#from the homestuck soundtracks

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 223

i consider this a bit of a sequel/rework/companion piece to this one from a while back

i still love a good music box

[phonification]

going through the horrors (art block)

[faerociousbeast]

32 Karkat?

hell yeah

[lilbombus]

round 4 

aradia being a lil mischievous, roxy’s eating an airhead, Jake singing and I never really drew equius before lol 

Reference is CoffeeTeacup’s “face thing wow” expression sheet  

[heathertsuki]

remember this girl? terk? yeah she was like the best part of this fucking movie.

[time-was-over]

crystamanthequins save me….

[immovable-tophat]

Page 444

How does the sun even fit in the sky?

It just burns like a fire in the pit in sky

And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky

How long?

How long?

How long?

- Hamilton. I am almost positive this quote is from Hamilton.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Pretty sure I already made a post like this in the past week but Sburban Jungle STILL slaps

[paper-mario-wiki]

Hi scout I just wanted to say:

Oh my fucking god you're so fucking pretty omgomgomg!

As for the ask:

Do you like undertale?

nah it didn't really have anything to offer me. from what i remember, it's mostly just mashing through dialogue boxes to get to an underwhelming bullet hell. it's a 6/10 and that's mostly because they got the guy who made homestuck's music for the soundtrack.

[the-muppet-joker]

I am at this skating rink dressed as Vriska but with a Cape and Joker Makeup and they are threatening to kick me out because I keep getting hostile when they refuse to play the Homestuck Soundtrack. I am going to burn these fuckers to the ground because Homestuck Fans get too much harassment from the world as is. Enough is enough!!!!!!!!

[calware]

getting into undertale in middle school and having another medium be my favorite song from the soundtrack and then getting into homestuck a year later and realizing another medium was based off a scrapped draft for a homestuck song was mind blowing

[controversial-blorbo-bracket]

I feel like 90% of what I know about Homestuck comes from this poll and the more I learn the more confused I am. It's a webcomic but apparently there is also a soundtrack? There is a sequel?

What is going on here, what even is Homestuck, some sort of collective hallucination?

homestuck is the polls we answered along the way

[toskarin]

I keep seeing umineko posts on my dash, and I've never played it/know jack shit about it, but from what I've seen from the discourse it looks like VN homestuck

I don't really care for the Umineko fandom, but it's a fun read. I think Umineko is a really good standalone experience, especially for its soundtrack, but Higurashi is the better vn... if that makes sense?

it's definitely not Homestuck unless you engage at great length with the least interesting parts of the story. take it as an experience and let it wash over you, and for the love of god, do not read what other people have to say about it. don't read what I have to say about it

[homestuckreplay]

🔓 NEW AREA UNLOCKED!!! 🔓

(page 1026-1031)

This very important Luminous Planet Reveal comes courtesy of Jade’s third music page. Finally she’s able to play the advanced eclectic bass, and I gotta say that building a five-armed robot just to play better bass solos is real dedication.

Jade’s [S] bass pages (p.822, p.1026) are perfectly scripted around the music, with moments like the zoom in to Jade’s hand on the keyboard synced up with changes in the melody. I have learned a little more about how the music works – there’s a semi-official ‘MSPA Soundtrack Team’ who make music that might be good for the comic, and Hussie grabs tracks from the pool (sometimes even in-progress tracks, for example ‘Upward Movement’ on p.665) any time they want to work on a [S] update. I guess this makes sense as so little is planned in advance and the turnaround time is so short even on Flash pages – once one is happening, there’s no time for music to be written specially if Hussie wants to keep the current pace.

The slow zoom in this flash is SO cool. We pause for a moment on the full view of Jade’s dream room, and it seems like that’s the ending, but then there’s another zoom out to her tower, another to the golden moon, another to the full luminous planet (and its name!!!!) and ANOTHER zoom out to Prospit orbiting Skaia, with beats between each pan outwards. Jade is already so small on page 1029 and she’s only just outside the tower. So the zoom gives a real sense that these kids are part of something infinitely bigger than them.

The luminous planet is named Prospit, which likely comes from ‘prosper’, meaning to succeed or flourish. Most Homestuck words are mashups of two existing words, which is how they all sound so real, but this place doesn’t look like much of a pit. The ‘-pit’ suffix could come from a few different places, including ‘incipit’ (links to the Incipisphere, means the opening of a text or piece of music), ‘pulpit’ (elevated platform for preaching a religious service), or ‘cockpit’ (the place from which an aeroplane or racing car is piloted). It probably isn’t ‘cesspit’, ‘armpit’ or ‘decrepit’, unless we’re about to learn that life on Prospit is actually terrible. Or unless it’s related to Prospit’s destiny to lose – once it prospered, but it will be left decrepit.

On Prospit, the WARDROBIFIER has different settings! I know that Star-Heart-Horseshoe is a Problem Sleuth reference, so could just be an easter egg, but I wonder if there are other minor yet relevant distinctions between Jade’s waking and dreaming rooms.

