After Us
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Tumblr Post: toastyglow.tumblr.com/post/17...
I've been working on this since March of 2013, so it's been a long time coming! You can see more about it by browsing the posts here: toastyhat.tumblr.com/tagged/af...
This is an animated music video for the Alternian ancestors--characters in the webcomic Homestuck whose epic story is only ever relayed via exposition. This gave me plenty of leeway for creativity, but I did my best to stay as true to what we're told as possible and I hope you enjoy it!
Song: Protectors of the Earth by Two Steps from Hell
Programs Used: Toon Boom Studio 4.5, Adobe Photoshop CS6, iMovie
My tablet is a Wacom Cintiq
This video is animated at a variety of framerates; it's set to 24 fps but usually the exposure of each frame is doubled--sometimes tripled for slow movements ("on 2s or 3s"). For very quick, fluid movements I would leave it on the normal exposure for 24 fps ("on 1s").
The lines from the last shot: toastyglow.tumblr.com/post/17... - Krátké a kreslené filmy
![[S] Rex Duodecim Angelus](/img/n.gif)
And this is part of the same story where a 13 year old kid was walking around his house wearing a stupid disguise and holding two fake arms and got into a literal fight with his dad just cause he didn't want to eat cake.
The same story in which a sentient chess piece goes on a murderous rampage and becomes nearly omnipotent just because he didn't want to wear a hat.
The same story in which the author's self-insert gets stuck into an attic by bullies and gets scared by a bear's head on the wall, escapes, gets killed by the Big Bad and comes back as a ghost to hit on a girl he made up.
Lmao
I'm holding back tears
Yes.
my favorite thing about homestuck is that, even if you don't know a thing about homestuck, you still know its homestuck.
True
Kang Dae Sung
that’s because they have a great design of their species so that it’s instantly recognizable .
Gray people with horns? It’s homestuck
@@isabeltonole6715 not just GrAY
_-Gay people with horns-_
-sorry if anyone got offended lmao-
Brain: don't watch this again you're gonna cry in public
Me, an intellectual: *cries in public*
The first time I watched this, somehow I could understand everything what's going on
I was swimming on my tears
Random person: hey, why you crying? Something wrong? Did your partner break up with you? Lose something close to you? Did you get very bad news? Please tell me.
You: No, I'm crying because they're all dying while on another planet a 13 year old little shit won't eat his damn cake and dicking around with fake arms.. *ugly sobbing*
Random person: I- what?
s a m e
maybe its just me not having a soul but this video in no way made me sad
@@imnotreal4699 I am almost crying to, but not because I think it's sad. It gives me feels and chills, but it's not sadness. I can't describe it, but for me the music is a big reason for this. I am very sensitive for music in general so I think for me it might be that. xD
Damn I forget how depressing Homestuck lore is.
At least the signless's fight wasn't for nothing. I have a feeling if not for what he and all who followed him accomplished, our main 12 trolls would never have become the friend group they were.
yeah, this, especially since karkat would probably be dead.
mutant/disabled trolls being culled as larvae and all, except for the fact the signless's followers set up a society to watch for and warn against that.
oh, and if you follow the musical cues karkat maybe inspired john to save the world, so there is that.
Are they friends?
Yeah and then gamzee got woke, eridan needed attention, and karkat got friendship trauma
The Beta trolls were destined to be that friend group because they were the pre-scratch ancestors and are now the post-scratch descendants.
Also, the signless' chief gospel were based on memories from Kankri, which again, was a world built on the hard work of the Beta Trolls but as the Ancestors this time.
**Summoner starts flying**
_"FLY PUPA FLYYYYY-"_
O)( MY GLUB XD
Jegus
MMM FUCK YEAH
_HELL YES_
)(OLY S)(IT Y-EA)(!
So basically, Karkat and Kankri are the descendants of troll Jesus...
kinda, except kankri is the previous, more annoying incarnation of troll jesus.
*jegus
Cooper Thomas I was gonna say that but I saw your comment XDD
Lol
TinySatan999 oh my gog yes
Yesterday on EmptyFeet's Tumblr I found what all the ancestors are saying at the end of this video:
Condesce: *just laughing a lot*
Dualscar: “How dare you mock royalty”
The Grand Highblood: “Don’t make me laugh…”
Darkleer: “Forgive me”
Mindfang: “Fortune favors the best.”
Redglare: “Confess to your crimes!”
The Dolorosa: “I’ll care for you always”
The Disciple: “This is the one true word”
The Psiioniic: “Now…I’m free.”
The Summoner: “We will bring them down!”
The Handmaid: “This is the end.”
The Signless: “We live on in what comes after us”
thanks
I have spent so much time trying to figure out what everyone says _thank you_
Thanks!
Knowing this gave me literal goosebumps, thank you
Thank you so much!
This looks a lot like a movie trailer. I would totally accept this as the cannon trailer. Now we just need an actual movie.
...
the movie would be like 100 hours long lmao
@@keyboundDragon what??
@@gwensleepyhead2673 ...
@@gwensleepyhead2673 =]
Ok so my sister gave me like a two hour breakdown of this entire video, explaining everything, answering questions, and being fabulous, and teaching me all about troll history, and it was super interesting and I loved all of it. But somehow when we talk about real history in social studies all I wanna do is leave
J _Angel that's because school doesn't present it like this video. Instead it presents it as tests and boring work sheets.
J _Angel Aw heck I wish I had that power. Every time I talk about something I'm interested in everyone immediately tries to leave
A Bird Lover ya same. I hate when that happens so I try to be the person who will listen even if I don't care
klevin Thanks for trying at least. My parents groan when I start talking, and they wonder why I'm antisocial and have anxiety problems...
