Grrl Power #1288 – Horrorito
I had to re-write half of this page moments before posting, because I watched (part of) Trigun like, 25-ish years ago, and I did not remember most of the significant things that appear in the wiki when I went to double check it. Good thing I did, or all the comments would have been about how I must have mixed up Trigun or Vash with another anime. Apparently Vash is a plant? Yeah, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen that show.
I have not ever read any kind of slash fiction. I don’t even like regular fan fiction. (Ignore the two books I wrote that are technically fan fiction.) I assume all fan fiction is either going to be generally pretty terrible, or would be good enough to be annoying when the author inserts one crazy element that is their own personal fan fetish. (In this episode of FanFic Stargate SG1, Teal’c gets turned into a sapient inflatable pool toy.) Or, it’s some terrible O.C. insert who no one but the author cares about, or worst of all, it’s actually really good to the point that now I’m mad it’s not canon.
But slash fic? Yeah, no interest there for me. There’s clearly an audience for it, so I thought it’d be kind of funny if Sydney was into it. Coming up with a pairing wasn’t too hard. Justifying the pairing was… well, actually pretty easy when I was using a misremembered Vash. After reading up on Vash and editing the page to match? Honestly, I think it’s actually not a crazy idea. I personally still don’t want to read about dudes making out, but… if you told me someone had already written that meetup? I’d just nod.
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Actually Vash was a city. It’s gone now though.
https://comicaurora.com/
They’re still in our hearts. Well, the heart of one pretty blonde demigod dude.
Vash is also the God of said city and the physical manifestation of the god who is now running around possibly with his own soul now, minus said god who is elsewhere. Will not spoil how that all came about. Also another great comic.
And you *know* that Red has watched Trigun. I can’t imagine she forgot about it when she selected the name of the city/god.
Holy carp, I didn’t realize OSP’s Red had a webcomic! Gonna have to add that to my reading list.
Dave – in Trigun, Vash is a ‘plant’ – as in a power plant in human shape.
“Sydney’s Secret Powdered Death” is what’s written on that bottle.
Anyone else wondering why we didn’t see a replay of the ‘mace’ incident from #30.
The meta reason is because it wouldn’t be funny a second time.
The in universe reason would be max having a rule against Sydney pepperspaying the entire dinning area unless its an actual emergency.
Not even air wants to hold it so it gets a free pass down to the food.
I’m confused…. MJN never killed or destroyed anything on MST3K… so…. wut?
It was a running joke in one season that he was blamed for the destruction of Bobo’s future Earth, the Observers’ planet, and several other mishaps that were not his fault.
3 planets during the Sci-fi channel run.
Helped Bobo repair a nuclear bomb that was apparently strong enough to blow up the entire Earth…a reference to Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
Asked the nanites that run the ship to solve the problem of them being pulled down to the Observer planet, so they blew it up.
And built a baking soda bomb to fight killer robots in the nameless planet they were on before the worm hole stuff, it blew up the planet.
It became a trope named Michael J Nelson destroyer of worlds, where one causes mass destruction through sheer incompetence
Bob Ross is one thing, but what about Mr. Rogers?
Then it’s time you should watch the “Bob Ross vs Mr. Rogers” short (title is Bob Ross Beats the Devil Out of It 2).
It’s everything you’d expect.
That was just awesome. Thank you!
I think it’s Bob Ross because of the hair
https://i.redd.it/vz144gnojde81.jpg
Go watch “The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.” Mr. Rogers is a beast.
There is a Wose version of that…….. NSFW
Now I’m kinda sad ERB’s used both of them already. (Mr. Rogers vs. Mr. T, Bob Ross vs. Picasso.)
I’ve come around on fan fiction as I got older, I used to see it as someone thinking they can do better than the source, but it very rarely is that, or if it is, it’s only one particular part that they consider flawed. Most of the time it’s more like someone’s own spin on the source, sometimes with a self-insert, sometimes cross-over, sometimes both, but usually from a place of love for the source material.
I read a fair amount of fan fiction – largely because I like to read a lot, and it’s cheap. There’s a lot of basically subgenres. (Or possibly genres.) A lot of time its trying to fix a single flaw, or play with an idea that the original medium wouldn’t have been able to cover, but there are times it’s just someone getting interested in the world and wanting to explore it. Sometimes it’s just because it’s obviously harder to create your own world than to work with someone else’s, even if you want to expand on it.
