Grrl Power #461 – Clandestilen
Dabbler’s involvement with Arc-SWAT is curious considering the existence of The Council, but Dabbler didn’t immigrate through normal channels. Actually it’s more of a migration. Well, it depends on how long she’s planning on staying. The sequence of events leading her to join the team would be fun to tell if I was a 5 pages a week kind of guy, but I suppose I’ll show it in chunks as the opportunity arises.
Also it turns out Dabbler was wrong about the alien tourism only being to post-FTL civilizations, as mentioned here, in a page called Don’t forget the alien sex tourism… hmm, kind of went to the well a few times already with that joke. Oh well. But thanks to The Veil, Earth is a very rare case of pre-FTL clandestine alien tourism.
You know, on the topic of doing it with aliens, one thing that rarely comes up in sci-fi shows (probably more so in books) would be smell. Odor to be more accurate. Assuming we’re dealing with basically humanoid aliens where they’re basically just exotic people, aliens would probably smell weird, and we would smell weird to them. Humans smell pretty bad in their natural state, fortunately we’ve invented showers and deodorant and mouthwash etc, and presumably aliens would have as well. Still, ignoring crazy stuff like silicon based life or something that exhales methane, differing biology, environments, and even food supply would affect the odor baseline. It would put a real kibosh on wanting to date the smoking hot green alien chick or the pretty blue alien boy if their breath smelled like the inside of a gym bag, or their sweat smelled like slightly off cheese.
I imagine in a cross species world like Babylon 5 or Deep Space 9, deodorants would focus more on eliminating odors than masking them, since lilacs might smell fine to us, but to an alien species it could trigger some adrenaline fight or flight response, or their most popular scented candle might smell like a summer horse grave to us.
Now that I think of it, a food court on a space station would be nightmarish. You think microwaved fish or kimchi or natto or McDonald’s smells bad? Just wait till you catch a whiff of boiled gork spleen or fizzy flume yolk or smelted Gazorpazorpian flugflaps all mixing together.
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Seriously, that girl needs to get laid.
Which one? o_O
Biologically speaking? The purple one.
She does quite a lot. It was my assumption the golden one was being referred to.
Depends how you mean “need.” Dabbler wouldn’t feel right at all if she went too long without sex.
Can we get back on to the topic of Max needs sex?
that sounds like a topic that needs to be discussed a timezone or two away from the subject.
Thus proving the point.
Not everyone needs sex just because they’re mad and/or professional.
That doesn’t mean the topic doesn’t need to be talked about.
Indeed, it’s one of those rare topics that should be frequently included in conversations. For people (like Sydney, for example) that aren’t comfortable with the topic (especially when Dabbler is the one doing most of the talking), then they do have the option of turning around & walking away…Some people are bad enough that merely disengaging from the conversation isn’t enough, that they have to run away screaming & yelling. I mean, really, that is sooo rude to interrupt people who are talking.
Or he could mean the tannish/pinkish (what many would refer to as “white”) one?
Well, if Dabbler was not quick on her shield spell before she joined Archon, she is now.
Also, as a lover of world building, every page gives me a dozen new QUESTIONS. I Imagine poor Halo feels the same way.
Dabbler’s shield is actually just as strong as Sydney’s. But it’s very small, so not as powerful.
Dabbler would probably agree that it’s not the size but what you do with it that counts.
I have no doubt that Dabbler has both had her shield blast card punched, and punched one for several others.
You mean like in the ARCHON ballroom?
Dabbler’s a little too enthusiastic for a repeat performance: the shock wave in a confined space, stone walls instead of glass windows… can Halo’s Shield block dangerous sound waves?
for anyone inside the shield, if Maxima’s power-show was an indication, but no way to protect the rest of the room without having those two in the bubble as well considering their positions
Can Halo’s shield block…
Despite (or continuing) discussion from months ago, there’s really no need to think the shield couldn’t block even lasers as well as dangerous sound. Lasers aren’t just very bright light, they are coherent, which makes them quite different from led flashlights or tungsten bulbs. Likewise, since Halo’s shield blocks dangerous kinetic energies like shockwave concussions from Max’s less-than-full-power explosions, of course blocks dangerous sound, which is just molecules kinetically bouncing around in waves.
Also, there’s no reason to assume that the shield is static like world war II battleship armor. It may computer software driving it, and be reactive like modern tank armor or a ship’s phalanx system, but at an invisible-to-people quantum level.
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t have raised that point, because it distracts from what I was really trying to say: the shock wave from Max’s punches hitting Dabbler’s shield would probably be even less welcome in the conference room than they were in the ARCHON ballroom. Both Max and Dabbler could be subject to disciplinary action that the General didn’t impose… and that’s before the General got his hands on them.
As ex-military, I think double indemnity doesn’t apply: one set of civilian charges, then another from UCMJ.
Also ex-military, and I recall specific training that UCMJ, like criminal courts, doesn’t affect civil liability damages, either, not even from the military itself (eg, damages to base housing) Kind of a triple threat.
