The current art was done by Shelby Cragg. If you like the style, she and another 3 people are now making a webcomic, with a storytelling style similar to MSPA, called Neokosmos. It's pretty good, and you might want to check it out (and maybe liveblog it!) once you're done with Homestuck. Here's the link: www(.)neo-kosmos(.)com
Once I finish Homestuck, huh?
It depends on what people want to see. Ruby Quest’s creator asked me to liveblog Ruby Quest long time ago, so that one is a definite, though.
Whatever people would enjoy reading about is what I will liveblog.
Speaking of credited memes, Tv Tropes has a page where they list the best Homestuck related quotes, and there is a quote from your blog there. It's the one where you discuss how the fandom would react to a banana. When I read your blog and saw that quote I was like "so this is where that quote comes from!"
I remember that! I show up on TvTropes a couple of times. Last I checked they had the wrong pronouns up, but it has been a while, so maybe somebody fixed it by now.
But by all means, TvTropes people, feel free to quote as much of me as you want, as long as you link back.
Hey, I just finished an archive binge on your blog and it was really good! Reading your posts all the way from 2011 is like watching a documentary on the fandom of that time, and then seeing it progress all the way to recent stuff is pretty cool, specially with all the analysis pointing out things I haven't noticed in all those years in the fandom. Congratulations on keeping this blog alive for all that time! It's a shame it took me so long to find out this blog existed.
Thanks! And I agree, a lot of the older posts were more reflective of both the internet’s general atmosphere and being amazed by cool new multi-layered multimedia stories like Homestuck. It was more difficult to keep myself alive than the blog, but if I can get caught up by the end then my timing somehow managed to work itself out!
Thanks for being a fan! Enjoy the rest of your stay in this Meme Hotel.
What do you think of the significgance of the clown doll Gamzee conjured into John's brain might be?
I think the significance might be something like these other two asks I got:
elanthebard:
Not sure if you missed that or not, but the reason Gamzee says he made the cancer “terminal” is because of how John dreaming of clowns is directly related to why Jack had the motivation to ascend.
addadashofpepper:
If the puppet Gamzee made by “focusing his rage” was what gave John Nightmares, then its what made him wright all over his walls. This leads to Dad getting John a clown for his birthday, which led to it being prototyped, which led to jack killing the queen, which finally leads to the Jack and cancer. So in a sense, Gamzee is the one who caused all the problems in the story.
….WHICH IS INSANE, OH MY GOD HOW DID I MISS THAT. It’s also fucking AWESOME. Fucking A+ storytelling, Hussie.
John's death was necessary for a reason: remember it wasn't the only thing Dave went back in time to fix.
I spent a lot of time thinking about this. A LOT.
There was Jade’s death too, but that was contingent upon John’s death. If John had been saved from Typheus by some other means (jetpack ran out of fuel, got knocked off course, Typheus refused to kill him, etc, etc.), I imagine he would have gotten her in the Medium and she would have survived. So why wasn’t that good enough? Why did John entering Typheus’s lair doom him? Come to think of it, why did Typheus kill him, anyway?? If he simply hadn’t killed John and had sent him back on his merry way, why couldn’t the pre-Davesprite timeline have stayed the alpha? Is Davesprite’s existence truly all that necessary for… whatever makes the alpha the alpha?
In fact, what does make the alpha the alpha? I’ve postulated a couple times that it appears as though there are several binary crux points that seem unchangeable, and any deviation produces a doomed timeline. But those crux points have seemed rather arbitrary. Like, why is every timeline in which Karkat and Terezi die automatically doomed, regardless of whether they die before or after the creation of the human universe? Is it because they have some major role they’ve yet to play? All the crux points are adding up to something, some… future event that must happen the way it [will happen/is happening/has happened]. Guessing as to the nature of paradox space feels futile at this point because there’s so much I’m sure I still don’t know, but
BUT
BUT BUT BUT
PARADOXES!!!! THAT’S IT!!!!!!! Or rather, stable time loops.
WHAT IF EVERY SINGLE CRUX POINT IS LEADING TOWARD THE EXISTENCE/APPEARANCE OF LORD ENGLISH?????
Think about it!! Lord English is “already here” in the troll universe, as Doc Scratch has explained. And his very presence in the troll universe is thanks to Doc Scratch, who could not have existed in the original timeline, wherein Cal was prototyped before he could reach the trolls’ universe. No Cal in the trolls’ universe means no Cal in the trolls’ session, and no Cal to get ectobiologized into Doc Scratch. As for the other doomed timelines we’ve seen, wherein Karkat and Terezi die, perhaps this means they have some future role to play in the fight against Lord English, and so an early death would create a paradox in English’s timeline. What if it’s HIS will (or his timeline’s consistency) that drives paradox space???? He’s called a time-traveling demon and such, but what if like… What if he’s actually a construct of the game, meant to clean up dead-end universes that have outlived their usefulness? What if he’s the living embodiment of a ‘Game Over’? Or even a construct of paradox space itself, independent of the game???? SHIT, HE COULD EVEN BE THE ARBITER OF THE JUST/HEROIC DEATH MECHANIC. That would make a lot more sense than having it be completely arbitrary, it would explain why Scratch has the clock, and it would be an interesting reference to the hilarious tendency of JRPG’s to end with the heroes fighting God for whatever reason.
