Grrl Power #1045 – Return of the Attack of the Boobs!
Sydney will eventually gain a +1 resistance to this attack given the frequency of her exposure to it.
Parfait is about three weeks past her 18th birthday, FYI. Young and inexperienced, but not so young that it’s icky.
Dabbler has been around, but there are places in the universe she conspicuously avoids. Puritania IV, for one, where people flog themselves for the amount of skin they expose bathing even though they wear shifts, and men wear penis clothespins from the age of 4. (Apparently it’s some psychotic anti-masturbation thing that some parents did in the ’40’s and ’50’s in the US. I thought I should clarify here because I’ve heard people joke about it, but I had to look it up. I actually thought it might have been something done for entertainment.)
She hasn’t been to a lot of planes of existence, but that’s because most of them are theoretical. Their laws of physics are different enough that corporeal beings can’t exist there. Also a lot of them are just plain made up. Demons use these probably fictional planes like theological hells. “Be good little Athorgazi, or you’ll go to the Plane of Having to Pee So Bad You’ve Started to Sweat But You Have to Give a Long, Tedious Speech in Front of a Room Full of Girls You Have Crushes On when you die.”
Of course, they don’t say all that. They say “…or you’ll go to Zirluw when you die.” Demons have to memorize the names of at least 128 Planes of Escalating Annoyance and/or Aggravation from Mild to Severe before they’re considered “plane literate.” The Plane of Never Being Able to Remember Why You Walked Into a Room is on the low scale, (some of us live there already >cough<) The Plane of Really Bad Allergies But Every Time You Sneeze You Have Really Hot, Violent Diarrhea is on the higher end.
Almost done with the May incentive. Probably be up with the next monday comic.
April Vote Incentive is up! Looks like someone had better make sure their life insurance includes acts of Snu Snu.
Alternate versions over at Patreon include less cloth-y versions as usual, but also some of those color changing chokers.
Her shirt, since no one has figured out the kanji yet, says “I ahegao you. (As long as you ahegao me.)”
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Hypnoboobs for the win!
All glory to the hypnoboobs
Even Deus praises the hypnoboobs.
All glory to the hypnoboobs
Great, now the Hypnotoad noise is stuck in my brain whenever I see Xuriel or her kind… I’d rather have a more pleasing sound associated with hypnoboobs, please and thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNWfEbhTuyw
I’ll just place this here, then…
Huh, so Parfait’s ‘dress’ is really just cleverly positioned smoke… or something that merely appears to be smoke for anyone looking at it.
this appears to be her thing yes.
She does seem to be establishing a theme. The dress, the hair…
I would have noticed earlier, but the Hypno Boobs got me!
A minor use of Glamour. Cora has a device that she got from Dabbler that uses “solid holographics” to not only to keep a number of pre-programmed changes her physical appearance (in the same way Dabbler uses Glamour to appear human & hide two of her arms) but also numerous “fashion styles,” one at least that we’ve seen appears to be “strategically-placed white clouds.” No matter what angle of view you use, she’s always covered in “just the right places” for DaveB to keep a PG rating…
At my age I find myself living in the plane of something new aches with every passing day.
That sounds familiar, a new thing that cracks at the crack of dawn.
Well, at least you know you’re alive, when things don’t hurt anymore the real worries should start, like who, where and when i’m going for a good haunting.
Is that why its called the crack of dawn?
It’s a breakfast ceareal rice crispies “it’s fun to put snap, crackle pop into your morning” jingle
Only because the old aches are vacationing to get their strength back. Some old ones (not them, those are my party buddies) old aches came back well rested and ready to make with the suffering. Who took my geritol nagdabit!
I recall when they gave me the really good pain killers when I broke my leg in my 40’s. When I went off them I suddenly realized that the finger I’d broken in 6th grade still hurt, I’d just gotten used to it hurting…
Eventually the injuries just pile up past your capacity to ignore.
I had a similar experience when I got killed back in 2001, except that when I was dead I noticed nothing hurt, but when I came back alive EVERYTHING hurt, the hip that broke, my tailbone that I broke in 1977, all my scrapes and contusions, but not the tib-fib facture for some reason. I didn’t feel that one until after I got out of the hospital and bumped my leg on something getting out of bed, then YEEOWTCH!
