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Last week I said I would write something long about why I don’t like Act 6 of Homestuck.  Well, now that I’ve taken and passed my exams (yay!) I decided I’d take a day off and let myself write something indulgently gigantic.  (It’s around 7300 words.  Maybe I’ll revise or extend it later.)

Note that will probably sound kind of pompous or pretentious or overdramatic or overly academic in parts – that’s just how my writing sounds when I get going, unfortunately.  Just remember, I’m writing about a webcomic, and I know it.  I’m not taking this all that seriously, so if I sound really serious it’s just because that’s how I sound sometimes.

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OK I’m trying to get myself to do that Homestuck re-read.  I’ve accepted that I’m just going to have to skim the first 100 pages or I won’t get anywhere

God I hate the first 100 pages of Homestuck

I guess on some level it’s pretty similar to the start of Problem Sleuth, but PS is a lot more clear about what it’s doing (hard-boiled detective parody + adventure game parody) and the art is clearly bad on purpose.  Where both the art and humor at the start of HS are in this uncanny valley where it’s not clear whether it’s a guy not really trying or a guy trying really hard and failing

I could very easily imagine the first 100 pages of Homestuck having been made in (actual) MS Paint by a 13-year-old boy who tells his friends at school about his “webcomic” ad nauseum and will deeply regret all of this in 6-12 months

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OK I’m trying to get myself to do that Homestuck re-read.  I’ve accepted that I’m just going to have to skim the first 100 pages or I won’t get anywhere

God I hate the first 100 pages of Homestuck

I guess on some level it’s pretty similar to the start of Problem Sleuth, but PS is a lot more clear about what it’s doing (hard-boiled detective parody + adventure game parody) and the art is clearly bad on purpose.  Where both the art and humor at the start of HS are in this uncanny valley where it’s not clear whether it’s a guy not really trying or a guy trying really hard and failing

I could very easily imagine the first 100 pages of Homestuck having been made in (actual) MS Paint by a 13-year-old boy who tells his friends at school about his “webcomic” ad nauseum and will deeply regret all of this in 6-12 months

oh man, i didn’t realize you were one of the people who couldn’t stand act one. i feel like i know too much about you now. this should have been locked in the basement forever

I feel like I’ve mentioned it on the forums a few times?  Probably when talking about how difficult it is to get people to start reading Homestuck

(via turboshitnerd)

Though, humorwise, I have to admit that “Colonel Sassacre” is a great name

Provisionally, I’d say that the point when Homestuck starts being tolerable to me is when Rose first talks

(Life hack: blacklist the horrid portmanteau “homestalgebra” to avoid this bullshit in the future)

The peanut gallery over there sure is getting a kick out of it. You are allergic to their scorn.

It’s stunning how much more unbad Homestuck becomes the moment they start playing SBURB

This is why I keep badmouthing “the first 100 pages” rather than “Act 1”

TG: restrained his ass per mclane-redux while buscemi remained derangerous

You’re so handy with those needles, you feel like you could probably use them to filet a sword fish.

Andrew Hussie makes this mistake a lot (putting a space in a compound word that shouldn’t have one – “sword fish,” “business man,” etc.), which isn’t interesting in itself, but is slightly interesting in conjunction with the fact that this is also one of John’s verbal quirks (e.g. “dave sprite”)