#cultstuck

[elanorpam]

Hey, ive been a fan of your cultstuck series since i first read it 10 years ago and its one that i hold dear along woth toastyglow and their siblings' works. Given that we are all adults now with very busy lives, i dont expect you to kerp up with an old project like writing a fan novel fpr free, but i am curious as what ur current plants for earthbent are, if there are any atm.

(Tbh id be happy with any answer you provide, whether its a detailed outline, an unsure shrug, an excited wink hinting at a deadline or an announcement of permanent hiatus. Youve given so much with your writing, thst i just want you to be happy with whatever plans u have)

hey there! i'm going to go with unsure shrug as an answer here.

see, I did have a detailed outline for cultstuck-- i wrote it all down at around ...2015? very soon after the second eridan chapter, and sent it to my beta, who then proceeded to ghost me forever. I was already sensing she was growing disinterested in the fic/the fandom, giving constant excuses, and I myself was dealing with an anxiety/depression combo that would sharply nosedive by the time the finale came around, so i just... let it go. She didn't care. I wasn't in a good mental place to care. We went our separate ways.

I decided to take a mental health sabbatical, and now, after a few years of sertraline and therapy, the thought of picking it back up is very, very far down my list of priorities. I have so many other fics I want to write, for media which hasn't let me this profoundly down! And also, Cultstuck was conceptualized in the post-cascade hiatus, in chat logs and rough outlines, and was never supposed to take later canon into account unless it dropped any interesting, matching lore...

...but late act 6 took such a dump on the characters and the setting that it took the joy right out of playing on my patch of sandbox, fenced off as it was. And I couldn't connect with the Retcon timeline at all, but some of its developments are so popular and so deeply entrenched that I hesitate to contradict them even though i kind of hate the whole thing and never meant to take it into account?

Let's take the strongest example: Davekat. Dave and Karkat in Cultstuck were never meant to be anything more than mutually annoying acquaintances connected only indirectly via Terezi-- Dave was to be her moirail, and aro-ace besides. This was because for the entirety of the comic, that was the only vibe I got from Dave as a character, and from his interactions with Karkat as a whole-- he and Karkat felt too similar in mutually unpleasant ways, like a cousin that's just enough like you to give you second-hand embarrassment. So by the point the comic was playing coy with pushing the New Dave and New Karkat action figures together, you couldn't get me to care about Davekat if you put a gun to my head. This really hasn't changed in the least. And that means whenever I think of dealing with disappointed Davekat fans in the future of the fic, I just feel an all-encompassing, soul-deep exhaustion.

but i also don't want to drop the fic altogether, for some reason? Like, I might not feel this way forever. So idk, i'm keeping my options open i guess. Subscribe to the fic/series and maybe 10 years from now you'll get a notification like a holiday miracle. Who knows.

[the-second-tingotango]

Go Read Cultstuck.

That's an order. Unless you don't want to, in which case do whatever the fuck you want forever.

[garfieldtestified]

Ever wonder what Summer Camp would be like if all the other campers were just as clinically insane as you? Ever think that you were meant for something greater than the mundane 9-5? Ever wanted to give yourself to the Eldest Gods in the known multiverse?

Then welcome to Lacuna, an ever growing cul-… Religious group!

No one really knows where Lacuna is located, and the leaders have everyone convinced they're wandering in a dreambubble that touches beyond the furthest ring. There is no going "home". Besides, you're already home here. These people will treat you like the strong armed family you wish you never walked into.

The first thing to notice when entering Lacuna is the runes symbolism and posters of monstrosities that could only be described as autonomous soot-stained air. The church will set you up upon arrival, making sure the Healers look over you.

Soon you will be given a number and a role. Will they remember your name? Probably. But you will be wearing your number on your chest for the duration of your stay!

This is an 18+ cult based Homestuck AU Roleplay server on Discord.

CW: Blood, Religious Behavior, Human/Troll Sacrifices, and Selected Breeding (no smut in server, used for theme only)

Anyone is welcomed to join! Please be aware this is an 18+ server, so NO MINORS. This is a small server right now, so there isn't really any backstory yet. Good to jump in on.

