Grrl Power #708 – Refugee callback
It actually wasn’t any easier drawing it from the bottom, even though I tried to cheat with the blur. It actually doesn’t save me that much time anyway. I still have to draw it about 85% as good as I normally would if I wasn’t going to blur it.
Partially I drew this page to make everyone who has a crippling shoe addiction insanely jealous of Cora. It’s actually that way with all her clothes, since they’re all hard light. She still has a closet full of regular clothes, alongside her old cybernetic limb collection, but that’s mostly all gathering dust these days.
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One can either continue to punish those who have wronged you.. only making them and those who follow them resent you. Or you can be the one to offer the olive branch and be the one to break the cycle.
I’m quite sure that it is either the above…
Or Sydney wanted to see if the ship was harder to draw from that angle.
They are sorely in need of information: is the whole race evil, or was Sciona just a bad egg? What is their society really like?
Helping a refugee looks to me like a good way to find out those things… and it’s pretty low-risk.
even if the society was bad, not all the people are going to be of a kind. and sometimes the only way you can change a group is to show it kindness and be a good example of the virtues you would like them to adopt as well. aiding refugees, most of which will be women, children, and those who were not as ideologically committed to whatever extremes their society had, is also going to be the most receptive to this sort of approach to social engineering.
The society being bad with some exceptions is a possibility. The whole race being evil is another possibility. You don’t know until you check!
Well, Dabbler’s reaction to seeing their planet got wasted was not being at all surprised and saying something along the lines of “I guess people finally got tired of putting up with their shit.”
So at the very least the race, or at least the society, was definitely not good people. But that doesn’t mean that a lone refugee trying to take care of her kids shouldn’t be helped.
Honestly, i’m Not sure what Sydney wants here.
“lets talk” – why bring an entire ship? Part of some “talk, or else!” Strategy?
“Let us take your leader” – leave the remaining refugees leaderless… and seriously, wings like the lady has are going to figure as a status symbol (Sciona obtained hers through ‘upgrades’, not as standard equipment). Refugee or not, top leader or not, that lady has folks who look up to her. Removing her via ‘rescue’ won’t improve the mood of those left behind.
“Let us take your weak, your hungry, your huddled masses…” – um, that describes the whole bunch. No way you’re going to fit a planet’s worth of refugees on the ship.
She brought the entire ship because it’s easier than walking? Plus, it’s just a quick stop on her way home
Wait, Sciona’s wings are ‘upgrades’? When was that stated? I thought they were natural.
There’s only something like 37 Alari here. Sydney isn’t trying to bring a whole planet’s worth of Alari to Earth.
So now we see the Sydney “Marshall” Schofield plan.
One comment on starship design. Having separate projecting and non-connecting sections seems to be an inefficient use of materials and a hindrance to moving around inside. Unless of course, Cora’s ship is part of a group of other ships that all come together and it becomes the hand of a giant robot. In which case, cool.
P.S. Awesome down-lighting effects in the second to last panel.
It could be that the protrusions serve a specific purpose and are normally not accessible. They could be some kind of warp nacelles or giant mass drivers. Her ship has a lot of volume for the number of crew she has.
Well just look at our starships. A.k.a. probes. Some need to have booms holding radioactive substances away from the body of the probe, so that it does not interfere with the operation of the rest of the equipment. Likewise others hold sensors out so that they can do their work unimpeded.
Similarly there could be numerous reasons to have a ships hull compartmentalised and kept distant from one another. For instance if there are varying life support needs for passengers or crew, especially if one or more are poisonous to others. If your fellow passengers breathe cyanide you would be grateful to have their cabins separated from yours by a nice big chunk of vacuum!
And that separation would then allow the inclusion of equipment which may otherwise interfere with different components, by ensuring each is kept in its own separate compartment.
Even without the above it may be wise to have compartmentalised redundancy. And in a warship keeping each some distance from one another improves the odds of only one being compromised by a given attack.
Aesthetics,
when you can afford it (as in its no longer a liability due to structural stability), you can do whatever.
