Daily updates of my Homestuck Re-Read

My 2025 re-read of homestuck. I will be doing daily updates on my progress and thoughts.

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No post again today. No time to read.

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Hey guys. No post today. Was busy with actual adult stuff so I wasn't able to get through any pages. More tomorrow.

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Page 1500 - 1605

Pg. 1504 - Egg. so egg ship.

Pg. 1512 - So how does the beta get from Dave to the flower to Jade?

Pg. 1524 - GC! The best troller. We also see some of the trolls god tiers. Also lore dumps about the Exiles and how they help close time paradoxs.

Pg. 1527 - God damn, this panel has crazy implications, who is Jade's penpal?

Pg. 1530 - This is obviously GC!

Pg. 1537 - So this is the Black Queen, that makes Snowman the Trolls Black Queen.

Pg. 1543 - This is the kids White Queen. WQ

Pg. 1556 - What's in the box!

Pg. 1589 - Looks like Rose is the Seer of Light.

Pg. 1590 - And Dave is the Knight of Time, which leaves Jade as the Witch of Space.

pg. 1593 - Love this bitch.

Pg. 1605 - We get a hint about the ultimate goal of Sburb here. Also the conversations are getting way longer.

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Page 1357 - 1499

pg. 1358 - I always enjoy these kinda flashes. Gonna talk to every salamander and see what lore they have. So John is the Heir of Breath as mentioned in Nannasprite's message, he's on the serfuce of his planet and his goal is to get to the next gate. The Denizen of the land is what made all the underlings. Then it went to sleep. It also messed up the land with all the black sludge.

pg. 1366 - So the flower was a time capsule. Which begs the question, how did the beta get so far into the past.

pg. 1390 - Looks like a bunch of trolls want to mess with Jade while she's installing the beta.

pg. 1394 - This panel gives us proof that CG is the alien kid we saw, and also that the trolls did their own session of sburb in the past.

pg. 1407 - Intro to The Land of Light and Rain!

pg. 1413 - So we can assume the last 2 are Rose and Johns planet, and the volcano must be Jades, so Dave is the 2nd one.

pg. 1430 - Looks like Rose has her own exile too!

pg. 1434 - This panel is familiar!

pg. 1446 - Jade using a sword here was unfortunate.

pg. 1462 - So past PM is gonna be following past AR.

pg. 1471 - Jade's Grandpa? How the f did he get here? Also there he goes off with the og Sassacre book

pg. 1482 - PM delivers the beta server copy but the green gift goes with AR.

pg. 1487 - HUH, very convenient.

pg. 1499 - Looks like Rose's Mom has gone on her own journey. Also I'm off for today.

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Page 1093 - 1356

Oops! forgot to read yesterday, I was wrapped up in some things, so I'll try make a post early and later today.

pg. 1093 - You can gather a few things from this conversation. GA and the other trolls have a way to talk to the kids anywhere on their timeline, and they engaged in a "Campaign Of Provocation" against them too. Also GA is one of my favorite characters!

pg. 1099 - AT isn't my favorite on the other-hand... I think his writing style bothers my brain to much.

pg. 1113 - So basically an appererifier can steal things from a certain time and place, as long as it was always meant to be stolen. Otherwise, it'll just turn to goo.

pg. 1133 - So this blue present was sent from John, to Jade, then to the future and then back to the past Jade.

pg. 1148 - I love the writing on this page, good lingual gag.

pg. 1149 - Ok. Wow. This is absolutely the best flash of the act. Incredible use of animation and music. It also reveals much of the story. Jade travels further into the frog temple finding a flower. Dave sets up Rose's entry. The wizard statue gets broken. Jaspers gets prototyped, Nannasprite writes in the og Sassacre text, sending it to what seems like below the fog where John is. A second prototyping, Rose enters, The ships are directly related to the entry items, how did Daves copy's of Sburb end up with Jade? And John enters the gate. That was a jammed packed flash.

pg. 1152 - Shows John is on a whole other planet.

pg. 1155 - So I know the intermission gets a looooot of hate, and is often skipped, I actually enjoy it! So get ready, gonna be a while before we see the kids again. The leader of the midnight crew, SS, who looks a lot like Jack Noir, is shown to be in the middle of destroying mansion belonging to a rival gang boss named LORD ENGLISH.

pg. 1170 - You get a list of the felt here, along with the goal of SS to get to a vault in the mansion.

