#swapped from: equius

[bloodswapkinfessions]

D --> My blood keeps swapping between candy and indigo This is not fun atleast I am consistently hemoanonymous

we love safety and we love colors here and YEAH..... my own pyrope stuff very consistently is either teal or purple too

also i HAVE your other asks saved as drafts!!! i need to figure out how to tag them properly since it looks like people's last names didn't change?

[triptychgardener]

The cool thing about Homestuck and gender is that imo characters tend to run in parallels. Dirk is a trans guy and Roxy is a trans girl. Roxy and Eridan are both transfeminine. Aradia is agender and Sollux is bigender. June and Vriska's Whole Deal. Obviously there's the involvement of aspects i.e. breath lending itself towards fluidity i.e., but given the way that characters balance and parallel each other I think it's relevant to the gender conversation.

[conceptofjoy]

How did you figure out your classpect? most things point to knight of time for me and i cannot handle having the same classpect as DAVE????? and ur like THE homestuck expert to me (constantly based takes :3) so im curious how u figured urs out cause i am struggling because i have no idea wtf im like and its worded all weird

hmm partially was because i had known the time thing for years before i got back into homestuck but when i re analyzed it, it still held up.

then theres this beast of an analysis. i agree w most of it! i think theres some class stuff that im raising an eye over i guess, tho but over all, its good. i think it should maybe analyze classpects in the relation to the story more rather than characters as individuals if u get what i mean.

i think some classpect r easier 2 glean bc there r other character categories that help if ur able to identify as one of these:

red girl (dave, aradia, arquius, damara/handmaid)

green girl (callie/al, kanaya, jade, porrim, snowman)

pink girl (roxy, meenah/hic, feferi)

blue girl (snowman, vriska, aranea/ mindfang, june, jane, terezi)

puppet (cal) lover which has a pre and post soul-sealing distinction (all dirks, equius, caliborn, and gamzee)

prospit/ derse

if your class falls into the swapped around dancestor groups like how bard and prince got switched for makaras and amporas

and uh… there r others but they are eluding me. you dont have to be a Girl to be in those categories, just have a complex relationship with patriarchy. also some categories have characters that overlap w each other like equius/hal. their red girlness plus exploitation under patriarchy is hella interesting.

so if youre looking at like the green girl area and going oh shit! me for real! then u should look into space. you can relate to the theme of one character or character group and then the actions of a character from a different group. thats a simplified explanation of a classpect, how a person is effected by system of power, and what they do in response to it.

roxy’s class interacting with her pink girlness is why she was the one to kill HIC, and void has ties to the outer gods the fuchsias can interact with.

jane turns red and aradia turns blue when being their most exploited. they revert back when back to their true selves slash colors when freed.

vriska overpowering gamzee was symbolic of her pushing back the rage and or patriarchal themes he represented. light deals with plot while hope and rage deal with reality, those two things are closely intertwined bc they all exist within a story.

[mmmmalo]

Rambling.

The panels scattered across Scratch's floor tend to be thematically united, I tend to think. Page 4019 we see Dave v Gamzee, the Genesis Frog, and one of Terezi's Cool Kid edits. Though a representation of Dave, the Cool Kid's arms are held forward in a manner akin to the adjacent frog, formally inviting the comparison. The substance of their resemblance seems to be self-hatred: as Karkat declares Noir the cancer, a hostile self-division, Spades Slick gazes upon Bilious Slick through a veil of icy water, as though staring into a mirror with murderous intent.* This abstract image of self-hatred is grounded by Karkat's standard declarations of totalizing guilt. Meanwhile Gamzee introduces hostile objects into the dream chambers of John and Dave, thereby introducing antagonistic self-divisions into their psyches. This is paralleled by the "schizophrenic bullshit" Dave observes in Gamzee, his split-vocalizations and (perhaps more importantly) his sense that he has become what he hates: a non-believer, in his case.

I find it interesting that the link to the Miracles video that sets off Gamzee's crisis should exist on the same page as one of the comic's rare f-bombs ("lol @ u fagz"). It gives me the sense that Gamzee's role as heretic punishing non-believers collides with his role as one of the comic's gay homophobes -- Gamzee punishing Equius and Nepeta for swapping clothes (despite wearing Terezi's glasses) is my go-to example, though Karkat considerately calls Gamzee an "idiot in makeup" to remind us that clowns function as symbols of gender deviance. Might explain why Gamzee's log is bookended on either side with gay shit (kissing Tavros's head, flirting with Dave)

*it would be cool if this were why the frog head of the temple got replace by Bec's visage -- they were synonymous from the start. Bec's head is sort of drawn like a frog anyway, with the frogs rounded cheeks cut in half to suggest tufts of hair, the upward bulging, rounded eyes cut in half to suggest wolven ears. Bec's murder of the mystery frog would come to look vaguely suicidal, perhaps echoing Jade's perception of the death of Grandpa... anyway,

[catgirl-catboy]

Homestuck is great, but it did not use Vriska's metal arm nearly enough. Here are some missed opportunities:

Vriska elbowing someone and have them bruise for days.

