#mykros

[cleowho]

“Dematerialisation?”

Timelash - season 22 - 1985

[atdawn]

COLIN MORGAN for MYKRO MAGAZINE (2017)

[gvaine]

Mykro Magazine 2017

[homestuck-fanauthor-coalition]

Coalition Pinned Post: About Us, How to Join, Important Links.

What is the Coalition?

This is the home of the Homestuck Fanauthor Coalition, a discord-based writing club for fanauthors of all things Homestuck! Any current or aspiring author of Homestuck fanfic is encouraged to join, with the caveat that they understand this is a place for those who have a commitment to bolstering creativity in the Homestuck fandom. We provide a space for brainstorming, proofreading, beta-reading, co-writing, and all other forms of collaboration you can think of! We uplift each-other's works and encourage each-other to keep creating. We are mostly AO3-based authors, but several of us also write MSPFAs, and a few of us even write fangames! So whatever your homestuck writing project, you can find a place among us.

As part of this, we have two AO3 Collections.

Homestuck FanAuthor Coalition Fic and Recommendations is broken into two sub-collections: Our Stuff, which attempts to catalog ever member's works, and Our Recommendations, through which we suggest fic we've read to each-other, mostly written by those not in the Coalition.

Homestuck Fanauthor Coalition Writing Competitions is where we host our competition fics! We all vote together on a prompt, then write our works anonymously, submitting them to a hidden subcollection. Once the works are due, they are revealed, and everyone (not just the participants) gets to read the fics. We then vote on a series of "best in" genres, leave a compliment, and try to guess the identity of the author. At the end, everyone gets a digital medal! It's good fun.

Our Identities, with Ao3 & Tumblr links [below the cut for length]:

Since it's pretty darn hard for the layman to find at a glance, here is our member list. We'll try to keep this up-to-date. This section is under construction, members will likely want to edit their blurbs. Right now we are trying to re-order in the order of joining us!

@thegoodthebadthealternative @madam-melon-meow / Madam_Melon_Meow on Ao3: the founder of the Coalition, M^3 has been a Homestuck fan since 2014, but only started writing fic herself in 2023, alongside her fiance Celery! It is her firm belief that fanfic is the lifeblood of fandom, and she wanted to create a space where authors and editors could meet on equal footing, rather than gather in servers dedicated to one author's fanfic, or servers generally dedicated to Homestuck itself. She saw an empty niche and decided to fill it.

@thegoodthebadthealternative @arealpeople / sarcasticcelery on Ao3: an admin of the Coalition, Celery has been in fandom since late 2018, and was 75% through Homestuck proper when the epilogues came out, so he had an interesting introduction to the community. He is of the opinion that no work of media should be left deconstructed, and that all art should be shared- especially the ugly stuff. He hopes the coalition will facilitate this in the rich seedbed that is Homestuck.

@taglineguerrillawriter @orangestorapples / orangestorapples on Ao3: Orange is one of the bot wranglers for the Coalition discord, and they started writing fic WAAAAAAY back in 2015 on WATTPAD of all things! (I know, they're old 💀) They didn't join the homestuck fandom until 2019. Orange shares the same belief as M^3, about fanfic being an important facet of keeping fandom alive, and come hell or high water they're gonna contribute.

Mykros: [pending]

@unda-dsk / Unda on Ao3: They/them. Writing homestuck stuff since 2014 but properly committed to it with my first big work MC Escher That's My Favourite MC, and currently working on the multi-art work in the same universe: EMC2. Currently getting into art, music, animation and more, as well as writing far too many words. Has zero concept of doing things in moderation, is a rainbow menace.

rko on Ao3: Unda's beta, a writer and editor of many things, synthesizer enthusist, and professional copy wrangler.

@classpectpokerap / EtchJetty on Ao3: Cowriter of the fanventure Nepetaquest 2022 and author of A Bunch Of Shit On Ao3 And Also Mspfa, EtchJetty has been most recently occupied writing Pesterquest Rewritten (@pesterquestrewritten on Tumblr). catch her stuff whenever she makes More Things!!!

