#i never even finished homestuck lmao...

[savefrog]

thank you to that tumblr post that said to create a trollsona in 2023 because a friendgroup of mine did all the quizzes and shit and then descended into goddamn madness and ended up with a goddamn sburb session spreadsheet with lands, classpects, consorts, strife specibi, THE WHOLE SHEBANG even wikipedia diving for Denizen names with THEMATIC MEANINGS and shit it was the most free and healing 24 hours of my life i think of it fondly on this day, apparently the anniversary of Cascade which I didn't learn until AFTER I dredged all this back up. mad world.

[14crush]

anyways i didnt post/use tumblr at all for awhile bc i lost my mind and did next to nothing but binge read homestuck for like 2 months. i would not recommend it

[joeyclaire]

You’re my go to source for knowledge about honestuck, so could you explain why it’s called homestuck?

it’s a reference to earthbound

[unluckyxse7enart]

Another Homestuck-on-the-meteor fic snippet I never finished, this time a chatfic centered on Davekat - specifically Karkat struggling with his quadrant and turning to Kanaya about it. Despite being about Davekat (only semi-directly) I think my favorite bits are all Kanaya's, lmao.

•••

-carcinoGenetecist began trolling grimAuxilliatrix-

CG: KANAYA.

GA: Yes?

CG: CAN I TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING?

CG: SOMETHING IMPORTANT?

GA: Well This Is Rather Unusual.

GA: I Don't Mind, But Are You Sure You Shouldn't Go To Your Moirail Instead?

CG: ACTUALLY...

CG: THATS JUST IT

CG: I CANT REALLY GO TO HIM ABOUT IT BECAUSE ITS

CG: KIND OF

CG: ABOUT HIM.

GA: I See.

GA: That Is A Conundrum.

GA: Very Well. My Auricular Sponges Are Open To What You Might Have To Say.

CG: SEE, THE THING IS

CG: I'VE BEEN THINKING LATELY AND

CG: I'M NOT SURE I WANT HIM TO BE MY MOIRAIL ANYMORE.

GA: Oh Dear.

GA: Well, Humans Aren't Exactly Well Versed In The Intricacies Of Quadrants.

GA: I Suppose An Inadequacy In Filling One They Aren't Familiar With Is Something Of An Inevitability.

CG: ER

CG: ACTUALLY, THAT WASN'T WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THAT.

CG: DON'T GET ME WRONG, HAVING A HUMAN TRY TO BE A SUCCESSFUL MOIRAIL WITHOUT BLURRING THE LINES IS AN ENORMOUS BULGE-BITING CHALLENGE

CG: BUT AS FAR AS HAVING ALIENS IN YOUR QUADRANTS GO, DAVE ISN'T... ACTUALLY THAT BAD OF A MOIRAIL ALL THINGS CONSIDERED?

CG: HE'S STILL HEAPS BETTER THAN GAMZEE IS, NOT THAT THAT'S SAYING MUCH.

GA: I See.

GA: Well, If It Isn't That Dave Is Being An Unsuccessful Moirail, As I Had First Presumed, Then What Is The Problem?

GA: Is It One Of Those "It's Not You, It's Me" Things That Your Favorite Movies Are So Fond Of Employing?

CG: KANAYA, FOR GOG'S SAKE DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT.

GA: Say What.

CG: THAT

CG: DAMMIT

CG: THAT I WANT HIM

CG: IN ANOTHER QUADRANT.

GA: Ah.

CG: DON'T "Ah" ME LIKE THAT

GA: Wouldn't Dream Of It.

GA: So?

CG: SO WHAT?

GA: Which Quadrant Do You Want Him In?

CG: WELL THAT'S

CG: KIND OF WHY I CAME TO YOU.

CG: I'M NOT SURE WHICH QUADRANT I WANT HIM IN.

CG: IF I'M COMPLETELY FUCKING HONEST, I'M NOT EVEN THAT SURE I WANT TO END OUR MOIRALLEGIANCE, EVEN IF FOR THE SAKE OF STARTING NEW IN ANOTHER QUADRANT.

GA: That Is A Real Problem.

GA: Have You Considered Seeking An Auspitice?

GA: Not That I'm Volunteering, Mind You.

CG: YES, KANAYA, I'M PERFECTLY AWARE YOU ARE VERY SELECTIVE IN WHO YOU'D AUSPITICIZE FOR, I DON'T NEED A REMINDER.

CG: AND WHILE I HAD CONSIDERED IT, ALSO CONSIDER:

CG: WHO THE FUCK *COULD* I GO TO??

