Re: Autumnwyvern

"Girlfriend" as a word has an unignorable romantic connotation when it's used without a space between girl and friend, and within the context of this scene part of the framing is placing Callie as Roxy's romantic partner to distance June from Earth C. While it could just be June's assumptions, that doesn't change the fact that it's one of two explicit mentions of aromanticism in the text that are both framed as jokes; and while it could be explored deeper at a later point, there has already been in-depth discussion of Callie's queerness in the time since then, and their aromanticism has been absent from that discussion.

It's the overall discussion of aromanticism in Homestuck that I find incredibly lacking. Either it's framed as a joke and a caricature (Kankri), it's framed as self-destructive and self-isolating (Jake), or it's framed as part of a list of non-human modifiers on a relationship with romantic connotations (Callie). I want it to be explored more in the future, because I want there to be good aromantic representation in Homestuck, but as it stands it hasn't been and there hasn't been any indication that it will be, in any way.