Here’s how this will work. I’ll be going slow, only about 10 pages a day (at least for now). Leaving some commentary as I go. Meaning these posts are going to be short. The intention is for folks to read along and of course add their own commentary. If you’re new to Homestuck this might be a fun opportunity to get into it. And if you’re not new to it, this re-visit might be an interesting trip down memory lane.

I will warn those who are new. This is over 8000 pages of content, many of them are in the format of chat logs and there is a bulky amount of reading. But if you really want the best experience, or to gain deep insight into this whole… thing. Don’t even start with Homestuck, go back even further to Problem Sleuth, or even Jail Break. These older adventures are referenced frequently in Homestuck. Better yet there’s a newbie guide right here…

Edit ignore my previous advice for newbies and lets follow nebua42’s advice from the comments

DO NOT USE HOMESTUCK COM!

If you want to read homestuck the way it was intended, pick up the unofficial homestuck collection here. With the death of flash, a lot of the adobe flash animations and games died, and were replaced with (very) low quality >recordings posted to YouTube. There’s a tutorial on mspfa if you can’t figure it >out, but don’t look at any of the other adventures until you finish homestuck.

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Today I’m reading

04/13/09 - "Homestuck” (/homestuck/1) to 04/14/09 - “John: Examine Problem Sleuth Poster.” (/homestuck/11)”

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We meet a young man named ZooSmell PoopLord John Eggbert. I found it smart to immediately set us in his bedroom. I never considered just how much our bedrooms are just visual profiles of who we are. We learn a tonne about John just in this image.

This was also sadly relatable, I grew up near a novelty shop, I was learning coding in college when this came out, I had fond memories of watching terrible movies with my dad, and of course I enjoy games. Damn Pooplord is a relatable loser.

“Remove CAKE from MAGIC CHEST”. Does an interesting thing. It shows that we as the reader have direct control over John’s world. I weirdly don’t remember this being used frequently.

The Items management thing though, the CAPTCHALOGUE CARDS and _SYLLADEX _ stuff was a bit of a headache. Johns Stack method is easy enough I had just learned about in college around the time I was reading this so it was actually educational.

The last page I’m looking at is “John: Examine Problem Sleuth Poster.” which is an ad to go buy the poster to Problem Sleuth. Which is still available! If only I had walls, or money.

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I guess I’ll do this again tomorrow. Till then, Keep riding the pumpkin tide.