Grrl Power #702 – Meet and groom
One of Sydney’s unofficial powers is the ability to turn on a dime, emotionally speaking. She has big reactions and big swings. One might almost describe her as manic. Not manic depressive. Just manic. Not sure if that’s a thing, but it’s Syndey’s thing.
I read something like 130 novels last year, (during my morning walks, not while I was supposed to be working on the comic or anything) including rereads of a few series. All of them were pulp sci-fi or fantasy, a lot of them happened to have haremy themes in them. I don’t know why I lean that way when I’m looking for new books to read, I think most novels with harems kind of slam the characters together too quickly and there’s little emotional weight to the relationships, but every genre has stand outs.
Anyway, that’s been on my mind a lot lately, so I thought I’d have fun with the reverse harem thing on Cora’s ship. I might have leaned into it a little hard, as I’ve never seen any sort of harem setup where the harem gets introduced along with, as Sydney puts it, their sexual resumes. Unless that harem story is just straight smut, then it’d probably be okay.
If reverse harem books interest you, the one I’ve read and can recommend is Dragon’s Gift by Jada Smith and May Sage. It’s a little more romancy than your typical pulp fantasy harem novel, but there’s a decent plot and good characters.
I updated the stale vote incentive with some old pictures I had of Cora, including the one I finally found of her Naga armor. It’s from 1992, so yeah, probably older than a lot of people reading the comic.
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I can’t say that I’m surprised Sydney would ignore the studs in the skin tight outfits and go straight for the Furry. We’ve seen her excited reaction previously with the Were reveals of
BarkleyGregor, Katrina and Pixel. Will Sydney be satisfied with brushing Frix’s fur, or will we have a budding romance?I am curious about what looks to be a tattoo on Frix’s right arm. Exactly how do you tattoo fur? Must be one of those alien high tech things.
Doesn’t look like the arm is furry, certainly not like the shoulders
Maybe they shaved what little was there and then tattooed, and the fur simply grew back
Or it’s a dye, not a tattoo.
The edges are too sharply defined for it to be dyed fur.
Or,
he too is wearing a hard light projector which is pressing down the fur and painting a tattoo like hologram over the area.
Or just a hologram above the fur.
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Splicer Tatoo in other words.
Modified genetics to produce localized pigmentation, fur patterns, scale patterns ect…
not likely to be too smooth unless the fur is really dense, but this is also a drawing, so tiger stripes would likely look the same in this medium.
This comment brought up some old memories. How many remember Earl Schieb? I’ll paint any car any color for $99.95!
Yup!
“… and if ya want just a quick do-over we have our $399.95 special!”
Not if thy use tape and spray paint
You gonna be in the same sector when they pull the tape off? o_O
simple masking tape, no need to gor crazy, and wotn hurt much either as its made to be easily removable,
Masking tape is not made to be easily removed from fur!
Try it on your dog (or cat), and let us know how many stitches you ended up with
Rub the tape and fur with vegetable oil…
Also works on band aids, labels on cans and jam jars…
Before or after applying?
Much simpler to simply shave the area first
@Guesticus After. It works great.
Masking tape, is, conversely, a great way to remove fur from clothes of furniture.
it may be some sort of combination of freeze branding and high-tech. Freeze branding use liquid nitrogen or another cryotic compound to destroy a patch of hair’s Color Follicles. if done properly, the hair will grow back colorless and appear white. If the branding tool is left in place for a longer period of time, the hair will not grow back, period.
from there, perhaps Frix’s people or the galactic community at large can alter the “Color” follicles at will, and that’s just how Frix’s fur grows now.
I assumed it was a mosaic patterning thing, like in X-inactivation in calico cats, but given the technology level, some level of shenanigans seems more likely.
Talking about the sharply defined black pattern on the arm, not the fur pattern on his chest
So was I. That looks like a fairly standard ‘tribal’ tattoo.
Study the chest fur, and see how the arm would only work if the underlying skin was marked
They are shenanigans aminiable.
That’s a good guess. Here’s another one – His species has controllable chromataphors at the base of their hair follicles, and the hair itself acts like fiber-optics giving them serious business crypsis that’s now mostly just used for rad body art since all the carnivorous teddy bears were erased from their home-wolrd.
You’ve never seen barbers do neat patterns with hair? I imagine it’s the same thing here.
It could be put on with some combination of silkscreen and air brush. Or a hologram. Or some kind of high-tech “tattooing” of the follicles so that it will “grow” that way. Or a lot of other things.
This is an alien crewmember on a ship capable of FTL travel and they are about to leave a station built around star. And the crew’s uniforms are hardlight holographic constructs.
Pretty sure they figured out how to dye fur very precisely somewhere along the way ;)
Yeah, butt fur still doesn’t grow in a sharp pattern like that on the arm, it would be all raggedy like on the chest
*snort* butt fur ow, ow. ow my sides hurt…
Sydney hasn’t had a chance to check out his butt fur, yet.
