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You are now dead. You don’t really notice much difference except for a sudden desire to kill all your friends.
I couldn’t resist
so bECAUSE OF THE UPDATE I WENT OUTSIDE AND STARTED SCREAMING AT 12AM SO NATURALLY SOMEONE THOUGHT I WAS BEING MURDERED AND CALLED THE POLICE AND WHEN THEY GOT HERE I HAD TO GIVE THEM MY EXPLANATION FOR SCREAMING AT 12AM SO I JUST SAID HOMESTUCK AND ONE OF THE COPS EYES SUDDENLY GOT REALLY BIG AND THEN HE SAID “IT UPDATED??!?” AND THEN HE READ THE UPDATE ON HIS PHONE I HAVE A GROWN POLICE MAN SITTING IN MY DRIVEWAY CRYING AND CURSING AT HUSSIE UNDER HIS BREATH HIS PARTER GAVE HIM A SHOCK BLANKET OH MY GOD
pray for her y’all
a seer’s stolen luck
based on this post
a seer’s stolen luck
based on this post
new june outfit!
when you get engulfed by a space-time anomaly and it forces you into therapy for the greater good
and all hope may die, but it lives on inside of me
guys… i don’t think he’s doing this for all of us
What a daring dream.
↑ close-up of the gang
selfish, selfish, selfish adults
huh? guar— whuh???
↓↓ up close guardian spook below ↓↓
someone reboot botboy, also aradia ayo-
upd8 got that delirious 3AM sleepover bestie vibes, where you’re borderline hallucinating tv ad jingles while professing your deepest, most entrenched thoughts and fears
anyway, yes they had a half-ass spa day, yes they made a fort, and yeah they’re gunna do alien ouija yeehaw
Upd8 Fanart Showcase #03
)(i everyone! We're offishally back this week to shellebrate last upd8 with some fintastic fanarts! Sea for yourshellf below!
artists in order of appearance: @hurlyburlytopsyturvy @insufferable-homestuck @silvermoono @spriggiestuff @grim-kitkat @visionaryparacosmos @seaverity @usernameproxy @pastelkerri @number-0y
go check them out! ^^
hi!! I'm elusive from the Homestuck Daily team (a Homestuck news & showcase site), we're doing a fanart showcase soon to show cool art people did about the last upd8 (we delayed it this time to wait for extra fanarts), can we feature this artwork you did?
you'll be fully credited of course, with the link on your artwork leading back to your post here (or on a different site if you want) and the link below it redirecting people on your preferred social platform (or a linktree)
thank you for your time! u-u -elusive
heya! thank you for asking, and I'd love for my upd8 art to be included! no problemo, it's awesome to be part of something like that. it would be great if you could link it back here and credit it to this tumblr blog as well.
can't wait to see the showcase and everyone else's talent too! :)
waddaya mean this didn't happen too
local egbert converses w/ amogus balls vriska in real life 4k
waddaya mean this isn't what happened
(I drew brain ghost dirk all blobby and thought it was so funny, so I just left it lmao. The puns disintegrated his spectral frame.)
on realness and the hope aspect
honestly i feel like a lot of ppl missed the point and just blindly agreed w/ vriska on the candy timeline's "fakeness". like. hmm (rambles)
this post from fefairys is a nice way of putting it: homestuck doesn't like to say things are just one way. if anything the john + vris convo is just a summary of the entire point of the epilogues: both scenarios are equally possible and equally real, bc to the ppl who live them, they r real. maybe one is the technically "right" timeline, but they both exist concretely, because what goes on in one affects the other.
vriska is partially right, but so is john. the timeline is wrong, but it's not fake.
that's the power of hope! not that sort of hope, i mean this hope. the one that has the ability to believe so hard in something, it becomes real. like an imaginary version of your ex-boyfriend. or an alternate timeline. where rage cries out against implausible things, pushing it back with force, hope imagines things so hard they warp reality around them just to exist (think adam from good omens). it doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be held up by enough people believing in it.
the characters of the candy timeline believe that they are real, and so they are. you could make the same argument for the score of doomed timelines that riddle much of regular homestuck honestly. im a bit jumbled but yea. food for thought
In the meat timeline jasprose talked to Jane and convinced her not to be the president and took her and Jane to the ship with Dave karkat roxy calliope and Kanaya before Vriska took the omega kids came, basically leaving earth C in the candy timeline to die out in its lack of canonicity.
