April 2018

There's a Gl'bgolyb imp at page 2541 with Equius and Nepeta if than anon want to know.

That’s the one Gl’bgolyb-esque thing we saw, but we don’t know if that’s an IMP, it could be a Lich or a Basilisk or something else.

Why didn't Meenah show up in the dream bubbles with all the other Beforans when they died? What took her so long to finally show up?

Time in the Bubbles is weird and arbitrary. It also seems to be linked to people’s desires within the Bubbles. So it’s possible that she appeared when she did because appearing right as shit starts to go down seems like exactly what Meenah would love to do.

this ask is gonna be a bit cursed, but what classpect do you think David Bowie would be (like based on his stage persona and stuff)

Oof. I really don’t know about him enough to make this call, I need to get more into Bowie.

Do you have any opinion or ideas on whether Sollux & Aradia were moirails or matesprits before they ‘broke up’?

They were Matesprits before she died, but after it seems her feelings may have been more tame and Pale? And maybe not even that. I feel at one point Aradia just stops caring about Romance entirely, she’s out for new experiences and interesting stuff and Bubble Shenanigans and watching the World Burn.

So the pale quadrant is described to being the closest to a human soulmate, and it’s heavily implied that you address personal issues with moirails. If that’s the case, then what fuels the want to be matesprits with people if the go-to personal consultant is a moirail? Is the flushed quadrant fueled by pure lust?? In the comic, when trolls reproduce the couples with the strongest bond (whether flushed or ashen) produce grubs. What determines the strongness of the bond??

It’s not best described to a Soulmate, it’s best described as a Soulmate, in a Platonic sense! Moirails (and Auspistices) are roles meant to stabilize Trolls, their world sucks and emotions suck when you’re a Teen so with everything sucking so badly, they’re quick to flip the lid back and forth with how they feel for others. Moirails are complementary stabilizers and pacifiers, ensuring that neither party is going too far or not going far enough, so in a way they support each other like crutches so that they can be Functional elsewhere. Matespritship is often tied to actual, normal Romance, so the feelings that preside over Matespritship ARE the ones that also preside over normal Relationship. BUT, they ARE very Reproduction-based, even if not necessarily driven by Lust, Matespritship and Kismesissitude are in fact meant for Troll Reproduction.

Matesprits are all about love, enjoying each other, being happy together, and at least until Alternia Died and there stopped being Drones to cull people, about wanting to do it with someone else, while Moiraillegance doesn’t necessarily tackle ‘love’ in the same way Matespritship does, but still creates a close bond of co-dependency and venting. You certainly can do that with your Red partner as well, but given the climate of anxiety and badness Trolls live in, it feels as though needing a Quadrant specifically made for Venting and not Going Too Far makes sense. Even for Beforan Trolls, they are not involved in a climate of death and hostility, the social disparities and lifespan differences and the coddling and excessive babying of lower castes definitely creates a climate of unease.

i dont think arasol is canon? the only thing that suggests they were anything more than close friends before sgrub is one line by vriska where she calls him her boyfriend, which is pretty clearly mocking so i dont think its really reliable. no one else ever refers to them as a couple afaik and they never show any obvious romantic interest in each other?

Huh, I did take the boyfriend thing as a fact, but thinking about it, it could’ve been mocking. If not Red though, at least Pale, they definitely seem to care about each other more than normal Troll Friends.

Why does Cronus treat Mituna so terribly?

Because Cronus is a terrible person.

Could a scratched (or unscratched) version of someone use their Quest Crypt to ascend? Like if Nannasprite spritesploded on Jane's crypt, or if Condy somehow had access to Meenah's crypt from the A1 session. They're technically the same person, and never having had a dreamself doesn't matter on the crypt.

I don’t quite think so? They may be the same people biologically, but they’re not the same people just like, as characters, neither are they from the same Timeline, so chances are slim.

which aspect has more to do with obligations: Blood or Doom?

Likely Blood.

You tell me, anon.

You tell me.

Question, if a person went back in time before godtiering, self prototyped, then tried to ascend to godtierhood, would the questbed work, or would we have to use the crypt?

If they have a Dreamself and still count as the ‘main’ Player, they should be able to Ascend. But Sprite Death is a strange thing we’ve not even seen in canon, actually. So who knows.

