Grrl Power #1199 – Sublinen messaging
There is a college-age version of Maxima who would be offended at a woman’s genitals being defined by their utility vis-à-vis male genitals. Actually, if we’re playing the alternative universe game, then there’s a version of non-superpowered non-six foot one Maximillia somewhere (possibly going by ‘Emily’ or ‘Imillia’) who went to a liberal arts women’s college and wrote many articles railing against such phallocratic concepts as Genital Hierarchy for her ‘zine, and is dating some emotional submissive who is described by everyone he meets as “extremely vegan.”
But our Maxima, while certainly more tightly wound in the past, has mellowed out a bit since then and can just laugh at the phrase “Emergency Erection Mitigation.” Especially the Emergency part. I mean, no doubt many a young man has described his erection as an emergency to many a red-state sex-educated young woman hoping to get at least a handy out of her. But outside of that, (and I suppose some narrow medical conditions, largely involving overindulgence in erectile dysfunction drugs,) the idea that an erection constitutes any kind of legitimate emergency is pretty laughable.
Well, okay, an erection at work/school/church/standing in line at the waterpark, sure, I guess that’s a kind of emergency. But when I hear the word ’emergency,’ I think of flashing red lights and people in windbreakers with three letter acronyms on the back milling around. Probably a helicopter circling the area, because they need to actually use the helicopter enough to justify the budget for it.
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Wouldn’t every point Maxima made about Parfait also apply to Dabbler, cause they’re contacted to the same person?
Methinks there be a Double Standard
Dabbler is able to resist orders from her master, whereas Parfait cannot resist yet.
At least according to herself, but theoretically she could be under orders to lie about it.
but would those orders extend to lying about being ordered to lie?
They would hardly be good orders if they weren’t, and Thothogoth has experience in being a master.
But remember succubi assassins? If she’s ordered to lie, she can lie to Thothogoth.
This doesn’t follow. He is able to order her to lie specific lies no problem.
And it’s not like Succubi are unable to lie by default – she can already lie to him unless he takes specific measures.
I think it’s less about whether or not she can lie to him, and more about “if I take advantage of the relationship I have with Dabbler, and the position of trust granted to me, the succubi can and WILL punish me for it. I might not survive the punishment.”
Given the multiple advantages of having a succubus as a slave (not just the sexual pleasure, but also their general usefulness), potential masters (and mistresses; EVERYONE would want one) would be well aware that it’s a seller’s market and that they need to be THOROUGHLY vetted for trustworthiness.
I dont think dabbler is still “owned” by tom anymore. She said she kept the quadruple x collar because she finds the double meaning hilarious iirc.
No, she said she hadn’t changed masters, which means Tommy is still her ‘owner’
Succubae literally can’t live without one
The symbol on her collar is determined by who her owner is. She kept Tom as her master in part because of the symbol.
Not really. Dabbler is able to control it after she’s been a collared succubus this long. She said as much to Maxima when Maxima asked if she changed masters to Maxima, would she finally listen to her orders, and Dabbler said she’s been a succubus too long for that to affect her anymore (or something along those lines). The exact wording went like this:
Maxima: “Can you switch… ugh… ‘leash holders?'”
Dabbler: “Modern succubi can, sure. Why? You want to be my master?”
Maxima: “Would it actually make you obey my orders?”
Dabbler: “I’m tempted to say ‘only in the bedroom.’ But no, I’m long past that. Plus, we’d be obligated to have sex on a regular basis.”
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https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-998-alls-well-that-succs-well/
I suspect that “ownership” for succubi involves a pleasure center feedback mechanism. Ownership is more a sense of belonging to someone, not being puppet-mastered, and a new succubus will do anything to get that hit. Dabbler has found other ways to get that hit, or has become desensitized to it; in any case, she no longer feels she needs to do everything her “master’ tells her to do.
Dabbler explained how if all works during the quarry story arc that ‘formally’ introduced Tom into the comic (and no I didnt forget the earlier splash page or the one with the memory of Dabbker stealing his loot).
And on that note, if Tom uses his master status over Parfait to get her to do something she wouldn’t otherwise, I’m sure those Succubi matriarchs (and Dabbler) will start laying down the consequenses for a bad master.
Yep. Very good point.
