Grrl Power #701 – Trophy crew?
I thought it would be fun doing a reverse harem setup on Cora’s ship. I mean, why not? Being friends with Dabbler has obviously rubbed off on her. I tried to come up with some varied body and face types for her crew, but one guy is a bit more muscular than the others, and that’s about it. Their faces are obviously different, but I really wanted the orange faced guy to look a lot more like one of the effeminate pretty boys from those boy love mangas that girls seem to like. Or at least more like Tuxedo Mask at least. Same thing basically.
I just kind of gravitated to my standard fit male body type, so I guess that just means Cora has her own preferences. That or she values the skills of each member of the crew slightly more than she does having a varied menagerie.
About panel two, I didn’t even try and draw the ship from the bottom. I mean, I did a little in the first panel, but cheated with the blur. I’m still trying to catch up from the holidays, so I figured better to throw in a self-aware joke than to pull my hair out trying to draw a big shot of the underside of the ship.
If this was a manga and I had a team of background artists, this whole page would have been just an establishing shot of the spaceport, then a 2/3 of the page panel of the ship sitting in the dock. That’s fine if you’re flipping through a book, but for a biweekly webcomic, it’d be kind of a bummer to visit a page and just see some sweet backgrounds, IMO.
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How nice of Cora. She’s willing to share. Unfortunately it looks like Sydney is going into shock from hormonal overload. That, or the Grakz is finally hitting her with its full effect.
Ah – MALEians!
As much as DaveB has studied “boob physics” for artistic purposes in this comic, I also wonder how much “creative input” DaveB’s wife has for pages like this.
0.o
Most women don’t go for them quite that beefy. Look at shirtless Thor in Ragnarock for the current “ideal” build.
Truth. Beards are also nice.
Would not be surprised if Cora had creawmate that had the short fur going on like dabbler mentioned.
I don’t think there’s a D in ‘bulge’. Well, not the letter, anyways :)
He puts the ‘d’ in ‘bulDge’ :P
Dangit. Inline spellcheck should work when I’m drawing letters on the page for sound effects.
You should leave it. I thought it was on purpose, and funny. Like, it’s so bulge-y it makes a noise.
Nono. Leave it. Much funnier that way.
We all get the joke. XD
+1 for leaving it in.
That’s what she said ;)
Misspelling or not, I’d also say to leave it in there.
This is one for the history books: “DaveB, the man who put the ‘D’ in a man’s bulge!”
This is just one of those things that earns a 5-star review for your comic.
☆☆☆☆☆
don’t worry, “buldge” is a time honored joke, ask the internets
I just looked it up since someone said internet. Buldge is actually a slang word. Urban Dictionary has a reference. Of course this being the internet, things are bound to get weird. DaveB did use it in proper context here.
NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR..
Just kidding, thanks for doing the legwork on that. XD
Agreed, leave the D right where it is!
Right where we can see it!
They could power the spaceship with that blush
I realize that Sydney broke her glasses quite some time & pages ago. But, that atomic blush panel makes the damage stand out and looks like her blush is so fierce it shattered the lens.
In my head canon ….
I heartily concur.
I’d also bet that Sydney’s mouth isn’t her only orfice that’s drooling right now…
Which would (probably) make her blush even MORE — once she becomes consciously aware of it.
Quick Sydney!! Now’s your chance to get ahead in the inappropriate picture arms race. Harem will never forgive you if you don’t fill up all the memory on your phone.
I agree.
I feel sorry for her that she’ll miss opportunity to go full Dabbler with 3 sexy maliens so tons of pictures is least she could do.
I wonder if the aliens watch Jojo?
Ah, knew I wasn’t the only one to hear the Pillar Men theme…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUhVCoTsBaM
I see you are a person of culture as well.
Is that biological or microbiological?
I hear that as the custodes theme song.
I keep looking at the picture and wondering why the lizard man has his head bent ninety degrees. That pose just seems a tad uncomfortable.
He is leaning down, the angle of the camera makes it look worse
It’s not. The head is fairly much looking straight forward from the plane his shoulders make. However, standing with your back bent and twisted like that for extended periods of time would be uncomfortable and/or harmfull for a human. I assume the pose is meant to exxagerate his lizard-/snakelike sinousness.
Yet for some reason, it’s supposed to look appealing when women do it, even though most glamour poses look like serious spinal deformities are involved.
I clicked the link and read the whole page :) I laughed at several of them.
I want to thank you for that link. That was probably the greatest photo spread I’ve seen in years <3
Oh … My … God.
