Grrl Power #609 – Little black encyclopedia set
Deus is rich in money and… other stuff. You know, friends. Sort of.
I could have come up with something other than a Draugr, but they’ve been on my mind lately. I like the name Rannevig. I may reuse that someday, but I don’t think Deus is going to run into that particular one anytime soon.
I never said what Sciona was before this point because I was just blanking on a name for her race. Sometimes I get really hung up on stuff like that, but there are a bunch of name/word/language generators online, and if you refresh them enough times, they get your fake word engine started. I did a quick google on “Alari” to make sure I wasn’t cryptomnesiaing something and typed it in. And of course, as it goes with these sorts of things, it wasn’t even 4 days before I saw Alari as the last name of a minor character in a book I was reading. I probably wouldn’t have noticed it otherwise. Weird how that works out sometimes. It was Baader-Meinhof adjacent at the very least. Yes, I’m going to make you google that. The most pronounced instance of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon I’ve ever experienced was upon learning the word “voluptuous” while reading a Piers Anthony novel. That dude sure knows how he likes describing women, that’s for sure.
I forgot to color in Deus’s nipple on the last panel there. He looks like Apollo from Star Trek: TOS. Apparently, they actually covered his nipple with makeup, because at the time, male nipples were too much for the viewing public. Maybe they thought it would get the lady folk aflutter. That’s pretty bonkers when you think about it, but this show also had the first televised interracial kiss in it. Before that, Dick van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore were shown sleeping in separate beds because showing something on TV that was representational of every married couple in the country was too scandalous. Maybe 50 years from now we’ll look back and think how archaic it was that we didn’t have televised explicit eroticism during prime time. The 5th reboot of Power Puff Girls will be freaky.
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Well, now we have his motivations.
And a name for Sciona, cool.
And what she is. An ‘Alari’ – whatever that is. I wonder if that’s a type of alien that DaveB imagined up, or a type of mythical creature that he imagined up :)
The only time I ever seen ‘Alari’ is from Guild Wars, but that’s a name, not a species.
Perhaps Rob was referring to that we got her full name listed in the book entry?
“Sciona Arjin”
Yes I know that’s what RobK was referring to. I was just adding to that that we not only know her full name, we also know her species.
And that she’s the ‘Dutchess of Gault’ – so I’m assuming a mythological creature, rather than an alien, although there can always be space-dutchesses, and Gaulst could be her planet, rather than some sort of mythological nation or something.
If she’s a “dutchess”, then apparently she’s a woman from Holland, not minor royalty.
[Yes, I know you are quoting the book.]
Funny :) Yes.
Deus didn’t have spellcheck for the word ‘duchess’ :)
It could actually be the proper title.
With a ‘T’ though? o_O
I’m going with Occam’s Razor on this one – simplest answer is probably the correct one. Select the answer that requires the fewest assumptions.
Most likely, it was misspelled.
You need to zoom in, it isn’t “Duchess” at all. it is something like “Sutemess”
It isn’t Duchess at all. It is something like “Sutemess”. I can make out SU**MESS
Bit of Both.
I loved that Apollo episode. Remember when the hippies took over the ship and took it to the DNA backwards world?
Patrick Starfish – Take ALL the hippies and send them TO Apollo!
Would have worked.
When I see any reference to that SBSP character all I can NO THIS IS PATRICK.
The Apollo episode was not the same episode as the space hippies…
Apollo: Who Mourns for Adonis? S2E02
Hippies: The Way to Eden S3E20
Patrick was the captain in the next series (if you don’t count the Animated Series in 1973-1975), which started in 1987.
Picard was the captain, played by Patrick Stewart
Who Mourns for Adonis & The Way to Eden were both from the original series, with William Shatner as Capt. Kirk.
Yes, butt David Nuttall mentioned Patrick being the captain of TNG (oh, and the first movie was originally going to be a new series, butt with the success of Star Wars they decided to put it on the Silver Screen instead)
Yes, that’s my point.
A Draugr………..hmm I guess that gives a whole new meaning to the term “Deep Dark Crypt Delving”.
Wonder if he was wearing his Dragonborn get up while at it?
Pssst. Guesticus….
Why ever would she want Deus as a pet love slave for her bedchamber? After all, from what you said last strip, she didnt like sex with him!
Just kidding and making light fun of how vindicated I feel, btw.
Wondering if anyone is going to say how awful it is that Sciona is planning on making Deus a sex slave with the same fervor they had about Deus offering to have sex with Sciona voluntarily :)
People had put it in their had that Deus is not a bad guy, and thus was incapable of doing such acts of pure selfish-sexist nature.
True. I’m just poking a little fun because last strip, Guesticus and I were having a rather lengthy back and forth about how Sciona did not enjoy the sex or imply that she wanted more sex from Deus.
Next strip…. she basically says she wants him as a permanent love slave because of how good at it he is. :)
… at least the weird attempts to sexually manipulate eachother are mutual? *eyetwitch*
She never said he would be her love pet, just that she would have him as her pet in her bedchamber, not her bed, reaching much? o_O
What? You don’t have a doggie bed (or cat bed or cage) in your bedroom?
Given the context of the situation, It seems like a reasonable assumption to make.
Please say you’re joking that you don’t think ‘a pet for my bedchambers’ means love slave/pet in the very obvious context of the storyline and current strip.
Oh wait, I just realized you might mean that you are asking me if YOU are reaching much on that. :)
Because if that’s what you meant, yeah, I’d say you’re reaching a teensy bit.
