things were so different back then. Rose gave off a kind of "Mandy from Grim adventures of billy and mandy" vibe, John seemed a little more serious and less clueless, and Jade always seemed to know what was happening. they all turned out so different by the end...
Am I the only one who loves the fact that the entry items and tasks are all things that are associated with beginnings? John bites an apple, as obvious Genesis symbolism. Rose has to smash a glass bottle, like how one christens a ship's maiden voyage. Dave had to wait for an egg to hatch, as in, wait for something to be born. And Jade had to break open a pinata, usually an invitation to begin one's festivities.
I think there's also a different symbolism. For Rose bottle symbolises her "Mother's" alcoholism and her frustration with the addiction, she destroys the bottle in act of independence. Egg represents Dave getting out of the shadow of his "BRO" and "Growing his own wings, getting out of BRO's shadow". For jade i think the symbolism is quite obvious, the tradition of family to stuff the dead and leave them as decorations, i think she goes against this quirkiness. For John, i think apple obviously symbolises genesis, but in a way that turns his life into a blank slate. John is very gullible and ate serpent's fruit, witht the original sin he committed to creation of the perfect loop.
I showed this flash to a friend, explained it to him, and told him it was Homestuck. He said he would check it out and I'm like, "Yes!" Seriously, it's hard to get people into it when there's nothing that makes them want to read it.
TV Tropes brought me here eventually. After like three years since I first saw the page and realized it was even more convoluted than the others, I actually read it for the first time about two months ago because I realized no-one was posting anything interesting in /tg/quest anymore. Looks like Jade and Jane are actually the only ones who make it.
+Killer Cake I'm getting sooo many people into homestuck. I've been reading for 2 months on and off and I've gotten 3 people into it. Getting all the people into it. All the people.
Was easy for me. My friend is a huge fan of comics, manga and all things nerdy, so I just showed him some homestuck music to his tastes, told him what homestuck was and done.
This is one of my all-time favorite songs out of this comic. This is so freaking intense and continually blows my mind. They all are thrown into a world where they are faced with difficult decisions, living, decisions with severe repercussions, and assuming a great role which they may or may not survive. But this is only the beginning.
i love this flash. when i first saw it i watched it 3 times. i got so excited. it seems so trivial in comparison to recent events, but it was and still is a really amazing part of the comic.
2:34 - 3:01 is my all-time favorite part of the entire homestuck soundtrack. It begins with a simple but effective riff, starting off strong with a nice melody. But with every measure up until 2:47, a new instrument or louder bass is added, building the intensity of the scene. After 2:47, the building of the intensity stops, but the song keeps going. So you just get to reel in the awe of how loud and insane the song has gotten. Until at 2:58, everything culminates in this massive burst of every instrument playing the same chord at once. I fucking love this song in case you haven’t noticed lol
I am in love at how Homestuck seamlessly makes all these events culminate at once for these videos. Rose's entering is done so perfectly here. She knows _exactly_ what to do now an is so ready, and Dave's mistakes (because he has no idea what he's doing yet) only hinder her. She just dives off that waterfall like there's no tomorrow, because she know her Kernelsprite's gonna be there now! She's prepared all she can to enter Sburbia and that's awesome.
This really shows how much homestuck has changed, I'm on ACT 6 ACT 3, and this feels so so much different. I will now classify Acts 1, 2, 3 and 4 to be like a different arc or something
Just watched this for the first time in over five years and it still feels just as compelling, as dramatic, as tense, as incredibly impactful as it did when I first read the comic. That transition to John for the last refrain always made me pump my fist and cheer. Now, the better half of a decade later - it's no different.
***** I was going to agree with Jude here but then you provided proof. Not many people do so and its amazing you did. I am glad I know this information now!
It's not, actually. All of the MS Paint Adventures stories and panels are drawn in Photoshop, with the sole exception of the very first page of Jailbreak, which was made in MS Paint. It's meant to look like MS Paint's pixelated style, though, hence the name "MS Paint Adventures" for the website.
