Storytime

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess named Diana who was taking a class in her Technical Communication program for which she read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. The princess is me, by the way. Anyway, all the talk about affordances and limitations in different media got me thinking about which storytelling medium offered the fewest restrictions to its creators. I concluded that the webcomic medium was that medium, because it allowed for visuals in both images and text on an infinite canvas, provided total flexibility of release schedules, could be accessed by any audience, and could be utilized by anybody (or group of anybodies) with a computer. Not only that (and here's where my mind started to race), but webcomic creators weren't limited by standard conventions of sequential art; alt text was only the beginning; they could include sound, and video, and maybe make the comic interactive like a video game, only without many of the limitations of the video game medium! Little did I know that at that time, a webcomic that did all those things and more already existed, and not only that, it was a science-fiction-time-travel-parallel-universes thing with tons of meta, which is so up my alley that it's maybe a little obscene.

So, to sum up, this is me coming out of the Homestuck-fan closet.

Don't get the wrong idea about that first paragraph; I'm not recommending the comic based on that. I am just saying that in fifty years, when webcomics are considered worthy of serious academic interpretation, Homestuck will be required reading. I am recommending the comic because it's hilarious and has an excellent and complex plot and tons of lovable characters. Also, a soundtrack. And an embarrassing fandom! But we won't talk about that. Instead we will talk about my reason for making this post.

( So I made some Sims, and stuff. )

Edit: I have made some significant improvements to these Sims. Here is the new Gamzee. Maybe I'll change the other pictures later, too; I dunno.