Grrl Power #703 – In space, no one can hear you canoodle
So… yeah. Sydney doesn’t have a furry thing per se. >cough< She’s just been through a lot recently and is maybe realizing that life might be short, so when the cute (?) starship doctor is giving you some pretty clear signals, maybe explore that instead of being too self conscious to try new things.
Sydney had to save vs. social insecurities to agree to hop into a bath with a guy she’s known for like 5 minutes. She didn’t get a critical success. If she had, she wouldn’t be blushing so hard she gets a rash, she just squeaked by on the roll.
Xuriel, in case anyone has forgotten, is Dabbler’s actual name. Just thought I’d mention it since I’m the last person who should expect everyone to remember every name and alias ever mentioned in every piece of media they consume. I guess I could have just added her to the Who’s Who, but that seemed weird since she’s not actually on the page.
Frix is assuming quite a bit about Sydney’s relationship with Dabbler. While it could be interpreted as Frix suggesting that anyone who hangs out with succubi becomes increasingly wanton over time, (might be true) he’s simply assuming that a person would need a certain temperament to associate with them for an extended period. Dabbler can certainly be exhausting at times. Of course, we don’t know what his own experiences are with succubi. We know Cora is good friends with Dabbler, and even if Frix has never met her, he’s at least heard tales of her exploits.
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The last row of the comic got me thinking again about a previous question I never got resolved. (and I don’t want to dig through hundreds of old comments pages).
How long does it take for one orb to complete a full orbit around Sydney? From this comic it looks like somewhere between 2 and 4 rpm.
My guess is that the default rotation rate is very slow, maybe 1 RPM, but varies depending on her mood. They might also reverse direction periodically or even stop sometimes.
Far as i know she controls the orbs movements with her mind except when its about to give her an upgrade. Itsnot clear that they rotate at slall unless she is making them do so. Their only default that I’ve seen is they form a halo around and over her head when not in Tubey.
Kinda sorta, not quite
Yes, she can have limited control over them, butt when she’s not controlling them their default pattern is to orbit her head
About the only thing in debate, is how fast they rotate
The possible canoodling of Sydney can be expected to be interrupted simply because of a time factor. Cora made it clear that the trip to Earth would offer Sydney enough time to eat, bathe, and take a nap. Any canoodling will cut into that. At the moment we have ship’s doctor bathing, Sydney bathing, and then what? Each bath can be expected to take significant time –during which the spaceship approaches Earth.
Somehow I suspect Cora is the type to take the scenic route to provide more time for canoodling, if only to get more ammunition for teasing.
Or, she might land quietly at Archon and not tell Syd until she walks out of her “bath” 2 hours later and right into Maxima.
Not to be a wet blanket [well, not only…], but there is a serious chance that any Sydney sex will happen off page, at least this time. While we know Sydney has more or less the normal urges [see page 1], she is still a kid sister type [and any nieces or nephews are merely proof there is a god]. So it is common for authors to leave the point up in the air. And of course, we much prefer watching Dabbler having sex.
Hindsight can be fun. It definitely happened, but you nailed it with the off panel. Got REAL close with the fan service though.
So either Max had Sydney training a lot more than we’ve seen (remember, she’s only just signed up a few days ago), or Cora’s ship’s gravity is higher than we anticipated. That’s quite a bicep on Sydney’s arm. Ditto both her forearms.
*gasp* The Super enhancements are viral!
Actually, looking at the first few pages in the archive (before “let me back up a few months” on page 4), Sydney’s arms are covered with a shirt. So the muscles-by-superhuman-virus option is viable… ditto the most common superpower mentioned on another comment.
Those aren’t particularly “heavy workout” styled muscles. Carrying heavy cardboard boxes around the stockroom for a couple of years has probably been enough for that.
I think it’s also a matter if perspective – we’re looking down her arm in the last panel (the only really good one for judging her musculature), which makes it look shorter and therefore stockier.
And, let’s face it, the author’s artistic skill has DEFINITELY grown since the comic began. Besides, adrenaline fueled punches to automata would tend to tense the muscles more than normal.
Alright, without making any admittance, there has to be something between. “Thinking an anthropomorphic figures can be hot, especially with mostly human features.” and “Wanting to dress up in an animal costume to have sex.”
Seems like there is a golf between those two points, yeah. But clearly points along a same spectrum. Idk, I suppose I have to sort of accept furry as a sexual orientation that deserves not to be mocked, but it is pretty hard not to want to mock them? I mean, am I a bad person for thinking that dressing up in an animal costume is both weird and silly? Let alone going so far as to have a “fursona”. Am I being a bad person for finding that ludicrous?
Anyhow, I don’t think that one thing is nearly same as the other. I like the https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Harkness_Test as a sort of “is alien sex bad?” indicator, and feel that sex with a furry intelligent alien a lot better than fetish pretend sex with non intelligent animals.
I am not into fur suits, doesn’t do anything for me… But I would do a cat-girl in a new-york minute.