Those are just so wrong they’re actually funny. And even as a guy, I have to admit some of them could stand on their own without being a parody.
I loved most of them. Guys should be free to do anything they want, wear anything, celebrate anything. The ridiculous ones are the oversexualised stuff with the bad posture/positioning…also, ironing the skirt you’re still wearing?? But otherwise… guys should be free to celebrate “saying yes” & if their fingernails look nice, and the water-hair-flip thing is actually fun to do, if you have long enough hair to do it.
To quote Sydney, “It’s a pain the ass to draw from this angle”
Careful Sydney…
You have no clue what sort of Alien STD’s they might have or even if they’re species pregnancies work the same as ours i.e. If might be common amongst their species for the new born to eat the Mom after been born, or the duration of their species pregnancies could only be three weeks
Wouldn’t alien sex be more safe when it comes to STD? I mean diseases are almost always only dangerous for one species and these boys are not even from Earth’s ecosystem.
You do know that it’s widely believed that human were exposed to AIDS after a guy fucked a Chimp
Also plenty of diseases that cross the species barrier are super-deadly to Human, such as the Bird Flu
We share more than 98% of our genetic material with chimpanzees.
I don’t think aliens would present anything even resembling a problem in this regard.
Also, if there’s space AIDS, they probably have the cure on board that ship.
99.5% actually, of course we share 40-50% with bananas so take that as you will….
Just gotta watch out for Space Herpe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-me2inj1nNw
I believe the going theory is bushmeat. Someone ate the primates. Sadly that is not that rare is some parts of Africa. Also chimps are very closely related to humans.
Yes, eating infected meat has been the going theory for a much longer time now.
I would think the butchering would be more dangerous.
Only if you also had a cut or other wound, or maybe got some up your nose. Human skin is actually pretty good protection from external disease organisms unless otherwise damaged or deliberately breached.
Yes, what I was thinking. A nick on the hand with the knife and the blood is mingled. I also believe I read somewhere that there’s never been a confirmed case of oral transmission of HIV. Combine that with the fact that bushmeat is cooked before eating and I’d think the most likely patient zero would be a butcher or hunter.
AIDS, HIV, and perhaps the near future. This come from the ” I’m sick and tired of being threatened by how ‘evil’ sex is in all it’s forms”. ENOUGH I say.
In school we were terrorized by STD’s and AIDS etc. I would pay right now for a shot to cure this right now and we never have to worry about it ever again. This is what medicine should be funded for RIGHT NOW.
I remember the one about Polio, except for a few rare cases is is GONE. My uncle had it. I had a drop on the tongue. *poof*
Sorry, I am jumping up and down on my soapbox, I am raging against the machine.
With all the crap we have to put up with in medicine (and mostly the insurance companies / FDA / DEA etc behind them) I had to vent.
I will try to step off the soapbox now, and go do something useful. Food is calling.
ref:
https://www.hivplusmag.com/research-breakthroughs/2016/3/23/anyone-immune-hiv
The latest episode of “The Blacklist” (fantastic show, everyone should watch it) focused on Big Pharmaceuticals willing and actively sabotaging research into cures (including killing patients)
It’s the same thing with advances and improvements to transport (anything that currently involves combustion engines and oil consumption), you will get the odd (emphasis on the ‘odd’) individuals like Musk, who literally have to be billionaires, to get anything beyond a pipedream theoretical prototype (and even then they get concentrated attacks to rubbish what they do)
Syphilis was only present in Llamas in the americas until some explorers/colonialist brought it back. And thus until a more definite theory or the actual way it transferred is found, I will believe that Christopher Columbus fucked a llama.
At least one of the corpses found in Pompeii tested positive for syph (and no I don’t know why they were testing ancient corpses for STDs) so the myth that it was found only in the Americas until Columbus has been busted.
So you’re saying that the Vikings brought it back?
He ate Bushmeat, monkeys and chimps, HIV turned out to be transmittable to humans, in the Monkey it was harmless.
Well, to be fair, everyone who recruits into a military unit (even in sci-fi spaceship crews) get shots to prevent most commonly-encountered diseases, so they shouldn’t have to worry too much from picking up some kind of human-based bug…
Even so, I think Sydney’s reaction is even more extreme now than when she ate that food with The Unmaker added. Her reaction here is so extreme that her mind doesn’t even consider doing the “stop-drop-roll” method.
I also sort of wonder…Has Sydney yet gotten past that point when she needed to be taking Midol?
