#arsenicCatnip

[monoyoki]

little nepeta

[lunar-leon]

Nepeta doodle !! Tried a new brush ...

[twistedapparitionta]

:33< hi !! its been a while since ive posted anything on here ! well, im back ! i’m trying to post on here and twitter whenever i can, especially with the new hs^2 updates hehe, im so glad to be back on here and back to posting !! more later on !!

[awfullydrawnkarkat]

CG: THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY DUMB.

:33 < :OO

:33 < MAID COSTUME???

:33 < PLEAAAASE POSE WITH ME KARCAT PLEASE I WANT A PICTURE SO BAD!!!

[ @badlydoodlednepeta ]

CG: SIGH.... FINE. FINE FINE. THIS IS SO DUMB THOUGH.

CG: GOG YOU ARE SO LUCKY YOURE MY FRIEND.

[poorlydrawnnepeta]

Have you done drugs before. Follow up. Do you want

(:33 < Oh, no! Equius would never let me!)

(:33 < *ac smirks mischievously*

(:33 < but if youre of-furring...)

[airprime7]

Why am I seeing so many fake posts on my dash? Like, there's ones from all sorts of made up realities, I'm surprised I haven't seen ones set in webcomics or whatever.

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all of you iidiiot2 need two 2hut up about computer2 unle22 you know what you're talkiing about. ii 2wear ii 2aw 2ome guy telliing people two pour water on theiir keyboard2 two clean them.

♉️ adiostoreador

uH,,,

iS THAT NOT HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO, uH, dO IT,

♊️ twinarmageddons

oh my fuckiing god 2ome people are actual iidiiot2

#ii mean come on you actually beliieved that

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wAsSuP mOtHeRfUcKeRs???

#HoNk

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:33 < hiii!!!

:33 < my name is nepeta leijon, and this is my furst post!

:33 < i like shipping, and rolepurrlaying, and hunting

:33 < i have troll pawtism, so i might not be the best at understanding things. sorry if i get confused!

:33 < i also do art, and my commissions are open! purrlease don't ask me to draw trolls pailing, i'm only 6

:33 < bye! :33

♋️ carcinogeneticist

HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO PUT YOUR FULL NAME IN YOUR PINNED POST.

DON'T YOU KNOW THE FIRST RULE OF GRUMBLR IS NEVER USE YOUR REAL NAME, YOU IDIOTIC EXCUSE FOR A PERSON.

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wwhy is your text grey

♋️ carcinogeneticist

I DON'T KNOW, WHY ARE YOU SUCH A PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLE, FISH FACE.

🤡 i-say-honk Follow

hOnK!

♋️ carcinogeneticist

FUCK OFF, TC, WE ALL KNOW IT'S YOU.

THIS STUPID "GIMMICK BLOG" ISN'T EVEN FUNNY.

♌️ arseniccatnip

:33 < @carcinogeneticist @caligulasaquarium @i-say-honk kill yourselves

#:33 < :33

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im dead n0w

♍️ grimauxiliatrix

Mood

#Honestly I Cant Believe I Made It Through This Week Alone

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hi! how do i use this app?

♋️ carcinogeneticist

HUMAN ALERT.

@human-alarm

👤 human-alarm Follow

BEEP

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D -> The day we stop valuing horses is the day society collapses

♐️ centaurstesticle

D -> @cuttlefishculler Perhaps I do share some interests with the protagonist of the new popular movie starring Troll Ryan Gosling

D -> If anything that would be a compliment

D -> Not that that's something a f001 such as yourself would understand

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)(-EY, I was just joking around. No need to start being c-rude!!! 380

♏️ arachnidsgrip Follow

Protagonist!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

What movie did you watch? 8ecause 8ar8ie is defin8ly the hero of the one I saw, hooves-for-8rains.

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i liked the 0ne with the b0mb m0re

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rustblood, opinion disregarded

♋️ carcinogeneticist

BLATANT HEMOPHOBIA ASSIDE, ARE WE JUST GOING TO IGNORE OP'S URL?

♊️ twinarmageddons

forget that, cc ii2 the ACTUAL HEIIRE22

♋️ carcinogeneticist

HOLY SHIT, WHO CARES.

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You know, I think the murders were good for me.

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VR1SK4, YOU K1LL3D 31GHTY-31GHT P3OPL3.

♏️ arachnidsgrip

Yeah, 8ut I'm over it now. It doesn't effect me anymore.

#I've moved on.

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man i cant believe troll steve jobs died of ligma

♉️ adiostoreador

wHO, uM, wHO'S TROLL STEVE JOBS?

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

tumblrstuck

tipsyGnostalgic: i want 2 turn that mans prostate into silly putty

uranianUmbra: here's something i doodled dUring science class, lol!

centaursTesticle: D --> Please remember that you personally can drink milk and still be a lactose intolerance ally. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know their history

twinArmageddons: fuckiing a robot giirl iin the a22 call that backend programmiing

gutsyGumshoe: Holy shit, I need him so fucking bad holy shit holyyy shit. Oh my god.

timaeusTestified: Anyone get kind of horny putting the ignition key in the car. It's so intimate. Turning him on...

carcinoGeneticist: SO LET'S TALK ABOUT WHERE SCRIMBLO'S ARC IS REALISTICALLY GOING. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO ARGUE THAT HE'S BEING MANIPULATED, BUT THIS IGNORES THE FACT THAT THERE IS CLEARLY UNRESOLVED CONFLICT BETWEEN HIM AND BLEEBUS ABOUT THEIR MORALITIES.

turntechGodhead: happy propeller penis thursday

arachnidsGrip: "Scrim8lo and 8lee8us need to discuss their morality!" God for8id a path8tic 8oywife does some torture! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

arsenicCatnip: :33 < WHO IS HYPED FUR THE MEW ALBUM LETS FUCKING GO

apocalypseArisen: guys were n0t getting a new album 0_0

adiosToreador: pLEASE STOP SENDING ME DEATH THREATS,

ectoBiologist: why is my whole dash talking about this band i don't even listen to...

gallowsCalibrator: H3Y BOY N1C3 KN1F3 WOUND C4N 1 PUT MY TONGU3 1N 1T

grimAuxiliatrix: I Am Going To Fall Into Lake Michigan

[badlydrawnhoruss]

:33 < ac is not sure if she has met you yet! you look very familiar…

[ @badlydoodlednepeta ]

[thewertsearch]

Ask Comp 07/09

Anonymous asked: also, thats pretty distinctly not vriskas handwriting (page 2196). the hell is terezi even talking about?