And when in another country, you’re entirely subject to that country’s laws, though military courts may get you too. It really doesn’t make sense to be criminal in a voluntary military.
“Double indemnity” doesn’t even apply to civilian cases, as one can be tried for the same offense on both the state and federal level.
…But Dabbler isn’t the type to discount the size factor either…
Indeed, the concept of aliens even being remotely compatible with Earth’s biochemistry either proves the Panspermia Theory, or said aliens are advanced enough genetic engineers to make themselves compatible, which would also tend to indicate they could be indistiguishable from native Earth lifeforms.
The dude with tentacles is probably compatible, sex wise, without any engineering. Just so long as he isn’t planning on having hybrid human-octo babies.
I do hope that he only deals with niche hentai sex workers, who are both informed and consensual. Otherwise ick. Actually ick either way, but whatever rocks their boats.
MIB 1 “It’s a Squid”
Consentacles are best tentacles.
Here’s a case where her lips say “no,” but everything else says “yes.”
https://ghastly.comicgenesis.com/d/20010510.html
Who says they are mating for the reasons of propagating? o_O
You know what they say: you can’t spell “bestiality” without “best”. Captain Falcon up there knows what I’m talkin’ about.
Actually that was Lieutenant Ho-rus.
Horus has his eye on you…
;)
It is not bestiality if both parties have a human level intelligence in my book.
We have this wierd double standart:
Sonic kissed by a princess as part of a Revival Ritual? Necrophiliac Bestiality.
Male Shep doing Liara 3 games in a row? Awesome!
Despite the fact that the only different is which gender is blueskinned in both cases.
If we ever do discover sentient non-humans, bestiality laws would probably be rewritten to explicitly refer to non-sentient species.
You forgot Garrus and Tali. Both have much different DNA than humans, while Asari don’t actually USE the DNA of their mates…supposedly.
You say that, and yet Superman’s been called out on bestiality by getting with Lois. And the Sonic kissing a princess would be bestiality too. I mean, he’s explicitly a hedgehog. Not even an alien hedgehog-like race. He is apparently his world’s version of a hedgehog.
The fact that you can have Shepherd have sex with an alien in all three games doesn’t necessarily excuse things. I mean, there are games out there where you can nail centaurs and minotaurs and nagas. If that’s how you choose to play, fine. Doesn’t mean it’s widely accepted just because you have the freedom to do it.
In Freefall comic:
Arriving at the vet’s for emergency treatment.
Clearing up the misunderstanding.
Some time later, going out for a meal.
I’m so behind on that comic. It’s one of my favorites, but their lack of an RSS feed makes me forget about it for months on end.
And don’t forget, it also comes in colour-form now :D
It’s on the schedule for me to check out a weeks worth of the B&W and Colour every Monday (do the same thing with checking the B&W and Colour versions of “GWS”, but that’s every weekday)
Firefox + My Weekly Browsing = automatic reminder to check your favorite webcomic(s)
Believe the point was: why is it okay for Shep (male or female) schlepping Liara, but not for Sonic to be kissed by a human girl?
Relevant Harkness test (language warning): https://i.imgur.com/6jp4DVK.png
I imagine that, even if Max was going too fast for Xuriel to react, she’s got just a little of her super-reactions going- enough that, were she quicker than the shield, she’d only hit with normal amounts of ‘knock it off, screwball!’, but then increases the force if the Shield goes up before she gets there.
Yeay, Earth is special. Go us (and by us, I mean the non human races)
*Gibbsmack* Hush, some of us are still trying to remain anonymous.
What are you talking about?! <__> <_<
There's no aliens here!! <__> <_<
Nope, none at all… <__> <_<
Now if you'll excuse me…
*Hides behind a bush, retracts Pretender Armour, turns into a RC plane & flies away…*
xD well, poor Halo. I’d have a brain meltdown while trying to hold a bazillion questions rushing toward my mouth. So much stuff to learn *.*
And Joe, wich girl did’ja meant? xD
I have a tingling feeling it was Maxima, ‘cuz we all know Dabbie is gettin’ some.
a better question about alien vampires would be if an alien was tern’ed by a human vamp would the new vamp crave blood of humans or of its own race or would it be able to drink both?
and what of human vamps can they drink alien blood i would guess it would depend on the race. and if so is there a correlation between the blood they can drink and the aliens who can be trend?
I would guess it is down to how much the alien biochemistry changes towards vampire. If it just gains the feeding mechanism, then it will probably have to stick to its own base species blood, as that will be compatible with them.
For human vampires to drink alien blood (and gain nourishment from it, without the risk of being poisoned), the aliens would have to be very close biologically speaking. So succubi would probably fit the bill, as they are already compatible with humans. Others would likely need the aid of powerful technomagic to bring their biologies closer. Or the Panspermia Theory being correct, as suggested by yuffiek above.
Or maybe it’s entirely a magical process, and the consumption of the blood of the living is so symbolic that a vamp could subsist on oil from an AI’s chassis?
