[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

You have no idea how much I wanted this to happen. “[S] JOHN. RISE UP.” is an excellent flash and Marcy Nabors’ “Renewed Return” is an excellent song. So I edited the song and put it in, adding a cymbal swell in the beginning for a better introduction. In my opinion this makes the flash very epic in a whole new way.

Hope you guys enjoy.

“[S] JOHN. RISE UP.” and the webcomic Homestuck were created by Andrew Hussie.

“Renewed Return” was composed by Marcy Nabors, who plays the bass clarinet in this song. Yishan Mai plays the flute, Kelly Sadwin plays the violin and viola, and Jamie Paige Stanley plays the percussion. The Latin lyrics were written by Kyle G. Jamolin, who also did the choir direction. The song features the voice talents of Ciaran Cain, Zeynep Dilli, Kat Jamolin, Kyle G. Jamolin, Michael Ohr, Corbin Pangilinan, Robin S, Chris Roper, and Stephen “Jeebes” Wiley. You can buy it and 24 other songs in Homestuck Vol. 10.

The music was edited and placed into the video by me.

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

thank you homestuck vol. 10 for allowing me to experience joy again

[ylwkirby-moved]

What’s it like being 21 and older

[dream-cassette]

[dokudoki]

The thing is perfect omnipresence is... BORING. If Core frisk was this then there is no tension. We know they'll solve any problem cause they already KNOW how to solve it! There's a reason why there is no story about a perfect utopia. Cause its Boring! Core Frisk having these limitations, Not being to see glitches and anti void make it interesting. Cause they have to work around their powers to solve it! There''s still development for Core who thought they already had all the answers.

Look at Core again. You just called them boring. You do realize there’s much more to them than their omnipresence? Not to mention those “limitations” completely mess with the basic concept. It’s full or nothing, buddy, and I stay behind it.

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

I’m actually with anon on this one. Yeah, Core!Frisk has a personality that some people can find entertaining, but anon has a point that if Core!Frisk can essentially solve any problem you ever throw at them, then as a character they lack any capacity to be set back by conflict and thus you can’t really make an interesting and gripping story that anyone could be invested in. You can only take a charming personality so far before people start wanting stuff to happen that feels like it matters and requires effort. It might defeat the purpose of Core!Frisk to deprive them of their absolute omnipresence, but a possible critique could be that Core!Frisk is then simply not a very good character if you look at them from the vantage point of wanting to make certain kinds of stories.

[dokudoki]

Except they can’t solve every problem? I keep repeating it all over again? They’re just literally everywhere, that’s it. They’re not some omnipotent Mary Sue who’s always right, they’re not even omniscient because they DON’T know everything - they only know things that can be observed. You buddy don’t understand CORE!Frisk at all, you’re just looking on the surface and see “a creepy but adorable void child who knows everything”. Let me quote a character analysis of Core by @askgalaxytale that I really like:

“[Personality] is probably my favorite part of Core, since the nature of their personality is so complex, and almost impossible to determine just how much truth is put behind the way they act. … Core’s a bit of a finicky character in that respect, seeing as their personality not only depends on the events at hand, but also directly on who they’re speaking to. To a Papyrus, they may naturally make themselves a bit more chipper in an attempt to keep the Papyrus in a happy state, but they may just as quickly become more somber when dealing with a Gaster, more prone to flirting around a Frisk, and so forth. But what is their true personality?“

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

If CORE!Frisk is literally omnipresent—i.e. absolutely everywhere at every moment in time—the result is basically omniscience. The only thing CORE!Frisk couldn’t know are things which they couldn’t bear direct witness to, such as a person’s internal thoughts which were never given voice, ever. But in terms of actions, they would know every conceivable action any given character would ever make because they would be able to directly witness it first-hand. That’s so much knowledge it’s not far down from omniscience and it’s absolutely game-breaking.

And yeah that’s a fun personality thing, but like I said, people crave conflict and CORE!Frisk basically destroys any hope of that. A fun personality doesn’t make for a character in a good or gripping story.

