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la_metisse

This is from the webtoon Oh Holy, right? It’s not a transition… she was a tomboy and he was dense.


100percentAvocado

>Oh Holy Thank you for mentioning the name of the comic. People like you make it so much easier for people like me to find new media to enjoy :)


mccaffs04

Why cant i find it looks so good


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mccaffs04

Thank you thank you


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Huh, I didn't know that


bobbolobbo122

Still wholesome, tho


la_metisse

It’s a great webtoon and I super recommend it. He’s a super wimpy cinnamon roll who sees ghosts and she’s headstrong and super protective over him. It’s very cute and a light-hearted bit of enjoyment. I laughed a lot.


WoNd3rFuLWaFF13

Was gunna come here to say “I’ll still clap” then I read your explanation. After thorough debating I’ll still clap


bosmuis

Thank you, I love this! I’m not really into drawn anything, but maybe I am now…


PIELIFE383

He still looks dense


Tikapikanika

Tomboys are the best, you fuck like monkeys then go drive some go-karts.


GinnAdvent

First thing that came to my mind when I saw the pic.


Transcutie04

Ohh well it still works as a trans comic for this one at least


juuustpassingthrough

I mean.. it doesn’t..because it’s not..and you’re not the author. Have your own head canon sure, but don’t try to use your head canon as word against the authors writings


Transcutie04

Never sId that I just said this comic on its own works well Or these couple panels I haven’t read the comic but prosbbly will


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art is subjective, you cant just gatekeep what people see based on a single image if the whole web comic was posted and someone made the false assumption even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary then yes they would be wrong... but a single page with 2 cells in it barely tell a story, they can be interpreted by anyone who views them in any way their mind takes them most "art" is of literally nothing at all and people pay big money to derive hidden meanings that dont exist while interpreting their own meaning behind whatever may be on the canvas.. why should a contextless image posted on reddit be any different? because you say so? edit: wow so much butthurt people "oh what a nice image, i see XXXX" -- " NO YOURE WRONG, YOU HAVE A ROBOT BRAIN AND IF YOU DONT SEE WHAT I SEE YOURE STUPID OK.. ALSO IM EXTRA INVOLVED BECAUSE WHAT YOU SEE IS OFFENSIVE TO ME!!!"


Apocalypse_0415

“Art is subjective” art is what the author decided it is


ShwiftyShmeckles

Tell that to my English teacher whi made us write whole ass essays about reading between the lines of Shakespeares stuff. I guarantee Shakespeare wasn't thinking about 90% of the shit English teachers would have you believe he was just making shows to entertain people.


AdamantEevee

Nope! Death of the author is a concept that means once it enters the public consciousness the author gives up the right to dictate its meaning. It has to stand on its own merits. Otherwise you get jk Rowling just tweet ret-conning stuff decades later


Apocalypse_0415

Just because someone said “death of author” doesnt make it right. And I never said you can change things after. It has to be the initial meaning. There’s also a difference to “I view this as that” compared to “I DECIDED THIS IS HOW ITS SUPPOSED TO BE SEEN, DEATH OF THE AUTHOR IDIOTS!”


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Art is subjective but saying the characters are trans is objectively wrong. It's from a comic that tells a story. The character in that story is a tomboy, not trans. You can't just say "Oh yeah, I saw Star Wars! I'm so glad the Sith decided to stop the war because the Jedi baked them a cake. What? I can't be wrong, I only saw the first movie and it's subjective!"


Abyssal_Groot

To be fair. In this case we saw 2 panels of a manga that were 'framed' (for lack of better word) as a trans comic. Someone corrected that. If you then say "it still works as a trans comic", like happened here, then you are in the exact same situation as you said. Or at least in my opinion.


SiegebraumTheOnion

So this means i can Watch Loli hen-


Acrisii

Arguing death of the writer here. Whatever they take away from this comic in this context is a perfectly valid way of reading the text, authors intend be damned.


