Homestuck Summarized (Acts 1, 2, and 3)

RAFE: rafe.name/homestuck/
HOMESTUCK: www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6
This video took about 4.2 hours to make. I did not create the summaries, I don't own Homestuck, etc etc.
This video covers all panels posted on MSPA from April 13th, 2009 through January 14th, 2010 (coincidentally, that was my 14th birthday!).
Upcoming Homestuck videos [Possible dates in brackets]:
Homestuck Summarized (Intermission 1, Acts 4, and Act 5.1) [June 12th]
Homestuck Summarized 3 (Act 5.2 Part 1) [July 17th]
RW: React to the ??/?? UPD8 [Whenever the next Flash Upd8 is]
Homestuck Summarized 4 (Act 5.2 Part 2) [August 19th or 22nd]
Homestuck Summarized 5 (Act 5.2 Part 3) [September 19th]
Homestuck Summarized 6 (Act 5.2 Part 4 and Intermision 2) [October 25th]
Homestuck Summarized 7 (Acts 6.1 and 6.2) [November 11th]
Homestuck Summarized 8 (Act 6.3) [December 24th or 25th]
Homestuck Summarized 9 (Acts 6.4 and 6.5) [January 14th]
Homestuck Summarized 10 (Act 6.6 Part 1) [February]
Homestuck Summarized 11 (Act 6.6 Part 2) [March]
Homestuck Summarized 12 (Act 6.6 Part 3 and Act 7) [April 13th]

[@moth.mp4437]

*clears throat* excuse me what?

[@guessmyname1246]

That's Homestuck!

[@shinespark2175]

That's how homestuck works!

[@k1zm3t]

that's h0mestuck babey!!!;!;!;!!

[@Khione3]

Its Homestuck

[@sleepyskull4681]

FINALLY THANK GOD I FINALLY FOUND A GOOD SUMMERATION OF HOMESTUCK THAT WASNT JUST TURNED INTO MEMES ;0;

[@zorby1008]

summeration

[@martin518441]

good??

[@leothedestroyer9106]

"summeration"

[@chelledoggo]

i've tried to read homestuck (or watch the let's reads) god knows how many times. i've read the first 3 chapters over and over, but i still needed a refresher before i go on trying again DX

[@whataver9403]

Julia Tekle Yeah, some word are complicated, i just really undertood the basic plot of homestuck at my 2 reading, before act 6 came out. in fact, at my first time reading i even acidentelly skiped [s]cascade.

[@bloodstoneore4630]

I couldn't figure out what was happening after act 4

[@michealelijahdipasalegne3665]

same

[@dysphorianash3225]

Chelle Doggo This was 6 months ago, but it all comes together after. I'm not finished, but it does. Keep reading, and you can read it again but everything is explained.

[@gustav275]

Always In Progress Nice profile picture

[@saphii6141]

3 minutes in and I have no damn clue whats happening

[@guessmyname1246]

Good that means this video is doing a good job XD

[@KumaoftheForest]

I don’t think even the Homestruck fandom are sure what Homestruck is

[@argoJ50]

Then the video is doing it’s job

[@addendumBeekeeper]

so does everyone

[@_deletus_]

? what do you guys mean by “the video is doing its job (XD)”? Isn’t the video supposed to NOT confuse you?

[@heaintevenstuckathome8549]

Ive finished homestuck multiple times now, and the advice given to me my first run through was always "just keep reading it! Expect to stay confused, but keep reading", and truly, it was good advice. Most things explain themselves easily later. Other things you either guess or ask a fellow homestuck nerd. I promose its worth it. Just. Keep. Reading!

[@AbystomaMexicanium]

You know what, everyone is saying "just keep reading". That's not exactly enough for me. I've tried it and it was extremely boring. This summary doesn't make it sound appealing either. Is there anything of actual value in the comic?

[@imanredouane6523]

@@AbystomaMexicanium how many acts have you read

[@AbystomaMexicanium]

@@imanredouane6523 Few chapters. Well, plus this video. And I have no desire to continue.