Terezi, for god's sake.

@manorinthewoods asked: I'd like to note that Pyralspite's eyes are either an eighth the brightness of Alternia's sun, or Pyralspite has the ability to psychically burn out people's eyes just by wanting to. Probably the former. ~LOSS (30/8/24)

I should have guessed that Vriska's cruel and unusual punishment for Terezi was yet another case of Mindfang Roleplay.

I think it's likely that Pyralspite does have some sort of ocular ability. After all, Terezi's lusus had a vision-based power, and she's probably Pyralspite's direct descendant.

@gogogoat495 asked: Say, what do you think of the reuse/mix of animation and music from Dave: Ascend to Seer: Ascend? Is it a simple callback or are there deeper parallels between the characters and story beats?

Well, they are both lead-ups to a climactic fight between 'siblings'. Other than that, though, I'm not really sure. Dave and Terezi have always got on very well, but I can't really see any direct parallels in their personal arcs.

@manorinthewoods asked: Mindfang's classism is ridiculous. This woman straight up said 'one of such middling 8lood' about someone literally one step below her on the ladder. If she were Tavros, she would be oppressing Aradia so hard. ~LOSS (29/8/24)

In Terezi's own words, she's 'a little too teal' to be considered a true highblood. I think there's a hard line of separation here, where anyone below Vriska's caste is considered a midblood at best.

In other words: to be a blueblood, you really need to be a blue-blood.

@manorinthewoods asked: Nepeta, whose handle is arsenicCatnip, uses arsenic's atomic number as a significant element of her quirk. This implies that arsenic has the same atomic number in Alternia as on Earth, which in turn means that, at the very least, the two universes likely share a periodic table. Odd, given how one has widespread psychic abilities and the other doesn't. ~LOSS (29/8/24)

I think it makes sense that Earth inherited some of its scientific concepts from Alternia. It wouldn't be the first thing we inherited!

@heliotropopause asked: TG: maybe if you kill her at least we can finally stop obsessing over her Hah! homestuck's been over for over for almost eight years now, and people are still doing vriscourse to this day. There is no escape, i'm afraid.

'Vriscourse' is kind of killing me. I'm kind of disappointed that this is my first time hearing the term, because I'd probably have been using it this whole time.

@probablyapineapple asked: im not completely caught up on reading this liveblog yet (currently up to s67) but i think youre on track to understanding these characters better than literally anyone

Well, thank you! I have, admittedly, posted some rather hot takes in the past, though. If I recall correctly, my Act 5 shipping chart was my most controversial post to date.

@bladekindeyewear asked: Back during these times in the comic, there were broad theoryposting camps advocating for both narrower and broader interpretations of Aspect domains/powers. I know you're avoiding as much outside influence as you can, but I'm wondering if maybe after the end of this Act, you could accept some community Theorydiving from around this time that could unlock more tools for you to understand hidden evidence for Aspect Stuff you might have missed? […]

I'm definitely considering something like that. Specifically, I'd love to take a look at some of the comic's early theories - ones that had already been disproven by this point in the comic. That'll allow me to get into the headspace of Homestuck's earliest theorists, without influencing my own as-yet-unproved theories.

@manorinthewoods asked: Perhaps an older Legislacerator's job is less actually trying to pursue justice, and more going through cargo cult-esque rhythms of justice, taking its trappings and trying to bring it about while having no understanding of what they're actually doing and what the meaning of their actions is. Maybe, like the Subjugglators, they're an entire social class/blood color based around a single cult? ~LOSS (28/8/24)

I think Dave was pretty on the mark when he described early legislacerators as bounty hunters. Maybe they assumed something marginally closer to an attorney's role in Alternia's modern age - but in Redglare's era, the ideal legislacerator was a violent thrill-seeker, more concerned with bloody combat than courtroom paperwork.

@violetsquare111 asked: I do wonder how big, exactly, is the multiverse in Homestuck. I guess that's a bit of a weird question if there are "infinite universes"… but infinite potential doesn't mean infinite already-existing universes, does it? For some reason I always thought of the amount of Sburb sessions/universes being fairly small, in the grand scheme of things. Less than a million, maybe. I really don't know where I got that from, and there's probably some throwaway line in the comic contradicting it, but if applicable then it's another possible explanation for how Perfect Jack would be one-of-a-kind.

It's not impossible. That would imply that the overwhelming majority of sessions are doomed to fail - but, honestly, they might be! After all, neither of the sessions we've seen so far have been unambiguously successful.

@iris-in-the-dark-world asked: i had a dream that you went from page 3703 to page 7053 in one day

You dreamt of Sally on Adderall.

