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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If Sydney gets some tonight out of this encounter, I will be genuinely happy for her. :-)
If I were writing it, shenanigans would be prevented by an external influence, such as the ship coming under attack. I can see some mileage in a denied Sydney, especially in a combat situation.
Also teasing.
If I were the writer, Sydney would fall asleep before she could even start grooming Frix… but fortunately I’m not.
On the one hand Sydney wouldn’t have to worry about getting Blue Balled, because she already has one on top of her head!
GOODNIGHT EVERBODY!!!!
Ninjas have been sent to your home to deal with you for that joke :)
If I were writing this, a big freaky detailed sex scene would be guaranteed; and forced resistance against adding a futa android or something; because the scene should be erotic yet cute and heart warming not just kinky and freaky.
As a former nerd who could not get laid on a bed, shame on you all for your needless attempts to interject comic hijinx and increased sexual tension into Sydney’s trist. This is a fantasy comic, the other nerds reading this do not need nor want to be reminded of their failed/interrupted/ sexual escapades. I for one feel great satisfaction in the thought of Sydney getting some.
I guess some feel the need to ship.
Still, IF something happens, I wager we’d have to imagine it in our minds (like: there’d be “after some time” or some similar caption and text bubble “wow, that felt great!” and who doesn’t want to slip into that territory imagines grooming and whoever else imagines whatever they want (although… it would be kinda suggestive, I guess… so… a little bit of grooming before?))
Unless author comes up with enough chatter to fill a grooming page, or will skip any post-grooming commentary.
But still, I guess “shippers” should bear in mind that some have complexes about being unable to find partner.
Guess it would be too much bother to create forum/thread(somewhere) for shippers (probably already exist… ya know, 34,35) and asking author to put link somewhere on the page (or at the end of his post with “If you daydream about grrlpower characters making out, please discuss it in the following forum/thread *insert link* as opposed to comment section”
Then again, if it bothers you that much and the thread/forum doesn’t exist, feel free to ask the author if he’d put the link and comment/explaination/whatever in the desciption and create the thread/forum.
(I guess it doesn’t, but well, time will show.)
Dr Fluffikins complains to Captain in background as they drop Sydney off that she fell asleep after grooming him and he needed an assist with pressure?
Objection!
Sydney is genre savvy enough to know she needs medical clearance before going Captain Kirk on the locals!
Fortunately, that is the ships doctor, I bet clearance can be rapidly arranged.
Yes, she might contract medical bio-nanites from him that hunt down viral, bacterial, and other assorted foreign bodies detected causing harm and exterminate them, giving Sydney perfect immunity to disease and even most toxins.
For shame having sex with advanced aliens that regularly intermingle with multiple species without contact suits so likely have an internal defense *ignoring that parasites typically are species specific so examples of first contact between humans don’t really apply to alien first contacts as we’d be unlikely to infect each other without regular enough contact for the diseases to adapt*, but the internal medical defense is a better safety net.
Only issue would be those too would probably qualify as above the planet’s tech allowance…which would fall under *galactic level dick move* for an advanced civilization or several who have regular contact with a planet to deny the locals the same medical protections they give themselves in order to secretly intermingle like…oh we have defenses against your diseases, that way we can walk among you like ninja tourists, but won’t afford you those same protections as we think you should discover them on your own…you know, despite the fact we profit off you.
Sydney will have some tales to tell when she returns home…!
And nobody she can tell it, because “Aliens, Vampires and Werewolves are real” propably is still a secret.
She could tell dabbler at least. And possibly Max :3
Sydney wouldn’t have to tell Dabbler, she’d just KNOW… porno-sense tingling and all that.
Max… will likely be in the room for that conversation, if it happens on screen.
Dabbler: “So, you met the ship’s doctor?”
Sydney: *actinic blush*
Dabbler: “Ah, so you ‘met’ the doctor, eh?” *huge grin*
Yes, she will have tails to tell abbut too.
Don’t feel bad Sydney. If it was Tigra, Minerva Mink, or one of the Sexyfur girls….my heart would be going so fast it’d be like when the Flash made people think his heart had STOPPED.
True, I always had and still do have a thing for Jenny from Bucky O’Hare, ZigZag, Sheila Vixen, Cheetara, and so on.
Oh, ZigZag… (And Cheetara too, of course!)
the fact that none of you mentioned Carmelita Fox is sheer lunacy.
