No Apple-john you gotta bite the apple! Not try to sell it to the meteor!

@Darth Sonic  
Two weeks after the last comment was posted actually.

Gonna point out that the first part of the epilogue landed a bit ago.

@Keith Mowz  
can a reality altering construct alter itself? well, I guess we’ll never know for sure because the FILM CUTS OFF RIGHT BEFORE HE OPENS THE DOOR AGGGHH

@redweasel  
Except the house itself should not be ret-johnable considering it’s the reality altering construct that allows for that to be a thing in the first place? They’re sealed inside of it, then the juju is hidden in the furthest ring, then John, Vriska et al find it.

@Keith Mowz  
yeah, john kind of… removed that plot, with his defenestration powers to change the alpha timeline. but I still don’t see why the door couldn’t open, and john would be there on the other side, inviting them to leave the house. (i.e. stop being homestuck)
 
the only question I have is where did the white door in that third house lead? the one that got pulled into the black hole.

@Keith Mowz  
Add onto this that at no point during either timeline (“either” meaning the one where our heroes get stomped on, and the one where they win) is there presented an opportunity for John and Co. to actually come up against LE and be put into the house Juju in the first place, and things get very confusing very quickly. Like, yeah, Caliborn shows us what happened, but when is that supposed to have happened?

@redweasel  
The house juju was supposed to contain the four alpha kids when he fought them and trapped them inside it around the time he went from scrawny cherub wannabe-hardass into spooky scary cueball-eyed skeleman. Which we never see outside of him recreating it for us in claymation earlier; The final act has him concurrently being supposedly defeated and being in the process of making himself immortal.
 
Honestly it was such a clusterfuck you could interpret it pretty much any way you wanted to.

@sigh  
well, the kids rebuild everything before they open the door, so caliborn and vriska can’t be there yet. I was just speculating, because I can’t think of any other way that house would defeat lord english, and it fits with hussie’s style of making portals from one place to another be the same object in two places.

@redweasel  
At no point is that actually established to have happened by the sequence of events that eventually unfolded, and if you’ll notice the only people who we see in the final cutscene of the people rebuilding society are those who were with John, nobody on Vriska and English’s side of things is present. If your interpretation of things is correct, they’d be out relaxing and enjoying themselves with everyone else, but they’re not so that must be wrong.

@sigh  
at the end of the video in act 7, john is opening the door on the house, while the door behind vriska and lord english is opening. he’s going to let them know that the game’s over, and they can stop playing it now. that’s how the device “defeats” lord english. and oh yeah I guess gamzee is stuck in the fridge. talk about fridge horror!

Not spoiling because who cares, but personally my issue with that theory is that regardless of whether or not that constitutes as a “win” for the heroes, that still doesn’t help with the fact that a great number of characters just straight up don’t get the chance to enjoy the “happy ending” that the characters we see at the end of Act 7 get. Tons of characters are left dead or in what’s essentially limbo fighting English, anyone who played the game that didn’t go God Tier is doomed to grow old and die while the others, by the very nature of the game’s reward system, live forever with that sweet, sweet immortality unless they die due to a Just or Heroic action. Gamzee, for all we know, is still stuck in that fridge as we don’t actually know whether or not he died in that black hole explosion thing. And what, are we to expect that our heroes are actually satisfied with knowing that, in-universe, there’s still a Lord English on the warpath, janking up every universe he comes across and imposing his will on who knows how many unsuspecting alien races?
 
And this is just a personal sidenote but SO MANY characters just straight up don’t talk to each other that actually haven’t done so in years, both in and out of universe. For instance, Rose and Jade? Literally several Acts since they’ve exchanged a single bit of real dialogue, and the last time I recall them exchanging words was before entering the Scratch. Exclude Karkat (who talks to everyone but progresses any kind of arc he might have had at a snail’s pace in doing so), Kanaya (for Rose almost exclusively, although when she talks to anyone else it’s guaranteed to be ABOUT Rose), and Vriska (mostly because she refuses to ever not be relevant to anyone) and the amount of human/troll interactions break down to almost nothing.

@Keith Mowz  
||I like the idea that it was deliberately left unresolved. not because that would be more dramatic or grandiose or anything. but it was how they won. the characters won an unwinnable game, by literally murdering the author and walking out on the story. ||
 
it still was a cheap shot though, kind of a sad way to go out. should’ve ended it at act 2, really.

@Ereiam  
I haven’t.
 
I have a friend who stopped reading back when Caliborn was just shitposting and it kept going on hiatus. I occasionally poke her to continue it, but much less so since the mess that was Act 7. Like… yeah. Okay. Its kind of cool that it literally turned into an anime. But uh… nothing got resolved. Half of the characters who were involved in the ending just vanish entirely, the big bad’s ‘defeat’ is left completely unclear, and we only get very vague glimpses of a potential semi-happy future, again with most of the characters missing, which are all portrayed in such a vague way there’s no way of knowing if it’s even true.
 
She considered just watching Act 7 before trying to catch up on everything else and I honestly am not sure that wouldn’t be a good idea, just so that you finish up with the much more satisfying brawl that is EOA6.

@AwkwardLuna  
I’ve always wondered if letting the hype die down by keeping it on hiatus for so long wasn’t part of Hussie’s plan.
 
Still waiting for an epilogue a la Problem Sleuth to tie up all those loose ends that the ending has left dangling though.

Oh look, Homestuck! I forgot that was ever a thing.

@romantiCaveman  
And it doesn’t stop here: someone even drew fanart of that cosplay.  

That weirded out security guard (nicknamed Lemmy Telya) has actually been cosplayed. The Homestuck fandom is wonderfully nuts.

Weirded out security guards.  
Happen on ALL conventions.

Let me tell you about Ponestuck

@Background Pony:
 

I DUN GET IT