#ftm dave strider

[grimbarkcoffee]

hey hello have some trans!dave to celebrate me getting my first t-shot a couple days ago

[w0rm-3nthus14st]

new fic is up!!!!!! ftm dave's egg cracking, with the help of mtf rose attacking it with a jackhammer !!!

[conkreetmonkey]

So in the process of reading Homestuck, I found out that Dave's iconic sunglasses are, in-universe, a pair worn by Ben Stiller in a film that has not been named but is almost certainly Starsky and Hutch since they appeared a lot in Problem Sleuth, with the bust they appear on in that comic almost identical to the photo of them hanging in Dave's room. It seems likely that their appearance in Homestuck is just a reference to Problem Sleuth.

Despite the fact that the most iconic piece of one of the main characters of a once massive comic franchise exists irl, I've been unable to track down the whereabouts of these sunglasses. I found one Reddit thread from eight years ago asking about them, with only one reply pointing to a website which sells props from movies saying that they may have at once point had them because they have props hailing from the same film, but the site doesn't seem to archive sold listings, so if they did it's a dead end unless a third party site archived the listing.

I'm kind of shocked people aren't looking for them. The Dave Strider sunglasses exist in real life, and people obsess over that little irony-poisoned asshole. He's probably the single most popular transmasc namesake on the planet. You'd think his iconic sunglasses would be culturally valuable and worth preserving, maybe even worth putting in a queer museum somewhere if such a thing exists, but I've only been able to find one instance of somebody caring, and it's from an obscure Reddit post from almost a decade ago. What gives?

[rebecoming]

[carefulchaotic]

growing up and figuring out who you are is wild. i was a little girl, then i hit puberty and coped by staying in full (mostly homestuck) cosplay for like 2 years straight. no one even cared, because i was just quirky like that.

now a decade later, it turns out i'm not actually john egbert OR karkat vantas, just some trans guy. :/ how lame. 12 year old me would be so unimpressed.

[stummy-grumbles]

tell me why my FUCKING PROFESSOR comes up to me during lecture and says, “i saw that you changed your profile picture [on our college’s assignment platform] to dave strider. i knew from the very first time i looked at you” BRUH.

[dtwof]

happy tdov to the transgender webbed site

[kennykenbee]

O h h e y d a v e

you ever hear a trans person's name and you know instantly what media they got it from

[pointless-discourse]

homestuck characters as related to trans stuff

head canon

JOHN EGBERT

closeted repping tgirl who will likely not realize she's trans until after 16

avoids mirrors, unhappy with appearance but tries to avoid looking at it

gets dressed in the dark

once she comes out she's gonna dress like the most hideous anime girl for the first few months

like goes HAM

her fav nerd shirts paired with a weird fucking skirt but eventually it looks really good just because of how much time she spends on it now that she likes how she looks

DAVE STRIDER

cool cis guy that will respect the pronouns

will treat people the same regardless of transness

goes down the transfem nonbinary any pronouns route in mid 20s

unfathomably chill

JADE HARLEY

divisive subject. either cool nerdy tgirl or closeted trans guy

tgirl jade puts a lot of effort into dressing for the sake of mirrors

doesn't necessarily look GOOD (ultranerd furry island social recluse) but she looks intresting

however tgirl jade doesn't voicetrain and not only is her voice kinda clocky but also very hoarse from lack of use

closeted transguy/transmasc nonbinary jade is very online and performative feminine stuff until he realizes in his late teens he's trans

does not learn what trans is until late teens, very in sheltered parts of the internet despite being very online

was out online years before he came out irl

third option: chill cis girl who, during

ROSE LALONDE

terf

no hate to rose she is one of my top three characters in all of homestuck but she is very terf vibes

she spends a lot of time "debating" with trans people online (harassment) and frequents a lot of terf forums

i think that after a few years of earth c and maybe meteorstuck she grows past it and eventually to her it's not a fight she's proud to be the lead general of but a phase she's really embarassed of, much like her other silly 13 year old traits

i also really like tgirl rose, not for character basis but i think its cool and i (obviously) love trans headcanons

