The Pandora’s Tale excitement doesn’t stop with the book release! I’ve nearly finished Chapter 8 and I’ll be posting it starting next week, a new page every weekday. Don’t forget that $5 Patreon subscribers will get to read the whole thing in one go next Wednesday! In the meantime, here’s a preview of the front cover, which is based on a painting by one of my favorite artists. See you next week!
Things don’t always line up the way it seems like they would or should. Clothes can be an expression, but also mean something different to everyone. Gender is an experience, not a fixed location.
Please check out Laneha House, the small press who edited and printed the anthology The BAYlies that this is included in!
“I consider myself trans masculine. Throughout my life I’ve swung between presenting more masculine and more feminine.”
“It’s not that I felt equally boy and girl, it was more like… [BOY MODE] [GIRL SUBROUTINE]”
“Sometimes dressing "as a boy” would just make my dysphoria worse.“
"Excuse me, young lady!” [FAILURE]
“And sometimes dressing "as a girl” could enhance the boy feeling. (Maybe my wires got crossed or something…) It was kinda like it make me hyper aware of it.“
"Gender identity doesn’t always align with typical expectations of masculine or feminine gender expression. I just want to wear what makes me feel good!”
What can I say?! I drew this comic about a time that I had fun being a huge dork with some of my best friends! Can anyone relate to feeling like Halloween is a time you can finally express yourself?
This is my contribution for the anthology I edited, Trans-Affirming Magical Care, a trans-themed Harry Potter anthology featuring works by 20 trans fans and allies. It’s available for sale as a perfect-bound book or a downloadable PDF, with all proceeds of the book going to charity: https://gum.co/transHPzine
I can’t even begin to outline the series of puns that led up to this; Trans-Serif, the comic adventures of a transgender typographer.
I threw this together because the concept was too good to leave alone, but if I were to, say, actuallymake a strip comic out of this, I do have a typographic consultant lined up to make it on-point.
Reposting this one because it’s gonna be another miserably hot day. I drew this 3 years ago (almost) to the day. To anyone who binds, you are in my thoughts. It’s one of the most uncomfortable things I’ve done. It’s incredibly awful in the summer. Be safe. Stay hydrated. If it’s possible, try a sports bra or go without compressing your chest. Wear cotton and linen. Choose a mid-length binder over the full-length ones. Some suggest baby powder under the binder. For folks with friends who bind, invite them to your air conditioned houses/apartments. Maybe offer them rides in your air conditioned cars if they bike or take public transportation. I never wanted to go anywhere during the summer when I was binding because I knew the trek would be sweaty and awful.
Hi everyone! Really cool news! Eth’s Skin is up for an award!
My comic Eth’s Skin has been nominated for the @seqmagazine Awards for 2019! The vote is open to the public, so everyone who wants to vote can vote, and it would mean a lot to me to get your vote in the Best Webcomic category for Eth’s Skin! Voting is open until February 9th and the link to vote is RIGHT HERE >>> https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/XVCsQ0
It’d really help if you felt like spreading the word, too! Supporting trans and queer content creators making trans and queer work! Thank you so much!!!
I came out a whole year ago today, via my first-ever comic (it was really bad) which you can check out right here So here’s a revamped version, I love you all very much, here’s to another year out & another year of comics, beans.
This summer was a really sweaty one, and I didn’t realize that it had repercussions until recently! I basically got the equivalent of athlete’s foot except on my tum, so now my doctor has me rubbing tea tree oil on my spots and Drew keeps making jokes about how I’m a real fun guy.
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This comic is kind of a sequel to last week’s. I am happy with my fuzz, but there is a lot of conversation that comes up with it. I have a pending referral for an endocrinologist, but it’s not for a while, and I’m trying to just embrace that sometimes people are hairy! It doesn’t need to be for any reason that is known or makes sense.
One of my favourite stories about transitioning while hairy is by Sabah Choudrey, and you can read it here!
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This week we have a short timeline of my relationship with my face fuzz, ending where we are today! I feel like I sort of dodged a bullet in terms of where my plucking was going, and I’m happy that I get to experiment with how I express myself using what my face grows on its own. c:
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This week we have the origin story of Styx, the newest addition to the household. We were worried that it would be weird having another cat so soon after Tibi’s passing, but it’s actually went really well!
…Except for the part where she got sick and had to spend half of her first week with us at the vet’s.
But for real, she’s doing great now! And we’re doing great, too.
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AND WE’RE BACK! The week I had off from GQutie went better than I could have imagined! I made lots of art and did lots of work cleaning up the apartment, including my new office! That’s right, I actually have a desk and a chair that don’t hurt my back!!
This week’s comic is a reference to my well-known Mongoose comic. I totally think you can identify as whatever forest creature you like, I just personally like opossums as I, too, play dead when I’m scared. :’D They, along with vultures, are also largely immune to rabies and help remove virus from the environments they scavenge in!
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I’ve been trying to hold on, but I’m totally swamped, y’all. I’ve had lots of additional work, I hurt my back again, and I’m starting new medication. And that’s after the whirlwind of July and the beginning of August!
