The Stand Still, Stay Silent Fan-Forum
Worlds and Stories => SSSS & ARTD Board => Topic started by: Oripoke on April 14, 2019, 12:14:22 PM
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How did you find out about Stand Still Stay Silent?
Was it based on a recommendation from a friend? Did you encounter it by chance when browsing the web? Or have you been following since A Redtail's Dream?
For me, I happened randomly across some fanart and meme edits while browsing Tumblr. I was taken by the pretty art style, so I Googled it, and ended up falling in love almost instantly.
Just curious what some other people's experiences were like!
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For me, it was a recommendation from one of my great-nieces. She knew that I liked beautiful art and was an enthusiast of folklore. So she suggested I read 'A Redtail's Dream', which was in its early stages then. I have been here ever since.
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I saw it featured on Kotaku, or maybe Io9 (or whatever the hell it was before it got changed to that) when they featured the language tree iirc.
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I think it was TopWebComics or a similar site. Can't quite recall. Either way, found it, binge-read it, loved it.
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A friend of mine sent me an image (the Øresund base, I think it was). Then my Mum sent me the language family page, because I love languages and she thought it would be nice. Several years later, while I was feeling anxious about life in general, I decided to start from the beginning of the comic–and have had no cause for complaint ever since. (I’m divided on A Redtail’s Dream, though; I know it’s the more mythologically-accurate of the two, but I find myself preferring Minna’s later art style.)
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I started reading webcomics with Girl Genius, which I'd found through a recommendation on Philip Pullman's website, after reading the 'His Dark Materials' series! I proceeded from there to other HiveWorks webcomics, including Namesake. The sidebar banner featuring Lalli kept coming up, and I finally was intrigued enough to click through. They were jimmying open the door to Spot 24 at the time, and while I wasn't too keen on a comic about looters, I went back to the beginning anyway. The semi-woodcut style prevalent in the earliest pages of the Prologue hooked right into my Scandinavian aesthetic, and I binged the whole comic (at that point only about 15 months' worth) over New Year's 2015. Only later did I go back & read ARtD, and later still started participating in the discussions. I still somewhat prefer the woodcut style, if I'm honest, but the scope of Minna's overall worldbuilding achievement more than makes up for any niggles about knees which always are drawn a few inches below the hem of any garment, no matter how long.
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I had started reading Girl Genius, and some of the other Hiveworks comics advertized looked interesting. There was one to which I really wanted to give a try, but whose title I kept forgetting. At some point, I just went on the TV Tropes page listing all the Hiveworks comics that have a page there and started clicking on random titles to see if any of those were the work I was looking for. Since I like reading the TV tropes pages of stuff anyway, I would give a look at what the comics were about even if they were obviously not the one I was looking for. Since I have a soft spot for cats, post apocalypses and fantasy that is more slice of life than action, SSSS ended up being more interesting to me than the work I had originally set out to find.
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/me blows giant thick layer of accumulated dust from memories.
Ah, there it is.
I was looking around the internet for traces of half-remembered TV shows of yore (mostly to prove to myself that I hadn't just made the memories I had of them up); obviously, I stumbled over TV Tropes, which led me to the Order of the Stick. The home site for OotS (Giant in the Playground) ran banner ads from the now-defunct Project Wonderful, and one just happened to be Reynir looking terrified. I clicked through and found Lalli calling the moon. While it was slightly annoying to realize that the character in the ad hadn't even shown up in the story, the story itself caught me. I didn't comment until Emil stepped on the dead guy, though.
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Hmmm. I don't actually remember; and I don't actually remember either when I first came in, or just where I first caught up, though it was quite a while ago, and some time before I joined the forum. It was sometime after the prologue, because I remember going back to that; and sometime before the troll knocked Sigrid into the water, because I remember worrying about her and having to wait for the page.
I might have seen this mentioned on the snopes boards -- every once in a while somebody would list a batch of webcomics they were reading -- or might have clicked on an ad on Girl Genius or possibly elsewhere.
I still haven't read ARtD; tried once, didn't get very far. Probably ought to try again.
