August 2018

Could a game of sburb where all the players live in the same house be possible?

It may have to break the house into pieces, or catch every player in a different place at a different time, but it may be possible.

Tell me honestly, why are Void players awesome?

Listen. I like Equius. I like the Hiveswap Void Characters. But literally every Void Player other than Roxy could be the worst scum of the Earth, and they’d still be amazing, because of how amazing she is. You think Void, you think of horses and Roxy. What is there not to love.

Secret Reveal: I am a Void player *wonk*

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Can you give us reasons to like Equius, please ? With all the things the fandom has said about him it's hard for some to really like him but im sure hes not that bad...

Equius is heavily casteist and comes off as abrasive and controlling. However, there’s a few things to take into account about his person.

First is his views on the Hemospectrum- He’s heavily Casteist, yes, but… It also heavily conflicts with him. He’s been socially conditioned towards this way of seeing things, but then he also sees the strength the members of lower castes exert on him, and the power that higher castes COULD exert on him. It ends all up boiling down into something heavily taboo for him, and he ends up quite literally fetishizing his own degradation BOTH from higher bloods taking their rightful place, and lower bloods going AGAINST the order he’s been taught. Society pushes all that stuff against his kind of overall submissive nature, and ends up being played off as taboos and kinks he feels should be ashamed of, so it ends up coming off as really creepy. And it is! But it adds a tone of humor, while giving some depth to his character and his internal struggle.

On top of that, the dude’s actually a genuinely okay person by Troll Standards? He’s. Creepy, yeah, and he fucks up big time trying to force Aradia to like him, trying to use her as an outlet for those taboos of his. But take Nepeta. He seems controlling and intimidating at first, but he GENUINELY does want the best for her, and as the comic progresses their relationship is only seen in a better and better light. Nepeta calms him down when he gets angry, and Equius sternly commands her to not go off and do dangerous shit that could risk her life, such as, you know, FLARP. He ends up indulging in Nepeta’s roleplay antics, keeps his societally-hard-coded aggressive impulses under control 100% to the point where the most violent thing he ever does to another Troll is making Vriska roboslap herself…

Like he’s not perfect by any means, and you may not even consider him good- But on the spectrum of bad people in Homestuck, he really isn’t even there. He’s just kind of a creepy asshole who actually does care about his Moirail and friends even though he’s abrasive and weird.

if a sprite^2 of two godtiered players went back in time and became a player in the session then godtiered, what would the godtier be? A single godtier or all of the combinations present?

It’s likely they wouldn’t be able to God Tier or become a Player themselves as a Game Construct. I don’t really think the game would set up Dreamselves for something that is already an Ultimate Self, and if they’re ALREADY God Tiered they ALREADY have both sets of powers, they don’t need to God Tier in the slightest to get powers.

equius tried to kill sollux did he not

I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Eridan.

To be fair to Equius and his redeeming qualities, he was something of a pacifist. He never hurt the other players and did offer to remove the program from Aradia before she fixed it herself. And like you said, he did find himself at conflict with the hemospectrum, which is a lot from somebody who was raised to uphold that system

His pacifism actually goes beyond that, to all living creatures- He finds Nepeta’s hunt of animals, even to eat, somewhat distasteful, implying he’s a vegetarian. He builds his robots explicitly so he won’t have to harm anything else, which is commendable since he’s kind of freakishly strong and can bruise Arthour just by gently patting him.

i appreciate this blog so much im extremely forgetful so this blog really helps me out! keep up the great work!

Thank you! Don’t you worry, and sorry if I ever ignore any of you guys’ asks! :x Sometimes I’ve disregarded an ask just as an idea of how I could’ve answered it in an interesting and not extremely obvious way and it eats away at me to have just deleted something because I already answered it or something.

I need help understanding the doom aspect and extended zodiac doesn’t help. Can you help me? :D

There really isn’t much more to it than the Extended Zodiac and what’s obvious about it- Pain, suffering, limitations, and the breaking of those limitations at a risk. It’s the overclocking that leads to burning out after a temporary boost in power. It’s the end and every single inescapable death in the branches of the Timeline. It’s how empathy for the suffering brings people together. It also ties to technology and duality to an extent, though, it seems.

