Grrl Power #1004 – Meet the coworker…’s boobs
This page sponsored by any of you still up in the air about which parent Sydney takes after. Also… everyone at Patreon… look it was supposed to be a joke to justify a page about Syd Sr. drifting away mid conversation. Also an excuse to draw purple stripey cleavage, not that such a thing ever needs an excuse.
To be fair to Syd Sr., non-magically hypnotic boobs are still pretty hypnotic, especially when packaged and presented like that.
Yes, I considered making a scheiße reference in panel three, but I assumed most of you would get there without me.
I have a novel series to recommend, with an asterisk. Destiny’s Crucible.
Elevator pitch: A chemist gets tossed onto an alien planet with ~1700’s tech. It is what I would describe as a slow burn isekai. What I mean by that is that in most isekai books, the MC shows up on the other world, and after a week or two, maybe a month, tops, he’s established that he’s going to be a mover and shaker. He might already be out-leveling his traveling partners and it’s obvious he’s going to take down the corrupt duke or whatever. That’s generally fun to read, but there’s a lot of books like that, so that’s why this series caught my attention, because it takes a lot more time – for one thing the MC doesn’t know the language when he arrives and has to learn it.
The asterisk is that if anything, the book leans a little too hard into the slow burn. Like it takes the MC six months before he’s like “Shit, I’m a chemist, I should invent stuff.” The really big asterisk is that, honestly, by book four, it was starting to feel like a real slog. The audiobook for book 1 is 15 hours, book 2 is 17, 3 is 21, and book 4 is 28 and it really feels like it. Not a single conversation goes unspoken, and there’s stuff like scouting for a place to try and lure an enemy army and they visit 3 or 4 different potential locations three separate times and have lengthy conversations about the geography and tactics and “what if we dam this river” every time and it’s just a lot. I really think book 4 could have lost 6-10 hours and it would have been better. All that said, I still pushed through and continued on through book 7 and am still mostly enjoying it. I really liked almost all of books 1-3, book 4 just took some work. On the plus side, the narrator kind of sounds like Stanley Tucci some of the time.
Minor complaint, the book also does one of my least favorite book things, the flash-spoiler. “He boarded the flight, little did he know this would be his last day on Earth.” or “He hoped to have the troops trained within six months, yet events would overtake the hope.” Don’t stress me out like that. The flash-forward micro-spoiler does nothing narratively. (Yes, I know Grrl Power starts off with a flash forward. If I could do it over again I’d probably cut those first four pages.) It doesn’t add the tension of a good thriller that makes me want to race forward to the overtaking events, it just adds micro-anxiety, which is not why I read(/listen to audiobooks.) I don’t think I’ve ever seen it used in a positive way. “…little did I know my birthday party would be the best night of my life” etc. It’s just a pet peeve of mine and it’s not like every other sentence in the book does it. I just hate it and wanted to rant.
Oh, and the book also has chapter titles. I hate those too, especially when they’re like “Chapter 18 – Betrayal” or “Chapter 21 – Everything that was wonderful is now ash and life is a harrowing torment beyond comprehension.” or “Chapter 30 – You know that character you really liked?” Okay, it doesn’t go that far, but ambiguous micro-spoilers add stress to my primary source of recreation and I don’t like it.
Bottom line is if you’re a little burned out on the typical isekai stuff, and are also into fairly detailed Napoleon-ish era ground warfare tactics in the later books, then I think you’ll enjoy this series.
And yes, I wishlisted a bunch of your suggestions from the last page, so thanks for those. I’ll start tackling some of them after I finish book 7 of this series.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
OMG it’s so close. I was working on it before posting and looked up and it was already 11 pm.
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“My technology is mine and teleports away if I let go”…
shes probably deactivated it temporarily(and can probably remotely reactivate it) that or the only new tech in it is the holographic display and the receiver everything else is just your basic phone
Might not be strictly speaking… her tech.
Yea, could just be something she bought. Plus, she might have lowered the settings now that Earth has official alien contact.
Didn’t she let go of her sword during the Rumble? And her tools while she was making the tickle-gun? Not to mention the tickle-gun itself?
Fairly sure it’s not automagical, and she meant she can remotely teleport it if someone tries and takes it from her
Or she was intentionally obfuscating the full truth from the press…
To be fair her sword is already booby trapped.
Much like your comment, it’s also double entendred. I’m so proud.
i’m sure Dabbler would be too
Nah, it’s Mammary-trapped…
her tech is mostly battle related. that looks like a high tech tablet and it’s connecting to a network that lets her see videos put up by other aliens. so it’s probably just alien tech and not something that she herself made
I especially like how Syd Sr. was handed a futuristic space tablet and accepted it without blinking.
And how they leave him alone with it.
I doubt it’s fragile. though now I’m picturing him getting distracted and running around trying to wave it like a flag while babbling
Earth is now officially part of the interstellar community as a backwaters tourist destination. Earth is no longer cargo-cult island, but now Honolulu.
Prime Directive no longer applies.
