#wizardy herbert and the mobius slipknot

[turntechradiohead]

This is genuinely the plot of Andrew Hussie’s unfinished, unpublished novel Wizardy Herbert and the Mobius Slipknot (but I was not going to comment that on some poor unsuspecting guy’s tiktok page lol)

[optimus-rhyme]

[c5553]

ugh ok…

[cheshire-creeper]

Bad News. I recently read the *entirety* of Wizardy Herbert. So here's some fan art I guess? Why not!!!!!!!! Also it's Hastings. You know. The guy who, spoiler alert, kinda dies like 5 scenes after his introduction, if not *less* than that. But EEL WITH A MUSTACHE WHO CAN RESIST RIGHT????????

[turntechradiohead]

ALSO I would be shocked if Wizardy Herbert wasn’t one of the main inspirations for the epilogue. I honestly think it was cool to read, but if you’re not a fan of how their old work holds up to modern standards, be warned that a lot of the humor in it is pretty dated!! There’s just so many similarities between WH and the epilogues plot-wise that I feel like they basically used it as a rough draft for Ultimate Dirk. I mean just look at what they posted in the forumspring:

I won’t spoil wizardy herbert for anyone lmao but if you have theories about where the plot is going in beyond canon right now, I think you might at least find what hussie’s intentions were in it

to this day i still kind of think rose is a play on hermione from hussie, who was ahead of the fucking curve in terms of hating harry potter so thoroughly (one day i will read wizardy herbert)

like, she is someone who performs emotional intelligence, yet utterly lacks any skills in applying it in practice. and well, that's hermione too, right? the answer is complicated, since jk rowling is a bad and inconsistent writer. but unlike in harry potter, where hermione's destructive, malicious nature is so unbelievably understated despite it being her most compelling trait, both because it is disguised as righteous violence (keeping the "mannish" rita skeeter in a jar for 3 months [the signs were there all along] and having umbridge kidnapped by centaurs to be raped) and because it exists in constrast with the increasingly aberrant infliction of mothering femininity as her core character trait as she comes of age in the stories and the dread beast gender sinks its teeth into the story (the signs were there all along)

rose's destructive streak is rightfully recognized as one of the coolest things about her, and with recent homestuck beyond canon developments, even her impulses towards motherhood are applyed as means of furthering this destructive streak. and it is cool. to be clear.

we stan rose lalonde here

[oasis-nadrama]

Short summary of Andrew Hussie‘s “Wizardy Herbert and the Mobius Slipknot”

Oasis "Cauchemar" Nadrama, 28/03/2023 This is a short summary of an unfinished novel written by Hussie in the 2000s. We do not know precisely when they started the text, but we do know the file was last saved 07/27/2008. The following summary leaves out some significant characters and events, shifts various scenes around and merges reveals for the sake of overall clarity. Please refer to the complete summary for a more exhaustive understanding of the novel.

[Drawing by Andrew Hussie]

