Phileas guerineau Doc Scratch made them believe they could stop Jack by destroying the source of his power, the green sun, with their tumor, and thus be freed of the web of devils they had gotten themselves into. Of course, the tumor wasn't meant to be the destroyer of the green sun, but its creator, and Doc Scratch was the one making sure the tumor would explode by setting into motion a series of events that would inevitably destroy two universes. He knew that if the universes would be destroyed and the tumor would explode, his master LE wouldn't just be summoned: he'd get the power from the green sun right from the moment he was summoned. They were mere puppets in the hands of an excellent host, who, after the outcome he had planned was inevitable, just wanted to show them that not only had he been playing with open cards all along, but that they had been those cards.
No matter how many times I listen to this, I still get chills. Especially the parts where Dave and Rose rise to god tier, and Jade literally breaks through the fourth wall. So many feels.
Here are the sites homestucks have crashed: 1. Newgrounds due to the release of [S] Cascade 2. Mspa due to the end of gigapause 3. WeLoveFine due to so many orders made by homestucks 4.CyTube during the [S] Act 7 stream Goddamnit guys.
When [S] Cascade was released, it was on newgrounds. It still is on newgrounds, but i digress. When this was released, SO MANY PEOPLE were watching it that newgrounds crashed. So this song was in the flash that broke the internet.
Kiri no Kuragari It was pretty epic but Cascade definitely takes the cake. Game Over is there with Descend and Make Her Pay My favorite animations tend to kill a lot of people
Nepeta - minepose98 It never was, nor will it ever be an "alternate" timeline. It is forever the Alpha timeline. Strictly speaking, there are now two Alpha timelines, rather than either of them becoming an offshoot.
@@lara8866 I'd love to see HS^2 be a return to form, but as is I don't think that many people like it :/ Maybe if it gets good we'll all crash the website, I don't know
I remember how I first felt when I watched this scene. I had chills running down my back and amazement in my eyes. This was the moment I knew that this wasn't just another fandom that'd be lost to the sea of time. No other fandom, no other anime, book, tv show, or game has made me feel the way I do for homestuck. Homestuck has legitmately changed me. I became more outgoing, I started drawing more, I met new friends, I became motivated for this fandom. I watched this 3 years ago. I'll never forget the ride that was homestuck. :)
+Karamanga exactly how i feel homestuck has changed me for the better i became more confident and less self destructive i became myself and know who i am now i dont feel empty or alone and homestuck encouraged me to come out of the closet because i saw how many people love and respected the same sex ships in homestuck and each time i watch this or hear this i get chills and teary eyed knowing that this one flash impacted me and how much this comic has made me happy to be here and depressed heck im even cosplaying now doing things ive never had done or discovered if i hadn't read this wonderful webcomic
I'd pay approximately $1000 (even it's the farthest seat from the concert) to see an live orchestral version of this song with the original animation in the background
I remember bawling my eyes out when Cascade was released, because it came out the day after my birthday, and I considered it the best fucking gift Hussie could give me. Still is the best fucking gift.
Observe the differences between older Homestuck flash animations such as Cascade and [S] Jack: Ascend and watch how far we've come by the time we made it to [S] Collide.
Comparing, say... Unite/Synchronize to Jack: Ascend shows that the flashes became a lot more complex, and far more efficient at showing details, to say nothing of how much more dynamic they became over time. Collide is a different beast than Cascade, but no less impressive imo. Looking back, Homestuck has very few on-screen "boss fights", there wasn't much in the way of precedent for Collide. I think that taking the route of conveying the battles symbolically, through the use of the "base sprites", actually allowed Hussie + co to inject the minute details we'd come to expect from the comic, into a flash. Momentary things, like Dirk using a Zilly Santa in the Jack fight. It also manages to go for the epic angle, during the opening segment, the closing segment, and the beginning of the Lord English segment. The first sets a sort of mythic tone: the culmination of this immense build, finally being allowed to come to a head. The use of Creata in particular, underlines what's at stake here: the creation myth itself. The end allows Hussie to have his horse and ride it, too. Sure, the bulk of the battles are conveyed through fast-paced, arcade-style, action, buuuut they're all concluded with dramatic, gorgeous, snapshots of the battles' later phases. Dave decapitating Dirk, PM winning the first Prospitian victory over Derse, )(IC being stabbed by Roxy, these are all gorgeous moments. Homestuck's all about this dualism between silly/fun content (the sprite fights), and emotionally-moving, impactful ones: the final sequence of images for each fight. This isn't to say Cascade is bad, I think it's quite good at setting up the midway climax of the multiclimactic narrative. This is very hard to do without the audience feeling like they've had something stolen from them (the end), so I commend Cascade for that. I just think Collide is sold short a lot of the time. (Also, GAME OVER, a pretty late flash? Goddamn incredible).
Gotta say, I kinda preferred the old style. It's not any less enjoyable with how the art changed, but there's something about the originals in like act 1-3/4 that was just very unique to me--and it kinda became less unique of a style as time progressed. It was more refined, and something akin to many other webcomics (it remains unique in many aspects still, however). I liked the silly, gritty-drawn style of the old ones better, though. :P
I'm not a big fan of Collide; I think it went way longer than it needed to for what was basically just a few fight scenes. Animations like Cascade, Jack: Rise Up, and Caliborn: Enter manage to compress events and information down into a small space. They're exciting because there's stuff in them that's surprising, that slots information you already knew together into the bigger picture. Collide already had all it's contents communicated to us beforehand, we don't learn anything new, everything went down exactly as it was expected to go. Just my opinion, of coarse.
