[ SECRET POST #3476 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3476 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

okay, this can be a wild speculation on my part, but I want to share it for what it's worth.

few years back, I don't even remember when exactly, I attended a con where I had a talk with a webcomic author, my friend, who happened to know TStone personally. we discussed relationships between a comic writer and their fanbase like should the creator get involved in fandom, do they own anything to fans, stuff like that. and of cource I came up with HINaBN as an example of bad relationship between creator and a fanbase. to my surprise my friend defended TStone (and that's how I got to know they know her personally so oops on my part). they said TStone's situation was really difficult to judge clearly but not b/c I'm wrong about fans being hurt, but because there was more to it than was revealed to the public (which DUH I guess?)

so what I gathered from our talk was that TStone, for some unrevealed reason, needed to end HINaBN, otherwise she'd be in a very bad situiation (that if she would've continued it it could've been very bad for her for some reason?) so the legal advise to her was that she just drops it b/c I guess her contract with the publisher doesn't say what to do in this case?

basically, as far as I got it, it means she has to stay silent about why she ended it and about the comic itself b/c as soon as she makes a statement as its creator she may suffer penalties or something like that. (and my friend was like 'see, that's a bad example, she just can't apologise without a lot of harm' heh)

so... this still doesn't explain anything really, but at least the bizzare decision to never give a reason for abandoning popular comic and never apologizing kinda makes sence. I mean, no matter how much job she still gets this was indeed a huge hit on her reputation, guessing by the comments above, among the readers especially, so there had to be a better reason than flakey'ness or fear of popularity or that she got bored.
then again, idk how much my friend knew, or if they were even right, m/b it's simple as that and an excuse. but here you go.