Grrl Power #704 – Trip to the vet
If it wasn’t clear, Sydney is trying to vet Frix. She doesn’t want to put herself in a situation where she does “stuff” with a guy, only to find out he’s a horrible womanizer, or unironically says “escape goat,” or is a racist, or doesn’t like Chris Claremont era X-Men.
Not that she’s necessarily had a lot of problems like that with her dating life. She’s not especially impulsive when it comes to her love life, so she usually has a pretty good idea of what she’s getting into. Never been in a hump and dump or anything. Not that this is likely to turn into a long term relationship. She just wants to know that he would pass muster if circumstances were different.
Cora’s hard light projector sits on her back usually, so she keeps a bunch of her old cybernetic limbs handy for massage time. The ones she has equipped right now have been described as having an upsettingly realistic skin texture.
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She is trying to “vet” Frix and maybe later they can play “doctor” :P
Vetting him is fine, as long as she doesn’t ‘fix’ him…
She’s just trying to make sure he’s not a Frixer-upper….
Come on Sydney, frix him already.
Wet Frix and chill
This whole thread kills me… XD
…Luckily it’s just a “little death!”
Yorp is late on this one >_>
The Frix is IN!
He’s not in just yet, let him get lubed up first :P
No, no, no! He asked for Sydney to dry him off after the bath. Even though Sydney has unfortunately doesn’t know where her own towel is, Frix has a full compliment of towels available from ship’s storage to use.
I’m actually imagining an over-engineered blow dryer, followed by a fur doing ‘Poof’. Grooming necessary after that…
I was mostly referring to how much traveling & hitchhiking Sydney has done recently & pointing out that she still hasn’t kept track of her towel…
…dammit, Sydney, kiss the boy!
Smooch the pooch!
Pound the hound!
Canoodle the poodle!
Snog the dog!
Cup the Pup!
Hug the pug!
Purr in the Fur!
Let the Freak off the Leash!
C-c-c-c-combo Breaker!
Boff the Woof!
BUSTA-WULF
Flap trap the poodle noodle!
Sixtynine the Canine
(Okay that one wasnt as good as my first one but don’t judge me.)
+10 internets for that.
But gods I hope this just goes ahead. I suspect it won’t now we’ve had this additional page of awkwardness… But I loved the idea that Sydney might be thinking life’s short after her near death encounters and this has got to be on some dream level bucket list of hers.
I would think absolutely no less of her, in fact I would think far more of her. She’s a woman with sexual desires and fantasies with one she likely figured unachievable until a week ago in her grasp.
Very happy for the next page to be a time skip to arrival on Earth, a silly grin on her face and Dabbler’s porn-sense thumping away.
Let’s just hope Sydney doesn’t contract “Restless Leg”, or Dabbles’ porno-sense won’t be the only thing thumping away :P
Which comment suggests that you were an attentive reader of Girls With Slingshots. :)
Not ‘were’, ‘am’, been reading for years, Danielle just doesn’t allow guests to comment (which is understandable considering some of the toxic comments, specially anything concerning Candy)
Pronosense IS the best sense, but it best Pornosense is not one that tingles, but it thumps.
Hey, whatever floats your goat.
It don’t take a word, not a single word
Go on and kiss the boy, kiss the boy
Sha la la la la la
My oh my
Looks like the girl’s too shy
Ain’t gonna kiss the boy
Whip the wolf
‘Escape goat’?
It’s a video game that people only talk about ironically.
Or a misunderstood version of scapegoat.
It’s one of those super common misspellings/mishearings/mispronunciations that is annoying as SHIT.
Other examples: expresso, avacado, nuculer, alot, walla, definately, and peaked or peeked for piqued.
On a slight tangent, what also really gets under my skin is when people say “I could care less” when they mean “I couldn’t care less”, or when they think “akimbo” means “wielding two pistols at once”.
Oh, and don’t forget all the people who literally meltdown when the word “literally” gets used non-literally.
That would be “melt down”, not “meltdown”. The latter is a noun, not a verb.
Yeah, I tended get near a meltdown, figuratively, when someone used “literally” to mean the opposite. Meanwhile I have accepted that this word has now two opposite means and is basically useless except for being an “expression-intensifier” for cases when you don’t want to say “fuck”.
“means” -> “meanings”
Raise and Raze drive me nuts
Like “Decimate” (to reduce by 1/10th) when they mean “Devastate” (Mostly or completely destroy) – Misused so much that even dictionaries are now listing the wrong definition as a 2nd meaning. Come on, people, “Deci” (1/10th) is right there in the word.
Oh good Ghu, this. Soooo much this. It drives me crazy.
Oh, don’t get me started on that one. It’s SO annoying.
For myself it is the adding of the word “Like” to every conceivable sentence uttered.
As in “You know like, they like went to the mall like”.
Western military history shows that a ten percent loss to a normal (non-elite) Western infantry unit effectively reduces its effectiveness to near zero. As opposed to Japanese military history, where they fought to the last man.
So, “decimate”=”destroy” is not so big a jump.
The fact that killing every tenth man as a punishment for the entire unit was a standard Roman thing is really nowhere near the modern connotation or denotation.
To be honest, a human is just as likely to survive neither decimation or devastation anyway…
As a famous Vulcan once said, “Logic suggests that any difference which makes no difference IS no difference.”
No, literally do not mean non-literally, to use it like that is still stupid and annoying.
Even when people use ‘literally’ like that it’s used more as lazy hyperbole than to actually MEAN “literally”, so changing it’s meaning to ‘figuratively’ is just nonsense.
Literally being used for emphasis has existed for longer than tha controversy over its use as emphasis. You can find it in the writing of Dickens and a number of other well known authors. It’s a lot like actually, which is similarly used as an intensifier. Ultimately the origin of the debate surrounding its use is one scholar who realized that every synonym for literally was also used as an intensifier and argued that literally should at least be spared that meaning to avoid confusion. All it really did was create an entire group of people who are irrationally angry that words have different meanings in English.
