After reading your last ask, I remembered that rose and Dave's god-teir titles made no sense to me. I guess I didn't get the reference? Same with johns. Is there a place online where all the references are explained?

I mean all the references in homestuck, not just the god teirs

Maybe in the Wiki there’s some reference list? Not sure. But as for the God Tiers, let me explain what the refrance is. (8^y)

Let’s start with John, his two God Tiers shown thus far are:

Galesmate, which I’m not sure what it could mean. Obviously, Gale is the wind, but the -mate part, I don’t know if it’s associated with something I don’t know, a reference to Checkmate tying with the comic’s chess theme, or perhaps tying Galesmate to Scalemate as a reference to John and Terezi? Unsure.

Revenge of Doctor Ragnarok, again, if there’s some deeper reference here, but thus far it seems to reference an old Rung- Doctor Ragnarok, right beneath Heir Transparent, his final Echeladder Rung. “Revenge of” is a pretty typical sort of ‘sequel’ start, and Doctor Ragnarok equates John to a Doctor- As his Land’s theme song implies, as well as the fact he removed the Tumor from the Battlefield.

Jade’s God Tiers:

Growing Panes Await, this one is kind of obvious, Panes as in Window Panes, she resizes the 4th Wall Window thing.

Sayonara Kansas is also very obvious given Jade’s intense ties to Wizard of Oz.

Rose’s God Tiers:

Pentacle Therapist, obvious as well.

Ariadne’s Threadspinner, Ariadne is the daughter of Minos, who gave Theseus a ball of thread to find his way out of the Minotaur’s Labyrinth. Obviously she’s the Seer of Light, so finding the most correct route, like Ariadne’s Thread allowed, is in her title.

Surya’s Lurid Glare, Surya is the Solar Deity in Hinduism, particularly in Saura tradition it seems. The word also literally means ‘Sun’, so… “The unpleasantly bright glare of the Solar Deity” fits Rose to a T, specially considering Seer - Sight.

Dave’s God Tiers:

Hotpotato Butterfingers, Butterfingers is someone clumsy that drops stuff, and Hot Potato is just that game. Passing something to him, then dropping it, it’s hard to say what it may reference exactly, if anything other than just a jab at Dave?

Revenge of Ricky Schrödinger is a reference to a Terezi Pun. Everyone knows about Schrodinger’s Cat, and Dave uses to exemplify the thing Terezi did with her coin toss. She then proceeds to ask if Schrodinger is “Ricky Schrodinger”, confusing the name Ricky Schroder- Which I believe she drew glasses on as part of her “1S TH1S YOU” schtick with Dave.

And Pimpslayer references the whole prophecy of taking down LE.