Drew Linky
Back in 2019 I first asked for people to contribute some of their own writing, which turned out to be one of my favorite parts of this website. After so many years, I realize that I've described many various people but they have not as yet had a chance to describe themselves freely.
This page, whose title means "Voices of the People," now serves that purpose. I don't know how many people will choose to submit writing, but I have a submission form for anyone who might feel like it. I'm not going to accept every single submission--there are stipulations listed on the form itself--but the bar is quite low, all things considered. If I do accept a submission, the writing will be totally of that person's own choosing without commentary or input from me.
If the person making a submission has appeared in this document before (that I can remember), I will also add a link to their first appearance to their entry. I hope that this will widen the look into the mindset of people who have hung around in the Homestuck Discord, and in the fandom as a whole.
Alice Bowman
7th of November 2025
I'm Michael Bowman's wife. Go listen to his work right now: https://michaelguybowman.com/
Now you have a soundtrack to read this page to.
I went to university for animation, while there I got pressganged by everyone I knew into finally reading Homestuck in 2012. I immediately got super invested and ended up backing the Kickstarter later that year. I thought I'd gotten into it late then, never would have thought I'd be here now.
I never finished the comic while it was running, but picked it back up during covid. This time around, I decided to look into the people who made the music I liked the first time around, and found Bowman's Spotify page. Gravity Makes the Flame Rise was the first album he released after I started following his work and I was pulled in by how timely and insightful its message was. It wasn't until a few years later that I finally met Michael at an open mic, we started hanging out, and eventually got married.
Actually, the reason I'm even in the HSD now is directly because of him. I heard about the first official Requiem collab in 2023 and wanted to see if he'd be invited to perform. Then I crashed the party without a ticket that year and it was the first real time I actually interacted with the Homestuck fandom. It's weird, because I considered myself no longer a Homestuck fan twice after getting invested two separate times, but now my life is unexpectedly entwined with it.
I genuinely think it's a good work of fiction. It's novel and innovative in its format and style, and was an early insight into a then-overlooked demographic of people whose primary form of social interaction was online. The incorporation of music was what captured my attention and the escalation of stakes was what kept my interest. Maybe its infinitely expanding stake escalation juxtaposed with its fatalistic perspective on the universe was ultimately its downfall, but it makes for a fascinating look into a kind of solipsistic nihilism that develops out of a failed coming of age. Even now, nothing quite like it exists. I think it can be easy to become jaded and insecure about identifying yourself with such a maligned and misunderstood piece of media with a complicated history, but I hope people would be willing to grant it the respect it deserves for what it is.
Aiden
22nd of February 2026
Like anyone of the human race, I get bored… but just a lot.
Hi, my name is Aiden.
I first discovered Homestuck around 2016, being a small child on the internet had its tolls, and young me had just discovered the biggest mistake of future me’s life (lie). I had begun a read through, but it was too complex for my little brain. It was fun though to read and see cool drawings.
I’ve been online since the ripe year of 2015 (googoo gaga i know). But when you grow up in a boring little town in West Virginia you learn how to entertain yourself using the internet.
From a young age I’ve always enjoyed messing around with computers, there wasn’t really much more to do at that time anyways.
I have a few hobbies, not much but I enjoy what I do. I like to 3D print, play video games, grow plants, keep reptiles, and explore the outdoors.
I joined HSD after the “new” Homestuck show was announced, remembering all of the antiHomestuck memes I never understood as a kid. It was surely a.. decision.. at best. But now I have some good internet friends that I enjoy talking to, and keep me busy. I’m now integrated within #general culture, which I will probably be for quite a while.
I think thats about it about me, bye!
alaoel
28th of April 2026
I was one of the first HSD members to post in the #homosuck channel (the homestuck themed altgen basically, a reincarnation of the old #Althomestuck), and as such I got in there right as the clique was forming and had my hand in making one of the channel's earliest memes, one that got very much out of hand and led to a whole bunch of fandom nonsense, even outside the HSD.
One day early on in the channel's lifespan, I was scrolling through shitty Homestuck memes on google images and had found an old deviant user's shipping grid that featured their genderbent Karkat OC, Karmen Vantas.
The image shows them (a sort of poorly drawn MS Paint Karkat with long hair) reacting to different Homestuck pairings in three or so stock poses: John and Dave, "I thought they were just friends." Rosemary, "It's a pretty obvious relationship." Karket and John: "Stop pairing me with that fuckass!", complete with blushing and tsundere nose bleed. It was charming in the sense that it wore its age, coming straight out of the 2012 fandom, and was such an amateur work. Scribbled in mspaint, this genderbent tsundere. It was a sort of relic I suppose.
After finding it, I began to post it daily in Homosuck - more than daily a lot of the time, posting it pretty much every time I opened the channel. People of course took notice because of my (almost) spam and would take part in posting themselves (though I think the charm gave it as much longevity as it had beyond just being a forced meme), which evolved into joking about Karmen, drawing art of her, making custom shipping grids... The works really. It become almost a signifier of being in on the joke, being part of the group. We, the homosuckers, knew about Karmen. She was a symbol of our clique.
Of course I am not suggesting that Karmen enabled homosuck to develop an in group, the reverse is certainly more true - the developing of said in group enabled Karmen to grow within the channel as it became more cliquey, more of said in group, more of "us". Eventually I stopped using Homosuck as it became more and more of a clique, but the users there did not stop posting Karmen. In fact, they were just getting started. They were going to make a video game.
Meet Tennohs Mantra: He draws homestuck porn on the internet. For a while his thing was drawing trolls getting fucked by bugs I think, but my understanding is that he's been run off pretty much every platform by now and draws art that is a lot more taboo for a private audience. He was a regular user of Homosuck and liked to draw other peoples Trollsonas, and only very rarely did he draw them in compromising positions without the creators consent. My understanding is that the discussion of a Karmen video game happened sort of on and off in the channel, but Tennohs was the first person to take it seriously.
He was going to make it. It was going to be his game.
It was going to be Karmen Quest.
So he put together a few people from the channel, recruiting whoever he wanted to code and do art and write for and come up with ideas for the game, being made in RPG Maker (I believe RPG Maker MV specifically). At this point it was pretty much aimless, with a load of people clammering for their OCs to be in the game and random art and music and planning being done - not much 'real' work. Still in essence, kids talking about their dreams of one day getting hired at Nintendo and making the best game ever with all of their OCs and awesome fight scenes and cool ideas.
The lack of progress being made was not helped by the fact that Tennohs booted people off the project on a whim - 'The title screen you coded is good, sure, but you're a moderator on the HSD.' Bam. Out. 'This song is nice, but you're upset that I drew your trollsona naked without asking you and posted it online.' Donezo. You're gone. 'That's some cool art of Karmen, but I don't like you.' Etc.
Over the next few months, pretty much every Homosuck user that was involved with the project was booted off by Tennohs, or left of their own volition. This did not put Tennohs off, however. For every member that they lost, there was a Homestuck porn artist on twitter who could replace them. So they did.
The game started development in early 2022, and it was probably some time in 2023 that the team shift happened and the game looked pretty much dead. Occasionally Tennohs would boast new features - dating sim with all of my friends OCs as optional content and the like - but nothing really materialized.
Then, in october 2023, the demo releases. You play as Karmen and walk around an alternian city, and get to have Tennohs' OCs join your party. You can slay one or two monsters. There is pretty much nothing else to do. I don't think any of the old Homosuck users trollsonas actually got added, for as much fuss was made over it when the game started development - at the time another signifier of who was in and who was out, who was homosuck and who wasn't, etc.
Then: January 2024. The trailer drops. It is entirely in 3D. The game is going to be 3D now. Or not. Or some of it is going to be 3D and some of it isn't, but that's not important: LORE. That's whats important. What was once a game about a female Karkat wandering alternia seemingly doesn't even take place on Alternia anymore. It appears to be an AU based primarily on Tennoh's own OCs (some recycled from an older, failed RPG Maker project Tennohs had attempted a few years earlier), with some radicalist Christian theming. Or anti Christian theming. Well, this is weird - this is almost completely removed from anything that had to with Homosuck, but at least it still has Karmen.
OCTOBER 2024: KARMEN IS REMOVED.
The game is now titled 'Garland' and exclusively features Tennoh's OCs. Since then, there has been zero real news about the game or its state of development.
Karmen is dead. Long live Garland.
