#and the. the server I just joined was Homestuck related

[thegreatestheaver]

Reconnecting with old friends is fun. I just joined a server and someone I met like 2 years ago was the owner and I was like oh neat! And they just sent me a friend request and dmed me saying they remember meeeee

[myfandomrealitea]

That discord server post made me remember the stark difference between Serverstuck (a minor populated server) and Degrees of Lewdity (strict adult-only server)

Serverstuck has the worst mods and owner I've seen because they're all Antis and abuse the rules by excusing anyone who are close to them & punishing others who are strangers, lying to people on why some got banned, and allowed sensitive political topic go unregulated

Degrees of Lewdity, despite filled with people who has crude & cursed-level sense of humor, has strict mods & owner, write the correct information on why some people are banned or muted (they even allow users to request to be ban from the server for mental health reasons), and immediately shut down any conversation of sensitive political topics that cause infighting between members

I feel safer in a server for an adult game development than a "minor friendly" homestuck rp server

While I do welcome servers that have a mixed age range, I don't think I've ever or will ever join a server moderated or owned by someone who is either/both an anti or a minor.

To run or moderate a server you need to be impartial, objective, socially aware, able to appropriately manage conflict and relatively socially seasoned. I've personally found most minors often lack or are incapable of most if not all of these qualities.

(And that's not me hating on minors or calling them ignorant. Some of those qualities are just things you learn or develop with age and time. Some adults never learn them at all, even, but they are qualities you need if you're going to, essentially, be in charge of other people.)

Sephiroth's Server Safety Tips

Always do a thorough check into who is advertising the server, who owns the server, and other members before joining a server where possible.

Once you've joined the server, immediately use the search function to look for key words related to topics you want to avoid, possible past conflict, bullying, ect.

Immediately check the server rules. Its a red flag in itself if the server doesn't have any. Also, 'just be nice' is not a rule. Servers should have clear, clean cut rules and regulations.

Don't be afraid to message server owners, moderators or users privately and ask questions. They shouldn't get offended and if they can't or won't answer questions about basic rules, server safety protocols, ect, you should reconsider joining.

Don't be afraid to ask around other people to see if the server is known or has a reputation, either. If a server is based on a specific fandom, for example, search through that fandom for any past mentions of the server or ask other fans if they've heard of it.

[aroaceleovaldez]

Not ask-blog related, then, but how would you get into role-playing?

honestly, just find an RP space/community (that's accepting new members) and hop right in. If you're nervous about your writing not being up to snuff, RP spaces are in my opinion the way to build up your writing. We all start somewhere and RP spaces are a great place to start and often full of beginners. You will pick it up and improve very quickly, have no fear. The general rules to be aware of in any RP space is basically just be nice and don't powerplay (which means don't do stuff like start controlling other people's characters, or deciding things for other people's characters without their permission, don't make everything in the RP about only your character, etc etc. Generally just treat everybody else and their characters with general courtesy). Also if everybody else in a space is doing only script or only paragraph format rp, try to match that. And try to make sure your writing is legible as a general courtesy cause otherwise people will have a hard time joining you in RP even if they want to - so avoid letter replacement/typing quirks (unless it's specific to the RP - see: Homestuck, though even with HS rp there is sometimes a site toggle to turn typing quirks off or similar) and do a quick scan to make sure your posts aren't super full of typos or etc.

more advice below the cut cause whoops this got long:

The finding the space is really the hardest part - RP-designated spaces are becoming more difficult to find since forum boards have started disappearing (though they have also started making a resurgence!). My old forum stomping grounds have since become an adoptables pet game site - though I do know a lot of online pet game sites have very active forum communities that usually had plenty of rp. I know for a fact Flight Rising has an active RP community. Rarely you can also find some other forms of RP-designated sites, like MSPARP used to be the big one for Homestuck and had some pan-fandom offshoots, but I don't know exactly what the status is for that stuff over there. I believe MSPARP doesn't exist anymore and I don't know anything about the rest of all that.

I used to also play some RP-dedicated multiplayer games and those can be a great option, depending on the game and your personal tastes. The main one I used to play a.) i would not recommend to people lol and b.) i'm pretty sure is very dead anyways so I don't have any exact recommendations there. I hear Roblox is a good place to find RP servers in a similar vein to that type of stuff but I never got into Roblox so I cannot confirm/deny that. You can sometimes find public Minecraft servers that have rp spaces but those are harder to find nowadays. There's a ton of discord RP communities you can join though. It's a bit more difficult to search around and get a feel for them just with how discord is but there's definitely plenty of 'em.

And I am not very in the tumblr RP community spheres (or other social media rp spheres - though i have dabbled) but to my understanding with those you either find an active group and ask if they're open to new members/if you can join, or you just jump right in to making your own blog/account/etc for it. Make some prompts/rp starters for people to potentially hop in and join you with or otherwise just kind of find you and rope you into their rp group or whatever. And of course you can always start a group with your friends.

The major things with RP is just kind of figuring what type of RP you want to be doing cause that informs everything else. Do you want to do script rp (usually formatted along the lines of [CHARACTER]: *runs around*) or paragraph/prose rp (the "[Character] ran around in circles before coming to a halt before the door." type format)? Do you want to do more of a video-game type rp where you have an avatar? Do you want to do something more like a TTRPG/D&D? Do you wanna do just straight up LARP (i can't really help you with that one much that one. you'd just have to search for local LARP groups - sometimes you can find them at your local conventions)? All those things are going to point you in different directions for what you want to do. In general, if you can find RP forums you can usually find both script and paragraph rp though paragraph rp is more common. Chatrooms and video games are more likely to lean script rp format due to chat limitations though this is not always the case. Social media rp is kind of it's whole own beast and everybody does it differently or different groups do it differently but if you want to do RP stuff primarily on your own and maybe pick up a group as you go then in-character social media can be a fun route for that. Or if you're not particularly looking for collaborative RP but want to do some interactive story stuff in a similar vein, then making an askblog might be more your style.

In general right now though, looking for RP discords is a relatively easy one or you can start your own and advertise it. Tbh if you find Warrior Cat RPers they may very likely have a designated area for non-WC rp (in the past Warriors RP sites/groups/etc ive been a part of, this has been the case in all of them). Also Warriors RP is like, everywhere. You will find it. It's like a constant of the universe or something. Actually doing a quick search i found some newer WCRPG forums and they look beautiful and yes, they do have non-Warriors rp sections. Idk much about RP communities in other fandoms but you can always count on Warriors. And as mentioned before, social media RP is an easy one.

Hopefully something in all of that helps a lil bit.

