jephjacques - A Trick Of The Light

Apparently Patreon messed up. None of us got notified.

Stephen Wells

2024-09-09 12:26:17 +0000 UTC

Shoot, sorry guys, I thought I’d remembered this from my viewing of “The Gods Must Be Lazy”, but now I’m not so sure.

Comics Ladybird

2024-09-08 09:34:28 +0000 UTC

Speaking of foreshadowing, right after Marten first met Claire, Emily, and the other intern Gabby: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2217

Clifton Royston

2024-09-08 05:25:00 +0000 UTC

HELPING

Maurice Kessler

2024-09-08 04:31:45 +0000 UTC

I somehow missed this comic. HOW DID I MISS THIS COMIC! Did Windows update or something?

BobC

2024-09-08 03:52:16 +0000 UTC

...Aurelia's hair is making me want bacon.

Marin Page

2024-09-08 01:32:43 +0000 UTC

Messing with the town's power would be very much anathema to their aim of staying off the radar. That's not to say they wouldn't normally have the hubris to do it anyway, but the past hour(?) has changed that.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-08 01:24:47 +0000 UTC

So it wasn't just me! I wondered how I'd missed this one!

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-08 01:21:29 +0000 UTC

They are not necessarily immune to Yay. Yay is capable of manipulating EM fields to the extent that they can put even humans in stasis with just a thought.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-08 01:20:19 +0000 UTC

Maybe not always, but at least last time we saw her, yes. Jeph may have ham-ped up the porcinity since then, though.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-08 01:16:35 +0000 UTC

love this, its getting tense and kind of scary and pulling me in

Cozy

2024-09-07 21:35:57 +0000 UTC

Strip 3407 suggests that Yay might be a metaphorical giant squid lurking in deep waters. By strip 4943, the Director appears--as a literal giant squid lurking in deep waters.

Zygo

2024-09-07 20:04:51 +0000 UTC

There's also Sven's cat, Princess. She hasn't shown up in quite a while though. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=877

BookBeard

2024-09-07 15:51:05 +0000 UTC

Also side note... went down a rabbit hole of old strips starting with furst time claire appeared and the amount of foreshadowing is astounding. Strip 2262 especially 🤣

Benjamin

2024-09-07 14:36:40 +0000 UTC

Has her hair always looked like bacon?

Benjamin

2024-09-07 14:34:32 +0000 UTC

slaps table THANK you push button, receive bacon

Pejo

2024-09-07 08:17:06 +0000 UTC

Hercules and Mieville (I think) are the QC cats I can think of.

legobil

2024-09-07 07:07:24 +0000 UTC

Sitting here at 830 on Friday wishing it was Saturday…

Darren Franzen

2024-09-07 01:31:02 +0000 UTC

I doubt even her new and improved body could survive that flight. Well, the flight wouldn't be so bad, but the landing would be an issue.

awgiedawgie

2024-09-06 23:04:55 +0000 UTC

i just realized there is a significant absence of cat in QC might need to pull a Yay to process this

skinnybdink

2024-09-06 22:41:39 +0000 UTC

Poor Yay :(

Cole Blackblood

2024-09-06 19:18:24 +0000 UTC

The sentient smartbulbs online book club calls themselves "the illuminati".

BookBeard

2024-09-06 18:14:34 +0000 UTC

Agreed. I had to go to Subway and order a BMT with bacon after reading this.

OldGoat

2024-09-06 17:07:04 +0000 UTC

The big question remain! Did Crushbot catapult Roko, or not! That was Rapid Transit, after all!

legobil

2024-09-06 15:16:32 +0000 UTC

Weekend cliffhanger...

Marc Tabor

2024-09-06 15:01:07 +0000 UTC

Or, is it just….. A Trick Of The Light.

legobil

2024-09-06 09:53:08 +0000 UTC

It feels to me like it is Monty Pythonesque…? But I could be wrong.

legobil

2024-09-06 09:51:52 +0000 UTC

Yeah, nah. Under normal circumstances, Yay totally would (albeit unintentionally) cause an awful lot of food to go bad as some kind of trick. And then have Roko yell at them about it. And then have Melon try to "fix" it somehow. And then have Roko yell at them both.

