Grrl Power #706 – The girl who cried woof
“What species are you?” is probably a conversation you should have before you fool around with someone.
This whole page happened because I thought the name “Woof” was basically the funniest sounding name for a race of aliens. Sure, there are sillier words, and it’d be funny if we met a race of proud warrior aliens, but their name for themselves in our language sounds like “Drippy dicks” or “Fart nose.” We’d probably just insist on calling them something else.
But “Woof” is such a stupid and simple name for a race of aliens, made so much worse that it sounds like wolf, and they kind of look like wolves… a little. We’d probably try and call them that anyway, only to find out that it’s a horrible slur in their language.
Whole alien languages could be like that, too. It’s an amazing coincidence that Klingon sounds tough, with lots of hard consonants. Imagine if it sounded like French, or a typical sentence sounded like “Flooppy ploopy blippity bloop, hazaaaaa.” They would lose some of their menacing edge. No one carries gravitas speaking like that.
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Wait until Big SIster Maxima finds out she got it on with the Woof Man.
‘I’m keeping my Love Puppies!’
You fell into a magic portal for 3 days and you already have an alien boyfriend?!
…did you at least get his number?
“Yeah. She got his number. Several times.”
“DABBLER!”
Thanks, made me laugh.
I just sprayed my keyboard when I snorted.
Anvil: “Is it wise that she gets into a relationship so fast?”
Dabbler: “The best way to learn sexing is to go in deep!”
Anvil: “I think that’s swimming.”
Dabbler: “I know what I said.”
Seriously, her losing her virginity to a furry while in an FTL starship doing warp speed is a lot of fans dream come true!
‘Join the Warp Factor 5 club today!’
Except we’ve already been told she’s had a few sexual relationships, she’s just not as forward or as tallied as her coworkers. Think DaveB/Dynotaku said something about actually having more partners than Maxima, due to her high standards in morals… Deus not withstanding.
Dave made it very clear that she was/is NOT a virgin.
Sydney has had at least one fling during the comic–when Dabbler helped her out with the body heat spell….. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2717
Actually that was not a fling. That was a pillow with a picture of Edward from “Full Metal Alchemist”. The implication is that Sydney spent the whole night masturbating furiously, but not in a fling with a lover.
Not a virgin (as many here have corrected already), but she could perhaps be considered to have lost her ‘alien virginity’?
Or, her ‘furry virginity’?
‘Space virginity’?
Also, since the orbs weren’t with her before, she also kinda lost her ‘superhero virginity’!
I just wanna know what the orbs did at the *ahem* peak moment of “shenanigans”…ya know?!
I think that is truly the most pressing question of Grrl Power fandom. WHAT DID THE ORBS DO??
They recorded it, on every known (and a few unknown) forms of media and sensory input (don’t ask about the smell)
I do not often comment on this web comic, though I am a very big fan and frequent Reader. I just wanted to say today that DaveB has got a very serious command of how to draw extremities, hands and fingers in particular. They look amazing and I commend his “grasp“ of the techniques involved.
That is true. I didn’t notice until you put your FINGER on it. Dave is certainly HANDY at drawing hands.
Well, he does draw the comic DIGITally, so no surprise that he NAILed it.
And, thumbs up!
Don’t you love when google translate can’t see the difference between names and words?
All I can say about Sydney’s happy face is…. Woof.
I think I know the popular vote for this year’s valentines pin up
A little G rated, tho. She’s less visible than if she was wearing a swimsuit. I’m not expecting porn, but a few curves are ok.
Good page, but that water is completely untransparent and now i can’t unsee them bathing in blue jello
its special space water called cuttheartistsomeslack but that just translates to water
Honestly if you could make water completely nontransparent with some dye while still keeping it non-toxic and non-staining, I bet you’d get a lot of customers who like skinny dipping but prefer some privacy
It might have enhanced surface tension for low gravity applications.
That’s a really good idea.
