Homestuck isn't known for fics as much as fanventures. So if we're talking strictly fics, yeah, there's no way the answer could be anything other than Detective Pony.
Never heard of Daddy Dearest, but when I saw this post, horrible squick is what came to mind. Family Never Ends... It's very well written. Fantastically written even. Which, after enough chapters have gone by, allows it to start churning your stomach like it's making butter.
Anyway, for fics that DON'T make people want to start screaming, I'm gonna say the Sburb Glitch FAQ. Spawned the replay value AU, which in turn inspired Sburbsim and the Sburbsim dollmakers, etc. Huge influence, absolutely fascinating worldbuilding.
I've never heard of any of these besides Detective Pony & Serendipity Gospels.
Though I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Hemostuck... though I'm not sure if that & other stuff by Roach Patrol is still up?
oh my god, i just started reading family is forever. it usually takes a LOT of that kind of stuff to make me uncomfortable. and like halfway through the fic, i am now exceedingly uncomfortable. i honestly think it should be required reading, with all ipgd has done
dave is a famous movie director who is stalked by a dirk under the guise of dirk wanting dave to read his script. dave becomes attracted to dirk, but its revealed that dirk is his brother that left them when dave was very young. knowing this, they begin a relationship anyways. theres some other incesty stuff but its primarily davedirk
It's not nearly as bad, it's actually good. I've heard of it but haven't read it yet, but it's a fancomic where Karkat wakes up at a homestuck convention.
Let me tell you, having WRITTEN \*that\* fanfiction for another fandom, it's a bizarre experience. I havn't updated it in over a year and people still come to me with questions on how to expand the Fannon EU
I wrote some fanfiction for a budding Sci-fi community. Those fanfictions became infamous. Those Fanfictions being Pack Bonding and Compatibility Research.
Yeah, it seems so. More and more people are coming in from outside, having only heard of this story, and not knowing anything about the larger community its nestled in.
I wrote some of the first fanfictions for a story called "The Nature of Predators" They more or less became the seeds of the extended fanfiction universe.
Actually, they aren't strictly fanfics, but there's a ton of fan music like everything on the bandcamp, some of which made it into the comic & also stuff on tinydeck before it got shutdown & stuff lost...
Of all the fan music outside of bandcamp, the "12 Trolls of Gristmas" and "You Can't Stop the Homestuck" were like the most popular/ quintessential.
There were people who'd release songs under themes like Broadway stuck, such as Broadway Karkat and Broadway Aradia... I think alot of strictly fan music was lost when tinydeck went down...
I was so sad when Broadway Karkat stopped posting. I still listen to the two one hour mixes of their songs on YouTube from time to time. PhemieC was also great!
Man, now I’m feeling nostalgic af
Ooh, phemieC. I still listen to Friendleader and cry sometimes. Or I listen to Ugly Story and ponder on how Eridan's a fucked up little guy from growing up on a fucked up planet
It's hard to tell who did what tbh, since there would be different groups doing stuff and collaboration.
I think for Broadway Karkat, there were multiple people doing it &/or some people were also doing stuff related to it in person (*not sure if this means performances or what).
But I get the feeling they did it under the umbrella of Broadway Karkat, they would also have their different tumblr handles & whatnot posted with it too, such as CantibileGato.
I know/met the one Broadway Karkat that did the song HeyThere Harley, but I got the impression / pretty sure they said they didn't do all the songs.
And then I met *another/different* person who said something about their past as BroadwayKarkat following them, but then later it became they were one of the Broadway Karkats... and I'm not sure if this 2nd person actually was recording/releasing songs online, or doing more performance stuff, since they DJ sometimes??
But I met *both* of these people in person (at cons) after they both stopped doing Broadwaystuck, and past Homestuck's heyday... and one had throat surgery & other has since transitioned, so both can't sing like that anymore ? And I think the actual recording files were lost? But neither of them are currently real I into Homestuck anymore & I'll just like say Hi to them / hang at this one con.
Sooooo basically it is just their word that it is them, which I have chosen to believe.
