"[S] Cascade" - Homestuck EoA 5

Official Upload: • [S] Cascade.
I uploaded this video the day Cascade came out due to Newgrounds (and subsequently MEGAUploads) crashing due to the high volume of traffic. With the death of Flash, I'm glad I kept it up. Sorry for the white bars, crispy music, and the small audio distortion when Jade took Skaia; I hope you understand why it was a bit of a rush job. Cheers.
Comic Page: www.homestuck....
Check out the official Homestuck KZbin channel: / @homestuckofficial
I do not claim to own Homestuck or any of the songs used in this animation, nor do I profit off their work. Homestuck and all other affiliated sections of MSPA belongs to their respective creators. And thank you, Andrew Hussie, creator of Homestuck.
Pip pip, fuckass.

[@Prospitfox]

There is legitimately no feeling quite like watching cascade for the first time on the site and seeing the animation suddenly EXPAND

[@kieransmith9616]

it's too bad though, since it isn't on the site anymore now it's just the newgrounds link, which says PLAY but does nothing, it's such a bummer.

[@worldinpetals3870]

@@kieransmith9616 thankfully now there is the unofficial collection :D

[@blahthebiste7924]

I honestly never realized that happened

[@respectable-username]

YEAH oh my God it was so amazing I couldn't not show everyone at school 💀

[@respectable-username]

Those were the days fr

[@krisalis_]

When [S] doesn't stand for [Sound] but for [Shit just got real].

[@gabbyn.3049]

What does it actually mean?

[@Nova-uq9nw]

Gabby Nicolas [Sound]

[@gabbyn.3049]

The Arceus Nova Thx

[@CheerUpCrewcut]

[S] Means Flash.

[@tanegram]

When [S] stand for 「Star Platinum」

[@meline4524]

A YOUNG MAN STANDS IN HIS BEDROOM. A Y O U N G M A N S T A N D S I N H I S B E D R O O M .

[@lullafool5106]

The part about the end of homestuck that got me the most was that when you clicked the arrow after that last page, it brought you back to the start. Man homestuck really ended, we just restarted the game.

[@ashikjaman1940]

-Starri- -Galaxy- HOMESTUCK 2

[@alejandrite9]

@@ashikjaman1940 homestuck 2 is hussie way of killing everyone off lmao

[@saporana4231]

@@alejandrite9 haha

[@af3897]

Happyworld392 Is Homestuck 2 still updating? Idk how to keep up with it

[@orangesplease6763]

remember when we crashed newgrounds

[@DecimusYna]

Oranges Please Good ol' time.

[@tradingforsouls]

suckers.

[@catandfishfc]

1.2 million people trying to watch at once, that's hilariously huge

[@shrivak]

Of course. A glorious day of Internet History.

[@trixielulamoon6339]

broke Newgrounds, MSPaintAdventures, and then the flash got mirrored and we broke the mirror site. oct 25, 2011 was one hell of a day.

[@arristheround9246]

Ironically, while Bec prototyping himself ended up with Bro's death and Jack's power being extremely potent, he gave him his one weakness: Love. Love was what caused him to carry the now-dead Jade, one of the kids he wanted to kill from the start, and carry her to her quest bed to be revived in god-tier. Love was what caused Jade to come back to life and lead to everyone escaping to the post-scratch world. Love was what caused Jack to, ironically, save each of the kids he set out to kill. Good dog. Best friend.

[@carlosrv1301]

jade*

[@arristheround9246]

Whoops, lemme fix that.

[@garnetportal4784]

Good Jack Best Noir

[@reet7932]

Yeah, so technically vriska making John fall asleep when he was supposed to prototype something saved the whole beta session.

[@erikmikalkorstad1359]

*+Dave Strudle* No, it *fucked* the whole beta session. It saved all the beta *kids*

[@holmesw25]

Dear god, that moment with the Red Miles. For context, until this point the entire comic had always been a fixed screen size. When it zoomed out and filled the screen, it was like that moment from Wizard of Oz as it turns from a sepia-tinted black and white to full Technicolor, but instead of gentle child-like wonder, you had this insane boss-battle "oh shit" moment as Jack shows how he can destroy entire universes if he reaches them.

[@fetch300]

WHERE'S THE REST OF HIS COMMENT KZbin?!

[@Sinkdogs]

@@fetch300 the red miles got it bro

[@dull_demon4717]

@@fetch300 red miles destroyed it

[@victorvirgili4447]

@@fetch300it couldn’t escape the miles

[@balala7567]

@@victorvirgili4447 nobody escapes the miles

[@easypeasypiano6118]

I love the symbolism when Spades shoots Snowman. The bullet looks exactly like a cue ball, and Snowman is made to be the 8 ball. When the cue ball hits the last ball (8 ball) in the right spot (the heart), it goes into the hole and the game (the trolls universe) ends.

[@zoroveemew2043]

I'm a little late but woah I did not see that man I love the little things Hussie adds here and there. It gives everything so much character!

[@jessicamacias2772]

The bullet is a cue ball

[@easypeasypiano6118]

Jessica Macias That's what I'm saying...

[@shugaku2461]

EasyPeasyPiano I wonder why one of the most major parts of Homestuck is based off pool?

[@DragonbornCanid]

......mother of god.

[@javaclown]

Dave and Rose's ascend to God Tier was hands down the best thing ever.

[@zoedonelan2555]

Yes that's my favorite part of Cascade, the music there too.

[@GSPV33]

Debatably Jade's ascent to dog-tier was even more powerful.

