Grrl Power #1202 – The one that got away?
I don’t know if Parfait wants to be in a Master/Slave relationship with angel boy there, so much as she just wants to break him over her knee, sexually. I’m sure the sexually naïve are like catnip to succubi. As are the sexually experienced. Probably the most attractive to them are the people who think they’re sexually experienced, because they kind-of had a threesome, or once used a vibrator during sex! OMG!
The “I’m speaking a foreign language” brackets around the “. . .” makes me laugh, in that it’s so pointless. It’s like putting the brackets around sound effects. And in case you were wondering, presumably Parfait and angel boy are speaking something other than English, but I figured since they’re speaking the local language in a place where there’s no one who couldn’t understand them, it doesn’t really matter either way. Also, it’s just a daydream of Parfaits, so it doubly doesn’t matter.
By the way, the double dot “i” in “naïve” (a dieresis) indicates that the letter in question shouldn’t be combined with the preceding letter. In other words, it indicates that “naïve” should be pronounced “nai-eve” and not “nive.” My question is then, why isn’t “cooperate” not spelled “coöperate” indicating that it shouldn’t be pronounced “coop-er-ate.” Why not “bookc̈ase” (I don’t know how to do an HTML dieresis c.) Yeah, I know, you can get away with just typing “naive” and most people will read it just fine, but it always looks like a typo of “native” to me. It often works grammatically too. “She was a very native girl, and didn’t know much about the modern world.” Etc.
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I knew Tom was a good guy. I was right.
Not so much “good guy” as “okay to hold the leash of your sister.”
Like, he still wants to conquer the planet. He is absolutely a villain. But that is just “par for the course” as far as demons go.
“Like, he still wants to conquer the planet. He is absolutely a villain.”
Is he though?
His stated goal is world peace and better living for all (who are still alive, Mwa haha).
So him joining up with Deus makes a lot of sense. Shared goals and all that.
Max has done/supported as bad or worse stuff when she was deployed to the middle east, assuming America’s actions there in GrrlVerse are anything like reality.
(Parts of) America might be one of the better countries on the planet right now, but that’s only because the bar is so low. We have the resources to solve world hunger tomorrow if certain countries decided that that was a wartime-level priority. Instead people are homeless and starving without medical care in one of the richest countries on the planet.
Good and evil are pathetic concepts best left in the past nowadays according to many ion positions of power. I do not actually agree with that, but it doesn’t matter. What matters to far to many leaders in the wonderful world that we live in now is ‘Do I get what I want and if not, how many people do I have to hurt or kill to get what I want?’
Ethics, morals and laws are for LESSER beings. Not leaders. Nietzsche would be yelling at the top of his lungs ‘NO ONE EVER LISTENS!!!!’ because they keep misreading everything he wrote as permission to act that way instead of warnings.
“There is no good or evil, only power, and those too weak to seek it!” – Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Exactly.
Of course, that view of awfully shortsighted, but they get what they want, so who gives a damn about stupid things like the future? Very few in the US right now could care less when they can spread their oh so precious hate and fear. And, coincidentally, keep themselves out of jail in the process.
I’m somehow thinking that using Lord Voldemort as a source for the nature of good and evil being shortsighted might be that of an unreliable and slightly biased narrator. :)
Sort of like using Megatron for a source on how to properly program artificial intelligence.
Megatron got a bad rap. He was just doing what he was built to do and it was hardly HIS fault that he had utterly incompetent minions. I will say that Starscream was FAR better at being an attack dog than someone like Marjorie Taylor-Greene could ever hope to be. Starscream was far more ambitious than he was capable, but he actually used his brain every so often, unlike far too many loudmouths in politics these days. Unfortunately, he always used his brain in the wrong ways, but he was one of the villains and villains are not supposed to be ‘smart’ or ‘forward thinking’ in cartoons. That said? Megatron was also not completely clueless about being an ‘actual’ leader, as opposed to many in real life who think leading is simply yelling louder and with more profanity than others. Manipulating emotions is fairly easy for con-men and politicians. Leading in combat is far less so. Well, unless you ‘are’ one of those con-men or politicians who say it is simple because they could not care less about silly things like lost lives or other consequences.
Funny how Megatron actually cared far more about most of his soldiers than most modern day leaders seem to. He also certainly cared more for order than most modern day Supreme Court justices seem to. He wasn’t a ‘good guy’ so it doesn’t matter.
Megatron can be quite reasonable, depending on the ‘verse. His Prime incarnation, for example, had to deal with being considered a second-class citizen simply because his alt-form was suited for mining energon, a cultural bias left over from Nova Prime’s days. At the end of the series, when he got a taste of what REAL oppression was like, he quit, having lost his desire to inflict it upon others.
Oh yes.
THAT was a VERY good story!
Fine. Galvatron then.
Meanwhile Israel is denouncing the evil of Hamas by comparing them to Amalek and that’s getting accused of genocide on the basis of them referring to the battle between Israel and Hamas as one of good against evil.
You just can’t win when it comes to politics, can you?
Sure you can. Just ignore facts and truth while screaming whatever you want as loudly and profanely as you want to support whatever con-man you prefer.
That is called a win by many today. ‘I’ call it blatant silliness, but what do ‘I’ know? I am just a historian so I do not count.
I’d appreciate it if you reduced the sarcasm.
I’m just saying that I can’t really blame people in government or other positions of power for being wary of rhetoric related to good and evil when using that rhetoric gets them accused of genocide during conflicts that aren’t all that much different from conflicts elsewhere which aren’t considered genocide.
After all, Russia isn’t being accused of genocide for invading Ukraine and that’s a much bigger conflict than the one Israel is involved in.
