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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Implode on August 11, 2011, 12:42:43 PM
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Any other fans out there? If not, I recommend checking it out. It's an epic story told through the format of a webcomic, but there is more than simple images. Sometimes panels will be interactive, or there will be animations complete with amazing music. It'll make you laugh, and it'll make you cry. It's HOMESTUCK.
(https://f0.bcbits.com/z/17/07/1707917269-1.jpg)
And here's a pretty well made trailer montage thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXXk2xKWuc
And here's the first page: https://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001901
I just started reading this to see what all fuss is about. Like seriously. It's like the newest internet craze from what I can see. I can't tell what I think yet because I only just got to Act 2. Anyone here a reader/fan? Anyone want to tell me why it's insanely popular?
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I can't help you on figuring out why it's popular but in general I'd never take internet popularity all that seriously since, as I'm sure you've noticed on countless occasions, anything can become extremely popular on the internet if some yahoos just suddenly start to like it: hampster(sp?) dance, dancing baby(even though it may have originated on Ally McBeal the internet sure took the reins and said "giddyup!"), etc.
There are probably numerous reviews of it already floating on the internet that you can look up until this thread manages to answer your question but good luck any way and I hope you get your answer soon :tup
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I really liked Problem Sleuth, but never really warmed to Homestuck. Problem Sleuth felt like a silly game that escalated to wonderful, ridiculous heights. Homestuck always felt like it was going to escalate - from the very start - and it doesn't feel quite so much like it's about poking fun at the adventure game genre, as it is about making Problem Sleuth II.
It's still entertaining, but my heart lies with Problem Sleuth. And I hope the next MS Paint Adventure is a lot more curt. :p
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I've been reading it, and I'm in Act 4 now. It's takes a bit to pick up, but I seriously recommend this to anyone who reads webcomics. It has a immensely deep storyline and a great sense of humor. Not to mention the music is great as well.
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I was totally about to make a thread about Homestuck. Yes, the first act is beyond sluggish. Yes, it gets better. Yes, it's worth it. I'm not quite sure where it "gets good," but it's somewhere during Act 2 or 3. If you've reached the end of Act 3 you'll be hooked for sure. Keep in mind that Acts 1-3 make up only around a quarter of the story, though.
That being said, I love the story. Worth the read.
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Just bumping to say that people should really try to read it. I swear you won't regret it. I'm reading it through a second time, and it's one of the better things I've gotten into.
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I agree with the above sentiments.
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as you can imagine i've heard of this comic like every five seconds of my life but i have no idea what the fuck it is
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It's an MS Paint adventure. There's this fella, Andrew Hussie, who makes up convoluted games in the style of old-school text adventures, and illustrates 'em in MS Paint. Bit like a cross between Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Sam & Max, in webcomic form. People then suggest what the character should do next, and he picks his favourite suggestion, illustrates it, and asks again.
Jailbreak was his first, and a very faithful send-up of the genre, but since then he's written (and finished) Problem Sleuth, where a hard-boiled detective is stuck in his office, and Homestuck, which is a story about a kid stuck at home. These tend to become stranger with each consecutive panel.
https://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=1
There's Jailbreak, which is relatively short, if unfinished.
It's basically - I don't know if you remember orcus's John the Explorer thread (which has apparently been - hold your breath - tragically pruned D: ), but it's that, on a much bigger scale.
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as you can imagine i've heard of this comic like every five seconds of my life but i have no idea what the fuck it is
As you are a comic artist on Tumblr, I'm not surprised.
And great description of the genre by Rob.
https://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6
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I feel obligated to post here again as it's a pretty big day in the Homestuck world. The wildly anticipated finale to Act 5 came out tonight. To avoid crashing the main site, the creator tried putting up the finale flash on Newgrounds. Unfortunately the flood of viewers crashed the entire site in seconds. I haven't seen anything quite like it.
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(https://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4757/casca.png)
Crashing Newgrounds is a new feat for sure.
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Sadly, it looks like we're still the ones here.
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I was reading it. I think I got to...at least the end of act 2? Maybe to act 3? I know I got past the long intermission that was kind of like an evil parody of problem sleuth but still seemed to have some close relation to the main story. I really liked it. But I fell off reading it. And now I have to start again, because I don't really remember where I was or what was going on.
That said, for as much as I liked it, I don't understand the sudden rampant fascination. Like, I was reading about a year ago. And it was great, but not a lot of people seemed to hear about it. I tried showing a lot of people, but no one was really interested. Now, about a year later everyone is reading it. It's now much harder to find someone that isn't reading it it seems.
I just don't understand how it seems to have so suddenly exploded. The best part is, several of the people I tried to get into it a year ago are now reading it and treating it like the best thing ever.
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That's very true. It's crazy how it works. People can go in hating it then end up worshiping it. Usually it can have people hooked by the end of the third act, but it depends on the person. It starts out really slowly and simple, yet quaint. Then in explodes into complexity and quadruples the number of characters later. Personally, I love it even more than Doctor Who right now.
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Tried it fo 5 minutes. Bored. I think it'd be better if it was a "Choose Your Adventure" type of thing.
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While that's how the writing originally started, it became more of a narrative. It's kind of like playing a game in the beginning, but after Act 1 you start to find the story line.
Edit: And I know it's not for everyone, but the first five minutes are hardly a good representation of it.
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Wait, is this one of those hipster things?
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I would hardly say this is hipster. It might not being completely main stream, but with hipster things, you don't want more people to become fans.
This is one of those things that people become completely obsessed with and then try to convert all their friends until the friends hate them and groan every time they even mention the comic. It's very similar to how Doctor Who works out in that sense. Also the writing is really great as well. It's one of the best written things I've read. Considering how Doctor Who's last season played out, I'd even say that Andrew Hussie has beaten out Stephen Moffat in the awesome mind fuck department.
I'm still holding off on posting the flash from the highest point of the comic so that people's first experience won't be the best part. If you want to get a glimpse of the comic after everything takes off, look at this: https://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004827 or this: https://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004478 .
It'd be nice to make some fans here, but it looks like I'll have to end up like Chino and Avatar.
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Well, finished act 2 since yesterday afternoon. I'm about to start the big Midnight Crew intermission.
I seem to remember it being overlong, underinteresting, but vaguely related. Plus I'm a bit of a completionist. But I"m not looking forward to going through all this.
Edit: As luck would have it, I'm not actually at the intermission. I was at the part with Jade where they did the fake intermission. Which makes sense, I seem to remember it coming in later. I"m not looking forward to getting to the intermission.
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The intermission is one of those hate/love things. While you and I are ones that don't particularly like it, others like the intermission more than the rest of the story itself. It's not that long though, at least compared to the rest of Homestuck.
How are you enjoying it so far?
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I'm really enjoying it. I had forgotten how much fun it was. I'm almost to the end of Act 3. So almost to the intermission. I think it was shortly after the intermission that I...I really don't remember. I think I lost my place or something and didn't care enough to go back.
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Keep us...(uh me i guess foreveralone.gif) updated! I love hearing of Homestuck journeys!
And welp. That update was terrifying.
edit: I think this is everyone:
(https://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltqbwtwkpQ1r4aiqro1_500.png)
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Well, I loved it the first time. I really don't know why I stopped. It just sorta fell off my radar for one reason or another.
Anyway, I'm out of the intermission and back on track. I slowed down for a little bit at the start of Act 4. The part where it's a big flash game and you wonder around talking to salamanders. It was just..to clunky. I remember there not being too much noteworthy information, so I fiddled a little and moved on with my life. Did I really miss anything there?
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Not really. You don't have to worry about exploring the interactive flashes until Past Karkat: Wake Up, aka AlterniaBound. There are so many secrets to that flash, and it's made much better. That's not until Act 5 though.
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I've tried 4 times to get into it, but I haven't been able to. Maybe I'll try again.
EDIT: Okay, I'm digging it this time. :lol
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Yeeeeeeees!
(https://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu2eaeoxWj1qfi5b1.gif)
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I"m at the part where it's basically just a lot of pesterchum troll logs. Which, they're interesting. But they're just...kinda long and bogs it down a bit.
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Yeah. My first time through, I skimmed through a bunch of stuff. It's hard to appreciate everything the first time. But now after the past few updates, I want nothing more than long pesterlogs.
And man, this music is beautiful.
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Ok so um. I'm a little confused. John took a rocket pack. And then suddenly Dave is at gate 5. And then he's talking to rose and says something about turning back, its been 4 months, and the Heir and the Witch are dead. Which I've gathered that to be John and Jade, respectively. And..they're dead? What? I feel like I skipped a lot of pages.
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Keep reading. You didn't miss anything, and it should explain itself. If you still don't get it, I'll tell you.
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Yeaaaah. Fuckin. But. That should be a paradox. DOCTOR WHO TAUGHT ME YOU CAN'T GO BACK IN YOUR OWN TIMELINE HE IS BREAKING THE RULES. Also theoretically the death of someone as important as that would be a fixed point in that time line.
IT doesn't make sense but fuck it. Just gonna go with it. As this comic called itself, a self fulfilling clusterfuck.
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They explain that too. It's called a stable time loop, and they happen in Doctor Who all the time. See "reading from a transcript of a conversation you're still having". Like when Dave time travels he has to make sure he eventually does all the things he sees his future self doing. If you don't make a point create these stable time loops, you'll create a doomed timeline wherein everyone is doomed to die--just like the Father's Day episode of Doctor Who.
