If you know Homestuck, then you’re probably aware of the prodigious amount of both official and unofficial music that surrounds the comic. In the eight years since Homestuck’s inception, the music of MS Paint Adventures has become a cultural phenomenon in its own right, and has given birth to a vast discography comprising dozens of albums and thousands of individual tracks from both the official music team and hundreds of indie fan musicians that continues to grow even to this day. With the recent release of fan albums like Weird Puzzle Tunes and projects like Ancestral and LoFaM 4 on the near horizon, the growth of the Homestuck music community and the expansion of the discography surrounding the comic doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon.
Despite the extent of the community around Homestuck and MSPA Music (HaMM), there has never been a centralized hub for information about the musicians, artists, and projects that have contributed to it over the years! Indeed, with word of mouth being the main way that Homestuck music fanworks have found their audience, much content that lacks large initial exposure ends up fading into relative obscurity, and even more mainstream album releases often do not come packaged with much information about the musicians who created them.
The HaMM wiki therefore is a project that aims to collate information about Homestuck music, album releases, and musicians to one centralized hub. We collect information about tracks, artists, and albums, and present them in an interlinked format on the wiki for ease of access to information! Heard a song you like? Look it up on the wiki to discover other songs by the same artists, spread across Homestuck and MSPA’s formidable list of official music releases, fan releases, and solo projects that often rarely see the light of day. Want to know which songs reference leitmotifs from other songs? Our wiki hopes to keep a record of that, too! (With due referencing from the nsnd, of course. :)),
Since our inception a few months ago, and thanks to ardent work and the development of automatic wiki bots by our relatively tiny contributor base, we have already grown the HaMM wiki to over 1000 pages. This is of course wonderful, but again, the scope of the MSPA discography is such that this is far less than half of the information that we hope for the wiki to cover, and it largely omits the work of some smaller fan musicians. To change this, we’re hoping you can help contribute! The wiki is easy to edit, and even contributing a small amount of new information can help fill in blank pages or put online information about a song or musician who doesn’t yet have a wiki presence. Help out your favourite musicians and artists by adding them to the wiki! The scope of the wiki includes any and all Homestuck music and fan music - so you can even add information about yourself and your own Homestuck music projects.
If you want to get involved in a more organized capacity, then we have a discord channel for editor discussion, as well as a spreadsheet for co-coordinating wiki editors and content. We will also be looking to feature articles and content from the community on this blog, as well as more general HaMM information, so follow here to see content from the wiki as well as to maybe see your own contributions recognized!
At the moment, our group of regular contributors is small, and it is hard to frow the wiki to include the sort of detailed, in-depth articles and content we want to see on it without more support. We’re really hoping that we can be a good center for the Homestuck music community, and to do that we need to find more people who can help us add wiki content. Anyone can help out, even if only in a small way through adding a page or a sentence or two on the wiki, and beyond that, we’d really appreciate it if you could spread about this post (or others) to help us reach a wider audience and more potential editors. We rely on the community to help us expand the wiki, so thank you so much for taking the time to read this, and for potentially helping us grow!
do u think any of the kids (especially jane) were ever sleeping in the new universe and then their eyes just shoot open like “…we fought and killed popular webcomic characters the midnight crew”
side question: do u think any of the humans recognized hussie in the dreambubbles as the author of Problem Sleuth and the Midnight Crew? obviously they didnt really know what his deal was or why he was there but do u think any recognized him and just went “…anyway” because thats just kinda what you do after the 15th bizarre twist paradox space has thrown at you
I don’t post a lot of homestuck these days but this this is one of the funniest things anyone has suggested in a long time
im crynging this poor sand boy has been wearing,., the exact same pair of uggs for like thirty years,,,, someone get this man some jordans
you fool… the second pair is clearly shorter than the first one… he’s purposefully buying new pairs of space uggs… he’s chosen his look and he’s standing by it
I think almost every time I’ve written a situation where I planned for a character to get killed off, when I thought like “well what if I didn’t do that” the prospect of them just dying seemed like the lazy way out, or something I was just writing because “that’s how stories like this go”.
Like, years ago when I thought I was going to be on an extended hiatus I was planning to do a MGDMT graphic novel that had nothing to do with video games and just focused on the original super soldier characters. Mostly the idea was the same theme, Macho Action Dude Reacting to Movie Tropes Like A Reasonably Normal Guy, so it was gonna have all the motions of those same old conventions, but play out differently. At one point the idea was “the girlfriend character dies and he has to deal with it like an emotionally believable person and not a larger than life action guy”. But when I thought about it, that didn’t sit well with me, because even if it was trying to comment on a trope, it was still “female character gets killed for no reason other than the male lead to have a character arc about it” and that rubbed me the wrong way. So I thought, okay, what if she still gets kinda messed up, so they build her some cool robot parts and she’s like Shit Yeah! This is the best! And she thinks it’s so rad having robot parts it kinda throws off the course her life was going down because suddenly the idea of being Robocop seems a lot more exciting than nesting with her high school sweetheart. And he doesn’t have to go have emotions about a dead girlfriend, he has to learn to come to terms with someone he was very close to having a life experience he can’t exactly empathize with that put her on a road to becoming the person she’s decided she wants to be, but not the person he ever planned on her becoming. So his arc is sort of dealing with the grief of a lost hypothetical person, and learning to respect her autonomy to make decisions that he might consider “a bad idea” but improve her quality of life as she wants to live it. Which, in the end, felt like a lot more of an interesting story than “the girl dies so the main character can have emotions about it. But I only got to that point by recognizing the original idea was stale and racking my brain to do something different.
I guess what I’m saying is, when I see professional TV writers get excited about what a twist it is that they kill a beloved character in something to shake up the snowglobe so to speak, I can’t help but think that they fell into that rut of thinking “this is the convention I have been trained to attach to this story”, and didn’t even stop to think there may have been a more interesting and unique route they could have gone. Intrigue comes from giving the audience something they don’t expect to see. It’s easy to think that killing a character for shock value suits that task, but that’s become such a normal device to throw out there that it doesn’t surprise anyone anymore. It’s always worth at least considering what would happen to the story if you didn’t just go down the first path that came into your mind, because the first will almost certainly be the most well-trodden with the least surprises along the way.
Bass Reeves was so dedicated to the law, he even arrested his own son Bennie for the murder of his wife. Bennie was sentenced to life in prison. With over 3000 arrests, 14 kills, went his entire 32 year career in law enforcement without being shot once.
He was assigned to bring in the notorious female outlaw Belle Starr. Once she got wind who was after her she turned herself into the federal court.
Reeves was one of a few Marshalls who would venture into Indian territory *oklahoma*. After the age of 67 he retired in 1907. He enjoyed his short lived retirement as a police officer in Muskogee Oklahoma, his assigned beat had 0 crime reported until he died at the age of 71 of Bright’s disease.
He was one of the true gun slingers of the west.
Holy smokes! I had no idea the Lone Ranger was black!
15th May 2017
Reblogged From teamvirgoprojects
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