Another Ask The Cast is coming your way next week, ladies. And then, an extra special treat :D
And THEN chapter 12!!!!! >:DDDDDDDD
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This week on LB's Boosty:
Ch12P5 Speedpaint
Riley's First Concept Art (2017)
Main Trio's Outfits/Hair Styles for Ballroom Night
Oh no the last one ππππππ
JADEN OUCHHH that really breaks my heart aaaa, I really hope we can see Alexis happy and well at some point in the comic..
even if she can’t be with Jaden I want her to be happy …
Lil Faith is so cute, love how she has a gamer mum and a chill grandma
Also smhhh I was really hoping Tiffany would actually have to rethink her position… MJ is still so cute tho, love her lil mullet… She and Blaire would be so good together I can feel it
making me see the answer with Tiffany and then sucker punching me in the head with Alexisβ¦.. you donβt HAVE to do it to βem, Rustyβ¦β¦
The happiness and smile the first two brought to m before being absolutely DEMOLISHED by the TRAIN that that last panels was girl you are EVIL!!!!!!!
FAIIIITH MY BABY !!!!
Violet still being the coolest mom β€οΈ it reminds me of my own mom playing tetris for us and super mario π₯Ί
and ruth ! Wanting the haters to know they are Blocked ! Don’t worry Ruth, people deduce they are blocked if the site doesn’t tell them directly.
And Jaden ;_; right in the heart ToT
also now that iβve had a moment to breathe lol, Tifβs self contradiction at saying to identify out of misogyny since itβs so bad but also rejecting the questioner trying to do EXACTLY WHAT SHE SAID and id out of experiencing tiffanyβs misogyny, lol. i feel like it just reveals the truth underneath: that sheβs a narc and just feels like she SPECIFICALLY is entitled to special treatment. Cannot stand her ππ
Ugh Jaden love I’m so sorry π₯ It’ll get better I promise, just hold on, your butch in shining button ups is on her way!
Also Violet helping Faith beat the game and Faith helping Ruth with technology is so fricken cute and relatable, I honestly love all her interactions with the LB ladies, this is how childrearing should be imo, the nuclear family dyanamic where the woman does all the actual work and the man is the “breadwinner” who doesn’t have to do shit because he fucks off half the day and does the “real work” is honestly one of the worst things to come out of the patriarchy, love seeing communal childrearing π€
Please tell me Tiffany get’s what’s coming to her? I don’t usually like seeing men tear down women but I want to see Tif try it on with a GC tehm and get roasted so bad… she’ll prolly still find a way to blame a woman for it tho π
If men hate “toxic masculinity” (patrairchy/misogyny backfiring) so much why do they not get flack like “CB’s” for still identifying as men Tiffany? Hmm? Also I thought you couldn’t choose how you identify? Did you just misgender agender anon?! Good thing Tiffany’s hypocrisy goes ignored by the other QT’s because with the amount of transphobia this girl be spittin, Mr. Milkers would have D cups by now π¨
Also, this doesn’t have anything to do with Leasebound (pls forgive me for my sin π) but if possible could you implement a comment edit feature on the website? I also can’t wrap my head around how to make an official account so I can have a pfp?
“if you have to ask the difference between cis bitches and trans women you’re probably not agender.”
this seems like a pretty crude bioessentialist answer kai, are you saying there are obvious differences between trans women and cis women?
i donβt see gender because iβm a gender abolitionist (which is a thing plenty of nonbinary people are btw, check your binary privilege to assume im not). youβre using your male privilege rn to oppress me just bc i donβt conform to your idea of what an agender person should look or sound like. unlike you, i CANβT distinguish between cis and trans women bc iβm not a transphobic bio essentialist fascist. babygirl and blaire are exactly the same at the core beyond superficial differences and deserve to be treated as such because theyβre obviously both women who deserve respect.
in summary, fuck you, your ugly boyfriend doesnβt even wipe his ass, and your eyeshadow looks like shit, bye.
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did i win? anyways my desire to hit this asshole with a car goes stronger every day. i never want to see babygirl in a panel again but i would looooove to see kai get corrected for being such a mean girl.
someone should point out that HEY KAI it would really girl babygirl euphoria if you stopped treating him differently than all the other women so maybe you should just start treating all women better (bc babygirl obviously doesnβt deserve to be ostracized, right?).
this is my cope for a canonical way that would force kai to treat blaire better
anyways iβm thinking too hard about this. damn you rusty, why did you do this to my brain on a beautiful sunday afternoon
Ruth’s popsocket with the labrys flag made me so happy π
Why doesn’t Blaire become a she/they to roast Kai and get her to realize that she’s being that one girl in every yaoi? You know what I mean.
MJ, run away with me… I would treat you so much better…
And ok wowwww, just gonna have to walk off that gut punch at the end. OOF. At least we have the next 2 weeks of fun stuff to look forward to and then CHAPTER 12 π€©
ya Allah i’d say touch grass but at this point i dont think even that can save kai i think she needs to work as a farmhand for a good 3-4 years
JADEN MY HEART and omg I love Ruth! I also love/hate how well you understand the gendie mind.
The whole “cis women totally enforce/cause transphobia committed by men!” is a belief that always enrages me so much, and it’s exactly the sort of thing a misogynist like Tiffany would glom on to immediately to exonerate her precious MEN.
Remember, anything bad that men ever did was SOMEHOW women’s fault, folks!
Awww Ruth and little Faith bonding over their own generational gap lmao. And it’s so cool how her mom is literally a gamer; Violet, the next jazzyguns, hello???
