old one's gone

Do Homestuck fans even still exist? Hussie killed them all when he published the epilogues, right? Does anyone cosplay from HS^2?

>>10894363
HS2 recently started back up again, so there may be a renaissance coming

>>10894363
>>10894382
Does anyone give a fuck about ^2? It's literal garbage fanfiction with random OC donut steel fancharacters and weird awkward adult relationship drama. It's impossible to even imagine that the epilogues and ^2 aren't deliberate attempts to kill off the former fanbase's interest.

>>10894419
evidently, a lot of people. the patreon is pretty big. not everyone is as bitter as you are

>>10894431
Because "Yiffany" or whatever the fuck is totally going to be the top cosplay of 2024.

>>10894443
you act like homestuck characters weren't exactly this stupid in the original.

>>10894447
i mean the humans werent

>>10894631
they were, actually. jade gets furried before the trolls even show up. dave and john are both absurd premises. rose turns into a lovecraft monster. don't even get me started on the alphas. homestuck was always stupid, you're just not 16 anymore

>>10894317 (OP)
went to my local convention and missed the only two hs cosplayers, luckily my hs friend was there to keep my company, he had a nepeta shirt.

>>10894659
not that anon but I read Homestuck for the first time last year (in my mid 20s) and you're definitely overstating it. The beta kids were silly but in the same way that characters in contemporary webcomics were, they were absurd but not over the top. Hussie just took some stereotypes and pushed them one step past believable. It wasn't until Act 6 that the actual goofiness started showing up. That being said, Yiffany isn't worse than, say, Caliborn in terms of how fucking stupid the character is.
>>10894382
It's back with James Roach at the helm so people were cautiously optomistic about it but they aren't going to be retconning anything so all the worst parts of the sequel that everyone hated are still going to be there.

>>10899085
caliborn was mildly amusing at least, Yiffani is just... so... tumblr. Her existence implies the single most out of character moment of the entire series, getting rid of all of Rose's and Kanaya's relationship just for a lulz XD so random moment
I think the problem is the lack of consistency, the characters do things forcefully just to drive the plot forward, so their actions dont necessarily have to allign with their preestablished personality
I read both homestuck and h^2 a couple of years ago being a teen and one thing definitely seemed more dumb than the other

>>10894363
I only post about it ironically on some 4chan affiliated discords. I can never hate what Homestuck once was considering how fun of a ride it was but i sure hate what it has become and the current wider fandom. Trannies ruin everything

>>10899124
yeah it's almost like the entire plot of the epilogues and hs2 involved dirk hijacking the narrative (similar to what cali born did) and controlling all the relevant characters in ways they wouldn't have normally acted.

>>10899138
hussie is also trans and has explicitely stated multiple times that the "toblerone wish" shit was a ruse and all of the tranny shit was intended from the beginning. you are just stupid.

>>10899183
Oh i don't doubt that Hussie has become mentally ill too, but he wasn't at the time

>>10894363
all the 2013 Homestuck fans are trans now

>>10894363
i started reading last year. impossible to discuss anything with anyone because I like all the "weird" characters and i kinda hate homestuck anyway
>>10899138
agreed. Hussie is a faggot and i wanna break his nose.

So how do we feel about psycholonials? The story was mid but I enjoyed the aesthetics, maybe I'm just clouded by foolish nostalgia. I'm planning a mizzlebip cosplay soon. Really just wanna know how badly I'll be *ahem* clowned on

>>10899187

Can confirm all the people from my old Homestuck cosplay group all became trans

>>10901057
nta, everyone else from my high school Homestuck fan friend group either trooned out or developed a cluster b mental illness. or both.

I’m actually rereading it right now, forgot how funny the first 4 acts are. and how dedicated the cosplay community was, such that I remember seeing props of every single ridiculous item John uses for like one page.

