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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:22:50 PM No.149302639
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Why is David always happy? His joy insults me
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:37:41 PM No.149302804
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Bleating Heart is back from hiatus
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:42:51 PM No.149302868
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>>149302639 (OP)
Preview
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:43:38 PM No.149302875
>>149302804
Why does fauna look at in panel 3?
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:44:13 PM No.149302881
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>>149302868
Commentary
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:44:53 PM No.149302889
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>>149302804
I get she's using more realistic proportions, but I really miss Thea's old artstyle
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:51:35 PM No.149302963
>>149302868
Oh goodie. I love how the comic keeps pretending that David is a real character whose "contributions" should be taken seriously.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:53:09 PM No.149302977
I'm just gonna say it. I don't like the art style change for the newest ai pics on the booru.

>>149302868
Jasmine knows a better gaslighter when she sees one and seeks his tutelage.

>>149302804
Hell yes, kino is back on the menu
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:58:24 PM No.149303041
>>149302977
That's Jessica not Jasmine, she would never commit the sin of homosexuality
Almultimavenger
7/7/2025, 8:13:40 PM No.149303233
>>149302639 (OP)
Did Jessica rewrite the play? How come they only know acknowledge the supposed insert's merits?
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 8:14:21 PM No.149303241
sandy you slutty slutty kitty
sandy you slutty slutty kitty
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>>149302977
For what it's worth, those aren't mine
I'll upload when I have more to show than the two slutty Whitecats
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Almultimavenger
7/7/2025, 8:16:46 PM No.149303266
>>149302804
Yeah, she back! Hope they got Red Bull, for wings. Also that deer employee is cute.
>>149302889
Realistic proportions are the GOAT.
Almultimavenger
7/7/2025, 8:17:47 PM No.149303279
>>149303241
Lol, she better send that to Mike.
Almultimavenger
7/7/2025, 8:20:31 PM No.149303325
>>149302639 (OP)
New trash thread.
>>>/trash/76252381
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 8:28:09 PM No.149303421
>>149302889
It's a shame the cartoony style is kill, it really had the characters features pop out. Oh well.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 8:40:11 PM No.149303568
>>149303241
Yeah that makes sense. Some of the other stuff is pretty good but my preference is more on-model.

>>149302963
I don't think you're necessarily supposed to take David seriously. He just has jester's privilege. It's just that Taeshi's taking a privilege meant to cover irreverent comments and using it to let David pilot the plot without consequence. And he was already not very funny when restricted to just comments.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 8:45:32 PM No.149303634
Incoming Sue suffering because David won't stop being a rude asshole to everyone not named Paulo
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 8:57:56 PM No.149303814
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>the entire 24 page chapter that took 2 months to complete got invalidated by two panels, ultimately wasting everyone's time
this is how you know this comic is on life support and will never be finished
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:05:26 PM No.149303902
>>149302868
I don't think there's anything Taeshi can do to not make David feel forced as hell.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:07:47 PM No.149303928
>>149303902
Sure there is. She can play Blue Fairy and let reality give David a wakeup call so he can finally turn into a real boy.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:08:53 PM No.149303945
>>149303634
And also because Sue is Sue. The only time she does not suffer is when she is either irrelevant or shitting on Mike.

Speaking of which, it's pretty rich that Sue got so affronted by Mike being "unpleasant," then the Soggy Bitch Flashback Chapter showed her being an absolute cunt toward Mike for accidentally inconveniencing her.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:29:46 PM No.149304236
>>149303814
I wonder what she was thinking putting that countdown in the chapter titles leading up to this. In spite of all evidence, it's hard for me to believe she'd do that and put side character drama in the place a bombshell was supposed to go.