And I kneeeewwwww Jaden’s answer was going to be emotional, like….asking on emo music, like it wasn’t one of the main reasons she connected with Alexis– you all knew what you were doing. Though the image of Jaden next to her teenage self was pretty nice!
Also…comon gyns, you all knew how that tiff question was gonna go. Might as well just have picked your favorite– NB/trasmisogyny exempt/23/ACAB/TERFS AND FREAKS DON’T INTERACT and just drop that in her mailbox. I know y’all got tumblr, so you can do it, lol
also “CB fetishize gay men and trans men get blamed” the irony, the accuracy ;-; Het TiFs are truly the Spider-Man pointing meme
I BET the man that Ruth wanted to block was a TIM π
Awwwwww
The second ATC was hands down the best. That level of sweetness that makes you shake and twitch and feel all giddy and warm. It was a treat, it was medicine, it was everything.
absolutely LOVE the proficient gamer side of Vi πππ go big momma! (tbqh i’m stuck between wishing she finds a wonderful muscly wife somewhere soon or leaving her be as an epic single mom and showing that different dynamic)
and and oh my gosh gynocentric shonen AU with Ruth and Faith as protags when??? I mean just look at them! Imagine, they ride on a giant (female ofc) loyal creature, solving mysteries and exploring the world an-**gets ran over by Jaden’s memories materialized as a truck**
Oh god damnit MJ! I overall think she’s one of the better people out of the gendies, but I’m so disappointed here… Before she actually seemed/looked slightly uncomfortable with some of Tiffany’s shit, but I guess at the end of the day if she enables it then she’s supporting it.
The other comics are adorable too – absolutely love seeing Faith’s dynamic with the adults in her life. Seeing Alexis again was a sad surprise… I really hope that eventually we’ll get to see her in the present again, but I’m not holding my breath.
This is absolutely just me projecting my own favorites onto the characters, and I know it will never be canon due to copyrighted material, but this comic did give me the motivation to share my own headcanons for Faith and Jaden’s tastes.
I picture Faith also playing Armello – my own personal favorite video game, which was made by an Australian development team, and one that I come back to along with Heartbeat for female character design inspiration among games. (I firmly believe we need more designs like Patch from Heartbeat and Elyssia from Armello – I’m fully aware that I’m definitely biased towards female characters wearing vests/waistcoats specifically.)
As for Jaden, I imagine her rocking out to the song Seneca Falls by The Distillers. Their frontwoman, Brody Dalle, is someone I absolutely consider a massive inspiration in terms of musical talent (and she is also originally from Australia).
Between Leasebound, Armello, and Brody Dalle, I have to say that Australia is really getting things right for appealing to my tastes, haha!
Hey Rusty,
I binged the whole story a few months ago and wanted to come back to say, I love your work and Iβm really looking forward to chapter 12.
As both a reader and a comic artist Iβve been looking for more radfem/GC comic artists to follow but Iβve had little joy. I’d love to get some recommendations if you know of any.
cheers
ugh that image of jaden looking lovingly at her younger self is giving me feelings. how is normie Jaden both the least and most relatable character? lmao
also, you’re so skilled at drawing the tree shadows; I’d love to see more shadows like that throughout the comic. it reminds me of sseongryul’s use of shadows in her work.
I’m sorry if you get this comparison all the time, but the relationship Faith and Violet have with the Yonique women reminds me so much of a similar situation in Alison Bechdel’s dykes to watch out for. π©β‘πͺ
Genuine question. Why do you choose to refer to Blaire’s friends by their birth names rather than the names they want to be called (with the notable exception of Babygirl, whose birth name I don’t remember because I don’t think you’ve used it in a while)? Regardless of how you feel about their gender, names are just names. Many names in LB are commonly considered gender neutral: Kai, Brick (I guess?), Alexis, Riley, Jaden, Blaire, Clancy…you get the idea. So I know you don’t have a problem referring to women with names that aren’t considered exclusively feminine.
PERSONALLY I will be absolutely thrilled every single time Alex makes an (sort-of) appearance in this comic. i love her. she was so cool and lovable and i lovE HER. I love her lingering ghost.
Also I’ve been thinking about the Contrast between Jaden and Riley. Jaden keeps dropping Sadness out Accidentally, you ask her a normal question and she’s like AND HERE’S MY TRAGIC ANSWER, and she’ll say “oh my dad’s dead” in the middle of a tense conversation (queen moment i’m still not over it) Jaden was taught to be authentic. She KNEW how her mom felt, Her mom was so honest. Jaden is also honest and so real. We don’t have to wonder or be surprised with her because she TELLS US. man jaden i appreciate you
Meanwhile asking Riley questions people expect to be sad, or where the answer is sad, Riley is just like UHM. WELL. VAGUE RESPONSE. She usually does not willingly take us into flashbacks. Whenever we got a flashback from Riley, I have the impression that’s author imposition, not Riley saying “HERE YOU GO AUDIENCE HERE’S A PIECE OF MY SOUL”. Riley doesn’t do that for us. Jaden does. Tho I could be wrong, that’s how I keep reading these answers lately lol.
one of these women is so Authentic and the other one feels like she has to hide EVERYTHING, Unless it’s something that’s like useful or beneficial to other people. no sadness no being trouble no being difficult. Compared to Jaden who usually isn’t like “no i can’t be myself I’d be too much of a downer”… obviously Jaden tries to be strong and put up fronts, she does, but she’s not NEARLY as bad off as poor Riley is, from what I can tell
I think its so cool that their characterization seems to seep into these answers to questions. at least thats how I see it
The Faith questions were a good palette cleanser after Kai, and poor Jaiden.
I miss the woman I feel in love too, Jaiden… Hopefully it’ll get easier with time β€οΈβπ©Ή