Welcome to the hive.

sup. This is A Nerd speaking. This here blog is for recording the process of novelizing Homestuck (see about for more info). I'll also post other, usually more serious that my main blog, Homestuck-related content. Not associated with Whatpumpkin or Andrew Hussie in any way! Not that this theme is helping back that up... Suggestions? Criticisms? Aggressive haterants fueled by the rage of a thousand flaming hellbeasts? The ask box is open!

[barelynsfw]

THis is my first March Eridan ever!! In 2017…!

I gave up on his limbs, also I wanted to give him the kinda specks/dots shrimps have.

[jollysunflora]

Homestuck Aspect Overlap Chart

Let me know if you need anything transcribed.

[kodakura]

i love palette drawings way too much here have a kanaya

[truereset-deactivated20190602]

pros to using the quadrant system: having words for otherwise abstract or otherwise hard to explain relationships, either real or fictional

cons: being asked what “moirallegiance” is by someone unfamiliar with the source material and having to explain exactly where it comes from

[payeehay]

THIS

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

shrugs

[temporaldecay]

The Twelve Empresses, in A Distrait Life of Mistakes/Sights On Heaven.

Alilah Peixes, The First Empress, Her Hallowed Highness, 2 560 sweeps.

Nafash Peixes, The Second Empress, Her Imperious Greatness, 9 320 sweeps.

Zagara Peixes, The Third Empress, Her Imperious Graciousness, 650 sweeps.

Niadra Peixes, The Fourth Empress, Her Imperious Competence, 28 320 sweeps.

Rokarr Peixes, The Fifth Empress, Her Imperious Temperance, 7 950 sweeps.

Naktul Peixes, The Sixth Empress, Her Imperious Kindness, 90 sweeps.

Scylla Peixes, The Seventh Empress, Her Imperiuos Tenacity, 12 510 sweeps.

Kalysa Peixes, The Eighth Empress, Her Imperious Wisdom, 29 090 sweeps.

Ryloth Peixes, The Ninth Empress, Her Imperious Indifference, 6 500 sweeps.

Galene Peixes, The Tenth Empress, Her Imperious Radiance, 25 100 sweeps.

Meenah Peixes, The Eleventh Empress, Her Imperious Condescension, 25 600 sweeps.

Feferi Peixes, The Twelfth Empress, Her Imperious Complacence, 2 050 sweeps.

[mxwormie]

It only takes a moment.

here it is! gooberjam inspired me back a few months ago to make this comic because wall-e is great and so is johndave. i love this crossover so much and i might make more stuff for it :^)

[wakraya]

Kanaya.

Are.

Are you implying.

That to light the Forge.

You need to drop a fucking Magic Ring to the lava of Mount Doom the Forge?!

[frackityfrick]

in which the beta kids tell secrets and then adopt dave

[ultrafacts]

More Ultrafacts (Source)

[theothersession]

Happy 4/13 everyone now die

[aveysauce]

[sevey6]

Thats exactly 20 years after homestuck started, Hussie the Seer strikes again.

[lizeon]

mr president theres a meteor coming sir. oh yeah, how big is it? its the size of puerto rico sir

[dragonbonez]

[himborc]

my hobbies include thinking of stories to write and then not writing them

[terezi-discourse]

I’m starting to wonder if Jasprosesprite is supposed to represent the Homestuck fandom

She has meta knowledge of many different timelines

She has very little regard for characters who she considers boring

She was in a big hurry to make the Strider reuinion happen

She acts like she’s always right

And most of all, she wants to protect Nepeta Leijon at all costs.

[harrygilmore]

[thenotedesolationplayed]

Gamzee Makara.

