Grrl Power #587 – Good thing the Food Network isn’t doing calamari week
Sydney’s comment about Trent being male makes me wonder if there’s ever been a transgender Tentacle Monster. Or even if they have a gender at all, really. I guess I’ve given a lot less thought to tentacle monsters than I have to succubi. Well, I’ve known about succubi a lot longer. I don’t even know where I first heard of them. Must have been the original Monster Manual. Tentacle monsters are a more recent creation.
Sydney maybe could have pursued Cooter, but what would she do once she caught up with him? She needs both the force field and the flight orb to maneuver and not be crushed and drowned and all that pesky stuff. If she let go of the fly ball to grab him with the lighthook, she’d bob straight up to the surface. She could maybe drag Cooter along with her, but he might pop on the way up. The team knows nothing about what protections Wyrmil would provide him. Though hopefully for Coot’s sake, some sort of cold resistance is part of the package.
Maxima would be the best choice, as she can survive the cold and pressure and still fly around underwater, but it’s really dark at that depth. I mean if it was daytime outside, there’d be like 3% of sunlight penetrating to 1,000 meters? But it’s night time anyway, it’d be pitch black. She could make her hand glow like she was about to deliver an atomic bitchslap, but that wouldn’t penetrate very far.
Trent looks really small there on the couch compared to the volume he appears to occupy in the vault. It’s safe to assume he can squeeze down a bit, but also there’s like 400 square feet of floor space occupied by tentacles, just out of panel. :)
Oh and if you don’t follow me on twitter I do occasionally tweet stuff related to the comic. This one is just me showing the flats of the first panel compared to the nearly finished shading, for those of you interested.
So Patreon. I should make a bigger post about this at some point but it’s late and I can sum it up in a few sentences. Well, first off, I should say to all the people supporting me there, thanks so much as always! It’s incredible I get to work on this comic full time, almost entirely because of you guys.
That said, Patreon is making some changes to its billing. I don’t think it’s gone live yet and it’s possible they’ll recant these plans because there’s been a fair amount of grumbling about it. The short version is that each pledge processed will have a $0.35 processing fee, and I think a 2.9% fee on top of that. The bad part about this is the fee is charged to the patron, it’s not taken out of the money coming to the people you’re supporting. On its face, that would mean more money going to creators – you pledge a dollar, we get a dollar, but it means you pay $1.35 (plus the percent amount but that’s pretty small so let’s ignore that for now for the sake of easy math.) As someone who supports one or two people myself, I don’t mind that. If they do stuff I like I can swing a few cents more. The issue some people are having with this new system is that if you support 20 people to the tune of $1 each, now you’re paying $7 extra a month, which starts to add up. That’s like a monthly streaming service subscription (not Netflix, but like, Britbox, or I think the CBS one). As a creator, I’d much rather eat the processing fees. 1,000 people dropping a buck a month in the tip jar is more stable feeling than 20 doing $50. Not that I don’t love the high rollers too. :D Plus, you know, I just like knowing so many people are enjoying the comic. It gives me the fuzzies, much like a wedge of blue cheese that fell behind the fridge.
Anyway, the point of writing all this is to let you guys know I’m aware of this stuff and while I’m not going to ditch Patreon, I am keeping my eye out for alternatives, especially ones that work better with low dollar pledge amounts. Kickstarter is creating a Patreon competitor. (I’m shocked it took them this long) and there’s one or two others I’ll look into as well.
Huh, I guess that was more than a few sentences. What? Dave’s being super verbose? How weird right? :P
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Please let Trent Beyond who’s who! I’m pretty sure he could fill any special made disguise provided by ARC SPARQ and be a ward of the counsel under Chorius.
Please let Trent be on the who’s who!
Trent’s gonna be the roommate of the guy who’s a horde of spiders under his human suit…
Vance.
Trent in an environmental suit with painted on mouth and eyes just like SAM from Free Fall but without the mind twisting pan-dimensional tentacle structure and a penchant for theft.
I know it was a spellcheck fail, but I actually like that as a last name for him!
