love u mare

YOURE TOO SWEET THANK YOU RUSTY ;_;
i also havent seen the completed pages so im just as excited to see these as you guys…my god it do look so good in ur colors i was staring like “I DREW THIS?” feels unreal.

Not the tumblr nose on Brick! 💀

“So you would interact with a penis right? Because if you wouldn’t you’re a TERF and are worse than scum!!!” Oh brick you look like a clown
Awesome guest work!

“shit is that the male one or the female one” MOOD.

I dig how clown-core all the gendies are, much like IRL. Really helps me take their thoughts and opinions more seriously 😂

I’m very much looking forward to Mare’s comic!!! Instantly followed! I’ve loved her previous fanart and contributions so I’m v excited! This page as well I like the flow of Brick’s movement in the first panel and Blaire’s dumb but cute outfit.
All that aside tho, I hope Brick gets bricked cause Jesus Fuckening Christ

So weird of Brick to ask Riley who she would and wouldn’t date in front of her girlfriend lol

this is so real tho…. reminds me of a normie het friend i used to have who said that “transmen can want to be women and wear dresses, but since they have penises they’ll never be female even if they cut it off”
 

and i was like “i hate to make you aware of this… but those are the women who want to be men. just look at ‘trans’ as a prefixmeaning ‘not actually’” 😂 similar thing happened with my parents.
 

they have the benefits of normie straight people having no fucking clue what their deal is

Oh I relate to this moment! It was a trans woman and he never asked if we would date a trans woman but the first thing he asked when he found out someone was a lesbian was “are you a terf”? They started explaining terfs were political lesbians who hate trans women. Of course we agreed they sounded awful

I feel like if it ever gets found out that Riley IS a Terrible TERF (as in she’s not attracted to men) Blaire will end up scrutinized and punished by the Gendies for not vetting her properly and for not making enough of an effort to make transwomen feel centered and protected.
 

I remember seeing this tumblr post which essentially said “If you have to say TERFs don’t interact and you’re cis then you’re not doing a good enough job as an ally to make those demons know they’re not welcome, do better”.

Brick immediately makes me think of an oompa loompa LMAO good job!! and that kind of nose makes me think of Whos from Whoville… poor Riley.

Hoo boy, can’t wait to see how Riley gets out of this pickle. 😬
(Spoiler: she gets backed into a whole different corner entirely.)

WHY IS RILEY ME THO??

 
Like I had this exact same confusion, it just made sense to me. Trans man is a man who is trans, trans woman is a woman who is trans, DUH! 😂😂 I had some funny ass misunderstandings until someone corrected me.

 
Also, not brick surrounding Riley and inspecting her like she’s on reservoir dogs with her humpty dumpty looking ass. Tumblr OC looking mf. I know you ain’t judging Riley when you looking like the special reindeer that santa chose. “THEY ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE GEORGIE” head ass.

 
Also, I like this switch in style Rusty, the movements look very fluid and natural and you can really appreciate Riley’s chinese heritage here.

This collab artist is the one you call wifey as a inner joke or i’m confusing her with someone else?? I think I barely remember a mention of
this somewhere in past comments.

Either way Wowww Her drawing style is really good! And the premise of her project sounds fantastic. Like shonen but full of women at the center running the show??!? Delightful 😍 Body slam me with it

I just hope she doesnt get harassed preemptively into quitting for also (i assume?) having dissident opinions on all this gender stuff, or for not having them but still not burning you and drawing enough distance. A guilt by association.

 
Regarding the page, i feel for Riley :'( She doesn’t want to hurt people (including Brick) but she doesn’t want to be hurt either. She needs Muddles to come through the window hanging by a rope and rescue her. Take her away from all this unnecessary stress 😣 in one ameowzing move.

 
Although so far I’ve never had someone corner me like that, I used to think similarly too. That “transman or trans man” is man who is transitioning, biological male who takes estrogen and T blockers or gets operations and try to pass as woman to strangers.
 

And “transwoman or trans woman” was opposite, biological female who takes T or roids, and try to pass as man. Like, i could see myself getting told “trans women are women!” and being like “yes of course 😊”, both of us painfully unaware that we were using the same language with polar opposite framing in our heads.

 
And Transvestites or crossdressers were those of either sex but who didn’t do past messing around with clothing, makeup, hair, perfumes and gestures, some wanting and trying to pass and some not caring whether they did or not.

 
But, turns out not only had i been conceiving of the words in wrong (and offensive) order, the supposed boundaries that differentiate these two groups are artificial?? Cuz like, you have people who would fit what to me is a transvestite (no major body mods) but call themselves trans woman or transman or just transgender like Mr Babygirl, but also people like Eli and Kai who don’t even do that noticeable level of gender role nonconformity yet also call themselves such.

So i guess the only difference is what they decide to call themselves. There is no core delimitation, you’re trans if you think you are regardless of how or why you came to think that, and that’s it. I dunno. It’s strange.

Anyway, thanks for this new page you two!!