#rusty leasebound

[l0veraven]

Lease Bound - Panel Redraw (Ch 13, Pg 15)

I'm just saying... If you don't see these panels as the same thing, I think there's something wrong with how you view consent between women and men.

If it's okay for a woman to forcefully strip another (who is known to not wear bras based on prior chapters), then it's okay for a man to do the same to a woman... right?

I'm not making the argument that people SHOULD forcefully strip others. Quite the opposite actually.

I'm saying that the standards of human decency should be the same for EVERYONE. Women, men, nonbinary, lesbians, gay men, cis men and women, you get where I'm going here.

Stop excusing forced stripping just because "it's an old trope."

It's a trope that needs to die off.

Seriously, if fans saw Trinity doing this to Jaden, everyone would be screaming "rape" because she would be NON-CONSENTUALLY STRIPPING JADEN.

"But Jaden could easily stand up and leave."

That's victim blaming baby ✨ Besides, she was already voicing that she DID NOT want to be involved in this. All the people around her just willingly put her into a situation that she did NOT want to be in.

I don't care that "they're all women," or that "it's her coworker."

I would be calling HR if I witnessed or experienced this shit.

Maybe you should agree that we shouldn't be treating women like this.

[kaleido-write]

Chapter 4 part 3:

For a first Ruth sight we had an interesting presentation honestly, not bad , I like it , I like how we are shown a woman that could easily be mistaken for a men showing gender norms are only a societal thing , I don't know if it was on purpose or subconscious but I like to think that somewhere rusty do think gender is just a social concept . She's entitled to her genitalia preferences. But harming people on the basis of their gender ? She's very cruel.

Rusty really had a good basis for her "rough but heart of gold" character. We see the worry in Ruth's eyes , we see she only want the best but has seen hard time and doesn't want Jaden to be alone or feel the need to lie about it . I like how it was so well put in place , I also like how we are given multiple side to Jaden injuries , not showing everything as a whole because Jaden herself is hiding how much it hurts

This panel teaches us about Jaden inner psyche , she doesn't want to be a burden , she's scared of being one , she want to be the best for everyone interest , so no one get harmed

It seriously is pretty gross and ridicule how they don't explain what trans people are and how Jaden doesn't know a thing , anything to push her terf agenda uh?

Thoses words are genuinely so violent , making being trans a joke is just so cruel . Terfs really don't realize they're reusing anti lesbians/gay speech but against transwoman "you can't be a lesbian , lesbians can't procreate" ring a bell ?? Not liking certain genitalia is completely fine , being only attracted to woman with vaginas is fine . What is not is saying trans woman aren't woman .

Indeed same shit different day . Back then it was homophobia now it's transphobia . The panel is well drawn , it's pretty and we feel the characters emotions well

I don't understand why rusty keep saying they where a one time event and then say that ??? It doesn't make sense , ig anything to push harmful beliefs

[pronounmelon]

Rusty Leasebound: “I don’t want to fuck a trans woman cause I don’t like penis”

Literally every normal person: “okay, cool, fair, everyone’s fine with that Rusty”

Rusty Leasebound: “but, BUT, any FEEEEEMALE MUST be able to look at FULL FRONTAL PUSSY, 2 CM FROM THE FACE, NO FLINCHING, NO DISTRESS or they’re STRAIIIIIGHT and THIS APPLIES TO THE DIRTY TIFS TOO”

Literally every normal person: “….what the fuck are you talking about”

[kaleido-write]

She drew a lot of men

Hey Rusty and/or friends of Rusty, when she says that she “can’t draw men”, remember she drew these photos:

[meta-enthusiasm]

Terfs hatred of men should absolutely be taken as a warning sign. Those people are not mentally well.

Like yeah, let's intimidate and threaten the 9 year old with violence if he pulls a girl's hair, ganging up on children as grown ass women surely is the morally correct thing to do here.

That revenge fantasy certainly didn't get out of hand, right?

These people are so convinced their anger at the entire "male species" is righteous, they don't realize when they start sounding like frustrated Karens looking for an easy target to let off steam on.

