October 2016

love for mod t!! super cutie that i support, 11/10 best cat man (u helped me accept my bpd indirectly thank) 💘

Wrong blog kid, I don’t think I’ve ever even mentioned my bpd or love of cats here. But thanks, I appreciate it! 

How did gameze get to be part of lord english?

well in Caliborn’s masterpiece, that tiny purple butt plug is supposed to Gamzee. And later on when Cal and Arquius are gettin jammed all up in lil cal we see half of gamz get all caught up and sucked in there too

This isn't a question. I just wanted to know what panel is your favorite.

oh dear lord theres so many good ones, I don’t know how I could possibly pic a favorite. This one is definitely up there though

do you remember if Tavros filled any quadrants?

He did not, not for lack of Vriska’s trying

What is the Caucasian thing?

This: 

Where did the heads of the headless trolls go..?

The fridge

How did Meenah get to the moon in the first place?

She reversed rapunzel’d it. She threw her hair up there and then climbed. 

But for real, the trolls are a spacefairing race, im sure they had some space ships lying around she could have stolen

Important thing... Did Terezi survive to the end of the game (act 7)? And by then, how many timelines is she alive in and which ones? I'm sorry if the wording is confusing at all. Thank you in advance!! >:]

Yeah, post-retcon tz was still around.

Where did the Condesce kill Areana?

Here. 

Why are candy-red bloods persecuted against? Are they killed at birth? Do we know much about their treatment or any specifics?

Their blood color lies outside the hemospectrum and it brands them a mutant. They’re considered pariahs and are culled on sight as mentioned by Karkat when he speaks to Meenah in Openbound when the player speaks to him in his room dream bubble. 

do all of the witch god tiers have red glitter shoes or is that just jade

No, we see godtier Feferi here and she has purple shoes.

Do you have to defeat your denizen to release your grist hoard?

You can either defeat your denizen or complete their challenge.

What was the Scratch? Why did it happen and what did it do?

The scratch was started because the kids’ session was going all wrong. You trigger it when you scratch the surface of the construct on the Time player’s planet in a special way with quills from Echidna. It acts as a reset button and reboots the session. The two ecto groups are switched and the new group plays instead. 

is there a canon moment where Mituna doesn't have his helmet?

Yes, you can see him without a helmet in the Ministrife. 

Is there any canon evidence that says the Fluorite Octet is order-dependant (ie 11111118 =/= 81111111

I honestly have no idea what you mean

I dare you to tell me a fact about Sollux that I don't already know

hes a big stinkin nerd

forgotten fact about kankri?

Porrim forced him to wear a sweater because she couldn’t put up with him being the literal embodiment of Pantskat

Tell me something I don't know about caliborn

He thinks better in colors

Random fact about Rose Lalonde?

while there may be a rose in heteROSExual, Rose is anything but

fluorite octet anon was asking if the order of the dice roll would affect the outcome; if it did, then rolling 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 8 would give a different result than 8, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1. I think they were assuming that you roll the dice one at a time, rather than all at once though.

Oh, well in that case, I wanna say we can’t say for sure, we don’t have enough of a data pool.  The main defense for the order mattering is here, where it says Vriska odds of rolling the perfect result is 1 in 16,777,216.  Which is true, the chance of rolling 8 8s is that likely, but that can’t be used to say order matters since all the numbers are the same.  If it said that about a roll being 1,2,3,4,5,5,6,7 then yes that would be evidence of order-dependence. And you might say “But putting so much emphasis into how much a long shot it is kind of an argument for it being non-order dependent, implying that other results are easier to obtain”. But that can’t be used either since again, the probability of getting 8 of the same number is that high. So yeah, we really can’t be 100% sure

The order of the octet does matter, because doc scratch said that the chance of eight 8s was 8^y where y=8. This this number of permutations of eight dice, implying that either the dice themselves are designated as 1-8 or that whichever one hits the ground first is the first of the order

Dude, fuck, I dunno, I hate probability. Like I took advance math classes for most of my academic career and probability was, is, and always will be my weakest bit. I just am not good at it. I tried, but I dunno, maybe you’re right, I dunno, I give up, you guys are on your own for this one.

Do any of the Alpha kids play instruments that we know of? I know that Dave does rapping and mixing, John can play piano, Jade can play bass and Rose plays violin.

