May 2012
4 posts
Questions
I was thinking about answering questions again, but doing so through things like tumblr and formspring has proven problematic with so many people involved.
I had the idea to use a system like reddit, where submissions can be up-voted and down-voted. That way, I can get a better sense of the questions most people want answered, rather than grabbing them randomly from an endless list.
It turns...
What Pumpkin Studios: Hey we’re on tumblr now!... →
whatpumpkin:
Hey we’re on tumblr now! This is the official What Pumpkin tumblr account, where we’ll be posting about site updates and sharing news. Maybe even doing a little reblogging, since it seems that’s basically what tumblr is for. We’ll see!
So let’s dive right in and announce that we just restocked…
softowl:
ipgd:
softowl:
derples:
a little sad but unsurprised that it wasn’t slicks gross pornography
but its okay because of this
is this
did he really get a customer embosser of his face made is that how this picture came to be
April 2012
8 posts
I reiterate
I’m not chewing out the fandom or any stray jackass who counterfeits a reblog. Random people out there are always gonna troll us and go to great lengths 4 the lulz. There’s nothing you can do about that. I really don’t care about the people who do it. It’s stupid, but whatever.
I’m much more irritated by the system that allows it.
Seriously, if I designed this site...
Reblog fraud
So I was wondering why this really minor boring post was getting so many reblogs:
And apparently it’s because after a while some jokers started reblogging it while changing the original message? So the appearance to the casual tumblr user scrolling through their feed is that I made a dumb post about dicks or memes or whatever.
And of course because they see it on their dash people...
Myststuck
[S] A6A3
Song is “Rain” by Clark from the album Medium, released exactly one year ago today. Much like the song from “Prince of Heart: Rise up.” was released one year prior to that. I prefer that none of these old albums become lame ducks. I’d rather that there always exist the possibility that any song could be used almost any time.
The game itself was sort of an...
There are way way way too many people trying to load the site all at once. Refreshing a million times per minute will not help, because that is what everyone else is doing.
If you want to see it, I recommend leaving the computer for an hour or two, coming back, and trying again.
coloUrs and mayhem - Universe B released! →
fwugradiation:
THE SEQUEL IS HERE…
Extensive Pause
A6A3 will also begin on 4/13, coinciding with the second installment of coloUrs and mayhem, and the end of Homestuck’s third year. Please use the next ten days wisely, mostly by making an effort not to go insane. I recommend distractions.
ALBUM RELEASED: coloUrs and mayhem - Universe A →
fwugradiation:
After a long wait, it’s finally out!! The first of TWO albums featuring the winners of the Homestuck Music Contest. Darn, what a tour de force of talent! Known issues: - Iron Infidel makes a weird crackling sound at 1:53 when played on Bandcamp. As far as I can tell this is not…
Like Toby said, first of two. Universe B slated for 4/13. Same number of tracks. Different...
March 2012
8 posts
The next round. The competition is ALMOST TOO HOT TO HANDLE. Have at it, if you care.
I’m thinking of modifying the “prize”. I will allow the randomly selected winner to choose between a $100 gift certificate to the Olive Garden, OR to the Red Lobster. Whichever restaurant they feel would supply the more viscerally upsetting experience. OTOH, I may just carve it up into two $50...
Whoops I think I broke that webcomics thing. That was probably a bad idea. I should really learn to recognize when I am in the middle of perpetrating a bad idea. One of the major tipoffs is when I start mentioning the Olive Garden.
Ok change of plans dudes stop clicking that goddamn link.
edit: I think it’s working again? Oh man, some random guy can just TASTE that Olive Garden already. He...
So it seems there’s been this March Madness webcomics voting thing going on for a while. MSPA has made it through the first few rounds and now things are really “heating up.” I think there is a cash prize involved. $100 for winning, unless I just imagined reading that somewhere. I think If MSPA wins, I’ll just buy a $100 gift certificate to the Olive Garden and give it away...
[S] Jane: Enter.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006565
Songs:
“Another Jungle” by Bowman, and “A Taste for Adventure” by Beatfox.
Both songs will be on the album coming out after the contest album (i.e. in a couple months) and both have extended versions that you will think are pretty sick.
On the animation…
Kind of a cross between end of acts 1, 2 and 3? Let’s...
IC
A follow-up on the prior reblog** about this. You’ve probably seen the video all over the place by now. It addressed some important topics, so I helped nudge it along the viral pipeline. My follow-up advice on this is very simple: educate yourself. Invisible Children has done a good job in getting your attention, and inspiring people. But like any call to activism or charitable action, it...
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Courtesy of………………….
BAM!
Thank you, Emily.
Probably a lot of people who follow me already recognized the drawing, because they also follow her?
I think this is because she is one of these great artists out there who some people refer to as “Homestuck Famous”?
It’s kind of amazing to me that that’s a thing. I’m not even...
February 2012
14 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...
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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...
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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...