Efficiency leads to “modern architecture” which is typically hated by most architects, residents, and those that have to look at them. Heck I have seen college campuses where you can tell the older parts of the campus are from the newer parts as the old parts are rectangular straight buildings and halls all lined up perfectly; while the new parts have angles, wide spaces, spread out at angles class rooms.
Aesthetics also improve pride and moral as a function; but to paraphrase Babylon 5
(given its outerspace and aerodynamics aren’t an issue, we could make everything look like flying bricks. But sometimes you just have to make things look nice for your own sake).
The Gearin Corollary: “The products of any sufficiently advanced technology are indistinguishable from Art. Once you transcend engineering constraints, you build stuff in a fashion you find attractive.”
Precisely. Heck look electronics with all their variations of cases, if it doesn’t get in the way then get artistic all you want.
Off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is that there might be spectacularly high magnetic fields that would necessitate a minimum of ferromagnetic compounds within its field. Possibly part of drive, defensive systems, or some other esoteric component my pre FTL mind has no idea is necessary. In this case, perhaps it’s safer to have one hyper reinforced section connecting it to the main body of the ship as opposed to something bigger and more integral to the structural integrity of the vessel. Then, too, maybe those pylons contain an exceptionally hazardous convenience that, if breached, need to be immediately ejectable.
Then, too, the rule of cool, because no species will ever break orbit without a hell of a lot of imagination, and imagination and art seem to be pretty heavily intertwined for humans. Anything with near enough human psychology to be relatable (Like a lot of these aliens are, they have anger, lust, happiness, playfulness, fear, etc so there are a lot of psychological touchpoints there to work with) will probably have a lot of other parallels with humans just out of emergent properties.
Just my $0.02
And/or some parts of the ship could bve detachable shuttles/fighters/etc… There is, for people who have tinkered with FFS for TNE, the open structure design, that has it’s merits from certain point of views. It kinda sucks for atmospheric reentry though. But this looks like a disc, with 3 needle-shape designs added on, and at least some thought has been given to streamlining. The length of the protusions give ample sensor diameter (which is believed to be an important factor in how small things can be discerned at a range), And also, there is a good likelihood that the centre prong contains a spinal weapon of some sort, I would guess that the ship started as a disc-shaped freighter, and got addons later. But the main reason for it to look like it does (Trident) is quite likely the “rule of cool”, I have to agree with you there.
There are a few examples of multiple-hulled (fuselaged) aircraft, and usually there’s a good engineering reason for making them that way, such as Virgin Galactic’s White Knight and White Knight Two. Equally the uses of catamarans, trimarans and other multi-hulled designs are well established in marine engineering. There’s no reason to assume similar engineering logic won’t crop up in spacecraft design.
I didn’t put a ton of thought into the layout of the ship when I first drew it, but for the record I agree with you. Every time I see cool looking spindly starships my first thought is, what a pain to travel around in them. Like, getting from the top wing to the bottom one on Thanos’s ship would take forever, especially considering the scale of the thing.
That said, the outside spindly things on Cora’s ship were supposed to be barrels for mass drivers (or anti-mass drivers) and the central one is a “singularity harness” that allows the ship to essentially fall towards it, meaning it can move without expending any fuel. (Minus the immense power it takes to create and contain the singularity) The singularity can also be used to breach them into warp space, and also create gravity shields capable of deflecting… well, anything, since it bends space around the vessel.
But as I said, what you’re seeing is basically a first draft of the design. I’d love to give it more thought and build a 3D model of it. And also learn how to use blender. :/
The main trick is to keep your tail and paws out of the blender, when pushing the on button.
Well that’s the answer, the extremities aren’t inhabited areas of the ship they’re functional. I mean forcefield generators, engines (no one lives in the two big engines on the Enterprise after all), a Jurain ship (Tenchi Muyo) looks all spindly and fancy until you realize the entire ship is the pod in the center with an open space inside, and everything else are defenses, weapon platforms, and the like.
that said, sometimes an aesthetic is just an esthetic, like putting fins on a car.
