Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Loyal]

But where will I get my dailyweekly dose of snark-bait now?

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

So... does this mean the story is close to an end? Cuz I mean, it seems like a lot of plots have yet to be resolved.

Just off the top of my head: Caliborn and Calliope are still... doing whatever it is they're doing without resolving their issues. Dead(?) Jade is still chilling in deaddreamland with her. Jake hasn't written any of his letters to Jade, nor has he sent her Eridan's rifle yet. Unless I've forgotten (which is highly likely) we still don't know what the deal is with Gamzee's God Tier suit. The Carapace adventures seem to have ended by killing half of them off and then giving PM a bunch of powers she hasn't really used much yet (especially disappointing since she's currently doing nothing besides chasing a cat). There's a whole slew of Alpha Trolls who've been introduced and then completely forgotten. There was that whole Troll Jegus thing that has yet to manifest itself in any meaningful way (although I assume Karkat will have some major role in the finale, since he's Reborn Troll Jegus and he hasn't had a single victory in his personal storyline aside from Shoosh-Pap.) Lord English, Doc Scratch, and Alpha Aradia are still off doing something, somewhere. There's a crap-ton of ghost trolls milling around in dreambubbles, and we've only really heard from Vriska and Meenah recently. I don't remember there ever being any real conclusion to the Midnight Crew stuff with Snowman and company, although I might have forgotten. Li'l Seb and every other version of the bunny have yet to reveal a purpose to their existance. We don't know Jasper's secret (I think??). Roxy has a spare matriorb lying around somewhere. We haven't heard from Tavros, Fefeta, one of the Daves, and Sollux since the troll ghost pirate party. We haven't heard from Eridan since he died (isn't he a ghost like everyone else?). Dad is still on Derse, I THINK. I don't remember what happened to Bro and Mom (Did she die?). In-Comic Hussie is still dead and Ms. Paint hasn't been seen in a while.

And that's just the few I can think of off the top of my head. I wonder how much of this Hussie plans to address, and how far away from the actual ending we really are at this point? And how much do you want to bet that Vriska will somehow perma-die as the biggest heroine of the story?

I can clear up some of those, at least.

Jake had already written the letters to Jade ending with transportalizing the bunny to her so she could give it to John. However, the weapons that he received from (presumedly) Jade in the time capsule, which included Ahab's Crosshairs, have not been put in the time capsule and sent back yet. So that part does need to be resolved.

The Midnight Crew arc has been mostly resolved with everyone in that universe except for Spades Slick dying after he shot Snowman. Spades was the only one to escape through Hussie's fifth wall window, and only barely so.

Jasper's secret was apparently a subconscious implantation of the MEOW code into Rose's mind, which translated into the GCAT code needed to create Becquerel.

Eridan is still fused with Sollux within Jake's sprite. Dear sweet Fefeta exploded and went back to being dead Feferi and Nepeta, who are part of Vriska and Meenah's ghost crew.

Everything else is still something that's either yet to be resolved or has been completely abandoned.

[Loyal]

The living Aradia was last seen hanging with Vriska and Meenah.

[Aldurin]

Aaaaand Homestuck is over, everyone can go home now.

[Aldurin]

Since Hussie forgot that time works normally in the real world and the megapause wasn't done in time for April 13th, he created something . . . different.

Paradox Space, the auto-canonizing fanfiction dumping ground (no wait, come back! I just worded that a bit crudely). Basically a growing collaboration of artists and writers making various homestuckverse stories with that are canon in the sense that they are lore-expanders or filler episodes. So far there's only a short thing from the Paranatural creator, but more is supposed to come. Hussie says he'll probably throw something of his own in there sometimes, but he clearly intends this to be a fan-driven effort.

I'm not sure how well this will go, but it's probably worth keeping an eye on in case anyone manages to post every possible shipping combination of erotica.

Gotta get that ARquiussprite X Diamonds Droog X Con Air Poster action in somewhere.

[Flarecobra]

I think he knew how time works just fine, judging from his post back in January when he posted this:

"Um, no, sorry. I still have no time estimate, or specific date I am shooting for. 4/13 would be the COOLEST date to shoot for, right? I doubt that's realistic though."

Thus I think he knew everything wouldn't be finishing in time for his 5th anniversary.

[POS Industries]

My favorite part is how Homestuck already ended and we're all pretending it hasn't.

[Revising Ocelot]

Not quite all.

Can't explain those people who imagine strange things like Homestuck ending, or Half-Life 3, or The Last Guardian. Attempts to maintain such false hope merely lead myself into headbutting walls, trying to infect them with The Ginger.

[Solid Snake]

Man, I remember all those months back when I predicted that Hussie was going to find ways to stretch out Homestuck as a money-making property before ever committing to finishing it.

The funny thing about Paradox Space is that its very existence reveals a possible solution to Andrew's conundrum regarding finishing Homestuck, insofar as instead of bringing in new artists for spinoff bullshit he could've just brought in new artists to, you know, help him finish Homestuck. Like, if it's that big a challenge to handle all the remaining content alone, don't do it alone? It's not as if there's ever been a precedent that only Andrew could draw things there.

But no instead he's obviously going to go this route, because there's a lot more money to be made if Homestuck is still a relevant, ongoing, neverending thing sin 2016

[Locke cole]

Solid Snake!