getting into homestuck in 2024
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0:00 - 1:55 Intro
1:55 - 3:57 What is Homestuck?
3:57 - 5:07 Rise of the Homestuck Fandom
5:07 - 7:00 Homestuck Cosplayer Incidents
7:00 - 9:08 Fandom Shenanigans + Resurgence
9:08 - 10:03 Homestuck 2
10:03 - 13:56 What do I know about Homestuck?
13:56 - 15:50 Getting Into Homestuck Now
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A million times yes to a Let's Read of Homestuck. Honestly, I feel like 2024 is the best time to get into Homestuck because there's so much less fandom drama and you can read the whole comic to completion without needing to worry about updates.
I do suggest though that you read the version using the Unofficial Homestuck Collection as it preserves and fixes a lot of issues with the online version, notably flash's death.
I was looking for a comment talking about the homestuck collection-
Yeah, you can’t read some of the most important parts due to flash shutting down and the official homestuck website preserving it terribly lol
Also that slur replacement mod may come in handy. Stuff hasn't aged well.
yes the collection is 100% necessary
definitely agree on using the unofficial collection. nt just for the flash replacement, but also for other mods like slur replacement
@@merobiba413 When it comes to homophobia, I, as a gay man, think the slur replacement is bad. Being a homophobic douche is integral to Dave's character arc. And John being a homophobic douche is also integral to Dave's character arc.
I'm iffy on the ableist stuff too. For the first five acts of the comic, yeah it's just the problem of the times. But when Caliborn says it it's part of his character because he's an asshole. But I'm not neurodivergent, or at least not diagnosed as anything, so I have less of a horse in that race.
ah yes homestuck.... the year was 2012..... aka the year that i wore my terezi cosplay to high school completely unironically
You did a Terezi cosplay? Lucky, I would cosplay if I had the materials
Gonna do this on Halloween 2024
Last year I dressed up as tavros for Halloween at school! Except without the grey paint and it was just shitty painted cardboard horns and black jacket and a black shirt with the Taurus symbol taped to it lol
No way!! I wore my Terezi cosplay to my high school too! Although I wore it for a spirit day thing. Still got got a lot of stares tho😂
omg that's so funny! give your younger self an hug
I’m sure the homestuck community is lovely, but I’m terrified of the comic
I heard the comic was longer than the English bible, which is why I never read it personally, but I still learned what I could about the characters and stuff so it would still be fun to rp
@@snowflakewhite5068most of what I know comes from word of mouth from other people. Someone could come up to me and say the kids went back in time and assassinated jfk and I’d be like uh huh that makes sense
NO THE FUCK WE AREN'T, it is literally the opposite LMAO. Some people are fine but the overall community is... rough around the edges.
@snowflakewhite5068
Word count? Only about 10 600 words more. Nothing too crazy.
@@chaosbeam4654 fair lol
I wrote one of my big essays for my class about homestuck being transmedia and now my big name professor is forced to read about it.
Good job!
You are doing God’s work
nice! I once did a project about Homestuck in relation to mixed media art/storytelling
lets get this comic taught in our curriculums 💀
I should definitely write a Homestuck essay for a class next year lol
12:45 I see you've had the universal experience of the homestuck friend explaining troll romance to you in depth
I’ve given my friends this experience, not in depth though because we had limited time to talk in the first place.
I've been the friend who gave it
My friend gave me this experience and now I shall carry the same cycle
It was my then-partner 😭😭 i even got the whole bodily-fluids-in-a-bucket talk 🥲 never been more confused
sometimes i forget homestuck is just a silly interactive comic, if the fandom wasn't so weird, a lot more people would get into it
I'm not so sure. You've got to have a weird webcomic to have a weird fandom.
yeah i've thought about that before too. like, the comic is definitely weirder than most webcomics out there, but there's defintiely much weirder stuff to be found in pieces of media that aren't as infamous as Homestuck
@@savythenillerwaffer it IS weird and silly. but its also great.
Im not so sure. As much as theres strange incidents that have gone down in the homestuck fandom...its hardly any different to any other fandom. Every long existing fandom has at least one crazy ass thing thats gone down in it that suddenly makes it the "weird" fandom.
