HOMESTUCK- Leprechaun Romance: A Simple Guide With No Tangents

[@FunkMcLovin]

Finally someone making a video about something IMPORTANT

[@spongeybunny]

on god

[@cacote4337]

what if we pranked eachother... and we were both boys😳

[@ReatExists]

average leprechaun

[@H3O-]

goldpot

[@jestermaniac3131]

How are you even allowed to suggest such DEBAUCHERY in the youtube comments and get away with it

[@jadechrysalis8428]

XD

[@omoriboyxx]

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[@heheheiamasuperstarwarrior9281]

I like to imagine Hussie wrote an entire in-depth explanation about leprechaun romance, and still decided to hide it with the stardust glitches

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

In retrospect I do kinda like the metahumor of trolls explaining leprechaun romance the same way that real humans explained troll romance

[@temporalCaster]

Ah yes, a 10 minute video on Leprechaun romance and a 25 minute video on The Felt

[@CalsCalzones]

LISTEN, you all needed the CONTEXT!!

[@hesiod_delta9209]

@@CalsCalzones Yeah. All of Homestuck's causal loops can be a kind of continuity lock-out.

[@dantthemant2673]

Nice try, title clearly states it's 40 mins of Leprechaun Romance with No Tangents

[@gegor41311]

this means that John would be a fucking romance guru in Leprechaun society

[@the_hottest_vitch]

I knew john always had rizz XD

[@pr2747]

Ah, and we come back to him and karkat being connected narratively :)

[@StepperBox]

It's why Dirk had to kill him. Between his Hatemance with Terezi and his understanding of Cherub romance and reproduction he sat through from Araina, if he understood leprechaun romance he would be too powerful.

[@zetaalpha5110]

… did they just… make a functional form of romance from a system we knew almost nothing about… and made it make SENSE?! This… this is beautiful…

[@codacheetah]

I was so mad that Aranea got cut off before she got to go in-depth about leprechaun romance >:( Thanks for making this helpful guide which I will paraphrase when necessary in order to inflict pain upon my non-homestuck friends

[@k0metz590]

Honestly, I was glad she got cut. I wasn't ready for another explanation about alien romance (and also not in the mood)

[@partyinthecloudkingdom]

to be fair, leprechaun romance suits were invented to take the piss out of homestucks fandom on tumblr for jumping into the deep end with quadrant shipping. like the dancestors, its a mean joke towards teenagers who were fans of the comic. we were mever really supposed to grock charms in any real sense, though we can guess and piece together a whole picture through crumbs left in the comic

[@boydivision666]

samesies

[@Ambipie]

She did not want to go into it She wanted to go into the smuppeting

[@kingof-eu5kx]

A few notes i would like to add: In the (probably not canon) Paradox Space comic: The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven, Crowbar says "They're all wrong for balloons, anyway. Trust you, it wouldn't work out", and "Besides, you aren't down with moons. It's not how you roll". This confirms that compatibility between charms differs from leprechaun to leprechaun, along with a few specific incompatibilities. Another thing to note is the *

[@CalsCalzones]

i appreciate this info! i hadnt considered looking into paradox space or the snapchats for more evidence. if i ever do a follow up, ill be sure to mention this stuff

[@zimboth]

Maybe you could look at it like a graph with the top left (the heart/unconditional love) being 0,0 and the more you move right the more it focuses on jokes and pranks well the more you move down the more conditional/controlling one side of the relationship becomes; meaning leprechauns looking for a more equal relationship would be unsuited for the lower charms well leprechauns looking for a more emotional relationship would be unsuited for more right charms and vise versa. Just throwing out ideas here. Also to use calscalzones example of the heart, diamond, pot of gold being love, friendship, and pure pranksters I think the only change needed would be to point out that the pot of gold is more a mastermind and minion prankster relationship.

[@no_nekos_here1214]

@@CalsCalzones I know this is a pretty old video, but that comic is INCREDIBLY good, despite only having a few panels each, every Felt member has an original personality, and the art and atmosphere is great.

