Grrl Power #737 – Succubus couture
It’s telling that Cora thinks there’s a chance that this after hours welcome back party might devolve into something else entirely. She’s obviously never had an office job. Or if she did, it was on a planet with very different views on sex. It’s an even bet that most civilizations don’t have an entirely laissez faire attitude about sex, though. In fact the majority of them (in the Grrl Verse) do have some significant hangups about it, so in that regard, Earth is pretty typical. Dabbler still likes acting all indignant about it though.
At least among species that reproduce sexually. I wonder if asexual sapients would have sexual hang ups. Or… asexual hangups I guess. Would asexual species have porn? Probably depends on how they fertilized themselves. I mean, they wouldn’t have prostitution or anything like that. Wow, I’m thinking way too hard about this.
In the known civilized galaxy, there’s probably a few that are like a succubus paradise. Just free love and sex everywhere you go. No disease or unplanned pregnancies to worry about. Hmm, actually I wonder if that would be succubus paradise. They’d be able to stay topped up on tantric energy easily enough, but in a world where sex isn’t commoditized at all, they would lose a great deal of their power, sociologically speaking.
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I think he has that line set up in a macro or something. He always trys to be the first to post.
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Am i the only one who feels like the three faces at the top seem…unfinished?
They just can’t believe her description about how big her space boyfriend’s package is.
Well, he’s there. Isn’t he?
Seems lower res / less subtle. Not bad, but noticeable.
Why, it’s almost as if the artist is trying to draw attention to the figures on the couch.
Anvil looks like Lilo in the first frame.
I see a dash of green under Cora’s right arm, so I’m guessing she’s *technically* covered…
That’s her original shirt. The part that hasn’t disappeared *YET*
Only because Dabbles hasn’t finished
Also note: her arms are going full blue (remember: Cora literally has no arms, or legs) which means it’s all part of the new ‘look’ Dabbles is programming :D
Well, this doesn’t happen often, am I first or hasn’t anyone else’s comment posted yet?
Anywho, now we see the shortcoming of electronic clothing, there ain’t no such thing as secure wireless control.
Look closer – Dabbler’s plugged in. Wireless may be secure, but it seems that there’s an emergency override port…
Well now we know Dabler is probably also a skilled pickpocket….seriously did she also pick up a few levels os a priestess class?
Most superhero RPGs don’t have classes, as superheroes in the comics often have esoteric skills and talents.
given it’s Dabbler it’s more like someone who played D&d 3.5 edition and then multiclased Her character in everything every 3-4 levels.
Dabbler would probably be an Artificer with a pile of templates on her race. But the Cap’n is right, this comic is better modeled in something like Mutants and Masterminds rather than a class based rpg.
…
So, who or what is “THOT-ho-goth”? A person, or some weird condition that succubi undergo when they don’t get enough tantric energy?
Was thinking it was “Tho-Tho-Goth”
Butt yes, hope we learn more about this (is that the name of the demon whose return would be heralded by a burning ring? o_O)
Possibly it is “Thoth-o-goth” derived on the Egyptian mythos.
Oh yes, that’s a possibility, and sounds better than “Tho-Tho-Goth” (what idiot came up with that pronounciation? o_O)
Yeah, he’th tho tho goth that he only wearth thirtth from people who died working at Hot Topic.
You owe me a new keyboard. I think the monitor will be okay though.
Now where have I heard that lisp before?
It’s So-so-goth with a lisp! (He (she?, it?) is not the best in class.)
Probably not the “mighty burning” guy. More likely someone who thinks they have a claim to Dabbler’s affections.
Actually I’m pretty sure Thothogoth IS the ‘mighty burning’ guy. Because of that other page where he says ‘Found you.’
Except, Dabbles seems more bothered by Thoth-a-Goth rather than concerned, like if Brad showed up looking for Maxi
Well she did beat him once already and stole his loot. So him finding her might be quite the bother indeed. But she is probably also concerned since its implied that being on Earth is helping her “lay low” from him/it.
Plus Thothogoth just sounds like a bad guys name :). Thoth. God of Death. Goth. I dunno…. Dracula?:) Just sounds like a big bad to me.
