#mspa cosplay

[discoholicmusic]

who wants sticker sheets ❓

[doggirldoodles]

My Aradia Megido cosplay!!!

[lizardmanartblog]

some random doodles of stuff

[tigercircus]

I am alive and in fact still cosplaying Dirk too much

[homestuckheritageposts]

Homestuck Heritage Post

guys what if the next update is

A young man stands in your bedroom.

[strxnger-jxzzy]

Hey if anybody knows any artist who are gonna sell homestuck fanmerch / any cosplayers who are gonna cosplay homestuck (or any mspfa) characters at comifuro18 pleaseee let me know!!!

[brawltogethernow]

obligatory ask meme curse: homestuck

Reverse Unpopular Opinion meme

Joke's on you, I'm into that shit. Homestuck was an enormous and entirely positive part of my late teens and to this day there's nothing else like it. Like sometimes you just need to step back and think about how cool Homestuck is. MSPA invented a new format that HS constantly tested the limits of, giving us a comic where some of the panels are looping gifs and some are flash animations and some are fully playable video games. It had more prose than War and Peace by the time it was halfway done. It invented the concept of blackrom. A good third of it was written in a single year-long creativity bender. The fandom was like Inklings For Gay People and is still coughing out published artists. The cast is split 50/50 by gender and also by glasses wearing status just because...math. It wielded recurring motifs and colors and shapes and phraseology like an armory of weapons. At its peak it had a canon to cosplay rate of less than one hour. It contributed very significantly to keeping me sane in high school. Reading it gives you a very specific Homestuck Accent and will haunt you with concepts and imagery forever. Homestuck!

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

people who are undertale or deltarune fans but absolutely despise homestuck baffle me. like I’m not talking about calling homestuck out on its many flaws (like, the racism in it should not be overlooked) or who heavily dislike it bc of that but people who think it's irredeemable and anyone who likes it is horrible bc like…you know toby fox is a massive fan of homestuck and personal friends with andrew hussie right. like i don’t know maybe people don’t know what him making music for homestuck entails but like. it wasn’t like he was just hired or whatever the songwriters for homestuck were primarily people on the forum who shared music they made for something they like who got noticed by the rest of the team lol. there wasn’t really a solid distinction between fan music and official music people who worked for the official team also worked on fan albums and some people who primarily wrote for fan albums have a few official songs it’s actually really cool there’s a very detailed wiki compiling both fan and official homestuck music bc it’s such a complicated web, some official songs use leitmotifs from fan songs even it’s really cool. the only real difference was that official albums were sold on bandcamp and a small minority of the songs were used in homestuck (most weren’t bc there’s literally hundreds). toby was an active fan of mspa that’s how he got work on homestuck there’s literally pictures out there of him cosplaying a homestuck character and he drops tons of references to it in his work. it is not at all hyperbole or exaggeration to say undertale and deltarune would not exist without homestuck. like you can despise homestuck all you like I get it there’s some shit in there that sucks it comes from 2009 online culture it’s silly to deny that. but if you think it never should exist and it’s fans are irredeemable and horrible maybe don’t play a game made by a guy who was so much of a fan he got added to the music team lmao. baffling.

[sickfires]

How do you maintain the delusion of being in 2012? Asking because I really need- I mean, "want" it myself.

buckle up, i'm about to break down the secret internal rules of 2012 for you, real smooth style. so smooth a little baby can swallow it down. here's some browsing music. or some more browsing music. yes they have to be the music videos.

BE UNAPOLOGETIC. do you really think anyone in 2012 on this website felt shame. this was years before internet drama culture started to really pick up (around 2014-2015) and before shipping drama apart from fandom infighting was even a twinkle in your mother's beautiful green eyes. go back to your roots. embrace the weird, embrace the ugly, embrace the cringe. yes, even that cringe. yep, that too. detach yourself from the concept of cringe entirely. e

BE KIND OF INSANE. the other side of the be unapologetic coin. to be unapologetic you have to stare into the eyes of the wild mustang that lives in your soul and come to terms with it's fighting passionate spirit. if that means going somewhere in public in full homestuck cosplay and LARPing with best buy employees, then that is what you must do. society's idea of what's right and wrong isn't real. you make the rules now. you're free.

CURATE YOUR ONLINE EXPERIENCE. this one is pretty self-explanatory, but blocking anyone you just don't want to see isn't a crime and should be done liberally and with great pleasure and gusto. you are your own web-ring. manage it with tender loving care.

i'm sure there's more but you get the gist. i have some stuff for you though, in a little goodie bag. here.

you're a homestuck fan. download pesterchum, it still works just like it did back in the day. hell, make some sprite edits, or read the comic from the very beginning, just like it was yesterday, the way it was meant to be read. there's even a working replica of the mspa forums.

if you want to take it even further, code your own website on neocities. maybe a little earlier than 2012, but there were and still are plenty floating around- and it's fun to flex those creative muscles. here's a more indepth guide. miss flash games? flashpoint has got your back. there are a ton more cool things to find- you just have to look! also delete tiktok. and twitter, if you can. you deserve better.

