So My Family Was Going On A Long Car Trip, Just Over A Year Ago. The Trip Was Long Enough That We Had

So my family was going on a long car trip, just over a year ago. The trip was long enough that we had to bring entertainment, so I was watching Twilight.

digression: I feel like people really overrate how bad it is. Like yeah, it’s not especially good, but it’s not that bad either. digression ends.

I was watching Bella’s first day at school, excited to see Edward - I had read the book, and she loves him so she hyped him up a lot. My certainty that Edward would be beautiful was only strengthened by the fact that Bella was gorgeous.

So I was immensely let down when Bella saw Edward from across the cafeteria and. well. He was okay, I guessed, but I didn’t see what all the fuss was about.

Piece by piece, my mind came to the realization that, hey - if they were both supposed to be super beautiful by conventional standards, but I wasn’t feeling Edward’s attraction at all - and if my two video game crushes had both been effeminate/not super gendered at all - maybe I just wasn’t attracted to men.

hey tumblr, wanna hear how i discovered i wasn’t straight?

this claw toy is alright

i’m not sure how helpful my experience will be, since i was barely sapient during the initial buzz, but

i started reading homestuck for some reason i don’t remember - i think one of my parents made an in-joke? i asked them where it was from, they said “this webcomic, be careful, it’s really long” and left me to it.

(i don’t think my parents were ever super into homestuck, they just happened to know some of the lines. yes, i’m autistic, and they knew it.)

so i started reading it. it was only midway through that i found out that there had been significant fandom around homestuck, and because i’m a socially awkward nerd (and my parents won’t let me travel to california (: ) i don’t interact with the fandom a whole lot.

i guess my advice to someone starting to read homestuck would be: avoid other people’s opinions until you’ve formed your own (but still be sure to look at and consider those opinions), don’t take questions (especially of the “oh, have you seen [spoiler]?” kind) until you’re done, and remember that you don’t have to engage with any part of the fandom you don’t like.

seriously, don’t let anyone ruin this for you.

so homestuck is a big deal for a lot of people but if really feels like it was a "you just had to be there" sort of thing. (I was not there and barely know about it beyond what you get by just existing on tumblr) I'm curious if any of you know people that have dived in and "read" it all in recent years. How did they do it? How was their experience? Is this something that is even possible? How so?

just saw an ad that said “Amazon is trying to win the shipping wars” and my brain deadass went “oh cool who are they shipping?”

do i read too much fanfiction, tumblr?

this didn’t really happen, but it easily could have:

random classmate: yo what you on?

me, away in the world of @undertalethingems ‘s wonderful comic: wha?

teacher, talking about predicate logic, ignores us completely

random classmate: what kind of drug

me: MEMETICS

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Unexpected Guests: Begin!

Next It’s been a while since I’ve drawn any comics, but I dusted off everything I’ve learned to turn a short fic I was working on into this!

ask me for advice one day and it’ll be “belief in the possibility of failure can make or break anything and everything” and then the next day it’ll be “do not be a dead goose in a bush next to a lake”