[junestrider]

Hey! Figured I'd make a pinned post talking all about me and the silly shit you'll see here.

im june, and im a kinda cool gal (at least i think so lol) and i make music! i make other stuff too but im mostly a musician. i like valve games, the fallout series, homestuck and a few other eccentric games as well!

im the proud owner of a TF2 server called Frags and Mags (ill post a small bit about the server here from time to time but I plan on making a tumblr blog just for the server eventually)! the IP is 143.198.30.17 if you ever wanna join!

now that we got my intro out of the way, heres some silly blog related stuffs

posts tagged with #june's ebubbles is just my silly little thoughts thrown onto a tumblr post

posts tagged with #JUNEBRO is just me reviewing stuff like video games, music and other stuff

aaaand posts tagged with #junes art is just me posting the very few times i decide to get off my ass and draw things.

thanks for checking out my blog and i hope you find me at least a little funny!

[southernprospitdreamer]

hi, i am jake, the creator of this voiceover project lazily named ‘the prospit project’. the basic idea of this project is that me and many others are dubbing the entirety of the homestuck comic. as a person with horrific dyslexia I felt as though a project like this would help people like me so they can enjoy homestuck without having to actually read it. i have made a few accounts on other platforms advertising this so I thought I’d also make one of tumblr since I am slowly but surely coming back to tumblr.

i am currently looking for more people to audition for the sprites and the cherubs. all of this will be taking place on the discord server which I will link.

you must be 13+ to join and to audition you must send in an audio file of your voice. besides that we are pretty lenient and the server is a nice homestuck related chill space even if voice acting isn’t your thing. but if you do plan on auditioning just know, you don’t need to know a thing about homestuck as long as you can read and record your voice you’re pretty qualified in my book.

that’s it for now, I’ll be looking forward to seeing some of you soon and I hope you all have a great rest of your day !!

[tvrntechno]

CHECK THE UPDATES BRO

idk if anyone is still into homestuck in (almost) 2022, but if you are and you happen to kin one of the characters, this post is for you

im a dave kinnie and im looking for other people that kin homestuck characters, however, im only looking for one of each

to explain, i have made a homestuck kin discord server in which everyone kins a different character. so, think of it as like a kin group chat.

to join, you must be born sometime between 2001 and 2005. absolutely no sexual, nsfw, etc. talk between minors and people 18 or older. no excuses whatsoever. for people 18+ idk if i’ll make an nsfw channel or not. if you have any questions about age related things, please ask

i will write out a list of the open characters and taken characters at the end of the post for your convenience, and i’ll update it as people claim their kins. no original characters are allowed. sorry

no political or triggering talk will be allowed in the gc. politics always end up with people upset. so does talk about triggering things. if you think something might be triggering, it’s best to just not talk about it

if you’ve made it this far and you’re interested, here’s the “application” necessities. name, pronouns, age, birthday, character you kin/want to be, why you kin them in 5 sentences or less, and your discord user. dm me your “application”

please keep in mind that you don’t have to look like the character or necessarily act like them either. feel free to make your own relationships with others in the gc, meaning you don’t have to create relationships with someone just because their character is friends with your canonically. example, rose and kanaya don’t have to date or pretend to date in the gc just because they’re dating in canon. however, if you want to kindate and such, make sure everyone involved is okay with it

CHARACTERS AVAILABLE

beta kids— rose

alpha kids— none

trolls— tavros, terezi, vriska, feferi

dancestors— all except kurloz, rufioh, aranea, cronus, and kankri

TAKEN CHARACTERS (for ur convenience)

Dave, John, Jake, Dirk, Jane, Roxy, Kurloz, Rufioh, Mituna, Equius, Sollux, Nepeta, Kanaya, Hal, Calliope, Aranea, Eridan, Karkat, Gamzee, Aradia, Jade, Kankri, Cronus

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if you have questions about other characters, lemme know 👍🏼

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

As a sort of response to the person who said the fandom is like a dying star: I can see where you’re coming from, but I don’t fully agree. I don’t think the fandom has died so much as gone through an evolution.

It is much smaller than it was in its heyday. There isn’t as much new content being made as there was in the early 2010s. However, there are still fans, and people are still discovering and enjoying the comic for the first time. It’s not a big fandom anymore, but it does still have new fans joining (I got into it back around late 2019, I’m by no means part of the old crowd, and I know people who’ve become fans even in the past couple of months!), new fan content being made, and a special place in a lot of people’s hearts. The tumblr tag has new posts every few minutes at most, and Homestuck got on our trending topic list on Karkat’s birthday. I’ve seen photos of Homestuck cosplay meetups in the few cons that have started to reappear this year. While I’m not on Reddit, the Homestuck subreddit and related Discord server seem to be very active.

I don’t think a fandom can ever truly die. They simply become smaller, less dominant fanbases with fewer, but still very passionate, fans. It’s how love of certain media manages to span decades even when it’s something that has a very finite amount of canonical content, like Frankenstein (which has a tiny fandom specifically centered around the original novel). Just because we’re no longer in the mainstream zeitgeist doesn’t mean we aren’t still around. After all, even dying stars don’t evaporate into nothingness: they simply change form. :)

Honestly anon this made me feel a bit more zen about the whole thing. The more things change I guess

-Mod Terezi

[calicorn]

My experience with WeLoveFine/ForFansByFans as an artist.

This in regards to the Act 6/7 Tarot Project, which occurred from 2017 to 2018. I also want to thank @aryll for the chance to participate in such a project, and thank you for doing what you could with the group and what occurred. I realize this is a few years late, however, but it’s been bothering me ever since it occurred, and I only chose to speak my mind about it. But to summarize, the project started out as unofficial, however we were approached by FFBF in February of 2018. They were willing to sell the deck as official merchandise on their store. I have my own opinions on the company, as it’s known they underpay artists severely for their work despite selling most items for extremely high prices. A similar payment issue occurred with the Official Homestuck Zine, and one of the artists of the Tarot Project posted this in the comments:     “Can relate OP. I did work for the new tarot deck (using my throwaway account for that reason lol) but we aren’t being paid at all. No money. The only compensation we are getting is a free deck and an exclusive enamel pin which is pennies compared to what they’ll be making off us. One might argue that the project wasn’t supposed to be printed so I should be grateful it’s even happening but I expected a big company like WLF to y’know, pay artists... The only reason I agreed to letting them use my art was to get a free deck. I also honestly dislike WLF’s artist compensation policy. My art has been selected from the Fan Forge before and the idea of being able to sell my HS art was so appealing, but the execution is so poor. They don’t pay us until we sell $100 worth of shirts, but that is so difficult in a market that is so oversaturated. I wish they like, cycled designs in and out. Instead, they just keep adding more and more designs, drowning out old ones and just flooding the entire market. Plus, they get to withhold money from artists until every hundred-dollar mark. I can’t imagine how much they’ve made off of small time artists that get their design accepted and sell maybe 3 shirts since it happens so often.” So. What exactly happened? I’ll explain under the cut given there’s a decent amount to go through. Though to summarize; WeLoveFine/ForFansByFans is an extremely egregious company that does not value their artists whatsoever and will do what they can to pay them as little as possible. Please support said artists on sites that actually do give them fair pay, or support them via commissions.

