This song and the image associated with it sound really profound. It almost feels like it’s some kind of mysterious ode to something that is long gone. Something we were never meant to know about. I guess this song, in that sense, is sort of separate from the canon events in Homestuck. But it still calls back to what could have brought us here. Maybe not a Squiddle session, or even anything Squiddle related… but something. All we know is that, wherever it is, that something is definitely smiling upon us in contentment at the road it paved for us. Edit - A new thought: in keeping with my theory that the Aspects of reality are born through the players of Sburb, I think it'd make sense if the Void aspect was born from this "something". If they are horrorterror-adjacent, this would make even more sense.
That's exactly the feeling I get from it too. Like hearing an echo of an echo of a song written by an alien species completely removed from our comprehension, with only vague feelings and images to construct our idea of what they could have been. A long-forgotten progenitor race only observable through tiny cracks in non-canon works like this one.
Homestuck ended on its 7th anniversary on 4/13 of 2016. It ended. You need to get back in this shit and see this thing to the end before you lay it to rest. Trust me, The ending will amaze you. [S] Collide & [S] ACT 7
@@hmmmooops The universe of beforus was created by a group of 48 Squiddle players, those who were later transformed by unknown reasons and means into the horroterrors.
its... sad, this song its such a small little thing. but it still manages to make me well up every time i hear it, full of old memories, feelings, experiences i had forgotten before... man, i love homestuck.
I actually get a kind of really upbeat and hopeful vibe from this whole song. Like, sure squiddles are the human's subconscious representation of the Hororterrors in cute form, but no matter how many calamities befall them, Squiddles are forever filled with joy and happiness. Take Squiddle Song, for example, from the new album. Okay, 'all your friends are dead', but there's gotta be some more squiddle pods out there, right? So don't give up! Even when the stars are all falling into the ocean.
I keep coming back to this song and I just feel so melancholy. I think about myself in the past and how I used to feel about the series. The music just does it in for me
I see a lot of comments about their theories to the ends of the kids/trolls sessions and how they think the music goes along with them. But for me, it feels more like a beginning than an end. Like, to the squiddle session. Heh.
@@fault3k I'm pretty sure Huss confirmed there was no squiddles session. (I dunno where the proof is, I just saw this off of someone's comment who actually looked it up.)
everything in the city is quiet, not a single car driving by the street, the coast has just with 2 kids playing with the tides, one guy buying something to make dinner, a pair of delinquents sitting in the roof of a house, enjoying the warm sunset sky with a drink, a couple hugging in the balcony, looking at the sea, ¿and me?, waiting, here at the side of my best friend, everyone in the classroom silent, looking at the clock, the teacher has finished his lesson and his speech, everyone has packed their things, everything right with 5 minutes before the clock marks the so waited hour. 4 minutes and i can hear the emotion. 3 minutes, everyone half-stands in their desks. 2 even i'm willing to jump of my desk right now. 1 minute, "¿you think anything can happen this single day?" i say to him, "yeah" he anwers. NOW, "it's summer, after all".
Hot take: squiddle babies are the ones portrayed on the comic, as they grow older they develop a more humanoid form, their shapes as horroterrors is a mock from whoever turned them into that, basically calling them babies.
I like that this song tells you to get up. Go. Do something. You're important. You're skilled. Don't let the bad guys get you down. You are powerful and you can do anything you want just get up and go because that's what life is in the end and you just need to be there when the wins start rising because you know what you're doing is important and you might not see that but you will i swear and just remember to never stop going.
when i hear this song i think about the original homestuck, not what it now became, and i can already picture the right way it should have ended, with acceptance of the new. This song to me brings both melancholy and sadness, as well as a spark of hope, something new that can be born from it. Just like those kids that caused a world to disappear and another to be born anew. I loved homestuck back in the days because of this message. the world in real life, is a terrifying place that none of us feel any control over. But homestuck taught you how to destroy it in your mind, and choose to build your own world within it. I feel like it was a valuable lesson for many of us, and the reason why a lot of us havent forgotten it yet
I think this song was what got me so involved in the Homestuck fandom... back when I was just starting to read it, I saw an MV all about the fandom and everything good about it. From cosplay, to fanart, and the friends everyone made. I think they may have used this song. The whole thing was really sweet and inspirational and ever since, I have been obssessed with Homestuck and the amazing fandom ^u^ I'm so happy!
i was looking at my old favorites playlist i haven't updated or looked at in years cuz i was feeling depressed after going into a rabbit hole on newgrounds history and i felt like i missed out on something i deserved to be a part of. then i was like "you were a part of something it's just gone" with club penguin and how i did a few events that were here and there where big artists now has participated in and i am friends with but we dont really talk. this song was something i had in that favorites list and it just feels nice and comforting after crying for hours now. im glad it's still here. thanks.
I thought the person on the cover was a character from the squiddles show? At least that's what some theories say. If it isn't I can definitely see Jade there instead!
I always felt like Ocean Stars Falling should have had a song, like actually lyric song, quality.Its like, prime for it you know? Kind alike what was done for the skia tracks.
