Aurora Comic

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

A Quick FAQ

Hello! This is the tumblr blog for Aurora, a fantasy webcomic that updates MWF. Sometimes I post other things that breach containment.

You can read the comic HERE.

If the site is misbehaving, I have the whole thing mirrored starting HERE. The latest page can be found at this post HERE.

I get a decent number of asks that either I’ve already answered or I can’t really answer for various reasons. Let’s round ‘em up and categorize them for efficiency and future reference!

What program/tablet do you use for the comic?

I use Clip Studio Paint EX. It’s great, but a little expensive. The drawing tablet I use is a Huion H610PRO.

Can you tell me everything there is to know about {thing/people in world}?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No, because it’s likely that, if it doesn’t matter to the story, I haven’t fully worldbuilt it out, and I don’t want to lock something in that might become a problem later as the story develops. I’m writing a story, not a wiki, and to an extent I want to keep my options open so I can come up with Cool Stuff in future without opening up plot holes. And if it DOES matter to the story, we’re most likely gonna find out anyway, making this Potential Spoiler Territory.

What kinds of things exist in this world? Does {thing} exist in this world?

Same as above. I’m writing a story, not a wiki. If it matters, we’ll see it eventually. If it doesn’t, it’s probably not super fleshed out right now. I don’t want to lock in absolute answers to questions I haven’t fully considered. Also, on the most basic level, this universe works totally differently from reality, so there’s no reason to expect that familiar things from our universe would have easy parallels in this universe.

Can you give me details about the language of this world?

No, because I didn’t build an actual conlang, because I tried once and got bored in five minutes.

Why doesn’t {thing in world} conform to the real-world laws of physics and/or thermodynamics?

Because it’s a fictional fantasy world, and I didn’t spend years working towards my math degree so I could spend my relaxing writing and art time doing more math.

Can you give me spoilers?

No. What? No.

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twstrsaheadcanons asked:

As someone from a more average family, I’ve always been fascinated by your anecdotes about your upbringing. What’s it like to have parents so deeply immersed in fandom, and when did you realize that most kids’ parents have zero familiarity with fandom stuff?

as soon as I brought up renfaires and D&D and filk songs and cthulhu carols at school and got bullied about it :/ made it pretty obvious nobody knew or cared what I was talking about

But it was nice! Being raised in fandom, a thing built entirely from open enthusiasm for things you love, taught me to pursue things not because they were popular or What Was Expected Of Me, but because I loved them. I think it laid some major foundations in my worldview that helped me avoid a lot of normative expectations that wouldn’t have worked for me, just by teaching me from minute one that things that are weird and unpopular can be perfect for you, and things that seem to work for everyone else can not work for you, and that’s okay.

Once you’ve internalized “this seems to be something everyone does/likes/wants, but the thing I want seems to be almost unheard of - and yet I still want it” it may be easier to apply this to things like recognizing one’s orientation (in my case “this all seems boring and weird and extremely limiting, but everyone acts like it’s normal and great, so I think I’m just gonna… not do it”), pursuing unorthodox careers, and just… trying the weird things and seeing what works.

Identifying the things you love doing is already a difficult exercise, and it’s made much more difficult by artificial filters like “these things are Cool And Sexy while these other things are Cringe And Weird and Should Not Be Liked.” Being able to decouple your brain from the high school popularity contest makes the search for your passions that much easier, and I think I started with a serious leg up thanks to the guidance and unconditional support of two absolute nerds.

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flubberblubbered asked:

Heyy, sorry if I'm missing something very obvious but I don't fully understand what Tess is doing on page 4.18. Is she carving a stone spell into the ceiling with her lightning to get VoidErin to fall to the ground? Because in that case I thought she'd have to use a stone lacrima. Or is she just carving a lightning spell and using it to magnetize Erin to the ground, and the sound effect's color being a blend of lightning and stone is because both magics are at play simultaneously?

The breakdown is as follows:

Step 1: Shape lightning into runes for a Sealing spell.

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Step 2: shoot that shit at the ceiling

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Void Dragon has already started releasing his hold on Erin at this point, convinced by Tess’s argument that he needs her to stop Erin’s uncontrolled magic and she won’t do it if he doesn’t bail. The magic isn’t knocking Erin over, he’s falling because the Dragon isn’t holding him up anymore.

Step 3: Spell brands itself into the rock. No stone magic is required for this, although it would have made things easier for Tess - she’s essentially using the lightning to break the rock in extremely precise patterns to spell the runes.

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Sealing spells repel all forms of elemental energy, so this breaks the loop on Erin’s uncontrolled channeling.

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