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They dropped an upd8.

I know this update is only four pages so I expect nothing in it and yet I need to liveblog it now now now instead of saving it as a draft until something happens because people wanna read my Homestuck 2 liveblogs for reasons that elude me. But it's 2:30am and I have a migraine, so really this is optimal.

Anyway Ly'lac is on the surface. I don't like the apostrophe's in Nymph names, especially since they don't even change the pronunciation in any obvious way. Very tempted to drop them and see who gets mad at me. Cultural disrespect to the squid kids.

I unironically respect Homestuck Beyond Canon slightly more for not making a joke about how Lylac is getting Unreal Air right now. I suspect the Narwhal is dead now? Good knight sweet prince etc.

There's one more very important person you've left on read and you're running out of excuses to avoid talking to her. But she's probably busy. She definitely probably has more important things to do than talk to a sap like you. Definitely. Probably. For sure. The most respectful course of action, at this point, is to- OH GOD IT'S HER.

Oh hey we're three pages of nothing is the fourth page going to be a big Vrissy/Ly'lac chat at long last?

AG: Heyyyyyyyy, took you Long Enough! GC: hi. AG: ... yeah, hi? AG: Welcome 8ack! AG: Are you done Killing Monsters? GC: i don't know... AG: Wrong Answer! AG: You're gonna have to kill a Whole lot more!

Did...god, it's been a while since I've read any of the Candy Kids, but did Vrissy capitalize random words like that? Oh, wait, yeah, she did I think, because she was raised by Kanaya and partially inherited her quirk. Is there a rhyme or reason to what gets capitalized, though?

AG: Lay em on me. GC: why are you using the adamantGriftress handle? AG: Oh, were you messaging me on the other one? AG: I guess I just outgrew it! AG: Didn't feel it suited me anymore.

Oy, now I have to go back and look something up. So back at the start of Homestuck 2, Vrissy used the handle-

God, she called on a phone to have a dialoglog over a phone. Man, I REALLY liked that chapter at the time but in retrospect it's kind of weird how no one in the epilogues texted each other, given it's, y'know, Homestuck.

But there was a chat conversation eventually, when Yiffy passed out and it caused the whole site in go black and at the time I thought it Meant Something and even if it wasn't just a slightly creative excuse to get out of drawing anything whatever that was about isn't paying off under the new team. Sigh. But anyway Vrissy has been adamantGriftress the whole comic, so "the other handle" isn't one we know. Did Vrissy used to be really into cartoons and that's how she met Del'Fi, or does Vrissy changing her handle have RAMIFICATIONS like how GhostyTrickster becoming EctoBiologist doomed the universe? I presume the former. I don't think this is real DEEPEST LORE.

GC: ok sorry im rambling can i ask you the weird question, vriska? AG: Shoot. GC: what's it like in the cartoon world? AG: Wow, you already know a8out that?

This is a good kind of wacky misunderstanding because both ends of the conversation are insane. Vrissy thinks the "cartoon world" is Candyland, but Ly'lac thinks Vrissy is literally a cartoon character (and, given how meta modern Homestuck is, she's kinda right). I predict this misunderstanding will lead to comedic and possibly even dramatic shenanigans down the line.

AG: You 8lew that horse thing's head Smooth Off!

Rip Narwhal indeed.

GC: Beam Of Death usually arranges a speedy meeting with the cousin of sleep but he just got really really really sick and then exploded. GC: and i'm glad he blew up when he did, it was starting make me feel bad ha ha... GC: i'll get the hang of my spells again once we're in the game though lol don't worry.

If the love of 90s cartoons didn't out Ly'lac as a millennial all these lols as punctuation sure do.

AG: Like, a Squiddle Thing? AG: Never actually watched that show. GC: what is squiddles? AG: Some 8ullshit cartoon my mom liked. AG: Sorry for kind of indirectly calling you 8ullshit just now. GC: nah it's ok i don't give a fuck... i'm bullshit adjacent.

