In The Nook
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I am familiar with the "wriggle behind the couch and refuse to discuss it" tactic. Poor Emmett; that isn't a great approach to take.
I also love that Bubbles is stepping very deliberately into the "parental figure" role here, not only by helping steer Sam through her crisis but also by paying a visit to Emmett's house to check on things and then primarily interacting and socialising with (as well as offering support to) Becky. Age-wise, Faye and Bubbles may be closer to Sam and Emmett's age than Becky's (up for debate, depending on your Age Theories generally, but at the very least they're in the middle) so it's not a given that Bubbles would be on the "parent rung", but she's placing herself there.
Technically Bubbles might be younger than either of them, chronologically speaking, but certainly more mature. Whereas, conversely, Faye is definitely older than Sam and Emmett, but frequently much closer to their level in terms of maturity. It makes for a hell of a parental figure team.
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Huh. If you were on Station in a room with no gravity, how would you distinguish a nook like this from a conversation pit?
the sign saying "the 70s are back" in blacklight-responsive colors?
They're both such wonderful and kind people :)
Goshhh, I didn't expect this but I'm so here for Becky-Bubbles friendship and mutual support :3 (I wonder how much they've really talked before now? Assuming that this would be off-panel or during a timeskip, that is. I know we've seen them interact a little in-comic, and we know that Emmett and Sam are regulars at the shop, but has Becky spent much time with Bubbles and Faye before now?)
I am sure there has to have been conversations in the past. With Emmett's propensity of finding trouble and Union Robotics being an unknown place to Becky, I feel that Becky must have visited at least once to assuage her concerns about the dangers inherent with all that machinery.
This is a reminder to the comments field that Dante's most famous work, the Divine Comedy, consists of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio, not just that first part
Yeah, but nobody ever makes it that far. The hellfirey stuff is fun, but by the time you reach purgatory it does start to drag on a bit.
I love that Becky is just coming out and saying it. All the questions that we the readers have also speculated upon. I look forward to this turn of events.
This is lovely
Oh God, I love this so much. I'm fighting not to cry and wondering why I'm fighting it?
Just in case Emmett is about to sneak downstairs?
I mean, isn't Dante primarily famous for writing RPF (Real Person Fanfiction)?
The spirit of Dante is compelling Emmett onwards
Sure beats being in the KindleTM
Dante *FANFIC*? 🫨 OMG!!! I NEED to read that! All those circles of hell, the possibilities…
same
Emmett "wriggled behind the couch" sounds like my cat with a purloined drumstick.
I can see Emmett also purloining a drumstick.
help this is too sweet
I know. This is so sweet that I'm getting CAVITIES!!!
No, no, you've got it backwards. Dante originally wrote Inferno as an *Emmett* fanfic. It was loosely based on the time Emmett went with their Mom on a business trip to Virgil, Ontario and while she was distracted they wandered away and found an old quarry and was explorin' and throwin' rocks in but then they tripped and fell all the way to the bottom and hit their head and landed on a raccoon that they decided to name Virgil after the town and they had to climb up the nine levels of the excavation carryin' the raccoon so they could get it to a vet and make sure it was okay but then when they got to the top the raccoon woke up and bit them on the hand and ran away and then Becky found them and was *super* cheesed off because she'd been looking for them everywhere and then they had to get a rabies shot and they got grounded for two months. And I know what you're thinking. "But Dante lived in the fourteenth century, and Emmett is only a teenager and also Canada wasn't even a country then, that doesn't make any sense!" Yeah, well, Emmett is ETERNAL! Deal with it.
I am so here for this 100% canonical Emmett lore 🥹 ty, @BookBeard!
what IS Emmett's age, anyway? I think Sam was like thirteen when we met her but that was like thirteen years ago...
Sam & Emmett are both fifteen.
Cool Aunt Squad are ready to report for active duty at last :)
In a critical moment, a friend once told me, "You don't have to be alone to cry." I immediately melted. My nose became a snot river, my sobs resembled the braying of a donkey. My friend just held me. Until I found a shred of objectivity, some self-awareness, at which point I started to giggle at my bizarre ugly-crying scene. We both lost it. Totally lost it. Both of us guffawing, abs convulsed. When we calmed ourselves and talked, the main lesson we found was, no matter how sad things may be in the moment, joy always awaits. And that it sometimes takes a friend to get the ball rolling in that direction.
Sometimes I need to be alone to cry and sometimes not. But sometimes when I think I need to be alone to cry I'm wrong, and I thank you for the reminder of that truth.
Yay: *quietly observing, taking notes for Aurelia*
Becky and Aurelia? Could happen. Aurelia's the sort to try bi just for the experience. Another encounter Jeph can write me into.
I think Faye and Bubbels should fuck Emmet's mom. I struggle to think of a funnier direction.
She can join the “divorced moms who are totally getting it” club! (Is Aurelia still banging me half her age?)
"And in third level of hell were all the BOYS because they're JERKS. "
"Ugh, boys!" — Dante Aligheiri
And Dante himself wrote a mix of RPF and Bible fanfic.
Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven wrote "Inferno" about an SF writer in Hell. People complained that P & N put their political enemies in it. People who knew their Dante better RoFL'd.
Bubbles truly has become totally awesome.
This is adorable. Just wholesome and sweet in total.
I read the title of this page and I am STUCK on "In the nook of time."
"The Nook of Time" sounds like a cozy sci-fi novel.
theyre just like me forreal
I -like- Emmett's mom. :) Not so sure about their dad, mind. Might be Belgium is far enough away.
No, in the name of justice he must be banished even further to a place with fewer delicious waffles. But I mean, not *no* waffles. I'm not a monster.
We need Jeph to get Becky, Veronica, and Aurelia together ASAP! Mom's supporting mom's! Also, mom shenanigans and mortifying their children with embarrassing stories.
I can totally see them do something like the First Wives Club but with Veronica be like a Kim Possible person but with Yay being her Wade.
ooh... meta! Dante is kinda fic already
There’s been a lot of Dante fanfics. I remember a weird Dante-esque movie starring Robin Williams where his character dies but then goes into heck to rescue his wife who went to heck after committing suicide after Robin’s character’s passing. Goes into the depth of heck, meets his father in one of the levels refuses to save Robin’s character’s dad and was deciding to stay with the wife in heck when deus ex machina happens and the couple returned to not-heck. It’s a weird Dante fanfic turned into a movie.
Bubbles is the safest pillow to cry into. 🥰
And if she decides someone needs a stiff talking to, it will be SEVERE. And if more is needed, more is on hand.
The literary world is not ready for that fanatic, but they're getting it anyway!
Bubbles probably can divide her attention between multiple things, including monitoring Emmett. Kind of like Dr. Manhattan, but without the "being in multiple places at once" part.
“My shoulders were not designed with the express purpose of being cried on, but I feel they are well adapted to the task.”
Especially out of their armor. *Donk*
Emmett's mother is delightful, and Bubbles is such a sweetheart.
Yes & yes!
We need to protect Becky at all costs.
I love it when Bubbles speaks with confidence and pride in her capabilities.
Yes, it's heartwarming when she gets to play the I Am Good At A Thing, And Can Help card. Such a good egg. Maybe one day she will get to detect a snake or an optically camouflaged animal, as she yearns to :)
Aw. A Maker’s Coven!?
hey so as someone who is in a parent-adjacent slot to a kid having hard times: can i borrow Bubbles
just gotta ask yourself: What Would Bubbles Do
Who among us is NOT writing Dante Alighieri fanfic?
I am not.... I am bad at writing and I will not make any attempts to better it.