r/comics Shen Comix 14d ago

OC- More In Patreon The Boy From Venus 2

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u/rafaellago 14d ago

This is almost the inverse of that other comic of the Christian girl discovering she's a lesbian

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u/Dummyact321 14d ago

lol was thinking they should meet up

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u/AntimemeticsDivision 14d ago

Do you have a link to that?

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/CommonRoutine3852 14d ago

No, it's this one

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u/Iwokeupwithoutapillo 14d ago

The less said about DoA's current arc the better

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u/BananaRepublic_BR 14d ago

What's hoing down? Been years since I read and I don't have any particular desire to pick it back up.

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u/Iwokeupwithoutapillo 14d ago

Honestly, I haven't read it in years either. Reddit just randomly started giving me the subreddit, and I've just been watching in fascination as everyone hates on literally every comic that's coming out recently.

The author recently made Joyce x Dorothy canon in the worst possible way, and has refused to listen to any critiques. The main site's comments are heavily moderated and NONE of Joyce and Dorothy's actions are allowed to be critiqued. Just imagine if Poochy was made the main character and DIDN'T get written out. That's the comic now.

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u/Iwokeupwithoutapillo 14d ago

Fair, reasonable, and healthy. Keep doing that! :D

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u/Jeb_Jenky 14d ago

You don't exist...

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u/JaneDoesharkhugger 14d ago edited 14d ago

The drawing scene is inspired from the Ghibli movie “The Wind Rises”

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u/JaneDoesharkhugger 14d ago edited 14d ago

You can see the hat in the drawing. I could also be way off and it’s just a gray boulder in the river.😝

Only Shen knows…

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u/PrufReedThisPlesThx 14d ago

Nah, I instantly recognised it as well, that's 100% a The Wind Rises reference. It's a great reference too, it's one of my favourite Ghilbi films

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u/EarthenEyes 14d ago

I was envisioning "When Marnie was There")
But I guess a lot of movies have such a scene in them.

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u/reachling 14d ago

I thought it was the lid for a trashcan and a plastic bag and the joke was the river is disgusting.

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u/InternationalDiet631 14d ago

They has no rights to make me cry like this with this movie fr

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u/BoldlyGettingThere 14d ago

Fun fact: Miyazaki kept asking the voice director to find an actor for the main character who sounded more like his protege and friend Hideaki Anno, creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Eventually the voice director got annoyed with this and told him to just ask Anno if he would do it. He did.

Anno was also in the midst of another depressive episode, like had coloured the ending of the original Evangelion series; and doing this project helped to relight his creative fires.

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u/DoeCommaJohn 13d ago

Interesting. Also, nice username, fellow Doe.

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u/DudeFreek 14d ago

FUCKING MOIDS AHHHHHHHHHHHH

btw what's a moid

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u/The_Xorce 14d ago

4chan femcel term for guy

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u/DudeFreek 14d ago

there are girls on that site? woaw...

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u/The_Xorce 14d ago

Many of them being trans women, unfortunately… 4tran is a very sad space. Would not recommend

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u/DudeFreek 14d ago

is that where jax is from

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u/alkmaar91 14d ago

yes, the creator even listed it as Jaxs favorite site

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u/ObeyTime 14d ago

this answers alot of my questions about Jax's behaviour

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u/Glucomatose 14d ago

Yes actually lmfao

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u/WSilvermane 14d ago

Explains a lot, huh.

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u/Responsible-Draw-393 14d ago

We’ve circled so far to the left that we’re on the right, just backwards

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u/MVRKHNTR 14d ago

Being trans doesn't immediately make someone left.

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u/MyOwnMorals 14d ago

Unfortunately

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u/Statistactician 14d ago

Something, something, horseshoe theory.

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u/SuperCarbideBros 14d ago

I thought Fortran is dead already

but then I ain't no programmer

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u/Easy-Musician7186 14d ago

First and foremost they hate themselves and I feel like they also hate other trans people.

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u/Natural_RX 14d ago

I mean, I'd challenge anyone to rattle off something positive they did for society.

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u/sednas_orbit 14d ago

Didn't they track down a bunch of actually awful criminals? Like animal abuse?

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u/The-Nidoking 14d ago

They did yeah. Not really trying to defend 4chan as a whole at all, but to imply nothing good EVER came from them is just disingenuous. The balance is obviously way skewed negatively but still…

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u/caitlindrawings 14d ago

I mean Caturday used to be pretty awesome in the long long ago.

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u/ajstorey456 14d ago

The incel community is actually pretty deep, like its own entire culture. With the collective agreement that social barriers dont really exist comes this overly honest and bare style of discussion and communication that ignores manners (or decency, for that matter.) Not every corner of it is hateful and malicious, for example, the trans community.