David Paul

2024-09-06 09:18:11 +0000 UTC

I feel like Comics Ladybird is quoting something, but damned if I know what...

David Paul

2024-09-06 09:11:41 +0000 UTC

Well that's all right by me...

Bill Marcum

2024-09-06 04:53:33 +0000 UTC

Robobulbs. Very bored. Or maybe just spending a lot of time reading (online copies of) _Les Miserables_ and such, and hanging with their online book club.

Ursus Ridens

2024-09-06 04:01:31 +0000 UTC

Poltergeistery. At last, someone actually wants some.

Ursus Ridens

2024-09-06 03:59:34 +0000 UTC

Not to worry. They're just having an extended, calming interaction with Azathoth and Mr. Smooches. I think.

Ursus Ridens

2024-09-06 03:57:17 +0000 UTC

Decided she's awesome? You make it sound like someone could decide that she's not. It's not a decision waiting to be made. It's a simple fact waiting to be noticed. And it doesn't take long to notice it.

awgiedawgie

2024-09-06 02:43:54 +0000 UTC

Thank goodness I’m not the only one who saw it that way… I thought maybe I’d been vegan too long. 😂

Melissa Wilson

2024-09-06 02:16:40 +0000 UTC

Cosmo has literally just met Roko for the first time, and has already decided she's awesome.

Shaodyn

2024-09-06 02:00:21 +0000 UTC

That's not an anteater, that's a borzoi hound. Anteaters are even pointier than Cosmo.

Opus the Poet

2024-09-06 01:46:48 +0000 UTC

She's upset with us, or they're upset with us.

Opus the Poet

2024-09-06 01:39:10 +0000 UTC

It's definitely because the front is brighter than the rest of the hair, which doesn't have gray streaks.

Gamera

2024-09-06 00:37:28 +0000 UTC

Maybe she did install smartbulbs with her milf money.

Gamera

2024-09-06 00:36:11 +0000 UTC

"snoof"

Lucas Werkmeister

2024-09-06 00:30:21 +0000 UTC

'swhat you get for waiting on a notification and not obsessively refreshing the app 😉

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-09-06 00:19:48 +0000 UTC

I can’t deny Aurelia is hot, and her chemistry with Yay is weirdly amazing.

Andrea Andrew

2024-09-06 00:00:30 +0000 UTC

Who is the other girl friend? There's Roko, Aurelia is more of a mom than a girlfriend, and? Melon?

Opus the Poet

2024-09-05 23:59:18 +0000 UTC

COSMO!!! ♥️♥️♥️

Andrew Mitchell

2024-09-05 23:22:05 +0000 UTC

She’s always had the gray streaks but I think she’s also highlighting it now -they’re a different shade of red.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-05 21:07:09 +0000 UTC

“Blep”

William Stark

2024-09-05 21:05:23 +0000 UTC

Aurelia has Cosmo. No way Yay didn't bring Roku over for that.

Seth Swanson

2024-09-05 19:28:27 +0000 UTC

“God did not send us a sign! That must mean He’s upset with us!”

Comics Ladybird

2024-09-05 19:00:31 +0000 UTC

Ran very very fast.

Stephen Wells

2024-09-05 16:52:34 +0000 UTC

Your lights aren't smartlights, Aurelia. Plain old lightbulbs are immune to cybershenanigans. or at least thats what I'm telling myself, because the alternative is so much more ominous.

Tim

2024-09-05 14:03:29 +0000 UTC

mmmm bacon hair

Jennifer Pylko

2024-09-05 13:07:40 +0000 UTC

Same. Desktop/website, not app, flipped order (with load more at the top instead of the bottom, too), comments reversed, and also the threaded replies are no longer partially expanded (showing first two) as they were yesterday. Here's betting that they didn't plan all of these changes, and in the scramble to handle unexpected changes in behavior, the missing notifications (which would be the absolute hardest thing to test outside production) were overlooked. All that said, I mostly like this state better (not the missing notifies, but everything else :thumbsup:).

