Friendsim Themes

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Homestuck/Hiveswap

Friendsim

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A song from the wonderful webcomic Homestuck

I'm A Member Of The Midnight Crew

My arrangement of Moonshine, from Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead. Original transcription by GameHunter, original music by Alexander Rosetti. Homestuck belongs to Andrew Hussie, and this song to its author.

http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/moonshine

Moonshine

Breeding Duties

La canción de Steven Universe aún sin salir, cantada por Rebecca Sugar en el final 1 temporada de los podcasts

Escapism (LEAKED/Rebecca Sugar) - Steven Universe

(Cirava's theme)

originally this was called Ｍ Ｏ Ｉ Ｓ Ｔ but w/e program trace was using didnt interpret them right but it was so much funnier to just leave it as boxes LMAO

anyway i said somethin ages ago about some of the trolls having themes i didnt get to finish all of them but ciravas is just a re-purposed early WIP of a grubbles song (get the horns) that i made vapor/moisturewave by slowing it down in the right way because thats literally all vaporwave is.

M O I S T

(Amisia's Theme)
I wanted to call this one ":0" but apparently thats "fucking stupid" uhhh????????????????????????????????????? wrong

anyway heres the lore: andrew wanted something "UP" and "whimsical" because the first volume was really heavy handed on the music front. I had this laying around and thats basically how we are doing the music.

ARTCHOP (APPARENTLY)

Thip of the Tongue from my old album Genesis Frog without the orchestral intro section.

https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/genesis-frog

Thip Of The Tongue (no intro)

i wrote this for tagora. i do these for free so if you liked it consider sending me some cash https://ko-fi.com/jamesroach

Call Me Gor-Gor

once again i did not expect to get away with this name thanks for playing hiveswap friendly simulation i am gonna be gone all day so im just gonna post it now spoiler alert she's pirate themed if you couldn't guess

anyway i wrote this song when i was in like 7th grade because we could do something 'creative' instead of a book report. the book was sylvia plaths "the bell jar"

Piwates ',:^]

heres the "album version" of the loop from todays upcoming friendsim

it be like that sometimes

DaJam

a little over three years ago i was in a sweaty conference room in manhattan visiting the now defunct WP NYC studio (which was in a shared space sort of... tech venture situation??) sitting in on what was usually a remote meeting. I nervously stood in front of andrew and my director at the time (whos name was also james come to think of it) as well as a handful of other people. Toby was conference calling in like we both usually did.

They said since i was visiting from out of town I didn't have to present anything at this weeks meeting like i usually did. I said I had something to show them anyway, since I didn't like to sit around idly and wanted to make the most of my studio visit. I stood there half-moist with gross air-dampness only new york in summer can really provide knowing I had one opportunity to wow them in person.

"alright. remember all those sound effects for that highblood minigame? like... seltzer water? light bulb? honks? squeaks? ok well, I made them into a beat and added some airhorns and tuba-"

"more tuba?" said toby over the call

"hell yeah brother more tuba"

anyway this was that song. It was going to be for a minigame sequence but i wanted to use it here. originally it didn't have a melody so i wrote a melody on banjo since you should definitely be reading all of chahuts lines in a very slow, methodical louisiana genteel southern accent. "SANGLE and ready tuh MANGLE"

take me to clown church

this track presented a unique problem in that i didn't want to write it at the time. I had written a really somber and melancholic track for the area outside the hive (the farm in the concept art) and changing it into something a little goofier and weird presented a unique difficulty for me. I just didn't know what to do for the first time in like actual YEARS i had no idea where to even start. I kept at it for a very long time and eventually just muscled through it with sheer force of will. People often ask me the hardest track or my least favorite to work on. it was this one. silver lining: its also become one of my favorites. i love how it came out. thats the power of determination. did you know you can't say determination anymore.

this was written for, yes, the fabled beekeeper troll that nobody will talk about. its become some sort of myth as to what happened to her but the truth isn't that exciting. in early hiveswap days each member of the crew got to "pick" a character that they could choose one design element of. The person who picked beekeeper just had a fantroll based off of herself. they also just... drew micro/macro porn of themselves? a power move, honestly. I met them in person and they offered me weed within literal minutes of meeting so i mean i guess they seemed nice. when they no longer worked for the company it was just simpler to redesign the character than deal with literally any of that. mystewy sowved :)

at the point in production where they were figuring out names/personalities/traits they kinda thrust this one on me because it "would make the most people angry." beekeeper troll was beloved by a very specific kind of horny dude. you know the kind that regularly says "lewds" or w/e. nothin wrong with that i guess. chase your bliss. but in an effort by my SO CALLED FRIENDS to antagonize me, they were like "heh h h e h he  e e he h what if we make this cute girl character that hornyboys love into a dumpy little round dude and then say we based him off james who they already do not like."

thanks guys.

anyway zebede's bullet points and even his name are references to me but thats kinda where it ends. st. james son of zebedee is also known as santiago, which is my birthname. the tongva were "maybe" the indigenous people of long beach, where i live, which is "too far to visit" which is a joke about The Greater Los Angeles Area. I live 20 minutes away. cowards.

beekeeper who? i dont know her.

