Episode 19: Let Me Tell You About Inevitability

Hug your loved ones tight John, because things are about to take a TURN. Luke and Ashley watch as John kills himself and forces Dave to consign an entire timeline to oblivion to save him, while Jack Noir finally lashes out and claims his bloody, brutal destiny. All the signs seem to point to the future being unchangeable and unescapable. But if that's the case, then what does it mean that the kids are apparently doomed to failure?

SPOILER WARNING: We talk about The Big Act 6 Reveal in this episode because Ashley already sort of knew about it! If you're new to Homestuck, skip ahead at 1:04:00 to 1:07:00.

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Alpha Episode 8: Let Me Tell You About Alternia

Welcome fellow trolls!!! It's youur friendly host Mrtyuu Sappho (that's me in the album art!!!) and I'm here with my morail Yrfrin Mollly. I think youu'll really love this episode!!! We make all sorts of fuunny voices and talk about ouur weird planet!!!

Okay that joke is already getting tired. Ashley and Molly do get to Act 5 and start reading the turning moment of the comic known as Hivebent. What does Molly think about all these new characters? What's the deal with this spooky girl? Why does Sollux say they're all going to die? Just how good is Terezi? Some of these quuuestions are answered!!! Wait, shit.

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Episode 18: Let Me Tell You About Seers and Queens

The pieces are beginning to fall into place as the kids dig deeper into SBURB and Luke and Ashley dig deeper into Act 4. They learn about the roles the exiles play, the complicated time travel nonsense the trolls have gotten themselves tangled up in, and the alchemiter's upgrade system. The trolls' Seer arrives on the scene, taunting our heroes and threatening to murder them. And most importantly of all, Luke makes good on a very important promise. 

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Alpha Episode 7: Let Me Tell You About Babies

Molly and Ashley are getting neck deep in the Homestuck shit, but first they have to watch Dave make a bunch of mostly useless bullshit. We watch a Betty Crocker Factory blow up. Then we watch John make his parents, his friends and himself. Then we watch as everything goes bad as we end Act 4.

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Episode 17: Let Me Tell You About Salamanders

Dangit Ashley, way to scoop me on "Let Me Tell You About LOWAS"!

Ashley and I take our first, stumbling steps out into the Land of Wind and Shade. We learn about secret wizards, crumpled hats, and the sacred nature of frogs. Before we can even stop to catch our breath, Rose enters her own world, the Land of Light and Rain. As she fondly regards the Lisa Frank notebook she's been banished to, Dave and Jade get to work setting up Dave's session, and our friends in the distant future bask in the glow of the human emotion called friendship.

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Episode 16: Let Me Tell You About The Felt

As Luke and Ashley continue to wind their way through The Felt's mansion, more of its secrets are slowly exposed. Who is Lord English? What's the deal with Snowman? How is Spades Slick connected to Jack Noir? Along the way, Luke taunts Ashley with all the Homestuck Secrets he knows, and the two take a moment to present a very important PSA.

Alpha Episode 5: Let Me Tell You About Regicide

Ashley and Molly are left to pick up the pieces of what went so horribly wrong last time as we learn about doomed timelines. John goes on a jetpack ride, Rose falls asleep, Dave talks to himself and Jack Noir takes control. Also Andrew Hussie shows up so we talk about horse paintings and he tells us about Homestuck.

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Alpha Episode 4: Let Me Tell You About Sick Fires

Molly and Ashley are greeted with a giant eggy looking thing, some trolls with bad attitudes and worse rhymes and a touching reunion between two groups that just met. The kids make their way through their lands while being harassed by aliens and the exiles have a royal meeting. Molly learns about Troll movie culture, GC threatens to murder a child and everything goes horribly wrong.

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Episode 15: Let Me Tell You About Spades Slick

I'm finally releasing an episode that was referenced by Ashley and Molly two alpha episodes ago! It wouldn't be a Homestuck podcast without a convoluted timeline. Fresh out of Act 3, we find ourselves filled with questions, but of course Homestuck isn't keen on answering any of them. Instead, we take off on an apparently completely unrelated adventure through the mansion of the time-traveling mobster gang, The Felt. Spades Slick is on a mission to destroy clocks, murder green men, and drop maddening hints about the larger nature of Homestuck's universe.

