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Whoosh!

Part 2 of the first chapter of The Children of Lillith is now online, hooray! In the future, we’re intending for Tuesday to be Update Day, but y’know, don’t hold your breath or anything. The process has seemed to speed up a bit though since the beginning. Are we getting our shit together? Who knows? Find out next time, on Manic Depressive Comics!

P.S. We stopped numbering the pages, it didn’t seem to make as much sense once it all got digital. We hope you will understand.

~ Nervosa

EDIT: The typo in the comic is fixed, after overwhelmingly popular demand from the mob of angry prescriptivist linguists outside. Hecate’s Cock, that took a long time for WordPress to stop not working though.

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Paypal Link

Now there’s a paypal link over there to the right, hint hint wink wink.

New comic as soon as we can, I promise. Also things will go faster soon, I really, really mean it this time.

Here’s a lil sorta-poem I wrote in the car the other day as a kind of commentary of my studies at college:

All actions have a particular sort of binary relation
With those who would enact them
A willingness, capability, desire to do something,
This carries a truth-value of 1.
Unwillingness, anxiety, fear of the action manifesting
This is 0.
But depression is neither the two,
Depression is ∅

Maybe it’s the sorta thing that isn’t pretty unless you’re a math-minded loser like me, I dunno, let me know in the comments.

~ Nervosa

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Vampiric Pronunciation Guide

Now that we’ve come across some names in The Children in Lillith, particularly “Lajo” I thought it might be a good time to give everyone an explanation of how certain letters sound in the Vampiric language. Check it out <here>, or you can also find it at Children of Lillith’s bonus materials page.

~ Nervosa

Children of Lillith Bonus Materials

Pronunciation Guide, or Why “Lajo” is Pronounced “lah-yoo”.

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Most letters in the Vampiric alphabet make noise as their English counterparts. The exceptions will be noted below, starting with consonants.

Consonants:

The only letters of the Vampiric alphabet that sound different from the same letter in English are as follows: C, J, X.

The letters H and Q are not used at all. Additionally, there is no representation for the sound made by “These” or “Thin”. (The former is replaced by D, and the latter is replaced by T, for those interested)

The letter J in their language makes a sound like when we use Y as a consonant, like in “Yellow” or “Yes”. X makes the sound like in “Genre” or “Beige”, and C makes a sound like in “Ship” or “Shell”.

Another weird thing is that the sound in “Chip” is spelled “tc” in Vampiric, and the sound in “Jump” is spelled “dx”.

Vowels:

There are six basic vowels in the Vampiric tongue, which are written as A, E, Y, Ÿ, O, U (however, Ÿ is only used by nobles).

  • A is pronounced like “Dot”
  • E is pronounced like “Pet”
  • Y is pronounced like “Meet”
  • Ÿ is pronounced like “Fig”
  • O is pronounced like “Fool”
  • and lastly, U is pronounced like “Hut”

Additionally, sometimes two vowels can be written next to each other to create a compound vowel, which basically means they get smooshed together like Æ (though this cannot be rendered in any font for most of the compounds, so outside of the comic it will be written like Ae). Together they form a new pronunciation that sounds roughly like the two vowels combined. Here are some examples:

  • Ay = “Fly“
  • Ao = “Cow“
  • Au = “Crawl”
  • Ae is used as well, but doesn’t have a clear English equivalent, so you’ll just have to use your imagination.
  • Uy = “Boy“
  • Uo = Duel”
  • Ey = “Ray“
  • Eo = “Few“

So Sÿnkura is pronounced kinda like “sin-kuh-rah”, and his sister Lajo’s name is pronounced “lah-yoo”. Vuluora’s name is a little harder to phoneticize, but that can be a challenge for any other linguistics nerds reading this.

But don’t stress about it or anything, really.

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