This is where it can start to get wibbly.
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Explaining that with Blink just made everything make so much more sense. I now understand this so much more, and this is now so much more awesome.
Ok. So. I got to the end of Act 4. There's one thing I'm unsure on.
The paradox clones. So. The genetic data of Nana, and Jades Grandpa were combined to make John and Jade. So essentially, John and Jade are bother and sister, and Nana and Grandpa are the parents. Where does Johns dad come in? It seems like he's just kind of there. I mean, he's fucking awesome. But he doesn't fit in the way the rest of them do.
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You are absolutely right. He doesn't fit in to there at all. He might be the only person born normally in the entire comic. :lol
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And yet, he seems to act just like the rest of the paradox cloned guardians. He fits in the same as if there's no difference. There's likely something special about him that will be revealed later.
That said, I just realized. Daves "brother" is actually his father.
Also, Doctor Who has taught me to look for the tiny little details. When I first saw Jade, I noticed she had buck teeth similar to John. The thought crossed my mind, so briefly that I completely forgot about it. But I had the passing thought that maybe they were related. If I'd paid attention to the teeth on nanna sprite and Jades Grandpa I'd have probably figured it out.
Also I'm probably going to buy some of this music.
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Remember all the small details. All of them. Andrew Hussie gives Moffat a run for his money.
Hussie's writing is great. Only after a huge secret or part of the plot is revealed do you see all the details that made is so obvious. It's incredible.
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Yeah, I'm really loving his writing. This is basically great. I'm getting my friend who is huge into DW into it. He agrees this guy should take up the call when Moffat eventually steps down.
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You know you're a Homestuck when you have "How Do I Live" stuck in your head.
How'd you like Descend and the fake eoa 4 flash?
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Descend was pretty god damn badass. And the music was fantastic. Considering buying volume 5 of the music just for Descend.
And was the fake one the slow loading gif? Because I sat there for like 5 minutes, saw the text, and proudraged.
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Oh you fell for that. Awesome.
No. I meant John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter.
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Yeah, the Con-Air thing was just. Fantastic.
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Now hurry up and catch up so I can post some awesome things without having to spoil things. :P
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I'm gettin there. I'm about half way through after about half a week. So I should be there soon.
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H3H3H3
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I just saw Con Air for the first time. It was awesome. :lol
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So this morning I got up to Past Karkat: Wake Up. Been playing a lot of LoL today so I haven't done much with that. Gonna take some time to sit down and burn through the flash and some more of the comic. I'm kind of tired already, so probably gonna do that in the morning.
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It's actually pretty well done, and there is a lot of material and easter eggs in the flash as well.
Also. I just found this. So awesome. Sburban Jungle - Percussion Ensemble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnmnzEVx9mQ
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Act 6 has started so now it should be updating somewhat regularly again. I'm excited.
Also, I edited my first post to make the thread seem less derpy to start out with.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsEpDS7-Mw
Use this trailer for the opening post. It's far better.
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So, got completely caught up last night.
God damn, Cascade was fantastic. The writing in the big Doc Scratch stuff before that really started to drag a bit though. I probably missed a few details that I'll have to go back over.
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Excellent! Cascade blows my mind every time I watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsEpDS7-Mw
Use this trailer for the opening post. It's far better.
I was never a big fan of that trailer. It's pretty well made, but I like a simple montage better. I don't think Homestuck is fit for the same kind of cheesy trailer that epic movies get. I dunno.
Thoughts on the new characters? I really excited to learn more about the guardians, and Hussie said he's been waiting for two years to get this part of story started.
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That trailer would be so much better if the narration were just better written.
I'm pretty intrigued to see the Guardians more. Though as interested as I am in that, I really want to see what happened with the kids and the trolls. It was left at a maaajor cliff hanger. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see them again for another 6 months to a year, he's probably going to focus on the guardians.
Also, am I the only one that thought the whole thing with Gamzee was pretty anti-climactic?
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That's part of what made the shoosh paps so funny, but I seriously doubt we're done with addressing the whole sober Gamzee fiasco. I'm sure they'll talk about it more once the trolls are safe in the scratched session.
And here's another can of worms I want to open. How do you feel about Vriska? I'm in the Vriska-lover camp. Although I don't Vriska to come back, (she's probably going to stay with doomed John), I wish she could come back to properly get redemption. And it kills me that doomed John doesn't know her at all.
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I don't know. I really wanted a badass showdown. And then shoohpaps.
And I was really starting to like Vriska. She was a very complex character. When she started with the whole "I need to prove I"m the best. So I created Jack Noir," thing. I really thought she was just going to be the crazy bitch villian. But he kept adding a lot more depth. I liked her in the end. Or rather, what she was growing in to. I was sad to see her go. I was also interested in seeing that she likely DID have the power to stop Jack. It would just cause the death of everyone else if she did.
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Holy crap. I can't handle Jake's vernacular it's so amazing. :rollin
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I still love all the phrases from SBaHJ. Like turn it flipwise, jegus, dumpass, sports pile. Fucking, I love that shit.
Also, I loved when Dave talked to Davesprite. Those few occasions were kinda the best thing ever.
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Agreed. The first Dave/Davesprite log might be my favorite exchange ever.
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Dave/Tavros and the very first Dave/Terezi, the one that took place in the past when he had pointy glasses. Those were fantastic as well.
Basically, Dave is the shit.
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Definitely. And it seems that Homestucks on Omegle is actually way more common than you'd think.
(https://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/12774475175/1/tumblr_lumsv79qf11qeumn4)
(https://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/12777045780/1/tumblr_lumvaqHykd1qf2itd)
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So on the new Robot Chicken, they had Sara Lee fight Betty Crocker. The moment they said Betty Crocker, I actually shouted "BATTER WITCH" loudly at the TV.
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That's what Homestuck does to you.
Do you think it's bad that we're the only ones posting in this thread?
Nahhhhhh
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Yes.
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Do you mean yes as in you wish more people would read it? I'm not sure how to make it look more appealing to people here. Maybe the DT and Homestuck fandom just don't mix well. (Actually it probably has to do something with the average age here)
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Well let's see, my Facebook "About Me" is:
"My name is JORDAN. September 19th is my BIRTHDAY. A number of CDs are scattered about my room. I have a variety of INTERESTS. I have a passion for REALLY TERRIBLE MOVIES. I like to make weird computer things but I am NOT VERY GOOD AT IT. I have a fondness for MUSIC, and am an aspiring AMATEUR MUSICIAN. I also like to play GAMES sometimes."
Yes I changed a few things so it'd fit me. :P
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Awesome. I feel the need to do that sometime to my profile.
Do you guys have favorite songs? Some of mine include: all of Cascade of course, Descend, Alternia, and Skaia (Incipisphere Mix).
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You just picked like the best few. Alternia screams "end of story."
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Descend is probably my favorite. The music on volume 5 is the best, in my opinion.
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I still need the to get Sburb, Strife!, The Wanderers, The Felt, and Prospit and Derse. But I don't have money right now. It's all really great music.
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Well you already have the good ones, IE the main 8 albums, AlterniaBound, and Drawing Dead.
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I particularly want the get The Wanderers. There are some great tracks on there. Same with Prospit and Derse.
...and Strife!
I just want it all...
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Prospit and Derse are great. I think Prospit and Derse and Vol. 5 are my top priorities.
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This is a fanmade SBaHJ comic documenting the events of Oct. 25. :rollin
(https://i.imgur.com/XxQyh.jpg)
Edit: I think Chino was in today's update:
(https://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/04168.gif)
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Is it just me, or does it feel like its going kinda slow? I mean, I guess it might be because this is the first time I'm having to wait for updates. Before I've been able to sit down and power through a few hundred pages a day. Now I get like 5 at most. It just feels so slow now. I'm really intrigued in learning about the guardians/ancestors. But fuuuck I want to know what happened to the kids and the trolls.
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The pacing is a lot slower than what we're used to coming right out of Act 5, but compared to the beginning of Act 1, it's kind of normal. I think it's fine, and it still updates a lot more often than any other webcomic I know.
And I love the kid!guardians. I couldn't handle reading mom's conversation with Jane. It was amazing. :lol
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Shameless bumping because it's the comic's third anniversary. Three years and 4819 pages later, I'm still disappointed that the QC thread gets more traffic than this.
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I'm going to swat this back up so that the Homestuck talk doesn't take over the "Good Webcomics" thread as Homestuck discussion is prone to do.
THAT BEING SAID. There are too many hiatuses as of late. I know he's working on other stuff, I just don't want the ending of the story to be rushed. That would kind of suck.
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I agree that there have been too many hiatuses, but I don't think that'll cause a rushed ending seeing as how he doesn't have a very specific end date. However, I do think that he should have more frequent smaller updates rather than all these enormous flash projects.
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I just think that if they go confront English now it's kinda too soon? You know?
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Right. I don't think they are going to. I doubt Act 6 will end this year. Maybe it'll end on April 13th. Then apparently Act 7 is going to be short. I don't want to think about that though. I'm much too emotionally invested in this stupid comic.
I like how Hussie originally didn't eve want to focus on the trolls. He only introduced them because they were kind of important to the backstory. But now they are basically main characters. And now we have the 12 trolls, the 12 ancestors, and the 12 prescratched ancestors. So many characters. :lol
Also, here's a cool video comparing the challenge of reading Homestuck to reading Ulysses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLK7RI_HW-E
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You think you're too emotionally invested in this stupid comic?
