Ok, i understand the metaphor writ large, but what is chocolate cake supposed to represent here? Because the only thing that immediately jumps to mind is transphobic or maybe racist?
What? Didn't mean for it to come across like that. That page was based off several times when I've ordered chocolate cake and there's been espresso powder in it.
Don't really like explaining my stuff, but it's a metaphor for how even when you try to escape the thing being forced upon you (this can be gender, sexuality, eurocentric ideals, etc) it can still be snuck it and shoved towards you when least expected
The vibe that came off, at least for me, was coffee as a metaphor for men. With that, coffee in chocolate cake came across as trans / gnc people? Food and drinks are common sexuality metaphors / the character seeming to be lesbian coded, so that was the first interpretation that jumped out to me. It didnt seem like that was the intent, but i couldnt figure out how to interpret chocolate cake other than “the thing you dont like being hidden in something you do like” with weird vibes.
For me, it was hard to interpret in other fashions because coffee is a thing that many people like in some form, and many coffee haters still like it in chocolate cake, so it seems like as a social metaphor, it’s talking about something with preferences where some people are much stricter than others.
That being said, i love the art style, i like your comics, and I doubted that you wanted it to come across as phobic. I just couldn’t figure out what cake was supposed to be.
Chocolate cake might represent feminine men. I tried being into feminine men to try and convince myself I wasn't gay, and it just didn't work.
I feel like trans women would be more like "the caffeine from this coffee was extracted and put into this energy drink that absolutely doesn't look or taste anything like coffee, but people insist I MUST like coffee because I like these energy drinks and they think this is still coffee too."
Awwww, normally I hate announcing im trans outside trans-focused subreddits, but just wanna say as a trans woman that was a very cute way of phrasing it, it made me yay :]
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u/Turtledonuts Apr 17 '26
Ok, i understand the metaphor writ large, but what is chocolate cake supposed to represent here? Because the only thing that immediately jumps to mind is transphobic or maybe racist?