February 2012
15 posts
I'M RAD.: HOMESTUCK ALBUM TRACK ART →
Music contest picks are finally locked in. Reblogging Radiation’s request for track art here.
We ended up including quite a few songs in the album. For this one, I wanted to err on the side of more music rather than less, to get more people involved. Still a lot of tough decisions though, and we had to draw the line somewhere. Thanks to everyone who participated. We received a ton of great...
Followup on that
There are two kinds of spoilers, short term and long term.
Long term apply to those catching up to the story, where this data is all pervasive, like stuff about trolls and crazy plot points deep in the story. There’s nothing anyone can or should do about limiting any of this obviously. It’s up to the readers to limit their exposure to all that material while reading, assuming they...
Spoilers on tumblr
It’s not like this is a big deal, or that I really care much about it at all, but it can be kind of ridiculous the extent to which people posting panels of latest updates can spoil the outcome for those who haven’t QUITE gotten around to checking the updates themselves yet.
Like an update that consists of 5 pages, with something surprising happening on the 5th page. Guess which panel...
1 tag
Ok I answered some more questions.
“How do you feel about Homestuck in general, and the characters in particular?” I like it, and I like all the characters. It’s successful in every way that is important to me and has met all of my goals or surpassed them dramatically. It has been executed perfectly when taking into consideration all self supplied constraints and personal artistic criteria. Homestuck. Yes....
i was watching the clock tick down and realized how hilariously little time 30 seconds is to type a question
about 300 people managed though
qs
In several minutes I’ll open the question box for 30 seconds.
I will wait EXACTLY five minutes for you to think of something meaningful to ask and at EXACTLY 3:05 AM EST I will open it for EXACTLY 30 seconds at which point it will be EXACTLY closed for probably a long time.
These days I am never really sure if this is a good idea but I just keep on doing it.
[S] Prince of Heart: Rise up.
Song: “Time on my Side” by Tensei, from the Strife Album, released exactly one year ago.
Was gonna post this on v-tines but it wasn’t done yet and then it turned into a thing that didn’t matter.
Not unpaused yet.
Still a lot to do.
Dropping a couple pages here to mark VT day.
Just a little teencrush romdram for your careful evaluation.
You know.
AS A CHANGE OF PACE
pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]
Suspending updates for the next several days. Maybe for 3 or 4 or 5 or maybe 6 or 7 days, so that I have some time to work on the following things.
1) Homestuck Book 2
2) Homestuck music contest
3) Homestuck
And now we play this role playing game where we all pretend that it actually takes time to make stuff, instead of the reality we all know to be scientific fact, which is that it all...
Comprehensive Homestuck Sales FAQ →
January 2012
27 posts
Raising boner awareness
I kind of feel compelled to point out to some people that in the sketch of god tier Gamzee, he isn’t popping a boner. He is wearing a cod piece.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece
Which is like the whole point of a cod piece I guess. To give a guy some solid boner poppin’ space, thus maximizing his comfort while leaving a great deal to the imagination. We are invited to wonder,...
Way late donation sketches
Finally finishing up the rest of these sketches sold for Japan relief last year. There were a lot to do, and I probably would have had to take a couple solid weeks off to finish them all at once, which never quite happened. Instead I chipped away at them for way, way too long. I’ll probably pause updates for the next couple days so I can finish the rest and actually get these sent out to...
WP restocked
http://whatpumpkin.com/index.html
I.e. all shirts and hoodies.
The few remaining things marked as sold out will be restocked soon. There will be some new items as well!
Thar ze blows
Desktop background by this tumblrist.
Many updates tend to spark crazy outbursts of fanart, particularly those that introduce new characters. It doesn’t even matter if the character is someone in a fictional book within the story. Actually, that probably only encourages it, since the vague allusions to a much bigger story tend to capture people’s imaginations and get people...
Sleepwalk notes
[S]
Song: Even in Death by Plazmataz, from Volume 7.
Two word answer to FAQ “I don’t get it”: dream bubble.
I probably wouldn’t have even bothered with the animation if I didn’t make the little SOPA blackout animation that preceded it. Once that was there it just seemed like a good springboard for a bigger animation. Otherwise I probably would have just made a few...
SOPA blackout
I’m sure by now you must know something about this, since protests are everywhere, including on google and wikipedia. If not, feel free to read up.
Since it’s all pervasive at this point, I won’t say much. Do some research, if you don’t like it, speak out. The bottom line is the bill would allow sites to be blacked out to US citizens if claims of infringement are made...
Íæû ë€Å
I “retconned” a single word in the archive with the above gibberish for a while because I thought it would be funny. And it definitely was hilarious. I understand that not everyone thinks all of my e-impulses are a total riot though.
Before I launch into any more of this, let me reframe the key points which drove the previous post.
- You can absolutely craft an argument using story...
