Grrl Power #1159 – Deflectors to full power!
Maxima is good at taking hits, but is terrible at getting hit on. You can tell she’s actively dreading it in that first panel.
The first and third guy don’t really deserve any consideration, IMO, but the second guy? I don’t know, he wasn’t being actively trite or disrespectful… I think? I personally have zero experience as the hitter, and very little as the hittee, so I may not be the best judge of that sort of thing. However, immediately getting defensive about her height when guys can be downright brittle about such things shows that Max still has her deflector fields at full power. As mentioned previously, she has no experience doing this as a “normal” woman, but even without her weird skin and hair, it’s still obvious Max isn’t a normal woman.
At least the third guy looks like he might be a bit taller than her? I can say Max isn’t necessarily one of those women who’s all, “You must be at least 6 feet tall to ride this ride,” but I can’t say exactly what she does look for in a guy because she probably hasn’t quite figured that out herself. That’s not to say she’s never slept with anyone, she has, but the few guys she’s been with tend to be competent, honorable, and quietly confident. Any hint of narcissism outside of jokey self-aggrandizement is as repellent to her as Axe Body spray, which is one reason (of several) Deus has so much trouble holding her interest.
On a side note, I would be a terrible woman. I’m told that by and large, women are attracted to confident guys, but I have a great deal of difficulty distinguishing between confidence and narcissism/douchiness. I think it’s just a matter of degrees, really, but narcissism is one of my least favorite attributes in people, so my threshold between confidence/overconfidence is probably several standard deviations lower than usual. I guess if I was a woman, I’d have to hope I was into guys that when you say, “Omigosh, you’re so good at X,” they get all goofy and bashful, cause if they came back with “Baby, I’m the fucking best at X.” I’d have to throw a red card.
Then they’d be all “No, really, I’m Shaun White, I have multiple Gold Medals in snowboarding!” and I’d be all “I said good day, sir!” And his friends would be like, “How’d it go?” and he’d be all “I don’t think she believed me. I guess I could go and get my gold to show her, but that seems like an insane amount of work to impress some girl who’s tucked into the corner reading on her Kindle instead of being the least bit extroverted at this huge crazy party where someone like multiple Gold Medalist Shaun White would attend, especially when there’s like twenty women here who are throwing themselves at me.” And his friends would be all, “You’re going to go get your medals, aren’t you?” And Sean White’s all, “Well it fucking bothers me!” Then he’d show up with his medals, and I’d immediately be super suspicious, like “Why are you trying so hard to impress me? Aren’t you famous? Did you make a bet with your friends that you could pull the nerd girl in the corner? Fine, I’ll pretend to go on a date with you, but I get half your winnings.”
Apparently I would be a suspicious, cynical and mercenary nerdy introvert as a woman. Anyway, Max is bad at guys! Let’s watch.
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I want to see what the guy in the Purple jacket is going to bring to the table. He has a sort of ‘Dr. Leonard McCoy’ stance about him. Would be Interesting if he walked over & politely whispered “Hi Max, good to see you again. I like the new hair look.” And he remembered her from High school Before the whole Geod thing, could be interesting. Good feeling about him.
I’d be more impressed if walked up and actually was a doctor, telling her that he’s actually worried about that alcohol she just put away, and will be quietly watching her to be certain she’s okay, and nothing else.
but then he’d be a doctor and not The Doctor, the definite article you might say.
She could do a round of calesthetics and grab his stethoscope:
Hearts beat? A bit fast are they? Well, a new body is like a new house, takes a bit of time to settle in. As for the physionomy (Pulls out a mirror) Well nothing’s perfect…have to take the rough with the smooth…I can’t waste any more time, places to go, thanks for the most interesting conversation…
Not everyone can be an Emergency Medical Hologram.
IDK, after Max stood up 3 of them had the anime sweat drops, so that was it for them, only the drunk guy tried after than and yeah, no. Wouldn’t it be cool if jacket guy turns out to be a fan and knows who she is, but is smart enough to know not to be a dick about it. “normal” fanboys are all excited and drooling etc.. But the good ones know to NOT be a dick and just enjoys the fact he’s seen her. I can see it now, every jerk has tried and failed to talk to her, until the room is quiet, and moody. she notices the guy stealing glaces but doesn’t bother her, out of curiosity, she goes over to ask why, he whispers that he knows she’s Max, and respects her need to relax. She sits down and they start to talk…
I like this idea a lot. Also like Bharda’s idea.
