Grrl Power #443 – League of extra-atypical gentlemen (and ladies)
So yeah, the Twilight Council basically opens up the Grrl Verse to basically anything I want to throw in the world. (Though still there are a limited number of super science tinkerers because of how quickly the world would diverge from ours if someone, for instance, invented a power source and instead of using it to power armor to rob banks, he used it to power cars, which would in turn devastate the oil industry, and a good portion of the economy, diverge, diverge, etc, etc.)
“Miscellaneous” are races that don’t have sufficient population to have their own seat. I was going to put that in the comic itself but I needed to cut it for space. Also cut – after Maxima introduces Decollete, she says “Who, yes, [demons] are technically aliens but there’s enough of them to warrant their own representative.”
I only recently learned the word Décolletage. I’m sure I had heard it a bunch of times, but never quite groked its meaning. If you’re in the same boat I was, it’s basically a fancy French way of saying cleavage, but really it refers to the neckline of a dress/shirt and all the skin left exposed on the neck, shoulders, back and cleavage. Basically a dresses “negative space” and is considered part of the overall ensemble. Decollete is the adjective form of the word, so “a decollete dress shows off a woman’s décolletage” As soon as I read it, I thought Decollete would a funny name for a succubus, I mean it sounds like a name anyway. If only I can resist writing about it here in the comments, then only so many people will get it and they get that special “in the know” feeling like when you’re the only one who gets the obscure reference when watching MST3K with a group of friend. Unless I’m the only one who didn’t already know the meaning of those words. So, uh, don’t read this if you didn’t already know that.
Not to be confused, by the way, with “decollate” which is a verb meaning “to behead”
I also literally just learned as I’m writing this that “grok” wasn’t invented for that infamous SNL sketch (someone can probably find a video of it – the links I found on youtube were mostly videos of people talking about the sketch instead of the sketch itself), it’s actually a word coined in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land back in 1961, meaning to understand or empathize with. For the longest time after seeing it in the sketch, I just thought it meant like/love/dig/groove on, and people saying stuff like “I grok your pain.” were either misusing it or just being jerks and trying to fly under the radar.
The picture of Sydney in panel 2 is one of my favorites in a while. The pinched, pursed lips is a weird art thing that’s evolved fairly recently. Not with my art specifically, I mean broadly. I think it started in manga, and you can see it in stuff like Empowered and Rick and Morty a lot now. I think it’s cute of done right, but honestly I’m not 100% sure what expression it represents on a real face. Semi-duck lips? But not obnoxious selfie ducklips, it’s more like a combination thinking and confused expression? I don’t know, but I think it’s cute on Sydney.
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AH! There IS a Crimson and Clover! I was wondering about that after hearing the song on the radio the other day. But I didn’t think that Ingsol’s other sireling was named Clover.
She isn’t. Crimson and Scarlett are Ingsol’s sirelings, per panel 5. Whilst Clover is Gregor’s (Mr Fluffy’s) daughter.
But nice catch on the song. Hopefully those two will pair up on a later mission. I would enjoy seeing them working together.
What are Odyssians ssupposed to be?
Demigods? The people all the old Greek, Norse, Egyptian myths are based off?
“Grok” is not merely to understand, but to comprehend so thoroughly that it becomes a part of you. But most humans are not capable of this, and “understand” is about as close as we really get. Think of it as ” understanding, plus”.
you know you could have tinkerers but just explain that since their awesome and world shattering technology is basicaly artesanal and hand made by them its not ready for mass production
like irl we do have things like robots, cybernetics that you can control with your mind, batteries that can last for days and recharge in seconds, spaceships, and other crazy technology the problem is that much of that tech is in laboratories and its imposible to mass produce it since it takes a lot to actually make something at an industrial scale which is what you require if you want to disrupt an industry
like you example of a source of a near unlimited source of energy that could fit inside a car, while such a thing would obviously be a huge boon for humanity as a whole and reduce the number of days that oil has its not like we can just produce it in the required quantities to put it inside all vehicles on the planet, to do that you would need to first design a production line and then build the factories required to produce the energy source in the required quantities, make sure that its not dangerous to us humans (like most sources of energy that can produce near unlimited electricity here on earth tend to produce a shit ton of ionizing radiation as a byproduct which as you can imagine is not ideal) or to the environment, it would need to pass regulations and of course the oil industry would work to slow its adoption down every step of the way
it would probably eventually replace the entirety of our energy generation yes but instead of taking months or years it would likely take decades before its universal adoption, meanwhile such an energy source could certainly have some aplications like for example the archon HQ could have such a source of energy on their basement as a “backup system” and they could put it to use in stuff like the osprey for example, other technologies that could be created by the tinkerers could be used by archon and maybe other branches of the military in limited quantities but it wouldnt make sence that it just gets adopted in a couple of months just like that
aegir is actually a norse god of the sea.