CG: I CONSIDERED ASKING TEREZI, BUT... WELL, GIVEN HER HISTORY WITH BOTH OF US INDIVIDUALLY I HIGHLY DOUBT SHE'D WANT ANYWHERE NEAR US TOGETHER IN A QUADRANT

CG: I WOULDN'T TRUST VRISKA AS FAR AS I COULD THROW HER

CG: GAMZEE CAN'T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO SHOW HIS STUPID CLOWN FACE AROUND ANYONE BUT ME

CG: NOT THAT I'D TRUST HIM AS AN AUSPITICE EITHER

CG: WHICH LEAVES YOU AND ROSE WHICH

CG: YOU'VE ALREADY MADE YOUR STANCE CLEAR, AND ROSE AND DAVE WOULDN'T EVEN CONSIDER IT GIVEN THEIR WEIRD HANGUPS ON BLOOD TIES AND RELATIONSHIPS

CG: NO OFFENSE, BUT THAT'S HONESTLY A RELIEF BECAUSE I WOULDN'T WANT ANY HUMAN AS AN AUSPITICE NO MATTER HOW KNOWLEDGEABLE THEY ARE ON THE SUSBJECT. NOT EVEN ROSE.

CG: SO I HAVE FUCKALL IN THE AUSPITICE PAGEANT TO SELECT FROM WITH MY KEEN JUDGE EYE

CG: AND ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT THERE'S AN EVEN *BIGGER* PROBLEM.

CG: HOW THE BLISTERING BLUE HELL WOULD I EVEN BROACH THIS SUBJECT WITH DAVE???

CG: HE'S ALWAYS BEEN WEIRD ABOUT QUADRANTS.

CG: NEVER MIND I'M RELUCTANT TO ADMIT TO HIM THAT I'M VACILLATING IN THE FIRST PLACE...

GA: If You Don't Mind My Asking, Why Is That?

CG: Vacillation Is Perfectly Natural In A Quadrant Needing Auspiticizing.

CG: WELL

CG: I MEAN

CG: YEAH, I KNOW.

CG: BUT HE'S NOT EXACTLY FAMILIAR WITH THAT. I DON'T KNOW HOW HE'LL TAKE IT.

CG: HUMANS ONLY HAVE ONE 'QUADRANT', REMEMBER.

CG: WHAT IF THE MERE CONCEPT OF VACILLATION IS A DEALBREAKER FOR HIM?

CG: HELL, EVEN THE CONCEPT OF BEING MY MOIRAIL WAS ENOUGH TO SEND HIM OFF ON SOME BULGE-STROKING RAP TANTRUM ABOUT WHO KNOWS WHAT, I COULD BARELY EVEN LISTEN TO THE FIRST FIVE WORDS BEFORE TUNING IT OUT.

CG: IMAGINE MY COMPLETE AND UTTER SURPRISE WHEN HE ACTUALLY SAID HE’D THINK ABOUT IT.

CG: AND THEN *AGREED* TO IT.

CG: BUT HE STILL DOESN’T GET THE FINER CONCEPTS OF QUADRANTS AND IF *I* CAN BARELY RECOGNIZE WHEN I’M ABOUT TO VACILLATE THEN HOW UNDER THE BLISTERING SUN WOULD I BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN IT SO THAT EVEN A SHITTING WIGGLER CAN UNDERSTAND IT.

CG: BECAUSE YOU KNOW HE’S GOING TO GET LOST IF I EXPLAIN IT A LEVEL ABOVE THAT.

[starsnores]

Not to sound stupid but…. I never really understood the “karkats blood is red because he’s a lime blood” thing (I never really read homestuck)

so there used to be a limeblood caste that sat between gold and olive on the spectrum but they were wiped out, calliope said it's bc they had special powers and that made them a threat but there's nothing concrete about why or how it happened. It's implied that karkat's blood color is a mutation specifically of that caste bc his sign is cancer, between sollux and nepeta, so that makes him lime and the extended zodiac they released confirms that.

i would definitely recommended trying to read it through if you haven't! I liked it, at least until the retcon and then i wasn't super into it anymore but i finished it, even if i don't remember post-retcon stuff that clearly lmao. if you have trouble concentrating on text there are some read throughs of it on youtube if that's easier. and the easiest way to read it is probably with the unofficial homestuck collection.

[oldangryslytherin]

Tagged by: @vaserlord :3 thank you my beloved!