And Tom has a history of NOT treating his slaves badly and giving them a lot of freedom if Dabbler is representative of how Tom is with those succubi that he collars (if anything Dabbler is the one that seems to sbuse him more – ie, stealing his loot, etc). The succubi matriarchs are very picky about making sure that they allow only masters that wont abuse their authority over the succubi slaves – again according to Dabbler – so the fact that Tom has been allowed this at least twice is representative of him not taking undue advantage of the power he holds over her.
Priapism (erections that do not subside for 4 hours or more) are genuine medical emergencies, as there is a real risk of tissue damage.
now you are going to tell me there are resorts with adjacent bathtubs out in a field somewhere.
also, we all know about this because, in a desperate attempt to curb advertising drug companies were compelled to disclose side effects in the advertising. once again the room full of clever people with limited ethics wins.
“Ischemic priapism can cause serious complications. The blood trapped in the penis is deprived of oxygen. When an erection lasts for too long — usually more than four hours — this lack of oxygen can begin to damage or destroy tissues in the penis. Untreated priapism can cause erectile dysfunction.”
Yep, sounds like something people would want
Working in psychiatric hospitals I’ve seen several cases of priapism. Chronic mental illness is often complicated with physical illnesses. Psychotropic medications often have problematic interactions with other medication. We had one poor fellow who had immediately life threatening high blood pressure and psychosis and the combination of medications gave him a case of priapism. The doctors eventually got his medication sorted but in the short term they had to draw off blood with a syringe to keep him from losing his penis. So yeah, his erection was an emergency.
The comedy writes itself:
Billy-Ray: “But Emma-May, it’s been hard too long, that could be dangerous! Please help me!”
Emma-May: “Don’t worry Billy, my Mom’s a nurse, I know all about this. Let’s get your pants down …”
Billy-Ray smirks, thinking he’s so clever. His smirk turns to a look of horror as Emma-May takes a 20ml syringe and
large bore needle out of her purse.
Emma-May: “You’re right, we have to get the stagnant blood out of there to avoid ischemic injury. This will hurt, but anything to avoid losing your tally-wacker, right?”
Then the comedy turns to horror. “It’s been four hours, better draw off some more blood. I’m really getting the hang of this. We can get you a transfusion in the morning.” Actually, that’s not far off from what happened to the poor fellow. Before the meds cleared his system the docs were discussing surgical intervention to keep him from losing his penis.
“Ask your doctor or pharmacist if Viagra is right for you.”
:)
I think people should ask their partner first then talk to the doctor.
That’s why Viagra comes (pun not intended but still funny) with the 4-hour erection warning in the leaflet.
The strangest thing is that although Deus wants Max, he wants her to want him as much as he does her so I doubt he’d do anything untoward in trying to achieve his goal. Deus is a Thrawn level villain, everything he does has the point of trying to achieve some sort of goal, no matter what it is.
Can’t wait until we see him next.
The Lex Luthor of this story is in love with the Superman of this story.
Lex Luthor or Tony Stark?
More like David Xanatos and Varrik.
Could be worse, she could be palette swapped Gynostar.
I seem to recall Dave once mentioning that Deus is based loosely on Xanatos.
So, just like Lex Luthor and Superman!
I’ve seen that weird superman clone room Lex. You ain’t foolin nobody
Just keep the pink kryptonite away from Lex.
The Lex Luthor of Superman’s story is usually in love with the Superman of Superman’s story. Luthor’s fixation on Superman has long since gone into “he’s either bisexual, or hetero EXCEPT where SUperman is concerned” territory. (the “If it’s you, it’s okay” trope)
There’s even an animated film based on the “Death and Return of Superman” story from the 1990s, where Luthor creates a mind controlled clone of Superman – and the scene where he beats up the clone… while shirtless and screaming, “Why did you leave me!?” is already homoerotic as hell. Even before Luthor looks down at the clone and purrs, “…Who’s your daddy?”
This just made me think “Wouldn’t it be mindblowing if EVERYTHING Deus is doing is to woo Maxima?” The super-villainy, dating Daphne, recruiting Tom; every bit of it a calculated move to bring Max around to liking him without her feeling like she’s being manipulated by a guy with super intelligence.
I would wager that was a definite possiblity, if there were not multiple other options requiring way less effort.