[@zoedonelan2555]

@@GSPV33 True, but I loved the music better for Dave and Rose. Jade's was pretty great though too.

[@sethrieker387]

If only I could find the music to that part

[@raptorcharly8055]

@@sethrieker387 For Jade, it's Savior of the Dreaming Dead (Cascade Cut). For Dave and Rose, Black Rose Green Sun.

[@ryondinkus]

I watched this millions of times and I just realized "Draw, Spades" is a playing card pun.

[@glowingfish]

I just realized that it could be a pun about art, as well.

[@aisutistoto5771]

god damnit

[@alejandrite9]

oh shit

[@salty_boi_1374]

God damnit hussie

[@CrimCrim]

That's sad

[@beanceline]

rest in peace AimlessRenegade, one of the most forgotten homestuck characters.

[@younggamer7218]

The law legislator did his job well. May he find peace!

[@meowman6043]

Had to clear up the "AR" acryonym slot, I suppose

[@joshuaballinger5710]

He will NOT be forgotten

[@Paspancake]

For me his name is « the man with the ribbons caution » lmao

[@WirelessMagician]

@@meowman6043this aged well >:3

[@TheShadow7771]

[S]:Collide was nice, but I think the reason it doesn't beat this is because there weren't really any surprises. As far as we can tell, everything went exactly as expected, whereas literally every moment in Cascade is mindblowing plot-wise.

[@snowplexus]

Except for Understuck happening, most people didn't see that comming

[@Tobygamesiscool]

I didn't get any surprise from cascade since I watched it after finishing Homestuck and everything made sense

[@Templarfreak]

Collide itself is cool for completely different reasons from Cascade. Cascade basically was the final tipping point of setting up everything in the entire plot, whereas Collide was the final payoff to all of it. Even the words Cascade and Collide in context to their respective animations is literally meaning to set up a _Cascading_ sequence of plot points, ultimately _Colliding_ in a finale.

[@alejandrite9]

@@Templarfreak holy shit

[@shrivak]

The plot i feel went downhill after Cascade

[@isocryd]

I just realized Gamzee wasn’t writing “suckers”, he was just highlighting it...

[@Etherealisz]

u h o h

[@LoreleiBlaine]

I'm surprised, after the fuckin pain of doing the same to read every line of d🎱c scratch's infuriating dialogue it was instantly recognizable to me he was doing the same.

[@TysonForReal]

@@Etherealisz *uh oh

[@Etherealisz]

@@TysonForReal uh dude i did that on purpose shut up

[@sumbuddy4088]

Doc scratch was playing chess with himself the whole time. The kids were the pieces.

[@aschneider8912]

13 Year Old me saw this and thought it was the pinnacle of storytelling 22 Year Old me sees this and still agrees

[@cosmic-snips]

YES

[@vanessa9815]

Amen.

[@starrykailani]

I'm like 17 as of now and it holds so well up to this Day

[@elcalabozodelandroide2]

It kinda is.

[@tord5363]

13 year old present me agrees

[@AJb-bm1ir]

Remember when grist was actually important?

[@marcjosephconcepcion7782]

Not really. All of us have been leeching off of John since day 1. You've got some catching up to do.

[@AJb-bm1ir]

Marc Joseph Concepcion I've already finished reading homestuck. But Rose actually got some of her own though. But they had to actually use grist to build lmao then John eventually got jetpack a and they could eventually fly and crap.

[@FellowHaibane]

It is a forgotten memory

[@rednamrach7254]

ya lol

[@honeycoatedparadox]

I was about to comment that xD

[@AwsomeGamerDude233]

Remember when the sylladex was a thing? Me neither.

[@iruisoleil6370]

+Mkoijn3 I can't remem8er it at all

[@kitcatcandy4563]

+Mkoijn3 it has made its return

[@BaconLordess]

It hasn't been a thing since act 5 and neither has much related to sburb in the beginning

[@kitcatcandy4563]

Bacon Lordess it is now, read the update

[@iruisoleil6370]

Actually, the sylladex didn't stop from being a thing, and it never will

[@thisisntevenmyfinalform6623]

The psiioniics fastest speed was thousands of light years in a matter of hours right?. Well the green sun is the size of two universes and in the space between the green sun and where the meteor was there was space for about 10 green suns which means sollux propelled them about 20 universes in a few minutes outdoing his ancestor by a factor of over 100 trillion

[@iamnotKMR]

Good Genius. Best Math

[@thisisntevenmyfinalform6623]

+Kaito Kumori lol thanks.

[@cloud__zero]

+thatoneperson I thought the green sun was 2 times the MASS of the universe ?

[@thisisntevenmyfinalform6623]

The wiki says its twice as massive as earth's universes so its probably size. Might be mass tho!

[@SlickNoir]

MASSive implies mass. If it was two universes, they'd all be dead from UV ray exposure and radiation poisoning.

[@TheMajesticMrL]

I feel like many people don't realize just how big of a threat Jack really is because he is constantly overshadowed by English. Not only does Jack possess the powers of a First Guardian(One that showed he could easily destroy an enormous asteroid[and simultaneously wipe out the entire human race]), he also has the Miles which can TRAVEL THROUGH ALL OF REALITY. I know Jack has been...tied up with things(Namely a pissed PM), and can't attack Jade, but if English didn't exist, Jack would be an unbeatable boss, as Karkat said.

[@izzrainy7410]

If alt!Calliope didn't black-hole the Green Sun they'd still be dead, that house ain't doing anything against Jack.