Think about it: someone who thinks so highly of themselves, is so full of their own self-belief and self-worth, being reduced to a pet would be the ultimate low, lower than a slave
Remember what happened to Crowley in “Supernatural” after Luci got out of his cage?
Crowley wasn’t made a slave or tortured or anything fun! No, the self-appointed King of Hell was made Luci’s pet, complete with cage and collar and forced to lick the floor
The only one who mentions ‘love slave’ and ‘sex slave’ or even ‘slave’ at all… is you
The implications of slavery is pretty strong, even if you try to reinterpret the exact wording used in the comic. Ask the question: “Is it slavery to keep another person physically bound for the purpose of performing labor?” Keeping Deus captive in her bedchamber as a “pet” IS slavery.
“…being reduced to a pet would be the ultimate low, lower than a slave”
However, not all forms of slavery are equal…Usually, the regard a slave-owner has for a “common labor” slave is quite a bit less than how much regard is held for a “sexual laborer,” simply because the sex slave at least has a greater interest in keeping the sex slave better fed & sheltered. Maybe, just maybe, that might also included a sense of more “affection” too.
No, the point of dispute is whether he would be just a house pet or a sex slave pet
And again, gave an example of how more humiliating it would be for someone as smug as SmugD is to be at the pet-level of slavery
You really seem to like doubling down when you’re wrong. Read Deus’s response.
And you haven’t figured that out about Guesticus by now?
She has a Trumpian level ability to deny, deflect, and double-down rather than simply admit that she was wrong.
SmugD’s response doesn’t mention anything about sex or even sharing the same bed
Oh, and Faerie King, Pander does that same thing regards to King Emperor Douche (and you know nothing about me, as will always admit when proven wrong or have been corrected)
More bullshit. You’ve been corrected many times within this thread about what the context of “I’ll keep you as a pet in my bedchambers” refers to. In every case you simply ignored, deflected, or doubled down on your error. You either don’t know Language or you don’t understand. You certainly cannot learn, not even when spoon fed. Not understanding is fine, but one who doesn’t understand doesn’t usually (*ahem* covfefe *ahem*) defend their ignorance tooth and nail as you do. Wait a minute….. Don, Jr? Is that you?
Like said, proven, the assumption that it meant sex slave has not been proven
“Or been corrected.” You can’t even follow through on your own assertions on your own behavior, that’s pretty sad.
Proof for you must mean a very different thing than it does for anyone else. And your interpretation of the English language and idiom is also quite unique, and quite distorted. In this thread you have at least five people telling you that “I’ll keep you as a pet in my bedchambers” refers to keeping Deus as a sex toy/bed slave. And you just refuse to believe it. Why? Your believe is not required, you have still been corrected. Multiple times. More times than you are worth.
This whole bit about Sci-fright making him a sex slave is opinion only based on what Pander wants it to be, not on fact
If Sci-fright meant she was going to keep him as a sex slave, why the hael didn’t she just say that? When she literally said ‘pet in my bedchamber’
Because Deus and Sciona have just been … ahh … out in the garden, watering the cabbage patch and putting a sign up to let the stork know it is not needed. And they have been talking about how good that was for them. And now Deus is showing Sciona his etchings.
So I hope that has cleared it all up for you.
*blushes and dashes off*
The idiom of the phrase “I’ll keep you as a pet in my bedchambers” is not a matter of opinion. It is a part of the culture.
It’s like you’re here claiming that “raining cats and dogs” only refers to a light sprinkling of rain. Or a snowstorm. Or a hot summer day. You would be wrong to do that, just as you’re wrong to insist that “I’ll keep you as a pet in my bedchambers” isn’t about keeping Deus as a sex slave.
Wow, you arent joking. You don’t see the obvious context of what she was saying.
Guesticus, it’s about sex.
Or, it’s about domination and humiliation
Or —-> And
Fucking christ you’re reaching harder than a hungry child reaching for the cookie jar.
+1
And I’m giving you a cookie because I started laughing from your post :)
I wouldn’t call someone being a “pet” worse than a slave.
in my own (Hell Series) *multiple short stories and series, one continuity so excuse the lazy name*, being a “Pet” to a powerful demon was preferable to wandering around the wastelands and nightmare scape of Hell.
-also have aliens do this with humans but, can go either way *from being treated like the family dog by one species too….feeder mice to another*.
I dunno, right now it seems like the nostalgia is for how much less prudish we were 10-15 years ago.
Oh we were prudish – in public media, Hollywood, TV networks et al though the general public didn’t give a rats behind about such silliness like showing a mans nipple or a woman’s belly button or married couples in the same bed.
It is just that that prudes have now discovered the internet and are posting their screeching vitriol since social media [sic] has become so simple that even Winnie-the-Poo types can post.
Now I’m beginning to wonder if maybe Deus either is from the future, or has access to information from the future, or has been contacted by himself from the future, or some other sort of thing like that. I’m getting a real ‘David Xanatos from Disney’s Gargoyle’s’ feel from him right now with how he has all this information.
I’m probably wrong about that, but it’s a neat concept to toy with in my mind :) If that turns out to be correct, though, then I’m going to Vegas the next day and making my fortune in Roulette.
I just had another much more obvious thought of how he knows so much about all these different beings. He might just have a spy within the Council.
If he doesn’t have a Council spy on the payroll, I’ll be damn surprised.
I would be surprised if he has less than a dozen.
