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For people who weren't at SAHcon

Apparently the creators of The Unofficial Homestuck Collection have revealed that they've been working on an online website version of it, making it readable on mobile and available for people who don't have 4 gigs of storage to spare.

The Flash elements are all emulated using Ruffle, and it has mods built into it (that you can add and remove at your leisure).

It was only just released to the public yesterday, so it may have some bugs, but it does currently have (from what I can tell) the entire thing, including the archives of the other MSPA comics like Jailbreak and Problem Sleuth.

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I saw one of your posts about Rage and Hope as aspects, and I think there’s some interesting synergy, or at least a sort of… I’m not sure how to put it, but let me try.

Rage, as said, is an aspect that has the potential to depower with the power of calling out bullshit. I think it would work well with a Mind player in that sense, assisting through an understanding of logic and how to deconstruct faulty logic.

Hope is an aspect that can believe with all its power to make things real. A Heart player, who has an understanding of Sincerity, can help them be truer to their beliefs and not hide as much behind something they aren’t.

Of course, these positives can easily become negatives. But it’s an interesting idea how aspects can both improve and negatively influence eachother depending on how it’s implemented.

Apologies for the length.

Don't apologize, this is really good!!!

I think the kind of synergy that can be explored between players of different aspects is really fun. Bringing up Mind and Heart again, I think they can even make interesting combinations if you reverse them. A Heart player could provide balance to a Rage player's tendency towards cynicism, and a Mind player can, with logic, influence the beliefs of a Hope player and point their boundless belief in the right direction.

Now don't get me wrong, with these effects on each other they could also be absolute poison to each other instead. It really depends on the players themselves, and how much they're willing to learn from each other.

It gets even more complex when you bring classes into it, too, and that's not even getting into Fraymotifs, a woefully underexplored mechanic I think.

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Best Homestuck Character Ever?

Dad Egbert

Senator Lemonsnout

Ms. Paint

Crabdad (Karkat's Lusus)

Nicholas Cage

Serenity

fedorafreak

Lord English

Marceline

Voting ended onFeb 15, 2023

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i think that latula lost her sense of smell in a skateboarding related accident. idk why she wouldn't wear a helmet afterwards but yeah. what do you think?

It is absolutely possible she just wrecked herself severely while skateboarding and lost her sense of smell as a result. After all, it’s not like we’ve heard of her having much of a history with any of her peers (certainly not Aranea) that'd parallel what Vriska did to Terezi. Which is not a guarantee that absolutely nobody had any hand in that happening to her, per se, but it is a theory I’m personally riding on regardless.  My best guess as to why she still might not wear a helmet afterwards is that she could be intentionally trying to underplay the injury and so that’s a calculated risk to her? Especially if she sustained a brain injury (which then resulted in anosmia) and is trying to make a point to hide that, and so she’s just playing it off like losing her sense of smell is all that happened and since people (sadly) don’t seem to really take that seriously they don’t think about it much deeper than that. If she has the confidence to just keep skating without a helmet on then clearly it must not have been that bad, right? That's what she might want you to think. That, or maybe it’s just because she’s a ghost in a dream bubble and that makes injury inconsequential now. Still hurts like a bitch but like, you gotta make sacrifices for the sake of radness, right?

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Homestuck Study Guide

Pre-Reading Activity

1.) What do you know about Homestuck before reading it? And what do you know about Andrew Hussie?

2.) Based on what you know, who do you believe the intended target audience is for Homestuck and why? Could this differ from the audience it actually gained?

3.) What do you know about the year 2009? How about internet culture in 2009? Research your answer if you need to.

4.) How much do peoples' surroundings affect who they are? Do you believe people can be victims of circumstance?

5.) If you had the chance to become a god, would you? Why or why not?

6.) Think about one of your favorite stories. Imagine it in realistic terms. Would you like to be in the shoes of the protagonist? Why or why not?

7.) Would your answer to questions 5 and 6 be the same if you were younger? Explain.

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so what exactly /is/ tej's troll bible fanfic about? does it vary, or does she have one 70k magnum opus?

My apologies for the wait! My birthday was recently so I got sucked into a new video game and stopped existing for a few days, my bad. 

I should give a bit of context before elaborating on what kind of fics she’s writing. 

You see, she is (religiously-speaking) a follower of the Sufferer, though since Alternia is ancient from the perspective of anyone living on Earth C the exact texts have changed and been reinterpreted and retranslated and whatnot over time. That is to say, what being “a follower of the Sufferer” means varies a bit.

Whether or not this is something they themselves are aware of or acknowledge, Derse dreamers are often (on some level or other) innately attracted to challenges in some way. Apparently if your name is Tejuri and there’s something wrong with you that means writing troll Jegus fanfiction in some forlorn self-conflicted act of rebellion, thereby making the guilt the new challenge for yourself.  This is my long-winded way of explaining why she writes lengthy Psiioniic x Reader stories and weird AUs with a self-insert support protag tagging along for the ride. I should mention these are all done without any irony. Guilt sure, but she isn’t capable of being ironic about it. She thought stained glass windows were hot and now she has to deal with the repercussions. She tends to like switching things up now and then, so she doesn’t really have a long-running 70k, but she does have a ton of much smaller stories. There's at least one coffee shop AU in there somewhere and what you think of that is... up to you.

If anyone has a 70k magnum opus (in a sense at least) it’d actually be her Alternian Grandcestor, The Idolater. You see, writing down religious texts and sharing them secretly runs in the family, Tejuri gets it from somewhere. The difference is that The Idolater feels no guilt for it at all and the government wants her ass dead for writing it.