Introductions and Friendchat

Hello! I'm Omoly! I Enjoy writing and in many way I'm rather good at it. I used to like drawing, but I haven't done it in a really long time and my skills have atrophied (my plan is to spend this summer reteaching myself how to "art" from the ground up, I'll let you guys know how that goes). Oh, I also enjoy baking. And by baking I mean making cookie dough which I then eat raw.

Anyway, I have kind of a strange thing I want most out of act 8: for at least one version of Caliborn to make the choice to stop being terrible.

You see, I've always hated when fictional settings have certain creatures that are just "born evil". The idea that evil is an inherent trait like hair color that someone can just naturally have and not the result of choices that anyone can make is a pretty unpleasant and damaging way to think. So when it was revealed that Caliborn is an evil alien who is evil just because that's what they naturally are I was so sure there was going to be a subversion or something because Homestuck had been good so far about defying expectations about that kind of thing so far. But that subversion never came, and I couldn't help being a little disappointed.

So yeah, I know Caliborn is awful in many, many ways. Never the less, I can't help feeling sorry for the broken little self destructive monster kid who's just as much of a danger to himself as he is to others. I want to see him realize that his awful, violent, misogynistic behavior is bad and that all of the selfish destructive things he thought would make him happy and set him free have only brought suffering and further imprisonment. He has the potential to grow up and become something terrible, but the same could be said of anyone. We're more than the worst versions of ourselves, No one is born bad and everyone can get better.

I second the motion to appreciate delicious, delicious cookie dough.

Welcome, Trinh! That's a great skillset, and I'm sure we could use your help. I'm with you on wanting more spotlight for some characters, and I know a lot of other folks on the team feel similarly, so I hope you'll feel right at home

Hey there, Oliver. Music is one of those things that just baffles me, it's so cool that people can make it happen. Welcome aboard. (Listening to minutes of joy right now, it's really good!)

I feel bad that I didn't brain up more things that require music this early in the project; I gotta figure something out. In the meantime, thanks a bunch for joining us.

Hello! My name is Jon! I am 20 years old, live in Pennsylvania, I'm an Heir of Hope, and hopelessly stuck in HS's grasp for all eternity.

I first started reading in late late 2012, before catching up in early 2013 (February or March). I had actually learned about Homestuck from seeing posts about it on my Tumblr feed. Mainly a lot of art that just caught my interest. I eventually got curious enough and started reading myself! Since then I have become engrossed in the culture of the wonderful art produced by the fandom, listening to the albums and fan albums created such as the Land of Fans and Music 1-3, the SBURB OST, Beforus, and many more!

The most I do nowadays besides making dumb posts sometimes of little sprite edits I do or posting msparp logs, is writing and roleplaying, Classpect discussion (I've thought about making my own Classpect blog myself actually ) as well as work on my own fanadventure I hope to one day make a reality and finish.

I'm really digging what I've seen from you all so far! I appreciate your work and mindset for Act 8 and very much look forward to what's to come. I don't think there's anything I could bring to the table to lessen the workload, but I hope me reading and posting about it can be just as good!

wow nobody's posted here in like a week um

hi! i'm thyna/kao/alpha (at this point they're all just interchangeable tbh. call me w/e), i'm 17, nonbinary (they/them) (the amount of nb people here is rad btw), from australia, and i'm tired. i'm just. always so tired

don't remember quite when i first got into homestuck but i know i had time to read it twice before cascade dropped so. probably mid-2011? since then i've had a pretty on and off relationship with it, flipping from loving it to abandoning it and back again. at one point in 2014 i straight-up stopped reading, and actually only crawled my way back into liking it this month! and, tbh i'm still Really Bitter about what homestuck became/how it changed during act six, and how inconclusive the ending was, but i still love what it once was and what it Means, y'know? good chunk of my life, this darn comic. act 8 seems like it's gonna be p hype though, so i'm looking forward to it!

i dropped out of school when i was fourteen and have basically no skills or talents in any area whatsoever i'm a fan of thinking up stories and ideas! i spend a lot of my time just brainstorming concepts and it's my dream to eventually get into game development (i have plots for six entire rpgs planned already). i occasionally try my hand at writing stuff and i've done stuff on mspfa once in 2012 (which was quickly abandoned) and once just recently (which is still ongoing and is what brought me back to mspfa to find act 8 in the first place)! i also did a lot of homestuck rp back in the day i remember when it was called trollmegle and they had to change to trollplay because of legal issues. also rip trollplay and i've gotten back into going on parp recently too! also i love designing characters but that's not relevant

wow that was a lot of words anxiety is hard

Hey! So I'm not used to proboards, but I think this is how it works?

I'm Sarah (she/her), Knight of Hope. I'm over here in New Zealand. The easiest way to quantify my skill set would be "i like telling stories", but I have the most practice in art and writing (and when it comes to homestuck, i do a lot of sprite making). I'm always open for discussions on anything though!

In brief response to the last two posts, I do a lot of RPing with original characters, and I do find it's a really great way to get good at developing and understanding characters, as well as being able to think on your feet (I've had sessions where i'm having conversations in real time as six different people at once and you do learn how to keep up with it, provided you dont talk in the wrong chat box ;D)

But yeah, I'm definitely interested in the project, so however I can help I guess?