Amelia Lewis

2024-09-05 13:06:55 +0000 UTC

I'm pretty sure Jeph started adding those because she looked too much like Claire and people kept getting confused.

BookBeard

2024-09-05 12:39:23 +0000 UTC

Meh, there doesn't need to be anything like smart lighting. Yay could just vary the power going to the whole block (or the whole town).

David Durant

2024-09-05 12:30:40 +0000 UTC

But dogs don’t know it’s bacon!

Miyaa

2024-09-05 12:20:09 +0000 UTC

It just flipped order for me too, Minzoku.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-05 10:59:58 +0000 UTC

Good head-canon.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-05 10:58:22 +0000 UTC

Same as well. No notification, and reverse order on comments.

David Paul

2024-09-05 09:46:11 +0000 UTC

Same here

djellafine

2024-09-05 09:15:08 +0000 UTC

Yeah, smart lighting is what I was thinking, I mean this is a universe with pretty advanced tech

djellafine

2024-09-05 09:12:13 +0000 UTC

I also thought of bacon

djellafine

2024-09-05 09:08:14 +0000 UTC

I've just realised that this is the first time that Roko and Aurelia have interacted (right?). Or maybe it's just the first time we've seen. Because Aurelia doesn't seem surprised to see Roko, and it's almost like they're picking up where they left off previously. I bet they have a group chat or have exchanged messages, if not met up for drinks and Yay-gossip :D

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 08:53:25 +0000 UTC

I find it hard to imagine Yay thinking: "I could show them that I'm here. But the refrigerators..." It just doesn't feel in-character as a train of logic 😅

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 08:50:43 +0000 UTC

💯💯💯

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 08:49:03 +0000 UTC

My money's on Yay being at home, watching Real Genius again for the 396th time.

PostRetroism

2024-09-05 08:48:49 +0000 UTC

It does look like bacon xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 08:48:38 +0000 UTC

Aurelia is more sensible than many of the cast. But her hair is rasher.

Stephen Wells

2024-09-05 08:34:55 +0000 UTC

Disconnected Yay-we-know comes sheepishly home to Roko and they can get married at last :)

Stephen Wells

2024-09-05 08:34:37 +0000 UTC

The point of the exercise (from Cosmo's point of view) is that Roko smells like Cosmo now :)

Stephen Wells

2024-09-05 08:33:16 +0000 UTC

Oh, is it supposed to be grey? It looked like bacon to me, which I appreciate wouldn't make any sense at all.

Constanze Carstanjen

2024-09-05 08:11:11 +0000 UTC

Also no notifications from Patreon, either here on the website or in my email.

Chris Vermeers

2024-09-05 08:03:22 +0000 UTC

Next we go to Hanners, for her reaction on Yay being missing.

PostRetroism

2024-09-05 07:53:28 +0000 UTC

Right, and I don't know if an independent Yay node could rejoin the collective, whether they'd want to, or if disconnecting is even possible. Even if they end up in a similar situation, the details and their feelings about it are likely to be different.

BaronHaynes

2024-09-05 07:29:04 +0000 UTC

I buy it :D

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 07:06:23 +0000 UTC

But I think that Moray could be reabsorbed into the Director if she chose. She hasn't been cut off. She's just choosing to remain external.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 07:05:57 +0000 UTC

Nah, they're streaks of grey. I think Jeph has started emphasising them more since Aurelia was first introduced. (Maybe some Milkmaids drama caused it xD)

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 07:04:20 +0000 UTC

It didn't show up in mine, either. No Cosmo kisses for Patreon

Joseph Bonnar

2024-09-05 07:02:28 +0000 UTC

Has Aurelia had highlights done to her hair? Is that the word?

