HOMESTUCK INFORMATION AND TEXT PERMISSIONS
Obviously Homestuck is not everybody's cup of tea. If you have criticism or questions in regards to my playing, however, I'd prefer you take it to my HMD post. Otherwise, this post is designed to help you feel as comfortable as possible playing with me.
I'm more than aware that a lot of people resent Homestuck for being a popular canon with a lot of terms and memes that are incomprehensible to those who hven't read/watched/played it. I'm going to attempt to avoid cultivating this resentment as much as possible. I don't want to blind people with blocks of purple courier, I don't want to make constant references to things nobody else understands without explaining myself, and I don't want to godmode simply because "that's the way my canon is". I'm absolutely willing to compromise, translate and explain wherever possible, but in the end I don't think playing off a Homestuck troll is any different to playing off a Homunculus from FMA or a Claymore or a Bleach Shinigami — each canon has species, abilities, terminology and references that an "outsider" would not intuitively grasp and yet they still manage to integrate just fine within a panfandom setting.
text permissions
If you would like to request for me to never tag your characters or to never tag you with the purple courier that is fine! Even if we're just threading in a meme or on dear_mun or something! You may do so here by commenting with this handy form:
Comments are screened and I won't be replying to them. I honestly will not be offended if you choose to take this opt-out.
frequently asked questions
But why do I do typing quirks at all? Why are the colours significant?
A typing quirk is essentially "how the character types" in canon. Most text in the comic is delivered over an instant messaging service, as opposed to in-person - rather like us players! So much of it is rendered in the format of chatlogs. Each character types differently, as you might expect. These quirks often reflect personality, for example: capitalising proper nouns and using correct punctuation as opposed to typing everything in lower case and not caring about punctuation! OR substituting the letters "A, I, E" with "4, 1, 3" because those numbers have special significance to you.
But more importantly, they reflect character voice. Karkat TYPES IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE HE IS LOUD and angry and yelling a lot. Kanaya Capitalises The Beginning Of Each Word Because She Enunciates Very Properly. Vriska elongates her voooooooowels sometimes because she's overdramaaaaaaaatic! Etc, etc. You get the picture! Gamzee's multiple personalities mean that when he is under the influence of a soporific hE TyPeS In sTiCkY CaPs and when he is not, his ANGRY PERSONALITY TYPES IN ALL CAPS and his malicious personality types in all lowercase, these in alternating lines. Offline, this becomes him switching between shouting and whispering.
scorched I am only going to use the typing quirk if Gamzee is legitimately typing (in the same way that there are other characters in scorched who use lowercase or odd punctuation when using the text function.) He might choose not to do it if characters hassle him enough about it. I'm not going to use the colours at all, as they mostly exist in the story to differentiate between characters in chatlogs, and Gamzee could care less about his prestigious purple blood. Also, the Forge doesn't have colour text.
useful links
The canon itself: MS Paint Adventures: Homestuck. (also being published in book form.)
MS Paint Adventures at Wikipedia
Homestuck at TVTropes (This timeline is especially fantastic.)
Quick Homestuck synopsis at the MSPA wiki.
Gamzee Makara's biography on the MSPA wiki.
Homestuck at Know Your Meme, an explanation of of some of the major memes/hype surrounding Homestuck, its fans and its creators.
Homestuck trolls, being aliens, call some things familiar to humans by different names. For my reference and yours, here is a glossary of these terms.
For my reference and not particularly yours, this cool dude compiled a text colour reference for all characters.
I'm more than aware that a lot of people resent Homestuck for being a popular canon with a lot of terms and memes that are incomprehensible to those who hven't read/watched/played it. I'm going to attempt to avoid cultivating this resentment as much as possible. I don't want to blind people with blocks of purple courier, I don't want to make constant references to things nobody else understands without explaining myself, and I don't want to godmode simply because "that's the way my canon is". I'm absolutely willing to compromise, translate and explain wherever possible, but in the end I don't think playing off a Homestuck troll is any different to playing off a Homunculus from FMA or a Claymore or a Bleach Shinigami — each canon has species, abilities, terminology and references that an "outsider" would not intuitively grasp and yet they still manage to integrate just fine within a panfandom setting.
text permissions
If you would like to request for me to never tag your characters or to never tag you with the purple courier that is fine! Even if we're just threading in a meme or on dear_mun or something! You may do so here by commenting with this handy form:
Comments are screened and I won't be replying to them. I honestly will not be offended if you choose to take this opt-out.
frequently asked questions
But why do I do typing quirks at all? Why are the colours significant?
