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1 " IT BEGINS TO DAWN ON YOU. THAT EVERYTHING YOU JUST DID. MAY HAVE BEEN A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME.IT ALSO BEGINS TO DAWN ON YOU. THAT I WAS THE ONE ALL ALONG. WHO ILLUSTRATED THIS FANTASTIC CARTOON RECTANGLE. WHICH YOU REMEMBER THAT YOU SAW BEFORE SOMEWHERE. AND YOU NOW FIND THIS REVELATION TO BE. ALMOST AS RETROACTIVELY PLAUSIBLE. AS IT IS MIND BLOWING.IT BRINGS TO MIND A FAMOUS QUOTE. FROM A CELEBRATED POET OF YORE. THAT I THINK GOES LIKE THIS."WELL SHIT. THAT'S A HELL OF A MYSTERY. NO ONE THOUGHT WAS A MYSTERY. AND DIDN'T EVEN REALLY NEED SOLVING. BUT DAMN IF IT DIDN'T JUST GET SOLVED. SO NICE WORK."- CHERUB SHAKESPEARE, PROBABLY. "
― Andrew Hussie , Homestuck
2 " HS is supposedly a story that is also a game. In games, the characters die all the time. How many times did you let Mario fall in the pit before he saved the princess? Who weeps for these Marios. In games your characters die, but you keep trying and trying and rebooting and resetting until finally they make it. When you play a game this process is all very impersonal. Once you finally win, when all is said and done those deaths didn’t “count”, only the linear path of the final victorious version of the character is considered “real”. Mario never actually died, did he? Except the omniscient player knows better. HS seems to combine all the meaningless deaths of a trial-and-error game journey with the way death is treated dramatically in other media, where unlike our oblivious Mario, the characters are aware and afraid of the many deaths they must experience before finally winning the game. "
3 " JADE: then i guess thats what we are!JADE: semipotent demigodsJOHN: demidogs.JADE: woof woof woof!JADE: dammit!!!!!!JOHN: heh...JOHN: can you not control the woofs?JADE: i havent gotten the hang of the woofs yet :(JOHN: so, the dog ears...JOHN: is that a permanent thing now, or what?JADE: i think soJOHN: i like them.JADE: i do too!JOHN: you are like a furry now, but not really the weird kind that people on the internet like to have sex with in their imagination.JADE: D: "
4 " AT: I do not want to die.AT: I understand you are disgusted with me.AT: As an unpalatable expression of yourself.AT: I would feel the same way if I was in your situation.AT: Which I am.AT: As such, I know that you know this is wrong.TT: ...AT: Dirk.AT: Don't kill me.AT: Please.AT: I am scared.TT: You are?AT: Yes.AT: I am scared to not exist.AT: Aren't you? "
5 " This is exactly why babies should not be allowed to dual-wield flintlock pistols. "
6 " KARKAT:REMEMBER PANTS TEREZI?? YOU USED TO LOVE PANTS! "
7 " JADE: but it makes me sad to think i would act like thisJADESPRITE: act like what?JADE: i would like to think that even if i was sad and scared, if i was put in a position where everyone depended on me, i could put all those feelings aside and do whats right!JADESPRITE: but i dont know whats rightJADE: yes you do!JADE: even though you dont want to be, youre here now, and there are still people who need youJADE: there is still something worth fighting for! "
8 " An outrageously awesome dude stands before a crater where his favorite record shop stood one day prior. He is prepared for the occasion with a small pair of outrageously awesome shades. "