If he knew who she was, then the choker failed
Same with the ‘doctor’: she doesn’t look anything like she did pre-geode
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was able to realize it was her while having no idea about the choker. All the choker does is change her colors, and she has enough distinct features a big fan may think she looks familiar. And, unless it was publicly released that gold is her permanent appearance, there is probably a theory out there among some fans that she has a normal looking appearance and turns gold when she goes into superhero mode (which is somewhat common in superhero stories.)
Dabbler claimed at the press conference that she had a “battle form”, then at the alien press conference mocked the public for believing that. Few other supers have any appearance changes with their powers (Concretia) but those are pretty limited, so it’s not an impossible theory, but I’d think the more common theory attached to her appearance is that she’s either alien or always gold (or both).
Technically, Concretia doesn’t change her appearance when she uses her powers. Her body is laying somewhere vacant and looking like normal, while this ghost form goes out turning rocky things into host bodies.
That’s why the bad guys were able to blackmail her, remember? They had her body.
Interesting, I was thinking of her masonry forms rather than her actual body – which doesn’t change at all. No idea if that facet of her power is public knowledge or if the general perception is that her ghost form is ‘her’.
Other than Amorphous’s stretching, I actually can’t think of anyone else whose appearance changes.
given we did find out Death Toll was with the “Ascenders” I think what happened was after the brawl, Concretia was followed, her identity found out, so the Ascenders kidnapped her after watching her so they knew when she was away from her body, so upon returning found herself strapped down and threatened to obey them or else.
honestly the brawl its self probably outed everyone involved and have been having issues since.
Vehemence grows bigger (unclear whether he is a super, but the public probably believes him to be), as does Ren.
We have minor stuff like glowing eyes on several.
There are a few things we haven’t seen change but would be rather annoying in real life (claws/talons) which make me think they can be turned off.
Note: Kevin _can_ grow larger, but that’s a choice on his part.
I’d expect “Super mode” to be a choice too, I don’t that contradicts anything.
Also Marble Maiden. :)
She hasn’t been caught (yet), so no one knows what she looks like when not performing crime
I am going to make the daring assumption that Marble Maiden does not look like that when not in marble form though. Just like Varia doesnt look the same when she is fire or water ir osmium or steel or heat sink, etc
Acktually… Vahriah remains looking the same: she retains her hairstyle and is still recognizable as Vahriah
As silly as the idea seemed in Invincible “no one expects to see a superhero at school so they don’t”
we have plenty of real life examples of a celebrity not being recognized in public, or a mild change in their appearance throws people off. Especially general public. Even how fit your clothes are, hairstyles, granted its with people who are strangers.
It is weird when people you are around all the time don’t recognize you, but then again there are people who resemble other people including celebrities so a secret identity of “yeah people say we look alike all the time” wouldn’t be out of the question.
Yeah, that’s why I always get annoyed when people whine about the superman in glasses thing, like a lot of our ability to recognize and remember things is context dependent, I frequently fail to recognize people I know from one specific context, like teachers or co-workers, when out and about, and that’s normal and common. Unrelated people looking vaguely similar, or even uncannily similar is also a known and common thing. Growing up my best friend had like 3 dopplegangers around town, they all looked really similar but had no relation between them.
Even in the comics, Clark Kent has mentioned that people say he looks kind of like Superman, but literally no one has been like “Clark actually IS Superman” because A, why would Superman waste time hanging out at the daily planet pretending to be some nerdy farmboy, and B, they act completely different, from posture, to mannerisms, etc. Heck, Clark is KNOWN to be bumbling and clumsy! If you went up to ANY of his co-workers who weren’t in on the secret and were like “hey, I think that guy’s secretly Superman”, they’d laugh you out of the building!