Also, I think the other side of the eqation is more interesting. It seems that for Maxima Deus aspiring world domination is less a deterrent than him enacting betrayal by minor proxy. (Cannot say I would disagree, but noteworthy nonetheless.)
Hey, Deus is a super genius antagonist.
Complicated plans to achieve simple things are required.
We from the A.G.A.(Antagonistic Genius Association) would never accept a simple answer.
I would like to warn you that we from the AGA aren’t as easily swayed those weaklings of EEI(Evil Executives Inclusive).
Ignorance of rules is no excuse here and we auto-publish all our findings, so bribing yourself out of consequences requires you to bribe the entire association.
The way you delivered that, I can’t help but wonder if you are familiar with the Terrible Writing Advice YouTube channel. The “TWA Expanded Universe” characters often talk like that.
Seen a few video’s. Not really a writer myself though.
I did know of the underlying trope.
It’s were I based my decision on, to use this form of communication.
Pander’s ninja squads are of a very adjacent trope and they seem appreciated here, so I feel safe to presume a minimum level of acceptance of the format.
If you’re a supergenius, why pursue only one plan to win Max over when you could have twenty or a hundred simultaneous plans going?
Lets not forget the interesting/fun variable. Sure could go the simple rout, but that might be to boring. So for the super genius, lets do it the complicated way for funsies and see how things play out. Especially when playing the long game which he is definitely doing. Sometimes, I think for characters like Dues and Xantos, seeing how things play out is just as important and fun as the objective. If the short term objective of any given plan is not accomplished, they still get something out of the exercise.
He’s clearly got more reasons for it than just that, but it’s still possible that wooing Maxima is his ultimate goal – he’s presumably smart enough to pursue many goals simultaneously, and furthermore to interweave them together. So he legitimately wants to rule the world, but is purposefully doing it using methods that make Maxima pay close attention to him while avoiding anything that would seriously anger her (and even doing things she is likely to approve of, like improving living conditions across the board for his citizenry*). He is compelled to laugh maniacally (“… I have a condition”), but he plays it up to be funny rather than off-putting (I don’t think Max has seen him do it, but he did show her his “lightning window” he setup to play it up more). And so forth.
*On the topic of multiple goals, this is one that helps with a lot of them. A big part of wanting to rule the world is going to be ego, and the idea that those you have power over are in a better state than before you were in power has to be good for that (more petty people will enjoy making things worse for those under their power, but that’s because their own ego’s are fragile and they secretly fear they aren’t as great as they make themselves out to be, and Deus really doesn’t strike me as someone like that). And happy citizens are more productive citizens, meaning the physical fruits of being in control are more bountiful. It also makes maintaining power easier if people enjoy the new status quo. So even if Deus didn’t have a single altruistic/philanthropic bone in his body (and I think he actually does have such laudable traits, probably as necessary components to the super wisdom, super empathy, and super charisma he implied he had to back up is super intellect), he has all manner of reasons to want to make things better for those under his rule (and even those not-yet under his rule, to help convince them that being under said rule would be so bad).
Max is probably* the most powerful weapon on the planet. Deus’s endgame is running the planet, he can’t do that securely with Max in opposition. Deus needs her running his praetorian guard, and needs her to be loyal (loyalty being the problem with the original praetorians). Even if he wasn’t attracted to Max, wooing her would be a priority.
* The other option being a fully-empowered Sydney. He probably needs to pay more attention to her than he does.
If he gain Maximas loyalty it would be much easier to also get Halo on his team. Sydney trusts and like Maxima.
Not sure he doesn’t pay attention to Sydney…
If he hadn’t seen her glass a couple of acres all by herself directly, he certainly *will* be aware of the fact that she not only has direct access to the same space hub he frequents, he’ll also will be aware of the fact that Sydney really only has to touch him to get rid of him.
Vacuum is a great equaliser…
Which is why him using Parfait as a mole is highly unlikely..
Assuming he *can* convince Tom to begin with… Tom is very much aware Dabbler alone is a force to be reckoned with. He also knows Dabbler only acknowledges two Earthlings as “significant”.. Maxima and Sydney.
Using Parfait in that way, especially against her will/using the Bond, would tick off Sydney… severely.
