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I wish I wasn't done rereading Homestuck
I liked having all the MSPA I could read whenever I wanted it
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
started when a daddy long legs creeped up into my bed when I was six, then disappeared
I shrieked SO HARD
You can live vicariously through my recap!
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that tarantualgif is still cute
yeah yeah yeah
but really i don't get bothered by spiders online or anything, it's when they are in my house
when they are on my bed
ughhhhhhhhhhhhh
we can argue more about Homestuck, and how is the best troll in there.
Also somebody updated this timeline of events.
You used to be such a sweet, poliahahahahahahahahahaha
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i was thinking of that
Fucking a, I started on something like this and never finished. And I was planning to just do the Kids's timeline pre-entry (since you can only order things in the Medium based on when they occur relative to each other).
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Oh my god this is incredible
Also I don't know how effective it is to have timelines of things that explicitly exist outside of time.
THE BEGINNINGING
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Post 5
Post 6
Post 6
Post 7
Post 8 - Start of ACT 2
Post 7
PART II: ACT 3
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Part III: The Intermission
Post 1
Post 2
Part 3: ACT 4
Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
PART V: ACT 4 (part 2)
Post 2
PART VI: ACT 4 (part 3)
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
PART VII: ACT 5: Hivebent
Post 2
PART VIII: ACT 5: Hivebent (part 2)
Post 2
Post 3
PART IX: ACT 5: Hivebent (part 3)
Post 2
PART X: ACT 5: ACT 2
And we start... with a flash. We see John's entire personal history up to where last left John at the end of Act 4, but from Karkat's point of view. Which sets us up nicely for...
Where John actually is... right now, from our perspective.
Oh man, Karkat is burning him good! How can John possibly respond? As I said earlier, after the first couple of chats John completely turns the tables on Karkat. He never really stood a chance at this point.
Evidence points toward the notion that you do not know.
Pretty much!
Awkward advance: spurned!
Tables: turned!
First off, once again, John speaks for all of us. Second, that's kind of dirty.
I WARNED YA ABOUT TROLLIN DOG
Didn't someone already point out John used 7 exclaimation points here isntead of 8? I think, considering when this chat was written, maybe the idea for John to start picking up Vriska's usage of syntax hadn't quite happened yet.
I had to rewatch the flash to remember specifically what Karkat meant by "joke book you rode in on". Anyway, this is, indeed, the first and final "fuck you" from Karkat, but I still love how John wins in the end with a smile and "see you soon!"
Anyway, I don't know how much I want to cover for this. Actually, we have two flashes coming up in less than a few hundred pages, that would be good to aim for - in fact, [ S] Past Karkat: Wake Up is a lot closer than I expected/remembered.
This chat is pretty great. I'll skip over a lot of it though.
Despite the fact that we now know exactly what the fuck she was busy with, imaging Karkat yelling this as exasperated as he could possibly ever be still amuses me greatly.
D'aww.
And finally, back to our hero, safely crash landed back on LOWAS.
A quick summary to Vriska in early Act 5.2: she is responsible to just about everything bad that has ever happened to the kids. Basically. Sort of. Kinda.
OH SHIT THE RING - though this tempered by the fact we already saw WV has it, but still.
Sigh, a lady after my own heart. (I actually am drinking for this one.)
As Vriska points out, he's mixing her up with Terezi. Either way, it's a pretty safe bet.
Uh, yeah, about that....
I believe we ere just talking about this!
Okay, so John's copy of the server was in his Dad's car, right? So it must've escaped when it fell to the surface in LOWAS?
So when we last saw Jade, she was falling from the exploded ruins of her bedroom. We should probably see what happens to her:
A dark, omnious Z. Hrm...
Meanwhile, on Skaia
Hehe.
Human biology SURE IS WEIRD.
Vriska sure has interesting ideas about "helpfulness".
If you're looking to put a cap on approximately how long things are taking in the Kids' session, that should be helpful.
Look at the gicyclops in the background. It's John's hammer from earlier! I wondered what happened to that thing.
This is the first time anyone has told John straight-up what the objective of the game is, though probably should've pieced that together from what Nannasprite told him back in Act 2.
And her's how you establish how your characters are not like each other!
Bad, indeed.
This is Rose's first chat since... here. Oh, right: Well, anyway, if you're reading this recap and you miss Rose from before she entered the Medium, well, I don't really have very good news for you.
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Yeah, that's, like, super-motivating.
Hehehehe. John gives Rose a head start!
And so beginneth the "fuzzy, out-of-focus Gamzee" meme.
I note back in time Rose's room still isn't covered in her dream scrawlings while John's is. Let's find out why John is very thoroughly enjoying the Prankster's Gambit on this exchange, though.
Seems simple enough.
Okay, well, we're not getting off to a good start here. Let's skip ahead.
Well, technically....
Simpler times.
I covered Kanaya's "second" conversation with Rose very briefly (you can read it yourself here). Anyway, the point is: It almost is though, as Rose blows her off again in the next conversation and takes the SNARKY HORSESHIT METER to its highest levels. The most sensical thing to do after that, then, is to... talk to Dave?
Anyway, I covered that already as well, as well as the following 7th conversation. But at least we finally get to see what Kanaya sent Rose. Note that it is edited... slightly (here's the original). Actually, more than slightly, geez Kanaya.
