October 2016

When are you guys gonna open the ask box again??? I've got questions i need answered : (

It’s your lucky day ol chum! As of right now our ask box is officially re-opened for business!!

this is more of a homestuck fandom history question, can i do that? has there been major fights over the race of the kids / has hussie ever semi-confirmed the race of a kid (i know that dave, rose and roxy have all been confirmed to be blondes)

oh my god, yes there have been major fights over the kids races. People would argue about that for days pre-gigapause.  It was so bad. People used to defend their headcanons to the death, so bad. Now people don’t care that much and get that headcanons are just headcanons and it’s okay for people to like different things.
Hussie has stayed mostly neutral on the topic except for a few jokes here and there. While the lalonde have indeed been confirmed blonde, I can’t recall any canon proof for Dave.

How long is each act? (Pages)

Act 1: 247
Act 2: 510
Act 3: 395
Intermission 1: 204
Act 4: 584
Act 5: 2119
Intermission 2: 2
Act 6: 4012
Act 7: 2
For more specifics of subacts and the like you can go here

hi guys!! so happy to see the box is open again, i was wondering this for awhile: would it have been possible to bring back characters using the rings PM and WV threw into the volcano? for example eridan and feferi. we saw one ring bring back areana but i cant recall whether it was one of those :0

Nope, the rings that WV and PM threw into the volcano were the Queens’ Rings. They had no life giving powers.

Why was gamzee locked in the fridge?

Haven’t you been watching the news? Clowns are scary.

Since ARquius is part of lord english too, does that mean he's immortal like Gamzee?

Presumably.

I know you guys are swamped with questions, but have you ever noticed that the sprites of the beta kids are coloured in the alpha kid's text/symbol colour? And vice versa, nannasprite=light blue tavrisprite=dark blue davesprite=orange arquiusprite=red ect... I don't know if that was common knowledge but I just realized it

This is true for everyone except Jaspersprite whose color ( #f141ef ) was slightly different than Roxy’s text ( #ff6ff2). 

Ok just gonna say this but back when someone asked if a troll had ever been shown with facial hair or whatever you said no however, you forgot troll will Smith

shit you got me, how could the thresh prince slip my mind like that

so now that we're on the ropic of rings, is it possible that the void and life rings are the ones from the cali's dead sesh? i know that they are not supposed to have an origion but is it possible that the rings fell into their hands at one point and became the game rings?

The Ring of Void definitely came from the Alpha kids’ session but the Ring of Life isn’t and could very well be from the Cali twins’ session, I suppose we’ll never know

Does gamzee ever get outta the box?

We know for a fact that h does since he helps Caliborn and also becomes part of LE

forgotten hs fact: [S] All: Behold Glory of Zillyhoo that was my favorite flash fite me

Do the beta troll's horns get smaller than their ancestors?

Horns grow with age so the beta trolls horns are smaller since they’re so young

Not a fact, more of a question; who do y'all think was the most important character in Homestuck? I feel it was Bec Noir, personally

It’s Lil Cal

Forgotten Fact: Hiveswap is going to be told in 4 Acts each act being its own game

Hey gang, Mod T here.  It’s National Coming Out Day, a day when I use the influence and reach of this blog for something a bit more constructive.  The past couple years I’ve made a post about how I’m asexual and what that entails. I’m 100% out about everything that I am now so I have nothing to come out about this year so I thought I’d just give some advice.

If you’re struggling with trying to figure out your identity, be it sexual, romantic, gender or what have you.  It’s perfectly okay to identify as something even if you’re not entirely sure that you are it and it’s okay to change a label that you were once really confident in.  The journey to discovering yourself is different for everyone. For some people it’s short: “hmm, I think I like these kinds of people, I must be gay” boom done, that’s it, they don’t question it again, and that’s fine. For others they’ll take a long time and go through several identities before finding one that fits right. Me for example, before I figured out I was asexual at one point or another I thought I was: straight, bi, ace, bi, demi, gay, pan, demi, pan again and finally ace but only because I was so tired of debating with myself whether I was or not that I decided “this is what I’m gonna identify as and if I find something later on that fits me better I can always change it”. And that’s perfectly fine.

Everyone’s path is unique to them. Don’t feel discouraged if takes you longer to figure out who you are and there’s no pressure to come out every time you think you figured yourself out.  Good luck to those of you still struggling, I hope I could help at least a little bit.

Why was Vriska's dream self bleeding during the scene with her asking Tavros to kill her?

There’s a couple theories out there, the most likely being that either 

A: Dreamselves slowly gain wounds of the player’s main body and that’s why you have to kiss them relatively quick after they die or

B: It was because she was on her Quest Cocoon, and he dreamself was being killed as well so she could ascend.

Where in the comics does it show Dualscar's death? Or, at the least, evidence of it? (And all the rest of the ancestors?) o.o

It’s not shown, but it’s mentioned how he died here

It’s very likely that the slave killed by Dualscar mentioned here was the Dolorosa

The death of the Summoner, Disciple, Darkleer and the Grand Highblood are unmentioned buy it’s likely that the Summoner was killed, the Disciple of old age, and the other two by either old age or the Vast Glub.

that b1 ectobiology chart was blatantly wrong and i dont know where you got the idea that mom lalonde was the adoptive daughter of grandpa harley when theres literally 0 evidence pointing towards that in homestuck or hiveswap

Evidence compiled right here my dude

Is it ever stated in canon wether or not Damara has the same powers as Aradia?

If you mean like telekinesis then yes, we see Damaras do it a couple times. She should have time powers too, but they’d be a bit different than Aradia’s.