Russia is absolutely attempting genocide, and yes, it’s been called that many times in that war. Russia is just failing badly at it. The majority of the world sees what Russia is trying to do, and is giving aid to the Ukrainians.
Israel is much more efficient, which is to be expected when they’re attacking a mostly-unarmed civilian population. The world is mostly standing around doing nothing as Israel carries out genocide.
Both wars are attempted land grabs. Russia will fail, Israel will not.
And sure, Hamas carried out a terrorist attack. They attacked civilian targets. That’s bad. But you do have to understand that the provocation from Israel was decades of apartheid, which is a crime against humanity. Being the victim of one crime against humanity should not be a free pass to commit others, but the world is letting Israel get away with it, and worse is that the US government hasn’t even cut off aid to Israel and is trying to give them more.
I agree that much of what Israel is doing is wrong.
That said? There is a difference between trying to conquer an area and trying to keep the residents of said area from killing citizens of another country.
I GET that many in the area have legitimate reasons for hate. The history of the area is rife with reasons for hatred. That said? Calling what the Israelis do ‘genocide’ is a bit much. And comparing them to the Nazis is just plain dumb. Yes, both were and are military states, but that is where the comparison ends.
“Calling what the Israelis do ‘genocide’ is a bit much.”
What else would you call trying to wipe out a cultural and ethnic group?
This is admittedly a topic I know very little about. But I don’t understand why Palestine is criticized for “from the river to the sea”, when Israel appears to want to control all the same territory. They both want the same thing, they’ve both committed terrible atrocities in the pursuit of it, and yet many people consider one side to be obviously right and the other obviously wrong.
“I don’t understand why Palestine is criticized for “from the river to the sea””
Because Israel has a better-funded PR department.
“they’ve both committed terrible atrocities in the pursuit of it”
Check the scales of the atrocities they’ve committed.
Hamas hits a concert. Couple hundred people in the line of fire.
Israel hits Gaza. Over ten thousand people dead. Many more than that driven from their homes.
And that’s not counting Israel blocking water into Gaza over previous years.
Also check who the aggressor is.
Israel has been waging a slow war of territorial conquest and ethnic extermination in Palistine ever since it stopped being Mandatory Palistine.
The Israel thing is actually really simple:
Israel are the Nazis, Palistinians are the Jews, Hamas is Herschel Grynszpan (look him up).
Really?
Hmmm…
I am honestly curious. How many people were daily attacking Germany in the 1930s? As in physically going in and killing German citizens, raping and murdering men, women and children on a daily or sometimes hourly basis. Please cite your sources BESIDES Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Goebbles and company because we all know that 99.99% of what they said was complete fabrication to justify their wars.
I am not denying the basis of hatred of all sides in the modern Middle East, but comparing the two time periods needs more because the US is more of a fascist state atm than Isreal is.
So you didn’t look up Herschel Grynszpan. I guess I’ll have to educate you on some history.
Herschel Grynszpan was a young polish Jew who ended up in France after he and his family were expelled from their homes in Poland.
On the morning of Monday, 7 November 1938, Herschel Grynszpan purchased a revolver and a box of bullets, then went to the German embassy and asked to see an embassy official. After he was taken to the office of Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath, Grynszpan fired five bullets at Vom Rath, two of which hit him in the abdomen. Vom Rath was a professional diplomat with the Foreign Office who expressed anti-Nazi sympathies, largely based on the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews and was under Gestapo investigation for being politically unreliable. [This paragraph directly from Wikipedia]
Kristallnacht happend 2 days later. Which some people point to as the date The Holocaust started.
Truth is the second casualty of war after innocence.
It is odd that Grynszpan was not searched when he entered the embassy, which SHOULD have been standard procedure of anyone entering a Nazi embassy at the time. Almost as as if ‘someone’ told the guards to let him pass? But hey, that might disprove your hypothesis, so we must not allow facts to cloud the issue!
I did actually know of that incident and I know more about it than Wikipedia. You clearly do not and what is more? You clearly do not care. That is fine. Unlike MANY across the US, I am not here to pass judgement. I deal in facts, not BS.
Israel has many similarities with all kinds of police states in history. fact.
They have engaged in actions that have dubious ethics involved. Fact.
Their military regularly kills people. Fact.
They are under daily and sometimes hourly PHYSICAL attacks by many sources. Fact.
They are surrounded by enemies who have repeatedly declared the intent to wipe all of them from the face of the Earth. Men, women, children and pets. No quarter is often asked or received. Fact.
The enemies who they face lie to EVERYONE. Fact.
There ARE no good guys in the Middle East, only bad and worse. Fact.
One small piece of opinion- I wonder when Trump will declare his support for Hamas? Lying and supporting people who use hate and fear as weapons is kind of his thing, is it not?
“Almost as as if ‘someone’ told the guards to let him pass?”
You mean like Netanyahu funding Hamas?
> You clearly do not
Claiming that you have more knowledge without sharing the relevent bits is not making you look good.
> I wonder when Trump will declare his support for Hamas?
He’s courting the Christian Evangelicals and their Rapture prophecy. He’ll support Israel.
> There ARE no good guys in the Middle East, only bad and worse. Fact.
You’ve been drinking too much kool-aid. There are always innocents. Indeed, the great tragedy of the world is how the innocent are made to suffer for the sins of the wicked, because they were tarred underneath the same brush.
Have a look at the number of Israeli fatalities compared to the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers in any of the last 20 years.
Then ask yourself who’s under constant attacks…
“the US is more of a fascist state atm than Isreal is.”
Hrrm…
Compares how black people fare in the USA today to how Palistinians fare in Gaza today.
Nope, not seeing it. Palistinians have it way worse.
