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[fwugradiation]

Video Games Soundtracks I Like

People keep asking for the soundtracks I like or am inspired by so here are the ones I can remember. If it’s not on this list I either forgot it, haven’t played it, or it’s too obvious (mario/zelda).

If you’re a video game music enthusiast you might enjoy looking up soundtracks you haven’t heard of before.

This list isn’t complete. Not sure if I’ll update it though.

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[dingodad]

the number of people being like "homestuck but animated? umm, how are they going to adapt this one specific part of one particular page of the 6000 page story??? what a bad idea!!" is so funny / sad because the final question hussie ever answered on formspring was about the homestuck books and it consists of them totally tearing into the idea of even asking dumb questions like that lol. fandom put a lot of effort into archiving hussie's Q+A but not a lot of effort into reading it

it's a nightmare that fandom as a subculture is still playing traumatised from DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!?!???11!!!!! some twenty-something years later when the undeniable singular largest force in anglo-american culture at this point in time is really fucking bad adaptations of comic books whose quality the public consciousness only bothered to question for a span of like 18 months before going back to pretending they're good for the rest of eternity I guess

[madam-melon-meow]

Are you working on a Homestuck book? If you are, 1) that is amazing and 2) how do you plan to handle flash animations? [sunday, august 28, 2011] , reproduced below. Blue bolding is my emphasis.

Yes, I'm working on it now, among other things. It's nice to hear you like the idea.

The flash stuff will be handled in a way that graphic novels have been effectively conveying dramatic action for a long time. Through sequential art.

A number of people seem to have trouble with the concept of a book adaptation, almost to the point where the idea of the object existing somewhere in reality offends them. It seems some would prefer it not exist at all, even if it means denying it from those who really want a book adaptation despite the obvious cross-media challenges. If we were all supremely literal people by equal measure, we would all demand a DVD treatment or something similar, with all the music and animation intact as it is on the web. However, some people like books. They like a physical, tactile object that you can take off a shelf, flip through and read, without turning something on or glaring at a screen for hours. This is why books still exist, and why we haven't decided to burn down our libraries quite yet.

Taking such strong issue with adaptation from one form of media to another is puzzling to me. It happens all the time. Books are adapted to movies, and back. Musicals become films, films become games, games become comics. Stories have many ways they can be told. If someone were going to make a graphic novel out of a movie, imagine how absurd it would be to ask the artist, "Oh yeah? How are you going to handle all the moving around bits? Like, all that motion that happens in movies? Oh, what about the MUSIC??" The objection is actually profoundly idiotic, but we don't actually hear people raise such qualms with these sorts of adaptations, probably because they are known quantities. We know what a book-to-film adaptation is like. It's a Thing. Bringing Homestuck into static media is not a Thing, because I essentially invented the original format. This probably messes with people's heads on the issue somewhat.

I guess part of it is that craving absolute purity and fidelity from an adaptation is a hallmark of the zealously devoted. That's fine, but isn't really a point of view I cotton to. It's very rigid, very linear, and those demands are ironically antithetical to the spirit behind HS's creation, and all those crazy things that allegedly won't cross over to print. So you say HS "absolutely cannot exist in a book?" If I had much concern for what a story absolutely could or couldn't be, I wouldn't have even made it in the first place. Imagine again a movie with all its motion and sound becoming a graphic novel, and how reasonable this endeavor is. What if the hyper-zealous nerd has concerns that the novel won't be able to capture all of this FEELING and EMOTION from the scenes that the pacing and sound evoked through perfect, literal duplication in print? Well, it won't. It's not supposed to, and it's a completely unreasonable expectation to have for the adaptation. It will be a different angle on the work, and that's fine. It's great, in fact. It should be what you want from an adaptation. If you want to re-experience exactly what you felt in its original form, then you may go enjoy it in its original form again. That's why it's there.

