Abandon The Old Ways
welcome to the new faith
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I want her shirt.
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I was gonna remark on the same thing, but Nena beat me to it. So... as Bubbles somewhat more generously proportioned, I have to wonder: a) is it just a REALLY STRETCHY shirt b) Did Bubbles decide to go BUY A MATCHING SHIRT, or c) is it now just REALLY TIGHT? ... any of which, actually, have potential for SQUEE! with Faybles fans, really! :D Just wonderin[ for, you know, accuracy, or authenticness, or some shit like that LOL <3
Unstable molecules.
I'm sure others picked up on this yesterday but I just noticed today that Bubbles is wearing Faye's shirt and that makes me so happy.
And why does embarrassment make them overheat? Rule of funny.
How do AI/robots blush?
And some partial foreshadowing: <a href="http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=346" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=346</a>
omg Faye and Bubbles have GOT to look into this for the shop! <a href="http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=348" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=348</a>
Because someone had to check, this is the earliest reference of post-coital booty dancing that I could find: <a href="http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=278" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=278</a>
Wow, I thought that was a guest comic. Jeph, your style has evolved so much, that's cool!
Aww Bubbles has come so far, I've been reading back through from her first appearance and this is all just d'awwww emotional growth and love!
But they already did the fornicating!
There's an old Jewish joke in which a young Orthodox couple is consulting with their rabbi, and they ask about whether a series of increasingly gonzo sex acts are permissible under Jewish law. After hemming and hawing he signs off on each one. But eventually they get to the (relatively vanilla) sex standing up in the shower, and at that point he says, "No, absolutely not! THAT could lead to DANCING."
I am content (no pun intended) to let Jeph write the comic. The Faybles arc is extremely moving - he sets up two damaged characters who find a purpose in healing each other. I can't think of another equally well executed example. Pride and Prejudice? Eliza has a better effect on Darcy, although both benefit. Go Jeph!
>I've gotten the sense that he just finds this stuff creepy< I suspect that we collectively look like a single voracious, deeply perverse multi-mouthed entity that he must feed but which alternately demands deeply unsuitable things and rises up in self-righteous wrath about perfectly unobjectionable things. Like a combination of Pintsize and Officer Basilisk, in short. Though, come to think of it, Officer Basilisk is a combination of Pintsize and Officer Basilisk all by herself, what with the bread fetish. Anyway, now that the idea has entered his mind, I bet we will eventually get to see Bubbles do a discreet, experimental booty dance in private. We must never mention it.
"Hey, whatya doin' Bubs?" "Faye! I... er... was recalibrating my hip joints!" "Really? I thought that you were doin' a booty dance!" *Walks off; Bubbles blushes and goes FWEEE*
Also, is anyone else thinking of the dance in "A Charlie Brown Christmas"? Bubbles would make a pretty good Charlie Brown in that scenario, come to think of it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1LUXQWzCno" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1LUXQWzCno</a>
Come on, there is only one iconic dance fitting former super-soldier - Commander Shepard's dance! <a href="https://youtu.be/H8VVnEaOh4w" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/H8VVnEaOh4w</a>
When I look at Bubbles in that last panel I think of Angel's thousand-yard-stare as he visualizes why he doesn't dance. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYlsFagq_k" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYlsFagq_k</a>
BUT BUBBLES
Awww...no dancing :(
It’s usually an involuntary response anyway, Bubbles. You can’t fight it anyway.
Wouldn't it be a Reboot-y Dance for an AI that's just got out of bed?
*Chirping crickets*
but the hips tho
I want to see May, Melon and Pintsize doing a booty dance. Or just yelling bird booty dancing on the lonesome.
*Yelling Bird booty dance, flanked by a retinue of disinterested whores
Am I the only one that thinks that Jeph is addressing the fans directly in Bubbles's voice in panels 2 and 3?
That's a nice thought. After reading a lot of the comments here and in Jeph's forum, I've gotten the sense that he just finds this stuff creepy, and I've been feeling chagrined about that. So it's pleasing to think of this reflecting his attitude.