This is so fun because I love sharing facts no one asks! I'm gonna get deep into it btw. Prepare yourself to scroll

Last song: currently listening to Charybdis

Love the vengeance saga haha

While filling this I started listening to dangerous

Fun fact I know every single like the back of my hand and I can play all the characters now ok bye

Favorite color:

Sorry I can't choose this is my top three. Emerald (palette), violet (pallette), Prussian blue LOOK AT IT ITS SO PRETTY

Last movie: last movie I watched was a rewatch of but I'm a cheerleader:) I know that movie straight (haha) and backwards. The last movie I watched for the first time was actually Christiane F. Finally watched it after avoiding it for a long time. It was... I'm speechless it's def s necessary movie.

Last tv show: rewatch of crazy ex girlfriend im a sucker for musicals and complicated characters. Last series I watched for the first time was baby reindeer months ago. Besides it I have rewatched stuff or just left the series without finishing so I can't even remember

Sweet/savory/spicy: never learnt to eta spicy food :( my mom disliked it so I tried it as an adult and it hurts too much to start liking it. I prefer savory, I try to avoid sweets because I tend to binge as soon as I have sugar haha

Relationships: NONE. I'm to much of a coward to admit I like someone. Had like one relationship when I was 15 with a guy who kept asking and I ended it after 4 days because ew the fuck you mean you wanna kiss me also don't talk shit about Undertale >:( (I really liked the game). Besides he said Homestuck was stupid, so I told him he was stupid. After that I just went hm I'm definitely asexual. And that lasted till not too long ago when I realized that not everyone thinks about women like oh wow they're so beautiful and smart and omg I would love to marry one and we can have a cute house and travel and kiss. That was literally my train of thoughts lmao so yeah. I have 0 bitches.

Last thing I googled: who were the cows oddyseus crew killed. And I went wait that's not Apollo. Then asked Helios god. Then I went difference between Apollo and Helios. Then went Icarus. Then went back to Apollo because he's really cool.

Latest obsession: currently epic the musical. I've listened to the entire soundtrack multiple times a day. I can know what song is playing in the first second. That's how bad it's gotten. My permanent obsession is tomarry duh. And before epic my obsession was The Magnus Archives

Looking forward to: honestly? GETTING AN ACTUAL JOB SO I CAN TRAVEL. I want to go to so many places. Plus I wanna learn to draw, I want to get back to it, i was studying it then ran out of money and when I have free time I write instead of study art. I also want to one day publish an actual book even if no one reads it, I just want it. Also learn more than what I know? I can speak Spanish and English (barely) plus have basics of Italian and Portuguese but not enough to talk I can read it tho. I want to study German again (barely A2 level after years of self study), plus now because of epic I want to learn Greek and that would be impossible I'm sure.

Tagging: @nonsensicalnonsense00 @riverxsong-ao3 @tommarvoloriddlesdiary @a-bored-idiot @eidelvyd @screamingpotatoes @catjar91 @kashlyn I want to tag more of you but I don't know if you like these things :( if you wanna do it but are not tagged do it and tag me :3 also if I tagged you but you don't want to it's completely fine. Bye!

[hiboudeluxe]

Tagged by the fantabulous @damoselcastel

How many works do you have on AO3?

Only 3. I have more on fanficdotnet, but I never got around to transferring them over. Also, to be fair some of them were terrible.

What's your total AO3 word count?

144,970

Your Top 5 stories by kudos

I only have three lmao. Number 1 is Collide, 2 is J'attendrai, and 3 is SSAWaS

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes, I do! I appreciate every comment. Even the mean or dumb ones.

Do you write crossovers?

One of my most popular was a crossover, now discontinued - due to it being about a certain boy wizard. It was a bit of a crackfic tbh. One that I thought no one but me wanted. boy wizard crossover with homestuck.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, I do. But I don't tend to get really explicit and I rarely do PWP.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yeah, ages ago.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yeah. Some of the fanworks on ffdotnet were translated.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nah. My ADHD makes my ability to finish shit hard. And I don't want to inflict my bad brain process on someone else. Plus, I prefer to work alone.

What's your all time favorite ship?

Rinoa/Squall. My very first. Right now it's a tie between DimiClaude from FE3h and BloodWeave for Baldur's Gate 3

What's a WIP that you want to finish but probably never will?

lmao all of them.

What are your writing strengths?

My ability to come up with various situations to put my characters in. Let's take Collide, the boy wizard homestuck crossover. Every other crossover like this I read they just randomly put homestuck characters in that world as if they were just a part of that world. I hadn't read one where the homestuck kids were just themselves. Dave isn't a fucking wizard. There's no sorting them. Dave is still the Knight of Time, with all his powers included in canon. The first scene that came to me was Dave rapping in the library while hermione barely holds her temper. It was just a very funny thought to me. So I wrote it. Rambling aside, I also like my dialogue.

