im fairly certain ive given this story before on this forum but here we go:

Im in freshman year of college, checking out the clubs and activities. Oh cool theres a cosplay club and it says they have machines to use! great bc I couldnt bring mine with me. I go to their first like intro meeting thing and we all sit in a circle and talk about past + future cosplays and our general interests yaknow that kind of thing. I just BEGIN to talk about my past homestuck cosplays and the president of the damn club cuts me off and does this whole dramatic thing about how I dont have to talk about it and it was a painful time for everyone and all that kinda bs and I have to cut her off to say "oh no I'm still into homestuck I plan to do more cosplays for it in the future" and you could cut the awkwardness and tension with a knife.

interestingly enough the club did fall apart bc of lack of organization. so it goes

also also I did snap at a couple other ppl while I was there for similar things including -i shit you not- argued with a roomie over the epilogues because I read them in full and enjoyed them I am still pro-epilogue. And they did not read them but was ""told"" what happened and it was all the usual bs ppl were spewing during that time right after they dropped. (on the brighter side in one of the classrooms there was a wipe-off board that was rarely used and I did a goofy little homestuck back-n-forth with someone who will forever be a mystery. And then someone kept erasing JUST the homestuck corner and nothing else so. fuck us two i guess)

also theres so many cynical people in fantroll groups like. just expressing you enjoy homestuck gets you weirdly singled out and if you like the post-canon content? forget it. vibes forever ruined. Its like yall are making ocs and rping and speculating/extrapolating on lore but Homestuck is bad for reasons x y z and what do you mean you ACTUALLY like that thing? Its so tiresome. the "homestuck fans that hate homestuck" are a group of ppl i just can not gel with. Extreme incompatibility