@thegodshavehorns @wmb-salticidae / Callmesalticidae on Ao3: [pending]

@thegodshavehorns @shadow-wasser / shadow_wasserson on Ao3 / Shadow Wasserson on FFN : Shadow has written fanfiction since 2004, first read Homestuck in 2013, and has been co-writing *The Gods Have Horns* since 2015. Gen. Darkfic. Plotting.

Atralux @astralix13 / Astralic on Ao3: they also like MLP. Fun fact, they have 15 animals!

Ponderskeletons: [pending]

@ocean-stars-mspfa @horsesbones / GlubbyGlub on MSPFA / timaeusTestifying & HorseFingers on Ao3: Ocean Man first read Homestuck in 2011. Terminally ill about Dirk Strider. Squiddle obsession. Favorite type of fanfictions to write are cognitohazards; peruse at your own risk.

reticulating Attorney aka @diddleydont / Diddleydont on Ao3: [pending]

@utopianparadoxist / optimisticDuelist (lasciviousWildheart) on Ao3: author of the Pumpkin Path [bio pending]

silvenainRose: [pending]

kolbietheninja: [pending]

@sylvris / ryuo_zen on Ao3 : [pending]

@mostlycyanide / mostlycyanide on Ao3: [pending]

gues / larceny: [pending]

@meowloudly15 @the-hs-etaverse / meowloudly15 on Ao3: meowloudly15 first started writing fanfiction in 2018. She first read Homestuck in 2019. Her favorite fic subgenres to write about include Women's Wrongs, throwaway lines and characters taken far too seriously, highly self-indulgent meta BS, absurdism (both flavors), and Apocalypse Yuri.

@askaniritual / tasteoflemons on Ao3: Jordan writes meta on her tumblr blog! [more bio pending].

@disgustedorite / disgustedorite on MSPFA / disgustedorite on Ao3 : also a big fan of Saigon 4, [more bio pending]

@manifestmerlin / ManifestMerlin on Ao3: author of a fairystuck fic! [more bio pending]

vapor: [pending]

@vriskabot / araneae_cobalti on Ao3: a big fan of DaVris, [bio pending]

CeramicOrange: a beta reader / editer, [bio pending]

Kimi / quixxotique aka crownlessliestheking on Ao3: she is a Dirk Strider and Midnight Crew enjoyer! [more bio pending]

@greg-is-cool / gregiscool on MSPFA / gregiscool on Ao3: one of our younger members, he got into hoemstuck through XKCD. [more bio pending]

Siben @teamsieben / StarlightSieben on Ao3: Sieben has been writing fanfic on-and-off since they were too young to be on the internet, and recently got into Homestuck in 2023. They write for themselves and they most enjoy exploring what makes characters tick. They also love classpecting, and their classpect is Page of Blood.

Autumn1185 / @aspen1185 / AspenDrake on ao3 : [pending]

The Lukemeister @herestoanotherweirdo / terminalLoquacity on ao3: Luke writes fanfic and mspfas, and is one of Tetra's collaborators on pesterquest re-written! [more bio pending]

wes / fae / peri: [pending]

@timelessambivalence / Eris_Luuvan on Ao3 : 'She/Her, known as Timeless, TA, or Dez. Big time Ancestor enjoyer, Godstuck advocate, scifi consumer, and an infinite abyss of headcanons. Constantly has a pile of things to finish on her desk, an amount of caffine in her blood somewhere between 'not enough' and 'discovering new colours', and is trying her best. Been in and out of homestuck for a couple years but has come back around to try and leave her mark with vague angst, ancestors, and gross overstatements of trolls' inhuman nature.'

Flora @pr0atcrastination / ProAtCrastination on Ao3: author of Appearification, a Dirk Strider fanfic! [more bio pending]

@dave2olkat / ToBurnAllTheEmpires on Ao3: a writer and an artist, he is a big fan of... well, I'm sure you can guess! Author of Gold Pilot, a timeloop fanfic!