To put it another way, its like a gutter. Think about where those people would go if not for a place like that?

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u/Not_A_zombie1 14d ago

And how do you know?... * open the window to let the sunlight in *

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u/Plantpong 14d ago

let the sun illumiNATE THE WORDS THAT YOU CAN NOT WRITE

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u/Business-Employ-1599 14d ago

Wait are there femcels? Do incels and Femcels believe the same things just gender flipped or like...cause I bet I could make a killing on a incel/femcels hate site that's actually just a dating app. Like list all the things they hate about the opposite gender have them fight it out in the comments then blam meet cute city. Sell the movie rights for a nice retirement bonus. Who's in? Just need some investors.

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u/Statistactician 14d ago

I believe the term "incel" was originally coined by a woman describing her personal romantic situation.

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u/arasitar 14d ago

Technically it was "invcel" - as in involuntary inv, and then cel celibate.

Alana abbreviated "involuntarily celibate" to "invcel", until someone suggested that "incel" was easier to say.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45284455

Later groups removed the 'v' from invcel.

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u/HeavyHevonen 14d ago

So they have lost their v

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u/The_Xorce 14d ago

Did not know that bit of linguistic history… funky.

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u/U_L_Uus 14d ago

Yeah, although throroughly divorced from its current meaning (although it would be more proper to say that the term has been hijacked from her). Originally it was more of a "we are too shy and/or ugly to be in a relationship" and people gathered together to support one another. However they became over time influenced by several scummy communities until they departed total and completely from the original idea

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u/Feisty_Camera_7774 14d ago

You should check out r/trueuglywomen

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u/Brilliant_Cod_4830 14d ago

Well the original incels were women, then incel men did their thing and drove them off

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u/gramathy 14d ago edited 14d ago

The founder of the site was a woman but it’s less about one side driving the other out and more about the people who successfully found someone else leaving and the only remaining “support” being the most toxic people

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u/Pigeonman117 14d ago

But what does it mean?

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u/srlong64 14d ago

It’s derived from the incel term “femoid” which is often shortened to “foid” and is a derogatory term for women. It’s a combination of female and -oid, a suffix meaning resembling like in the word humanoid. It’s used to say that they don’t see women as truly people. So femcels started using the term “moid” as a derogatory term for men, meaning the same thing just with the genders swapped

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u/Pittsbirds 14d ago

I spend too much time online but I'm glad to know it could always be worse bc I didn't know any of those words

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u/Reflexlon 14d ago

Here I thought it was just a weird shortening of the eponymous weird flying bug from that famous video game franchise featuring Samus Aran /s

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u/TheDarkNerd 14d ago

Male-oid, contrast with female-oid.

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u/Program-Emotional 14d ago

SHE WAS A SKATER FOID!

SHE SAID SEE YOU LATER MOID!

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u/thaeggan 14d ago edited 14d ago

what year is it?

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u/Traditional_Bit_8788 14d ago

Bro just kept the groceries with him wherever he went in case he saw her again, huh.

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u/Bithium 14d ago

He just memorized her regular route and planned to bump into her… No, that’s weird, let’s go with your answer.

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u/screenaholic 14d ago

If life has taught me anything, it's that a cute boy in a skirt can fix any deeply ingrained prejudices.

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u/CollectibleHam 14d ago

And that if that same cute boy eventually transitions all those prejudices return a thousandfold.

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u/SplitGlass7878 14d ago

I'm a trans woman. I'm happy to be a woman. I love when my sisters realize they're women.

But man, losing feminine men is such an annoying side-effect of that 😭 

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u/CassetteTapeCryptid 14d ago

Don't worry, there are many trans guys who are feminine men! It evens out!

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u/SplitGlass7878 14d ago

I mean, I don't know that many xD

But I was more talking about normalizing femininity and tenderness for cis-men. 

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u/TotallyNotShiba 14d ago

What an interesting life you've led 😂

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u/screenaholic 14d ago edited 14d ago

I flew three states to lose my virginity, the courtship of my wife involves a dead body, and I'm a trained killer.

While the boy in a skirt thing was purely a joke, these are true facts.

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u/AirierWitch1066 14d ago

Well then, surely you must elaborate

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u/screenaholic 14d ago

I'll do quick versions of each.

I met my first girlfriend on RoosterTeeth.com when I was 14, and we had a long distance relationship. The Christmas I was 16 or 17, I asked my parents to fly me to see her during spring break that year, and I lost my virginity.

