For some reason I think of a steaming cup of hot chocolate sitting forgotten on Dad's desk as John absent-mindedly plays on the keys of his piano, for old time's sake.
I hear this song and think of our John from the game over doomed timeline. He's still not over some of the deaths that happened in his timeline, so he plays this song to cope. It has him get lost in the music, the memories. Since John is our hero who's cried once in the comic, it'd only make sense he'd pick a coping method like music to express his true feelings.
its weird thinking about how OUR John ends up surrounded by people who aren't quite the same as his friends. He crossed from a doomed timeline where everyone he knew died into another timeline with people that had the same memories, but weren't those same people. John had things good before the session began, while his friends had the variety of issues that made up their lives. In a story we often feel good when the downtrodden get uplifted while those who have it easy get a taste of reality, but John was a good kid, not the kind that leaves you rooting for what happened to him. That was a mess of a post so what I'm trying to say here is, John deserved better
John had a lot going on too. It's been a while but IIRC it was revealed that he had spent his childhood making psycho scribbles of clowns all over his walls, and he just didn't mentally process them so when we "played" as John we couldn't see them. I remember thinking he was actually the most damaged of the four friends despite having the easiest childhood and appearing pretty normal (if kind of dense) in all his interactions with people. By comparison Jade's mental health seems the most sound despite being in arguably the most extreme situation, raised by a dog and playing with guns on a dangerous isolated island and walking past the stuffed corpse of her grandfather every day (I say arguably because Dave was actively abused by Bro).
Actually its not even technically OUR john. If I remember correctly, dream selves technically have their own soul and its a just mind link between them until god tier/death. When you god tier on your quest, its your dream self that ascends and your "waking" self just stays a corpse on your quest bed. Its why you see john waking up on his quest bed in "s terezi remem8er". In the end, hes also technically not the John we started the story with and that goes for most characters. The only character I can really think of off the top of my head whos still the same would maybe be Calliope since she still exists and ends up alive again despite alt Calliope also existing. Not even Caliborn is the exact same in the end since he ends up as a clusterfuck of souls and personalities as LE.
@@clumsyrobot4750 No, both that John and the final "our" John forked off from the original "our" John. The thing that made "our" John weird and unique is that he gained the retcon power, which enabled him to change the alpha timeline without making the timeline he originally came from a doomed one, so he survived for a prolonged period afterward (even in the epilogue he had lived a while before LE's venom killed him). Normally when someone goes back and changes the past in a way that doesn't cause a stable time loop, their own timeline becomes doomed and they die shortly after while the alpha version lives on, but John was able to change the past without that happening, so he ended up losing "his" versions of all the people he knew, from the moment he caused them to diverge onward.
Now consider that, at the start of the comic, John is facing away from his bedroom door, likely having just walked in. By the time he's gotten to his computer and opened Pesterchum, it's 4:13 PM. John probably just got home from school, and was probably the only one of his friends to have done so. Rose and Jade live in places too remote for schools to be easily accessible, and Dave was probably too busy training with his Bro to get any actual schooling.
this makes me think of a completed session, where everyone won. But, while they fought, they died. everyone. Except John. He was in the new world, alone, with a piano, and a new universe seemingly all for naught.
It was the one year anniversary of the day that the new universe was created. Roxy had thrown a party to celebrate. It was on Dirk's third glass when he started sobbing uncontrollably. Dave tried his best to comfort him. While he was hugging him, Dirk leaned over and whispered into Dave's ear. Dave covered his mouth, looking sick, then, without warning, started crying. All everyone could do was stare. The two most well kept together people, even after all the shit that had happened to them, were... crying...? Karkat got up. Crossing over to Dave, he leaned over and quietly asked him what was wrong. For a entire minute, they waited patiently as he tried to speak. Finally, he was able to speak through his sobbing. "How..." Dave whispered. Karkat leaned in further, concerned. "How what?" Dave tried to speak again. "How... many...?" Everyone was silent. They didn't get it. Was this some sort of sick, ironic joke being played by the two brothers? They sure as all hell didn't know. This time, Kanaya knelt down, glass shaking in her hand. "How many what?" She asked. He looked up at her. This time, his voice was strong, even as the tears streamed from behind his glasses. "How many.. had to die...?" There was a resounding sound of shattering glass as people dropped their drinks and stared at the quartet. Vriska was the first to come out of shock, before looking around. There was a lot more food than normal on the table. Normally, she thought, it would be gone by now, because of... Because of... She let out a silent sob. Terezi placed her hand on her shoulder, and she nodded at the table. Terezi paled in understanding. One by one, everyone dropped their heads in grief and shame, as they realized their mistake. Their victory was only won because their best friends had died. So why were they celebrating...?
@luminantAegis will probably never read this, but I sure hope I'm wrong. About a year after this video was posted, I stumbled across it. A video with no name. The thumbnail was a young man playing the piano in front of stained glass, and, being a young man who plays the piano and likes stained glass, I was intrigued. I clicked the name that wasn't there. At the time, I didn't know that young man's name. Now I do. At the time I didn't know what those windows were telling me. Now I do. At the time, I had no idea what the word "Homestuck" could mean. It now means much more to me than I can say here. Lumi, thank you for your videos, for your radio channel, and thank you for introducing me to that young man. What Hiveswap will do for so many others, you did for me. Thank you. His name is John.
I'm happy that Homestuck can have the same impact on others that it has for me. I might be late to reading this, but I'm really happy that I found it. Thank you for listening!
Because it feels like everything has come to a end that is somehow lost, but not forgotten. We see the images flashing by, but cannot remember the names, just the fragmented memories that came along with it.
@@ONE-vt1fz Unfortunately this comment was made four years ago so there's a chance they might've completely forgotten about their comment moreover the could've forgotten about homestuck, things change man
it's four thirteen in the morning for me. normally, i'd snicker about the number, but i'd like to just quietly comment here that the piano music sounds fitting for a tired night staying up and doing your work. y'know, occasionally missing memories of friends. it's peaceful.
A song for the weary and the strong, for times passed both good and bad. For lying in bed saying sweet nothings between lovers, and lonely nights. For amazing memories with friends, or blissful solitude. For the years that you wish you could get back, to the moments you wish would last forever... Whatever may happen in your life, don't let it go Unlabeled.
maybe some things were meant to go unlabeled. our concept of language is so simplistic and unable to capture the meaning of some moments leaving you with nothing more to say than "i just cant explain it". the real moments, whether good or bad, cant be labeled simply because no label could fit on them. this song was never meant to be in the middle, or about something tame. this song is unlabeled. it means something deep and meaningful that cant be described with words. so i still agree with you wildtalon, but not all moments can be labeled. and sometimes, its better that way
Its always nice to come back and find an amazing comment like this. Beautifully put Collin. I completely agree with your take on this song and the meaning behind it. And that's what I find to be the beauty of music. It can be the pure epitome of a feeling a moment or a setting... or it can be something so indescribable that words cannot begin to amount to describe what someone just experienced with the harmonious work of art. And I feel that this song is much like that in a way. It's somber tone, the beautiful serenade, and easy rhythm just leave you... speechless in a way. Much like the experiences or the times in our lives we feel (either good or bad) that words alone can't express the full detail of the events. But while our lives are so full of indescribable and unlabeled moments... we can look back on those times and say to ourselves, "Those were *mine*. I was the one that experienced that/felt that." And that is truly the beauty of life. We have so many unlabeled moments... but in the end the story of our own lives won't be "Unlabeled". Because it's our story. Our lives. And that is something that cannot ever be unlabeled... the story of us.
4 distant friends Brought together by one game One game that lets them travel the universe One game that lets new friends to be met One game that brings hope One game that brings sanity, that brings soul One game that brings negative and positive feelings One game that brings freedom, and makes bonds One game that brings misfortune and emptiness But also luck and light One game The game Of Sburb.
I come back to this video every so often. Turning 20 tomorrow. I'm not feeling my best and I know now that my time isn't too long. Didn't think I'd make it this far. This song seems to always find me. Even if this gets lost. I wanna say thanks for reading. Homestuck was a big part of my life and I don't think I've ever had a story impact me so much as Homestuck did. Love you all. Thanks again guys.
young man stands alone in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is this young man’s birthday. Though it was twenty-three years ago when he was given life, and ten years ago when he was given a name, it feels like it is only today that he will begin to understand what all that means. That young man is YOU, John Egbert. What will you do?
There is a feeling I cannot describe. Enjoyment of this masterpiece? Regret of not joining the fandom sooner? Sadness of the state of everything? Hope for what can be done if what remained of the fandom stick together? Reading through the comments, seeing stories from years ago... It's like walking on the ruins of what was once a great empire... Myself, and many others who joined too late to see that heyday, only see what is left. Deactivated Tumblrs, broken Flashes, fanventures long abandoned. But there is a sense of hope. Hope that one day, those that remained, those who stumbled upon this webcomic, no, this great work of fiction past its prime, can create something new, and can make it vibrant again... 2022, a year where many longtime fans would call a renaissance, a new awakening. The 13th anniversary. The year that if Homestuck was a person, they would be able to play Sburb. We cannot take back what was lost, no one can, but through the end of the tunnel is a brighter future. Look to SAHcon, look to Homestuck Twitter scene where people screamed and campaigned day and night for their favorite ship to beat all others, look to the stories still continuing. The fandom is healing... and we can make sure of it. The canvas is blank, unlabeled, but there is something there, some things that can never be erased. And those glimpses are enough for us to draw a work of art. You can never fight the Homestuck, and please, make sure that stays true
Why did this make me so emotional- wait yeah. I know why. 💛 Thank you homestuck for my best memories and for helping make my closest friends to this day! Seven years ago I got into the best piece of media ever…
hey, I finished reading it a few weeks ago! I get the feeling of not joining the fandom earlier, but anyone can keep the future alive through writing, art, music and just talking about it. We're out there :3
GUYS... There's 413 comments right now. It's unbelievable how much a shitty webcomic has bought us all together over these years, it's not over yet though, because this webcomic will always be in our hearts. We're not going to finish the game of sburb. We will just start a newgame+
This sounds so hauntingly similar to Erik Satie's Gymnopedie.. Perhaps that is why I love it so much; both are painfully contemplative and yet, if you listen with the right heart, liberation can be found. It's like what I'd like to imagine afterlife to be -- no golden gates or grand furnace, just the boundaries of the mind and it's sloughing highs and lows like the quiet turbulence of a crumpled paper plane. There exist certain pieces of music like this one that bring out the wise, helpless nihilism from the insecure depths of my teenage body. This is something nobody with the illusion of closeness to me will know, and with the crushing weight of my thoughts, it's all too easy to keep this burden away from others. This realm of music is my secret existentialist pocket that lies in the fabric of space.