So Meowrails are technically platonic soulmates?

I’m pretty sure Hussie himself described them exactly like that.

Oh- Meow as, specifically Equius and Nepeta? I mean. That’s just what Moirailship is.

So reading the Homestuck books with Hussie's notes he mentions that Karkat is the most human of the trolls or something like that, and it makes me wonder who would be the most troll-like of the humans. First thought goes to John since he was the only one who was in a relationship by troll standards, other than the flushed quadrant, but i dunno

I’ve gotta give the title to either Rose, Roxy or Dirk. Rose straight up gets taught Troll Stuff and she has already a heavy interest in Xeno stuff BEFORE getting introduced to dirty Troll romance novels and books on Quadrant Exposition.

Roxy and Dirk, they both grew on Batterwitch-land, and Roxy specifically uses a lot of Troll Terms, Wriggling Day, makes reference to Pale Relationships, etc etc. So, either Rose, or Roxy/Dirk seem likely.

how much conflict would come from a healthy/good witch of space and an unhealthy/bad prince of space? ie how much, just from their godtiers and their powers and roles, would they negatively interact?

I’m sorry, but this kind of questions is the same as asking like, how a Scorpio would find conflict with a Sagittarius. It’s so extremely dependent on EVERYTHING else, who they are, their environment and lives, the goal of the Session, that’s literally impossible to say anything about any two Classpects’ interactions just with that.

Wasn't it implied that without Equius Nepeta would have a high chance of going full "apex purredator" since she doesn't care all that much for all that society stuff and civilization? Or was it some weird fanon that I accidentally mistook for canon?

It may have been fanon, she does care enough about her furriends that I don’t think she’d ever go full predator- That being said, she IS a Rogue. She’s very much an outlaw with a closed group of friends, so while not full predator, she’d likely be more predatory and wild without him.

In a way, though, you could kind of see her as the opposite than the Disciple if you want to run with the idea she’d be a lot more savage without Equius and her friends. The Disciple lost the Sufferer, and then, spared by Darkleer, she ran away and lived her entire life in savage isolation writing his teachings on a wall. Meanwhile, Nepeta would be a wild predatory huntress, but with Equius’ aid she’s kept a bit more grounded, and ends up not being able to confess her feelings to Karkat.

I was playing Konyyl’s route on the Friendsim and I was wondering what makes her a Lightbound? She just didn’t seem very Light-y to me. Thanks!

Even though she may not seem too bright, she has a good awareness of what’s going on, both knowing how to take down an entire group of people unharmed, and understanding the state of those around her, proving that she does have a good view of the big picture around her, even if she focuses on slashing and thrashing.

She’s also easily a domineering and powerful presence, when she’s in the room, the spotlight’s on her as the one that’s devastating everything around her. She’s also an expensive mercenary, tying in with Light’s ties to Fortune.

I was thinking Konyyl might be Rogue of Light. Theories I've seen suggest Rogues can feel unworthy of their aspect, and she thinks she's not smart and gives all the planning to the PC and to Azdaja to do - Azdaja's Mind but also ties into Light with his laser beams. And she literally gives the player stolen Light (light-up phone screen, plus relevance by using it to draw attention and knowledge by listing people's info, plus expensive/loot = fortune).

Interesting, but remember this is an Oliveblood- She may be prone to acting like a Rogue because of her caste. She could also be one of the Serve Classes if you think about serving Light to the Player.

I personally think Zebruh is a Bard. He displays this perfectly in his route. He actively avoids his own Doom by leaving the concert but passively invites the Doom of all those innocent trolls. He is also painfully obvious that he is based off of Cronus (a Bard). He even passively invites Chixie’s Doom.

I don’t quite think he’s ‘based off of Cronus’ as much as he’s based of the kind of awful guy that encompasses people like him and Cronus. In fact, I believe Zebruh’s surname is a direct jab at someone like that. I don’t remember what I headcanoned him to be honestly? I believe a Knight. I’d have to re-check his route and.

I’m not sure I want to do that.

I am like, the only friend out of my friend group who doesn't like nepeta

How could you.