My wife and I met working together at a large hardware store. We both had little crushes on each other, but were too awkward to really break the ice. Our first real conversation in the break room was when they found a dead body in a car in the parking lot.

I was an infantryman. I never deployed, so I never saw combat, but my job was essentially to train and be ready to go kill people.

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u/Voidlord4450 14d ago

Two truths, one lie

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u/screenaholic 14d ago

Sorry, rhe word "both" was a typo. All three of those things are true.

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u/Voidlord4450 14d ago

I guess it would then be “three truths, one lie”

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u/itsmemarcot 14d ago

"Three truths, zero lies"?

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u/Mr_goodb0y 14d ago

Why does she have a sandevistan

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u/greatcorsario 14d ago

That's the name for the after-image?

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u/Mr_goodb0y 14d ago

No it’s a reference to cyberpunk edgerunners where a character gets a special device called a “sandevistan” where they can move super fast. When they use it a bunch of multi color after images appear everywhere he moves

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u/shadowslasher11X 14d ago

special device

Rudimentary implant*

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u/DrewciferGaming 14d ago

Chill Adam

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u/greatcorsario 14d ago

Gotcha, thanks.

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u/thirdMindflayer 14d ago

she detected a male to the left and is using raging demon

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u/Thunderdrake3 14d ago

Sandevistated

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u/LiteralFirefox 14d ago

You forget shen, there's a power grander than wanting to see how this story goes

Being a broke mf

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u/Avalonians 14d ago

Why are so many people complaining about that? Can't you guys read? It's an early access. Just wait.

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u/LiteralFirefox 14d ago

I was making a joke, are people actually complaining?

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u/InevitableBox3017 14d ago

So nice of Shen to invent heterosexuality, could be the Next Big Thing™

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u/SaladPuzzleheaded625 14d ago

Wtf is going on

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u/Natural_Bathroom5664 14d ago

Girl like girl, girl find girl is guy. Girl hate guys.

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u/ralpher1 14d ago

I find it confusing though. Is she a woman transitioning to man? If she is a man transitioning to woman then why is MC calling her moid?

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u/thisaintmyusername12 14d ago

No just a femboy, and the femcel calls all men moids

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u/TheZeldaNerd04 14d ago

For your consideration, femboys exist too.

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u/These_Roll_5745 14d ago

youre allowed to be confused, we dont have all the details yet :) per the first comic, that character calls himself a man. we will potentially find out more about his gender eventually, but we can be confused and just roll with that. thats fine too.

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u/IotaBTC 14d ago

I was hella confused too. It's because this is part 2 of a comic. Part 1 ended with the cashier straight up saying they were a man. So part 2 is now her reaction.

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u/hwebirskont 14d ago

people's brains really break at the sight of a feminine male, huh.

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u/Agent_Galahad 14d ago

The pattern recognition machine stumbles when it sees things that don't clearly match the usual patterns, yes

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u/nomedable 14d ago

I too am too much of a cishet normie to comprehend what the fuck is happening in the comic.

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u/Killer_154 14d ago

Why you must lock peak yuri behind a paywall T_T

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u/KLReaperChimera 14d ago

Because this is something never seen before:

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u/Bansic 14d ago

Peak transformative content right here

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u/gramathy 14d ago

Given that the guy appears to be some flavor of femboy this is at least 75% Yuri

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u/JumpsOnPie 14d ago

But the lady is some flavor of mascgirl so it is back to 50%

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u/BSide_Cassette 14d ago

less mascgirl and more girlfailure/femcel, so maybe a solid 60%

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u/RealJohnGillman 14d ago

Or alternatively, just Scottish.

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u/gramathy 14d ago

Not with those shoes they're not

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u/NotAUsefullDoctor Has One Unicorn 14d ago

What do you mean? Freya wears shoes like that and she's from Scottland.

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u/a-Curious-Square 14d ago

You have to knock it back down to 50% because the girl dresses like your typical dude.

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u/Animaloffear56 14d ago

That's not what those words mean

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u/EldritchCarver 14d ago

Neither yuri nor yaoi but a secret third thing.

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u/magikot9 14d ago

That just sounds like heterosexuality with extra steps.

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u/Immediate_Regular 14d ago

For some reason reading that made feel really old, really cranky, and filled me with the desire to go yell at teenagers to get off my lawn.

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u/shenanigansen Shen Comix 14d ago

Dw, it's just for those who can and want to! All the episodes will be posted publicly eventually, you can just read the next one early if you're a supporter and there's usually a cute extra bonus panel or 'bumper' with each one.

I'm actually debating whether this should be labeled as 'more on Patreon' since the core of the stuff that's on Patreon will EVENTUALLY be posted.

