Paradox Space


 * For the reality in which Homestuck takes place, see paradox space.

, often stylized as PxS, is a sister project to MS Paint Adventures that was launched on April 13, 2014, to celebrate Homestuck's fifth anniversary. The site will feature many comics that detail unseen events in paradox space and hypothetical "what if?" scenarios. The canonicity of Paradox Space comics has been addressed by Hussie as follows:
 * For any given story, it is either "Definitely Not Canon" or "Possibly Canon". But no story should ever be regarded as "Definitely Canon", unless Homestuck itself confirms those events retroactively in some manner.

The launch of Paradox Space boasted six pages in one day, and the subsequent standard schedule has been set as one page per weekday. As of occasional "2X UPDATE COMBO WEEKS" will occasionally occur, wherein there will be two pages every weekday, with the two pages going up at different times.

As of 5/16/2014, Paradox Space uses a to give credit to the artists and writers, as well as to categorize story pages and make yet more side jokes that could not be covered with alt text.

Stories
John wakes up on the morning of his thirteenth birthday, goes about his daily morning routine, and accidentally steps in a cake his dad had just left outside the door of the bathroom. John blows out the candles, and it is reminiscent of Breath powers. Paradox Space title drop is made. Gamzee throws a JUGGALICIOUS TALENT CARNIVAL, encouraging the severed heads of his dead friends to impress him, with gold star stickers (AKA "glitter biscuits" and "pointy-ass glam badges") as motivation. Tavros wins, obviously, thanks to his impressive personal talents. John is celebrating his birthday at a zoo, and he approaches Dave with concerns about monkey-on-monkey violence. Dave berates him for thinking of the most non-random "random thing" possible. It then turns out that John was telling the truth. John captchalogues two fanciful harlequins, sending glass shards flying at his birthday present. Unlike in the HS 2083 (alpha timeline), John then captchalogues a third harlequin, sending the PDA flying and knocking off the harlequin's other arm. As a result, whenever Jack Noir tries to put on the Black Queen's Ring, both of his arms disappear and the ring falls off immediately afterwards. Realizing that they're in a doomed timeline, the kids decide to go watch a movie. Becquerel teleports around the world and fetches a number of balls and other sports equipment, which he brings back to Jade's house. After completing his sports pile, Bec goes upstairs and falls asleep next to Jade; oblivious to his activities, she calls him lazy. Vriska and Eridan engage in a game of Flarp aboard their respective vessels. To board Eridan's ship, Vriska rolls a very lucky number 20 on her dice roll. Eridan is not as fortunate and rolls a 1 in return, summoning a "critical whale." The whale starts putting Eridan down, which distracts him. Vriska uses this opportunity to make a quick move, which Eridan seems to think may have been a cheating one. She then demands he hand over his slaves, which are revealed to be real live lowbloods playing the role of slaves on Eridan's ship. Vriska apparently plans to feed them to her lusus. Eridan misinterprets Vriska's powergaming attitude as caliginous flirting, and offers to play along in exchange for a hatesnog, Vriska is shocked, disgusted and infuriated, attacking Eridan with the Fluorite Octet and destroying his ship, leaving him floating on a chunk piece of the hull while the whale continues to chastize him. At the Teen Con Air Finals, a contest to see which teens can best reenact the ending of Con Air, John is excited to be a competitor. Karkat is not happy to be there, complaining about having to watch the same "godawful" scene so many times, but Roxy and Terezi mock his disdain. After completing her act, Vriska arrives backstage and shoves John into Karkat, claiming that no one will be able to beat her. John scoffs at her bragging, saying that he and Roxy will win because they have true love of the movie. Roxy admits she's never seen it, then reassures him by saying she'll wing it. The pair go on, and Terezi encourages them by saying "BREAK YOUR LEGS, GUYS! BREAK ALL OF THEM!!!" As John recites all of his character's lines verbatim without breaking character, Roxy becomes gradually more embarrassed and self conscious about her improvisation attempts. Before this progression comes to a head, John abruptly stands up, realizing he missed a line, and cries while embracing Roxy. The two leave the stage and he cheerily asks Karkat and Terezi how they did, and in response the two exchange offput glances before Karkat loudly informs John that "IT WAS CRAP!!!!!" Roxy is hopeful that this means she and John will win best comedy performance, but Terezi dashes their hopes by pointing out that nobody was laughing. Wayward Vagabond is revealed to be the judge, and he awards the grand prize of the house cup and an autographed soundtrack CD to the "evil team": Vriska, Caliborn, Lil Cal, and Lil Seb, for having the most technically accurate portrayal. WV then abruptly takes