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triptychgardener · 1 year ago

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See I don't really believe there are any broader like. Schema of gender in Homestuck in that makes sense. Including Callie's OG gendering of classes but most others don't have a solid "reason" to them. Breath players tend to lean towards transfeminine to me but that doesn't feel like it's because of Breath and so on and so forth.

Basically the only two principles of gender determination in Homestuck I actually abide by are:

Trans characters can be partially determined in certain cases by examine their relationships to other close characters, forming something like a binary (or more) system. Transmasculine Dirk v. Transfeminine Roxy, Femme Transfeminine Gay Jake English v. Butch Transmasc Lesbian Jane Crocker, my Davepeta+ Gender Chart etc. Characters in Homestuck often model themselves in relation to their friends as we do irl.

Space is nigh-exclusively a transfeminine aspect in Homestuck itself. The job of a Space player is to seize and create their own means of creation and species-level reproduction, usually after being deprived of traditional means of womanhood, motherhood, and reproduction.

#literally think about space players all the time and how each of them is deprived of this 'normal' experience of motherhood #kanaya is raised totally separately from every other jadeblood on the planet and her means of resurrecting her species is destroyed #at the moment she is shot in the abdomen #i mean you can't say 'THIS IS A METAPHOR FOR MISCARRIAGE' any louder than that #jade in the epilogues being unable to carry a child because. i mean she has a dick. she's a trans woman. kind of irrefutable #calliope as she stands can never mature into a cherub even capable of reproduction #left with an incomplete predomination at the cost of getting to live again #and we don't get as much from porrim but from what we do know #her righteous indignation and rebellion against the society that told her that her caste and gender meant she would forever serve #as nurturer and reproducer #that she later took a different perspective on once that was no longer available to her... yeah.

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