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Homestuck is an Internet fiction series created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie. The fourth and best-known of Hussie's four MS Paint Adventures, it originally ran from April 13, 2009, to April 13, 2016. Though normally described as a webcomic, and partly constituted by a series of single panel pages, Homestuck also relied heavily on Flash animations and instant message logs to convey its story, along with the occasional use of browser games.

Its plot centers on a group of teens who trigger the inevitable destruction of Earth by installing the beta version of an upcoming PC game, Sburb. The teens soon come into contact with a group of Internet trolls who are revealed to be horned aliens, and these trolls work with the kids to create a new universe by completing the game. It has been noted for its complex and nonlinear plot, considerable length at over 8,000 pages and 800,000 words, and intensely devoted fan community.

The success of Homestuck has resulted in numerous related projects and sequels, including the Hiveswap series of adventure games.

Synopsis

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In 2009, on John Egbert's thirteenth birthday, he receives a beta copy of a mysterious computer game called Sburb, which he can use to manipulate the real world through a sandbox game style interface. John's friends, Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider, and Jade Harley join him in the game, which causes massive meteor storms to appear which target each of their homes. They only escape by completing tasks in the game until they are able to travel to a place called "the Medium", and they learn that installing Sburb has somehow triggered the destruction of Earth and that they must beat the game to create a new universe.

While exploring the Medium, John and his friends are attacked by a ruthless villain known as Jack Noir. John and his friends are also harassed by a group of twelve Internet trolls whose own session of Sburb ended in failure, for which they blame the kids. Among the trolls, Karkat Vantas, Kanaya Maryam, Terezi Pyrope, and Vriska Serket each develop a relationship with the four humans, and the trolls are revealed to be an actual species of troll-like aliens. The narrative shifts to a side story arc about the trolls and the specific sequence of events that led this group to play their own session of the game. The trolls manipulated by the enigmatic Doc Scratch, who serves an even more mysterious master. The trolls eventually win their session and a new universe – the universe the kids inhabit – is created. Before they can claim their prize, they are attacked by Jack Noir and forced into hiding, where they begin to troll the kids via a chat program.

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Returning to the present, the two species cooperate to salvage the kids' game session. However, Vriska sabotages key events, resulting in the kids accidentally transforming Jack Noir into seemingly invincible monster. Rising tensions among the trolls eventually boil over, and some begin to attack and kill the others; almost half the group (including Vriska) dies before Karkat manages to restore order. From Doc Scratch, the kids learn about a game mechanism called the "Scratch" that allows the humans to reset their session to escape Jack but will also inadvertently summon Lord English, Doc Scratch's master who seeks dominion over all of reality.

Executing the Scratch resets the kids' universe, and versions of themselves become guardians to a new group of players, who are versions of their own ancestors. As a result, John's late grandmother, Jane Crocker, is fifteen years old and the protagonist of the new arc. She leads her three friends Roxy Lalonde, Dirk Strider, and Jake English – the mother, brother, and grandfather of Rose, Dave, and Jade, respectively – through their own session of the game, while the original humans and surviving trolls journey through dimensions to the new post-Scratch session over the course of three years.

The post-Scratch version of Earth quickly becomes dominated by the Condesce, the sinister former troll empress now in service to Lord English. In lieu of trolls, the four post-Scratch kids interact online with two alien cherubs,{{efn|The cherubs are green skeleton-like creatures named for the biblical cherubim. Fitting the name, the mature form of their species has wings, evoking common depictions of angels.}} the siblings Calliope and Caliborn. While Calliope becomes a fast friend of the group, Caliborn resents their camaraderie, and is highly antagonistic towards them. After the post-Scratch kids enter their session, the two cherubs play their own version of Sburb in a session that sees Caliborn having his sister assassinated so that he may be the sole winner of the game.

When finally uniting in the new session, the kids and trolls enact a plan to create a new universe and to defeat Lord English, the Condesce, and Jack Noir; the latter of whom escaped from the original doomed session. John Egbert develops new powers allowing him to retcon previous events within the Homestuck narrative. In the ensuing conflict, only John, Roxy, Dirk, and one of the trolls, Terezi, survive. With Terezi's guidance, John retcons key events in the narrative, most notably Vriska's death, setting up a timeline with a clear path to victory. In the retconned narrative, the kids and trolls defeat their enemies in a giant battle and successfully create the new universe. The comic ends with Lord English fighting an army led by Vriska, Caliborn becoming Lord English after gaining unconditional immortality as a reward for beating Sburb alone, and the remaining living heroes about to enter their newly created universe.

