Lucy to stop hitting him>Reminds Mike that he's a kind and compassionate person, and asks him to talk it out with LucySandy keeps giving Lucy the opportunity to go "oh, sorry" and stay best friends with Mike, and Lucy keeps squandering it because if she can't have Mike all to herself then she'd rather have nothing, and will try to make sure no one else can have him either. Even now, after EF and LitS, Sandy is the one trying to hold Mike together and help him heal after Lucy broke him out of spite.
>>155104221We're all in the same Maori whakairo forum talking about a webcomic we hate. Don't try to pretend you're above it.
>>155104531Hating on the comic =/= stanning for individual cats, sorry anon.
>>155100851>Really could use a different palette you knowWhy is she using this one tho?Why do we have this weird minimalist style?
>>155098016That weird as shit Paulo cold-shoulder after Golden Hour was the first time I saw the cracks. Getting followed up with Daisy apologizing also read wrong. As a lot of the anons are also mentioning, Witch Hunt was also really bad, some of that might also be that the chapter took a WHOLE YEAR. The audience was a lot more prone to notice how off everyone was acting.
>>155104574I think her blog answer was "I'm just lazy and this was easier lol"
>>155100936In short:Lucy is okay to be sad, uwu arian qween Mike is A WHINY FAGGY BITCH WHO SHOUL DIE to dare be sad, the fucking parasite Here, we can skip the whole chapter, next one please
>>155104574it saves time, it's a no-brainer, she may need the time in case she has baby
>>155104577Daisy falling for Paulo after he bought her a milkshake and stopped mocking anime for five minutes was already pretty stupid. Remembering this survived his descent into butthurt pissbaby mode makes it so much worse.
>>155104665>has babyI feel like it's Suitcase that's the problem, and he's gaslighting her in some way shape or form so he doesn't lose her as an sex outlet avenue or revenue stream. Does Suitcase even have a job to help build their income?
>>155104665You know, in cases when BPD does improve, it's usually in the 30-40 year age range. If Taeshi regained a bit of objectivity and outpaced her biological clock about the same time, I wonder if she'd regret what her comic's become.
The blogposts were even worse this time around. Dammit, I should just stop looking here. My body hurts, mind is spinning, and my potato soup's cream broth has de-emulsified. Fuck it, I'm getting more segments done out of sheer spite today.
>>155104695>Does Suitcase even have a job to help build their income?does investing in crypto count?anyways you guys are gonna love taeshi's response to this ask
>>155104665Is she finally pregnant or still trying?
>>155104765still trying, I cut part of the ask where she said there wasn't luck in the baby front yet
>>155104762>ACTCHUALLY Lucy does like Daisy and in a way more legit way than the deceptive fat cat could ever manageLook, I can get behind Daisy tricking herself on the Lucy question, but get real. Lucy's a psychotic little ball of perma-resentment who enjoys the occasional good day.
>>155104831You haven't seen the other blogpost, she's losing her mind.
>>155104846Oh, feel free to post away. These provide like 50% of each thread's entertainment value.
>>155104861I'm shit with tech, so I genuinely can't figure it out.
>>155100936If it is 46 pages of Mike Decembering everyone for being fucking assholes and holding them accountable for their responsibilities as """""""his friends""""""" before never talking to any of them again, I'd be 100% ok with this chapter.That includes Sandy, too. Mike needs to let all of them go and move on with this life.
>>155104846>>155104861are you talking about the one she just posted
>>155104762"Look here look my oc!!! As soon as you get her good side, she is THE BEST cat ever and you all wrong for not wanting to FUCK HER SENSELESSLY every other feeemale is fucking fake and garbage ONLY LUCY is true and honest after she stops ballsacking you!!! Love her!! LOVE ME!!!"
>>155104887Yeah.
>>155104762>Actually Lucy likes Daisy "the whore" more because she can perceive how much Daisy is just being nice (manipulative) to herTaeshi really doesn't mind using Daisy "asking for it" Fatcat as a punching bag huh?
>>155104762>New Yorkers (Lucy) are not nice but kind>Californians (Daisy) are nice but not kindWhat the fuck is she smoking? Under what fucking standard does Lucy qualify as kind, but Daisy doesn't? Is this one of those things where she's totally inverted her definitions, or just a classic Taeshi double standard between her favored avatars and the unchosen?
>>155104924Asshole good, friendly bad. C'mon anon this is Taeshi 101
>>155100805You must be strong enough to shoulder more than your share of the burden.
>>155104887At least im glad the question acknowledges that it's all shit Taeshi has been saying, as opposed to based in reality
>>155104887I have to wonder how modern Taeshi would get along with her past self. Because it sure didn't seem like the Vacation Arc through December implied any such pettiness. Indeed, Mike's anger toward Lucy for using him and others as convenient seemed all too legitimate.
>>155104831>this is the face of someone that likes you very much
>>155104983Canon is dead, anon. Best to never take this seriously since none of it matters or has any resemblence to the original story.
>>155104550It's okay anon, Sandy is such a saint that she doesn't even mind irrational seething hatred from strangers! She'd probably even forgive you for talking shit, and remind you to do better for yourself.>>155104675Paisy is such a garbage ship in so many ways.
