#unofficial homestuck collection

[hms-no-fun]

me: i have selflessly preserved the at-threat webcomic homestuck at a new url for all of us, with no expectation of reward or credit, as i am but a humble fan

the url: "sarah zedig literally wrote homestuck dot com"

this is just embarrassing

#homestuck #unofficial homestuck collection

[derseprinceoftbd]

In honor of the new Upd8, here's the updated version of my Personal Homestuck Explainer.

An explainer for Homestuck, typed up on a Google doc for Reddit, and now transplanted onto Tumblr, and too long to fit in a single reddit comment. Most explainers I've seen utterly fail to get the tone of the series across, thus not answering the main question I see: "what is Homestuck *and why is it like this*". Why does it evoke the reactions it does? Why are so many things considered a reference? Who is Vriska? (I can't actually explain that one in under 3000 words, it turns out.) But, here's a briefer briefer (heh) on the subject of "What the actual fuck is Homestuck":

Andrew Hussie, a person (now going by any pronouns) then known for various obscure things around the net, made an interactive reader-driven comic-type-thing called Jailbreak where he would draw panels demonstrating the events of the story as dictated by other posters in the thread, putting his favored suggestions in the narration and responding in kind. The happenings and variables were influenced by his own strange brand of humor and set of fascinations, such as rap, horses, clowns, and H!rry P!tter as a cultural presence. He would eventually compile this, along with the unfinished followup, Bard Quest, on its own website.

The third installment of the so-called MS Paint Adventures, Problem Sleuth, was a massive step up in production value, featuring impressive art and output speed as well as evolutions such as some pages being flashing gifs. This sort of thing was considered to be one of the best demonstrations of the potential of the internet. It ran for 1674 pages over the course of about a year.

Homestuck was the followup to that, running 8123 pages from April 13th 2009-2016 with numerous hiatuses in the latter half of that time. It featured such advancements as videos with sound, small WASD-controlled computer games on various pages, and most significantly, actual conversations between characters, semi-hidden behind clickable boxes at the bottom of some pages, allowing them to become three-dimensional and truly sympathetic. Hussie, it would soon be revealed, was heavily skilled at writing compelling and unique character voices and dialogue writing in general.

Homestuck was definitely the most complex MPSA, with a grand overarching plot being integrated into the results of the actions of the readers. The plot revolved around an in-universe game called SBURB with the power to influence reality, sort of a Jumanji with time-travel mechanics that would soon be revealed to be the centerpiece of reality itself, destroying the home planets of its players to motivate them to enter the world of the game and fulfill an unknown grand purpose, complete with millions of fully sentient NPCs. (Homestuck is, technically, an isekai.)

Homestuck has been described as "a story that's also a puzzle", and this lens has gained authorial approval; events are often told anachronistically, as a kitchen sink of high-concept ideas are explored by a man who sometimes wants to show off his semi-deconstructive version of a classic sci-fi/fantasy trope, sometimes wants to infuriate readers through anticlimaxes and misdirections, and sometimes wants to just go off on a tangent about a random movie from his childhood that somehow soon becomes integral to the plot in an absurdly esoteric fashion.

Eventually the suggestions from readers became so numerous and difficult that the suggestion boxes were closed near the end of the first year, leading to less meandering from Act 4 onwards, but the influence of the audience remained; one easy example is a character only seen from the top half initially being theorized on the official forums as using a wheelchair, a fact which would not only become Canon, but highly relevant.

The early MSPAs curated an audience through programming humor and 80s-90s film references as filtered through the styles of Terry Pratchett, Mark Twain, and the Something Awful forums, but the audience for Homestuck, due to the nature of the characters, was markedly different, especially after the Trolls showed up.

You've probably seen them.

