@margot

Just to cap off with one little thing, I do take discussions of transmisogyny very seriously, and I totally get the claims that Gio is, at the very least, extremely negligent and careless with his passionate fervor describing all the ways Hussie and everyone who works for him is terrible, in ways that look suspicious whenever the transfem members of the group are on the receiving end of his self-righteous fingers. Whenever someone is in the discourse news for doing something awful and it happens to be a trans person, I tend to disengage even if I think they might be guilty because I just absolutely cannot stand the idea of being part of the specific kind of callout culture that attacks trans people in specific for things that have nothing to do with what they may or may not have actually done wrong. I personally have "he/fuck" as my pronouns cause I probably am in some state of gender questioning right now, just not a coherent one (is 'furry' a gender?).

I think a general problem for all this is that we're all in a state of grief, either that someone sowed discord with Homestuck (pun intended) or that Hussie did a shitty thing, and we'd all rather that not be happening, but we're all kind of powerless to actually do anything, so we lash out at each other. We all would just rather be excited that Beyond Canon is doing well, that Hiveswap is getting new info in October and that we might legitimately see Homestuck the animated series exist. So a lot of us either put up huge emotional walls to defend against critique, or else dive directly into the doomer end of the pool. I think I saw James leave last month and felt like there was something big coming, and just latched onto this when it did. I still feel bad for Bambosh, though. I'm glad that mostly nobody I've seen has been blaming him for what happened.

Anyway I meant to peace out with the Sonic 06 thing the first time but now I'm doing it for real bye