I wish I stumbled in your comment earlier, because Gymnopedie only found me 3 years after I started to seek for an original melody. It is very similar indeed - to the point where I think that this edit really took Eric Satie's intro and looped it's best part. I'm afraid I, as a non-native English speaker, can't describe my feelings about this song as beautifully as you do. So, thank you for such an amazing description of your feelings. I can relate to your feels, but for me, after all these years of searching, hearing this song feels like returning home... And there's no place like home.
take a moment to read through all these comments dear listener. not all of them are important, and some of them are a waste of time. but every now and again, you'll find that piece of gold that makes it all worth it. or you can just listen to this song with your eyes closed, not looking for meaning or reason. just let the music play for you and tell you what to feel
Long comment incoming. I came across this gem entirely by accident- a video with no title, a pianist with no name. Needless to say it piqued my curiosity. It was a song. A lovely one. Simple, melodic, sweet... and profoundly sad. Like the hopeful dreams of a younger self, wide-eyed in wonder and new to the world- now forgotten. Like stars come to nestle in the crook of the horizon's embrace with dawn fast approaching; one by one the soft light of the sunrise plucks a row of stars from the sky, away from view. I started reading the comments, looking for some clue as to what this was about, and amongst the many beautiful passages I did find it: Homestuck. I'm not even a fan of Homestuck- not that I didn't like, just that I've heard of it but never really got into it. Like a colorful poster pinned up on a wall somewhere you walk by everyday, but never bothered to read. Until eventually its color began to fade and one day you realize it simply isn't there anymore- just a blank rectangle on the wall where it was, though I couldn't say what I missed. Even so, the bittersweet nostalgia was deeply contagious. I started reading everyone's stories from years and years and years ago: how many friends they met through Homestuck, how passionate they were (and still are) about the fandom, how it changed their lives for the better. There was so much love, and so much hopeful sadness, and no small amount of grief over how something so impactful- so innately relevant to all these people's lives was just- gone. Left behind. Like a sweet old friend that used to visit, but hasn't come around in so, so long. And you can't go out to find them. You know they're still around- just that you don't hang out like you used to, and with them they take just a little bit of the color away. All the while as I parsed through all the words and wonderful stories, there was the omnipresent melody- its sweet, little lilts, its simple progression, every single note imbued with something slow and loving and pure- and deeply missed. A little bit of something for the lost and forgotten, and all the friends you've made along the way. I'm not a part of this fandom: I can't even begin to understand how this song- this phenomenon- impacts any of you. But I do understand that a lot of you have come to terms with this, loss, so to speak. And I know many of you- strangers, commenters from the past few years, have been holding out hope that this fandom can still survive. As one of you put (username Slashed Out, from 2 years ago): trying is still better than giving up, right? Well, chin up, all you dreamers. All you wonderful stars sleeping on the edges of the sky. I heard Homestuck 2 has been announced- or has come out- depending on when you read this. I sincerely hope you find what you're looking for- or find within it a place to reunite with an old friend you've all come to know.
You put my exact feelings way better than I could've. I'm sad I wasn't here for when the party was still going on, but reading how much fun other people had puts a smile on my face.
john: it has all gone to hell. my friends became parodies of themselves. the trolls restored their genocidial empire. i died. dirk is trying to become the sole arbiter of reality. john: but it's not too late. i can fix this with the retcon-power. i gotta get back. john: back to the past. heir john.
Listening to this song, it feels like dying and having nothing else is left to do. It's not a bad thing, it's like the sky is lifted off my shoulders as my story ends with a tranquil adagio, never to rise again, for this is where i stop.
Long comment, im sorry. II didnt know id be so emotional about this song. I'm genuinely crying so hard lol. Reflection timmeee!!!! October 8th was the 10th anniversary of me starting to read Homestuck. I was in middle school, no friends, had no sense of self. I was stuck in a box with nowhere to go. Some girl on my bus started telling me about Homestuck. I was interested and then I went home that day, took my shitty acer laptop, and opened mspaintadventures. My life changed that day, my ENTIRE life changed with that search. I met a community of people, people that loved this fandom with all their hearts. I felt loved and wanted and accepted for the first time in my life. I loved all the fanart and music...it got me wanting to cosplay, something I hold very close to my heart now. I just felt like...I had a place somewhere. Somewhere that felt like...home. Skip 5 years of diligently being a Homestuck, I met people I shouldn't have. I suppressed my deep love for this fandom for years to seem like I was somehow "better", mocking people for loving just what I had not many years before then. Looking back on it, it hurts to even think about it. I wish I could apologize to them. Because I truly am sorry. I never finished Homestuck. I graduated in 2018 when the epilogues came out, but I never read them. I was quietly finding ways to get back into the community though. Secret role-playing accounts, fanart...little things that kept me in the fandom but still wouldn't get me bullied I guess. I felt sheltered, unloved, and alone. But in June of this year, the greatest human being I've ever met in my life moved into my house. Someone who not only helped me find myself again, but resparked my love for this silly little fandom. Homestuck brought us together immediately, and now we're basically inseparable. 10 years later, I feel like I've never left. This song made me remember how important Homestuck is to me, something that helped me get through some of the hardest points in my life, and it hurts that I even tried to suppress that side of me. I dont know who I'd be without this fandom, and the friends I've made through it. It's made me a better person, develop a better sense of self, and made me a better friend. I finished Homestuck last week. 10 years of just never reading through it all...I finished it. I sobbed for hours, thinking about how much its changed my life and how it's shaped me as a person. How heavily I connected with these characters, how badly I wanted a group of friends like John's, how desperate I was to be loved like they were. I strived to be like them. But I was still alone. I'm writing this through HEAVY tears so idk if this even makes sense, or if it even effects someone as much as it hits me. I might just be kinda rambling...
as a new homestuck fan reading things like that make me think how beatiful things can be even when they are just a goofy, overcomplicated, well written, multimedia webcomic how little things or interests can change our life thank you for sharing this i really love how this fandom evolved even tho i was like 4 when the fandom was on it's peak
it's quite a hard time for me, not a lot of problems, neither something very heavy, but i think i've reached my limits, even if its something very tiny, but constant, it really aches my heart. This song is the only way i can scream my problems without having to say a word.Thanks for this song, and thanks for reading this.
i remember listening to this song when i was starting off middle school and beginning to struggle with depression, now I am going to soon start of my last year of high school and I don’t feel as consistently bad as I used to, and I now have more access to support. I am sharing my experience to show that things do get better eventually for everyone, it’s just a matter of time and patience. I hope things do improve for you one day, stay strong :)
this song has been one of exactly three homestuck related songs to make me cry, the others being the symphony impossible to play version of serenade and save you by phemiec.
One day, somebody who will go unnamed was browsing RUclips, slogging through the endless piles of content on this website. They then came across a curious video in their recommended list with no name. Looking closer at the video, the person realized that it was using their art in the thumbnail. Curiosity led their mouse to the thumbnail and they clicked. The piano music began to play, and the artist paused, taking a moment to just... listen. Looking at the description, they realized why the video was unlabeled-it mirrored the song's name itself. They then noticed the line underneath, and remembered that they had changed their Tumblr address since making the art. They were about about to send the creator of the video a message containing their new Tumblr... and then stopped. The song was still playing in the background. It began to escalate and then died back down, lilting along in a bittersweet dance. The artist remembered Homestuck. The day it began. The day it ended, seven years later. The artist decided that art belonging to a deactivated Tumblr was the only art that would be shown while this song looped over, and over, and over again. They listened to the song until it ended... and moved on.
This is one of those things on the internet that make you really stop to think about the emptiness that is the modern world, like if today had a theme song, this would be it.
Clem yeah, our baby hated himself but he still moved on for his friends and became their leader coming up with plans to defeat English the batter witch jack, he did so much and now we are only realizing how much it weighed on him
Friend: What is your favorite song? Me: Its callled Friend: What? Me: I said Friend: Seriously fam what is it Me: I told you, the song is my favorite Friend: I hate you sometimes
I've been seacrhing for original melody for 3 years because this edit hit me so hard that I downloaded it and listened to it from time to time, to ease my heart and mind. And couple days ago, the original melody played out of nowhere in Spotify. In the end, it found me, and I finally felt like... Returning home. So, for other travelers who feel like they should find this masterpiece - it's Gymnopedie No. 1 by Eric Satie. May your journey be accompanied with the story of my own journey as you listen to this music and feel the same feelings I felt. There's no place like home. And this melody became one for me. May it become one for you as well.