At some point after this, some pretty serious accusations are made against Tennohs, a few involving users from Homosuck. They are unsavory and (unfortunately) predictable, being made against someone who would draw porn of people he knew's self inserts and post it behind their back. Sometimes I look back and think, if I didn't post Karmen, would this have happened? Yeah. Of course it would. It's probably egotistical and insensitive for me to even ask. But I did give him the rallying flag, the image, the meme, the joke, the game that allowed him to attract attention and a build a (in the end short lived) cult of personality around himself. Certainly having the 'power' of Karmen Quest enabled some of his lechery.
Whatever. I was gone by that point. C'est la vie.
Now, what was happening on Homosuck in all this time? (Probably) unrelated to the Karmen Quest ordeal, the users got close for a while - a lot of drawing each others OCs, making memes and injokes and in general being a cliquey community - and then they got further apart. Some users got banned, some splintered, some just stopped using the channel. It ended up being a channel with a very high turnaround rate.
Pretty much every new (and usually younger) user got directed to Homosuck when they joined, so there were a lot of people who just disappeared after a couple weeks (not ending up being a long term HSD user) or 'graduated' to another channel. It was always pretty active, but never as cliquey or as much of a community as it was in the peak of like 2023.
As all the older users disappeared and new ones cropped up, people basically just forgot about Karmen. It existed for a while as only this project that Tennohs was heading, unitl it didn't even exist as that.
Today, though, Karmen exists as emotes in the new HSC. A minimal presence, but a presence nonetheless. That's my stamp I guess. Or not. I didn't even create Karmen in the first place.
anankeAverted
11th of October 2025
Hsd is a great place if you want to cut your teeth in arguing, but it’s a lot like 4chan in that having genuine opinions is to your detriment. You are encouraged to argue for the sake of it and choose whatever side is more expedient. I had a lot of fun when I was in hsd, but it just brings out the pedantic asshole in everyone.
astrumTempestas
28th of April 2026
Maid/Sylph and Witch/Heir ARE real I don't CARE what Hussie says
Bruhmeister
22nd of February 2026
I've been rewriting what I want to share so many times now. I'll keep it shorter I think
I'm Bruhmeister and I've been to so many corners of the internet. Recently, and only recently, I began to form my own thoughts instead of regurgitating fun facts on YouTube and it's been great. I realized I enjoy art in all her many forms. I wish myself a wonderful 10,0000 years
bunnysoryu a.k.a. vivi
28th of April 2026
hi im freakbunnybitch69420 (they/them) and this is a story. i got into homestuck when i was 10 (around christmas of 2013, if that makes you feel old/young its not my fault). homestuck is one of those things that i genuinely dont remember a lot of what i was like before finding it. i definitely should not have been on deviantart at 9 years old, but i shockingly had only positive experiences on there, especially when it later came to the homestuck fandom. i saw so many artists who welcomed just about anyone and gave me very important advice that kept me safe for the rest of my internet existence.
the fandom has changed extraordinarily from how i remembered it as a kid. its like im in a sort of mandela effect where everyone on twitter after 2019 remembers a different version of homestuck from me, and im the weird one for pointing it out. i miss when you would make-up symbols for your fantrolls and you werent thrown the book of "extended zodiacs" with a low-effort personality quiz attached to it. i miss making up bullshit theories with my friends about what the final battle would look like, what the final piece of text would be, who else would die, if there would be epilogues (kills myself slowly and painfully). i miss a lot of things that just cant happen anymore.
things change and its sad and it happens. but i still rewatch cascade and cry, i still argue about classpects, i still make fanart and make up fantrolls, i still listen to the soundtrack on my way to work, and i still force my friends to read it and they unfortunately love it too. im still nostalgic for it, and as easy as it is to complain and whine about the past, theres still people out there who feel the same as me. so as long as im not the only one waxing poetic about a stupid webcomic from 2009, then im okay with that. im okay with a lot of things.
Caledwlfch
18th of October 2025
Hey! I'm Caled. Figured since I've been here for eight long years, gone drinkin' with a good number of the people also on this list at various meetups, and gotten into enough circular arguments where we're all actually in agreement, I qualify as enough of a reg to be listed as a dramatis persona (heh) here.
With the benefit of hindsight, my getting into Homestuck (about exactly ten years ago as of writing this) is a pretty key inflection point in shaping what I'm like today. The mental game of looking at that first domino and seeing the results still panning out is a fun exercise, regardless of the embarrassment that comes from dredging up memories of what I used to be like back in the day. Definitely not as noteworthy as some of the colourful cast here, but not far off. That's part of the fun though; in a community like this, better to haves than haves-not.
Speaking of memories, writing this out has me thinking back to a specific one from the 2024 meetup in DC. I was driving with Harpy and Reti, and the conversation turned to our collective experiences in this fascinating greater social circle that had dragged us there. The general feeling we had how unique this place was in the kind of people it attracted, and that the list of things that would be *different* if we hadn't found ourselves here however long ago was too exhaustive to measure.
Homestuck is weird. That weirdness has a tendency to draw in weird and interesting people. I like that. That aspect is to credit for me making an unbelievable number of near and dear friends over the years, and why I find myself staring at a full cosplay of Dave's red plush tux & sword (take a guess which one) I put together *this* year. Honestly, most of my big passion projects like my SMT cosplays or 40K armies have been the result of burgeoning interests being recommended and encouraged by people here. Go stalk a social of mine under this same handle if you wanna see em. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for this place for that reason and many others; here's to however many more memories I'll have from this place, fun and cringe-inducing alike :)
Carlarc
11th of October 2025
THE PHYSICAL RETURN OF CHRIST
Cecily Renns
28th of April 2026
I'm Cecily, an independent musician mostly known in the emo and furry spaces for my work in the band MIDI Bunny! But before I was an emo rockstar, I was a Homestuck fan musician - first in the shitposting community known as "cool and new music team", and later for the Unofficial MSPA Fans in albums like Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2.
Like many others, my run into Homestuck began with Undertale, in early 2016. I sought out for Toby "Radiation" Fox's other works, which led me to his musical contributions to Homestuck, and the flash animations that his music accompanied (such as "Descend" and "Jack: Ascend") piqued my interest enough that in February, I binged through all available updates at the time, which ended at "Terezi: Remem8er".
That means my first update ever was "Collide." I distinctly remember coming home from middle school, at the age of 14, on the 6th of April, 2016, checking my phone and seeing the update get posted on the /r/Homestuck subreddit, and freaking out. I was actually able to watch it on my walk home because it was hosted on Youtube, not as a Flash animation.
Mere two days before that update, on the 4th, I created my Discord account and joined my first ever server; the Homestuck Discord Server, or the HSD as it became known. I was not an active member back then; mostly sticking around in #general and #mspa-lit. My activity was mostly confined to my contributions to the cool and new music team.
There is already a document explaining the history of the CANMT by wheals, so I won't go too much into it here - but, basically, it was created to make fan music for the fanventure cool and new web comic, but because we were an independent entity separate from the fanventure and its creator, we eventually started doing our own thing and just became a general Homestuck audio shitposting collective. My time in the CANMT were some of the most fun I ever had making music - and my memories of Homestuck and its fandom will always be associated with how much I loved being there and the lovely friends I made there.
Over the years - a whole decade from back then - I've gone back and forth into dabbling in Homestuck and its fandom again. Only recently did I really start interacting with the fandom and its associated servers again. After the destruction of the HSD, Cedric (cookiefonster, god bless him) led me to the refugee SPAT discord server, where I got to make many new friends, many of whom joined the fandom after me but wasn't familiar with who I am because I had been away for so long. Then when the HSD resurrected, I've been talking there basically every day, and enjoying my time interacting with this community again. It truly feels like I never really left it in the first place - As the legendary producer SOPHIE (Rest in Peace) once sung, "just like we never said goodbye."
My feelings on the comic and its creator may have soured over the years, but I will always cherish the memories and friends I made here. Ultimately, Homestuck will always have a place in my heart, and I don't find it necessary to distance myself from it, as it's part of what made who I am.
Cello
11th of October 2025
Imagine, if you will, an Argentine boy at the prime age of 17 on mid 2018 deciding to start reading this comic that the maker of one of his favorite games, UNDERTALE's Toby Fox, made music for, and as he reads it on his highschool classes during October while doing nothing in particular, he realises that Twitter is blowing up because a strange man with six characters for a name has hijacked the UNDERTALE Twitter account to talk about their "EXPERIMENT". Now that's one hell of a way to drag someone deep into the fandom rabbit hole.
And so, age 23 at 11:39PM, this Argentine boy is now adding his contribution to SPAT, because he has nothing else to do and hopes that, if anything, this will be an interesting read. For starters, yes, Homestuck rocks, and the music especially rocks double-fold. Thanks to it, I hopped into Discord, which led me to meet my online friend group and the wider HS community as a whole, as well as other communities.