I once was mistaken for a new student at school because I took off my hat that I normally always wore, by my TEACHER, that was all it took. These days I dress in a VERY distinctive manner, so I am incredibly recognizable, however if I just change into more normal attire? Totally different person. From there, just a change in posture and gait and all of a sudden even my mother wouldn’t recognize me, at least not immediately.
It is stupidly easy, and I recommend everyone try it at least once, go somewhere you know people who know you will be, but dress wildly out of character, if you usually slouch, stand up straight, if you usually stand up straight, slouch, and adjust your gait, either lengthen or shorten it, and adjust the part of your body you lead with (you’ll lead with either your head, chest, crotch, or toes, figure out which you normally lead with and pick a different one), see how long it takes for people who know you well, even those who see you every day, to recognize you. You’ll be shocked at how long it takes.
Yeah, the only Superman example that I question working was from the show Smallville where he didn’t change his clothes and behavior till years after working at the Daily Planet and only after everyone was starting to suspect he was “the Blur” had some fun conversations about that with people over how realistically that would have made him more suspicious, but final season of Smallville was playing beat the clock to force a ‘This is Superman starting point” and throwing its own history and mythos out the window.
Also, yeah, I’ve been mistaken for people by total strangers, I have not recognized coworkers out of uniform *really had at jobs that made us dress in monochrome and a hat with our hair hidden*, or even family right away because they had a hair cut or something after keeping the same style for over a year.
Also that bit there sounds like playing the opposite of change blindness (where if you change only one small detail, people won’t notice it right away, like they may even blank it out).
I would say though there is probably a middle ground where you are aiming at between not noticed and too different they still know its you just being weird., too drastic a change and break the illusion like they may not recognize you at first in a suit and tie and talking in an accent like “is that them”, vs showing up dressed in Cosplay or a Halloween costume and they immediately know its you under there because of some body language or your tastes or something.
by now there’s looks of her in all colors of the rainbow online, including ‘flesh’, just in case she’s a transformer.
Transfatters, Doughnuts in disguise
I don’t know. If it was me, I wouldn’t walk up to her at all. I’d be sitting somewhere nearby, waiting for all those guys to be shot down and Max to start to leave out of exhaustion, then when she’s at least half-facing me, wave slightly at her with a conveniently placed empty seat.
If she started flirting with me while we talked, I wouldn’t notice and would just think it’s a possible friendship.
given the set up, I half suspect one of these guys will turn out to be a vampire, decide to try and hypnotize and feed on Maxima only to break his fangs and her whole night out ends up becoming an unintentional part of a sting operation to catch a vampire feeding outside of council regulations.
I find your plot theory amusing, FYI. Thanks for commenting it.
Or maybe not vampires, perhaps some baseline morons will try to steal her car or some such and she’ll get entangled in vigilante justice against a gang of street racing thieves. You know, as a nice relaxing hobby helping the local cops during her time off.
Or Dabbler walks in looking like Max does normally flirting with everyone.
Even closer to home and more awkward could be possible. Max did have a little brother who by Max’s years in Military service to attain Major (Possible exception) is old enough to buy alcoholic beverages. Her disguise may be that good on a first glance, for an intoxicated relative, but She would have full recognition.
Except Max’s look right now is because of Dabbler’s doohickey. It isn’t her original look, that I recall. So anyone whispering “Hi Max” is likely to put her even more on edge, or someone through a wall, depending.
I know pre-powers Max has been shown, but I lack the motivation to find the pages.
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I’m pretty sure “no” is correct answer to that line. First, angels have wings. Second, when angel falls, it’s METAPHORICAL fall, it doesn’t involve hitting ground. Third, I suspect angels are quite sturdy. So, in the theoretical case of actual angel falling from heaven, she wouldn’t be hurt.
Depends: Bible-accurate angels? or Church-propaganda angels?
Well she doesn’t seem to have four faces, or any wings at all, let alone four, so probably not bible-accurate.
You know, there are humanoid angels in the Bible, just not as many as some USED to think (although I think that meme’s become so widespread now it’s gone the other way).
To be fair what you are calling Church propaganda angels funny enough became popular thanks to artists but were based not on angels but gods, and goddesses, the long hair and flowing hair woman ones that are so popular came from Eastern European fairy like entities that were also pre Christian local goddesses such as the Ville.
