How does homestuck start

You can read the comic and enjoy it immensely, purely on its own merits. The choice is yours. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Monkeys Fighting Robots. By Elliott Dunstan. March 18, John Egbert. I have read up to the end of act 3 after two days. I don't know how many acts there are, but am I going too fast? Tom De Backer. Don't worry about reading too fast. Remember, you can always read it again. A second reading often reveals many details you may have missed.

Yes No. Not Helpful 2 Helpful Ayla Craig. Every act is crucial. As said in the article, no detail is useless. Act 4 is even more important than the rest. Not Helpful 1 Helpful Homestuck is a tricky beast, and it's definitely not for everyone. Don't try to convince them by showing them spoilers, but maybe telling them about what kind of story it is and how it's affected you.

If someone absolutely refuses to read the comic, it may be for the best. Don't force anyone into doing it. Not Helpful 12 Helpful The first part of Homestuck doesn't make much sense to the first-time reader, because a lot of words are made up and not really explained. It introduces a lot of complicated ideas and prepares the reader for the rest of the story.

Not Helpful 6 Helpful It's possible, but you may miss out on the awesome flash animations, so I wouldn't do it. Not Helpful 8 Helpful Depending on your pacing say, about pages daily , it can take almost a month. Not Helpful 11 Helpful You can, but they are most often satire and can reveal or even foreshadow things to come.

Should the text under the pictures be weird in the first act? On my computer, it looks like it is letters written on letters. No, and that doesn't sound good. However, while they prepare to play the game, it is apparent that the odds are stacked against them. Earth is a corporate planet owned by Betty Crocker , who is really the Condesce , the former Empress of Alternia now in the service of L o rd English and the usurper of the Black Queen in the new Incipisphere.

Roxy and Dirk live years in the future in a flooded planet , constantly under threat of the Imperial Drones , and the God Cat makes mischief for these new heroes. The B2 kids are contacted by two members of another alien species - the cherubs , consisting of the friendly and helpful Calliope and the violent and antagonistic Caliborn , who share the same body and are going to play their own session. Caliborn plans to kill Calliope as part of the 'game'. Meanwhile, together with the surviving trolls, the original four kids embark on two separate three-year journeys to the B2 session.

PM sends the wounded WV to the kids and trolls at the Green Sun, who then begin to travel through the Furthest Ring on a meteor, getting him medical attention soon after. PM proceeds to pursue Jack Noir as he pursues the meteor through the Ring. Meanwhile, John, Jade and the remaining population of their Incipisphere - shrunken by Jade's god tier powers - have broken through the Fourth Wall and have begun to cross the Yellow Yard.

As the three years progress, the meteor's crew passes through dream bubbles. Through these dream bubble visits, they encounter the pre-scratch trolls, a group of troll players who are the ancestors of the more familiar trolls. They played Sburb and were forced to reset their null session with a scratch, resulting in the post-scratch troll session that the kids had interacted with.

One of the trolls, Meenah Peixes , killed all of them so that they could survive the scratch and continue to exist through dream bubbles. However, they soon discover that English has been destroying dream bubbles and killing players who are already dead, shattering reality in the process. Swiftly realizing the vast threat he poses to reality itself, they begin to come up with plans to combat him. Meenah seeks out her fellow dead players to amass a ghost army, while the dead Vriska plans to use a map of the Furthest Ring and follow English 's path of destruction to find a treasure that could defeat him.

Aranea Serket wants to find Calliope, who is now dead, having had her body permanently been taken over by Caliborn, who is revealed to actually be L o rd English as a child. The B2 kids manage to enter their Medium without pre-entry prototypings. The planets are barren wastelands and all of the Underlings are skeletal. The new session is a void session where Skaia can never advance to its final state; the B1 kids must bring their Battlefield and their Genesis Frog so it can release the Vast Croak there.

After months of waiting, it comes to the day before their arrival. Meanwhile, the Alpha kids are beset by relationship problems which threaten the unity of their group. When the kids receive Calliope and Caliborn's jujus - cherubs' prized magical objects - the ensuing chaos leads to the four winding up on their Quest Crypts in the center of Prospit and Derse's moons. The Alpha Jack Noir receives Lil Cal , a cursed juju that had previously appeared all throughout the story.

