Grrl Power #960 – Up next, Never Gonna Give Me Up
I’m sure everyone can come up with a bevy of other songs Harem might “solo,” especially with a few choice altered lyrics. You’s and She’s into Me’s, etc. A few that pop to mind: I Touch Myself, Afternoon Delight, etc. Yeah, Harem makes no secret of her Suisapphism. She also does an excellent acapella “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
There is a party going on while all this jury rigged enchanting happens in one corner. The average super is exactly average when it comes to singing, meaning that karaoke night at Archon HQ is an atonal hellscape just like everyone other instance of karaoke that’s ever occurred. Before you disagree with me, take a moment to consider how much alcohol is usually consumed before and during the typical karaoke session. There’s only a few good singers on the team. Harem far above average. The thing that makes her exceptional, as Sydney points out, is her ability to accompany herself. Dabbler is also an incredible singer, as are most succubi, but as Decollette has pointed out in the past, Dabbler doesn’t have a lot of the standard succubus finishing school skills, so whenever Dabbler does sing, there tends to be side effects, like weird magic she can’t quite wrangle.
It’s still daytime, (albeit late in the afternoon) so at least some of you might be wondering how Crimson is just casually hanging out there in the lounge. Well, she was already there from the prior evening, doing Council liaison stuff, and decided to hang out during the day since the meeting went late. Not that vamps can’t move around during the day. The Council has windowless vans and drivers, for instance. They don’t like traveling like that though, because they’re one bad fender bender away from a shaft of daylight. I’m just saying it’s possible. Also, while there are skylights in the ceiling of the lounge area, there’s no direct sunlight on her, and presumably most vampires travel around with some pretty intense sunscreen in their purse, so she’s fine unless the party moves out into the pool area before sundown.
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You guys don’t know who this is yet. (Her name is Xerxa.) I will give you one single guess what she might be from. (And no, it’s not Dabbler’s mother.) It was a piece I had half finished from a little while ago and given my time constraints this month, I threw a little polish and some background on it and here you are. Unfortunately there aren’t nine separate versions because she’s not wearing a ton to begin with. Hopefully you can read about that soon. I hope you like it, personally I think it turned out pretty good.
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Gonna do barbershop. Can’t help it, too natural.
Gangsta rap should be interesting, all that anti police stuff and she IS police…
Syd, I love you, but don’t you DARE diss barbershop. I’ll have four elderly gentlemen dressed in immaculate tuxs serenading you in four-part acapella harmony outside your bedroom window like THAT if you do.
(Dad’s a Master barbershopper – seriously, he’s a member of The Masters of Harmony – and has gold medals in all four singing classes. Diss him and I will cut you.)
Hey, fellow barbershopper here. :) (I sing in the Northern Lights)
Masters of Harmony is a good chorus; I was there in Anaheim, California, back in 2009, when they did their 76 Trombones set. That was phenomenal. :)
Fun fact, Mike Rowe started out singing barbershop and opera to get into show business. His first TV gig was a shopping channel, Dirty Jobs and other successes came much much later.
Huh, Ontario barbershoppers? Noice. I don’t sing myself – despite years of my dad trying to get me into it – but I’ve always loved that barbershop sound.
I remember 76 Trombones, they put a LOT of work into getting that right. For those who’ve never heard the barbershop rendition of 76 trombones, it’s worth listening to. (Not my dad’s group, but still very well done.)
Oh, whoops! I mixed up the Masters of Harmony with the Ambassadors of Harmony. My bad. :P (That actually is kind of embarrassing; I’ve been at this long enough that I feel like I should know better; they’re both good choruses, though) :)
She’d give another meaning to the phrase “Fuck the police”.
“Fuck the police, please”
Don’t be a cop block.
Protection and serve.
Current score: Love thirty.
You trying to make a score? Love is a drug!
All at once? Busy girl(s)!