I'm up to date on Homestuck right now. I've read all 9859 pages, and this is still my favorite part of Homestuck. I don't know what it is, I just remember how I felt after seeing it and that feeling rises again in me every single time I so much as hear the soundtrack. It's just the way the beautiful artwork and the flawless music come together in one amazing moment that makes all you've read worth it. I just... Wow.
Mr. Otherguy Game Over was fun I got to see the vengeance for the feels Gamzee caused me when he killed Nepeta I've suddenly realized I haven't felt crap about any other character death
Dude I love the part where literally at one point during the flash (I think it's right when jack uses the red miles) the flash window itself actually expands for the duration of the animation Sooooooo coooooooool
Apparently Friday Night Funkin' crashed Newgrounds. The last time this happened was nearly ten years ago with this Flash. History fucking repeats itself.
it's 2024. this was peak Homestuck, things got worse from here on out (literally). I still celebrate Cascade to this day, it's been almost 10 years since I first watched it.
Lots of people are praising the part where Rose and Dave enter the Green sun, but my favorite part is right before. As AR explodes the buildings, something he and PM had been planning for since hundreds of pages ago, he hesitates at Rose's bunker. He thinks about the WV, and how he would die if the building exploded. As the scene goes on, a tense theme plays in the background, and Jack kills him without hesitation. It shows that the exiles arc is over, with three out of the five of them being killed by Jack. It was a brutal moment for me, who was obsessed with those goofy robed post-apocalyptic travelers, but I really love how the scene shows just how in vain the hesitation was. Had he not resisted killing his friend, Jack would not have ruined the Troll's session. I wish the exiles got more attention before most of them died, it's sad how the narrative just... stopped focusing on them.
She* but yeah dude I agree, the exiles were awesome. I think what makes me nervous about reading act 6 is that I just know there won't be as many ticking hands of the homestuck chronology. Acts 1-5 were like 5 to 7 odd different timelines all converging into one "Cascade" of events. I just know act 6 isn't really gonna hit that high, from what i remember reading it as a kid.
I just got into Homestuck last night. I had given it a chance before and got bored at the guy basically just running around his house doing nothing. Then last night, I came across the Space Jam remix, Savior of the Slamming Jam. I found the original song, and I loved it. Then I was like, "Wait, what? That bad comic about a dude in his house has a soundtrack? I must be missing something here..." So then I found where the song came from: Cascade. I watched it. I had no idea what was going on, but I was blown away, especially by the "God Tier" girl with dog ears. Proceed to give Homestuck another try. Read it for seven hours straight. Go to work with five hours of sleep.
+Amaroq64 I remember when I really started reading, it was right after I'd gotten back from a holiday, and I was jetlagged as hella and couldn't sleep. So I ended up reading until about 2 in the morning.
I misread your comment as ben 10, like the show. I thought it was a strange pun, but also fitting due to world ending aliens being a thing in both, as well as time travel. This song makes me cry from nostalgia. Good Times.
@@armageddongirl612 that's true lol. I think they meant one specific part in early act 6 where he has a pesterlog with himself 5 minutes in the future, and the future version is really angry for apparently no reason.
Past me thought Homestuck was a price of trash. I thought it was incredibly boring and the story was way too slow. I tried it again a few months back, and now I'm here, waiting for the next update. :) It may be hard to notice, but underneath all the humor and the odd and confusing story, Homestuck is beautiful. Tracks and Flashes like Cascade really help the beauty of Homestuck break through.
Indeed! I was ignorant at first too, but I started reading about two months before the giga-pause was over, and now I love it! I can't wait for this year's April! >u
Whenever I watch this flash I remember that homestuck is amazing and beautiful. Hell even thinking about it makes me jittery and wanting to go read it again
This is a story A story of love A story of betrayal A story of loss A story of hope A story of time A story of belief A story of resilience And an Inspiration to us all
+thekaboominator1 A STORY OF... A YOUNG MAN IN HIS BEDROOM. WHO KNEW, THAT FROM A SHITTY NERD MAN STANDING LIKE AN ERECT PENIS, WOULD ONE DAY TURN TO BE A CRAZY PLOT TWIST HELL OF CRAZY BULLCRAP? -NOT SINCERELY, KARKAT.
@@balala7567 jade doesn't make things denser (the density of an object is what ultimately determines whether it becomes a black hole), she bends space. The objects don't actually become smaller, they just seem like it from the point of view of those outside of the objects.
My favorite part is around 4:13 (weird coincidence) starting with the piano and getting more instruments. The bit with Dave and Rose on Derse. Come to think of it, some of my favorite art was during that part as well.
I don't care how many years pass this song will always be the song ever. The way I always get goosebumps when the violins hit with Dave and Rose ascending? Nothing will ever give that kind of feeling every time withiut failure. Cascade had no business being such a banger. ❤
"what's your favorite song?" "▲trollkind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. to obtain something of equal value must be lost. that is alchemys first law of equivalent exchange. in those days, we really believed that to be the worlds one, and only, truth.▼" "what" "what"
I never really got into homestuck but my friend was obsessed with it. About two years ago they showed this song to me and I'm still listening to it 24/7
I love the really upbeat parts with the guitar so much, but I gotta say the part that starts at 4:25 is my absolute favorite. Has a lot of feeling to it.