I just don't know what could happen. Assuming that panel of Paulo and Sue looking shocked is in this chapter, they can't be reacting to whatever gets Mike kicked out of the cafeteria because, of the two of them, only Sue knows about it in chapter 127. Maybe it's from next chapter after all?
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:37:35 PM No.149304337
Guided by the light of the eclipsed moon, I have ventured into the Silent Grove, where the only sound that can be heard is the soft babbling of a brook which comes to resemble promises of the deepest pleasures and greatest wisdom if you would but come closer enough to fall into the ever-hungering mouth of the whirlpool which lays just below the water. Into this vortex I cast my net, woven from some of the leftover strands of Ariadne's yarn, over and over as my arms grew heavy and my legs grew weary from fighting the pull of the water until with the final dregs of my strength I drew forth the mote of divining silver that spawn of Charybdis contained, granting me glimpses of things yet to come.

Wednesday's page shall be Jessica chasing down David to thank him for utilizing his sorcerous powers to get everyone to forgive her, and that she's still a little protective of the story. David says it was nothing and he just hated to see creativity stifled, and that Jess is one of the few remaining brilliant minds willing to be vulnerable on stage and write material that means something and matters. Jess giggles and bashfully takes the praise, whilst Sue, still in her leg cast, glares on in rage before looking down in annoyed despair.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:42:53 PM No.149304405
>>149304337
I almost feel bad for Sue, but then I remember how she fucking tore Mike's throat out for trying to stand up for Paulo and has completely forsaken him despite being his second oldest friend behind Lucy. So good, I hope David continues to fucking ruin her day and no one notices or gives a shit, except for maybe Mike because him being the one to reach out to her would only make her feel worse.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:49:13 PM No.149304485
>>149304337
Your heroism is inspirational.

I don't understand David at all. Does he really care about Jess's shitty play so much? What did he like exactly? Is this all just a sneaky plan to bully Sue? I don't get it.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:12:42 PM No.149304827
>>149302639 (OP)
plz be patient he is retarded
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:21:54 PM No.149304932
>>149304485
I think since Taeshi writes him as a meme character, he's more susceptible to her using him as a mouthpiece. When a character lacks a personality besides lolrandom there's nothing they won't say or do, thus nothing to prevent authors from using them to defend themselves in-universe.
I mean, she had a whole chapter to work with here, she could've had Jessica actually apologize and agree to make some changes, but state examples on WHY she thought that of everyone in the fist place, then you can have varying degrees of them either reflecting on how others see them or rejecting it entirely and going into denial... but whatever it's way faster to have David meme everyone into resolving the conflict instantly.

I hate meme characters so much it's unreal.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:31:28 PM No.149305075
>>149304337
Boy I sure wish that David's careless stupidity would eventually alienate him from the friend group. Too bad that's never going to happen thanks to his walking meme status, and it's not like the table has ever truly rejected anyone. I have to assume that Mike will choose to leave because it's hard to imagine what grand sin could get him outright exiled since Taeshi likes to pretend Lucy's krazy ketchup kersplat doesn't matter.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:40:07 PM No.149305202
>>149304485
>Is this all just a sneaky plan to bully Sue?
David is not a real character and so can serve as a plot device with the meta equivalent of plausible deniability. Whatever Taeshi wants to do, he can accomplish with minimal fuss from the fandom as they are too stupid to notice what is happening. This is certainly easier for Taeshi than to figure out organic solutions after painting herself into multiple corners...and of course there is also her sheer laziness as a writer. It appears that she has figured out a cheat code and, much as with the eyelets epidemic, is now spamming it.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:44:13 PM No.149305254
>>149304405
>except for maybe Mike because him being the one to reach out to her would only make her feel worse
Based on the spoiler images, she's readily forsaken Mike in favor of Lucy returning to the table. Sue fulfills some if not all the criteria for narcissism and one of those is a need to dehumanize anyone who threatens their fragile self-image. So Mike has quite possibly lost Sue's good graces permanently.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:57:45 PM No.149305421
Has anyone bothered to check out the "dark" BCI with Alejandro presumably getting his ass kicked by his GF?
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:02:03 PM No.149305471
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>>149302639 (OP)
>>149304337
>Jessica's awful views of her friends are ignored, forgiven, and lavished in praise
I fucking hate this.

>>149302639 (OP)
>>149302881
This really feels like Taeshi saying "fuck you, audience". Especially with the whole fanfic and oh-em-gee bit.