@@sarafontanini7051 Agreed 😎👍
My most insane HS story is that once, my High school teacher gave us the task to write an essay/paper on literally any topic we liked. I chose Troll Romance. She gave me a perfect score and when I asked what she thought she laughed and said "It was definitely fun to read"
Can you post it in a Google Doc? Asking for a friend. 😅
@@WilltheHedgehog02 Oh it's on spanish since I am from Mexico, but sure? I'm sure I must have some copy of it saved somewhere haha
"I think he's also friends with eridan" was my favorite part of the video /lh
That one made me choke ngl
mine too lmao
it made me laugh so hard😭
i laughed so hard at that lmao like girl no...
i love how this fandom skewed eridan and solluxes relationship so much that this is what an outsider sees of them
As a Homestuck newbie, you have no idea how much it means to me to have a fandom creator talk about it and actually be interested in it! Most creators only refer to it as a cringe part of their past they don’t want to talk about. Welcome to the community Coley! 😊
Modernstucks stick together! :D
welcome to the fandom, modernstucks. as a fan who's been here since 2012, we love seeing more people get into this wonderful comic. i promise we're not as bad as most people say haha.
@@kurokura8379 Yeah dw, I’ve already been here for what is soon to be 2 years now, and it’s great. I just call myself a Modernstuck because Y’know. Post-2010’s lol.
There's actually quite a few videos on it but I found only so many were respectful so I havent watched all of what's available. I have a playlist for stuff I've watched on it lol to keep track
I've been here for ten months and yeah I have the same sentiment
Homestuck was most definitely a thing that existed
It still exists
NO DON'T DO IT! RUN WHILE YOU CAN
THE ERIDAN THEMED PROFILE LMAO ITS TOO LATE FOR YOU /j /lh
Eridan dont ruin this, i need current content of homestuck
Too late...
Save yourself! If not for your sake, spare your viewers!
Fjgjgu ur profile says it all (i say as if i didnt use to be obsessed w the pyropes)
The fact how I started getting into homestuck 4 days ago AND THIS GOT POSTED RN IS SUCH A BLESSING-
No, bc same! I started reading it only a couple of months ago!
Just in case, it is recommended to read it in the homestuck unoficial collection since the flash elements of the original comic are much better preserved than in the oficial page
i got into it in 2023 , you wont regret it
omg same💀
As a recent homestuck fan (3 years from now) i say this is the worst idea you ever had and you are going to regret it but will not be able to stop, because no one can stop the homestuck
Tavros my boy i love you
Yes, Tav is baby, and so is Mituna
yess for me it was 4 years ago i got into it
I don't forgive Tavros for letting the most relevant character ever bleed to death on a stone slab while she begged him to put her down quickly.
Tavros makes being in the fandom worth it
dude the word fight was right there. missed opportunity
Goddamnit it
The "what do i know about homestuck" part
U started so well but than- U SHOWED DIRK WHEN U TALKED ABOUT DAVE-
I have such an urge to loredump omg
@@W1z4rd_L1z4rd I couldn't withstand the slander against the Strider Shades. it hurt my soul, destroyed it even.
@@W1z4rd_L1z4rdngl im an outsider whos been tryna find ways to break into the homestuck fandom (become a fan of homestuck) so ngl if you wanna loredump im FULLY listening :]
@@zacharybosley1935 as destoryed as dave's shitty swords, in fact
@@zacharybosley1935 could you say it made you lose your head?
I genuinely vouch for the good natured fun of homestuck as a post-series first time read. It certainly had an allure in the moment, but it's way better after all is said and done in the here and now. I also wanna shamelessly shill for anyone who cares about AU's to give the Crow Strider AU a chance if you've read homestuck and weren't satisfied with the original, vanilla series of events, or even just as an alternative extra read after getting through homestuck. It gives a lot of love to the side characters who may come off as underbaked or left behind with no real story conclusion given to them, with a focus on saving as many characters as possible and giving proper sendoffs to everyone who just wouldn't make sense to bring along and alive while still making the story ending plausible and interesting. It also isn't a canon-replacement story, just an adjacent what-if alternative that allows itself to give a happy ending to as many as possible. It's also currently getting its own epilogue, and the AU itself is roughly over 4000 pages, so it's no slouch in terms of size and content to offer. It's a lot less dialogue boxes with lots of text, and more writing on the actual pages itself. It even has a few animations! Give it a try if you like, you only really need a rough understanding of up until the 3 Year Trip in canon to get started.
"vanilla Homestuck"
Just let that phrase sit with you for a minute, folks.
