Rihanna's Rude Boy, Train's Hey, Soul Sister and Kesha's Tik Tok are on top of the charts. How to Train Your Dragon is selling out at the box office. Doctor Who's Eleventh Doctor has just hit television screens. Tumblr is three years old.

Andrew Hussie has just posted '[S] Jack: Ascend', the one-year anniversary update of their multimedia webcomic Homestuck.

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, I turned on New Reader Mode in the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, and every day since then I've read the pages that were posted fifteen years ago to the day. I have reconstructed the live Homestuck experience to the best of my ability, finding old forum threads, deviantArt posts, youtube edits and fan adventures. As far as I'm concerned, nothing after page 1668 exists - but the community is picking up steam, and big things feel right around the corner.

You can join in with the ongoing read by catching up on pages 1-1668, then following this blog for daily updates on new pages. Or, you can start a brand new replay today, finishing in 2032, by following the schedule in this spreadsheet. (File -> Make a copy to edit and customize the sheet for yourself).

You ever see a concept that makes just drop everything? That is how I felt this morning when I saw @annamariaward ‘s Captain EO: Year One concept art. I was so in love. Captain EO has been my favourite short film of MJ’s for a long time, and so this hits me right in the warm and fuzzy places.

I love the designs for little Eric Ocean and Jay-J Ocean. Cuties!

Please go check out @annamariaward​ and her posts! You won’t regret it!

Also... Bonus...

The Variants from a less vibrant universe-

An emotional expression sheet of EO! Warning : mixing space, classes, adventure and new friendships can cause quite a turbulent range of FEELINGS.

Also

A more tradtional turnaround view of EO! This is an extra post for this week 💜 EO will be sharing some emotions on Thursday.

Captain EO Year One is a Fan Project by Annamaria Ward. #EOY1

Hey-O! It’s EO! The name is Eric Ocean but don’t you dare call him that, only his parents use his full name.... and maybe a teacher or two. EO is 17 years old and is about to enter his Capstone year at the Academy. He has a good heart but can at times be a little over-ambitious when trying to reach his goals. What is his dream?  It’s his dream to have skills worthy of the command so he can become a Captain, maybe even a commander just like his grandfather. He hopes to maybe even help some folks along the way. To do this he has to work with a crew of other students (who are also completing their Capstone years), he isn’t sure if he will get along with any of them, but he is going to do his best. 

New art posts will drop like an old-school episode every Thursday. Next Thursday we will see EO from several angles. 

I followed the notes from my template and my final website turned out looking quite similar to how I envisioned. Overall I’m quite happy with the way it turned out, even though it isn’t entirely finished yet. Though as the year progresses I will definitely be adding more to my website.

The website mostly uses the same font as in the original template as I actually liked this font and thought it worked well, as it was clear to read but didn’t look boring. I did experiment with other fonts, colours and styles using the ‘Fonts’ tab under the ‘Design’ menu, but I found that I liked the original the best. I did however change the font for my name, as I thought it suited the page better. As well as this in the header I replaced the clip art stars with flowers and the image of the fish with my own ‘Capra’ logo.

I added a border to the image in the ‘About’ section as I thought this particular border added to the arty atmosphere (due to the tape). At the moment the image is just a photo of me, however in the future I am going to sketch myself and upload it instead once I have time.

The gallery page will showcase my work with both traditional and digital media, and will allow the user to click on each image and enlarge it. Once I have more work to upload I will include a title and description for each.