@timeisrestored (wow, this forum needs multiquotes badly)

First off, I appreciate the measured response. I know I've been speaking very passionately here tonight.

Second, I was under the impression that Gio cannot work on the UHC at all now, but if that's wrong, my bad. However it only makes Hussie and Homestuck's behavior look more weird and frivolous that they're essentially punishing one dude with a restriction as petty as "cannot run a website about your Homestuck reader". Like if they considered him and his writing a real threat, they'd launch, for example, a libel or defamation suit, right?

Also, it's just fucking nuts that they'd see Gio of all people and think "yeah, we can get him working for us AND get him to delete those articles!". Like just don't fucking work with him if it's that big a deal.

I understand Hussie's take on Gio's old articles. The problem is that I think they have a right to exist, and whether they get the official seal of approval or not, Homestuck's Streisand effect with them has done far more damage to its reputation than everything that was actually in the articles. It makes me wonder what exactly the end goal is. I do think, for example, the assertion that Hussie just canceled 3D Act 1 because he felt like it kind of absurd, and the response that it was because they ran out of money makes a lot more sense. But it's their problem when they're letting "misinformation" proliferate instead of offering those rebuttals themselves. Especially since I still believe a lot of what's in there.

And yes, I'm aware of other Homestuck mirrors existing, that's why I just don't buy statements like "continue to publish the Entirety Of A Body Of Work That Didn’t Belong To Him" and "control access to Andrew's work". I do think it might make Gio's story one among a minority, that plenty of HICU and FRAF people aren't going through the same stuff, but I don't think "we brought the law down on just one guy we dislike" is much of an excuse to be able to do it at all. Kind of like how if you say "this person did a bad thing so it's okay to be racist/misogynist/homophobic/transphobic to them", you're actually following the exact same logic as every bigot.

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, y'know? I know Gio is eccentric (read: dickhead), but that means he's a litmus test for how far Hussie can be pushed, and a big part of that is information about his work that, sorry, definitely includes some real misconduct. And I don't think we've seen the end of those leashes tightening.

Also, whatever's going on with the official github changing from "run by HICU" to "run by Homestuck" even though it's still just Kohi, I'm not sure how the boundaries work there.

Anyway, fuck Andrew Hussie anyway, but I think I'll dip from this thread now.