One thing I have learnt of this fanbase is that Homestuck brings the best and worst of people, me included. I have learnt so much about it, like how I wish to express myself or tastes in many things or views on the world, politics and society; I have met some of my best friends through it, and learnt much more of the world that I ever could have had. I have also learned that I tend to let myself make bullshit, technicality arguments and generally act in immature and infantile ways out of a realization that none of this matters in the grand scheme of things and that due to this I tend to regress to a much more volatile and emotionally-led teenage boy that was fed by Youtube edgy atheist and proto-rationalists-turned-right-wing-or-conspiracists and learnt basically everything from them in terms of how to behave on the Internet. I'm getting better, though. Hopefully.
As a diatribe, here's a handful of things I would recommend learning or getting into somewhat related to Homestuck in some form or fashion:
- Linux! No, really, get into it. Pick Mint, Fedora or one of the less sucky variations of Ubuntu, and learn how to use it, modify it, break it and make it your own. Yes, the terminal is a daring thing to look at, and you'll eventually be forced to use it at some point. It's worth some friction to set things up for a better service than live with zero friction on a continually worse service with Windows.
- Open source software! Learn to be self-dependent on programs that don't want to extract every bit of information about you and your computer. There won't be 100% equal, 1:1 replacements to everything you use, and you'll likely still have to use some proprietary software for very specific activities of yours; but the more you disconnect, the better. Besides, there's always cool and odd software you might end up finding that fit your purpose or are simply neat.
- DAWs! Digital Audio Workstation, aka that thing which makes music stuff. There are many free, there are many that are paid or have restrictive demos. Whichever you end up sticking with, you'll eventually get the hang of it and make your own music, for yourself, your friends or to the world. Make stuff! It's never too late to learn something new, after all.
- Side diatribe: Trackers! These were and still are programs made to create music using a methodology created in the 80s for old, *old* computers involve hexadecimal and (seemingly) random assortments of letters and numbers. Some of them are still being updated to this day, either for modern OSes, or for their original environments. Compared to standard DAWs they are a bitch to get your head around, but they are absolutely worthwhile learning, or if not, enjoying the thousands and thousands of hours of tracker modules already made.
Logos used in order: OpenMPT, Sunvox, MilkyTracker.) - Bandcamp! If you wish to support musicians you enjoy bopping to directly, buy their music or merchandise through Bandcamp if it's an option. Especially do it during Bandcamp Fridays, where 100% of the revenue made will go directly to artists' pockets.
- RateYourMusic and any other review sites! Yes, review congregation websites like RYM or Letterboxd tend to be memed on by their community which is often fraught with snobs and elitists, but they are pretty much the best way to get into other musicians that isn't fed by the algorithm of Spotify or Youtube.
- I'll also add here that there are, indeed, software that fall into the Ill-Repute acquisition of goods. While I will not endanger the status of SPAT as a possible piracy hub, these wares do exist if you look for them and learn how to use them. But remember: snitches get stitches. :3
Yes, this is the Open-Source Communist Manifesto, but damn it, we need to take back control! Break the machine!
(If whoever reads this needs help or wants to know more, please ping me in the HSD as @cellolord, or look for the person posting news about Argentina's politics on the World-Politics thread.)
If there's one thing you should take out of this whole mess is that fandoms are an omni-edged sword that can make amazing work or cut and slash through everyone and everything if given enough fuel and reasons and anger to do so, no matter how flimsy the actual evidence for any one reason or anger is. They can be used for good and create wonderful projects like the Unofficial MSPA Fans Music Team, deconrecon, Paradox Team and the dozen of fanventures and artists that have gestated and grown within and outside of Homestuck's scene, but also create situations where everything is terrible and nothing good comes out at the end, such as the Entirety of Hiveswap's existence and the Entirety of the UHC's erasure. I could also write a whole article about how much the Marathon modding community suffers due to bad actors, but that's neither here or there.
"Oh, Universe, I see your face looks just like mine!/We are open wide!" - Jon Anderson. I'm definitely sure that Anderson said it.
Update 28th of April 2026:
Well. Hello again.
Honestly, it's been a wild ride since the start of 2026. Watching a place I would be happy to call my social home be swiped away and finding out it was done out of a pile of mountains of perceived slights and outright lies, seeing it slowly be rebuilt, and now, Several People Are Typing comes to an end alongside the server.
I originally contributed early on SPAT a quasi-Dave Strider-styled review of an album (Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) - Car Seat Headrest), I contributed to the Populi entries with a ramble about open source software that's just above this to read, and here I am now, not sure where things will end up with Homestuck as a whole as everyone's moved on to the new server. I feel like I should at least be happy that, for newcomers, they probably won't even care about all the drama and nightmare moments that have occurred to the HSD and affiliated from part of the official HS team and they'll enjoy Homestuck and the other MSPAs for what it is.
But it becomes harder and harder for me to tolerate even the idea that newcomers shouldn't be aware of what Hussie and his cronies have done throughout the years; maybe some would call it unneeded information, and maybe there's some truth in that because in the grand scheme of things, all of this (Hussie's general wild behaviour, his inner circle's equally extreme attitudes, the treatment of Gio and Bambosh as a whole, etc.) will not matter beyond an article on the eventual failure of Hiveswap (because it will never be finished at whatever you call reasonable time with Hiveswap's development) and video essays on the Homestuck community years from here on.
In the end, what matters is that I met so many friends and folks through this document's server, and no matter what the official team thinks of it (based on whatever they imagined this afternoon), this is still a place worth making, documenting and flourishing in. Yeah, maybe sometimes people there weren't the kindest, or with a sensible touch, or they were straight up assholes but that's honestly better than some sanitized "no ill words about anyone, ever" place like the OHSD.
Hasta luego.
| "Una vez vi que no cantabas y no se porqué | "I once saw you not singing, I don't know why |
| Si tiene voz, tienes palabras | If you have a voice, you have words |
| Déjalas caer | Let 'em fall |
| Cayéndose suena tu vida | Falling sounds your life |
| Aunque no lo creas" | Even if you don't believe it" |
- Jon Anderson. Pretty sure it was Jon Anderson who sang these mystical lyrics in a Yes outtake from the 1970s.
"A Estos Hombres Tristes", by Almendra (lyrics translation by me! :D
cessationCreation
28th of April 2026
For every one person who posts on this board with experiences, names and memories of HSD, fond or otherwise, there are probably hundreds of anonymous observers like me who were little more than flies on the wall and felt like they had nothing to share. This is more for them than it is for anyone who would consider themselves a more ‘well-known’ figure in the community. Call it an outside perspective.
I found the comic in 2015, and while it definitely shaped me in ways that are either incredibly obvious (an obnoxious sense of humor, paired with an inability to shut the hell up), or difficult/uncomfortable to share, I never joined the community proper - mostly because I found some of the people within it and the atmosphere they fomented unpleasant and maybe a little stupid. Undeniably talented, insanely creative, inventive and ambitious, but needlessly edgy and gross in that way that I find online cliques to be. Maybe it’s because I was born too late to participate in the internet forums of old, and my thumb-sucking thin skin has never been properly inoculated against the barbs of casual banter. Still, I always appreciated it from afar, and it’s not like I never tried. I dipped my toes in the HSD general channels once or twice. Attended a panel or two at local conventions. Cooked up some half-baked original characters. I’ve made friends thanks to this comic, but not here, not through this. This is foreign.
Now I’m discovering and poring through SPAT on the same day I am writing this. In the last two days alone, I have met several of the names posted here on Voces Populi, found myself introduced to a whirlwind of culture and history that I was always vaguely aware of but never belonged to, succumbed to the sensory overloading of catching up on over a decade of dumb memes and secondhand accounts of both decaying and ongoing drama, swept up in the inscrutable cocktail of nonsense that is the HSD zeitgeist, and left staggered by the herculean efforts to preserve it all unabridged. It’s the same dizzying feeling of discovering Homestuck at the beginning of the Omegapause all over again. It keeps happening.
This wasn’t my world. I am a stranger. I do not know any of them in a way that matters. Based on what I’ve heard about a select few, I hope I never do (I mean this as affectionately as possible). I am contributing to a time capsule that closes the chapter on a history I had no hand in shaping. This makes me feel, ironically, “unpleasant and maybe a little stupid” for typing the long-winded equivalent of a Kilroy Was Here. But Drew said we can post whatever we want, so if you want someone to be angry at, follow the neon sign.
My highly facetious and reductive verdict, after a 72-hour crash course in HSD history, is that they are, and have always been, a collection of weird and aggressively unfunny assholes.