She got cramps two days after encountering Maxima, etc, iirc, and it’s been about a week, maybe a few extra days, so yes, she should be done with cramps. Most of the time you get cramps for just a couple days. (Unless you’re unlucky, like I was.)
I wouldn’t that much concerned with STDs or how there reproduction works. I would be concerned that they are somehow poisonous to humans.
Always consult Dr Solus before alien sex.
Ask Dr. Phlox
Do NOT ask Dr. Zoidberg!!!
Why not Zoidberg?
He never went to medical school for a start, and his poster of the human body is upside down
Dr. Zoidberg is a universaly renowned expert on Alien Biology
If he screws up with us, it’s our fault for being Human
Venomous, not poisonis. Poisonous means they would need to eat it.
I can’t be the only one who is thinking the obvious reply to that statement, can I?
As Dr. Mordin wisely said: “Do not ingest”
Poisonous, not venomous. Venomous means it has to be injected into the blood
“If you eat the toxin, or absorb it through your skin or something, then it’s a poison.”
http://www.snake-removal.com/poisonous-vs-venomous.html
Honestly, I can see either one being a problem, depending on the biology and the intended mechanics.
You could ask The Doctor. Either the one in the blue box or the EMH1. You would probably get a better answer from the EMH1.
I don’t think Cora would have suggested hanky panky if there were any risks of STDs to either Sydney or the crew. The only risk I would imagine would be if Sydney somehow received STD immunity from the experience.
I’m sure someone has brought this up long ago about Dabbler. Since Dabbler’s whole biological system revolves around sex as much as food, I’m sure that Dabbler’s whole race has naturally developed 100% immunity to STDs. I mean, imagine if it hadn’t; the whole race would’ve died out within a generation due to their biological requirement for sex.
I could imagine how that natural immunity to STDs could be transmitted. Either by sex itself or through medication. And imagine if Sydney suddenly knew she was suddenly immune to all STDs; she’d be tempted to do it with everyone she wanted it with, without fear of consequences; or at least no disease-based consequences. Now imagine if the immunity was spread sexually. Everyone Sydney had sex with would also become immune to STDs. The same logic applies; those people would also have less inhibitions to sex.
In Earth’s culture, STDs are one of the main things that prevent people from carelessly having sex with everyone. Yes, there are other potential consequences also, such as pregnancy; but the main reason, I think, that most people don’t sleep with anyone and everyone is disease. So imagine if that barrier was suddenly lifted. You could now have sex with anyone you wanted, and you wouldn’t get any illness. Suddenly, that girl who sleeps with everyone isn’t so disgusting. Suddenly, the hookers have no downsides. See where this goes?
Cora does come from a world where unplanned pregnancies and STDs are basically unheard of, so it may not be foremost on her mind.
Not to mention that the crew has automatic full coverage of in-service medical issues as part of their overall benefits “package.” Evidently, Cora herself greatly enjoys the same “package” as well…
I would think the main concern would be Sydney catching rigelian measles or something. Though since Earth is a Sex Tourism spot, the space travel agencies probably have a broad spectrum treatment to kill anything deadly to earth lifeforms before you go, and the crew has probably taken their “Earth Pills” already in anticipation of picking Sydney up and going to Earth.
Why do I suspect that if Dabbler’s STD immunity were transferrable/communicable, that she would singlehandedly have spread it around the globe to 75% of the adult population in a VERY short period of time.
CDC SHUT DOWN FOR LACK OF DISEASE TO FIGHT.
World medical community baffled by sudden natural immunity
Alas, plenty of health risks & problems left for them to study…and that’s not including how they’re not allowed to study the worst epidemic in America, gun violence…but yeah, that would be nice.
That’s not a damn disease, that’s a sociological condition (or symptom)
Adam Warren in Empowered had the exact opposite take on Aliens and STDs.
Alien STDs are the leading source of super heroes’ powers. As in F*cking aliens is likely to give you an alien STD not immunity. Aliens are immune to STD because of their nano ware and don’t care to share the tech with earthlings.
Wait, are you saying that doing it with an alien would give superpowers? (Or saying that’s the theory?)
In Empowered (some?) “posthuman STD” are not deadly, but mutate/change the victim. About the same logic as being bitten by a radioactive spider / splashed by toxic waste in other comics does not kill or seriously injure the victim, but change the change the victim into something that can be seen as having superpowers – compared to an average human. The story “love changes everything” revolves around several of Emp’s superhero acquaintances having the same origin story – they had sex with aliens with STDs…
For example one was turned into a mecha after having sex with a robot girl.