Now you are talking about jelly. Or custard.
Why do you people insist on making me hungry?
Because they know you don’t eat enough
The “completely nontransparent and non-toxic” part is easy: Basically just add enough milk and food color. (If you want to do a very good job for bathing purpose, also add soap and perfume but that might interfere with the non-toxic part…) The non-staining part is the most difficult and it might also contradict the whole idea of bathing…
Yes, the non staining is the most important part – Blue customers see red….
Just cover the surface with ping pong balls…
Recent pages suggest good things for VDSD if Dave is taking part this year though…
Maybe it is completely untransparent. Some bathing additives do that… and add color. So it may really look like that :D
There was an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies which required Donna Douglas (Ellie May) to swim with hippos in the “cement pond”. The hippos relieved themselves in the water, so they dumped in blue dye to cover it up. Donna: “Why is the water blue?” Director: “er, ah, um, the hippo legs look strange thru the camera so we covered it up.” She discovered what else was covered when she slid into the water and ripped into them after the shot! :D
Wait, please tell me they didn’t have Donna Douglas get into a swimming pool containing live hippopotamusses. Those are VERY DANGEROUS animals, territorial, ferocious, and those teeth are FAR from small.
Like a lot of aminals (wild and not), hippos can be trained
It’s the wild ones that have more kills per animal per year than lions or crocs
What I find incredibly cute about today’s page is that even after Frix has seen and presumably touched just about every square inch of Sydney’s body, she still feels the need to shyly keep her boobs covered.
I think it’s a little of that… But I also think there’s just some “Happy, artist-friendly coincidences” going on- for one, her initial position of hands up under chin is a good one for resting against the tub wall while getting a massage. And then, here immediate transition into *concern*, and then the last with the palms in towards the chest is a pose I’ve seen before… so… Not awkwardly done, at the very least.
And the Frix is in! Well, was in!
Dabbler is so gonna know shenanigans happened.
Sydney: So i met a cute woof…
Dabbler: Ooh, I remember my first time with a woof, did you know-
Sydney: Aagh no shut up shut up
Sydney: So i met a cute woof…
Dabbler: Ooh, I remember my first time with a woof, on Cora’s ship, his name was..
Sydney: Frix?!
Dabbler: Yeah, Frix.. Oh, did he do his thing where he unspecified with his unspecified and..
Sydney: STOP! Just.. ugh.
Sydney: ……
Dabbler leans in, knowingly..
Sydney: ….yeah, he did. It was.. pretty nice
*Hammers invisible +1 button…images of Dabbler appear* Huh…that’s new… oh well. *keeps hammering*
“I just didn’t expect his tail to be so…prehensile.”
Even though DaveB had to skip through those shenanigans due to his self-imposed Muaturity Rating, we at least know that there was sufficient “quantity & quality” of them to make Sydney get wet…
…
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…Okay, I’ll go sit in the corner now…
/me sneaks over to the corner. Taps you on the shoulder. Raises right hand for high-five.
That was a good one. Get out of the corner and accept your grats.
Fun times. :) Now I’m wondering what ‘human’ translates to. Glad to see Sydney get the chance to relax. Though… am I missing something, or did her hair change colour? I was pretty damn sure.. *goes to check* yeah. She’s blond. When did she go brunette? Did I miss something?
She has magic hair that’s whatever color the artist wants. Pay no attention to the Patreon ad in the sidebar.
My grey hair when wet partially reverts back to its prehistoric brown color. I suspect many people have hair that shifts color a bit when wet.
I revert to ginger when in the moist climate of my scottish homeland but am otherwise a dirty blonde. It’s somewhat amusing to me.
With me normal is brown, but wet and or just washed it has a distinct reddish tint.
I think it’s just implied it’s darker cause it’s wet
Well according to Plato it means “featherless biped” but Diogenes disputed it with a plucked chicken, so idk
I’ve hear of this in school. Out teacher point out that the definition only works in one direction: All humans are featherless bipeds but not all featherless bipeds are humans.
