Homestuck presentation post

[wayya]

Much delayed for various reasons, but I really wanted to try to make my own, because this way not only can I try to lure more people in, but also to organize my thoughts and ~*~feelings~*~ about this new weird obsession of mine :D

Comments

[anthraxpretzels]

Another thing people generally find weird is the typing style of the characters. I know the chatlogs took a while to get used to.

Homestuck tumblr fandom scares me. :'|

This is a really nice guide.

[wayya]

Oh yeah I didn't even think of the typing styles >.> Good point.

I lurk in there but I avoid comments when I know there's going to be wank in them (it's very predictable ahah) and just stay for all the art :3

Thank you! It was not easy to write because I had a hard time finding how to balance between telling too much and not enough... I'm glad if you find it ok.

[bard_linn]

I will say the little typing style stuff I saw completely turned me off. I'm dyslexic. I have enough of a hard time with reading as it is - I do NOT need chat stuff to come in. Also, I have a hard time with name recognition, so reading chat logs is hell for me if I don't already know who everyone is. This leads to things in anime like me being 'the pink haired girl' 'the orange haired guy' etc, etc, until I eventually get it down. Which...takes a while. >.> kiraya loves it though.

[wayya]

Well even if I'm not dyslexic at one point I made a chart to keep track of everyone color/screen name/title until I got used to it, so I understand completely @_@ I saw somewhere that there was a project to "translate" the logs in regular grammar but I don't know if it has been concretized.
I think it's one of those things that you either love or don't like at all ^^;

[bard_linn]

Yeah - sounds about right. Honestly, if I have to do that much work for a series, I'm probably not going to like it. <.< That's part of the reason why I dropped Bleach for a while too. Too. Many. Characters.

Madoka on the other hand is lovely and I am so totally buying it first chance I get.

[wayya]

Bleach had so many characters out of nowhere that we didn't know who to care about anymore >.>

Hey is there a chance you're going to write fics for Madoka? :3

[renaissanced]

I want to get into Homestuck but I'm just too intimidated. It seems like this magical fantasy world that I /do/ want to be in, s'just that I don't have (or want to take the chance of losing XD) the time to sink. I will say though that I haven't seen a bad cosplay yet (even at my local cons!) so that makes me happy. :3

Thanks for the write up though! *__*

[wayya]

I think I understand... It looks really big from the inside. But it should be ok if you take your time to read it and to discover its fandom? I read slowly in English so it took me like two months to reach the end of the updates Just avoid fandom if you start reading it seriously, because there are spoilers everywhere ^^;

Nah, thank you for reading!

[mellmell]

I couldn't get into it. If there's nothing to pull me in right off the bat I have trouble staying.

And I still see no good reason for me to go through the trouble, so until I do I will continue not reading it. >.>;;;;

My sister follows it, tho. Or at least she did. I think every now and then I'll see her reading it...

[wayya]

Well there are many reasons for not liking it ^^;;; Its weird beginning is really a huge flaw.

[wayya]

Yeah, it gives quite a bad impression at first :D;;; Maybe this post will encourage you try to go further in the story? Not that I want to pressure you or anything, I'm well aware that it won't be to everybody's taste ^^;