There’s fanfiction that’s better than the original source, even if the source was excellent. There’s also stuff that’s pure trash and is obviously someone’s personal fetish. But on the average it’s usually quite good and can be very interesting points on the story.
There’s also stuff like the Star Wars Expanded Universe which no longer officially ever existed but which was much better than any of the Disney crap.
There’s characters and settings introduced in the something like 140 books of the Expanded Universe which deserve more attention from authors but never will now because new authors no longer get paid to write about them.
A lot of the Star Wars stories prior to Episode One were Fan Fiction: it’s where you got Mara Jade, Han coming from a wealthy family (fuck you making him a nameless orphan!), Han and Leia having three kids (none of whom were psychotic arseholes), Grand Admiral Thrawn, Insane Iceheart and the Super Stardestroyer ‘prison’ buried under Coruscant (cereally, how did they manage to bury an SSD under Coruscant without anyone noticing?), etc
“none of whom were psychotic arseholes”
Pretty sure that later in the EU at least one of them fell to the dark side, but I don’t think he even become as off the rocker childlike dickwad as Kylo Ren did in Disney Wars.
Also wasn’t Han in the EU just some random kid who got raised by a abusive adopted “father”, then ended up working for first the t’landa Til, then the Imperial officer corps, then after a dishonourable discharge for not letting Chewie get tortured to death, the Hutts/freelance smuggler?
And as for how they buried a SSD on the most densely populated world in the galaxy and nobody noticed… well, the dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
No, in the original books, Han was from some rich family on Corellia, what you described is the canon movie
What I’m describing is the Han Solo trilogy by A. C. Crispin. Paradise Snare, Hutt Gambit and Rebel Dawn. Given that they were released in 1997 to 1998, I don’t think they’re considered canon anymore.
That still describes the plot of the Solo movie, only thing missing is the childhood friend (not Lando) who he leaves behind only to return later as a rival
Never read those one’s, read a series in the 80’s where Han had royal (or semi-royal) cousins who hated him or something and… tried to kill (or at least kidnap) his kids?
Planning to plunder Pander’s Pun Pantry. Previous practical pirating proves positive possibilities and probabilities.
Ha ha, Peggy’s whole “WTF is going on” expression – I thought it was the gibberish nerd conversation but turns out, it’s the food
It all gets together in the stomach anyway…
True, and I’m a big fan of mixing foods to get different flavors in every bite. But my tongue wants nothing to do with a flour tortilla, banana, peanut butter, ultra-processed sugary cereal, Carolina reaper slices, and whatever Sydney’s Secret Death Powder is hitting it all at the same time.
I think Peggy’s issue is less “Oh god that looks disgusting” and more “That is an absolutely horrendous meal from a health standpoint.” Tortilla (really high sodium), Nutella (heavy in sugar and fats – including saturated fats – so also high calorie), Captain Crunch (as you note, ultra-processed sugary cereal), and chocolate syrup (even more sugar). The banana, Carolina Reapers and Powdered Death are probably fine from a health perspective, at least so long as the latter two don’t cause any digestive issues (Sydney’s sufficiently used to them that they probably won’t).
Don’t forget that Peggy serves as something of a Personal Trainer to much of Archon, and Sydney in particular.
Tortillas don’t have to be really high sodium, I’ve got some store brought white corn tortillas that are 88mg of sodium/100g
white bread is typically around 360-500mg/100g
I know these things because of Meniere’s Disease
And chocolate sauce! 6th panel.
She would not want to see what, Van, from Gun X Sword eats. When he orders food, he orders every condiment in the place and it all goes onto the food in excessive quantities.
I unfortunately must allow this due to my previous statement about alliteration. *polite golf clap*
Perhaps punishing punsters proves pointless?
Gnngh.
I regret my recent life choices.
Now you know how it felt to those poor people who binge watched Batwoman.
*Hides under a blanket so his stifled laughter will hopefully not attract to many of the ninja death squads*
You are like a light unto the moths, and the moths are wearing ninja gear
Dang straight!
