Some people dislike it
Some people like it
It's mainly that first one though

I'm indifferent toward it.
People like what they like.

>>4801258
If I wasn't on my phone I would post a reaction picture of a black man smiling. Oh blue.

>>4801300
Hang on, I haven't finished.

Personally, I love Homestuck.
But it's not for everyone and that's cool with me

I'd like to cosplay Aradia but I think all that body paint would feel really grody on my skin after a few hours.

I like it. Hussie's humor matches mine pretty well (ridiculous bullshit mixed with the driest of dry humor), and the way the plot jumps around like it does is really similar to how I think (I'm pretty scatterbrained and always thinking about all the circumstances of any given situation at once), so I personally found it really enjoyable to find a comic that is presented in the same format that my brain works in.

But I can see why people wouldn't like that and I can respect that. And I hate the fanbrats who can't tell that there are more characters than the trolls and the kids.

sage though, because I know OP is looking for an argument :/

I hate it. It's a poorly done flash animation that claims to be a webcomic. It's also loved by: idiots from /v/, weeaboo hipsters, hetalia fans and people who have never read a webcomic before

Someone tell me what Homestuck is about.

>>4801361
it's all about you
you gettin' laid with loads of smoking hawt chicks

>>4801364
>Homestuck
>Getting laid

>>4801342
>I know OP is looking for an argument

Not exactly, more or less I'm trying to decide whether I read it or not.

>>4801364
-_-
it's not though, I have read some of it. IT'S NOT ABOUT ME AT ALL

>>4801371
Don't

>>4801368
I don't understand but alright dude

>>4801375
Alright, it's pretty much about this kid, John, who starts playing a game which then starts interacting with his life.
He has to play the game, otherwise he dies.
And it's pretty cool.
It gets good when Dave comes in.

I liked Problem Sleuth, so I was pretty excited when I heard the creator had a new comic. The artwork is nice, but I just can't get into it. Homestuck Secrets is always good for a laugh tho.

>>4801371
I read the first couple of pages years ago when it first started picking up in popularity and I thought it was extremely dumb, but then I saw some amazing cosplay of it here and decided to give it a second chance. I was hooked by the end of the first act. It take a while for the action to start, but once it does, it gets really interesting. The tumblr fanbase is a hive of horrors and is notoriously batshit though; don't go anywhere near it.

>>4801371
Please do, but not because of the fandom, not to spite people, and not to be edgy or hip or up-to-date with the next big thing, because unless you're actually curious about the story, none of those reasons are good enough to pull you through the crazy plot and even crazier fandom.

It's fun, but it takes dedication. Most people drop out of the first few acts because they don't understand why a silly boy and his little friends are derping around their houses figuring out some game. It's the equivalent of watching that kid on Legends of the Hidden Temple constantly mess up while yelling at the screen because you could do so much better. The plot gets pretty crazy, but not for a while, so please be aware of that before you get into it.

And you know what? You might just end up not liking it, and that's fine. You might not be able to sit through the first three acts, and that's fine too. You're not missing out on some phenomenal piece of work like the stupider Homestuck fans are making it out to be. Give it a go, and if you think you can pull through to the most recent update, go for it.

Oh, but if anything, take a listen to some of the music albums because if there's anything really incredibly solid about Homestuck, it's the music. The soundtracks of varied, fun, full of heart, and pretty catchy.

>Comic that is a job in itself to read
>People on internet with no lives
No wonder it's so popular!

>>4801415
>>4801421
>Read several hundred pages in order to get to something that's okay at best

I enjoy it.

Some of the fandom really scares me.

I really hate how the haters get SO vocal at you for liking it, but I hate even more that the fans get so OMG BUT HOW DO YOU NOT LIKE HOMESTUCK JUST READ THE FIRST 3000 PAGES IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT AT FIRST OMG. What ever happened to "my tastes ≠ your tastes and that is fine" because seriously I could use a dose of that.

I also love the endless sneakers in this series nearly unconditionally, because comfy cosplay shoes are the best.

I also wonder why this photograph >>4801338 is so fucking popular, i mean seriously what.

