(Placeholder album artwork by hipstersoulgushers)

Rubric of the Guardians (RotG) is the current main focus of Team Virgo. A Homestuck collaborative fan album project on the model of our previous Beforus project, Rubric will be a large compilation of Homestuck fan music and bespoke track art, with the overarching theme of Homestuck’s Guardians - both pre- and post-scratch, Human and non-Human, First Guardians, and otherwise. Overseen by the Team Virgo core team of mods, as with Beforus we are recruiting fan artists and musicians from across the Homestuck fandom to contribute their work, through an open application process!

How to apply to the RotG project

Applications both for musicians and visual artists are currently open for the Rubric of the Guardians project. Anyone can apply for a place on the project, regardless of prior experience! However, unlike with Beforus, places are limited, and consequently we can only accept a smaller number of applicants, and the sample work quality benchmark will likely be higher in order to reflect this! Given this, please do include your very best prior work in your application to give yourself the best chance of being allocated a place on the project. Also note that we are looking for musicians and artists to fulfill more specific roles on this project as opposed to on Beforus, so please don’t be disheartened if you apply with work of a high quality and it is rejected! We will often be looking for certain stylistic qualities to an applicant’s work that fit with a given project role.

Both musicians and artists can apply to RotG as follows, whilst applications for either musicians or visual artists remain open:

Navigate to our submissions page, and write out a post including the following information;

Name/username

Tumblr url

Contribution medium, e.g. musician, visual artist, both, other

Contact email address

In your submission, embed or link to an example or examples of your previous work in your medium. If you are a visual artist, for instance, you should include some of your previous artwork; if you are a musician, some of your music. Please ensure that you provide work that is representative of the quality of work you would be able to produce for RotG, and keep in mind that the better quality your submitted example, the higher chance there is of you being accepted onto the project!

If you are a visual artist, for instance, you should include some of your previous artwork; if you are a musician, some of your music. Please ensure that you provide work that is representative of the quality of work you would be able to produce for RotG, and keep in mind that the better quality your submitted example, the higher chance there is of you being accepted onto the project! Hit send! I will be respond to you once I have reviewed your information to tell you whether your application has been accepted, and if so, then I will also then give you additional information pertaining to project contribution.

Important note: As with Beforus, the RotG project will as a rule not be accepting direct submissions. This means that we are not looking to accept previously created work to be a part of the project. All content on RotG will be created uniquely for the RotG project, specifically assigned to our contributors after they have been accepted through the application process. This means that if you have already created a piece of music or artwork pertaining to the Guardians, we will not be interested in including it on the album release. By all means, you can use such work as your application example work, but keep in mind that work submitted as part of your application will not appear on RotG, and is for evaluation purposes only!

Thank you for reading, and I hope to see/hear your work on the project!