@bluebooty i gotta be honest i disagree with most of what you're saying here.

"I think that's really tragic, and a missed oppourtunity. Especially because we lost the ability to have fun with homestuck. Homestuck is tragic, yes, but what made it work as a story was that it was also genuinely enjoyable. I've read all the classic trageties; sometimes I need a little light in my life. Damn."

It is a satire of "happy ending" epilogues but it's also a satire of "nuclear family" as happiness or a symbol of resolution in epilogues. The nuclear family is gonna have you wishing to go back to the torture chamber, as we see with John! The Epilogues are also not the actual ending! They're a transition to HS2/Beyond Canon, so of course it's not going to be a real resolution. It's not resolved! We are practically at the beginning of a new story, and the Epilogues were to make you want it to "not end like that!" Even the idea of a "fix-it" fic for the Epilogues doesn't make sense because if it gets "fixed" then it's a completely different story that ends instead of starting something else. Of course it's going to completely break from the tone of Homestuck! (also you haven't read Jade Route yet.... I mean this genuinely with all the love in my heart but you have to read Jade Route.)

There are so many people that just wanted their favorite fanfics to get some Hussie Sauce added as the finale and to be able to have canon wrapped up so they can play dolls with the way they solidified their characterizations of the kids in their heads pre-2018 and still feel like they're "canon-compliant." But people can still write their fics however they want and there will always be an audience for them. Homestuck is about some kids fucking it all up over and over and over and over again. Like it is an absurdist tragedy, arguably. They were killing each other bloodily throughout the entire comic. I kinda agree with 0dderty's points too.

I've been feeling the meme "[Homestuck] is only toxic to miserable people! I be having a ball on this bitch!" SO MUCH lately. People have been having fun with Homestuck. Look at the fanworks that are members of FRAF, they've been having fun with it! They've been making cool exciting things because they are actually engaging with what the comic is doing and saying. People ARE still in conversation with the epilogues, beyond canon, and fan works. Most people just aren't having that conversation because they only really care about some aspect that's not relevant anymore. Which is valid! But then you have to know you're setting yourself up to be unhappy. I was about to say because Homestuck's never going to go back to what it used to be, but we've already begun some really fun Act 1/early Hivebent-esque moments with the HSBC Act 2. But it's with new characters. It's new!!! You gotta stop thinking of the Epilogues as the end and see HS:BC as a real continuation.