ONCE UPON A TIME, MANY MANY MOONS AGO, I tried to read Homestuck. I made it about three pages and then wandered away because I have a short attention span and the beginning of Homestuck is like taking a dull dental too and scraping away at the enamel on my teeth in a vague and somewhat mindless attempt to make creepy mouth sculptures out of them.

And then a like a year later, a very dear friend read Homestuck.

And she liked it.

So I tried again. I didn’t get very far. That was alright. My friend was wasting away in a pit of WHY DONT I HAVE ANYONE TO GLEE TO ABOUT THIS but she wasn’t pushing it on me and I didn’t hate it.

But then she got companions. People who liked it. And I tried again

and again

and again. I started reading a few pages a month - spaced out just far enough that I would forget everything I’d read and where I was. 

SOMEDAY I SWEAR THIS IS A THING THAT WILL GET READ. MAYBE. POSSIBLY.

As far as I remember, there’s this guy named Dave who bought the sims and might have a bathtub in his pocket. He made a lot of nerdy jokes that I don’t understand and also his father really likes clowns. One of these clowns is his inventory system maybe?

If his inventory system goes all HAL on him then I am getting out of here. Wait no, I’ll probably be more interested in reading, actually.

I know that Dave has a colour and his friend that I have just met and is named Rose has a colour and apparently this is significant but I dont remember what their colours are.

and maybe there was an asteroid?

wait his name is John

Okay I don’t really remember why I’m reading about Rose right now instead of John. Wasn’t John kind of in dire straits when we left him? Was there a power outage at some point?

Is John actually dead and just dreaming things now?

I don’t remember. OH WELL LET’S TALK TO ROSE FOR A WHILE.

Goodness gracious that’s a lot of purple.

Should probably be embarrassed that I need to Google flagellum?

BRB going to google town.

So… someone asked rose to be the tail of a piece of sperm? The tentacles from that one puppet town in psyche? if I press this >> button is Rose going to be on the long end of a creepy tongue, rubbing against my monitor screen? Because I will shriek like a little girl and leave this website for at least a week. I will. 

Homestuck: it’s educational.

Not gonna lie, I am instantly prepared to notice if Rose doesn’t actually know how to knit. If she ever wields those needles in a dual hamfisted child pretending to be a caveman, I will sneer the biggest sneer you have ever seen sneered.

but I like that she knits.

…where do her arms go when she’s not playing the violin?

Corgi, does Jamie have a copy of this poster anywhere in his dorm?

if not, then you’re welcome, you’ve just found your Christmas present to him.

theoldaeroplane:

spectrumfizz:

bakun:

sudamor:

albinotaters:

windows-vriska:

littleshopofshelby:

for anybody who doesn’t know what homestuck is

this woman is my hero

SHE’S SO CUTE LMFAO????????? GOD

good

yes you win

 Very, very well explained.

Even better in speech than it looked as text.

holy shit

hey noel watch this

I did have to watch this twice. Not from difficulty understanding but because you told me watch to a video of someone in costume so I spent the entire first viewing thinking about her sleeves and costume fabric and one layer versus two and sewing in general.

…oh. Is that what homestuck is about? Really? I guess I knew it had to have a plot somewhere, hidden under the inventory system jokes.

To be honest, when you guys start talking homestuck to me, it’s kind of like tying to explain physics to a cat. I stare and maybe don’t blink often enough and am vaguely interested because you’re my friends what what interests you is interesting to me, to an extent, but as soon as you’re done talking about it all I remember is that you’re reading a comic about kids who are running around with makeup on their face, that I suspected was a bit like a .hack thing, maybe.

at some point in the future.

And for some inexplicable reason, writing down thoughts as I click through the slogging first act enables me to read pages in batches of almost ten at a time, rather than one or two pages.

I don’t know why this helps.

It is a mystery.

>totem

>building jewel

oops I do not remember any of this. Or that rabbit on his bed.

This is the happiest broken toilet I have ever seen.

Look at him he’s so happy. He doesn’t know how plumbing works

but that’s okay.