y'know. sheepgirl titty

extremely real

~<3

it'd be pretty easy if not for the fact that typing with strict punctuation and capitalisation is already someone else in here's fronting indicator

yeah as mixed as my feelings are on the june egbert thing i think the yearning for escape from one's prescribed role that permeates homestuck makes it a holistically eggy text

hussie. girl. you wrote the manual on taking anything an author says about their work with a million grains of salt. i read it. it's called fucking Home Stuck

anyway, i digress, the point is heinousstuck isn't actually interesting please don't read it because of this thread

while the themes of masculinity - sonhood, heirdom, *protagonist-ness* - in john's character makes this reading a fertile one, the situation raises questions about the extent of an author's power to declare things canon 'ex nihilo' without actually ever portraying them in the work

for those out of the loop on post-homestuck nonsense, a fan wished upon a toblerone hussie hid in a cave to canonise june egbert, that is to say, an interpretation of john's character as depicted in homestuck as a transfem egg deep in denial about her feelings on Becoming A Man

john being the protagonist of heinousstuck is a matter of simple inheritance - he's the default, homestuck's ready-made everyman character - but the fact that this is all happening to *him, specifically* is poignant now in ways the author of HSS could not have foreseen at the time

you have just turned 13. it is time for a horrific transformation to befall you, as it has already befallen all of your friends. the person most directly forcing this upon you is your legal guardian. you don't want it, but nobody cares; this is just the way growing up works, for everyone, everywhere