Multiple independent information sources is what makes a good reporter and a better intelligence officer. Having your sources not know about each other helps filter out the noise and biases. Just run a Fourier analysis on your data and you can easily highlight commonalities as well as minute disparities.
That would DEFINITELY explain how he knows so much about Sciona without superpowers or time travel theories (like the one I was having, Xanatos-style).
It could be part of Deus’ superpower set:
– Appropriate size for the current focus
– Erogenous telepathy (knows what feels good, especially right now.)
– Automatically conjures a terse biographical summary of each sex partner, with increased information with each session if the first page is signed. Only he can see the additional pages. The information on each page is standardized, and he doesn’t have to know any of it for it to appear.
Suddenly, this isn’t a quest for traditional power. He just wants to get to know people. :)
In other news, it’s possible to be an alien, and still be a local ruler of some kind. (That is, Gault doesn’t have to be on some other planet or in some other universe even if she’s alien.)
Yes, he just wants to know people. Is a suitably fleeting, passionate way.
Recall his term for the “relationship” between Daphne and himself? “Non-exclusive chilling.” Just about as superficial as you can get. And almost the polar opposite of getting to know someone.
Consider that the word “Deus” is a variant of Latin for “diety”. Consider that it is claimed that God knows everything. Meanwhile it is certainly claimed (and I quote), “He just has an annoying knack for knowing stuff he shouldn’t”. So maybe that is his superpower.
Or, like Batman said to Aquaman when asked what his superpower was, the answer is simply:
“I’m rich.” :)
Actually, he said that to Flush, not AquaDork
Right, right…. not sure why I said Aquaman.
Mixed it up with another quote :D
I don’t remember that one.
IIRC Green Lantern made a statement that was something like…
GL: You’re not just some guy in a bat costume are you?
BM: [grin]
The Flush asked Batfleck what his superpower was after getting in his car, and Batfleck replied “I’m rich!”
It was actually Flash. It was in the live action Justice League movie. You’re referring to the animated Justice League movie: Justice League: War, I think.
I think his name is more a play on the term “Deus ex Machina”
His name is “Deus”, he has an “X” on his face, and is the owner of “Machina” Industries.
It took me some time to fully realize that, but I think his name is more about his propensity for being in the right place at the right time.
Aaaand now we’re looking over an actual book of how awesome dues is. *SIGH*
okay, at this point I figure we have one more page with him talking to his bodyguard, some mention as to how the last page in the book is for Max, then an activation of his lightning evil laugh machine. THEN we can move on to the heroes and not see him again for another half year or so.
I’ll be glad when we move on, my whining is getting old even to me.
Just curious. Did you misread his name (which would be understandable), do you get his name wrong deliberately as some kind of protest, are you the victim of autocorrect, or is there some other explanation for calling him “Dues” rather than his actual name of “Deus”?
Autocorrect is a harsh mistress.
To be fair, it’ll seem like a lot less when someone’s reading through it in a book or even just rereading it once we’re past this point. It just feels slower since we wait for the pages to come out. Pacing wise I think it makes a lot of sense.
Though… I don’t mind seeing more of Deus, personally. :)
:-D
After this and the last few pages, it is hard to see much less of him.
Deus is starting to look more than a little like an author insert.
Cereally? You are claiming ‘Marty Stu’? o_O
Now now. No need to use such foul language! Oberon made a specific claim, so no need to draw in a useless term to confuse the issue.
Mind you, given the number of different characters that Dave has been accused of creating as an author insert, he must rival one of the Indian gods, having a hundred heads and oodles of arms. Because he sure needs to be varied to be like all of them!
Whenever hear (or read) the name “Rannveig”, always think of Rannveig’s Lullaby (when the heck did they change it to “Rannveig Sif Sigurdardottir”? o_O), a very haunting, butt tragic, Icelandic song
“Butt tragic” is a level of tragedy I did not know existed until just now.
and now, thanks to the miracle of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, you will encounter butt tragedy everywhere.
Think of felons in prison & if you were tossed in with them. You’d know what “butt tragedy” really is…
0.o
Never turn your back on a ninja, the specialize in “butt tragedy’
…Our swords are 36″ & very, very sharp…
A pain in the butt that can take your eye out.
The only thing that is “butt tragic” here is that Guesticus insists on continuing to typo the word “but,” even after being reminded of the correct spelling. Only someone with less than the intellect of an eight year old stubbornly persists in using a typo that an eight year old could easily be corrected away from using.
If it’s deliberate it is only one more example of her Trumpian level stubbornness and willingness to double down on a bad idea. And if it is not deliberate it speaks volumes about her intellect level. Not that almost every post of hers doesn’t already do that, of course.
Hey, you can make fun of typos you’re way & we’ll make fun of typos our way.
;)
As I pointed out, with Guesticus it isn’t a typo. It is stupidity.
This is why I suggest the next iteration of the comments section include up/down votes that hide posts that annoy the general readership yet leaves it available to read by those with a penchant for poking into dung-heaps =P
Such a system has the added bonus of allowing ignore cookies to block such showers outoftheblue.
I wasn’t giving the ‘Deus is an incubus’ theories from the previous pages much credit before, but this page has won me over to that camp. Just look at all those books! Either he is only partly through the fifth book and planning ahead or he has a lot of mileage. If those books are all filled with information about his sexual adventures (and going by 1-2 pages for each unique individual) it would take more than one human life time to complete those works.