I wouldn’t reduce “forcible deportation of populations, bombing of hospitals, collective punishment, mass murder of children, dehumanisation, suggestions to use the nuclear bomb, and a whopping total of 62 infractions to international law” to “denouncing the evils of an organisation” (especially when they’re the ones who founded it to destabilise the very country they took over) but you do you. Just remember, you can defend Israel and buy into its propaganda, or you can believe the holocaust survivors, but you can’t do both.
Machiavelli would would gladly join in that screaming. His book The Prince was a warning and veiled critique of those in power, warning people what those who were unprincipled but cunning would do with power. But nearly everyone these days things it was tacit approval for retaining power by anymeans.
Machiavelli said things to the effect of “sometimes there are no good options, only bad options, because opponents without scruples will always be more proactive so if you have morals at all, you must be ready to act immorally because betraying your morals once and acting bad is better than losing to the enemy of morals and losing all of them forever” and people went “oh good, the ends justify the means”
“people went “oh good, the ends justify the means””
Well, they do. But “the ends” includes “how people think of you” and “how you think of yourself.”
Which can limit your options for what you do *next*.
The ends are inseparable from the means. The path taken is encoded in the state of the world. There are no shortcuts.
“The path taken is encoded in the state of the world.”
If that were true then historians would have a much easier time.
Only if they had the means to read it.
Nobody has the means to read it.
If no-one can read it, can it be said the be written?
The government can’t fix everything. If it tries it ends up spending $3000 on a toilet seat. It isn’t just war hungry whatever that leads to starving, it’s lawsuits suing food kitchens for diarrhea scaring off food distribution startups, lack of enough drivers for distribution networks, and a fundamental condition of out of sight out of mind and nimby.
now that I work in aerospace I’ve heard the other side of that story. this toilet is in a bomber. the pilots would often throw their golf bags into the bathroom breaking the seat. because of how the various groups operate.. the problem was chalked up to a design flaw. after all there is no way a pilot would throw a golf bag into a bathroom… so they had to make it tougher and tougher. and because of cost plus contracting that meant the cost kept rising
suddenly 3 grand sounds low for that situation
There is another layer to that as well, the toilet seat might have cost $3000 and it might be a $1200 hammer you’re swinging to hit a $500 nail BUT the secret training base and the program that developed the training both cost $0.00.
You remember that $6.6 Billion plan to solve world hunger that Musk chickened out of funding?
The US federal buget is a thousand times that.
>His stated goal is world peace and better living for all (who are still alive, Mwa haha).
He could do so peacefully instead of via a hostile military takeover.
“Like, he still wants to conquer the planet.”
He does seem to want it to be more like a business venture than a conquering. Transcendent Powerpoint presentations and all.
Tom and Deus should become best bros. They have much in common.
They are already, aren’t they?
How exactly does dabbler’s description of Tom cement him as a good guy? She’s just giving general personality traits, not anything that would lend itself to a positive moral judgement.
It doesn’t paint him as a villain at least.
“He’s been a perfect gentleman. By succubi standards, at least, not by your [rant about american putian nonsense]”
Oh my gosh, the two face on panels of Parfait are too cute for words this day.
Re: your author note, that double dot is because it’s French, and that’s how the French do. Cooperate, on the other hand, got yanked straight out of Latin and shoved into English without any transitional languages to help it acclimate.
Did the spelling of ‘cooperate’ officially change in the 1960s?
Could it at one point have been ‘co-operate’?
Was about to mention the missing hyphen
Because it is co operate, as in ‘joint operation’
It’s not one translated word, it’s a hyphenated word
This is not correct. A diaeresis used to be standard orthography in English for words such as naïve, coöperate, mosaïc, and reëlect. It fell into disuse with the advent of typewriters, as did the use of the accents in fiancé and résumé (although the accents were because of imported words).
However, some words which you would think would have had a diaeresis, such as coalesce, never did. That’s English.
Tom is a Dork, valuable information indeed
We knew that already ;p
So Dabbler dumped Tom because she was too cool for him? (Conquer the planet? How basic can you be?)
Dabbler is a massive tomboy dork by succubus standards.
She never dumped him, she literally can’t unless she finds another master, and she likes his symbol too much (it messes with puritan’s minds :P )
more there just fuck buddies at this point
Dave, American English the grammar, spelling, pronunciation are all horrible. a small part of the reason America doesn’t teach their kids a second language is because American pride cannot stand dealing with questions like yours coming from primary school children. as they start to experience the reality of a language that mugs other languages in a back alley for bits of grammar and please don’t ask how they come up with spelling. the lack of modifiers is probably the result of a cost saving measure by early printers. those beautifully made pieces of type cost money you know and that slows down profit and reduces the cigar budget.
As a matter of fact, we do. When I was in high school, it was required, but by now (almost 50 years later) I don’t doubt some schools dropped that because of budget cuts. It’s really unfair to judge us based on our language, ours is made up of bits and pieces of everyone else’s. Plus our country was founded by religious fanatics and criminals to start with, the rejects from Europe’s jails and court system. So sure, we are both backward AND crazy, and we’ve never tried to hide it, unlike some people.
Don’t forget the Masons and the illuminati, they were behind the whole revolutionary war thing.
Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do, we do
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do, we do
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do, we do
Who robs game fish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
I’m not talking about those crazy theories, before any colonies were started, North America was used as a penal colony. Then the Puritans were forced to come here, as their behavior in England just got too annoying for “the powers that be” there. Look it up, it’s well documented.
That’s not actually entirely correct. The British did transport about 50,000 British Convicts to parts of North America as a penal colony, correct… but it was not before the colonies were here. It was in the 1700s, DURING colonial America (the Transportation Act of 1717). Also, none of the American colonies themselves were penal colonies.