In the meat timeline June's house never got destroyed because there was no war. Those letters were probably things from roxy and rose?? That part I'm not 100% sure on.
I sometimes forget roxy and June weren't married in the Canon timeline ,,,,
I'm p sure jasprose is just there to point to the side/bonus comic where meat timeline Jane is convinced not to be an evil dictator president.
alright I’m pretty sure what happened at the end of the update was that Vriska accidentally hit the ship while Biden Bolt-ing the omega kids to deltritus but
anybody know what the hell is going on in these panels? I have literally no clue.
CH3CK 4ND M4T3
CH3CK
4ND
M4T3!
TH1S D33D W1LL R3D33M F1RST M3 4ND TH3N 4LL P4R4DOX SP4C3.
OH MY GOD OH MY FUCKING GOD HE MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME OHHH MY FUCKING GOD
!!!!!
I haven’t had the chance to read any of this yet, and I’m unsure when I will, but... The long-awaited Epilogue is finally here! And ~8000 pages? That’s almost as long as Homestuck itself! (Possibly a longer read, depending on format.)
This is an awesome and fitting 10th Anniversary gift! I bet Hussie’s been purposely waiting to release it on this particular anniversary.
Happy 4/13! Here’s to 10 years of Homestuck, and happy 23rd birthday to John and Jane!
Edit: Never mind; the 8000 pages was referring to Homestuck itself, not the epilogue.
I love how Roxy removes her tie and turns it into a mask. XD
Happy 5th anniversary of 2X3PRONG DAY!
(Which might also be the Cherubs’ birthday? Happy birthday, Calliope? Could this is a be a birthday celebration dinner?)
Remember how Dave entertained the idea of becoming a paleontologist?
DAVE: dead things are actually pretty rad DAVE: i feel like if i was legitmately into all this then more should have come of the interest [...] DAVE: maybe i could have really developed this interest DAVE: maybe i could have been something cool as a result [...] DAVE: i could have been a paleontologist DAVE: instead of what i became [...] DAVE: that would have been the dopeness!
Looks like he’s gone into a similar field---archaeology!
He’s searching for and excavating cultural artifacts (of JPEG artifact Liberties). That’s a new level of irony, too: recovering remnants of an ancient civilization created by his older (i.e. future) self from a parallel universe. It’s both figurative and literal layers upon layers of irony, which is so Dave. He’s combining his passions, and it’s beautiful. :’)
UU: it is the day whereafter the legendary octet of mUtUal progenitoriety will come together and heal a great breach in paradox space. UU: a day delivered throUgh eighty billion years and foUr distinct Universal instances worth of Unfathomable tUrbUlence. UU: and while the emerald eye of this storm is fixed in the abyss forever UU: today yoU are poised to escape its scowl once and for all. UU: by skaias gUiding light, yoU may leave behind its tUrning arms of bright coloUrs and mayhem, and secUre peace for yoUr cosmic progeny for all dUration.
The emerald eye of the storm---the storm of “Unfathomable tUrbUlence“ and “a great breach in paradox space“!
My reaction to the finale of Homestuck.
Essentially, the stages of grief (excluding acceptance). In no particular order.