back the prize and awards the "stupid team" (John, Roxy, and Casey) an additional six billion points for their pure-hearted love of Con Air, making them the new winners of the grand prize. Two Dersites are trying to work on an article for "The Enquiring Carapacian", but nothing had happened that day. They suggest a number of weak stories, and begin to panic as they've clearly run out of ideas. Just as they've given up, a fiery beam appears in the sky above and destroys Derse's moon. Once they realize what has happened, the two Dersite journalists begin to celebrate because they finally have a news story to write about. A sequel to "A Fun Day for Bec." God Cat teleports around the world, hunting and killing a number of animals. Jane gets home from school to find GCat resting ontop of a lump on her bed, which she discovers is a pile of the animals GCat killed (as well as a potted cactus, a snowman and some potatoes). Dad and John are on a shopping trip, and John has become extremely bored after spending five hours at the HS 5305 (Dadly Depot). John asks if he can borrow Dad's PDA, claiming that he wants to look up nose hair trimmer prices online, and when he gets it he boots up Pesterchum and asks Dave to help him. Dave calls John's situation a "bogus dad crisis" and expresses jealousy of taking trips to the Dadly Depot, as his Bro (who is clearly not his father) only takes him to brajstop. Dave goes on to describe the typical brajstop store to John, which includes many Bro-related items. Dave then remarks that Bro always left him in the ball pit room - except there weren't any balls in there. Dave elaborates that Bro left him in a concrete pit in the floor, where Dave would lie alone with his thoughts, making "bored noises". He claims it builds character, in theory, and suggests John's Dad might be trying to do a similar thing by bringing John to the Dadly Depot. After Dave excuses himself from the conversation by stating that the beats won't drop themselves, John Runs up to Dad and tells him that the nose hair trimmer is a steal. As Dad is loading his NOSE WIZARD into the cart John, asks if he could have one too, and Dad grabs him the nose wiz jr! Parcel Mistress is collecting a package on LOWAS. The salamander asks for a gear in exchange for it, so she makes her way to LOHAC. Once she finds what she is looking for, she helps to roll it off the tail of a crocodile. She inquires as to whether she can take the gear, and the crocodiles first demand an ice cube (containing a flower within) from LOFAF for the injured one's tail. Once on LOFAF, she sees a local iguana try to obtain one of said ice cubes and fail, falling over. She asks if she can take one of the ice cubes, but the iguana request a jar of sand from LOLAR from her. She arrives on the planet, asking some nearby turtles for a jar of sand, but they appear to be preoccupied with worry, fear, or confusion. They are next seen shaking martinis on the engraved tablet ordering PM to fetch the gear, while she runs off in the background with a jar of sand. She brings this sand to LOFAF to ease the slippery ice slope for the iguana, brings the ice to LOHAC for the crocodile's tail, and brings the gear to LOWAS, where the salamander has used it as a planter. PM then delivers the box to the White Queen, who opens it and hands it to PM, the gift being a brand new golden mail bag with a thank you note attached to it. Sweet Bro is swimming in the ocean, engage in all its deep, mind-rending, third-eye-opening wonders. After he has had his fill of taking in the deepest secrets of the universe, he opens a clam on the ocean floor, intending to claim its pearl for himself. It opens up to reveal Hella Jeff waiting inside, who reveals he robbed the clam first. What he did with the pearl is currently unknown. We may never know. Nepeta is showing Equius how to hunt on LOLCAT. She jumps playfully into the air at an imp before kicking it very hard in the face. The imps are all visibly frightened, as they should be. Nepeta then calls back telling Equius it's his turn, so he starts charging an imp who looks very frightened, as they are launched into the distance and blown up by a punch from Equius, Nepeta suggests keeping the prey near next time.
 * 1) "" (6 pages, written by Andrew Hussie, art by Zack Morrison)
 * 1) "" (3 pages, story and art by Jonathan Griffiths, lettering by J.N. Wiedle)
 * 1) "" (2 pages, story and art by KC Green)
 * 1) "" (7 pages, story and art by Zack Morrison, lettering by J.N. Wiedle)
 * 1) "" (2 pages, story by Rachel Rocklin, art by Matt Cummings, lettering by J.N. Wiedle)
 * 1) "" (6 pages, story by Benito Cereno, art by Kristen Kemper, lettering by J.N. Wiedle.)
 * 1) "" (9 pages, story and art by David McGuire, lettering by J.N. Wiedle)
 * 1) "" (4 pages, story by Matt Boyd and art by Ian McConville)
 * 1) "" (2 pages, story by Rachel Rocklin, art by Matt Cummings)
 * 1) "" (8 pages, story by Andrew Hussie, art by Hanni Brosh, lettering by J.N. Wiedle)
 * 1) "" (7 pages, story by Phil Gibson, art by Evan Dahm)
 * 1) "" (1 page, story and art by KC Green)
 * 1) "" (3 pages, story by Phil Gibson and art by Adrienne Garcia)

