No.48
>>46>when did you start reading homestuck? Got introduced to Homestuck in 2012 thanks to bl fanart on Tumblr (JohnKat especially). I actually started reading it years later when the fandom got a little less unhinged, I'm kinda sad I missed out on most of the fun stuff as it was happening, though.
>favorite character?>favorite pairing? Dirk and Jake.
>favorite act?Intermission FTW. And Act 5 too, obviously.
No.74
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>when did you start reading homestuck?
April 13th, 2013.
>favorite characters?
Jane and Vriska
>favorite pairing?
Gamzee x Tavros
>favorite act?
Act 6 Act 5 Act 1
Here are some shipping charts for the brave.
homestuck.com/story/4715
No.76
>>62>erikarbased taste, nona. i was an erisol shipper first and an erikat shipper second. surprising amount of content for characters whose only interactions in canon were annoying each other and murder.
No.86
>>74>homestuck.com/story/4715Kek anon, those pages still crack me up everytime and were probably the reason I became a davekat shipper to begin with.
Btw has anyone been keeping up with the tragedy that is Homestuck 2? These two are literally the only thing worth reading for and they are in the sidelines for the most part.
No.87
>>86>homestuck 2isn't it on semi-permanent hiatus because people complained about it too much? i never really kept up with it outside of eating popcorn at the drama.
i dunno. could be that it's gotten older, could be that the writing direction no longer resonates with me, could just be that i've always been a big dirk fan. but when i read the epilogues, there was just none of the magic that made homestuck so special to me. i'll probably never re-read homestuck because of that, too. i want to keep that memory intact, at least.
No.90
>>87>could be that the writing direction no longer resonates with meyeah, that's partially because hussie isn't involved in writing hs2. i don't believe he wrote the epilogues either.
what i hate about them personally though (totally unrelated to your post so feel free to NOT read this) is how they're (epilogues + hs2) written by the *absolute* *dregs* of the hs fandom. not the cringe (but harmless) *bucket joke giggle-snort all my ships* type dreg either but the *woke, sjw, "trans every character xD", break lore to fit my irl moralities, wangst* parts of the fandom. like, the people who thought the bro/dave strife flash was an example of actual child abuse and not just a silly thing hussie tossed in. those people. fuck them
No.93
I've never gotten into the homestuck fandom because the fanart promised me something different than the original material of it. Am I missing out on the lore?
No.94
>>93i wouldn't say you're missing out, because it's very much a product of its time and i'm not sure how well the humor or the writing style really hit now. it's very much a piece of internet history, though, and there's so much content that spawned from it - the amount of fanfiction that tried to emulate its style, how franchises like OFF, danganronpa, and undertale gained their popularity in part from homestuck fandom overflow, the memes, the references…
i think if you were a part of the fandom at its heyday, there was something genuinely magical about it all. early homestuck had this incredible tongue-in-cheek, heavily meta-referential writing style that had a ridiculous amount of personality. there's still nothing out there i've seen that has that same sense of whimsy, that inspires so many people to create their own content within the universe. it's just that all of that is gone now.
i… have a lot of feelings about homestuck.
No.228
Lots of favorite things here but for me I want to know what people hate, most hated ships and most hated characters. Please, enlighten me.
No.278
>>228Fuck Gamzee and Eridan's dancestor, and I don't like Roxy and Caliope together.
At some point I found a chan with a homestuck board but I forgot what it was.
No.317
>when did you start reading homestuck? 2010
>favorite character?can't pick one
>favorite pairing? can't pick one
>favorite act?4
>>94>>93I definitely think it's worth reading. A lot of the banter still hits and the music (AND fan music) is good. If you end up coming out of it with a character or ship you like, you get a decade-long backlog of fanart/fic to browse. Homestuck was indeed very special, it sparked so much creativity in so many people, on a level I've never seen any other modern work do.
>>228I think the worst part of being into Homestuck was looking for stuff that had all the ships you liked (and more importantly, didn't include a ship you hated or in the wrong quadrant). I think the only ship I HATED-hated was romantic John/Vriska, had a huge self-inserting "my dick will heal her" vibe to it. Either that or John was depicted like a manic-pixie dream girl(male).
No.1117
>>1114It is pretty wild that the creator of promstuck when on to write the Locked Tomb series and Gideon the Ninth. Not too long ago a book club in my are discussed them, it was pretty surreal to be apart of that kek. But I'm happy for her success.
No.1118
>>1117It's pretty impressive how many Homestuck fanfiction writers went on to become professional writers. Was wondering why coldhope orphaned all her Homestuck stories recently, only to dig around and discover that not only is she a published author now, she's also married to the author of Texicalaan, who was also a Homestuck BNF.
No.1120
>>1114What happened? Last I heard she was working in animation.
No.1121
>>1120She was just my first brush with "getting too popular in fandom gets you a gaggle of haters who will dissect your life, follow you through fandoms, and drum up a dogpile when you draw something problematic". I think she lost a job for drawing underage Spider-Man yaoi and guro. I think she still works in animation, but I would hate to live my life knowing "what if somebody who was butthurt about how popular my cringe homestuck AU fanart got is still watching my social media waiting for me to post something cancelable".
I know Voltron was when this shit really popped off, but how some Homestuck artists/writers got treated was the canary in the coalmine.
No.1122
>>1121>underage Spider-Man yaoiWas it Peter or Miles?
No.1123
>>1122Peter (specifically with Deadpool).