https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-080

New comic!

- Discussing royal auras with Tara and Andrea (from Part 8 of Balance)

- The "Do I Know You" Anomaly explained (from Part 1 of Hope)

- Correcting seyunolu transformations

- Grace talking about the unicorn dream (Next page after previous reference)

- Grace attempting to perceive magic auras as Po

I like to think it was reasonably possible to have this hypothesis before this page, though I can't really judge how difficult that would have been. As usual, being the cartoonist makes my "how easy this is to guess" meter all sorts of skewed.

I also like to think it's reasonable that Tedd was able to form this hypothesis given the plethora of information they've wound up with.

Sidenote: Recently, I keep wanting to use "plethora" when I mean "a lot of something," and I'm not sure why. Maybe I heard it in something? I know it's not that interesting an enigma, but my brain used to leap to "myriad" instead.

Twilight?

"Twilight" could refer to several things—including a purple unicorn—but I wound up giving it a mention because I recently started listening to the first audiobook of the Twilight book series. I basically know the full summary of the series from other people discussing it in all sorts of detail, but I wanted my own informed opinion (and something to listen to).

I'm less than ten percent done, but so far, some of the perplexing writing choices fascinate me. It's also someone's first novel, and we all have quick and easy access to how I started, so I'm trying not to throw stones. After all, I'm writing this after being the writer of a comic since 2002, and I'm currently—not joking—refreshing my knowledge of basic English grammar so I can write better.

I'll be confident about where to put commas eventually.

All that said, I think editing the first chapter of Twilight—while preserving the story and intent—would be an amazing writing exercise. I brought this up elsewhere, and apparently I'm right, because some teachers have reportedly made students do just that. Neat!

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- Thursday EGSNP

https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-080