January 2018

Wait you said that a mage/seer of void could do something similar to roxy and make objects from nothing. How though ?

I said I am pretty sure with some fuckery you could get Seers and Mages that Create, with some other Aspect perhaps. Basically, if you ‘Know’ how to do something, all that’s left is doing it, right? So perhaps not as much direct creation, but basically fabricating something.

Of all the Classpests, who is the biggest troll/prankster? No John/Jane jokes

Likely a Heir/Witch of Hope! Toying with your Hopes and Expectations would make for a good set-up for a prank or a joke of sorts.

Imagine a prince of hope.

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Imagine a heir of breath

I am putting an end to this Tomfoolery before it goes any further.

Have you noticed how the void players all had some kinda tabooish desire, Equius liking Aradia even though she was a rust blood, Horuss wanting to be a hoofbeast kin, and Roxy's weird crushes on whoever.

Does Horuss even count as Taboo, though? He seems pretty comfortable and blatant about being a Majestic Hoofbeast. 

I had an idea awhile ago for a fraymotif for an Heir of Doom and a Page of Mind. It's called "Dial Tone." The Page of Mind comes up with possible ways an enemy can die, and creates a big rotary phone style list for the Heir of Doom to choose. Then the Heir chooses and then they enemy dies in however the Heir chose. I got the name from the fact you get a dial tone when a call ends. The names do have to be music relatated in some way, and a tone that plays when something ends sound about right

Snrrk, I kinda like this and it somehow reminds me of the Machine of Death Ryan North uses in that classic Hussie vs North animation.

when your fav is problematic. guess which one edition: kept trying to date her gay friend. while knowing that he is gay.

She was very drunk and Dirk forgives her though because he knows she’s trying her best.

*le wonk ;)*

Why is the void aspect so heavily associated with science ? I mean every void player has either been a engineer prodigy or a flat out scientist/hacker. Why is that, because science seems like it would be more of a light thing

Well, where Light is Ideas, you could associate the Physical World, the World of Darkness, to Void, so the mysteries and riddles of the world, which science and philosophy ask about, would be kinda Voidy. Besides there’s a big misconception that if you’re an Aspect, the opposite is going to be something you’re really bad at- And while it can happen, someone with a Void Aspect would still be quite interested in Light themes, much like how Calliope tells Jade that it’s in her nature, as a Space Player, to find Timey stuff interesting- They’re bonded pairs, complementary, so if you grasp one, you, by extent, would definitely be interested in the other too.

That may be because of Horuss being a page and not realizing he had greater potential than just hoofbeast kin

I’d say his lack of potential is more a result of the fact the Dancestors are all kind of a mess rather than being a horse.

Can u think of any examples of time-traveling devices like Dave’s turntables or Aradias melody boxes?? Thanks!!

In a Fan Session I planned once, the Scratch Construct was a big Cassette with hourglasses, so maybe you could get Time Cassettes, you just gotta manually rewind it by spinning the holes with your fingers and presto, you can go back and forth in the timeline. That’s all I’ve got, though, sadly.

could a lord of rage "disregard reality"? also are god tiers who you are at your core? or your influence on those around you?

God Tiers do represent core bits of your personality and who you are, both Class and Aspect tend to be aligned with who you are, or who you’re going to become once you’re in a more comfortable and good point in your life. As for the Lord of Rage- Yeah in a way, they’d be Narrative Contrivance to the Max, they could definitely just disregard coherence.

What would have if a god tier went trickster I still do this day have no idea and would they have trickster themed god tier powers

Trickster Mode is already an amplification of Power so yeah, they’d supercharge God Tiers. Also, this would happen.

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Which, if anything, raises another question… Did. Dave really go to the Rosemary Wedding. With his God Tier Pajamas on?

Knight of Hope makes people's wishes come true, idk. what powers could they even have? wish granting? power augementation depending on how much they believe in themselves or others believe in them? making weapons that can be a strong as they believe it is? what are your thoughts?

They really would sort of grant wishes though- Serving Hope to others, just kinda giving them exactly what they were hoping for, what they need, as well as Serving them Hope- Reassuring them things are going to go just fine. And Serving through Hope, sounds like the most Righteous kind of Knight.

i never understood this line from Gamzee: "TC: and the floor all stares up back at you through the motherfuckin hole. TC: BUT THERE IS NO HOLE NOW.". also favorite Gamzee quote?

