Homestuck -- It's Hard Growing Up and Nobody Understands

After referencing the webcomic, Homestuck, fairly often, I decided I would do what I could to explain the strange, interesting, funny, and emotional narrative. Homestuck is a story about a young boy named John Egbert and his friends who try to play the beta of a new game known as "SBURB." However, due to the timing of their playing of the game, the arrival of immense meteors give them the idea that playing the game had caused the end of the world with the appearance of meteors bound for impact. However, through the games mechanics, playing the game transports the kids to this dimension known as The Medium. While there, the kids play the game and began to realize how their decisions in the future ultimately cause problems in the past, leading them to eventually make the action in the first place. This is notably so when a species of aliens comes into the contact with the kids, enraged with them due to their meddling (that they do not end up doing until long after their first contact) with their session of the game, which caused the aliens to lose the game right at the end. Through various mishaps, the kids (and one of the aliens) end up creating an unbeatable boss that travels into the alien session and ruins their game. This form of causality occurs often throughout the webcomic, making the readers go "a-ha" either when reading through it or by re-reading it and finding all of the actions that caused something to happen in another point in time. The characters are fairly unique, all communicating to each other through texts (each character having a specific typing quirk). Through the creation of this unbeatable boss, the kids and the aliens both decide to embark on the reset of the game, which destroys their universes to create a new game session that is beatable, and try to preserve themselves during that time. However, doing so ends up playing into the hands of the underlying villain and allows for their eventual creation to occur.

Despite all the strange shenanigans and the confusing narratives in Homestuck, the webcomic has been compared to James Joyce's Ulysses which is also known for its confusing narrative and intense vocabulary. Overall, Homestuck describes the idea of teenagers coming to terms with responsibility (creating and being the stewards of an entire universe) and how they overcome their shortcomings over time.