Vriska and Sollux teaming up to work on it, so they can beat Equius at arm wrestling. They beat him, but somehow lose to Nepeta.

She removes her arm from her shoulder when something is slightly out of reach.

She has a bunch of different hand attachments and she swaps them out at will. Some are more practical than others, but you can't deny that having your hand be a sword is fucking badass.

Why would the great Marquise limit herself to a normal range of motion? She freaks Kanaya out by having her elbow bend backward. The kids hear about shit Vriska does, and have questions about troll biology.

Terezi plays "how many times can I lick Vriska's metal arm before she catches me?" Vriska coats her arm with spices in retaliation. Somehow, Terezi likes this even more.

The kids find out about this when Vriska plays a mean prank about how someone RIPPED OUT HER ARM!! It takes a good 10 minutes for someone to mention her arm is a prosthetic.

After this, Vriska tells each of them a different fake story. There is still much debate over the truth. (Terezi encourages this.)

(Vriska and Aradia holding metal hands together ;-;)

Most people focus on the loss of her vision eightfold, which makes sense since that's a cornerstone of her identity. But Vriska would be such a menace about losing an arm.

[lepiosprites]

I went back and updated all the phosphor swaps of the beta trolls! Well aside from equius since buls still got the sunglasses

Phosphors belong to me

[vimbry]

not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I remember most of those references.

listen here cumslut: beginning of an animal welfare rant from someone who thought a gif of the animatronic cockatoo drinking from a chocolate fountain in the movie "jack and jill" was real

nice legs daisy dukes: edits of the song "STARSTRUKK", usually swapping out different nouns, were popular. one I remember best was "nice legs, daisy dukes, green moose, guava juice" with a picture of timmy turner.

ridiculously photogenic: that guy running a marathon who became a viral sensation for looking really good while doing it

peasants: we used to call people who didn't use tumblr this

gangnam style: we all know that one. I think the "gangnam style away from" part is about that fake-fake story (as in, this famous post turned out to have never actually existed, but was a made-up screenshot by a guy who wanted to make tumblr users look like dumb lying sjws) about a person who was homeless gangnam style-dancing a guy away in an "everybody clapped" way.

scalene triangle: scalene triangles were a meme for some reason? I think possibly unrelated to the hipster triangles, but that might be the origin.

shia labeouf: became kind of a meme I think due that actual cannibal shia labeouf song and because he was very popular this point

cole sprouse social experiment: before becoming the "riverdale" darling, he was the former "suite life" kid who was one of the first accessible celebrities on here, known for being sarcastic and philosophical, who later tanked his blog by claiming it was all a social experiment.

ikea monkey: the stylish but illegal ikea monkey wearing a coat behind a window. I think this one is also still well-known.

we didn't catch kony: I'll be honest, I had to look some of this up because I was fuzzy on the exact details even at the time, tho all I knew is it was related to politics. anyway it was centred around a documentary about bringing joseph kony to justice. what a wild thing to meme.

ecce homo: that poor woman who tried to restore the painting of jesus by herself lol

twinkies: were these a meme?? I guess so

god bless you (with equius) #2terms: I've tapped out by the end of the post I don't know these at all. I'm almost certain one of those words is a homestuck thing tho.

[notedchampagne]

i found your old tltstuck and filled in the gaps cause i had nothing better to do with my night. basically in my head it's like

first house: caliborn/calliope

second house: mindfang/darkleer, vriska/terezi

third house: condesce/psiionic, feferi/eridan

fourth house: dualscar/dolorosa, equius/nepeta (dolorosa is seventh house jane's original cav so she had to eat jake instead to ascend)

fifth house: grand highblood/redglare, gamzee/june

sixth house: roxy/dirk, rose/dave

seventh house: jane/jake, jade/tavros

eighth house: handmaid/summoner (going off of what happened with the beforans), sollux/aradia

ninth house: signless/disciple, karkat/kanaya

thoughts?