>>4801387
Hetalia fans and Homestuck fans have a retarded fandom war for some stupid reason. If someone says they like Hetalia and HATE Homestuck (or vice versa), it's best to just disregard their opinion because they're just as crazy as the people they're talking shit about and take their own respective fandom way too seriously. (I like both.)

Do we always have to have these threads?

>Comic with stupid art style
>references for the sake of making references
>forced video game feel to it
>annoying hipster fans
>Fans do lazy cosplays

Man, I liked this comic better when it was Scott Pilgrim

>>4801447
Most of the pages don't have any text or only have a few sentences of text, though. I started liking it once John and Dad had the cakefight, which is really early on in act one, and was addicted by the end of the act.

>>4801447
How many books have you read but ended up not enjoying? It's about the same thing, except for books you actual have full pages of reading, while a good chunk of Homestuck's pages are single images or animations.

In my defense, I started last summer when I really didn't have anything to do haha. I actually think it's really great and I still really really like it, but it's not something I'd rag on others for disliking or feeling ambivalent about. Calm yo tits, anon "stop liking what I don't like" etc.

I still don't really know what the fuck the plot is or why anything in its universe happens but people seem to do creative shit with it and that's cool.

>>4801338
man i wanna cosplay her too. But for me the issue isnt the body paint, it's how to make those horns

I started reading it because I heard there was a pony in it... BUT THEN THE PONY DIES. But I was okay with it because I was interested in the story apart from the pony by the time that happened. I really hope Maplehoof comes back to life somehow though. She was my favorite and she has the best music track.

Fans are the dumbest and most obnxious out there, the comic itself is a massive clusterfuck and the cosplays are usually terrible.

But the music's pretty good sometimes

>>4801513
The easiest way to do it is just to buy these halloween ram/demon horns and paint them. I've seen most Aradias do them that way and it looks fantastic. There are also other people who do custom horns as well. My favorites are Gypsy Rose's because I feel like they're the perfect size and shape, but they're on the pricier side since they're made of latex. Making them isn't that hard either, but you might not want to use the same method as you would the other horns because they can potentially get pretty big and clunky.

Halloween store horns are upper left(~$10), Gypsy Rose's horns are next to that ($79+), the one on the wig head are from the mspadventures etsy ($70+shipping), and the last one is a pair I made myself (~$30, give or take)

>>4801248

I just started

I have no idea what the hell is going on

the only parts I like are the PesterChum logs

I tried to get into it a few times and....I just couldn't. I really don't understand its appeal at all.
And I'm getting really sick of seeing it spread across all my favorite boards/sites. If you want to talk about something you like..cool. Go to the thread/site for it and stop de-railing others.

>>4801613
It's specifically designed to give nerds hard-ons via random references to nerdy things

>>4801553
thank you so much! would I just layer the wig in a specific way to hide the headband?

also may i ask how you made yours? (like what material?)

>still talking about Homestuck

Some People like it
Some People don't like it
Heck there are still people who don't even know what Homestuck is, all they see is gray kids with horns walking around cons

I enjoy it, the soundtrack is pretty good and love Hussies sence of humor . As for the fan base it's like any other, you have good and then you have the bad.

Not much else to say about it

>>4801371

Ah, my bad then. That's usually why people make threads like this. Still, this isn't exactly the board to ask this question if that's all you want to know.

I suggest you give it a try. If you like it, you like it, if you don't, you don't. Please, just don't be a douche about it no matter what your opinion of it becomes.

Homestuck bothers me because it is the ONLY fandom I really cannot understand why anyone likes.

Most things I don't like I understand. I understand why people like Twilight. I understand why they like Star Trek. I understand why they like Hetalia. I understand why they like Lady Gaga. Even though none of these things have any appeal for me at all. I even get why people enjoy Scott Pilgrim. And yes, all these things I gave a fair chance to - most several hours of my life.

But I can't understand Homestuck at all. I read until act three, something that took the best part of an entire day. I smirked maybe twice. I didn't see what could possibly appeal about the art, the humor or the plot.

It bothers me, because I don't get it at all. My taste =/= your taste, I know, but this is the only time in my entire life I just have not been able to understand why you'd have your taste, even if I don't share it.