To which I say Fuck you too, Taeshi. This chapter sucks, and exemplifies several of the worst problems with your writing: the asshole gets away with everything scot-free via gaslighting and emotional manipulation, David exists, characters accepting being bullied in the name of "friendship", resetting interesting developments for no reason, characters suddenly being stupid, and your garbage sense of humor. Deus-ex-machina-ing your asshole characters Lucy, Paulo, Jessica, Augustus out of the consequences of their own actions isn't funny, it just sucks, especially when contrasted with the way you pour the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune upon other characters.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:11:30 PM No.149305587
>>149305075
>what grand sin could get him outright exiled
The hard part isn't this on its own so much as figuring out how to factor in James (and no other member of the track team) getting burnt too. It's easy to imagine Mike just sperging out again, but how does it cut James so deeply?

>Lucy's krazy ketchup kersplat doesn't matter
Would finding out about Eternal Flame be enough? It seems like the story here is that Eternal Flame reignited Lucy's PTSD and pushed her away from her friends, but it seems like it would be difficult to guide the characters to that conclusion without Lucy's cooperation.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:24:32 PM No.149305758
Why is suitcase so void and insufferable on the mini comics Taeshi makes?
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:27:55 PM No.149305803
>>149305254
>Character that spent half a school year planning a play for the benefit of two other people is a narcissist
It's funny watching people try to come up with a noble reason they don't like another character when it's clearly because that character wasn't sufficiently kissing Mike's ass
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:36:28 PM No.149305910
>>149305803
>i can't read and that makes me pissy
Yes, we know.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:37:44 PM No.149305935
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>>149304405
She didn't "tear Mike's throat out", she was just snippy. And besides, she was right.

>>149305254
If Sue was a narcissist, she would never have forgiven Abbey or Stacy for slighting her. But she did, and it's pretty clear she's forgiven Mike too, since they're still friends and she obviously cares enough to ask if he's alright and awkwardly try to comfort him when he's being weirdly self-abusive.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:39:55 PM No.149305972
>>149305910
>Don't call me out for the stupid shit I say bawww
You poor baby
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:57:46 PM No.149306222
>>149305587
>It's easy to imagine Mike just sperging out again, but how does it cut James so deeply?
Because even when Mike sperged, he tended to be right enough about his friends to knife them in the ego. It's not hard to imagine a fed up Mike telling James he sucks as a friend or predicting that David is going to abandon him at random.

>Would finding out about Eternal Flame be enough?
It really shouldn't be. Canonically speaking, Mike only "wronged" Lucy by taking Sandy back. The fact that Lucy can't handle that cannot be considered his problem. Otherwise it would mean that Mike is obligated to live his life according to Lucy's whims to avoid triggering her, all because she treated him with something better than absolute contempt.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:00:20 AM No.149306260
>>149305972
>gets mocked
>victim complex engages
Typical.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:11:55 AM No.149306412
>>149305935
C'mon anon. Sue's retort was way out of proportion for Mike trying to defend his friend. He wasn't yelling or anything.

>>149306222
>The fact that Lucy can't handle that cannot be considered his problem
No offense but do you know what comic you're reading?
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:16:55 AM No.149306464
>>149306260
>Continues to cry like a bitch
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:20:51 AM No.149306518
>>149305935
>snippy
Anon is talking about the flashback chapter where Paulo got pissy that everyone rightly saw him as a stupid asshole. Sue was terrible in that one.

>If Sue was a narcissist
I said she fulfilled several of the criteria, not that she is a full blooded one.

>it's pretty clear she's forgiven Mike too
We haven't been shown nearly enough to establish that. Sue was ostensibly Mike's friend back in said flashback chapter and still acted like a thundercunt, so what's actually clear is that Sue can go back and forth.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:24:09 AM No.149306556
>>149306412
>No offense but do you know what comic you're reading?
Hence why I said "it shouldn't be." But all things are possible when Taeshi's personal brand of insanity is let loose.

