September 2017

so what's the difference between the sufferer and the signless ? is it just different names for the same person?

Two names for the same person. He was the Signless in life, the Sufferer in death

What if the can is just baby food and/or a wiggler is its logo?

Entirely possible, I suppose we’ll have to wait fourteen days to find out

How are you able to find the exact things people are talking about so easily?

Mspa search feature is very handy and for stuff I can’t find with that I usually have a pretty good idea of where in the story it took place to use as a starting point

 but I guarantee you it is not all easy. Some posts I have to spend 15, 30 minutes finding the answers to, hell I’ve spent a good hour and a half looking for answers before. Typically the longer I spend looking for an answer the less notes that post gets lmao

Hey what did Roxy say about the Ring of Life again? Which Person she'd give it to? And whom did she give it to?

I don’t know about the Ring of Life, but I know she said she’d like to give the Ring of Void to the person she was going to marry

Question for you Mod T. Who is your favorite troll and why? :D

Equius! As for why, I think there was just something about a creepy kid that no one really liked that 16 year old me was really drawn to and he’s just stuck with me since.

Also when I say no one, I mean no one. Equius was like the least popular character back in 2012, there was next to no fan art or anything for him. The same thing could be said about Nepeta. It wasn’t until the short lived late-2012 memes of “with Equius” and “Nepeta’s dead” that the fandom as a whole started to appreciate these beautiful children.

Is universe C the same as the universe that is built? Or is it just the universe all the kids build's earth that becomes the home of calliborne and calliopie after it travels through a black hole?

Universe C is the universe created by the kids’ session. They also took B2 Earth to Universe C which eventually became home to the Cali twins. The Earth doesn’t go through a Black Hole until Caliborn starts his session and it just goes to his medium.

I know this is an obsucre question but do you know if the story of hiveswap will supplement homestuck. Like will it indirectly affect it or possibly clear anything up about homestuck?

Possibly? It is a prequel spinoff so I don’t know how much it could affect the main story but you never know, it could explain you a thing or two

Wasn't there like a brief mention of rose hitting on Dave before they knew that they were related? Do you think it was a joke or if she was that would make her most likely bi or pan right?

Given those two’s relationship and individual personalities,  I’d say that any flirting had to be at least 80% ironic

Does that make paradox space canon?

Most Paradox Space comics are not necessarily canon to the main timeline. Except for at least “The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven“ and “Vrisky Business” which Andrew Hussie wrote

Forgotten Homestuck fact: Snap back to reality - Watch your profanity - This is insanity - The center of gravity - Oh the humanity! - Bisexuality - Scorpion Wins! Flawless Victory! FATALITY - Pfft, screw gravity - Call up Sean Hannity - It's a bold strategy - Inside our galaxy - We're snapping back to reality. Oh, there goes gravity. Mom's Spaghetti.

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If you could have one (1) Homestuck mystery cleared up what would it be? Mine would be the contents of daveisafunnyguy.txt

I know it’ll probably be in Hiveswap but I would like to have a 100% confirmation on if Grandpa Harley adopted Mom Lalonde or not.  But other than that, I wanna know some deets about the mysterious white frog in my header

If it isn't too much work, could you list all the trolls canon/most likely canon disabilities? Physical and mental. Including the alphas and possibly the ancestors? Thank you!!!

Karkat and Kankri have mutant blood which would be a disability in troll society.

Tavros is/was paralyzed.

Sollux is bipolar, Mituna has his brain injury

Meulin is deaf

Terezi is blind and pre-retcon she suffered from some kind of post-traumatic stress about killing vriska and (I don’t know if you want to count it as a disability or not but i’m gonna list it anyway) he self-esteem was obliterated by her abusive relationship with Gamzee. Post-retcon she was constantly put on a guilt trip by Vriska about Terezi killing her in that alt-timeline.

Latula can’t smell, and has some other non-specified disorder that she takes meds for.

Vriska’s a BITCH, and was also missing an arm and an eye for awhile.

Gamzee is…Gamzee…I’m not gonna talk about him,

Kurloz doesn’t have a tounge.

Mindfang lost an arm as well


I think that’s it. If I left anything off lemme know.

forgotten hussie fact?

people used to ship him with Hidekaz Himaruya , the author of Hetalia

I did not want to remember that fact

Here’s an alternative for you:

This picture of Andrew Hussie sitting outside of a cave in a sports jacket with a pile of toblerones next to him is my lock screen background on my phone and has been for nearly a year

Doesn't Meenah have some for of depression? Or is that just me projecting onto my favorite character?