I hate homestuck because a large chunk of the fanbase are the 13 year olds who go on 4chan and think they're edgy for it

>>4801678
I've posted about this before in length but I'll post again now.
People like Homestuck for the extremely diverse cast and how it actively invites fandom participation; now that it's attained a decent level of popularity, it stays popular because it leeches fans from other 'big' fandoms such as Hetalia and Vocaloid.
Those two fandoms in particular are the ones you'll most often hear brought up in conjunction with Homestuck, and with good reason. Both of those fandoms are reliant on fandom creations. Hetalia, which started out as simple 4koma style comics, BOOMED in popularity because of the extremely diverse cast and the potential for deviation from the canon. Vocaloid, too, was only ever a tool to create music with very little characterization for the mascots. Yet fandom created backstories, different canons, AUs... Everything you could imagine.
Where does Homestuck tie in?
Well, Homestuck combines both of these aspects.
It has the diverse cast of Hetalia with the potential for deviation (doomed timelines), which encourages fans to basically go wild with only loose interpretations of characters. The 'typing quirks' serve as anchors to these characters, which in turn invites fandom to do whatever the hell they want with a known character by ONLY using their typing quirks.
Homestuck's creator no longer uses this feature, but when the comic was first being released up until the reveal of one of the trolls, he also let fans input actions/plot devices/suggestions for the comic which WOULD be implemented. Which, again, invites the fandom.

In other words I think you're analyzing Homestuck the wrong way. It's not popular as it is, per se, for the content precisely -- but rather in the execution of said content.

I say this as a hater of Homestuck though, so take it with a grain of salt.

>>4801640
That's definitely one way to do it. I know most people don't, but it'd probably look a lot better if you did.

I made mine out of a combination of foil/wire (for the core), expandable insulation foam (for the body of the horns- it's a spray-on foam that you can get at hardware stores. I think the brand is "Great Stuff"), and paper mache/paper clay to seal the foam (because the foam is porous- you wouldn't be able to paint on it without it looking like shit haha), and acrylic paint and Mod Podge for the paint job and finish/coating.

The way I attached it was by making a wire headband sort of thing with screws attached to them that would poke out under the wig. Embedded in the horns are "screw anchors" which hold the screws in place. You just screw the horns on and they stay for the rest of the day. The hair tangling is a minor inconvenience, but for the most part, it's very secure and very light.

>>4801454
it's because you're an adorable gamzee and lolita!stuck is always fun.

also lol, did you see this on fandomsecrets?
you have a homosuck stalker~

Can't stand it. The art is hideous, the comic itself is boring, and the fanbase is no better.

>>4801678
Sorry, tl;dr

The art is very tongue-in-cheek. If you're reading for the art, then I'm pretty sure Homestuck isn't for you. Even with the flashes, the "Hussnasty" style, etc. the visual aspect of the series is certainly not it's strongest.

The humor is kind of eclectic. Personally, I really loved the word play and the quirky way of wording things. I like how juvenile certain parts sound, especially the KIds' pesterlogs, and I love the fact that all these 13-year-old kid things like Nic Cage or ponies named Maplehoof or crocodiles that go "naknaknaknak" are coming from a very strange but funny 30-something-year-old guy.

Story-wise, despite it's convoluted nature with it's varying timelines and space-alternate-universe-planet bullshit, it's a pretty typical coming-of-age story. Some parts, like the Kids losing their guardians, have painfully textbook execution, but the story doesn't dwell on that because it know you know that's bound to happen anyway, so it goes off and does something else more amusing, even if it's more pointless.

Like another anon mentioned, it's also very immersive. There's music, a dedicated art team, interactive flashes, cheat codes for those flashes, and movie-like animations that make the entire thing a very interesting experience. A music team update is just as exciting as a story update because it's all a part of the same experience.

I think overall, though, Homestuck has kind of jumped the shark and a lot of that has to do with the fandom and the reputation it's spread. At this point, I wouldn't wish the exposure of it to anyone in any form.

I'm a little biased in my hatred for Homestuck. An ex e-friend of mine used to love Hetalia but one day just up and said she no longer liked it and now liked Homestuck, okay whatever. Well ever since then she completely ignores me and acts like the Homestuck fandom is so pure and wonderful and Hetalia's is all crap. Plus I keep seeing people reference it all over the internet and act so cool because of it.

