A Silly Girl Reads Homestuck

So I've heard a lot about this Homestuck thing. Thought I'd get around to reading it. Apparently it a leading contributor to Foaming at the Mouth Syndrome I've seen on the internet. Care to join me?

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so uh, your friend seemed kind of upset. is he *actually* done with homestuck because of stupid act 1 shenanigans, or...

No, he isn’t. He’s just being dramatic. Plus he got hit with some long hours at work so he’s preoccupied with that. I won’t let him give up, have no fear.

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do you have a personal blog

*stops timer* Four years. Four years I’ve had this blog and this is the first time anyone has asked this. I had thought no one ever would, then suddenly here you are.

The answer is yes. However, I will not be sharing it. I like to keep it for personal use. Keep it separate from this blog. Which has worked out great because I’ve interacted with some of my followers here without them eeeeever knowing it was me all along. ;3

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Haha! Oh Lord, the cynicism! The hate for everything having to do with the comic! The shitty MS Paint drawings! Your friend is like Karkat and Caliborn had an ecto-baby, and it is glorious. I will definitely be looking forward to his updates. Also, shame on you for spoiling him on so much, but I'm sure the reactions will be all the better for it.

I’m sorry! I just enjoyed talking to people about Homestuck as I was reading through it and he was one of the unfortunates to be stuck listening to my yapping. I didn’t give away the story too much, it was mostly just gushing over characters. I did stop once I had it in my mind that he should do a liveblog and my gushing just became pestering to read it until he caved to my whims. 8D

His hate mostly stems from that badgering, I’m sure. He’s determined to be a cranky butt about this whole thing and while I’ll drag him to the finish line kicking and screaming if I have to I’m fairly certain it won’t come to that. Once he gets into the story he’ll forget he’s supposed to be stubborn ass to annoy me.

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You can't fool me. Your 'friend' is Caliborn.

I can see where you’re going with that line of thought, but he’s really just being a whiny baby. He’ll cool off as he reads, I’m sure. I’d say he’s closer to Karkat.

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GUYS! I know we're all still reeling over the end of Homestuck, but you better get hyped over Douchebag Reads Homestuck! I told you I had convinced my friend to liveblog Homestuck and so here he is! He is finally reading Homestuck. Go say hi to him, follow his blog! I'm gonna be his ask screener so you can say hi to me over there too, but please send him some love. He's hilarious. Go go go!

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I admit, I was kinda non-plussed by the ending when I first saw it, but upon further reflection, it does 'end' the story. I do think it could have been A) a bit more clear and B) a bit less abrupt.

I’ve been seeing a lot of people upset with the ending of Homestuck. Some are holding out hope that the epilogue “fixes” it.

Personally I’m perfectly fine with the ending. I knew it was quite likely that the ending would not match everyone’s expectations, or even just simply my expectations. So as the ending approached I geared myself to enjoy whatever it is we got. I didn’t do this to “settle”, I did this because I didn’t want to sour my own experience with disappointment or outrage and I respect Hussie too much to hold him accountable for those feelings.

Homestuck is his story and he’s known how he wanted it to end for years. I wanted him to be able to end his story how he saw fit. So now that it’s come I can enjoy the artistic vision he stuck to. Yes, I still have many questions and it would be nice if the epilogue answered those for me, but I’m not going to count that as the “true” ending or anything. Homestuck ended, they made a new universe and got to live happily ever after. That was the whole point of it all when you get right down to it.

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The transcript for Act 7 has been finished for all those interested.

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Caliborn never really had a transformation into Lord English tho, he was sucked into Lil Cal and because of the combination of souls inside of there pops out of your local Doc Scratch as Lord English

See, these were the kinds of things that confused me. Basically Lord English is still just one giant question mark to me. =/

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May I just say, for the record, that it has been nothing but a pleasure accompanying you on the Wonderlandesque journey through this comic. Your at times funny and at times intelligent but always charming dialogue and reactions was as nice to follow as the comic itself. Thank you for taking us with you.

