#Rose is an edgy baby goth with an ff.net account who prides herself on not being like other girls

[deneveve-is-lost]

Listen homestuck is actually very good as long as you don't have the expectations if fandom tumblr clouding your judgement, it's an extremely stupid satire of teenage online behaviour in the 2010s delivered via an extremely stupid and complicated story made up of utterly random decisions chosen to fuel character conflict and shenanigans rather than be anything approaching a consistent story, my friend has been telling me all the lore about Minecraft streamers recently and I couldn't help but compare it to Homestuck because it's so absurdly similar in how convoluted and hard to follow it is, because it is a bunch of people playing a video game together and creating the "plot" through their interactions and what they want to do in the game. There are so many different perspectives to follow and each one will show you a different piece of the overarching story while also being a story in itself. Homestuck is absurdly similar, despite being a webcomic written by one person. Obviously with Homestuck it's hard to follow just one character's perspective and certain things are skipped over if nothing important is happening, but ultimately it's still just a bunch of teenagers playing a video game together with all of the chaos that involves. It still astounds me how well written the character interactions are, they're full of dumb bullshit and stupid jokes but also genuine conversations about identity and family and love and friendship and all the things that come along with that. All the things people talk about Homestuck being are in there, but if you go into it expecting it to start off that way or to not read thousands of pages of stupid jokes as well as that, you'll be disappointed.

#homestuck #ive been rereading it recently and i do actually genuinely love it turns out #the comic is actually way funnier and more interesting now I'm an adult and I understand more of the references and jokes in it #like as a kid I was way too in the middle of it to recognise all the teen stereotypes they fit #and im not talking hollywood stereotypes i mean the real teen stereotypes from the early age of the internet #Rose is an edgy baby goth with an ff.net account who prides herself on not being like other girls #Jade is an autistic furry weird girl #John is every one of the boys who sat at the nerd table and i was vaguely friends with in 7th grade #Dave is a hipster with a reddit who would absolutely have fallen down the nice guy pipeline if not for the apocalypse #im so sorry to break it to you but you know its the truth the man loved suits and katanas and wore sunglasses everywhere #i can picture the facebook screenshot perfectly #every time someone is mildly critical of some choice hes made he calls it ironic to deflect #he and karkat are just two sides of the same coin its why they were perfect for each other