Yeah, I was wondering if anyone else noticed that collection of books behind Deus, all appearing to be just like the one Sciona is holding. It appears that Deus has been a very busy fellow!
That bed of his started as a 4-poster, then he started with the notches…
There is also the possibility that that bookcase is full of information about various possible sexual conquests, not all of which have yet been encountered. Sciona says something about “when did he have time to write her info down” –when it could have been in that collection for a long time, and all Deus had to do was pull the volume from the shelf that contained her info.
I suppose that the idea of “notches on the bedpost” would be selling Dues a bit short…Apparently, his history isn’t the only thing that’s long.
… I’m now surprised that he and Dabbler haven’t hooked up.
Maybe a succubus is too easy for him?
Seems like he likes a worthy challenge.
And how do you know that, maybe they already did.
If not already then dabbler is certainly on the radar.
Unless he wants to avoid the /extra/ exhaustion. i mean, how long was the barberian down because of that? Deus has a company to run!
It could be he already has the page for succubus signed already. ((not nessisarilly by Dabbler)).
Perhaps there is also a standard for the social/political position of the specias representitive he has sex with. Can’t just have sex with just any female of a given species.
Or, maybe, Dabbles simply has taste and standards, just because she has to consume tantric energy to survive, doesn’t mean she will consume it from just anybody
and barberian was better than deus?
this guy at least, by all available accounts, has way more experience.
Maybe ‘smug’ tastes like rotten-swampskunk
Experience is not everything
And compared to SmugD, Barberian is better
Taste and standards? This from a succubus who at the very least went through the “bang the hentai tentacle monster” class?
And really, standards? Aside from the scar, which could be considered a positive, name one physical thing (because I’m going to assume that the ‘taste’ part of your post refers to non-physical qualities) about Deus which would cause the average woman to say “Nah, he’s not up to my standards.”
The same reason why someone would turn down an Angus beef-burger (or what ever that over-priced slab of meat that starts with ‘W’)
Money is a physical thing, so you get points for trying. But fucking Deus doesn’t come with a price tag. For the two cases we are aware of, Daphne wasn’t charged for sex, and Sciona actually saved an eight figure amount by having sex with Deus.
So as per usual, all you have managed to do is muddy the water with an irrelevant statement. Congratulations?
What the Hael does price have to do with anything? o_O
Someone asked why Dabbles hasn’t hooked up with him yet, and gave a reason backed up with a plausible why
Remember how Kevin said that violence has differing ‘tastes’, so too does ‘tantric sex’, and literally gave two examples of actual flavours that some people may not be interest in despite them both being fairly ‘fancy’
Why don’t you tell us all? You are the one who brought up Wagyu beef, after all. Which comes with a hefty price tag as it’s sole drawback from enjoying it instead of the Angus you also brought up. Re-read the above posts as many times as you need to until comprehension dawns upon you. I’m patient, I know it’ll take you a few days to have any possible chance of understanding the conversation.
Hint: Focus on “Taste and standards.” But not the the exclusion of the other words which will help you to understand context, a thing which almost always escapes you.
It was an example of something of perceived high value that some are not interested in
Interesting how you attack me, butt not the other post on page three that basically says the same thing, if didn’t know better, would believe you loved me (sickening as that thought is)
You are aware of who first brought up ‘tastes and standards’, are you not?
Or are you telling me you know more of what they meant? o_O
How can you even defend yourself by claiming that it was an example of a “high value” item when you immediately prior demanded to know what cost had to do with the discussion?
You can’t even keep your own positions straight, much less follow any discussion without wandering off into irrelevancy.
I think the word you’re looking for is kobe ‘wagyu’ beef.
It -is- delicious by the way :).
Somehow I think your opinions on whether or not a succubus like Dabbler would have sex with an extraordinary lover like Deus (he has a whole book to attest to his expertise), are very colored by your doubling down on hating Deus, rather than from anything we actually know about the characters.
I think the chances are extremely good that Dabbler would want to have sex with Deus if the opportunity arose.
You really do need to occasionally look at the possible options that require making the FEWEST assumptions – especially assumptions that have no basis on the existing evidence. Like I said in an earlier post – often Occam’s Razor is the best course for figuring out what’s happening.
Thank you, started to type it, butt wasn’t sure of the spelling so left it out
Not doubting that either types of beef aren’t delicious, was just stating how some people still wouldn’t touch it, it’s the same with appearance: someone may be very beautiful, butt that doesn’t mean they will be attractive to everyone
Speaking of: how about just going by what was actually said, rather than on what you want it to mean
“Speaking of: how about just going by what was actually said, rather than on what you want it to mean”
Um… I do. I also use the obvious context and history back and forth of what they’re saying. You’ve been constantly trying to twist things instead to fit your idea, even when it’s become obvious that you were wrong. Which is why I said you were doubling down.
PS – been meaning to ask you this but I didnt want to look like I was being petty and picking on your spelling, but why do you keep spelling ‘but’ as ‘butt’ – is it intentional as some sort of pun?
Sci-fright originally asked why she would sully her restored body to sleep someone like SmugD, she only considered it after Valeur threatened her over her comment
Haven’t been ‘twisting’ anything, have been going by what was actually and literally said, you brought up Occam’s Razor, now wouldn’t that mean that what Sci-fright meant was exactly what she said?
Yes, ‘butt’ is intentional, butt not as any sort of pun
No. She considered it after Deus’s first reason to have sex with him, not because of Vale. You keep trying to twist things to meet your views when everything is clearly leading to a different result. Also Occams Razor uses context to show the obvious meaning. Your opinions ignore it where Deus is concerned.