Thisguy

2024-09-05 06:49:37 +0000 UTC

I’ve been waiting for this for hours! Why didn’t it come up in my notifications?

Thisguy

2024-09-05 06:48:33 +0000 UTC

Yes, this week is ending very differently from what I expected :(

Stephen Wells

2024-09-05 06:29:23 +0000 UTC

Same

Ste Saunders

2024-09-05 06:21:55 +0000 UTC

She could have smart lighting installed, my lights are all connected to my network in my home.

Ste Saunders

2024-09-05 06:20:59 +0000 UTC

BACON HAIR

JourneymanWizard

2024-09-05 06:11:35 +0000 UTC

A possibility I thought of when Yay and Roko had that conversation about what they'd do if they were discovered: The shared consciousness scrubs all identifying features, goes dark, and the node that's been interacting with the cast separates from the whole. Like an octopus severing a tentacle to escape, but in this case the tentacle operates independently forever. It'd be wild if coming into contact with Moray led to them becoming a mirror image of her.

BaronHaynes

2024-09-05 06:06:57 +0000 UTC

@Todd Like this would surprise you.

R L

2024-09-05 06:02:05 +0000 UTC

I’m very upset!

Kara

2024-09-05 05:48:33 +0000 UTC

Yay doesn’t need to cut the power to the house, they could just target the energy flow to specific bulbs to message!

Kara

2024-09-05 05:46:54 +0000 UTC

Jeph this is really stressing me out can you please give us a ‘proof of life’ for Yay soon??

Kara

2024-09-05 05:45:51 +0000 UTC

Ceiling Yay is watching you masturbate?

Todd Ellner

2024-09-05 05:24:44 +0000 UTC

I certainly agree, if it was just the lights. There is still a fair number of things that do poorly with sudden power loss, especially when the power quickly returns. Refrigerators are particularly bad with flickering power.

Jared Kolbly

2024-09-05 05:18:34 +0000 UTC

I'm thinking she called in a favor from Officer O'Malley and got a high-speed ride across town, complete with sirens.

BookBeard

2024-09-05 05:10:21 +0000 UTC

My guess is that Yay had a predefined protocol for an "oh shit we've been detected" event. And like most protocols it hasn't been updated since it was written & approved

Uniquitous

2024-09-05 05:08:17 +0000 UTC

The fifth panel pans up slightly and Yay is just clinging to the light fixture. "Well... this is embarrassing..."

BookBeard

2024-09-05 05:07:58 +0000 UTC

I'm beginning to realize the gravity of the situation. Which means it must be very grave indeed.

Uniquitous

2024-09-05 05:05:53 +0000 UTC

We need to know how Roko got to Aurelia's! Did she take an Uber (/QC in-universe equivalent), or did she take the Crushbot/Bubbles express?

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 04:51:12 +0000 UTC

Yeah, pretty much all of us had our money on Aurelia's... And if they aren't even eavesdropping, that suggests they're not just at another familiar location like Elliot's. Is Yay sulking/hiding, or are they somewhere very distant?

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 04:49:26 +0000 UTC

The (Android) app has been notifying me fine all week, except for today

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 04:46:31 +0000 UTC

Goddamn it I knew it wasn't gonna be that easy

Green

2024-09-05 04:44:42 +0000 UTC

Damn. Forgot it was Thursday and thus Cliffhanger Day 🙈

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-05 04:42:03 +0000 UTC

because there's no way Yay could literally cut the power to her home just to prove a point

Blake Manor

2024-09-05 04:40:54 +0000 UTC

Oh as if that would stop Yay...

Nicolas Demers

2024-09-05 04:38:29 +0000 UTC

OH NO

Onyx

2024-09-05 04:36:29 +0000 UTC

Your lights aren't connected to any network, Aurelia, that is a closed mechanical system that they cannot affect wirelessly.

Aeryn Monet

2024-09-05 04:06:28 +0000 UTC

And is also entirely fictional.

