I liked the artstyle of The Pervert but it couldn't save the goddawful "I'm a slutty ladyboy whore who has family issues" story. You can polish a turd and slap a troon flag on it, but that won't stop it being a turd.
...I knew about this artist in 2018 and was looking forward to download and read 920London. I didn't know about her other comics having a writer, much less enthusiastic now that I know it's this weirdo.
Still, as much as I hate that it's butchered with awful writing, I'm going to download the comics for the colorful art, because I aspire for a lot in this artstyle. Furstuff or not.
...I knew about this artist in 2018 and was looking forward to download and read 920London. I didn't know her other comics having a writer, much less now that I know it's this weirdo.
Still, as much as I hate that it's butchered with awful writing, I'm going to download the comics for the colorful art, because I aspire for a lot in this artstyle. Putting aside furstuff of course.
I've read London920 myself and have mulled over possibly reviewing it since it's somewhat relevant to The Pervert, but to be honest it's just retarded old scene doomer stuff.
The Pervert was a great review because it's wonderfully narcissistic in lolcow fashion and the fact Boydell, the artist fucking hated working with Perez makes it all the more better.
I need to get the book club rolling again, when I do it'll be on a personal art cow who make a half finished comic as a tribute to a fellow troon that 41%ed.
I've read London920 myself and have mulled over possibly reviewing it since it's somewhat relevant to The Pervert, but to be honest it's just retarded old scene doomer stuff.
The Pervert was a great review because it's wonderfully narcissistic in lolcow fashion and the fact Boydell, the artist fucking hated working with Perez makes it all the more better.
I need to get the book club rolling again, when I do it'll be on a personal art cow who make a half finished comic as a tribute to a fellow troon that 41%ed.
Yeah, there always has to be something more to push people into criticizing the work of a person, both trans and not.
Ego is a good example, as well as writing pro-trans morals that sounds more like delirious propaganda that gives one more reason for normal trans people to turn that 41 into 42% (and the Main reason Sopie Labelle is a lolcow...)
today i am going to write about the band Against Me!, favorite of lil punk teens in the 2000s and my first exposure to witnessing trooning in real time.
there isn’t actually a lot of unique drama associated with them, but i had an unexpected day off work and nothing else to do, so i figured i would just write a little review/timeline from my memories to contribute to this thread and keep it alive.
Against Me! is (was?) a punk band from Florida that starting getting really popular in the scene around 2003. they have one lyricist and singer, Tom Gabel, now known as Laura Jane Grace. their earliest and best music has a low-fi feel with folky/country influence. they first released a demo tape (which i find unremarkable) in 1997. not much to say about it but you can find the whole thing on youtube if you want.
next, they released a bunch of really good albums in quick succession, 1 per year. here’s a few tracks i like.
then, they signed to a major label in 2003, they blew up, and started touring nationwide. in 2005 they released their first Billboard charting album, Searching for a Former Clarity, and in the lyrics of the final eponymous song, we get our first hint of what is to come.
sus:
but otherwise, i thought the album was pretty good, although a lot of people hated the more straightforward rock music and polished sound. in 2005 no one knew what AGP was so no one even talked about or noticed those lyrics.
from 2007-2010 they released a couple albums that truly sucked giga ass and also were played on MTV. not much to discuss here. if you listened to the radio during this time you definitely heard something by them.
in 2012, the singer, Tom Gabel, announced to everyone through an article in Rolling Stone that he was a True and Honest Laydee, and that his name was now Laura Jane Grace. soon after his wife left him, lmao.
gee, i wonder why she left.
spoiler: he never got the chop, and he still looks like a 6’2” man in a dress.
in 2014, they released their next album, titled (are you ready?) Transgender Dysphoria Blues. in an extremely surprising twist, this album actually fucking rocks, except for the worst tranny song i’ve heard in my life (so far).
this song rules:
unimaginable auditory torment:
anyway, that’s it for my tale of woe and trooning. they released one more album but i never listened to it because i stopped caring. as of August 2022, they are on indefinite hiatus.
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Tom Gabel/Laura Jane Grace on a pilgrimage to TDS Mecca, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, in August 2021
I enjoy this artsyle, it's fun. Too bad the writer is on their way to doing the same thing that Ryan kid who went to doctor Sidhbh and going to accidentally fuck up their body even more than gender confirmation surgery alone.
