TrollJegus
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:’(
I made a terrible decision about how to spend my free time. Also about my life in general. Sometimes I wish I was a normal teenager who spent his free time doing teenager things. Instead I just spent the past few hours on this.
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The Medium of Storytelling
I’d like to take a moment to appreciate Homestuck not for its plot, but for the way Andrew Hussie is using it to stretch the medium of webcomic. Homestuck would be pretty amazing if it were just GIFs and logs. AH said that he made Homestuck to test the medium, but I would have been fine if he had stopped before adding flash animations to the mix. I would have been fine if he had stopped before adding interactive flash games to the mix. I would have been fine if he hadn’t done the banner/page duality with Doc Scratch. I would have been fine if he hadn’t been doing the 2x combo in these recent pages. But he did all of them, and they make Homestuck more than a bitchin’ comic. They make Homestuck an evolution of the art of webcomic.
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The True Lord English?!
Boots mentioned here that Lord English has more Horcruxes “And we have a duty to deduce what the other unassuming vessels may be.”
I’ve gotten close to locating one. I found another person possessed by Lord English like Jack just was/is.
It is none other than RYAN NORTH!
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Musings on The 2/2 Update
Spoilerz below
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Sburb Heroes: Play as Black.
(Note: This is mostly speculative and a tad silly. A hypothesis more than a theory.)
In Sburb, Prospit and the white army are the “good guys” and Derse and the black army is the “bad guys.” The player’s job is to work with the white “team” to defeat the black “team.”
At least, this is essentially the narrative we have seen for most of Homestuck. I think its stupid and there is an alternative.
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WHERE IS WHEN
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The Importance of Ancestors / Who Are the Real Heroes?
I always wondered why Kanaya was so worried about meeting Porrim, but Porrim didn’t seem to have any problem meeting Kanaya. Just as Porrim was Kanaya’s ancestor, so was Kanaya Porrim’s ancestor! Porrim should have been worried as well.
Of course, it could be because Porrim is the kind of person (troll?) who casts a shadow (as both Porrim and the Dolorosa). But what if Kanaya was a shitty ancestor, and in fact, her whole crop of twelve were shitty ancestors?
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Sprite Splodes
The MINUTE arquiussprite mentioned his inner turmoil I knew all the sprites were going to explode, and then fefeta had to explode right away and make the whole thing a lot more obvious.
HUSSSSIIIIEEEEEEEEE -
A chart based on Bladekindeyewear’s work here.
The diagonal lines show how one would (theoretically) invert.
(I also fixed “Explioit”) -
Does Classpect confuse you? The endless series of titles and ranks, charting some unfathomable system that is wondrously complex, terribly complex, but overall just seems way too important to the story for something Hussie doesn’t seem willing to explain? Well good news! Under the tutelage of my friend and mentor bladekindEyewear, I have the learned the basics, and through spending way too much time thinking and writing about the classes and aspects, I have come up with working definitions and ideas behind them! So read on, and look at a few very well defended and defined ideas and theories behind them all.
This system was primarily developed by Homestuck, so reading the comic would be a great asset in understanding it, but by no means should a study be limited to fans of the comic. It would be very interesting to see a non-Homestuck get into the system.
It’s all under the cut. Questions, additions, theories, criticisms, compliments, and gifts are all well appreciated. Especially the gifts. But be warned: there are approximately 9,000 words here, and you are getting yourself into something big.
“If anyone is reading this still, you are a fucking saint. I am going mad and I’m 5,000 words in and this is pointless what am I doing with my life.”
Someday I’ll get to reading all of this, but for now the joke’s on you, I just skimmed it! (I guess I don’t get to be the Saint of Fuck?)
But in all seriousness this is amazing! This clearly involved a lot of work and it manages to put everything all together in one place. I especially like your focus on the background behind the names, because they do have a cultural meaning that is important.
Bravo!