… Who?
Her,
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sly/images/e/ea/Carmelita_fox_looking_into_the_distant.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130214193504
Following the furry double standard I see, in a world where most males are pants less she still has to have her lower half covered.
Fine, but you never mentioned Krystal.
I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve never played any Sly Cooper game. I know who she is though.
Ah, ZigZag. For my sister’s birthday, the artist drew her OC and Zig in a DDR contest. Pays to live four blocks from Max. ;)
Sweet!
Not gonna lie, i’d be all over that offer. Hope Sydney has a good time, she’s earned one.
A little percussive maintenance there.
Which is the best kind.
“A little percussive maintenance there”
To the EKG or to Sydney? HEY-O!
Sydney is just too pure, considering she’s xuriel/dabbler’s friend im thinking the crew might be misjudging her level of sexual lets say freedom (though cora might know and is just keeping that hidden, partially for the humor as sydney might as well be a nun when compared to dabbler)
that’s pretty much exactly what DaveB says in the Author’s Note (or whatever that’s called)
I seem to recall Sydney humping her full body Edward Elric pillow after Dabbler’s healing spell made her super horny so I’d say she’s more than willing, but future comics will tell.
Sydney made certain assumptions about Cora because she was a friend of Dabbler. Assumptions that turned out to be completely true. It’s easy to think that anybody on good terms with Dabbler is in some way similar to Dabbler or they wouldn’t be on good terms.
And a whole new meme is generated when she gets ported down to the Archon offices, the Beam of Shame.
Now that a hundred and some comments have been posted about Sydney getting laid by a furry, can we notice a slight inconsistency ..?
Frix doesn’t require skin-tight clothing because the crew appears to be using hard light armor for their clothing. Hard light would make no difference to fur, and it would be the perfect solution for him to keep his fur from getting messy with dust & grease and all sorts of nasty.
Not that taking a long, hot bath needs to be skipped. Just saying. Here we are presented with the perfect clothing for a furry when almost no other solution (apart from naked) is available. I find it hard to believe the entire crew isn’t suited up in hard light purely as a safety feature for spacer travel. I would be, with a auto-helmet that would form around my head in nano-seconds under emergency conditions.
It could be that a hard-light system could interfere with the things he is working on. Sort of how like you keep magnets away from monitors, old TVs, or hard drives.
Did you miss the part where he said “Skintight” and “Fur” don’t mix well? Easy to miss, it was his first sentence on this page
Could be that only Cora’s got the hard light stuff and everyone else really is wearing skin tight (albeit extremely durable) enviro-suits. I dunno, maybe hard light compresses fur just as annoyingly as a skin tight suit. Some people just don’t like the way certain things feel.
His comment about shirts and maintenance areas would also suggest that at least some of the crew do wear physical clothing of a more mundane type.
Another hypothesis: The hardlight system is set to form around one’s skin, at a present distance, and fill a certain volume. Perhaps the system never reacted well to his fur, in one of two senses: Either it attempted to materialize in the same space as his fur–which would feel like getting arm hair perpetually caught in your long-sleeve shirt… ow. Or perhaps, it attempted to materialize over the entirety of the fur–and now you’re a balloon animal!
Though I also admit that both of these problems could be solved easily enough by materializing over the fur, then contracting until comfortable.
As one who has gotten hair caught in machinery, I’d think a suit to keep from having bald patches would be aces, also as a doctor, and granted I’m not up on space germ theory, but getting shed fur in an open wound would be bad and the bacterial load on fur vs skin has got to several orders of magnitude.
His fur is not the same length as his hair, plus, he more than likely keeps himself well-scrubbed to prevent shedding fur everywhere
I wonder if this is going to get Sydney a new experience point for her array…
And what Frix would say when he gets asked for advice about where to put it.
Good point. If she did we would then know she earned upgrades for general life experiences rather than just using the Orbs.
You’re assuming she’s not going to be using her balls (zing)
Looks like I was right about the whole mutual grooming thing.
They finally found something that will tame Sydney’s bangs? o_O
It’s all fun & games, until you get rug-burn EVERYWHERE.
Okay Sydney; the attractive furry man has offered sexy fun time. Roll for moral save.
Sydney?
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Sydney, what are you doing?
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Sydney, what are you doing with the–No! Don’t throw the dice in the…!