@spiddermen asked: hihi i just caught up with your liveblog and im so happy to have a chance to reread hs along with you, the first time i read it was when i was like… twelve? so nine years ago? and pretty much all of it went over my head. but now im finally getting to appreciate this masterpiece and your observations are making a lot of stuff click for me as well. so its cool to finally get to understand how freaking good this story is and i cant wait to see you react to some of the crazy later stuff also i hope this doesnt trip the spoiler sensor but some of the answers to the questions you're asking are only answered in sequel material so i do really hope you'll read those, they're ignored by a lot of the fans but they're honestly really really good and i feel like you're the kind of person who would get the intended experience out of them. and psycholonials as well! everyone ignores it but it practically is homestuck (2) to me

Thank you! And yeah, we've talked a bit about this before. Cat and I had a discussion about the subject back in Act 3, and I'm well aware that this comic isn't going to answer all of my questions. Honestly, it would be pretty surprising if it did - I've been digging really deep into aspects of the comic that are clearly just meant to be background details.

As for whether I'll be dipping into Hussie's other projects, or Homestuck's non-canon material - I'm certainly going to check them out, but only time will tell whether they get the full liveblogging treatment. That said, if it addresses questions of mine that Homestuck itself doesn't elaborate on, consider my interests piqued.

@manorinthewoods submitted: I sorta skimmed Homestuck, and missed out on basically all of the Flashes going through, so I totally missed the fact that WQ wrote a romantic fanfic about herself, which is really funny. It does have a serious aspect, though - it implies something about her relationship with WK, no? I suspect they may be friendly with one another, but fate gives their relationship a bit of tragedy - as well as a bit of 'we are simultaneously both forced to be in a romantic relationship and also only being co-rulers'. Is WQ<3WK a thing? Doesn't have to be. I suspect it may be something like WQ<>WK […]

Plus, Carapacians are clones, so it's not like the Royals need to make any heirs. Really, they only need to be co-workers - but the idea that they might have a moirail-adjacent relationship is very cute.

Anonymous asked: Grimdark Rose: "Vengeance and rage are all I live for now, seeing my dead mother makes me feel nothing, I will-" John: Exists Rose: "OMG bestie hiiiiii" ~DJ

First Vriska, now Rose. It seems like John's the perfect calming influence for any out-of-control Light Player.

Anonymous asked: Not sure if you noticed, the tapestries about the kids' quests are all referencing the [S] pages with misattributed quotes associated with each kid (pages 82, 307, 444, and 2988). The quotes are, respectively, from Maxims by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg, and possibly an original piece by Hussie ending with a line from Hamlet. I don't think any of them mean anything.

The quotes might not be Hussie originals, but they definitely seem to evoke the kids' respective Quests. Dave's quote is a bit of an exception, though...

Anonymous asked: "They wait for he who would drop it while it's hot whilst the pimp's in the crib." I mean, you laugh NOW, but knowing Andrew and this comic, can you honestly say this won't end up having an incredibly important and literal meaning? @walkerbehindyou asked: Is there a quest more suited for Dave than to show up at his denizen’s (certainly the pimp of LOHAC) palace in the past and drop straight fire?

...but perhaps that means it's foreshadowing something we haven't seen yet. If Dave ends up making a Choice, I wouldn't put it past him to rap an answer to his Denizen.

@iris-in-the-dark-world asked: the soundtrack of the grimdark rose segment really gets to me. i'd highly recommend the first few songs of that album

Black Rose/Green Sun was a great song. It evoked a very different feeling than anything we've heard before, and really highlighted how alien Rose has become, now that she's been fully submerged in darkness.

@manorinthewoods asked: Ooh, here's an idea - when you do the Sahlee-and-Sally Let's Play, set it in an alternate Sburb that's based on all of your incorrect theories. Every Land has a God Tier Moon orbiting it, for instance. Would be really cool - your theoretical Sburb has a lot of super fun stuff in it. ~LOSS (12/8/24)

Oh, I like that idea. It means I can finally bring back the anti-Skaia, which is probably my favourite since-disproven theory.

Anonymous asked: I never realised that the pillow that Rose uses then is the one from her mum - well spotted :,(

A mother will do whatever is best for her children.

And a daughter will remember what was best about her mother.

Anonymous asked: So. Do you think that a Horrorterror-Boosted Rose has any chance against a First Guardian Prototyped Jack Noir? We've seen that if left alone Jack can destroy Entire Worlds and his teleporting is Nigh Instant, plus who knows how far he can go in a single teleport! […]

Dark Rose is arguably a God-Tier level threat, but we've just seen Jack one-shot a God Tier. I don't think she has a hope - there's only so many bullet-time stabbings she can take!

Anonymous asked: its really interesting to see you say that rose saying she felt mom was a sister and a mother at once made u feel like there must have been camraderie. for me, it reinforced the idea that moms parenting forced rose to act like a peer to mom when it came to her alcoholism? in the sense that moms alcoholism took her out of commission, and made it so that rose had to take care of herself in a lot of ways that a parent would, putting them on similar levels. So its interesting to see a different interpretation!

It's not impossible. To me, Rose's monologue reads as if she's trying to express her admiration of her mother. This is the first time she's admitted to having positive feelings for her guardian, and I think she's regretting that she never voiced these feelings to the woman herself, before it was too late.

That's just one reading of her words, though. I think her monologue here is meant to be ambiguous, just like the Lalonde mother-daughter relationship always was.

@manorinthewoods asked: Ooh, you're thinking of a Carapacian player, huh? That would be interesting - imagine if they go in with, like, complete knowledge of how Sburb works, so they prototype something super strong in order to buff the Ring that they then steal and equip. ~LOSS (12/8/24)

That would be interesting. Carapacians are the only species where the game can't fully compensate for the power of your race by buffing Underlings, since buffing the Underlings would also buff the Ring I'm abusing!

