when we get to all come together and join in utter harmony, it truly is the most wonderful time of the year.
credit to angelicCompatriot and entomicAnomaly for our holly jolly cover art
thank you so much to @kyleehenke for lending her incredible talents in various different roles for this number, and the biggest thank you to everyone thats stuck around and supported us through 2025.
more coming for 2026, here's to another wonderful year!
you didnt think id forget about quadrant day, did you?
pleasure to work with sollux again, even if youre from a different timeline :) very much enjoyed singing with you, i feel a lot better about everything now that we put all of that in the open
cover art
lyrics by me and terminalAssymetry
lyrics:
AA: Do you remember when we didn't care?
TA: We were just two kids that took the moment when it was there
AA: Do you remember us at all?
BOTH: Another heart calls
TA: Yeah, I remember when we stole the night
BOTH: We'd lie awake but dreaming 'til the sun would wash the sky
TA: Just as soon as I see you
TA: But didn't I, but didn't I tell you?
AA: As deep as I need you
AA: Don’t wanna leave it all
TA: What can I do?
AA: Say it's true
TA: Or everything that matters breaks in two
AA: Say it's true
BOTH: I'll never ask for anyone but you
AA: Talk to me, I’m standing outside in front of you
TA: But this could be the last mistake that I would ever wanna do
BOTH: Yeah, all I wanna do is live
BOTH: But that’s not what we’re here to do
TA: Just as soon as I see you
BOTH: But didn't I, but didn't I tell you?
AA: As deep as I need you
AA: Don’t wanna leave it all
TA: What can I do?
BOTH: Say it's true
TA: Or everything that matters breaks in two
BOTH: Say it's true
TA: I'll never ask for anyone but you
AA: And I know what you want is to figure it out
BOTH: And God knows I do too
TA: What can I do?
AA: Say it's true
TA: I'll never ask for anyone but you
TA: Oh oh-oh oh, oh oh-oh oh
AA: Na na na-na na
TA: Oh oh-oh oh, oh oh-oh oh
AA: Na na na-na na
TA: I'm sorry
AA: For what?
TA: But you seem like you’ve had enough
TA: I'm sorry you don't care
AA: I still care, but you were never there
TA: Just as soon as I see you
TA: But didn't I, but didn't I tell you
AA: As deep as I need you
AA: Don’t wanna leave it all
BOTH: What can I do?
BOTH: Say it's true
TA: Or everything that matters breaks in two
BOTH: Say it's true
TA: I'll never ask for anyone but you
AA: But I know what you want is to figure it out
AA: And God knows I do, too
TA: Yeah, what can I do?
BOTH: Say it's true
TA: I'll never ask for anyone but you
BOTH: Oh oh-oh oh, oh oh-oh oh
TA: I'll never ask for anyone but you
AA: Na na na-na na
BOTH: Oh oh-oh oh, oh oh-oh oh
TA: I'll never ask for anyone but you
AA: Na na na-na na
BOTH: Oh oh-oh oh, oh oh-oh oh
BOTH: I'll never ask for anyone but you
AA: Na na na-na na
BOTH: Oh oh-oh oh, oh oh-oh oh
BOTH: I'll never ask for anyone but you
ARADIA: I like where we are
When we meet, in the dark
I like where we are, here
'Cause our lips can touch
And our cheeks can brush
Our lips can touch, here
Well, you are the only one who really knows me
Whisper "Hello, I've missed you quite terribly"
I fell in love, in love with you subtly
Now there's no place else I could be but here in your arms
SOLLUX: I like how carefree
You’re digging through debris
I like to just be, here
Our lips can touch
And our cheeks can brush
'Cause our lips can touch, here
Well, you are the only one who really knows me
Whisper "Hello, I've missed you quite terribly"
I fell in love, in love with you subtly
Now there's no place else I could be but here in your arms
ARADIA: Our lips can touch
SOLLUX: Our lips can touch, here
ARADIA: Well, you are the only one who really knows me
Whisper "Hello, I've missed you quite terribly"
SOLLUX: I fell in love, in love with you subtly
Now there's no place else I could be but here in your arms
ARADIA: Well, nothing hurts more than existing separately
BOTH: “My flush, hello, I've missed you quite, I've missed you quite"
It’s been so long since you were last close to me
Now there's no place else I could be but here in your arms
ARADIA: Here in your arms
SOLLUX: But here in your arms
as with everything at some point or another, my time with broadwaystuck has come to a close.
i still plan to make music, but i will no longer be associating myself with this particular project. too much timeline correction to do! however i am leaving it in very capable hands and im still excited to see what beautiful things the new management is able to achieve.
im ready to pass the torch to the next aradia floating around the dreambubbles
please enjoy this final duet by me and glamourAficionado as a parting gift!
