From 7ecbe001feb649b8c3237bddc0efaa4918d94f7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niklink <25875275+Niklink@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 03:39:17 -0400
Subject: revise commentary image sizes
resolves #253
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album/7th-gate-project.yaml | 2 +-
album/alternia.yaml | 36 +++----
album/alterniabound.yaml | 56 +++++-----
album/beyond-canon.yaml | 176 +++++++++++++++++++------------
album/cherubim.yaml | 2 +-
album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml | 2 +-
album/comfortable-bugs.yaml | 2 +-
album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml | 7 +-
album/cool-and-new-volume-2.yaml | 2 +-
album/cool-and-new-volume-v.yaml | 6 +-
album/crossmound-vol-1.yaml | 4 +-
album/diverging-delicacies.yaml | 2 +-
album/gotta-hatch-em-all.yaml | 2 +-
album/hiveswap-act-1-ost.yaml | 4 +-
album/hiveswap-friendsim.yaml | 2 +-
album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml | 2 +-
album/homestuck-vol-6.yaml | 6 +-
album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 2 +-
album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml | 4 +-
album/lofam2.yaml | 2 +-
album/lofam4.yaml | 8 +-
album/lofam5.yaml | 5 +-
album/paths.yaml | 2 +-
album/prospit-and-derse.yaml | 2 +-
album/s-hecka-jef.yaml | 4 +-
album/unreleased-tracks.yaml | 2 +-
album/xenoplanetarium.yaml | 2 +-
static-page/changelog.yaml | 2 +
28 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)
diff --git a/album/7th-gate-project.yaml b/album/7th-gate-project.yaml
index 6d9d19c7..e6fae9bd 100644
--- a/album/7th-gate-project.yaml
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Commentary: |-
Niklink:
(Technically speaking, this release doesn't have any actual cover artwork. However I would be remiss if I did not mention that on skaia.net, which has hosted a copy of this album for many many years, this release is represented by slightly modified artwork:)
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Track: Through the Seventh Gate ~Land of Wind and Shade~
Duration: '4:33'
diff --git a/album/alternia.yaml b/album/alternia.yaml
index 0a8a84e7..2184ca7b 100644
--- a/album/alternia.yaml
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@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Commentary: |-
Just don't try any other way.
Homestuck:
(original track art)
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Track: Showdown
Duration: '1:43'
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ok that's better. now I am the biggest jerk.
Homestuck:
(original track art)
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Track: mIrAcLeS
Duration: '2:31'
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THE END
Homestuck:
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Track: Phaze and Blood
Duration: '1:38'
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BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN BABY BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN.
Homestuck:
(original track art)
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Track: psych0ruins
Duration: '2:15'
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Fitting.
Homestuck:
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Track: Walls Covered in Blood
Duration: '2:00'
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Hopefully this piece is successfully cute. As cute as the fabled mountain of cute? I don't think so. I can only hope. If it is, please tell me. I will be so proud.
Homestuck:
(original track art)
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Track: dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS,
Duration: '1:37'
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(Actually, I could see the jousting donation page using this song... Andrew, how much money does it cost for me to request an [S] donation page...?)
Homestuck:
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Track: Death of the Lusii
Duration: '2:00'
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Et cetera.
Homestuck:
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Track: Virgin Orb
Duration: '2:23'
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(I imagine that GA would be on the other moon than Tavros actually, but... now that I think about it, wouldn't it be fitting if the two "teams" were split up according which moon they were on? So maybe it's not too far-fetched that I'm thinking this.)
Homestuck:
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Track: The La2t Frontiier
Duration: '1:50'
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ Commentary: |-
WON'T.
Homestuck:
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Track: Skaian Summoning
Duration: '2:22'
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is there anything i can do to change your mind?
