anyone else really overwhelmed?

The double upd8 of Vriska month plus the fraf forums opening, I literally forgot to eat for like 12 hours on accident. I got so sucked in. So yeah a little overwhelmed but also hyped too??? Tired but bumping?? idk

Yes, very much so. As someone who has followed Homestuck since it's first year, it's been a trip to see just how wild this Fandom has changed. I'm frankly both excited and scared at the prospect of the New-Gen fans. On one hand, you have new perspectives on things maybe we haven't looked at before because we were so far IN at the time. But on the other... So much of this Fandom has historically resolved around those who "troll" but the negativity and toxicity I've been seeing is just... I can't describe it in words, it's like that Vine where the kid says "My Disappointment is Immeasurable and My Day is Ruined" but with all of the same cringe context and raw emotion. I hope things straighten out soon, and everyone is doing such a good job on their respective sides of things. James Roach, if you aren't secretly Toby Fox (Note first name Human and then last name Creature), I hope you are doing okay! I doubt any of them will see this, but it's a fun Head Canon to throw in to break the tension hahahaha hOnK ):0)

Somehow the vision of Nepeta as a game show host heralded a series of events that lead me to react with terror more than joy to any Homestuck news. Boom, forums are back. Boom, new species. Boom, Andrew Hussie did something shitty. Boom, Homestuck cartoon. Boom, another update. Boom, website coming back. Boom, discord server. Boom, discord sucks.

(Okay, I saw that last one coming).

I guess there's also just a lot of lingering stress that makes me feel acclimated to getting burned. I'm not gonna litigate whose fault it was that things went so poorly with Viz, TOG, the UHC and such, but we can all agree they didn't go the way they should have. I really hope nothing of the sort blows up in the Spindleroo cartoon's face. I'm not sure I'd be able to take a hit like that.

I've been obsessed with Homestuck in a way I have never been obsessed with it before and I am so glad there is a new community to talk about it with lol. Before I literally had like 0 people to talk about Homestuck with even though its been one of those things that has influenced me from when I was really young. The new fandom resurgence and stuff has been so awesome but I get that it can be a lot. Imo, when that happens I normally just take a step back and decide to enjoy other things for a while so I can calm down from how excited I am or something.

i think part of it is just that i'm definitely more of a forum person than anything else lol. so i'm mostly going to be staying here rather than posting in the discord

yeauh its a lot . i'm only Really active in the psycholonials channel in the discord but if you look up my previous messages you may notice i'm the first message in a few of themf ... i've been further stressed by outsiders to the fandom misconstruing information about the gio shit and everything else because they either have a bias or don't care to look into it because a lot of people have bad faith in anything hussie related . im also worried this will bring attention away from the forums but . we'll see

funnily enough, i finished reading homestuck (along with problem sleuth, jail break, and bard quest) within like, a week of pesterquest and the epilogues releasing. trying to read the epilogues overwhelmed me so severely at a young age, so I ended up dropping homestuck for a bit. im back in it! but. i can say, im primarily interacting with fanworks. I check the same five things for notifications, so I’m hardly overwhelmed like that anymore!

@steamistteaholic

I remember when the epilogues first dropped I had that and the next day completely free so I basically did nothing but read so I could keep up with my fastest friends. dyslexia cannot defeat autism.

I'm so happy that Homestuck is having its renaissance right after I got really into it again. I was so excited when the forums opened that after like 2 days, I had to force myself to detox from the forums because I was on here ALL THE TIME and could not stop talking about it.

I am like, so close to straight up scheduling a designated "homestuck time" to approach it more healthily. The autism is strong for this one.

@chthonikix

my dad told me to do basically this...................... he says i get scary every time i get back into homestuck (paraphrasing) (lighthearted)

i definetly get the feeling, tho thankfully i think i've been p alright? honestly, I've been stressed for like, real life reasons, so the homestuck drama has been a nice distraction haha. i mean, there are times it gets a bit much and i get genuinely very stressed but. heh.

the discord has been nice enough mostly just chilling in the psycholonials channel :>

not really but i get it im more "overstimulated" like i got into the series via my bff begging me to read it and i was bored then my bestie at school being a HS cosplayer helped me grow into the series seeing all this attention feels amazing and im really excited for whats to come but yeah i get where your coming from

definitely feel this. especially with the discord, i took one look at it and went nope! back to the forums i go!

I'm swimming in the chaos. I find it EXCITING!

As someone moderating it on discord: yeah i was overwhelmed. I still am tbqh but im so fucking excited. I have no doubt more is to come.

for me it is overwhelming but also like! really fun!! i love this forum, i was here ALL DAY for a few days after it launched and those were some really good days, and then there was some pretty bad news followed by a bunch of really awesome news and were getting a SHOW and homestuck is RERELEASING and its all a bit much but tbh more than anything im just really excited :)

it honestly reminds me of my genshin days- and i dunno, im glad mainly that im not on an algorithmic site like twitter. i definitely check this forum less frequently!!

i found a lot of that online intensity exhausting. i felt like i had to be more ready for bad news, and more aggressive and ready to jump into harassment campaigns.

and i mean, im older! i am no longer 13/14, and i am also once again. off twitter. but i still remember it and reminded of it with the constant Craziness going on. at the very least its definitely making Homestuck somewhat stressful for me, and i am trying to remind myself that i dont have to engage in drama and i want to face stress and craziness with kindness. i dunno!! i think everything will be okay, always.

no no i get it, ive been detaching from wider homestuck spaces and keeping to smaller discords. the official one is giving me a headache and every time i think of the animated series i just get a wave of dread. i dont even post on here much anymore

As someone who's been IN IT, its been a lot, but I also think most of it is for the best! The first few days of the Discord were kind of crazy (as to be expected) but things are cooling down a bit and I think the culture there is actually growing to be pretty positive!