[@catinatree1305]

that snap was sent to ms paint i think?, given the following snaps after it, with jack noir sending a snap to him being pissy about it, with ms paint in the background blushing and looking down at her phone, before taking a selfie presumably responding with

[@Ambipie]

​@@CalsCalzonesI was expecting you to go into the powers and their known relationships too

[@Ambipie]

i do like the fact that this was meant to poke fun at the fact everyone was able to understand quadrants and hussie was pissed that nobody was confused and now nobodys confused again

[@kingcrimson4133]

to be fair with how many people characterize pale romance as "besties

[@neutralclownpose3928]

every once in a while i forget how stupidly detailed homestuck is. this comic is insane

[@ritibhatwal9831]

And thats why homestuck is great

[@dexxus8078]

I'm surprised you missed that Scorpions due to their large, curved tails actually visually resemble the number 7.

[@CalsCalzones]

I hadn't thought of that! Thanks!

[@zombifiedoll1388]

I was expecting a Mac 7

[@turking25]

I feel that the fact that they can have a combination of any or all of the charms makes the idea of the charms being on a spectrum an impossibility since they have to be distinct enough to be clearly defined in Any combination. So the chart would have to be more of a list of types of prank and mischief than a spectrum from lovey to mischievous

[@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice]

Same! See my comment for my take on this ^^

[@someoneunknown7655]

Yes! Finally! Thirteen year old me was held back from the wonder of leprechaun ships, but no longer! I am now free to smash these silly aliens together with all manner of different relationships! Thank you for this short and concise explanation!

[@shades4dogs]

as someone who was a huge intermission fan back in the day and would talk about leprechaun romance for hours with my friends this is very very fun and nostalgic. thank u for raising awareness on the batshit insanity nonsense of the felt

[@activityzone353]

The joke with Stitch's gun is it's association with al capone, aka scarface 18:44

[@katfangs4465]

I'M SO GLAD THIS IS OUT! Reading that script for the Aranea part changed my brain in ways I can't describe

[@Ambipie]

I love how he represented the vine booms

[@atomicSpider1126]

this is making my intermission lover heart flutter

[@CalsCalzones]

I adore the intermission.

[@wyvrn4301]

based hd pfp

[@jestermaniac3131]

i literally only rewatch this video for the explanation of every member of the felt and not the leperchaun romance, very good video

[@jestermaniac3131]

oh, and the juju tangent (i mean explanation, there are no tangents in this video of course). good shit

[@muchossassylass3858]

I don't know what homestuck is, or really whats going on in this video, But this is the best ad for lucky charms I've ever seen.

[@kitkatmuffin]

I’m only 8 minutes into this video and I’ve already learned more about The Felt than I ever did reading the actual source material

[@CalsCalzones]

that was my goal all along

[@d2r123]

Though you put it on screen, you seem to have missed probably the best hint we have. While clover is on the ground, tied up by karkat, his eyes flash 3 symbols. This indicates that his feelings in that moment are likely romantic, relevant to the situation, and directed at karkat, who defeated, humiliated, and spared him. Maybe you did use that in your logic while creating the table, but you didn't include that in your argument for the validity of the table. So like, that's extra evidence and a working example of the table in practice, if correct .

[@katrinasis]

great video, though something else interesting to note about crowbar is the implication that he does have a time-based power: he can remember different timelines. in inaugural death of mister seven crowbar goes on a lot about how it's his job to "remember" and, more specifically, says he remembers the first time he was offed "like it was yesterday". if the comic got continued i feel like we would have gotten more elaboration on this but as it stands it seems crowbar's able to remember things he'd only be able to remember through timeline shenanigans, i.e., his death he also says he remembers his first kiss so presumably we would have also seen that in a hypothetical pt 2. we are truly living in the worst timeline

[@CalsCalzones]

It is becoming more and more apparent that I have to read this comic! Thank you for the info!

[@katrinasis]

@@CalsCalzones highly recommend that you do- it's hands down the best paradox space comic imo and the only bad part about it is that you will be met with deep uncurable sadness at the realization that its never ever getting continued

[@GothicPunkChicky]

Also I now head canon Trace and Fin to have very love- based charms with each other, where Fin tries to lead Trace into pranks, but also often saves him from them, because he's too infatuated with Fin to actually see him harmed through these pranks

[@ДаниилАмиров-ь5б]

you went ever deeper telling about every member of the felt and other stuff. not just romance. its so nice and interesting the commitment o_o

[@CalsCalzones]

thank you! I try my best.

