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hi , if anyone in the official homestuck discord / who has been banned from or left the hso feels as if they have been singled out or generally treated unfairly by the moderation team ( directly or indirectly ) could you dm me . im not trying to do callout shit so fuck off if youre trying to like get #revenge but ive recently been banned after consistent ableist treatment but i want to make it very clear to the team that its unacceptable + not an isolated incident whatsoever . specifically looking for targets of ableism racism and transmisogyny but if you have any poor experiences with the mod team lmk
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1. nobody wants to talk this, but at some point we’re gonna have to discuss the fact that Meat!Calliope has canonically detransitioned, not just like changed their pronouns: they have retracted their identity and returned to what is considered the default in cherub culture. Calliope was transfem in Homestuck, The Dead Cherub is very much still transfem coded (she’s even waxing poetic about how comfortable she is in Jade’s body)
2. at some point off screen, Candy!Callie ALSO starts using they/them pronouns (even though they were always “she” in the Epilogues, and Meat!Callie’s detransition is wrapped up in Roxy’s transition) and all of the characters (including John, who canonically doesn’t even know what being trans is) just magically swap to using they/them pronouns with being told diegetically?
So like, what gives? What the fuck? I feel like it’s pretty significant that one of our core transfem characters was quietly un-transfemmed overnight. I’m not even sure it’s intentional or if the team just… forgot?
I do believe meat!Calliope putting away the Human Womanhood™️ they’d previously identified with was intended to be a detransition - out of all the gender plotlines I can’t imagine what else the tag in the Epilogues meant to refer to - but it is certainly strange to realize that candy!Calliope is also heading down that route, without any commentary on the subject in-universe. Makes me want to do a reread just to see where the pronoun switch occurs, and makes me wonder if meat!Calliope (who we see “writing” candy) is actually influencing this change occurring to their other self.
Interestingly, during the Homestuck Official Discord’s readthrough, the HSO mods split the content warnings into two halfs and included “detransition” on Candy but NOT on Meat — presumably in reference to Candy!Roxy being a conscious repper.
I’m still pretty sure this is a mistake of the read-through’s framing (probably coming from people not creatively involved with Homestuck or at least not involved with the Epilogues) rather than an actual confirmation that that’s what it’s supposed to mean — because, yknow, only one character actually detransitions in The Homestuck Epilogues, and it’s Calliope. It seems pretty blatantly framed that way to me even:
Callie isn't personally offended by being called a girl -- they just don't consider it literally correct. The way they describe "being a girl" makes it seem like it was an identity they chose & performed rather than what they were just assigned. they go onto say as much literally:
but parts of this also strike me as a fib: i haven't got the passage handy, but i recall Calliope describing Caliborn being uninterested in humans & Earth until Callie's interest in them took root, with him then constructing his relationship to Earth in opposition to Calliope's -- but maybe i'm mistaken.
regardless, Caliborn berates & mocks Calliope for dressing up and presenting how she chooses, decrying it as playing pretend, but still chooses (as confirmed by the Epilogues) to perform maleness, as if maleness is the expected default and femaleness a superfluous and silly extension of that -- y'know, much how the patriarchy treats gender, and indeed, how the cispatriarchy often treats trans people's genders: it's normal and rational to want to be a man (or assert oneself as one), but it is backwards and regressive to want to be a woman (or assert oneself as one).
This (trans)misogynist understanding of gender seems to have been inherited and internalised by Meat!Calliope: they describe themselves as taking solace in having chosen being transfeminine, but REALLY, cherubs aren't biologically ANYTHING, and even though they don't mind being a girl. Calliope isn't saying, "I feel happier and less burdened by neutrality" (unlike Roxy) -- they're stating a sex realist & gender essentialist position. They literally cite biology:
They're being transphobic.
I think the reason that this has been incorporated into fanspaces as "Calliope is happily non-binary after feeling constrained by womanhood" is because, well, that's how Roxy presents his (at this point their) OWN gender:
it's a they household, a package deal; Calliope is implicated (without expressing it themselves) in Roxy's feelings about Earth gender:
they go on to describe the Earth gender binary as a weight & discomfort for them, especially the expectation of bearing children and the effects this had on them:
which are all really sensical reasons for somebody assigned female at birth to reject that assigned gender, but totally nonsensical reasons for Callie as a cherub to detransition. Indeed, when Calliope (briefly) talks about their own motivation on their own without being filtered through Roxy, it's presented as them feeling guilty about transitioning & that choosing womanhood is a reification of gender norms and that is in part responsible for the proliferation of misogyny (under exclusively a sex-based oppression model, no less):
Callie and Roxy are presenting transitioning to womanhood as a regressive reification of misogyny, and that detransition is the progressive solution to those regressive gender norms: they treat a trans woman detransitioning as the same action as somebody assigned female at birth transitioning.
As nuts as it may sound, I'm pretty convinced this a facet of the intended reading, because check out the canonically transgender Jade Harley's response to the idea that womanhood is a regressive choice:
is she concerned that the Rogue of Void's insistence that other people share the nothing-gender he plucked from the void will eventually turn upon herself, a woman with a penis? Is she worried about what "dichotomous human biology" might have to say of her?
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Date of origin: April 6th, 2016