I’m assuming that’s because her hair is wet, so it looks darker than normal.
I assumed that she has some sort of high-tech treatment in her hair. After all her time on the destroyed planet and in space, I’m guessing she has some seriously split ends.
It actually looks like semi-transparent white suds in her hair.
For the love of space god, it’s shampoo and shininess in her hair :)
Dunno. The hair treatment looks real to me.
You may find that if you get a towel wet, it turns a darker color too. As the surface tension of the water curves around & through fiberous materials, it refracts light differently (reflects the light in all sorts of different directions). Since there’s less light reaching your eyes, it appears to be darker in color.
As for why we can’t see through the surface tension of the water? There’s a scientific reason for that too. Have you ever seen a calm, clear puddle of water from a distance but could see only light reflecting from the surface, but then once you get closer you can see through the water to the bottom of the puddle? That’s because the surface tension acts something like a mirror in that you also can’t see anything in front of the mirror itself if you’re standing off to the side of the mirror. To see what is in front of the mirror (or to see through the surface tension of water) you need to get to a more perpendicular angle than when you were standing off to the side. To see through the surface of a water puddle, you need to have your eyes above it, not from an extreme angle.
A pane of glass does the same thing, in that a solar panel with a sheet of glass to protect it also reflects light at an angle if the source of light is at an angle too. Solar panels are pretty useless the source of light is with only about 20-degress of perpendicular to the surface of the glass…The light refracts away from the solar panel underneath if the angle of the light is too great. Where possible, solar panels are set on motors that can tilt the solar panel towards the sun to get the most use of daylight hours as possible.
Well, technically, according to the angle of view we have (rendered on the page) as compared to what we think the angle may be from the room’s source lighting, we should be able to see through the surface tension…But DaveB wants this comic to keep its more “family-friendly rating, so…
That’s SCIENCE!
Or it could be that the liquid has different properties than water, with different refraction effects in certain wavelengths of the visible spectrum or something. It may be a more practical substitute for water (for whatever reason) in a “shipboard environment.”
You’re talking about the Fresnel effect. We use that a lot in 3d rendering.
‘Human’ might translate to ‘shaved’. After all, a shaved Woof would look kinda silly, and that’s kinda what humans look like.
And, a shaver kinda makes that noise – “hummmmmanhhnuuummmmmananuuuuummana”
I figured the color was simply a result of it being wet. I’m more confused about the drastic change in length and style. I guess maybe it’s tied up, but that seems like a weird thing to do while it’s still got shampoo or something in it, and in the shot from back in panel #7, there’s nothing visible holding it up, and it really doesn’t look tied up anyway.
See Girl Genius for “Princess Zeetha, daughter of Chump – and yes, I know what that means in your language”.
Terry Pratchett has a lot of fun with this to, particularly dwarf names such as Shr’t’az (rendered in translation as “Littlebottom” ) or Carrot’s dwarf name, which translates as “Head Banger” (on one level, a reference to his height….)
*gasp*
is he related to Harry Headbanger?
Second cousin to Harvey Wallbanger.
He is not, he is a human raised by dwarves, in dwarven tunnels. He’s six and a half feet tall. Thus, Head Banger.
Leon and Sydney both approve of mentioning Carrot. You may come out of your pigeonhole now.
I don’t know if there’s a relationship there, but through his sister’s marriage he’s related to Max Headroom.
All these years of reading Pratchett and I never noticed Cherise’s dwarf name was Shr’t’az. I’m so ashamed.
At least he’s not Neville Longbottom
Morans.
Ahh, inhabitants of Silt Lake Under-city.
And “It’s Perv-ECT!” from Myth Adventures.
Insert obligatory Starfox reference.
But why, exactly, can you not let her do that star woof?
