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dukeofriven · 2 years ago

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I don't know are you sure there's just always going to be another Dave? Really? REALLY?

there will always be another dave strider but there will never be another terezi, there will never be another kanaya, there will never be another aradia, there will never be another jade harley. so many of the women in homestuck blatantly go against expectation and are so wonderfully unique for it

#dave strider #homestuck #think you're doing my boy dirty #like I understand the point you are making by when it comes to sticking close to gender expectation #but I'm not sure Dave is the paragon of rigidity #DIRK?#There's always another tiresome Dirk #and strip away the specific theatricality there's a lot of shitty Jakes too #(I've somewhat soured on the epilogues in the intervening years but Jake English consistently sucking shit still makes me very happy)#but Dave?#Dave a really distinctive guy whose struggles with masculine expectation over the course of the comic are complex and rare in stories #hells since I'm here one of the reasons June Egbert never worked for me #(besides its innate problem of coming from the Best Not Acknowledged Homestuck_2 era of Homestuck's nadir)#Is that Dave Strider is RIGHT THERE #John is one of the only character in homestuck who ever feels completely comfortable in his own skin and self as a person #He never has the doubts and questions and anxieties others have about his sense of personhood and self-worth and value etc etc #and while none of that is NECESSARY for trasitioning or anything #my boy Dave is right there the goddamn poster boy for the same gender-questioning pipeline that andrew hussie themself went through #Dave always being Andrew's blatant self-insert #And Dave going through the same journey of mid-00s homophobic-jokes edgelord to openly queer person #HE"S RIGHT THERE FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE HOMESTUCK COME THE HELL ON #but then a committee of straight white old cis men from poughkeepsie could have written a better Homestuck 2 than we got #that's how full-body-cringe the whole experience was #remember the hatsune miku binder thomas jefferson hamilton oc?#that's what Homestuck 2 felt like as a work of media #they tried so hard to shoot for the moon they landed among the stars #by which I mean they missed the target so completely they ended in a firey death inside a crushing fusion furnace and everyone went #'hitting the moon isn't all that difficult how can you fuck up that badly?'#while I am thinking aloud we all need more Pesterquest #And Paradox Space

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