Grrl Power #736 – The huggening
Okay, so, there were some… mixed reactions to the previous page, which I would prefer not to reignite, so I’ll just say that while Dabbler was obviously listening in, her broader range of relationship experiences means she didn’t think anything of what was going on. I mean if she’s dated an Orc or whatever the grrl-verse equivalent of a Klingon is, then she’s experienced rougher stuff than having a shoe thrown at her. Willingly and eagerly, I feel the sudden need to add. She is both a sadist and masochist by average human standards, but all of that is entirely in pursuit of simple hedonism, which is her primary motivator most of the time.
So I did make minor edits to this page, just to slightly change the vibe coming off the previous scene, but I obviously didn’t plan on a page where Sydney has to sit down with HR over this, and I’m certain I couldn’t write that to everyone’s satisfaction anyway, so I guess… fanfic that scene in your head if you need to and let’s move on?
Did you know that “Klingon” is in the Windows inline spell checker, but “klingon” isn’t? That seems weird to me, because you don’t capitalize race names. I think it looks better if you do, which is why I capitalized “Orc,” but human, horse, elf, yarzarian? (also not in the windows dictionary). Not capitalized. Arguably, Klingon could be a nationality, which are capitalized, but they’re basically a monoculture. They have the different houses, which I assume function like miniature city-states, but they’re all still Klingons. Anyway, I thought it was weird, and I think we should capitalize race names, at least for sapients.
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As a true nerd Sydney, you should know that the cake is a lie.
She has already SEEN the cake.
At worst it’s a bluff, not a lie.
This whole arc did come about because of a portal.
The next big boss character might try to burn Archon HQ down with combustible lemons.
No, the cake is fake, and the pie is lye (free pie for everyone!)
…. pure lye? Because you do NOT want that pie. Seriously, pie eats YOU.
They will both kill you if you eat to much :D
Personally don’t like that ‘cake is a lie’ nonsense, so, just like trying to spread ‘POO’ around to replace ‘IM(H)O’, attempting to get the ‘cake is fake, the pie is a lye’ alternative (neither seem to be catching on though… )
If too much key lime pie will kill you, then as the Klingons say, today is a good day to die.
Have you ever had it? It’s delicious. :)
Don’t believe we get key lime down here :(
Only in Soviet Russia…..
Well properly done you use Lye to make Lutfisk.
And then you use a dinner of Lutfisk to retaliate on Japanese people who treated you to prank you with Fugu.
Granted not as effective because of people I have previously treated to a Traditional Lutfisk dinner, and I suspect word had gotten around.
Between Lutfisk and Hakarl I’m never eating a traditional Scandanavian dish without googling someone’s trying to feed me…
Neither.
The Pie found the Cake, at least in the PMV-version of “Alive” …..
Yes, the one with a ponified GLADOS.
^_^
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Thanks for the reminder.
Sorry, I know the vote incentive is stale. I’ve been working on a non-Grrl Power related piece, and was having trouble getting it to look right. I think it was an uncanny valley thing, but it took a lot longer to “finish” than I planned on.
No, no need to apologize, people should be voting regardless of if there is a new invotive or not
Personally, vote about two or three times a day (yes, only one vote tends to be counted, it’s just a habit for me every time open the page new), it only take a few seconds (depending on speed and distractib-SQUIRREL!)
Meh, I vote daily anyway.
You could put up something else, like a in process page before colors or a single panel in full resolution. Or if you have something like that old story boards. The old character designs would be cool too, I would love to see what way the different characters have come. Or a side by side from early and current depictions of the more rare characters. Like how Anvil changed with you becoming better at drawing.
We just made first contact with an FTL civilization and they’re interested in Sydney’s canodalling.
People.
Not first contact, Dabbler has been member of the team for a long time (2 months absolute minimum).
It’s not just Dabbler. Earth has a pretty solidly established alien sex tourism business.
Thinking about it, I expect this is the sort of thing that happens when you don’t realize that your tourist customers exist, so you’re not actually charging them anything extra for being tourists.
Well…. anonymous sex tourism anyway. :)
Sidney has been gone for nearly two months. Has she called he folks yet?
I’ve been saying that since she returned!
Sydney: “OH SH..!!!”
(Pulls out cellphone, dials, hears a Nokia ringing nearby…)
Yes, but it’s three days for her. I can see her finally getting some rest, then suddenly sitting up straight in her bed, going “OMG!” and calling them.
I had assumed that since Arianna’s cover story for public consumption was that Sydney had been sequestered for intensive training, her parents were being fed the same line. And, being Sydney’s parents and therefore people who had, you know, actually met Sydney, I’d imagine they’d believe that a training regimen with zero outside distractions would be something Sydney might benefit from.
Since it’s now fairly public knowledge that the training story was . . . less than accurate? How they’d react would depend on how much of the truth they were let in on, but the fact that she is at this point home safe and sound would probably blunt any bad reaction to the news.
I suppose, if Arianna has spin skills on a par with Math’s martial arts skills, she might be able to pull off the idea that (due to the nature of her Amaze-Balls or whatever) Sydney’s intensive training was held off-world. If anyone could pull off that triple-Lutz into a triple-Salchow level of spin, it would be Arianna.
After all, Sydney did level up her skills while off-world, so what Arianna said would be true . . . from a certain point of view.
I can’t help but hear that line in Sir Alec Guinness’s Voice.
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Dabbler is a hedonist?
What a stunning and completely unexpected development!!
Dabbler would have to lower her standards to be a mere hedonist…
It has nothing to do with standards, it is about knowledge and skill, like …
Being a hedonist is Elementary/Primary school, while Dabbler dropped out of university.
and a shedonist
I thought Frix and Pixel were the shedonists.
I see what you did there. :)
Reminds me of a line from an anthropomorphic character in a book I once read. She was a black jaguar. “Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep a house clean and there’s tiny black hairs all over your clothes and bedsheets every morning?”
Dabbler is a “whoever”donist, as in whoever don run away. No she’s always been about consent so it should be whoever wants don. She’s stated before she likes boys, girls and sentient things that are neither and/or both.
And often, and even preferentially, a theydonist.
VOTE,GET TO NUMBER ONE
Goddamit, I’m tired of waiting, Syd, get your brag on! You Leveled! And Leveled! And Leveled! You’re more a real spaceship than ever! Brag, brag, BRAG!
“…At least you’re alright now. Good thing you didn’t try and fight that thing…”
“Oh I didn’t fight it, I CARVED IT LIKE A THANKSGIVING TURKEY!!”
