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He didn’t complete a draft until just a day before the first Black Lives Matter protests prompted by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hussie decided that the “comatose feeling” America was giving him would make a good foil for a much more “outlandish, escapist sort of revolutionary scenario that examined what such a revolt might look like in this era.” “I remember having an unsettled feeling in the early days of the pandemic,” Hussie told Polygon over email, “seeing that probably hundreds of thousands of people were about to die due to a willful mishandling of the crisis, and the population appeared very listless, as if it was about to sit back and let that happen without putting up much of a fight.” The story feels like a retelling of the hell-year that was 2020, but Hussie started drafting the story back when everyone was just starting to be stuck inside for the first time. Throughout the course of Psycholonials, there are burning police stations, a revolution against the state, and a global pandemic - all mediated through the eyes of a young woman who’s trying to survive the fucked up world around her and while calling attention to its problems. “Understanding that Psycholonials is chiefly an anti-cult narrative should help point to how I view the Homestuck phenomenon.” Eventually, she goes on to write a widely read manifesto taking the reins of a militant revolutionary group that wears goth clown makeup. This event kickstarts her own story and accelerates the development of her own personal politics. As it goes in the story, she was drunk driving, and after the cop gets physical with her, she grabs the gun from his holster and shoots. In the first chapter of Psycholonials, Zhen, the novel’s main character, shoots and kills a cop. Hussie’s Psycholonials, a “visual novel” released in the spring of 2021, follows Zhen and Abby - two girls who must figure out what to do with a mess of a revolution and empire that they themselves prompted. In 2012, around 24,000 backers pledged roughly $2 million to help bring Hiveswap, a video game version of the Homestuck, to life.īut Hussie was ready for something new, and in his words, “anti-cult.”
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At its peak, the comic entertained roughly 600,000 readers a day, and inspired one of the most robust cult followings of a generation - fans filled convention floors with cosplays of the characters and filled online forums and websites like Tumblr full of fan art. The interactive story of Homestuck strung out to epic proportions - it is over 8,000 pages long and ran from 2009 until 2016. Hussie built a career by spinning dramatic and bumbling tales of the onslaughts of online life. His comic, Homestuck, published under the website MS Paint Adventures, followed a group of teens who accidentally brought about the end of the world with a copy of a video game. Artist and writer Andrew Hussie is a reluctant father of internet fandom.