History Webcomic / Sunstone

* AnAesop:
** Real love needs more than sex. Even really amazing, hot, kinky sex.
--->'''Lisa''': All of the bedroom games, the tops and bottoms, they mean little-to-nothing beyond their natural habitat. Outside of the kink we were two people in love, and we both needed to put in the effort to make this work. It was a simple lesson on the surface and yet many forget this by sacrificing it on the altar of personal comfort.
** Healthy communication is also essential in any relationship. A major reason for [[spoiler:Lisa and Ally's argument and breakup is that [[PoorCommunicationKills the two can't muster the courage to directly state their feelings, so they rely on signals and implications that get easily misinterpreted.]]]]

* BigApplesauce: It's set in New York City, and isn't shy about the fact.

* HeroesWantRedheads: There are so many gingers in the cast that a casual reader could make the mistake of thinking it takes place in Dublin rather than urban New York.

* NerdHoard: There's a room that Ally won't let her girlfriend Lisa see. When the readers are finally given a peek inside, it's revealed that Ally is a huge ClosetGeek; she has [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS bedsheets]], a VideoGame/TombRaider statue on her desk, and an [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Eye of Mordor]] lamp.

''Sunstone'', that is, Lisa and Ally's story, concluded on October 27, 2016--almost five years after Šejić had uploaded the first drafts to DA. He has since started the follow-up comic ''Mercy'', or ''Sunstone: Mercy'' as the print books are titled, which focuses on Alan and Anne, starting with more details about Alan's college years and relationship with Ally, and Anne's friendship with Cassie and discovery of her bisexuality. He also has future plans for two more titles in the same universe; ''Jasper'', which focuses on side characters Marion and James; and a third, as of yet unnamed, future comic that will [[JustForPun tie them all up.]]

** Healthy communication is essential in any relationship. A major reason for [[spoiler:Lisa and Ally's argument and breakup is that [[PoorCommunicationKills the two can't muster the courage to directly state their feelings, so they rely on signals and implications that get easily misinterpreted.]]]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: In an alternate strip [[note]]integrated into cannon as a discarded story idea by Lisa[[/note]], the first time Ally tells Lisa she loves her, she's drunk as a post (to the point that she doesn't even realize she's talking ''to'' Lisa). The anguished part comes when Ally wakes up hungover and straightjacketed, and Lisa gently teases her for it before returning her affection. The actual continuity has Lisa make the declaration.

* AnAesop: Real love needs more than sex. Even really amazing, hot, kinky sex.
-->'''Lisa''': All of the bedroom games, the tops and bottoms, they mean little-to-nothing beyond their natural habitat. Outside of the kink we were two people in love, and we both needed to put in the effort to make this work. It was a simple lesson on the surface and yet many forget this by sacrificing it on the altar of personal comfort.

* AlliterativeName: Mari'''anne''' Murphy

* TrueLoveIsAKink: In her memoir, Future Lisa makes a point of saying the night she and Ally finally confessed their feelings to each other was the first time they simply made love instead of having sex or doing anything BDSM-releated. They also withhold their usual bondage play in favor of [[https://shiniez.deviantart.com/art/honeymoon-is-on-277097807 regular sex on their wedding night]] because they "just tied the ultimate knot."

* CuffsOffRubWrists
** Explored throughout the strip. Normally the characters don't do this as the restraints are intended to be comfortable and avert this, but in the instances that things go wrong (such as when Alan was separated from Ally when she was tied up) we see strong red marks on her body and Alan soothing the sore wrists.
** Played with in the case of Marion and her accident. Due to the fact she had her blood circulation cut off the ropes couldn't be taken off in the first place, so we don't see Marion do this, but we do see Ally doing this to herself unconsciously as she tells the traumatic story.

''[[http://shiniez.deviantart.com/gallery/ Sunstone]]'' is a slice-of-life, BDSM-centric webcomic about the various relationships of people in and around the fetish scene, written and drawn by the Croatian comics artist Creator/StjepanSejic of ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Harleen}}'' and ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'' fame. Šejić is also known to the dA community as [[http://nebezial.deviantart.com/gallery/ Nebezial]] and is married to Creator/LindaLuksicSejic, the artist and writer of the shared-universe webcomic ''Webcomic/BloodStain'' and the Greek mythology webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Punderworld}}''.

As ''Sunstone'' is hosted on Website/DeviantArt; note that you must have a dA account and set the content filter to 'Mature' in order to read it, due to the frequent NSFW content.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Allison is a strong aversion; she made herself a fortune completely independently, and although she once had a relationship with a now mildly successful Alan, the relationship held Ally ''back'' rather than give her support, and it was only when she found her independence she started her fortune.

* AlliterativeName: Mari'''anne''' Murphy

* AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs
** Averted with Alan, much to Anne's surprise in the original continuity.
** Harper is another example of a dominant male.
** Tom and Cassie are a couple who enjoy switching the roles every so often. Marion also appears to be a switch, if future teasers are to be believed: being Alan's sub and later James's dom.
** And of course, Lisa herself is a submissive woman.

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Lisa. In fact, there are no shortage of redheads in the strip, with Lisa pointing out to Ally at the bottom of one strip that the brunettes was outnumbered four-to-one.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: A minor example, but several characters use "oy" as an interjection. Since the story is set in [[BigApplesauce New York]], that is not very surprising.

** A cat named "Mr. WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}"
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Lisa. In fact, there are no shortage of redheads in the strip, with Lisa pointing out to Ally at the bottom of one strip that the brunette was outnumbered four-to-one.

* SexySpectacles: Ally ''rocks'' those glasses.

* AlliterativeName: Mary'''anne''' Murphy