Some Stuff Regarding The Upd8!

Caliborn already had flickering eyes when he acquired the chest in claymation. So his scene isn’t really a plothole.....right?

I’m more confused on the “new (or old cuz its the future alpha one) earth” scene.  

IM CRYING MY CHILDREN ARE ALL SAFE

*dave awkwardly stare at dirks legs*

*dave awkwardly talk about swords and anime*

*dave awkwardly wait for something to happen*

sorry john, dave is not ok

gay talk and mom talk.

bonus:

I forgot homestuck is words. 

Tavrosprite + Vriska = un-brainwash Jade

Arquiusprite=un-brainwash Jane + ultimate sacrifice

Other sprites? haha don't exist lol

Vriska why

Terezi i hope she will not be in an unhealthy relationship with Vriska

Dave does not give a f but at least hes more comfortable

Karkat not being leader doesn't sound good for some reason

everything does not sound good in this upd8

Kanaya <3

Rose yes your mom is undead be happy 

f u gamzee

Dirk.

Seriously hurry up Dirk everyone's waiting

When your team is too powerful to catch wild Pokemon

yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Dirk

I’m trying to figure out why I like Davepetasprite so much.

Part of it is the juiced-up wish fulfillment of it all, which feels like a very deliberate gesture - DPS look like someone’s OC because they are a perfected being, the Very Thing You Want, as filtered through the native symbol language of MSPA.  Forget that Hope nonsense: this is what an angel looks like in comic sans.

It’s also the end of Dave’s arc, in the way that Jasprosesprite is the end of Rose’s.  The Strider/Lalonde problem is anhedonia.   A situation in which Dave is able to delight in himself - surely that’s the major problem of his character solved, right?  And it couldn’t happen to the “real” Dave, because that kind of solution doesn’t happen to real people.  You don’t wake up one day and decide that you love yourself.  Magic is required.

So the squared sprites are projections of what Dave and Rose wanted to be, really.  Ultraconfident sexually aggressive tentacle cat princess and empathetic androgynous never-alone mindmeld hyperfurry?  Are you kidding me?  Sign my terrified middle-school self up.  If this were really a video game and these kids genuinely gained all the levels, these are what the results would be: the highest selves of 13-year-old trauma victims.  Not god tiers, but gods. And, as gods, they are peripheral - they have to be, right?  The mortals are over there weeping and hugging and smothering themselves with pillows, but the trade-off is they get to have the real relationships and learn the real lessons and live the real lives. Original Dave and Original Rose get to live without pain.

There are always these gears turning in Homestuck under all the bullshit, and that’s what I’m here for.  The Bad Man has this insane propensity for getting me to feel genuine feelings about the impossible and the impossibly stupid.

A QUICK EXPLANATION

Because I see some people are confused about what all just happened.

Lord English is nearly unkillable. This is because of the power given to him by Caliborn’s dead session. The special thing about a dead session, if you remember, is that you automatically get the hardest denizen (Yogurtboner) and you are given The Choice: carry out the session, live, beat Yodlebooger, and become an unstoppable killing machine, or don’t, die, and end all suffering in all of paradox space.

Caliborn, obviously, chose the former. We see him breaking the clock, which tells when he dies, rendering him unkillable and giving him an incredible amount of power. Here’s the thing about his power, though: it’s really, REALLY massive. So massive, it has to be supplied by a giant sun that’s 2 multiverses large. Enter the Green Sun.

Alt!Calliope, of course, comes from a timeline where she carried out the session. In this session, she chose the alternative choice. By sacrificing herself, she destroyed the Green Sun, thereby draining LE’s power and rendering him killable. In short, LE can be fucked up by any old weapon now.

Any weapon, especially the one weapon meant to be able to destroy him even when he was hyped up on Green Sun power. We can safely assume that the HS juju has successfully destroyed LE once and for all.

And by destroying LE, Alt!Calliope has eliminated the major cause of suffering in paradox space. Assuming that the further stipulations of The Choice do extend beyond LE, I’d like to think that ALL suffering is gone. Like, all of the dream bubbles are destroyed and all the ghosts can live on Earth with everyone else. And Vriska is still alive. And (Vriska) is still happy.

In summary, suffering is gone. That’s the end. No more suffering. You can all live peacefully knowing that your faves are no longer suffering.