a sad gay mess

...although whether that's about the blog or me is anyone's guess15, she/her expect lots of Homestuck, Yuri!!! On Ice, and Pokemon!!

[yoroshikus]

gnarly jarly harley

[newbarrk]

me

[steamchampion]

[mintables]

listen i really don’t want to be that one person but hussie still hasn’t changed homestuck’s status from “in progress” in the archive and it’s been a year

[mintables]

i lied i do want to be that one person the ride’s never over motherfuckers

[mintables]

listen i really don't want to be that one person but hussie still hasn't changed homestuck's status from "in progress" in the archive and it's been a year

[bloodsisters-deactivated2023013]

It’s exchanges like this that got some fans to start regarding John and Rose as a “shippable commodity”. But then, people would also ship things like Colonel Sassacre and the pogo ride in John’s backyard. Do you know why? Because I made the mistake of including them both in the same story.

andrew fucking obliterating johnrose in Book 2 after one of their pesterlogs, 2012 (via armsocks)

[wrenrouge]

I love how there’s literally no upd8 but yet my dash is completely homestuck

[wrenrouge]

Maybe we were all the upd8 this whole time

[vantasarcastic]

maybe the real upd8 was the friends we made along the way

[ryngtail]

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[dongoverlord]

since 413 is going to end in less than 15 minutes I just wanna say this… homestuck changed my life and I’m gonna be 70 years old and still making giant pics for 413 and chugging down faygo while crying

[mintables]

the duality of man

Me: I love homestuck so much, it is so good, it is a wonderful thing, I'm so glad I decided to read it, I'm so glad it's 4/13, I'm so happy that this beautiful work of art is in my life.

Also Me: Ah, yes. One year since Andrew "fucking" Hussie came into my house and personally kicked me in the nads.

[m4ge-deactivated20210331]

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” -Stephen King

[xtraumtaenzerx]

i’d die for him and the game’s not even out yet

[jamesroach]

There is probably an official post up (edit: cohen did a write up!) or going up soon, but here is the second trailer for Hiveswap! They used part of another song by everyones favorite band The Grueblers The Grubbles. I wrote this song in about 25 minutes with the concept behind it being “what would it be like if two teenagers were passing eachother in the hallway and the first one had listened to the white stripes one time and tried to explain it to the other but they were running late so they couldnt stop to talk so the second teen was like, what?? uhh??? yeah ok, dont worry i got it i think.” I think I had also just listened to the intro to spectacular spiderman.  Once again, featuring the incredible @jeffliujeffliu on guitar, who did a way better job than i needed him to. There was another cut of this with sound effects (since these scenes in the game have sound effects that i did, etc) but i like it this way because now its like a cool AMV. That part at the end is the only joke I half contributed to the game which is just “what if when you find this shitty cracker the music is like.. really ostentatious.” I had to look up ostentatious to make sure i was using it right and i was sort of right but not really. Anyway, keep an eye out for that door.

[pageofmirth]

Today is the day a young man stood in his bedroom And from then on, he would forever stand in our hearts

[callmearcturus]

Okay. Let me make my pitch.

I think you should read Homestuck.

If you are sitting there, an active fannish participant in 2017, then I know that feeling. Homestuck is huge and ubiquitous and sometimes its fandom is irritating. It’s deeply memetic and weird in a way that has a high barrier of entry, and you just are not interested in People Telling You About Homestuck.

I’m not gonna do that. I’m just gonna tell you, as someone who was in your shoes: you should read Homestuck.

A year ago today, the main story of Homestuck finally ended with the release of the Act 7 animation. Knowing literally nothing about it, but unable to avoid the explosion of reactions on my dash, I watched it.

I had no idea what the fuck was going on. But the music was stunning. So on a whim and with the knowledge I might fail out, I started Homestuck from the beginning.

The next two months, I got to experience why people cannot shut the fuck up about this goddamn ‘webcomic.’

There is literally nothing like it. Even people who look at the structure of Homestuck and draw out the major influences are missing that there is no other story like it. When I try to shorthand it, I call it “the homeric creation myth for the internet age.” And that still barely scratches the surface.

Homestuck is a funny story. The writing is some of the snappiest, most fast-paced wit I’ve ever seen. It’s loaded with visual jokes and running gags and the kind of back and forth repartee that the greatest comedy writers can only dream of, and everything in between.

Homestuck is a well-crafted story. It is long, and it is complicated, but it is never inscrutable, and all the jokes about how hard it is to understand Homestuck are simply untrue. It’s a story that takes you by the hand and teaches you a language of symbology and mechanics, and then uses that language to show you something so remarkable I can’t explain it to you because you have to know that language. And it’s all done perfectly organically and with careful pacing. By the time you read [S] Cascade, you feel like you were tricked into earning a PhD in this shit, and were rewarded for your time and attention.

Homestuck is a beautiful story. It’s visual style is at first glance simplistic, but is harnessed into pure art. It is filled to the brim with slick animations and with a soundtrack that goes hard as fucking hell and never stops.

Homestuck is a heartfelt story. It’s a story that has stakes that span entire universes and the fate of whole civilizations, but it never once forgets that it’s a story also about characters. And these characters are genuinely the most nuanced and carefully constructed and executed you have ever seen. There will be someone who hits you right in the heart. There will be someone who makes you grit your teeth in pure actual anger. There will be more than one who will make you proud by the end of their journey. And you will learn things about yourself through the cipher of these characters.

Homestuck is worth your time. I do not regret waiting so long to read it, because I genuinely feel like the archive read is a stronger story than the live update read. Now is absolutely the best time to read Homestuck, at your own pace, knowing there is a completed story ahead of you. You’ll learn something from the experience, either about the other media you consume, or about yourself, or about your own craft.

You’ll finally know understand what the fuck people are talking about, and get to feel that level of enthusiasm for yourself. And, my dudes, it is a very cool feeling.

So yeah. It’s 4/13, and I think now is the best time for you to read Homestuck.

[seagrot]

[mintables]

god, do i miss homestuck. 

 and i KNOW that's standard fare, i know most of us are over it, but i still can't wrap my head around the fact that it's been a year already? because homestuck had been such a big part of my life for so long, and suddenly- it's gone.

homestuck redefined fandom for me, and i know that there won't ever be something quite like it again- the way we came together, the upd8 culture and the cons and the panels, the lyricstucks, the fansongs and animations and meetups and the way we were a family, of sorts, united by our love for this dumb webcomic that brought us together- there's never going to be anything like that. homestuck was a cultural masterpiece, a revolution in and of itself, and i honestly don't think anything can top it in terms of impact. 

 homestuck was just so big, so much, for so long, and it's hard to believe that- it's not anymore. and it's hard to believe that everyone's moved on from something that we loved so much, that shaped us so much, that brought us together like nothing else before. 

 and maybe there will be no more spin the faygo games at cons. maybe there will be no more lyricstucks or fansongs, no more bucket full of homestuck-style panels, no more rush to make upd8 art and cosplay new characters and update shipping charts with all new quadrants. maybe it really is over. but we're all still here, whether we like it or not. 

we'd use to joke that "the ride never ends." and it doesn't, not really. because homestuck is something that sticks with you no matter what. so this is a love letter to my favorite story, the story that made me who i am. happy 4/13, everybody. thanks for eight fantastic years.

[ikimaru]

ii might as well post this today haha I had fun with the colors and stuff 💙💚💜❤️

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