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Radnen! Don't read these things, it'll spoil stuff for you! Skip down to where I quote you (i.e. also skip my response to Lord English, because also spoilers).)
Jeeze! I keep accurately predicting things! And I'm usually pretty dense. I never usually see plot twists and stuff coming. I'm up to Act 4 now, just started it. I predicted that Nannasprite would write her inscription in John's copy of Sassacre's text. Thus, the ancient-looking copy he found in his dad's safe is, indeed, that same copy. I predicted Snowman was a woman (though I thought Slick didn't wanna kill her 'cause she's a damn what he's sweet on).
My comment about the pre-punched apple card's relation to the thing that grew from John's meteor was right (because we see in the Act 3 ender that Rose's thing is a soda bottle, and clearly the giant cylinder thing WV rode on is supposed to be like a cork). I've covered so many pages since I last posted, I can't remember everything I predicted, but I'll probably do another read-thru at some point and remember them.
I'm keeping a text file with lots of random thoughts about the series as I read. Maybe I should organize and publish them at some point. Tumblr's pretty easy to set up...
Here's a few comments I feel like saying out loud...
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002880• Becquerel's a
dog? That does NOT bode well. You know the rule about dogs in fiction. They
always die. The only reason for dogs to even
exist in stories is so they can die and tug on our heartstrings. No, this does not bode well at all.
On the bright side, the end of that animation is perhaps the cutest thing that has ever existed. I gotta learn how to make animated gifs so I can make a "Good Dog! Best Friend!" gif ^_^
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002903• Uhh...........o.......kay? This...really, really threw me for a loop.
So...John's like, totally fracking psycho? I noticed that the kids never really talk to their guardians, and I thought it was just a contrivance of the medium. But now I'm getting this impression that John literally never actually speaks out loud to his father 'cause he (John) has some kind of severe autistic thing or something and basically has no human interaction outside of Pesterchum. And his dad sorta-heartbreakingly tries to communicate with him by buying all that clown stuff.
This is pretty disturbing, actually. The "Lame Kid" sign is particularly unsettling.
Also, I gotta say, I don't like this sort of thing. Where something that was previously unknowable is thrown at us like this. Even Rose's screenshots in the first part of her GameFAQs FAQ didn't show the grafitti. If it had, I wouldn't've noticed it.
See, the problem with something like this is that now, we can't trust the narrative.
Anything we see might be a lie, might be covered up by our protagonist's fractured psyche. That sucks. I'll now always have it in the back of my mind anytime something new or cool or something comes up that, "well, maybe this'll turn out to be fake, too. Oh well."
Yeah, I really don't like sudden revelations like this.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002923• I wonder if John's dad's room really
was normal. Maybe it was actually filled with bloody dismembered corpses or something, but John blocked that out, too. See, ugh, we can't trust anything anymore.
Well, presumably whatever's going on at Jade's, Dave's and Rose's houses are real, as well as all the stuff in the future and past, but if John's involved, there's no telling if what we're seeing is real or true or means anything anymore,
even if we're seeing John through another character's eyes.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002926• So Jade's golden dream palace is some kind of moon that orbits Skaia? Called Prospit? Or is this that golden place above John's house in The Middle? Or both?
• And I don't have a link, but a later (or earlier?) flash animation shows us that Jade doesn't actually have psychic powers, she just learns about the future and past and other timelines and stuff during eclipses with her "dream moon" and Skaia.
Of course, that could be a misdirection -- maybe she gets her visions from that and is still psychic in some other way.
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003035"it's hard to thank you enough for your friendship over the years. heck, if it weren't for you i wouldn't even have met rose and dave, so that is like, THREE TIMES the friendship! that is almost like, TOO MUCH FRIENDSHIP."
In my last post, I was wondering how the kids met. This leads me to believe that Jade orchestrated their friendship. She likely befriended each of the other three, then introduced them all to each other. Probably because of her visions.
Psychic powers or no, she's still reeeeally mysterious.
• Speaking of those letters...
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002991lolwut? John even
hand-writes in lower-case? Also, aww. Heartwarming moment
Yeah, see, I'm thinking more and more the Homestuck kids are all really, severely psychologically messed up shut-ins with no friends or lives whatsoever. All they have...
*fights back manly tears*
...is each other ( T_T)
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002984• "It's like what are you made of time."
Hah! Probably! If I'm right about him being the Knight of Time, that is. Which I think I am
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003055Okay, from our very own Lord English's response in the username topic, I know that Lord English is some kind of big bad evil thing that's summoned upon the destruction of a universe, then teleports back to a random point in its past, such that if you encounter Lord English in your timeline, you know your universe is doomed.
I've actually had a few other things spoiled while searching for stuff on Deviantart or Google or whatever, but it's no big deal. First because knowing these things ahead of time somehow doesn't diminish their awesomeness, and second because Homestuck is so insanely large, no one spoiler could possibly have series-ruining implications.
• I wonder if Spades Slick is Jack Noir. They both have a hatred of silly hats, they're both clearly the same species, they look alike, have those barcodes.
• The future-people like Wandering Vagabond also have those barcodes. It's clear that the WV et. al. are "imps" (<-- still no official name for those buggers).
• It's worth noting that Spades Slick et. al.
bleed and
die while the imps John's dealing with
disappear leaving behind Grist. So maybe they're a more evolved version. Or maybe their species behaves differently in The Middle than in the real world.
I wonder, maybe John and his friends fail to...do whatever they're supposed to be doing, and the Imps win and colonize the destroyed Earth, and that eventually becomes first the Wandering Vagabond's world then Spades Slick's world, in time.
