// so I crafted my own Sburb Beta Soda and im not a gatekeeper so:
1 bottle of Mountain Dew
1 bottle of Minute maid Lemonade
1 packet of Jolly Rancher Green Apple drink dust
1 pack of Gushers
a few cups
(I found all of this at Dollar General and it was only 9 usd. And I got an entire box of gushers, not just a single pack. Zamn)
Step one: pour lemonade into 1-2 cups. I used a pretty tall one and there was too much lemonade in the bottle, ended up being split maybe 3/4 to 1/4 ish in the two cups.
Step two: pour the packet of green apple flavoring into the cup with more lemonade. Stir that shit !!!
Step three: Pour the Mountain Dew into a big glass — you won’t use all of it ! Fill it a little under halfway !
Step four: Pour the green apple lemonade on top!
Step five: add the gushers !!
That’s all!! I haven’t tested stirring it, it was fine as is. Pretty strong but it’s literally great.
idk if anyone else has tried this (probably) but this is how I did it !! I hope you guys enjoy it if you try to make it !!
so what was the deal with the drama around the art in the first requiem cafe art?
I wasn't here in 2023 so that is why i am clueless
First was that the depiction of the characters. It was on-model and not like the Pesterquest counterparts. So characters like Terezi, Feferi, and Aradia look thin despite fanon and Pesterquest has them looking plus sized. People accused it as fatphobic.
They also accused the artist (who is HONE, but nobody knew at the time who made all the art assets for the cafe since Requiem Cafe and WhatPumpkin had kept them anonymous for some time) as being racist because Roxy's hair was not curly like her Pesterquest self.
The biggest thing they accused the artist the most is the fact they think she PLAGERIZED someone's edit of Roxy. A Pesterquest Roxy edit had been posted on Reddit that had her with the scarf and people were surprised to see the promo art have this. People accused her for STEALING.
The worst part of all, Makin, who is in charge of the Homestuck Community Twitter and Discord server, WAS THE ONE WHO TRIED TO CALL OUT THE ARTIST AS PROBLEMATIC despite the fact they were the same group that were given permission to help PROMOTE Requiem Cafe.
The art for Roxy was then changed to avoid further backlash.
It wasn't long until AFTER the Homestuck x Requiem Cafe collab was over that it was revealed that it was HONE who made that art. HONE is a popular Japanese artist who worked on Homestuck. She contributed illustrations to [S] Collide. She says she made the old designs way before Pesterquest was a thing.
Makin did not apologize directly to her after this reveal.
TL;DR People accused the artist was racist, plagiarist, and fatphobic that the art had to quickly be changed. Makin, who runs Homestuck Community, tried to tell everyone that she is this. But when they found out the art was made years before Pesterquest release and was made by Japanese artist HONE, they backpedaled and did not apologize directly to HONE.
The old Roxy art with the scarf, was never released due to the backlash and we will never see the full body sprite because of this incident. I was lucky to have managed to get the full resolution of the old art before it was changed. The Jake and Jane sprites also had coincidentally had stuff like the Pesterquest counterpart (Jane's red glasses, Jake's black coat), but was changed to be separate from Pesterquest.
In case you haven't seen, the "official" height charts were uploaded to the Homestuck subreddit. I haven't seen anyone post them here, so here they are.
You can see clearer images here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/12lafun/official_heights_displayed_at_the_requiem/