Thread 151177767

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>>151177767 (OP)
It's James' turn to fall in love with Lucy now

>>151177767 (OP)
What the fuck is going on with Rachels face?

Happy birthday, Lucy!

>>151177777
>Lucky quints
Happy birthday you dirty animal

First for AAIIIIIII DIOS MIOS MY ARM!

>>151177777
Fucking Lucyspace man, could Taeshi make it any more obvious that Lucy is her shitty self-insert mary sue?

>>151177767 (OP)
WHATS WRONG WITH YOUR FACE

Also Augustus will get no punishment from all of this and that's what upsets me, even more than the seniors sucking his dick

If Conspirator happens to see the thread, reach out to me on Discord. Also happy birthday Lucy!

Well, Rachel got ruined

>>151177777
>off the menu
But Rachel was the one who eventually gave up on Paulo because of his whiny pity party-seeking, as shown during the New Years chapter.

>>151177810
>James goes bisexual exclusively so that Lucy has yet another male simp
lol
lmao, even

>>151177869
That was after he broke up with her.

>>151177777
Another victim claimed

>>151177869
She gave up on him because they were supposed to be FWB and that's all he ever considered them. Her not wanting to deal with his baggage on NYE was just reaffirmation of that.

>>151177889
Yeah but she was still kind of pining for him until that point. After she stopped, his taken status should be utterly irrelevant to Rachel.

>>151177777
Also nice quints, very foreboding

>>151177907
Feels like an enemy stand

>>151177777
ominous quints
you're not far off the mark, the thread is going to have a meltdown on monday

>>151177777
Lucy apparently is the cure for homosexuality
>>151177845
I think you people are impatient a bit, the events just happened, it's like you're expecting God to smite Augustus where he stands
I think shit will hit the fan with him somehow (God I hope, I mean, Abbey is still in this comic I think)

My cup runeth over, the only thing I feel is disgust.
>Lucy is happy that Augustus is getting sexually harassed by Rachel
>With him pinned to the senior table by slutpup she can be a bitter loner in peace.
>Nani desu ne? Why is David's retarded twink talking to her?
Then Lucy says "It's smuggin' time" and smugged all over the place while James turns bisexual

>>151177937
>James genuinely thinks Lucy is the absolute bestest most wonderful person in the world because David does or, worse, completely unprompted
My personal shot in the dark.

>>151177959
she says she's a fast runner

>>151177952
>Lucy is happy that Augustus is getting sexually harassed by Rachel
Makes sense, Lucy's a bitch and we're supposed to find that charming I guess.

>Then Lucy says "It's smuggin' time" and smugged all over the place while James turns bisexual
Truly, Lucyspace is the only explanation for this nonsense. Nothing about Lucy seems all that appealing. I'm almost surprised that Taeshi admits Lucy is mentally ill.

>>151177869
She gave up on Paulo the moment she implied to want something more than just sex and Paulo was like "haha much Lucy, let's never do this again" after spending most of his soggy days with her crying about Lucy being gone and Daisy calling him mean behind his back. Rachel putting boundaries on NY was her not allowing him to have his cake and eat it too

>>151177978
I understood that James had low standards but wow. Knowing that Mike got so hung up over this loser is just painful.

>it's another "Tae- I mean Lucy is so cool and so strong and so great everyone loves her she's also detached but that's what makes her so cool and so great" episode
SHE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>>151177767 (OP)
Wasn't Rachel the one who said she would kill Augustus over what she did to Daisy? Or am I misremembering?

>>151178007
I like how BCB is now unquestionably just Taeshi jacking off as hard as she can.

>>151178023
He good boi now. With Lucy, YOU WIN

>>151178023
Yes, but Augustus is a beneficiary of Lucyspace. His sexual assault can be forgiven whereas Mike hurting his abuser back after not devoting his life to her is an unforgivable sin.

>>151178030
>I like how BCB is now unquestionably just Taeshi, who cloned herself, having sex with her clone as hard as she can
FTFY

>>151177938
While I get your point and hope you're right the only character who gets to have his transgressions (?) punished is Mike, no one else gets their dues if they're not delivered instantly

>>151177777
>Lucy is well mentally ill
thats a fucking understatement!
sick fuck killed and ate her pets in a rage induced blood-lust.
Then acted as if this was the normal thing to do.

While also hiding the rotting corpses in her closet, under the bed, dresser along with fucking behind the god damn power socket on the wall. Scaring her family even further.

Lets not even bring up the fact she rapes final fantasy cat in his sleep. Riding him cowboy gripping his throat bashing his temple or the back of his head. Hard as fuck if his eyes show any sign of opening. Little does he realize what all the headaches are from, as Lucy tries to comfort him. helping him think of reasons why he could be getting headaches. Pushing that its stress and he should totally sleep more maybe see a doctor to get some sleeping pills. Or maybe Lucy should ask her doctor for stronger meds/sleeping pills to slip in his drinks at night.


XD discords favorite wittle monsters oh Lucy there she goes again such a empath! no one understands her, no one listens to her.

>>151177777
>Run into some girl at the mall
>She acts like a bit of a bitch to you and your bro
>"Why's that girl acting like that? What's her problem!?"
>Few weeks ago by
>Try to chill with your bros
>Some strange cat you barely know butts into your conversation
>That girl is with him too
>Hear some wild story about how your bro (who you actually don't give a fuck about because you got rejected) apparently did terrible things to this girl
>Former bro assaults the strange cat after being harassed
>And now the same girl is assaulting him in response
>"Whoa...I wasn't around for anything that happened but clearly she's SO in the RIGHT for this!"
>"Wow, Mike...You're a piece of shit because you want people pinning after you even though you flat out told me you only wanted to be friends."
>Suddenly best buds with everyone at the table
>Somehow drank the kool aid and is admiring Lucy with sparkling eyes
>"WOW, Lucy! I barely know anything about you but you're just...just...SO AMAZING and awesome and strong for putting up with Mike's shit!"

I want off this ride.

>>151177978
I don't think Taeshi dares retcon Lucy to be faster than Mike out of nowhere, c'mon. C'MON!
>The fall broke my bones and when they healed I was magically faster because I'm god's favorite creature

>>151178046
More like Taeshi sitting in the cuck chair, watching Lucy rail Mike from behind, because she herself can't hold that kind of power over Suitcase.

>>151178000
It's a joke, anon, Lucy can't outrun a turtle.

>>151177998
It's a fucking shame. I mean, it's kinda cool that we were shown how Lucy forces Paulo to reject some of his hard-earned maturity and revert to his middle-school state, but why did it have to fucking bomb Rachel and Paulo's relationship? It would have been such a beautiful ending to both of their character arcs. The worse part is that Lucy is a literal psycho and it was all for nothing.

>>151178023
They were all being mean, so it's ok :)

>>151178023
that comic got deleted by Taeshi so... yeah
I would actually like to see Madison bring it up or something, it's not like they don't already know
it should be that Jordan is spending a lot of time with him and they trust Jordan, so they should tolerate Augustus but not be so friendly imo
what happened in the carnival is not a secret, it just should not be brushed off so fast

>>151178086
I'm surprised that Lucy hasn't mentioned off-hand about getting over her fear of water.

Pretending to have a scrap of faith left in Taeshi at this point, Lucy HAS historically been relatively fast. If only because she's always tried to compete with Mike on that front (and failed). But imagine if James decides to try and convince the team to dump Mike in favor of Lucy.

>>151177938
>Lucy apparently is the cure for homosexuality
Lucy is literally the cause for men becoming homos or considering becoming homos after dating her or even sleeping with her. Realizing this is what women are when they dont hide their emotions. shit like that dealing with it being forced to take it after realizing the horrid mistake you've made and what awaits you if you dump her making her mad instead of sad

yeah no man that shit turns you gay and far away from women.

>>151177802
>my arm!
MY LEG!

Okay so here’s a question, who so far is aware of Lucyspace?
>Amaya, literally never speaks to prevent the possibility of drawing the attention of lucyspace, the sleeper agent for close observation
>mccain, originally deployed to test light combativeness, evacuated after his work caused him to be pulled onto the tess holiday and command decided direct confrontation at any level was too risky, now second in command of the Roseville containment protocol
>David, subconsciously aware only
>Augustus, has figured it out in loose terms, seeks to personally profit from friendship with a god, does not truly understand the powers he trifles with
>Alejandro, recruited as a last resort, understands what he must do to save humanity, lives in constant tension that is corrosive to his mental state, every phone call could be his activation
>Jess, wannabe priestess of this burgeoning new god, hopes Lucy might skinwalk through her girlfriend every night

>>151178111
Because Paulo had to be "loyal" to Lucy, or else he couldn't say he "waited for her". I'm glad that Rachel walked on him when he was asking for pity again but annoyed she was back on his team to make Daisy feel better about dating the school's man whore

>>151178169
>David, subconsciously aware only
David lacks any innate psychic powers, but can resonate with Lucyspace, thus creating so called Davidspace of his own.

>>151177802
Still in awe at how fucking embarrassing this is. Do you think the Discord dwellers pointed that out or they pretended not to see it, fearing that Suitcase would snitch on 'em?

>monday: james asks lucy if she's a good runner and she brags that she is
>wednesday: james asks her to join the track team, she says no because mike is there, james says fuck him
>friday: picrel
nearly there boys. soon we find out if gaybaiting is powerful enough to counteract lucyspace

Oh nonono Rachelbros

>>151178130
>They put me in a special vat of healing substances while I recovered, with nothing but a breathing device, whish is why I don't have a single scar or impairment and am no longer afraid of water

>>151178208
I could see it shaking out that way for sure, just because Lucy always needs more asspats and FUCK Mike, as per usual.

>>151177845
>>151177938
I also think Augustus will get no punishment whatsoever.
>the atmosphere is all cheery
>people are all drooling over him
>comic has a history of favoring or being lenient towards assholes
>comic has a history of punishing only Mike.

AT MOST at some point he'll go and attack Mike once again, and Lucy will go all like
>N-no! he is MY punching bag! Leave him alone!

>>151178208
>and when Mike isn't in the room one character should say "fuck Mike"

>>151178208
TRACK TEAM CHADS WE CAN STILL SALVAGE THIS

>>151178245
This

>>151178198
It depends if she goes back to fix it, she wasn't prideful enough to overlook the fact she put a walking Sue on PE despite her broken leg

>>151178208
>more petty shit being done on Lucy's behalf while she puts up a token resistance to it but benefits anyway
great writing as always

>>151178087
>she herself can't hold that kind of power over Suitcase
Same guy who annually grieves over "cheating" on her via a Sonic forum when they were young btw.

>>151178257
>the Parasite is grafted in
>entire team is Lucyspace brainwashed into joining her simp harem
>they all hate Mike now

>>151177795
Kinda forgot that Lucy is supposed to be a protagonist.

>>151178030
No brakes on the BPD train. choo-choo!

>>151178277
That's not enough for Taeshi. The scrap of power has grown cold and stale in her grasp and she craves more. But she cannot get Suitcase to drop his gambling habit, he will not update the webtoons, and the babymaking will not happen despite all her protests.

>>151178279
The only path to freedom is either killing himself or Lucy

>>151177777
>>151178076
Has a character ever been more rapidly consumed by Lucyspace? I almost pity him.

>>151178291
She's really only the protagonist for certain parts of the comic, mostly early on and leading up to december. Its almost always mike or paulo, im dont see why she still describes lucy that way.

>>151178307
He was already established as a super shallow fag so its not too surprising

>>151178311
Probably because she kept describing Mike that way so Lucy gets that same privilege plus extra dessert on top.

>>151178307
I think the most extreme effect of Lucyspace was that time Daisy turned on Mike and yelled at him on Halloween, this was after Lucy had called her a whore for (rightfully) claiming that she always got boys on her side despite being an awful person

>>151178208
>Tae erases a canon gay character
If her fanbase was more than her cult and the people who hate read the comic here I'd wonder of she realizes what kinda fire she's playing with

>>151178257
total james dead

>>151178307
This pic should have had James in it.
The fucker's been shouting things like "Yay, it's Paulo, tonight's shift gonna be awesome!" at work, and then it turns out he's been going to the same school as Paulo for several months and didn't even say "hi" once.
And the switch from Mike to David was simply jarring. If he were train, the sudden turn would've killed all the passengers.

>>151178197
Davidspace is a small singularity in an unstable orbit of the supermassive Lucyspace singularity about which the whole BCB galaxy spins. James got caught between them and had his psyche spaghettified in two directions at once.

>>151178346
I don't think anything will happen if "suicide is awesome because everyone loves you afterwards :)" getting a pass is any indication
>>151178311
It feels like a forced title on her part because Lucy's character has been completely told by the narrative and not shown by her actions

>>151178346
I have to hand this much to Taeshi: When she began courting tumblerites after having been such a /b/tard since the beginning, I was sure that would backfire hard once the mask fell off. But no, she and Suitcase plus their chosen acolytes have successfully cultivated an audience desperate enough to overlook such discretions.