We don’t know, but I’m GUESSING it’s that demon guy who Dabbler banished a long time back and who has just recently found her.
And I fail html forever. Let’s try that again. Hopefully forever is a short time.
Banished: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-177-intergalactic-baggage/
Found: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-186-fingers-to-maximum-steepleage/
Oh, yeah, the unofficial Demon Lord of Gonorrhea (“I shall return, and there shall be a mighty burning to herald my coming!”).
How many exorcist/urologists exist in the Grrl-verse . . . and do any of them make house calls? :-)
“It’s not lupus!”
Oh, wrong doctor…
Of note, we now know all but 2 of those plotters plotting.
which means we have 2 huge dangling plot threads to worry about XD
Plus a bunch of others that WEREN’T introduced on that page.
Anvil’s interested! :D
He is rather handsome for a tusked red alien.
AND he’s taller than her and not a jerk, something she’s been looking for.
Oh right, you meant the biological adjective meaning of ‘asexual’
I think that succubi would end up hating a world of free-range sex after a few weeks. Nothing to rebel against. Nobody being shocked with outlandish behavior. Where’s the fun in that? Where’s the challenge?
Do succubi have their own planet? Can succubi get tantric energy from zonking each other?
Inquiring minds want ( no need!) to know, Dave!
How do they reproduce as a one-gender race?
If they do get pregnant do they get weird sex-cravings in their pregnancy? See succubi: sex as food.
I.E.: “I need to do it on top of the refrigerator with a lefthanded plumber on the full moon!”
Also we know about Dabblers succubi side but what about her alien side she is after all also part alien?
Also is Cora a succubus? She seems to have similar behaviour. But she doesnt have horns like Dabbler or Decollete.
Also is Dabbler and other succubi bisexual? She seems to tease everybody equally but she only talks about zonking men.
Dave mentioned way, way back when Dabbler met another succubus(the one on the council) that they can’t feed from each other.
Ok, in order:
1. Succubi can’t feed from each other, as Blonk mentioned. Her discussion with Decollette covered that.
2. I’m not sure if Dave’s said specifically, but my best guess would be they’re as fertile as they want to be with most beings, but the ‘purebred’ ones like Decollette would be fathered by male (or male-equipped, at least) demons. They could sample genes or essences and mix-and-match like super-Asari, though.
3. Probably do. The cravings could still involve pickles and ice cream, just . . . utilized differently.
4. Cora isn’t a succubus any more than Harem is. Just . . . frisky.
5. I don’t know if “bi”sexual begins to cover it. She does zonk out at least one female, though. The waitress from Club Oontz whose disguise Sydney accidentally sees through shows up the next morning on the couch at Archon looking very shagged out, much like the Barberian did the morning after the restaurant ruckus.
I don’t remember where but I remember Dave at least implying that Succubuses were created (or at least selectively bread) and not naturally occurring demons.
A PR stunt gone very, very right
I think the correct term would be omnisexual. Unless even that is too narrow to describe Dabbler.
Succubi aren’t about challenging things.
They are all about delicious Tantric food.
Rebellion is for combat oriented demons.
I do like the direction Dabbles is taking this. :P
I think in the first panel Sydney is going, “and I blasted a hole this big through it with my ‘pew, pew’ orb!”
Hence the incredulous looks on her listener’s faces.
Just wait until she shows off the new power levels she’s unlocked. They’ll be picking jaws up off the floor.
No,she’s saying “Aw c’mon guys, no hugs to help treat my PTSD? I was ssssooooo scared the whole time I was gone!…”
Those 3 were never on the other side of the portal Sydney got stranded on the other side of, so she could be explaining the size of it to them. Probably as the start of her telling then what happened from her view. I’m guessing next time we see them, their jaws are gonna be on the ground, with Max considering starting the debriefing early in light of the new info…
OK, apparently I’ve stunned Daniel the Human with how sensible and possible this could be. AND cause of my “restraint”. No idea what he’s talking about tho, Sydney tells them she carved a Kaiju like a turkey, Max investigates the stunned faces, orders a debriefing right away…Wait, a de-briefing……And Dabbler it trying to help Cora with a different type…………………………………………………….