Alpha Episode 3: Let Me Tell You About LOWAS

Molly and Ashley finally bust out of a confusing intermission to finally see the new world John has found himself in. They walk around a bit, take in the local culture, meet a secret wizard and use funny voices. Also bad decisions involving shaving cream are made.

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Alpha Episode 2: Let Me Tell You About The Midnight Crew

Molly and Ashley enter the bizarre world of the Midnight Crew. Well, bizzare in a different way then what Homestuck usually is. We get up to our asses in time travel, eggs and biscuits, Problem Sleuth references that Ashley loves and just general mayhem. Also we try to unravel how exactly this whole thing connects to Homestuck proper. Oh, and we see one of those trolls people keep talking about.

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Episode 14: Let Me Tell You About Making Things Hapen

It's a Homestuck double-header today! Luke and Ashley barrel onward toward the end of Act 3, exploring John's love for his friends, the Aimless Renegade's crush on the Peregrine Mendicant, and Jack Noir's begrudging respect for John's dad. We also get some hints about the nature of Jade's future-sight, meet a few more trolls, and Ashley endorses my erstwhile OTP before everything rockets headlong into the end of Act 3.

Alpha Episode 1: Let Me Tell You About Bonus Episodes

As another person falls into the Homestuck fold, so to does the dark engines of LMTYAHS start again. Ashley is now joined by her friend and Totally Reprise co-host Molly to dive deep into the webcomic. They discuss what Molly has read so far, meet an Aimless Renegade, discuss just how cute baby Jade is and just when things pick up we are thrust into the world of The Midnight Crew.

These episodes should come out on Tuesday for the foreseeable future.

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Episode 13: Let Me Tell You About Gristmas

John and Rose spend some time chatting about the recent revelation of John's psychological issues, while Jade's dream self explores Prospit, the planet orbiting Skaia. Meanwhile, WV and PM get a heaping helping of bullets from the Aimless Renegade, and Homestuck makes a bunch of Bill Cosby jokes that were wayyyyyyyyyyyyy funnier in 2009.

Episode 12: Let Me Tell You About Shocking Revelations

Homestuck is a comic within a comic within Homestuck! Jade's grandpa has been dead for years! Rose's mom is some kind of mad scientist that helped create SBURB! John's dad is just a boring businessman! Spades Slick is really Jack Noir! Gushers are made by Betty Crocker! Becquerel is some kind of interdimensional hellbeast! Dave's bro is kind of a huge jerk! Wait, I guess we knew that last one already...

Episode 11: Let Me Tell You About Jade Harley

It's a new act, and with it comes a new character! Jade arrives on the scene to complete our original quartet of characters. She plays a silly flute refrain, fertilizes the HECK outta some plants, and tells us all about her love of guns, fresh produce, and furries. Oh and also she deeeeefinitely gets cancer from constantly exposing herself to uranium. RIP Jade.

Episode 10: Let Me Tell You About Cantown

It's time to get Ashley formally acquainted with the secret best character in Homestuck, the Wawyward Vagabond. Luke and Ashley boggle vacantly at his shenanigans as he constructs an elaborate fantasy of municipal democracy, inadvertantly forshadows details of events to come, makes friends with a cute little firefly, and eats every vaguely green-colored object in sight.

Episode 9: Let Me Tell You About Ironic Child Abuse

Me and Ashley continue exploring Dave's um... unfortunate home life, as he sifts through piles upon piles of plush puppet ass to build an assortment of deadly replica anime weapons to challenge his Bro with, accidentally participating in puppet snuff films along the way. It's not all sex dungeons and criminal neglect though, as John takes some inspiration from famed Night Court actor Harry Anderson to unlock the secrets of SBURB's punchard-based crafting system, and it's a good thing because it looks like he'll need it soon! Oh, and also? As of this episode, Ashley is OFFICIALLY A HOMESTUCK FAN. WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNIVAL, SISTER

 

Episode 8: Let Me Tell You About Slaying Imps

This episode is all about... learning! John learns how to handle himself better in a fight, some of the basics of punch-card alchemy, and a little bit about some of the secrets his dad's been keeping from him. Rose learns how to help John in combat and how to use SBURB's building mechanics constructively. The Wandering Vagabond learns about human etiquette. And Dave... well okay Dave doesn't learn anything.