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HONK HONK *Chairo disappears into a flurry of bloodthirsty white feathers*

Boring comment.

Hehe first also this is still a super good page keep up the good work star.

Every new page that tells us something about Stars personality, family and past makes me think you know me personally and this is a comic about me :D 3 older brothers, youngest and assigned female at birth, army brat, moving around as a kid, ABDL, abusive family, one brother lost- Like what do you know that I dont? XD

I get the not liking hospitals thing. Same here honestly.

the smell of bleach and cleaning chemicals give me bad vibes. It means there was or is something to clean and keep at bay. and that is kinda true, hospitals are huge plague breeding grounds, especially poorly cleaned ones

I like hospital smell for some reason :P

I totally agree. Ironically, the oppressive atmosphere of hospitals actually makes me feel ill.

same here! it makes me feel slightly nauseous and trapped

Oof, I wonder if this has to do with... Alex? Oh gosh, next page is prolly gunna be intense!

It's probably about the pregnant wife of matt

I like how much Kim and Star's body language makes them look like a mother and child! Star's parents probably won't, tho :(

My prediction is that her mom implied her dad was in the hospital (as a patient) in order to force Star to go see him. Also, does Star have a crush on Kim? If she does, I have a bad feeling the parents will pick up on it, and it...won't go over well. At all.

If you go back 2 pages, the signal was weak and it wasn't clear what was being said. Her mom didn't try to trick her, only a few words made it across clearly, which seemed to imply her dad was the one in the hospital. But it was probably closer to "I'm at the hospital with your dad." and something about checking in on someone. It wasn't an intentional implication, just a miscommunication because of the bad cell service.

As far as having a crush on Kim, they're in the process of figuring out their poly CGL family.

If you've just started this comic recently and haven't read from the beginning, it would really help you with the context to go back to the start! 😊

I've read the whole thing. Several times. I don't like that you assumed I haven't, it feels condescending.

And I disagree with what you said about the comic. I was trying to ask Babystar if Star had a crush on Kim.

Youre assumin best intent from the mom here...

Hmmm, no one seems to be panicking or upset. Maybe it's Jess (pg 283) and the baby?

Also, I'm not a fan or doctors/hospitals either, but for other reasons. Living in the US, I'm tired of being charged triple digits just for walking in the door. Then walking out with a script, that either doesn't do anything, or gets you hooked.

They also wudnt panick one iota if this were about Alex <.<

i have a feeling star had been tricked

Star must have had a negative experience in hospital to be nervous. Looks like her mother is fine.

I can totally understand why hospitals can be scary, the sterile nature and often muted and dim colors makes it feel like a place you aren't supposed to be. I have spent a bit of time in hospital myself, not a lot usually only going into ER (unless we're counting psychiatric hospitals) for me personally the worst thing about hospitals are just the absolute boredom combined with feeling like you have to sit absolutely still to try and not bother other people.

Oh my god I'm so dumb. We're all thinking it's her brother that was kicked out, but I completely forgot the fact that she has that sister in law whose *pregnant*.

Judging from how laidback Lillyana is right now, I'm definitely going with Star having a new niece instead of anything bad.

A hospital or clinic can be a scary place. Especially when you have memory of being poked and prodded from a infant to the teens. But remember you can escape from there keep reminding yourself it’s just a visit it’s just a visit and you should be fine giggling

14 th hehe.
I totally understand, I'm no fan of visiting hospitals.
Mum and dad appear to be ok? Hope so.
Maby Star is a auntie again? More diapered squirts to play with.

we woo wee woo

I feel the same way about hospitals now. 🥺

Firstly after my stint at Southern Day Services back when i was a CPN. Which was an early-onset dementia care unit. So I was dealing with patients in their late thirties/early forties with advanced stage dementia which is harrowing enough. But the memory that sticks with me is a woman in the final stages, who had lost all her memories up to when she was five years old, and all she did was cry and scream for her daddy (who had been dead for many years), whilst her husband, whom she didn't even acknowledge, tried to comfort her at her shoulder.

Secondly after my attempt to...damage...myself back in September last year; the entire experience was like being personally escorted by Virgil through the circles of hell. The hospital was unbearably hot and the staff wanted as little contact with me as possible (especially after they 'lost' all my medication). 😭

Yep, still hate the guys guts

I dont like this...it feels like they're setting Star into a trap. Could just be me an my biases but still..