He becomes possessed and soon channels the powers of L o rd English 'Lord Jack' , using them to destroy Prospit's moon while the Condesce destroys Derse's moon. The Alpha kids ascend to god tier, and are rescued from an ambush by Jade, who has just arrived in the session. The Condesce uses her powers to mind control Jade, who in turn mind controls Jane; the two kidnap Roxy and Jake.

Dirk and 'Lord Jack' are teleported to the edge of the session. The group on the meteor, which has almost reached the alpha session, is beset by their own emotional problems, and seems unprepared for the struggle ahead. John, on the other hand, is asleep on arrival. As L o rd English 's destruction of reality forms a ring around the Green Sun, a sleeping John meets the ghosts in the afterlife, who have formed a pirate crew led by Vriska.

As they approach the treasure, Aranea explains cherub biology and the origin of Calliope and Caliborn, who were raised in their infancy by Gamzee on a planet that was in fact a B2 Earth displaced in space and time. She explains how Caliborn predominated over his sister and entered his own session, where he could communicate with the author, Andrew Hussie. He learned that his session was a dead session , an extraordinarily difficult type of void session that would never be able to produce a new universe, even with outside intervention, and thus possessed its own unique victory conditions.

Playing this session, he amassed leprechaun followers which would later become the Felt, and continued to gain power in his journey. The pirate crew finds the treasure , which turns out to be a transparent Sburb logo. John, sticking his arm through, discovers that it is a gateway to any point in time and paradox space, and becomes 'unstuck' from the Homestuck canon.

He winds up appearing in many events in the story before appearing in the Alpha session. Caliborn's Sburb logo, extrapolated from his exile station. However, Andrew Hussie is still able to tell the main story via the intermissions in this act. To retaliate, Caliborn puts some stardust into the cartridge hosting Homestuck, which puts glitches in the story. The meteor crew finally arrives in the session, but Jade intercepts them all except Gamzee and leaves them divided into pairs on different planets.

With the heroes now in her possession, the Condesce forces them to help enact her secret plan: no longer willing to serve L o rd English , she intends to betray him by finishing the B2 session, seizing the Ultimate Reward for herself, and recreating her empire in the new universe with Earth as its new capital, brainwashing Jane and Jade to these ends. John uses his story warping abilities to visit his friends in the session.

He and the imprisoned Roxy formulate a plan to use the Ring of Life - a legendary ring John found while in a dream bubble - to bring Calliope back to life and prevent L o rd English from killing her. However, he discovers the ring is missing before being warped away into Caliborn's parody. Meanwhile, the dead pre-scratch troll Aranea has taken it upon herself to take control of the situation in the way she sees fit, believing she can prevent L o rd English from being born and use her Sylph of Light powers to make a new alpha timeline.

Aranea mind-controls Gamzee to steal the ring and bring her back to life with it. She activates Jake's Hope powers. Jane and Jade mobilize to stop her and many other characters arrive on the scene.

A large melee ensues, but in the resulting conflict many of the characters end up dying. When John arrives, he meets up with Roxy on her planet. A mortally wounded Terezi arrives and demands John use his story-warping powers to fix things, believing him to be able to alter history without dooming the timeline. Visiting his Denizen Typheus , John is offered a choice, and with his powers he removes the oil from his land , scattering it throughout the story, and removing the glitches.

He transports his planet to the void and resumes warping through reality, using a phrase he and Terezi came up with - 'there's no place like home' - to return to when he and Terezi were planning. Since this test proved successful, Terezi gives John a list of instructions to alter the past that will help them prevent the doomed timeline.

Using codewords linked to thoughts Terezi had throughout her timeline, John jumps to various points in Terezi's life before, during and after her SGRUB session. There are conventions and etiquette to go along with these conventions. People create fan art and fan music. There are videos of fans reacting to the longer installments of Homestuck. While there is a largely followed directive that Homestuck stays SFW, there is also a community of people who proliferate the kink meme, creating creepy sexualized fanart.

Buckets are kind of an inside joke in Homestuck. The trolls, which are a completely different species from humans, consider buckets a sexualized object. Buckets and pails have become synonymous with sex in the Homestuck fan lexicon. How do I become a Homestuck? We guess you can start with the very first comic. Thanks for signing up! We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience. But advertising revenue helps support our journalism. To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker.

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