Grrl Power #1349 – A Standing Ovulation
Having never been female myself, I don’t know what “Unexpected Feelings of Femaleness” would be. Were I a facetious person, I might suggest a sudden urge to go shoe shopping, buy a bunch of makeup, even though they already have a huge drawer of makeup, to hang unicorn posters on her bedroom wall, or to lay on her bed with her feet kicking back and forth in the air while writing “Mrs. (her first name) (his last name)” in her trapper keeper over and over. Those last two might only apply if you were a tweenage girl in the 80’s.
If I were not a facetious person, I might think women can feel it when they look at some guy and their cervix goes, “Yo, get that dude in here.” That’s more of a sarcastic notion. It may not be fully inaccurate though, because as I said I don’t know one way or another.
I can tell you what feelings of maleness are though. It’s walking into a Home Depot and seeing one of those screwdrivers that comes with 16 different screw bits stored in the handle and thinking, “Well I definitely need that.” Even though I’ve already got 7 other screwdrivers with various amounts of screw bits already. Same thing with tiny and/or exceedingly powerful flashlights. You know, that wasn’t so much a problem when I was growing up and flashlights all had sucky 8 watt incandescent bulbs in them – well, except for those big “doubles as a truncheon” flashlights that were powered by 4 D-cell batteries. Or the camping flashlights that took those batteries that were the size of a third of a car battery. My point is, you couldn’t buy a flashlight back then the size of a Pez dispenser that could light up a room like an array of stadium flood lamps.
Here’s another maleness thing (notice I’m not using the term “manliness”) It’s seeing a sexy woman in some negligee that’s like, 80% straps, and your first thought is, “Yes, I quite appreciate that” (<–heavily sanitized version) but more importantly, your second thought is “After she wears that once, she’s going to stuff that in a dresser drawer where it won’t come out again until and anniversary or a birthday or something, and when she does retrieve it, it’s going to be as hard to untangle as 200 yards of Christmas lights.”
I’m going to try something with this new vote incentive.
This month, I’m closing on a new house, selling my Mom’s house, finishing packing Mom’s house, moving city to city to the new house, forwarding mail, canceling utilities, all that. And after that’s done, I get to start the process of selling my old house, which needs a little work before it can realistically go on the market.
SO. I’m going to try and do this vote incentive in stages. Currently it’s just pencils. The TopWebcomics one will update with colors and detail until we get to the no clothes versions, then that will continue over at Patreon. Also there will be a comic or two in between each version to fill out the story.
I know it’s hard to tell from just the pencils, but this is Heatwave and Jiggawatt. The comics will explain why they’re doing what they’re doing. Although I feel like even saying that much makes it easy to guess, but hopefully the journey will still amuse.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
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Maxima puts any Vulcan to shame with her facial expressions – only her left eye opening a tiny little bit more…
Both her eyes widened a tiny bit, her mouth slightly pouts and her left eyebrow is raised.
Yet still, it’s a level of reaction most Vulcans would be proud of.
Well, she does have the ears and the blood for it :P
It’s the eyebrow raise that sells the Vulcan candidacy
yeah I get it. (I mean intellectually about about that first (about underwear on the lady) thought but the rest of it yeah. Totally.
So this dude has some kind of charisma based power that only works on women.
What are the odds that he’s either gay or Ace?
Those odds are as enormous as his package.
Possibly by necessity. With Flash Drive’s speed and stamina, he might be able to ‘satisfy’ a mob of women in seconds, with the obvious side effects of doing so on non-Brutes.
He probably has to live out in the wilds of Montana or something if his induced horniness field isn’t under control, since it affected Dabbler through her defenses and even Max got a ping through her built-in tinfoil hat.
The fact that the dinosaur girl got his attention implies that he is a scaley.
I am no scaley but if I turn around and see a dino lady, regardless of who else is there she is what will catch my eye first.
And a furry from the bunny?
Yes, why not both?
Anvil showed up. There’s no limit to the aura range beyond sight.
I don’t think he does. WoG from two pages ago said “Anyway, the gag is that he’s super hot and women (and a certain percentage of men) go gooey.”
Nothing about a second power, and quite clear that his hotness also works on gay men. There probably just weren’t any in the vicinity, previous pages have also shown more men than women.
I derped, the last sentence was supposed to say “more women than men”.
Yeah, this still seems to me to be the comeliness version of Math’s fighting skill or Peggy’s marksmanship–not a superpower, but just so high that it might as well be.
But this is much more inherent. I very much doubt that he trained to be that attractive to most of the female side of the species.
It’s clear that Math’s talent is extreme, even superhuman. Even though WoG is that he trains hard, his abilities are way beyond what training gives you without being naturally extremely gifted.
“In bed, I’m less of a ‘Flash’ and more of a ‘Drive’, ITKWIM.”
