Team Grand Highblood♠Summoner: The Ancestral PBJ

Sorry guys, I have not been as on top of everything this last week because things have been majorly hectic. It was just pushed to my attention that our entries for round one which were originally due this week were pushed back to be due June 23rd. In a way this is actually a sigh of relief as my laptop is getting progressively worse and I'd feel better about getting the problem fixed so nothing goes wrong when I send it in.

((Also its been a STRESSFUL week for everyone, one member got her wisdom teeth out and many others were busy. I was actually non-stop busy in the evenings and am starting to get a wicked cold))

Basically for MF and those working with her. We can actually spend more time editing the writing and finishing up the art for it so our product is more polished.

So yeah basically the gist is, we have more time, take your time re-working your pieces, feel free to confer with the rest of the team if you want any insight, artists ask about anatomy and whether the pictures make sense in context. And everybody just take Saturday to relax and recover because I may not have internet access but even if I do, you guys have been amazing and I think we need a rest.

Hey guys,

So unfortunately, I have been having a recent and re-occuring computer problem happen to me. My cursor isn't working the way it should. Its slow, darts around like it has a mind of its own and doesn't go where it needs to and generally is making my life difficult. This isn't the first time this has happened to me, but its been the first time its happened in very close ratios and its getting to be an annoyance. Its not anything dangerous, I have a macbook pro and theres a bug in the system called the magic cursor or phantom cursor. Basically its not just me and it not a virus but I need to go into the Mac Store as soon as possible to get this fixed. The earliest I can get it in is Saturday, the day our first entry is due. Basically I need MF to get her entry finalized and to me by Friday evening or at the latest Saturday morning, so I can send it in before going to get my computer fixed.

After I do this, while sending an email explaining my computer situation to the mods, I'll need to ask that palhoncho duties be taken over by our Vice Pal-Honcho RainbowPui if it ends up being that more serious things are going on. There may not be serious issues and I'll have my computer and post the next round 2 prompt on Sunday. In any case better to err on the side of caution. I hope you guys aren't too disappointed in me.

Hey guys, I posted earlier on in the week suggesting that if you wanted to submit something for this rounds entry to think about what and where you personally wanted to go with this. And while one or two of you have posted some staging and draft work others have not. So this is just my final shout-out for anybody who has even scrap work in the motion, that we need some idea of where we are going this incoming week if we are going to do both writing and art. So my suggestion is either this evening, all of tomorrow or monday, please post your work.

Thank you.

Okay everyone since it seems like we all have reached some sort of consensus.

Our official theme in response to the Round One Prompt; Gamble is going to be:

Viewing the gamble as something that not only dictates the summoner's entire rebellion but also the relationship between the summoner and the grand highblood themselves.

The idea is to try and do this as one person stated, Hemostuck style. Meaning we use pictures within our writing. The idea of the pictures and the writing itself is to go from brown hopefulness to dark oppressive purple or some mix of the two.

Our deadline for our first submission is next saturday June 16th.

Because we are planning on doing both pictures and writing it might be a good idea to coordinate writers and artists.

Since ANYONE can actually create and put forward their work to be used as a possible submission this can be tough.

Therefore I offer a suggestion: If you are thinking about writing or creating art for this prompt please come up with a solid frame by frame of what you are planning to do and you can also show off preview work of art. Writers can do the same thing, give me a summary of what you are planning to write, it doesn't have to be in too much detail but it'll give us a better idea of whether this is an introspective piece, or one scene fic or a look over a long period of time, etc. The post in which you can post this will be put up late this week to provide you guys with some time.

My plan is to basically have artists and writers to come together at some point to make a cohesive work. So this means you could reach out to another member and collaborate on the side with each other so that you can present a piece to us that is already sort of cohesive.

This is supposed to be a fun event so now that we've figured out the minor details, go crazy. And remember even if your final work isn't ultimately picked you all have amazing talent and are contributing to proving more ways for people to enjoy this pairing.

If anybody has any questions, complaints or comments please let me know either on the tumblr or emailing me at Saingirl101@gmail.com.

-Saingirl101

Consider this a round up post for all of the great ideas people are suggesting so that everyone can see everyone else's ideas.

For Round One, Theme (Gambling):

ThePioden- GH Isn't stable, each time the Summoner heads Highblood-wards for some blackrom might be the time the GH gets bored and up and kills him. The Summoner keeps coming back anyway.

The Summoner's rebellion isn't successful, so what if I did a sequence of a few images following the whole Gambler's Fallacy idea? The Summoner keeps making risky choices that fail, but each one has a definite chance of success, so he goes again, and as the images progress the tone goes from a really bright brown to a kind of oppressive, claustrophobic murky purple because SUBTLETY IN REGARDS TO COLOR THEORY: I don't have it.

morriganfearn- I reallly love the idea of the rebellion as a gamble ending with the biggest gamble of all just how far he can trust his highblood antagonist. I'm perfectly willing to take a crack at ficcing these ideas. I like them both. But it would be wonderful if we could have the art. It's very useful for setting mood, particularly with people who we don't actually have the full designs for.

The sequence could be of the risks that the Summoner takes in order to get the rebellion started, and then the oh shit moment when it gets the attention of the Highblood, and the even wierder Enjolras moment where he stands up to the GHB and something sparks angrily, instead of a what he assumed would be a martyrdom.

ohthesparkels- It's just that my idea was that it would focus on the summoners first meeting with GH, and he knows it's a bad idea but does it anyway, and GH almost kills him but doesn't, and tells the summoner that he "got lucky"

Siadea- When you think about it, if the Summoner is going to get close enough for them to actually touch, he's taking his life into his own hands because of GHB's size etc. (Also my headcanon is that those wings are hellaciously delicate, since butterfly/moth wings are.)

So to sum it all up the main ideas people seem to think are good is focusing on either 1. The summoner's rebellion being his big gamble 2. The Grand highblood's meeting and relationship with the summoner being a gamble itself ((Highbloods unpredictable)) 3. A combination of the two

And personally I'd love to go with option 3 but we'd have to think of a clever way to make this all work together.

This goes into our next item we need to adress, Medium. How do we want to get the message across. So far the suggestions have been perhaps a comic or song art. ((The seconds more difficult and I agree with morriganfearn that its hard to get a message across in the few amount of pages we get.))

Another possibility is coming a few art pages as illustrations and providing a large writing piece with it. thus proving a visual work with a figurative work to help make the message more clear.

I am leaning more towards this as it allows for one better clarity and two a better cohesion of the group working together as a whole. This is more work though, just to be clear. And we'd need the people we ultimately pic for this to be fast workers but still retain quality. However this is still up for debate and its up to you guys to figure out what we should do.

Collaboration Round, Theme (Aberration):

ohthesparkles- well pre-scratch could work, because aberration=break in normalicy=scratch?

morriganfearn- If we go really dark and violent in the rest of the rounds we could celebrate the questionably sweet aspects of black rom? That would certainly be an abberation in the quadrant.

On the same silly vein, The Summoner tells a really shitty joke and the GHB allows him to live anyway.

AU where their roles in the story are reversed? Like GHB is rebelling and Summoner is oppressing.

Medium:

I kind of feel that we should try to somehow make the images for a vid, since we're under no constraints for number of images, and it would be a great use of Saingirl's know how and talent.

So some ideas here, but we have time and I'd like to see what other people have to suggest.

((Copied over from the main comm))

ROUND ONE: GAMBLING

they call you lady luck


Hey shippers!
We are so incredibly excited to announce the first main round prompt and the official start of the HSO!
This year, we’re loosely theming the prompts around patron trolls. We’re also trying to give you a little more creative space with this year’s prompts, so we’ll see how this works out!

