Monthly Check-In — April 2025Posted on 13 April 2025 by James==>
Happy 4/13 for those of you that celebrate
Hi, James here. Another April 13th is upon us. Some of you might be checking in for the first time in a while, since it's one of those Special Homestuck Days. If you don’t know me, I’m mostly in charge of stuff here at Beyond Canon, the current arc of the Homestuck story. The current team and I started in the middle of the Homestuck^2 storyline after its long hiatus, and were tasked with continuing and eventually completing it. The initial run was loosely based off of Andrew's original outline and The Homestuck Epilogues. We are taking the story and characters in a slightly different direction, while still hitting some of the key points laid out for us.
About two years ago under Andrew’s guidance we formed the HICU, and have been slowly handing out licenses to some fanworks so they can monetize. Things have been cooking behind the scenes for a while and something pretty cool is going to come out of it in the relatively near future. I don’t want to overpromise, so I’ll let that happen as it happens.
I’m not in charge of anything besides music over at Hiveswap, but I pop my head into the work chat every now and then and things are coming along slowly but surely for ACT 3. WP projects are generally pretty small teams with day jobs, so these things take some time. Thanks for sticking with us, as a longtime Homestuck fan myself, I know how hard it is to wait for things.
Today the Beyond Canon team has the pleasure of working with Honey & Butter, a delightful macaron bakery in Southern California that specializes in these sorts of pop-up event collaborations. A few of my friends have been to these and report that they’re delicious. At the pop-up, and for a limited time online, there will be some collab-themed official merchandise available. This event was planned, orchestrated and executed basically in its entirety by our very own Floral, Kim and Chumi with some special guest art by the illustrious and talented HONE. They did a great job!
Some of you sleuths out there have caught on to a little bit of a secret countdown that we’ll be talking more about in the coming days: the next Makeship plush drop! John and Vriska are coming up, and we’ll have more news and previews closer to launch.
Hope you guys have a great anniversary, and I’m looking forward to many years to come.
So. Addendum 1, huh? Not Intermission? Wonder what that means. Check out the update and sort it out for yourself! I'm OUTTA here.
