October 2016

Does that panel with Vriska and John holding hands and Meulin and Kankri standing next to each other mean anything or was that just a cute nod to the fans?

:o)

you don't understand how thrilled i am you made feferi relevant....bless you

Feferi is such a great character, and has hardly any canon content, so it was nice to be able to expand on that a little bit. I’m glad that people have been so happy to see her again!

wowwwww, the new upd8 made me so happy. AN ARANEAAAAA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. and GCATAVROS. also, low-key headcanoning a flushed triad between Aradia, Feferi, and Sollux, which I didn't know I wanted until right now <333 amazing

I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! And it’s awesome to hear that we’ve inspired new shipping headcanons, since that is a classic part of the Homestuck experience.

Is it ok for us to make transparent edits of some of the characters (i.e the sleeping jake on page 170?)

Yup, that’s completely fine :o)

Act 8 has updated with Act 4: Panels 20-36

Act 8 is a project by fans, for fans, to produce a (largely) canon-compliant fanwork that expands on the Homestuck ending. It’s a celebration of our fandom’s ingenuity, an ACT of love towards Homestuck as a story and a larger phenomenon. It’s also just for the fun of it.

Forum | About | Start from the beginning.

i dislike how every character has arms. its inaccurate to homestuck, which has no arms,; i demand that you remove all the arms from your webcomic

you will never stop my insidious pro-arm agenda.

Oh my gosh.... That last conversation with Aradia and Tavros.... was SO GOOD!! ahhh the expressions and just??? what a wonderful and sweet conversation <3. Canon never had a whole lot of team charge interaction beyond the whole "make her pay" fiasco, so to see act 8 so perfectly deliver on that, just ahh <33 thank you, you just made my day! :") –– (oh and a side note, THANK YOU FOR FIXING GCATAVROSPRITES ALLERGIES, at least i can sleep well at night knowing he's not suffering anymore!)

We tried to write the scene without fixing Gcatavrosprite’s allergies, and it just felt unbearably cruel. He deserved to feel better.

I’m really glad that you and other folks enjoyed the Team Charge interactions! We’re proud of them, and it’s been a fun section to put together. A lot of us didn’t know just how badly we wanted to see Team Charge content until we started working on it.

I'm really impressed by how on-model everything is. Whoever you have working on the artwork, they're doing a fantastic job capturing Hussie's style.

Thank you kindly for the compliment! I love it when people say nice things about Team 8, because it’s a good team, and I am quite fond of it. Our illustrious leader @gamzee did most of the panel work on this recent section, but over the span of the project it’s been a large and variable art team that keeps getting bigger and more rad :o)

what the hecquius

hit the decquius

thenewcaliborn:

DID YOU ALL FORGET THAT THIS WAS A THING. WELL. BE CAREFUL NOT TO FORGET THAT PRACTICING DUE CAUTION IS A MUST. I WORKED EXTRA HARD ON THIS ONE. SO LISTENING TO IT WILL BE SUCH AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE THAT IT IS LIKELY THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THING YOU WILL EVER ACCOMPLISH. TO HAVE SOME OF MY SOUND MAGIC RUB OFF ONTO YOUR SOUL.

(YOU’RE WELCOME.)

THIS TRACK. IS ABOUT MY HIGHLY TRAGIC AND MOVING BACKSTORY. AND MY HEARTRENDINGLY TUMULTUOUS CHILDHOOD. I DARE YOU NOT TO BE SWAYED TO TEARS BY ITS BEAUTIFUL NARRATIVE IMAGERY. I. FUCKING. DARE YOU.

i legit cry on this update. like. there are tears on my face. they are here. they are here right now. thank you so much but also why

I can promise that you are not alone in the waterworks, at least. Why, even certain people on Team 8 were moved to tears by this update. Not that I’m naming names or anything.

oh my god team charge, oh my god, oh my GOD!!!!!!!! are you going to have a lot of characters that didn't get enough lines in homestuck to havve a little role? :D

We certainly hope so! Can’t promise that every character will get a significant amount of content, but we are definitely trying to fill in some gaps here.

Hey, I've just recently found out that you've updated. Apparently your RSS feed hasn't been updated since September and since I didn't follow the subreddit or this blog I never knew...

