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egg_irl — Memes about being trans people in denial and other eggy topics

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Original comic by Mattie Lubchanski

Description: A four panel comic

panel 1: a group of people playing a tabletop game. SOME GUY WHO LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE MATTIE BUT A LONG TIME AGO sits next to the DM.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Okaaaay, so! The new character I rolled out is a 6'3" half-orc sorceress. Excited to get playing!
DM: Playing a girl again, huh.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Yeah, why?

PANEL 2: two other players.
PLAYER 2: Can you just come out already? We're supportive.
PLAYER 3: Waiting for you to transition is taking forever.

PANEL 3: SGWLSLMBALTA looks off to the side. Shot over the DM's shoulder.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Hmm? I don't understand what you are all possibly talking about! "Come out." Good one.

PANEL 4: The DM and the two other players contemplate death while SGWLSLMBALTA speaks off-panel.
SGWLSLMBALTA: Anyway...She was actually born a PRINCE! of the realm, but was CURSED by a WIZARD to be a girl...

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

THESE COLORS DON'T RUN 🏳️‍⚧️

I originally thought these shirts were worn by TERF gatekeepers at women's athletic events or killjoys at color runs lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

but .. what does it mean? (not an english native. am i missing smth obvious?)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

“colors running” is an issue with dyes or paint not staying where it supposed to on something, so like washing a piece of clothing and the colors fading or staining some other part. Originally it references paint “running” off something in small streams, like if you applied to much. Running being a word commonly used to describe the flow of a stream or river, so if paint is coming off something in small streams, it would be described as “running”.

“The colors” also being a euphemism for a flag or standard on a battlefield, historically formations on a battlefield having a flag that would act as a clear point to focus around during the chaos of a battle, hence the saying “rally around the colors” meaning “ find the flag of the unit and defend it, if you don’t know what to do”.

So shirts with a flag that say “these colors don’t run”. it’s a double entendre, saying that “those that this flag stands for will not run away from a fight” and that “the dye on this clothing will not get distorted”.

In the context of a trans flag, it is a parody of vocally/excessively patriotic people who would wear an American flag shirt with that saying on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

great. ty. i learned a lot!

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