My new job

[prodigy]

 prodigy  12:48 am

    also, homestuck is a crappily animated and long-winded flash-based comic about 13-year-old computer game players

    so i don't even know where the elitism comes from

 

 kaianos  1:00 am

    ... *really sort of helplessly amused* i'm talking to the friend who really likes it

    *snorting* she's willing to bribe you into reading the rest of it

 

 prodigy  1:04 am

    what currency does she take?  i take bribes

 

 kaianos  1:04 am

    or rather she's willing to bribe me and has deemed you undeserving

    *snort* i'm tempted to take it and pass the money on

 

 prodigy  1:05 am

    how could she possibly know enough about me to know i'm undeserving?

    i'll have her know i'm very deserving

    i deserve lots of things

    people tell me that all the time

 

kaianos  1:07 am

    [Poor Sucker]: hahahaha okay fine i'll paypal him 10 bucks to read through the whole thing

 

 prodigy  1:07 am

    that seems like a really cheap bribe to me

    like, if she really cared about homestuck she would at least be willing to shell out $20

 

kaianos  1:08 am

    [Poor Sucker]: lollllll ugh

    [Poor Sucker]: okay fine 20 -_-

    [Poor Sucker]: haha

    i am dying of laughter here i will have you know

 

 prodigy  1:09 am

    i just need to find more homestuck fans before they talk to each other and extort similar bribes

    and then skim the wiki, say i finished it and that i'm a believer

    then go fix my car and get a mojito
 

~

 

 

kaianos  1:12 am
    [01:11] [Poor Sucker]: doesnt homestuck get exponentially better after the beginning?   
    [01:11] [Poor Sucker]: to the point its insanely godly amazing?
    [01:11] [Third-Party Consultant]: Uh yes.
    [01:11] [Third-Party Consultant]: Even I'll admit it.
    [01:11] [Poor Sucker]: and dont you agree that people should keep reading as a former hater of it?
    [01:12] [Third-Party Consultant]: Yes. -.- grudgingly 

 prodigy  1:13 am
    are we seriously getting outside opinions here?
    because if so, they've surely got another $10 for my pot

All I care about is love.

 

 

Comments

[gloss]

You might be on to the moneymaking scheme of the summer! If Homestuck fans' zealotry is anything to go by, I mean.

(I have "Homestuck" on my blacklist for Tumblr, so my dash these days is just censored post after censored post. It's funny *and* sad.)

[prodigy]

A boy has got to eat or he'll end up on the street! I wonder if I set up a PayPal account and a Make Me Read Homestuck website how much money I could get out of it. However, that is not what I want to become internet famous for.

[gloss]

Eating is super important!

...but it's not worth Homestuck, I think. >:(

[prodigy]

(I don't think DW's code interface likes me.)

I'd sooner turn to something less laborious, risky, and likely to cause me to lose respect for myself in the morning, like Craigslist whoring or contract murder.

Homestuck is weird. I mean, that's self-evident, but I've never come across something so adored by diehard fans and so physically painful to try to read for anyone else. Victorians were my subfocus for a while in my major, so you'd think I would have superior slogging abilities, but Homestuck prevails every time when I try to get past chapter 2. I am saying this as someone who read Les Miserables unabridged.

However, it was the genesis of relia and I making up fantroll self-inserts. We're Andera Susana and Gavril Maclan. My blood sparkles a deep, tortured navy blue. Our ancestors were kismeses or something. Please R&R

[nanners]

I admit to being intrigued about some of the 'trolls' or whatever the hell they are from Homestuck. I have some Deviant Art artists on my watch list that do a lot of art of them and it makes me want to know more about them.

HOWEVER, I am not willing/able to read through the comic to get to that part, so I guess I'll never know!

[prodigy]

Yeah, I have friends in the fandom so I've absorbed a bit about the characters through osmosis (osmosis sounds like a Homestuck relationship quadrant) and personal curiosity. As far as I can tell, I would probably like it if were just about Dave, Kanaya, Karkat, Terezi, and Tavros.

It's not :(

[nanners]

I just wish there wasn't so much extraneous crap in between actually good story bits. It takes way too long to get to the good parts. And there is so much WTF-ness to it, and you have to skim through so much crap to get any sort of explanation for things that happened a hundred frames back, and argh.

[prodigy]

For me it's the clicking from page to page to page to page that gets to me eventually. If it were all on one long scroll-down, it'd read a lot more smoothly, but as it stands I have to load a new data-heavy page for each line of goddamn dialogue or five lines of chatlog, which is a no-go.