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I don't merely draw Homestuck... ==>
I CONJURE THIS INTREPID FANTASYSCAPE WITH TEARS BLED FROM THE WISDOM-WEARY EYES OF FIFTY THOUSAND IMAGINARY MAGICIANS. I PULL HEAVY DRAGS FROM THE BRUMES OF INSPIRATION WITH ENCHANTED BELLOWS MARAUDED FROM A GUILD OF CHURLISH MYTHICAL DWARVES. VAST BULBOUS RIDDLESPIDERS PUSH THE SILKEN STRANDS OF PURE WHIMSY THROUGH HIDEOUS ABDOMINAL SPINNERETS AND IT IS THAT WITH WHICH I WEAVE THIS AUDACIOUS COCOON OF EXQUISITE LIES. AND WHEN IT HATCHES A GREAT MOTH OF TITILLATION WILL AWAKEN AND ROAR AND BEAT ITS WINGS, AND THE POWDER SETTLING DOWN WILL ARREST THE HUMORS OF AN ENORMOUS TERRIBLE OLD BEGGAR, RELAXING THE VULTUROUS LEATHERY VICEGRIP HE'S FIXED AROUND YOUR CAPTIVE MIND.
A peculiar sort of
Interactive Comic/Flash game hybrid.
Homestuck
is the fourth and latest series of
MS Paint Adventures, a series of web comics done in the style of an old
text-based adventure game, written by
Andrew Hussie (
and the fans). Homestuck started like the others, with every update prompted by a user suggestion, but it soon shed its
suggestion box when the plot outgrew it, and has since become a multimedia
thing which has grown to be
longer than any other webcomic on the internet - at a rate which (according to Hussie's calculations) could let him take a break for at least
thirteen years and still run the most tightly updated webcomic in the world, if he wanted.
A young man stands in his bedroom.
It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is this young man's birthday. Though it was 13 years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name!
What will the name of this young man be?...It will be
Zoosmell Pooplord... er, sorry. It will be
John Egbert. Our chief protagonist is one of
four thirteen-year-old friends-- the other three being
Rose Lalonde,
Dave Strider, and
Jade Harley— who are fated to play Sburb, a widely-hyped multiplayer video game with real-life effects. Sburb allows players to manipulate and modify each other's environments in real time, in a way reminiscent of
The Sims. But as it turns out,
the consequences of playing Sburb are significantly further-reaching than they initially appear to be, and what begins as a series of amusing domestic struggles and game-mechanics goofs quickly spirals into
a succession of events the likes of which need to be seen to be believed.
Homestuck began on
April 13th, 2009, only one month after the end of the highly successful
Problem Sleuth. It rapidly rose in popularity for many reasons, but primarily for its
intricate multi-timeline apocalypse-centric plot,
an insanely fast update schedule * it updates with 5.5 pages a day on average; that means a veritable torrent of updates, unless Andrew's
making a Flash animation, a
visual upgrade from the style of
Problem Sleuth, the
Flash animations and games accompanied by
a massive soundtrack, and its
incredibly high trope density.
The
MS Paint Adventures Wiki
is maintained by fans, and tends to be an invaluable source of assistance when reading
Homestuck for the first time, though the content there should be taken with a grain of salt, as its userbase has a tendency to occasionally post speculation as fact. Hussie used to use Formspring as a means of communicating with readers, but eventually ditched it
* for those interested, the content has been archived
here
in favour of
his Tumblr account
, which is occasionally opened for questions.
Late Arrival Spoiler Warning: If the fact that this entry was breaking the site didn't clue you in, this entry has reached
Troper Critical Mass at least partially because of the aforementioned reasons,
ALL spoilers have been left unmarked. The old system of spoiler tagging things as they came was very haphazard and poorly implemented, and in addition
Homestuck is freely available and there's no barrier to reading it save for its sheer length, so
every single spoiler tag has been removed on every subpage; even visiting the character index contains spoilers, as does the page image! If you want maximum enjoyment when reading this comic, it is
highly suggested you read the whole comic
before reading any of the following links.
You Have Been Warned.
Good luck.
> Compile extensive articles of supplemental data related to Homestuck.
> Study cast dossier. > Investigate strange ramblings. > Look over submitted complaints of cranial irritation. > Gloss over tomes created by admirers. > Succumb to unfathomable briefness. > Evaluate collection of inspiring quotations. > Compose poetic commentary of a Far Eastern kind. > Weigh in on controversial matters. > Fondly regard coronation. > Seek webcomic-related hilarities. > Inspect moments worthy of heartburn. > Peruse bad dream catalysts. > Shed single tear of black liquid sorrow. > Observe collection of established sick beats. > Further observe fan-made additions to established sick beats. > Appreciate the aforementioned collections of beats. > Examine documented references to miscellaneous media. > Take inventory plundered from the breeze of a thermal hull. > Appraise list of shocking developments. > Recall emotionally bipolar situations. > Sleuth out extensive list of internet colloquialisms. > Attempt to make linear sense of mind-bending chronology. > Contextualize currently compiled list of common media devices exemplified in Homestuck.
PSYCHE! The tropes for this work have been split alphabetically due to their sheer numbers. Looks like you'll have to visit the sub-pages for the trope listing.
4/13/2009 - 4/13/2010
4 kids
365 days (and counting)
1668 pages
2024 images
85,000 words
63 Flash animations
5.5 images per day, every day
1 Flash animation every 6 days
1 hour total of animated footage
3000 imported graphic files
53 songs
4 albums
* Five if you count "Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead".
15 Sweet Bro and Hella Jeffs
—Andrew, stats for Homestuck first year
4/13/2009 - 4/16/2011
733 days
3718 pages
5 pages per day
hours and hours of animated footage + gameplay
Acts 1-5
4/13/09 - 10/25/2011
925 Days: 2 Years, 6 Months, 12 Days.
4107 Pages
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