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We gotta introduce Homestuck to a bunch of rich people /hj
Jeff's girlfriend
2020-12-12 02:20:42 +0000 UTCYeah...now that Hiveswap Act 2 is finally out I wonder if we can get the numbers back up? I'm already really missing two main updates a month.
Erin Claire
2020-11-26 12:48:40 +0000 UTCKarkat being really invested in "his people" certainly makes sense from a Classpect-y perspective, but I also think back to what Echidna said in HS1 about how Karkat's leadership would be critical to the trolls in the new world. That hasn't even come close to being true in Meat, but it has been in Candy. I think one of the themes Homestuck 2 is building towards is "Why does it matter if something is 'real' or not", and Karkat seems to be of the opinion that it doesn't, that the only thing that's valid is what we decide to be valid, which would put him on the opposite side of Dirk
Daniel Kelly
2020-11-06 22:27:58 +0000 UTCOddly enough though, Karkat was always the only one not affected by the weird state of mind so many of them have.... I kinda want to say i do and do not blame John maybe? He is the closest thing to 'relevance' in this world. Whatever this might be, maybe an energy, is all any of these characters have to work off on. And it causes them to in some way reflect John's mindset. But karkat is the only person who hasn't gone off on what john wants or what john is feeling, he has set his own damn path, created his own relevance... He is also the opposite aspect of john.
lordoffantasy
2020-11-03 20:14:25 +0000 UTCIt's not a cold war. It's a very hot war with battleships fighting each other in the epilogues. It feels like a cold war because no one but Karkat (and maybe Kanaya?) sees the world as "real" and thus they aren't super invested in the fact that a war is happening on it, even the ones who are fighting in said war. The escalation isn't that shooting is starting. The escalation is that "real" people are being affected by their kids being kidnapped. But to Karkat, the trolls aren't a fake non-canon world, they're his people. The war has always been real, it's just only now that his friends even mildly care about it.
Daniel Kelly
2020-11-02 15:59:34 +0000 UTCThat is 100% true. It was more of a cold war and its only started ot escalate to full blown conflict.... Roxy is super in denial too.
lordoffantasy
2020-11-02 12:58:43 +0000 UTCI don't think that just John/June would be capable of ending the war? Like, windy powers are a big deal, yeah, but not "could wipe out an entire global army singlehandedly" big. Also, wasn't it stated that at least part of the reason characters like Jade aren't going crazy with god tier powers is because the war has up until very recently been at a kind of "cold war" equilibrium, where neither side wanted to escalate for fear of the potential response (I could be wrong about this as I remember it being an epilogues plot point and I haven't read those in quite awhile). The kids HAVE definitely been extremely useless in the Candy timeline, but I think you're being a bit harsh considering 1) they have clearly all been in some level of denial regarding Jane's whole descent into darkness, even those actively fighting against her and, relatedly 2) the candy timeline seems to have a kind of "brain fog" effect that causes severe inertia or even outright degradation in terms of personal development. None of these things excuse their actions of course, I just think that you've taken a grimmer view of the Candy characters than has actually been presented thus far (which IMO is unnecessary since what's there is already pretty grim).
