for the past two months i’ve been working on a rewrite of my godawful beloved 2 year old 3rd life sburb fic! it’s part of the MCYTblr AUfest, and today is the day where i will finally release the first chapter!!,!!!
i am so fucking excited to share this silly little incredible fanfiction with you all so…
HERE YOU GO! ENJOY
if you have any questions or want to know anything please don’t be afraid to shoot me an ask or scroll through my tag #sotdd
I WANT TO SEE YOUR REACTIONS. do not be afraid to share them
posting schedule below the cut!
chapter 1 (world machine)- posted MONDAY july 17th (today!!)
chapter 2 (awakening)- tuesday july 18th
chapters 3 and 4 (regret & proximity)- friday july 21st (this gap is to allow time for theorycrafting and shit)
chapter 5 (redacted but the title is so fucking funny)- sunday july 23rd
i wrote this for the mcytblr AUfest of 2023 as a SBURB (homestuck) au of 3rd life!
HERE YOU GO IN ALL ITS GLORY
this fic was a huge labor of love to write, with all the classpecting and video game references and plot logistics i put into it. it took over 2 months to write, and ended up being over 25,000 words— more than double my original goal of 10,000 words
i finally had someone ask about this and i’m dying to share, so here’s all the classpects, dreaming moons and land names of the 3rd lifers in my fic “dreaming dead”!
you can request analyses/explanation of each member by asking me!! (please do this i have so much to say)
PROSPIT
Bdubs - Bard of Time (Land of Metronomes and Rhythm)
Big B - Seer of Space (Land of Mist and Frogs)
Etho - Heir of Void (Land of Trees and Nothing)
Impulse - Rogue of Blood (Land of Daylight and Labyrinth) (yes i know he should be a derse dreamer with etho)
Scar - Witch of Rage (Land of Spikes and Balloons)
Skizz - Knight of Blood (Land of Towers and Gravity)
Tango - Page of Time (Land of Pipes and Magma)
DERSE
Cleo - Thief of Life (Land of Ruins and Flame)
Grian - Maid of Doom (Land of Spotlights and Fungi)
Jimmy - Sylph of Heart (Land of Ribbons and Specter)
Joel - Prince of Breath (Land of Plants and Constraint)
Martyn - Knight of Light (Land of Glass and Dice)
Ren - Maid of Hope (Land of Mirrors and Promise) (he should probably be on prospit though)
oh if it isn’t this new person who i have absolutely no connections to
(for the 6 other people reading, he’s on my splatoon team and i made them read the fic and told them to maybe send an ask even though they don’t know homestuck :P)
etho is kind of a funny guy in this fic because he was basically not even in it until the last week of writing. there’s the small section of chapter 4 where he’s accompanying skizz and has like 2 lines. but at some point while writing i realized “OH SHIT FUCK FUCK ETHO BARELY EVER SHOWS UP” but i figured out a way to give him a moment in the last chapter and everything”s fine. and the lack of uh, relevance he has to most of the plot is reflected with his classpect!
etho is the heir of void which is. sort of a classpect used in canon homestuck as equius’s title, and generally means “one who becomes (surrounded by) nothingness”. for equius it meant that he quickly faded from having any relevance or screen time in the narrative, and it means the same for etho here.
i’d like to think this is in part because he really does disappear from all discussion or events at some point in 3rd life, but honestly it might be a bit biased from my perspective? i didn’t watch any renchanting POVs when 3rd life initially came out, so from what i saw back then it didn’t look like etho was there at all lol
his land has a bit more of a story to it, though. my beta .khads suggested it being some sort of dark oak forest pretty early on, when i had barely figured out anyone’s land names. i decided on “trees” as the first noun. and you know how long i stayed undecided on the other noun? Over A Month.
at the halfway point, my lovely artist @anachronistic-cat was assigned to me and i sent them detailed descriptions of each player’s land for drawing inspiration. etho’s said something like “land of trees and ???? (i have no fucking idea what to do)”. cat suggested that the second word could be “nothing”, and i took this and ran with it- made it into a forest with no grass or animals, which basically isn’t even a forest. in chapter 9, etho describes the lack of basically anything there as being unnerving and out-of-place.
so i figured out how to make it cool after all!
my apologies to all the ethogirls out there. i have much to learn and many videos to watch. i promise most of the others are more interesting than this
