It Just Hit Me That In Pretty Much Every Single Shitty Pixel Update, Dave Was The One Going Somewhere

isn’t this is the first time the dream self and real self were treated as separate individuals? 

Is it because of Terezi’s mind/seer power? Or was it always like this from the start? this bothers me so much

The new upd8 was hella nice, but this slide in particular bothered me a lot when I stopped to think about it

Like, we always knew that people in doomed timelines went to the dreambubbles, right? But these ones are not doomed selves, these are versions of characters who didn’t die in that moment: that John is the one who ascended, those Rose and Roxy were the one who revived when their dreamself were kissed, and so on. 

This means that these people died even though an exact “clone” of them, of their personality and memories until that point, lived on somewhere else - the John that was stabbed on his questbed didn’t survive through ascension, he died and a copy of him went on.

This is some creepy The Prestige level shit, these people got robbed of their existence and their copies are not even aware of it

Daaaaaaaaaamn 

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nice art

personally love the trolls face

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it’s christmas eve post kringlefucker and conksuck boot

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since homestuck is going to end heres a masterpost of Notable Shit The Fandom Has Done to check out:

 feel free 2 add this is only the tip of the fucking iceberg kids

youtube stuff/vidz:

the lets see how far we’ve come video

@toastyhat​‘s light em up lyricstuck! this one was amazing but they’ve done a LOT more which are equally worth checking out.

also @toastyhat:

after us

MANICRO. 

mambostuck

the Ultimate Tearjerker, a lullaby for the gods

LEEEEEET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOOOMESTUCK

The Condescension Song

octopimps old homestuck vids

shubbabangs old homestuck vids

miraculousstangs old homestuck vids

[s] rex duodecim anglus

COMBINATION PIZZA HUT AND TACO BELL

the less appreciated predecessor, quest of the lowbloods

[S] Ancestors: What’s Going On

[Homestuck] Shots

 HUSSIEQUEST

The Bucket Spitting Video (warning: digusting.)

the one equius lyricstuck everyone cried over (bLUEEE LIPS, BLUUE VEINS)

GUESS WHO’S BACK. BACK AGAIN.  ( [S] John: Just Lose it )

[S] Everyone thinks Dirk is gay

IT’S ABOUT TO GO  D O W N. 

i want to poop here

THE POPO

fanfictions (nostalgia town):

unwanted ugly free troll (currently still the most kudos’d hs fic on ao3 i think, everyones favourite sob fluff)

companions to that: loophole (sad) before i sleep (VERY sad)

Cities in Dust (shit let’s be hardboiled) 

Strider’s Edge (i cri everytiem)

SBURB Glitch FAQ (fucking worth the read. fanlore bible)

Battlefield Terra (GET OUT OF THE FUCKING ROBOT KARKAT)

The Vienna Game

A Sailorman’s Hymn

the serendipity gospels (u could probably get high off this prose its so good)

Hemostuck (a lot of ppl get this mixed up with BTSDL and while both are really fucking good they’re completely different.)

StripPokerstuck

find a temple, build a temple

shipjammed

Homestuck High (DAVE ESCALATED LOUDLY)

fancomics/fansites/fanadventures (!!)

panty raid

==> Be The Sea Dwweller Lowblood

Guidestuck

Ke$hastuck

Protostuck

Nightfall

Heinoustuck

Heartstuck

Lucidstuck

Marchingbandstuck (and the fucking hilarious follow up, promstuck)

Red Dead Virgo (notably the first ever hemoswap trope fic/adventure! v good.)

Brainbent

troll eggs

gun safety

NEPETAQUEST 

ask the heiress!

(please add more askblogs. there are so many and i’m stumped)

sockpuppet’s bloodswap!

four chords // other link

fansongs / notable bandcamp songs:

phemiec’s homestuck stuff!! they did songs for a doomed timeline, as well as other classics

karkalicious

Alternia

Land of Fans And Music

Beforus (Fan Album)

COOLK1D

homestuck for the holidays (Gaiden)

tomb of the ancestors (Gaiden)

THE BABY. IS YOU 

cascade

big fan projects (shit already listed here are still projects, but not included):

I CAN’T FIND THE ORGINAL PESTERCHUM THREAD but. @ghostdunk​made the app, which is wonderful. so many memories. (it also seems this was the thread)

msparp :’’)

cherubplay

while gigapause and flarp has shut down, let’s give them an S/O to being gr8 while it lasted. 