1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 8th i agree with in the sense that i dont have much comment on them other than "vibes" - i can see vrisrezi in the 2nd or 4th house about as equally as i can imagine karkat and equius/nepeta in the fourth based on the fact that its literally the Child Soldier planet, which fits alternia perfectly. any other houses seem more specific to tropes or character analyses that imo dont fit the homestuck cast as well! shocker but im not a huge fan of crossovers for this reason, bc trying to replace characters or positions 1:1 gets difficult when various themes and characters might intersect.

i would swap jane/jake and the strilondes because i associate the glasspits much more in the academic/unseen intelligence area (especially since jane was literally raised to learn and conquer, i can see them all more prominently in 3rd/5th as powerhouses) and the strilondes in an eternal strife with death and whatever fate might mean. but again the strilondes are also heavily fourthcoded to me (though i can see rose as sixth, and i assume you paired a lot of them from existing duo dynamics). and kanaya goes hard in the 7th house. lastly i find it hard to associate anyone with the ninth house because its so beautifully engineered for harrowhark and harrowhark only. even though karkat and kanaya have their "galaxy letdown" moments which could be associated with harrow, the ninths main purpose is to isolate and uphold a deep antichrist with fear and reverence, which is [gestures vaguely] its something rose would want to migrate to but you would have to consider how their personalities would be nurtured if they were born and raised in such an environment; its harder to reverse engineer such things and at this point its a lot like a very extreme kidswap to me

if anything i say here right now contradicts what ive said before well. my thoughts have changed it just happens

[stinky-fuck-swag]

Aaand here's the brackets!

Wacky ass formatting, i know- Matchups under the cut, polls will be starting soon!

(note: i know nothing about like. 80% of these characters. if their names or where theyre from is incorrect, just lmk cuz i have NOO IDEAA) also i am fully aware of every mistake made in this bracket. whoops

BRACKET A, SIDE A

Henry Oak (Dungeons and Daddies) VS Normal Oak (Dungeons and Daddies season 2

Zora Salazar (Epithet Erased) VS Stink (Epithet Erased)

Anders (Dragon Age) VS Isabela (Dragon Age)

Deandra the new girl (Most Popular Girls in School) VS Peach (real life)

Randy Jade (Dialtown) VS Phonegingi (Dialtown)

Stunky (Pokemon) VS Stinkeye (Yo-kai Watch)

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) VS Dimple (Mob Psycho 100)

Moonbeam McSwine (Li'l Abner) VS Marc Spector (Marvel Comics)

Link (BOTW) VS Lt. Columbo (Columbo)

Yoda (Star Wars) VS Shaggy (Scooby Doo)

Dob the Half Orc Bard (Oxventure Dungeons and Dragons) VS Caleb Widogast (Critical Role campaign 2)

Shinjiro Aragaki (Persona 3) VS Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5)

Gyro Zepelli (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) VS Guido Mista (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Tokkori (Kirby right back at ya) VS Jotaro Kujo (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Elon Musk (real life. sadly) VS Berdly (Deltarune)

Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune) VS Susie (Deltarune)

BRACKET A, SIDE B

The Great Mighty Poo (Conker) VS The Poop Smith (Homestar Runner)

Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s) VS Springtrap (Five Nights at Freddy’s)

Manjoume Jun/Chazz Princeton (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) VS Datz Are'bal (Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice)

Aragorn (Lord of the Rings) VS Humans in general (Star Trek)

Captain Rockhopper (Club Penguin) VS King Micah of Bright Moon (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Frank Gallagher (Shameless) VS Remus Sanders (Sanders Sides)

The Riddler (Batman: Arkham Knight) VS Power (Chainsaw Man)

Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) VS Every Dog (real life)

c!Technoblade (Dream SMP) VS c!Wilbur Soot (Dream SMP)

Harrier Du Bois (Disco Elysium) VS Bruno Madrigal (Encanto)

Submitters Brother (real life) VS Prosperity Redding (The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding)

Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi) VS Goobleck (Just Roll With It)

Enoch O'Connor (Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children) VS Smores (real life)

Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) VS Erik (The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber musical & movie))

The Voters (Tumblr) VS Equius Zahhak (Homestuck)

Rotten Apple (Showvember) VS Loki (real life)

BRACKET B, SIDE A

Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) VS Smudge (Cascão) (Monica’s Team (Turma da Monica))

Oscar the Grouch (Sesame Street) VS Stinky Pete (Toy Story 2)

Toko Fukawa (Danganronpa) VS L (Death Note)

Stink Bomb (Skylanders: SWAP Force) VS Slugcat (Rain World)

Thorfinn (Vinland Saga) VS Vice (Kamen Rider Revice)