*Digs through piles of MPSA merchandise*
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Okay. Let's compare stuff to see which of us is more of a loser.
I just spent $105 on the Gamepak 1 for the kickstarter. I have the official Sollux, Kanaya, Karkat, and Dave shirts. Bought a hero of light shirt for a friend. I have a space hoodie and a void zipper hoodie. I have volume 1 signed and a spirograph keychain and have bought all but two of the albums. I have cosplayed god-tier John and dead!Sollux, and I'm going to be Sollux in a Homestuck panel Q&A and going to cosplay a crossover type John and either Mituna or the Psiioniic. Whoooo.
And wow. Someone actually backed the game for $10,000. I hope it was Dante Basco. :metal
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I've got the Terezi, Caliborn, and Time shirts. I have a Breath zip-up hoodie. I have a framed print of Davesprite getting slashed by Jack Noir which I obtained in person from Lexxy. I've got a spirograph necklace (for a cosplay) and am about to purchase the keychain. I have a Terezi pin (gift!) and a Signless pin (custom stuff yea). I haven't backed the kickstarter yet but will probably go with either $25 or $55. Probably $55. Nice artwork. I've cosplayed God Tier Dave, am working on Davesprite, and most importantly, this. (https://i.imgur.com/YKxZS.jpg)
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Is that actually a picture of you! That looks amazing. Where do you plan to go with those cosplays?
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Yap! I like the Signless. I think you win on the merchandise department though. Plan to go? Like con-wise?
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Yes, con-wise!
And we climbed this whole mountain!
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Well that was quick. I hope he makes something worthwhile.
I'll be at New York Comic Con in October, and maybe Katsucon in February? That one's up in the air. What's this about a Q&A panel? Also you should Psiioniic to my Signless, yes yes.
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Ah east coast. I live in the midwest, so I'm planning on going to AMKE in Milwaukee, Anime Detour in MN, and ACen in Chicago. My friend made a Homestuck panel for ACen last year, and she going to start one at AMKE. It's just a panel where we have 16-20 people (beta/alpha kids and trolls) do an in character Q/A. Sounds kind of fun! I'd love to be a Psiioniic for you, but I don't think I can get out to New York. :lol
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I am a secret wizard. Behold my robes.
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So this is really dumb, but it's also hilarious. Intoducing...
HUSSIEQUEST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQwLbNY21VU
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I see you bumping my thread. I also remember that video! But isn't ______quest an old joke with anything?
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It very well might be. I usually miss these things the first few times around.
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OMG OMG OMG
I realize there's only like two Homestuck fans here but holy crap I'm so excited I have to post this.
Giga-Almost-Unpause, Probably.
Let's see if I can "tldr" a few things up top, since this news item might begin to nose dive dramatically through the vertical space of this web layout. Am I finished HS yet? Um, nope. But I think enough is probably enough on the site's indefinite period of hibernation, so it's likely I will just start posting some stuff I have anyway, starting next month. Either mid or late October, let's say.
I said it would be a long pause, didn't I? Let's face it, a gigapause is just one big ass pause. It contains the smaller word "giga", which, in addition to literally meaning "one billion", you will find to be the root of the word "gigantic", which as we all know, means super huge. This intriguing fact reminds us that in our culture of words, we hold the number one billion as the indivisible quantum of general bigness, as a matter of principal. Food for thought!
We're coming up on almost a year since I paused. So that means I got like, SO much done on the story, right? Wow, no. Innumerable unspecified problems happened which badly prevented this from being true. I'd estimate out of those 12 months, I maybe squeezed in a grand total of 3 months worth of work on HS in there. Kinda dribbled across the year in the most frustrating way possible. So, I'm just gonna cry uncle on this dogshit pause and start posting stuff, but probably in a regimented way so I don't blow through everything I have too fast, thus giving me some time to work on the rest.
Back at the onset of the pause, I said I'd just post everything at once. (I was oversimplifying. I had always intended to stagger the final content to whatever extent, so as not to destroy the server.) But also that "post everything at once" idea was predicated on actually sorta... having it all done. Which as I have already culpa'd, is not the case. So I'm improvising at this point. I'll (probably) relaunch the story next month, come up with some kind of update schedule, and we'll see how it goes.
What have I been doing all year? Let's chalk it up to, in this order of relevance, a swirling multitude of Daunting Life Challenges, a flurry of accidental weird adventures causing me to thrash wildly across the nation, and the escalating complexities of running a business while tending to peripheral creative projects, not the least of which has been overseeing the development of an expensive video game. Actually, all things considered, I'm surprised at how much I actually HAVE gotten done this year. It just happens that "making a ton of HS pages" isn't one of those things.
What were the problems? What were the adventures? Sorry, nothing to see here. Me and the General Public just aren't that tight, and wild sob stories ain't my bag (unless they pertain to visits to the Olive Garden). Well, maybe I'll mention some things some day. But definitely nowhere in the proximity of a virtual stage adjacent to the sphere of rhetoric which could conceivably be construed as a series of excuses for why a mammoth load of free entertainment hasn't been finished yet. Did you follow that? Look over there. (When you look back at me, I am slowly rolling into a pile of trash.)
The good news is, I'm still all about horses. Did you know that about me? It's true as shit. Horses; wow. Pretty good weird big animals? Or pretty GREAT weird big animals??
What else should I say here. Oh.
We've also been chipping away at upgrading the server over the last year. It's been surprisingly complicated and slow-going. Actually, prior to the pause, it was one of the most difficult things about updating, having an insufficient server that was GUARANTEED to crash every time I posted something. This was even after many, many upgrades over the years. It gets a little demoralizing trying to make tons of cartoons every day for a small nation of lunatics when the server constantly struggles to keep up with the ever-burgeoning readership, no matter how much I upgraded it. This was one of the (lots of) factors which contributed to me finally just saying, fuck it, time to pause.
Hopefully it can handle it now, but guess we'll see. It all runs on fancy clouds and such now. Which has been tricky to configure for such a complicated site utterly dependent on all the garbage ass-backwards code I've written over the years. Maybe... maybe once I start updating again, nobody will notice?? Man, wouldn't that be sweet. It will just be me and like a cozy little clique of 50 randos and 10 web bots, just like the old days. We'll bring this sucker home together, then hit up the local bargain Italian restaurant to celebrate. (Then a horse nuzzles me out of my sleepy dream fantasy, and the hammock flips over and dumps my screaming body on to the lawn.)
Feels a little odd even TALKING about revving up this monstrosity again. It's been pretty serene on the web these days. I've been reluctant to even drop a pebble into the pristine glass-like state of the fandom, before being good and damn well ready to. Why wake the beast prematurely? We'll enjoy more than our share of blistering pandemonium when all is said and done. We are slowly building to a particular moment I foresee on the horizon. It's not just characterized by the end of the story, though that should be a factor. It's more than that. Things I have planned, and some other things we'll say may be fortuitously aligned. Invisible pieces of a heinous machine all snapping together, mechanically congealing with a grim sense of purpose. I'm tentatively branding to this moment as The Rapture, and it will be more than you can bear. More than anyone can. And everyone won't.
How has your year been?
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Yay! Finally.
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That's honestly about what I expected.
I'm so excited...excited to see what happens next with my favorite characters, excited to see how much further Hussie will push this genre/medium, excited for this long as comic to be over so I can finally move on in my life. :lol
Of course I'll be sad to see it go as well.
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Honestly, although I'll miss it, I'll be glad for it to end. A story's not truly complete until it has an ending, after all.
I'm also very confident in Andrew's ability to make the ending the best thing ever, he hasn't really let me down thus far.
Also, I realize it's sort of the obvious way for it to end, but if we don't
SPOILERS
actually see a universe being created I'll be really disappointed. I mean, we've seen that door from the trolls session just tantalizing us, we need to see what's inside. :P And I hope Terezi doesn't die. :(
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So I just finished Act 5 Act 1. HOLY SHIT
Spoilery question: Did I understand that correctly that the consequences of the Trolls' game is the creation of Earth? If so, then Andrew Hussie just blew my mind... again.
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So I just finished Act 5 Act 1. HOLY SHIT
Spoilery question: Did I understand that correctly that the consequences of the Trolls' game is the creation of Earth? If so, then Andrew Hussie just blew my mind... again.
spoiler:
Yes. This was the absolute biggest "holy crap" moment for me. Aradia's entire monologue there was incredible. Andrew has said that Homestuck was, in part, always intended to be a creation myth, though this was obfuscated until the end of A5A1.
Also, prepare for Hussie to blow your mind more. It keeps happening. (https://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/)
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Nice. It made sense in-universe, but I wanted to make sure.
Also Homestuck avatar.
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Nice to see some felt appreciation! I should make a new signature some time.
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I really liked Problem Sleuth, but never really warmed to Homestuck. Problem Sleuth felt like a silly game that escalated to wonderful, ridiculous heights. Homestuck always felt like it was going to escalate - from the very start - and it doesn't feel quite so much like it's about poking fun at the adventure game genre, as it is about making Problem Sleuth II.