It’s also common usage, and common usage is the standard for what words mean, so nyeh.
futureyou – “I think my heart just broke.”
surgeon – “So you’re suffering from a broken heart, eh? ”
futureyou – “I literally need heart surgery or I’ll die.”
surgeon – ” I’ll refer you to a psychologist I know.”
futureyou – *dead*
I often look for a mop when they say that they are about to melt down…
Well, here is a comic for you:
https://xkcd.com/1576/
Here’s an even way video for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
(not that it’d say something different)
Wait, are we ranting about word crimes here? cause I know someone who hates word crimes…
Alright, I don’t KNOW him know him, I know OF him. AND YES, I know I do a few of those things myself, despite Daniel the Human trying to teach me…
A minute & seven seconds in seems important here too…
Yay big word…
Let me guess before I even click that…
(Not that I can prove so, but still, I feel like writing this)
Al Yankovic?
Would you prefer some CM Punk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BbM3-tgz9w&index=1&list=PLl4T6p7km9dba5JgQ-otWzT-ozeecDbW8
Bingo! I show that video to my students.
I mean, if you couldn’t care less about something, wouldn’t you not even bother responding?
Besides, running theory is that the saying was intended be a sarcastic/ironic statement that caught on, then ceased to sarcastic.
Very good point.
How about …
I can’t care much less.
?
I always thought akimbo meant to flail wildly like an idiot.
Akimbo means held away from the body, arms or legs.
Although on the caring less topic, I do phrase it both ways as it applies. Honestly there are some things that are low on my list of concerns but not at the bottom.
low on my list of concerns…
In other words, you could care less.
Yes, not everything rates zero f#$%s, For instance my father has some significant health issues and I know that those ribs we are doing this weekend is bad for his heart, but you know what? It is a lesser concern due to the whole cancer thing. It is not that I don’t care about it but quite frankly…it is too far down on the list of things to worry about when looking at long term problems.
I’m sorry you’re dealing with that; parents getting older and/or having major health issues is terrifying. I hope he’s getting good care and has good quality of life.
And what about when something (such as a compilation album) is labelled ‘Best [Whatever] Ever’ instead of ‘Best [Whatever] yYet‘? And then they produce a newer one with the same title [plus a number]?
Thank you for this, I would have believed “Escape goat” being a game. I mean I can imagine it being a name for a game. I mean there should definitely be such a game!
My host hated one is using “of” instead of “have”, e.g. “You could of used the torch.” >_< hrrrgn I can't believe I wrote this, even as a bad example :-(
And then there seem to be people who don't even see a problem with such a sentence..
“host hated” -> “most hated”. Gosh.
This is a thread about “most hated” on a page where the “host mated”.
*cue: laugh track *
The issue with “could of” or “would of” is that’s what the contractions “would’ve” and “could’ve” sound like. People who are going purely by the sound and aren’t well drilled on the contractions in question are going to make that mistake.
…except the contractions started as “should’av” and “could’av”, an a, not an o.
But, alas, it seems peeps in the US has problems pronouncing a and o differently at times …
:^P
People in the US have a problem with pronouncing the letter ‘u’, not only do they drop it from most words (Colour, Neighbour, Harbour), they force foreigners to change the pronounciation of their own name: the Japanese wrestlers Asuka and Shinsuke are called ‘Oscar’ and ‘Shinskay’!!!
As opposed to the British who pronounce “Chumondleaux” as “Chumley”?
Those spellings exist because typesetters wanted to save money back when it was charged by the letter.
is that why the Chiaroscuro Cat from Alice in Wonderland became known as the Cheshire Cat?
Always believed the cat was from Cheshire, that it was a breed of cat, like the Manx cat from the Isle of Man
American’s aren’t just lazy, they are cheap as well?
And that doesn’t explain the modern names of Asuka and Shinsuke being mispronounced drastically
Gojira =/= Godzilla
Unfortunately many Americans feel that the only connect way to pronounce any word it the way an AMERICAN would say it. We’re the only ones who speak English correctly and even if a word isn’t English it still needs to be pronounced like English /s
I have had alot of fun pouring over the comments in this thread.
*pawing
.
Unless, you are testing how waterproof your computer is?
O B Juan was joking. The correct spelling for the meaning “studying intently” is “poring”.
And, considering the underlying page, perhaps you are joking as well, since it seems we are about to see both pouring and pawing?
Oh, forgot my favorite/most hated: ya’ll instead of y’all. Apostrophes substitute for removed letters in contractions – y’all means “you all”, not “ya will” or whatever. (Also misplaced/extraneous apostrophes in general. Apostrophe’s do not fucking mean “HOLY SHIT HERE COMES AN S!”)
Now I must prank my text-to-speech friends with a new pronunciation entry for apostrophes, and maybe a giant gasp of breath for commas and semicolons.
Also, here’s some rules for using ‘s’ properly (start from the beginning for more context).
Yay!
Thanks.
And… since I’m kinda rusty, would you (please) throw in some “English 101”?
(No, I’m not being sarcastic)
An escape goat is something a mountain druid would have.
That is a large bathroom, especially for a spaceship.
Hollow-suite
Holo-suite, as in hologram. Not hollow as in empty.
Though a Holosuite can be hollow (and in fact usually is, except for the people), and there’s that one TNG episode “Hollow Pursuits” which makes that pun.
Thank you for getting the pun :D
A hollow sweet is one of those chocolate Easter bunnies that is 2 ft tall but only weighs 5oz.
I was about to say, the one thing you don’t have much of
on a spaceship, is space.
Actually…..
… it depends a hell of a lot upon the principles of ship design.
Mass is probably your limiting factor, since that’s what makes it hard to move a ship around, with more massive ships needing proportionately more massive engines to make the same acceleration. That said, scaling up ships is probably a good design strategy, because a lot of systems don’t need to scale up (like sensors, which are just as effective no matter what the size of the ship you mount them on), or communications, or so on. Other things don’t need to be scaled up as far (shields would, I’m guessing, scale up according to the surface area they cover rather than the volume, and the same for armor, hull plating, number of air locks needed, etc). The result is that scaling up the systems you need to scale up but not the ones you don’t will leave you with spare mass to work with, which means scaling up yields increasing returns.
The reasons that airplanes have to be sleek and have a narrow, streamlined profile is because they have to worry about air and, hence, aerodynamics. Spaceships don’t have to worry about that, not unless they’re designed for atmospheric entry. Cora’s ship obviously is, but with that hard light tech you can just make a nice aerodynamic wedge in front of you regardless of your ship’s shape. With that problem removed, there’s little reason to economize on volume. Similarly, a huge berth with air adds very little mass, because air is light.
Bottom line, there’s plenty of reason to scale ships big and few reasons not to, so you might as well make them luxuriously spacious.
