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Does anyone give a fuck about ^2? It's literal garbage fanfiction with random OC donut steel fancharacters and weird awkward adult relationship drama. It's impossible to even imagine that the epilogues and ^2 aren't deliberate attempts to kill off the former fanbase's interest.
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>>10894631
they were, actually. jade gets furried before the trolls even show up. dave and john are both absurd premises. rose turns into a lovecraft monster. don't even get me started on the alphas. homestuck was always stupid, you're just not 16 anymore
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>>10894659
not that anon but I read Homestuck for the first time last year (in my mid 20s) and you're definitely overstating it. The beta kids were silly but in the same way that characters in contemporary webcomics were, they were absurd but not over the top. Hussie just took some stereotypes and pushed them one step past believable. It wasn't until Act 6 that the actual goofiness started showing up. That being said, Yiffany isn't worse than, say, Caliborn in terms of how fucking stupid the character is.
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It's back with James Roach at the helm so people were cautiously optomistic about it but they aren't going to be retconning anything so all the worst parts of the sequel that everyone hated are still going to be there.
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>>10899085
caliborn was mildly amusing at least, Yiffani is just... so... tumblr. Her existence implies the single most out of character moment of the entire series, getting rid of all of Rose's and Kanaya's relationship just for a lulz XD so random moment
I think the problem is the lack of consistency, the characters do things forcefully just to drive the plot forward, so their actions dont necessarily have to allign with their preestablished personality
I read both homestuck and h^2 a couple of years ago being a teen and one thing definitely seemed more dumb than the other
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>>10894363
I only post about it ironically on some 4chan affiliated discords. I can never hate what Homestuck once was considering how fun of a ride it was but i sure hate what it has become and the current wider fandom. Trannies ruin everything
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>>10899124
yeah it's almost like the entire plot of the epilogues and hs2 involved dirk hijacking the narrative (similar to what cali born did) and controlling all the relevant characters in ways they wouldn't have normally acted.
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>>10894363
i started reading last year. impossible to discuss anything with anyone because I like all the "weird" characters and i kinda hate homestuck anyway
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agreed. Hussie is a faggot and i wanna break his nose.
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So how do we feel about psycholonials? The story was mid but I enjoyed the aesthetics, maybe I'm just clouded by foolish nostalgia. I'm planning a mizzlebip cosplay soon. Really just wanna know how badly I'll be *ahem* clowned on
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>>10901057
nta, everyone else from my high school Homestuck fan friend group either trooned out or developed a cluster b mental illness. or both.
I’m actually rereading it right now, forgot how funny the first 4 acts are. and how dedicated the cosplay community was, such that I remember seeing props of every single ridiculous item John uses for like one page.
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>>10901137
When I learn that someone is into Homestuck I'll assume they aren't cishet.
I remember at meet and we were sitting around a table and everyone was asked, one person at a time, if they were cishet, and everyone explained how they weren't. Luckily they didn't get to asking me.
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finally got around to rereading and actually finishing homestuck recently. wondering how important and/or good the spinoffs are (hiveswap, the epilogues, beyond canon, etc.) and if they're actually worth a read, would like to hear your thoughts
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Hiveswap and Friendsim feel like passable fanfiction a teenage fan would have written during the height of the comic's popularity 10-12 years ago. Not particularly incredible but if you really want content specifically in that universe/with those characters to scratch an itch it'll do.
The epilogues are a giant intentionally-bad shitpost written to intentionally spite fans. They're kinda funny in just how bizarre they get. ^2 is just bullshit all around and not worth bothering with.
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Okay so who else is going/cosplaying?
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this is in my hometown and last time I visited the workers were handing out flyers at the front door because they were trying to unionize because it sucks to work there so much. The inside is really cool though
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I saw a cute Gamzee cosplayer at a local con a couple of weeks back. She mentioned she was there with a Terezi too but I never saw them unfortunately.
Homestuck fans are an endangered species these days but it's nice to know they (we) still exist.
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It’s kind of sad. I remember how crazy being a homestuck was a decade ago when I started going to cons. We were all over cons in swarms and you could immediately make new friends with other homestuck cosplayers. I miss that energy/feeling so much and I feel like nothing will ever replicate it.
It might sound cringe, but I’m so grateful for homestuck. I have some really close friends who are also my group of con buddies and it’s all because I met one of them back in 2012 through homestuck
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>>10907379
I'm jealous of your experience. I know people meme about the sharpie thing and the general clusterfuck direction of the comic (especially post-Cascade) but there's really nothing like it even today.
I'm going to be at a con on 4/13 and attempting a pretty basic bitch Bro cosplay so I'm hoping to all that is holy that I meet at least one other HS fan out in the wild.
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>>10907379
Homestuck is what got me into cons. It may be cringe but those were some great fucking times. Me and my friends used to use the pesterchum app on PC to message eachother after school and it was a pretty fun place to connect w random RPers of varying quality. There was a gigantic spin the bottle Homestuck circle for multiple years in a row at my local con that mostly devolved into shipping discussions and no actual kissing. Gray paint everywhere. Take me back.