Homestuck:
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Section: Bonus tracks
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thanks to an emailer working with Monckat for helping find the original artwork for this track!
here's the original art put up on the wiki for this track, by foreverFlummoxed:
foreverFlummoxed:
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Quasar Nebula:
and here's another piece by Monckat:
Monckat:
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(the track art anthology for Alternia didn't include a fanart for this track.)
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Track: Spider's Claw
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bluh bluh mwuh mwuh
Homestuck:
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Track: Staring
Duration: '1:21'
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This track is kind of hilarious in retrospect, after seeing what Equius has become. He really needs a nice manly abusive wifebeaterly wrestling theme with a lot of highfalutin' harpsichord sensibilities, you know what I mean? I do. Watch out.
Homestuck:
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Track: Keepers
Duration: '1:55'
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(I also told my mom that. She believed me.)
Homestuck:
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Track: Theme
Duration: '1:28'
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That's the end.
Homestuck:
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Track: Walls Covered in Blood DX
Duration: '2:01'
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Commentary: |-
Homestuck:
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diff --git a/album/alterniabound.yaml b/album/alterniabound.yaml
index 29f9b69e..bb052715 100644
--- a/album/alterniabound.yaml
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That, and the whole song kinda reminds me of an anime opening where Aradia undergoes a 3 minute transformation into a maid costume. Please imagine this.
Homestuck:
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Track: Karkat's Theme
Artists:
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I hope you like it too. And if you don't, I hope it pisses you off as much as it annoys Karkat to have this song play wherever he goes. That's all I can hope for.
Homestuck:
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Track: Trollcops
Artists:
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So damn catchy and sleuthy.
Homestuck:
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Track: 'BL1ND JUST1C3 : 1NV3ST1G4T1ON !!'
Artists:
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Thank you Malcolm. That kiss at the end? That's me kissing you.
Homestuck:
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Track: Terezi's Theme
Artists:
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After I first completed the song, I noticed that the track was kind of short. That's when I came up with the idea for the second part of the piece - a reprise of "Theme" from the Alternia album. This shows that Terezi has another side to her beyond her devious Alternian judgment: She truly cares about her friends, so much that she has a certain level of tender emotion that almost puts Karkat to shame. I'm not sure if the bifurcation of the piece worked really well as a faux videogame track, but I think it fits her personality.
Homestuck:
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Track: Dreamers and The Dead
Artists:
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Go check out the track "Cuddlefish" - he actually uses a minor version of the melody from that at 2:50. Dude is a talent.
Homestuck:
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Track: Vriska's Theme
Artists:
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... oh, and if you're looking for the full verison of Spider's Claw, wait until Volume 8, ok????????
Homestuck:
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Track: She's a Sp8der
Artists:
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I love this track. The end is some serious Skipper Plumbthroat shit. Cue Karkat the Angry Crab pinches him on the nose. Tee hee.
Homestuck:
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Track: FIDUSPAWN, GO!
Artists:
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This is probably the music that's playing in game when Terezi and Karkat are playing on the cover.
Homestuck:
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Track: Darling Kanaya
Artists:
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It's all kind of ghostly and heartfelt, like a sad look out the window with a romance novel in your lap, and then a knowing, welcoming smile. I think that makes sense considering she's an undead vampire now! Or not.
Homestuck:
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Track: Requiem of Sunshine and Rainbows
Artists:
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What is a troll?
Homestuck:
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Track: Eridan's Theme
Artists:
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The only thing I'd like to note is the middle section remixing Alex Rosetti's Catchyegrabber. I mean, I'm not the voice of Eridan... and it's a bit of a parallel... but... you know all those people you saw in the flash animation? They were ONLY in the opening sequence. They left after the theme song ecause they realized Plumbthroat was about as bright as a lump of seaweed. He doesn't have any friends. Even the Squiddles refuse to love him. He is one damn lonely man.
Homestuck:
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Track: Nautical Nightmare
Artists:
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*I have since done something better called [[Earthsea Borealis]]. Maybe you will hear it someday.