Ironically, the broken leg doesn’t really hurt to this day, which is why I went off the pain killers almost immediately. Apparently it’s a bad idea to try walking off a broken leg, (What can I say? I was in shock.) I got nerve damage from taking that first step, as well as an extra month of bed rest.
I can already tell that Parfait is going to be a fun character, what with her slutty innocence and youthful exuberance.
Ending phrase reminded me a lot of Grif’s sister, who was re-written as a ‘loud slut’ after the voice actress proved to have absolutely no limit on how vulgar her lines were.
ahh yes the nubile expericence. fun lol
Nubile is best bile :)
Sydney’s super-science glasses should have gone dark to protect her from being stupified.
At least the bottoms of them. Black bars? They’d try to protect her from the sun.
Parfait: “Hey! My boobs are down here!”
Unfortunately, the Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses feature has not been activated in Sydney’s mildly corrective lenses.
Sydney: [After Anvil pulls her clear of Parfait] [Thinking] Hmm, I have a pair of those. Maybe not as big or as bouncy or as captivating, so why am getting nailed by them? Anvil’s are way bigger and they are no big deal to me. Good thing we didn’t bring Math on this trip; he would be so lost. Yeah, I get why Dabbler said the only thing that gets soft in a guy is their brains, mine too it seems. Hmm, I wonder if the brown orb has a Clear Thought function? [ Grabs brown orb ] [Speaking] Hey, Parfait, let’s try that again!
Not possible for that to be Sydney. Those thoughts meander. Sydney’s thoughts pounce like a room full of caffeinated kittens.
Sydney’s Orbs of Power are just going to float there while she’s under mental attack?
This would have been a good time for the unknown one to step up and give Parfait a bop to the head.
they have been shown to only operate under her will so far. they are only a tool.
ever seen a helmet jump on your head cuz a brick is headed your way? same principle.
The airb jumped into her hand in the swimming pool, when it was the only orb with the passive activation node enabled. Once the flyball has it enable, Sydney had featherfall activate without knowing in advance what would happen.
I contend that Sydney grabbed the air-producing orb either out of subconscious reflex, or accident, and that it has nothing to do with the passive feature of the orb. Both because that would be an incredibly lame passive, and because her feather fall works without her holding the orb. The passive on the fly ball doesn’t make the orb force itself into her hand when she’s falling — it just works. I would expect the passive on the air ball to function the same way, to do something related to the orb’s primary function, but not identical, without being held.
Also, the air ball didn’t force its way into her hand under the other circumstances where she was running out of breathable air in her force field.
I would argue subconscious reflex. She mentioned that using the middle option made her understand the orbs more in a previous comic, so would make sense that the air orb would have gone to her instead of the intended force-field orb. That is also the only time we have seen Sydney grab the wrong orb, while all other times indicated a clear ability to handle the orbs without issue.
Another side effect of the passive flying orb is that it cured her vertigo when not holding the flying orb, something that was commented on when she first went to Archon headquarters that she suffers when not using the orb. It’s possible that the air orb provides other personality-altering effects that we would not see as they would have been applied from the start of the comic.
No, actually, there’s evidence they’ll act on their own, but only if you’ve bought that feature, by putting a point in the encapsulated node. Like, she accidentally bought passive flight, and now she feather falls instead of plummeting, even if she’s not holding the flight orb. And when she was drowning in the pool, the air orb apparently moved into her hand on its own, and surrounded her with air.
Seriously, as a squishy human, she should absolutely put the next point into the passive for the force field. Maybe then it will protect her on its own initiative.
@brett, ahhh i see your point. makes sense.
Agreed, the passive shield should be the new top priority. Can’t unlock anything else on the tree if she gets dead, and constant sleepless vigilance isn’t a viable option.
Parfait is adorable, and Dabbler is right to protect her.
Tom seems to be the supportive kind as well.
Tom is probably a nice guy(fiend?), according to those close to him.
A bit intense, but in general a good boss.
Hold on, if she’s literally 18? Then it might be a little ooky for Tom to make her his succubus(to replace Dabbler?) since the general rule of thumb is half your age plus seven. Then again, both Dabbler and Tom are the 100s when it comes to age, so I guess they use a different system.
