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selanpike · 7 months

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~~ LOFAM 5 ACT 2 IS HERE!! ~~

I did some track art for it! Shockingly, one of them isn't even a carapace!!!

The album is so, so good! Please go listen to it!

#homestuck fan music #umspaf #midnight crew #diamonds droog #spades slick #john egbert #mspa #homestuck #art #fanart #digital #csp

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unofficialmspafans · 8 months

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LOFAM 5 Act 2 Release Date

We've confirmed a release date for the album, and it's coming right up!

We'll have a live release stream on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/@umspaf) on September 16, at 1pm Eastern (5pm GMT). Right after that, the album will be available for streaming on Bandcamp and download on a hosting site.

This album may have some of our best art and music yet, which is astounding considering how long the project has been around and how long it's been since Homestuck officially ended. Come join us in enjoying our niche musical tradition— Where else are you going to get this stuff?!

One last call for artists:

The team has claimed an impressive 88 art slots which are on track to be completed by release, but there are still a few songs left that need art! If you're interested in making some emergency art, get in touch by messaging Ucklin on Discord, or emailing [email protected]

(Art used in this post by Circlejourney)

#homestuck #homestuck art #homestuck fanmusic #umspaf #lofam

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metianull · 7 months

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hey. LOFAM 5 ACT 2 IS OUT.

before you do anything, click the damn link. or not, im sorry. im working on it.

YOU GUYS! its OUTTTTTUH its out its out its out!!!! OVER *99* TRACKS FEATURING *69* "HOMED STUCK" MUSICIANS COMING STRAIGHT FROM BANGER-TOWN TO BE DELIVERED RIGHT INTO YOUR EARHOLES! yueah whatever this thing is awesome I GOT FUCKING COVER ART DRAWN FOR MY MUSIC WHATTTT!!!!! AND I GOT TO HELP DRAW STUFF FOR SOMEONE ELSE AS WELL!!!! this was so much better than i coudlve ever wished for as a first dip into the fanmusic scene.... i really think a lot of talented people came together to make something awesome and it WORKED!!!! the amount of bangers this thing holds is insane, i swear on fucking eeverytuihng that is holy, go listen to it. if you like ANYTHING about homestuck, there's something you will like, 100%. YOU CAN WATCH THE LIVE STREAM WITH CHAT REPLAY HERE

#homestuck fan music #umspaf #homestuck #fan music #my music #lofam5a2 #Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2 #Bandcamp

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ender--slime · 7 months

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i had the honor of getting to draw track art for the latest @unofficialmspafans album, LOFAM 5 a2!!

this one is for “Light in the Darkness” by SplitSuns!

thank you to the whole team!! i’ve been such a big fan of UMSPAF for a long time and having my name on one of the albums is just bonkers surreal :,)

my first track art is here!

track and art commentary under the cut!

Unfiltered version

#enderslimeart #homestuck #homestuck art #homestuck calliope #umspaf #lofam #land of fans and music

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teeveenovae · 7 months

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The Deceased Friends and Family, released on Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2 last month, is now available on Youtube and Soundcloud!

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tee-vee-novae/the-deceased-friends-and-family

Don't forget to check out the full album!!!!!!!! https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-fans-and-music-5-act-2

#homestuck #lofam #my music #VASKA #umspaf #Youtube

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doexgone · 8 months

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land of fans and music 5 act 2 will be livestreamed here on september 16th at 6pm gmt i got to make art for one of the tracks and im quite proud of it, it's the longest i've spent on a piece and it was no doubt worth it if you're interested in homestuck or just in all-around great music and art, please do check it out

#homestuck #umspaf #fanart #fan music #lofam

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sahcon · 9 months

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Get ready for the weekend: SAHCon is fast approaching!

As usual we have some events and activities that folks can participate or indulge in. Though we shall talk about our lovely guests:

Our guest panelists this year include:

James Roach, Naked Bee, Bambosh, Gio, BBPanzu, UMSPAF, and Stacy!

They've got some neat things to share with you, from music, to art, to Homestuck! Who knew?

Our guest artists:

Gastro, Mars, Kim, Theo, and Wink, @_tamajikis, @kimquatz, @ohmeiios, and @heyitswink_ !

Some are participating in the art raffle! Respectively, this year's badge and guidebook cover have been created by Kim and Theo and Mars takes the honor of the site's art banner!

That's all the updates we have for today!

#homestuck #hiveswap #hom3stuck #sahcon #stuck at home con

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circlejourneyart · 7 months

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Maybe it'll turn out better this time: A love letter to all the joy and sorrow that this story has given me

(Art by @blogofyolo)

Here's the first of two tracks I had on Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2, which came out two days ago! I'm dedicating this one to @utopianparadoxist, who wrote the post that made this track appear in my mind in such blinding clarity I couldn't stop making until it was done.

I also have some extended commentary about this one--it's more important to me than I give it credit for.

When I finished reading Homestuck, I was...disappointed. That disappointment morphed gradually into disgust as I watched schisms violently open in the fandom following the Epilogues and Homestuck^2, and in the process I felt like I'd lost something.

