#gigapause

[charlesoberonn]

[thefastestclockintheuniverse]

Allow me to briefly explain why reaching this page is a momentous occasion:

This is p 6852, posted on 16th October 2013. P 6853 would be posted on 17th October 2014. That's right pals: this page marks the start of the gigapause.

I read Homestuck for the first time in 2013 and reached this page within a week (in which I barely slept, ate, or did anything except speedread my new Special Interest comic). I can barely explain how I felt when I realised there wasn't a ==> button to press, and no one knew when there would be one again.

By the time Homestuck unpaused I was living and studying in another dang country. If you go back far enough in this blog you'll see plenty of posts bout living in Paris - and then a slew of ecstatically happy posts after every update all the way through to the end of Homestuck (#upd8 I'm pretty sure).

Anyway I got a weird jolt of nostalgia at this page and wanted to share.

[bronzecats]

You can't imagine the emotional impact of being a 15 year old who caught up to Homestuck during the Gigapause, waiting more than ten months, and then your first update that you experience is [S] GAME OVER.

[v-indicium]

Laughing at people talking about hs:bc update schedules being delayed

Im not reading hs:bc, but i saw a few people talking about the pause and im just laughing, i found HS during 2011 before all the pauses, megapauses and gigapauses. let alone the evil pause between the final pages and the post credits.

[xefros-tritoh]

does anyone remember tavrisoleriterezepetamzeequiuradikarnayaferi or was that a fever dream. how many newer homestuck fans dont know about the weird shit that got made during pauses

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

@sparrowpharoh replied to your post “top 10 D&D dungeon traps”

Please no one let Frank DM she's too vicious

You all missed that the last section of the dungeon was giant spiders in my mind?

[callieharm]

The real Homestucks remember when Gigapause, the website not the hiatus, was still running

[love-of-humanity]

Question for anyone really, do you remember the social media(?) thing gigapause for homestuck, and had pages for ships and whatnot, rereading homestuck and got me to remember