When reading this comic, I couldn’t help but hear Harem singing “I think I’m alone now”, except as a variation, “I think I’m a clone now. There seems to be too many of me around.” Yes I know they aren’t clones, but it works for the song. How ese has some good songs for Harem’s playlist?
That’s the Weird Al parody of it, but it works perfectly for Harem.
Now I’m just imagining her doing a full on stage show of that song. Starting off with just one of her singing on stage then as she goes on she keeps teleporting more of herself on to join the singing and chorography.
And you know Weird Al would extend the rights to her for it, that kind of thing is right up his alley. Depending on how the contract is written I’m sure Tiffany and Ritchie would agree, which would be enough for stage performances, but the hard part could be getting Universal Music Enterprises to allow it on digital platforms like Youtube.
I like the casual background fiddling with Maxima’s skin.
I love that too. :)
I especially love the Pride Flag setting. Maybe we could get that as a vote incentive next Pride Month? (hint hint)
Don’t think I didn’t notice Dark Maxima playing with the obsidian settings! There’s a whole Dark Maxiam Shows Up As A Drow scene ready-to-go at Sydney’s comic book shop. If only Dabbler can somehow get her to wear maximum armor class Drow armor …
(by which, Yes, I am referencing the classic Mini-Max Armor Class Theorem for fantasy role playing art, in which less is always more)
Damn straight. I DM the Little Sisters of Leather. Postulants wear floor-length leather cloaks. Initiates wear cuir-bouilii hauberks. Senior sisters wear chain-mail bikinis. And the Mother Superior’s armour consists of three Mithril rings and a length of bootlace. It counts as +5 Chainmail, and, with her maxed-out Dexterity, means she’s virtually untouchable.
Hey, I’m a dirty old man. What did you expect?
I’m sure Dabbler is having a great time fiddling with Maxima’s skin.
I didn’t spot it until a few read throughs of the page. But I found it very entertaining, particularly panel 5.
Glass blocks UV light, so Crimson would be just fine as long as no one opens a window.
Assuming it’s specifically UV that kills vampires.
looks like it turned noght or is foggy if you look at the skylight
Unless the aspect of sunlight that kills vampires is a spiritual aspect. :) ie, the sun represents the pure light of God or some reasoning like that.
How do we know that the spiritual “pure light of God” aspect isn’t the UV?
By the spiritual aspects, the Light of God is the purist white light, totally penetrating & generates a healthy warming. Since vampires have also been associated with demonic, infernal forces it’s inimical to such beings/creatures that owe their existence to the Darkness. This would mean that the sunlight’s harm on vampires wouldn’t be dependent on *only* a single aspect of sunlight…Any part or whole of sunlight is deadly to them.
Of course, it all boils down to the *author’s* interpretation on vampirism & how it works in their fictional world.
Considering that moonlight is just refracted sunlight, that would present quite a challenge
There’s actually a webcomic where that was the punchline.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9f/e4/14/9fe4148d6fff04c34ba45354ed317615.jpg
Moonlight is polarized, except when the moon is full.
That assumes that Christianity is true in the Grrlverse. (Or that you mean something other than the god of the Bible when you say ‘God’.) If there’s no Biblical god then the sunlight isn’t his light and that’s not the issue.
maybe the only true way to kill a vampire is to love it.
Maybe the real way to kill a vampire is the friends we made along the way.
Vampires are… problematic.
Consider: Dracula had his main mansion in Transylvania. I’ll give youse one guess what is a major culinary ingredient in Transylvania (hint: it’s a root and begins with “g”), and one guess as to what totally ruins a vampire’s night.
So how DO you kill a vampire before it gets its fingers around your neck?
…a taxes audit.
Actually, there’s a free text game called 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, which might help answer this question:
https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2016/16%20Ways%20to%20Kill%20a%20Vampire%20at%20McDonalds/Vampire%20(43).html
LoL, Max in the background still getting that makeover ……
I really hope there’s a “Kiss” sub-menu on the blender presets.
Doe anyone here know what Suispappism means?
