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I'm sure at any minute I'll cut to Steve eating cereal
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eeeeeeeeee! This whole thing has been such a wonderful uplift in a terrible week for me. Thank you, Jeph!
So happy about this strip. Though I am curious about how Faye managed to pleasure Bubbles. Did it involve tea?
Given previous conversations in the strip, I'd bet Bubbles can have an orgasm any time she wants, but she chooses to reserve them for *extremely* rare occasions. Remember early on, when she said... I think it was "Once a year I allow myself to wink"? I imagine she has activated algorithms that allow her to respond to Faye's touch. Yeah, I know. I'm shipping hard. She's such a beautiful, fully realized character, though. It's hard for me not to think I know her. She's a remarkably reserved person, and Faye is so special to her that I imagine her sharing that rarest intimacy with her.
Personally I wonder in what conflict or mishap Bubbles lost her team. I do understand that covering world politics, warfare, and other large topics can’t be fit into the QC universe as we see it, but personal tragedies definitely can. This might easily be a fundamental reason why Faye and Bubbles resonate with each other. Not exactly a newsflash, of course. But unlike the rampant shipping enthusiasts, these are the sort of things that I wonder about.
In my dive through the archives, I found this gem: <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1011" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1011</a> It's part of a story arc where Jeph first explores the possibility of humanoid AI in the QCniverse and Faye specifically says "You don't see fully humanoid robots running around everywhere." So what changed in the next year or so of QC time? We go from relatively common AnthroPCs to quite literally, fully humanoid robots running around everywhere. Is the QCniverse a simulation where rules are arbitrarily changed to suit the observers? Has the world been 'edited' as in Alice Grove, where years of AI advancement has been erased from humans collective knowledge? (Yes, I'm aware I'm probably over-thinking this and QC really is a simulation springing from Jeph's mind but hey, it's fun to play with sci-fi tropes.)
It may actually not be that common, we have little context for what goes on elsewhere Martin and crew may just live in a higher density area for humanoid AI and with his circle of friends may just run in the same circles as other AI's. EDIT: or im just wrong and AI's are everywhere.
I am sure others have already expressed similar sentiments, but DAAANG! ... I would give up my left arm for a full pic of that pose. 0__0
SAME.
I'm so happy when I see Bubbles smile.
I don't know why but I had this weird mental picture of Spookybot somehow watching this while eating a tub of popcorn.
hmm since the poker game has basically replaced steve eating cereal as the go-to "sorry you have to wait another day for the big moment" comic, i guess we don't see steve until morning when the aftermath of the poker game intrudes upon his breakfasting
This is wonderful and deeply satisfying, but now I can't stop wondering what the booty dance will look like. Especially Bubbles'. Will she do the thing with her hips and arms and knees and freak everyone out, including Faye? I'm already giggling at the idea.
One would hazard a guess that she has already put her flexibility to good use for Faye. The booty dance will, of course, be a performance in itself.
THIS CONTENT SURE IS
QUESTIONABLE
OK. Enough teasing. Where's Steve? How's he eating his cereal? I need to know.
Do you think Bubbles breathes? She would have no need to, being powered by internal batteries but maybe she uses a breathing system to better emulate humans (and maybe for talking?) I was thinking that spooning a person who wasn’t breathing (even if they were warm) could be an unsettling experience.
It puts me in mind of the Golem in Neal Asher’s Polity universe but sexier!
Naked cuddles are best cuddles
Something tells me that Faye has met her match in so many ways here! Oh, and the red unitard isn't part of Bubbles' skin confirmed.
This is just so fantastic. Thank you, Jeph. <3 I love this arc so damn much for so many reasons.
Naked robutt & fayebutt. O_O
So apparently that unitard comes off. I actually thought it was a part of her chassis since I thought legs, arms, and heads may need separation for repairs, but other than that line running across Bubbles next the rest of her body appears to be one solid piece.
I'm starting to wonder just how high-fidelity Bubbles' chassis might be and whether there was always an intention of 'human compatibility' in its design.
Squee indeed!
The first frame seems taken from “Geology for dummies”.
Or it could be the dunes of Arrakis. Someone plant a thumper in one of those thighs and call Shai-Hulud.
This calls for Fancy Cereal! I'm feeling the steel-cut oats. Or?
Bubbles has a spooning advantage: her arm will never fall asleep.
Not sure that's necessarily true. Myomer muscles with interwoven signal-transmission "nerves" means compression damage is possible; in humans, "arm asleep" is merely how our brains interpret the "compressed nerve" signal. Bubbles may have a different signaling architecture, but her brain will still have to interpret "loss of signal" somehow, and there's little reason for embodied AIs to use a different term to describe that sensation. Now, "pins and needles" that accompanies return-of-signal in humans... I can see embodied AIs having a wildly different sensation associated with that (possibly nothing weird other than "I have signal again" possibly with damage report tags).
This might very well be the single sweetest, tenderest moment in 3747 installments of QC. And the only two I can think of that come close were both last week. I never thought I'd feel this way about a webcomic!
I would add Dora-Tai’s first kiss
Good lord, this comic is going to break the Internet when it drops.
HOW DO I LIKE THIS MULTIPLE TIMES???? <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
You make another account and throw money at Jeph so that you have access to this post.
I absolutely love this. Thank you, Jeph. And I swear if you make Marten and Claire get married, my Patronage shall be unending!!!!
this entire storyline has been very very very good, Jeph. thank you.
