1.11.4
on January 13, 2021
at 3:00 am
erin explaining how sleep is very important like he hasn’t burned through sleepless nights powered by nothing but fantasy coffee and sheer zest
Aurora
A fantasy webcomic. Updates M-W-F.
erin explaining how sleep is very important like he hasn’t burned through sleepless nights powered by nothing but fantasy coffee and sheer zest
Falst is just casually hanging upside down off a tree on one leg.
He’s making my heterosexuality uncomfortable ?
only uncomfortable?
What ho, fellow heterosexual! Are you enjoying beign straight today?
You may have more experience than me, I Bi-leave 😉
A very confused merman, I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, or you think I’m straight. I’m not, and you can’t convince, me that falst is either.
Actually, Falst is canonically “pretty gay”: https://comicaurora.tumblr.com/post/634309448406532096/youve-shared-the-sexualites-orientations-of-the
(also I think Merman was joking, he isn’t straight too 😛 )
(asking The Lolest)
Would you happen to know where I can find the others’ sexualities?
A very confused merman, impressive osp reference
Welp! Being panromantic I gave up a long time ago.
(Confused ace noises)
(hetero-demi-greyromantic ace noises of solidarity)
(more multispec-cupio-grayromantic oriented ace noises of solidarity)
(sapphic bi-angled arospec ace noises of solidarity)
I love every single person in this reply chain so so much.
(aroase cackling)
(WtfromaticAce noises of ace solidarity)
Can a boring heteromantic ace take part in this wonderful solidarity? (Hello, that’s me)
@Architect of the Stars of course! if you’re ace, you’re ace
(Panromantic ace agreement)
Aw yeah, aspec gang!
there’s so many of us, it’s lovely
(Mad-Cackling Asexual Laughter of Villainous Demiromantic Intent)
(Exceedingly late and confused heterosexual panromantic noises)
*Aego-ace aromantic smile
Guys should we form an ace-spec club or something?
I’m ace too! People think it’s weird but if I don’t want anything to do with kissy-kissy stuff then that’s just fine by me.
YES WE SHOULD
I’d join you
why is your heterosexuality uncomfortable
I enjoy myself with little, I know ?
And here I am, gay as a rainbow, and completely comfortable. Except in my gender (what even is ‘male’, anyway?)
I’m a cis man and even I’m not certain. Gender is a bit of a fuzzy concept if you think about it.
As fuzzy as Falst?
not quite, but close
Of course I as well spend hours looking hetrosexually on his fluffy hair
Nothing but heterosexuals’ for me (laughs nervously while playing with his ace ring to relax himself)
THIS IS OFFICALLY THE BEST PAGE EVER
I honestly think I’m enjoying this arc as much as I enjoyed Erin’s conversation with the Void Dragon, which I thought could never be topped or even reached.
Same tbh
Erin’s expressions on those page . . . oh my GOSH they’re PERFECT
Also, I love it when stories actually acknowledge just how difficult and kind of unpleasant sleeping can be. Sleep can lead to some AWESOME plot threads, as Red is so kindly demonstrating.
Panel 5 is the best. That is the perfect ‘puzzled bow’ I must try to replicate in as many situations as possible.
Erin is gonna write “A Comprehensive Theory of Naps, Slumber and Sleep” to vent his frustration after this.
I’d read that. I need the advice
mood
You called, love?
Jokes aside… I should totally write that manual.
*cough
Whaaat?
What? Did you already write it or something?
I have not, I don’t know why Pinewing is Coughing at me. Is it about the first sentence?
Oh, i see. Your ‘joke’ was so unfunny that it elicited a silent crowd with one person just coughing awkwardly.
Yeah that was it
You guessed it Varda 🙂
YES YES PLEASE DO
Then send it to me. Like I said, I need it
I just want to sleep man
*this page
I meant to reply to myself, whoops
Oh, but I agree! This page, indeed.
Thirded: This Page.
fourth(ed?): This page
fifthed: this page
Sixed: this page
Seventhed, this page
Eighth: this page
Ninethed: this page
THE MOST RELATABLE PAGE EVER I’M WHEEZING
Falst stop flexing in front of everyone ?
Why is it that Red has given me more healthy messages in just this comic alone than most modern media
Can’t wait for Falst & Alinua bonding time while Erin teaches Kendal how to switch off.
Ooooooooooh….
Flump is the most satisfying sound effect in this comic yet. My sleep deprived body FELT that comfortable flump.
Fwomp
Not gonna lie if I had a bag of holding, I’d probably do the same as Erin.
Oh if only it were that simple Kendal. Considering how much of a worrier he is he could struggle to get to sleep due to overthinking.
I think Falst is the only one enjoying this, I wonder if his joking will go down well with Alinua.
Yeah, I kinda feel like what this story really needs at this point is for the whole floof squad to share a good belly laugh. At this point, we don’t know if any of them (except Falst) even has a sense of humor.