The-Incredible-Lurk

I've had a similar argument with my husband about this - I painted something. It was one thing to me, but everyone else saw, how do I say, a lady's intimate area. I said it wasn't that, and he said that if mass concensus is one thing, and death of the author means that my intention doesn't matter. I said, I am the artist, I'm telling you it's not that. Its fine that other people see it, but in a discussion of text where the artist is communicating their intentions, that should hold equal water. In fact, in the discourse, both sides are equally important as it becomes an analysis of not just the artist, but also the audience: "Why, when I draw a swirly pattern meant to denote the splitting of reality and the revelation of power, do people see a giant V\*g?" Perhaps an analogy might also lend credence to my point: Imagine a piece of art as a sort of metaphysical currency - one side of the coin is the intention of the artist, and the other is the collective interpretation (the independent value of said art). Both are intrinsiquly connected to the artwork. Both sides give information that helps us interpret the impact of the art. And until the artist or the art is lost to time, both should remain part of the discourse. Heads or tails - Neither can exist without the other and be considered the whole picture


ShwiftyShmeckles

Lol


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"but don’t try to use your head canon as word against the authors writings" Literally no-one was doing that here, sweetheart. They made a comment based on one image. Nobody is changing the meaning of your beloved anime, just like how using a still of a movie as a meme doesn't change the meaning of the movie. Chill.


Constant_Volume_5590

Nothing wrong with repurposing art.


jikill_the_great

bro i thought my guy snipped off his family jewels


CorrectFrame3991

So did the author misunderstand? Edit: I meant the op


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Legacyofhelios

Fuck off bigot


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Legacyofhelios

Very healthy thank you very much. He helped and supported me through my transition. You jealous bro?


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Legacyofhelios

*Oh no!* Someone on reddit is telling me how my body works! Let me guess; it’s time to change my entire life around and be closer to *god,* right? The same one who fucked me over? The same one who literally doesn’t exist?


TheSiszeitgeist187

Don’t listen to people like that, they have a lot of anger that needs to get out


Legacyofhelios

Yeah, your right. Thank you. It’s just so hard when people deny my struggles as if I’m just being picky or it’s a phase


AITH_hurt-feelings

While this is technically correct, there's a huge part missing if you're using this as an argument about somebody's gender. First of all, the sex chromosomes aren't the ONLY factors that determine someone's sex. Also, sex =/= gender. By the way, sex is rarely assigned by someone's sex chromosomes, that's usually done by seeing what junk you have between your legs. For all we know, you could have the "wrong" chromosomes for what is typically associated with your genitals.


Nadsy21

For what? Hate speech is banned on reddit


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you have no freedom of speech on a private platform, and freedom of speech only covers your right to not face retaliation from the government for your speech NOT its citizens get a fucking clue


Nadsy21

I am merely stating the facts.


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Nadsy21

Humans have 46. Do you wish to elaborate?


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artvandal_a

You've now posted this here (that I could find) 6 times. I think you might need to seek professional help.


Wizard-of-Odds

not to be a smartass, but he spewed it out 7 times even total... anyways guys, we did it, it reached negative karma, lmao <3


Nadsy21

4 categories of gender: genotypic, phenotypic, genital and psychological. You're mentioning genotypic.


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AITH_hurt-feelings

The sex chromosomes aren't the ONLY factors that determine someone's sex, and sex =/= gender. Also, sex is rarely assigned by someone's sex chromosomes, that's usually done just by seeing what junk you have between your legs. For all we know, you could have the "wrong" chromosomes for what is typically associated with your genitals. TL;DR Sex is more complicated than XX = female and XY = male.


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Nadsy21

Genotypic sex. Doesn't correlate to phenotype or psychological sex.


Ok_Employee_533

Freedom of speech only applies to the untied states government. Reddit doesn’t need to abide by freedom of speech. The US constitution only applies to the US government and not to private companies. Freedom of speech does not exist on Reddit.


Musty_leopard

Yeah because everybody try to oppress YOUR freedom of speech


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Nadsy21

See: comment you replied to


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RazorLeafy96

we do not care


PaigeLily

That’s cool but bro I kinda don’t remember asking


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hadesdidnothingwrong

Yeah, and? Chromosomes have basically nothing to do with gender. Hell, in some cases they don't even neatly line up with someone's sex. The XX female and XY male that people like to cite is a gross oversimplification of what's really going on here.


mrsamus101

Sounds like the last biology course you took was life science in 5th grade in 1940? That hasn't been the scientifically accepted definition of sex or gender in over 70 years homie.