Bariatric surgery isn't designed to mutilate you, it's designed to keep you from indulging in bad habits and from increasing your chances of blood clots, heart attacks, stroke, and so on. The author is like most trans people where they're blissfully unaware that surgery high last for about 3-6 months, maybe less, then huh, you're stuck maintaining wounds. Forever. And you log off trans reddit and never talk about your botched surgery, you just sit there shell shocked and sad.
today i am going to write about the band Against Me!, favorite of lil punk teens in the 2000s and my first exposure to witnessing trooning in real time.
there isn’t actually a lot of unique drama associated with them, but i had an unexpected day off work and nothing else to do, so i figured i would just write a little review/timeline from my memories to contribute to this thread and keep it alive.
Against Me! is (was?) a punk band from Florida that starting getting really popular in the scene around 2003. they have one lyricist and singer, Tom Gabel, now known as Laura Jane Grace. their earliest and best music has a low-fi feel with folky/country influence. they first released a demo tape (which i find unremarkable) in 1997. not much to say about it but you can find the whole thing on youtube if you want.
next, they released a bunch of really good albums in quick succession, 1 per year. here’s a few tracks i like.
then, they signed to a major label in 2003, they blew up, and started touring nationwide. in 2005 they released their first Billboard charting album, Searching for a Former Clarity, and here, in the lyrics of the final song, we get our first hint of what is to come.
but otherwise, i thought the album was pretty good, although a lot of people hated the more straightforward rock music and polished sound. in 2005 no one knew what AGP was so no one even talked about or noticed those lyrics.
from 2007-2010 they released a couple albums that truly sucked giga ass and also were played on MTV. not much to discuss here. if you listened to the radio during this time you definitely heard something by them.
in 2012, the singer, Tom Gabel, announced to everyone through an article in Rolling Stone that he was a True and Honest Laydee, and that his name was now Laura Jane Grace. soon after his wife left him, lmao.
gee, i wonder why she left.
spoiler: he never got the chop, and he still looks like a 6’2” man in a dress.
in 2014, they released their next album, titled (are you ready?) Transgender Dysphoria Blues. in an extremely surprising twist, this album actually fucking rocks, except for the worst tranny song i’ve heard in my life (so far).
this song rules:
unimaginable auditory torment:
anyway, that’s it for my tale of woe and trooning. they released one more album but i never listened to it because i stopped caring. as of August 2022, they are on indefinite hiatus.
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Tom Gabel/Laura Jane Grace on a pilgrimage to TDS Mecca, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, in August 2021
This post was a delightful little trip down memory lane for me. I was also a fan of those terrible radio albums from 2007-2010 (sorry not sorry). For more lyrics before the transition, in The Ocean (2007), we have:
And if I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman
My mother once told me she would have named me Laura
I'd grow up to be strong and beautiful like her
One day, I'd find an honest man to make my husband
He's still touring to this day under just Laura Jane Grace - I think Against Me! might be completely done. He's also quite active on twitter. The funny thing is he doesn't look like a dude in a dress anymore, he cut off all his hair and just looks like a dude, to the point where I actually wonder if maybe he's on the road to detrans.
I highly recommend seeing him in concert if you get the chance. He still sounds the same, and plays the good old songs, and the people watching is fantastic. It's the same demographics you get at any punk show, except about 15% -30% of the men are poorly passing troons wearing fishnets and skirts.
This post was a delightful little trip down memory lane for me. I was also a fan of those terrible radio albums from 2007-2010 (sorry not sorry). For more lyrics before the transition, in The Ocean (2007), we have:
He's still touring to this day under just Laura Jane Grace - I think Against Me! might be completely done. He's also quite active on twitter. The funny thing is he doesn't look like a dude in a dress anymore, he cut off all his hair and just looks like a dude, to the point where I actually wonder if maybe he's on the road to detrans.
