October 2016

Are you implying Caliborn's masterpiece wasn't majestic af?

It is, but, and just hear me out on this, it’s not anime

Where are the credits? I can't seem to find them but it may be because I'm on mobile?

You have to play through a very tiny flash game to get to them which is probably why you can’t see them. They’re also on youtube though.

why are you talking abt the epilogue like it hasnt happened yet??? ist that what todays upd8 was???

Nope, today’s upd8 was The Credits, Hussie said a few weeks ago he hasn’t really started on the Epilogue.

do you think maybe aradia was out by the black hole to catch her friends from getting sucked in? or did she just go out there to see destruction and chaos?

how did they manage to jump 5000+ years into the future????

Time travel

did johns dad die? and what is the certificate of authenticity for? In the credits I mean

Yes John’s dad died, and the certificate of authenticity is for the Con Air bunny that Dave gave him for his 13th birthday at the beginning of the comic

I have a question about the credits,i knew they made ecto-babies and went 5000 years in the future,but did they decide to stay 5000 years in the future? Is the credit's animation basically 5000 years in the future?

Yeah, they stayed 5000 years in the future where the kingdoms were already established and they didn’t really have to do anything.  That’s why we see the paper the says “creators return at last” because the civilizations were waiting for them to show up again.

And,sorry for this other question,how did the Wayward Vagabond go from years in the future (but not many) To being on the trolls meteor?

PM teleported him there through herself when she acquired the Queen’s ring

Where was it revealed/stated that the kids would be sucked into the Juju?

Here

So do we know what will happen to the kids that get sucked into the house juju during the fight with caliborn or will that just be cleared up in the epilogue

As of right now we don’t know if they emerge when Vriska used the juju or if they really are stuck there. It will most likely be cleared up in the epilogue. 

So hiveswap will be set in this new universe, right?

Nope, Hiveswap takes place pre-scratch in the 90s. 

wait, so terezi went back to the black hole calliope created to look for nepeta and the other trolls who were stuck there? did she get sucked in as well/is she okay? im still really unclear on that bc we saw her go in and then never heard from her again.

Terezi went back to Paradox Space to find Vriska. From the way her and John were discussing it, it seems she can come and go freely. 

If the Scratch releases a massive amount of temporal energy to reset the game, and Spades Slick opening Lord English's vault released a massive amount of temporal distortion and transported him to the worst timeline, is opening LE's vault a sort of scratch?

Not necessarily. Opening English’s vault transported Slick to another timeline.

Do you think because of how open ended parts of the epilogue is hussie will do more with homestuck?

This upd8 wasn’t the epilogue. Epilogue has yet to arrive. 

WAIT WHAT IS HAPPENING? I'm very inactive, what is going on? Is homestuck continuing or what is all this about?

Homestuck ending credits video was posted on YouTube and Rose and Kanaya got married.

But why does John stay in his house all alone? Does he have to?

He’s feeling a little lonely without his dad. 

how do we know johns dad died? not skeptical, just curious

…..Wait, is this a serious question? We saw Dad Egbert’s body multiple times. 

John even mentions it.

wait I thought the implication was that Jane's dad had died too though?

No, Jane’s dad is in the credits. 

How tired are you of answering the same questions repeatedly, and continually telling people that the credits weren't the epilogue? Props to you, my friend.

Well, it’s not as bad as when Act 7 happened and people kept asking questions that we didn’t have the answer to.

So john's dad is dead?????

Yes, and has been for many years

why???? why does nepeta always have to die?? why can't she ever get a happy ending!

Nepeta’s Dead™

How do people not know johns dad died? What did they think happened???

Mandela Effect? 

How does the universe naming thing work? There's the first troll universe with meenah and the gang, then the second one with vriska and friends, then the john and pals, then the roxy and crew, and now this last one. Why is it universe c? Why not e?

 Pre-scratch and Post-scratch take place in the same universe just different parts of it. The Trolls were Universe A.  Meenah’s group was A1, Karkat’s was A2. The Humans were Universe B. John’s group is B1 and Roxy’s is B2. The New Universe is therefore C.

why are they celebrating john's 20th birthday if theyre 5000 years into the future?

Because that’s how many years he’s been alive. They didn’t live through 5000 years.

Wait wait. So if Johns Dad died did: Roses mom Daves bro Dirks bro Roxys mom Jakes Grandma. Die?

Yes, they all died guys, c’mon

What/where are the different kingdoms??? Are they all on earth???

Yes they are all on Earth

im so sorry but just to make it absolutely clear, after john got calliborn's snaps he and the rest of the beta kids went to fight him and ended up getting sucked into the house juju right? sorry im not very good with all this crazy timeline bullshit. are they ever released from the juju?

Yes that is what happened/will happen as far as canon has shown us

Nooo I forgot until I said out loud that John's birthday is the day his Dad died and I started sobbing.

huh, yeah

wait how come people are saying "thanks for the gay jewish wedding?" is the jewish thing a headcanon? was the wedding displayed like a jewish wedding??? what??

