Hey @margot, I appreciate the detailed post. I'm not sure if I have much to add right now (I'm gonna have to think about this stuff for a bit), but I do want to apologize, I didn't mean to imply that you were uncritically accepting Homestuck's "fanworks were never at threat" comment. It seems the official side's history with monetized fan content has been inconsistent. Certainly not wholly negative like Gio implies (and I definitely don't believe the "they're coming for your MPSFA account" vibe), but I still see a lot of places where I think they would have been well-served to ignore things entirely.

I think with all of this out in the open, I'd like to be able to retire from the thread myself. Believe it or not I don't much enjoy talking about this (despite how much of it I've done, yes), I just think it's important, and I think being able to discuss this in a frank manner helps us build a profile for what we're looking at here. So thanks.