You don’t tick off people who are capable of vaporising half your army, without you being able to even scratch her.. Especially when her friend/commander is capable of vaporising the other half, and your other contracted succubus will use the opportunity to remove certain relevant bits from you in very creative ways.
Tom may have his flaws ( Ith Thradithional, after all..), but being stupid isn’t one of them.
Besides… Parfait, with where she would be allowed to be present, would never be anywhere near any important info that Daphne wouldn’t know as well.
She’s *far* more valuable as a friendly connection than as a spy.
Note that the only reason why Sydney will vaporize only half of Deux’s army is that Max has superspeed … and that Sydney is missing few points in Pew Pew.
However, using Parfait to get Syd more friendly with him/his goals seems like the obvious play.
He’s already halfway to flipping Sydney, a few more fuckups by the American government in her sight, and giving her and Max “the tour” might be enough to do it.
Deus’s method of taking over the planet is financial though, not villainous. In fact, most of the time it involves the masses WANTING him to take power, with only the corrupt elites not wanting it because it… gets in the way of them being corrupt and evil to the masses that they’ve been harming.
For anything in a ‘first world’ sense, his method seems a LOT more ‘financial’ and letting them WANT to join him, rather than ‘kill the corrupt dictator after giving him a chance to do the right thing, until he tries to kill Deus instead.’ or ‘talk to people in mozambique who beg him to come into their area and take over so they arent starving with little to no electricit or clean water or jobs, or being disappeared by a corrupt government. Then his doing everything possible to minimize casualties even on the LOSING side and make sure any violence lasts as short a period of time as possible, following up with making it all legal and legitimate.
“financial” is just an indirect form of “villainous”.
who is the bigger villain? the one who buys? or the one who sells?
Or, yknow… commerce. A basic step needed for most civilizations to flourish.
‘Commerce’ is buying and selling goods and services. ‘Finance’ is acquiring money without providing either, just by manipulating money. It’s where capitalism leaves the real world, and just becomes a game about acquiring more power.
I think folks are underselling Deus in these comments. No, he’s not going to use Parfait to blow up ARCHON HQ, or anything like that. But he absolutely could instruct Tom to engage in conversation about what she’s up to, and thereby get an additional line of intel.
As for Deus’ methods…
He works by buying out corrupt regimes, yes. But that won’t work so well in the US or the West in general–sure, they’ll go along with him to get money, but eventually, his benevolent rule is going to run smack-dab into the same thing that stymies anyone who tries to improve the lot of the economic underclass–people are not, in fact, rational actors, especially when they are already ‘well enough’ off.
Case in point: In the US, if you had every American who filed for bankruptcy to do so in one of two courtrooms, one for bankruptcy for medical expenses, and the other for all other causes combined, you’d have to make the first court twice the size of the second. Two bankruptcies because they got an ambulance ride for every person who had any other issue in their life.
Yet even try to suggest that we’d be better off with a different system, and the very people who would be aided the most immediately go ape-shit talking about death panels (newsflash: the private insurance companies already use death panels, except theirs get performance bonuses based on how much they save the company by denying claims, ie, by screwing over their customers).
The only way to get the US, in particular–but likely any other Western nation as well–would be to first let our country fall into complete chaos of the sort that he’s shown skill at sorting out. And by ‘let’, I really mean, ‘induce’. Bribes only work when the person wants what you’re offering badly enough. And we’ve got a lot of people who are petty enough that they won’t take the help, if it means ‘those people’ also get aid.
Which means that at some point, Deus is going to have to switch gears, going from passively getting rich to aggressively undermining various government institutions, even more than he’s had to already (just to get the ability to operate under diplomatic immunity, he’s actively bribing government officials). At some point, he’s going to have to cross a line to get where he wants, and Max, much as she might have come around to the idea of liking where he’s going, is not going to tolerate the means he’ll have to employ to get there.
Fun fact:
If you read and follow the Evil Overlord List you naturally tend towards being a benevolent dictator.
You also act a lot like Deus.
Didn’t he actually SAY somewhere that he’s read it?
I’m not a dictator, I just ignore people who disagree with me.
What this comic needs is a scene where we see Dues’ copy of the Evil Overlord Checklist, and we see his progress in working through it.
YES!!!
Even if it’s not canon, it’d still be great in a vote incentive or under-comic-bit.
