They were clearly trying to bury whatever hatchet there was between them, but it really baffles me how everyone kind of skates past the fact that... it's Hussie's work? Like "creating an archive of it" is in this case having a (great!) bootleg - if Hussie is trying to make a proper official one (I'm assuming that the official site is fucked up in part because of them having to work through VIZ to handle it) then yeah it makes sense for Hussie to offer the opportunity to be Official... or stop hosting it. "It" being... Hussie's comic. Everyone acts like the actual comic belongs to no one so Hussie isn't allowed to control it or it's copyright/distribution in any way. If this was any other fandom it wouldn't even be a question, and even now Hussie hasn't actually sent any C&D?

It's like saying if a manga author was working on a publication deal to get their work translated to english and distributed because their last one fell through, they saw an online rip and tried to reach out to work with them on that translation and have it made official since they appreciated the work, but was trying to make an official collection and hub for their work. But then whatever deal fell apart... the manga author is going to be in the right to tell them that they'll be going with someone else to manage it and that the rip translator will have to take theirs down. The English translation is labor that they were trying to value, but if they dont take the deal then that's that?

Everyone keeps going on about Hussie being a grown ass adult but they're in lalaland about ~Homestuck belongs to the fans!~, ignoring how licensing and publication, some of the BIGGEST and most serious parts of copyright and ownership, actually work T_T

Everyones also mad because they think Homestuck is going to be gone forever or something or their favorite fanwork is going to be C&D'd because of how much effort Gio puts into making his blog posts seem like they're widespread problems instead of him being impossible to work with. Like can we use our critical thinking.......?