Dr Who isn’t anti-gun in the classic series, this is a common misconception. (Though he does prefer macguyvered laser cannons and venusian jiu-jitsu. They’re more versitile than chemically propelled lead pellets)
I’ve watched Classic Who and the Doctor was always of the opinion that guns generally made people stupid.
Where did you get that idea? He’s wielded guns (and bigger weapons) himself, he’s had companions who had a major character trait of “they can kill people effectively” (Jamie, The Brigadier (and the rest of UNIT), Leela, Ace, just off the top of my head)
He doesn’t like death, but he’s never been a stranger to killing or the weapons of war. Hell, he talked a pacifist culture into a war in his second story.
Actually, he’s not wrong about that (guns making people stupid), but that doesn’t mean he was opposed to using them (or bigger) when needed, it was only the New Age Doctor where they made him a pacifistic crate of hippos
“Guns make you stupid. Better to fight your wars with duct tape, Duct tape makes you smart” -Michael Westin
Burn Notice?
Isn’t “I know firsthand how (X-trait) (X-thing) can be” a trope?
I kind of want to sell a bottle of hot sauce with that image on it.
I’m old, and asked one of my kids what ‘slash fiction’ was. I now know the difference between ‘yoai’ and ‘yowie’. Look em up! ;)
Nope, just going to trust you on that one.
I did. “Yoai” turned up many hits on “yaoi”, which I already knew about.
The only hits on “yowie” referred to a creature out of Australian mythology.
Yep! I knew what a yowie was, basically an Aussie cryptid, but had no idea on yaoi. Not great to mix em up (unless you’re into that sort of thing!). ;)
Fourth Doctor and Bob Ross, so Tom Baker or the fourth since the revival? Which would be Peter Capaldi.
NewWho started count with the Ninth Doctor. Capaldi played the Twelth.
Thought Capaldi was 13
He certainly was the last
He’s the 14th version of the Doctor (13 regenerations after the First Doctor), but he’s referred to as the Twelfth Doctor due to one regeneration not getting numbered (the War doctor between the Eighth and Ninth Doctor) and the 10th Doctor regenerating into himself (and thus staying the Tenth Doctor
Was remembering when Capaldi was introduced, when all the Doctors (up to that time) showed up to save Galifrey, and one of the Time Lords (The Castolin?) asked “Which Doctor?” with the reply of “All of them!” with a closeup of Capaldi’s eyes
Didn’t Tennant come back after the Female Doctor? Fairly sure saw a clip of him commenting about his teeth again (all the Doctor’s seem fascinated by their teeth after the regenerations)
“No sir, all thirteen!”
And yes, the Tenth Doctor re-regenerated after the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittacker), much to his surprise and confusion (hence the “I remember these teeth”).
That was the line, much thanking yous
Still a fan of the original series, getting some of the ‘lost’ and restored episodes on DVD :)
Tom Baker! My all-time favorite Doctor! Love his cameos in more recent episodes, too.
Close runner-up: David Tennant.
Regarding male relationships: See Captain Jack Harkness…
You know, a chocolate, banana, and hot pepper crepe actually sounds pretty good. I’d try it. But only a bite. I’m diabetic.
don’t forget the peanut butter and cap’n crunch :P
I thought that was Nutella. It’s a bit dark for peanut butter. Either goes well with bannanas though.
The things she’s putting on that burrito of death and nutritional sadness: quite the chuckle…twice.
Banana, Nutella, Captain Crunch cereal, sliced reaper peppers (Weapons Of A$$ Destruction), Sydney’s Secret Powdered Death, all in a wrap. It beats the two slices of white bread pinched together around several spoonfulls of Tang that I’d eat on occasion as a kid. Hey, the astronauts ate Tang, so it was cool.
Tang… the drink?
Presumably the powdered concentrate
The powdered concentrated orange drink.
Doing that with poprocks is waay more fun
Your name makes this comment all the funnier man
As a youngster I would mix up a supersaturated glass of Tang and pop it in the freezer on Friday night. On Saturday morning I would go after the frozen treat with a teaspoon. It would pretty much last all the way through Saturday morning cartoons.
