You should probably keep an FAQ page, starting with a big section for ectobiology, since it's such a simple concept that so many people ask you about
I should add ectobiology basics to the FAQ. That’s a good idea anon.
I should add ectobiology basics to the FAQ. That’s a good idea anon.
There hasn’t been an upd8 in nearly two weeks. But I will do so with future upd8s
I’m aware of that. I’m sure I have followers who are at all different parts of the story. But I can’t accommodate all of them. If you aren’t caught up then following a blog like this has a decent spoiler liability. I can tag asks related to upd8’s as they happen. But how long after an upd8 do I stop considering it an upd8?

In Act 2 John picked up the bunnykind strife specibus
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Vriska likes bright red shoes.
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It’s never said she is in canon. but it also never said she wasn’t. so… to each their own.
Not in canon
Dave, Jade, Aradia, and Kanaya are all still alive.
a year
Gamzee set up their living place and provided food for them so that Caliborn could grow up and become Lord English. He was also the one that chained them to the sarswapagus
No. The trolls session needed to be doomed and scratched so that the post-scratch trolls could exist and make the pre-scratch trolls so that they could play the game in the first place. Whereas John made the kids before hand so they were already made and can still play without having to worry about it.
Because Gamzee still killed them.
Retcon is short for Retroactive Continuity. This is the process of changing facts that were already stated. John is going back and changing parts of the story that were told years ago. And the changes that he is having an effect on how the story will continue to be told, such as Vriska still being alive.

I dunno, I just tag whatever character the fact is about except if it’s an ancestor then I just tag it ancestor.
The 1/19/15 update. It doesn’t say it on the site but in the url instead of a page number it says shes8ack so people have been refering to that flash sequence as that.
But if it wasn’t for Liv Tyler taking the tumor to Derse, Dave and Rose wouldn’t have been able to paradoxically created the Green Sun and if the Green Sun didn’t exist then Bec wouldn’t have existed which means he wouldn’t have lead Jade to John’s gift which lead to her befriending John. And if she never befriended John and the others she wouldn’t have been able to play the game.
So forgive me if I am wrong, but the point of Sburb/Sgrub is to create a universe right? So that would mean the trolls are done with their game, meaning they should be able to populate their universe with humans, the humans being John, Rose, Dave, and Jade. Than they sort of cheated by creating the scratch and made the pre-scratch kids, who are apparently relatives to the Beta kids, so up at this point The Trolls have beaten the game, they created the new universe, populated it with humans, then the Humans cheated and created half-universe based off of their universe, which is why its so similar to their session. Then the Alpha kids were created, and that is homestuck up to this point? Once again sorry for sending this through fanmail, this was too large for the askbox to handle.
The trolls beat the game but they never got to claim their prize because Bec Noir destroyed the door.
And the Beta kids didn’t create a new universe. The Scratch changes the universe, it doesn’t make a new one.

Equius is seen looming in the background throughout the comic, this may be due to his status as Heir of Void.
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Yes, if you go back to those panels the hands will be there. This is the first retconning done in the series.
The Alpha kid session was meant to be an 8-players session. Once the Beta kids arrived Jade and Dave became their Time and Space players.
The Alpha timeline includes failed sessions. They fail because they are meant to.
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Hussie made the horse puns to make us think Equius would still be alive and showed the “leader” in a silohette with a question mark to allude to Equius’s Void aspect. But Hussie wanted us to think that so Vriska(Vriska) being the one to return would be a bigger shock.
Because if Karkat looked away the bodies would go missing, which they did since Gamzee stole them.
The game never actually comes out in bulk.
The Beta kids played a pre-released Beta version of the game.
Sollux programmed Sgrub for the post-scratch trolls
and the Alpha kids played a pre-release Alpha version of the game.
It’s because you never know if the Bard’s powers will help or hinder his group.
It is true for all kids and trolls.
But his class was involved. He fueled rage into Terezi which lead to her killing Vriska. He made Terezi hate him which lead to their kismesitude. In his berserk mode he let the rage of other be diminished by terrifying them. You can read the class page on the wiki for more detail but his class was definitely involved. And I know that other people have written longer explanations so you can look for those if you like.

There is a God Tier badge that lets you have non-awkward personal relationships
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