Also, trust Red to ensure that all the stories that seem to be narrated by her or some all-seeing unnamed narrator entity are actually being told by real in-story characters. Brilliant.
Red said somewhere (I think the Discord? I’m not sure) that she didn’t make a language for Aurora. Conlanging is a lot of work, so it’s fully understandable why she didn’t, but it still makes the amateur conlanger and language learner in me sad.
Yeah, I know about that. But I’m trying to suspend my disbelief and pretend this world is real (which therefore would mean it has an actual language to learn)
Pretty good. I’m drowning in a swamp of schoolwork, but it was my birthday today and I got a lovely illustrated copy of the Great Tales of Middle-Earth, which does sort of make up for the school thing.
“Tahraim, the divine smith, who can forge a weapon that can sunder a storm, who possesses the most gorgeous hair-”
Caliban: “Enough with the embellishments already; I want to hear about Vash parting the clouds, Saitama style.”
(Tahraim hammering at his forge) (Vash comes in)
Vash: Me master rank now!
Tahraim: Heh heh heh! (furious hammering)
Weapon Get! You Got Star Sword! Now with free lovely artisan spirals surrounding it! Seriously, good work on the spirals to convey Tynan’s diminishing power, Vash’s overwhelming might and the fine craftsmanship of the sword. Almost sad to see the storybook vibe go away.
Oh hey, the character page has been updated. Caliban eh? I was expecting Hesta but this is better as it links to that Ignan settlement PML was talking about. From this recounting of the Vash v. Tynan story I get the feeling Caliban knows that Tynan is back, posing a threat to their people and is looking to Tahraim for a solution as he did for Vash. Then again from the asks Red answered Caliban is more of a trickster than a warrior so what can they hope to do?
I noticed in the Character page there are drawings of Tahraim and Caliban that haven’t been in the webcomic itself yet. Were those from the Tumblr or something? We’re they made just for the character page? So many questions
But you have to admit, Caliban’s image looks like when you just pause the movie at a weird spot and the main character is in the middle of talking so their face looks really odd
Even though this week is over, I’ve had a mental soundtrack playing in my head:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wB6hWjNSFw it’s meant to sound like an arriving storm – the part where vash reforges the eye and arm is where the voices all go “THE FIRES THAT I BURN ALL BURN OF YOUUUUU”
Off topic: guys, what are your experiences with literacy teachers (English, literature, whatever the native language of your country is…) All the ones at my school seem to be jerks and my friends in other schools agree. Just wondering if this is isolated or a strange trend.
My 9th grade English teacher was cool. I had the same teacher in 10th and 12th grades; I didn’t like her at first (admittedly for petty reasons), but after seeing plenty of my classmates treat her like shit, I started feeling sympathetic for her. My 11th grade teacher, on the other hand… everyone agreed that she overworked us.
A friend says they have an English teacher who purposefully doesn’t accept pronouns besides she and he. The teacher apparently claims to have “got over her phobias” but the class all agrees she hasn’t.
Meanwhile, my English teacher seems to think insulting students, pretending to apologize, then repeating the insults is fine and dandy. She’s a bitter old lady.
All my English teachers thus far have been very good to me. From what I’ve seen, as long as I’ve tried my best to participate, ask questions, and of course be nice, my teacher would treat me well in return. Most of all, though, I think it’s about patience, which means maintaining good behavior towards your teacher, no matter how big of a butt he or she is to you.
I have an interesting schedule where my social studies (like history), French and English language arts were all taught by the same teacher. Lots of work, but I still like her.
So far so good, though for my first year I had 1 teacher for literacy and 2 for language. I paid quite little attention to my english language teachers because the work there was almost always going to be boring, but for english literature the teachers so far have been quite good. my current one is half a bitter old lady half a comedian, so she’s tolerable.
Mime were pretty good, it was mostly the students who were rowdy to the point of excess with one of them that got to me.
Though it helped that my mum is a former English teacher so I never really struggled with the subject.
Most of mine were fine, but my English teacher in year six terrified me so much I dreaded school, when English had previously been my favourite subject. She had a problem with me for being quiet and playing by myself, seeming to think it meant I thought I was better than the other kids. She would also give you detention for forgetting to put a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. For every missing capital letter, you had to write the offending word out a hundred times. I don’t remember any of my other English teachers being like that though, most of them were my favourite teachers.
oh, so it was TAHRAIM telling the story, and Mx. Caliban here just went snarky
Thanks for using Caliban’s name. Up to this point, I thought they were Tahraim’s emissary.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Suddenly about a billion things make so much more sense and it’s awesome. Red is such a genius
Also, trust Red to ensure that all the stories that seem to be narrated by her or some all-seeing unnamed narrator entity are actually being told by real in-story characters. Brilliant.
Now I want to learn an Aurora-world language. I guess “Kendal” means “right” or “right hand” or “right arm” or something?
https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-3-36/.
“Right Hand”
Red said somewhere (I think the Discord? I’m not sure) that she didn’t make a language for Aurora. Conlanging is a lot of work, so it’s fully understandable why she didn’t, but it still makes the amateur conlanger and language learner in me sad.
Yeah, I know about that. But I’m trying to suspend my disbelief and pretend this world is real (which therefore would mean it has an actual language to learn)
Also, hey! Fellow amateur conlanger!
Who is this sassy child?
That’s Caliban, god of the ignans (fire-adapted humans). They’re a menace.
Better yet, an Agender menace. I’ve only had them for two sentences and I love them.
Aaaaaaah
On an unrelated note, how is everyone doing
Meh, could be better. Thank you for asking though!