Its the anon who doesn't like nepeta, and to be fair, i don't really have a homestuck character i relate to, I'm just apathetic to the cast, so theres that

Oh. I mean fair enough I guess?

cronus is... bad, there's no denying in that. but there's a certain humor attached to him. you know, like johnny bravo? the guy's such a try hard its funny. but equius seriously creeps me out. he's serious with everything he does and dont get me started on his gallery. what the fuck. i guess to each his own though.

What about his gallery anon? It’s e%quisite Alternian Musclebeast Art, the most refined and high class of all decorative creations. Absolutely nothing wrong with it, no. Why, of course sometimes art has tasteful nudes, but that’s just a degree of 100dness we may allow in order to e%emplify the grandeur of the equestrian fauna.

What did hussie use to animate? Any word on how he made the art or animations? Or any on how he planned his comic?

Planning, it’s up to anyone’s guess. Contrary to the name of MSPA, he actually uses Photoshop, though.

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I had no idea he used Photoshop to make the gifs!!! But for the flash pages do you think he would have used flash itself or maybe Adobe after effects?

No idea, I don’t even really know if Adobe After Effects was a thing in 2009, I’m really out of the loop on programs of these kinds.

Do you think hussie developed his simple style with animation in mind?

Likely- The Homestuck Beta was, after all, his attempt at doing Homestuck 100% using Flash, so it’s likely he polished it to be easy to do stuff in Flash. Then again it also seems like an expansion from the PS style.

So, according to Chixie's route Faygo is like troll equivalent of beer to us?

It always did seem to have that effect on Trolls, and it ties to the Dionysus comparisons with the Purple Cult. That being said, isn’t there like. Actually alcoholic beverages of the Faygo brand?

Hello! I am a bit confused, I always saw myself as a Page of Breath but I took your class-test and the aspect-test on the hiveswap side and I seem to be a Bard of Space, and I'm not sure how I feel about that though. What do you recommend, go with what you feel is right or what the tests tell you? Thank you!

Go with what feels right- That being said do read the Page, the Bard, and the description of Breath and Space, don’t think about the Bards we know in canon and instead focus on seeing if it may actually fit you better or not.

You won't be able to befriend Chahut in Volume Nine, she's just too violent and noncompliant.

The Good End of the Chahut Volume will be Amisia Auspisticing between her bigg girlfriend and the MC.

I've been rather confused lately because for a while I believed Knight of Heart fit me best, but recently, after looking at your analysis of it, Page of Heart also fits me pretty accurately. I've considered just picking Page since my best friend is a Knight of Life, but I'm still not sure what to do ;-;

Well, do consider that I am of the generally fanon-unpopular opinion that Pages are the Active and Knights are the Passive. Maybe you relate to the Active Serving but there’s a bit of a conflict here on WHAT I believe to be Active Serving?

I actually really agree with your opinions on the active/passive dynamic for Knight and Heart! I think it's more of the fact that the more personal aspect of each description ("serving Heart" by helping others get together as well as showing my own romantic feelings, as opposed to "being served Heart" by having another's Self being pushed onto me, though in a more negative way than simply trying to live up to someone's legacy) both really apply to myself and my relationships with others.

Hmm, well consider that having someone’s self pushed onto you can easily be quite negative- You can overcome that and still be a Page, but, do remember, Classpects are what your most comfortably-living self is like. It may talk about your possible struggles, and it may tie with bad stuff happening, but ultimately, your True Classpect would be the You you’re the most okay and happy with.

What do you think dad egbert/crocker's classpect is? (If he had one)

Maybe a Knight of Life. He’s always serving pastries and also weaponizing them, he adopts the clown-ish facade to try and get along with his Son and tries to be more of a Private Investigator for a while with Jane, playing into their interests to be with them. Vim and vigor in general can be considered Lifey in a way. I don’t know, it may fit.

Sorry for another ask and not connecting this to my other one but, what if there was a b3 session, that had dad, fedorafreak, and maybe even game bro..?

Fedorafreak is the Gent of Piss and Game Bro the Douche of Tears, 100% canon folks, we don’t even need to analyze these two for this.

Do you have any thoughts/theories on the mysterious shadow droppers mentioned only twice? Personally I like the headcanon/theory that they’re just more sentient zombies then the zombies that prowl the desert, since if they were walking in sunlight, they would be ‘dropping’ a shadow. and they are implied to be a type of undead

I have no idea honestly, could be.