God I LOVE the crow strider au man
crow strider mentioned
based
im a 27 y/o who started reading homestuck at 14. got into it right around when cascade dropped, i think? i wasn't much of a con-goer at all. so i avoided a ton of all that drama... i just had my own little corner of the internet where i posted and shared fanart and reacted to updates alongside everyone else...
so many of us started reading when they were the same age as the kids in the comic. i think thats kinda why the fanbase got such a reputation. middle and high schoolers arent exactly known for their impulse control... or. understanding of what the fuck is appropriate behavior. and a ton of us probably werent supervised on the internet either... just look at any "cringe" fandom with a ton of kids that got into it. ( _coughundertalecough_ )
but like... it really was something like. the first of its kind, in my mind. it changed fandom and con scene as a whole. for everyone. forever. it was huge. homestuck changed my brain chemistry as an artist and a writer. theres a lot wrong with homestuck (to say a lot of it aged like milk would be an understatement, and the writing fell off as act 6 went on way too fucking long) *but theres a lot more to love about it.* the characters are some of the best and most memorable. they're what we all stuck around through long hiatuses for.
i will always recommend it to people who love ttrpgs and world building because neat space alien lore and well written characters aside, the world and mechanics of the world ending game itself is the most interesting. its a self insert dream. (not to mention the massive crossover au potential) and so many creative people used its building blocks to make their own fan adventures that are just as good if not better than their inspirations.
everyone is always joking about homestuck being cringe. homestucks current and former say that all the time. i get that its a bit that homstuck is the worst. but god damn it, ill say it with my whole chest, *homestuck is good actually.* we can say it, guys. its okay.
Some aspects of the comic, like the flash games, weren't preserved well on the official site, but "the unofficial homestuck collection" lets you download everything as it originally was!
I JUST STARTED GETTING INTO HOMESTUCK HOW IS THE UNIVERSE LIKE THIS?!?!?!?!?!!?!
Me too!! I started it not too long before 4/13 lmao
I mean this years 4/13 but yknow
I got into Homestuck in 2019, and every so often the brainrot grabs me once again. I still love it, despite its many.... many flaws. There's definitely some events I choose to pretend don't exist. Including the Epilogues and Sequel. But damn is it good for fanfics and rp.
What do you mean? The epilogues are perfect.
@@SentientMicrowave-dd7zq I can't tell if you're joking or not
They are the worst thing i have ever read. But thats what i find so impressive about them. All of that is done on purpose. Dirk strider is writing them to piss us of. Thats what makes them funny.
I had a freind who was super into homestuck and when they started texting me in one of the troll typing styles. I was so confused not only because of my dyslexia but because of the use of numbers for letters. I had to beg them to text normally because I had no clue what they were sending me.
Diving into a new fandom AND doing a full read through of a decades-long project is a big commitment, and especially for our entertainment??? Coley is one of our strongest soldiers for real 🥺💙💙
COLEYDOESTHINGS HOMESTUCK VIDEO I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED
SAME
Summoning time yy
Hi nepetaaa
@@Faunadoodlezhi nepeta number 2
Yes nepeta cult
Ahahahaha, old massive Kanaya/Rose fan here. I used to be active in the fandom back then and was always waiting for updates. Was there when Homestuck broke the Internet. When they got married, it was wild experience. Maybe I should try drawing them again just for old time sake. I've only read the original Homestuck though. Maybe i should try reading their spin-offs and sequels...
If you're going to read it, I'll be looking forward for it, just to see your reaction.
Do not read the epilogues or beyond canon if you're a die-hard RoseMary fan. a lot of ships get thrown through the cosmic washing machine, and despite all the timeline fuckery, there does not appear to be a single version of that ship that is doing well at present. It's a whole thing, and a lot of people were pressed about it.
@zacharybosley1935 Oh no, really?? Dang, that's a bummer. Guess I can ignore those if I want to keep my RoseMary happy ending. Thank you for the heads up.
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As a recent Homestuck fan, yeah ,these fandom wild, but still a cool one 👍
coley, dear… I fear you may reignite the fandom spark
Fun Fact, according to Homestuck, this is the year the world starts to end. I wasn't a part of Homestuck in its heyday either, I mostly absorbed from the sidelines because so many of my friends loved it. I probably got into it legitimately during Covid. The Let's Read Homestuck videos were my saving grace, I didn't have the time or the attention span to sit down and actually read it all. Since reading it for myself, I've discovered that I actually really enjoy it. Best of luck to you!
As someone who also got into Homestuck really late (2022), I'm excited to see what you think of it! For reading it, I'd recommend downloading the Unoffical Homestuck Collection and using that - Homestuck used a lot of flash back in the day so this is the best simulation of that.
Also I can totally see Coley being a space player like her Trollsona is, considering her whole channel is about art and writing and creating things.
I’m fucking SCREAMING over kanaya the sorority girl
PSA There's a download key version of homestuck that restores the flash games and preserves OG uncensored pre VIZ comic,
You can also use ruffle
I'm still into Homestuck personally, never got into cosplay or anything, but I would rp about it to friends, the only crazy Homestuck thing I knew was the sharpy thing, none of the other things like the spiting in a bucket, ew
Let's Read Homestuck! DO IT, COLEY! If you have some friends who want to do silly character voices with you EVEN BETTER!
Homestuck's OST is also really good, highly recommend.