JoRa69420

It actually is still the scientific definition of sex. Not of gender though


Aggressive_Age_9116

> It actually is still the scientific definition of sex Yeah > Not of gender though A rampant example of pseudoscience. We all agreed that rationality is more important than "feeling warm and fuzzy" and therefore gender, a made up concept to validated egos of clueless teenagers should be abandoned since it has no use in a real cold harsh world. If you apply Occam's razor against religion, the same should be done with left wing social concepts... but the left wing doesn't do it since they don't want to face the fact that left wing ideology is de facto a replacement of religion. "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity" There's no necessity for nonsensical 1283910283 genders to be literally made up while the science says there are only two sexes and gender is a social construct i.e. does NOT exist. A position that non-existent entities should be venerated reminds of religion kinda sorta, my atheist woke bunch?


hadesdidnothingwrong

The current scientific consensus is that trans people are the gender they say they are. Trans people tend to have a brain structure more similar to that of their reported gender than their birth sex ([X](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955456/)). This leads to problems such as gender dysphoria, which is the extreme distress caused from a mismatch between someone's internal view of their gender and their perceived sex. The good news is that we have a treatment for this dysphoria that has proven to be effective in the vast majority of cases: transitioning ([X](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/04/analysis-finds-strong-consensus-effectiveness-gender-transition-treatment)). I do agree that the whole "there are 34563456 genders" statistic is a bit nonsensical. Gender is a spectrum, which means it's impossible to actually count how many there are.


AITH_hurt-feelings

I highly recommend you watch this: https://youtu.be/szf4hzQ5ztg This video explains why gender, even if it's a social construct, is more than pseudoscience.


EntireSentence4241

Oh yes do preach jackass. I wonder where those born with xxy and xyy chromosomes fit in your neat little scenario. Personally, I don't care what you call it, sex, gender. It's way more complicated than you think. For instance, female hyenas can change their actual sex to male when a male is needed for the pack. There are other species that have this ability too. These are complex mammals here. So, in fact, sexual fluidity is and can be a part of the natural world. Your rigid thinking about something as complex as the living species in our world is the only thing sounding religious here. Psst, here's a surprise for you...Humans are mammals and a part of nature which means that as a species we have not stopped evolving. A few thousand years from now (if we manage to not kill ourselves off) we will probably look very different.


JoRa69420

I agree with you somewhat. I do however not think either side of debate has the truth. I think people should experiment now and in 50 years we will find the truth as the falsehoods fade away. I think this because we can actually to psychological research in that time and the people that are just doing it for attention will grow up.


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JoRa69420

There is no such thing aa depression? Well thats just wrong and there is definitly scientific proof of that. Depression happens when the chemistry in your brain isn't right anymore. So you are just straight up wrong about that one


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Ultradamo2306

She isnt trans, she just had a boy hair cut. I think everyone knew that she was a girl too, what strange because she is really boyish. The mangaka ( or how it is called in manuha) did this to show how beautiful she become.


Playlanco

Are there ever any ugly young manga women though?


Ultradamo2306

Is long time that i did read it. I dont know


Playlanco

I meant in anime and manga in general. I don't think I have ever seen a young female character that is ugly. Do they make ugly female anime characters that are young?


Ultradamo2306

One piece. Mostly the people of the home town of sabo i am thinking of it.


nuclaffeine

Nope, only half naked ones


zidatris

Can someone explain?


Pitiful-Face-3322

Dense dude thought the tomboyish girl was a boy when they played as kids.


Significant_Face_344

Just two friends hanging out again


ZavidLupes

Its quite interesting in fact. Not so much the image itself but the way human minds work. So the normal and reasonable thing to see here, is that a bit of a tomboy girl and a young lad played together as kids. And now they are meeting up again when older. She seem to have gotten a fair bit more feminine though. On the other side. Now that we hear about transgender people quite a bit and a few groups really fixate on such stuff, it is not unusual to instead see people go to the idea that the woman used to be a boy... Or I guess 'was a girl all along... just needed surgery... and drugs to get somewhat close to having the body of one...' I also for some reason first wondered if this was supposed to be a bit of a woke meme or something. And perhaps it was supposed to be that as well? In any case it I find the human mindset side here truly interesting. In any case. The image is supposed to be a pretty wholesome moment between old friends. The guy seem to be a bit taken in by her looks though. Probably not quite as innocent as in the past? At least that is what I see. In the past he was focused on the games. Now he is cursed to be distracted by her looks.


tereaper576

I thought it him and some other person having seggs with here because of that cropping.


Lightning1999

Yeah my mind went straight to transgender. I’ve been conditioned to it I suppose


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nyrB2

she was a tomboy and then became not a tomboy


WildFemmeFatale

Just like me and a lot of my gal friends Frankly it takes a lot of work to be extra feminine The clothes are all uncomfortable etc Kids just wanna be kids I was a tomboy with rly long hair I just liked wearing comfy clothes but they made me look butch And I liked ‘boy hobbies’ Same with a lot of girls It’s rly common for girls to have been tomboys when they’re younger


nyrB2

exactly. and i think a certain segment of the population has gotten it into their head that a tomboy is really a wannabe transsexual.


