#crazygnomenclature

[imstillalexcomic]

I’d like to first thank Fran ( @crazygnomenclature ) for giving me the green light on borrowing her words, and for sending me her handwriting to show them.  There’s a power in delivering a message as close to the primary source as possible, so having her words appear through the “voice” of her handwriting was important.

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Similar to strips featuring “the fake trans ally,” this is a strip that wasn’t a joy to make.  Maybe that’s not the right way to phrase it.  There is a joy or catharsis in expressing my feelings no matter how painful they are, but it’s such a shame when those feelings are ones like I’m feeling today.

I truly, deeply implore you all to reflect on the company you keep, and how your acceptance of them sends a message to the other people in your life. 

There are many ways to communicate, and your choice of who to spend time with is one of them.  I’ve been clearly told through this method that what was once a safe space for me is no longer so.  Maybe it was never safe; maybe I just didn’t realize until recently.

Bummer as all that is, I chatted with a certain hero of mine last night that did a wonderful job walking me back on some of my more depressing positions regarding the future. 

Part of my standard operating procedure for life is:

               Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, assume the worst

Her position is:

               Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, assume the best

I should adopt that policy.  If I’ve already prepared for the worst, I may as well live in a more positive state. 

Thank you for your insight and kind words, and again thank you to Fran for your words as well.

much love, <3

[ratgrrrlgames]

Pride Knight of the Patel Colourguard

Troika! & Goon City: Troika! Background & Tchotchkes

Pride Knights are trained at the Pastel Colourguard Fortress-Monastery of Geoffreya under the transubstantial tutelage of the Immortal Immutable Saint, rumoured to be the living embodiment of gender. Pibling Squires devote their lives to training in all things martial and flaggy under the amorphous eye/s of their divine patron to earn the right to don the radiant raiment. Fully  fledged Pride Knights roam the Spheres waging an eternal war against the  foul minions of bigotry and the heinous Terfaryan Empire with their war  cry, “Trans Knights are Human Knights!”

This background was inspired by the above image that was shared of pride-knightess at Cambridge Pride - @pride-knightess on tumblr and bluesky

Art of pride-knightess

FlamiArt - @flamiart on bluesky and tumblr

CrazyGnomenclature - @crazygnomenclature on tumblr and comic website

I encourage you to support these wonderfully talented people!

Things are shite for trans folx all around the world, increasingly in the UK and US and we just want to fucking live, so seeing absolute legends like this is so inspiring.

I threw this together as something fun for Pride. Love, support, and solidarity to all my LGBTQIA+ siblings around the world. Brina/ RatGrrrl xxx

Pride Knight of the Pastel Colourguard is an independent production by RatGrrrl Games and is not affiliated with the Melsonian Arts Council.

Pride Knight of the Pastel Colourguard is FREE on itch!

[imstillalexcomic]

Thank you to Fran - @crazygnomenclature - for gracing us with another appearance as my Fairy Godbully.  While she coined the phrase, I do really want to stress that she is not a bully.  She’s a wonderful and supportive friend who’s been a huge help as I’ve been transitioning, and her enthusiastic kindness inspires me to be a better person.

Regarding the comic, this summer is going to be pretty unique.  Outside of the kids visiting the office, I’m going to be heading up to my camp again periodically for work.  There now will be tons and tons of folks who know me seeing me for the first time as someone who is publicly out. 

Part of me would like to think that a lot of these folks don’t know about me being trans yet or don’t follow me online, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.  Apparently, I’ve been a dinner conversation topic for families, which is… strange, but kind of good.  I want people to know.  I want to get this conversation going in families who are unfamiliar with the trans community. 

I want to be a positive representative. 

For some of these families, I’ve been taking care of their kids during the summer in one way or another for over fifteen years. 

I’m going to deliberately misgender myself for a moment, but even if the conversation starts with,

“well I don’t know about trans people…”

but continues to

“…but I know Alex and he’s a good guy”

Then I see that as a win.  Getting my foot in the door and being the same Alex that they’ve always known (just looking a little different), can help.

If this is what I can do, then I want to do it.

[imstillalexcomic]

...I'm just gonna post this and see how long it takes @crazygnomenclature to notice.

[imstillalexcomic]

So something that was super cool about collaborating with Fran - @crazygnomenclature - is that she sent me the original drawing of a strip (I went with this beauty), she also sent me the original of the artist panel of our collab (which can be seen here)!

She's an absolute dear and wonderful friend who's really been just the best...

...except for getting my @ right, lol...

IT'S alex_distasi, FRAN... WHO'S ALEX_DESANTI??

I only noticed after that strip went out, so I was like... oh well lol, no biggie.

Fran is still the best!

[imstillalexcomic]

GUESS WHO JUST JOINED THE GAY AGENDA??

My copy of @crazygnomenclature 's first Tiff & Eve collection just arrived! She's super cool and a wonderful friend and if you'd like to get a copy, here's the link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FB47FDCS?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

[eldritch-clowns-blog]

Man I’m like so bummed right now cause my favorite comfort comic tiff and eve keeps supporting victor gnarly endeavors in using ai images for their comics and it leaves like such a sour taste in my mouth , cause I really enjoyed her comics and helped me deal with like dysphoria but now anytime I read it I can’t feel comfortable