Something like this? http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=221
Aw. I was hoping for at least some quantity of shenanigans.
While funny, I have a hard time believing a species would have a definition for their species-name that isn’t just “us”, I mean that’s like saying “human” means anything besides being us.
Oh I’m human, in my language that means “walking monkey… uh, I mean “honorable landowner from earth”, trust me
Human apparently means “earthly being”, if you go back through Latin and proto-Indo-European languages.
“Hume” is earth, as in dirt…related words are humus (soil) and exhume (to dig up), originally derived from a proto-indo-european word with the same meaning. Same in Hebrew, “adam” (a human) is related to “adamah”, or earth.
Why the human -> dirt connection exists in the first place is pretty speculative. Possibly related to “those who work the dirt” (i.e. farm) – maybe it’s what hunter-gatherers called the first farmers. Maybe it was even an insult. Or alternatively to contrast with the “sky people” (i.e. gods).
Even though both the planet and the species being named after dirt, rather the species being named after the planet, “Earthling” is still a pretty good re-translation of “Human”.
What I find globally embarrassing is the earths name. We have all these cooler names for the nearby and cool things in our local solar system etc. We should be able to have a better name for our planet.
Can you imagine the real first contact?
yeah we live on earth.
um, that is dirt right?
Well it is also called Gaia.
what does that stand for?
well in fairness it is “mother earth”
what about the rone closest to the dun?
that one is Mercury.
.. more planets named…
So you have all these cool names for the other planets and some of the stars and comets, but not ‘Earth’?
.. um, I think we need a meeting…
Yeah, we’re not very good at naming stuff, but that wouldn’t stop us from criticizing other species.
Some scifi series compensate by keeping with the naming scheme we gave the rest of the solar system. Making the third planet from Sol; Terra.
Making us: Terrans.
What I find globally embarrassing is the earths name. We have all these cooler names for the nearby and cool things in our local solar system etc. We should be able to have a better name for our planet.
Can you imagine the real first contact?
yeah we live on earth.
um, that is dirt right?
Well it is also called Gaia.
what does that stand for?
well in fairness it is “mother earth”
what about the one closest to the sun?
that one is Mercury.
.. more planets named…
So you have all these cool names for the other planets and some of the stars and comets, but not ‘Earth’?
.. um, I think we need a meeting…
Might also have something to do with the fairy tail myth about how ‘Adam’ was created from a pile of dirt and spit
It could have ment something, but the meaning was lost in multiple translations and localisations of the word. English “human” comes from latin “homo” which itself is a long shot from some older languages and my quick google search shows that the original was meaning most likely something like “earthling”, but it is not that easy to reconstruct.
I can understand it meaning “from earth” or something, but I don’t think you could really get adjectives in a species name, no one likes being pigeonholed
Tell that to a flying rat!
Well non-talking species don’t get to pick their own name
Just because you don’t understand what they are saying does not mean they are non-lingual. Sure, we think all those ultra-high chirping sounds they make are for sonar to find insects for dinner, but they could be talking about politics and weather patterns and the like. We just don’t know it yet.
Fun fact: Fruit-eating bats do not tend to use sonar. They are mostly diurnal, and can see their “prey” hanging from the trees. (Mostly, as in all the ones I know about, but I am covering myself if some fly at night to get their food.)
The response to “pigeonhole” being “flying rats” is because flying rats is a euphemism for pigeons. No reference to bats intended.
Thank you for getting the reference :D
Oh, I thought you meant bats
Or, maybe animals can talk and don’t actually have anything useful to say.
Which could be pretty fun anyways.
Squirrels don’t speak english but they definitely do communicate with each other. But don’t let them know. DONT MESS WITH THE SQUIRRELS MORTY!
Different culture that developed in a different context.
most likely taking up that particular name was relatively recent in their history, around the time they became FTL capable and discovered other species for example.
