Since I'm awake at this hour anyway, I might as well claim the prize. Hussie did some Q&A on his
Tumblr log. He opened his Ask Box at about 5:30AM East Coast time, and got over a thousand replies in less than four minutes. There's three very very important ones.
First, he's apparently not fucking joking about John and Jade (and Dave/Nanna/Jasper sprites) spending three years in narrative limbo to bring them in line with the Reset Earth players. I can't wait to see how that will work out.
But the astounding ones are-
A6 will probably still be shorter than A5. But it could wind up being close.
It all depends on the approach, and generally, how leisurely I am about its construction. As a rule, the more leisurely the pace, the more diversions and detours and experimentation and silly messing around there is, and the more it all expands. If I stuck to a “just the facts” approach, it would be quite a bit shorter than A5. But then, that’s actually harder. Because that’s compressing major story hurdles, major productions like animations and stuff, into a smaller amount of time. It’s let’s conducive to steady consistent output. Economy, for me, for this project, in many ways is MORE difficult. So it’s more likely it’ll stretch out, and be roughly on par with A5.
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If A6 is as long as A5, then an upper bound of 1.5 more years.
If A7 is ___ then an upper bound of ___.
Hussie has always been terribly myopic about predicting his own output, usually in the way of underestimating himself. Famously took a "slow week" and posted eighty pages in five days. Intended to wrap up Act 5.2 by April 13th, wound up in late October. Now, by his own estimation, Act 6 could be "roughly on par with" Act 5, which depending on whether that's including .1 and .2, and the two month production time for Cascade, is about 10 to 16 months. Not including the Act 7 ending arc. And that's his own guess, from his own appreciation of his working speed.
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That's about as much confirmation as I need for Homestuck easily blowing deep into
2013.
I read Problem Sleuth from about midway to the end day. I ignored Homestuck until around John leaving his bedroom. Since then, I've been checking the nearly daily updates nearly daily for now more than two years. I've written fucking fanfic. The idea that I could be eagerly reading or even awaiting the epilogue come the holidays of 2013 is just a little scary at this point. I really don't know if I have the energy to keep giving a shit that long, nor do I know if I want to.
bluhbluhthisisgarbage asked:
What do Heart powers do?
Maybe we’ll find out later??????
For now, let’s say they make you extremely likely to get beaten to death by a rowdy juggalo.
Well, maybe I do.
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