Regarding retcon D@vek@t, am I being oversensitive or is it a bit… off to use a pairing of two teenage boys to soapbox against gay stereotyping after showing them OOCly frolicking hand in hand like little girls?

odditycollector:

ok, I have 0 knowledge of the rel. context behind this, but what the heck have some opinions anyway.

The Homestuck text itself goes out of its way to repeatedly and performatively refuse to collapse the Schrodinger’s Davekat wave-function, so if Hussie is soapboxing about what an awesome canon gay relationship he’s written there – instead of, like, any of his actual in-text queer content – he’s probably just fucking with people again. The dude is a professional troll.

And if it’s someone else soapboxing about that, they obviously don’t know how to read, so who cares.

But…

Assuming the question of Dave being an actual canon queer dude is irrelevant here, or idk maybe we’re suddenly in the counterfactual universe where Hussie found it within himelf to write appx. ONE extra sentence…

Actually transcending gay stereotypes means transcending the assumption/fear that frolicking hand in hand with your BF across a rainbow-lit meadow of daisies while “born this way” plays on your pocket stereo (and its all so pure that from this moment onto forever people will say little girls are frolicking like YOU) makes you a Bad Gay somehow.

It’s allowed! And not doing that is also allowed! No one’s got anything to prove!

This is what winning means!

Dave is a well developed character across the whole of the story, whatever his queerness attribute turns out to be, and it feels silly to even measure Karkat on the kinsey scale. Neither of them are stereotypes of anything, and I don’t even yield that either might enjoy a good frolic if the opportunity presented.

OTOH, the retcon timeline wherein they hooked up (?) is wrong and broken and creepy and it’s supposed to feel wrong and broken and creepy, so if someone is like “retcon Davekat as particular is very much of how to gayness acceptably!” and you are like uhhhh, but it feels wrong and broken and creepy, the problem isn’t gay stereotyping it is that person doesn’t know how to read.