Style and development

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While nominally a webcomic, Homestuck consists of a combination of static images, animated GIFs, and instant message logs.{{cite news |authorlink1=Glen Weldon |last1=Weldon |first1=Glen |authorlink2=Petra Mayer |last2=Mayer |first2=Petra |title=Let's Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic Novels |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/07/12/533862948/lets-get-graphic-100-favorite-comics-and-graphic-novels |access-date=February 15, 2021 |work=NPR |date=July 12, 2017 |at=Homestuck |language=en |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213030725/https://www.npr.org/2017/07/12/533862948/lets-get-graphic-100-favorite-comics-and-graphic-novels |url-status=live }} Generally, pages included a single panel, and navigational links to successive pages are phrased similarly to commands in interactive fiction games.{{cite thesis |last1=Short |first1=Jennifer |title=Let Me Tell You About Homestuck: The Online Production of Place |journal=Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004–2019 |year=2014 |pages=28–33 |chapter=Chapter II: Description of Site and Research Methods |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4806/ |format=PDF |access-date=February 15, 2021 |language=en |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227012815/https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4806/ |url-status=live }}{{rp|28–29}}{{cite journal |last1=Veale |first1=Kevin |title='friendship isn't an emotion fucknuts': Manipulating Affective Materiality to Shape the Experience of Homestuck's Story |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F1354856517714954 |url-access=subscription |journal=Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies |volume=25 |issue=5/6 |pages=1027–1043 |date=December 2019 |access-date=February 20, 2021 |doi=10.1177/1354856517714954 |s2cid=59144629 |issn=1354-8565 |language=en |archive-date=December 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231231161235/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354856517714954 |url-status=live }}{{rp|1038–1039}} Additionally, unlike previous works from Andrew Hussie which exclusively relied on GIF images for animation,{{cite web |last1=Baio |first1=Andy |date=November 9, 2011 |title=Arcade Improv: Humans Pretending to Be Videogames |url=http://kotaku.com/5858062/arcade-improv-humans-pretending-to-be-videogames |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922055337/http://kotaku.com/5858062/arcade-improv-humans-pretending-to-be-videogames |archive-date=September 22, 2013 |access-date=November 10, 2011 |work=Kotaku |language=en}} Homestuck introduced complex animations and browser games made with Adobe Flash,{{cite news |last1=Cavna |first1=Michael |author-link1=Michael Cavna |date=October 29, 2018 |title='Homestuck' creator explains how his webcomic became a phenomenon |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/29/homestuck-creator-explains-how-his-webcomic-became-phenomenon/ |url-access=limited |id={{ProQuest|2126760776|url-access=registration}} |language=en-US |access-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024134458/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/29/homestuck-creator-explains-how-his-webcomic-became-phenomenon/ |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Chute |first1=Hillary |last2=Jagoda |first2=Patrick |year=2014 |title=Special Issue: Comics & Media |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677316 |journal=Critical Inquiry |publisher=University of Chicago Press |volume=40 |issue=3 |page=10 |doi=10.1086/677316 |issn=0093-1896 |jstor=10.1086/677316 |url-access=registration |access-date=February 20, 2021 |s2cid=162360781 |language=en |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413164803/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677316 |url-status=live }} many involving contributions from fan artists.{{cite news |last1=Roy |first1=Jessica |date=September 10, 2012 |title=A Noob's Guide to Homestuck, the Favorite Webcomic of Internetty Teens Everywhere |newspaper=The New York Observer |url=http://betabeat.com/2012/09/a-noobs-guide-to-homestuck-the-favorite-webcomic-of-internetty-teens-everywhere/ |url-status=live |access-date=September 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120014924/http://betabeat.com/2012/09/a-noobs-guide-to-homestuck-the-favorite-webcomic-of-internetty-teens-everywhere/ |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |series=Betabeat |language=en}} According to academic Kevin Veale of Massey University, Homestuck used these various methods of engagement to manipulate its readers' experiences in order to tell a multilayered non-linear story.

The basic premise of Sburb has been described as similar to games like The Sims,{{cite news |last1=McGown |first1=Justin |title=Homestuck fans prepare for webcomic release |work=The Tartan |publisher=Carnegie Mellon |date=October 17, 2011 |url=http://thetartan.org/2011/10/17/pillbox/comics |access-date=October 23, 2011 |location=Pittsburgh, PA |archive-date=September 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922105219/http://thetartan.org/2011/10/17/pillbox/comics |url-status=live |id={{ProQuest|1646851349 |url-access=registration}} |language=en}} Spore,{{cite web |last1=Tiara |first1=Creatrix |url=https://www.autostraddle.com/bisexual-trolls-and-non-binary-sprites-the-power-of-lgbtq-visibility-in-homestuck-337216/ |title=Bisexual Trolls and Non-Binary Sprites: The Power of LGBTQ Visibility in "Homestuck" |date=May 24, 2016 |work=Autostraddle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603212138/https://www.autostraddle.com/bisexual-trolls-and-non-binary-sprites-the-power-of-lgbtq-visibility-in-homestuck-337216/ |archive-date=June 3, 2018 |url-status=live |language=en}} and EarthBound.{{cite news |last1=Orsini |first1=Lauren Rae |title=Inside the strange, brave new world of Homestuck |url=http://www.dailydot.com/society/inside-webcomic-homestuck-guide-interviews/ |newspaper=The Daily Dot |date=August 2, 2012 |access-date=January 13, 2013 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142202/https://www.dailydot.com/society/inside-webcomic-homestuck-guide-interviews/ |url-status=live |language=en}} As in Hussie's prior webcomic Problem Sleuth, the adventure is characterized by time travel, mystery, a complex fictional universe, and frequent references to pop culture and previous adventures. Changes from previous stories include an emphasis on contemporary society, such as online gaming and Internet culture, which contrasts with the historical settings of MS Paint Adventures comics Bard Quest and Problem Sleuth.{{cite web |last1=Meeks |first1=Elijah |title=Interview with Andrew Hussie, Creator of Homestuck |work=Digital Humanities Specialist |publisher=Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources |date=December 3, 2010 |url=https://dhs.stanford.edu/social-media-literacy/interview-with-andrew-hussie-creator-of-homestuck/ |access-date=April 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813034401/https://dhs.stanford.edu/social-media-literacy/interview-with-andrew-hussie-creator-of-homestuck/ |archive-date=August 13, 2019 |url-status=dead}}

