2020-02-12 7:54:02 ¶ ●

## i know that one anon said basically said "who gives a fuck about act 8 when homestuck 2 is a thing" but i honestly gotta say, so someone who genuinely hates / is very uncomfortable with the direction the hs team is taking the "real" ending and like what you seem to be doing much more. I hope you finish this through because knowing there's an "alt. ending" that's closer to the happy ending i wanted makes this fandom much better.

I’m pairing this with another ask since they feel similair;

> i honestly would like this homestuck 8 thingy to not really be like the epilogues / homestuck 2 just because there there may not really be a point to having an different fanmade continuation to everything

Right, exactly. Though I want to make it clear I have no spite towards these people (i am extremely happy for them that they are getting to do what they want to do, I know some of them, some of them know me!) It is also clear, without me making it so, that I have different artistic sensibilities. I’m uncomfortable with many of the choices in the epilogues/hs^2 in the plainest sense of my own taste, maybe I also have some differing opinions on what is fair, appropriate, true-just-essential as well. But even if none of that was true I still imagine I’d be making a different thing by virtue of being a different person. I’m glad to be giving people more options and I want to try to see if art can fill in some of the gaps in people’s current experiences with the homestuck ‘field.’ (I am even fine with it if I get the reputation of being 4kids homestuck, gentle homestuck, gamzee trash homestuck, dumb girl homestuck, whatever.)

I’m pairing another ask with this to omit vile slurs;

> The Epilogues taught us that we’re [VILE SLURS OMITTED] scum for caring about Homestuck. Why should we trust anything?

The Epilogues did pull some cheap tricks on you, I’ll admit. Think of homestuck as a bucking bronco trying to resist domestication, maybe. It’s such an old wild beast it probably resents the very expectation that it was ever beholden to you in the first place. Even that much we have to guess. We can never know with horses.

You have no reason to trust me other than 1) if I have given you a good impression of myself somehow up until now 2) you will believe me when I say “I am not a horse” 3) I am not a horse.