[docbe]

I just love Homestuck’s emphasis on potential selves rather than fated selves. Dirk/Bro is currently the hot topic, and I think it’s really important to note that they share the same base, corruptible traits. Lil Cal obviously had a huge influence on Bro, but he took advantage of qualities that Dirk already possessed. But that doesn’t mean Dirk is doomed to being like Bro, and the fact that Dirk has been honestly exploring his negative traits may help him express them positively 

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this–I think most characters in Homestuck, between doomed selves and dream selves and retconned selves, have shown examples of multiple ways of developing. Calliope/Alt Calliope is another recent one (with a very stark difference in presence). Jade/Jadesprite is another that comes to mind, especially because, like Dirk, Jade expressed a lot of discomfort with the self-centeredness and cowardice she realized she was capable of. 

And I love that because there are really few people that are naturally “good” or “bad.” Almost all traits can be productively or destructively expressed–drive could become ambition or manipulation; compassion could become bravery or naivety. Environment, relationships, influences, and introspection all play a big part, and very few are born without the capacity to become great or terrible

[thenotedesolationplayed]

A homestuck upd8 reaction

THESE ARE THE KIND OF UPDATES I READ THIS SHIT FOR

[cavumentum]

“Meditating”

[hanari502]

Surely 2011 Homestuck wasn't that bad? I mean, it sounds like a gross exaggeration.

You want to hear how gross of an exaggeration it was? Because my post didn’t even do it justice.

It was March 2011 when the first semblances of Homestuck began to seep through the wood and metal of the convention circuit. The unsuspecting convention goers had absolutely no idea what they were in for as little groups of kids with grey makeup and orange candy corn horns started around the con halls. People were curious, hell I was curious, but that’s all it was. Morbid curiosity.

It was around the time [S] ==> Kanaya Return To The Core was released that people finally hitched on and started getting into it.

And dear god was it hell.

Homestuck completely invaded the convention circuit, bringing in crowds of people ages 11 to 31, and a majority of them were kids. There were meetups every month for every occasion at every place you could imagine. Homestucks started to completely take over convention halls to the point where the dealers room all but emptied out whenever a photoshoot started. Promstuck was established and became a cemented part of convention going. Gamzee’s flooded the con halls at one point after he went crazy and people tried to recreate sopor pies.

People were sitting in bathtubs trying to sharpie dye their skin grey. Karkat cosplayers were having actual literal buckets thrown at their heads. Nicki Minaj’s ‘Turn Me On’ was a national anthem that sparked a music video. Children screaming ‘Fuckass’ in the hallways as they got their unsealed paint all over the walls and floors. There was at least one hundred Dave cosplayers at every photoshoot, and Photoshoots looked like this:

You see that Squarewave in the middle of the group? That’s me controlling the crowd around me. You want another example? Here:

That Kanaya with the cape in the middle is also me. Not good enough for you? How about this:

This was convention Homestuck. This was true nightmare. If you saw a horde of Homestucks coming at you, you fucking ran. There were literally hundreds of Homestucks back in 2011.

A video of a group of cosplayers sitting in a restaraunt, passing around a bucket and spitting in it caused outrage for everyone.

And then there was the tumblr side of it.

AU’s popped up for every conceivable thing. Broadwaystuck, Circusstuck, Dormstuck, Sadstuck, Any fucking thing you could think of, you slapped -stuck onto the end of it and it immediately became a reality. There were countless ask blogs for every character imaginable and the Homestuck Hype was real.

When the Cascade flash aired it crashed Newgrounds for two days.

‘FIRST!’ cosplays were a thing, and if you managed to make one you were heralded as a god. The Alpha Kids came into existence and everyone raced to cosplay them and to see who could name them, who could be them first. Canon urls became sacred and if you had one you were god.

There was a literal fight for the jadeharley url

Updates were daily, multiple times daily. It was the start of Octopimp’s Eridan and Tavros voices, it was how he got popular. Broadwaystuck sweeped tumblr like a plague and the words ‘Let me tell you about Homestuck’ became a threat. It was around the time I formed The Rose Lalonde Homestuck Thesis. Everywhere you looked, there was Homestuck. Hussie’s girlfriend was sending cease and desist’s to fanartists, Whatpumpkin didn’t even have Tshirts on it’s website yet. People kept skipping the Intermission to get to the trolls. And then Cascade happened.

Then the fandom went on Hiatus. A Megapause, if you will.