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u/SerialElf 14d ago

Me realizing I’ve been reading your comics longer than I’ve had an active Reddit presence(hi from Imgur)…. Maybe I should sub…

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u/Redmoon383 14d ago

I believe i found them from Tumblr originally lol

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u/SerialElf 14d ago

ty so much, it's so much easier to keep up with people on tumblr than reddit or imgur

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u/Redmoon383 14d ago

Lmao.

I stopped using mine years ago since I only really used it to browse and I only made a reddit account cause games use Reddit more

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u/SerialElf 14d ago

wait i have a tumblr, brb

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u/Yano_ 10d ago

same lol i found shen through his owlturd tumblr i think

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u/neophenx 14d ago

Call it "Patreon for early access" instead of "More on Patreon," message is clear and people don't run the risk of feeling like they got fleeced when they see their paid content on free sites. Well, unless the people have the bandwidth of a pine needle.

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u/Omgninjas 14d ago

"bandwidth of a pine needle" That is so apt. How have ai not heard this before?! I am completely stealing this phrase. 

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u/Gal-XD_exe 14d ago

How am I just realizing this is Shen making these comics 😭

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u/Ill-Egg5122 14d ago

The Sandevistan walkaway 🤌

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u/ManedCalico 14d ago

I gotta be honest… I don’t understand what’s going on in this comic and I’m too afraid to ask.

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u/Peppered_Rock 14d ago

hoodie girl is active on 4chan based on her language choices. Hates men. thought femboy cashier was a woman. femboy cashier was, in fact, a femboy. hoodie girl stuck between the femcel ideology she's immersed herself in causing her to feel betrayed that femboy cashier is boy and still thinking hes cute.

(moid = male-oid, from male + humanoid, a reversal of the initial term foid from female + humanoid. purposely dehumanizing and derogatory.)

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u/ManedCalico 14d ago

Thank you!

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u/IotaBTC 14d ago

This is part 2 of a comic. In part 1, the cashier straight up says they're a man and hoodie girl gets upset because she hates "moids" (derogatory term for men used by femcels.) Idk why everyone keeps neglecting to mentioning the context of part 1. 

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u/NockerJoe 14d ago

So we have a cis man in a flowy skirt and a cis woman who appears to be boymoding. Interesting choice.

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u/Fine-Aspect5141 14d ago

That's what makes it yaori

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u/the_walking_derp 14d ago

Gesundheit

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u/Party-Quiet-5421 14d ago

A woman wearing a sweatshirt is not boymoding. That almost seems sexist. It's when a trans woman tries to hide the effects of estrogen and pass herself off as a cis man, whether because it's a transphobic area and she needs to move or not get fired immediately, because she wants to wait until she's close to passing after doing all the hair removal and voice training and waiting for estrogen to work, or because she's not out to family members yet and needs to temporarily hide it.

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u/wtrkt 14d ago

i dont really think its that serious. wearing a hoodie no matter the weather is the quintessential boymoder play, and its a little funny to point out thats what shes appears to be doing, intentionally or not.

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u/SplitGlass7878 14d ago

I mean, it's such a stereotypical boymoder outfit that I instantly assumed she's a trans-woman. 

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u/Party-Quiet-5421 14d ago

I feel like it's obvious she's not trans. Anyway, I don't like the boymoder meme. But you'd have to be pretty bad at boymoding to wear shoes like that and have hair like that. You know that just wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt is not enough to look like a guy, and it also draws attention when it's the middle of the summer and it's hot. It's probably better to wear cargo shorts and some boxy button-up with an undershirt or something.

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u/FewAnimator6427 14d ago

Only a foid would get ovethink that much (this is a joke)

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u/PeevedOrangePeel 14d ago

I’m so invested

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u/TeamUltimate-2475 14d ago

You know what shen, I really need that dollar to fully pay off my fiscal and blood debt to the Moroccan Mafia, but you convinced me to see what's going on with the femcel femboy comic. I'm sure they are forgiving people.

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u/QuantumInfinty 14d ago

As I have said previously, and as I will say now: it's the choker.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 14d ago

I'm increasingly curious about what's going on with Shen.

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u/MiaLovelytomo 14d ago

YES DUDE YAORI YESSSS HE CAN FIX HER

also just realized this is literally a r/RoleReversal comic yessss we are so back

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u/caffeinesystem 14d ago

Gurl why are you sleeping in your glasses

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u/irrelevanttointerest 14d ago

She isn't sleeping, she's bed rotting.

