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i love you neopronoun systems
i love you xenopronoun systems
i love you xenogender systems
i love you systems with all binary pronouns
i love you systems with no binary pronouns
i love you systems with a bit of everything
i love you trans systems
i love you genderfluid systems
i love you demiboy systems
i love you demigirl systems
i love you cisgender systems
i love you non-binary systems
i love you intersex systems
i love you polygender systems
i love you bigender systems
i love you pangender systems
i love you demigender systems
i love you omnigender systems
i love you transfem systems
i love you transmasc systems
i love you demiflux systems
i love you genderflux systems
i love you genderfae systems
i love you genderfaun systems
i love you systems :-)
#♥�� star ?#♥︎ positive letters ♥︎#system positivity#did#traumagenic did#endos do not interact#anti endo#actually traumagenic#anti endogenic#osddid#actually did#non traumagenic dni#endos dni#did osdd#did system#did community#osdd#did alter#osdd system#osdd did#actually osdd#transgender#nonbinary#neopronouns#gender identity#lgbtqia
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Requested by toonietoon36
#letter pronouns are cool#lgbtqtext#lgbtq text#animated text#word art#neopronoun colors#neopronoun#neopronoun text#neopronoun pride#neopronoun positivity#neopronouns text#neopronouns pride#neopronouns positivity#pronouns#pronouns text#trans#trans pride#trans positivity#lgbtq#lgbtq pride#lgbtq positivity#queer#queer pride#queer positivity
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The letter J was brought into the English alphabet in 1524, and is about 501 years old.
So, if we can add a letter to the alphabet and the world doesn’t explode, I don’t think neopronouns will do that either
#pretty sure it took about a century for people to take the letter ‘j’ seriously#google says ‘they’ singular was first used in the 14th century#and neopronouns were more a thing in about 1789#so what’s taking those hardasses so long to adapt#idk is this linguistics?#someone’s probably said this already
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i do think people should use neopronouns but i also think that whoever uses them should have a pronoun conjugation chart to whip out for idiots like me
#neopronouns#also unrelated but ze reminds me of like. a robot. and the color grayish blue#while xe seems more like a gunmetal gray#which i find interesting because there's only one letter of difference there#idk like i'll try my best but without a chart i will be out here conjugating wrong and i don't want to do that :/
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:33 < velop ! this is a little info on the 4th person neopronoun flag, coined by ve !! ^_^
:33 < 4th person neopronouns are neopronouns to be used instead of we/us/our/ours (‼️it is important to note that the pronouns yall will use must be decided by both/all of you, as you will be using those pronouns together and yall may as well pick something nice and shared(or if the other person dosent mind and lets you decide, or other way around, thats fine too. as long as its agreed upon‼️))
:33 < this can be use by couples/people in relationships, friends and siblings/family
:33 < "but how do you use that ?? wouldnt that be over complicated for no reason ?" to that vi say, why NOT over complicate it ?? why NOT confuse people for the sake of it ?? its funny.
:33 < anyways, the flag above shows the flag for 4th person neopronouns !!
:33 < the flag colours meanings:
:33 < light green: masc identifying people who use 4th person neos
:33 < light blue: equal decision making and enjoying/embracing your 4th person neopronouns
:33 < light grey/teal: 2pp neopronoun inclusivity/representation
:33 < white: togetherness, unity and representation for all neopronoun users
:33 < purple: 1pp neopronoun inclusivity/representation and nonbinary/genderless identifying people who use 4th person pronouns !!
:33 < yellow: positivity and co operation between the people using these pronouns
:33 < pink: fem-identitying people who use 4th person neopronouns !!
:33 < here are some examples of pronouns yall can use: !!
non themed:
•vus/vee/vour
•xus/xee/xour
•aeus/aeem/aeour
•faeus/faeum/faeour
•perus/perum/perour
•huus/humum/huour
•zus/zee/zour
•rus/ree/rour
•thonus/thonee/thonour
•zaeus/zaee/zaeour
•cous/cowe/coour
and any other non themed you can think of !! remember, these are yalls pronouns and nobody can dictate you on how they should be like/what they should be. it dosent have to make sense to others. only you
themed pronouns !!
