Grrl Power #752 – Mitten Rx
Dr. Frost has you in her chair, Sydney. She’s not going to prescribe you some drugs and kick you out of the door. There’s a paper begging to be written and published in American Psychological Association Journal.
There are a lot of expressions that don’t quite hold water with a little examination, but “Time heals all wounds” has got to be the worst. “Time sometimes heals select cosmetic wounds.” would be a much more apt expression.
Well, THaW is maybe tied with “That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” That’s almost never true either. Well, unless you’re a Saiyan. Then that expression is perfect for you. Unless that expression means like, literally anything, not just injurious attack. Like, a good night’s sleep makes you stronger. A healthy lunch with some multigrain bread and an orange makes you stronger. But then, what about eating a detergent packet or snorting powdered graphite? Those things don’t make you stronger. It’s just a dumb expression.
Ignore Dr. Frost’s expression in the last panel, or at least scale it back like 20% in your minds. She came out looking a bit wicked witch and she’s just supposed to be smiling wryly. I just missed the mark there a bit.
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She read Sydney’s secret weakness stated in her file!!! I was wondering when THAT was coming back as a punchline. Took longer than I had expected.
I misread that as “prescribe Kittens” which was very clever for a stress removal viewpoint, but is also completely wrong. Kittens are never prescribed, the ownership rights of a human are dispensed with grace and require gratitude.
Same here! Except I thought she meant a kitten NAMED “Mittens”
and now I wonder how Stealth from Alien Dice would take being prescribed to someone.
I always thought it weird to name cats after a thing you stick your hands in. I mean really, … EWWWW!!
It probably started with Polydactyl cats, or else the ones with different coloring on their paws.
It was the ones with different coloring on their paws, at least by all of the oldest references I found to cats named Mittens.
Actually, I was thinking just the other day that Halo should get some gloves designed specifically to hold her orbs in place against her palms when necessary, rather than reverting to the duct tape.
Something with a simple strap that sits across the back of her wrist when not in use should suffice. A hole in the palm and fingerless.
I was thinking the tape she held the oxygen generator and shield to her hands “this morning” was that sort of light-adhesive stuff in first-aid kits, that make it easy to remove without taking all your body hair with it. Duct tape tends to leave too much residue when it gets warm on a porous surface.
Those would need to be custom made – which is not really a problem, it’s just cloth and they’re not exactly complex – but it does mean a day or three to get them.
However: Simple stretchy mittens would serve much the same purpose, and be an off-the-shelf item. Or she can just keep a roll of tape handy (also an off-the-shelf item): It’s userful for many other things, too.
MY BAD!
HAHAHAHA
+1 <3
Needed Achilles lying in the rubble in his P.J.s
Still snoring away :D
Wonder if he would complain about a draft, or would he not even notice?
Not until they disturb by digging him out, with one of those machines that look like a dragon (the bucket scoop digger things)
Official name: Excavator
For a [s]building[/s] rubble pile that size, they will need several.
Thank you for the name
No, Dr. Frost’s expression in that last panel is perfect. I’m pretty sure my psychiatrist has given me that exact look with a tenth as much provocation before.
Mine never have but then I tend toward the blunt end off things. When dealing with what is going on in my head. As they get to know me they figure out I actually have a fairly decent grip on my issues, and can deal with them as they happen if I’m there talking to them it is because I need a bit of time to decompress and get shit off my chest to a neutral third party. Helps to vent and allows me to get my head in order, then it is back at it. I honestly think one of them may have a long time ago but I was thirteen at the time and really in a rough patch so the memory isn’t that clear anymore.
Yeah, that’s totally the “you’ll hate how much sense this makes” look ;)
I know that look all too well from my counselor.
I’m wondering if Dr Frost’s first name is Emma. ^_~
Never actually had counseling myself, though there are times I probably could have used it. I have some preliminary training for the field in school, as part of a sociology degree, but not enough to be a counselor. That doen’t qualify me to comment on the expression though.
This the nearest to First I’ve ever been. :-D
By the way, two days ago I finally caught up on the whole archive. Great stuff, and I appreciate that a lot of thought has gone into the nuts and bolts of the world you’ve built, not to mention the humor (I have literally laughed out loud several times while reading) and the artwork.
I was once first on a comment, but by the time it got through the approval process I was fifth or sixth.
Actually you always were 5th or 6th. The comments before yours were themselves delayed.
