I’m almost afraid to ask. What is marchingstuck?

prokopetz:

@weaselsblaugh replied:

prokopetz:

(With reference to this post here.)

Okay, strap yourselves in, folks…

For those who don’t remember the Dark Times, at the height of its popularity, Homestuck
had spawned several fan-created AUs that were, themselves, popular
enough that people unconnected to their creators would write fanfic set
in them, cosplay as the AU versions of various characters, and so forth. It
got to the point that some of the most well-established AUs had
separate mini-fandoms made up of folks who’d never actually read Homestuck proper, and were in it just for that AU.

The most prominent example of the type is probably Marchingstuck,
a high school AU in which the Beta kids and Alternian trolls were all members of a school marching band. (The Alpha kids and Beforan trolls don’t feature
because the whole AU lived and died prior to their introduction.) Marchingstuck was so popular that it went recursive and spawned its own fandom project, a Tumblr-hosted fan-fan-comic called Promstuck that ran for six months in the latter half of 2011 and successfully concluded after over 250 pages.

(I was never into Marchingstuck myself, though I did casually follow 4chords for a while.)

Why does this description sound like some kind of post-modern Hitchhiker’s Guide kind of prose?

Trying to explain fringe fandom as a cultural phenomenon in a way that would be comprehensible to a reader who’s coming in with no prior context is just like that. Seriously, try to explain, say, Ke$hastuck in a manner that would make sense to the uninitiated without sounding like an alien anthropologist struggling to make sense of human society in the process.

Watching the Tremors series for the hundredth time, and I have to say: Burt Gummer is like the weird love-child of Bro Strider and Grandpa Harley. Hypermasculine survivalist monster hunter wearing a baseball hat and Dave glasses. I love him.

I’ve been watching a lot of Lindsey Ellis and a bunch of other internet reviewers lately, and now I really want to see an AU or even canon compliant verse where the kids all become different internet reviewers. John loves bad movies, Dirk is a self-proclaimed pop culture scholar, and Jake tries to start internet fights about Weekend at Bernie’s with random internet people. They could all have a different gimmick and have fun crossovers and it would be beautiful.

/BIG BREATH hello i have a patreon

callmearcturus:

Okay, so it’s my birthday today and my gift to myself is some self-promotion without feeling guilty about it. Just this once.

Hi! I’m Arcturus! And I write a fucking lot!

In 2017, I wrote:

If you allow me to include in the final chapter of TWYCC which was posted last week, my total word count is: 267,080.

For the coming year, I have several projects in mind. I got about three to four stories I would like to write, as well as the next chapter of the fangame. On top of that, my literal and actual goal for this year is to get the rough draft of The Novel done.

POINT BEING if you like how this sounds and like the stuff I do, would you consider backing me on Patreon?

My Patreon has been amazing and has been enormously helpful in the past, both to subsidize my monthly bills and to help in emergencies. For example, last year, when I had an emergency tooth removal that I needed done immediately, it was folks’ support that let me even do that. Which is enormous and I’m so grateful. Stuff that would have ruined me 4 years ago, I can weather carefully.

So having more support would increase that bubble, and help me handle things, like the fact I def need new glasses this year and other expenses that are sure to pop up.

If you are able, I would be goddamn honored if you’d support me. I think I’m a fairly safe bet output-wise, and that’ll only become more true with more of a safety net.

And yo, it’s my birthday! So! Thanks for reading! /nervously jazzhands