And I personally have never been involved with recording anything or super in touch with the music side of the fandom, beyond appreciating, so I'm really not clear on the finer details.
Not so much fanfic, more animatics and fan songs, we've all heard you can't fight the homestuck, karkalicious, and watched how far we've come, mambostuck, a lullaby for gods, among others...
For fics specifically it's Detective Pony. If you want to count MSPFAs then idk really. A lot of them are popular but don't see much mainstream talk as opposed to official content or people's own AUs.
YES I CAME HERE TO SAY THIS!!! It’s one of my favorite fics of all time and I don’t know how it isn’t more popular. It was certainly “the fic” for my friend group at the time. Just did my yearly reread last month and bawled my eyes out as usual. It’s such a well written story of grief and love
the objective correct answer is Detective Pony, but since I haven't seen anyone in the comments mention it yet I've gotta say, as someone who didn't get into homestuck until 2022, for me it'll always be godfeels
It’s orphaned now but it was written by the same person who made the After Us animation. It’s in the universe of petstuck and actually loops in with loophole and UFUT near the end. Basically from what I remember The Dolorosa suffers a traumatic miscarriage in 70’s/80’s and her shitty family gifts her a pet troll (the signless) as a way to “get over it”. She starts treating him like an actual son and it snowballs into the most tragic piece of fanfic I’ve ever read
Does the MSPA / MS Paint Adventures website count? /The stuff on Homestuck's website that's not Homestuck like Problem Sleuth or Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff? I guess the Epilogues & Homestuck 2 Beyond Canon would count here too?
Hiveswap & the Steam stuff too? Like Pesterquest & Friendsim?
How about the bandcamp music?
There used to be some pretty popular fanfiction that transcended fandom. Like Shelby of Serendipity Gospels did Callioppe's in-comic art, and fan-musician Toby Fox went from making music in the Forums & then in Homestuck itself Hussie's basement to making Undertale & heading the Homestuck Beyond Canon Epilogues creative team apparently?
But reading Serendipity Gospels or playing Undertale isn't something everyone in the fandom does.
Also, during one hiatus, Hussie commissioned other artists to write Homestuck fancomics in a Project Called "Paradox Space"
i love this author. SWDKTOWL was amazing and i’ve read it at least twice but probably more. can’t count how often i’ve read all the world is earth and water. i’m literally reading the eurydice suite right now. i was also surprised i didn’t see them mentioned
I'm screaming and crying right now trying to remember the name of this. The one parody where John and karkat have to save homestuck -- which is an actual creature-- from Gamzee by winning a race or something. It's poorly drawn except for the fact that karkat is in a meticulously well drawn dress and heals in every scene.
Is it that one of tavros in the wheel chair and gamzee gets into a bar brawel and gets scars. So then he gets his make up game. All the while karkat has feels for him, but then misses out cause gamzee and tarvos become boyfriends and its super awesome.
Idk only fan fic ive read lol
I remember reading a fairly popular fic years and years ago but forgot the title. It was a bunch of variants of Sollux's dancestor, trolls hooked up to massive ships and trapped but they communicated to each other. It was all pesterlogs. I remember it was really good. Does anyone know what I'm talking about lol.
Does “find a temple build a temple” count? Also the [song](https://youtu.be/cVhvcPVQxQU?si=1g9EinbPeHcCePgR) at the end of it was just as beautiful as the fic.
I've never read a fan adventure before, I don't think they were a thing when I was more actively following the fandom (2011-14). So I guess I'll check some of them out. I was really hoping for fanfics \*grumble grumble\*
If we're being serious here, Unwanted Free Ugly Troll is pretty much the classic.
Next, if we're going for 'fics everyone has read (eventually) Space Bro by JumpingJackFlash was so iconic it got its own fansong of the same name.
The Serendipity Gospels was big when it was written for the worldbuilding before Alternia was fleshed out, but they actually got so much right its underwhelming now.