The funny thing is, all the types of adaptations I mentioned, like book-to-film, are very major departures in format. A Homestuck book actually comes quite close to representing the original work by comparison, because after all, HS is at least 95% mostly-static panels, with text underneath. Anyone who says that's outrageously unfit for print is being quite extreme. As a whole, the thing is basically a great big comic. A comic with a few perks the web affords.

[kyleehenke]

Visit Original Link

YOU CAN’T FIGHT THE HOMESTUCK - Performed by Kylee Henke

Written by WalkingandDead

[DOWNLOAD LINK]

[LYRICS]

John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, ascend, descend, rise up, abscond


Jade Harley, Dave Strider, They all play Sburb and end the world


Harelquin, Nanna, Bro, Mom, Dad, Youth Roll

Grandpa, Pesterchum, Hella Jeff and Sweet Bro.


Heat and Clockwork, Wind and Shade, Frost and Frogs, Light and Rain

Vagabond and Mendicant, Renegade, consorts, and denizens

Skaia, 413, Countdown to the Reckoning

Derse and Prospit, Carapaces, Pogo Hammer, Sassacre


-

You can’t fight the Homestuck Though it’s weird and random, it’s the greatest fandom You can’t fight the Homestuck True it’s quite outrageous, but it’s so contagious

- Jasper’s secret, Davesprite, Casey, Mutie, doomed timelines

Good dog, best friend, Jack causes many people’s end

Black Queen, Nak Nak, stuffing corpses, shoosh pap

Robot bunnies, midnight crew, hey coolkid is this you?  


Lil’ Cal, babies, ecto-biology,

Apple juice, Pupa Pan, Nic Cage, City of cans


Doc scratch, Sn0wman, “I warned you bout those stairs man!”

God tiers, March drag, Who even is this douchebag? 


-

You can’t fight the Homestuck Though it’s weird and random, it’s the greatest fandom You can’t fight the Homestuck True it’s quite outrageous, but it’s so contagious

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Exploring with Aradia, Tavros, Sollux, Nepeta

Terezi’s nuts, Karkat’s a crab, Gamzee’s got issues with his dad 


Equius, Feferi, Kanaya the vampire fashion queen

She slices Eridan in half, and Vriska is a badass

 


Shipping charts, sick fires, all the irons in the fire

Buckets, squiddles, angels, all the Lusi get culled


Faygo, Recupercoons, Horrorterros kill you

Troll Jegus, killer clown, mobius double reach around


-

You can’t fight the Homestuck Though it’s weird and random, it’s the greatest fandom You can’t fight the Homestuck True it’s quite outrageous, but it’s so contagious

-


Matesprits, Auspistice, Moirail, and Kismesis

Betty Crocker, ICP, dead Daves are the enemy


Green sun, Alpha-verse, Jane, Roxy, Jake and Dirk

UU, princely tights, Guy Fieri is the anti-christ


Captchalogue Modus, and Strife specibus

Heir and Knight, Witch and Seer

Can’t outrun what’s already here!


-

You can’t fight the Homestuck Though it’s weird and random, it’s the greatest fandom You can’t fight the Homestuck True it’s quite outrageous, but it’s so contagious

-

Dream bubbles, Shenanigans, All who die come back again

Tick tock break heads, honk honk, scary wolf heads


Cue balls, magic dogs, the universe is a frog

Felt mob and fairies, Lord English killed Hussie


Troll cops, Thresh prince, don’t screw with the Condesce

Scale mates, rap wars, blowing up the tumor

Zillyhoo, shaving cream, echeladder, science beam

Cascade, Morse code, this fandom’s about to explode

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You can’t fight the Homestuck Though it’s weird and random, it’s the greatest fandom You can’t fight the Homestuck

And from now on, it will go on, and on, and on, and on

You can’t fight the Homestuck Though it’s weird and random, it’s the greatest fandom You can’t fight the Homestuck True it’s quite outrageous, but it’s so contagious

You can’t fight the Homestuck Though it’s weird and random, it’s the greatest fandom You can’t fight the Homestuck True it’s quite outrageous, but it’s so contagious

[mansuta]

i found out it was clown week

[homestuckreplay]

musclebeasts and rainbow drinkers = average gay pride parade

(page 2312-2327 + my Hivebent AU)

A big hello (finally) to Kanaya Maryam!! One of the absolute best trolls, now introduced for real. But first...