•voius/voiwe/voidour (void)
•spaceus/spacee/spaceour (space)
•(tw !!‼️‼️mention of g0re !! please dont read if you're sensitive to that !!) goreus/goree/goreours (gore)
•spirus/spirwee/spirour (spirals !)
•clownus/clownee/clownours (clowns)
:33 < and anything else you can think of !! (vi cant be asked to type up any more😭😭‼️) make up your own !! go crazy !! you dont have to use these, theyre just examples !!
:33 < a quick example on how to use these neopronouns for those who sre confused:
:33 < "me and my best friend went to the shop ! vee got some sweets !" (instead of "we" its "vee" !! ^_^)
:33 < "wanna come eat with spaceus ?" (instead of "us", its "spaceus !!")
:33 < if you are a neopronoun blog, please repost this to spread this !! /nf vi would really love all the help vi can get ^_^ (any type of blog can repost this though ^_^/nf)
B33 < tagging: @io-archival (dont know who else to tag) (feel free to ignore ^_^)
:33 < we dont gatekeep pronouns around here <3
#neopronouns#i dont know#neoprns#4th person pronouns#surprisingly not homestuck#this post will not have a buncha tags !!#cw caps#tw caps#tw capital letters#capital letters#coining post
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Did you hear? New neopronouns just dropped
#genuinely if you use 3-letter amino acid codes as neopronouns#you are the coolest person ever#amino acid#neopronouns#biochem#biochemistry
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hi! i come from @/yourbigendergremlet-temp, in which you made a post detailing how u found out xe/xer pronouns felt right for you (and asking other neopronoun users the same question: how'd you find out your pronouns fit for you? or smth along the lines of that. verbatim.).
you mentioned how it (xe/xer pronouns) felt red, and how ze/zir prns felt yellow and you didnt like the shape of it and thus you dont use it.
i came to ask: do you have grapheme-color synesthesia?
(sounds mighty like it, but u dont gotta answer this if you wouldnt like to) (apologies, this question isnt abt pronouns or gender but im immensely curious 🙏🏽🙏🏽)
(Dw im flad to answer any questions)
Ive never actually thought about that properly before but maybe? I have associations of colours that letters or numbers are that have always stayed consistant but idk what exactly people who have it see so i dont know how to tell? Like im typing now (on dark mode) and the writing is clearly white, but letters do have their own feeling of colours. For example: 2 is yellow, 4 is dark blue, 6 is green, 7 is brownish, 8 is blue, 9 is purple, 0 is sorta blackish, m is red, v is orange, h is pale yellow brown, t is blue, w is pale blue, g is green, u is hot pinkish etc and there are a lot of letters and numbers rhat while i cant put a finger on what exactly it feel like, they do each have their own sensations and sorlour that i just cant articulate as a definitive colour. It also makes sense that 1 would be pink... but i dont like it lol
Ze/zir and xe/xer to me look/feel like this:
Also individual words dont have each letter be their colour but instead each word has an overall feeling/colour/sensation(?) But longer numbers e.g. (randomly typed rn) 2974.6 has each number sort of be their distinct thing but like on an overlay layer as if you put a uniting colour iver it so they sorta look similar or united? Like in different contexts at that moment different numbers or letters can sort of slightly change colour, say 9 is purple, but i have a yellowish wash over it so it looks closer to black like when you put a coloured filter over other colours
Also sometimes the colours can overlap, like wednesday is pale blue, yellow and sometimes pale green and they are all distictly their own thing and all consistantly there all the time, as if i jave 3 solid, opaque layers with each colour but i can feel them all there at the same time and while the pale blue alayer feels on top i still feel it distinctly the other colours
(Also visualising the layers looks like 3d layers of like paper or something on top of each ither, i can feel the thickness)
As for shape, idk, sometimes the shape really just does impact how i feel about something like this. While i cant put a finger on what sort of shape ze/zir is, it just doesnt feel comfortable, especially with the combination of the colour
Also funny thing, im british so spell "colour" with a "u" while is america its spelled "color" and ive never liked the american spelling becuase i could always feel the distinct lack of the "u" in the shape of it, it feels the same length as the british spelling (even though tuped out its shorter) but the letters were just feeling too round and weird and the overall colour or the american spelling feels too brown without the colour of the u to counteract it so it always feels so weird for me to ever spell it "color"
I most likely have space-time synesthesia because i do see caladar year as a ring around me and other time things as specific shapes even though i wouldnt be able to put a finger on what exactly it looks like or wouldnt be able to draw it but it is all seen as like a 3d shape around me. Like december is blue and behind me to my right etc
Sorry this kinda went long winded because i was kinda figuring it out as i was typing this so it kinda went on a sorta long ramble lol, hope this was interesting?