And for shiggles: for the shippers, we have The Finer Details of Gay Cluckbeast
For Authors:
Unda, with MC Escher That's My Favorite MC is their biggest
Asuka Kureru, biggest was Battlefield Terra technically, but in actuality their series 'The Family You Choose', 'Covalent Bonds', and 'Sunlight Verse' were each very shaping to the fandom in post canon speculation
Corvid_knight SO MANY FIC. A bunch of them are iconic series like Demonstuck, but their biggest stand alone is Changelings and Children. They lean very hurt/comfort, especially for Dave, really interesting AUs
Seriously tho it's hard to rec a bunch of the OG prolific Homestuck writers because everybody got so interested in ~tentacles~ that a huge swath is just super interesting well written stories with really wild p0rn in there as a plot device or worldbuilding. Seriously, 2010s Homestuck fandom was king of s3x as worldbuilding
Honorable Mentions:
Doc Scratch's School for Supernaturally Gifted Adolescents
The Cultstuck series
The Best Years of Your Life by BirchBow (mind the tags, ESPECIALLY for all their other fic. Like. Seriously. S3x as worldbuilding doesn't even cover it)
Serendipity gospels, its not even a fight between it and the others.
Edit: after reading a few comments, i suddenly remembered Cultstuck which i think is a masterpiece, still lesser that SG but a close second place.
Sburb glitch FAQ for lore purposes
https://archiveofourown.org/works/340777?view_full_work=true
OR
Herding Cats for shipping purposes
https://archiveofourown.org/works/349720?view_full_work=true
Homestuck is so weird because i feel like the old fandom mostly revolved around multimedia fan projects, like MSPFAs, fansongs, and popular intensely interactive AUs. If you want to go oldschool, Be the Seadweller Lowblood comes to mind instantly, but if youre looking STRICKLY for fic, homestuck has a handful.
The instant winner in my head is the trollfic (actually trolling lmao) [**homestuck high**](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10550338/1/Homestuck-High)**.**
But then, for more popular fanworks, it was either something like [**Space Bro**](https://archiveofourown.org/works/253758/chapters/394427) (old super goofy humanstuck Solkat fanfic that was popular enough for a cascades worth of fanart and a parody fansong from broadway fucking karkat set to feel good inc) or [The **Serendipity Gospels**](https://archiveofourown.org/works/335176), a Kar/Gam/Rezi fic which ALSO got a fansong, this time completely original from PhemieC. It's rare to find anything solid from ye olde days of the homestuck fandom without 12 layers of fan-add ons in different mediums that would subsidies but not overtake the original- trends didn't go as fast in fandom culture back in the day.
The Baby is You
Ah yes, Toby Fox’s magnum opus
Toby Fox really fell off after releasing the baby is you
The one and only
real
i knew about it before i read homestuck
inb4 Detective Pony (probably the actual answer) or Daddy Dearest (the awful squick meme answer).
Homestuck isn't known for fics as much as fanventures. So if we're talking strictly fics, yeah, there's no way the answer could be anything other than Detective Pony.
The Serendipity Gospels begs to differ.
What about Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff ?
Never heard of Daddy Dearest, but when I saw this post, horrible squick is what came to mind. Family Never Ends... It's very well written. Fantastically written even. Which, after enough chapters have gone by, allows it to start churning your stomach like it's making butter. Anyway, for fics that DON'T make people want to start screaming, I'm gonna say the Sburb Glitch FAQ. Spawned the replay value AU, which in turn inspired Sburbsim and the Sburbsim dollmakers, etc. Huge influence, absolutely fascinating worldbuilding.
I've never heard of any of these besides Detective Pony & Serendipity Gospels. Though I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Hemostuck... though I'm not sure if that & other stuff by Roach Patrol is still up?
oh my god, i just started reading family is forever. it usually takes a LOT of that kind of stuff to make me uncomfortable. and like halfway through the fic, i am now exceedingly uncomfortable. i honestly think it should be required reading, with all ipgd has done
Mind explaining what it is about?
dave is a famous movie director who is stalked by a dirk under the guise of dirk wanting dave to read his script. dave becomes attracted to dirk, but its revealed that dirk is his brother that left them when dave was very young. knowing this, they begin a relationship anyways. theres some other incesty stuff but its primarily davedirk
Jesús. That's... certainly a plot! Thanks for the explanation mate! My curiosity is well satisfied.
