Sprite edits of Jake English as Leopold “Butters” Stotch and Professor Chaos.

Don’t get it? Read this pesterlog (spoilers for Homestuck Act 6 Act 3) and watch Imaginationland Episode III.

Eridan Ampora, Prince of Hope.

This one’s mainly inspired by the magical girl version of the March Madness Eridan meme (see this Promstuck page and Octopimp’s Peridan and Starkat skit for examples), It’s Over Once You Give Up, a Homestuck / Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika crossover fic by a mere trifle, and some of that magical girl Weeabro fanart that’s been floating around. Basically, I was looking for an anime prince outfit which evokes March Madness while remaining plausible as a Prince of Hope hoodie. Then I remembered Utena Tenjou’s ambition to become a fairytale prince and everything clicked. For the record, the idea for this predates this Eridan fanart by IPGD and John’s bucket letter.

Partially traced from official Utena art and Eridan’s sprites. The wings are the MSPA wiki’s high-res version of the Hope symbol, doubled and flipped turnways. The background is a pallette-swapped version of this public domain rose photo from Wikimedia Commons.

Part of a Homestuck fan comic I’ve been working on. Traced from here, here, here and here. Page 4 3 of 8.

The Blue Scorpion Army. While their moirails were away on summer vacation in the pre-Scratch Alternian equivalent of junior high, Mindfang and Dualscar formed a gang and roped the Grand Highblood, Summoner and Darkleer into joining. When the Dolorosa found out what they were doing, she got their moirails together to put a stop to it. This incident was a major turning point, after which the Dolorosa and Mindfang started taking their moirallegiance seriously and Dualscar and Mindfang broke up, and might also be the point at which Dualscar ♦ Condesce started to fall apart. Dualscar has sort of non-lethal raygun (modified by Darkleer), the Summoner has rocket wings and Darkleer has some sort of computer goggles.

These are their moiraillegiances:

• Dolorosa ♦ Mindfang.
• Condesce ♦ Dualscar.
• Handmaid ♦ Summoner.
• Disciple ♦ Darkleer.
• Signless ♦ Grand Highblood.

Traced like crazy (I need practice with figures and proportions), most of the poses are from here, the Summoner’s pose is from here, the horns are traced from sprites.

Sprite edits: Jane Crocker as Babe Bennett and Jake English as Stewie Griffin. Those became my headcanon voices for them while I was reading this pesterlog.

Pre-Scratch Mindfang finding out about the Dolorosa’s no longer secret crush on her. Takes place soon after this scene. Based on this scene.

Pre-Scratch Mindfang and Dolorosa finding out about the Summoner’s no longer secret crush on the Grand Highblood in the pre-Scratch version of this sequence. Kanaya’s pose is from here.

Pre-Scratch Dolorosa’s quadrants.

• Dolorosa ♥ Mindfang
• Dolorosa ♦ Mindfang
• Dolorosa ♠ Handmaid (unrequited)
• Dolorosa ♣ (Condesce ♠ Dualscar)
• Dolorosa ♣ (Ψiioniic ♠ Signless)

Pre-Scratch Mindfang’s quadrants:

• Mindfang ♥ Dolorosa
• Mindfang ♥ Summoner (unrequited)
• Mindfang ♦ Dolorosa
• Mindfang ♠ Dualscar (exes)
• Mindfang ♠ Redglare
• Mindfang ♠ Summoner

Pre-Scratch Summoner and Grand Highblood in the pre-Scratch version of this scene. The Highblood panicked and slapped the Summoner with the chuklevoodoos, then they both went crying to their moirails. Everything worked out eventually.

Pre-Scratch Summoner’s quadrants:

• Summoner ♥ Highblood
• Summoner ♦ Handmaid
• Summoner ♠ Mindfang

Pre-Scratch Grand Highblood’s quadrants:

• Highblood ♥ Summoner
• Highblood ♦ Signless
• Highblood ♠ Darkleer

Recently, I’ve been speculating about Vriska and Homestuck Act 6. What if Vriska’s revived via prototyping? Either deliberately or by accident (Halleysprite accidentally tier 2 prototyping). And, of course, if Vriska goes dog tier, there will be spiderbitch jokes.

Sketch of the pre-Scratch versions of the Condesce and the Ψiioniic from my Expletive’s Wake fanfic continuity. In this continuity, the Ψiioniic was blinded in his first duel with Dualscar, unlike Sollux, who got blinded in his second duel with Eridan. Darleer fitted him with artifical eyes soon after.

Pre-Scratch Condesce’s quadrants:

• Condosce ♥ Ψiioniic
• Condesce ♠ Handmaid
• Condesce ♦ Dualscar (exes)
• Dolorosa ♣ (Condesce ♠ Dualscar)

Pre-Scratch Ψiioniic’s quadrants:

• Ψiioniic ♥ Condesce
• Ψiioniic ♦ Handmaid (formerly ♥)
• Ψiioniic ♠ Dualscar (exes)
• Dolorosa ♣ (Ψiioniic ♠ Signless)

Sketch of the pre-Scratch version of Aradia’s ancestor from my Expletive’s Wake fanfic continuity. Instead of getting killed and coming back as a haunted robot like post-Scratch Aradia, she lost an eye and an arm like post-Scratch Vrsika (and most of her right side), so she’s still got the “robot troll” and “dead troll” angles covered. She was Darkleer’s matesprit, the Ψiioniic’s moirail, the Condesce’s kismesis and had caliginous crush on Mindfang which she got over after Handmaid ♠ Condesce and Mindfang ♠ Redglare.

Aral Iade, the Hound at the Horizon of Infinity.

My first ExaltedStuck AU image. Jade as a Green Sun Prince / Rising Phoenix. Defiler Caste. Favoured Yozi: Isidoros. The green sun eyes and floating hands are due to hypothetical She Who Lives in Her Name charms  (IMO her humaniform jouten probably looks like a glass version of Queen Zeal’s mask and hands form, a crystalline female Doctor Manhattan or a crystalline version of fanon!android!GLaDOS). I’d love to play Jade in an Exalted game.

An alternate version of my Dog Tier Jade image. The green sun image is from Wikimedia commons. The Bec Head silouhette is from “[S] Jade: Enter.”.

Dog Tier Jade, drawn over the weekend. Took a lot longer than I expected due to the limitations of SketchBook Mobile. Referenced from “[S] Cascade.”. The stars and background effect are public domain images of the Witch Head Nebula and Orion from Wikimedia Commons.