(I’ve been meaning to comment on the past few pages but ack schoolwork be crazy but I have been diligently reading 👀👀)

As someone who constantly lives with dread in her heart of conflict happening and being incredibly conflict averse, Riley’s intense paranoia and anxiety speaks to me so much. Esp considering yes this could be the catalyst for uncomfortable events being discussed and things unraveling, but at the same time it doesn’t mean things will be brought up and everyone is also wanting to put it behind them and move on and have fun! But of course for someone with anxiety, the catastrophic outcome is always what is on loop in your head.

I’d prob also be worried my gender obsessed girlfriend would start gender hc’ing the butch women at the bar or trying to have conversations about q***r topics with them assuming they’re on the same page, and that would make me sweat.
 

Despite all this, am I the only one incredibly pumped to potentially see Riley dressed up for ballroom night in dress pants and shirt looking incredibly put together and gorgeous 🥺🥺 short she may be, but she’d pull it off so well. That is if she ends up agreeing to go 🙁 she has mentioned the night scene isn’t too much her vibe, Blaire could always try and convince her to have a fun night out! Speaking of Blaire, the excited sparkles around her are SO cute she sounds so excited about it. And it’s nice to see despite her pushiness she hasn’t ever forced Riley to try partner dancing with her implication that they don’t want to make a spectacle of themselves.

That’s really thoughtful of Riley and her feelings despite it being something she seems very excited about wanting to try.

I’m obsessed with Jadens adorable face in the second to last panel ahh she’s so precious! Anime eyes Jaden is such a treat 💕💕💕 I love seeing her so happy and excited, and the little floof of her hair sticking out through the baseball hat is the cherry on top, adorable! She deserves all the best. So I’m fingers crossing things go well for them on ballroom night. Manifesting a good time for the ladies 🙌 plz rusty let the gals have this I’m begggingggg OTL!

I’m absolutely in love with the colors and shades in the second panel of masquerade night, your use of purple (and pink) throughout the comic is beautiful. Is the usage of purple very intentional, since it’s associated often with lesbians and it’s a nod to that, or do you just love using the color and it fits for the vibe you want a panel to have?

Humm…based on this and the fact that now we now got two events stacked up and that means Blaire getting more opportunities to say some wild shit in front of the homegirls, I’m gonna guess one of two things is going to happen:

a). Rusty is going to makes us pass through several ‘false alarms’ in which the qts seem like they’re going to cause trouble with the other women, getting really close to making an off color comment just for something stupid to interrupt, probably giving us conflict blue-ovaries every time those two groups come into contact (the conflict isn’t going to happen at the party, there’s just going to be a few scares along the night and the real shit show will be reserved for the masquerade).

b). The party IS going to be a shitshow at the house warming party and a lot of the comic is going to be Riley getting high blood pressure trying to decide between her well meaning roomate or her well meaning but troublesome gf. Dunno if Riley will turn her back on Jaden or Blaire at this point, BUT, my bet is gonna be that the real “climax” so to speak will occur at the masquerade ball; to get more specific with my bet: QTs are going to appear in the club in their best picketing looks to protest twansphowbia from the yonique staff after meeting them at house warming party.

So that’s it. I lost my foreseer chance when I never commented on my idea of timothy having a cross crush on blaire; which turned out to be true, so I’m putting these on the line for posterity, and speaking them into power, AWOMAN.

I’m shaking in my boots about the drama potential, but that aside for a minute because if I think about it for too long I’ll give myself heart issues – holy shit the Yonique is my dream.

 
I was already fully on board with the club, I was deeply into the ballroom nights, but a WOMEN ONLY MASQUERADE?? I need this in my life immediately. I already own a mask! And a dramatic tailcoat! All I need is a girlfriend and the Yonique to be real. :’)

A big lesbian mama who gives ballroom lessons to women only and hosts a yearly masquerade dance sounds like the best thing ever. I wish Yonique was real

tbh as a professional transgenderer for many years blaire gets 0/10 points for allyship. I suspect one of my friends *******might****** have some gender stuff goin on but I would NEVERR switch up the way I refer to him out of the blue.
Like if you’re “right” about it: you’re fucking outing someone?? And if you’re wrong, you’re projecting a restricting view of gender and gender roles onto them. No one wins

You’ll get it next time, Blaire.

Also WOW the dance is gonna be a SHITSHOW cant wait