**Adding the addendum: You gotta stop thinking of the Epilogues as the end and see HS:BC as a real continuation OR you have to decide you don't care about what is "canon" and commit to your personal fanon and fanworks. That's what I mean as a major meta part of the Epilogues as function. And many others have done so (and notably, many "fix-its" have already started to implement more and more Epilogues/Post-Canon concepts becaaauuuuuse: they're good. They're Homestuck.).

Also: people saying that things they've heard about the Epilogues make them happy to not have read it make me laugh, because that's what most people say about Homestuck proper.