I mean we assume that ‘woof’ refers to the inhabitants of the whole world, but it’s equally possible that it refers to a subset. Like “English” or “Indian” or the like. In that context, it doesn’t seem so out of place to call yourself “the most noble whatever” other than a bit braggish.
or more simply, since he got the whole auto translation going on like everyone else it seems in space, his race’s language might be composed entirely of barks, but Sidney doesn’t notice because it all end up as english to her
only, when he tried to say a word very specific that doesn’t exist in english, it got translated as onomatopoeia, so, “woof”
Just about all names do actually mean something, it’s just that western culture has forgotten them due to not caring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAW9X66TTCw
Regarding the etymology of the word Woof as the name for Frix’s race, it could be that the word dates back to before the Woof had developed a mouth that could enunciate words more complex than woof, ruff or bark. Logically a word for themselves would be one of the first words that would be created in a species’ first attempts at language.
Would it though? I agree that a name for “us” is useful enough to come up fairly early in linguistic development, but I’d have thought the “us” in question would be more at the tribe/clan/village level than at the race/species level.
So you’d have “the people”, “creatures who are like the people but are not of the people”, multiple “creatures who are like the people but differ in some specific way” but not necessarily a generic term for “the people and all creatures who can make babies with the people, or could if they did not live too far away”.
The human equivalent from some languages is also used for the name of the people, for instance Inuit.
as far as I had read, Inuit means ‘the people’ because they had ties to cannibalism, and everyone knows you are what you eat.
that might, however, just be an urban myth, so to speak
I agree that the earliest origins of a word for ‘us’ were probably along the lines of ‘the people (of clan A)‘, but it’s the sort of thing that could/would easily expand over time. As clans conquer and/or merge, the unit of allegiance gets bigger; sometimes that would involve a new word for ‘the people (of clan A+B)‘ in the case of a deliberate equal merger, but ‘the people (of clan A (now incorporating clan B))‘ is probably equally likely, and more so in the case of conquest or unequal merger.
The generic term comes in when you start to distinguish between ‘the people (of whom clan A are a part)‘ and ‘clan A (within the people)‘. I’m not sure how early that would come, but it does seem as though trading networks existed well before any known languages became established, which would suggest that the distinction became relevant very early on.
I just want to drop here that the German name for the species “Meerkat” is “Erdmännchen” which probably already looks funny on its own, it would literally translate to “little earthmen” or a bit less literally “little men of (the) earth” :D
Or it could be a tonal language. In which inflection and even the very notes used to pronounce the word change its meaning radically.
“You had me at Woof”
Although I’m pretty sure he had her at first sight, given her reaction to him……
Well, she’s keeping this one…….
Also, i don’t think he knows much about Earth.
I wonder what his reaction would be seeing a dog for the first time?
And finding out humans keep them as pets (And in some cultures, as food…)
I mean imagine coming to an alien planet ans seeing they have pet monkeys, he’d probably just be surprised at the convergent evolution
Probably the same way humans look at chipanzies.
Can`t believe we`re related but see some of it.
The incredible variation of types and sizes of dogs would
probably surprise ANY extraterestrial.
I read that a Terrier and a Rotwieller mated recently.
The puppies were adorable!
Ever seen a Sealyham Terrier? The poor thing look like someone literally chopped it off at the knees (and that ‘someone’ would be an ancestor of ours… )
Corgi mixes most of the time look like a miniature variant of the other dog race.
Yeah, butt corgi legs at least look ‘normal’, not with a Sealyham Terrier
I’m sure some evil dog breeder has tried to cross St. Bernard and chihuahua. Have to be by artificial insemination with a female St. Bernard, otherwise it would be extremely evil.
…Pretty sure you meant a female chihuahua would get the artificial insemination as a non-extremely-evil thing, aka an act of kindness…since a female St. Bernard might not even notice anything was happening, and certainly wouldn’t be harmed by it.
He was probably also considering the potential size of the puppies.
Ever seen “Slither”? The scene in the barn? Yeah.
