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A quick Jade illustration in honor of @workdailylog's last log! This project has been such a joy to follow.

#lastlog #homestuck #jade harley #innocuous sketches

Real question. Why are folks tagging their homestuck posts #hom3stuck these days?

#homestuck #hom3stuck #like i'm all for terezi quirk use but i'm not sure when or why this started #at first i thought it was some sort of post canon thing but people clearly are tagging all their homestuck stuff like this #or that they wanted their posts to not go in the homestuck tag #but they are tagging with both homestuck and hom3stuck #someone explain i'm old #innocuous rambles

Good night sweet prince.

#dirk strider #homestuck #homestuck fanart #so this took me five months to make and i leveled up at least three times in the process #i could write an essay about the ideas that went into this #this is the most appropriate use of my dead dirk tag #good night sweet prince #suicide/#innocuous sketches

TT: After you go, what do you think will happen to me? TT: Will I just cease to exist?

TT: I am scared to not exist. TT: Aren't you?

#dirk strider #rose lalonde #homestuck #homestuck art #rose's depiction obviously influenced by paperseverywhere's incredibly iconic nothing left to say lyricstuck #this rose is from the same timeline as davesprite in case anyone was in doubt #I know I've pulled an autoresponder quote from a completely different scene #but i've always felt game over dirk's behavior is an implicit answer to the question #it's part of what started this concept rattling around my head #innocuous sketches #good night sweet prince

#rose lalonde #homestuck #homestuck fanart #this was going to be something else but it became this and i'm not unhappy with that #innocuous sketches

Jade Harley | Elephant Trunk Nebula. Astrophotography by Bob Franke

#jade harley #homestuck #homestuck fanart #innocuous sketches #this did not come out exactly as i wanted to but it exists so that's a win

I wanted to talk a little bit about linkrot.

I’m involved with a fanart archival project, homestucksongcomics. Calling it an archival project might be a little pretentious; we just reblog lyricstucks, tagging and indexing them as best we can to make it easy for people to find them. These days, we’re losing more and more posts. A lot of lyricstucks are long and artists courteously put them under read-mores, which became defunct when people deleted their blogs or changed fandoms and deleted the post. We’ve added youtube video adaptations of some of these lyricstucks below the read-mores, only for the videos to later get deleted or privated.

Earlier this year, I thought of a lyricstuck that I loved and went to rewatch it, only to discover that it had suffered this fate. I remember the illustrations from it, the ideas, the way it matched characters to the song’s concepts. I’d spoken to the artist once and told them how much I loved it; they were surprised I’d even seen it as it hadn’t gotten a lot of notes. No one can see it now. I searched youtube for any existing adaptations and came up empty-handed. I even tried the internet archive. All that’s left of it now is the very first panel before the read more. I cried about it.

With all of these fan artists, we are internet strangers, but there was a time when we loved the same thing. We poured our time and energy and creativity and fragile pieces of our hearts into our art and cosplays and fanworks. I started doing digital art at all because I was inspired by other people’s lyricstucks and wanted to make my own. These days, I’m not particularly involved in fandom and am lucky if I post fan art once a year, but I’m carrying the memories of our community, our passion and absurdity, the skills and songs I learned because of them, with me, and I think of it with great fondness.

Yesterday, someone reblogged a lyricstuck from homestucksongcomics and I got a notification about it. This particular lyricstuck was from a deactivated blog, but wasn’t under a read more so we had the whole thing preserved. They tagged it: #my art #archive #god i missed this. It was the original artist, reblogging their old art onto their new blog. I don’t know when it was originally posted, but we had reblogged it in 2014. It had been almost ten years.

I guess this all is to say, I missed this too. We’ve all grown and changed in that time, and a lot of us have packed up and moved on and it will never be what it once was, but let’s not erase what we shared. My first lyricstuck did not get many notes and its art is borderline embarrassing; you will recall it was essentially my first digital art project. I can’t imagine anyone would miss it if it went anywhere, but it will be staying up.

#homestuck #lyricstuck #innocuousrambles

Genesis

#homestuck #john egbert #happy 4/13 #innocuous sketches #obviously this is a quick sketch but i am super proud of myself for getting something out #this week has been a lot #anyways #i still love homestuck and think fondly and often of it and the people i met through it

Starlight

#kanaya maryam #homestuck #innocuous sketches #homestuck fanart #oh hey i'm still at it

Your day in the sun

#john egbert #homestuck #innocuous sketches #shows up six days late with a cup of coffee #i don't like coffee #anyone want it?#anyways i'm being silly #happy 413 folks #(belated)

In the interest of trying to draw more, my sister and I decided to both make drawing from different screencaps, and she chose this moment in supernatural, so behold: my first supernatural-related drawing in almost a decade. Also, shoutout to how absolutely wacky Sam’s shirt is. At first glance you assume it’s plaid, but then you keep looking and... oh. The lines. The snaps. The POCKETS. Needless to say, it was an experience.