#i love thinking about perception and how people experience the world from a sensationary experience its so interesting#tbb.rambles#tbb.asks#tbb.qna#ze/zir#xe/xer#neopronouns#grapheme-color synesthesia#synesthesia#space-time synesthesia#colours#colors#shape#space#3d#pronouns#words#numbers#letters#bigender#lgbt#genderflux
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getting ffxiv on a new computer is so hard. but nevertheless ve persisted.
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For me, having a hyperfixation is interacting desperately with the source material/content yet never being satisfied. I want to touch it with my own hands, work with it, mold it under my fingers and make something new. I want to hug the characters, talk to the characters, ask them how their day went and play videogames with them. With non-media things, I find myself looking endlessly for new information about them but eventually getting bored, drowning in entry-level explanations and introductions but struggling to find things that delve deeper. I carve a hole into my brain to keep the little facts and characters and joy, and slowly the hyperfixation becomes less of a fixation and more of one of the things that make me me. And when it's gone, when the ache of interacting but never truly knowing scraps away the last of my passion, I still have a place in my heart and memories saved for it.
#mostly about Oshi no Ko but also a love letter to my other old fixations#like CRISPR and autism/ADHD and MHA fanfics#and neopronouns and personal finance (tho exclusively the Rich Dad Poor Dad series if anyone knows what I'm talking about)#so glad to be hyperfixating again I haven't in a while since starting college and I was getting worried#actually audhd#actually adhd#adhd#actually autistic#autism#hyperfixations
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Hewo! Could I possibly get some neopronouns for a basil fictive :D?
*sorry this took me a sec (^_^) hope you like them! (under the cut)
plant/plantself
sprout/sproutself
pic/pictureself
grow/growself
tulip/tulipself
lily/lilyself
flower/flowerself
camera/cameraself
green/greenself
fern/fernself
rose/roself
daisy/daisyself
dandelion/dandelionself
cactus/cactuself
petal/petalself
ivy/ivyself
dirt/dirtself
tea/teaself
oak/oakself
fir/firself
herb/herbself
grass/grasself
bud/budself
bloom/bloomself
summer/summerself
memory/memoryself
photo/photoself
write/writeself
spring/springself
mint/mintself
#request blog#letters#request#neopronouns#basil omori fictive#omori fictive#basil neopronouns#*hope u like them ^_^ sorry for answering a little late fahaha :o)#-Noelle(she/her)
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is it because english is waaay less gendered than french that i consider she and he as less very, very gendered than elle and il ?