[@additop8118]

jack can't attack jade at all remember.

[@vehemetipolygoniae2197]

Couldnt Jade just use her space powers to get rid of the ring?

[@davidharrison6877]

@@izzrainy7410 Not quite. As a consequence of introducing more powerful villains, the characters themselves become more powerful as well. Post-Cascade PM could kill Jack, Vriska stood a pretty good chance with her y^8 die, they have that whole ghost army, and the sprites squared are extremely powerful. Bec Noir has become a small fry. It's a shame that--since he was most likely originally intended to be the main and most powerful antagonist--he has hardly any relevance post Cascade, and spends 3 years being chased across time and space only to be swiftly defeated.

[@lenlimbo]

Pre-Cascade? I agree. After the scratch, the kids grow a lot stronger, and the alpha kids had some serious powerhouses too. At that point, Jack was a big threat, but not an unbeatable one. Specially when Jade is at least as powerful as him, and after we saw that John can actually trade hits with him and even gain the upperhand in a 1 on 1. Given, you said this 5 years ago, and I'm not sure if most of what I said happened yet at that point. Except for the Jade thing. She has the same power as Jack (first guardian) and then some, being a God Tier Witch of Space.

[@walfalcon]

I find it funny how the beta kids didn't even try to stop the reckoning. They just kinda worked around it.

[@skilllessguy7219]

Lucas Exempli Gratia Smith sorry for the late reply,but in their session it was litterally impossible to stop the rekt-oning because of Jack.If i remenber correctly,you need to destroy both the ring and the scepter of the Black Queen & King. However,Jack took the ring and became an almighty omnipotent demon who can turn 14 planets and a universe into nothing just with a few hours.Good luck destroying the ring with that setup.

[@walfalcon]

Yeah, but they still could have tried.

[@skilllessguy7219]

Lucas Exempli Gratia Smith they actually tried BEFORE bec's prototyping (davesprit and bro fighting jack)

[@walfalcon]

Oh yeah, huh.

[@skilllessguy7219]

also they knew it was impossible for them to beat jack,just because he was in the troll session i mean if they were supposed to succed at killing him he won't be so,what would be the point of trying ?

[@cartergirl531]

i literally cant even remember half the context for this and it _still_ gives me chills to this day

[@sakarver]

I literally can't forget it...

[@corneliusabigailbakich1128]

I’ve never read any homestuck. I saw this when it came out and it was incredible. Still haven’t read any homestuck and I love this.

[@xcentric_gaming9264]

Its something like Yadda yadda yadda scratch

[@corneliusabigailbakich1128]

@@xcentric_gaming9264 oh! That’s the description of Alan wake, too!

[@bonedoggle]

Half of Homestuck, from the start of A2 Sgrub to the Universe B Scratch, took place over one day. *One day.*

[@Miniike]

Actually it was just the kids session to the Universe B Scratch. Sgrub took place over a period about about 200 hours (I think Vriska mentioned it once).

[@bonedoggle]

Mr. Miniike Oh... Yeah.. Now that I remember, the kids' reckoning actually happened a lot earlier than it was supposed to as well. That would explain why it only took one day, but still; they completed quite a lot for a short time.

[@Miniike]

THEY'RE SO YOUNG *blows nose*

[@Miniike]

***** Okay, I was only only off by a few hundred hours. Ouch.

[@Miniike]

I am aware my dear madam.

[@nuadha5868]

I love how Jade immediately knew how to use her powers, she's like.. instantly powerful at the start of her rising to god tier. I think there's only one or two characters that can match up to her in power.

[@blahthebiste7924]

That's because Jadesprite merged with her somehow when she ascended to God Tier, and sprites have encyclopedic game knowledge. She got the knowledge of a sprite, the power of a first guardian, and the perks of becoming God Tier, all at once.

[@Kiwi-rx7jg]

@@blahthebiste7924 and then Hussie had to completely nerf her for the rest of the comic lol

[@aregulargamer1]

@@Kiwi-rx7jg Jade and Jack Noir both end up in the same situation where their unintentional powerups end up doing nothing but fucking over their teams by presenting them with a massively overpowered enemy.

[@Tzizenorec]

@@Kiwi-rx7jg He really shouldn't have done that.

[@Kavukamari]

@@blahthebiste7924 Jadesprite WAS jade's dream form. When you die on your quest bed as your real self, you come back to life as your dream self. I can't remember how this happened, but her dream body got prototyped into her kernelsprite

[@Pangloss6413]

This feels like something from a world that doesn't exist anymore

[@Xx_Blue_Blur_xX]

i mean… technically… you’re right :^)

[@OXGC413]

Well, it did end in 2009, only not within our reality. The messages still apply fully, as this was say, "back in canon😂"

[@JackSears95]

God things were simpler back then. And we were all so naïve. I kinda wish we’d actually been hit by meteors rather than let the last 13 years play out the way they did.

[@dahkohtaah]

The past is a foreign country

[@tidalwaveelias]

I am SO thankful for the unofficial homestuck collection. I'm on my first read and seeing this as a youtube embed would NOT have been the same.

[@Xx_Blue_Blur_xX]

SAAAME

[@taetersanguis]

So true

[@beatrizqueirozdecarvalho4086]

I have just watched [S] Cascade for the first time, and wow. I thought Homestuck would be a silly webcomic about kids playing games in their bedroom. I was wrong. Shit.

[@garnetportal4784]

So wrong. Also, every human and troll has died at least ONCE.

