I'm So Anticipating Les- I Mean, Halloween. Hahaha Sike, It's @rosemarymonths Y'all.

I'm so anticipating les- I mean, Halloween. Hahaha sike, it's @rosemarymonths y'all.

June has always been with us. 🤍🩵🩷 And she deserves all the time she needs, because truthfully, no trans person is a pre-established character, we all needed time, and every second of our lives before transitioning are still part of who we are. We never changed, we always were, we just didn't know how to express it yet.

She deserves to be, just like anyone.

June Egbert is, and always has been incredibly fascinating to me because of just, how many factors have conspired to make Homestuck fans show their collective transmisogynistic asses.

The main character of Homestuck transitioning is a planned future plot point for the official continuation of homestuck, that was spoiled in advance by a fan making a joke about finding some toblerones Andrew Hussie the author of homestuck hid in a cave.

The current main writers of Homestuck: Beyond Canon have went on record in an AMA confirming that this was indeed always the plan, even before they took up the project.

In spite of these facts, the general consensus among certain homestuck fans seems to be that "June Egbert" is purely a headcanon for the original comic that was "made canon" by a "Toblerone Wish" (a concept that didn't even exist at the time)

For a variety of reasons, the "canonicity" of the postcanon official continuations of homestuck is a mattter of much debate, (though a debate that most homestuck fans seem to err on a side of "it's not canon at all in the slightest," something the writers have feelings on I'm sure.)

All of these factors combined leave the concept of "June Egbert" in a very nebulous place. It's assumed by most to just be an "ascended headcanon" that was shoehorned in, it's a spoiler so it hasn't happened yet in any official media, and the official media it will eventually happen in is regarded by some to be nothing more than glorified fanfic.

If someone is talking about June Egbert, and you don't like the concept of June Egbert, you have your pick of a million different excuses for why she's fake and gay and not worth discussing and bad writing and just the authors doing a gay dumbledore*, paying lip service to representation while actually doing nothing.

And of course, lots of people *don't* like June Egbert! Rather than being introduced as transfem from the start, she's in this nebulous position of discovery where people have to truly reckon with the idea of a "Pre-transition Trans Woman."

You can try to write off *some* of the backlash as transphobia, because obviously not everyone in this fandom is gonna be cool about trans people.

But there's no shortage of fans just dying to tell you about how much they like reading her as transmasc, or the idea of her being nonbinary or genderqueer or genderfluid, or literally anything besides a trans woman. And since they're fine with all those other interpretations, there's obviously no implicit biases driving their distaste for the concept! (if you want to try explaining the concept of "transmisogyny" to people like this you're braver than I.)

you can trust them when they say it's *just* a problem with whether or not it makes sense with the writing, or it just doesn't feel right somehow, or any of the thousands of excuses that this writing situation gives them to just Not Like It.

It's just, so interesting to me. There's not a lot of characters out there that get a trans arc in this way, that leaves room for open denialism and insistence that we have our trans cake and eat it too... Because Homestuck is a timeline spanning multiverse story, lots of people seem to want it to be an alternate timeline thing. Assuring us we can have this character share space with a non-transitioning version of herself and it won't be weird or imply gross things about trans people.

If you ask me it feels like a plotline that'd be really good for exploring some gender horror though, finding your true self and then being demoted to a footnote, an alternate version, because everyone around you likes your pre-transition self more....

Anyway I have no broader point beyond "hey look at this isn't this kinda weird. You don't get this kinda stuff often!"

*side note: it's a little ghoulish I think to compare "a future trans plot point that hasn't been given the chance to even happen yet, in an already famously queer piece of media, from a nonbinary author" to "some stupid shit done by the literal most famous transphobe of all time" but that's perhaps a discussion for later.

I like how we collectively agreed that sad stuck davekat is just post-epilogues x) Karkitten my poor meow meow

DAY 6: SADSTUCK

"I gotta feel you in my bones again"

"I'm all over you. I'm not over you."

@davekatweek

Hohooho "le french laugh", class art dump >:]

I wanna do closeups under the cut but please bare with me, I don't know the magic ways of tumblr.

Oh yeah, forgot to post @davekatweek

For, fate, I picked up my dictionary and pulled two random words: DENIAL and DIFFUSIVE.

I drew this in Probability class. Ngl, I was so proud of myself cauz I already worked on Speed Die (aka Gen Z die) influence on long time probabilities.

If you're curious about this (oddly specific) stuff, you can find it on my website:

Under the [CPGE] tag/Projects. (or just look up 'Monopoly' in the search bar) Careful tho, it's french-infected x)

Oh yeah, and if there is one thing you need to take from all of this:

Usual strategies of Classic Monopoly are even more crucial; invest in warm colors and railroads and avoid (dark) blue properties like the plague.

- Abby, self- proclaimed CEO of Monopoly