[@Chimalli2000]

Adam Furik don’t it only gets shitter man

[@ephemoth]

@@AbystomaMexicanium The first 3-4 Acts can be quite boring, yes, but after that it all spirals outta control. Consider reading further.

[@thatclassypenguin]

_And here I was thinking this would be simple_

[@eilidhjohnson5694]

*Boy were you wrong!*

[@sugarrollz3524]

Yes im from the fnaf community and wanted to try and find a new tragic backstory fan base but i dont even know if its tragic or not so im just going to pretend it dosent exists

[@shawtywiththesolluxpfp618]

@@sugarrollz3524 i meannnn there's a fair amount of heavy angst hiding behind all the chaos and jokes, but it's not really anything like fnaf-- still give it a shot though!! The first few hundred panels will probably be confusing as all hell, but they're still pretty entertaining, and once you get into it, it's super good :)

[@sugarrollz3524]

@@shawtywiththesolluxpfp618 oh ok :'D

[@sugarrollz3524]

I think i also like thinking about theorys to in fnaf lol

[@mars-cc2um]

Perfect for explaining to your parents that you’re not in a cult for painting your skin grey and putting candy corn on your head (Ok but this somewhat works)

[@cybermollusk]

And after all these years, I now see what all the fuss is about. I barely understood half of that, but it was pretty original for sure.

[@ilovepizza38]

I still think this series is just random for the sake of being random.

[@JazzyWaffles]

Sensei Early pages are, since the audience fully controlled the story. But after the very early pages, the story coalesces, and starts gaining overarching themes, complex story arcs, etc. Of course, then you have shit like the Dancestors, who show up 5/8 into Homestuck and are pretty much 200% useless except maybe Kurloz, Meenah and Aranea.

[@jaypegasi3769]

MaKiNg SeNsE Is ToO mAiNsTrEaM

[@Kekktye]

Early internet culture be like

[@sugarrollz3524]

Wow and it was hard for me to finnally understand the fnaf lore .. Yeah homestuck is not for me i dont think its tragic enough eny way

[@tanyarastogi1110]

@@sugarrollz3524 not tragic enough? 0_0

[@danadekker7048]

I feel like I'm missing a lot information

[@krykni]

I remember jumping into this fandom 2 years ago and forgot the story- I don't wanna read it again, so I'm here... *again*

[@i_teleported_bread7404]

I think it really says something that I've read the first five acts and still need to watch a summary.

[@martin518441]

yes it says its banal shit

[@vxxiii4160]

Homestuck is like an isekai anime except it spanned countless of memes circa 2009 - 2015. Also aliens. Still it's pretty good.

[@lancestryker]

THREE YEARS OF BEING IN THE HOMESTUCK FANDOM AND YOU'VE EXPLAINED THE LOVE QUADRANTS IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE

[@nicegoatdoctor8224]

Hey thanks for making this man, Homestuck is amazing but it's also kind of hard to follow.

[@glitchpastelx2999]

I haven't read Homestuck or interacted with it at all. I'm confused out of my mind lol

[@chilliicecream5456]

A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that he’s about to embark on a perilous adventure fraught with birthday cakes, magic chests, hammers, arms (detachable and otherwise), harlequins, imps, eccentric architecture, movable home furnishings, bunnies and a video game that brings about the end of the world Welcome to the crazy world of Homestuck

[@megasocky]

Homestuck used to be a choose your own adventure story which is why it was really random back in the beginning

[@stortsy]

I'm currently reading Homestuck (I'm on the intermission) and while reading the first 3 acts I vaguely understood it, but there were a few things I didn't understand, like the Wayward Vagabond delivering the packages to young Jade. Thanks for clearing things up!

[@JazzyWaffles]

Ally the Amazing You're welcome! ...and yikes, the audio quality difference between this video and the final one are jarring.

[@stortsy]

Jazzy Waffles Haha, yeah XD

[@oliverpruitt5457]

I'm reading homestuck but I sometimes have to go months between having time/motivation to read it and now I don't have to start from scratch each time, I can just watch the summary up to where I am. This is great!!