Once upon a time, the Four Windows shone down on Four Children. They became Four Gods, then the Light left the world, to search for something better. Time left, soon followed by Space, who claimed they had better things to do. Breath, still at his post, played and played, hoping to inspire a nostalgia. None of them heeded the call. None of them cared. His call for help, for someone to finally take notice and rescue him out of the hell that was loneliness, was swallowed by the darkness inside him. Inside everyone.
Weird Caster This... This reflects the credits almost perfectly. Everyone is having lives, moving on, settling down... But John is still alone At home Rarely ever even seeing anyone. The only one who never moved forward.
It feels like this song is representing an emotion I can't describe, maybe that's why it's nameless... It conveys loneliness, but also contentment and just a bit of frustration. And I can't help but imagine what you have to feel to write a song like this... Like, hundreds of sweeps in the future, everyone is dead. Even other god tiers, viva la Just/heroic deaths. And now he's alone in a universe that will always remind him of what he's lost, while every day showing him so much life, and things to gain. And he knows that he'll always remember the people who have left him, but also allows himself to meet new friends. Truly bittersweet if you ask me.
I saw this in my recommended and I first thought you were pulling some Calliope/Caliborn white text BS. Then I read the description, and it ALLLLLLLLLLLL made sense.
I FINAAAAALY got an account so now I can finally start telling you how awesome you are, Lumi! You work so hard to get your extensions done for everyone, and really put yourself beneath your fans so that they can be happy. That's an amazing quality in someone, and I'd like to say that you are incredible.
one day, a teen sits in their room. wondering what to learn on their piano, the day is that of late September and the teen isnt faring well. after seeing more and more homestuck they look it up, and read it. this reminds them of how they are now, how happy they are with their friends, it helped them learn about themselves, and gave them a welcoming fandom. it helped them accept themselves for who they are, to understand they are who they are and that shouldn't have to change the teen opened up about how they felt, and got help. they found a new beginning. their name is record strider. they are me. thank you to all of this fandom, even this simple song i just found. you saved me from pulling a dirk. now i have the courage to change my name and cut my mum out. thank you. so much.
I'm on around page 4 or 5 hundred . A friend always talks to me about homestuck and is basically die hard fan and I decided to start reading it myself. It definetly has my interest even if I have no ideas of the story to he unfolded ahead of my readings. Its weird because even though I basically know little to nothing of it all I can feel how intense the songs are lyric by lyric. Even if I dont knownthe full meaning, and usually that shouldn't happen. But.. idk.. it all really strikes me, this one song, the work by phemc (I hope I spelled it right correct me of I'm wrong) it all gets to me deep down in a somber but also positive way. Like I've found another sense of comfort,another friend,another place to rest my head. So here's a cheer! To homestuck as a whole,the kind and crazy commuunity I'm slowly joining, And to what the story has prepared ahead for me..
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] I was just about to ask the same😊 I just finished homestuck this past 4/13 and I am just enamored by it. I honestly believe Homestuck is something everyone should experience. It wont be for everyone but it is something that I believe everyone should witness and can take something from😊 Thank you Andrew Hussie for giving us Homestuck.
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] I WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE!!! I LOVED IT SOOO MUCH! I listened to the track before but it is nothing like actually watching it😳. I'm not very good at writing out my feelings but I just....it still gives my chills and ugh I'm frustrated I cant express myself fully lol! 😊 I originally planned to finish homestuck on my first 4/13 so I had to wait like a week after watching Collide to continue hardest week of my life. I was honestly so tempted to just give in and finish it! :) sorry for rambling, have you read the epilogue and what made you get into Homestuck?
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] Wow! That is amazing, way cooler than how I got into it lol😳. I always heard about it and I remember attempting to read it when I was in 7th grade and I guess I lost interest. I got back into it last November because I was so stressed about everything and I didnt have any way to in a way disconnect. That's when I remembered Homestuck and decided it would be my new hobby😊. I remember [S] John play a haunting piano refrain, and it was at that moment that I believe I truly fell in love with the story... I relate to John alot ( doesn't help that our names are literally two letters apart lol) I printed off the sheet music for Showtime and continued from there. Wow this is Sappy sorry. Long story short I love everyone substantially and it has made me think alot strangely enough? I am currently reading the Candy epilogue and in all honesty I was worried about reading them because of the feedback but I think I understand what Hussie was doing and I can say I think how strange it is, is rather endearing even with such ominous and heavy topics. I am taking my time (kinda lol) I think I might play pesterquest before getting into Homestuck 2? It will be nice to be able to experience the waiting and anticipation like when Homestuck was originally being written and etc. :) Oh! How did you read the epilogues? Did you start with Meat first or did you alternate between both? I feel like I will read both through and then try and piece them together afterwards?🤔
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] Thank you! It's so nice to have someone to talk to lol thanks for talking to me/ responding lol :3. And yeah I am almost done with Candy I think🤔? I dont know if I have asked this already but. How are you liking Homestuck^2? Maybe Candy and Meat can be both an epilogue to Homestuck and the prologue to Homestuck^2! :)
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] Geez I'm even more excited now! 😄. I am a few chapters into Meat and I am already trying to connect it to Candy (I'm failing miserably as to be expected lol) I'm excited to meet the new kids! I don't know how the timelines connect but like they have to somehow....probably, since I dont think Harry Anderson, Vriska, and Tav would be born in the Meat timeline? So many questions :)
Just found this video, coming back into my third homestuck hyperfixation. Fair warning to everyone, this might get a little vent-y (pun unintended). I love reading stories, going on adventures with new friends who will never know who we, the audience, are. I love the highs of the stories, the lows, the hilarities. Yet, being surrounded with such stories my whole life I've come to the realization that my life will never be as exciting. My life, and many others can never compare. That I will never feel close to people as our fictional friends. I know their adventures were full of extremely taumatizing situations, that they faced death on a consistent basis; but their lives are always meant for something bigger than themselves. Whilst mine, in my eyes at this point in time (and gods do I hope that view changes), is little more than an animal doing nothing more than surviving - living by the bare minimum. I know there will be those who say that it's within my power to change my life. Trust me, I know. I try everyday - but that's the thing. No matter what victories I have one day, the next is a reset. Some days are easier than others. Some days I can eat the bare minimum recommended. Most days I struggle to do even that. I want to live a life I'm proud of, but right now I struggle to do more than living vicariously through these fictional characters. I hope one day my future self can look back on this video and feel the "Sweet" of this music, of this fandom more than the "Bitterness" I taste currently.
I think a lot of people can relate to your struggles. I know I can. One of the hardest differences between a story and real life, I think, is that. When say...the homestuck kids begin their story, while they may have a past. Their beginning is marked really when they enter the stage, at the start of their existence in OUR world as characters. So, they can sort of spring board off that state and go right into a adventure, while with humans we have a pretty long story. From birth to now, is a long time, even if you're very young and you probably won't remember a lot of it or - without trying - will want to forget a huge chunk of it. But there are people that have adventures, adventurous things happen in the real world. For example: Did you know there was an driver who used an armored sports car to zip around in a slavic war zone to rescue people and bring supplies out of nothing but heroism and altruism? or did you know that there was a mad man who tried to practice a pyramid scheme to sort of slowly accrue a "hydra company" that appeared successful by exchanging money between themselves, accruing more money from investors. And this person grew so powerful and believed he could take over the world. To the point he rigged elections and had - no joke - a nuclear bomb plant in africa and had private military under his wing. These are both talked about in Dunkula mad lad vids - if you don't agree with his politics, don't worry. These are good general vids on interesting people - I think we all want adventure to find us. Most of us want answers. To life, I suppose. But also to if we are relevant. It's those very same question that scare us away from adventure. If you're like me, you might get so anxious when even a homeless person comes to a hand out that instead of seeing that as a potential start of a story and taking some sort of action. You fear any risk, even social risk or awkwardness, so you shy away. Stories are made by the characters being present and I think, a lot of people sturggle to be present. But you do have a story, in bits and pieces because you inevitably act in your own life. It's just life dosen't have an editor so its hard to see the plot between a week of twitter. I don't think you should give yourself a hard time for not taking action. Because you'll just grow more embittered and assured that you weren't deserving of a story. But rather, figure out where you are in your life and if you can come to terms with your place on that page. Maybe, once you find your spot. You can determine where to go to from there. After all, ain't that how all stories start...even homestuck itself. If you can't come to terms with your place on that page, then you know your chapter and the role you got to act out, at least in part. Excuse if this was pretentious/ lecturing. I felt for your comment and wanted to see if I could help in some way.
@@GFXCXZ Thank you. I actually found it to be eye-opening. I appreciate you offering your view on the "stories of life" (if I may call it) we all individually experience. I won't go too much farther with this comment (I'm getting ready for bed and have a long week ahead), but I wanted to ensure you knew I didn't take your words as pretentious or lecturing, and that they helped.
A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name. Only today will he embark on a journey that will change his life alongside those of others. There will be plenty hardships ahead, rainy days, broken promises, loved ones lost. But, alongside this, he will meet new friends, bond once more with old ones, fight for what he believes is right, and change his world view with a little (a lot) of help. His name, is John.
