May 2015

Did any of the alternian trolls (aside from aradia) tier 2 prototype?

Nope

do you know if it's possible that some period of time passed in Cascade between the Tumor's detonation and Dave & Rose's meeting the troll's meteor? in recent upd8s dave said they survived travelling from (at least near) the center of the Green Sun bc of their conditional immortality, but now that i think about it, it should've taken at least SOME time to get through a star twice the mass of their universe, right? if not, do you have any other explanations?

You’re right, should have taken awhile to get out of the Green Sun, especially since they were at the center.

Maybe they got pushed more towards the edge when the Tumor exploded.  Maybe Dave used some time travel hijinks.  We may never know.

OOOOH do you mean the Lusus sprites? I thought you meant Karkat had a sprite of himself

Yes, and no there is no Karkatsprite, except for in that one paradoxspace comic

Was the Double Rose thing deliberate foreshadowing?

If it was, do you think Dirk’s other drawings were as well? 

do you still need more help answering asks? I sent an ask about this a while ago but I think it got buried

Oh, sorry, but no we’re good right now, thank you.

What happened with Davesprite? Is he dead? When?

Yes he is dead, he died when retcon Lowas exploded during the 3 year trip

What is karkat's best weapon?

Arguably, it’s the Clawsickle

I think the wounds only copy on the dream self when the real self is already on a sacrificial slab

Possibly

How come jade and john couldn't message anyone on the meteor while they were passing through the yellow yard?

They were kinda in a different dimension.

Was the "original" midnight crew intermission(or whatever it was) from the trolls' session?

Yes, it was set 612 sweeps after the trolls played Sgrub

ilu mod T. especially for recent sass to Vriska (who is a glorious character but fuck her as a person)

I love you too random anon, thanks for following

how and when did aradia god tier

She ascended here, when Bec Noir killed her dreamself that was sleeping on her Sacrificial Slab

Can sprites die?

Yes.  See: Davesprite, Tavrisprite, Fefetasprite and all the trolls’ sprites.

So how do dream bubbles work if you're alive or dead? I'm so lost

When you’re alive you can travel the dreambubbles while you sleep or if you are actually passing through the dreambubbles.  Karkat did both once, it was kinda funny.

If you’re dead, you’re ghost lives there.

The areas in the dreambubbles are made up of the memories of those inside it.

is grub sauce made of grubs? like are trolls caniballistic

Baby trolls are wrigglers, grubs are something different

Does Kanaya like to garden. One of my friend said she does but I don't know if it's true

On her intro page it says she enjoys landscaping and tree trimming so she probably enjoys gardening as well.

do the trolls live in a capitalist society??

No, they live in a more of a feudalistic society.  The weak are killed and the lowbloods enslaved but everybody has a house and being gay is legal so what else can you ask for?

How do you think Sollux gets in his recuperacoon? It looks like it has places to put his feet and climb up but they split and go to different holes. I've never fully understood how he sleeps in it.

Each side has a different goop in it so he probably picks which to use based on his mood, to fit with his duality theme.

Are the beta kids the only sburb players with their Derse moon still intact?

No, it got exploded by the Tumor

What are grubs

Grubs are the things lying all over Sollux’s floor

Do you have an eidetic memory, or have you devoted your life to Homestuck? Your powers of recollection are astonishing, it would seem.

I’m very good at internet research is more like it.  Knowing how to effectively use the Search and Log function on the mspa website is very useful. 

how did arquiusprite come to be?

Equius was prototyped in Dirk’s kernelsprite and then Dirk prototyped the shades containing Auto Responder. 

Why did Aradiabot explode?

Because Aradia’s dreamself died. 

why did vriska kill tavros?

She was irritated at him and also he was about to stab her with a lance.

wheres dirk?

He’s on his way to the session now, traveling in the Furthest Ring.

Do we know how Grandpa Harley got into the B1 SBURB session, which occurred after his death, or how he got back to Earth afterwards?

He used the portals found in the Frog Temple on his island.

Wait so grub aren't baby trolls and grub souase isn't made with troll babys

Wigglers are baby trolls. 

So, mod A, what is your opinion of the whole Vriska/Gamzee thing that's happening right now?

Do you mean as a ship? I’m not sure what you’re asking.

What are aradia and sol doing rn (as of the pick your player page)?

Hanging out in the dreambubbles not contributing to the plot

Do we know how the trolls' sprites died?