Clearly Vash has never had the need or opportunity for a good nap. He doesn’t know what he’s missing out on.
when Kendal said FLUMP
I felt that
I love how Erin was trying to approach the whole thing with a somewhat professional tone and scientific perspective and then immediately lost his mind when the process didn’t go as planned
What made me laugh was how Erin was leaning over expectantly and then Kendal (holding his blond hair out of the way, mind you) said “I don’t think it’s working” ?
I mean, Erin probably doesn’t have much practice teaching newborn godlings how to sleep.
As someone who doesn’t go to sleep quickly I relate to to Kendal more than I would like
Yeah, getting to sleep takes time. I usually just eschew the formal attempt to try going to sleep and think about other stuff until it happens.
Sleep? Who needs sleep??
But really, I agree. I spend a lot of time just rolling in bed trying to sleep. It doesn’t work too well.
Last March, I made the decision to stop sitting in bed all night not sleeping and actually do things instead, like write or watch the entirety of Batman Beyond for the first time. Sleep time comes when I’m actually tired, and not a second earlier.
Now, my sleep schedule is all over the place, and my family keeps voicing concerns about my odd waking hours, but the last 9 months have been some of my most rested in over a decade 🙂
If I may gush about scene writing for a moment…
IKR??? It’s so cool how such different contexts and levels/types of conflict can be evocative and interesting for characters to interact with!!!
I love how Erin is such a busy-body he has to teach Kendal the correct way to sleep.
Meanwhile, Falst is over here in on a tree branch who has probably never slept on anything softer than the forest floor in years. I suspect Falst is the sort to fall asleep standing up if given enough quiet
Probably doesn’t even need quiet ? I’m loving his character!
Why do I get the feeling that Erin may be quoting a speech he heard over a thousand times as a young student staying up way too late practicing all the different ways he could manipulate the fabric of reality?
ok, you have found a valid explanation as to why the scholar know about sleep. He was clearly forced to study it after crashing and sleeping through an exam.
When my seasonal affective disorder decided to hit me with insomnia last summer… I related to Kendal AND Erin simultaneously without realizing it.
Erin and Kendal are literally the last two brain cells of every insomniac on the planet.
I love every scene with Falst is just hanging out in trees.
Alright, but this is absolutely me and my husband re: sleep
yes and Erin no doubt regrets it very much later
I think Kendel Tries to Understand Sleep is my new favorite part of this comic. Erin’s critiques just gild what was already golden.
Very true; also “gilds what was already golden” is a great expression and I shall yoink it for my own use
To gild refined gold,
To paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
Is just being silly. Or something.
Oh Master of the Arts
Teach me thy quality!
(It was a pretty good poem written on short notice. My respect, o great one)
Is that a reference I spy?
He’s only been with the group for 4 pages, but I can already tell Falst is going to provide some much needed dry wit, common sense, and sense of self-preservation.
Ignore me, I’m just overthinking why Erin has purple bedding despite purple being an extremely expensive color to make before the invention of aniline dyes. Is he just that rich? Is the level of technology on Aurora higher than it appears to be? Are there natural sources for bright shades of purple other than hundreds of snail corpses? Do aniline dyes exist but only because of a fluke and they don’t actually accurately represent the level of technology? Does magic play a role? Or did Red just choose to make it purple because purple is a pretty color?
You’re telling me that Erin, in his quest to buy the Most Comfortable Bedding, would not also buy the Most Expensive Bedding?
From what I’ve seen on Red’s comic tumblr account, my guess is either: there’s a natural substance on this planet besides a boatfull of snail corpses that can make purple dye, or: shut up, it’s purple because she said it’s purple.
Let’s be honest here, between Alinua and that bedding, the bedding is not the least unrealistically purple thing in this comic.
I think that in a fantasy world setting with elemental magic we could expect society and technology to leap forwards in some aspects when compared to our medieval times since many operations that required complex machinery to be invented can be achieved just by staring intently to the object.
Or they live on a world with a weird sort of light spectrum due to a weird sun, and so some plants on some part if the world all turned purple because that was the most efficient colour to soak up the sunlight.
TL;DR: The scholar loses his cool over sword guy’s inability to understand something as simple as a good nap.
Aliuna looks really worried. I hope she’ll be alright
Oh my god I accidentally hit the random page trying to update the page and I thought kendal was having a fever dream or smth
Wait until he takes off those boots and Erin gags on the stench
did Erin just build a magic blanket fort? i love it
I’ve been laughing since Kendal fell over three pages ago! XD This is some great character bonding going on!
this is the funniest sequence of pages so far! I’m laughing so hard!
I’ve been listening to a song (long long long journey by bill wurtz) and I wish there was a travel montage I could sync this up to
@xiphoboi I don’t think he’s taken those boots off this entire time.
Sixth: This page
Exactly what I should be reading at 4 in the morning XD
This is reminding me of the scene in Star Trek when Q becomes mortal
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finally, the insomniac representation we’ve been waiting for
I feel very seen.
Image source: relaxing
(Oftentimes, the ones who know what it’s like without it are the most knowledgeable. In other words, Erin has felt the sleep crash energy and does not want anyone to share that fate.)
Falst in the last panel lol?
It really is complicated, though…mood