>>149306464
>literally hallucinates
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:29:48 AM No.149306622
>>149303241
>Seconds later after hitting enter
OOOOOPS MIKEEEEEEEE DONT OPEN THAT LAST LINK ITS A VIRUS AND WILL RUIN YOUR COMPUTER
DONT
OPEN
IT

So like thats Mikes father right?
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:43:14 AM No.149306744
>>149306518
>Anon is talking about the flashback chapter
Yeah, so am I.
>Sue was terrible in that one.
She was definitely overly rude, I'll give you that. But I maintain that from her perspective, Mike started it: the whole group has a scheduled thing they meet up for, and Mike had totally forgotten and ghosted until they showed up at his house. And it's not like he had any excuse at hand; he admitted he'd been playing videogames with Paulo instead. So from their perspective, Mike is basically saying "Sorry I forgot about you guys, I was busy hanging out with your bully", then playing defense for that guy.

That doesn't fully justify Sue's snippiness, but it does explain it. And Mike defending Paulo is baffling both in and out of universe, considering how much of Paulo's bullshit he fields.

>>149306412
>C'mon anon. Sue's retort was way out of proportion for Mike trying to defend his friend.
Yeah, bringing up Lucy via implication was a low blow for sure. I won't defend that.

I will say this, though: I genuinely think that the group already knows about Lucy's suicide attempt, and obviously they know Mike was being cold towards her. What they don't know is what Mike said to Lucy during December. This makes their cool attitude towards Mike and laying out the red carpet for Lucy when she comes back make much more sense, and explains why Mike keeps acting like he has a dark secret that everyone will hate him if it comes out.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:47:57 AM No.149306792
Anybody got that comic the anon drew about Amaya and her kinda-crazy cousin?
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:48:45 AM No.149306796
>>149303241
Excellent slop anon

>>149305421
The last few BCIs haven't been leaked
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:49:02 AM No.149306803
>>149306744
>What they don't know is what Mike said to Lucy during December
This is all they explicitly know. Paulo raged at Mike "for making her feel so alone," which only makes sense if Mike told them how he broke Lucy down in revenge for all her bullshit, something he admitted to doing. Them not knowing that Lucy tried to kill herself made a lot more sense until she tried to weaponize the revelation and Paulo no-sold it.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:53:25 AM No.149306851
>>149306796
>The last few BCIs haven't been leaked
Can't say anyone can be blamed for not giving a shit. I was just looking for a summary of this one since it might inform how Taeshi sees any "final showdown" with the thugs going down, or whether she thinks Alejandro is so pathetic there's no reason for him to show up again despite Lucy's PTSD.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:10:38 AM No.149307050
>>149306518
Sue is probably the most normal character in the whole cast. She has good boundaries and knows where her allegiance lays. She gets angry sometimes, but never unprovoked, and realistically acts like how a teenager into politics would. She's a loyal friend to Lucy and Amaya and everyone else comes second. It's Lucy who is a bad friend to her.
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Almultimavenger
7/8/2025, 1:23:59 AM No.149307184
>>149302881
There's already a multiverse, it's called the Candyverse and has a shitload of fanfictions. Hell with themes from rape to torture to incest to slapstick crackfics being in them, I don't think any character can imagine a scenario that would be what's been written.
>>149306622
Probably, looks like him. She could save herself by suggesting that Mike join in, and well it might end with cucking.
>>149306796
Hope someone leaks them soon.
>>149306792
I have got to see this.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:29:04 AM No.149307230
>>149307050
Sue is just a cunt, often for no good reason. Note that I said no GOOD reason. Sure there are provocations, but she overreacts and her go-to response is to put others down. She's not "normal" so much as "not wildly neurodivergent" like the rest of the cast, but that is changing the more Taeshi writes her. Her reaction to Stacy blowing her off was a stupid attempt to show her up. Mike (rightly) told her off for being a bad friend and she treated him like scum of the Earth. And of course there's her retconned-in thundercuntry during Please Feel Sorry for Soggy Little Bitch: The Chapter. Sue is doomed.
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Almultimavenger
7/8/2025, 1:42:28 AM No.149307367
>>149307230
I don't know for sure but I think Liam has always stood out as the nicest character. Too nice, he's also a Lucy simp.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:47:40 AM No.149307418
>>149307367
Liam was unrealistic because he was just a hyper-idealized version of Mike built for Lucy to hug. A perfect replacement teddy bear.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:52:37 AM No.149307474
>>149306792
>Amaya and her kinda-crazy cousin?
context? and is it/trash/ worthy
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Almultimavenger
7/8/2025, 1:53:06 AM No.149307479
>>149307418
Quite, he would've also suffered from being with Lucy just for not being one to stand up for himself.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:04:33 AM No.149307576
>>149307479
To be fair, he would have been ruined by Taeshi in some other insane way anyhow. The reason why Mike is so unrealistic is because Taeshi does not understand how empathy works and massively overshoots. What she does get, however, is being needy and obsessive, which is why his personality took a 90 degree turn. Liam would have likewise mutated.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:23:22 AM No.149307791
bully sue
bully sue
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>>149304337
>Sue is still assblasted that Memedog didn't like her play
lmao
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:25:39 AM No.149307808
>>149307474
Nah, it was cute. It was from when that anon was making up OCs from Lucy's stay in the psych ward. One of them looked like Amaya so he did a comic where they were cousins and and she came to visit her at the movie theater.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:27:39 AM No.149307829
>>149302639 (OP)
>>149302868
I hate David chapters so much. The comic already has nothing chapters but it's like Taeshi is insulting us by having them centered around him and side characters we do not care for.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:35:25 AM No.149307907
>>149306803
>Paulo raged at Mike "for making her feel so alone,"
Anon, EVERYONE knew Mike was cold-shouldering Lucy and she felt lonely. That's the whole reason Sue cast them in her play, was to try and get them to make up.