What are your writing weaknesses?

The ADHD urge to procrastinate. And also I have what Stephen King calls diarrhea of the word processor. I get too wordy sometimes.

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet, but want to?

Considering writing a Fire Emblem Three Houses fic. No particular ships, really. Shipping wouldn't be a priority for the fic i'm thinking of writing. So, if you do the BE Crimson Flower route there a mission where you go to Dedrieu and fight Claude. At the end, you have a choice to spare him and exile him or to kill him. So my brain did its thing and I was like... so what if you kill him? Realistically, what would happen if you did that? Because Claude isn't only the Grand Duke of the Alliance. He's also a prince of Almyra. So what happens when his family from over the mountains finds out the Adrestian Empress murdered one of their princes. Almyra has been having skirmishes with the Alliance for ages, but it's somewhat clear that Almyra isn't invading with any seriousness. But what if they did. What if they brought the full might of Almyra against Adrestia. What if they connected with the King of Faergus and what remains of the Alliance?

What's your favorite fic that you've written?

My most personal work is my favorite. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, & Spring. I was dealing with a lot of big emotions when I wrote it. In quick succession, my uncle, my grandmother, and grandfather all died within a span of months. The story is about grief and forgiveness. It's probably the most beautiful thing I've ever written tbh.

[samiferboy]

20 Fanfic Author Questions

tagged by @quietwingsinthesky, thanks bug!

1. How many works on AO3?

8 on my current account, 2 on my old one

2. Total AO3 Word Count?

current is 103,882! old account is....over 200k probably

3. Top 5 fics by Kudos

we do not speak of what i wrote when i was 17, so not counting that, it's my joyful rewrite, a really short walten files thing, and my other three lisa fics. my only posted spn fics are really recent so they don't have much lol

4. What fandoms do you write for?

rn i'm like exclusively writing for spn bc the brainrot has consumed me, but i still have a few lisa fic ideas rolling around i might finish someday. i also write warriors fic on occasion. i might write weird lesbian clone fucking for westworld, idk.

5. Do you respond to comments?

mostly! not always, its usually an energy thing. but i deeply appreciate all of them!!!!!!!!!

6. Angstiest Ending?

prrrrobably the weight of us which is just me writing about how brad should not have been someone's father

7. Fic with the Happiest Ending?

joyful ends with buddy and dustin starting a pacifist society which is pretty happy!

8. Do you get hate?

shockingly even when i was writing extremely problematic stuff (not that my current stuff isn't also hashtag problematic lmao) i never got hate! but i definitely ended up on some blocklists Back In The Day (and probably now as well)

9. Do you write smut?

excessively, yes

10. Do you write crossovers?

sometimes, when one wriggles its way into my brain! but usually i just sit and think about them. i have multiple homestuck crossovers (9, madoka magica, portal, lisa (yes i know), ddlc), and i had a really fun idea for an x files/persona 4 crossover lmao

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of, but my fic from 10 yrs ago was posted on fucking goodreads? which was weird?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

my friend anna and i write shit together sometimes but never anything published

14. All time favourite ship?

oh god. obviously i'm terminally fixated on samifer rn and have been for almost two years, but all time? no idea. i am still insane about chelley and it's been 13 years

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

oh jesus. an insane amount. i had two ideas for 100k+ samifer fics that i'm very iffy about now but i really really really want to write a longfic for my men so. i will keep brainstorming

16. Writing strengths?

i've been told i'm good at pornography 😎 i also think i'm quite good at dialogue bc i'm a big talker

17. Writing Weaknesses?

action scenes, i am dogshit at those. i also have a hard time with showing not telling when it comes to how people are feeling, i think because i myself have a hard time "reading the room" and understanding how people feel. good ol autism

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

so as a monolingual person i am not the person to ask, but, from my experience talking to people who speak multiple languages, it's not necessarily uncommon to like, switch languages if you're thinking of a thought that you mostly hear in one language and not the other? idk. it's not something i write, and if i do, i'll probably ask my multilingual pals how they think it's best to go about it

19. First fandom you wrote for?

came up with in my head? winnie the pooh, when i was a little bitty baby. actually written? i told this story a while back in some tags, it was for this water dinosaur movie they played at the local science museum. posted? guardians of ga'hoole or warrior cats.