>>155105095Would Sandy also be subject to schizophrenic hallucinations? Because clearly those are in style right now, and she does keep up with the latest trends.
>>155104762>Draw a page where Lucy is only nice to Daisy to dodge Augustus, literally using her, also slip an insult to her and don't even help her with the plates >Next page is Daisy praising her for surprising her with her progress and acknowledgeing that it'd be good if she got to know Lucy better>"Haha of course Lucy likes Daisy better, she's honest unlike Daisy!
>>155105181I guess Lucy's more honest because whenever she's upset at Daisy, she makes that clear instead of hiding it. Unless Lucy does the opposite, but that shouldn't count right?
>>155100767It never stops hurting. My existence. Every day, I have to wake up and face the new day with fresh pains. Even caring for the basic needs of my body is like inviting it on. But it's better to be clean than comfortable.
>>155105242Maybe Mike will get lucky and Haley will grant permission to kill himself.
>>155105267Remember that trying to kill yourself is the only way you can be forgiven in this comic besides being Lucy or one of her followers.
>>155104887Oh my rage has been baited. When has Daisy ever been unkind? She said Paulo could be kinda mean sometimes once. She kinda insinuated that maybe Sandy cheated on Mike for a good reason. She... what? Led Abbey on, sorta-kinda-not-really?
>>155105330>When has Daisy ever been unkind?She called Paulo a doodoo head and resents Lucy, grave sins. Please don't think too hard about how Lucy feels about Sandy
>>155105289Ah, so that is how Sandy will be redeemed.>becomes another in-universe Lucyfag for no apparent reason>realizes she cannot compete with the malding white cat who is just so much more honest or something>tricks Mike into dumping her and gravitating back toward the resident neutron star>a selfless sacrifice that still pales in comparison to Lucy's trauma
>>155105330Daisy did get openly mad at Lucy that one time for hogging all the male attention to herself.
Daisy's just another springboard that Taeshi can use to pretend Lucy has positive attributes.
>>155105481Well I hope there's at least a little backlash about it since Daisy is usually a fan favorite in the "must defend" sense
>>155105140No, schizophrenic hallucinations and breaks from reality are one of Mike and Lucy's shared interests.In seriousness I do wish Taeshi would bite the bullet and properly address the fact that her two main characters are completely fucking insane. I don't think she realizes that she keeps massively overshooting a relatable/funny level of dysfunction, and writing characters as crazy, exhausting, and/or assholes.
>>155105396That was after Lucy responded to Daisy expressing hope that she could reconcile with Mike and rejoin the group with "I'd rather hang out with [guy who SA'd you]", and then Lucy accused Daisy of being jealous out of nowhere.Christ Lucy is such a psycho.
>>155105655My point is you need to stop reading some kind of malding hatred into any level of criticism Sandy gets. It makes you look like a slightly less retarded Lucyfag, or a less spastic version of that pissy Paulofag a few threads ago.
>>155105655Only Lucy and Paulo are main characters, remember that.
>>155105736I'm sure Lucy (and thus Taeshi) percieved Daisy's response as a completely unprovoked attack.
>>155104762I like how she uses a GIF of a small white cat trying to attack a gray one in the post saying that Lucy is kinder adds great irony.
>>155105810And the latest post is just more revisionism and poor little martyr Lucy.
>>155104887>Lucy's desire to changeWhen the fuck did that ever happen? Nothing in the past chapters indicates the fucking psychotic mess that is Lucy was ever planning to change. SHOW DON'T FUCKING TELL LIKE IT'S OBVIOUS WHAT YOUR INTENTIONS WERE IN SOME INTERACTIONS.
>>155105889Oh, the latest post is even worse too. The author's just crazy and trying to make her self-insert a blameless angel and victim of the evil evil Mike.
>>155105790>>155105810I think this is similar to LitS, she expected way more support for Lucy than what she actually got (shouldn't have had Lucy mocking Augustus for worrying or doing pic related) but she can't outright push it on Mike because, ironically, him doing NOTHING prevented both Lucy and her from getting material, so we're back at doing PR on the blog
>>155105655daisy a cute
>>155105955Fuck, meant pic related
>>155105959She deserves better
>>155105757I do like Sandy, but at the moment I'm just fucking around, not bothering to make a real argument. There was at least one anon who got legitimately pissy about how Sandy was a whore and a bitch and was probably still cheating etc. etc., but I don't think they're in this thread given that no-one's biting the bait.>>155105781Statistically it's Paulo and Mike. Lucy is an anomaly in that she has psychokinetic powers such as teleportation every time she's not in the panel someone is asking "where's Lucy?", but she's mostly just talked about by other characters. She does show up a lot, but she rarely does much. Although I do think that's partially to preserve Lucy's sympathy factor, because every time Lucy does appear she's being a fucking asshole. Gotta keep her on ice to prevent the hate train from gaining too much momentum.
>>155105889Maybe she means Lucy finally letting Mike go (on a romantic basis) and thus finally giving a shit about his wishes in December.
>>155106127and yet not even a few pages ago she was glomping onto him like a parasite for the nth time
>>155106078>Lucy barely above Daisy>Paulo that highShould this chart be updated with the latest one, or is it not worth it? Side note: maybe Pasiy was done so Daisy has something in the comic; otherwise she'd be sue tier.