Dr. Iceberg (SCP Foundation) VS Dr. Alto Clef (SCP Foundation)

Ash Ketchum (Pokemon) VS Doug Eiffel (Wolf 359)

Estinien Wyrmblood (Final Fantasy XIV) VS Alphinaud Leveilleur (Final Fantasy XIV)

Raphael Hamato (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) VS Gobber (How To Train Your Dragon)

Keaton (Fire Emblem Fates) VS Sniper (Team Fortress 2)

Bill Lenz (Black Christmas 1974) VS Stinkor (Masters of the Universe)

The Sewer Urchin (The Tick (1994 Animated Series)) VS Macaque (Lego Monkie Kid)

Barfbat (Ward (Parahumans series)) VS Kevin (Synthesizer V)

Yellowfang (Warrior Cats) VS Big Mac (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Heppokomaru (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo) VS Captain 3 (Splatoon 3)

Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls) VS Linus (Stardew Valley)

BRACKET B, SIDE B

Jeong-Jeong (Avatar: The Last Airbender) VS Pigpen (Peanuts)

Beelzebub (Good Omens) VS Stinkfly (Ben 10)C

Hiravias (Pillars of Eternity) VS Chell (Portal)

Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz) VS Bacterian (Dragon Ball)

Captain K'nuckles (The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack) VS Kimchi (Chowder)

Stinky (Moomins) VS Stinky (Animal Crossing)

Mitchell Shephard (Hunt Down the Freeman) VS Melly Plinius (Identity V)

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) VS Yato (Noragami)

THAT FUCKING THING IN YOUR BANNER (my banner lol) VS Harold (Fallout 1, 2, and 3)

Barik of the Stone Shields (Tyranny) VS Samuel Gladiator (Yandere High School (minecraft roleplay))

John Hart (Torchwood) VS Orochimaru (Naruto)

Dung Defender/Ogrim (Hollow Knight) VS Zane (Borderlands)

Pumbaa (The Lion King) VS Enki (Fear and Hunger)

Goro Majima (Yakuza) VS Sandalphon (Granblue Fantasy)

Finn Mertins (Farmworld) (Adventure Time) VS John Doe (John Doe / John Doe+)

Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) VS Ed Sheeran (ginger people fandom)

[yanderes-galore]

Hope this doesn't bother you, but can I ask for some pale quadrant headcanons with Equius and a lowblood reader who is OBSESSED with robots and machines but due to their rank they aren't really able to experiment with their interests?

Hmm... I'll see what I got for this! Not sure about the length but I hope I got my ideas across :) I had a bit of trouble doing this because Nepeta is his Moirail so you can think of this as just a friend thing or he swaps his Moirail for the plot. (It just feels horrible to do that to Nepeta- I love her so I apologize deeply lol-)

Yandere! Pale! Equius Zahhak ♐️ with Lowblood! Darling who likes machines

Pairing: Pale♦️

Possible Trigger Warnings: Gender-Neutral Darling, Obsession, Whatever the troll equivalent of being classist is, Manipulation, Moirail swapping/break up (?), Slight violence, Forced Moirallegience, Murder.

I'm going to say for this you are most likely an acquaintance of Nepeta.

You respect each other and talk often.

That would allow Equius to speak with you without immediately going into a blood caste spiel.

Equius hears from her that you adore robotics but "never have the time to pursue them".

Nepeta never mentions your caste so Equius assumes you're also an indigo blood or something similar.

Wrong.

Turns out you are anything from Jade to Rustblood territory.

The only thing saving you from a caste system lecture is Nepeta-

To be honest when you heard Nepeta's Moirail was an indigo blood you were a bit intimidated.

You knew his blood caste as being strong... really strong.

Through your first meeting, Nepeta is doing her best to convince Equius you aren't that bad.

She doesn't like that he keeps bringing caste into it.

Due to being a Lowblood, expect the first half of knowing Equius to be him trying to get you to obey your caste.

Essentially trying to make you subordinate to him, Nepeta tries her best to get him to stop without activating the... weird kinks he has.

Nepeta cares deeply for the both of you.

Which makes the future obsession even more painful.

The issue with Equius having a Pale Quadrant obsession is that it would cancel Nepeta's Moirallegience to Equius.

You can't have two Moirails.

A way to make this worse is if you also had a Moirail already.

That way you have no interest in changing Moirails because you have one.

Something that makes Equius go easy on you for being a Lowblood is your love of machines.

According to Nepeta and your own words, you LOVE the world of robotics and have always wanted to work on them.

Equius can agree on this... which is a trait that slowly allows the two of you to bond.