>>151178169
BCB takes place in world of darkness anon. Lucy awakened as a mage and went insane becoming a marauder rather quickly. Her quite is small but its manipulative. Only super natural people can realize lucyspace even than they need a high wisdom to snap out of it.

Shes only going to get more powerful and more immoral. Raping people beating people getting other people to sexually assult someone publically to fight each other. All while she is the center of attention everyone agrees with her. Lucy can do no wrong she isnt choking that person right now shes hugging them. She didnt smash Mikes balls with a hammer, he did it himself while trying to blame her.

Never ever anger an insane mage man, and never ever step inside their quite or else you are fucked. Worse of all you're also a mage stay far the fuck away from her. Or face the magical paradox she caused for alter reality.

>>151178307
Carter

>>151178367
Supposedly James never noticed that Paulo was at that same school because he's retarded and also very forced circumstances that Taeshi covered in an intermission. Yes, it's all incredibly stupid.

Am I taking crazy pills? What has Lucy done to deserve James dickriding her so hard?!

>>151178307
Those weak of mind are the first to fall victim to Lucyspace; their souls forever bound as thralls to its whims.

>>151178346
I've said before and I'll say again, Taeshi and Suitcase are both quite lucky that BCB isn't more popular. The less niche it is, the less control they have over the broader community.

>>151178388
> James got caught between them and had his psyche spaghettified in two directions at once.
Damn, I wish someone drew this.

>>151178425
Everybody loves the whorestar Runner
She is a terrific athlete

>>151178400
>Lucy is a Nephandi and has dragged all of her friends into a nightmare hellscape where they mindlessly worship her
>Occasionally, Mike or one of the others wakes up slightly so she has to brutalize them to keep them from breaking the spell
Now there's a plot

>>151178425
Same as she's always done, anon: Nothing at all. Taeshi is giving Lucy everything she could ever (not) want with the excuse she's making reparations for December.

ok but Amaya

>>151178346
I mean I wasn't gonna post about it here because you guys don't generally care about muh queer representation shit but:
>Suitcase asks for suggestions on a new Patreon banner
>someone posts several pages
>a few people say the one from NYE where Mike and Paulo hug would be good
>pic related
Wouldn't want to risk giving anybody the impression that this comic features gays in any capacity other than baiting!

Suck my dick Suitcase I know you're trawling this thread daily you fucking faggot

>>151178302
>gambling habit
What habit lore drop me anon whats the sauce, how can /co/ enable his gambling. I see potential in this, with the right plan and anons chipping in we can create a juicefund.
Slowly turn suitcare into the next bossmanjack but instead of coke&crack. Its mental illness caked on hard from spousal abuse.
Would lead to some ludokino mentalbreak down fight streams.

SAUCE anon where their is a will there is a way. IF speedrunning suitcase to bossmanjack tier addiction is a possibility. Why would /bcb/ not chip in some money to enable his gamba habit.

>>151178490
Made for Big Korat Dick

>>151178490
Amazing.

>>151178490
Fat

>>151178425
she's pretty I guess

>>151178491
Suitcase's ego is so fragile that I'm certain he's outsourced the thread trawling.

>>151178494
Far as i know he asks people for money to throw at crypto and such. Never seen it myself but seen a few screenshots of him asking for money in discord promising returns.

>>151177767 (OP)
Taeshi needed to have Lucy and Aug fight to avoid coming inside harder and all but need to be forced by David, and be extremely uncomfortable even being there for this bullshit to work.
This entire blowup with Mike was literally over him being outside when they didn't want him to be, with the only possible reason being that Lucy is so batshit crazy she needs this time completely alone... but she goes back inside and joins the table just cause David says so. No fight at all. Aug comes too and only because Daisy mentions it does he remember "oh yeah I tried to rape one of these people once this would be weird" just for him to get rewarded by being sent to another table that loves him for no reason anyways.
How does Taeshi not fucking realize how fucking awful this makes them both look??? You threatened Mike and kicked him in the gut over something you didn't even fucking want.

It's not even a joke anymore, they need a fucking ass beating.

>>151178491
a response like that is both petty and ill-advised
par for the lolcow course

>>151178462
>Lucy creates a cual from most the studentbody(literally)
>slowly corrupting her "friends"
>Getting them to walk in the fucking hell space and come out as deranged&immoral as her

God damn WoD-BCB AU needs to happen

>>151178494
>suitcare
probably an unintentional typo but made me snort nonetheless

>>151178513
I propose an equivalent exchange. Lucy's fat white cat tits can convert James the Treacherous into a bisexual while her wretched personality locks Mike into gayboi mode.

>>151178448
If I didn't know how awful they are with things I'd say they planned everything really well
>Be hostile to other comic creators and to furries in general, avoiding any kind of worthy networking
>Put adds that make the comic look more interesting than it is instead
>Constantly cull your followers to the point they are grateful to pay for your bullshit and rationalize your desicions, and more importantly drive away anyone that could be dangerous to independent thought
>Invade all fan spaces to try and control the narrative, that even includes 4chan
>feed the author only curated criticism to make sure she doesn't spend any time looking at her own work with a critical eye and instead spends it being ironic on every social media and commentary

>>151178491
seems more of a joke

>>151178367
In the wake of Lucy, Paulo, and James' bull shit I have to give Daisy a shoutout for not blaming Mike for the fact she had a crush on him. She's not perfect but at least she hasn't perpetuated that particular cognitohazard as far as I can remember.

>>151178462
>>151178528
Psi-BCB fits super well into this. I'd read the shit out of it.

>>151178400
>Mccain was either a Technocrat or a Virtual Adept
It fits strangely well in the World of Darkness

>>151178502
>>151178503
>>151178507
real

I dont remember if i uploaded this one so here
https://litter.catbox.moe/y0xm4fa7lk2geus9.png

>>151178549
The decade is still young.

>>151178519
>promising returns.
Well I mean the shitcoins are clearly not going to stakes or wtv scam "casino" Everyone knows they never let you take out money more than 100$ monthly. Unless you wait ages for "processing" or are a streamer with a juice fund&addiction

>>151178491
Suitcase is so irony poisoned that barely anything he ever posts could be taken at face value or seriously at all.

>>151178548
Don't do their excusing for them, that's how you get Lucy

>>151178549
It's so funny that the entire current chapter is trying to validate the attitude that she's mocking here.

>>151178548
>>151178589
Call me trigger happy I guess, my patience with this gaybaiting fucking comic is slim

>>151178559
Kino of the highest degree, but is it not on e6?

>>151178592
I always suspected that Daisy was supposed to be in the wrong, here, given the extenuating circumstances. Because Taeshi always invents some extenuating circumstance to hang around Mike's neck like a millstone. That said, if Daisy doubled down and turned into a Mike defender, she'd earn my respect.

Why does the plot seem so obsessed with characters "liking feeling wanted" as some heinous character flaw? It's apparently Mike's crime, Paulo's crime, Daisy's crime, inadvertently James' crime - does she really think everyone works this way?

>>151178539
Everyone likes big fat soft titties anon. That little faggot sees a vagina, you know he's gonna vomit. And if that shit looks like cancerous roast beef the cutt off tender&fat of prime rib. he will be traumatized for life.

Lets not even bring up the smell, lucy is a nasty bitch I bet she always has a yeast infection

>>151178601
So it's pretty clear that Taeshi is tracing over a 3D poser or something, right?

>>151178610
No anon, I agree that giving them the benefit of the doubt is how this comic became the piece of shit it is
>Haha Taeshi must be joking
>Surely these actions will have consequences, trust the plan
>She probably forgot about those plot points and will add them later

>>151178630
Even fucking Lucy wants it but she's in denial of course, which is like saying water is wet.

>>151178548
None of the autists in this thread will recognise a joke if they have the option to misinterpret it and use it to feed their anger

>>151178559
Mike and Amaya should breed and have a thousand kittens

>>151178630
It isn't, it's only a heinous character flaw for Mike. Daisy wants Augustus to thirst for her even when she's taken, Paulo was swearing up and down he was waiting for Lucy while windowshopping Daisy, Mike and James all at the same time. Lucy wouldn't even wait for Mike's corpse to be cold before crawling into Paulo/Augustus' bed. But only Mike gets shit for it.

>>151178630
It's everyone's problem including Lucy's. I dunno where Taeshi thinks she's going with it but currently it seems like Mike is just getting crucified for the thing everyone is guilty of.

>>151178630
She thinks simply being a nice person is actually being a manipulative villain so...

>>151178668
Lucy did yell at Daisy over that, in an angry fit of projection.

>>151178668
>>151178653
>>151178683
>>151178685
It looks an awful lot to me like giving every character the same exact style of pathological thinking. Like they're being twisted into echoes of Lucy's mind, seeing "being strung along" in every shadow and becoming allergic to the concept of a healthy relationship.

Lucyspace expands.

>>151178630
...... did you like never be a teenager or come of age? anon are you an 8 year old girl?

Are zoomzooms that fried from socialmedia they dont feel emotions anymore unless their bbf streamer/ecleb bbf tells them too?

Crashing hormones makes teens retarded and overexaggerate on everything

>>151178591
>>151178610
how do you get gaybaited by taeshi, skill issue I guess

>>151178685
>tch nobody could actually be a NICE person
>it's fundamentally impossible
>i know that because i'm secretly a huge asshole who only acts nice to get what i want

>>151177854
Flannel you have a discord?

>>151178703
Anon not everybody had a friend group as toxic as yours, filled with a bunch of photocopies of the same BPD template. Sorry you had to go through that, it's not normal.

>>151178689
Daisy told her that it didn't matter that she kept saying she didn't want the attention when she did NOTHING about it and only benefitted from it, which was one of the most self aware moments of the comic, and she got yelled at for it and shut down

>>151178638
oh she does trace her 3d posers alright. Not always but she does. But I fail to connect the correlation to the post

The speed at which james not only dropped mike but completely fell for Lucy, a random chick he just met that was a complete bitch to them in their only other encounter, is insane. Someone already posted about next page but Jesus christ. Lucy's bragging about how well everything turned out, James sees how obsessed David is with her, and for a brief moment I had hope that he looked jealous but instead hes scoping her out for the track team, asks how good she is at running, she says pretty good, and hes obviously smitten too
James is completely ruined as a character to a degree that is fucking unreal
Its funny that this is such a fuckin insane backstabbing that even Paulo ends up taking Mike's side

so at this point, I feel like Lucy is similar to Sue. Sue wants to be included in the drama, but only to show off that she's "above" that sort of thing and that she's the mature one that will fix things. When she's really not. It's why she's trying so hard to be lucy's friend. It comes across as her just wanting that accomplishment under her belt.


Lucy, for a while, has been coming off as wanting to be liked and needed by people but she still wants to be aloof and icy to everyone so they can try harder to befriend her. That's already annoying, but then comes the worst part of it. The part we've just seen where, when she's mad at you, she clearly wants bad shit to happen to you but she doesn't want to say it was her fault if the aftermath is negative.

We saw it with the paulo slap when he was about to kick Mike from the table. We just saw it with the whole augustus thing. She's a coward that wants people to be punished but would rather have others initiate it and do the dirty work while she just watches.

The main difference is that Sue gets punished for being arrogant, while Lucy just gets nonstop glazing.

>>151178740
Paulo is dangerously close to waking up. Lucy has a finger hovering over the reset button, I'm sure.

>>151178739
Rachel's torso bend on the actual page looks looks like a result of depending on poser articulation.

>>151178706
I don't care about that but Suit doesn't deserve people excusing him for shit

>>151178706
>spend years on a guy having a bisexual arc
>he doesn't even kiss a guy
>he doesn't even hold hands with a guy
>he kind of confesses to Mike and James but you can hardly even call it that in either case
Sorry for expecting literally anything

>>151178733
ill take that as a yes

>>151178703
there is not one day I dont thank my old friends for being normal nerds with their own debatable and borderline illegal flaws (still NOT bpd)

Reminder that SuitCase has been 100% CONFIRMED to spend HOURS every day BLASTING ROPES to AI generated BCB porn.

>>151178740
I believe this is Taeshi trying to paint James in a good light for the cult. See guys, James likes Lucy too! He things she deserves a spot on the team! He adores her! Can you forget about him kicking Mike while down already? Jeez!
She really did not plan for even her cult not liking him as an extension of more Mike punishment

>>151178638
You mean AI

>>151178740
I can only hope this goes to Mike perma blocking Lucy whether due to sheer hatred or 'fear' of 'not wanting to hurt her'. Have Lucy get everything she says she wants but feel empty since the one person she supposedly actually cares about wants zero to do with her to the point her mere presence is a red flag

>>151178713
One of the most frustrating mindsets to deal with.

Frustrating because I know viscerally that I'm not nice for transactional or masking reasons. I genuinely want people to be happy and healthy for their own sake. The whole "everyone's secretly a psychopath" thing that shows up in edgy fiction has always been utterly alien to me.

>>151178703
It's normal to want to be wanted, it's weird to treat it as a heinous and evil trait

>>151178740
One can only hope that once David disappoints James, the treacherous twink's adoration toward Lucy flames out for lack of a fuel source.

