GTS – Page 260 – Kidd Commander!

GTS – Page 260

by Aria on December 9, 2024 at 6:09 PM

Chapter: Green Thousand Sing

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simple enough for children to calculate

Adrastos42

"We changed already. This time it's on purpose." Hell of a line. And as a trans person, a hell of a mood:D
- Katie
  
  I'm always caught off guard by how much this theoretically non-trans story manages to resonate so personally with me. Think I'm not gonna question it, though. Just enjoying the ride. 🙂
  - Aria
    
    If it helps, I'm agender myself; I think queerness brings its own special sort of radiation to writing, but in general it's kind of impossible to write something genuine and not end up with it being influenced by your identity to some extent. I don't particularly care to write stories ABOUT being queer, in the sense of like, coming out or falling in love for its own sake or whatever, but I do like writing about monsters and identities and monstrous identities as Good Things. Given what a lot of us deal with in real life I'm not surprised so many folks come away from KC with some sort of trans narrative even when there's other shit going on, and I'm always really moved when someone sees themself in this work. I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Fel

I think about what it means to change often, more because I'm rather transhumanist than any actually sane or normal reason. Are we ontologically the same person we were 10 years ago? I certainly wouldn't consider myself the same, I'm not even the same gender. But I don't know where to draw the line; if a decade can be the difference, can 5 years? One year? It's a complicated question and I annoy all my friends by bringing it up any time the star trek teleporter problem or the altered carbon life extension problem comes up. I think I consider the progression and pattern of my thoughts more myself than anything corporeal, and certainly not my body.

All of that is to say that I love that these two tackled the same question head on. I like their answer, and I wonder if being a Commander is in part mending that gap between the self and the body, since it's all gotta line up.
Mike South

Aria, you are a beautiful person. I know that might be hard for you to believe but you could not make something this beautiful without that beauty having been first channeled through you.

I'm not sure what's wrong with the world, or if the word is still working its way out, but you should have at least 10x the readership on this awesome, awesome, awesome comic. It's so, so, good, don't ever think anything otherwise.

There was a point when Neil Gaiman was considered niche, and PKD was broke most of his life. But they were brilliant and you are brilliant and I believe that one day everyone will see that.
- Aria
  
  Man what a kind thing to find in the inbox, thanks so much for taking the time to say all this Mike <3