Homestuck Notifier - Spades Slick

 If you've been following me on Tumblr, you know that lately I've gotten interested in a webcomic called Homestuck. It's made up to feel like an old school text-based video game, and it incorporates a lot of audio, flash animation, and even a few flash mini-games (making it a sort of multi-media webcomic). I wont bother trying to summarize the plot, as it's a bit complicated, but it's a really intriguing storyline and I'm hooked.

The comic updates regularly, generally on a daily basis, so sometimes fans have to constantly check the site to see if there's a new page. Luckily, one such fan developed a program called the Homestuck Notifier, which checks the Homestuck RSS feed regularly, and when there's a new update, a sound will play and an image will pop up above the computer's taskbar.

The Notifier cycles through a bunch of preset fanart, but the READ ME explained that you could upload your own image or sound to the program's macro folder. Obviously I had to do this, because the preset images didn't include one of Spades Slick, one of my favorite characters.

Writing Prompt Response #3

Finally, the third of the three writing prompts I was given about a month ago. This is a bit late not only because I waited until I was finished with the other two before starting, but because it took me a while to get into the feel of the story. I'm still not completely satisfied - will probably be coming back to this sometime, but I'm happy with what I have for now. I didn't completely stick to the prompt, and I didn't really tell everything there was to tell, but I have a tendency to do that anyways.

The original prompt was "Three siblings or best friends, overcoming (or attempting to) something that would otherwise threaten to split them apart forever."