December Meme: How I discovered Homestuck
Dec. 3rd, 2014 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kraitLooping back today to cover my prompt for the 1st, which I forgot about. (It's oddly appropriate, considering the topic! This is a fandom that delights in screwing with the temporal dimensions of any number of realities!)
Any of you who were around last December may remember the prompt where I rhapsodised about xeno. The short answer is: I was browsing the xeno tag on AO3 and stumbled onto a fic bycypher that sounded promising. I didn't know the fandom, but I certainly know the quality of fic (and xeno) that cypher writes, so I just went for it.
All of you who are here because I sometimes blather about Homestuck (which is, like, maybe three of you) can thank Doomed Dave: take this one for the team for my discovery of this fandom! :D I had no idea who these characters were, of course, or any kind of notion of what I was getting myself into, but that might be a good thing.
Like many of my fandoms, Homestuck I came to backwards - fic first, then canon. I've often said that this is one of, and possibly the worst, fandoms to take this approach to! Canon makes it easy to pick up that Dave = Dave Strider = turntechGodhead (tG) = Knight of Time = Land of Heat and Clockwork and Tavros = Tavros Nitram = adiosToreador (aT) = Taurus|brownblood = Page of Breath = Land of Sand and Zephyr (repeat this formula of titles for 16 characters. Then for 48. Then for ...) But doing it via fic? HA HA HA HA. Talk about challenging! I spent some reading time being very, very confused as to really basic concepts like who is even talking right now.
The worldbuilding and xeno must have been good enough to make me persevere, though - have you noticed how many of my prompt answers boil down to either worldbuilding, xeno, or both? Because I have! - and now, thousands of pages of canon and millions of pages of fic later, here I am!
Tell me how you got into Homestuck, if you are! Or talk to me about backwards fandoms: have you ever entered a fandom backwards? How long did it take, and how hard was it?
Any of you who were around last December may remember the prompt where I rhapsodised about xeno. The short answer is: I was browsing the xeno tag on AO3 and stumbled onto a fic by
cypher that sounded promising. I didn't know the fandom, but I certainly know the quality of fic (and xeno) that cypher writes, so I just went for it. All of you who are here because I sometimes blather about Homestuck (which is, like, maybe three of you) can thank Doomed Dave: take this one for the team for my discovery of this fandom! :D I had no idea who these characters were, of course, or any kind of notion of what I was getting myself into, but that might be a good thing.
Like many of my fandoms, Homestuck I came to backwards - fic first, then canon. I've often said that this is one of, and possibly the worst, fandoms to take this approach to! Canon makes it easy to pick up that Dave = Dave Strider = turntechGodhead (tG) = Knight of Time = Land of Heat and Clockwork and Tavros = Tavros Nitram = adiosToreador (aT) = Taurus|brownblood = Page of Breath = Land of Sand and Zephyr (repeat this formula of titles for 16 characters. Then for 48. Then for ...) But doing it via fic? HA HA HA HA. Talk about challenging! I spent some reading time being very, very confused as to really basic concepts like who is even talking right now.
The worldbuilding and xeno must have been good enough to make me persevere, though - have you noticed how many of my prompt answers boil down to either worldbuilding, xeno, or both? Because I have! - and now, thousands of pages of canon and millions of pages of fic later, here I am!
Tell me how you got into Homestuck, if you are! Or talk to me about backwards fandoms: have you ever entered a fandom backwards? How long did it take, and how hard was it?
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Date: 2014-12-04 05:10 am (UTC)Also, there are some tropes I like to read but which I can't stomach if I know too much about canon, because then I'd know how OOC and unrealistic the fics using those tropes are, so there are lots and lots of fandoms for which I've never read/watched the source canon and have no intention of ever doing so.
(I got into Homestuck because Asuka started writing for it. I trust her taste and wanted some context before I read her fic. Then I just wanted more Homestuck...)
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Date: 2014-12-04 08:03 am (UTC)