[ SECRET POST #2548 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2548 ⌋

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Comments

[pantswarrior]

Eh, generally I sort of agree, in the sense that I don't get it...but I do know that sometimes something just COMES to me while I'm writing fic, and for some reason it works, and I wind up sticking with it. So maybe those people had something like that too, they were writing something that isn't shown in canon and somehow it just clicked really well for them for some reason. Headcanons don't necessarily have to have a reason behind them.

But when they don't, you're entitled to find them confusing and a little self-indulgent. Because they are.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. And self-indulgent is OKAY to be sometimes, but it's very pointedly SELF-indulgent and no one should be upset when some one else doesn't understand or agree with it. If they're RUDE about it that's one thing, but headcanons are called HEADcanons because they take place in our own damn head, no one else's.

[pantswarrior]

*nods* If they go around claiming that the character always has to be portrayed a certain way because that's their headcanon? Uh. Full of it.

If their headcanon is particularly random (for instance, character who is never shown to have any sort of gender issues/ambiguity is now trans because I said so!) and they just mention it as a matter of fact in all their fic or whatnot, I'm also not likely to read their stuff, but hey, whatever.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

most offensive shit i see is when "THEY'RE TRANS/GENDERQUEER" headcanons happen to "feminine" men and "masculine" women. so, what, a character doesn't conform to traditional gender roles so suddenly they CAN'T be cis? also way to say trans people act like "both", that's fucked up. a man who loves cooking and emotions and shit, and a woman who works out and loves guns and likes girls CAN BE CIS. they aren't "obviously" another gender now, they're not "obviously" taking hormones and "having trouble passing". it's like some kind of awful "i'm trying to show diversity!!!" move that backfires terribly.

the only trans/genderqueer headcanons i've ever liked are the ones with NO "SIGNS" of that. because you know what, people "pass" all the time. you might have no fuckin' clue. you(general you) are not a social justice hero for seeing male and female characters with "non-traditional" personalities/appearances and deciding they CAN'T be who they say they are in canon.

Re: DA

[pantswarrior]

Also quite true. I've never been fond of stereotypically gendered traits actually being considered as an indication of real gender either. When they come completely out of nowhere, though, and yet in everything the author writes, the character is just "known to be" FtM or something and all the other characters just take it for granted, I'm just kinda like... wait, what...?

Although I guess I'm the same way with headcanons with characters who ARE ambiguous too. It just seems like such a big thing to drop on a character without good reason.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

OH GOD THIS. People think they're oh so diverse for doing this. Or they take a male character (because it is ALWAYS the male chars) who is described to have some "feminine" traits, make them even more feminine and then declare themselves champions of trashing the gender binary. Nope, nope, nope.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

*slow clap*

[(Anonymous)]

One of those things I have wondered for a while: in Homestuck fandom, when a character is being written as trans*, why is it always Dave Strider? (He's generally depicted as FtM, the character presents and is treated as male.) Admittedly you could make a decent argument that the trolls don't really have the concept and gender is purely mental for them, but even among the humans you've got eight main characters to choose from (and that's not even counting human AUs). Why Dave?