Obligatory First Post!

[theycallmeruthless]

This is the community page for 
Team Jake <3 Terezi
OR T34M STR1D3RS3XU4L
  for this year's Homestuck Shipping Olympics!

Hi guys!

First, I wanted to say thank you so much for humoring me and joining this team for HSO - we'll have a lot of fun (:

I will admit that I have just as much experience with Dreamwidth as you do, as in, this is my first time using it. It's simple enough to figure out but if you're beyond confused feel free to contact me. Also give me a shout if you absolutely hate this theme, or something.

Next, I'd like you guys to note that there are a few differences that, together, separate us and most (if not every) other team participating in the Homestuck Shipping Olympics this year. Of those couple of differences, two stand out more than the others:

• The characters in our ship have yet to meet
  
• We all know each other

These two things can make a huge impact on how we do as a team, depending on how we use them.

The fact that we captain such an odd ship ensures that we can't go wrong. They have never met in canon (as of yet) and we have no idea how they'll react to each other so - guess what - we get to make it up! And take voting into account. Voters can vote for up to five ships and chances are they'll flock to their OTPs first, then to the craziest of crack pairs second. Since Jake<3Terezi isn't something one would usually think of, we may actually attract attention. Basically: If we put effort into our fills, we will get votes.

We all know each other, to a point, and most (or all) of us even live in the same borough. This is super convenient and I don't think I necessarily have to say why because, hello.

And there are a couple of things that I want to cover before the games start:

• Confirming accounts + joining the community + customize
  
• Introductions + discovering our potential as a team
  
• Snag some easy points
  
• Meeting our characters and defining what their relationship is/will be like
  

Guys, please confirm your Dreamwidth accounts if you have not done so already and join this community. If you don't do this soon, I will pester you until you do - we go to the same school - you can't avoid me. 

And would anyone be willing to make a shippy icon for the community? If no one steps up to the plate I'll make it stupid stripes and a heart. Yes.

After everyone is nice and tidy in the group, I'll make an introductory post in which we find out what we can bring to the group, where we want to go with this ship, and generally who we are (if any of us aren't fully familiar with each other, which is sort of the case). Hopefully we'll get some other members (maybe who we don't know?) by the time the games start, but this step is going to be necessary regardless!

Snagging some easy points - if you reblog the HSO pre-game promotional post on tumblr and add a link to the the comments of that page, we'll get +5 points per person! More points if you post it to other blogs/Facebook/whatever. It's an easy way to start stocking up, no?

And finally, we know who Jake and Terezi are, but how good is our characterization of them? How would they react to each other and how do they act around others? To make sure that they stick as close to canon as possible, we're going to have to read and analyze. Don't worry about it too much - I'll probably just make a post of required reading and we'll sort out our headcanons or something.

((Note: Sorry if I made any grammatical/spelling errors! It's sort of late, aha.))

We got this! 
 Ruthie
(theycallmeruthless)

 

 

TL;DR

• Join this community.
• Confirm your Dreamwidth accounts.
• We'll discuss more things later.
• We have potential!
• Ruthie likes bullet point lists.