‘ 1] A nightmare of a summer camp The young boy WIZARDY HERBERT hates fun and magic; consequently, the shady old magician THUNDLESHICK convinces his parents, the EGGWOODS, to send him to a "magical summer camp" under the pretense of an accounting camp. Herbert is the only remaining child of the Eggwood family, since his brothers Louis and Seymour both disappeared. At the gathering, June 5 2004, Thundleshick takes the entire crowd of kids away to another realm, A WORLD OF ETERNAL SUMMER. He then steals all of their luggage (camouflaging his mischief with apparent destruction) before retreating alone in his castle. The kids are attacked by SLURPENOOK DRONES, giant black skeletons with glowing green entrails, which capture them and take them back to FORT SLURPENOOK, an aircraft carrier surrounded by a military fleet, all part of the same faction, in the middle of a lava ocean. In Fort Slurpenook, the malevolent camp councilor SLINUS MARLEVORT reduces the children to slavery. Herbert escapes the skeletons, along with BEATRIX, a girl his age who approached him back on Earth. Little does he know that Beatrix searched for him for years before summer camp. For Herbert and Beatrix are both afflicted with memory issues: they do not remember anything before Christmas of 1998. The duo makes the acquaintance of various other children and teenagers, most importantly GRANT and RUSSET. Grant is a late teenager, around 17 years old, with ulterior motives. Russet is a boy close to their age, 14, alternating between two personalities. One of the Russets is incredibly joyful, elegant and magically skilled, while the other one is depressed, clumsy and cannot use any kind of spell. Distrusting of Grant, Beatrix parts company with the older boy, and also breaks the spell he established to be able to find her, the RUSSIAN DOLL MAGIC. She reunites with Herbert and Russet in the gigantic underground bunker named FORT CROSSNEST where they find COUNCILOR CARMEN, an unhinged character who seems to keep talking to herself, but in fact quarrels with telepathic messages from an yet-unknown entity. Carmen tells the kids they can do CAMP QUESTS to obtain MERIT BADGES and then exchange them for a return ticket for Earth. ‘ ‘ 2] Merit badges and magical locket In the course of the story, Beatrix is attacked by various HUMANIMAL HYBRIDS all sent by Marlevort. They all less interested in the young girl and more in her artifact, a circular locket called the MOBIUS SLIPKNOT. Herbert, despising magic and seemingly incompatible with mystical forces altogether, equips himself with a handgun before starting the camp quests. With the help of Russet and Beatrix, he obtains a large bag of badges, which should be enough to buy a dozen trips back to normalcy. Beatrix leaves Fort Crossnest to find back Grant by reestablishing the Russian doll link. She wants to get the medicine he's carrying for Russet. But right after Beatrix departs, Herbert discovers she's been stalking him! Feeling betrayed, he betrays her in turn, breaking the doll spell once again. This action leaves Beatrix in danger in front of a mighty humanimal, a raging creature destroying the urban environment of FORT PIZZAHUT. Luckily, Beatrix reunites with Grant, other surviving kids, and they escape with their life, using the ship of the Pizzahut faction to go back to Fort Crossnest. Herbert ends up disappointed when reaching Thundleshick in his castle, for the old magician gives him TOILET PAPER in exchange of a preposterous amount of badges, and then Herbert obtains some CLARIFYING POTION to help him see THE TRUTH. Thundleshick, as dishonest as ever, get rid of Herbert by opening a trap door. Herbert falls in the catacombs of the castle, where he finds back his stolen luggage, containing a WEIRD BOOK WITH THE TITLE BLACKENED. It is VOLUME 1. Herbert's book is similar to the one that Marlevort, gravely wounded after a short-lived Slurpenook mutiny, picks up in his safe. This one book is VOLUME 7. Marlevort reads part of the book in order to summon another version of himself, and then transfers his mind in it. ‘ ‘ 3] The magical books Unable to reach Fort Crossnest because of an unpractical water levels mechanism, Herbert tries out a different underground passage which leads him to a version of the WHITE HOUSE covered in vines. In there, he seems to active an OBSCURE CONTAINER; in the container, there is a DARK STONE STATUE. A COUNTDOWN starts. Herbert then accidentally splashes some of the clarifying potion on the weird book and see the title of the text is… "WIZARDY HERBERT". The world of eternal summer and the various characters ALL SEEM TO COME FROM THESE NOVELS, the seven-books series "Wizardy Herbert" made by the young LOUIS EGGWOOD. In admiration of his teenage friend JAMAL K. ROWLING, Louis inadvertantly ripped off the "Harry Potter" series written by Jamal with this creation: he invented a magical summer camp with FOUR FORTS in lieu of the Hogwarts Houses and Allotment Socks replacing the Sorting Hat. Russet picks up the MOBIAN SLIPKNOT in Beatrix's room and, using doll magic, reaches Thundleshick's castle. Russet confesses that he is tormented by his homosexuality; Thundleshick promises to help him out but tricks him into a coma before robbing him and leaving him to the Slurpenook Drones. ‘ ‘ 4] Messages from another you Back to Fort Crossnest, Herbert shows Grant and Beatrix a surprising discovery: a VHS tape carrying a message from someone who seems to be "Future Herbert". But time travel is indicated as impossible in this universe, so it is probably OLDER HERBERT, another version of Herbert invoked from the "Wizardy Herbert" books, just like Marlevort is able to summon other Marlevorts. We learn that back in Christmas 1998, Beatrix's first memories on Earth are seeing an OLDER BEATRIX entrusting her with the Mobius Slipknot before being possessed by an ominous prophecy of Marlevort's reign and dying from a violent disease. In the same winter night, Herbert's first memories on Earth are carrying an unkown cadaver and burying him outside of the family house with his brother Seymour. The VHS message from Older Herbert indicates that the MOBIUS SLIPKNOT is infinitely important, that Marlevort is a huge threat and that everyone is about to die. Herbert, Beatrix and Grant barely have time to digest all of the information before Beatrix is abducted by the most powerful and dangerous humanimal yet, the psychic dog-man hybrid PYCROFT. This entity was the one who communicated with Carmen's mind previously. In the fight against Pycroft, Grant accidentally KILLS an innocent little kid. He hides the tragedy from his friends. Pycroft manages to take Beatrix back to Fort Slurpenook. Beatrix and Russet are reunited in a Slurpenook cell. Russet confesses his desire to kiss Beatrix. She meets his lips... but Russet then fully realizes he is gay. Herbert and Grant then borrow a magical F-16 plane from a near-abandoned airport and head for the lava sea. Time to rescue Beatrix! ‘ ‘ 5] Magical wars In the aircraft on its way to Fort Slurpenook, Grant explains part of the history of this world: from Earth, in the eighties, RONALD REAGAN, THE REPUBLICAN USA PRESIDENT, hijacked the very workings of the summer world, the magical summer camp and its trials, and distorted it to engage Russia in a FULL BLOWN THAUMATURGICAL WAR. The conflict devolved into the local equivalent to a nuclear war, then an apocalypse which engulfed all of the mystical realm. And Marlevort built his empire on the ruins. The aerial battle between the F-16 and the Slurpenook fleet starts well, Herbert's skill with weapons uniting with Grant's magical talent, but turns to COMPLETE DEFEAT for our heroes when Marlevort joins the fight. The evil councilor is about to kill Herbert when, with the unexpected telepathic help of the humanimal Pycroft, Herbert teleports away. Grant manages to land on Fort Slurpenook and to find the cell where his friends are kept captive. He frees them, then convinces Russet to give him the Mobius Slipknot… and disappears with the precious artifact. Beatrix and Russet are left to face Marlevort alone. ‘ ‘ 6] The last answers Doll magic has brought Herbert to Thundleshick's castle. There, Herbert finally gets some answers from the old wizard: - Marlevort is the real power directing all of the summer camp and Thundleshick is his servant. - The Mobius Slipknot is an artifact able to IMMERSE ITSELF AS WELL AS HUMANS FROM THE REAL EARTH INTO BOOKS OF FICTION. Once in the diegesis, both the Slipknot and the human assume different appearances, fit for the local setting. The human being replaces a character from the story, and is stripped from almost all their previous memories. - The Slipknot is also able to EXTRACT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS from novels, repeatedly. - When Seymour Eggwood disappeared from Earth, he was reincarnated into Thundleshick. Thundleshick is Herbert's own brother! After some heated discussion, Seymour Thundleshick teleports Herbert in the sewers of the castle. There, Herbert finds the skeleton of his other brother, as well as the author of the "Wizardy Herbert" books. A SMALL CLAY PARASITE escapes the skull and forces itself in Herbert's ear. He falls inconscious. Meanwhile, on Earth, Ronald Reagan dies. In the world of eternal summer, the countdown on the OBSCURE CONTAINER reaches zero, releasing a SMALL CLAY PARASITE on the MANNEQUIN OF DARK STONE. The parasite merges with the larger statue, which becomes flesh: RONALD REAGAN REBORN, strong, muscular. Reagan, in a spotless suit, starts wandering the world and effortlessly killing extremely creatures. He seems to be the incarnation of power, and the main antagonist.

