Grrl Power #710 – Womenities
Hopefully it’s obvious, but Slyv is setting up collapsible shelters there in that bay.
Dabbler used to fly around the galaxy with Cora a lot, and that’s when the ship got a lot of the crazier amenities installed. Cora is more sexually adventurous than most people, but it’s when she hangs around with Dabbler that she really gets caught up in it, and starts combining that particular hobby with her normal pastime of engineering. Thus, a bunch of crazy sexmenities that in reality barely ever get used.
I didn’t mention it on the last page, but Sydney is wearing one of Frix’s old coats while her Archon gear is being laundered. You know how after a gal has naked time with a guy, she has to walk around in some over sized garment of his, like a t-shirt or hoodie or something? It’s not just an Earth law, it’s intergalactic. Well, intragalactic really. Who knows how those weirdos over in Andromeda handle it.
Also, I didn’t forget Sydney’s glasses. They’re being repaired. She really only needs them for reading anyway.
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Big sealed box behind a force field fence with caution markings surrounding it. Yeah, that’s just inviting the kid to accidentally unleash the Fel Artifact of Unspeakable Cuddles.
Interesting that the physical hazard Yellow and Black Caution Stripes defined by OSHA comply with the requirements of the Intergalactic Standards Commission.
What happens in the vagina closet, stays in the vagina closet.
Not sure what happened here, but the link I proved got hosed in the posting. Here is another attempt at that link…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OSHA_barricade_tapes_colours.svg
Well, at least we know it’s not OSHA radioactive.
“What is your fascination with my Forbidden Closet of Mystery?”
Now what would the GOSHA (Galactic Occupational Health & Safety) markings for metaphysical l & philosophical hazards
If you get REALLY high tech, the OSHA stripes are in reality a psychic display that looks different to different races. if you have green blood it is forest green with lime green splotches.
How are you so sure it isn’t?
I mean, is there any reason a beuarocrat from the Galactic Health and Safety need not have, during their stat on Earth for anonymous sex tourism, chosen to make their job easier when the planet integrated by fixing a regulation or two?
It’s like the Whomping Willow of space!
Uhm, that comment puts Harry Potter in a whole new light …
Well more likely Ron, given how many times he seems to have “accidentally” been found getting pounded by the Willow.
Cross-over between Potter and Buffy? o_O
The Weeping Willow from HP.
Willow the Witch doesn’t weep :P
I thought Willow was a sorcerer. :)
More like the Buggering Birch from the Barry Trotter version.
Ok so a few pages without glasses, did they fix her eyesight off screen with advanced technology? I know her glasses were cracked and perhaps it was just as easy to fix the eyes sight as it was to fix the glasses, so I was wondering.
From DaveB’s comment we know she is far sighted. As she doesn’t have thick glasses that can’t be that much. So she is fine without them as long she is not trying to read.
DaveB already covered this in his commentary above.
Her eyesight is fine enough I guess – people don’t need glasses all the time – it usually depends on the distance between what they want to look at.
If she only needs them for reading, she most likely sees everything a bit more blurry if an object is directly in front of her – so it’s ok when she walks around in a 160m long ship where everything is big and far away… like these hentacles.
Wasn’t there some earlier scene where she lost her glasses and it made a difference? Back when they got attacked at the restaurant after the press conference? My recollection is that they seemed to make more difference than just reading glasses would, but I could be wrong.
Also, don’t people who only need glasses for reading only wear them for reading?
that scene was a ruse, it was a distaction. she pretended to pull a Velma and when the dude’s guard was down she went for the homerun ball buster. that guy will never have children
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Well seeing detail is nice when not reading even if it’s not 100% needed and there are so many things you need to read day-to-day that it’s not worth taking your glasses on and off for. I could drive without my glasses in an emergency but I could never see street signs or read speed limit signs. Still when I lost them in high school I was able to go a week without them without too much trouble (so many nice teachers noticed me squinting and asked if I might need glasses without realizing they’d seen me wearing glasses for the last 6 months to 3 years).
