Shades After 046
Momma Anwar has finally gotten a star wars quote right!
Also sharp eyed people who noticed the typo on monday’s page it’s all fixed now- Ta very much!
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Glad to see she’s got her priorities right, then. Sexual orientation or lack thereof, whatever, whatever, as long as there’s some grandbabies going on.
pretty much my mums reaction to being bi and gender queer/trans…
I’m getting the “grandbabies” question.
Will you have babies? No.
Maybe down the road…. No!
Maybe a surrogate mother? Then it’s still your genes. ……Maybe.
I would almost go with adoption, but an adopted cousin is treated as “sort of family” which I despise to no end. Just recently, this cousin had a child, and someone said “I bet his mom is glad to be a grandmother… well, sort-of-a-grandmother” …and I just blew up! This idea that he’s not REALLY family just because he’s adopted repulses me, he IS FAMILY!!! I don’t want my child to be treated that way as well.
Well, I’m hoping she’d be ok with no grandbabies too. Not everyone wants kids!
I like this. I really like her reaction. I mean, having children made her happy and of course she wants grandbabies. She’s trying, which I understand might be hard, and I love it. :)
At least she’ll settle for adopted babies. My mom thinks I’m selfish for not wanting to pass her genes on. T___T
Even though I would make an awesome mom to some kid stuck in foster care
She should be thankful that you want to pass on her good upbringing. It is almost as important as the genes in determining how a child turns out, so the investment she made with you wouldn’t be lost.
My mom and many around me disagree with my choice to want to be fixed. I’ve told her that if I have children, they’ll be adopted. Giving birth is just not something I want to do, and I’m not a kid person– especially not a baby person. She tells me it’s different if it’s your own, but I’ve known women who’ve straight up told me it took them more than a week to really connect with their newborn and that they didn’t love it immediately. I honestly think that’d be me. And they’re good mothers, don’t get me wrong. Just saying.
The life I envision for myself just isn’t a place a child belongs. I intend to travel as much as I can ages 30(or earlier, if I luck out in a job or in life in general)-50 and just don’t do well with kids. And for whatever reason, I connect better with children that aren’t related to me. I also figure that if I ever want to be mom, I should probably be a mom to someone who’s alive and wants/needs one. That’s just how I look at it. But I’m seen as deluded for thinking like that. I feel like among other things, society needs to stop expecting everyone to have children and that all women want to be mothers.
Though your life is none of my business, you should know that you can have attachment problems with your adopted child also. I’m not saying that you should give birth- hell, I want to adopt too, but there’a nothing wrong with having trouble loving/liking your kid when you first get them- biological or adopted :D
Have you considered adopting an older child? The ones who have the hardest time finding home are children over age 10. Everyone wants babies, and if you’re 50 or whatever, and you adopt a 10-year-old, for one, no diapers! Two, it’ll take you both time to bond and that’s totally normal. Three, they know you’re not their real parent, and that’s totally normally too. Four, by the time you’re ready to retire, they’ll be out of uni and you can go traveling again through your twilight years. Wins all around!
I just discovered this comic and I must say I loved it!
Anwar is a lovely character, as are JD and Chris. I just really like the way you are telling their stories, so naturally and good-heartedly.
Can’t wait to read more~
Cheers!
So glad to find this comic again! I ripped through it in two sittings and now I’m craving more! Great and thoughtful characters. Chris and Anwar give me life. Those two, man :3
I appreciate seeing his mom genuinely struggle with this, as some parents almost certainly do in today’s culture, but I also like seeing that she’s a loving mother. It’s a nice amount of depth.
Gosh YES agreeing with this completely! Sometimes people jump all over the less defensible things the characters say and do, but most of the time, I find it really adds depth, it makes everything more real, to see them struggle and fuck up like normal people do! And Tab never defends them when they fuck up, and almost always explicit states that they’re fucking up (which A++ Tab, you’re super awesome!), so it’s just, so nice to see!
Exactly. It would be a completely unrealistic story (as well as not a very engaging one) if it had gone:
Anwar: Dearest Mama, I am asexual and in a romantic relationship with an older, cross-dressing, submissive man.
Mama ‘War: ‘kay cool.
It’d be awesome if that was the world we lived in, but we don’t yet, and it’s great to see the characters being human, making mistakes, being shitty sometimes and trying to be better.
Who’s Eli? I forget.
She’s the daughter of mum’s friend, the one she was hoping Anwar would hit it off with.
Headcanon: Mama ‘War and Anwar own R2D2 and C3PO onesies respectively.
Totally adopting this headcanon now.
Love this! Headcanon accepted.
Mumwar probably also owns a jedi bath robe.
I’m suddenly reminded of my sister’s friend. When gay marriage was legalized in New York, he complained that now his grandmother would never stop pressuring him to get married. :)
It’s fun reading comics while you’re sick because you see names and you perk up and you’re like “Eli!?” are we getting a new character???? Or! do I just not remember them! Haha!
Loving this webcomic and loved the prequel as well.
Anwar, Anwar, Anwar. Why don’t I know you?
And his mom is so nice. I know she’s struggling with accepting the fact that he’s romantically into older guys while also being asexual, but she’s not tossing him aside either. Good on her. =]