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Today I’m reading **04/21/09 - "John: Examine father's desk.” (/homestuck/72) to 04/23/09 - "John: Check mail.” (homestuck/81)"** ::: spoiler Select this thingy to read my commentary So we are with John exploring his fathers study. I hope he’s allowed in there. I know in my home, when I was a kid, the study was the adult only zone. Many of my friends had the same kind of thing. I assume this was more to grove the adults a bastion away from the terrors of their own children. Being older myself, child free thankfully, I can't say I blame my parents for needing a hideaway. But much like John I’d sneak in anyway and examine all the boring mundane adult things. Though John's fathers stuff is a little less mundane. John finds a range of novelty pranks and magic items. This includes a can of peanuts, which unexpectedly contains actual peanuts. John recalls discovering a severe peanut allergy because of a can like this one. Oddly, I don't remember this coming up again at any time. He also found a new Captchalogue captchalogue card. But he isn't able to equip it. It is a jape or does he not know how. Moving on. There is also a piano in the study. We hear the first piece of Homestuck music, the _Haunting Piano Refrain_. I very much appreciate that this newer reading system actually credits the artist. If I remember correctly, the only way to get that info in the original experience was to read the forums. Even the Bandcamp didn’t credit each song, only the albums leaving me to try and guess who did what. I’ll also point out this is the point I knew Homestuck was going huge someday. I’ve been reading webcomics for years. But having an original song built into the experience. This was crazy to me. I know others would also later follow such as [Romantically Apocalyptic](https://romanticallyapocalyptic.bandcamp.com/) having some amazing atmospheric works. But the music behind Homestuck would just continue to blow my mind. I’ll gush more about that as we hear more of it. But especially for this tune. Hold it in your mind, it will follow us and grow as this thing goes on. This little webcomic becomes something so insanely more then what we have seen. And music like this will provide the emotions we cannot get with text and images alone. Though we are immediately smacked with comic stupidity. This as John decides to play 52 pick-up with himself while in his increasingly dumb disguise. Deciding to check the mailbox, John again passes by his living room. This [very appropriate ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsYVndNRgIw) playing on the TV. For the first time in this story John is outside. I’m still impressed by the lengths John will go to to avoid his dad. His dad seems like a great guy. John exits the house to find the mailbox is empty. ::: --- Tempting to hear another sound bit, but that is for tomorrow. Till then, keep riding the pumpkin tide.
                               
Hells bells! We are having a mighty sporting time of it. Today I’m reading **04/19/09 - "John: Check Pesterchum.” (/homestuck/62) to 04/21/09 - "John: Go in the study.” (homestuck/71)"** ::: spoiler Select this thingy to read my commentary There’s a good deal of japery today. Starting with John chatting with a new character TentacleTherapist [TT]. She seemed to already be aware of all John’s antics. She was also aware of TurntableGodhands [TG] claiming she was “making on him”. Her response to this was a scathing amount of sarcasm. TT pushed John to focus on getting the game from his dad, getting him back to the living room. I loved the bit about this conversion about John wearing a “dumb disguise”. TT calls John out, John denies wearing a disguise in an attempted jape. Only when john reveals his jape to TT it’s clear she has not at all fallen for it. John, Now back downstairs, gives his fake arms to the giant creepy harlequin doll. He puts the arms on backwards which is *so very annoying*. But he does also clean up the living room a bit by burning all the gift wrapper and an errant Brobrolone ad. So at least that was considerate, though not very safe. We also get a look at what's actually in *Colonels