Not all ‘fur’ is equal, even on the same creature. Frix’s fur may grow thick across his torso, and thin out or naturally grow to a shorter length on his arms.
as for ‘fur tattooing’: Look up Freeze Branding. TL;DR- It damages the hair follicle’s ability to produce pigment, causing the follicle to produce colorless ‘white’ fur.
also, the Wiki article on Freeze branding has a fairly good picture of a completed and regrown branding on a horse. the lines are surprisingly sharp.
Yeah, because the skin has been branded, not just the fur (fur, like hair, doesn’t grow in a uniform length, not even if you trim it everyday)
Looks to me he only has fur on his head and shoulders, the rest (as far as we can see) seems to be as hairless as human skin. Well, he’s an alien, no reason why his hair should grow in the same places as human hair…
I can’t blame her for the fuzzy types being so cute.
Don’t let the furry cutness fool you…I bet he can be a ba-aa-aa-ad boy when he wants to.
As a furry: Don’t question the fur-tats. Really. It will drive you mad. It’s just a Thing, and it’s entirely for aesthetics. There are as many implausible answers to this question as there are people asking it, and no one should be asking it for the sake of their sanity.
What kind of tattoo ink would be drawn out into fur growing in the area? Clearly it would need repeatedly reapplied as it would get used up frequently.
I’ve always subscribed to the ‘dying the root’ idea.
Would like DaveB to show the whole design, from what we can see it looks really cool.
Well, if the fur itself was like a glass/plastic optic fiber (like they use for networks, tree decorations etc) all you would have to do would be light up the base, and the tip would then have color.
Alternatively; you could implant fiber optic stands and light them up that way. We could do this IRL now.
I can’t believe you all skipped over the fact he’s the medic and engineer. Fur in flesh wounds is a contamination hazard and engine grease would suck major balls to get out said same fur. Simply easier to shave it and cut out the middle man. Also to counter what I know is coming, hard light over the top of his fur is akin to wearing a fur suit and wrapping yourself in saran wrap. Notice he is the only one not wearing the hard light gear.
Hardlight suit can look like anything
DEFUZZEN!
No, ENFUZZEN! Unless Sydney is going to give poor Frix a full-body waxing
Depends on the fur and how it’s being brushed.
Oh, sure, Frix gets pants. Betting the other maliens are jealous, pants can be useful and fashionable… and still not hide the ‘buldge’
But he don’t get any shirt. Not that the other guys “shirts” hide much but still.
Eh, to be fair, if I was built like that, I’d probably find any excuse to lose my shirt, too. But, from a practical standpoint, I can assume he was just working in something greasy and sweaty, and the shirt was a loss in battle against .. something he was fixing. Possibly meat.
Fan service males (or maliens in this case) often lose their shirts due to strange circumstances.
Like a sudden spillage of grape soda (or was it blueberry?)
can sppilled soda be fixed with a big honkin wrench like he’s got?
Was talking about the sudden lose of shirt(s)
As I recall that particular can was loganberry. As for what a loganberry is I submit you to Google.
It’s the berries of a short hairy Canadian… >.>
It was loganberry :)
He’s not wearing the collar and he’s out of uniform
I think the collar in a hardlight system for clothing and space survival… maybe he can Frieza it in space?
Was explaining why he looks different (remember, Cora retained her collar when she changed outfits, well, most of them, can’t remember if the gimp-suit still had it)
Just made a quick check, when she changed her collar (if you mean the brown one) disappears. This shows when she chose the “casual woman” and snake girl. The gimp suit had a gimp collar on her ;)
Was wrong about ‘most of them’, doesn’t rule out the collar being part of the uniform
I don’t think Sydney cares much about a missing collar. As for his uniform, Sydney probably thinks that the only thing better than a man in uniform is a man out of uniform…
It looks like the rest of the crew are doing the skin-tight hardlight thing. Given how thick Frix’s fur appears to be in places, skin-tight might not be comfortable or even feasible. If so, Frix May like near-nudity as much as the rest of the crew, with the pants being protective gear for working on the space-plumbing.
Or it *IS* protection for his space plumbing! ;)
Yea, that wrench isn’t suggestive AT ALL ;)
It’s an attempt at keeping the crazy lady away from him
Like a towel, a pipe wrench is a necessity.
For all those pipes in space. Space pipes.
Tubes. Ya known ones that everything is going down into. They eat your duplicate sockma kik es abgreat meelee weapon for those pesky space crates that seem to be everywhere
Maybe its like a late 1970’s into the 1980’s sci-fi movie space ship; where half the ship is a basement full of pipes, steam, dripping water somehow, and so many walkways with railings to shoot people over.
like the ship from (Space Mutiny) for example.
“I fix your pipe. I fix your pipe HARD!”
Ya’ gotta love a Cheif Engineer that knows how to “lay pipe,” right? Respect the skills!
The harem expands. So what’s next? A tentacle stud?
We already met him, Trent was last seen chilling on the Archon guest-couch and freaking out Jabbers
Trent seems to be a popular summon among succubi at least. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was summoned to this ship sometimes.