I highly recommend seeing him in concert if you get the chance. He still sounds the same, and plays the good old songs, and the people watching is fantastic. It's the same demographics you get at any punk show, except about 15% -30% of the men are poorly passing troons wearing fishnets and skirts.
i couldn’t decide whether to rate this post feels, informative, or thunk-provoking, so i went with the classic winner.
i must admit i think i listened to both of the late 00s albums like… twice maybe? before disregarding them forever. so i didn’t even know about the lyrics in that one song. that’s him basically laying out his jerkin fantasy in front of us, except i think he’s a transbian.
if gabel detransed it would throw whatever’s left of punk in the modern era into utter chaos. before i separated myself from the scene entirely, i knew 2-3 men who became bearded stinky thrift store skirt trannies, citing him as their number-one influence. the sudden injection of gender evangelism that punk got in like 2012 was one of the (many) things that drove me out forever.
No mention yet of Genderqueer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (who wants you to call her by ey/em/eir pronouns), a graphic novel telling the story of the author's own "non binary" gender awakening, complete with gay fanfiction and blowing a strap-on. It's the same book that was banned in multiple schools across the US for being glorified porn, heck, I've seen some stores list it as for readers aged 18+ only yet it makes its way into school libraries in the name of inclusion.
I'd like to break the pattern a little bit by giving a piece of trans-made media made by a tranny for trannies that I actually think is pretty good. It's a webcomic called Mr Normal and it seems to be basically defunct (and incomplete), but I enjoyed what was made.
When I first read it about 2/3 of the (existing) comic had been published, but it was all in color. Right now it's almost all uncolored rough drafts (with a few mostly colored in rough drafts) so the characters can be hard to distinguish since they were intentionally all drawn basically the same.
The comic takes place during the first week of college for our main characters. Broad strokes, the main character is a dudebro who wants to troon out. He tries to resist it, but ends up meeting another tranny and coming out. He gets in a fight with a man-hating feminist which leads to him coming out to the entire campus. It sounds like absolute bog-standard tranny shit, but it's actually done well since the main character isn't intended to be likeable.
Kurt the gigachad. Almost a background character, but also the first character we meet. Jack, the angry, misogynist, closeted tranny. Kurt's roommate and the main character Pansy, Kurt's girlfriend and, like every female character (except August) completely undeveloped. Her roommate is a closeted TiF.
August, the college feminist. I'm not really sure if she's supposed to be sympathetic, but I think that ultimately she's just supposed to be a teenage girl who's still figuring out her worldview. Adam, the only man who August doesn't seem to hate and also a total dipshit. The only character who isn't drawn in the default male/female design (with the exception of an elderly professor). Also a closeted tranny and massive brickhon. Leander, Adam's incel roommate. Probably the most sympathetic character. Melo, Leander's love interest, also pretty underdeveloped
Here's the entire comic (with summaries of the chapters)
Kurt and Jack meet and explore the campus. They meet August, and then Pansy. Kurt gets Pansy's number. Kurt decides that he and Jack are going to be good friends, we find out that Jack wants to be a girl.
We meet Leander and Leander meets Melo, August, and Adam. Leander is an awkward dork.
Jack goes out to get beer and struggles with his desire to be a tranny. He decides that this is God telling him that he needs to save the trannies from themselves
Jack copes and seethes at Patsy then tries to meet local trannies. He meets Adam, is convinced that trooning out is A-OK with God.
Jack meets Autumn again, she freaks out at him for calling her cute and makes him 41% by reminding him that he will never be a woman.
August explains to Leander that men are scary to women, so he should just stay away from all women. Then August and Adam go to save Jack from suiciding himself. Jack and August fight again over sexism and whether men or women have it worse, which leads to Jack cross-dressing. Jack passes, which gives Adam the courage to cross dress but he passes so poorly that he gives up on trooning.
Jack and August both go out cross-dressing and Leander, thinking that August is a dude harassing women goes and punches her because, "if I attack a bad man, women will think I'm a good man in comparison". This leads to Leander getting publically shamed for sexism and Kurt comes in and kicks his ass. Jack comes out as trans, then Patsy's unnamed roommate also comes out as trans. Meanwhile, Adam decides to commit suicide and Leander finds him hanging and rushes in to save him.
It's not free of tranny insanity, not by a long shot, but the trannies definitely aren't perfect little angels and the only woe-is-me portrayal of transphobia comes from the tranny main character.
No mention yet of Genderqueer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (who wants you to call her by ey/em/eir pronouns), a graphic novel telling the story of the author's own "non binary" gender awakening, complete with gay fanfiction and blowing a strap-on. It's the same book that was banned in multiple schools across the US for being glorified porn, heck, I've seen some stores list it as for readers aged 18+ only yet it makes its way into school libraries in the name of inclusion.