Again, the whole group tried REALLY HARD to make Lucy feel welcome and happy when she came back, and were walking on eggshells around her. Paulo already knew about the suicide attempt, and he's a moron, so no way he put 2 and 2 together on his own. And while the group has mixed feelings about Mike and Lucy's falling out (Daisy feels guilty over not helping Mike more and blames Lucy, Paulo simps for Lucy and thinks Mike is a moron for not hitting that, and Sue feels extra guilty towards Lucy and blames Mike), they still seem to be laboring under the delusion that Mike and Lucy will forgive each other at some point, which doesn't make sense if they know how vicious December was. The only thing that makes sense is that they know she tried to kill herself, but don't know about December.

Besides, after Mike finds out Lucy tried to KHS and meets back up with the group, what makes more sense for him to tell them at that point: "Lucy tried to kill herself last night", or "A month or so ago I told Lucy she was a worthless parasite and everyone hates her"?
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:35:47 AM No.149307916
>>149307791
David secretly being a sadistic asshole hiding behind lolrandumb humor would be a stupid twist yet so much better than reality that I'd take it anyway.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:41:39 AM No.149307981
>>149307907
>what makes more sense for him to tell them at that point
The latter, considering Mike's sense of guilt. Your argument does not make much sense. Why would Mike worry about his friends finding him MORE culpable for Lucy's attempt when they were already blaming him? It makes far more sense that they knew about December and only thought that Lucy had left thanks to the stress. Their reactions toward Mike were way too mild otherwise.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:54:26 AM No.149308115
>>149307907
>they still seem to be laboring under the delusion that Mike and Lucy will forgive each other at some point
Was that when the group abandoned Mike in favor of Lucy during Witch Hunt, when Sue badmouthed him to Lucy, or when Paulo offered to kick Mike to the curb if it meant getting Lucy back to the table? I haven't seen one instance of what you are talking about. It looks a whole hell more like some members of the group want to reconcile with Lucy despite Mike being the obvious problem.
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Almultimavenger
7/8/2025, 3:01:00 AM No.149308217
>>149307474
Amaya fucking her crazy cousin randomly popped up in my head when you said /trash/ worthy.
>>149307576
I do wish Veronica kept Kizuna, Larken, Liam, Rin, and the like just to see how they would develop in the present. But all we can do is write beautiful fanfiction about them.
>>149307808
I'd love to read that. There's a single short Deviantart fanfic of Lucy with a new cast at her new school, including a female korat who was pretty cute.
>>149307916
Imagine if Veronica randomly used the "traitor" trope and had someone working with Alejandro and agains the characters. Obviously not Augustus since he defected. But someone did write Abbey being Alejandro's accomplice and being imprisoned for assaulting Augustus.
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Almultimavenger
7/8/2025, 3:02:13 AM No.149308236
>>149308217
It's Waiting For The Sun by Fosterthebon24.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:57:31 AM No.149308879
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>>149308115
Yes, yes, and sort of.