I'm actually quite pleased that Lucy is so content with stealing Mike's place at the table and his friendship. Even moreso if she takes up James' offer. Because that's so much better than her secretly going "oh woe is me, I don't truly wish to hurt Mike, I'm actually a good person deep down inside, really!"

>>151178703
I'm with >>151178733

I had a huge friend group. 3 girls, 2 boys. Fucking zero drama or infighting and we hung out together every night. We even managed to hold a band together from middle school to the end of high school. Taeshis comic is fucking insane for the amount of internally generated drama but calling Taeshi insane is like calling the sky blue.

>>151178619
i donp post my stuff anywhere other than these threads
lots of my doodles been lost cus of it.

>>151178827
Is anyone but the anons here bothering to train AIs on BCB?

>>151177767 (OP)
Was the heterochromia cat born that way or did he have a bad case of pinkeye?

>>151178876
perhaps they are on desuarchive

>>151178860
She'll 180 when she feels she went too far but its going to feel completely empty just like her woe is me shit was empty a few pages ago. She's just a piece of shit who will never admit to it when confronted

>>151178839
that would be a smart and interesting move.

So it won't happen.

>>151178900
He's got fucked up inbred white cat genes

>>151178860
Yeah same. Lucy getting to skate by blamelessly while Mike suffers for her benefit is the most gutless way you could possibly write this shit.

>>151178490
>tfw we can't just get Amaya x Mike

>>151178876
Well, whether you decide to post it anywhere or not, keep at it. These are awesome.

>>151178928
Mike can't have anyone that would get rid of the drama surrounding his life. He can't have friends that could get him out of the drama surrounding his life.


He must be ear deep in drama and suffering for all time.

>>151178916
That's why Sue was so surprised to hear Lucy is fucking her brother

>>151178827
>IT'S AI!
>Oh, then you'll have some proof!
>NO IT'S AI BECAUSE IT JUST IS OK!!????
Suitcase is such a fucking clown. Poor Conspirator. Has anyone heard from her or has she posted anywhere since? I'd fucking love for her to dunk on him.

>>151178954
I dunno you could still have the drama if you are willing to at least be interesting and shift it around. Mike hooking up with anyone local would infuriate Lucy to no end.

>>151178755
>She's a coward
No shes a Bpd monster that gets wet manipulating people to hurt each other in wtv she views as wrong in her black&white fucked up mind

Shes only pretending to be weak to lure retards in
Shes only just learned how to truly tap into her powers. Just wait till she enters her chrysalis made from the emotions and skins of those shes harmed. What comes out will be terrifying because she will have complete control over her powers and imagination

>>151178827
I wonder what kind of degenerate slop Suit makes of white cat

>>151178954
Hey, Tess was a decent friend, with occasional words of wisdom

>>151178208
>someone tells Paulo to shut up for defending Mike
Interested to see how this plays out now that we know Daisy is sitting right next to him

>Supposed to be a mirror of December
>Lucy eventually shows up to do what Mike did (but in a more bitchy offhanded way because she's a cunt) of offering forgiveness and start over
>Mike:
Would be hype

>>151179007
And thus she's gone!

>>151178787
Like I said, skill issue; Paulo having a million crushes, the impending Paisy, Taeshi's mild interest in yaoi. Not saying Taeshi didn't set something up there but you probably were a bit naive to think this would go somewhere than just exploring the idea.

>>151179014
It's going to be Sue, she's the one that gives Lucy more leniency and tried to sweep the eggshells away from her

>>151178689
Yes, and? Paulo called Lucy a slut for trying to play with his feelings yet again after supposedly feeling bad for pump and dumping him. It doesn't stick unless it's Mike, so it doesn't really matter unless it's Mike. (seriously, what the fuck. Taeshi's commentary on the patreon implied Lucy said yes to Paulo asking her on a date to taunt Mike)

>>151178910
Imagine if something bad happens, Lucy tries to pull her tried and true "I never wanted this" act and Paulo and/or Augustus calls bullshit. Imagine the comic pressing Lucy to grow the fuck up already. Taeshi made some noise about both Mike and Lucy having to change or they'd keep hurting each other, right? From what I can see, all Mike really needs to do is grow a spine. Lucy meanwhile needs a damn soul transplant.

>>151178827
>>151178878
considering this is likely the only place I imagine would even bother to do that, and that people mostly just do porn out of it, yeah, maybe

>>151179007
I can't help but notice that whenever Mike is even a teensy bit selfish, he gets punished for it.

>>151179055
Yeah it'd be very cathartic to see someone call out that she wants Mike to be miserable but just doesn't want to be responsible for him being miserable.

>>151178963
given that she seemed to be a new artist still learning things, i worry that she might be a minor. so this was probably a pretty devastating accusation and likely scared her off.

>>151179057
I imagine if someone else was doing it they would post it somewhere to show off, but most of what's posted on /trash/ threads comes with the author doing so himself so I must assume he got it from here

>>151179014
Daisy is a huge coward who will submit the peer pressure or stay silent. I hope to be wrong but will anticipate the worst based on past experience.

>>151178963
Nope. Hasn't logged in and is either ignoring the email notifications or has them turned off. She's gone.

>>151179101
>who will submit the peer pressure or stay silent
Most groomable BCB character

>>151179048
I think Jordan is the worst character just cause everyone else has to be manipulated via Lucyspace into simping for her, but that's like his entire character, and he doesn't have anything else going on besides not banging Matt.
Imagine simping for your own sister when you're treated to what a psycho she is on a daily basis.

>>151179016
He'd have every reason in the world to turn down that olive branch. Even if his ego has been utterly crushed, Lucy just got done telling Mike that every good thing he ever did for her was predatory. Obviously, any desire on his part to restore their friendship (which never really existed, apparently) is just his worst impulses acting up. Meanwhile, Lucy is submitting to self-destructive nostalgia. Accepting her hand would be an act of monstrous selfish treachery, right?

>>151179048
Remember that after Lucy slapped Paulo's shit he came to her praising her nl shits given attitude and asking for her opinion on Daisy's attitude. The comic has no real memory, it's only very convenient, unless it's Mike in which case everything can be used against him

>>151179048
>Taeshi's commentary on the patreon implied Lucy said yes to Paulo asking her on a date to taunt Mike
Well, she IS a massive cunt.

Question for the discord cross-posters.
Why do you post here? Be honest.

>>151177777
Nice jackpot dubs, I'm not even invested but this is some shit writing

>>151179144
Including stuff that happened in alternate timelines. Lucyspace is multiversal.

>>151179129
Jordan's character flaw is being inbreed

>>151179041
So funny if true because this was their last interaction.
But hey he was probably just being nice for his own benefit!!!

>>151179014
>>151179041
It is either Lucy or Sue, but most likely Sue, perhaps in a foolish attempt to earn Lucy's favor.

>>151178706
>>151179024
To be fair, you can smell it from a mile away due to some simple facts:
>Mike is bound to Lucy.
He literally cannot end the story with anyone else. Whether he ends with her or if they decide not to for good, the comic will immediately end
>Taeshi adds gay characters only as a perceived obligation/joke
It happened before, and it is happening again with James.

>>151179083
The problem with Mike being selfish is that he has no chill, he always spergs out.

>>151179187
Paulo was right and Pue shippers are idiots

>>151179236
>poo shippers

>>151179158
I've been on this site since 2006. I only joined the BCB discord this year because sometimes the thread goes fully schizophrenic and it becomes impossible to talk about the fucking comic.
The discord of course has its own set of annoying retards too.

>>151179187
To be fair to Sue she can be a bootlicker while not antagonist to Mike, this can be her just avoiding triggering Lucy, which is more fun because it implies she believes Lucy needs to be babied

>>151179158
cause as bad as these threads get you still never have to worry about getting banned for having unpopular opinions
I might have plenty of complaints but I still would never in a million years willingly interact with suitcase and I hope he kills himself

>>151179255
>James: "fuck Mike I hate him"
>Paulo: "what happened I thought you guys were cool"
>Sue: "SHUT UP PAULO"
I'm genuinely so excited to see how the community reacts to this, lmao

>>151177767 (OP)
It's great that Mike is no longer in the comic and is alone and suffering like he should be. Now we can focus on the real heroes of this comic! Lucy and Augustus! I can't wait to see all the funny situations that lovable pair will find themselves in!

rip AI lucy is too retarded to blow out candles

>>151179201
>The problem with Mike being selfish is that he has no chill, he always spergs out
He was well in the right to yell at Lucy, his longtime abuser, and everything that happened to him in this chapter was pure horseshit. Even Mike's forced spergout should not have been enough to earn James' enmity.

>>151179288
>When the antipyschotics kicked in 49mins ago

>>151179283
It's going to be amazing, because the last two interactions between James and Mike left them sore and the bias started to show a bit, so Taeshi grinding on the bleeding wound will have reactions alright

>>151177767 (OP)
Aug but he has been punished by sitting at the table that always has a free seat for a reason.

>>151179288
>Uh. How do I force the narrative to blow these for me?

>>151179255
Imagine Sue showing some degree of inner conflict over balancing her desire to be Lucy's bestie with Worst Cat's obvious antipathy toward Mike and her me-vs-them mentality. Of course, no matter what Sue does, she's already fucked on account of being vilified in Lucy's waking dream, but it'd be nice if I got a reason to feel sorry for her instead of justified contempt.

>>151179379
Imagine if Sue was smart enough to realize that if Lucy treats Mike like garbage then Whitecat has no reason not to treat Sue worse.

>>151179401
But it's been well established that Sue, for all her alleged brains, suffers from low social intelligence.

>>151179379
It's still insane to me that her entire friend group getting beaten up meant nothing to her. Those nightmares make it look like they were on Alej's side.

>>151179370
kek

>>151179423
Sue isn’t even booksmart either she just wishes she was

>>151179494
In a better comic, this would result in the kind of major "oh fuck I'm a selfish monster" realization that Lucy just helped to inflict on Mike.

>>151179494
She barely even cared that Mike almost died saving her life. Bitch is crazy

>>151179494
Never meant anything to her, even before Taeshi decided to dial up Lucy's twauma because she had a mental breakdown. Didn't mean anything to her when Paulo was getting stomped in the gut by a grown man right in front of her. Lucy's a heartless monster.

>>151179494
Lucy's dismissal of everyone not Mike should have put everyone against her time and time again, but it's constantly ignored in favor of "they are just not trying hard enough". And that makes the comic shit

any anon have a link to the lucy/alejandro mindbreak fic? its not on ao3 (unless im blind)

>>151179579
there is hope

>>151179579
PFFFTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
So what's the ""torture"" gonna be? My bet's on one panel (or, let's be generous, one page) of another character criticizing her and that'll be the end of it

>>151179547
I'll give Lucy this much: At the time, she cared enough to try and protect him. She also gave him a kiss afterward. Now, modern Lucy? Absolutely hopeless. Mike might have gone and forgotten all the good times between them, but Lucy's finding her solace in pure self-serving delusion.

>>151179579
>you're next
Don't play with my feelings like this. Don't make me salivate over the impossible.

>>151179401
She does treat sue like garbage, the most notable recent examples being her wearing the dress from the play on Halloween to mock her and rolling her eyes when sue goes in for a hug in that chapter where she's wearing a karate uniform. Sue's just endlessly forgiving for no reason

>>151179629
The torture will be no Mike. Mike is who she truly cares about at the end of the line and him twisting into pure revulsion towards her will kill her inside

>>151178740
>>151178208
Imagine at the end of the chapter as Mike is leaving Augustus goes up to him "oh btw Lucy is joining the track team so you're going to have to quit that too"

>>151179557
WHO HAS A FUCKING BARKING PHOBIA!?
Paulo almost died trying to stand up for the group, you fucking cunt! Barking phobia was like 0.00001% of why he's currently on the ground.
Did Taeshi draw this? There is no way she wasn't aware of how much of a bitch Lucy is here.

>>151179629
Alejandro comes back and tries to finish the job

>>151179666
>Fine

>>151179557
Paulo and Mike can now bond over both taking kicks to the gut.

>>151179668
This is from when Lucy’s tsundere shtick was treated as a flaw

>>151179579
This... could be really bad, actually. We know Taeshi. She 100% wants to make readers feel bad for Lucy and thus antagonize Mike even more.

>>151179666
LUCYFER HAS SPOKEN

>>151179616
There's no hope lmao. Lucy got her own depression arc but Mike will have to share his because you can never not be feeling bad for Lucy. It'll be one big pity party for her and then she'll "save" Mike because she's so altruistic and wise.

>>151179668
It's the old volume 2 recap, and just about the only time Taeshi recapped Lucy's thoughts and feelings, so yes this was when Taeshi was willing to treat Lucy as delusional and her problems as mostly self-inflicted.