Comments on [S] Collide
Better late than never, I suppose. This ended up taking me longer than I thought. Plus I procrastinated on posting it. >_<
So, a bunch of battles take place:
The Condesce vs John, Roxy, Rose, and Kanaya (+ Jasprose, Nanna, and Jane)
The Felt vs Jake (+ Jane and undead army)
Cans vs Arquius (+ Dad)
Clover vs Karkat
Jack English vs Spades Slick vs Dave, Terezi, and Dirk
Bec Noir vs PM vs Jade
Yaldabaoth vs Caliborn
Hussie vs Vriska
Lord English vs the Ghost Army (including Meenah, Tavros, Aradia, and Davepeta)
The Fraymotifs are awesome! I love the Zazzerpan tornado callback from [S] Enter, and also Kanaya reading a book and applying lipstick while the others attack!
I’m guessing Kanaya never bought any Fraymotifs, or she would have used them. (They are insanely expensive, and I think Vriska and Terezi were the only ones who earned tons of boondollars. Plus Kanaya was focused on frog breeding.)
Roxy’s Void attacks are glorious. I have no words.
Wait, when and how did Die get his doll back?
Arquius attacks Cans by summoning robo-horses and bashing him repeatedly with the fridge containing Gamzee. Hilarious yet ominous!
Cans does his fourth wall-breaking attack by punching everyone out of the panel and onto LOFAF. Remember, Karkat was last here in Echidna’s lair, and he woke up when LE did the Rainbow Death Laser on his dream self. So now he can battle! ...With Clover. XD
So Crowbar kills Jake, and apparently the Condesce kills Rose and Kanaya, because Jane does the Lifey Thing on all three of them.
John uses the Fear No Anvil hammer! Nice callback!
It looks like Nannasprite attacks the Condesce with heavy objects from John’s house? But it doesn’t seem to affect Condy, and instead hurts John and Roxy?
Jake. Jake what are you doing. XD
Casey’s undead army! Hooray! I can mark that on my bingo card!
Dirk uses a Zilly Santa weapon!
When Dirk dies, Terezi and Dave use an amazing Fraymotif. From what I can tell... Terezi does the Mindy Thing, and envisions (at least) four alternate paths.
Then Dave selects the most favorable path’s timeline? Or he merges the most favorable choices into one timeline? It results in there being three splintered, living Dirks who then seem to merge.
And Slick somehow has two cuestaffs, one in staff form, another in gun form? I’m guessing the Slicks merged, too, then. So a timeline merger makes the most sense. Either way, nice callback to Slick riding the horse hitcher!
Dad is so powerful and strong, he intimidates Cans and Arquius! That really says something!
The battle between the dogs makes a nice parallel to a Cherub mating ritual, with PM as the Cherub heroine.
Interesting, though, how PM has a red background, while Jack has a green one.
Glimpse of Yaldabaoth’s face:
Vriska vs Hussie. This is hilarious and ridiculous! Also I guess this is a Problem Sleuth allusion? (And also looks like Caliborn’s art style, haha!)
As the interlude of “Eternity, Served Cold” (song from [S] Caliborn: Enter) plays, Alt!Calliope approaches the Green Sun, the processional cracks in Paradox Space are nearly complete, Lord English faces the ghost army, and Caliborn defeats his denizen and obtains the house juju and God Tier clock. This is... incredibly ominous, to say the least.
Also, the God Tier clock is stopped dead center with the Time symbol, I suppose indicating Caliborn’s earned immortality?
Serenity brings hope to the heroes! (I assume this is Serenity flying to different locations, rather than multiple fireflies?) Interesting how it first focuses on her body spiral, especially because [S] Caliborn: Enter ended on the red sun spiral right before this part of the song could begin. (Post on this here.)
Another callback!
The Mayor and Serenity reuniting is so adorable and heartwarming! :’) <3 (They’ve been separated since sometime before Year 2 of the meteor journey)
Tavros’ lance is made of Fiduspawn host plush bears, haha! (Apparently he had this weapon in [S] Make her pay.)
Aradia uses her Time spell while she, Meenah, and Tavros attack Lord English. Hehe, I love Aradia, and also I love all these callbacks!
