#lara strider

[vincentzany]

Iunno bout yall but i only know June, Ross, Dove, Jack, Jean, Roxy, Dash and Lara

[cindersnows]

various pesterquest and hsbc sprite edits for my cake route au!!

(please use she/they for janine egbert, he/they/xe for roxy lalonde, she/him for dash strider, he/it for beck harley, she/her for lara english, she/her for lizz strider, she/her for rose lalonde and he/him for jace crocker!!!! they are all trans!!!)

i will do the au versions of the omega kids and the living nonhumans at a later date. wheah.

[somewhat-stressed]

four trans kids walk into a sburb session

[dyke-stuck]

sketchy humans lineup with my main headcanons at the moment for the last day of dyke-stuck! i actually drew this for something else but realized it would probably work better to post it here. i put their labels in the image description as to not trail on too much!

please use any pronouns for jamie, she/he/sun for rose, she/he for daria, they/she/he/star/moon/pup for jade, he/him for jane, she/he/angel/hope/they for jake/lara, she/meow/kit for roxy, and he/she for dirk.

[nekropsii]

treat or trick :0

You ALSO get a woman moment.

[pyramidsandneon]

Upcoming minis bag!!

They'll each be abt 4cm/1.5in, and will come in a small bag for you to shake em up and pick one out at random for divination!! I'm also working on writing a mini booklet to help you interpret the cards with ease!!

[lilacflowersss]

Lesbian davejake

Yuriiiiiiiiiiii

[the-flesh-is-willing]

Chinastuck: the alpha kids

Jane Crocker: 王艳芳 (Wang Yanfang). Goes by Fangfang. Lives in Beijing. Han Chinese, with some Korean ancestry.

for the name i sort of went off of pure vibes. wang is ubercommon and means "king", yan means beautiful and i honestly just added it so all the prospit kids could have Y names, fang means "sweet-smelling" or "virtuous".

transmasc jane crocker real to me and he chooses the name 敏敏 (Minmin) meaning "clever" bc detective vibe??

still figuring out how to incorporate crockercorp.

Roxy Lalonde: 刘天秀 (Liu Tianxiu). Lives in flooded, postapocalyptic Shanghai among carapacians. Kazakh and Jewish Han ancestry.

roxy to my understanding means something like "bright dawn". tianxiu means beautiful sky. they share the character xiu with rose's name, xiulan.

Dirk Strider: 赵强剑 (Zhao Qiangjian). Lives alone in postapocalyptic, flooded Chongqing. Jewish Han and Hmong ancestry.

qiang means "strong" or "surpassing" and jian means "sword/dagger", tying into his character and one of the meanings of dirk, a type of dagger. he may be from the mainland, but since He's Dirk he uses traditional and even archaic characters for the ✨vibe✨, much to the annoyance of the other alpha kids. he spells his own name as 趙彊劍 lmao

i feel like doll strider would choose the name 雪莲 (Xuelian), which both means "snow-white lotus", suggesting purity, and is the name of a rare and precious herb. lotuses also have religious significance which she is aware of although dirk is a lil bit of a snooty reddit atheist to me. again she'd spell lian as 蓮 for Dirk Reasons

dirk is as much of a weeb and brony as in canon. he likes yapping abt chinese/japanese/western cultural comparisions and tries to teach himself japanese.

Jake English: Angli, sinicized as 洋格李 (Yang Geli). Lives in rural Inner Mongolia. Mongolian.

mongolian names typically are only the given name. jake's name is literally "english"; post scratch jade named him this to spite the condesce, similar to her taking on the last name english in canon. this also reflects a somewhat old fashioned mongolian naming practice of giving a child a strange/inauspicious name to drive away misfortune. (i am not mongolian myself apologies if this explanation did not make much sense) the sinicization of his name starts with a Y to match all the other prospit kids, with the character 洋 meaning the ocean with a connotation of vastness. this references him growing up in the middle of the ocean.

i like transfem jake english choosing the name lara. in china its spelled 勞拉 👍

idk what other details to change abt jakes life... the general arc of it is similar obviously

[timaeustestified-official]

what if jake was a girl

Dirk: It’s a good look, admittedly.

[gizmoganache]

@conceptofjoy ‘s real boy seb because i love him (what is an auto responder that a robot bunny isn’t not. what.) and also some doodles of the ar’s from the tadc voice cast playing fast food simulator for charity!!!

[guyofthing]

My hashtag alpha kids hashtag hot take is that they all need to be put on, like, a 5 year probation from romance to figure out what the fuck they actually want. Because a lot of the alpha kids' interactions on the topic of romance read like You Are Doing This Because You Feel Like You Have To and it's so deeply deeply uncomfortable.

Like... Lara is extremely aroace. She's also sexualized to hell and back to the point where she feels compelled to oblige her friends romantically just to make them happy.

Dirk treats romance like it's something he has to do. We're led to believe he's weird and obsessive about Lara but he seems to be just completely detached about it. I dunno. Maybe it's the fact that I always had a hard time getting an emotional read on Dirk and haven't read the comic in like a year at this point (not counting the liveblog I'm doing now, we haven't gotten that far yet), but he just seemed... disinterested. And there's also the incredibly interesting fact that he feels genuine guilt over the fact that he isn't into Roxy. Because he feels like she deserves that from him. I'll let you come to your own conclusion about that.

Jane I think probably did have a legitimate thing for Lara, but she was not at ALL well adjusted about it, and also the thing about Jane is that her entire life is incredibly gendered and among the things this really negatively affects is romance. Once again, understanding the Crockerberts lies in understanding the social pressures involved in American Suburban culture, because a lot of aspects of their personalities and how they were brought up and how they interact with the world is just that taken to extremes. She wants the nuclear family, she wants the kids-playing-house-in-the-backyard ideal and she desperately needs to get over that if she wants to be in a happy relationship.

Roxy is interesting in this department. Even though she, like, agressively flirts with Lara and Dirk, she doesn't act like she has any real interest in either of them. Her overt flirting is reserved for the boys, while anything that could be read as genuine romantic interest is directed at Callie (and, arguably, Jane). I don't think this is comphet, exactly, I think she's just trying to act like the archetype she's assigned herself. Notice how when she starts getting sober she hangs out with Jane and Fefeta all the time instead of obsessing over boys? Notice how much happier she is during that stretch of time?

I just- I dunno. I think there's genuine arguments to be made for all of these guys to be aspec, and even if they're not they need to fucking. Take a break from romantic relationships. Smooching probation. Leave room for fucking Jesus, even. I don't care. Just stop kissing each other until you have your shit figured out.

I dunno man is this usable analysis? I'll maybe do a more informed version of this essay when we get to act 5 in our liveblog on annotatedAmblings (wowie! Shameless liveblog plug at the end of my weird rambling essay).

[cindersnows]

alpha kid sprite edits i made + tfem dave and tmasc roxy doodle

(please use he/they/xe for roxy lalonde, she/him for dash strider, she/her for lara english, she/her for lizz strider, and he/him for jace crocker!!!! they are all trans!!!)

[red-elric]

all homestuck kids are becoming trans to me i think. its just that strilondes were trans young enough that their 'canon' genders are post transition and the harleyberts (including jane and jake) just havent realized it yet. yet.

[dyke-stuck]

this took so much longer than anticipated

please use he/him, she/her, or it/its for jane, she/her or he/him for lara, and any pronouns for dirk on this post! they are a lesboy, transfem, and a turigirl respectively!

[aluria-sevhex]

made a list of transfem Homestuck headcanons and drew them

this is part 2 of 2, view part 1 here