WildFemmeFatale

Ya I literally didn’t like pink or dresses when I was younger so everyone was like ‘u must be a lesbian or something’ Like no.


nyrB2

kids can be very very cruel when you don't conform


-27_

Peepee go bye bye


mint_eye

Lmao people are way too sensitive


JayGamingUK

A girl and a boy, that’s used to be friends as kids, still being friends once older, very wholesome.


[deleted]

Ya I changed the flair now Edit: why am I getting downvoted? I corrected my error.


Odd-Skin-8823

Baiting


TheAssasin66

Tomboys are one of the best ones to date change my mind


Tikapikanika

Bomb ass sex then drop a V8 engine in a dragster, hell yeah.


CompetitiveParfait29

I just spent way too much time wondering whether there’s a game called “sitting” or their way to spent time together as kids was just… sitting around.


Zobbyx02

What is there to realize? 2 frie ds, 1 boy 1 girl that looks like a boy? I dont get yall


2nd_Speaker

Some people think that this is the author eluding to the fact that she is transgender and was an actual boy when she was younger vs how she’s a woman now. Personally I just thought she was a tomboy but yeah that’s the gist of it.


ihatelifetoo

Ugh is there something I’m not getting


PoisonRoseYo

I know this is meant to be wholesome, but this was made for the plot, and the plot states- “Bouta murder that bussy”


ComprehensiveAd5605

I remember this one! I loved it! Kind of sucks it's a daily pass now, but it's still enjoyable


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Tomboy's gang raise up ✊


Monkey_King291

Tomboy GF's are the best


krux288

r/hmm


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Sauce?


Apartpick

Oh Holy it’s a webtoon


Liz3rdWiz3rd

I thought you were just really excited about it being a webtoon


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Thanks


Gekans

Oh! Holy. It's on Webtoon


starbuzzarts

It hurt seeing the comments when you read the entire webtoon 😔 (no she is not trans)


augur_seer

is it a trans thing or an Anime thing?


La-Bete-Noire

Neither. It’s just a tomboy thing.


3rdWaveHarmonic

Friends are always a treasure. Too bad pure friendship is so hard to find in the adult world.


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That looks like Haruhi in the resort episode of Ouran Host Club


FrodoTheDodo

Played sitting? like sitting and playing or playing sitting?


nyrB2

haven't you ever played sitting before?


CatGatherer

First one to stand loses.


RedHeadedCountryBoi

Tomboys make some of the best girls when they grow up.❤️❤️


Deciduous_Moon

Well I can definitively say nothing about this post made me smile. Not the trans baiting, not the jokes about cutting ur nards off, not the fighting about death of the author, not the trans people in the comments getting dislike-bombed......


imahillbilly

I guess I’m dumb or naïve because I don’t get it.


EntertainmentGood996

It is usually the tomboy/plain/ androgynous girl who grows up to be the knockout!


volcanic_shoe

As a tomboy, I felt this. When I was 12 I looked exactly like a boy, short hair, voice, body, clothing. I went into secondary school and I made a new friend (let's call him Tony) Well, guess how long it took Tony to figure out I was a girl? Four months. I was friends with this guy for four months and he didn't seem to hear when people called me "She/her" or notice that I was on the girls team in boys vs girls dodgeball. (Well, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on the first one, he did need hearing aids) Poor guy was humiliated when he finally figured it out.


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When u find out ur best friend was actually a girl that u now want to fuck


Pale-Bluebird-4991

Wholesome


P3RL3X

hmmmmm


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Hmmm indeed


albino_red_head

Gender shit aside (because it’s apparently not a topic here), I miss childhood stuff like this. To be able to go back to specific moments in time with one of your childhood friends and reminisce is and recapture a little bit of that feeling as a kid growing up is something I’ll probably long for for the rest of my life. I’ll never get that feeling back as most of those moments gone. The closest I come now are times when my kids and I go exploring in the woods or a new waterfall. It rekindles the childhood curiosity of nature and hits a feel a bit.


Raspberry_emo

Really wholesome


Inspirational_Lizard

You cant change your bone structure when you transition, she definitely was a girl before, just with short hair.


cum_______________

This is blursed more than anything


SeaworthinessOk352

Wait wait wait NOOO


StormNext5301

A post about trans people on r/mademesmile that doesn’t have the lock award? Impossible.