Nekomimi anyone?
I have heard the phrase “New York Minute” a few times now. What, exactly, does that mean?
Google is your friend.
The pace of life can vary.
A guy from the Caribbean is talking to a Cornishman and says “we have a word ‘manyana’, which we say when something can be put off until tomorrow, do you have anything like that?”
The Cornishman replies “nothing with that sense of urgency”.
A New York Minute means “almost instantly” it is a phrase created by Americans outside of New York to describe how fast paced NYC life is, and how impatient New Yorkers are. Its first recorded
mention was in Piney Woods, Texas in the mid 1900’s
Best to ask The Eagles :D
And somehow we went with Don Henley instead of Cat-Girls???
Sometimes I don’t understand the internet.
As long as you don’t persecute or discriminate, then it’s fine to find them both weird and silly
Eh. The fursuits are less about the sex, in most cases – suits are expensive, difficult to clean, and more than a little hot and stuffy in most cases. The suits can be involved in courtship display, ritual, and foreplay, but most people get out of their suits before doing the deed.
Most people I have spoken to on the subject, say it’s about becoming their persona – who is an idealized version of themselves (sort of like a costume is a prop to help a method actor become their character) – or becoming closer to their physical ideal (in a way similar to a mtf transgender woman might wear falsies before she’s allowed to take hormones – she wants to have a bust, and it makes her feel closer to the person she wants to be, even if it is the result of an artificial accessory). I’m sorry to any transgender people who find such a comparison offensive – it is simply how some people discuss their fursuits.
“I suppose I have to sort of accept furry as a sexual orientation”, it’s not a sexual orientation. Those are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Asexual. Being a furry is not about just sex, though it has some part of it.
” Let alone going so far as to have a “fursona”. Am I being a bad person for finding that ludicrous? ”
No. AS said before, a Furry, is simply a fan of cartoon animal.
“I’m sorry to any transgender people who find such a comparison offensive ” Not at all.
I am a fan of various cartoon animals. I can think of many cartoon animals I find amusing or funny, but I dispute that liking willy e coyote or night wing duck, or even some web comics with anthropomorphic characters makes me a furry. And, yes, I am willing to accept that an anthropomorphic cartoon character could be sexy, but I don’t find myself attracted to them. It is possible to be a fan, without being a furry.
Sex in a fursuit, rare, but does exist. AS Kage says “it would be like having sex while wearing your sofa”.
this video is the best one i’ve found actually talking about furries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDHx6Cisdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDHx6Cisdg okey tried to link it but didn’t work
Thank you
so what happens in space(Vegas), stays in space :)
Any one else find the “STITCH STITCH” in the first panel makes it look like Sydney has been in a real nasty accident and we are seeing her teeth because te flesh has been removed?
Just me? Okay :(
I love everyone wanting Sydney to get some alien fur, but I suspect that what will happen is that as soon as she has a few quiet moments she will immediately pass out from exhaustion.
And then wake up screaming from the nightmares.
Sydney should ask if their medical could fix her eyes or at the least replace/repair her glasses.
That said, if they can repair-replace the lenses that would be fine, assuming they materials are consistant with the current glasses
Pretty sure Frix has a 3D printer a step or two short of a STTNG replicator.
You know how your inkjet also makes copies?
Something like that.
Remember to tell it not an EXACT copy.
Extrapolate the missing segment keeping bilateral symmetry.
Maybe not an EXACT copy.
Transparent crystalline carbon might be substituted for Borosilicate glass.
Despite the high refractive index, diamond would be terrible for glasses. Shit’s heavy on your nose. There’s a reason most glasses are actually plastic these days, not only can we get much higher indices of refraction for the weight, they also don’t shatter into tiny shards of glass under a sufficient impact. (They can still shatter, the pieces just aren’t sharper than razors.)
Diamond fails that second test too. Despite being incredibly hard, it’s still relatively brittle.
How about aluminum oxynitride?
Glass can be tempered and therefore shatter resistant. More so than many plastics. I had a job where people with prescription glasses had to have tempered glass, scratch resistant coated lenses. While the weight of glass lenses IS significant, often it can be compensated for by different lens cuts, and/or frame types. NOT as light by any means as plastic, but I have always hated how easily even scratch-resistant coated plastics scratch. I’ve ruined far too many pair of readers, now that I don’t need glasses for myopia, because they only come in plastic, and are not scratch coated. (Had lasik, it’s great)
She is so adorable. This is great. I need to see what happens next.
yah no.
Let me be blunt here, as long as its not life threatening the last thing anyone would want is surgery for any condition that is administers by the All Mighty mechanic and guy who knows how to run the auto med because hes good with machines, Never mind one being run by an alien species, even with a pre existing Human template on file.
Repairing might be tricky, seriously has he ever worked with anything that primitive? and replacing them runs unto the “space gun” problem. (Replicating them with 25th century material may be doable but again, 25th century material…..)
