the vibes dissonance of ppl online can be crazy. did you know the artist behind those cutesy crow comics that do big numbers on here ran hiveworks into the ground so hard that 100 artists who worked w them came together to put out a statement abt how they and their work had been absolutely fucked by the incompetency and malice of it all
when a mutual posts a poll you know nothing about, but they say “orangutan johnson my beloved, orangutan johnson sweep!!!!” you vote for orangutan johhnson. it’s called loyalty.
the more i think about it the more transfeminine homestuck becomes. like our 2 “male” leads at the beginning of the story both have some narrative about their guardian figures either literally forcing or otherwise coercing them to perform a version of manhood that is violent and fucking sucks. Most of the male characters in homestuck in some way tie masculinity or success to their capacity to do violence and the narrative tells you it’s desctructive and/or feels terrible. Every part of Dave’s whole deal is telling you that his idea of manhood isn’t his own, it’s a farce he constructed to protect himself from the violent image of manhood his brother is trying to shape him into being, and the narrative tells you he sucks at being this violent person. i’m actually shocked people look at dave and thought “yeah he chose to be a boy” cause every part of his character is telling you his manhood is a performative farce that he both fails to perform correctly according to even his own mental image of it and hates performing.
i’m a transfem dave strider truther. they don’t have to be a boy. she can be a girl, even
All of the entry items represent certain challenges or themes. Dave’s involves waiting for a ridiculously inaccessible and stubbornly guarded egg to hatch, which is a challenge that relates to patience. What does this “"mean”“? You, the studious reader, will have to crunch the numbers on that.