I like how he is completely unapoligetic about it.
Looking forward to seeing Dave or one of the readers to come up with a name for that sexual compulsion.
Deus’s super power (in addition to what has been stated over the last two installments):
Immunity to all STDs, including those of alien and supernatural origin.
So….did she sign or not?
That can’t be important, can it???
> So….did she sign or not?
MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION ABOUT THIS PAGE EVER. CAN’T STRESS THAT ENOUGH!!
Dues’ power: Aggressive Seduction.
Heck, even Dabbler used a minor form of that on Jaberwocky, in the middle of combat, no less. Although Dabbs had to use a “charm power” to make it kick in, Dues has more of “seduction-based” form of “charm.”
Another super could use a sonic-based form of “seductive-charm” when they sing. This might mean, in the Grrl Power world, there’s some famous Pop Star in the music industry…Same general effect, but it manifests in a different form.
So, lots of interesting stats on that… Sciona is 1207 years old, 175cm, was 34DD, now 38DD. Does Deus have some sort of analysis/scan/appraise power to be able to get such accurate measurements?
The superpower to have everything he needs to please women. Then he decided he could turn that into ways to make money and now he’s Lex Luthor Xanatos. Deus, An Origin Story.
With his ‘mad science lab’ getting his hands on something like that made is probably not even an entire piece of cake.
she was 34C. She did grow her boobs quite a lot. most common super power and the like.
No, she chose to expand her breasticles: she’s not a Super, she’s a supernatural
I know. She made them grow. The way the did it with magic it is real breasts all the way and not expanded by silicone.
Wait, doesn’t going from 34 to 38 mean she increased the size of her actual ribcage, not just her cup size?
Yes, this! I think that was the most annoying thing to happen to me when the Boob faerie took a crack at me while pregnant with my son. Nothing fit at all for AGES. I have no idea why someone with a nice
Rack already wants bigger ones. That’s me personally. I’d rather have my comfortable ones back.
Stupid thing auto-posted while I typed.
That measurement is generally an external circumference, so she didn’t necessarily JUST change her RIBCAGE, but she could have bulked up on support-structure throughout her torso so the larger breasts wouldn’t be proportionally heavier.
Now I can’t unsee that. Darn it. It means she went up two sizes and changed band size by 2 as well, since band size goes by even numbers. A 38DD if I’m honest, isn’t that big. A 34G is almost my size, which is what she’d be (I think. I looked at some charts) if she didn’t go up in band size but the cup stayed the same volume. That’s a much bigger breast in appearance. I definitely would’ve guessed her band size to be closer to 30 inches based on tiny her rib cage looks.
Bras are strange, complicated monstrosities.
Yeah, sticking with the ‘DD’ was an error. And I’m not talking about in-comic. It was an author error. Sciona was probably larger than DD even before the magicked them up during her body recovery spell.
Well… it was ‘x2’ her original size (at least). So… I doubt she was larger than DD -before- she magicked them up in size. We actually do have a panel in the comic where we see that she wasn’t THAT huge.
I know that bra sizes can vary from brand to brand, but I don’t think they vary by such a huge degree. So I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
All of this talk on Sciona’s self-inflicted boob job is covering something that we all saw so long ago…Yet, where’s any talk about her butt in the last panel?
I mean, DaveB has already told us about his research in Boob Physics for the sake of the art in this comic, but he’s apparently also branched out in Bun Physics too. I mean really, that’s a very nice butt, so firm & fit. She obviously doesn’t skip her “gluteus maximus day” in the gym.
O.O
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Where we talk about the important things on people’s minds.
Well considering Tony DiNozzo from NCIS could accurately determine the height and weight of a woman from HER LEG that was found to within a couple inches and pounds it seems to be an acquired skill sometimes ascribed to dedicated skirt chasers.
He was bless by the powers of beefcake and realized this early on to make his fortune to grant praise to the goddess who made him by making out with one of every race… Which would also need money to do so thus circling back to the making money part.
Which this page also acknowledges the depths to which Dues’ greed extends; He’s all like, “Hey, if I’m going to wind up as a sex slave, I might as well get the best deal out of it as I can get.”
:D
Dangerously Erotic Uber Scumbag
Seems increasingly likely to me that Deus may be a super himself, just on a very subtle level… some sort of low-level Psion that allows him to influence people’s behaviours to his benefit (more than his otherwise manipulative and narcissistic personality would make possible – a bit like Tao from the Moore-era WildC.A.T.S title back in the mid 90;s) …which of course would explain how we came to acquire his enormous wealth
Obviously, Deus had to become super-rich to get chicks; man hasn’t got a lick of musical sense to play in a band, and band managers just don’t get that much action.
The guy must really like angry sex.
oy…
I get it! Deus’ superpower is EXACTLY what one character said when he first met Sciona: “He just knows things he shouldn’t. “
Cthillia: “He just has an annoying knack for knowing things he shouldn’t. “. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2640
*groooan*
Piers Anthony’s tastes are not limited to “voluptuous.” I wish they were, it’d make reading his books less horribly embarrassing.
Agreed…
Once I wasn’t sure whether I rather liked (or still liked) a character or not. That was especially a book about space pirates. Have been a but reluctant to read other books by Piers Anthony since I read that one.
“a but” -> “a bit”
Yeah, that’s… that’s not his worst.
You mean, “Bio of a Space Tyrant”?