Hussie first launched an early version of Homestuck, the Homestuck Beta, on April 10, 2009.{{cite news |title='Scott Pilgrim' Guy Interviews 'Homestuck' Guy: Bryan Lee O'Malley On Andrew Hussie |last1=O'Malley |first1=Bryan Lee |url=http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/10/02/homestuck-interview-andrew-hussie-bryan-lee-omalley-ms-paint-adventures/ |work=Comics Alliance |date=October 2, 2012 |access-date=October 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308091741/http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/10/02/homestuck-interview-andrew-hussie-bryan-lee-omalley-ms-paint-adventures/ |archive-date=March 8, 2013 |author-link=Bryan Lee O'Malley |language=en}} The Homestuck Beta was published only three days after Problem Sleuth and ran until April 13, 2009.

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The initial style of the webcomic was shaped by fan contributions, with the fans deciding what actions the characters would take. Later, Hussie moved away from this format due to the fan input method having grown "too unwieldy and made it difficult... to tell a coherent story." While Hussie now controlled the main plot of the story and the characters' actions, he still "visit[ed] fan blogs and forums" to figure out small things to add into Homestuck.{{cite news |first1=Kelly |last1=Faircloth |title=Stuck on Homestuck: How Andrew Hussie Turned a Tumblr Craze Into a Teenage Empire |url=http://betabeat.com/2012/10/tumblr-andrew-hussie-homestuck-kickstarter-game-adventure-text-teens-young-adult/ |newspaper=The New York Observer |series=Betabeat |date=October 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005192003/http://betabeat.com/2012/10/tumblr-andrew-hussie-homestuck-kickstarter-game-adventure-text-teens-young-adult |archive-date=October 5, 2012 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Katz |first1=Mara |title=When MS Paint ruled the fandom world: An innovative webcomic, 10 years later |url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/fans-as-co-consiprators-how-community-built-reshaped-a-10-year-old-webcomic/ |access-date=February 18, 2021 |work=Ars Technica |publisher=Condé Nast |date=October 19, 2019 |language=en-US |archive-date=February 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226231225/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/fans-as-co-consiprators-how-community-built-reshaped-a-10-year-old-webcomic/ |url-status=live }} However, throughout its run, content within Homestuck would cease to be updated in several named pauses. The most infamous of these pauses was the result of Andrew Hussie taking a full year to solely focus on the production of Hiveswap in the gigapause.

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On April 13, 2016, Andrew Hussie released the final chapter of the webcomic: a nine-minute-long animated short titled "[S] ACT 7". Andrew Hussie stated that an epilogue to the webcomic would be released at some point in the future.{{cite web |url=http://www.comicsbeat.com/homestuck-ends-its-seven-year-run-with-a-nine-minute-cartoon/ |work=Comics Beat |title=Homestuck ends its seven-year run with a nine-minute cartoon |last1=MacDonald |first1=Heidi |author-link=Heidi MacDonald |date=April 13, 2016 |access-date=February 20, 2021 |language=en |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142201/https://www.comicsbeat.com/homestuck-ends-its-seven-year-run-with-a-nine-minute-cartoon/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/04/14/webcomic-homestuck-ends-7-year-run |website=IGN |title=Webcomic Homestuck Ends 7 Year Run |last1=Macy |first1=Seth G. |date=April 13, 2016 |access-date=February 20, 2021 |language=en |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142201/https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/04/14/webcomic-homestuck-ends-7-year-run |url-status=live }} In late 2016, the comic updated with a credit sequence and more panels in the form of a Snapchat story.{{cite thesis |last1=Alvim de Almeida |first1=Maiara |title=Leitores e autores na era da web 2.0: Webcomics, Narrativas Hipertextuais e Participação |date=May 29, 2019 |pages=85, 99 |url=http://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/bitstream/ufjf/10326/1/maiaraalvimdealmeida.pdf |access-date=March 9, 2021 |publisher=Federal University of Juiz de Fora |language=pt-BR |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413163303/http://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/bitstream/ufjf/10326/1/maiaraalvimdealmeida.pdf |url-status=live }} By the end of its run, the entire work contained over 800,000 words across at least 8,000 pages.{{cite news |last1=Trolinger |first1=Madeleine |title=What is 'Homestuck?' |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2297723591 |access-date=February 13, 2021 |work=University Wire |agency=The Bradley Scout |url-access=registration |date=September 27, 2019 |location=Peoria, IL |id={{ProQuest|2297723591}} |language=en |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404190520/https://www.proquest.com/docview/2297723591 |url-status=live }}

