Let me preface by saying I don't like Gio, and I think it's no coincidence that the only people Gio happens to be able to interact with "positively" are the team members who aren't transfem. Gio was absolutely already aware Hussie isn't a man and uses any pronouns, and has acknowledged this in the Sarah Z article years ago (where Gio also happens to make the exact same decision "for clarity" to use exclusively he/him pronouns for her throughout). My impression of Gio leads me to believe they would not outright falsify any of the communications provided. I believe that the edits made are pretty obvious to the critical reader (marked in [brackets] or with ... ellipsis...). I do believe (as per Cami's testimony) that there is a lot that could be read into those omissions, and the order in which Gio presents the facts that aren't omitted. I also think Gio is being pretty honest about their own emotional experience of this whole ordeal, but that that isn't really relevant to the facts of the matter. The majority of claims Gio makes can be written off as speculation - speculation about people's moral characters, about people's relationships with Hussie, about the nature of the HICU, about broader patterns of Homestuck's relationship with its fandom. Nevertheless, a baseline narrative of "what the fuck happened here" can be gleaned from both Gio's and Miles's reports. Hussie, through Miles, reached out to Bambosh and Gio about licensing the Unofficial Homestuck Collection which they were co-maintaners of. Bambosh signed an NDA, Gio didn't (and claims they weren't given the opportunity to - I could go either way on whether to believe this), and then things stalled for a long time. I genuinely think there was a communication error here, because I think it's entirely reasonable that Bambosh, under NDA, couldn't sign anything further without consulting Gio (which was impossible as long as Gio isn't also under NDA). But never do we see an actual acknowledgement of this from Hussie. Maybe that specific bit of information never reached her. I legitimately believe both "sides" think the other is stalling at this point. A very stupid stalemate. What we see thereafter is basically a circular repetition of the same pattern over and over again. Frustrated by the stalling, Hussie implies that if Gio agrees to XYZ small thing, the immediate next thing they can do is move forward. Gio agrees, and then Hussie immediately demands that before they can move forward Gio must retract the Hiveswap article, otherwise she will destroy the Unofficial Homestuck Collection through legal action. Gio refuses, things stall out. Repeat. From my perspective, this is a shitty and deliberately dishonest tactic from Hussie, no two ways about it. Is it indicative that she's an abuser or cult leader or any of the other things Gio insinuated? Absolutely not. But I think, despite my belief that Gio has also been shitty and dishonest in all this, their main intent the whole time was to make the incredible Unofficial Homestuck Collection a cool, less unofficial thing, with this (shitty, dishonest) article brewing the whole time as a backup plan if things didn't go their way. And I believe Hussie's main intent the whole time was to somehow get Gio to take down the Hiveswap article, using the Homestuck Unofficial Collection's precarious legal status as leverage, with the cool new thing for the fans being a bonus if things did go her way. Neither of these positions, as I understand it, is coming from a place of good faith. But, despite me liking Gio less, I think Hussie is more in the wrong in this specific situation? Does that make sense?