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confession, sleepless domain is completely not my thing and i was expecting not to like it. but, i love it
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Same. I read it based upon the comics here over the last half week, and it is not my usual genre but it's also great.
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Feb 14, 2020 02:18
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hallelujah posted:confession, sleepless domain is completely not my thing and i was expecting not to like it. but, i love it habeasdorkus posted:Same. I read it based upon the comics here over the last half week, and it is not my usual genre but it's also great. I had the same story but for Kiwi Blitz. Mary Cagle is kind of a master of drawing you in to a story without realizing it even over your initial reservations.
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Feb 14, 2020 02:27
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It helps that she is good at creating likable characters in general.
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Feb 14, 2020 02:29
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hallelujah posted:i wasn't going to read it, because it brings back traumatic memories of my own time as a magical girl, but to shitpost effectively i need some understanding of current notable works I hold your dedication to the art in high esteem.
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Feb 14, 2020 03:12
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I just binged Sleepless Domain, and it really is excellent. I also find Cassidy's actions are way more infuriating with full context. She is going to get dunked on so hard if/when HP finds out what she's done.
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Feb 14, 2020 04:09
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Wittgen posted:I just binged Sleepless Domain, and it really is excellent. I also find Cassidy's actions are way more infuriating with full context. She is going to get dunked on so hard if/when HP finds out what she's done. I really hope that HP or Gabby walks in. I mean, it likely won't happen, but I hope.
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Feb 14, 2020 04:13
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The shoe I'm waiting to see dropped in SD is Tessa's power and etheric element being added to Undine's skills. Because clearly it's in there from how her eyes changed. And we know that Magical Girl powers can be additive since Heartless Punch got a big chunk of her mom's powers because she was a teen mother and thus still a magical girl. So I assume that Undine is gonna zot the gently caress out of some massive beastie the way she already power washed the one that was threatening HP.
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Feb 14, 2020 04:16
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habeasdorkus posted:The shoe I'm waiting to see dropped in SD is Tessa's power and etheric element being added to Undine's skills. Because clearly it's in there from how her eyes changed. And we know that Magical Girl powers can be additive since Heartless Punch got a big chunk of her mom's powers because she was a teen mother and thus still a magical girl. So I assume that Undine is gonna zot the gently caress out of some massive beastie the way she already power washed the one that was threatening HP. You'd think she would display healing powers first, since that was one of those cheaty things Tessa had and healing & water tend to go hand in hand, but no it will be gently caress you lasers. it will happen this fight, Cassidy will make the connection and then keep digging the hole deeper by claiming Undine STOLE Tessa's powers e: Actually I said that as a joke but that seems like something that could actually happen as Undine gets more incensed and it is absolutely something Cassidy would say rannum fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 04:28
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habeasdorkus posted:The shoe I'm waiting to see dropped in SD is Tessa's power and etheric element being added to Undine's skills. Because clearly it's in there from how her eyes changed. And we know that Magical Girl powers can be additive since Heartless Punch got a big chunk of her mom's powers because she was a teen mother and thus still a magical girl. So I assume that Undine is gonna zot the gently caress out of some massive beastie the way she already power washed the one that was threatening HP. That's a good explanation for why she was able to do the cutting water beam thing.
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Feb 14, 2020 04:42
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If SD ends up with voltroning Magical Girls to beat a final boss, I will be 100% ok with that. e: another thing I just realized is that Rue must have been getting loving hammered to near death on solo patrol if she was coming into school with injuries, because she has healing talents. So for her to walk in with continuing battle damage, she must have been fighting some pretty scary monsters. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 04:51
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habeasdorkus posted:If SD ends up with voltroning Magical Girls to beat a final boss, I will be 100% ok with that. Be careful what you wish for. Kiwi Blitz ended (ostensibly, it's not quite done yet) because it's big bad 1) couldn't speak German, 2) publicly betrayed all her competent goons, and 3) didn't anticipate that the robot girl she paid to have hacked to be her slave could be counter-hacked against her by someone else. Celeste Jones is an idiot.
