Yeah, pretty much. It’s not the only way–there’s ships on both Prospit and Derse, which is how PM gets to Skaia for example.
Tag: Homestuck
I’m sorry. I know I ask questions all the time but I really want to know. When Jake had to kiss Dirk’s head and he said “I guess if It was going to go this way. there was stuff I wanted to say, to the real him I mean” what do you think he wanted to say? This is probably a stupid question but If It’s not please tell me what you think (btw if you think Im getting annoying with the whole “i hope i dont embarrass mysel” thing just tell me and I’ll try to stop worrying so much)
Hard to say! Probably Jake would have questions and a lot of conflicting emotions. These are all things Jake could reasonably want to talk about around that point:
-Stuff about how grateful Jake is for Dirk’s help over the years
-Venting his frustrations about the AR
-Wanting to apologize or at least talk about the jokes he made about Dirk only being a good fit for him if he was a girl, which Jake was aware coulda messed with Dirk’s feelings
-Wanting to make sure Dirk even actually likes him, since Jake mentions he’s not even sure about that half the time and later complains to Jane that Dirk can’t ever seem to just relax and enjoy his company
-Any combination of the above.
In the end it seems he talked about none of it while they were dating. Seems likely they sorted things out by the time of the Masterpiece, though.
HSE: God Tiers
In this episode, we take a closer look at the God Tier power-up system, and its various perks. I also make a case for understanding God Tier powers as being an innate inner power of the players, manifested through their wills and thoughts, rather than a power-up granted to them by the game.
This means I argue that every character uses their Classpect powers throughout their lifetimes, whether or not they actually make God Tier. It also means a player can develop God Tier-level powers without actually being God Tier.
God Tier tends to grant players power because experiencing the messianic death and rebirth of the heroes’ journey tends to make people feel more like heroes, and so more able to self-actualize–NOT because doing so arbitrarily unlocks their superpowers. In other words, I argue God Tier is a shortcut to Heroes’ inner potential–not a requirement for it.
This warrants a closer look at examples of characters in Homestuck typically considered not to be good “examples” of their Hero Titles. I provide some examples of how I understand such characters, as well–including Karkat, Nepeta, and Gamzee.
Lastly, this understanding ties Homestuck’s take on psychic powers to that of it’s namesake, Earthbound–and suggests the possibility that Hiveswap’s characters could well develop God Tier-like powers, too.
Please feel free to discuss and question these ideas in the comments. I’m sure we’ll be revisiting your responses sooner or later, and I’m very curious as to how this video will be received. Thanks for reading, and keep rising!
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Apotheosis and Creation Myth
After over a month of work, this is finally ready.
This is in many ways my final statement on Homestuck as a whole, and though I don’t go over absolutely everything related to the ending here, I am pretty confident it’ll make at least some people reconsider how upset they are with the ending.
I’d like to thank @olive-the-olive and @finalvortex for beta reading for me, as well as @joyceanfartboner, @kajy, and @fragilesoftmachines earlier on. You were all rad!
I’d also like to thank (and tag) a number of writers who made writing this possible. @bladekindeyewear, @stormingtheivory, @wakraya, @purplepurpleunicornsparkle, as well as @mikerugnetta who’s video about Violence proved to be instrumental, and finally Tex Talks, who doesn’t have a tumblr but is still one of the most fascinating voices in Homestuck analysis today, and you should really be following his work.
I’ll let the piece speak for itself. My deepest wish is that it will help people unhappy with the ending feel better, but if you find my arguments unsatisfying on some level, please let me know. I’d love to engage with discussion about this pretty much 24/7.
“If a tree falls and no one hears the sound, did it fall at all? Homestuck’s answer is not only that it didn’t, but that without someone present to witness the forest at some point in its existence, the forest does not exist at all. Reality is pointless and redundant without someone to experience it, to the point that it’s impossible to differentiate whether or not it even EXISTS if an observer isn’t present.”
Yes, YEEEEEEES. This article comes as close as I’ve ever seen to hitting upon the way I relate to the monster of a webcomic that is Homestuck: an examination of a cultural moment in which reality seems more kaleidoscopic than ever, which posits connections between quantum physics and religion and mythology. All this, all thiiiiis, is how Homestuck helped me with my existential anxiety and dread and gave me a means by which to reconcile my unforgivingly rationalist world view with my spirituality, which I’d completely lost till then.
When I begin to fear the death of humanity, I think about this comic. These ideas motivate my creative work. They make me care about living.
A+++, please read this.