I thinks it’s because the tricksters were carrying Rose and Kanaya on chairs similar to the Hora (I think that’s right correct me in the replies if it’s not) done at Jewish weddings. Whether you believe this to be a Jewish wedding or just tricksters being wacky is up to you.

Wait, what? What do u mean they didn't live through the 5000 years? What happened? I guess there was a big creators' return party... What did they do??

They time traveled

So I started following Homestuck four years back, at the start of high school for me, and sometime in 10th or 11th grade, I didn't keep up with it anymore. I've collected bits and pieces by all the posts in-tag, since I can't remember exactly where I left off. My question posed though is: should I feel bad for not understanding so much? For example, I don't understand jujus and their functions even though I was still reading when they were first mentioned... I just feel bad for not understanding

Dude it’s a story, a piece of fiction, like there is no problem in not knowing literally everything about it. Plenty of people don’t understand how things work or what they are in homestuck, explaining that shit is like 95% of what this blog does. So no, you shouldn’t feel bad.

does everyone is dead?

Do you think Jane could make anyone non god tier immortal? Or is Rose going to have to be a window?

i feel like u should probably stop saying that theyre gonna go fight caliborn as confirmed fact bc its really not more than a theory? like we only know this from something caliborn tells us, and hes not the most reliable source

But they are gonna fight Caliborn, they need to. In order for Lord English to exist they need to beat him up and jam him in Lil Cal. And Lord English exists already so therefore they will fight Caliborn. Or risk a doomed timeline.

just to make sure i got it, how did they time travel 5k years?

Dave, can time travel, he’s a time player

They definitely will fight calliborn. But them getting stuck in the juju is not a guarantee. That can still stuff him in to lil cal without themselves getting trapped :)

But if they don’t get sucked into it then Caliborn won’t send it to the furthest ring for Vriska to eventually find and use against Lord English.  And we know Vriska does those things, so the prior has to happen.  And the house juju glows the beta kids aspects so they def got jammed in there.

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What happened to nepeta, and eridan? AND PLEASE EXPLAIN GAMZEE

Well nep became part of Davepeta which is rad. Eridan is dead, presumably forever. And Gamzee also ends up dead after he and Caliborn fight the alpha kids.

I'm increasingly realizing that I'm the only person who interpreted John's "I'll do it..." snap as threatening to break his phone (which he then did do) rather then accepting Caliborn's challenge. Am I missing something or what???

Caliborn was baiting him to come fight him and play out the events that happened in his Masterpiece.

Besides the House Juju thing which is probably going to be resolved soon, are there any major time loops that still have a piece missing and/or are incomplete?

There’s the white frog in our banner, we don’t know who sent that.

We also don’t know who put the weapons in the lotus pod that Jake gave to Liv Tyler. Following in that, we don’t have the full timeline of the Warhammer of Zillyhoo.

I feel like I might be overthinking this, but the only thing that's technically unclear is Lord English v. the Beta kids, right? Like we know they smack around Caliborn. All the outer ring shenanigans and what not as well. I just don't know if there's a conclusion to the fight between the juju'd Beta kids and Lord English.

We don’t know exactly what the juju does against Lord English or whether or not the kids are actually released from it.

Sooo can you pls remind who gonna die in masterpiece

Gamzee’s the only one that actually “dies” from what we could tell from the claymations.

Dumb question. How old were Rose and Kanaya when they got married?

They were 17. and they started going out when they were 15

Speaking of the Mandela Effect, about a year ago everyone I asked remembered Vriska's god tier shoes as blue, including myself. We were totally blown away by this mass hallucination. Of course they're red, red shoes are her thing!

Yeah, she has orange boots.  Rose’s and Aranea’s god tier shoes are blue thought so maybe that’s why.

Rose is 16 at the wedding not 17

Her birthday is before John’s and it take place after John’s 17th birthday so she’s 17.  John’s the youngest my dude.

Actually think Rose is 16 at her wedding because it's in the fall and her birthday isn't until December.

She was born the year before John, she’s a few months older than him

Wait so could Jane possibly make a non godtier player immortal? Or will Rose have to be a widow if and when Kanaya dies? Cause that's not something I wanna think about

Jane can not make someone immortal. But Kanaya is also sort of undead? So who knows about her mortality.

Stupud question: how does the rest of homestuck happen if the 4 kids sucked into the juju? I have completely forgotten

They get sucked in in the future

Are Dirk and Jake a couple again or nah? And why did they break up in the first place? (btw love your blog)

It looks like they could be. They at the very least made up and are on good terms again. They broke up because Dirk was overly clingy/protective and Jake was distant and rushed into the relationship.

isnt.... wasnt john CREATED first though?

Technically, the first beta kid to pop into existence was Dave, followed by Jade, Rose, and then John. Either way he’s the youngest.