June 2016

what happened to dirk after game over?

He was consumed by the Special Stardust and if he didn’t die he was presumably erased along with the timeline

Why are you saving all the panels?? Hussie said hes gonna release a digital version of the comic :V it was part of the game kickstarter

That was if the Kickstarter reached $2,500,000 which it was just shy of at $2,485,506.

As for why I’m doing it; because I want to, plus it lets me have my own Homestuck Map that’s more in depth than the one on the mspa site. See look at how nice this is:

It gives me a great outline of the story and I just think it’s fun

I seem to remember Hussie saying somewhere that the Kickstarter backers were still getting the digital copy of Homestuck because the extended PayPal donations pushed it over 2.5 million. That being said, I still applaud you for preserving them all, haha. Are you preserving the original versions of panels in addition to any that were altered over time (for instance, the "retconned" panels)?

I’m getting both the original and the retcon panels. I’m only on Act 2 at the moment so I still have a ways to go.

And you’re right on the Kickstarter thing, I forgot about the paypal portion. But who knows when the game will come out?

wait – is homestuck slated for deletion

No. It was just a hypothetical

How'd you get the original panels?

First you find yourself a Retcon panel

Then you Right Click on it and click Open Image in New Tab

Once you’ve done that head up to the taskbar, highlight the “_retcon” portion, delete it and press enter

And then viola~ the original panel 

Hey, I'd decided to download all of the pages myself a while ago, but I could never figure out how to download the flash pages. Do you know how to do that?

Not yet. I’m planning on looking into that after I get all the not-flash pages

will you attempt to include the extra panels that appear on the upper part of the mspa pages during doc scratch's segment, or would that be kinda difficult?

Yeah, they’re just an image, I might not be able to catch the hover-text but I can live with that

AAAAA ON PAGE 004341 IT SAYS GLUBGLUB IS THE ONLY LUSUS WITH FUCHSIA BLOOD!!! BUT THEN ON PAGE 004361 IT SHOWS A LUSUS WITH FUCHSIA BLOOD BEING FED TO GLUBGLUB. WHAT??????????????????????????

That is actually not Fuchsia, it’s a bit farther down the scale

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what exactly would be a "digital copy" of homestuck?

The entirety of Homestuck on one convenient flashdrive

Do you think Hussie desides the fate of a character just to mess with the fans? (ex. fusing Nepeta with Davesprite) Or do you think there is a deeper meaning to each character's path?

He did that for some of them. Such as Fefeta never speaking was because the fans desperately wanted Nepeta and/or Feferi to be relevant again.

But I feel like Davepeta was a good thing for Davesprite’s character so I’m not sure if I’d categorize it here

Beforus never had a gl'bgolyb, but they had the lifespan disparity between castes didn't they? does that mean they had something similar to gl'bgolyb?

They had no glubglub or anything like her on Beforus.  Glubglub doesn’t affect lifespans

How'll you get the pesterlogs though?

I’m coming back for those later

isn't mayor still on HOHAC during [S] GAME OVER?

Yes

How did Aranea telekinesis in [S] GAME OVER?

She was controlling a group of damaras

Looking to hire a new mod?

If we are you’ll know about it

Did Jake like Arenea?

I mean he has an affinity for cerulean babes. But as for like like I don’t think so, but that’s debatable.

What are retcon pages because I feel stupid not knowing?

Pages that Hussie went back and added a splash of oil or John’s arm to

I bet I can download every panel and flash faster than you

Probably. I’m in no hurry.

Ok, was the empress' lifespan because she was Tyrian, she had glubglub, or because Meenah was a life player(I think thief, right?) Or was it said

Fuchsia blood baby, does a body good, but she could also extend people’s lifespan so I bet she could do that to herself as well

What I find interesting is that at page 760 (the end of Act 2) Hussie stopped naming the panels as their homestuck page number and started naming them their mspa page number. Fascinating

Do you have any idea what was going on it terezi and daves fraymotif during collide?

Basically they were Terezi looking at the other possible options the characters could have taken and finding the optimal one then Dave rewinds time and fast forwards it down the path Terezi choose.

They say the disciple and the signless had a romance that "went beyond the quadrants" or "transcended definition" or something. Now what the fuck does that actually mean?

Human Romance?

If you guys are every curious as to why I just refer to Gl'bgolyb as Glubglub, it’s because they’re pronounced the same and Gl'bgolyb is a lot harder to spell.

Really? For years I have been pronouncing Gl'bgolyb as glob-lee-ob and now I feel ashamed. Dishonor on me, dishonor on my cow

I mean, pronounce it how you like kid. There’s no wrong pronunciation. 

Does every player have a quest bed in their dream planet? We've seen the kids with theirs but we've only ever seen Aradias for the trolls. Also we never saw John or Jade's but their moon was destroyed pretty early. Also do all the moons get destroyed or is that just kind of a coincidence?

