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Now transmasc issues are erased that’s obvious. But so are transfem issues, unless you seriously believe mainstream discourse actually gives a shit about including us in the discussion during an anti transfem moral panic. But guess which erasure is taken more seriously by the queer community.

Transmasc erasure is a cause for great concern, and that’s good transmascs are an important part of general queer discourse as all trans people are, but when transfems aren’t included in the conversation, even when that conversation is explicitly about us, no one seems to bat an eye. Transmasc erasure is used as a bludgeon against transfem issues, ironically used to erase our issues. When credible evidence is brought forward that transmascs have some structural benefits over transfems, such as the wage gap, the specter of transmasc erasure once again comes forth to silence us. Any transmasc privilege is down played because “survivorship bias.” Because this survey only targets transmascs with a job, or with stable housing or with enough money etc etc. completely ignoring, no, erasing, that transfems face many of the same structural barriers, often further amplified by transmisogyny. This means that when you take demographics without a job, without housing and who are critical impoverished into account the disparity is likely exasperated not lessened. Arent transfems one of the most chronically unemployed, homeless and impoverished demographics there is? Is it not “erasure” of our issues that our poverty is ignored in favor of transmasc poverty when our issues are dismissed out of hand?

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Neopets Battledome TCG (The Void Within)

The Grey Painter

I can finally share some of my illustrations for Upper Deck's Neopets Trading Card Game!! (As though the artwork hasn't been out for a while now, I've just been neglectful of social media!)

I was 12 years old when I first set eyes on Neopia in 2003. It was the first time I really saw what art and imagination could achieve when married together - an entire online ecosystem sustained by a community of creatives just like me! I've longed to be a part of it ever since, be it drawing for the Art Gallery or publishing comics in The Neopian Times, just hoping to work for The Neopets Team one day.

So when Upper Deck reached out about collaborating on the Neopets Battledome Trading Card Games I thought I had died and gone to heaven! From playing Neopets in 2003 to officially illustrating for them in 2023, this project has been something of a dream come true. It has been such an honour to see my art alongside not just the artists who defined my youth, but also other artists who grew up with Neopets as I did. If that 12 year old girl could see me now I know she'd lose her mind!

is poogle, is my son, name is Inkom

Got a loan, used all my prismatic brushes

WE DID IT RAWRRR RAWRRRR

Got a loan, used all my prismatic brushes