Good to know! Apparently Tumblr RSS feeds not updating is just another charming aspect of this Blue Hell, from what information I could find :/

Sooooooooo~ will act 8 have any canon ships moments *COUGH* DAVKAT *COUGH* ROSEMARY *COUGH* and or give us any other popular ships *COUGHHH* ......... or will it be up to us the audience's own interpretations ;)))))))))

oh a little of column a, a little of column b, a little of column c…. all of the columns are at work here. all of them.

Act 8 has updated with Act 4: Panels 37-43

Act 8 is a project by fans, for fans, to produce a (largely) canon-compliant fanwork that expands on the Homestuck ending. It’s a celebration of our fandom’s ingenuity, an ACT of love towards Homestuck as a story and a larger phenomenon. It’s also just for the fun of it.

Forum | About | Start from the beginning.

Expect another update late tonight or early tomorrow. I’m trying to catch up, here. ;o)

i want them to all be ok

same here, buddy. same here.

Aaaaah bless u guys, especially momo for all the work of getting this show on the road in the first place. I'm, a little too hyped for future updates. Man,

namppa you are a sweetheart, bless you. I’m pretty hyped myself.

So I absolutely adore your guys work on act 8 so far and im super happy about the closure everyone is getting, but I was wondering if nepeta and/or equius were gonna show up soonish? I just really wanna know theyre ok, and I saw nep on one of the newer updates but I cant help but worry ya kno? act 8 is brilliant and keep up the awesome, yea?

Thanks for reading! I do have something planned for the good ol meowrails that i hope people will like. It’s a little subtle, but hopefully it packs a good punch for the pound.

TEREZI: W3R3NT YOU JUST COMPL41N1NG 4BOUT P3OPL3 CODDL1NG YOU?

Another update tonight. More is coming soon, I’m drawing so fast. So fast, you guys. And as always, act 8 is a fan project unaffiliated with WP. Enjoy.

beautiful upd8s. wonderful job, its so pretty. and in-character, too! but WHAT WAS KARKAT REMINDED OF

A mystery!!!! I would love to hear your guess.

god the hell damn, i love you guys

solid refrance… we love you too

ok so im going to assume that, since you said we have to guess, we ARE going to find out what karkat was reminded of... i like the way you think (also i have 1 guess buts its mostly wishful thinking rip. act 8 is the only canon i need anymore)

I don’t want to overstate the significance of this mystery, but the clues are all already here. I mean it when I say I want to hear your guesses though, wishful thinking as they may or may not be. (And what do we know about wishes and dreams other than that they’re awesome, anyway.)

thank you for being the only one to let me experience the upd8 feeliings like i have always wished i was there for.

This is a kind of message we never get tired of reading. It’s good to let a few latecomers experience that good ol classic upd8 feel.

so either my brain is jumping through hoops or you guys are leading to interaction between two characters whos relationship never got any real closure here. im down for that

I can neither confirm nor deny the implications of this ask, but I will lean heavily towards them and wag my eyebrows all suggestively. Much like a certain green friend of ours, these eyebrows are off the goddamn chain.

@ the anon that provided me their guess; don’t worry, your hopes and dreams are in good hands.

heya! its ur local Positivity Anon here to tell you guys that youre awesome and so is act 8. take care of yourselves!

Aww, thanks Anon! We are chugging along here on Team 8, and are looking forward to releasing quite a bit more content this month :o) Nice messages like this one definitely help keep us going.

"DAVE: in the moives?" Page 195, I think.

i dunno man im not seein any issues here

Soooooooo.... How about that ghost John and Vriska that seemed to be d8ting? Is that John the Post-Retjohn one who died on LOWAS?

i cant tell you much because like a certain shitty actor i gotta be cagey but these guys are important

Act8Official Forum

It occurred to me today that I haven’t posted a reminder in quite some time, but just in case any of you folks didn’t know about it, we do have a forum! You can find it at: http://act8official.boards.net/

Feel free to introduce yourself in the Introductions and Friendchat thread, leave a review or suggestions in the Critique thread, or just lurk for glimpses at content in development!

Hanging out and posting regularly to the forum is also a great way to become involved in working on Act 8, if that’s something you’re interested in doing.

Folks of all ages are welcome, and as a forum mod I’ll be happy to welcome you aboard and answer any questions you may have :o)

Did you guys post the two cinematics' on YouTube, By any chance...?

We do have a YouTube channel to mirror our flash content, if that’s what you’re asking. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQXfvlKkpbOqEz4BepHqK7g

so i see act 8 updated with that intermission, my my that hand looks familiar

;o)

Act 8 on Discord

Hello all! There have long been complaints that the mibbit is a somewhat difficult way to chat with the team and other interested parties, and not everyone has a Skype account or likes to give out their contact info willy nilly. So one of our lovely team members made an Act 8 Discord server. In his own words, “For those of you wondering what Discord is, Discord is a free text and voice chat “For gamers” (it really isn’t).

You can create an account here: discordapp.com/

You don’t need to download it to use it. It works in most browsers.”

Here’s the server: discord.gg/sf59wAJ

So feel free to hang out there if you’d like :o) I’ll try to keep the app open so I can consistently be around to answer questions.

Thanks to @dbnet18 for making this happen!

So I'm guessing you guys are going to be continuing with your own story regardless of what new cannon stuff comes out? Or will you change some of the later stuff to adapt to new content?

We’re just going to keep on heading in our own direction :o) I suppose if any newly revealed information strikes us as thematically appropriate to include we might work it in somehow, but as things stand we are content to diverge from any canon content following Act 7.

Since the canon endings have been revealed... does it mean this is now an alternate timeline? O:

Pretty much! We always knew that there would some day be a canon Epilogue (which is still in the works, as far as I know), and that whatever we made was unlikely to slot neatly into place with that content. Act 8 was intended from day 1 to diverge from the canon timeline post-Act 7.

I think this feels in keeping with the Homestuck narrative being game-based. Every team making a fan continuation from Act 7 is just unlocking an alternate ending for us all :o)

Alternate endings. inb4 one of them involves Rose signing a magical girl contract.

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Don’t do it Rose…

chillgamesh-the-swing replied to your post “So I’m guessing you guys are going to be continuing with your own…”

Rosemary wedding tho right

I personally tend to assume that every timeline has its own Rosemary wedding somewhere down the line, unless it’s a Bad End.

May I just say, I’m glad I got to use our 500th post on something as important as Rosemary wedding discussion :o)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sThqKr2yW7M)

We just found out this week that someone made an Act 8 MV, and BOY WERE WE EXCITED.

radvros:

@act8official fanart!! specifically a redraw of this panel!

i’ve wanted to draw something or act 8 or a while because it’s really good and i’d 11/10 recommend it to everyone who likes homestuck and wants more of it but i haven’t had the time…. until now! :D

the conversation between tavros and aradia was too good…. it almost moved me to tears tbh;;

I really love the soft, dreamy colors in this! Thanks so much for the beautiful fanart, @radvros!

Hi my name is hana I'm an hs video editor. I have a bunch of voice actor friends and we have taken a liking to your comic so far. I was wondering how you guys would feel about a group getting put together to dub your fancomic? To see my past work take a gander at my productions blog merstia on tumblr. Thanks for considering and have a good rest of ur day/night!

I think that would be AMAZING. Please consider this a blessing from Team 8 to Go Forth And Dub, and be sure to send us a link if you do, we’d love to hear it!

Act 8 Forum + Discord

Here is your periodic reminder that they exist, and you can join us there :o)

Our forum: http://act8official.boards.net/

Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/jcQnCzA

Come join the Discord. It's awesome.

And @dbnet18 would know, because he’s the one who set up the server :o)

So when can we expect another Act 8 update? Not rushing you guys at all! just very curious :?

Quite soon, we hope. There’s definitely some content due out before Nothing Special At All happens on the 8th ;o)

hey

how would you lot feel about an act 8 halloween themed stream-a-thon hosted by the bart keeper himself later tonight

The stream will be hosted on CYTUBE at 8pm CST, there will be really bad overly ironic and surreal pre-stream festivities at around 7:45pm CST.

All leading up to what may or may not be an ACT 8 UPD8! (maybe)(probably)

We will reblog this post again just before the pre-stream festivities and again once the stream starts.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!


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