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…toilet. *sigh.*
Why would morals come into it? She’s not in an exclusive relationship with anyone, and he doesn’t seem to be either. They’re both above the age of consent for their species, they’re talking ahead of time about what it is they’ll be doing and establishing expectations of each other. Seems like a perfectly good start to a relationship, of whatever length it ends up being!
^^^ THIS ^^^
This is key.
This is everything.
This is exactly how authors/artists need to portray consent, to help shift our very non-consent-oriented culture toward a very consent culture one!
The irony being that even if it happened exactly like this, in current western culture the woman can still claim rape and get the guy thrown in jail. Happens every day. Hell, they recently made proof of consent (forms/videos/etc.) illegal in Canada. Because fuck you men, lol.
“Happens every day”, really?
I think JonesNate meant a ‘morale’ save, to keep Syd from skittering away in embarrassment. No real comment on the ethics or morality of such.
The real question is whether Frix is a “skinny.” At present, his demeanor doesn’t seem excited. Maybe he doesn’t have anything wild in mind.
I’m glad that I wasn’t the only one who noticed Frix’s apparently worried/terrified response to Sydney’s question “Can I brush your fur?”.
Although, this situation onboard the Interdictor is lending itself to a paraphrased “In Soviet Russia” type joke…
…On starship Interdictor, dog gives you a bone.
This begs the question of whether his species is one that considers grooming such an intimate activity that he misunderstood her offer of bushing thinks she came onto him *really* strong.
The equivalent of “after care”, perhaps.
Really funny page. I laughed out loud at the ” WHAM”. Poor old heart rate monitor is just doing its job.
Is it just me, or has Sidney gotten bigger ( ! ) since entering the doctors room. Side effect of the anesthetic?
It’s all that Grakz: It goes straight to a girl’s chest.
Different posture maybe? She’s leaning back which emphasizes them more?
You know, I was thinking the exact same thing. Every other time we’ve seen a curvature that, while decidedly female in nature, is certainly on the lower end, even in just a T-shirt. Hence the ‘A-Team’ reference by Peggy a while back. This latest strip is definitely giving Sydney more size and a lot more definition, which isn’t a bad thing. She’s still quite modest in the bust area, but it suits her and adds to her femininity without taking away from the awesome tomboyishness that we love about her.
Yeah..which is sad forms. I adore A+ or low end B.
Not. Large bit and Bob person
She looks low c randomly. Unless her lv up is altering her core stats too
I really hope Sydey doesn’t get box-blocked/clam-jammed here. She deserves to have some fun without worry or strings attached, especially after almost dying.
Hmmm you might be onto something there.
It was just a couple of strips ago that I questioned whether Sydney was still a virgin. It seems now that that could very likely be changing. You go, Girl!
I thought it was given earlier on that she wasn’t? Not particularly promiscuous, but not inexperienced either.
The comic has stated she wasn’t.But she has had a long day spell
Good for Sydney. About time she had an opportunity to get some.
Sadly, I have a feeling that she will be denied this possibly once-in-a-lifetime experience due to some outside influence interrupting her opportunity and killing the mood for the sake of humor.
If it does happen, I’m sure that it won’t be the least bit embarrassing. Like say, Max and Dabbler bursting in at an awkward moment.
Ummm… did Sydney just flatline in the last panel? That would certainly put a domper on any possible shenaningans… ;)
No, she flatlined the monitor
I thought it to be an interesting detail, that the monitor’s readout seems to scroll from right-to-left here.
Unless DaveB has changed things (doubtful), it’s scrolling left-to-right, as shown in the flatline panel
[Guesticus]:
Much like a lie-detector’s paper printout, this display seems (to me) to be moving from right-to-left, while the “cursor” itself always stays at far-right, moving only up-&-down.
Usually, when I see a CRT-type display, the “cursor” moves from left-to-right (over time) as it also moves up-&-down (measuring intensity). Once it reaches the far-right, it vanishes, re-appears at far-left, & starts over-writing the previous pass as it goes. If this IS the case, then the display shown in the last panel would exist for only the tiniest of moments, before the “flatline” at-right would start over-writing the far-left again.
My previous assumption about the display was made with this in mind. It ‘read’ to me as though the “cursor” was moving only on the Y-axis.
It’s Alien tech, so it doesn’t have to follow Earth tech rules.
