Happy Wednesday! Apologies, the auto-post wasn’t set up yet for the new chapter. But it is still Wednesday!
Eagle-eyed visitors to the page may notice an addition to the sidebar on the right – or, rather, a reappearance of a section that hasn’t been around since pre-COVID times: convention appearances! I’ve been accepted to ECCC (Seattle) and VanCAF (Vancouver) this year after a long drought of not doing conventions, and I’d love to see y’all there! Put it on your calendars! Find me! Say hello, after so long! 😀
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TRANSCRIPT
Panels 1+2 (Imogen smiles and continues to apply lipstick)
Phone message: With him moving away, he’s agreed to you having the majority of parenting time, with weekends and holidays with the boys, so there will be some child support as well. But we can go over the details when the office is open. Happy new year!
Panel 3 (Imogen decends the front stairs to where Alex is admitting some party guests)
Everyone: Hey, Imogen!
Panel 4 (Alex looking over her shoulder, holding coats)
Alex: Oh, thank god, can you- whoa, you okay? You have a weird look on your face.
Panel 5 (Imogen, flustered, proud)
Imogen: Yes! Ah, yeah, I just got a call from-
Given that this is set in BC she probably made a killing off the house.
Ohhhh I’m smelling a nye first kiss 😏
Very happy for our Imogen. We’ve seen her go through so much.
Does the lawyer say “the boys” on purpose? Or Jonathan does not recognise Lu as his child?
I love Imogen’s smile in the second panel!
I think it’s more likely that Lu isn’t out publicly to everyone, especially her father.
I don’t normally comment on things that will be answered later, but I don’t want to leave a question about misgendering stand unanswered – that statement about ‘the boys’ only applies to the boys, Jonathan’s bio children. It’ll come up later.
Ohh, got it. For some reason I assumed she might be out to more people. I’m sorry
Pfft, of course he dumped his parenting responsibilities to his stepchild as soon as he could, what a champ. It would be more upsetting except that getting out of her life is the best thing he’s capable of doing for Lu, so.
Ahh okay, that makes sense. Not that Lu is too torn up about it, I am sure.
I think she’ll be a bit sore about this, especially if the relationship between her and her siblings suffers from this. It might! Post-divorce step-parents can be petty like that, turning their children against the other parent and siblings (and this sure feels like it might be Jonathan’s MO, he’s not exactly the best person around).
Thankfully, it’s the Future Lu problem, and we’re probably not gonna see this much detail. It might also not come to the worst, and in the long game the sore feelings might be covered with the appreciation of what she has: loving family, who accepts her unconditionally.
Ehehe, are those happy tears I see? 😊
I think so!