This week's lineartist is: silly-legend, HorseBlaire!
The thumbnail I gave her: [here]
My favourite thing about this page: I love HorseBlaire's linework. It's so confident in all the art she does, tbh. I also love how adorable Blaire looks in the bottom panel ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ Bunny-esque with her little hair tufts even..
Mushy Stuff: HorseBlaire is a hilarious woman - has literally made me laugh until I cried and could barely breathe - and honestly deserves to make a killing as a concept artist with her talent and skill. Even unknowingly, she has managed to lift my spirits on cloudy days with her art and mind. I'm glad to be blessed with her company <3
Shout Out: HorseBlaire doesn't have a project to share, but I urge you to check out the phenomenal art on her tumblr. If you love fantasy creatures and/or women (and the occasional LB fanart uwu), you will love her art. Please sent her kind anons for enrichment.
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Boosty Update:
Shez’s Family Have Bios – With blanks you can help fill in!
Unseen First-Draft-Scripts from Ch9!
( Did you know, the original discussion Blaire &Riley had during their shift didn’t involve Jaden much at all? )
CH12P9 Speedpaint
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Riley’s confused face in the third panel is kinda cute! It feels very Disney-esque to me. Like, if you told me she played Peter Pan, I’d believe you. ๐
Interesting to hear how she talks about the discomfort of dresses too. I get not enjoying your legs rubbing together, or having it blow up in the wind, but earlier she was thrashing and screaming when she wore a dress, so there has to be something deeper going on…
Can’t wait for Trinity-Skye to show up and throw Riley into even more confusion. (evil grin)
Also, while I think of it, I’ve noticed that Blaire’s hair is closer to pink now, when it used to be a lavender shade. Was that an intentional change? Just curious!
Beautiful work as always <333 Love you bestie…ps stop drawing brick this cute the fuck??
But yeah, thank you Rusty!!! Your colours make it so delicious and nice. Always deloightful to collab with u ๐ซก
Dear god theyโre so stupid ๐ also, why did Blaire bring Riley to Brick? I guess I donโt understand why sheโs in the hot seat.
Riley: *has religion-related trauma and doesnโt believe herself to be a walking stereotype*
Brick, who met Riley like five minutes ago: I diagnose you with โnot a real womanโ. I am very progressive. ๐
Kill me.
Ahhhh this art style is actually cute …
I especially love how cute Riley’s lil (???) Face is.. I really feel for her here I just wanna take her away from these women and tell her she can dress as comfy as she wants and it doesn’t have to mean she’s not a real woman …
“doesn’t alleviate the discomfort”… *flashes back to the first page of Riley thrashing around in a panic attack* That’s not “discomfort” Blaire, that’s freaking trauma.
Also HorseBlaire is the best and she deserves a lot of nice hay and scritches and prancing around in a big paddock !
I feel like Blaire just wants Riley to be more “queer” to validate her own wokeness ๐คจ
It reminds me of parents who never shut up about how scary being a โจtrans parentโจ is and fearmongering about how terrible life is for trans kids but are clearly so desperate to trans their toddlers for clout.
The sheer glee in Blaire’s last expression, maybe I’m reading too much into it, but Blaire’s martyr complex seems to be getting more selfish, like some weird trans specific factitious disorder.
You’re so right about the confidence in the linework, definitely reminds me of me old-school handrawn animation, amazing work HorseBlaire ๐
Ew Blaire.. whyyy ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
Both Riley and Blaire look so cute and fluffy-haired in this page! I love how cute HorseBlaire’s lines are! Seriously I want to pat their heads ;_; I hope HorseBlaire gets lots of tasty oats and comfy skritches and space to run around.
“But you’ve also said you don’t FEEL like a boy?” I think a lot of TIFs notice the way AGP TIMs talk about “feeling like a woman”, can’t relate to it for obvious reasons, and take it to mean their “real” gender is neither woman nor man. Even though it’d make sense to question the AGP men’s reasoning, they feel pressured to change themselves instead. If they ask the men for clarification, they’ll be responded to as if they’d personally attacked the men.