Jane also plays the piano. Roxy has a violin and Dirk has his turntables but I don’t believe we’ve seen them play.

Forgotten Nepeta fact?

She never said nya

is gamzee in the frigde

yes

if daves entire apartment building entered the medium with him, why do we not see even a mention of the other tennants

Because only Dave’s floor and the infrastructure was teleported

So there's this topic on ectobiology saying that ((for example)) dave is a guy because dirk is a guy and that it's impossible for one of them to be born a girl because of the genetics in ectobiology, but that doesn't make much sense to me. How do you see this ectobiology process in accordance to the topic?

That topic is using faulty logic because

1: it’s assuming genetics influence gender which isn’t always necessarily true and

2: Dave’s not a clone of Dirk, he’s got Roxy’s dna too. 

At one point in-comic, Jade says to "think of [the multiverse] like a giant solar system, but instead of planets revolving around the [Green S]un, there are many universes." We know the creation of the Green Sun is visible from the Veil in the trolls' session. Following this logic, would the Green Sun's creation be visible from any session's Veil, or only those orbiting it at a specific distance?

Should be only those orbiting it. I doubt sessions with a different Green Sun would have seen it.

How do trolls have a ancestors

The one that they’d consider their ancestor is the troll that they share the most amount of dna with

Why did Jack go on a killing spree and destroy derse?

he did not care for the new office dress code

Would any sea dwelling trolls with a blood color too close to the empresses be killed at birth? I might be wrong but I think the empress kills the heiresses in order to have a longer reign, right?

Yes, but that’d only be the fuchsia blood. Being close to fuchsia isn’t fuchsia

PLOT TWIST!!!!!!!! Tell us something about the mod for the blog c: I bet there super cool

Oh boy, um, well, here’s my ships, I like irony, Dave Strider is my role model, everyday I aspire to be a little more like him.  I love Pokemon to death, it’s my lifeblood and a pokeball was my first tattoo. I will inevitably get a homestuck tattoo but money, y’know. Also I think beetles are really cool. Feel free to hmu on my personal if you want to ask more things about stuff that is my opinion.

Additional Fun Fact: my babe used to follow this blog looong before they met me. They said it was super weird finding out I ran it.

Random-ass fact about Aradia Megido?

She saw Lord English’s ghost killing less as a battle of good v. evil and more as a form of housecleaning 

Which songs have Dave and Jade worked on?

Looks like they did Crystalanthemums and Explore Remix

Probably a dumb question, but how do SBURB/SGRUB players know their titles/classpects? Does the game tell them, do they just kind of know, or do they genuinely not know much until they go godtier?

They learn it from the lore of the land or from their consorts/sprites/carapacians

What exactly is/was the Beat Mesa, and what role did it play in Sburb and The Scratch?

The Beat Mesa is a construct that holds a massive amount of temporal energy that Skaia needs in order to enact the Scratch.

Basically, it’s like a fire hydrant that you crack open when there are too many irons in the fire. And the hose directs the water to make the fire go out so things can go smoothly next time.

How many times have you read homestuck? First page to whatever page was newest.

Twice. Back in 2012 and 2013.  I read through Acts 1-4 last year. And I jump all over the place when I’m trying to answer questions. So all-in-all I’ve probably read it significantly more than that.  But straight front to back, only the two times. 

Now I'm curious!! What was the latest upd8 when you caught up to Homestuck the first time? Personally I binged from Act 2 right into Horrorstuck and what a beautiful regret that was

I don’t remember specifically, but I want to say it was right around [S] Jane: Proceed, maybe a little before

I checked the entire word-log of Homestuck, and not once does it mention anyone getting a haircut or cutting someone's hair. The only time scissors are mentioned is when John checks his dad's wallet out, wherein lays "Scissorkind". Fun fact for YOU!

Well if you want to get technical, this video is linked twice throughout the comic and Cameron Poe mentions meaning to get a hair cut in it

DIDNT TAVROS ALMOST PURPOSE TO VRISKA

He certainly intended to

I am stupid. Please explain credits to me? Why are people saying this gave Gamzee a resolution? And is the Caliborn Masterpiece fight something that takes place in Universe C? (And if so, how did it take him out in [S] Collide?)

