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I finally finished it!  If you are interested in absurdist theater or Homestuck, or both, you should check out this short film I made of one of my favorite Homestuck fics.  Enjoy!

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7503099

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I really love how rose’s design went from goth to sunshine girl

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so maybe there was an update on the homestuck adventure map

somethings coming

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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.

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Hey, can I get a random cute equius fact?

He came back as Equisprite on December 25th, 2012 and that was the best Christmas Gift I have ever gotten in my whole entire life

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im sure that karkat expected dave to be soft and gentle about as much as dave thought karkat would let him be. 

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nightmares fear factory

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TG: i dont know TT: Try to remember.

i spent 30 min lying in bed last night thinking abt this pesterlog lmao….dem late night homestuck feels…

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A commission for @stridersart!!

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MOOD

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koolkidz

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Homestuck pages 9899, 9900 and 9901

Might as well ask for a USEFUL miracle.

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I love their emotions

+ snow with jade is perfect

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Sburb assigns Roles meant to CHALLENGE people.

That being said, here are the challenges/lessons of each class and aspect. (Except for Lord and Muse, due to the lack of info on them in canon)

Classes

Heir: learn to communicate and work with others to get things done

Seer: trust yourself and your own intuition

Knight: stop hiding behind a mask and stand by your friends

Witch: inspire/motivate others and stay optimistic

Rogue: control your emotions/impulses and become independent

Prince: become less image focused and narcissistic

Page: step out from the shadows and accept/embrace who you are

Maid: become less self centered and care/provide for others

Sylph: accept that you have an influence on reality and aren’t powerless and then use that to heal

Bard: care about others well being and spirituality, not just your own

Mage: realize your own talents and don’t get caught up in self deprecation

Thief: don’t be so concerned with what others think of you

Aspects

Space: learn to balance your imagination and being grounded; either extreme is too much

Time: you’re either too independent or too dependent

Light: break down walls around your emotions and feel the consequences of your actions

Void: break out of your anti social shell without becoming over confident

Life: learn to be lively; neither lethargic or hyper

Doom: find balance between sacrificing your time for others and keeping it all to yourself

Blood: don’t be apathetic, but don’t be too overly sensitive either

Breath: learn to be assertive, not aggressive or passive

Heart: be sensitive to your own emotions but control them; don’t let them control you and don’t repress them

Mind: don’t think of yourself higher or lower than others due to your intelligence; inform others so everyone can understand

Hope: find balance between acceptance and skepticism

Rage: learn to control your anger; don’t repress it but don’t let it control you

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Homestuck Vol. 10 now available! You can check it out and purchase it here: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-10

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bro we are teens

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