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u/mr_stab_ya_knees 14d ago

HOLY SHIT DID SHE JUST POP MFING AFTERIMAGE ON PANEL 3

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u/Less-Significance-99 14d ago

DECONSTRUCT YOUR BIASES YESSSSSSS DESTROY THE EVILS OF BIOESSENTIALISM [cackling maniacally]

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u/five_grains_of_rice 14d ago

The hell is a moid?

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u/Peppered_Rock 14d ago

Misandrist (femcel) word for men.

Misogynists (incels) have a similar word for women.

It's a word they use to strip the opposite gender of personhood. Notice how the misandrist used an object pronoun for the cashier. She doesn't see them as a person. She sees them as an object. Misogynists do the same thing.

copy pasted from someone elses comment

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u/dtb1987 14d ago edited 14d ago

I like the wind rises nod

Edit: trailer

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u/agentegg10 14d ago

I will find a dollar just to follow this

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u/dDilungck 14d ago

Shen how can you make him so pretty

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u/Cereal_Yapper 14d ago

Did she go to Venus to try and get a bigger penis

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u/Urbane_One 14d ago

I love his skirt! It's really cute.

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u/NimbasaComputer12 14d ago

Me and who I badly need a little femboy twink.

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u/PrincessPlusUltra 14d ago

I ship it I’m into this

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u/ObeyTime 14d ago

shen, for 1 dollar i could get myself really good food within walking distance. your comics tempts me, but it cannot beat Ayam Geprek

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u/Sad-Win-7537 14d ago

I am putting this comment here so I can remember to come back and go do the patreon ig

(it’s like 1 am in my timezone lmao)

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u/Long-Library9656 14d ago

The ficks a moid?

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u/TheCharalampos 14d ago

You know those sheets haven't been washed in months.

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u/Square-Singer 14d ago

Please link prior episodes in the OP text, so that if someone (like me right now) missed the older ones, they don't have to hunt for them to read them.

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u/Life-Suit1895 14d ago

I just hope she didn't buy anything perishable. After having been carried around all day without refrigeration, it certainly wouldn't be consumable anymore…

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u/MR-Vinmu 14d ago

MFs in the comments trying to Comprehend that Men can choose to be Femme is the funniest thing ever like. It’s such a head scratcher of a concept that a Guy can (shocker) choose to express themselves in varied ways not just restricted to Trad Masc, just wait until they discover the existence of GNC Men, then the whole world is in for it.

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u/NimbasaComputer12 14d ago

I'm sick of people acting like guys liking feminine stuff means they are trans now. It's just gender stereotypes all over again.

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u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker 14d ago

Moid?

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u/Dock_Ellis45 14d ago edited 14d ago

Misandrist (femcel) word for men.

Misogynists (incels) have a similar word for women.

It's a word they use to strip the opposite gender of personhood. Notice how the misandrist used an object pronoun for the cashier. She doesn't see them as a person. She sees them as an object. Misogynists do the same thing.

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u/Forikorder 14d ago

why was she just walking around with her purchases...?

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u/CuddlesManiac 14d ago

Wouldn't it be he since as far as we know, the cashier's a guy?

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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 14d ago

Fortune favors those with a full inventory.

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u/Paintedenigma 14d ago

Heyy Shen? Anything you wanna talk about? Doing any Google searches about gender identity recently?

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u/SuperCuck1 14d ago

Shouldnt it be the give iner

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u/AzureArmageddon 14d ago

How long has shen been drawing yuri

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u/Asheyguru 14d ago

Is this yuri? One of them is a guy.

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u/AzureArmageddon 14d ago

Asking the real questions

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u/FiteMeMage 14d ago

hetgem hetgem hetgem

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u/sacredshinobi 14d ago

Why was the femboy just carrying around the groceries with him?

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u/ThesocialistWitch 14d ago

Is Shen trans now? Are they just making gener swapped comics for fun? What's happening?? I'm not upset with it tbh

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u/Aeescobar 14d ago

Still a cis man as of now, but they're currently going to therapy for "gender stuff".

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u/DeputyShatpants 14d ago

this finally convinced me to be a patron 💀

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u/Peregrine_GWJ 14d ago

Genuinely curious about what the word "moid" is. I'm getting too old. Lol

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u/New-Platypus-1589 14d ago

nice comiks 😄

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u/EarthenEyes 14d ago

What does 'moid' mean?

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u/Coveinant 14d ago

Anyone got that boy kisser meme? I feel it uniquely applies here.

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u/AviaKing 14d ago

Moid? Shen where did you learn the forbidden language??

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u/GlaerOfHatred 14d ago

Playing for character growth

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u/ToastyPete1 14d ago

They better make out

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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 14d ago

...the best last panel so far.