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Not to hound you for details, but trivia like this tends to be historically important.
- Ascended Fanon: Andrew has admitted to getting as many plot ideas from the Wild Mass Guessing on the forums as the user commands themselves. Homestuck almost entirely ran on this when the suggestion boxes were closed.
- Approval of God: Pretty much any and all fanworks are approved of by Andrew Hussie, especially fan adventures which even have their own site in the form of MS-Paint Fan Adventures.
- Follow the Leader:
- Around the time that Problem Sleuth ended, an impressive number of member-run MSPAs started showing up in the MSPA forum. For his part, Andrew is highly supportive of these: participating in some, linking to the more popular ones in a newspost, and creating a separate subforum in his forums to organize them.
- MSPA's influence has become so broad that a number of comics with similar formats such as Silent Hill: Promise and Aetheria Epics have sprung up independently of the forums.
- Funnily enough, the grandaddy of these fan MSPAs, Bird Wizard, had a suggestion from Andrew Hussie ("Squawk like an idiot and shit on your desk.") that made it into Homestuck (though the character resisted it).
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: With Adobe pulling the plug on Flash at the end of 2020, the Homestuck website (which was also running the other installments of MSPA) became extremely unstable. But many unofficial archives have been created in order to avert this. A standout example (who have been endorsed by Hussie and already has some mentions on the Homestuck page) is Bamboshu' archive
who contains basically nearly everything Hussie ever made, webcomic-wise. It even has the comics he did before starting Jailbreak! - Schedule Slip: Rarely an issue. Regular webcomics might have 3 or 5 pages a week, with some having as many as 7. MSPA averages about 40. In a single day there have been upwards of 30 pages. Andrew describes MSPA as less of a job and more of a lifestyle; he literally does little other than update constantly.
- However, pages of MSPA might not be comparable to pages of most webcomics.
- By his own standards the later half of Act 5 Act 2 of Homestuck suffered heavily from very sporadic updates and pacing problems. Switching narration over to Doc Scratch was designed to relieve this, and that started to drag on as well! It seems to have recovered fully with Act 6 however. And it should be said that even during this "slip", he still updated more frequently than normal web comics.
- Screwed By The Creator: Bard Quest ended before it was finished, primarily due to the fact that the story's oddly-updated Gamebook paths would not only be hard for viewers to keep up with, but it would inevitably end up following a single one, defeating the purpose of keeping a story in that genre.
- Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Interesting use. In Homestuck, Andrew planned out the entire process of Sburb, and the end result before even making a single page, but the way the story shows that process is completely improvised. Concepts such as the trolls, the exiles, and the entire Apocalypse were made up more or less on the fly. Applies to the art, as well. Andrew has admitted to creating some character designs shortly before they were introduced, such as the guardians. Andrew admitted the basic story plan for Homestuck was from the outset: Make crazy shit up. It worked surprisingly well.
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