Comments on: Thank you for reading.

By: Lea

Lea — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 23:20:47 +0000

I only now came back to this story and finished it. Truly beautiful. This theme of gaining agency over one’s own body and becoming one’s own (co-)creator runs like a red thread all throughout the story, reflected in Al, Sulla, Lucille, the self-creating synthetic beings, it’s so fantastic. Nobody here is determined by the body they were given, and yet when they (re)build themselves, it’s never a solitary or lonely effort, but full of collaboration and love. Each character is allowed their own perspective, their own room to negotiate their identity & their relationships, their own pain and flaws. The final panel where Al slowly starts to resemble the ethereal figure from the very first panels, thereby closing the loop of self-creation, actually made me gasp out loud. Thank you so much. This story will stay with me for a while & I’ll definitely go read your other works <3

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:04:30 +0000

I just found this and stayed up way too late to finish it for two nights running. It is so astonishing and deep and heartbreaking and encouraging – thank you so much for all that work, all your imagination, all this story.

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:33:57 +0000

Guhhh. I read followed along with this comic back in like 2015 but stopped keeping up with it at some point. Rereading it and finishing it is so emotional and deeply satisfying. What a brilliant story of gender, humanity, grief, and trauma. I think this was one of the pivotal works that really got me thinking about gender expression when I was younger.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 05:21:18 +0000

I don’t even remember how I stumbled across this story, but I’ve just read the whole thing in the past couple hours and now I’m tearing up. I can’t even put into words everything I’m getting from this. I love the way Al’s identity is explored. The way she died before ever coming to terms with who she was. The way she came back to life forced to pick up where she left off. It’s excruciating. It’s powerful. It’s… everything. And I love Tsade progressing beyond the expectation to conform to humanity- because it isn’t human. As humans, we tend to see ourselves as the ultimate lifeforms. We create robots in our image and AI to mimic us. But why should it hold itself back by accepting the same expectations? Humans are difficult. Identity is difficult. This story is breathtaking.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Wed, 31 May 2023 00:57:05 +0000

i keep coming back to this comic year after year. i first discovered it as a young frightened trans teen only coming to terms with her own gender and now even 5 years later I’m relating to this comic in new intriguing ways.

This comic meant a lot to a scared little girl in a world empty of positive representation. it still means so much to me now. I’ve always intensely related to Sulla but I’ve found myself relating more to Al in its re-read, its an interesting thought.
Thank you for writing this amazing comic.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:48:39 +0000

I read this in two hours, and then went back to read it again. This is one of the most beautiful and well-put-together narratives about gender that I’ve ever read in my entire life, and I am living as a trans person in 2023. This is truly amazing, thank you.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 01:04:00 +0000

It’s 2023 and I just read this in a single night. It was beautiful, heartbreaking, and so ultimately so, so hopeful. Thank you for creating this.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:38:12 +0000

Hello!
I just finished reading this after it was recommended to me by a friend, a fellow trans person, and fellow robot/sci-fi enthusiast.
I can’t put into words how much I enjoyed this story, I’m sure I’ll have a lot to say once I get a good nights sleep and have time to think about it, but I wanted to leave this comment here and now anyways. Even just to say even three years after its completion, it still found someone new to bring to tears.
The passion and love is evident throughout the comic. The characters flawed and sometimes frustrating and just so wonderfully human. I couldn’t find a better comic to sob about at 4 am (all the good kind of tears). <3

By: bug

bug — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:02:10 +0000

Wow this story is so important to me! Thank you so much for creating such an incredible thing that has supported so many people! You are an inspiration to me as an artist and as a queer person!

By: ahb

ahb — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:34:38 +0000

I was completely surprised by how much this comic ended up meaning to me.
It was sent to me and I read through it over the course of a month. It was a wild ride.