Being trans is neat. I am using he/him almost exclusively now. For a while I was using they/them mostly because I wasn’t sure where, or if, I fit into the realm of masculinity.

Turns out I do. I have amazing cis male friends who are just as soft and caring and emotional as I am. Coming to terms with the fact that I do NOT have to embrace the toxic sides of masculinity to be perceived as male has been freeing to me.

To be honest, if someone used they for me that’s okay, but he/him is what I have decided is best for me. I still have a lot of places online to fix and some places aren’t even properly updating my pronouns.

A few things. With the web going topsy turvy, I’ll start doing some fun public blogs here! Also gonna dust off my Patreon and start using it more, and when I do I’ll make sure to announce that in a blog. There will be a weird intersection of science, funny animal art (okay, fun furry art) and fan art here. I don’t have to keep a fully professional face, but this site and my Patreon are always 100% squeaky clean artwise. Patreon can be PG rated for language, however. This blog will never go there though.  The art here MAY have some language. See below. There’s some context. I’ll split it into a different gallery in the personal gallery if I upload it. Or turn the language into hilarious dingbats.

With any luck, with the exception of my old signature (which is the same initial as my middle name BTW), the deadname should be all but scrubbed from the website. If you see an instance of it still lurking, please let me know which image you see it on. I’ll take it and scrub it.

Any websites not in my control I don’t have any control over.

Last year I picked a fight with the former admins of Wookieepedia thinking it was some problematic people in my life doing me a dirty and changing my name (Robin) to my deadname (not Robin) and ended up starting the ball rolling for some new policy changes site-wide for Fandom. Wook still has a ways to go. There are problems on the site. I drew a sweary ewok (there’s the context for above).

Unfortunately some of the folks at the time, both at Wook and the people whom I thought were originally editing my article, latched onto the fact that my deadname exists.

Over the past two years since legally changing my name, I still don’t have my passport done, I found out my bank had five different databases with my name in it, Square refuses to change my account name and I haven’t had the energy to escalate it to a human, I find random things I HAVE NOT changed my name on that I think I have, things I have changed my name on I think I have not.

It’s a mess.

And having been online since the mid 90s on top of that? It’s honestly unrealistic to expect my old name to disappear. I know it won’t. I know I’ll stumble upon it, but I don’t go searching for it like other people do.

Searching for it and using it as a gotcha isn’t cool.

I’m Robin. Like Robin Hood. Like Robin the Frog.  Like Robin Williams – the hairiest man on earth and one of my inspirations. They/them or he/him.

And I’m living my very best life right now. In the city. With my microbes.

Hey all! I fiiinaly have the new site up and running. I’m copypasting part of the note from the old site, because it’s still relevant.

From hereon I’ll be going professionally and personally by Robin (They/Them). All of my old stuff will… not say Robin. I’ll fix it eventually. Digging through the Internet also isn’t going to happen because I don’t have control over any of that, but if you see a site that calls me by t’other name, pop them a quick email or send a message to me so I can contact them and see about getting it fixed.

I’m excited to start on this new journey and I hope to have some gender blarg comics about it all eventually.

Thanks for sticking with me!

Update March 2021.

I thought this was clear, but apparently this is not. Do not reference me by my old name. I am not ‘Formerly known as’. I am Robin.

The pandemic and working full time has made it difficult to update everything. If you have time and wish to help, please feel free to go through my gallery, download the art, change old name to robin on both name and email address and pop it in a dropbox. It would help me a ton.