@ambrosianlullaby / ambrosianLullaby on Ao3: they are the head of animation of Guidestuck^2 . They/Them and known as Ambrosia, Al, or infectious, is an author who's been writing since they were able to read. Boasting a nearly full Google drive of fanfiction, they joined the Homestuck fandom in early 2020 only to leave before the summer of the same year; but you can't fight the Homestuck, so they're back for round 2.

@june-egbert-official / GinAndJuniper on Ao3 : she loves writing homestuck, and is a big june fan! she also writes stuff involving her and her wife's OCs, which is super cute! [more bio / ao3 link pending].

T4Tavros / CatBoyGhost on Ao3 : he is an aspiring storyboard and comics artist who writes on the side. current projects include a spideman fancomic called "The Magical Spider Man" and a hs au fic called "Oh Hello".

@bralsradoesfanfiction / Bralsra on Ao3 : a new fanauthor and an aspiring fangame coder, she only read homestuck last year but is super excited to get involved in fandom! [more pending]

@rose-icosahedron / Rose_Icosahedron : a fanfic and mspfa author new to homestuck but old to fanfiction, she is writing a homestuck horror fic that she hopes to release soon!

Topher / smellydotcom on wattpad / smellydotcom on Ao3: [bio pending]

@eridan-amporaa / auspiciousAuthor on Ao3: currently writting a johndave fic and planning an mspfa. has many ideas!

Thingy / egregiousBass on Ao3: got into homestuck in 2010 and is now writing fanfic!

@davekatgnocchi / Davekatgnocchi on Ao3: a bit Davekat obsessed, she considers homestuck to be very near and dear to her heart. current cowriting a fic with ambrosian lullaby!

@glubtier / glubtier on Ao3 : "i like to write smooching and I also play a lot of Minecraft"

@jonayariley / JonayaRiley on Ao3 /Jonaya's personal website : Jonaya has been in the fandom since 2019 and writing fic in the fandom since January 2020. You might know her as the director and lead writer for Friendsim 2; as the director for Stuck at Home Con; or as a producer for What Pumpkin's Hiveswap: Act 3!

@sg-s3c / sg on MSPFA : this individual got into homestuck way back in 2011 and has been getting sucked back into it every few years ever since. Sg is currently working on the fandaventure John Ruins a Wedding, and would like to get involved in more stuff!

@tehstripe / Stripe on Ao3 : Stripe has been writing homestuck fanfiction since 2011. She is a nerd and a teacher, and is currently trying to get back into writing her davejade superhero AU, The Thrilling Adventures of Coolkid and Kiddo Eclipse

parrotintexas on Ao3 : [pending]

MysticDreamer aka PHDreamer on Ao3: [pending]

absent architect aka Insipid on Ao3: [pending]

@theartvoid / theartvoid on MSPFA: Ellie is a fancomic autor who is also into various games like undertale, stardew valley, and fallen london.

@starlit-bawka / StarlitBawka on Ao3: this author is just getting back into writing homestuck fanfic, but also writes for a scattering of other fandoms. Fun fact, he also makes puppets!

Asche aka 2uriiviing on Ao3 : He's into book binding! [more bio pending]

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Legacy Members [list of former members. assume they left the server in good will, and we are still proud to promote their works]:

tHunkdt on Ao3: [pending]

Bre / BreezefulSkies on Ao3: author of Reallocated, a time travel fix-it fic featuring Hal!

@flaringk / FlaringK on Ao3 / FlaringK on MSPFA / FlaringK's personal website : the creator of the HS5+ formating and the website designer of SAHcon !

Virgil / Danny: a homestuck fan who is in the process of co-writing a not-yet-released project with orangestorapples

Appearing in our header image [left to right]:

@myusernameisstolen, @greg-is-cool, tHunkdt, @taglineguerrillawriter, @arealpeople, @madam-melon-meow, Bre, rko, @unda-dsk, @shadow-wasser

[qdearl]