A Bird Lover
I KNOW HOW THIS FEELS
"The symbol became the sign of the Signless, always shown as colorless as the cold iron, to conceal the stigma of his hue."
Jade Harley
wat?
If you order the Signless necklace on Welovefine it comes with a little card that says that sorry xD
organs burgerking my eyes are just sweating....
Is so infuriating how a dumb webcomic that’s like 90% bullshit can have this super deep and poetic symbolism to the point that it has me crying.
if iron is unheated
it is a grey/silver color
if iron is heated
it becomes red
i remember sobbing to this at 12 years old and here i am 18 and im doing the same thing
Me too!! Every time.
my favourite thing about this is mindfang telling the summoner to kill her and he actually does it. it’s parallel and yet opposite to the vriska & tavros scene and that’s SO fucking cool!!!!!!! exactly what the ancestor parallels are like!!!!!
Not just in this video, but in Homestuck itself, you can see all the parallels between the troll kids and their ancestors both in their thinking, their actions, and their interactions with each other. Even in the relationships that they form! It's awesome!
She controls him to do it, though. Vriska didn't control Tavros to do it, but she was telling it to him inside his mind. Which is why he kept writing the words he was hearing in his head. But ultimately, he left Vriska to bleed to death on the death bed, which allowed her to God tier.
Summoner didn't want to kill her. Notice in that scene there's a blue icon on his brow when he gives in to killing her. She mind-controlled him to do it. That's why Vriska wanted so badly for it to go the same way for her and Tavros. To end up like in the story/pretend roleplay/past life.
circumstantial simultaneity, babeey!!!
I'm not part of this fandom but can I say from the bottom of my heart holy shit
Calliope Foxwood You should really consider joining. The comic starts out rather boring, I admit, but the later parts make that up by millions. Consider joining, you won't regret it :)
I'd love to, I just don't think I have the time. Maybe I'll try next summer. :3
Sure, why not.
Also
Have I mentioned one of the later characters is callled Calliope?
Yeah, I know! My sister has read it so I know some stuff, but not a lot. She's the cute green one.
+Calliope Foxwood Yay, you called her cute! (Terezi can highly disagree)
"we live on in what comes after us"
holy shit.
that line is chilling
SO THAT'S WHAT WAS SAID. I haven't watched this in years and I've found it again and I could never hear all of the words at the end, only bits and pieces
There were so many cool things I'd heard about homestuck that I decided to check it out. Got there expecting drama and dragon Bois but I got a kid holding fake arms. Was confused. Confirmed it was the same thing. Played for several hours. Spent a stupid long time on a cd about stick people peeing on each other, dying, and random pumpkins because I thought it was relevant to the plot (it was not). Considered looking up a summary but I had invested too much time in it to want spoilers. Was frustrated with the universe and confused by the game. Continued playing. Developed a liking for the characters. Still confused.
Will update this someday once I've finished more of the game.
Update: have advanced. Both more confused and less confused simulteneously. I now understand that the trolls ARE the demon lore Bois, and I mostly get the time travel stuff. Got lore on the mail person and the wierd jester beings, which seems to have a plot that I can actually understand quickly.
Just finished act 4.
Egg made slime children of his friends. 69 troll was right- time travel is really stupid.
Just finished act 5 and a little past there. A whole bucketload of stuff happened and I'm confused by most of it. Just got the pov of the aggravated troll. Met the miracle loving troll that seems to be a meme. I like the miracle guy.
WHAT THE MUSHROOMS WHY IS EVERYONE DYING
WHAT THE FRIG WWAVY SPEECH GUY
ALSO MIRACLE GUY LOST HIS MARBLES TOO
WHYYYYYYYY MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS ARE ALL DYING OR LOSING THEIR SH*T
There's so much lore happening at once it's bonkers
Ok it's only a few minutes later but WTF EQUIUS IS DEAD TOO!?
BLOOD EVERYWHERE! CHAINSAW LADY HAS ALSO LOST HER MIND? though I guess this is more righteous fury than madness given the previous events... still tho she totally just junk kicked gamezee into the void, threw spider person to the floor, snapped wavy guys wand and SAWED HIM IN HALF WITH A FREAKING CHAINSAW
Aand now jack killed the humans parents fricketty heck--
Just finished act 5, holy jebus that was a ride
Got introduced to the A6 characters. Just watched Karkat get hit with a bucket and entirely loose his mind about the prospect of troll/human sloppy makeout sessions, which was hilarious.
The romance thing with the A6 human characters is both hilarious and painfully accurate.
This is now my favorite quote haha
"KARKAT: WHAT I DO WITH MY LEGS AND HOW FAST I MOVE THEM IS MY BUSINESS YOU SHIT."
Dave and Karkat scribbling an "ouja board of pp" is the funniest thing I've seen in awhile haha. Usually I find having lots of romance plot painful but homestuck romance is actually good.
WHAT NO did cassie's brother just CHEW OFF THEIR SHARED LEG NOO
AHHHH finally the A6 peeps sat down and talked about stuff in a healthy way instead of being horrifying sugar rush mairrage maniacs ._.
But then the stupid batterwotch got in the way of their reconciliation! that jerk!!!
WHY IS EVERYONE DYING AGAIN WTF--
Act 6 act 6 intermission 3 is nuts
Dirk and Dave finally met and sorted some of their stuff out :0
I really like the heart to heart dialogue stuff in homestuck. Where people finally figure stuff out in a healthy way? It's just really well written and I love it :3
Wow I just realised it's been a month since I started reading this :0
I didn't like it that much at first but it's actually so good
YES ITS TIME TO FREAKING PUNCH LORD ENGLISH WOO
OH MY GOSH THEY ACTUALLY DID IT??? JUST FINISHED A6 NOT FULLY SURE YET
A7 has some SICK animation :0
WAIT NO ITS THE END??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Reading this was an experience and I thank you for allowing us to share it with you
@@robinhoodproductions5102 totally agree lmao
I had to stop halfway through tho cause spoilers
if youve read the epilogues, im sorry. if you havent, dont do it.