[@everydaygremlin]

Never before in my life have i felt such visceral fear of anything, let alone the relationship system of a fiction species from a series over 10 years old

[@Wekulu]

i also think that the reason hussie chose to have clover feeling a certain way about being beaten up by karkat and jack is simply that the rhyme for lucky charms starts with "hearts, stars, and horseshoes". through your explanation, the surface level understanding of that trove could be love for the heart, the desire to prank with the star, but /also/ a strange horse themed infatuation with the horseshoe; quite on brand for our clown-y author. when you play horseshoes you have to throw your shoe-shaped links at a stick so it also could just be some vulgar joke about being gay i guess. furthermore, eventually not in canon but irl the pot of gold gets turned into an hour glass and the moon becomes blue. i think the moon could stand in for rare opportunities and lucky chance meetings between leprechauns especially with timeline shenanigans, and the change from gold to an hourglass could be the urge to SPEND / TIME with them. i think the inclusion of the pot of gold and gold moon was deliberate. the rhyme was changed in 2008, just before the publishing of the comic. be that as much of the comic was written with 2009 in real time in mind, it would be understandable that not every memorable reference stays clear, especially with the mish-mashing of timelines and the ever fading memory of the 90s. the balloon was added in this change, as well as changing the gold to an hourglass and the moon to blue, so ON TOP of the leprechauns having complex romance systems, but theyre also ever changing and being merged with other timeline's understanding. maybe in a bout of time hopping one of them entered a timeline where the moon was gold and not blue, or they spoke with an alternate reality self and learned about balloons. the 4D chess that is understanding these charms goes hella deeper with understanding that maybe not all of these romance terms and systems were understood at first, or maybe they were in different timelines and were learned about through time traveling. its?? weirdly philosophical?? unironically, i think itd be cool if we all came together and formed our own idea about what these charms mean and use them to the extent that some people really do use quadrants to understand their relationships and the ones around them. love is so much deeper than whats been given to us by our ancestors tbh. besides everything is canon, so really we can say what they mean however we want and it cant be really argued -- anyone who says otherwise is just a spoilsport. cringe does not exist in this universe and party poopers can go poop their own parties

[@CalsCalzones]

you are so right and i love this comment so much thank you

[@TOBAPNW_]

its not inconceivable that hussie created leprechaun romance with the goal of getting fans to flesh it out

[@smackerooonii7001]

okay all i can think of is the idea of female leprechauns existing and by extension reproducing homosexually as well and straight leprechaun romance being seen as super weird culturally and having jig donors be a thing and this is all so dumb and i love it.

[@CalsCalzones]

i LOVE this idea. I wish I could get in touch with Mayonaka, the person who was making a semi-canon felt fanventure, and run this idea by them. I'd love to see problem sleuth style female felt counterparts

[@smackerooonii7001]

@Cal's Calzones tbh I really wish for more problem sleuth content to have a great big expanded universe for that whole thing. Pre homestuck MSPA had such a neat vibe and I wish I was there for it.

[@thatonepunkguy]

yknow i actually kinda get it now--with your added speculation, i kinda agree with aranea that leprachaun romance is pretty darn awesome and cute

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

time to inject a curse into my visual cortex through my retinas

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

For reference: I read homestuck back in the day and while I easily grok'd the troll romances, I had my eyes glaze over at leprechaun romance and prayed it would never show up in comic

[@CalsCalzones]

good luck brave soldier

[@TheLegend2T]

Ok so does this mean Top to Bottom can be seen as whether the ship is Love or Prank based while Left to Right can be seen as whether Love or Pranks are pursued?

[@dexxus8078]

While interesting, this way of designating the chart kind of totally defeats the explicitly mentioned "charms are not mutually exclusive" thing. It is far more likely that each charm is more distinct from each other in such a way that achieving multiple silmultaniously is possible. For example, perhaps the horseshoe charm represents something akin to people who are and enjoy being intellectual sparring partners, rainbow could be those who simply enjoy each other's company while doing their own thing, and a clover might be those who consistently "get away with things" with each other.

[@CalsCalzones]

@@dexxus8078 This. This is an incredibly well put explanation of the points i attempt to get across at the end of this video. thank you!

[@jexusdomel5194]

To put it more simply, I think their supposed to be closer to badges of general dynamics you've had with an important person in your life (like you could be romantic, or you could be someone fun to work with, or someone to have fun with like pranks ect). I still wonder if that is the case, can't shake the feeling we are simplifying these poor guy's romance but oh well

[@arcalranem]

poggers, I've been waiting for the leprechaun romance

[@andrewst-jacques4045]

Imma be honest I saw another way of analyzing these into actual cereal charms meaning and I now have been using a big old excel sheet to categorize a bunch of my relationships

[@StepperBox]

I'm surprised that the "Star Heart Horseshoe" gag from Problemsleuth wasn't explained in your not tangent. It would go along way to explain how carpations seem to understand some Leprechaun romance since they ostensibly came from the same source.

