If you don't know Homestuck I... really, in good conscience, cannot recommend getting into it. It is too big, too weird, and at the moment too frustrating by virtue of being unfinished. We get the last update of Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 4 tomorrow, after which who knows when the next part will be done.
(Yes, you read that act title correctly.)
But! If you are interested in an incredibly meta-textual story that starts by lovingly imitating/mocking the format of old text-parsing computer games, and which grows from goofy kids teasing each other over the internet to a massive and epic saga of love, death, human-alien culture clashes, incredibly convoluted time travel, and the creation and destruction of entire universes (while never losing that initial layer of kids being ridiculous on the internet), then Homestuck may be for you. You can find it here on the MS Paint Adventures website. It's technically a webcomic, though by this point it also includes more text than War and Peace, lots of little videos set to fan-created music, playable mini-games, and other medium-breaking elements.
Also, aside from one gang of bit-part super-minor villains, there is almost exact parity in numbers between male and female characters, and the girls get their own plot and character arcs that are just as important as those of the boys. (This is why Ladystuck can exist -- there are enough female characters for it to work!) I enjoy that very much in a story. :-)
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Date: 2015-01-19 02:30 am (UTC)(Yes, you read that act title correctly.)
But! If you are interested in an incredibly meta-textual story that starts by lovingly imitating/mocking the format of old text-parsing computer games, and which grows from goofy kids teasing each other over the internet to a massive and epic saga of love, death, human-alien culture clashes, incredibly convoluted time travel, and the creation and destruction of entire universes (while never losing that initial layer of kids being ridiculous on the internet), then Homestuck may be for you. You can find it here on the MS Paint Adventures website. It's technically a webcomic, though by this point it also includes more text than War and Peace, lots of little videos set to fan-created music, playable mini-games, and other medium-breaking elements.
Also, aside from one gang of bit-part super-minor villains, there is almost exact parity in numbers between male and female characters, and the girls get their own plot and character arcs that are just as important as those of the boys. (This is why Ladystuck can exist -- there are enough female characters for it to work!) I enjoy that very much in a story. :-)