Looking at it closely, it looks like Aradia makes Time for them, freezing LE in time, like she did before with Bec Noir. Meanwhile Meenah attacks very similarly to Dirk’s soul destroying spell; she must be stealing his Life force. (Shouldn’t it be cyan, though, like Jane’s Lifey Thing? Although, actually, Feferi’s Life powers are fuchsia, too. I suppose the color depends on the Life player’s color.)
Then it looks like LE tries to speed up the time Aradia made? Or otherwise do some sort of Timey Thing that resembles Dave’s record being scratched and then repaired. And then he breaks free.
Okay, this looks familiar, like a callback. But I can’t place where it’s from. This is bugging me!
This scene from [S] Game Over is the only similar reference I can think of, but it’s too different:
Ghost Army attacks! And also Shrek with his son Eridan ...who does not have ghost eyes? Hahaha, what even?! (Hello there, god tier Sollux and Latula ghosts! Nice to have sprites of Mage, Doom, and Mind garb!)
Davepeta! Undertale reference! THIS. IS. THE GREATEST. THING. EVER! I love this so much I am giddy!
I mean, Heart+Time basically IS Determination! So perfect! Also Davepeta has 33 HP, with reference to Nepeta’s number and how Davepeta uses the B33 emote.
A pink dream bubble next to a shrinking green bubble. More foreshadowing of the Green Sun’s destruction and the creation of a Pink Sun?
I’m really worried for Jane. I hope she’s not dead. We barely got to see her fight, and her showdown with the Condesce happened offscreen. This isn’t right.
Heir of Grief is such a lovely song! As is the sequence with the Beta Kids.
On LOTAK, Gamzee’s still in the fridge and crying. I never thought I’d say this, but... I... actually feel bad for him. :(
Love Crowbar’s stunned reaction to Jake defeating the felt. Also, victory for Karkat! He defeated the smallest, yet MOST DIFFICULT Felt member! Also Clover’s so kinky! XD (More on Karkat and Clover here.)
Jade auspisticizes Bec Noir and PM! But PM is so furious, she overcomes her Bec loyalty instincts and KO’s Jade, favoring her goal (Breath) over her bond (Blood).
That look of defeat on both Dirk and Dave... They know what must be done. :c
I am reminded of Dirk’s “shoulder to shoulder and to shoulder” line. Also Dave breaks Dirk’s Unbreakable Katana. For the first time since his death on LOFAF, Dave time travels to create stable time loops.
I already commented on the black hole with 2/3 of LOTAK and Gamzee, which is incredibly ominous.
PM slices off Bec Noir’s arm, KO’s him, and take the ring! This is not the first time a Jack has lost an arm to a kismesis who’s a queen.
Roxy takes down the Condesce?! Doesn’t Condy have an conditional mortality curse that her killer should inherit? Or was that transfer unique from the Handmaid to the Condesce? I guess it’s unclear. I’m incredibly skeptical of Condy being dead for good, though, considering her curse and how Terezi survived impalement (at least for a while).
It feels like Jane really got shafted in this upd8. She didn’t have much action or screen time, and basically her battle with the Condesce happened off-screen. If anyone should have taken down the Batterwitch, it should’ve been the heiress to Crockercorp. I guess we’ll have to see if Condy’s certainly dead.
That ending, though... That eerie ringing sound, the screen freezing and going static...
The clockwork mechanism being completely still and then fading to black on a white background... This is incredibly ominous. Not to mention those curtains didn’t close. (Compare Collide’s act closing to Cascade’s. In Cascade, the window curtains, though shredded, still closed.)
Some follow-up questions:
Where did Sollux go?
What happened to DD and CD?
How is it the comic went straight from A6A6I5 to A6A6A6 with no curtains closing to indicate the Intermission’s end?
But yeah, I am left with the strong impression this is a false victory. Lord English isn’t defeated, anyway, after all.
Wonderful flash, though! Major applause to everyone involved with making it! Looking toward to, yet incredibly uneasy and anxious about the upcoming finale.
Special thanks @hzapping for showing me how to make animated GIFs (ended up in the Clover post) and for helping me locate a bunch of reference links.