@skelekingfeddy asked: re: troll romance: i generally lean towards xenopsychology, mixed in with a secret 4th thing (humans can also feel troll romance), with a little dose of propaganda, and also an undercurrent of parody (because Hussie. everything has an undercurrent of parody (e.g. pretty much all the trolls are based on internet stereotypes). i COMPLETELY disagree with the notion that the quadrants are made up unhealthy bullshit. i think theres a genuine evolutionary biological origin for the quadrants if matespritship is all about Companionship, then kismesissitude is all about Competition, Rivalry, a drive to push yourself and make yourself better. both are generally healthy and beneficial in their own ways. the evolutionary basis for moirallegiance and auspisticism is the need for pacification, a better half, to prop up matespritships and kismesissitudes and keep them from being interfered with (as described in-comic). each quadrant is the result of a genuine primal, biological urge

I don't necessarily think the quadrants are fabricated, but I do think that the version of them that exists on Alternia are unhealthy more often than not, particularly when it comes to black romance. Monogamous auspisticism requires an overwhelming amount of emotional labor, all the kismesissitudes we've seen have been toxic at best, and there has to be a better way to do this.

Anonymous asked: My brother's been going through your liveblog recently and it's been fun getting to re-experience it through him, especially being reminded of all the theories you have that are shockingly accurate in very inaccurate ways. The two that come to mind are your theory that Jade was engineered in a lab (which, she kinda was, but that's not unique to her) and that John's version of Sburb is bugged (the meteors, it turns out, were a part of the game as it's meant to be played, but this whole 'tumour' thing sure isn't). Also, while I'm here, going to recommend checking out Temporal Shenanigans by Rachel Rose Mitchell, which is a gorgeous fansong about Aradia that shouldn't have any spoilsies at this point. I would also rec PhemieC's music with the caveat that many of their songs are spoilery - while most of the troll-specific ones should be alright, I'd definitely say to get someone else to go through them first to be certain. Hope you're doing well!! And I look forward to seeing more of your liveblog if and when you return to it! -Megido

Oh yeah, I was talking about how Jade was made in a lab! I'd totally forgotten about that theory.

You know, her Dreambot is actually interesting in retrospect. The bed that controls it looks suspiciously like a Quest Bed, which makes me wonder just how much Grandpa knew about Sburb's lore, and what exactly he was trying to do here.

Anonymous asked: I find it a bit funny (in good way) how aspects of your troll and human sona are kinda opposites, like life and death type of thing, sweet

Really, it's mostly just me hedging on my own Aspect. Plus, having two 'sonas lets me explore twice as much Sburb lore, allowing me to come up with two weapons, Lands, Title powers, and the like.

Within the hypothetical context of the fic, I've been thinking a lot about why there'd be two Sallys. Like, was one 'sona partially cloned from the other? If so, who was the original? Technically, the Alternian version would have existed 'first', but the existence of time travel ensures that that doesn't mean much.

@manorinthewoods asked: Rather appropriate that Rose's weapon is her Thorns. ~LOSS (10/8/24)

Ayyy!

@ipunchvampires asked: "You should understand [Rose has] been corrupted by various entities with some rather questionable motives," says Entity with Rather Questionable Motives corrupting her. Kind of the perfect Doc Scratch line, honestly.

Doc Scratch is an awful person, but he's still a funny fuck.

@heliotropopause asked: wait. is that *Guybrush Threepwood* in the boat there??? @elkian asked: At the risk of being the 88th person to say something, the troll in the dinghy is a Guybrush Threepwood cameo (using the more cartoony style from Curse Of Monkey Island etc.). Man's truly unfortunate, or maybe he's lucky for not being a focal character? XD Anonymous asked: that 'one random motherfucker on a little dinghy' is in fact, guybrush threepwood from the monkey island series, thrown in as an easter egg by one of the artists who made assets for the flash @sanctferum asked: the troll on the dinghy is Troll Gybrush Threepwood. the guest artist for that scene confirmed this on the now-defunct MSPA forums IIRC

Ahahaha. Mystery solved, I guess!

I've been wanting to play Monkey Island for some time - and now I need to, so that I can understand the true backstory of of GY'BRSH TRPWUD.

Anonymous asked: I love this section, because I think it really shows something about Dave (and Rose). Because Dave just says whatever pops into his head, when he's getting command prompts, he just repeats them uncritically. (That also supports that when he said he didn't love his Bro, it was his honest reaction) @ben-guy asked: David "Zero Filter" Strider was absolutely not ready to have thoughts beamed directly into his head by an exile lmao @krixwell asked: It's so funny to me how when thoughts are incepted into Dave's subconscious mind, they just come falling right back out his mouth at the first opportunity. Filter, what filter? Those sunglasses don't hide shit.

Reminds me of his stress-rambles from early on in the comic. The reason he wears those shades is, I think, because he is a naturally expressive person - he just doesn't want to be.

[homestuckreplay]

“1TS WH4T MY CH4R4CT3R WOULD DO” – terezi probably

(page 2052-2065)

I’m enjoying Act 5 a lot so far, but the writing style has definitely changed. Its narrative text is directed more towards the reader, with asides making references a reader might know, but the trolls definitely don’t – for example, ‘your WALKING CANE, which you use as a weapon kind of like Earth Daredevil who you've never heard of’ (p.2052). The story is still in the second person, but there’s some distance between the ‘you’ and the troll we’re supposedly inhabiting, which there wasn’t with the kids, so I feel slightly more detached from the story.

Act 5 is also using a new kind of nonlinear storytelling. I know that saying ‘Homestuck is introducing nonlinear storytelling’ is basically like saying ‘there’s starting to be some problems in the world’, but this is different. In earlier acts, there have been occasional flash forwards or flashbacks, and times when the kids’ storylines are out of sync with each other but each proceeding linearly. Act 5’s cuts to the trolls in the Medium and back to before they play the game are basically like how the trolls interact with the kids’ timeline. The trolls’ whole story is already laid out, we know where it ends, so the ‘player’ is picking and choosing interesting points in their timeline to jump between and interact with.

