an aroace's guide on how to proposition your best friend ft. june egbert (comic)
(cw: discussion of sex)
additional commentary from me:
(hopefully it's clear but this is meant to be post-canon. tho obviously not epilogues-compliant lol)
i feel the need to make really clear that there is no hidden layer to this comic, it is NOT about either of them being secretly in love with each other and dancing around it or whatever!!!! if you make this into a romantic yearning thing im fucking stealing something out your house!!!!
i hc june as aromantic and asexual (sex-neutral probably?). she has no interest in romance/dating, and generally has a pretty low libido with not much interest in sex. but occasionally she does have a desire to, and in this case as she explains it's driven by wanting to explore her now more "feminine" body with someone else.
on dave's end it's a tinyyy bit more complicated as he did used to have a crush on her back when they were kids, but that isn't really much of a thing anymore apart from him just thinking she's hot lol. he does not have any hidden agenda as to why he said yes, it really is just he thinks she's hot and she's his best friend and it would be fun while also helping june figure out stuff :)
oh also i feel the need to add a disclaimer that obviously june not caring about terms like "man" and "dude" as a trans woman is not indicative of all trans women, don't do that without knowing if it's cool 👍
i woke up yesterday and got the idea for the beginning of this conversation and then ended up just writing the entire thing in my notes app in bed for like 2 hours in a fervor. this was my first time writing dialogue for any homestuck characters and i was worried it'd be hard but it ended up being like one of the easiest things i've ever written??? their voices just came to me and it flowed so naturally and easily that i barely made any edits afterwards before making the comic
im really proud of this both dialogue-wise and visual-wise :D i dont make comics very often but i think this came out rlly well. and although i wasn't really thinking about it as i was writing it, it's actually quite personal LOL. i poured all my love into this thing so i hope you liked it ^_^ #yay
would looey and sprout be a earth pony pegasus unicorn or a secret fourth thing notice how i didnt put a SINGLE form of punctuation in this question i hope it miffs you really bad
Breaking news: you can draw whatever!!! Apparently!!!
Looey (Chuckles) is an earth pony! Soulvestersleftboot and I both thought it would be neat if the troupe members were all earth ponies.
I made Sprout (Berry Tart) a pegasus and Cosmo (Cosmic Sprinkle) an earth pony because I liked the idea of the baking trio each being one of the three pony types! Ginger would be a unicorn.
Sprout is fast, so a pegasus felt most fitting. Ginger is an artist, so magic would be helpful for her work. Cosmo being an earth pony speaks to me because he was the first side character introduced into a group of mains, so he has a sort of (supposed) indifference to “lacking” that I find fascinating...
Anyways, Berry and Cosmic not having magic at all is hilarious to me. I just know they have SO many problems in that kitchen….
(Anyone who says Sprout looks like Cheese Sandwich will be shot.)
on one hand, i think her propensity for tantrum throwing is interesting. she lives her life in a constant state of repressed frustration, and only lets it out on things that don't seem to matter. at least, not to the outside observer. it's always the little things. that's just how it is. when you face a million tiny injustices every day, any one of them could be the straw that broke the camel's back. even if that straw is born of kindness - like someone lovingly making food for you that you just cannot stomach right now.
again, she's a very strongly written child. she lacks agency in ways children often do, and reacts to it exactly the way a child would. especially one that's as deeply repressed and closeted as june.
i feel this is an aspect of her writing that's often overlooked, because a sizable chunk of readers are teenagers who have not unpacked that. and, unfortunately, even more lack experience of or even basic knowledge about transmisogyny, how it operates, and the effects it has on trans youth
on the other hand, she's literally cutes. it's cutes. she's cutes. you literally agree with me.
hi! first of all, I'm OBSESSED with your comics. thank you for making them, it always brightens my day. re the comic about Dave and cps, in your humanstuck AU, does Dave still live with bro?
thanks! and yes, dave lives with bro. but he also has a mom! here is a comic about humanstuck moms and lack thereof
thanks fanatic-panic!!
💚 i missed this au sorry i never post it i just write the comics and then never do anything with them. my humanstuck folder in my notes app has 69 (hehe) notes in it and the vast majority of them are about june and rose beating the shit out of eachother
the moral is that every absent mother drives a dodge journey