48 player squiddle session that created the Troll universe confirmed. But also I find it a little implausble that Vrissy knows Rose liked a cartoon back on earth that she'd already outgrown before Homestuck even started and...does she even mention them?

God, the new Homestuck site's search sucks. I'd boot up the unofficial collection but actually I guess Vrissy would've read it in an Earth C Bible. That Earth C literally worshipped the Homestuck characters as gods remains an underutilized oh who cares at this point.

AG: Um, AG: You're a girl nymph right? GC: what do you mean? AG: Haha sorry I know that's a pretty 8lunt way of asking. AG: I know if someone asked me that I'd lay them Right Out, 8ut it feels #Unwoke to assume. AG: Can nymphs even 8e girls? AG: Do you have that here? GC: lol vriska, yes all girls are nymphs... AG: All of them? GC: yerp. AG: Wow! So there's Never Even 8een a 8oy nymph before? GC: nope... GC: oh actually no, there was one. AG: Oh damn, what happened to Him? GC: i just killed him a bit ago, you were watching... AG: W8, that was a Person???????? AG: What the hell! GC: nooo lol it's chill, i've euthologized nymphs before i so didn't really mind doing it. AG: I meant for It! AG: Him. AG: Him? Him.

I like how confused Vrissy is with such a simple fantasy concept as "boys and girls are literally different species". I forgot I liked Vrissy. She has this huge confidence that she knows everything and she doesn't actually know anything.

GC: sometimes it was hard to tell if it was him psychically wailing "kill me" down there or if it was just me thinking it, ha ha.

Naturally, Vrissy completely misses the implications that Ly'lac apparently thinks "Kill me" a lot.

GC: he was like. GC: a male grandma... GC: i know it sounds crazy lol.

God damn it, Ly'Lac lives in a Jade-like tower and does weird preplanned funerary shit with her grandpa like Jade does I can't believe I missed that connection until now.

GC: so basically there was this prophecy foretold about a nymph with a horn whos death was supposed to bring misfortune to everyone around him and also end the whole world right. so the council of high prophets had people looking all over and under every ocean for this uninymph but nobody could ever find them and then like out of nowhere some satyrs came and told the council where he was and they were like he'd been living with them at some satyr monk school or whatever them shits are called and when they got there they say he was basically just straight up full on satyr like hooves tail hair the whole shebang and then they hauled his ass back no pun intended locked him up and kept him pumped full of ink to keep him alive forever i guess and he did NOT like that shit so we all honor his noble sacrifice and i think that's pretty much it... GC: and then i killed him.

Oh look by avoiding the prophecy they enacted it come on council of high prophets that's like rule one of prophecies. Get it together.

AG: We've studied this kind of thing 8asically all our lives, don't worry.

AG: HE'S NOT W8KING UP! AG: Ly'lac, that's SOOOOOOOO 8AD! GC: he's probably fine... GC: you wouldn't know it from all that junk he's on lol but he's actually the image of good health. AG: Oh my God. AG: We put the Game on your 8rand New Computer! AG: We're ON THE CL8CK! AG: Fuck!!!!!!!!

If there's one thing Homestuck 2 did right even with the original writers, it's that the Omega Kids are all great.

#Homestuck 2 liveblog #Beyond Canon #Homestuck 2 #Homestuck

Sometimes some pages have a problem when on update day the newest page isn't the front page. Usually what a reader can do in such a case is click previous page, then next page, and the newest page should be vailable to access by clicking next page.

NOT ELECTRIC BONES THOUGH. IT IS A FINICKY BASTARD, I HAVE TO CHANGE THE URL TO ACCESS THE LATEST PAGE. BECAUSE THATS THE ONLY METHOD THEY BECOME ACCESSIBLE IN. I HAD TO DO IT THREE UPDATES IN A ROW BECAUSE THIS KEPT HAPPENING.

"Ohh atleast the previously missed pages became accessible via next page clicks once the next page became inaccessible, right?"