I suspect the panel 3 Sydney is going to launch a thousand profile avatars.
The “Sydney was Here” look in panel four (specially if DaveB can release a clean image without the lovely adorable Peggy overlay) will show up every where as well
Was just gonna say that Panel 4 Sydney would be a fine candidate as well.
I was expecting her to say “take two mittens and call me in the morning“ but sydney might try to eat if told that way
With hot sauce.
Sydney… isn’t that scatter-brained, she knows what mittens are and what they are for (remember, she already mentioned them being her ‘Kryptonite’)
Updated early?
Accidentally, but yes.
A pleasant happy accident as this is the first time I’ve come to read the comic so early!
Yeah, hadn’t read the blurb at that time :(
ll say that Sydney’s problem is not about what she did while Lost. In. SPAACCEE!! (said in the style of the classic “Pigs in space!” Muppets skit :P), her problem is being trapped remembering the helplessness (and the running, definitely the running)
Should Sydney be concerned that Dr. Frost not only knows Sydney’s Kryptonite, but is prescribing such as a preventative medication?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-98-triple-facepalm-and-sidebutt/
Why? Doctor Frost was probably filled in on Sydney prior to the meeting, and it’s not like that information would be Category Five Super Special Top Secret
As long as Dr. Frost has any level of clearance at all (which would be the case for working with Government Military), then the only other qualification she must have is “Need to Know.” This is the case for getting the specific information that someone would need to do their job, regardless of the security level on the information itself.
As a Psych Counseler, she would need to know everything about her patient & the situation that brought that patient to her for treatment. However, before Sydney asked for treatment, Dr. Frost would only have had access to information that’s equal to her specific Clearance Level. Until Sydney became a patient, Dr. Frost might only have unclassified information.
She more than likely knows most of the teams secrets a person in her position gets read in on all the nastiest stuff. She won’t talk about it unless she really needs to then it will be with someone that is cleared. there are times when consults are required and there are rules for those.
Theory: Dr Frost is X. it all makes sense now- the clearance level, the knowing of Sydney’s Kryptonite… She’s always been around, just unnoticed.
maybe not X him or it self but part of the same department arc dark or what ever his wife or something or daughter or something funny
I’m certain she has powers… and that they’re probably along the lines of being a mental lockbox.
I mean. If you’re archon, and you need a team psychologist, who can listen to super-powered people talk about their super-top-secret problems…
Do you hire the best psychologist in the world?
Or a good one who’s impossible to break?
You hire Jessica Yamada, of course.
Points for the Worm/award reference, and hell yes
On another note, if it HAS to be her hands, and is suspected that it needs to be her biological hands… Could she possibly get additional arms grown/attached that were made from her DNA/Stem Cells and therefore have extra arms?
There’s always the risk that, by altering her too much, she’d stop matching whatever biometric thingy the orbs use to tell her from other people.
Also, not ruling out that it *might* be possible in this comic book world, but additional arms are really quite useless without extensive nerve connections to the motor cortex, which would have to be seriously upgraded to handle extra limbs.
Indeed, probably the reason the orbs only work in her hands is exactly that your hands have a rather impressive fraction of your brain dedicated to them. Most of the body is dial up, your hands get high speed cable and your eyes multi-gig fiber, so to speak. (Your retinas are actually considered part of your brain, not the peripheral nervous system.)
She could probably use the orbs if they were implanted in her eyes, too, but that might cause difficulties. Except for the com orb, maybe. If she ever loses an eye maybe they could try that one as a replacement.
Contrary to belief, Sydney’s eyes (or at least the sockets) are the same size as every other Dirt Monkey (not counting Marty and Corey Feldman or that Seinfeld chick someone mentioned the other day)
Interesting thought occurs: how do we know they’re bio-locked? Nobody else has ever tried to hold and use them. Remember when they powered-doen when she went to sleep? Who is to say that anyone couldn’t just walk in and attune to them?
The only person who has been able to do so is Varia … and that’s because her gestalt power says “Share the orbs” when she’s touching Sidney. (It was tested. Possibly off-screen, but tested.)
