Hi I'm Chase/sarcasticcelery an amateur in every aspect of life but visibly in digital art, voice acting, writing and game design, currently working on The Good, the Bad, and the Alternative Homestuck AU fic
@thegoodthebadthealternative
A Homestuck Fanfiction, Launching April 13, 2023. Written by myself and @arealpeople , who also created the artwork above.
Summary:
3yrs ago, tragedy befell Earth. An onslaught of meteors struck, battering the lands and melting the ice caps. Sea levels rose, and the atmosphere became dark and grey. The coastlines were annihilated, underwater labyrinthian graves of sunken cities. Humanity huddled under defense systems, government shelters of inland urban centers, feared for those in suburbs, rural communities.
When it was over, we crawled from our holes to examine the damage of the âSuburb Catastropheâ- and found magically unscathed beings rendering aid to our fellow man, combing through the suburban rubble to, sometimes literally, sniff out survivors. A small subculture of Humans, self-styled Hunters, shuddered in horror at the âAlternativesâ, the supernatural beings, interacting with Humans. But others were just happy to know we were not alone. Recovery would take time.
The internet collapsed, taking a forum for young âAlternativesâ down, 10 Alternatives,1 in-the-know Human friend slowly reconnecting. 3 Human chums found themselves cut off from a 4th, a girl who was notoriously cagey. All they knew about âJadeâ was that she lived on an island, and they feared she was among the dead. Its 2012, the new normal has arisen. What now?
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This fanfiction's first and second chapters will be posted on Archive of Our Own under the title, "The Good, The Bad, and The Alternative" , by archive users Madam_Melon_Meow & sarcasticcelery. It features the full cast of Beta Kids and Trolls. We plan to update regularly, and currently have the first 7 chapters ready. As of my making this post, it is 8:15pm on April 12th- once midnight hits, I will reblog this post with the archive link. Please reblog if the concept interests you!
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"Hang on, Momo!" John shouted, snapping his glider open with a practiced flick of his wrist. Karkat looked on with only a little bit of jealousy, and a whole lot of longing, as the younger boy showed off both his bending skills and his physical prowess, leaping into the air and zooming towards the cage that held not just their flying lemur companion, but also a trio of rather plump hog monkeys.
Karkat's stomach grumbled in protest as he watched his crush, the bridge between his world and the spirit world, free several game animals without a second thought. He reached for his water pouch on his left hip, feeling the way the water sloshed eagerly within the leather. It called to him, not as strong as the ocean back home, but still enough to make him smile as he took a sip.
"We could have used those," Rose complained, his nonbender sister cocking her arm, boomerang raised as she watched the hog monkeys scamper away. "I understand John's dietary restrictions, but would we not have an easier time preparing his portion of the meal if we were able to forgo consuming some of his rather small nut pickings?"
Chapters: 6/6
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warnings:Â Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Underage Sex
Category: Â M/M
Fandom: Homestuck
Relationships: Eridan Ampora/Karkat Vantas
Characters: Karkat Vantas, Rose Lalonde, John Egbert, Eridan Ampora, Terezi Pyrope, Sollux Captor, Freedom Fighters (Avatar)
Additional Tags:Â Alternate Universe - Avatar (TV) Fusion, John Egbert is Aang, Karkat Vantas is Katara, Rose Lalonde is Sokka, Eridan Ampora is Jet, Terezi Pyrope is Smellerbee, Sollux Captor is Longshot, Rose Lalonde and Karkat Vantas are siblings, POV Karkat Vantas, Trans Karkat Vantas, Internalized Transphobia, Dubious Consent, Songfic, Dom/sub Undertones, the freedom fighters are war babies, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Minor John Egbert/Karkat Vantas, karkat is pining, Hate Sex, Kinda, Choking, First Time, Bringing childrensbookstuck energy to the songfic function, Vaginal Fingering, Not that Karkat wants to call it that, Vaginal Sex, Trans Male Character, Air Nomad Genocide (Avatar), Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Drowning, sorry the sex tags and the plot tags are kinda shuffled together, attempted handjob, Virgin Karkat Vantas, Stealth Karkat Vantas, Blood and Violence, War, Misgendering
An entrant in the Homestuck Fan Author Coalition's January 2025 Competition: Bard.Â
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@arealpeople
Dave locked the door to the lounge with a click.