Poor Bubbles! Faye or maybe Pintsize should have handed her a cheat sheet with all the apartment's relationship traditions listed so she could be ready in advance. That said... I think that she thinks it is a nice surprise. I wonder how long it's been since she's been part of a community that cares to that degree about her happiness? I also get the 'no dancing' decision. I mean, she's hardly a Jaeger but, even so, her getting too enthusiastic about it could easily affect the building's structural stability!
Cut to Claire and Pintsize doing the Patrick Swayze lift from 'Dirty Dancing'.
Well, then we'd know what Pintsize would be doing with his new body. (Or is it HER new body? Be quite a mindf*ck if he choose a girl's body for his human form...)
Dancing's forbidden! (voice of Shake)
No. I demand booty dancing. Wait, request booty dancing... No, hope there is booty dancing. Is there going to be any booty dancing?
That concludes the discussion about the booty dance
I honestly don't mind the missed booty dance - we once again got a happy couple that many of us ship, let's enjoy it.
Booty Dance
Ok lads. I propose everyone interested to write down “booty dance” to convince Jeph. And if he doesn’t draw a booty dance strip then we should ... should... do that dance by ourselves.
Hah this is the best joke yet. "No Booty Dance" HAH, who does Jeph think he's fooling?
How is Claire not there already? Doesn't a sufficiently energetic squee lead to an extreme warping of spacetime, and trigger teleportation? I mean, I can imagine Dora's holding back Tai. But what's stopping Claire?
Claire actually asked Marten to go ahead of her and tell her what's happened so she could get her reaction out of the way beforehand and not embarrass Faye and Bubbles. She's probably on the way back now!
more like "fornication leads to dancing"
Fanboy/fangirl/fanppl behavior deviates from the norm *significantly.* I believe they have to exclude the data from most studies...
Speaking of which how did they get here without a musical interlude?
No... no dancing? (sniffles)
Maybe they could sneak up on the Booty Dance by starting first with the Safety Dance (participation is, of course, optional)
I'm willing to bet that Claire has not, in fact, gotten all of the gleeful shrieking out of her system. She might think she has, but once she actually *sees* Bubbles and Faye together, it's gonna be like hearing the news all over again.
Yeah, *nothing* could prepare her for seeing Bubbles in Faye's shirt, like some impossibly adorable Hulk.
Faye is abnormally non-aggressive about this...
I am just absurdly happy when I look at panel three. Bubbles is opening herself up to the possibility that she could be happy like other people. *melts*
FAYE BLUSH!!! 😃
Faye is totally doing the dance offpanel behind Bubbles in that last frame.
Hahahaha! Ohhhh, Bubbles just keeps coming up with new ways to make me laugh. 😄
Faye is blushing. I’ll take that in place of the cancelled Booty Dance.
Agreed.
Nice shirt, Bubbles. It almost fits you!
Squee
Thank you, Jeph. No ironic twist, no despairing downturn to toy with your readers. What seems to be a genuinely happy ending between two folk who much deserve it. Thank you.
Claire's gonna have SO MANY DOGS following her
How much would we have to raise in Patreon for a strip completely made up of dancing? Who's with me?
I love these goobers :3
Marty does deeper callbacks than the fan base.
I know, right? We must try harder!
I'm pretty sure Bubbles already danced all over faye's booty if you know what I mean
Dude, we ALWAYS know what you mean.
WE DEMAND THE BOOTY DANCE.
.... please
> They're all goobers Yes and you love them like that.
Actually for the booty dance doesn't fornication lead to dance not the other way around.
That's already happened.
I just noticed that she’s wearing Faye’s shirt and I’m crying I love these two so much
B O O T Y D A N C E
Buncha smooch goobers.
How on earth did Bubbles get cuter over the course of a single strip? This calls for a celebratory Booty D— “THERE WILL BE NO DANCING!”
It’s the blushing.
I demand Bubbles doing the Booty Dance tomorrow.
Okay, but you're going to have to be the one to tell her. Good luck.