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>pesterchum app
Holy shit I almost forgot about that. Me and my friends used to message each other on there after school too lol. Good times
>gigantic spin the bottle
I think you mean spin the faygo lol. We used to have those at cons too although unfortunately ours had actual kissing. My friends and I never joined in because we were all 17-21 when we started going to cons and the circles seemed to be primarily 13-15 year olds (that didn’t stop some very obvious adults from making out with some very obvious minors, but that’s a whole other story.) We would walk by those circles and it was so uncomfortable/weird to see two high schoolers frenching each other while surrounded by other high schoolers cheering them on
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>>10908400
I remember having some great RPs on MSPARP back in the day. I miss it.
I felt like I really missed out on the Homestuck con craze because I didn't have the money or expertise to attempt the Homestuck cosplays I wanted until literal years later (I did my first Homestuck cosplay in 2022 when I'd been waiting for an opportunity since 2013).
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>>10908457
The cosplay standard is a lot higher now which kills some of the fun for me. In 2014 people were running up to me excited to take a picture with me because of picrel. Upd8 culture and rushing to make closet cosplays was the most fun I've ever had in a fandom.
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cosplay standard was shit at my local con this year. believe in yourself and your cardboard gundam soul, you're still putting in more heart than the few who bothered to dress up in their unironed aliexpress outfits. i would have approached you for pix in this just because thank god someone putting effort into actually repping a fandom, maybe we can chat about it a moment
maybe it's because of this impression, that a few people with big tiktoks are cranking out constant professional stuff as a career so why should anyone else even try. and with fewer trying fewer are posting and fewer are researching. i don't see cosplay tutorial posts floating around in the general fandom melange anymore either, and i saw when i greyed up last year that basic skills are being lost, such as bodypaint technique. We solved this problem a decade ago, it shocked me to see smears in 2023 (on other people, not me. i wore alcohol paint)
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Im not the biggest fan of HS^2 like the other guy but the designs fuck despite karkat being a literal mgs parody
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Happy 4/13 I guess
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Happy 4/13 Everyone
Worst than last years looool
Hope Anons going to the event will post pics here
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man i wen ton msparp all the time. I was a dirk who met an android HAL on there, and we became friends and talked on skype everyday for years. It ended up going super super toxic and i got obsessed, but honestly I can say id never been so in love with anyone in my entire life. That relationship changed me, it was like... well, it was a lot. I would save the skype chats, but I cant get into the accounts anymore because I dont have the emails or the phone numbers.... I tried doing microsoft supports but nothing worked. It was a crazy time, I just hope I can experience emotions and feelings somewhere even close to that degree again. Preferably irl this time though instead of just online. But yeah that friendship changed my life
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I went today and it was kinda dead sadly, given it was a Tuesday afternoon but whatever. A few people did show up in cosplay and such later on so that was nice, I chatted with some...Kinda awkward.
By the ballpit they had a notebooks to draw and leave a doodle. I might go again near the weekend and see if more people turn up.
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Yeah sadly, they also have some regular normal menu cakes and such. But it's never available lol. I've seen others bring in outside food tho.
>I'm looking forward to drawing and leaving some stickers next week.
Have fun anon
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>>10910932
>Jesus fucking christ just let Homestuck stay dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrhTB2Sij8c
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I think Hussie was considering using gender-neutral pronouns at some point, but the Wikipedia page for him still uses male pronouns and the wikipedia faggots would absolutely have switched if there was a solid reason to so idk.
At the very least Hussie seems to know that Homestuck is a dead IP and really wants nothing to do with it anymore, and I can't say I blame him.
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Roach and all his personal friends still use male pronouns for him, so I suspect clowngender was a halfassed way to stay hip with the kids and avoid cancellation for being a straight man who did racist comics and has a track record of dating women 20 years younger than him.
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Went back for more(tm)
Shit was nice and had a bit more people there enjoying themselves. In cosplay and causal homestuck themed outfits
WAyyyy more drawings, all great
Yall think they'll done this event again?
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Cringe but whatever.
I dont wanna spam here and I'll just post more shit on my twitter but heyoo.
Funny enough, I spoke of 4chan in the cafe and some lard gave me a look lmao.
going back on actual cosplay talk, when it comes to painting skin grey, what are good products or brands for it?
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>>10911604
>2 Junes
>no Johns
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For you dude
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1102536872/medium-v2000-pointy-v-cosplay- costume?click_key=415bf9ca21808d439 0ef9dcc0ce20a2d2f850ba5%3A110253687 2&click_sum=83967163&ref=shop_home_ feat_1
Here ya go. This guy has been making homestuck glasses for cosplayers for like a decade plus at this point
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looked all over fucking amazon and they ship to italy the FUCKING DAY AFTER THE con i want to shoot myself
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genuinely one of the funniest images on the internet in my opinion
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This was true for people in my high school who liked Homestuck.