Matthew Van Gangelen

2024-09-05 04:05:58 +0000 UTC

weren't literally just yesterday granted, I ONLY use the desktop site, idk about apps

Minzoku Bokumetsu

2024-09-05 04:04:20 +0000 UTC

Same

Matthew Van Gangelen

2024-09-05 04:01:49 +0000 UTC

This damn walkable town.

Miyaa

2024-09-05 03:53:33 +0000 UTC

Well now I’m a little concerned for Yay if Mom Vibes isn’t what they went for immediately.

Hawkeye

2024-09-05 03:51:31 +0000 UTC

they've got a quicker licker.

Sleepy John

2024-09-05 03:41:04 +0000 UTC

You remember correctly, that was a few comics earlier before she found out Cosmo was female. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3878

BookBeard

2024-09-05 03:14:15 +0000 UTC

Or Roko smells like bread now.

Miyaa

2024-09-05 03:11:44 +0000 UTC

...I thought Yay was literally being the ceiling. Is that bad?

R L

2024-09-05 03:11:40 +0000 UTC

It's probably the lingering smell of fresh bread.

BookBeard

2024-09-05 03:11:20 +0000 UTC

No doubt in my mind, Yay would absolutely flicker the lights of an entire neighborhood just to show that they could.

BookBeard

2024-09-05 03:07:22 +0000 UTC

Cosmo likes the smell of facial myomers.

Sleepy John

2024-09-05 03:06:27 +0000 UTC

That's what I get for relying on my obvious faulty memory. I could have sworn she said at one point "The universe has blessed me with a good boy!"

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-09-05 03:02:59 +0000 UTC

They have been like that for a while now, a couple of weeks I want to say.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-09-05 03:00:31 +0000 UTC

Or it's the Elliot-Cosmo hybrid that lives in Clinton's brain. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4543

BookBeard

2024-09-05 02:53:35 +0000 UTC

Patreon fucking everything up AGAIN look at these comments, they're REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL

Minzoku Bokumetsu

2024-09-05 02:49:06 +0000 UTC

That anteater must have found some tasty ants on her face.

Timothy Roller

2024-09-05 02:44:42 +0000 UTC

An aside: Patreon didn't notify me of this comic. No email, nothing in my notifications. (I've learned to look in from time to time,which is how I found it.) BAD PATREON! No Cosmo kisses for YOU!

Joseph Bonnar

2024-09-05 02:44:38 +0000 UTC

I truly believe that Yay would not want their personal crisis to get in the way of Cosmo getting pets and snuggles.

BookBeard

2024-09-05 02:41:13 +0000 UTC

I mean... probably yes, once Marten tells her about it.

BookBeard

2024-09-05 02:38:45 +0000 UTC

She, actually. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3881

BookBeard

2024-09-05 02:32:45 +0000 UTC

"Did you forget your keys?" It's fine, she doesn't really need them anyway. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4673

BookBeard

2024-09-05 02:31:22 +0000 UTC

I mean, that sounds like exactly the kind of "cute poltergeisty shit" they would do under normal circumstances, so I agree with Roko that this is a bad sign.

William Cole

2024-09-05 02:03:44 +0000 UTC

Same.

William Cole

2024-09-05 02:00:41 +0000 UTC

I can imagine Aurelia not having smart lights, and Yay not wanting to (but able to) cause consequent black outs to convey a relatively low importance message.

Jared Kolbly

2024-09-05 02:00:17 +0000 UTC

When I first looked at this strip I thought "Is this giving Claire gray hair?"

Yelling Bird

2024-09-05 01:51:48 +0000 UTC

It doesn't matter what else is going on you greet the dog properly when you come in the house 😤

Fart Captor

2024-09-05 01:46:24 +0000 UTC

Totally rooting for a Joyce Dorothy ANYTHING!

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-09-05 01:37:27 +0000 UTC

Did you forget your keys?