There were a few bumps during the tarot project, though overall it went extremely smoothly and we released our art to the Tumblr blog. FFBF approached us during this time, and we were all given the option to agree to continue working or the project or decline. However, this is what was an important piece to the initial email sent out by the Tarot Project team;      • Each participating artist will get a full finalized copy of the deck, COMPLETELY free. This includes packaging and free shipping of the deck.      • Each participating artist will get an enamel pin commemorating the project, EXCLUSIVE to the artists of this project only, with a custom design as chosen/designed by us. What will most likely occur is that everyone who wishes to submit a design for the pin can do so, and as a group, we will vote on which one we would like to submit as our final design choice!     • Each participating artist will receive FULL COMMISSION on any further usage of their artwork by What Pumpkin or For Fans By Fans. For example, if they release a mini-print, wallet, etc. with your design on it, you will be paid in commission for the usage of your work. (If you have ANY questions about how this would work, please don’t hesitate to ask and I will hook you up ASAP with a For fans By Fans representative who can go over the details with you further.)     • Each participating artist will have a window in which they will be able to make updates or revisions to their illustration(s) before the project is released. This means that if something is bugging you about your work, or you feel that it does not reflect your current level of skill, you will be allowed to resubmit a new version before the project officially goes up as merchandise! So, the majority of us agreed to continue forward with the project and retouch our cards. From there, things continued, and we were emailed by a FFBF representative on occasion to discuss how the process went, as well as various other things that required discussion, plus asked to assist in the promotion of the 4/13/18 celebration on their website. This is where the issues began and would continue through the entire project, with it still being seen post-release of the cards. We were sent an email in April of 2018 requiring information to be provided in the  accompanying booklet of the deck, as well as being asked to answer various interview questions that would be posted to FFBF’s Tumblr, and most importantly; the Commission Agreement form. So what did it entail? This was the form I was sent. My interview was never posted. I have looked multiple times and never seen evidence it ever was, either. And this was also included in the email;    • We are going to be hosting a pre-order bonus promotion surrounding the new tarot set, starting 413. Anyone who pre-orders the set will be entered into a drawing to win a commissioned art piece from a random artist who worked on the tarot. You will be paid by us, FFBF, for this commission work in the amount of $50.  So we had to draw more art with a very close deadline date to obtain a payment  for art we had already created, both of which should have easily been worth more than $50 total. I signed without thinking, which looking back on, was incredibly idiotic, despite my own worries over the fact that even at the time, $50 did not seem like a lot. Progress continued. An exclusive pin was designed and created for the artists, though the production and delivery dates would be delayed to September of 2018. During this time, we were also invited to join FFBF’s Discord server as well, which I am still in, though am not active in. And eventually, we were provided a Commission Schedule. I do not know if I’m missing an email between the enamel pin shipment and this schedule post, however I cannot find any trace of it. This is the Commission Schedule email, and what it consists of. Of course I found it strange, because looking at the schedule, I could never find any sign of myself having been added. Obviously I should have replied then and there due to that, but I didn’t, and that is my own fault. But that rolled into October of 2018, when I did finally email back and asked about why I hadn’t been added. I was sent back this; “Hi Calicorn! I’m sorry I misinterpreted your response as not wanting to proceed:“3)  I am completely willing to sign up for being one of the artists for the commission raffle event, though I must say $50 would be underpaying considering most artists’ base prices for commissions tend to be $50 or more.” Then I sent “If you do not want to be part of the give-away, that’s totally ok. We are offering $50 for these commissions but if that price is not within your comfort, there’s no pressure!” You never came back with anything so I didn’t want to proceed since it seemed like you were uncomfortable with the amount we were offering – I’m really sorry if I misunderstood! The giveaway is actually over I’m sorry to say but I appreciate you following up about this. I wonder why the message went into spam.. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you Thanks!” And one of the most glaring issues popped up in October as well. When we finally received our decks in the mail, our project’s Discord group began to discuss the fact that our emails had been printed in the pamphlet without our permission. Mind you, this was also a project that included minors in it, and our emails had now been given away without our knowledge. Another issue with the pamphlets is the fact that FFBF had reused the same text from the Homestuck Kickstarter Tarot Deck, as seen on the New Booklet/Old Booklet, and here/here. FFBF then decided to remove the booklet from every outgoing tarot that gets ordered, with customers receiving a corrected digital PDF that was coordinated in its creation by Aryll. And apparently previous customers would receive this PDF via emails, as well as a link to download it on the product page. Thankfully FFBF seemed to have at least posted the PDF on the product page, however this seems extremely lazy compared to simply including the newly reprinted booklet. Though this may not be the last of issues, as I stumbled across the Amazon product page for our tarot deck earlier before typing this all up. To say the least, it is extremely infuriating, especially given the quality of the cards and how many people of complained about them on both Amazon and FFBF’s websites. Of course we, the artists, were never alerted to this development, nor were we paid for such.

But overall, we were hardly paid for our time and effort during this project, which is a massive disappointment, but perhaps that much should have been expected from WeloveFine/ForFansByFans, who are notorious for underpaying artists and overpricing products. Their actions are inexcusable, and I am still both disappointed and furious with this company as a whole. But thank you for reading, and please spread the word, as I do not want FFBF’s actions to go unnoticed.

[serenedash]

I started rambling about my experience with kh and then it turned into khux and then it just turned into me rambling about Ryou and my art journey????? enjoy I guess,

it’s very long but there’s art in there :)

It’s funny to think about my kh journey as a whole tbh, I grew up watching my mom play video games, which included kh1 and 2. I wasn’t allowed to play the playstation2 we owned BUT I did have a gameboy so the first game I played was CoM (after my mom finished it ofc,) so I guess you could say I’ve always been passionate about kh “””side games””” lmao but I did fall off of kh very quickly bc again, I wasn’t allowed to play our PS2 and also I Am A Terrible Gamer I’ve Never Finished CoM I’m sorry you all had to find out like this, but then 358/2 came out when I was in middle school and!!! I didn’t care and I didn’t play idk why lol

Anyway, fast forward to high school I’m like 15 and my older sister, who HAS been keeping up with kh, has a wallpaper on her phone of roxas and ventus. And bc I haven’t kept up I say “nice roxas wallpaper” and she says “thanks but it’s roxas and ventus” and I proceeded to get so mad that I was determined to prove to her that her wallpaper was just roxas twice and then I fell down the BBS rabbit hole and suddenly I was reading about vanitas and then I’m reading the fan translations of the BBS novel and I’m crying??? I am sobbing???? and that’s how I actually got into kh for real lol we are vanitas stans before we are people,

