Tips on how to Homestuck-ify my desktop????????

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Friday, October 24th, 2025, 11:24 PMabout 1 month ago

I'm personalizing my desktop shortcuts to feel like they could be in-universe for HS. This means renaming and adding custom icons...

Suggestions would be appreciated!

Screenshot of my Desktop

I don't think it shows up very well, but so far I have


-Tulikettu, originally Firefox, which I renamed to a certain firefox of Finnish folklore and made an icon to look like a denizen browser (holding a cueball like the Mozilla Firefox holds the globe, with a first guardian flame tail that matches the Finnish Tulikettu's tail being an aurora)


-cha.OS, which is a direct Discord parody as seen in Beyond Canon


-Clementine, whose name has not been changed, but I altered the icon to look like our favorite orange [|:). (it's a music player)


-Paint.NOT, which is actually Aseprite, which replaced my preferred program Paint.NET when I made the switch to Linux. I am still emotionally attached to Paint.NET despite it not being the best art program ever, and I wanted to pay homage to it... It's hard to see here but I did edit the icon past just adding a red 'x', it's actually a pixel-art tracing of the original.


What fun things can I do with the others???

-Steam

-Files (which is misspelled as 'fikes' here)

-Trash

-Deltarune

-Audacity

-Musescore

I'm considering removing the shortcuts for the last three if I can't think of any ideas for them.


Also... Background ideas? I'm not sure I want to take it that far but I'm open to suggestions. Let me know!

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Kat Sosno
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