Homestuck:
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Track: Nepeta's Theme
Artists:
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:33
Homestuck:
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Track: Horschestra STRONG Version
Directory: horschestra-STRONG-version
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Also, the SNES funeral section interspersed with a small amount of Walls Covered in Blood at the end is just brilliant.
Homestuck:
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Track: Blackest Heart (With Honks)
Artists:
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Yep, that's my voice, by the way.
Homestuck:
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Track: Midnight Calliope
Artists:
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Soundtrack-wise... I think this was one of the greatest moments of Homestuck. This track makes my hair stand on end.
Homestuck:
(original track art)
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Track: Chaotic Strength
Artists:
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That didn't happen though.
Homestuck:
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Track: Trollian Standoff
Artists:
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An awesome track that sets up really well... for the next one.
Homestuck:
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Track: Rex Duodecim Angelus
Artists:
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Definitely the peak of intensity on the album.
Homestuck:
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Track: Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!!
Artists:
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What's wrong, baby? Can't you even play guitar?
Lexxy:
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Track: Alternia
Artists:
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FCG: AND
FCG: I DUNNO
FCG: THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY, I'M GETTING A LUMP IN MY SQUAWK BLISTER.
Homestuck:
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Section: Bonus tracks
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Oh! The name of the level was contributed by my friend Samantha.
Homestuck:
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Track: Science Seahorse
Artists:
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I sadly don't remember who suggested the name "Science Seahorse"... someone cool. You're cool, person! Smile.
Homestuck:
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Track: A Fairy Battle
Artists:
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Oh, and also enjoy that really loud bass. Pump that shit in your cars.
Homestuck:
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Track: The Blind Prophet
Artists:
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this song is the best song to air guitar and also sing along to and play shitty trumpet to
Hanni Brosh:
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Track: AlterniaBound
Artists:
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When you win a battle on Alternia, this song plays. No one knows who's singing.
Homestuck:
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Track: Rest A While
Artists:
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And with that.... good night.
Homestuck:
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diff --git a/album/beyond-canon.yaml b/album/beyond-canon.yaml
index 2442159d..4e21acd3 100644
--- a/album/beyond-canon.yaml
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Feedback for revisions was given by all the artists in the UMSPAF discord, but I want to recognize Tipsy for being consistently present and offering constructive suggestions for nearly every piece!
Though Makin stepped down after the planning stages of the project, I also want to thank him for the concept and his work sorting initial artist applications to make sure that everyone was assigned to a track that they wanted.
Some final thoughts: This project went unbelieveably smoothly, completed in just one month. The majority of artists were invited on May 1st, and art was completed by the 31st. I'm glad we get a chance to appreciate the artists on our team: So many of these people could be spending their time making money with their art, and they're helping us enrich and expand on the Homestuck soundtrack instead! Thank you to everyone who worked on art and everyone who checks out the project!
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Default Track Cover Art Date: June 1, 2020
Additional Files:
- Title: Fan Anthology Art Booklet
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you have given me a home i would be happy to be stuck in.
Zowerlemon:
Exclusion zone really stood out as quite the challenge, my mind was racing trying to grasp onto an idea and landed on a robotic theme with solitary undertones. The best to represent the song in my opinion was Rosebot: in the song the singer is repeating "you just made a monster," acknowledging that they themselves are no longer a person and informing their initiator of what they had done. While designing the drawing I decided that rosebot had to be the center of attention of the piece so I focused on her color pallet and her aspect, light, was made to be just as robotic as she is, with orange metal linings as an example of ult dirks influence on her. The purple background is taken by her lunar sway, also, it was a good color to accompany the yellow in the piece. The rest are random metal plates with lining in between each plate forming a sort of tunnel with the only light being Rosebot and a clock of the moon and the sun surrounding her, each with their own meaning. In the end I love how the final piece came to be, I feel that it represents the song very well, and I had fun sharing with the organizers and the other artists. To be the first time working in this manner in a community was nice and I hope in the future to have similar opportunities like this. Thank You!