[@comradeScallion]

was about to comment "God-tier content" without realizing the reference lmao

[@GothicPunkChicky]

Re: Quarters A quarter is also written as 1/4, so without the symbol it's 14 Currently re-reading and just noticed

[@nuffens]

I figured that sawbuck may have been using a 10 gauge shotgun, another gun pun. and that the Walter PPK has a full capacity of 11 rounds. I haven't come up with a reason 13 uses a Rhino revolver or the minigun. I also believe that Doc scratch being omnipotent and capable of teleportation ties in to the character Q from start treck, because he is like a Q ball

[@jessehunter362]

The way i puzzled this out was pretty similar, but different just a bit! I ended up sorting the charms more like a traditional dnd alignment chart, with rows being person (other centered, dynamic centered, and self centered) and columns being physicality levels (highly physical, kinetic but not physical, display based), with mixed pranking and romance being more a product of charm combinations.

[@Maukustus]

To be honest, i SKIPPED the part when aranea explained this, because i had read so much about dead sessions and snake sex beforehand

[@kingstondaking7877]

Seems like Meenah felt the same way

[@justibloomsm]

The ICarly Example Also Works With Dan VS Characters.

[@lovelyfma]

it makes a lot of sense, also i love how there was totally no tangents whatsoever

[@Nedoiko]

based on several comments and on the speculation at 36:44, there could be a sort of 3-way "axis" deal going on, where some of the charms are luck based, maybe based on how well pranks go, then based on how very innuendo-themed the whole about leprechaun romance seems to be, it could be spoken in "domination" terms then much like a D&D alignment chart, it could be a cross-section system where Luck takes a place similar to neutrality, and then there's the two axis which would be the Romantic (Dominant versus Submissive) and a "pranking" axis (in a sort of Prankster vs Straightman, one likes doing pranks, and the other enables pranks to be done), this could also explain why some charms seem to be incompatible (in a "oh no they're both bottoms!" kind of way) and why do you need at least 3 charms to form a trove, because you might both "be tops" but maybe you are a compatible PranksterxStraightman/Prankee duo. this MIGHT tamper a little with the "charms arent mutually exclusive", but maybe this speculation will provide some insight and further development, like, some leprechaun must enjoy getting pranked themselves, right? Also a Small edit but I also realize that this could leave out vers, but maybe Vers leprechauns just have multiple charms at once

[@sebastianhama5624]

this makes so much sense

[@shaarkyboy]

You have no idea how thrilled I am that you did this!! I've been invested in knowing or being able to put meaning to what the charm chart was since I've seen it the first time. This is incredible thank you so much for your tedious work!!

[@CreatrixTiara]

This made me realise that the kids and trolls (and really any player) are jujus. Self-perpetuating and destruction creates a doomed timeline.

[@molar-td4vg]

Hi! as the Literal Only crowbar fan Ever, i just want to point out that saying that crowbar and die are comprable is a bit misleading. caliborn gifts the crowbar to crowbar, and prior to that literally cannot do anything. iirc hussie (the character) tells caliborn "he doesnt have any powers" when caliborn asks - because up to then every single leprachaun (including die) had come with their own power. crowbar is different because he didnt come prepackaged with the crowbar. in the innagural death of mr seven, theres a few pieces that make him stand out from other leprachauns in general as well, and hes probably considered a huge weirdo to most other leprachauns.

[@CalsCalzones]

I love intermission fans so much. thank you for this info! I've gotten a few comments about that paradox space comic, I definitely plan on looking into it. I believe that bit about comparing crowbar and die came from the wiki, but I had forgotten about that distinction from later acts.

[@topkarat]

Excellent video... Hehehehe....NOW.... Talk about how Feferi is related to John and other oddball canon relations.

