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has no meaning. It has no real content, no true substance whatsoever. There are no words that signify anything important is here; just empty ones and zeroes corresponding to pixels that cluster together to form letters and words that, in truth, amount to nothing at all.

It doesn’t have anything to do with societal justice. It doesn’t connect to corruption in politics and business. It doesn’t talk about the destruction of human life, or bemoan poverty, or argue issues of race, creed, religion, or sexuality. It is nothing more than a pointless block of text drifting aimlessly in a seething, ethereal realm of chaos, uncertainty, hatred, and strange images, reminding us all that even in the midst of a storm of madness and fury, there are still some rocks of stability left for us to cling to. Places where, regardless of who we are or what we think, we can congregate and take solace in simple things - the fact that, in spite of all the anarchy around us, we live, breath, think, act; that we Are, right here, and right now.

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High School Student: Um... okay... *goes back to work*

College Student: A clinically insane mind divided by the sum of all rogue government twitter accounts.

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what they say: I hate tumblr

what they mean: even though I am grateful tumblr helped me being more aware of social issues this site is taking these too far and has developed some kind of mob mentality which seems to take it as their duty to punish every "problematic" thing anyone has ever done, completely ignoring that they never were perfect themselves.

Their harassment is almost always over the top, and the mob happily goes after anyone as long as someone can claim it's been an act of oppression.

Therefore posting an opinion is very risky and accompanied with literal fear of harassment as this mob does not know when to stop, and cases of doxing have never been criticized either, and if I were to post legit criticism on some oppressed group I had a 50% chance to find people agreeing with me and 50% chance to be treated like the fucking antichrist.

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But which kind of orc? A Tolkien orc, a Warhammer 40k ork, a World of Warcraft orc...

id spend my summer with an orc

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WAAAAARCRAAAAFT MOOOOOOVVIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Okay, now I’m just imagining this actually happening and it’s completely hilarious.

@pan-pizza remember how you said in this weeks podcast you wished Leroy Jenkins was in the Warcraft movie? Well he was in the original Script

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GenConstuck 2016!!!

If you’re going to GenCon Indy 2016 and you love homestuck, and ESPECIALLY if you cosplay homestuck, make sure you get prepped for these wonderful events!!! https://www.gencon.com/events/85636 https://www.gencon.com/events/99813 @sear-of-heart @genconstuck @indianastuck

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Hell, why not just round up a bunch of voice actors (I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!) and make a Let’s Read of Nightfall? I’ve been wanting that to be a thing pretty much since I started reading Nightfall anyway, so yeah...

Livestream Idea

You know, it occurs to me that I have never actually read all of Nightfall over again before. There is so much of my own story that I’ve simply forgotten, and I think it is time I remedy that.

I am considering doing a Livestream sometime where I go back and read Nightfall for you guys! You will get to hear my stuttering voice on a shitty microphone as I complain about how shitty the beginning of Nightfall is, as well as some commentary from me about the story.

What do you guys think? Would this be something that would interest you guys? Let me know!

-TheNeonWerewolf

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Okay, new headcannon: after beating the game, John joins Jane and they go into the detective business together. For no particular reason, John does stand up comedy performances as a side job.

Watching tv with my family when suddenly.

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I felt the need to reblog this, since it’s by far the most concise, well-written, and well thought-out explanation of just what the fuck happened in Act 7.

How Lord English’s Defeat Was Achieved

Whilst talking to a friend I was suddenly struck by a realization that I think explains the precise nature of how Lord English was defeated. I’ve already spoken a little about how the destruction of the Green Sun should not have depleted his Clockwork Majyyks, and therefore shouldn’t have made him any more invulnerable. Here is my take on what I think happened, and how it explains not only the ending, but the entire plot of Homestuck (seriously).

I’ve already spoken a fair bit in the past about Homestuck’s underlying themes in relation to the comic’s name. At first, when taken literally, “Homestuck” appears to be named for only a very small portion of Act 1, when John is literally “stuck in his home”. He is able to leave later on, so he’s no longer home-stuck, right? Now, my take has always been that this depends on your definition of “home”. Homestuck is a story about people leaving behind “homes” of various scope. John leaves his house, yes, but then he leaves his universe, his session, and ultimately his fundamental reality behind. He becomes unstuck from canon itself. From what more is there left to become “unstuck”?

