Alright folks it’s my time to make the first post in months. I’m very sorry. The vibe has been largely abysmal.
This isn’t about the sad things, that’s another post. This is about HOMESTUCK – The Animated Pilot
Maybe about Homestuck on a broader sense, who knows, I’m feelin’ spicy.
[pause while I think of how I want to lay this out]
So Homestuck notably started in 2009 and ended in 2016. I was there from about mid-2010 onwards. I was there when the old magics were written. I relished in upd8 culture, I watched websites crumble and crash for the zealous masses, I remember the stories of sharpie bath and unsealed body paint, I lurked Gigapause(dot)com during the long hiatus, I was a mod for a joke blog “Homestucks Against Homestuck” that was a rip off the Sonic-For-Real-Justice drama way back in the day (Mod Silver did nothing wrong).
The things I somehow skirted around were the [kinnie drama] and the [online rp world] (besides ask blogs, I was so fascinated by those). I would later have my own contributions to the fandom. This fact is a mystery tool that will help us later.
So needless to say when the animated pilot got announced, I felt a lot of emotions.
First I was excited.
Then the excitement got crushed tempered by people with concerns regarding the whole thing. A resurgence of the fandom, especially considering how poorly a lot of stuff aged as the years have passed [pause as I get distracted by the sound of my typing, hold on]
Okay I got that out of my system.
I decided after getting suuuuper bummed about my excitement being squarshed that I was going to go into this pilot with a tentative eagerness.
And now I’m glad for that because GOLLY I enjoyed it. The animation looked good, the big gags were there, and I’m so happy they sound like teenagers. GODS am I glad they sound like teenagers. Me being this excited about that sounds weird but let’s bring back that “my contribution to fandom” thing.
In 2023 I joined a Broadwaystuck (a la Broadway Karkat, you know, the Karkalicious one) revival. I was with them for almost a whole year and then for Reasons, I left. Then came a period of time I deeply regret; 2024 brought a lot of unnecessary stress in my online life which currently is my only escape from the Bad Vibes of Life. Then in like July or August of 2024 I became a parody musician again, then in February of 2025 I broke up with a long-distance relationship that had been pretty serious and I got “custody” of the Showtime group of blogs. Now the server is silent, and I look at that server icon with no small amount of sadness for the past 2 years of my life. I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of people upset, and by the end of it I lost almost everything I’d built in terms of friendships.
There’s a lot I want to say on all that. Almost every morning, while I’m driving to work, I find myself rotating the cow (ruminating) about it all.
You’d think I’d have dropped Homestuck completely by now, but I couldn’t if I tried. I don’t want to lose my love for the material and the fandom because of my interpersonal fuck-ups.
……..
Anyway, deeply upsetting personal lore aside, that work as a shitty VA/musician in the name of Homestuck as a whole is why I appreciate how the kids sound so far. We were a bunch of adults playing the roles of characters we knew mostly as kids; and most of the voices in that cast were based on headcanon. Most were based on one person’s headcanons back in that first year.
(Obligatory shameless plug of my two years of hard work archived)
(Okay there’s a bit of shame for doing that)
I hope the animated series gets picked up, with my whole heart I hope it. It’s going to be a bumpy ride in the fandom for sure; discourse and upset and bad takes are all going to be whipped up with the whole thing. But we’ve always been messy, clearly. As messy as the cons we amassed at and then became banned at for body paint causing property damage.
As I close this post out, here, take this picture of me as Sollux in 2016.
I don’t think I’ll ever publicly disclose everything when it comes to all that BWS-up-to-breakup stuff. I may want to, but I’ve caused enough undue emotional bullshit. If anyone who was ever involved wants to know more than “I’m sorry”, they can reach out privately, but I don’t expect anyone to.
K, bye ♥️♦️♣️♠️
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