Exactly, subjecting a female chihuahua to potentially St. Bernard-sized pups would be cruel. IMHO.
And that’s after subjecting the female Chihuahua to a St. Bernard-sized knot!
Due to so many human languages having the sound in the name for their species many aliens in my neck of the multiverse have taken to calling them the En.
No one asked, but I feel a need to explain this joke.
why call human’s (En), due to humans speaking various languages and translators not translating world/cultural specific nouns, the different human languages have a specific noun for humans in general, that have a common sound in them that is taken in this context as the universal term.
say these
Human,
Mench,
Humain,
Ningen,
Ren de,
while its not universal to every language, a great deal of languages, especially the common trade languages version of the word for humans have some common sounds in them, easiest to pick up on is (En).
Is that a 40k reference Sydney is seeing(hearing maybe) there?
Well, shagging a Space Wolf is some feat even for an amazon. Just dont share their drink.
Cute Sydney.
new discipline: the inquiring turn-back…
a better in joke would be if they where called yorp’s
Naw. There is only one true Yorp.
*wags tail appreciatively*
♫ All you other Yorp-maybes are just imitating… ♫
…I’m glad the real Yorpie stood up before that went on any longer.
I call bullshit on the meaning of “Woof”. No matter how complex your language is you won’t pack the meaning of six-word sentence into one syllable.
I think I need to introduce you to japanese.
My name is Ben. It means The youngest/son from the south and a few more things.
Been on twitter lately? :P
The name “John” means “God is gracious”. “Mike” even translate to a question: “who is like God?”.
Of course these two are both shortened versions of the original names which have been adapted from one language to the next. But why schouldn’t that apply to “Woof” as well? For example it could be a remnant from a culture that mainly communicated with bark- and howl-like sounds and the original word had a more varied set of tones for what is now the “oo” – but with the dominant culture shifting towards one with more human-like language, that got ground down to what we have today.
John: “God has been gracious”
ignore this post, Sky’s didn’t show for me until after I made mine.
My family name means “keeper of the histories” (both of them, actually, the one I was born with and the one I use) My given name means “howler in the wilderness” the name I took means “a piece of work”. All of those phrases are expressed by a single word, some two syllables, and some one.
My name means “inconspicuous carrier of the spear to one side.” Or something like that.
Sydney now just needs to avoid singing any Duran Duran until she’s safely back on earth….
Think she gonna sing “Hungry like the Woof”
Oh well done. Whether she does or not, I have a new earworm now.
Well the song from “Nine-Inch-Nails, I wanna you like an animal” already played so it’s only fair
Syd wanna frix him like an animal.
In many stories their fun would have been interrupted for some silly reason. I’m glad Dave didn’t take that predictable option. Sydney had some well deserved shenanigans with a space woof instead.
I think this is like an anime spa episode
We certainly didn’t need any Woofus Interruptus.
Oooh that’s a groaner!
As Agent 86 might say: “Yiffed it by that much!”
Alright, You can have a +1 Internet,
but that’s no reason to be Getting Smart@$$ about it.
After the bath they are going to relax by playing some Castle Woofenstein.
They’re just bathing together. Yet.
Also we don’t know what conversation happened exactly between the previous page and this one, maybe they agreed to keep it at bathing and specifically helping each other with bathing without touching each other’s privates. Hints: Sydney is relaxed and not blushing anymore – and covers her boobs when she turns towards Frix.
I assume you missed the caption in the first panel? What you’ve described doesn’t really qualify as any quality or quantity of shenanigans. Likewise, “fool around with” has a pretty common meaning that isn’t exactly literal.
Read the yellow box again: this is the clean-up from the shenanigans
@Pythor & @Guesticus
Indeed, I didn’t realize the meaning of “shenanigans” and “fooling around” (but I have to admit that the meaning in this context isn’t exactly clear to me: “shenanigans” and “fooling around” seem to fit together but seem to have a wider range of meanings…) Anyway, that would explain Sydney being relaxed and not blushing, but what about covering her boobs…? oh wait. That’s not exactly what she doing… Guys, you’re 100% right.