Ch-charming? Oh my, anon, I was more than happy to share my journey with you! All my followers are too kind. Though I’ve been at this for a couple of years now I continue to be flabbergasted at how much others have enjoyed my commentary and the sweet things they say. Truly, as much as all of you have enjoyed our time together I can assure you that I’ve enjoyed it more!

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liveblog^2 needs to stop not being a thing.

I like the way you think. Both the meme and the name. Liveblog^2 is coming, folks! I’m making this happen. B)

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What transformation were you hoping to see? We saw the moment he got the glowing eyes at the very end, and we saw when he became a hulking monstrosity back in Intermission 2. Also I would agree that a liveblog of a liveblog sounds like it might be fun. Oh, and congratulations on sticking with the comic and liveblog for all these years.

I guess I just wanted to see the whole picture, to see everything at once. Not see bits and pieces spaced out throughout the comic. It’s fine, though. I’ve accepted it. That’s just how Homestuck is with basically everything.

Thank you! It’s been a fun time. c=

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I think a liveblog of your liveblog would be interesting.

A vote for yes! Anyone else want to weigh in? I wouldn’t want to start this endeavor if the majority doesn’t care.

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The finale was one hell of a doozy, and it did leave a lot of loose ends, most of which hopefully will be tied up by the promised epilogue. We know how Caliborn became Lord English, though. When he fought the kids in claymation, he, half of Gamzee (the murderous psycho clown half) and ARquius got sucked into the Juju which was then implanted in Lil' Cal, fusing them together. Later he would be revived and go rampaging across multiple universes, growing stronger each time. At least, so he says.

Yes, but I wanted to see the actual transformation! Oh well, can’t have everything in life, can we?

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Act 7

So. Here we are. At the end of Homestuck.

As I said in my audio reaction there are still some things I am left wondering about. Mostly things involving Caliborn/Lord English. I’m still not sure how he became a buff, pool ball-eyed monster or when that fight between him and the human kids took place. I’m not even really sure how he was defeated in the end? Plus what’s the deal with Gamzee? Maybe watching the flash again (or reading the whole comic again) will help answers these questions (or Heaven forbid, give me more).

I think I do need to reread the comic, though. Get a feel for the pacing of the story without any of the breaks. Right now I feel like the ending came too fast, or it’s missing something. I hope another look at the entirety of the comic will help soothe this underwhelming feeling I currently have.

That said this has been an amazing adventure and I enjoyed the ending! I love this comic dearly. It’s not a perfect piece of art, but it’s really close! I want to thank every single one of you who have joined me on this adventure. Just like Hussie, I don’t care if you’ve been with me from the beginning or only discovered me a couple of days ago, thank you. I never would have imagined so many people would find my thoughts insightful or funny. I’m glad I could be entertaining for all of you. Thank you for sharing your own insights and interesting fandom stuff as I made my journey through this story.

There are a couple of things I’ve been thinking about doing with this blog now that the end has come. If Hussie does post an epilogue in the future I will, of course, post a reaction to it here. but other than that I’ve been thinking about doing a liveblog of this liveblog! What do you guys think? Would you be interested in seeing me react to my old posts? Laughing at my own naivety and groaning at how wrong I was? Other than that there’s still the 413 followers art event I need to finish. Sorry it’s taken me so long, you all have probably forgotten about it by now! There’s also an ask that has been sitting in my inbox for literal years that I intended to answer once everything was done. Lastly there’s a good friend of mine who I -ahem- encouraged to start his own liveblog of Homestuck. You should expect to be seeing a post announcing that soon enough. ;D

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day.

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Hey, remember when the Homestuck Bingo was a thing? Well now Homestuck is finally over and I can see if I won!

Turns out I didn’t. I was so close a couple of times, too!

The green x’s are special. A Vriska’s character arc came to a satisfying conclusion, but not the alpha one. Davesprite never realized his self worth, but when he became Davepetasprite^2 they did.

There’s also little things that could be true, but we never saw them for a fact so I didn’t mark them off (ghost!Terezi and ghost!Vriska may have ended up in the bubbles together, but we never get to hear what they say or see what happens to them after, for example). Then there’s also some boxes that just come down to a matter of opinion so while you might have marked them off I didn’t.