@angelmelon @fluffytimearts

[werewol]

LB WEEK DAY 1: Confession | Kiss | AU (Celebrity/Bodyguard)

When Riley Zhou, a hugely successful children's author, receives a series of anonymous threats, her publishing company hires her security for upcoming worldwide book tour. Enter Jaden Anderson, an elite bodyguard with a mysterious past. Sometimes, the hardest thing to guard is ~your own heart~

@leaseboundweek

*~*~* Additional notes under cut *~*~*

Based on the "bodyguard romance" genre of romance novels because I think they're cute.

Riley writes the "Muddles the Cat" series, a fantasy series about a cat-witch attending an all-female magical school. She starting out sharing it online as a hobby outside of work. Unexpectedly, it BLEW up. She is still struggling to find her confidence and voice as an author.

Jaden works for a by-women, for-women security firm! They provide a variety of services, including personal protection and providing security for women's only events.

Faith (her coworker Violet's daughter) is a huge fan of "Muddles the Cat" and is over the moon that Jaden is working with Riley! She consistently tells Jaden to ask Riley questions about the series and for spoilers for upcoming books in the series haha.

Jaden and Riley end up falling in love over the course of the book tour because duh ;)

[l0veraven]

Now, I'm not saying I'm writing a fanfic to make a terf webcomic actually have better storytelling and not be terfy...

But I am

[kaleido-write]

Rusty leasebound:

Falling into racism?

I believe that at first rusty genuinely tried her best despite biased opinions she learned from the people around her , it's very common to be fed theses ideas and then having to unlearn them as you grow older . Unfortunately as leasebound grows and get older the more rusty falls into racism . The terf movement despite being rooted in feminism is an elitist type of feminism. If you don't cater to their ideas of feminism you may deserve the benefits of it but they'll judge you harshly and even go as dehumanize you in order to feel like your savior . It's a very toxic mindset that doesn't make them acknowledge your needs in the feminist movement .

But you may ask me "micah what's the point with racism" I'm getting here !

A part of the Terf movement will exclude or view black women as in need to be saved as well . Depending on what branch of the movement they follow . From what I've seen in the comic rusty believe that black women needs to be saved. Because the terf movement center white gnc women (yes there are black terf women . But you will notice how they're not at the face of the movement nor in important debates ? It is in fact again a proof of who the terf movement serve the most , white women)

Now that our history moment is done , Leasebound is falling into racism big time

Rusty did not only whitewash her men characters, she even whitewashed THE MAIN CHARACTER and before I hear the rusty boot licker "oh it's the background you ignorant gendie" look well at the color wheel , rusty insanely whitewashed Jaden. It was so easy to notice too . Background won't make someone look this white . Saturation too . Rusty made the choice to go whiter as she changed her color palette . Not only that she also changed some of her characters ethnic traits for a set of another I the middle of the comic , she's trying so badly to evade the racist allegations she's digging a bigger hole instead of listening. Parnyia look completely different, she doesn't look like the same person at all , she's so damn white she should be called patricia (/j) I honestly think rusty has only been fed wrong ideas by people that want to see her portray their vision of the world and that in a attempt of pleasing them is starting to fall deeper in the white supremacist side of terfism . I believe genuinely that rusty doesn't mean harm and has simply been thaught anger for so long she doesn't know any other way to react . If she wishes to contact me I'd be more than open to talk to her properly with open mindness only if she is ready to do the same and respect me as a men . Because I do believe in a future where rusty understand she doesn't need to be a terf to be a radical feminist if that's the movement she aligns with , simply terfism isn't radical for everyone, it's only for a white gnc elite .

[strawberry-ace]

chapter 1

[god-of-hurmanur]

To y'all who (rightfully) hate read and mock Leasebound; do y'all got a Discord server or some? This horrid piece of media has yet to leave my brain and I'd love to like, have other weirdos like me to chat with. Also I remember seeing a post in this tag asking for the identity of a commenter with the purpose of inviting them to a hang out group. Maybe I hallucinated it but like, shit this seems like a fun community to join in on.

[kaleido-write]

Lease Bound is still going - now with bonus sexual assault.

I haven't talked much about Lease Bound here, apart from a post focusing on Blaire Hopburn and one reblog. But the latest page update left me so shocked, so disturbed, that I had to say something about it.

