Yeah I know this seems like a very random topic, but I find it interesting!
I was looking on Rose (and Jasprose's) wiki page and realized, hey! In the OG comic, it's never stated she's a lesbian, or even usually has a preference for women.
I kinda thought this was cannon, so now I feel like I'm going insane and missed something but IDK
on a side note,
what the fuck is up with the Dreambubbles??? Like I know there's a black hole that sucked up the green sun and paradox space, but... Did it really kill every ghost and destroy every dream bubble?
Anyway, what're YOUR thoughts and head cannons I am very curious meow
@alex thank you, I spent way too many unemployed hours making those sprite edits and pictures lol so figured I should show it off in some way 💜
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spicyyeti, agreed + i think you have a very good point about how 'belief' works in homestuck, like, the fact that people have different headcanons about rose or ship her with male characters has never stopped her from being personally inspiring to me when i was still figuring out my own real life lesbianism, there is no like headcanon or even postcanon story event which would stop rose from being one of the homestuck lesbians to me.
i guess that does sort of tie back in to why homestuck's approach to labelling works so well, it lets you learn about and interpret the characters organically rather than making it feel artificial or stilted.
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One interesting part of the whole anti-labeling theme is that the people who obsess over labels and the "correct terminology", like Aranea and Kankri, are characterized as pretentious windbags that you really shouldn't be giving airtime to. (I listened.) Which sure, is fuel for the anti-woke crowd, but they've got lower-hanging fruits to pick at anyways.
Perhaps one thesis of Openbound is that gender, blood caste (which can play the part of gender, race, and so on), and one's mythical role are not all that different - they're a preexisting system that tells you what you must be. You can probably also wrangle disability into that metaphor, but I don't consider my madrigal forum posts to have the requisite mad rigors to integrate that into the same concepts. I will ask, how many of these kids would be considered "on the spectrum"?
As characters, they must follow their role. As people? It is only right that they struggle against it. What was the Princess Tutu quote about choice and fate?