KARKAT VANTAS

i am very divided between ftm and cis guy.

cis guy karkat is cool, he's very much just some guy who's comfortable in his "girly" hobbies and, while isn't really tied into his physical appearance, isn't dysphoric and is just a little insecure

however: humanstuck karkat will always be trans in my mind, just for the persecution bit, although i would also buy ethnically-middle-eastern adopted into a white american family karkat

he'd be a truscum or just kinda shitty to nonpassing trans people i think, we've seen how many alternian empire boots he licks so conforming to the status quo as a pick-me minority is not above him

again i think he would grow out of it in his later teen years/early 20s (like in the comic) but i don't ever see humanstuck karkat escaping the eternal shame that kind comes with being trans

ARADIA MEDIG0

ily weird unnerving tgirl aradia she is like so that to me. she reminds me of the boymoder NEET memes i see chronically online trans girls on reddit posting

but also i do equally enjoy weird girlboss cis girl aradia

either way she is far too etheral to be bothered with gender stuff

like you could come out to her with sixteen hard to pronounce xenos, pass so badly you unearth masculinity/feminity so prominent it burns to the touch, and she would not give a single fuck. and she would never mess up with pronouns and shit

tAVROS nITRAM

i see her as a hardcore deep deep in the closet repper tgirl as like a core part of my interpretations and yet i can never imagine her coming out

like i just see her boymoding forever

not really? like i think it would happen eventually i just can't visualize it

hypothetically i could see her being one of those cool goth girls named lilith but it seems very removed from the original starting point

2OLLUX CAPTOR

repping tgirl or amab nonbinary or just plain cis

either way still horrifically greasy and that will never change

there is no self reflection that will even vaguely incentivize sollux to maintain his hygeine

:33< NEPETA LEJION

cis girl

maybe comes out as ftm in 20s? if trans, i could also see nepeta repping till death

like just a weird cis girl who is like "oh, you're trans? just like in my warrior cats rp discord server!"

again, gives more of a fuck about gender than aradia but it is close

she just cares if you will listen to her talk about her ships and art

nepeta is the type of person where it might take her a while get the new name and stuff right

"HER PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM!"

but she would be your staunch defender

KANAYA MARYAM

eh? nothing strong here, i don't really have a hc for her

but there is a lot of mtf symbolism in the comic and i do enjoy that

like a socially awkward youngshit who's not out to many people because she can't really bring herself to correct people in public but still has a really passing voice even after first coming out

bad facial dysphoria

do like her as intersex. feels right

TEREZI PYROPE

nonbinary

no genders, all the genders, new genders, old primal genders, everything

both simultaneously afab and amab but not intersex?

the living embodiment of androgyny

probably has a very long list of neos/xenos but is any pronouns

you cannot misgender her. hes too cool.

VRISKAAAAAAAA SERK8!!!!!!!!

transgirl transgirl transgril

literally not even a headcanon at this point vriska is a trans girl and that is that!!!!!!!!

if you disagree im kickng your ass so hard it comes out of your mouth. your days are numbered and that number is 0. (not 8 :( )

EQUIUS

option one: cis gymbro chaser.

he sleeps with trans men to steal their t shots

in the streets he'll occasionally say the weird shit but i know he'd be crankin his hog to futa/cuntboy shit by night

option two: trans girl

never comes out because of insecurity but indulges in long hair and the occasional skirt in private and then feels really bad about it

option three: insane roided trans man

t gave him big muscles and big sex drive

option three poiont 5.

racist sexist homophobic nonbinary

like drops the most despicable shit in conversation and finsihes it off with "my pronouns are actually they/them), like one of those nazi femboys

GAMZEE MAKARA

does not gaf

cis (? idk) guy who is fine with any pronouns and crossdresses for fun

i guess not technically cis? but still identifies as a man when it comes down to it. like barely guy