But they are also beautiful.
I wish you all the best.
cookiefonster
22nd of February 2026
Alright guys, here's a little stream of consciousness dump.
I really hate Andrew Hussie as a person but Homestuck is still a fundamental cornerstone of my life as long as I live, and my presence on the HSD refuge server is proof of that. I'm heartened by the amount of people that have stuck on the server since the very beginning. Particular shoutouts to my Cool and New Music Team friends, we go way back. I've had the pleasure of meeting Cecily Renns, Cryptanark, and BobTheTacocat from the team all in person at various points: Cecily at Anthrocon (to which she flew all the way from Korea) and the latter two at MAGFest.
I think what I'm best known for in the HSD community is the Nights beach incident. Drew said in the April 2018 part of SPAT that I "will surely not live this down for a long time" and he was right. Eight years later, people still never let me forget about the incident. You just gotta own up to hilariously stupid shit you've done in the past. God knows I have absurd things I've done in real life that my mom never lets me forget about.
One thing that fascinates me (and annoys me) about modern Homestuck fans is that a lot of them seem to have never actually read the comic, or only read it once and forget all the details. This means they have weird misconceptions like Roxy/Dirk being an incest ship or Cronus having any slight semblance of redeeming qualities. I think that causes friction between me and a lot of others in fandoms, because when I get obsessed with a work of media, I know the original media like the back of my hand and any spinoffs or fanworks take lesser priority.
I frankly don't think it's likely for the original HSD server come back, but that means I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does. Sometimes in life, a big Discord server gets tragically deleted and you have to make do with it. If HSD is gone for good, I'm sure we'll make fun new memories in whichever server becomes its permanent replacement.
DefaultFormat
11th of October 2025
play xenoblade
fresh_fish
11th of October 2025
To the extent that I typically appear in SPAT, it will probably be as a heel. Many think everything I say is absurd, ragebaiting, and terrible. I will first reply that I mean whatever I say not as ragebait, but as my own thoughts. I will further add a bit from my perspective to try and show where I'm coming from.
I believe the world is full of suffering. Every day, untold numbers of animals suffer and die in pain. We humans are among those animals. Suffering is an inescapable part of life. There is no cure out there for it. Thinking there is a cure is its own kind of suffering. Thinking you have the power to fix the world will make you live an unfulfilling and unhappy life as the world continues to suffer and all you can do is watch it go.
I think everyone deserves a chance at finding peace in their short time on this earth. Part of finding peace means letting go of your connection to that suffering. Stop thinking you have a chance to change the world. Don't be so bothered by things that happen hundreds of miles away, or long ago in the past. Sometimes, you can affect what is close to you. Beyond that, it's not in your control.
Khalilah
22nd of February 2026
well this has been one wild hell of a ride. i am very new to hsd, joined last year, after reading homestuck, epilogues, and the hiveswap acts 1 and 2. i found out about homestuck through my friends whom i like dearly. and i found new friends through hsd, whom i also like dearly. hsd's copyright strike was pretty shocking and it forced more secluded server dwellers to intermingle, which is kinda fun. i dont really have much else to say.
loquaciousLark
28th of April 2026
A live-reader veteran I was not. I was always a member of that odd, indirect, second-generation age that, raised up on Undertale, Yume Nikki, and the like, experienced Homestuck principally as a stone-dead work, an unofficially hosted upload of some archival 2010s forum-tome with tenuous links to a few fandoms my schoolmate’s own circles were hazily circling, one that I, a college freshman in that grey, dull winter roundabout the late-stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, happened to download, then binge in a a state of rapt trance, across the better part of two or three months. This historical navel-gazing is not unimportant, and I ask you to indulge it, dear reader, because I would be remiss if I did not carry across to you the ways in which that time in the fandom space was an exeedingly particular one. HS2, for all intents and purposes, was a curious, but hardly relevant aborted project. Some ~400 or so panels with ambiguous ties to Andrew that had achieved a great deal of wheelspinning and the introduction of a doggirl with a stupid name, and then petered out in relative ignominy. When the first Upd8s started to poke their buds from the bare soil, it took a long while before I could remember caring. Hussie’s last grand address was Psycholonials, which then seemed an obvious final swansong, considering that the tale ended with his clownsona Zhen horse-riding past coconut palms into a distant Fijian sunset while flipping the strawman peons of his orphaned fandom the double bird. We were terribly wrong to think this, dear reader, but then, how could we know better? Maybe the more battle-hardened grognards of the fandom saw the stirrings already, but those were not the posters in my personal sphere.
What this meant, then, was that my relation with Homestuck media was chiefly archeologic. A grand, but deceased and dust-covered saga of a hundred thousand interwoven internet personas for which the credits had already passed. That sense of completeness, I think, can bring about a tendency in media fans to stamp-collect - to seek out all those static little ties and community threads and make neat obituaries of them. This is especially the case for a work like HS, of course, for which the mystique, which I then could feel out only by its absence, was so uniquely mired in the interplay of author and community. So, having finished the work, what beset me immediately was a great curiosity to peel HS apart and poke at her innards. I quite loved reading the artist notes on old album tracks, and bits of Forumspring errata, and I set about becoming familiarized with Paradox Space and Humanimals, the Off-Ramps Essay and the Olive Garden blogpost, Detective Pony and Promstuck and strange half-remembered names like Professor Mayonaka. When I first shuffled onto the former HSD, circa mid-22’, my tongue spoke the shibboleths well enough that I could pass for a native.
I simply cannot speak to the character of the HSD supraculture at that time. Drew, I think, has penned a more than adequate summation, without much need for my addition, but all the same, I did not truly participate in it to a degree where I feel I have much new perspective to add. I knew my HS, yes, but a decade of discord-server developments were beyond the ken of a younger me, and I, not uncommonly for a newgen, bristled too hard against the spines of lit and gen’s irony-culture to feel like making an attempt. To second this line of thinking, I am fairly certain, at the time of writing, my username does not once grace the annals of HSD-era SPAT. But I can still speak, at great length, to my relationship with one particular subculture, and that is the on-topic channels - #homestuck and #homosuck.
As you recall, dear reader, my emergence came at a time when, to me, the Homestuck franchise seemed to lie in a sort of quiet lull. So it was in #homestuck. The dominant cultural axis was low on contemporary Hussian drama at which to balk, but skewed high in the sort of historic and fine-scale comic discussion which most attracted me. We, a humble handful of channel-regulars, theorycrafted about SBuRB mechanical and thematic esoterica, cited forum records of scrapped plotlines about LoHaC Amber, and quibbled over troll anatomy headcanons, always snidely joking, out one side of our mouths, that Andrew thought about all this nonsense so little when he wrote it all down that the matter was unsalvageable, but then, right out the other, in almost the same breath, ranted with passion that it all could be resolved if you only looked into the open-circulatory systems that conduct hemolymph through the abdomens of real-world cicadas. We analyzed and psychoanalyzed where the canon comic stumbled, and why, and where the angles shifted, and we presented our grand, speculative alt-canons to one another in a torrent of mini-essays, broken up by periods of quiet musings about album arts and fanfic-recs. We had far too much to say about the Platonic implications of Grist, and all the ways Hiveswap broke with the retro canon on Alternian culture, and how Lusii might in fact reproduce & function as an artificial viral infection of animal-infesting fungal-spores. Our delight was in debating the merits and demerits of the Post-Canon, a word which in those days was essentially a synonym for the Epilogues, needling and deconstructing at the terrible opinions of newjoins when they were present, and then with one another when they were not. When we took it upon ourselves to have a go at a round of devil’s advocate, and shuffled our sides and our opinions to stage a bout of mock-dispute. I think we half-believed ourselves.
I vividly remember that I first came to the fore of the channel culture & peeled myself away from lurkery through a series of rant-essays about the apparent but squandered narrative appeal of Jade Harley. You see, dear reader, at the time I was something of an ‘ironic’ Jade kinnie, though the ratio of purported irony always slipped day by day, and at the time of writing it is now almost nonexistent. My writings picked up the notice of terminalTermagant, I think, and so I was indoctrinated. I pay especially respect to tT, as well as to anankeAverted - they were the mainstay interlocutors against which I first whet my Grimbark fangs, and acted the part of continual fonts of both well-spoken opinions and impeccable taste in fanfiction.
