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it occured to me that lanque would make sense as one of the trolls for tomorrow’s friendsim!

ofc thats at least partly just me REALLY WANTING TO GET TO KNOW LANQUE, and I’m not particularly expecting to be right. but my logic goes roughly thusly;

We know that Vol 6 will be titled “Of Text and Envy, Green”

If we’re talking about green text, the likeliest option is Maxlol as the clearest 4chan representative. But what about the envy bit?

Well, we know Lanque’s a Life player, and that he craves eternal life.

As a Jadeblood, that gives us two sources he might be jealous of:

–Fuschiabloods, who live practically forever

–Rainbow drinkers, who…might? And who are considerably closer to home, as a phenomenon exclusive to Jadebloods.

I’ve also had friends suggest that envy might suggest Charun as a Ragebound, and that Rage might have some intrinsic links to envy and jealousy. Either would be pretty interesting to me!

But I favor Lanque over Charun by a very slim margin, so this is what I’m personally hoping for, for now.

Who knows how things will pan out, but I figured I’d throw the thought out here.
Happy friendsim day, however it pans out! ^_^

god ok so im not a woman or trans and have 0 place in the real conversation around lanque, ok? this post is strictly and only about homestucks/hiveswaps actual canon lore.

i HAVE to say something because this specific thing im seeing about lanque is driving me up the wall, simply because it makes it rly clear some of you just have no fucking clue what homestuck is about actually? like at all.

and thats this idea that lanque is bad because jadebloods are associated with motherhood, and subverting or complicating that thematic association is bad.

which…just… did these people just like, forget porrim? what happened to caring about the nuances and complexities of girls’ arcs lmao.

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 like yeah Porrim personally finds a middle ground she’s comfortable with, but the fact that her society coerced her into a role of motherhood and caregiving is still something she struggled with and its still! fucked! up! There is a larger point being made here!

Jadebloods’ motherhood themes arent about a tribe of Happy Mom Girls who all happen to be biologically born into a role they all love because jade bloods are just Like That.

Jadebloods have motherhood themes because Alternia is a dystopian LITERALLY GOD-DAMNED HELLSCAPE that forces trolls into extremely specific + isolating jobs based on their biology, no matter what they want.

As a caste, Jadebloods DO NOT have a choice, and odds are good most of them arent super fulfilled or happy doing the whole selfless mother of the fascist empire thing. 

I’ll leave it to women/afab nonbinary folks/TRANS DUDES who have actually dealt with similar pressures right here on planet Earth to talk about how glorifying that dynamic is fucked up.

I just want it to be clear to anyone confused by these hot takes that this criticism isn’t even rooted in an accurate reading of Homestuck and Hiveswap’s actual canon, let alone any semblance of reality.

It frankly boggles my mind. How the hell is this a reading! Homestuck spends literally all of its time tearing biological essentialism the fuck down, whyyy why WHY would anyone expect anything different here.

Take it as a warning about falling too far down your echo-chambery fandom-slash-sjw “activist” rabbit hole. All of this nonsense is grounded in readings so far removed from the comic they may as well be writing their own story.

anyway i usually dont bother with this stuff but i had a moment of weakness, sleep-deprived tumblr blogging is a bad idea. relatedly: dont drink the discourse kool-aid, kids. it’ll fuck you up.