I was writing a paper at 5:44 in the song and it got faster and faster I started feeling nervous and started typing really fast in coordination with the music
every so often.... I listen to homestuck for great memories... Cascade was one of the most memorable animations I've seen and I still remember the hype watching it... Damn, it's been years and I'm still in love.
i watched this while playing bedwars. it felt and was the most cool bedwars game ive ever one. it ended at the end of the song. thank you, Andrew Hussie
homestuck is officially ending in 16 days. it’s finally over. we can rest. my husband can finally return from war. my children will know their father. there will be celebrations in the streets. children born in the depths of the deepest winter will feel the warmth of summer sunlight. we are free.
+Liam White no we kidnap all the nonHomestucks and then make them read all acts then they will JOIN US muwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Ahh yes I remember... I was a lonely kid watching newgrounds animations when all of a sudden, this was released. I watched it and got interested in the stuff. Eventually, I dug up its origin to come across MS Paint Adventures. I read HomeStuck and BOOM! I became a official, certified HomeStuck. Man, this takes me back.
I didn't notice it happening until Spades shot the cue ball. Then I had to rewatch it to notice all the expert changes in the camera view. This flash is a masterpiece.
I can never read Homestuck enough. I just love all the art, the story, the music, it just makes me want to read it over and over! I am just so... ---EXCITED!
***** You're not halfway through if you haven't reached Cascade. And you're screwing up Vriska's quirk. And assumptions are a bad thing to make. And you're making a bad choice to listen to the music when every single cover to the songs has some symbolism that can spoil the plot. God help you if you've listened to Volume 9, because there is not a single sense of dramatic tension in your reading of the comic.
Ok thanks for telling me about the Vriska thing, I've been wondering if I'm getting it right lately and no, I just listen to this one because it's one of the longer ones.
I'm still sad that they didn't cut together a 40-minute "Homestuck the Movie" with Act 7 on the end just to run in a theater in LA County for seven days so homestuck would be technically eligable for an oscar.
I know this in an unpopular opinion, but as of where I am in the comic, (running alongside the let's read) I feel [S] Jade: Enter was the best flash in the entire series.
Logan Ace The best to me was DD: Ascend more casually. Because it all builds up to some unsurprisingly referencial shit. Problem Sleuth, anyone? *acrobatic fucking pirouettes the fuck out of here*
Tensei was just going ham on the guitars, Clark Powell going crazy on the piano and others (I don’t really know the other composers involved). Everyone brought their A game
Checking Cascade after 2/3 years in which I didnt hear it again, yep, it still sends shivers down my spine when that beautiful violin starts sounding, signifying Rose and Dave achieved Godhood and are coming out of the Green Sun.
![Homestuck - [S] Collide - full album (2016)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IdrTc-6wS-k/mqdefault.jpg)
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!["[S] Cascade" - Homestuck EoA 5](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0Mldr4sSV4s/mqdefault.jpg)
“Rose?”
“Yes Dave?”
“Where’s the green sun?”
"It's right here, see, I drew it on my map."
"we were supposed to blow it up with *The Tumor*"
"Yeah, we're gonna-"
"so where is it"
"...I see the problem."
"OH *DO* YA"
(explosion)
sadly this meme might be ruined 4ever :(
@@s1ckdoll ...Why?
@@ElFreakinCid Drake did a no no.
When Doc Scratch wrote "suckers." and I realized what was going to happen, I couldnt stop my goosebumps.
+Noticer Senpai it took me a while to get that
S U C C
I have put day to understand why doc scratch have writed that,and even now i'm not sure: it's because they created the green sun?
Phileas guerineau Doc Scratch made them believe they could stop Jack by destroying the source of his power, the green sun, with their tumor, and thus be freed of the web of devils they had gotten themselves into. Of course, the tumor wasn't meant to be the destroyer of the green sun, but its creator, and Doc Scratch was the one making sure the tumor would explode by setting into motion a series of events that would inevitably destroy two universes. He knew that if the universes would be destroyed and the tumor would explode, his master LE wouldn't just be summoned: he'd get the power from the green sun right from the moment he was summoned.
They were mere puppets in the hands of an excellent host, who, after the outcome he had planned was inevitable, just wanted to show them that not only had he been playing with open cards all along, but that they had been those cards.
your converse highs holy crap a new reply was no expecting that
No matter how many times I listen to this, I still get chills. Especially the parts where Dave and Rose rise to god tier, and Jade literally breaks through the fourth wall. So many feels.
That's one of my favorite parts
no she br8ks through the fifth wall
The chills are because y'now... They are still alives and get god-tiered, everything changed and new things are incoming, but they can do it.
purple shep I’m pretty sure the 4th wall from B1 is the first wall they break through, taking them to the yellow yard
Here are the sites homestucks have crashed:
1. Newgrounds due to the release of [S] Cascade
2. Mspa due to the end of gigapause
3. WeLoveFine due to so many orders made by homestucks
4.CyTube during the [S] Act 7 stream
Goddamnit guys.
Cascade also crashed a downloading site
+Bogsa Gamer Megaupload.
Homestuckers love Homestuck. 'w'
Lets destroy more sites! >:3
Just wait 'till the epilogue comes out
Ahh... the flash that broke the internet...
literary
+carso1500 Literary indeed, my friend
When [S] Cascade was released, it was on newgrounds. It still is on newgrounds, but i digress. When this was released, SO MANY PEOPLE were watching it that newgrounds crashed. So this song was in the flash that broke the internet.