TL;DR: sparkle on, it's 2012! don't forget to be yourself!

[tentativeauthor]

Tag List Masterpost

(Subject to be updated)

Please let me know if anything is broken

Art

Cosplay

Gif

Music

Txt

Video

Homestuck — Characters

HSBC

Hiveswap — Characters

Humans — Fankid

Trolls — Fantroll

Ships — Vrisrezi, Rosemary, Davekat, Arasol, Erisol, Dirkjake, Jirk, Johndirk, Jrezi, Johnrezi, Junerezi, Calliroxy, Roxygen, jave, johndave, junedave, Gamkar, Mitula, Cronkri, Mallanque, Galora, Lynwurd

People — Andrew Hussie, James Roach, Toby Fox

Trivia

My stuff — My writing, PIF, WO, Ramblings, epilogue liveread, Candy liveread, Meat liveread

Not HS

Misc. — Author commentary, Brobot, Blood, Decapitation, CW, Fave, Fic, H2D, HC, Jadebloods, Lands, Laughs, Lyricstuck, Lyrics, Merch, MSPA reader, NSFT, Quadrants, Quotes, SBaHJ, Tag list

[pellaeas]

@otasuneku

oh my god wait i know this. a ton of images used in homestuck were from stock image bases hussie used, but he never actually bought them ... so they all had the watermarks on them ... like, they were subtle, but still there. idk where this pic is in the story but it's probably referential of that?? i guess? idk there's a better explaination of this out there somewhere

Dearest e-sibling as a mspa reader since 2007 i am in fact aware of the watermarks in homestuck and problem sleuth proper ajkdsafhkdshaf i have used them to reverse search cosplay refs

but in this fanfiction so far this is the only drawing that has one at all and despite the obvious bucket joke it doesnt really fit

the fic is old so it literally might be a hosting thing

[discoholicmusic]

🎃 guess this year's costume

[doggirldoodles]

Nepeta Cosplay!

My Nepeta cosplay! I have other cosplays, let me know if you’d like to see those! Also, I’m currently attempting to put together a Homestuck cosplay group, so message me for more info on that!

[tranquilspot]

Remove CAKE from MAGIC CHEST.

Out of sympathy for John's perceived lack of arms, you pick up the CAKE for him and put it on his BED.

We starting off strong with the most unexplained and fucked up Homestuck panel. What the fuck dude. Alright, lemme organize my thoughts.

There’s a cursor just coming out of nowhere. Yes there is meta content and very soon a character will be able to interact with John’s environment. The thing is: it’s not time yet! SBURB isn’t installed or even mentioned by the narration at this point of the story. So what we can ask is: where the fuck does this cursor comes from, and who’s moving it? It's a *check notes* old Windows 95/98 cursor, so it's definitely not SBURB related. Hussie added a grey shadow/depth to it. Apart from that it's pretty easy to find on the internet. Hypothesis n°1: the “you” is us, the reader. We are given the ability to break the fourth wall and come to John’s aid. A very interesting concept that could reinvigorate the ‘choose your own adventure’ genre. It happens one more time with GG and her memory game. I’ll talk more about it when we get there (add it to the list). Hypothesis n°2: It’s the author who’s making the narration voice say ‘you’, but this you actually refer to Hussie themselves. Yes of course it’s Hussie since he animated the goddamn panel. But I meant in a meta joke way. Or it’s both. Oh wait! Hypothesis n°3: It's not us, its the MSPA reader, who does appear at one point during the story! That would make sense. But damn what a lucky bastard, they got to directly interact with John's universe :( That's why I love the concept of Pesterquest, who wouldn't want the chance to meet the kids? <3 Perhaps the reader & character interaction was a major cornerstone, along the command prompts at Homestuck’s inception.

Though I say that we shouldn’t complain nor should we mourn its early death. Rather, let see it as an eager author who tried to incorporate ideas:

Some sticked until the end

Others for very long but stopped being mentioned because they were considered less relevant to the ongoing plot (sylladices and Lands lore)

And some just sank into the ocean, only to stick their head from now and then: giving control/choice to the readers

I think we can rejoice still, cause oh boy we sure did contribute a LOT to Homestuck! Musicians, official visual artists, fan art, fan music, cosplay, roleplay on websites, fan fictions, and alternate universes (greatly repopularized by the Undertale community).

So yeah, maybe this panel put me off at first, but now I guess I can associate it with something more wholesome and positive: helping the characters and rooting for them.