FEFERI PEIXIES

cis girl who is a little infantilizing

if you're transfem she will give you makeup tips

but still a little hugboxy

"oh no you totally pass even though you're 8'100 and have a full beard! women come in all shapes and sizes!" (not shitting on the made up trans girl here, passing is fucking hard and it has no bearing on personal worth)

JANE CROCKER

jane is a repping/closeted trans man and you can pry this from my cold dead hands

the mustache? the projection onto only male figures?

also i think its fun with jane's ties to the girls-only fuchsiablood club that he ends up a dude

also st4t janeroxy my beloved

DIRK STRIDER

gonna be honest here no strong leanings

i am a firm believer that estrogen would save her but i dont really think of dirk as anywhere on the gender spectrum

maybe just cis dirk? i could buy cis dirk

JAKE ENGLISH

one one hand i would like the transmasc rep being not restricted to hairless twinks and i would enjoy ftm jake that way

transmasc nonbinary jake is an insane concept to me but i do find myself intrested

a little iffy on the trans headcanons (especially transmasc) because a big part of the concept of jake english is that he's a big strong man who takes on the literary role of an objectified girl character and having him be

ROXY LALONDE

ex twinkhon femboy now BDD gigapassoid

literally one of the most gorgeous trans women you will ever meet

creating e substitutes in her laboratory since age 12

again not even those most immersed in trans culture and the ways of clocking would be able to tell thats how good she is

her speaking patterns hail solely from those cutesy minecraft/unboxing youtubers she religiously watched as a small child

however she is fully convinced that she doesn't pass for shit so she believes that every genuine complement and people treating her like a woman is just them being nice

she'll attempt to boymode and go "stealth" in scenarios where she doesn't want to be visibly trans but it fucking backfires because everyone assumes she's ftm

DIRK STRIDER

trans man with literally no basis because my dirk-themed friend is also a trans man

4channer transman robotics nerd dirk my beloved

DAMARA MEGIDO

transfem ig? or cis woman

very girl adjacent

idk i dont think about the dancestors much

RUFIOH NITRAM

cis man

MAYBE trans man

i am also cool with that

MITUNA CAPTOR

cis man

MAYBE transfem nonbinary

KANKRI VANTAS

trans man because very few cis men were tumblr "SJW"s

and he reminds me of of some chronically online trans guys i used to hang around

also hes very fuckign petite and girls and feminend and twinky dinky and im just projecting my dysphoria onto him sorrie kankri fans

MEULIN LEJION

cis fujo girl

when she discovered trans men she was like 'YAAAAAS MPREG'

will respect your pronouns and shit but is VERY HORNY

lowkey chaser that will also date cis people

PORRIM MARYAM

two choices: cool goth transbian or lesbian terf

cool goth transbian is the nice one. first off, she looks a lot like some transfem transition goals ive seen online.

second, cool feminist could also be trans rights and trans people are kinda forced into being political

third, being flat as a board could also be interpreted as her just not having tits (tho she does seem like the type to DIY HRT)

TERF porrim (correct): first, a lot of "feminists" turn out to be bitchy to trans people

second, her activism for groups she's a part of and groups she likes is good, but she really infantilizes kankri, and considering that's the beforan equivalent of hemoracism, if trans people didn't fit her motto she would not hesitate to shit on them

LATULA PYROPE

cis girl. maybe she/they

ARANEA SERKET:

trans girl serkets trans girl serkets

would also buy cis girl that makes you wonder if she's actually a repressed ftm because some of her actions are a littttttttle suspicious