The Trolls, initially presented as some extremely odd and bothersome fellows on the internet, were soon shown to be a race of grey-skinned, orange-horned aliens. Trolls possessed multicolored blood in both organized castes and clear deviations, psychic abilities, unique typing styles, insectoid traits as opposed to hominid, near-universal bisexuality with the sole known exception being Sapphic, and a complex romantic system with its own symbols, comically vague-yet-comprehensive reproductive system, and of course, relationship dynamics.

I cannot express how perfect the Trolls were in terms of catching on. Tumblr loved these fuckers and it's not at all hard to see why.

It's also worth noting that this wasn't the only market-perfect part of Homestuck; Classpecting, the equivalent of Hogwarts Houses, featured a 144/168/288/336/384(depending on who you ask and what they count)-strong grid system of human personality traits that not only seemed eerily accurate as a personality mapper, but corresponded to what elemental powers one received in the game of SBURB.

So... yeah. Homestuck was an incredibly complex and engaging work, driven by a single incredibly talented and flawed creative voice, which was perfectly made to attract a massive, unabashedly bizarre/proudly cringe, and notably largely queer fanbase across a younger internet; you may well be aware of incidents such as cosplay failures and inappropriate recreations of Troll culture. The style of presentation, art, and character writing was instantly recognizable and relatively easy to imitate, leading to fanfiction and even fanmade adventures galore, most of the latter hosted on MSPFA.com.

The main site for Homestuck is broken now-it's recommended that new readers download the [Unofficial Homestuck Collection](https://bambosh.dev/unofficial-homestuck-collection/), and starting with Problem Sleuth to ease into the format and writing is a pretty popular choice. The ending is also considered generally quite poor in a number of ways, particularly regarding unfollowed foreshadowing and blatant abandonment of character arcs, with some fans even [making](https://friendlybatteringram.tumblr.com/tagged/altstuck) their own [works](https://mspfa.com/?s=44153&p=1) as [substitutions](http://mspfa.com/?s=12003&p=1). You can find The Homestuck Epilogues (a sequel novel) on the official site, and Homestuck^2 Beyond Canon (a sequel webcomic after the Epilogues) on its own website, but neither of these are very well liked by fans (at all). YouTube also has several dubs of the comic; by far the largest and most popular is [Voxus](https://youtube.com/@Voxus), which has unfortunately slowed to a crawl at around the 65% mark.

Content warnings for Homestuck include: blood, violence including decapitation, clowns, brainwashing/mental possession, dicks-out furry bara art in the background of like ten pages, brief black-and-white nudity, swearing, the R-slur, a joke about an acronym organically forming the F-slur, child abuse, discussed child abuse and homophobia, mocking of the disabled (as an unsympathetic action), cartoonish levels of sexism (as an unsympathetic action), statements that an antagonist is analogous to Hitler, mocking of otherkin, a minor character being a racial stereotype of Japanese people (Damara), a somewhat major character being a stereotype of Black people (Meenah), minor characters being stereotypes of disabled people (Meulin and Mituna), a controversial and prominent depiction of blindness, eye trauma, underage alcoholism, written depections of noncon facilitated by mind control (as an unsympathetic action), sexual assult (an unwanted kiss, as an unsympathetic action), jokes about pedophilia, and child grooming (textually 100% non-sexual, but sexually-coded).

Also: when I said the Trolls type weird, I wasn't kidding. Every character gets at least one color for their speech text, plus a pattern for how they type, generally worse for the Trolls, ranging from "no caps" to "British" to "drunk" to "ebonics" to "aLtErNaTiNg" to WH4T3V3R TH3 FUCK K1ND OF L33TSP34K BS T3R3Z1 1S DO1NG. So that's worth a warning.

And that's as abridged as you can get when summing up Homestuck.