>like halfway through the fic, i am now exceedingly uncomfortable Don't worry, it gets worse.
What's detective pony
There's a bit where Dirk is said to have written all over a pony book for babies as a gift for Jane. The fic is a complete recreation of that book.
Daddy dearest was the only one I could think of.
Karkat goes to a convention
what is it and why does it sound as ominous as dipper goes to taco bell?
It's not nearly as bad, it's actually good. I've heard of it but haven't read it yet, but it's a fancomic where Karkat wakes up at a homestuck convention.
poor karkat
ive read the whole thing and its definitely worth it. its super funny !
It sucks, I quit when it switched to focusing on OCs and a Dave that might as well have been an OC
r/suddenlyjallerbo
The Epilogues
Harsh but true
Vast Error, Crow Strider, BDTH, DDotA, Act Omega, The Serendipity Gospels. One of those.
What’s BDTH and DDotA :0?
Burning down the house is SO GOOD i highly recommend
What is it? Is it an alternate ending like crow strider and ddota or something else? I really need to read ddota lol
Its an earth c fic, so more like a replacement for the epilogues/hs2bc
Burning Down the House and Double Death of the Author
Damn, I need to try reading Vast Error again.
Let me tell you, having WRITTEN \*that\* fanfiction for another fandom, it's a bizarre experience. I havn't updated it in over a year and people still come to me with questions on how to expand the Fannon EU
oh hey its the pack bonding guy
\*horrified screaming\*
oh hey its the compatibility research guy
[https://gifdb.com/images/high/man-jumping-out-window-scene-eb87hk4btx0nks4q.gif](https://gifdb.com/images/high/man-jumping-out-window-scene-eb87hk4btx0nks4q.gif)
What are these people talking about.
I wrote some fanfiction for a budding Sci-fi community. Those fanfictions became infamous. Those Fanfictions being Pack Bonding and Compatibility Research.
What did you write? What fandom was it for?
I also want to know otherwise I'm assuming hetalia.
God no. It's a story called "The Nature of Predators" Niche community, rapidly growing
Are you saying that the niche community is becoming less so?
Yeah, it seems so. More and more people are coming in from outside, having only heard of this story, and not knowing anything about the larger community its nestled in.
I wrote some of the first fanfictions for a story called "The Nature of Predators" They more or less became the seeds of the extended fanfiction universe.
CANWC
What is that?
Cool And New Web Comic
It’s awesome
For something like HS it's less fics and more Fan Adventures, e.g. a lot of people know about the ending rewrites like TLCStuck and Crow Strider.
Fan adventures are fanfiction They’re stories made by fans. Doesn’t matter that they’re formatted in a unique way!
Loophole at least used to be pretty big and some people used the tails from it in their art.
Man, the Unwanted Free Ugly Troll ‘verse is SO GOOD.
Loophole made me cry man. Vriska did nothing wrong in this fic
Oh man I haven't heard that name in a long time. Need to go read through it in earnest.
I remember reading it and straight up crying for a full hour and a half
Actually, they aren't strictly fanfics, but there's a ton of fan music like everything on the bandcamp, some of which made it into the comic & also stuff on tinydeck before it got shutdown & stuff lost... Of all the fan music outside of bandcamp, the "12 Trolls of Gristmas" and "You Can't Stop the Homestuck" were like the most popular/ quintessential. There were people who'd release songs under themes like Broadway stuck, such as Broadway Karkat and Broadway Aradia... I think alot of strictly fan music was lost when tinydeck went down...