Astigmatism. I have it, along with 20/30 vision. For 20/30, I need no glasses, except I’m 68 next week and need bifocals for reading, just due to age. And, the optometrist mentioned I’m working on cataracts someday, also from age (and diabetes.) But it is the astigmatism that makes everything blurry without my glasses. I got my first pair in boot camp in 1970, and I prefer to wear them when I’m awake. They made an enormous difference.
For Sydney, it’s making sure she can see the controls on her orbs, which is kind of important when you’re plotting a course through extradimensional space and need to hit that vital turn at the Albuquerque nebula.
If she needed glasses for reading, then yes, when she’s not reading, and looking around at things in the middle or far distance, she’d have to have them off or everything would be blurry, even hurt her eyes as they strain to focus on the unfocusable.
Children who spent an unbalanced amount of their spare time growing up reading (books or comics in her case) basically staring at something a foot/30cm away all the time, very often become nearsighted, because their eyes have adapted to that distance, and thus they need glasses to clearly see objects at a distance (such as to read a street-sign).
I admit I haven’t paid the closest attention to what Sydney does when she has to read something in her hands (like if she slides her glasses up her head) but I’d always assumed she was some variation of nearsighted like myself.
The children spending unbalanced time hypothesis has very little support in modern ophthalmological science.
That theory has very little support in reality like Lazarus said. Also I have nearly the same nearsightedness with the same difference between the left and right eye as my mother. We also needed glasses at about the same age. That alone tells me that it’s mostly genetic. I think that the nearsightedness of readers is just confirmation bias. You ask kids with glasses what they like to do and you get back that they like to read, so the reading causes the glasses.
Yeah. Frix using his advanced alien medical knowledge and equipment to give Sydney better than perfect 20/20 vision seemed to be vastly more likely. Somewhat disappointed DaveB thinks he’s wasting time to fix her glasses when fixing her eyes would be just as easy or even easier. The concept of glasses to correct vision has to be nearly forgotten at their level of tech. I would have thought the comic would continue after this point with Sydney having perfect vision, but continuing to use glasses as a ruse and with built-in tech to access alternate spectrums and a super-computer embedded in the frames. What would google glasses be after 1000 years of tech advancement? The major tech challenge would be to dumb them down enough to meet import restrictions into a backwater like Earth.
That room looks like it’s 20m high at least and about 100x100m. That is a big freight room. Also the rooms are hilarious. Well done.
Well ten decks would be 30-40m and it wouldn’t be surprising if the cargo bay is most of the ship for that section.
Be VERY careful when trying to find the cleaning supplies closet if you are new to the ship, none of the doors are labeled properly.
It would be so tempting to put up fake signs.
Just don’t go snooping in the Supplies Closet.
If you see a closet door sign that says “Fibber McGee” be sure to stand to the side before you open it.
Wow! A 1940’s Trivia reference! All we need now is a Jack Benny’s Maxwell reference …how, I don’t know.
more like a Rochester and the whiskey reference…
What about the vagina closet?
This is something that exists for a particular quirk that the vast majority of males in a “live-birth” species has: They spend the first few months of life inside of one & then spend pretty much their whole adult life trying to get back into one.
You forgot the Lovenasium!
Soo… are her glasses being repaired into transparent aluminium so they don’t break so easily?
They could probably just give her some retinax 5 or equivalent, as long as she’s not allergic.
…Yeah, I’m not a Trekkie – I’ve watched the first episode (from 1968 according to Netflix) and heard a bunch about it, but that’s it.
Thanks to our good friend Google, I can now agree that that would make more sense…
I hope not, aluminum scratches way too easily. Maybe if they were tungsten coated.
More specifically Aluminum Oxynitride, a tough clear ceramic material.
https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/whats-the-deal-with-transparent-aluminum/
Add some fun features like x-ray and thermal vision while she have the opportunity.
Why bother? she’s got her Com-Ball… granted, she still has to UNLOCK that function but it’ll be “interesting” when she does… because then they’ll have to put up a sign in the GUYS locker room that says that YES, Someone DOES have X-ray Vision…
Or another possible unlock could be remote viewing. Basically her telepresence ability, but with the additional ability to make the remote body invisible to others.