Unlike Australia, which absolutely did have penal colonies.
(minor correction due to autocorrect. Transportation Act 1717, not Transportation Act of 1717)
it is my understanding that in the tatters of public educations the US has teaching a foreign language in the primary (elementary) grades has largely disappeared. private prep schools aimed at kids whose parents can afford to pay ivy league tuition probably do that as a matter of course. it would not surprise me that some public schools do it. granted my mom who taught in public schools has been gone nearly 10 years so I’m a lot out of date.
The US school system is an absolute mess, no doubt about that. But there is possibly a semantic barrier here. In America, “elementary school” is only up to fifth or sixth grade (depending on the school), or 11 to 12 year olds. I can’t remember ever hearing anyone say “primary school” in America, except in the context of religious schooling (like Sunday school for adults or teenagers, and primary for younger kids).
There are some, though not many, public schools in America that offer foreign languages in “elementary” school, while I doubt any require it. But nearly all “high” schools, grades 9-12 or ages 15-18, require at least some foreign language. Some “middle” schools (also called “junior high” schools in some areas) also offer foreign languages.
Around here, the only schools doing a second language before 6th grade (11-12 year olds) are bi-lingual and immersion schools. Spanish and Mandarin. In Texas. :shrug: Plenty of places do an IB (International Baccalaureate) diploma/certification that does include a second language requirement.
Two to four years of a foreign language is absolutely required for college-bound high school students in the US.
https://www.thoughtco.com/foreign-language-requirement-college-admissions-788842
No school districts will fail to provide some, although the selections will be limited in many schools to a few useful ones (Spanish, French and/or German depending on location).
College prep schools and wealthy districts will provide others, such as Latin, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, or possibly other languages that are important locally.
Some friends of mine have two brilliant teens going to IMSA, where they are taking Mandarin. These kids scare me, because while brilliant, they also have all the moments of teen stupidity that I can recall my buddy of mine and I experiencing. It’s a terrifying combo.
teenagers are insane. one minute they act 12 the next 30.
well, people treat them like they’re supposed to be both.
Didn’t used to be back when I was going through high school either. But nowadays my nephew having a hard time getting a regular job because he doesn’t know Spanish. This is in the US. When you have one common language for everybody everybody’s treated equally. My grandparents were immigrants to the US took it upon themselves to only speak English for the kids so they wouldn’t be considered outsiders.
Not saying having a second language is good or not but having a primary language is. I also have a issue with colleges being a holding place for people until they can get a job. Better educational system today have a lot more problems than that.
You forgot the other circle in the Venn diagram, the criminally fanatic religious people.
Also, here in TX for about a third of our students English is the foreign language, as there are a high proportion who come from households that speak another language as a matter of course. Where I live there is an enclave of Vietnamese, some Japanese, some ethnic Chinese, and of course a whole gaggle of Hispanics from various countries south of the Rio Grande. For them their ESL classes cunt as a foreign language.
The real reason most Americans don’t speak a second language is because we don’t have to. It isn’t cultural insensitivity (at least, not always), it’s geography. Most Americans can drive for a literal day in any direction at 120kph without finding more than a dozen people who don’t speak English. Do that in most parts of Europe and you’d have to travel through multiple countries, all with different official languages, while we Americans only pass through a couple of states. If you could travel that fast for a day in Africa, you’d pass by so many different language centers even a polyglottal would struggle to learn them all in a lifetime.
Americans are, percentage wise, as likely to be bilingual as Australians or Russians. Guess what? Both have similar geographical distances between themselves and other major language centers.
There are plenty of reasons to mock us Americans, you should pick one that’s actually legit.
Not to mention that English is, for some strange and utterly inexplicable reason, the international lingua franca of the post-WW2 world.
All joking aside, I think one of the big reasons (besides the obvious European-American cultural hegemony) that English has become so widespread is the very characteristics for which it is so often mocked – the informality of its grammar and the ease with which it integrates loanwords. It’s just much easier and more efficient to communicate your ideas in English than in any other language I’ve encountered. Granted, I am very obviously biased as a native English speaker, and the latter half of what I said is entirely anecdotal, but I do believe there is merit to it regardless.
i was going to question the as likely as an aussie of being bilingual
but looked it up an the percentages are around the same (us 20%, auz 22%)
would have though that we had more bilingual people what with the aborigines, immigrant families, and nerds learning Japanese’s
The New Yorker *does* spell coöperate that way, along with any other words that match that pattern.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis
Came here to say that myself; should have known that everyone else here also reads the New Yorker and would beat me to it
Conan Doyle also used the spelling “coöperate” in his Sherlock Holmes stories. I think that it was the standard 100+ years ago. But, alas, time passes and everything changes…!
It used to be standard – it became a problem for Apple, because their dictionary didn’t recognize it without the diaresis, so it would autocorrect to “Cupertino,” a Bay Area suburb.
To me as a German coöperate looks very strange. The ö is pronounced different than an o here.
That’s because it’s an o with an umlaut (which changes the pronounciation of the vowel), not an o with a diaresis (which indicates that it should not be combined with the preceeding vowel, but pronounced separately). It just so happens that an umlaut and a diaresis look exactly the same.
You would think that they’d jump at the chance to use a dieresis on, say, straphanger.
Yet more evidence that the succubi in this series are nuanced.
You’d figure they’d be the best at “just follow your heart” mentality but they’re just as susceptible to rash life decisions as anyone else.
They do seem to lean to the chaotic neutral allignment.
The whole sex thing has three aspects which map to the Chaotic Alignments: Love, Passion, and Lust. Passion is pretty much what these succubi are about, and that maps to Chaotic Neutral, so yep, that fits.