THEY DID NOT. I HAD TO CHANGE THE URL TO ACCESS ALL THREE PAGES EACH UPDATE. All three did become available with the next page's update though <3

"Well, that was before the upload schedule change, its fixed now that there's multiple pages per update right?"

NO ITS NOT. THE CURRENT "LATEST" PAGE IS 172.

THE PAGES FOR THE ONE MONTH LATER UPDATE THAT WAS PROMISED IN THE DESCRIPTION ARE ALL URL BAR LOCKED. AND ALL OF THEM HAD TO BE URL TYPED IN TO BE ACCESSED WHEN THEY WERE UPLOADED. Though it seems that now when you are on page 173 you CAN use the click buttons/click page to go to the next pages of this upload, but you couldnt on the 26th when they were uploaded. STILL CANT ACCESS THEM FROM PAGE 172 THOUGH.

at some point I thought "Are these pateron pages???" And then I am like, nay, the patreon pages are available on patreon. As they should be.

GOSH I WISH THE SITE WASNT THIS CLUNKY CAUSE THE COMIC IS BEAUTIFUL. WHY MUST IT DO THIS TO ME

Uh-

Anonymous asked: how dare the electric bones latest page issue fix itself the same day i send a deranged ask in here about it

G...glad it all worked out!

spicymotte

after 4 years of drawing webcomics, this is my wisdom:

start now. now. now now now. or else you'll never draw this damn thing

it's fine if you don't have the entire story figured out yet, it'll happen naturally

draw what you want to draw!! webcomics often run for years, so you better work with something you like

don't overcomplicate things. a simple, efficient work flow is your top priority in order to stay consistent

bullshit some things. trace background refs. reuse poses. draw your character's face from different angles and just copy paste it in to save time. be smart about your work baby

take breaks if needed. webcomic burnout is real

sometimes, a panel or a page looks bad. shit happens. move on

lettering is actually really important and super hard to pull off

it's your comic. do what you want forever!!!

I'm begging you again to work smart, not hard. reuse backgrounds. use brush sets for webcomic artists. trace 3D objects. use 3D models to pose your characters

you may need hours or days to draw one panel, but people will look at it for 5-8 seconds. keep that in mind

a simple background is better than no background at all (avoiding the white void increases the quality of your work by a ton!)

sometimes the anatomy needs to be a little off to make an interesting shot/panel. that's fine, don't worry about it too much

at least 2000px canvas and 300 dpi for good quality results

it's okay to stop by the way. it's okay to move on from a project if you no longer find joy in it

Saying goodbye to Toonhound Studios and looking forward.

Not that this is a huge shock, but PvP is officially no more and the site is down. It hadn't updated in years, but it's still a massive piece of webcomic history and it's a little sad that it's no longer available online (you have to buy it on PDF now).

#PvP #News

Bro, Homestuck, you can't go like six weeks without an update and then update twice in rapid succession during SpiderForest application review.

I actually got a Saffsage page written today, I'm prepping for a Pathfinder game tomorrow, I was productive, and now this is happening.

This being....whatever this is? Looks like Ly'lac is talking to TC, the mirthful purple mastermind. Are we going to get some deep lore? Perhaps a new idea? There's at least a narwhal going on.

#Homestuck 2 liveblog #Saffron and Sage #Youtube

I gotta be honest, I'm insanely busy (work, SpiderForest applications, actually writing my own comic at some point) and kind of burnt on Homestuck but for some reason people like seeing my liveblogs enough to complain when I don't do them. Maybe I'm just in a mood because I can't drill the screws out of my good chair.

Oh, the "blood" prank again. REAL mature, guys.

Anyway all of Swiss' friends are dead. Wait, what?

Well at least it's quiet now.

Sorry, I know the reckoning is starting but did the whole frat just get murdered offscreen while Swiss was having a tantrum in the bathroom? What's going on? What are those gashes in Swiss' door?

