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Rose is the best goddamn character in this whole thing and I will not be convinced otherwise.
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This battle is somewhere between DBZ and Tom & Jerry.
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Oct 2, 2012 03:30
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I think those dice in the back are spinning now. How d'ya think they'll fall? 
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Oct 2, 2012 03:30
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John misinterprets the eyebrow waggling and winking as being directed at him, spends remaining year on asteroid claiming he has a girlfriend, shenanigans ensue. But first, it looks like John's about to manage the unlikely and actually squash Bec Noir like a bug. I really did think Rose was intervening to keep John from killing him since they might need him for something she'd seen in a vision, but maybe this really is curtains for Noir.
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Oct 2, 2012 03:37
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Poor Jack. He just doesn't get it.
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Oct 2, 2012 03:40
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H.P. Shivcraft posted:I think those dice in the back are spinning now. How d'ya think they'll fall? But it's pop-o-matic. Wouldn't you need a smaller hammer to hammer in the bubble on the larger hammer? You do have to hammer those things in with a bit of force. Mostly I just want to see a smaller hammer hammer the hammer. aaand now hammer doesn't look like a word anymore
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Oct 2, 2012 03:42
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Actually if John smacked the poppy part with his fist while he was hitting Jack with it, that'd be pretty cool.
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Oct 2, 2012 03:47
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snucks posted:This battle is somewhere between DBZ and Tom & Jerry. So, FLCL.
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Oct 2, 2012 03:48
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VJeff posted:Rose is the best goddamn character in this whole thing and I will not be convinced otherwise. Rose is always the best. 
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Oct 2, 2012 03:56
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You seem to be forgetting someone. Seriously though Rose is definitely one of my favorite characters.
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Oct 2, 2012 04:09
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Dolash posted:John misinterprets the eyebrow waggling and winking as being directed at him, spends remaining year on asteroid claiming he has a girlfriend, shenanigans ensue. What says it wasn't directed at him? A strapping lad with a hammer? *waggle.gif*
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Oct 2, 2012 04:16
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Feranon posted:God, I'm really kind of dreading Homestuck becoming popular in the mainstream and being really widely known. It's on the verge of it now, and I know it's inevitable with the game coming out, but it's just gonna be loving insufferable. MSPA going mainstream could actually be a good thing, because then the insufferable current fandom would become a minority and we would have more 'Normal people who happen to like homestuck'
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Oct 2, 2012 04:56
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'Normal' fans will never factor into how fandoms are perceived, since they're not the ones that command attention. See Star Trek, Wars, anime, MLP, homestucks.
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Oct 2, 2012 04:59
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Eox posted:MSPA going mainstream could actually be a good thing, because then the insufferable current fandom would become a minority and we would have more 'Normal people who happen to like homestuck' The insufferable fandom is already the minority. The ratio of crazy to normal fans is never the problem, only the absolute quantity of crazies.
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Oct 2, 2012 04:59
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure like tons of people read Homestuck, Homestuck just has an overabundance of crazy-rear end fans.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:02
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Everything has crazy fans, it just depends on the overall popularity that determines the base number. 
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Oct 2, 2012 05:05
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I'm feelin' like someone has put together a mathematical expression or graph that expresses this concept quite neatly and logically. Jesus christ can you imagine how bad things would be if Homestuck had Startrek-amounts of fans? Given how the worst Homestuck fans are probably a lot weirder than the worst Trekkies... then again, maybe not. Maybe I just don't know enough about weird Trekkies. Human beings in general are pretty fuckin' weird though. That much is for sure.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:08
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It was worth a shot  All of the homestuck fans where I live are loving insufferable
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Oct 2, 2012 05:11
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The entry barrier's too high now. Maybe when it was shorter you could get regular people to read it, but now if the lunatic fandom doesn't scare them off, the 410k goddamn word count will. And the format is weird as hell, especially if you're unfamiliar with 1) webcomics, 2) CYOA forum games, 3) Old School adventure games. I once tried to explain Homestuck to someone who didn't know what a webcomic was. It was unfruitful.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:13
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If it went mainstream, I might actually achieve my dream of having real life friends ask me to tell them about Homestuck. There are quite a few people that I want to introduce it to, but won't because I can't even get them to read loving Gunnerkrigg Court, much less the first act of Homestuck.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:21
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What Star Trek fandom lacks in concentrated horribleness, it makes up for in determination and longevity. Their insanity predates the internet, which means that they were codifying fandom concepts without any established precedent, in zines. They went to great lengths to tie together their community through the mail and occasional conventions, and any new inductee could only count on oral tradition to learn about the culture they had just entered, rather than having the option to go back to the original second-generation fan material. The comparative formality of print media compared to online media encouraged a certain decorum in their conduct which modern megafandoms appear to lack, but other than that they, hand in hand with Lord of the Rings enthusiasts, established the patterns that are still clearly in evidence to this day. If there's any qualitative difference, I'd say that it's become more common for fans to be exposed to the fandom than to the source material, and less common for genuine academic interest to cross paths with lay enjoyment. It's fascinating stuff as long as you keep your hands relatively clean.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:22
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Zorak posted:What says it wasn't directed at him? A strapping lad with a hammer? Rose's eyebrows are a force of nature; waggling not for one person, but waggling at the mysteries of the Universe itself.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:28
