In topic: "The transfeminine Vriska manifesto, remastered"

Saturday, September 20th, 2025, 3:56 AMabout 2 months ago

Very good post! I don't think I've seen anyone convey it quite as articulately as this before, well done ^^


I think the contrast you make in the post is interesting, as a lot of people hc Terezi as transfem as well, but it's interesting to read her in this case as not (equivalently) transfeminized, or at least not having been made the target of transmisogyny the same way Vriska has.


Terezi, of course, is constantly facing her own consequences, but far more often than not, they're self-imposed obsession over her conduct and actions, rather than having been barred from the idea of forgiveness outright. She still maintains her relationships, but she isolates herself and fears that she is deserving of the same fate, rather than having it forced upon her in way that she cannot "opt out" of.



I'm tempted at some point to point a keyboard in the direction of jade's later writing as an analysis of how she's similarly transfeminized to a greater and greater degree (which, I am aware, cannot be looked at without also acknowledging the common community discourse and the transmisogyny faced outside of the story as well). People often quip about the "jade to vriska pipeline", and I think it would be a valuable task to communicate why that parallel is intertwined with those similar patterns.


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