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~Pandanoia~

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23/F/Pansexual I'm just a person who likes many things. I have my demons;I have my beliefs,with that being said "don't tread on me.."

The bulge-nook standard is fanon; in HS proper "nook" seems to mean "ass", not vag, if anything, "bone bulge" only seems to be used as profanity rather than legit discussion of body parts, and there is no implication of tentacles of any sort. That aside, let's assume trolls do have dimorphism which would make transition meaningful; why would they be allowed to? Why would breaking that part of your assigned birth role be even semi-okay when caste roles are enforced by torture and death?

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I responded to the nook/bulge thing already - though I’ll just mention this here again: 

Hussie absolutely sucked at using any of these words in any way that wasn’t insulting/joking, and also failed at using them coherently (sometimes referring to nook as interchangeable with ass or as its own thing, and even using bone bulge in one instance to mean skull). It’s clear that there’s something there, but that Hussie never thought it through beyond what he was implying - so naturally fanon came in and cleared it all up because Hussie had an entire canon he could do things with and then just did not. I think there is reason for the prehensile dick thing, but I don’t specifically remember what - and admittedly I don’t want to search through the entirety of Homestuck to figure out whether or not trolls implied they have wiggly dicks. I already did that once to figure out how frog breeding worked. It was not fun.

Onto the part about sexual dimorphism - honestly, the only way that I can finangle it is that trolls care more about castes than about gender? That gender has so little influence on their actual society compared to the strict division between blood that you can quite easily get away with transitioning pretty much no questions asked - especially since even Sollux, a lowblood, was able to transition without issue. 

If it wasn’t for Sollux, I’d probably say that it’s something only highbloods can get away with, and that they can only do so because HIC isn’t there to impose her strict rule - but then, surely highbloods would use a transitioning lowblood to enact their violence upon if it was really that much of a strict rule in their society? Why would Sollux be able to get away with the act of transitioning when even Eridan faces transphobia from his lusus for identifying as nonbinary?

This is part of the problem that comes with writing what was clearly set up to be a species without sexual dimorphism, but without making it entirely clear or deadset; there’s just things that don’t make sense even when you DO put it into a sexually dimorphised content. Alternia just isn’t built around a care for gender or for assigned sex. Its entire focus is on blood; it’s what they use to suppress lowbloods, and it’s what they use to create a natural order of things. 

Like, what importance does assigned sex have on Alternia? Well, as far as we can tell, next to nothing; though HIC is the woman in power, it’s never suggested that there’s an inherent matriarchy; it’s a fuchsiarchy. It’s because she’s fuchsia, not a woman, that makes her ruler. All of her closest in power have been men; GHB, the leader of an entire religion, and Dualscar, one of the top Orphaners in the world. So it’s not even as if we can suggest that only women can attain power on Alternia, because the truth is that they’re just as likely as the men to be stuck in specific positions based on their blood.

In terms of physical strength, too, there’s more of a bloodcaste divide than a male-female divide. Vriska outright states that highbloods are made of “stronger stuff” than lowbloods - that they can take more damage before they go down - and Equius’ physical strength, though considered a mutation, isn’t inherently because he’s male, since we know that Sollux, Tavros, and Karkat are weaker than even Gamzee. We’ve also seen Kanaya exhibit incredible feats of strength, though again, that’s not because she’s female so much as because she’s a rainbowdrinker. 

There’s not even an inherent divide on the basis of jobs; female rustbloods are just as likely to be sweeping floors as male rustbloods. And this doesn’t even go into the fact that we’ve seen nonbinary trolls in Friendsim who never really mention gendered issues - which is incredibly easy to forget, honestly - both highblood and lowblood. Like, even under Trizza’s reign - which is MUCH more brutal than Feferi’s - there’s no discrimination based on gender identity. 

So what exactly is the issue with being trans on Alternia? The fact of the matter is... there isn’t one. Everything we see of them points to bloodcaste being the biggest societal issue and the biggest biological factor used to suppress Alternians, not gender - and we’ve seen time and time again that gender identity isn’t really questioned on Alternia, either. So, even if the trolls were sexually dimorphised and could transition, they wouldn’t face anything like the experiences and transphobia humans do; it’s just not an inherent factor of their society. Hell, it might actively confuse them more than anything else. But this is completely disregarding that everything above points to a society that would put more emphasis on a gender structure based around the class system - something I’m going to go into on another post. 

Again, it’s one of those things where you can just tell that it’s a cis man’s take on society, because he genuinely couldn’t think of how society would work without a gendered structure. Well, now he’s got a gendered structure on something that doesn’t need one, and trying to figure out how trans issues have any impact on that society is almost impossible to rationalise without eventually realising that the society very likely would not care

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I agree 100% with this, I have no problem with any of the characters coming out as non-binary or trans; I just feel as if the way the subtext and canon aspects of information that we have further implies that this wouldn't make sense.

All be it the concept of gender and sexuality is basically your all pan/bi and physically the same with minor variations.

It's heavily implied that the trolls might be hermaphroditic of some caliber. Given the fact that karkat in some degree or another said something along the lines that you need to have a some kind of romantic partner to fill the buckets With an you both have to add "genetic material" to said buckets. I don't know about you, but unless they ment the girls ripping out embryos and or giving eggs (Which we know isn't) With the lack of information and weird terms being thrown everywhere; would make a person imply that both male an females have The anatomy to make semen. ESPECIALLY, since they said it can be done with both Homosexual couples. Which isn't even a concept they under. Being gay or queer in a thing. Both male an females are implied the social relationship quadrants to be on the same team. The only thing they care about social ly is the Blood Caste System.

Which is why I understand why it's fannon of some caliber because well hussy made a terrible decision to not explain anything. And leave everything open ended when it came to the biology of the trolls. I personally just think it's weird and it doesn't make sense for any of the characters to be non-binary or trans and I feel as if that's just a weird inclusive concept that they bringing into the fandom in franchise over the last set of years. I'm happy for it but it doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense especially since the world they live in doesn't give two shits.

Like you said he tried to structure the whole entire thing where it's gendered but the concept of gender is kind of irrelevant; It's just a trivial concept of a person, especially since the concept of fashion isn't even a thing really. With implications that they might all be hermaphroditic or intersex of some kind it kind of makes the concept of being non-binary or trans to be counterproductive or an oxymoron. If one of the human kids were to be trans or something like that it would make a lot more sense since our society and structure actually has a imbalance when it comes to sex/gender and there are obvious differences.

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So a while back I was reading this comic this person made. To put it franks it was basically about this gay jewish vampire halfbreed dating this nightmare demon or somthing. An the jewish vampire boy was a twink an the other was definitely buff. An it was done in a cratoony like style. An I wanted to find the artist an see if they updated the comic as of late an I can't find em.

I found them! Unfortunately 🥺 they no longer making the comic from what Im understanding. Which is a shame..

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“Please let there be sound”, I said as I clicked play. And there was. And it was exactly what I wanted. 10/10 would listen to little munches again.

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This just make me belive even more that the hungry caterpillar book was a glutton! How one eatong tthrew one whole leaf not fill you up.