“What?”
“Well, I did go all Anime Laser Fight on their drone fighters first, but that was taking forever so I went back down. I thought it had stabbed me with some shrapnel, but my body armour stopped it. That reminds me, I gotta get that guy a choc dipped chilli basket to thank him….Max?”
*Max has completely gone Blue Screen Of Death…*
+1 <3
I can totally see that
This is now head canon for me until DaveB retcons it during the eventual debriefing.
Sydney: “… so THEN I teleported inside its shield and let loose with a bunch of Pew-Pews shots straight up its poo-poo-chute and-”
Maxima: “Teleported? TELEPORTED?”
Sydney: “Uh-oh… um…. yes?”
Maxima: “SINCE WHEN CAN YOU TELEPORT?”
Sydney: “Since… I leveled my comm-ball… while fighting all those alien ships? Did I forget to mention that?”
Maxima: “…. and why did you say ‘uh-oh’ just now, recruit?”
Sydney: “…. uh-oh.”
Well, she can teleport with the commball likely since she added the point to the commball after the demonstration of their various powers to the press (she added the point to the single node on the commball) – but her first teleport was during the operation on sciona’s Mars warehouse.
What max wouldn’t know about yet is more likely the speed and wormhole upgrades :) – Sydney’s debriefing and AARs are going to be interesting to say the least ^^ (when max discovers she’s not the fastest flyer around anymore ^^)
The first *PORT* was during the Wars Wumble, butt then localized time got ‘reset’ and Sydney decided to keep her new ability a secret (for the time being)
We still don’t know if Sydney can beat Maxi’s air-speed, using the Causeway is kinda cheating (in the same way as Harem’s *VORP*ing)
I mean, still. Archon literally just got upgraded to an intersteller power (if just barely), overnight. That’s… a big deal.
This particular upgrade is also a huge clue to the power potential of her orbs, as even experienced races went “WTF” when they saw it, and “WTFWTFWTF” when they saw how small it was.
So. yeah. Even if all it was were the Causeway, that would still be f’ing huge.
Oh, not doubting Sydney will tell Archon about the speed-boost (may or may not tell them about the Causeway, at least, not right away)
Butt using the Causeway is like saying Daphne is faster than Insane Bolt because she can get to the finish line first (technically, that’s correct, butt she would also be technically cheating because she didn’t run to the finish line)
I guess keeping the causeway secret would be dangerous as Cora knows and she could just talk about it with Dabbler. Dabbler uses it to tease Max that she isn’t the fastest anymore. Then Max realizes that Sydney kept something major out of the debriefing and that’s where the yelling starts.
Did she really keep it secret? I remember she pondered whether to reveal it or not, but I don’t remember that we were shown how she decided in the end. But it was quite a few pages back.
She went into “Decision Paralysis” (or whatever it was) over whether to reveal it or not, can’t recall what the end decision was, just fairly sure it was to keep it a secret, for now, incase Maxi goes Rogue (or something)
I’m thinking Halo’s latest sub-light upgrade exceeds Max’s top speed in atmosphere. At least looking at the cast page doesn’t show Max’s speed as anything close to Mach 16, and Sydney is now capable of FTL once outside atmosphere. Technically she could initiate a Causeway inside an atmosphere but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it when the other end opened into interplanetary vacuum.
Sorry, forgot to add the link.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-670-orbital-bombardment-obstacle-course/
Context is everything: ‘human’ refers to ‘people’, ‘Human’ refers to Homo Sapiens.
The capitalization of Klingon never appeared to me as a problem, perhaps kinda because “european” is not a word but “European” is. In a galactic… uh… community? where you would not just be a human but specifically an Earthling (hey that’s a word :D), a klingonian (dammit, not a word) person would be a Klingon.
*shakes head* There’s still something weird about it in English. How can I say that an object or person is of Klingonian (dammit, also not a word) origin, e.g. “the Klingonian ambassador”? “The European ambassador” works.
The Klingon that is capitalized is the language, and it is in the list because it exists in our world?
That’s because, Klingon refers to both the language and the people (their world isn’t called ‘Klingon’ anyway)
Also at one point Klingon was part of the name of the empire. Not sure about now thanks to all the shi retcons that paramount is trying to do…
It still is. But yeah, other commenters have hit the nail on the head. It’s the name of the race, the name of the empire, and the name of the language. They’re not as monocultured as you’re led to believe; they do have a number of “subject species”. The number and names of those species changes from series to series, though.
In ST:TNG, they had the Kriosian and the Arin’Sen, and possibly the Xarantine; it’s unclear if the Xarantine were a subject species, or if they simply lived really close to the border of the Klingon Empire (in which case it’s a mystery why the Klingons left them alone, since they weren’t members of the Federation either.)
I think their world was called Kronos before it exploded. But I only know about that from the movie. I was never a huge Star Trek watcher, except for Deep Space Nine.
It’s *pronounced* Kronos. But due to reasons, it’s apparently spelled something like Qo’noS.I’m not sure why an alien culture with completely independent written languages would get to do that with the rendering of their name with our alphabet, but that thought may not have occurred to the Star Trek marketing team as they were trying to respond to fan complaints about the vulcan race being from planet Vulcan speaking the Vulcan language and so forth.
Romulus exploded, never heard of Qo’noS exploding, or even coming close to coming under orbital attack
It didn’t. It was their moon, Praxis, that exploded. Or had a huge chunk blasted out of it, anyway. Of course, it caused serious environmental problems on Qo’noS.
I am out of my league in nerd knowledge when it comes to Star Trek, I fear. I’ll bow to your superior informational resources. Plus I think you’re right because I vaguely remember that from Star Trek 5. :)
But I am forever shamed that I did not know how to spell Qo’noS correctly… including the odd placement of capital letters, since Klingons apparently do not care about where capital letters are supposed to go.
Actually… that’s why Klingons use a capital K. Because they will kick your butt if you don’t use capital letters. In fact, they probably would prefer if you just write KLINGONS. All caps. All the time.
You mean Star Trek 6, by the way. :)
Star Trek 5 was the one where the Enterprise boldly went to meet god… again. So much for “boldly going where no one has gone before”, because they’ve met a couple other self-proclaimed gods, like Apollo and Trellane. (Trellane is alleged to be one of the Q.)
Okay I think we all realize I am definitely not a Trekkie so don’t know this stuff.
Ask me about the law, I’ll impress you. Ask me about Star Trek, I’ll go put on the dunce cap and sit in the corner like a good little dummy. :)
But, going on a tangent, I liked that Star Trek movie even though I know a lot of people say it’s not one of the better movies.
