![]() ![]() The set goal of $700,000 was reached within less than two days of donations opening up, and the campaign closed with almost $2.5 million in the jar, easily brushing aside Order of the Stick for the record of most successful comics-related Kickstarter campaign to date. Known as the only fandom that was too weird even for 4chan, the collective is huge and has shown unprecedented levels of dedication, having in the past inadvertently DDOS’ed both the home site of Homestuck and the Flash content powerhouse Newgrounds after the whole fandom leapt at much-anticipated updates hosted on them at the same time.įurther proof of the devotion of homestucks lies in the 2012 Kickstarter campaign Hussie set up for Hiveswap, an adventure game set in the same universe. In fact, contributors to the Homestuck soundtrack include Mark Hadley, the guy behind Let’s-Player-darling Slender: The Eight Pages, and Toby Fox, who at least partially developed the uncontestably best game of all time, Undertale, while living in Hussie’s basement. As he started making more ambitious and longer Flash animations, Hussie started recruiting fans with a knack for drawing, and the entire soundtrack of Homestuck has been fan generated. Later the submissions box was retracted when responses became too numerous for Hussie to deal with, but fan participation continued in other ways. Submissions for what should happen in the next panel could be sent to Hussie via a text box, who would then pick out one suggestion to become part of the canon. In fact, fan participation was completely integral to the first few chapters of Homestuck. However, I would argue that being familiar with the fanart, the major ships, and the discussions about Homestuck on Reddit and Omegapause is imperative to really get it. Rowling wouldn’t have received such love from the fans, but having a Tumblr blog is not really necessary to understand Harry Potter. We probably wouldn’t have The Cursed Child if J.K. The idea of mass obsession over a piece of fiction has been around since Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, but in all cases that I can think of, the fandom is not a crucial part of the franchise. The second ingredient of the Homestuck is that cake is the fandom. Through breaking the static webcomic format in non-gimmicky ways with Flash animations, games, and links to other media, Homestuck still stands out in terms of quality from the ever increasing hoard of webcomics that have accumulated over the years. Dubbed “The Most Elaborate Webcomic You’ve Never Heard Of” and “The Ulysses of the Internet”, the webcomic, which took off in 2009, is a huge beast of complex plot-lines, outlandish-yet-internally-consistent laws of physics and incredibly compelling story-telling. However, even that is slightly misleading, because Homestuck is actually made up of two equally important and hopelessly entangled parts that don’t mean much when seen in isolation.įirst, there’s Hussie’s creation itself. Having said that, I think Andrew Hussie, its creator, did it justice in an interview with Brian Lee O’Malley by calling it “a story about kids on the internet, that is told in a way that is like, made of pure internet” ( “ Scott Pilgram Guy Interviews Homestuck Guy”, Comics Alliance. Just like any cultural phenomenon born on the internet, the webcomic Homestuck is hard to summarize, with any effort at doing so being doomed to at least partially miss the point. Such will be the case until those who know you either relent and assimilate with the one true fandom or stop talking to you altogether. Be warned though, your friendships forged before you become a “homestuck” might not withstand the barrage of references to and praises for the comic that you’ll be compelled to unleash. The caffeine-fuelled trance you’ll go through before you’re done with the 8,000-plus pages of Homestuck will be completely worth it. If you found the above quote hilarious, I recommend putting your life on hold for the next couple of weeks and heading here. ![]() The hook filed for divorce from that shit and is now seeking custody of the hook and the shit’s two kids.” It’s like shit wants nothing to do with that hook. ![]()
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