Finished Homestuck

[coprime]

I have finally read all of Homestuck that there is to read. It took me like a year to do, and I feel like I should get a merit badge for this accomplishment.

...That's all. (Okay, I do have a lot more thoughts about Homestuck, but that's all for now.)

Comments

[frith]

I want to hear (read) your thoughts on Homestuck. I tried it for a bit, but it was not worth the slog as far as I could see.

Meanwhile, you might like this. It's the complete Moonstuck, a well loved MLP:FIM fan comic with a young Princess Luna stuck on the moon. This zip is the updated, fixed version, posted a month ago on woonastuck.

[coprime]

So, not gonna lie, Homestuck can be a bit of a slog. There were three or four months where every time I contemplated reading it, I just went, "Ughhhh, this thing never ends," until eventually my desire to find out what happened & meet the new characters I knew were going to be introduced overcame my ennui towards what seemed like a never-ending endeavor.

But Homestuck is also incredibly creative and easily the most innovative webcomic I've ever read. The cast of characters is huge, and yet everybody is distinct. And they're almost all *likeable* too. Or if not likeable, then at least interesting to read about. There were so many times where the scene would switch to a different set of characters and I'd be like, "No, I want to know what happens with X," but then I'd read a few more pages and get into whatever was going on with Y so that by the time the comic switched back to X, I'd be like, "Yay, X again! But also no, what about Y?"

Homestuck may also be the funniest thing I have ever read. I have literally laughed out loud reading it more than I have for any other thing. Part of that may be due to its length, but it really is genuinely funny.

Homestuck is just...really difficult to describe. It's a comedy, it's a tragedy (Warning: your favorite character will die. Because everyone dies at least once in this comic; death, however, doesn't mean that your favorite won't be around still in some way or another.), it's an action story, it breaks the fourth wall and then invents more walls to break. But all the disparate elements work together surprisingly well to make me really care about what's going to happen & if it's even possibly for there to be a happy ending.

So, eh, I don't know if I managed to answer any questions you had about Homestuck. It is a very odd duck, and because it's so long it has a lot of different elements to it which make it hard to explain concisely. My trick for caring enough about the canon in order to read the whole thing was to get into it via fanfic first. So I already cared about a few of the characters when I started reading and then grew to care about more of them the more I read. And during some of the less interesting bits, I had an idea about upcoming events but not specifics, so I wanted to read on in order to see exactly what happens. My method isn't for everyone -- I'd been spoiled about a lot of the main events, but I rarely care about spoilers -- but it worked for me.

Haha, I can always ramble more if there's something specific you're curious about?




And that is a super cute fan comic, thank you so much for linking me to it. :D

[frith]

You're welcome. Woona has become near and dear to the fandom for years, and you can see why. ^_^ In the pantheon of fan-made greats, I'd say she's above Nyx, Little Pip and Flufflepuff.

Thanks for the review of Homestuck! I haven't any other questions. It still seems too much of a commitment to start reading, unless maybe it was in book form with a dozen frames or more per page. I do have several books on my back burner that are pretty much waiting for MLP:FIM to end. That could take several years.