@@beanceline
Yeah I read them at one point, didn't really like them ;-;
they're written like,, entirely different from the rest of homestuck for some reason?
@@rowanvezeau5729 yeah idk what the writers smoked. not fun
holy shit i just got the name
beforus
after us
GOD DAMMIT
Karkat has that realization in the comic as well, your good.
among us
@@ViennaGurev >:(
@@NepetasShippingWall1642 ASJFNSJJDJDJS I’M SORRY I HAD TO
I wonder if Hussie has seen this.
He has!
Omg did he give any feedback?!
reallywhatwhenwhere??
He mentioned it to me when he contacted me about doing my effects work for Collide. I think the word he used was "awesome"? But that was about it, which is fine.
*****
Aw, But that's super neat!!
The Ancestors' stories would do _really_ well as an animated series.
+William Cameron THAT GIVES ME AN IDEA
Tru
+crazy_erika just do it
+William Cameron yassssss
Pls no. if there's nothing wrong with the story ,don't try adding glitter to it.
As someone who wants to get into homestuck, but hasn’t yet, this is extremely confusing.
But the art is fucking awesome, so it’s totally fine.
Kozume Cat i was in the same boat and now i’m on page 2742.
We welcome you dawg. It’s never too late to ever start- well maybe you’ve already finished
I am glad I'm not the only one watching this vid in 2020
I have been a fan
try not to think of it as a "dead fandom". it's just undergoing a transition to god-tier. Don't throw away your old cosplays either. give it a few years, and you'll have little kids to dress up in those costumes. Picture it. adorable little Daves, Jades and Karkats running around. Then you look up and you meet the gazes of parents who get the reference. They nod at you, you at them.
If you haven't already then do so immediately. I just finished it and am reading the epilogues, no regrets.
i’m sobbing in the year of 2018 because I thought it would be a good idea to come back and watch this. i’m SO heavily inspired right now and very proud of this fucking animation holy shit. wow. invented homestuck animation
Heh, I started Homestuck in 2019.
For ONCE, someone is actually able to make non-canon trolls that have realistic horns.
Not bubbly, cartoony, blocky, geometric shapes; But natural, flowing, realistic-looking shapes that look genetic enough to pass in canon.
Gold star for you.
BreakablePottery These are actual trolls in the comic though .-.
valerie nellessen I think they were talking about the background trolls and such
Oh. Well in that case yes.
BreakablePottery & one of them has sickle shaped horns, Karkat's strife specibus sicklekind
Funny, a few of my fan trolls use similar horns, I use the hooks identically and never saw this, I guess I'm just good at making trolls lol
I contributed that agonized scream of the Signless. Glad to be on board. :>
(I didn't mention this specifically in the credits but honestly I should have! RJ did such a stellar job~)
Good job as always rj.
So freaking powerful... Thanks a lot for that!
(( i hope you know that without that scream the part of the signless wouldn't have been as good as it is now.))
KARKAT VANTAS Doubt it.HEAVILY doubt it. I am doubting this so hard if a plane flew into me right now it would fucking explode that's how hard I'm doubting it. OK I have no idea where I was going with that but the point is Karkat go be Karkat somewhere else, I don't want to have to start disliking you.
How many times have you watched this?
Me: yes
Wow... If somebody had told me a year ago that Homestuck lore resembled Dark Souls lore in it's magnitude of grimness and convolution, I would have told them to leave.
Guess that shows what I know.
yeah p much! convoluted shit, grimness, loads and loads of (morally gray) characters.... and moments of total cute and sweetness.
@@cactusc9519 PRETTY MUCH. it's the ride of four hundred and thirteen lifetimes!
and we allllllll love it.
@@juniper7339 yep!!
they showed this in my animation class
TELL ME EVERYTHING I'm both concerned and delighted, haha!
equius zahhak Omg that's amazing
But why tho
The giraffe Is here boi.
good
I absolutely love the last few seconds of the animation, where they're all together and they all are gray, being happy and stuff and then there's Kankri. Wearing a candy red sweater and staring directly at the screen, showing no signs of interaction with the other 11. I love love *LOVE* this little easter egg! (if it even is one lel)
Amazing!!!!
I noticed that, but what's the eastern egg about?
Mint Yoongles whats the Easter egg
@@gwensleepyhead2673 I'm pretty sure it was an Easter egg to what kankri said in openbound part 1, he said something about not wanting to be associated with the 11 other trolls, so I think that's what it's about.
can we talk about how well this manages to explain the story with no words??? like i found the history of the trolls so confusing, but i understand the entire thing from watching this. THAT IS EXCELLENT STORYTELLING ANIMATION
Coming from someone how has very quickly gotten into homestuck about a month and a half ago? I watched this and it very much helped me understand a lot of it. However, learning extra details (such as the kismesissitude between Dualscar and Mindfang and how that resulted in Dualscar’s death) has put things into context a lot… and therefore makes it hurt EVEN MORE
This REALLY makes me wish that I hadn't put off getting into Homestuck all those years ago
Welcome! Glad to have you aboard!