I thought it was just “At least half your age and older than 16”? Darn, wait until I tell my wife we weren’t supposed to marry…
“since the general rule of thumb is half your age plus seven.”
Only in the fevered minds of US neopuritans, and *most certainly* one that Dabbler would “tsk” at, with prejudice, as an example just how incredibly backward Earth really is…
Or stab someone stupid enough to suggest that to her with a Soul Eater…
It’s a decent “yeah there’s not gonna be a HUGE life experience and power imbalance” guideline that breaks down pretty quickly. And is irrelevant for this type of relationship given that those things are inherent in the first place.
It ‘s not just the USA where that’s sometimes taken as the edges of appropriateness – although given how much cross-talk there is between US and British culture, that may not be saying much. I’ve certainly seen it commented on on this side of the Atlantic, but more at the level of ‘pause and think about how this looks from the outside’ than of ‘definitely not’. And even then, only really at the younger end.
Personally, I say there’s a cut off for that rule where an adult is an adult. I usually put it at 25 or so for humans. 18 is young enough that it’s a little icky.
adult is adult, I try not to judge.
especially when we delve into fiction and are talking about either sapient aliens/animals (see Harkness test),
and if said species considers its age to be a mature adult. Gets weird with either incredibly long lived beings or gods.
-granted it gets a bit…tug on the collar when you have 100 year old vampires lusting after highschool girls, and pull it off as *back in his day that was the age of consent* but then argue about how they aren’t old men, their mental flexibility should be the same as a younger man’s and not be as hard to learn that times change. *Buffy the Vampire Slayer, not just Twilight*,
then get the really old ones like a 5,000 year old space pirate, 20,000 year old space scientist *who we later learn that’s just her post reincarnation age and actually predates the universe as a omniverse level goddess*… (Tenchi Muyo, Ryoko and Washu respectivly).
Heck how old was Belldandy in Ah My Goddess?
*also seeing a trend in anime of being taken care of by much older but youthful looking women…although Senko-san may be a little too youthful looking…but steering away from the immortal lolli trope.
just in general when you start to mix in stuff that is far outside the current human experience, aliens, talking human intelligence level dog,1,000 year old human-plant, 10,000 year old muse going after a 20 year old man, or any relationship a 36 quadrillion-quadrillion *to the point has experienced entirely different forms of “time” goddess that has seen entire universes come and go; and they are like, hey there 19 year old sorceress who summoned me let’s get freaky. Well, who is anyone to judge that.
Parfait is about three weeks past her 18th birthday, FYI. Young and inexperienced, but not so young that it’s icky.
—-uhhhh in the context of dating a demon as old as time? yeah still gross af.
Still kind of the puritan in ya speaking. Fact is if the human race ever manages to expand it’s lifespan Past 100 year’s, where do we draw the age gap?
“Oh, your 300 and dating someone who’s 180? Gross!”
Actually if we go using Randal Munroe’s Standard Creepyness rule https://xkcd.com/314/ then a being of 300 years in age could date someone as young as 157 without breaking the rule.
Naturally tho, it’d be similar so someone who is 30 dating someone who’s 22. At those kind of extreme ranges you are testing the edge of the rule.
My grandparents had a 10 year age difference. There isn’t a general rule when it comes to age differences. It varies based on people’s culture and personal feelings.
7-10 years used to be pretty common. It takes a man until his mid twenties to get established enough to afford a family, and a woman is fully developed by 18-20 or so.
It was also fairly common for a man with another couple of decades on him to take a still-fertile wife, often with one or the other or both being widowed.
yeah but play it against the Harkness test,
we meet aliens with only a forty year life span and are fully mature by 10 years of age *granted this stretches the general understanding on the development of sapience in a species but it has come up on both Star Trek and Dr. Who I believe..or Torchwood*.
but then consider the ludicrously long lived or indefinite lifespan like a people who have gained artificial bodies, techno-organic evolution and now can easily live for thousands of years or more until they voluntarily shut down or wander off into the cosmos in search of themselves after their multi-millennium existential crisis kicks in.
but throw in hyper advanced aliens, ascended beings, multi-dimensional lifeforms, and others where you just say “gods” and make as much sense and them even having relations with humans at all and its like…wait…you’re older the sun?….your mother predates our universe?!…and that super hot woman who was just hitting on me is so old the concept of time doesn’t even exist as she has experienced multiple versions of time and seen multiple universes come and go?
it gets really silly and so abstract the further we get outside of a human lifespan. Kind of like wealth, the bigger the numbers get the harder it is to visualize so what before would be dramatic differences just feel like tiny blips so your brain skims over it.
