#even while playing my Goop Sorcerer at dnd tonight (among my fave activities) i was excited to come home and read homestuck

[homestuckreplay]

pages 31-39

I'm gonna be honest, I'm not a fan of this turntechGodhead kid. In yesterday's pages he said he didn't want to talk about either the movie John likes or the game John wants to play, today he tells John he sucks at using his inventory and then doesn't tell John in advance that his strife specibus allocation is permanent. Which all combined makes him seem like kind of an asshole. It could just be part of their friendship dynamic, but because we haven't seen any other kind of interaction between them yet, I'm not seeing anything to like about TG.

That out the way, I'm really enjoying everything that's happening both with John and in the medium of the comic. John continues to be an easy character to connect with when he 1. looks at all the cool shit in his own room, 2. has trouble with the basics of picking things up and putting them down, and 3. feels an emotion and immediately changes his instant messenger status to tell the world. The scrunchy frustrated face he makes on page 36 is my favorite face of his, it's shown up a few times now and it is Homestuck's equivalent of a laugh track.

Being able to mouse over the games in John's CD tower on page 31 is so cool, it really adds an adventure game feel to the comic. I know that a good chunk of these games are references to the author's previous works, but there's also the Ghostbusters II MMORPG, the Little Monsters Nintendo game, and Harry Anderson Call My Bluff! all of which seem chosen to tell us that John's taste in games is about as good as his taste in movies (yet another trait that makes me relate to him). Really hoping we get more of these semi-interactive elements in the updates to come!

The concept of a strife specibus kind of comes out of nowhere here - I get that it's like equipping your video game weapon, but why would John get into combat in his day to day life when his current obstacle is learning how to open a book? I'm curious about what context it'll get used in, and I love the detail on the 'kind abstrata' card on page 37, listing all the different possible specibi. These pages are coming out pretty fast, but the amount of content on each page is also really high, which is impressive.

anyway tag yourself, I'm 'peprmillkind'.

#homestuck #reaction #i am genuinely loving close reading act 1 #its good! its a very cool beginning! i have even more i wanna say!! #even while playing my Goop Sorcerer at dnd tonight (among my fave activities) i was excited to come home and read homestuck #i wanna see more peoples act 1 reactions tag me in em