Let’s remind ourselves what the “treasure” juju does. I mean, obviously we know that Caliborn initially used it to seal the souls of the beta kids, and then later Vriska deployed it against Lord English. But what else does it do? John put his hand through it and it became distributed throughout the canon of Homestuck. This is an ability with a very specific scope; he is distributed not throughout reality, but throughout Homestuck itself. There’s a reason why it is shaped like the Homestuck logo; the ultimate weapon is a gateway to Homestuck.

Lord English cannot be destroyed by conventional means, he can only be defeated by the exploitation of glitches in Paradox Space. So far, the glitches in Paradox Space we have seen have taken a very specific form also; metacanonical altering. Caliborn jams sparkle dust in the game cartridge, and .jpeg artifacts appear across the comic. John sticks his hand in the the juju, he gains the ability to use a retcon glitch. This is how one “glitches” Paradox Space, they interact with the narrative itself; with Homestuck itself. The juju allows one to do this, and this is why its so powerful.

Here’s my hypothesis. The weapon/treasure juju does not have three different abilities, it has one. We’ve been seeing it as 1. being able to trap four souls, 2. being able to impart retcon abilities, and 3. having an offensive ability to be used against Lord English. In reality, these are all one ability! The ability to act as a gateway to the Homestuck canon!

Caliborn did not seal the four kids within the juju! He sealed them within Homestuck. This is why the comic is called “Homestuck”! The kids are literally trapped within the narrative by the power of the juju. But, this power is also how Lord English is eventually defeated! Here is what happens in the [S] Act 7 flash.

Vriska activates the juju, it grows big and the kid’s symbols flash on its surface.

The symbol on the victory platform flips around, and turns white, the same colour and size as the juju. A door appears on its surface.

A door also appears on the side of the juju facing Lord English! This is not a coincidence. There are two doors here, one leading one way, and one leading the other way.

Homestuck is ending. By that expanding convention of the Kids, John in particular, escaping their bonds, then there is one more bond for them to break, one more door for them to pass. They need to leave the comic itself.

This is what the white juju with the door represents! The door on the Kid’s side leads out of Homestuck, whereas the door on English’s side leads in.

The kids will get to live on in a happy life beyond the narrative, possibly in the extracanon epilogue, the Paradox Space comic, not to mention fanworks. English will not. Caliborn gaining his power is shown at the moment of his defeat because his timeline is cyclical, marked by two circumstancially simultaneous events; his birth and his defeat. Similarly, the kids leaving Homestuck and Lord English “entering” it are two circumstantially simultaneous events orchestrated by the juju. Lord English has become trapped within Homestuck. While the comic may end for the kids, and they can move on, English is forever trapped within a loop of destruction, held by the bounds of canon.

The reason the juju flashes with the kids colours is because it is preparing to release them, but not to fight English, it is preparing to release them from Homestuck itself, by the comic’s ending.

This is why the comic had to end right after this moment, because otherwise the kids would not have escaped and English would have more canon scope throughout which to dominate.

This is why the juju is white, this is why the Act 7 curtains are white. White is the colour of Homestuck itself, as shown in the text for the logo displayed in the flash in act 1. The white curtains close on the comic, the white juju acts as the gateway into canon.

Perhaps the Green Sun had influence that reached beyond the canon (Paradox Space comic)? If this was the case, the English can no longer use it to access anything outside the canon, because Calliope destroyed it.

This is what Homestuck means. The clue was hidden in the name all along. This was a story about four kids who had literally been trapped inside their own story, and escaped it, trapping their unkillable villain inside it as it ended, meaning that he could spread his destruction no further. Of course Lord English can no longer cause harm within Homestuck, if Homestuck itself has ended! What an appropriate way to defeat an undefeatable villain in a comic where fourth wall breaking and metacanonical interactions with the main narrative are such an integral plot device.

Here is Hussie, deciding to kill off Lord English the only way he can; by ending his own comic. If the ending seemed abrupt to you, this is why.

That magnificent bastard.

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In Memory...

It is over. It is done.