You want her to have glasses like Tedd? https://elgoonishshive.fandom.com/wiki/Tedd
Lots of info in that page that is not directly related to the glasses, but searching for “glasses” will eventually get all the pertinent information.
Or you can link like this: https://elgoonishshive.fandom.com/wiki/Tedd#Tedd.27s_Glasses
Sydney actually looks kinda professional and serious in panel 2… Only to go back to normal in the last panel.
Oh My God, WHERE IS MAXIMA????? Dave. Please? Maxima, Tentacle Closet, THE COMEDY. MAKE. IT. HAPPEN!!!!
Dear God no. There wouldn’t be a ship left if she saw that room.
All things considered the tentacle room isn’t a man putting himself as superior to women, but more like a sex toy room; so chances are Maxima wouldn’t be as against it as some might think. In fact some nice strong tentacles could just be the thing Maxima needs to loosen up a few tight muscles no one else can exert enough pressure on.
It’s a CONSENSUAL tentacle room.
You mean “consenticles”.
Nah, it’ll be a Consensual Tentacle Room… only if Trent is there… otherwise, how could a “ROOM” possibly be ABLE to even GIVE consent?
I know, right! We wouldn’t have Comedy Gold, we’d have COMEDY PLATINUM!!!!
No way Frix could fit into that shirt. Unless it’s made of size shifting super space future cloth of course.
Maybe it’s stretchy and this is it unstretched.
Maaaaaayyyyybe it’s baggy when you put it on
then when you press where the left cuff link would
be if it had any it becomes skintight.
Not sure you’d want that for pants.
See “Questionable Content” re adaptive clothing.
Coffee of Doom suits.
I just figured it was a really old, old jacket from before he really started filling out. Also, The ship must have an extremely good gym for working out, as well. By the looks of the crew, workouts must get competitive.
And don’t forget the hentertainment systems.
Cora is the hentaitainment system. Think of all of her “outfits”. She is a champion cosplayer.
I have to say that’s impressive. I can’t help but Wonder if all the amenities are specifically centered around the girls and their potential needs.
The sexateria and orgynasium could cater for all genders. The tentacle closet, not so much.
> The tentacle closet, not so much.
You must be new to the internet or something.
Google tentacle futa or tentacles on men hentai, trust me, it can be done.
not just penetration; you’d be surprised how versatile tentacles can be,
they also are like a combination of bondage, some slime elements, basically tentacles are like (what will your pleasure be) every fetish in one if you want….and I do mean *every* so be careful on those searches.
Rule 34… ’nuff said…
image search “yoai tentacle porn”
You’re welcome.
Looks like Sydney is a Furry fan but despite knowing Hentai has possibly avoided tentacle pron or isn’t a fan on personally participating.
…considering most tentacle pron tends to have the females completely subdued and forced, I can imagine Sydney being less inclined.
Per Trent she is in fact interested.
If she’s interested, she needs to visit the envirohentail control room.
That’s because its the disturbing male fetish that gets made the most (tentacle rape),
however consensual tentacles are a thing, and there are romance novels about women with tentacle monsters; even Cthulhu, changing it into a kind of *could touch everywhere at once full body sensual massage*.
I have even seen some where the woman dominates the tentacle monster.
Ha, ha, ha. Like this one here.
https://i1.wp.com/www.sexylosers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sl016.jpg
OR where the female IS the Tentacle Monster!…
Most of my tentacle monsters are female as well. As well as it being a common shapeshifting element for demonic and eldritch characters.
All of my forms are female.
Sydney kinda looks like Edward Elric on the second panel.
Well they are probably close in height.
You may recall that she has an Edward Elric body pillow at home.
Who goes to Jerusalem and not see the Sexaterium?
I wonder what “upgrades” her uniform is gonna get. What with someone in the crew watching her clothes be washed and repaired (she did take a shrapnel to the gut stopped by the liquid plate in her vest/shirt)
Hmmm. Decent armor…doesn’t handle dirt well…picks up stains and odors…HUFF! SNEEZE! Hmm this internal panel must be liquid armor…YO! Don’t we have some spare armor nannites from ————-? Yeah bring them over. And the Anti-Offensive Nannites we use to make sure we do not OFFEND anyone we meet w/sex smells or body odors.