"Now, now. Whatever would you need to do that for?" His mark purred from behind him. "I hope you don't have anything untoward in mind, bringing me upstairs all alone, Mr. Davids."
He turned around with a smirk, letting his eyes trail across her form, which was perched coyly on the scrolled arm of the divan. The late evening sun cast a honey glow around her through the massive window on the west wall. She was a beautiful woman, no doubt about that. Her blood red lipstick shone like a beacon against her midnight black skin, which was broken here and there by small plates of even blacker chitin, and her skin-tight dress left very little to the imagination, even less so as she crossed her legs, allowing the slit of the dress to part enticingly. Chitin plates ran up her shins and calves, giving the impression of tall black bootsâ her stockings must have been custom made to fit around themâ and above those...
Garter belts. Lord have mercy. It was almost enough to make a man give up on his mission.
Chapters: 1/1
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warnings:Â Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Category: F/M, Other
Fandom: Homestuck
Relationships: Calliope/Dave Strider, Black Queen/Dave Strider, Dave Strider & Dirk Strider, Caliborn & Calliope (Homestuck)
Characters: Dave Strider, Black Queen (Homestuck), Dirk Strider, Calliope (Homestuck), Caliborn (Homestuck)
Additional Tags:Â Mutant Powers, Assassination Attempt(s), Time Loop, Seduction, Gang Violence, Gun Violence, Knifeplay (Literally), Aged-Up Character(s), Temporary Character Death, Background Possession, Aged-Down Character(s), Tail Bondage, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Blood and Gore, Fighting Kink, Head Injury, Gunshot Wounds, Cutting (Tagging for Imagery), Broken Bones, Suicide, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Meet-Cute, Vaginal Fingering, Dry Humping, Alternate Universe - Mutants, Enemies to Lovers, Awkward Boners, Inspired by Music
An entrant in the Homestuck Fan Author Coalition's January 2025 Competition: Bard.Â
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@arealpeople
Horse! Power!
Horse! Power!
Horse! Power!
The crowd's cheers swell with ecstasy. The arena lights blind you, and Equius's fingers dig into your sides as you're paraded around the ring, held over his head like a sack of flour. You do your best to keep your body stiff for his sake, but it's not like he needs it. You find yourself grateful for his ludicrous strength every time you're in the ring with him. You'd much rather be up here, than down on the mat with Nepeta. That girl just moves too fast to keep up with, and you don't trust your shoulder flexibility to sell any of her ridiculous signature holds without actually dislocating.
Equius gives you a prompting jostle, letting you know he's about to start the finisher.
Chapters: 3/?
Rating: Mature
Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Â F/M, Gen
Fandom: Homestuck, Professional Wrestling
Relationships: John Egbert/Vriska Serket, John Egbert & Tavros Nitram, John Egbert & Rose Lalonde, Calliope/Roxy Lalonde
Characters: John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Jade Harley, Dave Strider, Karkat Vantas, Aradia Megido, Tavros Nitram, Sollux Captor, Nepeta Leijon, Kanaya Maryam, Vriska Serket, Equius Zahhak, Eridan Ampora, Calliope (Homestuck), Jake English, Dirk Strider, Roxy Lalonde, Jane Crocker
Additional Tags:Â Alternate Universe - Wrestling, Trans Male Roxy Lalonde, eridan cameo, POV John Egbert, Humanstuck
An entrant in the Homestuck Fan Author Coalition's November 2024 Competition Side A: Bus Driver Eridan.
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The Homestuck Fan Author Coalition's November 2024 Competition was a split competition with the prompts "Bus Driver Eridan" and "Rarepair." For Side A (Bus Driver Eridan), the prompt was to write a fic in which Eridan at some point appears as a member of the working class. Participants had one month to write any fic they liked based on this prompt, and votes were done to determine the awards.
