Q: What is?

A: My official Homestuck sequel. It is official according to a certification board consisting of specifically me.

Q: Who are you?

A: I am Vivian, aka Magic Mirror, indie authoress extraordinaire. Nice to meet you.

Q: How does the story go?

A: Remember the ending of Homestuck? Everything in Paradox Space collapses into a big magic plot hole, and then as their reward for beating Sburb, the kids go to their new planet, Earth C, in their new universe. Then they go 5,000 years into the future, to inherit a world that is already messed up, having had no guidance.

My sequel differs beginning from this point onward. Instead of going 5,000 years into the future, they decide to stay with the Mayor and the Postmistress to help nurture the growing world; within their first years, they decide upon a voluntary set of norms and behavioral restrictions to place upon themselves, as the spiritual figureheads and shadow-guardians of a new planet that must learn to govern itself.

A young world has growing pains. The sleep of reason produces monsters. The gods and goddesses are no different than ourselves. Everyone is simply trying their best to grow.

The story starts about five years after arrival on Earth C, on page 1 of Problem Soothe. We find Jane Crocker somewhere in her twenties, fucking around in her weird office while doing silly cosplay games, getting distracted by the smallest things

Q: Anything else?

A: Well, the whole session they left behind, the furthest ring and all the dream bubbles have collapsed into a black hole--a sort of death bubble, a haunted dead mall with all of the memory-content leached from it. A certain denizen has become active again; at the center of the black hole, a tear in reality leads to the true hereafter, and the dead souls of the old sessions wander about, resigned to the fate of moving on.
That is, until Jane Crocker shows up and starts fucking the whole thing up by reviving people.

Q: Why did you write this story?

A: Because I love Homestuck, and I figured I was suited to write it.

Q: Who would want to read this?

A: People who love magical and scien-tastic adventure/romance stories that are silly, bombastic, fun, thoughtful, and wondrous, and cosmic in scale. There is a lot of dumb stuff, and there are metaphysical conflicts with consequences for all reality.

My ideal is that someone who read Homestuck acts 1-7 could pick this comic up right after to begin to dive into what happens on Earth C and everything that follows, regrowing severed plot threads like coppiced stumps.

Q: Is there content I should be aware of?

A: You should always be aware of all content, all the time. Just kidding. Rather than listing everything out specifically, I will say that pretty much any heavy or serious topic that was brought up in Homestuck--you know, all the death and tragedy and mayhem and such--will be on the table in Problem Soothe and Commedia, and the humor may tend slightly violent or risque at times, but it will not be NSFW.

I hope you will enjoy reading!

Q: If I've read this far into this interminable goshdarned FAQ, then I probably will!

A: You're darn right, person who talks kind of similar to Jane.

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