A person sits in their bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is the birthday of a young man, and a webcomic about him and so many others. It was 12 years ago this webcomic was given life, and about 4 1/2 years one of many videos about it was created. A simple, elegant piece of fan art, with a lovely piano piece behind it. However, it is only today that the person in their bedroom would find this video, and only two days later they would go on to comment about it. Who is this person? >Enter name. Your name is Ash. As previously mentioned, it is the birthday of Homestuck. You decide to scroll through RUclips for some Homestuck content to celebrate. >Ash: Find untitled video. The video doesn't have a title. You click on it. It is the previously mentioned video. You listen for about a minute while scrolling through the comments. As you do, a feeling you can't describe washes over you. It feels almost like you're about to cry, but not happy or sad tears. Just tears, without any kind of positive or negative connotation. >Ash: Cry. You try to let the tears come, but they never do. Eventually, you log off. >Ash: Revisit video two days later. You weren't in a particularly good mood. In fact, a good cry might do you some good. You revisit the video, and this time the tears do come. >Ash: Cry. The tears come naturally. It feels liberating. Usually you can't seem to let yourself cry even when you want to. Even when you try. You end up rewinding the video back to the start a few times before you finish crying. It wasn't even 10 o'clock when you started, but once you started to dry up, it was well past 10:30. And you feel better, like some kind of weight had been lifted off of you. >Ash: Make comment. You don't know exactly why you commented. It was a simple anecdote in the style of Homestuck's writing. Maybe somebody will find this story useful. Maybe, just by commenting, you'd make someone else cry similarly uplifting tears. Maybe it'd just give someone something to tell them they're not alone in being moved to tears by this song. Or maybe not. But you comment anyway, riding on that hope. >Ash: Finish typing and post the comment.
This comment's all over the place, but whatever. This video has been sitting in my near-empty RUclips playlist for like, three years at this point, and I clicked on it on a whim to listen to while I make a farewell card for someone I will probably never see again after tomorrow morning. This song is so incredibly emotional, but I can't for the life of me pinpoint an exact feeling. The title is fitting. I hope that everyone in this comment wins whatever battle they are fighting in life right now. It will get better. I miss the way Homestuck made me feel. I wish I could go back in time and experience it all again. This is the corniest motherfucking comment I will ever make, but I wish nothing had to end.
I'm feeling some nostalgia from this song and it actually hurts my heart. Like seriously my chest is tightening and it's not my whole chest, it's just around my heart.😢 Conclude also does this to me.
I just want to cry. It has been ten years since this all started. only a couple year since I started on this journey, and I can only put it in so few words, I love Homestuck and always will, it had gotten me through so much and always fills me with so many emotions, and this song gives me all of them
I like to imagine that John after the end of Homestuck sometimes just plays this on his piano, just basking in the silence as Nannasprite and GCatavrosprite simply float beside him, listening with goofy smiles on their faces, the occasional sneeze from Tav
When does Lumi NOT have a streak of good songs? I mean, I will admit, there are times where they aren't the BEST, but there was never a time of particularly bad songs.
Parts of this song, sound so very similar to Gymnopédies, but then... it changes. Turns into something so different and touching that you cannot really fathom without adding "feelings" to it. Thank you, for this song. One that seems so very forlorn, and alone, yet... with friends just beyond your reach.
I started reading Homestuck when I was 12. I am 24 now. I am reading it again because it will always be one of my favorite stories. It has greatly inspired so much of my art and story writing. I know that even in my old age I’ll still know what the name of a young boy who stands alone in his bedroom will be.
Esta canción... Es igual de triste que calmante, es como estar en un sueño que no quieres dejar pero sabes que tienes que para poder seguir con tu vida. Me hace pensar en mis arrepentimientos y al mismo tiempo, que siempre hay luz al final del túnel. Gracias homestuck, con todo y fallos siempre serás uno de los proyectos más queridos de internet
Many years later… Again, my immediate reaction to this the second it starts playing is tearing up with no explanation… Yet, this time, it feels nostalgic, soft..
This reminds me a lot of Eric Satie, who wrote most of his music as, like...furniture music. He used music less to tell stories and more to set moods. And this sets a mood very similar to Gymnopedie No. 1, which is very slow and very focused. This is music to be played at a calm, quiet gathering.
This song is great. This hits me in the feels. I love this song. I feel like Homestuck is the best stuck of homes. Thank you for uploading this extended version. I can also send spams of empty messages to my friends now thanks to your title! :D
I think this song defines the aspect of breath quite well. It makes people feel sad but without any weight to it. Freedom from bonds, but with that comes isolation. It's free from any signifiers. This piece and it's art have no name, and has no sheet music as far as I'm aware. It has no description. You can't pin it easily, but every so often it will show up again. A truly beautiful work.
I’ve been listening to this song ever since like around August of 2017, the same time when my MDD got really bad. Two years later, and Im only getting worse. But this song will always have a special place in my heart, Shit I’m even getting emotional over it rn, like I’m about to cry. edit (6/22/23) after 4 years later, i am still pretty mentally ill but i’ve been feeling not as consistently depressed lately. Life get better eventually n_n
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Andrew: Read Title. What title? You don't remember there being a title. There is absolutely no title, nor will there ever be one.
I got scared for a second until I saw your username
What the heck even is a title anyways?
@@theorangeninja6486 this statement just gets funnier when you read what hussie says about epilogues and intermissions these days. whats in a title?
Although it was three years since this video was given life, it is only {insert time here} that it will be given a name!
It's one of those rare songs that makes you feel sad without crushing your spirit
Like my life
ouch
. omnipotent one, you have spoken
Changedly More poignant, I think.
than sad, especially
For some reason I think of a steaming cup of hot chocolate sitting forgotten on Dad's desk as John absent-mindedly plays on the keys of his piano, for old time's sake.
I find it ironic that a picture for a song that has no name belongs to an artist that has no tumblr, and is therefore also _unlabeled_
i don't think you know what irony is
luminantAegis
oh yeah shit I meant that I found it funny that that happened. Thanks, lumi.
@@luminantAegis than hes definitely on brand around here
@@luminantAegis dude after homestuck, does ANYBODY know what's ironic any more
excellent comment. i am proud to be the 413th liker :')
This comment section is going to give me a midlife crisis.
Im 15 and I'm already having one
I know bro.
I know.
I had my midlife crisis last year. (im 10 as of rn, my birthday is in 9 days, so 00f.)
@@twigkin3056 nigga 10? yo ass aint even know what a midlife crisis is lmaooo
@@ninjanamedbob2407 don't be so harsh on them 🤧
I hear this song and think of our John from the game over doomed timeline. He's still not over some of the deaths that happened in his timeline, so he plays this song to cope. It has him get lost in the music, the memories. Since John is our hero who's cried once in the comic, it'd only make sense he'd pick a coping method like music to express his true feelings.
this just made the song even more sad for me
its weird thinking about how OUR John ends up surrounded by people who aren't quite the same as his friends. He crossed from a doomed timeline where everyone he knew died into another timeline with people that had the same memories, but weren't those same people.
John had things good before the session began, while his friends had the variety of issues that made up their lives. In a story we often feel good when the downtrodden get uplifted while those who have it easy get a taste of reality, but John was a good kid, not the kind that leaves you rooting for what happened to him.
That was a mess of a post so what I'm trying to say here is, John deserved better
John had a lot going on too. It's been a while but IIRC it was revealed that he had spent his childhood making psycho scribbles of clowns all over his walls, and he just didn't mentally process them so when we "played" as John we couldn't see them. I remember thinking he was actually the most damaged of the four friends despite having the easiest childhood and appearing pretty normal (if kind of dense) in all his interactions with people. By comparison Jade's mental health seems the most sound despite being in arguably the most extreme situation, raised by a dog and playing with guns on a dangerous isolated island and walking past the stuffed corpse of her grandfather every day (I say arguably because Dave was actively abused by Bro).
Actually its not even technically OUR john. If I remember correctly, dream selves technically have their own soul and its a just mind link between them until god tier/death. When you god tier on your quest, its your dream self that ascends and your "waking" self just stays a corpse on your quest bed. Its why you see john waking up on his quest bed in "s terezi remem8er". In the end, hes also technically not the John we started the story with and that goes for most characters. The only character I can really think of off the top of my head whos still the same would maybe be Calliope since she still exists and ends up alive again despite alt Calliope also existing. Not even Caliborn is the exact same in the end since he ends up as a clusterfuck of souls and personalities as LE.
@@kool1229 yeah, but I think its more like a merge with dream self, same as reviving. I may be wrong but that's how I like to think about it
@@clumsyrobot4750 No, both that John and the final "our" John forked off from the original "our" John. The thing that made "our" John weird and unique is that he gained the retcon power, which enabled him to change the alpha timeline without making the timeline he originally came from a doomed one, so he survived for a prolonged period afterward (even in the epilogue he had lived a while before LE's venom killed him). Normally when someone goes back and changes the past in a way that doesn't cause a stable time loop, their own timeline becomes doomed and they die shortly after while the alpha version lives on, but John was able to change the past without that happening, so he ended up losing "his" versions of all the people he knew, from the moment he caused them to diverge onward.
Now consider that, at the start of the comic, John is facing away from his bedroom door, likely having just walked in. By the time he's gotten to his computer and opened Pesterchum, it's 4:13 PM. John probably just got home from school, and was probably the only one of his friends to have done so. Rose and Jade live in places too remote for schools to be easily accessible, and Dave was probably too busy training with his Bro to get any actual schooling.
this makes me think of a completed session, where everyone won. But, while they fought, they died. everyone. Except John. He was in the new world, alone, with a piano, and a new universe seemingly all for naught.
It was the one year anniversary of the day that the new universe was created. Roxy had thrown a party to celebrate. It was on Dirk's third glass when he started sobbing uncontrollably. Dave tried his best to comfort him. While he was hugging him, Dirk leaned over and whispered into Dave's ear. Dave covered his mouth, looking sick, then, without warning, started crying. All everyone could do was stare. The two most well kept together people, even after all the shit that had happened to them, were... crying...?
