Original comic by Mattie Lubchanski
Description: A four panel comic
panel 1: a group of people playing a tabletop game. SOME GUY WHO LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE MATTIE BUT A LONG TIME AGO sits next to the DM.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Okaaaay, so! The new character I rolled out is a 6’3" half-orc sorceress. Excited to get playing!
DM: Playing a girl again, huh.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Yeah, why?
PANEL 2: two other players.
PLAYER 2: Can you just come out already? We’re supportive.
PLAYER 3: Waiting for you to transition is taking forever.
PANEL 3: SGWLSLMBALTA looks off to the side. Shot over the DM’s shoulder.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Hmm? I don’t understand what you are all possibly talking about! “Come out.” Good one.
PANEL 4: The DM and the two other players contemplate death while SGWLSLMBALTA speaks off-panel.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Anyway…She was actually born a PRINCE! of the realm, but was CURSED by a WIZARD to be a girl…
This is a weird toxic masculinity take (see gaming news) and I’m kinda surprised to find it in this context.
If you like hardmode in games, try hardmode in real life!
On the one hand - “hey that’s me”
On the other, yikes on that blatant violation of the prime direggtive
I’m just keeping this body so I don’t have to go through the hassle
Getting back to the store to do an exchange can be tedious
THESE COLORS DON’T RUN 🏳️⚧️
I originally thought these shirts were worn by TERF gatekeepers at women’s athletic events or killjoys at color runs lol
but … what does it mean? (not an english native. am i missing smth obvious?)
“colors running” is an issue with dyes or paint not staying where it supposed to on something, so like washing a piece of clothing and the colors fading or staining some other part. Originally it references paint “running” off something in small streams, like if you applied to much. Running being a word commonly used to describe the flow of a stream or river, so if paint is coming off something in small streams, it would be described as “running”.
“The colors” also being a euphemism for a flag or standard on a battlefield, historically formations on a battlefield having a flag that would act as a clear point to focus around during the chaos of a battle, hence the saying “rally around the colors” meaning “ find the flag of the unit and defend it, if you don’t know what to do”.
So shirts with a flag that say “these colors don’t run”. it’s a double entendre, saying that “those that this flag stands for will not run away from a fight” and that “the dye on this clothing will not get distorted”.
In the context of a trans flag, it is a parody of vocally/excessively patriotic people who would wear an American flag shirt with that saying on it.
great. ty. i learned a lot!
I think it’s in the sense of: they don’t run away and hide, but rather proudly stand and fight against prejudice.
Yah, but it’s also a pun on those cheap dyes that come off in the wash, said to run.
ty.
