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Added 2024-11-06 03:24:55 +0000 UTCTwo pages today! I didn't feel like doing a public update for reasons I'm finding hard to verbalize. But I'll update the site with these two pages on Friday :)
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Thank you Ashley, your kind words mean so much 🥹 . Hope the night hasn't been too unkind. It's 6am so I cannot write any more, haha
Ava
2024-11-08 05:55:56 +0000 UTCThank you, Ava. They are very good words and I think everyone can read them and take them as sound advice. There was a funny bit on The Daily Show: This is all a little like worrying you have herpes (or cancer) and then going to the doctor and her telling you, yep! You got it! At least we know we got it :) And badasses like you are around to remind us that yes, you can still live a good life amidst terrible adversities. I'm glad you have good healthcare looking out for you.
Ashley
2024-11-07 21:03:36 +0000 UTCAshley. No matter how dark times get, there is always a Forward. It may hurt, so much to move towards it, and there may be people to try to stop you, but if you can, I wish you to try. Death is too final to let anything fall to without a middle finger at it first, even despite the constant, draining feeling of "Hasn't it been truly enough? Haven't I done enough and deserved enough, why does this keep happening?" (Not to imply that is anyone's first thought here, but it is certainly the end of things, and more a literary representation of "bad" here. And on my mind; apologies!) I may not be you (TBD) and this may be such useless advice it's not worth the cable it's sent down, but as you'll know, but someone else saying it could... do something; there are good times to be found within the pavement cracks of an otherwise painful and cumbersome life. I hate to bring my own situation into this as it is not the current topic, but simply for reference and example; I chose instead of a kind and simple, soft experience in palliative care last year, drifting into death through painkillers and cancer alike to instead take my chances fighting my own oncologist, my liver, an enormous primary tumour and in future, three surgeries a month with only a week on average free to sleep all day at home and a forever degrading body at such a young age. It is a nothing life, one may surmise from the outside, with not much future, and only pain to come rather than what I was promised at that nexus last year. But no, I'm finding there's all these little moments. With my boyfriend, reading your work and watching your art, trying to create my own despite it all, meeting and making friends in hospital, and finding that though it all appeared like a terrifying future, and honestly, it is. There are those close, and those afar, that helps you get through on the way. To shorten my point after this long, maybe self indulgent post (I'm somewhat out of it, in hospital again after a surprise severe gastrointestinal infection so you'll have to excuse) - I hope you can find or have those that do similar for you in your life to help you through the coming hard times and storms. It won't be pretty, but you might find pretty things to see on/in your own way - Ava
Ava
2024-11-07 15:26:27 +0000 UTCYessss! It is great that the queen fights for herself and is not rescued by Toma & Elka. Very good twist!
Reed Copperstrand
2024-11-07 07:50:16 +0000 UTCNow I am wondering if there is enough of Roger in him to cause the Etalarche Curse to also apply to Ruck?
HandsomePenguin
2024-11-07 00:47:54 +0000 UTCI see, thanks!
Flyfly
2024-11-06 20:25:09 +0000 UTCthese pages were a good pick-me-up this morning. can't wait to see how this scene ends!
Dr. Badvibes
2024-11-06 17:44:50 +0000 UTCThat kid's gonna have serious PTSD. If she survives this.
czytanie
2024-11-06 17:01:28 +0000 UTCChekov's Slipperiness!
Ashley
2024-11-06 16:54:57 +0000 UTCCertainly a possibility. Though I like the idea that Sonorie knew Hetr and realises he's just an idiot that was misled by Bell.
Ashley
2024-11-06 16:54:29 +0000 UTCJust the one thigh <3
Ashley
2024-11-06 16:53:51 +0000 UTCSonorie has a lot of corpses in her shadow. That's surely one of them - a victim we never met, but that she remembers.
Ashley
2024-11-06 16:53:26 +0000 UTCYeah, I meant to change that "nothing" to "what." I'm going to edit that for Friday's update. As he chases Sonorie - the same way he's been the predator chasing humans and what humans were before they became humans for all of time - WHAT has really changed? Because that superiority is what he wants to preserve. That power he has over them. It still exists and must always exist.
Ashley
2024-11-06 16:52:30 +0000 UTCThanks Cel. This has definitely not been a great year. I didn't even tell you guys I've had Covid the past week, haha, I was starting to feel like a sadsack fountain of endless misery. Your kindness is always appreciated <3 Interesting times ahead!
Ashley
2024-11-06 16:50:16 +0000 UTCI'm sorry Ashley. Thank you for continuing to share your work with us during this time.
metrocube
2024-11-06 14:39:12 +0000 UTCYeah those early panels hurt...
CelebrenIthil
2024-11-06 14:36:01 +0000 UTCFuck I'm Canadian and I could barely sleep for the anxiety and I want to throw up. I can't begin to imagine what that feels to actually live in Florida. Two hurricanes and then this. I am SO sorry things turned out this way. Sending out the warmest internet hugs.
