![]() Often, these fandoms are personified as “friends” of Homestuck. Other fandoms, like Harry Potter, Supernatural, and Lord of the Rings are also drawn as trolls or other characters from Homestuck, but are easily identified by what they’re wearing or how they’re behaving. Homestuck, the fandom, is most typically personified as a Homestuck troll wearing the Homestuck logo on a t-shirt. It was only a matter of time before fans took the meme a step further, turning all fandoms into personified characters drawn in the style of Homestuck. The fandom for Hetastuck began to reach critical mass in January, when the meme went viral on Tumblr. Though they aren’t similar on the surface, both series have enormous casts of characters, intensely loyal fanbases, and complicated storylines-all of which coalesced to bring about a spate of competitiveness between the two fanbases, which eventually turned into an outpouring of love.įYeahHetastuck, created on Tumblr in July of 2012, teems with fanart, fanvids, and even cosplay from people declaring themselves fans of both series, and crossing over the two shows and their characters.ĭave from Homestuck and Prussia from Hetalia doing the brofist bump of fandom solidarity, art by uberchicken/Deviantart ![]() The first iteration of Hetastuck was created as a response to ongoing debates between the fandoms on Tumblr and DeviantArt about which fandom was the better one. The first crossovers between Hetalia and Homestuck began around June of 2011, with DeviantArt communities, Tumblrs, and popular fanvids. Because its canon (original source material) is already an Alternate Universe (AU) of reality, Hetalia is a ripe subject for crossovers and random personifications. Hetalia is an extremely popular manga and short-length anime series in which the countries of the world are personified as characters who interact as regular people. Homestuck has long been the subject of crossovers in other fandoms and mini-fandom memes one that has been slowly building for some time is “Hetastuck,” a crossover concept between Homestuck and Axis Powers Hetalia. The epic webcomic has topped a million fans, and has been compared to James Joyce’s Ulysses for its impenetrable yet wildly popular narrative.Ī subset of characters in Homestuck are known as “trolls.” They’re aliens from another planet, with distinctive features including grey skin, black lips, and orange horns. To understand the meme, you need to grasp the basics of Homestuck. It’s a trend called Fandomstuck, and it all started with a rivalry between Homestuck fans and fans of a manga and anime series called Axis Powers Hetalia. ![]() There’s hardly a major fandom left that hasn’t been personified as a Homestuck character by Tumblr artists. Homestuck, Andrew Hussie’s massive, confusing, and insanely popular webcomic, has gotten so big that it’s starting to swallow other fandoms.Īcross Tumblr dashboards and DeviantArt accounts everywhere, fans are turning everything from Sherlock to Supernatural to Sonic the Hedgehog into trolls- Homestuck’s most iconic characters-illustrated in Hussie’s signature Microsoft Paint style.
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