+Liam White Which shows how powerful the fanbase is. I am also new to the fanbase, but I am proud to be part of it
+Dat Weird 69er I literally see you on every video omg
The fact that Jack is packing enough power to *change the borders of the flash* is so goddamn awesome. both in the common sense and the biblical sense
The power of the Green Sun is a Space related power up
the fuck do you mean "biblical sense"
@@Natoursofcourse homestuck is the new bible
@Natoursofcourse *god* damn
This was a defining moment for me
Cascade is by far one of the best moments in Homestuck, I believe we can all agree on that.
BillyBob Shoggoth But... What about [S] Game Over?
Totally the best part of the comic, right guys?
...guys?
Kiri no Kuragari It was pretty epic but Cascade definitely takes the cake. Game Over is there with Descend and Make Her Pay
My favorite animations tend to kill a lot of people
gamingLegacies I was making a joke.
BillyBob Shoggoth Cascade is nice, but I liked Descend or Make Her Pay more ://
EDIT: Oh, and Jack: Ascend was pretty much the best thing ever
Everyone. Everyone can agree.
[S] CASCADE : Beginning of an era
[S] GAME OVER. : Ending of an era
Well, Game Over is an alternate timeline.
I posted this before I knew that friend :)
Pretty much every single character that was alive knew that before it happened.
Nepeta - Actually, it was the alpha before John made the Lonely Jade timeline the new alpha through retcons
Nepeta - minepose98 It never was, nor will it ever be an "alternate" timeline. It is forever the Alpha timeline. Strictly speaking, there are now two Alpha timelines, rather than either of them becoming an offshoot.
1:01 It's when the screen starts expanding that you realize just how real shit is about to get.
*expand screen
+lilyrose0706 this is a homestuck video shut the fuck up with that temmie bullshit
+Demiphyral That is a music video shut the fuck up with that HS-reader arrognance bullshit
shut the fuck up bootlegged maze runner and real steel fake ass love baby
Forget him/her, Steel Maze; it's Chinatown.
Once you hit this flash, it's too late. You can't go back, you've sold your soul to Hussie.
It's more when you read to the point that you say "oh shit, this is actually kind of good"
That was Descend for me. I was like "WHAT! WHAT THE FUCK!"
basically the same for me
The hidden meaning of Descend is that you... uhm, descend your soul to Hussie's hell.
No, that's more like [S] Enter, [S] Jade: Enter, or [S] Jack: Ascend.
0:00 to get to the good part.
+Matt Walker
Even the loading screen was cool.
+Matt Walker well said
+Matt Walker Nice.
worst part: 13:16
Ben Goodwin Truth
Homestuck wins the awards for:
Most EPIC game of chess
Most EPIC game of billiards
and the most EPIC Zodiac history lesson
hell yeah xD
I have a bad habit of referring to Zodiac signs as the trolls now XD
CosplayHiji heh me too xD
AwesomeKitten123 same, I even keep telling my friends what trolls they are and there traits.
My friends don't know their Zodiac so I search it up and I'm all like ""ERHMAIGERD YOU'RE A FEFERI" And their just like wtf.
[S] Homestuck Fandom: Break A Website.
*three websites
@@bananacat3109 🤓
@@balala7567 this was 3 years ago
@@bananacat3109 i merely partook in minor shenanigans
Doc being a literal host to English was such a plot twist.
He was very good at it, too. He did his job as LE's host perfectly. One might even say...
He was an excellent host.
S U C K E R S
"I am an excellent host" holy shit i didnt realise the actual meaning of this until now
I saw you somewhere
hmm
Dude! Who else thought it was going to be jake English! I sure as hell thought so before the reveal
Not to be a Homestuck on main, but hearing this in a live orchestra arrangement would be *dope*
yess
"Not to be a Homestuck on main, but I should be killed immediately"
@@toolofthelord what are you doing on a homestuck video if you don't like it dude
No, be a homestuck on main. Be a homestuck everywhere I want to see this corpse of a fandom rise again in all its horrifying glory
@@toolofthelord jeez
my wish is the homestuck fandom will come together to crash a website again.
Me too :(
gogdamit i see you everyone. but Yes
my guess is when (if) the hs2 megaupdate comes out we'll crash it
@@lara8866 I'd love to see HS^2 be a return to form, but as is I don't think that many people like it :/
Maybe if it gets good we'll all crash the website, I don't know
@@theannoyingdog Became to much of a fancomic
I remember how I first felt when I watched this scene. I had chills running down my back and amazement in my eyes. This was the moment I knew that this wasn't just another fandom that'd be lost to the sea of time. No other fandom, no other anime, book, tv show, or game has made me feel the way I do for homestuck. Homestuck has legitmately changed me. I became more outgoing, I started drawing more, I met new friends, I became motivated for this fandom. I watched this 3 years ago. I'll never forget the ride that was homestuck. :)
+Karamanga exactly how i feel homestuck has changed me for the better i became more confident and less self destructive i became myself and know who i am now i dont feel empty or alone and homestuck encouraged me to come out of the closet because i saw how many people love and respected the same sex ships in homestuck and each time i watch this or hear this i get chills and teary eyed knowing that this one flash impacted me and how much this comic has made me happy to be here and depressed heck im even cosplaying now doing things ive never had done or discovered if i hadn't read this wonderful webcomic
+bootypopper and not depressed*
+bootypopper I find that typo kinda funny actually! XD
Glad to see it helped you so much though that's always good to hear! :)
Homestuck: A cure for the young mind full of twisted confusion derived from the complex feelings of growth.