I liked the Incarnations of Immortality Series. And I liked the Xanth books, mostly for the puns, but they are getting a bit repetitive now.
Well he did admit that he was getting tired of them sometime around pedestal but his publisher and fans wanted more and threw money at him and an author has to eat and support a family so there you have it.
I found the incrimination series passable and dropped off Xanth around Zombie
As to his early works like tyrant and others in the scifi genre they were mediocre to bad but not quite horrible like some other acclaimed scifi[with very little sci] authors.
I consider Castle Roogna to be within the weaker period in the series, the newer ones get better again, then they start to get formulaic in the most recent ones..
Very true. I read too many of them before having the epiphany “wait, he genuinely hates women, doesn’t he?”
Hates women, butt loves teen girls
And preteen. D8
“Firefly” has a sequence in which a five year old girl “seduces” and has “consensual” sex with a thirty year old man, and when the whole story comes out in court, everyone including the judge is terribly sad that the law gives them no choice but to put the guy in jail.
Seriously, fuck Piers Anthony and the puns he rode in on.
Freak Theory: Deus is making himself into a lure for Dabbler.
You’d think it would’ve worked by now.
Note how he never answers her *important* questions.
Also, Deus’s behavior is instantly recognizable to anybody who’s ever finished a game and is now running around the open world cleaning up the radiant quests and getting the most out of the special mods.
I’m not evil! I’m just better than everyone else and always right, and the world would be better off with me in charge of everything.
Well, there is a different between being an egoist, and being a villain.
He acts however he wants, because he knows noone can afford offending him. And he loves it, evidently.
+1
No evidence for sex based mind control… interesting that he had the picture drawn ahead of time. Looks more and more like information based power(s). Some type of precognition?
I had a couple of ideas on that that I wrote above.
1) He’s been contacted by himself from the future and was given all this information (sort of like David Xanatos from Disney’s Gargoyles) or some other future time travel-esque concept
2) The glaringly obvious possibility that I’m embarrassed that I did not think of first – he has a spy or spies within the Council who give him the information. For money. Because that’s his superpower. Money. Lots and lots of money.
My best bet would be a rather extensive information network all over the place, possibly including around and/or in the council. Extensive information networks can get expensive, but at this point I think he can afford a network to rival most 1st world contries or fantasy super intelligence agency. Who knows, he may have a whole company/agency just for information gathering.
It’s not an unreasonable bet to make :)
#3 What was Vail doing while Deus and Sciona were “occupied”?
Watching, we saw her sitting on the dresser table
Most likely watching to make sure Sciona didnt try to murder Deus.
so i think i have figured out Deus’ plan for world domination. he’s going to sufficiently impress every female capable of achieving it on their own so that they take him as a concubine, then once one of them succeeds he is going to pull a klingon promotion and seize their empire for himself.
Brilliant plan!!!
The only problem with that, is that he already has on unofficial empire… actually, scratch that. he owns a country.
because of ther, it might not really be a promotion. If you have to, i would rather call it a “fail safe” in case onne of them took over the world, to prevent her from tossing him down into the abyss. And even that is a bit far fetched i say.
Measured by land mass, he own a country. But he probably owns what is commonly referred to as “a corporate empire.” On top of the country, which is also bringing him in a tidy income.
I think R is meaning Galytn, the region in the middle of the DRC which his company literally runs and created the entire infrastructure for, in which he brought all of its people out of abject poverty under a murderous tyrant and is bringing them into being a first world, industrious and profitable nation.
So basically, R’s not just talking about his corporate empire, he’s meaning that Deus LITERALLY runs, essentially, a country.
Um, yes? R first said ’empire’ and then corrected himself to ‘country.’ I just pointed out that while a single country doesn’t count as an empire that in financial terms Deus’ holdings are quite often referred to by that label.
I have yet to see the author do frontal nudity of the characters…!
For the record? he did a frontal-nudity piece for Valentine’s Day this year… and quite a few of the previous years, too.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2770
He’s got a few on his Deviant Art page too. You just need to have an account set up there & log in before it’ll let you see any NSFW pics though.
I particularly like the one of Dabbler in the shower…
He has a code that he tries very hard to adhere to when it comes to this comic.
Think of it as the long awaited FFN in MPFC only to get FDN in their live stage play.
Every time this is mentioned, I want to point out that the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is a bit less astonishingly that it might be thought of. That is because the media, especially the people who decide whether “this is news” support/amplify the phenomenon by preferring news/stories that are similar or have something in common with another story that was already published recently, while other stories that don’t promise to be really sensational in a unique way on their own are more likely to fall from the table.
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is positively perplexing as a name when terrorist groups are one of your long term interests and Baader-Meinhof themselves were regularly in the news when you were growing up.
Love to break this to you: butt that’s how the news has always been done!!!
Ever since he propositioned, I thought Deus gained control over Women via sex. Like, the more intimate they get with HIM, the more control he has over them. The books may just be a magical-superpower side effect, and I expect signing to “seal the contract” between them to (possibly unknowingly) make them do his bidding.
So they have to agree to several things to make this happen, but each step sorta helps them along, and then he has powerful women in his pocket.
Shame for him that Maxima is such a feminist.
Actually, while there is *some* of that going on, I wonder if it isn’t more direct? He also gets the power of every conquest who signs his book. Just like the first purported big bad, except much worse, and much more time to acquire power.