>>10901057
something about homestuck queers people out, i'm honestly confused when a homestuck fan isn't a fag

>>10901137
When I learn that someone is into Homestuck I'll assume they aren't cishet.
I remember at meet and we were sitting around a table and everyone was asked, one person at a time, if they were cishet, and everyone explained how they weren't. Luckily they didn't get to asking me.

finally got around to rereading and actually finishing homestuck recently. wondering how important and/or good the spinoffs are (hiveswap, the epilogues, beyond canon, etc.) and if they're actually worth a read, would like to hear your thoughts

>>10904273
i enjoyed friendsim quite a bit, the epilogues and post canon you'll either love or hate with no in between. as far as i know all of it is "semi canon" meaning "as canon as you want it to be"

>>10904273
Hiveswap's alright, everything else is complete garbage.

>>10904273
Hiveswap and Friendsim feel like passable fanfiction a teenage fan would have written during the height of the comic's popularity 10-12 years ago. Not particularly incredible but if you really want content specifically in that universe/with those characters to scratch an itch it'll do.

The epilogues are a giant intentionally-bad shitpost written to intentionally spite fans. They're kinda funny in just how bizarre they get. ^2 is just bullshit all around and not worth bothering with.

Okay so who else is going/cosplaying?

>>10905773
no fucking way theyre doing it again

>>10905773
>Homestuck has been reduced to nothing other than a yearly theming event at one (1) random socal coffee shop
Viz really has buyers' remorse huh

>>10905773
going to another con as bro strider, seems easy enough as a first cosplay

>>10905773
this is in my hometown and last time I visited the workers were handing out flyers at the front door because they were trying to unionize because it sucks to work there so much. The inside is really cool though

I saw a cute Gamzee cosplayer at a local con a couple of weeks back. She mentioned she was there with a Terezi too but I never saw them unfortunately.
Homestuck fans are an endangered species these days but it's nice to know they (we) still exist.

>>10907214
It’s kind of sad. I remember how crazy being a homestuck was a decade ago when I started going to cons. We were all over cons in swarms and you could immediately make new friends with other homestuck cosplayers. I miss that energy/feeling so much and I feel like nothing will ever replicate it.

It might sound cringe, but I’m so grateful for homestuck. I have some really close friends who are also my group of con buddies and it’s all because I met one of them back in 2012 through homestuck

>>10907379
I'm jealous of your experience. I know people meme about the sharpie thing and the general clusterfuck direction of the comic (especially post-Cascade) but there's really nothing like it even today.
I'm going to be at a con on 4/13 and attempting a pretty basic bitch Bro cosplay so I'm hoping to all that is holy that I meet at least one other HS fan out in the wild.

>>10907379
Homestuck is what got me into cons. It may be cringe but those were some great fucking times. Me and my friends used to use the pesterchum app on PC to message eachother after school and it was a pretty fun place to connect w random RPers of varying quality. There was a gigantic spin the bottle Homestuck circle for multiple years in a row at my local con that mostly devolved into shipping discussions and no actual kissing. Gray paint everywhere. Take me back.

>>10907381
I just went to a sub 1000 people con and managed to see a Kankri and a Terezi together. Would've said hi if it was anyone but fucking Kankri.

>>10908400
>pesterchum app
Holy shit I almost forgot about that. Me and my friends used to message each other on there after school too lol. Good times

>gigantic spin the bottle
I think you mean spin the faygo lol. We used to have those at cons too although unfortunately ours had actual kissing. My friends and I never joined in because we were all 17-21 when we started going to cons and the circles seemed to be primarily 13-15 year olds (that didn’t stop some very obvious adults from making out with some very obvious minors, but that’s a whole other story.) We would walk by those circles and it was so uncomfortable/weird to see two high schoolers frenching each other while surrounded by other high schoolers cheering them on

>>10908400
I remember having some great RPs on MSPARP back in the day. I miss it.
I felt like I really missed out on the Homestuck con craze because I didn't have the money or expertise to attempt the Homestuck cosplays I wanted until literal years later (I did my first Homestuck cosplay in 2022 when I'd been waiting for an opportunity since 2013).

>>10908457
The cosplay standard is a lot higher now which kills some of the fun for me. In 2014 people were running up to me excited to take a picture with me because of picrel. Upd8 culture and rushing to make closet cosplays was the most fun I've ever had in a fandom.

