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''I '''CONJURE''' THIS INTREPID FANTASYSCAPE WITH TEARS BLED FROM THE WISDOM-WEARY EYES OF FIFTY THOUSAND IMAGINARY MAGICIANS. I PULL HEAVY DRAGS FROM THE BRUMES OF INSPIRATION WITH ENCHANTED BELLOWS MARAUDED FROM A GUILD OF CHURLISH MYTHICAL DWARVES. VAST BULBOUS RIDDLESPIDERS PUSH THE SILKEN STRANDS OF PURE WHIMSY THROUGH HIDEOUS ABDOMINAL SPINNERETS AND IT IS THAT WITH WHICH I WEAVE THIS AUDACIOUS COCOON OF EXQUISITE LIES. AND WHEN IT HATCHES A GREAT MOTH OF TITILLATION WILL AWAKEN AND ROAR AND BEAT ITS WINGS, AND THE POWDER SETTLING DOWN WILL ARREST THE HUMORS OF AN ENORMOUS TERRIBLE OLD BEGGAR, RELAXING THE VULTUROUS LEATHERY VICEGRIP HE'S FIXED AROUND YOUR CAPTIVE MIND.''|'''[[Andrew Hussie]]''', [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003577 this page]}}
 
A peculiar sort of [[Interactive Comic]]/Flash game hybrid. ''[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6 Homestuck]'' is the fourth and latest series of ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'', a series of web comics done in the style of an old [[Interactive Fiction|text-based]] [[Adventure Game]], written by [[Andrew Hussie]] ([[Sure Why Not|and the fans]]). Homestuck started like the others, with every update prompted by a user suggestion, but it soon shed its [[Audience Participation|suggestion box]] when the plot outgrew it, and has since become a multimedia ''[[Genre Busting|thing]]'' which has grown to be [[Webcomics Long Runners|longer than any other webcomicweb comic on the internet]] - at a rate which (according to Hussie's calculations) could let him take a break for at least ''thirteen years'' and still run the most tightly updated webcomicweb comic in the world, if he wanted.
 
A young man stands in his bedroom. [[The Hero's Birthday|It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is this young man's birthday.]] Though it was 13 years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name!
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...It will be [[Fail O'Suckyname|Zoosmell Pooplord]]... er, sorry. It will be [[The Fool|John]] [[The Pollyanna|Egbert]]. Our chief protagonist is one of [[Arc Number|four thirteen]][[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|-year-old friend s--]] the other three being [[Deadpan Snarker|Rose]] [[The Stoic|Lalonde]], [[The Lancer|Dave]] [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy|Strider]], and [[Strange Girl|Jade]] [[Genki Girl|Harley]] -- who are fated to play Sburb, a widely-hyped multiplayer video game with real-life effects. Sburb allows players to manipulate and modify each other's environments in real time, in a way reminiscent of ''[[The Sims]]''. But as it turns out, [[The Game Plays You|the consequences of playing Sburb]] [[Oh Crap|are significantly further-reaching than they initially appear to be]], and what begins as a series of amusing domestic struggles and game-mechanics goofs quickly spirals into [[Serial Escalation|a succession of events the likes of]] [[Moment of Awesome|which need to be seen to be believed]].
 
''Homestuck'' began on [[Arc Number|April 13]]th, 2009, only one month after the end of the highly successful ''[[Problem Sleuth]]''. It rapidly rose in popularity for many reasons, but primarily for its [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot|intricate]] [[Kudzu Plot|multi-timeline]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|apocalypse-centric]] plot, [[One-Man Army|an insanely fast update schedule]] <ref>it updatesupdated with 5.5 pages a day on average; that means a veritable torrent of updates, unless Andrew's [[Animation Bump|making a Flash animation]]; even when accounting by the megapauses on 2013 and 2015 the content amount was still insane</ref>, a [[Art Evolution|visual upgrade]] from the style of ''Problem Sleuth'', the [[Animation Bump|Flash animations and games]] accompanied by [[Homestuck/Music|a massive soundtrack]], and its [[Trope Overdosed|incredibly high trope density]].
 
The [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/MS_Paint_Adventures_Wiki MS Paint Adventures Wiki] [[The Wiki Rule|is maintained by fans]], and tends to be an invaluable source of assistance when reading ''Homestuck'' for the first time, though the content there should be taken with a grain of salt, as its userbase has a tendency to occasionally post speculation as fact. Hussie used to use Formspring as a means of communicating with readers, but eventually ditched it<ref>for those interested, the content has been archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927233245/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?42662-Formspring-Archives here]</ref>] in favour of [http://mspandrew.tumblr.com his Tumblr account], which occasionally opened for questions before being abandoned as well.
 
