#15 - Homestucks

Fire up your Pesterchum (or Trollian) folks, this week we're talking about Homestuck fandom! Who are Homestucks? What's the appeal? And why are they (literally) trolls? There's no gigapause this week as we start our SBURB session! Everyone's a fan! Want to see more awesome fandom content? [Become a Patron on Patreon!](http://patreon.com/thenickscast) Find more like this: [fanthropological.com](http://fanthropological.com) Find us on social media Twitter: [@thenickscast](http://twitter.com/thenickscast) Instagram: [@thenickscast](http://instagram.com/thenickscast) Facebook: [fb.com/thenickscast](http://fb.com/thenickscast) Youtube: [youtube.com/thenickscast](http://youtube.com/thenickscast) Email us about fandoms you want to hear about: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Play-by-play 00:07 - Theme Song 00:26 - Introduction 01:30 - Who are Homestucks? 02:09 - Special Guest Introduction: Soph! 03:02 - Trivia 08:14 - Why are people Homestucks? 30:45 - Homestuck and other fandoms 56:43 - Fans of the week 1:03:27 - Spotlight: [Otaking77077](https://www.patreon.com/otaking77077) (via [Kotaku](http://kotaku.com/one-guy-is-making-his-own-street-fighter-movie-1791140485)) 1:04:52 - Where can I learn more about Fanthropological / The Nickscast 1:06:45 - Where can I find more of Soph's work? [Tumblr](http://sofa-cushion.tumblr.com/) and [DeviantArt](http://sofa-cushion.deviantart.com/) 1:08:07 - Outtakes Citations ["A Noob's Guide to Homestuck"](http://observer.com/2012/09/a-noobs-guide-to-homestuck-the-favorite-webcomic-of-internetty-teens-everywhere/) ["Metatext of Doom"](http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2012/07/metatext-of-doom/) ["When fandoms collide: The present and future of anime cons"](http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/anime-boston-conventions-multi-fandom-homestuck/) ["The Bright side of Homestuck fandom"](http://homestuckfansgood.tumblr.com/post/27273200575/guys-i-just-realized-why-the-homestuck-fandom-is) ["What is Homestuck and why is it considered annoying"](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1pr3ym/what_is_homestuck_and_why_is_the_fandom/) ["How did Homestuck get a bad rap"](https://theninjagang.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/how-did-homestuck-get-a-bad-rep/) ["Homestuck Horror Stories"](http://homestuckstories.tumblr.com/) ["Fate of the MSPA Forums"](http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/thread/27/fate-mspa-forums) ["Inside the strange, brave new world of Homestuck"](http://www.dailydot.com/society/inside-webcomic-homestuck-guide-interviews/) ["What the Fuck is Homestuck!?"](https://what-the-fuck-is-homestuck.tumblr.com/) ["Homestuck fan prepare for webcomic release"](http://thetartan.org/2011/10/17/pillbox/comics) ["Stuck on Homestuck: How Andrew Hussie Turned a Tumblr Craze Into a Teenage Empire"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121005192003/http://betabeat.com/2012/10/tumblr-andrew-hussie-homestuck-kickstarter-game-adventure-text-teens-young-adult) ["Homestuck is the First Great Work of Internet Fiction"](http://www.tor.com/2012/09/18/homestuck-is-the-first-great-work-of-internet-fiction/) ["Wikipedia - Homestuck"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestuck) ["Fanlore - Homestuck"](http://fanlore.org/wiki/Homestuck) ["Mayor of Meme Town"](http://captchalogue.livejournal.com/) ["Homesmut"](http://homesmut.dreamwidth.org/) ["Home | Omegaupdate"](http://omegaupdate.freeforums.net/) ["Listen to This: 20 of the Best 'Homestuck' Songs in Honor of its Ending"](http://move.themaneater.com/stories/2016/6/12/listen-20-best-homestuck-songs-honor-its-ending/#.WHhMDt9idOA) ["'Hiveswap' and the Tenacity of Fandom"](http://www.popmatters.com/post/hiveswap-and-the-tenacity-of-fandom2/) ["Homestuck Fans Want You to Know that It's still Weird"](http://fusion.net/story/172690/homestuck-fans-want-you-to-know-that-its-still-the-weirdest-comic-on-the-internet/) ["Thanks for Playing: The Weird Legacy of 'Homestuck'"](http://www.martlet.ca/thanks-for-playing-the-weird-legacy-of-homestuck/) ["Goodbye to Homestuck, the Most Elaborate Webcomic You've Never Heard Of"](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/goodbye-to-homestuck-the-most-elaborate-webcomic-youve-never-heard-of) ["What is Homestuck? Who is Homestuck? Why is Homestuck? And WTF is Homestuck"](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dante-basco/what-is-homestuck-who-is-_b_6159280.html) Credits Music: All this week's music is provided by our very own G! [Regea Syren sound effect](https://www.freesound.org/people/AndreOnate/sounds/135117/) by AndreOnate used under [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Logo: ["Glasses"](https://thenounproject.com/term/glasses/132894) by [Anton Anuchin](https://thenounproject.com/antonwebium) used under [CC BY 3.0 US](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/) Homestuck's Sburb logo recreated by T