I kept thinking that maybe, if I just read the comic again, it would turn out different. Maybe it'd be the story I'd once loved and it would fill me with breathless wonder again. Maybe it'd be better.

But earlier this year, a post by uP crossed my dash after he'd disappeared from my periphery for well over a year. He was outlining his plans surrounding Pumpkin Path, a story he's writing that runs adjacent to the Epilogues and (eventually though not yet?) gives these characters the futures they've earned.

And I realised...the way I'd been thinking about it, that's not how it works, y'know? It's not the story that has changed: it's my heart, my relationship with it. And the best thing I could do was take what this once-beloved story gave me and make something new with it. And that's what many people have done in the wake of Homestuck's end: we've all gone off and made new stories, for which this long-beloved comic was an undeniable progenitor.

It reminded me of a certain recurring motif in the comic itself. Every time the universe resulted in a corrupt or barren session, the players...well, they rebooted it. They left the old universe behind, and started a new one, billions of years all over again just to see where it would go this time.

There was no use in searching for the story that used to be, because it was me that had changed.

You may as well leave that old universe behind and start a new one from scratch.

This is the idea that seeded the above track, and it caught me off guard, because it was the first Homestuck music I had made in more than two years--after I thought I'd sworn it off for good. And then, two days later, Maybe it'll turn out better this time was done. (Two days is, by the way, a very short time for a track to emerge.) It was a small, silly, wonderful little thing, a sapling in the ashes, that proved to me that things could change.

But beyond my track, the entirety of LOFAM5A2 feels especially so. It's a startling breath of fresh air that emerged from so much genuine joy and excitement. I'm happy I got to contribute even just a little work to it and I really, really hope that the fandom sees it for all that went into it. An UMSPAF manager once said that my music always sounds hopeful, but it was never intentional until this one. Thank you to everyone who's made good art that has inspired others in turn, you create life with your own hands.

#homestuck #homestuck music #lofam #lofam 5 act 2 #my music #Bandcamp

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ludicrousfalcon · 7 months

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Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2 drops today!

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Check out the livestream, or the bandcamp page if u miss the stream! Tons of homestuck fan music is on this thing!

(disclaimer: i might or might not have contributed a track to this :3)

#homestuck #homestuck fanmusic #lofam #unofficialmspafans #homestuck music #land of fans and music #Youtube

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circlejourney · 9 months

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Updated priority list

Priority 1 (urgent, important)

Animation job for friend's PhD film

Therapy

Finish writing the paper

PhD research survey

Priority 2 (urgent, not as important)

Tutoring preparation and meetings part TWO

Follow up about commission orders (for now)

Meeting about possible job in the future

UMSPAF judging (for now)

Priority 3 (important, not as urgent / feels important or urgent but objectively isn't)

Window to Worlds print edition

Art Fight hitlist (5 people)

Window to Worlds social media (mostly done)

Fix sleep schedule

Saturday IRL event

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sometipsygnostalgic · 2 years

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Just finished Homestuck? Here's what to do next.

A tumblr repost of something I just made for the Homestuck Reddit.

The Reddit version is going to be the one I update. It may get reposted by a HS Reddit Admin if they want to use it.

EDIT: Reddit version has been taken down and will be replaced this weekend.

Put in any further recommendations in the comments below and I may add them to the main post.

Problem Sleuth - The MS Paint Adventure that Hussie completed before Homestuck. It's 1000 pages, and the only actually high effort adventure he made before his colossal webcomic.

Homestuck but in its original format

The Unofficial Homestuck Collection - This is the go to for all original Homestuck content. They reworked all the flashes so you can see them in their original crisp HD rather than compressed Youtube or the really awful VIZ flashes. Also has the in-comic videogames as they originally were!!!

Contains lost music and other media by the original teams that worked on Homestuck. Look at it, it's worth your time, especially if you want to do a reread.

Homestuck.net is a fandom archive of all sorts of HS stuff, full of official resources and fan content and lost Homestuck media.

Followup material

The Homestuck Epilogues - "Post-canon" splinter that takes place after the main timeline. Written by members of WhatPumpkin. Be warned - this is not a serious work and if you expect it to be an amazing sequel to Homestuck, you'll be disappointed. It's also, rightfully, got a million content warnings.

Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon - Comic sequel to the Homestuck Epilogues. Was put on indefinite hiatus last year.

Homestuck Patreon Content - There was some content posted on the Homestuck Patreon which is available on homestuck.net.

Supplementary official content

Paradox space - A bunch of comics made by creators like KC Green and Zack Morrison which were posted 3-5 times a week between 13th April 2014 and 13th April 2015. Comes in hardback, but is out of print and extremely pricey to get second hand.

Vrisky 8usiness - A comic about Vriska getting her robot arm by Andrew Hussie that was only posted in the hardback version of Paradox Space 2, which is now too overpriced to buy.

The VIZ Collection - VIZ Media printed books of Homestuck acts 1-5 (finishing a little before Cascade) which contains page-by-page commentary from Andrew Hussie.