Bronya's Theme

theres a channel that just re-uploads homestuck/hiveswap and now friendsim music to youtube so i named the track this so that a lot of confused kids show up in the comments. there isnt really anything i can do about people re-uploading music (and if it brings in a few more sales, then hell yeah) since if you take one down 9 others pop up and then people call you an asshole On-Line. at least we can both have a bit of a laugh when like fragman22 shows up in the comment section calling this song and whoever "james roach" is gay. well you got me there, kid. i am. i am gay.

for this one i really wanted to capture that LAD atmosphere. idk if mallek is a lad exactly... but he's got lad energy. maybe im just projecting. I have been saying saying "boyo" a lot lately. oh god is the lad.... me??? no probably not.

this song started off as a track for my best friend at the time Lexxy's fantroll very creatively named "Lexxer" back before homestuck fantrolls were "post-ironic" and still "sincere." I also put the melody to "nuclear" in here as a throwback to my old fantroll "Carcha." I have said fantroll more times today than I have in the last year. Fantroll.

this is the closest to ska that friendsim has got just because in its original iteration this is a weird like... electronica ska song.

anyway i say it "started off" as that but i literally wrote this track on like.. monday. thats how ya boy do. I borrowed from a song i wrote for a fantroll album i did. theres a whole fantroll album that... hasn't really stood up to the passing of time so I've mostly purged it from existence. I guess some chuckleheads found it but have been kind enough not to repost it.

FFM episode 413

"imagine, if you will, a situation wherein i wrote the bulk of this song at 4 am and then woke up only to discover the monstrosity i had created in my fleeting hubris"

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i wrote this to have really one of those melodies that don't really make any sense. you ever notice how vocal songs only have like 3 or 4 notes in the melody. anyway i also had to write lyrics. have you you ever tried to write a sitcom theme that incorporates harspichord? yikes. i love it when theme songs to sitcoms just outline the premise of the show so... i guess i don't have a great excuse i was just extremely drunk. its literally the chords to the theme song to "Family Matters" you know the show with Steve Urkel who is played by jaleel white who also voiced sonic the hedgehog.

anyway the lyrics that i definitely wrote at 6 this morning are:

its the 90s
and this is a show
about a female troll

she might have kids
or maybe a dog
the premise isnt clear

i like it when
songs just tell you
(what the shows about)

she practices the law
she wears a pink coat
and probly does some other shit too

this is the theme
to "Family Matters"
which I guess came out in the 80s

i checked
1989
but it ran until ' 98

oh cool
i finished the song

I.I.Y.W.A.S.W.I.W.T.B.O.T.S.A.4.A.A.T.W.U.O.T.D.T.M.I.H.C.I.M.F.H.

here it is folks.

this was going to be in act 3, then i made it the EOA2 cutscene but it still cut off too early to be a full release and i just really liked it so i wanted you guys to hear it now instead of later.

i used it for boldir because it fit her whole aesthetic, but this song was originally wrote for a scene where joey and xefros are on the run. having been hardened by their journey they hit the streets. it was meant to be a really sort of somber realization.

I LOVE the mood of the transistor soundtrack and you might notice this drum beat and title are a very obvious nod to the song "Old Friends" (though someone else named it, years ago) I was specifically instructed "make it sound like this song" but since then I have worked to make it sound like more my own thing. you can see the influence of that soundtrack on all my work, though. the slow driving half-time beat. the airy reverb on chordal tones. the dirty bass. originally meant as a placeholder i never got over how the beat drops the backbeat on every other 4. I could dweeb out about this for hours.

Old Secret

(AN ASCII IMAGE OF BOWSETTE) (KARAKO's THEME)

friendsim spoilers:

karako is a very young and very small child juggalo. on twitter i described karako as "the one clown you are not allowed to be horny for" and a bunch of chuckleheads tried to be funny and say like "hueuhuhe is that a challenge" and its like one why don't you just listen to me when i say things, two stop trying to one up me you will never ever win, and three i am eagerly waiting your apologies. my inbox is open.

i mean i get it. i was just on a podcast this morning talking about how the one thing that binds us all together is that we've all engaged in some clownery. i think i talk about regrettably hooking up with a juggalo as a teen for a solid 10 minutes. its hard being me.

i just moved and gave my old electric bass away to a friend who was interested in learning. i recorded this before giving it away. goodbye electric bass. dozens of children will miss how i used to just go ham on the bass in a bunch of songs for no reason. oh also im beatboxing for two seconds in this one. i ran it through a filter so it sounds less like "james roach making some sounds."

all in all, i wanted to make this one sound a little more whimsical so i borrowed the synth i made for my friends dnd character theme... where they're also a clown? its a really good synth. ok marsti is up next.

