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I kinda regret tuning out of Homestuck during the second massive break, I feel like it was something you really had to be there for at the time to get the best experience. I actually finished reading it last year- it was kinda bittersweet to get to the end of something as an adult that I loved so much as a kid. especially considering it didn't exactly have a really solid ending lol.

Man I really hated the format of homestuck, I really tried to give it a chance but just couldn't get past the slow start. The fan art and character designs looked really neat though, so it's just become one of those things I enjoy from a distance and look up stuff about if I'm ever bored and wanna know things about it without actually torturing myself with the formatting.

I think I started the comic back around 2012 or 2013. The way it combined different types of media (Flash games, animation, music, pictures) seemed unique at the time, so I kept reading it. It was also updated regularly and didn't seem to be written with a predetermined script, so watching it escalate over time was also interesting in itself. If I recall correctly, a lot of the foreshadowing the comic does through MacGuffins and such wasn't planned ahead of time, and was instead made up as the comic went along. That said, it has a colossal amount of dialogue, which felt like a bunch of filler at times. Still, it allowed me to make a web application that allows a visitor to randomly generate a nonsensical comic page using the comic's archive of text and images. It contributed to the pile of shitposts on r/homestuck, so if nothing else, there's my claim to Internet fame. One of the composers also ended up making Undertale, so that's an interesting tidbit as well.

It's kinda weird for me that Megalovania is most commonly known as "that Undertale song" considering I was listening to it years before Undertale was a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WyKbbP8ft0 Altho I suppose fans of that earthbound halloween hack likely feel the same way

If I'd ever starting reading Homestuck back in the day, I probably never be the same person Back in high school, some girl randomly showed up cosplay as a Homestuck character (with the horns and her skin painted grey). Everyone else around her were all weirded-out cause no one knew what the hell she was. Read 17776 instead

Megalovania was made by Toby Fox, so it's fair that his song is associated with it rather than Homestuck

I know, I'm not saying Homestuck deserved to "own" the song more or anything. It's just kinda funny to see a song that has been around for such a long time blow up like Megalovania did with Undertale. I'm glad so many people got to enjoy it in the end.

One time I was waiting for a bus, saw this perfect ten redhead at the stop. Big, beautiful eyes, great ass, cute smile, the whole nine yards. So I decide to chat her up. I don't know how it happened, but she got started on Homestuck (brought it up herself, I think) and would. Not. Stop. I stood there for nearly half an hour while she went on, scarcely pausing for a breath, and I was honestly relieved when the bus arrived and I got to find a seat far away from her. I think I read a few pages of Homestuck years ago, but my god, the fandom.

Considering it was vriska's theme for years before, its still weird to see it as the sans meme song.

I've been feeling bored the last few days and have tomorrow off, fuck it I'll give it another shot. There are only two possible outcomes: I'm either going to become a staunch fan or completely despise it. Excitement abounds.

timeless advice for new and returning readers: https://i.imgur.com/iBYDMVC.png

If you just pretend the story ends at Cascade Homestuck is actually really good. There really is hardly anything of worth in the last two acts. What I really love about Homestuck is how it reflects early-internet culture so well. It doesn't shy away from references that might date it, instead opting to shape it's identity around them. There's nothing else really like it and i feel like it has merit in it's incredibly novel and well done method of storytelling. I doubt we'll ever see a story on the scale of Homestuck with such an audio-visual presence again.

Homestuck is such an enigma as far as internet culture goes. For a few years it was the BIGGEST thing online, with the BIGGEST fanbase that ended up becoming a premonition of how fandoms of future shows/comics/cartoons would act and behave. and then it just vanished completely. As for the comic itself, it's fun but the deeper into the comic you go the more you'll hate yourself. If you wanna get the best MSPA experience, read Problem Sleuth and Intermission.

Read this in one sitting. It was amazing, thanks.

Homestuck is a convoluted and complicated mess, but when you click and start to understand things it becomes addictive as hell. There's a fuckton wrong with Homestuck but I loved reading it. It was a stupid romp and had storytelling and visuals I've never seen in anything else before.

I'm completely apathetic towards homestuck, but can anyone translate the thread title into English?

I read it until the trickster lollipop. At that point I was so insulted as a reader I dropped it.

The Caucasian shitstorm was the best thing ever

Call of Duty: Zombies.

Oh yeah, that was hilarious, but the length he was going to try and mock half the reader base he himself invited with the stupid shipping bullshit was just insulting.

Really loved Homestuck but the Gigapause killed my ability to keep going. Couldn't work up the effort to pick it up after that.

Yes: why bother?

Here's the timeline for one of homestuck's intermissions https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/249570/634f7ee8-5090-431f-a421-6a718b91f28e/g1kWDXmBTI-IfEeb0nyOKnr1KY4AUfZ91rilboCoIUU.png

This at least is legible. The Codzombies timeline needs to be rotated several times and theres not a good starting point for it due to time being cyclic between the Aether, Dimension 63 and whatever fractures things jump between

Similar experience, I started reading with one of my friends (who I ended up dating for a while because of our mutual interest in the comic) during the hiatus before Cascade, so when the animation finally came out it was a really special experience. Say what you want about the fanbase, Hussie, or the comic itself, but it was a really special experience that I don't think I'll ever experience again.

i was pretty disappointed that the battle with the final boss practically happened off-screen but the weird snapchat epilogue things gave me adequate closure on the characters i cared about so eh. you have to admit lord english was a pretty awesome villain tho.

frankly now that I think about it I'm retroactively insulted at the amount of times Hussie inserted himself in the comic or broke the 4th wall

it was only for one yard dude

Was it? It's all blending together for me.

The worst part is the missing implications that will likely never be expanded upon. It ends on a decent-ish note, but still hinting that shit's not gonna end well in the future that we'll never see. And that really sucks.