Ancient Guard reminds me of tf2, which is another thing I got into recently
“You were late to the party but you were still the life of it”
The ancestors had such a touching, deep, and sad story to them. Skip over to the dancestors, and they're kinda crappy in comparison lol
That was actually kind of the point of the dancestors
if they had grown up on alternia, they would've had these lives
but they ended up on Beforus
It's also why Kankri is such a laughing stock to the other trolls. He had a natural instinct to change things for the better, but because Beforus wasn't as barbaric as a society as Alternia, he ended up looking ridiculous and becoming a sort of
tumblr person
and thats the point. He could've been the signless, but wasn't
@@yomairanieto400 etisfdhwiuxhhhejeirhfhiegeh I am crying pls
The Dancestors are technically their reincarnations.
Yomaira Nieto Exactly. Kankri wants to make things better, but society is too well-developed at that point in Beforus' history and so his attempts to improve interhemogenic relations actually end up becoming a nuisance to those around him. Hence his nickname, "the Insufferable".
The anccesstor's story could actually fit very well in an anime format when you think about it.
I would pay for an anime about the ancestors
The summoner's horns would take up 38 panels though.
+Skintel N.Keychain No, man, that could be a joke. Like, when the Summoner's first introduced, his horns just stretch on for 17 million panels or something.
+Arctic Wolf I would pay to see a MOVIE about the ancestors
Holy carp, someone should make one. I'd even feckin film it myself.
If i had to choose a favorite character in homestuck in homestuck it would be The Signless.
I guess I'm the total opposite of you then, since my favorite is the Condesce.
*The contrast*
and I totally agree.
(Karkat and Menah in my heart)
omg, Y E S
you've got Taste!
mine's grand highblood
everytime i see this, i cry. maybe im too sentimental, but this fandom was truly an amazing one! especially with animators who put so much time into their content, like you did with after us. thank you so much!
IM CRYING
Signless' dying yet raging roar rang over and over in my head. And the thumbnail picture- It shows the contrast of Signless' eyes before and right at his execution. His eyes looks so soft and caring on the top of the pic. But at the bottom, his eyes are so full of rage and anger...
"I'm not mad at you... I'm mad at myself, because I forgive you." I believe that is what Signless said as he was literally bleeding out.
He's Jesus, grumpy Jesus
Wait what is this from?
I wish Homestuck went more into the ancestors, or maybe they did and and I haven't read far enough.
Where are you at? There was a pretty lengthy section on the ancestors
Emma Barrett I'm at Act 6 Act 6, although I DID skip a part on the ancestors and I can't find the right page
Act 6 intermissions get into ancestors
There’s mindfangs journal then there’s pre-scratch mindfang.
@@youmebothorneither you mean aranea?
Kanri: *screams into the sky*
Me: *pauses video* ..... ;-;
The Signless*
The Signless' name is Kankri.
No. Kankri was first. After Meenah blew Beforus up, they were reincarnated. Kankri is the signless
@@elizabethjones3088 The signless is technically Kankri reincarnated but it's like calling Dave's bro "Dirk", they're basically different people and lived different lives even if they are inherently the same person.
Kankiri IS the signless but in different timelines.
Kankiri is before scratch,
Signless is Post scratch
why is youtube reccomending me all the old classic nostalgic homestuck animations...... (cries)
Funny how I just tried to "play" Homestuck less than an hour ago then suddenly something homestuck-related pops up in my recommended tabs for the first time... weird... Nonetheless, I can't imagine how THIS could be related to Homestuck (and I only know this after reading comments)! I haven't even got that damn weird kid to leave his house or have a proper conversation with his dad yet (if he's ever gonna have one after beating him with a hammer over cake). How many "chapters" do I have to suffer through before I get to THIS?! And how does the inventory thing the kid is messing with relate to this story? Or does it at all? Fuck, I guess I'm gonna waste another hour clicking through pages again... at least...
Haha yeah I tried to "play" it at first too...took me two tries to learn it's just *set up* like a game and you only have to click through it, and three tries to actually get into it. Very VERY reluctantly.
This video actually isn't an accurate representation of much of the Homestuck canon--it's more a re-telling of an alien legend we only hear about in passing. BUT Homestuck does have walk-around game segments like Openbound and animated segments like Cascade, which is breathtakingly epic and gorgeous. So worth it!
But for the first few acts, it's best to just consider it a comedy/game parody about four friends learning to play a game. I was impatient for the epic content and it made me feel like I was really slogging through the whole thing, which sucks. The inventory thing is partly a parody thing, partly an exposition thing. I didn't get it either. >.>
Here's the non-spoilery wikipedia summary: "Thirteen-year-old John Egbert receives a beta copy of a computer game called Sburb. Installing and running the game triggers a meteor shower to fall on his house in real life, which he survives only by being transported to a planet in another dimension. As John's friends join the game with him, they learn that they have unwittingly triggered the destruction of Earth, and that it is their duty to play the game to create a new universe."
And it goes from there. Don't forget to read the pesterlogs 'cause that's where the dialogue is, and I promise all the intermissions are relevant!
Shit gets weird and serious at the end of Act 1 i think, but you have to not skip anything or you wont understand what you skipped because everything affects the "future" and everything is explained gradually as more events occurs (so you dont have to look up for what you dont understand, just keep reading and pay atention to the silly things). Every long and boring conversation and intermission that you might want to skip is where the actual substance of the story and characters is hiding, but its just a comic, if you dont like to read books or other long stories, you might not enjoy this one.
Honestly, I think its best to read through those first few chapters with only a bit of an idea of what is to come; the idea that 'something' is going to happen. I only had the vaguest idea of what the trolls were and no idea about anything else. So I'd say that thats enough for a reader to know that not all is as it seems.
Act 1 definitely starts out as a drag, but there's a couple key points that give it some momentum later, particularly when Sburb is loaded and John looks through the telescope, not to get too specific.