I'm not particularly into zombie stuff, though I like a good after-the-apocalypse story otherwise; but what pulled me into this one was a little bit the cats, somewhat the artwork, and in large part the fact that both female and male characters were drawn realistically and dressed for what they seemed likely to be doing; plus that they were casually mixed in together on the same sort of job without either the author's voice, or anyone in the comic, making any sort of point of it. IME quite a lot of people do behave like that -- or at least I've managed to hang around often with such people -- but it's pretty rare in comics.
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Someone made and posted a Nordic Union flag to r/vexillology back in November that I happened to see. They linked to the comic and I binge read the whole thing over a week or two. I loved the world building and the art was a head above most other webcomics (or really, most normal comics) that I had read before this one.
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I have been a Minna Sundberg fan a lot longer than SSSS has been going on. I first discovered her works in what must have been 2005(?) when she still went by the username ShadowUmbre. My friend had an art site of her own and had linked Minna's page there. I had this kid crush on my friend back then and I wanted to like all the stuff they liked, so I naturally went through all the links on her site.
For ARtD and SSSS tho, I didn't want to start reading an incomplete webcomic (too many experiences of artists abandoning their work). I followed Minna on deviantArt back when ARtD was updating but I don't remember really noticing when she got it done. Also I missed the start of SSSS. (Must have been more to do with a period of me cutting my online time.)
Then, a few years went by, it's late August or early September in 2015, I'm playing Flight Rising, a virtual dragon dress-up and hatchery game. They had a deal with Hiveworks and there were adds for SSSS. Around those time I also got active on dA again and saw some of Minna's SSSS art there and at some point I just got too curious.
I was hooked from day one, but still I'm very glad I did wait for the comic to properly start before I jumped in, since it was easier for me to get into it this way. These days I'm way too invested in the comics and go to read the update every day. ;;;
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I discovered SSSS on TV Tropes, where after seeing examples from the comic on multiple pages in a short time, I became curious. Initially, I didn't have any intention of actually reading the comic itself, as post-apocalyptic media typically sets off my anxiety very badly.
As you can see, things worked out differently than I planned. I followed the link to the Tv Tropes page and was suckered in mainly by its description of Lalli. Specifically, I was charmed by his catlike behavior and (implied, plausible, arguable, whatever words I have to use to appease the canon-compliance dusklings) Asperger's syndrome, both of these being traits I share, and intrigued by his being from Finland, a country that my uneducated American arse had had no concept of outside of "that is the name of a country that exists" until a few months prior, when I had found myself in a class with a really cool professor who had moved to the area from Finland.
(I've referenced Cool Finnish Professor in the comments a few times. She's great. When there was the discussion over Lalli saying "Over...there...ish" when there is no equivilant to "ish" in Finnish, I showed her the panel and asked for her input on what he would be likely to say, which led to me telling her about SSSS and her actually being interested and saying she would have to look it up. I wonder if she did.)
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My friend recommended this comic to me because she had liked it a lot! At first I wasn't too keen on checking it out since I hadn't found any Finnish comic before SSSS that had interested me. I decided to give SSSS a try though when I checked Minna's Instagram and it had gorgeous art.
Well, here I am! I remember being very surprised that the comic had so active fanbase that posts often in Tumblr and here. It has been a pleasant time to be in this fandom full of very nice people who are as dedicated to small details and overthinking as me :)
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I think I saw SSSS recommended a couple of times on a Facebook group for geek women Finland. I’m certain I saw the language tree a couple of times at least. So one time I was probably a bit bored so clicked through to the recommendation and well, here we are. :emil:
I think it was early this year or very late 2018, as I think Adventure 2 had started but was in early stages. I binged A1 as quickly as my work and family commitments allowed. Or to be honest I spend so much time reading that my family was complaining... When I reached the end of Adventure 1 I decided to give it a little break to let it build up to so I wouldn’t have to wait for new pages... well, that didn’t happen :lalli:
Then I lurked for a while and tried to get my family interested in the comic to have someone to talk to about it. Didn’t work so had to join the Commentariat :sigrun:
I haven’t regretted it a bit (at end of the week I sometimes do when my iPad gives the “daily screen time” statistics... :onni: ) as it’s not only given me the comic but this wonderful community too! :mikkel: And even inspired me to do creative things after a very VERY long hiatus! SSSS helped! :reynir:
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About a year ago I started looking into webcomics, and after a while I ran into SSSS (which I’d already heard about in the Overly Sarcastic Productions video). The prologue kinda lost me though, so I didn’t keep on reading. I did read a Redtails’s Dream and loved it, and that encouraged me to try SSSS again - once I got into it, I could barely stop reading! By the time I’d finished, it was the chapter break before Lalli’s flashback, and partway through that chapter I decided to write a poem about the whole chapter so far. That basically catapulted me into the comment community as I started writing poetry and making comments, and that eventually led me here!