I wonder when there’s gonna be a slash fiction of Math being “piled on” by four tall hot guys. I would call it “The weakness he didn’t know about” because currently he’s only aware of his weakness to seeing boobs.
Btw: You know how the South Park creators had a band named DVDA? Because in such a fiction the girls would be like “Let’s watch some DODA!” and Sydney would confuse it with DotA at first. But tbh. I’m not really sure how the logistics work for either of these positions. Let’s all have deep philosophical discussions about this crazy element just for Dave, ok? XD
I was very confused at first. I do not know who this Vash is, but for me Vash was a female archeologist in Star Trek:TNG. I liked her character a lot. So when Lapha says “he met” I was like “wut?”
Regardless, I liked this panel.
The Vash they’re referring to is Vash the Stampede from Trigun.
Vash later (in DS9) turned down Q’s repeatedly.
If this is how Elvis left the building people would be a lot less surprised. That banana is a biohazardous war crime. Especially with people with super senses in the building.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmnPs64K74
There … appears … to be no plate? She’s just making the burrito straight on the table!
I don’t care if the tables are so clean they mirror the ceiling lights, that is nastier than the ingredients.
Normal humans in the service industry catering to supers. I’m sure to avoid incidents or complaints that could see their ability to trade there being removed they will be very careful with absolutely everything.
…actually this looks more like their own break room rather than the retail section. Even their cleaning staff are probably supers then.
with the supposed amount of capicin in that i think even bacteria and virus wouldnt dare to get anywhere near that burito/wrap/tortila
I personally love fanfiction, especially the Crossovers of different stories. But as much as I love it even I admit there is there’s way too many authors who think making everyone gay and giving them the sex drive a locomotive somehow automatically makes a good story. Mind you I think of the same thing of cultivation stories, 98% of those are autobiographies of Karens who got the universe’s managers to listen to them, just pure power fantasies, lol!
The only thing I don’t like about crossover fics is when they get too many cameos. They mention a guy in a red coat with guns, but they don’t say enough to get a solid reference. I know in their mind that it’s a clever joke, but that only works visually. I’ve had to quit a few because they got too much.
There are some crossovers that do that, especially jump chains. But there are many great and unique ones too. BTVS and Stargate are surprisingly compatible.
So is the spread Nutella? Except for the Captain Crunch and the capsaicin overload, we have nuts, fruit, and bread (the wrap). Not absolutely terrible. But I can see why health nut Peggy is cringing.
Well, I was envisioning peanut butter, but I’m sure Sydney’s experimented with a number of variants.
Since Sydney is a vegitarian I could even see her using Marmite or Vegimite. I think it would be too sweet but even apple butter would fit the color profile of sydney’s spread.
Marmite is black, so definitely not that
Never thought I’d see a single comic panel with Captain Crunch and a strap-on dildo.
I have encountered slash fic of captain crunch and the crunchberry beast.
It was in a series whose central character was a cereal killer, on a years-long quest to get to Quisp before the MIB did.
Fan fic involving other people’s characters is odd, but when it crosses over with commercial mascots it gets downright weird.
Just to make sure I am not imagining things… does the logo on the “Weapon of A$$ Destruction Reaper Slices” consist of a horned female carrying a scythe and whip… while wearing a flaming strap-on dildo?
might not be a strap-on
I hate fanfic. Leave source material alone and create your own thing.
Yeah, because of fanfic, Star Wars survived the 80’s and 90’s and gave us… Midichlorian’s and Darth Jar Jar (good thing all those stories became officially unofficial, right?)
Fanfiction can be broadly defined. James Bond not written by Ian Fleming or Sherlock Holmes not written Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Fanfiction. Paradise Lost is Bible fanfiction. The New Testament is Old Testament fanfiction of that revolting type, where the author just wants to insert their Mary Sue OC (Jesus is *such* a Mary Sue).
The only more traditional fanfiction I like is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, where Harry’s stepfather is a physics professor instead of a cliche Dickensian villain
When did Hairy Pothead have a stepfather? Both his parents died
Or did you mean his Uncle Vernon?
Right, of course. Stupid fingers.
:)
What’s Sydney adding in panel 6? I can’t identify the bottle
I believe that’s chocolate syrup.
Likewise. I think he would be intrigued, and Wil Wheaton would be horrified.
