Worm is something I read even before homestuck and I can confirm it's really great.

Yeah, it gets dark, but it never really hides that fact either.

I feel like its sequel, Ward, was harder to stomach in terms of darkness, I liked some of what it did but Worm was just better.

Of the authors work, I also really liked Twig, sort of a biopunk "what if Dr Frankenstein was a real person and his discoveries ushered in an age that supplanted the industrial age".

One thing I like about wildbow, the author, is that they tend to craft very deliberate protagonists in order to frame their story.

Worm had a protagonist who thought that if everyone would just LISTEN there would be no problems.

Twig had a protag who was designed to pay attention to everyone all the time and nudge things in interesting directions.

Those two lenses tell very different stories