#homosuck can more easily speak for itself. It was louder and less literate than #homosuck, but it was warm and regularly funny. We loved to send old fanarts and fansongs of our favorite characters at one another, which we all remembered, because half of us were (and some still are) obvious kinnies in denial with color-coded usernames and themed pfps. We liked to rank album tracks, and ship rarepairs, and make the stupidest jokes imaginable about Cronus and Dersecest and Bugwives. Most of the #homosuck culture survived the transport to neo-HSD, though, and so did a number of the classic users. I still see its hallmarks crop up like mushrooms after rain all around the corners of the new server as it vies to find a new home channel, and the newgens are adapting quickly.
I could easily close, I think, on a bit of nostalgic mourning. A paean for that strange halcyon time-between-times when the only HS dramas we knew were the dramas in our own channels, and where we talked of Meteorstuck instead of Jesterquest, or Ly’Lac, or any of this New-Post-Canon nonsense that I can hardly bother to keep up with. There are iconic users that have been lost in the move, users I respect greatly, and their absence is felt. But I don’t want to close my writings that way.
I am, the newjoins tell me, one of the ‘oldgens’ now, by the lone virtue of the fact that three or four late years of former HSD sit in my memory. This feels blatantly incorrect to me, but so it is. As I write, the new server seems a nascent sapling, but she sits in good soil. A number of great users are still here, and more active than ever. A lot of my gripes with the old server, and I had my gripes, have faded away with it. There is a general trend of indifference to the new HSBC content, and squabbling with one another over its failings has started to turn dull. All the same, I can’t deny that the charm of the original work still lives, and is perhaps stirring stronger now that I’m not obligated to think about whatever the hell happened in the last HS2 update - Truth be told, I stopped catching up after that Vriska Helltier flash, which I think was months ago, now.
I would rather prefer to keep discussing Denizens, and Aspects, and fantrolls. Fanfic isn’t published as often, now, but a nagging in my brain tells me that maybe I ought to simply write down and publish my own. Dear reader, do you feel the same? Perhaps not. A lot of veteran users are on the new-server now for the ties of friends they made in HSD gen-chats, more than for the comic, and that’s perfectly sensible.
But in the new HS on-topic, even as the contemporary HS media franchise flails under Andrew's litigious grasp, I think we have a great chance to build something truly special, once again.
The optimist in me can’t help but look forward to it.
If you feel the same, then I’ll see you in the chats, reader.
lyranea a.k.a. Red
16th of December 2025
Six years ago in 2019, I wrote an entry for SPAT. A lot has changed since then, but I'm thankful to Drew for keeping a record so I can peer back into the mirror and always have a glimpse into the past.
I read Homestuck in middle school at the behest of my best friend. She went as Aranea for Halloween one year, and I was always scribbling copies of Ikimaru's art in the sketchbook I brought everywhere with me. I bought some merch from WeLoveFine, particularly a sweater I wanted to cosplay with. But life moved on quickly as it does when you’re young, and we both fell out of the fandom until high school.
Finally being allowed by my parents to chat online without having to hunch over a smuggled mic on Skype at 2am, I joined the Homestuck Discord in January of 2017.
I definitely didn't prepare myself, nor could I have, for what was to come. Tons of new friends, late nights spent glued to #hangout and #mspa-lit, IRL meetups, failed relationships, callout documents, and any sort of interpersonal drama you can imagine, which ultimately culminated in the "deletion" of my old Discord account. Needless to say, it was a little too big a dosage of the Internet for someone young, insecure, and out of their depth. I left for a while, but the red string of fate always brought me back.
Years later after a long break of talking in HSD, I've graduated college, made new friends, lost some old ones, got a job, found the person I’ll spend my life with, and have lived through some significant years in history (although I’m sure everyone thinks that about their own lives). Time teaches many lessons - I'm far more patient and intentional than I used to be, and I have a better read on the types of people that aren’t good for me. But I’m still learning how to be less neurotic, judgmental, and blunt. Those traits may be immutable, we’ll have to see.
These days, I have a pretty lukewarm attitude towards the modern Homestuck fandom. Most of the continued canon material is utter garbage that feels like self-harm to even attempt to engage with genuinely, the ‘newgen’ users that I am now an unwitting moderator of are just as annoying as I was when I was fourteen, and the headpiece of the fandom is an egotistical, unlikeable ass. Homestuck will never feel like what it did when I was a kid, but that’s probably because I was a kid, and I suppose in that sense it did what it needed to do at the time when I needed it most.
All in all, HSD has been formative, whether for good or bad. If you’re still reading, you are probably one of those aforementioned people who have impacted my life, and for that I thank you. Reach out if we haven’t talked in a while, if we don’t know each other well and you’d like to get to know me, or if you think I am a huge twat. That should cover all bases.
After nearly ten years, the sweater with a certain turquoise-colored zodiac sign still hangs in the back of my closet.
Reality is something you make every moment - luck doesn't actually matter. >:]
moodyblues, a.k.a. dave
22nd of February 2026
i joined the server in january of 2026 - i since have been accidental twins with a suspected pedophile (who was lambasted and publicly executed in the towns square praise be to god) and subsequently adopted by some of the oldheads for being “kinda cool” and “the good dave” so id say the timing was ultimately pretty good for my image in a strange twist of fate
moonjail
4th of November 2025
To HSD:
My name is Moonjail. If you've read Drew's entries or talked to me at all over the past couple of years, you might recognize me as an equivocating pseud who likes robot torture and poop humor, which is all true. As I write this, I'm coming up on seven years more-or-less continuously in HSD. That represents my entire adult life, and more than a quarter of my life in total. So when you really think about it, all of those qualities are the your fault. I think you're is equally to blame, though, for some of the nicer things about me.
On December 30, 2018, I'm a skinny, ungroomed college boy\* home for winter break, which is to say half an hour across town, which for the next five years is the furthest I will be from where I grew up for any appreciable length of time. I'm shivering in a sweater at my parent's dining room table in the middle of the night. I've just finished reading Homestuck, which I've been picking up and putting down for the past five years because a girl\* I had a crush on at band camp was into it. I've now stumbled into a relationship with a girl who makes me feel like the only other person on Earth, which is great for now. My classes are trivial, like they've always been. I feel like pretty hot shit, and I'm totally miserable. I think the ending of the comic was okay. I get on this Discord server I found to blab about it and the winds physically shift and the lights flicker yada yada you get it.
A year-ish later, I'm feeling like lukewarm shit at best. This Misha guy really does know more about things than I do, except when he doesn't, and I think he's pretty cool but absolutely I'd kick his ass (read: get my ass kicked) if he weren't in Caracas or wherever the fuck. I'm in a dank dorm room with my best friend of ten years, whom I don't really know at this point and who's snoring contentedly away while I stay up til three alternating between trying to feel heard about something important I no longer remember and trying to get into this "Worth the Candle" thing, which kind of sucks, which surprises me because *Pills* and *Cordyceps* have made me think Makin has taste. My girlfriend has an apartment across campus which I walk to in the snow every day because she needs me. I volunteer in a lab that soon dissolves because the PI is in trouble for some ethics thing. Nothing is trivial anymore even though I know it's supposed to be.
The next year happens all at once. I'm working in a factory, then another lab which is basically the same as the factory, except that when the PI tells me to cut my hair it makes me want to cry. I'm living with my parents, then in a basement, then in an okay apartment because a guy at the last place started breaking things and putting garlic in the HVAC intake and shit like that. My girlfriend can't stop crying and she can't tell me why. I was supposed to be in Texas with Bolas and Andrew but I can't do that anymore. I'm learning what it *actually* feels like to be the only person in the world.
Then I'm teaching, THE EMAILS happen (or was that before?), Drew gets his MS, my roommate goes away, my sister moves in, I quit teaching, I break up with my girlfriend, she tries to kill herself, I drink a lot, I lose ten pounds, I do a lot of things I regret, I meet someone with inexhaustible patience, we fall in love, I nearly die, I get better, I move away, I come back, I get my MS, we move away together, I'm in an office job, I'm a girl, I start a PhD, and now it's now and I'm getting married in three weeks. And you were there for all of it.
You kept me company, you kept me sane, you drove me insane, you oiled it, you physically returned, you Nesquiked, you engaged in conduct unbecoming, you took the gender census, you released the beta, you reckoned. You taught me how little I know, how vast the imagination is, how cool the future is going to be if people really try and what's at stake if we don't. You showed me the kinds of wonderful things that happen when people who have just one thing in common come together and commit to being a family. You made me who I am.
I can't possibly hope to thank everyone who had a part in that, but for starters (in no particular order):
MishaTarkus, for teaching me how to be humble when I don't know something and how to stand my ground when I do.
tmtmtl30, for being like a sister to me, for having an appreciation for the lowbrow and an abiding love for higher truth.