Shhh! Screwball might start to get worried if he hears you say that.
I have to say, excellent exposition. Very natural, not to on the nose, leaves plenty for the imagination.
“Finger blast” can have a very different meaning when talking about Maxima.
That’s the point :D
This page’s caption really made me snort trying not to laugh at work.
Also callback joke, Maxima refusing to do the shocker when Halo demonstrated her telepresence. Nice one Dave!
ShLock Mercenary tentacle porn……..
And yes, Maxi REALLY needs to Netflix and chill………..
Maybe just the chill, she knows her TV well enough.
You need to Urban Dictionary “Netflix and Chill.”
I’m on a budget. I have to YouTube and chill.
~ popsugar
I stopped reading that site when it told me my sister had a 12 inch penis and 1 testicle.
I stopped when it told me that my brother refills cream donuts. I don’t even have a brother.
The Veil, or anything similar, seems to be pretty unique in this universe. Which makes me wonder, does the supernatural not exist on other planets? Or is it just more accepted out there? And what about magic in general? Dabbler is an alien and succubus so did she get her magic just from the succubus side, or also her alien side? Are there alien magic users?
Perhaps humanity’s xenophobic nature forced the veil to exist, while other planets accepted their supernatural elements more quickly, thus not needing the veil.
That reminds me of a pet theory I have based on the new Voltron show.
I figure that all the super-technology shown by the aliens in that show isn’t actually technology, but the result of treating magic with open study- stabilizing it and creating industries around utilizing it for larger purposes. It looks like tech, because at some point, whether it’s runic matrices or microcircuits, when you get them small enough it’s all just a funny-textured black square of metal inside a nest of copper or crystal wires (because that’s totally what glass-fiber cable is).
Any sufficiently understood magic is indistinguishable from magic.
Any sufficiently misunderstood science is indistinguishable from magic.
And any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
“Hey, I found a planet-bound race that shows every sign of being into recreational procreation with pretty much anything!.”
“Nice! Exotic AND kinky. Book us a flight.”
And this is how Captain Jack Harkness came to be…
Don’t forget Peter Quill or “Starlord”.
This seems more like a chicken or the egg question, since by implication the ALIENS are also actively looking for planets to get creative on.
And anyone who thinks cross-species sex tourism would not get creative has not availed themselves of the wonder that is nature documentaries. Or been down to the local specialist leather shop on a busy day.
Ok, fine, or just has never been on the internet. For more than five minutes. Unsupervised. Or ever.
We are basically alien Thailand.
I was just gonna say we’re the Alien version of a kink-club
Especially if most aliens can’t tell the difference between male and female humans.
Or care
They need to set their translator right!
I don’t believe you’ve ever smelled a human in their natural state. Going without a shower for a few days doesn’t count. A natural state involves the natural self-care that every creature naturally does so that they don’t look sick, smell sick, or get sick. Humans don’t really do that any more. We have too many tools now to bother.
Fully natural humans tend to smell more musky than anything else- the sourness is just what happens when you don’t clean at all. Naturally, you’d clean with water at least, and you’d have dust and dirt and the like in those regions as well.
It’s like with hair care. People are starting to re-learn that the natural oils of your scalp, when not scoured away by the chemicals in shampoo, do a better job of keeping hair silky and shiny than any shampoo. Sure, it doesn’t smell like ‘Daytime Sunset’ or whatever, but it’s a natural scent, and helps to attract more suitable mates.
So I wonder what brochure attracted Dabbler to Earth? I bet the other aliens were probably the inspiration behind hentai porn.
Wasn’t one of Dabbles’ parent’s (or ancestor) from Earth? o_O
Nope, as regards the former, and if you are talking genetically, rather than being resident: ‘1/2 succubus, 1/3 doppelganger, and 1/6 some unidentified alien species’ (as per her entry on the cast page). Whether or not an ancestor might have been from Earth is up for speculation. As all succubus children end up as succubi, regardless of the father’s species, it is possible that she may even have a human grandfather, without it changing the above ratios.
In a species with only 2 physical dna contributors to the offspring, it’s impossible to be 1/3 anything. I didn’t say “2 sexes” or “2 genders” because I apparently no longer know what those words mean.
Sexes are defined primarily by genetalia and are the (generally) distinct biological groups that entails. Genders are basically what society interprets those as meaning for your personality and other generally unrelated features.
Regardless, since a species could potentially have 3+ sexes and still form children with only 2 of those as parents (I don’t know the science but the theory of that is not new), “physical DNA contributors” is probably the most accurate term you could have used.
There’s a race in the Star Trek expanded universe with six sexes, and every one of them claims to be male… especially the ones that give birth. The Sulamid, I believe.
Diane Duane’s novels. (Can’t remember if those arethe Sulamid, but name and race are definitely hers.) Highest possible recommendation.
And lo, I shall make the impossible possible.
