Please appreciate how many fucken animals i had to (self imposed) draw for this x-x
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Also holy shit, gyns!!!
Watching the three way tug-of-war that was the emoji polls this week was so insane. I could not tell the verdict until I checked just now to post the new page.
This Week’s Poll
(middle amount of votes wins!)
Boosty Update
There are two new speedpaints of Chapter 12 for both subscribers/ or those who make a 1 time donation. If you are an enjoyer of spoilers, shez and/or want to support LB, click here.
Riley comparing every animal to a cat is adorable.
Do they just let you hold the snakes in Australian zoos though?? If yes, I’m so jealous! I only got to hold a snake once and it was awesome.
Also, I have to say that I really appreciate this page for the extra look at their relationship and an example of Blaire being a good girlfriend. I know most of us are already rooting for Riley/Jaden, and that Blaire hasn’t made herself look like a good partner lately, so pages like this are great to remind us (me) of what Riley sees in her and that Blaire can be a good partner (and knows what Riley likes, in this case animals not generally seen as pettable or cute) – she’s just really caught up in a harmful ideology. Like dating someone in a cult, I suppose.
I didn’t want a Blaire redemption arc until this moment, breastie… Blaire/MJ healing era spin off?
im SO interested in an encounter
Is Riley’s mom a JW/Jehovah’s Witness, rusty??? The gender roles and how Riley would dress, the seeming shunning now, no birthdays….
Blaire you are being very wholesome, but wtf is that shirt? It looks so impractical 😭
so cuteeee
Aight so Riley was definitely a JW *shudders* lawd have mercy. Now I get her. I feel like I’ve come to like Riley more and more bc I was really annoyed at her pussyfooting, but I kinda understand where she comes from at least, and I would KILL for one of those zoo passes need me a gf like that.
AWWWW!!
I’ve actually always liked Blaire, since her goal seemed more to me to be being compassionate and supportive, not lording her gender superiority over others like SOME PEOPLE, and she’s SUCH A GOOD GIRLFRIEND HERE. She thought specifically of something RILEY would enjoy, even if SHE wouldn’t, and went to what was surely a great expense to make her gf happy.
I think she truly does care about Riley and I feel like they would really be a great couple if not for the gender shit rotting her brain. AU where instead of her pushing trans ideology on Riley, she gets inspired by Riley not wearing makeup or shaving and becomes gnc herself!
Also love the callback to the car lol (and that’s DEFINITELY a lesbian couple noticing <3)
RILEY IS TOO CUTE TOT
everything is like a cat ! (don’t know if i should aww or cry that riley has been deprived for so long of little joys like going to the zoo, having someone care for her, and never having her birthday celebrated ;_;)
ALSO RILEY FUCKS AND IS A CHAD
Love the ladies in the last panel being like “madam, not in front of the animals !”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH RILEY IS SO CHEESY… HOW LONG WAS SHE THINKING OF USING THAT LINE 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Also I love how everything but the lion is female (wow Blaire, isn’t it problematic that Riley assumed the lion’s gender based on obvious sexual dimorphism?)
That poor car has seen some things 😅
Let Riley Pet The Big Kitty!!!! I know she could handle it!!!! I love how much Riley loves all different sorts of animals/Weird Cats.
Also love Blaire’s jojo outfit cause I am a Fool.
Huh, she hasn’t arrived? Where’s HorseBlaire??? somebody call her
Thoughts:
1. Nawww they are SO SO adorable here it should be illegal. Liking how we get to see Blaire’s appeal and actually understand why Ri likes her instead of just presenting a flat character to mock and deride. Even if it’s known Jaden x Riley is endgame you make sure to tug at our heartstrings in the meantime.
2. Nice touch on using she for the animals, 99% of the time a random animal is mentioned i’ve seen people assume it’s a he, and in comics-cartoons it also tends to be a he, especially if it’s not a “cutesy” specie (like Aye Aye vs Butterfly, or Komodo Dragon vs Kitty). Was that kind of experience part of the reason you did it? Or its the character policy you enforce?
