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m4ge:
please tell me the wildest shit that happened in homestuck’s fanbase, its like listening to old tales that can’t be true but are.
Well there was the girl who nearly killed herself by soaking in a bathtub full of vodka and grey sharpies to try and dye her skin for her troll cosplay. And the fact that a bunch of fans sent the creator a MASSIVE horse dildo that later ended up in the comic. And the two people who spent $10,000 dollars a piece to have their OC’s appear for one frame and be immediately killed. And the one time a homestuck flash update ended up DDoSing newgrounds by accident. And the totally irregular update schedule made it so there was an application developed to tell you when the comic updated. The culture around homestuck is really surreal to look back on just for the sheer volume of alternate universes and fans works and in jokes and subcultures that developed within one fandom. It really makes me wonder if anyone will be able to capture that level of obsessive enthusiasm again. Like people joke about Steven universe being the new homestuck and I can see some parallels but that fandom still seems way smaller and way less messed up than homestuck at it’s peak.
remember broadway karkat
Magic cupcakes
OKAY HONESTLY I HAVE SO MANY STORIES AND MEMORIES I’LL JUST PUT SOME SOME DOWN IN A LIST
- Terezi cosplayers eating/licking various nonedible things. I know someone who ate a rose and I licked a courthouse once
- There was some discourse over this one person who made a bulge for their Cronus cosplay and would flop it out at conventions
- THE ENTIRE SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM THAT WAS MADE FOR/ABOUT HOMESTUCK
- I once tried to organize NOT 1 BUT 2 ridiculously large art collabs where people were supposed to sign up and draw one homestuck character each until every character in the comic was drawn BUT AS OF TODAY, 3 YEARS LATER, ONLY ABOUT 15% OF THAT WAS FINISHED and it’s completely dead
- Octopimp’s homestuck voiceacting
- People getting outrageously pissed off if you skipped the intermission
- “Homestuck is my favorite anime!”
- Several animating groups trying to make homestuck into an anime just so that joke could be real
- THE ENTIRE FANDOM AGREEING UPON WHAT TROLL GENITALS WOULD LOOK LIKE
- David Elizabeth Strider
- The end of homestuck was announced 3 years in a row and it’s still going. someone kill it. put it out of its misery. is hussie even alive anymore? help him.
- THE PANTY RAID COMIC
- god honestly i could go on all day i’m gonna stop here
oh good theres more. its three am but
- zombiestuck and the thousands of cosplays
- fandomstuck and the fact that the hetalia fandom was the homestuck fandom’s best friend
- that time the hetalia fandom and the homestuck fandom were at fucking war for whatever reason
- MAKE ME COME ALIVE CMON AND TURN ME ON
- Sugoi Quest for Kokoro fanime
- When Hussie tried to stop people from spoiling Calliope and provided a fake troll image of her for people to post and people followed it for like a day
- That tumblr post that had no indication that it was homestuck other than the troll blood colors and follower counts next to them
Oh man what about all the other crazy shit like
- When one of the Music Team members had a huge falling out with Hussie and all of his music was systematically replaced on all his flashes and no one ever talked about it ever again
- And if you did talk about it you were banned from the forums
- The sudden and jarring shift in demographics as all the late-twenty-somethings who were into dumb jokes, old sierra games and computer science who liked Problem Sleuth completely fucking bailed, and all the weeby queer teens started jumping onto it like nothing ever before. This was especially jarring for us weeby queer Sierra-game enthusiasts as we watched it switch but stayed on board. All dozen of us.
- Every month for most of years 1-2, Hussie had to change servers because his current one couldn’t handle the bandwidth demands
- When Hussie’s house flooded which stopped the comic for about a week or two, which up until that point hadn’t happened yet. Ever. The whole comic was almost cancelled because his hard drive with Homestuck on it was caught in the flood
- Going from 12 people total at a 2k+ attendance convention recognizing me with only one other HS cosplayer to the same con a year later literally EVERYONE recognizing me and dozens, close to one hundred Homestuck Cosplayers
- Formal, organized Fangroups policing and absorbing every member they could, and the breaking down and schisming of those groups that followed.
Crazy shit, man. Crazy shit.
oh man
- The fights/arguments between different regional fangroups
- Fat Vriska
- LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK
- Someone literally made a post explaining that you shouldn’t cosplay a character “above your blood caste” so a Leo couldn’t cosplay as Gamzee (I know.) (I KNOW.)
- The first big hiatus
- Fangroups getting big enough to actually hold events like dances and prom
- PEOPLE GOING TO THE MALL IN GREY PAINT I FUCKING STILL CAN’T GET OVER THAT SHIT
- Four different shipping quadrants. I’m not even kidding it was terrible
- That Bucket that everyone passed around at a restaurant and like spat in
- Buckets in general being a huge “”””taboo”””
- At San Diego Comic Con 2012 Hussie was doing signings at the Topatco booth but the line got so out of hand that SDCC had to move Hussie and the line to a signing table
- Hussie’s adventure at Olive Garden
I have one:
– The thing where at the end of giant cosplay shoots, everyone would lie down on the ground and pretend to be dead and a hussie or condy or LE cosplayer would stand menacingly in the middle
the time andrew hussie and ryan north traded credit cards and documented what they purchased with eachothers money
how there was a blog dedicated to homestuck-related arts and crafts
people would make anything homestuck-themed possible, including things like cookies shaped like troll beds and furniture shaped like certain weapons
The ~Caucasian~ Controversy
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