Remember Bubbles joking about the backrub 'That is how I "getcha"?' And here she is, saying... "Gotcha"
Bubbles was never going to be anything other than the big spoon.
Why do we call it big spoon/little spoon when the reason we call it "spooning" is that same-sized spoons fit together neatly?
The milk in Steve's cereal has definitely spoiled by this point
Steve eats cereal all the time, so the milk is always fresh.
Was Bubble's joke so good that her hair lit up in the last panel?!
Thank you Jeph, I love you. 💝
This is just so unbelievably beautiful. My heart has shattered into a million pieces because I just love these girls so much and I’m so happy they’re happy and together. :’)
Bravo, Jeph. I spent the entire weekend re-reading QC from comic 3003 and the way Fay and Bubbles have evolved has been absolutely masterful. I'm talking Ian M Banks, Neal Asher and Alastair Reynolds level of masterful. The issues you've explored (singularity, self-determination, the meaning of sentience) and how they relate to ordinary people ranks QC right up there with the best sci-fi. Love, love, love this strip - keep it up, mate!
Wonderful. And those first two panels,,, like landscape contours, and so sensual. Well done!
The subtleties of Faye's expression in panel 3 and then Bubbles in panel 4! Man, Jeph is really on the top of his game.
Robot skin must be a crazy good engineering in this universe for it to be that comfortable.
i see the Ro-Butts Disease is flaring up again...
Okay. This is nice. For now.
This - or at least, this particular moment - is even better than I had hoped for.
IT WAS FORETOLD... by Pintisize <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2262" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2262</a>
And then they had babies... <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2240" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2240</a>
Today I finally understood why this whole mini story arc (starting with backrub) feels so good, right and fulfilling - more than I ever expected. It is because it is not only great and beautiful by itself, it also reminds me of some of the best moments of my own relationships. And judging by the comments I am not alone in this. So, thanks and kudos to Jeph for creating such a masterpiece of storytelling. It would be hard to top it, but I'm looking forward to seeing what will come next.
Also, I guess Bubbles got to show Faye what she can do with those hips after all ;)
AAAHHHHHHH!!!
I can't even handle it it's just so amazing adsgjklaeuaiitgraighhghaghhdghdjkgalbgh
Language!
No matter how many times I read this it makes me the exact same amount of squee inducing happy
You think Bubbles makes a beeping noise when she backs that ass up
She made that joke already
How beautiful is this? Thank you, Jeph. Very tasteful and yet conveys so much.
I feel super bad that I've literally only just noticed in this comic that Bubble's speech is in square bubbles and Faye's are in round ones.
All the AI speech is square. I assume it's probably synthesized and that was the easiest way for Jeph to show it. I also remember a comic where Faye imitated Bubbles and her speech went square.
I literally can't wait until May gets a ping about this. She is going to lose all of her shit.
Fthghh. Wow.
Steve needs to feel the disturbance in the force...
“Hmm. Need more cereal. Need to close up that tunnel in my basement.”
Of course Bubbles knows what Tetris is; she canonically has a Nintendo DS, which so happens to have the best version of Tetris ever made.
Now the big question: does May get her pictures?
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Holy shit this is even more wholesome than I imagined.
I thought for sure we were going to have a week of other characters steering clear of Faye and Bubbles out of kindness, consideration or simple self-preservation. I’m glad I was wrong.
I hear Tai screaming from here
Also, Claire must have sensed a disturbance in the Force. (Depending on how much time has passed, she isn’t home, so...)
I am torn between more Faye/Bubble and seeing Steve eat cereal.
Damn it, Jeph! We need to know if Steve is getting his essential vitamins and minerals! How long will you continue to taunt us??
(This is a joke. I care a lot more about Faye getting her essential vitamin B.) (I am very sorry for *that* joke.)
Oh my
... I'm kind of hungry for cereal, now? I hope this doesn't become a lasting association.
For like a week I've had cereal every time the comic hit Patreon. It just now occurred to me that this is why.
Thank you for having the restraint to not cut to Steve having cereal just yet.
So that *does* come off.
Those first two frames are perfect
<3
got her in many ways
The rest of the arc will either introduce some new AI/human couples for Faye & Bubbles to figure this all out or be like the end of that one futurama episode with the Space Pope video about "DON'T DATE ROBOTS"
I didn't know that the clothes underneath Bubbles' armor could come off. TIL
She leaves the house in those--she doesn't seem the type to walk around nekked
Ahem, *SQUEE*
LOUDER
Lineaments of satisfied desire. So pretty.
Raises the question whether Bubbles has an extra long charging chord.
Well. I think we can safely assume they figured it out.
They figured out one part of it so far. It’s everything else, the emotional, intellectual, social, and possibly even spiritual aspects of this relationship that is going to be so much fun to watch them figure out.
Hoorah for closure
I am starting a movement (petition, what ever you want to call it) for Jeph to do a week of Mellon irritating Sweet Tits.
They'll conclude the week by cononically killing Yelling Bird and becoming friends
HOT
😍😍😍
These two are so damn cute together. ❤️ Also, this sort of confirms my suspicions that Pintsize went to poker night because Faye and Bubbles were more or less, “leave or die.”
For all his "jerky"-ness, Pintsize can be remarkably perceptive. He probably saw them walk in, and they saw him, and before they could do more the grimace, Pintsize said, "Hey, can you two hold down the fort, tonight? I was invited to a poker game and wanna check it out," and was out the door as he was finishing the sentence.
Just 😊
Steamy
❤️😄