[@joaoguardini6770]

Isnt making it a spectrum between love and prankstery way too simple and contradict what aranea said about not being quadrants (a representation on a plane with axis representing some concept)

[@comradeScallion]

these guys got the best soundtrack in the entire homestuck ost

[@AlphaPizzadog]

if you make another homestuck video, i'd love if you discussed the weird ways in which homestuck humans PRE-SBURB are different from real life humans bc i feel like there are def a few things you could discuss

[@CalsCalzones]

Interetesting...you mean like how the beta kids world already has some game elements to it? like captchalogues and strife specibi?

[@AlphaPizzadog]

@@CalsCalzones yeah, basically! i mean, i understand why they exist in the alpha timeline (HIC could have introduced the technology to them) but why is it a thing in the beta? another weird point: in both timelines, humans only get named at the age of 13. which begs the question: why? and do they just refer to themselves by their gamer tags until they reach 13 years? it's something that never really gets addressed bc the youngest of the group turns 13 before the game starts but... what if the game had started BEFORE john's birthday? would his name just have been EB for the remainder of the session? in school, was he putting GT as his name? and does changing his name to EB mean that john (or june, rather) was trans-coded this whole time????

[@caseyjarmes]

Half of them have unnatural eye colors, John’s dad has super strength, dirk and Dave have super speed, Roxy once jumped forty feet in the air, John and Jake don’t have eyes, Johns dad doesn’t have a face, they were all created in a lab… Are we sure the Homestuck humans are even human?

[@Anodyne_Akôn]

Oh, hell yeah

[@rainbowsylvie16]

okay yeah i can get behind this speculation

[@androgynouscollapsar5138]

I imagine it more like attributes to the relationship than fluctuation between relationship dynamics. I haven't thought about this for a really long time so this was an amazing watch, i will be thinking about this for the foreseeable future

[@dracyan3552]

oh my god my confusing romantic situation irl is just a clover leprechaun relationship

[@rock-not985]

not enough. i need hussie himself to explain this to me in extreme detail

[@kashino55archive94]

Joke's on you, I was already confused about almost all of theae concepts

[@Ambipie]

Close, but we have seen a scrap or two of what Leps are like for eachother. This is close to perhaps the red side of things, but im not convinced this is the end of it

[@LunaStardust666]

jokes aside, this video does an adequate job making some semblance of sense out of the concept of Charms. nicely done

[@slimything3904]

Video starts at 28:28 Thanks for this btw. This was a video I never knew I needed. Also, what’s the song that was used at that time stamp?

[@destinydynamites]

this is so based god i fucking love homestuck

[@Kissingerzones1311]

lol.

[@ViIvaNunner]

it was a shame leprechaun romance got cut off but your theory is interesting i love the idea of romance built upon japery and romance because japery is like one of my favourite things that being said, the idea of "collecting' charms puts me off of your interpretation a little. its a good interpretation and the only real one that could be theorised with any actual sort of 'evidence" to back it up, but in my head i feel like itd work sorta like heart being love, the diamond could be like trolls sort of platonic soulmate stuff, but then the other charms could each be for one thing too, like the clover for games of luck, the horseshoe for jigs (sorta like, more 'sexual" since jigs are the mating ritual), and other symbols for stuff like pranks and jokes and other stuff. thatd mean when you have multiple charms, it could be like a mix of pranks and games of luck and jigs, or a strong reproductive trove could have love and jigs and some other third thing (for some reason im inclined to pick the rainbow) its all just ideas and there will presumably be no concrete answer ever though, which is a shame. unless, of course, hiveswap goes in a completely different direction to anything anyone was expecting, or homestuck^2 comes back from the dead and has intense leprechaun lore

[@palaris8993]

25:23 I genuinely forgot that was the theme of this video

[@17raysplays29]

You are a Lord among men. Thank you!

[@CalsCalzones]

A Lordling perhaps?

[@freddyhoops1685]

This was definitely worth it

[@Confetti_Ghost]

Love your videos! :DD

[@CalsCalzones]

thank you! that's very kind!!