Mobius Double Reacharound

You were joining a particularly unusual bifurcated session, meant from the start to receive all twelve players through two separate connection chains… The truth was it had always been the same session all along. That your teams were not competing, but cooperating toward a common goal. (p.2316)

Given that Sollux is the lead developer, the term ‘bifurcated session’ feels very apt. It’s cool as well to get final confirmation of the connection order for all the trolls, and have a handy diagram to refer to if I ever can’t remember the sequence. Aradia already made it clear that ‘the teams are meaningless’ (p.2276), and the prototypings from each team affecting the other were visible in Equius’ land and referred to by Karkat with the ‘12X PROTOTYPED BLACK KING’ (p.1930). The trolls all end up together in the Veil so must be in the same Incipisphere, and the two different frog ruins being one for Prospit and one for Derse also indicates a single session. Point being, I think it’s been clear from the start that the teams are important to the trolls but not to the session overall, even to casual readers.

The trolls’ Jack Noir being an ally to them and helping them overthrow and exile the Black Queen was also explicitly laid out by Karkat in advance, but it was still cool to see that explained further just a couple days ago. It was taken seriously by the narrative and gave new information even though we already knew the ending, which is what Hivebent is doing overall.

In the more drawn out form of this adventure's narrative, figuring this out would have been a huge deal. We would have been completely blown away by this stunning revelation. Wow. Same session all along. Really? Huh. (p.2317)

I am the guy who LOVES metafiction and breaking the fourth wall and stories that examine their own workings, so I’m probably one of the most likely people to enjoy a line like this, but it falls pretty flat. I like that this is a story that knows its purpose, which is to explore characters and their relationships in more depth while only touching on the plot when necessary. I like that it differentiates itself from early Homestuck, including by addressing the player as ‘we’ so it’s like the player and narrator are exploring the story together, instead of having a back and forth conversation through commands. I think the goals of the story have already been made clear, so I’m not sure what new purpose a line like this serves. This may not be true, but the line comes across like an author (perhaps one who is famous for surprising and impressive plot reveals) who’s not confident in their ability to make this section feel cool and satisfying, given that there’s no big reveal at the end.

And it basically implies that the story would be better if it was told in the drawn out form, where ‘same session all along’ would be a big reveal. But is that true? If Hussie’s time and effort weren’t factors here, and we had the option to see an extended Hivebent in the style of Acts 1-4, would that actually be good? I think that exploring twelve characters in the languid, meandering style of the beta kids would be too much. and that seeing each troll load up Sgrub and go through session entry one after the other would stop being interesting, even with the slight variations each time. It would actually be harder to make each troll feel unique while spending a lot of time with them, compared to here, where we just see the most extreme and character defining moments of their lives.

If I was writing a longform Hivebent, I’d take Karkat and Terezi as the main point of view characters, and focus the story primarily on the Red Team’s adventures. The Blue Team would begin as antagonists who stayed more mysterious, and I’d stick with introducing Vriska as the worst of the worst. After the surprise reveal that she actually joins the Red Team, I’d elevate her to the third main character, and explore the conflict of her learning to work with people she has a bad history with and always intended to be in opposition to. The eventual reveal that it was the same session all along would mirror the Vriska reveal on a larger scale – she would have brought information on the Blue Team members’ weaknesses over to the Red, which they’d have tried to take advantage of in conversations, and the Red Team would slowly realize that they’d been sabotaging their overall chances and might even have cost themselves the victory in their competitiveness.

