It's over!

[Jubal]

In case people didn't know, as of yesterday, Homestuck officially ended. Final thing sits in at over ten thousand pages, a lot of which are animations/music/etc too. Frankly the ending is a bit odd and there are some loose ends, but the only character I really still cared a lot about got a happy ending so yay for that.

[comrade_general]

Wut's that?

[Jubal]

What's which?

[comrade_general]

All of it.

[Jubal]

Homestuck is one of the longest webcomics ever (hence the over ten thousand pages thing), and also therefore one of the longest works of fiction ever written in English. It's a bit bizarre and kind of trippy. and involves a bunch of kids playing a computer game which ends the world (and that's the very, very minor piece of starting setup). I read most of it one time when I was too ill to do anything and was practically hallucinating anyway

Anyway, the story has ended. At least some of the loose ends in the absurdly complicated plot were tied up, though I'm not sure by any means that all of them were. I was mostly wanting to get to the end to check that my favourite character survived, namely "The Mayor". This guy is a low level NPC who looks basically like a chess pawn... [spoilers ahead for his plot arc]

Spoiler

He tries to start a massive revolution and replace the NPC monarchies with a democracy of the pawns on both sides, sees his revolutioniaries get single-handedly murdered by an all powerful NPC boss the rather dim kids created by accident, and then goes through a bunch of other adventures including literally having his stomach ripped out and generally going slightly mad, spending hundreds of years alone designing perfect civil societies out of empty cans, and being treated like a slightly cute pet by the main characters (despite the fact that the first main character would have been turned to mush at low level if the Mayor hadn't helped). Anyway, the good news is that after this career of incredible badassery, the Mayor and one of his allies manage to achieve his ultimate goal and throw the two royal rings into a volcano (definitely not cribbed from anywhere, that idea), thus allowing for the new post-game world to be started without a monarchy and for him to have a happy ending actually seeing his plans for a better world come to fruition.

This is also far better than the angsty hormonal plot arcs the main characters go through

[comrade_general]

Ok.

[Jubal]

I'll be honest, it's bloody hard to explain even between people who have read it let alone the uninitiated.