But I did read some of Homestuck and was bored to death. I was told to just skip to act 4 but said fuck it.

I used to love it, and I still like it, but I kind of wish it would end. It's just time, you know? I want to see what Hussie can do with better practice with pacing.

>>4801804
It's depressing how many times I've heard this story. On one hand, I'm sorry that your friend ditched you- it's awful when a quality relationship is abandoned in favor for the internet flavor-of-the-week. On the other, if she ditched you just for a fucking fandom, maybe she wasn't worth keeping around.

Whoever told you to skip to act 4 was a fucktard. If it was that friend, then you're better off anyway.

I love Homestuck, but I'm not obsessed with it, and I'm actually starting to get tired of the fandom. Especially since it just suddenly exploded and we're getting people from other things who are just making those of us who like it look stupid.
...more stupid than we already look anyways.
It's getting embarrassing tbh.

Who else had a girlfriend who was secretly obsessed with homestuck and when you found out it almost jeopardized your relationship?

I like some of the character designs and humor. Haven't read a single page in months. The fans are quite odd, but some of the Cosplay are quite cute.

And yes, I am the developer of the MSPANotifier. I originally made a program to rip the whole comic, ad free and in it's entirety, for offline reading.

>>4801838
Closest I had was one of my best friends got annoyingly obsessed with it, wouldn't shut up about it and kept trying to force it down my throat (not giving me a single reason to read it other than "it's the best thing ever")

I love it.

...But I hate most of the fandom because jesus CHRIST it's like, back in the beginning, they actually put effort into their art and costumes and fiction and all. Now, you can see what goes on. You've seen the HAMSTEAK circlejerkery. You've seen them at cons. You know how evil they can be.

I like Homestuck but that's my opinion. The fandom is really starting to bother me though. Half of the fandom just needs to calm their tits and stop whining and obsessing over Homestuck like it's some magical thing.

It's just a comic with music and an animation every once in a while. If you don't like it then good for you.

>>4801803
>tl;dr
>wall of text
what a fucking ass.

>>4801848

Yeah that was my girlfriend.. shoving homestuck down my throat, posting gamzee fan-art on her DA, talking about cosplaying with her friends even though she doesn't go to cons..

Jesus be careful when dating cute teenage nerdy girls..

>people actually liking the character designs

I don't understand. At all. And never will.

>>4801851
They're a homestuck fan, what do you expect?

>>4801838
If you would let a shitty webcomic come in the way of your relationship, it must not have been a good relationship to begin with.

If your girlfriend would let a shitty webcomic take her away from the guy she's supposed to be in love with, she probably wasn't a good girlfriend to begin with.

>>4801753
So one aspect of its appeal is the fan participation, which (a) doesn't happen any more, and (b) made the first acts a total fucking mess...

While the other is the diverse cast - even though it will take you about 24 hours of solid reading for the cast to reach beyond 3.

annoying as fuck fandom. good art from fan artists. its a shame such talent is going to waste on such a shitty "comic"

all of the weeaboos from hetalia are in love with it. i cant wait until the stupid fad ends and everyone moves on. every damn con they are everywhere in half assed costumes being obnoxious.

>>4801803
Hello Tim.

Please learn when to "it's" and when to use "its".

Tim, I love you. You are sensible as fuck.

>>4801871
Fuck, my bad. Can I draw you a picture to make up for my incredibly obvious mistake?

>>4801880
Hello again Tim.

I'm pretty sure you'll get it if you try your best.

>>4801858
Oh God, I have stories about teenage weeaboos.

But yeah, the friend was one that was friends with me since before we went to school. Suddenly he reads homestuck and starts tagging me in all these stupid pictures on facebook, getting mad at me for not liking it, trying to imitate characters in both writing and speech. Then he started hanging out with more people like that and it got more annoying.

So one could argue I'm biased

>>4801804

It was a different friend, some Hetalia weeb on skype who told me to skip to act 4. Also that other friend stopped talking to me because I said that Homestuck's fandom was pretty bad as well. She got SO pissed at that and then to prove how mature her fandom is posted a gif of her with troll horns giving the bird.