“What does God need with a starship?” Perfect. Just perfect. :)
And I’m pretty sure I just lost even more nerd cred now.
I’m pretty certain that the only Star Trek that I can argue about even semi-coherently is Deep Space 9, and probably First Contact and the TNG episodes that had the Borg in it.
Everything else, you might as well just say “She tries so hard, look at her not to drooling too much as she tries to talk about Star Trek. That’s adorable when they let simple people like that in with the rest of the normal people.”
One of the first steps to learning something you don’t know, is by talking about it with people who do
Oh, and would hardly count Trekkies (or Trekkers or whatever the fuck the fat nerds in spandex call themselves) as being ‘normal’
The only reason it’s not considered one of the better ones is the entire “Spock has a half-brother” part of it. Frankly, I’m one of the few people outside of Hollywood who’s actually read the original script… and IMO, Shatner did the best he could with what he was given. Calling it “crap” would be giving crap a bad name.
Also, I agree with you, “What does God need with a starship?” was one of the best lines in the movie.
My understanding is that klingon would be the species and Klingon would be the civilization or a member of that civilization. I think the demonym for their homeworld, Kronos, is Kronar, but I may be misremembering that.
Equivalents for us, assuming we spread off of Earth with a single unified civilization, would be human for the species, Human for the civilization, and Terran as the demonym for our homeworld.
Okay, just did a quick Bing, and their homeworld is Qo’noS (or Q’onoS), sometimes called ‘Kling’, and transliterated to ‘Kronos’ in English
One correction: Terran isn’t the demonym for our homeworld, it’s for the people from our homeworld (which is Terra), just like ‘Klingon’ is the demonym for the crab-foreheaded people from Kling :P
Demonym applies to anything from a place, not just its people. Therefore it is attached to the place in general and not to the people specifically.
Yes, butt our homeworld is “Terra”, just like the homeworld of the Klingon Empire is ‘Kling’
Makes sense — any/all sentients from Earth (humans, dolphins, presumably vampires, weres, etc.) could all just be lumped in as “Earthlings” as far as most FTL cultures aware of Earth were concerned.
Unless weres and vamps occur on other worlds? I wouldn’t be surprised if the Alari had vampires at some point, if Sciona’s proficiency with blood magic is at all tied to her species. I would say that a were-alien-animal alien would be a bit confusing, except if Dabbler doesn’t make your head explode, a were-alien’s pretty tame.
If the were-virus is communicable across species . . . could an infected alien become a were-human?
So no Yes or No yet, just a hug-assault? Well, she did step back into the “welcome back” party…
I have absolutely no idea what is happening on this page.
Sydney, as a fairly introverted person, is being overwhelmed by the number of people trying to talk to/congratulate her.
I don’t think it’s congratulations so much as welcoming her back and expressing relief that she’s not lost for good.
I’d hope it’s not congratulations. If I’m not mistaken, this is still before she’s been debriefed, so she has not been told what portion of her experiences can be shared with whom.
She can tell General Faulk everything. His rank is high enough he probably has every possible clearance he could need and as he is in her chain of command, he has a need to know. Presumably, she can tell Max about any of it. She can tell Dabbler about any of her experiences on Cora’s ship, as Dabbler has an alternate source for those details. Beyond that, while there are aspects of her experience that she can talk about without getting in trouble for a security breech, it’s really limited.
It’s *probably* safe to say that Cora picked her up and brought her home. That’s probably common knowledge among everybody at the Archon base right now. Except this is a human being we’re talking about, and saying that little and nothing more is really difficult.
Most specifically, anything that could be congratulations worthy that she did is not safe for her to mention here. Not even if she was just talking to General Faulk and Max, because they’re not in private.
Some people could choose to offer her congratulations on making it home alive. But for all she knows, for all they know, Cora beamed her aboard her space ship the moment the portal closed and they then immediately proceeded to Earth only delaying enough to shake any alien pursuit that could have taken an interest.
It feels to me like offering congratulations would therefore be suggesting they had knowledge above the minimum that Sydney could safely assume. Everybody there is, if I’m not mistaken, in Archon, and thus has some level of training regarding classified information, so I’d expect they wouldn’t do this.
Experience has led me to understand that I’m usually wrong about some people in any given group.
Therefore, at least one person in the group has offered her congratulations on her safe return home, as much as you or I might facepalm over such a thing.
Just had an interesting thought, though I may have already missed the bus on this one.
Is there time, in 51 days, for the Alari to save their homeworld or at least, their people from the devastation to come? Or is it already happening?
The presence of the Alari colony ship suggests it’s too late, the genocide is already happening.
I know I shouldn’t post before caffiene. But without caffy, I often don’t remember til it’s too late. forget that last post, please.
What post?
You posted before this?
It’s already happened.
At the ‘time’ that the team stepped through the portal, it was a month and a bit ‘before’ the assault on the homeworld, earth time. As soon as they stepped through they stepped almost 2 months into the future. When they went back through the gate, they went back in time to the same earth time they left in.
Not sure if the presence of the Alari colony ship and the refugees on the planet/moon-station means that they got word to the Alari homeworld before the assault or not and they were able to evacuate some people… although why the Alari would believe some backwater bumpkins from earth? Maybe only a few Alari took the warning serious?
The current Earth time is a few days after the assault on the Alari homeworld, I think, if I understand the timeline correctly.
But Sciona and the alari’s spirits went to the Earth of 2-months-before. They could have sent words to … themselves.
They didn’t, though. They respected the danger of a time paradox, and besides going incommunicado without warning or explanation is ghosting in a nutshell.
We don’t know if they did. I would even say that the chance is high that Sciona and/or the other souls did make some contact with their homeworld, or ships, as that would explain why one of the Alari ships ended up on Earth instead of any world that is already capable of interstellar flight.
Just remember, Sci-fright has been on Dirt for a number of years, long enough for the Council of Nogoodnicks to have caught wind (seriously, the girl needs to use air freshener!) of her and what she likes to do in her spare time, track her down, attempt to kill her, and give her time to recover and plan Payback
Yeah, I somehow forgot that Sciona had been active on Earth for a while already and even said she had been in contact with her home world days before the whole portal incident.
No proof though that Sciona didn’t try to warn them, and Sciona’s collaboration with Deus might be the reason why the ship went to land in his country.
Well, of course even they would not stop it from happen to avoid paradox but they could have limited the damage. They had (at least) a colony ship ready, after all.