Lust would be the malevolent, actively-rapey kind of sex drive, FYI.
Succubi have a bad rap because of childish fantasy, (I’m looking at YOU, Japanese Hentai!) but there was clear evidence of that from the start. Despite their less than humble beginnings, they do have their own culture and life rules that we barely have a clear view of. Sure, they energize themselves from sexual energy, I’d say that’s an endless AND Eco-friendly source!
Actually, they have a bad rap because they are the classic European sex demon representation of Lust, one of the seven Sins. Compared to what succubi actually ARE in myth, Dave is just borrowing the name for a cute cartoon strip.
Interestingly, Succubi and witches have a lot of overlap in the really old stories.
Only when the witches weigh the same amount as a duck.
https://youtu.be/zrzMhU_4m-g?t=19
Oh, f*ck a duck!
That might be painful.
Moreso if it’s the duck doing the f*cking. Apparently their reproductive organs are some freaky stuff.
But you’ll give birth to demigods! Wait, maybe that’s only true for swans.
A lot of mythological cratures have a large overlap. Many female figures can be traced to Lilith. And the only reason they can not be traced further back is because there was no writing before that.
Werewolves, vampires were sometimes the same figure sometimes distinct. Elfes/fairies, who has the wings and who the long legs? (All of them poke humans eyes out for sport.) Old myth makers didn’t care.
The further you go back, the less do modern definitions fit. Even those that were written down. Compare modern stories of old greek creatures to the original myths. Or even their inspirations form Sumer/Egypt, as far as they are known.
In general, people just weren’t concerned about strict categorization of anything. That’s basically a leisure activity. They were mostly concerned about whether it would attempt to kill them or not.
Even now, most people’s utterances boil down to “thing good” or “thing bad”.
And, orthogonally, is it good to eat? Leading to the conundrum of what to do about “wants to kill you, but oh so tasty”
This makes me conflicted about Ostriches.
I pointed out the hentai version because in the European version was an evil creature that would kill the victims, draining their life energy, while the hentai version merely drank semen as their main food supply. Dave’s version can kill, but why wreck a endless energy supply?
I just realised something else about the recent situation that will be effecting Dabbler’s judgement about mind control auras:
Glamours are not the only thing succubi are stupidly good at. They are also stupidly good at resisting mind control.
Her species treats learning to ignore mind control like we treat learning to talk.
I had to read the description and then look twice to realize that “Angel boy” actually had wings. Those are.. well.. doesn’t look fitting rest of the body, visually.
I think it’s the first time I’m complaining about the drawing, sorry if it was hard enough to draw it all, Dave!
Honestly, I feel like this whole story arc bears an uncomfortable similarity to the infamous Loss arc from CAD, and I’m glad it’s wrapping up. And when I say similarity to Loss, I’m talking about an arc that tonally does not match what the comic has been up until that point, and also makes many readers uncomfortable both with the topic at hand and the way it’s handled. I doubt Dave is going to introduce a miscarriage or even pregnancy into this comic.
Even without a miscarriage or pregnancy, something basic like someone leaving the building and aura or someone with stronger natural resistance may start thinking clearly. Even if the effect is reversed by plot later on one or more members, there are plenty ways this may bite back and I doubt this would not happen otherwise there is no ongoing plot arc forward from this and I think the writer is better than that.
My opinion is that Sydney and Shrapnel both showed more resistance and are basic human, non supers. Other basic human characters might also disrupt the expected direction this would normally take.
In Dutch they do actually put the umlauts on the vowel that shouldn’t be combined with the previous vowel!
Which is good because sometimes there are 3 vowels all next to each other, and sometimes they’re one sound and sometimes they aren’t.
like “reëel” ? ;)
At least her dream choice wasn’t Sydney, we all know how that would of played out… Wait… It already did, didn’t it… Dabs said as much about Tom to Sydney and Max when we were introduced to him, it wasn’t until he mouthed off to Max that the trouble started, who, in true Maximum force, handed him his ass! (and almost his own face) As Dabs did when she found out about him bonding Parfait. I’d suggest Math as a candidate, but he’d be a withered husk in a day heh.
She’s blushing enough I think her anti-lust potion might burn off and then catch fire.
I… honestly did not think Succubae COULD blush!
…I mean it’s frickin’ ADORABLE, but might be pushing against the boundaries of established lore…
Ah well! :P
Wasn’t it stated in Parfait’s debut comic that she turned eighteen weeks prior?!?
Not so much that, as she is barely an adult by Succubus standards. I think she is multiple decades old.
In human years,Parfait would be eighteen?!?
In Succubae years she is 18, they just happen to line up for once
No, it’s explicitly that she’s 18. This makes her an adult by human standards, which is important because she’s implied to have lots of sex and DaveB wanted to steer clear of that can of worms.
“Parfait is about three weeks past her 18th birthday, FYI. Young and inexperienced, but not so young that it’s icky.” https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1045-return-of-the-attack-of-the-boobs/
I actually think that by succubus standards, she isn’t an adult, given how her powers* and her control over them are still developing and how immature she is.
*She was surprised she managed to boobnotize Sydney, which seems like a basic physiological feature, so it implies her body hasn’t grown to full functionality yet.
Humans don’t really magically become full adults at 18 either. The number I keep seeing floating around for when adult brain development is in some way “complete” is 25. And people still presumably have many formative experiences well past that point.
My wife was 19 when we were married, but in maturity, I’d say 15. Which is where I’d put Parfait. In many cases, I’d say it takes having your first child to grow anyone up, but even then….