[@rorocyr5175]

SPOILER ALERTnot dream Roxy

[@pikminman13]

Both are still Roxy. Though Dirk has never officially "died" to anything, as it was technically suicide. Only PM has officially "never died."

[@DarkGamer641]

+pikminman13 jack never died either

[@pikminman13]

Well, even though i assume you mean Bec Noir, i feel like he does have something that qualifies somewhere, though i dont recall where i got that from. Though due to your lack of specification, i could say jack has died, as robo jack and LE jack are both dead.

[@2rad2paytaxes]

Remember when Homestuck was just about a kid in his bedroom?

[@DarkGamer641]

remember when it used to update

[@june8400]

Ahh the memories

[@hellow7376]

+WaterDragon788 Im crying.

[@DarkGamer641]

+Ale Schmidt remem8er when it was made to look like it was made in ms paint

[@june8400]

Yes

[@hashtagNight]

And they were only 13 when this happened...

[@hashtagNight]

AND THEY BARELY SLEPT

[@HTFFanOfFlaky]

+Erica Baker Even more insane, from troll perspective, it happened instantaneously.

[@iruisoleil6370]

+Erica Baker aka 5 Acts actually happening in 1 FUCKING DAY

[@iruisoleil6370]

123flowermax EXCEPT JADEEEEE xD

[@trinif1771]

+Elite Aspect I don't think the traveling on a ship part counts as their session, since they scratched it and destroyed it before that.

[@EluTran]

Happy 10th Anniversary, Homestuck.

[@imatakuvnarod]

oh its you

[@BP-bq9uz]

wait what you were a homestuck the whole time? a surprise, but a welcome one nonetheless

[@EluTran]

@@BP-bq9uz EluTran is actually a shortening of my old pesterchum handle, elusiveTranscendent :)

[@imatakuvnarod]

@@EluTran wow thats actually very epic

[@takia5683]

@@EluTran Wait why do I feel like I've heard that handle before?

[@boshlankh9638]

Okay but the beauty of the characters escaping the old session by literally going through the fourth wall is incredible

[@ImperatordeElysium]

One of the things I love about this flash is the way in which it sums up the perfect interplay of the relationship between the music and storyline. Homestuck is one of the first works to really take advantage of the medium which is the internet and combine so many different forms of storytelling (text, images, sound, video, interactive panels and minigames), and similarly the music here is one of the first I've come across that so elegantly combines highly divergent styles of music and the instruments involved while still giving each group their own highlights and prominent passages. Seriously, I've worked out that if, as I honestly think there should one day based on the quality of the music alone, there was ever to be a Homestuck Prom, the Royal Albert Hall would require a full concert orchestra, two pianists (and possibly two pianos), two guitarists, a bassist, a drummer, a high quality soprano and a full choir just to do this song! And they're all interwoven and spread out throughout the piece!

[@JerichoSlayer360]

You would also have to take into account that there is old-style electric pieces in this collective, so let's not exclude the techno aspect. Other than that, I fully agree. And who else would agree that this would be mind-blowingly amazing to listen to?

[@DagamerPC]

You guys remember naming John? This is what came from that.

[@Tobygamesiscool]

What will the name of this young man be. Dirk: That's the best fucking question Dirk: Anyone ever asked First and last line of Homestuck

[@guillermoc7736]

It Seems the Only Real Action is Inaction My heart just imploded

[@imatakuvnarod]

John could have been named Clint Newton

[@alolanvulpixgaming7598]

Thats not his name fool! Its Zoosmell Pooplord!

[@lukedarkheart9657]

"I'm done reading Homestuck! It's too hard to comprehend!" *Proceeds to read another 600 pages and gets addicted again.*

[@fateisme]

It gets easier to quit once shit hits the fan. And I'm not talking about the pre act 5 gag, I'm speaking about the input from the larger input affecting the story and gags negatively. Luckily music is banger until the end.

[@chrissugg968]

I think how hard it is to piece everything together is a lot of the charm. In a book or movie, the sheer incomprehensibility of it all, the fact that you need to go back and reread/rewatch a whole bunch of things would be just plain bad storytelling. But in a webcomic, especially one that originally had days between updates, the process of working out what's happening and piecing it together is half the fun. I really wish I'd read it when it first happened and been able to go through that process in the fandom rather than just on my own.

[@solluxpotter2650]

Thumbs up if you didn't notice it when you first read it, but now you think its super sweet sollux is wearing fefs goggles.

[@cactusc9519]

yeah, that is sweet!

[@lccomics1499]

*screams* M y heart!

[@gamnguyen773]

Time stamp pls

[@cactusc9519]

@@gamnguyen773 11:40

[@gamnguyen773]

@@cactusc9519 oh thx,that is cute

[@oneupglitch2582]

Can we just talk about how darkly hilarious it is that Hussie brought the "edible uranium" gag and made it plot-relevant? I don't care if the rest of Homestuck is 100x more clever. This is just too cool.

[@elryia]

i fucking cried when the mayor died

[@garrett2716]

He's not dead

[@elryia]

Garrett Norwood he died, but feferi revived him.

[@kennnnny]

+Garrett Norwood Also, may I say a spoiler?

[@santiagocodina9751]

Did you saw when they threw the mayor into the lava in act 6? you know. the part when dave rescues him? well, that's probably a lot of the fandom.

[@crazycatlady3793]

ME TOO

[@santiagocodina9751]

Remember when Homestuck had only 16 characters?