Granted. I was mostly just going for the “ghosting” pun.
How many Alari might have heeded a warning and evacuated would depend on the ration of Jor-Els to Science Councillors in the Alari government and/or populace. The JE/SC, as it were. Krypton had, basically, five (Jor-El, Zor-El, their spouses and Kara Zor-El (Supergirl)). It would be hard for the Alari to be more arrogant than Kryptonians, so a refugee-ship full wouldn’t be surprising.
I got prescribed cake at work a few weeks back! Genuinely, by a nurse. We work such a non-stop routine, 12.5 hours a day, that I had become dehydrated, causing me to become dizzy. My blood pressure and heart rate had skyrocketed. As such I was told to drink plenty of squash (flavoured water) and to eat cake!
Now officially my favourite medicine.
I wonder if Sydney has any idea how much ‘200 ccs’ of cake really is.
She should’ve asked for 236cc of cake…then she would get a cupcake! :D
200ccs is the same as 200ml, so about 2/3 of a can of coke. That’s a reasonably large slice, but far from too much to eat in one sitting.
Bah! Lightweight!! No, not making light of those who are diabetic
200 ml? That is almost a handful!
That depends wholly on the hand in question!
200 CCs (Cubic Centimeters) is a little over 12 Cubic Inches, which would be a slice of cake about 2x3x4 inches, or about 7 medium-sized (2 TBSP, or 1.5 inch diameter) Cake Pops.
I get that to be about the size of a decent Napoleon cake slice as sold at most bakeries….
Enless you want a Texas sized Cupcake. Those things are rediculous. It’s like a muffin toped by a large cake donut and then covered with a few cups of iceing and sprinkles.
…. I’m having trouble deciding whether that counts as a placebo or not.
Sugar, carbs and water to cure overexertion and dehydration? Not at all. Though the fact that it’s an enjoyable medicine certainly can’t hurt the results.
I accidentally swallowed glowstick fluid the other day. You know what the prescription for that is? Icecream!
Slows the flourescent reaction and soothes any potential irritation.
>accidentally swallowed glowstick fluid
How does this happen?
Don’t give kids who ate thirsty glow sticks, or glow bracelets.
Ever.
Squash flavored water?
I like me some squash, and I like me some water, but water flavored with squash sounds like an unholy drink born of Hell itself.
Umm, fairly sure ‘Squash’ is a brand of juice you make at home by adding water
How?!?!
Laughter has officially been demoted to the 2nd best medicine.
(⌒‿⌒) (︶‿︶) ;’-D :-þ
Maybe Krona has six copies of the one shirt…
…or she might just hack her clothes clean. That’d be less frustrating than a laundromat any day.
(There’s also the simple possibility that… she did laundry sometime in the last fifty-some days.)
Maybe she can copy/paste objects.
That would be da bomb. Grocery bills would drop like a rock and you’d never have to buy another thing again that wasn’t digitally protected. Go halfsies on everything with your friends and just copypasta it!
Wouldn’t that require energy to copy/paste? (Therefore defeating the purpose?)
Unless she could pull atoms out of thick air, (since we actually have a thick atmosphere) she probably couldn’t copy/paste material objects without depleting her body of atoms.
… unless she has wandspace. (similar to hammerspace, but Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother “put it away” long before Amy Rose had her hammer.) If she has wandspace, then she could store random physical material in there for that purpose.
Who knows how powers actually works? I mean, where does Heatwave or Maxima get the energy for their powers? They generate/use a lot of energy (actually, would not be more practical use them in a power plant?) No way it is just calories. When Vehemence “bulked out” where did he got the extra mass? Magnets. how do they work? It is all miracles, man.
Also, from memory, the comments on that strips say that when Krona replaced the vampire underwear with a thong she actually swapped it with a pre-existing thong form somewhere else. So she could duplicate items collectinc random atoms/molecules from here and there.
I wonder who won and who lost money based on wages for what Sydney was going to be doing it up two. Especially considering that Maximus all Sydney and Leon caulking late into the night and I doubt that was the only time
And I’m sure the story leaked into the rumor mill, despite all that caulking. :)
I will be happy when I have a functional computer again. How I wound up with chalking instead of talking makes sense but some of the other changes don’t
There is a reason why the website DamnYouAutoCorrect existed, only now as a Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/DamnYouAutocorrect/
Wow, even Maxima can apparently get roped into office gossip if it’s juicy enough XD
I don’t see frix anywhere, still hoping he sticks around.
Krona only NEEDS one shirt, she just set it to “factory quality” and kept it there
And changes the pattern whenever she wants to mix it up.
I think Krona either does have more than one shirt, and she just hacked them to all be the same, or she only has one and she hacks it clean regularly.
…Or maybe she doesn’t have any shirts and she just hacks herself to be wearing a shirt! (does that count as not having a shirt?)
That only counts as ‘not _buying_ a shirt.’
There is no shirt. Krona just hacks others to make them think she is wearing clothes. She is actually completely naked.
You all know damn well you’d all do it if you could
I prefer not to feel like my lower half is exposed but I would hologram my shirt if I could, I suppose.
Clothes MyStuff = Krona.Self.Appearance.getClothesInstance();
MyStuff.UpperBody.OuterLayer.Shirt
.setAppearance( Wardrobe.default )
.setMaintenance( Cron.daily );
you forgot
.setStructure(Repair.all)
.setState(Clean)
it’s a picture of the red pill from The Matrix. If it changes to blue, you’ll know she hacked something.
I actually didn’t mind the comic book/playful violence all that much. What Bothered me more was your Edit actually.
“In the real world, while there is such a thing as female on male violence, domestic or otherwise, I don’t think anyone can argue that a shitload more women get beaten or killed by men than the other way around.”
In the real world female on male domestic violence is equally as common as male on female domestic violence. The difference is that men are typically stronger. But that doesn’t change the outcome all that much.
And in general if you want to disregard the domestic. men get beaten and killed way more than women.
Let it drop already.
PLEASE.
Seriously. It’s the hammers from El Goonish Shive. Get over it and move on. Nothing to get triggered over, right, Susan? Susan?
http://egscomics.com/comic/2010-07-02
Susan still has the hammers and she can throw them. But it’s ment as a web comic to be completely non serious from the start. On that note Seriously a crossover between the EGS main cast and Archon would probably be both Hilarious and deeply traumatic for both sides.
It would be interesting to see Susan and Grace’s individual reactions to Dabbler.