Daniel here. Someone just realized what he wrote as well as what Dabbler’s doing at the end there and overheated, shutting him down. It was pretty insiteful for him, so I’ll be nice & dunk him in a tub of water to help him cool off…
Or… What if there was a planet where….
Because of different evolutionary pressures in the past, the male to female ratio was different?
What if instead of practically 50/50, the XX/XY/YX/YY came out
(musical note symbol here) “Three girls for every guy.” ??
The ideal marriage being four people.
The guy being the stay at home dad, the women working to support the family.
Maybe their reproductive system struggles to maintain a stable population
and more than one wife pregnant at a time would be as rare as winning the lottery.
Of course this social dynamic would be completely alien to Earthicans.
Sounds like the planet Grayson in the Honorverse. Except for the working females and stay at home dads.
A lot of reptiles and fish have their sex determined by the ambient temperature of their nest during incubation so arguably there’s a potential mechanism for determination by any conceivable method.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determination
I see what you did there.
I am assuming that YY is the only combination that produces a male. In that case, XX mated with YY would produce nothing but XY or YX. XY or YX with YY would produce either XY, YX or YY. No combination would ever produce XX so the XX would disappear after one generation. From the second generation on every offspring would receive 1 Y and an even split between an X or Y for the second chromosome. This would result in a 50/50 split from there on out.
Swap the symbols and it seems familiar…
Actually, YY is combination that produces corpse. There is about 800 protein-coding genes on X compared to the Y chromosome containing about 70 genes, meaning someone without X will have about 730 proteins missing.
That only applies to the human species. The species that jayessell is describing would, presumably, have the reverse situation or even something completely different.
Pretty sure thats a main plot point to “Girls Bravo” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-4_HDLbYTk
An Ancient Egyptian name “he who is like the ibis” became Thoth.
A word “to pour” became a tribe name “they who pour (their seed)” which became Goth.
Thothogoth could be a name meaning “the virile ibis”
Wow :)
Thank you! I love such things!
Who can imagine what Dabbler has in mind for Kora…
Re: DaveB’s commentary
Well, let’s see.
If you mean asexual as in ace (and specifically people who don’t really have a sex drive, which I gather isn’t the entirety of the ace community but I’m not 100% on that), I don’t know how well an entire civilization could survive like that. A small or significant portion of the population, sure, but if it’s the entire civilization? How would it maintain numbers? Hmmm… a colony of entirely-ace people might make sense, as a way to form a community, with population maintained through immigration. (Or cloning or en-vitro, but probably not because the children wouldn’t necessarily be ace and you’d now have sex drives in your colony, unless there’s some part of that process that lets you ensure the children turn out ace, or you exile the ones that aren’t, and either way that would be multiple ethical cans of worms being opened up right there.) In any case, they wouldn’t have hangups about sex (beyond “no thanks” and maybe “ick”), but I’m pretty sure a succubus would hate it there.
If you mean asexual as in asexual reproduction, there are several species like that here on Earth. I remember hearing about at least one — some reptile, I think, I wish I remember what — which still had completely-lesbian sex despite reproducing asexually. It was an all-female species whose eggs are fertile without a sperm donor, but they need sex with a partner in order to stimulate ovulation. No genetic material exchanged, though, so that still counts as an asexual species. A sapient species like that could easily have sexual hangups, sex drives, and all sorts of things that a succubus loves.
…. and I just offended some ace people, didn’t I? *sigh* I really shouldn’t post things about stuff I don’t know much about, and especially not at 3 AM.
Why would that basic speculation offend ace people? Don’t buy offense, people will give it freely when they need to.
I’m pretty sure DaveB is referring to asexual as biologically asexual species, not just people who have no sexual feelings or desires.
And I think the type of reptile that reproduces asexually are a few specific species of geckos and the New Mexico whiptail lizard, via parthogenesis (where the egg grows into an embryo without fertilization by males). Most higher level organisms, including most reptiles, do not reproduce asexually. The more complex the organism, the more problems are involved in asexual reproduction – ie, binary fission (usually protozoa and prokaryotes), fragmentation (starfish, worms, although they can also reproduce sexually I believe), budding (proteins, yeast, certain viruses), vegetative reproduction (most plants which do not have to reproduce via spores or seeds, like tubers of potatoes, shoots of dandelions, the keikis of orchids), spores (again mostly protozoa, bacteria, and fungi), and parthogenesis (most wasps, bees, ants, certain geckos and the whiplash lizard).