Regarding the “seriously upgraded” bit, there is a pair of identical twins body hackers I saw in a documentary a while back. One of them had his arm amputated and grafted onto the other, so now one of them only has 1 arm and the other has 3. (I’ve no idea where they found a doctor willing to do THAT surgery, but I’m fairly sure “you will never tell anyone who did this” was a condition on doing it.) The one with the extra arm can feel it and make the fingers twitch. He can’t actually use it, and since it’s not connected to his own skeleton probably couldn’t use it even if he had full control of it, but the fact that he can feel and move it at all is pretty impressive. It’s crazy what the human nervous system can adapt to given enough time.
Thought it was strange that I could read the comic before work. Awesome stuff though!
Sydney’s fear about lashing out with Mr Bang-a-Bang is justified, doping her to the gills just so she can sleep is not, full marks to Doc Frost
In some instances, a crutch can allow something to heal. In other instances, a crutch prevents something from healing, usually by preventing it from being used in a worst case, a crutch can allow something to heal improperly, by allowing things to be used in improper ways as they heal.
I’m pretty sure meds are not in the first of those three categories, and it sounds like the Doc here thinks something along the same lines.
If time heals all wounds, how do you explain the belly button?
I’ve seen a person that didn’t have one. It’s— well it’s odd cause you notice something is off before you finally realize it but then you’re all waaa?
Depends what you mean by “heal.” Sure, the umbilical cord doesn’t regenerate, but neither does the loss of one cause ongoing trouble. We don’t get phantom pains there.
Mittens would work, but you’d think just storing the orbs in their tube would be more effective. Not as self-referential, or as funny, but more effective.
Won’t help Sydney learn self-control, stuffing Mr Tubey with Sydney’s balls would be along the same lines as doping her to the gills just so she can get some sleep
Daniel here. I’m thinking Sydney putting the Orbs in Tubey is less likely to work not because of self control (she isn’t worried about accidentally using them while awake), she’s afraid of using them in her sleep, subconsciously summoning & blasting away with the Orbs the same way some people flail around while sleeping. Some people sleep-walk, Sydney’s afraid of Sleep-Orbing!
Tubey is just a poster tube with a carry strap, pretty sure the Orbs could force off 1 or both the ends & get to Sydney’s hands. She’s being prescribed mittens (preferably with drawstring openings) so even if Sydney DOES summon the Orbs to her hands (Tubey could help a bit there, better than nothing), she can’t actually activate them & level the building or her appartment…
I think Sydney’s solution of taping the shield orb and air orbs to her hands is a better choice than wearing mittens. Should a super villain attack while Sydney is asleep, she could be subdued (or worse) before she has a chance to remove the mittens. With the shield up continuously while sleeping, Sydney will be safe and have the time to assess the situation before she has to take any action. To provide insurance that she won’t lash out with the PPO or the HentOrb in her sleep, all she needs to do is pack every orb other than the shield and air orbs into Mr. Tubey before she goes to sleep.
Maybe the possibility of an attack at Archon HQ is slim, but keeping her shield up all night also provides Sydney with the psychological comfort of knowing she’s behind one of the universe’s most difficult to breech shields.
I’ve always worried about Sydney having some kind of medical emergency while in the shield — no one would be able to reach her to render aid, unless she goes limp enough to release the ball, which isn’t going to happen if she’s got it taped to her hand.
And how is she not running out of air sleeping all night in a small airtight sphere? That doesn’t seem safe either.
See “Green Orb: Makes air?” in the character desc.
See the character’s description; “Green Orb: Makes air?”
The green orb makes air.
Sorry about that, I thought there was a bug, please delete the superfluous comments
I felt the same way. I was worried that if she kept the shield orb taped and dropped the air orb while sleeping she could pass out and asphyxiate, and nobody would be able to help her.
Which is why she taped both balls to her hands
Aside from the other comments, sleeping in a spherical forcefield doesn’t seem very confortable.
beside if she is in the forcefield and don’t use the flight orb, wouldnt the field… roll around?
If she’s sitting or standing on a surface, the shield intersects the floor or whatever surface, see her interaction in the fight with Aggravation Man (sorry, can’t remember his name) in the parking lot of the diner.
His name is Kevin.
Sleeping in the ‘Sydney-Ship’ as you suggest would have the desired effects of keeping her hands away from the more destructive Orbs, and keeping Sydney protected from the (vanishingly small but admittedly present) chance of a fast major incident while she sleeps, but it’s almost certainly a bad idea in terms of her own psychology and the team’s cohesion. I’m not formally qualified or anything, but I would expect that the prevalence of nightmares and similar problems is more due to the perception of risk, rather than the actual risk level.