After that for Acts 2 & 3 the story's rate get much better, with the main drive being the introduction of John's three friends, and the hints of future events. While I was reading I found it really fun to try and guess what attributes they would each have, usually playing on some running gag. For instance, John plays the piano in Act 1, simple enough, then Rose plays a haunting violin piece, wasting thirty seconds of time vital to saving John's life. With Dave there is an interactive DJ set, which is neat, and finally Jade plays the flute in the goofiest way possible. Also you can skip the interlude, though you might want to come back to it later.
ALl this becomes brought up toward the end of act five. PRepare yourself XD
Homestuck is the second longest work in the English language so yeah it's pretty long. I know the first few acts ard boring but it gets pretty interesting. The trolls will have conversations starting I think in act 2, they don't officially show up until Act 5 act 1 (there are intermissions and sub-acts but no sub-acts until act 5)
And if you think act 1 takes a while wait until act 6 there are so many sub acts and intermissions it is INSANE
it's all very serious until you see the signless' stupid pants.
+Heather Kurle Those are his righteous leggings, but yes, the do look pretty stupid.
Righteous leggings.
they are n9t stupid! they are fashi9na6le.
kankri vantas Oh? Why don't we ask Porrim then? Hmm?
+Kate Seacliff g9 ahead. she will tell y9u what I said. they are fashi9na6le.
Condesce: *just laughing a lot*
Dualscar: “How dare you mock royalty”
The Grand Highblood: “Don’t make me laugh…”
Darkleer: “Forgive me”
Mindfang: “Fortune favors the best.”
Redglare: “Confess to your crimes!”
The Dolorosa: “I’ll care for you always”
The Disciple: “This is the one true word”
The Psiioniic: “Now…I’m free.”
The Summoner: “We will bring them down!”
The Handmaid: “This is the end.”
The Signless: “We live on in what comes after us”
OH GOODNESS GRACIOUS THANK YOU SO MUCH! I HAVE GONE YEARS WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT WAS SAID
I was wondering for a while what it said at the end! Thank U my God!
I love this
Those are all their last words!
Thank chu!
im no longer in the fandom but i come back very often to watch this video and cry over it
Wanna know why Rufio/Tavros's Ancestor has wings?
They have red hair...
Taurus is a bull...
RED BULL GIVES YOU WINGS
this is exactly what he was probably going for! XD
i saw that on tumblr
*I'm wheesing XD*
And they say he's a mutant with those wings.
1:10 "Fuck you I'm gonna go tell a joke."
And failed
Evil Moon Basically.
AOIFHEODGEDSL I WAS FEELINF SO MUCH AND I ESE THIS WTF IS WRONG WIHT THIS FAMDOM
And spread like paint over GHB's throne room
And that's how Orphaner Dualscar died, kids!
God i can't watch this the same way anymore since I read that footnote in the homestuck book saying red glare died that way because Latula, as a rad skater and high-fiver, doesn't like to be left hanging
Tiny Signless is so cute, also
Stop making me cry CZcams.
This is much more entertaining than Bible School.
Anything is more entertaining than Bible school
Unless it's Sunday Bible School? :0
+GlItChY_Blu No coincidence this whole entire portion of the story is biblical references XD
+Msdrago *SocialistDragon* :D
Hussue had taken the best parts and forged them into something so much cooler than stories in the Bible.
i really think that someone should make the ancestors stories into a cartoon series
I'd watch it
It'd be waaaaay too graphic and nuanced. It would also probably get paused or something because of all the effort it would take
"Cartoon" doesn't necessarily mean "for children" (just look at Rick and Morty) so something being graphic and nuanced shouldn't be a problem. And honestly, you could probably make a pretty damn good movie of their story. Though a miniseries would probably give the plot a bit more room to breath and let it pace itself out better without cutting things out.
tobimisa if it would be a cartoon, it would have to be something much like one punch man in terms of animation. Not a lot of people actually know about homestuck so if it were to be a TV show there would be quite a bit of fudging and character introduction. If it were just a CZcams thing I can guarantee there would be a hiatus.
Secondly there isn't that much information on them. It would be a safer bet to do the alpha or beta trolls
OwO What's this?
You couldn't focus on the alpha trolls without focusing on the rest of homestuck, and you couldn't focus on the beta trolls without focusing on the the ancestors. And we know even _less_ about the beta trolls than we do the ancestors.
Not to mention the ancestor story is mostly self contained. We know every story beat, we just don't know the smaller things or their personalities. What's the Signlesses favorite food? Was the Dolorsa strict? Were the Signless and Disciple a cutesy couple? We just don't know. But the actual plot has already been laid out.
That's why it'd work better as a show than say trying to put the whole of homestuck to animation. It wouldn't be a monumental task and as long as you don't make the characters assholes or mess up what we do know about them you wouldn't be at risk of stepping on any toes. Moreover there's much more creative freedom involved than there would be in a straight adaptation.
And, because the story is so self contained, they wouldn't _have_ to address the rest of the series so it wouldn't be such a clusterfuck to people who haven't seen the rest of homestuck. I imagine that's part of why Hiveswap focuses on entirely new characters rather than our main cast. It's set in the same world and has the same aspects (such as trolls existing and other such) but the rest of the lore isn't weighing it down and it doesn't need to explain it. That said there are clearly references to the rest of canon in it (such as the photos of Nana and Grandpa in the trailer alluding to the fact that the main characters in the game are related to John and Jade).
And tbh your suggestion (to focus on the other trolls) would be much much worse in that regard (which is ironic because you're the one that complained about the rest of the canon getting in the way of the story).