Actually, STL ships probably need to be aerodynamic in shape, because at such velocities space isn’t very empty. Even if there’s only one hydrogen atom per cubic mile, if you travel at .5 C you pass throuogh a LOT of those cubic miles every second, causing drag, just like in an atmosphere.
Of course, Cora’s ship is obviously FTL, so it probably never has that problem.
If you’re traveling at .5c those hydrogen atoms aren’t really providing drag. Instead they are providing explosions.
That’s true; a long time ago in its earliest years, the webcomic Schlock Mercenary by Howard Tayler posited that tinfoil cones, when slung at a target at .9 Cee, would do massive amounts of kinetic impact damage.
For a counterpoint, however, Jean Johnson’s science fiction novels posit that if you neutralize the Higgs Field, which gives atoms their mass, and wrap that around a starship, it would “grease” the ship’s travel through space. If an object is smaller than the field’s projection range, it would lose all of its mass and thus super-easily get shunted aside as the ship rushed past.
Possibly even only temporarily shunted aside, if the field has a ‘sealing’ effect on how it removes itself from an area as said ship nyooms past. She once posited this in a conversation at a convention a few years back, pointing out that without mass, an object cannot be deflected onto a new trajectory…but since you don’t want the Higgs Field neutralized inside the ship itself, it’s a bubble-field that warps the positions of other objects around itself like a stream of water having to flow around a rock; if it goes to the right of the rock on its way downstream, then once on the other side, it rejoins the flow that swerved to the left, with very little comparative displacement/turbulence in the grand scheme of things. Except that, in this case, it’s the rock moving smoothly through the water and not the water moving smoothly around the rock.
Mind you, she also agreed with Howard Tayler that a few pebbles flung at just under Cee (the speed of light) could have an absolutely devastating impact. She did, however, point out in her series that the debris scattered by such an impact would muck up shipping lanes for months to come as the impact-slowed (or sped-up) debris field from such a collision soared off away from the impact site in various different directions.
(…I love it when writers put at least a little bit of science in their fiction!)
Tiny dust motes cause explosions, single atoms turn into radiation if I remember correctly, though it’s certainly true that at those velocities any collision, no matter how small, becomes a much more energetic event.
Once the ship hits 0.5C or above, any hydrogen atoms or other gas that it encounters have this nasty tendency to cause Bremstrahllung, secondary emission in the form of x-rays, pretty much toasting any organic matter inside the ship, and upsetting the control system electronics, unless they are seriously radiation-hardened. Any dust particles are really going to screw up the paint job as they detonate on impact. No wonder Starfleet puts deflector shields on every ship. Who wants to crawl around on the outside of the ship to repaint the numbers every time you dock?
I thought it was as slow as .3 of C that you got Bremstrahllung radiation. Dad actually wrote that into his book [Time Sanction, self published on Amazon by William J Elliott] while they were testing a new space drive, they accidentally accellerated the test probe up to about .3 and fried the internals, just barely getting a reading before it lost contact and went speeding off…they shielded the second one to confirm the test IIRC.
I’m not sure that really holds – at least above a certain minimum mass. The problem is the rocket equation, and the fact that by mass most ships are nearly all propellant. You add mass? You also need to add propellant. And then you need to add propellant to propel that. Etc. End result is that you’re so mass-sensitive that scaling it up to provide mass-per-system benefits are likely swamped by the total mass negatives.
That said, open volumes don’t have much mass, particularly if they can evacuate the air out of them when they aren’t in use, and all of this only applies to reaction drive rocket systems – Sydney’s flying orb is proof that reactionless drives are possible in this universe, we just don’t know what level of tech is required to create them.
Okay, yes, you’re right about the rocket equation. I was assuming some manner of reactionless drive. Forgot to mention that.11
Elevators to get the materials to space, and ion drives to woosh around. Only use mass-having propellant if you need a lot of acceleration in a short time.
Ion drives are mass driven
Step 1
Ionize a stored noble gas(mass) usually xenon
Step 2
charge conductive plate to electrostaticly repel said ion(acceleration)
Rocket equation still applies just applies small force over a long time compared to chemical rockets which apply a large force over a short time
Indeed. In fact, it’s why I specified propellant, not fuel – ion drives can be nuclear or solar fueled, but as long as
f=mayou need to have something to push against.Mass isn’t necessarily the limiting factor when dealing with FTL travel, at least not as the FTL technology is often depicted. Where FTL is accomplished through “gates” like in the Stargate universe (and in Deux’s version), there can be practical limits to the width of the opening. Power requirements increasing exponentially with size, damage to the fabric of space being greater, stability of the system dropping as the hole being created grows, etc. So it’s conceivable that in some circumstances a ship might be limited to twenty feet in width while being functionally unlimited in length or mass.
Which is awesome now that I think about it, because it would totally justify Space Trains. Or maybe Trains … in … Space!
A similar limitation could also apply to volume, particularly with teleportation-like effects. It’s easy to move anything in ren square meter units, but difficulty increases with volume. Which could explain an advance race learning to build ships that are bigger on the inside.
“trains in space “
and there’s why they made “galaxy express 999”
:D
There’s plenty of space. Most of it just wants to kill you.
So it’s like Australia then? Maybe you Humans should get some Australians to design your spaceships, they’re used to things trying to kill them. Like, EVERYTHING, even some of the plants…
Me, I’m good, I got Spacebridges… :P
On a “real” space ship, space is what you have most of. Our space stations are just so small because you had to fit it all into a space shuttle/on a rocket. Atmosphere is not heavy, about 1.2 kg/m^3. If you up the oxygen you can go down with the pressure. The outer hull is probably heavy, but the inner should be quite thin. The size of the room is not a problem, the size of the pool is surprising.
Why? Where do you think they store all the surplus oxygen? Hydrogen isn’t heavy, either, but apparently, pressurized oxygen tanks are.
I follow a YouTube channel, by someone named Isaac Arthur, who states that in space you want more area just to help you shed the waste heat.
And now I’m going to rewrite that sentence to be terrible…in homage to another thread.
Eye fall oh a YouTube chanel, bye some 1 named Isaac Arthur, who states that inn space ewe want more area just too help ewe shed the waist heat.
Now doesn’t that sentence just make your eyes hurt?
Issac Arthur is great. But I don’t think we work with conventional physics here.
Why do you think they would have much surplus oxygen? Where should that surplus come from?
You can of cause take your oxygen and store it as water. It has about the same density as LOX. You just have also 20% Hydrogen in it. And you need a lot of energy to split it.
