#so i just find it so fascinating that in this movie jor-el says son you will never know your birthplace your parents's home firsthand | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

loverboybrightsideghost · 21 hours ago

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one of my favorite clark headcanons that i have (that is completely unsupported by canon) is that he's transgender by kryptonian standards. martha and jon kent raised him as a boy and as he grew up he never had any reason to doubt it at all, he was like yeah i'm a boy, makes sense. and then he gets to the fortress of solitude for the first time and it turns out how Gender works on krypton was just Different enough that clark doesn't really fit the kryptonian standards of whatever he was supposed to be. bonus points because this makes him feel like even more of an outsider as a kryptonian, even if he's the last one left.

#do i know what those kryptonian gender customs are? no and i kind of don't care to come up with them #just cuz that's not my favorite thing to do but someone else can if they like my idea #i just love the idea of 1) trans clark 2) clark discovering his heritage but also as he learns more about his heritage #realizing that because of how he was raised- and it was nobody's fault- even though it's the only explanation for why he's so different #from humans he still can't help but feel like he's not a real kryptonian either #brought to you by THIS STARTED AS A FUN HEADCANON FOR HIM TO BE TRANS IN A COOL ALIEN WAY #BUT TURNED OUT TO BE ACTUALLY PROJECTION OF SOME PERSONAL SHIT I HAVE ONLY CONSCIOUSLY THOUGHT ABOUT LIKE TWICE SO OOPS #bluebird.txt #superman #was watching superman 1978 and i don't have any real thoughts about it yet but i'm just rotating in my head #that jor-el said 'this is your home.' when describing krypton.#like. he's never been there. he can never go there. it doesn't exist anymore and he will be raised human.#he will be raised in a world that is so completely unlike his own and he will not grow up with as a kryptonian.#and yet jor-el says of krypton 'this is your home.'#like just give me a moment.#so interesting to me who considers who what. some guy in high school #told me i wasn't mexican because i din't recognize some candies my (cuban) teacher brought back when he visited mexico #he said i wasn't even latino #well first of all that guy was a first-class asshole seriously my kudos to him #for having such an impressive amount of hatred and unhappiness in his little soul #second of all. he didn't think i was latino. my own sister only calls me mexican when it's convenient for her #my parents are proud of their american children and in high school my mexican (as in grew up there) friend wa always proud #to call me a fellow mexican (or at least a chicana)#so i just find it so fascinating that in this movie jor-el says son you will never know your birthplace your parents's home firsthand #but it is your home.#my parents would never EVER call mexico my home i don't think they'd even call it THEIR home #i just. i'm thinking about it a lot.#high fives clark kent in child of immigrants and everything that means swag solidarity

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