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Panel 1: Shen is sitting at his screen tablet, holding his tablet pen. He looks at you, smiling, and says “Wanna know one cool thing about being a comic artist?”
Panel 2: Shen is now standing upright, the tablet pen having become giant in his hand. How gestures outwards with his other hand and says “You can draw yourself however you want!”
Panel 3: Shen magically "ting"s his forehead with his tablet pen, changing himself into a Sol Badguy-esque buff dude with a belt and a ponytail. He says “For example, I can draw myself like THIS!”
Panel 4: Shen again magically "ting"s his forehead, changing himself into a girl with a sweatshirt-dress, gym shorts, and choker. He says “OR like THIS!”
Panel 5: Shen winks, does a peace sign, and sticks his tongue out, saying “Bet THIS makes you feel some funny new feelings about me, huh??”
Panel 6: Life now has to hold a raging and frothing-at-the-mouth Shen as he yells “Bet THIS would make it easier to get you to go to my PATREON!!!” and points at you, trying to fight you. Life is saying “Calm down, man!!”
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Shen knows his audience.
Or they’re taking their first steps on becoming the f1nn5ter of webcomics. We’ll see how it plays out in a few years.
Oh god
Just to be clear, are folk in general anti-f1nn5ter, as it seems he only transitioned to femme with HRT for the popularity? Or is the consensus that he’s cool? I’ve been out of the YouTube loop for a while
I think that’s transphobic garbage. The only real reasons people take HRT involve them wanting to for themselves. The effects and changes can be very unpleasant if you don’t want them and also don’t go away if you stop taking them.
I will agree that F1nn says a lot of shitty things for attention and views but taking HRT isn’t something one does for attention and views.
Cool. I loved their videos because I loved seeing F1nn genuinely enjoy showing off how great a femme they make, until I got wind of folk thinking F1nn was a poser or other things that absolutely do sound like transphobic arguments.
You right: HRT, especially injections, especially if one has to pay for it, is definitely a personal, life-altering commitment. My dumb ass started buying the “some kids are doing it because its cool” claims.
Thinking that someone would transition while living in the UK for “popularity” is kinda an unhinged take, she transitioned for similar reasons as other transfemmes.
The only real reason to dogpile on her is that now she has some very fucked takes about femboys.
What are her takes on femboys?
she’s said they don’t exist at all, at one point, her take basically being “every femboy is an egg waiting to hatch” or we’re trans in denial. Which like, I can get how she could come to that conclusion, but I also feel like she should appreciate that her experience doesn’t match everyones.
She’s also said stuff like “you aren’t really a femboy if you don’t shave your legs,” which I recognize is a shitty take even if I also share it.
I would say that it’s insanely hypocritical for someone in F1nn5ter’s position to embrace egg culture with open arms because they’ve almost certainly experienced the uglier aspects of persistent misgendering and harassment from egg culture.
So I don’t think them being ignorant is a good excuse for this because they’ve definitely experienced it, and likely continue to experience it. Since Egg culture is binary targeted it also negatively effects NonBinary people as well. The idea that egg culture and associated misgendering and attacks are perpetrated by ignorant and well meaning people who have just come out only works if you haven’t experienced how bad it is for yourself.
I think it’s likely that they say things like this for the purpose of being hurtful for attention. F1nn knows that people have negative feelings towards the “haha egg” rhetoric and probably knows a good part of why as well. They also know that if they go live while doing makeup to talk about why being a GNC boy is impossible because “wearing a skirt and makeup makes you a girl” will get then lots of attention.
Idk, while I obviously try to appreciate everyone’s experiences and don’t like making broad statements, it can be hard to not feel that way when literally every femboy I’ve met eventually transitioned, myself included…
That’s not to say it’s a great take, but it’s definitely understandable why people would feel that way. Especially since for me personally, it was very much a coping mechanism for being trans.
Again not trying to invalidate anyone’s experiences, just kinda venting my own personal thoughts/feelings on the matter.
as it seems he only transitioned to femme with HRT for the popularity
This might be the consensus on certain corners of the internet, but it’s absolute transphobic bullshit. He got so much less hate before she transitioned, as being “just a cishet femboy” was far less controversial than the truth. The real problem with F1NN5TER is all the ragebaiting on Twitter to promote their OnlyFans. She relies too much on bigots who secretly simp to ever back away from the toxicity that’s the real source of these bigoted theories.