pg. 1179 - So these guys have time powers, cool. Doze(2) - Goes slow.

pg. 1184 - Itchy(1) - Goes fast.

pg. 1191 - Die(6) - Uses a doll and pins to somehow teleport around?

pg. 1203 - Trace(3) - Can see and interact with a persons past timeline.

pg. 1212 - Die(6) - Uses the doll and needles to jump to timelines where people are either dead or alive based on the pins used.

pg. 1215 - Very interesting page here! Looks like when he jumped to a timeline where SS was dead, the planet changed to a desolate place with a purple and green planet in the background with the purple one having a small moon.

pg. 1224 - Biscuits(13) - Moves through time like normal, just in an oven.

pg. 1225 - Eggs(12) - Can summon copies of himself and others with egg timer.

pg. 1230 - Fin(5) - Can see and interact with a persons future timeline.

pg. 1239 - Seems like some of the powers are tied to special items.

pg. 1252 - Clover(4) - Not sure what this guy does other then tells riddles.

pg. 1256 - Stitch(9) - This guy can fix tears in space-time apparently, and has big dolls, called effigies, that seem to match each Felt.

pg. 1265 - Crowbar(7) - Has a crowbar that can break temporal stuff.

pg. 1267 - Good song. Snowman(8) - ???

pg. 1270 - Sawbuck(10) - Jumps time in same timeline when hurt.

pg. 1274 - Another interesting panel. Seems to be SS way in the past, dressed like WV. Since the kids session has Jack Noir, someone elses session had SS, and he became their WV.

pg. 1330 - Clover(4) - is lucky.

pg. 1332 - Cans(15) - Can punch people into the past or future.

pg. 1337 - So SS ends up in a different timeline I guess.

pg. 1353 - SO! SS is from another session to some other alien looking kids.

pg. 1357 - End of Intermission! it really is a good time. Gonna end it here for tonight. Will read more later tomorrow!

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Page 1001 - 1092

pg. 1003 - The absolute disaster that became of John's room is so funny.

pg. 1013 - John's present is sent all the way to the future, it sure takes quite a wild journey.

pg. 1021 - AR!

pg. 1026 - So this flash shows us that dream Jade is in a place called prospit, which is also where the sprites go to decide what the enemies become. It seems to closely orbit Skaia.

pg. 1049 - So all the kids have dream selves.

pg. 1070 - Another banger by Toby Fox.

pg. 1073 - So this is how Jade sees the future, the clouds of Skaia show her things. Also cool to see a conversation from 900 pages ago from Jade's perspective now. Also we see that Bec seems to have come from a meteorite summoned by a Skaian gate. And dream John woke up!

pg. 1092 - Gonna end it here for today, I had a pal over so I wasn't able to read too many pages.

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Page 622 - 1000

I love John's stupid smile. Also i didnt sleep much yesterday so I read some extra pages and jotted my thoughts. Gonna try hit 1000 today.

pg. 634 - The coolest part of Homestuck is hands down the alchemy system. Also I said it before but John's weapons are so cool.

pg. 644 - Oh shit! I think this is the first Toby Fox track in Homestuck.

pg. 651 - Looks like we get spoiled another characters silhouette at the end of the flash here. Who could that ever be!

pg. 663 - I love the designs of the ogres.

pg. 665 - This is straight up one of my fav tracks in all of Homestuck and I love this flash so much. Also we get to see presumably GG at the end.

pg. 669 - They do point out the power cell.

pg. 685 - The Mayor is perfect.

pg. 689 - I wish WV didn't eat that. Will come back to bite them in the ass.

pg. 702 - Ok, I forgot we got paintings of the planets here. pretty neato.

pg. 716 - We're getting a snapshot into the future again.

pg. 721 - more foreshadowing that light will lose the battle.

pg. 723 - PM! Another great character.

pg. 739 - Oh boy, the introduction to Appearifiers.

pg. 757 - WV: Ascend is such a great panel. Really shows just how cool this comic can get. It both answers and asks so many questions. WV and PM are on earth where the meteors fell. How far into the future? Whats the deal with the frog temple?

pg. 759 - Damn I didn't realize how early they drop the god tier names!

pg. 766 - I like Jade's character later on in the comic, can't wait to see her grow. Also act 3 start!

pg. 797 - We've been mostly getting Jade's intro here but this panel has some crazy foreshadowing.