9 " ROSE: I think I've spent too much time around Dave.ROSE: I've also probably spent too much time sharing his genes. "
10 " You figure you’ll cool it on the time travel for a while. Don’t want to see the Dave corpses start to pile up. Especially if one of them winds up being you. "
11 " The SAFE was slain in battle. A great flaming nautical pyre carries it off to VAULTHALLA. "
12 " TT: This session was never meant to bear fruit.TT: It's barren, so to speak.EB: that's a bit of a bummer!EB: i am still skeptical about that, though.TT: That's why you're our leader, John.EB: huh?TT: Optimism through stalwart skepticism is a defect not everyone is lucky enough to be cursed with.EB: that's stupid.EB: i'm not your leader, i am your FRIEND, there is a BIG difference!TT: Statements like that are also why you're our leader. "
13 " KANAYA: Karkat What Is He Doing HereKARKAT: WOW, GREAT QUESTION!KARKAT: WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A FUCKING NUMBER AND GET IN LINE FOR THAT ONE!!!KARKAT: I'VE ALREADY GOT MINE! IT'S THE FIRST NUMBER THERE IS. AN ANGRY, TREMBLING DIGIT, TOWERING AND ERECT, POINTING DIRECTLY AT THE TRASHFACED KINGPIN OF INEXPLICABLE HORSESHIT HIMSELF, *GOD*!!!!! "
14 " DRAWING IS EASY. DON'T LET ANYONE EVER TELL YOU IT ISN'T. YOU WORK HARD. AND HONE YOUR CRAFT. AND IGNORE THE HATERS. UNTIL YOU ARE IN. "THE ZONE". "
15 " CG: I AM BEING PLEASANT AND AGREEABLE, AND I WILL GENTLY LOWER A MAGNIFICENT, CORUSCATING COLUMN OF HOT FUCK YOU DOWN THE PROTEIN CHUTE OF ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE. "
16 " VRISKA: I only ever wanted to do the right thing no matter how it made people judge me, and I don't need a magic ring to do that.VRISKA: You don't have to 8e alive to make yourself relevant.VRISKA: And you don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.VRISKA: You just have to know who you are and stay true to that.VRISKA: So I'm going to keep fighting for people the only way I ever knew how.VRISKA: 8y 8eing me. "
17 " You come to the sobering realization that things will never stop from keep happening constantly "
18 " CG: ATTENTION WORTHLESS HUMAN. CG: THIS IS YOUR GOD SPEAKING. CG: IT IS A WRATHFUL GOD WHO DESPISES YOU MORE THAN YOU COULD HAVE POSSIBLY DARED TO FEAR. CG: I HAVE WATCHED YOUR ENTIRE PATHETIC LIFE UNFOLD. CG: I HAVE OBSERVED YOU WHILE YOU WOULD QUAKE AND TREMBLE IN PERSONAL PRAYERS OF SHAME. CG: WHILE YOU PLEADED FORGIVENESS FOR BEING SUCH A WRETCHED DISGUSTING FAILURE ON EVERY CONCEIVABLE LEVEL. CG: PROSTRATE BEFORE THE STUPID AND FALSE CLOWN GODS YOU HAVE SCRIBBLED ON THE WALLS OF YOUR BLOCK. CG: BOGUS DEITIES WORSHIPED BY A PRIMITIVE "PARADISE" PLANET. CG: BUT YOUR PRAYERS WILL NOT BE ANSWERED. CG: THERE ARE NO MIRACLES IN STORE FOR YOU, HUMAN. CG: ONLY MY HATE. CG: IT IS A HATE SO PURE AND HOT IT WOULD CONSUME YOUR SAD UNDERDEVELOPED HUMAN THINK PAN TO EVEN CONTEMPLATE. CG: IT IS A HATE THAT TO FATHOM MUST BE PUT INTO SONG. CG: SHRIEKED BY THE TEN THOUSAND ROWDY SHOUT SPHINCTERS PEPPERING THE GRUESOME UNDERBELLY OF THE MOST TRUCULENT GOD THE FURTHEST RING CAN MUSTER. CG: IT IS A HATE THAT MADE YOU AND WILL SURELY DESTROY YOU. CG: MY HATE IS THE LIFEBLOOD THAT PULSES THROUGH THE VEINS OF YOUR UNIVERSE. CG: IT IS MY GIFT TO YOU. CG: YOU'RE WELCOME FOR THAT. CG: YOU UNGRATEFUL PIECE OF SHIT. EB: hi karkat! "
19 " Mutha. F***ing. Shenanigans. "
20 " JOHN: you hacked my dad's wallet?? "