Temporary Sign-Up Discussion Post!

[hso_mods]

Hey shippers!
So, we were completely blown away by the sheer volume of sign-ups (374 at the time of this writing); as a sort of stop-gap measure while we try to get the team lists up, feel free to comment here and tell others what team(s) you signed up for!

Comments

Re: I didn't see it, but...

[paradoxcase]

Damn you. I've been successfully telling myself for the past few days that I didn't have time to do this, that I hadn't been in the fandom anywhere near long enough or thoroughly enough, that I had WIPs to work on, that I'd sit it out this year and see how it went, and then Karkat<3<Karkat showed up on the team list and I thought, maybe I do have time to write some funny Karkat<3<Karkat after all! And then I signed up for it. I was worried about verbosity too, since apparently we're limited to 3k words, but when our venue with this pairing is probably limited to memos and dream bubbles, it might be less of a problem.

Re: I didn't see it, but...

[paradoxcase]

Oddly enough, there were paragraph breaks in there. I must have confused it with trying to use pairing symbols and HTML in the same post.

Re: I didn't see it, but...

[djiinraidinnae]

Hah, it happens. Sometimes I still feel like it's difficult to deal with HTML, at least when switching to and from so often.

Anyway, I'm in the same boat as you... actually, I've been putting off finishing a Shimeji [desktop buddy thing] for someone for a while, but I couldn't resist. I also haven't been a fan for that long. To be 100% honest, I only started reading the comic on 4/13 this year, and I'm almost completely up to date on the story. The hype I witnessed on a "discovering Homestuck" blog was too much and I had to actually start it. I was immediately enthralled by its well-tailored story in a spastically intriguing multimedia digital format. This one is sticking to me hard, but it's still embarrassing to be so new. :D

Yeah, the physical limits of Karkat <3< Karkat would definitely help keep the word limit, now that you mention it. Maybe I should write a mock memo at some point. I think that has potential, since it's said that there were a lot of them we didn't get to see!

Re: I didn't see it, but...

[paradoxcase]

Heh, I never really got involved in fandom beyond lurking around fandom_wank for the lulz until I read Homestuck. Then I somehow wound up haunting the kink meme and then writing a fanfic, and now I can't stop? Addiction is powerful thing.

I guess if there actually gets to be a confirmed team, we can be awkward newbies together. The memos are lots of fun, although writing pesterlog stuff is a completely different kind of thing from the prose (or at least I found it to be, at first). And there's also the memos with current/future Karkat on the asteroid in act 6 to work with too, and I've always thought the idea of transuniversal memos with Karkats from doomed timelines and such also had a lot of potential.

Re: I didn't see it, but...

[djiinraidinnae]

I get obsessed sometimes, but I really haven't taken part in fandomry constantly. Some people float between fandoms so quickly and say whatever their last one was is stupid, but I don't get that way. I haven't been part of many fandoms, and I've never disliked them... but sometimes the fans are crazy and make me want to cry. I hadn't read fanfiction in years before more recently. Fandom is so addictive, it's like methamphetamine or something.

I bet this'll end up a confirmed team! There are a few people interested, I guess, and we've got until June to fill the team, right? Anyway, oh God, now you've got me thinking of doomed Karkats. All of the Karkats in one Dream Bubble. All of them.

Karkat <3< Karkat <3< Karkat <3< Karkat <3< Karkat <3< Karkat <3< Karkat <3< Karkat <3< Karkat...
Maybe that's what he's really afraid of when he falls asleep: seeing all of his dead selves and them all ganging up on him.

Re: I didn't see it, but...

[alouetta]

ah yes! i've only come across one other person than me signed up for karkat <3< karkat before seeing this thread, only another two to go now and our beautiful hilarious ship can finally sail

Re: I didn't see it, but...

[paradoxcase]

Oh cool. :) Hopefully we'll get another couple people in all the inevitable team-switching, or when they reopen signups. Or we can recruit whoever signed up for Karkat <3 Karkat? Spades makes so much more sense anyway, pfft.