By treating even the base – probably the safest place on the planet in terms of protection – as if it’s on a par with the blasted plains of Alar, Sydney would be massively inflating her own perception of the risk level, and therefore reinforcing the nightmares. (It’s not even as though she’s got a wide repertoire of extreme-threat environments for her imagination to choose from; more experienced members can at least have less repetition in their nightmare scenarios!) And having one member of the team effectively locking herself in a cell every night to hide from the monsters in her head doesn’t just tell the rest of the team that this is a seriously unsafe environment, it also tells them that Sydney’s overriding priority in such a scenario is her own safety rather than supporting the team.
Of course, this is just one untrained person’s opinion. Those with the relevant training are welcome to comment on how well or badly it reflects actual outcomes and/or guidance!
Rather than mittens (which might slip off while sleeping or hamper quick use of the shield ball in an emergency), Sydney is long overdue for “safeties” on her haloballs.
Stuffing them into a poster tube (as she had done in the early days) worked, so it shouldn’t be infeasible for a tinkerer at ARCHON to whip up individual mechanical enclosures for the more dangerous spheres, to block unintentional grabs/activations, but allow easy unlocking and fast use with some kind of finger motion that’s unlikely to happen unintentionally (like flipping off a thumb safety on a firearm).
Each sphere could have a different activation motion so that once Sydney made a habit of them, an attempt to trigger say the shield ball wouldn’t work on the death beam sphere if she caught the wrong one in haste.
Even better, one presumes that Dabbler could set up some kind of spell on each ball that would only allow them to be touched on the condition that Sydney was conscious and had also performed the correct activation finger move. Spells would probably be less unsightly than mechanical box enclosures orbiting her head as well.
Another thought, has Sydney ever tried just touching a ball with a fingertip rather than doing a full-handed grab? Would she be able to activate multiple balls at once with one per finger? If keeping them from flying around is the issue, put them back into the tube after cutting a slot along its length wide enough to accept fingertips.
Also, has Sydney ever tried shrinking the shield to its minimum? Would it conform to her body like a shrink-wrap costume, similar to the way it conforms to the ground when she’s standing?
She actually used to have something similar to that with the PP ORB she took it off when she was attacking the tank . She also stated that the pew pew or was always a little harder to use than the others.
she used to have something like that on the PPO. however she took it off during the demonstration when she was attacking the tank.
No, she still has it, just because she took it off to ‘cuttah the tank like buttah’ doesn’t mean it was permanently turned off
Have we seen any indication of her putting it back on or being able to put it back on?
No, butt we haven’t not seen her do that either (see how fun random speculating can be? :P )
Why do you always use “butt” for “but,” Guesticus?
Anal fixation perhaps.
It’s to piss of idiots, and looks like we found another one
So you are saying that your use of an incorrect word somehow makes other people idiots? You are an ass.
Nope, just the ones who make a big fucking deal over it are idiots, most others just ignore it
Anal fixation absolutely confirmed.
He wants other people to talk about butts.
Then denigrate them.
What an admitted troll.
Guesticus, since you also misspelled “off” as “of,” you often misspell other words, and you often forget to punctuate your sentences, is it just possible you don’t actually spell well? A spell checker doesn’t catch butt vs. but, or to vs too vs two, since they’re all words (just not the correct words necessarily).
So, maybe, you’re just lashing out at others and calling them idiots because you’re embarrassed that you have difficulty with your spelling, vocabulary, and/or grammar?
That’s not very useful, is it? If SU,YWATIT is saying something that could be seen as a bit of friendly mocking about butt vs but and you laugh it off, you seem cool, laid back, mature enough to take a joke. If you react to the comment by calling them names, you come off as hair-triggered, thin-skinned, and/or childish.
I mean, you do you, but if you’re trying to impress anyone at all, it seems like you’re heading really far down the wrong track.
‘Of’ instead of ‘off’ was an error
The only punctuation don’t use, is the full stop at the end of sentences, like this one
Have admitted to having problems with vocabulary at times because have trouble remembering things, and will actually thank people for politely filling in the missing word (like with that name of the Excavator further up the page)
As for grammar, fuck ya grammar (and ya grammpa too), the only people who care so much about English grammar are English Teachers and pedantic pricks
And not trying to impress anyone
Random speculations are half the fun of any fandom. Ask the Dragonball enthusiast and the power scalers. There’s the people who put Superman against every other strong guy and comic book creation including ones from different religions like Sampson and Heracles and so forth
It’s time for Tubey to make a comeback.
