'''''[[http://metastuck.tumblr.com/ Metastuck]]''''' is a ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' AlternateUniverse fanfiction project based around a simple concept: what if personfications of four of the biggest outlets of the ''Homestuck'' fandom - namely the [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures MSPA Forums]], Website/{{Tumblr}}, {{Website/deviantART}} and [[{{Imageboards}} the Homestuck General thread]] - played [[TheGamePlaysYou Sburb]] together?

The project primarily happens at Website/FourChan's Homestuck General thread, and there is a Website/{{Tumblr}} blog posting all the related content. There is no particularly strong overriding story arc progression as of yet - the story is mainly told through art and occasional chatlogs between the four players. The focus seems to be primarily on building up the characters, their interactions with each other, and how that affects their gameplay.

!!#Tropes
* AccentuateTheNegative: By the Tumblr curator's own admission, there is a very strong tendency to play up the more negative qualities of each of the characters - MSPAF is obsessed with rules, canon and all things Creator/AndrewHussie, HSG is a perverse jackass, dA is a weeaboo, and Tumblr is obsessed with portraying herself as the victimised minority. There's certainly more to them than that which comes across every so often, but they even had to specifically run a series of posts saying the characters "aren't all bad" to elaborate on them.
* GagPenis: The White and Black royalty, as well as some underlings, as a result of Tumblr's prototyping.
* [[KnownOnlyByTheirNickname Known Only By Their Initials]]
* MoralityPet: MSPAF is sort of this to HSG.
* MythologyGag: The exiles advising the four are previous ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' protagonists: [[Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}} Jail Breaker]], The Bard, and Webcomic/ProblemSleuth.
* PhysicalGod: It was quickly established that Tumblr went God Tier at some stage in the adventure, possibly because of HSG.
* SeriesHiatus: The main catalyst - both in-universe and out of it - for the four fandom personas to play Sburb is the extended hiatus before Homestuck's End of Act 5.
** More appropriately, the content for Metastuck itself hasn't been worked on for a long while and likely won't have anything done in the future either due to 4chan's purging of /hsg/
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' itself, along with everything else Hussie has ever done, fulfills this role to the point of influencing almost everything MSPAF does.
* VerbalTic: Tumblr's tendency to say #things like they're tags on, well, Tumblr. Also, deviantArt's usage of GratuitousJapanese.
* WeaponOfChoice: As in canon, their Strife Specibi:
** MorphWeapon / TheGunslinger: MSPAF's Key(gun)kind
** ShockAndAwe: Tumblr's Taserkind
** {{Spork}} / ImprobableWeaponUser: deviantArt's Sporkkind
** GrenadeTropes / ImprobableWeaponUser: HSG's Bombkind, and later - wait for it - Dildokind