uh oh sounds like pop's in the hospital

That wud be a good thing... Im more worried they got called there to id a john doe, their son.

Something tells me it'll be something totally not that...
"your father saw these flyers in the lobby at the hospital........"

Tension! Spicy tension!

Nice deflection there by Kim lol

uh Oh .... I don't think I like what's coming next o.o

"I'm with your father he's in the hospital"
And stars world will only get worse from here

Except no, bcuz that father is an abusive bigot so... Not exactly all that gut wrenchin to find out theyre near death

Findin out my abusive bigoted biodad had cancer was cause for celebration.

that's terrible, it's fine to be not feel any loss when they pass, but don't celebrate something like that, especially not when it causes extra unneeded suffering as cancer does
you should want less suffering in the world over all for everyone EVEN the people you hate
the world sucks enough as is without wishing for more pain

Woah don't get mad at BabyfaceSylvia.

I'm the one who messed up.

Im not addin to the problem by havin feelings about abusive ppl not deservin sympathy when their death comes

The problem isnt us havin feelings about dead abusers; the real problem is the abusers.

When my na's partner mark died I felt nothing but happiness that He was gone and my nana could be free he was Emotionally physically And mentally abusing her

I was happy he died He and he did it to himself he drank some alcohol and took his tap the whole and took his tablets at the same time which he has done before and lived through but this time it managed again but this time it managed to kill him

And he did that because my na Wasn't paying enough attention to him because she had cancer

I do want less suffering, for those who dont add suffering into this world.

My biodad spent his life adding sufferin to this world and spec targetin children; and in multiple ways of abusing us

Why is it wrong to want bad things to happen to thoe who have been bad to you? Why is it wrong to express how i feel just bcuz i dont feel he deserves a life without pain?

Most ppl think that folks who commit CSA deserve death for such... But just cuz my unrepetent biodad only got 17 yrs for it, i cant wish for him to get the punishment he deserves? Wud it only have been okay for me to demand death if i had stood up and said smth as a traumatised 10 yr old when he was bein tried for his crimes? Or do you think its wrong for victims to want those who hurt them to receive their just desserts?

i agree
if somebody has done nothing but be a horrible person like your dad for example
then it should be okay to be glad they have to suffer and that it's more than okay to celebrate the justice of them getting to experience that pain

that kind of thought process just leads to more pain in the world period, it doesn't matter who did it
it's okay to want them dead, but you should want it quick and painless
there's nothing worse then needless suffering EVEN if you think they "deserve" it

but if somebody made your life a living hell in my opinion it's okay to celebrate when they get something they deserve since they've caused you immense suffering as well

like i said, the world sucks enough as it is
we dont need more suffering
so no matter what someone does, the worst you should wish upon them is a quick painless death

Unfortunately not everyone sees their abusive bigoted family members the same way. It takes a while for some people and some people never get passed their childhood-love and/or desire for approval from their parents. Or keep hoping they'll come to their senses and redeem themselves.

i feel personally attacked
even though i know my dad will never see me as a girl and i don't need him in my life anymore as him and his ignorance and drinking has caused me immense suffering i still have this feeling that one day he'd realize what he's done and apologize to me and we live happily ever after
even though i know that even if he would, it wouldn't be that simple...

Thats your inner child daydreaming and its worth rememberin that part of you is easily tricked by even the barest of nice words bcuz of how much us abused kids simply desire for everythin to just be fixed and get the love we deserved from the ppl who nvr showed it to us

That inner child doesnt know how impossible its dreams are, it only knows what it wants above all else; the family it deserved instd who were willin to work on their problems and become better ppl

I often feel that same way sometimes about my p--o biodad and my drunkard QAnon biomom. I feel like if i cud just explain things the right way, theyd open their eyes to the truth and stop believin the fearmongerin lies... But thatll nvr happen

These ppl will nvr change until they personally want to change; no amount of our wantin them to change will ever be enuf if they dont want it to

Your life is better off without the mental drain of bein around ppl who dont show unconditional love and support

Star's father in hospital? Knowing his temper, he probably has some kind of heart problem, assuming he is in hospital for medical treatment.

I feel its more likely the parents are there checkin on someone else... Perhaps they were sayin "Hospital called and wanted us to try to identify someone in a coma; its Alex"

must've popped a vein when his soup was 1 degree off
reasonable course of action though if you ask me

I really hope he doesn't got a heart-attack or something because he saw the flyer with Star in her Baby outfit...

That's what I'm thinking

Deserved. Remember, that dude is not a nice person. Need i remind yall his response to Star's brother?

