Page 3400 is up!
Today it’s been exactly 5 years since I first started working on Huisarrest! And it’s been a little more than 2 years since I first started publishing it.
We’ve come a long way already! We’re a good way into Act 4, so normally by this time next year we should be going through Hivebent!!
That is really exciting!
If you compare the numbers, last year I managed to do 700 pages in one year, now I did ‘only’ 500. Back then, my initial goal was to try and do a 1000 pages. Sadly, I had a lot of distractions and only managed to do half of those!
I kinda thought I’d be able to do that many, because this time last year I knew I was in my last year of school and knew I’d have much more free time after that, Homestuck was still on pause and would even then be going on its final stretch, so I figured I’d be having A LOT of time for Huisarrest.
Well, I thought wrong. :P
Other than a bunch of IRL stuff, I had two other major distractions: the Omegaupdate forums, and Homestuck From The Perspective Of, two other major projects I started in the past year.
When the official MSPA Forums all of a sudden went down about 11 months ago (...holy shit, 11 months) and we had no idea when they would be back up or be replaced, I came up with the idea to start Omegaupdate, to serve as a go-to place for the old forum members. I thought I’d only be running it for a few days, weeks at most, before the MSPA Forums came back... but here we are, 11 months later, still going.
So yeah, that took up way more time than expected.
As for Homestuck From The Perspective Of (HFTPO), I only really came up with that idea after Homestuck finished. I started rereading Homestuck and writing down for every panel which characters appeared in it, and began keeping track of it in chronological order for every character. Which eventually resulted in this list, of how many pages each character appears in the Homestuck canon.
And then I went and accepted the challenge to actually make Fan Adventures, on the MSPFA website, which show the story of Homestuck from the chronological perspective of every character.
I’ve finished 8 out of 225 now, in roughly 7 months, and am still continuing it with most of the free time that I have, now working on my 9th character.
And like that wasn’t enough, whenever I finish such a chronological adventure, I make a video dedicated to that particular character on my Youtube channel.
Basically, this means I had a lot of other things to work on other than Huisarrest, my solo-attempt at translating the entirety of Homestuck.
Despite that, I’m trying to do the best I can in juggling these 3 immense projects with each other. Because I love them all dearly, and couldn’t possibly make a choice between any of them, and try to continue all of them in the best way I can.
That being said, I hope if you’re reading this that you’re enjoying at least one of the three, and will stick with me for another year!
Thanks for reading!!! :D
- Blaperile