DAAAMN! I have a RPG character named Altus, created back in 2012! Never expected to see his name in a story written in any language that’s not Brasilian Portuguese (mainly because his full name is Altus Potarium, which is a wordplay with “altas putarias”, a joke around here).
Also, he’s hot.
…I wonder if hovering up to taller people’s eye level will become a habit? It might start to unnerve people on Earth…
Are you sure that’s happening?
Could he be shorter than her?
I can only see 6 orbs…Is the flight one out of view?
Also…Is he the crewperson to consult with about the
Flight Orb’s user interface?
Which they should discuss in private in the guest quarters.
I see her falling asleep without notice and furryguy being
Teddybeared.
Flight is out of view because it is in Sydney’s hand.
…Which is also out of view.
Panel 4 looks angled upwards. So he has to be taller then Sydney. Probably at least half a head taller then Cora.
Wait – these guys have artificial limbs of solid light.
What part of their technology requires a monkey wrench?
Where are you getting that the guys have artificial limbs? o_O
Their captain has. They probably don’t, but the point is, they could. I mean the general level of technology. Imagine a ship engineer on Enterprise with a tool like this, and you’ll know what I mean.
Even the Enterprise had all those GNDN pipes all over the place. Sooner or later one of those would need a good wrenching.
If I was a ship designer I would put them in all over as ‘eye candy’ JUST so I can tweak investors when they come in and see a crewmember whacking on the ‘anti-matter injectors’ lines.
They are great way to relieve stress, and scare newbs :)
No, he doesn’t mean the guys have the same limbs. But Cora does, so we know they have the tech.
He means why would there be a monkey wrench when you can form tools out of hard light.
Though that wrench could BE hard light for all we know. Cora’s limbs can take on colors and textures, so why wouldn’t a tool copy?
Why do you need tools when you can make the plumbing out of hard light?
Because a power fluctuating causing your plumbing to not exist, even for a second, is an incredibly bad idea. Always good to have solid structures for daily habitation and use.
Plumbing is still plumbing. Air. Water. Fuel. Waste. Something will need pipes, and pipes need wrenches.
If it’s “organic waste”, that might explain why he had to ditch the shirt! :D
Cora has limbs of hard light. As far as we know the rest of her crew just have plain old meat limbs.
Cora has artificial limbs, I’m pretty sure the others don’t.
A proper engine much like a window *see Star Trek rants*, should never be made of anything that can fail all at once like force fields.
Just because you CAN make solid projection structures, the energy required to produce it could exceed the energy it generates as a machine. So best not to rely on something like that for anything big, like space ship parts.
Always figured the windows on the Star Trek ships to be foot thick clear-aluminium (that stuff Scotty was talking about in the second movie, the one they go back in time and a Russian is asking passers-by where they keep the Nuqueer Wessels)
TOS’ Enterprise didn’t have windows on the bridge, it was ‘buried’ deep within the hull and used viewscreens
It wasn’t buried deep in the ship; the bridge of the NCC 1701 Enterprise was literally at the top of the turbolift, under that golden dome.
Jean Johnson’s spaceships did have the bridges buried in the heart of most of them, in her novels. Well, okay, shuttles and courier vessels and the Delta-VX are more like standard airplanes with the cockpit up front, but if it’s too big to go through OTL, the bridge got buried deep in the center.
Star Trek: (pick a series) didn’t really do much of that. Neither did the humans of Babylon 5 (the Minbari could be argued that their big fish ships had the nerve centers deep inside, but not the White Star vessels). The con tower of modern-day battleships is also way out there in a vulnerable spot…but that can be attributed to the fact a lot of these designs are leftover from before cameras and screens were a viable thing for steering them, with the helmsmen instead relying heavily upon actually looking through a window (or taking orders from someone looking through a window) to steer the ships.
But that’s not feasible with the 3 dimensions of space. A ship on water needs to have the helm perched up high enough to see over the prow and see the horizon in any direction, because they’re traveling on a “flat” surface, essentially 2 dimensions. But a starship, that needs to see up & down as well as front & back, left & right. And you really don’t want a battle-capable ship to have its nerve center exposed and vulnerable to being destroyed not just by enemy fire, but by a tumbling asteroid, a narrow chasm, etc, etc.
I still have the blueprints of the first Enterprise.
ST:TOS Enterprise Bridge may not have had windows on the Bridge, but it wasn’t located deep within the ship. It was placed in the bulleye position where all Federation Ship Bridges were located. Star Fleet had some pretty moronic ship designers.
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They just wer not designed with war or heavy combat in mind. Besides, blowing up the bridge is not nessisarilly a kill shot on a federation ship. The “ship” can still function without the bridge. Some ships ave a secondary bridge deeper in the ship for emergencies, and main engineering can take over all bridge functions if nessisary. On the other hand, if you hit the main anti-mater storage tanks (typically) houses on the bottom (ventral) most deck of the ship, you get a very nice big boom and the ship is most certainly taken out of action, in lots of little pieces.