Neither are generally speaking all that much fun for women …. ;)
I remember having to make saving throws against female mobs without hurting anyone. 2 throws, 1st did I escape, and 2nd were there any civilian casualties. The bar was pretty low on the 1st throw, and about middlin’ on the 2nd because sometimes they would get to fighting amongst themselves after FD got away.
Idk about other women. but I feel the need to make sure we have enough of certain supplies. tho I’m odd. because that screwdriver sounds great to have a few copies of around the house. maybe a good adjustable wrench or ratchet set. a box of 10mm that is locked so they can’t escape.
Another gal agreeing with you. Finding a good screwdriver set – or a MULTI-TOOL! – or, for that matter, sturdy/reliable LED flashlights – or some types of Christmas lights ^_^ – will get my attention & I’ll have the ‘I need this!’ reaction.
Some guys inspire the same feelings. ^_^
Speaking as a man I have ZERO interest in Home Depot. I have a small toolbox that has all the basics for household tasks and that’s all I need. I take pride in being able to do basics like plumbing and electrical and car fixes, but that’s about it. I’m pretty much over my tech impulse buying these days too. I’ve always hated cars, and bicycling is pretty even genderwise.
Show me a really cool resin cast bust or miniature STL or even some Games Workshop stuff and I have difficulty controlling my spending, but we’ve had a lot of women join our community of weirdos who like squinting at tiny toys to paint them over the past two decades, so I’m not sure that’s a signal for maleness either.
Now that I think on it, is there any hobby or interest that’s exclusively male or female? For sure sexual attraction is towards the opposite for the majority, but not exclusively.
As far as I’ve been told what causes ‘unexpected feelings of femaleness’ varies from woman to woman. I expect many women would be turned off by a guy in spandex with a giant package who moves fast enough to give ‘friction burn’ a whole new horrible meaning.
I always have to resist multi-headed screwdriver sets. They are so reasonably priced!
But I remind myself that I have a perfectly good set at home and I don’t need more clutter and the temptation goes away. As for christmas lights, if you put them away properly last year then it isn’t hard unwind them, it just takes a little patience.
Ah yes, the male instinct to gather cool tools. It’s a good thing I have a large garage. At least I will be prepared when the zombie apocalypse come.
And to get pissed off when somebody else relocates them. Sometimes I just want to scream, “What’s the point of HAVING the tools if I can’t find them when I need them!”
I was out in the garage Good Friday reorganizing the tools with my son, and my wife wanders in and offers to help, and we both rejected the offer in unison.
My tools are somewhat purposely disorganized. I know where things are but nobody else does. It keeps things from walking off with the grandkids.
Old joke line about aliens modifying early humans was them adding bird aspects to the human brain to explain why humans love collecting things, especially colorful and shiny things to decorate their nests with.
Digit: Do you need a socket for your wench? I mean a socket wench? I mean a socket WRENCH? I mean I can help you tighten your nuts and lube your chain! I… I…. *melts down*
Friend of mine died way too early.
On his son’s 15th Birthday I took him to Home Depot and helped him build his personal tools etc and hobby kit.
His Dad had left me five hundred in will with that stipulation.
On his 16th. Had a 1960s Maverick towed into his garage.
Fix it. Make it run. And it’s yours.
Unfortunately his sister’s were better wrenches than he was.
Last I heard, there was a peach and pink 1960s maverick tearing up that small town.
I like how Kat is being very “Hello, am very bnnuy.”
Narrator: The effect on Dabbler was immediate.
But the effect on Maxima was negligible.
Keep in mind that, according to an ever so slightly catty Maxima (I think),
Succubus defenses are designed to be easily penetrable by anything male.
I should be expected that Dabbler was unable to resist.
She still ought to apologise to Elsbeth though.
Maxima is a woman with decades of experience in military discipline. She has had to deal with people who see her more as a woman from a misogynistic viewpoint, despite her being taller, stronger and gold.
Two expressions come to mind: A woman is looking for the one man to fulfill her every need, but a man is looking for every woman who will fulfill his one need. The other is a paraphrase of the Larry Niven work: Woman of gold, man of tissue paper.
Better than being negligee ;)
I thought Digit was asexual-adjacent? Or is she looking to upgrade his bike or something?
A sexual doesn’t mean anti-sexual. With Digit I got the impression that she was just too busy thinking about the next invention to notice sexual urges.
I have never thought about untangling lingerie.
big “doubles as a truncheon” flashlights
Maglights – carried one when I was a bouncer at a nightclub. Best use, oddly enough, wasn’t as a truncheon (though that did come in handy) but as a way to disorient – especially when alcohol stacked a -10 to their save vs “light in the eyeballs while in a darkened room”
Exactly why we were issued them at work, flash then ‘bang’ if necessary. Often, just standing there with the ‘barrel’ resting on your shoulder was enough. I always had one in a ring holder on my duty belt.
