I just don't. I tried to read it, it wasn't interesting to me.
The character designs also aren't very attractive to me. The art too is just...eh.

Alternatively, if you are in the fandom, what do you like about it?

personally? My ex boyfriend. I mean it doesnt look horrible I just cant get into it. Ive really tried (before and after we broke up)

power to those that like it. Seems that theres an uprising of trolls though, Im sure the makeup stores are happy to be selling so much grey paint.

I have nothing against it. I just don't want to read thousands of pages before I get to the supposed "exciting part".

>>4896782

Agreed. Seems awfully mediocre.

I didn't understand it. at all.

Apprently it was like a video game
but not.
like it was this bobble looking thing
he had no arms
then he needed to put them on
and idk
it went on for a while
so i just quit reading
if there is anything beyond that starting part with the room and rpg thing
tell me where it begins?

I'm also neutral. I understand the appeal but as much as I tried I couldn't get into it

>>4896800
The "exciting part" as the retarded part of the fanbase calls it is actually THE WORST PART

OH BOY I SURE DO LOVE ALL THIS GRIMDARK BULLSHIT THAT CAME OUT OF NOWHERE, WEEKS OF NOTHING HAPPENING, MARY SUES AND THE ACTUAL INTERESTING CHARACTERS BEING IGNORED

The author is so far up his own ass he lives in his own stomach

Speaking of webcomics,
Questionable Content.

IDK if you guys have read it, but I did, and I hated it. It wasn't funny. It tried so hard to be "hipster" while being so mainstream. The characters were annoying and unlikeable.
And fucking everyone loved it.
Which was why I hated it.

And which is why I dislike Homestuck on principal. IDK why but it's hard for me to enjoy really popular things. I guess it's the pressure of everyone else liking it that makes me dislike it.
Like I went to my friends house and she was like "Read Homestuck"
and I was like "naw I'd rather not."
And she was all "No ,seriously. Read it. Do it now. Read it."

No. No.

I might check it out now. Is it really ok? Does it warrant all its fans? Or is it like Hetalia?

If i wasn't doing a shit load of work right now. I would post a long angry rant about how much homosuck blows. Please accept this picture of a small laughing black child instead.

>>4896814
yeah... it's pretty slow to start... it's in his room for a while, then it starts to get going when he boots up the sburb game and then it's just odd...

took me a while of boredom induced 'reading because nothing better' before I really enjoyed it

>>4896846

Please just do. This is relevant to my interests. Fuck work.

I should also like to say that I don't appreciate being pestered to read it.
I've never been more bothered to read something before. It's always something like
>YOU SHOULD READ IT!
>I tried, I didn't like it.
>YOU CAN'T NOT LIKE IT, IT'S AMAZING.
Like I can't have some personal taste or something.

>>4896839
sounds familiar....

The fandom. USUALLY, I have no problems with any fandom. Why? Because most of the time they're just hyperactive yaoi 14yr olds, or such 'n other. But never have I run into SO many stuck up, pretentious faggots in the HS fandom. It seems like every other person thinks its so fun to act like a douchebag; In character or not.

ON THE OTHER SIDE, the comic is note-worthy considering how looooong it is. And the character designs are pretty good. Plain, but unique. The plot? I've only tried a little. Unique? YES. The art? Phenomenal! Alot of the fanart and videos are extremely well made, and the soundtrack is well composed.

All in all, its just the goddamn people. Maybe.. JUST maybe If I can ignore every damn hipster that fawns over this, I can enjoy it.

I don't hate it, I read it mostly to keep up to date with my boyfriend and a couple of friends as they happen to be pretty big fans, but I'm not constantly checking for updates.

The beginning is so slow though, completely turned me off the first couple of times I started reading

>>4896848
Ok, but what's the point of the first part? Any relevance? at all? and why is it in that format? I'd just like an explanation.

the only thing stopping me from enjoying it is I'm so confused.

>>4896851
jeez! me too, the more they try to make me read it the less i want to.

the beginning.
So it's like an rpg but I have no choice what to do?
So it's like watching someone play an rpg.