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Feb 14, 2020 04:55
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nine-gear crow posted:Be careful what you wish for. Kiwi Blitz ended (ostensibly, it's not quite done yet) because it's big bad 1) couldn't speak German, 2) publicly betrayed all her competent goons, and 3) didn't anticipate that the robot girl she paid to have hacked to be her slave could be counter-hacked against her by someone else.
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Feb 14, 2020 05:12
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i love undine because she apologises all the time and is a squirtle
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Feb 14, 2020 05:17
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The Lone Badger posted:If she was smarter the protagonists would have been in much less danger. Oh yeah. Steffi is a world-class idiot, and the only reason she has survived the events of the comic so far is that every opponent she has faced is/was dumber than she was.
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Feb 14, 2020 05:20
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rannum posted:Just one of those things you don't think too much about beyond the gulf between Magical Girl School and Normal School or how no one has cell phones since it's just the conceit of "modern day magical girl" setting It's been a while, but wasn't there a bit about how radio signals don't work? Which presumably is to explain why magical girls don't all have radio links while they're on patrol in case poo poo goes sideways and they can call others for help or something. The city in general doesn't seem to have 21st century levels of technology, actually. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 06:08
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MikeJF posted:It's been a while, but wasn't there a bit about how radio signals don't work? Which presumably is to explain why magical girls don't all have radio links while they're on patrol in case poo poo goes sideways and they can call others for help or something. Flare guns would be a pretty good idea, now that you mention it.
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Feb 14, 2020 06:57
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The Lone Badger posted:Flare guns would be a pretty good idea, now that you mention it. Yeah, I was thinking that myself. Ah well, maybe they tried it and it just made monsters swarm or something.
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Feb 14, 2020 06:59
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There have been flares in this comics, actually, in HP's flashback to what happened to her mum. They were shown to be specifically an emergency thing to be used by civilians when there's a breach and no magical girl is around, as a "hey get the gently caress over here" signal.
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Feb 14, 2020 07:13
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nine-gear crow posted:Oh yeah. Steffi is a world-class idiot, and the only reason she has survived the events of the comic so far is that every opponent she has faced is/was dumber than she was. That and her boyfriend is dedicated to keeping her alive no matter what, yes.
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Feb 14, 2020 14:00
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Mikl posted:There have been flares in this comics, actually, in HP's flashback to what happened to her mum. They were shown to be specifically an emergency thing to be used by civilians when there's a breach and no magical girl is around, as a "hey get the gently caress over here" signal. Zoe's cousins were also pretty lucky now that i think about it. It wouldve been pretty hard to get a flare off in that situation without someone distracting the monster, undine and kokoro being near enough to hear the screams (iirc) was good happenstance
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Feb 14, 2020 14:52
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Finished reading Sleepless Domain's archives. Hahaha wow everything is hosed up eight ways from Sunday in this world.
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Feb 14, 2020 17:40
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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rannum posted:You know following that ice trail, grandma kokoro had to have ran past the ice monster to get outside. That whole situation was awful but she was probably lucky to get the flare off at all Like, you could read that whole situation as either it was self-aware and cunning enough to deliberately keep the screaming baby alive and hide in the corner to lure people in (unlikely, esp as everyone that could have been lured in is meguca), or it broke the inner barrier and did directed attacks at Kokoro's mom and grandparents, but then just stopped. Maybe it only attacked people it could see, and had a simplistic enough intelligence it didn't actually realize Kokoro was in the closet bc it couldn't see her?
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Feb 14, 2020 17:47
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yeah, there's something weird about how HP's family were killed. The monster was just chillin' in a corner of the room when they found it. Makes me wonder if there's more to it than just tragedy.
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Feb 14, 2020 18:00
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Definitely the creepiest monster seen so far. It does seem super strange it just sat in the corner. Way different than other monsters. Also, I have a feeling that civilization might exist elsewhere. The dude from outside the city had a kind of grenade that seemed to a) be higher tech than stuff we’ve seen in the city and b) seemed to be designed for the specific purpose of killing monsters. Also does not at all seem to be something he could have fabricated himself
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Feb 14, 2020 20:29
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I don't recall this dude from outside the city. Is this the one that was running around during Undine's first night back, that she assumed was homeless because he was in the streets?