Do you help people out in finding out their aspect since you have a quiz on classes? Because I fall into a couple of aspects based on the canon descriptions and it's kind of hard to pick which one fits me best.

I really don’t have much to say about Aspects other than the Canon descriptions and the stuff that’s tied to them generally.

After Chahut route... Can we say that this cult is... quite chill ? Under faygo and others intoxicants...

It is. But that’s the creepy thing about it? Lowbloods are chained to the chairs and absolutely terrified. The walls are covered in blood, methodically and messily. Execution and Murder and Sacrifice are just nonchalant things.

It’s still creepy and brutal, but somehow the way it all happens in such a chill manner makes it even more unsettling. I love it. It hits all the right creepiness buttons for me.

So horns are just vestigial antennae, left over from when trolls were more bug like? Yae or nae on that one?

Didn’t that Headcanon actually come from one of Hussie’s Formsprings?

I just wanted to say that I love this blog and thank you for taking the time to make it and answer everyone’s questions.

No problem! Although I don’t answer all of them and it kind of makes me feel a bit bad in retrospect. I’ve been trying to not do that as much lately.

is it even canon that jadebloods are mostly female? i don’t remember anything like that being stated.

Porrims says it during Openbound.

Do you think it has meaning that the "baptism" rite consist of painting someone to look like a cherub (red cheeks and greenish skin)?

Oh, most definitely, it also implies the Purple Cult are at least aware, to some extent, of how LE looks, or at least of some prominent “holy” features.

Hey, just wanted to say that Alternia DOES know what Lord English looks like, in their culture he represents death, much like how we have the Grim Reaper.

True, but I mean, LE could be worshipped and represented as a different figure than what he actually looks like, having something symbolize him instead of having his actual looks.

But yeah, it does seem they literally know how Cherubs look.

Curiously enough, they sacrificed something in the image of their God- Which actually ties in to the Maenad, the worshippers of Dionysus actually tore bulls apart- Bulls being the embodiment of their God, and then consumed its flesh.

It seems that most Goldblood's theme is 8-bit/16-bit; e.g. The La2t Frontiier, G4M3BL0RG and Azdaja's theme

James Roach confirmed this and a whole other bunch of Music Canons not long ago.

I have 2 questions that have been on my mind. 1. If you godteir while grimdark, would you stay grimdark or keep the appearance of being grimdark, or could you revert back to your normal self. And 2. Could you break the rules of a godteir like for example: a prince of light destroying the fact that something exists/doesnt exist and therefore make it dissapear/appear depending on the circumstances

Does that break the rules of a God Tier if you can actually parse it exactly as the kind of power a Prince of Light would have?

Also judging by Rose’s Dreamself, it seems Grimdarkness only affects that specific body.

How long do the kids have left to live on earth c? Like, everything is being destroyed. They must not have many years left, do they?

If the dream bubbles/ghosts are being sucked into the black hole, do they continue to exist, or are they just.. gone? Their existence permanently gone? I always imagined the dream bubbles somehow continued to exist in the black hole, just all who are trapped would be there forever.

sburb/lord english literally destroyed everything in the end, didn’t it? Earth, the troll universe, dream bubbles, soon, earth c. Wont everything in the end just be gone. Every planet/world in every timeline? I feel like in the end everything would just cease to exist all together.

This is a completely valid concern about the ending, with the Kids being in the Universe-C and everything seeming to be collapsing out there, it WOULD make sense that the Black Hole would get to them at some point! However this ignores a few possibilities and a few things the Ending represent.

First of all, we don’t quite know if the Black Hole is going to expand indifinitely- For all we know, it’ll blow a hole through Paradox Space, yes, but it’ll stop at some point and the Kids may find something interesting in that blank hole blown right through.

But also, it takes on a very heavily literal outlook on the Ending. It’s not LE who destroys everything… It’s Calliope. Dragging everything behind her in the Ending, conducting the Finale of the story. Because that’s what it is. It’s the End of Paradox Space, because it’s the End of the Comic. To defeat Lord English, everything must be brought to an end… Because he’s the Villain in this story, and as long as the story continues, he will not cease to be. When you look it in a more Meta sense, the Kids are safe, because they have escaped, not into Earth-C- But outside of the story. They’re beyond the End, beyond the closing of the curtain.