Page 6 and someone from afar already helping John? That’s heartwarming stuff right there. —>

[tigercircus]

The striders were a HIT at the furry rave

[fefairys]

i actually listened to (most of, never caught up w the last few episodes) homestuck made this world and i found it very insightful in terms of fandom history and finding out what was going on on the mspa forums and the something awful forums at the time the comic was updating, but other than that i found the hosts’ opinions to be pretty infuriating a lot of the time.

i mean don’t get me wrong, there was a lot of insightful commentary and things they said that made me appreciate and enjoy the comic more, (lots of cool comparisons to other pieces of literature that i found incredibly fascinating and genuinely expanded my view of the comic for the better!) but sometimes i would have to take a break from listening because i got so mad at how ridiculous some of the things they said were.

rant about it under the cut lol (btw not trying to argue with u or anything, just wanna say this as kind of a warning for ppl who might take ur suggestion. i’m not saying you Shouldn’t listen to it lol)

for example one of them thought that liv tyler (the robot bunny) being the “secret thing in jade’s birthday package to john” was “the most idiotic narrative decision in homestuck” and every time it showed up thereafter, he’d go on a little angry rant about how much he hates it. which is ridiculous to me, because that is so easy to predict. all of the birthday packages thus far had contained bunnies. why would this be any different? it is WILD how MAD he gets about this silly little robot bunny.

and just in general i found them to be kind of snobbish academic types. sort of an attitude of “well in my training they tell you to tell stories this way, and homestuck does it wrong” and it is like man who cares. it’s an unconventional story why should it follow conventional storytelling rules? they also don’t seem to care as much about some of the female characters. vriska and terezis dynamic barely got any discussion, when it is literally “the axis around which homestuck revolves” (hussies words, paraphrased) they are very much cis men with cis men views and it gets tiring to listen to sometimes because there is just sooooo much they aren’t taking into account because they have such limited perspectives.

there was also no tumblr perspective, which, imo, was a HUGE and very important part of the homestuck fandom. maybe i’m biased since that’s where i experienced the homestuck fandom. but like. the entirety of the dancestors are based off tumblr, and because those guys were never on tumblr they didn’t really have that firsthand perspective of what the characters were actually parodying/satirizing, and thus their commentary on it was very narrow. just in general there is a HUGE chunk of fandom history missing by virtue of them not covering tumblr homestuck fandom very much.

ALSO???? one of the hosts HATES cosplay and cosplayers so much in a way that genuinely like. concerns me. i remember his words being “i don’t like it when people dress up and pretend to be something they’re not” or something VERY along those lines. literally had to pause and go UHHHHHH HELLO DO YOU HEAR WHAT YOURE SAYING RIGHT NOW DUDE???? jesus christ. (at the very least he SEEMED to maybe recognize it as something he needs to work on internally. still sucks to hear as a cosplayer lmao)

the main host who read the comic as it was updating, michael, says he “used to be anti-fandom and never participated in fandom but now has an appreciation for what fandom can be (from the perspective of an outsider)” and the other host who was reading it for the first time, cameron, seems to find fandom as a whole distasteful and cringe. like oh god you can tell how cringe he thinks it is the whole time and it is really fucking grating how little whimsy this guy can tolerate. he’s always like “i’m not saying i hate it and i’m not trying to stop anyone from having fun” n shit like that but that sentiment only goes so far for me when you can just tell how off-put he is by the concept of fandom and fanart and cosplay and fanfic as a whole. as someone who participates in all of that, who has made literally all of my current irl friends through the homestuck fandom, i found his commentary on the matter incredibly annoying and i often had to step away and remind myself he does not know what he’s talking about and that i shouldn’t take his opinions to heart. it was rough to get through sometimes.

(like, i try not to take it personally or whatever, but it’s just REALLY hard hearing people be ignorant as fuck about something you know a lot about and not being able to do anything about it. you just have to keep sitting there and listening. or turn it off, but then you miss out on some of the actual good stuff)

in a way, it’s a lot like hussies book commentary lmao! there’s a lot of good insightful stuff in there, but you have to trudge through a lot of bullshit. you have to remember that while they seem smart with their phd’s and their knowledge on literature and storytelling, their perspectives are still incredibly limited in a lot of ways.

i know ive basically said this already lol but a lot of ppl have been like "oh man i should reread homestuck with the commentary!" and i do want to warn yall it is an extremely mixed bag of genuine insightful stuff and good writing advice and then just like. terrible writing advice, and weird off-kilter bad-taste jokes. i've just been posting the stuff i think is good and interesting or particularly funny, but it's not all top tier commentary lmao

if ur doing a reread with book commentary get ready to be annoyed. and put on ur critical thinking helmet lol because you have to parse through so much of hussies bullshit. u have to ask urself CONSTANTLY "are they serious, or are they being satirical right now?" and i genuinely do not know the answer for some of the shit they say.