*waves paw mystically*
Humans can already do that. And it has been licensed for use in the UK, albeit only for specific therapies (accounting for a tiny percentage of DNA), rather than trying to make a 1/3 split. But that could be done, technically, if desired. Albeit that legally a case would have to be shown for the need. Perhaps a couple, where one or both partners had suffered radiation damage, and needed a lot of their unhealthy genes replaced, would make a good test case. Succubus fertility treatment is super-advanced technomagic. They would have no problems with doing that.
Doesn’t need to be that complicated:
‘1/2 succubus, 1/3 doppelganger, and 1/6 some unidentified alien species’
We all have inbreeding in our shared genetic history. Makes sense aliens would, too. If one grand (or a larger number of, but further back in family history) parent was an unidentified alien, semi-recently, a parent was a full-blooded succubi, and the other parent was succubi/doppleganger, then the math works.
A lot of aliens live REALLY long lives, and as the Brunnen-G said, their minds weren’t designed to live forever and they forgot who was who and who they were or what their personal history even was, so its possible that an immortal would mate with their kid after a few thousand years because they forgot that they were parent/child and thought they were husband/wife. Or strangers that hit it off well.
And here is one I prepared earlier.
(Code for BREAKING NEWS)
Mmm, I did double-check the link, as it looked odd. But it was how the BBC displayed it. And it worked in the sandbox. Clearly it didn’t like being embedded on this website though, so here is a modified link to:
THE BREAKING NEWS
“…it’s impossible to be 1/3 anything.”
I consider Dabbler to be some kind of exception to that rule. She would classify as “tri-sexual,” as in, willing to “tri” anything at least once (more than once if she likes it).
Welcome to Earth, a.k.a. Planet Thailand!
I’ll probably have to return my Man Card for this, but I don’t get Dabbler’s “thin end” comment.
It is a play on words, both of which have meaning in the context of the conversation.
First mathematically, if you are introducing something new, there has to be a first, then a second and so on. If you make a chart of it, against time, it will look like a wedge (unless you have lots of alien arrivals all coming on a single ship, in which case there will be a blockier look to it).
Secondly the gesture she is making, is recreating a sexual act, as indicated by the dialogue in the final panel. One which would normally be conducted with a single finger, until the recipient is capable of taking two.
Not to be confused with Sydney’s two fingered gesture. That is only used for vulcan-like species, with two vaginas.
Ah, okay, thanks. I had just never heard that phrase before, which was twice as confusing, since she was clearly using a double entendre, but without me being aware of either context.
Isn’t that “2 in the pink & 2 in the stink”? :P There are other reasons for that hand pose tho, i have discovered…
Butt, do we want to know where the thumb goes? o_O
Let’s just say that you won’t develop any kind of skill at gardening because you won’t be displaying a “green thumb.”
It’s kind of like a Slippery Slope argument, except by people who are trying to actually pull off some Slippery Slope. And if there’s anyone who knows about slippery slopes, it’s Dabbler.
It’s also pretty amusing that, in Dabbler’s case, it’s almost the very opposite of the Wedge Strategy, which is probably about all I can mention of that without causing a flame war.
“Is that even possible? A vampire alien?”
Im Sorry I Thought That Was Obvious
Yes, and they made a movie about it way back in 1985
And another in 1988. Plus the various movies in the Species series.
Wait, Jeff Goldblum was an alien vampire? Thought he was a furry? o_O
He was also “The Fly”.
But, was he a pretty fly for a white guy? :D
Vampirella is the original vampire alien, I think.
Forgot Vampie was an alien :(
Sometimes she’s an alien, sometimes she’s a daughter of Lilith (and ‘the planet Drakulon’ was really a section of Hell), sometimes’ she’s both: Not quite as confusing as the pasts of Hawkman, or Donna Troy, or Power Girl, but…
XD Loved the link XD
Yeah, found a few of those clips, very talented (and waayyy too much time on their hands) to make those
Oh Buzz off, that was bad.
More like a pretty ugly fly.
He got the girls mostly because of his tongue, not his looks…
Uh…. vampire bats, anyone? They’re a different species, and known to be indigeneous to a planet most of us are familiar with.
Uranus? o_O
Ravenloft?
Planet MotherinLaws?
I’m more interested in were-aliens. Like can they become were-human? (Yes I know “were” means human so don’t be a smart ass)
We do have a very smart ass who is a fellow commentator. I wonder if an alien can become a were-donkey or were-dog?
They better put that in the warning brochure. “Come to Earth for the sex tourism*” *Side effects may include: nausea, vomiting, anal leakage, werewolfism, rash, superpowers, halitosis, and vampirism. Please consult a doctor before deciding if Earth sex is right for you. The Veil is not responsible for any child support issues that may arise from visiting Earth.
What if all those missing dads were really aliens? Maury’s show would be far more interesting.
Is “The Space Confederation Council made me do it” available as a legal defense?
I wonder if I’ll be allowed to post a comment this time around?
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As day five of the mysterious bug that prevents me from posting a comment on Grrlpower dawns I have to wonder where they all go? Perhaps they are being stolen and subtly altered by some spam bot to produce more realistic A.I. spam?
