Grrl Power #1461 – Body composition issues
And fade to black. Or a dark, low saturation blue. Cause that’s the color of her sclera. I think in real life, dark sclera might be quite off-putting, but that’s because 99% of us would assume its an indication of a terrible medical condition. As a purely cosmetic effect, though, I think it’d look cool.
Oh, look, there’s such a thing a scleral contact lenses. I mean, I knew there were, they use them in movie makeup, but apparently now you can just get them online. I feel that’s one thing I would definitely not shop at Temu for, though. Well, my list of things I wouldn’t buy at Temu does in fact include everything, since I don’t shop there. I don’t understand how they’re in business, actually. “Getting a deal” is one thing, getting something that only vaguely resembles what you ordered is not usually how commerce works. At least not for long, but I guess that’s the world we live in these days. I guess it’s possible there are actual deals there, but the only thing I know about Temu is the demonstrably false advertising/bait and switch they do when they show the picture of the cool T-Shirt that looks like it has a spiraling hole through it and when it arrives it’s just a plain T with a badly spray painted asterisk on it and stuff like that.
It’s possible Deus has an exoticism fetish. Exotiphile? I suppose anyone who draws sexy alien or fantasy girls has a little bit of that as well. >cough<
Sciona probably knows an illusion or glamor spell that could accomplish exactly what he’s asking for, but she’s not above playing up girly insecurity to get a guy to give her free stuff maybe. She actually is concerned about losing her cool new powers, but the crossed arms and “I don’t want to admit vulnerability” side glance is her hamming it up a little. At least she didn’t go, “I’m scarwed of woosing my pow-pows, can you hewp widdle ‘ol me, mister stwong man?” I suspect Deus might immediately see through that.
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He’s so immature. Or is that premature?
This raises a lot of questions about Sciona’s powers I never even considered. Is she a shapeshifter? Can all Alari learn blood magic? Why would reverting to her normal body risk eliminating Escorpia’s powers and could she theoretically use that to depower any human super? Not saying possessing and then transforming a dead super’s body is in anyway practical but it would be good to know.
Sciona probably can use a combination of her blood magic and Scorpia’s superhuman alchemical powers to restore her full Alari biology.
That’s why Sciona originally remade her Troll body back to Alari, so she could give herself temporary powers with blood injections.
However the Superion field works, you’ve got to be at least mostly human to access it long term.
On top of the other Temu issues, they push you to use an app that’s just barely this side of being malware, with the built in capacity to jump to full malware after installation if they push the right update. Even when using them through their website it’s recommended to buy a burner card to make the payment from, they’re so shady.
Some people just can’t resist the lure of a fantastic deal. 95% of cons rely on that.
Yeah, humans constantly letting me down. Just when I thought I was an overly trusting gullible iD10t… there’s some white claw swilling burger gumming orange clown on temu or tiktok or meta or… You get the idea. I don’t even google, when I forget this next YT password. That’s it. I can’t even get into my only email account anymore. And will not be bothered to get another. This will, I know. Utterly upset FEDGOV in a major way. But I no longer care. Off to feed the genmod ground squirrels I’m training for security work. They’ve got transparent steel teeth. :)
– getting something that only vaguely resembles what you ordered is not usually how commerce works.
In today’s world of AI, it’s the norm.
I have to say, in that last panel, she’s looking rather sexy.
I wouldn’t exactly say he’s going to redeem her, I feel that he’s going to introduce her to his Vetinari like viewpoint. To become so essential to the way things are maintained that he can’t be removed and if it’s tried they then immediately revealed that they attempted to, thus making them hypocrites to what they believe in.
Also just saying I wouldn’t trust Deus’ little exoticism fetish at face value. Like sure that’s probably true, dude can likely get nearly any type of woman interested in him, but I don’t doubt getting some kind of footage of a U.S. senator’s chief of staff morphing into an Alari and a likely known criminal Alari at that would be great blackmail material. For anyone who doesn’t already know anyway. I kinda think Sciona’s bad at hiding what with transforming her hair like immediately after we saw her again.
Black slerae are off putting to humans for more reasons than that.
White sclerae are a social adaptation, as it makes it easier to see where other people are looking. Many mammals have either non-white sclerae or sclerae that aren’t visible to start with, and there is some evidence that the domestication process for mammals involves the development of white sclerae in species with visible sclerae, thus evolving the trait as a result of human selection.
Most Gorillas have Black or Dark Brown Sclera* and it’s not as off-putting as you’d think.
And you can find Sclera a lighter shade of Brown among Orangutans and Bonobo Chimpanzees.
*Some Gorillas naturally have White Sclera.
I shop at Temu regularly and haven’t found any cases of pure fraud – the t-shirts look like they appear on screen (cheap cloth, but that’s expected). You do have to adjust expectations a bit and not go for the offers that are obviously too good to be true, but I haven’t found it a rampant fraud pit.
What the heck does disinterlocked mean (marginal below the main panels)? It’s a tear-away zipper?
I believe she’s saying the zipper was opened by tearing the interlocking teeth apart, rather than the more usual “unzipping”. Assuming he didn’t set it up, it would be an impressive (and somewhat painful) move.
The opposite of interlocked. I assume it means the “volcanic erection” was powerful enough to force his zipper apart without “unzipping” it from the top. Probably wasn’t “tear-away” before, but it is now.
Aka a busted zipper, because it won’t un-zip without being interlocked again.
More clues today for the ongoing debate on how Deus has been neutralizing the Escorpia narcotic effects.
I believe the word you are seeking for Deus’ predilections is “xenophilia”.
I feel like this scene is on the edge of overstaying it’s welcome. It’s still fun, but not really conveying anything that feels important.
Well, in most shows and anime, this is typically the point at which the scene would fade to black, and we get a view shift to some other characters doing other stuff.