How To Draw In Homestuck Style

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"I don't only depict Homestuck... (Click "==>", I am about to make a joke.)" ^==>
I CONJURE THIS INTREPID FANTASYSCAPE WITH TEARS BLED FROM THE WISDOM-WEARY Optics OF 50 THOUSAND IMAGINARY MAGICIANS. I PULL HEAVY DRAGS FROM THE BRUMES OF INSPIRATION WITH ENCHANTED BELLOWS MARAUDED FROM A Guild OF CHURLISH MYTHICAL DWARVES. VAST BULBOUS RIDDLESPIDERS Push button THE SILKEN STRANDS OF PURE WHIMSY THROUGH HIDEOUS ABDOMINAL SPINNERETS AND Information technology IS THAT WITH WHICH I WEAVE THIS Audacious COCOON OF EXQUISITE LIES. AND WHEN IT HATCHES A GREAT MOTH OF TITILLATION WILL AWAKEN AND ROAR AND BEAT ITS WINGS, AND THE POWDER SETTLING DOWN WILL ARREST THE HUMORS OF AN ENORMOUS TERRIBLE OLD BEGGAR, RELAXING THE VULTUROUS LEATHERY VICEGRIP HE'Southward Fixed AROUND YOUR Convict MIND.

> Brainstorm reading excessively verbose document.

A sort of Interactive Comic/Flash game hybrid, Homestuck is the quaternary and latest series of MS Paint Adventures, a series of web comics done in the style of old text-based gamble games, written by Andrew Hussie. Homestuck started like the others, with every update prompted by a user suggestion, only it presently shed its proposition box when the plot outgrew it, and has since become a multimedia thing which has grown to be truly enormous.

A young homo stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this fellow'due south birthday. Though it was 13 years ago he was given life, information technology is only today he will exist given a proper name!

What will the proper noun of this young man be?

...It will be Zoosmell Pooplord... er, sorry. It will be John Egbert. Our principal protagonist is i of four 13-year-old friends—the other iii being Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider, and Jade Harley—who are blighted to play Sburb, a widely-hyped multi-player video game with real-life effects. Sburb allows players to manipulate and alter each other'due south environments in real time in a way reminiscent of The Sims. Just equally it turns out, the consequences of playing Sburb are significantly farther-reaching than they initially appear to be, and what begins equally a series of amusing domestic struggles and game-mechanics goofs quickly spirals into a succession of events far beyond the expectations of its participants.

Homestuck began on Apr 13, 2009, only one month after the cease of the highly-successful Problem Sleuth. Information technology apace rose in popularity for many reasons, primarily for its intricate multi-timeline apocalypse-centric plot, insanely fast update schedule for the outset few years ^notation At its peak, Homestuck updated with 5.5 pages a day on average, a veritable torrent of updates save for Flash animations, a visual upgrade from the style of Trouble Sleuth, Flash animations and games accompanied past a massive soundtrack, and its incredibly high trope density.

Equally the scope and calibration of the comic grew, Hussie began pausing updates of the comic in order to produce Wink animations, develop Hiveswap, and piece of work on larger chunks of the story at once, including a weeks-long hiatus for the Terminate of Human activity five wink, a year-long "Gigapause" during Human action 6, and an eight-calendar month "Omegapause" from July 2022. Homestuck's final stretch of updates began on March 28th, 2022, and the climax of the story finally ended on Apr 13th, 2022, the 7th anniversary of the comic. However, Hussie too made a credits video released on Oct 25, 2022 and so The Homestuck Epilogues that started on April 13, 2022. October 25 of the same year, he released the commencement of the sequel Homestuck^2.

Homestuck has spawned several major side projects, including the Kickstarter-funded Hiveswap, the online anthology Paradox Space, and the multimedia Homestuck 2.0 with eager involvement from Dante Basco. For a full list of side projects, see the Franchise page.

Vocalism acting troupe Voxus is in the process of dubbing Homestuck, and equally of Apr 2022 the project has reached Deed 6 Intermission 4.

In Oct of 2022, VIZ Media announced that they had acquired Homestuck in addition to their plans to publish the comic in volume form. Webcomic merchandising company TopatoCo had previously attemped to do the aforementioned, merely ultimately just published the get-go three acts. As of March 2022, the VIZ book series has reached Human action five Act 2 Function two.

Annotation: with the terminate of Flash on net browsers, Homestuck is no longer accessible online in its original class (most Wink content has been replaced with low-res videos). However, a fan known as Bamboshu has made a fully functional, downloadable version available here, which has been endorsed by Hussie.

Late-Arrival Spoiler Alert: Homestuck is an enormous, deeply complicated story that features rapid plot developments. Additionally, it features a cast of characters filled with walking spoilers that accept become ubiquitous in the story, and a majority of the story's seemingly pocket-size events, themes and jokes themselves constitute or foreshadow what were originally major twists. Therefore, all spoilers for Homestuck have been left unmarked. Homestuck is freely available in its entirety, and there are no barriers to reading. To fully enjoy the experience, it is highly suggested you read the whole comic before visiting whatever of the post-obit links. ^note Well, except the Laconic link. You Take Been Warned. Good luck.

> Contextualize currently-compiled list of mutual media devices exemplified in Homestuck.

PSYCHE! The tropes for this work take been separate alphabetically due to their sheer numbers. Looks like yous'll take to visit the sub-pages for the trope listing.

> Document tropes A through L.

: > Nod to established continuity.

> Document tropes 1000 through Z.

: > Recall tonal juxtapositions.
: > Document references to other media.
: > Respond to dramatic turns of events.

> Captchalogue sick beats.

> Gather articles of supplemental data related to Homestuck .

> Study cast dossier.
> Be Doctor Scratch.

> Counterbalance in on subjective matters.

: > DO THE Crawly THING.
: > Feel mirthful shenanigans.
: > Inspect burning vascular pump.
: > Sleuth out cyberspace colloquialisms.
: > Peruse bad dream catalysts.
: > Shed single tear of black liquid sorrow.

> Appreciate shell collections.
> Appoint in useless learning.
> Succumb to unfathomable brevity.
> Fondly regard quotations.
> Attempt to understand mind-bending chronology.

> Compile fan works.
> Notice fan-fabricated additions to established sick beats.
> Review unsanctioned storytelling.

> Investigate unfocused predictions.
> Report cranial irritation.
> Take inventory of thermal hull.
> Etch Japanese poetry.
> Distort presented life lessons.

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2558 days

8124 pages

fourteen,913 panels

817,612 words (incl. 113,319 transcribed)

about 282% the size of The Lord Of The Rings, 176% the size of the Male monarch James Bible, 125% the size of the Harry Potter serial, or 77% the size of A Vocal Of Ice And Fire (the five books so far)

164 Flash updates

3.2 pages per day

4 hours, 5 minutes, two seconds of animated footage

29 albums ^annotation 26 if yous count Homestuck Vol. 1-4 as one.

51 Sugariness Bro and Hella Jeffs

—Anthony Bailey, stats for Homestuck's last twelvemonth

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