January 2018

Do you think all Jadebloods are rainbow drinkers?

I wouldn’t say all Jades are Rainbow Drinkers, but all Rainbow Drinkers are definitely Jade.

(These events took place years ago, names used are from my current knowledge) before I got into homestuck, all I knew about it was internet hear say. Then I find some fan art that has a lot of john and vriska in it. Then I found some that have jane and vriska. My brain made the "logical" leap and had john and vriska being a couple and jane was their daughter (?). Truth be told the artist did make vriska look older when she was with jane.

Pffft, misconceptions before getting into Homestuck are one of my favorite things. When I got into it, I got into it because it just updated with Dirk: Unite JUST as I was watching a friend livestream some art. The issue is, the quality of the stream was so awful I got a frame every couple of seconds, and without a single context I had no clue what was going on.

what if the two black holes created by Jack English and Alt Calliope collided, what might happen?

An even bigger black hole, presumably. I don’t know enough about physics and honestly, I don’t think Hussie does either.

Unrelated but, as much as I love [S] Act 7 and, The Rapture as a title, I’m still mad it wasn’t [S] Collapse. You know. Cascade, Collide, Collapse.

Just a stupid(ish) question but would it be a good idea to start an askblog starring the Mage of Blood and Maid of Void (along with probably a lot of others.. 42 more)??

Of course, why not! When I started this thing it was just a little fun project I didn’t know how far it’d get! You’d be surprised  how much people like this stuff.

What’s up with lime bloods?

They got Exterminated before the events of Homestuck, and Kankri’s talk about them leaves it ambiguous if he doesn’t like saying ‘Lime’ because of the Alternian Genocide, or if there was also persecution and discrimination in Beforus.

Whatever it was, though, we may see more in Hiveswap soon.

Would a dictionary-kind fetch modus suit a seer of mind? How would it work?

Jesus, I have no idea how that would even work? Would you have to find the word pertaining to the certain item you want in a dictionary? What if the word for your item isn’t there?

say I want a character i drew to be my sprite. Would I have to write down the personality or would sburb already know when I throw it in?

I’d write down a character sheet JUST in case, but who knows, SBURB works in mysterious ways.

YOU THERE. SEER OF DOOM. HOW CAN YOU RUN, WHEN IM ALREADY HERE

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Honestly I'd have either an alphabetical modus or a rummy modus. Alphabetical puts things in that order and if you say a letter then it releases all items that start with that letter. Rummy is simple, it stacks things and if you take out an item then everything stacked on it would be ejected, while everything under stays in the deck.

I had an idea for my Fetch Modus quite a while ago but I can’t even remember what it was now. 

My strife deck would be glaivekind or scythekind

*High-fives the Scythekind!*

Scythes are clearly good weapons. Maybe even the best weapons.

Exactly, and no one will convince me otherwise. That being said, I use Staffs myself. Staffs? Staves? Stii? Whatever.

Mine would be keykind

Hello there Sora from Kingdom Hearts.

I love the stylised Virgo symbol on Porrim's dress

Yesss, there’s some really great stuff with the Dancestors’ and Ancestors’ outfits.

What would a Knight of Mind serve? Same for Knight of Heart?

I’ve argued about the two before I believe, but as for what they would serve- The Knight of Mind would Serve Theories, Logic and Choices, likely, and the Knight of Heart, would Serve Feelings and others’ Innermost Desires perhaps?

How did Damara even initiate the Scratch when the Cardinal Movement was that high?

The Scratch Construct starts closer to the ground, it’s high up in the air because it’s ascending towards Skaia.

That being said, Damara has Telekinesis, she could just. Float there.

How big are Lands? They're described as planets but are they really Earth-sized? I get the impression they're actually very small, given that a housetower isn't invisibly thin compared to the whole planet, and because (I assume) a player is probably expected to explore the whole Land to fully complete their Quest. Similarly, Prospit and Derse look the same size as Lands but the Derse chain doesn't look incredibly huge next to Rose and Dave. Is there a canon answer besides just these comparisons?

I have done SEVERAL checks of the sizes, and what I’ve come to find out is that a) They’re definitely smaller than an actual planet, and b) Hussie gives no fucks about the actual size of the Lands.

Seriously though, Hussie’s not the best when it comes to distances and sizes, and Derse has actually been shown to be both the same size of one of the Lands, AND also a bit smaller, so it’s just. Smaller than the Earth, probably smaller than the Moon, and very much inconsistent depending on what you take as a reference.