I envision a nanostructure for storing O2 at very high psi. like today’s portable oxygen. concentraters, which use electrostaticly charged polymers to ‘grab’ O2 out of regular air, but at a much higher concentration. Using nano tech would result in storage that is equivalent to high psi, without actually being highly pressurized.
Unfortunately, using nanotech for storage bottles, you’re now adding the mass of the nanotech.
Let’s say you make your oxygen bottles out of what can be best described as a diamond sponge. You’re adding somewhere around half the density of diamond on top of your oxygen.
Storing it as water takes up less mass, and presumably the energy is (still) cheap.
Heck, splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen is a high school countertop chemistry demonstration.
It depends on the nanostructure. Concentraters use strips of polymer, but they’re just going for adding 3-5%. I bet there’s some weirdly shaped molecules to be discovered in the next few centuries that will do surprising things.
That is nice and well, but why grab O2 out of the air? And why so complicated? If I understand what you are trying right, you want a concentrated oxygen Atmosphere and use nanotech to do it. The problem is, air separation is not difficult. The typical O2 bottle uses 200 bar ~ 2900 psi at that point oxygen has a density of ~0.27g/cm³. The really heavy think with pressurized air is the pressure vessel. Liquid oxygen has a density of ~1.14g/cm³. As water is 80% oxygen by mass and water has a density of about 1g/cm³, you get a storage density of about 0.8g/cm³ oxygen in water. You need energy to get it out, but that shouldn’t be a problem with an FTL ship.
Because some people need additional O2 to live because of respiratory disease, and a concentrater is lighter than a big bottle of pure O2. This was true when they used SLA batteries for power, and even more true now that LiFeO4 (non-flammable lithium battery chemistry) is in use.
Shearing will make ewe shed heat more efficiently. Sheep…In…Space.
Shawn of the sheep Dead space. ;p
A pool of water doubles as life-support storage and reaction drive propellant storage. It’s probably the least wasteful thing in that image.
Also, Daveb has said, or at least implied this universe has some variety of matter replicator. Changing water into oxygen and hydrogen is probably quite simple with that level of tech. It may not even be stored as water, but rather something denser and more efficient in terms of mass.
And one thing the ships in this universe, especially this one, do not seem to be lacking in is power. They clearly have enough power to, in some manner, warp the nature of time/space to achieve FTL. With that, the power requirements of converting mass may seem like relatively small potatoes.
I assume, somewhere in her ship, Cora has a large greyish block of matter that is slowly being worn down by the replicators and replaced by atomic recyclers or something, that is used to produce things like all that lovely bathing water.
Changing water into oxygen and hydrogen is a high-school science demo. It’s simple with our level of tech – the only issue is the power requirements, and even those aren’t high.
“Rank has it’s privleges.”
INDEED!
They’ve nicked some tech from the big Juraian ‘space tree’ ships…
(We’ve already seen Light Wing technology… Not as impressive as the Light Hawk wings from the end of the OVA, but… )
an Onsen,
Jurains do have some of the best though, most Japanese sci-fi with significantly advanced aliens will usually have something like it.
On the wings, yeah, can’t exactly knick light hawk wings; what with them not actually being tech but reflecting that their ships are actually the offspring and descendants of a Goddess…PS: This also means technically the first generation Jurain ships are Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki’s cousins.
Yeah, the LHWs are… not exactly ‘Supernatural’, and a reflection of the willpower of the one using them. Not really tech, as you say. Still a nifty concept.
(The same goes for the LHWs from the giant robot in the Transporter series. )
But the most important is that they play really loose with extra dimensions in that series.
The insides of their ships, a certain mad inventor’s lab, and so on.
Reminds me, we never saw Tsunami or the other ships amongst all the scrap metal flying around.
Scrap metal flying around?
Cora has her priorities straight.
But seriously, this isn’t some budget spaceship, it looks like a cruiseliner meets a helicarier
I mean, in some ways that’s refreshing, but in other ways I’d have liked to see Cora with this harem crew of pretty boys hanging out in cramped quarters on an old junker of a starship, having to constantly work on fixing stuff all the time.
But then, I suppose that would be for a spinoff, wouldn’t it?
Sounds more like a prequel than a spinoff.
‘Upsettingly’ in what way? The fact they feel real when you know they aren’t?
And upsetting to whom? Cora or others?
I was thinking in an uncanny valley kind of way, which is kind of what you describe in the ‘feels real while knowing they are not’.
kinda like the commercial for “It’s NOT Butter!!!” :D
Well once again scovil’s impulsiveness has put her into a awkward situation. I wonder which rates more awkward for her this situation or the situation where she realized she interrupted the president and several other important leaders to rant at Maxima.
Less awkward, more flustered
Actually, I’m kind of impressed that she’s not more impulsive, learning enough about Frix only afterward.
It’s like when she got her first paycheck. She is impulsive, but when it comes to certain things, its like she has an anti trigger. She slows down on the big stuff. Usually.
Don’t believe Sydney was looking for an ‘out’, she just didn’t want to over-step her bounds
Sydney is just double-checking where her boundaries are only to find out that’s she’s still nowhere near any of them here.
Yep. She’s done her due diligence, now for some diligent doing!
Yes, get you some of that, Sydney. If anyone deserves a chance to let go and unwind, it’s you. I mean what’s the probability of ever seeing him again? It’s not like he’s going to be standing outside your apartment holding a boom box…
I bet Dabbler can get her his number
She may have already gotten it.
Added to the good list.
Daniel here…
Yeah, I get the impression she’s trying to find a way of getting out of this. She’s a physically small woman, obviously not the type to drag a guy home every night, in fact I’m willing to guess she’s a hasn’t-even-seen-an-actual-naked-guy (at least until this happened…) level Virgin. So to be suddenly offered a random bed-wrestle with a random alien might be a bit much for her…
Even if she does like his fuzzy hair…
My prediction, she keeps her V-Card intact & unpunched…
She’s… not a virgin, she may not be as ‘experienced’ as 90% of Archon, and still awkward around naked people (males and females) butt she’s not a virgin
I’m not so sure about that. Sydney has implied that she has at least some experience, but it wouldn’t be the first time that a virgin denied being a virgin. If you are hanging around with a bunch of people who obviously have a lot of experience, social pressure can be enough to cause a virgin to profess experience they don’t actually have.