Just a thought: An ingenious, FTL-capable alien species could reproduce asexually without having to abandon the fruits of the genetical mix, while being able to ensure that her species stays asexually through careful editing before breeding.
My imagination tells me that as soon as they discover sexual species and the fun they can have, they edit first of all themselves to be able to enjoy sex, which would render the species sexual from one generation to the other.
On the other hand: They might already have something better that sex …
Thanks, Pander, that was what I was looking for. Desert grassland whiptail lizards. They’re asexual, but use pseudocopulation to enhance ovulation, and they have chromosone triplets, rather than pairs, which lets them have some genetic diversity.
Plus I believe the whiptail lizards are all female. There are no males. Hence the nickname ‘Lesbian Lizards.’
Parthogenesis has occurred with Hammerhead sharks and Blacktip sharks too. Though those cases where when the sharks reached sexual maturity in the absence of males, and the offspring were genetically identical to the mothers.
I wish I had a copy of my grandmother’s DNA, so I could have a chance of finding out whether or not that’s what happened with my Mom and her sister. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If the Whiptail Lizard is the one I am thinking of, it turns out there are a small percentage of male lizards that will mate with the females in the normal manner. In the absence of males, it is necessary for two females to “fake” it in order to induce self fertilization. I am not sure about the Geckos.
There are no male whiptail lizards, far as I am aware. That’s sort of the point of why they’re pretty unique. They’re the real life female version of the Moklans from the Orville (although yes I know there are SOME female Moklans, which honestly makes the species less interesting).
They have recently discovered that there is a very small percentage of male Whiptail Lizards. Why the percentage is so small no one knows.
I was not aware of that, but if that is true, then the reason the percentage is so small is because, in a species that only reproduces asexually via parthogenesis, there is not much need for there to be two separate sexes.
Actually, there’s documented cases of a komodo dragon who hadn’t ever been around a male having viable fertile offspring. It’s happened with other species who normally reproduse sexually, but that’s the biggest/most complex critter so far. It’s always when they’re in an all-female environment for an extended period of time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon#Parthenogenesis
Sounds more like the Jurassic Park explanation than parthogenesis.
Quite sure that asexual reproduction was meant. And the first that came to my mind (despite knowing that there are several species on earth that reproduce asexually) were the Drac of Enemy Mine.
Naw – no offense to be taken in there. “Not interested” also means “not jealous” and “not offended when people get wildly speculative”. To an asexual… people talking about sex is just… boring. Not offensive. Think Spock, not nuns.
Also means asexual people are perfectly capable of reproducing if they decide there is a logical (or emotional) reason to want kids. And… “asexual” does not always mean “aromantic”. So, an asexual can have a fulfilling romantic partnership, with sex on a logical schedule according their partner’s needs and desires. Being uninterested in sex doesn’t mean sex becomes un-enjoyable after all.
Eh, yes and no.
Offense at misrepresentation is still a common phenomena. Both the common conflation of asexual and aromantic and the use of asexual reproduction jokes by people who can’t be bothered to understand what asexuality as a sexuality (or lack thereof?) is have been sore points with those I’ve known.
And you are correct that hangups surrounding sex or the posibility thereof do not come as part of it but they can be caused by it. Or rather, by either them or others not understanding or respecting it in early adult/adolescent years.
As somebody who isn’t asexual, myself, I don’t know the ins and outs of where a lack of interest would apply (and, from what I gather, not knowing what they’re not experiencing doesn’t help asexual people understand the reverse) but I’m still pretty sure that the enjoyment of the act is different. And I know enough from friends to know that relationships between sexual and asexual people involve a lot of compromise. One person submitting entirely to the other’s desires is rarely healthy.
What you’ve said doesn’t seem wrong at all but it does seem very broad strokes, when all people are individuals and the thoughts, feelings and situations aren’t identical for everyone.