I draw the line at complete brain development.
Not by waiting until the bare minimum while you’re several decades their senior.
18 x 11 = 198. Not quite as old as time.
FWIW, my parents had an age difference of 26 years. My mother had me at 33 years of age, my father was 59 at the time.
Tom, is the same age, as Dabbler!
Where do you get that from? The cast page has her at 187, which is well below 18×11=198. Admittedly, the comic started in 2010, and if you add those 12 years to her age, you get in the ballpark for “same age”, but I think that’s likely a coincidence.
It has been established they were in the same classes in their demon high school or demon college or whatever days, so they are of similar age. Those 12 years could easily be the difference between at what age their respective species start in school, and since Dabbler apparently has quite the advanced mind she might’ve skipped a few classes.
And the straight dial slides ever so slightly the other way each time she fails.
Honestly, I believe Syd is something of a Bi in Denial most of the time. I’ve seen similar behaviors before in friends who discovered themselves later on.
Though in Sydney’s defense, I imagine your friends weren’t being hypno-boobed by succubi.
I love your thought process, but sometimes it scares me. Let me know if ya need any more help with the military side of the comic. Great job as always. Lol
The last panel now is in the running for one of the top faves in this comic. I’m a sucker for the trope of two characters being proud of a third while they commit violence upon one another.
I think that’s foreplay not violence though it may be hard to tell the difference with fiends and succubi.
I mean trying to find anything that can’t be associated with foreplay with a succubi is a task in of itself
Hypno boobs are a real thing. And I like how both Tom and Dabbler are proud of her for that!
Sydney really should know you don’t a someone’s books without there being consequences.
That’s something guys learn at an earlier age, I guess.
That may be a typo, but the typo version still applies!
And I have always felt that I was a creative retard because I can’t come up with a non-trivial character name! Here, in my Gee-I-wish-I-could-do-that world, Dave comes up with entirely new concepts as easily as breathing!
Boob contact surprise. A succubus classic.
Oh no. I already live in the plane of The Plane of Really Bad Allergies But Every Time You Sneeze You Have Really Hot, Violent Diarrhea. Does that mean I’ve been a bad little Athorgazi?
LOL, Parfait is adorable!
Just a heads-up, you forgot Tom’s demonic bold face font in the last panel.
Imagine discovering the unimaginable infinite limits of alien empires and alternate dimensions…and ANIME is apparently as good as it gets
Well, you know, in America we think anime is really great, because the crap never gets exported, only the good stuff. (Well, not so much now, judging by the new season…)
Imagine how selective the anime exports are to the infernal realms. I’m sure the original run of Devilman made it there, but the remake never made the cut, for instance.
The crap never gets exported?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!
Oh, you sweet summer child. You obviously weren’t watching the dreck that got served to us in the 80s and 90s.
I mean, the anime companies in the 80’s and 90’s would have LIKED to have done only the good stuff. Anime wasn’t a big thing, back then, and deliberately importing a flop was potentially catastrophic. Unfortunately, a lot of the good stuff was only available in a package deal. “Oh, you wanna license “The Slayers”? Sure – but we’ll only sell it do you if you ALSO take “BEM Hunter Lime”! That kinda thing.
Now that Anime has gone mainstream, though, it seems like a lot of awful dreck is being dredged up solely because it’s anime…
No, actually I was watching it, heck, I watched Kimba the White Lion as a child in the 60’s.
Sure, not everything that made it here in the early days was fantastic, but believe me, there was worse stuff that was left behind.
I suspect there’s an inverse relationship in a culture between how interesting their day-to-day activities are and how interesting their entertainment is.
Okay… Parfait is starting to become one of my favorite characters that has that whole “innocent yet sexual” thing going on kinda reminds me of the character Monara. Also love how Sis and Master are cheering her on, it is kinda wholesome.
The Plane of “being bored but occasionally mildly itchy ”
is any beach at any time.
