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  • Not quite what you’re looking for but Pretty Face is a great “I’m not really trans but I have to be for flimsy excuse” manga.

    It’s about a guy who gets in an accident that puts him in a coma for a year and is so badly mangled he needs his whole face rebuilt. The doctor who saves him has no idea what he looked like so he builds him a face based on a photo of his crush that was in his pocket. As it turns out, his crush has a missing twin sister so he decides to impersonate her to keep his crush happy while he searches for her real sister.

    While the MC never explicitly identifies as trans in the text, there’s a bunch of supporting subtext for it. He slowly gets more and more used to being seen as a girl and isn’t in the biggest rush to get his old face back even after he finds a photo of himself for the doctor to use as a reference.


  • Disagree, without IP laws whoever has the most money can crush all competition. An example of this is how the first pump hand soap softsoap couldn’t patent the hand pump design because it already existed so they just bought all the existing stock to prevent anyone from releasing a competing product.

    If you get rid of IP laws you’ll just further entrench the existing winners.

    Write a good book? Without copyright, Penguin random house publishes an exact copy at a higher quality and sells a million copies while you sell a handful to discerning fans.

    Build a quality product? Without trademark, proctor and gamble flood the market using your brand name and nobody can distinguish their products from yours even though their quality is much worse.

    Invent something revolutionary? Without patents you have to keep your process a secret so you don’t get copied. If you get hit by a bus your invention is now lost to society forever unless someone manages to reverse-engineee it.









  • Crystal either needed to be cheap enough to enable combos or be a target for an anthem effect since she decreases the number of matches where you wouldn’t draw your anthem. Putting her in surfer range seems great.

    Shanna at 3 lets you do Kazaar > Blue Marvel > Mystique + Shanna which might be good. Shanna + three 1-drops might be an decent T6 option too. Probably playable but she’s been bad so long that people probably won’t give her a chance unless they overbuff her and roll her back like Enchantress.