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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:28:32 JST mcc

   Wait. Look at the t-shirt in the upper right corner of today's (5373) questionable content

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:28:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @mcc now I'm thinking of AI's spending lots of time in their creche designing their eventual body, deciding exactly how they want to look.

     It's not exactly trans, but it's not not trans either.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:28:32 JST mcc

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     One thing I like about that particular character is that the way she's drawn seems to suggest— like, she's a robot, right? AIs in the QCverse aren't born into bodies, they're raised in virtual machine creches. So this chick coulda had a body that looked potentially however she wanted. And when she picked her tits, she was like "no, I don't want them big. regular to a bit on the small side. But I want them to be really, REALLY perky".

     I respect that. I respect that a lot

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 10:48:19 JST mcc

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️
     • Misty

     @misty @foone I'm gonna feel really silly if after bombing foone's mentions with all this it turns out foone has actually read the strip already

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 10:48:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Misty

     @mcc @misty it's a bit of both. I used to read the comic but haven't in years.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 10:48:20 JST mcc

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️
     • Misty

     @misty @foone Yeah, her coming out to Marten was super awkward in a really cardboard way. On the bright side, her having sex with Marten the first time was SUPER awkward in a pleasantly realistic way.

     Not sure how to navigate the moment so you're making jokes you really shouldn't be making to defuse a situation that technically might not even exist outside your own head

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 10:48:20 JST mcc

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️
     • Misty

     @misty @foone @misty @foone Really I'm not sure claire ever even needed to come out. Checking my twitter archives I find I had identified claire was trans two full years before the strip ever acknowledged it textually
     https://twitter.runhello.com/mcclure111/status/304107146402992128/

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 10:48:21 JST mcc

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone and QC is mostly fluffy wish fulfillment but this one storyline just like… never got resolved, this one character is just permanently less happy because of this unsolvable problem she has now.

     It felt very real to me

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 10:48:21 JST mcc

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone (There is also, for the record, a trans character. Like just one of the humans is a trans woman. And basically none of her storylines are about trans issues. She's just like "hm it is difficult to navigate the current job market as a library science PHD". Meanwhile it's the *robots* that are just CONSTANTLY doing queer issues analogy storylines. I … appreciate it, a bit.)

   • Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 10:48:21 JST Misty

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @mcc @foone I feel like he handled her a little clumsily early on and he wisely pulled back a bit. Handling those kinda themes via the robots instead is a lot more interesting

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 10:48:22 JST mcc

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone There's a *very* long running storyline in QC about a robot who had built a really strong self image around her chassis and then it got broke, and when the insurance gave her a new one it turned out like, oh the iPhone 7 is discontinued, here's the iPhone 9, it's better. But it didn't look the same so she wound up with actual body dysmorphia because she looked in the mirror and it *wasn't her face*.