Asexual means a species that reproduces without sex. Bisexual means a species that reproduces with two sexes. Despite popular belief, neither term is applicable to the individual. A person from a bisexual species who does not desire sex is not “asexual” they are just not interested in sex, at best they are non-sexual. (I will not go into why a person might be this way.) A person from a bisexual species who will have “sex” with either sex is ambisexual, with the prefix ambi, meaning either or as in ambidextrous. As an aside, there are species, like amebas, that normally reproduce asexually, but, will, on occasion, engage in genetic exchange with other members of their species. This is not reproduction, per se, but it does provide genetic variability.
Context matters here. In a human sociological context, “bisexual” does indeed refer to someone attracted to both sexes. It’s just like a “law” means one thing when discussing physics, and another when discussing jurisprudence.
Asexual means a species that reproduces without sex. Bisexual means a species that reproduces with two sexes. Despite popular belief, neither term is applicable to the individual. A person from a bisexual species who does not desire sex is not “asexual” they are just not interested in sex, at best they are non-sexual. (I will not go into why a person might be this way.) A person from a bisexual species who will have “sex” with either sex is ambisexual, with the prefix ambi, meaning either or as in ambidextrous. As an aside, there are species, like amebas, that normally reproduce asexually, but, will, on occasion, engage in genetic exchange with other members of their species. This is not reproduction, per se, but it does provide genetic variability.
Oops! Posted twice.
No, clearly, you posted once and then it fissioned.
Parthogenic commentary.
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Who wants to wager that in the first panel that Sydney’s explaining what she did on the planet after she lost the rest of her team
What ?! Progresssing logically in chronological order from one event to next when she has a free hand to ramble?
Sydney would deem that heresy and you know it!
No, no, NOOOOOOO. We’re missing the telling of the Battle of the “Mighty Halo” on the Alari home world.
Nah, she’s clearly describing Frix
LOL. I’m guessing Hiro can relate then.
Either the bit and pieces explanation of the battle on the Alari home world …
or her private (?) encounter with Frix …
She didn’t have to spill her drink!!!
(Unless her gesture of her explanation/encounter wasn’t meant to be so grand.)
“Would asexual species have porn?”
probably not, I mean, it is like if a specie that reproduce using two different genders had porn with individual that have sex with people of their same gender, that would be ridicolus.
Oh, wait…
But seriously, to answer your question, it is hard to say for sure, but I’m going with ‘probably’.
Also they’d have ‘pron’ that appeals to other biological drives like eating, finding shelter, exploring, etc.
It would depend on what biological or other drives they were wired to associate pleasure with (if any). Beings who derived pleasure from eating, tasting, etc. would probably be scandalized by the Food Network and horrified (or intrigued) by Bizarre Foods, for instance.
A species wired to mainly associate pleasure with laughter might consider a comedy club in much the same way a swingers club might be looked at by humans.
The first thing I imagined was a species that derived pleasure from intellectual stimulation — they’d have various fetish websites devoted to things like hot and heavy grandmaster chess games, saucy physics lectures, and taboo logical paradoxes.
Or be scandalised with public libraries and bookshops
Oh, my, yes. Imagine if there was a public library on Earth with whole sections devoted to erotic manga, Hustler magazines, adult graphic novels, the writing of the Marquis de Sade, etc. People would lose their ****.
Honestly, I don’t have an issue with public libraries having “adult materials” sections. I would think stain-proof, easy to clean (and disinfect) flooring and furniture might be a good idea for that area, though. Just saying. And the no-noise rule still applies. :-)
Just hire that librarian from the first “Ghost Busters” movie :D
I’m going to get banned from this forum, but it might be worth it.
1st panel – Sydney: “So I banged a furry with a dong this long!”
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who got such impure thought in my mind from the first panel.
I’m surprised she needs a wired connection for that. Or a touch screen interface. Or an external device.
I guess it was just a matter of time before someone messed with Cora’s clothes emitter.
Just watch out for those Asari. They’re asexually taking over the galaxy. Using some sort of camouflage ability to look like beautiful females to all other species. Mating almost exclusively with members of other species (taboo to mate with each other). Stealing the best genetic traits from their mates and producing only Asari children. Plus they live for a thousand years, having multiple children with multiple mates who they’ve removed from the reproducing population of their own species.