At Halloween, Paulo dragged Mike over to Lucy's group apparently not thinking it'd be a problem, or at least one that couldn't be solved via his typical blunt-force approach to social situations.

Sue "badmouthing" Mike only ever goes up to calling him a jerk, she's still friends with him, and is visibly uncomfortable with the way Lucy and Mike snip at each other, pic related.

And Paulo trying to throw Mike under the bus to win Lucy over again was him desperately trying to get her to tell him why the fuck she was keeping her distance from everyone. Remember, just before saying that he asks "So it IS about him?"
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 4:05:39 AM No.149308975
>>149308879
Neither of those first two indicate that they wanted Mike and Lucy to make up, nor prioritized it. At best they appeared to want basic civility, i.e. the typical expecting shit to just magically work out as usua l. The reason why Paulo threw Mike under the bus is because he was 100% serious. Otherwise he wouldn't have felt so guilty afterward.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 4:44:33 AM No.149309444
bittersue
bittersue
md5: e10234490c1a62424b91cb555ca2ca63๐Ÿ”
>>149304337
So what do we think the odds are of Sue having a Paulo style "I need to go give a nerd a swirlie" moment and taking her frustration out on Mike because she was reminded of her play being a miserable failure.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:10:56 AM No.149309725
>>149307981
Listen anon, I'll come clean: during this argument, I went back and reread chapters 75-80, and it's pretty clear from context that during Rachel's party Mike told them about December. So I was wrong about that. But I still maintain that they must have heard about the suicide attempt - Jordan goes to the same school, and there's no way that secret was kept for a year.

>>149308975
Sure, but I'd think that an expectation of civility would imply a belief in the possibility of reconciliation. Otherwise why bother bringing Mike and Lucy into proximity at all?
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Hamlet of Troy
7/8/2025, 5:13:07 AM No.149309742
>>149302639 (OP)
This lampshading is doing so much heavy lifting it's half shading itself.
>>149302804
>>149302889
Though this makes me very very happy, so there's that at least. (I really do like the style change personally, glad it hasn't turned into "everyone has wolf/chibi body" at the very least)

Also I have no idea how some of these images in this thread have been up. Guess that's the power of robit images.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:26:06 AM No.149309845
>>149309444
Given that we know James needs a reason to fall out with Mike, I can't rule out the possibility that she goes up to complain to David about him shit talking her play saying she just wanted to get Mike and Lucy to get along again, James asking "So what's the story there anyway?" and then Sue being a petty bitch and deciding to absolutely fuck Mike's day up by talking as much shit about him as she can muster.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:28:46 AM No.149309881
>>149309725
I respect you for openly acknowledging and owning up to it. Few anons do as much.
>But I still maintain that they must have heard about the suicide attempt - Jordan goes to the same school, and there's no way that secret was kept for a year.
I can see Jordan keeping it a secret because it's a super sensitive family-only topic, though there is indication that Madison might know the truth...? And Paulo is an obvious problem as well, one which Taeshi has failed to explain. Because you are right: If dunderhead figured it out, the rest of the table should have too. Maybe it's just another example of lazy writing harming the coherence.