Amkhao Llilalom Mhhk Growing up is hard and nobody understands.
putting this under 'Things that get insanely better if you were there. But are already so bad ass it nearly doesn't matter. "
I'd pay approximately $1000 (even it's the farthest seat from the concert) to see an live orchestral version of this song with the original animation in the background
I'd give up everything to see that.
For any hs song really
Sara Dolman I sense a Millerite.
A full orchestral marathon of all the homestuck flashes. That would be amazing. Amazing.
I'd pay even more for that. Please Oh beings of the farthest circle, make this happen!
I hope this upload always stays up. At this point it's practically historic.
Indeed it is
I remember bawling my eyes out when Cascade was released, because it came out the day after my birthday, and I considered it the best fucking gift Hussie could give me.
Still is the best fucking gift.
Another Cascade day, gone and passed. Homestuck never dies.
Observe the differences between older Homestuck flash animations such as Cascade and [S] Jack: Ascend and watch how far we've come by the time we made it to [S] Collide.
It's amazing how much worse they became!
Comparing, say... Unite/Synchronize to Jack: Ascend shows that the flashes became a lot more complex, and far more efficient at showing details, to say nothing of how much more dynamic they became over time.
Collide is a different beast than Cascade, but no less impressive imo. Looking back, Homestuck has very few on-screen "boss fights", there wasn't much in the way of precedent for Collide. I think that taking the route of conveying the battles symbolically, through the use of the "base sprites", actually allowed Hussie + co to inject the minute details we'd come to expect from the comic, into a flash. Momentary things, like Dirk using a Zilly Santa in the Jack fight.
It also manages to go for the epic angle, during the opening segment, the closing segment, and the beginning of the Lord English segment. The first sets a sort of mythic tone: the culmination of this immense build, finally being allowed to come to a head. The use of Creata in particular, underlines what's at stake here: the creation myth itself.
The end allows Hussie to have his horse and ride it, too. Sure, the bulk of the battles are conveyed through fast-paced, arcade-style, action, buuuut they're all concluded with dramatic, gorgeous, snapshots of the battles' later phases. Dave decapitating Dirk, PM winning the first Prospitian victory over Derse, )(IC being stabbed by Roxy, these are all gorgeous moments. Homestuck's all about this dualism between silly/fun content (the sprite fights), and emotionally-moving, impactful ones: the final sequence of images for each fight.
This isn't to say Cascade is bad, I think it's quite good at setting up the midway climax of the multiclimactic narrative. This is very hard to do without the audience feeling like they've had something stolen from them (the end), so I commend Cascade for that. I just think Collide is sold short a lot of the time.
(Also, GAME OVER, a pretty late flash? Goddamn incredible).
And yet my favourite of all is the weird puppet montage. How strange it is that things work out like that.
Gotta say, I kinda preferred the old style. It's not any less enjoyable with how the art changed, but there's something about the originals in like act 1-3/4 that was just very unique to me--and it kinda became less unique of a style as time progressed. It was more refined, and something akin to many other webcomics (it remains unique in many aspects still, however). I liked the silly, gritty-drawn style of the old ones better, though. :P
I'm not a big fan of Collide; I think it went way longer than it needed to for what was basically just a few fight scenes.
Animations like Cascade, Jack: Rise Up, and Caliborn: Enter manage to compress events and information down into a small space. They're exciting because there's stuff in them that's surprising, that slots information you already knew together into the bigger picture. Collide already had all it's contents communicated to us beforehand, we don't learn anything new, everything went down exactly as it was expected to go.
Just my opinion, of coarse.
I'm up to date on Homestuck right now. I've read all 9859 pages, and this is still my favorite part of Homestuck. I don't know what it is, I just remember how I felt after seeing it and that feeling rises again in me every single time I so much as hear the soundtrack. It's just the way the beautiful artwork and the flawless music come together in one amazing moment that makes all you've read worth it. I just... Wow.
is been years since cascade for me
and honestly?
I feel the same as you
Same.
+Juliana Lee You know what my favorite part is
GAME OVER, KID.
[Infinite Lennys]
+Le Joe “Karkat” L Oh yeah I loved watching game over, probably the happiest part of the comic tbh. Left me full of joy
Mr. Otherguy Game Over was fun
I got to see the vengeance for the feels Gamzee caused me when he killed Nepeta
I've suddenly realized I haven't felt crap about any other character death
No piece of media has ever gave me chills as much as the scene where rose and dave ascend to god tier
Dude I love the part where literally at one point during the flash (I think it's right when jack uses the red miles) the flash window itself actually expands for the duration of the animation
Sooooooo coooooooool
Apparently Friday Night Funkin' crashed Newgrounds.
The last time this happened was nearly ten years ago with this Flash.
History fucking repeats itself.
beautiful
@@idunnomanreally ok danganronpa fan
Oh….. well shit
FNF aus undertale aus dude Toby foxx what the fuck your doing a1 and b1 irl
@@hazzy2895 ok meta knight fan
it's 2024. this was peak Homestuck, things got worse from here on out (literally). I still celebrate Cascade to this day, it's been almost 10 years since I first watched it.
Just a reminder that this happens only like halfway through the comic.
This is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard holy shit. My friend who had no idea what homestuck is watched cascade abd said it was beautiful.
My frend just walked away, then jumped out the window...
james coventry
rip
frangleman ..... (=^w^=)
james coventry Cascade was the first thing they watched? That'd kind of be spoilers, don't you think?
***** I highly doubt they would understand what was happening.
Most of the Homestuck songs are just so good they give me goosebumps.