Quick bit of context: It's Chapter 13, and we're back at Yonique, the lesbian bar where bouncer Jaden had that infamous encounter with three trans women. Tonight is Ballroom Night, where both single women and women in relationships can learn to partner dance. But there's an odd number of people, so Jaden is pulled off door duty and enlisted to take part by her fellow bouncers Parniya and Shez:

Jaden: You can't just call "shotty not" before one party is even present! I wasn't even working on that day! Parniya: (hates dancing) Our mistake. We'll take note for next time. Jaden: B-But I'm wearing shorts, so I'm the most under-dressed! Shez: (hates wearing sleeves) That's no worries. Ari's gotcha there! Parniya and Shez: (tossing Jaden into Ari's arms) GOOD LUCK!

Already we've got Jaden being forced to do something against her will. But it gets worse.

Jaden is pulled up on stage in front of the guests and other Yonique staff. Ari, the club's DJ and social media manager, does a quick little magic trick and produces a screen.

And then this happens.

Ari: For my next trick: I'm gonna turn this dweeby bouncer... (moves behind the screen) ...Into a dreamboat! (Ari removes Jaden's t-shirt, shorts and shoes, which fly into the air, along with the chair Jaden had been sitting on) Jaden: HEY! W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! (Additional items of clothing fly into the audience) Jaden: ACK! Where are you getting all those clothes?! Ari: Oooh! This one is perfect...!

Ari is giving Jaden a new outfit for Ballroom Night. Before she does that, though, Ari suddenly and without warning removes Jaden's clothes. In front of an audience. Behind a screen, yes, but still very publicly (you can even still see their silhouettes through the screen).

This is sexual assault.

That's not hyperbole. This Australian website explains that "being exposed to sexual behaviour without your consent, such as forcing someone to take their clothes off" (emphasis mine) counts as sexual assault.

Now, technically Ari is taking Jaden's clothes off for her, rather than making Jaden take them off herself, but it's the same principle, isn't it?

And what makes it even worse is that ... I don't think Jaden even wears a bra.

Because in Chapter 10, in a flashback to a make-out scene, her then-girlfriend Alexis cups Jaden's breast, and there's no indication that Jaden had needed to take a bra off first - implying that she doesn't always wear a bra.

What if she happened to not be wearing a bra on Ballroom Night? What if her breasts got exposed to Ari when Ari stripped her of her t-shirt? Wouldn't that be humiliating and degrading?

And Ari is a character we're supposed to like! She's a lesbian working for Yonique, and the Yonique staff are supposed to be the good guys! (Or good gyns, I guess?) The author clearly wants her audience to like these lesbians and bi women more than the trans and enby characters. And yet she has one of her lesbians sexually assault another?!

Compare this to the QT Collective (the LGBTQIA+ university club that Blaire is part of). The worst thing the trans men and enbies do is speculate on Jaden's gender identity based on one photo and a few comments from Blaire, who's only just met her. Prying into the gender identity of a real person, a stranger, is pretty iffy. But it's nowhere near as bad as forcibly taking someone's clothes off.

Not even the trans women in Chapter 3 do anything like this! True, Ginger threatens to assault Jaden, but Jaden is able to stop Ginger before that happens. She's in Bouncer Mode, and prepared to defend herself.

Here, though, not only has she been thrust into a situation she never agreed to be in, but she's been stripped of her clothes by a coworker in front of an audience.

Actually, this isn't the first time Jaden has been in these awkward situations. In Chapter 12, Shez brings Jaden in to assist with her self-defence class, without telling Jaden that's what she's doing, prompting Jaden to think, "What the hell have I gotten myself into...?"

And earlier in Chapter 3, a trio of women flirt with Jaden and try to draw her away from her post. They get pretty touchy, leaning against her. At the time, one could brush it off as a comedy moment, with Jaden being portrayed as a heartthrob who doesn't realise how handsome she is to others, but now it hits different.

But even after everything that had happened with the comic so far, I didn't expect this. At best, it's a comic makeover moment that falls flat. (The Cast Page does say Ari has a "juvenile sense of humour".) At worst, it's a revival of the Predatory Lesbian trope.