[dokudoki]

This is not about creating a character than people would like. This is about creating a believable but unique omnipresent character. I don’t care if you don’t like CORE!Frisk and find them boring, I refuse to restrict their omnipresence just so they can be more “interesting” to you. If you crave conflict then either go somewhere else, or look closer.

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

I understand your obstinance but I'm just being the Devil's advocate here. You created a character people like but has very limited applications in a good narrative and that is a very justifiable reason to criticize the nature of a character.

[dokudoki]

The thing is perfect omnipresence is... BORING. If Core frisk was this then there is no tension. We know they'll solve any problem cause they already KNOW how to solve it! There's a reason why there is no story about a perfect utopia. Cause its Boring! Core Frisk having these limitations, Not being to see glitches and anti void make it interesting. Cause they have to work around their powers to solve it! There''s still development for Core who thought they already had all the answers.

Look at Core again. You just called them boring. You do realize there’s much more to them than their omnipresence? Not to mention those “limitations” completely mess with the basic concept. It’s full or nothing, buddy, and I stay behind it.

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

I’m actually with anon on this one. Yeah, Core!Frisk has a personality that some people can find entertaining, but anon has a point that if Core!Frisk can essentially solve any problem you ever throw at them, then as a character they lack any capacity to be set back by conflict and thus you can’t really make an interesting and gripping story that anyone could be invested in. You can only take a charming personality so far before people start wanting stuff to happen that feels like it matters and requires effort. It might defeat the purpose of Core!Frisk to deprive them of their absolute omnipresence, but a possible critique could be that Core!Frisk is then simply not a very good character if you look at them from the vantage point of wanting to make certain kinds of stories.

[dokudoki]

Except they can’t solve every problem? I keep repeating it all over again? They’re just literally everywhere, that’s it. They’re not some omnipotent Mary Sue who’s always right, they’re not even omniscient because they DON’T know everything - they only know things that can be observed. You buddy don’t understand CORE!Frisk at all, you’re just looking on the surface and see “a creepy but adorable void child who knows everything”. Let me quote a character analysis of Core by @askgalaxytale that I really like:

“[Personality] is probably my favorite part of Core, since the nature of their personality is so complex, and almost impossible to determine just how much truth is put behind the way they act. … Core’s a bit of a finicky character in that respect, seeing as their personality not only depends on the events at hand, but also directly on who they’re speaking to. To a Papyrus, they may naturally make themselves a bit more chipper in an attempt to keep the Papyrus in a happy state, but they may just as quickly become more somber when dealing with a Gaster, more prone to flirting around a Frisk, and so forth. But what is their true personality?“

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

If CORE!Frisk is literally omnipresent—i.e. absolutely everywhere at every moment in time—the result is basically omniscience. The only thing CORE!Frisk couldn't know are things which they couldn't bear direct witness to, such as a person's internal thoughts which were never given voice, ever. But in terms of actions, they would know every conceivable action any given character would ever make because they would be able to directly witness it first-hand. That's so much knowledge it's not far down from omniscience and it's absolutely game-breaking.

And yeah that's a fun personality thing, but like I said, people crave conflict and CORE!Frisk basically destroys any hope of that. A fun personality doesn't make for a character in a good or gripping story.

[dokudoki]

The thing is perfect omnipresence is... BORING. If Core frisk was this then there is no tension. We know they'll solve any problem cause they already KNOW how to solve it! There's a reason why there is no story about a perfect utopia. Cause its Boring! Core Frisk having these limitations, Not being to see glitches and anti void make it interesting. Cause they have to work around their powers to solve it! There''s still development for Core who thought they already had all the answers.

Look at Core again. You just called them boring. You do realize there’s much more to them than their omnipresence? Not to mention those “limitations” completely mess with the basic concept. It’s full or nothing, buddy, and I stay behind it.