[@PlaguedLime]

god damnit someone did it no no no someone actually made sense of the most unreasonable and bat shit crazy thing in homestuck i fucking give up

[@strawberrypupper897]

Y'know, before you made the analogies for every symbol, had to take a quick break and had time to speculate on my interpretation of the comparison to an alignment chart. And we come to very similar conclusions! To contextualize how I had to speculate on the analogy is that I see the alignment chart on a diagonal gradient, where the two pure color points are lawful good and chaotic evil. The gradient reaches 50/50 along the chaotic good, neutral, lawful evil line. The gradient transitions from "Selfless" to "selfish". Lawful Good is 100% selfless, while Chaotic Evil is 100% selfish. An LG will uphold a code of conduct that is to the good of others, even at their own sacrifice. A CE will do things pure because they want to, and even due to impulse, they never care about others in their actions which ends up portraying them as evil. Alright, so how does this work with our lucky charms? Well there's no "good" and "evil" here, nor selfless or selfish, either! Instead you must replace "selfless" with "love" and "selfish" with "trickery". Where you reached the exact conclusion. Heart is purely positive romance, complete love with no japery or pranks. Pot o Gold is pure japery, complete jokester territory with many laughs. Now following the gradient... we have to make unique interpretatons for the two corners, bloon and star, since they can't be the exact same thing, there must be a difference. That difference is in presentation and intention. Chaotic Good people do the wrong things for the right reasons. Lawful Evil people do the right things for the wrong reasons. Thus they're "Evil/Good" and "Good/Evil" respectively. Since we're replacing these terms, it ends up as follows. Star is "Trickery/Love" and Balloon is "Love/Trickery". What this looks like is as follows. Stars will primarily prank their partners, but do it out of sincere love for them. The kind of person to hit on you by actually hitting you. Their pranks will toe the line of going too far, but the reassurance of love prevents you from staying mad at them too long. Bloons will present love and romantic actions, but do it as a prank. They will want to gain your trust, and share in romantic feelings, but it's just so you might let your guard down, and they slip a whoopee cushion under your ass. Interesting how the symbol almost LOOKS like a whoopee cushion... So there we have it, one PRESENTS trickery but INTENDS love, the other PRESENTS love but INTENDS trickery. Oh and diamonds? They're completely without any draw in any of the love or trickery directions, and find attraction outside of that binary. The in betweens? Well, that ends up being a 25/75 of the same relationships described with stars and bloons, depending on which side of the gradient they're on. Moon is 25 Prankster Present/75 Love Intent, Clover is 25 Prankster Intent/75 Love Present, (where 25% means half the time they adhere, and half the time do not, and 75 means they are leaning much stronger into that aspect) Horseshoe is 25 Love Intent/75 Prankster Present, Panbow is 25 Love Present/75 Prankster Intent. And there you have it, each of the symbols represent a dynamic actions and intentions form of relationship. Which tackles the archetypes of unique expressions of attraction. As well as tackling relationships which aren't typical marry me commited romance, but comprise more of a fling or friends with benefits situation. Though I guess I can't say for certain, maybe two leprechauns currently in the pot of gold in their trove will end up committed, married partners. I also like how troves present dynamically altering relationships. Showing how someone might begin with mostly prankster intentions, fall into a mess of pure love, but then return to a shining star romance once they miss the spice of their old dynamic, the trickery.

[@mediatingSeamstress]

16:39 theres no gun pun but the crowbar could be the fact that its kind of shaped like a 7 maybe?

[@rumpelstiltskin1121]

i'm sorry you're SO karkat coded man---

[@CalsCalzones]

this is objectively the best comment anyone could have left on this video

[@musicjax]

apologies if you or someone else has already mentioned this but is Egg's melee weapon a morningstar as a reference to his name since eggs are a common breakfast food?

[@psychoDon525]

Okay but consider this: sawed-off shotgun for Sawbuck

[@zackbuildit88]

*I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR HECKING YEARS WOOOOOOO*

[@StepperBox]

23:15 oh and Cans once punched John right out of the comic

[@symphonysystem4846]

oh shit i got a sweet cameo, god damn

[@LLnullZer0]

nice vid never heard anyone pronounce aranea’s name like that tho

[@spongeybunny]

GREAT video I HEART THIS VIDEO. IVE BEEN CONFUSED ON THIS FR FOREVER THANK YOU I AM FOREVER IN DEBT TO YOU for making Homestuck make a little more sense

[@CalsCalzones]

youre welcome!

[@aquared]

my new favorite video ever

[@St0nek]

Goddammit i feel like i was taught quadrants all over again

[@CalsCalzones]

you don't understand how highly I value this comment

[@axelstars6419]

Real 2023 homestuck hours wya

[@spongeybunny]

such a real video

[@Teddy-hp9zy]

Thank you. Finally. Thank you

[@Rougesteelproject]

There must, therefore, be 16 (4x4) types of romance for Squiddles/Horrorterrors.

