As a transmasc person I am loving the new pages! Thank you for the representation, I’m glad I have something happy to think about in these very stressful times.
;0; I’m really genuinely happy that I can provide something happy for people! (Yeah I’m quite stressed too, I getcha!!)
I am not trans, but I had long conversations with my good trans friends (And my nonbinary cool ex roomie), who helped me make sure I wrote everything out as correctly as I could. Our world is diverse, so I want Gloomverse’s world to be diverse too! And that diversity should be properly represented, so the people in those groups just feel included, and normal. As opposed to. You know, societies and social groups telling them they’re not. (I got some of that from coming out as gay, you know how it be.) I just know how nice it is just to be treated as a normal human being in media, so I REALLY workshopped this. My initial ideas for Purple opening up turned out to be a bit transphobic, writing wise, and I’d hate to do representation in an offensive way, especially towards groups who have things so hard. So once again, SO glad I had good friends to explain it to me, and steer me the right direction. I love them very much! (I’m not naming them, in case they want anonymity)
I also wanted to make absolutely sure, in-story, that people knew he was trans. I didn’t want anyone to try and handwave it away and claim he wasn’t. I also learned people have a tendency to do that, too, so these next few pages are being *very* explicit that yes, that’s what he is.
Also I think i mentioned this in a post before, but. Purple was planned pretty much from the start to be trans, but I wanted him to open up about it when it was the right time. I didn’t want him to be a check on a ‘diversity checklist’ bingo card. I wanted people to learn who he was, that he was smart, worked hard, made mistakes, had a messy break up, loves science.... and oh! He just happens to be trans.
I’m just really happy people are happy with it. I really wanted to do right by you guys. ^^