The tentacle monster from outside the mortal spheres, Trent Beyond!
Newest Diversity Hire. Don’t nobody get to be any racism around ARC.
No speciecism against invertebrates in this place.
Contrary to “popular” belief that military service can be a “path to citizenship” & in accordance with actual Law, Trent would have to become a US Citizen. Archon is established under the DoD as a fourth branch of the military (Marines are organized under the Navy, but have special “floating status” to temporarily attach to any branch) & anyone seeking to work within US government must be a US Citizen before recruitment.
If he can successfully pass through the Naturalization Process & he’ll be good to go. However, I would conjecture that the way he fights might pose a huge PR challenge for Arianna and another source of amusement for Maxima…
The Marines and the Coast Guard are their own branches of the military, so there are 5 already. That would make Archon a 6th branch.
The surgeon general’s office is the 6th uniformed branch.
The seven uniformed services are, in order of precedence:
United States Army.
United States Marine Corps.
United States Navy.
United States Air Force.
United States Coast Guard.
United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps.
Which one is the Postal Service? o_O
That would be their god.
He he. And good question, given we have seen the bar tender in Cheers in uniform!
A: “The seven uniformed services” are defined by Title 10 of the Code of Laws of the United States of America:
The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
So Gary Jordan‘s answer is out of date! There are now actually eight, starting with Archon.
The Marines are part of the Dept of the Navy and not their own branch.
his type of attacks she’d have to master spin level: GOD
As stated in the press conference, Dabbler works with Archon as a consultant, and she’s not a citizen either. So there is precedent for a creature like Trent to work with them. But I doubt he’ll stay.
Well he did mention he was rather bored of home – no variety, just lots of tentacles.
But i wonder, would another summoning wisk him away again? Or are all summons bringing fresh beings fromthe tenticle zone?
True, butt, she can’t stop rogue wizards (Harry, put down that damn wand before you jam it up some trolls nose!) from doing the whisking (not even on a cooking show)
” Contrary to “popular” belief that military service can be a “path to citizenship” & in accordance with actual Law, [ … ] anyone seeking to work within US government must be a US Citizen before recruitment. ”
Uhm, No. A simple google search would have saved you the effort of typing all that BS up and making the rest of us read such a fact-free post:
https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-military-service
Pro-hint: I worked as an immigration professional for North America and Europe for over half a decade. Military service in the U.S. armed forces is a path for a non-citizen to become a citizen, and it is used frequently. You can also serve and never apply for citizenship, if you so wish. Further, the U.S. Federal government has over a million employees who are non-citizens, a good number of which have security clearances in the military and intelligence services that most American citizens can’t even imagine.
Seriously. Try google. All the kids seem to be talking about it these days. There might be something to it.
They may be thinking of the French Foreign Legion.
so I guess if we become a citizen of Trent’s country of origin, we have to go thru “Un-naturalization”? Sounds gross!
You can call him Trent, or more formally, Mr. Ackles.
Any relation to Jensen?
The return of an old friend,
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/544 .
Damn that’s an old one.
Nice spot
The best idea I have for Cootyrm would have simply been to have Sydney track him with the commball’s multipresence and the lighthook for purely providing light.
She tracks him to a point she can teleport then does so and calls in help. Alternatively she relays info to the team in the vault who can presumably use magic to either teleport everyone there or relay info to agents who will take action.
Issues I see are that cootrym would know he’s being tracked and possibly do something to evade. Commball telepresence might not have the range. Lighthook’s glow might night shine far enough.
and wasn’t commball being sort of clasified? or was that just the teleport and true-sight options on it?
So, is Jabberwocky getting the old heave-ho from Dabbler because she’s not interesting enough?
Granted, most humans are probably about as interesting sexually to a succubus as a bowl of oatmeal. Filling, but not a 5 course gourmet dinner.
Dabbles wasn’t interested before Trent showed up
Dabbler has never been interested in Jabberwocky.
That seduction kiss was an attack, used during combat.
Dabs has easy access to the majority of possible partners on the planet. Even for a succubus, she can probably be very picky (for example, she prefers super powers).
