Homestuck Made This World

I don’t think I would be able to read the comic without this podcast explaining its context and occasionally giving voice to my frustrations with the more tedious parts of Homestuck. And my goodness, when the podcast gets to Act 6, we really see all the modern social media world coming into being in all its awful contradictions. I’ve developed an intense parasocial relationship with the hosts, and since there are only two of them my shipping chart is very easy to maintain.

Found this podcast series while looking for homestuck podcasts, and I’m glad I did. It’s illuminating for the context of how and where homestuck came to be, it's history, and the fact that, as a live reader, I was not in on the joke at my expense until Long after I stopped reading the webcomic. Thanks Ranged Touch.

Love getting the perspective of someone who was there when it happened and someone who knew what it was but never engaged until he was paid to do so.

I started reading Homestuck in about 2010. I was a kid who grew up on AIM, MSN messenger, flash games, ytmnd, something awful, /x/, etc. I found this series through their youtube recap, and my jaw dropped when I learned Michael was the original creator of smiledog. I was frequenting /x/ and sa at that time and I never knew he was into HS! A very thoughtful podcast, acknowledging both the bad and the good of internet culture of that time. I had so many internet friends at that time for the same reason; being otherwise isolated from people who liked the same things I did. The solution? Forums, chat rooms, places that were sometimes dangerous for me but sometimes forged lasting friendships, 20 years later. Such a great conversation about what is basically a time capsule. One that I wish the internet was mostly still like. At least google still functioned then.