When we reach a Pesterlog from Terezi’s perspective that’s already happened from Gamzee’s/the reader’s, it’s not recreated in full – we just see the first few lines, and then there’s a link to the earlier page. Again this is different from the kids’, whose Pesterlogs have always been shown in full from both sides (for example, Rose and Dave on page 522 and 611). Which definitely suggests there will be a LOT of jumping around and repeated chatlogs, and makes the sequence of pages itself nonlinear, as the hyperlinks make much bigger jumps than just going forward or back a single page.

Every kid’s entry into the Medium so far has been a pretty big deal, and with the giant meteor still looming over her house in ‘[S] Descend’, I think Jade’s will be too. With the trolls, the story is all business. Terezi mentions getting killed by meteors and a ‘WHOL3 CONSP1R4CY’ about Sburb almost offhand (p.2061), there’s no alchemy binge for Karkat besides a single Fresh Prince of Bel-Air themed sickle, and the lands are introduced with a single image instead of a cool flash, all of which contributes to the different feel of Act 5.

^ johnkat real?

GC: *SHE […] SP34KS TH3 4NC13NT TONGU3 OF 4 THOUS4ND W1SDOMS* GC: *SH3 S4YS:* GC: H3Y DO YOU W4NT TO PL4Y 4 G4M3 W1TH M3? (p.2055)

^ the ancient tongue of a thousand wisdoms being about playing a game is a great summary of Homestuck as a whole tbh

This update introduces a NEW TROLL, Terezi’s roleplay partner arsenicCatnip! She’s basically a Warrior Cats roleplayer, equal parts feral/bloodthirsty like a wildcat and cute/caring like a housecat. She’s also got a weird dynamic going with another troll who’s only referenced, who she has to ‘get purrmission’ from to play Sburb and is ‘kind of scared of’ (p.2055) – in an obviously cutthroat world like Alternia it’s not surprising that interpersonal relationships fall prey to serious power dynamics, but still, I hope she is okay. I noticed AC only mentions getting permission when Terezi mentions the team aspect of Sburb, so perhaps it’s a specific friend that this mystery troll doesn’t want AC to spend time with.

I love the idea of Terezi and AC roleplaying together, but unfortunately, Terezi is not a good collaborative roleplayer. She has no commitment to a shared scenario and isn’t picking up on the boundaries AC is pretty clearly setting down. AC can hold her own pretty well and the scenario ends well, but Terezi’s violence and control in this scenario doesn’t set her up well as a good leader for the red team.

And she is definitely manipulating Karkat when he contacts her about Sburb. It seems clear that she sees the server player as the game’s real leader, as it gives her control over Karkat’s environment while he has to do the hard work running around and controlling monsters. She also knows much more about the game than he does, so she’s able to frame this the opposite way and make him want to be the client, and she mixes fake-flirting, fake-not caring and possibly real insanity to get her intended reactions. Her superior knowledge + manipulation mean she interacts with Karkat the same way she’ll later interact with the beta kids. When Karkat asks her to explain the deal with Sburb, she replies ‘1 C4NT! / 1 GOTT4 ST3P OUT OF TH3 TR33 FOR 4 MOM3NT’ (p.2061) which is a move Karkat will steal when interacting with John and trying to get out of a conversation. It’s pretty funny when Karkat does it because I know he’s stuck on a meteor and doesn’t need to go anywhere, and it’s just interesting to see the kid-troll dynamics recreated (predicted?) between two trolls.

Terezi and Karkat hint at some new Alternian technology: ‘lusus’, ‘lawnring’, and ‘culled’ (p.2058), the last of which could possibly link to a yet-unseen troll, cuttlefishCuller. Culling is the selective killing of animals, often for population control or to eliminate disease, and here it’s applied to trolls too, but there’s no details of the role it plays in society. ‘Lawnring’ seems like the Alternian equivalent of a yard – looking at Karkat’s neighborhood again, there are literal grassy rings around the hives (p.2003), plus as a John parallel it makes sense for Karkat to have a typical suburban hive. This means that Terezi’s ‘SCR3W L4WNR1NGS’ attitude (p.2058) is a criticism of mainstream Alternian society, and an assertion of her decision to live outside it. That’s a decision she’s been able to make for herself, instead of being forced into a given living situation like the beta kids. ‘Lusus’ I have no idea what it could mean, but it’s another thing Terezi doesn’t have, or doesn’t have yet, that seems to be fairly common for trolls.

Terezi also has some kind of fascination with blood, asking Karkat what color his is (??) and promising to ‘F1ND OUT SOM3 D4Y’ (p.2061), which is about as ominous as adiosToreador mentioning that dream selves can die and then telling Jade to enjoy her nap ‘wHILE IT LASTS,’ (p.1936). Terezi was also asking Dave what his blood smells like, and has been ‘SO CUR1OUS’ about ‘WH4T HUM4N BLOOD T4ST3S L1K3’ (p.1935). Even pre-Sburb her interest in violence clearly goes way beyond stuffed animals, like she wants to know how it feels to inflict that same violence on a living creature, but just hasn’t had that chance yet.

GC: H4V3 YOU T4LK3D TO 44 CG: 44 WHAT? GC: 4POC4LYPS34R1S3N SORRY (p.2061)

^ this is a VERY funny use of terezi’s typing style. hey, one day she’ll be able to mention talking to ‘3B’!

