#but u cant deny the hold it has! there has been plenty happening w the games&etc w zilch from the dash crowd

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i do think that atp the question of canonicity is pretty moot. like why litigate something that never really had a shape to begin with? frankly my favorite thing that hussie ever did was say why does it matter if anything is canon. what IS interesting to me abt continuing past the comic is that it still clearly wants us to react, it wants to elicit an emotional response. and we are and it has.

bowie and i were talking a lot during the stucky thing abt what the revival meant and why it took the shape that it did. how ppl were thrilled to defend it not bc of any interest in reengaging w the ship, but as a nostalgia object and therefore a marker of identity. importantly -- an identity to fight for bc it seems to prove ur own worth. soo much pride gets wrapped up in fandom.

it's really interesting to see the different types of pride on display now -- pride over having read up to this point, pride over never reading 'post-canon', pride over knowing the minutiae of what's going on behind the scenes, pride over not paying attention, etc. all different forms of myth making. and that happened during the original run too, it's nothing new. im curious to see what will happen once ppl start talking abt the new content in the work, but my guess is, interest will fade pretty fast after everyone declares who they are in reaction to the rererereresurrection.