what is this mess?

Everyone responsible for this needs to burn.

lets get the lesbophobia out of the way because in the grand scheme of things, it's relatively minor in comparison to the other two things (note: im a lesbian and i am in no way dismissing her casual lesbophobia but i feel like the nsfw art of minors, which is a federal crime in the us, is worse)

op posted the following comic

the reason this is lesbophobic is because the literal only portrayal of lesbians in this comic is when one is being a bitch to a main character! who then proceeds to act in a predatory way to the character's only trans girl by isolating her from her friends and touching her in an overly familiar manner. this plays directly into the stereotype that lesbians are mean, bitchy exclusionists ("i dont trust people who have the lesbian flag as their avatar because they're usually aphobes") and predatory!

she "apologized" for this post, before deleting the apology, wherein the only thing she said was that she didnt realize she was stereotyping lesbians and planned to keep the panel as a part of the comic. thereafter she deleted the comic altogether.

in the notes of the original post, lots of people posted anti-lesbian sentiments, showing exactly why this rhetoric is harmful and dangerous as shown below, just in case anyone wants to tell me this isn't lesbophobic

and before anyone wants to say these comments aren't about lesbians specifically. i ask you, who in that comic was portrayed as an "exclusionist" and what demographic of the lgbt community faces the most "(x flag) is an aphobic dogwhistle" nonsense.

moving onto the heavier claims:

here is a post where she's reblogged art of 2 minors, laying in bed, shirtless with bitemarks all over them. these people are teenagers and she is 23.

here is a post where she's reblogged aged up art of minors.

here is a post where she's drawn "genderbends" of my hero academia characters, only for one of the boys to blow their skirts up so their underwear is visible.

similar suggestive themes are found within her own comic. the "transcendent" comic she draws features a trans girl; in one comic, the character in question (olive) goes to the beach where she sees a few high school girls where the following happens:

olive is also in middle school, so there are a few problems wrong with this comic.

a high school boy is ogling a 12-13 year old girl, which is predatory and

the high school girls then attack this child for their boyfriends ogling her and then blame her for their boyfriends' predatory behavior. in a later panel in this same comic, olive CELEBRATES this.

again, op is 23 and has no business drawing minors in this manner.

she's also cis and the main protagonist of her comic is a trans girl, except she's every single transphobic stereotype possible.

olive's birthname is oliver and now she goes by olive

there's a recurring theme of people treating olive in an overly sexual manner (boys looking up her skirt, discussing what cup size she'll get while on hormones, being sexualized) and repeatedly olive is (weirdly) shown as being HAPPY about these things

let me be clear: these things are stereotypes and they're harmful and they're transphobic. op, as a cis woman, has no right to portray a trans GIRL (olive is a CHILD she is in MIDDLE SCHOOL so she is 11-13) in this manner. it is creepy, it is invasive, it is transphobic and wholly and entirely inappropriate.

because like. we’re never gonna be cis. ever. no amount of wishing or wanting or daydreaming will make us cis. the bodies we have are the bodies we will have until the day we die, and even if we choose to take steps to modify or change them to our liking they are trans bodies. they will never not be trans bodies.

and when i try to bring this up to people even if im really gentle about the way i word it half the time i get told im “lucky” bc i like myself (completely ignoring the fact that i worked really hard to accept myself and my transhood, i’m not just talking out of my ass here) and the other half i get accused of being transphobic for, i dont know, suggesting that people try to not be miserable all of the fucking time???

fantasizing about being cis wont make you cis! imagining an idealized cis version of yourself wont make you cis! spending every waking moment of your life hating yourself and lamenting about “being born into the wrong body” wont make you cis! separating and disassociating yourself as much as possible from your transhood wont make you cis! i know that for some even with transitioning dysphoria is just a fact of life and will always be present in at least some capacity but there ARE ways to decrease it and make it more managable and it starts with accepting the fact that YOU ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE TRANS. that is your reality. so its time to roll up our goddamn sleeves and get to work improving our own lives instead of just collectively sitting on our asses and despairing.

My body. Like, it's a trans body and like

God damn.

God damn

My body isn't ever going to be cis and that haunted me for a really long time and I very literally dissociated from that and just tried living in the truth that I could somehow pay to have myself fixed and made properly beautiful. But fuck if I would ever want to not be me, to not look like me.

Maybe I've never simply felt right or happy looking out at the world and maybe even sometimes I've looked at the girl in the mirror and obsessed over how she wasn't my delusion. But I can't count how many times I've seen her fucking

Smile

And those damn eyes. Like there's a lot of things just, undeniably, RIGHT. The way I can't bend my legs perfectly out like a ballerina, but fuck if they don't look bold just relaxing there. Or maybe my voice just comes out gruff and boyish when I'm not strangling myself to sound like a lady, but that's the voice that sang for hours, for years, when no one else sang for my aching heart. And these hands may not be soft without estrogen being pumped into them, but they've held instruments for me, ached from gripping pens to give my heart a voice, felt damn soft when my cheeks wanted cradling.

My body is trans and it's mine and it's always been just, caring for and protecting my soul and my heart and my mind. And she's just as much a woman as I am and I owe it to this woman to protect her from empty words and misguided insults.

And then STILL posted Instagram pictures of the fort with a lengthy, pretentious caption about how hard it was to be friends with crazy people.