8 years later and still true :)
Lots of people are praising the part where Rose and Dave enter the Green sun, but my favorite part is right before. As AR explodes the buildings, something he and PM had been planning for since hundreds of pages ago, he hesitates at Rose's bunker. He thinks about the WV, and how he would die if the building exploded. As the scene goes on, a tense theme plays in the background, and Jack kills him without hesitation.
It shows that the exiles arc is over, with three out of the five of them being killed by Jack. It was a brutal moment for me, who was obsessed with those goofy robed post-apocalyptic travelers, but I really love how the scene shows just how in vain the hesitation was. Had he not resisted killing his friend, Jack would not have ruined the Troll's session. I wish the exiles got more attention before most of them died, it's sad how the narrative just... stopped focusing on them.
She* but yeah dude I agree, the exiles were awesome. I think what makes me nervous about reading act 6 is that I just know there won't be as many ticking hands of the homestuck chronology. Acts 1-5 were like 5 to 7 odd different timelines all converging into one "Cascade" of events. I just know act 6 isn't really gonna hit that high, from what i remember reading it as a kid.
It's maybe a coincidence but, the song get very calm with the piano at 4:13.
413
It's called "Flare".
I doubt it is a coincidence
homestuck=piano?
@@higztv1166 the instrument John plays!
And then there's Snowman getting shot at 6:12, and the tumor detonating at 10:25.
*DRAW SPADES*
+Macman12233 Lawl
S U C K E R S .
IN 2 DAYS WE WILL SEE SOMETHING BETTER THAN CASCADE
+Dat Weird 69er UPD8 HYYYYYPE
Showing Cascade to a friend, his reaction: "... So this was it... holy fuck"
How to get anyone into homestuck. Show them this. They'll be confused as hell but they'll love it
Raveng Becker Except that other guy on that other comment. D:
I just got into Homestuck last night. I had given it a chance before and got bored at the guy basically just running around his house doing nothing.
Then last night, I came across the Space Jam remix, Savior of the Slamming Jam. I found the original song, and I loved it. Then I was like, "Wait, what? That bad comic about a dude in his house has a soundtrack? I must be missing something here..."
So then I found where the song came from: Cascade.
I watched it.
I had no idea what was going on, but I was blown away, especially by the "God Tier" girl with dog ears.
Proceed to give Homestuck another try. Read it for seven hours straight. Go to work with five hours of sleep.
That's actually a good schedule for reading homestuck
+Amaroq64 I remember when I really started reading, it was right after I'd gotten back from a holiday, and I was jetlagged as hella and couldn't sleep. So I ended up reading until about 2 in the morning.
god it's nearly been 10 years and this still gives me chills
I misread your comment as ben 10, like the show. I thought it was a strange pun, but also fitting due to world ending aliens being a thing in both, as well as time travel.
This song makes me cry from nostalgia. Good Times.
The absolute PEAK of Homestuck. Other then when Karkat argues with his future self of course.
But... Karkat always argues with his future selves!
@@armageddongirl612 that's true lol. I think they meant one specific part in early act 6 where he has a pesterlog with himself 5 minutes in the future, and the future version is really angry for apparently no reason.
Gaaahh, that violin! That dang violin! It gets me EVERY. DANG. TIME!!!
No matter how many times I listen to this, the Flare transition at 4:13 always gives me the shivers.
Heh, 413.
Exactly.
Notice that it's 4:13 or should I say 413!!!!!!
The Fangirling Puella Magi
Why do you think I brought it up? Of course Hussie would've set it up like that.
hehehehehe 413 :))))))))))))))))
I discovered Homestuck too late.
Really, bro? I started reading it 8 months after it fucking ended.
I started to read homestuck at two weeks before ended
**wheeze**
What is homestuck?
He es more late...
Past me thought Homestuck was a price of trash. I thought it was incredibly boring and the story was way too slow. I tried it again a few months back, and now I'm here, waiting for the next update. :)
It may be hard to notice, but underneath all the humor and the odd and confusing story, Homestuck is beautiful. Tracks and Flashes like Cascade really help the beauty of Homestuck break through.
Indeed! I was ignorant at first too, but I started reading about two months before the giga-pause was over, and now I love it! I can't wait for this year's April! >u
i actually just wanted to know what it actually was, because of octopimp´s and other comic dubs
It still is trash, but the good kind of trash
Booksy McBooks the best kind of trash, the one marketed even to corpses, which happens to be the largest market out there and no one even knew!
General MotherEffing Sedivh
Yes! 12 more days!
Whenever I watch this flash I remember that homestuck is amazing and beautiful. Hell even thinking about it makes me jittery and wanting to go read it again
Fun fact: The first part of Cascade has the same notes forward and backward if the reverse starts and ends in the middle.
this was the peak of homestuck nothing can ever live up to this. Nobody can ever make anything that's the same
This is a story
A story of love
A story of betrayal
A story of loss
A story of hope
A story of time
A story of belief
A story of resilience
And an Inspiration to us all
I shall cherish your comment forever
+Just a normal troll i'm just laughing about how I just made it 69 likes
+thekaboominator1 I wanna like this comment but there are 69 likes.. I don't wanna ruin it }xD
TheGreenOwl saem
+thekaboominator1 A STORY OF... A YOUNG MAN IN HIS BEDROOM.
WHO KNEW, THAT FROM A SHITTY NERD MAN STANDING LIKE AN ERECT PENIS, WOULD ONE DAY TURN TO BE A CRAZY PLOT TWIST HELL OF CRAZY BULLCRAP?