This upcoming 4/13 is going to be the first one I’m experiencing as a Homestuck and I’m so hyped! Do you think there’s anything I should do to prepare?

Well, cheaper Homestuck and Hiveswap Merch is a thing! Friendsim is coming out, the Homestuck Books will be properly released, and we may get some news on the state of the Epilogue perhaps? Hiveswap development is currently paused with WP going through a transitional period, but I wouldn’t put it beyond them to give us a little teaser of what they have thus far maybe?

What’s your take on the classpect inversion theory? Do you think there’s any weight to it?

There are definitely Classpect switches, and some characters do seem to flip their alignment completely, but I also think the Roleplay Theory has more weight, specially considering it gives a reason to some of the switches, and accounts for more than complete Aspect + Class inversion, such as Dirk emulating Dave by acting like a Knight.

What are some music related items that could be used for slowing down/ speeding up/ stopping time?

One of those tempo-measuring doodads maybe?

So a metronome?

Thank you, I forgot the name ‘metronome’ for a second.

How do you think a player using musical instrements as weapons?

Could work nicely, although, hear me for a second.

Bard of Time with musical weapons. Just like. Time-warping Lute. 

This has been my Ted Talk.

would their ultimate weapon be the abso-lute?

Crypt of the Necrodancer beat you to this pun.

honestly I didn't even come up with that pun, I got it from a D&D-ish post about a bard using a lute, and eventually getting the Absolute, though now I wanna look at Crypt of the Necrodancer, know any good Let's Plays of it?

I can’t quite think of any Let’s Plays of it off the top of my head sadly! But I love that game so much.

So, if Viz is selling homestuck books, and potentially advertising on the new website, are they gonna run into any copyright issues? Surely the stills from Con Air, the iron lass suit, thresh prince, johnny 5, or even the images used to construct derse, prospit, the planets, etc, must be a problem? Or do I not understand copyright?

There were already Act 1-2 Books and also ads on the website before, so like, there’s not that much of a difference other than the fact there’s a bigger company involved with Homestuck now. Stuff like that likely could fall into Parody territory, but even if it didn’t- Chances are if any of the Companies or Movies Homestuck references had Copyright stuff they didn’t want to see in the comic, they would’ve already acted against it, specially given Homestuck was way more popular at its peak than it is right now. If anything, Hussie being a single person would’ve had less luck dealing with copyright issues than VIZ as a larger corporation if they wanted to sue him. I don’t know how Copyright works 100%, but in my eyes, I’d say it may be even safer with VIZ. Unless VIZ preemptively wanted to do something ‘just in case’, it’s safer than it was before, and thus far they haven’t change a single thing about the comic, so they don’t quite seem concerned.

Do you think they will release the books (homestuck+paradox space) as digital books ? The shipping costs are too high for me and this could be a good solution.

No idea how VIZ works with digital distribution, really.

...if you want a digital copy of homestuck just read homestuck?

I would absolutely pay for a complete, offline, HD version of Homestuck on my hard drive, with Author Commentary. Perhaps paired along with the Soundtrack? Oof.

For the record on the AraSol canonititytty(?) Hussie has been asked about it and he said he purposefully left their original quadrant up to interpretation

Ooooh I didn’t know that actually, nice to know.

at page 3628 it is revealed that Dave is Doc Scratch's ectobiological father (Doc Scratch: The keeper of my ectobiological father began the process. It must be finished. TT: Who? Doc Scratch: The guardian of the Knight of Time. TT: Dave's bro? Doc Scratch: Yes.) . How is that possible????

He’s not talking about Dave- He’s talking about Cal.

Ok so if I have this right, the fight with Caliborn is (most likely) post-credits, and in the fight the beta kids get sucked into the juju, only to reappear when it’s used again. Is it possible that terezi could find the beta kids out in paradox space while looking for Vriska? Or is everyone who fought in the battle with LE definitely dead? Or am I misinterpreting the way the juju works entirely? Sorry if this is isn’t worded well, but this has been on my mind recently,,

Thing is, we just don’t have canon confirmation. The fight with Caliborn happens post-victory, obviously, however- We don’t even know if it’s the same Kids and the same Caliborn we see in Act 7, it could definitely be an Alt Timeline, and in fact the Masterpiece kind of implies it’s not our Caliborn, so it could also not be our John and our Kids. We also don’t know if using the Juju… Releases anything. It could, but it could just as well not do that. We gotta wait until the epilogue since then, until then it’s up to our interpretation.

