June 2018

beforus anon here, thank you so much for your answer! it cleared up a lot of things for me. ending an ask with just that feels kinda lame so may i share my cupcakes with you in these trying times

Hehe, you didn’t need to but thank you any ways! I’m glad I could clear up some stuff!

Do we know if sprites only take dead/doomed things? Or can they take anything including live/not doomed people as well?

They can take anything, technically, however they have a heavy preference for dead/doomed things, to the point where exceptions to this rule are almost unheard of.

this is really really reaching but i had a thought that through some paradoxical shenanigans thingamabobshdgskus or just the forces of nature deciding that yes it should be a thing, karkat's blood color might have dictated the blood color of the new species in the universe they created????? because let's face it he leaves his marks in many important parts of the story, primely caliborn and calliope's blood colors and text color so this. is also a thing that could happen?

and that would explain from our 4th (5th?) wall viewpoint why his blood color is the same as ours and not some other freaky color like black or white

I actually kind of thing is the opposite- With the heavy control Lord English has over Alternia, the fact Karkat’s caste are ‘Limebloods’, that were hunted to extinction, and that his Blood Color is Candy Red for being a mutant, tells me of LE’s influence over the society, and in turn, Karkat as sort of “THE Troll” to embody the group. Lime like Callie, Red like Caliborn, with his Grey being the middle point between them. There’s some pretty heavy symbolism there, and SPECIALLY when you consider the theory that his Denizen was motherfucking Abraxas.

that's a really interesting point you made! and i'll be thinking about it for the rest of the day but i meant (by which i mean reached, i reach a lot when it comes to karkat, god i love a boy) there was a chance that karkat's blood color influenced the human race's blood color on earth b? sorry i didn't specify!

Yeah I knew you meant it that way! But I am not quite sure, because I don’t know what kind of traits personally are passed down to the genes of the Genesis Frog. However, you don’t even have to reach if you want to theorise that. Karkat was the one aiding Kanaya with the Frog Breeding, and the one that told her to stop short of the last frog. That’s a direct tie to the process, and besides, he’s the Knight of Blood. Sure, he gave the Universe Cancer, but. He could’ve just as easily also Served them his Blood.

Is it ever actually stated that lower blood castes tend to have a lower resistance to psychic powers? (Mindfang controlling a courtblock of lowbloods) Is it just individual?

It’s individual, but I also believe it was mentioned at some point that there was a tendency of lower bloods being more susceptible? Mindfang seems to imply their minds were more easily swayed because of their caste.

How likely is it that Hiveswap Act 2 will be released on 6/12?

Unlikely, but if things have gone well, maybe we’ll get a trailer? At the very least some word on the status?

Also happy 6/12 from Spain already!

Do all of the trolls have powers? Its seen that the serkets can control minds, the captors had psionocs, and tavros could talk to animals, ( I think its mentioned that aradia could talk to the dead even before she was killed) but would the others also have powers?

Have you like forgotten about Aradia’s obvious telekinesis aside from her Dead Communion? Some Trolls seem to have psychic powers. Rusts with telekinesis and communion with the dead, Bronzes with animal communion, Golds with Psionics, Jades with Rainbowdrinkerism, Ceruleans with mind control, Indigos with strength, and while not a power, Seadwellers live practically forever.

Trolls apparently dont bury the dead, but didn't Vriska find something in a crypt with Equius's sign? Or am I misremembering?

It wasn’t a Tomb, it was Buried Treasure. Either that or literally Darkleer’s Hive buried from some natural phenomena over the years.

Also they do bury their dead. They don’t TYPICALLY bury the dead, but it’s still known enough that I believe Karkat referenced Coffins once. They do not have FUNERALS however, which means they likely just disrespectfully ditch corpses into a hole and leave them be.

thank you for doing all this

All what? I’m just a nerd with too much time on my hands. :p Anything I can give back to the Homestuck Fandom won’t be enough for all the years of enjoyment it’s brought me.

What ever happened to the nepeta that was on the ghost pirate ship thing?? She still dream bubbled??

Just another Dead Nepeta. It should be noted that not her, but her Post-Retcon self, ended up getting Nepetasprited, and then Davepetasprited.

Status of every known character currently? (Alive, dead, dream bubbled, double dead, etc)

John: Alive and Depressed. Fated to get sucked into the Juju, unless this is a different Timeline.
Rose: Alive and Rosemarried. Fated to get sucked into the Juju, unless this is a different Timeline. Alternate also alive as Jasprose.
Dave: Alive and Karkalicious. Fated to get sucked into the Juju, unless this is a different Timeline. Davesprite ambiguous as Davepeta, last seen on the Bubbles.
Jade: Alive and Maybe Poly With Davekat? Definitely Doggy Though. Fated to get sucked into the Juju, unless this is a different Timeline.
Jane: Alive and Poly Cotton Callie.
Roxy: Alive and Poly Cotton Callie.
Dirk: Alive and on ambiguously good terms with Jake. AR sprited as ARquius., but fated to become part of Lord English, unless this is a different Timeline.
Jake: Alive and on ambiguously good terms with Dirk.