This is only one segment out of 32, subject to change, yet I will try my best to work expeditiously on the fic now that my finals are over. dwwns://bfia.ceqvak/emUKK1WUOjur5prP/Xkwfwiav%20vmoxjakw%20(6).nvb
>Here's your third serving of ragebaitSomeone stepped on Taeshi's foot today.
>>155106390Yeah, that would be my fault. Part of me wants to see how far she'll go to claim she's right, and part of me wants to see her snap back to lucidity.
>>155106390I truly hate taeshi blog & shitty bait. Lover her trying to retcon Mike as the possessive one as if the entire comic doesn't fall apart if Lucy isn't possessive.>Willingly pull herself away from hanging out with Mike.Didn't Lucy at one point change her decision on a group trip cause of Mike own independent decision?
>>155106426Are we sure it's even bait? It's probably what she believes at the current moment.
>>155106497I'm more willing to bet she's going back to alert mode because she didn't get the reception she expected and people feel sorry about Mike, so she's doubling on the blog posting>>155106403When did you make the question? I'd like to know if it was right away or if she was saving it for the right timing
>>155106565Not the particular question itself, but I've been pissing her off enough today to make her this spiteful.
>>155106600well aren't we special
>>155104762>>155104831>>155105013>>155104957>>155104924This is why people think Taeshi is just ragebaiting, since what she writes is completely disconnected from the reality of what is shown in the comic, but unfortunately, everything points out that she does truly believe what she is saying is true.This once again reinforces that Taeshi really believes with all of her heart that jerks are pure and good, and kind people are always fake and bad.
>>155104762IIRC it was either a tumblr ask or the art fight whereshe wrote lucy with stuff like actually liking sue and not being bothered by Sandy's existence, but then the comic showing the exact opposite. This is just another one of those examples. She's got some weird disconnect issue between what she thinks and what she actually writes. Lucy can barely tolerate Daisy and basically looks down on her.
>>155107331I would mind what Taeshi says in these asks much less if it was actually reflected in the comic. It might be bad or boring writing but at least it would show that she knows what she is writing. The dissonance between what she writes on her blog and what is actually shown on panel makes her look like a schizo
>>155107357it's so far from the comic itself i just don't bother reading her blog posts anymore, even when somebody posts screenshots here. i don't even read the commentary. i highly recommend getting into the habit of ignoring this stuff altogether
>>155107499Same, though I still read the damn commentary just to see if it has some insight on the madness I just read.The blog posts though can go to hell, though.
>>155104887She decided to make the tsundere bullshit into something serious in the first place. Now she's acting like it isnt that big of a deal?Mike didn't want Lucy to cry and beg for him back. If anything Lucy wants him to do that to her.If anything, all mike wanted was for her to stop the hitting and failing to be upfront about her feelings. He wanted the security blanket bullshit to stop because it wasn't long after she said she loved him that he saw her hanging on paulo in universe.>Lucy's attempt to change.During the school project and such she did try to act nicer. But if Mike just accepted her back right then and there, then that would ruin the point being made with Tess's character. She was nicer when the gang met her but she still had a past of stuff she had to make up for. This wasn't even limited to tess. This was Abbey's whole beef with Paulo. Even if he did try to be better, Abbey just didn't believe him because the past negatives outweighed the current positives.Lucy tried to be nicer once and, while the december speech was harsh, Mike not instantly beliving her was in line with how the comic was being written at the time. But instead of realizing she MIGHT have to try harder, just a lil bit harder, she tries to kill herself.Apparently because Mike apologized so he didnt hate her now? It was stupid reasoning either way. Then Lucy comes back and tries to spite Mike as much as she can, only to pretend like she wasnt just bitchy to him ever since her return when EF happened. Showing she learned basically nothing.Someone should really take the blog from her because she sounds stupid every time she answers. Her own pages contradict whatever she says on tumblr.
>>155106390Her entire comic is running on the fact that Lucy is so possessive of Mike that she can't imagine anything outside of being his girlfriend. Friend isn't good enough for her.>AugustusHonestly, I think Mike does have a reason to be bothered by how Lucy treats him. He and Paulo constantly got the hot n cold treatment and hit at least once or twice a day. Lucy doesn't seem to do this with Augustus. She doesn't hit him and if she tries to hide how she feels then it doesn't last as long as with the other two.Of the 3 boys, She's known Mike the longest and was the closest with him. "Why can she be like that with him but not me?" is a legit question for him to ask and not having an answer to that would indeed be maddening because there's no actual good answer for it. So to him it looks like she just decided to hop on ANOTHER cat, another security blanket, instead of changing up for her longest, closest friend.Mike isn't completely blameless in how things are, but it's not as much on him as taeshi likes to make out on her blog. The fact that she's trying to force it so hard is making people go "Wait a sec" more and more as time goes on.
I think the only way you can interpret taeshi's blogposts is if you imagine they are meant to be what Lucy believes rather than what's actually true in the comic. Lucy would like to believe that Mike is so possessive and wants her so bad and he just pushes her away because he can't resist her and not because her treating him like shit was actually bad and upset him. She would believe that she is actually secretly nicer than Daisy and that Daisy is just a fake bitch. Taeshi is just so enmeshed with her self insert that she can only see things from her perspective, but still manages to write the comic in a way that blatantly contradicts Lucy's own beliefs. Kind of impressive really.
the pillow talk commentary is weird lol
>>155108370Twelve is too young for a relationship but just old enough for a promise you made to be binding forever.