>>4896851
THIS. SO MUCH THIS.
People keep trying to shove Homestuck down my throat "BECAUSE IT IS SO GOOD, AND YOU ARE A NOBODY IF YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT IT."
Please, then I'm a nobody. I tried to honestly get into it, for the sake of people to stop pestering me, and it didn't do anything for me. I'm neutral over the whole thing, but if I just simply post something small on facebook about my news feed being flooded with "BAWWW HOMOSUCK, Y U DO DIS?" a thousand times every time it's updated, all hell breaks loose, and those people bitch at me. I don't hate it, nor do I like it, so kjlbadfvkjndf. People just need to respect that everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

>>4896880
Totally this.
And I really appreciate not having it freaking everywhere.
I'm just...disliking it more and more.
It's not like I hate popular stuff, but GOD.

>>4896880
>>4896895
I tried reading it once. Didn't like it at all. I might give it another go.

I dunno, I just enjoy it. I also enjoy the fandom, when they aren't making 892312831 jokes about the update and shipping everything and everyone.

So, it's very rare when I like the fandom. Also, the plot is pretty intriguing and the character designs are quite enjoyable. The reason I got into it was because my "patron troll" was pretty much the badass that shared my interest in law and investigations, and I'm glad I got into it because it's actually an enjoyable story once you get past the first act.

And to be honest, people say that the first act is the most boring, but I fucking loved it. It's all a matter of taste, I guess. I don't hate on those that hate Homestuck, and in return I'd like to not be called a HomeFag or something.

I feel like I'm going through the annoying tutorial of a game that you have to go through.
It's like, come on I just want to play, stop telling me all about the game jargon and just get on with it.
Does this even have to do with the story? I don't even.
Skim skim skim

>>4896895
I got yelled at for mentioning that I dropped it from my regularly visited sites due to my EXTREME dislike of the overfocused on giant bitch spidertroll, who is completely irredeemable (durr hurr doomed race to extinction so she could look cool) and a Mary Sue to a degree that borders on parody

Guys. If you want to skip to the point when shit actually starts happening, start here:
http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002037

That is when John installs the game. I mean, you've still got some intro bits left, but you've skipped most of the random what-the-hell-is-this pages.

>>4896849
OK I finished an eithics assignment, I'll do a little.

Homosuck is just shit. The art is awful and hurts my eyes, the music is awful and hurts my ears, the plot is awful and hurts my brain. Poorly drawn grey people doing things apperently, but the comic is so damn long that all i got to was something about arms, metiers and cake. What the fuck. It isn't "funny" its not "intellectual" and it isn't "hipster" its just shit.

All the fans I have met with the special cases of 4 people were on the scale of sorta awful to JESUS CHRIST MOTHER OF GOD STOP TALKING TO ME awful. The fans want to explain all 5000 pages to you, they want you to understand the inside jokes, and if you dont they get mad, they get butt hurt. Its beautiful really. When trying to make them angry in person, they either get mad, or laugh it off. The only ones that seem to laugh it off though are the 4 people I know, who seem to be the only ones in groups of 40 at a time to not be an anti-social fucktard. STOP MUMBLING ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THE CHARACTERS, STOP TELLING ME HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THE PLOT, AND I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN TO ME THE THING ABOUT BUCKETS I AM GOING TO PUNCH YOUR SKULL IN. YOU WONT BE GREY ANYMORE. YOU WILL BE RED. ALL FUCKING OVER. YOU HEAR ME? YOU FUCKING HEAR ME YOU LITTLE PUNKS? THE GUY WITH THE HORSE MASK IS GOING TO CURB STOMP YOUR HORNS IN.

>>4896880
THIS. This is why my exboyfriend ruined it for me.
Dear lord I couldnt stand him constantly trying to get me into it, even after I had tried it and decided I just really didnt like it.

Not to mention he brought it up constantly with his friends and always talked about how he thought it was the best piece of literature he'd ever read and anyone who disagree's is an idiot.

>>4896932
D:
This is so confusingggggg
I don't get it ;_;

I don't hate it and would also consider myself a neutral party. At this point basically all of my friends (and my girlfriend too), are into it. I see enough of it online and referenced between them that I have a surprising level of familiarity with at least the characters and even some of the in-jokes. What I've heard of the music is impressive, the concept of an interactive flash-comic is pretty neato, and a big chunk of the fanart I see is real awesome (in fact, the only interest I DO have in it at all is pretty much only spawned by cute fanworks I've seen circulating).

But I'm just not interested, personally? It's simply not up my alley I suppose, and I do feel a bit left out, but when something's not your schtick it ain't your schtick.

>>4896944
Basically, they installed a game that lets them manipulate reality a little bit. There are two players right now, John (the guy you see) and Rose. Rose is manipulating Johns reality.