Nah, looks more like Jabberwocky is freaking out, Trentacles disguise isn’t that good.
It looked to me like J was sitting on the back of the same couch as Trent, which was a huge couch made to accommodate huge supers (Anvil size and bigger), and Trent had just goosed her with a stray “feeler”. I get the lores version.
Can see why one would think that, butt no, Jabbers was probably either passing the door or about the enter (more likely just passing, going by the placement of her leg)
Plus, we’ve seen that couch before (there’s a big screen TV in front of it and kitchen behind and around the corner) and neither Harem nor Anvil particularly stood out on it. Might be a magic couch with a slight ability to equalize sizes (shrink giants, expand fairies).
Is that the same couch from the beginning? Or the couch Barberian was sleeping on after Dabbles had drunk her fill of ‘Barber-juice’?
Or that.
Not to mention, which couch was Leon using to play games on the big screen TV?
We are 3500 votes from 2nd vote lots and often.
No idea why it sticks out to me so much, but what is that floating above Jabberwocky’s head?
A can of worms >_>
Can of drink spinning/spilling
Can of “Spittake Cola”?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/413
Colouring is wrong – this can has a white bottom half and a yellow top half, with a red band around the centre and a red circle.
Dave might have forgotten what it looked like, or it could be another flavor or a knock-off brand Jabberwocky prefers.
Which is why was wondering what type is well :D
Hmm, wonder what can Jabbers opened in the background, we all know Grrl-Verse soda are not to be opened without being careful :D
A can of “Withering Surprise!”
It’s like one of those candies that pops in your mouth. Creates a very odd mouth feel.
Maybe a can of “Wriggling Surprise?”
God fcking damnit, yes that.
Just say “Texture”, damn it! ;-p
Mouth feel, while a horribly pretentious sounding term, is distinct from texture in that it also refers to things such as spiciness, dehydrating properties and the sudden reaction of the aforementioned popping candy.
Texture merely describes what your hands could feel, how it breaks apart and things like the physical element of a creamy “taste”.
i thought it was implied, if not outright stated, that the soda pop transformation gag was something to do with harems power, shes the only one that the soda changes for and it always has something to do with whats about to happen around her. others can see the change but only really with enough time to guess how to react, like when Peggy drew her sidearm in the rock’em’sock’em restaurant or Harem teleported away from heatwaves burst soda.
The soda isn’t magic in the Grrl-Verse. Harem is doing something to the soda https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1257 ‘s mini sub comic implies that she is aware of this power after the soda has been opened and its meaning is made clear.
looks to me that Jabberwokky(if that even is her, shes missing the blue in her hair) is just surprised and tossed a normal can of soda into the air and it predictably foamed up from the shock and fall.
Are the tentacles connected to a centrel point or are they a bunch of tentacles all tied together and if so where do they start from?
Yes.
They said they could cover a entire world in the last comic. Unending tentacles?
It’s tentacles, all the way down…
All the way down…
Ohhh, yeah…
If you look closely at panel #7 you will notice his face is a single lump, not a mass of tentacles.
Which means it is most likely his central point.
For a guy with a multitudinous of mouths, why is he using an eye for a mouth? o_O
That eye wants to see out of the trenchcoat too.
Of course he’s smaller. It was very cold water, and well you know what happens when it is cold…
One of the things that irks me about the change to Patreon is that it punishes folks for being generous. Those folks that are paying $1 are getting dinged for an extra 3 cents (it’s actually 2.9 but lets face it, they always round up) but if you want to really help a brother out and give him $50, then you pay an extra $1.45. That doesn’t really sound fair to me.
Not really. It’s $1.00 + 2.9% + $0.35 = $1.38
vs. $50 + 2.9% + $0.35 = $51.80
By percentage, the $1 patron gets screwed.
But. WAIT! There’s more ….
If that $1 patron is giving $1 to 50 different comics, s/he gets to pay $69.00 for the privilege.
And that is why several tens of thousands of Patrons just cancelled their accounts. It is devastating to the small donors while the big donors hardly notice. Big donors tend to support a much smaller, select group of artists, like a dozen or less instead of a hundred or two.
