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Jailbreak - Bard Quest - Problem Sleuth - Homestuck

  • This is a general thread for MS Paint Adventures, both for people who've read it, are part of the fandom and are way into it, and people that are thinking about getting into it.


What is MS Paint Adventures?
  • MS Paint Adventures is a website hub for a series of webcomics made by a dude named Andrew Hussie.
You can visit the website here. These comics are reminiscent of old text-based adventure games where you would have to enter commands to proceed, except the commands are already entered for you, providing a sense of pseudo-interactivity. It's called MS Paint Adventures because the comics started out being made in MS Paint.

There is a page tailored specifically for new readers describing the process and each of the comics in greater detail here!

Where do I start?

  • A lot of people say to read
Problem Sleuth first - it's a pretty long comic but if you find yourself enjoying the weird humor it's fun! The most popular adventure is Homestuck. There is also Bard Quest (a little different from the others - actual interactivity!) and Jailbreak, but those last two aren't finished and probably never will be.

Anyone who chides you for reading one adventure before the other is kind of dumb. They're pretty standalone (though there are some throwbacks and references to earlier adventures in later ones), so read them in whatever order you want.

What is Homestuck?

  • Homestuck is the most recent adventure. It is a comic about four young kids who go on an adventure to save the world, or something like that. It is really long! Several thousand pages long. But it's a good read, in my opinion - it's visually interesting and the writing is clever. The story is told in a series of sometimes unorthodox ways, including chatlogs, flash animations, flashbacks, flashforwards, and weird plot crap. It's also the first adventure with flash animations complete with music! The first act is pretty hard to get past, but the story starts gradually moving faster as time goes on.

    The series is currently on a small hiatus until 11/11.

Who are these weird grey-skinned demons with yellow eyes and weird candy corn horns that I keep seeing everywhere??

  • These are Trolls. They are part of Homestuck and it's kind of hard to describe them without spoiling anything, but the short version is: there are twelve of them, each corresponding to an astrological symbol, and they are all kind of weird and sometimes ornery. Also they're not actually demons.

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  • 4 months later...

I am reviving this somewhat old thread to express my approval for Homestuck.

I had a somewhat rough week or so and spent all of my free time lying on the couch smelling bad and reading the entire Homestuck archive. While I haven't decided on a favourite troll (I am somewhat drawn to Nepeta, but find Equius lulzy), I am quite fond of the human Derse dreamers, especially Dave. What a cool guy!

Java got me the entire discography for it (as it stands now, at least), so I am listening to it as much as humanly possible, though I keep swinging back to Derse Dreamers (earworm) and The Carnival (because Gamzee).

I also finished reading Problem Sleuth recently and will probably start on Bard Quest later. I was initially turned off of Jailbreak, but finished it because I didn't want to leave it unfinished and miss references.

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  • 5 months later...

For those interested, there is actually a Homestuck adventure game being planned, the experienced game developer they intend to utilise yet unnamed.

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The comic itself is slated to end next year, with the game coming out in 2014. Here's what Hussie had to say on funding goals.

$700,000.00 FUNDED!

$800,000.00 Mac Support

$850,000.00 New reward tier perk unlocked

$900,000.00 Linux Support

$950,000.00 ???

$1,000,000.00 ???

$1,100,000.00 ???

$1,250,000.00 ???

(??? revealed later. More stretch goals to be added if necessary.)

There are 27 days left to help fund the game. The 700k target was apparently reached in 32 hours. And here's a Kotaku article on it.

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There was a random Homestuck floating around the forum that I haven't seen too much of.

People ship all the things. I just thought it was funny that the moment Porrim showed up, a lot of people started drawing porn of her. I haven't seen any smutty Porrim fan fic floating around yet, though. Probably not looking hard enough.

I don't know much about Kurloz to have any real feelings towards shipping him with Karkat or anyone besides Meulin. I'm more curious about Karkat's relationship with Terezi like what happened while we were focussing on Jade and John I must know

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mog mog i love kurloz he's so fucking adorable. And Meulin wow. aaaand Mituna. And I'm sure that the Zahhak troll will end up an impeccable cutie even though I'm biased since I like Equius a lot, although not as much as the Makaras.

Yeah I haven't seen any smutty Porrim fics either. My smut involves Gamzee or Kurloz somehow oooops. Although lately a friend of mine and I have been RPing humanstuck gamkar and it's really fun. Skype RPing is fun in general.

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Yeah, I can't wait to see pre-scratch Zahhak and Damara. I'm hoping pre-scratch Nitram is more interesting than Tavros.

Mituna is so cool and sassy, it's too bad people started turning him into their precious babby who needs protecting from mean, evil Cronus. Like, even the Homestuck Wiki characterises Cronus as this unforgivable douchebag, so I hope that Cronus doesn't end up getting killed off without being given some sort of redeeming character development.