[@Michaelonyoutub]

only are you forgeting the exiles, jack, lil cal, bro, mom, dad, grandpa, and all the consorts. thats not even a complete list of before cascade

[@dacap279]

Santi Codi /only/

[@heribertoramirez9194]

8* the Beta Kids and their guardians.

[@fgdbbddhhdhdj1591]

And sprites

[@fgdbbddhhdhdj1591]

And Liz

[@iOSMinecraft120]

lol did yall notice terezi pointing in the wrong direction then karkat correcting her hahaha cute

[@kittyelgato4246]

I swear they were my OTP

[@puzzle_1279]

Is no one going to talk about how jade broke "the forth wall" in the end

[@nucleardoggie3647]

Puzzle_12 how did she break it exactly?

[@thorne6477]

Nuclear Doggie she broke the window thing that was actually called "the fourth wall"

[@platenoise256]

it's a fourth fenestrated plane, but still

[@higztv1166]

No, it's the fifth wall

[@Tzizenorec]

@@higztv1166 Nah, the fifth wall is the one in Doc Scratch's home. Jade never interacted with it; that one was reserved for something even weirder.

[@gatds8763]

I'm not like a fandom, tumblr, big weeb, furry, or nerdy kind of person, but honestly Homestuck was a masterpiece, it's actually very well written and 10k+ pages that take months to read don't feel long at all, they feel like an experience, a really good one. How the story introduces characters makes you have them feelies, even with the antagonists. Masterpiece

[@gost4864]

a-fucking-men, my friend. i re-watched cascade today just to relive the hype and the memories it gave when i watched it for the first time, and i'm man enough to admit i teared up. this comic, as ridiculous as it is, is very special to me, and countless others. i agree, homestuck is absolutely incredible

[@joacosmash65]

@@gost4864 I started reading it an I 1 week I read more than in my while life 4000 pages

[@gost4864]

@@joacosmash65 funny story, i'm re-reading it with my girlfriend since she hasn't read it before, and we decided to read the other mspa stories beforehand. after we read jailbreak, she said she had dreams of vanishing pumpkins. how about that, heh!

[@joacosmash65]

@@gost4864 jajajja you got me

[@baltofarlander2618]

Too bad they've done those God awful continuations.

[@ZlatkoTheGod]

This cinematic is the embodiment of "shit is going down like you can't even imagine, and that's really all there is to say on the matter".

[@ZlatkoTheGod]

Edit: GAME OVER KID! JUST FUCKING GAME OVER KID GOD DAMMIT HUSSIE AAAAUGH!

[@reaganpaulino7195]

I just- I just- This is crazy, and it started with just "==> Enter Name."!

[@TheUnwantedProdigy]

dont mean to rustle your jimmies, but it started with the page Homestuck.

[@HTFFanOfFlaky]

+Aberidus Actually it started with Jailbreak

[@heheheiamasupahstarzawarud5297]

Actually it started with Hussies birth

[@MouseGoat]

+jo lang Actually it never started, it's a constant loop in time and space and will likewise also never end.

[@iruisoleil6370]

+reagan paulino actually it started with Zoosmell Pooplord.

[@bela15216]

I remember last week, I was tasked with reading Homestuck so I could catch up with my friends. I laughed, I cried, and it was just plain awesome. They were all telling me about cascade, and how it was so awesome and how it would change everything, and one of my friends told me to film my reaction. I was on page 4000-something, so I was a ways away. But I kept reading, and yesterday, I arrived on page 6008. I saw the command [s] Cascade, and I swear my heart rate tripled. This changed Homestuck forever...

[@boobertthefoolish3309]

congratz

[@JohnEgbert]

You caught up in a week? It took me 2 days to read 1000 pages. How TF is that possible?

[@bela15216]

John Egbert i'm a preeetty fast reader. XD Also, the fact that i was tasked by my friends to get there asap got me motivated enough to read extremely fast. that, and the fact that i skimmed pretty much everything.

[@shinjirohitsuguya5662]

+John Egbert I read from around the middle of the comic to terezi remember in maybe 8 hours. There were tears, laughs, and me wishing there was a nearby stump.

[@shinjirohitsuguya5662]

I can read pretty quickly but it kinda sucks because I couldn't stop reading homestuck that day so I ended up reading the rest of the comic and I think me saying I need a stump shows exactly how I feel

[@josephcatney4859]

Honestly if you're every losing interest in Homestuck just go watch this flash jfc. Especially Jades God tiering!!

[@Miyno]

no joke this is why i came to watch this xD

[@Nine-Oh-Five]

*dog tiering

[@josephcatney4859]

+905Gig Hard Drive it can be both shush :P

[@aerialjordan2683]

I came back to just relive the good times. Seems like an age ago. The story now is so much less compelling than just the stupid shit people got into. I miss the stories about the kids being gods and still acting like kids. Leveling up is leveling down, when you get down to it.

[@godlyvex5543]

I think that god tier jade looked pretty bad for the first 20 seconds or so. I mean, the pose she had was pretty weird considering she just died. Why would she be holding up a green ball to dave and striking a pose?

[@McLovinEgbert]

Did anyone else have to wait 20 minutes for their flash to load on the site? _AND THEN IT STOPPED ON FUCKING 85%_

[@creepmaster422]

I know the guy who did the guitar for this.

[@McLovinEgbert]

Sollux Captor Damn, I have mad respect for that. How'd you meet him?

[@creepmaster422]

Simple. I was in the same studio as him.

[@McLovinEgbert]

Sollux Captor Nice.

[@creepmaster422]

More than that... Its majestic.

