"I actually got outed over an old art account once. [...] Anyway he found out that I had a deviantart account, but I told him to stop messing with my stuff before he was able to make the gathering any more awkward than it already was.
"A few days later one of my best friends told me the dude was telling everyone he knew about my account and having a grand time. So we had a 'talk'. Back then I was capable of being menacing, so from that point on there were no more problems.
"That's about as close to Victoria's situation as I've ever been in, and it was really taxing. It made me much more sympathetic to people who don't want to reveal their sexual orientation to their families and that sort of thing. Sometimes you just aren't emotionally prepared to share yourself with everyone. Having that choice potentially taken away Is a bad scene."
-- Jackie, creator of Between Failures, 2015-05-18 (author's note below comic)