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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 12 (16/09/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 11 (08/09/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 10 (11/08/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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Artist-> Tumblr | Twitter |Facebook

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 9 (28/07/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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Artist-> Tumblr | Twitter |Facebook

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 7 (16/07/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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Artist-> Tumblr | Twitter |Facebook

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Barnaby from webcomic Chrysalis.

Yes, not perfect, and a little younger.

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Thanks, buddy! That’s an awesome Barnaby!

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 6 (30/06/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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Artist-> Tumblr | Twitter |Facebook

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 5 (02/06/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 4 (27/05/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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Artist-> Tumblr | Twitter |Facebook

Story->Tumblr

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 2 (05/05/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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Story->Tumblr

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 1 (28/04/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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Artist-> Tumblr | Twitter |Facebook

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UPDATE! Chapter 3: Damage control 1 (21/04/2015)

Webcomic based on Changeling: The Dreaming RPG from World of Darkness.

English webcomic -> chrysalis.thecomicseries.com

Spanish webcomic -> chrysalis.subcultura.es

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Artist-> Tumblr | Twitter |Facebook

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What about a Q & A extra?

Hey, guys! I’m thinking of drawing and writing (for real this time) an extra to celebrate the ending of chapter 2. I need your questions! Send us your questions! If they can be answered, you will see them.

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SEXUALITY AND GENDER IN CHRYSALIS A Rant by Rocío Vega. Disclaimer: My English can be messy at times. I hope I can make my point even if I fuck up with grammar. This is a long rant, though.

From the moment Chrysalis was created, Sara Pérez and I decided that it would be a sex-positive, feminist comic that would show empowered women’s sexuality in a clear, direct manner, tastefully. This is because we are feminist and we think that the best way to change the world is through fiction. Reality imitates art, art imitates reality.

As half of our characters are people of color and we try to bring up diverse body-types different from the typical comic idealization, we tried to difference sexualities and ways to look at sex and romance. Usually, it is said that when you create something is yours until you let the world to see it; from that moment, it belongs to readers, who interpret it as they prefer. Nevertheless, I would like to point out a few things.

This comic is sex-positive, meaning that it treats sex from an optimistic, beneficial and shameless perspective. We refuse to portray a character who enjoys sex in a bad light only because of that. Thus, our female main character is an energetic and promiscuous young woman. Her belonging to House Fiona is not accidental. Garnet enjoys and will enjoy her and other people’s bodies as much as she can, and most of the time she will be the active element because she owns her sexuality.

That’s the reason why we are so shocked to read some comments about the things that happen in the comic.

First, we have Lady Ash, a cis woman who is not portrayed with a stereotypical, idealized feminity. She is very tall, she wears dark clothes that don’t show her figure as much; she is a scholar and a diplomatic, too. From the beginning we’ve seen Lady Ash being very deferential towards Garnet (for good or bad reasons, we don’t know yet), but it is the Fiona who goes looking for her the first time, when flirting happens for the first time (both ways). In the most recent page, many readers have confused Lady Ash with a man because her figure wasn’t explicitly feminine. Nevertheless, her breast and hips show, as her long eyelashes and full lips do. In some way, many of our readers have read Ash as a man. And, being her sex confused, a curious thing happened: They are convinced that Garnet and Ash are going to have sex because Ash had the iniciative. And that, my dear readers, is false.

The secuence has been very clear but it has been misinterpreted from start to finish:

1º Garnet is crying in the balcony. It’s a vulnerable moment. She had an appointment with Ash (it seems to be planned already, and there is informality between them). Ash caresses her cheek and asks what’s wrong. 2º Garnet hugs Ash. Ash kisses her hair tenderly. And then, Garnet raises her head and starts the sexual contact! 3º Garnet asks Ash twice not to talk about her sorrow and lets herself go. Garnet is the one who implicitly asks sex to Ash (asking about her room) and Ash is the one who accepts. Garnet has seduced Ash, Garnet proposed sex to Ash and Ash said yes.

But there are many readers who are convinced that “the dark haired guy doesn’t lose time”. Dear readers, is your reading of Ash as a male character inviting you to think that it’s been “him” the one to start this? I’m covinced it is. And I think it’s necessary to reflect because it links to another think that surprised us:

Many pages ago, Declan proposes Garnet to drink some beer. An alarming amount of readers seemed convinced that he was trying to make her drunk in order to take advantage of her. !!! There is something wrong with our heads if that’s the first thing to come to mind. What image do we have of men? (And we are supposed to be the penis-hater feminists… ). Declan has only proposed to drink because, yes, he feels attracted to her, but his intention is friendly. And there is not a single think in his character, the way he’s characterized, that invites to think that he’s intending to molest a girl after he has intoxicated her. Even more, in the tender scene where Declan and Violet (12 year old) hug, some comments invoked a sexual intention that did not exist.

Truth be told, we have seen necessary to write and propose this reflection. The same way many Hunger Games readers got angry when a black actress was casted as Rue when the character was written as black, sometimes the reader interpretation is biased by their own beliefs and prejudices. In a comic where we wanted to break those prejudices and make fiction a more open and healthy medium, we are intrigued by those readers who project their own expectations about what it’s happening, changing and twisting it completely.

TL;DR: Ash is a cis woman. Garnet is promiscuous. Declan would never rape anybody. If you don’t see clear any of these statements, read the comic again from the beginning and think.

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