Yeah, don’t care about the teeny tiny laser-pointer lights that only light up what they hit, have always wanted one of them big two kilo truncheon lights that will light up a room (and crack coconuts)
For me, the major problem with the laser pointers is, because of the narrow beam, they seem to work more for bad guys to trace the beam back to you and your head (because most people tend to hold them up next to their ear)
Light up the room so they have no where to hide, and bright enough they can’t see anything but spots
My security guard route included a warehouse by the waterfront. Used it against a wharf rat that was literally larger than my cat!
Get out of there right now man! Before they barely leave a speck of you!
I just wanna poke the bunny to instigate trouble.
The thing is I actually met two guys like that during the ninties and one of them was better looking than that guy.
He acctualy stopped everybody in a very busy grocery store as they stopped to look at him, it was supernatural how good looking the guy was.
The other guy I met, Well Do any of you remember that car commercial in 93 when this rediciosly good looking guy got into a small car and some woman commeted “I wonder what he has under the hood?” Well he probably was his younger brother because at 16 he was a male model we went to the same high school.
Some people are like that. Years ago we had a girl in the office who was almost painful to look at, she was so beautiful. It wasn’t any particular feature, just the way they went together. She didn’t even have to be your type, it still hit you.
A pity she wasn’t any good at her job, but her looks probably helped her keep it a few more months.
ah… he’s a natural “incubus”
i get it now, weird super power… im sure i’ve read “comics” about that kind of thing
Wait, who’s the girl in the middle with the blonde hair wearing the mechanic’s coverall and with a huge…. wrench?
‘Cause she looks a LOT (like, a lot a lot) like a Champions character of mine I’ve had art drawn for a lot of times, and I’m very confused by how she would have gotten there (not really, she’s been known to dimension hop).
I mean, she’s even got the right proportions for the Gadget Queen (a woman who was really only properly captured in art by Fred Perry of Gold Digger).
Digit, the team’s mad-scientist/gadget maker.
yeah, I guess it’s just kind of thing? Sexy brilliant women with great cleavage wearing mechanic’s coveralls and goggles.
this is mine: https://www.deviantart.com/mephron/art/At-work-2017-revision-659425787
Agatha Heterodyne, yo!
How would that cycling courier look resembling Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Merckx#/media/File:Eddy_Merckx_en_1971.jpg
A caricature of Merckx appeared in Asterix in Belgium, as a courier…!
Now that I think of it he looks like default Commander Shepard from Mass Effect.
So. Are we all thinking ‘super-pheromones’?
that or something psionic or mana poof poof fluff influence, which is basically just pheromones for other power sets.
Is the pink shard supposed to indicate that Max increased her strength and speed?
Nope, her femaleness
His real superpower isn’t super speed or being able to ride a bike like that without losing all feeling down there. It’s the ability to make any female goofy for love without even trying.
Supers get a charisma boost in this universe just as part of the superpower package. Meaning people who would otherwise be ordinary looking end up hot looking if they have super powers. This guy rolled a natural 20 on charisma, and then got the boost on top of that, putting him at something like 24 in D&D terms. But his real super power IS something related to speed.
Panel 1 with Dabbler’s reaction to being lifted out of the way amuses me way too much.
The shading is back, HUZZAH!!!!
Well that kind of screwdriver will find a way to come in handy in a lot of situations. That just makes sense to buy
Huh… I thought that was Dabbler being Dabbler, but even Max being effected… Now that’s interesting. Maybe he has something close to a naturally occurring succubus effect going on since I’d bet he doesn’t have any genetic connection to them as a descendant since Earth is supposed to be new on the galactic stage at best.
Then there is that specialty screwdriver that you will only ever need once but you absolutely have to use to do a particular job. And it will be two feet long and will have to live in a separate drawer lest it take over the rest of the screwdriver herd.
Taking over the herd is fine.
As long as it does not start to breed…
I can’t even tell if he’s got some kind of chick magnet powers, or is just that much of a hunk.
Distractions?
I was more distracted by the group behind him.
Seems he has a secondary power that affects females.
I’m female, and get a ladyboner going into Home Depot and having to pass by all the new tools to try to get the parts I need to fix{insert broken house bits here} before McDouchebag tells me why I don’t need it to fix whatever, or his offers to “fix” whatever. Then again, I’m a bit of a gearhead.
I guess Flash Drive’s just Incubus level hot.
I miss those types of flashlights (the easily replaceable bulb and D-cells), the new LED type with the built-in batteries are bright and powerful, but if anything breaks they have to be thrown out and replaced. I have an expensive heavy duty LED flashlight that is about as useful as a paperweight now, because the LEDs are unreplaceable. Some so-called improvements are not improvements, they are just ways to make more money.