BUT, this isn’t a hiatus! I’m just taking a week (two at most) to build a little bit of buffer so I can handle the nonsense that life seems to keep handing me.
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Hey, everyone! I only missed a week, but it’s still so good to be back.
For this comic I want to assure you that it’s totally cool that you did that One Embarrassing Thing in front of That One Cool Person, because I’ve totally done it too. :’D
In other news, hey it’s my birthday on Thursday!! I’m turning 24 this year, which I’m sure is really old for some of you and really young for others of you. Regardless of where you are though, y’all are pretty awesome. <333
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Being a trans and mentally ill/ neurodiverse immigrant in Canada is full of nervous “what-ifs”. After talking with my doctor though, it seems I don’t have much to worry about. The main difference between my case and the case of the kid with Down’s is that my mental health and gender didn’t come up on the required physical exam for my permanent residence app (I’m sure not being on hormones helped), whereas his did.
I’m doing as well as I am in Canada (Ontario) because I am white and middle class with a white and middle class spouse, no doubt. Everyone else is at risk for denial at best and indefinite detention at worst. (CW: link contains description of abuse at immigration detention centres)
But that doesn’t stop the process from being stressful, ugh.
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This week’s comic is some recreations of photos Drew and I have taken in the past few months. I didn’t realize until I was flipping through them that we actually take a LOT of silly selfies.
You could say we….
….can’t keep a straight face
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A slightly more narrative comic is up this week! I wish supporting the mental health of students was a greater consideration in schools (and also that schools were less of a deciding factor in peoples’ well being in life, but yanno). I had SOME awareness that this was happening when I was still in university, but a lot of the bigger picture is only just starting to sharpen now, two years after graduation! And I’m still FAR from convincing any older adults in my life that “bad students” aren’t failing so much as society is failing them.
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Only a minor update today. Drew and I recently lost one of our cats, Tibi. She’s had a lot of struggles, and we suspected she wouldn’t live as long as a lot of cats, but we didn’t think it would be so soon or so sudden.
I miss her, and I’m really sad that none of y’all will get to meet her. EVERYONE who met her loved her right away, and she was a big fan of the attention. The only comic she showed up in was the one I posted a couple weeks ago. Still, she’s a big part of my life and will probably show up in future comics.
Thanks for the love, Tibi. I hope you liked all the pets. <3
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This week we have a little bit of angst. I tend to cope with stress by playing a video game or something else that’s not related to the stressy thing, but I also really like snuggling our animals (when they want to be snuggled, anyway).
I hope you all get to touch a cute animal today, and remember that you can totally live like there will be a tomorrow. <3
(PS: I totally love GQutie and my other comics work, I’ve just been itching to draw other things as well and I’m occasionally fussy about not being able to do it IMMEDIATELY RIGHT NOW)
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I’ve mentioned my pudge a couple times in this comic, and I’ve only continued to slowly but steadily gain weight since then. It’s of course brought to my attention all of the fatphobia that had been seeded in me since forever, but it’s also brought tiny joys as well! I have entertained myself lots of times just poking and jiggling all around in the mirror, and I highly recommend it!
You can read a more in-depth comic about how I personally address my feelings around my body in this comic. <3
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[NOTE: I wasn’t able to find the specific technique that I was suspended with, so this is just pieced together from other ones I found. Please don’t use this as a reference for safe suspension!! Do your research/practice on consenting parties/always have safety scissors on hand/etc.]
I haven’t been all that involved in the BDSM community since moving to Peterborough for a variety of reasons (sigh), but this is still a fond memory and it’s great to see the reactions!
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Guess what! YEP, IT’S MORE PET COMICS! Sheppard is one of our two cats, the being Tibi. Sheppard looks like a tiny panther when he’s relaxing, but really he’s a giant baby and gets startled easily.
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(Note: this conversation didn’t actually happen, being frustrated at a Service Ontario clerk wouldn’t have changed my situation XP)
To elaborate on the story, everyone in Ontario has access to the province’s insurance (OHIP), which is great! Except as an immigrant, I don’t have access to the insurance until I’m either granted permanent residence (which takes about three years in my case) or I can prove that I’m working full time. I was recently able to provide that proof, but that was only after two years uninsured and unable to work until Drew and I payed to treat my depression out of pocket.
So yeah, I’m a little frustrated that in order to get the health care I needed to work, I needed to work to get the health care I needed….
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Sorry for putting this up fairly late in the day! I didn’t catch con crud from TCAF but I’m still pretty tuckered out from it.
I haven’t listened to a lot of musicals recently, so I had forgotten why I banned myself from listening second acts while working. Hamilton reminded me. :’)
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GQutie has had a big part in practicing self-love, by drawing the parts of me I don’t like until I slowly grow to enjoy them. But my dislike of my voice is still the hardest to address, partly because it’s in the grey area of maybe-dysphoria-maybe-not.
To translate my silly academic feminist jargon, I feel like I sound gross when I speak really fast/with a high pitch (usually when I’m really excited), but that kind of voice is pooped on a lot by society so no wonder. :P Hopefully I’ll feel better about it someday.
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