Read the rules and introduce yourself when entering the server.

If the invite link is inactive, message me here and I can send you a new one.

[derseprinceoftbd]

What would be a logical evolution of Terezi's weaponry?

I've seen ideas for several Trolls-Karkat with a scythe on Tumblr, Equius with a crossbow in Cultstuck-but never one for her.

[lampregistration3000]

Whoof homestuck renaissance in the living room tonight

[landofcolorfullink]

I have been reading cultstuck by @elanorpam again and this image popped up in my mind. I am not sure why he is dead but... yeah (?)

[imskipping]

toptier hs fics for when ur feeling nostalgic in no particular order:

cities in dust (shit lets be hardboiled) (probably the first hs fic i ever read and its still good)

battlefield terra (makes me feel things about nge and the fight scenes are so good)

the vienna game (WOW!!!! PUBLISH THIS)

promstuck (holy grail of johnkat fic)

the serendipity gospels (made me love gamrezi)

as it should be (beta kids beta kids beta kids)

keshastuck (die young in a cave remix if u know u know)

real men wear tights (i never read like one sundered star but i heard its good!)

freight (overtook me i still think about it)

mr tambourine man (existential as all hell and still updating!)

starship skaia: boldly going where you actually probably shouldn't go (this ones just so fun)

vanitas vanitatum (the whole series is pretty cool but this one hooked me by the balls)

theater of coolty (needs no explanation)

loophole (u will cry)

poor unfortunate shoals (if u love solfef...)

lost teeth like white jewels (this one has Vibes)

hopeless and heartless (i shared the pdf to this in high school and didnt realize there was porn but its so good im not even embarrassed)

cultstuck (old but its got that 2010 homestuck je ne sai quoi)

and more i cant think of off the top of my head

[geekkboy]

Drop the fic rec list please I need it for research

oh my god okay hold on i gotta look through like 800 tabs for this (i have terrible memory so this is probably not all of the good fics ive read but heres the ones i can remember rn)

Reallocated by BreeaefulSkies (current fave)

Cultstuck! by elanor_pam

Andrew Hussie Stole My Webcomic (So I Ended The Universe) by Carkinos

bleeding in this cage by seppucrow

The One Where Karkat Meets The Signless by Mesha

Plain White Walls by Probably_Not_Batman

the run and go by deserts

Warbound Widow by SkilledWarriorKiwi

Ophelia by batterwitch_dumb_basses

keep in mind the only one ive actually finished is Cultstuck! because i have a terrible attention span but these fics lives rent free in my brain anyways. plus a lot of them are ongoing sooo

[overtrolled]

going through the hs tag on Ao3 sorted by most to least kudos, i’ve read the following from the first 5 pages:

unwanted free ugly troll loophole within, without the serendipity gospels detective pony astronomy in reverse endangered miracle child battlefield terra cultstuck! marvelous things General Vantas Gets Hitched, or, The Limits Of Bilateral Diplomacy: A Black Powder Romance crash standing scarlet and bible black one of our submarines chamomile, rose water, and other unlikely intoxicants  lee shore

that’s what, seventeen out of the top 100 fics by kudos. granted not all of these other ones sound like my jam exactly but i see some by writer’s whose other stuff i like

[fossuchi]

remember cultstuck

you should reread that

[flyingcookierambles]

hm reading??

hm so like re: this and reading some other stuff thats like homestuck epilogues/2 critical (being super slow compared to hs, being depressing, making all the characters become assholes for like no reason (hs2 crit stuff in the later half of this vid, about 30 or 40 minutes in i think??), the creators being uh not the best people, etc.), plus my own slow experience with trying to read through the incredible boring long winded sloughs that were the epilogues meat and candy when they first came out uhh

i think that i’ll skip on finishing the epilogues/hs^2 since they honestly sound. so. boring.

like.

we as an entire internet culture are just so sick and tired of when beloved media from our childhood get some weird reboot but its dark and gritty and edgy on purpose. for example the entire cw reboot joke meme that applies to riverdale/archie comics, the winx club netflix show, and now powerpuff girls, but the girls are “adults who are depressed and hate their childhood heroics” or whatever is even happening with that show right now since its still technically in production lol. 