>>151179666
>666
Damn Satan, relax

>>151179579
Please let it be good, the white cat needs fk suffer

>>151179668
If they really cared for her they should have been ready to die for her

uhh what the hell is lucyspace

>>151179681
No, that plot line is pretty much dead.
The valentines day chapter is coming up, so Lucy will see Mike and Sandy be happy together and that will make Lucy sad

>>151179128
Is she above even Lucy in terms of ease of acquisition?

>>151179792
>the hell is lucyspace
exactly

>>151179701
Or worse, when it comes to her there must be some balance so after light torture it's one thousand years of gray cat in hell

>>151179799
Daisy literally got groomed because an older guy appeared to show the slightest interest in her body.

Lucy will let you vroom her but only once you've gained your trust and that takes forever.

>>151179368
Very nice anon. The horny/psychotic edits are always fun and I'm glad to see someone doing them again.

>>151179792
An aura around Lucy that makes you drop 50IQ points and interpret every action Lucy ever does as greater good.
Even some readers get caught in it.

>>151179629
In a better comic?
>broken Mike finally dumps Sandy
>"aww yeah all lights are green for the Lucy train baybeeee let's gooooooo celebrate winning the Mike Bowl!"
>*ahem* "well that is to say i guessss i could forgive you just this once Mike since i'm just so magnanimous"
>"...what do you mean 'no?'"
>"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'FOR MY OWN GOOD?!'"
>*grumble grumble* "stupid dead-eyed Mike it's his own fault" *grumble* "ow my ego"
>bitchcraft intensifies
>friends start getting kind of tired of that shit
>another Lucy spergout but it finally goes poorly
>reveals she's kind of fucking nuts and hates all her friends
>gets told off/avoided
>"fine whatever who needs them anyway? not me!"
>zeroes back in on Augustus
>drives him up a wall until he's glad to move away for college
>"oh fuck oh fuck no wait"
>requisite Alejandro plot ensues because that's still a hanging thread
>something something Mike intervenes which helps save the day
>great now i have guilt.gif
At which point Lucy finally starts dealing with her problems but even with a jackhammer that's a lot of concrete to chip at.

>>151179657
Sue's too stupid and/or hopeful to realize that Lucy's just not that into her.

>>151179657
Sue didn't realize she's a loser until she failed to prove everyone otherwise by breaking her leg leaning forward.
She doesn't know Lucy doesn't actually like her. She thinks Lucy is one of her close friends.

>>151179794
It's not dead at all, she's still having the rape alley dreams and it's been set up that Alejandro is still looking for Augustus

>>151179794
I don't know if Mike actually likes Sandy anymore. He was totally dead-eyed listening to her talk earlier this chapter.

>>151179880
>everyone suddenly turns on character after years of insufferable behavior
>in their isolation the other character is the only one willing to help them
that's basically what they're trying to do with Mike right now and it's dogshit

>>151179735
>"You were nine and acting like your life was over!"
>proceeds, as a teenager, to ACTUALLY act like her life is over just because one little retard rejected her
How poetic.

>>151179922
Taeshi brought back her "Lucy gets Paulo and Daisy together" plan from 2006 even though it barely even made sense, anyone thinking Alejandro isn't coming back is fooling themselves. Augustus' gay little stalker dossier will be the dumbest chekov's gun in webcomic history

>>151179912
I dislike how everybody fawn over Lucy when she doesn't give a fuck about them
Is insane

>>151179880
It all sounds plausible but heavily dislike how in most reconciliation scenarios Mike has to prove his worth saving Lucy AGAIN. Id compromise Lucy asking hell of Mike and he making it clear he doesn't want anything with her after it so she has to be responsible for her own feelings for once instead of the narrative coddling her

>>151179955
I'm 100% certain Taeshi dropped this plotline
there is almost 0% chance that Augustus betrays Lucy
The comic is now 100% about gay teenagers relationships and torturing Mike

>>151177767 (OP)
Taeshi needs to stop trying to make the diversity table happen

>>151179579
lol
>>151179701
Maybe she's just a sadist and only keeps the series going to torment all of the cast forever and ever.

>>151179937
According to Taeshi's cumulative stab at trying to explain EF, Mike is back with Sandy mostly for her own benefit, to avoid another Lucy abandonment situation. She offers him practically nothing in return.

>>151179956
that's the Lucyspace geas for you

>>151179964
he will never "prove" himself in Lucy's eyes. she merely wishes to possess and control him as her exclusive property, and the universe bends to her will to spread her guilting of him across the rest of the characters.

>>151179941
The difference is that Lucy more than deserves it whereas the worst Mike ever did was get angry for a while.

>>151179657
Lucy's eye-roll wasn't something Sue could have seen, since Lucy's head was on her shoulder.

I feel bad for Sue, honestly. She's genuinely well-meaning, and wants to help. But she's never seen the full extent of Lucy's insanity and abusiveness, so she doesn't realize she's trying to cozy up to barbed wire. Sue thinks she's trying to comfort a lonely, somewhat paranoid and abrasive girl who needs a best friend, not a gaslighting monster who has deliberately isolated herself out of disdain for everyone she knows.

>>151179891
>>151179657
I get the feeling that if Lucy and Sue ever got into a relationship (yeah right), it'd 100% become one of those abusive lesbian relationships.
Sue would either be a total doormat, or wouldn't be able to tank many hits.

>>151179955
Kind of odd she kept the line emphasizing that Alejandro wanted to hurt Mike first, then Lucy, when later it's established he's wholly obsessed over Worst Cat.

>>151180003
And that's exactly why I don't want "Mike saved Lucy and she sees the light" as an ending, anything that doesn't require her to do introspection and change as a person for her own good will feel forced, you can have Mike save her but make it clear it means nothing to him so she can't excuse herself with guilt or gratitude

>>151179964
>but heavily dislike how in most reconciliation scenarios Mike has to prove his worth saving Lucy AGAIN
I understand the feeling, but Lucy is so stupid, selfish, and stubborn that nothing less will get the point through her thick skull and get her to regret her past actions. Even Lucy can't rationalize her way out of a fresh self-sacrifice.

>>151179964
Mike saving Lucy to "prove himself" sucks. Lucy saving Mike will inevitably be Lucy glazing and add fuel to the "Mike OWES Lucy" nonsense. Alejandro coming back might be interesting but I don't think it'll be worth the ensuing nonsense. Maybe Augustus could deal with Alej on his own or something.

>>151179980
The diversity table has to happen because if it isn't happening then Lucy doesn't have anywhere to ship Augustus off to, showing how much of a reformed parasite she is now.

>>151180014
ship name "Sucy" or alternatively "Sussy"

>>151179955
It's kinda funny that at this point if Alejandro showed up and actually did something harmful to Lucy he'd be our hero.

>>151180054
>Even Lucy can't rationalize her way out of a fresh self-sacrifice.
underestimate her at your peril, anon
the event horizon is always closer than you think

>>151179236
> Pue shippers are idiots
> his own pic is Paulo saying he'd like to interact with Sue more
Delusional.

>>151178113
Can someone post the comic?

>>151177767 (OP)
TF is wrong with Taeshi's art lately?
I stil l dont get the fucking Rachel x Augustus shit when Jordan is right there. I thought that was the whole damn reason Jordan x Matt didn't happen??
So Rachel x Jordan could??

>>151180071
>Taeshi portrays him as a complete loser who's still obsessing over some 13-ish year old girl who chipped his tooth
>later reveals the Lucy is fucking terrified of him
I'm curious to see how Taeshi synthesizes these two ideas, unless the answer is "Lucy realizes this guy's a huge putz and instantly gets over her PTSD with a snarky Marvel quip."

>>151180054
You mean like the time Mike sacrificed his spine for extra leg strength to save her in not-acapulco? That time Lucy replaced him instantly? That time she was upset not because Mike almost died but because he looked angry and she expected him to just go back to normal?

>>151180091
>lately

>>151178452
same lol
i'm afraid i lack the skill to draw it. some judicious use of warping tools would probably be able to pull it off in a more "meme edit" format

>>151179964
Any sort of reconciliation scenario is Impossible now

>>151180097
The time that turned into a major turning point in her attitude toward Mike after getting a needed slap to the face, yeah. This time around, Lucy would not have the luxury of a preferred status quo but exactly the opposite.

>>151180090
Paulo is for Mike's cock only

>>151179956
>when she doesn't give a fuck about them
don't forget her mind puts daisy, paulo and sue in the same level of trauma as alejandro lol

>>151180139
Paulo is contracted for Daisy's strap-on.

>>151178787
Yeah the whole shit with Paulo was such a fucking waste of time holy hell.

Im still baffled this scene didn't end with a kiss or something. What the fuck was even the point? I think Matt was the closest Paulo ever got to almost doing something gay.
James was a total nothing burger and Mike flipped between rival to punching bag to bestie too much to feel genuine.
Paulo was still a dick to Matt though.

>>151180157
the gig economy is out of control

>>151180151
It would be so cathartic for Lucy to realize she should be embarrassed for feeling that way instead of huffy. Or to get fearful of her friends finding out.

>>151180172
Paulo's bisexuality arc only served to chill him out and otherwise has gone nowhere. All he really needed was to start feeling kind of bad for hurting the people who actually care about him.

>>151180172
>If there's no hope for you, what chance have I got
Not surprised Matt ghosted him on New Years after Paulo the Manwhore tried to one-up Matt's issues, what the fuck does Taeshi think this is sympathetic?

Hippity hoppity
these drama cats should be property

>>151180151
It's also telling that Augustus only knows she's having nightmares but not what they're about or else he would be opposed to her joining the table, so either "Lucy tells Augustus, he only cares about the Mike part and let's her get worse on purpose " or "Lucy keeps it from Augustus who assumes it's about Mike, she lets everything happen, has no actual problem with the people the dreams are about"
In short, they're assholes

>>151180202
I mean, that's his thing

>>151180202
Yeah it was pretty shitty for Paulo to insert himself as main character after Matt is having a legit crashout about being gay and sad.

This whole fucking chapter was weird af - including the yaoi-tropes with Jordan and Paulo in the bathroom.

But somehow Taeshi topped herself by writing James.

>>151180172
>>151180202
I think the point was that Paulo considers him an actual good likeable person who isn't an asshole, so if there's no hope for him then he's fucked. I don't think it'd be appropriate to say IRL obviously but I think it's a cute scene desu.
Also this never felt like it was even remotely approaching a kiss or anything, to me. They're literally just friends. Paulo trying to wingman for him was based.

>>151180202
>Mike is endlessly punished for being nice to people because apparently it's all about manipulating them into caring about him or some shit.
>Paulo twists everything to be about himself and it's all good.
Yep, that thar's some BCB writing alright.

>>151180265
Paulo was slaying in this scene, it's a shame that Lucy's family is of pure white Aryan breed and cannot feel any homosexual inclinations whatsoever.

has leakanon replied yet

>>151180278
Teenaged boys don't usually throw themselves on their good friends and cry/scream/blushy as they cling to them, reassuring them they will find love *eventually*.

Granted this is more like mentally ill teenaged girl shit, because that is the only kind of person Taeshi can write.

Also it's clear Taeshi was gaybaiting extra hard in this chapter because there are scenes like this with him and Jordan, then scenes of him daydreaming about femboy Mike, then the weird Jordan encounter and then the car.
Where Paulo only acts-lukewarm to Daisy, his apparent future romantic interest - which is why Paisy is such bullshit because Daisy was always his last choice.

>>151179955
I miss when this comic had weeb autism logic
Tess was just rich and they could afford going to an expensive island with a dangerous jungle
a bunch of adults in the slums scheming to kill children cause they beat the head villain once in an alley
now that its just high school slice of life a lot of the charm is just gone
>>151180172
>>151180265
at least the gay Polo Show was fun from time to time, I'll take Polo flirting with Jordan over the bore that is this track team nonsense
>>151180227
so do we have a /trash/ thread today?

>No Mike
>Already bored to tears
>Not even seniors can make this shit bearable

>>151180423
>so do we have a /trash/ thread today?
Make one and see if any artists show up

>>151180408
yes. Next page is shit

>>151180421
Matt was probably the only good influence Paulo has and they should be together a lot more

>>151180421
Also to add to it, Paulo kissing Matt in >>151180172
to assure him he was desirable and lovable after a long-build up of 'Paulo Bisexual' arc would've been a payoff.

Even if they don't fuck or date.
Would've been cute and made all that time spent on it worth it.
And Paulo spent plenty of time kissing and making out with other people he never followed up with.

>>151179615
please anons feed me i need to watch Lucy get fucked in the head as much as she and her orbiters do me

>>151180421
Paulo's a sucker for the praise. He'd blush at or violently beat up everyone who thanked him, ever.

>>151180433
Don't worry, Paulo angst is coming any minute now. The Lucy simping can't carry the story for more than a few pages at a time.

>>151180487
You mean https://bcbnsfw.space/misc/ff/Second%20confrontation.pdf ?

>>151180543
god bless. i completely forgot what it was called

>>151180490
Janet sexo

>>151179833
Daisy is for stringing along with bare-minimum negging compliments so she'll do anything.

It's the only way to keep her loyal.