>>155108268That's the only way to interpret a bunch of the shit Taeshi says, not just the blogposts.>>155108370A lot of the commentary for volumes 1-3 is weird as fuck, 'cause she wrote a bunch of new stuff when doing the redraws. It's the closest we'll ever get to the whole "what if past Taeshi and current Taeshi met" hypothetical, and it's bizarre. It reads in a lot of cases as salty revisionism, probably because it is.
>>155108370She had to change it because the original comment was completely covering for just Lucy being twelveThey scrubbed all of their shit off the web archive but I remember making a post about this lol
>>155108268That's more or less the same conclusion I've come to. Taeshi getting lost in the sauce is the only thing that makes a lick of sense, if only so it gives her an out later.>lol you thought i was being for real?>nah i was just channeling Lucy and you all fell for it lmao
>>155108486>the original comment was completely covering for just Lucy being twelvewhich is a perfectly fine reason already? lucy wasn't ready, and mike didn't owe her a relationship either later on. I don't know why taeshi thought the letter bullshit was a better idea than lucy coming to terms with the past and just trying to move on.
>>155108757Lucy kept the recipts because Taeshi herself did IRL. The letters nonsense is an adaptation of the likewise ridiculous Season of Mourning.
>>155106265Here's an updated one.
>>155104762>New Yorkers are not nice but kindNever been to New York, is this even remotely true or is she just telling bold faced lies again?
>>155110118I find Taeshi's take on kindness to be the most suspect part of the equation.
>>155106390This one example is bad, tho. Mike is seeing Lucy hanging out with a possible rapist, possibly a sexual harasser, surely a nasty manipulator, someone that went after a cat they supposedly are common friends with. Of course I would also think that's pathetic, to find solace on the one guy who manipulated and used your supposed friend or ANYONE, even. Out of everyone, she had many other friends who kissed her ass but she needed to be the quirky not_like_other_characters that goes for the local creep>bu bu but Augustus wasnt gona-He still did manipulated for the sake of manipulating, for many reasons other than selfish too, and still needed to be blocked. She said no and he pushed. Do we need to count the nos? I dont give a fuck if taeshi fumbled and needs auggie-kun to be less of a creep and all of a sudden "he wasnt gonna do it"Look at this interaction and tell me in my fucking face it is acceptable to make a girl feel like this irl. Fuck whoever victim blames, you too Vero. I sincerely hope this happens to you bitchasses blaming excuse for a human being. And I see you reading and typing "schizo wishing this bad shit to happen to real people" yeah proving my fucking point. IT IS shit. If you don't think this is shit in the comic than you wouldnt have a problem it happening to you. Circle closed.
>>155110420I feel that doesn't really work as a threat, because of the event that did actually take place being way worse. It's why she's comfortable doing rape jokes according to that other comic
>>155110420Do calm down a bit anon, like, you're not wrong, but take a breath, read something less ragebaity. But you are right that Taeshi's sense of morality is super fucked up: she's explained that she decided Augustus was a "good guy deep down who deserves better" because she found him too much fun and wanted to keep him around, but she's never actually given him a redemption arc to make that transition work. He's still a creep who only regrets that his plan didn't work, but everyone just inexplicably decided he's not a threat and they're cool with him now. >>155110781BCB is really rapey, but it's still more or less pg13, and that somehow makes it feel worse. It maintaining this "teen melodrama, just sympathetic kids!" tone makes it extra uncomfortable when it goes into shit like sexual assault, physical abuse, victim blaming, gaslighting, double standards, bullying, etcetera. And then it doubles down on that creepy feeling by bringing that stuff to a meta level, when Taeshi as the author gaslights, has double standards, victim blames, and jokes about abuse and sexual assault.
>>155110420She was raped by a relative as a child, it already happened and that's why she's comfortable writing this stuff. We can complain about the comic all we want, and how Taeshi portrayed it as heroic in a blog post, but wanting real life harm to happen is a bit too far.
>>155110420It's a shame how right now is a decent time for Augustus to go through a Pride Goeth Before a Fall type character arc, yet Taeshi surely has negative interest in such a thing.
Tiff or Lucy?>>155111361Didn't she also say in a post whatever Augustus did was not going to be harmful? I don't think Augustus would go that far
>>155111571lmao what the fuck is that interaction?they have got to be taking the piss
>>155111615I dont even know the context, I got it as a meme from a friend. Wish I knew where this is fromI forgot to replace the other username with tiff handle (picrel is fixed)
>>155111571The only evidence that he would not have gone that far is an ancient AU BCI in which Gus corners Daisy then chickens out and gets awkward. Otherwise it's just his word and Taeshi's. Even if Gus would have stopped short of straight up rape, his general intentions were pretty clear: Manipulate, seduce, and make out with Daisy to seal the deal. Pretty scummy all around. So it's a real shame the comic only ever brings it up to keep him from Daisy, and even that is not consistent. Given what he pulled in LitS, the projection and hypocrisy are staggering, which would make a real callout so much the more satisfying.