For Round One, incorporate gambling--literal or metaphorical--in your submission. It doesn't need to be the central focus, but it should be a major theme.


And as always, if you are unsure whether something counts or not, just ask! You can reach us at homestuck.shipping@gmail.com

All submissions must be created/assembled new for this round by members of your team.
No fan-created content is allowed that has not been made by members of your team specifically in response to the prompt. Mainstream creative content is fine (e.g. popular music, well-known art pieces, the Homestuck soundtrack), but not fanart, fan music, etc. This is largely to ensure that the original content in your entry is clearly identifiable as distinct from the borrowed content.

This challenge will run until 11:59PM EDT June 23. If your Palhoncho sends it in after that time according to the gmail timestamp, your team’s submission will get posted--but we cannot guarantee that it will be posted in a timely manner.

Requirements (as stated in the Info Post)
Fic/meta must be between 800-3000 words.
Combination fic/art entries cannot have more than 4 images.
All other image-based media (including comics) cannot exceed 10 images/panels.
Cosplay must be at least 75% created or assembled new for the challenge.
The penalties for going over 3k words will be as follows:
3000-3050: no penalty (to allow for disparities in wordcount software)
3051-3150: -30 points
3151-3250: -60 points
etc.
PLEASE NOTE that gdocs is notoriously bad at generating an accurate wordcount, so you should probably check your submission at http://www.wordcounter.net/ just to make sure.
Also, this year we are requiring transcriptions of all text on images. These transcriptions count towards the wordcount.

Please remember not to post your HSO creations publicly until voting ends, whether or not they are chosen as part of the team submission. We would like to keep things as anonymous as possible!

Submission Format
We’re still working out the details, but this year we’re probably going to ask palhonchos to post their entries directly to the round comm! Stay tuned for more details.

Questions about this challenge should be emailed to homestuck.shipping@gmail.com; we will attempt to check the comments on this post, but we cannot guarantee that we will be able to see all of them.

So our theme is gambling. I bet all the scorpio related troll pairings are thrilled. But, we can still do this because this theme will actually make sense within a blackrom.

So what approach are we going for? Where do we feel we can make a bigger impact? Art? Fic? Combined and making a comic?

What versions do we want to use? Post-scratch? AU? Or Pre Scratch?

How do you convey the theme and how do you think it can get across on your medium of work?

These are all questions that I want you to think about before posting an answer with your ideas. AS well as what you initially thought of when you read this prompt.

((I'm not going to lie when I first read this, the image that popped into my head was the two of them playing poker with the summoner tied up going stop cheating you great beast of burden. I'm trying to win my freedom here. But thats just me and everyone ignore me))

Anyway if any of you have any questions at all, please ask me or if I can't answer ask the hso mods or ask me to ask them for you. They aren't intentionally trying to make this complicated.

As for what's left to say, let the round officially commence and let's win this guys!

But also be respectful as well and have fun!

So here's the deal guys. I just checked in with the MODs and sent in the email confirming everyone's check-in. However they informed me that I should let them know who our vice palhoncho is. At this point we haven't discussed this and I wasn't aware we needed someone so I'll just say this.

If you would like to be Vice-Palhoncho, please let me know as soon as possible. To be clear, you may in some cases have to make descions on my behaf if I am ever unavaible and lead the team. I hope it never comes to a point where I have to take off or anything.

So basically, you must be avaible and willing to communicate with me, probably on a day to day basis.

Please email me if you would like this possision as soon as possible. Thanks.

Saingirl101@gmail.com

Hey guys. I just got an email from the mods of the HSo informing me that I needed to get in touch and account for all of you and send them an email letting them know you have all checked in. Please, please, please. Get in contact with me. I'll be sending this to your tumblrs as well just in case though. But you can check in by sending me a msg through dreamwidth, emailing me at Saingirl101@gmail.com or on tumblr at saingirl101. Please do so soon as possible thanks.