It’s an allegory of sorts- I never thought too much about the deeper meaning of it, rather I just saw the ‘Floor’ as his Mind, and the Hole as the Rot caused by the Sopor Slime. Now that there’s no Slime, there’s no more confusion in his mind, and he’s not ‘being stared up at through the hole’. Because there’s no hole. He’s what he was supposed to be at last.

As for my favorite Gamzee Quote? Well, that’s gotta be this one:

GAMZEE: MOTHER FUCK WHO’S ALL THIS FRESH PIMP RYDA I GOT MY WICKED PEEP ON FOR SUDDENLY? IT’S A MOTHER FUCKIN NINJALICIOUS HO-TITTY MIRACLE JACKED UP IN THIS BITCH ASS MOTHER FU–

Does your class effect how you like interact with your splinters like dirk almost destroyed Lil Hal who’s basically a robot splinter

I mean, in a way the Splinters themselves may have been a Prince of Heart thing, but if you’re going with Splinters as the Concept, yeah, since they embody your Heart, how you interact with them would relate to how you interact with Heart.

Remember the grand highblood imagine if he had a chucklevoodoo if he did it would be extremely powerful

Isn’t it implied the Highblood’s Chucklevoodoos- Or if not specifically only His, but sort of the Chucklevoodoos of the Juggalo Cult combined, is what makes the Violent Nightmares Trolls suffer from if they don’t sleep in Sopor Slime? So yeah imagine how powerful those are.

What do we know about Alternias geography (like the countries/continents/etc.) I know this is different from your usually classpect related asks but I’m trying to write a fic and I can’t find any information about it anywhere... I know we don’t know a lot about Alternia itself but I just want to know what we do know. Thanks sm <3 (I love your blog btw)

Awww, thank you! :D So, Alternia! We know very little about it- But we do know some things. First of all, if Alternia is like Beforus, there may be an Eastern Alternia, and given some Japanese-sounding labels in Dammek’s House, it would seem that there’s indeed some Eastern Alternia of some sort.

As for Geography, we’ve seen the entirety of Alternia to an extent! Thanks to Hiveswap…

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We have quite a nice look at the major landmasses. The globe has that meddlesome support going through it, but more or less, THIS would be a full Map of Alternia.

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Or as close as we can get to a Map of Alternia right now.

I look at the map of Alternia and think Hussie's thought process with this was "How many dragon looking landmasses can we fit in this?"

A bunch of it may be made up because I don’t know where they end and start when they go too low or too high, but I really, really love the one with the star-like arms stretched outwards.

the classes as the 12 common Jung archetypes please?

You may want to pass this question on to @revolutionaryduelist! I’ve still gotta catch up with the Classic Archetypes and their relations to the Classes, but Taz’s got some nice ideas about the stuff!

What did you think of "Dial Tone"

I liked it, as I said.

fav Terezi quote?

F1X TH1S.

Is dimensional travel a space thing or a void thing🤔

It seems more like a Space Thing.

what is the MOST inspirational/inspiring/powerful quote in Homestuck?

CALLIOPE: you don’t need to do anything.
CALLIOPE: be who you’ve become, and who i didn’t.
CALLIOPE: consume the fruits of an existence i could never understand.

CALLIOPE: live.

We've seen tons of different timelines in Sburb, but what would a different dimension in Sburb even be like?

I mean, isn’t each Session of SBURB a different Dimensional Pocket somewhere out in the Furthest Ring? I don’t think you can get more Dimensional than that.

Do you ship EriFef?

I don’t think I ship ANY of the Amporas with anyone at all.

What if Hope isn't the most powerful aspect? I believe that Rage is just as strong and can counter Hope, you see, Rage is disbelief. I have a theory that the more arrogant and disbelief the Rage players have in something, that thing ceases to exist all together.

Hope can be awfully strong, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s always the strongest. That being said, ceasing to believe in something to the point it becomes non-existant STILL sounds like Hope, just stopping believing rather than believing harder. That being said, Rage is still an incredibly potent Aspect, specially with its ties to straight up incoherence. Rage don’t give a fuck about the rules of the game.

Hey, so I thought about this. Is it possible that the universe that's created in an sburb session is in the image of the Knight, the strongest Hope player or the most important person in the session (Like Gamzee, Jane and Dirk)?