In the last few pages of the update there’s another troll, bringing the TTV (Total Troll Visuals) to 6, halfway! This troll is probably apocalypseArisen, the red of her shirt matching that name on the Chumproll, and her symbol corresponding to Aries. Some people have mentioned that 4/13 lands in Aries, making her a potentially important troll. 6/12 lands in Gemini, which is twinArmageddons, and TA adapted the code to Sburb from some ‘crazy technology AA dug out of 2ome ruiin2’ (p.2027) so there could be something to this theory.

AA has a frog temple of her own – probably the aforementioned ruins – which has six pillars instead of four (those numbers again)! So the frog ruins are a universal Sburb construct, and every planet which will one day play Sburb gets a frog temple sent to the birth of its civilization to later unearth the code? This one probably didn’t contain a Bec, as he seems like a specific quirk of the kids’ session.

AA feels compelled to destroy the frog temple, acting on instinct though she doesn’t know why. Interestingly the kids’ frog temple was beheaded too, although not until the exiles’ time (p.1359) – perhaps any doomed session will also have its temple destroyed in some form. The Aimless Renegade considers frogs ‘illegal’ (p.1100, 1910) and works for Derse, so could it be possible that AA has already awoken on Derse the same way Jade already awoke on Prospit, and is receiving whispers from the gods of the Furthest Ring telling her to destroy anything frog themed?

It is easy to imagine AA receiving eldritch whispers as she looks just like a weird girl in a horror movie, with her long flowing hair, spooky white eyes, ripped clothes contrasted with neat schoolgirl socks and shoes, telekinetic powers, the very image of a once-’good girl’ now corrupted by dark psychic forces. It would be very fun for her to be a big horror movie fan who enjoys re-enacting her favorite films to spook her friends, so I’m crossing my fingers we’ll meet and learn more about her tomorrow.

[scratchesrainbows]

arsenicCatnip

7d/2m/2025y

[tenaciouschronicler]

March 17-18 2025 2010

Hi. Why does coming back from vacation leave you more exhausted than when you left??

Lots of taking between characters especially as Toreador and Grim seek advice on how to speak to their respective kid. While I dont see any specific connections, the four trolls we've met so far seem to have main trolling/assisting targets. We do find out Grim potenitally has a crush on Rose and that our last remaining roles, Knight of Time and Witch of Space, belong to Dave and Jade respectively.

Now, so far each troll has had a zodiac sign attributed to them and seeing as there is 12 of them its highly likely the others will take the remaining ones. So, Im going to put here my predictions based on their handle names plus the ones we already know. Starting with:

carcinoGeneticist - Cancer. Easy enough. Carcino, as @homestuckreplay noted comes from the greek word that can literally translate to crab.

adiosToreador - Taurus. Also pretty simple. Toreador refers to bullfighters which lines up with bull as the symbol.

gallowsCalibrator - Libra. The name is more abstract and less of a gimme. Concidering Libras symbol is the scales you can connect it with gallows as both can be seen as objects relating to the execution of justice.

grimAuxiliatrix - Virgo. Another abrstact one. Again, as @homestuckreplay noted, auxiliatrix is Latin for a female assistant while the symbol for Virgo is a maiden so both have a female figure

Now for the guesses:

arachnidsGrip - there are no zodiacs pertaining to spiders, however, Scorpios symbol, the scorpion, is also an arachnid so this is likely their zodiac.

twinArmegeddons - Gemini is represented by the twins Castor and Pollux making this thier likely zodiac.

caligulasAquarium - here its more on the spelling than anything with aquarium being close to Aquarius.

arsenicCatnip - here we have more just simple association as Leos symbol is the lion which is, at its core, a cat.

cuttlefishCuller - same as arsenicCatnip, just simply associating cuttlefish with Pisces whos symbol is the fish.

centaursTesticle - likely Sagittarius as it's symbol is a centaur archer

terminallyCapricious and apocalypseArisen - these two don't have anything that really jumps out and says Zodiac. Seeing as the remaining ones are Aries and Capricorn, its likely just word similarities, Arisen = Aries and Capricious = Capricorn.

Anyway, Ill make a post later delving more into our confirmed trolls and the zodiac implications though its already clear to me that their connections dont really have much to do with personality stereotypes.

[d4w9s]

arsenicCatnip

[nkhluu]

arsenicCatnip

[catghoul31]

Purrfect

Equius has a gift for Nepeta. More than one, actually.

(i don't think i've ever seen anyone talking about the implication's of nepeta's cat clothes being indigo. so i have come to fix that!!)

my first homestuck fic and it's about. the platonic ship of all time. i have NEVER wanted to tear out my hair over two fictional characters so much in my life!! never i SWEAR!!!

(no cws)

Read it under the cut, or on AO3!

It was a wonderful, beautiful day in Alternia. Mostly for Nepeta Leijon, anyways, since Equius was coming over to hang out today! Maybe she’d convince him to RP this time, or maybe it’d be a losing battle like every other time. Regardless, she’d have a great time. As aloof as he could seem, Nepeta could easily smell that he was always happy around her, and that was enough. 

As per usual, she spent the minutes before her arrival staring intently at the messages they sent each other beforehand:

-- arsenicCatnip [AC] began pestering centaursTesticle [CT] --

CT: D--> Hello, Nepeta.

AC: :33< *nepeta runs over, hopping onto his workbench and meowing at equius* hi eq!! what’s up? *her head tilts curiously* 

CT: D--> For the last time, I’m not going to entertain your te%tual antics. I am trying to have a serious discussion with you

AC: :33< ofc this is serious! you never text furst unless it’s supurr serious business :33c

CT: D--> Indeed. If you are available, I would like to come visit your hive. If you can even call it that

CT: D--> Those b100d stains on your walls are deplorable living conditions, even for you

AC: :33< they’re not stains!! they’re drawings of my favorite hunts and friends!!