How would one decide whether they are a Prospit or Derse dreamer?

We Just Don’t Know. Really too, I posted something Hussie said about the Moons not too long ago, that made it almost seem like it was arbitrary. You can use the Canon Aspect Quiz to find out your Lunar Sway, though, so there’s that.

Otherwise? Wait until you wake up. ;3

What would the classpect of a guy who helps his friends by assuring there is nothing to worry about be?

This could fit a number of Classpects too, it’s too broad.

I bet we have an advantage on sburb because of you =) thanks

If anyone has an advantage on SBURB if it ever happened to be real, it’d all be thanks to Hussie, go thank the guy!

Dildokind

There’s technically nothing preventing this from being canon, the one Horuss holds during Meenahbound 3 could definitely bludgeon an Imp to death.

Where do I thank him?

If only we knew. Guy’s a Cryptid nowadays. Thanking WhatPumpkin as a whole is a good idea though, and supporting Hiveswap Act 1, and Act 2 when it comes out!

Why did he abandon Tumblr? ... wait i just answered my own question

Yeah, he kinda cut Social Media entirely it seems, which is a smart move since, given what little we know about him, the guy likes his privacy.

I wonder if having shovelkind and alchemizing a copy of Shovel Knight or Shovel Knight amiibo with a shovel would make it have the abilities of Shovel Knight.

It definitely would. The Alchemy System provides pretty much endless amounts of combinations.

The only fear I have with prototyping a troll version of me as my sprite, is my violent thoughts/desires that I do not express to others. I belive my troll counterpart would be capable of killing people, which I don't want. Should I throw myself in there as a secondary prototyping to have that not happen? Or would that not work? What should I do in that case?

Prototype yourself with a BEFORAN Troll Version of yourself, and you shouldn’t have any of those issues. Remember Alternian Society is extra violent because Doc Scratch is an asshole.

What would alchamizing a scythe and glaive make?

A mixed specibus weapon that can morph between a straighter blade and a curved scythe-like on, of course.

Where do I find a good character sheet for my troll counterpart to write down his personality?

Oof. No idea, there are blogs about Homestuck Resources, sadly I don’t really know the link for any.

Would a session be void if all but one player prototyped their sprite?

Yep, you need to prototype every Sprite at least once pre-entry or you end up with a Void Session. The Battlefield never progresses to its final stage, and no matter what you do, you simply cannot create a Genesis Frog with it.

How tall do you think the trolls are, both younger and fully grown? Also, does height have alot to do with blood color? Thanks for reading!

Hussie is very weird with sizes, with various styles and a disregard for heights in general, every Kid and Troll seems to be designed to be the exact same height in his style- But much like the skin tone of the Humans, Height and a lot of the time, Body Type, is left up to the reader’s imagination. In sprite form, I believe Condy is about the same size as the Adult Humans, but her height has also fluctuated from being slightly taller than Aranea, to her horns being as tall as Roxy herself is. Soooo, pretty much up to you?

That being said, there is ONE solid show of height differences I can recall from the Ancestors Stories, and… 

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Given Psiioniic is taller than the Disciple, and Dolorosa is taller than all of them, it’d seem that heights just sort of depend on the Troll like they do with Humans. You could argue Higher Castes being taller, but ultimately, it’s a Headcanon.

Also the height difference could be a result of age, maybe Disciple is the Youngest of the Four, and Trolls just sort of. Keep getting taller with age.

When Vriska mentions eventually needing to throw the chained-up fridge with Gamzee into earth's ocean to complete a loop (she mentions this at some point while they're first all shown on the Lilypad Platform where the door into the new universe eventually appears, I believe), do we know what loop she is referring to? Does it even matter since that fridge, I think, got sucked up into the Jack English Blackhole made by his decapitated head?

Gamzee needs to get to Earth-C somehow to raise Caliborn and Calliope, otherwise the Timeline cannot be the Alpha. Vriska, in that moment, was pretty much the Fandom- Since up until the Black Hole, the theories about Gamzee getting to Earth-C were just. Hopping on the meteor, crashing into the Earth, and skipping ahead with Aradia’s Time Tables. A Black Hole straight there is a much better gateway though.

It’s stated that each prototype changes the battle field, and we even see this happening with the stalemated kings turning to a full chessboard, the large cube planet, the checkerboarded planet, then the battlefield in it final form with those bits floating around it as the beta kids enter the session. But what would battlefields look like inbetween these 4 forms in sessions with more than 4 players?