Equius seems like he'd be slow to obsess over you due to two reasons.

One, your blood caste. Two, he has a Moirail.

There's also the fact he views "friendship" in a bad light.

As a result, which is actually an advantage, he'd be slow to grow an obsession.

For a long while Nepeta is trying to get you two to coexist and get along.

You're nervous and Equius tends to be... aggressive around you.

With his odd quirks it's a bumpy road.

Equius would slowly warm up to you, especially if Nepeta keeps dragging you around.

Being close with Equius allows you to partake in your hobby and that makes you ecstatic.

You thank him over and over again when he slides you some parts to tinker with.

Seeing you so happy for something small he's done sparks something in him.

You're... excited about a higher blood caste doing something for a Lowblood like you?

He needs a towel again.

Equius would probably bond with you over machines and robotics.

Even if it feels weird for him at first.

At some point Equius may feel more Pale towards you.

This is a troubling development as you both have Moirails.

You aren't interested in such a thing and this could hurt Nepeta's feelings if Equius acts on this.

Unfortunately he might.

Equius may seek to make you his Moirail because you have a calming effect on him.

He may still want to respect the caste system... but now he can't seem to stay away from you.

He'd wait a long while before acting on his Pale feelings towards you.

Once he does, it's in private.

... and you are not having it.

You can't be aggressive with him as he could probably... snap your neck.

Yet you do explain to him that you have a Moirail you're dedicated to and Nepeta is his.

Equius may try to bribe you first with always working on robotics with him since you have similar interests.

If that doesn't work he gets violent.

He's obsessed with you, you fill his Pale Quadrant more than any other in his mind.

This leads to an argument as you don't want to hurt Nepeta or your Moirail.

Which leads to tension between you and the Indigo troll when you part.

You no longer wish to hang around Equius despite your yearning for robotics.

Although Nepeta probably swipes some parts for you since you're close.

After some time you most likely tell Nepeta.

You tell her you're scared of Equius, how he wants to be Moirails with you but you don't, and how you fear he'll harm you/your moirail/her.

Nepeta is hurt but tries to be understanding.

This isn't your fault... she can't blame you.

It's Equius who's stepping out of line.

Nepeta promises you she'll talk to him and is happy you told her.

I can see in this situation Equius and Nepeta part ways.

Either by Nepeta being pissed to the point she breaks things off or Equius breaks things off out of rage.

The scary thing is he may or may not hurt her... depending on his anger.

Now... Equius knows about your Moirail and is definitely going to get rid of yours once Nepeta is out of the picture.

He's insane.

If they're a Lowblood like you, Equius has no issues with ending their life.

You need a Highblood Moirail... he just knows it.

If they're a Highblood... things get more complicated.

Equius may instead try to frame something or go through with the plan of murder (when he stops sweating).

Either way... Equius is going to remove your Moirail from the picture.

After that, nothing is stopping him from finding your Hive and trying to convince you again.

It's forceful.

He'll kick the door in if he has to and forcefully declares his Pale feelings for you.

He wants to be Moirails.

You shake your head, bringing up how you can't.

Equius doesn't take that for an answer and tells you what he's done.

He has blood on his hands.

It's the blood of both your Moirails in one way or another.

After this display of strength you fearfully accept his Moirallegience.

He promises to be gentle with you as your new Moirail.

He's... honestly really happy despite what he's done.

You shake a lot in his arms due to his strength and what he's done.

He promises he never means to hurt you.

Yet you know what he's able to do.

He's gotten bloody for you just to be his Pale love.

He's insane.

He boasts he's strong and acts overprotective of you.

He cheers you up with your shared interest in robotics.

He doesn't care about you being a Lowblood anymore.

Now you're his Moirail... his one and only...

If you disagree or look for someone in another quadrant, he doesn't mind spilling more blood to keep you.

[thewertsearch]

Asks Comp 5/6

Just like John Cusack, hoo hoo hoo is a universal constant.

I was so excited for her conversations :( And thank you very much! This comic's a slippery one, but that's part of the fun!

I do like the idea of pairing every Homestuck ship with a political ideology. It'd be the perfect storm of discourse, from about five directions at once!

Thank you! I don't think I'll even be in the country for my birthday this time around, so it'll be a quiet celebration.

I think it could still fit as a kismesissitude, even if they aren't all that unfriendly with each other. After all, Karkat's antagonism towards John is only skin-deep, and wears off fast.