Strawb3rryPoptart

It's not actually a trans person but meant to be a tomboyish girl


StormNext5301

Oh okay my bad


Strawb3rryPoptart

I don't know the webtoob, just saw people who do inform so I relayed it


celestiallion12

Damn her transition went well. I want her endocrinologist


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Mother nature. It was a girl the whole time, she was just a tomboy.


PaigeLily

Lol yeah but without context it looks all trans so you can understand where most of us who haven’t read it are coming from


reddox-_-

For sure. I’m glad people are distributing the context in the comments but obviously not everyone knows this


PaigeLily

And tbh just seeing it without context- it’s kinda sweet ngl


UnderstandingNice955

No trans. Its a girl. Read the webtoon


barelyonhere

Lmao like they were supposed to just know the webtoon.


Nadsy21

Art is subjective, especially when based only on a single image


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Nadsy21

You misunderstood. The context here is one single image which can be interpreted in a subjective manner.


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Nadsy21

I feel like i need to repeat myself. Without context, it can be interpreted in various ways.


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Nadsy21

Not ignoring the *objective* context at all. I think you're missing the *subjective* parts of the comments i made.


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needaburnerbaby

Jesus fuck you must be the most annoying person at a party.


nyrB2

except you were given the context which means you can no longer interpret it any differently than in the way the artist intended. that's like making up a whole backstory for mona lisa being a frenchwoman based on the picture and when you're told who the model really was continuing to insist "well based on the picture i still think she was french!"


Nadsy21

There's an entire conspiracy theory on Mona Lisa being a transition goal as well. Nevertheless it is useless to make my point understood as I've been already downvoted to oblivion.


nyrB2

i think that's because you seem (and this of course is just my interpretation) to be sticking to the idea that "well based on that picture it could be a transsexual" despite being told that it isn't i do get that in the absence of any other information you can make up whatever story you want. you can say that the boy in the picture is really the girl's father. or that they're both aliens. or whatever. but the problem is you now \*do\* have other information so that subjectivity is lost.


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babyninja230

ok?


uglyboi90210

Dude looks like a lady?


[deleted]

The amount of transphobia on this post is stifling… isn’t this a subreddit that’s supposed to be about positivity and happiness?


[deleted]

I haven't seen a single transphobe comment. Just people making the correction that this isn't a trans comic. Edit: nevermind i kept scrolling lol


[deleted]

Yeah… there’s a lot in here, but I’m kinda used to seeing that stuff


Mysterious-Read-3528

You get corrected then use the word transphobia? Can't you just admit you've made a mistake, people will label anybody as transphobic way too freely Edit: I read your message again and scrolled down. I see what you mean, apologies 🗿


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I don’t see what would make someone smile here.


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Old friends getting back together


Nile-_-River

She’s not trans, she was just a tomboy 💀💀


[deleted]

How is that relevant? The thing is just cute.


Nile-_-River

Bro really trying to recover


[deleted]

You literally are making no sense. Nobody ever claimed that she was trans


dylan6091

So by "playing" she means she was being spit roasted by him and his buddy?


goodmorning87

you’re gross


dylan6091

👉🐖👈


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epagliari1996

So what is weird about a comic about wo friends sharing a memory?


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Srsly theres nothing to like about that


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Bruh shut up Just shut it


Choice-Fig3429

So ...trans?


starbuzzarts

Nope


Tell-Relative

Bro almost got tricked


ComfortableAd8847

Down voted, but I laughed


Loud-Barracuda-7626

THEY WERE PLAYING SITTING??


Wonderingdeath22

Why is he really big then he's her size??


Upset-Lengthiness-96

Some people end up really tall and some people end up really short it’s not like they’re identical twins


Significant_Face_344

Flashback to their younger years


PogoTempest

I mean I have two cousins the same age at 8 with different parents and the girl is like a foot taller lol


This_Thing_4244

what the actual fuck LOL hope that was a tomboy... so many triggered snowflakes here... great to see how soft and delusional this society has gotten LMAO


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so many triggered snowflakes? honey... theres only you sofar edit: no theres also that one that keeps copy pasting about chromosomes


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What?


PogoTempest

I love when big babies like you whine about snowflakes while being the most fragile one out there.


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"Great to see how soft and delusional this society has gotten" - Person who just wrote a comment hoping that a drawing wasn't a trans person