Skaian Splendor (Homestuck)

Описание: And what a journey it was.

Round 6 of POE was Fantastic Voyages, and I spent a day thinking super hard about what to edit for it. Especially since this theme gave me unfortunate flashbacks to a round from a previous POE... Then I went to sleep and dreamt that I should edit Homestuck.

No, really. I'm 100% serious on this.

It worked out because against all odds, this was my second highest scoring video. It feels like despite all the time that has past, I'm right back where I started LOL.

Anyway, the rest of this description is just talking about Homestuck stuff, so you're probably better off not reading it.

For the longest time, I thought I never wanted to edit Homestuck again. I considered Game Over (specifically how Rose's death was handled) a big jump the shark moment. I hated how the retcon fundamentally changed how the comic would be experienced as an archival vs serial reader. I thought A6A6I5 was an abrupt stop in story movement so that everyone could have feel good talks when they didn't necessarily feel earned. I thought Collide was actually pretty boring because everything went exactly as planned with how they outlined who should fight what. Act 7... at its premise is actually an okay closer because that's what the adventure was about, but because of the huge detour that was Act 6 it didn't feel as rewarding as it could have been. And to cap it off, I thought The Homestuck Epilogues were pretty bad and Homestuck^2 was god awful.

So I'm actually kinda glad POE had this as the final theme, since it allowed me to think about Homestuck again in the context of a long adventure to the end goal. And I absolutely love that part of Homestuck! It's no coincidence that most of my videos (including this one) are focused on the Beta Kids, since they were the ones I connected to the most as they stumbled through understanding how to play SBURB. And over time, as my distaste towards the final parts of Homestuck cooled, the one thing I regretted about dropping Homestuck editing is that I never did anything with Act 7. To me, this video feels like a big bookend for all these things that I've done (with Homestuck). Hehe.

One final thing I'd like to mention: shout out to the folks behind the Unofficial Homestuck Collection! I was worried about the Homestuck experience disappearing due to the removal of Flash, but this is now probably the definitive way anyone should experience Homestuck (certainly not whatever mangled mess currently exists on the official site). It also solves one of my major complaints about the retcon, since it allows you to experience Homestuck as a serial reader with none of the retcon elements present until they actually appear in story.

Anyway, that wraps up everything I edited for Project Org Editor! I've gotten the itch to edit weird things out of my system, and I can now return to editing vids that cons won't throw out at first glance LOL.

Webcomic: Homestuck
Song: All These Things That I've Done
Artist: The Killers
Program: Vegas Pro 18.0

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