April 2016

what happened to derse?

Derse is okay, only it’s moon got exploded. Blame the Condesce.

Ok so, let me get this straight. Bec, a godly dog, was created by the MEOW, code, and GCat, a godly cat, was made by the BARK code?

Yes, and Doc Scratch, the godly puppet was made with the t1ckt0ck8r8kh34dshonkHONK code

how do u know it's still 2012 in homestuck right now ?

April 2009* +3 years** = April 2012

November 2011*** + 5 months**** = April 2012

* When the Beta kids started playing Sburb
** How long the Beta kids traveled to get to the Alpha kids
*** When the Alpha kids started Sburb
**** How Long the Alpha kids have been playing Sburb

Wait wait wait. A6A6A5 is still not over, but next upd8 will be EOA6. Did Hussie forget about about A6A6A6? I mean it WAS in Caliborn's cartridge thing

Most likely the flash will be A6A6A6

Caliborn's recollection about the capturing of Beta kid's souls and fighting with the Alpha kid's, when did that happen and will we ever see it (in forms other than Caliborn's play)?

It happens in the future, I don’t know if we’ll ever see in in non-clay form, I guess we’ll find out within the next two weeks

if gamzee is locked in the fridge post-retcon, how was jack english created and how were the cherubs raised? he was integral in both of those things happening

Well he’ll be dumped in Earth’s ocean and eventually get out and raise the cherubs so that stays the same.

I’m not sure about the Jack thing tho. It hasn’t been referenced post-retcon, so timetravel maybe? Maybe Vriska did it? She does put a lot of emphasis on how she doesn’t know how he came to be.

In the last 2 newsposts, Hussie hasn't said anything about Homestuck ending. This isn't likely, but what if it's Act 7, everything is being a happy, satisfying conclusion........ then Vriska does something that ruins it all and then we have Act 8.

If Calliope never entered the session, why did she have a dream self?

All players who will play sburb have a dream self. Even if she didn’t play in this timeline she did in Alt Calliope’s timeline.

I have a faint feeling that karkat called someone racist in the comics did this happen or am i crazy

Caliborn calls Jake racist here but I don’t recall Karkat calling someone racist. 

When was it mentioned that Gamzee would be dumped in Earth's ocean?

Here, when Dave asked what the harm there was in letting Gamzee out

About Karkat calling someone racist, he does that Jade when she trying to contact future Karkat about her destroyed robot.

Indeed he does

who is lord english.

Who isn’t Lord English?

Why does Hussie only have one ghost self?

Because there is only one Hussie. 

I'm assuming hussie has a 2-phase plan for homestuck. 7 acts was phase 2. The first part of the plan was to give you a boner. And you got one.

Actually Hussie was the one that got a boner, and that boner’s name is Homestuck

When was it established that Arquuis Sprite was part of lord English?

In Caliborn’s claymation thingy

Okay so I'm kind of confused by how Lord English happened. Like I know Lil Cal and Caliborn are involved but I don't get what exactly happened. Is there a simplified version of events?

Dirk sealed the souls of Gamzee, Caliborn and Arquiusprite into Lil Cal. When they are released they form the amalgamation known as Lord English.

is there any possibility of the supposed "brief pause" being released on 4/6/2017. i looked on the website and he only specifies that he'd post it on "4/6". seems like something hed do

I don’t know why he would do that, I mean everything is pretty much already finished. Hussie’s not mean enough to give us another gigapause.

Why didn't we see Jane in the upd8? Where is she?

She’s not fighting. The upd8 was all about the combatants and Jane’s on Healing duty

why were the tricksters so essential to the game?

They weren’t, it was just a cheap way to get the alpha kids to where they needed to be and a nod to the fans

Since when does Vriska care about anyone else's plans? (For Act 8)

Act 8: It’s a single panel of Vriska flipping us off.
Gotta give the orange guy one last fuck you..

I stopped reading when Kanaya knocked Karkat out or smth can you help me find that part??? I'm really freaking out and I desperatedly want to be up to date before it ends

This is right before that

what was jake looking at in the update? it seemed like he saw something in the sky ?

My guess would be either he’s looking up at the Felt as some of them are quite large

OR (and I’d personally prefer this one) he sees Casey’s undead army coming over the hill behind the Felt

Hey did the current vriska go godteir? She doesn't wear her outfit but she has both of her arms and eyes so I'm a little confused.