What you working on? Oh, Sydney’s gear? She was nice for a (SNORK) Human. Let’s analyze what we can get away with on upgrades.
You gonna go for the remote joy buzzer?
Oh Hell NO! Cora mentioned how powerful her floaties are…
I thought you’d say balls for sure.
Uhuh. And be subject to Those jokes for the rest of the month until you found something else to make fun of?
Well you are the ship’s engineer. It’s our duty to prank you and make fun of you.
In what universe? I’m the guy who had “literal” control over the enviro systems of this ship…I can make the jake in your quarters back flow if I wished.
Right…truce?
Truce.
I’ve had a few idea…(holds up her holo insect wing projector)…
What if we reprogrammed this a bit too?
If we use solid-light tech…she’s seen it so it’s not like it’s unseen foreign or alien tech anymore.
(both grab their tool kits and sit waiting for the wash cycle to finish)
Umm…why does our washing machine take so long? I mean (waves at the ship and the nannite kits at their feet)…
Ahh. Well Cora sees this as a type of therapy or mental meditation when stressed…
Oh? I thought it was to keep us busy when she had her own guests…
Probably both.
Hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm.
Stop that. It’s an ear worm.
OH! I know. Let’s give her here own Them music she can deploy when she wants to.
Belt buckle is big enough for the tech…but what music? What we listen to might not be recognized on Earth…dirt…terra…dirt again. (Snicker)
Didn’t dabbler bring music with her last time?
I kinda liked that Lords of Acid stuff.
Now to decide which?
My computer screen had to endure multiple snorts and wipings while reading this. This is gold, thank you!
Them music? Like “Gloria”?
Blue Man Group … pretty universal, i think
This. This is the kind of stuff I want to see as one-offs or vote incentives if it can’t make it into the main story.
“Theme music” was a potential disadvantage from a superhero RPG I played a few years ago, worth 5 build points, “Fight music” was the opposite, because it would start several seconds before the actual fight alerting the player to get ready for a fight and to move any adjustable stats to fight mode.
After Sydney was fairly nonplussed by Trent the Tentacles this would be a 3 on the shock scale.
Trent seemed quite civilized: these seem more… feral.
Since Cora sees fit to keep them contained in that closet, I would tend to agree that she may not want them wandering loose on the ship…
I don’t think that people would keep ferals for … entertainment.
It would be like keeping a dog.. octopus… snail… for that purpose…
Could be an organic looking animatronic (or an organic animatronic (think of an organism without a brain and a micro chip which controls the movement)) or something similar – made to look and feel “feral” and uncontrollable – for that extra kick..
I assumed the implications here were artificial tentacles, as in machinery (plenty of sci-fi hentai does this); not living creatures.
Pro tip: “Nonplussed” means confused.
No it doesn’t mean “confused” it means with a stoic reaction. Non plussed. When confronted with the prank she looked back, non-plussed. ie didn’t react. At. All. The part of the STARE is being non plussed.
Sorry, he is correct. Nonplussed means confused or at a loss of what to do. It meaning unfazed is a mistaken usage much like “literally” has more recently become to mean literally the opposite of literally.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/nonplussed
I’ve been hanging around Americans too long as it can also mean not disconcerted; unperturbed. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN
Incorrect usages and nonsensical uses of words should be stamped out. I’m looking at you, “That’ll learn you” and “Could care less”.
Odd fact: the reversal, or over specialization of words is rather common in dynamic languages like English.
for instance the word (Moot),
originally meant *a very important point*, it has become universally known today as the exact opposite meaning.
on the strangely specific front I give “Bimbo” a term that used to mean (someone who behaves foolishly and childishly), taken as a short hand for the Italian word a small boy; why you have a 1920’s cartoon character called “Bimbo the dog” some point in the 1970s or so somehow caused the term to become popular only referring to an air headed sexually attractive at the same time woman….which is creepy given its original meaning.
