https://www.patreon.com/optimisticDuelist A short channel update on this channel, and a long overdue thank you to both you guys and all the friends who have helped bring me this far.

I strongly encourage you to check them out below, and feel free to comment with whatever questions you might have! Thanks again for everything. Keep rising.

hii’m Case’s youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgSB… Theater of Kenosha Documentary: https://youtu.be/4phGltYj_Pc

Visual Artists:
http://joyfulldreams.tumblr.com/
https://nightcigale.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/kajyV2
http://dominodamsel.tumblr.com/

MSPA Fan Adventures worth checking out:
Vast Error: https://mspfa.com/?s=2302&p=1
Act Omega: https://mspfa.com/?s=16414&p=1

so I enjoy your videos alot. And I like classpecting. I used to do some classpecting blogs. And after seeing your videos, I feel inspired to make a classpect focused video series that focuses on individual classpects determined by something like a strawpoll. I don’t know why I felt the need to tell you. But maybe if I get motivated enough to go through with it (which is the hardest part) and I get to the Mage of Hope, you could be a guest? idk. just spitballin. do you think it’s a good idea?

I feel that the Homestuck fandom overall might benefit from a shift towards Youtube, in some ways, so it sounds awesome to me.
Like, I really can’t stress how big a shift I think it’d make.

If you’ve ever played Dark Souls or engaged with its youtube fandom, or for that matter if you’ve ever browsed a game wiki, then you might get why I feel this way.

Like Homestuck at the end game (and in many ways, throughout it’s run), Dark Souls has some extremely esoteric and vague storytelling tactics, and a lot is left for the player to deduce from cryptic clues and environmental storytelling.

The thing is, Tumblr makes this stuff VERY difficult to talk about! I get wordy and overly elaborate when I communicate through text (as you can see), and that lends itself to stuff that’s hard to read.

I think video is a more effective way to communicate this kind of analysis because it forces me to structure my arguments and prioritize brevity and clarity of conveyance.

And the clearer and more enjoyable I can make videos, the easier it is for new fans to take an interest in the comic’s lore and background, which I feel could easily be a huge part of Hiveswap’s appeal. It’s already received substantial exposure from lets players like jacksepticeye and stuff. And again, borrowing Dark Souls’ example:
People love deep enviromental storytelling and background lore stuff.

So I think more people deciding they love Homestuck enough to tell people about it on Youtube is a good thing. Let me know if there’s any way I can help if you do! And I have no idea if I’ll have the time to guest in anything, sorta having trouble keeping up as it is, but if we get the chance, that sounds really cool!

A thank you to all of you following so far, as well as an update on this channel. From now on, videos will go up on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of every month, at 8 PM EST.

This begins this Saturday, with a reupload of our video on Classpects, this time as a two part series. Part 3–an expansion focused on six Class Archetypes (excluding that of Lord and Muse, the Conductor)–will be released on December 30th.

yeah true, I’m just worried that people who by chance only watch that one, or don’t stick around for the rest, will think they’re always in sessions

If people only watch this one and don’t really feel moved to check out the rest of the videos–or, to be clearer about it, Homestuck/Hiveswap in general in more depth, then I’ve kind of failed at what I’m setting out to accomplish anyway! Misconceptions over a part of the narrative that doesn’t impact much of anyone’s understanding of the plot aren’t really a big deal if bogging myself down in contextualizing the impact of a character like, three layers of context removed from discussing the basic nature of the setting means I lose people here and now, you know?

I think this is a reasonable thing to be concerned about, don’t get me wrong. It’s the kind of thing I’m weighing myself, all the time. But ultimately I pretty consistently come down on the fact that if I want people to be interested in this stuff at all, then the pacing and flow of each video has to prioritize ease of understanding and engagement. Otherwise, the whole project is kinda bunk. That’s the nature of Youtube as a platform.