>>151180227
what dis from

>>151180490
Do you think he'd grow closer to Mike and Abbey if he apologized for bullying them while they complimented how plush and tight his ass is?

>>151180606
Hell, you don't need to do anything out of the ordinary to string her along, even if you say no you are doing so
But beware

>>151180645
Sloppa.

>>151177777
Wait Lucy is a Scorpio?

>>151180645
It's AI smut

>>151180653
Sounds plausible. He'd have to be restricted lest he runs away before the compliments truly sink in.

>>151180703
Vriskucy

LEAKANON! Tell me next page isn't boring.

>>151180735
>>151178740
Take with a grain of salt cause we had a fake spoiler recently. It doesn't contradict the preview panel like that one did though, so I believe it.

>>151180653
>Mike
>topping
He didn't even top with Sandy. Paulo service tops him for sure.

>>151180768
nta but can confirm that's what happens

>>151180606
literally every character in the entire comic is like this, AND doing the "stringing along."

nobody can just fuckin, idunno like each other and enjoy each other's company?

unironically, despite their history, some of the closest we've gotten to a foundation for a genuine friendship is between Mike and Paulo. why? because it is one of the only friendship foundations in BCB that doesn't a) predate the comic's timeframe or b) involve performative friendliness to get into somebody's pants.

i don't think genuine, honest people exist in Taeshi's mind... which is predictable given the nature of "splitting."

note the third paragraph in the second section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology) :
>Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have even been shown to interpret social acceptance as subterfuge or deception.[12] They have also been shown to be less sensitive to verbal irony due to a negative bias in interpreting ambiguous information.[13] Individuals diagnosed with BPD may also believe that they will be abandoned if they trust anyone around them.[11]

>>151180770
Nah, Paulo is the kind of person who acts though but melts with care and love, while Mike is a people pleaser that sees red and becomes hostile when pushed over the edge. Paulo is not going to be sitting for a while but he'll be smiling every time it stings

>>151180768
I see her joining the track team and Mike leaving it. The track team will go wtf, but not do anything due to being filler characters.

>>151180770
>>151180815
clearly what Mike really needs to heal is to awaken his dominant side by getting "revenge" on Paulo in bed

>>151180832
>Paulo's face when Mike shoves him into bed and realizes how strong he actually is

Good ending

I'm to a point where I genuinely don't remember half the shit that happened in the comic or who did what since its been running for so long. Yet, every time I think about rereading it, an inexplicable feeling of dread washes over me.

>>151180848
and what Paulo needs is to realize he's been a sub this whole time
small dom, big sub is always fun

If Augustus doesn't face consequences like Taeshi promised. I hope the backlash she faces from this is enormous if she fails to follow through in punishing the creep.

>>151180884
I think Paulo's still too likely to blame and abuse Mike.

>>151180815
>Paulo is not going to be sitting for a while but he'll be smiling every time it stings

>>151180898
Eh her readers will forget about it and move on. It'll get occasional mention but Taeshi will already have some new reason for them to hate Mike soon enough.

>>151180884
It kinda looks like Mike is holding a controller. Which makes this infinitely funnier.

>>151180903
this wouldn't be a problem if Paulo could escape Lucyspace, but all of BCB is already within the event horizon. there is no escape. only torment.

McCain knew what was coming.

they should rename the comic from bittersweet candy bowl to abusing the cat bowl

>>151180885
That's Taeshi winning, hoping you forget and accept whatever flashback and retcon she throws your way

>>151180957
I've been calling it bittershit cuck bowl.

>Polo
>Stable relationship

>>151180916
Well, I'm bringing this comics attention to the most angriest and woke people I know if that happens.

>>151180955
I feel like it's related to Lucyspace but also a sort of separate issue. Mike was Paulo's default bullying target for a long time and that only started to change when Mike really came through for him as a friend (and potential crush). Paulo's gotten a lot better toward him but still has a knee-jerk reflex that needs addressing.

>>151180970
has to be possible even if Paisy is endgame

The Lucyspace has ran out my patience.

>Comic hasn't been good since EF
>Literally the make or break of the comic
>Taeshi backs out and starts the melodrama loop over again
>More and more melodrama loops
>Endless Mike torture to the point where the comic is torture porn
>Unrealistic dialogue between teenager
>Embarrassingly bad art in spite of her being at it for over 20 years
>Absolutely no moral point or plot impact to any of the melodramas
>Artist and... helper? Underling? Grunt? Whatever the fuck you want to call him have a history of toxic community interactions, bullying and "little emperor" moments as long as the comic has been around
>The past 2-3 threads full of comments about them bullying people in their own community.

I just can't anymore. There's nothing good about this comic. Not the art, not the story, not the artist, not the toxic little community of curated yesmen that are allowed to post on the discord, nothing. Fuck this. I won't be seeing any of you next page. Maybe I'll check back in around 2030. Have a good one /bcb/.

>>151180970
>>151181025
Paisy should be unstable as fuck just given its conceptual flaws.

>>151180423
>>151180437
Let's see if anyone has anything new to post: >>>/trash/79072323

>>151181040
You will be back next time.

>>151181040
Okay bye I love you

>>151181040
It wasn't good before or during EF either.

>>151181040
See you in the next thread

>>151181040
you are making the right call.

>>151181040
>>Comic hasn't been good since EF
lol cmon, it was always meh

>>151181005
>Paulo having a hopeless "I'll never be good enough for him" arc over Mike (instead of Daisy) because of the way he used to treat him
>Mike liking him back but being afraid to ever love again because of how badly things have gone every time before, plus feeling guilty for how he acted in the pissbaby arc
This comic could be generational fagkino if Taeshi didn't hate gays

>>151180686
Mike's mistake was treating Daisy with respect and not being pushy. You need to keep the compliments tinged with judgement or vaguely threatening:
>"You're really filling out nicely"
>"I think it's great you're confident enough to pursue a med degree"
>"I can certainly see why Augustus did that..."
and so on, thus keeping her feeling insecure enough to not take the attention for granted.

So anyone remember when David casually said Mike wasn't eating anymore (clear sign of depression)? Do you think that's gonna come up again, or be completely swept under the rug?

>>151181200
Considering Paulo also noticed it happening I believe Taeshi will actually use that for the story, but not to make the group consider anything is wrong at the moment

>>151180686
It's so funny to me that people on discord will bend over backwards to make excuses for anything any character besides Mike does. Every shitty thing Augustus does it because of his trauma but Mike is just a shithead in a vacuum.
>gets guilt-tripped relentlessly by Abbey for not being obsessively attentive to Daisy, until Abbey starts physically shoving him around
>feels bad so he goes and apologized to Daisy for not noticing her being sad
>Daisy's immediate reaction is to use this as an excuse to make him go on a date with her
>spends the whole time getting pushier and pushier despite him telling her "no" repeatedly
>says they should just go home and gets guilt-tripped into continuing and she goes right back to doting on him
Gee I wonder how he ended up with a complex about cheating

>>151181092
it's everything Mucy could (and according to Taeshi, should) have been

>>151181242
Basically Taeshi would have fucking gold on her hands if she let Lucy be an actual character that had wants and faced consequences and introspection instead of this effigy she's right now

>>151180981
I unironically AM woke, and I fucking hate this comic.
>gaybaiting that's never followed through on
>"wow being openly gay in 2007 sure is fun!"
>boys "don't cry/can take it" and girls are "dumb whores/rivals for attention"
>Sexual assault == rape, except when it's just a joke c'mon Lucy didn't mean it she's just sad
>Lucy

If it were in any way deliberate, it would be a fine aesop about how sexism is poison to everyone and misogyny and misandry are two sides of the same coin. But it doesn't make a point of that and seems to think characters calling each other sluts/wimps is funny, so it just comes across as being written by a sexist.

It could be worse
This could be Adventure Time right now

>>151180885
Taeshi has made a huge number of iterative edits to both the dialogue and the art of individual panels over the years, usually due to her changing her mind about stuff or removing risque shit like the piss scene. The comic you remember doesn't even exist anymore

>>151180090
Pearls before swine, fellow patriot.

>>151180013
Sue has inadvertently become a compelling and realistic character in the same way Abbey did, being on Taeshi's shit list. They're forced to reckon with the consequences of their actions, fair or (most often than not) unfair.

Does Candybooru work like SHIT lately for anyone else too?
Maybe it's a problem on my end.

>>151181389
works fine on my end so yeah might just be you

>>151180490
That's a penis!

>>151181323
This is worse.

>>151181200
It's come up enough times that I think it's going somewhere. It'd definitely supposed to be a depression thing, since he told Paulo he just doesn't have much of an appetite on account of being "sad".
It really fucking pisses me off that David made a joke of it though. I want it to be taken seriously because it's believably something someone like him could fall into. He hates himself but he just wants to torture himself instead of seeking forgiveness, so it makes a ton of sense that he'd take to starving himself as a way to self-harm invisibly. And now there's nobody to even notice he's not eating.
I hope that's where his December arc is going. Makes a lot more sense for him to let this spiral into a health problem than jumping off a roof.

>>151180884
>Taeshi posted this
Wait what the fuck, I thought THIS was AI. Taeshi's seriously accusing people of using AI when that double-tear looks exactly like the sort of artifact I'd expect from our LORAs?

>>151181323
Finn actually gets consolation prize in the form of HW. Here we have only cuckshit and physical abuse

>>151181431
i mean they *are* trained on her shit so itll be a 1:1
she was still a retard for publically announcing that someone uses ai when they dont

>>151181200
Mike's been anorexic for like a month at this point. It makes absolutely zero sense and is typical of Taeshi's stupid 'Where's Waldo' character development.

>>151181416
>>151181389
All issues got fixed like 5 minutes after I posted my complaint, is Suitcase here?

>>151181430
>seeking forgiveness
For what?

>>151181430
>Instead of seeking forgiveness
Nigga he tried that. He either just gets fucked with or is 'forgiven' only for them to 180 on it when convenient to hurt him.

>>151181445
>>151181431
Maybe Oliver uses the loras to shit out commissions

>>151181460
Perceived guilt is a hell of an endless torture vortex, especially when only Daisy has thought to absolve Mike.

>>151181456
Of course he is. That smelly little loser always lurks these threads.

>>151181476
I'm pretty sure Taeshi draws these things on screen.

>>151181431
>>151181476
It was drawn during the livestream (at least, it must've been, I didn't watch it). That's just how her scribbles normally look.

>>151181490
Doesn't help that white cat intentionally twists the knife for the whole suicide attempt thing.

>>151181506
The only reason Mike wouldn't be "permanently" locked into self-loathing mode, after this chapter, is because of Taeshi backtracking when she decides it's all going too fast for her tastes.

Helping Lucy get over her fears...

>>151179657
Sue is being set up to be verbally obliterated by Lucy and this is the most likely outcome. She wouldn't have even done anything wrong to deserver it. She'd just be the first thing in a line of sight for Lucy to blow up at. She's going to say some shit to her that's way more than she deserves and it's going to shatter Sue to pieces.

>>151181538
...through amateur exposure therapy!

>>151181538
she farted

>>151179735
>so yes this was when Taeshi was willing to treat Lucy as delusional and her problems as mostly self-inflicted.

I wonder what happened to that Idea.

>>151181302
She's extremely lucky she hasn't gotten canceled.

>>151180054
>Even Lucy can't rationalize her way out of a fresh self-sacrifice.


You say that, but Taeshi is gonna have her break her limits like a fucking Dragonball character and pull it off.

>>151181566
Literally, Taeshi suffered a mental breakdown and it was not unrelated to Lucy's own situation.

>>151181431
Our LORAs leave do stuff like that because Taeshi does stuff like that.

>>151181554
Daaaaaaaaayum

>>151181506
Fucking hate how Volume 7 has this weird gaslighting where Lucy passive aggressively gives Mike shit and then Mike gets raked over the coals when he spergs about it because he dared to think badly (and correctly) about Lucy.
>REEE MIKE HOW DARE YOU THINK LUCY IS MALDING ABOUT SANDY (she is)
>REEE MIKE HOW DARE YOU THINK LUCY IS TALKING SHIT ABOUT YOU BEHIND YOUR BACK (she is)
It must have been deliberate, but so what? It's taken like a decade for it to not have a payoff.
>>151181566
Suitcase started creeping on an underage user on the IRC, Taeshi cheated on him with a guy who wrote a Mucy rapefic, then she had a mental breakdown and got back together with Suitcase (not necessarily in that order) and eventually decided she needs to "make it up" to Lucy and that being cryptic is the height of art.

>>151181374
The fact that the comic itself gaslights you just adds another layer of the surreal.