After its completion, writer Ben Tolkin said, "Do I recommend Homestuck? Should you drop everything and start reading it? You can't. Homestuck is over, and I mean over, not just that it isn't updating. 'Homestuck,' the masterpiece, was the event, the community, the shifting pace of updates, the constant chatter between fandom and author. Homestuck is done. If you missed it, you missed it." Rob Beschizza added that reading Homestuck now would be "like buying a DVD of Woodstock. It doesn't matter how well they played or how pretty they were; what mattered was being there."{{cite web |last1=Beschizza |first1=Rob |date=2016-11-22 |title=Homestuck was the "internet's first masterpiece" |url=https://boingboing.net/2016/11/22/homestuck-was-the-internet.html |access-date=2021-06-25 |website=Boing Boing |language=en-US |archive-date=June 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625022258/https://boingboing.net/2016/11/22/homestuck-was-the-internet.html |url-status=live }}

In 2018, Hussie partnered with Viz Media to release physical versions of Homestuck.{{cite magazine |last1=Canfield |first1=David |url=https://ew.com/books/2018/04/19/homestuck-hardcover-preview/ |title=Homestuck creator on turning his beloved web comic into a book |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=April 19, 2018 |access-date=April 3, 2023 |archive-date=April 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403213748/https://ew.com/books/2018/04/19/homestuck-hardcover-preview/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Cavna |first1=Michael |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/29/homestuck-creator-explains-how-his-webcomic-became-phenomenon/ |url-access=subscription |title='Homestuck' creator explains how his webcomic became a phenomenon |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 29, 2018 |access-date=April 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029205243/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/29/homestuck-creator-explains-how-his-webcomic-became-phenomenon/ |archive-date=October 29, 2018}} These hardcover books featured the original storyline and art, while also providing new commentary.

Related projects

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A significant amount of merchandise has been sold through Hussie's shop, company, and record label What Pumpkin, including "T-shirts, hoodies, pins, books" and fan art prints. Fans have also been "recruited" to make music for the webcomic. The music has been bundled into albums, with ten major soundtrack albums having been released thus far, in addition to eighteen side albums.{{cite news |title=Behind the wonderful and weird soundtrack to Homestuck |first1=Lauren Rae |last1=Orsini |url=http://www.dailydot.com/culture/homestuck-music-clark-powell/ |newspaper=The Daily Dot |date=September 3, 2012 |access-date=September 13, 2012 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111214226/https://www.dailydot.com/culture/homestuck-music-clark-powell/ |url-status=live |language=en}} On April 13, 2014, the fifth anniversary of Homestuck, Paradox Space, an anthology spin-off webcomic, was launched.{{cite news |url=http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/06/paradox-space-homestuck-outsourced/ |website=Comic Book Resources |series=Robot 6 |title='Paradox Space': 'Homestuck' outsourced |last1=Cruz |first1=Larry |date=June 6, 2014 |access-date=December 3, 2015 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142203/https://www.cbr.com/paradox-space-homestuck-outsourced/ |url-status=live}}

=Sequels=

On April 13, 2019 – exactly ten years after Homestuck started – The Homestuck Epilogues began.{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Julia |title=Homestuck updated with two epilogues three years after series ends |url=https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/4/22/18511121/homestuck-epilogue-upd8-update |access-date=February 15, 2021 |work=Polygon |publisher=Vox Media |date=April 22, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142215/https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/4/22/18511121/homestuck-epilogue-upd8-update |url-status=live |language=en}} The Epilogues are presented in purely text format with no images, completely abandoning the webcomic genre and instead being styled similarly to Archive of Our Own fanfiction. Alongside Andrew Hussie, it was also written by multiple fan writers.{{cite news |last1=Lutz |first1=Michael |title=How 'Homestuck' Defined What It Means to Be a Fan Online |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-homestuck-defined-what-it-means-to-be-a-fan-online/ |access-date=February 15, 2021 |work=Vice |date=May 15, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142214/https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmp3ze/how-homestuck-defined-what-it-means-to-be-a-fan-online |url-status=live |language=en}} Though released for free online, the Homestuck Epilogues were also given a physical release.{{cite tweet |author=Viz Media |user=VIZMedia |number=1163498251661631488 |title=Pre-order The Homestuck Epilogues now |date=August 19, 2019 |access-date=February 15, 2021 |language=en}}