[@gubbykillbind]

I have always heard about homestuck, back in 2011-2014. You couldn't go anywhere on the internet without hearing or seeing something about it. It was chaotic. I never read it because i was under the mentality that popular + crazy fandom meant the WHOLE THING was bad. Until about 2 weeks ago. I started reading this thing. And despite all the homestuck's controversies, the most incredible thing is that the base material is genuinely enjoyable and worth reading. Its insane how fun it is to read this. Andre Hussie is like the Hideo Kojima of fucking comic writers. it's insane how good this is. I love it. Im only about half-way through (4.8k/8.1k), and i am still so pumped to read more everytime I'm so sad that I am late to the party, i wish i read it sooner. Also, THIS FUCKING CUTSCENE. THIS. CUTSCENE. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. SO GOOOOOD. Hats off to Hussie, he made a CLASSIC.

[@baltofarlander2618]

Correction. He used to be like Hideo Kojima, but unlike Kojima Hussie adjusted himself to crazy cult of political correctness.

[@Roseknight888]

Welcome to the headspace, hope you enjoyed the ride ^,^

[@aceofarthropods2597]

Yes! Homestuck is unironically one of the best things i've read, and i don't understand why people hate it so much

[@trash_irl3314]

@@baltofarlander2618 what

[@fakenayhn]

@@baltofarlander2618 what

[@Vincekun]

just had a cool thought to describe something, "Dave and Rose were reborn in the fires of two dying universes"

[@CoolerXavier]

The worst part about Homestuck being a genius masterpiece is how stupid it is, and how much I don't care about the stupidity and love it anyway.

[@JetBoxSuper]

Who else's favorite part is the Snowman Spades duel?

[@CJCroen1393]

+JetBox (raises hand)

[@BatailleRapTishort]

bruh. jade going god tier

[@卡阿-l9j]

memememememe emehgerd i loooooooove taht part and da music x~x

[@anon_is_typing]

+JetBox Yes. Very much yes. Especially the music! I love Flare, and it's kind of disappointing that the cut version doesn't have those amazing piano runs :/

[@Anonemus7]

Ova here.

[@jakobrosander2196]

Thirteen. They're all thirteen year olds. This comic was so fucked up, glad I read it

[@jakewarren2369]

i think that Cascade is the most memerable bit of Homestuck (took me MONTHS to decide)

[@matthiasblachowski5479]

What about What pumpkin?

[@birbddhaGodOfBirbs]

Really? For me it's what happens right after *he is already here*

[@Templarfreak]

For me, Make Her Pay is a very very close second.

[@horrorfan117]

Personally I’m torn between John. Rise up. and Jade: Enter

[@__-wc5zn]

I think the first page is the most iconic and memorable

[@zoedoesart814]

how to stop a meteor from colliding with earth: get god tier jade

[@santiagosalas7088]

Kanaya Maryam or becsprite

[@Luhmero]

Kanaya Maryam but if it collides, we get [S]: Collide you want that don't you?

[@zoedoesart814]

hOLY FUKIN SHITU

[@ieatgarbage8771]

Kanaya Maryam but don't you need to get a meteor to hit Earth to get godtier Jade?

[@philtrash2303]

i think its a little late to stop that from happening

[@eppigraceless4240]

ten years of the slideshow that broke the internet. Happy cascade day, lads, and fuck cascade for giving me unreasonably high standards for climactic scenes in literally anything.

[@puzzle_1279]

Just noticed that jade becomes the witch of space at 4:13

[@Technodreamer]

SWEET CATCH!

[@godlyvex5543]

She was already the witch of space, she just obtained the god tier

[@uberfreak2]

@@godlyvex5543 Dog tier

[@shike5415]

Oh fuck hussie

[@goomygaming980]

Spades Slick shoots the bullet at 6:12 as well.

[@liamwhite3522]

Sn wman versus Spades Me: We already know the victor of this fight. Jack can't kill her, or the universe will end. SS: *shoots Sn wman* Me: Wat.

[@CJCroen1393]

+Liam White Hussie has said that Slick was trying to kill himself along with her.

[@platenoise256]

@@CJCroen1393 basically suicide 8ball

[@LatteSR]

you mean suicide 8all

[@cactusc9519]

which also kinda lines up with bec jack noir casting red miles, because the universe frog was also kinda him

[@TheProfessorAO69]

Tfw I understand what's going on.

[@yellyokocactifax2106]

me too, and im still on act 5!

[@Weshwey_]

One does not simply "Understand Homestuck"

[@yellyokocactifax2106]

+Yocool13's Channel i do

[@Weshwey_]

stacy cook You THINK you do

[@yellyokocactifax2106]

i KNOW i do :D i read the final update and i understand it though im still on trickster mode :b

[@Arcelux]

I don't care what anyone says. This is artsy as fuck. The only people that ruined Homestuck was it's own fanbase.

[@obamakiske]

homestuck’s fanbase hit hussie with a massive truck and he retaliated with the worst of homestuck as a comeback

[@PlainsofGrey]

i highly agree with that

[@bimbonationalism]

So fn true

[@coven3597]

This flash still gives me chills...