They really need an ‘aggregate donations” option. Pick a day of the month for your monthly donations, and a day of the week for your ‘per item’ donations or something like that.
If this isn’t added by the 17th (the ‘crunch date’ is the 18th), I’ll probably be dropping down to support just 2/3 creators.
Someone computed that on people paying less than $14 total, Patreon was actually losing money because of transaction costs … unless they had special agreement with Paypal.
We won’t get true microtransactions until we get rid of banks and card companies who thinks $10 is micro.
Oh yes, get rid of banks, lets return to stuffing our mattresses with money, oh right, lot of countries are moving away from physical currencies, most purchases are made via card, either credit or debit slash eftpos
You are taking the final part of hkmaly‘s comment (namely: “… who thinks $10 is micro.”), to include all banks. This may or may not have been the intent. However there is an alternative, already in use, which is providing an alternative to them.
Much of Africa has many citizens who are too poor to qualify for a bank account, yet still have a need to be able to buy things that need such to access them. Most notably on the internet. Whilst we may think that there are options for folks who do not want to use a bank/credit card to buy, ultimately these tend to be tied back to a bank account or otherwise require similar levels of security checks.
Which some poor farmer, 50 miles from the nearest town with a bank, and no way of getting there other than walking, would not be able to do. And those banks would not want him if his intended purchases were under that $10 figure.
So a Vodaphone has made a mobile phone app that specifically caters for micro-transactions. Which swept across the part of Africa it was introduced in, providing financial services to the previously excluded poor. Suffering in parts where regulators powers effectively keep the banks in a monopoly position. But thriving where there is less stringent regulation or a work-around can be found to help this vast impoverished proportion of the world.
also it isn’t like that has something to do with the cost of things. If I where to do these things, every patron gets one charge a month and every creator gets one donation a month. 2.9% for internal costs and transactions fees are more then enough for that.
The way that Patreon initially worked was that everyone was charged on the first of the month. This aggregated the transactions which resulted in lower transaction fees.
For example, if I pledge to 35 different Creators, the $0.35 transaction fee would be spread between all of the Creators that I sponsored, or $0.01 each (plus the 2.9%).
The problem is that there are a number of jerks that have been abusing Patreon. They would pledge to a Creator to gain access to exclusive content, download all of the content, and then cancel their pledge before they are charged.
This lead to Creators wanting the option of charging “upfront” when a patron first pledges to a Creator.
This lead to a a pair of problems:
1) Patrons that did their initial pledge late in the month (say on the 25th), were charged again on the 1st. Various patrons viewed this double-billing and many Creators starting giving out refunds over the perceived mistake.
2) As upfront charging resulted in more (and smaller) transactions that were not being aggregated, the transaction fees for the Creators that used upfront charging skyrocketed. This really hit the Creators that charged “per creation” particularly hard.
To “fix” problem #1, Patreon is switching to “anniversary” billing. Instead of aggregating a patron’s month donations and billing them once a month, each pledge will be charged on its anniversary date.
So if you pledge to Grrlpower on the 5th of the month and Star Power on the 10th, you’ll be charged the 5th over every month for Grrlpower and the 10th for Star Power. As this is two transactions instead of 1, the fixed part of the transaction fee is charged twice.
To “fix” problem #2, Patreon is shifting the cost of the transaction fee to the the patron.
BTW, the 2.9% plus $0.35 is a cost from Patreon’s credit card processor. Pateron doesn’t see a dime of that money. Instead Pateron takes a 5% cut.
Personally, I hate this change. Because of the abuse of others, I will now be paying an extra $10/month despite never missing a payment in 4 years.
I’ve just asked all my patrons to please cancel their pledges and donate through https://liberapay.com/ instead. Advantages:
*) Liberapay does not take a percentage of the pledge. They make their money off of donations to them.
*) You pay into a wallet and then distribute the money internally. You get dinged for the credit card fee when you fund the wallet, but nothing on top of the fee. The creator gets dinged when they pull the money out, but that’s it.
