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started catching up w doctor who last night & they really made a whole sentient universe that at the end of the ep decided to take the form of a frog huh

#wheres that one post abt how once you read homestuck you start seeing it Everywhere #bc FUCK #* !! 0w0.

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anitaleocadia

Glenn Brown - Layered Portrait (after Lucian Freud), Etching on paper, 2008

#* !! aes.#q.

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me: it was just a dream

me (internally): .. or prophecy ..

#* !! isms.#q.

normal-horoscopes

I WANT MORE OVERGROWN RUINS TO EXPLORE AND IF I HAVE TO MAKE THEM MYSELF THEN SO BE IT

#* !! isms.#q.

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really love this one @abbf26 post

#* !! visage.#* !! dave.#q.

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You know what? We all like to hee haw about Homestuck being bad and everything, but I legitimately was never as happy and enthralled with a work of fiction as I was when Homestuck was consistently updating

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I think we lost ourselves in the prevalence of cringe culture at the time and didn’t appreciate just what a marvel of modern storytelling Homestuck really was while everyone was busy laughing at the kids who painted themselves grey.

If you think about the sheer enormity of it and the attention span of the average person, it is an honest to god miracle that Homestuck found any traction at all; but it did, because it told an interesting story about relatable characters in a completely alien setting and did so with unique, pioneering storytelling methods.

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I honestly think that Homestuck should be widely hailed and praised for being the first story to properly use chatspeak and the widely misunderstood nuance of how people communicate on the internet. This is very appropriate, because Homestuck is a work that cannot exist in its entirety anywhere else except for the internet.

Anyone who has been on the web for more than a few years can tell you that there is a lot of subtext to text-only communication. We had to develop this subtext because it’s difficult to convey emotions without the use of audible speech. As silly as it sounds, the difference between “:3″ and “;3″ is huge and should be noted for anyone trying to understand how people on the internet ‘speak’ to each other.

Homestuck got that. The late 2000s/early 2010s were brimming with a bunch of corporate attempts at storytelling that tried to relate to kids with onslaughts of l33tspeak and dropping hundreds of instances of “omg” all over the place. Kids and teens aren’t stupid, they can very easily tell something is inauthentic.

Homestuck wasn’t like that. It was entirely authentic. It was written by someone who had first hand experience with not only the surface level of the internet’s communication stylings; Hussie knew about the intricacy that could be found in such simple things as capitalization, italicizing, bolding, changing colors, emoticons, and line breaks. He used that to make each and every individual character feel real in their chat dialogue, which is ordinarily a medium that some perceive to be counteractive to emotional communication.

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I could go on for ages because I unironically adore this comic, but basically what I’m trying to say is that Homestuck’s greatest asset is a sense of authenticity that is very clearly perceivable by the target audience. Maybe that will fade over the years, but for someone who was 14 in 2009, it was perfect. It was one of the first times I felt that a story was written for me, a person who mostly grew up fucking around on the internet.

We can talk about the plot, simple even in its complexity. We can talk about the aesthetic appeal of the comic. We can talk about the cosplaying community, the music, the interactive panels, the plot twists, the drama, everything. All of this contributes to HS being an incredible piece of work, but it would not have been the same if the characters spoke in speech bubbles or audibly.

Homestuck was a pioneer of how the internet could not only carry stories told in other mediums, but how it could be a unique storytelling medium of its very own. I think that’s amazing, and I think it should be appreciated.

#* !! 0w0.#q.

cemeteryhamster

Get yourself a girl that will explore abandoned places with you…… while also summoning demons

#get aradia #* !! study.#q.

snuv

songs to touch the stove to

logarto

#* !! isms.#q.

thunderstruck9

Herbert Brandl (Austrian, b. 1959), Ohne Titel, 2003. Oil on canvas, 90 x 121 cm.

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wi-fu

kiss the nerd!!!

#ah yes the goth/nerd solidarity ship......#* !! visage.#* !! sollux.#q.

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ktzart

the subway is a great place to make friends

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Stars and stripe, SN 1006 supernova remnant.

Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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pinkynick

My silly draw for today!❤️

#oh thats that good good #* !! visage.#* !! feferi.#q.

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web1995

Paperchain - BRIGHT BOARD - Red This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 17 August, 2008.

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Standing by watching the world end

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