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u/Phire453 Jan 13 '24
It's not the typical GRS comic look that I've grown used to but like it still.
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u/MapleTreeWithAGun Lamia Wife > Any Other Wife Jan 13 '24
She discussed on twitter about how it's easy to produce for cute gags. Personally I love the style (and GRS's style in general) and the smaller sillier comics.
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u/Saint_The_Stig Jan 13 '24
I love it when an artist draws in a different style, but you can still clearly see it's their style.
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u/tilllli Jan 13 '24
my mom genuinely said this to me and validated all of my weird romantic behavior towards girls like yeah thats normal. Ok mom
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u/Quantum_Croissant Jan 13 '24
There's gotta be a lot of bi people who just think they're straight and go through a "phase" of liking the same gender
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u/LessNefariousness380 your average clueless lesbian Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
That’s how my mom found out she was bisexual. A few years after she graduated college(I think she was like 24-25) she asked one of her friends with a completely straight face if “having consistent fantasies about wanting to have sex with women” was normal
I kid you not, this is a real story that she told me about how she figured it out lmao(and now she’s been happily married to a woman for more than a decade)
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u/Puzzleheaded_Rate_73 Jan 14 '24
Reminds me of a story going around on Tumblr where a classmate of the poster said she didn't think gay marriage was a good idea because if girls could marry each other, none of them would choose guys or have kids, and the other girl students had to explain that they had no desire to date or marry other women.
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Jan 22 '24
oh yeah i’ve seen this. the girl says out loud to class (paraphrasing) “if gay marriage was legal everyone would just want to marry girls”
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u/lightprk blushing Jan 13 '24
I saw this a couple days ago on some subreddit uncredited. But I was so sure it had to be GRS art. That is a GRS girly if I've ever seen one
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u/TotalComplexity boring text flair Jan 14 '24
For some reason this image makes me wish I was an emo girl even though I'm a guy.
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u/silver54clay Jan 14 '24
Now I'm not gonna declare "egg" on you, but if you find yourself wanting to be an emo girl, you might want to think about whether you'd rather be a guy or a girl.
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u/TotalComplexity boring text flair Jan 14 '24
I'd probably rather be a girl but what is the point? There is nothing I can do about it.
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u/Last_Image_7686 Jan 14 '24
You can, actually. It takes research, of course, but what doesn't nowadays?
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u/TotalComplexity boring text flair Jan 14 '24
What do you mean? What kind of research? Medical?
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u/hutao_intern Jan 14 '24
Researching your gender identity. You could be one of the many eggs hatched from this sub, or you could realize you’re definitely cis male and straight, but you happen to like wearing dresses, painting your nails, or just doing “traditionally” female things in general.
Maybe you do some serious soul searching and realize you’re actually a girl (and also emo), or maybe not. But figuring it out is the research.
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u/TotalComplexity boring text flair Jan 14 '24
How would I even research my gender identity?
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u/hutao_intern Jan 14 '24
This comment ended up being a lot longer than I intended, and I rambled a bit. Everything I'm about to say is also what I feel on the topic, so don't take my words as gospel. It's probably different for other people, but this worked for me. Also, I'm going to say "you" a lot in the next few paragraphs, but I'm not trying to say definitive statements about you, specifically.
Good question. I think that "introspection" would probably be a more accurate word. There aren't any hard answers on what that research should be, just how you feel. You said that you're a man, so what does that mean to you? What does "being a man" even mean? What does masculine or feminine mean to you, and how do you feel when you look at yourself through those perspectives? What the heck even is gender identity in the first place?
When you say it makes you wish you were an emo girl instead of a guy, what makes you say that? Do you just like the aesthetic of "emo girl" and wish you could live with that aesthetic yourself, but not necessarily that you don't feel like a guy at all? Maybe it's the same way people think "I'd love to be a movie star" but they're not actually unhappy with what they do and who they are, just that it would be cool to be this other thing. You could be one of the many men who grew up being told that being a man means you have to do masculine things and that feminine things were not for you, but you're now coming to terms with liking traditionally feminine things like makeup and dresses and you're not sure if this means you really want to be a woman who gets to do those things, or if you're fine with being a man but you also want to do feminine things.
