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It can be our cute butch girlfriend most of the time.

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But, also, knowing that the camera distorts due to the lens means that we understand what we see in a photo is less accurate than we see in the mirror, physics-wise, and that doesn't help much. Our stance is to be bemused by it, and just try our best not to identify with our body much at all.

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Mostly, these days, we take a good selfie or two just after a shower, and when we're put together enough to go outside. And then just kind of bear it and ignore it when we're forced to be a lump around the house. Focusing on reading and writing and napping, instead.

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We took a LOT of selfies early in our transition, and they helped quite a bit. Lately, we haven't, because we got bored of what we're capable of doing. We don't have the energy to shave or do make up most of the time, and we can't afford a new wardrobe while our clothes are wearing out. It sucks.

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We do have size dysmorphia, unfortunately. But it's not just related to our fat. Some of it definitely is, but it's also very much height and other proportions. And it swings about a lot. Coupled with "species" dysphoria, it's hard to manage.

We literally don't know what our body actually looks like, because it's always wildly different.

Yeah. We know that you can feel dysphoria about anything, including reality itself. And our dysmorphia is weird, extremely mutable, and often an effect of who is fronting, but includes things like Alice In Wonderland Syndrome for us. We just look different every time we look in the mirror.

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Nice to hear that it's gotten better!

We read it over two decades ago. Not surprised it's out of date at this point.

If we got diagnosed with dysmorphia, we couldn't get the surgery we needed. But in order to get the surgery, we had to get diagnosed with GENDER dysphoria and not REPRODUCTIVE dysphoria, because the latter is still not recognized. Anyway. Decades of being stuck in the closet leave trauma.

While dysphoria was described as "the sense that something is wrong with your body, treatable only with physical medical intervention like surgery, & not via therapy." But, otherwise, there was no other way to tell the two apart, diagnostically. So, we saw a dysmorphia diagnosis as an obstruction.

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 5h

When we were in the closet about being trans, and trying to figure out what to do about our awful feeling anatomy, we encountered dysmorphia described by clinical documents as being "the sense that something is wrong with your body when there really isn't, treatable only with therapy, never surgery"

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We like your definition, and it's the one that actually works for us. In that sense, dysmorphia can be a dissociative symptom of dysphoria. But, because of its historic clinical use, we don't trust the word dysmorphia at all. We try to never use it. And get tense when others do.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 5h

Oh! Holy topography! Checkered thighs!

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 7h

Q6: a repeat announcement - THE FELLSDEN DRAGONHOOD is due to be released as an epub on Halloween, October 31, downloadable from our itch page. inmara.itch.io It's the sequel to SHED EVERYTHING

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 7h

She's so freakin' proud of her name! She's been strutting around our apartment going "ha-ha!" between scenes and when we get up to get snacks or water.

A5: Little bit of a spoiler, but she just came out as trans in chapter 8, and named herself Catastrophe Caterwaul. She's a webcomic protagonist living in the real world. She's a graphic designer. And she wants safety, good family, and less chaos. (She gets to pick two.) #WeeknightWriters

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A4: When whoever in our head steps up to play the part isn't really into it, then names and details are slow to come, dialogue is stilted, and actions and reactions are listless and unmotivated. That either indicates a bad story, a bored cast, or system burnout, though. #WeeknightWriters

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... for us: We *usually* start with a name or a role. And then, our brain either spontaneously generates a person to fill that part, or someone who already exists steps forward. And they start making that character their own. We've had the same headmate try on different roles across stories, too.

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A3: When they start showing their own sense of humor. Either by cracking a literal joke in the dialogue, or coming up with a character trait or background detail that's goofy or fun. Especially when they banter and riff off of each other. What goes into a character... #WeeknightWriters

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It gets weird when we write trans characters who transition as part of the story. Sometimes it ends up being like a tag team, & it's like one character being replaced by another very similar one. Sometimes, one of the two names just feels fake like it's tacked on. Rarely, it can be a real change.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 9h

Main characters dictate the story. Then the story draws in the rest of the cast. The whole cast lives in our head before, during, and after the story. We are the actors that make it happen. Like an RPG or improv game. Sometimes there's some kind of planning. #WeeknightWriters

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 9h

Name. This has more to do with the way our psyche works than anything else. EVERYTHING hangs off of a name for us. And it's all we need to start writing, usually. Change the name and it changes the character. #WeeknightWriters

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 11h

Oh! homecoming MUM, not homecoming MOM HAHAHAH!