That being said, there IS an Epilogue left… And it may part the curtains one last time for something big to go down before everyone can truly live a peaceful life.

I hope we can all collectively agree grand highblood evaluating mspa readers sex appeal (if that was even what was happening I’m still confused) in the middle of clown church, then chahut also checking you out is the most wtf moment in the friend sims so far

You forgot the fact that the MSPA reader then just shrugged, considering the situation, and going like, “You know what? Yeah I’d fuck a clown.”

Is it troubling that i don't really have a character i relate to in homestuck? Like with the entire cast, there are things i like about them, and I've had a few shared experiences, but besides that, i don't really relate to one

I mean that’s fair, there’s only so many experiences a comic can encompass, although Homestuck is so dense it’s weird to not at least relate to something a little bit.

Can you assign each aspect a meme on this 2018

Hhhhhh. I am sad to inform it is 2 AM and I blanked out on Memes before even starting the list. I suddenly realized I don’t know if I remember 12 memes of this year clearly enough to give it a go.

How would conjoined twins godtier?

Likely they’d have two separate Dream Selves…? But only one of them can ascend normally. Unless they don’t mind being conjoined, then maybe they do have just one Dreamself? Hmm.

Hussie did mention that if Sollux had godtiered while both dreamselves were alive that they would both ascend (though, he also said that they would kill each other infinitely), so maybe they could have their quest bed and sacrificial slab split down the middle?

No, no see that’s where there’s a major difference happens, both Solluxes would’ve ascended… Because they’re both the same person, with a single Main Body.

In the case of the Conjoined, they are TWO different people, meaning their CLASSPECT is going to be different. The issue isn’t that there’s multiple Dreamselves- The issue is that unless you could carry their corpse to BOTH Quest Beds in the time it takes for the Dreamself to die, only one of the two would be able to Ascend. Unless you have some means of teleporting, it’d mean one has to die, or one has to be smooch-awakened.

And even with teleportation, I’m not sure if the time it takes to God Tier is the same time it’d take for a Dreamself to die? For all we know, it would be better for them to be smooched and each Dreamself to go to their Quest Slab.

On the subject of everything being destroyed by the black hole: would it even matter? The timeline inside a universe frog does not run parallel to the outside of the same frog; the creation of the green sun and the destruction of Earth's original universe didn't stop Roxy et al. from existing even though it was in the same frog. The lifespan of Earth C's universe will reach its natural end independently of whatever destroys it, if anything. Besides, doesn't Earth C become Caliborn's planet?

Earth C is Caliborn’s Planet, yes, which in fact does imply the Universe C has at least a few billion years ahead of it peacefully. That doesn’t mean the end would NOT come eventually, and given the fact Paradox Space is being shattered, there’s a question whether other new Universes could be also spawned after all of this.

Have you given any thought to Chixie’s class? I was thinking Sylph maybe...

Oof, I had some speculation but I completely forgot. Although I believe there was the possibility of her being a Witch, also because of her symbol?

How did Aradia stay around as a ghost after she died? Do all trolls become ghosts after dying and can linger around? Or was it because of the game? Or maybe because she's a rustblood and can commune with the dead?

There’s a difference to be noted here- The Dream Bubbles are not the normal Homestuck Afterlife, they are something Feferi told the Horrorterrors to make. The mechanics of what happens to dead people in Homestuck is, as such, largely unknown, although it may operate on the ‘usual’ rules- Unfinished business stays haunting the place, while peaceful deaths ‘move on’.

That being said? There’s also the possibility Aradia’s hidden Dream Self was unconsciously Communing with herself and keeping her Ghost summoned and active.

do you happen to know or guess any famous celebrities classpects?

I literally know NOTHING about ANY famous celebrities. I am so absurdly out of the loop I only know the memes about some of them.

Why is karkat Shoosh-papping gamzee in lime? (Immediately after 5x showdown combo)

Lime text is heavily used for onomatopoeias, although some consider it to be a hint that Karkat was a Mutant Limeblood, and many have taken it to mean the Limebloods had pacifying powers.