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In mid 2015 I found Minna's art on deviantart while looking at landscape paintings, and that led me to A Redtail's Dream, which I loved as soon as I started reading it. I was sorta skeptical about SSSS originally because I'm not super into post apocalyptic stuff, and I'm definitely not into zombies, but after about a month I finally decided to start reading because if nothing else I knew the art would be good, and I was so enthralled. The fact that the story takes place at a time where people are starting to properly thrive again instead of everything being super bleak was a very nice surprise. The trolls were so much better than traditional zombies, there was a mystical aspect to go with them(which I actually also don't usually like but I love it here lol), the character interactions and dynamics were fun to read and felt very realistic(as well as the characters themselves!), among many other things, and oh my god the art.
Of course when I caught up is the day that particular chapter break started, but I survived. :P
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... as it’s not only given me the comic but this wonderful community too! :mikkel: And even inspired me to do creative things after a very VERY long hiatus! SSSS helped! :reynir:
I can second that - I started doing drawing again for the first time in...maybe 17-18 years?...after joining this fandom in 2015. I also joined a Forum challenge in early 2016, and wrote my (pretty much) first ever fan fiction at the ripe old age of 53, which I later ended up expanding into a fully-fledged multichapter work. I now have written all sorts of works for several fandoms, as well as make silly doodles. It's a rich part of my experience now (even if my work is not exactly deathless).
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Wavewright, I certainly get that. While the art skill that runs in my family has skipped me entirely, I have been writing since I was a child. However, I started out writing poetry, and still do. As an adult I have written more technical papers and articles than anything else. Then, in my mid seventies, when one of my greatnieces introduced me to Minna’s work, I both discovered the concept of fanfic and discovered that I wanted to write it. So I have. I knew about webcomics because my beloved reads them, and has for about as long as they have existed. He had introduced me to Girl Genius, which I quite enjoyed.
Now, as well as working on the cookery book and foraging text which are my current projects, I write fanfic (I’m Tanist over on Archive of Our Own) and thoroughly enjoy it.
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I'd caught up with some webcomics that were either over or on indefinite hiatus and was moaning about this to my sister, who's majoring in visual art, and she recommended SSSS to me. I put off reading it for a while because of school applications, but once I started reading I (like everyone else here it seems :D ) got completely sucked in.
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I have an original character named Reynir and one day I was looking his name up on Google. I wanted to tell my friend something about the name's meaning and I wasn't sure if I remember the tree species right ;D So I googled the pictures and saw a cute braided redhead there. Of course I couldn't resist and had to find out which story is that cutie from. I guess you all can imagine the rest :))
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I have an original character named Reynir and one day I was looking his name up on Google. I wanted to tell my friend something about the name's meaning and I wasn't sure if I remember the tree species right ;D So I googled the pictures and saw a cute braided redhead there. Of course I couldn't resist and had to find out which story is that cutie from. I guess you all can imagine the rest :))
This is so cute story! <3
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I stumbled on the comic on TVtropes, saw that it involved norse religion, which piqued my interest since I'm a heathen myself and gobble up any fiction that does more than loosely refer to the religion. I was hooked immediately and it reminded me a few story ideas I'd had myself, so I breezed through the whole thing in 2 days lol.
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Yeah, isn’t it nice to find a work which depicts us pagans/heathens as just regular people rather than automatically evil villains.