The only one that’s seriously dangerous in her sleep is the PPO, and that one already has a sort of safety, it takes extra concentration to use.
Since the orbs are actually deliberately designed artifacts, unless the species that made them don’t sleep, they probably already have some sort of anti sleep-orbing function built in. Sure, the shield and air orbs work in your sleep, but they would, wouldn’t they? No reason for the others to. In fact, I”m sure we’ve already seen them drop to the blanket once after she falls asleep.
The orbs turnoff when she sleeps. Remember the scene after she got home from the restaraunt fight? She just doesn’t know they go inert.
Yes she does: remember when she first opened Mr Tubey and they were ‘asleep’? Took them a few seconds to wake up and leave
A HentOrb with a 16 ton lift capacity can be pretty dangerous too.
I’m not so sure that Dabbler could set such a spell on the balls, or would even risk trying to do so, given her admitted inability to see how they work.
I was thinking some kind of spell surrounding each ball like a wall, not “on” them per se. I’d think that would be safe to do as she wouldn’t be meddling with the balls themselves, just “boxing” them like Sydney had done with the cardboard tube albeit individually instead of all together.
I am wondering besides being a Psychiatrist, and being Super-HOT, Does Dr. Frost have any Super Powers of her own?
Must. Read. On to. Learn the. Answer.
I’m getting flashbacks to Dr. Beverly Barlowe of “Eureka”, who turned out to be less than trustworthy.
That was a fun show! A little off the rails with the whole time travel thing, but they brought it back by the end. I’m waiting for Maytag to do a Eureka tie in… turn Henry into a dishwasher or something…
We already know the nurse/medic/doctor has healing powers.
I hope wonder if it means has more issues with being abandoned than being in danger. Still I feel sorry for her either way.
early update woot!
Yeah, was getting that vibe as well: the danger she could handle, the abandonment (and the running, never forget the running) is what she is having problems with
excellent Job with the Therapy Session! awesome that you updated early even if it was an accident!
I can only speak for myself at least but the whole “time heals all wounds” is taken too literally. Personally I’ve found and believe that “THaW” in the sense that over time you can deal with a past issue. I went through an emotionally destructive state but after a few years, I was able to accept it in it’s own way and deal with it much better. “time manages all wounds” would probably be a better term to use in society.
Also personally believe that it is referring to mental wounds: meaning that over time, you accept even loss-of-limb wounds
It’s not gonna be easy, by any stretch of the diaphragm, butt it will get better
100% agree on expressions that don’t make sense.
Others I’m not a fan of are ‘No pain, no gain’. Like, what the hell? Incidental pain is fine, but serious pain is usually your body telling you that something has gone wrong and that you shouldn’t be ignoring it.
‘Hard work is it’s own reward.’ is also bullshit. There are a lot of places where other people will straight up exploit you. The more work you do for that kind of system the more of your life you are wasting, and the only thing that effort goes towards is dragging more people into it.
And this is a great page! Sydney’s fears are very relatable. And it looks like she’s in good hands thus far.
When it comes to “hard work is its own reward”, I always thought that expression applied to work that YOU were *choosing* to do; hard work at something that you want to make your profession (e.g. working hard as an artist/writer to make a living at webcomics) would be rewarding; hard work at something like physical exercise with the goal of getting in shape would be in of itself rewarding; etc.
Fully agree that when it’s not something that you’re choosing to do along those lines though that it’s bs. Working hard on something you have no love for is never rewarding; there needs to be love of the work for it to be a reward.
Agreed.
(wow, my shortest post!)
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When exercising, if you don’t feel it, then you are getting nothing out of it
Take weight training for example: many will tell you to start with the lightest weight, meaning that literally, what you should be using is the lightest weight that you can handle, go up the line until you find the weight you start to struggle with, and then go down to the previous weight
Last week, was in a store looking for a special type of visor glasses (they didn’t have them), butt checked out the dumbbells, started with the 2kg and moved up, started to feel the weight of the 8kg so decided, for me, the 6kg would be best (there was absolutely no resistance to the 2 and 4kg weights)
Feeling it is one thing, but feeling pain is another. I agree with your idea of backing off a notch.
