From the logs, it appears Gio was more than happy to leave the past in the past and it was the Homestuck crew who refused to do that, despite initially lying and saying it was their intention to do that. Saying ‘no, actually, I was the wronged party here’ seems to have happened under duress.

given that the HS crew were the ones saying ‘you caused a lot of harassment to happen and we can’t work with you until you publicly apologize for that’, it’s relevant to present receipts and say no, actually, it’s the homestuck crew who literally posted about how I should be shot in a ditch

My understanding is the reason Gio brought this up is that the *Homestuck crew*, after initially lying and saying ‘we’re happy to drop old beef and work with you’, randomly reversed course and threatened to sue unless Gio made a public apology for supposedly being in the wrong 4 years ago. I think-

okay the fact that he reads America Magazine and National Catholic Reporter is big, guys, those are arguably the two most progressive US Catholic publications