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-09-05 01:35:56 +0000 UTC

Cosmo just can't hold their licker

Eric Sieck

2024-09-05 01:35:18 +0000 UTC

Damn right Cosmo is helping! He is doing was dogs do best, providing comfort and kisses!

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-09-05 01:32:00 +0000 UTC

Yay will hunker in the bunker

Todd Ellner

2024-09-05 01:29:32 +0000 UTC

>"cute" poltergeisty stuff Oh, Roko...

KiTA

2024-09-05 01:26:48 +0000 UTC

Now I’ll be spending two days worried about Yay, an AI that can apparently do all of the things and truly doesn’t need me to worry about them…

Darren Franzen

2024-09-05 01:25:11 +0000 UTC

SLRRRRP. Wait, that's Faye attitudinally drinking her latte. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5178

ValdVin

2024-09-05 01:20:32 +0000 UTC

Where did Yay go? Will their two girlfriends find them and fall in love in the process thus creating a polycule Joyce is looking for (besides her own with Joe and Dorothy)?

Andrea Andrew

2024-09-05 01:18:19 +0000 UTC

Now I want Cosmo kisses!

Doc Gumby

2024-09-05 01:13:06 +0000 UTC

A Trick Of The Light

Comments

Apparently Patreon messed up. None of us got notified.

Shoot, sorry guys, I thought I’d remembered this from my viewing of “The Gods Must Be Lazy”, but now I’m not so sure.

Speaking of foreshadowing, right after Marten first met Claire, Emily, and the other intern Gabby: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2217

HELPING

I somehow missed this comic. HOW DID I MISS THIS COMIC! Did Windows update or something?

...Aurelia's hair is making me want bacon.

Messing with the town's power would be very much anathema to their aim of staying off the radar. That's not to say they wouldn't normally have the hubris to do it anyway, but the past hour(?) has changed that.

So it wasn't just me! I wondered how I'd missed this one!

They are not necessarily immune to Yay. Yay is capable of manipulating EM fields to the extent that they can put even humans in stasis with just a thought.

Maybe not always, but at least last time we saw her, yes. Jeph may have ham-ped up the porcinity since then, though.

love this, its getting tense and kind of scary and pulling me in

Strip 3407 suggests that Yay might be a metaphorical giant squid lurking in deep waters. By strip 4943, the Director appears--as a literal giant squid lurking in deep waters.

There's also Sven's cat, Princess. She hasn't shown up in quite a while though. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=877

Also side note... went down a rabbit hole of old strips starting with furst time claire appeared and the amount of foreshadowing is astounding. Strip 2262 especially 🤣

Has her hair always looked like bacon?

*slaps table* THANK you push button, receive bacon

Hercules and Mieville (I think) are the QC cats I can think of.

Sitting here at 830 on Friday wishing it was Saturday…

I doubt even her new and improved body could survive that flight. Well, the flight wouldn't be so bad, but the landing would be an issue.

i just realized there is a significant absence of cat in QC might need to pull a Yay to process this

Poor Yay :(

The sentient smartbulbs online book club calls themselves "the illuminati".

Agreed. I had to go to Subway and order a BMT with bacon after reading this.

The big question remain! Did Crushbot *catapult* Roko, or not! That was Rapid Transit, after all!

Weekend cliffhanger...

Or, is it just….. A Trick Of The Light.

It feels to me like it is Monty Pythonesque…? But I could be wrong.

Yeah, nah. Under normal circumstances, Yay totally would (albeit unintentionally) cause an awful lot of food to go bad as some kind of trick. And then have Roko yell at them about it. And then have Melon try to "fix" it somehow. And then have Roko yell at them both.

I feel like Comics Ladybird is quoting something, but damned if I know what...

Well that's all right by me...

Robobulbs. Very bored. Or maybe just spending a lot of time reading (online copies of) _Les Miserables_ and such, and hanging with their online book club.

Poltergeistery. At last, someone actually wants some.