A long time ago someone drew a picture of Sollux and I loved it. They told me about homestuck and I forgot about it. A few years later, a friend told me about homestuck and I tried reading it but couldn't get passed naming John. A year later some of my favorite cosplayers on youth e made homestuck videos. I looked it up on RUclips and found a reading if it. I put it on and... Now I can't stop xD that was a few years ago. Haven't finished it yet, but planning to
I’m like 4000 pages in, every troll is an asshole except for Tavros, they are just all assholes, Aradia and Tavros were the only nice ones, it feels like every page is just filler, the trolls just got to the medium in like 1 page
Yeah, tbh the comic could’ve ended with Cascade and I would’ve been perfectly satisfied. Adventure and chaos was always where Homestuck shined the brightest! Meanwhile, although the relationship drama was reasonably believable in its execution, it dragged on for far too long and really took the wind out of the comic’s sails. I honestly kinda wish Hussie had time-skipped the years spent traveling to the alpha kids session, the pacing and vibes would’ve stayed consistent and the exhausting drama wouldn’t have taken over the story’s focus.
I've never gotten far past this in Homestuck (and tbh I didn't understand a lot of what led up to it, since I was being forced to read it by a friend even though I was falling asleep), but it doesn't surprise me that even people who've read the whole thing still consider this one of their favourite songs from it. It's so good.
I'm looking back on this and I almost tear up seeing these kids who I've watched grow up back when they most they had to think about was the next Nick Cage flick or what they were gunna upload for SBaHJ. So much has happened and they've all developed in unimaginable ways to defeat the impossible. Hiveswap looks promising, and I hope and pray that it leaves as much of an impact and has just as much of a compelling story about growing up as Homestuck did.
Remember when we thought Jack was a huge problem? OH HAS STUFF CHANGED But none the less this flash and cascade are just amazing,and not just the songs that play,but the events.
when homestuck wasn’t about relation ships trolls with candy canes for horns people wearing pajamas and skull people dead people scratches discs bubbles literal gods the old times where it wasn’t a confusing mess of a story
I remember this being the first flash I watched, when my older sister was reading Homestuck. I believe I was 7 or 8 at the time and now I'm 14. Needless to say, I got an earlier start than some.
Dang that whole little sequence around 1:10 with rose and dave really encapsulates what makes this thing good--at least to me And wow, 3:29 is a perfect representation of all the shit that makes me incredibly uncomfortable about homestuck! I'm glad i never read homestuck Back In The Day. Makes stuff like the Bill Cosby laptop or mentions of "ethnic weddings", none of which were meant to make me feel as uncomfortable as they do, so much easier to look at clearly than it would be if i had any nostalgia for this stuff Makes it almost a time capsule in a way
if the sburb install screen popped on my pc id lose my shit like karkat....why? who in their right mind would trigger the genocide of humanity just for the CHANCE to become god of a universe?!
!["[S] Cascade" - Homestuck EoA 5](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0Mldr4sSV4s/mqdefault.jpg)
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things were so different back then. Rose gave off a kind of "Mandy from Grim adventures of billy and mandy" vibe, John seemed a little more serious and less clueless, and Jade always seemed to know what was happening.
they all turned out so different by the end...
old comment I know but Jade only knew because she could see the future in the clouds when she was asleep
@@maltios1158 yeah i know that, still quite the personality shift from what we got in the end though.
@@TamTroll 3 years ago and you still respond? Respect
@@LaughDonk i spend too much time on my computer >_>
They really did
Am I the only one who loves the fact that the entry items and tasks are all things that are associated with beginnings?
John bites an apple, as obvious Genesis symbolism.
Rose has to smash a glass bottle, like how one christens a ship's maiden voyage.
Dave had to wait for an egg to hatch, as in, wait for something to be born.
And Jade had to break open a pinata, usually an invitation to begin one's festivities.
YOU ARE RIGHTT
didnt even notice
I think there's also a different symbolism.
For Rose bottle symbolises her "Mother's" alcoholism and her frustration with the addiction, she destroys the bottle in act of independence.
Egg represents Dave getting out of the shadow of his "BRO" and "Growing his own wings, getting out of BRO's shadow".
For jade i think the symbolism is quite obvious, the tradition of family to stuff the dead and leave them as decorations, i think she goes against this quirkiness.
For John, i think apple obviously symbolises genesis, but in a way that turns his life into a blank slate. John is very gullible and ate serpent's fruit, witht the original sin he committed to creation of the perfect loop.
Simpler times man, simpler times. Before death was even thought of in this comic. Aah, when imps where the main bad guys.
And the main boss was the modus
and we thought those times were confusing.
and then the retcon arms were introduced and...
Then Jack happened....
Oh and L.E
And the scratch...
You know a lot of things happened.
+Bacon Lordess
Simpler Janes.
