Requiem is a cafe in Anaheim, California, known for their pop culture collaborations; on April 13th of 2023 and 2024, the establishment held Homestuck x Requiem Cafe events. Alongside Homestuck-themed food and drink, various merchandise is also associated with the event, and in 2023 Requiem debuted cardboard stands for photo opportunities which depicted many characters' "official"[citation needed] heights for the first time.
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Drinks[]
- Batterwitch Latte: a cake-flavored latte using actual Betty Crocker ingredients.[1]
- Dave's Apple Juice: definitely just apple juice
, with a Candy Apple foam.[2] - Grimsnark Milk Tea: Rose Milk Tea with a Sweet Matcha foam.[3]
- High Blood: Blackberry Butterfly Tea topped with Lavender Lemonade, forming a gradient from purple to pink.[4]
- Sburb Soda Alpha and Sburb Soda Beta: appropriately gaming themed Dragonfruit and Green Apple Mountain Dews, respectively, with Gushers.[5][6]
- Strawberry Lalonde: a "therapeutic gnostalgia" tasting drink flavoured with Strawberry and Rose Lemonade and topped with rox *rock candy.[7]
Food[]
- Pumpkin Rodeo: DirkJake-themed orange ice cream with green toppings and heart-shaped waffles.[8]
- Sopor Pie: a key lime pie modelled after Gamzee Makara's sopor slime pies.[9]
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Soft drinks[]
2024's drinks menu included a line of lemonades and sodas inspired by the beta trolls, as well as three milk drinks inspired by the alpha kids and a returning Roxy-themed drink.
Cocktails[]
New to 2024's collaboration was a selection of alcoholic cocktails, many of which tributed famous moments or aspects of the Homestuck fandom.
- The Midnight Crew: an espresso and brandy with dark chocolate; adorned with one of Spades Slick's trademark licorice scotty dogs.
- The Felt Grasshopper: a white chocolate and mint creme cocktail with marshmallows.
- Extra Hour in the Ball Pit: a monster energy cocktail with popping pearls, named in reference to the infamous Tumblr DashCon event of 2014, at the height of Homestuck's popularity.
- Bucket Shot: a shot of apple schnapps with a drop of "mystery flavor", which comes in a collectible branded shot bucket, obviously referencing the Homestuck fandom's long-running love affair with the bucket.
- Sharpie Bath Bellini: peach prosecco with a luster glitter stick, in a collectible branded "cocktail tub"; referencing an infamous rumour about a troll cosplayer who attempted to dye their skin grey with a chemical bath of black sharpies.[citation needed]
Height charts[]
All eight human kids and all twelve beta trolls made appearances as cardboard stands at the 2023 event.
References[]
- ↑ Requiem on Twitter.
- ↑ Requiem on Twitter.
- ↑ Requiem on Twitter.
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- ↑ Requiem on Twitter.
- ↑ "We got pie. It's a rage quelling delicious treat which tastes remarkably similar to key lime!" Requiem on Twitter. April 13, 2023. Archived from the original on April 13 2023.