#bcb daisy

[magicalbunart]

getting back into drawing with the bittersweet candy bowl girls

[merlinityart]

✨BCB leading ladies ✨

[catzpachos]

This panel has been bothering me ever since the page was posted. I realize that Daisy and Lucy have never really been the closest of friends and that Daisy has always favored Mike. But it just rubs me wrong that she says “They’ve both been nasty to each other” like it was equal treatment.

Mikes treatment of Lucy was so much more malicious, and I don’t say that because it cause Lucy’s attempt. I say this because where Lucy roughhoused and had an attitude with Mike, Mike went out of his way to use Lucy’s insecurities against her as well as gaslight her. The things he has said to her and about her are simply so much worse to me. Without going off on a tangent, I specifically despise the fact that Mike knows she hates the fact that she thinks all men want from her is her body, and that his go to accusations of her is that she throws herself at guys and just tries to make him jealous by doing so. And that he of ends up using that to his advantage in a worse way by using her as a rebound for Sandy and then throws her to the side.

Daisy more than most has either been there for some of the worst things he’s said about Lucy, and knows about December annnnd Eternal Flame! I guess I would just expect her to be a little more sympathetic to Lucy, even if she sides more with Mike. My conclusion is that I don’t think Daisy is a girls girl!

As much as I would love for everyone to completely ditch Mike, I don’t actually want that to happen. So it’s good that Mike has Daisy in his corner, but it feels like a stretch to me to say Mike and Lucy’s treatment of each other is comparable.

[eesbegovic]

have i mentioned i love paisy yet

One reason it's my favorite ship is that Paulo & Daisy make each other better.

[As many have pointed out, the implication of Paulo's embarrassment at the end of that page is that the "good influence" isn't Mike at all, it's Daisy, and he doesn't want Abbey to know.]

Contrast this dynamic with Mucy.

Mike and Lucy make each other worse.

Mike struggles with a victim mentality and an inability to effectively advocate for his needs; Lucy is brash and "high maintenance" in ways that amplify his weaknesses.

Lucy, meanwhile... where do I even begin?

Given her fast friendship with Augustus in her sophomore year, I'd argue she thrives in relationships that are actually kind of vicious, in a performative tsundere "I only called you pathetic and worthless or either Abbey or a rapist because I love you" way. And that's fine! That's not a character flaw. I'd argue her friendship with Paulo was built on a variation of this dynamic. (If a weird unhealthy variation.)

But this isn't a dynamic Mike likes. When she tried to spin it with him, half the time it devolved into her mistreating her best friend.

I concede that it wasn't always this way. When they were kids, Lucy desperately needed someone who wouldn't reject or want to change her for being a girl with masculine interests, or try to shove her into boxes like "girl with feminine interests" or "boy with masculine interests." Mike was the only person in her life who accepted her tomboyish nature at face value.

But that was a long time ago.

Nowadays she has Paulo and Sue and Daisy and Amaya and David and Abbey and even James.

At a time when Mike and Lucy each harbor doubts that no one can love them without wanting them, doubts that the other embodies far too perfectly.

Mike and Lucy make each other worse.

[kazooiesart]

had to draw em once before the chapter ends

[peteytheparrot]

Artfight attack for Taeshi

BITTERSWEET CANDY BOWL MY BELOVED…. anyway

[mikesweeddealer]

Page something

[junegloomart]

made some fun human designs for the @bittersweetcandybowl main 4!