pg. 822 - I love these pan-out shots with chill music playing. Also we see that Jade lives in the same place WV will be in the distant future, the frog temple.

pg. 826 - OMG. I totally forgot the chumhandles where spoiled THIS early. That's crazy.

pg. 830 - I think it's cute that the kids share music together.

pg. 833 - The proper introduction to the Midnight Crew and the Felt. Also Dead Shuffle is a bop.

pg. 836 - Its crazy how almost none of the music in this comic misses. Every song is on point.

pg. 838 - Jade is shown here to have some kinda way to see the future.

pg. 843 - I love the endless loop of John getting his shit kicked in.

pg. 845 - I cant say enough how interesting I find the alchemy stuff in this comic.

pg. 857 - What on earth is this thing!

pg. 859 - The first interaction between the "Trolls" and our group of protagonists. They sure don't seem very friendly but I love CG so much.

pg. 870 - Seems like PM has found another weird ship. Looks like the entry apple john used also spawned a whole ass tree and grew a ship in the future.

pg. 871 - Another banger flash, I didn't mention it last time but the sword fighting is somehow really cool in this art style, as simple as it might be

pg. 874 - Interesting that it seems like there is other Sburb sessions happening on this earth.

pg. 879 - These guys drop hella amounts of grist.

pg. 891 - So this guy looks like Spade Slick from the midnight crew.

pg. 905 - what exactly is this stuff doing here? Is this to hint that mom used to live down here?

pg. 907 - omg I love this cat.

pg. 911 - Just pointing out Jade's outfit in the picture here.

pg. 930 - Jasper's story with the apperifier is awesome here.

pg. 934 - So whoever was running this lab was experimenting with genetic cloning? And the letters GCAT are important somehow?

pg. 938 - Jasper's dead body is not in fact incinerated!

pg. 943 - fucking crazy dog.

pg. 953 - Who is doing the typing here?

pg. 955 - Ah so your name is Jack Noir, not Spades Slick.

pg. 958 - Guess he has a boss. Also that's an interesting ring on that finger.

pg. 980 - Another banger flash with amazing tracks. Shows off the dog's crazy ass powers.

pg. 993 - A second Jade?

pg. 996 - She can fly!

pg. 1000 - WOW. 1000 pages in and were about a quarter through act 3. I truly enjoy the first few acts of Homestuck so this was a real pleasure. Also I can't believe the 1000th page is John and Jade discussing the trolls.

We got a lot done today! I'm excited to see the story progress and just dump more and more information and questions on the reader. Also I love this charming gif of the snow.

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Page 415 - 621

Hello! A new day, gonna try tackle about 200 pages today. I think we're gonna get some heavy lore dump soon.

pg. 418 - Thank god post entry prototyping doesn't affect enemies or we'd be fighting a hoard of grandmas.

pg. 420 - Is this the first bit of actual dialogue in the comic?

pg. 421 - Here comes the lore drop. So the stakes are pretty high from the get go, we are lead to believe the goal is to save the planet, and now we need to save our kidnapped father as well! Jeez.

pg. 422 - A charming track to introduce Skaia. So What I'm being told here is this "Skaia" is in the center of a place called "The Incipisphere". There is some kinda battle going on in Skaia between the "forces" of darkness and light. whatever that means.

pg. 423 - And that battle is a game of chess where kings are stuck in an infinite stalemate. but John showing up changed things.

pg. 424 - Now the chess board is more diverse, and we're being told about how the sprite kernels work. Looks like the players somewhat control what the enemies will be. And that there is four spires for each of light and darkness that the kernel splits into and occupies. Once all 4 orbs are active light is destined to lose no matter what.

pg. 425 - We get a nice POV of what we can assume to be the gates that will lead to Skaia and learn that we must rely on Rose (our server player) to build up towards each gate to proceed.

pg. 426 - Then we get some bad news.. Nannasprite says the earth is fucking doomed.

pg. 439 - WV! and he finds his cans this page! We also see a big bar that seems to be showing something is in the red. Maybe low power?

pg. 440 - Another entry in the GameFAQs page. We get a decent understanding of how kernel sprites work from this, as well as getting a better look into Rose's writing style and personality.

pg. 442 - GG gives me a weird feeling here, like something about them isn't quite right. It be weird if my pal told me a game I'll play in the future will bring my dead cat back to life.

