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Sublimated Desire

🕑 Added 2020-12-10 02:14:38 +0000 UTC

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Brad Knowles

I think it’s meant to be a positive thing, yes.

Sparky

This has feels …

Solomon Garland

Really makes me sad that apparently showing genuine enthusiasm over the design of an AI friend is seen as hurtful. Like I'm sure you guys are right, I have no idea how normal people think, but Brun's enthusiasm seems to me an entirely positive thing.

Jim Feldman

I feel watching the procedure fits in with here fascination with clocks

Aaron Schulz

I hope it works out for them but I feel like Mille-feuille is going to get hurt in the long run and that sucks, i like her.

George Wilson

Brun is the best.

Evgeniy Semyonov

Brun resembles Jeremy Clockson from Pratchett's Thief of Time here. Let's hope she won't get an idea to create perfect clock with Emily.

BobC

What is holding Millefeuille's head up? I see no pillow, and even myomer will fatigue. Can she make her hair rigid? Inquiring minds want to know!

Andrei Safta

It's not really placed in the future per se. It's the present of an alternate reality where an AI singularity happened (in great part thanks to Hanners' dad) and androids are now a thing. And since AI generally turned out to be benevolent. one can assume many fields of science are more advanced than ours thanks to their contribution. Though it's otherwise very much like our world.

Kerin Schiesser

Also Brun has a very good friend who seems to give her good advice in the form of relatively easy to apply rules that help her understand or communicate the empathy that Brun is obviously capable of, without otherwise being able to easily show it or understand when to apply it.

Kerin Schiesser

As this is placed in the future, it makes sense that there would be better counseling and better coping strategies taught, to make people on the autistic spectrum more comfortable with themselves and how to relate to the world without being unhappy with themselves

lazymagpie

I love Millefeuille's blushing in panel 1

Brian Jenkins

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Solomon Garland

I do tbh. She's got a number of realistic and, to me, relatable autistic traits. She seems to understand herself well, and be comfortable with how her brain works and how she lives. It's a nice thing to see.

KCkittysnores

Do those of you on the autism spectrum feel like Brun is a good representation of a person with an autism diagnosis?

Matt Grayson

That last panel suggests that Millie has realized that Brun is just interested in her body...

Sleepy John

AIs don’t get an aesthetic?

Martin Trebuch

and in the first panel ... is she blushing a little ...? ^°^

Chris Driggers

Apparently it kicked her and broke her leg 😬

Scotty

Is Millefeuille getting her femur replaced because she tripped over the invisible emu?

It really seems like Millefeuille understands Brun well enough to know that she can't help herself in the last panel, and well enough to know exactly what it means that Brun is trying so very hard to restrain herself, neither of which would Brun fake. This all feels very genuine. It's a resignation face, not a sad/angry face. She knows what she's signed up for.

Stephen Wells

Brun likes clocks, and now she's found a clock that likes her back.

Stephen Wells

The last time Brun talked about how great clocks are, the gears were drawn in Millefeuille's colour scheme :)

Am Queue

Project clock. Tiftfy.

Bagge

"The way you blush when I say your body is amazing, that's amazing too!"

FeyOne

I really appreciate what is happening in the final panel, and appreciate that Milliefeuille will be sad that Brun wants to look IN her more than talk TO her in that moment.... but I really hope that Milliefeuille also appreciates how hard Brun is trying to do the right thing by her instead of just doing what she wants to. They are both just such great characters.

Auros Harman

AND THEN THEY SMOOCH

Jonathan Marinaro

Also, Mille's face in the first panel is SO CUTE.

Jonathan Marinaro

Ed Marshall

Brun has found the most amazing clock that she can also hold hands with

Andrew Mitchell

Mille's look in the last panel. Not impressed, but resigned.

Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell

Hate to disappoint, but between lubricants, coolants and plenty of tiny mechanical juncturs in which to trap my fingers, robot bodies would still contain plenty of fluids and pain. Not to mention to risks to the synthetic mind if we can't properly deactivate/reactivate the pain receptors for diagnostics

Chris Heg

She is definitely getting a charge out of it

Jennifer Doyle

When someone says you're beautiful on the inside.

Hugh Eckert

Brun has just realized that Millie is (as well as being a cool person who gets her) the cutest and bestest clock ever. And Millie seems to like that.

It is probably a typical shop/garage-style workbench.

Tudza

Yeah, I went to visit my grandma in the hospital and had to watch them use the little over-bed X-ray machine. Grandma's reaction was pretty much that same as here.

Dean Reilly

Is Millefeuille lying on a bench? Did Faye and Bubbles steal a park bench and drag it into the shop to use as an operating table?

Sten Thaning

I bet there is a career change for Brun in the very near future.

C-Cubed

Look at Millefeuille blushing in the 1st panel, looks like she finds Brun's enthusiasm for her mechanics cute. This speaks well for the ship.

Joe

wow. could that be a fetish in this universe??

Annnnd now I need approximately 10,000% more Excited Brun because its the most adorable thing since Marigold.

zerotraveler

I kinda saw this coming with Brun's interest in clocks. If that was done on purpose, masterfully played. If not, congratulations! Lucky you!

Thom Fry

Oh no, I SHIP IT.

They were friends first! They genuinely enjoyed each other's company. The enchantment with Mille's butt and now her inner workings is secondary to that. SHIP SHIP SHIP! Whatever!

erutan

Millefeuille better get a transparent skin or something...

Tim

So adorbs! I especially love it when Millefeuille blushes, which she does a LOT around Brun. I am so shipping Brufeuille.

Duke

Millefeuille, Brun is really just interested in your body.

Michael Boettger

I don't think I've ever seen Brun so excited and engaged before. And this is all for the good

Brooks Moses

She's trying so very hard, too.

Gary Sumners

LOL!

Sleepy John

I think Sam is going to have competition for the job of Shop Gofer.

Simon Green

MILLE YOUR LEG JIGGLES WITH THE BZZZZZZT

Tamara Macadam

oh HONEY god that is an autistic mood

Sleepy John

The next time anyone asks Mille about friendship: Brun gave up looking at the most fascinating things of her LIFE to provide moral support. And the clenched fingers in the last panel prove it.

Erin Moriarty

I love how hard Brun tries to be a great friend ❤️❤️❤️

TV4Fun

I don't know, I think it might be a little like complimenting a woman on how good her boobs look, in that, unless she's had surgery or some such, they're not really something she actually put effort into herself and can feel a bit objectifying. Presumably Millie didn't design her body herself, and the internals aren't something she really thinks a lot about.