Best I could find is Sui Papism, which apparently means “His Catholicism”.
That’s what I’d like to know as well?
I’ve tried searching for it, googling it, even tried an online dictionary, and none recognise the word.
Google returned one page. This one :(
Well dome DaveB, you’ve made a word :)
Never heard of this word.
But just to ride this wave of confusion, does anyone know what a “dot plan” is in the title of #957? I doubt that Dabbler has a US Department of Transportation plan for some reason :D
“I have a cunning plan” was a catchphrase of the regular character Baldrick in the various Blackadder series.
If the ‘dot’ refers to the dot as in ‘dot com’, then perhaps it was meant to be a vocalised form of “cunning.plan”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
“The [finger] program would supply information such as whether a user is currently logged-on, e-mail address, full name etc. As well as standard user information, finger displays the contents of the .project and .plan files in the user’s home directory. Often this file (maintained by the user) contains either useful information about the user’s current activities, similar to micro-blogging, or alternatively all manner of humor. “
Probably a typo for solipsism, which is one of the suggestions Google offers if you search for suispappism.
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Oops, the above post of mine was a copy paste mistake, but I don’t know how to delete it.
I suspect the intended word was suisapphism, which would be like sapphism, directed at oneself.
Can’t you edit the post so that you can change what it says?
(Oops, the аbove post was a copy paste mess-up, but I don’t know how to delete/edit it)
I believe the intended word was suisapphism, which would be like sapphism directed at oneself.
Sui – “self” as in suicide, which breaks down into “self” and “murder”
Sappism, as in sapphic.
So, self lesbianism. Yes, I made the word up, but from existing word bits.
You mixed greek and latin
Doesn’t everyone? That’s how you make a gratin.
” ‘Television’ is both Greek and Latin. No good can come of it.” – attributed to C. P. Scott (But it can’t be.)
Also: Automobile.
You misspelled a word you invented. Impressive. :D
That is… just about perfect. I’ll update it in my post so hopefully a few more people get it.
Shouldn’t it be suisapphism then? I think it’s still misspelled.
It is sui generis, and in English to boot, so it can be spelled any way its creator likes. Sue ‘m ;-)
While we’re at it, “copasetic” –> “copacetic”.
He also capitalized it when it was not the first word in a sentence, nor a proper noun.
Hey Dave, thanks for the answer!
Can you also clarify what the “dot plan” meant in the title of #957?
“I have a cunning plan” is a reference to Blackadder, the (IMO) hilarious british… sitcom? That’s probably not the right word. Anyway, (one of) the dumbest guy(s) would frequently come up with an insanely dumb plan after announcing the above, often something involving radishes.
A dot-plan, or .plan… I’m actually not sure how to describe it. Some programmers in the late 90’s and 00’s would sometimes post what they were working on, it was like a combination between a blog and a to do list, and they were called .plans. I don’t know if it was a specific website they posted to, or a piece of HTML with a certain tag and some kind of web scraper would aggregate them or some entirely separate system like a BBS or what.
Basically the title was saying that Dabbler had a clever programming strategy, possibly involving radishes.
No, Baldrick liked his turnips
If Dabbles had a cunning plan involving radishes (or turnips), they would be used as a sex toy
A huge one that looks exactly like a thingy!
Cool, thanks! :)
Btw, while I still have your attention, I think the “Post comment” part of the comment section is a bit buggy. I wanted to post the dot-plan question under the #957 page (when that one was fresh), but my posts just went missing. Today I tried it with Firefox and that one works, but Chrome is still buggy afaik.
I know your website is a WordPress one so you may not have much room for fixing, but perhaps you can release the hounds to find the source of this bug :D
We were using dot-plan files a full decade before HTML was invented, so there was no world wide web as people currently understand it. The dot-plan file was just a text file with different fields separated by carriage returns. We would leave the dot-plan in our unix home directory, and then when someone out there in the universe used the ‘finger’ command on their machine to contact the ‘finger’ server on our machine, it would forward our dot-plan file to them.