I guess there are also a lot of non-aquatic people in space whose home planet’s name translates to earth or something like it.
Panel 4: That doesn’t look like water so much as some kind of blue… gloop?
It’s Yiffy-lube. It’s a compound with nanites to prevent, at minimum, cross species contamination, bacterial transfer and washes easily out of fur leaving a glossy coat.
Wow.
Just WOW.
*slow clap*
Joins in giving you the slow clap.
*hands you the ointment to help PREVENT the slow clap (or the regular kind)
…The only thing I have to say about that is that I just have no words…
You won the internet today!
So it’s a mod of Blue Goober?
At least it isn’t green (green mod 30 gives wedgies), though I suspect Dabbler would like Green mod 19.
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-09-28
Amazing, after reading this comic for years I find this scene to actually be, “Normal” and dare I say, Cute? David, what the hell have you done?
What does Sydney got in her hair,some kind of alien shampoo!?
Could be a heavier type of soap.
I use a whipped soap in my hair, and it does that, which breaks brains because my hair is down to my waist(only because I just trimmed it, it was longer).
I forget which Sci-Fi author wrote it, but he/she surmised that all alien racial names would translate to “The People”, due to the fact that the name would have been adopted during the early stages of social/language development of the species. Similarly, all home planet names would translate to “Our Planet”, “Dirt/Ground/Earth/etc…” All names for the Home Star would translate to “The Sun”.
This is one of the reasons that I disliked that Star Trek named a race, “Vulcans”, and their home planet, “Vulcan”. Very humanocentric names for an alien race.
James White’s Sector General series does this; translated, each species’ name for themselves always means “human” so it’s more common to refer to planet of origin or for more useful specificity their 4-digit physiological classification code.
THAT’s the author! Great series to read. I highly recommend it.
One of my favorite “Sector General” stories is where the doctor makes a dinosaur happy by treating it like a pet. How he does this, is something you will have to find out by reading the story.
“Set a course for Earth.”
“Which Earth, sir. Due to the standard origins of languages by various species, every planet translates as ‘Earth.'”
Yeah, that’s why we have to have different names. Even in manufactured common-use languages like Interlac, Galactic Basic or whatever. It’s to avoid cross-species confusion, especially when a common language is involved..
The names we White Eyes have for several Indian tribes west of the Mississippi basically mean something like “those evil (or ‘sub-human ) bastards over there” in the language of the tribe to their east.
When us white guys were looking at the old ruins in the Southwest, the word given for the culture was Anasazi. It is Navaho for ‘ancient enemy’.
And ‘Kangaroo’ means (roughly) “I have no fucking clue, never seen one before”
That is why sometimes writers call the Earth Sol-3. We are the third planet from the star Sol, or at least that’s our official name for it.
Sol is Latin for Sun. Heh. Yes. We are the third planet from our star.
The opposite of “transparent” is “opaque”…or at least it’s the functional opposite…but in any case, finally! May her hyperactivity be reduced in direct proportion to how satisfied she is!! Let it be so! *crosses arms, nods sharply, and runs away coughing from within a smoke pellet dud’s less than spectacular haze*
There’s also “translucent,” which means that one can see through it but objects may appear blurry or indistinct.
Leaving aside the shenanigans for a moment: it will be interesting when Sydney has sufficient downtime on Earth to discover that she now ranks above ‘regular’ supermodels when it comes to getting dates. She kind of knows that she’s in the process of becoming rich and famous, but it hasn’t sunk in, I think. And just wait until she casually mentions how she just backed something on Kickstarter where a camera could catch it, and suddenly the project is 20X funded.
