It used to be a joke among the employees to refer to the day-night transition by the chiming sound, now they all just call it that.
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Talita looks up in surprise from her bench at the large central pillar of the habitat as it emits a loud chime.SFX: BIIIIING BOOOOONG
Overhead, the dozens of bar lights on the habitat ceiling begin to noisily switch up, abruptly plunging the city into nighttime.
SFX: CLAK CLAK CLAK
Talita: Goddamnit!! How is it bing bong already?
36 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 33”
Bellasaurus
HER GOOGLY EYES
zofifi
“It is bing bong already! >:( ”
XD
Sylvie
Oh this is EXACTLY how I felt once. Got super into a really long fanfic, one of those really heartfelt soul-on-page works…and then suddenly there was a sunbeam on the last page! It was literally like 6am, so I had been reading for NINE HOURS. Thank goodness I didn’t have any errands or whatnot, I was a WRECK all day.
I’m sure that Runaway will someday be that long, as it’s more than already That Good! (I promise not to ‘hurt’ myself enjoying it, though.)
40
Not me going through Jay’s Tumblr till 5AM when I first found them…
Origamigryphon
Is there any particular reason she pulls the weightlifting bar with her wrists instead of her hands? I noticed that with her midlimbs in the last page, too
Gar G
XDDD
Also pretty abrupt transition for the inhabitants, but I suppose they’re probably used to it by now. More or less. Hopefully
hal9000
oh every londoner knows the feel of bing bong. usually doesn’t come with the sun going out though (because there is no sun)
ImJustaTourist
Big Bada BONG!
evileeyore
If “dusk” goes BING BONG, does dawn go BONG BING? That would drive me mad, the loudness would be very intrusive… either that or I’d have to routine my day around it, crash out at midnight to one, get up when the clock tower strikes “dawn”.
RavenWorks
I was confused what she’s seeing here, but I think I just realised—do these places have “back yards”?
ilvos01
Yeah, it’s not exactly clear in the previous page, but this seems to be a clearing behind the quonset hut.
boxesofboxes
if you look on page 27-28 you can see that the first/lowest dry storage compartment has a space behind it with stuff in it. Seems like the prefab medium units simply left a gap in the layout and Talita took advantage of it when she set up her unit.
k8
yeah, i didn’t realize she apparently went outside at some point?
Ruby
‘CAUSE IT’S A THRIIIIIIILLER
THRILLER BING BONG
arf
Darkness falls across the land.
The ‘bing-bong’ hour is close at hand…
Duna
BING BONG TIEM!
NO MOAR SUN FOR U
GO SLEEP!
notanocelot
For every mildly cool Talita moment there needs to be atleast one panel of goofy googly-eyed Talita to balance it out. I’m pretty sure this is a law of the universe.
Jay Eaton
It’s literally a rule I follow, lol
wingedhorror
Oh! It’s just like when my phone switches to “bedtime” mode on me!
Quillpaw
Okay I have to know, how on Dirtball are those little headphones staying on her head??? They look like they’d just slide right off!
Joey
I’d guess they get a bit of friction from her feathers, plus the cups are kinda nestled inside the “lip” of her facial disk.
Jay Eaton
They are gently squeezing the top crest of her skull. If she leaned far enough back they’d slip off but so would most human headphones on a human head, to be fair. You can see their structure a little better when she takes them off in this short comic.
SIGSTKFLT
“Scrumptious!” Killed me
Jay Eaton
Oh, I linked to the wrong comic. The headphones are in this one: https://jayeaton.site/Art/RttS/Comics/FlyInTheRunaway
Rubicon Art
I was also very confused by where this comic had earbuds xD
Fallingfeather
ASLDFKJADSHKF ITS BING BONG!! Everyone’s (least) favorite time, Bing Bong.
foca
im curious – if the sun goes down at 8 pm (well, not the sun… you get what i mean) does ‘sunlight’ come again only at 8am or are the nights and days not the same length? id be so bummed to live somewhere that always has short nights and long days… an eternal summer…
Jay Eaton
There is a warm temperate seasonal cycle similar to the home archipelago of skimmer avians. Also, you are the only person who has ever told me they’d be sad if nights stayed shorter like they are in summer! Personally I get terrible seasonal depression in fall when I notice the nights getting long. I’m solar powered.
foca
damn, i didnt even think about seasonal cycles! also, i live between a tropic and the equator, a winter-length night here means the sun is out 6:30 to 18:00 , compared to the summer where it’s 19:00 and 5:30, so very little variation, and since its so damn hot and humid half the year in here the less sunlight the better 😅
evileeyore
Yeah, us equatorial tropicals* yearn for longer, cooler nights, while the northern temperate inhabitants tend to prefer more daylight, less long nights.
I’m a long night lover myself, it’s just never been profitable to leave my near-equatorial sub-tropical swamp.
Trees
Ha Ha! Immediate day-to-night with no warning is the funniest way that could possibly have been implemented. No lead up, no gradual dimming or change in mood lighting, just an industrial clank and: Boom – 8.00PM!! TIME FOR SLEEP, PEONS!!
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‘How is it bing bong already?’
You and me both, Talita. Leading physicists will agree there is no period of time shorter than that part of the day after you get home from work.
Greenjoe
What is happening here? Is it changing to some dimmer lights to simulate a ‘night time’?
feesh
yeah, since Shikaviil is in the perpetually dark side of the planet, they have to simulate night/day manually. it operates based on a 24-hour day i believe, because that’s what Jovia uses.
SIGSTKFLT
Mmm, big relay noises.
Claire
OI ITS TWELVE BONG
Guest
YEEEEAAAAHHH BING BONG