[omegapausestuck]

I honestly think that Hussie has suffered some pretty bad fatigue with writing Homestuck. It's what, more than twice the length of anything he's made before? Well over that in terms of time input, probably. And iirc there's posts where he said that he thought it'd be ended before 2012. Not to mention that Jailbreak at least didn't get a proper ending, can't remember about other stuff right now. The man seems to be better at starting things than he is at ending them.

Jailbreak, Bard Quest, Inappropriate Time for Ham, Wizardy Herbert and the Mobius Slipknot, And it Don’t Stop; the man is a goddamned MASTER of the“To Be Continued”s.

[mackasks]

Rose’s drawings are characters from one of Hussie’s unfinished works, Wizardy Herbert and the Mobius Slipknot, about a kid who goes to a magical summer camp and goes on some very meta adventures.

Yes! That’s been said already. But thank you :)

- Kallie

[girlbowser]

i fucking. i went back. because of course i went back. to read the roxy wizardy herbert bits. and youll never fucking believe it but its set AFTER the point in the story the draft ended, during -- get this

THE FUCKING

WIZARDY HERBERT RETCON ARC.

like from what i understand from this is that at SOME POINT in the outline. herb and the gang find out about the slipknot, and do a scratch. and reset the book from the start, but this time with their metaknowledge. and they're trying to get to the end.

like even the comic sans text of the "original" wizardy herbert, layered in during the post-retcon version of wizardy herbert and the mobius slipknot,

it's fucking insane. hussie is fucking insane for this. russet x herbert yaoi forever okay good night

and fuck @tchayka for giving me the forever brainrot about this Fucking Book. jesus christ

i cant stop thinking about goddamn motherfucking WIZARDY HERBERT. fucking hell.

like that book is insane but absolutely the craziest part was that this fucking manuscript from 2005 has davebot from the epilogues in it.

like. fucking.

WHY THE FUCK IS DAVEBOT IN WIZARDY HERBERT. WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING IN THERE. JESUS CHRIST THIS WAS WRITTEN IN 2005????? HUSSIE SAT ON THE IDEA OF A LAST-CHANCE HOMUNCULUS IN THE OVAL OFFICE. FOR FIFTEEN YEARS

WHAT THE FUCK

[temperamentaljudgement]

and since im ABHORRED BY THE FACT THAT I HAVENT ACTUALLY FINISHED ANY WIZARDY HERBERT FANART HERE I TOOK THE TIME TO DRAW THESE CHICKS AS WELL WITH THE REST

BEATRIX AND CARMEN

(i forgot carmen had ONE ponytail DAMMIT)

[agianthordeofzombiesjust]

This is exactly what happened. Every bit of it. Or that is, it is exactly what would have happened if the children were British. In fact, not a bloody one of them was British. They were all bloody Americans.

Andrew Hussie

[optimus-rhyme]

We live in an awesome sauce world

[c5553]

this guy

[arisen-anew]

“I suppose it’s a conduit for magic energies. Actually, I don’t know. All I know is trying magic without a decent magic item is like starting a fire with a couple sticks as opposed to a lighter. Possible for the proficient, but still awkward. And impossible for someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing.”

hm

[optimus-rhyme]

A crazy kooky guy

[optimus-rhyme]

DISGUSTING !!!