#voxus homestuck

[arcsin27]

Astarion sounds like Eridan in the homestuck read alouds. There I said it.

[arcsin27]

Idk about audio clips but I know he plays Rufioh (who I believe was inspired by him) on voxus

I saw this post and my mind flashed to an alternate timeline where instead of Dante Basco, Lynda Carter was the celebrity who discovered homestuck and ended up posting audio clips of her voice acting Vriska.

[partyrockin]

some favourite pesterlog exchanges.

[cringefail-clown]

i want whatever tf they have

[unforgivablecontent]

Voxus really knocked it out of the park with this part

[arcsin27]

@bugged-boy holding you at gunpoint till you watch the read alouds with me

i think we should bring back homestuck in 2023, not because it is an enjoyable experience, but because i personally would love to see the next generation of teenagers lose their everloving shit over it. if we can bring back old tumblr fashion, we should be able to bring back the weird old fandoms

[tabikato]

Join Me, @archeronriver , @Floweramon , and @siluet_vt from @voiceovernexus for our portion of the 24 hour Extra Life charity livestream on November 4th, starting at 9pm EST! We're playing #BaldursGate3 as Rose, Aradia, Jane, and Meenah!

Thank you to @bortort for letting us use their Meenah sprite edit!

[derseprinceoftbd]

In honor of the new Upd8, here's the updated version of my Personal Homestuck Explainer.

An explainer for Homestuck, typed up on a Google doc for Reddit, and now transplanted onto Tumblr, and too long to fit in a single reddit comment. Most explainers I've seen utterly fail to get the tone of the series across, thus not answering the main question I see: "what is Homestuck *and why is it like this*". Why does it evoke the reactions it does? Why are so many things considered a reference? Who is Vriska? (I can't actually explain that one in under 3000 words, it turns out.) But, here's a briefer briefer (heh) on the subject of "What the actual fuck is Homestuck":

Andrew Hussie, a person (now going by any pronouns) then known for various obscure things around the net, made an interactive reader-driven comic-type-thing called Jailbreak where he would draw panels demonstrating the events of the story as dictated by other posters in the thread, putting his favored suggestions in the narration and responding in kind. The happenings and variables were influenced by his own strange brand of humor and set of fascinations, such as rap, horses, clowns, and H!rry P!tter as a cultural presence. He would eventually compile this, along with the unfinished followup, Bard Quest, on its own website.

The third installment of the so-called MS Paint Adventures, Problem Sleuth, was a massive step up in production value, featuring impressive art and output speed as well as evolutions such as some pages being flashing gifs. This sort of thing was considered to be one of the best demonstrations of the potential of the internet. It ran for 1674 pages over the course of about a year.

Homestuck was the followup to that, running 8123 pages from April 13th 2009-2016 with numerous hiatuses in the latter half of that time. It featured such advancements as videos with sound, small WASD-controlled computer games on various pages, and most significantly, actual conversations between characters, semi-hidden behind clickable boxes at the bottom of some pages, allowing them to become three-dimensional and truly sympathetic. Hussie, it would soon be revealed, was heavily skilled at writing compelling and unique character voices and dialogue writing in general.

Homestuck was definitely the most complex MPSA, with a grand overarching plot being integrated into the results of the actions of the readers. The plot revolved around an in-universe game called SBURB with the power to influence reality, sort of a Jumanji with time-travel mechanics that would soon be revealed to be the centerpiece of reality itself, destroying the home planets of its players to motivate them to enter the world of the game and fulfill an unknown grand purpose, complete with millions of fully sentient NPCs. (Homestuck is, technically, an isekai.)

Homestuck has been described as "a story that's also a puzzle", and this lens has gained authorial approval; events are often told anachronistically, as a kitchen sink of high-concept ideas are explored by a man who sometimes wants to show off his semi-deconstructive version of a classic sci-fi/fantasy trope, sometimes wants to infuriate readers through anticlimaxes and misdirections, and sometimes wants to just go off on a tangent about a random movie from his childhood that somehow soon becomes integral to the plot in an absurdly esoteric fashion.

Eventually the suggestions from readers became so numerous and difficult that the suggestion boxes were closed near the end of the first year, leading to less meandering from Act 4 onwards, but the influence of the audience remained; one easy example is a character only seen from the top half initially being theorized on the official forums as using a wheelchair, a fact which would not only become Canon, but highly relevant.

The early MSPAs curated an audience through programming humor and 80s-90s film references as filtered through the styles of Terry Pratchett, Mark Twain, and the Something Awful forums, but the audience for Homestuck, due to the nature of the characters, was markedly different, especially after the Trolls showed up.

You've probably seen them.

The Trolls, initially presented as some extremely odd and bothersome fellows on the internet, were soon shown to be a race of grey-skinned, orange-horned aliens. Trolls possessed multicolored blood in both organized castes and clear deviations, psychic abilities, unique typing styles, insectoid traits as opposed to hominid, near-universal bisexuality with the sole known exception being Sapphic, and a complex romantic system with its own symbols, comically vague-yet-comprehensive reproductive system, and of course, relationship dynamics.

