in the interests of elaborating on the point above, I thought of another blog post that feels worthy of sharing here, about Terezi as a transmasculine character:

https://lime-bloods.tumblr.com/post/779309670535954432/love-transmasc-terezi-analysis-thumbs-up-emoji-i

not because I think this analysis is a particularly profound or foundational one, like the selection I chose for the first post in the thread, but moreso because it's an example of the kind of places you can get using the first principles established in my other posts. It's got a little bit of everything: gendered analysis, caste- and class-based analysis, using a character's alternate timeline selves as additional windows into their psyche... exactly the kind of holistic interpretation I was just talking about. I've never really cared much for Terezi as a character, but by applying the same thinking to her that I apply to the other parts of the comic I do really like, I was able to come up with a whole bunch about her that I found really compelling!

for a complete change of tack, though, since everything I've talked about so far has skewed so hard toward the gendered, here's a post that I just think is really, really good LOL. Not to toot my own horn too hard. It elaborates on some themes introduced in other posts that I've linked, but I won't introduce what it's actually specifically about. I just think everyone should read it:

https://lime-bloods.tumblr.com/post/728987658845650944/the-theory-used-to-be-that-caliborn-was-his-own