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Track: Now I'm a Villain
Artists:
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(Twitter)
It was fun to play lots of nice low 7 string guitar chugs and to try and make it sound as villainous as possible. :)
Jas:
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Track: Cosmic Carousel
Artists:
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CrepesAhoy:
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Rachel Z
Initially, I was split between making Dirk or Alt. Calliope the focus of this drawing. Eventually, I decided that Jade possessed by Alt. Calliope was the best fit, because the upbeat mood of the song fits Jade's personality, and the name was also very fitting for both characters since their aspect is space. I interpreted the "Cosmic Carousel" as the black hole turning endlessly in space while Alt. Calliope acts as the conductor as she watches over the various timelines. After my first sketch, I had Jade wield Calliope's wand, and I also gave her a happier expression to fit the overall mood of the song.
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Track: Surprise, We're Back
Artists:
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It's a great privilege of mine to contribute music to Homestuck^2. We're glad we can finally show you what we've been doing.
D'paq:
I was indeed surprised by HS^2's sudden appearence, at first I thought it was a really well-characterized fan continuation like with Act Omega, with its own website like VE, they even shared the same artist, I can recognize Xamag's art from a mile away, love it. But turns out that they indeed Were Back, and I'm really looking forward to what they have in store. Dirk, the ==> command, and the Theseus seemed like the perfect trinity to represent a(n) (un)likely continuation to an already colossal story. The sky full of faint memories of the baffling/fascinating (Meat) Epilogues, Dirk as the constellation marking him as one of this universe's gods, the one who put that story into motion. There's another simpler track art I made that I also enjoy, but in my mind the piano and the stars go together much better, the one with Dirk and the huge ==> command feels like it'd accompany some electronic song instead. Have a nice day!
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Track: SPLIT REALITY
Artists:
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So I really, really do hope you guys enjoy this <3
Gastlu:
Originally I had drawn events throughout the timelines, though in my opinion, it looked a bit too much to focus on, so I scrapped that version, and, unfortunately I did not save that version, oops. Either way, I hope my abstract-y space-y art did the job, made a blackhole to represent, well, the blackhole which Alt. Callie turned into, added some green and orange effects for the narrative command battle going, though there's already a track for that, so it is minor, in the background, the real focus are the timelines, meat drips with death, candy is sweet and bright, though they both have some masks for what's really going on, we cannot see though, the reality is split and we're in SPACE.
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Track: Assembly
Artists:
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ysh:
When I got the track (and stopped squeeing) I contacted the composer to ask what he envisioned while making it, and he told me that the track was about Dirk's team's journey through space towards the new planet as well as about them preparing for the game (hence the name). So I did my best to convey all of that. The track uses many synth sounds, or at least *some* synth sounds, and to me that was enough to justify going for the 80's neon aesthetic. I used mainly triadic palette where each colour corresponded to one of the characters: orange for Dirk, violet for Rose, teal/turquoise for Terezi. The theme of "three" is also reinforced by the triangle shape, which I referenced in composition as well as by slapping a big fat triangle in the middle of the picture. It works as a visual portal and also represents the letter Delta (as in Deltritus, the name of the new planet). The idea of actual assembling of the game is referenced through the Venn diagram glyph inside the portal and by those sick grid mountains in the background that I totally didn't trace from some random stock image. There's some more symbolism stuffed in the picture but this commentary is already too long and I'd like to leave some things open to interpretation. Doing track art has been a long dream of mine, and I'm extremely glad and thankful I've been given this chance to participate in this project!
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Track: Not Canon in F major, Op. 69
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Spicy Nyx:
When I listen to the song it makes me think of how much Homestuck has strayed into non-canon and I wanted to draw what's pretty much become the 3 most influential characters of homestuck, looking out at whats to come next has they go further and further out of the canon story.