Your boys are always warning you about your penchant for the dramatic. They say, Swiss, all you do is make yourself miserable. And for the first time ever, you're almost willing to consider their words on the matter.

Dramatic irony is a literary device where characters don't know something the audience does, such as here where Swiss decides to stop panicking on the same day his entire world is literally destroyed.

This nasty fuck is one of the few remaining SATANIMALS not sequestered off from polite society, and the only one you've ever had the profound displeasure of meeting. He tends to get out like this once or twice a lap, occasionally taking some lives and often wrecking your beautiful campus. It's tragic, but it's also a school tradition implemented 200 laps ago so there's no way that's ever going to end.

This is hardly unique to Beyond Canon, it's a problem with any IP that gets new writers, but....we did this. This is a reference to Humanimals which in addition to never being funny or liked by anyone was also already the basis for the Lusii. This is just ideas Hussie had twenty years ago getting reheated. And not even his good ideas!

Homestuck 2 had the issue a lot of IPs had (Star Wars most famously) where a huge creative world of infinite possibility got shrank down and down and down until there were only twenty people in the multiverse who mattered at all. Beyond Canon was moving away from that a little with a bunch of new species on a new planet, but the Deltritans were already Trolls 2 and we don't need to be reusing their gimmicks. This goals for the Narwhal, too, by the way. We did ancestors already!

GOOD HEAVENS WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT?

Anyway I guess Swiss's exile is Jane since they say "good heavens" unironically but aren't going wildly over the top with the old-timeyness like Jake does.

KILL THAT FUCKING THING NOW!!

This is, to be fair, the first sensible reaction anyone has had to literally anything in this entire franchise.

There's no exact consensus on the origin of SATANIMALS, but despite their myriad wretched forms all of them seem to exhibit some degree of satyrical anatomical features, or rough equivalents to them, and they're occasionally disturbingly genetically proximal to satyrkind. Everyone pretends this makes them special and worth preserving but you're of the opinion that they are hideous mistakes made by god. Unfortunately, the Exemplar seems to adore them, so they get to continue their shameful existences frolicking and rampaging across gorgeous national parks and nature preserves that would be much better suited to the frolicking and rampaging of satyrs.

I suppose if there's anyone to blame for reheating old Homestuck ideas no one liked the first time, it's "The Exemplar" (aka Dirk).

Oh no not Serenity 2. Serenibee.

....There's a 50/50 chance she's actually named Serenibee.

Anyway that's enough of that.

GC: wait. GC: delfi wtf is this...? GC: DEL'FI??? GC: how did you get this??? GC: ... GC: ... GC: THANK YOU??? GC: omg omg. GC: THIS IS CRAZY!!!

Ly'lac is extremely happy to get her present from Del'Fi (original art from the creator of "Beyond Anon", who is secretly Del'fi himself) and wants Del'Fi to play the game. Wow. Cool.

#Homestuck #Homestuck 2 liveblog #Beyond Canon #homestuck beyond canon

I think one of my favorite parts about Swan Boy is that it's built around a 3-person friend group but two of the three people actively dislike each other.

And I like it because it's sort of preposterous and leads to jokes but there's enough dregs of backstory that I still understand why they sometimes hang out together in the first place.

Speaking of funny things that make sense, I like how Rona's two gimmicks are "severe anxiety disorder leaving her often meek and pathetic" and "fuk u fite me knife emoji", and even though these two gimmicks are conceptually opposites she never feels like she's acting randomly because it's very consistent. She'll spend hours panicking because she said something kind of cool to Cassie and now can't live up to the bar she said for herself but she has zero tolerance for a man trying to push her around. She's a great character, and a good example of how you don't need an entire book of every conceivable favorite color like/dislike etc to write a believable, interesting, funny underdog character who can play a starring role in major arcs. Rona does two (2) things and then they put into into situations and that's all you really need.