>Sure, but I'd think that an expectation of civility would imply a belief in the possibility of reconciliation. Otherwise why bother bringing Mike and Lucy into proximity at all?
I think in Witch Hunt, it's just because Paulo is used to hanging with Mike and didn't think he'd need to baby Lucy along or wrangle Mike. As for Sue, she definitely wasn't gunning for Mike to reconcile with Lucy, calling him out for stalking her instead of hoping that was stage one or whatever.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:32:59 AM No.149309926
>>149309444
While Sue being that petty cannot be ruled out, I suspect that she won't go all anti-Mike until given the choice between him and Lucy. This all feels like too logical a setup and Taeshi loves doing the dumbest shit possible instead. So everything happening in this chapter may qell have zero impact on the next.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:34:57 AM No.149309944
>>149309845
Madison is involved in the play discussion as well, remember. So it's likely the whole beta table gets involved too.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:38:34 AM No.149310000
Should have given her your wood if you wanted to mend the fence, Mike
Do you think Taeshi forgets this page exists? Because even Mike seems to barely remember that he did try and bridge the rift prior to Lucy landing in a bundle of ketchup packets.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:40:35 AM No.149310019
jgbkkgh
jgbkkgh
md5: 642779ea08f54a15f6a06e7667f1e948๐Ÿ”
>>149308975
Wait are you arguing that Sue wasn't trying to make Mike and Lucy friends again
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:43:09 AM No.149310046
>>149310019
Not anymore. The play was obviously a different story, and a misstep she is apologizing for.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:45:54 AM No.149310089
>>149310000
That scene is probably one reason why Mike got so upset at Lucy for slapping his hand away and fucking with him after returning. But currently Mike is too busy blaming himself for everything to hold Lucy to any standard, past or present.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:53:04 AM No.149310180
>>149310000
>quads
>filename
checked and kekd

Anyway, fact is she tried to kill herself, which means anybody who blames Mike for this - a group that includes Mike - will basically think this reconciliation attempt doesn't matter in the face of all his other behavior pushing her to the edge. It becomes a better defense once you know that one of the reasons she jumped was her family moving her away, which nullifies what otherwise might have been a successful olive branch, but this was addressed once in a book exclusive chapter and so basically doesn't need to be brought up again ever.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:59:34 AM No.149310249
>>149310180
> this was addressed once in a book exclusive chapter
I loathe that Taeshi put that shit in a book exclusive, because it's a pretty important part of the story and I just have to go by hearsay descriptions of it. Same as with the Fan characters that she wrote out that people talk about per occasion, although they're less important.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:03:58 AM No.149310300
Do_You_Love_Me_Now,_Jessica
Do_You_Love_Me_Now,_Jessica
md5: d9c318bf5aeffad6d971c0f71d1e1e71๐Ÿ”
>>149302639 (OP)
How anticlimactic.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:07:28 AM No.149310332
>>149310300
Cute Madison, anon
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:07:32 AM No.149310333
>>149310180
Are you talking about the chapter in which Lucy spergs at her mom for daring to care about her mental health?
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:20:58 AM No.149310479
>>149310333
The very same. I can understand not liking Lucy getting to end yet another argument by scream crying. Still, a direct conversation about how Lucy's family's decisions affected her is better than the current "kick back and hope Augustus deals with it" strategy.
Hamlet of Troy
7/8/2025, 6:22:19 AM No.149310493
>>149310300
Wonderful art anon!
>>149310180
Mike did lump them into "being against Lucy" during the December rant so they might blame him for why Lucy was distant from them, thus making a bigger hole Mike has to claw out of.
Really Mike and Lucy would have to reconcile with each other first if "Mike caused Lucy's attempt" became the subscribed to narrative and that shipped passed with Eternal Flame in my eyes.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:34:22 AM No.149310621
>>149310493
I do wish Mike would stop giving a fuck and fill in said hole instead. If his friends want to blame him for everything and ignore Lucy's parade of unaddressed issues, by all means, let them have her.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:40:43 AM No.149310687
>>149302639 (OP)
Oh boy another unfunny filler chapter episode where Taeshi milks talking about inane play because she's creatively bankrupt on ideas.

