I first heard about it when I read about the Kickstarter on Undertale Wiki (must have been in 2017, I think), and “$10,000 your fantroll becomes canon, $100,000 they survive for more than one page” was so funny to me that I thought “Okay, I *have* to read this!” But i ended up stopping around page 10 and forgetting all about it.

Then in 2023 I saw an episode of Umm, Actually that had a question about Homestuck, which got me interested, and when I started I just thought “Ohhhh, it’s this weird thing!” - not that I remembered why I remembered it. I got through Act 1, but then stopped again. Then on the 30th of November, 2023, Tale Foundry uploaded the video “How to Become a God”, which talked a *lot* about Homestuck, and that finally inspired me to read it all the way through. Top 3 best decisions of my life.

I took a lot of breaks, so I didn’t finish it until sometime in the summer of 2024 (I just know I reached Cascade just before Easter), and caught up with BC some months later. I regret arriving this late to the party, but on the other hand it means I have a whole gold mine of old content to find. I discovered Broadwaystuck just this week, and I heard Stuck This Way for the very first time the day before yesterday, if you can believe it! And I am indeed a Homestuck and stuck this way.