I don't hate it, I'm just not interested. Like many I tried to get into it after a friend all but had a seizure trying to explain to me JUST HOW FUCKING AWESOME IT IS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW MAN and thought it was one of those jokes where you try to convince someone something is funny when it actually isn't.

and as a writer, I'm bugged by the fact that one would need to skip parts to get to "the good stuff"

if you need to tell your readers to skip to a certain point, you started your story at the wrong place. Start it where you tell them to skip to. But that's just writer me cringing at it.

>>4896953
Ok, so where's Rose? Is Rose a real person? What's Rose and John's relationship?

>>4896921

And to go along with my post and some peeves of the thread/most of the non-Homestuckers:

>I will not shove it down your throat, though I did it once with my best friend because I KNEW she would like it and now she's a bigger fan than me. Unless you're my best bro and I've seen your tits, I will not force you to read Homestuck.

>Hivebent is not the greatest part of Homestuck. I actually think the intermission was the most important part of the series thus far, and I have to re-read it, as well as start Problem Sleuth

>Speaking of, I know there's more to MSPA than Homestuck. I need to start Problem Sleuth (Which I'll do on another browser during the hiatus), I read all that there was of Jailbreak, and I have yet to read Bard Quest.

>Yes, I came from the Hetalia fandom. No, I didn't JUST come in. I've been out of the fandom for months, but got into Homestuck back around Easter so I'm considered a newfag. Not my fault I didn't know about it until it exploded on my Tumblr dashboard.

>I will never spit into a bucket.

Also, the rare chance I make a reference, it's a Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff reference.

>>4896975
Rose is Johns friend over the internet. She is a real person. In the chat logs ("Pesterlogs") her text is purple, and Johns is blue.

The green-house-shaped-pointer is being controlled by Rose's computer, over the internet.

If you're genuinely interested in trying to pick up homestuck, I can drop you an IM address and I'll explain shit as you run into it.

I like Homestuck, but I'm definitely not going to shove it down your throat. The first time I picked it up I thought it was boring. The second time I picked it up I thought it was boring. The third time I tried to wade through it, I was still bored, but I had nothing else to do, so I stuck with it anyways. Eventually things started happening, and I got interested.

But then it all snowballed into one huge, impossible, clusterfuck of time travel and characters. And while I still love it, even with that clusterfuck, I know that's not everybodies thing. It's long and complicated and often times poorly paced. But I enjoy it for what it is.

"You clumsily mishandle the SACRED URN. Ash is everywhere.
... You'd probably better clean it up before DAD finds it.
- John: Combine father's pipe with clever disguise. "

I don't get this choice. At all. It makes no sense.

>>4896978
See your the homestuck fan I can appreciate.

Now that my rantings done I just... yeah. I'm not sure I'd say I'd hate it. But I've given it 5 chances, 4 of which I got beyond the first act and still just couldnt enjoy it.

i think it's fun, but i lost interest during the intermission where you're following a bunch of noir gangsters. i think you can skip that whole chapter though.

>>4896927
he's making fun of all the rules and crappy UI some actual games have. i think the problem comes when you try to read it as a 'story', or play it as a 'game'. it's a little of both. it's just a thing to click through and have fun with.

>>4896982
That actually sounds kinda cool. AIM: vvvlifevvv
Skype: djblue47

>>4896968
Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssssss

>friend links me to the website everyday
>tells me I HAVE to read it
>tell her later on that I thought it was very boring and stopped reading it
>she tells me "No surprise there just skip to this part"
>FUCKINGWHAT? THAT CANT BE RIGHT
>other friends tell me that its better if you skip to x part of the story
>mfw

>>4896968
>if you need to tell your readers to skip to a certain point, you started your story at the wrong place.

I agree with this, too. Like, when I get into a fandom I get pretty deep, and I want to be excited about ALL of the canon, not just the best parts. If the beginning of the whole story weren't such a huge chore maybe I'd be more inclined, but I wouldn't consider myself a good fan at all if I started in the middle.

>>4896993
I'll AIM you with my throwaway. I'm socialanony.

>>4896991
regardless I can see the joke, but he dragged it on long enough it stopped being funny and just hindered the comic and cost him a lot of fans who didn't have the patience to get past the first bits.

>>4896991

That would be easier if it were funny.
It's just... not anything. It seems tacky and try-hard.

I just don't understand why this all has to take so long.

>>4896998
>>4896995
>>4896968
The stuff I advise people to skip is the transition period.

