April 2016

Do you think if a ghost gets stabbed/strangled/etc (separate from how they were initially killed) in the dream bubbles, they'll double-die, or will they sort of. Regenerate. And the only way to double-die a ghost is using the amount of energy that Lord English has to essentially wipe them from existence.

They’ll regenerate, LE is the only one that can kill ghosts

why did lord english arrive in a sarcophagus in 4/1/2016 upd8? when did he get in it?

That’s the Cairo Overcoat,he uses it to travel, we haven’t him get it, he’s always just had it

Could you explain the multiple Caliborn theory thing?

Basically,  the theory is that the Caliborn we’ve been following in story isn’t the Caliborn that will become Lord English and is from an alternate timeline.  This Caliborn focused more on art and less on combat. This would explain why Hussie stopped talking to him abruptly and why the Caliborn in the masterpiece was surprised by things. Surely, if the Caliborn we’ve been watching who had seen the fight had been the Caliborn in the fight he wouldn’t have been surprised.  If Art!Caliborn was the Alpha!Caliborn then there would be stardust in the current post-retcon timeline as well, but we’ve seen no trace of it and John hasn’t been back long enough to blow it all away.

"I'm Caliborn, we went over this last 4/13." ~Mod T. My theory is that you are secretly Alpha!Caliborn and are currently in the process of transforming into Lord English, and Art!Caliborn is the one speaking with the Denizen. You plan to off him as soon as you get the chance. #TheTruthIsLoose

Well you’re not entirely wrong. BUT I WILL NOT HAVE TO OFF THE DUMB ART ME, HE IS WEAK AND YOGURTBONER WILL KILL HIM. YOU SEE YOLOBROTH IS THE STRONGEST ONE OUT THERE WHICH IS WHY HE IS MINE SO THAT I WILL LOOK EVEN MORE COOLER WHEN I KILL HIM MYSELF WITHOUT THE HELP OF MY PLUSH FROG PEOPLE OR THE CLOWN.

Do we know if rose has done with her "play the rain" mission, or what that means

She hasn’t done her planet quest, no

why doesn't aradia have a dreamself and why does sollux have 2

Aradia has a dreamself, it’s in Derse’s core.  And Sollux has two because of his duality theme

Not very important but It appears that Hussie edited the first page so it says "It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday" instead of "It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is this young man's birthday."

Yeah, he went back and did that to several earlier pages.

Speaking of planet quests, John had to free the fireflies and Rose needs to play the rain. What are the quests for the other kids?

Jade’s was to stoke the forge and to breed the frogs. We don’t really know about Dave’s except that it involved the  Caledfwlch

Hello again, I was rereading the Game Over arc and had a question about Aranea's powers. So, when Jade gets overpowered by Jake's Hope Field and ko'd, how did Aranea tip Jade's house over onto her? Aranea's hand glowed and I think the tower did, too. These don't seem like her God Tier powers, so what allowed her to do that? The Ring of Life? Or was she manipulating the power from the Hope Field? Thanks!

She’s was mind controlling a group of Damara ghosts into using their telekinesis

i have adhd and i have a hard time readying the pesterlogs/diologlogs do you know if there was any extension that world make it better??? or something else?? sorry fur bothering u!!

I found one that’ll remove the trolls’ quirks which might make it easier to read, and there’s that youtube series where VAs read the comic.

Other than that I don’t know. If any followers have any ideas please leave a reply

Has the BARK code that Jake wrote down (p=006378) been used for anything?

The creation of gcat

question cause im confused about something. in the prevous timeline it showed an au where vriska wasn't killed by terezi, in that au the trolls were killed by bec noir because vriska's god tier-ness attracted him to the trolls, after this vriska engages in battle with jack noir and dies. in the current timeline vriska is alive and well, but how come that in the current timeline jack noir didnt kill the trolls because vriska was alive?

Because John knocked her unconscious so she could go mess with Mr. Noir

How did the prospit from the update get wrecked?

Jack English exploded it

Is the first page still considered to be 2009, or is the timespan of homestuck now ambiguous?

First page is 2009, It’s still currently 2012 in story

Hey, IIRC didn't Hussie hint that one of the acts after the gigapause would only be one page long? Is that the case or am I imagining it? And if it is true, do you think that that would have to be act 7?

Yea, it’ll probably be eoa6, followed by one last intermission, and Then the final flash of Act 7 on 4/13

Could you tag upd8s? I'd love you forever if you could try to tag upd8s. ;u;. Not just for me, but a lot of people I know are waiting until it's over before getting to read them all in one go and I feel it's unfair to them to have to avoid the fandom completely in the meantime.

Ah, sorry, I’m really bad about tagging upd8 but I’ll do my best

Is act 7 going to be an entire act or only one page?

We don’t know yet

if you dont mind me asking, how many asks do you get a day (average)? love your work

It depends. The more asks we answer the more we get. It could be anywhere between 20 and 50 or more depending.

Can you escape the red miles?

so.. is dirk unable to be killed in the upcoming fight because he later becomes lord english ?? or am i just confused

Dirk doesn’t become Lord English, he creates him

what happened to derse?

Derse is okay, only it’s moon got exploded. Blame the Condesce.