Oh, Gods yes. Smart lady, attentive to others where it matters…stop prevaricating and carpe Fido.
The boundaries aren’t even within sight.
Sydney regrets her impulsiveness. LMAO!!!
Okay Sydney, that little conscience-thingy on one shoulder has been assuaged, so it’s ok to listen to the other little conscience-thingy & get a massage…Your “attendee” has everything neccessary to Frix you right up.
Sydney is running into the “fantasy vs. reality” problem.
At least its a tame one,
not like if a person really met a zombie, slime-girl, Alraune, Insectoid, Lamia, Tentacle Monster, and was like…uh…as hot as the pictures of you are online…this…seems kinda…dangerous and awkward in real life,
Sydney met a tentacle monster. Trent… and unintentionally let slip that she has had….fantasies….
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2703
I understand Sydney’s concerns…
… but she shouldn’t worry about it and just enjoy it.
She probably thinks that too but it’s easier said than done sometimes ;)
Sooo out of curiosity seeing as the medical drone were patching Sydney up, why didn’t it detect her aiing eyesight and decide to fix that?
Because it was stitching her epidermis.
You are a lot more complex than you think. While a magic (heal anything) is nice…for magic. Its not as nice to have a tech version of it, you’re eyes are significantly harder to repair than skin…hence why skin can usually just heal its self under most circumstances but your eyes can’t. Having a stitch bot repair your eyes right after your skin is a tad…over doing it. Now if it were internal nanites sure, or asked if she wanted a more extensive enhancement. Which depending on what her sight issues are would be something invasive. Given the tech types at work here, I’d say their usually solution is (cybernetic eye).
Maybe not. Sub par vision is USUALLY due to an imperfection in how the eye developed and even today we have corrective surgery for that [Lazik is popular now, but Radial Caratonomy [sp?] is another, more mechanical way of allowing the eye itself to heal in the proper shape]. Also, strangely enough, the eye if its not totally wrecked by damage, heals pretty darn fast, even in comparison to skin [hence the reason corrective eye surgery actually works and doesn’t put you out of commision for more than a few days to a couple of weeks while it heals]
Just some thoughts.
Well it’s not really “damaged”, I assume it only detects diseases and inflammation, for physical flaws like that they probably have to manually set it up, otherwise it would probably try to fix someone’s earring holes or tattoos
Maybe it’s just for small injuries.
Probably for the same reasons that a nurse in a RL hospital won’t finish stitching up that gash that brought you in, see that you have glasses, and then promptly start applying the same needle to your eyeball. Wrong tool for the wrong job, the jobs are very different, and it’s not why you’re there and you didn’t ask for the service.
Ah. That would explain my failing at nursing school. To be fare though, it wasn`t a needle I was using.
Because it’s not the Outer Limits kind of medical machine.
On reason to decline alien eye surgery is that follow-up examinations would be unavailable.
Wait if they… “do it”, will Sydney be able to brag her first was out of this world?
I believe the author comments imply this isn’t her first time.
Now to be fair, Sydney seems more realistic than your usual fictional person, where relationships tend to be either *none ever* or *five a week*…seriously, count the number of girlfriends on Seinfeld or the usual sitcom…even the (loser) character gets more action than the average human being.
I mean if you’ve been with more than five people in a ten year span that’s usually very highly unusual for someone not into such situations where that could normally happen like a fetish scene that involves multiple anonymous partners. But in fiction its like we expect them to be with than many in like one year.
Sydney would be skipping the Mile High Club entirely & going straight to the Light-Year High Club….
Frix is about to get his red wings, and I guess technically so is Sydney? How does that work? does it matter? does it count as red rings if the lass doesn’t have ferrous based haemoglobin? So many questions.
Took me a moment but don’t assume she’s still on her period. This is several days after in the comic and while a lot of women have heavier longer periods if they have the kind of cramps they want to Falcon Punch themselves for having she would have likely been curled out around a hot water bottle if she truly had them that bad.
It’s very possible that Sydney’s period is only 2-3 days long and it’s long over with at this point.
Ah, I must have miscounted the days, I thought this was day three, Anyway doesn’t really matter, I’d be very surprised if Frix didn’t have his ‘red’ wings already.
There was a time jump of a couple of days according to Dave after the killer manikins were defeated and the blood age got away. I forgot the exact number.
And here I go from feeling like a smartass to a dumbass. Well cest la vi.
Still, back to the original, does it count as red wings if the lass doesn’t have red haemoglobin?
I doubt the phrasing would be the same, but now I wonder what the period sex rainbow would be? can you have achieved the full ROY G BIV? For sanitation’s sake, I hope not in one night.
Tho that does bring up the question of secretion coloration. It’s clear in humans, but that’s by no means a biological imperative. So can we assume Dabbler has achieved a one night rainbow of sorts?
If not yet, and she knows of its possibility, it will be on her list ;)
I was a little surprised that the “hot bath” didn’t turn out to be a tongue bath. I could see Sydney asking where the water was and him explaining he intends to bathe her with his tongue. Then when she asks how that’s a “hot bath,” he could say, “Trust me, it’ll get pretty hot.” But that kind of bath wouldn’t make sense with his whole drying off and brushing, so… time to jump in, Syd.
Technically humans can and have cleaned each other with saliva (aka the “mommy spit, when applied by a thumb, makes the absolute best and handiest solvent for any smudge on their kid’s face” syndrome)…but honestly, saliva contains odiferous traces of whatever you last ate for quite some time afterward. Even if the post-alley-fight cleanup & spacecop conversation took over half an hour, Sydney ate lots of spicy food. Her breath’s still going to be spicy an hour-plus later.
The reason we don’t is twofold: One, we’re smart enough to know that saliva is not nearly as clean as filtered water and good soap; and two, we’re sophisticated enough that we like pleasant smells, not “smells of pastrami on rye with saurkraut and red onions that was eaten forty-five minutes ago, but ugh, it’s still there on their tongue!”
Civilized people therefore would rarely lick themselves clean. (That’s why it’s called “civilized”…)
No reason why they can’t have both.
Yeah, they are just getting started
I really WANT/NEED some of those candles from second panel. Magnificent idea and great attention to details by the way.
Seconded!!
Amazon has LED lights that are similar, you might have to do some searching of the site to find some that align with your choice of decor.
such long words to say “I dont value myself like I should, let alone value other people”.
I don’t recognize that from anywhere in the comic. What are you babbling about?