All of the ST ships, had a second bridge, for when dislocating the Saucer.
in TOS it was called “Auxiliary Control” and yes, the original Enterprise could separate the saucer. It was mentioned in at least one episode, but never actually done.
From “The Apple”
KIRK: Then use your imagination. Tie every ounce of power the ship has into the impulse engines. Discard the warp drive nacelles if you have to, and crack out of there with the main section, but get that ship out of there!
The exact phrase was “transparent aluminum”. Which really exists, apparently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
AlON or “Alon” is a trade name for artificial sapphire and that had been used for wristwatch crystals for a couple of decades before “Star Trek: The Voyage Home” was released.
Although, the production of large panes and domes required for armoured vehicle windows would have been a national secret around the time of the movie release.
Perhaps it’s just a prop for his sexy blue collar worker stripper outfit. I mean it would not be out of place on this ship.
He’s not wearing a collar though, blue or otherwise
the collar is… else where.
As a ‘ring’? Thought of that
Probably a tie. Cuz he means business, if it gets out.
He’s not wearing a tie though…
I’ll give you a hint: you’re thinking about the wrong head.
Nope, most people wear a ring down ‘there’, not a tie
Space plumbing. Which is regular plumbing in artificial gravity. Wow that would get super messy if the gravity shuts off. Bleh.
I just find it really funny that the design is identical to the ones we use one earth. I mean, sure, convergent evolution of a tool used by humanoids would probably mean it would eventually result in a long lever arm with a head made of parallel jaws on a worm gear, but exactly the same? Down to the shape of the head and everything?
Who says that a regular tool in sci-fi does anything like what it’s normal counterpart does? The wrench may just have the form factor for giggles and/or easy identification, but internally contain high-tech widgets like an power source and the ability to grip objects bigger than itself and multiply any applied force thousands of times over.
The xenobiologists I have heard have said that if your “alien” life form can be justifiably be called a mammal, reptile or even cephlopod, then you are looking a local, that is some Earth critter we just did not know enough about before. The likelihood of having all the characteristics of a mammal, like 4 limbs, 5 digits at the end of each limb, a head with multiple sensory organs at one end, common facial structure, body fur, etc. on a true alien would be so unlikely as to be non-existent; you found something from Earth.
Note how Sydney was interested in Cora’s mention of Slyv’s tongue, and was still flustered when she shook his hand?
Combine Frix ‘fur brushing’ with Slyv’s tongue action, and you could change Sydney’s name to “Shelby Wright” :P
Uh, I don’t get it.
Get what?
Who’s Shelby Wright?
She’ll (she will) be right :D
It’s either an Aussie or a Kiwi phrase (difficult to tell sometimes)
Was thinking of this old ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQf1DUkf6e8 (although they say “You’ll be right”, still a cute ad and gets the message across)
There is also a Slim Dusty song that gives you an idea of it’s usage (shame it’s about Aussies :P)
Sydney might probably be wondering if Slyv “speaks” with a forked tongue, among other things…
Sydney is probably wondering if Slyv “speaks” with a forked tongue…Among other things with it.
I’d have the same reaction as Sydney to Frix’s introduction.
People can be manic without being manic depressive. However, Ms Scoville would not fit the medical definition of the term imho.
People can also be depressed without being manic depressive
People can also be manic depressive, and never get sad… like I do …. somehow.
psychology is fuckin weird.
Just because you are depressed, doesn’t mean you are sad, and vice versa
Just like because you are alone doesn’t mean you are lonely
Umm … Yes she does fit the medical definition for unipolar mania (aka, manic episodes).
Exaggerated affect? Check.
Flights of fancy / ideas? Check.
High / exaggerated energy levels? All the checks.
Sudden and major mood swings, including sudden bursts of violence or irratibility? Check.
Easily distracted? Hellz yes. Checking that like no tomorrow.
If you look up hypomania or simply the effects of a manic state. She has 95% of them. Excluding Grandosity (she does have super powers), Clang rhymes (suddenly rhyming words that sound similar. Without context or relation. Simply say rhyming words because they rhyme.), And Psychotic episodes.
So yes. Sydney definitely has manic episodes. You can be manic, and not be bipolar. Just like you can be unipolar depressed without being bipolar or having both depression and anxiety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania
Yeah, sounds like Sydney alright.
Mania is also correlated with ADD which Sydney is under medication for. There are drugs that are used to control mania, but I don’t know if they are used or even useful when mania is a complication of ADD.
AH, a harem,
I shall self plug again with…wait…no…darn.
while I “technically” have characters with “harems” or rather polyamorous relationships…never really wrote any as a straight up harem story; despite Tenchi Muyo and Ranma 1/2 being big inspirations.
