Much like Gio making himself the main way to get the UHC (though, this must be made very clear, not the only way, nor the best one), Makin being everywhere feels less about Homestuck preservation and a love for the comic and more about making the fandom this homogeneous place where the wrong kind of fan isn't tolerated.

And if you're wondering what the "wrong kind of fan" is... Well I'm not saying it's exclusively trans women. But the average transfem experience of a Homestuck fan is that something will happen, and it can either be bad or good, but it somehow represents the end of the fandom forever, and it's somehow all the fault of this scary awful transsexual who looks just like you. And you better not raise your voice about how this feels targeted, or how there's bigots using all the "good faith criticism" as a shield for their blatant transphobia, or anything that isn't just nodding along or shutting the hell up.

And some of us do. We nod along. We shut the hell up. All in the vain hope they won't notice that, again, we look just like her.

I don't care if Makin sees this. I don't like that they're around to be quite honest, but unlike the other Homestuck online spaces cited above, transmisogyny is actually (in theory) discouraged instead of celebrated around here. A dog barking on the other side of a fence may be frightening, but as long as the fence works as intended, no one's gonna get bitten.

I hope not anyway.