Aradia: Unknown. Last seen alive, but on the Bubbles. Possibly two of them.
Tavros: One Dead in the Bubbles. One Sprited as GCATavros.
Sollux: Unknown. One Half Dead, Half Blind. One Fully Dead, Fully Blind. In the Bubbles.
Karkat: Alive and Strided.
Nepeta: Schrödinger. Sprited as Davepeta, but status unknown in the Bubbles.
Kanaya: Alive and Rosemarried.
Terezi: Alive and looking for Vriska in the Bubbles. GO! Terezi is Dead but ambiguous if she got sucked into the Black Hole or if she’s still hanging out with (Vriska).
Vriska: Ambiguous. Hopefully(?) sucked into a black hole. (Vriska) is Dead but ambiguous if she got sucked into the Black Hole or if she’s still hanging out with GO! Terezi.
Equius: Sprited as ARquius. Fated to become part of Lord English, unless this is a different Timeline.
Gamzee: Alive, sadly, somehow, in Caliborn’s Land. Fated to get chopped in half and become part of Lord English, unless this is a different Timeline.
Eridan: Dead. Erisol doesn’t seem to have come through the Retcon.
Feferi: Dead, and way too kind, enough to somewhat forgive Eridan in the Bubbles.

Calliope: Alive and with the Ring, which means even wounds will heal fast. Poly Cotton Callie.
Caliborn: Alive and childish as usual. Unconditionally Immortal. Fated to be defeated and become LE, unless this is a different Timeline.

Nanna: Two Nannasprites Alive.
Dad: Only Dad Crocker is Alive.

Alpha Timeline Dancestors: All Dead in the Bubbles.

Condy: Likely Dead. However, we all turned our backs on the body, and that makes me nervous.

WV: Alive, given his status of Mayor to Jane. Yes, likely still alive after 5000 years, Carapaces are like, oddly long-lived and resilient to stuff.
PM: Alive, hopefully happily married to a retired WV.
WQ: Maybe still alive??? Last we knew of her she smacked Jack. May have died during Lord Jack’s rampage. May be on Earth C.
Ms. Paint: Alive and part of the Midnight Crew. Headed to Earth C last we saw.
Jack Noir: Spades and Lord Jack are dead. De-ringed, de-armed Bec Noir still alive. Currently collared by Jane and on his way to Earth C.
HB: Dead.
DD: Likely still alive but Condy could’ve just killed him out of spite to get her ring back.
CD: Last we knew he was still alive too, but ambiguous like DD.

The Felt: All Members are alive and headed to Earth C.
Serenity the Firefly: I don’t think Fireflies live that long, sadly.
Casey the Salamander: Maybe Salamanders do live that long? Maybe she’s a Lich now.

Lord English: Either Dead for Good or Trapped in a Black Hole. Either way, it’s the end of the road for him.
Alt Calliope: Either Dead or Trapped in a Black Hole. No one will ever hear or see her ever again.

Denizens: All the Kids’ Denizens are still alive? The Session seems to still exist, and there’s a gateway between Earth C and the Session so it’s likely they can still visit, or that Jade could just as easily bring the planets with her to make up a Solar System if she wanted.
Billious Slick: Croaking happily in the middle of the Alpha Session. Hopefully not threatened by the Black Hole tearing Paradox Space apart.

Every other character not mentioned here is dead. I think that’s about it.

How is dirks lil cal empty, while daves bros isnt? Ive been thinking about it for a week now. Please help.

Dirk’s is the one that was filled with LE’s components. Hence, it couldn’t be full before being received. Any other iteration of Lil Cal is automatically a conduit for him.

What do you think would have been more painful: The explosion from the cue ball or waking up afterwards

Waking up afterwards. It’s likely due to the suddenness and the burning she didn’t even feel it.

Since Polypa was wearing a Goldblood's hoodie with a new sign, does that mean that there are signs other than from the Extended Zodiac on Alternia?

Of course there are. It wasn’t even like a possibility for there to NOT be more signs.

I’m confused too - the Cal that went with Dirk and Bro through their portals are the same one at the same point in Cal’s timeline - having just been created in Dave’s dream - so how did Bro’s cal end up being filled with LE’s components?