#might just mean that french is my french language but i find it more acceptable to be called elle (been hearing it all my life) than she#she isnt me but elle kind of is#tbh im growing fond of ielle as a neopronoun in french#ielle tells you it is feminine without being the full on woman that elle is#i pronounce ielle something like yell btw (if youre going for a more european accent i guess id be more like ee-eh-L)#i think im just kind of ok with elle only because i dont think people are willing to make the effort to use ielle#im also considering al because its close to how elle is pronounced here#tbh now that i think about it; it IS how ive been pronouncing elle my whole life lmao#but i think im still not quite for it cause al is also the first two letters of one of the names i use irl#forest of rambles
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I don't care at all what pronouns you use for me (except not he/him; fuck the patriarchy and its history of ignoring non-men (but I 10000% respect your choice to use he/him, you are not personally responsible for the entire patriarchy, you don't have to justify your pronouns to me, and I will always make the effort to get your gender identity right cuz it's really a bare fucking minimum in this day and age)). And I get that not caring about pronouns is often a cis privilege, like of course it's easier for me to say that because I was never misgenered, so it's not a sore spot for me and it's completely fair for it to be for someone else. But like, hit me with all those great neo and non-binary and inclusive pronouns. Point me out to someone and use it as an opportunty to make thon happen. If you're telling a story involving me, have at it, pick your favourite pronouns! Change them every time if you want, make me an enigma!
#just some ramblings#a low-key love letter to neopronouns#it's weird we're so obsessed with people's genitals that throughout history we implicitly referenced them with gendered pronouns#Ah yes let me tell you a story about someone who definitely had a penis. Super important you know that. No the penis isn't in the story...#Yes there were social implications blah blah#fuck the patriarchy
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I don’t think I’ve ever been against neopronouns but I feel like if I ever WAS then that would be the stupidest most hypocritical thing ever considering I gave myself a lowercase name. That is FAR more unheard of than making up new pronouns. Could you IMAGINE I was like “I ask everyone to please not capitalize my name because I just identify with the lowercase name more but also you can’t use new pronouns that you identify with better cuz people don’t do that” like bro 😭 thank god I’m not like that
#I genuinely don’t remember my first reaction to neopronouns I THINK I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I SAW THEM THO!!! fnaf fanfic. LOL#yeah I read that fic just fine so I guess I just always accepted it#thank god. I’ve been using a lowercase name since I was like 10 it would be so embarrassing if I told ppl what they could and couldn’t do#with words used to identify themselves when I myself randomly went ‘I prefer my name lowercase’#for my real name I actually prefer it uppercase in fact I always capitalize that letter in my actual handwriting#but if I were to change my name to a name starting with another letter you bet it would be lowercase#I rlly identify with poppy tho lol#ANYWAYS this post has no meaning EXCEPT: if you ever catch me policing how ppl like to identify then hit me with ‘bro ur name is lowercase’
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The whole "transandrophobia debate" is so tiring. I've been here long enough to have seen people not just say the same exact shit about aromantic and ace people, or even bi people, but transmen and mascs themselves. Like, not only have we figuratively been here, with people using the exact same talking points against aros, aces, bis, nonbinary people, literally just people using neopronouns, etc. etc. but we've also LITERALLY been here before.
It's especially frustrating because it was only a few years back that conversations finally opened up to address the damage people like Calvin Garrah and Blair White have done internally to the trans community; and now we get to log onto tumblr-dot-com and watch people get called "whiny afab trans people" and "they-fab" AGAIN.
I'm just so tired of people who do not know queer history, especially not the shit that has happened on this website alone in the past 15 years, picking a new letter of the acronym that is acceptable to bully, walking into the tags that group made for themselves to discuss their own issues, and telling them they're wrong and disgusting for "taking up space" in the queer community.
huge round of applause for this ask, seriously. thank you so fucking much. thank you for taking the time to write this up and send it. i hope you're having a wonderful day. sorry for the long ass text dump, but you brought up so many good points that i want to touch on
Like, not only have we figuratively been here, with people using the exact same talking points against aros, aces, bis, nonbinary people, literally just people using neopronouns, etc. etc. but we've also LITERALLY been here before.
