She's On It

Yeah here's me Googling 'dakimakura' with safe search off... oh dear

Also a Clinton's Mom Milkmaid avatar dakimakura

You’re the target market for the dakimakura slip covers then!

or other way 'round...

Lightsabr2

@David Wallace - minor corrections: Momo was a small chibi doll; Winston (Hannelore's companion) was the iPod-ish device. The former convict is May, who recently was crowdfunded a much better body.

Am Queue

Momo versions of both the pillow and suit.

Steve H

I'd buy a dakimakura

Tunacans

That's kinda the point of Roko's (officer turned social worker) ongoing story. AI rights are still in a very developmental stage of "AI needs to exist of hardware, but hardware is owned/provided by humans", with AI having property rights, but a lot of them living on borrowed/gifted/loaned bodies with sticky parasocial issues attached.

Michael Whitehead

That’s why I was really glad when, besides being shown as having married Maliki ( of maliki.com ), I learned that Becky was CEO of their legal structure.

Comics Ladybird

If there is a retcon I understand it all. The current state of AIs doesn't make sense when you look at PC Pintsize and iPod Momo. Plus the way momo had to be gifted a body also makes things confusing. At best they are like pets because they don't have incomes and are dependent on their human companion. What happens if their human dies? It is clear that AI rights are not fully funded given the body situation for the convict whose name I forgot.

How much is Ms Augustus making?

Lucy

This explains a lot. And hey, good news, Momo's all paid up on the new body since she helped you found an entire goddamn business empire.

Kyle Rudy

Sounds like she should also be paying Dale for tech stuff, and Hanners for business consulting.

George Bias

In addition to what Button says if I recall correctly the whole “AI rights/evolution” did have a somewhat definitive starting point in the comic a number of years ago (sometime around meeting Winston I think) but that may have been retconned

SheepFace2000

That certainly used to be the case but I think she's got at least a bit better since she got together with Dale

David Durant

Hannelore: A manager should probably get ten to fifteen percent... Momo: Ten. Marigold: Fifteen. Hannelore: You deserve each other. (ascends into space in exasperation).

Stephen Wells

The hole would be where her leg popped out

Da Nargh!!

The fact that a lot of those "business manager" are spouse and mother, who aren't paid, cannot do a regular jobs simultaneously because of the time it take, and have no right of a compensation in case of divorce, not legal protection and other is a subject that make feminist of my country kind-of touchy. There is a real pattern of the women doing the manager jobs and supporting the family with a no-benefit jobs ( because not enough time to a regular jobs with the business-manager-job) while the business is starting, to be ditch once the business start to be rentable.

Sarah Buisson

Well, we always knew that Hannelore was smart, but she proved it again.

Ian McDowall

Even Gordon? :-) https://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/Gordon

Mark

I think that this is the first time in a long time that we've been reminded that Momo is pretty much responsible for holding Marigold's life together and ensuring that she has something approaching good health.

Ben Russell-Gough

Jeph has discussed this before. AIs are not purchased, it is a companionship contract that can be cancelled by either party at any time. AI bodies can be purchased, but I don't recall indications they can be repossessed, which probably means they can't be bought with secured credit deals.

Captain Button

I think legally it's closer to an adoption or other form of guardianship, but the actual terminology used in their case is companion.

Hakurei06

Momo presents a conundrum. If AI have sentience then why do people like Momo and Pint-size exist as they are clearly possessions that were purchased in a store. Seems like something messy stemming from the changes this comic has made since it's beginning.

:O

A dakimakura of May in her old body could be cutely hilarious.

Alan

Promotion!

Bagge

Pay your friends when they do work for you

Carin Maja Brooks

Huh. I had first heard of dakimakura as "Dutch wives"

Todd Ellner

I'm assuming like those blue light filtering lenses for glasses maybe?

What the heck is a computer lens?

Wait, have May and Momo been doing their hair the same?

Michael Boettger

Gods yes please

Looking forward to this conversation. It needed to happen.

Thomas Halpin

I need a Momo.

...I'd buy one

Redd Slym

Is Momo still paying off her new body?

Elf Sternberg

High School Sucked is a really funny one!!!

Julienne Ignace

yeah she should definitely be paying her.

Ashley Thomas

You turn it over and instead of the traditional booty shot, she's fully armored and staring at you judgmentally.

Reyn Goldfur

Sigh. I actually had to search for a translation of "dakimakura", only to realize I already had a really good plain one. Purchased after some surgery that kept me from sleeping on my back for a couple weeks. Worked like magic.

BobC

Has Momo’s chassis been paid off yet? That’d be a good place to start.

Kristopher Killam

I think she means the people making the dakimakura and kigurumi.

Rob Vary

I know what "Kickstarter" means... that's about it.

Hugh Eckert

Dale uses they/ them now? Does Dale not have any biney? Epic. Though maybe there's just a larger team working on the Kickstarter?

Eliza-Azalea, Maid of Heart

SHE CAN MANAGE MY BUSINESS!

Yelling Bird

Polyester doesn't breathe

at0m

Hanners rolled really high on perception, possibly too high given her OCD and anxiety

Grace Kieser

I am super happy for Marigold but this storyline has taught me that there is an entire world around video game streamers that I know absolutely nothing about. I don't know what anything in Momo's 3rd paragraph means. 😆

Mandy Hoskins

gonna need that dakimakura art...

runrin

"Marigold Dakimakura" I'll take ten

orangejuicenut

Dakimakuras are inherently cursed. We all know why. Please no 🤣

Morgan Byrd

I would love a life size dakimakura of Bubbles!!

Shawn K. Younkin

I would buy any of your characters as body pillows please thank you.

Andy

I secretly hope either Marigold is on the Same Brains podcast so iJustine & Jenna can talk about girly high tech things with her or it’s the off menu podcast so she goes into detail about all the ramen she has eaten in space. And then Ed goes “wait, you’ve been in space?!” I really need to expand my podcast library.

Miyaa

Just, please, make the kigurumi out of cotton.

KCkittysnores

I’d by it

i would buy the shit out of qc dakimakuras

Dave, Duke of Fridges

Because managers make 15%.

KCkittysnores

/me changes his resumé so his current job title is “business manager.”

Miyaa

Dakimakura w/ Marigold on one side being submissive, and BurgerOni on the other being all dominant!

Shawn K. Younkin

Came to ask the same thing. That would be rad

Freedom

Does Dale use they/them pronouns? Momo says that.

Rebecca

Honestly, every main cast character. There are several I would absolutely switch out a pillowcase for.

Anthony Gaglianese

TIL I could totally be a business manager

KellyZ

Jeph!

Wynn Donivan

As someone who has been the business manager friend... Thank you. We deserve pay 🤣😭

Erin Moriarty

And while you’re at it, hire May as your security guard!

Miyaa

So, now we know why Evil!Hanners had to release the virus. It's to stop the Evil!Momo's business empire from totally taking over the world.

Evgeniy Semyonov

Marigold dakimakura? You definitely should make that!

drone r0m-3

Oh man, I love when Momo is confident and badass. This is gonna be great.

Lana Del Prey

Momo's gonna rake in decent money

And I like Momo's new look.

Michael Boettger

Momo, doing what needs to be done since 2008

William Davy

I concur.

EnterTheHero

> marigold daki Jeph.

R L

Good for you Hanners, for pointing out that very cogent fact!

Michael Boettger

A marigold daki would sell like hotcakes

at0m