MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown is definitely one of my favorite flashes.
But okay, I'm going to talk here. For the past few months, I've been so frustrated with Homestuck (yes, I'm one of those). There felt like there has been anything really satisfying in almost years. And with the retcon, it just kept getting worse. I mean sure. Updates were funny, some were actually really great (Kanaya with the matriorb and the Striders reunion come to mind), but it still wasn't enough to get me optimistic about the comic again. I always thought that particularly, Terezi's issue being solved by having them be erased without her newer version having lived through them an awful idea. I was thinking that the only way for it to work was for Terezi to somehow remember her past lives.
AND THEN GOD DAMN IT, WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT, IT HAPPENED. I was literally shaking while watching/reading that last update. It was just like...a huge weight that'd been there for a year had been lifted off my chest. Now of course this update didn't magically fix everything in the comic, but it's really hard to understate just how much this update means to me. For me, it showed that it's possible for the comic to be satisfying again. I don't have to dread every update worrying about what else could go wrong. Now don't get me wrong; it was never to the point where I was going to stop reading or anything. I love this story too goddamn much. But now I've been reinvigorated. For the first time in a long time, I'm optimistic about what's coming in the future rather than just wishing I could be over already.
Just...the scrouge reuinion. Something we've been waiting to see since 2011. I can't say enough about it.
Also, funny thing. I've been talking to ikimaru a lot for the past week or so. If you don't know her, she's been a very popular Homestuck fan artist who also contributed to the canon comic in Vriskagram flash and [S ] Terezi: Remem8er. And I'm so angry, albeit in a funny way. We've been doing nothing but basically venting our qualms with the comic, about the plot, lack of catharsis with characters/relationships, etc. And all the while, she was sitting on this fucking bomb of an update.
I know that this has been a thing that has been said a lot since even 2010, but I really think we're getting to the end here. Like for real. It's hard to believe that after this pause is over, we'll actually be at the end of the comic. As sad as it sounds, it's literally changed my life, and I'll be sad to see it go.
Edit: I almost can't believe I made this thread almost 4 years ago...that was literally just as I started reading. Crazy how time flies. but at the same time it feels like a lifetime ago.