Erin Claire
2020-11-02 01:33:34 +0000 UTCThe answer to "How did Vriska get captured" is so obviously "She let herself be captured" that I have to assume that's not what happened, and the reveal is going to be that Jane reverse-engineered the Condesce's mind control technology, and that kidnapping Yiffy was just bait to trap Vriska, and now a mind-controlled Vriska is on Jane's side of things, thus preventing John from simply killing Jane's whole army in a big tornado while also giving her a dramatic evil scheme to stop. Speaking of, it must be really frustrating to be Karkat. In addition to his army of trolls, many of whom have pyschic powers, he has FOUR seperate gods who were aligned with him, all of whom are dramatically more powerful than Jane, but none of whom seem to be as invested in the whole "stop genocide" thing as they really should be. John could end the war in five minutes but he's just not feeling up to it today. Rose doesn't give a shit about the war and explicitly says in Candy 33 that it's just a way to kill time. Dave literally got bored and wandered off so abruptly everyone thinks he's dead (Though Karkat seems to be assuming Dave is merely AWOL, like he expected this to happen). Jade is vaguely interested in the war, but literally entrusted her only child to Jane's care, was legitimately surprised that Yiffy ended up in danger, and was in no real hurry to try to kill Jane at the chruch. Aradia, the one and only god-tier Troll on Earth C before Vriska showed up, was so obviously uninterested in any of the goings-on of Earth C that I don't know if anyone even asked her to join, and Vriska is actively trying to kill all the trolls herself to get Vrissy in the game and start over. Karkat and Kanaya are the only ones who seems to really care about the trolls. Even the narrative doesn't give a shit about them, none of the people actually doing any of the fighting in the war are getting any screentime at all. Obviously this is because the original kids are stand-ins for neoliberals and faux-progressive twitterati (possibly a little TOO obviously, Karkat's speech about "listening to those of us who've been trying to solve it a lot longer than you have" is veering dangerously close to a David Cage android saying "I have a dream"), but it's still striking that this entire war is only happening because John personally is letting it happen, and he could stop it at literally any time, and even now that it's affecting him directly he's still kind of "meh". It's like. Imagine how disappointed progressives were with Barack Obama. Obama expanded medicaid to millions of people, appointed liberal judges who legalized gay marriage, invested in solar energy research, raised taxes on the rich, cut military spending, passed some financial regulation, established the CFPB, established DACA, and a few other things. Imagine if Obama did none of that, and instead just stayed at home feeling sad about his divorce. Now imagine if Obama had a congress comprised entirely of Bernies Sander and still didn't even pass any of the things real Obama did, let alone Medicare For All. And imagine if while Obama was president, Trump just started doing all the stuff he's doing now and more as a private citizen and Obama didn't even go "Hey man, cut that out" even after Trump literally blew up the White House with a bomb. John Egbert is so many orders of magnitude more useless than the Democratic Party that comparing him to Joe Biden seems unfair to Joe Biden. And after all that, Karkat is still willing to just have a feelings jam with him for a few minutes in a literal war zone. No wonder his ancestor was Troll Jesus, I don't think the human Jesus would be this forgiving and being forgiving is human Jesus' whole THING. Also, did Karkat always know about Yiffy and never told Kanaya, was he recently told about Yiffy by someone who didn't feel like telling him about Dave, or did no one tell him anything and he had to figure it out from seeing Yiffy on TV? He says he knew it was an obvious trap and since he didn't stop it that implies he's just been kept out of the loop entirely. It's a miracle he's only as angry as he is.
Daniel Kelly
2020-11-01 04:03:16 +0000 UTCThe sad face John is making is from seeing the number of contributors below 2k
William L Coleman
2020-11-01 01:01:08 +0000 UTCAYsha is that one of the writers?
Immortal_Knight
2020-10-31 23:45:51 +0000 UTCI think AYsha's thirst for one eyeds grizzled soldiers influenced this.
lordoffantasy
2020-10-31 23:06:21 +0000 UTCOh no. Poor Kk. That's exactly what john's been feeling😭😭😭
Paisley Dodge
2020-10-31 22:35:01 +0000 UTCI'm doubling my pledge because of this update.
Doll
2020-10-31 21:51:30 +0000 UTCyeah I'd like to see what Dave and company are doing
Immortal_Knight
2020-10-31 21:22:50 +0000 UTCI wanna go back to the other universe now please 😢 😭
Fiver
2020-10-31 21:06:14 +0000 UTCOWWWWWW. The first few panels were beautiful. I appreciate that amidst all this tragedy, John is still sun's out tum's out.
Madame Hardy
2020-10-31 21:00:29 +0000 UTCYes and he chillin with Aradia
L0n3 Duo
2020-10-31 20:54:56 +0000 UTCI HAVE NEVER CRIED HARDER I NEED MORE THAN A HOT MINUTE TO PULL MY SHIT TOGETHER
L0n3 Duo
2020-10-31 20:54:30 +0000 UTCholy fuck karkat is back and he's badass! speaking of dead Dave, he's not "dead" but became davebot in this reality correct?
Immortal_Knight
2020-10-31 20:45:40 +0000 UTCSADSTUCK, back in full throttle baybeeeeeee
Angel Fuentes
2020-10-31 20:10:32 +0000 UTC