And honestly, focusing on the ancestors is probably the only way to actually add more to the franchise. While an adaptation of the series as a whole would be cool and all, in all likelihood they'd be cutting things out rather than adding more to it. But the ancestors haven't really been explored. They were mentioned but we haven't seen them, they aren't really characters to us. So to have them expanded upon would be really awesome. (Of course it'd also be cool as fuck if we could see the ancestors in the post-scratch universe but honestly hussie is the only person who could actually expand on them considering just how little information there is about them)
And, to cap things off, this conversation wasn't even about whether or not it will or could happen but about it being cool if it did. So really you're just being a killjoy my guy.
Just reading Homestuck for the first time and someone linked me to this on tumblr. Dude what the hell I'm gonna need to join a religion of some sort to experience that adrenaline again. This is *cinema.*
I love the scene where it's just aradia and feferi ancestors because in my opinion it's where the war could continue on if feferi ancestor wins or it could end with aradia ancestor winning. Also it did anyone notice where aradia ancestor is the lowest at the hemospectrum while feferi ancestor is at the very top meaning the lowest vs the highest to see who's stronger.
this looks like a bad ass trailer for andrew hussies next comic, if he does one
tbh I'd love it if hussie made a comic for the ancestors. we'd know what was going to happen but fuck it it'd still be cool
There's Hivebent that's been circling around.
The Sarcastic Judge
yeah, though that's probably not gonna be about the ancestors. but who knows
tobimisa i really want a detailed story of the sufferer and stuff he did, it looks badass
MediumGAMING
same man, same
I dont even like homestuck by holy hell you did such a god job I might reconsider getting back into it.
yes dooooooo
The first acts start out slow. At the very least, watch the flashes, as they are truly amazing.
I think I got right to where karkat made his first appearance through text (to jade) and just kinda dropped it
Play WV?: Rise Up, and then see if you want to read everything or not.
If you don't, then watch the flashes in this order: ^^^, Descend, Cascade, Dirk: Synchronize, Dirk: Unite, Game Over, and Collide.
***** I was like that too, then i came back, and got deeper into it. And I'm soooo glad. If you havent been spoiled on most everything in the story, I highly recommend going back
I'm relatively new here. Entered the fandom late 2019, confused as shit. When I watched this video though, I _legitimately got the shivers._ Especially near the end, when the fighting happened. I don't exactly comprehend this, even though I'm past this point in the webcomic. This point is, this moved me to tears. I love this and will never stop watching it.
I have still yet to finish since I only really read just a little bit of the ugh I do plan on finishing it.
TLDR: the main 12 trolls (Karkat and his friends) grow up in a world after the events of this video take place. The Condesce (Pink fish lady w/ trident) ordered all adult trolls off the planet in order to prevent an uprising like this from ever happening again. The trolls in this video are historically their genetic ancestors: blue lady with sword being Vriska’s ancestor, clown murderer being Gamzee’s ancestor, etc). Now (Minor spoilers ahead): the trolls shown in the intro and outro are those same trolls from a pre- scratch timeline. They all entered the game way before the humans and even Karkat’s trolls did, before Alternia even existed. They grew up on a world called Beforus, which was a lot less violent than Alternia. However, they failed. They couldn’t kill the Black King before time ran out in game, so they performed a Scratch- which allowed them to in essence “reset” their own universe to try and garner a better chance at winning by creating a more hostile environment that would evolve tougher trolls. Thus, Alternia was created, in all its fucked up glory. But when they did this, they swapped places with their own ancestors, which became the main 12 trolls in the scratched universe. I.E. Kankri is the same troll as the Signless, while Karkat is the same troll as Kankri’s unnamed ancestor. This is also shown with the Humans, as Jake becomes Jade’s grandpa and Jade becomes Jake’s grandma. This is possible because of paradox clones and a bunch of fucked up timeline shenanigans, but it’s why the video has such a weight to it- even though all these different trolls seem like distinct entities, they’re all basically reincarnations of the same person- or same idea. It’s fucking awesome.
@@neriZsIemoH I just barely joined the fandom in January of this year. This animatic was the first homestuck related thing i ever watched. The feels got to me then, somehow i understood what was going on, but at the same time i didnt. I come back to watch this and i keep replaying it and sobbing. I wish i had been born earlier than i was beacuse then i maybe wouldve found all this sooner.
@@striderboy1000 bruh I feel you 👊🏽😔
@@neriZsIemoH It's never too late to get into the series, if you ask me! I didn't start reading the comic until After Newgrounds Got a Bigger Server, and feel like I was missing out then. Now, the way I see it, the "full homestuck experience" really only applies to the handful of people who were around for Problem Sleuth. I've been an off-and-on fan since, came back once after the gigapause and once after its conclusion. This is currently my fourth time as a returning fan to the same work (that alone says something), and really the most "involved" i've been in the fandom (which doesn't amount to more than a few YT likes and comments) outside of some tumblr reblogs and a few poems i wrote back in the day.
But anyway, new fans are awesome and great art is timeless! (still waiting to see if mspa withstands the test of time but it's held up surprisingly well so far)
I'm sitting here, over 10 years later, and I still don't know WTF Homestuck really was 😂
The homestuck mood
Good. You're getting a real feel of the general feel of the fandom now.
I like the interpretation of just how and why it was that Mindfang was killed by the Summoner. In-story, we only hear about it through her recounting what the cue ball told her, and of course that source is given to deceiving through omission and giving literal truths only. You wouldn't have guessed that it might be what she'd wanted.
Also I'm interested that the Signless seems to have a hint of a goatee -- tho facial hair was never a thing among the trolls. Is this another mutation? One which, like his blood color, happens to make him more human-like?
