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tomatograter:

thewebcomicsreview:

Not that you should be looking to Andrew Hussie for advice on things, but he’s officially endorsing pirating his comic because the Homestuck website is utterly broken. The Unofficial Collection is now Officially Official

Sorry but i have to butt in with the wording choice here. The unofficial collection is not “pirating homestuck” - Homestuck is a webcomic. Homestuck is free to read. Homestuck is free.

The only thing Viz has hold of are publishing and marketing rights, and we all know they’ve been leeching on the property while doing nothing to aid the upkeep of the site they legally promised to manage. It’s a corporation interested only in whatever is the most profitable at the time — that being recent manga releases, not archiving webcomics from the 2010’s they purchased to turn into print books. It fucking sucks. And I’ve already said this before: it would be all the more beneficial to Viz if people had to buy the books to read Homestuck.

The flashes were never converted into anything but shitty blurred YouTube videos, I don’t even know if most of the games are still playable, and *I* was one of the people to point out the search function was randomly breaking the site, which led to the screencapped post. (You got an error trying to reach pages from google, and also from trying to search pages with the in-site engine. I still don’t fucking know what’s up with that.)

The unofficial HS collection is a community effort to emulate and preserve the way Homestuck was meant to be read before it got mishandled by a disinterested corpo board. Hussie isn’t a Viz manager and this isn’t the first time they’ve acknowledged the company’s fuck-ups - just recently a bunch of minor gifs and icons used in the comic were broken and they had those fixed. It’s kinda silly to act like we’re not watching an author with little control over their work wrestle with people who don’t care to keep it online in real time.

Anyway, go torrent the homestuck collection. It has a reward-unlocking system for new readers (it keeps extra content like paradox space out of sight until you reach the point where they were released in the story) all the music albums, track covers, and occasional composer commentary too. You can adjust the comic’s font, line spacing, site theme & play all the flashes in-app. There’s a bookmark function. It’s pretty good.

 Via homestuckartifacts
  #not a snap update im sorry i dont think those will ever be back but i thought this was a good post to share here
  22,477 notes   4 years ago
Anonymous asked:
Do you still check? Since The Epilogues and Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon have come out? Do you expect more Earth C snaps to come out?

I haven’t seen any snaps in a long, long time. *tumbleweed rolls by*

  #ask
  118 notes   6 years ago
Anonymous asked:
*lays a bushel of flowers on this blog* Highest of respects, you shall never be forgotten..

Every day I come to this place and every day I leave empty handed. I return home at night and wonder when the Snaps will start again. I’m starting to forget what they looked like, what it felt like to see them. One day I hope they will return but today all I can do is wait.

  #ask
  511 notes   8 years ago
Anonymous asked:
courtney how fucking pumped were you to finally have a snap to post

I woke up last night and had the strangest urge to check Snapchat. I don’t know why I did it or why I didn’t immediately go back to sleep but I saw the MSPA Snap and “5 minutes ago” and I lost my shit.

  #ask
  368 notes   9 years ago
Anonymous asked:
I got notified that you posted a picture and I got hopeful.

I am so sorry. I had no idea how many people had notifications on for this blog. If it’s any consolation I still check for new snaps every single day and it’s still bone dry.

  #ask
  231 notes   9 years ago
Anonymous asked:
TFW you make a tumblr dedicated to following a webcomic through Snapchat but it stops updating before Christmas

I mean… I made this blog on day one of the Homestuck Snapchat being a thing. So I definitely got a good few months of regular updates and the entire “end credits” Snaps logged as they were posted… and this blog is here for when/if we get an update again. I see nothing wrong with it.

  #ask
  239 notes   9 years ago