The VIZ Collection Commentary - if you just want the commentary from Hussie and don't want to shell £300 on books.

Homestuck 2.0 - Was originally going to be a Youtube video series hosted by Dante Basco. Was cancelled abruptly before it took off, but this video is still fun to watch. "Step on my neck tadpole mom!"

Video games

Hiveswap - A point-and-click visual novel which follows Joey Claire, the neglected daughter of Grandpa Harley, as she finds herself in Alternia long before the events of Sburb. A prequel to Homestuck which has 2 parts right now and is unfortunately on hold again.

Friendsim - A "friendship" simulator where you play as MSPA Reader and meet all the trolls from Hiveswap act 2, perhaps having some timeline fuckery and existential crises along the way. Can be played separately from reading epilogues/HS^2.

Pesterquest - A followup to Friendsim where you befriend the main 20 kids from Homestuck itself. WARNING: This one does contain HS Epilogue and HS^2 spoilers.

Official Music

Official Bandcamp - Official way to buy high quality HS Music. Used to have the albums split up properly, was condensed some time after the VIZ Takeover for unknown reasons.

The Unofficial Homestuck Collection - Once again this contains all of the music.

Unofficial Team Music

The Baby is You - Toby Fox creates something utterly insane.

STRIIFE/Strife 2 - Unofficial Homestuck album by former Homestuck musician Tensei

Let me know if any more exists outside of LOFAM.

The Homestuck Fan Musicians/Land of Fans and Music

The LOFAM collection - Dozens of albums and hundreds of songs. The four LOFAM albums are of their highest quality. LOFAM was a major recruitment pool for the official Homestuck music team. You should absolutely give it a listen, especially their latest major release, LOFAM 4.

Cool and New Music Team - A collection of shitposty music made to honor the SBAHJ-style fan story Cool and New Webcomic. Some of it is actually good.

"Let's Read Homestuck" - Voice acted video version of Homestuck

VOXUS/Let's Read Homestuck - Currently ends at some point before the Retcon. Still ongoing. Fully voice acted with different actors for each character, as well as tons of effort to make it entertaining to watch.

Some significant fan content

[s] Rex Duodecim Angulus - An epic 8-minute collaborative fan animation of the Trolls defeating their Black King.

A Brief History of Homestuck - 2 hour long video by Sarah Z explaining the massive fan hype of Homestuck, its history over the past 12 years, and some investigative work into what happened with Hiveswap.

Homestuck Sent Me a Legal Threat, and Then it Got Worse - The followup video where Sarah does further investigation into WhatPumpkin's downfall after they threatened to sue her for the first video.

You can't fight the Homestuck - A Rite of Passage.

Octopimp Collection - Octopimp was a Homestuck fan who voice acted a bunch of fan comics drawn by other artists. It's old as hell, but very fun.

Karkalicious - A short, absolutely legendary video where Karkat sings about how much people want to suck his dick. You're welcome.

Cool and New Webcomic - A shitpost version of Homestuck, with many twists and turns. Has many flashes, a dedicated fanbase and tons of fan music.

Act Omega - A fan continuation diverging just after act 7 which uses flash animations. Notable for its high quality art.

Double Death of the Author- A fan continuation diverging just after John does the Windy Thing. A fix-it fic by someone who didn't like the retcon. Notable for being, well, complete.

A 143 page fan comic of Hiveswap act 2 made for the Hiveswap Comics Contest.

Fan Communities

The Homestuck Discord - a 20,000 member discord full of Homestuck fans.

MS Paint Fan Adventures - a website where you can make your own Homestuck fanventures, which has thousands and thousands of fanstories on it!

And that's it for now.

#homestuck #problem sleuth #umspaf

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friendsim-fan-album · 5 years

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Get excited homestucks! We’re calling Artists and Musicians!

The Hiveswap/Friendsim album is a Hiveswap fan music album project, coordinated by the people behind the Beforus and Paradox Music team Homestuck fan music projects! In association with Unofficial MSPA Fans group and Paradox Music team, we want to create Hiveswap and Friendsim fan music content in the same vein.

This blog and project are headed by @hipstersoulgushers, @not-terezi-pyrope and @potatoboss323, and we are seeking contributors both from within and outside the Homestuck fan music/fan art community.

The scope of the project will scale in proportion to the interest we receive, so feel free to jump in and take part if you want to help make something truly great! We are seeking to make content for both Hiveswap and Hiveswap friendsim, initially focusing on character themes. The resultant music collection, and accompanying track art, will be published as either one or two albums depending on the scope of the content.

If you’re new to the fan album scene and want to take part, you can do so by sending a sample of your artistic or musical work to one of the project team leads! We do ask that you have a degree of prior experience before applying, but if in doubt, just get in contact. More information about contributing can be found on the take part page!

For any other questions or ideas, feel free to send us an ask!

#homestuck #hiveswap #friendsim #paradox music team #umspaf #fan album #fan project

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blueamethystdraw · 4 years

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