Homestuck Re-read Part 66: ACT 6 ACT 6 INTERMISSION 3 (Already in progress).
As you can see, we are now on the new website! Compared to the eternal jerry-rigged nightmare my previous one was I cannot explain how nice this one is. It's not fully complete yet, I have a few features I want to include before I call the actual software itself done and I still need to work out my tech stack for front end interactivity but it is functional and I can work on that at my pleasure. I can work on other things without feeling immense guilt. Once everything is complete, I'm going to do a proper write-up of how the stack functions, just in case there's anything useful in there.
Anyway, There is about 100ish pages in the new Homestuck upd8.
HOMESTUCK.
ACT 6 ACT 6 INTERMISSION 3 (Already in progress) continues from the end of GAME OVER. With Aranea being throttled by the Condense. HIC starts to pull the ring off Aranea's hands and casts her off into the fire. Just. John appears at the closing of the act.
JOHN: what the fuck happened here?
The curtains are drawn. We begin
ACT 6 ACT 6 ACT 4
Caliborn is knocked down on the floor slipping into unconsciousness after the beating John gave him.
A TEEN DIDN'T LIKE THE DIRECTION OF MY STORY, SO HE CAME AND BEAT ME UP.
He is experiencing "THE BLACKEST BALL BEFORE THE HOLE. THE DARK NIGHT OF THE FEELINGS." He resolves to further his craft as he cries the tears of a poet. We see him drawing a "Blue Print" of a strangely familiar stage. Upon which we will witness his Masterpiece. Of course, he needs to raise funds for it. Art ain't cheap, yknow?
ACT 6 ACT 6 INTERMISSION 4
All the candy corn and stardust sparkle Caliborn poured in the cartridge is still fucking working it's magic and making everything shit. We are treated to a big scroll-y panel where we can pan to see as John moves between the destroyed planets. It is again that I am reminded of just, how cool the art in Homestuck is sometimes. It is really beautiful. The long scroll panels really pass on the immense scale of devastation. John is wandering these giant voids between worlds where reality is breaking down and the remains of a battle he missed is all that remains.
Eventually, he comes across Dirk. But he just wants to be left alone. Drowning in his guilt as he looks out across the session he feels he responsible for. The glitchy breakdown of reality consumes him.
John follows Roxy (and an unconscious Rose) to her land. Just in time to watch her wake Rose up.
ROSE: She's gone, isn't she.
ROSE: For good, I mean.
ROXY: ?
ROSE: I saw her die.
ROSE: And.
ROSE: It's a shame how...
ROSE: Cough.
ROSE: A shame that I never even...
ROSE: Got to tell her...
ROSE: I loved her.
ROXY: who?
ROSE: Kanaya.
ROSE: But...
ROSE: You too, mom.
After talking with her mother/daughter at long last, her eyes close. Heroic.
They sit and talk about her together. Roxy is, utterly defeated. Understandably so. She just got the one thing she wanted from sburb, her whole life really, and lost it again within seconds. Practically everyone she knows is dead. There is nothing left to do, no extra reinforcements to bail them out, no more retries. They sit together in silence.
At least, they do until Terezi literally crash lands infront of them both. She headbutts John. Points. And says two words.
The update ends here, but there is still hope. According to the numbers there is now 1,123 pages remaining, and we know they succeed. We are in the last mile of this epic, and I am looking forward to the next 1000 pages as I have every 1000 before. I hope you'll finish Homestuck with me. Thank you and goodbye.