I got into Homestuck somewhere around 2015, and i remember at that time i felt very late to the party. Now i see most people in the fandom these days got into it during the pandemic (ouch). Anyone else been here for a long time or is the majority here of the woke Hussie era.
I first read Homestuck very late 2011 (but only properly got into the fandom side of things circa 2013)
first time i opened mspa (homestuck.com? whats that?) was literally on my 14th birthday. this was roughly half my life ago. so yeah.
send me photos of weird and rare electronics equipment
i started reading in 2015, but i was also 10-11, so i wouldnt say i engaged in the fandom
play corru.observer
read it in 2018, finished early 2019. being a freshly new homestuck fan right in the middle of the viz boughtout and right before the epilogues dropped was an interesting experience to say the least
"come on charlie brown, i'll hold the ball and you'll kick it!"
I'm a 2008 fan, I started with Problem Sleuth back in the days. It was this one weird post-modern thing done by this one person in a remote corner of the Internet. The web was a lot less centralized back then, and discovering this experimental webcomic with raw drawings, no dialogue and convoluted, seemingly random progress felt like an adventure by itself.
Then after a complicated start, I got into Homestuck for real in 2010. I was captivated by it, particularly by Hivebent. Alternia just spoke to me. I got mixed quite deeply in fandom business, I did Denizen designs for the Nestbound project, started helping with some adventures, created a first adventure myself, ROTTING. It was an original work featuring a zombie in an alternate history future magitek Russia. I ended up cancelling it before reaching page 100, because I got a more interesting idea...
After doing some Homestuck roleplay, I started imagining concepts about a troll SBURB session. I had stopped doing fanworks back then (I was a big fanfic writer in the early 2000s) and didn't want to get back to it, but some ideas just kept coming back again and again. Ultimately, I decided that yeah, I needed to make a fancomic. After working out the main structure and story elements in Fall 2010, I started preparing concept arts and other assets, and finally launched the work in February 2011. It was Alabaster: The Doomed Session.
I kept being active in the fandom for a few years, working on Alabaster, cooperating with other people's projects (I helped a little on Prequel for example), and talking with both the large MSPA circles and the tinier MSPFA subforum group - we had a sweet place on IRC.
After 2013, I drifted away from both the fandom and my fancomic. The end of the forums in 2016 was still a shock. But I continued my life, focused on other things, professional writing - I got a second novel and various texts published, and I was happy about it -, original webcomics.
In late 2022, my passion for Homestuck started coming back, and I connected again with fandom spaces - new fandom spaces, the Omega Forums, Homestuck XYZ, the various Homestuck Discord servers. I immersed myself in the culture again, because I felt a need to finish what I started. I was going to conclude Alabaster.
I've been pretty active in the last two years, and it's been interesting. I discovered a lot of fantastic fanworks, some nice communities, I made a few pals and friends even. I moderated various places, with various degrees of success. I played with some cameos and cooperations.
I was known under the name Cauchemar back then. I wonder if I'll meet again some of my old friends in here!
I have no idea where I would have encountered you, but the name Cauchemar sounds familiar! The deletion of the MSPA forums was such a crime against humanity.
I outlined the basic story in another thread, but, it was right at the beginning of 2010 for me. Since then, I've had the joy of introducing it to many dear friends, being disappointed in it countless times, and falling in love with it again countless times again.
My own history with the fandom is pretty... bad. Keeping my identity here pretty down low because of having many a bad interaction from people who are pretty notable in the community from last i was aware.
On a prettier note Homestuck was and still is sometimes the reason ive gotten to know some pretty cool people. Alot of us don't really heavily associate with the comic anymore outside of occasional rambles about things we did or didn't like about it.
RE: thread prompt: same experience here roughly, got into HS around late 2015 in the post-undertale release wave of new inductees after getting curious what this "doctor" and "lowas" thing people in the comments for the CORE/another medium tracks were talking about, about and havent ever really gotten off the ride since lmfao
if there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what
started reading mid-2014! i remember the exact day game over dropped, coming back from school and just totally freaking out over it..
ask me about my smosh babies headcanons
but don't ask about The Watcher.
early 2014 fan here! i got all caught up during the gigapause... its funny how late to the party i felt then and how much of an oldhead i am now. i was only 9! the day GAME OVER released still stresses me out to think about lol
ah... reading everyone else's replies and feeling very very old......