Oh damn, from that perspective it sounds like F1NN5TER might self-hate :/ I get transfolk joking to reduce their pain for a bit but I wish they had an alternative to being cruel to themself.
Life looks surprised but it should know better
I thought that was a girl right from the beginning.
all the jokes about yuri, drawing a fem version of themself. hmm… there might be something going on here.
also i should get a choker
I’ll never say it on her account or more mainstream social network… But oh, the egg vibes of shen are off the charts. It’s basically an open secret
That sheep and wolf comic ? It was so on-point that it had a role in breaking MY egg
If Shen wants to come out as trans, that’s great. But I think it’s inappropriate to be making assumptions based only on vibes until then.
Trying to preempt someone’s egg cracking is either misgendering or goading someone to out themselves before they’re ready.
This is all generally true, but omfg does Shen not make it easy. At this point they’re egg baiting rather than simply getting called an egg for unintentional behavior. I’d be kinda upset if they aren’t trans after these last few posts.
I mean by that logic simply being GNC in any way online is considered Egg baiting. I don’t like that outlook very much because people within egg culture spaces say that GNC people are trans by virtue of being GNC. If someone wants to be more feminine because they like the idea of looking and dressing more fem but they enjoy being a guy and they get called an egg for that, they are getting called an egg for “unintentional behavior”. For some of the very flagrantly GNC people including myself it can seem like we’re bringing it upon ourselves on purpose. I can assure you that we’re not. I don’t enjoy being harassed in DMs and sent AI generated porn of my sona because people think I’m a girl in denial (yes that happened and it was disgusting) I do what I love in spite of the abuse I get/have gotten not because I like it or want more of it.
I forgot about the sheep/wolf comics! Just went back to re-read them, and deerlol god… This shit seems scientifically formulated to crack eggs.
Where can I find them?
christ i only ever read the first one ahhhhhhh
You son of a bitch, she says she’s a Little Grebe right there 😂
Really should have read that closer. Fixed.
Added a silly layer to the silly joke 😂
Fem-Shen
She-Shen was right there aa
She[n]/her?
Shen-Ra
"Sex sells hommi, now put this on. "
well now i feel like i need a visual for myself… hmm-
Smash
Reminds me of when the Penny Arcade guys drew themselves with hair and chins for years and years.
They’re not wrong.
What does the “> o” eyes mean? I saw it in the OpenBSD logo recently on their website.
It’s just winking, isn’t it?
Oh, ok. Thanks. I still don’t really understand, is it supposed to be the “>” symbol or is the eye doing that literally?
The symbol is used in emoticons like this: >_o to mimic the wrinkles that show up when you’re scrunching your eye closed. Nerd artists use the same symbology in comics.
I see. Would you say that the banner picture of this: https://www.openbsd.org/ is an example or is it just similar?
Uhhh possibly? I think it’s clearer with Shen because the open eye is just a circle like a letter “o”. Here’s an example of Hobbes squinting
you can see it’s similar, and presumably not inspired by the symbols, so there’s a precedent :)
It’s the same I think, in the picture you linked, the pufferfish looks strained, causing it to close one eye. At least, that’s my interpretation
Sort of both, I think? I’m guessing it started out as an emoticon, literally represented by a
character, but comic artists started mimicking the look of it.Unresearched speculation on my part; Take it with a grain of salt.
I will accept your speculation as absolute truth. The matter is decided in my mind.
O |_/ B---- π
Dammit
I mean, yeah. Yeah.
Not gonna lie, still looking quite masculine (hairstyle perhaps?) Most trans women IRL end up passing better than this.
Edit: Nothing against people who aim for an androgynous or non-binary look or just want to crossdress, but if exploiting the supposed “femininity → Patreon popularity” correlation is the goal, he could have gone even further and still stay realistic. And of course, it’s a good idea to remind people of the great transformation powers IRL transition offers.
Do I need to remind you that how this character looks is fictional? The comic is playing with hypotheticals, so I have no ethical concerns about criticizing the style (like you’re allowed to say a movie costume does not represent a role as well as it could) even though I find it disgusting to look for “flaws” in an actual human’s sincere representation of their identity.