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I love how well Rose has embraced her Seer-ness. She's playing the role to the hilt: Being all enigmatic and tactical.quote:Star Trek chat Yeah, you can go to scifi conventions and see people openly selling their homemade Kirk/Spock slash via booth. We're not quite to that point yet. I'm waiting for the whole thing to come full circle and for the terrible Star Trek fan-artists that Hussie made fun of in his TNG edits to start making similar Homestuck paintings. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Oct 2, 2012 05:31
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Is there anything with more fanart than MSPA? I'm not even kidding. Pokemon probably but it's a long series with a lot more normal people following and everything. edit: And stuff with multiple installments isn't counting in this, to me. cubivore fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Oct 2, 2012 05:44
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Waffnuffly posted:Jesus christ can you imagine how bad things would be if Homestuck had Startrek-amounts of fans? Given how the worst Homestuck fans are probably a lot weirder than the worst Trekkies... then again, maybe not. Maybe I just don't know enough about weird Trekkies. WEEEEELLLLLLLL... http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20050530_106573_106573 The Star Trek connection A surprising number of child sex abusers appear to be Trekkies. Trying to figure out what that means, however, shows how little we really know about pedophiles. JONATHON GATEHOUSE | May 26, 2005 SynthOrange posted:Everything has crazy fans, it just depends on the overall popularity that determines the base number. Pretty much.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:45
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cubivore posted:Is there anything with more fanart than MSPA? I'm not even kidding. Pokemon probably but it's a long series with a lot more normal people following and everything. MLP is probably giving it one hell of a run for its money. vvv That too, but Touhou has also been around a lot longer. NO LISTEN TO ME fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Oct 2, 2012 05:48
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cubivore posted:Is there anything with more fanart than MSPA? I'm not even kidding. Pokemon probably but it's a long series with a lot more normal people following and everything. All I can think of at the moment other than Pokemon is Touhou.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:53
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cubivore posted:Is there anything with more fanart than MSPA? I'm not even kidding. Pokemon probably but it's a long series with a lot more normal people following and everything. Homestuck's popular, but it's still pretty young, by fandom terms. MLP and Hetalia both probably have about the same amount of fanart, and they're both from the past couple of years. Naruto and Harry Potter pretty much crush all the rest in sheer numbers.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:59
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I'm always loathe to look down on people who are more into fandom poo poo than I am, because I know there's always somebody less into it above me, looking down with derision-- and somebody above them, and so on, and so forth, until you finally get to Mitt Romney.
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Oct 2, 2012 06:15
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Oh snap, Rose was a ruse; a distaction!
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Oct 2, 2012 07:27
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I would assume that a big reason Homestuck and Pokemon get a lot of fanart, besides a large audience, is the easy-to-copy drawing style. It's the same reason so many terrible deviantart types have styles copied from Sonic the Hedgehog or the Lion King.
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Oct 2, 2012 07:28
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Homestuck's fandom is really no worse than any other fandom. Trekkies can be pretty bad, Star Wars fans too. Hell, ever met a really dedicated Superman fan? I received a death threat from one for saying that I was not a big fan of Superman, and as far as I could tell he was serious. I'll take weird sexual fetishes over death threats any day.
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Oct 2, 2012 07:32
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My problem with the Homestuck fandom is that the average fan seems to be all and only about shipping. Can't I find someone who wants to do something other than talk about what characters they want to see loving?
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Oct 2, 2012 07:36
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cubivore posted:My problem with the Homestuck fandom is that the average fan seems to be all and only about shipping. Can't I find someone who wants to do something other than talk about what characters they want to see loving? That's what this thread is for.  Seriously, though, this thread is the furthest I'm willing to tread into the Homestuck fandom. At least everyone here tends to focus on plot and character development and non-"MY PRECIOUS GAY BABIES" stuff. There are occasional insightful gems on tumblr, but... well, it's tumblr, which is akin to panning for gold in a dung pile: once in awhile you hit something that's absolutely rich, but the rest of the time you're wading neck-deep through poo poo.
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Oct 2, 2012 07:40
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There will always be a subset of fans who will ship characters, and there is another subset who will draw porn of their favourite characters. Some times these will intersect. All fandoms will have these groups. All of them. 
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cubivore posted:My problem with the Homestuck fandom is that the average fan seems to be all and only about shipping. Can't I find someone who wants to do something other than talk about what characters they want to see loving? Man, just be glad he didn't leave them as ten-year-olds, as they originally started as. Seriously, though, I think this is just a function of which communities you go to. Tumblr attracts a very young crowd, so they're going to care more about shipping that we will. I bet if, say, Slashdot had a Homestuck thread (maybe they have, I haven't looked at that website in ten years), it would be about compiling lists about times Hussie made mistakes with the inventory modi.
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Bobulus posted:Yeah, you can go to scifi conventions and see people openly selling their homemade Kirk/Spock slash via booth. We're not quite to that point yet.
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Oct 2, 2012 08:14
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Admiral Goodenough posted:The best thing I saw on the last convention I went to this summer was a guy dressed up as Bro in the Artist's Alley, drawing porny pictures of smuppets for free.
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Oct 2, 2012 08:21
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This art from From Software really made me think someone there likes Rose. 
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Seoinin posted:I really hope he was just handing them to people that hadn't even asked for one. I'm thinking people just feel a freak gust of wind and maybe see a silhouette flash past. They only discover the truth at the bottom of their swag bag several hours later. Sweet As Sin posted:This art from From Software really made me think someone there likes Rose. The Courtyard Droll would fall to his knees and weep at the sight of this.
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