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Track: The Leaving
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- Terezi
- Earth
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- Smoke is all I breathe
Is all you hear, is all in me
Taste the drier air
There's nothing left
- Letters fill the empty space
There's so much space that's left untouched
Running scares me more than God
But staying can't sustain
- The sparks of fire, earthbound
Have found your home, be gone now
It's not your fault, you know this
But the leaving is just the same
- I feel the wind beneath my arms
It's warmer now than I recall
Have you heard the news today?
They closed the school
- You and I have been through this
Have been through that, have been at ease
Nothing scares me more than God
And Nothing cannot sustain
- The sparks of fire, earthbound
Have found your home, be gone now
It's not your fault, you know this
But the leaving is still the same
- You sent me fire
Fire, I'll tear my throat out
Burn my blackened lips
You gave me fire
Fire, I'll tear my heart out
I'd rather tear my heart out
But I can't stay here
- The sparks of fire, earthbound
Have found your home, be gone now
It's not your fault, you know this
But you can't help but turn around
The embers haven't faded
The love you left, unmade
It's not your fault, you know this
But the leaving is still the same
+ Smoke is all I breathe
+ Is all you hear, is all in me
+ Taste the drier air
+ There's nothing left
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+ Letters fill the empty space
+ There's so much space that's left untouched
+ Running scares me more than God
+ But staying can't sustain
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+ The sparks of fire, earthbound
+ Have found your home, be gone now
+ It's not your fault, you know this
+ But the leaving is just the same
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+ I feel the wind beneath my arms
+ It's warmer now than I recall
+ Have you heard the news today?
+ They closed the school
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+ You and I have been through this
+ Have been through that, have been at ease
+ Nothing scares me more than God
+ And Nothing cannot sustain
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+ The sparks of fire, earthbound
+ Have found your home, be gone now
+ It's not your fault, you know this
+ But the leaving is still the same
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+ You sent me fire
+ Fire, I'll tear my throat out
+ Burn my blackened lips
+ You gave me fire
+ Fire, I'll tear my heart out
+ I'd rather tear my heart out
+ But I can't stay here
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+ The sparks of fire, earthbound
+ Have found your home, be gone now
+ It's not your fault, you know this
+ But you can't help but turn around
+ The embers haven't faded
+ The love you left, unmade
+ It's not your fault, you know this
+ But the leaving is still the same
Commentary: |-
Marcus Carline:
(Twitter)
So I did a thing (was a small part in doing a thing). My track is The Leaving, but honestly give this whole thing a listen. I'm very proud to be included here. Happy Homestuck Day!
RainbowLustDash:
When I first heard the song i thought about Rosebot leaving Kanaya, but as I listened to it I realized it could fit so many other characters as well. Especially Dirk, Terezi and Rose leaving earth C, Dirk thinking there is nothing left to do on Earth C and seeing leaving as the only way to move forward, Terezi leaving after John's death (mentions of air and wind), and Rose not wanting to hurt Kanaya by leaving but having no other choice. And as soon as I realized this, I had this picture in mind. Most of my WIPS shows the progress of the piece; sketch, color modifications, cleaning etc... Thanks to the beyond canon anthology team for their tips and advice!
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Track: Light Burns Out (Gestalt)
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If you are confused
Understand
So am i
All jokes aside i'm really very happy with this song and i think it's cool and big and i hope you all like it too
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Mikkynga:
When hearing the song and thinking about HS2 and how Dirk influenced Rose and Rose reaffirms Dirk's thoughts all i wanted to do is how to mix them in one picture. The rest was just just drawing while hearing the song and letting it take me to whatever it wanted to go.
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Track: Hometeam Adv8ntage
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Hugest thanks to @barkbarkclark for being awesome amazing the best ever and having me on! <3 <3 <3
Tipsy:
I was itching to draw something relating to the future kids! My style is very rigid so I wanted to draw something looser this time. This worked best with Vriska. Proud of the grass. The sky is based off of a sunset from Adventure Time. I can't draw cars. Tavros is cutting loose and unleashing the rebel within.