All Fic Submissions and Awards:
dear diary!! by @tehstripe
At the behest of her beloved Nanna, Jade begins documenting the events of her life.
Winner of the Eridan Award for Best In Angst
Winner of the Eridan Award for Funniest Cameo
The Last Flight of the Toreador by @arealpeople
John Egbert-Crocker, a new face in the Skaia Wrestling Federation thanks to his connections to his sister, CEO Jane Crocker, and his girlfriend, famous heel Vriska Serket (AKA Captain Fang), finds himself struggling to find a way to help his fellow wrestler, and good friend, Tavros Nitram, AKA El Torero Fantasma, not get fired due to poor audience appeal.
Winner of the Eridan Award for Best In Action
Winner of the Eridan Award for Most Characters Featured
therapist, mother, maid by @dave2olkat
The Petropavlovsk-612 offshore mining platform supplies the fuel used by every ship, station and base in the entire quadrant. Two women work there, sharing the same shift, albeit under the male names Daniil and Yuri.
Winner of the Sollux Award for Best Fic that Combined Prompts
Winner of the Eridan Award for Best In Drama
wildflower and barley by @dave2olkat
The croached woman had long limbs and harrowing golden eyes. She was on the ground of her pen, sinking her thick white fangs into the carotid artery of one of the cows.
Jadelynnâs survival instincts kicked in, and even if she was no longer in peak physical performance, she hauled ass back to the trailer like her life depended on it.
Winner of the Eridan Award for Best In Fluff
Winner of the Eridan Award for Fluffiest Cameo
Winner of the Eridan Award for Best In Overall Romance
Winner of the Eridan Award for Most Romantic Cameo
Ma Meilleure Ennemie by @ambrosianlullaby
It is a different kind of love.
It is an appreciation and understanding.
Sotto Voce by @dualitysdownfall
sotto voce - in a quiet voice, as if not to be overheard.
Itâs hard being an overachiever with a nitpicking older brother. Itâs hard and no one understands.
The exhaustion of not being heard is taking its toll on Karkat, at least until his voice catches the ear of someone elseâŠ
Winner of the Eridan Award for Best In Fluff
the first few stones are the worst by @toxicchamomile
In which Eridan Ampora is an Uber driver for the two most annoying assholes in the world.
Winner of the Eridan Award for Most Canon Portrayal
Winner of the Eridan Award for Best In Comedy
Winner of the Eridan Award for Fluffiest Cameo
Winner of the Eridan Award for Most Romantic Cameo
Just Another Hemoswap AU by @neapolitangirl
A duel doesn't go as planned. Thousands of sweeps later a rustblood heiress goes on an search for missing treasure.
Christmas Eve Party by Bralsra
Your name is Roxy Lalonde, and you just woke up feeling like shit.
arachnidsGrip has made a new post! by Bralsra
Vriska writes a post about her day as a troll who ended up on earth a while back, cites Rose's earlier work before getting onto her actual life!
Winner of the Eridan Award for Most Interesting Wagie Reason
damned if yoU do (damned if you don't) by @myusernameisstolen
Callie has always been very mysterious, never saying much about her home life, at least not intentionally. The fact she uses a typing quirk is the only clue to her being a troll. She most recently let slip that she not only lives on Earth, but in Seattle, and given the coincidence that John and the rest of their online friend group are in the city for a convention, he had thought he might be able to convince her to come meet them in a public space, if she was still afraid they might not be who they say they are.
But John is beginning to wonder if maybe what Callie is afraid of isnât found in the outside world, but much, much closer to home.
Taxi Driver by Bralsra
You're Eridan Ampora. Human, alike everyone else. Taxi driver and man per obligation.
