LOL

the phrase Alphabet Gang is so fucking funny to me like bro you're not the villian in a preschool show if you're gonna insult me call me a slur at least.

His vibe reminds me of when I worked at Hollywood Video and an account had a note with “homophobe- returned broke back mountain saying ‘I don’t care if someone is gay I just don’t want to see it’” The back and forth of “this lefty and alphabet and I don’t hate you but I also hate this” is a journey

you betrayed them as a reader... how could you

make your lick?????

Yeah im sure the phrase 'alphabet gang' just sprang fully formed from the godhead of this guys pantheon of reasonable liberal content

I love, love that he thinks that 'hard coded' is related to 'coded' and comes from programming (probably).

…isn’t it? I agree it’s a dumb way to talk about people though.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-sw... Linguistic, not programming, though it's been expanded out. But people see coded and go with that ( hence, hard coded). I think it's the same origin structure, but vastly different forks that might have swung back to near congruent forks.

I’m familiar with “code-switching” and it doesn’t seem relevant here. This seems like a metaphorical use of “hard coding” the software term, which does seem to have leaked out into common usage. (Aside: my “Vanessa you’re being autistic about this” alarm is going off, I might be over-objecting)

Typically when you say 'she's coded as a straight character' it's code switching as the reference, though. It's character modeling terminology, and has been in use for describing traits and characteristics. Adding in 'hard' there pulls the other definition instead, 'hard coding' as immutable refs.

I think he does mean it in a programing way but the poster is conflating it with gay-coded, aka behaviors seen as gay

“Hardcoded as straight”

See, my favorite part of this is that I think we all know at least a few "straight-identified" women who will happily say that women are more aesthetically lovely than men -- and without commenting on their sexuality, it's nonetheless not a surprise when the occasional one has a bi awakening.

see this is the thing that makes me lose my mind about when even generally gay-supporting people say that there were absolutely no signs right up until the last minute she's been the most sapphic creature since the goddamn get-go

Are they being bisexual or is it just sparkling heteronormative bisexual We know which one they Fear

I’m sure he would have been equally as upset and righteous if his side was being pandered to instead. Definitely. Probably.

At this point I just want a picture of Joyce in a pile of naked women with the label "TOTALLY STRAIGHT". And Joe, depending on how this storyline plays out.

...aside from everything else, do people actually use "hard-coded" (which normally refers to values or behaviors in a computer program that are written directly into the code instead of being customizable data) this way?

"Hard-coded as straight" What the fuck does that even mean? Lol

Her straight coding was so hard, I mean she's been attracted to guys, and she rejected the girl she's been sleeping with since before age 5, I don't know how she could read as anything but 100% straight for life

The straightest lip bite in history!

Thoughts and prayers. 😂

what show are they ranting about

mine

ill have to check your comic out later

"I don't hate you or any of the alphabet gang" lol. lmao, even

Oh! I have an idea for a Slipshine then. It involves a shower & sesbian lex.

...I gotta catch up, currently on the 2013 football arc! (Excellent stuff btw)

“Joyce was hard-coded as straight” My brother in Christ, Joyce has been gay for Dorothy since September 27, 2010.

the flex of posting "You could've kept me, a bigot, as your reader, but you FAILED"

also a darkly hilarious thing to receive while i'm drawing what i'm currently drawing

The Roz/Mary intense love story that almost everyone thinks is the most cursed? YEEEEEEESS!!!

👀 It better not be gay lesbian sexbanging. It BETTER NOT BE

GAY LESBIAN SEXBANGING: A DUMBING OF AGE PORNOGRAPHIQUE

Can the sequel be “hard-coded”??

Yeah, I would haaate that. Golly, wouldn't it be the woooorst?

Real "Homer yelling that Moe lost himself a customer while Moe is constantly surrounded by many loud customers giving him tons of money so he can't hear him" energy.

At least there Homer was justified in being upset since Moe did outright steal his recipe and take credit for it, but this bigoted reader is just-is he seriously that delusional that he thinks people will be sad if a bigot like him stops reading a comic? LOL what a loser.

I think we have to sympathize with the fact that all overtly heavily right leaning fiction is garbage so him having to put up with wokery is a normal experience. You can only watch the Benghazi movie and Ladyballers so many times.

Like I know a guy who didn't get that Black Butler was super fujoshi bait

Or my ex not getting the parts of The Boys or Invincible that are calling people like him out for their shittiness.

the interface is right, of course; that post _is_ spam and trash

I never believe these people are actually patrons, but on the other hand, if the rest of it is true they've demonstrated a lack of critical thinking that means they possibly could have been paying you this whole time without realizing what your whole deal is.

I think this is from the main site's comments, not Patreon?

The person claims to have been a Patron in the middle of the screed. No blame for not reading it, why would you want to?

lol oops indeed

I'm upset that Duncan and Ethan haven't made out yet.

Wow, he was able to view the coding for your comic? Is it HTML? C++, Python? Inquiring minds want to know!

I'm curious if anyone could instruct me into how to "run screaming into gay lesbian sexbanging." Sounds like fun!