Ok so, let me get this straight. Bec, a godly dog, was created by the MEOW, code, and GCat, a godly cat, was made by the BARK code?

Yes, and Doc Scratch, the godly puppet was made with the t1ckt0ck8r8kh34dshonkHONK code

how do u know it's still 2012 in homestuck right now ?

April 2009* +3 years** = April 2012

November 2011*** + 5 months**** = April 2012

* When the Beta kids started playing Sburb
** How long the Beta kids traveled to get to the Alpha kids
*** When the Alpha kids started Sburb
**** How Long the Alpha kids have been playing Sburb

Wait wait wait. A6A6A5 is still not over, but next upd8 will be EOA6. Did Hussie forget about about A6A6A6? I mean it WAS in Caliborn's cartridge thing

Most likely the flash will be A6A6A6

Caliborn's recollection about the capturing of Beta kid's souls and fighting with the Alpha kid's, when did that happen and will we ever see it (in forms other than Caliborn's play)?

It happens in the future, I don’t know if we’ll ever see in in non-clay form, I guess we’ll find out within the next two weeks

if gamzee is locked in the fridge post-retcon, how was jack english created and how were the cherubs raised? he was integral in both of those things happening

Well he’ll be dumped in Earth’s ocean and eventually get out and raise the cherubs so that stays the same.

I’m not sure about the Jack thing tho. It hasn’t been referenced post-retcon, so timetravel maybe? Maybe Vriska did it? She does put a lot of emphasis on how she doesn’t know how he came to be.

About Karkat calling someone racist, he does that Jade when she trying to contact future Karkat about her destroyed robot.

Indeed he does

who is lord english.

Who isn’t Lord English?

Why does Hussie only have one ghost self?

Because there is only one Hussie. 

I'm assuming hussie has a 2-phase plan for homestuck. 7 acts was phase 2. The first part of the plan was to give you a boner. And you got one.

Actually Hussie was the one that got a boner, and that boner’s name is Homestuck

When was it established that Arquuis Sprite was part of lord English?

In Caliborn’s claymation thingy

Okay so I'm kind of confused by how Lord English happened. Like I know Lil Cal and Caliborn are involved but I don't get what exactly happened. Is there a simplified version of events?

Dirk sealed the souls of Gamzee, Caliborn and Arquiusprite into Lil Cal. When they are released they form the amalgamation known as Lord English.

is there any possibility of the supposed "brief pause" being released on 4/6/2017. i looked on the website and he only specifies that he'd post it on "4/6". seems like something hed do

I don’t know why he would do that, I mean everything is pretty much already finished. Hussie’s not mean enough to give us another gigapause.

Why didn't we see Jane in the upd8? Where is she?

She’s not fighting. The upd8 was all about the combatants and Jane’s on Healing duty

why were the tricksters so essential to the game?

They weren’t, it was just a cheap way to get the alpha kids to where they needed to be and a nod to the fans

Since when does Vriska care about anyone else's plans? (For Act 8)

Act 8: It’s a single panel of Vriska flipping us off.
Gotta give the orange guy one last fuck you..

I stopped reading when Kanaya knocked Karkat out or smth can you help me find that part??? I'm really freaking out and I desperatedly want to be up to date before it ends

This is right before that

what was jake looking at in the update? it seemed like he saw something in the sky ?

My guess would be either he’s looking up at the Felt as some of them are quite large

OR (and I’d personally prefer this one) he sees Casey’s undead army coming over the hill behind the Felt

Hey did the current vriska go godteir? She doesn't wear her outfit but she has both of her arms and eyes so I'm a little confused.

Yes she did, and the pre-retcon Vriska rarely wore her god tier outfit as well

If Calliope destroys the green sun now, does that mean Gcat will dissappear and Tavrossprite will wake up?

They’ll still exist, they just won’t have the First Guardian powers

what was the point of [s] Terezi Remember?

It was a good point to start the Omegapause on.

Also closure for all our pre-retcon needs

Do you know if it's been said anywhere how long act 7 will be? (I don't think it has, most recent mspaint thing doesn't say how big that last update will be) I would guess a lot of it would be the "Final animation", what do you think?

I think it’ll most likely just be one really long flash but it could also include the 40 pages leading up to the flash

can you tell me why tavrossprite fell asleep, what happend to make him fall asleep? was he fused with gcat

Vriska put him to sleep with her psychic abilities so that the Condesce couldn’t control gcat

the EoA6, or A666, comes after 6 final updates on the 6th, and will consist of 6 separate fights homestuck is officially a sin

Praise 

Is EOA6 going to be a half-hour animation? I remember reading somewhere that it would be but I can't seem to find the source.

It’ll be longer than Cascade which was like 15 but we dont know exactly how long itll be

Since Vriska combined GCat with Tavrosprite and made them fall asleep, Condesce won't be able to control them. Jade still has the risk of being controlled. But what about Jasprose? Half of them is still an animal.

Jasprose isn’t an omnipotent being so it isn’t as big of an issue of condesce controls them if she even could.

Worst case scenario, Condy mind controls Jade, Bec Noir, and PM and uses them to just fucking decimate everyone