Seeking Answers from the Homestuck Community

I’m writing about the Homestuck fandom, its growth, and the Homestuck Kickstarter’s success, as examined through the lens of Malcolm Gladwell’s book,The Tipping Point.

The trouble is, as the fandom is spread far and wide across the internet, it’s hard for me to get much information about when and why people joined the Homestuck ranks.

It would be a tremendous help to me (and my grade!) if you could take a moment to reply to one or more of the questions below, either by reblogging with a comment so other homestucks can see, or dropping a note in my ask box.

  • About how long have you been reading Homestuck/been part of the Homestuck fandom?
  • What caused you to start reading Homestuck?
  • What was your initial reaction to Homestuck? Has that reaction changed over time?

Thank you in advance to anyone kind enough to reply!

“If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it's a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said 'you're an idiot'.”

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— Malcolm Gladwell

on entrepreneurial risk on May 28, 2012 at the Toronto Public Library.

“Maybe the modern version of introspection is the sum total of all those highly individualized choices that we make about the material content of our lives.”

—Malcolm Gladwell and other cultural mavens on how we shape ourselves through brands.

“We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. ”

—Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell

“Since my brain really only works in the morning, I try to keep that time free for writing and thinking and don't read any media at all until lunchtime, when I treat myself to The New York Times--the paper edition. At this point, I realize, I am almost a full 24 hours behind the news cycle. Is this is a problem? I have no idea. My brother, who is a teacher, always says that we place too much emphasis on the speed of knowledge acquistion, and not the quality of knowledge acquistion: I guess that means that the fact that I am still on Monday, when everyone else is on Tuesday, is okay.”

—Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t really give a shit about the news cycle. Read the rest of his Media Diet at The Atlantic Wire.
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—Malcolm Gladwell
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