3. I thought the lion was gonna be one of these ngl: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/lioness-manes/ hehe
4. CLANCYYY ❤ wooooo
the last panel implying they’re being loud enough for bystanders to notice 😳.. blaire honey, how dare you try to slap a gender identity onto a woman who fucks you THAT good lol
+ (mentioning the mj/blaire commenter in here cause i can’t reply on mobile) can someone more creative than me come up with a ship name for those two? i think they’d look cute together as blaires post-riley rebound but the ship name “Blartha” sounds like the noise i make when im sick, haha. (maybe a space pun for mj’s whole ‘cosmic’ thing?🤔🤔 idk)
Cool, all female animals are safe to pet but the one male animal isn’t 👀 just like real life lmao
Damn, much like Blaire’s legs Riley is smooth as hell…
Also my description of non cat animals is *like a cat but x* lmaoo love this accurate cat person rec
Also do Blaire and Riley always have automobile sex? Is that a recurring thing for them 😭 ngl I’m surprised they haven’t got caught by now if they have
Yes I thought so! Could of lived another day without seeing the dong shirt again tho… I’m still recovering from that lactose-intolerant gendie’s dong shirt 😅
I have to say I really appreciate the way you drew the spider, not too creepy looking, actually bearable for a serious arachnophobe like me to look at without getting the willies. I know it might sound ridiculous to some but my arachnophobia is serious enough that I can’t even look a pictures or really detailed drawing of spiders without getting the willies. But this one is actually almost kinda cute.
I have nothing intelligent to say I just love this page so much T_____T
gonna dangle an wolf spider in front of blaire any time she misgenders faith now i know her weaknes
CUTE PAGE BRO WTF <33
Feels like an odd page to leave this comment on, but it’s as good a page as any I suppose:
Similar to how digging into feminism permanently changed my view of the world at large, reading a story like LB has made me look at other webcomics I enjoy and think about how much our fellow female creators prioritize their male characters, even over their own female protagonists that the narrative is supposed to revolve around. I did a re-read of a comic I’ve been following for years, and the uncomfortable realization of how few female characters actually mattered – or were present at all! – in it washed over me.
The protag has no female friends that are important, and none of them have been explored like the men have. All the side stories are about the men, too, even if the pov character is female. It’s so disheartening, and a little upsetting that I hadn’t thought to look at it through this lens until now. Better late than never, but it feels so tiring at the end of the day just like everything else.
I listened to a stream from Radical Ramblings on YT the other day where the ladies discussed frustration over lack of lesbian (or les/bi in my case, since I’m a febfem and I’m very tired of straight relationships in 99.9% of everything I see, especially when it’s written like shit and all about the manpain, all the time, always) media and how nothing is “allowed” to be gay anymore, and she was right! It’s all ~*queer and gender*~ shit, and pronouns.
I’m exhausted by it and incredibly relieved to hear women voice similar frustrations about the same kind of media I want to enjoy. Sci-fi was the genre mentioned specifically, and it’s such a tiresome catch-22 to consume anything in that genre, because either you get outdated sexism from classics, or you get new queer/gender shit from the newer authors trying to be hip I guess. Enough, please.
Then you have something like LB here, where there’s normal-ass women of all types that feel like real people I’d meet on the street, and women I’d want to be friends with. They’re not concerned with looking cute or sexy for men, they have their own lives and stories waiting to be told, and they’re all happy. (Well, as happy as the narratives let them be, but you get me.)
Characters like Blaire, who are intended to be frustrating and steeped in the gender tea, still feel real, and it’s thanks to pages like this one where she shows that, despite her misguided attempts at being The Best Ally Of All Time, Ever, she cares about Riley. She’s not a one-dimensional villain, she’s a well-meaning woman who ultimately doesn’t use her critical thinking skills as well as she could, and it’s hurting people around her. Very real, very relatable. I wish more things could be like LB. I fucking wish.
Thank you for making your comic. Sometimes, it’s my little light in the dark.
Man, at this point I really hope Blaire gets out of the QT group too, she seems good natured but very misguided. I didn’t expect to be rooting for her this much, but she honestly reminds me a lot of myself before I peaked.
She’s constantly seeking approval from males, presenting in line with misogynist beauty standards (heavy makeup, shaving, etc), apologizing for her “cis privilege” (read: being female), and avoiding the word lesbian like the devil😅.
I really hope she’s able to get out before she does too much damage to her relationship with Riley (and friendship with Jaden!). It’s clear that she truly thinks she’s doing the kind, empathetic thing by trying to get them to go trans- and that’s the biggest mindfuck about the whole movement in my opinion.
It brainwashes you to think you’re doing the right thing when in reality you’re harming everyone around you:(