Don’t even get me started on Romulan mining ships. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/memorydelta/images/5/52/Narada_(m)_(ar).jpg/
Narada looked very different before being retrofitted with salvaged and reverse-engineered Borg technology. The Tal Shiar in the 24th century had been experimenting with Borg technology, and Nero’s ship was the experimental vessel used. The Narada was retrofitted at The Vault (β), a cloaked military installation in deep space, subsequent to the destruction of Romulus. See the Star Trek prequel comic book miniseries Star Trek: Countdown.
My own experience with addons says two things…
It is a pain in the arse and you should never try… ASSUMING you use Blender as-is.
That said, it supports mods, add-ons, and settings changes. And it only takes a handful to make it significantly more friendly.
The first thing I suggest is the settings to switch left and right mouse buttons. It feels like it makes a LOT more sense if you do that simple task.
And the other thing I suggest is this paid addon (no, I wasn’t paid to say this):
Snap Utilities
@DaveB
If you’ve ever used SketchUp, it’s insanely easier than blender (like MS Paint level of easy), but it’s not powerful at all unless you screw yourself over with this crazy expensive monthly payment. Blender’s powerful, but the most frustrating part to me is getting the initial shape built. The Snap Utilities gives you a similar simple-start phase with blender that you get with Sketchup, yet keeping all the impressive tools that blender normally gives you. (And of course, whatever you’re building, add-ons are definitely your friend, and I often find a free or cheap add-on will save me hours or even days otherwise.)
I wish I could edit my comments… I mean to type in that first line,
“My own experience with Blender taught me two things…”
The space/time folding units of the dual Acubarre drives need to be operated from the rest of the ship,or they cause structural maintenance problems. The sensor array needs to be slightly forward of the Acubarre drives or it can’t get a good field of view while under way.
but then the sensor arrays would be OUTSIDE the Alcubierre Drive effect and render the drive useless. whether that would rip the ship apart as one part gets left behind or if it would just fizzle out and just not work at all is up for debate… However, because the ship generating the drive field knows EXACTLY how much power is being used, and the various other variables involved, they can have the sensor array INSIDE the drive field, and just reverse the effect the drives have on the sensors via computer before it gets displayed on any screens and show what they need to show to us. in David Weber’s Honor Harrington series they touch on this process a bit when discussing their drive systems.
Atta girl Syd! Real hero stuff there.
she goes to see them AFTER she finds out that the ship has “horrifying new armaments”. Can i just double check that alignment there syd? :P
Good, strictly good. And wise.
She has made sure that the ship is well able to protect its passengers. All too many do-gooders fail to think through the consequences of their actions. Poorly thought out aid can make a bad situation worse. Especially if people, in extremis, think that you are going to provide for and protect them, only to find out that you have scarce resources and limited capability.
Sydney was right to walk past them when she was without the means of fully supporting them. Now though, with the aid of Cora, her ship and those scary weapons, she is far better positioned to do good.
Still with some potential problems mind, like finding them a permanent new home (especially given the bad reputation that the Alari have). But the first step is the preservation of life. Then the other problems can be overcome in due course.
Yeah, still not sure what they’re planning to do here, but it can’t be too extreme if Cora agreed to go along with it. You wouldn’t think Sydney has the authority to offer any refuge type resettlement in the U.S. or anywhere else on Earth.
However… they were planning on invading which suggests Earth is habitable for them. They are from a technologically advanced race and the best to know what the hell that screaming pile of souls which entered the portal to Earth are all about.
No, first step is to see if they need help with anything (note, said help, not a handout)
They probably have other colonies butt no way to get to them, or maybe simply Sydney wants to tell them that she faced and fought the Squiddlies, may not be much butt it may be enough for the survivors to begin to feel better
Umm, no, she didn’t go before because she was caught up in what had happened since she found them, the fact the ship had just been re-supplied was irrelevant to the fact the ship hadn’t left yet
Even if it was because the ship (that she had believed had left the moment she was onboard) had been re-supplied with armaments, that would be the sensible thing: she has no way of knowing how they will react and having an armed back-up would be a sensible precaution
Better to be pre-armed than to be de-limbed :P
Having holo emitters create your clothing is all well and good up until there is a mechanical failure or glitch.