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

I’m actually with anon on this one. Yeah, Core!Frisk has a personality that some people can find entertaining, but anon has a point that if Core!Frisk can essentially solve any problem you ever throw at them, then as a character they lack any capacity to be set back by conflict and thus you can’t really make an interesting and gripping story that anyone could be invested in. You can only take a charming personality so far before people start wanting stuff to happen that feels like it matters and requires effort. It might defeat the purpose of Core!Frisk to deprive them of their absolute omnipresence, but a possible critique could be that Core!Frisk is then simply not a very good character if you look at them from the vantage point of wanting to make certain kinds of stories.

[badgobboz]

please tell me the wildest shit that happened in homestuck’s fanbase, its like listening to old tales that can’t be true but are.

[cursmudgeon]

Well there was the girl who nearly killed herself by soaking in a bathtub full of vodka and grey sharpies to try and dye her skin for her troll cosplay. And the fact that a bunch of fans sent the creator a MASSIVE horse dildo that later ended up in the comic. And the two people who spent $10,000 dollars a piece to have their OC’s appear for one frame and be immediately killed. And the one time a homestuck flash update ended up DDoSing newgrounds by accident. And the totally irregular update schedule made it so there was an application developed to tell you when the comic updated. The culture around homestuck is really surreal to look back on just for the sheer volume of alternate universes and fans works and in jokes and subcultures that developed within one fandom. It really makes me wonder if anyone will be able to capture that level of obsessive enthusiasm again. Like people joke about Steven universe being the new homestuck and I can see some parallels but that fandom still seems way smaller and way less messed up than homestuck at it’s peak.

[oldfrax]

It wasn’t just internet concentrated either, it pretty much set up a lot of standards and practices for conventions today. In-characters panels were no where near as popular until Homestuck popularized them and now there’s ones for every fandom out there, versus only a scattered few (mostly Hetalia) before Homestuck had 5 going at any given con. The concept of a “draw party” was also a Homestuck invention, I believe, draw parties being midnight meetups at dead parts of the con center where people sat around, trading art cards and generally hanging out but with the common theme of them all being Homestuck fans. “Gotta go fast” and “first” took on whole new levels because as soon as a new design were released the first person to put together a cosplay for it got an intense amount of notoriety, mainly because it was generally just a few hours after the design appeared. Hell, I was once at a con where Homestuck updated on Friday and the next morning someone had made the cosplay in their hotel room and wore it to the con.

Sadly there were also downsides which is where the crazy stories come from. Homestuck was something absolutely new because it was a perfect storm of being huge, having almost all characters you could cosplay require body paint, and having a really disproportionate amount of fans being very young and inexperienced at how conventions worked.

Many conventions put limits on body-paint after Homestuck got popular because of young, inexperienced cosplayers not sealing their makeup and tarnishing convention centers. Going to a small con that forbids body paint? Homestuck is why. Homestuck became feared at a lot of cons because a non-consensual hug from anyone at a con is awkward and shitty, but if it was from a Homestuck fan you ran the risk of having grey stains all over your costume, and I had seen it happen to people on multiple occasions. Homestuck was also the first fandom to finally force conventions start making rules and limitations on fan-run photoshoot gatherings, which they had previously just ignored or discouraged all together. Homestuck shoots were so big conventions had to start working with them. The Saturday photoshoot at Otakon that Alex and I ran at Homestuck’s peak had an estimated over 700 attendees, and the next year was the year Ota started regulating their photoshoots through official channels.

Speaking of that photoshoot and crazy stories, Michael Guy Bowman and Tavia Morra, two of the most prominent members of Homestuck’s music team at the time, literally showed up on a whim with a guitar and asked Alex and I if they could perform a three-song set in the middle of the shoot, then came back for the next day’s shoot in their Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido costumes and did it again.

Don’t even get Alex started on how she ran in-real-life Promstuck events in Manhattan for years with official venues, decorations and literal tickets.

