#The Unofficial Homestuck Collection

[scalematez]

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.

[meraki-sunset]

as someone who’s barely even heard of homestuck where do I find the comics

do I have to hunt down an archive

The original comic is all broken now, because in case you didn't know, the comic had pages that could be gifs, or videos or games, but the program that used to run them no longer exists so the whole comic is now kind of a mess

But you can download the comic and read it the was it was before, HERE

The unofficial Homestuck Collection has the whole comic and it all works perfectly. The adventure map (the comic's index for for the chapters) begins to apear as you read, so you can't skip ahead. It's really intractive, I'm currently re-reading it on it and it's amazing. (it's 7GB so make sure you have space)

[nictelsm]

Wait a minute... Tantusar? That's the same guy who voices Tree in BFDI.

Sewiously. A jacknjellify crew member actually contributed for a Homestuck project. I'm surprised he (probably) got into Homestuck the same way Sam Lee did.

So here's this.

WILL THERE EVER BE HOMESTUCK REFERENCES IN BFDI? GEE, IF THERE EVER WERE, I'D SHIT MYSELF.

[spaceengineerjulia]

Want to read Homestuck?

Heard of this homestuck thing and want to find out what it's all about?

download this ==>

The homestuck website is bitrotted to hell and isn't usable, this is an offline collection bundled with a web browser and flash, so you can view the webcomic as it was originally presented.

[giovanh]

FYI since I'm hearing that some people aren't seeing the automatic updater notification, the Unofficial Homestuck Collection updated last week to add most of the beta features from the web version to the main program. Links for Win/Mac/Linux:

[kitkatsmol]

MSPA Reread Masterpost

Yeah, uh.. Doing this. Could even say im making it happen.

So here's what im actually gonna be doing- this won't be completely extensive, just a certain amount of stuff with links to the liveblog tags, in-order:

Jailbreak - Start Reading

Bardquest - Start Reading

Problem Sleuth - Start Reading

Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff - Start Reading

Homestuck - Start Reading

Homestuck Epilogues - Start Reading

Homestuck: Beyond Canon - Start Reading

As of posting all these links should just show you the masterpost, but give it time. This'll take a while. updates will be under the tag "MSPA Reread Updates", if you actually care that much lol

Wish me luck.

[screane5]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST LOOK AT HIS ROOM

[gunkpup]

im coming back to my roots.

[bearstuck]

literally the best argument that i can give for someone to read the unofficial collection as opposed to trying to read homestuck.com or through youtube read-alongs is that TUHC has archives of extra things like the paradox space comics. paradox space is still up to read but its shoved into a corner of homestuck.com that really hates being alive and its archive on hiveswap.com is inaccessible through anything other than finding the hyperlink through google (and the hiveswap archive is strangely missing some pages, like the end of "vrisky business")

the homestuck beta is in the unofficial homestuck collection. the one made entirely in flash before hussie realized that was a terrible idea. all of the homestuck albums, including the wanderers and squiddles! that arent accessible on bandcamp anymore. archives of hussie's formspring and blogspot posts, for better or for worse. it's a central hub for anything hussie-related up until homestuck's ending. if you have no idea what namco high was or why its was such a big deal when it came out, it being archived to TUHC is more than enough to download it if you can

[curiousmagpie]

Welp, time to reread homestuck.

Shoutout to the Unofficial Homestuck Collection for preserving Homestuck how it was originally made!

Homestuck Volume 4 - Sburban Jungle

[emeraldoo]

uhh you're a homestuck mutual, I've got the Unofficial Homestuck Collection thing up and running on my computer, do you know if there is a way/ what is the best way to have something like that (all the assets locally and a custom client) on my android tablet?

uhhh maybe? ive honestly only ever used uhc on windows. theres a linux version of it and someone has been trying to do the same thing your doing? i couldnt find much more than that though, and i havent touched much on android and linux stuff. if you do get it working though i recommend making documentation about it on r/homestuck since this would be good public info

[homestuckreplay]

My First Social Interaction In 413 Years

(page 1040-1051)

THE AIMLESS RENEGADE SHOT AT WV AND PM. I’m furious over this. There will be no forgiveness. But it makes sense that since Jack Noir was recently introduced as a potential villain for the beta kids – certainly for John, as he’s imprisoning his dad – we are getting a villain for the future folks too.

I really like the nervousness between WV and PM (p.1044) which I’m sure could be interpreted as romantic, but I personally see it as the first motions towards truce between these two different sides of a war. This might be the first time either of them has interacted with someone from the other planet in a non-hostile way. They’ve also both been wandering the wasteland without meeting anyone else in person for potentially up to 413 years, so any social interaction is probably nervewracking under those conditions – it’s not like either of them were great at interacting with the kids. These first movements towards friendship between them are very sweet.

PM’s sword is back and so badass. I think real mail workers should also be allowed to carry a sword for self defense. I hope that worm with the mailbox in its jaws is gently holding it for PM and not about to take a chomp, otherwise it’s about to have a bad time.

Page 1041 is drawn in a full color, wide brush scribbly style that was also used on page 1007, but used here for a more landscapey page (plus Jade’s ‘==> cover!’) it looks like a hybrid between the cleaner future style and Jade’s note (p.1038), further blurring the boundaries between the present and the future, between Jade and WV. Although I’m not sure what the ‘<== hurry!’ is doing, as that seems directed to PM, who hasn’t looked at the note yet so can’t be following the order.