>>155111891(You actually think she'll ever portray perfect little predator Augustus as wrong?)
>>155111986Sure, much the way I think rocks fall up when dropped.
>>155111571>>155111653This kind of shit is half of why I still come to these threads. The other half is because I need to vent about this shitty comic, how fucked up it is, and how all my favorite characters get done dirty, and this is the only forum that lets me do it anonymously.
>>155111986You shouldn't forget Taeshi tends to fall out of love with certain narratives, like how Pucy (Pussy pa' los cuates) had a fuckton of fanart made by her and was her favorite ship until she got tired of Paulo and turned him into a soggy bitch. So Augustus has narrative protection FOR NOW
>>155112466While I personally do not hold out hope something so good might happen, Augustus suffering a fall from grace would be very satisfying. There is certainly potential, given how Lucy's boy latching tendencies work coupled with the unfortunate inevitability that is Mucy. But only if Taeshi was narratively honest enogh about her fursona to cast Gus aside like yesterday's news.
>>155112466NTA, but Taeshi also falls back in love with narratives sometimes. And there's some things that are always constant, like her barometer for "likable" being fucked such that manipulative assholes are fun and honest, while kind and patient characters are selfish jerks.>>155112671I doubt that Mucy is endgame, but I am certain that it will continue to be teased as if it might be right up until the comic ends.Then again, every time I think "taeshi can't possibly be dumb enough to miss THIS easy a layup" she manages to surprise me. So maybe she really is planning to end the comic on Mike and Lucy kissing beneath a fireworks display on new years (as if that's a thing in the US), and all this toxic waste IS just her idea of romantic adversity.But either way it doesn't matter, because BCB is never GONNA end, because it's not like Suitcase is ever getting a job. These cats will continue to be the same dumb assholes doing the same dumb shit until one day, decades from now, the comic just stops because Taeshi died. At best it'll get like two rushed chapters to wrap up, if she's still able to draw while terminal.
>>155111891>The only evidence that he would not have gone that far is an ancient AU BCI in which Gus corners Daisy then chickens out and gets awkwardI always find it funny when some fans try to use this BCI as proof that Augustus isn't so bad as to go all the way, because if we're using BCIs to judge the characters, it's worth remembering that in two other BCIs Augustus takes advantage of an emotionally exhausted Daisy to convince her to have sex with him, and she ends up pregnant and he disappears from the story (Accidents Will Happen), and in another, where Daisy manages to convince Mike to date her with Augustus's plan, he gets angry and ends up reporting them to Alejandro (Another Way), so basically we have one BCI where he chickens out, one where he manipulates her into having sex, and another where he condemns her to be raped by Alej in the end; the score isn't very good for Augustus.
>>155112881Taeshi has made noises about how some major arc is set to wrap up in the next ten chapters or so. Assuming she means her Goldiemald fixfic, I figure the comic will likely sputter and die soonafter. Unless of course she gives herself the opportunity to keep torturing Mike or somehow finds Paisy fascinating.
>>155112961Not as of a week ago, mate.Also, reminder that russians are spiritually subhuman.
>>155113117Has Veronica ever considered adoption? I thought geriatric pregnancies were dangerous for both the mother and child
>>155113527>I thought geriatric pregnancies were dangerous for both the mother and childIf you're 60 yes.Statistically your chances are better if you have a kid in your 20s than in your 40s. That doesn't seem to stop smokers or fatties from having kids either, though.Newspapers have been repeating statistics recorded from 18th century french peasants for decades and now people are convinced you need to have kids before you're 30 for some reason.
>>155113527Adoption is expensive and requires a background check, I doubt an agency would ever give a kid to someone whose livelihood is built on a webcomic's Patreon.
>>155113527A friend of mine looked into adoption and they seem to be fairly strict about income. Webcomic money probably isn't considered stable enough (but idk what the other guy does is he a CEO or something then that wouldn't matter)
>>155113783he manages her website and patreon and invests in crypto and gambles
>>155113868>invests in crypto and gamblesbankruptcy arc immenant
>>155113687I am high as a kite on ketamine and afraid that this came off too harsh. I am only trying to speak facts, I don't think Tae and Suit should be denied a kid just because they write a webcomic I hateread.
>>155113889As the other person to answer I agree. But yeah it's probably not considered 'good enough' for agencies. My IRL friend had a solid full time job and it wasn't enough.
>>155103057If you wanna go symbolism>old scarf was Mike's love for Lucy, used as a sop and abused by the entire cast until it mastered and was cast aside>striped scarf was Mike's attempt at a clean break, it functioned but wasn't popular and eventually had to go>Scarf 3 is modern zombie Mike, visually similar to how things used to be but stripped of any meaning, a hollow shell that just exists through inertia
>>155114021>it's probably not considered 'good enough' for agenciesI know you mean the comic being their source of income but the idea of the adoption agencies reading BCB has me in stitches >I don't know man, I'm not sure someone with such poor characterization management can handle the responsability, you know? Why are they naked anyway?
>>155114085denied a child because the adoption agency is staffed by maisy shippers
>>155114085>>155114164>they don't even have the courage to call the comic furry how can they have the courage to raise a child
>>155114177>I see you have an adopted kid among your characters! That should be a good starting point >Oh...>I don't think that's his fault..>Ca you explain this opinion about consent?>I see, I see, his mother did love him, yeah
I hope Taeshi gets pregnant just to annoy the chuds here.