HORRUS ZAHHAK

cis man who ends up hanging out with a lot of trans women anyway due to shared intrests in hyperpop and furry stuff

again very respectful, very small chance that he's chaser-y

KURLOZ MAKARA

i honestly do not know and this isnt because i dont really care about his character, it just evades me

transcends gender

could be cis woman, fuck if i know. i'd buy that

all and neither a gender above our human comprehension

CRONUS AMPORA

trans man that proves tboys are real men because they can be just as creepy and awful as cis men

thinks him being trans means he's immune to all types of discrimination

uses it a pity point/to get out of stuff

MEENAH PEIXIES

maybe tgirl? idk

may just be cis

possibly transmasc nonbinary

tho i lean mostly towards cis woman whos gnc and actually cool with trans peopel (be aware she will still groom them tho)

equal opportunity grooming

CALLIOPE

technically transfem anyway because her body isn't sexed so shes kinda intersex

but even if she wasnt a cherub she would still be transfem anyway

chronically online transgirl who spends most of her time in internet spaces with cis girls of her same age

warrior cats fan

humanstuck calliope hung around the warrior cats girls since elementary and never left

CALIBORN

evil trans man

transmasc for same reasons as calliope

humanstuck caliborn avoided all female socialization because he didn't socialize and instead spent his formative years on 4chan

the nature of the /lgbt/ board probably gave him some shame about being ftm

DAD EGBERT and crocker as well, very similar people

cis man who is a staunch ally

MOM LALONDE

cis ally

she's trying? can't say anything more

will occasionally and unintentionally say some out of pocket shit about trans people she knows when drunk

will mess up the pronouns a lot because very scatterbrained

GRANPA HARLEY:

cis man who lowkey fetishizes trans people

straight but fucks non-passing transmen because he doesn't see them as men

trans women are some exotic fetish

if jade came out he would repair his ways tho

NANNA EGBERT

transphobic

not even a terf because she has beef with feminists

but again if john or jane came out she would badger them at first but her love would win out and she would change her views

BRO STRIDER

personally i see him as a cis man but i think trans man bro strider is cool and also an icon

DIRK'S BRO:

cis bisexual man who is cool with trans people

ROXY'S MOM:

cis woman who is in a fucked up evil messy situationship with a transgirl

will trans rights

GRANDMA ENGLISH:

either a. elder trans woman

or b. cis woman (a little nonbinary) who is accepting

does not know the terminology

"oh so you want to live as a woman now? alright, i suppose. i had a friend like that back in college"

HIC:

evil elder trans woman who has an illegal diy hrt empire

will sell out the trans community if it benefits her

grifter

LIL CAL

i dont know it s scary

[publiusscipiospqr]

Homestuck beta kids (some) hcs + Sprite edits

Rose Lalonde - She/They/It

Lesbian,questioning demigirl

Goth!

Dave Strider - He/Him (Wants to explore other pronouns)

A guy (He refuses to elaborate on anything else)

Biromantic, demisexual

Phobia of developing a receding hairline once he’s older

And something weird happened with the Egbert-Harleys.. 😨 They’re just giants don’t ask me why..

John Egbert - He/Him

Transmale (FTM), questioning but uses Bisexual as a temporary label

TERRIBLE Myopia

Struggling through puberty

Jade Harley- She/Woof

Silly girl (Doesn’t use a specific label), Pansexual, Cupioromantic

Absolutely terrible Hyperopia

Trolls Part 1!

Trolls Part 2!

[mogai-headcanons]

John/June Egbert from Homestuck is a visually impaired autistic gay man lesbian sapphic vincian demiaroaceflux transfeminine genderfluid bunnygender fluidflux windgender nonbinary girl boy with BPD, depression, PTSD, and dissociative disorder who uses he/him, they/them, she/her, and ve/ver pronouns, and he's flushed for Dave and Dirk, pitch for Davesprite, and moirails with Rose!

Rose Lalonde is an autistic straight arospec lesbian trnasneumasculine nonbinary FTM lestroy squidgender darkgender horrorgender weirdgirlthing with BPD, NPD, HPD, OCPD, OCD, and PTSD who uses she/her, he/him, it/its, and thing/things pronouns, and she's flushed for Kanaya and Jade, pitch for Vriska, and moirails with Nepeta!

