di stri aint bi

dirk strider is canonically gay and here are the #receipts

[gaydirk]

hi!

haven’t read the homestuck epilogue. don’t intend to. if it’s anywhere near as bad as people have said, it doesn’t deserve the views. also, given hussie apparently made dirk (*cough* the only gay dude canonized in-comic *cough*) live like that, used him as a tool to misgender his own two nonbinary characters, i’m gonna have to call this a hard pass, and if you haven’t touched it yet, i don’t recommend you do. happy trails!

[gaydirk]

hey guess what

whats up

[gaydirk]

please for the love of g-d stop trying to argue ace dirk with me i don’t check this blog save the inbox on desktop and i just do not give a shit. i have a wife and kids please leave me alone

[gaydirk]

you can be gay and ace tho... implying being ace somehow infantalizes someone/waters down the persons gayness is pretty much an aphobic/homophobic wombo combo... ace people arent babies lol

cheers for sending this on my birthday! anyhow. aphobia isn’t real. i’m not trying to say being ace waters down someone’s gayness, i’m saying that to reblog solely ace headcanons of a gay character (which is what had been happening, since apparently you weren’t there for it) is to remove their being gay and is thus homophobic. jfc

not to mention the fact that dirk strider is 15/16 for the majority of the comic as well as the fact that most gay ace headcanons stem from the idea of gay people’s sexuality being nasty

in the words of a trusted friend, please get braincells

[gaydirk]

this blog is two years old! pour one out for gay icon dirk strider

[poc-stuck]

Would someone like to draw Mexican Dirk Strider with rlly highkey pride flag pants (like the whole entire pants rainbow) and trans pride stuff? Sorry if too much.

[gaydirk]

As dirk irl and an irl gay man imo i think its homophobic to rb ace dirk pride stuff like aomw of your posts since many gay ppl find it infantilizing to makw a gay character ace in a similar way to making them bi

i haven’t been on this blog in ages but i agree honestly, desexualization in gay characters is an enormous problem and i feel like ace hcs just... contribute to that. i’ll take down any ace dirk stuff that was reblogged to this blog and keep a closer eye on what we reblog in the future

[gaydirk]

Happy Pride everybody; Dirk is gay

[gaaleeceo]

Me, seeing Dirk Strider being shipped with a female character:

[hs-eggsprites]

neon gay dirk icon?

There’s always gonna be that one icon with my headcanon in case anyone wants to see

[gaydirk]

hey guys what tf goin on

[landoftalkspritesandpaneledits]

dirk headcanons that took over two hours to make lmao

[davekatsprites]

trans and gay dirk for @this-acc-is-dead-lmao

enjoy

[homestuckprideicons]

my little gay boy!!!!

in homestuck, dirk is canonically gay!

(source)

mod tav

[homestuckprideicons]

(I'm p sure this is canon, but,) Dirk is Gay

yeah its canon

and here u go!!!

mod tav

[homestuckprideicons]

gay trans dirk for @popees-bunnyhat!!

mod tav

[liquidstar]

No disrespect and I’m not trying to blatantly doubt that he is, but where in the canon does it say Dirk is gay? It’s been a while since I’ve read it so I might just be blanking

I’m gonna do a whole Big Post on this because I have a doc on hand about it, so I may as well post it. But if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing: Large parts of his arc revolve around being gay, there’s no other way to read him.

Here we go:

Dirk is only interested in guys. He is homosexual/romantic. This has been confirmed so many times and not just in throw-away lines but in a key part of his character. By ignoring this you are also directly ignoring his character arc and struggles as a boy who exclusively loves boys. Yes, I can back this up.

First of all, this right here is the biggest part of why the whole “oh he’s not homo he doesn’t like labels” argument comes from:

Yes, it’s true, Dirk doesn’t want to be called gay. What Dirk is saying here is that he believes that people should be allowed to love who they love and not have it be “a thing”, basically what troll society is, seeing as they do not have a word for “homosexual” but homosexuals do exist, like Kanaya who is a confirmed lesbian. Remember, Dirk lives in a society ruled by the empress of all trolls who embed many troll customs to earth before the extinction of humans. Seeing parallels between troll culture and Roxy and Dirk is very common, for example.

Dirk and Roxy are both very ware of troll culture, Dirk has most likely done a lot more research on it, given that he’s always fuck-deep in conspiracies and history, that’s most likely where he got the idea of “it shouldn’t be a thing” However he only likes boys.

And we can see the word “Gay” has lost all the meaning it once had. In fact, Dirk uses the word to insult Avatar, saying what Jake just said about those blue furries was “So gay.”. Dirk doesn’t take the world literally in any way shape or form, he just doesn’t see it as “A thing.”

I guess this is what you refer to as a “throwaway line” but it’s actually very important given the abusive nature of the relationship. Jake is the only other human boy Dirk has talked to, and he doesn’t take too kindly to Caliborn.  Jake was his only option, and Dirk is romantically deprived and wants a relationship, so he falls for him. Because of his orientation.

Despite not liking labels, Dirk is VERY open about his sexuality. He isn’t afraid to admit he loves boys and just boys. His room is a great indicator of this, he has a tv that contently flashes sexy horse men and owns about a billion homoerotic sex toys.

Dirk feels incredibly guilty for not being able to feel attraction towards Roxy. Why? Because he doesn’t like girls. He wants nothing more than for her to be happy and he wants to give her what she wants, because she admits to being in love with him.

Here. Right there. This is the line right after the above, where Dirk says that if he were to  give Roxy what she wanted, he wouldn’t be staying true to who he is. Because he is not attracted to girls, because of his orientation.

Dirk has had so little human contact, being one of the only two humans left, and the only other human he talked to before Jane and Jake was Roxy. But he still just so naturally came to the conclusion that he only likes boys. Just like that. It was just so simple for him despite never seeing another man or women face-to-face, and the “default” is usually straight. It’s important to his character that he doesn’t feel attraction to girls because it is a key part in his relationship with Roxy and Jake. As was as important to his character arc of staying true to who he is. A boy that only loves boys. 

It’s important because he struggles so much with the fact that he can’t reciprocate his friends feelings and is a source of his guilt, Dirk has a lot of guilt through the story besides this (Like how he feels for bullying Jake into a relationship or creating Lil Hal for example). Ignoring it is not only the struggles of a gay boy, but the whole point of his character. Dirk Strider does not like girls. He only likes boys. And it is nice to for once see the struggles of a gay boy that aren’t just homophobia, because more goes on in gay people’s lives, they have other relationships, they’re real people.

Dirk not feeling attraction to girls is important because that’s what makes him who he is. It’s what makes him stay true to himself. Don’t take that away.

TL;DR: Dirk is gay. Die mad about it.