Oh, THAT’s what he was going to say! I’ve never been much for bar culture, so I genuinely had no idea what the intended line was and whether Max’s response was remotely appropriate.
If she was a “fallen angel” then he’d be hitting on the devil or one of his demons… NOT a good idea!
The dirty blonde seems nice, which by superhero comic rules, probably means he’s a supervillain.
Can’t be, no goatee.
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I think it’s meant to be a reference to the rant, albeit I’d say quite a rude and presumptuous one.
I think there’s a bit of a gap between “have always dreamed about being a girl” and “imagining how the other half lives,” especially if you’re, for instance, a writer and attempt to put yourself in different characters’ positions.
There is.
Doesn’t hurt to double-check though.
But force-cracking eggs doesn’t work, and normally makes things worse.
To be quite honest (this phrase is always a red flag from me), the “egg” thing has always come off a little creepy. I have nothing against trans people, but don’t project, y’know?
Not to get too into my personal life but I went off on the first person that called me an “egg” because I took it to mean I was being infantile.
I still don’t like it, at least “in the closet” has this *hiding in here with my outfits, leave me alone* feel to it. Even coming out of your shell (referencing a turtle hiding away to protect its self) makes more sense.
Down here, being ‘an egg’ is being ‘an idiot’ or ‘a fool’
“Don’t be an egg!” is often heard when someone says or does something stupid
“In the closet” comes from gay/lesbian people hiding their sexuality. It’s a loanword for trans folks.
“Egg” being creepy for some people makes sense, but I know I’d have appreciated a bit of a push back in my teens. Wouldn have saved me a couple decades of repression.
I’m also a trans person, and despise the phrase. 1, you can’t know the very specific and arcane internals of someone’s mind especially when it comes to something as nebulous at gender, 2, even if you were a mindreader who somehow magically knew they were trans, let them figure it out on their own, ffs.
Oh, I should add- even if someone WERE questioning their gender, that doesn’t mean the answer to that question is yes. And no, before anyone says it, it ALSO doesn’t mean they’re nonbinary, even if they state they don’t care what gender they are. We don’t need to put labels on everything. Just let people be.
This is probably why so many female characters, especially in superhero and fantasy genres end up not being human or at least a human that grew up in this culture and time period. Its like, they are a woman and know what it feels like to be a woman, but not a woman that has had to deal with the problems and concerns a real woman has to deal with from the same perspective *growing up in that society*. One reason why many female characters written by women are so different.
As much fun as Alien superbeing, sorceress from another dimension, demon/goddess/dragon/elf/whatever, is we get less of a *I am a woman with womanly concerns* and more a fish out of water story with the occasional jab at misogynists with them acting like idiots only to be thrown through a brick wall or something. Also a good reason why so many of these come from a society that is “equal” (until you do a psych dive on things the writer inserts without realizing it), as the writer has no personal experience to relate back to.
I have spent decades refining the backstory *or muddying it up depending on one’s view or my mood that day*, and personality of a character that is a sorceress at her core. And one of things that has bugged me is, yes she is a woman, but she’s never been a woman of any Earth culture or society, her ability to relate to people is usually from a distance as this other worldly figure or powerful presence. and yeah I’ve done the bit too, big drunk idiot hits on her in a bar, gets thrown into a table.
but the question also is raised, how humanized should the character be anyway. My character has spent most of her life as a powerful being traveling to different worlds. She got her powers fairly young, spent time as an interstellar mercenary, a leader in some capacity, and various titles and positions of power either loved or hated…she never lived a “normal life” or had opportunities to experience life fully from the perspective of regular people *and my attempts to give her this kind of background recently sound like crazy sauce when I re-read them LoL*. (mostly just to explain why this alien sorceress uses Earth/American metaphors and such)
-in short if they didn’t grow up in this society how much should they be aware or relate to its problems. A secondary version being what if they did, but had powers, that they were taught to keep secret despite the temptations to use them in their society.