I can see this song being in the last flash to end Homestuck. a new universe is created, and everyone gets what they want. Karkat gets his friends, Aradia stays where she is, Sollux stays with her, Tavros and Vriska spend their afterlife together, Eridan finds love, Feferi gets her ocean, Terezi and Gamzee stick with Karkat, Kanaya lives with Rose(after restoring her race), John, Dave, and Jade find new hopeful lives, along with Jake, Jane, Roxy, and Dirk... but Hussie wont end it happily I bet.
@rubyhikariyuu I think the Cacedus (the snake+staff symbol) is meant to represent UU's group as a whole, not her personal symbol. Pretty much in the same way the rage-head thing represented the Trolls before their personal symbols were shown. That and I'm fairly sure UU is the pre-scratched Troll equivalent to Karkat, but due to glitches (glitches mentioned by Scratch in canon) she and her group ended up in the wrong session (so she took Karkat's place, and Karkat took hers, for example).
In GodsGiftToGrinds' SBURB Glitch FAQ, the fanmade aspect of Stars centers around gravity and fate. One of their abilities, [ocean star], twinkles in the sky and waits to drop until the very last moment, when the Star player is ready to die. This ability, [Ocean Star Falling], grants massive buffs and turns the tide of the combat. The ability captures the feeling of this song perfectly. It starts quiet and reserved as the player lies half-dead, and then becomes chipper and tense as the star descends. And then the song explodes as the tide suddenly changes in the player's favor, electric guitars and singing conveying newfound hope.
I tend to look around the songs and read the comments about theories and stuff. it's actually a wonderful passtime :D Gives you a bit of insight on what other people think.
I'm pretty sure we don't know who the pre-scratch trolls are, but we do know both generations of post-scratch trolls. Because it said that the Signless (Karkat's ancestor) remembered the old pre-scratch society, so the ancestors were not pre-scratch. They therefore must have been in the Post-scratch session, but for some reason they didn't play SBurb, presumably because it hadn't come out yet.
I come back to listen to this song every now and then. It's like a trip through memory lane, from when the fanbase was thriving, new content, constant updates, widespread recognition and all. Seemed like it those good times would never end. But here I am now, crying to the music of such a upbeat song, because its sending me right back through those times, and I know I will never discover the comic for the first time again, like I did a decade ago, never theorize on plot like I once did, never make jokes specific to this fanbase without cringing on the inside, never recognize homestuck merch in public and nerd out over a shared interest with a stranger, never connect with so many people from so many places like that time. And as happy as I am that this webcomic impacted my life like this, a part of me wants to fill the void left behind by a slowly collapsing fandom, but another part wants me to move on, using this as an experience I will never forget. We may have finally got the epilogue and Hiveswap Act 2 may be on the horizon, but that once blazing flame has been reduced to a single waning spark. And I am okay with that. God damnit Hussie it's been a decade, why do you still find ways to hurt me but not make me hate you?
I love the way that, despite being all bright and bubbly like squiddles should be, the song and the picture are actually pretty badass. Seriously, squiddles girl should not be fucked with o_o
Whoa, hey, hey, hey! Don't start hating on such a beautiful video. No the world is not coming to an end because someone decided to go fandom hopping. There are so many fandoms packed so close together it is hard to grow and not bump into another. Everyone doesn't have to hate each other and I really think no one should say that there is such a thing as "the worst fandom". Isn't it just wonderful that we can have more than one mutual intrest between fandoms?
@Metafan459 I'm kind of getting the impression you think the Ancestors were the prescratch Trolls. The Sufferer wasn't a prescratch Troll. We haven't been told anything about the prescratch Trolls, except they had a much more peaceful society, and that they failed because they were in a session they were not spawned for. In a sense, the Sufferer is supposed to be to Karkat like Nanna is to John, but due to the glitches ended up as Nanna is to Jane but in the same session. At least I think so.
@Penningtontj this would make sense, if we weren't told who the pre-scratched versions of the Trolls were. UU is not the Sufferer/Signless. (then again, i could be reading your comment wrong, and please don't think i'm flaming/trolling, i like discussing these sort of things randomly)
"But dont worry, help is on the way. Soon i will launch the lengthy squiddle intermission, documenting the tale of the 48 heroic squiddles who played in the session which created the troll universe" - ............... i don't know if im excited or not :Y
I sort of want to see what the horror terror/squiddles sglub session. Like some kind of homestuck "hyper prequel" if you will. Personally i headcannon that they looked sort of like the characters in splatoon.
Sorry late reply but I agreeeee, Headcanon that the sglub session players are based on a deck of 48 cards excluding aces or something, it's the only pattern I can think of that fits for symbols and the numbers. I'd also like to think the girl in the picture is one of the heart cards.
personally, I think it's Aradia. the girl in the cover art has a sort of roboty-mechanical Aradiabot look to her, and the little nubs in her hair could be Aradia's horns curling, just the curling part not showing, and plus this girl also has long hair. however I have no idea why the squiddles are there so I am probably wrong.