I’m kind of ambivalent about going to Home Depot now that I’m married.
I still like gawking at the power tools, but now my wife wants to go to the garden department and buy a dozen more plants.
Now, I understand that different women are different, but from all the women I’ve heard of on this particular point, it’s basically never the cervix that’s wanting the guy in there.
Which makes biological sense. The cervix is to keep some stuff, like developing babies, in, while letting other stuff out. It has one job, and as far as I’m aware, it seems fairly focused on it.
Now, at least a couple of its neighbors *do* have notable tendencies to at least get the blame for feelings of wanting particular people to be in or out. It’s certainly not far off the mark to say cervix. It’s just, as far as I’ve been informed, generally off the mark.
I was wondering if anyone was going to comment on the cervix statement. From what I have learned from my wife, the cervix is not where ladyboner feelings come from, at least for her; she describes it as a general vagina/groin area feeling.
That was a “golden” opportunity for an armor pun (i.e. cupid). Too bad the femaleness spiked with speed instead.
Also, now I am even more convinced that this is Dabbler magic levels or attractiveness and therefore some kind of superpower.
It just occurred to me that this is quite similar to what happened when Maxima went to the bar, and that was noted to be a side effect of the magic of her disguise choker. Well, more like an unexpected reaction of the “Aura of Xanax” Dabbler put on it, Maxima’s unearthly beauty, and the glamour itself. He’s meant to have the unearthly beauty part – well, more like “unearthly handsomeness” – so maybe he’s got a secondary power that projects calmness (useful for someone who travels on roads) that causes a similar interaction? I mean, I think Opus the Poet (the one the cameo character belongs to) has stated that in the original game he designed Flash Drive for, the character was granted both his power and his attractiveness by the gods, which made him literally supernaturally-attractive with effects similar to what we see here (albeit more extreme), but I don’t think that’s going to be the case here.
Contrary to popular belief, shopping is not a gene found on the x chromsome ;)
(it is just that girls are trained from a young age to shop in the ‘right’ way. As a way to find shiny things, not a way to obtain them)
The ‘femaleness’ you are looking for is the feeling of
“Oh lord, is he *hot!*
and
*babies!*
At the same time.
And yes, as you can imagine it tends to produce terrible headaches.
Tbh. I don’t think that femaleness feelings can be mapped to Maxima’s power distribution pentagon at all.
Well.
Sudden change in mental state could easily affect power distribution.
If I watch a scary movie I end up with muscle ache.
Maybe a super has the same with their powers.
Anger: energy blast-speed-strength
Fear: armor-speed-flight
“Femaleness”: ?(for Erianaiel’s interpertation I would say: speed-armor, because headaches seem to be something one reacts to with armor and Speed seems to be a logical reaction to too many thoughts at the same time.)
It might be more that she was feeling an uncharacteristic desire to club someone over the head and drag them back to her cave for snoo-snoo.
Doubtless accompanied by a sudden new insight into how heterosexual men might feel… even as she does her best to live up the standards set by her brothers-in-uniform and not giving into her urges for immediate short term gratification. (talking about the standards set by Hiro, and General Faulk. “Don’t dip your pen in the company inkwell.”)
Derpy Dabbler, best Dabbler :3
Agreed. Hotter as well. Maybe because it makes her seem more approachable.
Seems like the super hotness of a succubus would select for only men with Mr superion levels of selfconfidance whether it was earned or more likely not. In other words arrogant douchebags.
Three things I notice:
1. His surprise indicates that this isn’t commonplace for him.
2. Also notice how Sconia doesn’t seem to be clearly affected to this AOE effect.
More surprised how they came up behind him without being noticed, esp. the two big ones. It’s likely very commonplace for him, but them ghosting him is not.
His milkshake brought all the girls to the yard (literally).
going off cultural stereotypes I imagine “sudden feelings of femaleness” would be, I am horny, I want to look as pretty and attractive as possible right now in appearance, posture, voice, and I really want to reproduce and present myself in a way that would attract a mate on both my appearance and capacity to care for and protect the young. (with variations by personal bias, culture, and species). Anything from that small submissive one possibly presenting on sight, someone talking like Betty Boop while jutting their breasts out, to the big scary dragons and demons showing off their strength and power while doing a mating dance that is both erotic and terrifying.
wish I could edit my comment as what I wrote at the end there reminded me of this I wrote a year ago for some world building of demon worlds. Using my own biological but still very supernatural demons.
Demon Sex-ed, when female demons going into full heat.
https://www.deviantart.com/rhuen1/art/Demonic-Sex-Ed-and-Social-Studies-Going-into-Heat-1044857036