[@aykrivwassup]

Bookmarks! 0:11 Title Card 0:20-ish John defends the Beat Mesa from monsters during the Scratch 0:52 Bec Noir mourns over Jade and releases the Red Miles 1:50 The Red Miles appear in the future (2422) 2:03 WQ and WK reunite 2:21: Bec Noir takes Jade to her Quest Bed 2:53: History of Jade's Island 3:01: Bec Noir Emerges 3:25 Bec Noir Appears to PM and AR 3:32 The Battle Begins: PM and AR vs. Bec Noir 3:35 Blowing Up the Stations 3:50 AR is Killed 4:00 EMPTY 4:20 ReaWAKEn. 4:46 The Derse Dreamers, the Draconian Dignitary, and The Tumor 5:00 The Sacrificial Slabs 5:10 The Tumor Released 5:24 The Red Tube (Universe B) 5:35 The Blue Tube (Universe A) 5:46 The Duel: Spades Slick vs. Snowman 6:16 Snowman Shot 6:47 Jade's Revival Begins 7:35 Meteors Pelt the Battlefield 8:02 Dog Tier Jade: The Witch of Space (Jade: Ascend.) 8:33 The Escape Plan Begins 9:13 Scratch Complete 9:19 PM mourns over WV 9:25 The White Queen's Ring 9:34 The Great Escape 10:05 45 Seconds Remaining 10:10 The Part Where Everything Is Happening At Once (PM: Prototype) 10:22 The Window of Escape 10:38 The Most Important Character In Homestuck 10:50 S u c k e r s . 11:00 The Reset 11:28 Aradia and (Half-Ghost) Sollux at the Green Sun 11:55 (Half-Blind) Sollux Boosts The Meteor 12:06 Bec Blanche Appears! (PM Prototyped) 12:19 Dave and Rose: Ascend. (The Knight of Time and The Seer of Light) 12:45 Bec Blanche Fights Back 13:00 The Ship Escapes the Scratch 13:22 The Damaged Curtains Close

[@julianguerrero1801]

This comment actually helped me to understand what was going on better .

[@elliejohnson5948]

god fuckinh bless u man

[@TORchic1]

Today is the 10th Anniversary of [S]Cascade. I still remember this night so vividly. What an amazing way to end Act 5 Act 2.

[@Glacidon]

And that was the last anyone ever saw of Aimless renegade

[@angel-ts1lz]

Even fucking Serenity got more screentime than Aimless Renegade.

[@bingus1201]

+Rapid Rapster Twinkly herbert

[@santiagosalas7088]

WHYYYYY

[@valmakesvids3952]

well, maybe that's why he's the AIMLESS renegade haha *thinks of his permanent death and sobs quietly*

[@aperson8687]

At this point, he was technically Armaments Regent, the last we saw of Aimless Renegade was a while ago, and the last we saw of Authority Regulator was even longer ago.

[@edenrav]

12:56 It was on this moment that Jack knew, he fucked up.

[@reneablackheart9563]

My headcanon is that Homestuck is just john's fever dream after eating too much cake.

[@imhereandimqueer1265]

the better newgrounds breaker

[@StellaStarfall]

You know what I’ve always found incredible? That moment when PM comes hunting down Jack, and passes through the station with the ring on, and Jack just turns around. You can see in Jack’s eyes when he spots her, he’s _terrified._ PM, now overflowing with rage because her friends just died, now has nearly limitless power, and she will never ever stop until she hunts him down. He may be the Archagent of Derse, but even he couldn’t plan for this.

[@aTF2player]

you cannot miles the red escape.

[@GSPV33]

How do you plan on HEARING me when I am ALREADY STOPPED?

[@SatansFire]

"Recorded for those who don't have access to flash, are still unable to view the flash (unlikely)," Ohhhhh how times have changed

[@kylebear8101]

Fun fact: I’m the Knight of Space. I have no one to help me with the frogs. My team is doomed

[@aradia9726]

Knight of space gang

[@timestopMachinist]

in card games, one eyed jacks are wild cards. same here.

[@vamp1306]

YOU--

[@timestopMachinist]

Sal the Commenter just when you thought the puns didn't go any deeper

[@neonal18]

It is over. The Gigapause has come to an end. Time to celebrate.

[@teensierkitty4214]

past you has no idea what was to happen for the october 25th update i envy past you

[@rugrat222]

5uperbl4zed i k n o w r i g h t i h a v e b e e n c r y i n g f o r y e a r s o v e r i t

[@teensierkitty4214]

5 hours of straight crying

[@neonal18]

5uperbl4zed I envy past me too

[@ishallkillall]

Yea then [S] Game Over happens

[@Heyitsmehyuppp]

You know, when Jade reached God teir, that Davesprite was thinking "thats hot"

[@AmyTheJawsTerminator]

He was actually amazed. Insert space joke here.

[@CherryNobody]

Burn this thread with fire. Burn it.

[@Spiney09]

Isn’t it interesting that every person Jack leaves alive end up contributing to his defeat?

[@anonymoushedgehog1342]

there is truly no feeling comparable to that of watching [s] cascade for the very first time and its still just as awesome when rewatching it

[@dachel683]

Watching it rn what the fuck is going on

[@OneColdRepublican]

I can't believe Homestuck broke TWO MORE WEBSITES since then. Happy 10/20 everyone!

[@darwinwatterson4568]

1:45 when the guitars do the fade in, this chord progression makes me cry idk why that part in particular makes me feel that way, maybe because it's the first time you see the exiles and knowing how something that long ago that was put on hold can possibly fit back into the story is incredible. unbelievable

[@SherlockKittyOuttake]

I don't know why, but this makes me sob every time I watch it. It's truly beautiful. I know it's weird to get attached to fictional characters but...they've come so far :,) Homestuck started when the kids were 13. And now, in 2014, they're going to be turning 18. How crazy is that? I love Homestuck, it is so inspirational and It's just one of those life changing things that some people don't understand.

