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After almost 7 months, 34 hours, 42 work sessions; many hand cramps, wrist pops and tension headaches; several extended breaks for unrelated illness and injury; and an amount of hubris that would make Erin shudder, it's finally done! I am proud to present the full text transcript of Aurora.
All transcription work was done by me. Proofreading and editing done by the lovely @asterism343 ; she also added the rune translations. Be sure to give her a hand too, I couldn't have done this without her! Thanks as well to Auroracord and ATP* for listening to me ramble about it while I worked, encouraging me to be productive, and (more importantly) helping me decide when to let myself rest.
And thanks, of course, to @comicaurora for the incredible comic!
Working on this transcript was a very intense labor of love, and I enjoyed every second of it. It got me to notice a lot of things I wouldn't have otherwise, even after multiple casual rereads. I changed my mind on things a couple times and tried to make this both as streamlined and as useful as possible. Let me know if you have suggestions for any further improvements!
On that note: It's on dark mode for the sake of my migraines, but if anyone wants a light mode, I can make one? It also might not load very well on mobile, she's BIG. Extra disclaimer that Google Docs only shows your name viewing a document if you have edit permissions - so anyone looking through will be anonymous!
I will be updating this with each new page to the best of my ability. So, not immediately when the page drops at 3-4am my time. I need sleep. But it should be up by the end of that day - or, if I'm busy or sick, the week's worth will go up every Friday!
*The discord server we made for this project! If you'd like an invite to stay updated and/or give suggestions, send me an ask (not anonymous) and I'll respond privately with an invite link. Please keep suggestions in the server or in my asks, not comments/reblogs/DMs.
Statistics under the cut! - Not factoring in Aster's work
project started: 12-27-2024
work sessions transcribing: 23
work time, transcribing, up to 2.3.42: 27 hours 15 minutes
linebreak sessions: 19
time for linebreaks, my half: 6hrs 40min
pages on the doc: 240
comic pages completed: 890 (not including pages without dialogue/sfx/runes)
words: 76,170
average rate: 33.66 pages per hour, each chapter taking 63 minutes
Chapter breakdown, as precisely as I could make it:
Okay, so a month of fixing my 3d printer later, I am finally ready to pay Hero Forge 20 bucks to let me have the file for this beauty, so that I can bring it into phyiscal existense and paint it oh so pretty (eventually)
Because of that last part, all the colours are merely illustrations of intent, but especially ignore the poncho - the colours on the site just bugged out on it for some bizzare reason and I couldn't be bothered to fix it since it won't matter in the end
Credit to @narnianvalkyrieofberk for providing the inspiration and proof of concept, as well as generously sharing the actual file to give me a much easier jumping off point.
(I was originally just going to do a couple minor adjustments for printability but then got carried away with the detail work)