In any other story, this behaviour would not be okay. It would be called out, and Ari would face some sort of consequences for her actions, and Jaden would get support. But here, I strongly suspect this will be brushed aside as "just Ari being Ari". Or maybe a commentor will argue that it's not sexual assault and say, "Heaven forbid a woman do anything."

Then again, Blaire did looked pretty shocked at the spectacle. Maybe she'll speak up in future pages, and tell Ari it's not okay to do that to someone. She can be pretty stubborn when she strongly believes in something.

Come on, Blaire! Do it for feminism!

Sexual Assault Resources

For the UK: https://survivorsnetwork.org.uk/resources/

For the US: https://www.nsvrc.org/survivors

For Australia: https://www.nasasv.org.au/support-directory

Feel free to reblog and add more for other countries.

[royalsnis]

So a weird hoax went around claiming Rusty was dead, everyone within the server who was shown this post has no idea was going and I am genuinely tired of having an entire group of random people being blamed for something we didn't know anything about.

This is the user in question who posted it, not only are they NOT in the server, they literally state quite clearly that it was sent to them by someone else entirely.

Not even they know it's origin.

This is one of the posts in question blaming us, and I'll show evidence (again) of our actual reactions within the server because human beings are not a stupid monolith.

Stop painting Rusty as some victim from some evil group that has it out for her, I don't give a shit about talking to her or interacting with her.

I've never commented on her posts on any platform she's ever been on, I've never DMed her, and I've certainly never commented on that poorly coded website (she has admitted she can see folks IPs making it even less desirable anyway and I don't suggest commenting on her content).

[theboogierat]

No sympathy for Josephine Anderson.

Don't get me wrong, Rusty Hearts can be good at writing. It's just that sometimes she forgets that too.

I want to focus on the two big mothers in the comic so far: Shez's mother, Meriam, and Jaden's mother, Josephine. There are several key differences in not only the way they are portrayed, but also in how they're perceived and intended to be perceived, especially the surprising deficit of sympathy the narrative gives Josie while Meriam is awarded "mother of the year" by everyone.

TLDR: Josie is allowed to be human. Meriam is a saint.

Josie is called out on her shortcomings as a mother, from parentifiying Jaden to favouring her younger brother, Jacob. Josie is allowed to argue, fight, and act unfavourably towards her daughter, and the narrative rightfully shows Jaden and Josie's relationship as strained.

That can't be said the same for Shez and Meriam.

Rusty Hearts has Meriam's trauma be "higher" "more painful" than Josephine. Because Meriam is an abuse survivor, she can do no wrong and isn't a bad mother when she does the EXACT SAME THINGS Josie is criticised for!

But because Josephine's suffering is supposedly lesser, she's open to criticism and being called a "flawed mother". But not Meriam. Meriam is the greatest mom of all time.

Let's compare:

- Josephine favours Jacob over Jaden. That's a parenting Flaw.

- Meriam favours Shez over all her other children. That's correct. Shez deserves to be favoured.

You could argue that Jacob never put himself in the line of fire between an abuser and his mother, and that's why it's unfair of Josie to favor him. And I'm not disagreeing with that. Shez did a lot for her family, and deserves to have recognition for her sacrifices. The problem is that how Meriam does it...sucks.

Meriam is willing to shut her third-youngest daughter out, comparing her to Shez. The rest of her daughters can walk out, as long as Shez is alright. This is an example of "hurt people hurt others", and how Meriam is slowly propping up Shez as this beacon of protection, one all her daughters should look up to. That's objectification: Shez is losing her identity as a human to be the great saviour of Meriam.

Interestingly, Josie's pedestal on Jacob is an interesting foil to this dynamic. Jacob is, like Shez, a sort of reminder of the trauma suffered by her. Jacob was born on the day Jacobus, Josie's husband, died. Jacob is said to look like Jacobus.

Josie simply favours Jacob on principle. Not only is she a boy mom, but he's the ghost of he husband she lost early. His face bears the similarities of the love of her life. that's fucked up, dawg.

And I'm not denying it's fucked up! It is! Very much so!

....so why doesn't she get any sympathy for it?

There's sympathy for Meriam being hurt, and as a result pedestaling Shez, but there's no sympathy for Josie being hurt, and therefore using Jacob as a way to reflect that grief by showering him in love.

...why?