>Mike is a schizophrenic shade damned to suffer eternally for nought that he did
>Lucy is an uncontrolled psychic, a nexus of malignity, and might be a demon wearing a dead girl's skin
>Paulo is stuck in an ouroboric loop of mistakes and epiphanies
>Daisy's life is a never-ending humiliation
>David saw far too much for his weak mind to cope - it eradicated his sanity but he now wields terrible power
>Sue is triple-hexed by the demiurge for her arrogance in attempting to foil its plans
>McCain was cast away and his friends memory of him expunged for his speaking against the madness of fate

>>151181548
And I hope when that happens we get Amaya giving Lucy a verbal beatdown that puts December to shame, if only off screen. According to James Amaya went so hard on David he forced Mr Meme dog to apologize to Sue

>>151181040
>BCB
>good
>ever

>>151181574
It's part the comic not being actually good enough to be recommended by word of mouth and part Taeshi refusing to be part of any community that isn't heavily moderated by her own golem of a husband to make it an echo chamber and filtering comments for her, they don't have any popular or fandom friend that would get a following big enough to make it a big deal

>>151181538
I don't think this is going to help her anon...
It might just give her a new batch of nightmares every night

>>151181644
Well, not like she'll do anything about it

>>151181460
For what he said to Lucy, the way he treated his friends over Sandy, and some other things? Yes he's apologized for them to a degree, but it's obviously not enough to have forgiven himself.
Pretty much what this guy said >>151181490.

I think if he genuinely bore his heart and apologized to any of the people he feels like he needs to, he knows he'd break down and cry trying to do so, and he feels like that would be unfair and selfish, so the "right" thing to do is stay miserable and let people hate him. Or maybe I'm just projecting, having been a retarded people-pleasing teenager long ago.

>>151181506
In fairness, she hasn't been doing that recently, until Augustus blew the situation up for no reason. He's mostly been twisting the knife on his own since EF.

>mention "Mike" and "apologize" in the same sentence
>immediate defensive replies
Calm down you spergs I'm one of the biggest fucking Mike sympathizers there is

>>151181670
>I think if he genuinely bore his heart and apologized to any of the people he feels like he needs to, he knows he'd break down and cry trying to do so, and he feels like that would be unfair and selfish, so the "right" thing to do is stay miserable and let people hate him.


This is a very mike conclusion to come to. It's wrong for him to end up thinking like this, but I can't really trust Taeshi to portray it as properly being so.

Just like how "Everyone" in the outside situation was supposed to be shitty.

>>151181566
>>151181578
>>151181597
BPD often manifests as a sudden and permanent change in early adulthood. and that often 'starts' (as in, 'becomes impossible to simply consider personality variation') with a "mental breakdown" kind of episode.

there aren't really treatments for it. no drugs work on it and the treatments that do exist require intensive time and attention from tons of psychiatric professionals - the cost of existing treatment is genuinely untenable even for cheaper stuff like CBT. and they're notorious for attempting to manipulate the medical professionals attempting to treat them.

it's really hard not to just tell people to give up on anyone like this. they pretty much invariably make the lives of everyone around them measurably worse.

>>151181574
She'd have to be in any way relevant to get cancelled. BCB isn't enough of a platform to attract criticism for pushing a message, and it's entirely self-contained so there's no-one up the chain who could go "Change this, I/the investors/the audience demand it". Also Taeshi and her bagman are basically online hermits - they seem to be intensely unpleasant people, but don't venture outside of their corner much, and thus don't draw aggro from the roiling mass of culture-war grifters looking for something to be mad about.

So the people who would call it "problematic" don't care because it's not on their radars, and the people who would call it "woke" don't care because it's not on ANYONE'S radar.

>>151181639
>>151181725


If BCB got big enough to be noticed on that level, she most likely wouldnt be able to handle it. I doubt most of it would be positive feedback. She'd have to resort to just constantly blocking people on social media that shit talk it. And then it gets even worse if someone makes a video about it and it goes viral somehow.

>>151181047
"should be" doesn't matter in Lucyspace

>>151181798
Suitcase does not control the BCB subreddit and it's already drawing in new unbrainwashed people thanks to the algorithm.

>>151181683
>This is a very mike conclusion to come to. It's wrong for him to end up thinking like this, but I can't really trust Taeshi to portray it as properly being so.
I'm worried about that too. I'd love for it to get dissected in the comic instead of validated and reinforced. The library scene with Daisy does give me a tiny bit of hope that it could happen.
I suspect part of what goes on with BCB is that Taeshi projects things she doesn't like about herself onto Mike (and others, but especially Mike) and then tortures him and makes other characters hate him because it kind of feels "good" in a proxy-self-flaggelation kind of way. I did the same kind of thing to some of my D&D characters and OCs back in the day. I also think that's why she gets pissy when other people shit on Mike the same way she does; I got defensive about my guys in the exact same way when anybody else joined in too eagerly to shit on them.

>>151181870
Let's hope someone wrestles away the control of the sub before Suitcase asks for the keys.

>>151177767 (OP)
Rachel wants Auggie's cock, and Matt's is the only one Jordan should be making space for.

>>151181670
They'd hate him either way. The only way he'd be forgiven is if he gave into Lucy. His actual best option is to say "fuck this" and bail on all of em.

>>151181875
Oh but id love for that to happen, he already controls a cult and he has no power in here, but if he goes full Stalin on the subreddit he'll anger very vocal people that will have an already low view of him confirmed, he shouldn't want to put people that can actually make it hard for him later on mad

>>151181875
And he NEVER will, I'll personally make sure him and his problematic wife don't gain control and make it a echo chamber. I'm still pissed about them banning me from the Facebook page because I dared point Lucy's abuse of others and Augustus being a creep years ago.

>>151181874
I think that's highly likely, and even on paper it can be okay. But she's basically trapped herself because she gave Mike no good moments for the past decade that could convince people otherwise.

If he's not sperging, he's suffering. So he just becomes a hateable character for anyone not inside Taeshi's mind.

>>151182021
She has the perfect opportunity to effectively reboot Mike's character and she's going to squander it on her own need to torment him while jacking herself off.

>>151182021
I'm a new reader and I honestly don't feel bad Lucy tried to take her life. Yeah what Mike said was harsh, but she had it coming. She's an abusive, attention seeking whore, and a parasite.

>>151181725
One of the reasons they haven't gotten bigger is because they infamously burned many bridges with other comic-creators and are openly hostile to new artists trying to connect with them.

The only ones that seem to be relevant are similiarly mentally ill creators like flak0ps and them brown-nosing to bigger comics like Questionable Content or that basketball furry comic.

>>151178491
Isn't this kind of retarded? Even if Suitcase and Taeshi are deeply homophobic and shit, they clearly see this as a business strategy where they can get more money and shit out of fujos and stuff, why not capitalize on it?

Must be some retarded as thing where Taeshi saw how much fanfare Gay-Mike arc was getting and wants to reel it back so she can insert Mucy bullshit.

>>151178494
Hey tourist, here ya go.

>>151181597
Did she fuck that guy? I knew she stayed with him for 2 weeks in Aussie-land or some shit.

I think her mental breakdown is because her entire identity has to do with her and Suitcase being these childhood lovers or some shit and him being a creep mind-broke her for awhile.
It was likely after a long humilation ritual (which probably includes the heavily detailed tumblr confession) she took him back.

It had to be that, Taeshi is too isolated for it not to have been relevant to Suitcase for that super bad crashout.
Im sure she threatened to cut/kill herself or something and ended up there.
After that she really pulled back from the Lucy-suicide arc for awhile.

>>151182086
The Lucy suicide arc definitely felt very personal for Taeshi, especially given how she wrote Lucy out of the comic for a good long while. I remember some tumblr post in which Taeshi said she regretted having Lucy be such a sad sack and vowed to never let that happen again. It's not hard to read that as Taeshi acting sour toward her own past weakness--another attribute reflected in Lucy's own behavior.

>>151182086
didnt suitcase also try borrowing crypto from his cult members in the 'cord to gamble?

>Let’s be real if Mike uses the right words at the right time she would absolutely take him right back, rationale be damned. Eternal Flame is the biggest evidence of that. Even AU stuff like Fork in the Road is testament to how easily Lucy can cave to Mike if he charms her enough with his words. She is unhealthily down bad for the guy, no matter how hard she tries to behave otherwise.
>Why else has Augustus been so protective! After Lucy’s kick in Line in the Sand, Augustus could TELL Lucy was vulnerable enough that anything Mike coulda said at that point woulda won her back. All her walls were down at that very moment! Mike could have easily said “but you’re wrong, you actually WERE the most important person to me all along. It just took me this long to get it. I don’t want Sandy, I want you!” (which he honestly woulda said, given the charged emotions at the time - given she was essentially accusing him of never having had feelings for her)
10/10 writing Taeshi, it must be bugging her that even the cult has decided that James and Augustus are two-faced creeps.

>>151182183
Once again, Taeshi implicitly assumed we could read these characters' minds. Or she's just making shit up.

>>151182242
>>151182183
Actually, you know what? I'm calling bullshit. Lucy's walls weren't down--she was at the absolute height of self-delusion! Telling herself insane shit that put all the blame on Mike, making him out to be a manipulator. She was in the best possible position to write anything he said off as yet another attempt to fuck with her. And why the hell would Mike have said he suddenly wants Lucy RIGHT AFTER SHE FUCKING ASSAULTED HIM?!

>>151181683
>>151181874
I think that part of the "point" of this whole arc is to sort of indirectly prove Mike right-for-the-wrong-reasons: Lucy came back and made it a "me or him" ultimatum, and everyone kept hanging out with Mike while "giving Lucy her space" (and whispering amongst themselves about how hard Lucy is to deal with).

So Mike was right that their mutual friends would choose him over Lucy. But because Mike feels (irrational) guilt over Lucy, he's been semi-deliberately pulling away from his social circle since she came back out of some sense that he SHOULD be ostracized and shunned. Culminating in Mike leaving the table to try and pursue other, "untainted" friends (the track team/james), and Lucy going back to the table NOT out of any genuine interest but as a way to spite Mike - because in her mind, they aren't HER friends, but they ARE Mike's, so driving him away from them will hurt him.

To be genuine for a moment is there any amount of Mike-esque suffering that could be directed at Lucy for once that could potentially make you feel bad for her? Considering Taeshi vaguely hinted that her turn is coming up

>>151178549
Daisy was so fucking based that chapter.

>>151182315
Not until Lucy wakes the fuck up and realizes she's not the long-suffering hero of her own story but has fumbled her way into villainhood.

>>151182242
>>151182276
>Veronica: hey come on let me win her back errr wait not win her back did i say that out loud i meant uhh let me workshop something here just give me a second
Taeshi was joking about it so I guess she didn't realize no one read her mind to get that Augustus doesn't give a fuck about the nightmares he's just cockblocking Lucy.
This is incredibly stupid, yeah I could buy that Mike could have won her back in that moment, but it's not cause he's Mike: she started cuddling up to Augustus cause he called her 'cute' and agreed to go back to the table because of David's flattery. Lucy's a psycho who uses boys like double a batteries, she shoves them up her cunt and when it stops tingling she replaces one for another.

>>151182183
>Why else has Augustus been so protective! After Lucy’s kick in Line in the Sand, Augustus could TELL Lucy was vulnerable enough that anything Mike coulda said at that point woulda won her back. All her walls were down at that very moment! Mike could have easily said “but you’re wrong, you actually WERE the most important person to me all along. It just took me this long to get it. I don’t want Sandy, I want you!” (which he honestly woulda said, given the charged emotions at the time - given she was essentially accusing him of never having had feelings for her)


But there's no sign of Augustus coming to this conclusion shown in the comic. He and Mike come to the agreement that he doesn't mess with Lucy anymore after EF's fallout, and Mike for the most part sticks to it. He apologizes to her at the mall but she doesn't seem to care. We aren't shown that the mall meeting has any role in making her dreams worse. Actually, I can't remember if she was having them at the time of that or not?

Augustus just comes out of nowhere because of them and demands Mike stay inside. A request that was highly unreasonable from the jump even if Mike DID break it. Lucy didn't try to move anywhere new if his presence really was making her worse. The whole outside incident was him starting bullshit for no reason other than just to beat down mike verbally.

>>151182315
I think before this chapter, maybe. But after she kicked mike and then lied about what really happened in the past, she deserves it.

I don't even expect Lucy's suffering to be a quarter long or as bad as Mike's has after all this time.

>>151182365
>>151182389
Suitcase getting Taeshi to buy into his ambiguity = art argument is one of the worst things he could have done to her writing. She was already bad at getting her points across before but this is just retarded.

>>151182315
No. She's just not an interesting character to me. I don't want to watch her suffer because the way she engages with it will probably be boring. Because Lucy is boring.

>>151182429
Yeah, this chapter has demonstrated just how retarded his opinion on that is.

>>151182183
Hah, she writes like the guy that says Mike smiling at Daisy's flirting means he's stringing her along
Wait...

>>151182453
This is, of course, assuming she's not just throwing assertions at the wall and hoping it sticks. You know, writing dumb cathartic shit then making up reasons for why it supposedly makes sense afterward.

>>151182315
No, absolutely not. The last time we had a Lucy SAD arc it ended up with the thing I find most loathsome about Lucy: the way she discarded Yashy. The way Lucy treats Mike is par for the course for her being a psycho tsundere, but the way she used Yashy to stop Mike from talking about Sandy and then basically abandoned her as soon as she asked who Sandy was on Halloween was gross and Taeshi has not and will never do anything to fix it because she thinks the pets are cringe but can't muster the energy to retcon them out like the OCs.
Hell she made it worse with this "you were all I had" bullshit.