Everyone has one, and no not all the moons get destroyed (probably)

in [s] make her pay, why did vriska control tavros to manipulate terezi's lusus into making her stare into the sun instead of just mind controlling terezi directly?

Terezi is too strong willed for Vriska to mind control

How are capricacians (chess peeps) made. Do they reproduce naturally or are they assembled? Is it ever explained in the comics?

They are cloned, on some of the walkaround games on the meteor you can see some of them in tubes being created

Do we know what happened to gamzee aradia sollux vriska and davepeta?

Gamzee gets put into lil cal, but other than him: no

If someone was to hypothetically defeat there denizen like caliborn did would they also find there clock? Like the one that caliborn broke to become technically immortal?

No, that was a special circumstance

If there was no Glubglub on Beforus than what lusus took care of the fuschia bloods? Did they just not have one?

I believe young fuchsia blood were raised by the Empress’s court and groomed to take her place

I am so sorry for starting this whole thing with GlubGlub. *flops on face* Forgive meeeeeeee

You didn’t start anything dude, I’ve been typing out glubglub practically forever

When it comes to the Heroic/Just clocks, was it ever specified where those clocks are located? And do we know if it's a different clock per player, or one clock that shifts with each death as needed? The wiki doesn't really give a lot of info on this.

It’s unknown. Vriska’s clock was in Felt Manor but we don’t know about anything else

Are Bec and Halley related?

Bec is the ectochild of Halley

Who is Halley?

Grandpa Harley’s dog

People think the ACT 1 is boring? I was mostly intrigued by the way it was written and the fact there was cake everywhere

There’s a lot of coding jargon and stuff in it that’s very confusing. And it’s set up in a pseudo-interactive style like where it tells you to enter a name for the character but you can’t actually enter a name. Factor in that the narration is constantly “you, you, you, you this, you that” making it seem like you’re supposed to be the character but you’re also a being that’s watching the character? And there’s just so much exposition stuffed in Act 1 which is difficult to get through and there’s not really any connection to the characters at that point to help give you motivation. Going back and rereading Act 1 once I have the connection to the characters and I understand how the story is told and how things work, A+, really funny but the first time it’s difficult for most people to get interested, especially if they’re a poor reader like me. 

tl;dr: the mspa writing style is confusing if you’re not used to it 

What are Shadowdroppers?

kinda like troll zombies

Sorry for my bad EnglishIf Sollux rise to GodTier in Quest Cocoon, which his Dream Self will rise?

That’s a good question and I’m sorry to say I’m not sure. Although probably his Derse self since that’s the team he’s on and that’s the one that woke up when Feferi kissed his corpse

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: DO TROLLS HAVE NIPPLES

YES

Did hussie remove the news post talking about Act 7 and the epilogue or am I just not seeing it because I'm on mobile?

He cut it down significantly in length

Why was Roxy taken care of by Carpacians?

Because that’s where she lived and there weren’t any people around to do it

Hello, i am a new reader and i am still trying to understand the storytelling. I mean stuff like how dad throws cakes to john and rose attacking mom or moms kinda weird manners toward rose and stuff. Is it just some comic shenanigans? I dont know? Like the stuff that happens in all those animes and all? I know bros abuse turns out to be actually terrible and how dave talks about it. It just confused me a little. Thanks!

Mom and Dad are just weird that way. They do it to humor or get a rise out of their kids, which isn’t too unusual, they just take it a bit farther

while we're on pronunciations, how do you pronounce the troll's names? i know there's some conflict, especially over feferi

Ooooh no, I am not opening that can of dirt noodles, pronounce them however you like there is not wrong way

There is only one HIC, correct? She raised nana, grandpa, Poppop, and grandma?

Ye, presumably

We know there are only 12 castes on the hemospectrum, but does that mean there are only 12 different blood colours? Like, could there be different shades of burgundy/bronze/yellow/etc, or does every troll in a given caste have identical blood?

Yes, there can be different shades. The canon fan trolls and some of the Hiveswap trolls have shades a bit different than the main 12.

is the lifespan of a troll relative to the rank of their blood? I know that Fuschia bloods live for centuries but I don't remember if low bloods have shorter lifespans

Yes. Rust bloods only live about 50 human years

How did nanna and grandpa know each other? Theres a concept art of hiveswap showing chilling with halley

They are adopted siblings. They were raised together.

TROLLS DON'T HAVE NIPPLES OR BELLY BUTTONS

Both Damara and Arquius have confirmed that trolls have nipples 

Proof trolls have nipples?

Arquius mentions them here

and Damara talks about them here

I don't see now arquius proves trolls have nipples? He seems to be showing surprise at the idea of them in my eyes (also, fun fact; all humans can produce milk under the right conditions. Huss / ARquius got that one wrong)

Also, do you have a photo for the darmara one? I can't run the flash ATM