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Track: After the Sun
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(YouTube)
It's about beginnings in endings...building the world in the comic's early pages, and rebuilding the world after the end. But also, all interpretations are valid.
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I had read comments from the composer and I really liked one of the ways that they described the track, which was like "beginnings in endings". It's cool to see Homestuck^2 parallel some stuff from OG Homestuck, and it's especially cool with the heartfelt or hopeful moments; paralleling is largely where my art inspo came from. Seeing John and BGD aiding Jake again is great, especially since that was near the end of OG Homestuck, while Homestuck^2 is beginning with that (which seems to be the case with other stuff, too, like Jade being possessed). Furthermore, it's that teamwork/hopeful stuff (like John and BGD aiding Jake, but also Dave comforting Kanaya, etc.) in Homestuck^2 that really feels like the idea of "beginnings in endings" to me, whether it parallels OG Homestuck or not. All of the characters are struggling right now, and it's nice to think that they might be able to help each other out and make something together out of all that struggling.
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Track: Narrative Command
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My notational thoughts aren't really consequential, since this is electronic, and the score was only for my own ease of composing, not for performance, but I've always thought of it as Calliope's section in 4/4 and Dirk's in 13/16, so when they start to combine, it's 4 (Calliope eighth notes) against 13 (Dirk sixteenth notes) (original track art) - + Ana: I believe the real protagonist of this song is Jade Harley. Narrative command is not only Dirk and Calliope fighting over narrative, but also a fight over Jade control. - - - + + + --- Track: eleventh hour Artists: @@ -400,10 +438,10 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Skyplayer: This piece started with a concept that is actually explored in other pieces in this album's set: Dirk's departure and what he left behind. Even the same symbolism can be found in other pieces: Theseus streaking across his face, shatters of memories lost to space. Mine started to mutate though, to take on a form beyond my control. My skill to render the memories failed me: WIPs show the corpse of John, the beheading of Dirk, other fragments of the Epilogues. The main decisions of the piece happened spontaneously: fragments of a clock reforming to Dirk's silhouette, Theseus moving from the corner and taking its place as Dirk's glasses. The colors went through many iterations, a volatile photoshop file of hue shifts and stacked filters. The final nail in the coffin for any hope of a semblance of normalcy in this came with my most baffling decision of all: splashing my previous two track arts for UMSPAF over this one. My original monochrome draft for Diverging Delicacies' "Dirk's Dreamers" became the only shattered memory, a destruction of art I birthed but am not fond of. Moons of Theseus' "Unchained" merged with the fibers of space, a celebrated giant looming over all my other pieces. Much like the man this art is focused on, the very piece itself has become a distractingly shiny mirror reflecting the artist's self-indulgent nonsense. I'm being told there's a song attached to this? - - - - + + + + --- Track: Adios, Lost Boys Artists: @@ -422,8 +460,8 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- qsleeper: I was pretty happy when I found out that I'd be drawing a piece for this song, since I've always had a soft spot for Tavros—he's an underappreciated boy! In the end, I didn't really do many different concept sketches for this one. I knew that I wanted a scene of Tavros, in his Peter Pan outfit, staring out as the friends and army they'd worked so hard to gather get eaten by the black hole. The ghosts are just as much the 'Lost Boys' here as Tav is himself. I was going for a 'wistful, but resigned' sort of feeling for this, since all Tav can really do now is watch. He knows he's unable to stop everyone from being destroyed—or, as we know now, getting pulled into the new HS^2 universe. So basically, he's just chillin'. - - + + --- Track: Moving Onwards Artists: @@ -444,10 +482,10 @@ Commentary: |- My track from the album "Beyond Canon", by the Homestuck^2 Music Team. So he-hey I got to the big leagues! don't know how I got here but I gotta tell ya, it feels awesome. Cratmang: I was hoping to hear some commentary