EXACTLY this. it's literally the exact. same. bullshit. that people have pulled in the past. i cannot stress enough about how the anti transmasc rhetoric right now is exactly like the anti ace and anti aro bullshit we had going on 5 - 10 years ago. it was seriously bad and it's the exact same as this is now. people were so obsessed with hating aromantics and asexuals in the exact same fashion. nearly every other post had aros or aces as the butt of the joke. people were just constantly making posts making fun of sex repulsed aces. telling us that we're "not really queer" and that we're just "taking up space and resources". it was literally the NORM to bully aromantic and ace people on here for YEARS. it was like EVERYONE had a shitty opinion about aromanticism and asexuality and they NEEDED you to hear it. it was relentless. it was inescapable. it's still happening, but it used to be even worse because people were just obsessed with waking up and mocking aros and aces on this hellsite.
and now people are doing the exact. same. thing. to trans men and transmascs. the new punching bag has been chosen and its transmascs and men. and people will do ANYTHING to make them the butt of the joke, no matter WHAT the conversation is. tiktoks and instagram reels and twitter and tumblr posts talking about how people gladly misgender transmascs and tell them they're "confused girls" and "delusional tomboys". i cannot stress that it is the exact same intensity and level of hostility as what you pointed out. it's the same. it's not to say that this didn't happen before.
like anon pointed out, people were treating trans men and mascs like shit back THEN too. back then, they were getting mocked for being "uwu soft deer prince boys" and white boys with fluffy hair and shit like that. they were getting told that T would make them aggressive and ugly and that they'd instantly go bald. people would literally torment guys who wanted to take T. people were so mean about T back then, not like it's gotten any better. people would yell at transmascs and go "TESTOSTERONE WON'T MAKE YOU INTO AN ANIME TWINK!!!!" and other weird ass shit. people were still treating trans men and mascs this way 10 years ago, it's just gotten worse and worse and worse.
honestly i'm SO sick of people calling AFAB people "whiny". i'm SO sick of it. i'm intersex, i'm not AFAB, and I'M tired of seeing people treat each other like this. it's not cool to hate on AFAB people! it's not cool to make fun of AFAB trans people! it's not cool to refuse to say trans man and say "AFAB trans person" instead! it's not cool to be an asshole!!!!!!!!!!! i'm gonna say it:
if you perceive an AFAB trans person or """"THEY-FAB""" talking about their issues in a serious manner as "whining," you are being misogynistic as fuck. if you think that people assigned female at birth are inherently whiny literally just for TALKING, you are being misogynistic as HELL. the fact that word that these people default to is "whiny" speaks a lot. like that specific word is crucial because it tells you literally every single thing they think about AFAB people. it's so misogynistic it makes me literally see red. they are stuck on the fact that that person is AFAB, and because that involves the concept of "female", it means that that person is inherently whiny, stupid, and annoying. this is sexism. this is misogyny. it's NOT progressive, and it becomes transandrophobia really quickly! which is a real thing that you need to care about!
if you've lived a transmasculine or trans man life, you know that transandrophobia is real. that's why i've never understood the "Transandrophobia isn't real" thing because. if it's mostly trans women and transfemmes who aren't also trans men telling you that transandrophobia isn't real... how the hell would they even know that? like ask yourself how the hell would a transfeminine trans woman know what it's like to live as a trans man? it's not comparable to when that woman was a cis man. cis manhood and trans manhood are not the same thing at all in terms of how we're treated societally. you can't compare the way cis men are treated to the way trans men are treated, they're not the same.
if they're not transmasculine, and they're not a trans man... how the hell would they know how people treat transmascs and trans men? i mean seriously think about it. why would you listen to someone other than a trans man about the experiences trans men face. what the hell? like seriously why are we encouraging trans women and transfemmes to talk about the transmasculine experience if they haven't lived it? why are we encouraging trans women and femmes to TALK OVER trans men and mascs? why are we encouraging trans women and transfemmes to speak as experts on a life they literally do not lead? why are we encouraging people who literally don't know what it's like to talk about the experience like they live it every day? this makes no fucking sense.