We have no clue, the Black King Fight with the Trolls seems to imply that at 12 Prototypings, Lilly Pads started appearing on the Battlefield as well, or perhaps that was because they had already released the Grist Hoards before defeating the Black King? No idea, for all we know the Battlefield might go through various geometrical shapes until it becomes a Planet in the penultimate Prototyping, and then gets the Mobius Net on the last one.

Net which isn’t even necessary to win the game because Jade just shrank the planet itself and left it behind?

The Battlefield is just plain old weird, honestly.

How do sylladices work?

They’re a Game-like Inventory that just exists in Paradox Space. Also I like that you used the technically correct but oh-so-obscure term Sylladices for the plural.

Considering how the battlefield gets more complicated with every prototyping, how far do you think that would go? would it have a set endpoint, or would it keep evolving with every player in a session?

Given I cannot think of a more complex shape than a planet with a Mobius Net tangled around the outside, I would say more than 4 players just add middle steps between ‘Chess Board’ and ‘Planet with Mobius Net’, but honestly we don’t know. It may as well become something weird beyond a set number of Players.

What would happen if you bring multiple skaias into one session?

You can bring the Battlefield from one Session to another, but I’m pretty sure Skaia itself is kind of intangible. 

I Personally Love The Idea Of Trolls That N e v e r Stop Growing And Just, Keep Getting *Bigger,* Like Lobsters

That’d explain why Condy’s foot is the size of Rose’s torso in Collide.

how exactly does passive commanding work?

Influence, for example Calliope pacifies Vriska and Meenah during their fight and wakes John up through her Fanart, the reflection of her will manifests in the physical reality of Paradox Space. Similarly, Caliborn also passively Commands Time, by simply allowing the Alpha Timeline to benefit him.

What was the significance of the artifacts that let the kids enter the session? They just kinda seemed random

John’s bite into the apple seems kind of way too symbolic to be unintentional, many have compared it to Eve biting into the Apple, Humanity’s original Sin- Although in a more Gnostic Context, as Homestuck tends to do things, this is seen as a Good Thing, Sophia giving Humanity an escape from the Cruel, Material world, which sounds about right with the Kids being transported into the Medium, away from their dying world, bathed by the Light of Skaia.

The rest are all kind of thematic. Rose’s bottle is evocative of her struggle with her Mother, and Alcohol is seen as a Void-Coded thing. The smashing of the bottle also reminded me the thing you do with a ship that’s about to board for the first time, if I recall, right?

Dave’s is an Egg, he needs to Wait, it needs Time for him to enter. It’s another item that symbolizes a beginning of a life, and specifically, it also has Gnostic Ties, the bird breaks through the shell to begin its life, sometimes to Create a World, one must be Destroyed, and Dave actually has this same Egg symbolism come up again with the Cue Ball.

Jade’s is Bec, a Symbol of Space, and in a way you could say it’s also foreshadowing about their struggle trying to defeat Bec Noir, or perhaps the fact that Jade’s going to fuse with Bec and basically consume him. It’s interesting to note both Rose and Jade were put to test with a leap of faith- Literally in Rose’s case, and figuratively with Jade shooting a completely blind shot.

Hussie has confirmed and expressed that much of Homestuck's characters' physical traits (height, skin tone, etc. like as you said) are up to personal headcanons. He also changed specific race connotations for Bro!Dirk and Trickster!Jane, but he never changed the descriptions for the kids during John's ectobiology experience. They were all called pink and Roxy and Rose were referred to as blond. Do you think he just forgot to change it or wld it be definite canon descriptions for the kids?

He most definitely surely forgot to change or just went like ‘screw it’, the authorial intent is there even though his own headcanons still slip through from time to time.

I should also point out Hussie did NOT change the Trickster Jane ‘Caucasian’ because of backlash about the race thing, and rather he did it because there was a section of the Fandom genuinely being shitty and racist using the Caucasian thing maliciously.

How do trolls know they’re sign if the sign is based off of their aspect and lunar sway? Or is it the other way around?

Sometimes, things are merely convenient Game Mechanics to showcase something to the Fandom. Also canonically there’s like, a lot more Symbols than just the 288 Extended Zodiac ones.

what's the difference between Heart and Hope? i find the two very similar and difficult to distinguish

Heart is Self, Feelings, Emotions, the Soul. Hope is Dreams, Beliefs. Because of this, there’s some overlap, like with some Aspects, but their sort of focus is notably distinct.