Like Maxima here, she got her powers as a teenager, so how typical could her life have been after that. So far backstory you have gone from *got powers* to *military career*. Clearly she has a chip on her shoulder thanks to how far too many men treat women, not unjustified and I could see her growing up in this society tempted to go all vigilante just staking out clubs and bars or “following up” on domestic cases. But she adheres to a concept of right and wrong she grew up with and enforced over the years (at least that’s my take from what has been revealed so far).
I think the long short of that is, *I want to write a character the audience can relate to on some level, but how relatable should they be given their backstory?*
Not rude or presumptuous, really.
It’s seriously a point worth making. If a person is an uncracked trans egg, the sooner they get the ability to transition can literally be a matter of life and death. Untransitioned trans people are at risk of a ton of health problems, and that risk and quantity builds the longer they go without transitioning.
It’s bad form to tell someone they’re trans. (Which the linked comic did, bad linked comic), but it is a good idea to recommend that people look into it. Everyone should reflect and investigate their gender at least once, if only for health safety.
“Untransitioned trans people are at risk of a ton of health problems”
Could you elaborate? I assume you don’t mean only mental health problems.
I knew someone that was born a “woman” but had the DNA markers as a man, “she” was in fact a hermaphrodite (both sexes). She never showed anything but explained to me and my wife she had a manly chest, a certain bit were enlarged, and she couldn’t have children. She had a LOT of health issues, including not having the stomach valve that keeps your dinner in there. She eventually divorced her husband, dated women for a while and finally married a nice gal, my wife and I attended the “wedding”, it was before it was made legal. Sadly she died on the table when they tried to fix her stomach issue from a previous attempt.
Mental health problems *are* health problems. Your brain is your most important organ, after all. Take care of it.
And the later you transition the more crap you have to deal with physically.
It is, however, truth.
I’d go for fantasy dwarf guy, myself. Fantasy is usually a “girly” genre (unless we’re talking D&D of course, that’s a boy’s club still for the most part), and he didn’t immediately go into talking about her looks or body, he talked about her drinking ability. Even when he did talk about her body, it was to question her height, not say something objectifying, like dude #3. Plus I’ll take any opportunity to nerd it up with somebody, especially if they’re reasonably cute and not total dickbags. But I get Maxima being on the defensive, she’s had a lot of objectification thrown at her, and not always of the sexual variety (the term “living weapon” comes to mind…).
I mean, Maxima’s pretty D&D nerdy herself. Even if she’s in denial/lapsed. She actually probably got his reference right away, if not for her defensiveness.
Part of the fun of my days as a Doormonster / Mobile Wall was watching drunken lads shoot their shot. Thankfully, I almost never had to growl more than once if one of them handled being turned down badly.
I learned everything I know about pickup lines from Johnny Bravo, if only in the negative.
I actually got to use quite a few of his lines in performance, there was a brief transition scene where I was supposed to deliver a flattering pickup line and was told to ad lib. Used a different facepalm line for every take – it became a contest to see if I could get the actresses to break character. Used “real” (still corny) ones for the actual performances because Bravo-style lines were not at all in keeping with the feel of the concert.
… I’ve had some meager success with the line “I think you’re pretty. Would you care to humor me long enough to see if I’m interesting?
The pickup lines given to me are usually really boring :(
– Oh, you’re a lawyer? Well you’re the prosecutest lawyer I’ve ever met.
– My friends will hold me liable for negligence if I don’t ask for your number.
– I love you beyond a reasonable doubt.
– Would you object to me leading you over to a booth?
– Want an alibi for the evening?
– I don’t know if I have standing, but I’d love to court you.
– Habeas corpus indeed.
– Can I buy you some liquidated damages?
– Is your name Lexis? Because you have everything I’ve been searching for.
– I know we’re in opening remarks, but I’m already thinking of holding out for a life sentence.
I appreciate these pickup lines so much that I won’t be sending any ninja assassins at all. Some of them were quite clever, actually.
Thank you :)
‘Is your name Lexis? Because you have everything I’ve been searching for.”
This might be my favorite one of them all.
I thought that might have the right nerdy niche appeal, but wasn’t sure how you’d judge any of them.
The only pickup line that ever worked for me was, “I have no experience at all dating. Would you like a free meal in return for giving me some pointers?” That did work, once.
