Nice!
A few questions:
What is your opinion about the fact that everyone assumed you were a troon when they first heard of you?
What's up with Shmorky's turtlenecks?
WTF is "Erotic Hypnosis"?
Stay frosty Mandy, and don't Halal yourself.
It wouldn't have been the first time someone thought I was troon. When I wear certain shirts it looks like I have broad shoulders. Still though, I'm 5' 1" so it's hard to make that confusion. My voice kind of has a weird, deep-ish quality to it, so on recordings I may come across that way. Also I have "SJW hair" (I've had dyed hair about a decade before Tumblr was even invented, fuck them for appropriating my culture), so I can see where people would assume things. I also don't think people expected Shmorky to be with a cis girl, so again they just assumed I was a troon. Some people also thought I was an Female-to-male as well because I occasionally get really obsessed with weight lifting and say things like "look at my man muscles!" and people took that as I was literally transitioning to being a man. That was something Shmorky actually pushed on me though, because he said "I have more guy interests and a guy attitude" so I should think about becoming a guy. I thought about it for a couple days and then just thought "why does it even matter?" Gender is just something that's ultimately cosmetic and skin deep, plus I'm heterosexual, so why would I want to be a man if I like men? But anyway, I'm not a troon, so it doesn't bother me at all. It would be like accusing me of having 3 noses, it's something completely untrue so it doesn't phase me when people think it.
About the turtlenecks, Shmorky had this weird belief that the turtlenecks would prevent him from aging. Like, if he wore a turtleneck 24/7 it would keep the muscles in his neck and chin taut. I tried to tell him that I don't think skin works that way, but he insisted that the turtlenecks would preserve a "youthful" appearance on him. It wasn't just turtlenecks either, he would wear these weird balaclava ski hood things (he had this exact one) over his head and face a lot. He would often take long walks at night wearing this thing over his face and was stopped by cops a few times because they thought he was trying to rob shit. Whenever I managed to drag him out of the house without makeup on (which was almost never) he would be wearing it over his face. This got him a lot of weird stares...but then again Shmorky always got weird stares. Now that I think about it, I don't think we ever left the house without him covering up EVERY INCH of his skin. Even if it was 100 degrees outside, he would be wearing a turtleneck. This is again why I think he did something, or something fucked up happened in his past, and that's why he went to such great lengths to hide his real name, real age, and identity from people. He claimed that part of it was because he had rabid fans that had "stalked" him in the past, one even going so far as to track down where he lived and show up at his door. I can assure you that in all the time I lived with him, nobody "stalked" him.
Erotic hypnosis is just like any other hypnosis, but it nets you a lot more money. I do actually know hypnosis and have gotten people to stop smoking, lose weight and shit like that, and done stage shows, but the reality is you make money a lot faster with the erotic stuff. I don't want to turn this into a powerlevel post, so if you PM I'll get more into detail and show you my youtube channel.
It's not something I really liked doing, but when you're living with this bozo who thinks $639 a month on Patreon is "making it in life" you do what you have to do to not be homeless.
https://www.patreon.com/shmorky
I think it's very telling that just about every single one of Shmorky's comics is tagged with "Depression."