*) They’re open-source, if that’s a relevant fact to you.
They don’t have a publishing platform — they only do payments — so I’m continuing to publish through Patreon but simply making all posts public from the start.
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Their explanation really grips my shit.
Their chart redefines what a percentage is to make the deal look better.
If I give a dollar, the chart says 95 cents goes to the creator.
But since the supporter is being charged 1.38, the creator is only getting 72% of the supporter’s money.
And, if I am going to donate a dollar to someone, I’m going to part with a dollar. Not a dollar+fees.
I’d have to sit and do the maths to work out that to only part with a dollar, I’d have to enter a donation of 63 cents.
This makes the creator’s cut even worse at 63% of the total donated.
All that faff to work out how to pony up the total amount you want to donate is going to put people off handing over their cash.
This comment system needs an edit button.
The Chart
I let my only patron know about this so they could stop supporting me if they felt like that was the right choice for them. But yeah, I don’t remember the percentage “before” being that. I read the contract and looked at my balance.
Is that Jizza…er…Jazza in the background looking all freaked out there???
Jabberwocky?
Yep,that’s her..!
Trent’s Groucho glasses, best disguise ever.
Woah, I didn’t even notice Trent in that last panel until you said something!
So Arianna’s in the know about the Council?
The public relations specialist should know what not to talk about.
Probably helps if your lawyer knows what kind of shady shit you are up to.
To a certain extent – you don’t have to tell your lawyer what’s going on in all your properties, but you should tell him “don’t ask about the boathouse on the river next to the cement factory”.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1923
she was in the room when dabbler was revealed by true sight and in this link talking about it. safe bet she is in the know.
Well, ‘Knows About Dabbler’ and ‘Knows About The Multinational Conspiracy That Is The Council And Represented Beings’ is another.
Hmmm… I know Ghastly’s comic had a gay tentacle monster, as well as a somewhat prudish one. And an adorable baby one.
What would a female tentacle monster look like? Is there sexual dimorphism, or are they discreet about it?
I imagine a female tentacle monster to be a sort of central fleshy lump with a few tentacles for locomotion. Possibly superficially resembling a Japanese school girl.
Actually they may have a very extreme form of sexual dimorphism where the female is not distinguishable from a Japanese shool girl. It would explain so much.
*school. Now I look like a fool.
Nah, I just read it in Megamind’s voice, “Look, my old shool house!”
It would explain the question that always came to my mind while watching some tentacle-porn anime: What do the tentacles get out of it?
It’s already weird enough that every last Japanese schoolgirl raped in every orifice by a mass of demonic tentacles just loves it, but I always wondered exactly what the motivation for the tentacles was. If their females look like Japanese schoolgirls though, well then it all makes just a little more sense.
Do those schoolgirls really like it, or are they getting high from something those tentacles pump into them?
Bit of both? Some predators secrete (or inject) an aphrodisiac, along with a paralytic, so their victim ends up wanting to be eaten (or impregnated as the case may be)
Humon actually has a female tentacle person in one of their comic strips, in a relationship with a guy.
Man, I miss Uncle Ghastly. Now that you mention it, I do really wonder what female tentacle monsters look like, since they were mentioned in the comic but never shown. Since the males’ tentacles were described as their genitals, would the females even have tentacles? And if not, how would they get around? Man, I don’t usually spend nearly this much time thinking about tentacle monsters…
A couple years ago, after finding Ghastly’s tentacle comic, I came up with THE reason male tentacle monsters prefer other species’ females. The female tentacle monster is just like the male tentacle monster, except that once her eggs are fertilized (through lots of squishy tentacle sex), she has the option of keeping the eggs to herself, or shoving them inside the male and forcing him to carry the eggs. You can guess which option she usually chooses. Which is why the males tend to stay away from their own females, and sate their lust on less dangerous females.
Ghastly’s still around, on Tumblr these days instead of Keenspot. Not producing comics unless the mood strikes, but we could always ask what female tentacle monsters looked like in the Ghastly Comics.
(https://ghastly-h-crackers.tumblr.com/ by the way)
You should watch Galaxy Quest.
