March 2015

WHERE DOES DAVE TAKE HIS GLASSES OFF?

[S] Jade: Wake Up

Before the end of the three year journey (so essentially between acts 1-5), did Rose and Jade ever meet in person?

No and neither did Dave and John.

The way I saw it, the tumor didn't directly destroy the two universes. Both versions of Jack from the trolls' and kids' sessions caused the actual destruction. Meanwhile, Doc Scratch misled everyone by saying the tumor had the power to destroy the Green Sun. While that was true, it also had the power to create it. Which it, in fact, did. The sun wasn't there when Rose and Dave arrived to its location because it didn't exist yet. It was always meant to be created by the tumor

How do the Alpha Kids and the Cherubs know so much about the game?

Dirk was awake on Derse for a long time and probably picked up some info from there.  Also I’m pretty sure Roxy and Dirk’s guardians left some kind of information for them but I’m not positive on that. 

And Calliope has a journal that Rose wrote her knowledge of Sburb in.

How did that whole password thing with Terezi work?

You put in the password in T3R3Z1’S QU1RK AND TH3N YOU COULD V13W TH3 R3TCONN3D 3V3NTS. You can go here for a list of the passwords.

What's exactly is the 48 squiddle session

Hussie said (in a now deleted tumblr post) that the session that created the troll universe was played by 48 squiddles.

hey, i was thinking: when vriska died, she had her eye and her arm back, so why is meulin deaf, or why is kurloz still mute even though they're dead?

Vriska became her dreamself before dying which had her arm and eye.  So either Meulin and Kurloz never became their dreamselves or they choose for their dreamselves to remain that way.

This might've been asked many times but I was told that Terezi was blinded by the Alternian sun by one person but someone else said it was from her unborn lusus's eyes. Please explain.

It was the Alternian Sun, her lusus, under the control of Tavros under the control of Vriska told her to look into the sun.

If there's more than a 12 person session wat will the god tier's be, because aren't there only 12 god tier's?

There are more than 12.  If Lord and Muse can exist, surely others can as well.

Why don`t the alpha kids have their own Jack?

They do.

johns dreamself was still alive when john went godtier?

Yes, he was on Skaia.

when do the other trolls find out about karkats blood?

Terezi could smell it, and Gamzee saw it.  So either word spread or everyone saw him bleed at some point since they were playing the game for a few weeks, or he just told everyone.

in reality, shouldn't two of the same class/aspect be able to be in a session as long as they aren't the exact same role? like say a Thief of Mind and a Thief of Void, since they don't serve the same purpose within the session. hell, two of the same God Tier could be able to be in the same session if one is a positive player of the role and the other is a negative/antagonistic one. that works in any other game with a class-based RPG system, so why not SBURB?

We don’t know if it’s impossible for repeat classes and aspects in a session.  But we also don’t know if it’s possible so it might be.  It’s never been touched upon in canon and I don’t know if Hussie ever revealed the answer in his old formspring Q&A’s

Can I have an list of all the flashes in order of appearance.

There’s a wiki page for that

How did Calliope get Rose's journal?

Gamzee left it.  We can tell this because he used the blood of a void player (Equius’s) to cover up every mention of himself in the book.

How many times have the mods read Homestuck?

I’ve read through it about 2 and a third times.  And I’m planning on reading it again once summer comes around and I have more free time.

Are there any conversations between feferi and gamzee?

Not between just the two of them. They both speak in two different memos.  But they might have spoken to one another in one of the walkaround flash games.

is march drag eridan canon or is it a joke in the fandom?

The image for, I believe the 2011 Homestuck calender for the month of March depicted Eridan crossdressing. He is also shown wearing the outfit in the Ministrife flash.  So to answer your question, kinda both.

If you need to became a dreamself/get tiger to heal, how did Tavros get his legs back when he died?

He became a ghost.

At the point of REUN1ON, what was (from Karkat's perspective) his most recent conversation with John?

I believe it’s Karkat: Contact John

That’s not counting the note that John sent to Karkat before entering the yellow yard.

Yo do have a FAQ? Could you link it if possible, I'm on mobile :(

It’s doesn’t have a ton of stuff on it yet but here you go.

Why exactly does John have these retcon powers? I mean It's not a godteir thing right?

He got them by touching a very powerful juju

how did Gamzee get to Earth in order to raise Caliborn

The Cali’s were raised on the meteor on Earth in the distant future so Gamzee just had to fast forward along the meteor’s timeline to reach them.

Wasn't it proven that Jade's narcoleptic fits were Vriska seeing what her mind control powers could do to humans?

Yes

Did Tavros ever reject Gamzee's offer to make out or…?

Do you need to complete ectobiology to win sburb?

Only if you were created through ectobiology.  If you were born like the Cali’s then you don’t have to.

Do you think things could have turned out differently had Gamzee been the one paralyzed? (Asking for a friend whose working on an AU)

If Gamzee had been in Tavros’s place and thrown off the cliff he probably wouldn’t have been paralyzed since he’s a highblood and more durable to damage.   If that had happened though the cycle of revenge wouldn’t have started so Aradia wouldn’t have died, Terezi wouldn’t have gone blind and Vriska wouldn’t have lost her arm and eye and Tavros, obviously wouldn’t have lost his ability to walk.