And then things started calming down. Once 2013 started, it was as if nothing had ever happened. Homestuck was still there, sure, but it was muted. Controlled. Expectant. As if anything that could happen now wasn’t anywhere near as bad as what had already transpired. Now we are but a shadow of the chaos that once was.

2011 Homestuck is not a gross exaggeration my friend. I lived through it. I survived.

It was exactly as bad as it sounds.

[pirateygentleman]

is there really a better explanation than this. Its perfect and so spot on.

[catbountry]

I was in the position of being an older fan who had been reading Homestuck since it launched, since I had been reading Problem Sleuth while that was still going on. The sudden mushrooming of the fandom felt like it came out of fucking nowhere, as MS Paint Adventures, and Problem Sleuth in particular, had previously felt like something that would only appeal to a subsection of nerds that enjoyed jokes about text adventures, point and clicks, programming, RPGs, Strategic RPGs and JRPGs, since later Problem Sleuth was pretty much built upon jokes about overly complicated and convoluted in-game systems. It was very nerdy, and I could not imagine having a wide appeal outside of a particular niche. Needless to say, I absolutely adored it and its sense of humor.

So when Homestuck started, it looked like it was going to be very similar, except with jokes about convoluted inventory and crafting systems. Already it kicked off with the rigamarole quest bullshit, but was going for an angle of having four characters with fleshed-out personalities. I was totally on board with that. The plot was getting ridiculous at an accelerated rate in comparison to Problem Sleuth’s more gradual approach, and I made the mistake of thinking that I didn’t have to pay too close attention to the intricacies of the plot, as I had assumed, like Problem Sleuth, the absurdly bloated nature of the in-comic lore would be part of the joke. After all, Godhead Pickle Inspector thought I should just relax and have fun, and not worry too much about it. And who was I to doubt the word of Godhead Pickle Inspector?

And then the comic shifted over to the trolls.

And then things went nuts.

I had assumed there weren’t a whole lot of other people who read Problem Sleuth, that it was a sizable audience, but obscure enough that you could make a reference to it and a few people would be like “I know what that’s from! You read that too? Awesome!” and that would be it. When the trolls went from being unseen antagonists to actual fucking grey aliens doing the introductions like the kids had, I found myself inundated with fanart. Instantly, there were fantrolls, pairings, fanfics, cosplays and more. Suddenly this comic I was reading that I thought wouldn’t appeal to anybody who wasn’t at least college aged had a bajillion fucking teenage fans, treating it like they had Harry Potter. The trolls were simple enough in design and interests that it would take little effort to design OCs. Fuck, I remember frigging Zeriara hopping on that Homestuck hype train, at which point I began to realize “oh shit, this got really huge, really fucking fast.”

Crazier still, as I kept with the comic, I was realizing that I was supposed to be paying attention to what was going on, as unlike Problem Sleuth, this comic was not just purely shenanigans. Characters were getting fucking killed off. People were attaining godhood. And just when you thought things couldn’t get more confusing… they did. And I was still perplexed as to how a bunch of goddamned 12 year olds could follow any of this. I still have never gotten completely used to the chatlogs as a format.

I saw them at conventions. I had to explain to people who hadn’t read it what it was. I went to some draw parties and found myself as one of the older people there, being in my mid-20′s. I never really participated in the fandom beyond that and some drawings of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, which was far less polarizing.

Seeing the Homestuck fandom turn into what it became was weird, man. I can’t think of a single goddamned webcomic that has ever spawned the crazy amount of devotion that Homestuck has. In some respects, I think it deserves the attention, as Andrew Hussie has toyed with what webcomics are as a medium by adding interactive flash games, cut-scenes with music and even altering the appearance of the site itself to service the plot, bursting through the forth wall like a meth-fueled Kool-Aid Man. On the other hand, it’s still really weird to me that a lot of fans were too young to even have played a text adventure game and might not have any idea of what it was paying homage to.

I really do not think there will ever be another fandom quite like Homestuck’s. And that’s probably for the best.