MrCheeze, for being a paradigm of expertise.
Dingus, for having a great sense of humor and haunting my YouTube recs.
Alice Bowman, for keeping us all grounded in decency.
Makin, for being principled above all else.
tensei, for being a fantastic musician and reminding me to take things down a notch sometimes.
interrobang, for being the model of a polymath and community custodian.
Bolas, for being reliable with a :HowHigh: and having unapologetic, earnest opinions every single time.
Teratosapphic, for being uncompromisingly yourself, i.e. just actually cool as FUCK.
spines, for being genuinely kind and not taking my shit.
Putnam, for Dwarf Fortress and for keenness befitting your namesake.
Niklink, for being a standby presence, a good media critic, and a good pal.
sein, for having seemingly inexhaustible depth of knowledge and somehow still having time for the politics channel.
TartyTart, for your worldweary humor on subjects unknown to most.
B3es, for keeping high standards for yourself and others.
Tay, for sick beats and good conversations and making me curious about Prequel.
cookiefonster, for showing me how to be a good sport.
Wizard of Chaos, for your impervious integrity and surprising sensitivity.
Enn, who drinks deep of the world, for caring deeply about such a breadth of things, including myself to my amazement.
YOU, dear reader, for being a part of my community, or even for taking an interest in it.
And finally Drew, my friend. I cannot overstate what is owed to you. You are our memory and our conscience. You are the best of us. On behalf of everyone I've broken proverbial bread with at your table these nearly seven years, thank you.
OKAY BYE FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFAKrsQA4w0
Neth, a.k.a. it's ya boy
28th of April 2026
Hey, the internet at large. Hey, HSD people.
I was going to start by saying I'm only now sitting down to write this because I've found myself pressed by the contemporaneous happenings on the server (do your digital scavenging, dear reader), but that's only partly true. To put it into perspective, as of the time of writing I sit at a decrepit 23 years of age. This alone is enough to send me into a mental tailspin, but it's compounded with the fact I joined the HSD as a (not quite TOS breaking) 13 year old on December 5th, 2016, to the dismay of everyone around me. I talked about how I joined in the last entry, but... well, that's the kind of tidbit that doesn't really suffice for this kind of archival. That's both because I'm no longer a paint huffing teenager, and because I think I now understand how precious of an opportunity it is to be able to memorialize what is an *embarassingly* important part of my coming-into-being as a person that I can be proud of. I was even remiss in mentioning a lot of the people> that were there for me all this time. In fact, the years between my 2016 join and the 2020 pandemic are quite genuinely a blur to me, and the specific users that marked each moment are much more clearer in my mind than the Happenings themselves.
From the moment I joined, users like Starkuss, Sea Hitler and Nikki were some of the people who were already there for me to pester endlessly. Then, by the start of 2017, the brazilians brigaded, pretty much composed by me, Tomatosensei, Velikiy, Nujaka Knight, Lucky Red Seven, and a few more. I distinctly remember a user named $trider joined at this period, because they'd DJ for people in the voice chat channels during my morning classes, which left me feeling terribly jealous. Around 2017, too, a music channel was created, and there I had the chance to meet Olkiswerve, which would become a good friend for me at that time. It's funny to think that I've now spent more time without communication with some of these people than we've shared time together, through no fault of our own other than simply time doing its thing.
2018-19 was pretty marked by the creation the #social channel, which was shortly thereafter deleted due to the propensity it had of attracting people who were slightly too into revealing personal information on public internet spaces. A splinter server was formed, teenage drama galore, you know how it goes. I won't elongate this part, but the conglomeration of people formed through these events accompanied me for pretty much the rest of my teenage years: latchky, McMayor Nik, Sky2o, Mad, taintedAngel, Erieolae, AnerVaria, Sozzay, fashionableSpirit. It's hard to gauge how much time I spent on late night voice chats simply being stupid online, as was my god given right, but in some eras of my life I'm pretty sure my time interacting with real people and with text chatboxes was pretty split down the middle. I think I came out pretty alright despite that!
It's the end of my teenage years, though, that I think I start to grasp the importance of the people around me, and of engaging earnestly with a community as something to be protected. What was left unsaid so far is that that time of my life was mentally very rough, and all of this had been pretty much served as an escape valve until that point. Thankfully by the 2020's I'd found my footing with the help of some excellent real life friends, but I pretty much only got that far because I had some equally excellent people online to kind of verbally curbstomp me into not being so hard-headed when I thought that meant resilience, so self-centered and self-aggrandizing when I thought that meant kindness; at the same time, though, they'd taught me when being hard-headed meant that I was being myself. It'd be a disservice to myself if I didn't mention the impact MishaTarkus and The Ennemy (sic) had on me, and I can't quite really put it into words the extent to which this still matters to me, so I won't. Take this word, instead, though: die
As for the post-pandemic years... we'll, I'm living them. This may sound reductive, but 2022 still feels like yesterday to me, and I've admittedly been much more concentrated on the pragmatic aspects of my life to the extent that, until the current wave of Happenings, I'd felt pretty out of touch with the online side of business. I've felt a bit sad every time I see a friend quietly move on from the HSD, and I still resist the need to, but I do so in the same vein that I recognize that I'll probably be one of these people someday. That's fine, though. 9 and 1/2 years ago, I wondered if the Homestuck Discord would still exist 10 years from now. I'd love to give my teenage self some assurance, to say "well, technically not, but you see...", but I've for a long time now felt that that question is beneath anyone who makes part of a long standing community. Things will Happen that shake the ground on which the community stands - many such cases! The HSD, Discord itself could die out, people's lives will lead them away from these kinds of online experiences, and maybe someday people won't care enough to congregate around the topic of Homestuck. That's fine too, I'd say, so long as the people are and were there for eachother. The community persists, not because it is everlasting, but because everyone who lived it will take a part of it with themselves on the road.
Right now, though, I'm not in a hurry to see it go. Here's to hoping for 10 more years. And if you're reading this and we're no longer up, I hope that your community of preference keeps on. Who knows the person you'll be a decade from now.
Predinova
11th of October 2025
Hi there! I’m Starfang Predinova. You may also know me as Starfang Primemeow, Nova, Star, or Prime. I’ll answer to all of those, or, if you somehow know my real name, that too I guess. I'm currently (as of October 2025) a fullmod on HSD, a position I got because WOC thought it would be funny to have "a schizo moderator who's been repeatedly condemned by other moderators" on the mod team. To be fair, he’s right, it is hilarious.
I first became aware of Homestuck, unsurprisingly, through Undertale. That was a big reason people got into Homestuck back in 2015, and still is in 2025. Well, I guess it's Deltarune now, whatever. I read Homestuck for the first time in the Omegapause before the release of Collide and Act 7 through a mix of the Voxus dub where it existed and the official website where it didn't, had a John shirt before I turned 11 (DM me if you want to see that, I won’t post it here), and followed the fandom off and on until the release of the Epilogues, both because they were kinda confusing and because I had better things to hyperfixate on at that point. Oh, and also COVID.
COVID sucked, you don’t need me to tell you about that, whether you’re reading this in October 2025 or November 2424. I barely remember anything that actually happened in 2020, because it was just that different and weird. But, as COVID was wrapping up, r/Homestuck did a timed reread of Homestuck to coincide with, well, technically nothing in particular? Generally, a timed reread is something r/Homestuck and the attached Discord do every year. I guess the important part is that it always ends on April 13, which is the day Homestuck both began and ended.
To give my thoughts on the reread as it was happening, I joined HSD for the first time. The reread channel, and later the on-topic channel #homestuck, were the main places I hung out for a bit. But then I discovered #mspa-lit, and the political discussion threads that were, at the time, in #media-culture, but eventually moved to the more fitting #serious-discussion. I’d say 2022 was when I was most involved in politics (I’ve dropped off a lot on that after the 2024 election because the state of US politics is just sad now), and I was willing to make sure the voices in there weren’t yelling too loudly. As for lit, well, I started reading the shills, and got into the channel’s culture with the help of the very document this is set to be a part of.
Eventually, in 2023, I was tasked with doing an ethnographic project for a class. I decided to focus that on the HSD, with specific focus on how the Homestuck fandom relates to preservation and archival of online works. That project became Preserving Ourselves Through the Lawn Ring, which is pretty much just an academic paper, but like, a fun one. I interviewed Drew, Makin, Gio, and Bambosh for it, and still work on it occasionally as new developments come up in the fandom that affect archival (the UHC being taken down was a big one).