Sassacre’s* a page with a portrait of the Colonel himself. He appears to be a modified image of Mark Twain. I don't know much about Mark Twain, other than his work get taught in American schools. Does anyone know if the guy was a prankster? I’m curious on who the Colonel Sassacre is. I’ll point out that the page John is reading talking about using a fishing line to make “the creepy-crawlers” to life. Given the images on the page this implies that its a prank to make harlequins move in a life-like way to prank people. We end today in dads study. It seems Dad isn’t in there, and likely in the kitchen baking more cakes. I assume we will be getting a very detailed description of every nook and cranny of this place. So I’ll leave it till tomorrow. ::: --- Tomorrow is going to be a good one so, Keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading **04/18/09 - "John: Fondly regard cremation.” (/homestuck/52) to 04/19/09 - "John: Examine 3rd and 4th walls of room.” (homestuck/61)"** ::: spoiler Select this thingy to read my commentary So we are admiring more stuff around John's living room now. With all the things the audience of Homestuck could do, did they seem to want to check stuff out? This brings me back to my college days and playing D&D. Our DM had put a great level of detail into the environments they had made. But, we players were too busy faffing about over tiny details to ever explore much of the world built for us. Anyway, it's hinted that Nana got squished under the UNABRIDGED version of *Colonels Sassacre’s Daunting Text of Magical Frivolity and Practical Japery*. Which I can only assume is the size of a Volvo and twice the weight. Anyway, John somehow manages to knock the urn over causing the contents to spill out. This was chaotic in a bad comedy movie trope way. It is fortunate John doesn't have a cat to use the ashes as a litter box. John, reaction is slow to do something about his dear grandmother's ashes being all over the floor. He instead decides to open a second gift from his father adorned with another wholesome note. The gift was of course a giant creepy harlequin doll which John was not on board with. Anyway, after doing a terrible job cleaning up Nana's ashes he goes back to his room. We can't seem to get out of John's room. But at least we get an alternative angle revealing more posters! Including one of many Bill Cosby references… oh those didn't age well did they, we won't mention that one. But look at these other posters * [Contact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)), which was in the Homestuck Beta mentioned in log 3. I also mentioned it was second fiddle to Amageddon. So of course another poster we now see is… * [Armageddon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film)) now there are a few things in this movie which are critical to Homestuck. One being a song used in this movie also appearing later in the story at a particularly stupid moment. But it's actually a good movie that did pretty well at the box office. * [Face Off](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face/Off) I’m not going to research this one. I’ve been seeing memes and clips of it for years and I am taking this as a sign that I must see it. I have no idea how I haven't yet. * [A Time to Kill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(1996_film)) I saw this one far too young. It is unpleasant dealing with some VERY dark topics. This has nothing to do with the Homestuck story unless I've missed something. Since this poster is smaller, Maybe Andrew needed some 90’s movie to toss on the wall? * [Failure to Launch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_to_Launch) A romcom? I’ve seen very few of these as neither romance or comedy movies are appealing to me. This is an odd thing to see on John's wall though it is a comedy and it was bad according to wikipedia. Perhaps he has a soft spot for it? Even more odd is that this movie is from 2006. Weirdly enough the main male lead in this movie is in some sense homestuck. Seems to be living with his parents dealing with grief issues. So in that sense it's a bit related. ::: --- Till tomorrow, Keep riding the pumpkin tide.
