Re:elegantSpinstress

They ARE bad friends. They always were. The entire comic everyone is unnecessarily bitchy to each other. Sure it was mostly ribbing but combine that with distance and calcification, that can absolutely turn into genuine hostility.

On the topic of the transmisogyny, though, I do think there's a point to be had there, but its also, like... very clearly stumbled into, I feel.

She isn't really transfem, for one. She was a cis girl who got a radioactive male dog's reproductive system stapled onto her when she was already almost halfway through puberty. She's less transfem, more... sci-fi late onset intersex. I think trying to boil her down into the mold of "transfem" shows problems mostly because it wasn't meant to fit into that slot, and also it limits the things we let Homestuck and its post-canon analyze. Everything about her makes sense and is interesting, I love it when stories like this look at the implications of a story and follow them to their logical conclusion, as the Epilogues did with all that. But it does admittedly read as transmisogynistic tropes when you read it through a lens it wasn't meant to, which, while yes You Weren't Meant To, its still... a deeply unfortunate situation I don't like. I'm with ya there.

Thankfully, I highly doubt June will in any way echo Jade on this. Their stories, personalities, flaws, and everything else are completely different. A June Egbert with the confidence that comes from transition will absolutely be a freak (/pos), but in a completely different and far less stereotypical way than a transfem candy!Jade reading.