I only read it two years ago despite hearing about it since I was 11 or something. I'm dumbfounded on how the comic itself would be seen as pro-trans considering every ship before act 5 was straight and even a majority in act 5 are too. I guess it's the community influence or maybe something like how computer science majors are prone to trooning out. It's hard to find Homestuck fans to talk to since they're so obsessed with gender identity BS and care more about the characters sexuality than theories about the game
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I think that’s just part of being a decade late to the fandom. A lot of plot related discussions already happened on tumblr (which you could probably still go find) or in person. Despite how socially inept homestucks were, we were also surprisingly social. I mean back then I lived somewhere with less than 75k people. Someone posted about wanting to do a homestuck meetup at a park and around 20-30 people showed up
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I just went to a con yesterday as GT John, and I was surprised, even if it was only a few, how many folks were so happy to see me going around. Hell, I even got a Dave and a Nep wanting a photo not even 15 minutes in (and I regret not asking for that pic for myself, desu.) I saw those two, a post-bender Terezi, and I heard there was a Jade around whom I didn't see, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few more today.
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When I went to a con last year, I saw two girls probably around middle school age dressed as Gamzee and Karkat.
Felt sort of bad that kids were still finding the story, considering how bad it ended up in the end.
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GOD I never had anyone in my school know about Homestuck or any similar piece of media... I was a HUGE fan. One time we had a family karaoke night and I sang Karkalicious with all my might and soul. i dressed up as Dave for every Halloween party and once I sent a trojan horse to my best friend and told her it was a game called sburb we had to play. Good days
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aw man... the first con i went to had a sizeable amount of homestuck cosplayers around, interesting to see that this webcomic managed to get some attention in my country even though it's full of american references. i have a lot of cringy memories, some nice ones too, like the time a nepeta cosplayer hugged me.
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Was(Day 2 goer) here
Some some trolls and meet some cool people that also went the Cafe earlier this year.
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That's about it really. I was told there was a HS gathering on day one, IDK if anyone has posted pics online.
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From the most recent Ota.
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Very wholesome 100
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>the tail
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>I never got to live my fantasy of banging a cute homestuck cosplayer
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im actually so happy i found a homestuck fans
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Was it any good?
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I'm not one for longform RP, at least where I have to expose fellow humans to the cringe, textgen AI is cool.
I still shitpost in troll quirk since my hsg-marinated brain has never recovered
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i'm still on dreambubble roulette rp, it's not that hard to avoid straight up cybering if you build a long blocklist. i've had some good interesting character interactions with e.g. commander karkat and jane.
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Ngl, I expected Helluva Boss/Hazbin fans to carry the homestuck con torch but that didn't happen at all. Almost everyone I knew who was invested into HS went onto being a Vivziepop faggot, none of them cosplayed as any of the characters.
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>>10946000
the characters are nearly impossible to cosplay, let alone well. homestuck was popular to cosplay because almost all of the designs were just jeans and a t shirt, so any kid who could get their hands on some modelling clay could do it.
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exactly. and the blankness that comes with such a simple design allowed cosplayers to customize and get creative with shit. hazbin designs are so overcrowded and hard to look at. too many details and none of them interesting. also red facepaint is harder to conquer than gray
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>>10948804
That and also the fact that every other modern HS fan is either a
>Jaded veteran whose had all their passion and wonder sucked out of them by the deterioration of this comic, renouncing both it and their love of it
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>Insufferable younger zoomer who can only communicate in irony drenched memes and self fellating tweets while having opinions that would make the most stereotypical tumblr user seem moderate in comparison
God, what I would give to be able to experience Homestuck at it's prime. That shit looked like it was fun.
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Everywhere I go to find HS fans, I just meet the most unbearable people ever. Granted, tiktok probably isn't the best platform to find hs fans because they all appear to be under the age of 14, are chronically online, plain stupid, etc. but discord servers are also severely mentally ill.
Also real, I'm trying to put together a dave cosplay right now and I can only dream about going to a con and meeting other homestucks but I'll keep dreaming because I don't live in the states since it's basically dead anywhere else TTTT
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Try and see if you can find people to talk to on pesterchum the next time /hsg/ happens on co ig. They have a board on an altchan too but I forget the name.
If you're in the UK I am >>10948449 but barely ever go to cons.
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aww im in Canada ;;; I've only ever been to like 2 or 3 cons but I don't think I've ever seen HS cosplayers at all
Thanks for the advice! also srry dumping my drawing here cuz I just need somewhere to throw my hs fanarts since I have no one to talk to abt it
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Well lads, with 4/13 coming up, are any of you coming up with any plans to celebrate it? I think they're doing a sponsored event at some place other than the Requiem cafe this year but I can't remember.
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Just finished my Dirk shades for an upcoming con. Not the best but they'll do the job
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>5 ish hour drive near the middle of nowhere
nah, I'll pass on that event, I Live in LA and I'm not going to stress with that.
>California in the dead of summer
A nice Fall prom would've been MUCH better.
this event was made for the Bay Area fuckers
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With Beyond Canon now on break, any hope Act 2 will be better or just as worse? Also, here's the Requiem Assets since it had a copyright strike by HONE.
https://litter.catbox.moe/f4xg37.zip
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just posting to remember.
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Welp... better lock in for another wave of fans coming into the mix
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A second chance!
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>>10958732
hey i'm from the future.
it sucked major cock, i hope if it gets adapted, the vivziepoop writer gets axed or learns to tone her shit down a bit
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