It's still entertaining, but my heart lies with Problem Sleuth. And I hope the next MS Paint Adventure is a lot more curt. :p
I mean, I love robwester as much as anyone, but this comment is just hilariously wrong. That's the exact opposite of what Homestuck is.
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I do know where he was coming from though for a moment there, especially in 2011.
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I don't know, Homestuck feels really fundamentally different from PS to me, even at that point. I mean, Homestuck basically entered a whole different world with John and Dave's first conversation, giving the characters voices and thus personalities. The story inevitably became character driven rather than just the random madcap shenanigans of Problem Sleuth.
And it's not that I dislike PS, I think it's awesome. There's just a world of difference between it and HS.
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Any of you guys cosplay? I know sintheros does. I cosplayed tons of homestuck a couple years ago.
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I've never had much reason to cosplay. Pretty sure I'd go for Dave if I was going to.
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Nah, I don't. I don't really have the requisite creativity for that sort of thing.
I've seen some really great cosplayers before that almost make me want to, though.
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HOLY FUCK CASCADE OMG
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The coolest moment in Homestuck so far. Hard to believe it happened almost 3 years ago.
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I think it's the only Homestuck page that I've read four times already, and I keep discovering new stuff with every time I read it.
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I've said this before, but I think the interactive sections were the most like that for me. Seriously, there is SO MUCH great dialogue in those, and I basically skipped all of it my first time through.
And the first time I saw Cascade I thought it was cool, but I had no idea what the heck was even going on. :lol
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I dunno, I got most of it. Obviously there were some issues, but I think I got most of the relevant stuff. And that ending of Cascade was enough to push it into OMG HOLY FUCK territory for me.
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Well, you're probably paying more attention then I was. My first time through I was reading it in between classes and stuff (sometimes in classes :P ), so a lot of the details slipped through.
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Also not directly related, but I was bored and had enough of Homestuck today so I read through Problem Sleuth in one sitting.
And it was glorious. It's not as good as Homestuck, in my opinion, but it's still absolutely insane. I loved the object/weapon duality, the final battle against Demonhead Mobster Kingpin (which was, like, half the adventure), the size-adjusting doors, the female aspects of PS and PI... god dammit if Hussie manages to wrapup Homestuck in a similarly satisfying way then I shall bow down before his greatness and forever praise him.
(Praise him.)
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DW reference FTW
also you should try Jailbreak. It's really short and it's pretty hilarious.
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Definitely some good stuff there. I feel the need to share some of my cosplays here so this is a thing now. Here are some from the past year that I actually liked: Karkat, Psiioniic, and Signless. My girlfriend was the Disciple. I can't wait to get back to another con, though I'm not sure if I'll even be cosplaying Homestuck again. I miss it, but I hate graying up. And I'm not sure if I want to cosplay any more of the human kids.
(https://31.media.tumblr.com/498387551c4596a1d55c0e9aec77a1d8/tumblr_inline_n14f1a9DDZ1qfi5b1.png)(https://31.media.tumblr.com/a284702d78614619be7326365789eff4/tumblr_inline_n14f941UsE1qfi5b1.png)(https://31.media.tumblr.com/cfb0d50e637ed35399a7b551dd9bc19c/tumblr_inline_n3op34eIzy1qfi5b1.png)
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That is a pretty sweet Psiioniic getup there.
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New SBaHJ comic
https://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=051.jpg
Hussie is really back now people. Where doing this.
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the day has come
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I knew this thread would be bumped. Looking forward to consistent updates now. :]
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The server's been crashed for hours. :lol I had to find a mirror just to see it.
It's good to be back, though. Although it's not really back for me, since I started reading after the Gigapause. This is all slightly surreal, really.
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Holy shit. Holy shit.
That update. I'm going to throw up.
Happy 10/25.
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"Rocks falls, everyone dies."
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The funny thing is that it's nothing new. It's just been so long, I forgot how to cope.
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oh fuck theyre all dead
edit: but seriously that flash is incredible. The art is amazing. I just really hope they're not all dead.
edit2: I didn't realize how powerful Aranea was. She's moving fucking planets with her mind.
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Dave is not dead because I'm unsure how his death is heroic or just.
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The "Heroic" thing flashed up on screen. Besides, he died trying to save Jade by fighting off two near-omnipotent entities. That's pretty freaking heroic.
It also kinda makes me wonder if this really is the end for Dave. A big part of his story is that he doesn't consider himself a hero. And now he is.
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My daughter cried.
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I think we all did.
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So plot spec time. Don't read unless you've seen the 10/25/14 update.
Everyone seems to be in agreement that this is a doomed timeline. Aranea did indeed mention that her actions might create a doomed timeline, so it is pretty likely. My question is what the fate of Rose and Terezi is. For Terezi, how quickly will this timeline be abandoned, fixed, or retcon'd? Will we see her do something? John could zap there and back in time to affect what happened, but will Roxy still take Rose somewhere? I was thinking that she might be transported to the alpha timeline somehow akin to what happened with Davesprite. Hard to say really.
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Welp. Only one thing left for it. Everyone but he is dead.
Spades Slick is going to murder everyone else. Ever. Even the Ghosts.
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Well, if Jane somehow gets the Ring of Life, she can revive some of them. Not Karkat, because she already used it once on him, and I'm assuming Kanaya was completely vaporized, so probably a no go there as well.
But on the other hand, it has been established that John can change things that aren't even meant to be changed (though whether he can actually control that to be anything resembling effective remains to be seen), so that's another option.
couple of edits: Also, Hussie's in comic self said that he didn't know of any timelines where Gamzee died, so that's something to consider.
Also I just wanted to mention how much I love all the artists contributions for this flash, especially Zack Morrison's, because I love his style. btw, if anyone else enjoys his contributions here and on paradoxspace.com, you should check out his comic Paranatural, because it's awesome and a ton of fun. ok that's all for now I think.
edit2: Also, I just realized this might mean we'll get some dialogue between Rose and Roxy, which will surely be awesome.
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That is definitely what I'm looking forward to most. I don't think the life ring will come into play here, unless it's used to bring back someone that can undo all of this. I don't see the comic moving forward without first redoing this whole battle. I just don't know if that's going to happen right away, or if we're going to get some dead people talking first.
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The first time I watched the animation, I nearly crapped myself when Karkat died. Then Jake went, and after that I started thinking there's no way it'll stay on this timeline, with this many dead. Then again, I never really know with Hussie.
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I kind of laughed when KK died. I was thinking, "Well this was definitely one of the two things I was expecting." But then the deaths kept coming and it never let up. By the time Dave died, it had hit me that this is serious shit. I still shaky watching it. This has to be one of my favorite flashes. Top 3 for sure. Emotionally, this is the most impacting flash he's made and is easily up there with Jade Enter and Cascade.
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This one was definitely the most emotionally affecting for me, although some of that might be that this is the first one where I can't just click to the next page to see what happens.
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Welcome to the Homestuck experience, my friend.
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When Hussie first announced the end of the Gigapause, I actually briefly considered not reading until it was entirely finished, but then I decided that this was really an experience that isn't likely to be repeated.
Plus I have no willpower. :lol
UPDATE go go go go
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That was about what I expected. John needs to do something quickly.
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That little Caliborn face in the bottom right corner needs to be an emote. :lol
(https://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag94/ShadowNinja38/ScreenShot2014-10-25at93327PM_zps2bcdef8c.png)
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(https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/QWERTYkid911/calibornSmiley.png)
With transparency. :lol
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That's incredible. :lol
Speaking of Caliborn, I'm kind of wondering what's next for him. He seemed pretty confident in his ability to defeat John, but then John basically beat the crap out of him. Also I suppose his art skills are continuing to improve, based on how smoothly the curtains closed.
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I just remembered this. This is your first update, so that means you weren't around when things got retcon'd right? Do you remember seeing all of the John arms when reading through the first time? It's weird to think that there are those panels and more than have been changed and since deleted from the site. There are a few pages of Homestuck you've probably never read, like the one where the Mayor died or the Caucasian joke.
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You know, I actually didn't even notice most of them the first time through. :lol Though in fairness, I read it fast. Like, super fast. And actually, the original panels are still there. You can right click, do "Open in new tab" and then in the address, remove the word "retcon", and it links to the original image.
And I heard about the caucasian thing, though secondhand. It's my understanding that he removed it because people took it as conclusive proof that the kids were white, instead of a-racial, like he's said before. Actually, I think I have the tumblr post were he talked about it. I may go look for that later.
Also, the mayor died? As in, actual death? I mean, I've read through where John comes in and changes things, and then his future self stops him, is that the part you're talking about?
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Oh crap, you're right. John did retcon the retcon. I guess that never happened, though technically the mayor never did die since Dave saved him. My memory is really going here. It's weird because I haven't read the comic in like 2 years. I want to reread, but I just don't have time.
And yes, the caucasian thing was changed partly due to fan outrage rather than a canon thing. Still was a funny thing that happened.
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What's the Caucasian thing?
Also OMG DAVE PLEASE DON'T STAY DEAD
Or alternatively all the dead people should gang up on Aranea in a dream bubble and fuck her shit up. I'd actually take everyone being dead for comeuppance happening to that fucking bitch. GAH ARANEA IS TERRIBLE
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When Jane was trickster, this:
(https://media.tumblr.com/84470e16f51a64e7697aa8fcfa2c1937/tumblr_inline_mgl4qgibLa1r8d0nf.png)
was originally this:
(https://i45.tinypic.com/30ur5zp.png)
It was poking fun at all the race arguments in the fandom. Hussie then decided to change it after the ensuing shit storm. He stated that the new joke is funnier anyway, and he likes to keep the characters a-racial anyway.
