( There used to be a very active forum where Hussie could read what fans were thinking and even interact with himself. It has since been shut down. Even if he didn’t write anything himself after a while he still kept careful eye on what people were saying so he could still incorporate the community in the story even without the command box. )

( Just about all the discussion went down on the forums at the time )

This is beautiful because not only was he creeping on how people thought of his story, but he was also scoping out for better plot ideas than he could come up with

( I… think I missed the info that lead you to the factory’s destruction being Grandpa Harley’s fault. Could you elaborate? )

I’m glad you asked, because I think I misread something that almost screwed me over. This is what I read.

See when I first read it, I read “Collateral damage from a corporation,” not “to a corporation.” So I was thinking that hey, Gramps is a billionaire explorer, and he as some secret ties with SBURB and the space planets, so it was his fault that the factory exploded from tests or whatever 13 years ago yadda yadda.

But since it’s “to a corporation”, this sort of killed my theory off right from the start. Glad you asked about it, otherwise I might have been looking for the wrong information.

But now I have a new headcanon that Gramps owns Betty Crocker.

( “Sand” “I thought that was snow. At least the cat is happy” Fun Fact: the original premise, per Hussie commentary, was that it was fine while chalk dust that was contaminating the oceans like the oil clogging the pipes on John’s planet and the amber blocking the gears on Dave’s planet. But no one got it, and Hussie just rolled with it and moved on. )

oh that feeling as a writer when Everyone misses the point. At least Hussie was flexible enough to just adapt to it.

How did Hussie know that no one got it? Did he read fan-theory sites?

( “I love how when the kids are in the serious mode they grow 2ft taller” The fandom affectionately refers to this as Hero Mode )

that is adorable and I love it

( Yo, I just want to say thank you, and that it’s so cool that people are still liveblogging Homestuck in 2019! I’m grateful for it, it’s a cool way to relive the comic over again. I remember when the liveblogging trend was first getting started in around 2012, and I would follow a whole bunch. I’ve glad there are still people doing it! Here’s to more liveblogs going forward into the future, and I hope you make it to the end (some people didn’t, aha) ^_^ )

Listen, I am in it for the long haul here. So I am planning on finishing this thing however long it takes. (hopefully it won’t take me that long but who knows)

but yeah if it seems like I haven’t been blogging for a while, come yell at me. I want to see how far I get by the end of the year!

( Well there’s a thing in chess called Promotion. From Wikipedia: “Promotion is a chess rule that requires a pawn that reaches its eighth rank to be immediately replaced by the player’s choice of a queen, knight, rook, or bishop pf the same color.” Getting promoted to a Queen is the most common. That’s what’s happening )

AH! I knew that was a rule, I just didn’t know the name of it. ‘Promotion’. I like the sound of that. So Jack got Promoted…nice

( Hey I don’t know if you already know or not, but just so you know if you ever want to rewatch the flashes to get a better understanding, p much all of them are uploaded to Youtube! I know for me I like to rewatch them a lot to get a better understanding of what happened and to remind myself of stuff that happened earlier in the comic haha. )

That’s a fair point. I wouldn’t mind rewatching the videos to remember stuff. The problem is that I am afraid of accidentally seeing suggested homestuck videos from the future that spoils something for me. Even if it is just a thumbnail. Or youtube even starts to suggest homestuck videos to me where the title does spoil something major.

But I can still go back and rewatch my own videos, so thanks for the idea!!

( Jade got Dave’s game back when she retrieved the dead crow for prototyping, remember? )

( The juice stained copies of the game are the ones Dave lost when he skewered that crow earlier. The ones he used to help Rose and get himself into the game were the copies he got from battling Bro on the rooftop. He only got the juice stained copies back after Jade gave them to him (and prototyped the bird) )

( Dave’s copies were never stolen by his brother. They were stolen by the crow and then fell out the window. Jade then picked them up and returned them when she prototyped the crow. Dave just had no need of them since he was already running the game with his bro’s copies at that point )

Thank you guys. It’s been a while so I forgot about that.