Hey Dave, why don’t you ask Steve Shives if you can do a vote incentive of just such a crossover meeting…maybe with Susan holding a big hammer and Math lying in the corner with a big bump on his head…
Oops. Meant Dan Shive, not Steve Shives…stupid Brain!
So not a “Grrlpower Comic actually” video?
While disappointing, but I’m no sure Grrlpower Comic is *quite* on the same cultural impact level as Star Trek.
EGS started with the idea that after some introduction, Painted Black will happen. http://egscomics.com/comic/2004-07-07 … do you still insist it was not serious?
This is literally the only comment I’ve made on the topic. And it wasn’t even about the thing you want me to drop. It was about a separate issue, which Dave brought up after the fact.
Right, Haiiro, but that edit is not on this page.
I generally agree with your point, but that discussion belonged there, and doesn’t belong here.
Enough said.
The discussion belongs wherever the people who want to discuss it decide it belongs.
No. Neither you nor the author decide when the discussion is over. We will get over it when you stop trying to pretend that it isn’t a big deal, you condescending dismissive pricks.
Dave: Klingon is probably capitalised as it’s also a language & a nationality, both proper nouns & hence always capitalised. English or French would be other examples.
I think Kligon is capitalized because it is a language. An official one i mean.
Judging by Krona’s hand in panel 5, the prior discussion remains unresolved.
Heh. Yea. She still has some issues to work through.
Let us hope that she does so in a conventional way. We have seen her impulsive nature allowing her to take liberties with other people, in very intimate ways (interfering with both underwear and internal organs).
How she resolves this relationship crisis will give us a good way to judge Krona’s character. Does having (limited) god-like powers make her opt for using that to solve things that trouble her? An issue explored way back in black and white TV days with ‘I dream of Jeanie’ and ‘Bewitched’. But what path will Krona take?
And, if she does choose to start ‘wigging her nose’ and altering reality, how will Sydney take that?
Man abuses a woman at work: String him up! Fire him! Fire the management! Jail time! Lawsuit! Mandatory training for everyone!
Woman abuses a man at work: She has some issues to work through.
I’m not saying the first scenario is unfair. I’m saying it should happen in both cases.
Sydney, if the next sentence out of your mouth in panel five wasn’t going to be “…want to apologize!”, then get your skinny arze back into that Anvil hug until we can hear a ‘pop’, and stay the fuck away from Leon until he is ready for your shit
Time for a chill pill. We can see that Leon is not distraught. He is though probably concerned that he may have severely weakened his recently founded relationship, going by both his expression and dialogue. It matters not the least how the conversation went. The key part is Leon having ventured that Krona was not enough for him / that he was game for having sex with someone other than her.
That is a big relationship no-no. Had I made such a faux pas, I would be more than happy to be let off with a slap, rather than losing the relationship. In this case (as we can see from the lack of actual bumps on his head) this was only ‘cartoon violence’, but even if it was only verbal/token, Leon would be a fool to expect an apology.
Yes most guys would be curious about the option. But he mistimed/misjudged when and how to broach the possibility. So needs to be mending fences, or keeping a low profile, rather than aggravating the situation more.
Was never one of the idiots who got fixated on the obvious cartoony-injuries, what got me was Sydney saying all that and then verbally slapping Leon for repeating what she said or asking for clarification about something she said
Note how his pupils are still dilated, and he appears to be wanting to get away from at least one of the girls, and the fact that Sydney is chasing after him means the matter wasn’t settled, at least not yet
Your devout loyalty to Sydney has blinded you to her part in the whole thing
I mean, she already is away from Leon?
‘Discussions are… ongoing.’ No, things were not settled and Leon definitely looks harried in that panel. Sydney and Krona do look positively annoyed with him in the next panel, and why? Yes, maybe an average guy would have realized Sydney’s remarks about calling in Pixel and asking if they were ‘Mmmonogamous’ were not an invitation to a threesome, but 1) Leon is not an average guy and 2) This is SYDNEY talking! Given the weird things she regulary says, how was he to know she didn’t mean it? Asking for clarification is perfectly natural around someone who behaves and talks like an escapee from Looney Tunes!
Leon’s pupils are constricted, Sydney’s pupils are dialated.
Thank you, keep getting those mixed up
Sorry, Yorp, but you are experiencing confirmation bias regarding Leon.
I went back to make sure, and the pinhole irises, slack face and terse speech are not “situation normal” for Leon.
He’s under major stress, and there’s no evidence apparent to me for your claim that “Leon is not distraught”.
Compare against this page… https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-190-newhart-phonecall/
Yeah guys, chill out, sheesh. Wouldn’t want to distract from the very valuable conversation of a bunch of nerds jerking each other off about playing the same video games fifteen years ago.
The best art is the kind that never provokes any kind of discussion. In fact, art should strive to stifle all thought.
Dave has decreed that everything that happened last scene was okay by him personally since it was Leon it was happening to, and okay by all the characters. Not getting any kind of apology from anyone. Even a simple acknowledgement of double standards and a “sorry m8” would have done the trick. Nothing left now but to just see if Dave and/or the characters learn from this, or hit the dusty trail.
Was decreed okay by whom? Leon or Dave?
If the characters get a vote about what happens to them in a comic, most comics would play out far differently.
My life needs a few script editors and an occasional rewrite. And it would be nice to have a consistent genre. I didn’t mind when it was a sex farce, but being a lone superhero was painful. I really don’t like it when people total out cars trying to run me over because even when I don’t have to go to the hospital it tears up my clothes (and I really liked that one pair of pants).
You and me both. Sure, I don’t have the lone superhero thing going on. But sometimes my role as Double Eyed Fully Ambulatory Man feels like it. But I think I preferred the arcs that were focused on mental anguish, and the various stints where I’ve been in one de-powered secret identity for months or years have really not been written well.
I mean, to be fair, all of the medical arcs so far have been written better than I could have done. But I’m just a superhero whose “powers” are having depth perception, merely “correctably bad” vision, and being able to walk. I’m hardly the standard for being able to judge medical correctness. DEFAM vs the Really Bad Headache. Who comes up with this crap?
Also, as I’m thinking about it, the bit in my backstory where I got my powers from drinking hard water… It was a bad backstory for the Flash and there was really no good reason to reuse it for me. I’m not going to say literally anything would be better, because I understand anything would include having survived a near-death experience with a micro black hole or having survived a Weird Al concert. (I have, incidentally, survived multiple Weird Al concerts, but they didn’t give me any special powers.)
Or maybe, your special powers is being able to survive multiple Weird Al concerts :D
Never overlook the mundane :)
Dave already said he would think about it.(Meaning he’ll probably consider it when making future pages)
But he’s not just going to divert the story he’s probably planned out already.