[@prettybirb9431]

this helped me a lot with any things i didnt understand. thanks :)

[@JazzyWaffles]

You're welcome! I planned to do Act 6, but I got too busy :( I'll probably start back up in June with A6-1 and 6-2. :)

[@prettybirb9431]

looking forward to it 😊

[@destinycheesecake3040]

Jasmine Bupito same

[@tobi5689]

I remember in Junior High I used to looove Homestuck. I am now in college and looking back, I had no idea what it was about so I am back here to refresh my memory lol. Still clueless. I think I always was but I still loved it. This brings back sooo many good memories. Well, I can't remember any of them tbh except that I felt very attached to this comic at the time. I remember the feelings I had, and it makes me want to read at least the last 3/8ths of it, after the Dancestors came in. Because I remember around that was my favorite part, but not much else. I also remember shipping in this fandom was super wild and anything goes. Love that LGBTQ+ and disability rep too. The characters were super deep and complicated and the dialogue was amazing. Those were my two favorite things about it. I think Karkat is one of my top 10 favorite characters ever. Haha. Good times. I got Hiveswap now too so it feels like I am falling back down this hole. Won't go as deep as before, but still. I'm grateful.

[@kingstondaking7877]

As a post-modern fan, I welcome you back to the fandom once again. You can run from the homestuck as much as you want, surely. But once it gets you, you will have no chance of fighting it

[@bluejellyfish4983]

Ur my head-cannon for johns voice

[@JazzyWaffles]

I am become Breath, creator of worlds.

[@offsetukulele8130]

Jazzy Waffles BRUEHEKDKFNFN

[@youarenowawarepodcast8896]

Trying to summarize homestuck is gods work. Doing the impossible

[@shrekwaifu9561]

just finished act 1, had no idea what happened, now im here

[@rootbeer4004]

Is it bad that I watch this instead of playing/reading the actual web comic?

[@eridegago2050]

yes

[@anamae9136]

I'm doing this

[@WolfGeek64]

No you'll just be wasting your life away on something that won't pay off, like Sherlock.

[@rikkatikkata5447]

yes

[@sleepjoy8221]

No. I read up to the beginning of chapter 6.1 before I had a mental breakdown and locked myself in a room for 3 hours. So then I watched this.

[@xtrememusic1732]

>video length is 10:25 perfect

[@JazzyWaffles]

> That moment when a video is almost the perfect length so you slightly speed it up or slow it down by like 2% to make it perfect

[@retrowave4050]

Perfection

[@Kamen_Rider_Geats]

I dont know this but I keep seeing this.....so I tried to search What is Homestuck......I regret that choice.

[@Jadepaii]

Midnight Specter You're not the only one.

[@Kamen_Rider_Geats]

CrystalWood YT good.

[@corakennedy8124]

I have almost no clue what home stuck , but I’m learning it because my best friend is into it.

[@asiannooble6925]

Watching as a refresher for homestuck^2 because I don’t have the time to read the whole thing again

[@Jhud69]

Watching this as a recent re-reader (I read the first 5 acts multiple times, just at varying degrees of English proficiency) and this is super helpful.

[@madeleineastley9135]

Ok no it got confusing when he started playing the sburb game

[@JazzyWaffles]

Tip of the iceburg, honestly. I'd recommend reading the actual webcomic (and not skipping or skimming anything). It's well-paced enough that you can easily grasp what's going on without the confusion that comes with trying to find out about the first 3 acts in 10 minutes.

[@madeleineastley9135]

Jazzy Waffles eh it's fine I understood it after I'd watched it a phew times :T

[@katiebrown3811]

You've got a bit of an audio balancing problem, the songs are much louder than the voice over. No big though, I get how hard that stuff is. I couldn't do it, so who am I to complain?

[@JazzyWaffles]

Yes, I know. Audio balancing has always been an issue for me, but I've been getting marginally better at it as time has progressed.