*Shrugs* I dunno. Not dead?
Not bad, currently in In-School-Suspension for tardiness
I’m currently drowning In a bunch of school work.
You have my condolences.
Pretty good. I’m drowning in a swamp of schoolwork, but it was my birthday today and I got a lovely illustrated copy of the Great Tales of Middle-Earth, which does sort of make up for the school thing.
Lmao wait so does that mean that Tahraim was referring to himself in the third person the entire time
“Tahraim, the divine smith, who can forge a weapon that can sunder a storm, who possesses the most gorgeous hair-”
Caliban: “Enough with the embellishments already; I want to hear about Vash parting the clouds, Saitama style.”
“Not yet. I need to go over my luscious manicure first”
(Tahraim hammering at his forge) (Vash comes in)
Vash: Me master rank now!
Tahraim: Heh heh heh! (furious hammering)
Weapon Get! You Got Star Sword! Now with free lovely artisan spirals surrounding it! Seriously, good work on the spirals to convey Tynan’s diminishing power, Vash’s overwhelming might and the fine craftsmanship of the sword. Almost sad to see the storybook vibe go away.
Oh hey, the character page has been updated. Caliban eh? I was expecting Hesta but this is better as it links to that Ignan settlement PML was talking about. From this recounting of the Vash v. Tynan story I get the feeling Caliban knows that Tynan is back, posing a threat to their people and is looking to Tahraim for a solution as he did for Vash. Then again from the asks Red answered Caliban is more of a trickster than a warrior so what can they hope to do?
Yeah, Tahraim, they’ve got a point
I understand PML is Erin, but why do you call him PML? Something to do with the Tumblr/Discord?
PML stands for punchy metal lady and refers to our favourite metel-caste lighting mage.
Yeah, Erin’s most popular nicknames include Pompous Nitwit, Icarus, and Sicktats McHubris
TL;DR: Sorry to snark on your story but you could’ve saved him that whole losing an eye and an arm thing.
Vash: “I got better.”
Yes, but clearly your enemy did too.
Vash: But only because I got worse after I got better.
Even so, you did get worse and now the world is paying. You should have never gotten bad or stayed better
I noticed in the Character page there are drawings of Tahraim and Caliban that haven’t been in the webcomic itself yet. Were those from the Tumblr or something? We’re they made just for the character page? So many questions
Maybe you’ll see those a few pages later?
But you have to admit, Caliban’s image looks like when you just pause the movie at a weird spot and the main character is in the middle of talking so their face looks really odd
Tahraim connected the story to a general theme of tyranny. I wonder if he and Caliban are plotting against another tyrant?
*cough*Zuurith*cough cough*
Are you sick?
No, I’m fine; it just smells like a huge asshole in here
Yeah, we’d better bring some air freshener.
Tynan, lurking: My winds are a fresh breeze…
Something given is rarely worth as much as something earned.
Ooooo New Person!
Wise words
Even though this week is over, I’ve had a mental soundtrack playing in my head:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wB6hWjNSFw it’s meant to sound like an arriving storm – the part where vash reforges the eye and arm is where the voices all go “THE FIRES THAT I BURN ALL BURN OF YOUUUUU”
It’s not about the weapon, orange person, it’s about the personal journey.
Oooo new character!
Off topic: guys, what are your experiences with literacy teachers (English, literature, whatever the native language of your country is…) All the ones at my school seem to be jerks and my friends in other schools agree. Just wondering if this is isolated or a strange trend.
My 9th grade English teacher was cool. I had the same teacher in 10th and 12th grades; I didn’t like her at first (admittedly for petty reasons), but after seeing plenty of my classmates treat her like shit, I started feeling sympathetic for her. My 11th grade teacher, on the other hand… everyone agreed that she overworked us.
Odd. I always got on particularly well with my English teachers, and saw forward to their lessons.
A friend says they have an English teacher who purposefully doesn’t accept pronouns besides she and he. The teacher apparently claims to have “got over her phobias” but the class all agrees she hasn’t.
Meanwhile, my English teacher seems to think insulting students, pretending to apologize, then repeating the insults is fine and dandy. She’s a bitter old lady.
And these are examples from one school.
All my English teachers thus far have been very good to me. From what I’ve seen, as long as I’ve tried my best to participate, ask questions, and of course be nice, my teacher would treat me well in return. Most of all, though, I think it’s about patience, which means maintaining good behavior towards your teacher, no matter how big of a butt he or she is to you.
I have an interesting schedule where my social studies (like history), French and English language arts were all taught by the same teacher. Lots of work, but I still like her.
So far so good, though for my first year I had 1 teacher for literacy and 2 for language. I paid quite little attention to my english language teachers because the work there was almost always going to be boring, but for english literature the teachers so far have been quite good. my current one is half a bitter old lady half a comedian, so she’s tolerable.
Mime were pretty good, it was mostly the students who were rowdy to the point of excess with one of them that got to me.
Though it helped that my mum is a former English teacher so I never really struggled with the subject.
Most of mine were fine, but my English teacher in year six terrified me so much I dreaded school, when English had previously been my favourite subject. She had a problem with me for being quiet and playing by myself, seeming to think it meant I thought I was better than the other kids. She would also give you detention for forgetting to put a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. For every missing capital letter, you had to write the offending word out a hundred times. I don’t remember any of my other English teachers being like that though, most of them were my favourite teachers.
Man Kendal beat up a storm god before he even had a brain and it takes me half an hour to build up the nerve to open my homework.
“fear gives one power only as long as one is fearsome”
for some reason i read ‘fearsome’ as ‘handsome’ and just about died
HA
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