I've just got to say, you guys are awesome for dealing with all this shit so calmly. I love this blog to death, it really got me interested in the theory and facts part of Homestuck. Love you guys so much~ Stay awesome. :3
You’re welcome lovely anon, it’s always a pleasure
Would you consider queuing up a bunch of old forgotten facts for people who either weren't following back then or have forgotten them again? You could tag them as #oldfacts or something for the people who don't want to see them.
That sounds like a nice idea. I’ll get on that.
black list #oldfacts if you don’t want to see those.
I'd just like to point out that on page 89 of your blog, you stated that Vriska was fluent in morse code. Now, in her song Cobolt Theif from ColoUrs and Mayhem, there is a bit in the song that, in MOSRE CODE, that it says "Please save him." . Just wanted to point this out through my broken TaVris feels.
As this was the first time Karkat had slept in over 620 hours, being over three weeks. I’m sure anyone would be a heavy sleeper if they didn’t sleep for a nearly month.
okay im just kidding about karkat being john's dad, actual fact: The song "Black Rose, Green Sun" was the only song used in a flash before cascade that was in cascade. It was used in that one walkaround flash with rose.
Hey I sent something a while ago about Damara maybe being suicidal (According to Rufioh), I'm just wondering if you saw it or if I need to send it again...
It’s in here. I could just publish it if you like. Or we could wait for a different mod to put it on an image.
DING DONG, YOU'VE GOT THAT WRONG. The song used in the walkaround flash was Black Rose, Green Sun, whereas the one used in Cascade was Black Hole, Green Sun. Small difference name-wise, easy mistake to make, but still.
Hey, did any of you guys realize Hussie planned EVERYTHING IN HOMESTUCK TO DO THE EXACT THINGS? He had all these ideas before they even existed as pages. For example, Jake's side of the letter was introduced before Jake even came into the comic at all.
Another example being Jasper’s timeline or the RapBots poster in Dave’s room.
The beauty of the webcomic format is that you can waste time on boring stuff and throw in tid bits that won’t be relevant for years without having to worry about being cancelled or discontinued.
Actually! About the ask about Hussie's planning. He originally didn't even intend for the trolls to appear. He started the webcomic intending it to be solely four kids playing a game, and explaining the construct of the game. Source is from the 1st Homestuck book, in one of his comments.
Forgotten fact: Hussie didn't name any of the kids or trolls! Not pre- or post-scratch in either case. It's most likely because so many people started reading after the suggestion boxes were closed, but it's still pretty cool to check out the old threads and such!
Actually, most (or not all) of the Beforan trolls weren't named by Hussie either! They were suggestions in the name suggestion box for their dancestors.
The Beforan Trolls’ names were suggestions for the Alternian Trolls.
I remember when homestuck went on hiatus we were like, “Oh yeah, a bunch of people are going to be rereading Homestuck and we’ll get a bunch of new forgotten facts!”
OBJECTION! I think he may have named john, the rest were named by forumgoers. Source: CTRL+F "Named By" on the kids' pages on the mspawiki.
John may be named for James Dallas Egbert III, a student at Michigan State University who was incorrectly alleged to have disappeared into the school’s steam tunnels for reasons related to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Though, you’d have to ask Cuttlefish, the user who originally named him on the MSPA forum here.
Mod T, apart from Meenah's obvious usage of 2x3dentkind, it's highly possible that Cronus' strife specibus is Riflekind, as he owned Ahab's Crosshairs and preasumably used it.
That’s true, and knowing his wizardy past he could have used wandkind at some point. ~Mod T
Isnt there also a river in mythology called Eridanus?
There’s an Eridanos river in Greek mythology, apparently it was an actual river that flowed between forty million and seven hundred thousand years ago from Lapland to the North Sea through where the Baltic Sea is now
wait, no, Hussie always planned for there to be characters from a previous session, who and what they were, though, was never planned out ahead of time (he said this somewhere in the mire of q&a sessions once, but I forgot where)
Yeah, I’m pretty sure he planned on having all 8 kids and Lord English. Trolls and cherub details were added along the way.
But I’m not 100% so don’t quote me in an arguement