I cannot express how perfect the Trolls were in terms of catching on. Tumblr loved these fuckers and it's not at all hard to see why.

It's also worth noting that this wasn't the only market-perfect part of Homestuck; Classpecting, the equivalent of Hogwarts Houses, featured a 144/168/288/336/384(depending on who you ask and what they count)-strong grid system of human personality traits that not only seemed eerily accurate as a personality mapper, but corresponded to what elemental powers one received in the game of SBURB.

So... yeah. Homestuck was an incredibly complex and engaging work, driven by a single incredibly talented and flawed creative voice, which was perfectly made to attract a massive, unabashedly bizarre/proudly cringe, and notably largely queer fanbase across a younger internet; you may well be aware of incidents such as cosplay failures and inappropriate recreations of Troll culture. The style of presentation, art, and character writing was instantly recognizable and relatively easy to imitate, leading to fanfiction and even fanmade adventures galore, most of the latter hosted on MSPFA.com.

The main site for Homestuck is broken now-it's recommended that new readers download the [Unofficial Homestuck Collection](https://bambosh.dev/unofficial-homestuck-collection/), and starting with Problem Sleuth to ease into the format and writing is a pretty popular choice. The ending is also considered generally quite poor in a number of ways, particularly regarding unfollowed foreshadowing and blatant abandonment of character arcs, with some fans even [making](https://friendlybatteringram.tumblr.com/tagged/altstuck) their own [works](https://mspfa.com/?s=44153&p=1) as [substitutions](http://mspfa.com/?s=12003&p=1). You can find The Homestuck Epilogues (a sequel novel) on the official site, and Homestuck^2 Beyond Canon (a sequel webcomic after the Epilogues) on its own website, but neither of these are very well liked by fans (at all). YouTube also has several dubs of the comic; by far the largest and most popular is [Voxus](https://youtube.com/@Voxus), which has unfortunately slowed to a crawl at around the 65% mark.

Content warnings for Homestuck include: blood, violence including decapitation, clowns, brainwashing/mental possession, dicks-out furry bara art in the background of like ten pages, brief black-and-white nudity, swearing, the R-slur, a joke about an acronym organically forming the F-slur, child abuse, discussed child abuse and homophobia, mocking of the disabled (as an unsympathetic action), cartoonish levels of sexism (as an unsympathetic action), statements that an antagonist is analogous to Hitler, mocking of otherkin, a minor character being a racial stereotype of Japanese people (Damara), a somewhat major character being a stereotype of Black people (Meenah), minor characters being stereotypes of disabled people (Meulin and Mituna), a controversial and prominent depiction of blindness, eye trauma, underage alcoholism, written depections of noncon facilitated by mind control (as an unsympathetic action), sexual assult (an unwanted kiss, as an unsympathetic action), jokes about pedophilia, and child grooming (textually 100% non-sexual, but sexually-coded).

Also: when I said the Trolls type weird, I wasn't kidding. Every character gets at least one color for their speech text, plus a pattern for how they type, generally worse for the Trolls, ranging from "no caps" to "British" to "drunk" to "ebonics" to "aLtErNaTiNg" to WH4T3V3R TH3 FUCK K1ND OF L33TSP34K BS T3R3Z1 1S DO1NG. So that's worth a warning.

And that's as abridged as you can get when summing up Homestuck.

[sillysorcerer]

[radwolf76]

6/12 So of course it's time for a Let's Read Homestuck Upd8.

And we're finally at the start of

TRICKSTER MODE

[voiceovernexus]

Extra Life is happening!

Here is the schedule

[arcsin27]

Rewatching one (1) voxus video and goddamn he is so annoying and stupid and troll racist and whiny and yet I’m bummed the merch of him I have doesn’t fit anymore. He’s so cringy and moronic it’s comical, he’s still one of my favorite characters lmfao

[roseate-felidae]

Caught up on homestuck (let's read)

So my friend recommended I read Homestuck.

I had heard it but not read it. All I knew was these little grey people with fiery horns.

Since flash is dead and my laptop might as well be dead, I watched a let's read by Voice over Nexus.

Voice over Nexus is up to Act 6 (act 5) Act 1. They still have 7 acts including the Act 7 finale to make. So I have a bit of a breather.

My attention span is terrible, so the fact that I have hot this far is great. I basically binged it and then paused. Then continued at a snails pace during my work lunch breaks.

I started in September/August and have watched 60.903 hours. That's 2.538 days or 3654.19 minutes of my life on homestuck.

@themarginalthinker the friend who did this. Thank you but also my soul has left my body.

@mekanikaltrifle @robotslenderman I know homestuck woo! Yet I'm still not done, sad woo.

[autisticsupervillain]

Fictional Throwdown Friday: Hype Trailer!

Asriel Dreemurr vs Aradia Megido!

The homestuck clips come from Voxus's Homestuck dub.

All Undertale clips come from the Undertale cinematic dub.

All rights to their respective owners, please check out the original creators.

[autismbrain]

having my homestuck party in the voxus premiere bc none of my friends like it <\3

[sollux-captor]

Og Broadway kk, I do not know why. I am so sorry 💀

i fuckING WISH OMG THATD BE AWESOME