id say the r-words at the start
for context, im thinking of doing a thing where i just change a little bit of hs so its more friendly for people who dont have a tolerance for homestuck stuff yet and maybe add some bits like more troll session and repercussions for vriska being vriska
what originally put me off was straight up just it's length i always knew i would like it but eventually i got the right combinations of interests (deltarune chapter 1 and internet history) in order to finally bunker down and read it. also something that was very funny to me about the discussions of its more dated parts is that a lot of the same things apply to scott pilgrim (namely the r word and racism) but it was never much of a problem for people getting into it because it's recognized as being written a while back but i wonder if the problem lies in the fact that people still see homestuck as something current.
