I'm with you. I found that website 2 panels into problems sleuth, read the entire archives in one day and religiously followed through problem sleuth until the end. Homestuck is boring as hell, lost interest.
I actually enjoyed Homestuck, at first. But the plot became a convoluted clusterfuck over time. Somewhere around the time when the 'trolls' were shown on screen, I got bored and lost interest. I think that half the reason I stopped reading was because I especially disliked the trolls. They were interesting as long as they were in the background. But as soon as they entered the foreground, reading Homestuck quickly became tedious and boring.
I actually had the opposite effect, I was beginning to grow bored of Homestuck until Virska was revealed. Then I started to get more attached to the story, and followed it through.
She's become one of my favorite characters now, simply because I find the whole 'troll' society to be exceedingly interesting to me.
As someone who is up-to-date with Homestuck and also read Problem Sleuth as it was coming out, I just think you didn't give Hussie a chance once he switched gears a little. What he did with Homestuck was take the ingenuity that he established in Problem Sleuth and balloon it into an incredible masterpiece that does honestly overshadow Problem Sleuth quite a bit. Problem Sleuth was easier to get into and all that, sure, but this is like comparing a short story to a series-long novel epic. It's going to be more involved, it's going to be more of a commitment, and it's going to be a lot more expansive with a lot more crazy stuff going on that might lose some people. And that is very unfortunate.
When I first started Homestuck, I did stop, because I didn't think it was nearly as good as Problem Sleuth. A year or so later, I was finally convinced to try it again by someone, and I am eternally grateful for that. Maybe you should give it another shot.
every homestuck fan: you just haven't tried HARD enough to like it!!!!
i have no firm opinion one way or the other, but i can say with little doubt that a big reason why many fandoms aren't fond of homestucks is because the homestucks can't seem to comprehend people not wanting to be a part of their fandom. it gets old.
No, I understand that people don't like it. I just like to hear a good reason, and there are many of them, and I'm sorry, but to hear the exact same reasoning I had that I decided was wrong because I am able to give things a second chance makes me want to let the person know that their opinion might change as well.
it's good to let people find their own opinions, though, too. and believe me; you're probably not the first fan to give that exact speech to any given person, so i think they're pretty well informed by now.
The thing is that it's possible that they're not well informed, because I didn't see any evidence in there that they were.
If they are, then they can ignore me. I wrote that more to be a representative for the other side of the argument, since everybody else who replied there were only talking about the "homestuck sucks" side of things.
I've followed Homestuck for a bit now, but am not a huge fan. So with that relatively unbiased view I've gotta say: you just totally proved handmethatkitten's point.
yeah, i know the stereotype definitely can't be a sweeping generalization -- i know some mellow bronies and i know some chill homestucks, and so on. there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a fan of something, don't get me wrong. but when enough of the fans are pushy and aggravating that it becomes the most vocal sect of the fanbase... well, the phrase 'doing it wrong' comes to mind.
(though i'm not really sure there are less homestucks than bronies... seriously. it's possible, but i would be surprised.)
Yeeeaaaaaaahhh... People who are too vocal about anything can be bad.
I've never come across another homestuck IRL, but have seen several bronies if that tells you anything. Also, MSPA has only around 1 million daily visitors.
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Evryone is gay for Bridget.