Things were so much simpler then. Remember when imps were the worst of it? Remember that?
remember when the villain was the sylladex?
+Nylota Oh how ignorant we were.
I showed this flash to a friend, explained it to him, and told him it was Homestuck.
He said he would check it out and I'm like, "Yes!"
Seriously, it's hard to get people into it when there's nothing that makes them want to read it.
TV Tropes brought me here eventually. After like three years since I first saw the page and realized it was even more convoluted than the others, I actually read it for the first time about two months ago because I realized no-one was posting anything interesting in /tg/quest anymore. Looks like Jade and Jane are actually the only ones who make it.
+Killer Cake I'm getting sooo many people into homestuck. I've been reading for 2 months on and off and I've gotten 3 people into it.
Getting all the people into it.
All the people.
+Thelastxgamer all of them.
I know right.
Was easy for me. My friend is a huge fan of comics, manga and all things nerdy, so I just showed him some homestuck music to his tastes, told him what homestuck was and done.
shit i see everyone saying descend was when they devoted themselves to the huss but right when this animation began i was like "SIGN ME THE FUCK UP"
2:13 was the second where i was fucking IN
***** SAME????????
but no i agree i love act 1 like character development is my favorite thing but apparently it bores people
ikr
sold my soul to hussie when sburb started in act 1
This is one of my all-time favorite songs out of this comic. This is so freaking intense and continually blows my mind. They all are thrown into a world where they are faced with difficult decisions, living, decisions with severe repercussions, and assuming a great role which they may or may not survive. But this is only the beginning.
And then the end......
*cry*
@@rep1600 why ? 🤔
@@NefariousTomato i forgot
@@rep1600 oh, well. Thanks for responding, anyway.
This is the most “homestuck” song in my opinion simply because of it’s slow beginning and then *INTENSITY*
@@sabaaras i mean it’s basically just homestuck in a different font isn’t it /j
homestuck and dsmp are like two siblings that didn't realize each other existences.
also, there's several points in the song where it could have ended satisfyingly but instead went on to deliver an even more epic section
Remeber when the worst of it was arranging the cylladex?
remember when the sylladex was actually a thing
Yeah
Good times
the sylladex is a thing it just isn't mentioned any more
Once they strayed away from that sort of stuff, it kinda started going downhill in quality of story.
@@crunchu2361 I'm pretty sure they directly broke the rules of the sylladex
The moment where Rose jumps and the tension just implodes gives me butterflies every time
this is actually really awesome for such a silly webcomic
it gets more awesome my friend
yeah lol, i finished it a few years ago and it definitely did get better :)
i love this flash. when i first saw it i watched it 3 times. i got so excited. it seems so trivial in comparison to recent events, but it was and still is a really amazing part of the comic.
Same. I can remember thinking it looked cool and was really interesting... and then everything past act four happened.
Roma Gracelessly Gay yup, it was still complicated before that but then... Jeez
Same
2:34 - 3:01 is my all-time favorite part of the entire homestuck soundtrack.
It begins with a simple but effective riff, starting off strong with a nice melody. But with every measure up until 2:47, a new instrument or louder bass is added, building the intensity of the scene. After 2:47, the building of the intensity stops, but the song keeps going. So you just get to reel in the awe of how loud and insane the song has gotten. Until at 2:58, everything culminates in this massive burst of every instrument playing the same chord at once.
I fucking love this song in case you haven’t noticed lol
TFW Rose's unrelenting love for Jaspers and trust in him saved her and the session both...
She didn't prototype Jaspers because she loved him.
+EasyPeasyPiano Jade legit got her hyped for Sburb by telling her she could resurrect Jaspers :/
Burrito Apple Yes, she did want to revive Jaspers, but the reason was not because she loved him.
Rose do be speedrunning sburb tho
I am in love at how Homestuck seamlessly makes all these events culminate at once for these videos.
Rose's entering is done so perfectly here. She knows _exactly_ what to do now an is so ready, and Dave's mistakes (because he has no idea what he's doing yet) only hinder her. She just dives off that waterfall like there's no tomorrow, because she know her Kernelsprite's gonna be there now! She's prepared all she can to enter Sburbia and that's awesome.
The part where Rose breaks the bottle just in time to escape the meteor gives me chills every time.
This really shows how much homestuck has changed, I'm on ACT 6 ACT 3, and this feels so so much different.