>>155115527I hope Taeshi gets pregnant just so I can see her writing the story while affected by pregnancy hormones, not to mention later, when she goes back to taking her medication and has to deal with the mess she made of the comic while pregnant and without her medication.
>>155115527Imagine wanting a child with a disnfuctional family just to get a gotcha. Kids are a huge responsability
>>155116411Reminder that they've been together longer than most people in this thread have been alive.But sure, it' would be "disnfuctional" because of a slightly cringe tumblr post from fifteen years ago.
>>155116570I think he means the BPD
>>155114240>I see, I see, his mother did love him, yeah
>>155116360isn't she not on any medsAFAIK there aren't really meds for BPD
Taeshi hates Mike to a hilarious degree, like he's supposed to be your main character chill out lmfao
>>155117439>anons will continue to pretend that this comic is anything other than goldiemalding
>>155117439If Mike is supposed to feel this way why have we never seen any evidence of it? This could be a plausible thing for a character in Mike's position to feel, but taeshi has managed to never actually portray him feeling this way.
>>155117439>Mike's entire side of the conversation was akin to "this is my fault isn't it?">How fucking possesive my god!I'm pretty sure these questions are meant to bait Taeshi with her own opinions into saying something she won't be able to take back one of these days, because c'mon man
>>155117439Thinking back, other than Paulo molesting her (which Tae's gone back and forth about how much we should care about, Lucy certainly doesn't hold it against him), what was the difference between Lucy's cadre of creeps and Mike's admirers? Why is one traumatizing and the other "obviously feels good?"
>>155117439I feel like she's not really answering the question of "why", just reiterating that Mike IS possessive. Am I stupid, or does it read that way to anyone else?Also lol at "like all the admirers Mike has had to deal with growing up, it feels good!" vs Lucy being traumatized from "admirers" attention and being catcalled (which actually happens way less than with Mike, since the purge of the fan characters removed most of the instances of randos bugging Lucy, whereas the only case of Mike getting hassled that got removed was Carson). Yet another instance of Taeshi going "{victim} was asking for/wanted it", add it to the list.>>155117643Many such cases.
>>155117798Her elaborating would require good evidence set up in advance. This possessive streak is something she read into the character to justify his ongoing punishment/establish Lucy's eternal victimhood.
>>155117898It could also be some "guys like it when girls chase them but girls don't", Taeshi is well known for her double standards
4/32 segments completed, my apologies for the delay.>>155117439I'm glad I'm no longer reading this or interacting with blog posts.
>>155117758Lucy does occasionally hold it against Paulo, but like many things, Lucy keeps it in her back pocket and only brings it out when she wants leverage or to hurt someone.To play devil's advocate, it could just be a difference in personality. Mike is a people pleaser who likes attention and making others happy. But then Lucy is characterized as liking attention too (but only from boys), so I don't know. Maybe Lucy just rolled low for her psychological resilience stat.
>>155117439>He is even Possessive of Sandy in EFShe is his fucking girlfriend, and she cheated on him. No fucking shit; she owed him a decent explanation and an apology. Mike should never have fucking gotten back with Sandy.
>>155118155It's interesting how often Taeshi seems to vilify Mike for the high crime of having Sandy as a GF.
>>155118178Because Sandy is Goldie. Taeshi seems to despise her husband for ever talking to her.
>>155118178>>155118327And it's not just that because she'll go on about how Mike is holding her back or how he doesn't appreciate the many sacrifices she's doing for him. Sandy is the scum of the earth unless compared to Mike, then she's actually also a poor victim of scarfcat
>>155118353Taeshi seems to eternally hate her husband over this for some reason, maybe that's just BPD.
>>155117439I don't get this woman. She goes out of her way to slander Mike at every opportunity. On the blog alone she has him as this horrible ass person. Yet when you suggest him leaving everyone he wronged, she gets mad.But then she also gets mad when people hate Mike and don't have "Nuance and empathy" for his situation.
>>155118461I think the "Have nuance and empathy" schtick is just so people think there's a point to Mike getting dunked on constantly so they keep giving her money and reading.Taeshi shitting on Mike is done for the simple fact she despises him and nothing else.
>>155118461>Yet when you suggest him leaving everyone he wronged, she gets mad.Because she has no coherent reason for Mike to just up and leave. Which is more or less what he's already doing with this self-isolation strategy of his, albeit while remaining in range of more bullshit.>But then she also gets mad when people hate Mike and don't have "Nuance and empathy" for his situation.Lucy falling for an outright villain would hurt Taeshi's ego. Mike getting his balls stomped for his sins is the obvious moral equalizer.
>>155118353A coherent argument can be made that Mike has been a bad boyfriend:>puts less effort into the relationship than Sandy does, she's always the one calling (when convenient for Mike), sending gifts, and gently talking him into having a spine>Sandy is implied to have stuff on her end too but she doesn't bring it up with Mike because he never asks and she doesn't want to bother him>the first time Mike feels like he wants to talk more frequently, he tells her so and they talk about it (on Paulo's advice), which immediately solves the issue and Sandy sends him flowers (Class of 2008)>friction starts at the exact same time as Mike's guilt about Lucy kicks back in, then communication falls off a cliff once Lucy's back>which implies that the problem may not be one-sidedly Sandy's fault, but be partially due to Mike's worsening mental state over Lucy's suicide and return making him unable or unwilling to keep up a relationshipBut Taeshi doesn't seem interested in making such an argument, probably because it indirectly makes Lucy "the problem". She seems much more interested in making Mike the sole origin of his problems with no excuses, and Lucy as a victim caught in his terrible pull.