Your comment reminded me of one of the few ‘Enterprise’ episodes I saw, where a male human gets pregnant with a female alien’s baby. He even grows a nipple on his wrist, lol.
Oh, poor Sydney, everywhere she goes she runs into peak examples of their respective species…Well maybe Cora doesn’t exactly fit in that category being afflicted with a otherwise debilitating condition, but the bitchin, lamia spawning, LIMB suit more than makes up for it.
Also, middle beefcake reminds of good ol Man-Emperor of Mankind, so he’s got that going for him.
Perhaps it is Emp experimenting with aliens in his youth.
Always good to see another TTS fan in the wild!
Admit it, you heard the Pillar Men theme on that beefcake panel. We all did.
My oiled abs quiver this!
My oiled abs quiver at this comment!*
Cora only hire those who knows how to pose sexily.
I thought it would be fun doing a reverse harem setup on Cora’s ship. I mean, why not?
Why not indeed. You’ve provided us guys with the Fan Service plenty of times, so I don’t see any reason to not provide some of the same for the ladies.
To be fair, DaveB has provided some beefcake on occasion for the distaff readers of this comic already. One good example was when Harem pulled a half-monty on a bunch of male ARCSwat members & has also shown Hiro doing a full-monty in front of Maixma (providing for a hunk of concrete to cover the most sensitive area).
This scene goes a bit beyond all of those previous examples though, in that DaveB is showing quite a bit more (thin material covering rather than a slab of concrete) than any other example. Heck, I’m a hopelessly Hetero male & I started blushing !!!
Us gay boys are pretty happy about it too!
Dave is very generous with fan service for most of us.
And I wish you all the happiness…including the endings. XD
Since most members are female, I would believe vice versa.
I’m bisexual, so…
“Shenanigan amenable” is my new favorite way of asking about consent.
I concur.
I propose it be added to the Urban Dictionary.
It would likely fit better into the Geek/Nerd/Generd dictionary. Let’s face it the “normies” likely wont get it. :D
Implying that those who use the ‘Urban’ Dictionary are ‘normal’ (they are not)
Given that normal, means average.
Or for engineers “at right angles”, for electrical/electronic engineers “at right angles to current orientation, multiplied by square root of -1”.
For EEs “normal” is an imaginary number. :)
The Internet Purity Test will have to be re-written… Again.
This. Very much this.
(somewhat risqué joke about what the 7th orb does goes here.)
Ben Wa would be proud of you…
Groan…
Hmmm… given the day and night she’s had, Syd probably will take Cora up on that offer of ‘a nap, a meal and a long, hot bath’ first, before she’s in the mod for any shenanigans with the crew…
BTW, it just occured to me: wouldn’t kissing Sydney be at the very least an eye-watering experience for her partner, given her usual diet?
Or what she ate on the station. But we don’t know if the aliens can even taste whatever makes that dish hot or what effect it has on them.
Yeah, but pretty sure he’s talking about in general in her native population. Just the prospect sounds like trying to make out with a can of mace.
I’d do it. I’m not on her level, but it would make kissing her just that much more intersting in my spice game.
I’d be more worried about getting clonked on the head by one of the orbs.
planning… and a helmet..
Kinda like a person offering their SO an aspirin and getting “I don’t have a headache?” – Ding, Ding, Ding.
Never before have I looked at a picture of men in uniform, from neck-to-toes, and thought “Budgie Smugglers! They’re wearing Budgie Smugglers!”
I think they are more likely smuggling Emu’s down there, let alone budgies.
A codpiece.
Piece? I think its the whole damn fish.
at least it’s not the whole school
Hey, if medical upgrades are up to snuff, Prehensile.
*spittake lmfao!!*
Cora herself has personally “hand-selected” her bridge crew…Among other selected methods.
Something tells me she used more than her hands…..
Like her brains. On a Starship you need people who can do their jobs (no matter how good they look).
Yeah, though a ship that advanced should be able to do everything itself, which would leave the crew lots of time for ‘shenanigans’…
Heck yeah! Even us primitive Earthlings have developed an “auto-pilot” function.
*Yells to the side* Someone get the bucket of water!
Now that he mentions it about panels 1&2, I can’t think of many who have actually tried to draw a ship like that from that angle…. or really any for that matter. Anyone know of any just for reference?
If I *had* to do it, and I had a couple of days, I’d be using stills from Lost in Space for a reference.
TV show or movie? In the TV show their ship was a flying saucer.
Star Wars has a few of the Millennium Falcon but those aren’t drawn.