It's probably just for the look
it makes him look serious and
not baby faced
i will not tolerate any shaming of scruffy-faced signless
sideways 69 is the sign of the sign-less
Grown up Karkat also has facial hair from what I’ve seen; it might be a mutation like the red blood that makes them even more similar to humans
@@analyticaltomato I hope this right I do like this idea
i dont know why, but the part with redglare makes me sad.
Same ;-;
She worked so hard to gather that evidence, and just like that, because of Mindfangs abilities, the easily controlled rustbloods turned on her and hanged her. It may be the highbloods fault for filling the courtroom with them, since rustbloods are the easiest to control.
EasyPeasyPiano Good point
ikr
Redglare died to the hands of those she was trying to protect.
How many years later, I don't even rock with Homestuck anymore, and this video STILL gets me in my feelings.
Rewatched this for the first time in a couple of years, sad that the homestuck era has come to an end and there won't be new videos like this.
“We (the fandom) live on in what comes After us”
Don't gotta be a Homestuck fan to think THIS IS FUCKING EPIC!
Who else cried at the dolorosa/disciple/sufferer scene?
axis malyhkin me, its so sad ;-;
How wild is it that this video never stales, seriously it's like 5 years old and at least once a week someone comments.
Every year, I come back to this video because it truly shows the very best of what Homestuck had to offer. The depth of raw emotion portrayed in this animation is unfathomable and so, so moving. I only wish we could've gotten to see more of this because wow. Toasty, what you've done here will always be jaw-dropping.
When I got the notification I made the most inhuman sound this is aWESOMEEE
So did I!
Ditto
Was on Charat and Msparp chats and caps locking when I posted the news in the rooms.
LITERALLY ME
The sound I made was somewhere along the lines of: SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ok, I know I'm a bit late to the party, but the amount of detail, emotion, lore and characterization put into this is absolutely incredible. I don't know how you pulled this off, but it absolutely wipes the floor with 99% of things I've seen on this site.
Hey at least you're earlier than me, this is the first time I've watched this
I remember always tuning into the livestreams for this during highschool. The nostalgia really hits you unexpectedly like a freight train in the middle of work lmao
GODDAMN THAT SCREAM AFTER THE SUFFERER'S ARC MADE ME CRY-
The thing about Homestuck is that a lot of people go into it thinking it's a comic, as in pictures with words, but they need to go into thinking of it more as a book with pictures (sometimes moving ones and even the occasional long flash/game interaction, though even then there's a lot of reading). I find it to be amazing but only if you go into it with this mindset. There are many words, and you need a bit of patience. Once you understand that, Homestuck is pretty easy to fall in love with. Also with the mindset that everything makes sense in time. Many people also go into it and think this is some random stupid kiddy stuff and drop it, but it's a lot more complex than you think. Of course there's some actual random stuff here and there, but everything is so well thought out and I can't even begin to understand how Hussie thought most of this stuff through. Have in mind that you definitely don't need to understand every little complex thing to enjoy it either. If you're ok with lengthy stuff, I recommend that you just go with the motions and have fun (unless you just don't like the genre itself which makes compete sense) ^_^
You're 100% right, though myself hadn't read the full 7000 (I've heard) pages yet, i've heard a rather large amount of information on a large amount of characters in the comic\book like\animation. Though, I do plan on finishing reading however many pages there are next compared to where i'm at. I Think it'll be worth it! You prove a highly inspiring reason to want to read it! Homestuck can be childish at some rare like points, but then i've heard rather deep aswell. I'd rate it 12 or 13+. Homestuck is a highly loveable thing! It's one of the rare things i'd actually admit to loving in my life!
This makes me feel so bad and so proud because I'm not nearly as good as this artist but proud that they were able to create something this beautiful.
appun Juice I'm sorry this is late but even if you think you're not that good, there's always room for improvement! ^_^ You can't be the best artist, but you can always strive to be better than before.
god, im rewatching all the old homestuck shit, and damn does it bring back memories. weird that ive hated myself for so many years for ever being a part of this fandom, yet i still wish i could go back. better times man, better times.
the year is 2022 and here i am still watching homestuck stuff
this is such an iconic portion of homestuck culture tbh
Homestuck ancestors anime with this as the opening:
Every season has up to 0:13, with the blood effect transitioning into each season's opening
Season 1 is the suffer arc and goes to1:07, with the zoom up going into the logo.
Season 2 is the Dualscar/Mindfang/Redglare arc (but with some handmaiden scenes) and goes from 1:07 to 1:45, with the Cueball becoming the logo.
Season 3 is the Summoner arc, and still opens with the summoner's face on the cueball, and goes until the sharp cut to black at 2:30
Season 4a is the Handmaiden's actions, with the midseason finale being her death. Season 4b is the Condense on earth and with LE, but mainly from her point of view rather than that of alpha Rose and Dave(with scenes from their POV similar to other villain related shots). It ends with her ordering the drones + red miles. That goes up to 2:43. Every season has the scroll of the Beforus trolls at the end of the credits.
I'd watch the hell out of it tbh
Woah you got this shit all planned out
Please someone become a famous director and make this I will give you any amount of money
I'd watch.
best homestuck animation i have ever watched
Every time I watch this it gives me chills. Homestuck is an epic disguised as a shitpost
I honstly don´t now whats happening in this vid, but when the butterfly /fairy dude got his wings and flew away I though "I´m a butterfly now bitch. Peace out!"
FLY PUPA, FLY
TRUE!!! 😂 without context it might seem weird
FLYY PUPA FLYYYYYYYY!
@@joculardweeb6647 what the fuck
Would you like me to explain who he is?
nah im good
Holy fuck that was probably the most epic homestuck animation I have ever seen! Wait let me check... Yup this is the best one ever!!!!!!!!!! Longest three minutes of my life.
Watched it again and it felt like 3 seconds XD
Same'!!!
