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nick13's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I have been avoiding reviewing this...story for nearly two months now. I just don't even know where to start. Hell, I don't even know what to rate it! This story is truly the definition of an epic, that's the whole point of the story in the first place really. To take apart an epic story and analyze it, see what truly makes it tick while still being enjoyable and funny.
Overall, I think I enjoyed about thirty percent of the whole thing. Most of which was the beginning and end. I don't want to sound mean to the people who love Homestuck, because this entire time of reading it has really made me reflective on internet culture and how I grew up but at the same time...most of Homestuck sucks. Well, I don't really mean that, well, I do, but not in the conventional sense I guess. Because I did not find a lot of the middle and definitely the beginning of the end as it was hundreds of thousands of words of just people talking. Now, don't get me wrong, the dialogue can be pretty funny at times and I actually like how real Andrew Hussy can write characters, I mean seriously I think Hussie knew exactly what he was doing from the start at least when it came to making a fandom. Sure, he didn't know how much it would blow up but I think he had an inkling of how much potential there was in it.
But this means that the actual ideas within the text suffer as a part of appeasing the masses. Which, I think made the fandom thrive in a way I haven't really seen again other than maybe Undertale, it also made it disolve into oblivion pretty damn fast too. Hell, I hadn't even heard of Homestuck by the time I was in high school in 2017, one year after Homestuck ended.
And so now, after the website has barely been maintained, after the fandom has mostly died out, I read Homestuck. I can't say I loved it, hell I barely enjoyed it, it was an epic. An epic that failed to be epic, but an epic none the less. I'm glad people had their fun with it, I commend Andrew Hussie for taking the time and dedication to make Homestuck even once the community began to eat itself, in fact, I even to aspire to be Hussie at least on a technical writing perspective.
Anyways, this was a long, rambling review on a long, rambling story. And no one will read either :)
Overall, I think I enjoyed about thirty percent of the whole thing. Most of which was the beginning and end. I don't want to sound mean to the people who love Homestuck, because this entire time of reading it has really made me reflective on internet culture and how I grew up but at the same time...most of Homestuck sucks. Well, I don't really mean that, well, I do, but not in the conventional sense I guess. Because I did not find a lot of the middle and definitely the beginning of the end as it was hundreds of thousands of words of just people talking. Now, don't get me wrong, the dialogue can be pretty funny at times and I actually like how real Andrew Hussy can write characters, I mean seriously I think Hussie knew exactly what he was doing from the start at least when it came to making a fandom. Sure, he didn't know how much it would blow up but I think he had an inkling of how much potential there was in it.
But this means that the actual ideas within the text suffer as a part of appeasing the masses. Which, I think made the fandom thrive in a way I haven't really seen again other than maybe Undertale, it also made it disolve into oblivion pretty damn fast too. Hell, I hadn't even heard of Homestuck by the time I was in high school in 2017, one year after Homestuck ended.
And so now, after the website has barely been maintained, after the fandom has mostly died out, I read Homestuck. I can't say I loved it, hell I barely enjoyed it, it was an epic. An epic that failed to be epic, but an epic none the less. I'm glad people had their fun with it, I commend Andrew Hussie for taking the time and dedication to make Homestuck even once the community began to eat itself, in fact, I even to aspire to be Hussie at least on a technical writing perspective.
Anyways, this was a long, rambling review on a long, rambling story. And no one will read either :)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, Incest, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, War, Ableism, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence
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