Title: There Should Be a <em>Closetspace</em>/<em>Lease Bound</em> Crossover Fic
-Date: 2021-07-15 05:00
+Date: 2021-09-26 22:00
Category: other
Tags: review (webcomic/graphic novel)
-Status: draft
I want to use the platform of my comparatively ("comparatively") obscure blog to tell you about two comparatively obscure webcomics I like, that display some striking parallels, and whose readerships probably anti-correlate—overlapping less than two _arbitrary_ webcomics of similar comparative obscurity.
Riley, who has not been living under a rock, [feels ideologically uncomfortable with Jaden's account](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p55/)—Riley feels morally obligated to be a good ally, but isn't personally zealous enough to correct Jaden's speech. Riley starts to [worry that her girlfriend Blaire will start a quarrel if transwomen come up in conversation when meeting Jaden](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p59/). (_Transwomen_ is spelled as one word in Riley's thoughts, but we imagine Blaire is the kind of person insists that it's two.) The meeting goes fine thanks to Jaden's continued obliviousness; [when Blaire asks Jaden what pronouns she prefers, Jaden (momentarily distracted by Riley nervously dropping a glass) mishears the question and replies, "The way you pronounced it just the was fine."](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch8p6/) Later, Blaire [asks Riley if Jaden might be trans](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p2/) [and not know it](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p4/), causing Riley to [grapple with the contradictions of the reigning ideology](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p6/) and [muse about her own "gender"](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p8/).
-_Lease Bound_ is actively updating. I'm really looking forward to the brewing ideological conflict (between Blaire's doctrinal purity and Jaden's normie common sense) eventually becoming overt—although the comic mostly isn't focused on politics ([the author's note on the last page of chapter 9](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p20/) says that next we're going to see more about Jaden's childhood), and that's healthy.
+_Lease Bound_ is actively updating. I'm really looking forward to the brewing ideological conflict between Blaire's doctrinal purity and Jaden's normie common sense eventually becoming overt—although the comic mostly isn't focused on politics ([the author's note on the last page of chapter 9](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p20/) says that next we're going to see more about Jaden's childhood), and that's healthy.
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But simultaneously, the proprietors of Yonique have a compelling interest in being able to declare membership criteria for their private club. When the AGP Gang (the out-of-universe [canon name for the three troublemakers](https://lesbihonest-art.tumblr.com/post/653039004954083328/so-im-new-here-and-wanted-to-ask-whowhat-the-agp)) stops by, Jaden shouldn't have to _pretend not to notice_ that they're male, and when Jaden explains the club's policy, they should accept it with dignity.
-What if it had been Carrie, Allison, and Heidi? (Who ... have somehow traveled from Texas to Australia, and twenty years into the future? Don't answer that.) I'm imagining that Jaden would only deny entrance to Carrie. (Jaden [being unaware of trans being a thing should make it easier to Allison and Heidi to pass](/2020/Dec/crossing-the-line/), but Carrie's _not being on HRT_ is prohibitive.) Carrie would be distressed at being clocked—but not confrontational and entitled like the AGP gang; she would just leave. Heidi would go after her, but Allison (shocked at Jaden stating the obvious, and not wanting the stigma to bleed onto her) goes into the club. And then ... Jaden
+I'm trying to imagine a fanfiction—what if it had been Carrie, Allison, and Heidi? (Who ... have somehow traveled from Texas to Australia—and twenty years into the future? Don't answer that.) I'm imagining that Jaden would only deny entrance to Carrie. (Jaden [being unaware of trans being a thing should make it easier to Allison and Heidi to pass](/2020/Dec/crossing-the-line/), but Carrie's _not being on HRT_ is prohibitive.) Carrie would be distressed at being clocked—but not confrontational and entitled like the AGP gang; she would just leave in a panic. Heidi would go after her, but Allison (shocked at Jaden stating what should have been obvious about Carrie, and not wanting the stigma to bleed onto her) goes into the club. And then ... um, Allison and Jaden end up talking somehow?
-I don't actually have a direction for this story to go in.
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-I just wish it were possible for the LGB and the T to be friends without a common enemy (Carrie's family didn't distinguish types of queer)
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-https://lesbihonest-art.tumblr.com/post/654473007236005888/do-you-think-well-ever-get-that-nicolas-and-jaden
+I don't actually have a direction for this story to go in. I just—wish it were possible for the LGB and the T to be friends without the uniting force of a common enemy. Without trying to set up a false equivalency ([my analogues who read different books in a different order](/2020/Nov/the-feeling-is-mutual/) bear the blunt of the blame for the mess we're in; actual lesbians have a right to be pissed), it _shouldn't_ be rare to read both sides' comics; it _shouldn't_ be normal for [political forces to shape neurotype-demographics into _sides_](/2019/Aug/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason/).
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