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Sophie Labelle Verville / Guillaume Labelle / Serious Trans Vibes Comics / Assigned Male / Candycore Comics / Pastel Sexy Times / WafflesArt - Obnoxious webcomics and horrific porn by a crazy fat pedo troon
I remember when Ellen's sitcom got cancelled. It went from being a reasonably funny show to one that was only about being gay in every episode. Ellen was going around to the talk shows complaining that people didn't want to watch a show about being gay, but every minute of every day was about being gay for her. I remember she was visibly offended that people didn't change their tastes to suit her identity. It was narcissism and the stories we're getting now speak to that.
That makes sense to me that Billy would be surprised, at least initially, to learn his audience was mostly alphabet people. He probably still believes that his comics are for little allies, to show them the way to grow up inclusively. He thinks he's a girl, not a woman but a girl. He can convince himself of anything.
As a gay, very few moments of my day are about being gay. That’s just a thing faggots and dykes say to excuse them being insufferable horndogs or annoying bitches.
Agree. Probably mostly the second if the people I see unironically sharing this shit is indicative of greater trends. Its got a very youngish-dumb-trend-chasing-wine-mom demo. The kinds of people those ukulele/whistling/clapping commercials were a top down camera looks at hands assembling something on a rustic cutting board are for.
That person got a free copy in exchange for an honest review. Well, I was just about to do the same, but I couldn't find the new book on any piracy sites. Luckily, I did manage to pick up a free copy of Ciel, so you're getting a review of that instead.
What's interesting to note is that the book has a translator. This was written in Poutine and translated into English?
The first paragraph. 'Introduction to character via morning routine' cliche. [CinemaSins ding]
Also, reading. [ding]
First of all, capital-I Internet. Good work!
Second, I'm already aware these kids aren't acting their age. Right of the bat, we have a part-time job and a long-distance relationship. And we already know Ciel is an aspiring youtuber? Plus, the description of the boyfriend's "broad shoulders" seems unexpectedly adult for a... how old are these characters anyway?
If the boyfriend's meant to be 12 in the photo, and Ciel is only now starting high school, then I would have guessed 14 (and they've been together for 2 years?) but it'd be weird for middle schoolers to stay in a relationship that long. Whatever, Ciel's wiki page says he's in 7th grade, but that doesn't look like it's been updated in ages.
Also: whoever wrote this wiki page is a fucking dumbass who doesn't understand that French does not have the same pronouns as English. You can't just say "she/her pronouns" because in French it'd be elle/la. Think, McFly!
ALSO also: Ciel wet the bed. lol
So I checked to see if they started high school at 9th grade/14 like in the States, but this page says they do... except for Quebec, which starts high school in 7th grade.
So they really would be 12 then. Bear that in mind while reading the rest of the review.
We got as far as page 10 before the trans word shows up. Did I mention that they're trans?!?!! Billy just couldn't resist it any longer. Since that is the purpose of the book, the purpose of the previous 9 pages (and the only reason Ciel didn't out himself on page 1) was to establish, prior to your knowledge of the character's transness, that Ciel is just a normal kid with hopes and dreams like a normal kid. It didn't work.
Also, he gave the generic definition of trans. If I'd been Labelle's editor, I'd have replaced the part in the brackets with "in my case, non-binary", since that would actually tell you about Ciel, and this is supposed to be Ciel telling you about himself. But no – that establish Ciel's character, but it's more important for the reader to know about trans people, in general.
Plus, if a character randomly announces they're transgender, andthen goes on to explain what transgender is (High Guardian Spice is another terrible example), then you know the target audience of the story is children who don't yet know the word transgender, and the purpose of the story is edu-tainment.
I remind you again that THE CHARACTER is supposed to be the one saying this.
I know we should all be used to this from Labelle's characters in general, but it's somehow more disconcerting when a character does this in a serious grown-up book (for readers aged 10-13) with no pictures in it, and not just as ramblings on someone's Tumblr blog. An actual publishing company signed off on this.
This goes on for some time. [ding]
Erikur's bisexuality is brought up. Ciel says he used to worry that Erikur might only be attracted to him because he's bisexual and not because he sees Ciel as the gender that he is – a common worry among trannies dating bisexuals. Did I mention these characters are fucking twelve?
