Cascade Appreciation Thread

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Friday, August 22nd, 2025, 2:42 AM14 days ago

I just spent the last 24 hours watching Cascade twice with two separate friends (both of whom I talked into reading Homestuck a while ago) and wow it was an experience. Watching it again and being able to see the insane reactions from my friends was a truly wonderful experience and it really made me appreciate what a truly monumental achievement Cascade is. Even during my first read I knew "oh yeah, this is the absolute best its going to get, there's literally zero way this could ever be topped" and I was not surprised (or dissapointed honestly) when that ended up being the case. While I think pretty much every part of HS has at least some merit and something to appreciate in there and there weren't any parts I straight up hated (with one major exception *glares at Openbound*), Cascade by itself is so fucking good that I genuinely think the rest of Homestuck could have been absolute garbage and it would have still been a worthwhile reading experience for me just for that. That there's so much good stuff even after that point just makes it even better. People throw around the term a lot, but it actually applies here: Cascade is Peak Fiction.


Friday, August 22nd, 2025, 3:06 AM14 days ago

Cascade whips, but as far as im concerned, its only the 5th *maybe* 4th best flash in the comic.

We're slinging doppelgangers in a house of mirrors!

At prices you won't believe, because they don't exist!

SonarCreature
Friday, August 22nd, 2025, 3:29 AM14 days ago

I think Cascade is still my favorite flash in the comic tbh. It's so good and nothing else quite hits the emotional highs it has for me, at least as far as the flashes are concerned. There's not that great a distance tho, so many of the flashes are peak hahah

Blueberry Lunascratch
Friday, August 22nd, 2025, 4:23 AM14 days ago

all i can see when i watch cascade is how many times adobe flash must have crashed when making it

its they

Friday, August 22nd, 2025, 4:29 AM14 days ago

the feeling of watching the screen expand is genuinely the coolest shit in the world. exploded my mind. exploded the world.

the epilogues are the best part of homestuck

lowe Shawthorn
Friday, August 22nd, 2025, 4:40 AM14 days ago

u never forget ur first time watching cascade <3 seeing the animation expand on the website was sooo so cool



lapis
Friday, August 22nd, 2025, 4:41 AM14 days ago

I love [S] Cascade. as much as the next Homestuck, but personally I think the comic has better moments.


In terms of flashes, I'd say that [S] Terezi: Remem8er. has it beat, and even in terms of non-flash segments I think pgs. 3099-3131 have it beat, though that's not exactly a fair comparison

8ut you already knew that, right?

StarlitSelene
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