This definitely trumps having breakfast and getting dressed, oh yes.

Details about the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, Homestar Ruiner, have been released. Also a video of what would appear to be the start of the game. After watching it, I just wanted to start sabotaging Homestar's chances in the race to the end of the race.

With this, and the Australian release of Brawl being pushed back further, June's going to be the best month ever. Provided either Nintendo doesn't stagger the release dates in different countries for no reason, like everything else they've released ever, or the PC version is available at the same time as the Wii version. Why, Nintendo? Why?

Also, the winners to the tagline contest were chosen at random, apparently

I'm going to try starting a Homestar Runner forum. There's a lack of good ones at the moment, so I think I might have a chance to not crash and burn. Maybe?

I think if I just create a good looking banner and advertise it everywhere I can, then the rest will like as itself. If I'm lucky.

Well, even if it fails, I'll have more of a right to whine about there not being a good Homestar Runner forum at the moment. Even if I lose, I win!

I'll link to it when it's finished. At the moment I'm still stressing over what colours to use and what boards to make.

I'm getting tired of my icons. So I'll just stick with this one for a while. I made it myself on MSPaint!

I'm running out of things to ask the Tarot. Reading it is strangely addictive. As I was pulling out cards to represent Homestar Runner characters because I was running out of things to ask, I got The Fool for Homestar. That was pretty funny.

Apparently you can only have 1000 images in a sub album on Photobucket? Who came up with that rule? And why didn't anyone tell me before I took 1400 screenshots of the Neverhood? Some of those are repeats, but still. Well, it's pretty easy to get around. Just have to make another sub album.

Applied for a job today. This shouldn't be as stressful as it is. And by stressful, I mean totally incapitating. ...My mum had to help me. I think I need help with my anxiety.

If you have both me and capslock_hsr friended, no I'm not listening to this song on repeat. Just the album it's on. But I wouldn't mind listening to this song on repeat. I really like it.

After a long and hard day hiding from... being social and getting any work done, I suddenly want to dig out my old Japanese textbook from year nine and do some work from it. So I think I will. If it is my lot to want to learn things all the time, then I suppose I shall have to bear it. (martyred sigh) I seem to be on a Japanese kick at the moment.

And a vaguely Japanese related note, I think I've been taking the Homestar anime thing too seriously and should lighten up a bit. I was never quite delusional enough to believe I was creating great literature, but... I'm a bit too much of a perfectionist. I'm just doing it for fun, the world won't end if I can't figure out how to make the dialogue less stilted. I guess. I've just never got so much interest in a fanfiction project before, and I don't want to mess it up.

Uh... check out bsc_snark. It's awesome.

While I was waking up, I felt extremely anxious for no reason! Over and over and over! What fun!

I also dreamed that I'd dreamed that I was the Brothers Strong's mother. Which was a lot cooler.

And now maybe I'll eat something or get dressed. That time at the top of the entry is a total lie. (No it isn't)

So apparently you can do Tarot readings for fictional characters. This is awesome.

For example, Strong Bad holds onto the past a bit much when he doesn't need to, however, everything's going right for him thanks to the effort he's put into getting what he wanted. (The Hanged man reversed, Eight of Wands, the Chariot)

Harry Potter, on the other hand, has lost a lot of his stuff, but the bad times are finally over and he'll do well in his future career thanks to the skills he's gained. (Four of Pentacles reversed, Ten of Swords reversed, Eight of Pentacles)

(laughs)

(laughs some more)

I wake up every morning feeling awesome
Even though I slept on the remote again last night, ow
Time to tear up another day
The Strong Bad freaking way
Like an imploding star
Like a burning car
My style shines so bright

Please stop trying to handle my style
'Cause you can't
No you can't
Uh!
Handle my style
Seriously, quit trying to handle my style
Unless you're a lady
Then you're cordially invited to have a giant slice of my style!

Hey, guess what? I found another Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People gameplay video! This one's not good quality, but you can tell what's going on, and it shows the outside of his house! :D

At this rate I'll spoil myself for the entire episode, and possibly the entire season. At least I know why Strong Bad imitated Homestar while prank calling himself now.

I'm legally obligated to post every time there's an update on Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People. It's in my fan contract or something. There's an interview with the Brothers Chaps, and a whole bunch of gameplay videos. It gives a pretty good idea of what the game's going to be like, I think. I just hope it didn't just give away all the good bits.

Okay, I definitely need some breakfast now.

The attitude that there shouldn't be a Homestar Runner Wii game because Homestar Runner isn't megapopular anymore really irritates me. Probably I shouldn't googled '"Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People" "five years"' in that case, but I only did that once. Anyway, of course it's not megapopular anymore. Nothing can stay that popular for that long, The Public has a very short attention span. Just because these particular people got bored with it and haven't thought about it in years doesn't mean that the site doesn't exist anymore. That's a very self-centred view. And stupid.

