Michael Guy Bowman

Rock star!

[mguybowman]

Hello!

Michael Guy Bowman here! It's been many years since I had a Tumblr account, but I've been keeping myself surprisingly busy lately so I thought it would make sense to start fresh and show you all what I've been working on. Here's a rundown of the basics:

My website is michaelguybowman.com

My YouTube channel is still going

My music is on Bandcamp, Spotify, and basically everything else

I run a Discord server if you're interested in connecting with other True Bowlievers

Also if you're not already aware I got married earlier this year! My lovely wife Alice is on here and you should follow her as well. I released my latest single "A Beautiful Forever" last week to commemorate our wedding! You should check out the video which features actual footage from the ceremony - it's also available on Bandcamp, Spotify, etc.

More to come!

[warumin]

[mguybowman]

my tweet is so big i just found it on tumblr

[mguybowman]

Homestuck just sent me an email demanding an apology for stuff my wife said on Discord!

[mguybowman]

This anonymous burner email showed up out of the blue last September to say that it had heard I expressed some "interest" in being involved in future Homestuck projects last year after I put Andrew Hussie on blast for ghosting me in the middle of trying to finally get the broken Bandcamp fixed. I had no way to verify it was anyone involved in the company until I mentioned that WP was delinquent in sending music royalties for a year, upon which suddenly the entire music team received money. I was finally added to a new music team discord which hashed out the revitalized Bandcamp as it stands since last year.

I did NOT expect this anonymous account I haven't heard from in 7 months to suddenly cc Andrew and every one of their companies on what was essentially a pre-packaged callout doc using random conversations mostly between my wife and people across three different Discord servers with screen caps that the time stamps reveal to have been taken as far back as last July. This laundry list of things they think they're owed a public apology include remarks about completely unrelated subjects such as the development of Deltarune (hi Toby!) and Lexxy Douglass' failed Kickstarter.

The craziest part of this to me is that they admit to ghosting me deliberately on fixing the broken Bandcamp, a problem whose origins have never been fully explained and which has put What Pumpkin in violation of the terms of our contracts since 2019. Only after I dragged them kicking and screaming back into compliance by rallying public support on social media have we even gotten close to seeing this (mostly) fixed. And they think it's appropriate to tell me that the reason why they felt entitled to ghost me is because of remarks my wife made on social media when there was no way to tell whether they were ever going to follow up?

The comments we have made about Andrew, Toby, James, and Lexxy were all posted in the clear and each of them have my contact information if they felt the need to hash out their personal grievances with me. But to hold content fans enjoyed hostage over such pettiness and then demand I humiliate myself with a phony apology is an extraordinary low. They want to paint this like I'm desperate to continue working with them when they ought to be desperate for my assistance in rescuing a brand that's already tarnished by its constant misbehavior and inability to deliver anything its fans care about. I have no shame in letting them know exactly how I feel about their mob tactics and apologize for nothing.

[mguybowman]

Homestuck just sent me an email demanding an apology for stuff my wife said on Discord!

[mguybowman]

"Rarin' To Go" is my new track from RAKKA: WAKE 01 - SOOT! I'm proud to be one of the many musicians who contributed to this visual novel by Paradox Music Team. This is a super stylized and polished game, and the craziest part is I get to appear in it as a very special guest!

Check out the music video featuring footage from my sneak preview of the song at the Requiem Cafe. Maybe some of you cosplayers were there to witness HISTORY in the making!

Get RAKKA on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3455080/RAKKA_WAKE_01__SOOT/

Get the OST on Bandcamp: https://pascalpotatovandenbos.bandcamp.com/album/rakka-wake-01-soot-original-soundtrack

Stream the music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0NOsva5mTg9JTQy3Nx1BUA

[mguybowman]

so yeah the show went well

(video by b)

[mguybowman]

ANAHEIM! I’m coming back to the @requiemcafe to play Homestuck music once again as part of their weekend fan celebration! See you Saturday, April 11 at 7 pm!

[mguybowman]

I did an interview with @cals-calzones about music, getting re-involved in Homestuck, the upcoming visual novel Rakka: Wake 001 - Soot, and more!

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Oppa Toby Style vs Chain of Prospit

Which is the better Homestuck track?