Harem 1 So how did you get home Sydney?
Sydney (smiling shyly) Rode a red rocket all the way home.
Heat I thought the ship was white and blue…
Harem(s) (porting in) OH! I get it.
Xuriel She probably didn’t have a choice in the end…
Harem What do you mean.
Xuriel That’s one knot you don’t want to cut…it can go on for houuuuuuurs…
Sydney Bubbles up blushing
Harems- OHHHH
Math (far away) My storytime sense is tingling
As for the scene you know there’s gonna be a FUR POOF scene where sydney dries him off and he puffs out like a Pomeranian and giggles…Frix blushes this time after that well, towels fly, and sydney tries to clap off the lights…in the dark it becomes a tangled tail, Knot to be taken lightly.
Okay, those puns at the end? Those were terrible.
…Well done.
I can forsee a future conversation… Dabbler “how was it”? … the doc “Considering she knows you, surprisingly tsme!”….
Dabbler “Dude , you were most def her fist. And I don’t mean her first non human I mean her First”.
Doc: [ eeep] ” Wow now I have retro-active stage fright.”
Lol
Though I’m almost positive that it’s been mentioned somewhere that Syd isn’t a Virgin.
Dont think it was ever directly addressed. I think the closest we get is when once Dabbler said to her that “sex is the best thing ever, right?” and Sydney bashfully just answered “well, not sure if the best, but pretty good”.
She could either be talking about her previous experiences or just lying (fibbing? extrapolating?) out of shame to admit to her succubes friend she never had any.
So, either way is a good guess for now.
There was also the time she was asked by the press if she had a boyfriend and she said not in a while. so with that you can presume that she is at least experienced a little before her general zaniness blew up that relationship.
I think she just has a awkward time finding guys, not that she completely inexperienced.
yeah but that’s why I didn’t have sydney say anything in my theoretical conversation. For the joke it wouldn’t matter if Sydney was or wasn’t a virgin – what matters is getting Frix completely flustered thinking he IS her first, only to have to not be the clingy sort in the slightest.
Military wear grants a +2 bonus to boobs. Nobody knows why, it just does.
That’s because in the military even the bra cups are shaped like MX missiles!
So… what’s the odds of getting a Sidney Bathtime picture for this years VDSD? Enquiring minds… And lascivious minds as well.
Couple of thoughts regarding compatible physiologies between alien species. I read pretty much all of the comments and while there was a lot of insight regarding STDs and pregnancy issues there are a couple of things that I didn’t see mentioned or I missed. (LOTS of comments).
Now that Frix has Sydney hooked up to a medical unit, he should do a scan to determine with which species she would be sexually compatible. Considering the numerous different aliens we’ve seen, I’d imagine that would be a standard inclusion in a shipboard autodoc’s software routines. It’s not just a matter of whether their genitals are compatible, it’s also a matter of body chemistry. Even among humans there is a condition, although rare, among females known as “seminal plasma hypersensitivity” where a woman is allergic to the proteins in a man’s semen. I imagine this would be a very real thing regarding alien seminal fluid. For that matter a woman’s vagina has normal pH levels between 3.8 and 4.5 which is fairly acidic. Did Frix and Sydney get frisky, he might find it like sticking his member in an acid vat. Then again one can imagine an alien with highly acidic semen needed to eat the tough outer protective membrane of his species eggs. There are other physiological matters, even among mundane Earth creatures, for example cats have backward pointing penile barbs (ouch).
Wrapping up Sydney’s medical exam, I can see Frix giving her a long list of who and who NOT to do regarding alien bedmates. It may be the only thing she and her new furry friend wind up doing is just mutual grooming. Could be the entire crew is off limits. One wonders if Xuriel ever mentioned this to her.
Now to see if Friz plans to bathe Syndney with his tongue….
How long has Sidney been in military training? Because she’s still skinny, but her arms look more defined than they did before.
I saw that. Trouble is she has been wearing long sleeves for ages, well feels like ages. Hard to tell when the guns appeared.
an R rated mini comic of Syd’s adventures tonight could be made available as a top tier patreon exclusive? :p
I wonder what would happen . If at the point of the big O if she grabbed an orb?
If it’s the Molestorb, things could get very interesting indeed.
Not as interesting as it would be if it was the PewPewOrb :P
I think you’re confusing “interesting” with “OMGWTF?!?”