nobody encourages you to listen to trans men talking about trans women and their experiences and life like they've been there personally. nobody encourages you to listen to trans men explain OTHER PEOPLE'S struggles and identities FOR them. i don't like that we've created a narrative where AMAB trans women and transfemmes are the only ones who are "right" about things and thus the only ones we should listen to, and the only ones who have the right to talk. trans women and transfemmes have so much to offer our community, and we do need to listen. we do need to care about our transfeminine sisters. we do need to listen to what it's like to be a trans woman. trans women and transfemmes can be wildly intelligent, insightful, caring, compassionate and wonderful people, and can know and learn a lot about life, but that doesn't mean that we know every single experience out there firsthand. i don't like the idea that people think that trans women and transfemmes know EVERYTHING about queerness and should be your ONLY resource on it.
i don't like that. it creates an echo chamber.
why can't we let trans men, transmascs, and AFAB trans people speak for themselves? like seriously: why? what's the reason? literally what is the reason because i can't find it. there's literally no good reason to tell someone to shut up just because they're AFAB. have we forgotten the concepts of sexism and bioessentialism?
imagine if people went around saying "whiny they-mabs".
imagine if people were on here saying "whiny AMAB trans people".
the queer community seems to go through cycles where people pick a handful of identities to use as a punching bag and a scapegoat. that's all this is. people want to scapegoat trans men, transmascs, and AFAB trans people into being the "bad actors" that they can blame for all of their problems and "everything that's wrong with the queer community". they want to blame all of their problems on us because facing their problems head on is hard and scary. they want to blame us for everything wrong in the community instead of lifting a finger to improve it. they want to make trans men look like evil, shitty assholes to try to make trans women look better by proxy and it just. isn't. working.
like, as a trans woman, i'm honestly just fucking over the "only listen to trans women/transfemmes" shit because it feels like virtue signalling and an attempt to suck up to us for brownie points. it's really not flattering at all. it's honestly insulting. we're not the monolith of the queer community. we are manipulated, abused, and oppressed, but that doesn't mean you have to shut other people up when they talk about their own oppression. i have to be real with you, so much of this behavior just comes across as people parroting something just so they can be accepted into a group, to belong somewhere. it feels like a lot of insecure people who just want a pat on the back for saying something easy. it feels like people genuinely don't give a shit about what we have to say and are more concerned with showing off "how much they care" about our struggles. you know... virtue signalling. it feels disingenuous and like it's being done for display purposes only.
it also seems like a lot of people just join the queer community because they view it as the Catty Petty Bitch Drama Community. like some people latch on to that really bitchy catty sassy gay man stereotype and think that's all there is to queerness. they think all it is is bullying other people and telling them what to do and being mean for how they dress, act, present and feel. they want someone to bully. they want someone they perceive as weaker than them to harass. they want to join the community so they can pick a "team" to fight against all the other "teams". people want to turn it into an us vs. them within the community itself, and i have no fucking idea why.
if you are frustrated with cisheteronormative society and how it treats you, don't punch laterally. don't punch down on someone who's on your own team. you don't need to hurt other queer people, we aren't the ones who hurt you. you'll feel like an empty husk for the rest of your life if all you do is chase catharsis, as it is fleeting, not fulfilling.
#asks#feedback#answers#important#transmasc#transmasculine#transandrophobia#trans man#trans men#trans infighting
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A letter to the identity police
A small note: this is NOOOO shade to micro labeled people! I believe in never punching down lol i welcome all my xenogender and neopronoun indentifiers and microlabelers in with open arms to my safe space. This is just about how I’m tired of people trying to label me when I’ve got myself pretty figured out.
another: it’s okay to identify with words like midsized, plus sized, etc. but I’m not comfortable calling myself by a clothing size category. I’m a person. If I’m gonna label my body it’s going to be in reference to myself, not the million different clothing sizes I wear at different brands lol.