>>10908462

cosplay standard was shit at my local con this year. believe in yourself and your cardboard gundam soul, you're still putting in more heart than the few who bothered to dress up in their unironed aliexpress outfits. i would have approached you for pix in this just because thank god someone putting effort into actually repping a fandom, maybe we can chat about it a moment

maybe it's because of this impression, that a few people with big tiktoks are cranking out constant professional stuff as a career so why should anyone else even try. and with fewer trying fewer are posting and fewer are researching. i don't see cosplay tutorial posts floating around in the general fandom melange anymore either, and i saw when i greyed up last year that basic skills are being lost, such as bodypaint technique. We solved this problem a decade ago, it shocked me to see smears in 2023 (on other people, not me. i wore alcohol paint)

>>10908476
>believe in yourself and your cardboard gundam soul
I wanna embroider that shit on a pillow, thanks anon, you are so right. That shit has soul.

>>10909323
>>10909325
Im not the biggest fan of HS^2 like the other guy but the designs fuck despite karkat being a literal mgs parody

>>10905773
Will be attending but not cosplaying. Shame it seems like the alcoholic drinks are only at the ticketed events.

Happy 4/13 I guess

Happy 4/13 Everyone
Worst than last years looool

Hope Anons going to the event will post pics here

i cant believe im actually reading a homestuck thread when i havent been into hs in literally ten years.

>>10910171
OH MY GOD IT IS. I COMPLETELY FORGOT. just by chance is the day i click the cosplay banner ad????????????????????? bitch tf

>>10904273
the epilogues were literally ohysically and even more so painfully tortourous to read. With the john-snot-drool thing i literally gagged irl

Happy 4/13! I cosplayed a super basic Bro at a con today.

>>10908457
man i wen ton msparp all the time. I was a dirk who met an android HAL on there, and we became friends and talked on skype everyday for years. It ended up going super super toxic and i got obsessed, but honestly I can say id never been so in love with anyone in my entire life. That relationship changed me, it was like... well, it was a lot. I would save the skype chats, but I cant get into the accounts anymore because I dont have the emails or the phone numbers.... I tried doing microsoft supports but nothing worked. It was a crazy time, I just hope I can experience emotions and feelings somewhere even close to that degree again. Preferably irl this time though instead of just online. But yeah that friendship changed my life

>>10910236
i met friends on msparp im still friends with today

I went today and it was kinda dead sadly, given it was a Tuesday afternoon but whatever. A few people did show up in cosplay and such later on so that was nice, I chatted with some...Kinda awkward.

By the ballpit they had a notebooks to draw and leave a doodle. I might go again near the weekend and see if more people turn up.

>>10910637
Okay I’m in love with Karcup

>>10910635
Were the waffle and soup really the only food items? Was hoping to get some variety to go with all the drinks... Oh well. I'm looking forward to drawing and leaving some stickers next week.

>>10910697
Yeah sadly, they also have some regular normal menu cakes and such. But it's never available lol. I've seen others bring in outside food tho.
>I'm looking forward to drawing and leaving some stickers next week.

Have fun anon

>>10910707
Nice to know at least! Thanks, and I hope you have a fun time too if you do go again. I'm sure the weekend crowd will be more lively [spoiler]but still awkward[/spoiler]

Does anyone still cosplay Homestuck at cons or are events like Requiem the only socially acceptable place to do it now?

>>10910788
Yeah people still cosplay homestuck at cons, but it’s not in droves like it used to be a decade ago. I have seen a slight uptick in homestuck cosplays since cons started back up post covid though

>>10910788
If I could get away with it in Alabama you can get away with it anywhere
I saw another one there too

>>10910788
I saw about a dozen at Sak but not in a powwow circle or anything. I think this year being a significant anniversary and cons being back to normal is helping.

>>10894382
>HS2 renaissance
Jesus fucking christ just let Homestuck stay dead.

>>10910932
>Jesus fucking christ just let Homestuck stay dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrhTB2Sij8c

>>10899185
Did Hussie actually troon?? For real??