AC: :33< you’re just changing the subject anyways x33 just say you wanna hang out!! 

AC: :33< i won’t bite! or purrhaps i might… >:33

CT: D--> Absolutely not. Not even the lowest of lowb100ds would think of such behavior

CT: D--> Stop fooling around and answer my question

AC: :33< of course you can come over!! i’m never not available for u

CT: D--> As e%pected. It seems like you never have anything better to do than constantly act like a feline and needlessly kill precious creatures

Nepeta hadn’t answered that last text, too busy preparing her cave for when her best friend showed up. Especially since Equius had asked her! She was always the one who wanted to hang out, and Equius would always begrudgingly accept, so this was exciting! He had to have something planned… What if he finally wanted to go hunting with her? It’d fit, after all! He’d finally get to use his bow and arrow for something!

Just as she was about to start pawndering over his plans, she heard a loud thud ring across the walls of her cave. Was Equius really knocking before he entered? She couldn’t help but giggle, smiling like an idiot. He insisted on knocking, and her cave didn’t even have a door. It was so funny to her! For someone so serious all the time, Equius was the silliest person she’d ever met. And she would treat him as such…

She didn’t answer, instead getting into a hunting crouch just at the edge of the entrance. Any minute now, he’d be within tacklepounce range, and she had to be prepared! It took quite a few minutes, but eventually, Equius walked in front of the entrance to peer into the cave, but the moment Nepeta could see him? She shuffled for a moment, her eyes widening, and she bolted straight for him, knocking him to the ground and making him yelp in surprise. 

EQUIUS: D--> Nepeta! What kind of terrible greeting is that supposed to be?

NEPETA: :33< hi equius!! *she batted at his face playfully, happy to see her best furriend after such a long time*

Equius scoffed, his brows furrowing when she verbalized her roleplaying attempt. 

EQUIUS: D--> Get off me. That is an order, Nepeta

Despite his clear disapproval, Equius didn’t push Nepeta off or try to wriggle out from beneath her. Laughing excitedly, she stood back up, her paws sticking up close to her face. 

NEPETA: :33< what’d you wanna s33 me for eq? you’ve gotta have something in mind!

He didn’t answer her question at all, moving past her quickly and straight for the smoothest, least drawn-on wall he could find, grimacing as he stepped over all the animal pelts. Curiously, she sniffed at her paws- eww, they were damp! The entire cave was gonna smell like his sweat even after he left…

EQUIUS: D--> Just... get over here

He gestured over to Nepeta, who obediently crawled over to where he was sitting. It was then she noticed the hand behind his back. He was hiding something… or he brought something for her?

NEPETA: :33< *nepeta sniffs equius all over, trying to sense what he’s trying to k33p away from me!*

Equius shuffled away from her, huffing in annoyance. 

EQUIUS: D--> I’m not going to roleplay with you, Nepeta

EQUIUS: D--> We’re not even te%ting right now. There’s no reason for you to be narrating your actions like that

EQUIUS: D--> These… they’re for you

Swallowing heavily, Equius slowly pulled the things he was holding out from behind his back, as if the blue- or b100, teehee!- fabric in his hands was as shameful as the horse images he collected. 

Despite the fact that they were covered in sweat, just as Equius was, Nepeta snatched the items out of his hands before he could even fully let go of them. There were four things in total, and her eyes widened in shock as she looked them all over. In her hands was a soft hat that looked exactly like Pounce de Leon’s maw, complete with kitty ears. And he made her shoes with kitty paws underneath them. And a tail…?  

EQUIUS: D--> If you’re going to act like a cat, you may as well look the part

EQUIUS: D--> At least then, other trolls won’t instantly assume you’re not actually an animal

Nepeta couldn’t care less about why Equius made them. They were immediately the absolute best things she’s ever owned. Instantly after she put the hat on, she pounced on him again, hugging him tightly as her eyes welled up. 

NEPETA: x33< ahhh!! thank you so much equius these look amazing!! i’m never going anywhere without these ever again x33

Squeezing him even tighter, she rubbed her head against his shoulder- which might’ve been a mistake in hindsight, as that made it even more sweaty than it already was. Oh, screw it, his sweat didn’t matter right now! Equius earned this hug!!

Her friend remained silent despite her happiness, and Nepeta could tell he was stunned into silence. His scent didn’t lie, and it was telling her that Equius was overjoyed that she liked her gift. But what did he expect? She was gonna get into character better than she ever had now! This was amazing! After a moment, though, Equius stiffened within her arms. 

EQUIUS: D--> Are you done hugging me yet, Nepeta?

NEPETA: :33< oh come on, do i have to stop??

EQUIUS: D--> No. That was a question, not an order

It took a moment for Nepeta to realize what he meant by that, but when it sank in, she decided that no, she was not done at all. Equius actually liked her hugs! He was never, ever living this down, no matter how hard he tried to deny it. And now that she had his permission, maybe she would just keep him here forever! Mwa ha ha…

After a moment, she felt a bug or something in her hair. Her ear twitched slightly, trying to get it out- before she realized it wasn’t a hair at all. Was that… Equius? It did, in fact, feel exactly like one of his fingers was just barely petting the stray hairs around her ear. Nepeta blushed hard, and her heart felt like it was going to fly right out of her chest. This was the closest he’d ever come to actually touching her, and she could barely contain herself. For the sake of making this moment last, though, she stayed right where she was, hoping he wouldn’t change his mind and stop doing that.

EQUIUS: D--> How are you purring

Was she? Oh- yeah! She was. 

NEPETA: :33< i just am!! i’ve always been able to do it, i’m surprised you’ve never noticed!