I got into Homestuck in the Gigapause year (2014) when I was an early 20-something. Kept myself out of fandom spaces so I never got to see/experience the shenanigans that the greater fanbase was up to (much to the relief of my friends with Tumblr accounts).
Got into making retrospective fact/theory videos shortly after the original comic's wrap up and I still do reactions to Homestuck Beyond Canon to this day. It's been a fun decade!
Hope my fellow Homestucks and Homestuck-Tubers treat you well! Good luck!
This really needs to be pinned.
I read homestuck during the pandemic because I knew there would be SO many fanfics that altogether they would sustain me during the lockdown.... then it was my first year of university and i went into it as an obsessed homestuck
mcyt and dream smp for me during the pandemic 😭i can never leave my roots now
The sharpie and alcohol bath story helped me diagnose why I was getting sick at work when all my coworkers (doctors!!) couldn't figure out what was wrong with me and I had to take 2 pregnancy tests. So a medication I was on reacts negatively to any tiny ingestion of alcohol, even a sip of mouthwash. I was sanitizing my hands so much that midway thru my shift, I had absorbed enough alcohol to equal a tiny sip, which was enough to react with my medication. I switched to hand washing for the rest of the week I had to take it and everything was fine. So this famous homestuck cosplay story saved me from a week of hugging the toilet and I'll be forever grateful (and tell my patients that work in Healthcare that excessive hand sanitizer use counts as alcohol consumption when it comes to medication side effects lol)
I got into Homestuck relatively late (2014, just before GAME OVER). As someone in their 30s i was bemused by its super young fandom because the references are SO Early Millennial that i wonder how much of it went over people's heads.
i joined really late, like in early 2022 late. but yeah there has been a huge resurgence lately with the requiem cafe and hsbc coming back. 2023 was big year for homestucks!!
I got into Homestuck via Hiveswap and Friendsim, so I was pretty late to the party, but got to watch the original Homestuck 2 patreon implosion. One thing that is, unfortunately, worth noting is that, while the original Homestuck 2 team did, absolutely, face relentless and unwarranted harassment, they were apparently also deeply dysfunctional internally, culminating with their creative director trying to silence a CZcams essayist - SarahZ - with legal threats.
I feel like I have one of the weirder Homestuck fan experiences because it was mostly defined by having literally no one to talk to about the story. Like I walked in pretty green some time in 2013 (the Gigapause had only started a few weeks prior), got lost in the sauce and loved all the bandcamp albums but I’d ask people ‘hey, have you heard of Homestuck?’ and *no one did*. There were the old forums but I never got too deep into them, mostly looking at and dipping my toe into making fan art/a fan troll for myself (and much like with some people and sonic, homestuck was the series where I was willing to really begin stretching my artistic muscles, so I’ll always appreciate it for that). I fell off some time in 2016 as I lost the plot a bit as the climax approached but I still find it funny that my memory of the time is just ‘that one fandom I wasn’t able to talk with anyone about.’
COLEY NO. TURN BACK BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. THIS IS MY ONLY WARNING.
I appreciate you taking one for the team by volunteering to do a Let’s Read. I was terrified of Homestuck fandom back in the day, and haven’t been able to brave tipping my toes in since.
It's very fair of you giving it a shot again.
I tried to get into it when I o was in highschool round the 2010's and had to stop at Rose's introduction cause english was my second language and i had to open up a dictionary tab to know what she was saying. Discouraging at the time but years later when i heard it was completed and i was depressed from burnout and quitting a job i gave it another shot. Especially since i had run through the undertale fandom and saw that toby fox was also involved in it.
I read it for half a month, skipping over recaps,even though they were kind of funny and skimming words at times. It was great for opening my mind to several new concepts and I got to meet great friends through fanfiction. Steer clear of fandom drama and you'll do great.
Homestuck also has many super talented and dedicated fic writers on ao3!! If you do get into the comic, I suggest checking out Unda's fics! They've written four really long fics (~1mil wc) that are probably in my favourite fics of all time
I remember hearing someone say something along the lines of "Some fandoms today wouldn't survive the Homestuck fandom when it was at it's peak" and as someone that wasn't ever in Homestuck but has absolutely heard about it, I agree completely (heard the quote in late 2021/early 2022 if I remember right, and it still rings true today). I unfortunately don't remember who said the quote, if I did I would absolutely give credit.
I was never part of the convention circuit because I couldn't afford to go, BUT MY DUDES. THE FANWORKS WERE INSANE. To this day, some of my favorite fics are Homestuck.
And there were just SO MANY ships, several of which were even wlw, which is something you don't even get today. They were so creative, and the way they expanded on different characters ranged from ridiculous to mind blowing.