>>151182315
God no, we have spent a good amount of the comic being told Lucy is a little victim and that we should feel sorry for her, just because now she might have an actual reason to suffer doesn't mean shit when, as things are, she really brought it into herself

>>151179735
It's strange to look at the old comic and remember when Taeshi was actually somewhat competent as a writer.

>>151182315
The problem is that 80% of Lucy's problems are self-inflicted, and the remaining 20% are from forever ago and were never brought up in the intervening time. Lucy bringing any of her existing problems up NOW would just seem like her casting about for reasons to justify her attitude. Meanwhile any NEW problems would just feel like unearned pity-bait to try and rehabilitate her.

Incidentally, this is the same reason I don't find Mike particularly sympathetic - his ratio of "self inflicted" to "old news" problems is more 70-30. But his shift in attitude still comes across as him actively deciding to be mad/depressed and THEN looking for reasons. Followed by several chapters of backpedaling and Mike being miserable to try and win back audience sympathy.

>>151182528
It was nice when the comic could still get legitimately cute, at times. Now the best it can muster on that front is Paisy.

>>151182183
I've always been of the idea Taeshi would benefit from SHUTTING THE FUCK UP, damn! She could just play it up as "actually they're in the wrong" and the whole "they're all being awful " comment at least gave you that idea, but her excuses for her fursona and her golem are so forced and biased that it damages her own "ambiguity" and it makes it feel more demented

>>151182630
wrong, it's Amaya
because her muteness makes her immune to actually being written as a "character" and thereby inevitably ruined

>>151182648
This is a side effect of Taeshi talking herself into believing her characters would do this or that, just to enable a plot she really wants to write. It's a foundation of sand, one that keep shifting around as Taeshi comes up with what are essentially new ad hoc micro-copes.

>>151182183
I mean taking all the stupid shit Taeshi's said over the month
>Mike does not want James and David to hook up
>Mike's bi for James (?)
>James is upset cause he's Mike's Lucy 2.0 (?)
>Mike would have seduced Lucy (?)
>Augustus wanted Mike to fuck off all this time cause Augustus is cockblocking Lucy (?)
>Reeee Mike I dodged a bullet because you're emotionally cheating on Sandy with Lussy right now (?)
This is stupid. Maybe I could see what Taeshi's going for but she threw a pile of ideas she never once explained in a coherent way into the blender and expected people to understand it as she wallows in how SAD Mike is about this gibberish.

>>151182183
Where did Taeshi say this?

>>151182702
https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/799599637256339456/i-think-a-small-part-of-lucy-will-still-take-mike
Her tumblr.

>>151182315
Depends on how serious we are talking. Like if its a family tragedy or something then maybe because that kinda goes beyond the stuff going on. If you mean feeling bad for her for getting chewed out, btfo, and/or kicked to the curb then not really. Especially after the shit she just pulled. Her antics since returning have been shit of course, but the whole Augustus episode cemented that her past attempts at reconciliation were utter bullshit. If she tries pulling the same cards she did in Eternal Flame then she needs to be called out on it and told to shove it up her ass

>>151182698
>James is upset cause he's Mike's Lucy 2.0

I'm not even sure how she got this. It just proves james is a giga-tard if anything.

>>151182715
>But if he doesn’t face his own December how else can they ever understand each oth–

Are you fucking kidding me? She thinks that Mike DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT LUCY WENT THROUGH UNTIL NOW?!

>>151182389
>>151182715
>But there's no sign of
It's completely batshit insane reasoning even with signs. The characters gain and lose the power to read each other's minds regularly, but seemingly most often in Taeshi's comments outside the comic itself to "explain" it. Taeshi has a staggeringly poor theory of mind.

Also, nothing about "Lucy being vulnerable" justifies the assault, but Taeshi glosses over it like it was a conversation. Notice how it's described, too - "Lucy's kick." The victim might as well not exist... except to be blamed for not speaking up in the next few sentences.

EXCEPT HE COULDN'T EVEN SPEAK AT ALL AFTER SHE KICKED HIM TO SHUT HIM UP, DO YOU READ YOUR OWN COMIC WOMAN???

>>151182756
Taeshi has a staggeringly poor theory of mind.

>>151182715
>Taeshi: Lucy is the most important person to Mike, they're in love!
>Also Taeshi: The only reason Mike will go back to Lucy is if he has "no other option but to be around her"
Why does Taeshi think settling for your last option is romantic?

>>151182784
The fact that Taeshi misremembers how her own male "protagonist" is supposed to work THIS BADLY just...makes me want to quit this stupid comic altogether. Right when there's a big status quo change, too. Nothing good can come from her apparently endless well of personal stupidity and willful ignorance. I'd actually take the notion that Taeshi is just a compulsive liar over this.

>>151182626
>spoiler
The difference to me is that Mike is flawed realistically, and I dont think or want people (especially someone as young and dumb as him) to suffer eternally as hardcore as he does for a personality flaw. Especially since his particular vice (bottling shit up until he lashes out) is common for a kid like him
Lucy in the other hand is like an evil spirit that exists solely to make Mike miserable and has no other purpose in life so theres nothing grounded or redeemable about her. I could have seen myself having a limit for her too up until the fucking arcade bit where she was teleporting around just to fuck with Mike. At that point she became like David, a non character. Taeshi really needs to figure out if this is a gag comic or a serious drama, between Lucy's teleporting, Davids retard strength, and assault being both anime slapstick and physical abuse based on a whim

>>151182832
because her only frame of reference for actual romance is suitcase

>>151182843
What's the most ridiculous about it to me is it was just a few pages ago. It's right there to look at for reference.

>>151182183
There are a number of problems with this, but chief among them is that Augustus is the one that put them all in that situation in the first place. This motivation only kicks in midway through the conflict. And when Lucy's about to kick Mike and enter the apparently horribly dangerous situation of directly interacting with him, what is Augustus doing? Laying back comfortably with a smug grin, not in the least bit concerned.

You can only assume Augustus is either evil or a dumb fuck because he blasts Mike's relationship with James to smithereens despite his strategy to do so depending on Mike trying to make James into his "Lucy 2.0," which I think in some fashion he was. Augustus is fully aware that Mike isn't interacting with Lucy 1.0 and is on his way to having even less reason to do so, and he decides to drag Mike back to Lucy. It's counterintuitive at best.

Other than that I think it's odd that this reads like a condemnation of Mike and Lucy having an honest dialogue about their feelings, since Augustus is apparently justified in shutting Mike up. I thought the whole problem with them was not being honest with each other. The whole thing in general feels like a condemnation of Mucy, which makes me wonder why she's still so obsessed with it. At this point if she manages to resurrect this ship, we should give her a crack at the Titanic. She might be able to get it afloat again and even find some survivors.

Anyway I think it's been said already, but Veronica you should have either already made this clear in the comic itself or kept quiet if you intended for it to be revealed later.

>>151182924
>Mike trying to make James into his "Lucy 2.0," which I think in some fashion he was.


I think this isn't a bad idea to try but Taeshi speed-ran their fallout so hard that James just looks like a piece of shit instead of Mike being somewhat wrong because he's projecting Lucy onto james.

>>151182924
>>151182960
I don't get this James = Lucy 2.0 thing other than Mike looking for another best friend in the most obvious place--recognizing, of course, that he's only doing so because James lovebombed him to hell and back, giving Mike his first actual good best friend candidate in forever.

>>151182960
>>151182992
It's not supported by the text itself. At all. But that's not new.

I'm still convinced that James only exists so it's not Lucy's hands directly turning the screws for "December 2.0." Except she couldn't resist becoming guilty of yet more physical abuse of Mike - but that culpability is simply ignored by everyone present.

I'm not even sure Taeshi herself can see what she's directly made Lucy guilty of here, because this December redux is under the full gravitational causality distortions of Lucyspace absolving Lucy of all consequences and introspection.

>>151182745
Looking back, I do think Mike felt as though James filled a Lucy-shaped hole in his heart, but the indicators of this aren't necessarily romantic. He has that sequence where he can't fall asleep because of Sandy and Lucy stress, but the thought of James calms him down. And it takes place prior to James' confession. Mike wasn't trying to take advantage of any pining - being unaware of it - and assumed the whole thing was platonic.

My position is that Mike wanting a Lucy 2.0 isn't even a bad or exploitative thing, if true. Lucy 1.0 was a disaster because of Lucy being uniquely mentally unwell, it wouldn't have gone the same with James at all.

>>151183054
I like how the story and character motivations get progressively more unhinged the harder Taeshi indulges her obvious Michael torture-boner and bongos Lucy's ass with pats.

>>151183081
There are two maladaptive aspects to this approach. First, it turned out that James sucks hot ass, and not just in the homosexual way. Second, Mike's hyperfocusing on a single individual instead of branching his attention and devotion out across multiple (better) friends. Granted, this is because his own friend group was always kind of terrible, so he had no reason to cultivate such an attitude, but then so was Lucy and he's still suffering from Stockholm syndrome in that respect.

>>151182756
I don't get how knowing what being suicidal feels like gives Mike a better understanding of Lucy anyway. Assuming the usual flow of causality, December didn't cause any of the issues that soured Mike on Lucy in the first place. And like you implied, I think Mike more or less got the picture after he tracked Lucy down to the hospital. Otherwise, I guess maybe she's thinking about understanding going the other direction? It's at least a little more believable that Lucy never considered Mike having insecurities similar to her own.

In any case she cut herself off with a hyphen there so I'm choosing to interpret this as a joke to protect my own soundness of mind.

>>151183081
>>151183127
I think the "Lucy 2.0" thing is generalizing romantic feelings too much. Maybe it's even Taeshi's literal intent, but she is VERY far from pulling it off. It's only at that most basic level that I see parallels, especially because James wasn't habitually abusing Mike.

Basically, I think you've mistaken Mike's loneliness and isolation for a "Lucy-shaped hole" where it really is just from loneliness and isolation. The last thing he needs is a Lucy-shaped entity coming to exploit that vulnerability for control and possession, because no Lucy-shaped entity is ever going to fill that hole. What if Mike becomes mentally stable enough to realize he needs to walk away? He has to stay this needy and vulnerable forever, that's how parasites like this latch on to their hosts.

If anything, a Lucy-shaped entity wants that hole as big and empty as possible.

Will Mike find a way to destroy Lucyspace?

>>151183081
He's fucked cause now even that comfort is gone.

>>151183186
To be honest, it reads to me like Mike is the Lucy in this situation, James is his Mike, and David is the Sandy. That seems like a far stronger set of parallels than James being Lucy 2.0.

>>151183081
Mike just wants a legit friend who supports him. That's it. Apparently that's too much to want

>>151183296
I wish the idea was that Augustus had come up with a bullshit parallel purely to cause damage, Mike's too unsure of himself to discount the idea, and James bought into it without further elaboration because he's an idiot.

Reminder that Michael did ABSOLUTELY. NOTHING. WRONG.
The one thing he did wrong he went on to apologize for always immediately. And Lucy. Forgave him.

>>151183383
Lucy didn't really "forgive" Mike, I think. It's more like she wasn't in a mindspace to hold it against him to begin with. So far as she was concerned, Mike had bee right during his dress down. Later on, she obviously held it against him real hard and found ways to discount his apology.

>>151183383
>Powerbomb your ex best friends self worth using all her secret fears against her she trusted you with
>But it's okay because Mike gave the most half-assed apology on the planet
God Mikefags are insufferably dumb.

>>151183383
Eh apologizing for December was fine. It was deserved, but was a bit overboard with how it was handled combined with the dickish sparkly eye smile in the same moment. He also took Sandy back which was also retarded, but in terms of handling stuff he's been mostly good or at the very least trying. That's far more than can be said of Lucy

>>151183423
She deserved it and he at least had the decency to give any level of an apology for it and so soon after it. Meanwhile Lucy's been continuing her horseshit, actively getting worse, and just flat out lying about shit.

>>151183383
I see nothing wrong with her being mad at him about the december speech. It was deserved but also harsh.

My problem with Lucy is that she took none of it to heart and is trying to get Mike ruined even worse while keeping her hands clean of it. Let the others do the dirty work for her while she sits back.

People shit on girlboss lucy because she went out of her way to shit talk him and didn't reflect on a thing.

>>151183215
This makes more sense for the parallel, but it's ALSO not supported by the comic. Mike isn't habitually abusing someone or exploiting every personal relationship he has. James is (was) more like a friend, and they have no history.

The whole "Mike is evil for being nice to people" theme is such a BPD tell on the part of the author it's almost TOO on the nose. Persecutory delusions and abandonment delusions about people who are nice to them are a hallmark of the disorder. For the few things he is directly guilty of, framing him as wholly evil as a result is ALSO one of the hallmarks of BPD (it's called splitting).