I’ve received notice that my readability is poor. I’ve adjusted some things. Please let me know if today’s log is a little better. I may go back and adjust previous logs. Today I’m reading **04/17/09 - "John: Read article.” (/homestuck/42) to 04/18/09 - "John: Toss GameBro into fire." (homestuck/51)"** ::: spoiler Select this thingy to read my commentary Let's take a look at this tripe of an article from GameBro Magazine. This review of the SBURB by a guy who was too wasted to actually play the game. They seem to instead review the game based on its logo. They gave it a low rating because it doesn't seem like you get the “Thrash” anything. This might be a reference to a bizarre over-marketing of first person shooters and action games in the 90’s. I've always found this odd choice of the industry. I know more recent [studies around Bartle's Taxonomy show “killer” players are a minority](https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/bartle-s-player-types-for-gamification). But, maybe this wasn't known at the time. John dons a disguise using a Beagle puss (or Groucho glasses) and a “wizard cap”. Then, finally after 47 pages we leave John's bedroom. I’d say the pace of this journey will get faster, but it varies a lot. Anyway, we began to get more hints about the character of John's Dad. It’s clear John gets his oldschool prankster vibes from his dad. His father also has an affinity for ~~clowns ~~ harlequins as his home has many creepy images of them. This stuff looks like it was AI generated but this was around long before the AI imaging. Someone made these arts, and they ended up in Homestuck. I appreciate art but whoever made these things, I’d like to avoid them for the rest of my years. There is also a mention of Betty Crocker, but we’ll get into that later. Know that if you haven't read this before Betty Crocker has a role in all this. Also John quotes "The moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun." as Mark Twain. But, that was Shakespeare if we can trust the Internet about anything some old dead person said. Anyway, this ends with John putting the GameBro magazine burning in fire. This is certainly where it belongs. ::: --- Till tomorrow, Keep riding the pumpkin tide.
There’s a question in this one, for that sweet sweet engagement. Today I’m reading **04/16/09 - "John: Read COLONEL SASSACRE'S DAUNTING TEXT.” (/homestuck/32) to 04/16/09 - "John: Examine GameBro Magazine.. (homestuck/41)"** ::: spoiler Select this thingy to read my commentary John is holding a huge book *Colonels Sassacre’s Daunting Text of Magical Frivolity and Practical Japery* If the Colonel was based on a real person I’m totally unable to find them. The pure Scope of Homestuck has overwhelmed the internet so now they are only a Homestuck related character. I’d like to imagine he was a real and particularly annoying member of some military force known for being a practical joker. Anyway John opts to not take this gigantic tome of wisdom but again takes his arms again. Reporting back to *TurntechGodhand* [TG] we learn of another of Johns who we have not yet met who we can assume has the handle *tentcleTherapist* [TT]. TG feels that TT is “mackin on him hard”, TG is a bit cringe. TG also gives more of an explanation of how Johns stack _SYLLADEX _ thing works and how to actually arm himself for combat. Using the _STRIFE SPECIBUS_ John decides to spec himself as a hammer user given that he has a hammer for hanging that poster. We do get a peek at the full _STRIFE SPECIBUS_ and there’s a lot of neat choices on there. I found a more detailed/readable version on the [fandom wiki](https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Strife_deck) . I think I'd be a *ladlekind*, serve up some sweet justice soup. *If you're following along tell me what your strife spec would be and why?* TG informs John that his choice is permanent. But with some inventory space cleared John can now take the gigantic *Colonels Sassacre’s Daunting Text* into his inventory. Apparently this is necessary to read the book which is a bit weird because he can read other things just fine. Perhaps this is a result of its size and John's perceived lack of arms. John also wants to get and read the Game Bro magazine on his desk. I’m not sure if GameBro is meant to represent a specific game magazine but for those not old enough to be functional in those years Game Magazines were a big deal in the 90’s. This was also the time of Nintendo's [“play it loud”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqGP8OyU02k) campaign and the great Nintendo-Sega Console wars. Things were very “in your face” and “cool”. So we’ll see what GameBro has to say tomorrow… ::: --- Till tomorrow, Keep riding the pumpkin tide.
