re: But I am just not sure this whole situation is similar to the fandom takedowns of yore where the creator goes full Anne Rice and takes down whole fanfiction archives because it has her characters names in them.

im just gonna come out and say from my personal experience with being in homestuck since 2011 and being close with almost everyone who works on it now that that would never happen in 100000000043257258921572859302915878321753218752615732985937215873281583271583218532753251321578321532153238587325732 years sagjasdgkjsd YES my source is: dude trust me. i spend so much time with these ppl every god damn day and they are not bad people.