As usual Oglaf has a take on dimorphism. Do I really need to say it could be considered NSFW?
Because of your post, I read Oglaf comics for 3 whole hours!
Thanks. It’s been too long.
EEEEEEEE! An Alton Brown reference.
….
Yes. Yes, I am easy to please.
You sure it is Brown? Thought it was a Jaimie Oliver reference (that English scrunch is fucking everywhere)
From Good Eats: There is only one unitasker allowed in the kitchen! [ Holds up a fire extinguisher ] (The reason to ignore/chuck many very specialized gadgets)
I thought of Alton’s old show as well when I read that line. I have not heard enough from Mr. Oliver to know if he refers to Unitaskers as well.
Don’t forget Alton shared a pic on his Facebook page several years ago at the range with an AR 15 and noting it as a uni-tasker he can also approve of.
While that may be, that particular type of unitasker is definitely not allowed in the kitchen, so the original quote still stands.
LOL, nice Alton Brown reference. RIP Good Eats.
Rumors of its death may be greatly exaggerated. But that’s another show…
13 years was a pretty good run though, you’ve got to give him that. I didn’t care for it much due to the way he made it all campy, despite my liking for cooking shows in general.
It’s the only cooking show I ever liked*. The “Mr. Wizard” science explanations of gluten molecules and whatever were the best bits. I was never inspired to cook anything he was making.
*Well, that and the Great British Bakeoff, or whatever it was called. It was a charming competition without all of the engineered drama.
I enjoy food science and exploration documentaries but the only thing I’m into that could be labelled a cooking show is Shokugeki no Souma. It’s well worth watching if you enjoy both shonen anime and food, with strong hints of the science on the side, but it is also very heavy on the skin showing.
You should, I’ve never had an AB recipe come out badly. Indeed his guacamole is the first one I’ve ever liked. Pretty much the only one I’ve ever liked, come to think of it.
Guacamole shouldn’t require a recipe. If you’re adding anything other than lemon or lime juice and salt and pepper, you’re adding too much. People who throw tomatoes or onions or whatever into the mix are sick puppies and need mental correction.
I don’t cook his recipes “straight” much because of allergies. But the science explanations taught me how to alter the recipes successfully. Or more specifically… when I shouldn’t bother because the chemistry relied on the stuff I was allergic to.
Yeah, I like science and I like cooking shows. I just don’t like campy science explanations. It seemed to me as though Brown thought his audience either weren’t interested in the science, but he wanted to discuss it anyway, or couldn’t concentrate long enough on science to not get bored and flip channels without all the ‘camp.’
You want to see a ‘camp’ cooking show, look for old “Hudson and Halls” episodes online
I like that fact that Trent is easily impressed with cooking shows because he comes from a world of just withering hims.
Maybe it’s because they serve something other then calamari rings.
Makes you wonder if he even identifies with squids.
I mean, I have ribs, pigs have ribs, I eat pig ribs, but that doesn’t make me scared that someone is going to eat my ribs.
I’d figure it’s the same with different creates having tentacles.
If that doesn’t scare you, then you’ve not yet met Hannibal Lector…
Everybody knows that Eldritch writhing masses of tentacles are male (unless they identify themselves otherwise) and octopus-like writhing masses of tentacles are female (again, unless they identify themselves otherwise).
And also Trent probably deserves his profile by now in the who’s who section.
Trent? Trentacles? I’m not sure what they are talking about. BTW, DaveB, how about a name and description for that guy sitting on the couch and watching tube. I’m guessing he is either a really good shape-shifter, or a direct descendant of Groucho Marx.
I don’t really know what to write, since I’d like to comment on the “Alton Brown” reference and his cooking shows ( writhing food ), female tentacles ( selcatnet, as in inside-out ? ), the tenta-pet Sydney apparently brought home or Jabberwocky surprise dring spill dance, .. so *ll say this:
DaveB, you rock ! Its always worth coming back here to have oneself a good laugh. THANX !
