Why Should People Read Homestuck?

I think we all know those teenagers who have a mind set to  five percent vocabulary and zero percent imagination. Now there’s a group-- a small, small group of people out there who read a little thing called Homestuck.

Most people (outside of the Homestuck loop) usually aren’t interested in it because they think it’s creepy or weird. But to those in the Homestuck family, we accept each other, and we know that at page one we didn’t think we’d get so involved. Around 10,256,124,130 computers have visited MSPA’s website (the website that hosts Homestuck). And yeah, a lot of that is probably people with computers that broke or died and they had to replace it, but it still doesn’t lessen the size of our family.

There’s always the question of “Am I wasting my time reading this?” or “What’s the point in reading this?” as someone who’s been introducing Homestuck to people, these are questions I hear a lot. The two first acts of Homestuck aren’t all that bright and flashy, plots are set and the story develops, that’s really why those acts are around. But those two first acts teach storytelling skills, things to make you think about when you write.

Now what about those teenagers who aren’t too bright, what does Homestuck have to do with them? Well,  Homestuck widens your vocabulary with words like “Abscond”, “Strife”, “Sylladex”, and much more! Homestuck also introduces unlimited imagination to the reader, causing limitless topics to cover. Important lessons are covered as well, things like “Never give up,” and “Respect your elders,” are two of the most prominent lessons taught.

One of the best things taught in Homestuck is how the you present yourself. All of the characters act certain ways, there are the violent ones and the peaceful ones. The way the violent ones contrast though is odd. Karkat has this violent manner about himself because he cares about everyone so much, Rose has this silent violence where her words manipulate the conversation into the direction she wants. Aradia’s peaceful in a depressed way that just makes her calm, Jane’s one of the peaceful humans too (before she freaks out in Godtier.)

More people need to read Homestuck because they can learn so many great things, and because it’s a wonderful story.