Yes I'm still butthurt about losing a friend thanks to Homestuck

She also made fun of us for lining Hetalia yaoi even though I've seen her post Homestuck yaoi on her DA

>>4801886
I know the difference, but I guess it was just an oversight, or I just really suck as proofreading my posts.

Here, I don't know what you like but have a delicious It's-It. Better than Klondike bars, by far.

>>4801870
>dave raping john
It's stuff like this. I swear.

The fandom is going to reach Invader Zim levels before long. All these fucking "Alternate Universes" and trends and shit. ...With the exception of Thighhigh-stuck, which was pretty great.

>>4801902
I'm going to derail the thread and say that I used to love motherfucking It's-Its but I have a peanut allergy and they changed the manufacturing several years ago so it's now processed with peanuts. Fuck.

Anyway hey Tim s'goin' on.

Guys.

Imagine if this fandom thing had happened during Problem Sleuth.

>>4801905
>The fandom is going to reach Invader Zim levels before long
Nooo I'm pretty sure it's been there for a while... it's just more apparent now because of the sheer volume of this fucking fandom.

Thighhighstuck is what made me finally ragequit half of my tumblr list and the fandom in general. I followed a bunch of artists to see nice art, not a fucking flood of ugly underage girls prancing around in cheap lingerie from Wal-mart. I also just saw it as a colossal fucking circlejerk for an artist who's gained a lot of popularity in the fandom as of late. I know her and I really like her IRL, but the fanfare she brings with her is pretty overwhelming. Some of my other artist buddies who are friends with her also unfollowed her really quickly haha.

>>4801910
Holy fuck I never considered that. On the one hand it would be cool to meet more people who are into Problem Sleuth because I love it even more than Homestuck. And then on the other hand the creepy yaoi cult that would follow...

Now that I think about it I have enough Problem Sleuth friends. Which is about three.

>>4801899
>Yes I'm still butthurt about losing a friend thanks to Homestuck

join the club, anon. my tumblr dash went from hetalia and persona to homestuck over night. i havent talked to half those people since, even though i try. all of my "tumblr friends" only want to talk to people they can fangirl with, ugh.

How to make homestuck die:
>Get TV Show or Movie Made of it
>Hipster fans bitch that it's not mainstream
>Laugh ass off

Even if you classy folks don't like the art or the comic or the costumes...

You can NOT say bad shit about that music.

That music is great.

>>4801910
Hard to imagine. Problem Sleuth is so unlike Homestuck that I can't imagine any of the filth from Homestuck applying to PS, although for that I am incredibly grateful.

If you hate Homestuck, I'd really give Problem Sleuth a try. Completely different in tone and I think much more suitable for an older and nerdier audience. It's still a clusterfuck because that's just how Hussie rolls, but it's a slightly more sophisticated clusterfuck.

Related tags: 1920's Film Noir, Diplomacy, Theoretical Metaphysics, Hard-boiled detectives, imagination

Homestuck tries way to hard to have a video game feel to it. Hell, its name alone says it all

>>4801899

I'm sorry. My Hetalia friends and I have all agreed that even when we move on to other fandoms we will still be bros. I just can't believe my friend got so mad because I insulted her fandom, I don't throw a bitchfit everytime Hetalia is made fun of after all.

>>4801928
He already confirmed somewhere it's based on Earthbound anyway.

I'm not enamored with it.
The dialogue and character design put me off.
That said, to each his own I suppose....

It has more walls of text than Ctrl+Alt+Del

I love Homestuck. I cosplayed Vriska at Otakon. If people hate it, fine, haters gonna hate. It's certainly not for everyone. I've never met a rude or nasty Homestuck fan, but there's bad ones in every fandom. We're a pretty tight knit community, and I've made a lot of good friends because of it.

>>4801626
I got the inside jokes and all but...they just fell flat to me.

I started reading it and it's constantly making jokes and references that I don't get. I don't think I can get into it.

