This week: Eridan has a lot of feelings, Vriska has a lot of irons in the fire, Sollux saves a princess, Hussie gets meta. Karkat writes some memos. Pages 4349 to 4447. Hamometer reading: 31.09% complete. 61.49% to [S] Cascade! Next week: The cycle of troll-girl revenge keeps turning. Karkat and Terezi have history. Aradia tells us how this is all going to end. Pages 4448 to 4525. Questions? Give us a mention on Twitter (@hamsteakpodcast) or send an ask to hamsteakpodcast.tumblr.com! Listen from the iTunes store or at hamsteakpodcast.libsyn.com! Your hosts are portmanteau connoiseur Alex (leafcrunch on tumblr, @crunchleaf on twitter) and notorious cloud-gawker Lydia (brickchip on both). Homestuck, as always, is created by Andrew Hussie. You can read it for free at mspaintadventures.com. Intro music is “Showtime (Original Mix)”, by Malcolm Brown. Outro music is “Showtime (Piano Refrain)”, also by Malcolm Brown, arranged & performed by Kevin Regamey. Both are on the album "Homestuck vol. 1-4", available to listen and download on Bandcamp.

This week: We finally round out our cast, meeting the last three trolls. And Rufio. We also learn what the heck is up with troll romance, so Lydia won't have to handwave and say "it's complicated!" when it comes up anymore. Everyone is terrible, except when they aren't. Pages 4121 through 4348. Hamometer reading: 28.89% complete. We didn't hit that 29%, shoot! Next week: I have no idea. In case it wasn't immediately obvious from the drastic downturn in quality, Alex is writing these shownotes because Lydia is currently driving across America (downwards). Questions? Give us a mention on Twitter (@hamsteakpodcast) or send an ask to hamsteakpodcast.tumblr.com! Listen from the iTunes store or at hamsteakpodcast.libsyn.com! Your hosts are interim shownoter Alex (leafcrunch on tumblr, @crunchleaf on twitter) and nation-voyager Lydia (brickchip on both). Homestuck, as always, is created by Andrew Hussie. You can read it for free at http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ . Intro music is “Showtime (Original Mix)”, by Malcolm Brown. Outro music is “Showtime (Piano Refrain)”, also by Malcolm Brown, arranged & performed by Kevin Regamey. Both are on the album "Homestuck vol. 1-4", available to listen and download on Bandcamp. Read more at http://hamsteakpodcast.libsyn.com/#xgSHqr67mohG5hJU.99

This week: Spider Girl and Robot Guy are worse than you thought (also we get their names this week). An entirely new class of being shows up, and he's pedantic and terrible. There were, like, funny moments at least? Pages 4065 to 4135. Hamometer reading: 27.28% complete. 53.97% to [S] Cascade! Next week: Troll girls get revenge. White Text Guy gets a name and a face. Karkat gets an unlikely ally, and we all get to see why he's so cagey about his blood. Pages 4136 to 4220. Questions? Give us a mention on Twitter (@hamsteakpodcast) or send an ask to hamsteakpodcast.tumblr.com! Listen from the iTunes store or at hamsteakpodcast.libsyn.com! Your hosts are portmanteau connoiseur Alex (leafcrunch on tumblr, @crunchleaf on twitter) and notorious cloud-gawker Lydia (brickchip on both). Homestuck, as always, is created by Andrew Hussie. You can read it for free at http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ . Intro music is “Showtime (Original Mix)”, by Malcolm Brown. Outro music is “Showtime (Piano Refrain)”, also by Malcolm Brown, arranged & performed by Kevin Regamey. Both are on the album "Homestuck vol. 1-4", available to listen and download on Bandcamp.

This week: Tavros and Nepeta! They are lovely kids. ArachnidsGrip! She is mean and insufferable. Robot guy! He is mysterious and creepy. GrimAuxiliatrix! She's helpful, she rides a bus-sized insect, and this week she puts her chainsaw to work. Alex is briefly convinced that Tinkerbull's nose ring is an enormous fly proboscis. Pages 3992 to 4064. Hamometer reading: 26.42% complete. 52.26% to [S] Cascade! Next week: Tavros remembers the accident. ArachnidsGrip has a bad habit, a good friend, a mysterious frenemy and a doomsday device. Two more lusii die. Robot guy confirmed for The Worst. Pages 4065 to 4135. Questions? Give us a mention on Twitter (@hamsteakpodcast) or send an ask to hamsteakpodcast.tumblr.com! Listen from the iTunes store or at hamsteakpodcast.libsyn.com! Your hosts are portmanteau connoiseur Alex (leafcrunch on tumblr, @crunchleaf on twitter) and notorious cloud-gawker Lydia (brickchip on both). Homestuck, as always, is created by Andrew Hussie. You can read it for free at http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ . Intro music is “Showtime (Original Mix)”, by Malcolm Brown. Outro music is “Showtime (Piano Refrain)”, also by Malcolm Brown, arranged & performed by Kevin Regamey. Both are on the album "Homestuck vol. 1-4", available to listen and download on Bandcamp.

This week: Terezi gets introduced via larping. Sollux gets introduced so that a spooky troll girl can inform him that his game will probably be the end of the world. Karkat blows his computer up and things get ominous. Pages 3929 to 3992. There's also: How Jesus Christ got his name. https://twitter.com/neilyourself/status/547944131008688128 Hamometer reading: 25.55% complete. We've read ONE FOURTH of Homestuck, and we're more than halfway (50.54%) to [S] Cascade! Next week: Three new trolls will get names. Another three will appear for the first time. Everybody's got weird mind powers, and uncomfortable relationship dynamics will abound. Also there's a chainsaw. Pages 3993 to 4064. Questions? Give us a mention on Twitter (@hamsteakpodcast) or send an ask to hamsteakpodcast.tumblr.com! Listen from the iTunes store or at hamsteakpodcast.libsyn.com! Your hosts are portmanteau connoiseur Alex (leafcrunch.tumblr.com, @crunchleaf) and notorious cloud-gawker Lydia (brickchip on both). Homestuck, as always, is created by Andrew Hussie: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ Intro music: “Showtime (Original Mix)” by Malcolm Brown. Outro music: “Showtime (Piano Refrain)” by Malcolm Brown, arranged & performed by Kevin Regamey. Both are on Bandcamp: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-1-4