I would be so down for a readalong, if you've got it in you. Oh, it would be chaotic.
i got started reading homestuck in 2023 and finished it early 2024 and im very excited
same I started late 2023
me too
me three!
same, read the whole thing in January, it was a trip
As someone who's been into fandom for 20 years - a majority of my life - I too never got into homestuck. So don't feel too bad for missing out. But you got me curious about it now.
Got into Homestuck around the start of act 6. Mostly because of Let’s Read Homestuck.
I’m still one today. It has its issues, but I still think is a 9.5/10, and I consider 9’s to be masterpieces. Can’t wait to see your journey!
a lets read sounds awesome! despite what people say, homestuck is a very very good story and while its got its problems, its got some of my favorite worldbuilding, character dynamics/relationships, and foreshadowing/symbolism that ive seen in a narrative. i hope you enjoy your read through!!
also for the last question, i enjoy homestuck. while i was mostly into it circa 2020-19, it made a lasting impact on me, including beginning to identify as nonbinary and taking a name from one of the characters. while im very much into utdr and the mother series atm, i occasionally read some davekat fics or any fics that include hal lmao
tl;dr: i love homestuck, i love vriska, was around in 2012, but got into it in 2022: so i'm technically a new homestuck; excited to see you read homestuck!
so when i was little (around 2012) my older sister was very into homestuck so she showed me most of the flashes (video animations/ s pages) and had me listen to most of the music. years later, (2022) i randomly had sburban jungle stuck in my head (although i could not remember that name at the time) and i was like "what is that from?? home...homestuck??" so i looked it up, and i found it, and the moment i saw john egbert stand in his room, i was hit with nostalgia, and when (s) john took a bite of that apple, i was in love with the comic. when my sister realized i was reading homestuck, she was like "oh my gosh. i didn't think you would remember that, i didn't show *that* much of the comic to you" and then she reread it and showed it to her husband, and we got into it together.
i can't say that i was part of the old homestucks because i was too young to know what was happening, but i can say that i was there for the release of cascade, and being super excited for it due to my sister also being excited for it. id say i'm a new homestuck because 2022 was the first time i'd ever read homestuck and consumed it not as a 6 year old.
i think this is kind of concerning to say but homestuck kind of shaped my life, because i mean i was pretty young and i was watching gamzee kill everyone. but i remember being so into the music and the art, and nowadays those two things are the only thing i can think of. i'm learning how to play homestuck music on instruments and not a day goes by where i don't draw at least one homestuck character in my notebooks for school. also, younger me was obsessed, and i mean, OBSESSED, with vriska. i remember thinking that she was just the coolest person i have ever seen, and i watched (s) make her pay and (s) flip on REPEAT. probably not the best hyperfixation and probably why i am the way that i am now (vriska is still my favorite character, and no, vriska did a ton of things wrong (but also was trying to do things right), and that's why i love her [ᵇᵘᵗ ᵗᵃᵛʳᵒˢ ᵈᵉˢᵉʳᵛᵉˢ ᵇᵉᵗᵗᵉʳ])
i just got two other friends into homestuck and they love it so i just have a mini homestuck group
i think that 2024 homestucks are pretty chill and it's exciting to see people get into it without getting constantly bashed with the "sins" of the old homestucks. i look forward to any videos you make on your read of homestuck and i sincerely hope you find at least one thing in it that's interesting!
ahhhh man idk i just practically wrote my life story and i did not read over it so if something makes no sense sorry lol
We must revive this fandom! We can revolt! We can seize the means of Honestuck for the populace!
DeviantArt days was full of Homestuck never even read the comic but the characters are everywhere.
I think I screamed at the thought of Dream SMP/L'Manburg being the first thought in Coley's mind when it came to disks. Fucking amazing!
Coley, I'll give you a heads-up/clarification about the disks. Homestuck is a very meta story and has lots of references to RPG gaming mechanics and coding. When they talk about the 'disks', they mean both in-universe and meta-wise. Dave's planet is a disk/record player and the physical copies of the SBURB game that the kids had and Hussie has. Yes. The creator is canonically part of the comic. He did it in his socialist clown visual novel too.
P.S: Yeah, I'm still a homestuck. I joined the fandom in 2020 and watched the *ENTIRE* disaster with What Pumpkin, Hussie leaving, Hiveswap drama, FriendSim drama, and Beyond Canon. It was such a wild ride... I still have whiplash from it.
I'm absolutely looking forward to this. I joined the Fandom pretty late after meeting some sweet homestucks at a con, so I wasn't around for too much of the craziness, so from my perspective homestuck is just a really cool comic with a pretty nice fanbase.
