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Touhomestuck

AnonusAnonus
edited 2011-02-07 00:27:31 in General
Why is it so popular with forumgoers?
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  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    I like Homestuck, but am sort of lukewarm toward Touhou.
  • DYREDYRE
    I sort of like Touhou, but I have no opinion whatsoever of Homestuck, other than that apparently everyone likes it.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Homestuck is awesome. The only thing I care about from Touhou is the music.
  • DYREDYRE
    -seems to be the only person who doesn't think Touhou music is all that spectacular-
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I wouldn't say it's spectacular so much as catchy and fun. The animations are also entertaining.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    edited 2011-02-07 09:34:22
    I don't like Homestuck due to ugly characters that are all the same.
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.
    Touhomestuck?
  • MagusMagus
    edited 2011-02-07 13:34:50
    I'LL STAY MAI HAUNDS...WITH YAU BLAHT
    Both of these series suffer from what I call the "fanlump". To an outsider (or even to someone with a passing interest), it looks like a big seething mass of fans that will make fanart of absolutely everything and connect any media to their preferred series. The fact that Homestuck has its own booru does not help.

    For reference, I like Homestuck and Touhou, although the latter is pretty much only for the shootan games.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2011-02-07 13:45:42
    Both of these series suffer from what I call the "fanlump". To an outsider (or even to someone with a passing interest), it looks like a big seething mass of fans that will make fanart of absolutely everything and connect any media to their preferred series. The fact that Homestuck has its own booru does not help.


    But... they are.

    Anyhow, I'm glad that Touhou exists.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^Homestuck far less so than Touhou.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    "Both of these series suffer from what I call the "fanlump". To an
    outsider (or even to someone with a passing interest), it looks like a
    big seething mass of fans that will make fanart of absolutely everything
    and connect any media to their preferred series. The fact that
    Homestuck has its own booru does not help."

    Yes.  This.

    The "fanlump" isn't just about a huge fandom; it's about a huge fandom that draws upon itself, and its own memeticism and in-jokes.  Evangelion doesn't have this--it's tons of philosophical arguments by this point.  But Touhou and Homestuck have it.
  • Trash_VortexTrash_Vortex
    edited 2011-02-07 14:46:58
    I often wonder what it's like to be Andrew Hussie, going from one day making comics for a small audience, with no real obligation to keep at it, to suddenly having a titanic fanbase that he has to please. I think he's handled it really well, given.

    Also I recently discovered that Andrew Hussie/ Ryan North porn exists. Just let that sink in.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    You mean Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics?
  • Trash_VortexTrash_Vortex
    The very same.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I'm surprised Randall Munroe hasn't been mentioned.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    touhou/homestuck have in-jokes?


  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Homestuck has all the in-jokes. All of them. Yeah!

    I told you, man, I TOLD you about Homestuck in-jokes!

    Homestuck has in-jokes. That's really all there is to say on the matter.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    I thought that was a Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff in-joke.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-02-07 15:44:10
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is Dave's webcomic in Homestuck, so it's also a Homestuck in-joke.

    But the first and third are from Homestuck itself.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    What
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is a "show within a show" in Homestuck. The Homestuck characters make in-jokes about the work.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Huh. So there are people who know of SBaHJ other than through Homestuck?
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    It doesn't seem unlikely to me that there would be at least one instance of that.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-02-07 16:42:28
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I know of it thanks to Anonus's avatars.

    lol getting pop-culture knowledge second-hand.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    I know at least one person who read SBaHJ but dislike Homestuck itself.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    There was something about the stairs, and "shit. let's be santa".

    IT KEEPS HAPPENING.
  • AnonusAnonus
    Funnily, I started reading SBaHJ (thanks to the picture on Stylistic Suck) before Homestuck.

    I eventually lost track of Homestuck and quit reading. I think I should try again.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    You should. It gets awesome if you're willing to put in the effort.
  • NyktosNyktos
    edited 2011-02-07 17:31:22
    a little muffled
    I want to want to read Homestuck, but after seeing the billionth troll avatar I just lost all interest. Which is a shame, because all evidence suggests that I'd probably have liked it.

    Touhou does not exist.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    The Trolls don't even show up much until act 5. Don't let Hype Backlash ruin it for you.
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