Under this theory, Dabbler is probably expressly *not* on her list; succubi have far too much control over tantric energy, and could take some of it from him. Also, less of a payout – he already has tantric power, so less need to get more. So, in the end, it’s Dabbler, maybe Decollete, Maxima, and Halo, plus the guys, vs. Everyone Else.
Sucks to be Everyone Else then :P
Why not Maxima? Feminist does not equal either lesbian or not interested in sex with men, so I’m not sure why you even bring that up. We know that she and Deus have dated at least. Or whatever Deus calls “dated” since he clearly didn’t like that term being applied to the relationship between he and Daphne.
Why not Halo? She has no power which would appear to make her immune to seduction, and from the scene showing the after effects of Dabblers ‘warmth’ spell, we also know that despite being fairly repressed/shy/non-sexual/whatever label you want to slap on it, she isn’t above *ahem* taking matters in hand *ahem* when she is aroused and has no partner handy
The fact he hasn’t ‘conquered’ Maxi, that’s why
Clothes…. Booo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(oh, didnt even notice that thing about Apollo’s nipple, gonna have to check that out)
Okay, and ewww. I HATE Casanova types. James Bond is an exception, as A.) he’s classy enough to not kiss and tell, and B.) his job as a super-spy kind of demands it.
What Douche X Machina has done here is an insult to BOTH genders.
It would be fitting if something … unpleasant latches on to his nether regions, or just plain happens to him in general.
And now we can see why Deus was trying to get into Maxima’s knickers. Flip through and you will find a shiny gold picture, unsigned, in the book.
Sydney, you stay well way from this nasty man!
Dunno, Deus seems like he likes pencil as a medium.
And Sydney isn’t even on his radar. Human? He can get one of those anytime.
That is not an obstacle.
Good. Stay off it Sydney. Keep to your modest ways and he won’t know what he is missing.
Yes I would agree that Sydney isn’t even a considerationf or him on multiple levels, physically and socialy and politically. Which leaves her for the rest of us to enjoy.
And if ‘super’ physiology is being strongly inferred, Sydney would balk at lacking the prerequisite ‘Vagoo of holding’.
Oh, know of. Just saying that Deus could certainly afford an artists set of colored pencils if that was his desire, so Sciona being drawn thusly was by choice.
Marcello Barenghi also has some most excellent videos on drawing gold and other shiny metals
Here’s a question, what does it say under Sciona’s name in the book? I can’t quite make it out. “dutches of” something I think?
As Pander wrote above, it is (probably) Gaulst.
Reading it, enlarged on my tablet, I first thought it was Gaul57,
but that may have been the result of hasty writing.
I think it’s Gaulst from what I’m seeing.
Although if I’m looking at it wrong and it’s Gaul 57, that does seriously imply it’s a planet, making her an alien :)
She seems to have either once been a member of The Council, or reigning her in was their responsibility since she is from one of the member races/planar beings/fabled critters/sentient items/whatever that they are made up from. So ‘alien’ seems fair. But then so does ‘from another plane.’ There is a technical distinction there which may or may not be relevant.
Pretty sure that you’re right about that. I think someone mentioned that she was on the Council. Not sure if it was DaveB or someone on the comment forum though. The wings do have a very ‘alien’ feel to them.
Plus she said ‘when YOUR world kneels before me’ rather than ‘when THE world kneels before me.’ Sort of implies that the Earth is not her world.
Of course, it could mean that she’s from a different plane (ethereal or something). Or she could mean ‘the world of man’ or ‘the human world’ sort of like when Wonder Woman refers to most of the Earth as ‘Man’s World.’ But I’m going to go with alien being the most likely answer because it’s less of a reach given what clues we have so far.
Of course judging by how that book has a slot in the encyclopedic wall of books he may have had a lot of practice to become “astonishing good”.
Or, at the very least, the whole set of books represent what Dues wants to get eventually. Since Sciona’s pic was already included, he asked her to sign it…Which raises the question of how many entries does he have in the books that are, as yet, unsigned?
So every single one of those books’ pages are filled with a unique, individual conquest? Taking into account how unlikely it is that they just happen everyday, that implies that he’s lived long enough to fill up an entire bookshelf, just with personal conquests, as the bindings on each book is exactly the same. I’m starting to get some Felix Faust vibes from Deus, in the sense that he’s far older than he appears.
Thats assuming every page is already signed. As evidenced by the book and him need ot get her to sign it, some of those books could be filled with unsigned pages indicating conquests that have yet to happen but are planned for. Assuming that book is not just baout her, how many pages of that book are signed and how many have not been signed yet. We can assume the pages she listed specifically as ones that cought her attention becasue they were signed already.
Just because a person has over a dozzen quests on thier quest log (in rpgs and mmos) does not mean they are all complete yet.
I didn’t read through all the comments, so perhaps someone else has already mentioned it, but Star Trek did NOT have the first televised interracial kiss. Plato’s Stepchildren aired on November 22, 1968. This is the episode in which William Shatner, as Captain Kirk, and Nichelle Nichols, as Lt. Uhura share a kiss, while under the influence of powerful alien beings. It was a watershed moment in american culture, and a brave act for both performers, but it wasn’t the first.
Movin’ with Nancy, starring Nancy Sinatra, aired on December 11, 1967, and featured a kiss between her, and Sammy Davis Jr.
I’m a huge fan of Star Trek, and I love that they were brave enough to confront the state of race relations of their time so frankly, bit they were not the first to cross this particular threshold.