pg. 444 - Another nice setting panel as we get to see meteors raining down destroying the city, unbeknownst to Dave. A nice detail is seeing the blazing sun reflecting in Dave's sunglasses if you click the lil arrow.

pg. 451 - And here it is. the first appearance of Lil' Cal. Fuck this guy.

pg. 463 - Cal moving around like this definitely makes me uneasy, I hate these kind of puppets

pg. 472 - We can really see the affects of the jester doll on the enemies.

pg. 474 - Fun to see John being more efficient with the sylladex.

pg. 509 - WV is talking all polite now because they found the Human Etiquette book.

pg. 532 - John messing around with the equipment is just too real haha.

pg. 545 - These newspaper articles are great.

pg. 564 - Looks like someone is dashing around the house like fox in melee to move shit around on Dave.

pg. 590 - Dave fucking around with his sylladex is so funny.

pg. 621 - Looks like the kids are getting the hang of the alchemy system in Sburb. Gonna end it here for today!

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Page 313 - 414

I really like Dave's story here in the first few acts. Time travel always interested me so Dave being set before/concurrently to the events of what happens with John in act 1 is really interesting and fits his time theme.

pg. 319 - Another really cool inventory system.

pg. 332 - Rose and Dave's friendship is gotta be one of my favorites in whole comic.

pg. 334 - Back to John in the near future.

pg. 337 - Aaaand back to Dave.

pg. 338 - Apparently there is 4 hidden tracks i didn't know about. Neat

pg. 349 - Putting the beta in front of the open window was a great idea. I love that its like a small gag that he doesn't just close window, instead taking other action.

pg. 354 - Cool use of the modus used here. Stop = 7 = Sword :)

pg. 356 - Dave is cute in this panel.

pg. 358 - Rose again!

pg. 368 - I know it's mostly played off as a gag early, but Rose's relationship with her Mother is kind of upsetting.

pg. 382 - Bec mentioned. Crazy fucking dog.

pg. 386 - It's fun seeing snapshots of Dave's story line through texts with John.

pg. 387 - uh oh another unfortunate choice of words. I hope this is the last time.

pg. 388 - !!! Another fight panel, with a fucking banger of a track too. I love all the different options, so goofy. Also Maplehoof!

pg. 393 - Another fight panel. Gonna be getting a few of these early on I think. Also another banger track.

pg. 400 - This introduces a lot of world building things actually. Using the sylladex as weapon, as well as killing enemies nets you grist!

pg. 404 - This kid is adorable.

pg. 405 - The echeladder makes its first appearance as well!

pg. 406 - Oh jeez thats a lot of space for different types of grist.

pg. 414 - gonna end it here for today. Rose is so morbid for just kicking a corpse lol.

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Page 161 - 312

Ah yes. I believe we are about 2/3rds of the way through Act 1. Time for John to shmove.

pg. 173 - TT is absolutely decimating this bathroom.

pg. 178 - 413 spotted. Here we go!

pg. 186 - Why on earth did TT choose the fucking freaky doll.

pg. 196 - ruh roh raggy.

pg. 204 - John sure is taking his sweet time talking to TG here.

pg. 216 - Fuck yes! I love Rose so much. The end of act one is so good.

pg. 224 - The tree modus is so stupid it is perfect for rose haha.

pg. 246 - Great song here.

pg. 248 - another personal and fandom fav introduced here. WV is the GOAT. also! Act 2 start.

pg. 249 - I am absolutely fascinated by using GameFAQs of all things to tell story elements and deep dive into the logistics of Sburb.

pg. 253 - wow. So I looked up a guide for all there is to do in this walkaround section and there's a whole hidden room in the chimney and hidden text after entering Trickster mode with Control+T. Crazy I didn't know.

pg. 271 - This page sets up so many questions. Why can WV talk to and see John. Who is WV? Where/When are they?

pg. 273 - Yes! Back to Rose!

pg. 281 - The larger implications of reanimation through prototyping in this universe is staggering.

pg. 290 - RIP the fucking car. Along with the mail!

pg. 299 - Needlekind is pretty badass honestly.

pg. 305 - Call back to the windows from Problem Sleuth.

pg. 307 - Another really well done setting panel. Sound design on point.

pg. 312 - Aaaand Dave. Gonna end it for today we tackled more pages then the last few days. I'm a big Dave fan.

Well I feel like we got so much lore dumped on us and I know even more is coming.