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This is especially gross. So vampires use humans for eating, and aliens use humans for sex. And The Veil is helping this along? Ew.
So long as the sex is consensual, who cares? And before you say that it won’t be, consider rule 34. In a population of 7 billion you can find SOMEONE who is in to rocking out with serious out-of-towners. Probably without a lot of looking, actually.
David, imagine you’re a straight man (I’m not going to assume your gender or orientation). You’re out for a night on the town, and to find some lovely young lady to enjoy an intimate time with. You meet said woman, strike up a conversation, and take her back to your place for a night of sexual bliss.
You turn off the lights, strip off your clothes, get under the covers, and… then you feel something poking into you…
You realize you went to bed with someone who represented themselves as a woman, but turned out to have a penis. Imagine feeling lied to, and feeling quite upset.
Now imagine that instead of that being a woman, it’s a non-gendered tentacle monster from Dimension X.
Yeah, that’s what I’m imagining when Earth is being advertised for “anonymous sex tourism.” The Veil, and the spirit behind its implementation, is about keeping cyrpitds a secret from billions of humans. So there’s literally no telling who you’re going to bed with in a world that operates like that.
I agree that an illusion of a human, when you are actually having sex with an alien, of possibly very icky sort, is rape.
However that is not what David K. Storrs was suggesting to be OK.
To me it fairly clearly reads as finding someone who is into very kinky stuff,* and arranging something with them.
What the Veil might do though, is make the human rationalise away the implausibility of hooking up with an alien on the internet. But this is where the opening statement comes in.”So long as the sex is consensual, who cares?”If one of the parties is presenting herself as a “tentacled sex beast from Gedi Prime” and looks the part, then the sex is consensual. The human knew what they were getting into… err so to speak. Even if afterwards they choose to rationalise it away as a world-class cos-player or some such.
And, importantly, Dave does indicate that this is primarily a joke, in his blog, by saying that he
* Which is easy enough to do by finding a suitably specialised corner of the internet. As indicated by the mention of ‘rule 34’.
It does kinda raise some questions. At first, I kinda wanted to say that it’s a bit bigoted to get grossed out if you had a connection with someone or just wanted random sex with someone and only got squicked out if you ever found out they were an alien tentacle monster.
On the other hand, there are some well-known problems with misrepresenting yourself in the pursuit of nanoo-nanookie. Not only related to the fact that the issue of consent gets iffy with someone who is hiding their identity, but then there’s issues about potential pregnancies or diseases that would be exceptional and possibly more dangerous if things were compatible enough for that to happen. That’s kind of a veil issue, too. And the idea that it wouldn’t be a problem at all unless the alien gets caught is one of those excuses that never gets used for anything good. “Oh, you wouldn’t have had a problem with me embezzling if you didn’t realize it was happening,” that sorta deal.
That guy (no, not Guy, the other guy) from “Galaxy Quest“, he didn’t care what those not-form-Earth looked like in their true form, he still banged her
Unless it is happening to you (or had happened), why do you care so much what other people do? o_O
She was seriously cute. Although crewman number six did declare “that’s not right!“
Didn’t stop him from watching though :p
I think he watched in train-wreck fascination.
It “wasn’t right” because the trope is usually represented by tentacle monsters being male while their partners are female….
I think that’s the point though, with the veil in place, how would one know if its happened? Maybe it HAS happened to you Geusticus but you just don’t know it?
That WOULD explain the snakeskin I found in my bed one morning…=P
Would be a very good trick, still haven’t even been kissed (other than on the cheek or forehead)
Unless some fairly-strong version of Panspermia turns out to be correct, humans are more likely to be cross-fertile with zucchini than with aliens.
What humans are capable of having sex with is, of course, a much different question.
And what can happen in a work of fiction can go beyond either of those. Or both simultaneously.
Oh jeez, now I’m just thinking of Empowered. Most the heroes in that got their superpowers from alien STDs.
Pe’sonally, I just think you’re taking those two panels too seriously.
I’m with you. I’m sure some folks wouldn’t mind banging an alien, but many wouldn’t and those aliens would be literally deceiving them for the purposes of sex. If the person wouldn’t say yes normally, I don’t see how it can be the veil construed as a good or innocent thing (in this case). I know I’d be pissed if I learned i had sex with a creepy tentacle or worm creature that disguised itself as a human. Even if it wasn’t as extreme, I’d still like to choose what type of crazy alien I sleep with.
Agreed. Although this is primarily a joke, as indicated in the author’s blog above.
But, even if taking it seriously we have seen the Council behaving in an ethical manner in other regards. So it is entirely possible that they arrange consensual hook ups, for those who are into bizarre porn or fetishes.
Is it really though? Is not as if we’re talking long term commitments here. Two people looked at each other, thought “you’re hot, let’s bang.” and had a fun night. Later on, they learn one of them was disguised by the veil, so what? Nothing about the night has changed, it was still a couple of hot people having sex. To me, this is no worse than having a thing for big breasts, hooking up with someone based on that, then later learning she had implants. So a part of the night was a fabrication, so what? still had sex with a busty lady.
