Friend, I hope you're sleeping well but damn if it doesn't feel from these exchanges as though you've been taking one for, like, literally all canon-divergent Homestuck fanworks. It makes me wonder if fear of this kind of response is why I can't find as many in-game canon-divergent AUs as I would think the fandom could support. Anyway I don't even feel like you need to justify your desire to write the thing to anyone -- put me firmly in the MORE CAKE crowd. Keep rocking all the things!

Thank you! Maybe we’re the cake ending… I can roll with that brand. I think there are unique challenges to this kind of project. Lots of the time I find myself imagining working on a totally different MSPFA, and maybe someday I will. But for now there’s actually a ton of stuff that’s exciting to do here, for all the other things that make it more perilous.

And the last ask for today;

Some other parts of the fandom (reddit/twitter/ a discord server i think?) have gone kinda nuclear, and a lot of their uniting points were hating the new team and hs^2 (notably for bigoted reasons rather than story ones.) So if you get an uptick of hate themed after discrediting all alt-ending content it might be some splashback from that rather than you yourself. Take care out there, lots of us still love your work! (also i feel so old to not know this stuff was happening till it exploded lol)

Yeah, I think people are mad I’m not their horse in this race (god damn, again with the horses) but I do not share that beef. Homestuck is Over. I love act 5 as much as anybody, and that’s fine, but those halcyon days are never coming back one way or another. Especially not in the ways we remember them, which are pretty illusory to begin with.

That being said, some fanventures manage to capture elements of Homestuck’s personality from those days in a really genuinely fun way, and it’s great to see those too. The stuff that exists out there right now for homestuck fanwork is seriously AS COOL AS IT HAS EVER BEEN, and I am grateful to be a part of it, and I’d hope folks who are angry now will come around to the More Cake philosophy in time.