Now for the bit where I talk about my bans. A lot of them, off and on, were because at one point, the weekly watchalong streams were of a curated list of Doctor Who episodes, decided by myself and Kaisheng21. I was very excited about this, as Doctor Who has been one of my main fandoms and hyperfixations for a very long time. However, I just couldn’t keep my mouth shut, especially about the characters in Series 4, and how they related to future episodes. That got me banned for spoilers, which is fine; that was me being a dumbass, I deserved it.
A weirder one is that one time, I got mad at the state of the world for one reason or another (many such cases), decided to write the names of a bunch of politicians (and the lawyers for the publishers in Hachette v. Internet Archive because, you know, fuck them) in my replica of the Death Note, and posted a picture of that to the politics threads. Because that was too shitposty for the threads, and could reasonably be seen as wishing harm upon those people, I was banned from the threads. Which was fair, and I accepted that as a permanent ban from the threads and lit.
And it was, until it wasn’t! In mid-September 2025, after almost a year of being banned, I got unbanned because Makin saw the death of Charlie Kirk as my Death Note working (even though I’d never written him in there). Plus, people kinda missed me. I fell back into my old niches quite easily, luckily. And that brings us to the most recent Reckoning, where WOC nominated me for full mod out of spite, and I got it. Did I want the title? God, no. There are absolutely users who deserve it more than me. Will I use it to the best of my ability? Absolutely.
This really puts me at a weird crossroads, though. Right now, I’m in charge of policing a 42,000-person community of people all united by one thing, their love of a stupid webcomic from 15 years ago. As we move into the future, I’ll have to balance this position with my other moderation in furry fandom chats, and everything else that goes on in my life.
But eh, that’s a later me problem. In the meantime, if you’re looking for me, just talk about Doctor Who, Disney, politics, or furries, or hell, even just ping or DM me, and I’m bound to show up. I swear I don’t bite. Not unless you want me to. :3
Update April 28, 2026:
This entry represents the honestly held opinion of the author, based on the facts that were available at the time.
Huh. Well, that was anticlimactic. I pretty much never did anything as a mod on HSD. In fact, I was seriously considering resigning. But my hand was forced on February 18, when the entire server was taken down. Nobody knew why it happened at that point, but we sure as heck know now (I'm sure that'll be included in the final update of SPAT, if not just read this post).
It's so abundantly clear that Hussie wants total control of the fandom and will gladly resort to underhanded tactics to get it. Or, at the very least, that they don't want their critics to have a platform. That sucks, obviously, and especially so for preservation of all that fandom history that was erased in one fell swoop. It's incredibly sad that this is how SPAT has to end, but this community will not bow to Hussie's demands.
If you need me, I'm in the new HSD, and I'm @Predinova on all platforms. You'll probably see me on Jeopardy! eventually, as well.
remy
18th of October 2025
i am in love with the design philosophy of the homestuck discord, which has had to come up with unique adaptations to suit the special challenges that come with a fanbase like homestuck’s. it is intentionally designed as a tiered caste-system where social mobility is dictated by how good you are at not typing like a 13 year old.
this is genius. when it comes to discord/irc/slack type environments with real-time messaging in my experience they only stay healthy if they are assiduous about kicking people out not simply for breaking clearly enumerated (and therefore often skirtable) rules but for going against the server’s vibes. this can be done easily enough in smaller servers but is difficult to scale.
hsd has succeeded at overcoming this by maintaining active ghettos for the main types of bad posting (doomerism, traumadumping, shitposting, manicposting, fat husky, low-effort posting, insane politics, being 13) and rigidly enforcing the divisions between those ghettos. most other big servers have divisions like this but they don’t mean anything and they exist as empty hypothetical unused spaces while all the real discussion (and associated shitposting) happens in a few general town square areas, which defeats the point. it's a big machine meant to slowly teach users how to be less annoying. this is a model worth studying.
never trust a new yorker who tells you to go to their specific favorite pizza place because you are going to take the subway for three miles and wait 45 minutes in line for a takeaway slice that tastes 0.1% better than any other pizza place in the city. i fall for this every time i visit. it’s new york, any slice of pizza you have from a real pizzeria is going to be the best slice you ever had.
ReturnOfTheMari
11th of October 2025
I am Mari Middlename Lastname, my pronouns are FUCKED, and I'm here to be that friend that's too woke.
I got into Homestuck as part of the "woah Toby Fox from Undered Tale was on this?" generation. I would just say "I'm a newgen" but like, I guess not anymore??? apparently anyone from Undertale being a thing to the Epilogues' release is now part of the "old fans" which uh, sucks! if you're an older fan than me, please understand, I am 4 years old, I am the youngest person ever. if you're a younger fan, die.
I think Homestuck permanently ruined the way that I type, not in the gay ass "typing quirk" bullshit kind of way, but in a way where talking like a SBAHJ strip is the funniest thing to me, so sorry if I read like a total fucking lunatic. my messaging style is as scatterbrained and longwinded as I actually talk so don't worry I'm just like this.
my interests are jesters, clowns, fools, harlequins, tricksters, and the color purple. spooky shit is also of my forte, especially the esoteric nonsense found online. if you like obscure and weird RPG Maker games and/or VNs, hit me up, but don't actually I'm not good at dms sorry. regardless, the shills are right, you should read When They Cry.
my most notable fandom contribution is being the 1st command used in Jesterquest, and thus, appearing by name, praise me.
now, here's the most important thing to know, if you want a REAL New York pizza, you go down to Joe's, it's down on Broadway, you can't miss it. it's the best pizza and you can't get it ANYWHERE else.
Sung
28th of April 2026
HSD taught me about many things. Combat, philosophy, life, love...
I have been a member of the HSD on and off for over a third of my life from the ages of 14 to 22, being part of various subcommunities mostly surrounding the shitpost channels of #altgen, #althomestuck and #homosuck. Through that time I accrued over 300,000 messages and many channel bans, culminating in being fully banned from the server and unbanned over a year later, before eventually becoming a pseudo-mod near the end. It was certainly a slow journey but HSD helped me become a better, more tolerable person.
While there were many highs and lows, some personal highlights of my time on the server include the night of Maxmikester's infamous quote about Makin's "behaviour unbecoming", the whole fantroll culture surrounding #homosuck in 2021, rolling 6 6s at once with the old arquiusbot D--> roll 6d6 command (which took around 30,000 rolls iirc, I might have had the most messages of any non-bot in the bot commands channel) and every time I saw fat husky, what a cute dog. [This ASCII art may not display properly but that's a risk I'm willing to take]
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The HSD was many things to me, but most of all it was home (stuck discord), thank you to everyone who made it good and bad and especially to people like Drew and Nero working to archive what they can.
1neStar a.k.a. Spider a.k.a. Synga a.k.a. Whap
I find it fascinating that most of my online chatting style comes from the HSD. I was born in 2005 and I learnt English by myself when I was 8, because I was heavily invested in then-ongoing Adventure Time and My Little Pony. However, when I joined the HSD in 2018, when I was 12 going on 13, I was still far from fluent. I became a regular user of the HSD in early 2019, and I distinctly remember "honing" my English by googling every new word I saw in the HSD, and just talking a lot in each channel, learning more and more every day. This didn't end at the lexicon either, I integrated into the HSD so deeply that over 2019 I started typing in all-lowercase, baited people for fun, ironically confronted people over minor things, and overall shitposted in a patently HSD-ish manner, even when I was in other Discord servers. This could be a motivational quote: "Float like a #general, sting like a #read-shills, post like an #altgen, live like a #fathusky". In any case, this went so far that some regulars in the HSD thought I was the same age as them before I revealed my age, when I was 15 and they were 19+, it was funny. Today I am 20 years old, going on 21 later this year. It's cool that I am one of the few people who can say that they Literally grew up on the HSD.
Thanks to every HSD user I talked with over these past 8 years for forming this culture I'm now a part of. Except Drew Linky. He knows what he did.
tay a.k.a. whatislostinthemines
18th of October 2025
As it turns out, we're still here 6 years on from the last time user contribution were sought out. It's 2025, not sure when the train will end. Maybe as a community we'll outlast Discord? Who knows! All I know is that the Playstation can produce mind boggling effects.
Update 28th of April 2026:
Well, that aged like milk.
10 years after its creation, HSD, or at least its original incarnation, has perished. I'm sure Drew went over what happened in his entry so I won't relitigate it. Still, the community lives on. Some people have gone, some people are sticking around. Me myself, I don't know if or when I'll move on, but I know I'll be keeping in contact with as many people as possible.