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On October 25, 2019, an official followup was launched, titled Homestuck: Beyond Canon, initially Homestuck^2.{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Julia |title=Homestuck returns with Homestuck^2, a canon continuation of the infamous webcomic |url=https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/10/25/20932301/homestuck-sequel-continuation-2-beyond-canon-andrew-hussie-october-25 |website=Polygon |publisher=Vox Media |date=October 25, 2019 |access-date=October 25, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142224/https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/10/25/20932301/homestuck-sequel-continuation-2-beyond-canon-andrew-hussie-october-25 |url-status=live |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Surprise 'Homestuck 2' release for interactive web comic |url=https://sg.news.yahoo.com/surprise-homestuck-2-release-interactive-comic-142411216.html |access-date=February 13, 2021 |work=Yahoo! News |agency=AFP Relax |date=October 28, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142231/https://sg.news.yahoo.com/surprise-homestuck-2-release-interactive-comic-142411216.html |url-status=live |language=en-SG}} Homestuck: Beyond Canon has been written by a team of writers based on a story outline by Hussie, and the project receives funding from Patreon. In March 2021, Homestuck: Beyond Canons about page was updated to state that the work was "updated regularly for about a year until it was paused indefinitely. The creative team is now being commissioned to finish the story privately. All content will be posted here at once when the story is complete."{{cite web |title=Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon |url=https://homestuck2.com/about |access-date=March 30, 2021 |work=homestuck2.com |language=en |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318214513/https://www.homestuck2.com/about |url-status=live }} According to a February 2021 post on Homestuck's Patreon page, "Homestuck^2 is going to be completed, but this Patreon will not be charging patrons anymore."{{cite web |title=Homestuck is creating Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon |url=https://www.patreon.com/homestuck |access-date=March 31, 2021 |website=Patreon |language=en-US |archive-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402154438/https://www.patreon.com/homestuck |url-status=live }} Snake Solutions, a company commissioned to write and illustrate Homestuck^2, has reportedly shut down.{{cite news |last1=Sanchez |first1=Carlos E. |title=Snake Solutions, the studio behind Homestuck^2, has reportedly shut down |url=https://thenationwired.net/10472/uncategorized/snake-solutions-the-studio-behind-homestuck2-has-reportedly-shut-down/ |access-date=March 30, 2021 |work=The Nation Wired |language=en |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413163303/https://thenationwired.net/10472/uncategorized/snake-solutions-the-studio-behind-homestuck2-has-reportedly-shut-down/ |url-status=dead }} On October 8, 2023, the comic was updated again for the first time in nearly three years, with a news post stating that the comic was being worked on by a new team being directed by Hiveswap composer James Roach, with Hussie acting as Executive Producer. On October 30, 2023, the Homestuck Patreon was relaunched. The ^2' from the title was also dropped, with Roach saying "In the original outline, it was just called Homestuck: Beyond Canon. Andrew mentioned the old team pushed for the ^2 but this isn't actually a sequel in the traditional sense." The original chapters leading up to the first 2023 update were also referred to as a "prologue" by Roach.{{cite web |title=Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon |url=https://homestuck2.com/news |access-date=4 December 2023 |archive-date=December 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204071154/https://homestuck2.com/news |url-status=live }}

=''Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff''=

Early in Homestuck, Hussie introduced a webcomic contained within the main story titled Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. The webcomic, drawn within Homestuck by character Dave Strider, is intentionally poorly made.{{cite news |url=http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/09/the-ironic-awfulness-off-sweet-bro-and-hella-jeff/ |title=The ironic awfulness off 'Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff' |date=September 19, 2014 |first1=Larry |last1=Cruz |work=Comic Book Resources |series=Robot 6 |access-date=October 17, 2014 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142238/https://www.cbr.com/the-ironic-awfulness-off-sweet-bro-and-hella-jeff/ |url-status=live |language=en}}

TopatoCo produced a print publication collecting the strips. The press release from TopatoCo described Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff as "the worst comic strip ever".{{cite press release |title=Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff Hardcover |url=http://topatoco.tumblr.com/post/41062657345/sweet-bro-and-hella-jeff-hardcover-press-release |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142246/https://tumblr.horse/post/41062657345/sweet-bro-and-hella-jeff-hardcover-press-release |url-status=live |location=Easthampton, MA |work=TopatoCo |date=January 20, 2013 |access-date=November 20, 2014 |via=Tumblr |language=en}} In 2017, TopatoCo announced a second Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff book, co-written by dril,{{cite news |last1=Swearingen |first1=Jake |title=It Is With a Heavy Heart That Twitter Is Finding Out Who @Dril Is |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/it-is-with-a-heavy-heart-that-twitter-found-out-who-dril-is.html |access-date=February 18, 2021 |work=Intelligencer |agency=Vox Media |date=November 17, 2017 |language=en-US |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118030521/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/it-is-with-a-heavy-heart-that-twitter-found-out-who-dril-is.html |url-status=live }} co-drawn by KC Green, and funded through Kickstarter.{{cite press release |last1=Rowland |first1=Holly |title=Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff and the Quest for the Missing Spoon |url=http://makethatthing.com/sweetbro/ |work=TopatoCo |date=November 16, 2017 |access-date=December 9, 2017 |archive-date=December 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210175936/http://makethatthing.com/sweetbro/ |url-status=dead}}