The author was transitioning from Problem Slueth to Homestuck, to comics with very different styles. PS was run by random hijinks suggested by readers in a drop box, while HS is plot-driven and author-written. The first Act is all about Hussie easing his audience into a new form of entertainment.

At the time, it was a good idea. But for new readers who never read PS, it sucks.

>>4896968
>skip parts to get to "the good stuff"

hehe, that reminds me of DBZ. Charge up/talk for like 5 eps before something relevant happens.

>>4897010
DONT YOU DARE FUCKING COMPARE DBZ TO HOMOSUCK.

THATS LIKE SAYING THE DOORS ARE ON THE SAME LEVEL AS REBECCA BLACK.

Ok, this page is fucked up for me.
Is the first panel supposed to be flicking at like, super-fast speed?

>http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001989

>>4897015

>>4897021
YES. FUCK YOU.

>>4897015
I am sure The Doors is really good or whatever. But it's ironic because Rebecca black is more well known than The Doors.

That's so hipster

I don't hate it. Actually I'm quite fond of it. The way the writer (Hussie, right?) tells the story is pretty unique and interesting. I like the little flashes, the music is alright too. The plot is still really convoluted and it took me about 3 tries to get past the exposition. I've stopped half way through act 5, and I'm reading Hussie's other stuff. I guess you could say I'm a fan.

>>4897025

>character design sucks
>the fanbase. The fucking fanbase.
>It's all over my tumblr and i'm sick of it.
>the plot is so confusing it makes Umineko and Higurashi easy to follow
>gamzee
>oh yeah, the fanbase

>>4897052
The character design seems pretty interesting to me.

okay as a fan, i enjoy the plot, music, the art doesn't bother me, and it has some enjoyable characters. I liked the intro so it didn't bother me but plot wise, yes it's slow. I would say... if you want to see if you'll like it you might want to try reading the intermission. It's it's own story so you don't need to worry about understanding things *except for item switching but that comes fro mproblem sleuth anyway*, and it's written after the plot's got going so it's up to pace. If you don't like the intermission you probably won't like the main story. As for getting into the main story, I guess things pick up like said above after john installs the game.

>>4896968
this, i mean i was sort of ok while reading the first part but its at some point i was like "is this even going to be relevant at all?"

its an ok comic really, im still reading it though
the art is awful and i really hate when people go out saying that it looks amazing when it really thre are better things out there.
one thing i do love is the music that comes with it~
i do feel that if it was an actual game it would have been a lot better...
now i have been cosplaying it a lot lately and after hearing all of this horrible thign of the fandom i was quite wary of going to one of the meet ups, but everyoen was really nice and chill at Otakon so its went better than expected

>>4897052
It bothers me when people complain about a series for the fanbase. Ignore them. You really want to say that fans influence your thoughts on the subject? Just don't pay attention to them, seriously

>>4897091
Okay, well the fact that the art sucks is more than enough for me.

>>4897094
art doesn't bother me but yeah i can see why people wouldn't like it.

You should see some of the later things when other people do the art for the comic, it's HIDEOUS to me.

>>4897084
Its like the question am I ever going to use advanced algebra/trig/calc in real life.

>>4897102
Yeah, really.
I like the sprites though, they're kind of cute.

>>4897104
I get what they mean. Like with the math thing, while it may or may not be relevant in the future, what matters more is if you enjoy studying it. If you enjoy reading it then it's good, but don't feel bad about skipping some of the long pesterlogs if you get tired of reading (i did). but if you aren't enjoying the plot in general it might just not be your kind of thing.

Ok, I just got to the part where he installed the game and am confused. Is the moving stuff around stuff in his computer or happening to him IRL adn why is he not surprised if it is?

I mainly like it because I find it pretty damn humorous and entertaining.
The way that the conversations occur amuses me. idk.
it gives me something to do when I'm bored.
Can't stand the fanbase though.

>>4897132
the moving things is his friend moving around the furnature in his real house. Him not being supprised is just part of the story, like how they have inventories based on computer sorting algorithms

All the people I've talked to who didn't really like it are ones who skipped the intermission or long pesterlogs, or they "couldn't get" the time travel.

I like the writing style and how much the comic does not give a shit. Shipping is insanely out of hand but I'm not really a part of that so oh well. It's just unique in its place and full of stupid jokes and references and that's pretty much what I'm all about.

I've met some amazing people through the fandom and it's been really fun. I don't get all the hate. Quit a douche and do something positive. I swear people are saying they hate homestuck just to get attention.