June 2016

what are the monsters that apparently come out of Jake's hope field on Derse, one of which Roxy encounters on page 008498

It’s an Angel

Who's da nerd?

The nerd is you 

If Clowns (like Gamzee) can never die and Kurloz died what does that mean? Are not all the Makaras "Clowns"?

Kurloz is a Mime, which is a lesser subsec of Clown and thus doesn’t have all the clown perks

uhm so i was rereading homestuck and... after game over, basically terezi saved everyone? do you think that without terezi there would have been a way to "fix" everything or is she sort of the most important character in homestuck?

I’m sure John could have “fixed” everything on his own, but he probably would have fucked a bunch of stuff up in the process. So lets be glad TZ waited to die until after she told John what to do.

But when Gamzee said that Terezi was hurting him, wasn't it just a distraction so he could stab and harm her right after that? Terezi was rightfully fighting against him. (Or, at least, that was my interpretation of what happened.)

Yep, as soon as he said that Terezi dropped her weapon, started crying and apologizing. Then Gamzee proceeded to beat the ever-living shit out of her.

Can I get an uplifting fact about Eridan? (Not a joke, or anything making fun of him. Or does that not exist?)

He did feel bad about killing FF and apologized to her when he was Erisol

Why does Condy have other trolls' powers? Why can she control minds and use psiioniics? Is it because she's the empress or because she's LE's servant?

This is in the FAQ

Are you currently accepting mods?

We are not

have all characters smiled canonically?

Well Clover doesn’t have a mouth so no

Did Kankri ever smiled??

Not that we’ve seen

Was it specifically said that Kurloz was a mime or is it assumed since he was mute?

“Kurloz speaks in bones when he does his clown hypnosis shit but otherwise he mimes everything because get this: he’s pretty much literally a mime.”

Did mutants on Alternia start being culled after the Sufferer/Signless's lifespan as a result of what happened or nah? Also, do we know if mutants are normally culled on Beforus?

Mutants were culled before the time of the signless and on Beforus that are culled but it doesn’t mean killed there, it kinda means to take care of

What exactly happened to Matchsticks and Quarters?

Spades killed Matchsticks

and Snowman killed Quarters

Can you find a page for me? There was a panel where Dave and Jade were on LOFAF and Jack showed up and Jade started shooting him. I think Jade was wearing the 3 am dress but I'm not sure.

Here you are

The trolls have cannon tentacles?

Fanon

if in the furthest ring the time is weird that mean the green sun was not created yet, is there and was destroyed at the same time?

Basically the timeline in the Furthest Ring is not parallel to ours or even itself.

Here’s kind of a rough view of it. It really shouldn’t be linear but I didn’t know how else to portray it

Exactly How and Why did Rose go Grimdark?

She asked the All Knowing Cueball if the Horrorterrors were evil and they responded by giving her a shit ton of power

What was that bed in the battlefield that Dream John was lying on when he ascended?

It’s a Quest Bed. You can’t die on it to ascend tho. A person’s dreamself is teleported to their Battlefield Quest Bed when they die on their Planet Quest Bed.  This is why the Alpha kids had to die using their Slabs

I always thought that Rose turned grimdark because the Horrorterrors' answer was unfathomable and she got power from that?

That too

Can only light players see into the magic cue ball? I think we've only seen Rose and Vriska do it.

It seems like it. Which makes sense since Light is Knowledge and Luck

whats the meaning of "dotesmite"?? im not a native speaker, i have zero clue what it means

I spent too much time trying to find a definition and figure out what you’re talking about.  But it’s actually just two words mushed together.

Dote: be extremely and uncritically fond of.

Smite: to strike with a firm blow

Basically Dad was being very firm with his affections and offerings of cake which only infuriated John further

what are the canon ships in homestuck?

Ships that have been canon:
(Vriska) ♥ Doomed John
Dave ♥ Terezi
Terezi ♠ Gamzee
Vriska ♠ Eridan
Eridan ♦ Feferi
Equius ♥ /♠ Aradiabot
Dirk ♥ Jake
Jade ♥ Davesprite
Kurloz ♥ Meulin
Karkat ♦ Gamzee
Rufioh ♥ Damara
Vriska ♦ Kanaya
Aranea ♥ Porrim
Sollux ♥ Feferi
(Vriska) ♥ Meenah
Snowman ♠ Spades Slick  
Spades Slick ♥ Ms.Paint
Dad Egbert  ♥ Mom Lalonde

Ships that are Endgame canon:
Rose ♥ Kanaya
Terezi ♦ Vriska
Kurloz ♦ Mituna  ♥ Latula
Meulin ♦ Horuss ♥ Rufioh (albeit about to break up)
Dave ♥ Karkat
Equius ♦ Nepeta

Bolded means they happen exclusively Pre-Retcon

Wait when did kanaya ♦️ vriska

Act 5 Act 1, Kanaya had flushed feelings for her and broke off their moiralligence when she saw her kiss Tavros

When is sollux and feferi a thing?

Act 5 Act 2, later confirmed when Erisol is talking to Fefeta

What would happen if a human ate/slept in sport slime?

Get high?? I dunno

Where is the Dave <3 Karkat ship made official in Canon?

Vriska says that they’re in some quadrant together. And Dave says he “gets” the quadrants but has never had a reason to put that knowledge into practice so that kinda excludes all quadrants outside the one most similar to the human relationship. 

what does culled mean? I am new to English and am still very bad

to reduce the population  by selective slaughter.