I was about to say: I'm not sure what comic this guy is reading, but I would really like the link!

youtu.be/yvQJMvms-ok see this anime for a demonstration (also because it's a criminally underrated series that deserves more views)

Smashed that play button, lost my goddamn mind, immediately ran screaming into watching the entire gay lesbian sexbanging anime (found it under the name "Rock wa Lady no Tashinami Deshite")

Ironically I ONLY know about this anime because of yuri fanart. I should watch it, it's exactly my sort of thing

If they act this way with regards to Joyce, I would love to see the non-Euclidean shapes they ragefully bend themselves into if Mary should ever have an epiphany.

Mary coming out as some kind of queer would manage to piss off literally everyone everywhere on the topic of gayness I think Let's do it

I think I can get behind the amount of anguish and suffering it would cause Mary to have that revelation about herself.

Let me know if you need to talk.

Not an airport my guy, no need to announce your departure ♥

Imagine spending 15 years reading the story of someone leaving their insular, hyper-conservative bubble and deconstructing their evangelical indoctrination, and considering that “lefty talking points” rather than an obvious autobiographical work. I swear these people are allergic to thinking.

oh man the deeply presumptuous "I bet this is TOO EDGY FOR YOUR MODS" (do you even have "mods"? it's... you, right?)

Linda Ellerbee once described an interview subject* as acting, as best I can recall, "like we had never met an asshole before and would be amazed" and I think about that every single time I log onto God's own internet *Hunter S. Thompson

Linda Ellerbee is proof smart people used to come from Texas.

RIP Molly Ivins

I have read so little Hunter S. Thompson because what I am familiar with lines up with this assessment perfectly 😂

Goodness, the asterisked name was such an amazing twist my head nearly fell off

me and the report system

B-tier band name, honestly

I saw “joyce” and assumed this was someone’s comment on Disco Elysium fanfiction

I'm not even happy and/or sorry so I had to crop this

sounds like a real charmer

"gay lesbian sexbanging" this guy wanted to say a slur so bad and he settled on whatever that is

How dare you betray the core of the characters you made for the sake of the alphabet soup agenda!

Completely unbelievable that anyone would learn anything new about themselves at college

Do we have links to the gay lesbian sexbanging?

aw, did poor baby project himself onto a bi girl and now he's big mad that he didn't spot the subtext? does baby need a diaper change about how he might not be straight either? how bout we put ya down for a nap big boy, it's time for the adults to have grown-up conversations

This feels extra funny considering how active the comment sections have been. if that reflects traffic to the comic in general, and the associated patreons, you're doing fantastic.

Lol this fucking guy

I guess he felt Joyce was "hardcoded as straight" based on ignoring every interaction she's ever had with Dorothy that would disagree with his bigoted agenda, and having her consider a polyromantic relaitonship was beyond the pale because everyone in the comic always makes good decisions.

“Joyce was hard coded as straight.”

Reader and supporter for years and years, yet somehow a first-time poster to the comic discussion, thus getting their post stuck in moderation.

“Joyce was hard-coded as straight”

"sexbanging"? 🤨

Let's not ignore the fact that he was apparently paying you this whole time

People like this are the same kind of people that don't understand Star Trek is supposed to be progressive

I like that they think you have a whole moderation team lined up in advance to deal with their drama. Like some king a top a throne with a book warehouse team and professional Transformers dusters.

"someone is acting up in the comments! deploy Squeal Team Six!"

"Hard-coded as straight" You shouldn't have posted the comic to GitHub, I guess.

"a neverending cavalcade of lefty talking points and woke fuckery" is a pretty good pitch line ngl

wish i'd had this in time to put as the pull quote on the back of book 14

well, there's always book 15

I mean, those are definitely two of the reasons I like it!

He could have just written "I'm a huge dipshit loser" and saved himself a lot of effort

But then we’d all have had less of a laugh, so it was thoughtful really

Oh no, Joyce was their emotional support fundie

she's their manic p- [stops and begins frantically searching the Bible for words that rhyme with "pixie"]

Manic pixie Technicolor dream coat

Anyone who would unironically utter the word alphabet gang: You actually are my enemy. Like, full stop, for real, you trivialize my existence and are provably the uncle everyone cheers when they leave the family get togethers

Can I have his stuff?

"sexbanging" Neither of those words covered the concept enough independently, huh?

He also said "gay lesbian" so he seems to like being redundant.

That one I chalked up to simply not understanding what those words mean... which is implied by the rest of the rant.

I mean to be entirely fair, I'm probably gonna steal that word and repurpose it.

That's a lot of words to say "I'm still in the closet and very angry about it".

ah yes, pandering to the alphabet gang by... *checks notes* acknowledging their existence and common lived experiences

Ha! Fuck him! Let his bullshit die as unread and unregarded as he will.

I was hard coded as straight for about 16 years, then I figured dating dudes was an option

Oh no

...anyway,

"I don't hate you or any of the alphabet gang" how do we explain to bestie that no one uses "alphabet gang" in any but a pejorative sense

I mean, *I* want to reclaim it. But yeah we’re not really there yet.

Hmm. Alphabet Gang (queer and supporters fighting for life and freedom) vs Alphabet Soup (government agencies fighting for control).

Hang on. I’ll have to read that later. I’m too busy right now running screaming into gay lesbian sexbanging.

A true fan he was