It’s so funny how I thought I was some kh super fan, knowing all this stuff that I spent so long reading and rewatching cutscene movies, but I never once, SOMEHOW NEVER ever came across khx. It’s so absurd and bizarre I seriously have no idea how I never once encountered khx prior to khux. I suppose that has to do with the fact I wasn’t involved in the fandom? In early high school I had stepped away from fandoms as a whole and I didn’t have any interest in really posting content or interacting with fans anymore bc of how burnt out I was from a previous fandom,

but khux released! and I was so hype and excited for it! on launch day I was a senior in high school, I had ran around to every “nerd” and weeb I could find in school to ask them to join my party and fun fact about me is I have crippling social anxiety I literally refuse to start conversations irl so holy shit I was OUT HERE doing the MOST

My player just originally had my name (Matt) but everyone in my party had fun names so Ryou was born! High school was one big yugioh phase for me and ryou bakura is one of my favorite characters ever so it was just the logical name choice lol I quickly started creating Ryou, the character, as well. I was also leaving my homestuck phase and that + vanitas obsession made This character design (art circa 2016)

If y’all are familiar with my kh oc’s you might notice that keyblade now belongs to my kid Monty LOL

Anyway that got scrapped quickly for the chip and dale outfit (which is where Ryou’s trademark goggles are from <3) Goggles have been a staple of my character designs for a LONG TIME so like, it had to be done, (that’s a separate ramble about a separate oc tho)

OG Ryou was an interesting guy; he was a young party leader with this overwhelming responsibility on his shoulders bc of his status as a party leader. In his original story, he also struggled heavily with darkness, much like Terra but for Ryou it was more that the darkness was controlling him and not like a source of power like it was for Terra

A big part of early Ryou I kept, however, was the crushing awareness of loss. One of my party members (the strongest one at the time,) had left without saying a word and I was very confused and hurt. This was around the time the ephemera plot was happening so I decided to incorporate it into Ryou’s story; having him experience losing a friend to darkness since it’s so normal for wielders in Daybreak Town to just disappear, and this would unintentionally become a theme for both me and Ryou as khux friends would just randomly disappear.

I was desperate for khux at this point and I decided to watch the fan translations for khx and GOD, god, was I obsessed. I couldn’t stop thinking about the foretellers. And I’m not going off about that here bc I already did that, but I actually started entering fandom again! I did it slowly, I started on tumblr before this blog was made altho it was me sending anons to the few khux related blogs I could have lol a friend convinced me to get twitter where I got involved with the ffxv fandom, which led me to the kh fandom and eventually the khux fandom there which is what REALLY got me going on khux.

I joined discord servers, most of the servers I’m in are khux related, and from there I joined the khux oc rp (shout out to anyone there who might be reading this lol here’s some art from the beginning of the rp,)

It’s SO FUNNY how the RP influenced me so heavily. I hadn’t RP’d in YEARS, I used to have a strict no oc rp policy, but here I was? And the funny part is, I had barely developed Ryou. I had scrapped his original story and all I had was POST WAR Ryou so I literally had to reverse write him; I had only ever written him as a depressed, guilt ridden adult, but it was a fucking blast and I have such fond memories of this rp when it was active,

But anyway, this encouraged me to get more serious about art! I started drawing, writing, cosplaying, and roleplaying when I hadn’t done any of that stuff in a very long time. The first time I ever drew a background was for a deviant art khux competition actually LOL

also! I always think extremely fondly of the drawing I did of Aced in the keyblade war. It was also one of the first backgrounds I ever drew and it felt like my real starting point in the khux fandom. It got a ton of notes on here and someone wrote a tiny fic in a reblog which just made me SO HAPPY like it really felt like people were noticing me :) I was going to draw a matching Ira but!! I just never did!! One day tho, it’s on my art bucket list to redraw this along with Ira,

Aside from my personal growth, khux was great for my social life ngl, I made SO MANY friends online and got to meet a ton of people irl over the years! It’s crazy to think about all the people I now know and talk to? It honestly makes me really emotional. I’ll never forget taking the train into NYC and meeting up with discord friends. Going to conventions and talking with people about the latest khux update? Absolutely insane and those were some GOOD TIMES, if I thanked every khux friend or even just person who made an impact on me then we’d be here for a LONG TIME,

Fun fact, for my Lauriam cosplay all I needed to buy was the wig I just owned his outfit LOL also? Probably retiring that cosplay ngl people treated me like absolute garbage when I wore him and it led to a lot of confidence issues for awhile ngl. That’s probably one of the only memorable negative experiences I have with khux; it was great when khux people recognized me but for kh fans that weren’t in khux? They were FUCKING MEAN??? fuck kh fandom at large, I only care about khux fandom,

This leads me to another huge part of my experience in khux fandom: THEORIES!! I used to write SO MANY and oh my god my brain was so full all the time. It was a huge appeal for me in the fandom; I had been previously writing theory posts in the RWBY fandom and it just migrated over to khux for me lol I had done a ton of theorizing around Lauriam tbh, it was really the only reason I liked his character at all bc initially I did not care about the dandelions, anyone who wasn’t Skuld I was like “please leave Now thanks”

A funny part of khux fandom I never intended to be apart of is the MEMES, I really only started doing memes as stress relief bc college had me so busy all I had time/energy for was these quick little shit post drawings.

The first meme I made, file name “invi despair” LOL we need to get her a girlfriend smh anyway, I think in my senior year of college I did a bunch of rapid fire memes all in one month bc the stress of finals was getting so bad afdgfhdgf as far as I know my impact on this fandom will be my memes bc all I do now is enter a kh/khux server and introduce myself and I go “yeah I draw art. here’s a meme” and everyone goes OH YOU, honestly I am nothing if not a clown

I’ve talked so much idk where I’m going with this. Khux is just a good game even if the gameplay actually kind of really sucks yknow lol but it was the first game I played where I like, REALLY got into the meta and the mechanics. I used to read so much on the mechanics and watch youtube videos on which medals were worth pulling for. I was never a whale or a top player exactly, but I could rank well if I tried lol I’ve made it to the top 100 for solo rankings, my party has made it to top 10, and in pvp I’ve made top 300. I’m not the highest level in my party but FUCK do I know how to manipulate this game LOL

And with all that hard work, the strategies, the theorizing, the content I’ve made-- it’s been my life for 5 years. I’ve logged into khux almost every single day. At the end, I have logged 1820 days in khux out of 1910 days. Kinda crazy. Crazier I’ve never spent money on khux either lol the only “money” gone into it was one time my mom gave me a google play store gift card and I used it on my birthday for a VIP xemnas medal which eventually made it to regular pulls anyway but it was nice and a little treat :)

I’m not a gacha fan, I don’t care for it, so I don’t think I’ll be touching another gacha again. But for kh? This was pretty fucking awesome, even if it sucked a lot sometimes LOL It was worth it for the people I’ve met most of all I think. I would honestly be a completely different person without khux and that’s REALLY insane to think about.