FEFERI: There's no reason to be scared! They are not as terrible as they look. FEFERI: When Derse is destroyed, I am going to go to sleep and prove it. FEFERI: I will prove it to you, and to them as well. KARKAT: THEM? FEFERI: Our new friends! [...]

Oh, that does make more sense. Dang, I really liked the idea that the Horrorterrors were scared of Players.

Karkat made S-Tier for a reason. He's on fire this Act, and it's been great to watch!

You don't even get to examine your surroundings!!

I'm even more glad now that I'm using Homestuck Collection. It's clear that I'd have missed a lot without it, and it's a sad state of affairs that the comic's official website seems to butcher it so badly. Definitely recommend checking out the Collection, if just to play the walkarounds yourself!

Underutilized aspects of the trolls: Feferi Edition! [...] I do have to say that, when I think about her, I don't generally remember the Horrorterror connection. But Gl'bgolyb is a Horrorterror, after all. Feferi may be legitimately bubbly and sweet, but of the two races she is meant to unite, it might just be the Horrors and Humans. She's an eldritch Disney princess. Remember that now. ~LOSS (19/5/23)

Does that make Gl'bgolyb her Fairy Elder Godmother?

Ugh, tell me about it. It looks normal when the post is in my drafts, but breaks when I publish it.

I could go back and fix each post manually, but I don't have the time or the patience. Maybe I'll write a script to do it when I release Wertsearch: The Director's Cut.

Thanks! I've had Cat send a transcript over, and I've been copying it for quotes. There was a risk of mild spoilers if I accidentally read ahead, but if it means I can stop quoting entire conversations manually, I'll happily take that chance.

Damn it! There goes my Sollux Was Swapped At Birth theory.

I like these ideas! It's fun to speculate about what our species 'thing' would be, since we don't have any alien species to compare ourselves to IRL.

The idea of NPCs as Player templates is awesome, too. That implies an absolutely wild session in Sburb's past, featuring the Sleuths, the Midnight Crew and the Exile squad as Players.

What would Sburb even look like without Carapacians? Would the chess match in Skaia still exist, just without sentient pieces? I kind of love this idea.

Yeah, it's always nice when a story's really kicked into gear.

Beginnings and endings are difficult, and I usually enjoy the middle of a story more than either. By my count, we're about one-third of the way through Homestuck, and it's definitely found itself.

Thanks! I have a couple of ideas about which of my ships will be supported by canon, and which won't - but we shall see what develops. The comic might surprise me!

Canon Equius design.

It's a big question, and I don't know if I can fully answer this one, given how much of Sburb is still shrouded in mystery.

That said, the first thing I'd change is how Players are assigned. Instead of creating people who have no choice but to participate, I'd look for volunteers in the planets I've seeded. If Players have to be born in the Veil, then those volunteers would have their timelines rewritten, retroactively turning them into meteor babies - but only after they've volunteered for the role.

Also - does a session have to destroy the planet it's seeded on? If it was me in charge, I'd redirect the Reckoning's portals somewhere else. Literally anywhere else, actually. As far as I can tell, the only reason they were pointed towards Earth in the first place was for thematic reasons. The Sallyverse has different themes.

Yep. No special reason why - I've just been pretty busy lately, especially on the weekends. They've also been rolling over onto Mondays more often, too.

I get to 'em when I get to 'em - but I always get to them in the end.

Ooh, that's a deep cut. Possibly coincidental, but I wouldn't be too sure - I wouldn't put anything past Hussie.

I've heard of Higurashi, but I know very little about it. It is my tenuous understanding that it's a murder mystery starring several wealthy families - or is that its sister story, Umineko?

I don't want to look them up, because I might actually check them out at some point, and it is apparently very important to go in unspoiled. Potential future liveblog material, indeed.

I've speculated that the Knight is a protector class - and maybe Knights also protect themselves, hiding behind a particular trait or emotion which serves as their 'shield'.

Puréed puppet, unfortunately.

Now that I've seen all the troll typing quirks, I'm pretty sure I've actually encountered some of these people in the wild! I've definitely seen Terezi's leetspeak, or something very similar, on an anime forum or two.

[bloodswapkinfessions]

i miss equius so much. he was still really strong despite bein' a olive and he let me chew on him. i always had a ton of energy that i couldnt get out cause of my psiionics + being hunted for bounty due to anceator bullshit and he really helped me... after seeing eridan and feferi's relationship fall apart i was so scared i was secretly flushed for him and just didnt KNOW it and that itd somehow ruin everything, but he even put up with /that/. and i know if he was seeing me type this hed say im not givin myself enough credit cuz i helped him a ton too. i just. ugh. i dunno. i miss him

:( hugs you. if you wanna do a canon call here i can post it

[seerofaspects]

Heir of Space

Despite the Heir being the class of one of the main characters of Homestuck, there really isn't anything super concrete on what the Heir's role actually is. There are two other heir's but their contributions to the story are rather minimal, so it's difficult to do deep dives into their characters. There are some people which think it's the passive change/manipulation class and there are some people (like myself) who see it as the passive protection and maintenance class.

