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/co/, this is going to sound a little weird, but Homestar helped me through one of the most depressing times of my life.
I
was in middle school, and my parents had been divorced for a while, but
had only recently started sending me back and forth between them.
Neither of them had internet access, but the school computers didn't
block Homestar. At one point I had bought an old fashioned handheld tape
recorder, and during that time, Homestar was the only thing that could
get a smile out of me. Fox Kids had just about entirely died, I think
this was the point when The Fox Box was on its way out. So I took that
tape recorder, and I went through the whole website, recording SBEmails,
whole toons, my favorite shorts... as much as the tape would hold.
And
at night, when I was living with my dad and sleeping on a cot in the
living room because I didn't have a bed at his house, I would plug in
the headphones I had borrowed from a friend, close my eyes, and distract
myself until I was content enough to sleep. I must have listened to
Fhqwhgads a thousand times.
Homestarrunner means a lot more to me
than it probably should to anyone, but it was a welcome distraction
from one of the bleakest parts of my life. The cast, lame as it may
sound, filled in a lot of the spots for friends I was missing in my
life, at least in my young mind. I was glad to hear them every night
before going to bed. It was better than crying. |