I don’t exactly know what you mean with ‘is in the image of the Knight, the strongest Hope Player, or the most important Person in the Session’.

Do you think the guardians of the kids would have the powers of their respective counterparts; like Mom Lalonde turning invisible and such?

Part of their powers, but not all of them. Much like the Sufferer and Alpha Rose still being sort of Seers, and John using the Windy Thing before Ascending, characters in Homestuck all manifest traits and some even powers relating to their God Tiers even if they don’t play the game.

About the EriFef ship: But what about "Keepers"? It's both Feferi's and Eridan's theme song!

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He’s too draining for her.

Like how )(IC used her Life power on the Ψiioniic

Exactly.

Isnt it curious that both times we see a draining friendship(or however you call it) its one of a hope player and a life player?? Like eridan and feferi and jake and jane??

This is actually not true- It was draining, yeah but for two different reasons. First I should point out Feferi and Eridan weren’t just ‘friends’, they were Moirails, and that’s very different from normal friendship, specially with someone with genocide tendencies like Eridan. But second of all, the situation is quite different- Eridan was draining to deal with and he wanted even more from Feferi so she ollied outie. Jane and Jake were good friends, though, but she sorta fancied him, except- Dating him would make things awkward with Dirk, and being the Page he is, Jake served himself Hope and believed Jane’s awkward lies, and turned the tables on her. Jane isn’t in a draining friendship with Jake because being friends with Jake is draining- She’s in a draining friendship because she’s bottling up her frustration about him dating Dirk, but cannot bring herself to just tell him that because Teen Drama. And while Feferi and Eridan cut ties, Jane and Jake’s endgame is about her stopping her crush on him and becoming more assertive with her wants instead of giving up what she wants for others.

Do you think that breath players would be the ones that procrastinate the most when they have to do any work that they dont enjoy? Like if they liked it sure it's done! But if they didnt it would take them a lot of time to just do it?

They’d arguable be the ones that’d procrastinate the most, period, just because of their Detachment from things.

Which classpect would be the ultimate source of exposition ( besides sylph of light cuz .. ya know )

We all know the ultimate source of Exposition is the Seer of Blood.

In all seriousness, though, seems Light Players and Seers have a tendency to be wordy.

Could a Mage of Void have Omninescience, the power to know nothing and ignore everything to the point where your ignoring natural laws

They’d know secrets, obscure information, and the unknowable, but ‘knowing nothing so hard you go back around and know everything’ is kind of a weird concept. I’d peg what you’re trying to convey more to a Mage of Rage, though- Someone who sees through the fabricated lies of the System they are in and knows what is really behind everything.

So what can mages and seers do combat wise ? How can they use there powers for more offensive attacks ( Even if there better at strategy than combat )

Even with a role as a Seer or a Mage, Players still can have Majyyks associated to their Aspects- Like Rose’s Light Spells.

i should reallyyyyy make an animation between god tier fights

I’d love to see that kind of stuff, god. I really want to make a Lyricstuck myself but I’ve never gotten motivated enough.

So what's the deal with Dave's Bro on the Beat Mesa when Jack is on his killing spree?

Bro is one of the most mysterious Guardians for sure, it’s likely he had some inkling about what the Beat Mesa and the Scratch was, and perhaps recognising the threat Jack posed, sort of ‘started’ the Scratch himself as a beacon to let the Session know they had to pack up and leave because shit just got real. Of course you could also get into symbology about how Bro stabs into the record Dave wears and how he was the one to scratch his shirt during their Strife, but that’s getting a bit more Meta.

There's something I don't understand in [S] Descend; why were was the opening of The Squiddles in the middle? Like it's totally unrelated and anticlimatic

That’s exactly the point.

which class is most likely to have been oppressed by their aspect/rely on others for it but grow and are able to give their aspect to others?

The Maid and Witch can have some intense struggles with their Aspect, but for the specific case, likely the Page.

what do you think of players of certain aspects having traits of others? Like, a Light player that is very interested in knowing themself, and loves to roleplay/make characters

People are more nuanced than simply being tied to a single Aspect, even with something that stands out. You could also parse a lot of things relating to other Aspects through the lens of your main Aspect with enough introspection for sure. Whichever the case, it can happen, specially with your complementary Aspect.