Please don't write stuff like that here. He is maybe an idiot, but he still doesn't deserve something like that.

He is not "an idiot" and thats the real harmful thing to write here (btw, that word has historically been used to hurt disabled ppl, esp neurodivergent ppl; its only slightly less of a slur than the r word)

He is an abuser, and a bigot, who traumatised his kids and disowned one of them for who they are.

As a child of a similar biodad; i 100% am wishin for his timely death any day now as my fathers day present. And i do feel that Star's father is equally as undeservin of our sympathy

Even my QAnon believin bigoted biomom didnt disown me or my little bro when we came out as queer; and continued to support us too, in what little ways she cud. And she 100% believes the lies about queers bein an abomination unto the lord; she also knows that we are her children and it is far wronger to disown us for that than it is that we exist livin a "sinful life"

But also, if youre someone who can physically abuse your children and you have done such and are so unapologetic about it that you do it to them even as adults when they upset you (like done to Alex when he came out to his father); you deserve 💀. Far moreso if you ever did anythin worse than physical abuse

As much as I see your point there, what I wanted to say was, this is not the place for this kind of discussion or comment. How about, we just both stop here?

Oh gosh I hope it's not Alex o_o

Thank you! Someone showin the correct kind of worry here, instd of worryin that the abusive father may finally get what he deserves

Lol Kim.

The commercial with the basketball player smacking and blocking the box of cereal from going in the cart and it explodes.

🤣

Dikembe Mutombo: Not In My House!

Someone's in the hospital? Did they find Alex?

Oh dear... Sounds not good...

One more page to go until the 500 🎉

Oh this ain't good...

Well, thar doesn't sound good.

"I'm with your father... the hospital really wanted to throw him a pizza party! We're all invited! And there's candy!"

If only.

Sounds serious.

If this is where i think its going then oh man.. i'm getting bad memories just thinking bout my dad..

Yeah, but your dad was a lovin father who cared for his kids and didnt disown them for comin out as queer; right?

My biodad was very much like Star's father in many ways, but his abuse went a bit further if ya get my drift; and i wish nothin but 💀 for him this fathers day.

And he didnt even outright disown me for bein queer, tho only cuz 17 yrs of free therapy in state prison before that meant he at least knew he was supposed to "accept us"... even if in actuality he showed zero such acceptance and zero support without many conditions attached; he was so pissed that i changed my name... that he didnt even care about how i felt there or care to learn that id not used that name in over a decade prior

Honestly, i wish he had just disowned me from the start rather than string me along with false hopes of support and manipulation and gaslightin at every step of him learnin about my queer existence

I will celebratr the day i learn he has returned to the earth; where his slimy worm ridden corpse can rot til his horribleness no longer exists in any form on this earth

Look. I get you have issues with your own father but stop projecting and commenting about hoping he dies on _EVERY COMMENT_ about Stars father in the comic. One is more than enough.

"Yeah, but your dad was a lovin father who cared for his kids and didnt disown them for comin out as queer; right?"

Uh... Bud? You don't know if my father was loving or not, no... He was emotionally abusive to me.. makes me glad my old man is dead.

Well. Shit.

Hopefully its not a bait to lure her to the hospital. That would be really *worse*behavior.

Uh-oh. I'm thinking a storm is a-brewin'.

oooo boy this story is about to make me cry won't it

oh no

Uh oh that never a good thing to hear the word hospital from a phone call 😗

Wow. That was a lot of feels that just triggered...

Oh my goodness. So much anticipation leading to next week... ^^

My mum tried to guilt trip me yesterday to fly back to meet her and dad, said he was in hospital for surgery and such so they gonna die soon and I need to come visit.
I said "well good luck with that, I ain't coming back to that hell hole", like 27 years abuse just go away if they miss me

So much felt. Shortly after id decided to go NC with my biodad he tried to guilt trip me into goin to my grandma's funeral... And all that did was finally remove my last sense of obligation to any of that biofam bcuz it hit me she was the only person i cared about in that family. Wish i cudve gone to her funeral without any of thm there... But knew that wudnt happen, so i just clearly established the boundary of no contact and have no intention of changin that, no matter who else dies.

I want nothin to do with the ppl who abused me for far too long before i rly started to connect with chosen family and learn what i truly deserved in life.

Gah. I'm getting second hand anxiety just from reading this. >_<

I hate phone calls like that. Especially ones with bad news or that are just vague enough you don't understand exactly what's going on.

Hope it's nothing too terrible.