Equius sounded so shocked by it, and way quieter than he’d ever heard him. Nepeta shot a quick glance up at his face, and it was exactly as she expected. His eyes were wide in awe, and his entire face was drenched in sweat. He was anything but relaxed, and he seemed to be putting all his energy in not letting his hand any closer to her head. She wished he didn’t have to worry so much about that, but since he’d broken every teacup he’d handed her after barely picking it up, she understood where his worries came from.

As nice as this was, as much as Nepeta wanted to stay like this forever and not question anything, she had to tease him. Just a little bit. 

NEPETA: :33< are you feeling ok eq? If i didn’t know any better, i’d say you looked purretty pale! teehee :33 

As if she was one to talk. To her, Equius was her moirail in every way, except officially. But this was Equius after all! With all that talk about the hemospectrum and trying to be STRONG all the time, she doubted he’d want to be anything more than just normal friends with her. Just because he texted her every day, always told her to stay away from things that turned out to be really dangerous, and went so far as to make these cat clothes for her…

EQUIUS: D--> Nepeta.

She immediately turned her head away, as if she was never looking at him in the first place. But that wasn’t what Equius was concerned about at all… 

EQUIUS: D--> I can’t deny how much I appreciate the time I spend with you 

EQUIUS: D--> Even though you’re one of the most ridiculous trolls I’ve ever met 

EQUIUS: D--> You are also one of the kindest

EQUIUS: D--> Too kind for your own good, but kind nonetheless 

EQUIUS: D--> And admittedly, I don’t know what I’d do without you

EQUIUS: D--> So no, I can’t help how pale I am right now

EQUIUS: D--> For you, I mean

Nepeta was buzzing with joy and excitement before Equius was anywhere close to done, and she cut in the moment he was done talking. 

NEPETA: x33< you really wanna be my moirail?? oh my gosh yes! 

NEPETA: x33< yesyesyesyesyes ahhh!!! 

NEPETA: :33< i’m pale for you too eq, i just didn’t want you to be weirded out if i told you furst! <>

She was chirping out of pure happiness now, rubbing her face all over Equius until she felt big drops of sweat hit it. Eww!

NEPETA: :33< okay, hug time over

NEPETA: :33< i’m getting you a towel, stinky!!

She got up to grab a fresh towel, tossing it lightly at Equius, who seemed quite glad to finally dry himself off. Once she was next to him again, he responded to the last part of what she’d said earlier.

EQUIUS: D--> There is nothing weird about quadrant relationships, Nepeta 

EQUIUS: D--> It is imperative for all trolls to find partners, especially concupiscent ones

EQUIUS: D--> As a highb100d, it is my duty to ensure my quadrants are filled, so that I may provide my genetic material to the mother grub

Before Nepeta could ask Equius to please talk about literally anything else, he continued on, clearly passionate about this subject.

EQUIUS: D--> Moirallegiances are equally important, however

EQUIUS: D--> With my unfathomable STRENGTH, it would otherwise be highly likely for me to a%identally kill any of my future partners in a blind rage

EQUIUS: D--> Therefore, your gentle presence is necessary in order to keep me stable

NEPETA: :33< stable? that’s a horse pun isn’t it! heehee :33 

Equius scowled, but it did nothing to quell Nepeta’s stupid grin. 

EQUIUS: D--> Of horse- ugh, of COURSE not. 

She chuckled, flopping over onto Equius’s lap with her belly up. Predictably, he was refusing to look at her after that telling slip-up, but he eventually turned his head toward Nepeta once again. 

NEPETA: :33< that was a lot of boring and gross words you used just to say you love me, eq

Though he never responded to that, Nepeta could see his expression soften. His blush only intensified, and that was the only answer she needed. 

NEPETA: :33< and fur the record i love u too my purrfect meowrail <>

Once that feelings jam was over with, she felt content to stay here all day, not doing anything but looking into those eyes behind his broken sunglasses all curled up on his lap, basking in the warmth of their brand new moirallegiance. Could anything be better than this?

Besides trying out the new gear Equius got for her, anyway! Nepeta scrambled to her feet excitedly, putting her new shoes on and clipping the tail to the back of her pants. He got up when she did, and she grabbed his hand gently, noticing that her tail was sticking up as if it was attached to her! He really was the best moirail ever… 

NEPETA: :33< *nepeta flexes her claws, purreparing fur the greatest hunt ever, now that equius was finally coming with her!*

EQUIUS: D--> I never agreed to that. And no, I will never engage in such debauchery

NEPETA: :33< yes you will!!

EQUIUS: D--> No, I won’t

He would. And he did.

[starrabee]

IT IS DONE!!

Won’t lie I’m not a really big fan of the background but hey!!! If anyone would like their character seperate (and probably in higher quality) Let me know!! I’ll be uploading this to artfight later today!

Edit! It’s finally up!! >:D here’s the link https://artfight.net/attack/7965519.big-bugsnax-attack

If I missed anyone from the original post lmk :D I saw 1-2 kinda late and didn’t get a chance to add them D:

Very back:

Brichbam by @orb-the-watchman

Basha by mgdeerla

Middle:

Maxaroo by maxaroni

Loueeza by @lynnesgalaxy

Kit by @kittens4jc

Natslie by @bugsnax-fan-26

Zag by @jenevipcoraz

Phibble by @kittyconfidant

Fayford by @sugary-spider

Molluska by @doomedpuppetyuri (still owe ya a proper attack btw >:3 )

Renjamin by @renjaminnifer

Front:

Candy by arsenicCatnip

Buddy by @stardoodledust35

meepson by Fusiongrenade

Goobs by Saihahas

Airbow by airbow (friend)

Bee well by me!

Buggy by @staryluma

Zevry by @cuddlingdragons

Tysm everyone for letting me draw them <3 here’s the file for the image cause compression sucks >:D