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 are the other two fuckasses???

Jade calls Kanaya a fuckass

Karkat says he’s not being one

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

okay so, actual question this time. how much of the post credit snapchats do you consider canon? (im sorry if you have this answered somewhere im on mobile and it keeps fucking me over)

I consider any part of Homestuck not done by Hussie to be semi-canon. 

Guest artists are going to have their own biases and preferences reflected by their art which I feel is a product of but also goes against Homestuck’s ideology that all the characters are essentially blank slates that the readers can interpret in any way they like. 

Instances of Guest Artists using personal interpretations of characters (in these cases Karkat) can be seen in Collide and Game Over. In Collide when we see Karkat dual-wield sickles, but that’s the only time we ever see him dual-wield. Or in Game Over how Karkat is animated having short sleeves when we have always seen his outfit having long sleeves.

Like Steven Universe, Homestuck allows its art team a full range of creative control with how they draw characters, and there’s nothing wrong with that, it just lets certain content get into the comic that wasn’t laid out by the Huss-man himself.

So to answer your question on how much of the credits/snapchat content I view as canon; All of it, in varying degrees. 

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.

Nepeta has always been my favorite troll! So any forgotten Nepeta facts¿ :)

Nepeta, never got to go out on a date : (

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

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

Thank you mod t for calling out Vriska

It’s not 2012 anymore, everone can agree that vriska is not good now

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

Is John's Nanna the only guardian with a canon name?

All the guardians sans Dad have canon names, they all share names with their pre/post scratchselves. This is shown with Nanna saying her name is Jane, and the Handmaid being referred to as Damara by members of the Felt.

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.

You'd be surprised, there are still people in 2017 who say Vriska did nothing wrong and is a good person

But it’s not like a 50/50 split like it used to be. You can say Vriska was bad without getting blasted with discourse. 

cxsaltwater replied to your post: Is John’s Nanna the only guardian with a canon…
and A. Clair’s autograph out to her biggest fan, B1 Jake

Right! I couldn’t remember if that was canon or if I read it in a fan comic, but it is indeed canon, thank you for bringing it up.

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

who was caliborn talking to after his first encounter with gamzee (where he gunned him down and came to the computer tower)

Andrew Hussie

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 Kurloz really missing his tounge? I thought he'd just sewn his mouth shut

When Hussie gives exposition on the Pre-scratch trolls in Openbound he says, “[Kurloz] chewed off his tongue and sewed his mouth shut because he’s a weirdo in cahoots with Gamzee and English.”

Is Cronus bad

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

Forgotten Homestuck Fact: Grandpa Harley landed on Earth as an infant in 1910 making him 84 during Hiveswap, which takes place in 1994.

So if Joey is around 13/14 years old then Grandpa Harley would have been about 70 when she was born. Old Dad.

why was Jake able to ascend even when his dreamself was killed?

He used his Sacrificial Slab. You only need one life to use them, that’s how Aradia, Rose, Dave, and all the Alpha kids were able to ascend despite only having one self left.

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

Isn't grandpa Harley Joey's *grandpa*?

Nope. He’s Jade’s Grandpa, and Joey’s Father

is joey jades mother then?

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

joey’s quirk is very similar to dave’s but with accurate punctuation. 

JUDE’S QUIRK IS VERY KARKAT/CALIBORN-ESQUE EXCEPT FOR WHEN HE’S DONE TALKING, over

arent joey and jade half siblings??? grandpa is joeys dad.... but they call him pa

Yes! Genetically they’re half siblings, adoptedly they’re aunt/niece

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.

Does John ever use the barber's best friend or anything that has to do with the umbrellakind strife specibus?

Nope! Not outside of him making the thing.

Could Equius have beaten Gamzee if he wasn't so concerned with caste systems and being dominated?

I like to think so, but sober Gamzee is really STRONG as well so it’d probably have been close.

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

Since there was a point about getting to name the Lususes (Lusi?) in Hiveswap -- did we ever learn the names of any of the Lususes in Homestuck? (Did any of them explicitly not have names?)

Well there was Tinkerbull, Punce de Leon, Aurthour, and Gl’bgolyb. 

Not sure if you want to count Spidermom as a name or not

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