#bunneclair art#commissions open#my art#queer art#queer artist#queer community#lgbt#lesbian#wlw artist#bigender#asexual#asexual pride#bigender pride#lesbian pride#fat isn’t a bad word#microlabels
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god, what happens next is so good. the character writing is just spectacular. it fascinates me just how much depth there is to each character and how that contributes to the story.
milo's dni is the most revealing thing about him, and it's the very first thing we hear from him:
right off the bat, we can see what kind of person the protagonist is. he's a pastel softboi trans man who clings to a childish aesthetic to appear weak and non-threatening. despite being involved in a toxic relationship with another trans guy who attempted to rape and kill an 11 year old girl when he was a teenager and later murdered his girlfriend, which milo helped with by dismembering her corpse, he puts "pedophiles and unhealthy pairing shippers dni" on his carrd. which, ok, maybe he wants to distance himself from people like griffin now - except that's not really true, because he talks to, moves in with, and regularly hangs out with a serial killer fan who idolizes griffin and is even dating the guy while he's in prison. he puts "being against neopronouns" and "anti-otherkin" on the same level as those things. he explicitly denies any responsibility in the murders of haylie and savannah, despite having literally chopped haylie's arm off. all the while, he has "you deserve to heal" in big bold letters, while not applying that belief to anyone but himself.
right from the start, it's obvious that milo is not a good person. but he's also humanized throughout the story. sure, some of his softboi persona is a means of victimizing himself to avoid taking responsibility for what he did - and you could make the case that he was a victim in some ways. on the other hand, he also never got to grow up because he spent 5 years in a psychiatric institute. is it any surprise that he clings to the same aesthetic, interests, and hobbies he had when he was 15? he never got to stop being a kid, and how is he supposed to now? he didn't graduate high school, he can't get a job, and nobody wants to be friends with him because of what he did. it raises uncomfortable questions - namely, what happens next? milo served his time for the crime he committed as a minor. he was already punished, but now he has to live the entire rest of his life. what is he supposed to do?
that, I think is the most interesting part of this story. almost every character in this story makes it hard for you to like them, but they also have very human reasons for doing the terrible things that they do. I'll talk about some of my favorites under the read more, but be aware that there will be spoilers:
claire is one of the most interesting characters to me, just because of how unlikable she is.
when we first see claire in victim impact statement, she tries to ignore haylie, griffin, and milo as much as possible. she doesn't even seem to like her sister. she treats haylie as a nuisance for coming into the room that they share as sisters. she doesn't want to go to the open mic night to listen to haylie play her ukulele. when she finds haylie bawling her eyes out in the bathroom at anime central, she just looks away, as if to say "you chose to date your shitty boyfriend". when she hears haylie and griffin fighting upstairs, she just pretends not to hear it. when haylie is curled up in terror later, claire puts on headphones and turns her back to her. her headphones become a way of drowning out haylie's screams when griffin is around, and because of that, she doesn't hear haylie screaming for her life, and ends up finding her corpse in the kitchen.
that's why I don't find it surprising at all that she becomes an outspoken transphobe who wants to take her anger out on the trans people who murdered her sister. she goes to media events and publicly degenders milo and griffin. she calls aaron's friends trannies. I think it's easy to misconstrue her as a terf, but she literally doesn't even pay lip service to feminism. how could she? she knew that her sister was being abused by her boyfriend, and she did nothing. let me remind you that she lives in a house where "smash the patriarchy" is embroidered on the wall. she doesn't care about any of that. she just wants a scapegoat. she wants to make the law impose harsher punishments on minors who commit violent crimes because she doesn't know what else to do with her life. she very clearly hates herself, becoming an alcoholic to cope with her guilt. she pretends to care about haylie and fight for this law because it's the only way she can convince herself she's a good person, even though she can see that doing what she's doing is turning everyone against her.