Anyway, let's get back to... whoa!
Oh, right, we already know about that from EOA4.
Finally.
Oh dammit.
Hehehe.
Not that anyone here is bitter or anything.
Man, now I want to play Wind Waker. Screw this recap!
Er, okay, just a little more.
We're all still a little nervous, I think. Up to now, I don't believe we've deciphered what their motives are or how they relate to the other agents in the game. We have bits and pieces but nothing concrete. Also Rose reveals much of what she knows about the Gods from the Furthest Ring came from her alternate timeline dreamself, which Kanaya also regards as inauspicious.
Kanaya speaks for many of us here.
Well, we know why this is now. But that's a few posts away, probably.
Whew, that was a lot of dialogue. You can get the full version starting here.
This post is getting really long. I need to get a lot more efficient, but now that we're back in the meat of the story there's a lot of ground to cover and a lot of questions we no longer have the answers to. The Green Sun is one example. Oh, yes, we know what it is now, but I believe we were still debating specifics in this very thread less than 10 pages ago. So I'll start on the next post to get up to [ S] Past Karkat: Wake Up. Until then,
Edit: in fact, the original version was too long. Whoops.
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cant be LIEVE you would go behind my back like that
and with Dave????
really??????????!
that's it
i quit
i'm moving on
You sure did hit that on the head there pal.
Birth Bear Burgs.
Anyway, this is what John'll look like for the next few hundred pages:
I feel slightly less bad about my Matrix reference earlier.
Again, if you're trying to figure out the actual amount of time taken....
Dave, we've missed you.
I maintain that when Dave says "jades crazier" he means in a general sense of "bitches be crazy". Besides, if she's crazy, I'm sure it didn't help she had to kiss his corpse later on.
Well, at least we know the answer to why Dave needs the cash. We'll get to that later.
:whistle:
You have ways indeed, Mr. Egbert. Ways indeed.
I haven't posted very many of these Terezi-Dave comics. So here you go. Let's get to the meat of this conversation.
So there are the numbers we all know and love, referenced as "thing" in the story for the first time. And also the first mention of the blind prophets. We'll cover that later.
And then this happened: In case you are not familiar with the Kool-Aid Man, a helpful primer:
Meanwhile, six hours prior:
In case you haven't quite figured it out, this is Terezi-vision.
Reference secured. Anyway, the bottom line here is that both Propsit and Derse have been destroyed in the trolls' Incipisphere.
Hrm....
Oh yes, that douchebag.
MAPLEHOOOOOFFFFF!!!
And if you were wondering "one of you fuckers thought I was a girl" came from: Just a tad. Terezi cracks the veneer a bit, though:
And now you know: Terezi inspired Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.
Take a wild guess of what the next panel is. It's cool, I'll wait.
Got a guess? Okay.
Argh, so many important plot points! Yet I am so close to the GREATEST MEMO IN THE HISTORY OF HOMESTUCK. It will surely deserve it's own post!
In the meantime, let's DANCE:
Let's get back on topic. So, yes, that all took place before all the stuff we saw earlier. This must be right after Dave gets to his planet in the alpha timeline.
Whew, finally.
Hey, I recall this visual reference from my recent past!
Tricks, huh?
I'm telling you, it was an epidemic at one point. Fuckin' Gamzees everywhere. And here's our first Act 5.2 flash: Oh man I forgot about the meaty hand thing... which was probably for the best. Anyway, on to the memo.
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I try not to think about the MSPA fandom too hard.
Yes, I am aware of the extreme irony/possible hyprocrisy of that statement.
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Okay, here goes. This is my best attempt at summing up what is the best memo in Homestuck. You should read it for yourself, of course, because in the end it probably won't take as long as reading this because I didn't really summarize it at all. But since I already formatted all this stuff I'm just going to roll with it.
We start off as only Karkat can: I think you can guess what the result of all this will be. You don't really need to go very far out on a limb.
Well, Karkat's already lost control of this supposed verbal beatdown.
Yeah seriously, John.
Yes folks, we've established the entire point of this memo.
Okay, let's see. I guess Karkat is including alternate timeline versions because the only real death Dave has suffered was, well, later. John, well, yeah. We'll get to that.
Heh, says you.
This always make me think, "LOOK AT THE BIG BRAIN ON BRETT!"
This has already been pasted once in this thread, but it wasn't color-coded now was it? mcconaughey!
Dave presses the attack: He'll soon regret it, though.
You've done it now, Dave! You've sassed him up!
John, I believe the most succinct way I can answer your query at this time is "no".
Dave, I hate to say it, but we are motherfucking entrenched in this bitch.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Memorize this, we'll be making mocking references to it later.
Wow, indeed.
I hear you there. Fortunately, I can go to sleep.
Anyway, if you read that for some reason, well, congratulations.
I promise my summary of [ S] Past Karkat: Wake Up will be more useful and constructive, as it's a flash walkabout game that not everyone may have the time or patient to play.
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Holy shit foreshadowing
Everyone on the train thought I was losing my mind. They'll never know it was all your fault.
Yeah, I thought about saying something about Alternate Dead John getting to do that.
Oh, right, supposed to be in bed.
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