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I remember I had just finished a really cheesy, kinda bad but also absolutely wonderful webtoon called ‘Where Tangents Meet’ (it’s made by the same person who’s doing ‘Sirens Lament’, if there’s any other people out there who follow too many webtoons religiously and know that one) and I had that feeling where you don’t know what you’re going to do with your life after a huge entertainment has been forcefully ripped from you via ending, and so, logically, I browsed several websites and articles about ‘top 50 webcomics of the year!’ Or ‘10 webcomics you want to check out’, desperately searching for something to fill that empty space. One place recommends ARTD first and then went on to say how the same artist has mad a new, still-updating comic, and so I arrived at the SSSS website. The rest is blissful history (this is also the first and only story I’ve commented on and become a part of the fan community in, and I do think I chose the perfect community!)
Anyway, that was a very long and boring story for a small question.
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I found it on TV Tropes and it looked interesting. I kept thinking about it, so one day I sat down and strated reading.
I did recommend it to a friend. He may or may not read it, who knows with him. (Light Hearted)
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I discovered it by a random Google Search result. Quite strange actually, for I was searching for another comic and I found a link to this comic. Been enjoying it since then. It was during the last proper chapter break of 2 weeks, before Adv 2 Ch 14.
It's become a habit since then to open the comic every update day for a new page.
I think I'll be stuck with that habit for a while.
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This is a bit on the geeky side--
I was trying to explain to some one the etymology of a word, so I did a web search.
In the images return was the Language tree map, with the words stand, still, stay silent.
Intrigued, I clicked on the comic link, and "well here we are"!
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I was milling around on a Space Battles board concerning a pretty good crossover fic, then I found some dude make mention of SSSS regarding its monster designs.
I was intrigued and gave it a look, haven't regretted it since.
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I actually discovered SSSS before I found ARtD! One of my friends recommended it to me and I followed it through to the very end (even re-reading it once to remember the full story) It ended up pulling me in with the visuals and story (+some favoritism in terms of characters. Lalli and Reynir's designs will have my heart forever.)
Also got reminded of it about halfway through reading because of OSP's (overly sarcastic productions) video over post apocalypses where Red (one of the two people who run the channel) mentions SSSS as being an excellent example.
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I am another person who found it through TV Tropes. Just before an intense weeklong hiking vacation. I remember reading a bit of it at the end of each day, and struggling to stay awake (because so tired). I also remember that I was hiking on a glacier soon after reading the but where Emil drags Lalli around and wondering whether I should try how it feels to do that with a friend. (Sadly, I didn't really have the equipment.) Although he wasn't on a glacier, was he?
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I was a real comic geek when young so when I finally got a computer it was not long before I discovered web comics. I began following Minna's work with aRTD which I think I found by an ad on TWC. The comic was just starting but I lost the link for a couple of months due to being not very good with computers. When I found it again I stuck with Minna ever since. However I will not be following her Christian comics. They are not to my taste.
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I used to watch a lot of Overly Sarcastic Production videos on youtube. While I was watching the Trope Talk episode on post apocalypses, Red (the mythology/pop-culture half of the channel) kept gushing on and on about SSSS and me, looking for other webcomics to read while Ava's Demon was on hiatus again
not getting into that can of worms I naturally gravitated towards it. Even though LP left a sour taste in my mouth I'm still glad I found this comic and this community <3.
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This is a bit on the geeky side--
I was trying to explain to some one the etymology of a word, so I did a web search.
In the images return was the Language tree map, with the words stand, still, stay silent.
Intrigued, I clicked on the comic link, and "well here we are"!
Many many folk have come here via that tree. I understand it was widely shared, including some with the artist's credit erased. (to which we say >:( )
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Hi, I'm new to the forum, but I found it because I like a lot of other hiveworks comics, was scrolling through their website during the time when tigress queen announced it's hiatus and the rest is history
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Hello Lazerbird and welcome to the Forum! We have an Introduction Thread too, in the General board. Come by to say hi to all! (It’s not a requirement but it’s fun)
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Many many folk have come here via that tree. I understand it was widely shared, including some with the artist's credit erased. (to which we say >:( )
That is rude. It is a beautiful piece, and people should give credit to the person who did the work. I'd second the GRRRR!!
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unrelated but that poster was in my middle school history teacher's classroom, and I was always confused by the branch with the ssss languages, so it's cool to know where it came from