I am 0kay with many things.

Oct 16, 2011 01:30


So. Here's the thing.

I have been dipping my toes into Homestuck. Mostly because I somehow found myself clicking on a link to Rex Duodecim Angelis and discovering that the music for Homestuck is actually pretty great, if you like video-gamish stuff (given the nature of Homestuck all of those links are probably spoilery in one way or another, or possibly not due to sheer fandom osmosis). And then I discovered that there were a few nifty fanvids, and thanks to spending way too much time on Fandom Secrets listening to the deluge of Homestuck fandom wank I already recognized a few of the characters, and then I wanted to recognize them all, so I went on the TV Tropes page, and...well, and from there I wasted about three hours reading All The Tropes and watching out-of-context [S] vids from Acts 4 and 5. Because, even if I don't know precisely what's going on, the animation and artwork are still really quite impressive.

But. Um. I've been peeking at the plot in the TV Tropes sections, and it sounds so aggressively confusing that I'm not sure if I'm up for actually reading the comic. I mean. Even before we get to the enormous cast in Act 5, there's still what looks to be two simultaneously-ocurring timelines, plus alternate selves who may or may not be dead, and also people who travel back in time and become their own grandparents. Or something. And then there are interactions backwards in time - look, it's not that I'm a particularly stupid person, give me themes and meta and stuff and I can handle that, it's just that I'm not particularly good at keeping track of simultaneous alternating backwards timelines that contradict and occasionally reset each other. IDK.

So, folks who read Homestuck, is there a particularly good place to start? Should I read Problem Sleuth first? Is there a flowchart I can use? Is it not really as complicated as the trope pages make it look? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY TROPE PAGES

Also why do I have such a girlcrush on Mindfang for no particular reason, is this common.

The real reason I'm so reluctant to get into it is because I am finally learning to manage my horrifically short attention span and the last thing I need is a weeks-long archive binge that will cause me to forget school, assignments, job applications, the touch of sunlight, and human contact.

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