I should add that like my wife, some girls love to “corrupt” by teasing the shy guy (which is Parfait’s fantasy), once they stop being shy about it, they lose interest. Then it becomes just love play, after about 5 years or so, (adding in kids) both partners tend to be less interested. “Not in front of the kids!” yes dear… (pinches ass) “Ow! Hey!” (kids giggle)
Human bodies reach full functionality at about ~14, although they keep growing and maturing for a while longer. Parfait is not at full functionality yet (or just about reaching it): Hypnoboobs are new, wish-granting doesn’t really work yet.
And Parfait isn’t immature in the way a human 18 year old is, she is more child-like than that. It seems fairly clear to me that her character design is younger and she’s 18 because DaveB wants no ickyness in portrying her as, well, a succubus.
Its another way of saying that human brains are significantly more conplex than the rest of our biology, though some peoplw are trying to use the idea to restrict right until age 25 because they don’t like the fact younger generations disagree with them.
The other end of it, however, is people trying to claim that someone should be fully capable of fending for themselves and being held responsible for everything they do the moment they turn 18, and that they should receive no leniency or protection.
Actually it’s just science. The amount of stupid behavior people indulge in starts dropping after 21, and basically reaches ‘mature’ levels at 25ish. It’s the reason why your auto insurance drops in cost as you get to 21, and then doesn’t really start going up again until your 50’s or better.
there’s a LOT of data behind dumb decisions and age of people out there.
Growing up is really not a function of years but life lessons and growth in behaviors and perspectives.
So Parfait had a crush on Angel from the X-Men? :D
We gotta name angel boy.
I nominate Brad
Brad is the perfect name for angel-boy.
No, clearly his full name work be Bradford Bartholemew Michaels III. But Brad for his closer acquaintances.
Ali, short for SupercalafragilisticexpiALIdocious
Having Parfait in a relationship with an Angel seems like a thing for the final arch of the overall storyline, but this feels like a nice bit of fun.
looks like Parfait just has a ‘thing’ for Halos
And blondes.
With modern browsers you don’t need “HTML” characters.
Shout to latin american webdevs specially to the acute family (áéíóú = á, é, etc…) and their tilde neighbor (ñ = ñ).
As long as UTF8 + Unicode is used and the font allows it you could write in ukrayins’ka abetka (українська абетка), Nihongo (日本語) or Younger Futhark (ᚠᚢᚦᚬᚱᚴ) and others without a single HTML tag.
You could even overload the combination characters and summon Z̳̥̻̥̭̺aͥ̎̆͊͑ͩl̺͕̱̺̫͖̽̾͗͒͌̚̕͢ǧ̷̵̱̟͉̎̅͝ǫ̖̈,̴̡͖̟̥͙́ ̷̣͍̮̻̈́̀͒̊̕͡H̸͉̳̝ͤ̋̈́͟͠Ḛ̵̭̱͉̝͉̬̞͚̻̍̆̅̿̉͗̌̊͛͂͞ ͍̭̼̩̘͈͖̣̞͇̲͖̜͚̥C̸̍ͥͧ̕͟Ơ̪̩͖̰̇̓̎ͬM̋̒̅͆̈̿ͬ̓̈ͮ́̓̒͒̎͞͝͏Ë̢̨̙͚̖͖͍̖̮̠̝̖ͣ̔̈́ͣͬͭͪ̒ͯS.
Sadly, there’s been many attempts to add pIqaD into unicode but all have been rejected by those toDSaH!
You picked that up from stackoverflow, didn’t you ;)
Who doesn’t?
A lot of American words have weird spelling because a guy named Webster wanted to sell dictionaries but needed people not to buy the existing dictionaries. He changed a lot so he could call it specifically “American”.
more times than I think is healthy I discover that I am not cynical enough.
There’s a proper entrepenuer who made his mark on history for ya. It worked wonderfully!
Is that the point that American and English stopped being the same language?
(American and English are not the same language today. They are mutually intelligable languages, same as Danish, Norwegian and Swedish)
(Ok, English (and therefore also American) isn’t a proper language. It’s a a creole)
and then you have aussie English
same words as both but we can be incomprehensible to both american and british english at times
I’ve heard a lot of US spelling differences actually came about because adds & telegrams used to charge by the letter.
I feel like Angel Boy’s name is Clarence.He looks like a pre-Frank Capra sort of Clarence.
The evil rabbit?
I think you have a typo in the first panel? “I’m not saying you made a bad choice with Tom”… Parfait is bound to Thothogoth and Dabbler was speaking of herself based on how I am reading that.
Tom and Thothogoth are the same person. The universe now calls him only Thothogoth, as he’s very powerful, but he’ll always be “Tom” in Xuriel’s eye.
For those of you that want to do “special” html codes (yes Dave, this means you!). Here, have a link.
https://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html
So, Parfait might be considering Sidney as a bond holder? That’ll get interesting fast.
“So, Parfait might be considering Sidney as a bond holder? That’ll get interesting fast.”
How would that even work? Succubi need to have semi-regular sex with their masters and Syd isn’t into girls.
Parfait may be gender gaseous.
Who says they have to have semi-regular sex with their master? Dabbles hasn’t seen Tommy in ages
They just need to be able to draw mana from them, and they can do that from anywhere (even cross-dimensionally) as long as the master allows it
She got nailed by Tom right after training arc with Mr violence aura ended.
Dabbler did. When Max was asking about her changing master.
Also, Regular != Frequent ;p
Well, nothing rules it out either. Sydney is still in the pondering phase of a polyamorous relationship.
If anything Parfait probably surprised her intensity more than anything. After all she was rather shy (or reserved) with wolf doc.
Word Of God rules it out. DaveB has clarified long ago that Sydney “isn’t into girls at all”.