Yeah, was thinking of the Falcon, and it doesn’t have to be drawn to be used as a reference
I unlurked to say that I for one would love a giant, sexy establishing shot of the port and the ship. I have always liked that sort of thing and they do add a lot to the worlds shown. Maybe use it as an idea for a vote incentive?
Yes
Seconded.
Thirded!
We do like our space malien man-agerie beefcake and superheroine cheesecake (yesss, we do, so very bi, so very happy with this webcomic!!)…
…but some of us also want to see what we like to call “architecture porn,” too! I’d vote for that incentive!
I’m guessing they’re all wearing the same hard light suit tech as Cora, meaning they’re all also naked?
Go for the shenanigans, Sydney, GO FOR THE SHENANIGANS!!!
Despite what Sydney just saw,will she get back home without incident?
Given her level of blush and aquwardness, combined with likely her smarts to not fall for the normal pickup lines, I’m starting to wonder if she’s ever “incident” in her life.
The lines only work on people that want it to work on them anyway.
Plus, we have already seen she has some insecurities about how she looks. (Even if she shouldn’t – to me at least she’s one of the sexiest ladies in the team!) But it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out Sydney’s never had ‘shenanigans’ yet.
I do believe this was covered somewhere in the archives when she was talking about not having a boyfriend currently? Or at least alluded to in that she’s never really had a boyfriend… I think it was just before going into the club with Harem and Dabbler?
Ooh wait, no, here it is! Just before finding out about the Council:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2153
So she HAS had a boyfriend in the past, but not recently, and probably when she did have a relationship, it was not heavily into shenanigans, given how much she has freakouts over actual sex opportunities, and not just theoretical sex opportunities…
Will she even want to leave?
Remember the cardinal rule of funny when it comes to the opposite sex.
The more you chase something, the less genuine chances you’ll get to catch it.
The less you chase something, the more genuine chances you’ll get to catch it.
It’s also often used for wish fulfillment, where the shy geeky looking boy is surrounded by women who Want Him. But for one reason or another, he can’t commit, which only seems to increase the numbers.
Once the character is able to commit, then it moves from comedy to drama Where letting down the girls becomes a serious issue.
Of course this also applies in reverse. Aka the reverse harem. One girl, a lot of guys. You don’t see it as much on the gay/lesbian side, probably because people tend to get touchy about such matters.
would… it still be a “fun” idea if the genders were swapped? it would be sexist and some kind of ism as well? oh, ok then.
Yes.
That’s why pictures like this are fun, and useful, they help drive that thought home to people who have never had it from either angle.
Congratulations on waking up. Now try to continue to enjoy life. Don’t be a person who can’t do both, please.
Yes I think most of us would still appreciate the jokes and silliness in today’s comic if the genders were swapped.
Is… is she gonna go for it?
If she did, would any of her friends back on earth still recognize her? Travelling to another planet, successfully fighting the planet killing invaders, becoming an FTL spaceship, becoming a 15minutes celebrity on a major intergalactic port, and then hooking up with an alien ultra hottie? All that is likely to change a person.
Besides what Maieien would give of the opportunity to get to third base with the first human off-planet?
(hey, I know how maleiens think to some extent. that is universal – ask Math)
Dunno… Sydney never struck me as the kind of person to hop into bed with someone she just met. And the extreme sexiness of the crew would probably activate every insecurity she has.
Plus, she is probably exhausted by now. Adrenaline can take you only so far.
Pretty sure she’s not the first human off-planet, considering the diner database knew what her biology could safely eat, and/or would find spicy-hot.
You wish! Oh Captain, my captain.
That’s… not a ‘NO!’ ;)
Sydney just ‘rode’ a snake-lady, you really believe she will pass up the opportunity to ‘ride’ a snake-man? o_O
I wonder what her friends at the comic shop are doing when she has not called in, or shown up for quiet awhile. Hard to tell from time scale but it has been a few days since last they saw her. Hos will Max explain this temporary absence to them? Maybe Adriana will do it instead.
Actually.. I don’t think it’s been days. Or even a full day, yet. They hit Sciona’s mountain lair at night. Portal. ‘Maybe’ three-four hours for Sydney going battle royale with the squiddies. Instantaneous(?) travel to Fracture via Aetherium Causeway. Wanders around a bit, gets hungry, finds a food stall. Found by Cora. Go to her ship.
Be a nice set of panels for Max to be steeling herself to go tell Joel that Sydney is ‘MIA, but we are doing everything in our power to locate her’, or on the phone with her parents, and Sydney stepping through the door.