Your paraphrase of what Dave said is inaccurate. We really don’t know how Leon is going to act going forward, and Dave may choose to take it any of various ways.
This has been a pretty good lesson for me in being an author.
If I ever generate such a poopstorm with something I do on a serial basis, then my response will be more along the lines of…
“Is that what you think is happening? Interesting. Just watch.”
An author’s only duty is to be honest in his treatment of the characters, relative to the rules he has set up and the promises he has made to his audience.
Characters sometimes go over the top, and they sometimes go off the rails. As long as the natural consequences of their actions come along, one way or another, the author is doing just fine.
In this case, Leon’s face, line and demeanor in panel 4 show enough of a story that there is a *potential* for some consequences, and that’s all that I can ask. They may even happen off screen.
Something else is on the front burner for the next couple of pages. Wonder what it will be?
Yes, that’s why was only commenting on what happened (ignoring the lumps as that was clearly a sight-gag) and was (still am) confident DaveB has something planned to address what happened (we kinda see it starting here with Anvil intercepting Sydney and giving Leon a chance to go somewhere else)
What you learned is to condescend to your readers? Cute.
This comic isn’t a case of something secret going on behind the scenes. We clearly witnessed someone being assaulted with a weapon, and it wasn’t in self defense or the defense of others in immediate threat, and it was not in the line of obeying a lawful order. There is no excuse or context that will make it okay that isn’t an asspull, such as Leon secretly being a masochism elemental, or that sequence having been a dream, or Leon having texted the two off panel to consent pre emptively to boot assault, or any other number of ridiculous possibilities.
As far as the author’s “duties”, you and many other commenters continue to miss the point. It’s not about the characters. They can all go to a rape dungeon on the next page for all I care. What the author fucked up on was being flippant and dismissive about real life abuse, and attempting to erase or ignore the experiences of millions of real abuse victims in his posts. And it doesn’t matter if he meant to or not. He did.
You are ^obviously^ too caught_up in your own confirmation bias (about an issue which is ^clearly^ very ^important^ to you [the degree to which I may b>^share^ your feelings on its importance is really immaterial in this case]) to pay attention to what he actually said!! :roll•eyes:
As if Dave has any credibility as a narrator left after that shitshow.
But wait! Isn’t involuntary hugging considered a form of…
Um, never mind.
Krona is still wearing her ‘red pill’ t-shirt (or it has come around in the rotation again). Sydney ought to encourage her to visit the shop to expand her wardrobe!
I would go with ‘come around in the rotation again’. It has been two months after all: my shirts go in the wash and get worn again the next week, so seeing one show up again after two months is no surprise. Of course, I am male so that may make a difference.
In Popeye cartoons and Donald Duck cartoons, do either of them EVER change out of those “sailor suits”? (The answer is actually yes, but it’s so rare, it’s easy to forget.) In Too Much Information, Ace is almost always in shorts and a t-shirt, though he has worn a tuxedo and a space suit. Look at how any cartoon character is routinely dressed. Look at Charlie Brown in Peanuts.
I let DaveB draw his comic, and I sit back and enjoy. I don’t nit-pick it to death.
Some spell checkers ignore capitalized words in the middle of a sentence because it is assumed they are names. Though if the capitalized version is a suggested correction… I’m not sure, might be because it is also a language as someone suggested?
I like the shading done on this page. Plenty of details to make it look good, but not as ‘over stylized’ as some other pages before the move had.
I am loving the art.
Been a long time since I’ve seen true nattering and grommishing, well done!
I understood that reference, but it’s old, real old.
Mad Magazine.
The guy who wrote the Trouble with Tribbles episode of Star Trek (David Gerrold) wrote a couple of books about the show in the early ’70s. One of them discussed nattering and grommishing. Whenever you see extras talking in the background of a scene but don’t hear them, he imagined that one was saying “Natter natter natter” and the other was replying “Grommish grommish grommish”.
there’s also a movie called ‘Rhubarb’, you should rent it or google it sometime
well, you probably shouldn’t, really
I bought those when they came out, when I was in college, and I was referencing his take on nattering and grommishing, but I think he mentioned that he heard that from someone. It wouldn’t surprise me if it went back to the early “talkie” days.
So am I…
I think either the nation status of Klingon or because it’s also the name of the language that they speak.
It’s the name of their empire, and proper names are capitalized, I think that’s the explaination. Thus the Kree, Skrull and Shi’ar would be capitalized, since their space empires don’t have separate names. Human empires tend to not be called “The Human Empire” but usually are called something else, often named after the capitol city (Like the Roman Empire being named after Rome)
The Roman Empire isn’t named after the city. It’s named after the people, the Romans. Think of the Japanese Empire, the British Empire (there isn’t a place called “British”, for example, but the people are “British”)
I’m pretty sure the Romans are called that because they lived in Rome. Thus, it all goes back to the city. Just like The people of Paris are called “Parisians” and the people of Hamburg, Germany are “Hamburgers” (Sorry, couldn’t resist that one)
Do they also pound quarters? o_O
They are called ‘British’ because they come from ‘Great Britain’ (which is distinct from ‘United Kingdom’, which is distinct from ‘England’. It actually goes ‘England’ -> ‘Great Britain’ -> ‘United Kingdom’)
I envy Halo getting hugged by Anvil.
Do you mean Yazirian?
Huh. It never occurred to me that Klingons were basically Gene’s space D&D version of Orcs.
*And now you know star and rainbow flies over his head*
In TOS, Klingons stood in for Russians (stereotyped sneaky power hungry bad guys), with Romulans being, in essence, ideal Romans (stereotyped honorable warriors).
In TNG, they built out Klingon society and reversed those two stereotypes without explanation.
Orcs don’t come into it.
No, the Klingons were space Puerto Rican’s in TOS, then they got a virus and became crab-heads
I never saw them as Puerto Rican in ST:TOS. They looked to me to be more of a Fu Manchu/Chinese stereotype. Remember we were fighting Asian communists in Vietnam at the time, so Roddenberry figured Americans would equate the stereotype with “villain”.
Nah, can remember they were described as either space Puerto Ricans or space Cubans wearing gold lame uniforms
“What is with the Klingons?
Remember in the day,
They looked like Puerto Ricans
And dressed in gold lamé.
Now they look like heavy metal
rockers from the dead;
With frizzy hair and leather pants
And lobsters on their heads!”