I will now classify Acts 1, 2, 3 and 4 to be like a different arc or something
Acts 1-4 are the beta kids. act 5 are the trolls. Acts 6+ are the alpha kids
@billy rob yes I know thank you this was kind of 2 years ago
Forget Minecraft, this is the best game ever.
I demand this to be real.
watch john rise up
watch collide
Hero_of_Legend Dude, this comment is, what, a year ago? Gigapause hasn't even ended yet.
Dude,the gigapause did end.
Hero_of_Legend i'm sorry, i mean "wasn't". Past tense.
Ah this. This is the exact moment where I was hooked, right when i first clicked on this flash after all the weird shit i'd already seen : that music.
There has never been something as simultaneously silly and beautiful as homestuck
Just watched this for the first time in over five years and it still feels just as compelling, as dramatic, as tense, as incredibly impactful as it did when I first read the comic. That transition to John for the last refrain always made me pump my fist and cheer. Now, the better half of a decade later - it's no different.
I can't believe this is made in ms freaking paint.
***** Um, MS PAINT(duh) adventures? it is all made out of ms paint.Hussie is just really, really good at it.
***** I was going to agree with Jude here but then you provided proof. Not many people do so and its amazing you did. I am glad I know this information now!
Yes it's an artifact title.
It's not, actually.
All of the MS Paint Adventures stories and panels are drawn in Photoshop, with the sole exception of the very first page of Jailbreak, which was made in MS Paint. It's meant to look like MS Paint's pixelated style, though, hence the name "MS Paint Adventures" for the website.
It wouldn't be named 'Photoshop adventures.'
A long time ago someone drew a picture of Sollux and I loved it. They told me about homestuck and I forgot about it. A few years later, a friend told me about homestuck and I tried reading it but couldn't get passed naming John. A year later some of my favorite cosplayers on youth e made homestuck videos. I looked it up on RUclips and found a reading if it. I put it on and... Now I can't stop xD that was a few years ago. Haven't finished it yet, but planning to
Hey that's nice, have you finished it yet? :)
@@miruki5568 nah. Fonr have time
How about now?
You did it?
Did you finish it now?
God, I miss when HS was all about this wondrous sense of adventure and not troll relationship drama. The early Acts really are something incredible.
Finally, someone says it
Act five really removed allot of what I loved from homestuck
Even the trolls are at their best when theyre killing each other and scheming and fucking everything up.
I mean there’s plenty of that in act 5 act 2.
I’m like 4000 pages in, every troll is an asshole except for Tavros, they are just all assholes, Aradia and Tavros were the only nice ones, it feels like every page is just filler, the trolls just got to the medium in like 1 page
Yeah, tbh the comic could’ve ended with Cascade and I would’ve been perfectly satisfied. Adventure and chaos was always where Homestuck shined the brightest! Meanwhile, although the relationship drama was reasonably believable in its execution, it dragged on for far too long and really took the wind out of the comic’s sails. I honestly kinda wish Hussie had time-skipped the years spent traveling to the alpha kids session, the pacing and vibes would’ve stayed consistent and the exhausting drama wouldn’t have taken over the story’s focus.
STRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!!!!!!
i never realized LOWAS showed here for 1 sec
It was at this exact point when I became hooked on homestuck
When SBURB was loading one of the things it said was "stitching mirrors" heh.
Why is that funny?
+Ryan Paulson (RealityUnhinged) You can't stich mirrors, silly.
wait
are the mirrors the fourth walls
This is before the Retcon.
Those were the days.
I've never gotten far past this in Homestuck (and tbh I didn't understand a lot of what led up to it, since I was being forced to read it by a friend even though I was falling asleep), but it doesn't surprise me that even people who've read the whole thing still consider this one of their favourite songs from it. It's so good.
I'm looking back on this and I almost tear up seeing these kids who I've watched grow up back when they most they had to think about was the next Nick Cage flick or what they were gunna upload for SBaHJ. So much has happened and they've all developed in unimaginable ways to defeat the impossible.
Hiveswap looks promising, and I hope and pray that it leaves as much of an impact and has just as much of a compelling story about growing up as Homestuck did.
Rose:tfw your shitty co player scatters all the equipment all over the place in a dire situation
This is in a playlist called children’s music 😭
convert the children to homestuck
if the timer is ticking down in real time, does that mean rose is actually smashing the bottle in slow motion
nostalgia
remember when hs was like this
remember when it used to be made to look like it was made in MS Paint and not an anime studio
remember when it was just homestuck 1?