Dave Strider is an autistic bisexual lesbian gay man transneufeminine bigender neutrois crowgender boything with CPTSD, C-DID, NPD, ADHD, and chronic pain who uses he/him, she/her, and it/its pronouns, and he's flushed for John/June, pitch for Karkat, and moirails with Jade!

Jade Harley is an intersex acespec sapphic trans girl pupgender sciencegender girlthing with ADHD, BPD, HPD, and anxiety who uses she/her, pup/pups, and bark/barks pronouns, and she's flushed for Rose and Kanaya and moirails with Jade!

Jane Crocker is an aroacespec bisexual vincian trans boy with depression, anxiety, BPD, and body image issues who uses he/him and they/them pronouns, and he's flushed for Roxy and Calliope and moirails with Dirk!

Roxy Lalonde is an autistic omnisexual transfeminine genderfluid catgender gendervoid nullgender girl with ADHD, addiction issues, HPD, and PTSD who uses she/her, they/them, he/him, it/its, void/voids, and null/nulls pronouns, and she's flushed for Jane and Calliope!

Dirk Strider is an autistic closeted trans girl who currently identifies as a nonbinary boy; is arospec and is only interested in men, but leaves his sexuality unlabeled; has ADHD, BPD, HPD, NPD, C-DID, CPTSD, hypersexuality, OCD, paraphilic disorder, and anorexia; uses he/him pronouns; and is flushed for John/June and Jake, pitch for Caliborn, and moirails with Jane!

Jake English is an autistic intersex transneufeminine nebularomantic gay man wth HPD, OSDD, PTSD, and brain damage who uses he/him and they/them pronouns, and he's flushed for Dirk and pitch for Hal!

Davesprite is an autistic trans girl aromantic lesbian dyke with CPTSD, C-DID, NPD, ADHD, and chronic pain who uses he/him, it/its, and crow/crows pronouns, and he's pitch for John/June!

Lil Hal is an autistic transneutral intramasculine aroace gay man robot with HPD, NPD, hypersexuality, and PTSD who uses he/him and it/its pronouns, and he's pitch for Jake!

Aradia Megido is a bisexual transneufeminine ramgender ghostgender bonegender deadgender nonbinarygirlthing with PTSD who uses any pronouns, and she's flushed for Sollux and Feferi!

Tavos Nitram is a physically disabled transfeminine boything losergender cowgender gay man with PTSD who uses she/her, they/them, and it/its pronouns!

Sollux Captor is a visually impaired autistic bisexual transmasculine bigender boything with NPD, PTSD, and brain damage who uses he/him pronouns, and he's flushed for Aradia, Karkat, and Feferi!

Karkat Vantas is a trans girl arospec lesbian with BPD, HPD, PTSD, and anger issues who uses he/him, she/her, and it/its pronouns, and he's flushed for Sollux!

Nepeta Leijon is an autistic transneufeminine bigender catgender doodlegender sillygender gay man lesbian with PTSD and a speech impediment who uses any pronouns, and she's flushed/pale for Equius!

Kanaya Maryam is an autistic trans girl vampiregender rainbowgender lesbian with PTSD and anxiety who uses she/her pronouns, and she's flushed for Rose and Jade!

Terezi Pyrope is a completely blind transneutral girlthing lizardgender dragongender colorgender weirdgender lesbian with PTSD who uses they/them, it/its, and thing/things pronouns!

Vriska Serket is a physically disabled sapphic transfeminine bigender spidergender girlthing with BPD, HPD, NPD, and PTSD who uses she/her and it/its pronouns!

Equius Zahhak is an autistic bisexual transneutral intramasculine horsegender troll with PTSD who uses he/him pronouns, and he's flushed/pale for Nepeta!

Gamzee Makara is a pansexual transneumasculine nonbinary boy clowngender weirdgender boything with addiction issues, PTSD, anger issues, and brain damage who uses he/him, they/thm, it/its, and honk/honks pronouns!

Eridan Ampora is an autistic transneufeminine gay man with NPD and BPD who uses he/him pronouns!