OKAY!!!! CREDITS: Broken into lines so it’s easier to read

From my initial two viewings basically: The kids won and went to the sped along Earth they brought with them. 

They spend some time looking around,Battleship crew got a tour around the Meteor and then they ectobiologically MADE A SHIT TON OF BABIES of human, troll and carapacian descent. (Luckily Jake didn’t eat any of them)

And there’s lots of troll blood colors so limited supply of live trolls obviously wasn’t a factor in this.They ship the babies out with some grown Carapaces.

Then time drop 5000-something years into Earth’s future.Which is where the end of Act 7 takes place.

They’re return is celebrated and they are treated as royalty/gods, splitting up and taking rule over the 4 kingdoms (possibly a Problem Sleuth reference)

John, Jane, Dad Crocker and Nannasprite stay with the Human Kingdom

Terezi, Karkat, Dave, and Jade stay with the Troll Kingdom

Rose, Kanaya, Roxy and Calliope go to the Carapace Kingdom

Dirk, Jake, and Gcatavrosprite go to the Consort Kingdom

They go to John’s house to celebrate his 17th birthday.

THEN ROSE AND KANAYA GET MARRIED AND I CRY THEY”RE SO CUTE

Calli for some reason brings the Trickster Sucker and they have a little sugar fun.

Rose feeds Kanaya some cake, adorable

Dave, Jade, and Karkat who at this point I can only assume are a happy poly couple but who know, go looking for jpeg Statues of Liberty and shit.

Dirk builds a Lord English robot for him and Jake to tussle with

John’s 18th birthday comes by, he stills love Con Air

Terezi goes looking for Vriska only to find the Black Hole and a bunch of Ghost dying

Jane starts CrockerCorp again with success

Jake starts Skaianet Enterprises again and gets his ass all over tv

John’s 19th birthday comes. Kanaya and Rose are shown in the caverns with all the baby trolls

John’s 20th b.day happens, he fondly regards his father

then he gets a snap from Caliborn from in his Session, rallies the troops and that’s when he goes to fight him.

This upd8 clarified when Caliborn’s masterpiece takes place.  And Caliborn was born in Universe C so all his stuff takes place there.

Can all godtiered individuals float?

Yes

Why there is Calliborn in Credits? What the timeline of all of that??? PLS HLP

That’s the Alpha Timeline Caliborn, the one that the kids beat up in the Masterpiece, the one that will become Lord English, the one we watched in Act 7 get his rainbow eyes. He’s there to instigate the kids into surprising him.

so that means they get like. four years of happiness and then that's it?

ye p much

wait does this mean that after their happy ending they all just go fight caliborn and get sucked into his juju and thats the end or

p. much, ye

I don't see how the Credits confirm that the Lord Jack Black Hole leads to Caliborn's session

Okay, I may have jumped the metaphoric gun on that one. I was just so excited to be getting answers to some things.

So, since the dream bubbles are confirmed to be destroyed does that mean the dancestors are too?

most likely

I don't exactly see how suddenly Dirk/Jake is canon again, and how Roxy/Calliope is canon? Yeah, they interacted alot, but I don't immediately see anything explicitly romantic about it all? Sure, every other ship took a major back seat to the Human Marriage, but do you mind supplying some proof?

Again, I jumped the gun. I was drawn in by the hype. Everyone just seemed so happy and gay, very unusual for Homestuck. Conclusions were jumped to. It’s possible that the aforementioned ships were being hinted at, but are not likely outright canon, unless we get some juicy gossip in the epilogue. mah bad

What happens to the kids after they turn 20 and fight Caliborn?

Well that seems to be the end of the Beta kids as we knew them.

The Alpha kids haven’t really been explored passed being stuck in Caliborn’s session/Far future-Earth. Perhaps the Epilogue will provide answers in this category

So like, I'm a little confused as to where some of these snaps are coming from. I followed the msp Snapchat with John and the earth c pic in it but where's the rest? Are there multiple Snapchats? What are their names? Sorry, i'm kind of lost.

I don’t think all the snaps were released on the Snapchat, or purrhaps they will be released throughout the day

OK JohnRoxy might be dead, but what about JohnRezi..? ;o;

Well it seemed like it was still a thing. But we don’t see Terezi after the Black Hole snaps so who knows….