Homestar Runner is still popular, because the wiki is up-to-date, the creators can still live off merchandise sales, and someone keeps going around adding new examples to the TV Tropes Wiki every time a new cartoon comes out. And most of the time it's not me. People don't link to it anymore because everyone's supposed to have heard of it by now. But it's five years on and not everybody has.

On a related note, I really enjoyed the start of the Homestar Runner crossover fic chakramchucker put up on her journal. I also really enjoyed the beginning to a Homestar Runner fic recently put up on fanfiction.net and think it has a lot of promise. I can barely remember the last time I read a Homestar Runner fic for the first time and really enjoyed it. Is Homestar Runner fanfiction having a renaissance? Am I just lightening up? Am I overreacting? It's probably that last one. Still, it's heartening.

I wish there was a good Homestar Runner forum around. I've developed a theory about what's happened in the various hrwiki communities. The forum tends to reject anyone who's not something of a jerk and jaded like a lot of the members. At the very least, they reject people who are new to the Internet. Not knowing of anywhere else to go, the newbies, who at times border on n00bs, go to either the knowledge base or the fanstuff wiki. The knowledge base is full of intelligent people who don't bite the newcomers to their faces, but it also requires effort and for the majority of edits to be related to the project, so people who don't enjoy picking apart an internet cartoon so much go to the fanstuff wiki, which doesn't require so much effort. Essentially, they're just there because they want to socialise with other Homestar Runner fans and the forum doesn't want them. They're not there to make fanstuff, something I figured out a long time ago anyway. But they feel obligated to make it anyway, and see it as the best route to becoming popular. So they do, and it usually turns out not very good. And then they get bored and threaten to leave until the friends they've made convince them not to, but that's common behaviour for twelve-year-olds on the Internet. I know I did it a couple of times when I was twelve.

So the forum is stuck in a rut of being jerks to or ignoring or just plain not attracting people who are different, and then complaining about how low the forum has sunk. I've only been there since September 2006, so I wouldn't know, but at the moment I'm reading a post by The Noid saying that the reason he liked the forum in the past was the friendliness, so that sounds like sinking to me. The fanstuff is stuck in a rut of being so full of kids that nobody else will touch it. The knowledge base is flourishing as far as I know, but has to restrict non-wiki discussion to their IRC channel, which doesn't seem to perpetuate itself as well as a forum. Plus I'm not good at real time chat. The people who don't fit into any of the majorities of the three communities, which constitute some of the best people in the fandom in my probably biased opinion, seem to hang around here and around deviantART.

But all this is useful for making personifications of the hrwiki communities and the loosely defined fourth community. Not that many other people other than me would think of that. But I did, and the interaction between Fanstuff and The Weird One (Couldn't think of a better name, sorry) was funny and I want them to be friends.

( What happened in what I came up for them, because I'll probably never actually write it. )

What was I talking about before... Oh yeah. I kind of want to create my own forum that lets everyone in equally, but with the hrwiki as popular is it, and with my organisational and promoting skills as bad as they are, it'd most likely crash and burn. I guess it might make a pretty pattern on the way down, though.

Well that post was all over the place.

Another SBCG4AP video!

This one's an interview, and I really like the line "I'm not a crybaby! I'm tormented!" It just makes me want to play this game even more, if that's possible.

In an attempt to stop myself from thinking only about the Homestar Runner point and click Wii game, the first episode of which will be released in June, I'm going to put up some more Neverhood screenshots b/w comments. I mean, with comments.

Hopefully then I'll be able to respond to the non-Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People related comments that I've received. That would be nice.

OMG A POINT AND CLICK HOMESTAR RUNNER GAME FEATURING THE MAIN CHARACTERS COMING OUT FOR WII IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS! (HYPERVENTILATES)

Sorry. I'll get started with the screenshots now.

( Meet Bil )

...

Aww, it deliciously didn't work. I'm still too excited about the new Homestar Runner game that won't even be out for a while. Except now I'm also excited about the Neverhood movie all over again. Progress?

I was just looking at some of the official YouTube videos for the live Limozeen show in March. I don't know what made me happier, the huge cheer when Strong Bad possessed Schenkel McDoo, Strong Bad referring to McDoo as Swedish when he's actually Finnish, or the person who yelled "I love you, Strong Bad!" just before The Cheat Is Not Dead. Also, human Strong Bad! Well, Schenkel McDoo!Strong Bad. That's good enough for me.

I wish I could've been there, but these YouTube videos are a pretty good substitute.

And you know what else, there's going to be a new game soon on homestarrunner.com. A new Wii game! I bet it's the one in the Strong Bad Gameways toon. That'd make the most sense.

