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Full disclosure- if you don't like to read, you won't like this chapter. It involves to characters sending e-mails and IMs to each other. There's going to be a lot of text, especially in the beginning. So I don't want to be halfway through and people messaging me angry because there's too many words. It's going to be different from all the other chapters.

I hesitate to call this chapter 4 at all, since it's quite a break from the others. But it's a format for my file system, so I'll keep it chapter 4. Furthermore, all the text will still be in image format, png specifically. Also for routine, and also it will make things easier once the illustrations start. If it helps, you can think of the text pages as screengrabs while they're mailing each other.

Instead of comic page every day or two, it'll be be groups of several pages, at least until the comic portion happens. This means several days between updates. I'd like to take my time with this. It's all plotted out, beginning, middle, and ending. But there's room in between for stuff I haven't written yet. Furthermore, I'd like to take my time to do other stuff unrelated to the comic in between those updates. That would be a continuation of this last batch of SP porn, canon and non-canon. I feel no need to rush. Maybe later.

This will be a shorter chapter than the others, due to text vs. pics, as far as time it takes me to finish. If you don't like it, and that's fine, there's always the next one. It won't be relevant for future chapters, storywise.

https://clk.sh/Tgycx0

"If you don't like to read, you won't like this chapter."

Sadly, that seems to be the case with most people these days. Hardly anyone has the attention span to read walls of text (e.g. books, newspapers, or periodicals). They're more interested in attention-catching visuals and snappy sound bites.

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Hey, I don't want to tell you how to curate your comic/story and all, but if this is a back and forth between characters in the comic, in the style of an epistolary novel, an intersting way to present said mail exchange would be to draw a monitor or tablet or whatever around it and let it get fuzzy and fade away over a couple of pages while zooming in on the screen itself. This way you can convey via the expected medium (the comic) what exactly is going on (instead of writing an explanation next to the medium itself) and grab your audience and pull them into the story at the same time.

Just saying.

Also... the curent last page... *facepalm* XD

Last edited on 29 November 2018, 12:52 UTC.

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I'm just happy to hear the phrase "next chapter" in relation to study partners. This is one of the best furry comics running right now

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man... this chapter. it kinda touched my heart in a special way just because it reminds me so much of how me and my wife used to chat before we met each other. we used to spend hours if not the entire day swapping neomails (yes, neomails.. we first met at neopets.. we are two doofus i know.. and boy are we proud of it XD) back and forth talking about everything.. the good things, bad things and random as well.. good times <3

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This chapter has given me so many worldbuilding questions. Like, what does everyone eat in this world? How did society develope without lower animals? How did cetaceans develope a society without fire? Love the series though

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这里也许不是一个合适的地方

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where is page 98? i think 1 page is missing

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Haven't read, only just want to say by looking at the cover pic I thought this was a Dark Souls doujin.

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I'm betting 10 to 1 that the reason this chapter is 99% text is because he got assblasted that people were making guesses on where the story was going and they weren't guessing in the same direction that he intended (which is the fault of the writer if everyone is going left but he wanted them to go right).

I can't help but find it hilarious.

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If these two don't meet up by the end of the chapter i'm going to be very sad :(
but realistically, it won't happen, and that's the norm for long distance relationships, especially when you're younger.

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yyyeeeeaahhh I'm not reading all that..

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thank for your novel

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they're pages away from actually meeting up in person and all i can think about it how badly its going to go

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I just know shes going to be like 12 feet long

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OMG!!!! PAGE 155 AHHHHHHHHH!!!

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oh, no size difference twist, that's sweet.

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Now she´s helping him to get warm!

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If people pass away from this chapter, they lose it, i love what you did on this one, it doesn't matter if 99% of it is text, i love to read, thank you for such a masterpiece, and i will wait patiently for every update

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ah, so the long email conversation was an easier way to do a lot of build up, and make the eventual sex scene more impactful
i'm ok with this

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She dives so deep that he'll die of Caison's disease when they get back to the surface. End of comic.

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Study Partners Chapter 4: "Worldbuilding: The Chapter"

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Not bad. Don't worry if the bulk of this is text and not pictures. There are some people who do like to read. I'm one of them. I wish people would read. Where I work some people don't bother to read the "NO CUPS" sticker on the top of the can designed for recycling. So I'm having to pull them out and toss them in the can marked TRASH. As a janitor I wish people would READ the words on the lids to know which can is for their item.

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Usually hate text based plot. But this. This is well done like usual!

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2019: the year we see a baluga rimming a coyote

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Seems weird to me that the girl hold the boy, but it's kinda cute too.

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Whales are not slippery, having swam with them for over two decades now, I can tell you that dolphins and whales skin is quite easy to grip and feels like hard firm rubber with a slight bit of give.

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@IronHide77777 So what you're saying regarding whale skin is; "Weird flex, but ok"

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Eromenos

Let's see if I can better describe it...

Have you ever felt one of those hard semi-flexible rubber floor mats?
Like the ones they use in horse stalls?
Or one of the older or more professional supper firm, heavy duty, real rubber workout mats in martial arts studios that give just enough to not hurt your bones so much when you slam into the ground but you still feel the hit when you smack into it?

FYI: getting hit by dolphin's flukes hurts like hell X.X
I was lucky I was wearing a wet suit at the time.
Even though they don't mean to hurt you, they are still 3 to 500 Lbs animals made of pure mussel.

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Pages missing after "2681343_ThunderousErections_sp4_2_48.png"

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I'm very conflicted, the artstyle comes off as lazy an unintuitive and some of the faces are just plain recycled from earlier in the comic (see panel 6 of 214 and panel 4 of 202) some of the faces are weird and have that uncanny valley effect, that the artist (with 3 other comics under his belt) doesn't want to shake for this comic, TE actually has some really nice art but not in this style. HOWEVER, the content is hot , being knotted on a beach and having your big tiddy whale GF flex her pussy muscles got me harder than a ships mast. And it's actually kinda cute.

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Why are you distributing a novel. AS IMAGES? DO YOU KNOW HOW THIS BURNS MY SOUL THAT IT ISN'T A PDF?

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Fixed now, thanks OP

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