It was used sometimes as an end-around when site admins tried to limit file access between people who wanted to send each other files anyway; they might block gopher and Veronica and so on, or FTP if they were a site that had FTP running, and limit email to 100 lines or something. But they didn’t usually think of Finger.
Oops, I missed that this was already here.
DaveB said: “A dot-plan, or .plan… I’m actually not sure how to describe it. ”
Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
“The program would supply information such as whether a user is currently logged-on, e-mail address, full name etc. As well as standard user information, finger displays the contents of the .project and .plan files in the user’s home directory. Often this file (maintained by the user) contains either useful information about the user’s current activities, similar to micro-blogging, or alternatively all manner of humor. “
Finger_protocol
Dabbler: *paying attention*
It’s a Unix/Linux thing. It was a text file, hosted on your workstation (typically) or a computer where you were a user (as opposed to an admin), that you could create to hold information you wanted to share with people who finger you. Which yes, was the literal name of the command that people used to read the contents of your .plan file…
It could hold anything you felt like putting in it, limited to things that could be added to a text file. Schedules, projects, titles, things like your desk extension and email address (although typically whatever username you were being fingered as was also your email address), whatever.
semi-autoromantic
:)
A semi-autoromantic is better than fully autoromantic for most situations: less prone to overheating or running out of munitions.
Don’t you just hate it when the batteries run out halfway through?
and both would be of a repeating nature, but, as Harem is in full control of her ability, she has to ‘trigger’ it, so that’s why it’s semi-autoromantic.
*gleam*
(also, thank you so much for taking this the step further that it totally needed :D )
In a game where we had a psychic/mystic character who was able to manifest multiple corporeal bodies the way Ms. Daphne does, we used to refer to “Tantric practices of Transcendental Masturbation” as a way of explaining how or why certain things they did worked.
This aspect of multicorporealism is a really strange bit because it yanks our ‘sexual orientation’ symbols and our ‘narcissism’ symbols and our ‘incest’ symbols etc, but none of those are really more applicable than “healthy people gonna rub one out every once in a while.” IOW, there’s nothing strange going on there except the number of bodies involved.
I’m guessing that it is a typo, or an attempt to modify, the word sororilagnia or sorophilia. That seems to fit the context of a bunch of song names that all have in common a theme of masturbation.
Lol, Maxima in the background…
Poor girl :(
What’s “Suispappism”? Mr. Google didn’t find anything.
Sexual orientation that only applies to Harem or people like Harem, they’re lesbians for themselves.
That’s just masturbation with extra steps.
Yeah, let’s keep blackface Max way in the background.
Is it bad that I now want to see Max vs. Mr. Popo?
That happened because someone said “what happens if we remove all reflectivity?” Followed by a “Whoops! Fix it fix it!” and possible a harry eyeball from Anvil.
Still feels really uncomfortable and unnecessary to me. Like… why not just go with void!Max instead? Why would removing all reflectivity result in blackface?? Her lips would not be red.
Really disappointed in this one. :(
I think you’re being a bit over-sensitive there.
Blackface has a bad reputation because of its politically-motivated racist misuse in the USA, back when. It does not necessarily follow that any and all blackface, or anything that could remotely be taken to have some similar effect as blackface, is therefore politically-motivated racism for all eternity.
You might as well say that people dressing up as Krampus are racist for their use of blackface. That would be misunderstanding what’s happening because you’re choking on controversial baggage that happens to have very little to do with this.
Note well: I am not at all defending the whole blackface thing. I’m saying that and this are two different things.
Blackface has a bad rap because politically motivated people in the last couple of decades wanted to give it a bad rap, and refuse to differentiate between different people, different times, and different motivations.
In some cases it’s as bad as their treatment of Mark Twain, banning his works because of their “terrible” portrayal of blacks and use of the n word, when at the time he was banned in places for the exact opposite.