I'd suggest giving a better look at the curtains part!
supehmario:
The curtains (probably) represent Acts. Four red curtains, then a blue one and another red curtain right after. So, Act 1 through 4, then Act 5 Act 1 followed by Act 5 Act 2. I'm not sure why they're all there though.
nintendoc6:
The curtains from the [S] Seer: Descend flash represent the acts of Homestuck. You went through four red curtains (Acts 1-4), then a blue curtain (Act 5 Act 1) immediately followed by a red one (Act 5 Act 2). These are all events leading up to the Beat Mesa transportalizer (the Scratch). The green curtains represent Act 6, divided into six sub-acts.
royalvorpal:
Might want to look at how MANY curtains there are.
TOO LATE! I already figured it out in my latest post, before I got around to answering asks.
Eridan's wand (wwand?) is from the Harry Potter movies, it's Hermione's. Also, RE: the brief Hussie interlude: reread page 4387 again. Though how a long magic dragon counts as a long magic dog is beyond me. Anyways, any thoughts on Eridan's class and aspect, Prince of Hope? I think Rose and Kanaya's conversation is the first time his Sgrub title is mentioned.
Huh?
*looks*
GA: I Have Commissioned None Other Than The Legendary Prince Of Hope And I Am Teaching Him The Ways Of White Sorcery
ERMEHGERD, I COMPLETELY MISSED THAT. I think I lost the significance in the fact that she Types Like This, because I couldn’t see the implied capitals in Prince of Hope. So IIRC, that’s the last missing class, and a brand new aspect! Let’s take a look at what this might mean, under the cut.
Eridan as a ‘Prince of Hope’ is interesting. Like I’ve said before, I believe the game assigns you a classpect to challenge you, just as it does when it assigns you a land. But IMO that challenge can take one of two different forms: it can challenge you to embrace your classpect, or challenge you to avoid or deny it.
Classpect counter to nature (embrace): Take Rose, for example. Being the Seer of Light is absolutely antithetical to who she (thinks she) is. Rose wants to push the boundaries, wants to do things herself, wants to rush headlong into situations without taking the time to assess the best course of action. She’s taken the horrorterrors AND Doc Scratch at face value, which I believe to be a dire mistake. She’s also apparently obsessed with magic, wizardry, and the arcane. It’s hard to tell how much of her goth shtick is genuine and how much is ironic pandering to the image others have of her (like Hussie’s “”interest”” in man-horse n00ds), but either way it’s about as far from ‘Light’ as you can get. On a related note, Rose’s LOLAR is visually the opposite of Rose’s aesthetic. It’s bright, colorful, and garish; everything Rose is not. Her classpect and land are challenging her to set aside what she thinks she knows about herself, and grow by embracing the path the game has set out for her. So far she’s almost completely failed to do that, but I trust that by the end of this journey she’ll have come around.
Classpect in alignment with nature (deny): Here’s where my theory gets sort of wacky. Let’s take a look at Vriska, the Thief of Light. Vriska fancies herself a pir8te, FLARPing as Spinneret Mindfang. Being a Thief is TOTALLY something Vriska would do without prompting. As for Light, we’ve yet to see it in action, but my thought is that it could be tied to ‘white magic’, knowledge (’illumination’) or possibly something to do with luck. (Though the connection between ‘light’ and ‘luck’ seems tenuous, Vriska talks to John about having the power to manipul8te luck, stealing it from her enemies to give to herself, whereas before the game she was incredibly unlucky.) By the same token, Vriska’s LOMAT plays right into her interests: full of adventure, pirate overtones, and material treasures. Vriska’s challenge, then, is not to take the easy road and merrily play along, but to deny that low-hanging fruit. She has to learn to temper her ambition and greed, to exercise restraint, so that her hubris doesn’t result in the downfall of her entire team. Again, something that is yet to happen... and something I don’t really have a whole lot of hope for.
As for Eridan? He’s kind of a tough cookie, as I’ve yet to see either the Prince class or the Hope aspect in practice... but hopefully my theories can provide me with a little insight. The ‘Prince’ title is seemingly in alignment with how Eridan sees himself, as noble and worthy and better than others. I’m not sure what a Prince actually does, but I imagine it has something to do with ruling or commanding. That would tie into Eridan’s collection of military literature, which he was said to have studied. As for Hope? Wellll... There’s the obvious correlation between Hope and faith and making mIrAcLeS hapen (sorry Gamzee). But further, ‘Hope’ is a common element to dudes that hang around in the “””friendzone””. Eridan ‘Hopes’ people will notice him, senpai. He ‘Hopes’ Feferi or Vriska will date him. He ‘Hopes’ magic is real, and that he can become a great wwizard. Based on this knowledge, it’s my belief that Eridan falls into the deny category. Eridan is by nature a stuck-up tryhard with delusions of his own likability who needs a good hard dose of reality. He must learn that he isn’t inherently better than anybody else, and must learn to temper his desperation with consideration for others. He has to learn that sometimes the best thing to do is let [false] Hope die with grace and dignity, and simply move on.