This update also introduces some Gender. Jade refers to PM as ‘Miss Mail Lady’, and has previously called WV ‘Mister Mayor’. I think it is a little strange that a chess piece construct has a gender but I respect people’s pronouns. Later, Jade thinks that the other Prospit moon tower only differs from hers as it’s ‘home to a young boy instead of a young girl’, though I’d say the clown presence and the inhabitant being asleep are more striking differences.

@tenaciouschronicler was so right to mention keeping an eye on dichotomies, and that’s definitely a theme I want to write lots about in the future, but I’m especially interested with how dichotomies are set up and then questioned or subverted. We’re seeing this with the art style, with the different timelines, possibly with the light and dark sides of the war, and hopefully with gender (although that could be my personal bias).

I actually forgot to even speculate who or what might be in the other tower, but John being there (in a matching golden outfit!) explains this earlier conversation.

GG: oh gosh john i really want to tell you all this stuff!!! GG: but i cant yet GG: i really think you need to wake up first! EB: huh? GG: well ok not literally GG: well ok maybe KINDA literally!! (p.652)

I think that awake Jade had this conversation with John, because of the Jade inequality where waking Jade seems aware of dream Jade’s existence, but the reverse doesn’t seem true – dream Jade isn’t aware of the finger reminder system (p.777, 1050). Waking Jade wants to explain the difference between these two selves to John, but she thinks John won’t believe her, because John doesn’t know about this alternate version of himself. If the dream self represents the unconscious then perhaps now that he can see the graffiti in his waking room, he’ll be ready to realize this. This means that the previous conversations Jade has with John (p.169, p.293) happen while Jade is asleep – in fact, are presumably about to happen, because she’s about to message John to ask about his present (p.1051).

Which means that the explosion Jade describes on page 169 actually happens on Prospit, possibly as a consequence of the eclipse Jade is nervous about. It also means that there is a version of Bec somewhere on Prospit, as he warns her away from investigating between the two conversations (p.293). This all calls into question my sense that Jade likes to take control of conversations, dispensing information slowly as she knows more than her friends – if her dream self isn’t even aware of her waking self’s life, and if she’s dreaming during roughly half her conversations, her information is a lot more imperfect than I thought. That’s exciting to me, and makes it well worth rereading all of Jade’s conversations and trying to figure out which Jade is talking.

Clearly, John has been within the Medium since before he entered the Medium. How long has he been here, and how does that line up with how long John and Jade have been friends while awake? Did Jade see the kid in the other tower and decide to search for him while awake using some of her powers? Or did John talking to Jade online ‘infect’ him slightly with some of her abilities and pull him under Skaia’s will? Is the whole thing a total coincidence, or is it a “coincidence”, predetermined by Skaia? Which version of Jade – awake or dreaming – was talking to John the first time they met online?

And no shit John is having troubled dreams. There’s an imp on his bed. Specifically, a black chess piece, which is unexpected on Prospit. And his graffiti is also here, so it’s a fair guess he’s dreaming about clowns. I’m thinking about how Prospit is supposed to be the planet of goodness of light, working for the righteous cause of protecting Skaia, but Jade and John both go through some rough stuff. Even if it can’t extend to waking life, I’d expect a place like this to guard its wards from unpleasant dreams, and one single imp doll should not be able to overpower the entire planet. So what’s going on? What are the secret dark sides to this luminous planet?

Page 1051 (below) has to be one of the coolest visual panels so far. The white/blue to black/yellow transition, with Jade hovering bravely between the two planets bringing the colors from the bottom section into the top, and the geometric reflections of Prospit superimposed on the swirling clouds, are all stunning and make the eclipse feel like an important moment.

> Jade: Reminisce about previous eclipse.

[lucabyte]

when you take "Avatar: the way of water" in the context of homestuck, given that earth pop culture exists in that universe up until 2024, it gives the impression that Alpha Timeline James Cameron was trying to warn us about something.

[nictelsm]

I've been an ass during my time on Reddit. I got in an argument between an internet user on there over characters in Homestuck, tried being pretentious by acting like I know Homestuck, started getting pissed off because the user mixed up two different things, never went anywhere with the conversation, and just deleted my account. I'm involved in Homestuck's fandom but I never read it in any way. Don't you see how stupid that is, to act like you know what the hell a Homestuck is when you didn't take the time or research to take a look at anything out of it? I fucked up. I fucked up and acted like I was the good guy.

So because of this, I have to read Homestuck no matter what. Not on Viz Media's homestuck.com, but on the Unofficial Homestuck Collection (There's actually an online version of the Homestuck Collection, but I'm not gonna read it like I'm using a phone). I'm missing out on so many things and it's gonna take a long time for me to get an actual PC to read Homestuck in its original glory. Once I'm stucked, you know I'm fucked.

For now on, if I can actually do this, I'm gonna ignore Homestuck, pretend it's not there, and focus on shit that's rarely even related to Homestuck.

Or I'm just gonna read it on Viz Media's wedsite I dunno.

[hms-no-fun]

me: i have selflessly preserved the at-threat webcomic homestuck at a new url for all of us, with no expectation of reward or credit, as i am but a humble fan

the url: "sarah zedig literally wrote homestuck dot com"

this is just embarrassing

[giovanh]

In case you missed it, TUHC supports the Homestuck epilogues now.

you’re welcome and/or I’m very sorry