There is also an [[Spin-Off]]/[[Expanded Universe]] collabborativecollaborative webcomicweb comic, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20151024064832/http://www.paradoxspace.com/ Paradox Space]'', premiered on April 13, 2014, the fifth anniversary of the comic, that is considered finished and was compiled in two books. ''[http://hiveswap.com/ Hiveswap]'', a game ambientedtaking place in the same universe that was financed vía [[Kickstarter]], is to bewas released on the second half ofin 20162017.
 
The webcomicweb comic is currently finished, with its [[Grand Finale]] being released on April 13, 2016, the 7th anniversary of its premiere. An epilogue willin follownovelized form followed, beginning publication on April 13, 2019, the tenth anniversary of the comic. A sequel, ''[https://homestuck2.com/ Homestuck²: Beyond Canon]'', began publication on October 25, 2019.
 
Viz Media has been releasing physical versions of the webcomic since 2017; as of 2019 five books have been released, with two more announced for 2020.
 
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'''[[Late Arrival Spoiler]] Warning:''' If the fact that this entry was breaking the site didn't clue you in, this entry has reached [[Troper Critical Mass]] at least partially because of the aforementioned reasons, '''ALL spoilers have been left unmarked'''. The old system of spoiler tagging things as they came was very haphazard and poorly implemented, and in addition ''Homestuck'' is freely available and there's no barrier to reading it save for its sheer length, so '''every single spoiler tag has been removed''' on every subpage; even visiting the character index contains spoilers, as does the page image! If you want maximum enjoyment when reading this comic, it is ''highly'' suggested you read the whole comic ''before'' reading any of the following links. '''[[You Have Been Warned]]'''. [[Archive Panic|Good luck.]]
 
== {{examples|'''> Compile extensive articles of supplemental data related to ''[[Homestuck]]'''''. ==}}▼
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<poem>'''[[Homestuck/Characters|> Study cast dossier.]]'''
▲== '''> Compile extensive articles of supplemental data related to ''[[Homestuck]]'''''. ==
'''[[Homestuck/WMG|> Investigate strange ramblings.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Characters|> Study cast dossier.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/WMG|> Investigate strange ramblings.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Headscratchers|> Look over submitted complaints of cranial irritation.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Fanfic Recs|> Gloss over tomes created by admirers.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Laconic|> Succumb to unfathomable briefness.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Quotes|> Evaluate collection of inspiring quotations.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Haiku|> Compose poetic commentary of a Far Eastern kind.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/YMMV|> Weigh in on controversial matters.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Awesome|> Fondly regard coronation.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Funny|> Seek webcomic-related hilarities.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Heartwarming|> Inspect moments worthy of]] [[Insane Troll Logic|heartburn]].'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Nightmare Fuel|> Peruse bad dream catalysts.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Tear Jerker|> Shed single tear of black liquid sorrow.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Music|> Observe collection of established sick beats.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Fan Music|> Further observe fan-made additions to established sick beats.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Awesome Music|> Appreciate the aforementioned collections of beats.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Shout Out|> Examine documented references to miscellaneous media.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Fridge|> Take inventory plundered from the breeze of a thermal hull.]]'''<br />'''[[Wham! Episode/Web Comics/Homestuck|> Appraise list of shocking developments.]]'''<br />'''[[Mood Whiplash/Homestuck|> Recall emotionally bipolar situations.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Memes|> Sleuth out extensive list of internet colloquialisms.]]'''<br />'''[[Homestuck/Timeline|> Attempt to make linear sense of mind-bending chronology.]]'''<br />
'''[[Homestuck/Headscratchers|> Look over submitted complaints of cranial irritation.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Fanfic Recs|> Gloss over tomes created by admirers.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Laconic|> Succumb to unfathomable briefness.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Quotes|> Evaluate collection of inspiring quotations.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Haiku|> Compose poetic commentary of a Far Eastern kind.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/YMMV|> Weigh in on controversial matters.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Awesome|> Fondly regard coronation.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Funny|> Seek webcomic-related hilarities.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Heartwarming|> Inspect moments worthy of]] [[Insane Troll Logic|heartburn]].'''
'''[[Homestuck/Nightmare Fuel|> Peruse bad dream catalysts.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Tear Jerker|> Shed single tear of black liquid sorrow.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Music|> Observe collection of established sick beats.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Fan Music|> Further observe fan-made additions to established sick beats.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Awesome Music|> Appreciate the aforementioned collections of beats.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Shout-Out|> Examine documented references to miscellaneous media.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Fridge|> Take inventory plundered from the breeze of a thermal hull.]]'''
'''[[Wham! Episode/Web Comics/Homestuck|> Appraise list of shocking developments.]]'''
'''[[Mood Whiplash/Homestuck|> Recall emotionally bipolar situations.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Memes|> Sleuth out extensive list of internet colloquialisms.]]'''
'''[[Homestuck/Timeline|> Attempt to make linear sense of mind-bending chronology.]]'''</poem>
 
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