True. But there is a matter of what the average person would consider reasonable. There was a recent case where a woman had masqueraded as a man, in an online relationship. Then disguised herself as a man, when meeting the woman she had been chatting up. Finally they even had sex, but the one disguising herself said she was really embarrassed, and wanted the other woman blindfolded. Then made use of a sex toy, to continue the charade.
Not surprisingly when the victim found out about the deception, she was horrified. And the courts found in her favour. The other woman is serving out a lengthy jail term.
Had the victim been bisexual, or otherwise was not concerned, then it would not be an issue. But it is how the victim of the deception feels, that is the most important thing. If you would not have had sex with the partner, had you known their true status, then it amounts to rape.
Legally speaking, it’s covered under the more general category of “(Criminal Act) Under Fraudulent Conditions.” Overall, it has to do with “consent” being dependent upon “full knowledge & disclosure of all terms and conditions,” which is exactly what was denied.
“we have seen the Council behaving in an ethical manner in other regards…”
Ahem… I refer you once more to panel 8: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/comics/2016-09-08-GP0456.jpg
You fail to understand the concept of ethics. When in a society you agree to operate by a set of rules, and agree on the penalties for breaking them. Clearly the cryptid races which formed the Council agreed that any actions, by any supernatural being, which threatened the veil, would be met with extreme force.
I do not condemn the USA for using the death penalty. It is their choice to make. I do not condemn the Council for doing the same thing.
They are behaving ethically, within their society, in that panel.
The sex part kinda goes back to the conversations that we’ve had concerning Anvil and her dance partner. I’m not sure that there’s anything more that can be said without retreading old ground.
Honestly, these colloquialisms are getting obscure to the point of being unintelligible.
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You work.
Yes?
“Nanoo, nanoo!”
RIP Robin Williams 😢
*sniff*
And we thought that all he used his fingers for was drinking.
Actually his deal (when he was younger) was drugs and from his own comments I’m guessing lots of them. Belushi’s death may have had something to do with him quitting. His death (suicide) came after some very bad medical news. He had a deteriorating brain disease which would leave him a drooling idiot and caused his chronic depression to get much worse. Sometimes life just sucks.
Thanks for the info, but I think you miss Yorp’s point. On Mork and Mindy, Robin played an alien who could drink by sticking his fingers in the liquid. Which, now that I think about it, means that finger banging would be the equivalent of oral sex for Orkans.
That’s not all Mork could do with his finger, though. It could also be a weapon! We saw him use that finger in one episode to zap a picture off the wall without damaging either the wall or the picture, while in another episode he used it to burn a toaster in half. We’ll have to ask Mindy if he had enough control to give her a nice tingle without causing injury.
I once saw Mentholated Condoms(Icy Hot) for sale at Spencer’s.
They used to do chilli ones when I was a kid. Probably the only chilli product I’m actively glad they stopped making.
Ack! Who would want such a thing? (Please don’t answer that.)
I’ve accidentally mistaken the Icy Hot for the K-Y Jelly before. It was not pleasant for either one of us. I spent 30 minutes lying face-down in the coldest water I could fill the bathtub with.
I lived on the same street in Boulder as they did, or at least as the exterior shot of their house, while the show was being aired. That was strange.
So cool that Irradon recognized that gesture (unless he believes it to mean something else and Sydney has just agreed to host Irra’s next generation)
I think Sydney is mixing her TV shows here and knowing her it’s probably on purpose. ☺
Holding the hand up like that is the Vulcan salute from Star Trek, while Mork always went sideways as he was offering an Orkan handshake.
RIP Robin… :(
At least he’s no longer confined to such an “itty-bitty living space.”
“I believe the government is planning on doing an ordered reweal at some point…”
Inconsistent accent aside, I’m assuming he means the American government, yes? What exactly is going to be revealed? That cryptids live amongst the populace? I’m very confused.
Yes.
President Chapelle was supposed to be the one to do it originally.
But then he got hooked on BlueBalls and got ousted over the scandal. ”It’s Crack in a Can!”
Okay, I’m missing a reference somewhere. What’s that from?
I don’t remember the BlueBalls part, but there was a segment where Dave Chapelle was playing Morgan Freeman’s president from Deep Impact and revealing at the last minute that aliens exist, they have the cure for AIDS, and that he used alien technology to clone a blonde woman to have sex with.
The Dave Chapelle Show had a spoof of Red Bull. The skit was credited for the creation of the energy drink ‘Cocaine’.
Coca-Cola: The ORIGINAL recipe…
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/coke-recipe-found_n_823552.html
The veil being re set probably to include new content.
But can they do the reset without revealing the hidden text on all the money/billboards/magazines/etc? Where’s Roddy Piper when we REALLY need him?