Do any of you have bingo cards? Did any of you win? I’d love to know!

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Warning: This is a really bad recording. Be prepared for robot voice, garbled words, and straight up missing words. I have transcribed as best I can.

Hello all my lovely readers this is Amy with her final audio react.

I have literally just woken up, I am rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. . . *sigh* and I’m clicking the link for [S] Act 7.

Oh look at that fancy banner.

Oh goodness me.

*deep breath* Ohhhh my goodness. I’m. . . getting very emotional already.

*sigh* Let’s hit play.

Oh, see those lovely white banners.

Oh that music. Of course.

Alt!Calliope.

What are you going to do? We still don’t know.

The conductor raises her baton. . .

WOAH, those eyes! What’s happening?

[my cat jumped up] No, cat, go away. I don’t need you right now.

Oh my god, that volcano!

Ohhhh my goodness!

Ohh my goodness, look at that animation!

Oh and the music!

Oh my goodness!

Oh my god, is this full thing animated and not just a flash? Oh my god.

There it goes!

So that’s how the tadpole gets up there! It gets shot up by the volcano, O.K. I get it.

And it’s metamorphosing into a frog. Slowly but surely.

Oh this-Oh look, there’s Dad!

Mmm, the frog’s going into Skaia!

And it’s going to have its beauteous croak!

Oh my god, look at those clouds!

Ah, I can’t believe this thing’s actually animated! That’s so cool!

How long even is this, I should check that.

Oh this file’s so big I have to move my screen. O.K., it’s only nine minutes. Not eighteen minutes like the last one.

‘Kay, here’s there. He’s going into the little hole that John conveniently made! How convenient.

Oh my goodness.

Ah, this is kinda trippy, the hole spinning like that.

I. . . don’t understand how he can wrap up this comic in only nine minutes. . .

Hi Calliope.

Jeeze, you’re cool looking.

What are you doing, though?! I don’t know, but it’s cool looking!

Are those dream bubbles? Black holes? I-I don’t. . . I’m. . .

She’s sucking in the Green Sun? So it was a black hole. . .

Is. . . Oup, yep, there’s the. . . swirly that, like, when Caliborn entered. Their dying, red sun had a little swirly into the black he created so parallels!

O.K., is this the final transformation for the. . .Genesis Frog?

There goes the Battlefield. 

I think I called it Skaia earlier. It’s the Battlefield. The Battlefield’s in Skaia.

Oooh! There it is!

God, I love the Genesis Frog! It’s so cool!

Close your mouth, Karkat.

O.K., now [sorry, can’t recall what I said here]

And the Vast Croak. . .

Now we get to see the creation of a universe!

Aww, look at the babies-and Terezi’s looking the wrong direction, of course.

*happy sigh*

It’s nice seeing a Genesis Frog that doesn’t have cancer.

And. . . continued stuttering. Sorry, everybody!

*groan*

Yep.

Well, it-mmh. . . It shouldn’t last for too long. The flash is only nine minutes so. . . don’t have to deal with too much stuttering. . . Hopefully.

Maybe it’s going to end up being twenty minutes long, with stuttering. Sorry!

[once again I don’t remember what I said here] Just a little bit!

Yep.

Are we gonna see the new universe?

As we slowly go through this pink. . . misty field.

Is that. . . Yep, that’s the Light symbol.

Are we gonna see the Breath symbol? And the Hope symbol and the Time symbol and all the symbols?

Woah! PM’s got some beefy arms!

WV, why are you standing on lava? It looks like you’re standing on lava. That’s not good.

Oh! All the Green Sun’s power is sucked away now.

And, woah. . . That’s cool.

Like a green black hole. . . A green hole? I dunno.

Hi, Lord English!

Oooooooh! How is he going to deal with his power being sucked away?

Are you gonna go back to being a kid?

Hi, ghost army.

Oh, Vris-Oh, they all-They all looks so badass as they march towards him.

Oh my goodness.

And cracks in Paradox Space continue to crack.

