Welcome to the Homestuck and MSPA Music wiki - Please spread us around and help out!
If you know Homestuck, then you’re probably aware of the prodigious amount of both official and unofficial music that surrounds the comic. In the eight years since Homestuck’s inception, the music of MS Paint Adventures has become a cultural phenomenon in its own right, and has given birth to a vast discography comprising dozens of albums and thousands of individual tracks from both the official music team and hundreds of indie fan musicians that continues to grow even to this day. With the recent release of fan albums like Weird Puzzle Tunes and projects like Ancestral and LoFaM 4 on the near horizon, the growth of the Homestuck music community and the expansion of the discography surrounding the comic doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon.
Despite the extent of the community around Homestuck and MSPA Music (HaMM), there has never been a centralized hub for information about the musicians, artists, and projects that have contributed to it over the years! Indeed, with word of mouth being the main way that Homestuck music fanworks have found their audience, much content that lacks large initial exposure ends up fading into relative obscurity, and even more mainstream album releases often do not come packaged with much information about the musicians who created them.
The HaMM wiki therefore is a project that aims to collate information about Homestuck music, album releases, and musicians to one centralized hub. We collect information about tracks, artists, and albums, and present them in an interlinked format on the wiki for ease of access to information! Heard a song you like? Look it up on the wiki to discover other songs by the same artists, spread across Homestuck and MSPA’s formidable list of official music releases, fan releases, and solo projects that often rarely see the light of day. Want to know which songs reference leitmotifs from other songs? Our wiki hopes to keep a record of that, too! (With due referencing from the nsnd, of course. :)),
Since our inception a few months ago, and thanks to ardent work and the development of automatic wiki bots by our relatively tiny contributor base, we have already grown the HaMM wiki to over 1000 pages. This is of course wonderful, but again, the scope of the MSPA discography is such that this is far less than half of the information that we hope for the wiki to cover, and it largely omits the work of some smaller fan musicians. To change this, we’re hoping you can help contribute! The wiki is easy to edit, and even contributing a small amount of new information can help fill in blank pages or put online information about a song or musician who doesn’t yet have a wiki presence. Help out your favourite musicians and artists by adding them to the wiki! The scope of the wiki includes any and all Homestuck music and fan music - so you can even add information about yourself and your own Homestuck music projects.
If you want to get involved in a more organized capacity, then we have a discord channel for editor discussion, as well as a spreadsheet for co-coordinating wiki editors and content. We will also be looking to feature articles and content from the community on this blog, as well as more general HaMM information, so follow here to see content from the wiki as well as to maybe see your own contributions recognized!
Wiki link: http://homestuck-and-mspa-music.wikia.com/wiki/Homestuck_and_MSPA_Music_Wiki
Discord invite: https://discord.gg/NUUYRV3
HaMM wiki spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zl-9FnXQLPwsaK6y-I0MGRSoY9TbTZpxzgXd52rbxk8/edit?usp=sharing
Our blog (this one): https://homestuckandmspamusicwiki.tumblr.com/
At the moment, our group of regular contributors is small, and it is hard to frow the wiki to include the sort of detailed, in-depth articles and content we want to see on it without more support. We’re really hoping that we can be a good center for the Homestuck music community, and to do that we need to find more people who can help us add wiki content. Anyone can help out, even if only in a small way through adding a page or a sentence or two on the wiki, and beyond that, we’d really appreciate it if you could spread about this post (or others) to help us reach a wider audience and more potential editors. We rely on the community to help us expand the wiki, so thank you so much for taking the time to read this, and for potentially helping us grow!
All the best, and happy listening!
tangentwithtanner
jacobvanloon
prguitarman
turnnoffyourmind