and you know what. epilogues/hs2 sounds like its the dumb cw reboot.

so.

i think ill stick to the games (friendsim/hiveswap/pesterquest), already existing better written fanfic and fan works/adventures that feature original characters and canon characters doing. not riverdale stuff. so yeah.

for fan adventures, i’m planning to read these:

Vast Error (https://mspfa.com/?s=2302)

OasisQuest (https://mspfa.com/?s=29685&p=1)

Homestuck: Act Omega (https://mspfa.com/?s=16414&p=1)

Cool and new web comic (https://mspfa.com/?s=14113&p=1)

Alabaster: The Doomed Session (https://mspfa.com/?s=236&p=1)

Act 8 (https://mspfa.com/?s=14278&p=1)

Karkat goes to a convention (https://mspfa.com/?s=27317&p=1)

Hackbent (https://mspfa.com/?s=2810&p=1)

TLCstruck: Double Death of the Author (https://mspfa.com/?s=2810&p=1)

for fanfic hmm. i’ll probably reread stuff and then move to try to find other things lol. and like all the stuff directly listed here are things that i’ve personally read before except LoDaD and the general big tvtropes list so like yes i like these i approve of them i have read them in my lifetime at some point and you should also try them lol.

honestly i’m currently re-reading the classic crossover between hs and alien nation, which is an interesting movie that you should watch even if its a dumb 90′s movie that isnt the best lol. while its technically not finished/hasnt been updated since 2014, honestly the endings of all of them are good enough to be like “yeah i could stop here” so eh. i will warn that the fics, from 2012-2014 era, have the r-slur in them, which is cringy and unfortunate. :/

maybe i’ll finally finish the land of dungeons and dragons, by the same person as above, which is like 600K words and 173 chapters.

there’s straw soldiers, which is great. i remember waiting for the final chapter update and it literally dropped when i was in the middle of science class in high school lol. alternia decides to have trolls undergo surgery/learning/etc. to be spies on earth preparing for an alternian invasion. karkat is one of them.

terawatt outlaws is incredible. where sollux is discovered and taken by the condesce to power her ship, sollux meets his ancestor the psiioniic/ancient beta universe mituna captor, and they team up and start a revolution. 

a lullaby for the gods starts out as a fluffy found family crack crossover between homestuck and the avengers, and a plot starts forming in later chapters. its still ongoing so you can binge read it but you’ll have to wait for an actual ending.

petstuck au where trolls are on earth but like. pets. (the og, the fanfic of a fanfic, and the fanfic of the 2 fanfics that got fic-married)

the parody game faqs/early 2000′s type walkthrough fic 

cultstuck! - karkat is kinda raised/protected by the signless cult. also revolutions happen yay

we’re all doomed - hilarious doomed session where the kids and trolls decide to fix things as best as possible and live/chill together. kinda lol

the gods we once knew - a sadstuck one shot thats real good

honestly these are good lists for stuff really - fics and works

[elanorpam]

♪   I am not dead yet ♪   I can dance and I can sing ♫   I am not dead yet ♫   I can do the highland fling ♪   I am not dead yet ♫   No need to go to bed ♪   No need to call the doctor ♫   'Cos I'm not yet dead

Happy 4/13, folks!

[cyanidelemons]

feeling nostalgic for homestuck while also completely aware of how bad the recent adaptations/epilogues/projects are means i am once again wishing for that golden age when it was good

maybe it’s time to read cultstuck for the tenth time to cope

[cornucopie]

maybe it's time to reread cultstuck

[starcrossed-sky]

makes a terrible hybrid of @hideyholepam‘s cultstuck signless cult and @bramblepatch‘s signless cult... for the purposes of a self indulgent shippy AU

[asukaskerian]

so i got done rereading cultstuck and dang it’s still so good and made me want homestuck things.

... anyone got covalent drabble prompts? it’s the 'verse with all the player sets bundled off together to Alternia. i’ll be trying to keep it short but who even fucking knows if i’ll manage anything, or if i’ll manage to keep it under three bazillion words. but. ahhh. ;;