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Yeah, I can't find a link to the post where he talks about it, so I'll just quote from my archive:
So I just dialed down the joke on page 7623.
The thing with that joke was:
Poking a little fun at an ongoing point of controversy surrounding the comic, without trying to make a statement on anyone’s position in particular.
The thing with that joke was not:
Admonishing those who wish to maintain non-white headcanons for characters. Or those disappointed to see Trickster Jane with skintone. Or anyone really. There was not any coherent ‘TAKE THAT’ going on here.
At least that was not the intent. I can see how it would appear that is what I wished to communicate, but it is not. If that is an interpretation that will commonly persist I’d rather just ditch the joke. Or at least tone it way down, which I did.
But actually what motivates me more to revise it is noticing more than a few unsavory individuals using it as justification to harass POCs or anyone who, reasonably, wanted to voice their concerns. On reflection I’d rather not have my decisions serve as fodder for the arguments of such people. They don’t speak for me.
As a humorist, and someone who writes a provocative and unpredictable story, there are many types of unpleasant responses to my stuff I can easily accept. But some types… maybe not so much.
The original joke from my perspective really was a lighthearted jab at the storied subject of race in the comic, and the debates about it over the years. Mainly I thought the gag was tempered by its utterly absurd presentation, and made so over the top as to compromise its ability to be taken seriously. Beyond the pale of usual absurdity even for Homestuck, as has been the case with all this trickster stuff. Trickster mode, you’ve probably observed, is a sort of ridiculous game powerup, like a Mario star or Kirby’s lollipop, which for a while brings everything to a frantic and surreal place. In this case those effects apply to Homestuck in its entirety, the characters, visuals, flow of story, the site itself, and the sense of humor, all getting a little warped and pushed a bit outside the usual comfort zones.
Tricksters were once an easter egg in HS a long time ago, and they kept picking up steam in the fandom. So, as is often the case with MSPA, the idea has been adapted as a nod to the readership, in a way that is compatible with the story’s logic. Fans have always drawn them as particularly cherubic white kids, and so that’s how they look in the comic. But this creates a really strange disparity between their skintone and the usual blank #ffffff depiction of human characters. This alone makes them a pretty bizarre addition to the story and contributes toward pushing this arc into sort of a narrative uncanny valley. I was inclined to address this flagrant coloration disparity by making a totally ridiculous, way over the top joke about it. That’s because jokes are pretty much all I do. I even turn my jokes into jokes. (See the edited page.)
Personally I still think the original gag is pretty funny. But I had the benefit of knowing exactly where I was coming from. I think the new joke is pretty funny too. Maybe even more funny, if you have the benefit of remembering the old one.
I know I have a reputation for riling people up, so some probably think this was my chief motivation. But not really. My primary goal is always to do what I think is funny. I’m not saying I wasn’t expecting some kind of controversy from invoking the subject, but neither did I anticipate the particular texture of the response, which isn’t sitting well with me. So in retrospect, I decided THIS time, the gag wasn’t really worth it. Especially if it just galvanizes an army of tools against people who have to deal with shit like that too often already. So to those people, I will apologize.
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Thanks for finding that.
Also updated my sig for spoop season.
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I'm pretty neurotic about a lot of stuff, especially the idea of things on the internet disappearing for whatever reason, so I've started stockpiling stuff like that. Plus it's a more useful resource if it's right on hand.
btw, I don't know if you know anything about this, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Me and Scorp discussed it some, but weren't able to come up with any answers. When Dirk is telling Jake about the Condesce and all the future stuff, he mentions this
TT: But she also happens to have this one humongous sea monster lusus that is like her own personal bodyguard, and kind of a secret weapon.
TT: But it turns out the thing is kind of an enigma. Sort of a double edged eldritch horror. As much in her service as it is calling the shots, in some unfathomable way.
TT: Every time she tried to resurrect her race, it would slaughter them all psychically. As if it was keeping her ambition in check.
Now I'm assuming that has to be Gl'bgolyb, but she died, and Feferi prototyped her. So are there two of Gl'bgolyb? Is this an alternate version? Or is there some weird time stuff going on? (and you don't even see things like that in homestuck most of the time )
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I thought I had the answer, but this is proving difficult. Getting together a group of experts. We'll figure this out.
Edit: So my friends and I have kind of thought this through. There is the Beforus Gl'bgolyb and the Alternian Gl'bgolyb. We think the Alternian Gl'bgolyb was possibly copied to the post-scratch Earth universe to follow the Condesce that was also sent there via LE powers.
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"Copied" how, though?
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In the same way that the Condesce was teleported to all universes and game sessions after she teamed up with LE. It's not exactly explained, but happened. I just assume her lusus is paired with the Condescending like that. It's the only explanation since Earth and Alternia don't ever exist in the same universe. Unless Alternia was also merged into the post-scratch universe by LE, but there isn't any reference to that as far as I know.
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UPDATE
WELL, ALMOST
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Waiting in anticipation.
I'm so angry about the last flash. Not about the death or anything, but the fact that it used Carne Vale and I didn't see it coming. Seriously. That song was obviously for a flash, and you could basically tell it'd include at least one death. Why didn't I think of it before?
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Got this message:
(https://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag94/ShadowNinja38/ScreenShot2014-11-01at94037PM_zpsb5ba0d89.png)
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It's a shame that I still can't read updates on the site. It always freaks out, then I have to read captions from people on Tumblr.
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I'm attempting to avoid any spoilers until it comes back up. Although, spoilers:
the last page had an
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So, now we've got a confirmed update schedule through January, and a approximate length of A6A6I4 (450 pages).
Despite the fact that we've still got a way to go, it's starting to sink in that we're getting close to the end now. I'm not totally sure how to feel about that.
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Yay update schedule! And going by the number of updates planned for A6A6I4, that seems to imply that there will be around eleven pages per update - which is a nice number... gives you plenty to digest for two days.
Anyway, let's talk content.
I'm thinking that all this focus on art is going to go somewhere, and that will tie into a revelation on who exactly Lord English is. We haven't spent a lot of time with him - his only exposure to him has, so far, been his murder of Hussie and the destruction of dream bubbles - the only thing that we know about him is basically that he's super evil, and while his actions seem to support that, I still think that there's more to that. I dunno. Given how heavily the whole artist thingy is emphasized, and it not really fitting at all with the adult LE, I just don't think that we're seeing the whole LE-picture yet.
Thoughts?
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The "Blue Print" Caliborn was making looks almost exactly like the stage that was in Calliope's dream bubble with her and Jade.
I have no idea what that means, but it can't be anything good. I'm not really sure what's up with Lord English, but I feel like he's not going to be exactly what we expect him to be.
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Homestuck with a schedule????????? Preposterous!!!
This is actually neat. It has its pros and cons, but I think it'll be helpful to give Hussie the time he needs to get ahead of the game. About the plot though, Homestuck has always been a thing where I have no flipping clue what's going to happen next. I think that still holds true. Aside from the deaths almost certainly being non-permanent, I have no idea what's going to have with LE or Cal or anyone.
(https://mspaforums.com/images/smilies/confusedjohn.gif)
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Yeah, I never have any idea what's going to happen, and I think that's half the fun. :lol
Also, how amazing are these lines?
THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED TO ME.
AND BEAR IN MIND THAT ONE TIME, MY LEG WAS BITTEN OFF. AND I TRAGICALLY LOST A SISTER TO MURDER.
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My favourite Caliborn moment is still when he narrates about the God Tier badges that he gets on his Sash.
THERE'S EVEN A BADGE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE NON-AWKWARD PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. I WISH I WAS MAKING THIS UP, I REALLY DO.
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Oh yeah, that was one of my favorites too. :lol
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UPDATE
Also wow, Hussie's really pushing himself with the art here. This is incredible.
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I loved how the glitch artifacts have become actual objects of three dimensions. :lol
And yeah, the art is brilliant. Good to see that Hussie has still got it, even after such a long time (Unless he actually drew this before the gigapause, in which case ignore me).
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Nah, I'm pretty sure most of the drawing happened not too long ago. I remember the 4/13 news post where he said he had just been writing, and hadn't done any drawing yet.
I'm just impressed that every time I think there's nothing new he can do with the format, he does. This has me very excited for the future. And also, wow, the session is such a wreck. The destruction is amazing.
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So... that update was a thing. I don't know if Homestuck has reached new heights of depressing or if it's just because it's the first time that I'm reading it as it updates, but damn. Dat art though.
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Yeah, things have been pretty grim lately. Though that's fitting, I suppose, considering how close we are to the end.
I'm kind of wondering what exactly happened with Dirk there. He seemed to just glitch out, and apparently the planets and wreckage glitched out too. Also, things look kind of bleak for Rose, here.
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Maybe it's the timeline glitching /fading away because it's doomed. I can only hope.
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I've heard people speculating that it's Dirk using his powers of splintering one's soul to commit suicide. Which I don't believe, but it did leave me with a question: would a God Tier be able to commit suicide?
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If it were heroic, sure. I don't see why not.
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How the fuck was that heroic?
