I love homestuck so much but I can never find valid critique of it. It's mostly people complaining about the ending or hussie himself. Do you know if anyone out there offers true and real critique of homestuck? I mean maybe I'm alone in that I like to have critique of things I love? I like to see the whole picture, the good and the bad. I have thoughts but they're scattered and I'm scared to share opinions online and I really want to know what other people have to say

I honestly don’t know of anyone who gives a sorta critique of the comic like that because, yeah, most negativity comes off in a biased, salty way. Regardless of the impression I may give with my nigh-obsessive love of this comic though, Homestuck is faaaar from perfect! I definitely understand why people dislike it or can’t go through it- But I still overall think it’s like, the greatest thing I’ve read in my life.

And a lot of critiques of stuff you could have about it are extremely contextual! Like… If you read the comic as it was coming out, a lot of your complaints may actually fade if you read it all without needing to wait. The beginning meanders and goes on nowhere for a while? It was intended, having the audience choose John’s Actions and then suddenly have a mysterious voice in John’s Head be the one giving the commands for a while! And if you don’t like the more Meta-Aspects of Homestuck, that is also a valid complain, but they’re intended to be part of the experience, so it’s also a matter of taste.

Also having a full picture of the comic really lessens a lot of the flaws. Like, a lot of people complain about repeated usage of the r slur, but also in context this was a 2009 Webcomic, and the author has visibly dropped it as the comic evolves and he becomes more progressive, but a few bad-taste-y early choices for jokes may fall flat for sure, specially if you don’t know how Hussie changes as the story goes on.

Other complaints some people use to push against Hussie are an outright misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the story’s context, like the CAUCASIAN joke. (Like seriously, the metaphor for Game-Breaking Agency without regard of consequences being becoming creepy white children? OOF. They are all HORRIFIED to be turned Trickster.)

And others such as the Length of the comic, put off other people from reading it and that is fair! But if you like the content you barely even consider the length, you just keep going on because you want to see what happens next!

It’s hard to really come up objective flaws in Homestuck that don’t amount to taste or make sense in the context of the story/development process of the comic. Maybe some parts could be less exposition-heavy? Maybe there could’ve been more character interactions towards the ending? Maybe some things could’ve been made clearer? Maybe the Epilogue is taking a long time to come out? That’s another thing, with the Epilogue in the future, we technically don’t even have the FULL full picture of Homestuck as a whole, and maybe that will tie up a lot of loose ends.

Still though, from the perspective of someone who doesn’t like criticizing stuff too harshly, and has read the entirety of the comic a few times by now, there’s no complaint I really have that isn’t… Vastly, grossly overshadowed by the good things this story has done for me.