[adam-is-suffering]

So.... “Homestuck”

Heard of it, seen it around Tumblr, but what really is it about? Well that’s the thing, I don’t know. But Undertale was a cinematic masterpiece and I praise Terry Fox for unleashing the game of the decade and I heard he helped out for this comic.

Now how do I sell myself on following this liveblog? Uh, content, I guess. What more do you need? Then to satisfy one guy’s dream of reading Homestuck not exactly blind, but in its entirety? Yeah, thats what I fucking thought.

And hey, I may even enjoy the thing. Who fucking knows. 

I’m not gonna be updating veryyy frequently, just whenever I can tbh, but I do want to kinda finish it since I don’t like leaving things incomplete. I just kinda want to give me opinion here and there throughout my read. Thats pretty much all there is to it.

I also do not care for spoilers unless its death related. I even follow Mack’s blog. Willingly. And have joined her discord server. They have showed me something called the cursed lore. And some character info. And some videos. Idk whats really happening but I am doing a smallish liveblog now bc of it? Since I’d rather not be one of those serious “I’m going in completely blind” types. And while I don’t know what Homestuck is, I’d rather find a bit of info about it so it can keep me interested. Based on the sole reason that I often fall flat on a few fandoms because of it becoming “boring” to me. 

That being said, I am not new to liveblogging, did a few small ones on other media platforms and also participate in live Discord chats when streaming episodes. So while idk if I’m any good, I do know how it sorta works. “Sorta” is the key word. Not sure if Homestuck will agree with me depending on how the comic roles. 

On that note, please remember this for the future, I refuse to do video and audio reactions since I personally hate those. 

Asks are cool if you just don’t say who died, thats the only exception. May have an ask thing later if I feel the need to set something else up and get people to help me out.

Discord will be inevitable lol.

K cool. Thanks.

I just kinda wanna know why Obama fits into being John’s uncle and why Einstein was a bitch to some kid called Jake who likes to run, while also finding out Betty Crocker is an alien? And juggalos rule the government? And there’s these ghost guides which are cats?

(They told me the cursed lore doesnt count tho but wtf)

And there was a dancing shirtless fish guy called Cronus they had showed me which was entertaining to watch.

[lunias-takes-on-homestuck]

My Classpects Through the Years

I started getting into Homestuck in late 2012, about a year after [S] Cascade dropped, and like most of y’all I got pretty interested in the system of Classes and Aspects.

...Okay, I got obsessed with it. Who wouldn’t? A highly-flexible system of essentially taking an aspect of reality and interpreting it through the lens of a key verb or idea, creating unique and self-determined power sets limited only by your own imagination? That’s wild. And when I say I got into it, I mean I really got into it. I dove deep into Homestuck’s lore, reading up on popular and somewhat fringe theories about what each Aspect related to, how the Classes utilized them, what the potential Active/Passive pairings were, and how certain Aspects seemed to oppose each other. I even went so far as to contribute to a theory regarding the future of Tavros Nitram, which... didn’t exactly pan out as expected... but it was a ton of fun! And of course, while I was certainly interested in what this all meant for our cast of characters, I was also interested in how it could be interpreted and/or applied to real people.

People are, of course, far more complicated than a simple personality test could possibly explain, but I still got a lot of entertainment out of trying to pin down the classpects of characters or people I knew irl. Which naturally included me. Looking back on it, I think it’s very interesting to see the progression in ideas that led up to my more recent musings, so I figured it would be cool to dive into that and share my past and current classpects here!

Credits:

All images are pulled from the Homestuck Classpect Chart Updated posted by JosiahR94 on DeviantArt.

Artists: Zynchilada (compiled, partially drawn) and Owyn (updated at original resolution). Both blogs listed on the artwork have since been deactivated.

2012-2013 - Knight of Breath

This one is the byproduct of some test manipulation on my part - the fan test I was using was based on MBTI and Jungian archetypes, and honestly I’ve never found them to remain accurate for longer than a couple months at a time. I’ve wound my way around four different MBTI results over the years so I’m not inclined to use them as the basis for much, especially since the original test included fan-created classes and aspects that I really didn’t understand or jive with. But even once I narrowed it down to strictly canonical classes and aspects, I still wound up going with the 3rd-most accurate one. At the time I saw the Knight as the Active Exploiter class, the type to jump into action and wield their aspect as a weapon. I really related the idea of a detached loner who was fiercely protective of their friends, and John had shown off very, very recently (for me, anyway) just how powerful wind could be. The powers were sick, the outfit was neat, and it was absolutely wrong in nearly every way. Nearly. But we’ll get to that.

2013-2015 - Seer of Doom

You’re probably a little familiar with this one if you’ve been keeping up with Homestuck theorists lately, as there are two prolific content creators I know of who identify as Seers of Doom. For some time, I did too! The change was largely brought about because I thought my initial Knight of Breath result hadn’t been accurate enough, and also because I wanted to try my hand at classpecting myself without the aid of tests. At the time I was really feeling the Doom aspect and I saw myself as a guide (or maybe a teacher?) so it felt like it fit. There was just one sliiiight problem - I was entirely focused on how the Doom aspect related to the problems I was having in my life, rather than how I viewed the world around me and interacted with it. I still felt like I was sort of onto something with Doom, but it took some major life events to give me the nudge I needed to see things a little more clearly...

2015-2020 - Sylph of Life

For me, 2015 felt like the year I was finally coming out of my funk and figuring my shit out. It’s the year I started taking college courses (well, a college course), getting into meetups, making new friends, and reinventing myself. At some point I decided that the issue with my initial Doom analysis was that I was overly focused on the challenges I had instead of how I actually dealt with them, and my new aggressively-optimistic outlook would simply not mesh with Doom. Not one bit. I also felt that my class didn’t quite fit, and Sylph was sitting right there with their magick-y healing and creation powerset -- the ultimate support, and the type of person who makes their own way through life by simply refusing to accept they could be stopped or put down by anything. By the time the Extended Zodiac Quiz came out in 2017 and confirmed I was Lifebound, I had already proven to be on top of my game in college in a creative field. I joined our LGBT+ club and started somewhat aggressively railing against overly-restrictive labels and social constructs in Contemporary English to the point that I was exceeding the page limit on our essay assignments on a regular basis and still felt I wasn’t saying everything I wanted to say. Sylph of Life just clicked for me in a way the Knight of Breath and Seer of Doom never had, so I figured I’d nailed it.

Then, earlier this year, I found out I was actually a girl.

2020-Present - Knight of Life... or maybe Heart???

Imagine for a minute that you’re at a theater watching some movie through the perspective of the protagonist. You think you’ve got the plot all figured out, you’re guessing every story beat, and then in the last 5 minutes the big twist reveals the protagonist has unwittingly been an unreliable narrator for the last two hours. Literally everything you thought you understood has been flipped on its head, and it’s still good but it’s all very confusing. You leave the theater wondering what you just watched, and as you turn on your car you suddenly realize there were subtle hints foreshadowing the twist for over half the film. With every passing second the pieces start coming together, and you just know that watching it again would leave you going “How the hell did I miss that?!”