Being in Homestuck for the time I was there was an incredibly surreal experience, because having been going to conventions for years before Homestuck, and having been somewhat in the center of these events (Homestuck was the only fandom where I was considered a “BNF”), I can still see the way Homestuck has changed aspects of fandom events at cons. I was in one of the first in-character Homestuck panels back in the summer of 20fucking11 and ended up being in some incredibly popular ones in 2012-13 that still get hits on YouTube today. Alex and I’s model for photoshoots are still being used by friends and people who we don’t even know who run other fandom’s events. Some cons I had reached out to so I could get official approval to run photoshoots of hundreds of people are still using my model and system to regulate shoots at their events years later. Hell, by the time I was hitting my peak along with Homestuck I was going to 10 conventions a year and running an average of 3 photoshoots per con, not to mention an average of 2 in-character panels per weekend that I was either in or running. At some of the cons I attended staff knew me so well because I had to secure the shoot details in advance and had so many panels under my name they had my number listed under “in case of Homestuck issue call her” because Homestuck was a category of attendee cons literally had to separate from other attendees and learn to anticipate ahead of time. I will emphasize, I was never on staff, they just knew me as the liaison for the massive hoard of grey 13 year olds that scared the shit out of them.

When people who have been in the fandom five years like me try to emphasize how big Homestuck was we’re not just talking haha it was huge, Homestuck fundamentally changed the landscape of conventions for years and a lot of those changes stayed.

[saccharinesylpharchive]

As I am still Homestuck garbage and probably will be till I die, I gotta echo a lot of Ash’s sentiments here. Homestuck has literally changed the bedrock of how FANDOM IS DONE. That’s crazy. The art/fic exchange models that Homestuck started are being echoed and used down the line, as well as large-scale fandom events like Promstucks. Now that most of the fandom has scattered, they’re still using HS meets to band together, through Draw-Party events at cons and local meetups. The thing I’ve noticed is, even the largest scale fandom hasn’t been able to match the physical tenacity of Homestuck. I’ve seen a handful of other local events try to pop up for other fandoms, but they don’t hold up. Next month we’re still having a 4/13 meetup. What’s also cool is that the visual symbols have gone ahead of Homestuck, too. Years later, I still see people use the spade symbol to represent a hate pairing with characters that have NOTHING to do with Homestuck. (Most recently I see them floating over Kylux’s heads.) Whited out eyes to represent a dead character were used for everything from SNK to Dangan Ronpa and are still being used now. Even LANGUAGE has changed. There are tons of Homestuck phrases that have infiltrated our vernacular enough people who have no idea what Homestuck is can be heard saying things like “Being a kid is hard and no one understands” or “you’re the star, it’s you.” It brought back the second-person writing style. Before Homestuck, I had never seen second-person as an accepted writing style, but now I see it everywhere, in tons of mediums. It had its dark sides, too, I won’t lie. The kind of fandom indignation that could literally brew WITHIN AN HOUR is partial to Homestuck. And I think a bit of the entitled nature of current fandoms comes from having a fairly accessible content creator (not entirely, but Hussie still kept tabs on fandom) who would respond openly to fandom’s demands, which can be sort of unhealthy, especially for content creators in the future. I’ve participated in other fandoms, but still, nothing holds my heart like the Homestuck fandom. It’s like home, and even though a bunch of my kids have flown the nest, it’s nice to know that they took some of the good parts with them. C:

[badgobboz]

please tell me the wildest shit that happened in homestuck’s fanbase, its like listening to old tales that can’t be true but are.

[cursmudgeon]

Well there was the girl who nearly killed herself by soaking in a bathtub full of vodka and grey sharpies to try and dye her skin for her troll cosplay. And the fact that a bunch of fans sent the creator a MASSIVE horse dildo that later ended up in the comic. And the two people who spent $10,000 dollars a piece to have their OC’s appear for one frame and be immediately killed. And the one time a homestuck flash update ended up DDoSing newgrounds by accident. And the totally irregular update schedule made it so there was an application developed to tell you when the comic updated. The culture around homestuck is really surreal to look back on just for the sheer volume of alternate universes and fans works and in jokes and subcultures that developed within one fandom. It really makes me wonder if anyone will be able to capture that level of obsessive enthusiasm again. Like people joke about Steven universe being the new homestuck and I can see some parallels but that fandom still seems way smaller and way less messed up than homestuck at it’s peak.

