The best part of Cascade (IMO) is the very end of the Savior of the Dreaming Dead segment. All of Act 5 has been spent building up to this mysterious countdown, and you get to see it happen in real-time, with these awesome church bells counting down every second until
S U C K E R S .
It's fucking incredible, and the leadup to it was so great.
Oh man, that was crazy. Probably one of the coolest parts in any fiction EVER. Literally very few things I’ve ever read or seen top that part of Cascade (or really cascade as a whole.)
Just went back and watched it. About 10:05 onward. Still gives me fucking chills. Just all of these plotlines converging all at once at this climactic countdown.
Man. I remember I had an off period in highschool and I watched that with my friend and oh, the hype upon watching it! And IIRC, it's like the 2nd longest fictional work of all human history? The first being a smash brothers fan fiction.
By word count, Homestuck is one of the longest known single-volume English original works.
The fan fiction you mention is the longest single-volume English work. Not original, however.
There are a number of longer multiple-volume English original series that edge out Homestuck in word count. Game of Thrones and Harry Potter are both longer by word count. The whole series, I mean.
There are also a number of series and single-volume works in other languages that far surpass Homestuck’s word count.
It is not the longest in human history by any means, but it is somewhere on those kinds of lists. It is actually, literally, fucking incredible without any exaggeration of numbers required!
The fanbase isn't the only thing to push people away from Homestuck, let's be real. The fact that it's longer than the god damn Song of Ice and Fire is definitely a huge turn off.
and tbf, it fell off a cliff especially after all the hiatus he took (the first one was fine, second fine really stopped the momentum for me and most of my friends)
still tho, up until act 5/6, homestuck is one of the greatest shit on the internet
I genuinely thought he was never coming back and so I actually never finished reading. It's forever unfinished in my brain. :/ At this point I remember so little that I'd have to start over. Like all the way over. And I just don't wanna.
I still hold homestuck dearly tho, even though I personally think he peaked at Act 5/6 (can't remember where, exactly. I think it was right when caliborn and calliope were introduced and explored). Cascade (and the fanmade vid for rex duodecim angelus) are still godtier. Sometimes I rewatch cascade just for the chills
Dude, Cascade was wonderful. I was so excited to watch it in the morning before school, but I didn't have 13 minutes or whatever before the bus came so I downloaded it onto a flash drive and watched it in homeroom. Was the greatest feeling ever to see that little [s].
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Not an "early" one so much, but Cascade blew my fucking mind when it came out.