Let’s see,we already met Tamatha and how old is she,in her early to mid teens?!?
14 if I remember right Parfait is where Tamatha will be in 3 more years? Wow there’s going to be a lot of very tired young men in the world now Deus’s expansion would be amped up if the succubi were sent into his next target for a “recharge” lol
Tamatha was 12 or so, according to DaveB, if you base it on his description of her as a ‘preadolescent succubus.’
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-792-vitamin-t/
(see the blurb by DaveB, second sentence).
I’m also pretty sure he mentioned 12-13 somewhere else but not feeling like searching for that when I already found this.
i think it’s hinted that she’s just started puberty so she’s probably 12-13 yo of human age( forgot how fast succubi age)
I can’t help but think Dave missed a chance to make an even better joke here. Since she comes from a world where everyone is either stacked and cut, have Parfait be completely mesmerized by Sydney’s boyish figure and the screaming thigh sweats over Syd’s geek status.
I think anyone to the rear of parfait is hitting a free show. She’s sans cullottes right? That’s “nopantsu” in animespeak.
Is it me or is Tom a bit of an M?
Have you seen a brat tamer that is not a bit of an M?
“The Plane of Really Bad Allergies But Every Time You Sneeze You Have Really Hot, Violent Diarrhea is on the higher end.”
Aka A Texas chili cook-off.
The Tai/grak cookoff version is somewhere in the 110’s level of hell
LOL so true I used to make a killer 4-alarm until my ulcer got bad (TOTALLY unrelated….) now it’s Hormel level but still tasty.
Tom is 198ish and if you’re comparing Parfait to human years, humans brains don’t fully mature until they’re 25ish (the legal age of adulthood was determined by politicians and the military, not biologists). So unless you mention that Succubi mature faster or something, still creepy.
Except that, for succubi, the “age of consent” is more analogous to “the age you start eating solid foods” for humans. Strictly dictated by magical biology, not tradition.
so i guess parfeit still has the metaphorical training wheels on? and is sydny about to have her first succubus experience haha
“Master, come look, I violated someone’s mind just like Big Sis! I can’t wait to start having sex with humans that can’t refuse me YAAAAAY!”
Great another one of them.
None of the succubi have had that personality, so far. They’ve been pretty tame, in that regard, during this story.
Well, if you don’t want to be viewed as the sort of monster people wage a war of extermination against, you need to set some limits, don’t you? “Get consent, and leave them happy”, for starters. And Dabbler has a strict policy of inducing partial amnesia in her meals, so they’re not ruined for normal women.
This isn’t a Vegas show. It’s mind control, did you forget already the last time we saw hypno-boobs used? Pretty sure Vehemence didn’t WANT to lose, and it’s not like Sydney wants to stare at Dabblers or Parfaits breasts. She has no choice.
Speaking of Vehemence he basically did the same thing, among other crimes, Dabbler does all the time. Just switch forced rage with forced lust and I think we all agree that was bad.
The hypnoboobs wasn’t what I meant by the second half anyway. I mean they basically drug you to get you in bed to feed. Can you fight it off? Maybe. You can also fight off booze, is sex with a girl you got piss drunk consensual? Dabblers victims are not in their right mind and therefore cannot consent. Brett unintentionally brings up another issue with consent, Dabbler alters their memories (which is a violation in of itself) so even if they said yes it’s retroactively revoked.
Succubi are a gordian knot of consent and bodily autonomy issues, but we just glaze over them because they’re hot.
Except the characters have demonstrated the ability to restrain themselves in the face of both Dabbler and Vehemence’s powers. It’s a compulsion, but it can be resisted. It’s not just total override mind control.
But yes, there’s a lot of unexplored opportunity to explore the idea of consent and free will, and how psychic or magical compulsion is similar to or different from all the normal ways we attempt to influence the thoughts and feelings of other people.
Can you provide the comics that shows anyone fighting against Vehemence’s violent mind control powers? We even had a comic state that he chose not to affect some characters with his power when he incited everyone to attack each other.
Also, apart from Max and her orders for Dabbler not to “feast” on the team, is there anything that shows someone that refused Dabbler once she uses her lust control on them?
There has not been a single character who has shown any regret about having sex with Dabbler even when she isn’t present.