More like "I'm with your dad at the hospital because he climbed a ladder on top of the shed and fell off and hurt his arm/leg." Yeah, he's a major asshat but I don't think him croaking would do much good. (Well...unless he got turned into a frog or something..."go be a frog and think about your life choices.")

To be honest, if it is Alex, I don't exactly see why her dad would be at the hospital with him, especially since we can still all assume that he's keeping the homophobic mindset.

But I'm really hoping with Kim and Martin there, it gives Star a chance to really decide if she wants to start disconnecting from her dad when he's so awful right now. If he can start making a change, then it depends on what Star wants, but I dread to think about how he could treat Star if he found out she was in a poly relationship and Kim being trans.

Unless, it's a result of him saving his old man's life (depending on how old fashioned the General is, he might at least be rather reluctant to leave a life-debt unpaid).

I think that if Alex were there and unconscious, its possible the hospital wudve tried to reach potential next of kin to make any potential end of life decisions

And yes, Alex no doubt wudnt want their father thre makin those decisions; but the law allows it by default... Which is why its a good idea to go thru any legal methods you can to prevent that before it becomes important. Several of my neurodivergent friends have a legit worry that, if not for such things, their bioparents cud find out theyre in hospital for smth and try to (re)claim conservatorship status over them or similarly gain control over their future thru medical control

Felt on that last bit... Before i went NC with my biodad, he alrdy wasnt all that supportive of my trans existence and wud insist i embarassed him when i corrected misgenderin of me... <.<

But the thing i nvr dared tell him outright was that i was polyamorous. His christian arse alrdy was hesitant of the queer stuff and thats far less explicit than the pro-monogamy argument of the bible...

Thing is, both my fiance and metamour got disowned by biofams for bein polyam. They were tolerated as queer ppl in those biofams, but as soon as they found out about the polyam stuff; they just cut off any kind of support whatsoever

We have all three multiple times in the past had to hide parts of our relationship to protect ourselves, and two of us werent able to hide it forever; and im only able to hide it now cuz im not in that biofam anymore heh

Its shockin how hateful ppl are towards polyamory, bcuz it for the most part goes untalked about; and unlike queer stuff... polyam is still not at all in the mainstream consciousness; we get zero outright media rep (tho sometimes theres polyamcoded chars like a triad shown together caring for their child in a scene of ppl in romantic relationships; like in She-Ra)

😰

C'mon people, let's not wish death on the old guy (even if for no other reason than out of consideration for how such a thing might affect Star).

The more proper thing to wish for is a just close enough brush with death to force him to confront his mortality and hopefully reevaluate his life choices.

Not every parent deserves that title, though. Blood relation doesn't mean you HAVE to do anything.

So much this! Dont tell me i shudnt hate my pedophile of a biodad just bcuz of some familial duty.

He failed his familial duty and for that reason; i owe him none.

Yea, i disagree. Try bein raised by someone who saw you as an object for his sexual desires.

Personally, I think it's about Matt and Jess's new baby. Remember, earlier on they said Jess was only a few weeks away from giving birth.

Well i hope her father piece of shit will die in pain ;)

Oh dear

*Insert Shrek meme in here

"Can't Star just be happy?"

"FOR 5 MINUTES?!"

*her shit dad being hospitalized

[insert the poggers meme here]

Fucking vicious that this comic is coming out the day before Father's Day. Excellent treat for the traumaqueers that hate their dads, and for the ones more conflicted about the whole thing... well it's not like you did it on purpose

EDIT: Sorry, keep forgetting that some people still think of "queer" as exclusively pejorative. I'm using it here in the value-neutral (value positive? Being gay/bi/trans/non-binary/aro-ace is dope as hell actually)

Yup didn't do it on purpose I'm not that well organised to work out when certain pages will fall. As a result page 500 is actually pretty dull in comparison to what it could have been

I got a call like that. My dad was a bit like Star's, but we had sorted things.

I'm so ready for 500 pages you have came so far and I love what you do

souds like pop had a heart attck after seeing the flyers

Hm.

Star did you know you are on Akinator

I tried this out and it's totally true.

Just went ahead and tried this to see how long it takes to figure it out; and it rly goes thru like a dozen questions before it finally asks if human and then each question was clearly about BabyStar **except** after it knew that she was nonhuman, had animal ears, and owned a pet, it asked if she fought in WW1 and i have no idea what char it was thinkin of there xD

Everyone is trying to figure out the hospital thing... But I'm More trying to figure out if Satimo thinks Kim has gone to the little side.

I don't like the sound of this

Same

Uh oh don't sound good, hope everything is fine