On page 1029 it’s very clear that Jade’s tower (clean and in focus) has been drawn by an artist, while the rest of the moon looks like various overlapping jpegs of intricate medieval castles. This has a couple effects. It makes Jade seem very important – her tower is also one of the two biggest on the moon – and it makes the whole planet look procedurally generated. Sburb is a game all about building, so of course its local planets would be covered in buildings and structures. Build grist becomes light gray when used to create a simple platform (p.262) so there could be ‘luminous grist’ and ‘ominous grist’ which create golden and purple structures, respectively, and which Prospit and its counterpart are programmed to use via some script that uses the grist to auto-iterate on castle designs, making similar yet slightly different structures over and over.

For Prospit and its counterpart, it seems like colors outside the white-gold and black-purple pairs can only arise from prototyping. The ’golden city’ (p.1028) makes me think of the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz, the movie of which was released 40 years to the day before Hussie was born. In that story, the city is not actually made of emeralds, it only looks that way through glasses. I don’t think Jade’s glasses are doing this, but I wonder if the gleaming gold is illusory in some way. The limited palette also reflects the video game nature of Sburb, where older games were very limited by how many colors they could include.

Tabbing back and forth very fast between pages 1029 and 1030, Jade’s two houses are identical besides the color, and probably also generated by Skaia just like the frog statue and bunkers. I wonder if Jade’s house being created by Skaia could give her an advantage playing Sburb. I also wonder if this is how Jade, who doesn’t have any Sburb beta discs, will end up in the game – she is the hacker Rose predicted (p.510), not the trolls. If she is already crossing the boundary into the Medium in her dreams, then a disc, or even the whole apple tutorial level, don’t feel necessary. She’s already there, she just needs her house to become controllable via someone’s computer – and possibly link her two houses, so that when one is built up, the other auto-builds, too.

Of course now that we’ve seen Prospit, I had to go back and reconsider the previous lore. WV describes the cosmology from the perspective of Skaia, as being orbited by Prospit and its moon (p.702). The battlefield at the center of Skaia (p.423) is the only physical structure we’ve seen there, and at the time it’s only inhabited by two kings. After prototyping, armies from both planets begin to arrive. WV and PM may be among them – WV due to how he perceives his location, and PM due to their beautiful sword and skill using it.

The original chessboard has five black squares, and four white ones. While this doesn’t give black a game advantage – it is an ‘eternal stalemate’ as Nannasprite says (p.423) – it does give a visual advantage that points towards the forces of darkness’ destined loss. Sburb is a game about building, the battlefield auto-increases when John enters the Medium, and John is currently practicing the skill of dealing with swarms of enemies while still alchemizing and building. I think that John and Rose will eventually have to build the battleground – the forces of light can’t win in a direct assault on a flat board, but via alchemy and building structures, John can create tools and advantages that will lead them to victory.

On page 1031 we can see a couple of Prospit’s residents, one visibly wearing a jester hat, the other what looks more like a wizard’s hat. But they are so tiny. Jade can potentially interact with them, which would explain the Peregrine Mendicant’s question ‘Don’t I know you?’ (p.900) and why Jade ‘seems familiar’ to them (p.898). The lightning that destroys PM’s bunker (also p.900) is I think Bec’s powers, not Jade’s – it’s the same lightning he crackles with on page 980, and now that we know how protective he is of her – taking Jade to bed and sitting on top of her bedroom while she sleeps – I think he might react that way if she was upset due to strange voices in her head.

> Jade: Wake suddenly mid-flight.

[roxycaptor]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by requesting headcanons, but! I would be down to know what some of YOUR Homestuck headcanons are :D

yeah thats essentially just what i meant idk the Proper Terminology i havent been involved in fandom in a while lmao

i like to think abt what kind of music characters wld listen to so heres what i think the trolls wld listen to

Aradia - goth & emo. likes Siouxie and the Banshees, Paramore, Lebanon Hanover Tavros: idk what genres he'd like other than rap but i feel like he listens to Kurt Vile and like. video game soundtracks. Sollux: putting aside personal bias, i think he mostly listens to shoegaze and like. The Smiths. Karkat: tv girl and mitski enjoyer Nepeta: hyperpop, industrial, grindcore and noise metal, anything that makes other people go AURGH WHAT THE FUCK Kanaya: classical music and jazz but also mitski with karkat. also listens to like. NPR podcasts Terezi: little bit of everything. just amasses recommendations from people without going too deep into any single genre. Vriska: MSI, The Smiths, power metal fantasy ballads. Equius: Metal. any subgenre but the main rotation is Type O Negative, Rob Zombie, Slayer. Gamzee: the easy answer here is ICP if humanstuck but canon gamzee i think would rather just sit in silence and stare at a wall. Eridan: lana del rey, dorian electra, marina diamandis. bitchy gay man taste Feferi: probably a swiftie tbh.

[valorieblogzz]

pleaspelpleaslplease how did toby fox go from living with andrew hussie, making the soundtrack for homestuck, making a musical about mpreg for homestuck to making an amazing fucking game called undertale and a second game called deltarune that made me sob and cry and wail