Karkat got up. Crossing over to Dave, he leaned over and quietly asked him what was wrong. For a entire minute, they waited patiently as he tried to speak. Finally, he was able to speak through his sobbing.
"How..." Dave whispered. Karkat leaned in further, concerned. "How what?" Dave tried to speak again. "How... many...?"
Everyone was silent. They didn't get it. Was this some sort of sick, ironic joke being played by the two brothers? They sure as all hell didn't know.
This time, Kanaya knelt down, glass shaking in her hand. "How many what?" She asked. He looked up at her. This time, his voice was strong, even as the tears streamed from behind his glasses. "How many.. had to die...?"
There was a resounding sound of shattering glass as people dropped their drinks and stared at the quartet. Vriska was the first to come out of shock, before looking around. There was a lot more food than normal on the table. Normally, she thought, it would be gone by now, because of...
Because of...
She let out a silent sob. Terezi placed her hand on her shoulder, and she nodded at the table. Terezi paled in understanding. One by one, everyone dropped their heads in grief and shame, as they realized their mistake.
Their victory was only won because their best friends had died.
So why were they celebrating...?
Dersite Dreamer im not crygn u are
sob for fucks sake man
I does a fantastic job then'
good.
who the fuck have you the right to do that
*gave,,,
@luminantAegis will probably never read this, but I sure hope I'm wrong. About a year after this video was posted, I stumbled across it. A video with no name. The thumbnail was a young man playing the piano in front of stained glass, and, being a young man who plays the piano and likes stained glass, I was intrigued. I clicked the name that wasn't there.
At the time, I didn't know that young man's name. Now I do. At the time I didn't know what those windows were telling me. Now I do. At the time, I had no idea what the word "Homestuck" could mean. It now means much more to me than I can say here. Lumi, thank you for your videos, for your radio channel, and thank you for introducing me to that young man. What Hiveswap will do for so many others, you did for me. Thank you.
His name is John.
I'm happy that Homestuck can have the same impact on others that it has for me. I might be late to reading this, but I'm really happy that I found it. Thank you for listening!
So nice! I almost cried while reading this!
wtf i thought it was kanaya or jake
@@notyouraverageskittelz696 see john plays piano
I also had a unusual discovery of Homestuck (also made a comment describing it on a random Homestuck song). It's so nice to read stories like these.
well this is going to be a hard song to get sheet music for
+Ruth Kim I should make some...
Its called 'unlabeled'
This work for you?
musescore.com/user/5171751/scores/4996364
topsnek thank you brother
Im pretty shure its the same song called gymnopedie number 1
Why does knowing the art comes from deactivated account sadden me so much
I was thinking the same thing!! It makes the music feel so much more depressing
With the empty title, I have to agree.
It's like some kind of quiet song to the forgotten and destroyed.
Because it feels like everything has come to a end that is somehow lost, but not forgotten.
We see the images flashing by, but cannot remember the names, just the fragmented memories that came along with it.
Trash *Kudos*
Trash, don't make me cry damn it!
"Art belongs to a deactivated tumblr" *cRIES*
"Art belongs to tumblr"
cRIES MORE
Lol
Well apparently the original artist is in the comments
@@ONE-vt1fz Unfortunately this comment was made four years ago so there's a chance they might've completely forgotten about their comment moreover the could've forgotten about homestuck, things change man
Homestuck was exciting, beautiful, and groundbreaking.
Let us have a moment of silence for it, just this once.
This feels like the end credits to something really amazing...oh wait.
Nice like number
it's four thirteen in the morning for me. normally, i'd snicker about the number, but i'd like to just quietly comment here that the piano music sounds fitting for a tired night staying up and doing your work. y'know, occasionally missing memories of friends.
it's peaceful.
It's that kind of peacefull sadness that makes me happy
homestuck is now old enough to be in middle school. 11 years ago today four kids played sburb and ended the world. happy 4/13 everyone.
Homestuck is now old enough to be playing Sburb. Heh, funny, isn't it?
@@fablor9900ye
A song for the weary and the strong, for times passed both good and bad. For lying in bed saying sweet nothings between lovers, and lonely nights. For amazing memories with friends, or blissful solitude. For the years that you wish you could get back, to the moments you wish would last forever...
Whatever may happen in your life, don't let it go Unlabeled.
i know...
Damn.... Makes you think... And bawl your fucking eyes out
Wildtalon bruh I'm gonna start crying why do you do this
maybe some things were meant to go unlabeled.
our concept of language is so simplistic and unable to capture the meaning of some moments leaving you with nothing more to say than "i just cant explain it". the real moments, whether good or bad, cant be labeled simply because no label could fit on them.
this song was never meant to be in the middle, or about something tame. this song is unlabeled. it means something deep and meaningful that cant be described with words. so i still agree with you wildtalon, but not all moments can be labeled. and sometimes, its better that way
Its always nice to come back and find an amazing comment like this.
Beautifully put Collin. I completely agree with your take on this song and the meaning behind it. And that's what I find to be the beauty of music. It can be the pure epitome of a feeling a moment or a setting... or it can be something so indescribable that words cannot begin to amount to describe what someone just experienced with the harmonious work of art.
And I feel that this song is much like that in a way. It's somber tone, the beautiful serenade, and easy rhythm just leave you... speechless in a way. Much like the experiences or the times in our lives we feel (either good or bad) that words alone can't express the full detail of the events.
But while our lives are so full of indescribable and unlabeled moments... we can look back on those times and say to ourselves, "Those were *mine*. I was the one that experienced that/felt that." And that is truly the beauty of life. We have so many unlabeled moments... but in the end the story of our own lives won't be "Unlabeled". Because it's our story. Our lives. And that is something that cannot ever be unlabeled... the story of us.
And i'm just sitting here trying to highlight text like in the doc scratch part
Saaame
CTRL A ?
omg m2 m8
6 square looking things is my favorite homestuck song
ah, , yes.
a classic
@@luminantAegis agreed
good ole [REDACTED]
@@glazeliights7025 █████ is best music
4 distant friends
Brought together by one game
One game that lets them travel the universe
One game that lets new friends to be met
One game that brings hope
One game that brings sanity, that brings soul
One game that brings negative and positive feelings
One game that brings freedom, and makes bonds
One game that brings misfortune and emptiness
But also luck and light
One game
The game
Of Sburb.
...i just lost the game.
I come back to this video every so often.
Turning 20 tomorrow. I'm not feeling my best and I know now that my time isn't too long. Didn't think I'd make it this far. This song seems to always find me. Even if this gets lost. I wanna say thanks for reading. Homestuck was a big part of my life and I don't think I've ever had a story impact me so much as Homestuck did. Love you all.
Thanks again guys.
🌸
:( don’t leave!
You did well
young man stands alone in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is this young man’s birthday. Though it was twenty-three years ago when he was given life, and ten years ago when he was given a name, it feels like it is only today that he will begin to understand what all that means.
That young man is YOU, John Egbert.
What will you do?
There is a feeling I cannot describe. Enjoyment of this masterpiece? Regret of not joining the fandom sooner? Sadness of the state of everything? Hope for what can be done if what remained of the fandom stick together?
Reading through the comments, seeing stories from years ago... It's like walking on the ruins of what was once a great empire... Myself, and many others who joined too late to see that heyday, only see what is left. Deactivated Tumblrs, broken Flashes, fanventures long abandoned. But there is a sense of hope. Hope that one day, those that remained, those who stumbled upon this webcomic, no, this great work of fiction past its prime, can create something new, and can make it vibrant again...
2022, a year where many longtime fans would call a renaissance, a new awakening. The 13th anniversary. The year that if Homestuck was a person, they would be able to play Sburb.
We cannot take back what was lost, no one can, but through the end of the tunnel is a brighter future. Look to SAHcon, look to Homestuck Twitter scene where people screamed and campaigned day and night for their favorite ship to beat all others, look to the stories still continuing. The fandom is healing... and we can make sure of it.
The canvas is blank, unlabeled, but there is something there, some things that can never be erased. And those glimpses are enough for us to draw a work of art.
You can never fight the Homestuck, and please, make sure that stays true
bruh agree ;-;
You're gonna make me cry. I miss 2013
oh wow youre everywhere huh
Why did this make me so emotional- wait yeah. I know why. 💛 Thank you homestuck for my best memories and for helping make my closest friends to this day! Seven years ago I got into the best piece of media ever…
hey, I finished reading it a few weeks ago! I get the feeling of not joining the fandom earlier, but anyone can keep the future alive through writing, art, music and just talking about it. We're out there :3
clickbait without clickbait
truly out-clickbaited the clickbait gods of the internet
Yeah, don't even put a title there, and people will be 10x more curious
GUYS... There's 413 comments right now. It's unbelievable how much a shitty webcomic has bought us all together over these years, it's not over yet though, because this webcomic will always be in our hearts. We're not going to finish the game of sburb.
We will just start a newgame+
one year older.
i love that album.
its so... nostalgic.
***** yknow nostalgia is different from person to person
i get it from those too
i guess its just the pianos tbh
Rey Like your profile picture
another year has gone by, and that just adds to the feeling...
Damn, it's really been two years since this shit ended. I can barely believe it tbh.
This sounds so hauntingly similar to Erik Satie's Gymnopedie.. Perhaps that is why I love it so much; both are painfully contemplative and yet, if you listen with the right heart, liberation can be found. It's like what I'd like to imagine afterlife to be -- no golden gates or grand furnace, just the boundaries of the mind and it's sloughing highs and lows like the quiet turbulence of a crumpled paper plane. There exist certain pieces of music like this one that bring out the wise, helpless nihilism from the insecure depths of my teenage body. This is something nobody with the illusion of closeness to me will know, and with the crushing weight of my thoughts, it's all too easy to keep this burden away from others. This realm of music is my secret existentialist pocket that lies in the fabric of space.
