#El Goonish Shive

[egscomics]

If you don't mind me asking, how do you pick Tedd's gender on any given part of the comic?

It varies. Sometimes there’s a plot reason, sometimes it’s just vibes.

It can be as simple as “I think Tedd would be feminine right now.”

#el goonish shive #el goonish shive questions

[taigan-hse]

Happy Trans Visibility Day!

#trans visibility #el goonish shive #transmasc #coming out

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

other comics which have been running since the early aughts: include a vague reference to stuff from 15-20 years ago and hoping really hard that readers will just remember what's going on

El Goonish Shive: author commentary on each page contains a list of references to every callback on the page with links to the relevant comics. Remember when Ellen had this "second life" dream thing going on in fucking 2004? Here's some handy dandy links to every single comic or sequence of comics which depicted it!

#shenanigans #el goonish shive #webcomics #old webcomics #ellen dunkel

[sillylovingpupper]

#el goonish shive #egscomics #hope (el goonish shive)

[danshive]

I am hyped for Pokémon Legends ZA for reasons having nothing to do with a new Pokémon game.

Do you have ANY idea how much mileage I'm going to get out of "Pokémon ZA?" Neither do I, but it's greater than zero, I'm telling you that.

#dan shive says stuff #pokemon #pokemon za #el goonish shive

[pthariensflame]

Literally my favorite thing @danshive has ever written, to this day.

#el goonish shive #text

[gyrrakavian]

The quickest path to true evil is to forget what evil is.

In all of our lives, there will be moments when there are only bad options to choose from. The easiest path is to make excuses. to say the least evil option is good. The more you say it, the more you believe it. And before you know it… You don't see it as evil anymore. You stop looking for other options.

-- Arthur J. Arthur, El Goonish Shive

#the path to evil #lesser of two evils #arthur j arthur #el goonish shive

[ladyhatty]

Awe they've come so far! Tedd has become worthy of trust and learned her friends actual wants and needs. And Sarah has become comfortable with herself and her body enough to enjoy something like this. It's awesome seeing them become friends over the years and such cool people.

#el goonish shive #egs #using she for Tedd as she's in female form in the more recent comic? I'm ever sure with gender fluid characters but trying to be respectful

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

reading through El Goonish Shive for the first time, im obsessed with the fact that the author apparently had no knowledge of 2000s Gender Politics while writing, and was just writing what they thought was cool at the time. The comic many people have told me was their trans awakening just happened to stumble into the role of one of the most progressive of the time (ESPECIALLY during the homophobic as fuck 2000s) out of sheer coincidence.

#im almost afraid to tag this #now that i know Dan looks at these #el goonish shive #webcomics #my posts #oc #transformation fiction #meme

[gmobanana]

#gum rambles #el goonish shive #egs #susan pompoms

[egscomics]

Terrifying Presence

I mean, sure, it gives her unique dialogue options, but there are much more useful perks out there.

#el goonish shive #egs new comics #hiveworks #webcomics #egsnp

[wlw-webcomic-bracket]

And, by submitters' popular demand, the precise moment that Tedd Understood:

#tedd verres #propaganda #el goonish shive

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

when you full-on forget that most people are straight and cis

#shenanigans #el goonish shive #grace sciuridae #trans stuff #queer stuff

[demilypyro]

innocent tumblr users finding my blog

#el goonish shive

[lesbianraggedyanne]

new reaction image just dropped

#jasper speaks #el goonish shive

[danshive]

On that note, where did you get the name Verres? Most characters' surnames seem to be either fairly common ones or made-up names relevant to their character, I can't find anything about the name 'Verres' except a obscure ancient Roman guy.

Verres is an example of younger me thinking it would be neato to use Foreign words for last names, and trusting that translation was super easy and straightforward.

Basically, I was trying to make Tedd’s last name the French word for “glasses”.

Now, I’m not 100% sure about this, but my understanding is that Verres would be less “glasses on your face”, and more “glasses you fill with wine”.

Which I’m not going to say is UN-fitting, but not what I was going for. Be careful if using words from a language you don’t speak, everyone. Even if you’ve got a dictionary, it can be like a game of telephone, and you might only think you’ve got the right word.

#el Goonish shive #el goonish shive questions #dan shive says stuff