It’s been heavily implied that on Earth at least it HAS been days, if not weeks. When Vale recovered the Skybreaker vor Deus, the two air towers they used to power their stargate were under construction, but when they opened the gate to travel to The Fracture, both towers were complete and functioning. That suggests it’s been at least a few days. Longer, if Dave wants to catch up to where he started in episode 1.
I guess spicy stuff isn’t the only thing that Sydney really hungered for . That is marvelous must admit just from meeting dabblers other friends being friends with dabbler it definitely has some benefits
What is the male equivalent of Bridge Bunny’s?
Deck Dudes!
Sidney needs to get some by now or is she eternally virginal.
What is the male equivalent to Bridge Bunny’s?
Bridge beef seems appropriate in this case.
Let’s all be honest: we we’re just waiting to see Syd’s reaction to Cora’s crew, weren’t we? Unless you’re all actually waiting to see Cora’s crew, so, good for you?
Maxima: “Ahem… I regret to inform you that your friend, my colleague, Sydney Scoville Jr, have become missing in action, beyond our power to recover…”
Sydney, coming up from behind: “Hi guys, what’s up? You wouldn’t believe the sweet space-adventure I’ve had the last few days! There was this huge spacemonster that almost ate a planet, and a really cute guy, and I met …”
At the 30 day point her parents would have to be notified
by Maxima in uniform that Sydney is MIA.
Fortunately it has only been a few days.
Or has it? The planet’s sudden devastation and Harem’s shenanigans highly suggest she was sent into the future.
But, then, if they go back in time on the way back it doesn’t make any difference. But we shall see.
Also when Vale recovered the skyripper and delivered it, the thermal updraft tower was half built. When Deus actually used it, the thermal updraft tower was completely built. And Deus was on fracture at the same time Sydney was, implying the time shenanigans was at least the time it took for the thermal updraft tower to finish construction, a few days to a few months.
So, say Sydney decides to test amenability. She kisses one of the guys to get into the mood, and seconds later, screaming in mingled rage and fear, he races to stick his face in the auto-doc, because Syd hasn’t brushed her teeth or gargled since eating impossibly hot food. After that, the crew lack amenability.
Sydney can’t handle all the beefcake XD
Lust, exciting and new
Come aboard, were expecting you
Lust, lifes sweetest reward
Let it flow, it floats back to you
Lust Boat soon will be making another run
The Lust Boat promises something for everyone
Set a course for adventure
Your mind on a new romance
Lust wont hurt anymore (unless you want it to)
Its an open smile on a friendly shore
Yes lust…
Its lust…
Lust Boat soon will be making another run
The Lust Boat promises something for everyone
Set a course for adventure
Your mind on a new romance
Lust wont hurt anymore (again, unless..)
Its an open smile on a friendly shore
Its lust…
Its lust…
Its lust…
Its the Lust Boat
Its the Lust Boat
I wouldn’t mind that tv series.
I’d take that cruise.
sorry, system borked on me it seems
Barring an actual Lust Boat, there’s always Sex Island.
Or Hedonism resorts.
Converting time units.
Nap = about an hour.
Meal = highly variable 30 minutes to 4 hours
Long hot bath = about an hour
So Earth is three to six hours by Cora’s drive. Instant by Sydney’s orb, if she could navigate. . . .
That brings up the point: use the ship’s drive or Fracture’s warp gates? For all the talk about customs and station rules, if they use the ship’s drives, most of those rules mean nothing.
Even if Cora was willing to send her ship and crew through an exotic portal being operated by a novice with no clue how it works, they should get far, far away from the station before trying it. Perhaps the destination end doesn’t leave the same signature as Cora detected at the departure point, but with all those ships around someone would come check it out and very possibly follow them.
Yeah kinda have three options:
– Cora’s ship direct.
– Cora + a Fracture warp gate (most likely – depends on routes and space lane jam ups)
– Syds Aetherium gate (if she could size it) – not good idea for same reason Syd jumped to Fracture first.
Syd should probably ask Cora’s and Dabs along with a few willing Maleien techs if they could help with that ‘fuzziness’
but FIRST! – FOOD, hot oil massage (probably with helpers), bath and pass out in bed
I think it would logically mean Earth is relatively close. This whole gateway station makes no sense if you could cross the galaxy in the time it would take to drive from New Jersey to Maryland. Unless that time is also using said station. And significantly longer by drives. But Cora was a few hours behind Sydney on arriving despite leaving right on her tail. Cora mentioned a few false jumps to lose the attacking craft. But assuming those were short. The station is midway between the Alari homeworld and Earth?
