#janestuck

[exaltior-a]

remember janestuck

[voidedmuffin]

January is almost over

[bitesizebird]

May as well post this too, the video that lists all the motifs referenced in Uprise.

[heir-of-puns]

Thought I’d shake things up a bit with a Doctor remix for Crockertier Jane cause I’m not super satisfied with how the others I did for her turned out. Thanks to @janestuckofficial for letting me use “Nurse” from their super awesome album. Check out their comic here! Also thanks to Act 8 for “Medic” from their also super awesome album and comic!

Arrangement of:

Nurse - SinFrog

“Sci Fi Robot” SFX - via SoundBible

“Robot Computing” SFX - via SoundBible

Medic - Daniel "dbnet18" Silva

Doctor (Deep Breeze Mix) - Jeremy "Solatrus" Iamurri 

Doctor - George Buzinkai, produced by Clark Powell and Michael Vallejo

Plague Doctor - Steve Everson

“TV Static” SFX - Mike Koenig, via SoundBible

“Dying Robot Sound” SFX - vis SoundBible

Songs belong to their artists.

[spinnedcycle]

ever have moments where you’re like, yup, homestuck has wormed its way into the very dna of my soul

i was a homestuck before i even read it, before it even existed, before i was even born, before andrew hussie was even born 

[intuitivenature]

[jerusalemstraycat]

Homestuck Fanventure Recommendation Post! (updated July 2020)

I am a big fan of Homestuck. I think it’s awesome. You know what’s also awesome? Fanworks based off Homestuck, that explore territory left uncharted in the HS canon. Here are some fanventures I have read/am reading. You should go read them too. Especially the ones with an *asterisk; these are the ones that are even cooler than Homestuck IMO.

Q: Why isn’t [insert popular fanventure] on this list?

A: I haven’t read it yet.

It’s going to be long, so I put it all under the cut.

Homestuck AUs - fanventures that are based directly off of Homestuck

Guidestuck (discontinued) - the kids swap places with their Tier 1 prototype object (ie. John and the harlequin doll, Rose and Jaspers, Jade and Bec) except Dave, who swaps with Cal for some reason.

Protostuck (ongoing) - Alpha Kids AU in which the pre-retcon sprite fusions are the players (Tavris, Erisol, Fefeta, and Arquius).

Hivebreak (on indefinite hiatus) - no Sgrub. The trolls are adults and Karkat is wondering what he is going to do. Short, but good.

TLCstuck (completed) - AU in which the Game Over timeline is the main timeline. Lots of character development and things that were not addressed in HS proper.

Act 8 (ongoing) - continues Homestuck from where it left off in Act 7.

Act Omega (ongoing) - another continuation of Homestuck from Act 7, much better than Act 8 IMO.

*Dead Shuffle (completed) and its sequel *Apocrythesis (completed) - Mobsterswitch AU. I can’t express how good the storyline is, how well the characters are written, and how touching the ending is. Just go read them right now.

Midnight Sleuth (completed) - companion/prequel to Dead Shuffle. Team Sleuth and Midnight Crew meet their Mobsterswitched selves.

Be R# [Character] (some ongoing, some completed, some not even started) - Homestuck from the perspectives of characters from various iterations of the pre- and post-retcon timelines. It makes tracking the convoluted storyline much easier, especially in the aftermath of A6A6I3 (and later, the Epilogues).

Janestuck (deleted, partial archive) - Homestuck, but everyone is Jane.

*Heartstuck (discontinued) - Humanstuck dating-sim-themed story, in which Kanaya goes to boarding school.

Nightfall (on hiatus) - an antique Homestuck AU from way back in 2012 (the beginning has since been rewritten), set three years after Homestuck begins. Aliens invade New Earth, and there is plenty of fluffy Johnvris.

Heinoustuck (discontinued) - it began as a bunch of body horror sprite edits, now a partial fanventure. tw: all kinds of gore and stuff.

*Be the Sea Dweller Lowblood (discontinued) - no Sgrub, trolls are adults, and the hemospectrum is reversed.

Vicissitude (on indefinite hiatus) - Alpha Kids AU in which everyone lives in the 21st century.

