Menu

gin-juice-tonic:

A drawing of Dipper and Grunkle Stan. Dipper is crying and yells at Stan, who is taken aback. Dipper says "How can you be so jovial about being trans all the time!"ALT
Dipper holds his hands up in frustration and continues "You're glad that you were born transgender? What's that even supposed to mean? I'm miserable about my body like- all the time! Am I supposed to be glad for that now?"ALT
Stan holds his hands up in a calm-down motion. He says "You're not supposed to be anything. I'm not the feelings police for pete's sake. I'm just old."ALT
Dipper calms down a little, but he's still a bit annoyed, and there's still leftover tears on his face. He says "And since you're old, I supposed you're supposed to know better than me. Is that it?"ALT
Stan looks at him and says "I don't know you better than you. But I've had a long time to get to know me. And what I know I am is a transsexual old fart."ALT
He continues to explain. "One day I started to look at myself and say This is just a part of who I am. A part that ain't changing. And I could summon up all the misery in the world about it, but it'd still be true. I'm not gonna act like it hasn't caused me plenty of grief in my life, but it's made me the man I am today. I literally wouldn't be me without it."ALT
Dipper looks away from Stan still looking frustrated. He rubs his arm.ALT
Stan looks at Dipper a little concerned, a little disappointed. Not disappointed at Dipper, but disappointed his words didn't appear to get through to him.ALT
Stan continues "Look, kid. Coming to embrace yourself as you are ain't easy. It's a real uphill climb. And sometimes you see people further up their hills smiling and laughing and having a good time, and it feels like they're just mocking you. Sometimes you want to wipe that smile off their jovial higher hill faces."ALT
Stan holds up one finger, like he's giving a lecture. He says "But a metaphorical sloped hill is a stupid place to have a fight. You'll probably fall off and metaphorically hurt yourself. the point I'm trying to make here is you should keep climbing."ALT
Stan looks up in the distance and shrugs one shoulder as he flaps his hand around. "And there will be you know, your peaks and your valleys- Maybe one day you're feeling great about yourself and Jerry from three doors down says you're the most beautiful woman he's ever known so you cut all your hair off and it never grows back quite the same way again. That's just a part of life."ALT
He smiles gently and makes a motion of his finger demonstrating peaks and valleys going upward. He says "But that's the thing about climbing uphill, right? The peaks get higher and the valleys get less low."ALT
He leans in toward Dipper and comfortingly puts a hand on Dipper's hat. He looks at him, still with a gentle smile, and says "What I'm trying to say is, whether you want to push me off my smug little hill or not. It gets better, Dipper. I promise you." Dipper looks up at him with a small, still a little sad smile.ALT
Dipper says "Thanks Grunkle Stan... I don't really want to push you off a hill or anything." He adds, "Metaphorically". Stan smiles and points at him and says "Good cause I got more trans jokes I want to tell you."ALT

this is a redo of an old post. it deals with more negative feelings than usual for the trans stuff but, those feelings are important too

(via disasterdrow)

May 08, 2024

misslunarose:

thatsdelightful:

image

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

(via shadymsn)

ref

Apr 22, 2024

Indy Theme by Safe As Milk