Standing nude in front of you colleagues will make you hope that you do not have Sydney’s level of embarrassment or nosebleeding.
Cora solved the issue by crewing her ship with eye candy that are down for it whenever she is.
That’s assuming you can stand at all without it.
True. I was thinking in general terms, but Cora would have rather more pressing matters if hers failed.
Not that I was thinking of her being embarrassed, as she is clearly an extrovert and not in the least bit shy (anymore).
Cora wouldn’t just be standing there nude… her limbs are also holograms. so she’d fall to the floor with no way to do anything. So that tech had better be super-reliable.
Honestly, though, I’d believe. Modern tech seems to be much more reliable than it was 20 years ago, and solid state electronics are way more reliable than mechanical devices.
So I’d bet that a hard light projector (HLP) is far more reliable than her mechanical limbs, and her system probably has redundancies that would prevent a single point of failure from shutting her down. Any external input that would cause her HLP to fail would have also crashed her mechanical limbs, so in the worst she’s not really any worse off, and in the best case, the HLP is far superior to mechanical tech.
And “why not wear regular clothes on her meat body”? I’m going to go with “it interferes with the projection mechanism.” Also, again, anything that will kill the projector has already torn material clothing to shreds.
Probably for the same reason a werebear (byte me, can’t remember the ‘fancy’ term) started wearing real clothes (so her girlfriend could slip her hands under to Copperfield), also it makes stripping more ‘intimate’ and fun for both (or more) participants
heh… so you’re a Wapsi Square fan too…
Yups, have been for years :D
Can’t remember exactly how long, butt was definitely prior to the whole Calendar Cycle story, so… minimum of eight or nine years?
same here
I don’t think it’s too much of an issue.
Solid state is a lot more reliable than mechanical, and those Hardlight clothing systems have apparently had a lot of development and testing in all kinds of conditions. Don’t forget they are also being used for armor, and by more than just buyers of the lowest bidder.
For the most part, unless a unit is insanely old, or horribly abused for a long time, I’d bet their mean time between failures exceeds multiple human lifetimes.
Speaking of them being used for armor. That being considered, anything that can damage the unit will likely have to be able to destroy the armor in the first place, in which case the fleshy squishy thing inside won’t much be caring about whether their bum is showing or not. ;)
Hope I wasn’t too verbose. It is a subject I’ve mused over many times, and discussed with friends. Of course we talked about virtual matter instead of hard light, but it’s pretty much the same thing.
Anyway, the comics great, and the author doesn’t need to explain how things work, just so long as consistency is maintained. (Doesn’t mean characters can’t lie or just be wrong.)
Cora would probably be too distracted by the sudden loss of functioning limbs to worry about being nude. With that being the case, she probably has redundant backups.
…what exactly is Sydney’s plan? It kind of seems like a bustling, peaceful, neutral city is about the best place in the universe for these people.
Talking to their leaders, gather intel about the unknown enemy, intel on Sciona, develop good relations with the leaders of the refugee group of Alari, no doubt some of their military personnel of some rank are there to protect and organize the escape.
I seriously doubt she’d be offering someone else’s ship to escort them to a planet where she has no means or authority to offer homes on.
This ^
Sydney comes across as someone who would want to help her enemies if the tables were turned, rather than stamp them further into the ground, specially when these Alari clearly appear to have next to nothing
It might seem like an ideal spot, but if you dumped them in, say, NY with no support and no funds, how well would they fare?
My money is on Sydney checking out whether there is any support happening.
Of course, I’m sure Arc would see them as a massive potential resource.
Provide them with disguises, identities, and jobs, and Arc would have an entire group of effectively supers that also have advanced educations compared to Earth standard.