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003116I wonder if "the Felt" are called the felt as a reference to the "fabric" of spacetime.
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003139Okay, here's my theory -- Becquerel is Lord English. Supporting evidence...
1) In Jade's one dreamworld animation, we see Becquerel's birth, wherein he rises from the pool of lava that made Jade's island millions of years in the past.
2) That meteor was spat out by a SBURB spirograph. That fits with the "summoning Lord English" thing I already know about.
3) Bec tries to stop Jade from messing around in the ruins. Presumably because the kids are destined to defeat Lord English, so he doesn't want her getting her hands on SBURB and joining the party, so to speak.
4) And he doesn't/can't just kill her, because that'd create a time paradox, which maybe are part of the "glitches and exploits in spacetime" which are the only ways to kill him.
5) Bec clearly has insane spacetime powers, so that fits.
6) Bec's appearance as a dog means his storyline
has to end tragically, and Bec ending up being the Big Bad of the entire Homestuck series would certainly fit.
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003168Wow, okay. Kill Snowman, end the universe. Oh! She's not a green dude, she's an Imp-type guy. Or gal. Like WV and Slick and Noir. Interesting...
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003183Why would they fight each other? That makes precisely zero sense @_@
• I noticed the stabbed eye change soon after it happened.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003176http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003177And lolled hard when it was acknowledged in the story. I did the same thing with C4 not being explosive, heh. The author's one smart feller.
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003229How do they know about the Kool-Aid man...?
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003270Hey, her shirt shouldn't be cycling through all these designs. Remember? She set it to only cycle through three of them (then added a fourth via the dreambot while she was dreaming). Did someone reset them?
I'll admit I skimmed over most of that, but indeed, Homestuck is awesome. I should warn you, however, in case you hadn't noticed the newsposts under the comic: At present, the author is in the middle of a massive hiatus, with it not looking like it's going to start back up for quite a while still. So um, you might want to pace yourself!
I have to agree with you on the characterization. Homestuck's characters are some of most well-developed, well-rounded characters around. What's going to really blow your mind, however, is once the trolls start getting their proper character development. Every single one is built on a stereotype, yet they all still manage to be very interesting characters.
Oh, and there's a reason for John's oddball Pesterchum handle, but explaining it would be a fairly large spoiler. Let's just say the climax of Act 4 is where the "real" story kicks off. This is going to be hard to believe right now, but everything up till then is just prologue.
Not hard to believe at all. I happen to know there's over 7,000 pages, and I just started Act 4, and that's only around 1,300. Also not hard to believe because John et. al. are playing the Homestuck
Beta, which implies there'll be a Full Release.
Though since the Beta has already managed to destroy Earth and create untold time loopies and whatever else, I shudder to think what a Full Release might do.
(P.S. if you skimmed through this post, too, make sure to read my thing about Becquerel, just Ctrl-F "3139"
Obviously I don't want you to tell me if I'm right, I just think it'd be cool if I
was right and you knew that and then later, when I found out, I came back and said, "I was right!" and you were all, "Yeah, I knew, but I didn't say anything! Cool for you!")
I actually started reading it and found it hilarious. It's actually really masterfully done story-wise, despite the representational style.
Yaaay! You started reading it!
But...d-d-
despite? The art style's one of the best things! So unique, instantly-recognizable. Most webcomics look pretty much like every other webcomic.
(Hey, you should post some predictions sometime, too. I wasn't around while Homestuck was actively being released, so it'll be neat to speculate with a fellow newcomer. Er, well, I was
around like I existed, I just wasn't reading the comic. Game. Thing.)
I'd love to talk about homestuck but my understanding of the timeline is rooted in the order of events chronologically and not when they were told narrative wise, so I refrain from talking or else I bleed spoilers
Yeah, I'm going at a pretty breakneck speed here and I'm already having trouble remembering when (i.e. in which Act) things took place.
I actually started reading it and found it hilarious. It's actually really masterfully done story-wise, despite the representational style.
What's so great about it is how it starts off silly and inconsequential and things slowly but steadily escalate without you even realizing it until suddenly you're asking yourself "How did this go from a kid messing around in his room to THIS?!" And despite such a huge dynamic range in scale, the transition is nonetheless seamless.
I hope it stays relatively silly, though. That's one of the great things about Homestuck that I'm enjoying so far -- the characters just act like normal people, not all fakey-dramatic the way characters in stories normally do. If all this crazy stuff started happening to one of us, we'd probably pretty much talk and act like the Homestuck kids do.
It's like, in proper dramas, a lot of times, the only reason the events seem to have emotional weight and intrigue and stuff is because the characters
act like everything's so super dramatic and important. And nobody acts that way in real life! Most dramas are only dramtic because the characters act completely differently than people do in real life. But Homestuck manages to be obsession-inducingly intriguing without resorting to such cheap tactics.
Another thing I noticed -- thus far (just started Act 4), Homestuck has been devoid of death and romance (well, not counting the murderific Intermission), which are two cheap ways to score points with an audience that the vast majority of stories use.
I read it for a good while until I got bored. Never bothered to remember any of the characters afterwards. It's just a silly, over-convoluted thing I enjoyed for a while.
I also think Problem Sleuth is underrated. I like MS Paint Adventures as a whole, and Homestuck is hogging the show a bit too much.
Was it the Intermission? I didn't really like it very much :/
It's the characters. I wasn't invested in and really didn't care about the Midnight Crew. I trust that the events it depicted and concepts it introduced will be important to the
story, but 250+ pages of Slick and his gang was a bit much. It was also really, really hard to follow the crazy timeline of the Intermission.