Shades After 009
Okay, due to popular demand the next page is going up wednesday!
In con news I’m going to Glasgow MCM Comic Con this weekend- which is really far away so I won’t be back until Tuesday! That means I’ll be livestreaming Tuesday 9am and 8pm instead of Monday. Scottish lovelies please come over and say hi, it would be lovely to meet you, or see you for the second time!
Also, if you haven’t seen my new Minority Monster comics, you should go check them out!
Oh Mama ‘War… So many feels on this page!
Ouccchh.
Oooh. The feels. ><
THE FEELS. When I was a teen my mom thought that I wanted to become a nun AND IT’S ALL COMING BACK. I’m laughing so hard XD
Unrelately, I misread panel 3 ’cause of the lack of punctuation. I read “I wouldn’t right” the same was as “I can’t even”, and it took a sec for my brain to can.
Oh! ;_;
I just… something in my eye. *runs away*
Awww, Anwar. I’m not asexual but I definitely relate to people misunderstanding me in drastic ways :/
Right in the feels. Ugh. Poor Anwar.
I can definitely feel Anwar’s frustration, but I also really feel for his mother. He’s acting as though she should have simply figured out he’s asexual from saying he didn’t want sex with Jade/JD — and therefore isn’t trying hard enough to understand. (And he didn’t even bother to explain why he doesn’t after that. There’s so many possibilities, in fact.)
And heck, it took ‘War himself a pretty long time to realise he was asexual! I really love how complex and realistic these characters are – although I haven’t been in this exact situation, there have been many times where my feelings on something have been so raw and huge, and it gets in the way of seeing how other people might process things.
Exactly. And if she’d guessed “oh so you’re asexual” and was mistaken, or if she’d wondered “but why wouldn’t you want sex?”, I can’t imagine the conversation going any better. The religious guess was reasonable and polite. The point goes to the mother, if we’re awarding points.
I think he seems frustrated at himself. After all, he didn’t know why himself, he just felt ‘broken’ somehow, so he was probably hoping she’d come back with “oh, that’s normal and OK, it’s just [insert worls-changing answer here]”, and her saying something that he already knew it wasn’t meant she didn’t have that answer, and as a young man, confused and lost, his mother not knowing means it probably isn’t knowable, so it was akin to her saying ” yup, you’re a freak and no one will ever understand what’s wrong with you.”
Luckily, I’m sure she just wrote it off as teen stroppiness, especially in the wake of breakup raw emotions. Still sad for both of them.
Agreed. I can absolutely see where Mrs. Sardar’s coming from in trying to fix things with a comforting explanation/excuse based on the assumption that of course her son is sexual. And I can absolutely see where Anwar would be thoroughly sick and tired of excuses and explanations and assumptions, to the point that he’d automatically lash out when the person who’s known him longest says something that indicates she’s never really seen or suspected that side of him at all.
I just feel very sad for both of them just now. (And even worse after the next page.)
Oh man I’m so relieved for you guys to say that, I was so thinking that there would have been rude comments about how the mother didn’t understand right away!
Fate in humanity restored!
I remember coming out to my mother. Things were going alright until…
“I want you to get checked for prostate cancer.”
“Mom!”
“What?”
“That’s offensive!”
“Hey, I knew someone who lost his libido and attraction, and it turned out to be a symptom.”
“I’m not sick! I’m asexual!”
She then began lecturing me about how she’s my mother, and she’s concerned. I asked her if she’d insist on me getting tested for AIDs if I were gay. I think she said yes. Also she began going into detail about her sex life to try to convince me I’m not ace ಠ_ಠ
He literally said he DIDN’T WANT to have sex with her. No that his devotion to his religion prevented it, that he didn’t WANT it. That invalidation has to hurt bb