Another thing to remember with weight lifting / weight training, however, is if you’re trying to build up long-term stamina or short-burst strength. If you think of it in terms of poultry meat, white meat is the short burst mega strength, something you don’t use frequently, but which is pretty large & strong. Chickens don’t fly very much or very far, so their breast meat is white meat. Dark meat is the constant repetitive motion muscle. It’s not nearly as strong as the white meat, but it’s got a heck of a lot more blood flowing through it, keeping those muscles oxygenated, sugared up, and flushed free of fatigue toxins, preventing them from building up.
This is important when it comes to male physiology versus female physiology. Females are more likely to have a lot of “dark meat” muscles, capable of doing light weight low-stress repetitive tasks over and over and over, whereas males are more likely to have a lot more white meat muscle groups, considerably stronger, but far more quick to fatigue if several repetitons of effort are required. This isn’t to say that women don’t have white meat muscles–we do!–but that it’s less of a percentage for us. And males do have dark meat muscles–y’all do!–but it’s not as big a percentage, and certainly not as big a focus.
Now, with this in mind, one of the things that weight lifters tend to neglect is their dark meat musculature needs. They’re focused an awful lot on buildng up the big impressive muscles for those huge clean-and-jerk lifts of hundreds of pounds, or to do the leg thrust/squats with heavy weights etc, etc…but they often neglect things like their ability to run for long distances…which is a dark meat, not white meat, muscle activity.
To build muscle, you need to work out with the second-most-heavy weights you can find, yes…but then you need to give your body 48 hours of rest from white-meat muscle workouts, and focus on low-impact lightweight cardio-style workouts.
So reach for those 6kg dumbells every other day, or once every three days, get in your 10 reps with those if you can…but on alternate days, use the 2kg weights and do three or four times as many reps.
(And then eat protein & leafy greens, and lots of veg for micronutrients, so your body has all the materials and supplies on hand to build bigger, stronger, more stamina-ready muscles).
…One more thing, I’ve been in and out of weight training since high school in the late 80s. There’s a HUGE difference between bodybuilding and weightlifting. Bodybuilders are trying to give each muscle group a specific (usually bulging when flexed) look. Weightlifters are trying to get hella strong. You are literally more likely to be seeing a genuine Olympic class weightlifter who appears to be fat, seemingly soft-bodied, in baggy shirts and shorts, than you are someone with eight-pack abs posing on stage in a speedo. (And for guys like Hugh Jackman to get that ripped-abs Wolverine look, they have to dehydrate themselves to dangeous levels. Always hydrate, people!! A superhero who faints from dehydration is as much a dead superhero as one who wears a cape!)
Yup, bodybuilders are going for the look, not the strength, and are at their weakest during competition, whereas a strongman or woman looks like they are overweight, butt if you put a Mr (or Ms) Universe in a competition with a strongman (or woman) to lift their own weight, the ‘overweight’ looking athlete is more likely to lift their own weight (even though it’s two or even three times the weight of the Universal athlete)
Thank you for expanding on what had said (have a nasty tendency to be too brief with comments), specially paragraph five and six: you need ‘rest’ days or you will kill yourself, and don’t neglect ‘leg days’ (no point having huge arms if you can’t even stand due to walking around on twigs)
Leafy greens and vegies? No thanks
Muscle soreness is pain. And it is what is referenced.
The saying is accurate, and asserting that the platitude is meant to convey working until tendons are stretched or cartilage is torn is a ludicrous stretch.
Yeah, working out until you pull something, or worse, is stupid and wrong
Working out until your muscles ache, is how you get stronger, with adequate rest in between sessions
“‘Hard work” can age you quicker. My uncle and cousin, worked hard all of their lives and died earlier, than they should have!
“No pain, no gain” does not mean “Pain, gain.”
That said, I saw a “Close to Home” strip in which a patient was dismayed to see the saying on the wall of a doctor’s office while awaiting an injection.
DaveB, I didn’t take it as a wicked witch smirk. I took it as a “I am struggling really hard right now not to crack a smile or a laugh at this joke that you handed to us on day one, after joking about being shot with bullets or staked like a vampire. Also, it would be utterly unprofessional of me to even HINT at the idea that someone slipping with mittens on is an amusing mental image…and be glad I only suggested the mittens, and not THE ADULT ONESIE…which I am contractually forbidden from suggesting bets on which anime, pokemon, animal, or comic book character said onesie would mimic…because I can’t tell anyone what we’ve been talking about so long as it doesn’t constitute a felony or a national threat.”