and then that brings us to audrey. it's difficult to like her, too, because she's dating claire despite all of the horrible things she's doing. but at the same time, I can see where she's coming from. her mother died of cancer and she and all of her other black siblings were adopted by conservative christian white parents. she's still christian to this day, and makes a point of separating herself from "criminals" by insisting that she has nothing to do with them because she goes to church and takes care of her family. she doesn't want to disavow the law that claire worked so hard to pass because at the end of the day, it won't affect her personally, even though she is aware that the justice system disproportionately punishes black people. she very clearly has a lot of internalized racism, and I think that's best exemplified in the way she draws herself. despite having pretty dark skin in real life, she draws herself as light skinned as claire, her white girlfriend:
like, it's hard to like audrey, but you can clearly see why she's made all of the decisions she has! she idolizes claire because it's her first lesbian relationship. the way she sees it, claire can do no wrong. audrey does actually seem to be aware that her girlfriend is doing terrible things, but she essentially just plugs her ears and tries to ignore it. that's why she doesn't go to claire's campaign events. she ignores all of her girlfriend's flaws because claire is essentially her savior. because she has claire, she doesn't have to go back to her family, to her abusive alcoholic white father. she doesn't have to actually take care of her younger siblings, which is a responsibility she's foisted off unto mark. that's why she ignores that claire is just as much of an emotional drain as her father. she's highly depressed, she's an alcoholic, she trashes their bedroom (leaving audrey to clean up after her mess), she puts up an emotional wall and dismisses audrey's attempts to comfort her, and dismisses audrey's own problems as being less traumatizing and less important. by all accounts, claire is a terrible girlfriend and a terrible person, but because audrey idolizes her as her savior, she stays by her side. I'm really looking forward to seeing how she reacts to claire's disappearance in future chapters.
and then of course, there's vikki. she's been doing something incredibly disrespectful for years by making true crime videos where she talks about the victims and killers like it's all a joke. she makes a video about whether ethical necrophilia is possible, and makes a callous, bitter joke that the concept of "respect for the dead" is antiquated, because nobody respects her as a trans woman of color even though she's still alive. for this comment, people have harassed her online endlessly, enough that she had to make a video called "STOP TELLING PEOPLE I FUCK CORPSES". that doesn't stop her from making a video about the murder of haylie, complete with an interview from milo. she'll throw him under the bus if it means getting the attention off herself for a bit.
and yet, I think out of everyone, I feel the most compassion for vikki. yes, she used milo for content and called him a "sad little blonde girl", but I can understand where she's coming from! like, again, she's a trans woman of color in the true crime community. she knows the archetype milo is trying so hard to be in order to avoid taking responsibility for what he did. like, I've personally seen trans women of color who are victimized by white trans men who pull the same exact shtick as milo over and over, so I completely understand her frustration. that said, she also realized she went too far and tried to apologize, only to find out she was blocked and that milo basically wrote a callout post against her. I think it says a lot that vikki was one of the only people to actually try to talk to milo, even if the way she went about it was wrong.
vikki does things that are disrespectful, but to be honest, it's not that surprising! she grew up in a 90% white town in the middle of nowhere, got assaulted by multiple white boys for being a faggot, got sent to alternative school, worked for a funeral home as a teenager, and transitioned. not only is she desensitized to death, she's angry that people revere the dead more than her.
it's astounding, really! what happens next is so well written because it makes you feel conflicted about each of its characters. what are we supposed to do with these people who do awful things? a lot of the intrigue in this comic comes from seeing how each of the characters handles this question as they deal with the other characters who have done terrible things, while they themselves are deeply flawed as well. I think the writing really forces you to contend with the idea that these are all still people, and that their humanity needs to be recognized even if they do terrible things. it makes you ask, what happens next?
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