You assume that all FTL drives are equal here. Cora’s ship may be exceptionally fast, comparatively, and so can do the trip in hours what might take a less advanced ship a couple of weeks. I figure we’re just flying at the speed of plot, to be sure.
We know Alari (prime) was about 500 light years from Earth from DaveB’s border comment.
However; I would like to know just how far Sydneys Aether gateway jumped her from Alari (prime) to Fracture and maybe how far Fracture is from earth.
Not sure if was Alari (prime) either.
Long bath is till you start getting seriously wrinkly. So 1 1/2 to 2 hours.Nap colud be 2 hous as well. Or 15 minutes.
A nap could be 15 minutes also. And a lonf barth is until you get really wrinkly and refilled the water with new hot at least twice, so 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
You guys are lucky, I get wrinkly in the hour.
You’re still lucky, I don’t even HAVE a bath!
Ohhhh, boy.
…. And that is NOT how “BULGE” is spelled.
He has so much D it required acknowledgement.
Haha, I wonder if the play on “InterDICtor” is intended?
I’ve never understood why it’s called a “reverse harem”. So it’s a woman with a bunch of guys. Is “Harem” really a gendered phrase to begin with? If the “MC” (main character) is bi/pan, does it being a harem or reverse harem depend on the MC’s gender, or the gender of the majority of their partners? What about if the MC is agender?
Harem is the part of a Muslim household reserved for the women and, by extension, some of the women who reside there. So both by definition and connotation, very much gender specific.
A harem predates the Muslim religion by several thousand years
A ‘reverse anything’ is usually used when talking about something that is typically associated with just one gender being dominant (or dominated), like ‘reverse rape’ where it is the female doing the raping
Except in the case of the ‘reverse cowgirl’ sexual position :P
By strict definition, Harem is simply the private part of the house. In a modern home, it would correspond to the bed rooms, the den, the play room and most of the bath rooms. The “public” part of the house is the living room, the dinning room and one bathroom. The kitchen is a border line area. It status varies with the home owner.
From the evolutionary point of view, a male can start several pregnancies in short order if he can find enough willing females. Maybe not willing, depending on your ethics. It does not matter how many men you have, a woman can start a pregnancy about once a year, so in this case, more than one is a waste.
Mind you, from the point of view of personal entertainment, a little variety can be seen as a good thing.
Off on a tangent – I’ve always like the phrase, “9 women cannot make a baby in one month”. Going parallel doesn’t always work when faced with one-off jobs that just take a certain amount of time.
I’ve actually gotten to use that line in planning sessions at work more than once. Got the point across to management (when nothing else would) that simply throwing bodies at the problem wasn’t going to speed it up
Well when I turn on the ‘evil doc’ mode. that may not be entirely true in the future.
Consider cloning, surgery , growth hormones and artificial wombs and invitreo forced AI programming.
Dr Frankensteins kid LIVES! BWA HA HA HA *KaBOOOM*!
That’s assuming that having babies is the sole purpose of sex. It’s also assuming that only the guy has to have pleasure. (Ejaculation = required for babymaking = requires pleasure (usually)) Frankly, the way how the arousal curve is set up in men versus women, the socio-evolutionary argument (not evolutionary, SOCIO-evolutionary) goes as follows:
(Yes, this is a biology lesson. Buckle up!)
Men get aroused, whether via adrenaline or sexually, and can reach a peak within about a minute and a half; at any time, they can back down and cool off, and peak again just as quickly without problems. Afterward, it takes about ten minutes to cool off. For adrenaline, this is meeting the danger at the mouth of the cave, or the front door of the house. If the threat turns out to be friendly, they can back off and cool down…and if the threat turns out to be faking, they can get adrenaline-pumped-up superfast in a fight all over again. For sexual arousal, it’s, well…unless you train to extend that time, the average arousal is about the same, up to a peak in about a minute and a half, and then happyfeelz for the next ten minutes.
But that’s for guys. For gals, the socio-evolutionary thing is…different. Adrenaline and arousal again follow the same curve-and-peak-and-dropoff…but it is VERY different from guys. It takes ten minutes for a gal to get angry, she will fume for ten minutes, often silently, and then BAM!! She will go for the throat, go for th ekill, and it will be very difficult to get her to back down. Completely different set of adrenaline responses. Again in cave/home terms, she’s waiting for the guy to discern the danger at the cave mouth / front door, and she’s got the kids with her in the back of the cave, or the bedroom/kitchen.