Not to worry. They're just having an extended, calming interaction with Azathoth and Mr. Smooches. I think.

*Decided* she's awesome? You make it sound like someone could decide that she's *not*. It's not a decision waiting to be made. It's a simple fact waiting to be noticed. And it doesn't take long to notice it.

Thank goodness I’m not the only one who saw it that way… I thought maybe I’d been vegan too long. 😂

Cosmo has literally just met Roko for the first time, and has already decided she's awesome.

That's not an anteater, that's a borzoi hound. Anteaters are even pointier than Cosmo.

She's upset with us, or they're upset with us.

It's definitely because the front is brighter than the rest of the hair, which doesn't have gray streaks.

Maybe she did install smartbulbs with her milf money.

"snoof"

'swhat you get for waiting on a notification and not obsessively refreshing the app 😉

I can’t deny Aurelia is hot, and her chemistry with Yay is weirdly amazing.

Who is the other girl friend? There's Roko, Aurelia is more of a mom than a girlfriend, and? Melon?

COSMO!!! ♥️♥️♥️

She’s always had the gray streaks but I think she’s also highlighting it now -they’re a different shade of red.

“Blep”

Aurelia has Cosmo. No way Yay didn't bring Roku over for that.

“God did not send us a sign! That must mean He’s upset with us!”

Ran very very fast.

Your lights aren't smartlights, Aurelia. Plain old lightbulbs are immune to cybershenanigans. or at least thats what I'm telling myself, because the alternative is so much more ominous.

mmmm bacon hair

I'm pretty sure Jeph started adding those because she looked too much like Claire and people kept getting confused.

Meh, there doesn't need to be anything like smart lighting. Yay could just vary the power going to the whole block (or the whole town).

But dogs don’t know it’s bacon!

It just flipped order for me too, Minzoku.

Good head-canon.

Same as well. No notification, and reverse order on comments.

Same here

Yeah, smart lighting is what I was thinking, I mean this is a universe with pretty advanced tech

I also thought of bacon

I find it hard to imagine Yay thinking: "I could show them that I'm here. But the refrigerators..." It just doesn't feel in-character as a train of logic 😅

💯💯💯

My money's on Yay being at home, watching Real Genius again for the 396th time.

It does look like bacon xD

Aurelia is more sensible than many of the cast. But her hair is rasher.

Disconnected Yay-we-know comes sheepishly home to Roko and they can get married at last :)

The point of the exercise (from Cosmo's point of view) is that Roko smells like Cosmo now :)

Oh, is it supposed to be grey? It looked like bacon to me, which I appreciate wouldn't make any sense at all.

Also no notifications from Patreon, either here on the website or in my email.

Next we go to Hanners, for her reaction on Yay being missing.

Right, and I don't know if an independent Yay node could rejoin the collective, whether they'd want to, or if disconnecting is even possible. Even if they end up in a similar situation, the details and their feelings about it are likely to be different.

I buy it :D

But I think that Moray *could* be reabsorbed into the Director if she chose. She hasn't been cut off. She's just choosing to remain external.

Nah, they're streaks of grey. I think Jeph has started emphasising them more since Aurelia was first introduced. (Maybe some Milkmaids drama caused it xD)

It didn't show up in mine, either. No Cosmo kisses for Patreon

Has Aurelia had highlights done to her hair? Is that the word?

I’ve been waiting for this for hours! Why didn’t it come up in my notifications?

slaps table THANK you push button, receive bacon

The big question remain! Did Crushbot catapult Roko, or not! That was Rapid Transit, after all!

Decided she's awesome? You make it sound like someone could decide that she's not. It's not a decision waiting to be made. It's a simple fact waiting to be noticed. And it doesn't take long to notice it.

But I think that Moray could be reabsorbed into the Director if she chose. She hasn't been cut off. She's just choosing to remain external.

I mean, that sounds like exactly the kind of "cute poltergeisty shit" they would do under normal circumstances, so I agree with Roko that this is a bad sign.