While it's obviously not great that the ongoing Stupid Drama has obliged Andrew Hussie to dredge up a painful piece of family history, this was an extraordinary piece of writing. Some stuff I found particularly interesting:

How Andrew internalised the HVC's colour theory into how they create palattes for comics. That intrigued me as someone who just doesn't "get" how to use colour well.

How online hatedoms aren't all that different from old-fashioned IRL stalkers at heart. Yeah, we're seeing that in play right now, and it makes sense of the awful behaviour I've seen in most other fandom too. There is a point where the obession becomes a self-perpetuating loop. If I loathed a creator that much, I would just drop their fandom cold. (This ain't a hypothetical. I've done it. Twice.) There is nothing normal or healthy about trying to turn that fandom into your personal Empire of Rage.

MSPaint Adventure's crude style and fast output being at least partly a reaction to their Dad's elitist tastes and artistic block. I think this is the clearest Andrew has ever explained the reasons for the MSPaint aesthetic? And the rather sweet endnote about how HS has inspired people to "BECOME creators". I really have found reading MSPFAs in all their scrappy glory to be a wonderful antidote to the polished nothingness so much of modern culture feeds us.

(This has some personal artistic relevance too. I spent about 10 years of my life trying to be a classical composer. I was so tangled up with perfectionism and agonising over what my style should be, I rarely finished anything and never improved. Eventually I moved sideways into being a folk singer-songwriter, and started doing February Album Writing Month a couple of years later. Now, FAWM absolutely slaughtered any remaining perfectionism in me. Lately, I have had single months where I produced more than I did in that lost decade.)