Hi there! Just wanted to let you know for when you do read through homestuck, there is unfortunately some usage of ableist slurs, so if you intend to make a video out of it or are uncomfortable with reading slurs, I highly recommend installing the Homestuck archive and downloading the mod that removes the slurs! The archive also has working versions of the games and stuff, since on the actual website it's all just youtube videos since flash is gone now
i'm too young to really remember that much about homestuck when it was popular, but i have a vivid memory of being 7-8 in the 2010s and finding this weird song on youtube that i would force everyone at school to listen to and dance to on repeat. i specifically remember the video was of a grey cartoon cat girl and everyone in the comments talking about "trolls" which i was really confused by. some time ago it occurred to me i was making random people dance to a homestuck song/soundtrack in elementary school and i havent been the same since
OMG FINALLY A HOMESTUCK VIDEO YIPPIE
Good luck! Don't feel embarrassed if you end up skim/skipping some segments
most people end up doing that to some extent
and listening to a Let's Read helps a lot, the most popular one covers a lot of the first half of it, and has become the baseline voice interpretation for the characters
I was in the fandom shortly after Cascade, because my older siblings (one who read it since the ACT 1) showed me a video and really liked it, and now it's one fandom we got into. I am not in the USA so we only HEARD of these stories and there was some distrust about it because anime people only heard about the stuff, but nothing really happened in the convention scene in my city. Cosplayers were allowed to continue cosplaying, I never heard of them being banned, I saw cosplayers WAY past the webcomics prime.
I was a part of the boom of new fans that got into Homestuck during the pandemic a few years back. It was around my birthday which is kinda funny, and I had heard about it for the first time on a forum I was briefly a part of. I decided to look it up and started reading it, going into it completely blind not knowing anything about the story or the fandom's past reputation.
After a hyperfixation-fueled two weeks of binge reading, not getting enough to eat or sleep (and at one point even developing a fever lol) I had come out the other side with my brain chemistry permanently altered. I can't even look at astrological signs or candy corns the same way again.
Jokes aside, while the webcomic's definitely very weird and some parts didn't really age well, it's still a story that means a lot to me with a fandom that helped get me through a really rough time. So glad if you decide to check it out, I think it's worth it even if just to understand its wide influence on fandom spaces
i used to be bigtime into homestuck back in the day..... like 2013-2014. i was OBSESSED w it, vriska was my favorite character. i'd cosplay her, i was even working on making her god tier outfit for a cos (never finished it tho), and my friend (who liked terezi) and i would like. larp as the characters whenever we hung out together LMFAO it was so fun. thankfully never did any sharpie baths or any of the wild shit, worst i did was unsealed gray bodypaint at home LOL
I was never into Homestuck and my only experience was just being totally confused by the grey cosplayers. It’ll be interesting to learn about from you.
I would definitely tune in for a read along for homestuck
Oh gog… Homestuck will forever haunt me. Whether it be looking at buckets, grey paint and sharpies, or hearing everyday terms that were used in Homestuck differently.
me and some friends who happen to also be homestucks are doing a homestuck book club to reconnect with our internet heritage
First of all: welcome to hell
Now that that's out of the way, have fun reading Homestuck! It truly is one of the comics of all time. Make sure you use the Unofficial Homestuck Collection otherwise the flash stuff won't work
I first tried to read Homestuck a couple of times during high school and never finished it, but last year I finally buckled down and got through the whole thing. Now these silly little guys control my every thought :D
Frankly, the only things I've ever had to do with anything Homestuck-related are this video and Sarah Z's retrospective of it and I'm just fine with that.
Condolences for your loss, from a fellow Homestuck
I would absolutely LOVE a homestuck read-through/along, I'm kinda addicted to them and the ones I'm currently watching are about to end, so it would also be a really good timing for me personally and for the small crowd that enjoyed them. Also, I can't think of a better youtuber to read it, since you're THE fandom expert (I have another personal pick, even two, but they're less ingrained in the fandom culture and don't do any content besides stuff about serialized shows, which hs isn't).
I wish you luck on this journey, enjoy the adoration, frustration, confusion, and whatthefuckery of homestuck
I started reading a bit after the big boom back in 2013, have loved the media ever since. Though I never got to participate at conventions, I lived vicariously through people cosplaying and doing panels, as well as rp in different corners of the internet.
Can't wait to see how you feel about so many things, it's gonna be one hell of a ride
Hell yeah! I was a Homestuck back in the day and I have some great memories. I never encountered much of the craziness that gets shared around online. Groups at cons were huge in the early 2010s, but after a couple of bad incidents early on (prior to me entering the fandom) everyone learned to seal their body paint, so it was all good. I met some great people, went to Homestuck prom, and won a photo contest with my Kanaya cosplay and got free wigs. Now I just want to go to a con. Haven't been since 2015 because of health issues and moving states away from my fandom friends. I'm trying to organize a return to Otakon this year--the 20th anniversary of my first attendance. (God. Ugh. So old.)
