Fem-Shen Rule
(midwest.social)
196::: spoiler Alt Text Panel 1: Shen is sitting at his screen tablet, holding his tablet pen. He looks at you, smiling, and says "Wanna know one cool thing about being a comic artist?"
Panel 2: Shen is now standing upright, the tablet pen having become giant in his hand. How gestures outwards with his other hand and says "You can draw yourself however you want!"
Panel 3: Shen magically "ting"s his forehead with his tablet pen, changing himself into a Sol Badguy-esque buff dude with a belt and a ponytail. He says "For example, I can draw myself like THIS!"
Panel 4: Shen again magically "ting"s his forehead, changing himself into a girl with a sweatshirt-dress, gym shorts, and choker. He says "OR like THIS!"
Panel 5: Shen winks, does a peace sign, and sticks his tongue out, saying "Bet THIS makes you feel some funny new feelings about me, huh??"
Panel 6: Life now has to hold a raging and frothing-at-the-mouth Shen as he yells "Bet THIS would make it easier to get you to go to my PATREON!!!!" and points at you, trying to fight you. Life is saying "Calm down, man!!" :::
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Dammit
I mean, yeah. Yeah.
well now i feel like i need a visual for myself.... hmm-
Sidenote: I like how manga author Nakatani Nio draws herself as a ~~pigeon~~^[1]^ bird.
^[1] Apparently, I can’t read…^
You son of a bitch, she says she's a Little Grebe right there 😂
Really should have read that closer. Fixed.
Added a silly layer to the silly joke 😂
the follow-up at https://bsky.app/profile/shenanigansen.bsky.social/post/3mpmjwivivs2d
Shen knows his audience.
Or they're taking their first steps on becoming the f1nn5ter of webcomics. We'll see how it plays out in a few years.
Oh god
Just to be clear, are folk in general anti-f1nn5ter, as it seems he only transitioned to femme with HRT for the popularity? Or is the consensus that he's cool? I've been out of the YouTube loop for a while
as it seems he only transitioned to femme with HRT for the popularity
This might be the consensus on certain corners of the internet, but it's absolute transphobic bullshit. He got so much less hate before she transitioned, as being "just a cishet femboy" was far less controversial than the truth. The real problem with F1NN5TER is all the ragebaiting on Twitter to promote their OnlyFans. She relies too much on bigots who secretly simp to ever back away from the toxicity that's the real source of these bigoted theories.
Thinking that someone would transition while living in the UK for "popularity" is kinda an unhinged take, she transitioned for similar reasons as other transfemmes.
The only real reason to dogpile on her is that now she has some very fucked takes about femboys.
Life looks surprised but it should know better
I thought that was a girl right from the beginning.
Fem-Shen
She-Shen was right there aa
She[n]/her?
Shen-Ra
all the jokes about yuri, drawing a fem version of themself. hmm... there might be something going on here.
also i should get a choker
I'll never say it on her account or more mainstream social network... But oh, the egg vibes of shen are off the charts. It's basically an open secret
That sheep and wolf comic ? It was so on-point that it had a role in breaking MY egg
If Shen wants to come out as trans, that's great. But I think it's inappropriate to be making assumptions based only on vibes until then.
Trying to preempt someone's egg cracking is either misgendering or goading someone to out themselves before they're ready.
This is all generally true, but omfg does Shen not make it easy. At this point they're egg baiting rather than simply getting called an egg for unintentional behavior. I'd be kinda upset if they aren't trans after these last few posts.
I forgot about the sheep/wolf comics! Just went back to re-read them, and deer^lol^ god… This shit seems scientifically formulated to crack eggs.
Where can I find them?
I found them here: https://m.webtoons.com/en/canvas/shen-comix/wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/viewer?title_no=129357&episode_no=115
What does the "> o" eyes mean? I saw it in the OpenBSD logo recently on their website.
It’s just winking, isn’t it?
Oh, ok. Thanks. I still don't really understand, is it supposed to be the ">" symbol or is the eye doing that literally?
The symbol is used in emoticons like this: >_o to mimic the wrinkles that show up when you're scrunching your eye closed. Nerd artists use the same symbology in comics.
I see. Would you say that the banner picture of this: https://www.openbsd.org/ is an example or is it just similar?
It's the same I think, in the picture you linked, the pufferfish looks strained, causing it to close one eye. At least, that's my interpretation
Uhhh possibly? I think it's clearer with Shen because the open eye is just a circle like a letter "o". Here's an example of Hobbes squinting
you can see it's similar, and presumably not inspired by the symbols, so there's a precedent :)
Sort of both, I think? I’m guessing it started out as an emoticon, literally represented by a > character, but comic artists started mimicking the look of it.
Unresearched speculation on my part; Take it with a grain of salt.
I will accept your speculation as absolute truth. The matter is decided in my mind.
Reminds me of when the Penny Arcade guys drew themselves with hair and chins for years and years.
"Sex sells hommi, now put this on. "
They’re not wrong.
Smash
Not gonna lie, still looking quite masculine (hairstyle perhaps?) Most trans women IRL end up passing better than this.
Edit: Nothing against people who aim for an androgynous or non-binary look or just want to crossdress, but if exploiting the supposed "femininity → Patreon popularity" correlation is the goal, he could have gone even further and still stay realistic. And of course, it's a good idea to remind people of the great transformation powers IRL transition offers.
Do I need to remind you that how this character looks is fictional? The comic is playing with hypotheticals, so I have no ethical concerns about criticizing the style (like you're allowed to say a movie costume does not represent a role as well as it could) even though I find it disgusting to look for "flaws" in an actual human's sincere representation of their identity.