I'm guessing it was probably a copy of Complacency of the Learned given how often it was name dropped in the Epilouges, but idk
Welcome back. Today I’m reading **04/14/09 - "John: Examine calendar.” (/homestuck/22) to 04/16/09 - "John: Examine games on CD rack. (/homestuck/31)"** ::: spoiler Select this thingy to read my commentary We’re back with John examining stuff on his own bedroom walls. We are now looking at a calendar. We learn it's the 13th of April (year not mentioned) John's birthday as previously mentioned and a few days after the release of SBURB Beta. Neatly, there’s a link to actually play SBURB it’s… familiar. It’s Homestuck? But with some minor differences. The linked version of the game looks essentially the same, slightly different, more freehand art style but is more animated and interactive with sounds. Now for those not from the olden days, Flash had a unique vector graphic editor. The flash editor worked pretty decently with a stylus so this art style was pretty common. The SBURB version of John’s room has the magic chest at the foot of John's bed, the hammer and nails are on the desk, there is now a poster for the movie [Contact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)), is where the Deep impact poster was and the deep impact poster was moved next to a now smaller Con Air Poster. Also weirdly the view outside the “SBURB John” window is just blank. But, John has a view of a tree branch in front of a blue sky. The beta ends with John receiving his “arms” page 7 of Homestuck. Now I point this out because I believe this was my initial reaction as well. I was wondering if SUBURB was the “endgame” of this Homestuck thing. Was Andrew Hussie building a point and click game based on the audience generated content being generated from Homestuck the webcomic? I was really curious on what changes were being made and what assuming the flash game would grow into a huge thing. Off of this Beta tangent, let's look at John computer. He has some .^cake files. Possibly some kind of in-story language. I kinda wish I could actually see his “terrible” attempts to code, as my own code was probably about as bad in those days. Anyway, someone is trying to pester John. Page 26 “John: Open message.” is the first example of a “pesterlog”. A prettier significant chunk of Homestuck is written through these. You can actually [download it](https://www.pesterchum.xyz/) though it does not provide friends for you so good luck with that. Pesterchum has some weird rules, these will be very annoying but also help us identify characters as we go through these. I’ll break this down as briefly as possible as these rules are explained organically. Other than the rules though Pesterchum is pretty similar to AOL messenger. - usernames consist of 2 words - users have a unique assigned colour - all character in Homestuck have a unique typing quirk Johns handle is *EctoBiologist* [EB] and He’s chatting with a *TurntechGodhand* [TG]. It’s revealed in this conversation that John has not actually received his copy of the SBURB beta yet. TG suggests that John go check his mailbox. Resulting in John looking out his window. Finally we acknowledge there is in fact a world beyond John’s Bedroom and since the “Arm-swingy-dealy thing” of his mailbox is up, he indeed has mail (It’s called a “flag” by the way). But John’s father has just pulled into the driveway in his car, and John doesn't want to have his dad chat him up. That’s a bit sad, the man probably just got home from work, maybe he just wanted to chat with his son after a long day. Also, as this is a re-read I can never look at that car the same again. John takes a moment to perform his favourite hobby of examining stuff in his room (it’s like its his first time in there). He has a fun video game collection. 3 games being links to other MSPA projects, one is a Ghostbusters MMORPG (yes this will come up later), A little monsters video game by Konimi, which definitely did not exist but if it had I could only assume it was made by Hideo Kojima and it was his worst game of all time. Also something called Harry Anderson’s Call my Bluff. I guess I need to research who that is and why he’s relevant… [According to wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anderson) he was a comedian/actor/magician who frequently appeared on SNL and “[Call my Bluff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Bluff)” is a british TV show. I can't be certain this is what the reference is about. But given the guy is a magician/comedian I can see why John may have liked them. ::: --- Till tomorrow, Keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Small change in that after some advice and research I’ve edited my previous log regarding how to access Homestuck. The sort answer is do not use the old website, use this instead [tutorial on mspfa](https://mspfa.com/?s=51761&p=1). If you used the website last time, no worries we haven't reached any pages that will be affected yet. Today I’m reading **04/14/09 - "John: Read note on