‘Interesting’ as in ‘May you live in interesting times!’
Ok, so is being a furry funny?
I mean, its sort of a weird joke. Either you are poking fun at a subculture that deserves to be made fun of, or you are implying that being a furry is something you should laugh at, but not take seriously. I guess I have mixed feelings. Are we legitimizing being a furry by making the main character be a closet furry, or are we attacking them by making them by making them the butt of a joke?
she’s more a furry enthusiast, but basically just try to think of it as a kink, not a joke, it’s just a different way of thinking, and for most it’s just ‘one of those things’ that even they aren’t quite sure why they find it interesting (just for example, there’s a great many people that feel Bugs Bunny is sexy EVERY time he’s dressed as a girl, no matter how weird he looks dressed as one (Tasmanian Devil)
I guess at end of the day, people can choose whatever prefrences they want, and shouldn’t be judged by them. Still kinda not sure if we are laughing “with” them or “at” them though.
You just know Dabbler is going to sense a disturbance in the Force very soon. I’m sure she wouldn’t dream of teasing Sydney over it.
I’m sorry, ‘deserves to be made fun of’?
A ‘furry’ is just a fan of anthropomorphic characters. Be that a physical human form, or other traits we typically only associate with humans. Anything else the internet community tells you is just the purview of individuals, and if it’s something you disagree with – it’s fine to disagree with those individuals and their tastes if you don’t enjoy it, but there’s nothing to attack millions of people over as if they aren’t your fellow human beings somehow aside from a wayward sense of entitlement or superiority complex.
Maybe it has nothing to do with attacking or ‘legitimizing’ being a furry, and rather we’re just following a character who has a number of quirks and interests and you shouldn’t be looking for a reason to dislike or jump on a bandwagon?
You seem to have attached this reply to the wrong post. You wanted the one above this one.
Not in this context it isnt. Clearly there is a sexual overtone here.
Let Sydney have her fun with him. She deserves to have some enjoyment.
Many,many hours later cut to crew quarters door sliding open and Frix crawling out muttering food,food need food followed by a very amorous Syd voice we’re not quite done big guy as Frix is dragged back in with a for the love of all that is holy please save me look on his face.
Or to fall back on my John Hughes filmography no more yanky my wanky Frixer need food.
Cutest blush ever.
Fur fer the win.
*wags tail contentedly*
You’re not exactly an unabiased opinion there, bub…
Yorp is allowed to enjoy romantic representation of at least some vaguely similar sort in his entertainment media, too…
Hey, Dave; since this setting has both magic and aliens, what’s the average species density per planet? There’s no way Earth is the only planet to have grown monsters, and creatures, and undead, and other magic-dependant species alongside their dominant mundane species.
Also, how common is it for a magic-based society to get into space and join the Post-FTL group? Or, more to the point, what’s the average ratio of magic-based, technology-based, and magitech societies to reach FTL?
The evidence of Sydney’s furry fetish has been in our face for a long time, starting with that shower bit Dave linked in the authors comment. Then there’s the awe she had meeting the werebeasts at the Monster Mash, err sorry the “Twilight Council meeting.”
Not to mention the Vote Incentive at that time was her brushing Pixel’s tail as Pixel reads. ( I can’t find a link to it even on Dave’s deviantart page.)
So it comes as no surprise she is getting heated up over a bath with a real manbeast.
authors comment (last 3 panels) https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1816
Council meeting https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2178 and the following pages…
Katrina werehare: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2205
Clover Direwere honeybadger https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2335
Pixel werejaguar https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2373 (vote was during this set)
To be fair Katrina was just too kyoot.
I so agree.
I wouldn’t mind seeing more of her, after all it was the raid on the artifacts the council were protecting that led to her being “Lost In Space”
I’m also wondering what happened to kora as well, did she get a job in the magic arc group as well ?
Probably a good idea on multiple fronts as you don’t want to accidentally hit the ‘eject into space’ button while trying to figure out the hot and cold settings and their extremes.
As one who has gotten hair caught in machinery, I’d think a suit to keep from having bald patches would be aces, also as a doctor, and granted I’m not up on space germ theory, but getting shed fur in an open wound would be bad and the bacterial load on fur vs skin has got to several orders of magnitude.
ship Ship SHIP SHIIP!!! shippin this so damn hard.. make it a thing!! :0