I understand that their groundbreaking was in showing Lt. Uhura as a bridge officer. I recall interviews with celebrities saying ‘I had never seen a black woman in a position of authority before’.
It struck me as ironic, given that most of the time you saw her just passing on messages, and following Kirk’s orders. But that is what all the crewmembers did essentially. Except their job was to report on their individual role, wheres Uhrua was the interface to the rest of Starfleet. So significantly important.
It is just that they managed to have more proactive scenes too. Not to mention getting a seat on away missions, on a regular basis. I guess somebody has to stay home to answer the phone.
But that is because it is a key role on a starship, and it is why she held senior rank.
I would though have liked to see an episode where she ended up as the only functioning officer on the bridge, even if it was only for a scene. Just to emphasise that as a bridge officer she would be in command in such a situation.
Although it has been many moons since I watched enough original flava trek to recall whether she did have comparably responsible scenes or not.
Late 1960s…
The black person works the radio…
Hogan’s Heroes
Mission Impossible
Star Trek
And still today: The black guy dies first.
It’s not always, or it would be a rule and not a trope. But it is still common enough that when I see a cast of characters and there’s just one black person amongst them, it’s a safe bet that The black guy dies first. This movie even advertised this in the trailer!
Did you not see “Tropic Thunder”? It was the white director who died (and no, RDJ didn’t count)
You are really something, aren’t you? Did not not read or simply not comprehend the part where I said:
I mean, I specifically called out that there are exceptions, and why that matters, and your followup contribution consisted only of “There are exceptions!” You’re like the kid who needs the participation award in order to feel special. Congratulations?
Wait, it’s okay for you to pick out one aspect of a post, butt no one else can do it to you? o_O
To give Oberon credit, where it is due, if he picks a single point he is raising something new regarding that. Whilst you did add an interesting point, you did so in a way which implied that Oberon’s statement was in error.
Whereas to do so, for that particular statement, would require showing that statistically it is in error. Which may or may not be the case but it certainly feels right. I don’t recall thinking “that dude is going to die, ’cause he is black” and getting it wrong.
If it is a ‘last man standing’ type of movie don’t put your money on anyone other than a pretty whitey (boy or girl) being the survivor. Only if any extra ones make it out with them are you likely to get a token minority scrape through.
She didn’t add an interesting point. All she did was “Me, too!” a portion of my post, all the while implying contextually that it was a point of disagreement.
It was of interest to me. I am not a Ben Stiller fan so had not watched that movie. Meaning that twist was new to me and I would not get to know it any other way, as even having seen the trailer now, I still do not feel the urge to see it.
I’ve always thought of Uhura as basically the Enterprises’s ‘space secretary’/’space telephone operator.’
Yea, and that is the way Sigourney Weaver played her character that she played … err it gets a bit confusing when an actor plays an actor. But I loved the way the role was parodied.
Psst. she is one of the ‘pretty whitey survivors’ in question, from her Alien movies. No disrespect to her of course.
The first interracial kiss on British Television was broadcast on 1st February 1959 in the television play Hot Summer Night. This was an episode of the Armchair Theatre anthology series of one off dramas broadcast on ITV. British actress Andrée Melly kissed the Jamaican actor Lloyd Reckord.
For US television the first seems to be The Tiger an episode of I Spy broadcast 5th January 1966. Franco-Vietnamese actress France Nuyen kissed American actor Robert Culp.
Lloyd Reckord also had the second UK televised interracial kiss. He kissed Elizabeth MacLennan in a June 1962 live broadcast of the play You in Your Small Corner in an episode of Granada Play of the Week. The play was written by his older brother, the playwright Barry Reckord.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television
France Nuyen was also the hottest ‘episode girl’ on ST:TOS
But he just kissed her on the cheek. Kirk and Uhura was a romantic kiss, big difference.
It was hardly a romantic kiss. Both of them were fighting mind control aliens who were making them do it in a macabre off-Broadway play. And Kirk didn’t even purse his lips, which might be the only reason it got past the censors.
A kiss on the lips (under whatever impetus) is more of romantic slant than a peck on the cheek
And, as the scene clearly shows, while they were being forced to kiss, Uhura did have feelings for Kirk
And about the bit on Dick van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore sleeping in seperate beds; It was Fred and Wilma from The Flinstones who were the first couple to be depicted in the same bed together on T.V.
Can I make a joke about how Fred got his rocks off, or would that be too crude?
Lol
Snopes knows all.
Although ‘sharing a bed on TV’ threads always remind me of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Not that there was ever any hint of anything sexual mind, and they were both obviously interested in the lady guests, always competing to win their affections. Or, more usually, end up looking less of a fool than their partner.
I’m more amazed that Deus got bigger arms than Stalwart. There is some heavy lifing behind that. Or something.
Or, he’s an ambidextrous wanker :P
When you’re as rich as Deus, you don’t have to be a wanker. You can have other people wank for you.
Especially when he’s so extraordinarily good at sex.
He probably has those muscles from lifting his wallet or swimming around in his money bin or something.
It was a lame joke, based on an old drawing of a nerdy wimp with one humungous arm because of all the masturbating he has done
Yes I realize that it was a joke. Which is why I countered with the joke that he got his muscles from lifting his wallet, which is obviously heavy from all of his cash.
Some people have a little black book. Deus has a little black library of congress.
Sexual congress. Giggity giggity.
“Cryptomnesia” is a verb?
It is if you congregate it accordingly.
That “Aren’t you?…” moment… I can hear his voice from over here.
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