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Feb 14, 2020 20:41
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habeasdorkus posted:yeah, there's something weird about how HP's family were killed. The monster was just chillin' in a corner of the room when they found it. Makes me wonder if there's more to it than just tragedy.
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Feb 14, 2020 20:41
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Malpais Legate posted:I don't recall this dude from outside the city. Is this the one that was running around during Undine's first night back, that she assumed was homeless because he was in the streets? EDIT: I would need to search to find the pages, but there's a single-page snapshot of his notes where it mentions trying to translate/interpret the patterns that always show up, and if you check inner barrier scenes there tends to be patterns with two lines and then markings inside those lines changing and flowing.
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Feb 14, 2020 20:42
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Like just as the quickest example I could find you can see 3 examples here And from a few pages earlier, you see how the markings appear where they weren't before. It's just a really cool design detail that's hard to spot unless pointed out, then you can't unsee it.
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Feb 14, 2020 20:49
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He could be from the city, but sneaking around at night so he can investigate the barriers and stuff. That was my interpretation of his deal.
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Feb 14, 2020 22:34
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I forget, do they ever explain the barriers? Are they something not understood or technology created the city? It's weird how they give the magical girls a different light show every night.
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Feb 14, 2020 22:55
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They are able to open and close the barrier but it's not clear if the city controls it. Honestly we've seen virtually nothing about what the city government knows or does, beyond some basic research into the magical girl phenomenon.
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Feb 14, 2020 23:15
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Rereading the early part of the comic to find the guy's notes. I forgot how different the old art was, because of the different artist. https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/interstitial-3 here's the look at the guy's notebook. He writes things like "locals" so he probably is an out of town guy also i remembered the dick bullying Zoe but I forgot she dragged Undine into it https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-4-page-10
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Feb 14, 2020 23:26
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I think it does look like daughter of the lilies didn't really seem to know where it was going for a while after its big anticlimactic (imo) reveal and the gang just wandered around in the forest reading a book for the last year or two with sporadic updates. The latest page is another filler page that literally says "Currently writing / figuring out the rest of the dang story" which pretty much confirms to me that there hasn't been any real direction in a while and still wont be unless something gets figured out. I may be wrong but I get the feeling that the author really likes their characters, maybe even their setting, but really just doesn't know what else to do with them after the primary original story was told.
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PetraCore posted:Like just as the quickest example I could find you can see 3 examples here Regarding this stuff, I remember the author saying on twitter thatthere is a pattern to the markings on the wall, and a reader has figured it out.
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Ditocoaf posted:He could be from the city, but sneaking around at night so he can investigate the barriers and stuff. That was my interpretation of his deal. he's pretty explicitly from outside of the city - Anemone expresses no surprise that her "omniscience over the city" power doesn't work on him (as opposed to Gold and Purple, who she also can't track and isn't sure why), and in his conversation with Undine he uses "Jesus" as an exclamation, which is extremely anachronistic to the setting. also the character polls list him as "the outsider", but that's probably cheating.
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Feb 14, 2020 23:47
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His name is Marc, by the way, according to the tags his rat is nicodemus
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Feb 14, 2020 23:48
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The monster was scared. And sad. It wasn't lurking in the corner, it was holding its knees and shaking. Which isn't like any of the other monsters we've seen, obviously. edit: https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-10-page-31 yeah look at the body language on this page. I read that as someone trying to process something overwhelmingly lovely. Benagain fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Feb 15, 2020 00:18
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rannum posted:His name is Marc, by the way, according to the tags Also he introduces himself outright. New page by the way. I wonder what happens if both of Cass' forms are damaged at the same time.
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Tenebrais posted:Also he introduces himself outright. Spoilered because it hasn't been a few hours.  Also that looks like Bud's word balloons?
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