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 14h

We're so poly-saturated lately, we don't feel crushes anymore, though we can still pick out who we'd have crushes on if we did. The fun part, we feel it strongest for couples or whole polycules. We get crushes on relationships.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 14h

So, he and everyone around him was still following his story and believing he was just from Denver rather than a comic strip about Denver. And he didn't even consider going back. Once that was broken, then he could contemplate it, but it felt like trying to crawl back into the womb.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 14h

It's one thing to travel from the realm of fiction to fact. It's another to travel back the other way. Whenever he considers the idea, he's filled with growing dread. But also, no one can figure out how to do it. Prior to the events of the book, he was still in the grips of the cosmic Kayfabe...

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 19h

All of this pairs fairly well with a malty Kolsch.

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 19h

We feel like this screams "Portlander" somehow:

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

so do we though, right now, we speak of our art with helpless bewilderment, mostly, because we just don't know what it even is half the time

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

hey you, trans person reading this compliment yourself right now <3

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

This is the Inmara having been helpful. Again.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

Well, if you cannot stand bananas, like us, then no, they are not. But otherwise, maybe?

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

teaser: "Is that the crossrifter?" "No?... That's the hyper-gutter flange calibrator I need in order to make my examinator work, then I can get to work on the crossrifter." Finnister said. "Things have to be done in a certain order, or they won't work. I bet you put everything in the square hole."

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

2. proper noun, English: A webcomic with a small cult following published from August 2001 until September 2026, about a graphic designer who successfully moved from a fictional neighborhood in Denver, Colorado to a real world apartment in Milwaukee, Oregon, as originally created by lukosheidi.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

APOSCHEDIOSIS 1. noun, Greek: apo (change) + schedio (design or drawing) + sis (process, condition, or state of); The process of changing one's design ...

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

The basic premise is that the entire massive weight of the history of webcomics breaking the fourth wall over and over and over has finally shattered reality, and they're leaking into the real world. Written from the point of view of a webcomic character who's stuck here.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

APOSCHÉDIOSIS by the Inmara Fenumera (WIP) Imagine this: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT meets KATALEPSIS by Hungry meets EL GOONISH SHIVE by Dan/Dana Shive and all other webcomics, really. We wrote a pretty good extended blurb in this thread here: bsky.app/profile/inma... #WriterShareWednesday

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the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

There are a lot more to share. But these ones seem to match your recommendations best. And they're at the top of our list in general, too.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

And then there's SUNSPOT by yootie. Ezzen is a survivor of the Flame and a huge fan of the powerful Vaetna. But, when the Flame visits him again and finally gifts him powers, it's Japan's team of Magical Girls who take him in to train and protect him. Lot's of trans enby non-human feels. Ongoing.

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

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Oh, and then there's TIVT by Jill Rose again! This one is hard for us to describe other than as required reading. Everyone should read it. The synopsis sets it up pretty well. And it's relatively short. www.scribblehub.com/series/18773...

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

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SOUL STARVED by Ariadne Thread has a wildly cool convention for using second person pronouns for a POV character and first person for the others, when POV shifts to them. And it makes us want to inject nanites right into our bloodstream. www.scribblehub.com/series/19896...

the Inmara 🏳️‍⚧️ @inmara.sunspot.world · 08/10/2026

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ANITGREEN by gremnoir is on an undefined hiatus, but it's so worth reading up to it's current place. It's about a cosmic horror that falls in lesbians with a young woman, and how they navigate their difficult relationship, and it is so less cartoony than that description sounds. It's yummy.