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Creator of Pepsiaphobia & Yellow Brick Ramble! ⚧︎ she/her ⚧︎ Please support me at: patreon.com/daisyfm

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I drew a second Make a Terrible Comic Day comic today to make up for not drawing a comic last year. It's a reworking of the end of the episode of MLP:FIM where Twilight gets her wings.

I hope this answers the question, "Can Daisy draw a comic that isn't trans in any way?"

I've had this comic bouncing around in my head for 10 years now. I tried thumbnailing it once, but it got destroyed in a flood, so this is from memory.

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I made a comic about two cis boys for "make a terrible comic day", but it has required reading! You're familiar with the Ranma½ manga, right?

Okay, the comic starts here:

I drew this as a super-long continuous scroll, but TUMBLR wouldn't let me post an image that tall, so I had to chop it up!

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Yeah, my Aunt Em is younger than most versions.

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Here's some fan art and a short review of The Amazing Digital Circus episode 9.

Under the cut to protect those avoiding spoilers:

The Amazing Digital Circus isn't a perfect show, but Jax is fantastic trans fem rep. Yeah, he's a toxic misogynist asshole. I never called him a good role model.

What's beautiful about this show is the audience to gets to know and love/hate Jax before learning he's this sad repressed trans girl. Whether they know it or not, fans of the show definitely have friends/family who are secretly sad repressed trans girls. I know for a fact that everyone I met pre-transition knew at least one.

As someone who didn't come out till after her 40th birthday, this was such an accurate depiction of how repression completely destroys you. You're ruled by fear and self-loathing. Maybe you lash out. Or maybe you turn it all inward and harm yourself. It can consume you from the inside out till nothing's left.

I also liked how Jax's human counterpart hadn't visibly transitioned (yet?) because having a support network, being in a better place, or even being in queer spaces (i.e., Zooble's gay bar) doesn't necessarily mean you're ready to come out.

Anyway, I think Jax is neat.

Note: I firmly defend calling Jax by she/her pronouns due to the events of the finale, but I used he/him pronouns because he never came out. Pronouns aren't gender, etc.

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New page, old farm.

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Do you miss Rainbow Capitalism?

Guess what?

Companies supporting queer folks only when it's convenient is rainbow capitalism!

If you see a brand who used rainbow logos last year completely ignoring Pride this year, that's rainbow capitalism, baby!

If you don't like that kind of fair-weather allyship, then you don't actually like rainbow capitalism.

That fake support was a side-effect of increased acceptance, not the cause.

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If you just miss buying Pride merch, you can do that without rainbow capitalism! There are lots of cool independent queer creators who sell Pride stuff. Many of them are on Tumblr!

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The thing is I really don't think public acceptance of us has decreased at all. That's not what any of the polls show. Bigots have gotten louder, but our allies haven't gone away.

This isn't a canary in a coal mine.

These brands folded at the slightest amount of pushback. Target toned down their Pride stuff because a few angry losers filmed themselves knocking down store displays, not because we suddenly stopped being profitable!

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Do you miss Rainbow Capitalism?

Guess what?

Companies supporting queer folks only when it's convenient is rainbow capitalism!

If you see a brand who used rainbow logos last year completely ignoring Pride this year, that's rainbow capitalism, baby!

If you don't like that kind of fair-weather allyship, then you don't actually like rainbow capitalism.

That fake support was a side-effect of increased acceptance, not the cause.

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If you just miss buying Pride merch, you can do that without rainbow capitalism! There are lots of cool independent queer creators who sell Pride stuff. Many of them are on Tumblr!

[gastrophobia]

Do you miss Rainbow Capitalism?

Guess what?

Companies supporting queer folks only when it's convenient is rainbow capitalism!

If you see a brand who used rainbow logos last year completely ignoring Pride this year, that's rainbow capitalism, baby!

If you don't like that kind of fair-weather allyship, then you don't actually like rainbow capitalism.

That fake support was a side-effect of increased acceptance, not the cause.

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Here's some more Dorothy Gale for you.

I set the upload time to 11:59pm, so this is TECHNICALLY a Thursday update.

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on the site it says you didn't like how it looks in full sepia. what does it look like sepia'd up?

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Okay, this is the original sepia version of the rainbow. It's a little drab.

This is the limited color palette I'm coloring this chapter with:

The top row is most things. The second row has special exceptions: the colors of the book cover, Dorothy's hair and eyes, Toto's fur, solid grey for the silver shoes, a special color I use only for shadows, and the yellow caption boxes. The fuchsia is a temporary color I use for last minute corrections.

I actually kept the brown rainbow layer in the final comic as a 33% overlay to keep the rainbow from being TOO bright.

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Here's some more Dorothy Gale for you.

I set the upload time to 11:59pm, so this is TECHNICALLY a Thursday update.

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Is this from someone else's Oz webcomic???

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Happy 3 year anniversary of Yellow Brick Ramble!

Celebrate by going to daisyfm.storenvy.com to buy yourself one of the long awaited Dorothy pins!

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Oh, look! A new page of Yellow Brick Ramble!

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The title of this chapter comes from chapter 22 of the original book, The Transformation of Old Mombi, which is where Mombi transforms from a flower to a shadow to a black ant to a griffin to her true human form. That's not in this story because it wouldn't really work with the changes I've made.

So, this chapter is entirely original to Yellow Brick Ramble. There's a tiny bit from the first book and a few other Oz references, but mostly this chapter blurs the line between adaptation and alternate reality fan fiction.

If you like my comics, please support me on my Patreon!

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New chapter this month!

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I fucking love Mulan-type stories does anyone have any recommendations?

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Mulan-type stories, you say?

As a matter of fact, I know of a very fun one from the Nart Sagas of the Caucasus region — the tale of Alimbeg’s Daughter, which I adapted into a comic a few years ago.

You can read this and other Nart Saga adaptations on my site (adults only, please!):

The Narts: November 18, 2017

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Final page of this chapter! Be sure to check it out!

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Follow the source link to a fun recipe you can try at home!