Have now consumed 17776

[azurelunatic]

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

I was surprised by the strong Homestuck vibes I got off it. Mostly because multimedia story (n.b. I have no idea how much of the images are alt texted, and there's a LOT of image-based text, not to mention video based text) but also because unexpectedly strong emotions. (Okay, also there is a multi-part intermission.)

Yes, it's about football.

It's also about a space probe waking up from a very long dead battery and coming into a universe that bears both too much and so little in common with the universe where the battery gave up its last power.

It's also about humans, in both complexity and simplicity. As represented by football.

It's also about global flooding.

It's also about that ancient enemy, Death.


It took me the better part of the afternoon and several tissues.

Comments

[jecook]

That's about the best description of it that I've heard.

There's a sequel as well, IIRC.

[azurelunatic]

Oh! I'll have to check that out!

[jecook]

Here's a link for you:

https://www.sbnation.com/c/secret-base/21410129/chapters-index

[elisem]

Oooh! (clutches link and scuttles back to my reading nest)

[andrewducker]

Oooh. That's totally on my to-read list. Has been since it came out. I think I read the first few pages and loved it. I just need an easier way to read it in bed and not lose my place!

[vass]

I haven't reread it since the first time.

Right now I'm heavily in the grip of a new fandom (Prophet) and my main thought is that 17776 would kind of work as an extremely, unbelievably optimistic take on a world in which [spoiler] happened in Prophet.

[elisem]

I love that story SO MUCH.

[silveradept]

Having consumed it myself, I understand much more immediately why there are so many fics made about it and why it would be a fertile ground for such. It is, in the loosest sense, about football. Of a sort.