I don’t know, I think the worm person would much rather visit Earth to bring the good news about the Brain Slugs to us. Maybe let us know how fantastic life is with a Brain Slug on your head, and how fun Brain Slugs are. And how maybe the Brain Slugs can help you do a bit of sex tourism, who knows? I don’t, but that’s the point, nobody knows until they’ve tried wearing a Brain Slug.
I think I’ll pass.
Of course there are space vampires! I myself fondly remember the movie Lifeforce.
Well, more accurately, I fondly remember the actress Mathilda May who appeared in the movie Lifeforce. This lovely young lady spent almost the entire flick wearing only her birthday suit, you see.
And wouldn’t you know it, you can’t have a movie about a naked space vampire without a Starfleet captain getting involved. It would have been a very different movie if it had been Shatner instead of Stewart, that’s for sure.
Yup, fondly remember seeing that on TV in the late 80’s
Another space vampire has just occurred to me!
Does anybody else remember that goofy sci-fi series starring Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers in the 25th century? They had an episode with one. As you can see, he had a mouthful of fangs that would have worked fine for blood sucking, but he preferred to use his fingers for some soul or lifeforce sucking.
…huh. I wonder if Hirohiko Araki ever saw that.
So I guess the system has decided that it hates my name…. ?
Probably not. But what problem were you experiencing, to wonder that?
What name are you trying to use? Haven’t had any trouble using a fake name and email for ten years
Are you related to Robert DROP TABLE Students?
* crosses fingers *
why does this page seem to have a hate on for my name?
Let me use my name you stupid comment section!
Soooo annoying. This comment system has always been buggy but now to have my name effectively banned for 5 days! Grrrrr!
Soooooo annoying! This comment section has always been buggy but now to have my name effectively banned for 5 days and counting by some stupid glitch or another (never been more than a few hours before!)! Grrrrr….
Oower! Perhaps that answers the previous question? And maybe why we had that cryptic comment from Duende Sociopata, who has sadly not posted since? Could it be some recent website update which is banning names, at random?
Hopefully DaveB will look into this urgently!
Who knows how many commentators might have been blocked and/or put off posting due to this? I am sure that this would be a technical issue, as Dave practically never bans anyone. Likewise we have two members, of very good standing, caught up in whatever is happening.
If you have experienced similar problems please post details, such as when it started. Obviously you may need to use a different user name, if the issue is persisting. Or, if that is not working either, perhaps you could try another email address as well?
Please be patient, as Dave has to do his own site maintenance, so it may take a while to resolve.
Eh, I’ve lost time here and there over the years so I’ve gotten used to this site as buggy. This is the first time I was blocked for so long I actually took the time to figure out a workaround.
Seems to be entirely the name. I can use my original email but the name has to be altered from Observer and the alteration can’t be a symbol which it apparently ignores.
If I use my actual name then it appears to start loading the new page with code in the address that should take me to my comment but then I just stay at the top of the page and when I scroll down to the comments and look there is nothing there. So it goes through the motions but doesn’t “visibly” post. Be funny if there are “invisible” posts stacking up somewhere.
I could do further tests by deleting little pieces of my name or using other versions of it or seeing if I could use the name of that person you just mentioned (though if they were able to post under their unaltered name then they would not seem to be having the same issue?) but sadly it is past time for sleep.
Dave says I got marked as spam!
I think its cause you over use my name so much. XD
:-D
He repeated your name so much that he wore it out?
O.o
Are you using special characters (non-alphanumeric) in your name? Sometimes those fail. Or you may be trying to use a name that a site admin has, and they locked it out to avoid the possibility of someone faking being an admin.
It seems like they’re being marked as spam for some reason. I don’t know why, I assume it’s askimet since that’s the only automated spam checker I have running. I’ll see if I can find the filter doing it or whitelist your email or something.
Ok, well, it seems Askimet is severely automated and doesn’t have options for whitelisting, but to be fair to it, it’s usually super accurate. I’ve released all your held comments from spam, which means a bunch of “test #14” comments will show up, but hopefully that will at least teach askimet that you’re kosher.
Thank you. Sorry for all the probe comments. Hope this other person Yorp mentions above doesn’t have a similar problem. Maybe its a combination of my email address and having multiple comments per page for one of the updates? Cause if it was just based on posting a lot Yorp would have had to work through this ages ago.
No idea, but if if keeps happening then flail about loudly and I’ll eventually notice.
You want to do this but not this
ha brain slug… I got you this hat
Looks like Dabbler is REALLY asking for it!! And Maxima is the one that’ll let her have it! ;)
So Varia might really be a space princess, if her father is an alien king that went to Earth for some human booty while passing as a Mayan deity.
I think Sydney will be heading straight to the blackboard, to change various of the odds, when she gets out of this meeting! Or stop taking bets completely, as the above might be considered to be either leaking secret information or insider trading.
Yes, but this also puts some evidence for my theory that the origin for most superpowers is a mix of alien,supernatural genes and mutations. Or said mutations provoked by said mix.
Wonder if doing it with a Cybertronian will give any babies I make powers? Or if I it’s possible? Guess I better get testing then….