Anon Ymous it really does. What you wrote was beautiful.
That’s what it reminded me of. Thank you for this beautiful comment.
this is just that song but skipping some notes lol
Do you write professionally? Because that's really good. Kinda wish I could write like that lol
I wish I stumbled in your comment earlier, because Gymnopedie only found me 3 years after I started to seek for an original melody. It is very similar indeed - to the point where I think that this edit really took Eric Satie's intro and looped it's best part.
I'm afraid I, as a non-native English speaker, can't describe my feelings about this song as beautifully as you do. So, thank you for such an amazing description of your feelings. I can relate to your feels, but for me, after all these years of searching, hearing this song feels like returning home... And there's no place like home.
take a moment to read through all these comments dear listener. not all of them are important, and some of them are a waste of time. but every now and again, you'll find that piece of gold that makes it all worth it.
or you can just listen to this song with your eyes closed, not looking for meaning or reason. just let the music play for you and tell you what to feel
he, yes this feels like a checkpoint
Fact: Homestuck is the worst case scenario for a sburb session
Oh most definitely, the worst while simultaneously being the best case scenario
The worst case for then best cause
what if the hero just.. fails at doing everything when the meteor is coming? do they just die?...
I wish this comic would've ended on the last page. No candy. No meat. No.. whatever it is, now. No games. It should've just ended.
Long comment incoming.
I came across this gem entirely by accident- a video with no title, a pianist with no name. Needless to say it piqued my curiosity.
It was a song. A lovely one. Simple, melodic, sweet...
and profoundly sad. Like the hopeful dreams of a younger self, wide-eyed in wonder and new to the world- now forgotten. Like stars come to nestle in the crook of the horizon's embrace with dawn fast approaching; one by one the soft light of the sunrise plucks a row of stars from the sky, away from view.
I started reading the comments, looking for some clue as to what this was about, and amongst the many beautiful passages I did find it: Homestuck.
I'm not even a fan of Homestuck- not that I didn't like, just that I've heard of it but never really got into it. Like a colorful poster pinned up on a wall somewhere you walk by everyday, but never bothered to read. Until eventually its color began to fade and one day you realize it simply isn't there anymore- just a blank rectangle on the wall where it was, though I couldn't say what I missed.
Even so, the bittersweet nostalgia was deeply contagious. I started reading everyone's stories from years and years and years ago: how many friends they met through Homestuck, how passionate they were (and still are) about the fandom, how it changed their lives for the better. There was so much love, and so much hopeful sadness, and no small amount of grief over how something so impactful- so innately relevant to all these people's lives was just- gone. Left behind. Like a sweet old friend that used to visit, but hasn't come around in so, so long. And you can't go out to find them. You know they're still around- just that you don't hang out like you used to, and with them they take just a little bit of the color away.
All the while as I parsed through all the words and wonderful stories, there was the omnipresent melody- its sweet, little lilts, its simple progression, every single note imbued with something slow and loving and pure- and deeply missed. A little bit of something for the lost and forgotten, and all the friends you've made along the way.
I'm not a part of this fandom: I can't even begin to understand how this song- this phenomenon- impacts any of you. But I do understand that a lot of you have come to terms with this, loss, so to speak. And I know many of you- strangers, commenters from the past few years, have been holding out hope that this fandom can still survive.
As one of you put (username Slashed Out, from 2 years ago): trying is still better than giving up, right?
Well, chin up, all you dreamers. All you wonderful stars sleeping on the edges of the sky.
I heard Homestuck 2 has been announced- or has come out- depending on when you read this.
I sincerely hope you find what you're looking for- or find within it a place to reunite with an old friend you've all come to know.
You put my exact feelings way better than I could've. I'm sad I wasn't here for when the party was still going on, but reading how much fun other people had puts a smile on my face.
goddamn they got the youtube version of the ratatouille critic in here
agree tho
john: it has all gone to hell. my friends became parodies of themselves. the trolls restored their genocidial empire. i died. dirk is trying to become the sole arbiter of reality.
john: but it's not too late. i can fix this with the retcon-power. i gotta get back.
john: back to the past. heir john.
R4kd05 I really hope this happens in homestuck^2
Listening to this song, it feels like dying and having nothing else is left to do. It's not a bad thing, it's like the sky is lifted off my shoulders as my story ends with a tranquil adagio, never to rise again, for this is where i stop.
Oh my this comment section is depressing.
I have that impact on people whenever I have an unhealthy lack of sleep.
Believe me, sleep would be nice.
Ohhhhh god I read that exactly as the song ended and jesus christ I need to go to sleep
Long comment, im sorry. II didnt know id be so emotional about this song. I'm genuinely crying so hard lol. Reflection timmeee!!!!
October 8th was the 10th anniversary of me starting to read Homestuck. I was in middle school, no friends, had no sense of self. I was stuck in a box with nowhere to go. Some girl on my bus started telling me about Homestuck. I was interested and then I went home that day, took my shitty acer laptop, and opened mspaintadventures. My life changed that day, my ENTIRE life changed with that search. I met a community of people, people that loved this fandom with all their hearts. I felt loved and wanted and accepted for the first time in my life. I loved all the fanart and music...it got me wanting to cosplay, something I hold very close to my heart now. I just felt like...I had a place somewhere. Somewhere that felt like...home.
Skip 5 years of diligently being a Homestuck, I met people I shouldn't have. I suppressed my deep love for this fandom for years to seem like I was somehow "better", mocking people for loving just what I had not many years before then. Looking back on it, it hurts to even think about it. I wish I could apologize to them. Because I truly am sorry.
I never finished Homestuck. I graduated in 2018 when the epilogues came out, but I never read them. I was quietly finding ways to get back into the community though. Secret role-playing accounts, fanart...little things that kept me in the fandom but still wouldn't get me bullied I guess. I felt sheltered, unloved, and alone.
But in June of this year, the greatest human being I've ever met in my life moved into my house. Someone who not only helped me find myself again, but resparked my love for this silly little fandom. Homestuck brought us together immediately, and now we're basically inseparable. 10 years later, I feel like I've never left. This song made me remember how important Homestuck is to me, something that helped me get through some of the hardest points in my life, and it hurts that I even tried to suppress that side of me. I dont know who I'd be without this fandom, and the friends I've made through it. It's made me a better person, develop a better sense of self, and made me a better friend.
I finished Homestuck last week. 10 years of just never reading through it all...I finished it. I sobbed for hours, thinking about how much its changed my life and how it's shaped me as a person. How heavily I connected with these characters, how badly I wanted a group of friends like John's, how desperate I was to be loved like they were. I strived to be like them. But I was still alone.
I'm writing this through HEAVY tears so idk if this even makes sense, or if it even effects someone as much as it hits me. I might just be kinda rambling...
as a new homestuck fan reading things like that make me think how beatiful things can be even when they are just a goofy, overcomplicated, well written, multimedia webcomic how little things or interests can change our life thank you for sharing this i really love how this fandom evolved even tho i was like 4 when the fandom was on it's peak
this is the hardest video to search for on youtube
sometimes i wanna listen to it but there's literally NO search terms for it
Unlabeled Extended
it's quite a hard time for me, not a lot of problems, neither something very heavy, but i think i've reached my limits, even if its something very tiny, but constant, it really aches my heart. This song is the only way i can scream my problems without having to say a word.Thanks for this song, and thanks for reading this.
i remember listening to this song when i was starting off middle school and beginning to struggle with depression, now I am going to soon start of my last year of high school and I don’t feel as consistently bad as I used to, and I now have more access to support. I am sharing my experience to show that things do get better eventually for everyone, it’s just a matter of time and patience. I hope things do improve for you one day, stay strong :)
this song has been one of exactly three homestuck related songs to make me cry, the others being the symphony impossible to play version of serenade and save you by phemiec.
Although he may have outlived his original friends and family, he came out on the end, losing more than anyone else.
One day, somebody who will go unnamed was browsing RUclips, slogging through the endless piles of content on this website. They then came across a curious video in their recommended list with no name. Looking closer at the video, the person realized that it was using their art in the thumbnail. Curiosity led their mouse to the thumbnail and they clicked. The piano music began to play, and the artist paused, taking a moment to just... listen.
Looking at the description, they realized why the video was unlabeled-it mirrored the song's name itself. They then noticed the line underneath, and remembered that they had changed their Tumblr address since making the art. They were about about to send the creator of the video a message containing their new Tumblr... and then stopped.
The song was still playing in the background. It began to escalate and then died back down, lilting along in a bittersweet dance. The artist remembered Homestuck. The day it began. The day it ended, seven years later.
The artist decided that art belonging to a deactivated Tumblr was the only art that would be shown while this song looped over, and over, and over again.
They listened to the song until it ended... and moved on.
so it was you all over,right.
If this was unlabeled, how am i gonna find this beauty again
Save it in a playlist with many other homestuck songs
Look through your history
Find a video with an empty title. Or like the vid. It'll add itself to a special playlist called "Liked videos".
Collin Poe I tried that and it didn’t work.
i juet look up "untitled homestuck"
oooooh I get why there's no title now...that took me long enough >.>
*tell us*
+PIMKAMINA2 the song is called 'unlabeled'
That's why :33
huh
Ohhhh I get it!
This is one of those things on the internet that make you really stop to think about the emptiness that is the modern world, like if today had a theme song, this would be it.
It feels comfortingly endless.
And makes me want to bawl,
Why
Why does it make me want to bawl?
But I love it.
Homestuck is something else.