A typing quirk is essentially "how the character types" in canon. Most text in the comic is delivered over an instant messaging service, as opposed to in-person - rather like us players! So much of it is rendered in the format of chatlogs. Each character types differently, as you might expect. These quirks often reflect personality, for example: capitalising proper nouns and using correct punctuation as opposed to typing everything in lower case and not caring about punctuation! OR substituting the letters "A, I, E" with "4, 1, 3" because those numbers have special significance to you.
But more importantly, they reflect character voice. Karkat TYPES IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE HE IS LOUD and angry and yelling a lot. Kanaya Capitalises The Beginning Of Each Word Because She Enunciates Very Properly. Vriska elongates her voooooooowels sometimes because she's overdramaaaaaaaatic! Etc, etc. You get the picture! Gamzee's multiple personalities mean that when he is under the influence of a soporific hE TyPeS In sTiCkY CaPs and when he is not, his ANGRY PERSONALITY TYPES IN ALL CAPS and his malicious personality types in all lowercase, these in alternating lines. Offline, this becomes him switching between shouting and whispering.
CG: I REALLY CAN'T STAND YOU AND I HATE HOW YOU TYPE, IT JUST BOTHERS ME SO MUCH, HAVE I MENTIONED THAT?Finally, the colour of a troll's text is also significantly important. Trolls have a rigid social class structure, dictated by the colour of one's blood. Red is basically peasantry, going all the way up through the rainbow to orange, yellow, green, blue and purple-- which is royalty! Many trolls type with their blood colour to show they are proud of who they are and not ashamed (Gamzee included). The higher a troll's blood the colour, the more likely for their ancestral tendencies towards psychopathy and violence kick in. It's noteworthy that Karkat types in gray to hide his blood colour (which is a mutant variation not found in troll society) because he is ashamed/scared of it. So yes! Colours are important. Sort of.
TC: YoU SaY iT pReTtY mUcH eVeRy TiMe We TaLk YeAh.
TC: but uh, i don't have to...
TC: uhhh see?
TC: but i mean man this feels so motherfuckin unnatural and shit.
TC: YoU jUsT gOt To Be GoInG wItH wHaT fEeLs RiGhT aT wHeRe YoUr HeArT's Up In, YoU kNoW?
CT: D --> Honestly I'm confused by the social orderFor the sake of my sanity, within
TC: mAn, Me ToO. i DoN't KnOw WhAt Of FuCkIn WhAt CoLoR iS wHaT, sO i DoN't BoThEr WiTh ThInKiN oN tHaT mOtHeRfUcKeR.
scorched I am only going to use the typing quirk if Gamzee is legitimately typing (in the same way that there are other characters in scorched who use lowercase or odd punctuation when using the text function.) He might choose not to do it if characters hassle him enough about it. I'm not going to use the colours at all, as they mostly exist in the story to differentiate between characters in chatlogs, and Gamzee could care less about his prestigious purple blood. Also, the Forge doesn't have colour text.useful links
The canon itself: MS Paint Adventures: Homestuck. (also being published in book form.)
MS Paint Adventures at Wikipedia
Homestuck at TVTropes (This timeline is especially fantastic.)
Quick Homestuck synopsis at the MSPA wiki.
Gamzee Makara's biography on the MSPA wiki.
Homestuck at Know Your Meme, an explanation of of some of the major memes/hype surrounding Homestuck, its fans and its creators.
Homestuck trolls, being aliens, call some things familiar to humans by different names. For my reference and yours, here is a glossary of these terms.
For my reference and not particularly yours, this cool dude compiled a text colour reference for all characters.