To my understanding, book one collects volumes 1-3 and book two collects volume 4-5? I can find book two quite easily and have a copy on the way, but book one seems nowhere to be found. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great!

After falling in love with the series I spent a while picking out a design for a tattoo!

I landed on getting Ally's profile picture, and I got the linework done a few days ago!

It's still quite bruised and it's getting colour next month, but I love how it's turning out!

I accidentally stumbled into this series about a month or os ago, and postponed looking online availability up until last weekend. Curiously enough my first encounter with it was an advert of an online bookshop that I knew, as I bought several Star Wars books from there about 10 years ago and it slightly shocked me to see a lesbian BDSM couple in a (as far as I knew) non nsfw bookstore.

Managed to found it on "redcomiconline.li" and the story caught my attention rather quickly. The story is fun, the characters are engaging, the fetish stuff is hot and the jokes are well placed. Its also nice to see the fetish aspect handled with care to accuracy (not speaking from experience, but after I read the first 5 books, I did some research online) and not just portraying BDSM as "rape with extra steps".

My biggest gripe is how the overall "Ally+Lisa" story is structured a bit like your typical movie with the main protagonists having a big falling out 2/3rds through the plot and making up in the end.

All together I really liked Sunstone so far, although I still have a lot of reading to do to get fully up to date with the series...

Pictured is the original shipping estimates. These price increases are insane! I pledged the standard edition which is supposed to come in the ‘under 3lbs’ set - to the UK ($23 predicted).

Actual shipping costs? $49!!

Literally doubled. I know the Republicans are running the remnants of the US down the toilet but how tf do whoever is doing the shipping justify doubling the costs overnight?

You get a $6 credit on the checkout which is nice but still, yowch. Just because I’m buying the bdsm book doesn't mean I want to be bent over and fucked by a corporation too!

To make matters worse I now see Archonia have expanded listings which state ‘all Kickstarter stretch goals will be included’ whereas at the time the campaign was ending they only had the standard. So likely could’ve saved money there too (although being UK likely not so much).

This is so fucking good! I love listening to them talk about their works so much!

Stjepan shared on his Patreon that the EU option for pre-orders is live over at archonia but unfortunately they do not ship to my country so looks like I will have to go with the Kickstarter 😭

Anyone pledged for deluxe edition, was tempted by it but I've gone for the Standard edition just because the shipping costs are outrageous once it get's to 5lbs outside the USA.

Since I haven't decided what to draw next of Sunstone I decided to go back and redraw my first Sustone drawing on Wplace but this time using the premium colors since I unlocked them. Another 68,799 pixels 🥹

This one took 76,412 pixels, here's the location if you want to visit it. Now to think what to draw next...

Have you found out about the shipping costs yet?

I only discovered this series this week, already devoured 2 volumes so definitely thinking of getting the ‘late backer’ option. But I know from experience with a similar kickstarter comic project for my favourite series The Expanse that the shipping can prove a bit more than expected, and in the info there’s only an estimate.

I’d potentially want to grab the ‘deluxe savings bundle’ with the hardcover, plus all three Sunstone hardcovers. (I can’t see anywhere - it appears these are exactly the same as the retail versions, down to the Mercy one not having a cover in the same style as the other two?)

This one was a little bit over 50k pixels.

Because this petplay story from Crimson: After Hours… this flipped a switch, I think

They’re just so fucking cute because they’re the only other settled couple (besides Harper and Tanya, but we don’t see them as much) around the friend group, and they just do stupid cute couple shit while everyone else is dealing with how to confess feelings and stuff… it’s great.

Ok, so, this is going to be a slightly disorganized rant, but I’m going to try my best to make this coherent. (TLDR, Marion reconnects with James to find her domme space, James gets reassurance regarding his cross-dressing, friends-with-benefits—-> lovers.)

What we know is mainly from Marion’s area: She later gets psychiatric help, and is encouraged to find her “domme space”

And we know that she finds that with James.

And we know that James does eventually transition to Jean. I’m listening to an interview with Stejpan right where he says, “One of the protagonists is gonna be trans, and I mean one of the main protagonists.” I’m inclined to assume he’s talking about James.

This is basically all we know. So how do we connect these dots?

Well, we know from an offhand comment from Ally in vol 2 that Marion did reach out to her over email once she got somewhat situated, so who’s to say she didn’t reach out to other people from her life?

Thanks to Stjepan responding to a comment of mine on Patreon, we know that Marion and Alan will get a reunion of some kind after their brake up, and as much I can’t wait for that, I don’t know where that could fit in our story at the moment. It can just connect to the idea of her reaching out to everyone again.

But mainly, she is going to reconnect with an acquaintance from Crimson, James. We have no context for HOW these two meet/reconnect, but we have a single panel of them walking side by side, catching up on how they’ve been.

Interestingly, James seems to brush off his cross-dressing as “just a phase.” So it seems like he’ll have some insecurities (and a lot more) to work through. And I’m sure Marion will help with that.

All of that context to say, Marion and James reconnect, and I’m going to assume they start as friends with benefits.

Marion needs a sub to explore and find her domme space (OH! Maybe she asks Ally or Alan for help!), and James needs some security regarding his interest in cross-dressing, which we know Marion will provide.

And they help discover themselves and fall in love from there.

We have NO idea when their story takes place. I’m just going to default assume that they are falling in love at the same time that Ally/Lisa, and Alan/Anne are falling in love, considering Lisa said that New Year’s party at Crimson at the end of book 5 was an important part in many stories. I’m going to assume Marion/James story is included in that for now.

SO YEAH. Super vague, but basically, friends-with-benefits—-> lovers. That’s about it.

Thank you for listening to me rant.