Even though we can assume that Sciona is an elite for her race, even the average schoe has a ton of super ability compared to most. A squad or more of Alari would be a massive asset, or even an Alari adjunct for the regular squads would be a large and standardized expansion of their usual capabilities.
Honestly though, if Sidney brings back a bunch of Alari refugees, she’ll get yelled at by 2 people, but at least a half dozen more will drown out that with squees of delight.
Key word, bustling. Starting with nothing but the clothing on your back is basically impossible in a rich city. For an Earth example:
Imagine you are stuck in Manhattan with no job, no home, no money, no phone, and you have to pee. You can’t get a phone without money, you can’t get a job with no phone number and no address. No landlord will rent to you without a recommendation from your current landlord. Bathrooms are for customers only and urinating in public is a crime.
it’s a standard Monkey King style trope. The Monkey King character stand in (Goku, Luffy, Naruto, Gon, etc) will have certain characteristics, including an extreme loyalty to friends and allies, and a willingness to accept nearly anyone as part of that group.
Cora specifically asked “What did you have in mind?”
Whatever Sydney explained to her off-camera about what she had in mind, Cora is obviously 100% with the final draft of it. (There may have been negotiations to make it reasonable in Cora’s eyes.)
Personally…I’d imagine Sydney explaining she just came from the Alari homeworld, saw the wreckage, and is sorry for all the destruction. (She might mention she’s fought the foe and yes, that’s a scary mofo that few could’ve faced and won against.) I think she might ask if they have a place to go…but I think she’ll also ask who or what the squidward army were & why they attacked, to see if there’s a risk of them coming after other races in the galaxy, or if it was just a “We hate the Alari / U SUX!!” thing.
*100% okay with the final draft of it.
Missed a word, there…
…She might also ask if other ships full of refugees also got away, and she might ask what the creepy ghosty-soul-y things were, but not completely sure about the last one, because she might be able to find out when she gets back to Earth, since they went through the closing portal with Maxima, et al, after all… (We don’t know if the others had enough time to know what those were or not, but hey, you never know!)
These Alalari may have been in transit when their world was attacked and pulled over to the nearest spacestation to figure out where to go next.
Although the adult/mother is bandaged using a piece of her skirt, which implies more than just casual familiarity with the strife.
What’s Sydney going to do?
I mean, it’d be really great if she could help them, but how? Sydney doesn’t even know where she is, she has no resources or information to offer them, there’s a language and cultural (and maybe even dimensional) barrier…
So what can she do?
Plus there’s the whole “they might all be nazis but actually far worse” thing. What if she (somehow) helps them get settled somewhere, they could even appreciate it with a touching moment, and then they go on sacrificing people for blood+souls to rebuild their glorious dark empire, now with a small statue in memory of her aid?
But more to the point, what can Sydney do to help in the first place?
What can she do? Give them updated intel on their planet for a start
These refugees may have been the first off and have no way of knowing what happened: did their planet survive? are their families and friends okay? are the Squiddies looking for survivors?
What Sydney can do, is offer a gesture of goodwill, the details of which we will just have to wait (Monday will be switching back to Earth, either to Maxi and Co or to SmugD :P )
Because that conversation about the danger to her and perhaps earth itself if the power of her unscannable orbs never happen.
Yeah, she can give them intel.
Just what can she do here? she is just an ignorant barbarian, and not an important member of her species either. Many of the ideas suggested are pretty much impossible.
Now Deux might be able to do quite well here. These refugees have the knowledge to convert Earth from a barbarian world to one the whole galaxy might deem civilized [with a stretch], but we can all see how such immigrants are often treated. They would need a sponsor that Sydney can’t be.
Now we can see how the refugees here are not the best of immigrants. The Alari have a bad reputation, and the idea that this is due to a biased sample looks quite wishful. There is a clear danger to letting them live on Earth.
The language and cultural barrier vanished when Cora, her ship and crew arrived. They can provide the necessary translation and context to ensure that needs, intents and discussions are correctly conveyed. Plus they will be able to tell Sydney if her proposed solutions are practical, looked at from the point of view of galactic civilisation. Likewise they can offer practical alternatives, once they know what the problem is. Being told of the problem is the first step in jointly finding a solution to it.
