Is anyone else seeing some potential influence from Elvira: Mistress of the Dark? The main character having a shitty boss, dreaming of striking out on their own, suddenly leaving their life behind, moving into an inherited home, and presumably bonding with the local youth while older townsfolk demonize them. It feels very overt to me.

With the bsky comic we know that Fifty is the only trans woman in there, so it’s kind of sad that she is the one with more strong features

i want to be charitable to this artist because i think the story here is interesting, and the comic as well has a sweet message. i often see trans women like fifty who don't want to have to hide the sharper/strong and traditionally masculine features of the body they were given, and if this series intends to explore the inbetweens of gender and societal expectations it's a depiction that makes sense here. it doesn't cancel out any discomfort people might have towards potential stereotypes but i don't think in this case it's just a stereotype, i think the point is that there are also just people like this that exist in the world

edit to add: this is an interesting start to the story so far :) i've heard a lot of drama over the years of drag families betraying each other like this lol so it's funny to see it depicted here as well. thank you for bringing this here, looking forward to it!

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ok after this one i'm much more confident this is broadly sympathetic to queer identities and is just going with a fairly exaggerated stylisation. still no idea where the plot is going tho

yes it's a sympathetic work towards trans people without doubt the author is very open about labels and flags, but i just think is sad that the one confirmed trans woman is always given strong features vs characters that identify as crossdressers BUT the work has much more to offer than just that so I am looking forward to what the plot is about

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The fucking kid lmao
For funsies I am going to assume they have OCD

There are trans women who don't "pass", or even don't want to.
And they can have representation too.

absolutely correct

Written by someone who has truly experienced the "wonders" of policing

There are trans women who don't "pass", or even don't want to.
And they can have representation too.

No one said the contrary At All. You are intionally reading my comment in bad faith and impliying something I didn’t say. The topic is not “trans women who don’t pass don’t deserve representation” is about how non-tran women constantly despict them as muscular, with a big jaw, etc. and how much this says about them, not about trans women.
Your comment is quit funny considering your historial of transphobic comments, especially the ones under “The Story of a Girl Who Likes Girls, and a Girl Who Used to be a Guy” and “Pale Blue-green Color Saudade”

appstore posted:

There are trans women who don't "pass", or even don't want to.
And they can have representation too.

No one said the contrary At All. You are intionally reading my comment in bad faith and impliying something I didn’t say. The topic is not “trans women who don’t pass don’t deserve representation” is about how non-tran women constantly despict them as muscular, with a big jaw, etc. and how much this says about them, not about trans women.
Your comment is quit funny considering your historial of transphobic comments, especially the ones under “The Story of a Girl Who Likes Girls, and a Girl Who Used to be a Guy” and “Pale Blue-green Color Saudade”

I stand by my long-held opinion that in manga, most of the time, trans women are indistinguishable from non-trans women, like in "I Quit Being a Man..." or, as you say "The Story of a Girl Who Likes Girls, and a Girl Who Used to be a Guy". And in doing so, it pushes the narrative that only "perfect" trans women are "real" women and the others (muscular with "big jaw") are ridiculous caricatures.

I don't want "all trans women" to be depicted with muscles and beards, I want some variety in the representation. And this manga here does a good job of it. You're putting words in my mouth I never said.

Anyway, I'm done with this conversation, because whenever the topic of trans identity crops up, it always devolves into misunderstandings, bad faith arguments, fallacies all around and then the mods have to lock the thread.

I stand by my long-held opinion that in manga, most of the time, trans women are indistinguishable from non-trans women, like in "I Quit Being a Man..." or, as you say "The Story of a Girl Who Likes Girls, and a Girl Who Used to be a Guy". And in doing so, it pushes the narrative that only "perfect" trans women are "real" women and the others (muscular with "big jaw") are ridiculous caricatures.

I don't want "all trans women" to be depicted with muscles and beards, I want some variety in the representation. And this manga here does a good job of it. You're putting words in my mouth I never said.

Using my words as to say that I'm doing the same thing I accused you of, but no, nowhere in my comment I said ”This is how you want trans women to to be depicted” lol It's not even close to what my comment says, I did not put any words in your mouth, but nice try. Likewise! I don’t want to continue the conversation either.

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Is anyone else seeing some potential influence from Elvira: Mistress of the Dark? The main character having a shitty boss, dreaming of striking out on their own, suddenly leaving their life behind, moving into an inherited home, and presumably bonding with the local youth while older townsfolk demonize them. It feels very overt to me.

Not to mention both Lori and Elvira are both cunty mc's ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

Wait, wait . . . BE KILLED?

Something screwy going on. That isn't a threat . . . kid cop there doesn't seem to have a ton against the MC, doesn't seem like the killing type, and the only crime MC'd be accused of at this point is squatting, due to not realizing they own the place. So, if the cop wouldn't be killing them . . . who would? What kind of creepy underbelly does this town have? Is it just that those brick-throwing hicks would go full-on lynching in time and nobody would stop them? Or is there more to it?

Is anyone else seeing some potential influence from Elvira: Mistress of the Dark? The main character having a shitty boss, dreaming of striking out on their own, suddenly leaving their life behind, moving into an inherited home, and presumably bonding with the local youth while older townsfolk demonize them. It feels very overt to me.

Not to mention both Lori and Elvira are both cunty mc's ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

You dare besmirch Elvira!?

Is anyone else seeing some potential influence from Elvira: Mistress of the Dark? The main character having a shitty boss, dreaming of striking out on their own, suddenly leaving their life behind, moving into an inherited home, and presumably bonding with the local youth while older townsfolk demonize them. It feels very overt to me.

Not to mention both Lori and Elvira are both cunty mc's ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

You dare besmirch Elvira!?

Being cunty is a good thing

yes it's a sympathetic work towards trans people without doubt the author is very open about labels and flags, but i just think is sad that the one confirmed trans woman is always given strong features vs characters that identify as crossdressers BUT the work has much more to offer than just that so I am looking forward to what the plot is about

FWIW i understand where you come from, that previous comment i made was also directed at the people before you who i assumed thought the depiction was bigoted/transphobic. i don't think many understand these types of microaggressions even within the community can come from people with good intentions too. anyway no hate no drama, this kind of topic always sets people off so i'll just leave it there.

really enjoyed this chapter again, i did not think the title "pepperoni vampire" would become so literal to the story lmao. thank you for the TL!

I sure hope i don’t have to remind everyone that before “trans woman” and even “gay” we were all “fags” and the specifics didn’t matter to our opressors and hardly even made sense to each other. Some real Veneno or Stone butch blues shit. We love to see it. Its expressive, shows off every person’s ugliness and seems somehow deeply honest. As a post-gender tranny freak who thanks to my grandmother’s fight i can get hormones and hold a normal job. i gotta respect my mama lori

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What’s big bro’s problem