I wonder if her pay-piggies will ever get tired of this forced drama, this chapter is blantedly dunking on her readers yet they give her money?
Are they just retarded or insane? Both?
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:47:01 AM No.149310739
>>149310687
Her readers could not imagine the possibility that Taeshi not-so-secretly holds them in contempt.
Almultimavenger
7/8/2025, 6:52:26 AM No.149310773
>>149310089
Yeah, for the longest time he was an abuse victim having to explain, find excuses for, let slide, and sympathize with his abuser.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:53:45 AM No.149310783
Witness_THIS_Jehovah
Witness_THIS_Jehovah
md5: d4888966e8d52e2590a2805595ebf787๐Ÿ”
>>149310332
>>149310493
Thanks! To show my appreciation, hereโ€™s a doodle of my RL cats in the BSC universe.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:54:06 AM No.149310786
>>149302639 (OP)
>shounen in a nutshell
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:09:19 AM No.149310930
>>149310783
sovl, I would read this webcomic
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:11:25 AM No.149310950
>>149310773
More that Lucy was treating him like the bad guy.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:20:16 AM No.149311027
17
17
md5: 026674e3f5cb6ff8a0ae057d16037079๐Ÿ”
>>149309881
Yeah, I don't know. The reactions seem a bit weepy for Lucy "just" moving, but they were a pretty close-knit group of friends, so I guess it makes sense. Maybe they heard Lucy had attempted suicide, but also that she was going to be okay, thus defusing their reactions somewhat?

Actually, how about this for a theory: Jordan is part of the Rachel/Jess/Tiff friend group. So he's not willing to talk with Lucy's friends/classmates, but does tell Rachel that Lucy attempted suicide, since Rachel is his own age, relatively trustworthy, and great at comforting people. Then at some point Rachel lets slip to Paulo, since he's constantly saying how much he loves Lucy and all, and that's why HE knows. I'm still not sure if the rest of the group knows or not, but it is a plausible explanation if they don't.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:57:52 AM No.149311336
Catnip
Catnip
md5: 8cdaaa9eeee2e1a5d19aec720a46daff๐Ÿ”
>>149310930
Hell yeah. I knew my boys had star power.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 8:32:58 AM No.149311566
>>149311027
I think you've put more thought into justifying the Paulo thing than Taeshi ever did.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 11:49:17 AM No.149312774
32 (2)
32 (2)
md5: f2408755a8eba862fa67320b4d1dbae9๐Ÿ”
>>149311566
Yeah, maybe.

Anyways, I found another crumb of evidence that Sue and Abbey would be good together. Look, even when she's drunk and everyone's miserable, Sue chooses to worry over Abbey when she sees Daisy's all over Mike. I think that's revealing and rather sweet.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:19:52 PM No.149313230
why is the brown dog naked
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:47:55 PM No.149313346
>>149312774
I miss when it felt like the characters were maturing highschoolers rather than mentally stunted children.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:26:10 PM No.149313881
>>149311336
>>149310783
Couple of bros, nice cats
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:28:34 PM No.149313905
Who the fuck keeps creating thrash threads when there's nothing new to post
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:57:21 PM No.149314184
>>149313905
Probably Almultiavenger
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 4:03:09 PM No.149314245
Sloth_&_Randall
Sloth_&_Randall
md5: f2b3159d723229934270250ab7c862a7๐Ÿ”
>>149313881
Danke, brother.
Almultimavenger
7/8/2025, 4:33:10 PM No.149314501
>>149310950
That too.
>>149313346
All part of the story. They could be worse, the characters are more mature than a lot of real people whom you can find in public freakout compilations.
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Almultimavenger
7/8/2025, 4:34:11 PM No.149314512
>>149313905
I did since I wanted to share an art. Hoped others did too.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:06:21 PM No.149314816
>>149314501
>All part of the story.
Yeah, a bad story. Just because there are more insufferable people out there someplace doesn't magically improve these characters.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:23:48 PM No.149315524
>>149302639 (OP)
idk
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:05:02 PM No.149315989
>>149310783
Whatโ€™s their backstory?
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:28:57 PM No.149316291
>>149311027
>Actually, how about this for a theory
Not unreasonable. I do wonder if Taeshi ever threw out an explanation on the discord and it's just been buried away.