>>10910942
I think Hussie was considering using gender-neutral pronouns at some point, but the Wikipedia page for him still uses male pronouns and the wikipedia faggots would absolutely have switched if there was a solid reason to so idk.

At the very least Hussie seems to know that Homestuck is a dead IP and really wants nothing to do with it anymore, and I can't say I blame him.

>>10910956
I just want them to finish up Hiveswap so I can finally get some fucking closure

>>10910942
he said he's clowngender and uses any pronouns, so probably.

>>10910942
>>10911018
Roach and all his personal friends still use male pronouns for him, so I suspect clowngender was a halfassed way to stay hip with the kids and avoid cancellation for being a straight man who did racist comics and has a track record of dating women 20 years younger than him.

Went back for more(tm)
Shit was nice and had a bit more people there enjoying themselves. In cosplay and causal homestuck themed outfits
WAyyyy more drawings, all great

Yall think they'll done this event again?

Cringe but whatever.
I dont wanna spam here and I'll just post more shit on my twitter but heyoo.

Funny enough, I spoke of 4chan in the cafe and some lard gave me a look lmao.

going back on actual cosplay talk, when it comes to painting skin grey, what are good products or brands for it?

>>10911604
>2 Junes
>no Johns

>>10911607
For you dude

>>10911608
zoosmell pooplord, my liege

>>10905846
Really the most difficult part is just getting the shades. Maybe facepaint if you're dedicated to accuracy but for the most part it's pretty easy.

>>10912925
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1102536872/medium-v2000-pointy-v-cosplay-costume?click_key=415bf9ca21808d4390ef9dcc0ce20a2d2f850ba5%3A1102536872&click_sum=83967163&ref=shop_home_feat_1

Here ya go. This guy has been making homestuck glasses for cosplayers for like a decade plus at this point

>>10912932
No no I already have my own pair of shades I was just meant that the shades are kinda something you'd have to seek out, not as common as the rest of what bro wears
Thanks anyway though

>>10912925
>>10912932
looked all over fucking amazon and they ship to italy the FUCKING DAY AFTER THE con i want to shoot myself

i roleplayed dirkdave back in 2013 with a girl and we married in 2022 ... still together and calling each other bro

>>10913065
Yes but they're all boys(male)

>>10913027
it hurts to see others living your dream

>>10913568
Hilarious photo, but also giving me major childhood nostalgia. That used to be one of my favorite arcade games as a kid

>>10911607
I only saw the front John until I saw your post, and I assumed it was supposed to be him growing out his hair to look like Con Air Nic Cage

genuinely one of the funniest images on the internet in my opinion

>>10894363
Homestuck fans died long before that.
Hussie killed like 90% of his readers during all the hiatuses post-hiveswap kickstarter

>>10901099
This was true for people in my high school who liked Homestuck.

I only read it two years ago despite hearing about it since I was 11 or something. I'm dumbfounded on how the comic itself would be seen as pro-trans considering every ship before act 5 was straight and even a majority in act 5 are too. I guess it's the community influence or maybe something like how computer science majors are prone to trooning out. It's hard to find Homestuck fans to talk to since they're so obsessed with gender identity BS and care more about the characters sexuality than theories about the game

>>10917928
I think that’s just part of being a decade late to the fandom. A lot of plot related discussions already happened on tumblr (which you could probably still go find) or in person. Despite how socially inept homestucks were, we were also surprisingly social. I mean back then I lived somewhere with less than 75k people. Someone posted about wanting to do a homestuck meetup at a park and around 20-30 people showed up

>>10910788
I just went to a con yesterday as GT John, and I was surprised, even if it was only a few, how many folks were so happy to see me going around. Hell, I even got a Dave and a Nep wanting a photo not even 15 minutes in (and I regret not asking for that pic for myself, desu.) I saw those two, a post-bender Terezi, and I heard there was a Jade around whom I didn't see, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few more today.

>>10910788
When I went to a con last year, I saw two girls probably around middle school age dressed as Gamzee and Karkat.
Felt sort of bad that kids were still finding the story, considering how bad it ended up in the end.

