boggle bemusedly at these memorandums

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@dingodad here having a go at my own compendium of obscurities in the post-@forgottenhsfacts era.. just three rules!

most content comes from submissions!

I know a lot about Homestuck (I'm an active moderator on the MSPA Wiki) - which is why I think I'm the right fit to sit in the driver's seat for this blog - but I don't know everything about Homestuck, and I haven't forgotten everything either! so if you'd like to see some more facts on the blog, send in an ask or submission.

no judgement zone

no need for comments and tags like "this was forgotten?" or "who forgot this?": a fact being here doesn't mean I personally forgot it, or that everyone in the world forgot it but you. often "forgotten" just means "I saw someone in a Reddit thread who didn't know this," but it also often just means "obscure". remember, for every fact you remember, there's probably a dozen facts other people remember but you forgot!

I might be a little selective

following on from the above two: the comic's been around for 14 years, so there's bound to be some significant stuff that's fallen out of common knowledge since then. but because I'm the resident Homestuck buff, I'll be taking it upon myself to review submissions to make sure it's the truly obscure stuff that gets on the blog. while it's true that the "forgotten facts" are different for everyone, I'm obviously not going to post "John's Dad isn't actually his Dad."

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The Frog Temple forms a miniaturised representation of the Sburb game session. The Frog itself takes the place of Skaia (or the Genesis Frog), the pyramid's seven tiers representing the Seven Gates that lead there, and the surrounding towers stand in for the orbiting planets: one for each of the Heroes' lands, and one each for Prospit and Derse (each of which also has a smaller tower attached to it representing the dreamers' moons).

Though many of the comic's Temples exist in a state of dilapidation which make it difficult to make out all of the individual elements, the two Temples on Alternia make the overall structure much clearer:

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In the case of the humans' sessions, the Temple has eight planetary towers, representing the merged Beta-Alpha session; in the case of the trolls, the planetary towers number six for each Temple, representing the two six-player teams that would quickly join into one.

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The differing definition of "culling" isn't the only way - or even the primary way - in which Beforus differed from Alternia: the entire purpose of the hemospectrum on the pre-scratch planet was different. According to Aranea:

The jo8 of each 8lood caste was to serve the needs of all those 8elow it. / We were to use our progressively greater longevity and wisdom to help the lower castes learn and grow. To listen to them and try to provide whatever they were missing. Like a hierarchy of caretakers with increasing social responsi8ility.

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Ejecting items through speech is a quirk common to all sylladices, rather than a unique feature of Dirk's tech-hop modus; though the tech-hop modus is "often employed in rap battles", Dave's hash map modus is actually closer to "what most hashrap artists traditionally employ".

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John's bed frame used to have a set of drawers in it. Though this version of the bed first appeared in the experimental Beta version of Homestuck (top), the "reversal of time" that occurs as the universe is scratched in Cascade shows that a version of the full release also depicted this kind of bed (bottom). In the finished comic, John's bed has a more conventional space under it.

(Submission courtesy of @deacblues!)

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The harlequin paintings hanging in John's home have changed since the panels depicting them were first posted in 2009. The first versions of the paintings were grayscaled images of the work of painter Chris Walling; reader accounts from the time indicate that Walling was unhappy with their unauthorised use, however, and they were subsequently replaced with (seemingly Hussie's own) new renditions of the subject matter in full colour.

Full-size images of these new paintings can even be found in the old mspaintadventures scraps directory.

(Submission courtesy of @deacblues, with some helpful additional research courtesy of @mspaesthetic!)

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Rose's shirt used to have the official Squiddles logo on it, but she defaced it to make the "mean"-looking logo she wears today.

Early Homestuck merchandise contained references to this, including a similarly defaced Squiddles poster, and the official Rose shirt of the time "actually [appeared] to be defaced, with ink missing around the eyes and mouth area".

(Submission courtesy of @mmmmalo!)

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6/12/2013 - MALE: BOGGLE VACANTLY AT THESE SHENANIGANS.

10 years ago today, Homosuck Act 1 ended.

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In a long forgotten time... we boggled

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Moderator is on a vacation so can't focus on researching their own facts for now, but do continue to send in any facts or questions you want to see!

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Frogs can be found on any of the planets in a session of Sburb, not just the Hero of Space's planet; in a normal session, however, these aren't usually discovered until later in the game.

Further reading:

"Frog" on the MSPA Wiki

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The purpose of Sburb's exiles is to rebuild a new society on the dead, post-apocalyptic planet so that Sburb can one day be played there again, hence their obsession with aspects of civilisation like democracy and law. The Wayward Vagabond and Peregrine Mendicant, alongside a host of other carapacians, finally achieve this in Homestuck's Act 7.

BONUS FACT: Andrew Hussie's commentary in Book 3: Act 4 (p.459) suggests that this might have already happened many times on Earth.

Further reading:

"Exile" on the MSPA Wiki

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Lowbloods don't tend to believe in ancestors, with Karkat going as far as describing them as "A LOT OF SUPERSTITIOUS, ARISTOCRATIC BULLSHITTERY, INVENTED BY HIGHBLOODS SO THEY GET TO FEEL EVEN MORE SMUG AND SELF SATISFIED THAN THEY ALREADY ARE."

Further reading:

"Ancestor" on the MSPA Wiki

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When an auspistice mediates between two trolls, they "[prevent] the feud from boiling over into a fully caliginous rivalry"; in other words, a troll should have their pitch (♠) and ashen (♣) quadrants filled by three different trolls.

(With all of their quadrants filled traditionally, a troll could be in romantic relationships with up to five other trolls.)

Further reading:

"Examine ashen quadrant." from Homestuck, p. 2397

"Auspisticism" at the MSPA Wiki

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a new post was meant to come out of the queue today but I messed up my timezone settings, so more will be coming tomorrow and later in the week

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Highbloods and sea dwellers have a "feud [...] codified in tradition" are "obligated to be at odds"; even a stickler like Equius doesn't feel the need to obey the commands of a member of the sea dwelling race.

Further reading:

"Hemospectrum" at the MSPA Wiki