She’s also consistently portrayed as not into girls. Not just rejecting Parfait while under the influence of a lust aura; she also doesn’t react to superheroines in the shower except with jealousy (contrast her reaction to shirtless guys).
Poly != Bi/Pan.
Upgraded life support orb?
Or Sydney could switch teams, I suppose. Remaining straight is a choice when willing succubi can magically rewire your sexuality.
Sydney wouldn’t want to do that. She’s on record reacting negatively to both bi experimentation and self-modification.
Wait Sheboygan or Cheboygan?
Yes [sticks out tongue]. Sheboygan is the American spelling of a former village in Wisconsin, Cheboygan was the French transliteration of the Indian word for the area.
According to Simulations Publications Inc. Sheboygan was destroyed by giant creatures. A quick google will give the rules in Pdf form.
Because English started as Welsh spelled backwards in German with Latin sprinkled in for that zest. Look up “phonetic english” in YouTube and you find videos of people accidentally finding the mutation of the original English. Proper original English legitimately sounds and is spelled like Welsh and has something like twice as many letters in the Alphabet due to having hold overs from Futhark (like “þ”).
Also fun fact: “ye” is wholly because of the printing press. It’s “the” but spelled with the equivalent to þ due to a lot of those letters being culled. It’s also because of the printing press we have “UPPER” and “lower” case due to where letter boxes were stored.
There weren’t really that many letters back then, there were just several alphabets in use at the time, and where & how you lived had a large influence on which characters you used.
Angle, Saxon, Norse, Brittonic (including Welsh), Gaelic, Latin, and a few others.
Ugh. Too many diatribes on English and French grammar. I’m going to look at that adorable blushing Parfait panel awhile longer and smile. She is a total dweeb. And I love her.
Cooperate is pronounced co-operate, because the former is an accepted corruption of the latter.
Hmmm her imagined response from the guy she wants is similar to Sidney’s actual response, possibly some other similarities. So Parfait was doing some projecting while also worked up in general.
The ¨ used to exist on “coöperate” and “coöperation” (and a bunch of others) but they disappeared! they’re specifically marks used to mean that a vowel isn’t part of the preceding syllable – you can find these examples, for instance, in Dos Passos’ the 42nd Parallel. I don’t necessarily recommend that book, but you’ll find that mark there.
Ultimately, it’s simply not an English diacritic, and that’s why it never really remained in use. “Naïve” is a French word, which is why you’ll find “naïveté” alongside “naïvety” – that word is loaned out from the frogs!
I wouldn’t call it a “loan” so much as “forced on the Angles at swordpoint” by the Norman French who occupied the southern British mainland at the time.
Naive, as is normal for words considered French loanwords, came into English centuries after the Norman conquest. The French that the Normans brought over went into words like “moment,” which are unremarkable to us since they were already unambiguously (Middle) English words by the thirteenth century.
Whenever curious, it’s a good idea to google the etymology of the word. It often has pretty thorough explanations of the history of where it came from, original pronunciation, etc.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/cooperate
“Succubi might not be sex incarnate but they might as well be.”
Heh!
Well, until you find *actual* sex incarnate, I guess a succubus is a reasonable facsimile. Chances are that mere mortals like us wouldn’t be able to functionally distinguish the difference anyway; Death by Snu-Snu is still death…
»“Death by Snu-Snu is still death”«
《snicker》True!!
Despite EVERYTHING that has happened, my anger, and knowing that Sydney is straight (she IS), I would actually think it’s awesome if the last bit is retconned and this page leads to her binding with Sydney. (especially if we get pics)
You can even pretend that was totally the plan all along, Dave.
How would she have been thinking of Syd like that *before* Tom offered to bind her?
Succubi can re-bind.
But she was asked if there was someone she’d been considering *before* she bound to Tom.
Angel boy’s not an option though. I’m talking about now and the other person with a halo she’s close with.
“Angel boy’s not an option though.”
Why not?
That would indeed be a pretty cool and interesting development, alas, it’s not consistent with established canon.
Unless there’s a way for a K0 or ace woman to be a succubi master.
Which would be odd, but interesting.
I don’t think it’s magically impossible, but apparently there’s a rule for the leash holder to have sex with the succubus, which Sydney wouldn’t be willing to do, and Parfait wouldn’t be willing to give up even if it migt theoretically be an option.
The question (which hasn’t been answered) is: Is “have sex with your succubus” a hard requirement of the binding magic, or just a cultural thing like “wear clothes when swimming”?
Dabbler says it’s an obligation, so if it’s cultural it’s probably cultural more in the way that paying taxes is.
But that’s not really the question. Even it’s not necessary at all, Parfait wouldn’t accept it. She wants to have sex with her master.
Cooperate and bookcase do not get the dieresis because they are clearly formed by combining different bits together (a common prefix “co-” and root “operate” for cooperate, and two separate words, “book” and “case” for bookcase), whereas naïve is a singular word without prefixes or multiple combined roots.
The government can’t fix everything. If it tries it ends up spending $3000 on a toilet seat. It isn’t just war hungry whatever that leads to starving, it’s lawsuits suing food kitchens for diarrhea scaring off food distribution startups, lack of enough drivers for distribution networks, and a fundamental condition of out of sight out of mind and nimby.
Cooperate doesn’t get a diaeresis because it fell out of use with the advent of typewriters. Bookcase doesn’t get a diaeresis because why would it? The two o’s are pronounced together.
DaveB‘s example usage of ‘bookcase’ had that double dotage over the ‘c’ to indicate ‘kc’ is not pronounced as one syllable (as in ‘bookace’)
For fuck sake man, get in touch with the people from Slipshine, and just make a fucking porn comic already. Just be open about wanting nothing but wacky sex hijinks, and stop tying yourself in knots – both in the comic itself and in the blurb underneath – to try and “justify” it. All you’re doing by trying to not look like an asshole is making yourself look like an asshole, and every time you open your mouth, you’re just making it worse.