#andrew hussie #Hussie #hs2 #crow strider au #homestuck #altstuck #tlcstuck #csau #cs au #ddota #Double-Death Of The Author #double death of the author #homestuck explained #Homestuck explainer #contains references to priest scribe theory #mspa #mspfa #voxus #unofficial homestuck collection #explainer #fandom explainer

[bevertown]

aaaaaa someone better with computers please help me

#unofficial homestuck collection #homestuck #steven speaks #4/13

[lone-sk]

Trans people: I'm trans

Society: okay

Guy trying to get his friend to read Homestuck: yeah I guess you could read it on the website but you're better off downloading the unofficial collection, it has the flash games and music and shit. I can help you if you want but its pretty simple you download the actual client as like an .exe and that installs pretty normally then you need to get the asset pack which is about four gigabytes and unzip that somewhere on your computer and during setup

#homestuck #unofficial homestuck collection #what is this #this is nothing #i think i wrote this at like 1am last night

[skinyogurt]

reading homestuck the way god intended by actually reading all of jailbreak, bardquest, and problem sleuth first

#unofficial homestuck collection #also lets me see the original content #like bill bolin’s music and everything pre-retcon #homestuck #jailbreak #bardquest #problem sleuth #mspa

[freackthejester]

I turns out all of the Unofficial Homestuck Collection is about 80MB, and I don't know jack about shit, bit that is small enough to put onto a flash drive that can be bought in bulk so I'm think about the idea of leaving all of Homestuck on a flash drive around town or gifting it to friend like a hitclip

#i say stuff #uhc #unofficial Homestuck collection #ha #hs

[chainofyggdrasil]

Let's Read Homestuck (pt1)

We're forcing Storm to reread Homestuck, come join the fun

#homestuck #stream #lets read #unofficial homestuck collection #youtube #Youtube

[appleandsinnamon]

as far as i know, all you need to do to update the unofficial homestuck collection is to download the new asset pack!!

the current version is 2.0.7 and was last updated may 2023, is that the version you are on? also, it only works with windows/mac/linux, are you on a chromebook?

heya i'm on app version 2.0.5 it wants me to update to 2.0.7 but i can't figure out how to do that, it's not the asset pack they want me to change but the application

#homestuck #unofficial homestuck collection

[sirius-bizdness]

(source)

of course

of course Homestuck can run DOOM now

it was bound to happen eventually

#homestuck #unofficial homestuck collection #doom runs on everything #doom #internet culture #sirius posts

[juneegbertsmokingafatblunt]

June’s Homestuck Reread Liveblog

I'm once again sad in a way that only consuming my favorite childhood media will fix. Homestuck (the emotion) is so vast I think I might be able to soft reset my mind or hopefully even die.

I’ve put together some goals for this reread and liveblog:

To put my thoughts from this reread in the same place as every thought I can remember from previous reads- a meeting of a multitude of selves, all dedicated only to the Sisyphean task of reading Homestuck

To reintroduce myself to the active side of the Homestuck fandom and get involved with fanart, theorycrafting, discourse if I’m feeling like a bitch, etc.

To make a landing page for all of the Homestuck fanworks and Homestuck-adjacent media that is meaningful to me. After I finish HS proper (or maybe after PS, who knows the order I’ll read these things) I’ll probably make a masterpost with a bunch of links to post-canon content and general things I might like to read next.

Like every other reread liveblog, I will be using The Unofficial Homestuck Collection. This is a far better alternative to homestuck dot com for a lot of reasons, but I’m going as far as to say you need this app to properly read the comic since this actually preserves the Flash animations and games. Plus, it has a lot of the old MSPAforums and Formspring posts and stuff archived, which is definitely something I wanted to explore more during this read.

Also there are accessibility mods and general improvement tweaks available! I have ones that automatically translate morse code and alert you if there’s an easter egg on the page. There’s a ton of features created to fine tune you’re reading experience, I literally cannot recommend the collection enough.

I also want to recommend Homestuck Made This World, a liveread podcast from the Ranged Touch network. One of the hosts has been a longtime MSPA fan, while the other is a brand new reader, so you get to hear a fresh perspective as well as the hindsight of an old Homestuck.