On Deus bedroom there are three pictures with heart shaped frames: A picture of himself, a picture of Maxima and the evil overlord list. He may soon add a picture of Tom too.
Tom is just a business partner.
he mixes business and pleasure routinely.
I question the characterization of Deus as a villain. He’s certainly villain-coded, but he’s done more actual good than anyone else in the comic. He’s bringing health care, education and economic stability to millions of people. He might even have a solution to the seemingly inevitable demographic trap of rapid industrialization.
I like the idea of a genuinely evil supervillain who is so pragmatic that he do more good than bad.
Superheroes have a nasty tendency to defend the status quo rather than improving anything. For an example off the top of my head, in one of the Spiderman movies the antagonist’s goal was to give everyone superpowers. The script had to try very hard to twist that into being villainous. I classify Deus as an antivillain, someone who uses “villain” methods for mostly will intended ends.
On a related note, I’ve toyed with the idea of a political parody super”hero” team called the Right Wing, who oppose ANY change.
Don’t need superheroes for that.. You only need to look at the (extreme) Traditionalists in *any* religion worldwide to find them.
Of whom many are *quite* intolerant to anything but their own view. With reactions ranging from petty bullying/social exlusion of the Unbelievers to full-on Crusades/Jihad..
One of the reasons people actually *like* Deus is hat his Villainy is grand-scale, and that he actually employs the 101 Rules like a pro. Presumably extended with his private notes, and a couple of additions.
You only have to look around you/watch the news to see how he could be *so much worse* than he is..
> team called the Right Wing
Marvel already had “The Right” as an X-Men villian group.
They got a permanent kill on the “Can speak any language” mutant kid, Cypher. (Which feels rather more pointed now that I say it out loud. X-Men really isn’t subtle with its political messaging)
The political right doesn’t oppose every change… just changes that oppose the “natural” power distribution. Changes that amplify existing differences in power they embrace wholeheartedly.
> just changes that oppose the “natural” power distribution.
By which they mean “the one that they think they want.”
the drawings for things like scaffolds and the structure supporting waterslides are usually called… erection drawings. so now we know there are erections that last more than 4 hours.
Maxima’s underwear gets removed for things to leave her body, much more than for entering her body. That and when she is cleaning herself.
Do you not classify cleaning as “things leaving her body”?
The thing Dabbler is glossing over is that Tom might make an independent play.
Or he could be used as leverage to make Parfait sabotage the base by someone powerful enough to threaten his life.
The latter, indeed. As for the former, remember that Tom is pretty much aware what even a slightly annoyed, still rather playful Maxima can do to him.
Tom is a high ranking demon (or was it devil?) so it would be in character for him to play the long game.
He’s an archfiend.
Proven by his invention of the Pumpkin Spice Latte.
I said archfiend, not angel.
sometimes it can be hard to tell. besides, where is the pumpkin in pumpkin spice?
because nobody would buy it if they just called it ‘nutmeg and allspice’
Might?
Will you mean.
Both have stated the goal of earth domination.
There is just one earth.
One of them will bite to dust and the fact they work together proves they both think is the other.
The fact that they both work together for their stated end game proves means they either have different than their stated one(I would only believe that of Deus) or they plan to be their associate’s downfall.
Correction.
He will make an independent play, but maybe not against Archon through Parfait.
Or Tom think’s his remaining natural lifespan is longer than Deus’s (Dab and Tom are both over 100 years old an nowhere near “old” old yet) and is willing to be the inheritor and let Deus play.
Long game and all that.
That just moves the date of the betrayal, since it assumes Deus won’t choose his own heir, but it moves it beyond the scope of Maxima’s rulings, so you could be right.
It also assumes that Deus won’t name Tom his heir if he can’t find another suitable super-intelligence.
Assuming Deus does not, or has not already, figured out the secret of immortality.
Doesn’t that logic apply to all the main cast? I’m pretty sure you could threaten the friends or family of any employee to convince them to sabotage the base.
ok, this is a fantastic plot device. now lets pour some reality onto it. tell me how you can blackmail somebody in a military base successfully using friends and family without having already compromised the base? can you cover every single official that the member can walk up to and say ‘I have a problem’ and do remember Leon’s job and skill level.
Their family is off base.