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Ugh yeah ikr. Mituna is nobody's precious babbu and I'm pretty sure he and Cronus were friends before he overloaded himself. And yeah hopefully the Nitram troll will be more interesting. tbh, I like most of the new trolls besides Kankri, since he talks forever and uhhh yeah I find social justice blogging really annoying, and Cronus, but that's because I really can't stand the "nice guy" trope. I love his design though.

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He is a Nice Guy to a T, haha. I hope his songs, whenever they're released, are as bad as the titles suggest they are. If anything, I am glad to see people are starting to see Eridan isn't as bad as he could've been.

And Kankri is the reason it took me hours to finish the update he was in. I read everything he said--how much I retained is another matter entirely. I like Kankri's design and I think his interactions with Porrim are cute, but he does live up to the Insufferable title at times. There's a smut fic floating around AO3 featuring Kankri as the centre of a gangbang. It's pretty funny.

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mog i need to read this js. In the humanstuck RP I'm doing with my friend on Skype, Kankri was Karkat's older brother and Gamzee punched his face in >u > I attempted to read what he said but it was just way too much.

How do you feel about Meulin? Personally, I think she's my favorite female troll with Meenah close behind. She's just too adorable wow

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Here's the author. It should be easy to pick out which one I'm talking about, haha.

It is so much stuff that I'm pretty sure isn't terribly important. Like half the time it was just him apologising in that obnoxious way about accidentally triggering people.

Meulin is super adorable! I like the Leijons--for all their creepy "I'm gonna ship my friends with each other" nonsense, they manage to do it in a pretty cute way in my eyes. And Meulin's really chipper and upbeat personality is cute--I'd love to see her interact with all the other trolls more.

I don't know if I have a favourite troll yet, especially amongst the pre-scratch trolls. They're all so good and I keep seeing fan art and fics that make me rethink my opinion of them.

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yessss and i like how Nepeta is moirails with Equius u wu Meulin and Kurloz are adorbs together so one of my OTPs of anything is them as matesprit. It looks like they have a complicated relationship though.

I've shamelessly taken most of Meulin's emotes and her use of mog idgaf. Oh yeah and I have a literal quadrant binder since I sail a lot of ships. My tumblr has my shipping wall and I have to update it now wow @ w@

Lately I've thrown myself into the fandom and it feels great to get fanmails about my fics tbh. Besides, they're great for practice, right?

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Nep/Eq is my favourite canon relationship and part of the reason why I love Equius so much. Rosemary is my guilty pleasure and, more non-canon, a little bit of Lalondecest.

I have Meulin's emotes saved in a draft, haha. I haven't written a Homestuck fan fic, so the secret santa thing is going to be interesting. At least I'll have two weeks to come up with something good for each one. u-u And it is good practise, especially since you don't have to worry so much about creating the characters and their personalities. That's a lot of work off my hands, lul.

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Rosemary is another favorite ship of mine. And my 'cest ship is makaracest ooops >_> But I could probably ship Lalondecest. I'm a bit iffy on Stridercest though.

I like creating personalities and everything though u wu I denied myself fanfiction for so long that I've just thrown myself into it. My first fanfiction in years was that Meulin/Kurloz sadstuck I wrote when the flash update came out, actually.

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Stridercest is okay, haha. Everyone seems to ship it and I'm a little burnt out on it. There's not much interest there for me. I don't see as much Lalondecest, and I think people forget the Prospit kids exist.

Makaracest sounds like it'd be super violent, omg. I saw a bit of fan art on my dash of Kurloz/Terezi/Gamzee in a caliginous threesome. Huffs.

I love sadstuck. There was a good one I read of Roxy and AR. Inhaled that fic like air.

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yess Makaracest is really violent and really fun to write * w* And I've seen that fanart! tbh, I want to recreate that in writing with Dave in the middle instead of Terezi, but that's because I definitely ship GamDave and adding Kurloz in there would be really violent.

Yeah Stridercest is /everywhere/. It's impossible to get away from.

I dunno, some of my ships are pretty rare or generally not heard of, like Broquius or Gamquius. Gamquius is actually a ship I'm quite fond of tbh, even though it's extremely un-canon. Although there was that one tweet Hussie sent where he declared all ships canon >_>

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Haha, I saw that tweet. Ship all the 'cest!

Those are super rare pairs, at least on my dash. I can see Dave in a caliginous relationship with pretty much every troll--he just seems the type for it. Same with Rose, actually, but in a more dominant position.

I don't have any unusual pairings of my own. I just kind of ship everyone in a pile anyway. Let them work it out themselves.

And by "work it out" I mean sloppy makeouts. No time for characterisation, only smut.

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