hey! long time no see.

been an eventful few months, huh? it's been so long. most of this year wound up getting eaten by FRAF. "what's that-" turn on fruityrumpus.com, any channel.

so i've been busy with that all year. i started working on the forums in may, it is now november and what i'm formally calling "version 0.2" is up. if you were waiting to come back to FRAF when it's a bit more fully featured, well, now's then!

i've also been working on homestuck.com sparingly. the rerelease is really great! i got to put up an update that killed someone's headcanon. the newgens are real great. and on that note, moderating the homestuck official server is delightful most of the time too. things are turning up for your girl victoria, if turning up is measured in official homestuck work i'm allowed to do, for some arcane reason. i've been on a wild ride these past couple months and i'm sure you have too.

this raises an interesting question - where's my comic been in this time? well, mostly dormant. simmering, if you will. i have done stuff for it, primarily writing and concept work. i have a much stronger grasp on what i want the comic to be, for sure. it just hasn't been my primary focus.

but with fraf at a reliable place at the moment and wave 2 out, it's time to get the dust off of this. this doesn't mean updates immediately - main comic updates are still a ways away, since the gamedev rust has set in and shaking that will be an interesting time for sure, but i will be working on it again. maybe i'll post some concept sketches on patreon. i'll be booting that back up soon too, since it's also fallen dormant. lots of sketches to post, lots of information to write up and share.

in the meantime, here's my big shill: the HOMESTUCK FAN CALENDAR.

joy has been working extremely hard on getting the FRAF store running. it wouldn't be possible without her help. preorders for her fan calendar project are ending soon! you can buy it at hscalendar.com, and it's got so many beautiful pieces in it. joy's a delight. buy two. one to use as a calendar and one just for the sake of having it.

Come hang out at the Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory.

I have a lot to say, but right now, I've been working like mad for longer than you could ever know on this. It is easily the most exciting thing I've ever been a part of. I'm hugely grateful to everyone involved, and excited for a thing like this to exist.

I would love for you to come hang out.

It is now March 2025, over six months since my last news post. Here's how things are going.

Araneabound is going well. I wound up biting off more than I could chew a few times now, but there's a preview up on Patreon. The tl;dr for the non-Patrons is that there's been a lot of false starts on the game, but I've finally settled on a single direction, and it's exciting. The goal is to be feature-complete by the end of the month, which means that the actual mechanics of the game will be done, and ready for making the game itself. A lot of the stuff made from the false starts will carry over with ease, so it's more done than it seems.

Eternal September's outline is almost completely written now. There's still quite a bit left - we're about 33% in - but the end can be reached. I'm aiming for ~500 pages, but that is just a guess, more than anything. Excited for the things to come, Eternal September is an essential piece of stuff going forward. Some people have already picked up on some connecting threads, and that's really fun.

Following that, there are a lot of interesting and fun things brewing behind the scenes I can't/don't want to share right now. There is a 2,500 word document I personally wrote containing the Beforus ancestors. Only god knows if that will ever see the light of day, but I think it's fantastic.

In the meantime, I think my shill of choice is going to be Befriendus, which is getting updates again. Alien and I are gonna make this the year of the dancestors. Or so fucking help me.