cover art (edit of the fool in her wedding gown): glamourAficionado
OOC: i'm not gonna subject all of you to reading my sappy goodbye note but if you're interested i have a real long story/some final thoughts under the cut. if not, no worries! tl;dr: i'm grateful for everything this group has done for me, and i'm gonna keep making music as aradia under anticipatedAffliction to close out the requests i had and do aradia stuff on my own time. hugest thank you to everyone who's supported me over the years, i hope to see you over at my other blog! :D
hey guys, i wanted to break character for a second to talk about what an incredible journey these past four years have been. i'm gonna give y'all a little glimpse into my background w/ homestuck singing: i had my mom buy me a $30 usb karaoke microphone from walmart when i was 14 so that i could record an audition for broadwaystuck way back in 2012. auditions weren't even open back then! i sent the email anyway, never heard anything back, but i decided then that if i had that microphone, i was gonna do something with it. i started punkstuck, a singing group in 2013, met some amazing people (one of which i'm dating today!), and decided that singing in the homestuck community was something i wanted to do for a long time. singing in general always brought me so much joy and i loved meeting people. it was such a great community, a balance of both worlds, i couldn't get enough. in 2014 i joined homestrukk as a writer. i faced a lot of rejection whenever i'd audition for groups back then, but i was having fun! i didn't let it stop me. in 2015, i started experimenting with harmonies, bought a better microphone with birthday money, and delved further into voice acting. in 2016, the comic ended, and with it, a lot of the community died as well. i also graduated that year, and had to shift myself into the real world one way or another since i wasn't going to college-- got a part-time job that quickly turned full time, and kind of lost my spark for recording, especially with the death of the comic. i would lay low for years thinking the homestuck voice acting/singing years were behind me. between 2017 and 2021, i was actually at my lowest mentally, and it took most of the latter half of 2021 and most of 2022 to claw my way out.
in late 2022, i got a message from an old friend of mine from homestrukk. he asked me to help him revive broadwaystuck-- a name i hadn't heard in Years, but i agreed. he brought me on as a head admin so he had someone to help him judge auditions.
a LOT of shit happened. it started with sahcon panels and group songs, then quickly evolved into merch drops to help fundraise for our live performances. people came and went. i clung to the project like it was my baby. it was my baby! seeing the revival of the homestuck music scene wasn't something i thought i'd ever see. that alone brought me so much joy-- imagine the pure GLEE i felt when i received news that we were invited to promstuck 2025? and the ELATION when the announcement hit that i (ME??) was selected as one of the performers? me, the guy who got rejected at least 50 times in high school for singing groups? the guy who didn't even make an ensemble part the one time he auditioned for a school musical? still reeling from this. literally one of the biggest highlights of my life and also i now get to directly credit homestuck as the source of my first ever live performance which is both awesome AND hilarious.
everything was happening bigger than i ever could have imagined it. i travelled across the country by myself to meet the mods i had grown incredibly close to. we had so much fun that weekend, but it begged the question: what's next?
well, what's next would be a beautiful jane audition that would bring us our NEXT live performance opportunity in 2026. again, i would get to meet a couple of my best friends in person and watch one of the most (if not the Single most) positive crowds i've ever seen dance and chant along to broadwaystuck and all of the other wonderful performers at pan ranger's 'all the things you can dream' 5 year anniversary event.
i didn't think about it until now, but what a fitting name for that show. it encompasses everything i'm saying now: all the things you can dream will lead you to joy if you let them.
saying yes to that dm in 2022 literally changed my life. i picked up a guitar and started to write music, started performing regularly (karaoke bars, sure, but it still counts!), but above anything, i found my spark again.
okay, emerie, if everything is so awesome, why part ways with the project? you love it so much!
yeah, i do, that's true, but you know what they say about loving something and letting it go. i think this chapter of my life is over now. i've received amazing opportunities and forged so many amazing connections through running this project, but to be honest with y'all, i just don't have the time and the emotional bandwidth anymore. it's time to pass the torch to someone with drive, with passion, with incredible ideas and plans and experience running big groups (yeah, ALL of this was new to me 0_0).
this is a new chapter for both of us; me and the project as a whole, and i want everyone reading this (if you still are, jesus christ, i wrote a fucking novel, hii! ty for sticking around!) to get excited! get involved! buy a shitty walmart microphone and start recording, pick up a pencil or a pen to write a silly parody for a character you like, draw some fanart-- anything you want to do to be creative in a community. that's what all of this is about-- community.
thank you, broadwaystuck. and thank you to YOU, whoever's reading this, for your continued support of my music.
ps: this is not a final goodbye! i am parting ways with the project but i do plan on utilizing anticipatedAffliction to continue to work on requests on my own time as aradia. i just wanted to take a minute (or FIFTY) to acknowledge everything the group has done for me. look forward to more music and more duets, maybe even some original songs over there!
i suppose i should stop apologizing for things beyond my control but i assure you all im back on the road to production now
big things coming for this sweep so get excited!
lyrics
I am what you want me to be
And I'm your worst fear
You'll find it in me
Come closer
Come closer
I am more than memory
I am what might be
I am mystery
You know me
So show me
When I appear
It's not so clear
If I'm a simple spirit
Or I'm flesh and blood
But I'm alive, I'm alive, I am so alive
And I feed on the fear that's behind your eyes
And I need you to need me, it's no surpriseI'm alive
So alive
I'm alive
I am flame and I am fire
I am destruction, decay, and desire
I'll hurt you
I'll heal you
I'm your wish, your dream come true
And I am your darkest nightmare too
I've shown you
I own you
And though you made me
You can't change me
I'm the perfect stranger
That knows you too well
But I'm alive, I'm alive, I am so alive
And I'll tell you the truth if you let me try
You're alive, I'm alive, and I'll show you why
I'm alive
So alive
I'm alive
I'm right behind you
You say forget, but I'll remind you
You can try to hide but you know that I will find you
Cause if you won't grieve me
You won't leave me behind
Oh-ho, oh
Whoa
Whoa
No, no, no
I'm alive, I'm alive, I am so alive
If you climb on my back, then we both can fly
If you try to deny me, I'll never die
