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A homestuck merchandise horror story... "What does that shirt mean?", asked my grandmother. She tries to understand the things I was interested in, and has an eye for detail. I looked down and silently cursed. I was wearing a shirt with John's eratz slimer logo on it. How the hell do you explain Homestuck to a person who doesn't even understand email, let alone webcomics or multimedia-hybrids-with-user-participation? "It's...from a tv show," I answered, reluctantly. It wasn't a total lie. A television program was probably the closest she would be able to grasp to the flash movies. "Just a thing I watch now and then." This seemed to mollify her, and I thought I was safe. "Well, what's it's name?" she persisted. Double-crap. 'Green Slime Ghost' just sounds dumb. "It...doesn't really have a name? It's just a logo." "Doesn't have a name? Everything has a name." There was no escape.
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Ariong posted:On that fateful day, every payphone in the world rang at the same time, each with a different Homestuck character on the other end. Not a one was missed. The Haunted Void: I Love Squiddles, by 1025 Entertainment
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Nov 28, 2012 00:25
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Bobulus posted:A homestuck merchandise horror story... "It's from Homestuck. It's a comic book on the internet." How hard was that?
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Nov 28, 2012 00:31
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Or if that was too hard, you could've just said it was a Ghostbusters shirt? 
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Nov 28, 2012 00:34
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Nonbaka posted:http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006186 Hussiebot posted:Nobody should ever mess with you.
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Nov 28, 2012 00:56
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The troll shirts are probably safest since they're just astrology symbols. ...of course you then run the risk of meeting an astrology nut.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:16
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You guys really live in a terrifying world, where there's always a Homestuck person lurking behind the bushes just waiting to make awkward conversation.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:25
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Rorus Raz posted:The troll shirts are probably safest since they're just astrology symbols. Or you're an Aquarius.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:33
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Seoinin posted:You guys really live in a terrifying world, where there's always a Homestuck person lurking behind the bushes just waiting to make awkward conversation. They're watching you, you know. Just waiting for a chance to leap forth and start telling you about their ships.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:43
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My Seer of Mind tshirt is what I wear to the gym. 
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Nov 28, 2012 01:44
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IUG posted:Or you're an Aquarius. I'm Aquarius and I would've bought that shirt if it wasn't for Eridan, and now Cronus.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:47
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So I was wearing my WhatPumpkin(c) merch the other day and some defect walks up to me all like oh gner gner youre a scorpio too gner gner. Well I wasn't about to let that kind of poo poo slide, so I took off my shades real slow and looked him in the eye and said "Let me tell you about Homestuck." Then I dragon uppercutted him in the neck and he went spinning into a fruit cart.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:57
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seoinin is this you??? 
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Nov 28, 2012 02:06
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Rorus Raz posted:The troll shirts are probably safest since they're just astrology symbols. I always get asked if I'm a Cancer when I wear my sufferer necklace and then the next question is inevitably "...so you just really like 69?"
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Nov 28, 2012 02:24
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Grrl Anachronism posted:I always get asked if I'm a Cancer when I wear my sufferer necklace and then the next question is inevitably "...so you just really like 69?" Well, who doesn't?  e: Seoinin posted:So I was wearing my WhatPumpkin(c) merch the other day and some defect walks up to me all like oh gner gner youre a scorpio too gner gner. Well I wasn't about to let that kind of poo poo slide, so I took off my shades real slow and looked him in the eye and said "Let me tell you about Homestuck." Then I dragon uppercutted him in the neck and he went spinning into a fruit cart. nice story bro, but the zodiac shirts are topatoco, not whatpumpkin 
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Nov 28, 2012 02:28
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Someone who has no idea what it involves.
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Nov 28, 2012 02:32
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Feranon posted:nice story bro, but the zodiac shirts are topatoco, not whatpumpkin He was clearly wearing a troll pin
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Someone who has no idea what it involves. Different strokes I guess!  Red Metal posted:He was clearly wearing a troll pin Ah, touché. I forgot about those.
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Rooreelooo posted:Besides, what with all the fourth wall breaking and boundaries between comic and reality being torn down, there's nothing stopping hussie from saying 'the end, thanks for watching' and then having caliborn turn up and saying 'FINALLY. MY CHANCE TO TRULY gently caress. poo poo. UP.' and kicking off a giant post-act seven slaughter, spurring a slew of out-of-comic-structure shenanigans. Oh jesus, I could actually see this being a thing. I was already expecting the possibility of a false ending (the way dreambubbles start with the character waking up in them thinking the memory is real seems like a great setup for what appears to be an epilogue to turn out to be an illusion), but Caliborn/Lord English to take on the seven act structure itself? That'd be something.
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I don't want to buy my corresponding troll shirt because I don't like Vriska
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Nov 28, 2012 03:29
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What a8out Arenea?
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Bell_ posted:What a8out Arenea? She doesn't wear that shirt, though - she wears a dress with a white ♏ on it.
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Nov 28, 2012 03:40
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McStephenson posted:I don't want to buy my corresponding troll shirt because I don't like Vriska  I'd buy a Vriska shirt in a heartbeat, but I'd feel weird wearing the wrong sign.
