#desynced

[tomatowithsourcheese]

On paper

[artazura]

Track art I did for "Be Jack". A song in the Desynced Album "Noirscape"

Check the album out here

https://youtu.be/CBtxE65TVhs?si=LGTNttr4Vnk-pTfJ

[voftdubsofficial]

November's schedule!

All streams are at 7pm ET (11pm UTC) on our YouTube channel.

We'll be taking time off the last Friday of the month for Thanksgiving!

Mondays Deltarune 11/7 Bard Quest and Jailbreak 11/14 Desynced 11/21 Variety Stream

[ok-pop-1]

now that im back in the clutches of the homestuck obsession, here's some guys from @desynced-official

[limeade-arcade]

Back at it again with another track art for Descyned! This time I've only got the one for Noirscape, a solo album by Witch's Cadence! If you're a fan of the Drawing dead album, and want to see its motifs used in a new, fun way, i highly recommend giving it a listen!!

[ppdoodle]

first post here uhhh have some desynced fanart of my fav outfits ft enid and kate:)))

[betweengenesisfrogs]

Desynced

So I really like Desynced.

Strictly speaking, it doesn't 100% fit what I was talking about in my Homestuck manifesto, since it's technically a Homestuck fan adventure rather than a brand new work.

However…for a fanwork, it feels more like a new piece of Homestuckian art than many others I've seen?

I'm reminded of an old Hussie formspring response, where the question was about what would happen if siblings living in the same house played SBURB. Hussie's response was that one shouldn't try to solve this with the rules of Homestuck, but instead imagine the kind of story and plot that would suit such a scenario.

Desynced is like that - playing by its own rules. A lot of other fan adventures feel too stuck (ha) in adhering to the rules of SBURB and Paradox Space. Desynced is quite literally playing an entirely different game. It lets go of so much about the way a fan story is traditionally conceived, and brings in its own set of laws and ideas that fit its own story better.

Some things I like, in no particular order:

-The depiction of parents and children - Desynced knocks this out of the park by splitting the difference between faceless authority figures and relatable kids by playing with perception and letting the parents talk to each other as adults, even when they're faceless to their kids. There is some really phenomenal parent-child content here. The relationship between Kate and her father, for instance, is fraught and filled with missed conversations that break my heart

-That in 2024, everybody in the main group gets to be queer and trans from the very start

-That the protagonist kids are Zoomers, and we see that their interests tend not toward 80s movies but things like Minecraft and Discord chats

-That we seem to be building towards a "war in heaven" theme, where different members of the future gods and Carapacians will take different sides in a cosmic struggle

-The music, which is full of bangers and feels like the sequel to the Homestuck bandcamp page that I never knew I needed

-The total reimagining of Jack Noir, which seems like it shouldn't work, but totally does

-The genius way that the game's equivalent of Denizens tie into weird cosmic mysteries

-Alien kids who appear at first glance to be trolls but are quickly revealed to not be trolls at all (maybe they're tieflings)

-The way in this universe, Trollsonas only exist in connection to an obscure game called Hiveswap

-The fact that the fantasy land inhabitants, the equivalent of consorts, are more fleshed out and have their own lives going on instead of just being silly animals - which hints that we're taking 'their existence more seriously and sincerely.

-That when Desynced does "play the Homestuck hits," it reminds you of how good those narrative structures are. Examples include:

Ordinary internet friend group discovers they are all interconnected and inveigled in a vast conspiracy

Making sense of the rules of a confusing alternate gamey-reality that suggests a sense of purpose but doesn't give you instructions for achieving it

Oh, and also, you have to do this while the world is ending and you're about to die

Villain narrator makes fun of you, the reader

Alien kids interrupt your game session to ramble at you about how they know much more about the game than you do, but it turns out they're just a tiny bit ahead and they're as confused about most things as you are

Ascending to godhood helps you redefine your identity but also causes as many problems as it solves

It's like, woah, Homestuck was really cooking, wasn't it?

We're all so used to the Homestuck plot structures and conventions that I think it's very easy to lose sight of why we fell in love with it in the first place. Reading Desynced made me remember how much I love the premise of Homestuck. Desynced achieves this by detaching from convention and focusing on Homestuck's themes: parent-child relationships, the limitations of one's ideology, the double-edged sword of finding identity in fantasy, and more.

So yes, Desynced is a Homestuck fanwork. But if we're asking where a Homestuck literary movement might go in the future, Desynched offers us a really neat glimpse of part of the answer.

I highly recommend checking it out, if you're interested.

-Ari

[metianull]

YA LIKE DRAGONS? well you're gonna LOVE Desynced!

i had the Absolute pleasure to contribute one minute and toenty one beautiful seconds to this bundle of bangers, every single one with its unique personality, vibe and lore!!!! its a whole album of character themes, how much COOLER can it get??? ?"!? if you like anything homestuck music related, give this a watch, there's something for everyone, i'm serious!!! OH AND ALSO!

READ!!!!!!!!!!! DESYNCED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!