like if ur friends weird older brother was a girl

ELDER SCROLLS 6 WAS JUST ANNOUNCED

i think jade is intentionally written as transmisogynized in the epilogues and this characterization is so apparent that it got incorporated into the backlash to her portrayal

jades characterization as hypersexual in response to isolation, her feeling like theres something setting her apart from her friends despite interacting with them often and her desire to have a child despite pregnancy being a biological impossibility are all so clearly intended as coding of her as a trans woman to me that i cant see her as anything else. but so much of the backlash to jades character was just, 'it was gross of the writers to make it so jade has a penis' or 'why is jade such a needy slut all the time.' the argument id give the most benefit of the doubt to is 'jade resembles a transphobic futa stereotype' but i feel like just reading the text of the epilogues youd see theres so much more nuance to her character than that

honestly i feel like the fact that the epilogues were recieved the way they were is informed by the fact that they were released around the time the fandom was largely controlled by a bunch of vocal shitheads. both the largest subreddit and discord servers were owned by a bigoted dickhead who was encouraging racism and death threats. also the uhsc, the offline alternative to homestuck that restored the flash components, was controlled in part by gio, the same guy who got sarah z to rumor-mill his harrassment campaign against hussie at around the same time. if you go back and read the epilogues, theyre really good, really interesting and well-written explorations of homestuck's characters and the consequences the narrative had on them, but because sentiment against hussie was so bad at the time due in large part to the misinformation being spread about them due to like, four specific shitheads, i feel like everyone just took it in bad faith, and to this day i feel like i see the same takes over and over about how terrible postcanon is by people who havent been keeping up and still think hussie is an Evil Bad Person who wrote a Bad Story.

to this day i still see people acting like all the trans stuff was crowbarred in with no thought put into it because hussie wanted to Look Woke, by people whose primary source is the sarah z video (which is full of misinformation she has never corrected nor apologized for spreading,) and who arent even aware that hussie is transfem because they havent updated their opinion of them since 2020. there was a post on here a couple months ago that claimed that hussie switching to any pronouns was purely a PR stunt and compared this to scott cawthon donating thousands of dollars to the trump campaign. ive seen people i trust to understand homestuck get uncharacteristically upset by that one pic a few months back of jade, callie and kanaya standing in front of a trans flag captioned "CANONICALLY TRANS" that hussie drew, i assume purely because theyre wired to take her actions in bad faith. it sucks.

finally someone says it!!!!!

the staccato trumpet trills from the end of TANK! but they just keep going

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holy shit i am in tears

one final cadaveric spasm for the idiot pigiron husk that was prototype "pjackk" jack

he just kind of rolled by like a big shitmetal tumbleweed

turning a big dial taht says "pjackk is banned" on it and constantly looking for approval like a contestant on the price is right

a party of adventurers that are all equally convinced that they are in completely different forms of media

the mage keeps giving smug glances in the direction they assume a camera is in. the fighter keeps getting indignant about missing attacks because of "bad dice rolls." the rogue is doubtful that a villain is gone for good because "nobody ever stays dead in comics." the paladin attributes fortune to "good rng." none of them have even considered that "tumblr post" was an option

in 500 years a hapless farmer will discover my tomb complex only to be greeted by thousands of my decaying residual servants