Either way, their siblings get hurt. Rocky sees her family fall apart as Rissa walks out and Tina loses one of her sisters on a past she was too young to remember. Jaden gets more labour, emotional and physical, because her mother can't let go of her dead father.

But there's no sympathy for Josie.

And here's my theory as to why.

Rusty's view on straight relationships is, to put it lightly, very flawed. She sees men as horny, violent, aggressive villains that women should stay far from, and in several cases that's true and shouldn't be ignored.

That's why no women who knowingly and willingly has a healthy relationship with a normal-ass man who knows women are humans (who do exist, surprisingly, my dad is one) will be portrayed as "good women". They're "flawed", they're criticised, they are bad to Rusty, they need to be saved, which is PRIME VICTIM BLAMING, RUSTY. THATS NOT SOMETHING A FEMINIST DOES.

Rusty does a lot of things that feminists don't do. One of them is transphobia. The other one is prioritising victims, the way she does it.

Again, a comparison:

- Jaden is parentified by Josie because Josie has no resources outside of her mother to take care of their house after her husband DIES.

- Shez is parentified by Meriam because she's the eldest daughter, and of course the mother is too weak to escape her abuse without the help of her CHILD.

But Meriam isn't allowed to just be a hurt person with depth, she's the great mother who was hurt by men. She's Rusty's ultimate radfem victim. There's no depth to her abuse- it's just something she should have expected, partnering with a man, but she's a great mom for teaching Shez to never, EVER, associate with men. It's Rissa's fault for being straight. Tina is being brainwashed. Meriam is the greatest mother, and anyone who disagrees is in favour of domestic abuse.

Josie is a flawed mother. She made the mistake of partnering with a man rather than fulfilling her education, and then said man...died. What a horrible father. Dying.

Josie is wrong to compare Jaden and Jacob, even when Meriam does it. Josie is wrong to parentify Jaden, even when Meriam does it. Josie is wrong to scream at Jaden, Josie is wrong to still love her husband, Josie is....human.

And that's the true tragedy of Meriam, in my opinion. She's not allowed to just...be hurt. Make bad desicions. She's the fantasy of saving an abused mother, and that makes her this...victim, completely stripped of anything than her victimhood and her role as "mother".

Josephine, Jaden, and all the Andersons are Rusty's best characters, but she can't imagine, at all, an actually good story that doesn't perpetuate her politics. It's all wasted potential on a writer who can't even write, and surrounds herself with an echo chamber of her own yes-men and dickriders, never taking criticism for an option.

So yeah. That's it. That's all.

There is no sympathy for Josephine Anderson, according to Rusty Hearts.

No sympathy.

[coolasstransgay]

Hey Rusty and/or friends of Rusty, when she says that she “can’t draw men”, remember that she drew these photos:

[l0veraven]

I'm actually confused about Eli. Why call him straight even though he's clearly pan? Sure he seems to have a preference to have a boyfriend, but that doesn't make him straight 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I GOT EM. YES BITCHEESSS

Soooo, to start off with...

Trinity is unfortunately still kind of a yikes, though I expected that. Albeit, I honestly find this version of her to be much more cunty, if not for the weird boob stuff she's got going on.

Clancy is about as expected. Didn't really change much in that regard.

Look at that little goobie smile. The hair is still a little odd to me but I've made that known already.

Kai is definitely leaning into my favorite in the terms of the old gendie designs. Why did Rusty get rid of his shaved sidepart? It was so slay

And of course, Eli absolutely sweeps it out of the park. Always slaying, 10/10. I love my husband.

[l0veraven]

You have no idea how time consuming it is to write and draw a comic if you think rusty is making it up as she goes while posting a fully drawn and colored page a week for more than 5 years. This requires a huge backlog + she said before that she had at least 3 full binders of writing done on leasebound before she even started to draw it let alone publishing it. It's your prerogative to dislike the story, but at least have the intellectual honesty to not say blatant lies.

Oh no, a receipt slipped!

Tell me again that she isn't making shit up as she goes lol

There's plenty more than this, I just don't have the time to comb through all the pages' comments to find them at the moment.

It's apparent though that she lets the fans construct the characters on her behalf since she doesn't take the time to determine what she wants her characters to be like on a complex level