Because, again, it’s not filled with it. It’s manifested through. The only Lil Cal that is ACTUALLY full, is the one hovering in the middle of the Furthest Ring, messed up and Hearty Thing’d by Dirk. Think of Lil Cal as an antenna. It takes ‘signals’ from this main Lil Cal in the Furthest Ring, and manifests LE’s will through it. When the Scratch happened, that Lil Cal was fated to become the full Lil Cal- Meaning it stopped receiving the signal, as it would eventually become THE full Lil Cal itself. Also remember it wasn’t just ‘it just went through a different portal to a different time’, the Scratch is described as an extremely violent upheaval of the Timeline. The act of splitting the Timeline in two itself wasn’t just an intangible switch of a gear, it was like, the death of an entire Timeline. That sounds dramatic enough to alter the properties of a Juju.

10 bucks says The Grand Highblood crawls out of the deep dark clown hellish cesspool, where all clowns are hatched in and return to after they die, and becomes a james bond-esque villain on Earth C with Condy because we all know that bitch ain't stayin dead and it's mad sus that unlike her we never even actually see the big clown boss man die (also, hear me out okay, take into consideration that he is a clown)

Hah. That’d be a plot twist- However, it’s extremely highly unlikely. It is very possible the Grand Highblood survived up until the events of Hivebent. But only Fuchsias can resist the Vast Glub- Or maybe only Condy specifically, and even then, he would need some means of reaching Earth that…

Would be around without the need of… Being in direct service of Lord English like…

Like a Juju Portal.

Ah fuck.

it was a funny joke until you realise it wouldn't be the craziest thing to happen to a character in hs and especially not to a rage player

Yeah.

What if John's grandpa is the Grand Highblood?

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1. how was gamzee ever doing anything for others to earn him the bard (passive) title? 2. it's hard to pin down a character's actions as either always being for themselves (active), or always for others (passive) when that character isn't deliberately written to be one or the other. so, how do you classify a character as active or passive if their actions are a bit of both? do you go with what the majority of their actions are? or what the more important actions are?

You usually go for the actions they feel more instinctually compelled on/insist on. You can fight your Active/Passive nature, as you can fight a lot of things, and specially for Active players on Prospit and Passive players on Derse, things can get fuzzier. But imagine Jade. She seems so bubbly and friendly, you’d think she’s selfless! And given the time she spends on Prospit, she sure does act a lot selflessly! But then you have Jadesprite’s breakdown, and you see how she hates her selfish, base nature, while also having made Jadesprite without thinking how her Dreamself would feel about it. She also doesn’t like dealing with drama she cannot solve- Dave and his Bro, Davesprite in the Ship, it pushes her away because she’s just. Not up to the task.

As for Gamzee, his servitude to Lord English. The fact he’s a villain doesn’t mean he’s doing it all selflessly for himself. He’s an avid worshipper and helper of Lord English, and his passive nature shines on that.

ohh i was focusing on gamzee's interactions with the trolls and not LE, yeah now passive makes sense. thank you. so if a character is passive but insists and honestly believes that they're active, they'd be active? (sorry for dumb questions, i read homestuck in middle school and haven't bothered to reread it save for updates lmao)

They’d not be active- But they could successfully act active in moderation. Think Dirk, he’s Active but looks up to Dave, a Knight, and tries to act as one.

... I just noticed that Doom and Rage were the only two aspects that didn't make it to Earth C.

I mean, Rage made it a few million years afterwards, and Doom… Who knows, maybe Sollux will show up around.

Are the aspects present in a new universe after it is formed related to what "aspects" are prevalent in that Universe as a whole. Like that would explain why Space and Time are needed as a foundation and all, but like a Hope player would represent new hope, Breath freedom (or detatchment), Rage is skepticism, etc.

Hard to tell since we don’t have enough examples. I don’t quite think so? But… Maybe? It could make for an intriguing plot point.

Is "Poly Cotton Callie" Roxy, Calliope, and Jane? Why is it called that?

Yep. Cotton Candy + Callie.

All this smash hype got me thinking: what if there was a fighting game, but with all the sburb players?

If we got an “Everyone is there” Smash Bros Ultimate kind of thing but with all the Homestuck Characters, I’d literally have a heart attack, perish, God Tier, then play it.

Oooh still on the topic of sburb smash, like the guardians/lusii could be like assists n junk

If you make a SBURB Fighting Game and Bec and Pounce de Leon are not playable characters what’s the god damn point.

I totally want to make that a thing now but I have no programming knowledge whatsoever. It might be a fun project to do though, expecially if I include EVERY CHARACTER. :)

I’ve never tried making a fighting game, I wonder how difficult they are to make…

Apparently horns are stronger than I thought

Yep

What were the moons of Alternia called again?

Green Moon, Pink Moon, Smaller Pink Moon.

Why did hussie shut down his tumblr?

Have you seen this website? Have you seen Fandom in general? I don’t blame ANY popular content creator for deleting their Social Media accounts or setting them to private.