#Swan Boy

flakops

this chapter is green!

sketch preview of the whole thing is available on my patreon

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Mary: I'm lonely all the time and Fauna is my only friend Clover: I'll be your friend! Also Mary: *Naruto runs away* Clover: I hate how this keeps happening. When I'm an adult the next time some one tries to leave me I'm going to grab them by the most convenient body part to keep them around

#Bleating Heart

I'm most just saying this as an excuse to let people know The Golden Boar is off hiatus, but I'm intrigued by this wrinkle in a "tournament arc" where actually winning or losing the fight doesn't strictly matter. Just sort of a novel idea I think.

Also digging the stache on that pokemon down there.

#The Golden Boar

I love when I miss a few updates of a comic and then come back and get flashbanged by an opening panel with no context.

#Kevin and Kell

A new upd8 dropped two days ago.

Thanks for waiting.

>Be the baby.

I know it's a separate update, but if the next page says "the baby is you" I'm going to be a little bit mad. We just did that joke two pages ago.

You cannot be the baby. Why in the world would you want to be a baby? Especially one so unfortunate to be born during THE GREAT LOSS.

Baby nymphs kind of look like baby Digimon but somehow even less detailed. Is this a flashback to the vaguely alluded to "first" reckoning?

[S] Ly'lac: Descend.

Oh no, it's the current one. RIP that baby, I guess. I do kind of like how the Homestuck 2 cast is actually integrated with their worlds and are inclined to miss them. John was the only character in Homestuck 1 to be sad that the entire fucking Earth exploded and he got over it in two lines of dialogue. HS2 is milking the horses a bit more. This is doubly interesting because we barely knew Deltritus and Earth C is so criminally underdeveloped that it's the one part of the old writing that the new writers openly complain about. Anyway, I'm procrastinating. You were [S]ing?

So this Flash appears to be Ly'lac irritated that she's slowly sinking because her ride is going down. Ly'Lac...you can swim. Right? Guess she's not feeling it? Or can the aquatic character actually not swim, which I guess would be a funny weakness.

We're not looking at the first reckoning, but we are getting some lore on the Uni-Nymph, whom Del'Fi was all about. He was a meteor kid, who landed on the surface and was raised as a Satyr despite being a...well, supposedly a Nymph, but those look like horse ears on his upper organon.

Then this twink shows up and he must be the...other guy....there was a Nymph and a Satyr and they created the game in Ye Olde times. What was this dude's name? I forget. Lemme go check the flash where it's revealed.

It's broke. Great. Awesome. To the wiki! The "Grey Rain" was caused by "an unspeakably evil satyr tyrant king and a scheming nymph enchantress", which I've been assuming are the same as the floaty twink and the Uni-Nymph but if these are ancestors then maybe not. I had it in my head that the King and Enchantress would be players in the existing session, but I guess you can't have a session without a Scratch. For some reason.

The Uni-Nymph is sold out to the Nymphs by his frat. Per Del'Fi, "There's no way she could have translated The Council's "reclamation" of the Uni-Nymph and the slaying of Barley Frat in a school AU", so these traitorous horses are presumably Barley Frat and presumably don't profit from whatever deal they're making here.

The twinky other guy is presumably the "Australian" who came to Barley Frat and "Danced them into the sea" from Swiss' lore books.

For a brief period, there was a fourth tier; a reclusive, monastic order of socially anxious isolationists. They spent the majority of their existence in unremarkable obscurity, contributing basically nothing, but their final decades were marked by a profound change: a commitment to revelry so infectious that it went on to fundamentally change the nature of satyr society, prompted by the appearance of a man who flew across the sea from the uninhabited Cursed Land, Australia. He catapulted their order to the highest echelons of power and influence, which you always found weird because he was just a savage degenerate. At any rate, that didn't last long, because at some point their so-called "revolutionary" danced them all into the sea. So you guess maybe he wasn't such a fucking cool guy after all.

Poor, sweet, dear, precious, Meemaw. She was so damn old.