Ciel also mentions having a Youtube channel called Ciel Is Bored, which only has 21 subscribers, and that he's saving up for a camera to use instead of his phone. That part feels dated to the early 2010s since channel names like _____ is Bored don't seem to be a thing anymore, except perhaps for low-effort vlog style channels, most of which are on Tiktok nowadays, not Youtube. And if you have any phone from the last few years, the camera on your phone would be good enough for that.
Our first mention of Stephie at the end of chapter 1, and I'm surprised this didn't come with an obligatory reminder that both types of trans are equally valid, y'all!!
Y'know, it wouldn't actually surprise me if Billy – being one of the 100% Transwoman Master Race – considers his kind to be superior to the lowly non-binaries.
Hmm...
I don't think Billy knows what colour "chestnut" is.
I'm just saying. #Quinnspiracy
Plus, it was really fucking bold of him to assume the gender of those so-called "guys". Especially when the more gender-neutral "fifth graders" was on the table.
Ah yes, how awful is is for the mainstream media to ask for opinions from an actual fucking adult and not just listen to the kids. We truly do live in a world run by and for cis people!
Stephie jokes a few paragraphs later about it also being transphobic if teachers don't give them As and no homework. But given the range of things these people are willing to ask (nay, demand) from their cis allies I can understand others not knowing what's meant as a joke and what is serious.
Right after this exchange, we have the main story conflict established. Stephie wants to go stealth at school, whereas Ciel still wants to be seen by others as transgender.
This, again, is described through the lens of transactivist rhetoric:
Again, we are told all this through Ciel's first-person narration, not through dialog the way it should be. It would have so easy to communicate this through dialog as it's not like the kids wouldn't have said these exact things in a conversation with each other, instead of constantly breaking the reader's immersion to explain things!
At the end of chapter 2, when Stephie and Ciel finally have a conversation that more than a few lines long, it's mostly just to describe things happened to Ciel that day – stuff that doesn't need to explained through dialog because you could have just shown it happening. Billy even began writing a scene in the classroom but it abruptly ends and we skip straight ahead to Ciel saying what happened. Dialog is a precious tool to establish the characters' motivations, yet so much of it is wasted on descriptions of events.
I'll decide based on reactions to this post whether it's worth reviewing the rest of the book.
whew - good thing there isn't really dick talk at a gender reveal party.
unless Gina is going to, eh, "responsible kink" parties...was anyone discussing "more lube?"
uh oh...I see the vieled reference now
....bris, khatna-kilish, etc
sounding antisemitic AND islamophobic all at the same time
but that's just different flavor of sand-nigger for ole Gina.
crypto-nazi much GIna?
Q : Is "pandora" a reference to dilation?
seems like it's force feeding gender on kids.
I really don’t know who that book is for, at first I thought it must be for pre-teens the way it was written (I think it’s also common practice to have characters around the age of the target audience?) but then Billy starts dropping slurs like fag out of nowhere.
Also it’s really creepy having a in depth relationship between two 12 year olds, one who is described as being much more mature and one as being much less so.
at first I thought it must be for pre-teens the way it was written (I think it’s also common practice to have characters around the age of the target audience?) but then Billy starts dropping slurs like fag out of nowhere.
And even if the prose wasn't so terrible, I would still have questions like "OK you acknowledge Erikur looks like a 35 year old like how you draw him by saying he has broad shoulders but like... anyone that has seen this character illustrated would never think he was middle or even high school age."
Which then opens up the next empowering social justice story arc: Erikur that Age-Kin. "I may be 35, but mentally I am 13! It would be literal abuse for me to date outside my brain-age!" (chorus: yaaaaaassssking slaaaaay)
That person got a free copy in exchange for an honest review. Well, I was just about to do the same, but I couldn't find the new book on any piracy sites. Luckily, I did manage to pick up a free copy of Ciel, so you're getting a review of that instead.
Second, I'm already aware these kids aren't acting their age. Right of the bat, we have a part-time job and a long-distance relationship. And we already know Ciel is an aspiring youtuber? Plus, the description of the boyfriend's "broad shoulders" seems unexpectedly adult for a... how old are these characters anyway?