I think that could be an awesome story, but it would be a fundamentally different story, because it would relegate most of the trolls to supplemental characters whose point of view is never explored, it would lose any kind of narrative omniscience meaning things like the nature of the virus to summon Lord English would be much harder to explore, and its themes would be the ways people act based on assumptions and incomplete information, and how we react to having that worldview totally shaken up. So I think Hivebent is told the way it is not only because of external constraints, and not only as a poor substitute for the longer version, but because it’s the only way to explore all twelve trolls fairly equally, and to expand on the workings of Sburb/Sgrub by showing the key similarities and differences between sessions.

I also think Hivebent leaves so much room for fanworks to flesh out the details of the trolls’ session, either by telling the whole story from a different perspective, or drilling down on a specific character, land, event, etc. Given how much the Homestuck fan community is growing, I think it’s a strength of Hivebent that it tells just enough to be a complete story in itself while leaving lots of gaps for fans to explore, and seeing those possibilities makes me want to read more fanfiction too! Personally I think the story should be proud of that instead of self-deprecating.

Kanaya Maryam

I’m really excited that Kanaya’s here and wow there are a lot of As in her name. Actually, A sounds seem to be a big feature of Alternian language in general, and it’s only Terezi who doesn’t have any As in her name. And Troll Will Smith I guess. Anyway, I’ve been looking forward to Kanaya and she doesn’t disappoint at all, with a particularly long and detailed introduction page, and a lot of features that differentiate her from the average troll. I saw someone point out that Hussie is a Virgo, making Kanaya basically their very special self insert Mary(am) Sue troll (affectionate). They would not be the first – it seems like lots of people on the MSPA forums are making ‘fantrolls’, which are versions of themselves or their OCs in the style of the Homestuck trolls. Pretty cool, I should think about making one too.

Kanaya is the troll most directly connected to one of the beta kids – she lives in a hive identical to Jade’s close to a similar set of mystic ruins, and has already awoken on Prospit and seen its cloud visions. Like Jade, she enjoys gardening and owns a Lunchtop and a Wardrobifier set to random. She even has jade-colored blood. Growing up near the mystic ruins obviously gives Jade and Kanaya access to some Skaian technology, but I wonder if there’s more to it – a mindset, some kind of latent mind control that Skaia exerts over the ruins’ resident over time, or even physical changes. Jade is immune to radiation and likes to play with uranium for fun, while Kanaya is immune to the Alternian sun’s rays, a different kind of radiation. So it’s like they’re protected by the ruins, like King Pondsquatter is smiling down upon them and sharing his slimy wet skin.

Kanaya shares a weapon type with Hysterical Dame from Problem Sleuth, a lipstick that can turn into a chainsaw or vice versa (see PS p.536-7). To read far too much into this, Hysterical Dame’s whole purpose was to be Problem Sleuth’s female counterpart, while Kanaya so far is Jade’s counterpart, meaning they’re both characters introduced to reflect an existing character, instead of fully being their own people.

Additionally, Kanaya – like Hysterical Dame – is associated with traditional (Earth) femininity more than any troll so far. She’s actually not the only one to wear lipstick – the fact that ‘a troll's lips are naturally black’ (p.2326) means that Aradia and Vriska are also both wearing makeup to showcase their blood colors. But Kanaya’s interests are far more typically feminine, including being a seamstress, showing an interest in fashion, interior design and aesthetics generally, and being basically the troll equivalent of a Twilight fan, a book series that’s often seen as wish fulfillment for women. I've already been thinking about Alternian gender, and Kanaya being a girl who is both traditionally feminine and markedly different from other trolls is another interesting point to consider there. She’s also associated with childbirth and motherhood in some way, seen in this mysterious quote.

you are one of the few who could be selected and raised by a VIRGIN MOTHER GRUB, an event so rare as to elude documented precedent… though her life would be short, in time you would assure her of progeny. (p.2323)

HEY, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? The only way Kanaya might assure this Mother Grub of progeny (sort of) is if she was the person in her session to ectobiologize the players, but Karkat has already said this was his job. Stuck in a cold and clinical meteor lab as part of a species that generally needs a Mother Grub to reproduce isn’t a likely circumstance for assuring the future of trollkind, either. I have to assume this is metaphorical in some way, and relates to adoption or a spiritual successor for the trolls, because I can’t see a way for this to happen biologically, unless I’m missing something obvious. Or unless Kanaya’s Mother Grub is somehow part of the process for ectobiologizing Doc Scratch and therefore wraps back around to being the mother of the entire troll species, but that feels like a big reach because they share no common features.