Mspaforums. 

Nepeta Mozai

Homesmut (if you’re unfamiliar: this is where the kinkmeme comes from.)

Homestuck Shipping World Cup (and the predecessor: HSO)

Ladystuck

Jadefest

the HSG threads. (not included: sburbchan and mspachan. how fucking archaic.)

skaianet radio

Vriska Quarantine Thread

bladekindeyewear’s romspec threads. 

homestuck gaiden

homestuck wiki

homestuck positivity project

Before I Read Homestuck

Fanarts:

I don’t know where to start, so i’ll jusk link some good fanart blogs.

notable memes (that i can remember):

shrek is eridans dad (brought to light in recent upd8s)

eridan is obama

The Vriska Debate

upd8!!

epathsizing everything with ‘’all the x. all of it’’ on the end

the canon fantrolls

elitist jake cosplayer

that one fucking troll that was a combination of every single homestuck kid combined

hetalians v homestucks

homestuck hate

homestuck-is-a-sin

buckets

gog and jegus respectively 

FUCKASS.

adding ‘’stuck’’ to the end of every au

using quadrants irl 

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK. 

sticking character faces to gifs

BEEP BEEP MEOW 

communism

march eridan

the End of homestuck

the homestuck kickstater

You’re Going To Have To Decapitate Me

ANYWAY. this took about four hours on and off and i’ve still only reached the tip of the iceberg for this and although i’m fucking exuasted i am also amazed, nostalgic, and slightly tearful. it’s amazing to think of how much this fandom has done. homestuck is one of the longest works of fiction in the english language, and the fan content is so staggering it has possibly become bigger than the comic itself.

It’s just been amazing to be in this fandom, and to never get really bored, or go without reading new content, old content, fan produced or otherwise. there’s always been fan competitions, rps, forums, meetups, fanadventures to look or participate in or even make from scratch. this fandom has done so much in the 7 years it’s been around. and whether you’ve been around for all of it or only a week, there’s always been something to enjoy. i’ve made so many friends out of this comic. i’ve speculated, written, drawn, cosplayed, rped, cried, Discourse’d, and even at some point probably rapped, for this fandom. and it’s sense of inclusion and community is honestly something i’ll miss the most. even if you weren’t a bnf or actively producing content, there was so much content to discuss you’d make friends and feel part of something either way. chaotic, self deprecating, emotional or not, this fandom has created something. and it’s a really fucking good thing. 

have a good one. 

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IM LOSING IT THEY BOTH BELIEVE THE OTHER ONE IS STRAIGHT

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dave and karkat sucks at drawing

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more like finally

I CANT BELIEVE HOMESTUCK IS ACTUALLY AN ANIME

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found this in my folder

Roxy making a matri...cube?

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I’m trying to figure out why I like Davepetasprite so much.

Part of it is the juiced-up wish fulfillment of it all, which feels like a very deliberate gesture - DPS look like someone’s OC because they are a perfected being, the Very Thing You Want, as filtered through the native symbol language of MSPA.  Forget that Hope nonsense: this is what an angel looks like in comic sans.

It’s also the end of Dave’s arc, in the way that Jasprosesprite is the end of Rose’s.  The Strider/Lalonde problem is anhedonia.   A situation in which Dave is able to delight in himself - surely that’s the major problem of his character solved, right?  And it couldn’t happen to the “real” Dave, because that kind of solution doesn’t happen to real people.  You don’t wake up one day and decide that you love yourself.  Magic is required.

So the squared sprites are projections of what Dave and Rose wanted to be, really.  Ultraconfident sexually aggressive tentacle cat princess and empathetic androgynous never-alone mindmeld hyperfurry?  Are you kidding me?  Sign my terrified middle-school self up.  If this were really a video game and these kids genuinely gained all the levels, these are what the results would be: the highest selves of 13-year-old trauma victims.  Not god tiers, but gods. And, as gods, they are peripheral - they have to be, right?  The mortals are over there weeping and hugging and smothering themselves with pillows, but the trade-off is they get to have the real relationships and learn the real lessons and live the real lives. Original Dave and Original Rose get to live without pain.

There are always these gears turning in Homestuck under all the bullshit, and that’s what I’m here for.  The Bad Man has this insane propensity for getting me to feel genuine feelings about the impossible and the impossibly stupid.

Instead of sending Christmas cards this year, just send this gif to everyone you know.