That’s about the best way I can explain what I’ve been experiencing for the past four-ish months. All the puzzle pieces I had put together were thrown totally out of whack and I’m finding every day that there are aspects of myself and my personality that I never knew where there. Discovering myself is hard work, but it’s a wonderful feeling, and it’s no wonder that on the heels of this I’m seriously vibing with the aspect relating to Personal Identity. That said, I still find myself parsing labels and identity through the lens of Life - words which are too restrictive to properly convey who I am, and an experience that can’t be explained or constrained by the stereotypical narrative people tend to have about people who are bisexual, polyamorous, transgender, and at once more complicated than those words can really describe. When I take the Extended Zodiac Quiz I find that I’m still Lifebound, but changing even a single question by a single step leaves me Heartbound instead, and I think that dichotomy really mirrors where I feel I’m at as a person.

Class-wise, I feel drawn to both Sylph and Knight to a degree, but in the years since I first chose the Knight of Breath classpect I have come to understand the class as a Passive Server - one who gives for the benefit of others - and that speaks to me. The wonderful Mythological Class Quiz by @homestuckexamination has only confirmed my suspicions about that. I have yet to decide between Knight of Life and Knight of Heart, but they’re both very interesting classpects imo, and either way I’m sure I’ll be spending far too much of my free time developing powers and things for them :P

Takeaway

Whew, that’s a lot of words! But what exactly does it all mean? Well... if you ask me, Classpecting is sort of a process. I’m sure that, years down the line, I’ll probably say I had it all wrong and I’m actually some other combination of class and aspect, and I’ll reminisce about the days when I was so obviously misreading myself. But that’s kind of the fun of it, isn’t it? It’s just another form of personality quiz, albeit one where you get sick powers and a nifty set of pajamas at the end. And for all the good that introspection can do to help you understand yourself a little better, you better believe I’m going to be spending the next hour or two debating whether passing out heals and buffs while tanking everything would be more cool than body-surfing and turning enemies into clones à la Agent Smith in The Matrix: Reloaded.

[mspa-multiverse]

Still looking for Intermission/Team sleuth RPers + UPDATE

So, our server is open to most MSPA characters for RP roles. We have people in there that are trolls, humans, intermission characters, etc. For now however our felt members are limited, we only have one person who has taken a role of a problem sleuth character (they are a death RPer btw) and we are missing a clubs deuce to complete the midnight crew. We would also enjoy people coming in to audition for the agents of derse and monarchs as well as exiles seeing as our only exile taken at the very moment is The Mayor.  Also update! Once we gain more activity (which we are hoping to do within the next few weeks) we plan on starting up the event team and would like to get it running by march in time for Problem Sleuth month and would like to kick off the first even paying homage to that comic. That being said we could really use some new members to come by, be active, hang out and help the place grow. You don’t have to audition for a character, you can just join and have fun with the rest of us.  In addition to this I would like to make one thing clear: Just because somebody has a role that you wanted, will not stop you from RPing the character in the server. We have the regular RP rooms for a reason where anyone who doesn’t have a role, or someone who does have a role but wishes to RP a different character, can plan and get stories going. The only thing not having a role will limit you to is being able to have the name of the character in the server + the character’s color + any other affiliated titles. Furthermore so there’s no more questions about this, you do not need to audition to be your OC. We are open to all OCs that are MSPA related and hopefully sometimes in the future when this is taken care of, we’ll be able to talk about getting some sort of role set out for them as well. Lastly, a post has been made about this in the past but just for future reference it will be reiterated. Homestuck^2 isn’t seen as completely canon, it’s “beyond canon” and since it wasn’t created under the MSPA title we do not accept auditions for any new characters within the comic. You may RP as them in the regular rooms but there will not be any auditions held for them. The only characters we take that aren’t completely under the MSPA title are those affiliated with Hiveswap and that was before the old website mspaintadventures became no more.  So, if you have made it this far and would like to join, a link will be provided and we would be very happy to have you in our community!  Server link ==> https://discord.gg/NRKkpsj

[missmonkeymode]

My story with google + since its ending soon

So, first things first. How did I get on google plus in the first place? Honestly I'm not fully sure, I think it was a mix of youtube being glued onto google plus, my brother using it, and maybe being lonely I don't fully know. I remember the first thing I did, it was basically add a bunch of pokemon stuff to my feed and follow my brother. Nothing much really happened then, but the more important part is what happened a little bit later, like a couple of months after I made the account. I found a group of people who roleplayed warrior cats. I know, warrior cats. I was intrigued by the thought of roleplaying, since it was like a joint story (in my eyes at least). I immediately joined and made my first oc ever. Her name was Ivy, she's a young cat who hated everything and everyone and was weirdly strong. I made her design in a dolldevine thing. Funny thing though, I didn't even read one book about warrior cats before I joined the group.

That was technically the first time I had internet friends. I remember thinking that everyone was like, cool older teenagers but I found out recently that the closest friend I had was literally 2 years older than me  so who would've thought. Eventually, the community got more and more inactive, and we just stopped. We stopped roleplaying with each other, and I think I was the only one who stuck with google plus from that group weirdly. This lasted until like, mid 2015 I wanna say? I dont't fully remember, but it doesn't fully matter, just by 2015 we split up.

So mid 2015 to early 2016 I literally remember nothing from them except liking minecraft youtubers (VAGUELY THO). All I do remember is getting kicked from this one group for breaking the rules once, but screw them right? I was messing around on youtube, and I found Jacksepticeyes playthrough of undertale in February of 2016. I fell in love with undertale. To be honest, I think that was one of the most intense hyper fixation I've ever had oopsie. I started following anything related to Undertale, including rp blogs since I knew what they were. Then I found someone who roleplayed Ink Sans.

Now about 7th grade me: I wasn't at the best place if I'm honest. I didn't have any friends, mostly what I did was read since I didn't have a phone at the time, I was extremely antisocial, and all I remember is like, the only time I had fun at school was watching the theatre kids dick around in theatre class even though I was too timid to actually say hi.

7th grade me was a different person than now me, even though I still have some traits from older me. But hey we ain't here to hear kit talk about how she thinks her life changed and junk we here about g+ baybee

So when I found this Ink Sans roleplayer, I checked out their blog since I was really into undertale aus and Ink Sans was new to me. I immediately followed after I saw their content. I was in awe, this person was a great rper, was everything 7th grade me wished to be (funny, confident, friendly, all that good jazz), and they liked undertale. I started commenting on their post, and we became friends. I remember becoming friends with them, and befriending their friends. I still know who they are to this day, and I still follow them even if we're not really friends anymore. Eventually the Ink Sans rper made a group where their friends hung out, and you can imagine how shocked and excited I was. Who'd like plain old Kit, all she does is read. But nevertheless, I dedicated the good chunk of 2016 in that group.

