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It is my birthday today! Thanks for sticking around with my comic for nearly 7 years.
It’s also the last day I can promise a pre-Christmas delivery for any O Human Star store orders, so place them today if you were planning on it!
HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY BIRTHDAY! (Ren)
YOU GET TO DRINK FROM THE FIREHOSE! (UHF)
As much as I like the detail of “Mx”, I didn’t find it super nesscary to the plot. Its cute, and I’m EXTREMELY happy its there but I’m also super worried about our AIs!
i kinda disagree – besides the fact that not every detail has to drive the plot, it tells us something important about the way Gimel is programmed/his personality + how Titus treats AIs! And storytelling is all about good pacing, and I bet this’ll read and flow really well once it’s done and you can sit down and read it all in one go. (Also just personally my memory is super bad, esp when it’s an ongoing comic, so it’s a nice reminder for me haha)
Oh at least, how Titus treats AIs now that they know Sulla is one. They said they didn’t want to be seen like ‘some robot’ back earlier in the story. Perhaps this is growth?
I just feel like it could have been done better?
I’m curious: how would you have had Titus do it?
I don’t know. I think it serves a few purposes well: 1) It gives us a little relief from the drama in the scene from Sulla and Al; 2) It shows that Titus is in the process of coming out—at least in the company of close friends; 3) It establishes that Titus is trying to treat synthetic beings as people, too, after seeing Sulla is one.
I think that is amazing ground to cover in a few panels. It may not be super subtle, but for the sake of story-telling (this is a good break, but we don’t want to linger here too long as we want to see Al & Sulla join up with the group) it’s necessary and not a bad transition before we see the impending drama (which could take so many directions) of Al & Brandon reuniting.
yessssssssss thanks for the mx blue!!! this is the scifi shit i want, where we’ve actually made some social progress in the future
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a fantastic day! :D
happy birthday buru-chan!
will you best present be an actual day off from work?
L.o.L.
you do so much of it, i reckon!
Wikipedia:
How is Titus/Gimel pronouncing it? Short “i” and “ə” are very different vowels.
I’m pretty sure that “mux”, the short form of multiplexer, is also pronounced “məx”.
Huh, I’ve been saying “ehm-ihx” for Mx, pronouncing it like an acronym. Emix Titus. That was it doesn’t sound like anything else, mix, max, mocks, mex.
I really like this! I’d been pronouncing it “mx” without a vowel sound, which yeah sounds like “mix.” I like “ehm-ihx” better. thank you! :)
I like “mix” and “mux” but i’m also super entertained by “mixter” because it makes me sound like a kitchen appliance
Ooh, I should ask people to call me “mixter.”
Maybe I can have “Mixter of Honor” as my official title if my best friend ever gets married. I’m not so keen on “Dude of Honor” as I was when we first talked about it, but I certainly don’t want to back off to something bland like (for example) “Person of Honor.”
IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN FOR GIMEL
In the small letters, I misread “Mx” as “Ma” and got very confused.
Okay I love the little bit with ‘Mx’! It’s a nice little detail that would really happen in a case where you’re meeting someone for mostly the first time, they make assumptions about your pronouns/honorifics, and you gently correct their assumptions, and ask theirs as well. People actually do that. It’s a nice little human scene in between all the greater drama. :-}
I adore that Titus asked Gimel for his pronouns as well. And good on Gimel for using their pronouns when asked and not being a jerk about it.
I was under the impression Titus’ friends didn’t know about that, but admittedly, it’s been a long while, so I could be remembering wrong, easily.
I do love that this helps further establish Ty treating AIs with human dignity.
Well, Gimel has obviously had some experience with changing pronouns already.
I thought that Titus came out to them, as well as Sulla, in the yard, as a sort of solidarity thing, putting their own secret out there since Sulla’s was sort of open season.
Maybe so, it’s quite possible I missed that.
also since I forgot to say so earlier, happy birthday Blue! (belated now, but y’know)
yesssss titus!! i love that interaction. it fits gimel and the household for him to say “of course” to a pronoun/title request.
Excellent detail with the pronouns/honorifics! Much appreciated!
Happy happy birthday and thank you for all the gifts you’ve given us with this comic over the years!
Eeee! Is this Titus’s coming-out moment? Lovely.
of course i’m gonna stick around when there’s this much transhuman discourse and casual queer representation. I hope this comic continues for another 7 years and many more beyond.
Aww, this is so cool.
Happy birthday Ms./Mx. D!
Happy birthday, Blue!!
I love the detail about honorifics- I think I told you how much I love seeing nonbinary rep in comics, and this just made me so happy!!
Happy belated birthday, Blue! Thanks for giving us nearly seven years of comics joy!
And, gosh, I just love Titus and Gimel’s exchange about the pronouns. I am so in love all the various kinds of queer representation in this comic.
How do you pronounce Mx.? Mix?