#lofam

Thank you! I'm happy you liked it <3

As for the music, they come from the "Land Of Fans And Music" albums. The're's 6 of them, the last 2 being "volume 5" and "volume 5 act 2". Which i just found out about. They're on Bandcamp, tho i'm not sure if Volume one is there exactly

The music i used on Csau were

For "Finish it": War of one bullet - Track 41 - LOFAM volume 1 Showtime [End Strife Remix] - Track 24 -LOFAM volume 2

For "Farewell": Merge - Track 2 - LOFAM volume 4

The original songs are longer of course, i shortened them for the animations.

Here are some links to them, i love to have them as background music when drawing

LOFAM Volume 1

LOFAM Volume 2

LOFAM Volume 3

LOFAM Volume 4

LOFAM Volume 5

LOFAM Volume 5 - Act 2

My art for Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2!! These are for the songs Sburban Keygen (WORKING 2009 NO VIRUS), Clockstopper (New Game+ All Clocks%), and Penumbral Awakening!

Feel free to check out the album here: https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-fans-and-music-5-act-2

(Art by @blogofyolo)

Here's the first of two tracks I had on Land of Fans and Music 5 Act 2, which came out two days ago! I'm dedicating this one to @utopianparadoxist, who wrote the post that made this track appear in my mind in such blinding clarity I couldn't stop making until it was done.

I also have some extended commentary about this one--it's more important to me than I give it credit for.

When I finished reading Homestuck, I was...disappointed. That disappointment morphed gradually into disgust as I watched schisms violently open in the fandom following the Epilogues and Homestuck^2, and in the process I felt like I'd lost something.

I kept thinking that maybe, if I just read the comic again, it would turn out different. Maybe it'd be the story I'd once loved and it would fill me with breathless wonder again. Maybe it'd be better.

But earlier this year, a post by uP crossed my dash after he'd disappeared from my periphery for well over a year. He was outlining his plans surrounding Pumpkin Path, a story he's writing that runs adjacent to the Epilogues and (eventually though not yet?) gives these characters the futures they've earned.

And I realised...the way I'd been thinking about it, that's not how it works, y'know? It's not the story that has changed: it's my heart, my relationship with it. And the best thing I could do was take what this once-beloved story gave me and make something new with it. And that's what many people have done in the wake of Homestuck's end: we've all gone off and made new stories, for which this long-beloved comic was an undeniable progenitor.

It reminded me of a certain recurring motif in the comic itself. Every time the universe resulted in a corrupt or barren session, the players...well, they rebooted it. They left the old universe behind, and started a new one, billions of years all over again just to see where it would go this time.

There was no use in searching for the story that used to be, because it was me that had changed.

You may as well leave that old universe behind and start a new one from scratch.

This is the idea that seeded the above track, and it caught me off guard, because it was the first Homestuck music I had made in more than two years--after I thought I'd sworn it off for good. And then, two days later, Maybe it'll turn out better this time was done. (Two days is, by the way, a very short time for a track to emerge.) It was a small, silly, wonderful little thing, a sapling in the ashes, that proved to me that things could change.

We've confirmed a release date for the album, and it's coming right up!

We'll have a live release stream on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/@umspaf) on September 16, at 1pm Eastern (5pm GMT). Right after that, the album will be available for streaming on Bandcamp and download on a hosting site.

This album may have some of our best art and music yet, which is astounding considering how long the project has been around and how long it's been since Homestuck officially ended. Come join us in enjoying our niche musical tradition— Where else are you going to get this stuff?!

One last call for artists:

The team has claimed an impressive 88 art slots which are on track to be completed by release, but there are still a few songs left that need art! If you're interested in making some emergency art, get in touch by messaging Ucklin on Discord, or emailing [email protected]

recently i had the opportunity to contribute to the new lofam so i thought i'd share the album covers i did here! (with commentary)

starting off with probably my favorite cover art for what might be my favorite song: sburban juxtaposition. the track is so good i basically drew the whole cover while listening to it on loop. coloring the meteors was a lot of fun too. rose's pose is actually inspired by miles' leap of faith from spider-man: into the spiderverse (the spiderverse movies have consumed me ever since i saw atsv in theatres, it can't be helped).

next up we have celestial company. the track is very relaxing, i figured it would make sense to replicate that feeling in the art itself through adding pleasant shades of blue to skaia and john's hood. i also added a yellow spirograph for contrast. i think it worked out pretty well!

sunbumper! a very upbeat and energetic jade track. there's two cool things about this image: one thing is a rather obvious nod to the neverending story, while the other thing is hidden in plain sight. it's a reference to outer wilds, i'll say this much.

caliborn's lament. look. i couldn't not jump at the opportunity to draw art for a song that adapts act 6 act 6 act 4. i just love caliborn, and that's all there really is to say on the matter. his comically sad face is probably the best thing i drew for this project.

karkat loses his mind and learns holy c. i tried a different style for this one, since it's for a song referencing templeos. editing the logos and all was a really funny experience. there's also this Pleasant Hoofbeast Drawing, which i never really got to use:

maybe it'll turn out better this time is a title that immediately reminded me of the retcon. in the cover art, i decided to highlight how the joy of the post retcon timeline almost completely overshadows the suffering of characters that we actually followed for years. idk, replacing these guys with slightly different versions of them always felt weird to me.

The LOFAM 5 Act 2 (@unofficialmspafans ) Album finally dropped yesterday, so I'm posting the art I made for the track "Puppeteer", by (Thomas Ferkol / eidolonorpheus on Soundcloud)!