#mycomicinfluences #2 Goodwin & Simonson’s - “Manhunter” It was a few years after the fact, when I 1st discovered the original run of Manhunter - the 7-part, 8 page back-up series in DC’s Detective Comics. Somewhere between 1977 and ’79 I got a hold of a beat-up copy of the last installment, the lead story wrap up entitled “GOTTERDAMMERUNG!” I saw what was considered some of Walt Simonson’s “early” work. And it was awesome, he was/is another constant influence on my art style. Archie Goodwin’s story was a spy thriller/revenge/redemption masterpiece - worthy of any James Bond movie adventure I’d experienced up to that point. Simonson’s dynamic and graphic illustrations and page designs were inspiring to say the least, these particular pages here are a few of my favorites - the Dr. Mykros helmet page, and the Cathedral Perilous sequence with the kid. They directly influenced my page designs a couple years later on a story named “Tutt”. Didn’t get to experience the whole Manhunter story until I picked up the B&W GN release by Excaliber. So when the Full size Artist’s Edition was released recently I jumped on it. This little 7 part epic won numerous awards at the time, from the Academy of Comic Book Arts, that included 2 “Best Writer” awards [73/74] for Archie Goodwin, “Outstanding New Talent” [1973] for Walt Simonson and Best Feature Length Story [1974] for Gotterdammerung! Still one of my all-time favorite series and it’s stood the test of time. It’s still a great read for anyone who loves a great comic book story and art. #manhunter #paulkirk #waltsimonson #archiegoodwin #detectivecomics #gotterdammerung #cathedralperilous #drmykros #christinestclair #asanonitobe #clones #thecouncil #kolumbeya https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbtEy2MLNy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[colinmorgan-beautifulsmile]

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[areyourparentsin]

Dior Homme

[whitechapael]

[professormakro]

[[HERE THEY ARE...the siblings, Makro and Mykro! Their User, X, created them at the same time so they are coded very similarly! But of course they have their differences that make them unique. They were designed with the purpose to create innovative contraptions to aid Program and User experiences alike. However, The Occupation was upon them. Makro joined Clu willingly, fearing for his life and giving in. His sister, though, was a fighter. Mykro was caught and then repurposed, losing all her memories and personality, making her an emotionless droid. Makro doesn’t mind that much, just happy to spend more time with her and that she wasn’t derezzed. Now, they create and test weapons for The Occupation—Makro designing the weapons and Mykro testing them on unwilling participants. Together, they work as a team.]]

[odilecheng]

Colin for Mykro magazine.（2016.5） https://www.instagram.com/p/BTVm_ZmFa5E/ , http://paulscala.com/portrait/#itemId=59006afca5790a9b6f4ef6a2

[minha-mente-inquieta]

Gwendoline Christie photographed by Paul Scala for Mykro Magazine 2015

[rocknvaughn]

Mykro Magazine gets it right! I got my copy of the Spring/Summer 2017 issue. It's an A3 sized magazine (about 11x16 inches), and each photo takes up an entire page! It's absolutely glorious! ❤️❤️❤️ The interview is the same one by Gee Wong that I had found online in January, but I'll post its contents shortly. Anyone interested in purchasing the magazine can get it here: http://en.colette.fr/catalog/product/view/id/556981/s/magazine-mykro-n4-mykrkiomykr-3/

[fyeahcolinmorgan]

Colin Morgan for Mykro magazine (Interview with Colin on the site)

[merthurbreakdown]

“At the minute, I still think I’m on the younger side of the age bracket, but I’m looking forward to being an aging actor and getting to play all those great Shakespearean roles as well.” 

Colin Morgan for Mykro

[areyourparentsin]

Colin Morgan by Paul Scala from MYKRO Magazine (2017)

[stardustdreamsandanarchy]

“Excuse me, miss. Are you alright?”

I looked up in shock to see the laser-eyed hero, Gamma-Rae, standing before me, but there was only concern on her face. I looked around for a weapon, but there was nothing here. This area of my hideout was a living space, the only thing that could be used to fight was a broom that was sitting half-way across the room. 

Gamma could see the panic on my face and took a step towards me with a hand raised.

“It’s okay, I’m here to help. What’s your name?”

It finally dawned on me that Gamma Rae didn’t recognize me as her mortal enemy, Fallout. In my costume, nothing of my form was recognizable, and I did a lot of my work through proxies and machines. I’d actually spent the last week or so stuck in my lab, trying to create a quantum bomb that would disable the powers of all Supers. I hadn’t looked in a mirror recently, but I was sure to look harried. Gamma-Rae must’ve thought me to be a prisoner, so I decided to play along.