[@sugarrollz3524]

@@JazzyWaffles yay :D good for you

[@shainacalma1227]

This is such a life saver😭 thank you!!! I’ve started getting into Homestuck few weeks ago and even read the webcomic through Act 1 and 2 but it was too confused so I’m here. I’d say Homestuck as a whole is just as confusing and interesting, I still love it lol

[@archeacnos]

Bro thanks, I've read the 4 first acts and then stopped months ago, and now I'm lost

[@Multimarkredrb]

This video is a lot more entertaining if you put it on x2 speed

[@JazzyWaffles]

MultiredRB The funny part is, I slightly sped up the audio for the second part (to about 110 or 120% I think). So thanks for the idea!

[@Multimarkredrb]

Rice Waffle Haha no problem :P

[@Mark-fc7tu]

Okay, just finished Act 3 for myself. It's definitely shaping up to be good tale.

[@hopelessamaturerougeofhope4399]

I am on act 3 I will update you on my reading Ok I am on act 5 and I love the trolls already

[@Mark-fc7tu]

@@hopelessamaturerougeofhope4399 Yeah, Act 5 is where the story really starts to pick up, especially when the character introductions are out of the way, post Act 5 act 1.

[@miurima]

*2 MINUTES IN AND IM SO CONFUSED*

[@emmakelly4291]

Thank you so much. I never would've gotten into this if it weren't for these videos

[@starzzixx]

This is so helpful because I’ve been so confused

[@cyclowonus]

you're a hero i needed this after finishing these acts because im kinda (very) lost....

[@eilidhjohnson5694]

Omg thanks for this, I keep losing the plot of this thing while desperately trying to get through the whole thing in 4 days (currently a little bit into act 5)

[@bratneykairi456]

I'm here, because all my friends like homestuck and I'm constantly lost

[@sureig7981]

SAME

[@Dw-rs9ed]

Same. It ain't good

[@user-fc4fd6ei5y]

Thanks so much for these! I fell off reading at act 6 intermission 1 and really needed reminding who was dead and what has happened first haha

[@kgkpink]

I miss the simpler times... now (where I'm at, which is a6a3) everything's confusing, John, Jade, and Davesprite are stilling waiting for the end of those 3 years, Jane didn't prototype anything, the Batterwitch is a thing, Jake literally attacked Meenah, and I know that *a lot* more people will die. BUT, at least Wayward Vagabond is alive and not dead anymore.

[@chilliicecream5456]

A grand story of happiness, friendship and not dying...hopefully

[@warpedmine9682]

im listening to this to get a good grade in homestuck hopefully an A

[@platycorn5301]

Thanks so much, I was confused on the stuff surrounding Jade, especially the time loop :)

[@sofiekakurosu9161]

Oddly enough all this makes much more sense and is way easier to keep track of than the real world.

[@jhawley031]

what the fuck i thought this would be simple..

[@theharvinator]

this is literally simple compared to later

[@ceruleanModulator]

Perfect video length!

[@penguin_momo]

I'm trying to get into homestuck but I already feel overwhelmed.

[@krystal55588]

Thank you so much for this!!! I’m on page 2,600 and it’s been like 3 months since I started ;-; I love this webcomic so much but I don’t have time to read it and schools coming up. I tried watching a livestream of a guy reading it but I need to physically read and know who is talking.

[@camillehessel7037]

I’ve been in the homestuck fandom for over a year and still have never made it past act 5. I can’t sit still that long and it can’t keep my interest because of the slow pace. But I desperately want to finish this thing, and don’t know if I ever will the regular way. So here I am. Thank you.

[@kingstondaking7877]

You mustn't give up! It sure as hell took me a while to get there but it's about the journey! I could only clear a few pages per day due to similar problems like you but eventually I got through those grueling 8k pages of text.

[@beanpots8524]

thanks i needed this

[@wuttheactual8521]

Omg this is hurting my head. I’m so lost -_-

[@nagiitopeepeepoopoo]

i read the webcomic, i watched many videos about it and still have no damn clue what it is

[@imreplyingtothiscomment2378]

I read all of it and i really need this

[@onhundredjedds8959]

3:52 sICK FIRES BRO

[@JazzyWaffles]

Comment love 2 years later because I'm digging that Awful Hospital icon. Bogleech does need stuff.