I mean, her face was not reflecting any light, which made it black. I think there’s a reasonable difference between that and “blackface” which at this point in history is almost always done to be racist and hurtful. I guess I could have made her matte-white instead, but I didn’t didn’t occur to me that anyone would think it would read like Dabbler and co were about to light up a cross as their next step. It just seemed to me if you’re messing with the specularity and luminance dials, at some point you’d wind up with a material that didn’t reflect light.
Her lips (and hair) are still colored because the choker has two sliders, one for skin, and one for hair/lips/fingernails/etc, and they aren’t messing with that one.
Turner Classic Movies has a 12 minute segment that explains the history of Blackface and often (but not always) gives the viewers a warning if it’s featured in a movie.
It’s shown occasionally between movies….. and here:
https://youtu.be/tf4OKW_fqYU
Dave, you’re just plain wrong about “almost always done to be hurtful”. That line is cliche, bigoted and partisan nonsense.
Look at Tropic Thunder. Clear good intentions, excellent execution, still treated by the left as if doing it was evil.
It’s rank inability to differentiate, and you are better than that.
Did you manage to miss the word “almost?” It seems impossible, since you quoted it in your post, yet ignore it in your invective. Yet here we are.
Talking about a “rank inability to differentiate,” you are not up to that challenge.
A major element of blackface is it being intended to be blackface.
Otherwise you get ridiculous arguments like “The Mary Poppins Chimney Sweep scene where she gets chimney ash all over her face is blackface.” Or ‘When Daffy Duck shoots himself in the face and it’s entirely black with his beak on the other side is blackface.” Neither of those are blackface. Blackface is about making a caricature of a black person by use of makeup for that purpose.
DaveB’s reason makes sense in story, from a scientific basis. It has nothing to do with her trying to make a caricature of a black person.
So no, it’s not blackface.
Yeah, still pissed at the whole ‘Gollywog’ shit
Gollywog’s weren’t meant to depict black people, they were toys depicting child chimney-sweeps in the ye olde Victorian dayes
Can still remember when Gollywog was removed from the Noddy stories (for being ‘racist’), and replaced by a literal actual monkey!
Didn’t know about that, so I tried to look it up. wikipedia disagrees with you. But then, https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
(I’m sure I saw that on slashdot, but I can’t seem to find it there now. How curious.)
(Correction: Found where I first saw it linked and it wasn’t slashdot, my bad.)
Didn’t know about which part?
I didn’t see it as blackface, I saw it as Drow.
A bloodsucker in the recording industry? Say it ain’t so!
it would have been so much worse (& more appropriate) for Crimson to been an irs agent?
There is another comic I follow that has vampire law enforcement and FBI, not too big a stretch to have a few in the IRS.
Look up Wapsi Square and search for Lily in the archives. She was FBI before she was transferred to paranormal Law Enforcement or the MIB as they are known in that universe.
SP: copacetic.
Also on the album:
De La Soul’s “Me Myself And I”
Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family”
Nelson’s “Two Heads Are Better Than One”
Billy Idol’s “More, More, More”
As for Quintets, There’s a lot of Jackson Five stuff,
Oh, and She HAS to do a rendition of the Levan Polka. An Acapella classic.
How about Pentatonix?
I thought the same thing. But they mostly cover. And also, they obviously have a wider range of voices. I don’t picture Daphne as a bass. But if she already knows how to b box or can learn, that would make a quintet more realistic for her.
The duet could also be lacking. Imagine Eleanor Rigby sung with only the voice of McCartney or Lennon, but doubled. Definitely would not be as good.
True, Pentatonix does a lot of covers, but they do also have their own work.
Pentatonix, Home Free and VoicePlay usually structure their songs the same way: 4 singers and a beat-boxer/vocal instrumentalist. Each group does incredible harmonies, even when isolating during Covid-19 quarantines (Home Free even did a song during that time called Quarantine).