=Video games=

On September 4, 2012, Hussie announced a Kickstarter to raise funds to develop a Homestuck video game.{{cite news |title=What The Heck Is Homestuck, And How'd It Get $750K On Kickstarter? |last1=Rigney |first1=Ryan |url=https://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/09/homestuck-kickstarter/ |newspaper=Wired |date=September 6, 2012 |access-date=September 6, 2012 |archive-date=September 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120909020708/http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/09/homestuck-kickstarter/ |url-status=live }} Kotaku noted that the project had raised "more than $275,000 in hours".{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Kate |title=Homestuck Kickstarter Raises Over $275,000 in Hours to Make Game of Comic That Makes Fun of Games |url=http://kotaku.com/5940466/homestuck-kickstarter-raises-over-275000-in-hours-to-make-game-of-comic-that-makes-fun-of-games |newspaper=Kotaku |date=September 4, 2012 |access-date=September 4, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142234/https://kotaku.com/homestuck-kickstarter-raises-over-275-000-in-hours-to-5940466 |url-status=live |language=en}} More than 80% of the $700,000 goal was pledged in the first day.{{cite news |last1=McMillan |first1=Graeme |title=Homestuck Kickstarter Nears Game Goal In Less Than Three Days |url=http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/09/05/homestuck-kickstarter-nears-game-goal-in-less-than-three-days/ |newspaper=Comics Alliance |date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907184355/http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/09/05/homestuck-kickstarter-nears-game-goal-in-less-than-three-days/ |archive-date=September 7, 2012 |language=en}} The game reached the full $700,000 of funding in fewer than 32 hours. The campaign also reached certain "stretch goal" amounts, whereupon Hussie added macOS and Linux support onto the proposed game.{{cite news |last1=Davis |first1=Lauren |title=Crowdfund a Homestuck video game, gruesome dog costumes, and Golden Age baked goods |url=http://io9.com/5941664/crowdfund-a-homestuck-video-game-gruesome-dog-costumes-and-golden-age-baked-goods |newspaper=io9 |date=September 9, 2012 |access-date=September 9, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142235/https://io9.gizmodo.com/crowdfund-a-homestuck-video-game-gruesome-dog-costumes-5941664 |url-status=live |language=en}} Digital Trends writer Graeme McMillan commented that the campaign was approaching, at the time, the record for most successful comics-related Kickstarter campaign, which was previously held by The Order of the Stick campaign with $1,254,120.{{cite news |last1=McMillan |first1=Graeme |title='Homestuck' heads towards new Kickstarter record |url=http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/homestuck-heads-towards-new-kickstarter-record/ |newspaper=Digital Trends |date=September 6, 2012 |access-date=September 6, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142244/https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/ |url-status=live |language=en}} The Kickstarter eventually raised $2,485,506, making it the "fifth game on Kickstarter to pull in a full seven figures" and the third highest funded video game in Kickstarter history at the time. An additional PayPal-based fundraiser was created to accommodate those who could not donate via Kickstarter's available methods.{{cite news |title=Homestuck becomes the third highest funded game on Kickstarter |first1=Tom |last1=Curtis |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/178865/Homestuck_becomes_the_third_highest_funded_game_on_Kickstarter.php |newspaper=Gamasutra |date=October 4, 2012 |access-date=October 6, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142238/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/178865/Homestuck_becomes_the_third_highest_funded_game_on_Kickstarter.php#.UG4JX01fBwk |url-status=dead |language=en}}{{cite magazine |first1=Seth |last1=Tipps |title=Homestuck Kickstarter closes at $2.4m |url=http://www.develop-online.net/news/42156/Homestruck-Kickstarter-reaches-24m |newspaper=Develop |date=October 5, 2012 |access-date=October 6, 2012 |archive-date=October 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007225614/http://www.develop-online.net/news/42156/Homestruck-Kickstarter-reaches-24m? |url-status=dead}}

While development was going to initially be done by game studio The Odd Gentlemen, production was later moved in-house to What Pumpkin.{{cite news |last1=Foxall |first1=Sam |title=Long awaited Homestuck adventure game, Hiveswap, finally comes to Steam Greenlight |url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/hiveswap/hiveswap-homestuck-steam-greenlight |access-date=February 18, 2021 |work=PCGamesN |date=December 18, 2016 |language=en |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413163301/https://www.pcgamesn.com/hiveswap/hiveswap-homestuck-steam-greenlight |url-status=live }} This coincided with a change in the game's art style from 3D to 2D.{{cite magazine |last1=Krisciunas |first1=Mantas |title='Hiveswap' and the Tenacity of Fandom |url=https://www.popmatters.com/hiveswap-and-the-tenacity-of-fandom2-2495409418.html |access-date=February 18, 2021 |magazine=PopMatters |date=November 8, 2016 |language=en |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120034922/https://www.popmatters.com/hiveswap-and-the-tenacity-of-fandom2-2495409418.html |url-status=live }} Development began in 2013, with the finished product expected in 2014; the first episode was later released in 2017.{{cite news |last1=Rose |first1=Victoria |title=Hiveswap review |url=https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/14/16308080/hiveswap-review |access-date=February 18, 2021 |work=Polygon |publisher=Vox Media |date=September 14, 2017 |language=en |archive-date=December 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217000817/https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/14/16308080/hiveswap-review |url-status=live }}

Additionally, Homestuck has led to the creation of two visual novel games: Hiveswap Friendsim and Pesterquest.

Fan community

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=MSPFA=

MS Paint Fan Adventures, or MSPFA for short, is a website in which users can create and view stories in the Homestuck format. During the period when the series was still ongoing, Andrew Hussie allowed fans to contribute suggestions to the story via the MS Paint Adventures forums, but this was later deprecated when the work got more popular.{{cite thesis |last1=Short |first1=Jennifer |title=Let Me Tell You About Homestuck: The Online Production of Place |journal=Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004–2019 |year=2014 |pages=42–67 |chapter=Chapter III: MS Paint Adventures As Place |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4806/ |format=PDF |access-date=February 15, 2021 |language=en |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227012815/https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4806/ |url-status=live }}