I’m expecting the next scene is Sydney scratching Frix just where he has an itch that he can’t reach and he wags his left leg repeatedly is an orgasmic bliss. And then they share a bowl of popcorn chicken afterwards.
yeah, I get that vibe too, like people are expecting these two to ship so hard, but it could be that he just wants to help her groom and receive assistance grooming too. I mean, no offense to sydney, but could be that that engineer/doctor is just not that into “non furry” aliens. I mean, it would be hard to believe given the captain’s insinuendoes, but still… might be funnier if he just says “could you check me for fleas?”
yea think the communal grooming idea is like Apes or gorilla or monkeys where its a bonding moment not sexual type thing for his race.
Where does Sydney get the energy to do all this? Did Frix give her a shot of something when he examined her? Realistically, she would be running on fumes after all she has been through, yet here she is, ready for another round of energetic activity. I know I keep coming back tothis, but it bothers me. Oh well…
Another poinit – wouldn’t it be easier for Cora if she simply had the hard light thingy implanted in her body? Her culture is obviously advanced anough for that kind of cyborg technology.
Right now? Adrenalin.
And food. Food can seriously help.
I have ADHD, and the medication interacts annoyingly with my biology, in the sense that yeah, I can focus and think a lot more clearly…but after several days, I stop being able to fall asleep on a normal 24-hour cycle. It becomes 26 hours, 28 hours, 32 hours…and yet I am still tired, even exhausted, but cannot fall asleep. What picks me back up energy-wise is eating food, particularly a good balance of both carbs and proteins. Whatever Sydney ate probably had both, since it was indicated as food edible by her species, however spicy.
(Most peppery/spicy foods are literally plants trying to poison us with toxins, to hopefully discourage us from eating more of their bodies. Very few animals are not edible due to their very makeup (not counting things like hanta virus)…but oddly enough, koalas are like the nastiest thing on the planet, so full of eucalyptus oil from the leaves they eat that they’re poisonous.)
Anyway, that food sydney ate, and the adrenaline from the alley fight, and then the excitement of the ship, the crew, and Frix Fuzzycuddles there, will keep her going a little while longer. She will crash soon enough, but for now, there’s one other factor that’ll keep her going longer than many of us: she’s still young, and probably in the range of early to mid-20s or so. After she hits 35, she’ll start having problems pulling all-nighters, but with ADHD, you can stay up for 48 hours and be okay, in your 20s. I certainly managed in my 20s…but in my 40s, oh hell no… No, those days are long gone… I need to sleep after just 30 hours, even with meds.
But my point was, she has basically been on an adrenaline high for HOURS now! First the fight at Sciona’s base, the excitement of ending up on another planet, being STRANDED alone on an alien planet, fighting for her life against drones and giant kaiju, having to evade nukes lobbed from orbit, then ending up in a place rawling with all kinds of aliens… She’s had a good meal, but after that there was the ‘fight’ against those robbers (can you call something a fight if it’s entirely one-sided?), meeting the crew and now this.. I\m sure Sydney can go on for 48 hours straight under normal circumstances, but her day has been anything but normal, even for her! Doesn’t the body run out of adrenaline eventually? (I’m genuinly curious, it’s not something I know much about.)
I’m not sure she was so much fighting on that alien world as grinding.
Granted, the boss monsters had a few surprises.
I don’t think she really worried for her survival until she got hit with that rock fragment while dithering over her next upgrade.
And calling that passed-over alleyway mopping a fight is probably right out. I’d imagine the fight was out of the muggers a bare few seconds after the ladies laughed at the joke.
Now, we do know that Sydney’s day has gone long, as we had that cutaway which showed it was the middle of the night where she normally calls home, but maybe not unusually long for her. She probably has participated in a few late night raids. What’s one more, but as a live-ammo LARP?
A few other (possibly) fun facts about plant biology. Capsaicin is a targeted toxin. The plant has developed a strategy to spread its seeds based on who eats the fruits. Mammals grind their food and would destroy the seeds. They feel the heat response and avoid the peppers. Birds who swallow their food whole do not react to the chemical and are free to poop out the leftover seeds in new locations.
Other plants produce general neurotoxins to kill off anything that tries to eat it. Some of the ones that will kill insects are less lethal to humans and a few can also affect the reward center of the brain. These have been used as recreational drugs: tobacco (nicotine), coffee/tea (caffeine), cannabis (THC), poppy (opium), cactus (peyote).
So “Dear Penthouse Forum” moments aside, I have to ask: Cora and her crew are in some form a free association, freebooting, all volunteer… whatever, right? However, Cora is definitely the boss, and the boss/subordinate intimate relating can be rife with problems. Favoritism, jealousies, all sorts of Chain of Command issues. It’s all a non-issue for Sydney as she is a guest/passenger. Cora on the other hand… “Dear Penthouse Forum: You’ll never guess what happened when the Captain of my space ship stopped by my quarters for a little career counseling…”
One of my friends is a professional counselor specializing in what some of us call SAGA, Sexuality And Gender Acceptance…which covers not only LGBTQIA+, but also polyamory, various kink communities & subcategory communities, so on and so forth. She’s constantly sharing articles on how to be healthy or have a good relationship in various segments of those categories, including polyamory.
From all the articles I’ve read, this sort of thing is often discussed and/or covered in polyamorous relationships that cross over into the Domination part of BDSM, the D/s category, which is short for “Dominant/submissive.” Not necessarily actual BDSM relationships, either, but simply positions of power & authority. As they say sometimes in the business world, “you may have a store or shift supervisor, but the person who signs your paychecks is your ultimate boss for your workplace.”
Usually this is handled by having divisions (crisp-edged or blurred/blended) set up between what constitute work life versus personal life, and by having them discussed in advance, and occasionally re-discussed from time to time. The easiest and most logical of which would be “no shenanigans on the bridge; that is very much a work space, not a shenanigans space.” Mainly for safety reasons, so that buttons don’t get pressed, switches don’t get flipped, and/or consoles don’t get broken, etc, etc, etc. Presumably, the same would apply to any engine rooms, any gunnery turrets (unless they’re completely alone in deep space, far away from anything), and/or lifesupport areas. (Or other critical ship-function areas.)
If they’re not from Earth, then they don’t have to have the same hangups about sex as Earthers have…but at the same time, they could still have certain cultural areas of caution, such as offers to groom a newly-met stranger. (It could be considered 3rd date stuff, and not normally just-met-you stuff.)