Maybe mildly towards the end of the story, but feel like it was more of a “really sad/bored” depression and not quite to the disorder/disability level, but maybe that’s just me.

one of the canon fan trolls was missing an eye iirc

I think they just have a scar there, idk, we don’t have a lot of info on them

hey are john and jake related? i thought they had like a cousin or uncle blood connection but am i wrong

Jake is John’s genetic Father

The one Homestuck mystery I want to know: What the heck was that alchemization of the hammer and Midnight Crew comic that John couldn't make at the start because it cost so much grist. (If I remember correctly that is.)

It was a Problem Sleuth game not a Midnight Crew comic and it could have been the Warhammer of Zillihoo since that debuted in Problem Sleuth and items can have more than one cost, but I suppose we’ll never know for sure

how did calliope have a dream self if she never officially enter the game? or did i just miss something?

She was destined to play the game, that’s why she had a dreamself

was Dave having depression a fan theory or actually said in homestuck?

Davepeta said they were depressed when they were Davesprite on two occasions, so at the very least Davesprite has canon depression. But no, Dave Strider, the alpha timeline Dave, does not canonically have depression (although lets face it, he probably does)

Yo! Thank you so much for what you do! I have a request too: can you explain all of the genetic relationships and adoptive relationships between the kids and their guardians and why they are the way they are? For example, how is Jake the genetic father of John and Jade? I can't get it off my mind. I understand if this'll take a while to answer, but thanks in advance!

If you try to teleport something from the past that already has a future trail into the present you create a Ghost Imprint, which is basically a pile of goop containing the genetic makeup of whatever you tried to teleport.

John took Grandpa (Jake’s) and Nanna (Jane’s) ghost imprints and mixed them together and created himself and Jade. Which makes Jake and Jane their genetic parents. He did the same with Bro and Mom’s ghost imprints to make Dave and Rose.

As for adoptive relationships:

B1-

B2-

isnt the reason why b2 rose and dave knew bc seers can see parts of their pre-scratch life?

Yep, post-scratch guardian seers do seem to have the ability to get small visions from their pre-scratch lives

Is Cronus bad

That’s subjective but he definitely isn’t the best person/troll out there

Where did we get Damara and Kurloz's sprites? We got all the other dancestor's sprites from the fight with LE, but I went through twice and paused the video every half a second both times and never saw a single Damara or Kurloz sprite If there was a place Andrew released their sprite designs could you send the link if possible? Or if they're fanmade then the link to the page?

tumblr user ipgd made them for Collide and posted them on their blog

what page is the one with the image saying "that is what the refrance" (or something along those lines) with shitty jpegs of wizard of oz characters? i can't find it and i've been googling for months

This one?

is joey jades mother then?

Nope, Joey is Jade’s Adoptive Aunt. Jade’s mother and father are Nanna and Grandpa

was it stated who actually made the sburb/sgrub/etc games?

B1 is was Skaianet, Grandpa Harley’s company

B2 it was Crockercorp, )(IC’S company

A2 is was Sollux that coded the game.

Base code for the game can be found in the Frog Temple.

Did davepeta kiss Jade in canon?

That was Canon

Who is the fastest Homestuck character? Because I am a bit conflicted on this.

Not counting outright telportation,

That’d probably have to be Jade. With her Witch of Space powers combined with her First Guardians abilities she can make things (and presumably herself) go close to lightspeed.

Not counting magic or science powers, probably Dirk or Gamzee, they both have shown decent flash-stepping abilities.

hey, what was with that doomed timeline where karkat didn't send the virus and gamzee like, killed everyone? do you have any details on that?

That’s where the Genetic Code to create Doc Scartch, but there’s not much else known about it

I know this isn't really a question but I haven't read hs in a while so could you make a TL;DR of it???

It’s this webcomic where these kids play a game and their like “holy shit whats going on???” and then the world is destroyed and then some alien dudes that also played the game are like we have to work together to survive because you guys suck and made a really strong bad guy. So then they work together and like rewrite history and spend three years traveling to the new earth that they caused to exist by rewriting history. But then on that Earth there were more kids that then played the same game but the planet wasn’t destroy it was just taken over by two clowns, Guy Fieri and an alien empress and they ended up killing all the people but the planet was still okay except is was flooded. So then everyone meets up in outerspace and are like “we all got to fight these bad guys that are super strong”. Oh yeah, also there’s ghost of all the people that played the game and died and they find some bullshit thing that basically makes one of the kids a fucking consequence-free tardis. And the ghost are like gonna fight the big bad skeleton guy as like this huge army and stuff while the kids and aliens are gonna fight a bunch of other strong bad guys. And then they do! The kids win, but the ghost all die but they get the big bad anyway. After that everyone that still alive goes to the previously flooded Earth but in the future when it’s not flooded and lives happily ever after…