=Intensity and size=

Throughout much of its history, the size of Homestuck's fan community was in the millions, with around a million unique visitors coming to the site daily.{{cite news |title=The most popular, epic webcomic you've never heard of |last1=Orsini |first1=Lauren Rae |url=http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/01/the-most-popular-epic-webcomic-youve-never-heard-of/?hpt=hp_c2 |work=CNN |date=October 1, 2012 |access-date=October 6, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142246/https://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/01/the-most-popular-epic-webcomic-youve-never-heard-of/?hpt=hp_c2 |url-status=dead |language=en}}{{cite magazine |last1=Min |first1=Lilian |title=A Story That Could Only Be Told Online |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/a-story-that-could-only-be-told-online/385895/ |magazine=The Atlantic |date=February 24, 2014 |access-date=March 7, 2017 |archive-date=June 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603160247/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/a-story-that-could-only-be-told-online/385895/ |url-status=live |language=en}} At one point, one of the webcomic's Flash animations caused Newgrounds, Megaupload, and Twitter (now X) to crash when it was uploaded, due to the strain that the number of views had put on the servers.{{cite news |title=Webcomic Kickstarter Raises $500,000 For a Game in a Day |last1=Daw |first1=David |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/261951/webcomic_kickstarter_raises_500000_for_a_game_in_a_day.html |newspaper=PC World |date=September 6, 2012 |access-date=September 6, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142253/https://www.pcworld.com/article/261951/this_week_in_kickstarter_a_webcomic_raises_500_000_for_a_game_in_a_day.html |url-status=live}}

=Notable fans=

Actor Dante Basco is a known fan of the webcomic, having been urged to read it by friends telling him that the character Rufio, which he played in the 1991 film Hook, is featured in it. This interest in the webcomic led to a friendship with Andrew Hussie and resulted in the creation of a new character, Rufioh, with Basco's "typing quirks and personality".{{cite news |last1=Romano |first1=Aja |date=December 21, 2012 |title=From Homestuck to Hollywood, actor Dante Basco breaks the mold |newspaper=The Daily Dot |url=http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/dante-basco-hang-loose-homestuck-interview/ |url-status=live |access-date=January 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142256/https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/dante-basco-hang-loose-homestuck-interview/ |archive-date=February 15, 2021}} He would then team up with the Voice Over Nexus YouTube channel to voice the titular character in Let's Read Homestuck.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Toby "Radiation" Fox, best known for his later creation of the video game Undertale,{{cite news |last1=Castro |first1=Sadie |title=Of Homestuck and Undertale |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2357193559 |access-date=February 13, 2021 |url-access=registration |work=University Wire |agency=The Journal |date=February 18, 2020 |location=Springfield, IL |id={{ProQuest|2357193559}} |language=en |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404190522/https://www.proquest.com/docview/2357193559 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Audureau |first1=William |title=A la recherche de l'insaisissable Toby Fox, auteur du jeu vidéo culte " Undertale " |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2018/10/13/a-la-recherche-de-l-insaisissable-toby-fox-auteur-du-jeu-video-culte-undertale_5369023_4408996.html |access-date=February 18, 2021 |work=Le Monde |date=October 13, 2018 |language=fr |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413163301/https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2018/10/13/a-la-recherche-de-l-insaisissable-toby-fox-auteur-du-jeu-video-culte-undertale_5369023_4408996.html |url-status=live }} was a noted member of Homestuck{{'}}s official Music Contribution Team.{{cite news |last1=Funk |first1=John |title=Land of memes and trolls: The epic and ridiculous self-aware world of Homestuck |url=https://www.polygon.com/2013/1/24/3780850/land-of-memes-and-trolls-the-epic-and-ridiculous-self-aware-world-of |access-date=February 18, 2021 |work=Polygon |publisher=Vox Media |date=October 15, 2012 |language=en |archive-date=May 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520212927/http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/24/3780850/land-of-memes-and-trolls-the-epic-and-ridiculous-self-aware-world-of |url-status=live }} Amanda Brennan, an Internet historian, has credited much of Undertale's initial success on Tumblr to Fox's association with Homestuck.{{cite book |last1=McCracken |first1=Allison |title=A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures |date=November 2020 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-07456-3 |pages=46–48 |chapter=Chapter 3. Going Down the Rabbit Hole |doi=10.3998/mpub.11537055 |doi-access=free |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Broderick |first1=Ryan |title=The bizarre Minecraft meme Penis SMP has spawned a world of its own |url=https://www.polygon.com/22607840/minecraft-meme-dream-smp-penis-smp-explained |access-date=2 March 2022 |work=Polygon |date=9 August 2021 |language=en |archive-date=August 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809165331/https://www.polygon.com/22607840/minecraft-meme-dream-smp-penis-smp-explained |url-status=live }}

Reception and impact

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Lauren Rae Orsini, in an interview with Andrew Hussie, asked Hussie whether, because of the immense size of Homestuck and its fandom, with more than 5,000 pages and 128 characters at the time, Hussie considered himself in control of the comic. Hussie responded that he felt Homestuck was "still under my control", but that the background of Homestuck as a movement "is not under my control, and never really was."{{cite news |title=Behind Andrew Hussie' Homestuck Adventure Game |last1=Orsini |first1=Lauren Rae |url=http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/homestuck-andrew-hussie-interview/ |newspaper=The Daily Dot |date=September 7, 2012 |access-date=September 7, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142309/https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/homestuck-andrew-hussie-interview/ |url-status=live}} Orsini also suggested, in a separate article, that the effort put forward by people who finish Homestuck is an example of effort justification.{{cite news |title=Is Homestuck the "Ulysses" of the Internet? |last1=Orsini |first1=Lauren Rae |url=http://www.dailydot.com/culture/homestuck-ulysses-james-joyce-internet/ |newspaper=The Daily Dot |date=September 6, 2012 |access-date=September 13, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142309/https://www.dailydot.com/culture/homestuck-ulysses-james-joyce-internet/ |url-status=live |language=en}}

