#calamitascalliope

[calware]

Hey, I'm wondering if you or any of your followers could help me out? I remember there being a fan work focused on Jade that was styled like a play. I'm pretty sure it was just written without art, but I'm not sure. I can't remember much about it, and it's driving me crazy

you might be thinking of liminal space

[triptychgardener]

Hi! So a couple months ago, I asked your help on html formatting for homestuck fics on ao3, and i just wanted to pop in and say that it worked wonders! I posted my first homestuck fic in years, and the formatting was a breeze. It only took me a couple of hours for 10k words! Thanks so much for helping me 💕

Glad I could help! Automating the process absolutely helps with the back half of things

[juney-blues]

Definitely serious question about your comic. Definitely. Will you add gay sex?

what kind of idiot makes a webcomic that DOESN'T have gay sex

[vr1srezi]

Hi again! I sent in an ask a few days ago talking about how your writing inspired me to write a homestuck fic. It's out now, and here's the link since you wanted to check it out.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59149702

Thanks for inspiring me, I haven't written a homestuck fic in years, but reading your stuff reinvigorated my love of doing that.

Hello so sorry I’m just getting to this!! This looks super cool (I’m impressed by your html knowledge lol), and it’s such an honor that you felt inspired by my work 😭😭 will give it a more thorough read-through later for sure :)

[calamitascalliope]

My Deltarune fic has been updated with a new chapter and a substantial rewrite to one old one! This new chapter will be a more chill, cool down chapter, but I am already really excited to show you where it goes from here.

[vriska]

Commission for @calamitascalliope

[ori-ohs-and-shame]

Thats image babey :)

@scout90-again (get tagged idiot) @edelgard-more-like-baedelgard @calamitascalliope

i found a cool tag game on twitter and i really wanna import it (o^ ^o)

this picrew + the last song you listened to :]

no pressure tags: @blood-loving-leech @overtaken-boredom @lesbianthatyaps @kameonerd566 @hexedvampire @laczki @anonymous-shxtposter @fleurafae @flovqy + anyone who wants to do it <3

[triptychgardener]

Early June has meant a lot to me, and reading it has made me so happy and reinvigorated my love of Homestuck. Thank you for writing it, and I hope things get better for you. Whether you are one day able to keep writing or if this is the end, I wanted to show my love for your work

Thanks very much. Genuinely hearing people respond and enjoying Early June has kept me going for a long long time.

[triptychgardener]

Since you do a lot of text color formatting for Early June(though I guess I'm assuming that you don't have someone else help with that), I was wondering if you could give some tips on making that more bearable?

I'm doing a similar thing, and it takes me a really long time to format everything, especially in scenes that function like pesterlogs where characters talk back and forth and require a whole span class statement with each new line. Is it just one of those things where it's like "yeah it sucks but you kinda just have to deal with it," or do you have ways to make it easier?

Oh totally! I do all the formatting myself in AO3, and at this point I've honed my technique to the point where I can get formatting done fairly quickly.

First things first: Find and Replace is your friend always. I use this extension for Firefox which allows me to save favorite replacement settings, and it's very reliable.

Basically, after you're done writing what you want to write in another program, go to the HTML section in AO3 and paste your writing there.

After that, I always recommend previewing the plain text before further editing. I find that editing without previewing can eliminate things like paragraph breaks which will be a nightmare.

Dialogue tags are pretty much universally the same in Homestuck, making them an ideal vector for Find and Replace, so after you write, say:

ROSE: This is an example sentence.

You can just go into your Find and Replace tool, replace all instances of

ROSE:

with

<span class="rose">ROSE:

And then you've just tagged every line of dialogue by Rose! Repeat for all the other characters you have in the chapter. And if you save each replacement setting, upon opening a new chapter you can get a character's dialogue colored in seconds.

Now, be warned: AO3 does you the kindness of placing all the </span>s at the end of the paragraph. The upside to this is that you don't need to actually end your span classes as long as the entire paragraph is properly formatted dialogue, though it will look ugly as hell in the back end and may glitch out. But this DOES make it harder to catch when/if you forgot a character or misspelled their name, so I'd always recommend proofreading a couple times, though to be fair that goes for all writing.

For narration paragraphs I just manually copy and paste the p class.

There's also lots of little quirks and complications that make it difficult, and sometimes you're just gonna have to do it manually. Davepeta's two-toned text combined with a variable quirk in the B33 and the B;33 and the B33c sense means you just gotta do it by hand, but this should help with the vast majority of formatting issues.

I know there are also some external tools for this sort of thing that do the work for you, I'm sure someone will link them in the comments, but this is just how I do things. Hope this helps!

[juney-blues]

Do you have a cohost or anything? Asking all of the people I like to see around since... you know...

aw, ty!

i'm Juney-Blues there too lol

i don't use it for much other than comic updates, and i'm PROBABLY not gonna jump ship any time soon unless things really go tits up, but it's nice to have just in case i guess lolol

[triptychgardener]

Hey, I wanted to send an ask to first say that I love Early June. It has damaged my brain beyond repair(positive)

I also wanted to send this ask to see if you'd be okay with me theoretically doing a fan thing for it? I've been bouncing around the idea of voice acting the fic for awhile now, but I figured I should check in with you before I develop the idea anymore in my head. I'd probably post it on YouTube(with links to your shit obvs), but if you're not cool with that it's no big deal.

(Also, no promises that I'll actually do it if you say yes. My brain bounces between projects a lot hfgffdd)

Hi, thanks for asking! Of course you can, go right ahead!

[juney-blues]

I finally read your comic and I really liked it :3

The art is pretty and I love the way the dialogue feels

ty!!! :333

[juney-blues]

Happy birthday!!!!

ty :33

[vr1srezi]

I was inspired to write an HS fic that plays with formatting and does play stuff because of AT RISE and DRAMATIS PERSONAE. Started working on it in earnest a few days ago, but I just wanted to swing by to tell you that and tell you that I really liked your writing

OH WOW!!!!! that's so so so awesome please let me know when you post it, would love to read :) i haven't felt inspired to write much homestuck recently but i'm sure i'll come back around to it eventually lol. still want to write my feferi & eridan absurdist purgatory play 1 day...

[jojotier]

no fucking way.

i shouldn't be trusted with a substantial following bc i could just make a post one day saying "omg hiveswap act 3 trailer??" and that's way too much evil power for one person to handle

[calamitascalliope]

Shit is bad so I'm setting this up now

I'm not going anywhere yet, but I'm gonna keep up with both in the meantime. But if enough people leave here to use Cohost I might leave for good.

If we are mutuals and you decide to make an account, please let me know so I can follow you