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Started in May, 2005, the webcomic went on hiatus in the fall of 2007 and the original site eventually went down. Kline eventually began a [[Spin-Off]] strip on [[Drunk Duck]], titled ''The Widow'', which did not feature the "ooman" visitors, but rather focused on Cyeatean spiders' sexual predation on insects (and was therefore slightly more explicit in its sexual depictions). In January 2012, the comic went on a brief hiatus and then was relaunched under the title ''Nightshade the Merry Widow'', now officially crediting Danielle as co-creator, rebooting and slightly [[Retcon|RetConning]] the storyline. The human characters reappeared in a 2014 story.
In November 2014 the ''Nightshade'' storyline went on hiatus and Kline began a rerun of the original ''Dreamwalk Journal'' story, posting the artwork at (usually) larger size. August 2015 saw the start of a "missing scene" from ''Dreamwalk Journal'', at the end of which a new storyline
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* ''Dreamwalk Journal'' (original site, deleted; the
* ''The Widow'' (no longer on TheDuck; available on ComicFury, no direct links due to NSFW content)
* ''[http://theduckwebcomics.com/NIGHTSHADE_THE_MERRY_WIDOW/ Nightshade the Merry Widow]'' on The Duck (adult login required due to NSFW content): '''No longer updating''' as of April 2016. Archive links still work.
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**In the "Bahoogie and Beans" arc, our heroes are baffled as to how the Redlip ant queen Vulgia could have survived a plunge into the deep realms, where the atmospheric pressure and composition should be lethal to anyone from the upper realms. It turns out they've been saved by {{spoiler|the [[Living Ship]] that originally seeded Cyeatea with their human-arthropod hybrid ancestors}}. In this case, a deus ex ''machina''.
* [[Disintegrator Ray]]: There are both hand-held and (in ''Nightshade'') ship-mounted varieties. They can only be used for defense, and only against non-sentient creatures.
* [[Dyson Sphere]]: Not actually stated in the webcomic, but according to one behind-the-scenes journal entry Cyeatea is just one of numerous worlds in a Dyson Sphere. A
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The native lifeforms inhabiting the deepest reaches of Cyeatea's ecosphere are huge and deadly. Normally nobody in their right mind would go there, but in ''Nightshade'' a rescue party is sent to find an ant queen and wasp baby who have fallen into the depths.
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: Played more-or-less straight in a ''Nightshade'' storyline. At the end of a scene where Danny, Fleur and Dill join a group of students who are learning about the (ahem) ins and outs of predation, they laugh about how much of a seeing-to the "victim" is getting.
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* [[Hungry Jungle]]: It's probably safe to assume that Cyeatean plants and animals are carnivorous if A) they move; B) they can't talk; and C) they aren't trying to get into your (nonexistent) underpants. Well, the last one isn't entirely accurate; actually there is a sexual component to all predation on Cyeatea, so if a plant eats you you'll probably be experiencing too much pleasure to worry about it. Fortunately many carnivorous life forms aren't fatal to sentients.
* [[I Fell for Hours]]: Absolutely justified in the case of Ant Queen Vulgia, who gets dropped by a clumsy fly while paralyzed and pregnant. Cyeateans are very small compared to humans (and therefore probably perceive time as passing more slowly due to having faster metabolisms), while Cyeatea has lower gravity than Earth and a very deep atmosphere, and the air resistance increases with depth. Unfortunately so does the air pressure, as well as the proportion of toxic gases... {{spoiler|Fortunately she's rescued thanks to a strange [[Deus Ex Machina]].}}
* [[Immortality Begins At Twenty]]: Cyeatean childhood generally lasts 15 years, during which time the children have no physical sexual characteristics although their parents can tell their genders. Adolescence begins during the next three years, during which time they are known as poppers, because that's when their sexual characteristics "pop" out. Their hormones kick in much more slowly, and full maturity is not reached until between the ages of 30 and 38. Barring accidents, Cyeateans may then live for 900 years, which are longer than Earth years.
* [[In Medias Res]]: The original storyline begins some time after Danny and Fleur's arrival on Cyeatea, when they're already saying farewell to one of their original guides. There's no subsequent flashback; the backstory can only be found in the behind the scenes "Danny's Journal" pages (awaiting reposting as of December 2014).
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Cyeatea is inhabited by numerous intelligent humanoid insect and arachnid species, all nude with exaggerated sexual characteristics including big [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|boobs]]. There's lots of sex between species thanks to [[Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor]]s, some of it in the form of ritual combat, which eliminates the need for real warfare. Naturally the visiting human women also get to experience Cyeatean sexuality first hand. Although it seems that all Cyeatean arthropods have some human DNA, so whether they're really separate species is debatable.
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