Bec Noir killed them

when did karkat travel through a dreambubble both physically and via dreaming? (at least that's what i think you were saying happened…)

This took me like six years to find, but it’s in the third openbound flash.

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in response to something mod t said in a previous answer, how /do/ you effectively use the search and log function on the mspa website??

You pick a keyword and Ctrl+F that son of a bitch until you find a source or explanation or whatever the hell you’re looking for. You also have to factor in quirks so you might need to search it in the quirk.

so this has been bothering me: why are the PRE scratch trolls called the "alpha trolls" but the POST scratch kids are the "alpha kids?"

It’s based on the version of the game they played.  Pre-scratch kids played the Sburb Beta and the post-scratch kids played the Sburb Alpha.

not a question, but i just wanted to say that your jade profile pic is adorable.

Thank you, it’s been that for about three years I think, long before my time as a mod.  I do remember that it was changed to Jade because she used to forget things in the beginning of the story.

where is nanasprite?

She arrived on Jade’s yellow prospit ship but she’s not around currently.

is there actually any difference physically between the sburb alpha and the sburb beta, or is that more cosmetic in nature?

I’m pretty sure there’s no difference.

How did the beta and alpha kids get troll bodies to prototype their kernels with?

They were preserved in the refrigerator seen here.

why did Equius prototype Dirk’s kernelsprite? and why did Dirk decide to prototype AR?

In the pre retcon timeline Gamzee was the one who prototyped Equius behind Dirk’s back and Dirk just decided to prototype AR for the second tier because he promised he would. In the post retcon timeline Vriska was the one to prototype Equius. 

How did Jade's grandpa acquire her dream self's dead body?

He used to the portals in the Frog Temple to teleport into the Medium, get her dream corpse, and bring it back through the portal to Earth.

Not as a ship, but as is Vriska the worst for keeping Gamzee locked up, or is she totally justified and stuff?

In my personal opinion I’m ambiguous to her actions. If she didn’t have him there he probably would get up to some more rascally clown stuff. While her methods are unorthodox, they’re effective in keeping an eye on him.  

I know Karkat called Nepeta autistic but was that just being mean or is Nepeta canonly autisic?

That was most likely him just being crabby.

Okay I apologize in advance for asking a prob really obvious question but, didn't jades grandpa die when jade was young? How did he do all of this stuff?

He traveled to the Medium before he died. The Medium’s timeline began when John entered. 

IS it possible that Dave and Karkat are moirals?

Dave does pacify Karkat many times but they could still be matesprits. 

How did Davesprite die? I probably skipped it, but in one of the recent updates, someone said that Davesprite died?

He died when Typheus destroyed Lowas during Jade’s three year trip.

what would happen to the mayor if the kids won the game? im rlly worried about the mayor

They would take the Mayor with them to the new universe and rebuild Can Town obviously.

Dumb question, how is Aradia pronounced? Like uh-Ray-dee-a OR uh-rah-dee-a? Or is it unspecified/or I'm way off?

Hussie left the pronunciation up to the individual. I personally pronounce it the second way.   

How much of the new timeline do we know is changed/unchanged (aside from the characters deaths being averted and johns quest)?

In this post retcon timeline Aranea never got the Ring of Life and Vriska never died. 

is there any explanation as to how the guardians know about the game? how bro knows how to start the scratch, even what a scratch is, how mom knows to open up the secret passage for rose?

All of the guardians knew about the game except possibly for Dad Egbert. It’s stated on this page that Mom was studying celestial anomalies at the request of a wealthy scientist who may have been Grandpa Harley since his company Skaianet made Sburb the game in their universe. 

Wait, so every session needs a time and space player for it to work, right? So, what about the Alpha kids' session? None of the post-Scratch kids have those aspects. Is it because they couldn't initiate a Scratch, since they ARE post-Scratch? Or is it because their session is doomed? [By the way, your blog is awesome!]

Thank you. Their session was always meant to merge with the Beta kids so Dave and Jade are their Time and Space players respectively. Their session isn’t doomed, it’s a void session because they didn’t prototype anything pre entry. 

I dont think this has ever been explained. How does the Condesce controls Jade? It's something about the green sun but i think i missed the explanation of what it is exactly

The Condesce has Nitram powers to control beasts and since Jade is part dog this makes her vulnerable to those powers.