Given her own comments I think Veronica's BPD is what is actually writing and planning out this comic, because the only thing consistent about her comments and the comic itself is how reliably they look like the delusions people with BPD believe about everyone around them. Veronica has currently split Mike into the "EVIL" category and is just framing abandonment delusions as true and factual evidence of "leading people on." This splitting is also why she can't comprehend that he is also a victim, and is so completely oblivious to how horrible Lucy kicking him in the gut was - splitting is all-or-nothing, it's also called "black and white thinking." Lucy's in the white, Mike's in the black. She literally can't see the nuance in her own work.

BCB makes a disturbing amount of sense when you realize it is being ghostwritten by an incurable mental illness.

>>151183296
Redeem yourself, Polo! I believe in you! Sadly, I don't. They're all powerless here.

>>151183423
And she still thirsts after his gray cock even now. I wonder how Lucyfags cope with how pathetic that makes her?

>>151183482
For me the worst thing with Lucy is the lying. She goes from saying "you were right to call me trash" to "AKSHUALLY EVERYTHING WAS YOUR FAULT BECAUSE YOU SENT LETTERS TO ANOTHER GIRL IN GRADE SCHOOL!" when she no longer thinks she can reel her teddy bear in

>>151183423
>The most half-assed apology on the planet
He makes it pretty clear that this is just the opening overture of peace talks and he wants to continue mending fences when it's not late at night and they're tired from the play.

>>151183383
so why did she decide to jump after this?

>>151183489
I'd wager that Taeshi thinks she is still in control of the story because she has this vague plan about how it will all work out in the end, but ignores the many problems she's creating for herself in this BPD-fueled frenzy of self-indulgence.

>>151183568
bpd

>>151183423
It was really more like the preamble to reconciliation. We never get to see what starting things over would've looked like to Mike for obvious reasons.

>all her secret fears against her she trusted you with
Maybe a stupid question, but in my defense there's so much shit in this comic: does Lucy ever explicitly tell Mike the fears he flips on her in December, or does Mike just kind of sus those out from extended exposure to her?

Side not but I went back to refresh my memory on the immediate aftermath of this scene and, lmao, do you guys remember that producer showing up? The fuck was up with that?

>>151183568
>oh noes i finally have a chance to get back with Mike but alas! my parents are sending me away oh cruel fate
>also i fucking suck and everyone would be better off if i was gone
Basically.

>>151182857
I agree that Mike is (somewhat) realistic and doesn't deserve to suffer eternally, but my point is that the only reasons he DOES suffer is 1: because he self-sabotages out of some bizarre guilt/martyr complex, and 2: because Taeshi doesn't know how to make a character sympathetic except by giving them random previously-unmentioned sources of suffering. I can't sympathize with Mike NOT because I think he deserves to be miserable, but because I feel like the only reason he IS miserable is because he's "supposed" to be.

Take his sense of guilt over Lucy: everyone already knows what he did because he told them, and everybody already knows that Lucy tried to kill herself because causality means nothing in BCB. Paulo was the only one who really blamed Mike for it, and forgave and comforted Mike within MINUTES. And after that Mike didn't worry about it and neither did anyone else. But Taeshi decided that Mike's guilt was necessary for the plot, so Mike worries and ruminates that all his friends will/should hate and abandon him over something they already know and clearly don't care about, and a bunch of sloppy retcons are made to really drive home his sense of guilt. But still, the only people who seem to still care about Mike and Lucy's falling out and Lucy's suicide, are Mike and Lucy - everyone else is like "yeah whatever. Can you two gonna give it a rest?"

>>151183581
>or does Mike just kind of sus those out from extended exposure to her
Based on what Mike told the others in Happy Hour, it was more Mike inflicting his own fears onto Lucy, hoping it would do some damage.

>>151183589
>oh noes i finally have a chance to get back with Mike but alas! my parents are sending me away oh cruel fate

as much as mike calls and texts sandy, did Lucy just forget she could do that? Plus if this is like, 07 in universe, facebook does exist by this point. It was on the rise, so they could have kept contact through that too.

>>151183581
>does Lucy ever explicitly tell Mike the fears he flips on her in December, or does Mike just kind of sus those out from extended exposure to her?


it's more the latter. He said all that when trying to hurt her because he knew they would leave him for her in a heartbeat. All he did was flip it to make her feel emotional damage.

>>151183623
>did Lucy just forget she could do that?
If Lucy can't have Mike in person, it doesn't count. And frankly it really would not be the same, so I can't blame her on that account.

I hate how this comic is the equivalent of your brain filling in the missing words in a sentence, you keep filling the lack of sense with actual explanations based on plot and character motivation, painting the most solid structure allowed in your head, and then the author comes and brings out an explanation so bad and forced that you start to doubt yourself. This comic is like the opposite of those eldritch books that make you lose your mind when you read them, they're somehow readable and then C'thulu comes from the void and tries to explain the lore to you because you're not getting it and that's what rends your body asunder

>>151183623
It'd just be like how things are with Sandy and Mike now (ie it wouldn't work). Plus she wants her security blankets in arm's reach.

>>151183581
>you guys remember that producer showing up?
yeah, not even correlating to the story at all, I feel like maybe it was meant to be a red herring, a short lived one I guess?

>>151183621
It's not entirely Mike's fears though because he mentions people only liking Lucy for her body, which is pretty Lucy-specific. Even Mike's recent issues with people wanting him don't put that much emphasis on sex. I just can't remember if Lucy ever mentioned anything like that to him or if it was just a hard read.

>>151183668
It was just a stupid joke based on a media trend at the time, I think.

>>151183623
>as much as mike calls and texts sandy, did Lucy just forget she could do that?
>Lucy and Mike are talking on the phone about their days, when he cuts her off mid-sentence with "Oh I gotta go, Sandy's calling."
This kills the white cat.

>>151183690
I do think that Mike knew about Lucy's issue with sexualization, given his talk with Tess.

>>151183568
She'd already decided to KYS rather than accept being sent away, being extra nice that night and having it go pretty well was just a "last meal and rites" kind of thing.

Most people want to go out on a high note, so a suicidal person doing it immediately after something nice or cathartic happens is pretty common.

>>151183623
Because Lucy is all or nothing, Mike wanting nothing with her was ok, Mike wanting to give their friendship a chance and her not being able to wasn't, same reason she couldn't just tell him out loud that he shouldnt be so playful with her if he had a girlfriend but still needed him, because it's with me or against me

>>151183731
It reads to me like Lucy was pondering the idea of killing herself but hadn't committed until offered the unclaimable olive branch, which pushed her over the edge.

>>151183747
Ah yes, another good idea that Taeshi completely failed to capitalize on because of her autistic need to act out her hypothetical victory over Goldie with cat-shaped dolls.

>>151183763
i always felt like if Lucy and Sandy actually met in person, Lucy would lose any kind of planned compsure and just go nuts.

Regardless of how she felt about Mike, she'd be staring at what she sees as the source of their fallout.

The girl would crash out instantly.

>>151183781
It would be hilarious

>>151183781
I like to think that Lucy would try her aloof high and mighty act on Sandy, then find herself immediately outclassed. Sandy's bitchcraft has been sharpened to a fine point by working in an industry full of shallow vipers. She's proven herself able to get under anyone's skin with just a few offhand words or "accidental" insinuations. She would zero in on Lucy's insecurities without even meaning to, piss Worst Cat off, get annoyed at Lucy's antics, and then unsheathe her claws for real.

>>151183871
Yeah I feel like Sandy would wreck Lucy there, its just a matter of if Lucy physically assaults her.

>>151183745
Either works. But I think her already having decided and just trying for a bittersweet(tm) last hurrah both makes more sense, and has more dramatic weight.

So of course I expect the canonical explanation to be that Lucy hadn't even THOUGHT about suicide until Mike offered to start over which she took as an insinuation that she should seek reincarnation.

>>151183781
Lucy and Sandy meeting could only end in Lucy's annihilation. Sandy knows the killing words and can induce despair with a phrase. All who Sandy's shadow is cast upon feel their self-worth cut to ribbons, leaving only a husk of a person behind. Sandy's whims are as artillery fire, her disappointment like a flood; a moment of her joy is like being naked under the desert's midday sun for hours.

All Lucy has is cantrip: gaslighting, and a yellow belt in Taekwondo.

>>151183889
>Lucy
>physical assault
there is no "if"

>>151183889
>>151183914
Even in defeat, when up against Lucy, Sandy wins. And Lucy would know it forever after.

>>151183914
Has she ever attacked a girl before? She has no problem doing it to guys but I dunno if she has to girls. Feels like she'd default to her aloof bitchiness instead and then retreat when she gets completely mogged there

>>151183942
Lucy has zero shame about kicking girls in the face and acting like it's their fault for not remembering that she has autism.

>>151177767 (OP)
Rachel's fucked up face in the last two panels reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/_UYuRBWluEA?t=41

>>151183967
>can't hear in one ear
>effectively deaf
I've always hated this

>>151183942
She attacked Jess for using Paulo against Tess (or more accurately taking him away from Lucy's own self, as she saw it).

>>151183889
>if Lucy physically assaults her.

She would. Sandy (unintentionally and unknowingly) did a ton of damage to the friend group and her especially.

She can't have mike to herself due to Sandy being around.

The chances of lucy physically attacking her are 90% at MINIMUM

>>151183990
Stupid cartoon logic that is used for Lucy's convenience (see Madison's hallway meltdown).

>>151184048
It's kinda fucked up that Lucy is such a bitch that she could be exaggerating how deaf that makes her and instead uses it as an excuse to selectively ignore people, and it'd be 100% in character.

>>151183967
I miss the old comic so much, now a shove is an act that can ruin your reputation

>>151182168
Yes that's what this screen-shot is referring to.

>>151182784
God I fucking hate the - -when Lucy Yells/Physically Assaults someone, its GAME OVER, argument and agency GONE! Nobody can fight back, nobody can one up her - it's basically the equivalent to a bell at a boxing match and she will walk away 'victorious' no matter what.

It's like some insane BPD-coded bullshittery.

It happened with the Taekwondo chapter with her yelling at Daisy, It happened with her yelling at Paulo on the ferris wheel, it happened during the Halloween chapter, it happened when Mike tried to just talk to her after she returned, it happened when Paulo walked her home and did the 'fucked her in the dressing room' reveal, it happened during the Arcade, during the PE dodgeball match and now it's happening again.

>>151183967
id be using this as an excuse to ignore people all the time

>>151184113
You're not wrong. Madison was screeching so hard and loud that it's the only explanation that actually makes sense.

>>151183889
Sandy's bitchcraft has been sharpened to a fine point by working in an industry full of shallow vipers.
There's a reason Sandy went crawling back to Mike, she understands there is only one man with the strength of will to stand as her partner.

would lucy be the ttype to "peak in high school" with her attitude? Or would she somehow magically be able to get far even in the adult world by being the same as she is now?

>>151184376
I think it depends on Taeshi's BPD at the time of writing. It's kind of shocking to see her depict adult Lucy as a functional alcoholic without Mike in her life.

>>151177767 (OP)
Wasn´t she like dating another character?

>>151184376
>would she somehow magically be able to get far even in the adult world by being the same as she is now?
Considering she retreated back to Roseville and seems to have made no friends at the private school she went to, I'm guessing no.

>>151184394
>It's kind of shocking to see her depict adult Lucy as a functional alcoholic without Mike in her life.


did she? where?

>>151184443
One of the previews for the Fork in the Road sequel that some people might have asked for and everyone will regret getting.

>>151184148
>its GAME OVER, argument and agency GONE!
It's one of Taeshi's "you will now listen to only Lucy's dialogue" buttons. Which makes Taeshi acting like Mike should have responded (while he was collapsing and grunting through spittle on the ground) particularly infuriating/tragic/hilarious.

>>151185038
I hate this letters shit so much, bitch you had your chance and blew it, it does not matter if he was pursuing multiple women at the same time, he liked you both and he was willing to be boyfriend of the first who accept it, fucking woop

who will win the Paulobowl by the time this ancient comic ends? No point in arguing about the Mikebowl winner, shit was rigged from the start

>>151185400
I regret to inform you that game was also rigged from the start

>>151185162
Lucy had the home field advantage but still preferred to act like a bitch, she should be the last one to bring up those letters

>>151185410
And letters or not Miss "i will latch onto a new boy the moment you're not within sight" has a very shaky ground to stand on when it comes to "emotional cheating", she doesn't even have an excuse like "I just wanted us to be friends" considering she fucked Paulo (alledgedly) and attempted to rape Augustus

>>151185410
>>151185038
you know what this is what infuriated me the most, is the reasoning, the shit these characters say and go along with
Augustus became more of a dick in First Degree Burn for no reason, James ended a friendship on the saying of a stranger, the Senior table integrated Augustus like a symbiote
the conclusion of these events are shittiest thing about them

>>151185488
They are a very obvious evidence of Taeshi going through plot points without caring how she gets to them, all of those points would benefit from having a chapter or two to develop, but no, that would take from important things like, uh, the senior table fellating David, or Paisy