[jehancourf-deactivated20170607]

remember broadway karkat

[fefbutts-archive]

Magic cupcakes

[chunkecheeks]

OKAY HONESTLY I HAVE SO MANY STORIES AND MEMORIES I’LL JUST PUT SOME SOME DOWN IN A LIST

Terezi cosplayers eating/licking various nonedible things. I know someone who ate a rose and I licked a courthouse once 

There was some discourse over this one person who made a bulge for their Cronus cosplay and would flop it out at conventions

THE ENTIRE SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM THAT WAS MADE FOR/ABOUT HOMESTUCK

I once tried to organize NOT 1 BUT 2 ridiculously large art collabs where people were supposed to sign up and draw one homestuck character each until every character in the comic was drawn BUT AS OF TODAY, 3 YEARS LATER, ONLY ABOUT 15% OF THAT WAS FINISHED and it’s completely dead

Octopimp’s homestuck voiceacting

People getting outrageously pissed off if you skipped the intermission

“Homestuck is my favorite anime!”

Several animating groups trying to make homestuck into an anime just so that joke could be real

THE ENTIRE FANDOM AGREEING UPON WHAT TROLL GENITALS WOULD LOOK LIKE

David Elizabeth Strider

The end of homestuck was announced 3 years in a row and it’s still going. someone kill it. put it out of its misery. is hussie even alive anymore? help him.

THE PANTY RAID COMIC

god honestly i could go on all day i’m gonna stop here

[williamhenrythefourth]

How can you not mention “the baby is you”

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

that technically wasn’t a fandom thing since it was done by toby fox

[badgobboz]

please tell me the wildest shit that happened in homestuck’s fanbase, its like listening to old tales that can’t be true but are.

[cursmudgeon]

Well there was the girl who nearly killed herself by soaking in a bathtub full of vodka and grey sharpies to try and dye her skin for her troll cosplay. And the fact that a bunch of fans sent the creator a MASSIVE horse dildo that later ended up in the comic. And the two people who spent $10,000 dollars a piece to have their OC’s appear for one frame and be immediately killed. And the one time a homestuck flash update ended up DDoSing newgrounds by accident. And the totally irregular update schedule made it so there was an application developed to tell you when the comic updated. The culture around homestuck is really surreal to look back on just for the sheer volume of alternate universes and fans works and in jokes and subcultures that developed within one fandom. It really makes me wonder if anyone will be able to capture that level of obsessive enthusiasm again. Like people joke about Steven universe being the new homestuck and I can see some parallels but that fandom still seems way smaller and way less messed up than homestuck at it’s peak.

[jehancourf-deactivated20170607]

remember broadway karkat

[fefbutts-archive]

Magic cupcakes

[chunkecheeks]

OKAY HONESTLY I HAVE SO MANY STORIES AND MEMORIES I’LL JUST PUT SOME SOME DOWN IN A LIST

Terezi cosplayers eating/licking various nonedible things. I know someone who ate a rose and I licked a courthouse once 

There was some discourse over this one person who made a bulge for their Cronus cosplay and would flop it out at conventions

THE ENTIRE SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM THAT WAS MADE FOR/ABOUT HOMESTUCK

I once tried to organize NOT 1 BUT 2 ridiculously large art collabs where people were supposed to sign up and draw one homestuck character each until every character in the comic was drawn BUT AS OF TODAY, 3 YEARS LATER, ONLY ABOUT 15% OF THAT WAS FINISHED and it’s completely dead

Octopimp’s homestuck voiceacting

People getting outrageously pissed off if you skipped the intermission

“Homestuck is my favorite anime!”