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

oh jesus. um. honestly i'm not like, that big of a fan of any of my writing? i'm kind of terribly insecure about it. wahoo. but if you like woundfucking i did just post this a few weeks ago and it's fun!

mutuals who write fic are welcome to do this and tag me so i can read your responses! <3

[coridallasmultipass]

well one of family never ends' author's other fics is the epilogue of course ;) but ipgd also wrote people don't do that (alphacest), homestuck watches boku no pico, and like the first uucest fic

YAASS OMG.

ANON.

Thank you.

Deeply and truly thank you. Saved me a real pain. It was People Don't Do That. Gonna reread it ASAP. I don't remember if I read the uucest one, but I powered thru a lot of fics while I was sick in Jan, and I don't remember like 90% of those two weeks. (Like, as I'm going thru the tag I'm reading now, I'll see something unclicked and go to read it, finish the fic like OMG SO GOOD, and then scroll a little more and I see my name at the top of the kudos list and it's like, wait, when tf did I read this? It was when I was sick.)

Ughhhh. I ADORE the dynamic of whichever younger Strider being the instigator, and it fits Alphacest so deliciously. (I don't even know what to say here without being so fucking overtly horny for Alpha Dave in general but that's not new lmao.)

But seriously, the scene on the roof where Dirk took Dave's underwear, like. I died. There's no other way to put it. It fucking killed me. I'm going to remember that forever, it was so good.

[galaxywarp]

you've probably discussed these things before but idk so im curious: who is your favorite homestuck character? and which is your fave from each "category" like alpha/beta kids/trolls etc?

also have you finished it? i started reading like 2011-ish and stopped shortly after the gigapause but i wanna reread the whole thing one of these days.

being into homestuck back when it was ongoing was such a formative experience for me. there never has been & never will be another fandom like it imo.

Kanaya was my favorite because I first read Homestuck when I was about 13/14 and I was realizing I was gay and I latched onto her as a lesbian I could relate to lmao. I loved her and Rose and met one of my best friends on a Trollmegle chat room roleplaying as Rose and Kanaya. Me and her still are friends and I’m 27 years old now lmfao

Beta kids I’m kind of torn between Rose and Dave. Alpha kids I love Roxy. Trolls, I’m gonna say still Kanaya, but I also really like Karkat (and his friendship with Kanaya)

I would be curious tho if I re-read it, if my favorite characters might change now that I’m older!

I read Homestuck in full, every single page (including Intermission duh) when I first started reading — that is, i read it until I was all caught up. At the time I remember Jane had just been introduced. in other words, recently after the Scratch/alpha timeline

I kept up with updates pretty consistently after that but I can’t really remember when I dropped off. I remember Caliborn’s [Enter] animation which was amazing. But then I don’t remember much beyond Dave and Dirk’s deep talk and Vriska shenanigans

I definitely know I watched [S] Collide. But I don’t really even remember how Homestuck ended (if it ever did even end lmfao). I know John opened the door. I know they won

One day I hope to reread it!

[grassbreads]

Writer Interview Game

I was tagged for this by @torterrachampion . Thank you!!

Since this is my fandom-specific account, I'm going to keep these answers mostly limited to fanfiction.

When did you start writing?

I have been writing my entire life. I was one of those kids that was convinced I was going to write a novel at age 10 (although I never got further than a couple of chapters). For fanfiction specifically, the first fic I ever wrote was a halloween story project for middle school that I turned into D.Gray-man fanfiction. I started writing and publishing fic for real the following summer, when I was 14. (Much like the novels in elementary school, I never actually finished one of the longfics I started in high school).

Are there different themes or genres you enjoy reading than what you write?

Big time lmao. A *lot* of the original fiction I read is horror, and although I've played around with the idea of writing a horror fic, I'm yet to find a good concept for one. I'm also a huge lover of long multi-chapter fics and elaborate AUs, but I publish mostly oneshots.

Is there a writer you want to emulate or get compared to often?

I honestly cannot remember ever having my work compared to specific other writers?

But as I said, I love elaborate longfic AUs yet really struggle to write them myself (long projects are my enemy), so I would sell my soul to be able to emulate the works of travelingneuritis or oxfordroulette, both of whom I really admire. I've written whole long posts before about how much oxfordroulette's Homestuck fics impressed and impacted me when I first read them like 6 years ago.

Can you tell me a bit about your writing space?

My writing space is anywhere in my apartment :). Sometimes I write at my desk, but more often I'm curled up or crosslegged on my couch or futon. Gotta be cozy and comfy.

What’s your most effective way to muster up a muse?

Since fic is a pretty casual hobby for me these days, I mostly just kinda write when inspiration strikes (hence why I publish roughly one fic per year). That said, rereading canon scenes featuring the characters I'm writing always helps me get their voice into my head.