This was when the story truly kicked off
behind the daunting feel of >10.000 pages in homestuck and confusion in the story.....there's pure epicness just waiting for you
Remember when we thought Jack was a huge problem?
OH HAS STUFF CHANGED
But none the less this flash and cascade are just amazing,and not just the songs that play,but the events.
GO BACK IN YOUR FRIDGE
NO
Dude keep the spoilers down I just wanted to see this again after watching it and look the comments to know what people think about it smh
@@diego5079 come on, first rule of homestuck is that you don't look down into the comments without finishing homestuck first
Jack was a fucking huge problem untill the end
I keep having dreams where i'm at the eclipse and the visions keep coming true. prepare for the end of the world
aight then
Seer of Light
Frankly this would fare great for a trailer.
Remember when the biggest problem were the arms?
И инвентарь
Acts 1-3 were the best hands down so underrated ong frfr
Princess Cathulu saves the day!
Just realized how random this video is if you don't know Homestuck
я всё ещё здесь и снова перепрохожу хоумстак 🥹 пересматриваю все видики чтобы насладиться их качеством и перемотать когда удобно
when homestuck wasn’t about relation ships trolls with candy canes for horns people wearing pajamas and skull people dead people scratches discs bubbles literal gods the old times where it wasn’t a confusing mess of a story
I remember this being the first flash I watched, when my older sister was reading Homestuck. I believe I was 7 or 8 at the time and now I'm 14. Needless to say, I got an earlier start than some.
happy eighteenth!
happy 20th!
This was one of my favourite parts :D
Amazing speedrun
Ah, sweet memories. Good times.
Still my favorite flash.
Oooooh, the nostalgia
Ooooh, the late comment.
Dang that whole little sequence around 1:10 with rose and dave really encapsulates what makes this thing good--at least to me
And wow, 3:29 is a perfect representation of all the shit that makes me incredibly uncomfortable about homestuck! I'm glad i never read homestuck Back In The Day. Makes stuff like the Bill Cosby laptop or mentions of "ethnic weddings", none of which were meant to make me feel as uncomfortable as they do, so much easier to look at clearly than it would be if i had any nostalgia for this stuff
Makes it almost a time capsule in a way
I don't get it what's wrong with the Bill Cosby laptop lol
@@TheAdvertisement he's assaulted women
@@codiez Ok, so Bill Cosby's a bad guy. What's wrong with a dumb laptop with him on it though?
yeah, final, suuuuuure
if the sburb install screen popped on my pc id lose my shit like karkat....why? who in their right mind would trigger the genocide of humanity just for the CHANCE to become god of a universe?!
Uh... Me? Just bring em all back when you're a god lol.
This has to be still one of my favorites. Homestuck is so awesome.
This is really awesome. And... this is my official theme. My theme is now this song. I have decided.
I'm on act 4 and holy shit this part was just plain awesome
i got a strange feeling when this part came on
Man why did these kids have to grow up ;-;
gonna show this to my friend who read act 1 and 2 in physical form :)
“Billy Cosby noooooo!”
-John Egbert 2009
math tests be like:
oh my gosh the memories 🥲
Too bad Homestuck ended so soon. I wish I knew what happened to all of them :o(
This is by far my favorite flash
Musiquinha linda
Why tf are so many crows in my room
There is a Orphan Tears reference on 1:48 lmao I just realised
STRIIIIIIIDEEEEEEERRRRR!!!!!!!!!! moment
Still, so fucking epic!!
awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
STRIDERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
This is...EPIC!! I like it! :D
these animations make literally no sense if you have no idea what homestuck is lol.
How many of you would play sburb even tho it would destroy the world
The entire fandom, probably.
Echo 466 Me
me
i am... beyond confused with what was just happening
sooooo good
I'm just pretending homestuck 2 never happened
Watching this makes me want to reread HS...
Yeah Our Pictures Are Same But Not The Outfits
I no they are kinda tame compared to the rest of it but i still love the first 4 acts
Strider. STRIDER. GOD DAMN IT STOP DRAWING CRAPPY ART!
jasperspritte is boss
Anybody here reading Homestuck^2?
OH my fucking GOD THAT WAS SO COOL MIND BLOWN🤯🤯🤯 [S] Enter
IT'S GONNA HAPPEND.
TOMORROW.
f
This should be Undertale OST
I mean, a Homestuck song does have a version in undertale.. MeGaLoVania, or as you uters call it, OST 100: Megalovania