2020-02-11 3:17:04 ¶ ●

## Explain to me why anyone should give a shit about your worthless fanfiction when there's an official Homestuck sequel?

This sentiment + a couple other comments have actually been a sincere point of interest for me. They create a spectrum ranging from the obvious to the non-obvious, in terms of like, the inanity of the statement;

It’s plain fact that people become interested in fanwork and always have, regardless of the existence of official channels, and in fact because of them. That’s so obvious it’s kind of boring to point out so I suspect you are just angry at me about something totally unrelated, which is fair.

On the other hand I once read a comment on the incomplete [s] resolve (a good comment, one I took under consideration) that was like “this is well made, but it’s a bunch of wishful thinking that we’ll never ‘really’ have.” What a strange phrasing, though! We really had it right now, right then, right in front of us, because it was made. Yet some essential validity seemed lacking. I still think about this comment all the time.

If homestuck^2 in any way diminishes other fanworks or vice verse, that’s in a pretty cool synergy with the themes in both texts anyway, isn’t it? Dirk’s pursuit is a sort of parasitic or colonialist force, or a purge of some other encroaching corruption. Anyway, sorry you don’t like it.