TransGirl Diaries: Time Travel & Visiting Your Younger Self
Jun 7, 2015 20:15:13 GMT 8
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Post by EchelonHunt on Jun 7, 2015 20:15:13 GMT 8
Possible trigger warning!
Trans Girl Diaries was created by Evelyn Poor. It was dark, perhaps too dark for some. One of the first comic strips she made was a young pre-op MTF coming out to her parents, only to get immediately shut down. It ended with the pre-op MTF hanging herself in her bedroom with blood written on the walls, "I told you so." with the parent looking traumatised at the sight. This angered and upset a lot of people even if it painted the harsh reality people go through.
She made a chapter that was about time travel, where her current self (a transwoman) was sucked up into a universe hole and was sent back to the timeline in the past when she was a little boy "Johnny", alone in his room. She thought, "This could be a chance to convince my younger self that I'm not a boy, that I'm a girl. I could avoid all the pain and confusion, I can avoid enduring male puberty!" Little did she know, an older male version of herself from the past(?) timeline went back in time to ... for a lack of a better word, "hunt her down" and make the younger boy understand that it's ok to "be a man" and to encourage him to ignore the thoughts inside him and that woman telling him to embrace his true self, to be a woman.
I can't remember how the comic ended - it was a very long chapter, I wish I still had it saved somewhere but unfortunately the website has been down for a long time. If my memory serves me correctly, the older male self had repressed his desire to be his true self (a woman) and ended up turning homicidal as a result.
It was riveting reading and I couldn't help but think, what would I do if I was in that situation? What would you do?
This is the original comic strip she had made that I suspect was what she decided to branch off, take the concept and make a serious chapter about. Not going to lie, it IS a really creative take on the idea and I can't help but be a sucker for time travel stories and how time travel can change everything.
Trans Girl Diaries was created by Evelyn Poor. It was dark, perhaps too dark for some. One of the first comic strips she made was a young pre-op MTF coming out to her parents, only to get immediately shut down. It ended with the pre-op MTF hanging herself in her bedroom with blood written on the walls, "I told you so." with the parent looking traumatised at the sight. This angered and upset a lot of people even if it painted the harsh reality people go through.
She made a chapter that was about time travel, where her current self (a transwoman) was sucked up into a universe hole and was sent back to the timeline in the past when she was a little boy "Johnny", alone in his room. She thought, "This could be a chance to convince my younger self that I'm not a boy, that I'm a girl. I could avoid all the pain and confusion, I can avoid enduring male puberty!" Little did she know, an older male version of herself from the past(?) timeline went back in time to ... for a lack of a better word, "hunt her down" and make the younger boy understand that it's ok to "be a man" and to encourage him to ignore the thoughts inside him and that woman telling him to embrace his true self, to be a woman.
I can't remember how the comic ended - it was a very long chapter, I wish I still had it saved somewhere but unfortunately the website has been down for a long time. If my memory serves me correctly, the older male self had repressed his desire to be his true self (a woman) and ended up turning homicidal as a result.
It was riveting reading and I couldn't help but think, what would I do if I was in that situation? What would you do?
This is the original comic strip she had made that I suspect was what she decided to branch off, take the concept and make a serious chapter about. Not going to lie, it IS a really creative take on the idea and I can't help but be a sucker for time travel stories and how time travel can change everything.