Almost spit out my drink when you said Vriska did nothing wrong, that's a piece of homestuck history I'd rather forget lol
All jokes aside, it's never too late to get into the fandom. Even though it's not the absolute whirlwind it was from 2012-2014, it's still full of wildly creative people making all sorts of cool stuff, from fanart and cosplay to music and podcasts to entire video games!
If you want a slice of what the fandom's up to, you should stop by SAHcon this summer! It's an annual virtual homestuck convention, and it's one of the few days a year that the whole fandom comes together to give it their all creating the coolest stuff! (there's often panels done by official artists and writers, the last couple years we got professional VAs who started in the fandom to do a panel, people do discussions on cosplay and writing and whatnot, there's a musical every year, all sorts of stuff!)
i read HS in its hayday and took part in the fandom, but reading it as it came out was definitely a very different experience compared to reading it as a completed work. i wouldn't say one experience is better than the other because (imo) HS is absolutely better as a binge experience than an ongoing work but upd8 culture really can't be beat in terms of sheer hype. i reread HS in its entirety in 2021 and for some reason i just. fell in love again. my thoughts on certain characters and scenes changed so drastically in a way that only 10 years of life experience can make happen. others have said it but bamboshu's unofficial homestuck archive is an absolute must-have if you're gonna read it, the level of care and detail they put into preserving this piece of internet culture is just nothing short of admirable. also, no shame in watching voxus's let's read, a lot of their voices became fanon staples and freaking DANTE BASCO is in it. i can't get over that even all these years later. i wish you luck on your reading journey, if you do some kind of let's read or a book club-style vlog of you reading it i'd eat it up, how i'd love to be able to read HS for the first time again. rosemary's wedding changed me as a person, fundamentally.
Hey good luck on reading homestuck! That's too bad flash is gone you won't get that same experience but wishing you luck! Just keep reading through Act 1 I promise it gets great!
As for me I was a 12 years old french preteen we had a smaller con homestuck community but it was there and we were more chill (but still cringe). Back in the day the fandom was so rich but I had no idea English cosplayers could be such a nightmare
I remember crying on a break up with lyricstuck because homestuck was our thing
The Unofficial Homestuck collection has all the flash games and such, preserved!
@@finn7819 Oh my Jegus, for real? It's homestuck but not hosted on the original pages or is it fan canon stuff?
Getting into Homestuck in 2024 is just as crazy as getting into the Merlin fandom
You should make a video about that
Oh my, what happened now? To be honest, I just look at the fandom for time to time.
What is the Merlin fandom? He is just the wizard in Le Morte de Arthur and other retellings of the Arthur story.
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 it's a show from the BBC
@@TemperanceSunlight nothing much other than the fact that there has been no new content in 12 years. Though recently the official Twitter account started posting again and we don't know why
@@elenacottica386 Oh yeah, I remember that. I watched it. Why is the fanbase so big?
For someone who didn't read Homestuck, you explained the quadrants better than most people who have read Homestuck.
Also I wish more people knew about classpecting/god tiers, that's honestly my favorite part of the comic/fandom
I was looking for a comment that said what I was thinking!
I wonder if the person who made the fantroll was thinking of a classpect--I mean I do see a space hoodie, but I wonder if they had a class and moon in mind?
I might have said light, because knowledge in terms of fandom and it's history, but at the same time I'm feeling the space vibes. Besides, I'm biased towards my own aspect.😅
i was born when you first started to try to read homestuck, i'm 13 and it is one of my special interests right now
I would love to see a read-along, a review, or check-in! It would be great to see your thoughts as you go and how you feel after learning more. It was fun hearing what you know now and got right vs what's a bit misconstrued.
this feels genuinely illegal to be THIS early.
I never got into homestuck either mostly because I heard the hiatuses were hell. Now it's being released in book format, but I will gladly accompany you in your journey. Especially if you use the Unofficial Collection with the preserved Flash animations. Also Homestuck was at least partially responsible for Undertale's popularity because Toby Fox wrote music for Homestuck and people were already familiar with his work.