drawer.” (/homestuck/12) to 04/14/09 - "John: Examine Deep Impact poster.. (homestuck/21)"** ::: spoiler Select this thingy to read my commentary John observes a note from his father, stating he is proud of John and wishing him a happy birthday. Damn that's just an injection of wholesome into the soul. It also mentions the card itself smells of “fatherly aftershave”. Mr. Pooplord seems like a classy guy. The next few pages are just a challenge of picking up a hammer and some nails like 3 feet away. It seems Andrew was showing the audience how John stack _SYLLADEX_ will cause stuff to violently fly out of his inventory when too many items are collected. Though I did enjoy poor John getting slapped out by a pair of fake arms. It also demonstrates the item merging ability. Finally we hang the poster gift from Johns father for the 1989 film [little monsters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Monsters_(1989_film)). I would have been about 2 years old when that one came out so I have no idea what this is about. So let’s take a quick peek at that. I won’t actually be watching this movie, I don't know how to do piracy. But let's just look at the plot on wiki for relevant parawells. > Brian Stevenson, an 11-year-old boy, and his family has just moved to **suburb**an Boston, and he feels isolated in his new neighborhood. > Brian sets booby traps, and leaves cheese Doritos as bait to attract the alleged "monster." > Maurice and Brian have fun making mischief in other people's homes (you might say he’s a “prankster”) Some interesting parawells If anyone has bothered to actually watch this please share anything I am missing here? Then we look at the [Con Air](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Air) Poster. Now this one I know, it’s a masterpiece. Is it related to the plot of Homestuck? Well It DAMN WELL WILL BE! At least the bunny in the box scene. Fortunately, this newer system links the relevant scene from the movie for us. And that is probably the only part of the move you actually need to know. (Though I still recommend watching Con Air, it beautiful) Ok last page for today _John: Examine [Deep Impact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(film)) poster._ Clearly John is a man of amazing taste. I think I've only seen this one once as it came out too close to [Armageddon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film)) which had a similar plot and was just better. But John provides us with some FOREBODING message about “Films about impending apocalypse fascinate you” real subtle. So again we leave off with John looking at posters in his room. ::: --- Till tomorrow, Keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Here’s how this will work. I’ll be going slow, only about 10 pages a day (at least for now). Leaving some commentary as I go. Meaning these posts are going to be short. The intention is for folks to read along and of course add their own commentary. If you’re new to Homestuck this might be a fun opportunity to get into it. And if you're not new to it, this re-visit might be an interesting trip down memory lane. I will warn those who are new. This is over 8000 pages of content, many of them are in the format of chat logs and there is a bulky amount of reading. But if you really want the best experience, or to gain deep insight into this whole.. thing. Don't even start with Homestuck, go back even further to Problem Sleuth, or even Jail Break. These older adventures are referenced frequently in Homestuck. Better yet there’s a newbie guide right here.. ***Edit*** ignore my previous advice for newbies and lets follow nebua42's advice from the comments >**DO NOT USE HOMESTUCK COM!** > >If you want to read homestuck the way it was intended, pick up the unofficial homestuck collection [here](https://bambosh.dev/unofficial-homestuck-collection/). >With the death of flash, a lot of the adobe flash animations and games died, and were replaced with (very) low quality >recordings posted to YouTube. There's a [tutorial on mspfa](https://mspfa.com/?s=51761&p=1) if you can't figure it >out, but don't look at any of the other adventures until you finish homestuck. ***end of edit*** Today I’m reading **04/13/09 - "Homestuck” (/homestuck/1) to 04/14/09 - "John: Examine Problem Sleuth Poster.” (/homestuck/11)"** ::: spoiler Select this thingy to read my commentary We meet a young man named ~~ZooSmell PoopLord~~ John Eggbert. I found it smart to immediately set us in his bedroom. I never considered just how much our bedrooms are just visual profiles of who we are. We learn a tonne about John just in this image. This was also sadly relatable, I grew up near a novelty shop, I was learning coding in college when this came out, I had fond memories of watching terrible movies with my dad, and of course I enjoy games. Damn Pooplord is a relatable loser. “*Remove CAKE from MAGIC CHEST*”. Does an interesting thing. It shows that we as the reader have direct control over John’s world. I weirdly don't remember this being used frequently. The