It's almost freaking 2020 and I'm back here after leaving fandom and I no longer know who I am. I'm mad that I leave because the fandom was so toxic. I should've stayed and being happy with the story not the people.
Well now the fandom isn’t toxic anymore (correct me if I’m wrong I very well might be) so we are glad to have you back!
Toasted Water yup!!! I’m also rereading it cause omg it brings back memorys
Yeah the fandom seems to have chilled out at least. I've recently gotten back into it as well!
@@ONE-vt1fz You are sadly wrong, some parts of it are still extremely toxic.
The Signless's cry will always give me goosebumps.
"we move on, what comes after us" FEEELLLSSS
I think it's "we live on in what comes after us"
I think it's "we live on, in what comes after us
MeliMusti alkin "We'll live on, in what comes after us"
To me it sounds like "we live on, but what comes after us?"
I heard "We move on, in what comes after us"
I just realized that The Summoner DYED HIS HAIR RED! I thought that it was just how it grew out.
No. In reality those red streaks would be his brown blood color. It's a canon fact that once a troll fully matures, streaks of their blood colors can be seen in their hair and eyes.
....so there's a definite possibility he deliberately dyed them red :D
it’s been a HOT Minute seen i last watched this and it still slapps
IT IS 2022 AND I AM SOBBING OVER HOMESTUCK FOR THE SECOND TIME TODAY
Damn the background trolls are more original than my fantrolls.
1:07 OH MY GOD HOW DID I NEVER SEE DOLOROSA THERE? I KNOW SHE WAS SOLD INTO SLAVERY TO THE SEA-DWELLERS BUT I NEVER NOTICED HER THERE ON MINDFANG'S SHIP O0O
She was sold to Dualscar. Mindfang took her to mock Dualscar ( they were in a kismesissitude ); to which he tried to report her to the Grand Highblood as a joke( but not before killing the Dolorosa infront of Mindfang ) . He didnt like the joke. He killed him. He then sent Redglare after Mindfang.
yeah, remember that kinda creepy scene with mindfang and mind control? :( :(
@@cactusc9519 Yeah :(
5 years and this still slaps
The ancestors were so goddamn cool
SCREECHES OH GOD IT WAS SO WORTH THE WAIT
IKR? I LOVE IT SO MUCH OMG
I WAS CRYING AND LAUGHING AT THIS
MY INTERNET IS GOING TO GET SHUT DOWN BUT I FINISHED THIS IN TIME AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THIS IS AMAZING THANK YOU VERY MUCH I LOVED THIS
I WAITED. SO. LONG FOR THIS.
Same
People: ew homestuck is weird
Me:
*shows them this beutiful animation and saying that its a preview*
Oh hey i can finally see something about the ancestors and understand something!
Today, this video makes a 2 year anniversary.
This video was a huge hype. I felt so happy watching it. I waited for so long, and there was it. On CZcams, on the first page, waiting for me to see it.
I thank you so much for this, EmptyFeet. The fandom felt so much more vivid with After Us.
“What comes after us?”
aw, this is really sweet, thanks! :> I wouldn't have known it was the anniversary at all if someone hadn't said something, that's crazy to think about!
EmptyFeet Isn't it? It feels like it was just yesterday~
I'll take this with me forever, haha
Ah, the video that made me lose my social life
Who's here in 2018 and up?
Vapourwaves
*Intense arm waving*
Me and will always be here
:›
Yo whaddup
*raises hand*
I know I’m like 3000 years late on homestuck but I want to get into it and from the looks of this video, it’s going to be a long ride.
you are not late! Come to us we have games now as well :3
I'm even later than you, just getting into it. Starting to read homestuck was the biggest mistake of my life, of which i do not regret. I'm so happy i found all this
@@striderboy1000 Great to see new fans, you're probably done with the story by now. I guess it's okay to watch/read this shit out of order because the story was never in order to begin with. I wonder if someone has successfully attempted to put all of Homestuck in chronological order. it would involve some repetition (i.e. pesterlogs on Earth and then the Trolls' meteor) but not impsossible.
Man when i was first introduced into this fandom it was because I had seen this animation & I had loved it so much! So I of course HAD to know what it was from! Now that I know everything i will every know about Homestuck & I know what it is I will time to time come to this animation. This animation is so strong and breath taking it should make even the simplest fan of Homestuck proud to be in the fandom knowing that there was another person who likes Homestuck too that took the dedication to create this! And not only is it WONDERFULL. But it is also something many can use to explain the greatness of Homestuck to someone who is just beginning in the fandom! And if your telling the truth that this is supposedly a “Mess” to you, then you must be able to do some pretty amazing art & animation!
so basically
the signless is jesus
the dolorosa is st mary
psii is peter
and stuff?
+Paula Valencia
And the Disciple is Mary Magdalene. The Condesce is Pilate. Pretty much every character has an equivalent.
Adam Os yeah
Gawd rrulez
+Adam Os I think the Condesce is Herodes. Pilate didn't care much about Jesus
+Paula Valencia did u not know this
I guess that might make the E%ecutor Pilate as he's the official that carries through with the execution under the imperial leader.
I cant believe this was made 5 yrs ago, I remember waiting for this to upload for so long n bein so hyped about it. Awe the good ol days of when I was super into homestuck
Me: *Knows jack shit about Homestuck, but once had a friend who would constantly talk about it...*
Me: “Ha, prettyyyy colors”
• Be me
• Go to some kind of historical reconstruction
• They're playing this song
• -homestuck flashback-
Does this mean if you watch Saw you'll get a mental breakdown
This makes me want a movie about the ancestors though
Cannot forget this beauty. Happy 4/13 everyone!