April 2016

are either jane or jade dead after this upd8? im really confused sorry...

Jade was knocked out and Jane is uncertain. 

Have we ever seen karkat's god tier in the comic?

Yes, we see a godtier Karkat in [S] Roxy: Sleepwalk

How many times do you think we got asked if Jane/Dirk was dead for good today? Probably at least 15.

Sounds about right. 

okay so I definitely forgot what happened to gcat

In the GAME OVER update, Dave and Rose were both stabbed in the torso area and flat out died, but Terezi ripped the sword out of her chest and continued living longer than those two. Is it possible troll anatomy has organs in different locations than humans? Or is Terezi just a general badass?

TZ’s just that badass

Will there be more updates this week, or just one big flash? Because Hussie kind of contradicted himself in when he said "Then on 4/6, I'll post the END OF ACT 6 animation. That should immediately be followed by 7 days of updates (about 40 total pages), ending with an update on 4/13, the 7th anniversary of Homestuck. That update will contain ACT 7 in its entirety." Does "that update" refer to all of the updates including 413 or just 413? I am very confused.

the next 6 days will most likely be Intermission 3

How come when wearing the ring, the black and white queens both have tentacles, but PM and Jack do not?

They do, they can turn the tentacles off though

How long was the longest pause? (Gigapause and omegapause anon again, sorry)

Gigapause: 1 year
Omegapause: 8 Months
Minigigapause: 3 Months
Megapause: 2 Months
2012 Pauses The Series: 2 months
Eoa5 Pause: 1.5 Months
Post Act 5 Pause: 2.5 Weeks
The Brief Pause: 4 Days

I thought the retcon didn't affect anyone in the dream bubbles?

Right, which is why the pre-retcon versions still exist

Did gamzee make terezi kill vriska because she killed tavros?

Gamzee set it up to make it “look” like Vriska was also the one that killed Equius and Nepeta making Vriska seem more dangerous than she was. He also took her communicator glasses so Karkat couldn’t tell her that he was on the loose. He even wrote Terezi a note pretending to be Vriska telling her to come up to the roof.

So no, he didn’t make Terezi kill Vriska but he’s definitely the reason she did.

So, because of the retcon is Terezi still blind/blind again

Yes

Couldn't Sollux in Remem8er just have been him before Erisolsprite happened?

Yes, but we see them Aradia and Sollux meeting up with the Ghost army and Sollux is flying on his own so he isn’t blind

What was the deal with the clock near Caliborn's treasure in the new flash?

It’s the clock that will decide whether he revives if he dies. 

at the start of Oppa Toby Style (one of the songs from the upd8) at the start i reconize another song but i cant figure out the name, would you be able to help me?

It sounded a lot like Rex Duodecim Angelus to me. 

what's pm most likely to do with jacks ring? Give it to a troll or kid? Lose it? Wear it herself? Smth else??

She might give it to the kids’ to stoke the forge. 

What's this Heir of Grief thing I keep seeing in regards to Roxy killing the Condesce?

That’s the name of the song playing. 

Is GCATavrossprite alive?

Yes.

Why did the Condesce die from one stab when Terezi was able to live a bit longer? Is it because she's badass again? You'd think a troll fish Queen with insane powers would be able to survive longer.

Well, the Condesce had just been attacked by a bunch of fraymotiffs by multiple godtiers so you gotta take that into account. 

Which of Jades spacey powers were from the ring and which were from her classpect?

Jade doesn’t wear a ring. Her powers to change an objects size and move them around are her Space powers. Her powers to teleport stuff and use green fire are from the Green Sun.

does condy's death mean roxy is the new servant of lord english?

That remains to be seen. 

just about how many times have you had to say "he's not in godteir it's just a costume" ((thank you for this blog btw c: it is very nice and helpful))

Too many times.

about that previous ask- the one about how now that the condesce is dead, roxy might be LE's new servant? was the condesce LE's servant? and why would roxy be the next one in line?

It’s a curse that forces the bearer to serve LE. The Handmaid was the first to have it, and then Condesce inherited it when she killed the Handmaid. Presumably whoever killed the Condesce (Roxy in this case) might inherit it as well, we’ll see

If Roxy can void pumpkins, then does that mean she can snag people from alternate universes? Or am I misunderstanding how her powers work

Roxy removes the absence of something, she doesn’t teleports them in from around timelines

so like homestuck at the beginning was done through commands given by the fans, does that mean the Beta kids names were made up from them or Hussie?