I had a similar problem when I discovered a couple of abandoned puppies in Bulgaria. They were covered in blood (they had been weaned so it was likely litter mates’ or their mother’s blood) and fleas. I had no money or resources to keep them myself. The most I could raise, with my limited means, was sufficient to have them put down. Which would be kinder than letting them starve to death, in their dreadful state. Nobody locally acknowledged ownership nor wanted anything to do with them.
However in sharing the knowledge of the problem, with a friend, we were able to come up with a series of solutions to each of the problems which occurred. Many of which would be shared with these refugees. Knowing that I had a friend helping me to find them a new home, provide transportation and other help allowed me to free up that money for immediate medical care (such as the vital de-fleaing) and feed them in the short term.
Then we could deal with finding a charity to take over, make enquiries as to other people who may be willing and able to take on caring for them or find some means to do so between us (which is what we did, in the end) or even take them across international borders to somewhere safer (ditto).
For the refugees it may be that they need medical check ups to ensure that they are not suffering ill effects from being on an alien planet (the atmosphere may not be properly compatible with their needs, for instance). Likewise with travelling on Cora’s ship and on whatever planets they travel via or are eventually settled on.
A trivial matter for Cora’s crew to handle, as that will be routine for interstellar travel, but a daunting prospect for Sydney alone or even with the resources of Archon (should she have flown them back to Earth in her bubble).
They can also provide intelligence as to places where Alari may either be tolerated or even welcomed. Such as other Alari colonies (provided that they are not under risk of invasion) or allied worlds. Plus the galactic community (or at least the more altruistic segments of it) may have an obligation to care for non-combatant refugees. In which case it would just be a simple matter to get them in touch with representatives of the relevant authorities. Something hard for people stranded in a strange place, but simple for people with transport.
Ironically even the issue of Alaria being feared, reviled and potentially dangerous was parallelled with these puppies. Part of their ongoing medical care was to do a genetic analysis on them (to treat a specific condition which was suspected). It turns out that, despite appearing to be normal dogs, the puppies were between 75% and 80% wolf!
However, armed with that knowledge, and taking suitable steps to cater with behavioural differences, they have been fully integrated with another couple of dogs and are living a happy suburban life, in the UK.
Should no other planet be happy taking them in, we know that Earth does host numerous alien and supernatural species. Including ones with a reputation for being dangerous (such as werewolves and vampires). So it would be able to cater for their needs. If the political will can be mustered (no guarantees on that one).
The problem is that we need a solution that is Sydney-based. A solution based on the space civilization is dubious because it doesn’t need Sydney. Even a solution using Cora is dubious. She has her own [unknown] life to live, and carrying around a bunch of strangers, quite possibly criminal strangers, is pushing things. “Taking then to Earth? OK, I’m going to Earth anyway ” is about the limit. [Taking them to Earth is dubious enough, but Sydney is impulsive enough that the many drawbacks might be ignored and she can be persuasive enough to get it started.]
The first step in helping someone is finding out what they need, but people tend to be appallingly bad at it. Real life example, ask any wheelchair user about being ‘helped’, friends have had chairs destroyed, even been dragged onto a tram they never wanted to catch. It’s so common a problem, wheelchair design has changed because of it (most chairs now have an option of folding push handles).
Since Alari can presumably breathe Earth Air and eat Earth food, Syd can give them a safe place to sleep and food to eat. On Earth Syd is rich. Syd is also personally, a FTL starship with Nth level tech. She could relocate to a new planet, once she learns to navigate.
Heh, have a character in “Big Bang Empire” with similar boots to panel five (the spikey black ones, for those who have trouble counting in-sets) :D
Is it me or does the pacing feel all over the place on the last two pages – the shoe thing just feels off :P
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop are we?