Nice touch making Halo’s wet hair darker than usual Dave.
damn it, Dave, this is why you need to make an “After Dark” subsection, (with some kind of age-lock, of course), so we can enjoy any ‘shenanigans’! I know I’m not the only one who thinks that, either.
I don’t know, I kinda like that the shenanigans are only implied here – it allows you to imagine as tender or hardcore variant as you like. I don’t have any problem with explicit art, but it has it’s time and place.
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When I think of it, there are enough artists around who wouldn’t mind taking commision to fill the blanks. Considering the scene, I’d start on furaffinity if you are serious about it.
furaffinity is for just that, non-furry stuff is generally not allowed, and it’s not Frix I’m interested in :P
You know when Sydney gets home, her new make out friend is going to amp up her cool cred with the girls way beyond the whole surviving on her own in another universe thing!
Not so sure about this. Yes she boosted her street cred for the girls, but lets not forget that she leveled up in just about every aspect here.
Survived alone on hostile alien planet Check
Defeated 2 kaiju planet destroying monsters Check
Leveled up abilities multiple times Check
Escaped planet using unsure and untested warp tech Check
landed on Dyson Sphere/warp bazaar Check
Learned self control when encountering refugees from planet you just escaped Check
Unitube web star for eating spicy dish that many species would call lethal Check
Ask for several more bowls and a spicy kicker Check
Holo wings Check
Space ship travel with reverse harem Check
Yeah, pick and choose. multiple people are going to be impressed with Sydney as she essentially earned the phrase from way back at the beginning of this comic when Anvil says “Watch out. the big guns are here.”
Don’t forget: Protect self and teammates from a direct hit of a nuclear level attack.
Based on the size of the crater that explosion was at least 20kiloTonnes possibly much higher (eg: if most of the energy was deflected straight up).
As far as species names go, I kinda liked the name of one of the alien species from Ann Leckies’ Imperial Radch series. The Rrrrrr. It’s supposed to be a sort of growl, which is how they say the name of their species. Totally unpronounceable and kinda silly.
The noble Woof race has endured much in the past thankfully slurs like being called a Ruff or a Grrr no longer divide our people.
Grr, Grrl, woof woof!
What about Yip and Bark? Those still an issue?
Yorp?!
So that’s where you come from!
*ruffles yer headfur & ears*
*wags tail contentedly, rubbing up against Ladyofthemasque‘s legs*
It saddens me that earth must still be an unenlightened place for you to use such baseless insults, do you even realize your true place should not be subservient to the humans (HAHAHAHAHA) but to stand alongside us among the stars? Do not allow your hatred to blind you to the true path to nobility my brother… also please put some pants on.
Woof, woof, WOOF, woof, bark, woof, yip, woof, WOOF!
;-)
Woof.
Hey, watch the language. There are cubs present.
that might be exactly how he usually sound when he speak his race’s language, but Sidney doesn’t notice because the auto-translation is on
however the word for his race isn’t translatable in english as it, so it end up as onomatopoeia, so, “woof”
The Who’s Who is broken. I don’t know who any of these people are!
Apparently Frix’s tattoo was just a temporary tattoo. It appears to have washed off.
Fur, so.. though now kind of curious as to whether it is purely for adornment or if it is culturally significant for the Woofs.
It is one of those images that disappear with changes in temperature.
It was still there last page…
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[In space nobody can hear you woof.]
Except the one who is woofing. Unless he is deaf.
Who is the one that Woofs?
Who Woofs the Woofer?
If he had a Twitter account he could be both a woofer and a tweeter.
Put a collar on him and he’d be a sub-woofer.
Ewwww. That’s awful! Congrats!
I prefer my cape.
*super woofer flies off*
Don’t let your cape get sucked into the engine of that flying car you are chasing!
The girl that tried woof..
Wonder if Frix is a part of the Weaving cast that includes warp and weft
If no one said she got herself into a knotty situation, I don’t know if I am proud of you all, or disappointed.