Page 68. Here she is.
DINK is this upcoming weekend in Denver, and I’ll be tabling as well as speaking on a panel about queer comics and identity on Sunday 4/15 at 1:30 pm. I’ll see you there!
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:D!!!! also can’t wait for her to fly for the first time and freak Brendan out.
*wells up*
So happy for her!
That smile! <3 <3 <3
Kind of an OT question – Sulla looks like she is blushing. Can she do that now? If the answer is yes, it's a pretty amazing advancement for her and for prosthetics for humans—though not surprising since in the current story she fools other humans into believing she's organic and gained flying abilities in her new body.
It seemed fitting, so I went back and reread “Optimal”. I just adore these characters and their stories and the care that Blue’s obviously taking with it all. It’s beautiful and brillaint.
I’m not crying! You’re crying!
I definitely am
yeah I am
Huh. Is Sulla taller now?
She is periodically fitted with new parts and was made progressively larger. Guessing Brendan may have given her the longer legs she asked about prior, or some time has passed and she has already been “lengthened” some as per usual.
Brendan’s been making each successive chassis appropriately bigger.
That said, the chassis we see on page 59-62 is presumably intended for a 12-to-15 year old boy, while this one is presumably for a 12-to-15 year old girl. So it’s entirely possible that it is slightly smaller and we just don’t have the same visual cues to confirm that.
Poking my nose in here a year later, while rereading, to point out that 12-15 year old girls are often taller than 12-15 year old boys! Women get their growth spurt earlier in life, and it’s not uncommon for them to shoot past their male peers in their tweens and early teens, and then be overtaken in height again when the boys’ adult growth spurts kick into gear in their late teens and early twenties. So a slightly taller chassis for a gender-aligned Sulla wouldn’t be at all illogical. ; )
EEEEEEEEE I love that she wanted to look a little more like Brendan.
OH NO I HAD NOT REALIZED THAT… Aaaaawwwwww!!!!!!
Wow. In light of this, read this: https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42
WOW. Thanks for posting that.
ok. You blew my mind
Thank you so much for posting this.
That’s a fantastic read. As a straight cis male it’s pretty rare that we’re allowed to express opinions on certain matters, especially when you’re white. I can only imagine how much more difficult if would be if you didn’t even identify with the gender you’re catching all the flack for being.
It’s a big part of why I say I am an egalitarian, though that still gets me into arguments about what feminism or men’s right activism is. I do understand that both movements are about equality, but both banners get hijacked by people carried away with more anger than understanding leading to people who claim to want the same things fighting over talking points rather than working towards equality.
I…have to admit this weirded me out a bit. I mean, I’m glad to hear from this kind of perspective – unusual enough to be revealing, and worth a reminder that we shouldn’t overlook it. And it’s certainly true that I intensely dislike abusive behaviour excused on the pretext that it’s all ‘feminism’ or ‘punching up’. Nah. Compassion is still a thing, people. I do think that anger is a reasonable response to mistreatment, but I also think it’s easy for activists of any sort of any political stripe to end up thinking ‘if I’m angry for some reason, I necessarily have a point’.
But. In my experiences, a) VERY few feminists, even vocal feminists, get like that; and b) the very REASON why I know that ‘gender can never be assumed’ (you cannot look at someone and KNOW they’re cis! How could you?) is thanks to my feminist friends. And I’m from a mixed background and a minority religion but I ‘pass’ for extremely WASP-y, and most of the people who have been the most careful NOT to assume anything about my ethnicity/background/etc. are my feminist friends. And I have a lot of feminist friends.
The idea that feminists are little more than man-haters is dismissive and age-old and usually undeserved, at least in my opinion. Where did the author find so many people that convinced her to rely on convenient everyday strawfeminists as part of her argumentation? Did she REALLY take a gender studies course? If so, where did the lingering misconceptions come from? Anyway, I’m not so much angry as baffled and left feeling sorry that the feminist people in her world weren’t more awesome. :(
Awwww! Her expression when seeing herself!
Sulla is great.
Yayyy!
I’m so happy for Sulla!!
Aaahhh!! Here she is!!!!!!! She’s so beautiful!!! <333
That must be so exciting for both of them!