So I doubt it’s that.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-287-all-wrapped-up/
This page indicates that some people have had issues with the Aura used by Dabbler in the past.
That wasn’t her aura. That was Dabbler using direct mind control in a fight.
Sydney resists Vehemence’s aura when she traps herself in her force field with him. When Dabbler enters the ballroom pushing her lust aura, Sydney, Arianna, and General Faulk all clearly resist, and presumably Maxima does as well. I think there’s plenty of indication that Dabbler has repeatedly tried to seduce Maxima, and has failed, but it’s not clear how much of her toolbox she’s applied, or whether she wants to do it ‘legit’, though I’m inclined to think she wouldn’t consider any of her abilities to be ‘cheating’.
Not really?
Dabbler and other succubi are just literally, supernaturally pretty. And we’ve never seen them use their more direct abilities to get sex ever.
see, for some reason i feel compelled to argue with you, mostly due to your potrayed attitude.
but i won’t cuz it’s not worth it.
So for those who are not native English speakers: clothespins are the two bits of plastic or wood connected with a spring hinge in the middle used to hang your laundry on the wire out to dry after you washed it. Do not do what I did when reading this post and mistake them for safety pins, which are special pins with a spring hinge on one end and a protective hood to hide the sharp bits that are used to tie together cloth diapers. Because that second type is somehow even worse to use on your toddler’s junk…
DaveB, this page was a MASTERPIECE! LOL!
“Look master, I violated someone’s mind just like Big Sis! I can’t wait to start having sex with humans that can’t say no! YAAAAAY!!!”
Why would you think that someone hypnotized can’t say no? Haven’t you ever heard that you can’t be hypnotized to do something you wouldn’t do without hypnosis? Isn’t it at least a little bit fun, how Parfait is just happy about being able to do something? To me, it seems a bit more like a kid saying ‘look, I can draw a kitten!’
Yeah, that was a totally weird leap.
This isn’t a Vegas show. It’s mind control, did you forget already the last time we saw hypno-boobs used? Pretty sure Vehemence didn’t WANT to lose, and it’s not like Sydney wants to stare at Dabblers or Parfaits breasts. She has no choice.
So we’re exporting anime to the wider universe?…. I can smell a trade opportunity. XD
We’d have to stop radiating out our broadcasts for that to be effective anyone with a ship set to our frequencies or even a drone could easily collect for free years worth.
Those orbs definitely need an upgrade if an enchantment/illusion can lock the mind of their wielder so easily. Although I think it’s been proven that Sydney behind her forcefield is immune to it (see big superfight).
Meh. I’m always really bored. And I wouldn’t mind feeling mildly itchy if I could just feel ANYTHING.
Here, you can borrow my whetstone to make sure all that EDGE stays keen.
Everyone commenting about parfait unlocking the Hypnoboob achievement … and my oldtaku ass is just chuckling over the fact that Dabble is wielding EXCALIBOLG in the last panel.
Pipiru piru piru Pipiru Pii
NO, do not bring that anime up, it should have never been made or at least made better!
Seriously, someone should have gotten shot for the opening theme alone!
Meh, it’s one of my ringtones.
I honestly don’t know how to respond to that….wow!
Let’s just leave it at, the ex-roomie I lived with for the longest was basically a less sane version of Ed from Cowboy Bebop until she had a very late bloom in her early twenties to and is now a … less sane CHESTY version of Ed from Cowboy Bebop.
The ringtone is appropriate.
They bonk and fight! They bonk and bonk and fight! Bonk Bonk Bonk. Fight Fight Fight.
The Tom and Harem show!!!
It isn’t Harem bonking and fighting, it’s Dabbler. ‘Xuriel’ can be made to scan to the music better than the word ‘Dabbler’ can although both can work.
Sorry…
Brain totally farted and likely was thinking of Tom’s new HAREM of succubae.
Thanks for the correction.
It’s the Tom and Dabbler show!!!
I’m 52, trust me, no amount of exposure will make you resistant to the hypnoboob.
I’m 70 and Bi!
If anything, I think successive exposure will only weaken Sydney’s resistance. I know that’s how it works with me.
Forgot why you walked into the next room?
Try “The Plane of Opened a New Browser Tab, and Then Can’t Remember Why”.
If Parfait likes anime, she’s ok in my book.