You make that sound like it’s a bad thing.
Not disagreeing, but the Asari don’t kill their mates (the mutation that causes something like that is rooted out whenever possible, unless the afflictee is willing to essentially join the Asari version of the Night’s Watch or a nunnery (the Nuns’ Watch?)). They don’t ruin them for any other mates, or neuter them, either, as far as I know. So wouldn’t their out-of-species mates be able to reproduce among their own species later in life?
The Asari form long term, sexual relationships with much shorter lived species. Unless they break up, that individual (and the next dozen or so mates the asari picks) are unavailable.
You been reading DaveB‘s notes? o_O
Aaaaand another Dabbler joke.
Let’s wait for the plot for another half a week…
You have every right to like or not like whatever part of the comic you choose, of course.
That said, I don’t see how this doesn’t advance the plot. They address a new layer of why Dabbler is so keen to be a part of Archon (we knew about the interest in the Tantric potential of supers, but the hiding out from Thothogoth (Demon Lord of Thots and Hoes?) is new). I’d say Anvil’s potential hook-up and/or long-long-long-distance relationship is a plot development, too.
Did you have a more specific plot thread in mind as being “the plot”?
Asexual porn – “Party of the Two Parts”, by William Tenn, 19454. Alien amoeba is trapped on Earth, makes money by selling porn of itself. And who do you think would be interested in buying amoeba porn?
Um that wil not be written for another 17435 years? Or did someone violate the temporal prime directive AGAIN.
I know dsmn th e lace off and editorializing functionaritorium and the Auto incontinance on smart Foley’s
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Although it is not exactly reproduction, amoeba do, on occasion, engage in genetic exchange, that provides for genetic variation. When said individuals do reproduecs/divide, the offspring are not genetic copies of the ORIGINAL individual.
based on your politics and …what your comic tells us? I think I am gonna duck now I dont want to still be reading this comic when you get arrested at a convention. #AmbushPredator
On the topic of succubus paradise, have you read the new Wonder Twins comic from DC. Their planet seems like it would be a fun one Dabbler if she could bring a weather controlling machine.
I think you’re mistaken about the odds of societies having a laissez faire attitude regarding sex. On Earth most of our hangups regarding sex are due to cultural influences originating with Abrahamic religions. Most – not all, but most – cultures on Earth without those influences are much less inhibited. Granted there aren’t many of them to look at, which says a lot for just how far the Abrahamic religions were able to spread way back in the day.
Actually, a lot of the hang-ups is Victorian, all because Prince Albert (look it up, on your work computer, with your boss standing behind you) snuffled off his mortal coils, she was not amused (by a lot of things, outlawing homosexuality for one thing, butt ironically enough, not lesbianism, guess some things did amuse her)
The story has it that she was quite unamused by the idea off lesbian sex, and insisted it didn’t happen, and thus there didn’t have to be a law against it. Explaining to your grandmother that she was wrong, and women did that sort of thing was hard enough even if she wasn’t sorta your boss, and to be treated with great respect in any case, was too much much for the men, and they weren’t that upset about it anyway, and so they left it out.
Actually most of our hangups about sex have to do with spread of disease and forming economic units to effectively raise the next generation of a society.
I spent much of my early life living in countries which never embraced Abrahamic religions. Same hangups largely.
Basically, you have it completely reversed. Abrahamic religions and many others incorporate re-enforcements to societal norms which had already become entrenched before the religions came about.
Doctor Phogg, you touched this tangentially, there is also the issue of paternity, no man wants to work his butt of providing for another man’s children so he has a vested interest in keeping his wife monogamous to himself.
Although generally true, that kind of depends on the man.
There are some people who like being the caretaker and protector.
They will raise as many as they can provide for.
They sort of balance out the vagabonds who are never happy in one place, and won’t be anchored by any relationship from friendship to lovers to children and those who just don’t have deep attachments.
