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"Do No Harm" (TV Size) (feat. Penny Parker) - Jamie Paige and Marcy Nabors

I’m honoured to have been asked to illustrate Pseudumbra Phauxtasm, an absolutely magnificent piece of music by Marcy Nabors/@shadolith and Jamie Paige Stanley (both of whom worked on Renewed Return and Solar Voyage on Volume 10).

At long last, Pseudumbra Phauxtasm is here.

My commentary from the LOFAM 4 booklet:

Back in 2016 I got together with @spellmynamewithabang and @jamesroachmusic to compile Homestuck Vol. 10. Everyone was pretty hyped, and there were threads in various places full of people feverishly speculating about what the tracklist would be. Much of this speculation focused on whether @fwugradiation’s elusive song Penumbra Phantasm would finally see release, founded on the rumor that he had agreed to finish it for the album.

Around this time, a couple of us on the Vol. 10 project decided to have some fun with the speculation and put together a fake version of the album to “leak” to the fans, so we gathered a few WIPs that’d been cut from Vol. 10 and arranged them at the beginning of the album for an illusion of Authenticity™. Jamie Paige put together a bunch of awful low-effort vaporwave remixes of Homestuck songs, which we gave names to match what the fans were hoping for. Finally, as the keystone piece to tie it all together, Jamie and I referenced an old Toby Fox piano recording and created a short (but hopefully convincing) song that we entitled “Penumbra Phantasm”. Christened by Toby’s seal of approval and an unholy melding with a vaporwave Sunslammer monstrosity, this one-minute-and-fifty-second piece quickly became a fan favorite once the [sock?] ruse was revealed, and we promised that this “Pseudumbra Phauxtasm” would see an extended release on LoFaM 4.

A year later we’ve completed this task, and now the latter third of the song is just a power metal cover of the Breath of the Wild theme with some rad shredding by Matt Martin, but that’s a story for another day. Ask me sometime.

I was snooping around in my music files from last year and found the original unfinished draft of Renewed Return that I submitted for Homestuck Vol. 10. I figure there are some folks out there who might find it interesting to listen to!

It gets a little closer to the final product as the song goes on, since I wrote the beginning a few years in advance with an entirely different orchestral library and had to go back later and flesh it out.

Then of course it kind of falls apart at the very end because I was still writing the song up the the very last second before I had to send it over to Noel for solo string recording, and to Kyle to draft up the sheet music for our choir. (We didn’t even have lyrics until a night or two before we recorded the choir!)

i discovered Spirit City (uh oh) and decided todays a good day to stream a bit of me messing around with it + coworking with @mossspores while we're at it! come hang outtttt

come watch @mossspores play more Pokemon Mystery Dungeon DX!

The adventures of Veevee and Quindacyl continue! RESCUE TEAM EGG ENGAGE!!!!!