Feferi Peixes is a vincian bubblegender mermangender trans boy with PTSD who uses she/her and bubble/bubbles pronouns, and she's flushed for Sollux and Aradia!

Dad Egbert is a cis gay man who uses he/him pronouns, and he's in a pitch relationship with beta Bro Strider!

Nana Egbert is a repressed straight trans man!

Beta Mom Lalonde is a bisexual transsexual woman with addiction issues who uses she/her pronouns!

Beta Bro Strider is a trans gay man who uses he/him pronouns, and he's in a pitch relationship with Dad Egbert and an on-again, off-again flush/pitch relationship with Grandpa Harley!

Grandpa Harley is a bisexual cis man who uses he/him pronouns, and he's in many flushed relationships, but always seems to come back to Bro!

Dad Crocker is a cis gay man who uses he/him pronouns!

Poppop Crocker is a repressed straight trans woman!

Alpha Mom Lalonde is a nonbinary lesbian who uses she/her and they/them pronouns!

Alpha Bro Strider is a bisexual cisnonbinary person with hypersexuality and addiction issues who uses any pronouns!

Grandma English is an aroace trans woman who uses she/her pronouns!

Calliope is an autistic sapphic queer transneufeminine gendercuddle nonbinary girl with BPD and PTSD who uses they/them, she/her, and other feminine pronouns, and they're flushed for Roxy and Jane!

Caliborn is an autistic cisnonbinary straight guy with ADHD, ASPD, NPD, and anger issues, and he sometimes hooks up wtih guys and is pitch for Dirk!

dni link

[x-crowmancer-x]

slightly different interpretation where Young Dave learns what trans is after it happens

stealth trans bro strider scenario in which dave and bro strife but his packer falls out his pant leg and dave starts screaming and crying mortified because he thinks bros dick just fell off

[nightsky-edits]

could i please request a uhhmm. somewhat chubby ftm (just in the way of having curves, like slightly wider hips and a rounder face) dave strider edit? and made a casual bro strider edit with facial hair stubble ? :^ thank u sm o ! follow up on the ftm dave ask, i forgot i should be more specific. could his skin be pale with red undertones, his hair a normal blonde and a little longer (hair sticking out from behind his neck and under his ears), and scars on his arms ? to do the other details again, i'd like his figure to be more fem, with wider hips and a bigger chest but more like he's wearing a binder, and for him to be a little curvy / chubby. bigger legs. and could he be wearing his red pajama pants from homestuck 2, and a normal black sweater ? thank you ! sorry if it's too complicated. if you feel like doing bro too, i'd still just like a casual edit of him with a stubble and tan skin, normal blonde hair ,, thank you !!!

Here you go! I wasnt sure exactly what body type you wanted so i just sorta went for it, if you need anything changed though feel free to send another ask :P

[rebecoming]

[myeoomski]

thinking about dave strider this evening. sighs. yeah how'd u know I'm ftm

[twosnails4eva]

do you know what? its 4/13. i get to be homestucking on main today. fuck you

ok so headcanons under the cut

BETA KIDS

john/june egbert: genderfluid, bigender, bisexual they/he/she

<3 roxy, dave, karkat

<3< terezi, tavros

<> rose

jade harley: pupgender bisexual she/they/pup/paw

<3 davepetasprite^2, rose, kanaya, roxy

<3< karkat

<> dave

rose lalonde: nonbinary, lesbian she/they/he

<3 jade, kanaya

<> june

dave strider: transgender ftm bisexual he/it/they

<3 june, karkat

<3< gamzee

<> jade

ALPHA KIDS

jane crocker: pansexual she/they

<3 roxy

<3+<> calliope

jake english: queer (mlm) he/him

<3 dirk

<> tavros

dirk strider: transgender ftm achillean he/him

<3 jake

<3+<3< caliborn

roxy lalonde: genderfluid, bisexual any pronouns

<3 jane, john, jade

<3+<> calliope