Items management thing though, the _CAPTCHALOGUE CARDS_ and _SYLLADEX _ stuff was a bit of a headache. Johns Stack method is easy enough I had just learned about in college around the time I was reading this so it was actually educational. The last page I’m looking at is “John: Examine Problem Sleuth Poster.” which is an ad to go buy the poster to Problem Sleuth. Which is still available! If only I had walls, or money. ::: --- I guess I’ll do this again tomorrow. Till then, Keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Hello fellow Homestucks. I have assumed modship of this community. Big thanks to the asklemmy mods for making that happen. As I am new to modding in Lemmy. Though have some experience in other places. I'd appreciate your continued patience as I learn how to do things here. **Plans** I think the goal at this point should be to expand visibility and hopfully improve our active member count. In order to make that happen I'm going to attempt a reread/review. This would just be a few pages a day with some text commentary. The idea is to ensure that at least one post a day is getting made to this community so that it will be noticed by those viewing lemmy via "all". **We need you** If this is to be a community it needs more then just me. Posting and commetning is helpful. If you see Homestuck content posted outside of our community consider cross-posting it here, or just let the poster know we are here and whould appreciate them. Even a upvote helps us get noticed However, if you're just here to lurk. I'll still appreciate you just being here. Keep riding the pumpkin tide
New update for HS^2 released today, includes a good chunk of pages. Renamed to Homestuck: Beyond Canon, also the project was taken over by James. James who you ask? So do I. https://homestuck2.com/news
I'm hoping I am not misreading things here but it seems the mod of the community is gone? If not then let me know and I'll remove this. I'm not trying to start drama here. As we do have some active users and intrest should we consider requesting that the lemmy.world mods transfer ownership over to a more active user? I belive they will do this for situations like this. I'm willing to help out, reach out to the instance mods and such if folks want. At least until things get settled. But if there's somone here that is qualified and willing please speak up.
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I saw some posts about a homestuck movie on the official subreddit a while back and figured I'd throw my hand into the ring with it. It's in a 4:3 aspect ratio so that cascade will have it's "oh shit"moment with the red miles feel the same.
(if this uploads twice, please let me know. Was using old.lemmy.world, but the post didn't seem to go through.) For those of you joining us from reddit, you may remember how in December of last year, we were collectively reminded of the now-lost Gamma Session through a post about Drag Strider. The original tweet that was reposted to reddit is here: https://twitter.com/_desc3nd/status/1598396135831470084 And the original reddit post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/zapsvt/you_guys_remember_drag_strider_right/ Myself and a few others have been working on recovery processes, and the current culmination of our work is a reconstruction of the lost Demo version of the session, which (to the best of our investigations) seems to be similar in function to the Homestuck Beta. If you happen to recall any lost commands and would be willing to re-suggest them, or simply want to check out the Gamma Session Demo, here is the link: https://mspfa.com/?s=50061&p=1 If you happen to find any lost media from or related to the session (art/music- fanmade or official, etc.) please submit it to the collaborative Google Doc we've been using to collect all the disparate bits of content: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxKp_P48qcPsxkCcnKZcyUXa8MwHuu_1PNKt7H-aNZQ/edit Thank you for helping us recover this lost Homestuck Media! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- u/i_am_why's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/15ao1mw/yo_posting_out_of_the_dephs_of_a_prison_sewerit/
In order to breathe some life into this place I figure we can try one of the basics. Maybe a few threads will get us noticed. I was in college for interactive multimedia development and was very into web comics as an emerging media. I had been following about 20 of them and even had my own short lived attempt at one. One day during a class I noticed one of my classmates reading Problem Sleuth. The idea of having a forum driven story was certainly interesting, and the first time I'd seen that done. I was still checking MSPA after Problem Sleuth had ended and Homestuck pretty much blew me away at the haunting piano refrain. Being a complete sucker for soundtracks, the idea of a webcomic having one just.. well I'm here now 15 years or so later. I don't think I'm the most die hard fan but I was probably deeper into it then I am proud of.
