We need more trans comics because it’s bad to punch down but we deserve to be roasted so hard
like making fun of someone's name isn't super effective because they didn't pick it but WE PICKED OURS
@rooster “transitioning is also a rejection of the status quo. It is forging your own destiny, a direct refutation of society that expects linear progression along an unbroken path. Transition is a true breaking of the mold, you are unique in ways others will never experience.
Anyway, how many people here tonight named Jessica?”
@abstractcow @caroline @rooster Another Jessica near miss checking in.
@bridget @abstractcow @caroline OH I'M SORRY I'M JUST A JEWISH GIRL THAT PICKED THE MOST COMMON NAME IN THE YEAR SHE WAS BORN APPARENTLY
@rooster Okay, I'm gonna have to ask you not to call me, @JenWithGravy, @dolari, @itsjustjenn, @jen, @jennzycos, and @theogrin out like this. 
(I didn't choose this name, it chose me. It's just a coincidence that it was the most common girl name in 1984 and also almost every other year that decade.)
@SymTrkl @rooster @JenWithGravy @itsjustjenn @jen @jennzycos @theogrin @bridget @abstractcow @caroline
What's funny is, I was going to be a Marlene for a very long time. I chose Jennifer because it was the name of a character I realized was me.
I will admit, though, I kinda wish I'd ended up with Marlene.
@dolari Same, I literally wrote Jenn in Somebody Else's Problem as "me, if I were a girl" and forgot about her until after I'd already settled on "Jennifer." Though it was almost "Jessica," I had a Jess in Heresy on Demand who was suspiciously similar to me except younger and with wings...
Jenny write a comic where every character isn't a damn transition goal challenge, difficulty: impossible. (Even ATCB isn't immune, I draw myself quite a bit thinner and cuter than I actually am. 
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@rooster @JenWithGravy @itsjustjenn @jen @jennzycos @theogrin @bridget @abstractcow @caroline
@SymTrkl @dolari @rooster @JenWithGravy @itsjustjenn @jennzycos @theogrin @bridget @abstractcow @caroline for me I went to a library (oh so long ago) and read a book of baby names from various years, it was only one of three in the top forty in my year the resonated with me at all and felt like a good fit.
I kind of switched from Jenny towards Jen after a breakup.
@jen Oof. I actually go more by Jen than Jenny. Technically "Jenny" is the name I chose, but my wife felt silly calling me that so she calls me Jen and now most folks in meatspace do, even me. 
@dolari @rooster @JenWithGravy @itsjustjenn @jennzycos @theogrin @bridget @abstractcow @caroline
@dolari @SymTrkl @rooster @JenWithGravy @itsjustjenn @jen @jennzycos @bridget @abstractcow @caroline
I was very nearly a Maria. It really was a toss-up between that and Jennifer.
So that would have been an interesting coincidence!