-NOT SINCERELY, KARKAT.
I'll never forget 12:54 - The point in time where, for a split-second, John Egbert existed in our world.
3 years in yellow yard
3 nanosecond in our world
@@nekozilla46903 nanoseconds*
uhmmm ackshueeaallly that's a fictional representation of reality because hussie doesn't look like that and and the planets would make a black hole 🤓
@@balala7567 jade doesn't make things denser (the density of an object is what ultimately determines whether it becomes a black hole), she bends space. The objects don't actually become smaller, they just seem like it from the point of view of those outside of the objects.
homestuck will become real in 3 seconds
My favorite part is around 4:13 (weird coincidence) starting with the piano and getting more instruments. The bit with Dave and Rose on Derse. Come to think of it, some of my favorite art was during that part as well.
not a coincidence
Snowman also gets shot at 6:12 and the tumour detonates at 10:25
I don't care how many years pass this song will always be the song ever. The way I always get goosebumps when the violins hit with Dave and Rose ascending? Nothing will ever give that kind of feeling every time withiut failure. Cascade had no business being such a banger. ❤
Anyone else get goosebumps when Rose and Dave ascend to God Tier?
Yao Wang I get goosebumps through the entire damn song
True
+Yao Wang JUST YES
+Yao Wang Uhm, for me its more for when Jade Asends into god tier and shrinks the planets.. But yes I guess that too.
for me it's the green sun expanding
"what's your favorite song?"
"it's called cascade"
"oh cool"
"yeah...it's about 13 minutes long"
"what"
"what"
What's your favourite song?
Pumpkin party in sea Hitler apocalypse
What
"what's your favorite song?"
"▲trollkind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. to obtain something of equal value must be lost. that is alchemys first law of equivalent exchange. in those days, we really believed that to be the worlds one, and only, truth.▼"
"what"
"what"
-What's your favorite song
-Biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence
-What
13 minutes isn't that long.
@@Madisongs huh? I'm a homestuck but what is this song?
Happy Cascade day
This flash & song will always be my favorite, always.
"You're not gonna see characters running away from a crumbling time-space continuum everyday."
-- troll Frank Sinatra
inc0rrect it happens every fucking sec0nd
You're not sure if he actually said that.
I'm not crying, I say, as I start crying
I never really got into homestuck but my friend was obsessed with it. About two years ago they showed this song to me and I'm still listening to it 24/7
Homestuck would make movies longer then X-Men with more than the Harry Potter Series
more movies in the series than the series of unfortunate events, with like, a billion times the misfortune
somuchwork
homestuck in a nutshell
what is homestuck im so late but i really wanna knoww
Kids play a video game that causes armageddon, but it only spirals more and more downhill.
This song always is a full travel for all the senses.
i joined the fandom too late (march 2020)
but i already sold my soul to this webcomic and theres no going back.
congrats and welcome to the eighth circle of hell
Same. I started in February.
Once joining there is no turning back as the dark god Hussie feeds on your soul for eternity.
sometimes you manage to escape but you'll never be able to fight the homestuck inside you ;)
I reached [S] Cascade about an hour ago. It is my favorite part of Homestuck so far!! (I started reading Homestuck after it ended)
So did I! I finished it mid-July.
I believe I started in late January? I finished the day the first mini update came out
I started the exact day it ended.
I STABBED A GUY.
AJ Moon Congratulations!!
I love the really upbeat parts with the guitar so much, but I gotta say the part that starts at 4:25 is my absolute favorite. Has a lot of feeling to it.
Flare - Cascade cut
That's what it's called
5:33 That piano makes me appreciate life.
the big man
Yeah i love this Part
*What are you waiting for?*
*Draw, Spades.*
this is why i love Flare so much.
This music gives me chills. And I do not typically chill easily.
I was writing a paper at 5:44 in the song and it got faster and faster I started feeling nervous and started typing really fast in coordination with the music
what the fuck. even now after im not into homestuck I had this song playing while I was writing a paper.
Cormac Jensen Cascade is your essay song, accept it.
Atomic Robo Tesla history repeats itself
Cormac Jensen But you gotta accept it.
Atomic Robo Tesla its been accepted
ten years later and i still get goosebumps
Cascade is LITERALLY one of my fave tracks, god its just so good!!
So true
It’s that time of year again
You know when a flash animation in homestuck is 13 mins you know it's gonna be good
I've never even seen Homestuck yet I feel like I missed a whole era.
You missed internet exploding...
Several times, heh
@@gamerule189 has anyone counted how many times we've crashed the Internet?
@@wolfy9011 5 to 7
every so often.... I listen to homestuck for great memories... Cascade was one of the most memorable animations I've seen and I still remember the hype watching it... Damn, it's been years and I'm still in love.
i watched this while playing bedwars. it felt and was the most cool bedwars game ive ever one. it ended at the end of the song. thank you, Andrew Hussie
homestuck is officially ending in 16 days. it’s finally over. we can rest. my husband can finally return from war. my children will know their father. there will be celebrations in the streets. children born in the depths of the deepest winter will feel the warmth of summer sunlight. we are free.
+Johnny Boy I just started 2 months ago :c
But it's cool because I'm in the middle of Act 6
Try to read as much as you can, you'll probably get caught up before it officially ends.
Thou hast formed a new bond
Welp...
The freedom has come to a screeching halt. The Epilogues tore the world apart. Homestuck^2 has come to claim our souls.