Just to be a pedant, Billy never recorded a song called “More, More, More”, that was simply “Rebel Yell”
Pedantry is almost always the correct choice. I accept your correction with the utmost gratitude.
She could still cover that song, and have another of her pop up each time the chorus uses ‘More’
“In the midnight hour, she cried More (one extra Daphne appears), More (another Daphne), More (third Daphne appears)!” :D
and ‘send in the clowns’, but sing it as clones, instead
Damnit, how did I miss Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman”?
I bet she would be great at cover songs for the B Sharps. ‘Baby on board’ and all that ^^
Harem was made for Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistible”
Those girls were just dancers and not really singing or playing the instruments.
Wow Harem rickrolling the audience. Well it’s to be expected I guess. And considering some of the band names I’ve heard I actually believe her.
That’s Sonny and Cher, not Rick Astley.
Read the page title…
If this comic was seen in Germany,then Harem would be singing either traditional Bavarian folk songs or the songs of Heino.
Anyone familiar with Heino? Just look up a segment from the old Late Night with David Letterman called Dave’s record collection on YouTube.
As a German, yes I am familiar with Heino.
Still, I am not entirely sure why you think Harem would sing “traditional” Bavarian folk?
Because she would look good in a dirndl?
Well, a lot of singers would look good in a Dirndl, or an other more or less traditional piece of clothing. Still they don’t necessarily sing a specific style fitting that attire.
Go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Bx8Z9SgAU
Then go to #15:22/30:14
Or go here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5geZgcXAc
Ah! My word of the day!
What word is that? Heino or dirndl?
That “let me guess” vampire remark was kind of uncalled for.
Sure was. If there was any chance of news coverage followed by general angst and unrest on behalf of the Vampire-American community, I’m reasonably sure Arianna would care about that.
But somehow I don’t imagine she could get Syd to care. Crimson could get Syd to care – she could just say, “hey, cool it with that, okay?” and that would work. But I don’t think Arianna could.
Oof. Return of the bobble heads.
They may want to avoid questions raised by covering the DeVinyls’ “I touch myself.”
It’s “Divinyls” and that one is Dabbler right down to awesome cleavage in a schoolgirl outfit.
I’m not sure even Dabbler could outshine the original, the late great Chrissy Amphlett was just that good! Saw them back in the day (at The Punters Club in Fitzroy if memory serves), the pub was hot, overcrowded (and more than a few of the patrons had obviously skipped showering that day, or maybe the last few days), and none of that mattered when she stepped up to the microphone. Awesome voice, awesome stage presence.
Maybe in the Grrlpower universe, Chrissy Amphlett WAS a succubus, it’d explain a lot, not her too early death from cancer, but almost everything else about her!
In the GPVerse, Chrissy didn’t die, she just returned to her home dimension :)
Repeatedly arranging to ‘die young’ is just one of the ways in which someone of a People which doesn’t age rapidly can avoid drawing attention when living incognito among a short-lived People.
Interesting entry. I would think she wouldn’t be advertising her additional selves since she doing sidework that may not be on the up and up. I’m curious if we will see Xerxa as regular in the series in coming comics.
You do remember several hers at the press conference and at the comic store right? I’d have to check which hers have been in public, but I do remember pinkie who was “casually dating Deus” coming to tge comic store.
But maybe they only revealed 4 of her 5 forms.
Hey, hang on, don’t be disrespecting barbershop quartets like that, Sydney! Some of them can be pretty hilarious, at least.
I wouldn’t be surprised that due to Archon’s previous association with the Twilight Council, they added a layer of mahic UV block to the armor glass windows
Karaoke is something to be avoided at all costs.
most people sound like Rosanne trying doing the national anthem.
As long as they don’t sound like Rosanne trying to tell a joke.
Well of course vampires tend to favor the long-range investments but still make heavy use of short-term investments for their current “lifetime iteration.” They would not only need to occasionally have a cover for a new “lifespan” & pass on those long-term investments to their next “mortal-frontface” beneficiary on life insurance policies but also keep something going on their current “mortal-frontface.”