Are there any recurring themes in your writing? Do they surprise you?

I don't know if I write enough to have big recurring themes? I like writing about characters that aren't doing well mentally, but that's both broad and not always applicable.

I suppose it does always make me laugh when I see "Christmas" listed among my most-used tags on Ao3. I'm not even a christian, but I've written two fics set during christmas bc gift exchanges make for good fluff, and with my output, two times puts it in my top 10.

What is your reason for writing?

Sometimes a story worms its way into my brain so deeply that canon just isn't enough. I need to live in that world to a degree beyond what I can get from canon content alone. And when there isn't enough existing fic by others to scratch that itch, or when there isn't enough of the right *type* of existing fic, I simply have to sit down and make my own.

Also, writing fanfiction is fun :).

What do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?

I'd like to think I'm good at characterization, at least most of the time. And I think I'm good at making sure things flow.

How do you feel about your own writing?

I really like a majority of the things I've written, or at least the stuff I've written as an adult. My really old writing makes me cringe a little sometimes, but I look back on it fondly, and I still reread newer stuff like An Act of Trust and Idle God, Idol Gossip for my own amusement.

The brief answer is that overall, I'm quite proud.

If either of you are interested in joining, I'll tag @cinammonelles and @azapofinspiration :)

[sudsandspectre]

20 questions for 20 writers

tagged by @hopefulnightlady !!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? i have an old account, my main one, and the secret smut side where i also threw my cod fic (moonjon) because i didn't really want them associated with my main. so!! across all of them, 46 but i also orphaned a bunch of homestuck stuff way back in the day

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 265,026 on my main! but plus the sides it's 498,415

3. What fandoms do you write for? star wars, witcher, cod, assassin's creed, narnia, dc (dick grayson), fullmetal alchemist, final fantasy vii, hobbit, legend of zelda, maze runner, merlin bbc, naruto, and then many more one-offs i've never posted. used to write for voltron, teen wolf, and fake ah crew

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? i'm still not comfy yet connecting my sides and my main unfortunately

5. Do you respond to comments? i used to respond to every single one, then got overwhelmed, and now rarely respond unless it's a direct question. i want to respond to all of them tho 😭

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? uhh i'm not big on angsty endings tbh, so if they're not happy endings they're still hopeful. angsty-EST? maybe my second biggest fic, that one is going to leave a lot of loose ends to be picked up in the sequel

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? my big main fic is gonna have like. EVERYTHING go right for them

8. Do you get hate on fics? i've gotten a few more like.... annoyed comments? but no outright hate. one person was pissed i didn't tag a specific character as trans even tho i had the tag trans and nb characters

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? yes, and they are on the same ao3 where i'm dumping my cod stuff. dfab trans smut! not super kinky, but not wholly vanilla, either. am ace and know what i like lmao

10. Do you write crossovers? yes, but as fusions! don't think i've ever written one where the different main casts interact

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? i think way back in the day, but nothing in the last decade as far as i know

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? not to my knowledge!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? yes but it never got finished and was never published, and it was years ago

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? oh boy ummm not sure i have one, but i keep coming back to jangobi, og pricesoap, gersakier and yennskier, royed and edling, casmund, ezides and altdes, revalink, wangxian and zhancheng. i usually latch onto one character/blorbo and then explore a bunch of different ships with them? merthur has a very special place in my heart but i'm not as into it as i used to be.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? that one teen wolf longfic i started in 2015 lmao. i did SO MUCH world building and i miss it, but boy howdy was it more than i could chew

16. What are your writing strengths? shaping au things to insert into canon, or rather, lying through half truths and omissions, both on a doylian and watsonian level

17. What are your writing weaknesses? pacing and staying interested in a fandom for long enough stretches to finish long-fic

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? there is no excuse not to put the translations at the TOP of the chapter instead of the endnote, though i'm also of the opinion that it is very rare entire sentences need to be in another language ESPECIALLY if the character whose pov you're in understands the language. there are ways of incorporating dialogue in other languages cleanly, i've seen it done and am working towards it myself, it is just so often done so messily

19. First fandom you wrote for? shugo chara, i think. oh wow that was a long time ago. well, actually, one could argue the first i wrote for was canterwood crest lmaooooo but that was before i knew what fanfiction was

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? i am VERY proud of a rexobi au i wrote, and a pre-s2 dinpaz, but my revalink on my old old account will always hold such a special place in my heart

thank you for the tag, lovely! i don't have many friends on this side blog, so i don't have any to tag, except maybe @czigonas ? we're not friends but you follow my main and many of my side blogs and i'm always so happy to see your username in my notes! you've also got some STELLAR takes in the cod sphere, so if you're up for participating, i'd love to see your thoughts! no pressure tho~