Words cannot describe how badly I want to see this performed live, and how sad I am that I probably never will.
Wonder if there's any nonHomestucks here who just like listening to this because it's awesome!
+TheGreenOwl me
welp, you should read Homestuck. ;) xD
I wonder if there's any non homestucks here...
"What's a Homestuck?"
Oh, dear, time to bring you to the concentration webpage. Have fun~~!
+Liam White no we kidnap all the nonHomestucks
and then make them read all acts
then they will JOIN US
muwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
They slowly walk in one by one.. A few months later
"Whatever THAT was i think i enjoyed it??"
ah yes my favorite flash that you can't actually watch as a flash anymore
isnt flash also ending?
you can, in the unofficial homestuck collection! everything works perfectly in it.
WE WARNED YOU ABOUT THOSE STAIRS BRO
WE WARNED YOU
I don't want to let go of this beautiful story, I don't want it to end.
Same tbh
Ahh yes I remember... I was a lonely kid watching newgrounds animations when all of a sudden, this was released. I watched it and got interested in the stuff. Eventually, I dug up its origin to come across MS Paint Adventures. I read HomeStuck and BOOM! I became a official, certified HomeStuck. Man, this takes me back.
0:50 for the badass guitar bit
Not to be rude, but it was at 0:53
Emma Matchinsky b-but if you skip to 0:53, you miss the buildup to the riff
Oh, I didn't notice that! Thank you for pointing that out!
Emma Matchinsky No problem! UwU
***** ayyyyyyyyyyy
I feel like the only one who was shocked when the flash grew.....
And I have watched reactions,but no one else was.....
So am I the only one?
I didn't notice it happening until Spades shot the cue ball. Then I had to rewatch it to notice all the expert changes in the camera view. This flash is a masterpiece.
I was like "What... What the fuck... Is it supposed to do that? How the fuck..."
Maybe
precisionfstrike did.
I did
That shit was weird
and awesome
happy ten years
now i can be fan in peace ever since homestuck is cool again
I can never read Homestuck enough. I just love all the art, the story, the music, it just makes me want to read it over and over! I am just so... ---EXCITED!
Happy cascade day 10, lads, we fucking made it.
I wish I could forget Homestuck just to watch [S] Cascade for the first time again
saaame
same man
Is this song supposed to make you feel like your favorite character just accomplished something? And for some reason that made you unbelievably happy?
Have you not gotten this far in Homestuck?
No, I'm a8out h8lfway through, I just enjoy listening to the music........ Ok now 8ased on what you s8id I'm pretty sure someone dies to this music.
***** You're not halfway through if you haven't reached Cascade. And you're screwing up Vriska's quirk. And assumptions are a bad thing to make. And you're making a bad choice to listen to the music when every single cover to the songs has some symbolism that can spoil the plot. God help you if you've listened to Volume 9, because there is not a single sense of dramatic tension in your reading of the comic.
Ok thanks for telling me about the Vriska thing, I've been wondering if I'm getting it right lately and no, I just listen to this one because it's one of the longer ones.
Well, you still got a lot to go, I wish you luck!
Smells like 10 years in here
I'm still sad that they didn't cut together a 40-minute "Homestuck the Movie" with Act 7 on the end just to run in a theater in LA County for seven days so homestuck would be technically eligable for an oscar.
Fun fact: if they did a 1:1 recreation of homestuck for a movie it would be 50 hours long
@@Cybercerialdestroyer 1:1 is utterly insane lmao, thats like, 25 movies if we evenly split it up to be 2 hours per movie.
it'll be the one piece of movies
@@theaprilsonlyfool The Homestuck of movies.
5:33 that piano kicking in hits HARD
13 years ago today
I thought I only just liked Homestuck
Then I became a fan
and now, I'm in total love with Homestuck \o/
Michael Paniz
That was beautiful.
bro’s a Lord of Breath
the pinacle of quality for homestuck.
Ah, the memories. Thank you Andrew Hussie and all his collaborators!
I know this in an unpopular opinion, but as of where I am in the comic, (running alongside the let's read) I feel [S] Jade: Enter was the best flash in the entire series.
actually that's my favorite too! a lot of the flashes are AMAZING. all of them are awesome.
Logan Ace Mine is Descend.
well it's all opinion
i like s make her pay
Logan Ace
The best to me was DD: Ascend more casually.
Because it all builds up to some unsurprisingly referencial shit.
Problem Sleuth, anyone?
*acrobatic fucking pirouettes the fuck out of here*
Logan Ace I think that one is great because whoa, the movement and color is just- oh wow great!
Tensei was just going ham on the guitars, Clark Powell going crazy on the piano and others (I don’t really know the other composers involved). Everyone brought their A game
Happy 10th Anniversary to this.
Checking Cascade after 2/3 years in which I didnt hear it again, yep, it still sends shivers down my spine when that beautiful violin starts sounding, signifying Rose and Dave achieved Godhood and are coming out of the Green Sun.
Imagine this in a Symphony Hall???? The audience would be..... awestruck
"Those are violins, flutes, and trumpets.
That is a particularly grungy electric guitar.
How can this be as amazing as it is?"
Cuz it would not be a synthesizer and VST's but an ACTUAL orchestra... da POWAH alone would sent thrills to the audience
Or would they be... HOMESTRUCK?!?!
when i listen to this i realize how big and cool homestuck is, even after thoses years
those 3 open hihats at the beginning immediately give me goosebumps holy shit i love this flash’s soundtrack
No joke I listen to this every single day when I'm playing