We’ve made the final climb.

But looking back you realize

It was hardly wasted time.

You made friends, and lost some

Had fun along the way.

You made a couple cosplays

And ruined conventions all day.

You dealt with trolls, both real and fake

And joined the Tumblr horde;

A force so great it drove 4chan

Off of the message board.

You fraternized and theorized

You had some fun with ships.

And with your bros in private talk

You brought forth witty quips.

The videos, they were numerous

And you watched every one.

Cosplay; voiceovers; lyricstuck

Till the setting of the sun.

You tried your hand at making art

And writing a fanventure.

You stood in awe of those whose work

Galvanized you to do better.

You followed those who took the rules

And with them, forged new worlds;

Made new games, or took old friends

And polished off their swords.

You chose to join them – to send the cast

Once more on grand adventures

To stop a maddened eldritch foe

And fight a battle for the ages.

You met the one for whom you’d go

To Hell and back again

And plunge into the noxious depths

Of a dark god’s blackened den.

The years have passed; you’ve grown and changed

But one thing stayed the same:

You stuck with this until the end

Through triumph and through pain.

There’s more to come, or so Huss says

More content on the way.

And there’s plenty of other things to do

And other games to play.

But at last it’s done; you beat this game

Just one thing left to say.

A parting word for all the fans…

 Yeah, it’s been a long day.

Just a short bit of poetry I whipped up to commemorate the official end of Homestuck, as well as all the amazing people I met through the fandom and all the weird, wacky, and awesome shit I did as a fan. I would have made some sketches to go with it, but I didn’t have the time (but hey, if anyone feels like it, I won’t say no...). Ikimaru, Purpledragoncaptor, CaptainCrunchCosplay, ArtfulImpersonator, Plinkoceans, NeonWereWolf, Ravesoldier17, Ralte, UncertainHavoc, Wakraya, Dronwen, and all the rest of you: you guys are awesome, and I wish you all the best of luck wherever fate takes you!

Happy 4/13, everyone!

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Well said.

you know, it was never about the ending. it was never about getting closure for everything, or finding out what happened in the end . it was all just about what happened to them along the way.

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there’s no other way out of it

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I saw this and it kind of surprised me; that someone could think this. I get it; you hate humankind. That’s all well and good - you’re entitled to your own opinion. But I have to ask: why are you, a human, here, on a website created by humans, griping about this to other humans? If you have so many problems with humanity, then get out there and work to fix them! If only by being what those “selfish, destructive parasites” you mentioned aren’t: caring, considerate, kind, etc.

Don’t for a second believe there aren’t good people out there; there are. But change does not happen when those good people sit on their assess and do nothing about the evils in this world.

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What reason do I have to not hate humanity? Humans are selfish, destructive parasites.

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Oh god. For some reason I can totally see Jake and Dirk doing this to each other after the game is over and everyone actually has a chance to grow the fuck up.

distraction plan failed don’t dish it if you can’t take it

[college au]

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Funny thing: while reading this, all I could think of was, “Somehow, playin’ a chilluns card game has caused me to become severely injured,”, “Don’t trip, gramps,” and, “Oh no! Mah Blue Peeps Whitey Dragon!”

Damn you, LittleKuriboh!

this was the FIRST episode of yugioh

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It’s like Never-Ending Story up in here.

IT NEVER ENDS!

(And you will never hear me say there is a problem with this. I may think it from time to time, but as long as it means I can keep working on my fanventure, I won’t say jack s**t. Do not bite the hand that feeds).

Homestuck 2.0?!?!?!

SOURCE (6:51)

DANTE: “I recently signed on as a creative consultant for a fandom that I’m very much a part of called Homestuck. Becoming part of the team in helping to conjure up what Homestuck 2.0 is gonna be and bringing it to television or digital content, and a new game’s coming out that we’re–” INTERVIEWER: “You said it started as a webcomic?” DANTE: “Started as a webcomic seven years ago, and Rufio is actually in the webcomic!” INTERVIEWER: “Really?” DANTE: “That’s how I got involved. I’m helping them– I’m bringing kinda Homestuck to Hollywood.”

GUYS????????

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It has a dragon. Therefor I must reblog it.