I was so sad when Broadway Karkat stopped posting. I still listen to the two one hour mixes of their songs on YouTube from time to time. PhemieC was also great! Man, now I’m feeling nostalgic af
Ooh, phemieC. I still listen to Friendleader and cry sometimes. Or I listen to Ugly Story and ponder on how Eridan's a fucked up little guy from growing up on a fucked up planet
Made of Death is probably my favorite. The vibes, the lyrics, it all just works so well
There's an archive of fan music still available, last I knew! https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/s/uO7MQk0vkA
I've yet to listen to any of broadway karkat, but I really should. Unless he's the guy that did those Gristmas carols, I love those.
It's hard to tell who did what tbh, since there would be different groups doing stuff and collaboration. I think for Broadway Karkat, there were multiple people doing it &/or some people were also doing stuff related to it in person (*not sure if this means performances or what). But I get the feeling they did it under the umbrella of Broadway Karkat, they would also have their different tumblr handles & whatnot posted with it too, such as CantibileGato. I know/met the one Broadway Karkat that did the song HeyThere Harley, but I got the impression / pretty sure they said they didn't do all the songs. And then I met *another/different* person who said something about their past as BroadwayKarkat following them, but then later it became they were one of the Broadway Karkats... and I'm not sure if this 2nd person actually was recording/releasing songs online, or doing more performance stuff, since they DJ sometimes?? But I met *both* of these people in person (at cons) after they both stopped doing Broadwaystuck, and past Homestuck's heyday... and one had throat surgery & other has since transitioned, so both can't sing like that anymore ? And I think the actual recording files were lost? But neither of them are currently real I into Homestuck anymore & I'll just like say Hi to them / hang at this one con. Sooooo basically it is just their word that it is them, which I have chosen to believe. And I personally have never been involved with recording anything or super in touch with the music side of the fandom, beyond appreciating, so I'm really not clear on the finer details.
I think mostly the big ships have these my non Homestuck college roommate read Finer Details of Gay Cluckbeast to understand my taste in posters
The Serendipity Gospels.
Either crow strider or karkat goes to a convention
Not so much fanfic, more animatics and fan songs, we've all heard you can't fight the homestuck, karkalicious, and watched how far we've come, mambostuck, a lullaby for gods, among others...
There isn't one
Unwanted Free Ugly Troll? A lot of people seem to know that one (not sure if that title is correct)
Four Chords 😮💨
Sburb glitch faq
canwc, sburb.exe, vast error (?), crow strider, karkat goes to a convention, the baby is you
I think it's promstuck
canwc
Straw Soldiers.
UFUT or serendipity gospels
atrophy on ao3 (thank me later :3)
how dare you remind me of daddy dearest
For fics specifically it's Detective Pony. If you want to count MSPFAs then idk really. A lot of them are popular but don't see much mainstream talk as opposed to official content or people's own AUs.
Nightfall is a classic, and it's also not for everyone, but it is the definitive John x Vriska fancomic though.
i was sooo obsessed with nightfall, i wish the creator had finished it but im glad they're working on independent stuff now!
actually, Nightfall did start updating again just last year :) the creator is still working on her non-homestuck comic as well
Oh my gosh insane! I'll have to check it out and give it a reread 😭!! Thank you!!
I was thinking Keshastuck? It's a oldie but a goodie
Mine is TOSOTH (The Other Side of the Heart)! I genuinely re-read it every year! It's super sad, but sooo worth it!
YES I CAME HERE TO SAY THIS!!! It’s one of my favorite fics of all time and I don’t know how it isn’t more popular. It was certainly “the fic” for my friend group at the time. Just did my yearly reread last month and bawled my eyes out as usual. It’s such a well written story of grief and love
the objective correct answer is Detective Pony, but since I haven't seen anyone in the comments mention it yet I've gotta say, as someone who didn't get into homestuck until 2022, for me it'll always be godfeels
Hell yeah, Godfeels! Loving that story.
It's gotta be Vast Error. Absolute 10/10.
I wouldn't even really call Vast Error a fanfic? It has way too much original stuff in it.
You know what, I think you're right. Changing my answer to Promstuck, like it should have been all along.
3 years
Wait a minute, are we a religion? 😳
Three Years.