[hms-no-fun]

number six for the Homestuck ask meme!!!

what got me into homestuck? ah, it's... [long dramatic pause] complicated

i didn't read homestuck start to finish until i think near the end of 2015, finishing sometime in spring 2016. that might be a little early in the timeline though? it's hard to say. my best friend at the time urged me to read it because he was obsessed, and this was around the time of that "is homestuck the modern ulysses" video and the michael lutz homestuck piece for vice, so there was a lot of-- wait hold the fuck the phone, that idea channel video came out in 2012 and that lutz article came out in 2019???? dude what lmao okay well i'm officially an unreliable narrator

point is he got me to read it and i did and i loved it but i didn't really understand a lot of what happened. then my friend and i had a big falling out (which served as a partial inspiration for dave's reaction to june in godfeels 2.1), and it wasn't until late 2018 that i encountered a lot of the homestuck renaissance material that would reshape my understanding of the comic to what it is today.

but the funny thing? i actually read problem sleuth when it was still ongoing! might've even read jailbreak before that? in the early 2000s i read a looooooooooooooot of webcomics, and i'm ngl that's a huge foundation of my sense of humor. ryan north, kc green, david malki, kate beaton, meredith gran, allie brosh, a bunch of others... and i mean, god, of course i read ctrl+alt+del, penny arcade, vg cats. the awful christian furry opus JACK (which i read years before sandman, unfortunately for me). andrew hussie was right in there with that milieu, so i always thought of them as just like... Another One Of Those Guys. so many folks from that scene emerged out of the same online edgelord gamer subculture that birthed the true classics of Adult Swim. so when i got older, stopped reading webcomics as much, then got back into homestuck, i was kind of shocked to see how reactionary people were about hussie's past? that was just the scene, man. and andrew, like everyone else in that scene whose work remains relevant, grew right the fuck out of it. that growth is a big part of what i love about homestuck, because the arc of the kids learning to be less awful over the course of its runtime very much resonated with my experience growing up and out of that scene.

i think there's a lot of stuff in early homestuck especially that can be tough to understand because it's so rooted in that early internet culture, when gamers were nostalgic for point and click adventure games and thought they'd never see one hit the mainstream ever again. ah, what innocent times... unfortunately it turned out that point and click adventure games were never good and that's why homestuck is a documentary

[fleshengine]

oh yeah guess what my dad has started reading homestuck. I haven't even been pressuring him into it. Like I did years ago but he never got through act 1, then this morning after dreaming about him having nuclear codes, he texts me that he just finished act 2. He also asked me when it gets good and I had to tell him that he's almost there. Also I tried to get him to use the Unofficial Homestuck Collection and he said installing an app to read a comic was making him think about alcohol. (He's not an alcoholic, that's my mom, he's just being silly.) hmmmm... you know the meme that homestuck changes people's genders? Well my dad is already really eggy, maybe reading homestuck would help move him along. Would be pretty sick to have a trans mom. Then I'd have THREE MOTHER FIGURES. Something something mommy joke lol. It would rock especially because my birthname was the same as my dad's and his was the same as his dad's and his dad's (yeah I'm a fourth what of it) but when I came out I changed mine legally to a feminine version of the same name. Maybe my dad would do the same thing. We could turn the name into a bigender/genderless version of itself. Then when I have my first kid I can demand that my partner let me name them my name but a fifth. lmao. God I need this to happen. Oh also my computer did that thing where its monitor shuts off as I'm writing so I've been writing all this blind again.

[hypnostheory]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Howdy, so I was tagged by @kiwiana-writes , @littlemisskittentoes and @affectionatelyrs , who I’d like to thank for being very supportive and friendly. Thanks besties!

1. How many works do you have in Ao3?

So this is changing by the day sometimes lol, right now I’m sitting at 16 fics, 2 are currently unfinished, 5 are chapter fics.

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?