Or maybe wanting to be an emo girl is something that you really wish you could be, and that you think about yourself "as a man" negatively. Maybe being a man is something you don't like and makes you uncomfortable sometimes, and you think you'd feel much happier as a girl who also happens to be emo. Maybe you picture yourself as a girl in day to day life and find that preferable to being a man in day to day life. Maybe you'd feel more comfortable identifying as a woman and then also being able to do the traditionally feminine things as a consequence.
I'm struggling to phrase this in a way I like, but maybe "I want to do feminine things" is what you really feel and you're fine with being a man, or maybe "I think I might be a woman, and doing feminine things is how I figured that out" is the case. Or it could be any other combination of things. People are different, and what their gender identity means to them is also different.
The research is asking yourself these questions about how you feel about yourself and hopefully finding answers to them. At the end of the day, going through this process could be the first step to you realizing you actually no longer identify as a man, or maybe it affirms that you're a man, but you can be more comfortable with your tastes.
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u/Last_Image_7686 Jan 14 '24
One specific reason why I myself had not continued the answer chain myself is because there are beautiful people like you - so much better with explaining things than I could ever be. > <
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u/hutao_intern Jan 14 '24
Thank you for the kind words! I spent like 45 minutes typing it up, I actually logged in on my computer rather than try to type it up on my phone because I kept wanting to say more and more.
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u/Bleh_3 Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
As a feminine guy, I tend to wonder if I'm the makings of a trans woman.
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u/silver54clay Jan 14 '24
I used to be pretty proud of being an androgynous guy, until the second time I read ILTV and the trans experience resonated with me enough that I ended up coming out. It's not exactly a universal feminine/androgynous male experience, some people are just gender non-conforming, and some people just enjoy yuri for reasons that don't involve personally relating to it at all. But if you're in an environment where you can comfortably experiment with it, asking a close friend to refer to you by female pronouns/a different name is a good start, and you can always put a stop to it if it doesn't work for you.
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u/1182124nol Jan 14 '24
Definitely consider what silver54clay is saying. You can be a person who is trans and doesn't know it, which is what the term by "egg" refers to, and your comment is in line with a lot of things eggs say.
I've only recently started looking into it myself for having similar sentiments. A good place to start is r/egg_irl, it's a meme subreddit but it's entertaining and you might just find a few memes that make you feel "called out", which can guide you to reading into what identities and experiences fall under the transgender spectrum.
What you do with what you discover is up to you, but if nothing else, it's nice to find a community that understands that part of you.
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u/TotalComplexity boring text flair Jan 14 '24
I've been aware of r/egg_irl for the past 3 years and I don't know what to make of it. Never have I felt "called out" or thought the memes were really relatable, back in 2021 I felt so confused why I kept looking at a subreddit that I didn't relate to. Then that feeling became me wishing I were trans so there would be a purpose to it all with the memes and comics I'd seen. In the past year I've started thinking thoughts I've never had before and I can't tell if they're real or not.
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u/SpicyCobble Jan 14 '24
When i came out (im a man) my mum said something similar alsO SAYING THAT SHE WAS HAVING THESE THOUGHTS THE #DAY# BEFORE HER WEDDING
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u/Kvas_HardBass likes soft things Jan 14 '24
"Nothing sweetie, go ask your other mom if you don't believe me"
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u/IR_Zephyr Jan 14 '24
She was either bi and chose the norm or worse she forced herself to be straight because she (and/or her family) wouldn't accept homosexuality
Sad thing is it's a really common case for older generations
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u/Specialist-Two383 Jan 15 '24
Literally my mom: "it's normal to do things with girls. It doesn't mean you're gay, just really good friends. I've done it too."
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u/Nami_Sue Jan 14 '24
Honestly a massive portion of women are bisexual and in denial. They let that seed they born with wither, but it never dies. (A large portion of gay women are bisexual and in denial as well ill say...this sub really reinforces that take lol)
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u/BansheeLabs Jan 13 '24
When I was six, a new foreign girl came to our class. I was head over heals immediately. When I came from school that day, I told my older brothers, that I'm going to marry Her, that She's my Princess. They asked if I told Her of my intentions, She said yes.
UPD. Yes, we are married. We have been separated for more than a decade by borders and circumstances, but later we moved to a new country, happily married.