#mspa reader

[ohsoleon]

mspa reader in roxy’s pesterquest route:

[badlydrawnmspareader]

HAPPY 4/13

This was a really fun project and even if im not that active anymore i LOVE this community

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collab art with:

@kripsybac0n125

@badlydrawnaradia

@drawnroxystrider

@askdesperado-rocketchairs

@some-effort-trickster-jake

@badlydrawnjane

@poorlydrawneridan

@aaaaskarseniccatnip

@expertlydrawnroxy

@badlydrawnbabydirk

@askbronya

@badlydrawngcat

@badlydrawnjade

@badlydrawndirk

@badlydrawndavepeta

@badlydrawnlilseb

@badlydrawn-brostrider

[mapledrawsarts]

It's the 4/13 time of year baybeee

[feferi-glubz]

Day 35.

[garysprites]

mspa reader and your many outfits in hiveswap frienship simulator

[nekropsii]

Average Ally on Earth C.

[oktoramaa]

things i keep forgetting to post here

[darks-arts]

You Can Not Kill Yourself, The Stump Is Occupied

[impishthing]

homestuck text post thursday baby

june sprite by @kittokattx

[taco-blook]

Saw no one talk about it on tumblr so here you go for the huge info drop

[ohsoleon]

finally made a hussie-esque photoshop pixel brush for csp i'm happy with

link: https://file.garden/ZaIrz0vrfByjoIia/ohsophotoshop.sut

[drilstuck-2]

[classpectpokerap]

gonna go completely insane for a second here.

was thinking about mspar. who will obviously not. appear in hsbc. bc it makes almost no thematic sense for that to happen

but like… i made a connection. that i want to talk about.

mspar in pq is defined by two things, early on

really, really, really fucking hating the direction the epilogues took the "story", and wanting to take it into their own hands to fix it.

like, the imagery about this being a Bad Thing is pretty unsubtle. in the prologue, mspar literally tramples over homestuck panels, crushing them underfoot. and by the end of pq, what they have done isnt just create a new timeline where "everyone is happy," they've overwritten homestuck to do it. theyve Literally retconned the story and replaced it with their fanon ideas of how to "fix" things. that's why ultdirk and the director have to come and tell you that it needs to stop.

there's a lot more about mspar's actions in pq being like… pretty unambiguously villain shit, in my reading, but thats a sort of separate ramble to what i wanted to be insane about (let me know if you want me to ramble about. mspar being the bad guy. another time.)

basically. mspar's design looks a hell of a lot like doc scratch. obviously. theyre both round-headed narrators.

doc scratch's textbox is literally just mspar's inverted. theyre foils, in a sense. scratch enables canon while hurting everyone to do it, and mspar enables fanon (…while hurting everyone to do it, differentways.)

and that got me thinking like. a lot of this description i just wrote applies to another character too.

someone in the text who was introduced as a reader of the stories of the heroes, as an author of fanfiction and fanart

though, obviously meat and candy calliope are accounted for. it's not literally that mspar is calliope. besides, its not even like calliope wears a similar hooded black outfit to them, or makes a huge fucking deal about loathing the complexity of postcanon,

hey wait a minute

and theyve got a lot in common. even beyond the superficial. for example, they both just. appoint themself as the guardian of their timeline, because they have to "fix" homestuck. (whether the characters in homestuck want this or not.)

jade harley literally tells *both characters* "well, what if we don't want your protection!!!! why won't you leave us alone!" and then they just sorta ignore her wishes

and the connection keeps going. like. mspar and altcallie have both stood outside of the green sun with aradia and absorbed a canon into themself so they can rewrite it.

this extremely specific thing they have in common!!!! kinda fucked up!!!!!!

like, im not saying this because i literally think mspar is going to crack their head open and reveal altcallie a la Lord English in that intermission.

but THEMATICALLY.

they have a lot in common.

way more than i realized until literally two days ago!

like mspar is LITERALLY another narrator at least on the scale of ultdirk and doc scratch and the like and LITERALLY ALL OF THEM ARE VILLAINS shdashjfhasfhsajdhgashfkgshjdgsdfgsdhjg. there is stuff to think about.

(conspiracy brain.) and of all the outfits mspar wore in friendsim, it's specifically the black hoodie up that they got sprites for….

anyway.

obviously pesterquest and hsbc werent referencing each other because the second one did not exist yet.

but like! i think theres something there. in terms of da Themes and Motifs.

(if there are more close readings of pq, id be SUPER curious to find em :3)

[garysprites]

Mspa reader biting Tegiris face off and/or giving Tegiri a little kiss

[hivequest]

MSPAR sprite/BG from Friendsim 2

[spicytuna09]

I miss drawing in ms paint😭😭😭