CelebrenIthil
2024-11-06 14:33:24 +0000 UTCIt's my birthday today so thanks for uploading here, at least! And what a joyous update it is!! Sonorie sure slipped into something more comfortable (anywhere else than in Ruck's arms)
jaaama
2024-11-06 14:31:09 +0000 UTCPerhaps Ruck is feeling some indigestion?
jumanji-mongie
2024-11-06 14:07:15 +0000 UTCI'm with you, Ash. My highest priority just became 'getting the fuck out of this poisonous shithole country'. I'm done.
Ascender
2024-11-06 13:06:48 +0000 UTCFirst, he says change comes and how he loves that. Then, nothing changes in this world…?
czytanie
2024-11-06 11:48:58 +0000 UTCThat very last panel feels like a callback to when Turas went for Murkoph: “Hi!” It took me a full minute to think where I’d seen that composition before.
L Anon
2024-11-06 11:35:21 +0000 UTCOn 182 panel 2, who is this soldier to the left? Is this meant to just be a generic Crescian? Looks like a Crescian constabulary like one's we've seen in Ethelmik, though I can't imagine why would such a vision appear to haunt, well, anyone in the scene really.
Flyfly
2024-11-06 07:59:09 +0000 UTCI’m feeling very low, too. Good luck to us all, I guess
Rainwalker
2024-11-06 07:50:03 +0000 UTCDamn, I don't know what to say.
Mek
2024-11-06 07:12:30 +0000 UTCThank you, Cope. I am now able to distract myself from *other things* by wondering where Ruck’s thigh is. He seems to have a bit more Roger in him than on him indeed. But I’m sure it is fine…
Malik M.L. Williams
2024-11-06 06:38:38 +0000 UTCMiddle panel has Hetr. Does that mean that Emil is close?
Rion Boom Crabhands Keon
2024-11-06 06:20:11 +0000 UTCI think they're all pinned to her poncho. Like cub scout badges.
Jeremy Ball
2024-11-06 05:13:58 +0000 UTCI love the color shift in Ruck's eyes in the final panel there.
James Duff
2024-11-06 04:46:09 +0000 UTCOh no Chea dropped her badge! P.S thank you for this needed distraction 🫠
Alexandra Valtakis
2024-11-06 04:34:21 +0000 UTCWell, it probably wasn't a hard request to fill! But I also notice that the dress is left behind near Chea- the dress Elka is tracking. And Sonorie is running away... (I also love the behind the scenes decisions she's making- make Ruck drop Chea and then *get away from her*)
Madison
2024-11-06 04:15:03 +0000 UTCOh that’s the slipperiness aspect
Ben Dennard
2024-11-06 04:12:16 +0000 UTCSonorie: Royal Costumer, I need a dress designed that I can slip out of under even the most extreme confinement! Royal Costumer: OhHOHOHO! Her Majesty has taken a new lover? Sonorie: o/////o B-b-baka!
Ashley
2024-11-06 04:09:11 +0000 UTCI like how Sonorie is fighting to retain her regrets. Fighting to hold on to the pain she feels. I also like how Ruck is being undone by the soul he's swallowed- yes indeed, Ruck, Roger is *in you*. And he has been for a bit. You've changed indeed- how? Are you even aware? I also love the FWIP hehehehe The slippery dress! It's both practical to escape this messy situation AND probably *fun* especially in Cresce
Madison
2024-11-06 04:06:41 +0000 UTCOf course <3 I was more concerned about the content of the update being public than the update itself. Just felt tonally off for such an important night. But patrons are cool and special ;)
Ashley
2024-11-06 03:53:55 +0000 UTCHe enjoyed oooone little moment of amusement when the Queen did something so silly and so unexpected - but it was very short-lived, haha.
Ashley
2024-11-06 03:52:47 +0000 UTC❤️ And a heart for Sonorie too, what a delightful little twist! Darkly pleasing to see anything but triumph on his face, even if the feeling is Roger's.
CD
2024-11-06 03:45:48 +0000 UTC8O
grim
2024-11-06 03:45:15 +0000 UTCThere's that slipperiness aspect you earned us to watch for!
Spider
2024-11-06 03:40:03 +0000 UTCThis
Spider
2024-11-06 03:37:32 +0000 UTCPoor Chea. Dropped again, head first like a lawn dart...
Jeremy Ball
2024-11-06 03:36:10 +0000 UTCWHAT A PLOY
Vlet
2024-11-06 03:35:23 +0000 UTCI feel the exact same way. We did what we could.
Velasco
2024-11-06 03:34:38 +0000 UTCThanks for giving me something else to think about tonight
Renee
2024-11-06 03:31:28 +0000 UTC