Overtime, I learned everyones name and stopped referring to them as their character. Ink Sans's mun's name was Uki, a Gaster Sans became Izzy, a Flowey became a Cy, etc etc. Everyone was older than me, I was the youngest in the group. I remember good things about that place, but one thing I don't remember is how horny e veryone was besides me. Lowkey I think because of skeleporn that they posted that I use to get fluseterd when thinking of sans f. So people were chilling on the server, then Uki got into homestuck. SHe got the others into homestuck, and I believe I was the last one to get into it (mostly because of my brother lol). So we all were posting about homestuck, and as a joke, Uki invited as many Eridan rpers to the server (since she had a crush on eridan lol) and eventually a dude named Myth joined. I'm a mutual to him on tumblr now so thats poppin. Myth is a good friend but he wasn't the quietest person. Eventually because of how rowdy it got, Uki's mom found out about the server and banned her from social media.

Everyone was devastated after that, especially her boyfriend Cy, and that launched the group into a weird limbo where we'd talk to each other and still be friends outside of the group, but not actually be active in the group. Officially it died in summer of 2016, but if I had to say when it died, I would say late winter after Uki left it died. 2016 came and went, and now its 2017 with a good chunk of friends still being into homestuck, so we decided to start roleplaying together as homestuck ocs. That's when things get weird and take a turn towards the sour.

So Izzy, the person who was gaster, started dating this papyrus roleplayer, who we called pap. Myth Introduced us to some more people and then yeah. OH WAIT I FORGOT TO MENTION LOGAN AND LGBT! So this group was the first time I figured out that the lgbt community existed, and Logan was a Pansexual gal who had a lot of drama irl but overall was pretty chill. BACK TO THE STORY!

So everyone had an oc, and everyone was at various places in their roleplaying life. Some people they were great at it, some people didn't start rping until the group started, some people were rusty at it but has some expirence (that twas me).  Because of this group I opened up MSPaint and actually figured out how it worked and start using it. It was fun but some people were..... unsavory to be kind. What I'm going to say in the spoilers contains tw of being sexually gross and suicide.

Around spring Izzy and Pap's relationship started getting shakey, and Izzy wanted to break up with Pap. At the time I had no idea what happened, but apparently Pap threatened Izzy with suicide if she did break up with him.  Izzy told Logan about it, and Logan told everyone to unfollow him. I didn't since I didn't know what was happening, but Pap was shunned from the group and I have no idea what they're doing today. It was a good thing to, his character were gross. Again, I didn't realize it at the time but like, his homestuck characters were fucking WILD. If I remember correctly (and i do) one of his characters tried to hump other characters and yeah that was bad. I made my character punch him and was bout to rip off his troll dick so yeah I did register that that was bad, but I didn't realize the gravity of it. Also another one of his characters kidnapped another character and had them as a sex slave maybe? yeah so good riddance to him.

Tl;DR Pap was gross and bad, so he's gone.

So like, late 2017, the rp group went inactive and some people I still know and talk to. A guy called Muff that joined later is still a good friend of mine. But that split up, and each person just stopped using google+ all together. All that really stayed was Myth, Izzy, and Muff. Logan had something happened with an ex and now deleted her account. I don't know what happened to her, all that she's safe. Cy just slowly moved to a new site, and we didn't stay in contact. 2018 rolled in, and I decided to be more out there and like, try to actually do things irl so that's where I changed from middle school Kit to Kit right now. I still used google+, I found some more friends whom are way better than some of the people who I interreacted with in 2017. Nothing eventful happened that year, but it was an amazing year nevertheless. Now early summer 2018 happened and i found jojo's bizarre adventure, and to my surprise some of my newer friends liked jojo! So we bonded over that, somehow passed them while reading/watching it, and life is going good. Then the announcement thhat google+ is ending happened.

Everyone, and when I say everyone I mean everyone, freaked out. A little bit about google+ culture is that you can literally become friends with everyone no matter follower count or post, it was a great place to make friends. Everyone was in a tizy about how they were going to keep their friends since nobody wanted to lose them. Another thing about google+ culture is how terrible the site is. To anyone here who's familiar with tumblr, imagine the tumblr staff but they dont fix bugs and don't care much about the site, and that's honestly the google+ staff. So everyone jokes about how the site is bad, there was a meme that was created to poke fun at the bugs (it was gold stars), and everyone said "when will this god forsaken site ended". Literally at first nobody knew if the announcement was real or not thats how much people joked about the end of google plus.

According to an article, the original end date was going to be in August. This was announced early this year, so people had time to plug other social media and things like that. But, that wasn't the fate of google+. Somehow someone leaked information about some users, so the google+ team decided to end it earlier. Tomorrow google plus won't be google plus, it'll be google business. Luckily I got peoples twitter and tumblr and all that jazz but.... damn. Who would've thought that google plus would end. None of us certainly did.

[kin-tea-discord-server]

Kin-Tea (general kin) Server promo

Hello, looks like I decided to go ahead with making a tumblr to promote this server anyhow. 

This is a kin server open to all fictionkin and otherkin! It is doubles friendly, so please be at least okay with doubles. Under the cut will be the rules and a link to the form to join the server, as well as sources we currently have categories and roles for (some channels are still being set up as of right now and I will reblog this post letting you know when they are all set up)! 

Rules:

1) Everything should stay in their respective channels 2) No hate shall be tolerated 3) Must be at least 13 years old to join 4) Must be 18 years old or older to gain access to the nsfw chat 5) Please let us know in the Suggestions channel if you can gain access to the nsfw chat as a minor or have access to even one channel for a source you aren’t apart of - don’t troll or message in a source chat or any other chat you don’t belong in 6) No racists, sexists, white supremacists, and the like! 7) No TERFS, Radfems, and the like! 8) No LGBT+phobes, excursionists, and the like! 9) This server is not for roleplaying so please only join if you are kin, apart of a fictive system, and/or copinglink! 10) Don’t block admins or the owner 11) No Pedos/MAPs/etc! 12) Problematic sources, kins, and timelines are allowed so we ask that you be polite - if needed, please ask someone nicely not to talk to you if they make you uncomfortable or just block them (unless they’re an admin or the owner) 13) We will keep this server as minor friendly as possible and ask that you do your part in keeping it so as well

((This is the form in which you should fill if you wish to join the server!))

