I don't think I'm really looking to capture a feeling of "first time read" again; generally speaking, in the time span between Act 7 and the Snapchats, I re-read the comic multiple times and found a large sense of enjoyment in plundering it's depths for additional meaning and drawing my own conclusions and headcanons around certain situations. The end felt so open that all joyful things were possible.

I wish I could just scrub the Epilogues from my mind because I genuinely do not derive any meaning for them or any pleasure. I understand the meta concept, I get what Hussie was going for, I just don't think it was valuable. I didn't leave them feeling satisfied or hungering for more of the characters, at the time I remember I left them rather sad and forlorn, with no hope of a better ending. To think that was almost 10 years ago is haunting me.