–Voltaire, “U.S.S. Make Shit Up”
However, they were meant to evoke Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, having characteristics of both. (Particularly their prideful ruthlessness, and the way their government combined feudalism and authoritarianism, with a warrior caste relying on slave labor.)
Screenwriter Gene L. Coon, the creator of the Klingons, described them as oriental and hard faced.
Was going by what the viewers at the time were calling them, not their official description
I was a viewer at the time, although I was just a kid then, and I have never heard Klingons described as Puerto Rican until you just did it. I have heard them described as Red Chinese, ChiComs and Mongolian over the years, but never Puerto Rican.
Different country viewers
Never heard of them as being described as any sort of Asian
You got it the wrong way around. The virus made the rubber foreheads disappear. The proper Klingons have the ridges.
Nope, that’s just some nerd-retcon bullshit to make the fans happy
Maybe so, but it’s official (canonical) nerd-retcon bullshit.
Just because the fanatics basically forced the retcon, doesn’t stop it from being bullshit
It, personally, makes more sense that the horseshoe-crab foreheads were the result of Khan’s genetic manipulations in making them stronger, more resilient, fighters (or whatever the hael he was up to)
Shudder to even contemplate what bullshit they are going to come up with to explain the STD Klingons :shudder_hard_enough_to_vibrate_through_walls:
I thought Romulans were the Russians (roughly equal in power to the Federation, but very centralized authoritarian government, with what was basically an ‘iron curtain’ of planets to keep the Federation and Romulans seprate from each other), and Klingons were the Japanese (warrior culture), while Cardassians were the Germans (Nazi Germany specifically), and Bajorans were like Israel (or just the jewish people in general). And Ferengi were just out-of-control capitalists, although the initially were something different until DS9’s Armin Shimerman ‘fixed’ them into something truly awesome with Quark. And the Dominion was an out-of-control theocracy or feudalism.
The Borg also seemed like an analogy for communism as well. Groupthink (Borg) vs Individualism (Federation).
If you want to get really nerdy about it… the Romulans are roughly equal to the Federation now, but they weren’t always that way. In the TOS era, they were still using designs that dated back to the First Romulan War (the Snipe, the Hawk, and the Eagle), upgraded with technology that the Klingons sold them (warp drive, shields, tractor beams, and transporters), plus some ships that the Klingons sold them (mostly D6 cruisers and F5 frigates), which the Romulans upgraded to use their technology by replacing the Disruptors with Plasma Torpedoes and adding a cloaking device.
Of course, let’s be honest here… the “Treaty of Smarba” which transferred ships and technology from the Klingons to the Romulans is really just a retcon to explain why the Romulans were using Klingon cruisers in the season 3 episode The Enterprise Incident.
The original Bird of Prey model was destroyed after a union grievance had been filed for a non-union contractor selling props to the production. After the first appearance (“The Balance of Terror” in season 1) was filmed, the model was returned to the designer without him being paid or receiving credit for his work and he destroyed the model himself. So the “Treaty of Smarba” was an attempt to explain why the Romulans were suddenly using the Klingon D6 model.
However, the Romulans really were intended to evoke the Romans; their government has similarities to the Roman Republic just before it became the Roman Empire. (I suggest looking it up on Wikipedia if you’re curious.) Meanwhile, the Klingons were meant to evoke both the Nazis and the Soviet Union.
As for the Bajorans, Ferengi, Cardassians, and Dominion… I can’t find any information that suggests what the show’s producers were specifically aiming for, so your theory is as good as any.
P.S., I’m sure some people who are even nerdier than I am might say, “Those were Klingon D7’s, not D6’s.” Canonically, they were D6’s. The D6 and the D7 are externally identical. The D7 has two extra phaser emitters and a more advanced targeting system.
I thought there was a planet in old Star Trek that was literally an ‘if the Roman Empire never fell’ sort of world.
Or am I confusing Star Trek with another sci fi series?
They did several episodes like that, seemed like the writers liked to run “What if…?” scenarios, and then see how quickly Kirk and Krew could seriously fuck it up :D
That would be “Bread and Circuses”, the last episode of season two. Kirk and Spock didn’t fuck this one up. They just escaped (with the help of Captain Merik, at the cost of his own life), and told Starfleet to avoid interfering with the society, which was on the verge of a revolution. To be more specific, a conversion to Christianity.
But yeah, it was basically Rome with 20th century technology (machine guns, television, radio, etc.) They also had the Nazi episode, “Patterns of Force”, in which a Federation observer named John Gill violated the Prime Directive years before the Enterprise arrived. In other words, Kirk was trying to un-fuck it. And in this case, the planet’s two remaining leaders asked Kirk to leave, because “we allowed it to become like this, now it’s our job to fix it.”
I’m not saying that Kirk didn’t occasionally violate the Prime Directive himself. I’m just saying that sometimes, it had already been violated (intentionally or otherwise), and he then had to violate the directive to try to fix things.
Didn’t mean to imply Kirk and Ko fucked things up in every episode, just… they tended to do that on a semi-regular basis and the end of the episode you had Kirk talking to his log and then the just wander off to the next innocent unaware society :P
Those who complained too hard got Dave to alter the page.
Now we don’t get to see what was supposed to happen for real.
He may have altered this page from his original plan, butt he hasn’t altered the previous page(s)
Whatever is posted is what happened for real. And if the alternative was sydney not apologizing, or not realizing anything was wrong because she’s so wAcKy!!!!!!, then good. If the author truly intends that sydney is so developmentally stunted that she doesn’t understand that hitting people is wrong, then the next page should show her being forcibly committed to an institution for indefinite rehabilitation, and the comic should focus on the remaining characters who actually have redeeming qualities and a chance of being interesting.
I appreciate the use of classic “Walla” lines in panel 3.
“So how about that local sports team? They make me feel ways about stuff. They did something recently that gave me a strong opinion.”
So that’s where this classic ear-worm came from?
Hi, Dave.
A suggested way to resolve the you-hadn’t-anticipated-the-range-and-scale-of-your-readers-reactions-to-strip-#735-debate can be to have Sydney, Krona, and Leon directly address it in the next strip.
In this case, it’ll have been 20 minutes (or so) later, everyone will have gotten their hugs and welcomings to Sydney out of the way, she’ll have had the chance to have another cake pop, emotions won’t be running as high, and–their initial topic of shared dating aside–what had transpired physically via footwear between the three of them can therefore be addressed more calmly and coolly. An acknowledgement can be made, a mutual discussion can be had, apologies can be extended, and everyone will be in a position to learn and grow from it. As an added bonus, Sydney can level up in maturity points. I mean, possibly only by around 1.3, or whatever, but it is a growth opportunity for all of the characters, directly and indirectly.