Right next to the explanation about Mr Trentacles’ name for me was an ad for Trent University…
Ah, my sister-in-law’s alma mater, in Peterborough, Ontario, just east of me (ok, by about 150 km).
So just a hop and a skip in southern Ontario distance nomenclature eh?
I head there for the local Games Con though I have missed the last two sadly.
I know a person that commutes from Peterborough to Mississauga most days and he is hardly the only one. He is the president of one of my clients.
because men are just penises, after all.
Hardly. We’re penis delivery systems.
Life support systems for
It’d probably be a bad idea to show Trent the Good Eats episode on calamari, “Squid Pro Quo”…
OK, I admit it: I’m not sure what “No unitaskers!” is supposed to mean.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/23/460833325/the-unitasker-kitchen-gadgets-alton-brown-loves-to-loathe
Ohhhh I thought that it maybe was a double entrendre of some kind. Thankee sai.
Trenticle is watching (aka DaveB is referencing) the show Good Eats, hosted by Alton Brown. He would often rail against kitchen utensils which were made for a single purpose. Aka a “unitasker.”
And I have to agree with him to some degree. Some low use tools are fairly good because of the work that they eliminate. But I always enjoy tearing apart some kitchen gadget being sold which obviously does not eliminate work. For example a lot of vegetable choppers are shown being used to “effortlessly” chop vegetables which have very obviously already been subjected to the use of a knife to cut them into small enough pieces to fit under the blade of the tool. But at that point it would only take another minute to just finish the job with the knife that you already had to get out and know how to use and dirty and will have to clean up. So there is just about zero advantage in swapping to some new tool that you’ll also have to clean afterwards.
I agree though I still have an original moulli for creaming the occasional soup – cauliflower.
Also a mini-food processor to finely mince/chop things – It’s great for turning leftover bits of roast bird into pate. My fave is smoked turkey with gherkin and then mixed in a bowl with just enough mayo and mustard to hold everything together. Dang, now I’m hungry.
The only unitasker tool I see as worth it is the waffle iron.
Never made eggs and bacon on one, then?
Waffle irons are great for making cheese sammich !
I use an immersion blender for creaming a soup. As a power tool it eliminates a lot more work than something with a hand crank. And cleaning it is a breeze, just a rinse under the faucet and then a pass with a soapy sponge.
In all fairness, a LOT of those kitchen gadgets are designed for little old arthritic ladies who may have trouble wrangling an entire cantelope. My grandmother’s hands are withered, knotted chunks of bone, and food preparation is difficult for her.
Those gadgets? They are not for you.
That poor couch. It’s seen so much.
“but also there’s like 400 square feet of floor space occupied by tentacles, just out of panel”
So, a carpet of writhing tentacles? No wonder Jabberwocky was startled.
Does anyone have an idea why Maxima has a sweat bead in panel five? She doesn’t have reason to be embarrassed or worried, which is what I usually associate with that visual cue.
maybe because of the answer, and the fact that she was about to fire-beam a hole into what seems to be an innocent (if really bad situated) bystander?
I assume the rather “under the radar” innuendos Trentacle is dropping. Or maybe I am just dirty minded and seeing innuendos everywhere….
“Fell through that gash” and “assess” being close to “ass”….
But from previous knowledge of Max….she might be as well and trying to ignore it.
Dear gods, it’s Mister Blueberry!
I dunno, those mouths look pretty … vaginal.
Are you not seeing the teeth?
“Vagina dentata” is a preexisting concept.
and in some parts of the world, an existing technology.
Most tentacle monsters in hentai are male, for obvious reasons.
Female tentacle monsters exist, of course, but they tend to a very narrow niche of porn.
I think it was sexy losers that had a gag about a polite and slightly shy tentacle monster encountering a not so very shy and very insistent schoolgirl who demanded certain ‘actions’.
Also, someone at ArcSquad has read the evil overlord list (probably Sydney, might have been doing it together with Dabbler) where one advice is to act with kindness to summoned creatures to avoid attacks after the summoning magic has been broken.
Trent seems to respond quite well to that.