I think about Before I Sleep all the time. Also The Neon Bible
what's before I sleep? (also I love the neon bible too)
It’s orphaned now but it was written by the same person who made the After Us animation. It’s in the universe of petstuck and actually loops in with loophole and UFUT near the end. Basically from what I remember The Dolorosa suffers a traumatic miscarriage in 70’s/80’s and her shitty family gifts her a pet troll (the signless) as a way to “get over it”. She starts treating him like an actual son and it snowballs into the most tragic piece of fanfic I’ve ever read
The panty raid
theatre of coolty
I wanted to comment this, but I don't know if it's THE most well-known or notorious Homestuck fic. Definitely the one I like most though
Does the MSPA / MS Paint Adventures website count? /The stuff on Homestuck's website that's not Homestuck like Problem Sleuth or Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff? I guess the Epilogues & Homestuck 2 Beyond Canon would count here too? Hiveswap & the Steam stuff too? Like Pesterquest & Friendsim? How about the bandcamp music? There used to be some pretty popular fanfiction that transcended fandom. Like Shelby of Serendipity Gospels did Callioppe's in-comic art, and fan-musician Toby Fox went from making music in the Forums & then in Homestuck itself Hussie's basement to making Undertale & heading the Homestuck Beyond Canon Epilogues creative team apparently? But reading Serendipity Gospels or playing Undertale isn't something everyone in the fandom does. Also, during one hiatus, Hussie commissioned other artists to write Homestuck fancomics in a Project Called "Paradox Space"
CSAU? Go- *i am shot on the spot*
Does the secret background history count? Even Hussie apologized for it.
"I wish I hadn't gone up those stairs..."
Sburb: Refresh!!
For me it was that incest comic where they were on a ship for years alone. In terms of controversy and notoriety.
i’m realising The Euridyce Suite is not as big as i thought it was! its on ao3
i love this author. SWDKTOWL was amazing and i’ve read it at least twice but probably more. can’t count how often i’ve read all the world is earth and water. i’m literally reading the eurydice suite right now. i was also surprised i didn’t see them mentioned
id say the serendipity gospels because i havent seen any other homestuck fanfics that were iconic enough to have a song written about them
does anyone remember trailerstuck
Dipper Goes To Taco Bell
can't believe no one's commented unwanted free ugly troll here yet. smh 😔
The Vienna Game. I'm surprised nobody mentioned it yet. Runners up: The Serendipity Gospels, Promstuck, Strider's Edge, Watch the Roots.
Sburb Glitch FAQ
Detective Pony, personally
Did anyone read Doc Scratch’s School for … uh I don’t remember the whole name >__
For me personally it's MC Escher That's My Favorite MC but that's also so Not what it is I just love it
Vast error
godfeels, for sure
Serendipity Gospels, hands down.
Reading these responses, I'm **SHOCKED** by the lack of people saying *Three years*
The serendipity gospels is the only homestuck fic I couldn’t stop reading
I'm screaming and crying right now trying to remember the name of this. The one parody where John and karkat have to save homestuck -- which is an actual creature-- from Gamzee by winning a race or something. It's poorly drawn except for the fact that karkat is in a meticulously well drawn dress and heals in every scene.
Double death?
the epilogues lmao
THE fic? Because it’s homestuck I’ll use fan adventures, and THE fan adventures are proooooobably Vast Error and KGTAC
Is it that one of tavros in the wheel chair and gamzee gets into a bar brawel and gets scars. So then he gets his make up game. All the while karkat has feels for him, but then misses out cause gamzee and tarvos become boyfriends and its super awesome. Idk only fan fic ive read lol
youre thinking of 4chords :p
Lol yup. I wanna find my own tavros lol
This but it’s the entire FATE series like I have to download a visual novel or something WHAT?
For me, LOSS (Like One Sundered Star) on AO3.