Pawnstuck (discontinued) - the carapacians play Sboard and the trolls and humans are the exiles.

Lifeswap (on indefinite hiatus) - the post-Scratch trolls meet their Oppositestuck counterparts.

Fansessions - fanventures that are tangentially based off Homestuck, often involving OCs

Team Paradox (discontinued) - a session of fantrolls, in which lots of unusual game-breaking things happen. The adventure was discontinued on MSPFA, but you can read what the creators had planned for the rest of the story here.

*Alabaster (ongoing) - holy guacamole this fanventure is so terrifying, but so GOOD. It’s the only one whose genre can be properly be described as horror. Even the most gruesome of body horror sprite edits can’t come close to the levels of gruesome, surreal, and uncanny that Alabaster reaches. Also, the storytelling is beautifully intricate and the panels are all (yes, even the landscapes) made with MS Paint. tw: gore, body horror, age regression, non-con, and basically every other warning in the book.

Hackbent (ongoing) - a nice fantroll session with a unique take on the concept of dancestors.

Octave (ongoing) - a pretty standard fansession so far, but with lizards.

*Hexane (discontinued) - a very non-standard fansession, with humans and phoenixes and weird sprite stuff that somehow has to do with the ancient history of a lost continent...it’s hard to explain.

Dungeons of Sunnydale (completed) (fixed version here) - is to Hexane as the Intermission is to Homestuck. Read it first, before reading Hexane, because it eventually becomes very important to the story.

Ke$hastuck (ongoing) - Ke$ha and friends play Sburb.

Edgestuck (completed) - it’s very rare to find a proper completed fansession, much less one that subtly ties in to Homestuck without sounding forced. The ending is a bit weird though.

Homesick (on indefinite hiatus) - Ozzy & Drix meets Homestuck. For those who don’t know what that means, including me, a bunch of human and troll cells play Sbio.

Sandswept (on indefinite hiatus) - remember that time Hussie tweeted that 48 squiddles played the Sgame to create the trolls’ universe? Well, this fanventure concerns those very same squiddles.

Other things - fanventures that are unrelated to Homestuck

Superego (discontinued) - a fascinating and surreal adventure following some people in a psychological experiment as they find themselves, make friends, and try to escape a truly inordinate number of dangerous glitches.

*A Beginner’s Guide to the End of the Universe (completed) - a heartwarming story about the persistence of human creativity.

וורפסיטי (completed) (English version here) - I don’t know why I’m putting this here. I haven’t really been paying attention to the story, so I don’t even know if it’s good or not. I’m just so happy that there’s a fanventure in Hebrew. As far as I remember, it’s a story about a detective, and werewolves are involved.

Lassitude (deleted) - a girl enters a portal to another world, where she meets a fish alien with whom to wander around a bit. Some other stuff happens too. Very cute art style.

The Nobleman and the Ancillae (on indefinite hiatus) - I put this here and not under Homestuck AUs because it doesn’t really have anything to do with Homestuck. This fanventure is about an old highblood troll and his slave girl, and looks so far to be a slice-of-life type of story. Every panel is hand-drawn.

[wallofshrek]

janestuck

[bitesizebird]

While I’m in exam hell, I’m going to post links to songs I’ve made instead of a drawing everyday.

So, here’s Janestuck Anthem, the Jane-ified Homestuck Anthem for Anervaria’s Janestuck. Go read it! http://mspfanventures.com/?s=14651

[heir-of-puns]

If it's not too much trouble could you do a top 5 song list for jane? (I really like her and all of her themes)

Ok I’m gonna fucking finally get back to these. It’s been a messy couple of weeks. Sorry for the wait @rainywishes.

Ok. Janey. MaGurl.

1. Renewed Return, by Marcy Nabors - Not much explanation needed, it’s so incredible it almost (almost) makes up for Jane’s severe and tragic lack of songs.

2. Jane Dargason, by Clark Powell and RJ Lake - Catchy, cool, overall super fun theme for both Jane and LOCAH.

3. Cyan Beast, by David Ellis - For whatever reason I used to really dislike this one, but it’s grown and grown on me until it’s now p much my number one choice for a Janestrife song.