If the boyfriend's meant to be 12 in the photo, and Ciel is only now starting high school, then I would have guessed 14 (and they've been together for 2 years?) but it'd be weird for middle schoolers to stay in a relationship that long. Whatever, Ciel's wiki page says he's in 7th grade, but that doesn't look like it's been updated in ages.
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Also: whoever wrote this wiki page is a fucking dumbass who doesn't understand that French does not have the same pronouns as English. You can't just say "she/her pronouns" because in French it'd be elle/la. Think, McFly!
ALSO also: Ciel wet the bed. lol
So I checked to see if they started high school at 9th grade/14 like in the States, but this page says they do... except for Quebec, which starts high school in 7th grade.
So they really would be 12 then. Bear that in mind while reading the rest of the review.
We got as far as page 10 before the trans word shows up. Did I mention that they're trans?!?!! Billy just couldn't resist it any longer. Since that is the purpose of the book, the purpose of the previous 9 pages (and the only reason Ciel didn't out himself on page 1) was to establish, prior to your knowledge of the character's transness, that Ciel is just a normal kid with hopes and dreams like a normal kid. It didn't work.
Also, he gave the generic definition of trans. If I'd been Labelle's editor, I'd have replaced the part in the brackets with "in my case, non-binary", since that would actually tell you about Ciel, and this is supposed to be Ciel telling you about himself. But no – that establish Ciel's character, but it's more important for the reader to know about trans people, in general.
Plus, if a character randomly announces they're transgender, andthen goes on to explain what transgender is (High Guardian Spice is another terrible example), then you know the target audience of the story is children who don't yet know the word transgender, and the purpose of the story is edu-tainment.
I remind you again that THE CHARACTER is supposed to be the one saying this.
I know we should all be used to this from Labelle's characters in general, but it's somehow more disconcerting when a character does this in a serious grown-up book (for readers aged 10-13) with no pictures in it, and not just as ramblings on someone's Tumblr blog. An actual publishing company signed off on this.
Erikur's bisexuality is brought up. Ciel says he used to worry that Erikur might only be attracted to him because he's bisexual and not because he sees Ciel as the gender that he is – a common worry among trannies dating bisexuals. Did I mention these characters are fucking twelve?
Ciel also mentions having a Youtube channel called Ciel Is Bored, which only has 21 subscribers, and that he's saving up for a camera to use instead of his phone. That part feels dated to the early 2010s since channel names like _____ is Bored don't seem to be a thing anymore, except perhaps for low-effort vlog style channels, most of which are on Tiktok nowadays, not Youtube. And if you have any phone from the last few years, the camera on your phone would be good enough for that.
Our first mention of Stephie at the end of chapter 1, and I'm surprised this didn't come with an obligatory reminder that both types of trans are equally valid, y'all!!
Y'know, it wouldn't actually surprise me if Billy – being one of the 100% Transwoman Master Race – considers his kind to be superior to the lowly non-binaries.
Plus, it was really fucking bold of him to assume the gender of those so-called "guys". Especially when the more gender-neutral "fifth graders" was on the table.
Ah yes, how awful is is for the mainstream media to ask for opinions from an actual fucking adult and not just listen to the kids. We truly do live in a world run by and for cis people!
Stephie jokes a few paragraphs later about it also being transphobic if teachers don't give them As and no homework. But given the range of things these people are willing to ask (nay, demand) from their cis allies I can understand others not knowing what's meant as a joke and what is serious.
Right after this exchange, we have the main story conflict established. Stephie wants to go stealth at school, whereas Ciel still wants to be seen by others as transgender.
This, again, is described through the lens of transactivist rhetoric:
Again, we are told all this through Ciel's first-person narration, not through dialog the way it should be. It would have so easy to communicate this through dialog as it's not like the kids wouldn't have said these exact things in a conversation with each other, instead of constantly breaking the reader's immersion to explain things!
At the end of chapter 2, when Stephie and Ciel finally have a conversation that more than a few lines long, it's mostly just to describe things happened to Ciel that day – stuff that doesn't need to explained through dialog because you could have just shown it happening. Billy even began writing a scene in the classroom but it abruptly ends and we skip straight ahead to Ciel saying what happened. Dialog is a precious tool to establish the characters' motivations, yet so much of it is wasted on descriptions of events.
I'll decide based on reactions to this post whether it's worth reviewing the rest of the book.