It looks like Reese’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Shell Topping.
I wonder if John Scalzi should be alerted to this burrito…
Was thinking the same thing.
I tagged him with the comic on BlueSky. hehehehe.
I both read and write fanfic in the Worm fandom. Some absolutely fits what you are talking about, but there are some really good fics as well. I recommend Trailblazer (Worm/Gundam Fusion – basically a crossover that links historic elements together into one shared world rather than having characters from different worlds meet), Visitors From Afar (Worm/Trollhunters isekai, with four Trollhunters characters exiled to Worm), and I think you’d like Kill Them All (Worm/LitRPG), where the MC of Worm goes on a crusade to end crime in her hometown.
penny is right,, captain crunch in really bottom tier cereal,, barely above sugar crisp,, if you onna use child cereal at least use some of the less bad ones like cherios or alphabits, they are still bad but at least they made an effort to put some extra nutrition in those
Ok the Forth Doctor and Bob Ross would be interesting
Which Doctor (just for Pander :P ) is Sydney talking about? The War Doctor (that, somehow, isn’t canon… ) or Eccleson’s PTSD Doctor?
Okay, forgot Laph mentioned Tennant last page :(
*shakes fist*
Fanfiction in general is very hit-or-miss. There’s a lot that’s absolutely terrible, no doubt about it. But evey once in a while there’s a piece of genuine genius like ‘Villain State of Mind’ (what if Nick Fury called in Professor Xavier to interrogate Loki after the first Avengers movie?), or Dark Matter (a 241,039 word, 46-chapter saga of ‘what happens if, after the Thanos Snap, Peter Parker winds up in Gotham City with the ghosts of dead avengers haunting him?’
There’s absolutely unreadable trash and far too much of it, but there’s some hidden gems in the mix.
Ugh. The Trigun anime is sooo much worse than the manga. If you had read it you would ever have misremembered The Humanoid Typhoon. In the anime he really is a guns first person, while the manga makes it clear from the get go that Vash is a pacifist and will go a long way to not kill.
Sydney’s diet would make the most optimistic dieticians wonder how she’s still alive.
People talking about fan fic, what about “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye”? Or the entre “Rogue Squadron” series?
Alan Dean Foster ghost wrote Star Wars and Splinter of the Minds Eye was a sequel to it in case Empire was never made if I recall correctly. I don’t technically consider them FanFic because they were endorsed by the publisher. To be fair however some of the early 1970’s Star Trek novels were thinly rewritten Fanfic/Slash fic.
I’ve always understood that “Splinter of the Minds Eye” was a lower budget plan B. The success of Star Wars was such that they could make Empire but if it hadn’t made as much money they were planning on a second film with fewer spaceships and no Harrison Ford. I had the book back in the 70’s but it became just kind of a side note when Empire came out.
Yeah, had the book as well, but pretty much all the books not written by Lucas were made non-canon when “Phantom Menace” came out, but they cherry-picked the popular aspects to retain (like Thrawn and Mara Jade) and dumped the rest
Honestly, Sidney didn’t even need to do that level of mental gymnastics. The Doctor doesn’t use a gun, but he has 0 issue with others using them. Hell, his wife actively uses one and he admitted on screen that it excites him for some reason so yeah, Sidney’s in a softball area for slash fic there. (Not to mention both are clearly bi or pan on some level).
Speaking of the two fan-fic books you wrote, were you involved with the Tamer game that’s being released soon? It feels like it runs along the similar vein.
List of times the Doctor used a gun or gun like thing (quite a few really):
https://cultbox.co.uk/features/opinion/doctor-who-a-complete-list-of-the-times-the-doctor-has-used-a-gun
Actually, the 3rd doctor had no trouble with guns at all.
Putting the capsaicin in Cap’n Crunch.
Cap(saicin) Crunch
Well, since they don’t give out the whistles anymore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper#Phreaking
they have to generate the squeal with some OTHER means.
“In this episode of FanFic Stargate SG1, Teal’c gets turned into a sapient inflatable pool toy.”
I’m just gonna point out that Star Trek: Lower Decks, which _is_ canon despite its eccentricity, went there in s2e2.
“Kayshon, when he became a puppet.”