If at some point you want to have some references images for the inside and outside of another ship, I have a crazy hobby project here I’ve made a rather big spaceship (it can fit 2 fighters), along with all the corridors and whatnot :P
You can find a bunch of images already on my deviantart: avolendi.deviantart.com
They images are a bit outdated, but I can post new ones ^^
Sequential Art has a character, Hillary, who has a fondness (read fetish) for foot wear. It’s a plot point. I suspect Cora might employ him.
They have to survive and get out of the closet first :P
Wait, was it a closet or a walk-in fridge? o_O
It is safest to assume that this might happen with any door. But there are ways to stop things getting out of the wardrobe. Some of them bigtime.
This was simply me not being able to remember what they used in that webic (although after typing, fairly sure it was a closet, or wardrobe, can’t remember the difference {believe maybe that a wardrobe is a portable box and a closet is attached or built in to the wall})
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Believe you forgot the ‘b’ in the fourth word :P
There is a new way of displaying webcomics. OK not totally new, as in I have read webcomics which do stuff like this. But ones clearly created with custom programs and a lot of effort. Whereas this appears to be a simpler way of taking advantage of the depth that digital media can offer, along with sound and augmented and/or virtual reality.
Now if only we could clone DaveB, in order to get a version of Grrl Power adapted to this …
Rule 34 gonna come into play on aug VR and XR sooner than later…
Maybe GPwr After Dark would be a good vehicle?
Hard light?
Neptune Black Holographic Mens Shoes
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Is Frix going to be featured in the Valentines Day sex drive this year?
Ah, buys her clothes at TS, does she? Apparently, she likes overpriced items based on someone else’s work.
Aaaaahhhhh well, I’m all caught up nut now I want to rage at waiting for more pages again. I love that everything is moving along now and I so want to see what happens when/if Cora, Dabbler and Krona start think-tanking about the orbs and how/what Kora/’s powers are if they can relate to the orbs. So much story, and not enough to consume.
I miss getting Patreon notifications for pages, but I’m so happy to be able to read along here either way. I’m so excited to check in every few weeks to binge on everything.
This fascination with shoes has never made sense to me. My wife would fill multiple rooms with them if she had the budget.
The ladies would probably say much the same about our obsessions with power tools / model trains / camera gear / etc. (delete as appropriate).
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power tools / model trains / camera gear/ etc.Yea, I guess Grrl Power does fall under ‘etc’.
One person’s obsessions is another person’s insanity? Makes sense.
I have a friend in Tampa who despite having a pretty big house…also has a storage unit for shoes.
Your wife is Imelda Marcos? o_O
I did say “if she had the budget”. Imelda Marcos had the budget to cater to her obsession.
Technically, she had the countries budget :P
Bless you for this plot twist. Sidney has a heart, and so do you.
Not really much of a twist, more of an inevitability: Sydney wanted to help when she first came across them (after realising they are refugee’s and not Sci-fright), she just didn’t even know how to communicate at that time (that was before anyone talked to her and she discovered the Translator) and wasn’t really in a position to do anything even if she could (she wasn’t in much more of a different position than they were: lost and hungry far from home)
I read every word DaveB wrote on this page and both pages of comments. Oddly enough, despite many commenters comments, there doesn’t seem to be a hint about what is about to happen with the refugees. Back in #683, she maturely concluded that she should do nothing. What can she do now?
For one thing, she can now talk to them and have them understand her
Of course DaveB isn’t going to even hint at what Sydney is going to do before He reveals all (which will happen on Thursday as He is due a Scene-change right about now :P )
we supposed to recognize the dark elf lookalikes?
Considering we just had a major antagonist of their species over an extended arc in front of us, yeah.
“just”. as if this shit updates more than once a decade lmao
Cora takes 6 hours to get ready? And she has the ability to try on literally anything and everything she’s ever seen?
How is it not 6 days?
I suppose maybe it takes time to code up a new piece of clothing if you’ve only seen it once. You wouldn’t want (unintentional) pokethrough after all.
Or maybe clothing vendors are selling replication rights, so it’s not actually unlimited.