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“It whispers… through my hair. I feel it in my armpits, in my teeth. The rivers, the lightning, they flow backwards, to the ear of my mind.
They tell me-.
It’s coming.”
Pierluigi Cornodoro, the seven-starred
Final version with texts and translations UP!
So this is definitely the page that took the most time, in part due to low energy ok, but also in a big way because I wanted very much this to be close to mesmerizing pictures from Petra that a friend took. This place is going to feel special, it should look the part.
Thank you for your patience 🙂
For those interested, here are the previous versions of the page :
Image 1
Image 2
And, without the text!
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Done! What did I get myself into… texts and french version are incoming, for now I have to eat and go to work.
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Updated the page somewhat, still not finished, sorry I’m SLOOOOW
I’m less tired but still… and asked myself many questions with the lighting here. It may happen again, Chapter 3 is designed to be challenging to me.
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Eeeeyyyy that page takes tiiime and I’m like falling asleep or wanting to pretty often these days.
So here’s a flat version, I know some of you like that 🙂
I’ll try to sleep and not get covid, and next week you’ll have the beautiful render!
Lao’s language doesn’t look familiar. Text-like doodles, or are you using a script?
Anyway, I like the look of the two texts overlaid like that. It really evokes the feel of hearing a language you only kind of understand – that “translating in the background” feeling.
It is loosely inspired from mongol (if it was in a physician’s handwriting) – commenter Kruos Marifica made an actual alphabet and, though we did not yet agree on pronunciation, she translated the first song at the beginning of the chapter into script that I copied. I did not however make her translate anything that I randomly came up with, so much of the rest is me surfing on what’s already been done, trying to maintain consistency whenever I’m up to it^^.
But, thanks for appreciating them! However small they are, they still take time and mind. Plus, it’s nice to know all this experimenting is paying off 🙂
It’s not openly written everywhere, but this comic is very open to the reader’s suggestions/ideas/questions 🙂 I’ve already implemented some of them, feel free to make more!
This reminds me of travelling across the U.S. with my mother when i was a wee lad and she only had two 8-track cassettes to listen to.
To this day I still can’t stand Marty Robbins or Herb Albert
Then I feel lucky to know nothing about them^^ Yeah, that’s the general mood here – and a setup for – something.
Lao’s caravan playlist has met its match. I love the visualization of the lyrics, and how he is picking up pieces of the language through the songs!
I always felt that the best way to learn a language was to be thrown defenseless into it, and being exposed again and again to the same words, seeing with what intention they’re spoken^^
The visualization is not yet complete, it’s missing the rythm and pitch hints!
But thank you 🙂
wow, lao’s going through it
Get some rest!!!!
Well it was time that the roles reversed somewhat^^
I do, I did, thank you 🙂
Tired, I know tired. Be tired enough to go by a mountain and not notice it.
Or forget appointments entirely^^ luckily, this comic I’m not forgetting!
Yeah, super don’t-get COVID! That thing’s no fun even when it’s playing “nice”.
Sleep well!
For you, I’ll try^^