Yeah, I feel u, op. I don’t know if there is anything I can say to make this better – a lot of us are feeling this deep existential dread atm – but at the very least I can say that if some company rolls in and fucks everything up there’s going to be a nonzero number of us sitting here in this blue hell happily denying any of that shit is going on while continuing to write and draw and otherwise create content based on the story we actually fell in love with
and in that case we’re no worse off than we were before in regards to homestuck, at least
^ This. The production end has been through so many massive changes between 2012 (when I got in) and today but even if they took the whole thing down we’d have backups; even if they stopped making things entirely we could continue.
Think about Star Trek fandom in the hiatus between the original series and the first film. The era of dodgy tie-in novels and very little official anything was the era in which fandom flourished.
Haha, or like the Star Wars prequels. You skim out the new bits you like for use and keep using the other bits you loved and the net result is a wider world of possibility even if it also means “kind of boring new movies with strange CG lizard man.” Hell, I bet there’s some good Jar Jar Binks meta out there.
I can get to feeling possessive/protective of the “official” canon, but honestly an excess of creation is more protective than stasis. It’s fandom and fan media on a larger scale, and you still get to pick the bits you love to make your home in. 🙂
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