The people on the base have phones…
Kidnap family, phone person on base, convince them you have their family
‘Yes, Ace pilot’
‘hey I just got a call threatening my family.’
‘When, on what phone? what are they asking you to do?’
a little while later
the family is safe, traumatized. the local Swat team and local Special Forces got to try some joint maneuvers. sadly, the kidnappers all died resisting arrest. the medic did what he could and a couple held on in the base infirmary for a few days.
you can threaten the family on a phone call to the military person. you have to control every.single.person on base he/she might go to for help. miss one and plans will be changing.
That rather assumes that the kidnappers won’t kill the family if there’s any sign of SWAT…
And that the person who’s family has been kidnapped will try and get help
ahh but how do they know the victim has asked for help. the only way is to have so much control of the base that the blackmail is unnecessary. and who says the Swat team was first?
They don’t need to know the victim has asked for help, how likely is it that SWAT or Special Forces can get in and free all the hostages without any of the hostage takers being able to kill the hostages?
The hostage takers can set where the hostages are so they can have clear line of sight, they can have people watching where SWAT is based for movement…
I’m not saying that the extortion is guaranteed to work, I’m saying you’re being dismissive saying that it can’t possibly work
You’re right. This is why militaries like the USA military have all kinds of protection not only for their soldiers, but also the family and friends of these soldiers.
The primary one being anonymity, which is still largely maintained with the super hero aliases(SYDNEYYY no advertising unscreened personal businesses, it’s for your own protection).
A secondary one is screening. Screen if someones loved ones are in easily exploitable position or even hostile themselves. Each of the characters presumably passed this screening. Parfait didn’t and even actively failed it right now. But Dabs? You might ask:
a. Apparently not everyone in the command staff knew of this master slave thing this could mean it didn’t come up in Dabs non-updated screening.
b. Parfait is less experienced and thus less able to resist Tom’s orders.
This’s a real problem for the military and they have played the game before.
This! Tom is obviously betting he can find a way around Deus’ contract, and unless Deus specifically orders Tom to NOT do anything to Archon or anyone therein or use minions to do the same, Tom WILL eventually try any means to silence the other biggest roadblock to world conquest -even if it means using Parfait as a “trojan mare”.
Loophole abuse is what classic fiends like Tom do well. He seem like the traditional type. His army of lawyers is probably impressive.
Well there is the medical condition called Priapism, but the treatmeant is a lot more umpleseant that those panties imply
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/priapism/symptoms-causes/syc-20352005
I categorically refuse to click that link. I’m still recovering from figuring out what sounding rods are for. (winces) not for me.
Should’ve known better than to search for sounding rods, was thinking something nautical even though in the context of the post I knew it wouldn’t be. I have a friend who has told me my curiosity is my weakness.
Aw, hell…now I’m curious….Eeeww
I was honestly confused for a second. Upon reading “Emergency Erection Mitigation”, my thought was that dropping them would cause the male to lose their stiffy right away because, I don’t know, sheer intimidation? And that didn’t sound like something Dabbler would go with.
Plus, most emergencies are very good at erection mitigation all by themselves.
I read it as more of an “erection is in an undesirable position” thing.
It’s not an emergency erection that needs to be mitigated, it’s an emergency mitigation of an erection. Maybe you’re about to give a speech in public and neither your pants nor the stage are capable of concealing said erection, but even the dread of public speaking isn’t enough to calm it down, or maybe you’re trying the old “imagine them in their underwear” trick to avoid being embarrassed, but there are some really hot ladies – or dudes, I don’t judge – in the front row. Or, relevant to this whole situation, there’s a succubus nearby pushing her Lust Aura.
Your guess would work if she has a case of vagina dentata.
Maybe this’ll be the last we’ll see of Parfait for a time…?!?
Nah, she’s only banned from the base
The base really needs a room off the entrence foyer that isn’t “officially” on the base (or inside the hardened section) for things like summoning circles and hostile guest searches.
Doesn’t change the fact that Parf is still a cute security risk
And, as Rock pointed out: Tom is the one controlling Parf, and any betrayal may have nothing to do with Maxi
“I think of flashing red lights and people in windbreakers with three letter acronyms on the back milling around.”
You mean like the I.C.U.? Because you’re seeing the erection?
Some already talked about Priapism but…, one can always double down: The banana spider’s bite is known to cause painful, prolonged erections.
