batscoundrel:gastrophobia:Crossposting this stuff from Twitter & Patreon.In the late 90s, I
batscoundrel:gastrophobia:Crossposting this stuff from Twitter & Patreon.In the late 90s, I had a character named Peppy the Pirate. I drew her from memory.Peppy was “a girl pirate who looks like a boy” (kinda like I was, right?)Her main appearance was in this short point & click adventure game I programmed for a computer animation class in Shockwave. (It only had three screens.) I wish I still had a copy, but it was on a hard drive that ended up being damaged in Hurricane Harvey.She was also in some comics I never finished and my personal website designs. I guess I really liked this character but couldn’t find anything to do with her.Anyway, I used “peppythepirate” or “piratePeppy” as a username in lots of places on the internet. Someone on Gaia online (where I used a female avatar, of course) called me “Peprally” as a riff on that once. I didn’t fully recognize it as gender euphoria at the time, but I was quietly very happy to get a cute nickname while technically presenting female. So, that’s how I got my twitter username.I also used Peprally as my bowling name and for every video game I played because I guess I preferred it to seeing [deadname] on the screen.I just did it without thinking. It didn’t even occur to me till March 2022 that I’ve been using a girl character’s name as my username everywhere DECADES before coming out! For most of my adult life!I actually don’t have a lot of art of her that survived, but here’s an oekaki pic from 2002: Hey, Daisy! Longtime fan of your work and this story made me smile (thank you for sharing!) and I was experiencing a bit of gender euphoria myself today and wanted to pour that energy into something so I hope you don’t mind I did some peppy fanart? Yes! -- source link
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