[@carry0nhomestucktrash994]

I read the web comic and then after a few chapters I go back and watch these just to clear stuff up

[@paperbag9235]

this is so confusing. . . its not you but the story is just too hard to undestand guess im just super dumb :(

[@JazzyWaffles]

This is a recap that recaps thousands of pages of info. Reading the comic is the best way to understand what's going on.

[@xx_phedora_lvuer_xx2498]

So like there’s these 12 aliens called trolls, one for each zodiac sign, and they all play a video game called “sgrub”, and they all lose since these trolls suck. So they all die. In homestuck, when you don’t die a “just” or “heroic” death, you go to a dream bubble, which is like heaven. The trolls enter the dream bubble, and the scratch happens. The scratch is like a reset that recreates the universe but slightly different, but the old universe still exists. For example, the first human’s scratch makes all the adults the children, and all the children adults. So then there’s these new trolls who are EPIC, again, one for every zodiac sign, who’s personalities are based off both the personalities of the zodiacs, and internet trolls. Then they all play a video game, and all win, and by the way, when a player of the game enters the medium, they go to like some fuckin planet called land of blank and blank, and they orbit a planet called skaia. Also orbiting skaia, prospit and derse. On these planets, there are dersites and prospitans. So when they enter land of blank and blank, a dersite/prospitan is banished to their planet as their exile. Most trolls and all humans have one. They’re on their end game pad, and are rewarded with the ultimate prize, a new universe. They planned to enter the new universe and rule it as tyrants, but are prevented to do so by a dersite called jack noir. In the troll’s universe, they also have jack noir, but his name is spades slick. Spades slick didn’t get the ring in this universe, so he has no powers, so he was banished to alternia (the troll’s planet). The exiles all have moniters so that they can see years in the past, and interfere with the player’s session. So spades becomes Karkat (the cancer sign troll who LOVES THAT 69 BABY) ‘s exile. But the new universe’s jack noir got the ring, and each time a sprite (which is like a guide for the players of the game) is prototyped (basically giving it weird abilities, for example, if I prototyped a sprite with a microwave, then I would microwavesprite, who can heat things up) the boss of the game gets the sprites powers. The human’s sprites are davesprite, nannasprite, becsprite, and jaspersprite, so jack has the sword skillz and sword impaling him and wings of davesprite, the harlequin hat of nannasprite, the tentacles and cat body of jasperssprite, and finally, bec gets prototyped. Bec is one of the human’s dogs, and he can morph time and space to his will, basically time travel and teleportation. So jack now has bec’s time travel and teleportation, and teleports to the trolls universe and goes back in time to when the trolls won, and kills most of their dream selves. So then he’s trapped in the troll’s session for a while, and let’s get to the part where shit started to fly off the hook and why. John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Jade Harley, and Dave Strider are all humans who have on guardian, whether is be a parent, a dog, or a big brother. They all play a version of sgrub called sburb, and then they all blah blah enter land of blank and blank blah blah. It’s exactly the same as the troll’s universe but with humans instead of trolls. Then jack noir is fed up with wearing hats that the black queen forces him to wear (and by the way, the black king/queen are supposed to be the final boss of the game, so they have all the sprites powers) shitty harlequin hats, and kills her, and steals her ring. Jack puts it on, becoming the new final boss of the game. He flies onto the battle field, kills some dersites and prospitans, and banishes some of them to earth. How about alternate timeline dave? By the way, each kid has a power over a certain thing, like karkat being the knight of blood, or dave being the knight of time. So john tries getting to skaia prematurely, and dies. I’m pretty sure everyone else is killed by jack noir. Dave then prototypes his sprite with cal, a puppet his bro uses, and is forced to suffer the consequences. Calsprite doesn’t talk, and just laughs. Dave uses his time powers to go back in time, and prototype himself with past dave’s sprite, becoming davesprite. Davesprite makes sure john doesn’t enter to early and helps bro fight jack noir. Then, one of the trolls puts john to sleep before he can prototype jade’s sprite, and if her sprite isn’t prototyped, she’ll get killed by a meteor, and won’t enter the land of blank and blank. So bec prototypes himself with her sprite, and makes jack noir super strong. He kills bro, dad, and mom, and goes to the troll’s session and kills all of their dream selves. All the kids go god tier, and its revealed to them by karkat that their session is doomed to fail no matter what. So they initiate the scratch, and in the new universe, the kids are the guardians, and the guardians are the kids. We have dirk, aka tiny bro, roxy, aka tiny mom, jake English, aka tiny grandpa (jade’s old guardian before he died and was replaced with bec), and jane, aka tiny nanna. In their universe, there are no trolls, rather cherubs, who live on future earth. A cherub is an alien body shared by two different minds. The cherubs we see in homestuck are calliope, who is nice to the players and helps them, and caliborn who is more like a troll. The cherubs chain each other’s legs to the wall, and each mind only knows how to unlock one, that way, they can’t escape and have the body controlled by one. Oh, how about lord English. There are a bunch of lornd engli! Jake English, new universe jack noir gets possessed by lord English, doc scratch, a guardian from the troll’s universe, becomes lord English, and caliborn becomes lord English when he’s an adult. Lord English is a demon that sollux, one of the trolls, created to be summoned at the end of the universe, but due to caliborn having power over time, he can appear before his summoning. So the trolls, the old trolls, the kids, and the new kids, all team up to fight the lord engli, betty crocker (a troll who, in both universes, found earth and conquered it with awful food), the felt (lord english’s gang, and spades slick’s rival gang) jack noir, and a mail man who is trying to get revenge on jack noir. Read it. No, seriously, I think anyone can pick up homestuck, read it, and like it.

