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[technicallyAdventurer]

The little dancing Hussie made me laugh more than I should have.

[Darkmere]

Okay the shit-shooting update was more satisfying than I expected. I kinda like down-to-earth Dave a lot more than Dirk's pile of issues. That reunion should be fun.

Aradia has his wallet. She got it when Cal crashed near her house, remember?

I missed something, then. I remember John captchaloging the Tumor and the wallet finally ending up on Derse's moon with the Tumor in it... though re-watching Cascade, DD only had the card and not the wallet. My brain... it's full of bees. BEEEEEES!

It probably didn't help that I ragequit the comic for like two years, but damned if I'm taking another two weeks to re-read it all again.

[Rolan7]

I can't breathe I love this potato so much oh jegus
Dave and Karkat really are the best pair of characters, it's great to John reacting to them.  Or, Karkat reacting to John reacting to Dave's reaction to 3 years of glorious Alternian culture.

[Bumber]

Wait...

When did Jade get back together with the troll group? I don't remember seeing her tearfully reuniting with Dave, Rose, Karkat, or Jake. Has she been asleep like that since joining them?

I think she was all 'grimbark' as before, but this time Vriska was around to use her mind control powers (which causes loss of consciousness for humans.) This is why she shouldn't be awoken right now.

Jade was still able to place the mind control tiara on Jane before being knocked out, it would seem.

[Sergarr]

Spoiler: This is the longest Karkat single sentence in the comic, and it's beautiful (click to show/hide)

KARKAT: THE GOD DAMNED BLITHER OF TACTLESS NINCOMPOOPS, HOW IT CONTINUES TO HAUNT MY WRETCHED EARS. THE WORDS SPILL OVER THE SIDE OF THIS ENCHANTED METAL FROG DISCUS, LIKE A BABBLING SPRING IN A MYTHICAL FOREST GOVERNED BY A GUILD OF GOSSIP-HUNGRY LOBOTOMY HOBBITS. THIS DELUGE OF WORDS, LEAKED FROM THE INCONTINENT CREVICES OF TWO BRAINLESS GUSHING YAMMERTWATS, IT OVERFLOWETH, OH HOW IT OVERFLOWETH, SOGGING MY GRAY, PRACTICAL PAIR OF PANTS, THE LEGGINGS OF A SIMPLE MAN. A HUMBLE MAN. IT THEN CONTINUES ITS DOWNWARD TRICKLE, DOUSING MY UNREMARKABLE SHIRT, THE SERVICEABLE GARMENT OF YOUR AVERAGE ALTERNIAN "JOE", CHILLING THE FRAIL TORSO BENEATH, A PATHETIC DUFFEL OF MEAT WRACKED WITH HEAVY SOBS, SOBS CAUSED BY WORDS, WORDS WHICH CONTINUE TO DRIP. AND SLEUCE. AND SPILL. THREATENING TO DROWN ME. PLEDGING TO. PROMISING! AND YET I WILL NOT DROWN. WHY WON'T I DROWN? PLEASE LET ME DROWN. LET ME DROWN SO THE WORDS WILL BE NO MORE!

[TherosPherae]

Hussie's feeding the shippers.

This is how you know something is about to go wrong and everyone's about to die horribly. Again.

[Putnam]

were there really john spade terezi shippers though

[Trapezohedron]

i guess there will be now.

[Sergarr]

were there really john spade terezi shippers though

Judging by homestuck reddit, there were at least two.

[penguinofhonor]

.

[Rolan7]

Well no they aren't "just friends".  They're obviously deep in diamonds
That's my interpretation, anyway.  Particularly with Dave really overtly calming Karkat at the beginning there.  I think Dave has just sorta accepted that pale relationships ARE relationships, and that he's deeply involved with another guy, and that he doesn't actually have a problem with that in general.  That all his joking about gayness was just that, jokes (and insecurity).

So he hasn't "turned gay" he's just down with the quadrant system and open to both genders, psychologically.  He might not actually get flushed for other guys.  Kinda like how Kanaya only flushes for girls but is/was Karkat's moirail.