A horde of vampire lovers or seductive hive queen isn’t really a harem story, and having a moment here or there to express *this character is the head of a nobility like house of supernatural beings that all like to get frisky with one another*, its always only a moment; usually at the end of a (this one or two specific ones were making your life a living Hell; so here’s the rest of them)
closest thing to a straight up harem story was an erotic horror…and that was more a…they are the (pets) of a demon in Hell, than a proper harem….and a sci-fi threeway relationship between a trio of bio-androids (replicant, Lamia, and Naga).
Just like with slice of life, just because I like something doesn’t mean I am confident I could write a good version of it, same with a full on harem set up. Although given the way the stories go I really should have the (princesses) interact with each other more often than just the pair ups or threesomes.
Didn’t know that was a thing.
What? Harem stories?
Not 100% on the terms but, a harem denotes one individual is at the center of the relationship and everyone else focuses on them.
A polyamorous relationship is basically three or more people, but they are all interested in each other; so no single focus for everyone. So imagine if in Tenchi Muyo, rather than Ryoko and Ayeka fighting over Tenchi all the time, they were also just as interested in each other.
Although the situation also becomes an authority issue. Even with inter-harem relationships if the set up still centers around a King, Chief, Space Goddess, ect… and they are basically all the wives/husbands/concubines of this individual then it is still a harem.
A polyamorous set up may require to fully pull away from being a harem, not having anyone in the group having any real authority over each other.
To clarify, a polyamorous relationship doesn’t have to be everyone being into everyone else. You could have Amy and Bob, plus Amy and Chad, but Bob and Chad having no interest in each other besides the fact that they are part of the same family. And Chad might sleep with Debra and Eileene, who do sleep with each other, and Debra sometimes hooks up with Bob but has no interest in a physical relationship with Amy. And they could all consider themselves to be part of the same family, or they could see each relationship or trio as its own separate thing.
Basically, anything to do with people which can be described in a simple way, is going to be much more complicated than that. It’s as absolute a rule as Rule 34, maybe even moreso! :-)
Well, yeah, I was trying to keep the description simple. I wasn’t, still am not, sure what his question was in relation too. So figured it was the many involved but not a harem set up concept.
Turn it into a word problem on a math quiz and you might lose people, LoL.
Like we have figure A who is involved with figures B through Z, but figure B is only involved with A unless a threesome (or more) is taking place; however figures C, D, E, and F regularly group up together on their own but not with anyone else even if A is involved and might even view others as rivals outside their quartet *except for B whom they respect as a (first wife), except F whom only does so for the sake of C,D, and E; but otherwise has no interest in anyone outside of A, C,D, and E. Meanwhile G and H are frequent lovers but it can come and go, while I and J are inseparable and anyone wanting to be with one of them has to be with both of them or no dice.
ect…
I’m going to agree with Sydney here. I love brushing my dog’s fur. My roommate’s ca’t fur. Horses on the ranch I worked on for a few years. I love taking care of furry creatures. So what if this one is six feet tall?
Any species covered in fur would probably spend a lot of time on grooming. Assuming they’re social, it wouldn’t be surprising if mutual grooming were a common part of their interaction. So once you get to know them, they probably wouldn’t mind.
The Kzinti meet and greet in Niven comes to mind.
You ca tell when your pets are not feeling well or are a bit out of sorts too when they don’t take care of their grooming too. I sometimes pet sit and the new cat my brother had adopted still had winter fur and clumps etc. One Snoopy brush later and a ton of fur gone, he began to start taking care of himself too. was more sociable and less skittish in general too.
That’s a valid point. Though sometimes they’ll stop grooming when they’re mad at you, too. My roommate’s cat does that, and if you try to brush her she’ll flip out until you stop. A few days of that, and then she’ll start grooming again and act like she was never mad.
Careful there Frix, Sydney didn’t bring a brush so she’s gonna have to do it the Terran mama cat-style (psst, that means she’s going to use her tongue)
Wolverine, her reaction to Dabbler talking about fur covered aliens, her reaction to seeing real werewolves and other therionthropes; and now this.
I think we can officially say Sydney has a type, and that type is fuzzy.
Nah, Sydney’s type is “partially made of metal and has no parents”. She’s a big fan of Wolverine, yes, but also Ed and Batman.
Rhuen is correct about the furry-fixation, and how she reacted when she meet some real-life werewolves (she just wanted a selfie with Fangs, butt she went into a fan-girl-induced coma when meeting Mister Barkley)
Oh, she definitely squees at fur-laden individuals, I’m not denying that. All I’m saying is that the characters that she drools over are more than a little bit different.
She drools over beefcake, last page second last panel, and during her orientation when Harem took the BeefCake Calendar photo (anyone happen to be standing under her would have been left wondering why it was raining indoors :P )
So do I, RE: my Icon.
Don’t forget the Pixel/Sydney vote incentive where Syd was brushing Pix and making multiple pigtails in her fur. Syd is a definite furry-chaser.
1. Nice humble brag
2. Listening to audio books is not “reading”
3. Japanese Light Novels are not actual novels
4. We all know you’re secretly Chuck Tingle
I’m pretty sure that the word “novel” in their name would disagree with you on point 3. They are simply lighter novels than most.