[@penaltycard2576]

4 years on and I feel the same thing.

[@nubesloc4s]

AMEN

[@weirdrabbitgirl]

It’s wild having KZbin auto play me into this, 11 years later, and rewatching it out of context, realizing how wholly inscrutable this is to anyone outside the fandom, yet how incredibly contextualized each of these little vignettes were. There’s SO MUCH going on, but by this point we all understood every bit perfectly, even if you had to rewatch it 2-3 times because it’s ‘blink and you’ll miss it’. It’s baffling how well the flash animations could climax the writing of converging storylines together like this into one explosive conclusion or turn of events, and then you’d pop out the other side back into static webcomics, and it had this feeling of ‘what the fuck happens now?’ in a way that felt like it mirrored how the characters would be feeling incredibly well. It was downright jarring.

[@rosePetrichor]

Fuck, I know everyone talks about Jack expanding the borders with Red Miles, but that visual effect of the scrolling ornate wallpaper in the background showing up as Flare kicks in at 4:40 is just magnificent

[@paradoxxis8612]

The whole border effect thing in that part is amazing - shifting to a picture of Derse, to the colors of the sacrificial slab, to the colors of the tumor, to the colors of the universes, how blue slowly starts to fill up the screen when it zooms in on Universe A, and the background effects for the standoff on the roof. It's just perfection.

[@BriAngel476]

happy 10th birthday cascade i feel old as shit

[@notofmybusiness]

Andrew was ages, AGES ahead of his time. Thank you Homestuck for changing my life

[@CuddleFish124]

Dude it’s been SO LONG since this page came out, and I STILL get chills every time I watch this.

[@kapibara2175]

I know right…

[@JasperBun]

This was peak homestuck

[@CloverNoir]

It's November of 2016 and this still blows my mind everytime I see it.

[@santiagosalas7088]

Nova Fox i just watched 1 week ago and ive already watched it like 7 times

[@DragonbornCanid]

Januari 2017, still blowing me away

[@CloverNoir]

2017 Im not a homestuck fan anymore Still blows my mind

[@Reshimin]

July 2017 Still blow my mind and still Homestuck Trash

[@savannahadams1044]

August 22 2017 and im still here (what am i doing with my life)

[@keava]

i just got to say god tier dave in this cutscene looks like a 6 year old dressed up for halloween

[@ЕкатеринаГлускина]

And it all started with a game.

[@higztv1166]

привет

[@Faraday1056]

flash is loosin support at the end of this year(2020) so we gotta archive these before they are gone forever

[@annaseo2236]

I can't believe it's 2020 and [s] Cascade still manages to make me emotional watching this... the homestuck never really leaves you, does it.

[@allysonwonderland9742]

Homestuck was so ahead of it’s time man

[@porchcollapse8612]

merry cascade day

[@XxXThiccoModeXxX]

the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents homestuck again

[@laurnborne3830]

example?

[@XxXThiccoModeXxX]

@@laurnborne3830 newgrounds died again

[@sunbakedtomato]

it took me like.. 8 years to even realize what jack had did (the whole time hijinxs always confused the hell out of me) dude is one crafty bastard.

[@kittyelgato4246]

Okay but... what did he exactly do? I read this webcomic like 10 years ago and I still can't understand it ;-;

[@s4turnn524]

he was the archagent for a reason ig

[@chickensoup1312]

yep, still peak fiction

[@souji5340]

but for real every time I re-read the comic and watch this animation...I get goosebumps. plus the musical accompaniment is simply stunning

[@valmetcat8042]

I just love the confrontation between Snowman and Spades Slick the music and the animation. Hussie did not have to go that hard for these characters but he did

[@remyremy5720]

I'm just going to share this First time I was watching this, about a week ago, my phone paused right at 10:49 when the screen read "Suc" and I was laughing so hard and = all emotion that I would have felt about this entire scene vanished and became immature laughter because Suc

[@KyrieFortune]

I have nailed Dave and Rose going Godtier on exactly midnight, happy new year and have a bloody good 28th birthday Egbert

[@cornjeebus]

That "S u c k e r s" gets me every time. Played like fiddle!

[@אורוידןפלד-י3ק]

You know scratch never says that the tumor will destroy the green sun, he says it could but never outright says it will, to keep with his no lying rule.

[@Fragmentsinfractals488]

"You were doing more story writing again".

[@kokodrove]

The music while rose and dave ascend still gives me the chills

[@tele_dare8225]

“It’s so crowded in here my wings can’t fit- oh, that’s better” -Jack noir.

[@verdantViridity]

Kids these days will never know what it was like with Flash, seeing this for the first time and it gets to the Red Miles

[@Roseknight888]

agreed, the effect is a little preserved in the video but its not quite the same

[@bananacat3109]

As a 14-year-old who read Homestuck from February to May 2020, yes. More people my age need to read Homestuck.

[@vanessa9815]

@@bananacat3109 i love your casey pfp

[@allie6877]

happy [S] Cascade day

[@Gumball-wi3er]

Remember when Jadesprite was a cowardly crybaby and Davesprite was the cool kid? Remember when Jade thought that being Knight of time was better than Witch of space? *Ahaha, hah.*

[@gabrielbruno5062]

God tier Jade is OP.

[@Jadez1207]

Well one tends to be OP after becoming a literal god, Jade being the most OP

[@plasma9706]

A fully realized Witch of Space with the powers of a First Guardian, thanks to Jadesprite. Fuck yeah, she's overpowered.

[@cactusc9519]

good witch best deity