Regardless, cheers, mate!
Heck, no. First, resolving stuff is boring. Right now, there’s no major tension left from any other plot threads, and fiction lives on tension, so it’s time to throw DIFFERENT rocks at Sydney / Archon / Max / Dabbler.
Besides, Dave can get miles of comedy out of PREVENTING them from resolving it. Any time she tries to talk about it, interrupt with something else.
In the long run, as long as Leon doesn’t come around instantly, the fan base that complained will feel vindicated and heard, and as long as the story doesn’t get derailed into a pity party for Leon, the other part of the fan base will be having fun too.
So, NOT addressing the subplot right now is win-win, as long as Leon doesn’t “bless” how he was treated. eventually, there must be a payoff or come-uppance of some kind… but it doesn’t have to happen until after Krona and Sydney have settled their part of it… six months from now…
Did… did we just witness a Noodle Incident?
I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me.
Wrong. Sydney should face appropriate consequences for assaulting a coworker immediately. This party should be an intervention. Why are people defending this shitstain?
In your opinion, what is the correct amount of compassion we should feel for an abuse victim that does not constitute a pity party?
It would hurt my feelings that Leon and whats-her-name weren’t at the welcome party for me after I’d been missing/possibly dead for months.
She did arrive about an hour or so earlier than expected. And they were in the building at least. Might just be that while everyone was scrambling to finish up the last preparations they didn’t have the chance yet to give Krona and Leon the heads-up.
Or possibly they were having a last minute emergency powwow on how to handle the Sydney situation. I mean, it seems like they both realized it was something of an issue based on how they reacted.
you know what would hurt my feelings? being assaulted by a coworker I was worried could have been dead within minutes of being reunited with her.
Hug her, etc.
I too have no interest in reigniting the flames caused by Monday’s strip, so let’s just chalk it up to human error – something we all suffer from, me included – and move on as best we can.
No. Stop minimizing this just because the victim is male.
I’m NOT minimizing it. Hell, I’m one of the ones who had a problem with it. I’m just acknowledging that the arguments from yesterday are massive and could consume this comic’s comments section if allowed to keep going.
+3
I think that all race names in the Trekverse are capitalized. Admittedly it’s been a while since I’ve read one of those novels, but I vaguely recall Romulan and Ferangi both always being capitalized.
All races in the original Trekverse are monocultures, humanity included, except for the one that explicitly wasn’t, and was thus odd (or was that a TNG episode?). While newer shows demonstrated a bit more intraspecies diversity, most new races continued to be introduced as monocultures the whole time I was watching. The only special honor that humanity got on this point was not having their culture, society, language named after their race, and not having their planet name being very obviously named in relation to their race, culture, society, and language. I kind of recall there were a few other groups that got that privilege as well, just not the natives of Romulus, Ferenginar, Vulcan (the planet), Pakled (the planet), and most of the various home worlds for races that were not expected to be reused.
I think that Qo’noS only managed to get special treatment, because initially Klingons were an anywhere threat element, brought in specifically to be used wherever. I’m not certain because I only saw TOS on reruns, but I think it wasn’t until long after they were introduced that their homeworld was even mentioned, and by that point, the show’s producers had plenty of time to hear flack from their fans about the lack of depth in the various cultures. As the clearly most prominent race with little defined culture, the Klingons were the easiest to apply extensive fixes to, without too much threat of people calling them out on retcons.
It seemed to me to also be pretty telling in that most of the planets that they visited that were controlled entirely by another race seemed to be homeworlds. Even the Romulans and the Klingons, who supposedly had huge empires, seemed to have relatively few planets compared to the human dominated Federation. This always struck me as quite odd, because we were the new kids on the block; the Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons had interstellar travel long before we did. The Klingons and Romulans were even conquest-driven to an extent that you’d expect from humanity, while humans were supposedly not.
It felt very much like a show that was produced without access to actors of any of these races, with extensive makeup required to portray most of them.
I doubt it was that the areas of the galaxy claimed by the Romulans and Klingons had few(er) planets, but since there was little to no commerce crossing borders (care for a glass of contraband romulan ale?) and the Federation would never cross those borders planets never got mentioned other than to serve as plot devices.
Is it a good idea for Sydney to have cake,even with her ADD(or is that ADHD)!?
Well since the Ds don’t stand for diabetic she should be fine
Krona is *so* *damn* *cute*. I kinda liked the last page’s eye color a bit better than this one, though.
ADD is just extreme difficulty focusing (that’s what I live with). ADHD is when you randomly do impulsive things like tackle the alien lady who’s rescuing you from being stranded on a space station and beg her to buy you wings in addition to not being able to hold a thought for longer than it takes for a squirrel to run into your field of vision like someone with ADD.
As for cake….sugar has no impact on either ADD or ADHD and I can think of nothing else in cake that would would even think might have an impact.
Different people are different. There are some hyperactive people who are powered by sugar. I know because I’m one of them. It doesn’t have quite the kick that it once did, because I’m now middle aged. But back in the day, the difference between whether people said I had ADHD or ADD was whether I’d had high glycemic index foods recently or not. Not that there was a lot of people saying I just had ADD because at that age, all of my favorite drinks were high glycemic index. Admittedly, there were quite a few people who stated it as me having ADD and being hyperactive, because ADHD was a pretty new diagnosis at the time and hadn’t made its way into common parlance.
Dave, while it’s cool you pay attention to our commentary, don’t let us dictate too much what you write and draw. We love (most of) your work anyway.
Speaking about the races, WHAT ABOUT THE DRAGONS!?
Seconded.
If Dragons do exist in the Grrl-verse, I wanna know in what capacity! Are we talking ancient, huge animals? Wise beasts? Shapeshifting beings unto gods? There’s so many variants!
Thirded.
We need to be able to post, and Dave needs to be able to create.
All else is devo.
Or Maya.
Or cake.
Down with #ChristchurchCall, let the Freedom of Speech prevail (and simply prosecute those who go too far)
you forget there are dragons, they hide by disguising themselves as taxi-cabs
I need a reminder: what page is that on?
https://dragontaxis.com/cardiff/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/app-screen.png
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FEwRBVNTNupCYC6-0feir9ndjgAkn6CyzhgAwgNGiRbXfa9mSC29BqHpXoLtX5Q90P8Zdw=s85
That… sounds bad: which orifice do you enter? o_O