Oh good the pedants in the comments don’t have a sense of humor. Who would have thought I’d find that here on a soft core porn scifi fantasy webcomic.
Pro-Tip: If you’re finding a problem with frequent posters everywhere you go online, then you’re the common factor and it’s likely you’re the one with the erroneous sense of humor.
It is a reading.
When an author does a “reading” from their latest novel at a convention, the audience members are attending a reading. They are at the reading. They are following along. They are reading. With their ears still counts. It counts. (Don’t make me smack you on behalf of all my friends with visual impairments.)
(Seriously, blind people will say “see you later!” and they will lift their gaze upward when thinking, just like people with full sight, even if they’ve never been able to see a single speck of light all their life.
Deaf & hearing impaired people read lips, they don’t “see” lips.
If you’re enjoying an audio book, you are reading.
(Yes I will…okay maybe not die on this hill, since I have a few more important hills out there with cemetery plots on standby…but I will be severely wounded on this hill and stick y’all with the medical bills!!)
With the Kindle’s app’s integration with Audible, I find myself flipping between reading text and listening to the narration on the commute, blurring the lines between “reading” and “listening” since I’m moving through the story either way. Using the phrase “reading a book” for any and all combinations of the above is less awkward than “listening to a book” or “reading a book but sometimes listening to the audio book.”
Though I sometimes stick with “listening to an audiobook” if I don’t have the text or will never look at it, or if it’s a particularly well done performance that sets it apart from the experience of simply reading text.
Ah, language is fun. I had never heard of using ‘read’ to also include ‘talking books’/audio books. (see ref)
I noticed people have three ways to ‘experience’ a book. several visual(Sign (ASL)/lip reading/text etc.), audio and touch (braille) One special touch one was a modified sign language that was done in the hand for someone who is deaf and blind (Helen Keller). I am not sure we have a special word for the touch variations.
So definitions need to be updated ergo:
‘To read’/reading (sic) is to understand language by means of one senses (vision, hearing or tactile means) At some point we should include smell, (Electro)magnetism, etc.
I put in magnetic since hammerhead sharks find food by it, and computers ‘read’ tape, and disk with it too.
And pray tell what would the language of love be with out the smell of roses- ;-p
ref
https://www.loc.gov/nls/braille-audio-reading-materials/latest-books-in-braille-and-audio/talking-book-topics-bimonthly-magazine/
Hmmm, Frix’s intro doesn’t include his sexual resume… Is he off-limits (i.e. Cora’s happy to share the others but not him) or not part of the harem?
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
No sexual resume, no sexy uniform – he’s not available.
My gues is “not part of the harem” – not into it at all.
That’s just Sydneys luck :D
And here I thought that that was his sexual resume – Cora’s slightly subler way of saying that he gets VERY hands on with her…
Well, he’s an alien. For all we know, his kind are naturally monogamous and mate for life like certain bird species. Could be that Cora actually hired him for his skills as a medic and engineer, not his beddign skills. It’s not as if she lacks male attention without Frix! :)
Nah, she just gave up as it was clear that Sydney was not interested in that part of her opinion, so when her medic/mechanic showed up, she left out that part of the description.
I’m picturing Halo as a Villain, for some reason I’m thinking something like The Collector only with pretty species and shiny things and possibly the ACTUAL ships from things like Star Trek and Firefly plundered in some Interdimensional Raid….. and possibly the crews. To be honest I think she’d be really nice to them… in a heavy breathing kinda way…
The Collector… huh…
With pretty species and shiny things… huuuuuuh?
Where the hell are heads & spines (severed from bodies)?
It’s kinda fun when one doesn’t know the referrence.
So… Where else is Collector except the Darkest Dungeon? (Note: I…. well, you could say I am “living under a rock”. I rarely catch pop-culture referrences (and when I do, it’s probably because someone was so kind and enlightened me before)
Oh… this might be a bit confusing, but…
Why the long huh:
Not because I misunderstood, but because of The Collector who collects various things, not just heads attached to their spines.
Also sorry for the double-post, If I may call it like that.
It’s not a double-post if you are replying to your own post with more information (can’t edit so if you forgot something or feel something needs to be clarified, you have to reply), a double post is when you post twice with basically the same information (because you believed the site was playing up and it didn’t display your initial post)
As to your question: The Collector is a character from the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie (you don’t want to watch the 2009 movie unless you are into movies like “Saw”)
Ah.
Thank you for clearing it for me.
And for giving me something to watch.
Watch which one? Remember, suggested you NOT to watch “The Collector”, if you do, that’s on you :P
You suggested not to watch it unless I am into stuff like Saw.
Which is just the right thing to lull me when I’m unable to fall asleep.
(What a weirdo I am, right? ;))
Nothing wrong with being weird :D
I love how Frix, apart from being furry, is also the mechanic. He has to know the internals of a spaceship. Best thing next to geek knowledge you can get on a spaceship.
