also re: june egbert wrt/her announcement and timeline of events

hussie revealing that june egbert was a goal for post-canon actually happened after the epilogues came out, as the epilogues fully released on april 20th of 2019 and the first toblerone being found + hussie's announcing june egbert as canon was in august of 2019, which was then followed by pesterquest hinting at june (the most obvious way being her getting her nails painted in jade's sleepover ending) and then homestuck^2 launching in october 2019 and beginning to build up to june with stuff like her feeling freed by her dad's house blowing up and roxy blatantly trying to investigate her obvious gender feelings in the last updates before it was cancelled in december 2020, and while beyond canon has been wrapped up in trying to finish act 1 it has made sure to let us know both in and out of comic that she's still coming, through AMAs and through june's whole divine gender revelation when vriska escaped the plot point. I think the biggest "hold up" on the front of june egbert now is mostly just that beyond canon is releasing updates at a slower (and honestly probably healthier for workers) pace than homestuck^2 was (and definitely than homestuck proper was)

also re: jade

YES i feel u on a lot of this so bad especially as someone who related to her furrier aspects. seeing a character who if I'm being honest was just about as closed to my idealized self as possible as a trans woman who had only realized she was trans like 4 months earlier was really meaningful to me and then at that same point in time running face first into the brick wall of seeing people talk about how epilogues jade was gross and transphobic and fetishistic immediately turned it into a pretty terrible time for me.