It’s a lot for her to hold back and struggle to deliver politely, really.
*sleeping, not slipping!
O my beloved ice cream bar, IVE HAD THIS ICE CREAM BAR SINCE I WAS A CHILD!!! EVERYONE ALWAYS TRYING TO TAKE IT FROM ME!!! lol
Space….madnessssss!!!! I haven’t watched that Ren and Stimpy episode in ages! Thanks for reminding me. I’ll have to look it up. :)
THAT IS A LETTERKENNY REFERENCE AND I AM SO PROUD OF YOU DAVE.
Where’s the reference?
“That which does not kill us must have missed us.” –Mark E. Rogers, _The Adventures of Samurai Cat_
“That which does not kill me has made a tactical error.” -Schlock Mercenary Maxim 35
“Don’t worry, they couldn’t hit an elephant at this” _ General John Sedgwick. [1864]
Mittens to wear to bed was generally prescribed to prevent something that we don’t think of as a problem any more :-)
Don’t Forget that “Time wounds all Heels”
And “No Brain, No Pain.
My only concern is the mittens will exacerbate the feeling of helplessness. If I tried to grab something in a dream but felt my hand restrained there might be more panic.
A day early. Oh well.
Two mittens huh… I’d also suggest maybe two kittens as well.
How is she going to fit them on her hands though? o_O
Superman: Doctor, do you have any drugs that will give me happy dreams?
Dr Luthor: Yes, these pills will make you sleep as soundly as if you were in a crypt tonight.
I notice Dr. Frost hasn’t actually denied that she has pills for this.
Of course she has standard antipsychotics. But Sydney has had one night of bad dreams.
When my PTSD flashbacks got bad I was hospitalized after being up for nearly two weeks with maybe six hours sleep the whole time. That is when you get put on something like the Seroquel I was put on. Not after one night of bad dreams.
And remember, Sydney did get five or six hours of sleep before the Grakz made its fiery exit.
Mittens are her Kryptonite, yes. But if she is concerned about accidentally using the Pew Pew Orb couldn’t she just encase each orb in a thick cloth bag–maybe using quilted cloth–with a tightened pull-string? It might look a bit goofy before she falls asleep to have 7 “bags” orbiting her head before she falls asleep but at least she wouldn’t have to sleep with mittens on her hands.
Or heck, maybe just a bag on the Pew Pew Orb so she can use the others in an Emergency.
I wonder how mittens will help Sydney?
Keep her from grabbing the PPO in a fugue due to night-mare induced panic attack.
Keep Syd from grabbing the PPO when she wakes up in the middle of the night, suffering a PTSD panic attack.
Speaking f invalid aporphisms….
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can leave psycological scars that never heal.”
+5
“That which does not kill me will regret not trying harder”.
In my case it’s that which didn’t kill me was destroyed by the attempt. I’m currently 2-0-1 in death matches with pickup trucks, 3 totalled out pickup trucks and one trip to the hospital. I list my occupation as “retired superhero” because while they didn’t kill me getting hit 3 times by pickup trucks accumulates. I have to walk with a cane now and sometimes set off metal detectors even after they supposedly removed all the hardware from my bones. Last bone density test got something along the lines of “remove concrete, replace with human”.
You know, “Time heals all wounds” and “That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” actually sounds like a good set of superpowers … wait … not just good, sounds totally overpowered.
(Also, it might be almost literally true for creatures with extreme regeneration.)
Aka, Saiyans and James Howlett :D
Sounds like it could easily be a bad set of Powers for the character themselves, depending on the writer.
I’ve always preferred the expanded version of that saying …
“That which does not kill you makes you stronger but if it kills you then you’re dead.”
I can’t be the only one who has noticed the resemblance to Ren Höek in panel 3.
You weren’t the only one, sooooo…Happy Happy, Joy Joy?
We must use our power of invention to help Sydney.
Bra stuffings that never fall out, and the attention focus helmet.
I can tell you from personal experience that time does not heal all wounds; it merely makes them stop being immediate, and eventually other things crowd them out a bit.
When did the APA Journal start printing a classified edition?
If the wound remains an open, seeping, injury, then there is something preventing it from healing
Healing is relative; some things leave bigger scars than others.
Scar tissue is still a healed wound, scabs on the other tentacle…