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No, not at all.
It’s a sci-fi fantasy “heroes journey” story with 2010 era internet humor.
This is phrased just fine and is very understandable to us <3
Act six
- was subject to a series of lengthy delays
- ballooned into much, much longer than the author originally intended
- suffered from the author’s backlash to their own hype and fame
- suffered from the author’s growing disdain for their fandom and for the narrative of homestuck itself
Act six
- relies heavily on meta-text rather than internal action
- doubles down on using the characters as mouthpieces for the author’s opinions
- introduces characters the fandom had been excited for only to turn them into shallow parodies of the fandom itself
- drops the narrative arcs for beloved characters from the first half of the comic
- solves the central narrative with a series of meta-textual deus ex machinas
- admonishes the audience for wanting anything else from the story
The Squiddles are a cutesy, in-universe reference to the Horrorterrors, which are basically lovecraftian entities. (They’re not badguys and they don’t figure heavily into the plot)
The dude that falls down the stairs is from an in-universe webcomic (created by Dave Strider) that’s used by Homestuck’s author as meta-commentary on the plot. “Warned you about those stairs” is basically a metaphor for the incapability of doom or fate in the series.
Buckets are used by the alien species of Trolls in their method of reproduction. How is never specifically called out in the comic but it’s an obvious reference to the old internet phrase “to come buckets”, and indicates that trolls produce a more than generous amount of genetic material when completing sex.
Oh no, this is a trap we will be here all week. 😉
You may ask us specific questions.