Several animating groups trying to make homestuck into an anime just so that joke could be real

THE ENTIRE FANDOM AGREEING UPON WHAT TROLL GENITALS WOULD LOOK LIKE

David Elizabeth Strider

The end of homestuck was announced 3 years in a row and it’s still going. someone kill it. put it out of its misery. is hussie even alive anymore? help him.

THE PANTY RAID COMIC

god honestly i could go on all day i’m gonna stop here

[sokumotanaka-deactivated2018121]

Couldn‘t have said it better myself.

Originally posted by g00dkidsadcity

[rwbycritical]

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

A pretty good case is made for some form of armed force on the part of the Faunus, but I still think Adam and the White Fang crossed a line when they started releasing Grimm onto civilian populations and assaulting said civilians themselves. It’s one thing to bring some sort of fight against the government if it is truly corrupt, but it’s quite another to rope in people who may not even be involved in the problem.

Another point to consider is we don’t exactly know what the terms of the peace treaty were, or what the social and/or legal situation regarding the Faunus was before the war vs. after the war. The fact that the Faunus face social discrimination doesn’t necessarily justify armed insurrection, particularly because for all we know the Faunus’ social and/or legal situation could have been absolutely hellish prior to the war but is merely not yet equal after the war.

[blackhole-ntp]

Homestuck ends in a month

I’m not ready, guys.

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

Welp. Just finished my fourth reading of Homestuck. “[S] Terezi: Remember.” really hits you hard. It really was the perfect page to pause the comic on before the finale—it reminds you of all the lives that have been lost across different universes and timelines, all of the times the heroes have failed and had to try again, and how much death and despair has had to happen to give Paradox Space a chance to continue to exist. It really gives you a sense of the legacy that the current iterations of the heroes are standing on, and of the scale of the fight it now falls on their shoulders to finally finish once and for all. To save Paradox Space, and to finally create a universe full of promise in which they can finally have the lives they deserve but have yet to experience—and in many realities, unfortunately never will.

And yet, it is full of hope.

Rereading the comic from scratch took me about a month and a third, which is a long time to spend reading a single work of literature. It did, though, give me the opportunity to really remind myself why I love it. It has its quirks, which can sometimes make it irritating to some, but it truly is a great work of art. The characters are so complex and have such winding arcs, the artistic design and worldbuilding is outstanding, the music is excellent, the humour is funny, the writing is excellent, and it straddles the line between hopelessly absurd and deeply meaningful.

Now that I’m caught up again, there’s only about a month left until the end of the comic, if Hussie’s targeted April 13 release date follows through, and I haven’t been more ready to see the conclusion he has in store for us. Whatever it is, it’s going to be great.

It’s been a great ride and it’ll be an even greater 4/13.

[the-vampire-fish-queen]

reblog if you still love homestuck and you dont want it to die

[paxamericana]

[paxamericana]

“To Bernie Sanders with thanks for your commitment to real healthcare access for all Americans and best wishes -

Hillary Rodham Clinton 1993″

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

what the fuck omg

[k-eke]

More little animations illustrating gifs and photos of funny animals we can find on the internet and that I really love ^^

Animals (especially birds ^^) are a great source of inspiration =D

[elasticitymudflap]

tbh i kind of really hope sans and toriel have the same kind of online friendship as terezi and dave 

like 3am “Hello Sans! I just wanted to know if the attached image file in this message is a true picture of you or not?” and shes sent him a fucking picture of a skeleton from google but drew on a shitty hoodie and eyes in mspaint and hes always like “damn toriel how are you getting these amazing candid shots of me” and sends back an amazingly shitty picture hand drawn with the mouse on mspaint of a goat screaming as it drowns in a sea of stock image pies from google at various overlapping heavily jpeg compressed sizes like “this u?”

[theeldritchdreamer-blog]

HAPPY WRIGGLING DAY YOU FUCKING TROLL.

ayyy