Oppa Toby Style

Chain of Prospit

Voting ended onFeb 10

Oppa Toby Style From [S] Collide. By Toby Fox Propaganda: "listen to oppa toby style with zero context. it will melt the socks clean off your feet" "THIS IS SUCH A FUCKING BANGER OH MY GOSHHHHHEHDHESHHSHSGSGGSHH!!! YEAH!!!! YEAH!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!"

Chain of Prospit From Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido By Michael Guy Bowman Propaganda: "OH SHIT THIS BANGS. Adding this to my playlist(s) omg" "All time song. Easily one of the best homestuck songs. Bangs so fucking hard" "god i love this song" "CHAIN OF PROSPITTTT" "CHAIN OF PROSPIT LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" "Chain of Prospit is legit an icon"

[mguybowman]

Bowman gang rise up

[pir8core]

my spotify wrapped

[mguybowman]

Sweet haul!

[mguybowman]

I'm excited to announce that I've got a song in the upcoming Paradox Music Team visual novel RAKKA: WAKE 001 - SOOT! Please wishlist it on steam and check out the trailer featuring my song "Rarin' To Go"!

[mguybowman]

My full set from Promstuck is on YouTube!

Directed / edited by Lucas Adelman.

[mguybowman]

[S] ALL: BEHOLD GLORY OF ZILLYHOO

I ruffled a few feathers putting "original voice of John Egbert" in my Twitter profile but need I remind you that this actually happened on this freshly-restored page from 2011! Toby has since apparently cast himself as John in the cartoon pilot with some outlets even going on to assert he's "reprising" his role (from what? The Baby Is You?). True fans know better.

I made this goofy track when the Warhammer of Zillyhoo first crossed over from being bonus content for Problem Sleuth to being canon content for Homestuck and was pleasantly surprised and amazed when Andrew included it here. I have been told it resembles the title music from Halo and while I hear the resemblance I have never played Halo and also mine is better.

[sicknastyjr]

Vivziepop really should voice vriska if only for the fact it would be the single most polarizing thing ever and would piss off almost everybody in some way which is what I believe vriska's legacy boils down to

[dronebetter]

no Vriska is going to be voiced by @mguybowman i am afraid. did you not get the memo

[mguybowman]

Because we both can do no wrong. 😎

[coccodoodles]

Inktober day 3: Crown

Ink drawing of @mguybowman's track art that one of my favorite songs by him, Anarchy, was first released as a single under

[mguybowman]

[S] John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter.

When I sent my cover of "How Do I Live" as kind of a gag gift to Andrew Hussie via the old music team forum I was violating one of the first major rules of this project which was that we weren't supposed to be doing songs with lyrics. Given that I'd been sneaking in the occasional "meow" and "neigh" already just by being goofy enough to get my stuff shoved into the flashes, I figured taking a bigger, goofier swing by turning Diane Warren's rather reserved love song from Con Air into a thrashy, stadium sized rock ballad might meet Andrew's comedic sensibilities. Needless to say it made it in, becoming one of the comic's greatest and silliest music moments.

It was also a big adventure for me - I had never put any of my own singing online before! Suddenly I was way out of my comfort zone, passionately belting out a love song at power ballad levels. Listening to it now it's astonishing how brazen the whole thing is given how little experience I had, but I think Homestuck just has a way of driving people to try things they might not do otherwise. In some ways it was the crucial step that gave me the courage to pursue my own songwriting, which I soon did with Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido and all of the solo work that followed.

It's great to see this animation, which inspired so many of the people I've met at conventions to sing along even more brazenly, back on the website where it belongs. Grab your air guitars and join in!

[mguybowman]

have you become involved with the show since the initial tweet you made? the qna said it would have a lot of the original soundtrack and it would be very sad if your work wasn't there!

The new staff has gotten in touch with me - there's no promises or anything yet which makes sense since it doesn't seem like anyone knows if the TV show is going to get picked up for a series. But I was happy to hear Skye Henwood speak positively about the prospect of adapting more of the original music in the QA session that came out ahead of the pilot, so I'm assuming they're willing to play ball if the show gets off the ground.

Mainly I've just been in touch with them about restoring the Bandcamp, which has been a community effort with old music team members joining in. At the moment I feel fairly encouraged by how much overdue homework is finally getting turned in, so I'm going to see where this goes and hope for the best.