That’s a pretty suave, and good naturedly self-deprecating, pickup line as well.
Brichin’s one about Lexis is still my favorite though. It’s a lawyer thing. Lexis Nexis is software and an online database tool that helps lawyers with tracking case law/precedents, legal news, business issues, court records, statutes, regulations, etc. Basically you know how you see lawyers in offices and on TV with a ton of books behind them? Yeah that’s usually for show nowadays. :) Including in my office. Makes me look very learned and wise. Lexis Nexis and Westlaw are MUCH easier than having to pore through all those books for hours, days, or weeks. Or at the very least it’ll let you find out which book you have to look for specifically so you only have to look through one book instead of 94. :)
I have found that books gives you self esteem too. Just looking at all MY books in MY bookshelf in MY house makes me feel smarter. Yes I am a bit of a former white trash stereotype.
Thank you for explaining ‘Lexis’, thought it was about that AI infiltrator most US homes seem to have allowed into their lives (and can no longer function without it)
How many of your books are hollow with secret stashes of goodies (liquid or solid)?
Also, though that was what Para-legals were for: doing the week long search through dusty tomes (and the odd tomb) to find that one reference to that ancient case that can allow you to pull a fairy from your butt to win a minor case (and save your firm a couple hundred bucks in court fees)
“Thank you for explaining ‘Lexis’,”
Np :) thats why i was particularly impressed with the pickup line. It showed familiarity with my profession a lot more than just watching legal tv shows. :)
“How many of your books are hollow with secret stashes of goodies (liquid or solid)?”
Several actually. I have a few book safes for valuables and one hollowed out book for non valuable goodies. None for liquid courage though since I barely ever drink in the first place and I would just get a small bar piece if I did. Wouldnt have to hide it. ;)
“ Also, though that was what Para-legals were for: ”
They were. Although now attorneys just give them the lexis or westlaw login and pass for the firm and the paralegal does 20 times the work in half the time. At least the big firms. I only ever had one part-time paralegal and he was a good kid but I wouldnt let him touch my 3 most important client case info that I had begore getting into IP law:). Now I dont have or need any permanent paralegals except for specific cases and then I just get a contract attorney from a temp agency for the duration of that case.
“ doing the week long search through dusty tomes (and the odd tomb) to find that one reference to that ancient case that can allow you to pull a fairy from your butt to win a minor case”
This actually sounds so much more Buffy and the Scooby gang-esque and interesting than my real work life.
CW needs to do a supernatural procedural law show named Paralegals. They should get Joss Whedon to direct it though, not whatever directed Riverdale
So, the AI’s already started taking our legal jobs away from us? o_O
Who’s next? IP Lawyers?
That button in the vote incentive for May is totally a recreation of Dr. Prometheus Bunbury’s Wacky Weave Destabilizer. No question.
I always cringe a little inside when I see someone characterizing the bar crowd they’ve never been part of as what they’ve been told they’re like.
But then, I remember that the bars I frequented back in those days were the kind that had the police called three times a week because they were THAT kind of establishment (you know, ‘fun’, not trendy singles bars).
Max is clearly in the wrong kind of place, but I kinda suspect she doesn’t KNOW about the other kind. It’s not the kind of place a nice middle class girl would even consider.
I had a coworker who was really into the bar scene, knew I wasn’t, and would sometimes drop disparaging remarks about how boring weekends must be for everyone else. I started making innocent, progressively ridiculous remarks on the way out every Friday about what I assumed he’d be getting up to at the bar. He nearly punched me after about 6 weeks, when I started miming along to the impromptu drinking song he’d undoubtedly be participating in, since I knew from Hollywood that every conversation in a bar turns into a musical number.
Yeah, she’s probably have more fun at that bar* in the beginning of Terminator 2 where T-900 was all “I need your boots, your clothes, and your bike.” Because for some reason, Terminators don’t consider footwear clothing. What about belts? Is that clothing?
Also, she’d easily kick the shit out of the Terminator, and accidentally doom the future of humanity.
*Once she established that she’s there to play pool and isn’t into scraggly bearded biker dudes.
socks are clothing, shoes and boots are protection/armor
It was a T-800, and the quote was “I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle”.
