i have to clarify that when i called dirk unconventional i was talking about him being unconventional in terms of gay characters, especially at the time, not commenting about him not being relatable or whatever.

i just think that your criticisms come from a place of personal attachment to dirk and his identity and disliking the direction the story took him in. like, dirk being a weird control freak who‘s emotionally repressed and both self-hating and self-aggrandising has always been his characterisation. the epilogues just go in the direction of pushing those flaws to their logical limit.

and as for the transphobia thing, i’m just gonna say that “it makes no sense for someone to be transphobic towards someone they love and care about” is just not how any of that works i’m sorry.

as for caliborn, i obviously was not saying that he’s secretly a gay man with a lot of misogyny to unpack. i brought him up because i think his yaoi shit is much more a critique of fandom misogyny, the thread there being that the logical conclusion for a misogynistic author to reach is cutting out the “pesky women” altogether, like if we look at it plainly it‘s somewhat on the nose that a guy who only wants to engage with homestuck in the form of drawing anime boys kissing is a notorious misogynist.