#el goonish shive

[egscomics]

How to card tournament

Step one, acquire cards. Step two, learn how to play cards. Step three, give someone at a comic shop money. Step four, lose terribly.

[parasite-core]

Man, going back and rereading random parts of EGS, and it is mind boggling that Ashley has been a named character in the comic since 2013. I still think of her as ‘the new person’, but she’s been in the comic for well over a decade!

[taigan-hse]

Happy Trans Visibility Day!

[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!

[sillylovingpupper]

[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.

[pthariensflame]

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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.”

[gmobanana]

[wlw-webcomic-bracket]

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

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

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

[demilypyro]

innocent tumblr users finding my blog

[lesbianraggedyanne]

new reaction image just dropped