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Died trying to kill one of the big bads. Er, well got mortally injured and died a little later, but same thing. Great update though. A+. This might glitch/desolve and John will then talk to Terezi.
Another good explaination: https://bladekindeyewear.tumblr.com/post/101994823254/hey-theres-been-an-upd8-why-do-you-think-roses
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WHy?!?!
:'( :'( :'(
Although the more characters that die, the more impossible it is that they'll stick. So that's good I guess.
edit: I wonder if the state of the session has something to do with the just/heroic deaths? Just kinda throwing random stuff out there.
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I've seen it theorised that the doomed timeline that we might be in at the moment is abusing the God Tier mechanic to quickly kill everyone off, as it has been established that a doomed timeline is wont to do.
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If I remember correctly, the denizens help sway godtier deaths and even just batttles in their favor. In doomed timelines, they do nothing, so the world is unforgiving.
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So we've got our answer on the whole heroic shebang. Thanks, Hussie.
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Indeed! It's strange to think that he used to do this sort of thing all the time. Remember the recaps? It was a different time back then.
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Really good update. So good.
This actually has me believing we might not be in a doomed timeline. It’s like the readers are Roxy, just ready to give up. But maybe there is something that can be done. Maybe.
Also I JUST WANT TO HIGH FIVE TEREZI.
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NEVER GIVE UP. HEADBUTT PEOPLE.
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Terezi Pyrope: STILL NOT DEAD
Also this update was great. Finally some pesterlogs, a bit of humor, ROXY, a bit of hope, and Terezi somehow continuing to push on. This is fucking awesome.
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Urgh. I love some of the insight that the MSPA Forums can bring and there is some legitamitely cool peeps there, but it's hard to take it seriously when people spend four pages debating whether the headbutt is proof of the double standard of abuse in Homestuck can make you headdesk pretty quickly.
Oh yeah, and cool update too, I suppose. Terezi is amazing. She has now survived being brutally attacked by Gamzee, being stabbed through her torso, being slammed into stone so hard that it broke, the collision of two small planets and now the explosion of a rocket device strapped to her back. AND SHE'S STILL GOING.
Guys, I think Gamzee might have been onto something with the wickedness of Faygo. :P
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Only time I've been on MSPA fourms was one of my friends was in (and won) a writing competition.
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Yeah, some of the "controversies" there can be really silly. In fact, I'm pretty sure those kinds of people are why Hussie bailed on Tumblr entirely (well also I'm pretty sure he hated it anyway :P ). Some of the discussions are interesting, and I just skip past the rest of 'em.
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That's pretty much my MO regarding any kind of forum, actually.
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So here's a question. People are saying that alternate Calliope confirmed John's death, but how can that really be? I mean, wouldn't she only have knowledge of a hypothetical alternate John in her timeline?
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I would say so. I'm so excited to see the denizens finally being relevant again.
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So here's a question. People are saying that alternate Calliope confirmed John's death, but how can that really be? I mean, wouldn't she only have knowledge of a hypothetical alternate John in her timeline?
Well, it's certainly possible for our John to jump to a doomed timeline (or at least it hasn't been stated that he can't), but then that would be a retcon and thus by definition not reality until John performs it, so yeah, I think you're right there.
Also YES DENIZENS. Do you think they'll go to Typheus or to Nyx?
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I'd guess it'd be Typheus. Perhaps we'll find out tonight!
Also, crossposting a rant from my Tumblr:
Seriously though. What’s up with John? Is this really just how Hussie writes him? He always seems really apathetic and out of it. He’s just blah about everything. Rose dead? :( Jade dead? Oh. Dave dead? Darn. Karkat dead? May he rest in piece. Wtf. He’s just taking whatever happens to him without much of a reaction, like a bedroom starfish. He’s acting like a plot starfish. Is he depressed or something? Gosh.
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I feel like when faced with that sort of disaster, just completely disconnecting from it is a pretty normal reaction. It's also possible he just doesn't know how to deal with grief, with his dad, he just bottled it up.
Another thing I've heard is that it may be an affect of his retcon power, that he's unstuck from reality in more than one sense.
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Fidgety Herbert is my new favorite character.
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I am especially partial to Doctor Snausages.
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The glitched Typheus panel is badass. Still don't know what's going to happen. The updates need to come quicker.
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It's amazing to see things like the personal quests becoming important again. I know Andrew talked ages ago about how a lot of those things were in his initial idea for HS, but got pushed aside as other things developed. It kind of makes me wonder what else will become relevant again. Maybe we'll finally see an actual fraymotif in action???
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Soooo... confirmation that the Game Over timeline is doomed! Yay!
Cool update. Loving the callbacks to earlier HS. I concur with SN, we need to see a fraymotif in action (well, beyond that Adagio Redshift part, which was like one page).
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Dang, what a place to cut off.
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Clearly the best page in Homestuck. (https://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003831)
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Just wanted to post this.
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:lol
It's almost time for the latest hiatus to end. I've been thoroughly enjoying Summer Teen Romance over at Paradox Space.
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Oh my god yes. Less than a week.
WE WE WE SO EXCITED
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:lol
It's almost time for the latest hiatus to end. I've been thoroughly enjoying Summer Teen Romance over at Paradox Space.
I have read exactly none of it, I'm planning on binging the whole thing once it's finished. :caffeine:
Also I've been having a lot of fun watching people's reaction videos on YouTube, and I've been considering doing some of my own for all the remaining updates. I don't know if I'll post 'em or anything, but they'll be cool to have for posterity. If you guys do it too, though, we could make it a Thing. :lol
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I've thought about doing that in the past, but I usually don't really have much reaction or understand what's going on at first. It usually takes me a while if something big happens. lol
But I want to post Homestuck things that have happened in my life since I last posted here. Hm. Since November...
Mainly I just went to Katsucon and Anime Detour to cosplay some Homestuck trash. Met Sintheros at Katsu for the first time too. Here are some pics.
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/6a5705a46f678236af46fa2b2628fe5d/tumblr_nly1m3fQod1qgg53uo1_r1_500.jpg)
(https://41.media.tumblr.com/ac52e05d281ffa293dd0c7f6a05e271f/tumblr_nkm5lbvQYN1qgg53uo1_500.png)
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Obviously I'm the Sollux in the first pic. Other than that, I've commission a bunch of fan artists and have their art hanging on my wall. I bought a John figurine from the What Pumpkin booth, and that's about it!
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So.
Homestuck is back.
And it is glorious.
caliborn ilu <3
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Indeed! Happy 4/13! I'll save you all from the headache of me quirking in my posts.
Here's something interesting about Homestuck fans. Through my experiences, you're almost always only two degrees from anyone else in the fandom. If you don't know someone, you know someone who knows someone. That includes everything from normal fans all the way to Hussie himself. Situations keep coming up where random people I meet have some strange connection to me too, like a mutual friend. It's crazy.
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Two Degrees of Andrew Hussie
Also I'd wish you a happy 4/13 but that would mean endorsing the terrible system you guys use for dates.
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Well, you're going to have to deal with it. It's not easily reversible like Dream Theater Day. :P
It's hard to believe that it's been this long. I'm pretty sure I said the same thing only a page or two back in the thread, but wow. This is my 4th 4/13. The comic has changed my life so much...it's kind of sad yet fascinating.
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I think I only got into Homestuck like half a year ago or so, but yeah, it's easily one of the best things that I've ever gotten into.
Oh to have been along for the ride from the start. How awesome that would have been.
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Just imagine being the person that submitted the name John Egbert, or any of the names of the kids for that matter. Amazing.
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damn caliborn did not waste a single CENT from that kickstarter/zilly thing
utterly astonishing
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Have I mentioned how much I love Caliborn's narration already? Well, I do.
MY ACHILLES DOWNFALL. :rollin
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Agreed. It was great to hear some more old callbacks too, like the "don't turn your back on the body." Great stuff.
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I wonder how these pages were made? Did Andrew actually sculpt these little clay things?
I hope so. It would make this entire arc even more hilarious.
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A reveal years in the making. Finally we understand who Lord English really is.
Spoilers
Fucking Equius, really? I'm laughing. It's brilliant really. Caliborn+1/2 Gamzee+Equius+AR. Amazing formula. Also the fact that he steals Jake's name, which his grandma took originally to scare the Condesce, who was afraid of Lord English. Time shenanigan stuff rocks.
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A reveal years in the making. Finally we understand who Lord English really is.
Spoilers
Fucking Equius, really? I'm laughing. It's brilliant really. Caliborn+1/2 Gamzee+Equius+AR. Amazing formula. Also the fact that he steals Jake's name, which his grandma took originally to scare the Condesce, who was afraid of Lord English. Time shenanigan stuff rocks.
I know, right? That reveal was amazing.
Also holy shit the Lil Cal timeloop. That thing is amazing.
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OH FUCK YOU GUYS
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COINCIDENCE???
..... THE PLOT THICKEN
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the HEAD RUSE was a... .. distaction
i AM lord egnlish
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I just have to say, IT OWNS ME COMPLETELY. is probably the funniest line in Homestuck.
Like, you have no idea how long I've spent just sitting here laughing at that line. (it was a long time, and continues to be a long time.)
Also, I've decided I'm not going to read any of Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 5 until it's complete, so see you guys in a couple months!
....although i guess i should wait until the horse calendars go up so i know when its ok to start reading again
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Really? I mean, it's a cool line, but I wouldn't say it's the funniest in Homestuck, there's just so much competition.