I’m waiting for the inevitable conversation with the refuges that goes something like “So why are you helping us?” “Well, there was another member of your species who wanted to conquer earth or something and we were fighting her to the death and then…stuff happened?”
…..*awkward*
I wonder what is next for Sydney and Cora!?
Consensual Cuddling time?
Technically the funny sounding sex rooms were made up at one time. Then after she made them up Cora had them built. Cora does enjoy her naked happy fun time.
Plus, she has an engineering background, and once you figure out how to make something, the urge to actually build it can be considerable. If she’d cracked cybernetic limbs, other ‘appliances’ would be relatively straight forward. And once you start to accumulate a collection of gadgets, you need somewhere to store (and use) them…
Ideas for building stuff and the actual build process are tons of fun – it’s working out all the kinks (snerk) that’s scary.
“Hey I need you to try out this new room that will —— your —– with —-. I think it’s ready to go but I haven’t calibrated for different species yet so there’s still a 10% chance it’ll {unspeakable horrors} to your —– instead.”
“…yeah I think I’m on duty in half an hour, why don’t you have Frix try it out furst.”
has she ever found the 10 mm bit?
Trust me, the bit she was looking for was significantly bigger than 10 mm.
While all the sex related commentary is both expected and appreciated, I’m grooving on the collapsible shelters that are being set up in the first panel. Far more accommodating than ‘here is a large empty room for you to lay out foam sleeping mats in’. I expect Frix will be hooking up some prefab bathroom/bathing facilities as well, though I hope Cora allows limited access to the ‘suitable for all ages’ portions of the ship such as the pool area.
The shelters appear to still be attached to the bays that housed them, so it’s possible that the facilities are located at the back of the bays and become accessible once the shelters are deployed. Just a theory.
My concern is that they are going to place a bunch of bored curious kids next to the incredibly dangerous box of ultimate doom. I hope that his isn’t the type of crew that operate under the rationale of ‘We put warning signs around it. What could possibly go wrong?”
Later, when the refugees are moved in they give them the orientation.
“OK people. Over here next to the weapons control panel we have installed the food dispenser. This button says ‘lunch’ and the other button says ‘launch’. Try not to get those mixed up.”
Think of it as evolution in action.
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I need to read [i]Oath of Fealty[/i] again…
Funny, I remembered that book last week, and thought I should read it again. I am a big fan of both authors.
I suspect that the large box behind the woefully inadequate safeguards contains an insanely overpowered Chekhov’s Gun.
Turns out universal warning signs are a) really important, and b) super hard.
Working on that timescale we’d have to guess at which genus is most likely to attain sapience and become dominant on the planet, and make the warning decipherable by them, as, given the current situation, humans are increasingly unlikely to be around for that long.
Or, if they’re clever, they put warning signs and moderate exclusionary devices around a box of something completely harmless. The actual dangerous stuff would be tucked away in a locked bin marked, “Hull Cleaning Supplies” or something of the sort. The ideal mix is a sign suggesting that the contents are only used for boring chores that are never going to be immediately necessary.
Ala “One hundred things I’d do as an evil overloard”?
Keep your artifact of power/one weakness in a safety deposit box under an assumed name, while placing a shiny macguffin in the heart of a volcano in a distant land. Plant a few rumors as to the macguffin’s whereabouts. Same principle, only here you’re hiding the artifact behind a wall of boring chores. Boring chores are kid kryptonite.
if you want to start a food fight, “Launch” should be implemented on the food dispenser as well!
I’m getting the impression that Cora might be even kinker than Dabs, if that’s even possible.
She might well be, especially if the exoskeleton/limb suit is programmable enough to act on its own as a handy-dandy auto-third. As I think about it more, I realize I’m almost 60 and I’m not old enough to be thinking about this. And given the author’s name, I actually can say: My mind is going, Dave. I can feel it.
John Varley writes about human/robot sex in his novel Millennium, and one story in BLUE CHAMPAGNE has an injured woman in a powered limbsuit, but even JV didn’t get into anything quite this weird.
…I want that closet.
If there’s accommodations for 80 crew and passengers, why would they need to set up collapsible shelters in the cargo bay?