Did vriska ever acknowledge she knew of kanayas flushed feelings for her?

No, she thought Kanaya had feelings for Tavros and that’s why she stopped talking to her.

so, say that nothing "out there" happened in Act 7, just all the plot loops being closed, and the cherubs will eventually be born on Earth. (my personal interpretation is that the kids would ensure LE never exists, but no one else is saying that). my question is why would the kids abandon earth, letting it become a wasteland? i know the star it orbits is dying, but they've moved a planet once before... its just very upsetting to think about...

Maybe they aren’t as immortal as we think.

It is stated that Dirk raised himself but who raise Roxy?

Presumably the Carapacians that live next door

what conversation was it where dirk says something about throwing a stone at a glass closet or something i cannot find it

It was from one of the convos where he was broing out with Dave

Wait, Karkat<>Gamzee exclusively pre-retcon? I thought their moirailegience went as far back as Hivebent, and that they just broke up earlier in the retcon timeline.

I mean, Karkat hated Gamzee at the start of Hivebent. And neither of them were really destructive enough to need a moirail until Gamz went all up and started murdering peeps

wait so kanaya♦️karkat was never an actual thing?

Not canonically, or at least if it was, it wasn’t outright stated.

wait so in the retconned timeline, jade is put to sleep before she can teleport everyone and screw around. but in the pre-retcon timeline shes screwing around and she goes through one of the skaian defense portals and shrinks earth. how does she get earth again if she was put to sleep before the kids even got off the meteor? (refer to 008178)

Vriska goes with the meteor and captchalogues Earth and then timetravels back to everyone

Theoretically, would it be possible for a Vantas to not pass on the mutant gene resulting in a lime blooded Vantas?

I have no idea. I’m no dna expert.

who created sburb / sgrub etc. and how?

Sollux, Skaianet, and Crockercorp.

By adapting Code found on the Frog Temple

Do you have and example of Kurloz ♦ Mituna in the webcomic?

It’s brought up when Cronus is talking to Mittuna

RE: Vantas and lime blood genes. It depends on whether he carries the lime blood gene in the first place. If he does carry it, and either another troll carries it or has a gene recessive to it then lime blooded grubs are a possibility. On the other hand, if he doesn't carry the gene then he can't pass it on. And all that assumes that troll genetics work like the genetics of us earthlings, and that lime bloodedness is carried on a single gene and not connected to multiple genes.

Trolls get (well, got) sent off Alternia when they reach adulthood. Has it been explained how they can reproduce, then? Do they hang around on Alternia for just long enough to fill a few buckets, then get sent off? Do buckets get mailed back to the planet with some sort of intergalactic postal system?

The drones carry the buckets back to the mother grub

Have Terezi and Eridan ever interacted, and when?

Once, in [S] Past Karkat: Wake up.

Is it Lusi or lusus? I've heard people calling it lusus, is it plural like Cacti?

Lusus for singular.  Lusii, Lusi, Luses, or Luseses for plural.

To an earlier ask you posted, didn't kanaya stop talking to Vriska because of Vriskas possible flushed feelings for tavros, not the other way around?

Yeah, that’s what a meant. I guess Multiple People Pronouns got us again, thanks english

How many of the 12 troll kids would've actually made it decently into adulthood before they were culled or killed by other trolls had the world not ended? Many of the trolls have physical disabilities not to mention Karkat's mutation and Feferi would've gotten slaughtered by the Condesce.

Karkat and Tavros definitely would have died, Aradia was already dead. Terezi is debatable since she is blind, but she can function normally. Sollux might have been culled depending on how he managed his mutation (which made him hear the screams of the soon to be dead). And Fef def. wouldn’t have beaten the Condesce.  So to answer your question, 6-8 of them would have lived.

Have we seen any white haired trolls other than Calliope's trollsona?

No

is it ever canonically shown what trolls' tongues look like?

Of course, Terezi’s whole thing is that she licks stuff

I saw an ask about how many of the trolls would survive - to the part about Feferi not being able to beat the Condesce, didn't she have Gl'bgolyb loyal to her (Feferi) instead of the Condesce due to Condy going so far away? would that possibly give Feferi any sort of advantage? (wow that sounds confusing sorry)

Only if they fought in the water of Alternia, but even then Condy might still be able to win

That question about Troll tongues earlier actually brings up another question. Is there ever any given reason why Troll tongues are grey? Since they blush in their blood color, one would think their tongues would be their blood color too, yeah?

Because science fiction. I mean the Cali twins are a single entity that changes its blood color and tongue color along with it. You can probably find some science out there to explain this stuff, but that’s not my department. 

how is this condy so powerful, she actually kinda got beat down easily in collide. i mean, true its 4 vs. 1 but.... i dunno.

Video Game rules, everyone’s got a health bar.

Why is Dirk's lil cal empty? Shouldn't all lil cals be filled with arquius, half of gamzee, and caliborn to make a stable timeloop? Or did lil cal just suddenly went empty when it went through the post scratch portal, but not the pre scratch

It was when it split for the Scratch. Pre-scratch Cal had the souls in it, but 2 of the same jujus can’t exist at the same time so Dirk’s lil Cal was emptied out.

Wait, do trolls canonically blush their blood color?

Yes