Forgotten Neophyte Redglare fact? (Or really any forgotten Pyrope fact)

She was only a beginner legislacerators, she hadn’t been doing it that long but she had incredible promise. 

How are the Hiveswap kids related to the kids from Homestuck?

They are (or at least Jude is) Grandpa Harley’s kids thus making them biological half-siblings to John and Jade as well as adoptive siblings to Mom Lalonde which in turn makes Rose their adoptive niece.

wait how do we know the mom lalonde bit? was she for sure once adopted by grandpa?

Evidence is here my dude

hey so this isnt a forgotten fact but that family tree thing had me realized that the striders arent that involved in the ecto-bio-adopted bullshittery so i made you a gift.

Haha, that’s pretty good, thanks m8!

okay so we all know alpha rose and dave exist my question is, since roxy and dirk both remember being alone for their childhoods, did dave and rose die at some point? or just leave? also, any canon info on alpha rose? thank you!

You have to remember, Dirk and Roxy’s meteors didn’t land until 2409. But yes, their guardians did die by the hand of the Condesce centuries before their birth.

As for Roxy’s Mom, she was an author, she could black out pictures in a similar fashion to Grimdark Rose and Void players, and how could we forget that she killed Guy Fieri?

Did we ever find out what the password was on Bro's computer at the beginning of the comic?

I talk about this here

What would you say is THE most forgotten homestuck fact?

I don’t know. I forgot what it was.

What was Eridan's pet hamsters name from the headcanon meme "Eridan has a pet hamster named ______"

What Eridan hamster meme?  You see no Eridan hamster meme, and frankly it is hard to imagine there ever was a Eridan hamster meme, in plain sight or otherwise.

What are some great references in homestuck?

here’s a bunch of celebrities that have made cameos in Homestuck

Just wondering - are jade bloods the ONLY ones who can care for the mother grub, or can other castes care for her as well? I have an indigo blood oc and her and her ancestor are basically supposed to be the momthers of the group so I figure it would be fitting for ancestor to have helped care for the mother grub - but I don't want to be going against canon.

Canonically, I believe it was only Jade bloods, but there are plenty of ways to have your indigo troll be there. They could have been assigned to oversee the jade bloods after one of the rebellions, or their lusus could have been killed when they were a grub and a Jade blood adopted them. There are plenty of loopholes to exploit. 

I don't really know cuz I joined the fandom later on, but where did the Eridan march cosplay come from? I know it's not canon, so where?

It came from the March illustration in the 2011 calendar

favorite nepeta fact?

I don’t have a favorite fact purr se, but a really good one is that in seek the highb100d we see that she ships Dave♥Tavros as well as John and WV in an undecided quadrant

did gameze go crazy from just his blood or because he ran out of the poe that made him high? or was it LE?

it’s up to reader interpretation. All and none of those ideas are correct.

Excuse me, but are there any Kankri facts you have to offer?

Here’s one of my faves

i love this blog

this blog loves you too

whats the funniest/stupidest thing hussie has ever done besides the caucasian thing

Inappropriate Time for Ham

Where Exactly Did The Headless Bodies Of The Trolls Go?

The fridge

What is homestuck?

I defer you to here

love for mod t!! super cutie that i support, 11/10 best cat man (u helped me accept my bpd indirectly thank) 💘

Wrong blog kid, I don’t think I’ve ever even mentioned my bpd or love of cats here. But thanks, I appreciate it! 

How did gameze get to be part of lord english?

well in Caliborn’s masterpiece, that tiny purple butt plug is supposed to Gamzee. And later on when Cal and Arquius are gettin jammed all up in lil cal we see half of gamz get all caught up and sucked in there too

This isn't a question. I just wanted to know what panel is your favorite.

oh dear lord theres so many good ones, I don’t know how I could possibly pic a favorite. This one is definitely up there though

do you remember if Tavros filled any quadrants?

He did not, not for lack of Vriska’s trying

What is the Caucasian thing?

This: 

Where did the heads of the headless trolls go..?

The fridge

How did Meenah get to the moon in the first place?

She reversed rapunzel’d it. She threw her hair up there and then climbed. 

But for real, the trolls are a spacefairing race, im sure they had some space ships lying around she could have stolen

Important thing... Did Terezi survive to the end of the game (act 7)? And by then, how many timelines is she alive in and which ones? I'm sorry if the wording is confusing at all. Thank you in advance!! >:]

Yeah, post-retcon tz was still around.

Is there any canon evidence that says the Fluorite Octet is order-dependant (ie 11111118 =/= 81111111

I honestly have no idea what you mean

forgotten fact about kankri?

Porrim forced him to wear a sweater because she couldn’t put up with him being the literal embodiment of Pantskat

Tell me something I don't know about caliborn

He thinks better in colors

Random fact about Rose Lalonde?

while there may be a rose in heteROSExual, Rose is anything but

fluorite octet anon was asking if the order of the dice roll would affect the outcome; if it did, then rolling 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 8 would give a different result than 8, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1. I think they were assuming that you roll the dice one at a time, rather than all at once though.

Oh, well in that case, I wanna say we can’t say for sure, we don’t have enough of a data pool.  The main defense for the order mattering is here, where it says Vriska odds of rolling the perfect result is 1 in 16,777,216.  Which is true, the chance of rolling 8 8s is that likely, but that can’t be used to say order matters since all the numbers are the same.  If it said that about a roll being 1,2,3,4,5,5,6,7 then yes that would be evidence of order-dependence. And you might say “But putting so much emphasis into how much a long shot it is kind of an argument for it being non-order dependent, implying that other results are easier to obtain”. But that can’t be used either since again, the probability of getting 8 of the same number is that high. So yeah, we really can’t be 100% sure