This reminds me of a quote I saw elsewhere:
” if you think sex-workers sell their bodies, but that coal miners don”t, your view of labor is clouded by your moralistic view of sexuality.
You get my non-existant upvote from this comment section.
And mine, because that quote is spot-on. Ditch-digging is no different than sexwork when it comes to selling the efforts of your body…save that the ditch doesn’t care if you cater to its whims, tastes, desires, or demand that you give it a massage while it complains about how hard it was excavated earlier that day.
Yes, sexwork tends to carry a certain amount of emotional labor as well as phycial labor as a part of the job, always having to be pleasant (unless requested otherwise), soothing, companionable, compassionate, etc, etc, etc…
Most guys don’t realize just how much work emotional labor is, either, since it’s often socially and culturally relegated to the dustbin called “women’s work” or “that’s a girl thing” or “my mother/girlfriend/wife takes care of all that” in their minds. The few who do are stuck in the lowest levels of Cheerful Happy Friendly Customer Service™ jobs where they cannot afford to be unkind to their craptastic, awful customers…because the chances of them getting another job they’re qualified for are nil & void, at least any time soon. (Or they’re professional counselors, or possibly nurses, general practitioners, caretakers of others, etc.)
But it is labor
That initial claim is just silly. Digging coal is in no way an external invasion of your person and personal space. Your “boss” sticking something *in* you is a different order of thing.
The initial author attempts to substitute the term “morality” to willfully ignore a plethora of scientific facts found in the scientific literature of Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Biology, and so on, regarding the effects of sex and sex work on the individual (both client and worker).
It’s not *good* people, and coal mining is nowhere near as personal or as personally destructive as sex work is. (If sex is *not* personal to you, then you’ve *already* experienced the harm.)
The remainder of the thread is absolutely right.
I think the intent was to point out that both are extremely harmful.
Don’t take things so literal
The point is, in both cases, you are selling your body, what the ‘owner’ of your body does with it is not the important factor (well, depending on what they do with it)
Cereally? You are claiming that coal mining is ‘nowhere near as personal or as personally destructive’? Breathing in coal dust is perfectly healthy then? Working in pitch darkness and cramped conditions is fine? o_O
Those white boxers are an interesting choice on a green lizard…
If he gets angry they turn purple.
I’ve heard of mood rings, but mood shorts?
It is inevitable that clothiers will continue to integrate mood sensing technology into garments, as the technology becomes available.
Although see the previous page for an example of situations where such can be an embarrassing hindrance.
Similar to the heat sensitive silk used by the jod of the tenebrea book series
mood phone cases
(OMG, hers just went MAUVE!, I bet it’s a break-up text) [or some such..I forget what each colour meant]
Now that is a bath and a half.
What’s an ‘escape goat?’
It is like a parachute, but furry.
Used under different circumstances though. Not very floaty.
The correct modern term is “scapegoat”…which was a thing that happened in the ancient days of Greece (and Rome, and possibly earlier cultures such as Babylon, etc). The believers who performed this practice would take a specially selected goat, the priesthood would use incantations, incense, rituals, etc, and “magically” imbue the goat with all the sins of the locals in that village, city, region, etc, and then when properly sin-stuffed, they would do something like drive the goat out of the city gates (hitting it with switches, aka thin branches from things like hazel trees, willows, etc), to get it to leave and take the sins of the locals with it…or they would ritually sacrifice the goat.
“Scape” is indeed short for “escape” because of the practice of letting the goat escape after it wad driven off into the wilderness. (With the hope it would never come back, and thus never bring back those sins.) The most common version of using a scapegoat ritually, letting it escape, was also practiced by the people of Judea (aka Israelites, aka Hebrews, aka ancient Jews), though they weren’t as much into the whole sacrificial slaughter-and-burn thing as other cultures were.
In the ancient city of Caesarea Phillipi (north end of Israel up above the Sea of Galilee, iirc), where a deep cave called the “Gates of the Underworld” (modern day version “Gates of Hell”) was located, the springs disappeared into the local bedrock, only to reappear outside the city gates in an artesian spring that ran through an area that eventually became formally sculpted with embedded stone by the locals. The spring inside the deep dark cave was often given a tribute of some sort, flowers, fruit…or living beings. Sometimes the offering didn’t reappear, but vanished forever into the caves. Sometimes…bits and pieces re-emerged on the far side of the bedrock…including the blood of sacrificed victims. (Goats, usually, sometimes even humans…and some of them criminals offered up to Hades for the ultimate judgment. Gruesome stuff.)
However, less than a hundred yards away from the mouth of that cave (I know because I got to visit it and took pictures all over), there was a temple to the gods wherein they found a lot of ossuary niches (cubby holes filled with bones)…and those bones were pretty much all goat bones. Crammed with ’em, in fact. That was literally one of the temples of the ancient world where scapegoats were imbued with the sins of the locals, and then sacrificed to carry those sins to the afterlife, where the goat would hopefully be punished instead of the many people committing those sins…hopefully.
Either a badly spoken “scapegoat” or a game on Steam:
*reads the dialogue, enjoys the Cora-massage, enjoys Sydney’s expression, goggles at that bathing pool, holy moly–!!*
–I LOVE* YOU, DAVEB !!!!
(*nothing personal, just a deep, deep appreciation for all of it, srsly, thankyewsoverymuch!!!)
Honestly, out of the personalities we’ve seen out of the lot, Frix so far sounds like the most mild-mannered and LEAST lecherous. Of course, he IS part of Cora’s crew so that does mean something from the way she talks about it, but yeah.
I’m not sure I need this direction. I get it, but … it feels weird or out of place for her… I can’t put a finger on it… sorry
I’m preferring to think that Frix is a good enough read of a person that he knows she’s not actually sure and while he was quick to bring it up when the opportunity seemed to present itself he’s not going to push it and if there is a ‘groomin session’ it’s strictly PG. I don’t think he’s going to pressure he more than he accidentally did and he’s going to back off if she’s not enthusiastic about it.
that is my hope as well. I am fine with her hooking up, but I don’t know if I need the full emotional journey to her decision. I think this part would be better as a flash back later on Earth.
Nah. Just a morning Sydney with a silly grin.
yeah or this…
I very much get the sense that Sydney was think ohh hot bath and then I can brush a furry person with a brush. Grooming furry things always relaxes me. And honestly the couple of books I’ve read that have involved a character who is fur bearing made it fairly clear for that the species involved grooming someone was first a social activity and more like monkeys use it rather than an automatic prelude to sex or other further intimacy.