After all, there was quite a bit of how an immortal can cover their tracks from one “generation” to the next as addressed in some of the Highlander TV series episodes. Since the advent of modern computer records & citizen “registration” lists, it definitely has to include use of entering false info at a supposed “time of birth” & ID theft of newly born babies who died very early.
If it can be pulled off successfully, an immortal of any type could keep an intact identity over the course of numerous generations & still enjoy the gains/benefits of each “lifetime” they exist, even if any given identity has a high-level public profile.
Mostly it involves planning ahead. If you’re immortal and you look around 40, you have to cause the birth of a child to be officially recorded at intervals of 20 years or less in order to create a series of identities that you can step into. If you have the misfortune of appearing to be 20 as Scarlet does, then you probably have to repeat the exercise at intervals of a decade or less. No matter what Scarlet does, she can’t have things like college degrees etc unless she spends half her time earning them, She pretty much has to move on to the next identity every ten years and can’t likely earn that credential more often than once every five. At best, she could spend about a third of her time on it; start on it when the new identity is around fifteen, take the credential at age 20, and have it for 10 years before she has to ditch that ID.
There are alternatives, but they are all worse. They involve stealing an identity from someone else. At best, from someone who’s not using it any more (ie, dead) but even the dead usually have relatives and/or legal entanglements of one sort or another, or a certificate of death that someone might find if they look. At worst, from someone who’s not dead, and may turn up at any moment throwing a huge monkey wrench into your life.
Now I have Harem’s rendition of Leva’s polka in my head.
The last panel in the background,does Max look like a stain glass window?
Was thinking of a kaleidoscope personally
Its a triforce tile fractal looking thing
Her face looks like a SPIDERMAN Mask. Like a Spider web.
I’m honestly still giggling gleefully about all these skin colour transformations, as I make skin/tattoo designs for Second Life, and my stuff is pretty much what we’re seeing being done here. :)
The urge to sing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is just a whim away.
Damn your earworm-inducing pun, I had Dave’s prompt under control until then, and now it won’t stop.
If i remember right there acctually is a label called Vampire Records
I was today years old when I learned what copacetic meant.
Such a shame the Daphne’s never had a chance to record a song with The Bee Gees :(
She would make an awesome
Smoothy Mcgroovy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qwKCQ4M2Nw
though….
I hadn’t realized that Smooth McGroove was back to making music videos. I’m very glad to see his health issues are improving. Thank you for giving us a reason to check back in with him!
Now that Max has the choker I want to see her do a karaoke cover of Venus Hum’s “I feel love” but instead of the color changing dress I want her whole appearance to do the color changing thing. The question is, how drunk would Max have to be to cut loose like that?
*sigh* OF COURSE, when Harem plays pinata or Pin The Tail, you have to blindfold ALL FIVE of her. Wouldn’t be sporting otherwise.
vampires playing by Buffy the vampire slayer rules for sunlight then? The it takes direct sunlight to even start to burn, while indirect is fine for short periods…to extended periods…of time (which was their lampshade so their actors could be seen in brighter scenes.
which at least makes some sense because some sun sensitivity is so high that its nothing short of a miracle for these so called “immortals” to even last a month after being turned. Take the Night Fright vampires for example, a tiny sunbeam touches their hand or something and they explode almost instantly.
when your immortals have so many fatal weaknesses that relate to incredibly difficult to avoid things like any amount of sunlight or any fresh water *even if it has to be moving*, then it becomes an eyeroll to even regard them as immortal and not just “indefinite but guaranteed to die eventually*. Just one day didn’t keep track of daylight savings or the change from winter to summer, sun rises earlier than expected or a peek through the black out curtain and bam one fried vamp. or something stupid like the Hammer film vampires where water moving through pipes counted as running water, imaging the can’t cross running water rule *especially if applied to just below the surface water, or pipes in the walls and floors of buildings just magically trapping them whenever a tap opened*.