He’s not the one looking like an asshole here.
Lol no he definitely is
Look, all I’m saying? I’d much rather he be happy and honest with himself about what he’s doing and why he’s doing it. Because right now, he’s constantly doing the Hideo Kojima “No, no, you don’t understand, she NEEDS to be half naked because she breathes through her skin!” kinda bullshit, except somehow even more greasy. Compare that with Yoko Taro’s response when asked why 2B is a sexy robot maid with white hair and a sword, and he basically went “Yeah, I just like sexy robots.”
Seriously, DaveB, I doubt you’re reading this, but if you are: get in touch with Linda and Brad Brown. They write and draw The Rock Cocks, they’re the ones who run Slipshine, I’m sure they can hook you up. And then you can be free! You’ll be able to draw as many tits and cocks and whatever weird fetish shit you want, you’ll be able to fit as many wacky sex hijinks as you can possibly draw on a page, and you’ll never again need to worry about the moral implications of any of it. You can be free!
Well, he doesn’t have time to write and draw multiple comics. And he would lose the majority of his audience, and presumably most of his income. And I think he draws exactly what he wants to draw here. I don’t think he’s really holding back, unhappy with what he’s creating, or dishonest with himself. He just doesn’t fit into either of the boxes you’d like him to.
Why wouldn’t he be able to draw hardcore porn here if he wanted to?
Also, the implication that all moral implications go away if you’re drawing hardcore porn is disturbing at best.
You know… having thought about it… what’s going on between Dabbler and the rest of the team reminds me of Wolverine, in his classic Bronze age depiction. He was NOT presented as being morally correct at all times. He was often at odds with the rest of the team, because of profound disagreements over their respective lifestyles and political opinions. Wolverine failed to understand why the rest of the X-men were so reluctant to kill, he drank and smoked and was anti-social.
Then came a series of defining moments. Wolverine revealing that one of his favorite hobbies is to go hunting in the woods, where he sneaks up on deer, and then… pets them. Yes, Wolverine canonically likes to pet deer.
Another was Wolverine telling Cyclops that the X-men needed to stay out of the way in regards to his conflict with Alpha Flight – only for Cyclops to shoot that down quickly. “You’re an X-man now. They want you, they have to go through ALL of us!”
And then came the big battle with Proteus, after which Wolverine was so badly traumatized he had been left literally sobbing like a baby – and the rest of the team was in similar shape. So Cyclops picked a fight with Wolverine, holding his own against Wolverine and then the ENTIRE team, until their heads were back in the game and they were ready for a rematch with Proteus. After which Wolverine expressed his deepest respect for Cyclops and acknowledged Scott as his team leader.
I’m mentioning all that because a LOT of what Dabbler is doing in this story arc are things I find morally objectionable… but according to her own morality, she’s doing the right thing. Everyone on the team is a good person, but they have different definitions for “good.” Dabbler has the same attitude towards mental manipulations that Wolverine does towards killing.
X-Men has more examples of Heros not being morally good at all times: Scott Summers and everything leading up to Inferno.
Cyclops, the boy scout team leader, did some bad shit.
This is the first comic you’ve put out where I just stopped reading before I was even halfway through the page. I am really sick of the sex focus in general. Especially in this arc, where it resulted in a character taking immoral actions … and the authors note, and the one in-game character that knows, seem OKAY with it.
Well, let’s see… I won’t even TOUCH Wolverine for this.
More of the ‘good guys’-
Professor X did bad shit. LOTS of it.
Ororo Monroe did bad shit. LOTS of it.
Jean Grey did bad shit. LOTS of it.
Beast has always been pragmatic and is just plain evil now.
Angel? Nope. Not after the whole ‘Horseman’ thing.
Hell, JUBLILEE is a WMD! Did you see what happened when someone hurt her kid??????
In all honesty, I cannot think of an X-Man I would trust. Ever. At least Wolverine is honest about what he does and why. Not ‘nice’ or ‘good’ but honest.
Heh. You should read Worm sometime if you want to see evil heroes.
I don’t need to read anything but the nightly news in the US to see ‘evil heroes’.
So many people held up as paragons of virtue who would not know virtue if it bit them! I laughed loud and long the last time someone called Trump a ‘champion against corruption’ and a ‘paragon for law and order’.
Sad thing? He was being ACTUALLY serious instead of FOX ‘N’ot ‘E’ven ‘W’orth ‘S’scrolling serious. And people wonder why I lost my faith in humanity. Go figure.
Yes, some people are idiots.
We’ve known this for over two thousand years.
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” –Aesop (~550 BC)
Manipulating emotions to obscure the facts?
*Shrug*
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I actually know how to do research and fact checking instead of blindly trusting everything I read on the internet or hear out of the flavor of the week demagogue’s mouth.
Also, just for the record, Wikipedia is not always completely factual.
Refusing to go into further detail when claiming Wikipedia got something wrong, however, just makes you look like you’re lying.
>why isn’t “cooperate” not spelled “coöperate”
It used to be, but people dropped it!
>Why not “bookc̈ase”
Diareses are for vowels only, and I’m pretty sure “kc” isn’t a valid consonant cluster in English anyway!
I actually think the 200 years old archfiend is a better choice for first master than the high school boyfriend.
Being a young succubus’ leash holder is a lot of responsibility – you have a lot of power over her and you also have to help her control herself. Experience and maturity is what you want here.
Imagination-Parfait’s faces, and her lines, remind me quite a lot of my favorite Alari PA.
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