its pretty hard to learn and grow if you never make mistakes yaknow? We grow up surrounded by people and things that talk and act a certain way and absorb that. Sometimes thats good, and sometimes its a thing to be unlearned.

And 2000s internet sure was A Place. If you were to find and dig through my deviantart and see the things my friends and I said.. woof.. rough... but we were like 14 and what ppl dont tell you about the "rawr XD" era is that one of the most popular memes was "pedobear" and every third joke was some kind of rape joke. And when you get steeped in that during very impressionable years it takes time to unpack and unlearn. I remember when a close friend of mine was like "hey. another friend told me that the rape stuff makes her uncomfortable we should stop" and we did! it was actually very easy to stop. All this to say no one should feel bad over making "x did nothing wrong" jokes. because now you know, youve learned! it might be a learning experience that hurts or upsets you, but you'll bounce back a better person (^.^)b

more on the original topic: the gunk of the internet era that homestuck first came out of clings to it hard. It tries to shake it off as it goes on but whats done is done. Ive actually done a lot of thinking about like. If a lot of that stuff should be tweaked/changed or if it should remain as it is like those old cartoons with the disclaimers that they are unedited because its better to acknowledge the faults than to pretend they simply didnt happen. Like because its still there we can look directly at it and have this conversation yaknow? idk i know some people swear by that one UHC mod that replaces slurs and stuff but like i said im conflicted. is it better to file off rough edges? or should we face the reality of the mistakes head on?