Could you give a detailed explanation on exiles? I never quite understood that aspect of homestuck :/

I mean there’s not much to understand. They’re just Carapaces that left the Medium and went to the destroyed planet, and there’s SBURB devices that let them contact the Session.

Are they in all sessions?

It’d seem only the main Kids’ Meteors sprouted Exile Stations? But I don’t see why not.

I know you go off revolutionary duelist's classpect theories, but do you think a Maid of Doom would tend to the doomed? I always saw a maid as a kind of servant to their aspect, like how Aradia served as a sort of host to the dream bubbles.

I mean, not necessarily? Seeing a Maid of Doom as someone who’d only tend to the Doomed would be reductive. Maybe it could work, but it’s not a thing I feel would be benefitial to have as a main trait.

I keep seeing people talk about how the masterpiece my take place in a different timeline, could you explain it to me? Because from what I know it was just the LE timeloop, it even had john getting retcon powers within the loop

Yeah, but there’s more than one version of John able to do the Retcon stuff too, remember? Thing is, Caliborn sees himself Surprised in the Masterpiece, even though he’s just literally seeing himself get ambushed, and the fact he has the Ring of Void is extremely strange as well. There are a few things that could imply another Timeline. Or maybe not. It’s just a little thing to think about.

I have a theory of why Hussie was cosplaying Calliope's trollsona when he faced English [and died]; it was to parallel the fight between Calliope and Caliborn and how Calliope would lose, due to being a Muse, the most passive Class in Homestuck

I should point out that while he does have Calliope’s Horns, he’s quite evocative of Calmasis as well, Alpha Rose’s parallel to the Calliope-Caliborn Duality. If there’s something to take from the outfit, it’s not just Caliborn beating Calliope, but also disregarding their natural Predomination thing and just going in for the quick kill.

New theory: Going Grimdark doesn't necessarily mean going Void or Doom. It could also mean abandoning/going against your Aspect

I mean it doesn’t really match up, because ‘Grimdarkness’, outside of the Horrorterror Corruption, that is, Eridan’s ‘aesthetic ‘’’’’Grimdarkness’’’’’ and Jade’s Grimbarkness, empowered their Aspect rather than making them go against it. The only instance of corruptive Grimdarkness that flips the alignment has been the Horrorterrors’ Void Flipping.

when did eridan go grimdark?

Someone mentioned that Hussie described Eridan’s snapping as ‘going Grimdark’ a while ago? He even gets darker in those few panels. However, I don’t know if Hussie canonically did describe this as Grimdarkness, and there’s just no corrupting influence- So I mark that as only ‘aesthetic Grimdarkness’, as in, the story flipped to a more Grimdark tone, rather than “Hey, Eridan is now corrupted”. 

Hi! I was looking in your tags but didn’t find the answers was looking for, what can a maid of space do? Like what does create and manage creation mean? I’ve been trying to find answers but all maid of space brings up is porrim art 😖

I’ve actually talked about the Maid of Space a bunch, but there’s been a lot of scattered thoughts rather than a singular post:

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I've always wondered why the Aries and the Pisces always ended up in conflict, e.g. Condesce vs Handmaid, Meenah vs Damara. The only exception is Aradia and Feferi

I mean it’s a struggle of the Highest and the Lowest on the Hemospectrum for Handy and Condy, and just parallelism with the Dancestors, it’s no different than the Libra-Scorpio feud.

(oh geez my bad) but is there a specific reason the game knew that classpect everyone was before even starting the game?

Skaia is the closest thing there is to an Omniscient Being in Homestuck. It’s a well of knowledge, the World of Light, the World of Ideas. It Knows All about the Players and what’s going to happen.