Winner of the Eridan Award for Angstiest Cameo
Winner of the Eridan Award for Most Dramatic Cameo
Winner of the Eridan Award for Most Violent Cameo
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The prompt for the Homestuck Fan Author Coalition's February 2024 Competition was "Valentine's Day Exchange." Participants wrote a list of prompts and were given prompts from another participant at random that they would need to fulfill.
All Fic Submissions and Awards:
Kintsugi: The Rose-Tinted Quadrant by @arealpeople
Rose has accepted Vriska's help with her disordered alcohol usage. Vriska intends to help her as much as she possibly can. And if that means butting into Kanaya's newly blooming relationship, well, it can't be helped. The universe is at stake!
Winner of the Deuce Award for Best In Auspiticism
Winner of the Karkat Award for Best in Vacillation & Smear
the things you think you see in me by @askaniritual
âI really canât tell if youâre fucking with me right now,â youâd said. âBut the point is, Rose already told me that she and Kanaya have some super special girls-only Valentineâs plan lined up and Iâm sure TZ and Vriska are gonna be busy cuddling in a closet or whatever the fuck they do when theyâre not around and we already spend all our time together and like, make out, or whatever, so pardon the fuck out of me if I thought it might be fun to do something thatâs like a real date. Or whatever.â
Winner of the Calliope Award for Most Interesting Headcanon
Winner of the Feferi Award for Sweetest Romance
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend by @madam-melon-meow
Vriska sure has been 'hands on' with Rose's alcoholism recovery. It almost feels. Like she's paling at her. >:[
Winner of the Bro Award for Darkest Romance
Winner of the Droog Award for Best in Moiraillegience
Winner of the Karkat Award for Best in Vacillation & Smear
Winner of the Vriska Award for Best in Melodrama
Wearing the Pants by @madam-melon-meow
After more than a year micro-managing Earth C's First City (including corralling her fellow gods) Vriska Serket could use a day off. Thankfully, Valentines Day, newly rebranded by the carapacian citizens, is coming up. With fellow god John Egbert ready to go out with her, she knows just what to do!
Takes place 14th of February, 0002
Winner of the Boxcar Award for Best in Matespritship
Winner of the Nepeta Award for Most Squee-Inducing
Monte Cristo; Croque Monsieur by @arealpeople
Shortly before the events of Homestuck^2, Sollux receives an invitation to a lunch date with Karkat. A ceasefire has been called for a single day, for some reason this day is important to Jane.
The only problem is that Sollux and Karkat haven't spoken more than ten words to each other for nearly thirty years.
Winner of the Calliope Award for Most Interesting Headcanon
Winner of the Equius Award for Best in Action
Winner of the Nepeta Award for Most Squee-Inducing
someglubby put me outta my fishery by @meowloudly15
CC: stop glubbin to me
-- colloquialCondescension [CC] blocked tonicandGin [TG] --
-- tonicandGin [TG] unblocked colloquialCondescension [CC] --
CC: W)(AT
TG: u aint geftin rid a me TAHT eeasiely
TG: WONK
Or: The story of the pale romance that redeems Her Imperious Condescension.
Winner of the Dad Award for Best Romantic Comedy
Karkat: Celebrate Troll Valentine's Day by Callmesalticidae
You utterly fail to come up with a summary that would not be completely redundant in the face of the title's clear call to action.
You are Karkat Vantas, and you are going to celebrate Troll Valentine's Day. At least, that's what you've just been told to do.
Winner of the Boxcar Award for Best in Matespritship
Winner of the Caliborn Award for Most Canon Depiction
"will u b my valentine" 7x combob by @myusernameisstolen
Roxy tries to have a normal Valentine's Day. It's a pity that nothing about her is normal.
Winner of the Mom Award for Best in Human Romance
Winner of the Calliope Award for Most Interesting Headcanon
Winner of the Dad Award for Best Romantic Comedy
Bubble Glub and Flub by @shadow-wasser
Jake, seeking a new experience in meeting with a sea-dwelling alien in the afterlife, attempts not to shove his foot too far down his own ignorance shaft.
Winner of the Calliope Award for Most Interesting Headcanon
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"What the fuck are we doing here?" you ask.
