Let me ramble about Homestuck
Dec. 14th, 2018 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
residentpyromaniacTaking some time to think about it (by which I mean over two years, apparently. damn. that's been a long time).
I'm honestly not upset with how Homestuck ended. At all.
When you're dealing with something that's just about the largest work in the English language, if not the largest, with such an enormous and dedicated fanbase, with so many major characters, some of whom were introduced very late-game, there's just no way to have a "good" ending. It's just not possible to wrap up all the loose ends neatly and concisely in a way that won't upset basically everyone in some way or another.
But that's not the point, I don't think. At least to me, Homestuck's biggest strength isn't necessarily the story itself. It's a series that grabbed the internet by the balls and twisted until it was completely impossible to present in any other medium. It gave us enough interesting characters to make a your head spin. It gave us buckets (heh) of dumb jokes and memes that, decades from now, people who were fans are never gonna be able to get out of their heads.
(warned you about the stairs, bro)
At the end of the day, how Homestuck ended doesn't really matter to me. A good chunk of the actual story, while fun, and while I still plan on rereading the whole thing every now and then as long as I can, doesn't really matter. What Homestuck's been to me since about 2 months after I first started trying to give it a read (sometime during the post-Cascade hiatus. I had good timing getting into it), is a sandbox.
and what a hell of a sandbox it is.
I'm honestly not upset with how Homestuck ended. At all.
When you're dealing with something that's just about the largest work in the English language, if not the largest, with such an enormous and dedicated fanbase, with so many major characters, some of whom were introduced very late-game, there's just no way to have a "good" ending. It's just not possible to wrap up all the loose ends neatly and concisely in a way that won't upset basically everyone in some way or another.
But that's not the point, I don't think. At least to me, Homestuck's biggest strength isn't necessarily the story itself. It's a series that grabbed the internet by the balls and twisted until it was completely impossible to present in any other medium. It gave us enough interesting characters to make a your head spin. It gave us buckets (heh) of dumb jokes and memes that, decades from now, people who were fans are never gonna be able to get out of their heads.
(warned you about the stairs, bro)
At the end of the day, how Homestuck ended doesn't really matter to me. A good chunk of the actual story, while fun, and while I still plan on rereading the whole thing every now and then as long as I can, doesn't really matter. What Homestuck's been to me since about 2 months after I first started trying to give it a read (sometime during the post-Cascade hiatus. I had good timing getting into it), is a sandbox.
and what a hell of a sandbox it is.
