Bittersweet Candy Bowl
“First-Degree Burn.”
Chapter 125, page 1 of 18. Posted 5/16/25.
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Confronting Alejandro
April 14, 2025
In “All or Nothing”, the events of young Augustus and Melanie (most memorably told in chapter 86, Trapped go rather differently… with quite a bit more blood.
It’s a member-only comic with a content warning for violence! Melanie wants to find a way out, but will she? Can she?
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— Veronica and Oliver
Author commentary
Veronica: Hey, pals! Welcome to a new chapter! We noticed a trend with naming conventions (Third, Second) and just HAD to keep up the trend.. I promise this was not originally done on purpose, I swear!
Anyway, what is this Satoshi Kon!?!??!? Klonoa???? More dreams?!??!? Anyway uhh let’s try to have a fun time :)
.. but maybe not a fun time right now. In SADDER NEWS (Sadder than Lucy’s traumadreams??) For those of you who have kept up with my diary comics, you might have gotten to grow up with stories about Mia the cat! Mia was a cat we adopted in 2009 in Sydney, and loved her so much that I dragged her all the way to the US when we moved to New York. Mia has stuck by us all through these years, making it to the age of 16.
She was hit with some debilitating old cat illnesses these last few years: inflammatory bowel disease and diabetes primarily. Apparently the medications clashed with each other, her body was a battle field! She was given a two-year life expectancy when she was diagnosed with IBD, and lived past three. But there was no avoiding the end. She stopped being able to digest her food and lost a lot of weight.
After making the decision last week, we said our goodbyes and she was put to sleep on Thursday. I just want any Mia-lovers to know about it. I murmured a lot about it on my bluesky, and made some comics about it there, but I should talk about it here too.
Thank you to everyone who made running jokes out of Mia and thought about Mia and loved Mia the same way we did. She is a cat that has passed on without the knowledge an entire little group of the internet loved her, and I think that’s a pretty cool way to get some immortality. Thank you to those sending well-wishes. We will be okay.
We really can’t thank patrons enough for helping us manage all this. We spent an exorbitant amount on vet and medication bills these last few years. It was through your support for my comic and the continuation of BCB that Mia was given all the treatment she needed to live as comfortably as she could. We never had to resort to a gofundme, even when hit with thousands of dollars of vet bills. It was made possible by you, so I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You all had Mia’s back and I’m eternally grateful for your support.
BCB is gonna start getting into some heavy territory soon! I hope you’ll join us to see these cats fight their biggest battles, right ’til the end. Thank you.