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>Enter session.

A young man stands in his bedroom. Just like when you first picked up and read how perfectly normal Mr and Mrs Dursley were, something big is about to happen in the world you’ve entered. You need not worry though; the sky shouldn’t start falling until you run the Beta.

>Run Beta.

You know this already and are up to date? Your narrator riffles through his notes and certainly doesn’t appear disgruntled. I said I wasn’t- never mind. I’ll just talk about how much of an eye opener March 19’s update was if that’s recent enough for you.

>Get to the good stuff.

You agree that most of the readers are horribly confused by this point and are probably hopelessly lost as of two paragraphs ago. No matter, for those persistent ignorants I’ll sum it up now. If you’re not already down with the clown or want to see a writer actually try and define the impossible, the remainder of this paragraph is for you. Otherwise, find the nearest ==> and I’ll be with you shortly.
Homestuck is a web comic written by Andrew Hussie and is more than six thousand pages of over complex plots twisting around Paradox Space while destroying the English language and still making sense at the end of it all. The general storyline is about a game that’s played to create universes and (at least to start) four humans entering into said game’s session. And those humans are you. Yes, you; it’s more or less entirely in second person just for something completely different.
You open mspaintadventures.com to see what all of this fuss is about and find a young man standing in his room; just like I said. There isn’t much going on in this image though, as your adventure is only just beginning. And yes, it’s meant to look like that, though throughout six thousand panels, animations and pesterlogs, Hussie has been able to experiment a little with his style. More on that as you click the pretty blue links down the bottom.
One final tip for the Homestuck novice: don’t skip the pesterlogs. You may have seen the term crop up three sentences ago and dismissed it as more of my obscure mutterings, but they are actually important. While a picture here will speak a thousand words, most of the actual words appear in chat logs which are the characters talking directly to each other and these are known as ‘pesterlogs’. I think you’ve reached a certain level of understanding now, and will thus return the attention to the events of March 19.

==>

You are welcomed back to the realm of understanding. You, having diligently read through the night, are greeted by a panel of one of your favourite Seers sitting amongst the ruin of a Faygo-fuelled hate-date binge. Your attention is not on the fact that, since Act 1, the background has become so much more filled in, or on the fact that you can observe a much more aesthetically resolved troll girl as opposed to a slug-sporting pseudo-chibi munchkin. It’s not even focused on her state of pantslessness, adorable scalemate companion or cloak, all of which had been observed when we found her unconscious at the start of the intermission. No, your attention is on this girl’s eyes and the fact that they’re open and functioning. Your narrator throws in that he wasn’t expecting this in the slightest and needs some of the juicy details of whatever just happened because he really didn’t expect it.

>Get juicy details.

You open the dialogue to see what this hung over troll has to say and find that the start of this conversation is dominated by shouty grey text. Which, as learnt at the start of Act 5, can mean only one thing: the unlikeliest comic relief your author has ever read (but is still so grateful for) has something to say. Which is great and all, but you were wanting an explanation as to why this girl is so different to when we left her last and fully clothed.

>Keep reading.

You read down and find an explanation was just under the shouty grey text. Understanding flows into your body as a mind-cripplingly obvious series of events add themselves together and what had you comically scratching your head moments ago can now be dismissed with the most dismissive of ‘ah, gotcha’s. With that out of the way, you can happily stumble into one of the more well known sides of Homestuck – the shipping.

>Stumble into the shipping.

While you know that Homestuck has four different types of romantic relationships, you feel that it would be a good time to remember that fact. Especially considering that now you are excited to find one of the rare excerpts describing a caliginous relationship, or ‘H4T3 D4T3’. This small confession gives you another glimpse at what this extra-terrestrial culture is like and, after coming this far into the whole ‘actually reading this mountain of choice comic’ thing, any new information is right up there with massive storyline developments and Sollux falling down some ‘2taiir2’. Long story short, this upd8 has been a little too fair on you and you’re suspicious as to why no one has died yet.

>Keep reading.

All the foreshadowing is there: whispers of blackrom where there should be red, other blind teamm8s and a clown still very much on the loose. Your suspicions are for naught though, as you reach the end of the second page of the update. After Aranea’s rant of eight page mini-narratives, it’s a little hard for you to adjust to only two new pages every few days. You crave more, yet more does not come until tomorrow. You are, instead, left with bright red compensation and one of the most choice scenes that will produce enough fan art to get you through until what will presumably be labelled as ‘[A6I5] ==>’ comes out.