About the Gamzee's Dream Self thing, isn't it implied that Gamzee doesn't die in any Timeline, Dream Self or not? The only Timeline where we've seen that happen didn't even become doomed, it was erased from ever being by John's retconning. And the lack of any Gamzee Ghost in the Dream Bubbles (Jadesprite showed to have been in the Bubbles it's to be assumed they have separate ghosts) would indicate it's still. Sort of perhaps drifting in the Furthest Ring? You can't keep the clown down. Sadly.

All ghost Gamzee are in the same place, a bubble separated from all the rest, all of them lying in a great giant horn pile and eating pie.

Meta question: How in the world do you remember so much about Homestuck? Did you major in MSPAology in college?

Gosh I wish I could major in that.  I just have a good memory and I usually check the comic/wiki before I saying anything I’m not 100% positive about.

Ok lets see if I got this straight... On the ship JOhn's denizen knew about original John's time adventures so it killed retcon John (and davesprite) so there wouldnt be two Johns, leaving Jade alone for three years where she goes to sleep and meets an alternate Callie who tells her stuff. Much later Jane kills Roxy before Vriska puts her to sleep. Original Roxy and John will now enter the retcon universe with LOWAS

Yeah, pretty much.

Ok I get that post-scratch John made the alpha kids, but when, why, and how did he make them?

Pre-scratch John made the alpha kids towards the end of Act 4.

what does retconning mean?

It means changing a previously stated fact.

Gamzee never actually went god tier so why did he bother creating the costume?

To make people think he did.

Every session has a first Guardians (alpha trolls had doc scratch, beta kids has Bec, alpha kids had gcat) So what were the Beta trolls and Calliborn's?

Doc Scratch was the beta trolls’ first guardian, not the alpha trolls.  It hasn’t been stated in canon what/who the Cali’s or the alpha trolls’ first guardian is/was.

John gave Roxy the ring of life so when Jane killed Roxy she lived, Jane just fell asleep before she could see it happen

John gave the ring to original Roxy who he is currently with.  Jane killed retconned Roxy so now there’s an vacancy of Roxy’s in the retconned timeline that original Roxy will come and fill. 

In the beta verse the flower in the frog temple holds things for years like a time capsule, But when Dirk and Roxy went into it in the alpha verse they went back in time

No they didn’t.  They entered the Frog Temple in the furthest ring.  The Temple was eventually sent thousands of years into Earth’s past via Skaia’s portals. So it’s actually linear.  

How did Dave's Bro know so much about Sburb beforehand? How did he know to try and initiate the Scratch?

He probably had something to do with Skaianet like Rose’s Mom and Grandpa Harley.

What was the story Jade was telling Calliope where John and Davesprite died? Was it a memory of a doomed timeline?

It was a memory.  The story was the John and Davesprite where doing whatever on LOWAS and it suddenly exploded and she spent the next three years alone for the most part.

So if th beta trolls couldnt do ecto biology, and karkat never made them, then how did they become the ancestors? in the beta troll verse Feferi was the Queen so there was definetly the alpha-beta player swap like the kids, but how did it work? Did it have to do with meenah's bomb?

Karkat made all the pre-scratch and the post-scratch trolls.

What are the names of the two cannon fantrolls?

Mierfa Durgas and Nektan Whelan

I'm on mobile tumblr and What what is that banner doing there

I realized the other day that this blog didn’t have a banner so a made one.

what happened with the whole revenge cycle again? i can only remember why terezi was blinded, but not why vriska was injured etc

This is in the FAQ

THIS IS RLY IMPORTANT,DID DIRK EVER INTERACT PHYSICALLY WITH ANYONE BEFORE ENTERING THE GAME?

No one but his best bro Lil’ Cal.

Is Rosemary cannon?

fedora freak entered the game, right? and it seems that he died on a quest bed, so why didn't he go god tier

Yep, he ascended into the Gent of Piss

can you send me the link of where rosemary went cannon? please?

Merry Christmas

A few asks ago, you mentioned something about Skaianet. What is it, exactly?

It’s the company that produced Sburb in the Beta-verse and belonged to Grandpa Harley.

In the Alpha-verse it’s a company belonging to Grandma English and makes several products to compete against Crockercorp.

The next update is one april 13th (i think), which is also 413, a reoccuring number in the webcomic. Do we know the significance of the number/is there a reason for the number?

It’s the day Homestuck started (4/13/09). 

 It’s also John, Jane, and Bec’s birthday.

At which point exactly did Hussie stop taking suggestions and shut down the suggestion box? I was never quite sure about that.

It was during or after Act 4. 

After Act 4 you’ll notice that there’s far less random shenanigans happening. 

Shouldn't all the kids have the same birthdays if they were created in one day through ectobiology?

Yes but they were sent back to different days on the meteors as infants so technically they aren’t all the same age.