Like "Everyone out of the god damn way. You have a hat full of bomb, a fist full of penis and a head full of empty."
EDIT: Also you are truly A MAN OF PATIENCE AND APLOMB. I don't think I could resist that long.
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I don't know why, man. Maybe it's something to do with the nonchalant way he says it, but I just cannot stop laughing anytime I think about it. :lol
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Can I just say that this update was absolutely beautiful? :rollin
Seriously the best recap there has been.
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That whole thing with Doc Scratch actually sorta being Rose's uncle blew my mind.
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And now I'm emotional.
When was the last time we saw the characters happy? And the art! Oh, the art. It's so great to see so many familiar styles and artists in that update. And the instagram is real: https://instagram.com/thevriskaserket/
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Truth be told, I'm kinda on the fence about this update. It kinda feels Deus-ex-machina-y/Mary-Sue-ish with regards to Vriska, and I can definitely understand some of the criticism that I've read on the MSPA forums.
However:
- Hussie has yet to disappoint me
- In conversation with Caliborn about Trickster Mode and Mario, he showed the importance that character growth has for him (well, more like spelled it out) and that he thinks that and immediate solution that just kinda happened isn't what he wants
- This is Vriska's instagram, so it makes sense that it would portray in the most positive light possible, which is why I suspect there being a strong narrative bias going on here
Therefore, I'm going to await further updates to really come to a conclusion. I'm sure that Hussie will wrap it up in a satisfactory way.
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Okay, so Vriska is still being a huge asshole. Good to know that retcons don't magically fix everything, but man.
Poor Jape.
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Glad to see everyone at each others' throats about Vriska again (referring to the fandom of course).
Did I already say that?
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It might just be because I haven't really been a long-time member of the Homestuck fandom, but as of now, the amount of people condemning Vriska seems a lot higher than during past incidents, and I don't see many people defending her actions at all.
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I see plenty of both. Same for Terezi lately though not as much. People are just silly.
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Man, that Dave/Roxy/Rose conversation is one of Homestuck's highlights without a doubt. Freudian slips for the win!
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Yeah! And the appearance of Rosesprite to the throw all previous expectations out the window. i see that many people are still convinced that this isn't going to the be the final timeline. I honestly don't think Hussie would ditch a timeline again, but who knows!
Also, Vriska shouldn't be worried about people touching the sprites, John high fived his sprite in the first act and Kanaya's sprite but her hand and her shoulder.
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True! But I doubt Vriska ever touched her sprite, so I doubt that she knows that.
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Man that update brought a smile to my face.
I love Dave's Freudian slips so much.
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Happy hot mom day!
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ROXY: cuz janey is a straightup sexual fox riding a red hot nuclear bombshell
ROXY: right toward the yowza plaza in the heart of babe city, assachusetts, U S A
ROXY: the last A just stands for more ass
DAVE: THANK you
DAVE: for
DAVE: defending the position i may or may not have been arguing for moments ago
:rollin :rollin
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So the question is, how much shit will hit the fan once the fighting starts? We know something is going to go wrong, if nothing else because having everything go happy and right just isn't the Homestuck style. I really hope that Vriska doesn't have this hero complex where she sacrifices herself to save everyone. Someone else besides Vriska needs to step up. As much as I like her, having her presence be the soul reason why everyone wins in the end is kind of awful.
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I don't think that that's going to happen, but I think it would fit Vriska's character pretty well to die, but not as a sacrifice, but because of a mistake that she made or a foe that she wrongfully deemed as irrelevant.
I'm interested in seeing where Vriska is planning on going that's so important that she has to miss the battle against the Condesce and the Jack-Off.
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I agree with you, but that's already happened. That was her original thing. She made the mistake of calling Terezi's bluff. So as usual, I have no idea where things are going.
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Well, if there is one thing that I'm feeling confident in calling, it's that Slick is going to be relevant, mainly because Vriska is so dead-set on him being irrelevant.
Also hey, two people chat thread. Woohoo.
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Yeah! I'm kind of disappointed that Karkat isn't going to talk to Slick. I need some stabdad interaction.
Also, I started this thread originally because a lot of people seemed to be into the forum adventures and other Web comics. I know some people here would like it if they read it. :P
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Okay so Vriska hates Griska. Who'd have thought.
Also Andrew is a cruel and heartless man, making us wait 10 days for some fables Strider-on-Strider.
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MEOW MEOW MOTHERFUCKERS
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Now we just need Johnsprite.
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Holy shit what a great update. That might have been my favourite Dave moment, and most definitely my favourite Dirk moment.
Also I'm really happy that Hussie didn't psyche out on us.
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Same. This is something I've been waiting for for years. It's satisfying to finally get some real talk with the Striders. For a while it seemed like Hussie was outright avoiding/mocking deep character discussion/interaction. Hopefully he keeps this kind of stuff up.
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I think that he has been pretty good with judging when to psyche and when not to, but I was still afraid with every new page I clicked that something would happen to drag it into the comical, and I'm glad that I was wrong.
Also I think that the weird pacing of A66I5 will definitely benefit from archive reading.
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So I'm assuming you guys have seen the leaked info about what caused Hiveswap to be delayed almost a year. If not, the original post has been deleted, so he's some pasta.
i’m sure that everyone has noticed by now that the homestuck game is very, very late. boy, do i have a fun reason why!
you may remember that what pumpkin announced that the game studio “the odd gentlemen” was originally attached to develop the game, and you may also remember that they quietly moved to in house development in 2014. what they didn’t tell you: the reason they did this was that odd gentlemen stole kickstarter money and spent it on king’s quest.
i imagine most of us who backed the homestuck game kickstarter are pretty curious about what was going on there. i’ve done some work on the comic and talk to andrew from time to time, so i tried asking about what happened and got some very cagey non-responses. eventually, he tells me he actually can’t tell me anywhere but through kickstarter because of a settlement he signed (already fishy). so, i sent in an inquiry through KS and what i got was a big steaming load of bullshit worse than anything i could have imagined. i’m talking multiple counts of embezzlement and fraud.
according to the timeline in the doc i got, WP gave 788k to TOG in 2012 to develop hiveswap. they then proceeded to do next to nothing, completely blowing off the dev schedule that they agreed to. (the game was supposed to be done by oct 2014. instead, that was when WP ended up having to switch to in house development and start from scratch.) the doc included a detailed rundown of everything TOG actually did. in summary:
“Over 8 months of development, TOG produced exactly one “playable build”. It is a single room, involving one character, no animation, and almost no other key features. Virtually nothing works properly. It was submitted in February of 2014, and no improvements or additional versions were submitted beyond that date.”
a link to it was included in the doc. it’s… probably the worst thing i’ve ever seen in my life?? if you try to click on ANYTHING, joey runs into a bookcase and flies into the air and the demo gets stuck. the only thing that distinguishes it from an out-of-the-box adventure creator demo is its very subpar models and the fact it is unplayably bugged.
at some point TOG apparently just completely gave up working on hiveswap, because they were tapped to develop king’s quest (you can see them admit this in public here at about 1 minute into this video). however, instead of dropping out of developing the game, they decided to just… not tell WP, and proceeded to spend the money they were given on KQ’s development instead.
eventually, after months of platitudes and refusals to communicate (at one point andrew even moved across the country to be able to visit TOG’s offices and get the ball rolling on development, but they wouldn’t even let him come in), WP realized that they’d have to drop TOG, so they terminated the contract in late 2014.
at that stage, TOG said they had 390,000 dollars left of the money WP gave them that they hadn’t spent on “development” or taxes. but, get this – in the 7 months it took them to agree on a settlement for returning the money, they spent 170,000 of it on king’s quest. seriously. like, they didn’t even try to hide it – they straight up spent it after they’d already officially stopped working on the game, and were just like, haha, whoops? pay you back later i guess.
this isn’t acknowledged in a binding settlement like the king’s quest embezzlement is, but i’m pretty sure most of the 190k they claim they spent on hiveswap’s development before they picked up KQ went into neil gaiman’s wayward manor. they picked THAT up at around the time they were supposed to start working on hiveswap, and admitted the workload was conflicting with their ability to devote time to hiveswap. given the egregiously overstated man hours claimed for how little work they actually did, and the fact they admittedly stole the money for another game, i think it’s a pretty obvious conclusion to reach.
it doesn’t look like there was ever a point where TOG wasn’t funneling homestuck’s KS money into another game. it’s unclear whether they EVER actually intended to seriously develop the game. they straight up signed up to steal money from us.
andrew mentioned that this was one of the biggest reasons for the gigapause, and that all the logistics of dealing with TOG’s incompetence meant he couldn’t get much work done on the comic in that time.
why am i posting this? well, king’s quest was developed with stolen money, so it’s probably in your best interest to know this before you buy it. all things considered, it’s a miracle that hiveswap is doing as well as it is – at this point, i think hiveswap has moved past this fiasco and isn’t in any danger of falling through. it’s uh, pretty late, but from what i’ve seen, they’re well on their way to an Actual Game that may be Actually Good despite getting jerked around by a circus of incompetent clowns for 8 months.
at this point, i’m not sure what to DO about this. what pumpkin is bound by the settlement they had to sign if they wanted to get any of the money back at all, so there’s not much that they themselves can do to retrieve the money TOG stole from us. i actually tried messaging sierra, the company that licensed KQ to TOG, but they don’t seem to care that KQ was made with stolen money. maybe activision might want to know. in any case, it’s important that this info get out there so people know what they’re dealing with when buying something from the odd gentlemen.
