Red and Blue make Purple

dicaeopolis

some of my fonder memories from the glory days of the homestuck fandom:

ke$hastuck and fandomstuck and guidestuck
endless crystalmethequins covers/remixes
octopimp videos
people having update cosplays completed within literal hours
“homestuck is my favorite anime”
pretending squiddles was a real show
scouring the nearest convenience stores for faygo
quietly slipping ww’s and vv’s into your texts or using eight of a letter/punctuation mark consecutively just in case
dante basco meeting up with homestucks wherever he went
fandom-wide debates over how long someone’s sleeves were
update art on goggles
the internet imploding every 4/13
“eridan is a metaphor for the obama administration”
when you went to a con in homestuck cosplay and anyone else in homestuck cosplay was instantly your friend and you could hang out for the rest of the day and go to the photoshoot together
really just seeing people with homestuck shirts on anywhere and being instantly friends, that fandom may have been a mess but hell if it wasn’t the best fun any of us ever had

eridoucheampora

Other Homestuck memories i can think of off the top of my head:

When Dante Basco started liveblogging his Homestuck reading
“Names for baby girls/boys that start with R/D” on Googles top searches list
“Is 4 Chords still updating?”
SuperheroStuck, HemoStuck, PromStuck
The first Smuppet
Homestuck Opening 5
Trollmegle (SAY SOMETHING, ASSHOLE!)
FLUSH
Fat Vriska
Blue Lips

rawrimamidget

Oh man, I’ve got more. some of these are less fond and more just funny/sad.

Ginger Dave was common in fanart
Bro Strider drawn with a red hat
Once upon a time, ‘tentabulge’ fics were RARE.
‘I’m So Fresh’ and ‘KK steals hands’
God I miss the old LJ Kinkmeme and Filladex (bless those who ran it)
‘Got Tiger’
The rush to watch Cascade on stream with the few people who caught it when it was first posted
Honl
The first few Omeagle and Tinychat Promstucks, where everyone asked their quadrants over tumblr.
Doodle or Die
PUTTING CHARACTERS FACES ON REGULAR GIFS OF ANYTHING

saccharinesylph

And then there’s the nerds who never stopped who look up and go “Where did everybody go??? :CCCCC”

fairyfun099

And there are those who just got here and missed everything

emptyburrito

I have more to add because this post is making me feel things i havent felt in a very long time:

endless comic dubs on youtube
the fat vriska controversy
going to a homestuck photo shoot at a con between years 2011-2013 and being absolutely horrified but also overwhelmed with joy
singing “how do i live without you” at cons and feeling complete
xamag lyricstucks……..
using the word “strife” in a real life conversation for the first time
everyone was drawn skinny and white in fanart
the Fanart Goldmine of 2011
“Ask ______” blogs
that one fanmade audio post of feferi reacting to sollux’s death and eridan shooting her in the gut
homestuck vs hetalia
when snoop dog received fanart of himself with nepeta and meulin and he posted it on instagram
davejade existed
we thought rose was straight
and was gamtav not everything we had
“with equius”
solfef vs erifef vs erisol
hometuck updates at 12am on a school night
hussiequest
f4 f4 f4 f4
“this page cannot be displayed”
fake homestuck movie trailors
“WH4T NOW?”
eridans united states or wwhatevver
the 12 days of perigee
staying up until four in the morning playing as meenah in those damn updates where you walked around and met all the dancesters and nothing was more important in your life
when there was a time when everything made a little more sense and yet made no sense at all and things seemed so simple and kinds stupid and exciting and we were seen as some kind of cult because no one could quite understand all the inside jokes or the plotline until they read the comic and that feeling of belonging and togetherness was like nothing i had ever felt from any other fandom i had ever been in and no other fandom i will be in will ever compare to that of homestuck’s
when we never imagined it could end but now the end is three weeks away and im handling it much better than my 17 year old self would ever allow lol

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Red and Blue make Purple

Okay I love Marichat but