Page 9 The Girl in the Mirror
skyangel on March 9, 2024
This is the point where I first started to explore my feminine side in a physical way. It started off as what felt like a normal sense of childhood curiosity and a sense of fun but I've drawn Nikki pondering in the last panel as I think thoughts about my identity must have begun to form from there.
Next week: Nikki become Wonder Woman!
InkyMoondrop at 3:04PM, Feb. 6, 2025
To be absolutely fair, wearing soft materials that feel comfortable is not something that girls do. It's somethig people do who have an ounce of common sense.
skyangel at 5:31AM, Feb. 7, 2025
I love that!
Genejoke at 11:09AM, April 28, 2024
Hmmm, if this is going where I think it is, I'd understand it being a very important moment. Or at least leading to one.
edniz at 4:13AM, March 24, 2024
I like how the mirror glows in the last frame and I might have wanted to see that one in bigger scale, since it's an impactful moment! I'm also thinking about how so many boys, even when they are just simply boys and aren't like Nikki, actually enjoy feminine clothing and makeup but are forced to stay away. If it were not for this, I think we might have lived in a world where men were colorful and pretty like male birds! Which was sort of the way it is in the past with all of those fancy men's clothes which are seen as funny today and aren't even properly depicted in a lot of period films. Eh, we'll have to wait for it to surface another time.
skyangel at 12:22PM, March 26, 2024
I love reading your thoughts so thanks for sharing them! :) I've always thought it curious that women can wear male clothing and be seen as chic or even hot whereas a guy in a dress stops the traffic! I'm never sure if that is purely social conditioning or mother nature trying to keep things going her way!
DarkVisor at 10:07AM, March 22, 2024
Neat, an old NES :) Wonder what games they had
skyangel at 12:12PM, March 23, 2024
DV: I'm glad someone recognised it! It was pretty hard to draw the console that small so it's not that accurate. We had lots of games for it: Mario,Dizzy,and Tetris, were my faves but we had some really frustrating Movie Tie's ins like Jurassic park and Star Wars which were too hard for me.
tommym at 5:31AM, March 16, 2024
Dear Sky, Going through the attic, such great fun! tommym
skyangel at 9:46AM, March 16, 2024
Dear Tommym: It is indeed! I just wish ours wasn't so dusty!
bexlicious at 4:05PM, March 10, 2024
I can almost imagine tiny attic dust motes learning to fly as miniature butterflies. Such a sweet, innocent beginning.
skyangel at 5:21AM, March 11, 2024
Bex: Lovely to see you! That's a lovely thought XD
UnderTheBlackHat at 9:30AM, March 10, 2024
Ahh.. crawling through storage spaces when we were young was always a bit like entering a time capsule hmm? Then again, having such a mixture of your family memories and someone else's mixing together is an interesting thought. The peacock feather pattern is kind of nice, we picture it as a silky sort of thing, light and soft on the skin as well. Love the final panel where we get that lovely 'time tunnel' or perhaps a 'magic mirror' view of Nikki and who she is to become.
skyangel at 5:20AM, March 11, 2024
UBH: lofts are very like time capsules and even today I go through my own loft and find stuff I had forgotten I ever had which is always a buzz. I would have liked to make the peacock pattern smaller but at that distance I felt it probably wouldn't be so obvious. The mirror too is a very trans related thing because most of us do not like to see ourselves as the gender we feel is wrong and the mirror is truth, but when our outer appearance matches the inner self then the mirror can be a huge morale boost.
Ironscarf at 4:42PM, March 9, 2024
I have a strange obsession with attic spaces, I dream about them often, so this page was always going to be a hit with me, but that final panel and how you built up to it! The way you are able to convey something very profound in such a subtle, understated way - well I'm beginning to think Mr Brace had a fair point! And once again, so much detail to enjoy on subsequent reads. The rendering of the dress is noticeably different from everything else.
Ironscarf at 5:27AM, March 11, 2024
Please don't fall into that trap! I've done the same when someone comments on this or that aspect of the art and then caught myself adding things I didn't really need later on. Follow your artistic instincts and the rest of us will happily follow you!
skyangel at 5:13AM, March 11, 2024
Ironscarf: I feel almost compelled now to keep putting small retro reminders in the artwork because of your comments on them! XD There was always something special about a loft for me as a child as we had to use a ladder to get up there which meant mum would never come up and I was always finding things I thought had long been thrown away.
Othosmops at 4:16PM, March 9, 2024
Fits.
skyangel at 5:09AM, March 11, 2024
:)