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frenzy ([info]frenzy) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2013-01-10 12:21:00


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Entry tags:fandom: homestuck, reviews, webcomics

Comedy is hard. Wank is easy.
With a fanbase like Homestuck's, the bar is set pretty high for "baffling" things to say about the comic, but one Timothy Sexton catches creator Andrew Hussie's eye with his review/article/wordpile on Yahoo Movies that clears that bar easily:

"If you remain unaware of Homestuck as an internet phenomenon, then you either don't kids or aren't aware of this here thing called the internets. As George W. Bush liked to refer (and probably still refer) to it. Homestuck is one day going to become a movie of some sort. Comedy is hard. Death is easy. That makes Homestuck a juggler."

You can read the full thing here. You can't read it in its original form on Yahoo anymore, though, because it was removed. According to Timothy Sexton, Homestuck fans got it taken down because it was too intelligent for them and they were jealous, or something. We know this because he says so in his follow-up article, entitled "Homestuck Fans: Not Quite as Hip and Intellectually Gifted as They Think."

"Don't feed the troll? What does that mean?" -dozens of Homestuck fans.

Hussie, for his part, finds the entire thing hilarious.



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[info]the__ivorytower
2013-01-10 10:54 pm UTC (link)
By reading the quote alone, he's missing a verb in one of those sentences, and is making a pretty big assumption about the internet as a whole. Mainly, that the internet world revolves around a few things instead of, you know, encompassing a whole world.

Also, part of my issue with Homestuck is presentation: I think the typing quirks, fonts and font colours would drive me up the wall, the fact that it's not just a comic but it's got flash videos and minigames and music and all manner of things would frustrate me, I don't find anything that I've heard particularly appealing (especially about troll relationships), but I get to hear bits and pieces about it from friends of mine that read it. Fortunately, my present group of friends actually respects 'no thank you, I'm not interested' and I go back to playing doll with giant man children in power armor that wield chainsaw swords and giant-ass guns.

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[info]tequilaghost
2013-01-11 11:17 am UTC (link)
I go back to playing doll with giant man children in power armor that wield chainsaw swords and giant-ass guns.

...that sounds fun.

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[info]the__ivorytower
2013-01-11 04:31 pm UTC (link)
Warhammer 40K; come for the grim darkness of the far future, stay for the homoerotic subtext.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2013-01-11 05:53 pm UTC (link)
FOR DA EMPRAH

(I'll be over here with the Tau, in the corner that doesn't completely suck.)

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[info]the__ivorytower
2013-01-11 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Oh, but to make them seem less good, now their leaders have mind control powers! Because that makes sense!

Honestly, I think it depends a lot on who's doing the writing, since I mostly am in it for the novels and the RP, or if Mark Ward is sucking or not. *mutters about the Grey Knights*

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[info]nursewretched
2013-01-11 08:17 pm UTC (link)
Huh, I thought you were talking about Gears of War at first. Your description still fits, except for the playing dolls part.

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[info]the__ivorytower
2013-01-11 08:34 pm UTC (link)
Playing with dolls is basically baby's first fandom. "Okay, this is Barbie, and she's going on an adventure with Optimus Prime and Bumblelion! Whee!"

I know very little about GoW, but I do know it shares some qualities with 40K.

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[info]bride_of_lister
2013-01-12 01:42 am UTC (link)
I started with Ciaphas Cain and before I knew it I was shipping Gaunt's Ghosts and enjoying Primarch wing fic! :D

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2013-01-11 09:25 pm UTC (link)
OT, but: I don't think I've ever seen a creepier photo of John Simm's Master than the one used in your icon. O.O

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