from the original artist about what this piece was about, but that never happened, so I just went with my initial concept of, "John Egbert casually walking down the street whilst reflecting on his now-distant past as the Heir of Breath." Since this was a chiptune track, doing pixel art made the most sense (nevermind that I planned on doing pixel art anyway). Most everything in the picture came out naturally, with a few tweaks here and there. I had John looking looking sad in one iteration, but I felt it didn't match up with the more upbeat nature of the song, so I changed it. I did sort of trip at the finish line when adding details to the buildings in the background. Ah well, no one will care, right? - - - - + + + + --- Track: Make a Pretty Picture Artists: @@ -467,11 +505,11 @@ Art Tags: Commentary: |- Aeritus: When I first heard the song it just really felt like a Jane song to me. I really wanted to play with the title itself so most of the concept has been Jane (and family) on the making of the Pretty Picture, because when you're in such an high position it's important to look good and pretty, no matter what... right? I Also had a few other sketches of Rose and Jade since the track art of the main motif used for this song had them, but after the updates and the general feeling regarding Jade and Rose has been switched on the bad side, it just didnt felt right for me and the tone of the song itself. - - - - - + + + + + --- Track: Four Kids (and a Game They Played Together) Artists: @@ -536,9 +574,9 @@ Commentary: |- but. yeah. thanks again. <3 Star-nomad: While this piece is canonically about the composer, listening to it made me strongly think of John, specifically from the Meat timeline. Since the title of the song basically encompasses John's life during Sburb and by extension his fight with Lord English in the epilogues, I wanted to do something reminiscent of these ideas. Thus I went with the idea of some of the last remaining dream bubbles, and how they show pivotal points from the game session that John was apart of or would remember. I decided to also go with different color palettes, but each having a similar enough scheme that the bubbles showed cohesion. It was a very fun piece to work on, and is hopefully symbolic enough of John and his memories! - - - + + + --- Track: crystal hung in firmament's descent Artists: @@ -558,9 +596,9 @@ Commentary: |- (SoundCloud) a silence descends (original track art) - + Awkward: My initial thoughts on the mood of this song pretty much carried on throughout the entire creation of the piece, with it being quiet and melancholy, yet powerful in a way. My original idea and thumbnail (which is sadly lost to time) was actually about Kanaya in the meat timeline, longing for Rose. - + Ucklin: I just have to jump in and point out that the overall composition of this piece looks like a cherub skull, because awkward didn't mention it! This is the coolest thing! diff --git a/album/cherubim.yaml b/album/cherubim.yaml index 3c0885c3..cd64bf91 100644 --- a/album/cherubim.yaml +++ b/album/cherubim.yaml @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Commentary: |- TL:DR: Yes the old version will be released at a later date. It sounds different because I'm wishy-washy at mastering. (I'm not actually sure if I'm using that term right, I'm basing it off Peanuts) Hope that answers ya'lls questions :) (Tumblr) - + I've been getting a lot of questions about this guy, so here goes: It's commentry time!!! The track in general diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml index a9c64f4e..9ed82ea5 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Commentary: |- Astrom: (Bonus art!) - + --- Track: Jade Sylph Artists: diff --git a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml index 1fe443b5..6b2677b9 100644 --- a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml +++ b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Commentary: |- This an album for you and the stereo. Get comfortable. Tavia Morra: (original cover art) - + --- Track: Hard Reset Duration: '4:06' diff --git a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml index 1c8d8f09..65cba68e 100644 --- a/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/cool-and-new-homestuck.yaml @@ -621,9 +621,8 @@ Lyrics: |- (I'm THINKING of a number. Between my buttocks. Do you know what it is? It's my credit score, and it happens to be 720. I'm THINKING of a number. Between 450 and 850. Do you know what it is? It happens to be 720.) Commentary: |- Ngame: - :Bowman: - - :Stutzman: +but consider: 13/1have fun trying to transcribe dirk's 13/8 section lmaobut consider: 13/4