>>10917928
GOD I never had anyone in my school know about Homestuck or any similar piece of media... I was a HUGE fan. One time we had a family karaoke night and I sang Karkalicious with all my might and soul. i dressed up as Dave for every Halloween party and once I sent a trojan horse to my best friend and told her it was a game called sburb we had to play. Good days

aw man... the first con i went to had a sizeable amount of homestuck cosplayers around, interesting to see that this webcomic managed to get some attention in my country even though it's full of american references. i have a lot of cringy memories, some nice ones too, like the time a nepeta cosplayer hugged me.

>>10899085
>Caliborn is stupid even tho he's literally me.
GO FUCK YOURSELF. FUCKING PHILLISTINE ASSHOLE.

>>10910942
I think the clown thing is just another elaborate ruse.

>>10911605
99% proof ethanol, sharpies

The con I went to last weekend had multiple groups of homestuck cosplayers. Is it back?

>>10924248

We are so black!

>>10923493
Mating Press
4 kids at leat.

I am having wet dreams about postgame Jane Crocker.

Any of you fuckers at Anime expo?

>>10924455
Trolls can't get pregnant you bald retard

>>10925620
Was(Day 2 goer) here
Some some trolls and meet some cool people that also went the Cafe earlier this year.

>>10926560

>>10926561

>>10926563
That's about it really. I was told there was a HS gathering on day one, IDK if anyone has posted pics online.

>>10926566
sex with vriska cosplayer

is this what happened to /hsg/? greetings from /co/ btw

>>10926987
they're on two websites now, also biweekly threads whenever hs2 updates

>>10926699
she looks 17 at most, what the fucks wrong with you anon

>>10927480
im 18 lol

Are cosplay rp panels a thing anymore? I remember watching them on youtube in middle school and thinking they looked sooo cool and fun.

>>10927814
Maybe, if there were any it'll probs be held in some bumfuck nowhere middwest con

>>10909320
they don't look old enough to know what homestuck is

>>10924248
>>10924342
No
>>10925620
no
>>10926987
no
https://old.reddit.com/r/EnglishPumpkinParty/

Oh shit it's guy, blessing up with his presence.

>>10928231
I don't know if "blessing" is the word I would use

>>10926987
they have megidochan (shitposting) and sturdy /co/ versions (tiktok thrist)

From the most recent Ota.

>>10932086

>>10932088

>>10932089

>>10932090
>>10932088
>>10932086
Very wholesome 100

>>10932089
>the tail

dave strider

karkat vantas

Ugly fucking people.

>>10932721
so true!

still wwould

>>10894317 (OP)

Sucks so hard that there seems to be barely any homestuck cosplayers outside thee us, even at cons.

>>10894317 (OP)
Im working on a homestuck cosplay at this very moment actually

>I never got to live my fantasy of banging a cute homestuck cosplayer

>>10899821
>weird characters
Who?

>>10894317 (OP)
im actually so happy i found a homestuck fans

Anyone going to the Homestuck group shoot at Dragon Con on Friday?

>>10934304
I did. sorry anon.

>>10935277
Was it any good?

>>10935311
girl was smelly (the good kind of nerd smell) but she was very good, solidified my jade/dave ship

>>10935408
How was her body?

>>10935408
you lucky bastard

Anyone have plans for Magfest? I'm planning on cosplaying Jade and Redglare. It would be nice to get together a meetup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW6Mb-yrDZs

Does anyone here (over 18) do roleplay at all?

>>10937432
I would but the girls you find are all probably trans or ugly now

>>10937432
I stopped Rping a few years ago
it's all ERP now, no one wants to goof off as Characters anymore.

>>10937484
Asl?

>>10937432
>>10937484
I'm not one for longform RP, at least where I have to expose fellow humans to the cringe, textgen AI is cool.
I still shitpost in troll quirk since my hsg-marinated brain has never recovered

>>10937621
I miss trollmegle

>>10937484
i'm still on dreambubble roulette rp, it's not that hard to avoid straight up cybering if you build a long blocklist. i've had some good interesting character interactions with e.g. commander karkat and jane.

