What does Homestuck look like from the perspective of Meat Jade Harley?
As it turns out, it looks like this!
It’s 877 pages long (876 if you don’t count the last page), and in these pages I try to portray as faithfully as I can what the Homestuck multiverse looks like from Jade’s perspective.
And with Homestuck multiverse, I mean all of Homestuck, the Paradox Space comics written by Andrew Hussie, the snaps, the Homestuck Epilogues, and Homestuck^2 (main and bonus stories, what has been published so far).
For more info about this initiative, please check this post!
When Homestuck^2 is updated with new content that features Meat Jade, I intend to further update this and will also notify you with a Tumblr post when I’ve done this.
In any case, I hope you enjoy and will also check out Homestuck from the perspective of other characters!
So far I have done a total of 19 other characters that you can check out already!
4 pre-retcon Human Kids: Rose, Davesprite, Jane, and Dirk.
Today it’s been exactly 5 years since I first started working on Huisarrest! And it’s been a little more than 2 years since I first started publishing it.
We’ve come a long way already! We’re a good way into Act 4, so normally by this time next year we should be going through Hivebent!!
That is really exciting!
If you compare the numbers, last year I managed to do 700 pages in one year, now I did ‘only’ 500. Back then, my initial goal was to try and do a 1000 pages. Sadly, I had a lot of distractions and only managed to do half of those!
I kinda thought I’d be able to do that many, because this time last year I knew I was in my last year of school and knew I’d have much more free time after that, Homestuck was still on pause and would even then be going on its final stretch, so I figured I’d be having A LOT of time for Huisarrest.
Well, I thought wrong. :P
Other than a bunch of IRL stuff, I had two other major distractions: the Omegaupdate forums, and Homestuck From The Perspective Of, two other major projects I started in the past year.
When the official MSPA Forums all of a sudden went down about 11 months ago (...holy shit, 11 months) and we had no idea when they would be back up or be replaced, I came up with the idea to start Omegaupdate, to serve as a go-to place for the old forum members. I thought I’d only be running it for a few days, weeks at most, before the MSPA Forums came back... but here we are, 11 months later, still going.
So yeah, that took up way more time than expected.
As for Homestuck From The Perspective Of (HFTPO), I only really came up with that idea after Homestuck finished. I started rereading Homestuck and writing down for every panel which characters appeared in it, and began keeping track of it in chronological order for every character. Which eventually resulted in this list, of how many pages each character appears in the Homestuck canon.
And then I went and accepted the challenge to actually make Fan Adventures, on the MSPFA website, which show the story of Homestuck from the chronological perspective of every character.
I’ve finished 8 out of 225 now, in roughly 7 months, and am still continuing it with most of the free time that I have, now working on my 9th character.
And like that wasn’t enough, whenever I finish such a chronological adventure, I make a video dedicated to that particular character on my Youtube channel.
Basically, this means I had a lot of other things to work on other than Huisarrest, my solo-attempt at translating the entirety of Homestuck.
Despite that, I’m trying to do the best I can in juggling these 3 immense projects with each other. Because I love them all dearly, and couldn’t possibly make a choice between any of them, and try to continue all of them in the best way I can.
That being said, I hope if you’re reading this that you’re enjoying at least one of the three, and will stick with me for another year!
The total pagecounts for Homestuck From The Perspective Of have been updated for Homestuck^2 Chapter 12 (Really Convoluted Metaphorical Horeshit) and the bonus story Diamonds, Dames, and Dads, Part 2!
In other words, the totals of Meat Dave Strider, Meat Karkat Vantas, Diamonds Droog and Post-Retcon Dad Crocker have been updated.
Furthermore, I’ve added 2 new (versions of existing) characters to the list!
(Beneath the Read More, just in case someone is reading this who hasn’t read the latest update yet)
These are Next Week Snowman and Next Week Spades Slick. Let me explain:
1) Assuming there aren’t some SERIOUS previously unseen time shenanigans going on (though you never know with these people), these are versions of Snowman and Spades Slick we haven’t seen before.
2) “Next Week” seemed to me like the most objective name for this timeline, as a reference to how Diamonds Droog arrived in this timeline in the first place.
3) We can only guess right now at which point in time these versions of Snowman and Spades Slick became separate from the versions we’ve seen before. So in my pagecount for now I went with the safest assumption, that everything we saw of them BEFORE Midnight City becoming a thing happened from these versions their perspectives as well, and left the rest out of consideration for now.
Obviously, when we see more of these two, I can tweak these counts.
Like, we didn’t see Spades Slick’s eyes right now. Those could give a huge clue on what did or didn’t happen from their perspectives.
Or any reference to other members of The Felt and/or Midnight Crew, whether or not they are even still alive in this timeline.
What does Homestuck look like from the perspective of Mituna Captor?
As it turns out, it looks like this!
It’s 8 pages long (7 if you don’t count the last page), and in these pages I try to portray as faithfully as I can what the Homestuck multiverse looks like from Mituna’s perspective.
And with Homestuck multiverse, I mean all of Homestuck, the Paradox Space comics written by Andrew Hussie, the snaps, the Homestuck Epilogues, and Homestuck^2 (main and bonus stories, what has been published so far).
For more info about this initiative, please check this post!
In any case, I hope you enjoy and will also check out Homestuck from the perspective of other characters!
So far I have done a total of 20 other characters that you can check out already or you can make a suggestion which one you’d like to see next (no need to create an account to make a suggestion, you can do it fully anonymous if you want by submitting a new idea with the + button or voting on an existing suggestion)!
4 pre-retcon Human Kids: Rose, Davesprite, Jane, and Dirk.