TECHNICALLY, the Prime Directive still applies. Dabbler mentioned (and it was again alluded to on Fracture) that technology past a certain point is prohibited for trade. Depending on how sophisticated that tablet is, Dabbler could be in some trouble if it disappeared.
Probably not much, it is probably only slightly better than what we could make in a decade. But the authorities would be watching her much more closely after.
The Galactic council only agreed to letting Cora give the US a warp capable space ship due to the extenuating circumstances of the enemy ship being shot down by ARChon. Probably much more nuanced, but the Prime Directive applies to everyone. (except the Nth, who may or may not exist. but might because Sydney’s orbs may be evidence.)
Most likely the directive is not taking into account every single piece of technology but only looks at important breakthrough stuff. The tablet might be slightly more advanced than what Earth have, but likely doesn’t contain anything breakthrough – or at least not more advanced than the ship.
You know your Hawaiian history. The only reason I can come up with to excuse the Pommie neglect of the Kindom of Hawaii is that the Pacific was not their pond. (And yes, it’s a poor excuse at best.)
think the dad scrolled to the left of dabblers phone pictures and found pictures of her exploits XD
Never thought I’d see the day where Syd pulls a Spirit Albarn on her dad.
Wonder how badly Junior will react when she learns that technically she is also a Space Hussy (hooking up with Frix on the first date? returning home and trying to start up a poly-relationship with two other people?)
I think the dad will take it better than the mom. These sorts of things happen when you’re a space hopping superhero after all. Alien sexual romps and flings are inevitable! Sydney is just following in the steps of Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Flash Gordon, John Carter, and half of the X-Men. All the greats have that happen to them!
and technically it’s not just a romp, since she seems to be having a long-distance relationship with Frix
Update next week:
Sydney’s Mom & Dad are getting divorced (it’s mutual), as Syd-Dad hooks up with Dabbler, and Syd-Mom hooks up with Arianna.
Dabbler only agrees with this because she’s excited by Sydney having to call her “Mom”.
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Damn you, now I want this. ‘X3
Like Sydney, my brain is a very interesting place.
Dabbler’s not mom! She’s Space Grandma.
Auntie, dear.
Demonic Space Auntie.
That would mean that Sydney would also have to call Ariana “Mom.”
Did you call every one-night stand of your divorced parents “Dad” and “Mom?” That would make you appear to be a very emotionally needy child, and I’m sorry you had to go through all those years of neglect.
I think better would be for Dabbler, mom, dad, and Ariana all hook up together for a little group action. All courtesy of Dabbler just to get back at Sydney for punching her in the gazorpazovum again.
I think the dad will take it better than the mom. These sorts of things happen when you’re a space hopping superhero after all. Alien sexual romps and flings are inevitable! Sydney is just following in the steps of Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Flash Gordon, John Carter, and half of the X-Men. All the greats have that happen to them!
This was mesnt in response to Guesticules.
I wonder if Sydney is going to take her father on vacation to the Fracture. That would make for an incredible family vacation that would be full of wacky hijinks that her long-suffering mother would have to handle.
Best Father’s day/Christmas/Birthday gift ever.
Wait. Sydney is a fully grown adult, but is significantly shorter than both of her parents. Not impossible, but pretty unusual.
Got a son with AHDH. The medication can stunt your growth.
Why WOULDN’T she have a video of the other thing? Thought she was all about the sex? There are a lot of people into scat and having your own lightshow while doing it? Will be a big hit!
I took it as her being facetious. Of course she has video of the other stuff.
Man with mutiple arms that spot in the back getting punched has got to feel worse than with just two.
So – sorry if this got asked on the actually relevant pages, but, I was binging, got to the girl’s night out, and went “wait.” So, if a ‘Cubi needs a master or dies due to all her tantric energy running out the hole in their soul, what does a newborn ‘cubi do? Is the mother supposed to arrange a surrogate Master to be on-sight until they can get a permanent one for her daughter? Do they pester the succubus council for a candidate to be present? And what about kids like Tamatha, who lacks a mom (it seems? since she didn’t know diddly about being a succubus until Decollete picked her up?) – why don’t they die in the first couple hours of being born?
I’m guessing the “hole” forms about the same time the tantric hunger kicks in, rendering all these questions moot, but I figured I’d ask.
The author answered this in a comment back on page 997, which admittedly isn’t easy to find. Presumably it will be brought up in a future page, since the discussion on those pages got cut short in order to move on to the next scene for page 1000.
Thanks! I figured that would be the case, but finding it was a little “needle in the haystack.” also nice to see my secondary was mostly right.
I’m thinking, if I ever write a book with titled chapters, those will be like “After the first event”, “sommetime after the second event”, “before the first event”, “Why that one event worked”, “Do you remember the second event?”, “not an origin”, “not that defining moment”, etc.
I prefer numbered, untitled chapters, though. It works for pulling vignettes together.
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Grrr… Missed a button. (Late thinker, is Aye.)
I wonder, no one has see the probably Easteregg of Sineys Dad’s Jacket, who much looks like the the Jacket of Starlord from the Guardians of the Galaxy.