“Who… who are you?” I put a little quiver in my voice and shrunk away from Gamma’s hand.

“I’m Gamma-Rae, ma’am. I’m going to get you out of here.” Gamma-Rae wrapped an arm around me and lifted me into the air as she flew back out of what once was my Lair. I could see the sparking and broken bodies of my automatons scattered across the rooms nearest the front of the hideout, cluing me into why no alarms had been set off. I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t relish my time spent in Gamma’s large, muscular arms, but soon enough we left my lair and made it to the plateau above it.

She set me down near the cliffside that hid my not-so-humble abode and pulled a shock blanket out of her utility belt, wrapping it around me before leading me to a natural outcropping of rocks and gesturing for me to sit. 

She walked a few feet away and spoke into a mic in her mask.

“Cosmic Team, fall in. I’ve recovered one witness from the lair. I repeat, ‘Cosmic Team, fall in.”

Soon, the Cosmic Clowns were gathered around me and before I could do anything, Exie was flashing some sort of light in my face, and staring at something on their arm.

“Whoa, Spanner had to go deep in the archives to dig this up. This is Dr. Paola Manigol. She disappeared about a decade ago.” Exie squatted next to me and began to examine me. “Welcome back to the world, Doc. It looks like someone tried to erase you from the world and the internet.”

“X-Rae, give the lady some space. I’m sure she’s been through a lot. Dr. Manigol, could you tell us how you came to be in that cave? Have you been there for 10 whole years?”

I didn’t know what to do, how to answer their questions, so I burst into tears. Exie fell back, but Gamma-Rae swooped in to sit next to me, wrapping a comforting arm around me.

“I’m sorry, ma’am. I know this must be hard, but tell us whatever you can.”

So, between gasps, I spoke, casting about for what to tell them that was close enough to the truth without giving everything away.

“I-I knew I was in there for a long time, but 10 years?” I let the sobs take over again, and in honesty, I was feeling a bit emotional. Ten years. A whole decade of work, and I still was nowhere nearer to my goals thanks to these damned heros.”

“I’m a scientist. I worked for the government, studying nuclear power, trying to create something that could be used to stop the effects of nuclear weapons if anyone were to ever drop one on the states. Then one day, I was taken.

“That damned Fallout must’ve taken you! He has nuclear powers, he must’ve wanted to get you out of the way.” Gamma stood back up and began pacing.

“But, she was studying how to stop the nuclear disasters. Why wouldn’t Fallout just kill her? No offense, Doc.” Mykro gave a semi-apologetic shrug to me, and I had to work to keep a smile off of my face. Mykro had always seemed a bit more ruthless than the others, maybe due to a Napoleon complex.

“Well,” Gamma was still pacing, and her brow was deeply furrowed in thought. “I imagine, to fight nuclear power, you have to know a lot about radiation and the like, don’t you, Doc? 

I nodded and began to wipe the tears away. 

“I’ve been making tools since I was brought here. Devices to amplify or negate radioactivity and other abilities. I never saw another person here, just automatons. You can’t reason with a robot, can’t evade them.”

Another one of them tutted in anger, and I could feel heat emanating off of them, despite being several feet away. 

Gamma shot them a look.

“Cool it, Yuvee. The past is the past, but today is a new future. We’ve gotten Dr. Manigol out of a horrible situation and that’s what matters.” She turned to me now, as she spoke. “We’re going to take you to our hideout now, Doctor. I believe we’ll have a few more questions for you, but they can wait for tomorrow. For now, let’s get you some rest. What do you say?”

“I’d like that.”

Gamma stuck out her hand and once more lifted me through the air in their arms. As we flew, I tucked my face into their chest, trying my best to hide my smile from the Cosmic Coterie. I was being led directly into the Sanctum Santorum. This was going to be fun

A villain was spotted out of costume in her own lair. Now she has to pretend that she kidnapped herself to avoid the heroes knowing who she is.