Star isnt walkin into such a trap alone and Kim will not let those bastards hurt her kid

I'm just gonna say Kim is just epic. The look on Peter's face is a lil concerning though.

Hard to tell if he's narrowing his eyes at her, if he's reflecting on something, or if he's just plain bored. But I have a bad feeling it's the first one...

MOM FIGHT!

yea i fear hospitals too. it dosent mater witch of my family is in there i may visit but it wont be for long no mater who it is sadly

To be fair, more people die in hospitals than any other type of building.

Well it's officially a possibility that this could be Alex, good grief.

Also, it's okay to be nervous/scared of hospitals, they can be scary places. Ask anyone who works
in emergency, you'll see some freaky things. I don't think its that irrational of a fear

Do Kim and Martin know anything about Peter? Like, how he acted/acts toward her, and how she reacts? If not... I foresee.......difficulties. Also, given Peter's reaction toward his own son, if he has any sort of "gaydar" (not using that term derisively), and if Kim doesn't pass as well as she appears to here.... I can see him calling this out. I don't see it ending well for Star, but even less so for him.

And given Mom's reaction to seeing Star, this is not an unpleasantness... let's hope it remains that way.

Martin knows a bit, bcuz Star explained things while dyin hair; but i dont think Kim knows unless Martin mentioned it, tho i dont think he wud go into someone elses details, but he may have at least let Kim know that the guy may be unsafe

Yay lilly hugs hehe

Ohhhhhhhhh. Okay there's no way it's Alex, it's the sister-in-law in labor, holy heck how did we forget that she was close to her delivery date. If it were Alex then Peter wouldn't be there and the mom wouldn't be smiling.

See, i dont follow your reasoning...

The jerkwad abuser dad wud totes show up to lord over Alex when he is in the hospital. Hell, its a common fear of queer ppl that we will get hospitalised and our biofams will get to decide what shud be done for us/about us...

My ND Queer friends fear that even more strongly bcuz they fear havin a mental health ep and havin a biofamily member come and take power over their affairs or in the worst case... get a conservatorship over them; which essentially makes the person a prisoner to their biofamily

Maybe I just got too lucky vis a vis shitty parents to know better, but given that Peter disowned Alex to the point of "Don't speak his name in my presence" then he doesn't want to keep him in place to fix him, he wants nothing to do with him.

this is getting interesting

Have a bad feeling about this... So far it seems Star's dad is a real piece of work... Already know he's homophobic from basically shunning her brother for being gay. Just hope well, her ABness isn't known by them...

her father might not be perfect but compared to mine he is a freaking saint

Naw, mines a p--o and hurt dozens and dozens... But id nvr play abuser olympics and act like his abuse is worse than others abuse

Just cuz the abuse is different and looks better than what we suffered does not mean its any less bad, nor does it ever make such ppl saintly in any way

ya know I thought today was wednesday or thursday.. been sleepin bad so all the days kinda didn't regester but seeing shine was a lovely surprise and then seeing me put a huge smile on my face. Kinda forgot that the story was a little one and almost spilled the tea when sibling asked why :P

Not got a phobia of hospitals, but they are certainly unplesent.
idk if its the aircon or something but the air just tastes bad, makes me feel nausious.
Was scared of the doctor as a kid, little me was rather sickly so had a lotta jabs but it got worse when I had my tonsils removed. Remember mum telling me how I threw ma favorite teddy half way across the room.
But I think most of that left when the nurses brought me a lotta icecream through out ma stay and on the last day my grandad came to visit me. He was rather busy with work then, so rarely saw him, but I looked up to him so much so was the one person I wanted to be there. (ik last day might not sound like much, be he was super busy with his job and thus it ment the world)

Thank you for drawin me, and even more so for bringing up lovely memories of grandad.

i spent my first three years in and out of multiple hospitals, i was a really sick kid, having everything under the sun. i actually have a permanent dimple in my right arm from the amount of IV's and blood draws I've had, but somehow i never developed a fear of the hospital or doctors or dentists, i think from a early age i knew that hospitals were meant to help you feel better, while it can hurt being there it makes the even worst hurt go away, plus all the attention was on me and depending on why i was there i could get anything i wanted. bonus lol

I don't think it's too weird. I get freaked about hospitals too. Which is awkward when you work in healthcare, haha. Luckily working at a hospital isn't as bad for some reason, and helped me get less freaked out. But still, not the fondest about visiting them. >_<;;;

I get that phobia a lot, for me it's not with medical Hospitals but mental institutions. It's not that I think they're all bad or something, more that I had an incredibly traumatic experience with one when I was a teenager. While the people were nice and the place itself wasn't actively torturing me or something crazy, the circumstances around me being put in there were one of the worst things I've ever lived through and the thought of being in a place like that just...Terrifies me to know end really.

