So far none of the comic has made be actually feel bad for her apart from this one because its clear she is emotionally stunted, an important part of growing up is coming to terms with the fact that change happens, is natural and 90% of the time is irreversible so chasing the pipedream of turning back the clock is only going to cause more pain.
Isn't it well documented One Direction fell apart/some of the members stopped being friends because the obsessive fujoshits like Maia wrote a lot of smutty fics like the one she apparently wrote and it fucked with them hard?
This lines up nicely with her lack of reading comprehension she practically revealed early on. It makes it funnier that every time reading/writing fanfiction comes up, the font becomes le-scribal and sometimes sparkly because it's "magical" like we're supposed to be impressed she can read words. She acts so scribacious and loquacious because she otherwise has nothing of value to add to the discussion that's not gay shit. And even then she's extremely vapid in that regard.
I don't know how you masturbate to Symposium. It's a bunch of speeches about love in the abstract, there are no scenes of men rubbing boys knobs or anything else explict I can remember. Socrates gets hit on by a young man and he turns him down, because Socrates'es (Plato's) position in this is that true love is abstract (platonic) contemplation of beauty and that physical love is an inferior copy.
That's why I was wondering if there was some modern derivative work (other than the reference in Hedwig). It's just a bunch of dudes talking philosophy inside a frame story, although they do mention forms romantic love can take a little bit. Spergs have masturbated to weirder things, so I assumed she was imagining some kind of "meanwhile" in her head, or maybe she was just picturing being diddled in the context of a generic noble-dudes-drinking-and-talking party.
This is the only way I would accept a comic like this in children's libraries. Everyone here is a Kiwifarmer, and therefore much more intimately familiar with how badly mental illness + internet can screw a person up. But for normies, and the kids of normies, I really think they just don't know. Austism in particular is often misrepresented or treated as some kind of character "quirk" in popular culture rather than a real impairment that exerts a tangible impact on the victim's ability to function throughout their life. The one good thing about Maia being too obtuse to figure out what she should hide is that it make her a perfect example of how social disorders should never be glossed over or ignored.
At some point I think she got it in her head that she wanted to be a smart person, and that this was something you could brute force into being without having to actually, y'know, think.
I'm willing to give it a pass since Maia would be completely phone illiterate.
Setting up Tinder for Maia and writing her a profile would be a lot like handing your toddler sister a gun to play with, then pausing for a moment and realizing that because of her developmental stage you're going to have to load it for her.
Or maybe the lady really was a cheap-o dyke who didn't want to dirty up some of her best merchandise and went with one that wasn't flying off the shelves.
Good find, but I have a tangential question.
When I took martial arts we pronounced uke as “ookee” but that may be wrong. In martial arts it’s the “receiving” partner in partner drills, e.g. the guy you’re going to throw or headlock or whatever. I didn’t realize the yaoishits had co-opted it into a “gender” lol
This place is so educational; thank you!
Uke is a japanese word so it's oo rather than yoo. Think the word Okay but with an oo at the front rather than the long O.
What if Audrey read Gender Queer, went "literally me", and then went psycho? Do we happen to know the timeline for when Audrey decided she was a pooner by any chance?
Really missing the old man
Let me put it this way: if this was a comic about a man drawing futa or sissy hypno on the path to transition, the controversy around it would be stronger. Society tends to see the "fandom" shit women do as cutsey and safe, something tweens and teens do while they squee over K-pop group #243534234. Note that we just get "the One Direction boys are ~lusting over each other~ and it's ~destroying their friendship.~" Maia doesn't explain how this happens. Given her state of development, it could be a drama light novel with some smut. but take a lot of fandom out of fandom and the perversion becomes more apparent. Think of Twilight (which is repurposed BDSM fanfiction itself) and the other woman/monster novels. People hate the books because they suck, but they also portray abusive behavior as intrepid and sexy. It's a more subtle kind of perversion.
), it's another to actually see it. The comic's naïve, innocent style can only hide so much. If it were a man, would the style be different? Probably. There are a couple SJW/tranny art threads where trannies try to mimic how they think girls would draw, or hyperfocus on certain features for that idealized ~so feminine~ look. How that controversy would work mostly depends on the man's connections, but instead of trying to hide the fetishes behind lacking anatomy and detail, they would be dressed up in exaggerated details and over-the-top idealization.
Funnily enough, Everything you've said here is directly supported by Maia herself. Check out this old Gender Queer comic, where she's very explicit about what she really hates when she looks in the mirror:
