Fans
Fidonia on Chapter 1 Tue 11 Sep 2012 12:32AM EDT Why am I reading this. I KNOW it's going to end in death and sadness and misery and yet I can't resist the urge to read it when I see that it's updated. Why.
HellboundShadow on Chapter 1 Tue 28 Feb 2017 11:32AM EST Oooooo!!
wow on Chapter 3 Sun 30 Sep 2012 12:09PM EDT BEST CHAPTER GAHHHHHH PERfect
Viccy on Chapter 5 Fri 14 Sep 2012 12:30AM EDT Oh my COD ! STRIDER , that was extremely rude an' Kar doesnt even know you that whale to figure its an ironic (possibly?) rant in deadtone mockery!!! No strider no
ME on Chapter 9 Thu 22 Nov 2012 11:28PM EST U FINITH THOON ? PWEEEEZ
Mistyminded223 on Chapter 11 Fri 24 May 2013 09:52AM EDT Oh gog... Gamzee's sober again. EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR MOTHERFUCKING LIFE! On another note... Joooooooooohn! Just admit it already! You know you want some of that vantASS! ;3 And wow. This story is just... Agdgfk;jfxh&tdtgrcgghb(hgjnbh :3 the fangirl giggles could be heard all the way in Timbuktu ;3 Ahh! <3<3<3<3<3<3 This is so wonderful it makes my feels feel like... It makes them feel so amazing I can't even describe the feels my feels are feeling! But I am a bit weary about that major character death tag... I'm secretly hoping that there's some weird plot twist and Dave commits suicide or some shit like that so that I will only feel a mild sadness and my feels won't explode... AGAIN. :| Sometimes I think I secretly like to torture myself by reading depressing shit. Because I just KEEP COMING BACK. @_@ So, yeah. Imma shut up now. I'm starting to rant...
ghfhfhgfggh on Chapter 13 Tue 12 Feb 2013 07:41PM EST kiss the boy you fuckin douchebag idiot
Tavbaby (mai_hyuga) on Chapter 15 Mon 04 Feb 2013 12:48AM EST as i read the part about the skype call i was like 'oh what about kanaya?' then i remembered kanaya is dead. thanks. thanks a lot.
Arualiaa on Chapter 18 Mon 18 Mar 2013 02:53PM EDT I just keep thinking about how lukemia sufferers don't feel any symptoms until they are almost at the point of no return, and, and, and! Holy shit, if he's feeling THAT bad, it means that... that... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY POOR FEELS, YOU BASTARD.
mistyMinded on Chapter 23 Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:38PM EDT "*fangirl squeal* :D Ohmaigog I love this SO FUCKING MUCH! <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 I have absolutely no idea why I just typed so many hearts. :3 lol <3 I wish I could bookmark this but I don't have an account here :C oh well. I'll just have to check everyday like I do with the apparent armada, that I am reluctantly building, of awesome unfinished JohnKat fanfics. on another note, you are fucking amazing :3 <3<3<3<3<3(lol more hearts)<3<3<3<3<3 C:"
sassynepeta on Chapter 24 Thu 27 Jun 2013 01:59AM EDT This is AMAZING. Like, a literal gem. It is REALLY rare for me to find a fiction that makes me smile and laugh and get teary - I don't usually get so emotional over literature, especially over literature written by people on the internet. I think the only fic I've read that comes CLOSE to this one is "Twist & Shout". I love how all the characters are written. Absolutely lovely. Jade and Dave are usually completely out of character, and I'm in love with how you depicted Jade's and Karkat's relationship. I don't ship JohnKat, but this fic has captivated me regardless. I give you my applause.
DaeSiggil on Chapter 25 Tue 02 Jul 2013 05:52AM EDT "*just stares; lies down on the ground, tries not to cry, cries a lot*"
CodePurple on Chapter 25 Tue 02 Jul 2013 12:10PM EDT do'TN DO THAT
Katie on Chapter 28 Sun 11 Aug 2013 09:26AM EDT This is one of the best fics I have ever read. I pulled an all nighter to read it and I thought you should know, I cried more reading this than I did reading The Fault in Our Stars for the first time. Thank you.
Fuck you on Chapter 28 Sat 19 Nov 2016 07:25AM EST Just want to let you know that you are a really good writer and stuff. Okay now that that's out of the way- FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU GOD FUCKING DAMN IT Why couldn't you have written a happy story? Where Karkat almost died, but didn't? What was even the point of this story? Do you just like making people cry? Good fucking job
As hilarious as I think it'd be to leave this page with zero context and force the reader to figure out what it means, I think it's best to provide a little context. I wanted to provide a commentary on fans and how they interact with the specific things they are fans of by showing fan's comments on a fairly notorious fanfiction within the Homestuck fandom. I feel that the comments themselves tell their own story, one complementary to the one that they're reviewing. I chose some because I thought they were funny, but others because they were poignant in one way or another. All of said comments were found here.
...okay, further context. It's definitely one of my most embarrassing admissions, but I actually wrote this story. I was very active in fandom during the tail end of my middle school/all of high school days, and this was by far the most popular thing I ever wrote. It received over 40,000 hits, which would equate to the entire UCLA undergraduate population AND THEN SOME visiting that page. Wow.
I feel that fanfiction is a brilliant use of electronic literature. Although it did not start as electronic (the first fanfictions were actually published in fan-made magazines in the 70s, fun fact), the creation and spread of the internet has allowed fanfiction to spread like wildfire. It is a brilliant medium for fans to interact not just with each other, but for the creative works they may engage in! And looking at this story - rereading the comments, and even seeing what comes up when I Google the time - blows my mind. So many people have read this, and this story impacted so many people so strongly.
I think that's something unique to electronic literature; it allows anyone the ability to create a work that can reach countless people, regardless of distance.
(Also, I'm still not entirely sure what Twist and Shout is, but I got a lot of comparisons to it. I think it's a Supernatural fanfiction that got incredibly famous where one of the main characters slowly loses his memory due to a brain tumor? I don't know anything about Supernatural.)