Description
>Enter session.

A young man stands in his bedroom. Just like when you first picked up and read how perfectly normal Mr and Mrs Dursley were, something big is about to happen in the world you’ve entered. You need not worry though; the sky shouldn’t start falling until you run the Beta.

>Run Beta.

You know this already and are up to date? Your narrator riffles through his notes and certainly doesn’t appear disgruntled. I said I wasn’t- never mind. I’ll just talk about how much of an eye opener March 19’s update was if that’s recent enough for you.

>Get to the good stuff.

You agree that most of the readers are horribly confused by this point and are probably hopelessly lost as of two paragraphs ago. No matter, for those persistent ignorants I’ll sum it up now. If you’re not already down with the clown or want to see a writer actually try and define the impossible, the remainder of this paragraph is for you. Otherwise, find the nearest ==> and I’ll be with you shortly.
Homestuck is a web comic written by Andrew Hussie and is more than six thousand pages of over complex plots twisting around Paradox Space while destroying the English language and still making sense at the end of it all. The general storyline is about a game that’s played to create universes and (at least to start) four humans entering into said game’s session. And those humans are you. Yes, you; it’s more or less entirely in second person just for something completely different.
You open mspaintadventures.com to see what all of this fuss is about and find a young man standing in his room; just like I said. There isn’t much going on in this image though, as your adventure is only just beginning. And yes, it’s meant to look like that, though throughout six thousand panels, animations and pesterlogs, Hussie has been able to experiment a little with his style. More on that as you click the pretty blue links down the bottom.
One final tip for the Homestuck novice: don’t skip the pesterlogs. You may have seen the term crop up three sentences ago and dismissed it as more of my obscure mutterings, but they are actually important. While a picture here will speak a thousand words, most of the actual words appear in chat logs which are the characters talking directly to each other and these are known as ‘pesterlogs’. I think you’ve reached a certain level of understanding now, and will thus return the attention to the events of March 19.

==>

You are welcomed back to the realm of understanding. You, having diligently read through the night, are greeted by a panel of one of your favourite Seers sitting amongst the ruin of a Faygo-fuelled hate-date binge. Your attention is not on the fact that, since Act 1, the background has become so much more filled in, or on the fact that you can observe a much more aesthetically resolved troll girl as opposed to a slug-sporting pseudo-chibi munchkin. It’s not even focused on her state of pantslessness, adorable scalemate companion or cloak, all of which had been observed when we found her unconscious at the start of the intermission. No, your attention is on this girl’s eyes and the fact that they’re open and functioning. Your narrator throws in that he wasn’t expecting this in the slightest and needs some of the juicy details of whatever just happened because he really didn’t expect it.

>Get juicy details.

You open the dialogue to see what this hung over troll has to say and find that the start of this conversation is dominated by shouty grey text. Which, as learnt at the start of Act 5, can mean only one thing: the unlikeliest comic relief your author has ever read (but is still so grateful for) has something to say. Which is great and all, but you were wanting an explanation as to why this girl is so different to when we left her last and fully clothed.

>Keep reading.

You read down and find an explanation was just under the shouty grey text. Understanding flows into your body as a mind-cripplingly obvious series of events add themselves together and what had you comically scratching your head moments ago can now be dismissed with the most dismissive of ‘ah, gotcha’s. With that out of the way, you can happily stumble into one of the more well known sides of Homestuck – the shipping.

>Stumble into the shipping.

While you know that Homestuck has four different types of romantic relationships, you feel that it would be a good time to remember that fact. Especially considering that now you are excited to find one of the rare excerpts describing a caliginous relationship, or ‘H4T3 D4T3’. This small confession gives you another glimpse at what this extra-terrestrial culture is like and, after coming this far into the whole ‘actually reading this mountain of choice comic’ thing, any new information is right up there with massive storyline developments and Sollux falling down some ‘2taiir2’. Long story short, this upd8 has been a little too fair on you and you’re suspicious as to why no one has died yet.

>Keep reading.

All the foreshadowing is there: whispers of blackrom where there should be red, other blind teamm8s and a clown still very much on the loose. Your suspicions are for naught though, as you reach the end of the second page of the update. After Aranea’s rant of eight page mini-narratives, it’s a little hard for you to adjust to only two new pages every few days. You crave more, yet more does not come until tomorrow. You are, instead, left with bright red compensation and one of the most choice scenes that will produce enough fan art to get you through until what will presumably be labelled as ‘[A6I5] ==>’ comes out.