Squidy's Fandom Carnival

To you dear reader I have this to say, there will be people in nearly every single activity you occupy that you will find you don't agree with. Politics, sports, content creators, jobs, clubs, classrooms, even in the field of relationships/friendship......and the same thing applies to fandoms. If you simply cannot handle that fact of life, then I'm sorry to say that you will not have much of one. Or at least one not lead with anything other than an extremely narrow-minded perspective.

As a fan of all three of these from the literal beginnings of each....from what I've seen over the years....I have NO idea why anyone is arguing with one another! You think this'll ruin the fandom you're in? That's like saying that you can kill off the idea of the color blue!

Guess what people? ALL OF THEM HAVE BEEN CONNECTED FOR YEARS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!

When the comic "ended" in 2016 artists and fans felt like they had nothing left....so they FLOCKED to the projects and pages of the artists and creators of the comic including Toby's game Undertale. A creator who worked on Homestuck, had multiple fans of the comic endorse the game and even had posts on the comic webpage to check it out....and so fans for Homestuck started drawing Undertale art....getting into Steven universe when season 3 was kicking off....going off and playing/watching FNAF as Sister Location released a few months later. The fandom SPREAD OUT and picked up new hobbies and new likes just like ANY PERSON WOULD DO

Then years later a fan of the comic named Vivienne came out with the two series Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. And by then a bunch of folks who used to wear horns and gray make up saw the imps, angels, and sinners and RAN with it! I've seen dozens of old Homestuck fans FLOCK to Helluva Boss...and yeah there's a good subconscious reason why....it was familiar.

The fan art you see of Undertale or Helluva Boss.....the discussion forms....discord servers...they probably CAME from those old Homestuck fans....but you know what the clencher in all of this is??

WE'RE ALL HUMAN we all have diverse interests and hobbies. You can explain away all day WHY some of these fandoms happened or why these projects got a boost in viewers in the first place but at the end of the day nothing is going to RUIN a fandom. It just. doesn't. work like that! And individuals who don't know how to behave will do what they want no matter WHAT fandom they get into at the time...but it will not RUIN a fandom. Sure it'll make folks irritated...or make others not want to deal with the drama. Which only leads to other fans staying quiet and doing their own stuff in the background..building up the good things such as art, fanfic, chat rooms, ect. So that other fans can join them in those spaces.

This will draw attention....And any attention can spark a desire to become a fan no matter what kind of fandom it's for..be it cars, sports, make up, comics, ect......And there's always a chance that the people joining won't be the "nicest or most tolerable" of people...that is just the risk you take by becoming a fan of an activity and engaging in a community...but those people can't kill a fandom any more then we can kill a concept. Hell, take a look at the Harry Potter fandom if you need a good example. They've practically DENOUNCED their own creator!

So briefly near the beginning of the episode we see Luz in that in-between portal realm...and she sees a figure before getting pulled out. In the show they were upside down and very small. So I zoomed in on them for you all and put it upside right...........and wait a minute..doesn't that head shape look familiar~?