Homestuck.

[rax]

 So, because my housemate Nicole has been begging me to for months, once the semester ended I finally gave Homestuck a try. I have strong and mixed feelings! That I will try to keep minimally spoilery but there's no way I can completely avoid it. At the very least probably most of it will mean nothing to you if you have no idea what's going on in

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[bay115]

My thoughts pretty much on Homestuck too. Love the creative ways Hussie did with the story telling and a lot of the characters I love (ARADIA AND JADE ARE MY FOREVER GIRLS XD; ). Most of the movie references I get as LOL my dad watches those and I had watched some of them with him. I'm with you though that the beginning is a bit on the stale side and I tend to be tl;dr on the chat logs. I thought Act 6 was cute but yeah wished Hussie would have dealt with the first leg of the plot with the new kids faster. I'm assuming you have read the Act 6 Intermission 1 at least?

In terms of catching up, I started reading it December last year when Act 5 was midway to the end and I wasn't able to catch up with updates until February of this year, LOL. Then again I was busy job hunting and then was getting used to my volunteer work position, so it took a bit for me to power through.

One thing I want to warn you though is the Homestuck fandom tends to get crazy. If they ever read this post of yours they're gonna flame you for it. >.>;

[rax]

I read the intermission, yeah, or at least what of it exists so far. I liked that much better. Some of the chat logs (for example, everthing John/Vriska <3) I read all the way through, but leetspeak rap battles oh my god who cares.

Yeah Nicole has been trying to get me to read this since September and I was basically like "NO NEW THINGS DURING THE SEMESTER."

I... mostly avoid fandom outside of Pokemon which I interact with glancingly and haltingly, so I am probably OK. I may have secret Homestuck fanatics on my friendslist I guess but they are also my friends so I am not super worried. I don't think I am important enough to get flamed. ;)

[spacehawk]

I tried to read it once, when I had a pretty good reason to give it a shot. I gave it about 45 minutes and could not get into it.

[rax]

I am not sure I would recommend it for you, although the interlacing of universes and timelines is interesting and a couple of the characters are just awesome. But it's a lot of investment and periodically frustrating. I guess "how much free time do you have?" :)

[rax]

It mostly doesn't matter but there was that whole section in morse code and I was just like click, click, click, click, urgh. :(

[eslington]

Great review. I think I'll use this while I'm fulfilling my role as fandom evangelist.

Also Homestuck fandom isn't any worse than any other popular fandom, in that it has it's highlights and wells of depressing crapness. I'll be glad to barrage you with the best bits given 3/8ths of a chance.

[rax]

You're a ... fandom ... evangelist? Huh what?

[eslington]

Sorry, had a personal injoke moment.

Basically there's an impression going around that Homestuck fandom is full of those people who are constantly bugging you to read something they like because it's totes awesome and I'm sure you'll love it because check this bit out and-

I'm kind of one of those people and I intended it as a self-deprication. ^_^;

[juldea]

Thank you so much for posting this review! I see several people talking about Homestuck on various forums and Tumblr, but the most I've gotten out of them is that it's an interactive webcomic. I did try it out once, but only for about half an hour. If I have time to burn in the future maybe I will give it another shot.

[rax]

You're welcome! A big part of why I posted it is that when I was considering reading it the only opinions I could get were "HOMESTUCK IT IS AMAZING AND THE BEST EVER GO READ IT NOW" and "OH THAT THING IT IS SO ANNOYING" and I was like... okay but why? And the "it is so annoying" camp were better at giving reasons (because good lord white on white text just to be a dick WHY) but one of the it is amazing camp was my good friend and housemate so... I gave in and read it. And am glad I did!