Oooh. Parents. I am looking forward to the next page. Parents have a thrilling taste lingering to me.

Oh no, if they’re both here then what’s happened.

So...is her sister in law having the baby and they either called to let her know and the line was just broken up or seem vague on purpose to get her down there for the family moment? Either way I think it's the baby. That's my guess

Like you I do my best to avoid hospitals. Was an EMT for a while. You just cant Unsee some things I had to handle.

Ah yes, that bonus free PTSD you get with the job contract

Feel bad for what y'all have to go through without the support there for it

I hate that sterile smell, I know it is meant to keep everything clean but it just reminds me of suffering and death

I sense a disturbance in the force. Some toxic family bullshit is gonna happen.

I am the same way with hospitals. I don't like them. I had a few bad experiences with them.

Oh Peter doesn't look happy, and I agree even though my grandmother worked in the or for many years I'm still terrified of doctors

He he he, Even I am afraid of hospitals and I work at them in IRL.

Star's FRIPPIN' mom!!! Your daughter was worried that somebody was DYING AND YOU WANT A HUG! Sorry but that's full on bull! Sorry I went off, I just don't like those kinds of calls/texts.

Theres a lot of evidence these parents care little for their kids <.<

Agreed.

A fear of hospitals is understandable. Who knows, I have a heights phobia. Who knows where these deep seeded fears come from

this comic is so good

ahhhh crist i think i know what's up but mea erereaggpph.

I don't really have a fear of hospitals...But I find them depressing. Just something about them fills me with a unique and profound melancholy.

Surgery on the other hand...Well I don't know if it's surgery itself, but things that evoke surgery, or surgery gone horribly wrong utterly terrify me. A lot of horror media that really gets under my skin taps into that imagery. It's one of the reasons splatterpunk really gets under my skin and why the hospital levels in several Silent Hill games really get to me.... It's also the reason that Vicar Amelia in Bloodborne and indeed, much of the whole blood thing gets under my skin... Bandages and the use of sinister medical procedures...It just taps into a primal dread I feel.

This sounds like a trap

Ambush? Can't wait to see what's next.
I think just the vibe of hospital for us sensitive types is enough to make us want to run.
Saw a lot of relatives cared for and pass so quite removed from being a happy place for me.

When will your next page be ready?

BabyStar posts these comics weeklys on fridays, around midday friday at GMT 0 (not exactly, just some time friday and usually around then)

Tho, if you cant wait, the next two wks are available to folks on Patreon

I feel Darkness across the horizon, which isn't good

Why do i not like dads expression already? maybe from the few exchanges we've seen so far but idk :P feeling negative comments incoming

So, was it not an emergency?

If I recall correctly, her brother's wife was expecting, right? Maybe the baby just arrived and they were calling her for that.

And, oh boy, I'm sure there will be another family discussion because of Star's parents demanding stuff or "when will you give us grandkids as well?"

Look out, Corporal! It's an ambush!

Yeah, rly rly rly glad Auntie Kim is there for backup

I get it~ I don't think I have quite the phobia that you described, but, as much as hospitals are a place of healing, they're also a place where a lot of people receive bad news. It occupies this weird space between life and death; joy and sadness. I'm not, emotionally, strong enough to be in a hospital for more than, maybe, a couple hours.

That last panel fills me with so much fear for what follows

He does not look like he has been in the hospital, and the look on his face is not good.

I feel you on the hospital fear. Ever since I can remember i've had panic attacks or just felt super squicky being in them, even to visit others.
Then there's people I care about going in and not coming out again several times and others being super close to the pearly gates for a bit. That just makes it worse.

I do NOT like the look on her fathers face.

Given Kim is there, hopefully she will be able to pick up the pieces after that jerkwad breaks his daughters heart again <.<

Oh, das not good.

I don't have a hospital phobia, but I am definitely uncomfortable in them. I was in and out of them a lot as a youth for chronic illness and my brother was a diabetic so I went with to his appointments all the time. I can take those plastic bracelets off in my sleep I've had so many lol.