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Part 2 of a mini-comic by MilkyTrickster

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The trap of falling right back into gender expectations! Took me months to get over it, arguabley I still haven't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

lovely comic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I have tried to u der stand this comic every time I see it (by now about 8 times) and I just don't get it. You read it from left to right, correct? In the top left image, who is even the person speaking?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It is the internal voice of the female-presenting person in the far left corner of the first picture. All of the text is essentially the internal monologue of the comic's creator, MilkyTrickster. He retells his struggles with his looks, until the moment he realized that he doesn't need to pass as a man in order to accept his own trans identity.