I desperately want confrontation or some kind of clap back RUSTY I APPRECIATE HOW YOU DONT RUSH THE STORY BUT IVE BEEN ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT FOR WHAT FEELS LIKE EONS!!! (but of course, don’t push yourself or the comic because I genuinely love the pacing)

You’re such an admirable artist!! Just the way your panels flow and the way your style can express feelings so vividly… Aaahhhh!

I recommended this comic to a friend recently and in that context looked at the very first pages again, and I just have to say how incredibly much your style and art have improved! The last pages have been absolutely stunning.

Pushing it back onto the very pamphlets she already essentially had a small breakdown about is probably not going to go super well with drunk Riley though. She might do nothing except mentally snap out of the self-doubt a bit, or she might make an entire scene. It remains to be seen, I suppose.
(My guess from last page is definitely still on. Even if Blaire isn’t even trying to explain, just foisting her off onto someone else. Boo, Blaire, use your own brain! At least try! If you can’t explain it to someone else, you didn’t understand it yourself!)

Blaire’s dress continues to stunning… The way she almost seems to be part of the starry night sky? Beautiful. Meanwhile, Riley’s demon form continues to be intriguing. And the contrast between Blaire’s sparkle and Riley’s complete darkness? Peak.

Also not the fucking pamphlets again. Clearly they didn’t help. At least come up with some kind of terrible book or something. By hteir very nature pamphlets can only contain so much information!

Breaking up one image to look like three separate panels to represent their breaking apart as a couple is so visually clever. You’re a fantastic comic artist!

I thought that “huh” commentor from last week just realized her definition of woman was sexist, when she didn’t answer my question “what does being a woman FEEL like”

but she was actually just predicting the next page!

I wonder if Riley will crash out at the idea of more pamphlets, that’s the last thing she needs

sometimes i wish your comic wasn’t so freaking accurate lmao. like, i wish this really was as made up as gendies think it is.

but the fact there are people who act like you’re doing strawman arguments with the blaire thing (i just recently found out theres gendie ao3 fanfic of your characters?? ew) and doubt that people like blaire exist is baffling.

they are literally just completely dead wrong. ive been trying to make friends in real life as part of my exposure therapy to get over my debilitating social anxiety and my new friend (literally recommended to me by my psychometrician since we both have autism) is so blaire coded.

she’s bisexual, super feminine, super into makeup (she went to college to be an esthetician) & earlier today she started talking about people she found attractive like superman et cetera yada yada, then she showed me a they/them tiktok woman she’s into, so i showed her a couple pictures of some women i like, one was a masc lesbian and the other was more of a tomboy, so not dressed up either.

my friend IMMEDIATELY they/themmed her, but didn’t theythem the other one because she’s a little more feminine (aka her hair is a bob instead of cropped super short. that was the only real difference i could notice other than race) and i just. i’m suffering. i feel like i just got riley’d by real life. the chance of finding anyone in real life who’s ever going to “get” it. and the thing is, just like blaire, my friend is also generally a very nice person! probably nicer than most people i’ve met. and she’s still mentally stripping away people’s womanhood when they don’t fit certain criteria. more than a little disappointing.

like. dude. i WISH you were inventing this stuff, but literally anyone who’s been around a decent amount of The Gendereds have run into all of it. creepy tims, the QT collective, the financial weirdness involved, blaire…. it’s all painfully real and relatable and i’m so tired of it. there’s such a pathetic element to the people who still stalk this comic, dedicatedly thumbs-downing every comment that compliments you, frothing at the mouth to try and “reclaim” your writing as if they aren’t just proving your point.

anyway i’ll stop being off topic and ranting. it fucking baffles me how people pretend you’re inventing these problems. like. these issues are verbatim from real life. people are just too brainwashed to notice them.

might have to comment on this properly later when my brain works better but as always, this is so beautiful despite the tension of the story. i like that blaire’s eyes also aren’t visible but in a different way to rileys, they are literally not seeing eye to eye. the fragmenting of the frames, the fat riley’s tail is circling blaire ominously and the arrow’s pointing away from her, it’s all just building up so intriguingly. i love this version of riley and i am SO EXCITED to see where it goes. especially now that she just brought up the pamphlets when riley’s already started spinning out about this!!!

Not gonna lie, I screamed so hard and my cat woke up.

Hi – I noticed on the speedpaint you use a 3d model as a reference to sketch the page. Do you use a specific program to generate the 3d models, or does someone else make them for you? Trying to improve my own art and the pointers would be nice.

As a detrans woman myself, even I never really understood what people involved in this flavor of the trans movement would actually consider gender identity to be. If you asked my younger self, I would’ve said that it’s basically just what physical sex characteristics you wish you had, but I know that this crowd would’ve called that ~invalidating~ or whatever. I know that it’s basically just “I want to be seen as more subversive and gender non-conforming without actually changing my actions or questioning the nature of my relationship to beauty standards”, but Elissa “FemboyBewbs2000” Samson probably isn’t going to be recognizing that, let alone admitting it out loud. I say this to illustrate that this gendie logic is so inconsistent, it wasn’t even understandable to someone who you think would’ve been on board with it more than the allies like Blaire.

I have such vivid memories of secretly thinking these people were on some real bullshit, but not wanting to say it out loud for fear of social backlash. There’s some real irony to my younger self thinking “I’m so much more correct than these people, because MY concept of my gender identity is just based on wishing I had a male body, and therefore it’s not caught up in arbitrary and harmful societal ideals of masculinity and femininity.” It all crumbled when I realized that it’s all societally influenced – the intense alienation I felt from my physical form wasn’t because I was somehow fundamentally wired differently, it was because of what I absorbed about how our society sexualizes the female body. My desire to escape that was met with online echoes of “Cis people don’t question their gender, if you’re spending this much time asking whether you’re trans, then you’re trans.”