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A couple weeks ago, a trailer for an as of yet unreleased pilot for, presumably, a Homestuck animated series was made public, which I only just found out about a day or two ago. Ordinarily, I'd be happy about this. However... I'll just say that I do not have much faith at all that those who are currently in charge of Homestuck[1] will do anything resembling a good job with this, either from a creation or management or delegation stand point.
I will give my reasons for this below.
The current stuff first, which I only found out about after learning of the existence of that animated pilot thing I linked to up there and which also convinced me to go ahead and finally watch the two below embedded videos.
"The Unofficial Homestuck Collection Takedown"
That was originally posted on August 8, 2025, and is a response to and explanation of why the original version of The Unofficial Homestuck Collection now no longer exists in its original form. (Well, the original now no longer maintained github is still there, for what little that's worth, and it does, technically, still exist in another form, see below.) Just to note, the Unofficial Homestuck Collection de facto has been the only real way to experience Homestuck in its original form for several years now, due to the ongoing fact that the actual, official Homestuck website continues to be fubar.
Now the older stuff. From four years ago:
A Brief History of Homestuck (originally published on April 13, 2021)
Homestuck Sent Me A Legal Threat, And Then It Got Worse (originally published on June 30, 2021, as a direct follow-up to the previously embedded video)
For what it's worth, I'd known about the existence of the above videos for at least a year or two now, but only as of last night/this morning have I actually, finally watched them, right before making this here post.
Also, just to note, the GiovanH referenced in the two videos there is the same as the one who used to be in charge of the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, mentioned above, prior to it being... let's just say appropriated by the "official Homestuck owner(s)."[1] And by "appropriated," I am referring to the reader application itself, which is basically just a custom web browser designed specifically to be able to display/run Homestuck-related shit, not the associated asset pack containing the actual Homestuck text/art/music/flash files/etc., which the creators of the reader app never had the rights to and never claimed to have the rights to. Basically, the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] blatantly stole the code for the reader application and threatened the creators of it with legal action if they continued to work on it, even though the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] have zero right to do that. IANAL, but the way it seems to me, this is about the equivalent of the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] trying to sue Mozilla or Google, because Firefox and Chrome are capable of displaying Homestuck (or, at least, they used to be, prior to the death of Flash, though not so much anymore).
It would essentially be like if, instead of simply shutting down Yuzu and Ryujinx (which was already questionable, to start with), Nintendo had actually summarily taken Yuzu and Ryujinx and started using them for their own purposes.
Just in general, as a result of the above and some other, additional horseshit not relayed via the above that has happened over the years, I simply won't be holding my breath that anything good or worthwhile will ever come out of this animated pilot thing. I may be proven wrong, and if so, that would be great, but... yeah.
[1] - Whether that's still Andrew Hussie or otherwise, I'm not even sure anymore. It's difficult to keep up with how much or how little Andrew Hussie is still involved in Homestuck-related stuff anymore, even though he is still the overall IP owner (as far as I know).
I will give my reasons for this below.
The current stuff first, which I only found out about after learning of the existence of that animated pilot thing I linked to up there and which also convinced me to go ahead and finally watch the two below embedded videos.
"The Unofficial Homestuck Collection Takedown"
That was originally posted on August 8, 2025, and is a response to and explanation of why the original version of The Unofficial Homestuck Collection now no longer exists in its original form. (Well, the original now no longer maintained github is still there, for what little that's worth, and it does, technically, still exist in another form, see below.) Just to note, the Unofficial Homestuck Collection de facto has been the only real way to experience Homestuck in its original form for several years now, due to the ongoing fact that the actual, official Homestuck website continues to be fubar.
Now the older stuff. From four years ago:
A Brief History of Homestuck (originally published on April 13, 2021)
Homestuck Sent Me A Legal Threat, And Then It Got Worse (originally published on June 30, 2021, as a direct follow-up to the previously embedded video)
For what it's worth, I'd known about the existence of the above videos for at least a year or two now, but only as of last night/this morning have I actually, finally watched them, right before making this here post.
Also, just to note, the GiovanH referenced in the two videos there is the same as the one who used to be in charge of the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, mentioned above, prior to it being... let's just say appropriated by the "official Homestuck owner(s)."[1] And by "appropriated," I am referring to the reader application itself, which is basically just a custom web browser designed specifically to be able to display/run Homestuck-related shit, not the associated asset pack containing the actual Homestuck text/art/music/flash files/etc., which the creators of the reader app never had the rights to and never claimed to have the rights to. Basically, the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] blatantly stole the code for the reader application and threatened the creators of it with legal action if they continued to work on it, even though the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] have zero right to do that. IANAL, but the way it seems to me, this is about the equivalent of the owner(s) of Homestuck[1] trying to sue Mozilla or Google, because Firefox and Chrome are capable of displaying Homestuck (or, at least, they used to be, prior to the death of Flash, though not so much anymore).
It would essentially be like if, instead of simply shutting down Yuzu and Ryujinx (which was already questionable, to start with), Nintendo had actually summarily taken Yuzu and Ryujinx and started using them for their own purposes.
Just in general, as a result of the above and some other, additional horseshit not relayed via the above that has happened over the years, I simply won't be holding my breath that anything good or worthwhile will ever come out of this animated pilot thing. I may be proven wrong, and if so, that would be great, but... yeah.
[1] - Whether that's still Andrew Hussie or otherwise, I'm not even sure anymore. It's difficult to keep up with how much or how little Andrew Hussie is still involved in Homestuck-related stuff anymore, even though he is still the overall IP owner (as far as I know).