Sorry was replying to Riniko not mouse
They are not in the future, and lenses aren’t that primitive
You are saying that a mechanic doesn’t have the intelligence to be a fully qualified medic? Or worse, that a medic wouldn’t know how to repair a non-organic machine? o_O
First off material advances are an ongoing thing, We went from Literally untreated glass to pure silicon, a couple of dozen Plastics, and even some ceramics, never mind that you can now actually get (If your rich enough to pay for them) Alon lenses to prescription for your glasses.
Medic, probably, with his own and species hes used to. hes probably a decent paramedic.
Mechanic and trained doctor? less likely. Especially one that needs to basically be a Vet with a fairly broad selection of species to start with.(His, Cora. Altus, Gellen, and Slyvynrus)
They are still not that primitive, and they are still not four centuries into the future
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manners matter.
Good panel, love the machine that goes BIP getting all wonky as her heart rate hits the roof. It’s also a reminder that Sydney is an adult and sex is on the table or Medi-bed or zero grav bathtub…etc.
You don’t want a zero grav bathtub, trust me. In zero/low gravity water turns into a nightmare the blob fluid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zhdanccUvs
Yep smear a tiny dab of water.
Not a zero grav bathtub. Having several gallons of sticky blob floating around you can be…troublesome to say the least.
Well, now we know that furries turn her on… machines do not lie xD
What if it is a machine built for lying?
Has Frix said anything about the Orbs yet?
Obviously Medical takes priority, just wondering what
the ship’s TechMech has to say about them.
Doc Mc Fluffins probably just accepts them as “part” of Sydney. His captain is heavily modified by cybernetics after all. I wonder what the orbs will do during sex? Orbit both people? Do they have to wait in the tube?
I think most positions they’ll be fine, only positions affected are ones where she is on her back really. Although a nice visual is if during the emotional burst of connection they widen their orbit, go chest high and orbit both parties.
“ I wonder what the orbs will do during sex?”
Hmmm. Perhaps we will now unlock the Secret of the Seventh Orb. It’s a Sex Orb.
Well they freaked Astra(Hope from Wearing the Cape Universe) because she had a hard time seeing them “properly” because to her they looked more like holes in reality that she could not see the other side of.
Hey, that’s Chief Engineer Doc McFluffins, to you!
note that halo’s chocker disappears in all panels after the first
I’ve been pondering a philosophical point, as the clock ticks down to the next update ….
If Sydney goes “AAWOOoooooo!!!” Will that make her racist?
Only if an American is racist for saying “Guten tag” to a German
Guten Tag is a phrase in the language the German speaks.
Awwooo is a sound made by a non-sentient, non-humanoid animal that shares some features with Frix. It’s not quite the same.
You claiming to know how Frix communicates in his native language? o_O
It is still an assumption based on a phonotypical resemblance to an animal.
Now go make monkey noises to random humans and see how well that goes over. At best humans look at you like your crazy…at worst you stupidly stumbled into an inter-human racial slur and get the shit kicked out of you. Local taboos are always nice to know about.
I think sidney is focusing too much in the only cloth left in the frix bodie…
Lol,the Dora, mean Cora, ship looks like a sexy female alien perfum advertising, very suspicious…
I think it’s fine. I mean, if Sydney was a male and the doctor was a cute alien cat girl then no one would even bat an eye at the same situation happening. Double standards are a funny old thing.
OMG I ship it! :D That wolf is so cute!
having watched my cats groom each other, i think Sydney may have unintentionally hit on the furdude when she asked to brush him; altho, cats can make anything look sensual, all that extra cartilage yo
Is Frix plantigrade or digitigrade? Please say digi, plantigrade furs bother me for some reason. Also what happened to Halo’s choker?
Pretty sure you’re going to be very disappointed, take a look at his thigh positioning. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/3075 There should be a lot more shading around the upper thighs and thinning towards the knees (see the images for digitigrade and compare). Frix my friend is a bonefide plantigrade furry (until the author decides otherwise).
He’s just slightly more anthropomorphized and you prefer them more animal like, it makes sense they’re animals after all… but then…they wouldn’t be walking upright so… realism=>window :D. That said it strikes me odd when they’re walking digitigrade yet their torsos are completely straight :/.
I haven’t lolled quite so much over a single comic strip in quite some time. Thank you!
i wonder what interpretation he have of her sudden colour change.
*Sydney and Frix both glance at the health monitor Syd just broke, then at each other*
Syd: Um, you can fix that… right?
Frix: *shrug* Yeah.
Syd: That is SO HOT.
My god Dave this page especially those last 3 panels had me tied up in fits for 5 minutes.
Steady your breathing, Sydney.
Poor girl just needs a face massage.
Well “Had a heart attack after seeing a breathtaking smoking hot space wolf guy” will be, one day, in my medical profile.
For Sydney, that was downright smooth. Way to go, girl!
EEEEEEE GO SYDNEYYYY!
GOOD FOR YOU GIRL!
(He’s suuuuper cute :3)