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• 1 2017-11-13T09:47:07-08:00 Let Me Tell You About Homestuck 22 Iris Wilcox plain 544419 2017-11-19T20:17:41-08:00 Homestuck, a webcomic by Andrew Hussie, hosted on Hussie's site MS Paint Adventures, is a literary epic for the modern age. Homestuck follows several groups of internet friends, both human and an alien species called trolls, as they grow up, become responsible for the end of the universe, and rebel against the very game that gave them this responsibility.
  
  Framed as a text based adventure, Homestuck uses hyperlinks to act as the input commands to move between pages. The characters are "playable," with the reader giving inputs such as "Be John" and the narrative switching to John's perspective. Some pages are also interactive, ranging from battle sequences to 8-bit adventures full of dialogue and character development. The characters of Homestuck are the "heroes" of their adventure, both as the protagonists of our webcomic and of the game they themselves are playing, a very real computer game, called SBURB or SGRUB, that lets them "level up" and manipulate their surroundings. There is one problem, this game is broken. Our heroes cannot win, so they decide to do something else. They rise up the levels, gain as much power as possible and reach the God Tier, then attack the game itself, specifically, a glitch in its data: a destructive loose cannon named Jack Noir that is connected to the game's own power source. As they challenge Jack and seek to protect their friends, their past and current actions come into question. The game forces a new set of labels beyond merely giving all the title of "hero," and the game links these new classifications directly to their godhood and immortality.
  
  This "God Tier" grants immortality through death, but this type of immortality is not absolute, and the abstract wonder "am I a hero or a villain?" becomes an ever present threat. Immortal, unbeatable players would make a game unfair, while conversely, losing as an immortal and being forced to live for eternity in the desolate wasteland of an empty universe would be torturous, so God Tiers are given an out: they can still die, but only if their death is heroic or just. The first player of each group to ascend to God Tier, John Egbert​ for the humans and Vriska Serket for the trolls, show these circumstances first hand, and their actions toward both Jack and their allies demonstrate the harsh categories into which the game classifies everything: the good, the evil, and the inconsequential, while also giving us the bigger picture to remember the grey areas between everything.
• 1 2017-11-13T20:31:35-08:00 Author Bios 10 Just Some Random Fuckin' NERDS plain 2017-11-14T23:02:41-08:00 Harrison Bloom
  Is a guy who's probably pushed out of bed by the combined power of ADHD and pure concentrated optimism. In his natural habitat he's often caught in the middle of a philosophical rambling about pop cultural or some boring history topic. He's happy to talk about Phoenix Wright in this project, but now has to resist the urge to play every other Ace Attorney game before it's done.
  
  Britta Harbury
  Britta Harbury, AKA Water Filter Meat Sandwich, is a burgeoning alcoholic and proud rabbit mother. In her free time, she stares at her bunny, knits hats and cooks for her many adopted humans, and ponders how we will all die someday. She's very happy to provide a shock blanket and cupcakes to people overwhelmed by the hopelessness in the universe while wrapped in a Deadpool onesie.
  
  Iris Wilcox
  Is middle school Homestuck trash at heart and ridiculously pleased to have a genuine academic excuse to use the phrase "Let me tell you about Homestuck." She only regrets leaving her two hand-sewn God Tier cosplays in Rochester, New York.