Again, changing by the day it feels, but 132,329 words so far. That’s about the length of A Tale Of Two Cities.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now it’s FirstPrince (Red, White, and Royal Blue), but I have a Good Omens fic and several Homestuck fics.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

1. i hit my peak at seven feet

2. and that’s the way i loved you

3. something good and right and real

4. trouble’s gonna follow where i go

5. wanna know that body like it’s mine

Combined, these fic have 4,089 kudos.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to reply to every comment, but sometimes it’s a little overwhelming. I absolutely try to respond to all comments that have more than one sentence, but if I miss you I’m sorry and I promise I’m going to get to you at some point!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Sir we write smut here, this is not a tragic writing space lol. If I had to pick I think then I think you don’t want to know me is going to have one of the sadder endings but even still it’s gonna be happy because I’m not a sad writer lol.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

All of them? I mean, the sappiest ending is somewhere between i hit my peak at seven feet and something good and right and real.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

No, I mean the closest is someone who said my work was like disturbing or somethingbut I think that was actually a compliment???

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

This is like asking the Pope if he’s Catholic lmao. Yes I do, it’s primarily D/s dynamics, and almost always an AU one shot.

10. Do you write crossovers? If so, what’s your craziest one?

I do not. I sometimes put subtle references to other fandoms in my fics, but no crossovers.

11. Have you ever had your fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge, my partner has tho. If someone found out my fic was stolen I’d like to know, but honestly if you see something I’m writing and get inspired by it just write your own version and tag me so I can read it Y’know.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don’t think so, but I have had someone offer to translate a fic into Chinese. I’m down if anyone wants to, but I only speak English and a moderate level of Spanish so I couldn’t check someone’s work.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

So my partner and I can get very collaborative, and I absolutely run my shit past people before it goes live, but for the most part I’m doing it all by myself.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

Listen I love FirstPrince with all my heart but DaveKat is my first OTP and I’m never letting those fuckers go.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but probably never will?

Hmm, so I want to finish that Good Omens fic I mentioned but honestly that started in a weird time and I’m not sure if it’s got legs. Aside from that I’m trying to finish everything I start! (Or at least everything I publish!)

16. What are your writing strengths?

So from comments, I’d say my prose and my dynamics. I’d agree, I think my style is based in my education in poetry, so I can for sure get colorful. And I really enjoy the politics of a relationship, so I’ll sit there and wax poetics about the nature of soulmates daily and nightly lol. I also just write a lot very fast, so that’s a strength I guess.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Descriptions. I’ll explain emotions to death but explaining how people look is more challenging. I also have issues with finishing things, which I’ve been trying really hard to work on.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

So I’m from Texas, so if it’s Spanish dialogue I’m comfortable. For the main part, I’m not going to write dialogue out word for word if the POV character doesn’t understand what’s being said, which takes out a lot of that issue for me. I think putting a foreign language in a fic is something that can be done very poorly, so I want to avoid that.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Publically? Homestuck. That’s my answer.

20. Favorite fic that you’ve written?

Oh god, having to pick between my own kids basically. i hit my peak at seven feet is so important to me, it’s a very personal story and it really catapulted me back into writing fic. I also love there’s nowhere in the world like, which is the first fic I published in this account and is a really fun work about one of my hyper interests, so if you like 80s theme parks and Homestuck, give it a spin.

I’m tagging anyone who wants to do this, so feel free to blame me and take a spin! But also I’m absolutely tagging @futureseaempress 💖

[davekat-sucks]

Do you believe, or would like to believe, that they're really still working in HS^2?

Cuz if their plan is to really post all of it at once, then it would make sense it's taking an inhumane amount of time. Tons of nonsense text, pristine art devoid of heart, maybe another two gifs if we're lucky. Maybe one animation if the weather is nice and they're in a good mood. And the dead silence is sadly common for anything Homestuck since a long while ago, so I can't help but wonder.

Personally, I like to think it'll be finished someday. Not because I care, b-baka, but because I am very interested in seeing what sins against fiction they wrote, what punches against their audience they can throw, what dirt they chose to bury what's left of what was once supposed to be Homestuck.

And if they just never do: Oh no. What a shame. Anyway. I got so many fanfics to read, arts to reblog, little gray aliens to ship. Sorry for your loss, Hussie, lmao.

With news that Homestuck^2 was only made to pay off the debt to Viz Media, they might be consulting how to justify or deny such allegations. Which is taking them even longer to share everything they had planned out. Andrew Hussie and WhatPumpkin's reputation has been going down the drain throughout the years that it's hard to really trust them. I'd be damned if any one of those guys came to SAHcon this year to announce Hiveswap Act 3 and nobody, whether it is the people in the con, WP, or audience, tries to bring up about Homestuck^2 or Viz Media. It would suck if a revelation like that would soon be brushed under the rug as if it never happened or matter. Part of me doesn't think they are and I wish they would just announce they canned the project entirely instead of leaving it up in the air and speculation. If only because they want to focus on other things like Hiveswap Act 3 or they genuinely don't care about the Homestuck series anymore.