How was vriska able to get to equius place after the cue ball explosion?

They’re neighbours.

Heya. May i ask where could i possibly find out my class and aspect or get informations on the possibilities of those?

Aspect information is right on the Hiveswap Website in the Extended Zodiac section! Class information, there’s nothing official but you can click the link to the Class Quiz on my sidebar, and check the individual Classes to see my take on them if you’d like.

Ok but still though... I think anyone would have at least struggled a little to get to their neighbors place while bleeding profusely.

Yeah and she absolutely did. She was delirious and barely able to hold herself up when she got there as we see in Vrisky Business.

Yes the hiveswap part i did find too but i never saw anything on classes before so thats pretty great? Also I'm on mobile so I can't see any sidebar but I'll check it out as soon as I get to a computer! Thank you very much!

No problem!

Could you explain what chucklevoodoos are?? And does Kurloz have some sort of telekinesis powers??

No he doesn’t. And I’ve explained them like, already this week once? Nightmare-inducing mind suggestion, that’s it.

How do you find about new homestuck stuff that might happen, and when is the epilogue supposed to come out??

No date given, just follow Hussie, WhatPumpkin and the News page on Homestuck.com.

Hello it's me again. I got to the computer and read a bit. Or rather i took the test you offered up on classes and apparently Heir seems to be it which is great to me tbh. But my aspects kind of makes me wonder. Since that would mean Heir of light. I only know light players are all about information, knowledge and strategies as well as outcomes. So would that simply mean influencing outcomes? That seems bit plain to be honest. I hope the literal light weights in too because that I like.

Literal light, luck and fortune, the spotlight…

If everyone in a session except one person prototyped their kernel before entering and the session went void, would the rings of life/void alter appearances like a normal ring or would it not do anything like in the alpha session?

It’d just have one orb less, or one orb that doesn’t turn on.

How could you tell that vriska was delirious

The longer she goes on the more she begins to ramble about Spidermom and how it sucks to have her as a Lusus, and you can see it in both her facial expression and her text bubble.

Yo could you shout out a bunch of random ideas for a fan species appearancewise. I'm struggling on my creativity rn sorry

Jellyfish.

That’s all I have. It takes me a while to come up with creative ideas.

*Coughs and shoves the unstarted novel setting she’s been working on for years to the side*

is it possible for a time player to travel back in time once the session becomes nearly unwinnable, and kill their past self and take their place in order to make sure the things that led up to the failed session doesn’t happen? sorry for rambling

I think if you kill your past self all you’re doing is Dooming the Timeline anew, because the you there then has no way to have actually gone back in time- Ergo, it wasn’t a time loop, ergo you’re Doomed now, and hence you killed Alpha You, hence Dooming the entire Timeline. If you go back to change things to prevent certain Doom, the you that went back in time is automatically, 100% guaranteed Doomed and going to Die, unless you Sprite yourself, or I guess use some sort of resurrection mechanism?

That’s a good question though- Would a Doomed Player being resurrected STILL be Doomed to die again? Would a Doomed character wearing the Life Ring get resurrected and constantly have awful luck and die over and over while the ring keeps them alive?

Wasn't calliope technically doomed to die? without her death Lord English would have never existed, but from what we've seen she doesn't die repeatedly.

There’s a difference between ‘dies in the Timeline because of reasons’ and ‘goes back in Time altering the flow of the Timeline, and thus is FATED to die’.

Wasnt it mention in comic that Calliopes denizen was echidna? With her lair being where she died and such?

Yes. Calliope’s Denizen is Echidna.

all the denizens fight eachother to the death, who wins?

If you asked Yaldabaoth, Yaldabaoth would say he’d win. I’m not sure if he would however, but either him or Abraxas seem like good bets. Echidna seems like the most powerful of the normal Denziens.

pls rember that wen u feel scare or frigten never forget ttimes wen u feeled happy

wen day is dark alway rember happy day

I wish I had the actual image edited, but this one is close enough and will have to do.

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That image, is so cute. Where have you found such treasure?

I edited from the classic awoo picture of Momiji.

You think Gamzee would have killed Karkat just after he snapped?

If he got his hands on him before Karkat found out Kanaya wasn’t dead, yeah likely.

Tavros must have a hella ripped trapezius to lift Meenah with his horns. Make buff Tavros canon guys

I mean he’s got to hold those horns up all the time, shit’s gotta be heavy. You seen the Summoner? Nitram’s neck game is on point.

If you’ve ever watched SU, what do you think Pearl’s god tier would be? if you don’t, sorry for asking!

Hussie seemed to like the Maid of Hope.

Only seemed tho. His exact words were along "it's interesting choice" really. So who knows.

It was actually ‘really diggin those choices’. Although come to think of it, a Maid of Mind could be interesting too.

are the classes gendered?

No.