>>10937484
i miss all the degenerate shit i did on msparp so much

bump

Is homestuck still a thing

>>10943029
Yeah hs2 started back up a bit ago iirc

i think i got into homestuck about 12 years too late.

Ngl, I expected Helluva Boss/Hazbin fans to carry the homestuck con torch but that didn't happen at all. Almost everyone I knew who was invested into HS went onto being a Vivziepop faggot, none of them cosplayed as any of the characters.

>>10926561
why are you wearing 2 different shoes??

>>10946000
the characters are nearly impossible to cosplay, let alone well. homestuck was popular to cosplay because almost all of the designs were just jeans and a t shirt, so any kid who could get their hands on some modelling clay could do it.

Just caught up with HS^2
Why is Karkat Big Boss now?

>>10946043
exactly. and the blankness that comes with such a simple design allowed cosplayers to customize and get creative with shit. hazbin designs are so overcrowded and hard to look at. too many details and none of them interesting. also red facepaint is harder to conquer than gray

>>10928151
mostflogged my beloved

>>10946014
You weren't supposed to noticed.

I love Homestuck!

Will maybe cosplay Jake English to the next con I go to
Although homestuck stuff seems to be completely dead outside the us

ngl sucks that i only got into the fandom so late cuz its hard to make friends TTTT i dowloaded pesterchum but the most active board is filled with like 20 people who all seem to already know eachother

>>10948804
That and also the fact that every other modern HS fan is either a
>Jaded veteran whose had all their passion and wonder sucked out of them by the deterioration of this comic, renouncing both it and their love of it
Or
>Insufferable younger zoomer who can only communicate in irony drenched memes and self fellating tweets while having opinions that would make the most stereotypical tumblr user seem moderate in comparison
God, what I would give to be able to experience Homestuck at it's prime. That shit looked like it was fun.

>>10948809
Everywhere I go to find HS fans, I just meet the most unbearable people ever. Granted, tiktok probably isn't the best platform to find hs fans because they all appear to be under the age of 14, are chronically online, plain stupid, etc. but discord servers are also severely mentally ill.

Also real, I'm trying to put together a dave cosplay right now and I can only dream about going to a con and meeting other homestucks but I'll keep dreaming because I don't live in the states since it's basically dead anywhere else TTTT

>>10948804
Try and see if you can find people to talk to on pesterchum the next time /hsg/ happens on co ig. They have a board on an altchan too but I forget the name.
If you're in the UK I am >>10948449 but barely ever go to cons.

>>10948844
aww im in Canada ;;; I've only ever been to like 2 or 3 cons but I don't think I've ever seen HS cosplayers at all

Thanks for the advice! also srry dumping my drawing here cuz I just need somewhere to throw my hs fanarts since I have no one to talk to abt it

Well lads, with 4/13 coming up, are any of you coming up with any plans to celebrate it? I think they're doing a sponsored event at some place other than the Requiem cafe this year but I can't remember.

>>10948846
what cons? They're still around for most of the GTA area ones - certainly not as much as there used to but you'll see a couple every time you go

Just finished my Dirk shades for an upcoming con. Not the best but they'll do the job

Anybody buying tickets to Promstuck? I was considering it, but it's in California in the dead of summer, what the hell were they thinking?

>>10949875
>5 ish hour drive near the middle of nowhere
nah, I'll pass on that event, I Live in LA and I'm not going to stress with that.
>California in the dead of summer
A nice Fall prom would've been MUCH better.

this event was made for the Bay Area fuckers

With Beyond Canon now on break, any hope Act 2 will be better or just as worse? Also, here's the Requiem Assets since it had a copyright strike by HONE.
https://litter.catbox.moe/f4xg37.zip

any1 going 2 anime north? theres a homestuck shoot on sunday

just posting to remember.

>>10948804
Hey cool kid, is this you.

>>10953802
there's no need to bump dead threads

>>10953894
luckily this is no dead thread, newfag

>>10950168
Why did the /co/ jannies delete this thread... I hate them... I hate the ban...

>>10954544
Homestuck is actually banned on /co/ and everywhere else apart from /trash/

A bit like /mlp/

But no one cares about /cgl/ so this thread exists

>>10953894