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hi, im hunter. i made a spacehey because i would like to engage in the "socialization" but then i always remember halfway through trying that i am like exceedingly awful at it. would anyone who isn't 15 years old like to talk about homestuck with me. a high bar, i know, as it seems the fanbase skews young. that makes sense though, seeing as back in my day (ancient times), i got into it when i was like 13 and the fanbase was largely 13 to 17 year olds. i think most people in my age bracket now have left it behind though, with good reason because it does suck. unfortunately my selfhood is linked to it inextricably via trauma so i dont have much of a choice in having it as one my my special interests. so sad. anyway, yep. nice to meet you. god i wish parp wasnt shit now because i used to just use that to talk to people instead. fucked up.
hello... friendship
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akira
as someone else in the midtwenties range whose identity and close interpersonal relationships are all inextricably tied up in homestuck, please feel free to hit me up anytime-- one of my friends is finishing up a reread at the moment and we've already been talking a lot about the ways the queer teens we knew projected onto the narrative/built up an identity in the community. it really was a cultural space unlike anything else, y'know? i'd love to hear your thoughts if you're down to share!
(also as someone who met friends on parp and met my boyfriend of two years on cherp doing kin rp, i felt this deep in my soul.)
thank you for the add, i would actually love to talk to you & others about the phenomenon that was the homestuck community in it's heyday, and how against better judgement i miss it terribly. i've been struggling with mental health a lot lately so i might be slow reaching out but i do intend to hit you up.
meeting people important to you on parp is so real... i met a past qpp that way, and probably would have met/kept more people from that circle if circumstance had been different.
by Hunter; ; Report
yeah, definitely? i think it's easy to condemn the community's flaws in retrospect (because there are a Lot of them) but also, like... i think a lot of us came of age in homestuck fanspaces and used the comic as a shared experience that could serve as a basis for a friendship. i think there's an argument to be made that being Into Homestuck when it was ongoing was enough of a lifestyle and time commitment to count as a hobby, and it was a hobby that was shared by a lot of queer, neurodivergent kids who felt othered in their irl communities-- it was great at bringing people together, and i think a lot of the tensions in the fandom stemmed from the fact that it brought together community that consisted primarily of young people who were running behind their peers when it came to social experience.
i'm super nostalgic about homestuck because, back when i was an autistic, transgender teenager struggling to articulate why i couldn't connect with my peers, it gave me a built-in set of conversation topics with a large group of other teenagers who i knew right off the bat would understand me fundamentally, and i think that's valuable and worth feeling nostalgia for even if the community as a whole was messy. and, honestly, i go back to homestuck and fan media surrounding it when i'm stressed as an adult because it reminds me of a part of my childhood that was generally positive and filled with people who Got Me, even if i didn't wind up holding onto all of those relationships into adulthood (i did hold onto a Lot of them though, holy shit). a lot of being a teenager sucked! but getting to go on tumblr after an update or text my friends about a new flash or start a conversation with a stranger in a homestuck t-shirt with the Full Confidence that they would get where i was coming from was a positive piece and that's one of the reasons why i'm still posting about homestuck on main in the year of our lord 2023 (and, coincidentally, why i really did not enjoy the epilogues).
ANYWAYS. this was a super broad and a little longer than i meant for it to be, but i'd love to hear your thoughts if/when you're up to replying-- no rush necessary, and don't feel obligated to write out anything super coherent or perfect, okay?
sending you good vibes as you get through whatever's been going on
by akira; ; Report