The Heir is going to be someone who receives protection and is made sure that whatever aspect they represent is something which is maintained onto them. This comes in the form of protection, but it also comes in the form of keeping the Heir on track with their aspect. Passive classes aren't just on the receiving end of their aspect though, as they also will do things which help matain their aspect of other members in the group or their session. The Heir will run into the challenge of 'were they guided and maintained enough to where they are now able to return the favor to the aspect'. I also think a Heir's personality is going to be one that is willing to accept assistance as well as provide it, they are team players at their heart, though they may not always be the best examples of socially desirable people (cough Equius cough). I also think the more the Heir was guided and protected by their aspect, the larger challenge they are going to have in order to maintain it in return. It's not exactly a situation where the Heir is protected by one thing in particular and then has to return the favor to that thing in particular. It's just the give and returns are all going to have some connection to their aspect.

The Space aspect is a largely explored aspect within Homestuck with it's core things about it being creation itself including that of life creative processes, and of course the actual physical matter which is 'space'.

An Heir of Space is going to be someone who protected and maintained by the aspect of space, with the space aspect either being used in maintaining and protecting others or the Heir doing something to maintain and protect the space aspect. Other players as well as other components of the session that happen through cause and effect are going to help out the Space player. The Space player may not be fully component with their aspect, but they are going to grow over time the more they familiarize themselves with the aspect.

Imagine the Heir of Space is given a magical paintbrush somewhere in the story. This could be from another character or something they just happen to find out in the open. The Heir is able to make drawings come to life and these drawings which are literal representations of the creative and life components of space could be used to protect and maintain the Heir. The Heir's creative capabilities are there, but they need to really think on some of the ways they can draw things. They could get suggestions from others or come across blueprints of things to draw and manifest in the world.

This magical paintbrush wielding Heir now has gotten pretty far with their magical paintbrush, but let's shake things up a bit and say that all the planets that they and everyone in the session is are crumbling apart and about to break out. The Heir is now the one who has the ability to fix it. The power to create and bring things to life in order to maintain themselves is now being turned around on them. They need to protect and maintain the space or else some terrible stuff is going to happen. The Heir may get some guidance on what to do in order to fix up the Space, but they are ultimately the one who is in charge of it. This could be something kind of cryptid like John's quest of 'removing the oil from the planet to clear the glitches out of the universe', something along the lines of 'you must paint the canvas of the world'.

You could probably swap out a paint brush with a lot of things. It could be a portal gun for instance, with the Heir of Space being all about the physics of space and having portals be utilized in ways that help them through their journey. The return of that though would be needing to do something grand like summoning a portal that the size of a star could go through or something insane like that.

[abundantchewtoys]

HS^2 re: p534-576

Woof (pun not intended), it's a doozy, this one.

Jade as doting mother was hilariously embarassing. But it seems her reasons to have a child in the first place stem from her intense loneliness, exacerbated by her celebrity status.

Meanwhile, Rose's motivation to carry the child... There's two ways to interpret it. The least complimentary is that she's just as manipulative as Dirk, using her powers to 'okay' a disgraceful decision because she'll be forgiven in the end anyway. I hope she actually wanted to see if she could do something her powers couldn't predict the outcome of. It would mean she's aware of the Candy timeline's nature of decreasing truthfulness, relevance and necessity and is trying to do something about it. The fact that she's so dismissive about Earth C's people, as is Jade, could point in that direction.

In fact, it would seem that, for all that the Candy timeline appeared to be a 'saccharine end state' for most of the kids, they do seem to be aware that even beyond the totalitarian government, there's something else fundamentally wrong with the timeline?

Meanwhlie, Yiffany not talking is so funny when you think about it. Even while we're being her, she's just too cool to lower herself to such base characterizational devices.

Would be funny if she's treated as the teen version of hypothetical older Maggie Simpson of Beyond Canon. Implied to be witty & talkative but never shown. :p

What else? So, uh, Tavros & Yiffany are acquainted, and Yiffy probably got locked up/kept hidden in Tavros' house when she was away from boarding school. Like a perverse Rapunzel. Making Tavros not just her biological uncle but also foster brother, oh jeez. So, uh, it might also mean her enmity with Gamzee's corpse stemmed from actual, in-person interactions with the clown.