Ah yes, my favorite homestuck song. Unlabeled, or, alternatively, Symphony of Hyphens in D flat major
feel like before the epilogues came out it wasn't really acknowledged how, john struggled against depression so much towards the end. and now....well.
Clem yeah, our baby hated himself but he still moved on for his friends and became their leader coming up with plans to defeat English the batter witch jack, he did so much and now we are only realizing how much it weighed on him
Friend: What is your favorite song?
Me: Its callled
Friend: What?
Me: I said
Friend: Seriously fam what is it
Me: I told you, the song is my favorite
Friend: I hate you sometimes
Yet another song I'll sleep to
And now that Lumi has Awakening on the channel, I think my sleep cycle can be completed with the most fitting of themes.
I've been seacrhing for original melody for 3 years because this edit hit me so hard that I downloaded it and listened to it from time to time, to ease my heart and mind. And couple days ago, the original melody played out of nowhere in Spotify. In the end, it found me, and I finally felt like... Returning home.
So, for other travelers who feel like they should find this masterpiece - it's Gymnopedie No. 1 by Eric Satie. May your journey be accompanied with the story of my own journey as you listen to this music and feel the same feelings I felt.
There's no place like home. And this melody became one for me. May it become one for you as well.
Once upon a time, the Four Windows shone down on Four Children. They became Four Gods, then the Light left the world, to search for something better. Time left, soon followed by Space, who claimed they had better things to do.
Breath, still at his post, played and played, hoping to inspire a nostalgia.
None of them heeded the call.
None of them cared.
His call for help, for someone to finally take notice and rescue him out of the hell that was loneliness, was swallowed by the darkness inside him.
Inside everyone.
Weird Caster
This...
This reflects the credits almost perfectly.
Everyone is having lives, moving on, settling down...
But John is still alone
At home
Rarely ever even seeing anyone.
The only one who never moved forward.
It feels like this song is representing an emotion I can't describe, maybe that's why it's nameless...
It conveys loneliness, but also contentment and just a bit of frustration. And I can't help but imagine what you have to feel to write a song like this...
Like, hundreds of sweeps in the future, everyone is dead. Even other god tiers, viva la Just/heroic deaths. And now he's alone in a universe that will always remind him of what he's lost, while every day showing him so much life, and things to gain. And he knows that he'll always remember the people who have left him, but also allows himself to meet new friends. Truly bittersweet if you ask me.
beautiful rendition of Gymnopédie No.1
im assuming the title is one of those blank things that are still recognized as a character by computers (not a regular space )
+CreatorofJanespeak oh i get the joke alright
He not only got the joke, he's also right.
+luminantAegis wait what the... I'm on iPad and the name is blank but my sub box still says "homestuck - unlabeled extended" okaaaay
I saw this in my recommended and I first thought you were pulling some Calliope/Caliborn white text BS. Then I read the description, and it ALLLLLLLLLLLL made sense.
nope. select it to make it blue. it's literally just one space bar press.
I FINAAAAALY got an account so now I can finally start telling you how awesome you are, Lumi! You work so hard to get your extensions done for everyone, and really put yourself beneath your fans so that they can be happy. That's an amazing quality in someone, and I'd like to say that you are incredible.
oh geez, thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the channel. ^w^
Not a problem. It's kinda cool how you've spawned a little community within your comments section and streams that you actually interact with, too.
one day, a teen sits in their room. wondering what to learn on their piano, the day is that of late September and the teen isnt faring well. after seeing more and more homestuck they look it up, and read it.
this reminds them of how they are now, how happy they are with their friends, it helped them learn about themselves, and gave them a welcoming fandom.
it helped them accept themselves for who they are, to understand they are who they are and that shouldn't have to change
the teen opened up about how they felt, and got help. they found a new beginning.
their name is record strider.
they are me.
thank you to all of this fandom, even this simple song i just found. you saved me from pulling a dirk.
now i have the courage to change my name and cut my mum out. thank you. so much.
wat
I hope you are still doing well. Best of wishes for you
@@controversialCoven I'm very well! It's been a while, but sometimes I come back here to remember how far I've come
This is the music that would play if John was watching the events of Game Over but it'd have to be in slow mo
*reads description*
_Now that I know the crator of the art's deactivated their Tumblr it seems sad and now I wanna cry._
hey 4 year old comment, happy 413, check pinned :)
I'm going to listen to "Do the Windy Thing " now.
Need to run from the feels the song is giving me. Makes me too contemplative.
I was about to say "oh wow they dedicated a song to luminantAegis"
I think this is what it would be like if John just stayed in the retcon void
Perfect song to reminisce about good ol' Homestuck.
i was listening to this as i was doing my homework, and the song ended just as i had finished my homework. Good job lumi, you are majyyk
And it happened again tonight! Lumi you are the best!
I'm on around page 4 or 5 hundred . A friend always talks to me about homestuck and is basically die hard fan and I decided to start reading it myself. It definetly has my interest even if I have no ideas of the story to he unfolded ahead of my readings. Its weird because even though I basically know little to nothing of it all I can feel how intense the songs are lyric by lyric. Even if I dont knownthe full meaning, and usually that shouldn't happen. But.. idk.. it all really strikes me, this one song, the work by phemc (I hope I spelled it right correct me of I'm wrong) it all gets to me deep down in a somber but also positive way. Like I've found another sense of comfort,another friend,another place to rest my head.
So here's a cheer!
To homestuck as a whole,the kind and crazy commuunity I'm slowly joining,
And to what the story has prepared ahead for me..
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] I was just about to ask the same😊 I just finished homestuck this past 4/13 and I am just enamored by it. I honestly believe Homestuck is something everyone should experience. It wont be for everyone but it is something that I believe everyone should witness and can take something from😊 Thank you Andrew Hussie for giving us Homestuck.
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] I WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE!!! I LOVED IT SOOO MUCH! I listened to the track before but it is nothing like actually watching it😳. I'm not very good at writing out my feelings but I just....it still gives my chills and ugh I'm frustrated I cant express myself fully lol! 😊 I originally planned to finish homestuck on my first 4/13 so I had to wait like a week after watching Collide to continue hardest week of my life. I was honestly so tempted to just give in and finish it! :) sorry for rambling, have you read the epilogue and what made you get into Homestuck?
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] Wow! That is amazing, way cooler than how I got into it lol😳. I always heard about it and I remember attempting to read it when I was in 7th grade and I guess I lost interest. I got back into it last November because I was so stressed about everything and I didnt have any way to in a way disconnect. That's when I remembered Homestuck and decided it would be my new hobby😊. I remember [S] John play a haunting piano refrain, and it was at that moment that I believe I truly fell in love with the story... I relate to John alot ( doesn't help that our names are literally two letters apart lol) I printed off the sheet music for Showtime and continued from there. Wow this is Sappy sorry. Long story short I love everyone substantially and it has made me think alot strangely enough? I am currently reading the Candy epilogue and in all honesty I was worried about reading them because of the feedback but I think I understand what Hussie was doing and I can say I think how strange it is, is rather endearing even with such ominous and heavy topics. I am taking my time (kinda lol) I think I might play pesterquest before getting into Homestuck 2? It will be nice to be able to experience the waiting and anticipation like when Homestuck was originally being written and etc. :) Oh! How did you read the epilogues? Did you start with Meat first or did you alternate between both? I feel like I will read both through and then try and piece them together afterwards?🤔
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] Thank you! It's so nice to have someone to talk to lol thanks for talking to me/ responding lol :3. And yeah I am almost done with Candy I think🤔? I dont know if I have asked this already but. How are you liking Homestuck^2? Maybe Candy and Meat can be both an epilogue to Homestuck and the prologue to Homestuck^2! :)
@Stefan Brockelbank [Student] Geez I'm even more excited now! 😄. I am a few chapters into Meat and I am already trying to connect it to Candy (I'm failing miserably as to be expected lol) I'm excited to meet the new kids! I don't know how the timelines connect but like they have to somehow....probably, since I dont think Harry Anderson, Vriska, and Tav would be born in the Meat timeline? So many questions :)
I can barely stand how beautiful is and the memories and feelings it conjures up for me... I love it... thank you for this and for everything L.A....
+reeealsubtle You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoy it c:
+reeealsubtle You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoy it c:
Just found this video, coming back into my third homestuck hyperfixation. Fair warning to everyone, this might get a little vent-y (pun unintended). I love reading stories, going on adventures with new friends who will never know who we, the audience, are. I love the highs of the stories, the lows, the hilarities. Yet, being surrounded with such stories my whole life I've come to the realization that my life will never be as exciting. My life, and many others can never compare. That I will never feel close to people as our fictional friends. I know their adventures were full of extremely taumatizing situations, that they faced death on a consistent basis; but their lives are always meant for something bigger than themselves. Whilst mine, in my eyes at this point in time (and gods do I hope that view changes), is little more than an animal doing nothing more than surviving - living by the bare minimum. I know there will be those who say that it's within my power to change my life. Trust me, I know. I try everyday - but that's the thing. No matter what victories I have one day, the next is a reset. Some days are easier than others. Some days I can eat the bare minimum recommended. Most days I struggle to do even that. I want to live a life I'm proud of, but right now I struggle to do more than living vicariously through these fictional characters. I hope one day my future self can look back on this video and feel the "Sweet" of this music, of this fandom more than the "Bitterness" I taste currently.
I think a lot of people can relate to your struggles. I know I can.
One of the hardest differences between a story and real life, I think, is that. When say...the homestuck kids begin their story, while they may have a past. Their beginning is marked really when they enter the stage, at the start of their existence in OUR world as characters. So, they can sort of spring board off that state and go right into a adventure, while with humans we have a pretty long story. From birth to now, is a long time, even if you're very young and you probably won't remember a lot of it or - without trying - will want to forget a huge chunk of it.
