People don’t like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn’t be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they’re basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it’s just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like “we’re using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can” and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.
Go read Awful Hospital by @bogleech I am not joking when I say it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to homestucks’s level of interactivity and willingness to break it’s own format that isn’t itself a direct fan-project of homestuck.
(except of course 17776, I guess, but I have been saying the above to anyone who would listen since long before 17776 hit the scene.)
Funny enough I have never read Homestuck and have only the vaguest idea of what it’s like. Awful Hospital’s format was most inspired by Rubyquest!
People don’t like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn’t be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they’re basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it’s just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like “we’re using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can” and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.
Go read Awful Hospital by @bogleech I am not joking when I say it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to homestucks’s level of interactivity and willingness to break it’s own format that isn’t itself a direct fan-project of homestuck.
(except of course 17776, I guess, but I have been saying the above to anyone who would listen since long before 17776 hit the scene.)
Funny enough I have never read Homestuck and have only the vaguest idea of what it’s like. Awful Hospital’s format was most inspired by Rubyquest!
Hey @staff, @wip when I filled out your survey this is NOT what I meant by a better, user-friendly UI. this is fucking ridiculous. You could have kept this notification in the background SO EASILY. in fact, YOU DID BEFORE THE CHANGE! I don’t want to be notified if something gets posted successfully if I’m fast-reblogging on mobile! That’s why it’s fast!!!!!!
Each line of notification equals just (1) reblog, and they pile up, making it impossible to fast-reblog multiple times or successfully scroll. It takes more than 10 seconds for the pop-up to go away unless I bullseye-hit that tiny little arrow on top! OVERWRITE YOUR NOTIFICATIONS. I DONT NEED TO SEE MORE THAN the status of the MOST RECENT REBLOG. Seriously, who is in charge of making these UI decisions? Who gets the final say should be shot (not the programmers u guys are lovely)
CORPORATE LISTEN TO YOUR DAMN USERBASE AND YOU’LL GET USER GROWTH ORGANICALLY! Do you seriously doubt the power of your user base for doing your own peer-reviewed marketing for you? We were doing it just fine before the recent 7 years of Tumblr.
