Sandswept: The Ultimate Recruitment Post: Origins Edition
What is a Sandswept? Is it some sort of revolutionary drain cleaner?
No, silly. It’s much better than that. It’s a Homestuck fan comic.
Remember that time Hussie made a one-off joke on Formspring? Well, we do, thanks to the spin-off fan project it inspired! Sandswept is the story of the totally canonical 48 player squiddle session that came before Homestuck. That’s right, you may have seen all those Homestuck Sequel comics going around, but Sandswept is the only completely unofficial Homestuck Prequel comic going right now!
Sandswept is probably one of the most ambitious fan-projects in the Homestuck fandom; the comic has been running for over four years, and the project itself has been alive for nearly five. There’s tons of flashes, TWO very cool walkarounds (with many more to come), and not to mention a plot involving over sixty characters!
Even if you hate Homestuck now because of the fans or direction of the comic or a rejected love confession to Andrew Hussie or whatever it may be, this one may still be for you.
Wow… Wai– it’s been going for four years? But you only have 330 pages? Whaaaaaa?
WE NEED FRESH MEAT! Want to flesh out our dry, lifeless, bare bones comic staff? It’s only got like 7 people right now! We need more artists to keep up with our writers’ output. Free fan projects are really hard to do, and that’s why we need your help!
As of right now, Act 2 of Sandswept, which is PRETTY DARN GOOD if I do say so myself, has been finished writing-wise for quite some time now, but we have so few people on board that we’re all spread pretty thin over a lot of content. Right now, we are like a poor ocean fish, stranded on the shore, gasping for water. The water is you. The sand is, I don’t know, this is a bad metaphor.
There are two ways you can contribute:
#1 - Sharing our comic (and this post) with your friends, family, enemies, & random passersby! This is the easy option. You can accomplish this one–no sweat!
#2 - Contributing to the project! Do you have any spare time you could use to write, edit, or art? Do you have an unreasonable fondness for sea flora and fauna? Then Sandswept may be for you.
Here’s some of the different areas in which you could help out:
We’re looking for artists most out of any of these sections, because art is what makes comics so cool. If you can do any of these, we’d be lucky to have you:
Sprite art, both for the regular comic and the walkarounds.
Hero Mode page art for when stuff gets really serious.
Concept art to help flesh out future locations, scenes, and characters in the comic and help other artists out.
We definitely need more people who would like to dedicate some serious time to making Sandswept become really awesome, but even if you just want to casually contribute some art for a few pages or create some assets for one flash, you are still very wanted!
Flashes are obviously great, but they are also hard to make. If you have any skill in that realm, we’d love your help.
We have several talented writers on board the Good Ship Sandswept already, but we are currently looking for a few energetic, inspired individuals to jazz up our writing! This is the hardest position to help with, mostly because you’ll have to catch up on all our planning and get up-to-date, but it’s also really rewarding because you get to put “I wrote a Squiddle Fancomic!!!!” on your resume one day. (Editors are welcome too)
Starting now, we’re currently taking music submissions for Sandswept Vol. 1. If you want to join the soon-to-be highly-regarded Squiddle Music Team, this is for you. We’ll post a more comprehensive separate post about this later, but right now we’re looking for the first volume to release alongside our next big walkaround, hopefully in a few months. Character themes, musical renditions of famous scenes– it’s all up for grabs.
Come on in, the water’s fine! Or mediocre at the very least!
Oops, heading. You were supposed to be the one asking questions, not encouraging readers. But thanks anyway; you did a good job.
Sandswept’s not just another fan adventure; it’s a full-fledged fan project for the entire Homestuck fandom. If you’re interested in helping out, please sign up! You can contact us on Tumblr, or on the Omegapause Forums, our temporary project hub since the MSPA Forums crashed. We have a really cool Discord chat you can join too; that’s where we do most of our talking.
And aside from all the cool comic-making, the Sandswept team is also really fun too. Sometimes, certain team members of ours go and make really crazy stuff just for fun, including this video about the character Gini getting married, featuring cameos by many squiddle friends that have yet to be introduced in the comic:
And hey, please remember to share this post and give it as wide a reach as possible! Sandswept is aiming to be the biggest post-ending Homestuck fan project out there, and we hope it can reach as much of the current fandom as possible. Reblogs can go a long way.
Thanks for reading. Stay Ultrapeace Friendlycles, everyone.
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