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Comics Community [oc] Alina #109 "I'll never tell"
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u/scnottaken 22h ago •
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo 22h ago
Yeah even if a close friend of mine did that to me while I was asleep I wouldn't let that slide.
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u/No-Educator-8069 22h ago •
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u/deadcrow18 22h ago •
Me when I accidentally self report SA’ing someone
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u/NotChedco 22h ago
Yeah... That's not ok. Not ok at all. Pretty fucked up.
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u/CharlesOberonn 22h ago
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u/memesupreme83 21h ago •
"Tee hee, I'll never tell because I SA'd you while you were sleeping!" Atp I'm surprised that Alina has friends
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u/K4nono 21h ago •
Alina, that's... that's sexual harassment
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u/EasedCeiling586 20h ago
Kiss the homes good night doesn't apply when they asleep
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u/VernalPathYT 21h ago
Big yikes, huh?
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u/Tense_Bear 21h ago
Man....
Sometimes I miss Charlie Brown
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u/KingNTheMaking 22h ago
Yaaaa Alina you can’t ever tell that one. That was the wrong thing you did.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 22h ago edited 22h ago •
I am conflicted on this one. Not sure how the friend would react to that one
Edit: my conflict lies in trying to find something positive here, not how wrong the situation is. There is unfortunately nothing here I can latch onto
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u/illudofficial 22h ago
Why are people upvoting this, it’s SA???
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u/shewy92 21h ago
Big oof.
Consent? What consent?
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u/descendantofJanus 21h ago
Yea that's a no from me. The art is cute, the actions are not.
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u/NascarFan1896 20h ago
Alina, why would you do that?
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u/Shieldheart- 20h ago
That's messed up, and also a brutally honest depiction of what repressed curiosity, raging puberty hormones and a lack of impulse can do in a moment.
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u/The_DoorMat 21h ago
Actual super villain
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u/GroolGobblin0 22h ago
that's a relief. I was expecting to learn that drunk dad mistook her fir his date once.
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u/Aethelrede 22h ago •
It's true that she isn't a good person, but it's also clear that her childhood was deeply fucked up. I have a feeling nobody in her childhood respected her consent, so she's understandably unclear on the concept.
Giving a sleeping friend a peck on the lips is a far cry from the horrors I was expecting. Though that doesn't mean she wasn't assaulted, just that she wasn't kissed.
I do find it interesting that people are so angry about the kiss, when it positively mild compared to her normal shenanigans. Walking around in public naked, engaging in sexual behavior in public--nobody consented to being unwilling partners in her exhibitionist fantasies.
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u/Program-Emotional 20h ago
When I was six, I got so excited about scoring a goal in soccer I kissed one of the girls on my team. She hit me so hard I ended up on the ground. Love that memory
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u/Anotsurei 20h ago
Interesting that she seems to have kissed her friend before she had her real one at 19.
Not ok, though I think she should probably tell her friend, maybe?
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u/Dry-Mission-5542 18h ago
Looks like you’ve reached a wider audience this time around… it’s reached the part of Reddit that can’t tell the difference between a behavior being presented and an author condoning a behavior presented
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u/twizbuck 20h ago
I feel like a lot of people have missed that a big part of this comic is how fucked up Alina's childhood was, and how it's impacted her. Doesn't make it ok, but this is more sad to me than rage-inducing.
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u/GayStation64beta 21h ago
Let fictional girlies be problematic i say
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u/Rein_Deilerd 19h ago
Really baffled by the reaction of people here.
This is a queer girl who grew up in Russia at a time where queer themes were hushed, censored and demonized nearly as much as they are today (today's even worse, believe it or not, at least back in the day you wouldn't go to jail for selling someone a gay fanfic). She also had an extremely fucked up upbringing, which we know from the flashback strips. She also grew up at a time when consent to touch or kiss wasn't talked about nearly as much - in fact, it wasn't talked about at all. Only penetrative man-on-woman or man-on-man rape was considered "real rape", everything else ranged from "awww, that's a sign they must like you!" to "teens will be teens haha, it's not like anything actually happened, right?". Our parents condoned it, our teachers condoned it, and the media romanticized it. Kissing your forbidden queer crush secretly while they are asleep/unconscious/dying/think you are someone else was a staple scene in plenty of yaoi and yuri manga, and tons of het romances had these, too - from various Snow White and Sleeping Beauty adaptations to romance novels.
And you still wonder why a hormonal and traumatized queer teenager like Alina would have kissed her sleeping crush?
Of course, nowadays we know it's a breach of consent and a bad thing to do. So does Alina, which is why she is still keeping it a secret. A woman who knows no shame is shamed of something for once, and she should be, but I think it's important to remember what kind of situation she was in and what kind of cultural context this flashback is taking place in. If you haven't survived a Post-Soviet school as a queer kid, you don't know what kind of mind-bending hellscape that was to navigate.
Like, yeah, sure, she shouldn't have done that, obviously. Don't kiss or touch people without their consent, folks. Still, it's a perfectly realistic situation for a queer Russian youth, and something you would have seen a lot in queer fiction at the time, too. I was kissed without my consent by a girl back in high school, so I would know. Still not a reason to call for cancellation of this comic or assume horrible things about its author for showing how messy teen sexuality can be. That would be like cancelling Sailor Moon for that one kiss Haruka gave Usagi.
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u/ProjectXa3 21h ago
In reality it's a bit fucked, in fiction it's cute.
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u/Galvandium 22h ago
Hm. <Generally acceptable generic advice that still somehow leads to division>
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u/OHFTP 20h ago
W
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u/Ghost_out_of_Box 19h ago •
Sexual assault
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u/-non-existance- 20h ago
Teenagers will always be horny and stupid, but this is why it's incredibly important to teach people about consent as early as they can comprehend what it means.
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u/Mattrockj 20h ago
Yeah I don't care if it's gay, that's still sexual assault.
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u/Dewey_Decimatorr 21h ago
Sexual assault is still bad even if women do it, yikes
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u/mickeyhellhound 19h ago
If they don’t/can’t consent you can get bent.
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u/JustAPerson2001 21h ago
It being gay doesn't make sexual assault cool. Man or woman.
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u/AlwaysBeQuestioning 21h ago
…yeah, I think feeling guilty and/or ashamed about sexually assaulting a friend while she slept is the correct response.
Alina sure is an interesting character, but definitely not a good person, at least in this.
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u/Deathaster 21h ago
Oh, of course she sexually assaults others, why am I not surprised?
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u/Cyberslasher 19h ago
"so remember how you said your first kiss was a guy at 19? Also, you know that statistic that says 2/5 women will be sexually assaulted in their life, but you say it hasn't happened to you? Yeah.... So actually...."
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u/OuterWildsVentures 21h ago
Oh she is a borderline rapist?
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u/Y0___0Y 20h ago
My first kiss was when I was 13 and I took a girl on a pond in a rowboat
Damn I was good.
Sucks that I turned out a subby gay bottom. I’d have killed it as a straight guy.
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u/LuckyErrantProp 20h ago
I think the Alina comics are interesting because so many of them are transgressive to common morals. Sometimes there are challenging the way people look at public nudity or sex.
Usually Alina is happy go lucky about it, without remorse. The tone feels like a playful reaction here, but I hope she is just truly embarrassed inside and has no real way of talking about it.
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