Yeah, there is, generally, a much smaller proportion of men who feel the way TexIII (Texlll?) described, and most of them are barely interested in providing for their own, confirmed, offspring (or even spouse)
There have been cultures that communally raise the children, and others where a woman could not get married without getting pregnant first, others where women were encouraged to have sex with visitors to their village, thus expanding the gene pool. There have also been societies with multiple wives/one husband; multiple husbands/one wife, and multiple husbands/multiple wives. Basically, if any given combination or family structure is possible, it has already been done in some culture somewhere.
“No man”?
https://satwcomic.com/baby-daddy
Never a good idea to generalize about human beings. ;-)
My comment isn’t about any of the sexy stuff, but Kudos to Dave for showing Dabbler hacking her device with two left hands. I don’t know how long it would take me to think of using two left hands versus a left and a right to accomplish any two handed task. I know it is super insignificant, but I think that little detail is a very nice touch is a generally awesome comic.
Well, if you have lived your whole entire life with two sets of arms, it wouldn’t take long at all :D
+3
Du-uh!!
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Du-uh! :roll•eyes:
Damn you, convenient fizz bubbles. Damn you to HECK!
India is mostly Hindu and they also have a lot of hang ups, mostly relating to consent. (IIRC) The seemingly norm attitude among them is that rape is both the perpetrators and the victims fault as the victim must have done something to provoke it with ridiculously minimal behaviors being labeled as consent. “She smiled, that must mean it is the sexy time” level of thing leading to the women to not do anything that could be construed as consent. So it is not *just* the abrahamic religions that have caused cultures to be conservative about sex. I don’t know about about bhuddism, Confucianism, or taoism tho.
I believe Buddhism is similar to the Abrahamic religions and Hinduism. Hinduism is actually an off shoot of Buddhism.
I find it hilarious that people try to project their personal preferences are “normal” to everyone outside their own culture.
In actuality, out of something like 150 known historical cultures, the vast majority were polygamous. There is exactly one polyandrous culture – I believe one of the ‘kung offshoots… and they were someplace terrible where it took two hunters to support a single breeding female. Polyamory has a couple of examples… I’m not sure how to characterize the Inuit version of wife swapping, since I don’t know enough details on when and how it was actually practiced. It also seems that there are cultures that allow a bit of dalliance in practice, whereas it officially does not occur. There is one African tribe, iirc, that has huts with a very long entrance, so that the returning husband does not actually “see” his wife with anyone if it occurs, and they can all pretend nothing happened.
Also, Tibet.
Historical records consistently state it as being the other way round.
Hinduism started in 2300 BCE, its “offshoot” Jainism started in 527 BCE, another “offshoot” Buddhism started in 483 BCE, yet other “offshoot” Sikhism started in 1469 AD.
Are they fizz bubbles? Seems so mundane. I was thinking the antiparticles of Kirby dots (white vs. the normal black “krackles”). Since Kirby dots denote the Power Cosmic, anti-dots would be the power trivial? Seems about right for transforming outfits.
Oddly she already changed her outfit once at this party.
Speaking of hackable clothing, And given the Rifts group I had one of the players has a smart trasformable body armor/ wardrobe. Given our group, I originally ruled that it was hack proof and only people she gave explicit permission to could change her outfit. As it was (her rl Dommee was also her Owner in game) got me to agree that taking enough damage would unlock the outfit from her being in a locked bondage outfit.
Given Cora’s history with her prosthetics being hacked, I suspect this is not going to turn out well for Dabbler.
Mischievous as ever, I see. ;P I imagine Cora must be used to this.
Wait… Cora’s arms are still artificial, right? Why are they turning into “normal arms” when the emitter is turned off?
She didn’t say it was turned off…it was “hacked” – to a nude fully limbed female form, most likely.
Probably just something skimpy ;D
I’m aware that she didn’t say it was turned off. I’m sure you can see why I inferred that at first.
Hey, Purple People Eater, did you forget what it was like when Jiggawatt jumped you? Respect other people’s boundaries!
Oops, I meant Jabberwokky.
