#they fucked up so bad I challenge you to find five fans in 2023 who still consider anything they did canon

[dukeofriven]

This Pride I want us all to take a minute to reflect on those brave but forgotten queer souls who worked on The Epilogues and Homestuck 2 with the goal of seeing Homestuck with queer content 'done right' and fucked it up so much worse than anyone thought humanly possible.

#they fucked up so bad I challenge you to find five fans in 2023 who still consider anything they did canon #even by the incredibly loose standards of Homestuck - a webcomic about how canon as a concept is meaningless #the webcomic whose entire driving philosophy is 'anything can be canon' #'anything can be canon' except very specifically these things which are absolutely not no way in hell #let's take only the elements of The Epilogues that people despised and double-down on them that's a risk that'll pay off #Barty's Brew-Ha-Ha is more a part of Homestuck canon in fandom consciousness than Homestuck 2 and I'm the only person who's ever watched it #Homestuck 2 the DmC: Devil May Cry 2013 of webcomics #who were these souls? #literally impossible to know #for none now live who remember them #homestuck #queer #Pride #coming back to add to the notes here that their very premise was wrong #homestuck in some sense is a journey of a straight cis author into a queer nonbinary persona and I find it faintly... #repugnant that this obvious journey was considered flawed because it didn't meet the standards we thought were iron-clad in 2019 #which is why H2 is less that four years old but feels sp dated compared to Homestuck classic #absolute hubris #and frankly kind of awful taht Hussie wasn't thought 'queer enough' to tell a queer story correctly