When exactly did the fandom become so huge? I cosplayed Vriska at ALA 11' and there were about 13 of us there. Granted, ALA is a small con but I searched the internet for other Homestuck cosplay and only found one two group pictures of all trolls minus Feferi and Eridan (Not sure if they were released yet.) AX rolls around and there are as many people there as the Valve gathering.
Was there a specific event that sparked the huge increase in cosplay or month that this happened in because it confounds me.

>>4801956
A lot of it are people who are fandom hoping. Many jumped shipped from Hetalia and moved onto Homestruck.

>>4801941
I'll take tl;dr over B^U any day.

>>4801956
Wasn't it before the Intermission? It's been so long I can't remember where exactly I started reading Homestuck.

One thing I forgot to say: Even if a great deal of the fandom is fucking terrifying and cancerous like actual cancer, I've also met some of the nicest fandom people I've met in any fandom in my entire over a decade of internet fandoming through Homestuck, so I really have a hard time doing anything other than sitting back and hoping that the fandom doesn't get too much worse.

>>4801956
something kinda gradual I think... it's really starting to scare me. Hussie was tweeting about some online costume sellers actually selling out of grey makeup before Otakon. That's... that's just frightening. And I was at the group... were you the Vriska whose wig I fixed (gamzee here) or one of the others?

>>4801772
but i did not mean for lolitastuck to be a thing. Seriously, it was at Wondercon, my friend had been to Angelic Pretty, I stuck on one of her hairbows and took a derp shot, and next thing you know that fucking picture is EVERYWHERE.

And I did see that f!s post, unfortunately. Feels... really awkward, man. I desperately wanted to convey my WTF but I knew if I said anything it'd just be a clusterfuck.

>captcha nitJapsi ick
>ick
you said it captcha.

>>4801956
I was the Aradia at that gathering, and yeah, at that point, the fandom was nice and small, but certainly at a point where it was growing because if I remember, there was some planning for that gathering and a lot of people seemed to have plans to cosplay for it. I've been to quite a few cons after that and if I had to pinpoint a particular month where it seemed to get REALLY huge, it'd have to be, I dunno, March or April. I went to another small local con after ALA, and that was in February. There were just a handful of cosplayers, most being Kids, and I was really excited to meet other Homestuck fans at that time and all the Homestuck fans that came to my booth were great.

After that was SakuraCon, which was in April, and the Homestuck gathering for that was fucking huge. That was where I had my first "OH FUCK" moment. At Fanime (May), most of the Homestuck fans I talked to said they had only been reading for maybe two or three months and hadn't been caught up yet. Every con after that has had a pretty sizable gathering, from what I've seen in person an on /cgl/.

Okay, but what suddenly made everyone jump to homestuck?

>>4801975
Holy shit. At least they're making a lot of money off of an obscure make up color.
And I was the other Vriska, without the robot arm.

>>4801981
Thanks for the little Convention timeline, my question has been bugging me forever.

>>4801975
i think i know who it is if you're curious, but i don't think it would be a good idea to say here. lemme know if so and i'll pm you somewhere.

sage for offtopic.

>>4801975
I got my makeup from www.fun-shop.com, I know they had to restock grey makeup twice, and that's only in July.

>>4802036
holy shit. I knew there was this, but... holy shit. So much grey paint.

>>4802009
I actually would like to know, PM me on coscom, dA, or the jojo board. sage for also offtopic.

>>4802063
herp derp, i kinda don't want my identity known so i formspringed you instead. but if you need to contact me again lemme know.

>>4802094
I actually didn't get that note.... try again, maybe, or use a throwaway email to contact me. hanyaanATgmail.com i am so creative

Sorry to anybody actually interested in homestuck for this hijack, really. it's just curiosity.

I fucking love it. I haven't yet experienced the shitty part of the fandom and I'm hoping it stays this way.

>>4801951
Once the story starts to pick up it becomes less of an issue. I was completely confused by the opening scene of John dicking around in his room fawning over posters for movies I've never seen or heard of.

>>4802300
Stay off homestucksecrets and you'll be fine.

>>4802321
The few I've seen on Tumblr thus far have been enough to keep me away from homestucksecrets, so no worries there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEMMjp9lcQU&feature=related

I like it, but these people are the reason I don't want to covort with those types.