Porn only exists because humans find sex enjoyable, which is in turn only necessary because we don’t have a mating season during which we experience a compulsion to reproduce. One can only imagine that an asexual species would very likely not need to consciously do anything (other than stop using whatever birth control technology they have invented) to reproduce; presumably it would just happen at a certain time of year or when they had sufficient energy reserves or something like that. Therefore they wouldn’t have porn.
That’s one way to invent a species.
Another way is that, because reproduction by fission is extremely risky, and they are (both) incapacitated for a time, that there is a mild compulsion to gather the required energy, but when they have it, there is a STRONG compulsion to cocoon… and the splitting itself is highly pleasurable, enough to drive them to go out and start gathering energy again.
Thus, porn would be a way to turn on those neural pathways slightly, without going “full silk”.
When you’re completely making up biology, there’s no limit to “only imagine”.
A new recruit with poor impulse control and high-level security clearance comes back from a multi-day engagement in hostile territory and exploring places / peoples the government doesn’t admit exists.
So naturally, her protocol-minded commanding officer immediately turns her loose among the rest of the squad, most of whom presumably still don’t have clearance to know what she’s been up to. Since everyone there appears to be off-duty, it’s pretty likely there’s alcohol involved…
Yep, this is going to go well.
My new “this is all a flashback” theory is that Sydney’s recent level-ups and the details of her galactic walkabout remain classified to everyone but team leaders and oversight, and when Anvil referred to Sydney as ‘the big guns’, she was teasing her about telling tall tales at this event. Sydney eagerly awaits a mission that will justify her really cutting loose so she can yell “none of them would listen to me! Fools! I’ll show them all!”
Well the only thing she was read into that the rest of the crew weren’t was the existence of aliens and that genital is exposed now so it might not be a problem.
Yep, the Alari certainly unveiled the genitals about their existence, and by implication the existence of other alien sentient beings. They probably whipped ’em out about how they became refugees, too (or at least a version of it that would enhance their chances of a friendly welcome), so Sydney talking about the Alari-world-cleansing Hyper-Squidwards wouldn’t be exposing any additional genitalia, as it were.
Now, if (for instance) she bridges over to comparing fluffiness of Frixx compared to werewolves, werbadgers, werehares and/or werejaguars, and the other recruits overhear (and they’re still not cleared for that kind of stuff) additional bits may become viewable.
For your big guns theory Stewart certainly looks disbelieving in this comic :D
The entire team must have been briefed on aliens by now, considerin the Alari refugees in Africa and the details of Halo’s last deployment-slash-disappearance. Those genitals have already been revealed.
So far we haven’t seen her being promoted to Corporal.
“Wow, I’m thinking way too hard about this.” Nah. Pondering like that is great for world building. You’re doing fine.
Hacking Cora’s wardrobe.
WWWA battle bikini?
Waaaaaay too conservative for Dabbler.
Thinking Frederick’s of Hollywoodish though Dabs might have to tweak those stodgey threads a bit.
Is it bothering anyone else how much Anvils bust size changes on this page? The first image puts her a comical level size.
Kinetic absorber.
Perhaps there was heavy petting off screen.
That could also explain the degree to which they are asymmetric.
Or DaveB was in a hurry.
So you’re saying they essentially act as DD-cell batteries? :-)
Aww poor Cora, that will be bringing back her childhood memories of being tormented by bullies who messed with her artificial limbs. Whilst close friends can take liberties, that does seem rather cruel of Dabbler!
However I shall reserve my judgement until we find out precisely what adjustment Dabbler is making. If Cora loves it, then all is forgiven. And Dabbler is smart enough that I have good hopes she will be acting advisedly, albeit in an initially mischievous way!
I’m hoping for a strapless ankle length evening dress, slit up to the thigh.
Bonus if Arianna has hired an orchestra and Tangos are involved.
Have her dance with Super Hiro, because Max can’t.
Maybe Max would let off a bunch of bingo words from the edge of the room.
Remember: Dabbles is big on consent, and very good ‘friends’ with Cora, she knows how far to draw the lime
I’d guess you’re right about her knowing where Cora’s lime is, but I also remember she wasn’t that big on consent when she started playing with Max’s boobs that one time.
No, Dabbles likes to play with her meal, butt she doesn’t go too far, even if sometimes her ‘meal’ needs to physically get her to back off