Frix just plays int all of SYdney’s fetishes, doesn’t he.
IDK, I didn’t take her love of fur to be a sexual thing and Wolverine and Ed suggest that she might be into metal.
She got super-excited over the werewolf, the werehare, the werejaguar…and Wolverine is canonically excessively hairy. (Even when they cast Hugh Jackman who is over 6′ tall when Wolverine in the comic books is barely 5’3″ at most, they made sure Hugh was hairy-chested, hairy-armed, etc.)
Hmm… when I read the finale: “hairy-chested, hairy-armed” I continued in my mind: “hairy-legged, hairy-haired, hair… wait what?”
Also when I was writing this and got to “hairy-armed” I imagined a gun shooting balls of hair and then a hairy firearm…
What’s wrong with me?
And yet they made no attempt to hide his scars, which I’m fairly sure Wolverine isn’t supposed to be able to acquire.
He’s the Mechanic AND The Medic. What ever need twisted,,pulled or drilled, he do for you.
The vote incentive picture, good old faserip
Ha! Yeah, it actually took me a second to recognize it. Easiest RPG acronym to remember ever. It’s been ages since I’ve seen a copy of the old Marvel RPG.
That’s what had wanted to ask several hours ago (butt completely forgot when went to the homepage looking for the invotive thread)
What does ‘Faserip’ stand for? Doesn’t look like the usual D&D categories…
Physical stats: Fighting, Agility, Strength, Endurance. Mental Stats: Reason, Intuition, Psyche as simple as that system was it had some great elements, for example i remember that good old spiderman had a fairly normal human level of Intuition however his spider sense power let him function as if he had a a waaaaay higher score for the purpose of making checks, leaving him with a normal level of intution when venom of the green goblins spider sense neutralizing gas bombs* where around
*(yup it existed, blame the sliver age)
Venom OR the green goblins,,, rather
Came here for this comment, satisfied to find it mentioned. Oh, the RPGs of yore.
Also, very interesting to see the varied and many stylistic changes for Dave.
So the ship uses hyper Advanced pipe wrench technology.
Funky ship requires a Monkey wrench.
Sometimes things just need to be banged by a handy pipe wrench. The mark of a good engineer is knowing where to hit.
The mark of an excellent engineer is always having a wrench at hand then, I guess?
the mark of an advanced engineer is designing a multi-tool that just LOOKS like a monkey wrench
So… wrench magic?
Now, this plants an idea.
Imagine a game where this would be a thing:
Engineering skill would be called Wrench magic and when you spend a point in it, your wrench gets additional functions.
I want this game :D
Its usually a side mechanic in some games that have crafting and/or alchemy set ups *JRPGs more frequently*
I am sure there are some that have it as the main feature, like a builder game with one magic tool that does everything and needs upgrades.
I had science fiction rpg in mind…
or rather science fantasy.
Those would be mot JRPGs,
crafting mechanic, and upgradable tend to be side elements in a good number of them. Like you can combine this and that item or raw materials to make other items. You can also upgrade your crafting toolkit to make even more items.
But fantasy or sci-fi its basically the same thing, upgrading toolkit or upgrading magic cauldron with recipes. Its basically the same mechanic.
I mean I’ve seen this feature in ArTonelico, Atelier, Mana Khemia, Star Ocean, some of the “Tales of” series have done it, Record of Agarest War has made it central to some plot elements; and Xenoblade; all come to mind.
Does Sydney have a fur fetish? Maybe. Did her parents deny every request she had for a pet, and now she is making up for that be befriending every furry possible? Most definitely.
but also she has a fur fetish, probably.
Since in all previous shots the blue flight orb is located between the pinkblue lighthook orb and the yellow comm ball orb…yet in the last panel the pinkblue and yellow orbs are next to each other…pretty sure Sydney did actually grab the flight orb and float to get her within leering/looming range of Frix.
Given the view from behind Sydney/over her shoulder, her is indeed taller than her (by at least a foot)…and suddenly this petite creamy-pink skinned female is abruptly FLOATING and eager to brush his fur…yeah, I’d have let out a startled yelp myself & been a bit unnerved by the sheer eagerness of her request…
No matter Sydney’s choice of actions, regarding the crew, she will be setting off Dabbler’s porn-sense in odd and interesting ways.
Sydney IS odd and interesting…
Back at Archon headquarters:
Dabbler: [ Using a communication device, similar to but definitely not a cell phone, sitting in the lounge ] That’s great Cora! How long before you get her back to Earth? [ Pause ] Excellent. I will let the others know. We really miss her around here. [ Pause ] Yeah, you could say that. Max has said that Sydney has grown on her. [ Pause ] No, not like cancer! It’s an English expression that means more or less what you said. [ Pause ] Great, I will meet you when you get here.
Dabbler: [ Finds Max with Arianna ] Hey Max, that star-ship crew I was telling you about just picked up Sydney. They should be here next week. Hmm, let’s see. Probably … Thursday.
Max: That is good news. What is with the pauses?