4. Nurse, by SinFrog - From the first Janestuck album, which is great and you should check it out. They’ve got two entire albums of fun reworkings of classic homestuck tunes for the mspfanventures story in which everyone is Jane. Just. Everyone is Jane. 

5. Cumulating Dreams, by Jeremy “Solatrus” Iamurri, with Clark Powell on cello - For some reason I keep forgetting about this one but yeah it’s super pretty and anything with Clark’s cello gets a boost up my faves list.

Runners up: Cupcake Girl by Liam O’Donnell, Jane’s Theme by David “Dirtiest” Dycus, and Princess of Helium by Clark Powell.

And I guess since I plugged my grimbark jade song I may as well plug A Song for Jane which I made in direct response to Jane’s paucity of content. 

[bitesizebird]

Uprise, the final song for Janestuck Volume 2. I’m quite happy with how this one turned out and I think it parallels Descend pretty nicely. Getting all the Janestuck motifs together and making them work was a lot of fun.

[bitesizebird]

One of my most chill songs, Crysanthemums for Janestuck Vol 2, a remix of Crystalanthemums by  Alexander Rosetti.

[heir-of-puns]

Revised Aggression a bit and added Affliction by luminantAegis to spice things up a bit and because it’s awesome.

Arrangement of:

Aggrievance - Mark Hadley

Aggrievocation - Mark Hadley

Aggrieve - Mark Hadley

Affliction - luminantAegis (via Janestuck)

Aggrieve (Violin Refrain) - Mark Hadley, Andrew Huo, and Gabe Nezovic

Songs belong to their artists and/or What Pumpkin. Aggrieve by Mark Hadley.

[heir-of-puns]

I don’t think the original was lacking per se, but since it’s my Doctor leitmotif arrangement I wanted to do it a bit more justice than I had. Plus, Bound in Blood (Beta) from Strife 2 is a pretty awesome Doctor remix so I wanted to include it. And Renewed Return is always amazing.

(Original) Arrangement of:

Nurse - SinFrog (via Janestuck)

“Sci Fi Robot” SFX - via SoundBible

“Robot Computing” SFX - via SoundBible

Medic - Daniel “dbnet18” Silva (via Act 8)

Doctor (Deep Breeze Mix) - Jeremy “Solatrus” Iamurri 

Doctor - George Buzinkai, produced by Clark Powell and Michael Vallejo

Plague Doctor - Steve Everson

“TV Static” SFX - Mike Koenig, via SoundBible

“Dying Robot Sound” SFX - via SoundBible

(Extension) Arrangement of: 

Bound in Blood (Beta) - Tensei

Renewed Return - Marcy Nabors

Plague Doctor - Steve Everson

Songs belong to their artists.

[heir-of-puns]

Ok so to be honest, I got kind of sick of how shitty all the drum stuff on Sburbia sounded, and since my leitmotif tributes have been turning out pretty great (for my skill level), I wanted Sburbia to be worthy of its namesake Sburban Jungle, which is, in my opinion, the most iconically homestuck song in the music canon. So I just went ahead and completely redid it from scratch. I didn’t name it something else because Sburbia is a clever name and I like it shut up. The orchestral version in there is by Walt Ribeiro, whose stuff is absolutely incredible. I tend to be reluctant to use very off-the-beaten-track songs, since the further I get away from the hs canon, the more skeevy I feel about using other people’s stuff. But I did pay for it, it layers beautifully over Sburban Jungle, and it works really goddamn well in the arrangement so I made an exception for myself. So anyway here’s Sburbia again, completely redone. You can check out the original and one with slightly cleaned up drums (but not enough) here and here.

Arrangement of:

Sburban Countdown - Michael Guy Bowman and Mark Hadley

Sburban Reversal - Mark Hadley

Another Countdown - Michael Guy Bowman

Sburban Jungle.doc - The Hypergiants ASMR

Sburban Jungle - Michael Guy Bowman

Another Jungle - Michael Guy Bowman

Homestuck ‘Sburban Jungle’ for Orchestra - Walt Ribeiro

Sburban Deadline - ostrichlittledungeon (via Janestuck)

Songs belong to their artists and/or What Pumpkin. Sburban Jungle by Michael Guy Bowman.