I like to clean, I’m fascinated by mythology and ancient history, I’m shorter than most, I’m horrified of death, and I’m born under Aries. How much more of a rustblood could I be?

You even have Red Blood!! How curious. :3c Hopefully you will get to live longer than a Rustblood, however, let’s hope it’s only appearances and nothing deeper.

What's the major differences in a Heir and Witch? I'm confused

Personality, and Passive-Active leaning.

Muse of Heart fighting is like Sans from Undertale. Soul blasters, your past sins cause more damage to be done to you, your Heart grows heavy as the Muse commands the sins to manifest. or is this more Lord like?

It’s a bit dubious if that’d be more Mind or Heart- Given Heart is your True Self and Mind correlates how you present yourself and your Choices, you could say the bad stuff you do intimately relates to your self, or you could say it’s all about the Choices you took. A bit of food for thought there. No idea though.

YOU ARENT GOING TO BELIEVE ME but I’m in a phlebotomy class (I was the one from a while back about offensive blood attacks) and we have to draw each other’s blood, even though I know blood wasn’t a standard bright red I didn’t know how many variations there are... seer, my classmate filled a vial of my blood, and I have Tyrian blood IRL it’s mad crazy!!

Please go to the Doctor, your Blood isn’t carrying enough Oxygen.

what god tier is Asriel and why?

Possibly a Maid of Heart. Struggles with his Lack of a Soul as Flowey, just like Aradia is already Dead- Has run out of Time, and how Jane has her Agency Stolen by the Thief of Life herself, is literally Made out of every Soul in the Underground towards the Ending, absorbs Chara’s Soul before heading out beyond the Barrier, certainly Improving his Soul… There’s a bunch to it.

Could an heir of mind theoretically become a hivemind of all the versions of them and their minds across paradox space/timelines?

I’ve argued the Lord/Muse of Time to do something like this- For just like, multiple people in general. But for all of THEIR versions? That could be an interesting take on it, yes. Terezi, as a Seer, was also kind of close to doing this, I should point out.

Does a Heir again their aspect at some point in their lives? Like say a slave gains freedom and acts like a Heir of Breathe?

Both Heirs and Witches seem to deal with some kind of power play between them and their Aspect- I should note though, it’s not necessarily correct to say they’re going to ‘Gain’ their Aspect, rather, they have to learn to Bear it. If they’re not careful, their very Aspect will consume them. Mituna was Consumed by Doom, Equius was Consumed by Void, and I kinda think John nearly became consumed by his Retcon-y powers, but managed to get a hold on them properly.

Similarly, Damara is Consumed by Time through her Familiar- She becomes a servant of English, and so does the Handmaid. Feferi is Consumed by the Horrorterrors- Which, while Void-y in nature, given the pact she made with them to blow Bubbles where she could change the nature of Paradox Space to allow ghosts to Live there and provide advice, you could say she was Consumed by the Life in the Bubbles. Jadesprite is, in a way, consumed by Space- Her isolation from her Friends, the change of Setting, but Jade does manage to overcome this. She does mention being sort of almost scared about her powers at times and not being used to being nigh-omnipotent, she just doesn’t know what to do with her control over Space, but in the end she gets her answer and simply tries to have fun and be herself with her dogs.

So yes, Heirs will gain their Aspect at one point, say they will ‘inherit’ it if you want. But that moment is not the end of the Heir’s journey, that’s nothing more than the beginning, and they will have to be careful not to allow their Aspect to overcome them.

Wait, do Heirs have familiars too? How are they related to their aspect?

Heirs seem to be able to get Familiars as well- John sending Liv Tyler in a floating ship with WV and CD, then you have Casey… Then Equius with Arthour. You could sort of put them as sorta Familiars maybe. Witches definitely do though, and unlike Heirs, Witches are related to a big source of contact with their Aspect.

Why do some blue blooded trolls have multiple eyes?

It’s possible it’s a genetic Trait. They’re the Lightbound Caste after all. Like how Golds have two pairs of Trolls.

So the vision eightfold is exclusive to ceruleans after all. HA. Knew it.

I mean, rather, Vision Eightfold is a Serket thing. It’d seem Ceruleans just have Weird Eye Shit in general. So far at least.