Dabbler: I had to work out the trans-luminal vector calculus and the interactions with general relativity to get the time of arrival.
Max: Of course, you would work out the rocket science in your head.
Dabbler: Nah, they’re not using rockets. I’m not supposed to tell you what they are using, but it is definitely not rockets.
Yes, Dabbler cheated on the time. She just had to add the 10 days she was told about to come up with next Thursday, but the others don’t have to know that. ;)
Arianna: [ Pained expression in her voice ] Why do you even ask?
Max: Well, sometimes I even understand what she is saying.
Get enough data, you start to get context. You get context, you start to get understanding. Knowledge acquired.
*Final Fantasy Victory Theme Plays*
*chocobo riding theme plays*
Correct. Unlike a manic depressive who swings from highs to lows very quickly, Sydney pinballs between every point on a 5-dimensional compass at ramming speed.
Been reading too many Japanese Light Novels… Really expected Sydney to say “mofumofu”
I think Cora just found Sydney’s weak spot. Fast agreement for double damage.
Ahh CMRPG, where superspeed aunt may could murder Superman
One question re: the Voting Incentive: “Dynotaku”? I like it…
Sydney just wants to know if Frix is a baaaaahhhhdd boy!
Looks like that Sydney won’t have a boring voyage back to Earth…!
First a little wordnerdery: Harem comes from the Arabic Haraam, meaning “forbidden”.
2nd, Sydney has already said she was OK with fur in Grrl Power #342 – Predenuded.
Whoops, that’s a typo in the original post. I only read 130 books last year, not 230. For some reason after a wordpress update I can’t edit posts anymore.
Welcome to our world.
I have a friend who worked at O’Hare airport. Thirty minutes of frantic activity when a plane comes in, and the rest of the time waiting for the next plane. He read 330 books in 365 days!
If you are in for some fun fantasy, Terry Pratchet is great. The Rivers of London series could also be inspirational if you want to revisit your magical stuff again. Great books. I also enjoy Warhammer: 40k, even if it’s grimdark. Your evil blood mage would fit right in.
Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London is an amazing series, seconded.
Technology can get some increadable results. We can now put barcodes on fruit or paint scenes on a grain of rice. Give it a cew xecades and we could change the color of indiviual hairs.
She wants to brush his fur…with what?
Her tongue
“Please sto- rrrreally?” Sydney is being reminded of some possibilities.
I don’t mind harem stories, but for me, the tension of ‘who will they pair up with’ bothers me. If the characters in the harem can like each other, and they can like the main person … why fight? This is why I’m a fan of Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari. A guy winds up in a fantasy world, and has to marry a member of five different races to take on the Big Evil End Guy. The five wives do actually get along for the most part, which I find refreshing. (Monster Musume’s another one which also works for the most part…)
On the flip side, my sister’s constantly frustrated with harem stories – she likes them, but she’s trying to find lesbian harem stories, and that’s a pretty rare beast.
In all the ones I’ve read, everyone gets along quite well. I don’t think I’d like ones where everyone’s fighting and the guy has to referee all the time.
That’s not to say there isn’t sometimes some initial strife, but ultimately things get worked out.
Tell her to try a series that has been translated on Yuri-ism called Earth Girls, about a lesbian village in Far BC time, about the end of the Ice Age start of agriculture period (they build permanent huts so they can’t use hunter-gatherer food procurement, plus they have weaving). Lesbian harems abound that have shifting relationships and sometimes pairings that split off but hang around for protection/shared food. The last chapter of the last book was just posted a few days ago.
Read most of that years ago, will have to look for it again
As you initially said: it’s more of a lesbian village (only women, brought together for mutual protection and survival) with a few open relationships than a lesbian harem
I don’t want to leave a NSFW link in Dave’s comic in case he might lose ad revenue for this page, but if you Google Yuri-ism and then search the site for the string “earth girls” you get all three volumes.
Huh, now that it’s mentioned that is a hard genre to be able to find good content for.
I’ve read a few stories where the participants eventually become a ‘lesbian harem’ but they are still few and far between. (eg one called ‘Planetary Agents’ – a few short stories with a few pics) kinda Dirty Pair sci-fi
I’m… too sexy for Hard Light. To sexy for Hard Light, so sexy that’s right…
I love the Marvel FASERIP stats on your picture after voting! That RPG is one of my all time favorites!
The co-author of Dragon’s Gift is Jada Storm, not Jada Smith. You got me excited that Mrs. Will Smith had written a book that would be quite the departure from the children’s book she wrote.
I’ll have to remember to fix that once I figure out what’s preventing me from editing posts.
I believe that what’s preventing you from editing is know colloquially as “coding and software and stuff”.
(Joking aside, I guess just use your [search-engine]-fu if you can’t find some useful info on the WordPress forums¹, Reddit, YouTube, or StackOverflow.)
¹(Assuming this is a thing)
and so thinking frix’s race social standards brushing hair and or fur is more used in lovey dovey or dateing or couples or warming up to foreplay type concept XD