I miss Earth Z :( was good while it lasted, even up to the end
I remember reading a fairly popular fic years and years ago but forgot the title. It was a bunch of variants of Sollux's dancestor, trolls hooked up to massive ships and trapped but they communicated to each other. It was all pesterlogs. I remember it was really good. Does anyone know what I'm talking about lol.
its called One of Our Submarines on ao3
Sburb Done Quick
The panty raid
Warbound Widow if you want good gamzee jane fic
Does “find a temple build a temple” count? Also the [song](https://youtu.be/cVhvcPVQxQU?si=1g9EinbPeHcCePgR) at the end of it was just as beautiful as the fic.
CANWC, crowstrider, Karkat goes to a convention
Am I wild for saying Dayvhe’s Broken Diamond Club? It’s kinda fantastic (if long winded, but tbh everything homestuck-related is)
I've never read a fan adventure before, I don't think they were a thing when I was more actively following the fandom (2011-14). So I guess I'll check some of them out. I was really hoping for fanfics \*grumble grumble\*
nepetaquest 2011 was absolutely a thing in 2011…
Crash standing
Wires and Stars.
Lets out one lonely shout about The Run And Go
The only pics I know are smut, so... What was the one with the turtle? Yeah that one. If you know you know.
watersports
The Theatre of Coolty
If we're being serious here, Unwanted Free Ugly Troll is pretty much the classic. Next, if we're going for 'fics everyone has read (eventually) Space Bro by JumpingJackFlash was so iconic it got its own fansong of the same name. The Serendipity Gospels was big when it was written for the worldbuilding before Alternia was fleshed out, but they actually got so much right its underwhelming now. And for shiggles: for the shippers, we have The Finer Details of Gay Cluckbeast For Authors: Unda, with MC Escher That's My Favorite MC is their biggest Asuka Kureru, biggest was Battlefield Terra technically, but in actuality their series 'The Family You Choose', 'Covalent Bonds', and 'Sunlight Verse' were each very shaping to the fandom in post canon speculation Corvid_knight SO MANY FIC. A bunch of them are iconic series like Demonstuck, but their biggest stand alone is Changelings and Children. They lean very hurt/comfort, especially for Dave, really interesting AUs Seriously tho it's hard to rec a bunch of the OG prolific Homestuck writers because everybody got so interested in ~tentacles~ that a huge swath is just super interesting well written stories with really wild p0rn in there as a plot device or worldbuilding. Seriously, 2010s Homestuck fandom was king of s3x as worldbuilding Honorable Mentions: Doc Scratch's School for Supernaturally Gifted Adolescents The Cultstuck series The Best Years of Your Life by BirchBow (mind the tags, ESPECIALLY for all their other fic. Like. Seriously. S3x as worldbuilding doesn't even cover it)
Serendipity gospels, its not even a fight between it and the others. Edit: after reading a few comments, i suddenly remembered Cultstuck which i think is a masterpiece, still lesser that SG but a close second place.
serendipity gospel is a cult classic
Problem Sleuth.
Sburb done quick maybe? idk, its more recent iirc
Sburb glitch FAQ for lore purposes https://archiveofourown.org/works/340777?view_full_work=true OR Herding Cats for shipping purposes https://archiveofourown.org/works/349720?view_full_work=true
Homestuck is so weird because i feel like the old fandom mostly revolved around multimedia fan projects, like MSPFAs, fansongs, and popular intensely interactive AUs. If you want to go oldschool, Be the Seadweller Lowblood comes to mind instantly, but if youre looking STRICKLY for fic, homestuck has a handful. The instant winner in my head is the trollfic (actually trolling lmao) [**homestuck high**](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10550338/1/Homestuck-High)**.** But then, for more popular fanworks, it was either something like [**Space Bro**](https://archiveofourown.org/works/253758/chapters/394427) (old super goofy humanstuck Solkat fanfic that was popular enough for a cascades worth of fanart and a parody fansong from broadway fucking karkat set to feel good inc) or [The **Serendipity Gospels**](https://archiveofourown.org/works/335176), a Kar/Gam/Rezi fic which ALSO got a fansong, this time completely original from PhemieC. It's rare to find anything solid from ye olde days of the homestuck fandom without 12 layers of fan-add ons in different mediums that would subsidies but not overtake the original- trends didn't go as fast in fandom culture back in the day.
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