(an ascii image of bowsette)

Symphony Impossible to Play  by Clark "Plazmataz" Powell 
Homestuck soundtracks. 

Homestuck-I - Overture

from coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A, released 02 April 2012 
Olive Scribe by Magnum (CharredAsperity) 

Art by WP at weaselyperson.tumblr.com

Olive Scribe

Prospit Dreamers
Contains elements of: 
“Frost” by Jeremy “Solatrus” Iamurri, “Doctor” by George Buzinkai, and “Penumbra Phantasm” by Toby “Radiation” Fox 

from Prospit & Derse, released 22 August 2011 
by Jeremy "Solatrus" Iamurri



Derse Dreamers
Contains elements of: “Atomyk Ebonpyre” by Toby “Radiation” Fox and “Endless Climb” by George Buzinkai 

from Prospit & Derse, released 22 August 2011 
by Jeremy "Solatrus" Iamurri

Derse Dreamers

You Can't Fight the Homestuck

♋Lyrics♋
[He-lllo, everybody! Let me tell you about Homestuck...]

Verse 1

Oooooooooooooooooooooooh yeaaaahh
John Egbert, Rose Lalonde
Ascend, descend, rise up, abscond
Jade Harley, Dave Strider
They all play Sburb and end the world.
Harlequin
Nanna, Bro
Mom, Dad
Youth roll
Grandpa, Pesterchum
Hella Jeff and Sweet Bro

Verse 2

Heat and clockwork, wind and shade
Frost and frogs, light and rain
Vagabond and Mendicant
Renegade, consorts and Denizens
Skaia, four-thirteen
Countdown to the Reckoning
Derse and Prospit
Carapaces
Pogo Hammer, Sassacre

Chorus

You can't fight the Home-stuck!
Though it's weird and random
It's the greatest fandom!
You can't fight the Home-stuck!
True, it's quite outrageous
But it's all contagious!

Verse 3

Jasper's secret, Davesprite
Casey, Mutie, doomed timelines
Good dog, best friend
Jack causes many people's ends.
Black Queen, nak nak
Stuffing corpses, shoosh pap
Robot bunnies, Midnight Crew
H3Y COOLK1D, 1S TH1S YOU?

Verse 4

Lil' Cal, babies
Ecto-biology
Apple juice, Pupa Pan
Nic Cage, Cit-y of Cans
Doc Scratch, Snowman
I warned you 'bout those stairs, man!
God Tiers, March drag
WHO EVEN IS THIS DOUCHEBAG?

Chorus

You can't fight the Home-stuck!
Though it's weird and random
It's the greatest fandom!
You can't fight the Home-stuck!
True, it's quite outrageous
But it's all contagious!

Verse 5

Exploring with A-ra-di-a
Tavros, Sollux, Nep-e-ta
Ter-e-zi's nuts, Karkat's a crab
Gam-zee's got issues with his dad
Equius, Fe-fe-ri
Kanaya the vampire fashion queen
She slices Eri-dan in half
And Vriska is a bad-ass

Verse 6

Shipping charts, sick fires
All the irons in the fire
Buckets, squiddles, an-gels
All the lusii get culled
Faygo, recupercoons
Horrorterrors kill you
Troll Jegus, killer clowns
Mobius double reach around

Chorus

You can't fight the Home-stuck!
Though it's weird and random
It's the greatest fandom!
You can't fight the Home-stuck!
True, it's quite outrageous
But it's all contagious!

Verse 7

Matesprits, auspistice
Moirail and kismesis
Betty Crocker, ICP
Dead Daves are the enemy
Green sun, Alpha-verse
Jane, Roxy, Jake and Dirk
Uu, uu
Princely tights
Guy Fieri is the Antichrist

Verse 8

Captchalogue, modus
And Strife Specibus
Heir and Knight
Witch and Seer
Can't outrun what's already here
Chorus
You can't fight the Home-stuck!
Though it's weird and random
It's the greatest fandom!
You can't fight the Home-stuck!
True, it's quite outrageous
But it's all contagious!

Verse 9

Dreambubbles, shenanigans
All who die come back again
Tick, tock, break heads
Honk honk
Scary wolf heads
Cue balls, magic dogs
The universe
Is a frog

Verse 10

Felt mob and fairies
Lord Eng-lish killed Huss-ie
Troll cops, Thresh Prince
Don't screw with the Condesce
Scalemates, rap wars
Blowing up the Tumor
Zillyhoo, shaving cream
Echeladder, science beam
Cascade, Morse code
This fandom's about to EXPLODE!

Chorus

You can't fight the Home-stuck!
Though it's weird and random
It's the greatest fandom!
You can't fight the Home-stuck!
And from now on
It will go on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
You can't fight the Home-stuck!
Though it's weird and random
It's the greatest fandom!
You can't fight the Home-stuck!
True, it's quite outrageous
But it's all contagious!

♋You Can't Fight the Homestuck♋

Over one year, I've been reading Homestuck. I love the soundtracks and here ya go!

(an ascii image of bowsette)

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