Meemaw dies of....something. Fear, I guess? Ly'Lac eats her. No prototyping for you, Meemaw.

THE NARWHAL wants to speak with you.

Well, that's cool. The flash kind of implied this is the Uni-Nymph, transformed (and, uh, I've since got a patreon bonus update that confirms it). I suppose we'll have to see where this goes. Ly'Lac saw the Narwhal from Derse, so maybe he is in the game somehow and my crack theory is still alive?

#Homestuck #Homestuck 2 liveblog #Homestuck 2 #Beyond Canon

Homestuck 2 didn't drop the June update on 6/12 and if they drop it on Deltarune day they can fuck right off.

#Homestuck

Don't know if you know this, but Hiveswap act 3 got announced for a winter release.

Neat. I don't feel a strong compulsion to play the demo, but I'll play the game proper when it comes out.

#Homestuck

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IT'S TIME!! Applications are open!

spiderforestcomics

SpiderForest is a not-for-profit webcomic collective run by volunteer comic creators. We feature over 100 high-quality, free-to-read webcomi

Two weeks until SpiderForest 's 2026 Application Season opens! Applications will run from June 8-30 this year! Our webcomic collective is a place of passion for growing together in our craft, cross-promotion, and community!

Check out our Apply page for info/requirements: spiderforest.com/apply

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everywhere I see talking about Hans Vogel talks about how it’s antifascist and about him coming to terms with being a Nazi, but like. when the protagonist of your webcomic is a Nazi it feels like you need to do a bunch of stuff to make it clear you are not pro-Nazi and you’re not woobifying them, and the webcomic just Hasn’t Done That.

(I also have a lot of feelings as a Jew about liberally throwing in Nazi symbols into your webcomic like the author does constantly but that’s a whole other discussion)

Hm. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. I don't think characters need to look at the camera every now and then to be "FYI nazis are bad", and I certainly don't think Hans Vogel is Dead is pro-Nazi

See?

And I'm also cognizant of how "Something hasn't been addressed in a long time" is a subset of "webcomics take fucking forever to make".

But for a comic that sells itself as an anti-fascist comic about a nazi going to a fairy tale land and learning that fascism is bad, the whole "nazi" thing hasn't come up that much. Even the site's "about" page euphemistically calls him a "card-carrying party member" without mentioning the party, and Hans is established as being vaguely uncomfortable being a nazi from minute one, never wears a swastika, and conveniently dies in 1940 before the Holocaust begins. He's never presented as a Nazi that needs to unlearn fascism, he's presented as a decent dude who just kind of happened to be on the wrong side of the war and has already realized it. Even the shield that's supposedly representative of his dark past has a griffin on it instead of, say, a black eagle.

And I get it. It's completely understandable that you don't want your protagonist of your anti-fascist webcomic waving a swastika and going on rants about ridding the world of degenerates and shit. I can't imagine the discourse if that happened. (especially given that this comic started in 2015 and the real world context around fascism was about to change quite a bit). But there's a really strong tension between "The comic is about the evils of fascism and a fascist learning to change" and "I want my protagonist to not be a fucking nazi" and the comic is trying to split the difference in a way I don't think works. I'm a little worried that Reineke is going to be Jewish and that's why Hans literally can not see her as human because I don't think that metaphor's going to work at all.

I'm not really sure what's to be done about it at this point, though. It's a bit late for Hans to go "Oh by the way I'm a huge Hitler fan and there's a bunch of racist shit I need to unlearn", but if your comic is about a dude learning not to be a fascist he kind of needs to start out as a fascist and by not committing to the bit you lose the ability to criticize fascism in the comic because it ends up not actually coming up anywhere. It's just a comic about a dude having adventures and also sometimes the SS logo is there.

#Hans Vogel is Dead

Hm. Given that Hans Vogel is a wolf who sees himself as a man, and Reineke is a fox who thinks she's a girl, that painting in the background seems like omino- I'm sorry is that the SS logo?

#Hans Vogel is Dead

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