This is super old but seeing someone respond to the post that started this whole adventure for me is lile this is…moving. It reminds me why I started talking about Homestuck like this, and how much more I still want to do. Thank you.
PS: I’m laughing at past me’s immense hubris in claiming that post was a final statement on Homestuck. My my. How far we’ve come.
Im really curious, how do you think hiveswap will incorporate SBURB into its story? I know hussie wants the story to be “self-contained”, so it may just stay in lore rather than direct plot.
I kinda doubt we’ll be exposed to Sburb much directly unless the ending really does go the “escape into Sburb” route, which i find relatively unlikely. so i do think itll probably stay in the lore for the most part.
That said i think we’ll be learning a lot about aspects and probably classes too, since I don’t think those are exclusive to Sburb. As i’ll be making clear in…oh, about an hour.
Will you be doing more character analysis? I have seen your jake,Dirk, and jane one, and I was wondering if you have or plan to make a Roxy one, or one of the prescratch kids
ive already written a ridiculously long post on Jade. I’ve also covered Dave, John, Rose and others under the guise of classpects. When I do actual analysis content really focused on the betas it’ll probably be in video form as part of Homestuck Explained, where I eventually hope to cover everyone, as seen on the Homestuck Explained video map:
Tho there are things I want to cover eventually like Davekat, late-game Rose, and other stuff more specifically.
Do you think that if your theory about Joey’s mother being a clone of Jane holds true and the alpha kids somehow manage to interact with the events of Hiveswap it could help Jane and Jake get some closure on their relationship? Because, frankly, I don’t feel like the ending gave them the proper closure.
Sure, maybe? If the story continues with the epilogue and beyond they could just get closure on their own terms, too. We’ll have to wait and see!
My take on Dammek is Prince of Blood, personally; he’s looking to destroy the status quo as it is, and even kill another hero of blood. However, he’s kinda bleeding (heh) over into himself; he’s destroying his own relationships with what he believes are more important commitments (IE leading the rebellion; which is important, but not to the point where he should treat his Moirail as he does) However, Theif does make a lot of sense too! He has been taking Xefros’ stuff for a while
I can totally see that, and still think its a real possibility!
What tips the scales for me is the Archetypal background I typically associate with each Class. Prince is a Royalty class, which implies some kind of high/noble birth or status, and an internalized sense of superiority over others that the Royal must overcome to take control of his ego, and so his destructive power.
The Makaras and Amporas are the highest blooded members of the hemospectrum short of the Fuschias, and both Meenah and Feferi keep themselves rather seperate from the idea of actually being better than others due to their class–both of them renounce the title of Heiress and abandon the throne, one way or another.
The AR considers himself “above” his friends because he is a post-singularity AI, and often makes statements positioning himself as “above” their corporeality. So on.
Thief is an outlaw class, which implies being removed, outcast, or alienated from society and its rules. Nepeta and Vriska both consider the hemospectrum irrelevant, for example.
All Thieves and Rogues spend some amount of time either literally living outside mainstream society (Nepeta’s cave, Rufioh’s lost weaboos tribe, Meenah living on the moon) or thinking about living outside of it (Vriska’s fascination with Piracy).
The latter sounds a lot more like Dammek to me–living on the fringes of society in his own rebel network, a network that’s apparently robust enough to provide him with a shitload of loot and goods he wouldn’t otherwise have access to. Feels a lot more like Vriska’s hoard, gathered through roleplay exploits, than it does like Eridan’s born wealth and status.
Also Dammek is referenced using the “take” verb in Act 1, and I haven’t noticed him being linked to Royal verbs like “Destroy” or “Break” just yet. That said he is a noted revolutionary, and I’ve been thinking revolution/revolutionaries could be conceptually linked to the Royal classes for a while.
So I really do think its a possibility! I think it’ll become clearer as we figure out what makes Dammek tick. i want…more hiveswap
man I don’t think you can really say bro is…
I want so hard to think and believe gamzee is just a manipulated pawn and unfortunate casualty because he’s my favorite character beside dave, and I want to believe there is some good in him
hey fwiw this post is somewhat outdated. haven’t had time to revisit it but i have been swayed somewhat by friends and am a little more inclined to think there’s a redemption narrative for gamzee yet.
i still stand by pretty much everything in that essay, i just became aware of some more details that tip the scales for me a bit. mainly to do with caliborn. i’m not sure, but i’m biding my time until the epilogue to really make up my mind about the gamzee deal for good.
if there is anything to a more sympathetic view for him, i’m inclined to think the epilogue will surprise us about him. we’ll find out together, i guess!
Flying through Storytelling 