Meet the Banana Spider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneutria_nigriventer
presumably Max drops her panties every day or so, she just doesn’t do it where they can be collected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneutria_nigriventer -> Big spider bite induced priapism
I think what makes the last one work is the directions, because that is exactly how military equipment would work, and max has experience with General Stupidity and his staff.
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Wait… Dab made Max snort… Could Max actually be attracted to Dabbler? (It’s based on the meme that if you can get a woman to snort laugh she’s pretty much yours)
So that ‘Wait a few pages’ thing is just not going to happen? Huh. That’s disappointing.
Is the arc over? Try to contain your glee at being upset
I believe it was the thing with Jiggawatt.
This has been way too tidy a wrap-up so far, and somehow I feel like the story actively considers me a jerk for wanting it to not treat the whole thing as a jokey-joke fest.
The story wants you to consider it a serious deconstruction of super hero tropes. Why aren’t you laughing?
Yeah honestly that was the only way this could have ended for Dabbler’s friend that didn’t make everyone look stupid.
Who are you referring to as Dabbler’s “friend”? Her sister, Parfait?
Yup
Snort laughing at ejection seat themed novelty panties would absolutely work with Maxima.
Why doesn’t Parfait have any hair in the 2nd panel?
Eh, federal building so no smoking.
I found this much funnier than the comic’s joke, thanks for sharing.
Well considering some of the rules they have nowadays, the no shirt no shoes no smoking would be very confusing to parfait
Her hair is probably tied to her lust aura. Without her powers it’s just…hair.
that vote incentive is neat. Halo is testing out a new body remotely?
Well, there we go. The Amorphous/Heatwave bit was the “in a few pages” apparently.
Situation is officially handwaved.
Or its still coming up.
Since they’re still in the debriefing room.
They were just dismissed.
Which just means the Official Bit regarding the Team/Incident is over.
Nothing is said about specific, *VERY PRIVATE* remaining issues that people may want to address.
Or would *you* like to have an office slip-up publicly discussed by the whole damn office + various bosses?
Oh sorry, I can guess.. You’d insist on it.. *except* when it involves you….
Your final comment entirely unnecessary and wholly mean spirited.
Nothing they said indicated they held that position, only that they believed the room being dismissed meant that the major points of this little “event” had been addressed and that the only consequence seems to have been the Amorphous/Heatwave bit, which yes will likely be resolved in private.
So far the only other possible consequence to read from this whole thing is perhaps the security concerns now finally brought up regarding Parfait, and possibly other aura projectors in the future, with her specifically being banned from the building. Though it is currently unclear if that is going to be walked back or not, with the jokey follow up. But that plot point will also likely continue with the upper echelon considering those concerns.
Theres always the chance Dave has other plans, but this did feel like a wrap up so far.
I think ‘Top Secret’ might be more applicable. Or ‘Authorized Personnel Only’.
There has got to be a market out there for “Emergency Erection Port” underwear
Max has a strong point, Parfait could be used in such a matter, she’s too young and freshly bonded to resist. That said, Dabbler also makes a good argument as well. Sadly, it could take Parfait decades to learn how to resist so for the time being, I’ll take Max’s side. She can visit, off-base.
This might be the first time I ever seen Max bust out laughing at any sexual joke Dabs has done. I’ll have to do a re-read to be sure, but I think I’m right.
I think she’s done a curled corner or a rolleye here and there..
But getting past her guard causing a *snerk* ? ummm… yeah.. could well be the first time we’ve seen that happen.
Dave, in those types oferectile situations the letters on the back of the windbreakers usually read ‘FBI’.
/politicalcorrectnes off
Female
Body
Inspector
… yes?
/Politicalcorrectness off
Female
Body
Inspector
yes? ;-)
Yeah, that seems like an eminently reasonable reaction. This is still technically a military institution, and while Parfait may have personal emotional connection with Sydney, that doesn’t mean she isn’t still associated with actors whose interests may not necessarily align with Archon’s or America’s, even if her own morals and motivations don’t necessarily equal theirs.