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Page 83 - 160

Tell me this isn't a Homestuck reference. I dare you. Also side note but I love Peak so much. Really great game.

pg. 85 - I can't wait to count how many pages come between them showing the present here and John actually getting the package.

pg. 88 - and here we meet Dad. I like the use of music to give the reader an idea of his personality.

pg. 90 - This feature blew me away when I was first reading it. I had no idea there would be sections of Homestuck that I would get to control. Imagine how I felt when I got to the first full control panel.

pg. 110 - GG! I know she wasn't an early fav but I like her character way later.

pg. 112 - I forgot we get to see these guys so early.

pg. 132 - This bunny is one of my fav parts of Homestuck.

pg. 137 I use to listen to this song all the fucking time. Sburban Jungle slaps so hard.

pg. 141 - I love the idea that the game lets the server player interact with the real world like a sims game.

pg. 147 - John's lil smile here is so cute.

pg. 153 - Again, I love the "game mechanics" being introduced here. I've always been interested in game design and whatnot so incorporating that into an interactive story really got me.

pg. 154 - Unfortunate choice of words used here, sign of the times I suppose.

pg. 157 - I also think the alchemy system is so cool.

pg. 160 - Gonna end it here for today as well. The reader is thrown a lot of info pretty quickly there about the all the different alchemy and game design stuff. I really like those kind of systems so I'm excited to see it progress. Also love the designs of these machines. Simple yet really cool.

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I can't lie to you. I'm a big homestuck fan. During my first read, I caught up during a pause in act 5, then from there, experienced Homestuck with everyone else as the updates came out. I went to Homestuck meetups and made friends because of the comic. It really changed my life, and even though the fandom gets a lot of hate, I loved every moment of it. I have many good memories because of this comic, and I'm really excited to re-read and attempt to share my thoughts on the comic, 16 and a half years after it came out (I was 13 when Homestuck came out and 15-16 when i started reading it). I hope that you will find my thoughts interesting.

pg. 7 - I love the captchalogue system so much, the comic wouldn't be the same without such an interesting and versatile, yet slightly infuriating inventory system .

pg. 11 - I eventually went back and read Problem Sleuth so this poster works double-time at being a throw back to their previous work and sort of foreshadowing of coming characters.

pg. 14 - The fact that a hammer is John's weapon is so cool to me, I love al the different hammer designs that pop up throughout the comic and I'll definitely grab screenshots of my some of my favorites.

pg. 20 - PUT THE BUNNY BACK IN THE BOX. I never have seen this movie.

pg. 21 - As a big sci-fi fan, I loved Deep Impact as a kid, though I haven't seen it years. I also watched Ghostbusters 1 and 2 all the time as when I was younger, another movie that will see a cameo in a few pages.

pg. 26 - Ah yes, the first of many, many, many pesterlogs/dialog boxes. The real reading begins. As someone who relates to John a lot, I love the casual conversations between him and TG(who's name I wont spoil until we reach that point in the comics). I feel like these kinda conversations really show us just what kinda friends they've become. I also love playing co-op games with friends so i could totally see this being a conversation between me and my own pal.

pg. 31 - Wow. I didn't know one of the disks on the rack was the Ghostbusters 2 MMORPG game they play many many pages from now. I love that they call back to that later.

pg. 32 - Speaking of foreshadowing... if you know, you know.

pg. 37 - Looking at the back of this card really just goes to show how much detail was put into Homestuck.

pg. 39 - I find it so funny that John was basically tricked into being stuck with hammers for the rest of the comic, and i like how that makes his weapon arsenal so interesting later in the comic.

pg. 50 - This is actually a William Shakespeare quote.

Pg. 56 - I got bad vibes from this thing as soon as I saw it. Ive never been a fan of clowns.

Pg. 63 - I love TT, one of my favorite characters, I also was pretty sarcastic as a teen so i loved the way she talked.

Pg. 77 - This is when I knew I had really found something special. The combination of art, music, and writing make Homestuck so unforgettable.

Pg. 82 - I'm gonna pace myself at the start of this. Once I get into this a bit more I feel like I can tackle more and more pages per day. I think John leaving his house, even though the comic is called Homestuck, is the perfect gag to end on today, and of course the beautiful pan-out of the house, into the title card for Homestuck itself, backed by the sounds of chimes dancing in the wind. Just wow. What a way to start.