The end of chapter 14! I’m so glad we got to spend more time with Eris and get the backstory on her and Alex. It’s been a long, many-hinted time coming.
I’ll need a few weeks’ break before the next chapter is ready to go up – I got super burned out these past few months, after getting COVID and traveling so much for work, the slump was really long this time. I’m making forward motion on the next chapter, but as we get closer to the end (three more chapters!) it’s all much higher stakes… which is terrifying! And so I want to make sure the scripts are 100% perfect and we get all these tasty details wrapped up.
But, Motherlover will return in ‘a few’ weeks, and thank you for your patience! If you like the comic and want it delivered to you as SOON as it’s ready without needing to check back, consider dropping just a dollar a month on my Patreon so you’re one of the first people to read it.
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TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1 (Eris, looking fond/indulgent)
Eris: …you haven’t been a lesbian for very long, have you?
Panel 2 (Imogen protesting)
Imogen: Wh-what? I’m not…
Panels 3-4 (soft focus owo romantic Imogen looking at Alex in a flashback and catching her eye hey look this comic is gay)
Panel 5 (big Imogen, big realization)
Eris, off-panel: Welcome to the club of people hopelessly in love with Alex. It’s not much, but we have each other.
Big Imogen realization moments™
Welcome to the club, it’s a big club ✨
Big fan of lesbians looking indulgently at me >/////>
Oh man, the next three chapters are gonna be GOOD
I am a longtime reader and I just hfjgggfggg THANK YOU FOR THIS MEAL
I also wanted to say this for a long time but, thank you for showing us Lulu and her story. I’m a trans guy, and that chapter has remained one of my favourites because of how well you portrayed the sheer fear of coming out to your family and how good it feels to have them in your corner. So thank you so much.
She could also be bi or pan.
They aren’t mutually exclusive
I was actually sorta afraid that Eris was gonna tell Imogen that Alex is in love with her and that Imogen might wonder if the only reason Eris was so generous and let her live in her place was in some vague hope that they’d get together. Glad instead it was Imogen getting called a lesbian instead hehe.
Anyway, a little sad to hear this comic will be ending in just 3 chapters, but I’m still happy to get more of this adorable comic (plus all good things must come to an end at some point). It’ll be nice to see the two moms finally get together and make one big happy queer family. <3
* The only reason ALEX was so generous
This has all been ramping up so wonderfully, Lindsay, thank you so much for how much you are knocking it out of the park!
Only three more chapters?
So they’ll get together on the last page is what I’m hearing. Remember when this was supposed to be romance? When’s that gonna happen?
Sorry this entirely free-to-read comic isn’t exactly to your liking.
It’s written like a free-to-read comic, that’s for sure.
Not all stories are for everyone, leave it to the rest of us and move along 😴
Maybe your definition of romance is different from mine but this is one of the best love stories I’ve ever read and you sound like an absolute sourpuss.
You’re being super rude for no reason. You could just… stop reading the comic instead of insulting the artist. Artists put their heart and soul into their work (I would know since I’m an aspiring artist myself). The least you could do is give them the courtesy of leaving them alone if they stop producing content you like, or maybe give a POLITE critique if they’re okay with that sort of thing. Please be more considerate next time.
Tell me you’re an entitled Karen without telling me you’re an entitled Karen.
It’s three more chapters. THREE CHAPTERS. Not three pages. Like wow. I’m not even sure what else to say. I’m pretty speechless. My three year old behaves better.
Time for you to go to time-out for your bad behavior, young lady.
LMAO I’m here for snarking on the haters. Love to see it.
This is literally the story of them falling in love, what are you talking about??? Most romance-focused stories end when the main couple get together, why would you read a romance-centric story and not expect romance-story cliches?
lol wow, this is like getting a free cake and then Speaking To The Manager™ because there’s not enough frosting
I wish I could downvote here.
Ew, Nadia. It costs you literally nothing to not be a jerk.
3 more chapters!!!! no! i’m not read!!
I know.
That doesn’t give nearly enough time for my “Jonathan’s mistress is secretly a serial killer” theory to sink in. Recovering from being captured and tortured by a mom and child hating psychopath/sociopath is gonna take a long time for Imogen.
That’s not weird is it?
OMGEEEEEEE
*soft focus owo romantic Imogen looking at Alex in a flashback and catching her eye hey look this comic is gay*
STOP STOP I CAN’T BREATHE 😂
But for serious, I did/still do wonder how Imogen will identify after this epiphany. Eris said lesbian, while I thought maybe Imogen would turn out to be multisexual… but then again, perhaps everything with Jonathan was comp-het. Lesbian Imogen then, fingers crossed?? 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Please tell me the are at least a few more ~uh-oh romantic recontextualizing~ flashbacks. That was so cute. Almost like a lightbulb blinked on above her head 💡
C’mon ladies! You can do it, you can get there! I’m rooting for you!
Wait, this ends?! Nooooooo!
And the arrow goes *zing*.
I absolutely Adore–capital-A Adore–that Eris is not being the bitchy ex who has it out for Imogen. It’s in fact exactly the opposite, and it’s making me cry because so many people are actually this but we only ever see the jealous ones.
I know it’s likely not going to happen but in my heart of hearts I kinda want Eris to join them as a thruple……
I mean from a practical point of view all those kids it would help.
From a personal point of view we’ve got Eris-Alex on lock (not sure how Alex feels though) and Isabelle-alex on lock, and I don’t know about you but I felt a non-zero spark/flirting between Isabelle and Eris.
Admittedly I tend to think that adding additional saphic women to anything will make it better so I might have unusual biases.
I don’t think I have it in me, as cool as that would be… I would have had to telegraph that a lot better, and not spring a throuple on a comic that has always been billed as ‘two moms fall in love’ 😀
I do love Eris/Alex/Imogen, though… maybe some kind soul will write the fanfic!!
No I totally get that, if I improve enough in my spicy fanfic writing I will make sure to let you know. Love your art/comics and you were a big part in me discovering things about myself by reading your experience. Thank you so much!
Absolutely love the way you drew this page ! Thank you again for this story
Wow, I can’t believe this is ending in 3 chapters!! I’m gonna miss it, thanks for everything Lindsay!!
Not to split hairs, but Eris, you have no way of knowing she’s exclusively attracted to women even it’s obvious she’s into Alex. I wouldn’t feel confident making a statement like that about someone else’s sensuality, idk. I’m someone who went through comphet and it sucks and I love that a lesbian is shown being committed to a man before realizing she deserves to know herself. But also, I wish she had called herself a lesbian before someone else ascribed that label to her.
Just my thoughts that are probably too tangled in personal experience (and maybe not even relevant, idk) but I love the comic and am enjoying it very much, thanks for making it free to read!
I was thinking that too. Like, I see Imogen as bi or possibly pan and just starting to figure that out about herself. I’ve had friends go through that process and that’s what Imogen’s character arc looks like to me. Obviously I’m not any kind of expert, and I don’t mean to criticize the comic in any way. I’m absolutely loving this story, and I’m a cishet woman. Love is love, and this is such a wholesome and uplifting story!
I get that! But Eris isn’t the source of truth for Imogen’s identity, she’s not a statement from the comic, she’s just a character. She has her own possibly flawed beliefs.
Heh, that’s kind of what I figured. Thanks for the confirmation! I love how these characters are so well-developed.
Totally!
From another angle it could also feel deeply affirming to be seen and recognized by a fellow wlw. This is how I took it, not necessarily how Imogen would.