Hussie picked from fan suggestions

would it be possible to include the dates for the pause post? (142380994789) if its not too much trouble?

here

I'm sorry but where did the shrek/eridan picture originate from? is it real and what page is it on if it's real?

It was in [S] Collide, it’s based on an old school meme

Other than getting his head cut off, did Dirk die in [S] Collide?

File this under questions you can only ask about Homestuck

I just this its funny how Terezi got stabbed in the chest and carries on for at least another hour, and yet )(IC drops dead like a loser when she gets stabbed despite being higher on the hemospectrum, which is supposed to make her sturdier

Okay, lets just say that in addition to stabbing Condy with a sword, Roxy also stole the absence of chocolate pudding from her lungs so she couldn’t breathe and suffocated to death.

why aren't there two dog jacks? one from John's timeline and one from the new

No, there’s only one dog jack

I saw someone ask about if there would be an update over the next couple days and you're answer was "the next 6 days will most likely be Intermission 3" does that mean an intermission in updates or a hs intermission like with spades slick. Also is it possible Act 7 could be a really long update.

Like a HS intermission. Intermission 1 was about Spades Slick, but Intermission 2 was about Lord English so Intermission 3 could be about a variety of things, I guess we’ll find out tomorrow :3

what is the brightly colored ring around Calliope and the green sun?

Those are the cracks in reality that Lord English has caused each time he destroyed a dream bubble.

Why/When did Caliborn choose the name Lord English? (Is the answer "We don't know/Not yet"?)

In his masterpiece he says he takes the name English because Jake beat him up and he was impressed by his Hope powers. 

How was Karkat able to create the A1 trolls post-scratch?

Same way John did, with the ectoslime and every thing. 

What do you think of the jarring ending to Collide? The static on the panel during the fade out and the sudden black and white stop?

The sudden black and white stop that lingered for a moment was very ominous to me and I’ve got a bad feeling about it. 

Is there no hope for the beta kids at all then? Are they trapped forever in the juju? Or are those future kids part of a different timeline? I gotta know man.

The beta kids will be released once the juju is used on Lord English. 

k so if I am correct, kanaya and karkat (and maybe a few others) can't go godtier because their dreamselves are dead. but in [s] collide, we saw a godtier kanaya, how can this happen?

She was a ghost from an off shoot timeline.

Do you know of any good homestuck summaries or reviews that are up to date?

The synopsis on the Homestuck wikipedia page is surprisingly good. 

is davepeta dead??

Not sure at the moment.

do you think bec jack is dead ? cause im sure the other 2 are dead ... what what about bec jack....

He’s just KO’d.

What happened to the ring Aranea had?

The Ring of Life is with Calliope now. 

is there a reason kanaya never tries (i dont think) to use her space powers? or has she just not explored that territory as far as terezi had already

She wasn’t included for fraymotiff animation. 

How were Dave and Terezi able to revive Dirk when he got shot in Collide? I know by a fraymotif but what would have allowed them to do that with their powers?

Explained here

what do you think (or do we know) would happen if PM put on the ring she got from Bec Noir?

Answered this here

If Vriska's hanging back to claim the credit for killing LE, how pissed is she gonna be when the juju turns out to be the beta kids?

She already knows the juju contains other warriors. 

What does Kanaya still have to do plot wise?

Stoke the forge and retrieve the Genesis Frog. Also, hatch the matriorb. 

Sorry, I may have misworded the previous question. What I meant was how is it possible for the A1 trolls to be delivered from the A2 universe? The comic states that the scratch alters the destination points for the meteors carrying babies/wigglers, but seeing as ectobiology occurred post-scratch for the trolls, I'm having trouble seeing how the mechanics on that delivery worked.

This “glitch” in their session was one of the reasons they had to scratch. Since that session wasn’t the one they were spawned in it was doomed to fail. 

is there any kind of database for the trolls' (most importantly karkat's) ridiculous expressions for human words?? i mean things like "thinkpan" or "container of scalding leaf fluid" or "crotch bandeau". if there isn't i'm very sad

Yes

Are you sure about Gamzee being the reason Terezi killed Vriska? He is the reason they had a confrontation, but by the end Terezi knew that Vriska was innocent of most of the murders and killed her specifically to prevent her from alerting Jack to the trolls' hideout.

But Terezi could have just knocked Vriska out (like she realized in the future and had John do) but she was blinded (hehe) by rage which was caused by Gamzee 

So in open-bound the dancestors talk about how they haven't seen Meenah in a long time. Why is that? Where was she?

She didn’t wake up in the bubbles until long after the other Beforan trolls did

is homestuck updating tonight?

Yes