The current nature of the internet is trending to be more corporatized. The wild west era has long been over, but even comparing the current state to what things were like 10 years ago, everything is much more centralized, and beholden to companies. Less forums hosted by individuals, more posts on Twitter, Bluesky, Discord servers to distribute mods. The kind of site you see dedicated just to a single hobby simply doesn't exist in the same form anymore. It's not really great for cultivating the kinds of communities we used to, especially when the existence of a space ultimately depends on corporate whim, but we make do.
I have no idea what the next year will hold, but I have a feeling things are going to be hectic.
tickurt please
18th of October 2025
hello drew linky!! and any people who might be reading this on SPAT some time in the future
I am fortunate enough to say that my experience as a "newgen" "fan" of homestuck has been mostly pleasant. For this I give thanks to the people in the original homestuck discord who I chat with sometimes (and hopefully more in the future), and also to the homestucks of tumblr, within and outwith the tumblr community, for keeping this infamous fandom alive after all these years.
I had known about homestuck for several years before reading it, although I knew practically nothing about it except that it was significant to internet culture in some way and people hated it lol. I had considered reading it earlier this year, after a tumblr post of mine commemorating the anniversary of "neil bangin out the tunes" was responded to with a comment saying something like "you really gotta read homestuck", as unbeknownst to me, the day was homestuckly significant. Of course, I was heavily dissuaded from doing so by acquaintances in various discord servers, for obvious reasons. The comic only came to my attention as it came to many others, following the drama between Gio and the owners of the comic about the unofficial collection and of course the pilot announcement. Thus was the line drawn between the "before homestuck" and "after homestuck" in my experience of the internet and also life in general.
I have been interested in dramas in fandoms and online communities for a while (and have had my fair share, being part of the geometry dash community since early 2020) and this one seemed like it would be extra interesting, given the possible involvement of fans of vivziepop's work. Though in places i've seen, the schism between vivziepops and homestucks is not as heated as i expected (not to say it isn't in other places, definetely on tumblr and maybe the new official server?? idk). I joined the original homestuck server, trusting it more as it has been around way longer than the official one. Another reason being that I personally dislike the vivziepop type of cringe more than the cringe that homestuck's fandom is infamous for, despite their similarities, and was ready to take the side of "pilot bad because vivziepop" side if it came to that.
However, the pilot's announcement and eventual existence resulted in many reasonable discussions and walls of text in the server that were mostly intelligent and well thought out analyses of the pilot and its many nuances. Through observing these and attempting to join them I feel I have gained a better understanding of how the pilot is significant, whether people consider it "good" or not. I personally think the animation is great and i love the attention to detail across the whole thing, though other aspects of it are not without fault. It's great to see that people are still being positive about it even if they are critical of it somehow (does that even make sense?? sorry if it doesn't lol the whole situation is quite interesting), and that there's more to the discourse than just the overly negative youtube video essays.
Although the official server is intended more as a place for newgen fans of homestuck, I do not feel out of place in the original server, with other new readers sometimes asking questions and chatting about their progression through the comic. People are occasionally kicked or banned from the server, but honestly that makes sense as the people in the server can be a bit scathing sometimes. I don't blame them though, it's likely that it's a response to the extreme "cringe" of the fandom at its peak of popularity in the early 2010s, that still persists on tumblr today.
I don't know if the fandom has been consistently active over the past years or if the events in the summer initiated some kind of homestuck renaissance, but the hyperfixation is properly set in now and homestuck is a part of my life i guess. I look hope to contribute to this fandom at least a bit, as it has been a very fun and enjoyable experience so far, it's honestly heart warming to see so many people sharing fanart and discussions and shitposts about the comic even if it hasn't been like this for a while!! (sorry if my tone changes weirdly between paragraphs lol) happy homestucking!!!!!!!!111!!1!1!!
Tyzuigi
6th of February 2026
Like any Altgen Mod alumni, I, too, cut my callouses off with a switchblade.
Hi, I'm Tyzuigi.
A portmanaeu of a Tyzias and Luigi, whose whole existence rides off the back of a user I met when joining HSD called "Karkario". Veni, Vidi, Karkuigi. Soon thereafter Tyzias dropped in the friendsims, and I was enamoured. Initially i'd perceived Tyzias as male; in that i'd never seen a woman wear socks and sandles.
It was a perspective that I didn't actually get flipped until several weeks after the name change, by which point it'd already stuck. I briefly considered Marvuigi, but figured the pit-musk-snorting was far too close to what I already did, and didn't want to dox myself. Thus, Tyzuigi stayed as-is. The peirceived androgyny that came with the character (shitpost though it may be) actually helped me on a personal level, so there's that.
So, what about me? I run several book-based establishments around London, UK, with seasonal stints in social work and startup business assistance. I've also been known to read long-form pseudo-sexual shitposts for good causes. Also a trained freelance generalist designer- probably should've started with that.
In my offtime I shitpost, have a knack for gardening, and play the same handful of games i've played since 2012. Recently got into minecraft modding, and that's been fun.
Some might know me as one of the Altgen Moderators during Covid. Now, this was an odd time for everyone. The world was in lockdown, the three shells were working overtime, and we were several months in by this point. The Whore Rat was born, but everything else had fallen into disarray, and the children of altgen were certifiably Lord of the flies-y. I revelled in the notoriety of altgen, but not a day went by where I didn't have to protect my feral, feral children from the wrath of (the mighty) Misha et al. Moderators of the time can tell you how often it'd come up in conversation in the mod chat. Altgen this, altgen that, and so on.
Frankly, it probably got to the point where several others in the mod team probably forgot there were two other altgen mods at the time. Hi rose, Hi Homer!
Inevitably, i became the literal Piggy, and the boulder of several altgen regs' bans seeking answers came a'rolling, to which i could not but meet with a shrug.
About 3 or 4 splinters later (it's splinters all the way down), my feral children had moved on to greener pastures.
Some will say this occured because school came back.
Some will say removal of the figurative Piggy was its downfall.
Some will say this is because I accidentally adopted a syrian refugee's child,
but none will disagree that by late 2023, Altgen was not as it was before.
No Blood, no bones, no bread, no sneed.
What remains today is a generalised shitposting channel. A shell of its former self. No longer a haven of negative equines, barnyard b-listers, polish flora and bowsette-inspired bachelorettes.
I digress. I also had a whole stint with "The Italian from #Serious" that cost me 10 grand, but that's a story for another day.
Baring the thought a joke doesn't land so poorly that I end up getting perma'd, I imagine i'm here for the long haul.
Also once got linky a shirt, so if you need his home address, hmu.
VirtuNat
17th of December 2025
Hi, I'm a person who likes indulging in schadenfreude, either through my own actions or merely as an observer. I'm probably mentioned a few times here in SPAT unlikely in any flattering manner; I've been involved in a fair few fun and frustrating incidents due to the roles I've had to play, after all.
I've meant to write and send this long ago when Drew was originally asking for these "Voces Populi" things (nerd), but I've gotten very good at chain-distracting myself in an endless sequence of procrastination cycles, and only now broken out of enough to get around to it. That's that, and this's this, I guess.
Looking back makes me hate how old I am in fandom years much more than my actual age, as Homestuck isn't exactly my first rodeo and definitely isn't the last. Still, it bears saying that it's an unprecedented evolution to go from troll user to oldhead in just a couple of passion projects. I've since mostly moved on to greener pastures as far as passions go, and I don't like openly associating with Homestuck despite literally doing so by writing this, but I owe it a lot more than I'm willing to admit.
I've learned a lot of things through my experiences in this weirdness magnet of a fandom and Discord server, but enumerating them would be tedious and most of it has to do with how to deal with crazies both young and old who clearly were coddled all their lives and never left the echo chambers that enabled their unhealthy hyperfixations on the most pointless things, so let's just say I no longer take for granted any normalcy in social interactions I have these days. I also put too much effort into learning and preaching the art of character writing to a deaf audience after being unceremoniously handed that #oc-hell position, which is what lead to me learning all of those things about crazies in the first place. Babysitting in all its forms truly is an unenviable thing.
Regarding the source material, people have said more than enough and I recommend you look up any of the innumerable essays on Homestuck if you really want to know how it was, but if you really want my opinion about it, I think it's good for what it was and still is, and even as better things come around, I doubt anything will quite reach the incredible hypebeast of a phenomenon it was back in its heyday without capturing another bolt of lightning in a bottle. You won't catch me being too interested in the content they're pushing in continuation of it though, as it is sadly nowhere near as compelling as the original was, which is truly a waste of a setting with such potential.
I also prefer Original Taste Coca Cola; any other flavor of soda is objectively inferior, Linux and Rust cultists suck, and Drew is a stink. End of proof.