But there are people that have adventures, adventurous things happen in the real world. For example:
Did you know there was an driver who used an armored sports car to zip around in a slavic war zone to rescue people and bring supplies out of nothing but heroism and altruism?
or did you know that there was a mad man who tried to practice a pyramid scheme to sort of slowly accrue a "hydra company" that appeared successful by exchanging money between themselves, accruing more money from investors. And this person grew so powerful and believed he could take over the world. To the point he rigged elections and had - no joke - a nuclear bomb plant in africa and had private military under his wing.
These are both talked about in Dunkula mad lad vids - if you don't agree with his politics, don't worry. These are good general vids on interesting people -
I think we all want adventure to find us. Most of us want answers. To life, I suppose. But also to if we are relevant. It's those very same question that scare us away from adventure. If you're like me, you might get so anxious when even a homeless person comes to a hand out that instead of seeing that as a potential start of a story and taking some sort of action. You fear any risk, even social risk or awkwardness, so you shy away. Stories are made by the characters being present and I think, a lot of people sturggle to be present.
But you do have a story, in bits and pieces because you inevitably act in your own life. It's just life dosen't have an editor so its hard to see the plot between a week of twitter.
I don't think you should give yourself a hard time for not taking action. Because you'll just grow more embittered and assured that you weren't deserving of a story. But rather, figure out where you are in your life and if you can come to terms with your place on that page. Maybe, once you find your spot. You can determine where to go to from there. After all, ain't that how all stories start...even homestuck itself. If you can't come to terms with your place on that page, then you know your chapter and the role you got to act out, at least in part.
Excuse if this was pretentious/ lecturing. I felt for your comment and wanted to see if I could help in some way.
@@GFXCXZ Thank you. I actually found it to be eye-opening. I appreciate you offering your view on the "stories of life" (if I may call it) we all individually experience. I won't go too much farther with this comment (I'm getting ready for bed and have a long week ahead), but I wanted to ensure you knew I didn't take your words as pretentious or lecturing, and that they helped.
i feel like this is what it would feel like to be the last living thing on earth. very lonely, and quiet
A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name. Only today will he embark on a journey that will change his life alongside those of others. There will be plenty hardships ahead, rainy days, broken promises, loved ones lost. But, alongside this, he will meet new friends, bond once more with old ones, fight for what he believes is right, and change his world view with a little (a lot) of help.
His name, is John.
man, is my favorite homestuck song ngl
A person sits in their bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is the birthday of a young man, and a webcomic about him and so many others. It was 12 years ago this webcomic was given life, and about 4 1/2 years one of many videos about it was created. A simple, elegant piece of fan art, with a lovely piano piece behind it. However, it is only today that the person in their bedroom would find this video, and only two days later they would go on to comment about it.
Who is this person?
>Enter name.
Your name is Ash. As previously mentioned, it is the birthday of Homestuck. You decide to scroll through RUclips for some Homestuck content to celebrate.
>Ash: Find untitled video.
The video doesn't have a title. You click on it. It is the previously mentioned video. You listen for about a minute while scrolling through the comments. As you do, a feeling you can't describe washes over you. It feels almost like you're about to cry, but not happy or sad tears. Just tears, without any kind of positive or negative connotation.
>Ash: Cry.
You try to let the tears come, but they never do. Eventually, you log off.
>Ash: Revisit video two days later.
You weren't in a particularly good mood. In fact, a good cry might do you some good. You revisit the video, and this time the tears do come.
>Ash: Cry.
The tears come naturally. It feels liberating. Usually you can't seem to let yourself cry even when you want to. Even when you try. You end up rewinding the video back to the start a few times before you finish crying. It wasn't even 10 o'clock when you started, but once you started to dry up, it was well past 10:30. And you feel better, like some kind of weight had been lifted off of you.
>Ash: Make comment.
You don't know exactly why you commented. It was a simple anecdote in the style of Homestuck's writing. Maybe somebody will find this story useful. Maybe, just by commenting, you'd make someone else cry similarly uplifting tears. Maybe it'd just give someone something to tell them they're not alone in being moved to tears by this song. Or maybe not. But you comment anyway, riding on that hope.
>Ash: Finish typing and post the comment.
_im gonna cry_
_this--_
"Why is this unlabeled, is there... Oh... ok nevermind "
This comment's all over the place, but whatever. This video has been sitting in my near-empty RUclips playlist for like, three years at this point, and I clicked on it on a whim to listen to while I make a farewell card for someone I will probably never see again after tomorrow morning. This song is so incredibly emotional, but I can't for the life of me pinpoint an exact feeling. The title is fitting. I hope that everyone in this comment wins whatever battle they are fighting in life right now. It will get better.
I miss the way Homestuck made me feel. I wish I could go back in time and experience it all again. This is the corniest motherfucking comment I will ever make, but I wish nothing had to end.
Oh my god what a wonderful name for a song. 'Unlabled.'
This song resonates in a way that is calming, sad, and powerful all at the same time. Truly a work of art.
I'm feeling some nostalgia from this song and it actually hurts my heart. Like seriously my chest is tightening and it's not my whole chest, it's just around my heart.😢
Conclude also does this to me.
WHERE HAVE I HEARD THIS BEFORE
Gymnopedie, from Erik satie.
ayyyyyyyy
It has been 2 years and yet I still cry every single time I listen to this.
I am crying so hard right now. And I come to this song any time I need to let out my emotions. It always makes me feel relieved
I just want to cry. It has been ten years since this all started. only a couple year since I started on this journey, and I can only put it in so few words, I love Homestuck and always will, it had gotten me through so much and always fills me with so many emotions, and this song gives me all of them
I like to imagine that John after the end of Homestuck sometimes just plays this on his piano, just basking in the silence as Nannasprite and GCatavrosprite simply float beside him, listening with goofy smiles on their faces, the occasional sneeze from Tav
Lexi Barrow
There's...one problem with that.
The sprites didn't make it.
Not one of them.
When the game ended...they did too.
@@raptorcharly8055 But the game technically didn't end because they combined two doomed timelines, creating a paradox. Technically neither can end.
@@raptorcharly8055 I thought GCatavrosprite made it since hes in the credits I believe for the Consort Kingdom
This song reminds me of one of my favorite classical music pieces:
Gymnopedie no.1
Dang, Lumi. Your on a streak of great songs tonight.
When does Lumi NOT have a streak of good songs? I mean, I will admit, there are times where they aren't the BEST, but there was never a time of particularly bad songs.
+August “Ghoulatar” B-Day yee
I'm getting a very gymnopedie no 1. feel from this. An amazing song tbh, I kind of want to arrange it myself.
Parts of this song, sound so very similar to Gymnopédies, but then... it changes. Turns into something so different and touching that you cannot really fathom without adding "feelings" to it.
Thank you, for this song.
One that seems so very forlorn, and alone, yet... with friends just beyond your reach.
I started reading Homestuck when I was 12. I am 24 now. I am reading it again because it will always be one of my favorite stories. It has greatly inspired so much of my art and story writing. I know that even in my old age I’ll still know what the name of a young boy who stands alone in his bedroom will be.
gymnopedie anyone?
yep
More than a couple of Erik's songs seem to owe a lot to Satie's Gymnopedie.
*cough cough* mother
And Sarabande off Symphony: Impossible to Play.
Nope! If you look in the album credits, Sarabande was composed and performed by Erik, though the rest of the album is Clark's work.
Esta canción... Es igual de triste que calmante, es como estar en un sueño que no quieres dejar pero sabes que tienes que para poder seguir con tu vida.
Me hace pensar en mis arrepentimientos y al mismo tiempo, que siempre hay luz al final del túnel. Gracias homestuck, con todo y fallos siempre serás uno de los proyectos más queridos de internet
Where did the years go, guys?
Many years later… Again, my immediate reaction to this the second it starts playing is tearing up with no explanation… Yet, this time, it feels nostalgic, soft..
no title, and this art makes me feel like i have a heart, and this feeling of feeling is unpleasant
This reminds me a lot of Eric Satie, who wrote most of his music as, like...furniture music. He used music less to tell stories and more to set moods. And this sets a mood very similar to Gymnopedie No. 1, which is very slow and very focused. This is music to be played at a calm, quiet gathering.
This song is great. This hits me in the feels. I love this song. I feel like Homestuck is the best stuck of homes. Thank you for uploading this extended version. I can also send spams of empty messages to my friends now thanks to your title! :D
This song has the power to make me feel uncomfortably sad
this feels like a homestuck save checkpoint and im HERE FOR IT
I think this song defines the aspect of breath quite well. It makes people feel sad but without any weight to it. Freedom from bonds, but with that comes isolation. It's free from any signifiers. This piece and it's art have no name, and has no sheet music as far as I'm aware. It has no description. You can't pin it easily, but every so often it will show up again. A truly beautiful work.
Well, it kinda has sheet music since it's based on Gymnopédie no. 1.
this song hurts me
for reasons I do not know.
Fun Fact: There is in fact not one but TWO characters in the title.
dun dun dun
**suspense**
Whoa... Damn, I'm pretty much speechless for how good this is. I'm new here, but this is amazing.
I’ve been listening to this song ever since like around August of 2017, the same time when my MDD got really bad. Two years later, and Im only getting worse. But this song will always have a special place in my heart, Shit I’m even getting emotional over it rn, like I’m about to cry.
edit (6/22/23)
after 4 years later, i am still pretty mentally ill but i’ve been feeling not as consistently depressed lately. Life get better eventually n_n
this is strikingly similar to Gymnopédie No. 1