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Nov 28, 2012 03:42
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Elysiume posted:I'm an Aquarius. You could buy both, and then people who actually knew your horoscope wouldn't think you were an astro-poseur.
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Nov 28, 2012 04:01
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At Thanksgiving my 12-year-old cousin showed up wearing Dave's broken record shirt. I happened to have my SBaHJ Big Man shirt in my car, so I showed it to her. She was thrilled to have somebody to talk Homestuck with, and it turns out she dressed up as Nepeta for Halloween. She was always into princess-type things as a little girl, but now she's growing up. 
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Nov 28, 2012 04:06
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Haschel Cedricson posted:At Thanksgiving my 12-year-old cousin showed up wearing Dave's broken record shirt. I happened to have my SBaHJ Big Man shirt in my car, so I showed it to her. She was thrilled to have somebody to talk Homestuck with, and it turns out she dressed up as Nepeta for Halloween. You know, normally I'd be a bit sketched out about a Homestuck cosplayer, but somehow I can't help but think that a 12-year-old girl trick-or-treating as Nepeta is both appropriate and cute.
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Nov 28, 2012 04:15
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Bobulus posted:A homestuck merchandise horror story... I usually just tell people "it's an anime version of Slimer from Ghostbusters, it's sort of a joke" and most people are pop culturally aware enough to understand that if they ask me.
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Here's a bit of music for those of you who don't want to brave the Tumblrs. The first is Valor by Radiation. It was intended to be Jake English's theme, but he gave up on it. The other is a snippet of a piano version of Homestuck (the song) by Clark Powell that's apparently being made specifically for the comic. It sounds so sad  .
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That piano theme definitely does sound melancholy, much like the source theme. The fact that the song "Homestuck" is one of its saddest, soberest tunes gives me a little tingle of dread. If this comic doesn't end happily I will flip a table so hard the very planets will scatter like ice cubes across kitchen tile
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Y'all are paranoid, I have not had one person try to talk to me about Homestuck upon seeing my record shirt. I want the Void shirt. Equius and Roxy, Void supremacy. Dolash posted:Oh jesus, I could actually see this being a thing. I was already expecting the possibility of a false ending (the way dreambubbles start with the character waking up in them thinking the memory is real seems like a great setup for what appears to be an epilogue to turn out to be an illusion), but Caliborn/Lord English to take on the seven act structure itself? That'd be something. And then Vriska defeats him and we launch into Act 8: Vriskatime Forever.
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I love just about everything Powell composes. Even his non-Homestuck album linked earlier (We Are All Satellites) was a real treat. The melancholy of this tune has me wondering when we'll be hearing it, because there's no doubt that we will.
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Bell_ posted:I love just about everything Powell composes. Even his non-Homestuck album linked earlier (We Are All Satellites) was a real treat. The melancholy of this tune has me wondering when we'll be hearing it, because there's no doubt that we will. I commissioned a song by him, for a friend. I really like how it turned out, and he's a cool guy to do business with - asked for feedback, and didn't blink an eyelid when this meant restarting from scratch. Homestuck Anthem is my favourite piece of music. I don't think anything else quite approaches the Miracle of a New Beginning.
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Elysiume posted:I'm an Aquarius. You could also find out your natal chart and find out what planet(s) are in Scorpio. (Pluto is almost guaranteed to be in Scorpio) (I like astrology from a myth/fun stuff standpoint) Also I'm glad my sun sign is a Virgo/Libra Cusp because I like both Kanaya and Terezi.
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I'm a traditional Leo but a sidereal Cancer. Normally I wouldn't give a gently caress about the distinction, but then Homestuck happened.
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Oxxidation posted:I'm a traditional Leo but a sidereal Cancer. I am a traditional Pisces, sidereal Aquarius. So yeah.
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Astrological shenanigans place me firmly on Team Charge.
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Silva posted:I'm Aquarius and I would've bought that shirt if it wasn't for Eridan, and now Cronus. Seoinin posted:So I was wearing my WhatPumpkin(c) merch the other day and some defect walks up to me all like oh gner gner youre a scorpio too gner gner. Well I wasn't about to let that kind of poo poo slide, so I took off my shades real slow and looked him in the eye and said "Let me tell you about Homestuck." Then I dragon uppercutted him in the neck and he went spinning into a fruit cart.
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Nov 28, 2012 05:23
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IUG posted:Did the whole audience start bursting into applause? And it turned out, that Homestuck fan was Albert Einstein.
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Bell_ posted:Astrological shenanigans place me firmly on Team Charge. Same. Although the fact that Tavros/Aradia are friends because Taurus is sidereal Aries never occurred to me until now. I literally never thought it would be possible for me to care about astrology, but it seems Homestuck's entire purpose is to make you not only care about but learn to love otherwise meaningless or awful things. Which I consider the best meta-joke ever. Pyradox fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Nov 28, 2012 |
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nerdbot posted:And it turned out, that Homestuck fan was Albert Einstein. Welcome to the Republican Party.
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