[@cultbf]

Xx_Phedora_LvUeR_xX ive been hit with so much deja vu

[@insertcreativenamehere7584]

I just want to say that you’re not dumb for not getting this. I’ve read the whole comic and still have no idea what’s going on

[@bitchrat1123]

@@xx_phedora_lvuer_xx2498 **Cough cough** _Can you repeat that._

[@turntechDoghead]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I HATE READING TOO MUCH TO READ THE WHOLE THING. thank you thank you thank you

[@jacobbetancourt5602]

just discovered this. thanks for the help homie!

[@pokaay3163]

*No. let me stop you right there. What?*

[@JazzyWaffles]

Welcome to Homestuck, where the rules are made up and reality doesn't matter!

[@cringecande_9352]

this helps A LOT. thank you ^_^

[@leofender909]

I got to act 6 a LONG ass time ago but i forgot about it forever and now im trying to get back into it again

[@ratking4250]

I am glad this exists bc my partner has dyslexia and I read all of homestuck just for nobody I know to like it

[@Justagoofygoober]

Coming back when I finish all these videos :D

[@PlumbG64]

This video helped me to understand WV: Ascend, better

[@jazzypanda9871]

I read this in 3rd grade and i was so confused and i decided to try and read it again and i only got through act one so this is actually very helpful thanks man :D

[@pittherson3260]

Lmao everytime i read this dang comic there is a point where i just understand everything but after a few days i forgot because there's too much detail in my plate to keep up

[@Hero_DZN]

is it time- will i finally dable into homestuck

[@Animelady-js5yw]

thank god for this

[@exi_m7074]

I'm nearly 8000 pages into this behemoth of a story and I still don't know what's happening to be honest.

[@exi_m7074]

Correction: About 2500. Misrememebred lmao

[@NebbyTheProtogen]

finnaly i can learn what happens in this, its so overly mytholigized

[@insertusernamehere3173]

Thank you!

[@nat-rd6kb]

I'm so glad this is a thing cuz I'm too lazy to actually read it

[@levi-young]

Watching this before i read the sequel

[@jinruah_]

i’m using this video to summarize a little more and make a slides presentation so i can understand and look back as i read 🕺

[@moonievalentin8209]

I want this to be a book....

