For all my furry folks out there (and anyone looking to open a forum tbh), the closure of Furaffinity Forum will probably inspire others to make their own replacements. Here is my advice to those people:
Do not pay for forum software
They offer you nothing that you can't recreate using completely free software and some programming knowledge. Subscription services/licensing fees for paid forum software is a gigantic money sink. Put your priorities into a reliable domain and host instead, you'll save yourself down the line.
redraw from this one from 2021. lyrics from "This must be the place" by the Talking Heads
People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
Long ago i was commissioned to do a vinland fan art, which was very great ‘cos i love vinland, and especially this scene
Tip me here| Commission info here!