Alt text
Many Paradox Space pages feature alt text captions, which can be viewed by hovering one's cursor over the image on a desktop computer. Anyone on the PXS team can add, alter, or remove alt text; a result of this alt text may not be added to a page until several stories later, causing it to be "missed" unless old pages are re-read. As alt text can be retroactive, in some cases the alt text for a particular page may be a result of the fandom's comments or reactions to the page.
 * Welcome to Paradox Space.
 * "Headed for Stardom"
 * by which he does not mean bowling. because THAT, that would be gross
 * March Hare-idan
 * cosplayers: please don't put stickers on your eyes. not even for "authenticity"
 * john's personal record is just a post-it note on dave's desk that says "monkeys"
 * "Prototyped"
 * if you removed homestuck from the internet and replaced it with just that last panel, no one would ever realize it
 * you thought trolls were insectoid but they're actually related to pacmans
 * GOOD DOG. BEST FRIEND.
 * "Critical Miss"
 * we can say "f8ck" but not that other word shhh
 * critical whale <3< eridan OTP
 * This week, Paradox Space will update with two pages per day (these will only appear on "2X Update Combo Weeks")
 * "Con Faire"
 * obviously this comic is 100% canon in every way
 * only the purest and truest nic cage fans can shed tears like this
 * yes. you. you were laughing
 * Allegedly changed a few hours after being added, the original alt text was apparently: except you. you were laughing
 * "The Evil Team" is just a cute lil nickname. Don't overthink this.
 * Also, Vriska, you tried to mind-control the judge, so, you know... not cool.
 * "Deadline Day"
 * If whatever news source you use doesn't bill itself as a sleazy rag, you're being lied to
 * Temporarily removed with no replacement.
 * I dunno, I think "Hurp bloop bluh" goes unrecognized too often these days.
 * I actually kinda want to know what happened with the cake kerfuffle.
 * I suppose you could call this... *sunglasses* ...breaking news?
 * Hooray! A tragedy!
 * oh hey i brought you something
 * "Quality Time"
 * dibs on "bogus dad crisis" as the name of my new band
 * you tried to click that, didn't you
 * dave has a black belt in high fives
 * you pick up those beats right now young man
 * everyone needs a good nose trimmer
 * <>< BEAUITFIOL
 * "Hunting Lesson"
 * ( =①ω①=)
 * (╬⁽⁽ ⁰ ⁾⁾ Д ⁽⁽ ⁰ ⁾⁾)
 * (╬⁽⁽ ⁰ ⁾⁾ Д ⁽⁽ ⁰ ⁾⁾)

Tags
Many of the on the comic pages identify the writer and artist of the story. Others are helpful by identifying characters present on the given page. However, some of these tags, the "unsaturated" ones, are merely additional notes and (most often) jokes. This section serves as a reference and archive for those tags.


 * #welcome to paradox space
 * #every fuckin glitter biscuit
 * #kc green
 * #sports
 * "Critical Miss"
 * #critical wh8le
 * #those eyebrows
 * #cake kerfuffle #malodorous monarchs #bloop bluh blurp #are those words
 * #dead animal pile #barkley
 * #high fives

Multi-page tags

 * #derse
 * #a fun day

Trivia

 * 404 and 500 errors on the site are accompanied by one of a selection of images featuring Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff and one of Sollux fixing a computer for Equius. The 404 and 500 error page art was

John's Birthday

 * According to the, this comic takes place in the same zoo previously seen in KC Green's Gunshow and Horribleville.
 * "Bears with guns" and "seals with grenades" are callbacks to the aforementioned comics.
 * The kid with the toque and glasses appears to be a young KC Green.

Prototyped

 * The glass shards' captchalogue codes on page 1 read (being posted just after 4/20) and
 * This story marks the first time that Jack Noir has on-screen dialogue, rather than his speech being described entirely through narration.
 * This story was originally going to be titled Armless, but it was decided that that made the conclusion too obvious.

Con Faire

 * The captain at the beginning, judging by the background color of their text box, as well as their status as captain, is possibly the Helmsman.
 * The alt text might possibly be a jab at fans on the forums who produced a massive critical backlash at John's Birthday, the first non-canon comic.
 * The curtains and general stage setup resemble both Caliborn's HS 8143 (Homosuck site theme change) and the HS 8575 (Wizard of Oz stage in Jade and Calliope's dream bubble.)
 * Terezi keeps changing the location of her blindfold: she wore it normally, as a bandana, as a headband, as a scarf, as a belt/dragon cape tail, and as a different style of scarf.
 * The alt text on was added retroactively in response to some forum comments.

Summer Sea Fun

 * This comic may be a reference to this exchange between Damara and Meenah: