Some thoughts from Discord I had on how well I was warming up to HS^2 lately, specifically how it was handling Roxy.  Spoilers under the cut, concerning HS^2 all the way to the current pause point:

BlastYoBoots — Today at 2:46 PM
I realized just in the back of my mind, a handful of days ago, how before HS^2 paused it had been coming around strong on one of the biggest things that’d annoyed me about it

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I do wish I had more free time to keep working on some loose ends here, but work has me tied up and exhausted more than I expected with what low energy reserves I have; and that PS5 beckons in the downtime, even if I’m mostly just playing Warframe on it.  :o

I really need to take a weekend and revise the hell out of the Aradia inversion post to be LESS FUCKING SMUG, for example.

Mom’s officially fully vaccinated, and I just got scheduled for my first shot! :o

Holy SHIT i got one

Hey, how many of y’all are caught up with Girl Genius?  Because now having seen him, I think X is just Y having been exposed to extradimensional energy and spent years in another dimension only to atemporally arrive here recently, but I don’t have anyone to share the theory with.  (X and Y under cut for spoils, + images for further explanation)

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Andrew Hussie posted to Patreon that they’re going to take a slow Gigapause-seeming approach to releasing a finished HS^2 much later down the road.  I still have some bonuses, commentary, and Hiveswap Act 2 to blog through, and I’ll try to get around to some of that in a couple months if I’m less IRL busy.

Selected quotes, though not the complete post:

Homestuck^2 is going to be completed, but the Patreon will not be charging patrons anymore. The account will be frozen and no additional patrons will be accepted, but the ones currently registered are welcome to stay and receive notifications about the future of this project if the team is inclined to post any.

The plan now is to have HS^2 finished, but without a regular update schedule. Previously saved Patreon funds will be used to privately commission the team to finish the story. It will all be posted at once when it is finished, and there will be no updates until this happens. I expect that it will take a long time to finish the story. This is because I am specifically instructing the team to work slowly.

I originally agreed to let this project move forward entirely based on the presumption that it would be an enjoyable experience for the team involved. It’s not like I had a burning need to release a continuation of the narrative, or a formal “sequel”, which is never how I viewed this arc. The project mostly came about because I picked up on the enthusiasm the original creative group had for the idea, and I also sensed that energy was being reciprocated by the particular state of the fandom at the time. But since then I’ve observed it’s been pretty far from an enjoyable experience for the team[…]

My only criteria for the completion of HS^2 is that whoever is involved the rest of the way just has a good time with it, and ends up feeling like they have made a good story. If the team is happy with it, then so am I, and nothing else about it matters to me. Especially not sticking to a schedule or satisfying fandom demands, whatever those even are at this point.

[…] I’ll consider ways to thank the patrons for hanging in there all this time and supporting the team. […] We all appreciate your support.

—Andrew

I expect they’ll post another version of this announcement somewhere other than Patreon, because communication can’t stay spotty about something like this – this is why you have official accounts and such.  But I don’t know who owns the logins to those, and over long distances this can be something of a juggling act I understand.

I am enjoying HS^2 though and am quite dismayed that it’s going to be quite a while before we see the end (OR ANY CLASSPECT CONFIRMATIONS/ DECONFIRMATIONS AAAGH), and furthermore understand from personal experience that people’s emotional states are fuel reservoirs that are easy to burn and exhaust, especially based on team dynamics, subject matter and the state of the world.  So I hope those who continue working on Homestuck^2 over the next while can deliver it to us for the least emotional cost.  I think most of us don’t believe most works of fiction are worth wringing significant pain out of the creators.

wakraya:

madam-melon-meow:

bladekindeyewear:

They didn’t charge anyone on Patreon; December and January have been fucking hell, I don’t blame them much.  Notice will probably come soon.

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They aren’t charging us feb and march apparently (i have the patreon but it was a twitter friend who told me this, since i dont really know how patreon works)

- but Hussie’s new game does come out very soon, so I am wondering if some of the team helped him with that and are taking an anti-burnout break

I’ve seen this around for a while and there’s a misconception going around!

The way Patreon Works is that they charge on the 1st of the Next Month. When you pause the charge in Patreon, you can ONLY PAUSE IT FOR THE MONTH YOU ARE IN.

Of course at the start of next month, you can Pause it again. However, this has confused people- Because usually February would be charged in March 1st.

The charge is paused in February- Which means that, since March 1st won’t be charged, the Next Charge that is set is ‘April 1st’. This makes people think it’s paused until April, but unless they said, or until March 1st comes, if they pause it again, we literally cannot know. It’s just the way Patreon words their Charges.

The past Homestuck^2 Bonus Content is now freely available without a Patreon subscription while HS^2 is on break til April!  Go ahead and read it!  :D

I’m probably going to liveblog or stream it just like I plan to with Hiveswap Ch2 once things calm down a bit on my end busyways.

You’re at least half right– I forgot they announced their hiatus at the end of December, but the update didn’t quite say how long the hiatus was going to be; I think they just phrased it poorly so it gave the impression that it was only going to be a month-long break.  The current Patreon settings say we won’t be charged til April, not March.

DEC 29, 2020 AT 4:38 PM

Hiatus and The Future

Hello! I hope everyone is well, or as well as can be expected in these the dying days of a terrible year. As you may have noticed from a patreon alert, you all won’t be charged next month. We’re taking a bit of a break to recharge and refresh, and to do some reshuffling of tiers, update schedule, and bonus content.

Also, if you haven’t heard about it already, make sure you check out the trailer for Andrew Hussie’s new project, which was announced on December 20th. Get excited, it’s awesome.  Thank you all for sticking with us through the pandemic and all the stresses that come with us. We appreciate all of your support. See you next year! 

That Psycholonials game is out in hours though!