So even though a space like the TQ Union may have a lot more women than men, they wind up using a framework that only makes sense for a small subset of men, because all the social interactions get filtered through “will this hurt the TIMs’ feelings?” It’s creepy and sad. (I was in a space like that a long time ago.)
That aside, I wonder how much of Brick’s behavior would change if Timothy Babygirl just wasn’t there. Blaire wouldn’t change, at least not for a long time – she has to feel like the savior who is giving all these poor GNC people an opportunity to “live in the bodies they want” and showing them the truth of her religion.
On the other hand, Brick seems like a terminally online woman who became a gendie so she could feel like an expert on something. She wants to at least sound like she’s making sense. She does not like feeling like others can explain things better than her. If she had the space to think about what she was saying, and there was no “if I say this then Babygirl will have a breakdown so it can’t be true”, would she read some forbidden literature and peak?
Or would she hang onto it because her “expertise” gives her clout?
William Shakespeare said best: In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Oh, Riley. You don’t deserve this treatment from Brick.
Riley is utterly adorable in tbis artstyle, great job, HorseBlaire!
She really doesn’t deserve to be subjected to this drawn-out game of other people deciding what/who she is, though.
But since she doesn’t actually identify as nonbinary in present time, it’s comforting at least to know she didn’t fully get bullied into what they’re doing there.
the story just keeps progressing! though i had a thought, since after this bonus bit we’re gonna have a Shez chapter, and then perhaps some other stories (i think it was mentioned you wanted to end the comic on a specific point?), is there anything you are planning on doing after Leasebound is done? do you plan on continuing it in a way by making spin offs, or do you have some other new projects in mind?
I love how Blaire and Riley look on this art style. HorseBlaire did a great job!
Blaire, no…listen to your girlfriend, not your clown friend!!
I may not be a construction worker, but I feel the need to lay brick.
HORSEBLAIRE CAN DRAW???!?!! faints…
I didn’t think it’d be that easy to come to understand oneself as trans, or that i’d fall under nonbinary.
Never experienced any special feeling regardless of direction just like Ri said, i just understood i was a girl because of how my body was and later would become a woman through aging, whether i liked it or not (and surely i wanted to remain small for a while and resented growing, i didnt want to bleed and get loaded with the pressures of the adult world). Just like I understood I was a human even if sometimes wished to be a tree, or a bird, or a shrimp, or a toaster,
to experience difference.
But if “being a woman” ceases to be about that, if it switches to be about having a numinous feeling or believing in mismatched souls, then I lose anchor and fall under nonbinary territory, simply because there is no feeling to locate and i dont believe in souls either, so i couldn’t possibly be one with that system of belief.
Now i understand, in order to reject that conclusion (that one is NB) one would have to reject the whole argument, to say its poor, or nonsense. And to say that would mark you as bad, as that would imply you also believe the identities of those who used the same reasoning would be nonsense as they were built upon a faulty premise, constituting a faulty conclusion.
And once you’re labeled bad, you become enemy and earn scorn… The only approved conclusion is to accept the premise of feelings and souls as correct and instead that your own identity as woman was wrong and false, reemerging as nonbinary you. Then that way nobody ends upset, nobody ends up condemned and their numbers increase, which in turn increases their influence.
It’s kind of like religions and heresy!! ๐ฎ
Fascinating. Grim. But fascinating.
Must agree with the other commenter, Ri in third panel very very cute. high5 to HorseBlaire ๐
Ohhhhh horseblaire’s art is v good and satisfying even tho I can’t put my finger on why! I love how everyone looks in this, clean and flowy! The expressions too are very enjoyable! I esp love how Riley looks in this style!!
I don’t know if this is the best place to post this, but I had questions about Nicholas if you’d be up for answering them?
Firstly, is Nicholas gay like his dads, or just a straight boy who likes dresses?
Secondly, how did Tanฤ and his husband have Nicholas? I’m guessing it wasn’t surrogacy, because I think you said on your old Tumblr that surrogacy is exploitative of women’s bodies. So is Nicholas adopted instead?
Or does Leasebound take place in a world where two people of the same sex can make a kid?
Naturally occurring violet eyes and red eyes are a thing, after all…