Homestuck was compared to James Joyce's Ulysses by PBS Idea Channel due to the work's length and complexity.{{cite news |title=Is Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet? |last1=Rugnetta |first1=Mike |url=https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/e34478cb-854d-483e-a99c-dbceed3e9623/is-homestuck-the-ulysses-of-the-internet/ |work=PBS Idea Channel |date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215142313/https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/e34478cb-854d-483e-a99c-dbceed3e9623/is-homestuck-the-ulysses-of-the-internet/ |url-status=live |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Glennon |first1=Jen |title='Homestuck' creator Andrew Hussie on the legacy and future of his epic webcomic |url=https://www.newsweek.com/homestuck-creator-andrew-hussie-legacy-and-future-his-epic-webcomic-882153 |access-date=February 15, 2021 |work=Newsweek |date=April 13, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413163301/https://www.newsweek.com/homestuck-creator-andrew-hussie-legacy-and-future-his-epic-webcomic-882153 |url-status=live }} Lori Henderson of the School Library Journal described Homestuck as being "mostly black and white with splashes of color and a minimal amount of animation", but said that it worked for the webcomic and that, because the "characters are a little goofy-looking and are often shown without arms", it only "adds to the charm".{{cite news |title=A Mom's Adventures in Homestuck Part 1 |last1=Henderson |first1=Lori |url=http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/goodcomicsforkids/2012/09/11/a-moms-adventures-in-homestuck-part-1/ |newspaper=School Library Journal |date=September 11, 2012 |access-date=September 11, 2012 |archive-date=October 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016173957/http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/goodcomicsforkids/2012/09/11/a-moms-adventures-in-homestuck-part-1/ |url-status=live |language=en}} Mordicai Knode of Tor Books explained that Homestuck has to be discussed separately between what it is as a webcomic and what its plot actually is. Comparing it to hypertext fiction and the genre's attempted use in physical novels like Pale Fire and House of Leaves, Knode concluded that "Homestuck is the first great work of genuinely hypertext fiction. If that puts it in the same breath as Ulysses, then so be it."{{cite news |title=Homestuck is the First Great Work of Internet Fiction |last1=Knode |first1=Mordicai |url=https://www.tor.com/2012/09/18/homestuck-is-the-first-great-work-of-internet-fiction |work=Tor Books |date=September 18, 2012 |access-date=September 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413190051/https://www.tor.com/2012/09/18/homestuck-is-the-first-great-work-of-internet-fiction/ |archive-date=April 13, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Bryan Lee O'Malley, creator of the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim, described Homestuck as a "massive undertaking of deftly-handled long-term serialized storytelling. It's well-written and thoughtful. It has things to say". NPR named it among its top 100 reader favorite comics and graphic novels in 2017.

Notes

References

Bibliography

=TopatoCo=

{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck: Book One |year=2011 |publisher=TopatoCo |location=Easthampton, MA |isbn=978-1-936561-82-7 |ref=none |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck: Book Two |year=2012 |publisher=TopatoCo |location=Easthampton, MA |isbn=978-1-936561-83-4 |ref=none |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck: Book Three |year=2013 |publisher=TopatoCo |location=Easthampton, MA |isbn=978-1-936561-10-0 |ref=none |language=en}}

=Viz Media=

{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck, Book 1: Act 1 & Act 2 |year=2018 |publisher=VIZ Media |location=San Francisco, CA |isbn=978-1-4215-9940-3 |ref={{harvid|Hussie|2018-1}} |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck, Book 2: Act 3 & Intermission |year=2018 |publisher=VIZ Media |location=San Francisco, CA |isbn=978-1-4215-9939-7 |ref=none |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck, Book 3: Act 4 |year=2018 |publisher=VIZ Media |location=San Francisco, CA |isbn=978-1-4215-9941-0 |ref=none |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck, Book 4: Act 5 Act 1 |year=2019 |publisher=VIZ Media |location=San Francisco, CA |isbn=978-1-4215-9942-7 |ref=none |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck, Book 5: Act 5 Act 2 Part 1 |year=2019 |publisher=VIZ Media |location=San Francisco, CA |isbn=978-1-4215-9943-4 |ref=none |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=Homestuck, Book 6: Act 5 Act 2 Part 2 |year=2020 |publisher=VIZ Media |location=San Francisco, CA |isbn=978-1-974706-50-1 |ref=none |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Hussie |first1=Andrew |title=The Homestuck Epilogues: Volume Meat / Volume Candy |year=2020 |publisher=Viz Media |location=San Francisco, CA |isbn=978-1-974701-08-7 |ref=none |language=en}}

External links

{{Spoken Wikipedia|date=2023-07-28|Homestuck spoken article.ogg}}

{{Official website}}
[https://homestuck.github.io/ Unofficial Homestuck Collection]
{{Vndb|31659|Homestuck}}
[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/ Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff] on MS Paint Adventures
{{wikia|mspaintadventures|MS Paint Adventures|homestuck|Homestuck}}