Your thoughts on The Carnival, Purple Tyrant, Purple Bard and Midnight Calliope? (I'm talking about the soundtracks)

I forgot to put Blackest Heart

Listen. Listen. You cannot ask me for my opinion on Homestuck Music, because there’s not a single bad Track in all of the OST.

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Not a single one. They’re all wonderful and either eerily creepy, silly, or plain old God Damn Amazing.

Well, I mean, Rage still means doubt and disbelief. The whole disbelieving something till it stops existing doesn't sound like Hope. I think that would only work if the Hope player is in the process of making that thing real.

I mean, not exactly. My thinking here is that, a Hope Player believing someone is not real, plays into the same themes of Hope- Belief. Rage as doubt and disbelief is true, but think about it this way- Hope is about a fabricated reality, about dreams and beliefs, faith. Thinking someone or something doesn’t exist fits this category- The belief that it doesn’t exist even thought it does exist. Meanwhile, Rage, is contempt for False Ideas- It hates these fabricated realities. As such, would it really allow to ‘disbelieve’ someone, when the reality is that they do exist?

I mean I’m sure it could happen, but I’m saying that it could easily be a Hopey thing as well, kind of putting different spins on things to consider about Aspects and Powers.

I remember a couple of panels where john was in a dream bubble of his house and vriska was messaging him but it was revealed that they were both dead. Was that correct or did I remeber it wrong?

Yeah, that was during the scrapbook panels during the Scratch [o] section, leading up to the Ancestors Story and then to [S] Cascade. Sadly, that Dead John double died soon after during [S] Caliborn: Enter.

Maybe Rage players nullify a Hope players powers through truth? Like if a Hope player went evil they would be the only ones unaffected by their powers and the only ones that can fix the damage they've done.

That would be a nice duality thing with Hope and Rage, mhmm!

When does the Midnight Crew intermission takes place? It cannot be after Homestuck because Lord Jack exploded, Bec Noir's state is unknown and Robotic Jack got decapitated then exploded along with Lord Jack.

Somewhere between 612 Years after the Beta Trolls enter and the moment the Blue Universe dies. Slick and his gang are Exiles after all. Also we do know Bec Noir’s state- He recovered, went through the door at the end and was captured by Jane. Beyond that, we don’t know what he’s doing on Earth-C though, but either they put him in some sort of rehab plan thing to be less stabby, or he’s in prison.

Jack Noirs way of saying hello is stabbing you I don't think there is a way to make any of them less stabby

I mean, he doesn’t stab Ms. Paint as his manner of greeting her, so maybe there’s some nonstabby hope. Also he has one less arm to stab with now.

Is the snapchat story canon?

Why wouldn’t it be? The Credits are canon.

Do you think the Lord of Light would be the most omniscient being? On the same note, what powers would a Muse of Light have?

They could be Omniscient but maybe not even necessarily. If you mean not having dark spots like Scratch, maybe? As for the powers of the Muse of Light, though, they’d be able to Command Light- Information and Knowledge are a very powerful tool, so being able to have absolute control over these would make the Master Classes quite potent with this. For the Muse, they may subtly edit well known information or facts to leave messages or bring issues to light that someone or something is trying to keep hidden and secret. Commanding Relevance means whatever they’re concerned with would be, objectively, the most important thing in Paradox Space, and they may also be a big source of relevant events themselves. On top of that, Commanding Light itself would give them control over visual hallucinations, cloaking stuff and visual illusions in general. They’d also, 100% sure, no doubt, have Abraxas as their Denizen.

I've seen some theories that Hope means desire and love (Platonic or not). This came from the fact Eridan and Cronus are desperate for love or a relationship and the fact all of Jake's friends wanted to date him. Which begs a question, would a Maid and Heir be the center of all attention?

A Maid may be, but a Heir not necessarily, if anything the Heir of Hope may be quite flexible when it comes to relationship stuff since they Change and are Changed easily.

Ok I'm having some weird ass déjà vu and I'm thinking about a derpy homestuck panel of someone throwing something and I'm not sure if it exists or if I'm insane. I ask my friend and she's thinking it's real but we're still not sure. Are we insane?

“Someone throwing something” is waaay too broad. If you can be a bit more specific about your memory I may be able to tell you, since I can think of several instances of doofy things-throwing.