> Be the hero of Light.

You are now the Light player of your session. You could riff on Homestuck, but instead you’re going to explain what Homestuck is about. Your EVERPRESENT TEMPORARY CLOSE FRIENDS keep asking you this, but you never answer too seriously. You suspect they don’t actually want to know what Homestuck is, they just want to see if you can explain it and/or will explain it to them. You always used to enjoy THE IDEA OF YOUR LOVE BEING TESTED. By now, though, you are tired of finding out exactly how you feel about them through how much you want to prove yourself during this exact same ritual each time. It's lost its idiosyncrasy, so you want to broadcast what Homestuck is about plainly, stripping the ritual of this illusionary intimacy for everyone else, too. And so, the Dersite Heir of Light sheds his shell of merely being a conduit, risking becoming a fool at the new sincerity waiting for him at the end of it.

The intention behind the story of Homestuck more than likely was to be a metaphor for growing up without receiving enough parental guidance to make it out in the real world. At its most general and abstract, it is about trying to build a world for yourself while still very lost in figuring out what kind of person you are.

Homestuck is about isolated teenagers installing a game that ends their world, yet promises a chance to create a new one. They only know each other through a chat client called Pesterchum, where they also are contacted by internet trolls, except trolls here are a violent alien race with a blood-based caste system society. Across four separate sessions, each group of kids tries to win the game. Three sessions are "doomed" for different reasons and have to "scratch" or reboot their universes, helping the final, otherwise also doomed one succeed. In this winning session, everyone seems to have learned and accepted the ghosts of their mistakes that they have to live with. Everyone's doomed selves quite literally haunt the story.

There's also an intergalactic game of chess going on, but you shouldn't worry too much about the mayor of Can Town. Some carapacians just tend to get a little too excited about democracy... Ugh, listen, this story is deliberately convoluted, as the author clearly delights in absurdity and tonal whiplash. But, if you’ve made it this far, so do you.

The multimedia experiment is a graphic novel told in a webcomic-format with interactive video game elements. The characters also play a tabletop-like simulation of reality itself, where each has a mythological "class" and "aspect" granting reality-bending powers. This leads, inevitably, to multiverses, time paradoxes, and retconning everything you read up until now.

Over the years, Homestuck shaped your sense of humor more than any other type of media, and you vaguely remember saying you wouldn't be able to date anyone who hasn't read it when you were like, what, 17? Well, you were right, but you also haven't been able to date anyone who has, so who cares. None of that shipping bullshit matters either way, though it's nice to take real problems off your mind with.

==> Read something else you’ll never love the same way.