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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]ivyette
2013-01-11 07:39 am UTC (link)
Whenever people talk about Homestuck, it just sounds like they're all playing that game where you make up completely random stuff and pretend it's spoilers, like saying "I couldn't believe it when Bilbo became a giant squid!" except apparently no one's making anything up.

This article's run-through-a-translator feel doesn't help.

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[info]itcamefromjapan
2013-01-11 08:42 am UTC (link)
YES EXACTLY. And I say that as a Homestuck fan.

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[info]ivyette
2013-01-11 01:07 pm UTC (link)
I feel like I've just never heard people refer to the same thing (character, creature, plot point, whatever) twice. Even within the same conversation! It's kind of awesome, in a weird way.

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[info]kefanii
2013-01-11 05:16 pm UTC (link)
There's more than 50 named characters, last time I checked, and most of them are extremely important to the plot/important to the audience in some way.

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[info]ivyette
2013-01-11 05:26 pm UTC (link)
I figured it must be something like that, but confirmation is blowing my mind right now. Sweet Lord.

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[info]kefanii
2013-01-11 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Not to mention that there are alternate timeline versions of most characters in the numbers from one or two to thousands. And characters who die hang around long after they're dead.

HOMESTUCK: TOO MANY CHARACTERS, THE COMIC

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[info]eevee
2013-01-11 05:33 pm UTC (link)
Gonna be honest, for the longest time I suspected there was really no such thing as "Homestuck" and it was all just a big blob of fanart.

Well, then I got off my lazy ass and found the MSPA site. But it's kind of crazy how someone who hasn't heard of the webcomic and just randomly hangs out on Tumblr or stuff will end up being more familiar with the fen's renditions of the characters than the original ones.

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