(Re)Introduction Thread!

I don't recall spending a ton of time in the classpect thread, but it's always possible I was involved. There wasn't really anything I wasn't involved in Acts 1 - 5.

Early on, I spent a TON of time in the fan-art thread. There was a good group of like, 15 people that were super involved in those threads early on. It used to be forum tradition for the last 5 pages of the thread to be filled with nothing but our random bullshit. We'd always stop at page 100. And sing "don't stop believing!" while posting stop signs. I think one time we posted trains crashing for some reason, I forget why. And Gankro made the first 5 threads I think? Or 6? I remember it was a semi big deal the first time he didn't make the thread.

Telamon and I, goodness, that was quite the rivalry friendship back in the day. Him and his fufu and chuchu avatar. I never drew anything. And back then it was all about the sprite edits, I DID make those. Though they were awful. Let me see if I can't find one of my early 'fanarts.' Or 'farts' as we used to call them (Telamon's idea).

Hm... nah. I have a backup on my external hard drive but nothing on this computer. Maybe I'll post something later.

I was super involved in the theory thread. And the general chat crew. I started the fan-fiction thread and started it the first three times. Did a massive endeavor to categorize and link to every fan-fiction ever written which took forever. I think I did something like that with fanart too, earlier. Jesus, that brings me back.

I was the earliest one to do statistical analysis on Homestuck. I was interested in looking at the word count of conversations. John/Rose dominated the first four acts. That's on my external drive too, but not on my computer.

I DO still have my update average charts. That was a later endeavor.

The shipping essay was a big deal at the time. Quite the fight with BKEW over that. The forum had taken a nasty turn with Vriska introduced as a character and I hated the general vibe of how things had changed. People were mean and bullies. And honestly, just jackasses.

But the point of the essay was always meant to be sort of a super irony, Dave-esque effort. It was completely legitimately written. Which was the point of why it was ridiculous. It was written with full understanding that a legitimate, honest-to-goodness research paper (and it was a research paper) written about John/Rose was ridiculous. It was meant to both make fun of and ridicule the pseudo-science that BKEW pretended to do about romantic speculation while also being a fully-focused and legitimate attempt to do the very thing he pretended to do. I stayed up for 15 hours straight, researched it in full (going through the entire comic, gathering evidence, forming an argument), and wrote the entire 15 page things (with citings made in hyperlink and the argument detailed in like, 5 sections I think?) in 15 hours straight. Skipped sleep that night. Just completely and fully dedicated to a graduate-level dissertation on why John/Rose could work in the narrative. Never claimed it was likely, just that Andrew had left the question open-ended enough that it should be considered as a legitimate development the comic could have and not ridiculed as impossible.

Did my intent fully get across? Most people just saw it as "holy shit, 15 pages of bullshit on JOhn/Rose. What a madman." And it was an honest-scholarly attempt to argue John/Rose. But it was meant to say "BKEW. Stop being an ass with the rom spec thread. You're arguments are bullshit disguised as science and you're driving the fun out of speculation."

And honestly, the entire vibe of the forum just drove me off. It stopped being fun. (that, and my doctoral studies required a bit more attention). But this is fun again.

Hello, call me Candor. I've been a member of the old forum for... shit, years I guess. I wouldn't say I'm known for all that much. Just some internet words guy typing words into the internet from time to time.

Hi everyone. I've never been very successful at breaking into serious activity on the forum, but I've been around a while (from email history I can see I registered back in 2010). I've done a bit of fanart but nothing that I suspect anyone would remember--the only real thing of note is that I contributed some pixel art to the last walkaround.
It's funny to think, but I suppose this introduction is also a bit of a goodbye, given the point we're at. But whatever we all go on to do, it's been a real pleasure to share a fandom with you all.

Hello, I've not been much active on the forums, but I've been a huge fan of Homestuck since 2013; I love time travel, parallel universes and meta-narrative, so it just plucked all the right strings. All of them.

Droid what droid I'm just an innocent, perfectly normal journalist with like, real limbs and all that jazz

I see. Nice to see someone from the same country as me, who also knows what my nickname means ahah.

Hi I'm Octa and am fairly new to Homestuck compared to a lot of people. I properly got into Homestuck in January 2014 not too far into the Gigapause although I've known about Homestuck since 2011. I've been an occasional lurker on the forums but I thought what with Homestuck actually ending in a week (dear god) I'd finally sign up and say hello. As you can probably tell from my avatar Equius is my patron troll and I love him. 

I'm Kidror, I started reading Homestuck before Cascade (the first update after I caught up was the *snop* *unsop* one) and between Cascade and Act 6 I joined the fora, was active for a while and then went to being really on and off and then not active at all and now I have returned. Apparently Cascade was a long time ago which is weird because to me it really does feel like it was just the other day we were deciphering the B2 kids openings, and trying to figure out how Lusii were on Jakes island.

EDIT: I'm also a member of the Video Strike Team for Desert Bus For Hope

Hello, all. Still the same mostly-classpect-theory-focused guy I was on the previous forums. Also, an old fogey compared to most of the fanbase.

Welcome all new/old people : )

"Most Users Online: 49 (47 minutes ago)" Aw I'm so proud of our little forum. 2 more members until we hit a 100

Hello everyone.

I'm "King Cobalt" on the old forums. I started way back in 2011 with Fantroll RPing, and after the RP section was nuked I stuck around mainly to lurk as a fanventure reader. I joined this forum in hopes that some of the fanventure authors find their way here.

I am divine_lightning, known as divine_lightning on the old forums; I didn't do much but read some fan adventures. Probably going to continue doing that.

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Not sure if it's useful, but I found out about this place from a long tumblr rant.