If the danger gets through the front door guard, she is (socio-evolutionarily speaking) the Last Line Of Defense For Her Family. A guy at the front door will shoot once, twice. A gal will empty the whole gun To Be Sure The Danger Is Dead. She’ll gouge for the eyes, rip out chunks of hair and scalp, literally go for the throat. And the plateau after that ten-minutes-to-peak? 50 minutes or so before the adrenaline falls off. She is NOT going to be talkable to until she has calmed down, unless you’re ready to apologize and admit your wrongdoing (saying “I’m sorry I hurt your feelings” isn’t an actual apology, btw), yadda yadda, because she’s literally got URGE TO KILL running through her blood.
Arousal, ironically enough, is the same thing. Unless it’s been trained otherwise…it takes about ten minutes for a gal to get close to peak arousal…though unlike adrenaline, it’s far easier to “kill the mood” for gals. Since it takes so bloody long, the least little interruption or annoyance can wreck the mood, causing a serious setback. On the bright side…once she gets up there, that’s 50 minutes wherein the arousal plateaus close to peak level, so it’s super easy to get back up there to the peak.
We know what this means from an adrenaline freeze/fight/flight standpoint (it’s all 3, not just the latter two; freezing is 100% completely valid as a response to danger, so if you’ve ever frozen in a dangerous situation, that is a genuine response to said danger). Guy checks out possible danger, Gal finishes off actual danger that made it past the guy at the front door. But when it comes to arousal…guy peaks and finishes, gal wasn’t even close to getting started…except…if she has several guys on hand, they can each take turns, and everyone gets to be happy with lots of satisfactory happyfuntimes! Conversely, any guy who takes the time to arouse his partner consistently for at least those ten minutes, plus ensures the remaining 50 minutes are equally enjoyable (whether it’s more happyfuntimes or cuddling & mental/emotional intimacy, etc), that’s the guy she’s gonna call on much more frequently than the others for happyfuntimes in bed, and that means more likely to be the father of her kids. But honestly, it still makes sense for a woman to have several husbands from a socio-evolutionary standpoint, because lots of guys in primitive or low-tech conditions means lots of literal musclepower to get things done around the farm, etc. This also means lots of guys to get between the front door and the back bedroom to slow down and hopefully stop any danger before it gets to her and the kids.
…The only reason why this one-gal-many-guys setup is a taboo is the bullshittery of toxic masculinity and toxic patriarchy that demands fathers HAVE to possess/own their children and/or prove their fatherhood status/prove their “manliness” and “studliness” by proving they can have lots of guaranteed-to-be-theirs children. Which leads to controlling women’s sexuality by any and all means, demanding that sex be only for procreation, massive slut-shaming, madonna/whore complexes, toxic misogyny, etc, etc, etc.
Some people function best in a monogamous setting, and that’s fine, provided everyone consents and all needs are being met (which requires communication, which includes listening, not just speaking or replying). Some people function better in a polyamory setting, and that’s equally fine…again providing everyone consents, communicates, etc. (It requires a higher level of maturity, responsibility, communication, and responsiveness to each others’ needs, so not for everyone by any means.)
If we can ever decouple the toxic idea that men have to “possess” and “own” women, and “have” to be the father of any offspring that are produced, the world will be a lot better place. There will still be monogamy, there will still be polyamory…and there will still be asexuality and demisexuality (only feeling arousal when an emotional connection has been established), etc, etc, etc. But there won’t be the toxicity that gets so many women killed by their partners around the world.
Last year, NBC News reported this: “Nov 26, 2018 – A new United Nations report shows about 50000 women were killed globally last year by their “intimate partner” or family member.”
A lot of that, unfortunately, has to do with toxic misogyny, toxic masculinity, and toxic patriarchy…which claims it’s “natural” for one men to have lots of women as intimate partners…yet nature has clearly made it equally plausible for one woman to have lots of men as intimate partners, too.
(Notice that in the above, I did not once deny the fact that one male can sire several children, so you don’t have to argue that part. Toxic patriarchy & toxic masculinity makes that part very obvious.)
Very much the truth
A male having a harem is purely about control and dominance (they can barely sexually satisfy one woman, let along 10, 20 or more)
A woman having a harem is about pleasure for all, plus it makes for a more stable and protected household: multiple males provides for increased physical security and providers of resources and maintenance slash repairs (yes, women can do many of those things, butt overall, a man is built more for strength and physical endurance)
Those are…impressive….