It’s time to close up shop and say goodbye to these wacky kids. Will we ever see them again? Will we ever enter this dreadful highschool AU world once more? Unfortunately, the answer is most likely ‘yes’.
But until then, we bid you adieu.
Shelby:
Promstuck has been an amazing journey and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed drawing for it! uA and CV are both amazingly talented people and I'm totally proud that I somehow got them to write a giant story about a high school prom. YOU GUYS ROCK, SERIOUSLY.
And now here's the part where I start quoting Mean Girls or something, but a special shoutout to my friend MJ, without her, Vriska's Sexy Sex Tips would not be a thing and where would fandom be without that? Also, thank you to my good friend Meredith for fashion consultation, without her Terezi's awful printed dress, Kanaya's actually cute dress, and Vriska's red cowboy boots would not be a part of this beautiful journey.
THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT.
Cephied Variable:
I was pulled into this project a little bewildered and unwilling. I would like to state for the record that I have long considered myself to possess too much intellectual integrity to write a High School AU, but the mighty have fallen. I would like to thank REO Speedwagon, the like ten reader suggestions from my boyfriend we ended up unwittingly using and our wonderful, supportive fans for hastening my descent into this indignity.
urbanAnchorite:
I never thought that starting this it would turn into any kind of deal; I mean, we were writing a high-school AU about prom, we started out basically doing it for our friends’ amusement after Ceph pointed out the idea in a livestream. Promstuck owes its beginnings to two people: one being Memlu, who came up with the idea (right down to John and Karkat smooching to Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past at the end) and one being an anonymous benefactor who started writing a Promstuck story on the meme in response. We just want to tell them that we loved your story, and we’re only sorry it never finished!
To everyone who’s been following along, original Marchingstuck fans and others: you are fantastic. Thank you so much for taking the time out to read our terrible AU about prom. Working with CV is flawless and beautiful and terrible like cupping my own buttocks like wounded doves, and every writer should be so lucky as to have an artist like Shelby -- the woman is a fucking dynamo. We never really had to tell her what to draw; we’d just all work in psychic tandem, and she’d turn out a flawless picture that worked perfectly with the text or our ideas of what the text looked like. There was only one thing she balked at in the entire fan adventure, and that was drawing that vending machine.
I was weirded out by this because this is the artist who drew Eridan turning into a cross-dressing magical girl without so much as blinking, but her wall was the vending machine. She didn’t want to do the vending machine. She asked for ways not to do the vending machine. Her excuse regarding the vending machine: “It just seems like a lot of work.” “IT’S A VENDING MACHINE.” “I’m not feeling it.” “IT’S A BOX.”
Moral is, if you have just drawn over three hundred images of John and Karkat touching each other’s butts and the same prom decorations over and over and over you’re allowed to get stubborn about a vending machine. (I still made her do it.)
I’m still planning on showcasing some of the deeply fucking hilarious commands we got -- without the audience, Jade/Nepeta/Equius would never have come to pass -- because you guys proved that given the ask box and a problem, you would assault it with ideas that I had never thought of and that nobody should probably think of, ever. You came up more ways to solve problems using Karkat’s witch intestine than we’d ever intended. We ended up not using his witch intestine at all. I’m really sorry.
Thank you to all the readers who were John/Karkat fans to start with and all the readers who would drop the John/Karkat ship out in the sea but read Promstuck anyway. And thank you to all who picked out each and every Achewood reference.
Shoutout to all the artists who gave their talents to the crossovers and the Great Kiss Suspense Fake-Out -- owlpellets with Goblet Of Sick Fires, roachpatrol with Hemostuck, bobie, myotishi, MJ, dobie, Kels, madseason -- and I’d like to give a very personal shout-out to you. Yes, you. Sitting right there, reading this. I love you and I have always loved you. Please be mine. I can’t live without you any longer.
no, wait, come back