I was gonna mention that but I didn’t remember whether it was trans-made or not. Can’t believe a book featuring a full-on BLOWJOB was featured in schools.
Surprised no one has mentioned Dead End: Paranormal Park, Netflix's latest swing against Disney's Amphibia & Owl House by turning up the tranny and islamic dials to 11.
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/co/ regularly shits on it, if you're into obsessive imageboard hateposting(I am). We also have a number of old threads on A&N where all the usual suspects were shilling it. It's now getting a season 2
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You may not have known the classification, but this image particularly repels you because it draws on the Pacha/Pacha Perfect meme, a normie-accessible Disney meme.
I'm shocked that no one brought up Venus Envy by one Erin Lindsey (no idea what their birth name is and don't really care). It's arguably the first known, if not first-ever, webcomic about transexuals, with most of the characters being high schoolers in the very early 2000's. It was started in 2001 (and ended sometime in 2014, apparently abandoned) and the writing in the first couple of years definitely reflects that time period (no sucking of tranny cock in this webcomic). A surprisingly large number of people highly recommend it and swore by it back then too.
Is it any good? I have no idea. The comic starts out as gag-a-day stripes for a few dozen pages before it begins to have something resembling a plot. I tried reading it back in the day but honestly found it mostly boring and melodramatic. I stopped reading it when the MtF main character and FtM secondary character both chickened out going to new support groups for their respective in-groups and, instead, switch meetings and both suffered mental breakdowns because of it. If that doesn't make any sense and sound entirely preventable, yes, I thought so too back then. I don't remember the reason why they did that or why they would want to do that.
Also, the links page connects to four other tranny comics... and The Wotch. Some of you involuntarily shuddered at that last one, which has little to do with transexuals and everything to do with Autogynephilia, so I don't know why it was listed.
I'm shocked that no one brought up Venus Envy by one Erin Lindsey (no idea what their birth name is and don't really care). It's arguably the first known, if not first-ever, webcomic about transexuals, with most of the characters being high schoolers in the very early 2000's. It was started in 2001 (and ended sometime in 2014, apparently abandoned) and the writing in the first couple of years definitely reflects that time period (no sucking of tranny cock in this webcomic). A surprisingly large number of people highly recommend it and swore by it back then too.
Is it any good? I have no idea. The comic starts out as gag-a-day stripes for a few dozen pages before it begins to have something resembling a plot. I tried reading it back in the day but honestly found it mostly boring and melodramatic. I stopped reading it when the MtF main character and FtM secondary character both chickened out going to new support groups for their respective in-groups and, instead, switch meetings and both suffered mental breakdowns because of it. If that doesn't make any sense and sound entirely preventable, yes, I thought so too back then. I don't remember the reason why they did that or why they would want to do that.
Also, the links page connects to four other tranny comics... and The Wotch. Some of you involuntarily shuddered at that last one, which has little to do with transexuals and everything to do with Autogynephilia, so I don't know why it was listed.
I wrote a little bit about Venus Envy here in the Tranny Sideshows thread (I mostly wrote about the shitty review of it). (the character is 15 or 16 here)
Anyway, for some reason it has a Wikipedia page. The author goes by Crystal Frasier these days, I wrote a little bit about him here (no, I don't know why I thought it was "Frazier")
Crystal Frazier is a ratking who inserts trans NPCs in Pathfinder. Actual, official canon NPCs who are actually trans. Shardra the TiM Dwarf Rexus the TiF Human
So anything is too good for him.
Kurt the gigachad. Almost a background character, but also the first character we meet.
Jack, the angry, misogynist, closeted tranny. Kurt's roommate and the main character
Pansy, Kurt's girlfriend and, like every female character (except August) completely undeveloped. Her roommate is a closeted TiF.
August, the college feminist. I'm not really sure if she's supposed to be sympathetic, but I think that ultimately she's just supposed to be a teenage girl who's still figuring out her worldview.
Adam, the only man who August doesn't seem to hate and also a total dipshit. The only character who isn't drawn in the default male/female design (with the exception of an elderly professor). Also a closeted tranny and massive brickhon.
Leander, Adam's incel roommate. Probably the most sympathetic character.
Melo, Leander's love interest, also pretty underdeveloped
(the character is 15 or 16 here)