Hussie has since tweeted that he and WP have no affiliation with this post and WP has gotten the post removed. That pretty much confirms the NDA bit the settlement. I'm really shocked that the situation was really this bad. Also, this combined with devastating personal events most likely caused the gigapause to happen in the first place. I really hope the game still turns out all right; I'm impressed with how far they've gotten since they've basically had to start from scratch in October. That being said, I'm not expecting too much now. It'd be hard to create a huge game in such a short amount of time.
Props to WP and Hussie for sticking it out though. I know there was a lot of shitposting going on saying that Hussie just stole the kickstarter money because they game was delayed so much. Personally, I also think that the gigapause was devastating to the fandom as well. :tdwn on TOG for being so shitty.
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Holy shit that is so messed up. Yeah, I don't blame Hussie for gigapausing to resolve that in the slightest.
In less depressing news, I don't think I have ever laughed this hard at an update.
THE TAVROS TELLS VRISKA TO GO SUCK IT CABBAGE PATCH
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That definitely was one of the must satisfying updates in a long, long time. Can't wait to see what happens later today!
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GUYS I CAN READ THIS FUCKING THREAD
Also, that really sucks about the Hiveswap stuff! Though I'm mostly interesting in it because Andrew's writing it, not for the game itself, so I'll probably love it anyway.
I'm kinda tired at the moment (just got through about 7 hours of Homestuck), so I'm not gonna comment too much on Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 5 right now, but I will say that last animation made me cry. :'( In a good way, though.
edit: One more thing, how awesome is the song for MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown? PRETTY FREAKIN AWESOME IS THE ANSWER. :metal
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That's the Saw theme, though - nothing Homestuck original.
I think.
Also yay to bump the total of the people reading this to three!
I have to say, that the conversations between Dirk and Dave remain my favourite parts of the part that you just caught up on. Also that animation, but those conversations are something else.
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MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown is definitely one of my favorite flashes.
But okay, I'm going to talk here. For the past few months, I've been so frustrated with Homestuck (yes, I'm one of those). There felt like there has been anything really satisfying in almost years. And with the retcon, it just kept getting worse. I mean sure. Updates were funny, some were actually really great (Kanaya with the matriorb and the Striders reunion come to mind), but it still wasn't enough to get me optimistic about the comic again. I always thought that particularly, Terezi's issue being solved by having them be erased without her newer version having lived through them an awful idea. I was thinking that the only way for it to work was for Terezi to somehow remember her past lives.
AND THEN GOD DAMN IT, WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT, IT HAPPENED. I was literally shaking while watching/reading that last update. It was just like...a huge weight that'd been there for a year had been lifted off my chest. Now of course this update didn't magically fix everything in the comic, but it's really hard to understate just how much this update means to me. For me, it showed that it's possible for the comic to be satisfying again. I don't have to dread every update worrying about what else could go wrong. Now don't get me wrong; it was never to the point where I was going to stop reading or anything. I love this story too goddamn much. But now I've been reinvigorated. For the first time in a long time, I'm optimistic about what's coming in the future rather than just wishing I could be over already.
Just...the scrouge reuinion. Something we've been waiting to see since 2011. I can't say enough about it.
Also, funny thing. I've been talking to ikimaru a lot for the past week or so. If you don't know her, she's been a very popular Homestuck fan artist who also contributed to the canon comic in Vriskagram flash and [S ] Terezi: Remem8er. And I'm so angry, albeit in a funny way. We've been doing nothing but basically venting our qualms with the comic, about the plot, lack of catharsis with characters/relationships, etc. And all the while, she was sitting on this fucking bomb of an update. :lol
I know that this has been a thing that has been said a lot since even 2010, but I really think we're getting to the end here. Like for real. It's hard to believe that after this pause is over, we'll actually be at the end of the comic. As sad as it sounds, it's literally changed my life, and I'll be sad to see it go.
Edit: I almost can't believe I made this thread almost 4 years ago...that was literally just as I started reading. Crazy how time flies. but at the same time it feels like a lifetime ago.
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It wasn't anywhere as bad for me as it was with you - I suspect the fact that you basically read the entirety of Act 6 serially has a lot to with that - but I completely understand the feeling that you were having. While the updates were things that I was looking forward to, I do remember that I often forced myself to focus on the good and to not dwell on what was underneath for too long - the Strider reunion and the Roxy-Kanaya thing being the exceptions, really.
But Terezi: Remem8er (also holy shit how long has it been that a character has actually been commanded to DO something?!) had nothing of that, and it puts a lot of things into perspective for me. Just like you, I've had my problems with the retcon - though probably less problems than many other fans - but while the flash doesn't adress all my concerns, or even begin to, it has done one thing: restored my faith into the fact that I can have faith in Hussie to eventually do so.
Don't get me wrong, I love Homestuck, warts and all. But that feeling that I had been suppressing, because what's the point of dwelling on the negatives? - that the retcon was really the easy way out and that nothing pre-GO was relevant anymore, doesn't have to be suppressed anymore, because I am now, more than ever, convinced that Hussie will do an adequate job at handling the remainder of the comic.
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Right there with you Scorpion. It's unfortunate that I've seen a lot of backlash against people be disillusioned - people talking about how anyone who complains about the comic was just mad that their fanon wasn't canon and wasn't a real fan or some bs. Like, come on. We can have different opinions and still be fans.
Now we just have to figure what to do during this last pause. Have you guys ever had an interest in fanfiction? I just read one recently called Straw Soldiers. It might be the best I've found. If you're into that, I completely recommend it.
Also, I just read through this thread for the beginning. Though he doesn't post here much anymore, shout outs to Sintheros for being huge loser like me and comparing how much of our lives we've lost to this comic. He's just one of the many friends I've made because of this stupid thing. And that all started in this thread no less!
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In the realms of fanfiction, I just found a guy who apparently did a complete version of Dirk's defaced Pony Pals book.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119/chapters/5371283
I've only read a couple of pages, but so far it's amazing. :lol
edit: excerpt:
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That's incredible. :lol
I read a work called Straw Soldiers recently. To anyone who likes reading fan works, I'd totally recommend it. The plot simply revolves around Karkat, who because of his blood color is forced into a military program made to secretly infiltrate Earth. So he must go through this Ender's Game like school and many surgical procedures to make him look human and such. That's really just the first third of the fic too, so a plot summary doesn't really do it justice without getting into spoilers. Really excellent. What really surprised me is that it was written within the last year. I haven't seen good fanfics like that since 2012 it seems.
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In the realms of fanfiction, I just found a guy who apparently did a complete version of Dirk's defaced Pony Pals book.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119/chapters/5371283
I've only read a couple of pages, but so far it's amazing. :lol
Okay, so I just binge-read the whole thing, and... fuck. That may have been the best fanfiction that I have ever read. Seriously. What started as a hilarious parody turned into he best characterisation that I have ever seen Dirk receive.
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RELEVANT INFO re: Hiveswap
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This is literally the last time I will necro this thread.
Upd8
EOA6 - 99%
Here is the plan. Starting today, there will be 6 days of updates (about 125 total pages). Then a brief pause. Then on 4/6, I'll post the END OF ACT 6 animation.
That should immediately be followed by 7 days of updates (about 40 total pages), ending with an update on 4/13, the 7th anniversary of Homestuck. That update will contain ACT 7 in its entirety.
The current 125 page stretch was drawn by a few guest artists. Gina Chacon, Mallory Dyer, and Adrienne Garcia (all artists for WP). The panels they did are very good, and I think make for a nice runway leading up to the final animations. Of course there are a lot of other great contributing artists to all that content as well. Thanks for the patience during the Omegapause. I hope you enjoy the conclusion to Homestuck.
It's happening.
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Oh man, that was a sweet callback.
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I appreciated the multiple callbacks for sure.
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Oh hey, so I finally read/watched the ending.
Not a whole lot say right now, other than I liked it a lot. The last animation was absolutely gorgeous and fantastic, in addition to hilariously being anime.
I was a bit sad that there wasn't more dialogue between people I wanted to see dialogue between, but then I was mollified when I read the newspost and Andrew said he intended to do some form of epilogue at some point.
Kind of a weird feeling for it all to be over, but... I'm less sad than I expected to be. Mostly I just liked it a lot, and I'm glad that the story has an ending. I've said this before, but this story is pretty much my favorite... anything ever, and even though I know some people have been disappointed with a lot of the recent stuff, I love pretty much all of it.
I guess I'm just glad I got over my initial "wtf is this weird-looking thing" impression the first time I tried to read it. It's been a crazy ride, that's for sure. :D
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I'll be honest, my first feeling was disappointment - mainly because so much was left unresolved. But after re-reading the whole thing I've gained a new appreciation for it, and while there are still some things that I would have liked to be treated in more detail, I also accept that it's impossible to tie up every loose end in a story that spans somewhere around 7000 pages.
I will say that the music for Act 7 was gorgeous, and it was a really good finish to Homestuck, all in all. I just wish that it would have been a little less rushed near the end, with some more plot threads ending up being resolved.
Also, Lord English was seriously underwhelming in battle, I found. Not sure what I was expecting, but... yeah, not that.