Biting off more than I can chew

I always wanted to write meta about homestuck, but I never had the chance. I felt like I wasn’t ready for that kind of contribution to the fandom: my English wasn’t good enough, I didn’t know enough, I was too much of a dumbass to actually try and produce smart commentary.

The fact that homestuck is so huge in the US and on the Internet while being almost completely unknown everywhere else has always driven me nuts, especially because I feel like there’s a ton of mainstream stuff - stuff with an international reach - that has been unwittingly influenced by it.

I even entertained for a brief moment to make it the topic of my Bachelor’s degree dissertation - I didn’t just because I was getting my degree already late as it was. But the urge always stayed. It grew even stronger as I started going to writing/storytelling school.

So the idea was to make a website where I can talk about homestuck in italian, to people who aren’t exactly into webcomics but are into storytelling, as a project for my WordPress course.

Fuck me sideways with a shark.

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