[@radicallps3764]

kiwicoolgirl aj it is xD

[@JazzyWaffles]

It sort of is, albeit it hasn't been adapted into comic form for quite a while, the books are super lagging behind the comic considering the comic is basically over.

[@naethavenir9422]

Wait for the VIZ media book adaptations, and you’ll be getting Acts 1-4

[@Um_And_Num]

I have heard so many people talk about homestuck over the years, but not once has anyone been able to explain it. Still waiting.

[@ivantillest]

I’m not even a minute in and I have no idea wth is going on but I like it

[@guessmyname1246]

I challenged my bro to find a short video summarizing the entirety of Homestuck. He failed so bad XD I dont blame him tho

[@JazzyWaffles]

I was once tempted to do Homestuck Summarized in 10 Minutes Or Less as an April Fools video, but the concept fell through in the planning stage when I accidentally wrote an hour-long script.

[@RoseMultiverse]

Your voice sounds like the Let's Read dub for John and that's ironic from what we know about the epilogues

[@JazzyWaffles]

Thanks, haha, I get the John comment a lot.

[@inkedoutsans]

I see now why it took years for fans of their time to understand this clusterfuck of fiction. Touché homestucks.

[@JazzyWaffles]

It's funny because this video covers the easiest-to-comprehend part of the comic.

[@BrenTenkage]

only thing I knew bout Homestuck is Linkara's Review of the first two acts, as well as Megalovania as I'm a fan of undertaleyeah this video helped me understand a bit more, thanks ^_^

[@infestedsaturn7638]

i literally cant get past the part where they mention the dad liking harley quinn . i have really severe adhd and my brain cant handle the overwhelming amount of stuff in the og. i wanna learn the story n stuff so this is nice :)

[@qoombert]

so THAT's why it's called homestuck

[@toastysocks173]

Love it

[@viupcake8062]

I change my mind. I'm not getting into this fandom tonight.

[@skilerketchum6633]

why

[@JazzyWaffles]

Homestuck tends to be incredibly confusing to most "normal" people (and it's even MORE confusing for people who don't listen to me when I tell them not to use my summaries as substitutes for the actual story, lol).

[@viupcake8062]

@@skilerketchum6633 Too complicated. Have been reading the webcomic for like 2 months now. Still confused.

[@viupcake8062]

@@JazzyWaffles I honestly wouldn't consider myself "normal", but that's fair.

[@plaguedude6419]

Time to figure this out

[@TheUltimateRare]

thanks :)

[@Mark-fc7tu]

Welp. I've finally gotten around to completing Act 1 of Homestuck, and I'm probably going to have to rely on this guide to help things make sense...

[@blueburner]

Here I am commenting on a 4 year old video just to say that this was more confusing than learning algebra for the first time in 7th grade

[@shane7778]

Finally I can tell a girl that told me to read this 6 years ago that I finally finished it

[@mariobrawl6821]

Wh-What? Wait, What? What the heck!? Flippin, golden moons connected by a golden chain that orbit a planet next to a fictional world, what!? I'm so, so confused right now it's not even funny! Holy CRAP that's complicated!

[@JazzyWaffles]

It amuses me to see people perplexed by the early acts of Homestuck, back when things were simple.

[@thethunderdrone7256]

Jazzy Waffles back when it was just a nerd going around his house in a disquse

[@kittycamiori]

@@thethunderdrone7256 he was just trying to get the mail

[@dead_boyz-]

just finished homestuck last month, watching this because i still dont fully understand

[@nat-rd6kb]

WELL THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY

[@keyboundDragon]

Yep, that's pretty much it

[@threedicksonabench3141]

I’m watching this instead of reading it... And I like to read...

[@JazzyWaffles]

I won't say you're in the wrong here, but that's sort of like reading a wiki article instead of actually participating in the source material. You're missing a LOT of content by skipping out on the comic.