[@CalsCalzones]

Oh christ

[@StepperBox]

17:00 "Only female member" EXCUSE ME! Did you forget about Ms Paint who was briefly a member?

[@adains8819]

Low-key want to write about leprechauns now

[@sighmon5640]

27:57 ill have you know PS is a human, not carapacian (lighthearted)

[@millsxi]

I'm using this.

[@nikezoo8969]

My headcanon for the star is that its similar to a kismesis

[@Someone-dy5ui]

Wow, homestuck is soo confusing. Can you make a video talking only about one aspect of it? For example, the homestuck cosmology, how it's structured and how it evolved over time. This would allow to ignore all the items, events and creatures that are not world-changing, hopefully make things easier to follow and it might even be a nice summary for old fans. Can you do it?

[@onyxpected]

enlightening

[@zthepozzum9644]

Please don't tell mempreg exists within the leprechaun society

[@sevycat3338]

whats the music playing at 36:00 or during this whole section?

[@CalsCalzones]

Its Phantasmic Youngsters off of Colours and Mayhem Universe B!

[@DoormanSoorman]

Can’t believe my entire ancestry was a homestuck reference

[@fishy658]

Thank you

[@macmurray3585]

You should colab with illegal radio show I think the fans would like it

[@clownsdontbite7385]

FUCK YEEAH GOOD TOPIC!!

[@Fourger14]

OMG, it's not "insensitive" to reference a culture. You go on about influences for the names of the felt like it's no big deal, but then because "Juju" has similar origins, it's suddenly "insensitive."

[@CalsCalzones]

You're right! It isn't insensitive to reference a culture. What IS insensitive is taking a word that has a specific and important meaning to a religion and then blindly applying your own definition to it.

[@jenny_azoth]

isn't a scorpion (the bug) shaped like a 7, and can't a tommy gun (circle attached to a line tangentially) look like a 9 from most perspectives? it would be particularly fitting considering those are both visual puns rather than literary ones, much like their weapons (crowbar shaped like 7, sewing needle like 9)

[@timcheater6336]

i just realised that its based on lucky charms

[@maxdavis9719]

not really an expert in any other quads really, and not meaning to be a snarky assmunch, but moiraillegiance kinda isnt really 'platonic soulbros', hussie said otherwise in one of his JK Rowling lore dumps in his books. it's just one troll pacifying another. but that doesn't mean a healthy moiraillegence per se, and i don't believe that what equius and nepeta had and, to a lesser extent, what vriska and terezi had was as scarce as it seems. one interesting fun fact we know about troll culture is that quadrants are a big thing. we also know the term karkat coined, the "human disease called friendship". karkat may be loud and stubborn, but, especially when he was 13, heavily subscribed to the ideals and views in Alternia. he was a massive bootlicker. he would not denouce a thing that was widely popular, and he would not push it onto the humans if it was not a thing humans suggested in the first place. i'm not denying that the alpha trolls were friends, but the close and kind friendship pushed by the humans is different to the sometimes murderous and vengeful relationships of the trolls. friendship did exist on alternia, but it wasn't like how we understand it. besides, i think it was said once that most trolls dont form groups without killing each other off at some point. our trolls did that. to sum it up, i don't think that friends could be trusted and cared for the same way we do on earth because the alpha trolls live in assdick shithell. so where do trolls turn to for acceptance and trust? that's right, their quadrants. specifically their red and pale quadrants. matespritship is already hailed as the perfectly lovey-dovey relationship, but only having one troll in your life who you could trust might get a lil annoying, especially if that was your (human's view on romance) romantic partner. so they might turn to the only other one in their life contractually obligated to not kill them, their moirail. i believe that the moirail was the only (human's view on romance) platonic relationship that trolls could safely have. if there was only one person in your life besides your concuspient partner who you could trust, wouldn't you be close with them? would it be a far fetch to call that troll, your moirail, your best non-concuspient friend, your platonic soul bro? to sum it up, the only requirement for a moiraillegence is pacifying another troll, but i believe that in alternian society, what the majority of the fandom percieves as the standard moiraillegence probably happened a lot in canon. also i never played hiveswap and i dont want to, shut up and your welcome dickfarts

[@SpecterPaladin]

Is there an actual uncensored part of aranea's speech anywhere or is it just written like that for a gag

[@CalsCalzones]

As much as is audible in the video is all we have unfortunately

[@GabRioBlu]

3:39 misunderstoof