It ends as it began, with us.
So, it’s over (for now). I sort of stopped blogging my readthrough after a while, mostly because I ran out of time and school ate my life, but I never stopped reading and enjoying Homestuck.
And you know what, I loved the ending. I watched it once around midnight and a couple of times during the day, and again a few minutes ago, and I like it more every single time.
To be sure, it could have been more specific, but I suspect that probably would have angered almost as many people as the relatively open ending we got. Do we really want to know every specific character interaction? I don’t.
It worked for me in part, because, if you go back to the beginning, it was audience participation. It feels natural to have it end in a way that leaves so much to the reader. (I also think that there are a few of the questions that are floating around that actually -are answered- within Act 7, but some of them do require a bit of contemplation. That’s the way the comic has always been, though. For me, it’s part of the delight & experience of interacting with it.)
Anyway, it’s ours now. Hussie wrote an amazing, enormous thing that, honestly, felt like it kind of got away from him a bit here and there, partially through doing things that fans wanted. But that’s over. He’s left it to us. What really happens when John opens that door?
He didn’t joss your post-canon fic. He showed us one possibility, and you can take that as canon, or you can take one of the other possibilities and that can be your canon. You don’t need to fear upd8s trashing your faves. You don’t need to fret about what’s coming, or if your most important character will even show up. It’s over. No Sollux vii2iible in the final Act? That’s cool. You can decide where he ended up.
We’ve still got Hiveswap and possibly other things in this set of universes. He might epilogue it in ways that set more things in stone. That’s fine by me, too.
It’s all time loops and paradox circles anyway. ;)