Ooh, that’s. . . not good.

Is that. . . Paradox Space collapsing in on it’self finally? Yep, there’s the black hole. . . Eating up everything.

That’s. . . quite terrifying, actually!

Cracks, you can kinda brush them off, but a black hole, *sucks in breath* that’s good.

Alright, Vriska you better open up that chest and get the weapon, because everything’s literally falling apart around you.

O.K., so what is the form of the weapon this time?

Is it still the house?

Young Caliborn. . .

Oh that turn, that gave me chills! Watching him turn towards the clock.

Wh-Oh! It’s the pendulum! It’s the pendulum for the clock! He broke it!

What does that symbolize or signify?

He’s just having a magical girl moment, here.

Yep, it’s the house symbol.

So what is it gonna do?

Oh! This music too!

Oh my goodness.

Oh yeah, ‘cause it was, uh, it sucked in the power of John, Jade, Rose, and Dave. So it’s gonna. . . release them to fight Lord English?

Is that what’s happening-OH MY GOD, that’s so cool! So big and KOOSH!

Oh s-Lord English is so scary looking and Caliborn’s so cute looking, but he’s also super evil ‘cause he’s the same dude.

So now is he gonna use the crowbar and destroy the clock?

So yeah, that has time powers released, but the clock has to get fixed because later on Doc Scratch has it.

Oh my goodness, I’m still so confused.

Oh! Aradia! Go back! Aradia, what are you doing? She wanted to watch this whole place break apart! That’s what she’s doing, watching everything break apart!

Oh my goodness.

Ooh! Uh, the Alpha SBURB door flipped and turned into white SBURB.

*laugh* Karkat just shrug. “Whatever.”

[unintelligible] and it flipped.

And Jade. . .

Which planet is that? Is that your planet? I-I can’t quite tell. . .

Or is that. . . Skaia itself? [Looking back that’s a stupid thing to guess, the frog is in Skaia right now, she can’t have it.]

Oooh, gears and time and that’s cool.

And. . . Stuttering continues.

Or. . . Is that supposed to. . . Is that Earth?

I’m-I still don’t quite know.

There’s the meteor. Looking a lot more realistic than we’ve ever seen it before.

So wait, is this the creation of the universe they made? ‘Cause rocks and trees are suddenly appearing.

I’m still nnnot quite sure what’s happening.

Of course the. . . Statue of Liberty and Serenity? I think? Still have no clue if that’s Serenity or a random firefly.

Can Town plans! Yaaaay!

Ohhhhh yaaaaaay! OHHH! LOOK AT THE CAN TOWN! Oh my gooood!

Literal Can Town!

Ahhhhh!

Oh I’m so happy! *gasp* John, Roxyy, and Calliope are-Oh my god!

Look at the babies!

“Thanks for playing”-Oh my god!

Oh my god, look it’s saying that in the clouds-Noooo.

Oh my goood!

Oh they got their happy ending!

I’m sure there’ll be  a lot of stuff that I’m confused about when this is all said and done, but I’m just so happy in the moment right now!

Ahhhh! All the carapacians!

Ah, the light of democracy! Look! There’s a nakodile and uh, a salamander!

Jake and Dirk are playing soccer!

Oh there’s a picnic and Jane’s finally hanging with her dad! Finally.

Oh my god!

Ah, Calliope’s so tiny!

WOAH. Dad has his mouth!

What the fuck, Dad has a mouth!

Caliborn, I can’t look at you having your magical boy moment because Cali-because Dad has a mouth!

Seriously, what?

That’s the freakiest thing I’ve seen in the entirety of Homestuck.

*sigh*

Well. . . Homestuck

s over, you guys. So. . . better get to writing this transcript and. . . then writing my final post. I’ll see you then.

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Please to not use the phrase "end this once and for all" when a webcomic seven years in the making only has less than 24 hours of future content left I am not prepared for it to be over that's like one sleep or 24 episodes of a Netflix show or one pre-game cutscene in your average JRPG

You have to accept the truth of it. The End is here.

Speaking of which, I’m gonna go watch the flash. See you on the other side!