>>155118723She wouldn't talk to him for a while despite his efforts and then cheated on him.
>>155117439This lady is nutso
>>155118723>>puts less effort into the relationship than Sandy does, she's always the one calling (when convenient for Mike), sending gifts, and gently talking him into having a spineMike is a teenager without a job and he was constantly texting her whenever. Even if he wasnt calling, he was still consistently communicating with her. Sandy had money from modeling to send him gifts. >>Sandy is implied to have stuff on her end too but she doesn't bring it up with Mike because he never asks and she doesn't want to bother him.This is a two way street. Before the cheating reveal, mike loved talking to Sandy in general so if she did have stuff on her end then he would have easily kept up a conversation with her about it. She could have just tossed it out there and saw what would happen.>>the first time Mike feels like he wants to talk more frequently, he tells her so and they talk about it (on Paulo's advice), which immediately solves the issue and Sandy sends him flowers (Class of 2008)>>friction starts at the exact same time as Mike's guilt about Lucy kicks back in, then communication falls off a cliff once Lucy's back>>which implies that the problem may not be one-sidedly Sandy's fault, but be partially due to Mike's worsening mental state over Lucy's suicide and return making him unable or unwilling to keep up a relationshipSandy decided on her own to start responding less and less and eventually ghosting him. This absolutely would have happened even if Lucy didn't come back. His worsening mental state is a combo of that, Lucy returning and being nothing but bitchy to him, and feeling like his friends didn't get or respect his relationship.He would have been in a better state with the 2nd and 3rd things if Sandy was regularly responding to him at the time of all of that.
I somehow write best late at night, either half-delirious or gaining a sudden rush of motivation. It's a strange way to do things, but I have to make progress. Finishing 1/8 of the chapter of fic (which is chapters 1 and 2 combined) tonight.Writing like this and revising is far harder than data analytics reports, to be quite honest.
Well, for those worried about Mike turning into a stoic emo jerk after this arc, while that's part of his DNA, going by the end of Taeshi's answer, he shouldn't go too far down that road.
>>155119010>I somehow write best late at night, either half-deliriousMiexAmy fanfic empowered by Lovecraftian entities, kek. Anyway, good luck Mus.
An excerpt from the fic I'm working on, just to give you some more indication of progress.Haley: “I swear, if you don’t get up this instant, I’m going to pull you and…?”No words were spoken, but the disappointment and frustration were palpable through the hand gestures and enough mouthed four-letter words to stuff a cornucopia. In the end, all that could be heard was an audible sigh as Haley and Mike’s parents watched what could be described as a combination of a car crash and walking in on your parents.Haley: “Seriously, Mike? I thought you just had lumpy sheets, not that you turned into some kind of Casanova when you’re half dead! I swear, if she played with more than your dumb console, then…”And finally, Amy awoke from her slumber, allowing Mike to finally break free from his floofy prison of warmth and softness, averting a cruel and unspeakable fate far worse than death. It's taboo to reveal something close to the resolution of the first chapter, but I thought it was funny. I was pondering saying "playing with more than that joystick", but it felt too much like Haley was giving Mike's cock a nickname.
>>155119271Thanks. College is finally out. All As and Bs on the four Master's degree courses.
>>155118914My point is that you wouldn't need to do any retcons to make the argument that Mike was a bad boyfriend in certain respects; you could make that argument purely from what's already there without any (direct) contradictions, just by revealing things from Sandy's side of the story (which we still haven't gotten any of btw). But instead Taeshi is accusing Mike of this out-of-left-field stuff:>Mike is bad for being best friends with Lucy while having a girlfriend>Mike bad for not being best friends with Lucy while having a girlfriend>Mike is a hypocritical baby for being upset that Sandy cheated on him>Mike is a hypocritical baby for being upset that Lucy is running a campaign to destroy him socially and emotionally>Mike is possessive and manipulative and wants Lucy to stay obsessed with him>Mike needs to make amends and do better (but any time he tries he's doing it wrong and deserves to get kicked in the dick)Which DOES require retcons and contradictions.Again, I think it's down to the fact that Taeshi DOES NOT want to absolve Sandy, or imply Lucy is the one making Mike miserable.
>>155119396>Lucy is the one making Mike miserable.Instead, she'll just make people more sympathetic to lucy then ike espcially due to LITS. The fuck is Lucy suffering besides her own psychosis?
>>155119685>make people more sympathetic to lucy then ike espcially due to LITS.mald that people are more sympathetic to Mike over lucy espcially due to LITS. Mike wasn't the only one who suffers from unchecked brain damage.
This is slated to conveniently happen in chapter 3 or 4 of the fic.