That would be in ghastly’s comic as well.
or another of my other fave webcomic: Heroine is about to be attacked by a hUUjjj subterranean monster, and she gets right in its face and shouts “I am NOT your creator, you were NOT created to obey me and I will NOT destroy you if you just do what you want!” (or something similar) The monster pauses, a bit confused, and then shrugs and wanders off. Heroine’s companion (who is a friendly monster) says “at last one of you heroes figures it out!
the tentacle monster having a gender at all is rare, but there are a lot of tentacle monsters that have an “envelope function”. so instead of being swarmed by lots of single tentacle you are basically eaten whole and attacked with more nub like tongue/taste bud/transforming wall like tentacles.
i would give links to a few i have in mind but ive decided to let you find your own way to madness.
Nice “Good Eats” reference there :)
On Patreon: Another site is leaning on Paypal, and a site called Ko-Fi, where you buy the author “cups of coffee”.
Wasn’t there a web comic with the main character being a female tentacle monster married to a guy?
Or just a comic?
So, yeah, I’d say there’s female tentacle monsters and Sydney just isn’t as up on things as she’d like to be :p
Humons Love and Tentacles. By creator of satwcomic.com
Speaking of Coot and Wyrmil – I wonder, if they are the only ones sharing that body now. Cooter was litterally splattered all over the room but before that his clothes had been completely drenched with the blood from that gate, which was from sevral different species as we know. Then Sciona’s and Deus’ teams both kept walking through all that blood as well, contaminating it even further.
So Cooter’s new body could theoretically have absorbed cells from 20+ species during regeneration, not even counting in dna particles from the remaining members of the two ‘villain’ teams.
Processing fees SUCK. I’m not surprised Patron is doing this very transparent and surprisingly polite reminder that 1$ donations do more for the Credit Card Company’s bottom line then the person you are actually trying to help.
Now there ARE some other ways to handle very small transactions. Baen Publishing allows people to buy store credit in a lump sum to slowly spend on short stories. Twitch TV has “bits” you can donate to streamers a penny at a time if you want. Paetron might want to look into something similar.
The problem is (apparently) that Patreon are consolidating the number of times they charge your credit card per month, but not consolidating the “per transaction” charges. To a number of people, this smells like an attempt to drive them away. (I’m not one of them; I’m just reporting what I’ve heard/read.)
Actually, the exact opposite is happening.
They are moving away from aggregate billing to per transaction billing which is going to make their credit card processor very happy.
Why is she jumping on Sydney? She didn’t bring him home, Dabbler did!
And neither of them could have done that without Maxima’s say-so. My suspicion is that both Max and Xuriel are busy conferring with the Council, so Syd’s the only one available to be annoyed at, and she’s gotta be annoyed at *somebody* right now.
You know, for a writhing mass of eldritch tentacles, he is very polite. Do I smell a spin off? Also is that Jiggawatt in the background of the last panel?
Jabbs, not Jiggs :P
HA! called it!
Hatreon is an option – hysterical idiots aside, it is not an alt-right site. They have alt-right people there, they have socialists there. The name is a jab at Patreon banning “hate speech”, which they have defined as anything political too much in opposition to the establishment regardless of whether it is left or right, though they are being careful to ban lefties a few at a time).
MakerSupport (www.makersupport.com) looks promising as well. Minds (www.minds.com) is mostly like a Facebook alternative, but they are branching out and doing monetization – and where Facebook is starting to die off, Minds is growing very rapidly. I think it would be worth the effort of getting it now.
Ha! I knew this guest comic was creeping into Canon!
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/544
Oh, that’s Ariana… I thought it was blonde Harem just out of the shower. The lack of innuendo from her makes more sense now.
I thought aliens and magical monsters were a secret from the rest of the team? But, sshe just brings one home?
Who is saying ‘No Unitaskers’? I don’t get that line.
He’s probably watching Good Eats, hosted by Alton Brown. One of his oft repeated lines when explaining the pros and cons of kitchenware is that “there’s only room for one unitasker in my kitchen,” that device being a fire extinguisher. Alton Brown is basically the nerd/geek of Food Network.