#homestuck upd8

I have a 5000 word research paper due in two days, so I can’t voraciously read the epilogue upd8s except in little five-minute breaks here and there. It’s killing me, but in the meantime if you want some music that perfectly evokes the sense of sad/ scared/ dreamy/ nostalgia that I’m feeling (reading the candy path here, little by little), I highly recommend you listen to Paper ForestbyEmmy the Great. 

I mean, look at these lyrics…

You’re not unlucky, you’re just not very smart
These things will never leave you - they’re as close as you can get
To a blueprint for the future - but you can call it fate
It’s like these days I have to write down almost every thought I’ve held
So scared I am becoming of forgetting how it felt
And these fears they will unravel me one day
But still I am afraid

But I’m blessed -
Just to be, more or less -
Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left
Oh blessed -
Just to be, more or less -
Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left

Now you’re blessed amongst all women
Now a man who’s very good
He tells you how you feel until your life is understood
And he leads you through it arm in arm as though
There was a map to guide the way
Now you write because you love him, now you write because he’s kind
You write so much, you look up and you wrote yourself behind
And you’re standing in a labyrinth of paper and the map has been erased

But you’re blessed -
Just to be, more or less -
Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left
Are you blessed?
Just to be, more or less?
Now you’re standing in the afterglow of rapture, but there is no rapture left

Oh come, and we will celebrate the things that make us real
The things that break us open, and the things that make us feel
Like these accidental meetings up and partings of the way
Are not so much our choice but in the blood of how we’re made
It’s like the way I have to write down almost everything I see
So that the record does obscure the thing the record used to be
And I know I’m not unlucky
I was just born this way

But I’m blessed

Now a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisles
The baby born with teeth looks at its mother and it smiles
And we all fall down
Like wind blows through the paper forest
And a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisles
The baby born with teeth looks at its mother and smiles
And we all fall down
As wind blows through the paper forest.s
And a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisle
Alarm clock fingers turn they’re counting seconds like they’re miles
And you say, “wake up now, ‘cause I can see no paper forest.”

dicaeopolis:

…I would like to formally apologise that the first time I open tumblr in…weeks? months? (Idk, I’m a disabled 25 year old masters student, I wanna be here - but I’m so tired and busy). Anyway. I’m sorry that I returned just to scream about homestuck… although, to be fair, why else does anyone follow me on here?? Ya gotta admit, it’s pretty on brand.

SO I’M READING HOMESTUCK WITH MY FLATMATE AND TODAY WE WENT TO THE SITE AND OH FUCK THE EPILOGUES?? BUT HE DOESN’T WANT ME TO GO OFF AND READ THEM - AND I’VE BEEN TRYING TO GET HIM TO READ HOMESTUCK FOR SIX DAMN YEARS AND WE’RE FINALLY DOING IT ITS FINALLY HAPPENING - AND WE’RE IN ACT 5 AND HE’S ENJOYING IT AND RECENTLY STARTED DISCUSSING CHARACTERS AND PLOTLINES WITH ME WHICH IS ALL I’VE EVER WANTED - SO I AGREE TO READ WITH HIM FOR HALF AN HOUR - AND I’M-

AND WE’RE FINALY DONE AND I’M ABOUT TO DIVE IN SO HERE WE GO HERE WE FUCKING GOOOO!!!!!!!!

“Hey I heard about a webcomic called Homestuck.
Is it worth a read?
I heard that it ended recently.”

Me:

Homestuck’s last update comes out in 10 minutes. I would like to thank everyone in the fandom for all the stuff that you came up with. Everything from art, jokes, and theories to make sense out of this convoluted comic. I would also like to thank my followers especially. All the time I spent editing panels of this comic greatly improved my Photoshop skills to the point that I comfortably use it with my video editing. Now all that’s left is for Hussie to post the update and see where we go from there.

You are all the best.