Tastes Like Hatred

Potato Moses

It's a build up to a guy asking his crush on a first date. Not like they're moving in together.

Ursus Ridens

Y'know, Renee's really being a pal here.

Some Ed

I feel like this fits with both characters very well. If Clinton had a more enthusiastic response, I'd feel bad for Brun. But it does seem like this ship is going to happen, it's just not quite like some hoped. I do feel like it's going to be a better ship because of it being well considered. I think it also has more potential to become the polyship that so many want. Next conversation: Clinton: I've thought about it and I do really like you. So, sure. But I have to admit, I still think Brun's hot. Elliot: I have to agree, Brun's pretty hot. But so is her new AI girlfriend. Clinton: Really? Any chance the four of us could get together?

Mark

He'll probably get back to her around 2025 :-)

Mark

Faybles was an extremely slow burn. Jeph's comic comment when they kiss is "FRIGGING ... FINALLY!"

Just Jupiter (Chelsea)

I feel like this has been building for months. I was excited about this ship before COVID.

Men are often accused of being more...visual, when we choose our partners. Gay men will often leap into a relationship quickly, and sometimes it lasts, sometimes it doesn't, speaking from experience. Straight people do it too. The physical attraction (which seems the main piece being explored in this arc, and the ramifications of being attracted to someone of your same sex) is only the first part, it won't sustain a relationship. But given some shared interests, I could easily see this pairing happening in real life.

Did it have to? That's not how it always goes in real life. "I've met this guy four or five times, I think he's hot, and my friends poked me enough about it, so I asked him out." That feels like a very real story, to me.

gatherer818

It probably helped speed things along that one of the participants actually knew he was attracted to the other. And it still felt like it took too long to me; I've been waiting for this for ages.

It's definitely just me, but I didn't really feel like this built up to a relationship between these two, as compared to, say, Faye and Bubbles.

Matthew Reiter

Crankydough is my favorite type of bread, with hangrydough being a close second.

Peter Jensen

Perhaps, but maybe that kind of arrangement would actually work better for an introverted person, because the other people in the relationship have each other when she gets too "peopled out" and needs to recharge. As with everything, it all comes down to the mutual comparability of the people involved. Looking forward to seeing how this all develops in the years to come.

Get out of my head! That was the first thing I thought of as well.

Actually, I'm just curious what Jeph will do with the Brun storyline. Kinda depends on Clinton's thoughts too. Brun and Millefeuille are their own thing and I don't really see Brun as wanting to be involved with a lot of people. She seems more introverted than that.

Roger Judd

Reminds me of a scene from “Shaolin Soccer”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=969D6mIKMYo

GragSmash

You just want one panel with Elliot in bed, arms wrapped around the entire rest of the cast piled on top of him.

Tai was in an unsuccessful poly relationship a while back... maybe its time for a successful one... ElliotxMillie is kinda doable.. and ClintonxMillie seems right... so why not a four-way poly thing?

So, there's still the whole Brun thing... Where's that going to go?

Kevin Symonds

My worry is that Elliot would have so many issues in any relationship with anyone so hope he accespts help from his friends whatever happens. But really I want to know more about May now!

David Howe

Brad would be Sad?

MiaKitty

Sourdough tastes that way because only the strong may consume of it. Very Klingon. *yum*

Bagge

Heartbreak bread would sell like wildfire

Marc Pengryffyn

Now there's a pick-up line - "Come back to my place and feel my pain". It'd work on Roko...

Ba-dum tish!!! (Mais avec un accent français!!!)

Dean Reilly

If Elliott makes baguettes, everyone will be able to taste his pain.

Ace

Elliot seems to be slowly working his way back up to his full bulk (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3438) from the oddly Martenesque frame he seemed to have dwindled to recently. I approve!

Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell

The tears add the salt content I crave in my baked goods

Minzoku Bokumetsu

hopefully not Season 5

Brent

I'm not necessarily shipping them either, but damnit Elliot deserves some happiness so I'm just happy for him that something actually happened, and hope that it keeps happening

Sleepy John

Blunder Bread. Tears down strong bodies twelve ways.

You take your puns and your upvote and get the hell out.

Joseph Bonnar

The only sad coffee mug is a mug that is too small.

Bob Grannan

“For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.”

Bob Grannan

Classic Khalil Gibran.

Chris Driggers

Taste the Sadness. That should be my next coffee mug.

MikeT

I'm sure Roko can be the knead-iator here.....

Thomas A. Dennis

He really needs to get his hands on that dough and work it around good until it's ready to rise. Wait, is that a metaphor for something?

BobC

Tastes like Hatred, Smells like Teen Spirit.

Douglas E. Smith

If emotion is baked into the bread, is that one of the reasons why Roko gets so steamy when she gets bread from Secret Bakery? It does seem to be a hotbed of suppressed lust.

Andrew

They make Pita when Renee is being a PITA :)

Steph W

I hope Elliot's plans don't go a-rye, that would be crumby. If Clinton decides he wants Naan of that, it will be sad but it will get butter in time....

Dylan T

I relate with many of the emotions Eliot displays in this comic

Andrew Mitchell

When I feel like that I do a re-read, starting from #1000 or so.

Francis

Not that it matters but he's getting up at 4am to bake that bread =p

EnterTheHero

Aw, Elliot, don’t be sad! He’s gonna get back to you!

Honestly, I feel like I'm the only one not shipping this. I'm happy for all of you who do, though! I just thought they would be so great together as just friends.

Michael

Claire approved

Quinn

I think those might be laid edges, not just curls!

Michael

Brun doesn't strike me as the make out type.

Clark Wells

That sourdough would be so salty!

Elf Sternberg

So... success, then?

Elf Sternberg

I forsee the health inspector shutting down The Secret Bakery when Renee learns that Brun, Elliot and Clinton had a long, serious make-out session together, and it all went pretty well.

Miyaa

And then Renee walks in to them topless and just faints in delight.

Miyaa

Yeast hate the various microclimates of San Francisco.

jimbo

love the new haircut and look, Renee-especially that little dancing curl over the left eye!

Grace Kieser

But, it is a pain in the ass to make! #soooosticky

Michael Boettger

Or "no" it all depends.

Michael Boettger

Now, bear in mind, Clinton is still with Claire at this moment. So Saturday, we could see him coming into Secret Bakery, grab Elliot, and breathlessly say "Yes".

soda bread? more like sodepressing bread

Miyaa

I bet every time people eat the bread Roko makes, it’s like a whole season of Food Wars plays out.

Jonathan Marinaro

Sourdough does taste like hatred. Delicious, delicious hatred. It's why it's the perfect bread for Northern California, it's how we get the hate out.

Daniel Burnett

Every time I read this story it hurts me. One page a day only on week days is too little to satisfy my need

Michael

Poor cinnamon roll

Putting the sour in sourdough

i once made bread after a bad breakup. the room filled with fog, the paint peeled, and every dog in a ten mile radius wouldnt stop whining until i ate it.

Tamara Macadam

sourdough is great fuk u >:[