Yes she did, and the pre-retcon Vriska rarely wore her god tier outfit as well

If Calliope destroys the green sun now, does that mean Gcat will dissappear and Tavrossprite will wake up?

They’ll still exist, they just won’t have the First Guardian powers

What happened to prospit in the newest upd8?

Already answered that

what was the point of [s] Terezi Remember?

It was a good point to start the Omegapause on.

Also closure for all our pre-retcon needs

Do you know if it's been said anywhere how long act 7 will be? (I don't think it has, most recent mspaint thing doesn't say how big that last update will be) I would guess a lot of it would be the "Final animation", what do you think?

I think it’ll most likely just be one really long flash but it could also include the 40 pages leading up to the flash

can you tell me why tavrossprite fell asleep, what happend to make him fall asleep? was he fused with gcat

Vriska put him to sleep with her psychic abilities so that the Condesce couldn’t control gcat

what did hussie retcon????

He retconned out Aranea getting the Ring of Life and Vriska’s death. 

the EoA6, or A666, comes after 6 final updates on the 6th, and will consist of 6 separate fights homestuck is officially a sin

Praise 

Is EOA6 going to be a half-hour animation? I remember reading somewhere that it would be but I can't seem to find the source.

It’ll be longer than Cascade which was like 15 but we dont know exactly how long itll be

Since Vriska combined GCat with Tavrosprite and made them fall asleep, Condesce won't be able to control them. Jade still has the risk of being controlled. But what about Jasprose? Half of them is still an animal.

Jasprose isn’t an omnipotent being so it isn’t as big of an issue of condesce controls them if she even could.

Worst case scenario, Condy mind controls Jade, Bec Noir, and PM and uses them to just fucking decimate everyone 

wait, hold up. Dirk CREATED Lord English???? Where have I missed this.

In Caliborn’s masterpiece. Dirk seals all them souls in Lil Cal and they become LE

How do you know the EOA6 update will be longer than cascade?

A friend of Hussie’s commented on it in a 4chan thread. 

How do you feel about Hussie stating that Homestuck was a warm up for his next project? And do you think that, after all the hassle Homestuck's had over its lifespan, he'll even continue with his plans for post-HS?

I’m sure he’ll be writing for other stuff after Hs is done. He already said if Hiveswap goes over well that there will be another game made from the perspective of the deer antler troll Dammek. Also this Homestuck 2.0 business. Also there will probably be more Paradox Space comics written by him. As for whether or not he’ll be starting another webcomic after Hs is done I’m not entirely sure. He stated once that Hs was a warm up for something else like you mentioned but that was before he got burned out.

Will there be an update today? I'm not sure if I counted the days wrong ;;;

Nope, the next upd8 is on Wednesday. 

How come killing Snowball means destroying the universe? Is it because she was the black queen before she exiled herself? What happened to snowball/Black queen in the alpha universe?

Snowball could never be killed. 

where are all of the beta kids guardians as of the most recent update?

dead

Where did Vriska get Earth?

She went through the Skaia defense portal and nabbed it

Was it ever confirmed/denied whether or not Redglare was blind?

She was not confirmed blind

But, didn't condy kill the black queen in the alpha session? What factor made it so that when BQ became snowball in the beta session, when she died, the universe ended?

Snowman is the BQ from the trolls’ session. Doc Scratch made it so her life was connected to that of the troll universe

Do you think hussie will make another homestuck?

In my opinion, I don’t think anyone can create “another homestuck”, it is such a unique piece formed from the time and culture it was created in that I feel that it’d be impossible to replicate the feel it gave its readers in another piece of work.

do you know if hussie will ever work on any other comics in the future after homestuck?

Possibly, he’s got a handful of games to make first tho, so we’ll see.

Homestuck was a warmup for Homestuck.

Such is the paradoxical nature of Homestuck

Is there anything currently keeping Her Imperious Condescension from just putting all of her attackers to sleep??

nothing but the Rising Action

John mentioned in a conversation about reading his nana's grandpa's prankster book? Does that mean he was reading his own book? ((I really wish I could put links in questions))

No, Nanna Egbert’s adoptive Grandfather was Colonel Sassacre, aka the author of that giant book he was carrying around in the earlier acts.