Most of the Ranged Touch stuff is exactly my shit, but I want to emphasize this podcast because I’m going to be listening along as I reread the comic. Like everything else I reference, I’ll be citing them whenever I bring something up from their show.

All of my posts will be tagged under #JHSRRLB as well as by act (#A2, #I, #A6A6I1, etc.) and I'll try to otherwise tag as comprehensively I can including external references, characters, subjects, ships, and fucking whatever else there is to be tagged.

#homestuck #homestuck reread #homestuck liveblog #mspa #homestuck made this world #unofficial homestuck collection #JHSRRLB

[mindofthemage]

Unofficial Homestuck Collection Steamdeck Guide

Step 1: Downloading the Collection

Switch to your Steamdecks Desktop Mode (you can do that by pressing the Steam Button, going to Power and then switching to the Desktop)

Open Firefox and download the Unofficial Homestuck Collection for Linux (I vaguely remember different versions of Linux being a thing, worst case Google which one is compatible with the Steam Deck)

Unpack the Asset Pack etc (this is all very similar to the normal setup) and for the most part explained by the collection itself

Congrats now you got the Collection running. Everything from reading the comic, listening to music and even Namco High is available to you.

Everything except the walkarounds.

Step 2: Get all of it running.

Open Steam. In the desktop mode.

Go Libary

Click on Add Game to Libary in the bottom left corner

Select the Collection, it was available for me to select without going into my files, but if it's not there select file you'd use to start the Collection

Open the Gaming Mode

The unofficial Collection should now be available through Steam. You can edit the name and add images.

Select a controller Layout. You can do that before starting the collection through the little controller icon or after starting by pressing the Steam Button and going to controller settings.

Select Keyboard (WASD) and Mouse or make your own/modify a Layout.

The only issue I encountered since far is that scrolling isn't ideal with the standard Keyboard (WASD) and Mouse Layout, but I didn't look further into it yet after having Karkat successfully move around.

If you run into any issues let me know and I'll try to help!

#homestuck #Steamdeck #Unofficial Homestuck Collection

[hershellaytonlovespuzzles]

How do I fix this????

Hello Homestuck readers I am struggling <3

I tried everything I know how and I just can't get it. I have had this on my computer before, so I do not understand.

#homestuck #unofficial homestuck collection #please help #space talks

[alexanderpearce]

beautiful cinematic parallels

#ignore my system font #shut up ulrike #homestuck #catullus #i know what im about www dot vroma dot org #unofficial homestuck collection

[dragongirldg]

Unofficial Homestuck Collection

How to make it work.

1- download both the Unofficial Homestuck Collection ZIP folder and the Asset Pack V2 (Current versions) to your computer or laptop.

2- No matter how long it takes, unzip both folders by right clicking and then press Extract all. Don’t change anything and just make sure it’s extract all.

3- Then finally, open the unofficial homestuck collection folder and locate  the unofficial homestuck collection application.

I have highlighted it.

You can do the rest on your own, I believe.

Here is a link to the website, so you can download it!

Link

Here is the homestuck website.

Link

(By the way, if you want the UHC to up to date with your page on HomeStuck then you should type in the page you are on here)

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That is all I have to say right now. Have fun!!!

#homestuck #unofficial homestuck collection #how to use

[lone-sk]

It would be cool if there was some way to access mspfa.com through the Unofficial Homestuck Collection to add native flash support. Like, it's functionally just a modded Chromium browser, right? It already accesses the internet to embed songs from Bandcamp. Is there any reason why this wouldn't work?

#homestuck #unofficial homestuck collection #i know nothing about programming tho so idk

[deliciousmicroplastics]

Anyone else whos reading Homestuck through the unofficial collection have to redownload almost every time they open the program?

#shot in the dark #homestuck #unofficial homestuck collection #op #just want to casually open and close it without having to do any finagling :(....