#nonsensicalruminations

John:

John: we’re dating.

I’m admittedly torn on this, because I can genuinely see two outcomes:

- June doesn’t appear in HS^2 at all. We keep waiting and nothing happens, because they decide to pull the rug from under our feet. The writers have actively shown that they hate us, and that they’re not interested in writing something that’s actually good for the fandom. Just not having her show up at all is very likely, and will probably be done out of spite.

- They do have June appear, but they fuck it up like they did with Roxy and Jade. She ends up being a transmisogynistic charicature and isn’t treated as a transwoman so much as she’s treated as a joke. That, or she’s treated as a “well, you got your rep, fuck off now” - or they just don’t write her like a trans woman, and write her like a cis man or cis woman, because apparently the writers don’t know how to write trans people.

Admittedly, I do lean towards the latter. This is the same group of writers who canonised Vriska being trans in Pesterquest, and come from the hard junebugger setting. This is also from the same group of writers who said that June could be a bisexual lesbian, and that Vriska being trans excused all of her abusive behaviours. It’s also from the same group of people who refused to say whether or not Vriska was canonically trans, despite actively shitting on people who didn’t see her that way.

Admittedly a lot of those last parts are Kate-exclusive, but she’s still in touch with the team. Even if she’s not actively writing, I genuinely don’t trust how much influence she might have over the comic - and I definitely don’t trust how often all of them have said that they own Homestuck, and they will make it hell for the fans to read.  

My other worry is that it’s treated as a joke or that they brush over June’s transition because they can’t be bothered to figure out how it’d work for an older person to do so. That like, we get a “it’s the Candy timeline! Wacky shit happens all the time!”, and June’s treated as a wacky outcome of the fucked up timeline rather than as a person who genuinely was in a position to think about her identity. Or that like, we’ll get “man in a dress” jokes over June and then no actual talk about her and her validity. 

I want her to talk about her identity seriously, maybe with Roxy, and then later see Harry Anderson correcting Vrissy and Tav that they’re talking about his mom, not his dad, and that she’s called June, not John. And then June moves forward and it’s great because it’s actually done well and she’s real and valid and they didn’t make any transmisogynistic jokes out of her.

I just don’t think they’ll actually do that. That’s how little trust I have in them at this point. I genuinely, 100% believe that they will fuck this up. I could be wrong, and I really hope I am! But, yeah. Personally? I think this is going to be a trainwreck, because they don’t have a good track record - with Vriska, with Roxy, with Jade, even with Callie. 

Aww thank you kind stranger, thats very nice of you! I also like answer all your questions in this post lol I hope you don’t mind? 

Firstly thank you for liking my characters! Iv had them for 8 years and I do put a lot of work into them. Iv sort of shut down my blog as of now but they have some info on toyhouse, (https://toyhou.se/Clockworkreapers) I’ll be adding lore and stories to them. And Im always open to people DM’ing me her or on discord.  

Nah you can keep doing it!! I find it really flattering and also really interesting! Plus like if it continues discussion then that’s always a good reason to let people use my posts, because that’s what they’re there for!!