I nearly said "new game new game new game new game" instead of just "new game" in the above paragraph. But then I realised how much I'd regret it in the morning. Maybe I shouldn't post while hyperactive.

I had a dream last night! A Homestar Runner fandom-y dream! I'll write it down before I forget it.

So Limozeen were apparently touring in my dream, because they were playing in some tiny venue in Canberra. When I found that out, I went straight there because otherwise I'd miss it. They played Because, It's Midnite, and it was really cool. Then I decided that maybe I should call my parents and tell them where I was, so I did. My mum was quite angry, which was understandable.

At the show, I met up with kartoon_kween, which apparently I didn't think was anything out of the ordinary. Somehow, we ended up talking about Mike/Matt. I'm very squicked by real person slash, especially when it's something like incest, but that's what we ended up talking about. kartoon_kween brought it up, not me. Just like in real life! She showed me a series of pictures that were supposed to be Mike/Matt, but fortunately for my sanity, weren't. Instead, they depicted a totally non-sexual scene in which the Brothers Chaps were being attacked by a giant, tentacled monster. I think she drew it... Or maybe dutchtoast drew it. She was around somewhere too, but I didn't run into her. But it wasn't in either of their styles. If I had to guess, it was more like chakramchucker's style. Which made the dream even more bizarre.

The pictures still disturbed me, because I'm sort of squicked by real person fic even when it's not incestous slash between people I greatly admire. But I didn't have much time to dwell on that until I woke up, because the scene suddenly switched to an ancient haunted town. kartoon_kween was still there, but we decided to split up because apparently my dream had turned into a bad slasher movie. Except for the part where nobody died.

Our objectives: Either find a way out, discover the secret of the town, or wander around like idiots, I can't remember which one it was. I do remember that the tentacled monster was somewhere in the town, adding a sense of urgency to the proceedings. There turned out to be a lot of puzzles in the town, and a lot of people trapped there. But I never found out what the secret was, because my parents picked me up, and then I woke up.

I never even got to see sloshy play...

I scanned in some stuff that I drew! Using a pencil seems to be easier than using a tablet.


Abstract Styles by ~Clanker on deviantART


Homestar Runner Fanfic Drawings by ~Clanker on deviantART

I spent ages writing up the description for that second one. I hope someone reads it.

I'm keeping the subject that deviantART automatically gave this entry. I find it somehow hilarious.

So, does this mean that there's a Homestar Runner Wii game in the works? It did say "actual gameplay footage" at the end.

And more importantly, why do Strong Bad and Strong Sad keep playing video games together if they hate each other so much? Not that I mind. I'm all for them getting along.

Okay, back to subtitling these Neverhood screenshots. This is taking forever.

You see this, which is what the Homestar Runner Wiki page for the latest Strong Bad Email looks like at this point in time? I wrote all of that, except for the place list and the Easter egg descriptions. Practically nobody else was on, and I was the only one who felt inclined to make more than one edit.

I also updated all the "Strong Bad Email by First Letter of Second Sentence of Email" type lists, and all the list of update lists except for the Strong Bad Email page.

Why yes, I do want a freaking medal. Thank you for offering.

But seriously, it was fun. I hadn't edited the wiki in a big way for ages, and that was quite refreshing in a tiring way. And the toon was entertaining too, I suppose.

I'm still working on the Homestar-Runner-As-An-Anime-That-Has-Seemingly-Nothing-To-Do-With-Homestar-Runner thing. I realised that it probably needed some villains, so I thought some up. Now I'm really attached to one of them, even though I haven't written him yet or anything. I want to save him, and hug him, and send him to the canon universe for rehabilitation.

He's a character I made up. This is ridiculous.

So tonight I cried because I couldn't get the proportions right on the cloth-covering-some-sort-of-rectangle I was supposed to be drawing. I really don't get me sometimes. I guess I've been highly strung all week and it doesn't take much to set me off? It didn't take much to set me off when I was depressed on Monday, either.

On the plus side, I drew a Strong Badian style Strong Bad in my drawing class without using a reference, and it came out looking okay. Progress! Also I drew this cute squirrel thing because my teacher took pity on my inability to draw a tablecloth.

It turned out, after much experimentation, that writing actually alleviated my depression. Writing. Wow. I wouldn't have guessed that, but I'll have to remember that for next time.

Here's what I wrote.

It was, as usual, Homestar Runner fanfiction. Is it ever not? The answer, of course, is yes, but not recently. Homeschool is in it and I made him a comics fan. Heh. But I wrote it while watching Sheep in the Big City, so the tone seems a bit off. Sheep in the Big City is also where I got this new icon. Fwoosh! I love Ben Plotz so much.

I was also cheered up by the game of Mario Party DS I played with my brother and sister. I won, but I think that was probably luck. I didn't really know how to play. Still, it was a lot of fun and I should probably do it again sometime.