>>155119182>Lucy would do what I "wish I coulda done" (which involved just talking back and being violent and rude)>I essentially started making Mike into "the kinda guy I'd like"Well that's a rather bold admission. I wish Taeshi was based enough to own it like that all the time, instead of insisting that she's NOT cringe and NOT a furry. It'd be a lot less infuriating, and might even make the comic itself more enjoyable.
>>155119685I think Taeshi might end up pushing it, as in there will come a moment people will get sick of her nonsense that doesn't fit the actual writing in the comic. She's still very lucky most of her interactions are people already familiar with the comic, both ass kissers and anon baiting her into tripping, but unlike us that will talk big and do nothing Tumblr can still get very fucking heavy when it comes to hounding people for perceived moral faults
>>155120217Then what's the best way to push it?
>>155120307That's the best part, you don't have to, the more she keeps going on pushing on the discrepancies the more she's writing herself into a corner
>>155073809Paulo's plot armor is still active even though the Paulo Show ended volumes ago. Amazing!
>>155074810Alejandro and his goons become relevant and antagonists again
guys... I can't do this anymore...
>>155120906LolLucy's only female friend is Sue and she treats her like shit, volume 3 is entirely Lucy isolating herself until a boy shows up because Tess and Sue weren't good enough.Daisyfag if you can hear my prayer PLEASE make a compilation of Daisy doing things for other girls.
>>155120906>[Lucy] knows you can't play nice with predatorsI'm going to have an aneurysm
>>155120986Ironic given she's best friends with someone who preyed on Daisy.
>>155120935I wouldn't say Sue is Lucy's friend, given that Lucy has repeatedly claimed she doesn't have any friends and never did. It's more of a faustian bargain kind of relationship; Sue accepted in a moment of weakness, and ever since she's been continuously assailed by Taeshi's 4 favorite mocking furies.
>>155120906>Boy you’re gonna love some future chapters—Well, this at least indicates that Daisy will have some plot besides just standing by Paulo's side during the chapters focused on him, lol.
>>155120906I'm amazed there's people with takes more unhinged that even Taeshi, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're throwaway accounts since they're anonymous, although I wouldn't want to be seen reading this comic either
>>155120935>Daisyfag if you can hear my prayer PLEASE make a compilation of Daisy doing things for other girls.I present to you like half the girl-to-girl interactions in BCB, annotated. Apologies for the relatively low resolution; file size limits, y'know.Also some extraneous examples of Lucy being an awful abrasive sexist. She's just the worst.
>>155121099>picMaybe Lucy was right when she called Sue an attention whore
>>155121828You forgot Daisy defending Lucy's name from Mike, and two times from Paulo. Paulo calling her a hoe (and Daisy reprimanding him) and freaking out at the halloween special to Mike sperging about Lucy. She wasnt even in hearing sight so Diasy decided by her own to defend her friend Lucy. I still think Lucy was not jokingly smirking at Daisy when she was sad in ch.122 p2-3 , it looked genuinely as she was going to enjoy Daisy struggling, and then she didnt enjoy it as much as she thought. But this is a personal interpretation
>>155122974It was one defending Lucy from Paulo btw, the other is misremembered as >>155121828 has posted when paulo called Lucy a bitch she was just shocked but didnt say anythingI mean the bar is low seeing how Yashi called Daisy a whore daily and she must've learn that word from somewhere... doesn't help Taeshi did write Yashi was "someone's" thinking voice... - Allegedly Lucy's, based on the same page she wrote that and how Sandy doesn't even remember Daisy existence.
How do we save Mike from Lucy?
>>155123175Kill him. That's the only thing she can't revert at all without looking like a shit writer to the paypiggies and risk her income
>>155123175Mike was doing a lot better when Lucy was still gone. Maybe he should call that nice bandana wearing man to get rid of her.
>>155123175Death or send him to a school far enough away that Lucy can't follow or magically teleport to. She's shown she's pretty quick to latch onto another boy when Mike is out of convenient reach.
>>155123175Send him away from Roseville or kill him, he's despised by the god of his universe, things will get worse before they get better
>>155114240kek
>>155123175Give him a good gf
>>155120906>>155121828This is why I take her blog posts as well written ragebait, it's just way too contradictory for any sane person, and taeshi isn't stupid, she's been running this webcomic for two decades and is still going strong so she's doing SOMETHING right...
>>155121828do you think "we don't know why Sandy cheated" counts? because i actually think it does in this context
>>155123175When Mike starves himself into a coma and is in the hospital, give Alejandro a call and tell him where Lucy lives.
It's downright comical how much Taeshi hates Mike. She's willing to destroy her own narrative several times just to continue hurting him.
>>155120906I’ve only ever gotten the feeling that Lucy is desperate for male attention, Daisy has her insecurities over male attention sure but Lucy craves it in a worse way to the point of hanging around Augustus of all characters before the writer tried to make it seem like he wasn’t that bad. Very strange. I’m guessing that’s just the writer projecting about how much she thinks anyone who chooses to be kind as secretly selfish while people like her are actually nicer because they’re “honest” about their feelings (as in will insult and berate you because being honest is better right?)
>>155124608>I’m guessing that’s just the writer projecting about how much she thinks anyone who chooses to be kind as secretly selfish while people like her are actually nicer because they’re “honest” about their feelings (as in will insult and berate you because being honest is better right?)Is every single aspect of this story just projection?