Quite frankly, during the previous page, I was wondering why Parfait – a foreign civilian not contracted to Archon – would even be allowed to stay on the base to begin with. Even Mr. What’shisname from the comic shop wouldn’t be allowed to be dragged around by Sydney on-base as much as Parfait was without explicit permission from her supervisor (Max) who also checked it over with the other higher-ups. I don’t think Parfait being Dabbler’s sister should have afforded Parfait THAT much leverage. Will Sydney get a proper dressing-down for bringing a civilian on a military base when every military base known to man has regulations regarding such a thing? It would be in-character for Max given how much of a handler she’s had to be to Sydney thus-far.
To Author: anything special for #1200? Someone shouts ‘Bingo!’ at the ‘Make Maxima say this’ as one option.
Snort laughing at ejection seat themed novelty panties would absolutely work with Maxima.
Even though Max’s panties are a rare drop, it would still be one helluva loot box to get.
Yeah, this can’t be good: they are wrapping things up and the only official ‘punishment’ is… not being allowed back on the base?
And Sydney, just because it’s been five minutes since anyone has paid attention to you doesn’t mean you get to be a bitch to get all eyes turned back to you
If it’s “your job” to make Maxi laugh, you are fired because you have been a failure at it
Is Parfait still banned after Dabbler’s point about Deux?
Here comes my speculation about how Archon should avoid such a problems in the future.
A. The magical mind control defenses are apparently only perimeter effective, fix this.
B. Any Summonings should happen in designated areas at the entry port.
C. Summonings should be treated as visitors for security purposes.
D. Vehemence showed that one can build resistance to magical mind altering effects. Train for this.
E. Build a way to detect mind altering effects.
I suddenly had this brainfart :
Deus going after Max makes him a golddigger ..
I am pretty sure, I am not the first
Hey just thought I’d ask. What’s the difference between abstinence and not having sex right now?
Abstinence means “to refrain from”, so the difference would be it being willful. I suspect that when Parfait says “it tastes like abstinence”, since succubi can taste tantric energy, it’s probably like being around a Nun.
More akin to being around someone who is asexual, or maybe even at a small gatehring for asexual support. There’s simply no energy in the person to feed on–no libido = no food.
Asexuals still have a libido, and lust, they just tend to not be interested in being with other people
This entire subplot is feels like a horribly light treatment of an incredibly sensitive and important subject.
Succubus hormone effect fields?
I don’t think it’s as sensitive as you think. Some people are equating it to a roofie, but that’s an inaccurate mysoginistic viewpoint that completely misses the problem with roofies. It’s mysognistic to view the problem with a roofie being the heightened tendency towards sex (as mysoginistic views make sex more important than other factors) and not focusing on the intent to control another person.
Parfait’s aura was an accidental and uncontrollable thing; there was no intent to manipulate others. It’s more along the line of a really off-the-rails party that had free booze that was stronger than everyone expected and mistakes were made… and that’s all they were, were mistakes. Even in the “cheating”, there was no *intent* to cheat, so there’s no real emotional violation.
And Parfait is a security risk, so her being banned from base is absolutely valid, and that has been addressed.
A closer analogy to Parfait’s lust aura in this case would be a non-alcoholic punch spiked with an extra strong aphrodisiac at a party, rather than roofies or stronger than expected booze!
I don’t know that too many people follow the “no intent to cheat, so there’s no real emotional violation” belief.
And again, note that the effect was strong enough that military personnel on duty at their post (the entrance booth) were doing something to steam up the windows…
And a roofie isn’t “heightened tendency towards sex”, it’s normally combined with alcohol causing severe intoxication so people can’t make any judgement, have reduced chances of resisting and commonly causes retrograde amnesia so the victim doesn’t know what’s happened.
I can’t stop laughing over, “Breakfast of Champions”… it’s probably the most lesbian joke I’ve seen in grrlpower to date.
That’s not even a lesbian joke. That one applies to bi and heterosexuals as well.
(and let’s face it, if they’re not willing to go down, they’re unlikely to be any good at the rest of it)
It’s not a lesbian joke, everyone has a tongue. The last cunnilingus joke was with Frix, who is a straight male.
Dabbler may be overestimating Deus’s devotion to Maxima stopping him from world domination. He’s having sex with and negotiating for sex with other people. So it’s not like he’s pining for her.
This.
It’s a p big assumption that he’s that obsessed with Max. Especially for the goal to be on par with world domination as a goal.