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[sahcon]

Some more of your questions to the Hiveswap: Act 3 team over at What Pumpkin!

Q: Has the basic outline of the story remained since the launch of Act 1 & 2? Has it undergone major changes over the years? A: There’s a broad strokes outline followed since Act 1 that hasn't changed all that much.

Q: Will we see any more of Trizza Tethis? (Caroline) A: Unfortunately, yes.

Q: Will the characters we chose to come onto the train have a bigger role in the later story because of such? (12Cashmere) A: Not like, enormously bigger but yes, Chixie’s role changes significantly. There’s going to be a lot more carryover on choices like this from Act 2 to 4 and 3 to 4.

Q: Have there been any characters whose quirks were particularly difficult to figure out? (Alienoid) A: A guy named Garjon.

[insufferablemod]

You watch him hem and haw over answering, feet shifting, same beat up black shoes, scuffing the gravel, cape swishing behind him in a one-two step. The halo of his hair, bleached eery white in the street lamp, how the light never seems to catch the rim of his shades. You missed this, you think. The bits of him that are so unsettlingly inhuman, how he's so close to you, but just far enough that you couldn't reach to touch. - Metempsychosis

[countratcula]

PCG: I GAVE YOUR WHOLE UNIVERSE CANCER JADE

PCG: SORRY

[saradiation]

HAPPY 413! 🎂

[relaxxattack]

okay so i don't want to particularly call out these kinds of headcanons as bad. but they highlight a specific fandom trend ive seen for ages so here goes:

the extended zodiac is not alternian canon, nor zodiac.

i know that's brash for a lighthearted official personality quiz. but i've seen this zodiac presented frequently as the End All of trollsigns -- even claims that all trolls MUST derive from these 288. this is a complete misrepresentation of original canon.

first, obviously, the notion that your personality is determined by your caste is literally just what troll racism is, so the canocity of this test claims racism as truth. second of all, the traits are not even accurate to the trolls we DO see in canon- they're pulled from western zodiac.

the zodiac's also determined by lunar sway; nonsense because alternian trolls don't have lunar sway. it's a "moon a sburb player dreams on", and none of these trolls are sburb players. (i also feel like this should go for aspects, though that is a more controversial opinion)

so yeah, the extended zodiac is inaccurate and purely just fandom sburb personality-type nonsense. but does that really make it noncanon? plenty of stuff on alternia is nonsense.

except... homestuck trolls don't believe that signs are a zodiac that determine their personality.

not only is the idea of signs being related to some sort of personality zodiac never once mentioned by a troll, but the signs are frequently tied to other things that have nothing to do with personality. kanaya equivalents trollsigns to signatures, and later vriska explains the concept to john as being similar to a family crest, bemoaning that trolls have to do much more searching for clues or their ancestry than humans do. cronus also refers to his sign as his signature.

virska does use the phrasing that trolls who have the same sign "have a lot in common", but she also does this explicitly in the context of explaining to john how troll ancestry works, as hussie further notes in the commentary of that page that signs are included in physical/genetic characteristics trolls look to for ancestry clues. even hiveswap, which wants you to believe in the zodiac, concludes that signs are specific to troll surnames and that there are signs outside of it. multiple trolls in homestuck have signs that do not appear in the extended zodiac.

the extended zodiac quiz ≠ the alternian sign alphabet.

alternians wouldn't know what aspects or lunar sways are, nor have personalities equivilant to their signs (feferi and meenah are right there). deciding that trollsigns = personality test is a purely human concept that comes from our western zodiac.

but you know what alternians DO have?

THEY HAD THEIR OWN FUCKING CONSTELLATIONS AND ZODIAC. FROM THEIR OWN CREATORS. THIS WHOLE TIME.

where are the headcanons about troll's placements on THAT zodiac?

[cr0wbee]

i'm normal. i am normal about him. and chromokopia. i swear. *sweating*

(hal's outfit inspo and stuff is 100% @realreadysetrose 's its so cool look at their cosplay NOW NOW NOW)

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

chillin in the shitty wwand pile

[dumo-demonz]

big day for annoying ppl (me)

[ganag]

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[jonayariley]

Official Hiveswap: Act 3 AMA at Stuck at Home Con 2024!

Exciting Hiveswap news everyone!

As a new producer on the Act 3 team, I'm organizing an official panel for this year's SAHCon - and one of our writers/narrative designers has volunteered to answer some of your questions!

Hiveswap: Act 3 Writer's AMA Submission form:

Submissions will be open through July 7th, 2024!

(the form won't collect emails - you're free to send asks anonymously, just be cool!)

[humanmaybe]

I bring to you: Homestuck fanart in the year of our lord Two Thousand And Twenty Four. Astounding.

@betatrolls won my 1,000 follower art raffle and requested Nepeta, and I actually really enjoyed drawing her! Very happy with the result too :3

Based on the tarot card Knight of Wands, which Nepeta’s wiki said she was featured as in the Homestuck Tarot Deck. Tbh tho I just rly wanted to draw her riding Big Kittey,

[sahcon]

Reading the latest Homestuck official news post

[insufferablemod]

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

JOHN: my one friend can't stop saying-

JADE: "see you in hell!"

JOHN: -instead of, "talk to you later," and my other friend can't stop calling things-

DAVE: "penis"

JOHN: -instead of "cool" or "good", so i just unironically uttered the phrase, "sounds penis, see you in hell!" as i got off the phone.

TEREZI: OFF1C14L SOUNDS P3N1S S33 YOU 1N H3LL MOM3NT

JOHN: wow, we fucking did it, boys and ghouls! penis prime time! i only wish my dad were alive to see this.

[roobiedo]

Assorted blorbos on my mind (part 1/?)

The theme is uhhhhh... time-loop tortured, erratic/unpredictable personality, no stranger to death, plus a (mostly) monochrome palette... i guess!

[selfdiagnosedeyemotif]

one thing that ill always love is that sollux captor, notorious prick and borderline misanthrope, calls karkat "KK". like yeah, its his standard practice for nicknames, but like. this is the guy that sollux rags on the most, tears to shreds verbally, very vocally expresses his distaste for, but has the cutest fucking nickname for. like what the fuck. i love that nickname so much. he may have famously said that words are cheap but those two letters are worth everything