The Homestuck gigapause has finally ended after an entire year without an update. It was published on my fellow homestuckian friend's birthday, but it was not a good present that's for sure. If you are starting Homestuck or do not want to spoilers, do not read any more. For those that do not know, Homestuck is a popular webcomic consisting of gifs, videos, interactive games, and pictures created by Andrew Hussie that is over 7,000 pages long.
Okay, here we go.
The cascade was what the first time the author, Andrew Hussie, killed many of the characters and it looks like End Game (one of the latest updates) will be "Cascade Two". I have gotten attached to the remaining kids and trolls, I am not ready for them to be gone. Complete denial over the entire thing.
After Karkat was stabbed by Gamzee and thrown into the lava, Kanaya chainsawed Gamzee in half and was burnt to death by the Condolence. Aranea tried to kill Jane, but Jake jumped in the way and died a heroic death (Jane still died) and Dave tried to protect Jade... then was stabbed. Rose also died trying to avenge Kanaya but was stabbed (any one else pick up a bit of a pattern?) and died a few updates later. Just in case you were wondering, Homestuck is not supposed to be like this.
But seriously here, really Andrew Hussie? You're going to make your fans wait for an ENTIRE YEAR to the day just to bring Homestuck back with some sadstuck and ironic bad anime? That is not what anyone wanted or expected. Besides crying and hoping this resolves itself in the near future, I do not know that to do.
My friend Alice theorized that John will make a deal with his denizen to trade his life for the lives of his friends. Since that sounds incredibly like something he would do, I am worried that it is actually going to happen and John will die. I refuse to deal with him dying...again. He has already died in the main timeline three times, and a fourth would not be any less awful and somewhat worse because I would have to wait for Hussie to update to see what would happen. The updates will get farther apart after Hussie gets through what he wrote during the gigapause so that will not be fun.
therefore, I can not bring myself to read the new updates, even though I want to know so badly and four of my good friends are also Homestuck fans and are getting really annoyed with my antics. It is getting bad, and one of them will probably spoil what has been happening so far, but I refuse to see anything else as hurtful as this.
I just hope that eventually all the characters will live happily together and defeat Lord English. I would even be alright if all the characters were in the Dream Bubbles, Homestucks version of the afterlife. So yeah, this has been a good way to distract myself and forget that every character is dead and all of my ships have sunk. Alright, I am going to procrastinate on Homestucks Merch shop, What Pumpkin until I have enough courage to read more.
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| Trickster Roxy LaLonde from Andrew Hussie (Link cannot be found on school computers) |