You sit in a restaurant in the Human Kingdom, it is one of the, like, three times you've left the meteor recently. Your sniff tube is picking up troll cuisine, however, so it must be some kind of place that serves fusion. The atmosphere is pretty nice. It is a beautiful early spring day on Earth C, and you're sitting out on the veranda, feeling the cool breeze as it blows through the open windows. The cushioned wicker chairs are comfortable, and the table is neatly set.
Those are the least important parts of the whole place though. What you are currently preoccupied with is the decor...
Hearts.
hello! I think you've briefly mentioned starcross before but what is it exactly? What's the elevator pitch? An AU of some kind?
Basically, it is a non-Sburb AU inspired by Romeo and Juliet, that takes place between the decades of the 1990's and 2000's. I began writing it when I found out what the word "star-crossed" truly meant, which is to be ill-fated or "crossed by the stars". I wanted to write a story that used our romanticism of the word against the audience.
The rough idea behind the story is that there are two families, like the play. The Englishes and the Lalondes. They are major political powers on the west coast of this frictionalized United States, and are fighting for the Governor position of Washington State. The candidates are Jacob (Jake) English and Roxanne (Roxy) Lalonde. They have had quite a lot of bad blood in the past, and this year it is no different.
Rose Lalonde is our protagonist, and on her and her twin brother's 20th birthday, she meets someone while out with her brother. His name is John, and they hit it off very well and trade their phone numbers, hoping to talk to one another sometime again.
It eventually turns out that this friendship of theirs ends up being a lot more than any of them, especially her, bargained for. As John has some secrets, secrets he would rather take to his grave in all honesty.
The Good, The Bad, and The Alternative: a homestuck fanfic. Chapter 39, an excerpt.
As Terezi walked, she tried not to sniff too closely, aware that the heightening emotions in the thickening crowd might begin to overwhelm her. Lots of buttery fear, bitter orange revulsion, grape fury, and even salty excitement. The sheer volume of people was reason enough for her to avoid something as stimulating as a protest, at least, it should have been. But if she was going to help Karkat, she needed to get used to crowds like this. So though she tried not to sniff too closely, she still sniffed, refusing to take the easy way out and simply put away her aura sense.
"You! Did not! Protect us!" A bullhorn could be heard, the woman holding it leading a chant.
â You did not protect us!â The crowd repeated her words, and Terezi waited for it to sound once more.
"You! Did not! Protect us!" It came again, this time punctuated by a squeal as something backfired, and Terezi angled her feet towards the origin point.
âYou did not protect us!â The crowd surged, thrumming with energy, their auras drowning in their heightening emotions, unified with a common purpose.
"You! Did not! Protect us!" came a third time, and she closed in on the speaker.
â You did not protect us!â Somewhere, the response was punctuated with shattering glass. Behind her, a new wave of heat rolled through the crowd, and when she turned to look, the smoke from the pyre had darkened, the flames leaping higher. The crowd cheered.
As Terezi finally caught a glimpse of the bright red bullhorn, the woman wielding it passed it off to a taller figure standing beside her.
As the wordless screaming of the crowd began to die, Terezi heard a new voice, more masculine and bassy. âRepeat after me yall, Iâve got a ditty thatâll make Dean Jacobs wanna listen.â He cleared his throat, then began chanting with a rather army-like cadence. âI donâ know what you been told!â
â I donât know what youâve been told!â The crowd screamed back.
âBut student bodies wonât be soldâ the man sang, voice full of passion.
â Student bodies wonât be sold!â The crowd roared.
âYeah I donâ know whatâs in your head,â he continued.
âI donât know whatâs in your head,â the crowd repeated.
âBut predators in school has got to end,â he belted out.
â Predators in school has got to end! â This time, when the crowd responded, Terezi hesitantly joined in. She couldnât risk being noticed, singled out for her silence.
Terezi is hot on the scent of a suspect, but what the heck has she stumbled into?!? Read on to find out!
