I kind of like makin, but I think it's nice to have other places in the community to talk about homestuck that aren't part of that one (dream)bubble. (lolz). Regardless of how impartial you try to be, biases and tastes will influence your style of leadership, and lead the culture you're influencing into a specific niche. This compounds over time until eventually you've got something that might exclude a lot of others who would otherwise love to engage with that community. I think this has happened with homestuck's online places. Specifically in roleplay.

The biggest reason I haven't really engaged with homestuck in a long time is because there's this bizarre, draconian dislike of rping in the discord and reddit. You can't even use typing quirks ("quirking" as they now call it because i guess it needed a verb lol). I can understand this somewhat, but going back to that first point, whatever definition they've developed for "roleplay" is completely different from the one I have. I think roleplay is taking on the role of another character. In homestuck, that's using their typing style, pretending you're them, and interacting with other people doing the same thing, typically in an ongoing format. Like 90% of posts I see on that discord which are immediately threatened with a ban with a really curtly worded "do not roleplay", are not roleplay. They're people making jokes or quoting characters. Or other times It's not even anything approaching that, but some moderator has decided it is "roleplay" by some excessively liberal definition of the term, and is being rude about it. They're not even using a chumhandle or trolltag or anything. I feel like I'm walking on eggshells visiting that place, and it's very heartening to finally have somewhere where that influence isn't present. It's healthier for the fandom to have a multitude of sites, which each construct their own cultures surrounding Homestuck, instead of putting all your eggs into the same few community figures' hands. Better to let a community be itself, instead of trying to curate one into just having specific behaviors that one person has decided are acceptable. Again, I dont't think makin is bad, because i think he's done a lot of really cool work as like someone who's archived a lot of comic resources and wants to have a community around. I just want to learn what it's like to rp and be able to express how i feel without people thinking i'm being "performative" or "putting on an act" or whatever.