IF you had vampires actually around long term then civilizations would be polar based.
and they would be taking steam punk submarines to migrate with the darkness.
As was mentioned in one SF/fantasy novel whose other details I don’t recall, if ever humans realized vampires were real, couldn’t stand sunlight, AND were inevitably evil, there would be mandatory periodic daytime nude roll calls, and anyone who didn’t show up would be hunted down.
Actually, that did happen in Heinlein’s “The Puppet Masters”, where people were being taken over by an external mind control parasite. Resulted in a clothing taboo society, even, where you could only wear clothing if and when it was genuinely necessary, and that didn’t get you out of frequent nude inspections.
Surely a swimsuit roll call would suffice for vampires; that last 10% of skin exposure wouldn’t accomplish anything extra.
What would happen to a Werewolf living at The South Pole?
What would happen to a Werewolf living on the moon?
Giving presentations without looking at a teleprompter or recording videos looking to the camera 100% of the time also seems like good skills
I actually know a guy who’s a quartet when he wants to be. (It’s all in the recording process, not the way Harem does it :))
Not too many people are aware, but the original “Addams Family” theme song was recorded like this. It’s the same person singing with himself as four people.
Same with “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t this how Prince did most of his stuff? i had heard that he would play all of the instruments for everything when he did the studio recording for his songs, and only hire a band to perform in concert since he literally could not actually play everything at the same time by himself…
It’s also how Mike Oldfield did Tubular Bells. Takes at least two to do it live, if you’ve got a looper system handy which Oldfield didn’t at the time.
Seems like team shader is making progress.
Y’know, just from the juxtaposition from previous to current page, I couldn’t help noticing how Crimson looks like a younger version of Kenya. Starting with the unusual mahogany-skin/red-hair combo, but also in a couple of other things like shape of eyes and lips. She’d be entirely believable as a daughter or younger sister…. except she’s a vampire.
And then my brain went wait a minute…. How does a recently turned vampire who’s likely to have a problem providing anything like stability or normal social interactions deal with providing for the future of an all-too-mortal infant daughter? Is Kenya adopted?
‘Cause it would be an intriguing twist if it turned out these two were related.
I can just picture the Harems doing Crosby, Stills & Nash. Well, it helps that there’s infinite covers of them on Youtube and everyone makes them sound good. Turns out singing in harmonies is really fun and easy if you train at all. Now if you look at something like Straight, No Chaser doing 12 Days of Christmas, without even having a hive mind between them, I wonder if Daphne’s album is going to impress anyone besides people who are less interested in music and more interested in famous people. . .
“Savage Pinatas” would be a great name for a rock band.
You might be intrigued by UK band The Flying Pickets. They were an a capella band and recorded some very inspired cover versions, one of which got to the top of the singles chart here. An a capella version of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ sounds wrong as a concept, but bugger me, it works!
someone is really messing with light configurations… wait, that was an fractal? watch out for the infinite loops
I’m going to go with a wild guess about Xerxa. There is a lot of Hindu influence there with the lotus flower in the skin tattoo and the multi-arms and so forth. However, I’m going to push past that. And sit upon the hypothesis that various religious characters may have come from aliens (as is already well used in this story). The level of power of those fabled characters in that pantheon and certain hints though place her well above most others. Really going out on a limb here… And say she is a Nth agent, in the orbs. Not an Nth herself, just the mental (an possibly physical) aspect of a being who worked with/for the Nth and became part of the orb set. Her duty, once the orb owner reaches a certain level or unlocks a specific combination, is to make herself known to that owner and begin training them for more advanced abilities. So she will be the orb mentor for Sydney. (who has proven by getting far enough along on her own that she is indeed worthy of being guided to even higher powers)
Ooooooo, I like that theory a lot.
Six hands, six orbs…makes sense. Why didn’t I make that connection?
7 orbs, although one’s powers are still completely unknown.