Hey all, Daniel here. Screwball just froze up cause a woman ON THE NEARBY TV went “Mmm, sounds good.” XD. THAT was enough to overload his processors. I don’t think we’re gonna find out if human/Cybertronian babies are possible for a while…
I doubt they would be. Humans and cybertronians are completely different paradigms of life.
Clearly you do not watch the right kind of documentaries.
There seems to be more than meets the eye there.
In that second link, slap some luminescent tape on him & he’d make a passable Tron Cycle. One goof-up & he’d have one heck of a case of road rash though…
You never heard of Transformers Kiss Players, have you?
Heard of it. Never heard of it involving human/cybertronian hybrid offspring.
You did not do your homework, did you? Rule 36.
What about Sari from Transformers Animated?
Sari was a case of ‘only looked human’, to my recollection.
One might be closer if one looked at the first season of Beast Wars, where cybertronian nanotechnology had progressed to the point that it could actually create organic tissue and integrate it with their mechanical components.
At core, though, a Cybertronian is an energy being within a robotic support frame.
As an aside, dubiously anonymous alien & supernatural beings playing god but in it for the sex tourism kind of explains A LOT of mythology… :-P
Depending on how different the aliens are, it would explain some non human-God encounters. Mythology did have some gods swinging every which way, basically so long as the creature was alive. Maybe one of Dabblers relatives or maybe something weirder.
StarGate is real!!!!
Of course it is! Every good story needs that kernel of truth to sweeten the lie.
Zeus was the father to more than half of the Olympian pantheon, and quite a few monsters too. So it does fit yea. Especially if Zeus was not one individual, but various aliens holding the post, using the same disguise.
Three-headed-dog alien engaging in snu snu and we have the explanation for Cerberus, for example. Although, technically the father was probably a house guest by the name of Typhon. Who had multiple snake heads. So just about as weird genetics going on there, as with lycanthropes, in the Grrl Power Verse.
What’s weirder is that Hera only became his wife after he raped her, and she is his Sister.
How literal is the word ‘rape’ in that case? Because the meaning of the word has shifted over time. There was a period where ‘rape’ didn’t mean ‘sex without consent’ but rather ‘to grab or take’. There’s a classic painting titled ‘the rape of Persephone’, and all it portrays is Hades pulling Persephone onto his chariot and riding away with her.
And how can you ‘rape’ a city?
It’s the first step, to be followed by pillaging & burning.
Well, the version I saw had a word more closely translated as ‘seduce or ravish” but I was speaking in modern terms.
Monsters Inc. actually serves as a rare example of what you were talking about when it comes to cross-species deodorants/bodysprays. When Mike sprays himself down with what we consider some pretty rank stuff to get ready for a date with his lady.
Dave, your commentary makes Captain Kirk, Commander Shepard, and Jason Quill very sad.
First something messing with our senses so we can’t see man leeching/eating monsters or whether our potential mate is a slime spewing slug and now hentai tentacle monsters booking our whole planet for “anonymous sex tourism” (or maybe mostly Japan * shrugs * ). This story ARC just keeps getting better and better! XD
What’s next? We find out the Veil does such a good job hiding all signs and spore from non-humans that the rare Alien Sentient Katsup Fly has been laying eggs on our freshly made hotdogs so it can use our intestinal tracts to incubate them without anyone noticing? But its harmless to humans so they are just looking the other way for now!
This, is a disturbing story arc. (can we go back to the fun and safe powers testing now? * hides under blanket * )
BTW just because Sydney didn’t have powers before she found her Orbs doesn’t mean she is totally normal human. The Orbs may have recognized some alien DNA in her and bonded because of that. It would explain much of her strange behavior.
Now I’m thinking of Ben 10. Gwendolyn and Benjamin are both partially alien, though Gwen’s the only one able to use any of it. Though, it doesn’t really matter since Ben has the Omnitrix.
Wait wait wait, that hooded girl (please please please, name her ‘Robin’ :p) sitting next to Décolleté in the fourth panel, she was the one who started wearing spandex in the 30’s!!!!!
Same colour schemes, albeit different outfits. But we can assume she may have changed fashions a bit since the 30’s. However she does not seem to be anywhere near as busty. Perhaps even a contender for the ‘A-team’, unless it is just a trick of the current perspective?
Maybe a daughter, or more likely a grand-daughter? Assuming that they decided to keep the family colours going. It would be very interesting, if so, to find out if she has super powers too. Or maybe because the family knows what goes on behind the veil, she has her position, at the table, due to the merit of her actions, rather than her powers?
If not the same lady, maybe her granddaughter
Remember, she did seem to know Agent Wolf
No one’s mentioned the Mork & Mindy reference, yet?
Shazbot!
Well, not in so many words . . .
My creativity is fairly low, but even my imagination is creeping with the idea of alien STDs.
The desire to be a lawyer/politician is caused by an alien STD. Think well on that one!
Alien diseases affecting humans isn’t much more likely, from a sciedntific viewpoint, than aliens getting humans pregnant.