Kanaya has a notification from cuttlefishCuller, so unless this is another fakeout, the sea dwellers might finally be introduced via chatlog! It’s about time, because with the full entry chain confirmed, it feels like this part of the story is heading towards a conclusion.

[plaidos]

they don’t know about Andrew Hussie’s gender pyramid

[pankendev]

you never see cross-fandom shipping anymore. there should be horrible discourse about chilchuck x karkat

[hms-no-fun]

for real though chilchuck would be way better for karkat than dave and it would give dave an existential crisis. karkat needs structure and drive but dave is just like a hang out dude, which karkat is fine with until he meets an adult man who is employed and realizes that being 26 isn't the same as being an adult. dave would be in absolute shambles and move out onto jade's couch and she would be super attracted to him but he's just not looking for that kind of thing right now....

[rathayibacter]

the party meets chilchuck's new boyfriend at an alternian-style bbq and laios becomes obsessed with sampling all the different flavors of grubsauce

[hms-no-fun]

LAIOS: And the pails are for what exactly?

KANAYA: The Collection And Mixture Of Genetic Material That Is Processed Through The Mother Grub Into Millions Of Eggs

LAIOS: Wow!! Has anyone ever tried adding non-troll DNA to the slurry?

ROSE: I understand you're a student of the dark arts, Marcille.

MARCILLE: Hey, they're only called that because of short-sighted elven laws! Magic is just magic.

ROSE: Oh trust me, I couldn't agree more. In fact, I may have dabbled once or twice in the practice of forbidden majyyks myself. Have you ever seen the birth of a universe?

MARCILLE: N-No?

ROSE: Would you like to?

JANE: --and then you whisk until the egg forms peaks when you lift it up, like this see?

SENSHI: Mm mmm.

JANE: But the real chef's secret to a meringue is this, my patented Crockercorp Lemonator Concentrate. The essence of 10,000 lemons in a single drop!

SENSHI: That would pair very well with living armor, perhaps in a soup made of dragon bone broth...

JOHN: i like your cat! she gets annoyed when i stop scratching her chin haha.

MARCILLE: That's weird... Usually Izutsumi only lets girls pet her...

TEREZI: SO HOW D1D YOU TWO M33T 4NYW4Y? >:]

CHILCHUCK: Online dating. We matched on Fapr.

KARKAT: YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL HER THAT!!!

[indigonite]

had to

[gemstone-gynoid]

looking forward to the next installments

[fefairys]

"Homestuck, as an examination of all forms of creative practice, whether cosmic or artistic, isolates the tension between perfect, celebrated idealization and specific, flawed instantiation. The purity of the ideal is what's initially sought, but the imperfection of the specific is what has true value. Conflict and suffering arise from the guilt and stress associated with overvaluing the former. Deliverance and humanity come from recognizing and embracing the latter." -Andrew Hussie

[fefairys]

this is one is important as fuck i see so many people not understand this and it drives me crazy