Since you said nepeta lives on in davepeta (or something like that) I thought davepeta died?? Please correct me if im wrong Also is nepeta aware that shes davepeta/alive as davepeta Nepeta is just my fav troll and i need reassurence that shes aliVE SOMEHOW

Davepeta and Jasprose present the concept of the Ultimate Self in Homestuck- The collective experience that shapes the ultimate embodiment of a ‘character’, based on everything they are and everything they could have been. Davepeta’s status post Act 7 is… Dubious. I hope they’re alive, and they’ll return in the Epilogue, but right now they’re Schrödinger’s Sprite Squared. Still though, the Ultimate Self is an important concept for Paradox Space, we are told, even while individual versions of the characters may not fully grasp their full impact and role in the whole of Paradox Space, the concept of ‘themselves’ lives on as something higher than a combination of all of them. You could take this as a Metaphysical representation of their ‘Self’ in Paradox Space, as well as a Meta representation of the Characters themselves. No Nepeta individually has any recollection of Davepeta, unless they like, saw/met Davepeta personally. But Davepeta is the embodiment of EVERY single instance of Nepeta and every single instance of Dave ever. The ultimate amalgamation of all they are. They’re not Davesprite and Dead Nepeta- They’re Dave and Nepeta. All Dave, all Nepeta. And that’s how Nepeta lives on as Davepeta- Not because they have part of Nepeta within them, but because they embody the concept of Nepeta and Dave and mix them perfectly together. All that Nepeta ever was and could’ve been. All that Dave ever was and could’ve been.

So, basically, they’re a huge furry.

Did the Davesprite that went with John ever die? Because, like, otherwise he's survived all of Homestuck

Davepeta. 

I kinda hope sburb is realeased tomorrow

Happy 4/13 everybody! Now make a Team with your Friends and Significant Others if you want to avoid the fiery meteor death that’s certainly coming.

Yeah pretty much I'd totally do that even if it starts the end of the world.

If SBURB were a thing, it would mean there’s a Frog Temple somewhere, which means Meteors have already been sent.

Whether you play it or not doesn’t matter.

It has already begun.

So are PM and Serenity the only characters that haven’t died in Homestuck?

By the general rules of Teleportation, your body is disintegrated to be rebuilt somewhere else so technically even they have ’died’ in some way.

Also, this Earth’s destined session could be a void one, so no meteors.

Fair, but counterpoint: Even if the main Session is Void, I intend to play the game and am definitely not going to leave empty Kernels around, so if SBURB is ever a thing, play it without fear because I will have already started the apocalypse.

Damn why can’t we just have one character without a death?

Geromy never died.

I'm the light player from a while back who was asking about classes- a few days ago it hit me like a bolt of LIGHTning (lol): I'm a witch of light! I don't know how I knew I just KNEW ya feel me

:3c Nice.

If jasprose is the ultimate rose then why...... is she.... Like That

She’s also Ultimate Jaspers. It’s everything that makes Rose Rose, but also with no filter and cat-like mannerisms. She’s not even too different from Rose internally, and that’s what messes with Rose so much, that she very likely thinks most of what Jasprose says, but would be mortified to say it out loud… Like That

Okay what is Rose's connection to squiddles cause she has the shirt and everything but jade loves them? Or is rose supposed to be like the subversion of squiddles?

The Squiddles are basically figments of the Horrorterrors on the subconscious of Humanity. Rose’s shirt is also actually a Squiddle Shirt she defaced to look mean and Lovecraftian.

I remember doc scratch saying something about Eridan like he was nihilist but not in the "cool way" in the really sad way and implying he'd been influenced or something???? Was doc scratch controlling Eridan did I miss that somehow. I mean I know he conditioned their whole race towards violence but is it something more than that

He just said he was on the ‘path to nihilism’ in the conversation with Rose where he implied Magic wasn’t real and all of their powers were innate. Nothing about being controlled as far as I can tell.

What hppened to serenity?

She got to Earth C and likely died shortly afterwards because I don’t think Fireflies live that long.

is it true that everyone has abit of every aspect in them??

I mean, Reality is made of every Aspect interwoven together, so while there may be Predominant Aspects in everyone, it’d not be difficult to argue everyone has a bit of everything.

What if serenity godtiered

She’s Maid of Light because that’s all she is really.

Life/Time fraymotif to keep serenity alive because the Mayor would be devastated

Daww.

what exactly did caliborns red juju box do to his lord english self?

The box was just a container for the Treasure. Which, we really don’t know? It’s up to the interpretation. A blast of energy, a stalemate sort of scenario, draining his Soul as well, releasing the Kids, it’s left rather ambiguous for a reason.