Non-reblogged reblog
Not officially reblogging this response because I don’t want to spark a hate war swirling around one particular tumblr user. I probably wouldn’t even bother responding but I kind of get the sense there’s a faction out there that feels this way.
— oh come on this race answer is unmitigated bullshit
don’t try to eek out a tiny bit of totally undeserved race-representation...
predictably
The primary source of consternation plucked from that Q&A was the “revelation” that Gamzee is short.
Which was obviously a 4 THE LAFFS answer.
The real answer is
drumroll
I don’t give a shit about how tall anybody is.
How tall do you want them to be?
That’s the right answer!
This is generally true of physical traits. The basic element of abstraction in HS...
Windswept Questions
WQ?: Answer.
- - kidror asked: You do realise that we’ve figured out the new kids titles and aspects already from their intros? Oh wait you hide in the forums and watch us talk don’t you? I expect people to figure out stuff like this. The key words are in plain sight. That is why I put stuff like that there, so people can figure some things out and feel cool. - - cookieemonnster...
eueuueuuuuueeuuugh
Cleared all messages before opening box.
Minutes later
eueuueuuuuueeuuugh
QUESTCHINS.
A.k.a. questions. You may ask them.
I will answer them randomly and I will disregard anything submitted through tumblr’s preposterous fan mail feature. I will also disregard things that aren’t questions, like “you’re great!” Though I will momentarily bask in the glow of any such statements I encounter. I will also bask in statements such as “you suck!”...
real quick, re: dick v. dirk
Dick was sort of the only other viable solution to the Di__ puzzle. There seemed to be this whole big camp rooting for Dick.
Dick is a totally inferior choice tho. Too on the nose. Hehe! It literally means penis! Why don’t we just name him Penis Strider? Here come the laughs!
Dirk is essentially equivalent, though less direct. Porn star pseudonyms tend to employ a bit of lingual...
MOE: Did you know.........................
that arguably the best web comic of all time is purportedly updating regularly again? This is reality.
(that is Moe coming out of his long hibernation there)
CHECK IT OUT.
IT.S TIME TO GET:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=041.jpg
one of the no days turned into a maybe day
and then the maybe turned into a yes
HS books in stock, but signed copies gone already....
http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=MSPA-BOOKS
The Next Album: A Contest
The MSPA music team has made exactly 20 great albums since the beginning of Homestuck. For the next album, I thought it would be fun to open the music submissions up to everybody.
There seems to be a large number of musicians in the readership outside the music team, who often work on their own HS fan music or remixes. I’ve had quite a number of people express interest in submitting music...
HS books will be in store tomorrow, later in day.
Y2K12 + Song of Skaia
Another New Year’s Eve gone by, another ball dropped. Here is Mark Hadley’s single, Song of Skaia. It’s good! Hadley is responsible for such HS songs as Harlequin and Blackest heart. You might have noticed I’ve scaled back the frequency of music releases somewhat. It was becoming sort of intense getting one or more albums ready for release every month. It also did...
December 2011
21 posts
I Am Bowman: EidolonOrpheus is Awesome →
Bowman with a few words on Eidolon, the guy who made the [S] EOA6I1 song.
EO is a prolific fellow, and it occurred to me a major flash hadn’t featured his work yet. Now and then I take such things into consideration when selecting songs to work with.
iambowman:
I’d like to take a moment from my regularly scheduled self-indulgence to commend an awesome chum from the Homestuck music...
it loads just fine
if it doesn’t load
step 1: don’t panic
step 2: refresh (ctrl+shift R)
step 3: if that doesn’t work, try again a little later, but not 100 times per minute. that’s counterproductive.
[S] EOA6I1
www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006290
And now that I left you hanging for a few days while working on that, here is a SERIOUS head’s up.
I’ll be traveling from 1/3 to 1/10. I’ll try to get some stuff done on the road, but you never know how things are gonna pan out when you’re traveling. Expect updates to range from sporadic to nonexistent within this span of time!
I have discovered the perfect xmas song, one day...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKrO8kS8D6g
In other news, I don’t see any updates rolling out for another few days.
News update on MSPA homepage.
Dark Cage wallpaper, saved at low quality.
Please bear in mind that not a single living soul requested this.
Y/W.
boner
(at the end of the flash, did you click the upper right corner?)
I asked Toby to make the song (Frustracean), mimicking the John breakdown song. And he did that.
But for some reason he put 5 minutes of silence at the end, followed by this bizarre Cage boner clip. So I’m like, ok what the fuck am I supposed to do with this thing.
So that’s what I did with this thing.
SBAHJ: Behind the scenes
I tend to scratch out little comic doodles, and then carry them around in my pocket wherever I go for months before I bother drawing the “finished product.”
The end result usually shows a startling amount of fidelity to the original concept.
Observe the final comics here: one, two, three.
Quite a while ago, while this comic sketch was considerably fresher, I was depositing a...