i did not read anything in gio's article to be painting you as some sort of "villain" or painting themselves as a "folk hero" per se. it was a personal account of what appeared to be a very frustrating, confusing, and personally costly situation for them and having some strong emotions about it is to be expected, but i was never confused about what was gio simply reporting on a thing that factually happened versus what was their own interpretation of events. i find it hard to believe that any reasonable person reading the blog post in good faith would be.

your entire response seems to be predicated on the idea that they willingly put themselves through this entire ordeal as some sort of elaborate fuck-you to hussie, yourself, and homestuck at large. or that as some sort of attempt to "gain clout" from....what? a fanbase that has been dwindling in relative obscurity for a decade? it doesn't pass the sniff test. you're criticizing gio for supposedly making you out to be some sort of cartoon villain and themselves an unfairly abused paragon, but this response seems to take the exact same strategy in a way that almost seems more personal than anything in gio's article. i can't fairly dismiss your entire response out of hand because of that, but it makes the whole thing pretty suspect to me.

but hey, maybe the whole blog post is a libelous rag. if so it should be a slam-dunk lawsuit, right? i don't see that court case getting underway soon. if i'm proven wrong i'll gladly eat crow. i just don't see any good reason someone would sit down to deliver thirty five thousand well-written words of libel against a company whose aggressively litigious nature they have just spent the past year-plus becoming intimately familiar with. that would be a level of stupidity that seems incompatible with everything i've seen of gio's writing.