What does Homestuck look like from the perspective of Meat Kanaya Maryam?
As it turns out, it looks like this!
It’s 573 pages long (572 if you don’t count the last page), and in these pages I try to portray as faithfully as I can what the Homestuck multiverse looks like from Kanaya’s perspective.
And with Homestuck multiverse, I mean all of Homestuck, the Paradox Space comics written by Andrew Hussie, the snaps, the Homestuck Epilogues, and Homestuck^2 (main and bonus stories, what has been published so far).
For more info about this initiative, please check this post!
When Homestuck^2 is updated with new content that features Meat Kanaya, I intend to further update this and will also notify you with a Tumblr post when I’ve done this.
In any case, I hope you enjoy and will also check out Homestuck from the perspective of other characters!
So far I have done a total of 17 other characters that you can check out already!
4 pre-retcon humans: Rose, Davesprite, Jane, and Dirk.
Hello Blap! Not exactly a question, but I just recently discovered you and I am in LOVE with your multiverse perspective project! I've read through No Place Like Home Terezi and Davesprite's journeys, and it's so interesting to read the story through their vision! I'm incredibly excited to see new characters be completed! Much love!
Thank you so much for those nice words! I’m glad you enjoyed those! :D
Homestuck From The Perspective Of - UPDATED FOR HOMESTUCK EPILOGUES
What does Homestuck look like from the perspective of its many characters?
It’s a question I asked myself a couple of years ago, and decided to try and answer.
I went through the entirety of Homestuck, the canonical Paradox Space stories (written by Andrew Hussie himself), and the snaps, and wrote down for every character each page in which they appeared.
Then I determined the total numbers, and created a full ranking, ordered from highest amount of pages to lowest amount of pages and published this.
Afterwards, I started publishing “adventures” on Mspfanventures for multiple characters, to demonstrate exactly what Homestuck would look like from their perspective.
Now, I’ve got a few updates for you:
1) I’ve gone through the Homestuck Epilogues, and done the same thing as I did BEFORE for Homestuck itself, PXS and the snaps!
This list has now been updated with the new totals, after counting all characters’ appearances in the Homestuck Epilogues.
Furthermore, the “adventures” I had already created for characters, have now also been updated to be up-to-date with the Homestuck Epilogues!
To be specific, the following adventures have been updated (because they’re the only ones of those 17 characters who appeared in the Epilogues):
- Be Caliborn
- Be Aradia Megido
- Be Davesprite
- Be Game Over Tavros Nitram
2) I’ve decided to update my terminology for distinguishing all those different versions of characters.
Previously, I used words like R0, R1, R2, R3 and R4 which I came up with to differentiate the multiple realities created by John’s retcons.
Now that the Meat Epilogue basically officially labeled the pre-retcon reality as the “Game Over timeline”, I decided to use that name for all characters originating from that, unaffected by retcons, reality.
Similarly, I decided to give more “user friendly” names to those other realities as well, to hopefully make it immediately clear exactly which versions of the characters I’m talking about.
Just in case certain things aren’t clear yet, there’s an entire legend at the top of the list to explain my terminology.
3) Homestuck^2 is not taken into account in these totals yet. But these totals will be updated for Homestuck^2 in the near future.
That’s the most important news I wanted to give you.
Other than that, for anyone interested, I’d like to explain my reasoning for how I counted the total amount of pages for characters in the Homestuck Epilogues.
I decided to count each separate block of narration or dialogue as its own “page”.
Why did I do it this way, and didn’t count... well, each PAGE of the Epilogue as one page per character?
Well, I have a couple of reasons for doing this:
1) I went for consistency with the rest of Homestuck, where every page also always contains JUST narration or JUST dialogue, never both at the same time.
2) An average Epilogue page is FAR longer than an average Homestuck page. Setting an Epilogue page equal to a Homestuck page gives a completely twisted view on how much focus there actually is on a particular character.
3) I went for (pre-emptive) consistency with (what I’ve read so far of) Homestuck^2.
And I don’t mean it in the sense of counting dialog and narration as separate pages, because Homestuck^2 does still occasionally contain both dialog and narration on the same page.
What I DO mean, if you check the Homestuck Epilogues log page, you’ll see each “page” is actually defined as a chapter.
Meanwhile, Homestuck^2 ALSO uses the terminology of chapters, where it’s used to group its many pages in separate blocks.
I think it’s better to consider both the Epilogue and Homestuck^2 chapters rather as “scenes”, like in a movie or tv series. Or the updates in Homestuck, in the serial experience.
They’re a succession of events, actions, narration, dialogue, that for the biggest part focus on a particular group of characters, and are usually followed by a perspective switch afterwards.
Thus, to me it makes more sense to count these as separate “pages” in my total amounts.
For some examples how I implemented this, you can always check out the above links for Aradia, Davesprite and Tavros, and check out the last few pages from their perspective where I detail the events of the Homestuck Epilogues. Or Caliborn, but you’ll have to go a bit further back because the Masterpiece panels are also in there.
A bonus, if I divide the Epilogue chapters into separate pages like this, the total amount of pages per chapter seems to be pretty consistent with the average chapter lengths in Homestuck^2 (that I’ve read so far at least).
So I’m pretty satisfied with this way of doing it.
Are there other ways to count these totals? Definitely, but I had to make a decision and this is the option I preferred.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Finally, for anyone who read to the end of this post, here’s a little teaser for you. I’d like to reveal that I’m currently working on exploring Homestuck from Meat Kanaya’s perspective! Once this is finished, I’ll make a separate post about it. :)