Modernstuck here! I was a month old when the webcomic started, so its not surprising why i didnt start sooner haha
I salute you on your endeavor to read Homestuck and I'm looking forward to updates!! I was in the fandom back in the day and cosplayed both Feferi and Jade. 💗
homestuck had the WORST grip on me in middle school and anytime i hear about it i cringe just a little because of how i acted when i was into it
but ive been wanting to look back into it and do re-read because its been like, 8 years now, and im curious to see what i might have missed. if you did a read along i would totally watch that
My Homestuck anecdote is that when I first joined Twitter in 2011, the first time I had my moment of "I hate this damn place" was in 2012 during the Homestuck boom. It completely soured me on it and I never looked back, nowadays, (and after quitting Twitter in 2020) I don't dislike it, I just don't care for it, but it is impressive how it's one of the longest written works of fiction in the English language.
i´ve been a homestuck for almost two years and i think most of the fandom is reall nice! like there are not as many people as before but even then i still find homestucks everywhere i go (online) and as someone from chile, a country which never really experienced the comic´s boom, im surprised to see that it still has a small, but dedicated fandom here! i read it back in 2022, but i was planning on re-reading cause i forgot most of the stuff that happened lmao. so yeah i feel like you (and anyone who is interested in it) should def read homestuck :3
don't do it, you're young, you have so much to live for
Oh no, I have been summoned here, NOT AGAAAAAIN!
12:06 "I think he's also friends with eridan" 😭💀
DO IT DO IT DO IT OH MY GOD
JOIN US
fr though, i used lets read homestuck to get through a big chunk of the comic! personally i would say read the trickster arc and everything after that manually, but thats just me!
ANYWAYS IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS UGH
Dude please do a read along xD
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hi, long time homestuck here
i got into it in 2015 and was absolutely rabid for like 2 years. then i stopped being a teenager and relaxed. many long time fans have read homestuck 8 or more times, ive only done it twice, and havent done so since the demise of flash. i do, however, have installed the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, which is the definitive way to experience it today (hell, even hussie has it linked in their linktree).
theres "mods" you can install for the homestuck reader, and i HIGHLY reccomend using "text color adjustments". many characters write/speak in bright text color, which is awful to read on a bright background. the opposite is true for characters with dark text colors. (the background does change color a few times in the story)
looking forward to your readthrough.
-liz
I was a bit young to be into homestuck in it’s hay day so I got into it after seeing Jacksepticeye’s play through of hiveswap back in 2016 and homestuck hasn’t let me go since- you can’t fight it- you can’t fight the homestuck
I tried getting into it because of all the hype on Tumblr, and I had a very hard time understanding what it was all about. I remember going to the website and I genuinely thought it was supposed to be like a game or an interactive novel, but because of my cluelessness and laziness, I barely made it passed the first scene! 😣 Also, Sarah Z made very in-depth videos about Homestuck that managed to get her into trouble with the people behind Homestuck! 😂😭
in 2020 or 2021 my best friend and her family came up ffrom out of state for my birthday to visit. I saw a jade harley sticker on my friends sisters water bottle. that was my very sheltered from the internet at the time, last year of highschool gen z introduction to homestuck. i started to read it a year later. im still going through the comic at a snails pace, but im a proud homestuck fan today and am going to do a terezi cosplay at my first ever comicon this summer. I also feel like i missed out in the fandom because i was just too young. Good luck to anyone just getting into homestuck! the fandom is alot more accepting and laid back now from what I hear, and new fans are always welcomed!
I got into Honestuck late.
I'd seen about it before, some webcomic featuring a strange horned fairy woman with a seven spotted eye, but never really investigated further.
I would later watch many Tumblr readings by PM Seymour, where he mentioned some things as Homestuck references. Out of curiosity, I checked it out. That was a few years ago, now it's in my brain forever actually. Gamzee made me realize why I like clowns, the whole deal with the zodiac stuff made me figure out I'm a virgo, same as Kanaya, which is rad for reasons I don't want to spoil, & now I occasionally draw things such as Signless with big naturals & Doc Scratch with dumptruck ass.
Dude I would totally watch a read-through! I never got into it either, and this would mean I could finally understand what my friends were talking about way back when! Thank you, Coley! 💗💗💗
i hope homestuck makes a comeback because i truly love the content people in the fandom make, the fanfics, fanart, cosplays, panels at conventions ect it was all so creative!!
however you want to approach sharing your homestuck experience with everyone is fine c: jsut do whatever you feel is best c:
personally I got into homestuck a while back via a fan dub of the comic, i had heard of it offhand but didn't know too mcuh beyond some vague plot points and poorly rememebred characters and moments, so when i saw the fandub on youtube i thought it was time to try it.
I was hooked. I loved how unique it was, making full use of its status as a webcomic to be experimental and multimedia. My fave characters are Jade, Rose, karkat and one character I don't thin you named so I won't spoil.
remember to read the pesterlogs (you'll know what they are don't worry) and don't skip the intermissions they actually matter and cna be fun.
You thinking that the four main kids had elements as if they were in the avatar series is so funny LMAO 😭😭😭 I would definitely love to watch a read along series of your though! It’s never too late to join and I always love when new people become part of this fandom
14:03 the scratched disk actually gave us a different set of kids