There’s only, what, 5 crew + Sydney.
There used to be quarters for 80. They removed most of them to make room.
It’s also likely for security reasons. It’s much easier to keep an eye on all of them in one place, as opposed to potentially spread out among the various non-crew quarters that are left depending on where in he ship’s layout the original guest quarters were removed/re-purposed.
You also have to consider that 37 refugees just might decide to try to take over the ship for whatever nefarious reasons an Alari may have to try and take the ship. One cargo door that can be opened to hard vacuum from the bridge goes a long way towards discouraging such shenanigans.
Yep, and the cargo hold is probably also among the most well secured sections of the ship aside from the bridge and engine rooms.
another example of the star wars meme “there is no such thing as an unmodified light freighter”
Just about every one of those “facilities” can be used for solo and/or group “physical therapy sessions,” but I wanna see what kind of pool they have set up for muff-diving competitions!
No Valentines Day Sex Drive?
That’s actually a good look for Sydney (panel 2).
I love the look Sydney is rocking in panel 2. It makes her look like some sort of badass admiral or something.
After careful consideration I have concluded that this must be what is inside the box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwjP8HCpE4E
Collapsible shelters do not concern me. The ship’s complement of towels, however.
Oh, i am sure Cora is hoopy enough frood to know where to get more towels.
All skilled space travelers knows that a towel is essential for the journey.
“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.”
What? No Orgasmatron?
Which one? The one from Sleeper, or the one from Barbarella?
I must confess I’ve never been able to make it through Barbarella, so I was referring to Sleeper. Good to know, though!
One of these days, I’m gonna have to date a lady that is *substantially larger* than me just so I can steal her clothes to feel comfy and cozy.
And not have to worry about my precious VFW hoodie being absconded in the night. XD
The tentacles just wants sushi. Is that so hard in intergalactic space?
I’m still thankful to Woody Allen for the “orgasmatron.”
Dr. Durand-Durand’s “Extreme Machine” in Barbarella predates Woody Allen’s Sleeper.
I know, and I remembered that minutes after I first posted. And IMHO Barbarella’s version was better. [So was Jane Fonda in the machine.]
BTW, while we’re on the subject, howabout “Orgazmo” (a 1997 American superhero sex comedy film) which featured the Orgazmorator, a ray gun that forces orgasm upon whomever it is fired. But then “Flesh Gordon” also had a sex ray and predates Orgazmo. (what can I say – campy movies are fun)
It’s not the “Extreme Machine.” In the movie, it’s the “Excessive Machine.” I should know, because when I was stunned by the specs of the computer I had to get for my job, I named it the “Excessive Machine,” after that movie.
It turns out that no machine is actually excessive for the kind of AI we’re working on. I have 128 Gigabytes of RAM and eight top-end GPUs on my desktop and this stuff still takes forever.
I dunno, maybe the Extreme Machine might be the next version?
I think you’ll find that most of that time is spent on moving data around, not actually computing anything with it. Your computer probably has the wrong architecture for the kind of problems you’re solving.
No, I’ve got the right machine. I’m just working on a different problem than you’re probably thinking of. You are correct that training deployable neural networks is data-intensive. That’s frequently bound by hard drive, network, or database speed. I’m actually doing research in a different direction.
I expect to see the Excessive Machine from Barbarella somewhere on this ship.
Not sure if I missed an announcement or not but will there be a Valentine’s sex drive this year?
It may be a little late, but I think I found a close stand-in for the karaoke skull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbHfiO7Sy8U
(The rules of the internet legally require me to ask you to forward to the 4:22 mark)
And, today’s surprisingly appropriate cast reaction to the closet. Arianna’s reaction in particular is what sells it.
Part of me is REALLY hoping Cora and her crew stick around on Earth for a bit. They’re great people and probably would enjoy themselves watching this new superhero organization get off the ground.
I could see a few days up to a week dirt-side, if just to get reacquainted with Dabbler (and the rest of the team with her crew). But one pre-FTL civilization is much like another and they did get a great deal on some Puppeteer dual-beam mining tools in the next sector.