OR DO THEY?????

orphans do get culled on alternia right? im pretty sure thats canon, but no one else seems to acknowledge it... Vriska says once that if she didnt feed her lusus she'd starve and she would be culled for that so wouldnt that make it canon? or maybe it just applies to her bc spidermom is supposed to be a really hard lusus to deal with... so maybe it only applies to challenging lusi but i feel like whoever came up with alternian culling regulations wouldnt bother making that distinction...

If Vriska didn’t feed her lusus then her lusus would eat her.

Terezi never really had a lusus, and Gamzee’s was never around so I don’t believe orphans are automatically on the cull list

Is there a reason the beta kid's guardians seemed to know so much of what was happening when the world ended, and/or do you think hiveswap will shine more light on that?

Grandpa Harley owned and Mom Lalonde worked at Skaianet which is the company that made the Sburb Beta so that probably accounts for them.

Dad Egbert didn’t really seem like he knew much and was just good at rolling with the punches.

Bro Strider is an enigma.

I have a question, would Terezi be culled if her blindness was known? Or does her smelling ability make up for it?

She could function relatively normally and that’s good enough

are the serkets the only highbloods who can mind control? are they able to mind control other high bloods? (like vriska mind controlling terezi)

They can control any troll with a weak enough will. Gamzee was controlled by Aranea, but Vriska wasn’t able to manipulate pre-Hivebent Terezi.

wouldnt itchy be the fastest?

Jade can move at near light speed, Itchy can’t go quite that fast

and the other two were not counting special Powers or Abilities which Itchy has

Pre-hivebent? Did she mind control terezi sometime later?

No, Terezi’s will power kinda fluctuates throughout the story so she might have been able to at one point.  Like Pre-Retcon Terezi that was a fckin mess probably could have been controlled

Hey sorry for dumb question but is the hiveswap soundtrack located somewhere? Or is it just in game?

You can download it on the Homestuck Bandcamp

What's the deal with those blue lady paintings? Are they from something other than homestuck or are they just a weirdly specific homestuck creation? Hussie puts in so many easter eggs and references that it's hard to tell

Grandpa Harley just likes Cerulean Ladies, if there’s some other reference I’m not sure what it would be

i vaguely remember it mentioning somewhere that alternian battleships could go faster than the speed of light. s'that correct or am i misremembering?

The Condesce’s ship (the fastest of Alternia’s battleships) could go near lightspeed using only auxiliary power. So it is likely that all Alternian battleships could go at the very least that fast.

Wait is Jude a boy?? Or did I misunderstand the post about their quirks? (WHEN "HE'S" TALKING, over)

Yeah, Jude is a boy, he’s Joey’s brother as well as Pa and A. Claire’s son

just to clarify, theres no ectobiology in joey and jude's birth, right? they both emerged from someone's groin?

Yep, they’re both 100% home grown

This might be a very obvious question since I haven't played hiveswap yet, but did grampa harley raise joey and jude?

Not really, he stops by occasionally but mostly raising them is left to a young Mom Lalonde

hey mod t, what are your personal opinions on dammek? (more specifically what we've heard about him through xefros/joey so far)

He seems like kinda a dick, but a lot of trolls are so nothing against him yet. Base on the glimpses of his character that we get from Act 1, I already know I’m going to love the dynamic he’s going to have with Jude so I’m really excited for Hauntswitch

Dad's adopted too

There’s no evidence to support that

How old is Roxy during hiveswap?

She likely would have been in her early 20′s, we don’t know her exact age

Isn't it more likely that dad is adopted rather than biological bc there's always only one "parent" shown?

I mean Nanna had a husband

Since )(IC / the Baroness was the one who raised Nana Egbert and Grandpa Harley by her own, it would mean they were living together for some years, right? Did neither of them (or anybody for that matter) knew in early life that the Baroness wasn't human? If so, how come nobody figured out? Did she disguise herself so nobody knew about her being a troll or something...?

Oh they knew. Nanna said upfront she knew the Baroness wasn’t human

When does Damara use Telekinesis? I cant remember seeing her use it.

That’s how Aranea was moving shit

so HIC was on beta earth, and died with the reckoning yeah?

She vanished long before their session began so it’s unknown