Meenah's probably calling to let Rose & Kanaya know that Jane's coming to the meteor too.

So, the Point. I'm assuming it's to do with the device behind the curtain, beneath the meteor.

Spitballing & exchanging theories with Blaperile, I'm assuming it's a way for the Candy people to travel into the Meat timeline.

I wouldn't like it to be one way, for one thing because some people might not want to leave. For another, what would The Influencers even be able to do?

It could be a Sburb copy for the new kids to boot a session with & interact with the Deltritus gang?

Would be funny to have a sort of Hivebent situation going on with 2 separate teams turning out to be entering the same session.

If it's a giant version of the Hiveswap device, maybe the Candy & Meat timeline meteors get swapped (a literal swapping of hives).

Then maybe Candy Earth C with the Meat meteor turns out to be Alternate Calliope's home timeline, and the reverse for Caliborn/Lord English?

It would seem Jade was carrying around a stuffed corpse in her sylladex! Of course Adult Dave (now Davebot) is the most likely person. It could lead to Davebot exploding if his corpse is ever prototyped! But then we'd have a new version of Davesprite...

If it were Candy Dirk, we'd get Dirksprite: aka Arquiusprite minus Equius minus autoresponder.

With how Rose's mom got touched on in the argument, what if Jade had stuffed Mom and Dad? As Blaperile pointed out to me, while John & Jade had a funeral for them pre-retcon, we don't know that they did post-retcon, do we?

No chance for a Johnsprite beyond Terezi prototyping Meat John, though! Would've been funny to have Johnsprite^2 or *2. But unless Jade took John's original body (from his quest bed) from LOWAS before it exploded, we won't have that. As she never found the bodies for John & Davesprite in her timeline.

(Yeah I'm just grasping at straws to get a POV & further fleshing out for Dad, can't help it.)

As for the newspost, turns out I missed the one from Feb 1st. Wow, Vast Error has gotten the Hussie stamp of approval and now falls under the HICU protection and can monetize on their work!

I haven't read it yet, but I know from experience how engaging fanventures can be, so good for them!

And oh geez, so much unvaulted commentary to read on Patreon. :B

[homestuckinning]

why did u make nepetas hat like. yellow :( that makes no sense

I'm assuming this is about my most recent post because this ask came like right after I posted it, but its brown because I don't like how the blue looks and think her outfit looks way cuter with a green&brown color palette. If you mean the alternate color version on this post from like half a year ago where her hat is actually yellow, its because it was a sollux<>nepeta edit so I swapped out equius' indigo with sollux's gold.

[hskinhome]

hey, i’m karl crocker. i’m looking for really anyone from my timeline. my memories are currently as follows:

alex and i were best friends. i had a crush on him, but didn’t say anything about it.

i was REALLY obsessed with being “normal”. like, i needed the white picket fences and to seem like your average joe, even though i really wasn’t. once we met, i envied jake for actually getting to be just some guy.

the trolls actually had access to both the beta and alpha kids, but it was split on who had access to who. callie, jaynes, deeruk, dayveh, johnny, and roseta had access to the alpha session, and tavros, gamzee, kanaya, equius, aradia, and feferi had access to the beta session.

i became close to johnny, because i thought he was a human, a human who survived somehow. of course when we met in the new session, i freaked out on him. it was enough to make him think i was pitch flirting with him, and i think kanaya had to step in to keep me from actually attacking him.

the batterwitch, roseta’s ancestor, still existed, but i’m fairly certain she was a condesce-swapped mindfang? when i found out, it made me freak out even more. alex chose the worst time to tell me, when i was already freaking out about johnny being an alien.

gamzee ended up raising eridanus and nepetala. eridanus had a grudge against him for a while, but ended up understanding that gamzee didn’t really have much of a choice but to leave them, for timeline reasons.

my swaps were these

jake egbert

teri (terezi) lalonde (rose-ways)

cali (caliborn) strider (dave-ways)

vris (vriska) harley

karl (karkat) crocker

alex (sollux) lalonde (roxy-ways)

roxy strider (dirk-ways)

jade english

callie (calliope) megido

jaynes (jane) nitram

tavros captor

gamzee vantas

kanaya leijon

equius maryam

deeruk (dirk) pyrope

aradia serket

dayveh (dave) zahhak

johnny (john) makara

feferi ampora

roseta (rose) peixes

eridanus (caliborn-ways)

nepetala (calliope-ways)

if this sounds familiar or for more information, please contact me!