(Karkat is kinda a moirail-slut btw)

[Bauglir]

Spoiler: This is the longest Karkat single sentence in the comic, and it's beautiful (click to show/hide)

KARKAT: THE GOD DAMNED BLITHER OF TACTLESS NINCOMPOOPS, HOW IT CONTINUES TO HAUNT MY WRETCHED EARS. THE WORDS SPILL OVER THE SIDE OF THIS ENCHANTED METAL FROG DISCUS, LIKE A BABBLING SPRING IN A MYTHICAL FOREST GOVERNED BY A GUILD OF GOSSIP-HUNGRY LOBOTOMY HOBBITS. THIS DELUGE OF WORDS, LEAKED FROM THE INCONTINENT CREVICES OF TWO BRAINLESS GUSHING YAMMERTWATS, IT OVERFLOWETH, OH HOW IT OVERFLOWETH, SOGGING MY GRAY, PRACTICAL PAIR OF PANTS, THE LEGGINGS OF A SIMPLE MAN. A HUMBLE MAN. IT THEN CONTINUES ITS DOWNWARD TRICKLE, DOUSING MY UNREMARKABLE SHIRT, THE SERVICEABLE GARMENT OF YOUR AVERAGE ALTERNIAN "JOE", CHILLING THE FRAIL TORSO BENEATH, A PATHETIC DUFFEL OF MEAT WRACKED WITH HEAVY SOBS, SOBS CAUSED BY WORDS, WORDS WHICH CONTINUE TO DRIP. AND SLEUCE. AND SPILL. THREATENING TO DROWN ME. PLEDGING TO. PROMISING! AND YET I WILL NOT DROWN. WHY WON'T I DROWN? PLEASE LET ME DROWN. LET ME DROWN SO THE WORDS WILL BE NO MORE!

But it's 14 sentences...

[birdy51]

Damn you Hussie! I was looking forward to a massive communication bomb...

[Sergarr]

Spoiler: This is the longest Karkat single sentence in the comic, and it's beautiful (click to show/hide)

KARKAT: THE GOD DAMNED BLITHER OF TACTLESS NINCOMPOOPS, HOW IT CONTINUES TO HAUNT MY WRETCHED EARS. THE WORDS SPILL OVER THE SIDE OF THIS ENCHANTED METAL FROG DISCUS, LIKE A BABBLING SPRING IN A MYTHICAL FOREST GOVERNED BY A GUILD OF GOSSIP-HUNGRY LOBOTOMY HOBBITS. THIS DELUGE OF WORDS, LEAKED FROM THE INCONTINENT CREVICES OF TWO BRAINLESS GUSHING YAMMERTWATS, IT OVERFLOWETH, OH HOW IT OVERFLOWETH, SOGGING MY GRAY, PRACTICAL PAIR OF PANTS, THE LEGGINGS OF A SIMPLE MAN. A HUMBLE MAN. IT THEN CONTINUES ITS DOWNWARD TRICKLE, DOUSING MY UNREMARKABLE SHIRT, THE SERVICEABLE GARMENT OF YOUR AVERAGE ALTERNIAN "JOE", CHILLING THE FRAIL TORSO BENEATH, A PATHETIC DUFFEL OF MEAT WRACKED WITH HEAVY SOBS, SOBS CAUSED BY WORDS, WORDS WHICH CONTINUE TO DRIP. AND SLEUCE. AND SPILL. THREATENING TO DROWN ME. PLEDGING TO. PROMISING! AND YET I WILL NOT DROWN. WHY WON'T I DROWN? PLEASE LET ME DROWN. LET ME DROWN SO THE WORDS WILL BE NO MORE!

But it's 14 sentences...

I don't care, there's only one KARKAT in there, and that's what counts.

[Darkmere]

This whole "quadrant" meta-commentary by Hussie is getting a bit overdone, I think.

The 4 squares are all perfectly normal human relationships, you can see them pretty much anywhere. The only difference is, trolls add the world "romance" to it and obsess about the whole thing like fumbling teenagers pretty much forever.

Dave's commentary pretty much sums up the entire system because that's how fan interpretation goes a lot of the time. Nothing about the relationships is more or less interesting than any other kind of character development, but overlaying the cultural weight of "romance" on it frontloads all this societal baggage that gets in the way and hyperinflates its importance.

It seems like Dave's speech is pretty firmly addressed to the fourth wall as much as John. Rarely if ever do people get in shouting matches about who makes the best platonic best bros, but diamonds is that same relationship with "romance" added to it, so it's now SUPER IMPORTANT because of the R-word.

tl;dr, I guess: Life would be easier if people just liked who they liked, loved who they loved, and focused more on living than appearance.

That's what the message sounds like to me, at least.