Like I know that not homophobes/transphobes are self hating but like
His stuff SCREAMS closeted to me. Imo it's the flowery, soft, art style and how much he obsesses over trans people. Reminds me of how I was before I came out of the closet.
Are the characters observing the scenes usually women too? The character in this scene seems like it's supposed to represent the author looking at the scene. It seems like a transona.
Tats is a bizarre character. He started out as a slightly edgy webcomic with some clear inspiration from things like Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, and South Park. Then he became like a hardcore male radical feminist, and especially railed against pornography, and now he's just a normal fascist.
He has a male personality but it doesn't show up often these days. A lot of comics show women speaking up for "true feminism"
And just the amount of anti-trans comics is staggering. Even stonetoss takes a break from bashing trans people, Tatsuya Ishida thinks about trans people more than the average trans person.
Yeah, the girl on the big wheel trike is like the main, idk, feminist resistance leader or something? God, dude was always a little off but there's nothing left in that skull but brainworms now.
I dunno I just made up that word, could already have been used by others though? I know things like anime dressup games have been a meme in traa so it kinda feels like making characters that you identify with is a thing? A lot of trans people previously used female videogame avatars before they even realised they were trans so that's kind of a "transona" if you will.
ahh ok yeah i've been there. my user name here is basically named after my "transona" which was originally an OC created by a friend of mine long long ago that i adopted and expanded on.
i guess it was both healthy and unhealthy at once because it let me distance myself from that side for a long time by basically being like "yeah there's a girl that lives in my head" not realizing "oh wait that girl is me"
Now I'm cis and do occasionally like to play girls in DnD and stuff but to write a longrunning comic where the author practically screams repressed while constantly portraying himself as a woman is certainly something.
Tats needs help, and I'm not sure they're getting it, but it might help them figure stuff out.
Originally, it was Slick. But over time he became obsessed with Monique and made her the focal point of a bunch of subplots. Now its Slick's foil, the radlib gang of TERF children fighting armies of zombie transgender teenagers.
Tats needs help, and I’m not sure they’re getting it, but it might help them figure stuff out.
I get the sense that the author's been churning this shit out for way too long and just needs to touch some fucking grass. If nothing else, just end the comic and start something new. The setting is far beyond its expiration date.
I read through the entire Twitter thread someone else linked, and honestly, I didn't really get that after reading through it. Even with the very eggy individual comics, the thread paints him as some porn obsessed weirdo who's ashamed about being a porn obsessed weirdo. This explains his turn from South Park-esque edgelord to radfem swerf since South Park is not actually prudish at all when it comes to sex.
The question is why does he feel ashamed for being obsessed with porn. Certainly, there are trans women who experience terrible dysphoria for ejaculating, but from the comics, his shame seems to mostly come from culturally-influenced-by-Christianity-through-cultural-osmosis-without-necessarily-being-a-religiously-observant-Christian brainworms. It's just a lot of "pursuing hedonism is bad."
This explains why he never bashes Christianity quite as hard as South Park (I keep on making comparisons to South Park because they all graduated from college at around the same time, meaning they're around the same age) and why he was so quick to jump from a terf to a Christofascist, skipping an intermediate alt-right phase. The radfem phase was just a way for him to hate on porn without the other baggage that Christianity comes with.
And yet, he can still not let go. I think there was even a Christofascist era comic from that thread where he still has grips with porn. A pathetic fifty-something year old still internally crying that he can watch porn on the Interwebs.
Porn really is his Moby Dick. From Hell's heart, he stabs at pictures of titties.
Imo his comics just reek of repression.
Like I know that not homophobes/transphobes are self hating but like
His stuff SCREAMS closeted to me. Imo it's the flowery, soft, art style and how much he obsesses over trans people. Reminds me of how I was before I came out of the closet.
Are the characters observing the scenes usually women too? The character in this scene seems like it's supposed to represent the author looking at the scene. It seems like a transona.
Tats is a bizarre character. He started out as a slightly edgy webcomic with some clear inspiration from things like Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, and South Park. Then he became like a hardcore male radical feminist, and especially railed against pornography, and now he's just a normal fascist.
okay, well not normal, but you know what i mean
Yeah, when MAGA people started showing up as heroes who were going to save the world or something, like, woah dude.
He has a male personality but it doesn't show up often these days. A lot of comics show women speaking up for "true feminism"
And just the amount of anti-trans comics is staggering. Even stonetoss takes a break from bashing trans people, Tatsuya Ishida thinks about trans people more than the average trans person.
(CW: Mild CHUD content) https://nitter.net/TatsuyaIshida9/status/1620261543991726080?cxt=HHwWgMDSzcXSqfwsAAAA
Yeah, the girl on the big wheel trike is like the main, idk, feminist resistance leader or something? God, dude was always a little off but there's nothing left in that skull but brainworms now.
hol up are transonas really a thing?!?
I dunno I just made up that word, could already have been used by others though? I know things like anime dressup games have been a meme in traa so it kinda feels like making characters that you identify with is a thing? A lot of trans people previously used female videogame avatars before they even realised they were trans so that's kind of a "transona" if you will.
ahh ok yeah i've been there. my user name here is basically named after my "transona" which was originally an OC created by a friend of mine long long ago that i adopted and expanded on.
i guess it was both healthy and unhealthy at once because it let me distance myself from that side for a long time by basically being like "yeah there's a girl that lives in my head" not realizing "oh wait that girl is me"
Lmaoo :yea:
His self insert character is Monique.
Now I'm cis and do occasionally like to play girls in DnD and stuff but to write a longrunning comic where the author practically screams repressed while constantly portraying himself as a woman is certainly something.
Tats needs help, and I'm not sure they're getting it, but it might help them figure stuff out.
Originally, it was Slick. But over time he became obsessed with Monique and made her the focal point of a bunch of subplots. Now its Slick's foil, the radlib gang of TERF children fighting armies of zombie transgender teenagers.
I get the sense that the author's been churning this shit out for way too long and just needs to touch some fucking grass. If nothing else, just end the comic and start something new. The setting is far beyond its expiration date.
they made him look soft :thinking-about-it:
I read through the entire Twitter thread someone else linked, and honestly, I didn't really get that after reading through it. Even with the very eggy individual comics, the thread paints him as some porn obsessed weirdo who's ashamed about being a porn obsessed weirdo. This explains his turn from South Park-esque edgelord to radfem swerf since South Park is not actually prudish at all when it comes to sex.
The question is why does he feel ashamed for being obsessed with porn. Certainly, there are trans women who experience terrible dysphoria for ejaculating, but from the comics, his shame seems to mostly come from culturally-influenced-by-Christianity-through-cultural-osmosis-without-necessarily-being-a-religiously-observant-Christian brainworms. It's just a lot of "pursuing hedonism is bad."
This explains why he never bashes Christianity quite as hard as South Park (I keep on making comparisons to South Park because they all graduated from college at around the same time, meaning they're around the same age) and why he was so quick to jump from a terf to a Christofascist, skipping an intermediate alt-right phase. The radfem phase was just a way for him to hate on porn without the other baggage that Christianity comes with.
And yet, he can still not let go. I think there was even a Christofascist era comic from that thread where he still has grips with porn. A pathetic fifty-something year old still internally crying that he can watch porn on the Interwebs.
Porn really is his Moby Dick. From Hell's heart, he stabs at pictures of titties.