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[ID: Four panel "Pills that make you green" comic. Crudely drawn stick figures represent people.

Panel 1: A leaf green stick figure sits at a desk while a lime green stick figure is standing behind them.

Leaf: "I'm making a webcomic where I make fun of chromophobes through and elaborate allegory."

Lime: "I'm intrigued. How does it work."

Leaf: "Ok so the "humans" have "genders" and there are "transgender" people who-"

Panel 2: One long infodump later, Leaf is still talking to Lime.

Lime: "...So which "genders" are which colors exactly?"

Leaf: "I'm trying to make it somewhat ambiguous?"

Lime: "Ok but "men" are clearly meant to be pink people right?"

Leaf: "I mean, in-universe most "cis people" are like a stand-in for grayscales and most men are cis"

Panel 3: Continue conversation.

Lime: "So any "gender" can be "cis"?"

Leaf: "Well no because mainstream society only really recognizes two of them broadly"

Lime: "You get how that comes off as extremely standard "green is not a creative color" rhetoric, right? "Cis women" look like a commentary on green people."

Leaf: "Wait I didn't mean that-"

Panel 4: Zoom in on Lime.

Lime: "I think it's really naïve if you expect inherently political work you make to be interpreted in good faith by everyone who sees it. Whether you're consciously thinking about them or not, the connotations will be there."

Lime: "Also why did you turn the Gaelic Peninsula into an island what is up with that?"

End ID]

also,

[ID 2: Zoom in on Lime with additional commentary:

"Also, while I'm at it anyway, if "trans gender" is supposed to be like chromatic people why do some "humans" paint their "finger nails" isn't that redundant"

"The whole setup completely erases huerarchial polyhedra as well, that really drags down any comic about chromatic infighting."

"What the fuck were you even talking about in the comic that mentioned "crypto currency""

End ID.]

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