"Sburb ruins, mythic challenges, and personal quests generally tend to come off as shallow busywork, stage props, or set pieces in a spurious Hero's Journey. Rose either faintly glimpses this truth at this early stage, or she's just hitting her rebellious teen stride. Either way, she doesn't take the surface value of the quest seriously at all, and only wants to smash it apart and loot the secrets. My sense is that the average reader reacts to this impulse unfavorably. Because readers watch the formula play out so often, they are trained heavily to respect the journey of the hero, to anticipate and crave its fulfillment, to see it as something verging on contractual in their relationship with a story. So a gut-response to this recklessness is like, "ROSE, NO! STOP THAT! You simply must complete your quest and play the rain!" What comes with this view is the feeling that her evolution as a character is only being delayed for a bit while she gets some anti-narrative foolishness out of her system, and then we'll get down to business and watch her do her quest, play a whole BUNCH of rain, and reap the narrative satisfaction. There's just one problem: she never does that. This candy-coated Kiddie Kwest is at no point ever taken seriously by Rose or the narrative itself, nor should it be.

When trying to parse character arcs, we look out for certain beacons. So when we hear "play the rain," we're like, ah, GOT IT. That's Rose's arc. Once she finally gets over this destructive teen bullshit, she can wise up, play the rain, and her arc will be finished. Wrong. This is almost a red herring arc. Her quest on this planet, its patronizing presentation, its intrinsic shallowness, is a mirage surrounding her that represents a fully regimented series of milestones for achievement and personal growth, much as society dubiously presents to young people in many forms. The true arc-within-the-arc is actually an upside-down version of what it appears to be. What Rose is doing now, which seems to be misguided recklessness taking her further away from the truth of herself, is actually better seen as a good start to her real journey: breaching the mirage of regimented growth, exposing it for the charade it is, and pulling the truth out of it. The real conflict in her arc comes not from the fact that she refuses to take it seriously, by destroying it and taking shortcuts. It's the opposite. It's that, upon trashing her planet, she continues to have this nagging sense that she should be taking this quest seriously, much like how a young adult may have a nagging sense of guilt that they aren't "being an adult right" by the time they approach adulthood. And this nagging, unanswerable guilt arises from the truth that the regimentation of adulthood is completely fake. It was always a mirage. Learning this, making peace with it, is part of the growing process for many, and it is for her too." -Andrew Hussie

intrinsically queer as fuck, too, btw

[rg11]

has anyone seen that one wizard gnome on tiktok

[chiosavinces-deactivated2026032]

When Homestuck is over I want a full tally of how many times Karkat said Fuck throughout the entire comic.

[chiosavinces-deactivated2026032]

or even better, a tally of the total amount of times “Fuck” has been used in all of homestuck, then find out what percentage of the total mentions of Fuck in homestuck is just Karkat.

[godtechturninheads]

Plz

[karkat-vantas-protection-squad]

I mean Dave actually curses more times than Karkat in total buT YEAH LETS TALLY IT ALL UP

[polyglotplatypus]

so on the website readmspa there’s a full transcript of every word ever feature on homestuck and

2547

the word fuck or variations of it is featured 2547 times

if anyone’s willing to go through all of this they are welcome to do so

[polyglotplatypus]

thats it you know what

i am currently counting every time someone says fuck and im gonna make statistics

wish me luck and courage

[polyglotplatypus]

i just spent the last fucking 3 hours manually counting every single fuck there is in homestuck

kill me

[polyglotplatypus]

someone give me a fucking prize

[txttletale]

i think when you learn basically anything at all about andrew hussie's workflow it becomes impossible not to understand that caliborn is not exclusively an audience figure but also absolutely one of the comic's like fifty hussie stand-ins

[partyrockin]

void

[missbehavior0u0]

Blue hair and pronouns are out. Red eyes and ominous clone army are IN.

[energyprison]

oldest message in my askbox. i will not be posting it because its important to me

[molly-ren]

hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx <3

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

[molly-ren]

woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time

Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?

[stevita]

I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.

The world may never know…

[molly-ren]

Maybe it’s something mathematical?

[michaelblume]

I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.

[hosekisama]

It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.

(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)

[nentuaby]

“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.

[raincityruckus]

100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.

[sassafrassarah]

Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.

[taraljc]

I had been doing it for a very, very long time but never actually knew the actual name for it. This is exciting! I like learning things.