It Begins...

[gjarble]

Ahem.

Hello, fellow Blue Smuppets!

My name is Gjarble, and I'll be your palhoncho for Homestuck Express Shipping flight 413 from Here to Victory. Our estimated date of arrival at Victory is August 11. Our current altitude is 0 meters.

That is, sea level.

...

Y'know, cause we're sailing.

Why'd they even call this a "flight", anyway?

So, first of all, let me express my gratitude that 6 people are finally aboard, so we can all set sail! Alongside my lovely vice-palhoncho, macca44552, I'm here to make sure we all have a grand ol' time, and leave all the other, saner ships floundering in our wake!

I think our first order of business should be getting to know each other. So, I'd like to ask everybody to do the following:

• Introduce yourself!
• Answer those four questions the mods said we should ask each other (and I tend to agree we should):
  • Preferred pronouns
  • Time zone
  • Preferred method of contact/communication
  • Media that you work with

I'll start.

Like I said before, I'm Gjarble. I'm a college student studying to be a video game designer. I've been reading MSPA since about halfway through Problem Sleuth, though I didn't join the fandom outright until right after [S] Make her pay. Since then, I've done my fair share of HS-themed image manips, and cosplayed Hella Jeff, Davesprite, and Karkat. HS is also, like for many other fans, the thing that actually made shipping interesting for me. I don't have an OTP per se, but the huge cast (and of course, the quadrants) have been a lot of fun to explore to their darkest depths. I joined Bro ♥ Grandpa because the idea is freakin' hilarious, but at the same time it's an extension of the very sincere, very canon Dirk ♥ Jake, which macca and I both ship. Due to my inexperience with shipping, this'll be my first time doing rom-art of any kind, but HSO looks to be a lot of fun!

• Preferred pronouns: He/him
• Time zone: Eastern U.S. - Boston (currently EDT [UTC -4 hours])
• Preferred method of contact: I'd recommend the comm, just so everything's in one place. If you wish to contact me privately or don't think the matter is large enough to make a new comm entry for, just send me a PM.
• Media that I work with:
  • I am first and foremost a game designer/programmer. I work with Flash by far the most, but I'm also experienced in JavaScript and a bunch of other assorted stuff. I doubt this'll be very useful during the main round for time reasons (if you have a reasonably simplistic idea for an interactive fill, I'll gladly be proven wrong), but it definitely puts interactive stuff on the table for the collaborative round. Oh man, do I have ideas. We'll talk about that once everyone's settled into the comm.
  • Doctorin'! I've done a lot of Photoshop stuff, so if you need an existing HS panel manipulated to be something else, or just want someone to clean up the linework on your drawing, I'm your guy. I also at least like to think I'm okay at editing audio and video to similar ends.
  • Music. I was trained as a drummer for the bulk of my childhood (don't have access to decent live equipment, though), and I know just enough music theory to write some half-decent music. I can put together something decent-sounding using GarageBand and Audacity, but I also have Famitracker- a chiptune maker that performs 100% to the specifications of the NES.
  • If all else fails (that is, if I can't use any of the above skills for a prompt), I probably don't suck at writing.

I think that's it... take it away, everyone!