Daniel here. I got that impression too. She DOES seem to love brushing the hair of full-bodied-furred sentient beings. But not rolling in the hay with them. It seems that bit was an assumption on Frix’s part, based on the fact Sydney works with Dabbler. An assumption that Sydney seems to be trying to nicely get herself out of…
Someone get her a dog or cat. She might just turn out to be a natural born animal groomer, might even be her proper destined job. But then again, it wouldn’t be as much fun as taking out giant alien Robeasts (:P), swarms of alien fighters, evil Blood-Mages, etc…
There’s a reason most superheroes don’t have pets: too little time to come home and take care of them.
I just hope there is no kissing. It would be like kissing a dog, which is really gross. But at least the rest of him is ‘Man-Proportioned’
LOL now I got a proccessor image of Sydney going in for a Human kiss, only for Fuzzy-Wuzzy here to start licking her like a Earth Canine-Dog…
…And now I’m looking at Daniel the Human playing with his female Canine-Dog, who seems to have a thing for licking…
Kissing a dog is grossly partly because of what else dogs put in their mouths. Frix seems too civilized for that.
course, the irony of you saying that is a Dog’s mouth (and a Cat’s mouth for the record as well) is still cleaner than a human’s.
Makes me wonder how Frix is going to react to Sydney’s grakz-breath.Though, if he has a canine-like sense of smell, he probably knows about it already, in which case he’s apparently okay with it. (Hey, maybe he loves the stuff himself!)
That is an urban myth. A dog’s mouth is not cleaner than a humans, it just has a different type of flora.
Just as long as there is no fauna cavorting amongst the flora :P
A dog mouth is cleaner because they drool constantly.
So does Sydney around near-naked muscly guys ;)
MOLESTORB ENGAGE!
After politely asking Frix if he is into that of course.
I actually thought about Sidney potentially using the lighthook for sexy-times, and it occurred to me that it’s probably not a good idea. As Maxima noted, the lighthook can exert enough force to lift around 16 tons, and Sidney controls it mentally. If she tries to use it for sexy-times, a slip in concentration could have severe, potentially fatal, results for the person she’s sexing.
The issue occurred to me when I started wondering if Sidney labeled it the molestorb because of how she experimented with it when she was afraid to play with orbs outside her apartment.
YEEAAAH! GO GET YOU SOME SYDNEY!
I like, unironically and in a non-pervy, encouraging way super want Sydney to get down with the dog. She feels so chaste in this world of ridiculous studs and hyper-sexualized girls that for legitimately non-horny reasons I really want her to get her freak on.
YOU GO GURL. BURY THAT BONE. Or crack out the tentaclorb, he does seem like a potential cute bottom boy…
I admit I haven’t read all the comments (geeze, where do you people find the time?), so please forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but Frix might be like a cat: grooming and such is not a prerequisite to sex. I have a pair of females who bathe and groom each other, but are “heterosexual”, as it were; both have, in the past exhibited an interest in males (among others: a neighborhood tomcat outside; I call him Fabio). My daughter had a pair of males she insisted were like an old married couple, but both were in the window looking at any lady cat that would walk by. Frix might say “Look, you are uncomfortable with taking this relationship beyond a certain level. Why don’t we stop here, and, if you would like, I would be very pleased to just hold you while we slept.”
Like snuggling a big ol’ teddy bear…
Thecatdragon did mention the exact same thing.
i actually am shipping them now, sorry.
Did you pay the proper postage amount?
I hear shipping’s free for anything over 50 f$cks…
In that case, Sydney is good to go if the ship’s crew compliment happens to be at least 50.
“Vet”. I know that English isn’t my native language, but I did study English Philology and that’s a new one for me. I spent more than half my life learning English but I still learn new words every now and then. “Vet”.
It’s a play on words, in this case.
A “Vet”, is short for “Veterinarian”. A dog doctor, in other words. (Although, in that use, it is a doctor of dogs, not a doctor who is a dog.)
To “Vet” is to verify the high qualities of/appropriateness of, etc.
The “Vet” (dog doctor), was just “Vetted” by Cora.
Heck, we may later find out he’s a “Vet”, (veteran, generally meaning someone who served in the military, although the word has a wider meaning, too,) as well.
I know one vet vet. He was a horse doctor for the US Army. Well, I know OF one…I may well know several..
Did you vet the vet vet before or after you met? o_O
Supposedly I was the vetting. He’s my uncle, and according to family lore, he was confirmed to be “the one” when he proved to be good with my aunts infant nephew.
Also, he wasn’t a vet vet, yet. He was still in college, and ROTC, when they met.
You always vet the vet vet before you let him pet your pet.
Grrl Power is number one again on the Top Comic List. Congratulations Mr Barrack.
Is Sydney going to join the Parsec High Club?
Take a risk, Syd. Life is too short.
Uh, be careful if there’s a knot. Just sayin’.
I think Sydney might be fine with being knotty for a little while.
Might be a little Gordian knotty too.
When I initially read this, I thought Cora’s last line said “Get it, girl” but on reread find it says “Get to it girl”. I’m not saying I’m disappointed, but I’m a little disappointed.
Basically means the same thing ;)
With the build-up and hype, wouldn’t it be funny if all they did was scrubbed each other’s back and brushed each other’s hair? There is a picture of her brushing Pixel’s hair in a slumber party setting, but I can’t find it. I was imagining something like that.
Yes.
They’ll wash up and Sydney will catch the ZZZs before anything happens.
Technically it *IS* sleeping with an alien.
In Space, ZZZs catch YOU!!!
LOL. I can imagine it now. As soon as she sighs from finally relaxing, she’s out like a light. Then when she awakens, clothes laundered and folded by the bed, she realized nothing happened. Announcement over the intercom,”We are just a few minutes away from your destination, Miss Scoville.” I’m not sure what her reaction would be to this scenario, only more hilarity ensues.
You know, I had never heard of the term “escape goat” before today. Had to run a search engine on it. As for Chris Clairmont X-Men… Chris Clairmont, who gave us the Starjammers, the Phoenix, the romance with Storm and Forge, the… the whole Bronze Age X-Men… just… back in the 90s, the X-Men were THE big titles for Marvel (as in, there were at least six different X-Men series going on), and that was all because of Clairmont…!
Yep, Frix is a baaaaahhhhdd boy…