Current Sources (you don’t have to be apart of any of these to join):

Kingdom Hearts, Homestuck/Hiveswap, Soul Eater, Steven Universe, Harry Potter, Gravity Falls, Death Note, Camp Camp, Welcome To NightVale, Pokemon, BBC Merlin/The Adventures of Merlin, Musicals, Heathers (the movie), How To Train Your Dragon, BBC Sherlock, Doctor Who, Yuri On Ice, Supernatural, BNHA/Boku No Hero Academia, Criminal Minds, Dragon Age, Vocaloid, Naruto, One Piece, Otherkin, Black Butler, Critical Role, The Adventure Zone, Teen Titans/all related, My Little Pony/Equestria Girls included, Final Space, WoW/World of Warcraft, Lego Ninjago, DDLC/Doki Doki Literature Club, Disney, Warrior Cats, FNAF/Five Nights At Freddy’s, Creepypasta, Undertale, Voltron, MCU/Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, DC, Horror Kin (movies, tv shows, books), Life is Strange, Night in the Woods, Sonic, Final Fantasy, Gorillaz, Mortal Instruments, South Park, Trollhunters, Coraline, Once Upon A Time, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Riordan Verse, Love, Simon/Simon VS, 17776, Star Vs The Forces Of Evil, Portal 1/Portal 2, Hetalia, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures, Riverdale, Tokyo Ghoul, Legend of Zelda, Detroit: Become Human, Over The Garden Wall, Rick and Morty, Durarara, Mr. Robot, Stranger Things, Fire Emblem, Daganronpa, Persona, and Cookie Run.

We have spaces for you all to talk in if you’re from other sources, don’t you worry!

[human-house-blog]

Alright folks, show’s over.

I’m sorry, I don’t want to run this this anymore.

I don’t really have much to say.

Kris as a muse is... quite complex and a lot more nuanced than I initially thought. They’re not a “insert player here” character. At least a lot less than someone like Frisk was. Plus, their story isn’t finished... and won’t be for some time.

If you want a “canon” explanation as to why they shut down the blog: They simply grew bored with it and closed it down. That’s it. No other super big reason for it. Just... that.

I will say it was pretty fun though. And I will never regret making this blog. Joining the what-blog discord server was probably one of the best things I’ve done in recent memory. I’ve met quite a lot of lovely people there and I’ve stuck around since. In fact, I’d like to personally thank my good friend 0racle (mod/mun of @ask-ralsei-the-fluffyboy) for telling me about that place. I owe a great deal to him.

So... is this an ending? Yes. Is it sad? Probably Will I be going on to do anything Homestuck, Hiveswap, Deltarune or Undertale related? Ehhh... probably not. Though you may occasionally see me on r/homestuck under the alias “ProfGaming” (I made the account 4 years ago when I was 15, everybody shush). And you might see me in comment sections with the name “Cyber” I have an El-Blanco Reaper pfp and... that’s about all I can say about that really.

I won’t be making stuff on them... I think. So don’t expect much.

Anyways yeah, this was fun you guys and girls and other non-binary folk. 

Take care and... 

...don’t forget.

Oh, and if anybody would like to archive my posts before I inevitably hit the “nuke this” button, be my guest. I know some people like to keep ‘em around for their “historical value”, so the offer is there. Personally, I don’t care what you do with them.

Laters.

[seer-of-lxght]

[S] Enter: The Medium ; A Discord Server!

Hello there, everybody! I have just recently made a Discord server based around Homestuck and Hiveswap. This server has been created to be a safe place for HS fans to discuss everything related to the franchise, as well as simply enjoy themselves! 

If you are interested in joining the server, please review all of the information under the cut. I kindly ask you not to request an invite if you fall into any of the categories listed in the “Don’t Join If” section. If you don’t, please send this blog (@seer-of-lxght) an off anon ask or a DM requesting the invite. 

Please note that this server is kin friendly and is ALSO friendly towards those who choose to type in their kins’ typing quirk(s).

-Full Post Link-

DO NOT ASK TO JOIN THE SERVER IF:

You are over 25.

You are homo/bi/pan/trans/enby/etc.phobic.

You make fun of MOGAI identities/disagree with MOGAI.

You are an ace exclusionist or aphobe, or if you claim “aphobia isn’t real.”

You make fun of QPRs or any other terms coined by the a/aro-spec community.

You are a TERF/SWERF/truscum/pedophile or NSFW/kink/ddlg/clg/etc blog.

You ship real people, write fanfiction of real people, draw porn of real people, etc.

Support/ship incestuous or pedophilic ships, even if it is for coping reasons.

You fetishize f/f or m/m ships or fetishize mlm/wlw people in general.

You make or look at any form of child/minor pornography. This means porn of ANYONE under the age of 18. If you look at anything with “aged up” versions of a character, this still stands.

You are a racist, sexist, or ableist.

You support Autism Speaks or think autism needs to be cured.

You support PETA.

You make trigger jokes or use “trigger(ed)” out of the word’s intended purpose.

You make jokes about cancer/use cancer as a joke/call things “cancerous” just because you dislike them/etc.

You are a neo-nazi.

You support or voted for Trump.

Think kids, whether in real life or fiction, who have bad behaviours/have done bad things are irredeemable and/or cannot be helped.

You are anitkin or factkin.

Think a person’s kins reflect their own actions as a person or that they automatically condone/support the actions of their kin.

OR IF YOU ARE A DOUBLE OF:

Rose Lalonde

Dirk Strider

Equius Zahhak

Eridan Ampora

OR IF YOU ARE KIN WITH

Bec Noir

OR IF YOUR GOD TIER CLASSPECT IS PAGE OF HEART.

SERVER RULES:

1.) A/homo/bi/pan/ply/trans/NB/etc.phobic behavior is strictly prohibited. Exclusionistic behavior is as well. 

2.) Do not be an asshole or purposely harm/trigger others. If someone is trying to stir up drama, notify one of the mods immediately.

3.) If you have hurt or made someone uncomfortable, immediately stop what you are doing and apologize.

4.) Do not bring up any overly negative subjects such as self-harm, abuse, IRL death, etc. If you must, only discuss these subjects in the vent channel with appropriately marked trigger warnings.

5.) Refrain from making offensive jokes. If you make one and someone tells you that it is bad, do not make it again.

6.) Do not act hatefully towards any group or person in the server.

7.) Racist, sexist, and ableist behavior is strictly prohibited.

8.) Do not push acting thirsty towards a character too far. Refrain from anything NSFW.

9.) Refrain from character hate.

10.) Do not act rudely towards those who are kin.

11.) No mentions or discussions of pedophilic or incestuous ships are allowed here at all. If you were unaware that the ship was either of the two, you will be given a strict warning. If you continue to ship the pairing afterwards or think that those kinds of ships are alright, you will be banned from the server.

12.) Do not pointlessly @ everyone.

13.) Keep everything in their designated channels. Do not spam chats with bot commands- there is a specific channel for that.

14.) When posting art, do not post a work directly after someone else has posted. Allow them to gain at least a few comments on their work before posting, and be sure to comment on it yourself. 

This server is supposed to be an incredibly safe place for Homestuck kin where they can freely express themselves. Do not treat someone oddly or poorly because of who they are, even if their kin are arguably "bad" characters. Do not yell or treat someone strangely if they choose to type in their kin's quirk(s).