#bc some people in my circle of fandom have been making homestuck trans john jokes for the past week

[liesmyth]

Theory: Jod is a trans man

-grew up playing with barbies

-tumblr kid

-constantly dressed in the worst fashion sense youve ever seen but is making it work (t shirts, greek bone crown, and shower curtain lychtor cloak? And he looks good in it?)

-flesh magic enjoyer

-is weirdly confused Mercy was able to steal semen from him for a man who regularly participates in threesomes. Mercy was working overtime with the flesh magic

Ok but you forgot the best part: trans guy John means that there's a significant chance he named himself after John Homestuck.

(Also on the barbie thing: I think that even beyond any gender headcanons and interpretations, that IS a telling writing choice on Muir's part. She said, about John "the God of the Locked Tomb IS a man; he IS the Father and the Teacher; it’s an inherently masc role played by someone who has an uneasy relationship himself to playing a Biblical patriarch" and made this guy a STEM nerd whose fondest childhood memory was of playing with his mother's dolls. THAT is the memory he turns to as he's losing his humanity. Regardless of John's gender identity, playing with barbies is not something associated with traditionally masculine gender roles. idk what I'm saying but I do feel some kinda way when the main takeaway from "I loved Barbie as a kid" is "he forced the earth into a shell of patriarchal beauty standards because he thought it was hot." Like... that's boring)

Anyway. Diversity win! The first man to end humanity is trans.

And I'm YELLING irl that the lyctor cloack is a shower curtain. You're... You're not wrong.