Also, if she did beat up the Terminator, the T-1000 would kill John Connor, so Skynet would win and it would never send the Terminators back in the first place, so John would still be alive, so it would, so he’d die, so it wouldn’t…
Truly you have a dizzying intellect in matters of time paradoxes. :D
That was the plot of a newer movie. It killed Jon Conner, and became an out of time object. However instead of Skynet a different killer program called Genesis occured later. Which was kind of the theme of the movies, each time travel just changed when Judgement day would occur and details about the computer and robots, but the timeline was hellbent apparently to have it occur eventually anyway.
You mean Genesys?
I do like how all the Terminator movies, taken together, show how a time war would play out when changing the past is possible.
Nothing is consistent or makes any sense, because you can’t trust that the past you remember is the one that happened for everyone else.
And they’re all canon.
You’re not actually comparing what it’s like to be a short man to what it’s like being a short woman, are you?i
“How’d you get through security, cuz baby, you’re the bomb”
“I wouldn’t make it through a metal detector or xray machine without TSA locking the airport down. Choose your next words carefully.”
Honestly, I was hoping she’d do a one-handed knuckle crack like after the bank robbery but turn the strength up or w/e to really make it louder. If you want her to “give you a hand” you may need a cast afterwards.
Honestly I find this entire scene to be both interesting and intimidating. It would be Tons of fun to watch while at a bar, just seeing all the guys get so intimidated by her. Don’t get me wrong I’d probably attempt to say hi and have a casual conversation, and then fall flat on my face as well, but it would all be so very entertaining.
If I was Dabbler, I would have embedded a tracking glyph in the disguise choker.
So she could show up nearby and walk in disguised.
She could then watch Maxima get hit on,
influence others to hit on her (in the spirit of “helping” her friend),
and eventually hit on her herself.
All of which Maxima will expect to happen eventually, and annoy her even more.
At which point Maxima will take Dabbler up on her offer (to stun/shut up all the guys and Dabbler),
take her outside, and then give her an ear full about respecting other’s privacy.
I’m not CERTAIN if Dabbler would defy Maxima’s clear wish for privacy by showing up, but I now hope she does exactly what you suggest.
I give this link to so many people in Real Life (offline) but now I have to do it here.
DAVE!
You totally described my favorite dating song. Here: https://soundcloud.com/saphira-raven/2-hot-4-u-part-ii
Weird question, and probably come up before, but has Maxima ever had a really satisfying sexual experience? I assume she could do it herself. But she got her powers rather young, and as we saw when she crushed a door knob when her mind isn’t totally focused *such as being tired* she can lose a little of that control as her default state before any powering up or rearranging stats as it were is still pretty powerful.
So hard to imagine anyone has ever gotten her to a really good climax without a *head crushed into giblets* scenario , or death of Snu Snu *crushed pelvis*. If they did get her that far. Like she’d have to stop as she felt herself rising and blue vag herself to finish off. Like sex, sex, sex…here it comes… *you stand over there while I take myself the rest of the way while looking at you so I don’t accidentally pulverize you into bloody paste.*
Given that Maxima’s a closet nerd and has had arguments with Sidney about LotR minutiae, the guy with the comments about fantasy dwarves might have a better shot than we’d expect?
“I am NOT a ‘Stalwart drinker’ and I will thank you never to say so again.”
“Why did you capitalize ‘Stalwart’ there?”
“Nothing! I didn’t! Shut up!”
A popular collage frat “game” is called a keg stand, you do a hand stand and drink from a funnel until you choke or fall over from getting too drunk. Max was doing that in https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-150-not-sure-where-max-stencils-her-kill-marks/ while floating upside down from a keg! I am willing to bet she not only won, but drank the entire keg! 33 gallons of beer if full…
I was making a dirty joke about her having a teammate named Stalwart.
Heh, I know, I was just doing a re-read and ran across that, thought I’d share it since everyone is talking about how strong that glass was. Hell, in my drinking days I could and had drank an entire case of beer in an evening. (It was a bad day, I was slamming them back until I felt better, sadly that meant I passed out lol)
Max only needs one more guy standing behind her and for her to be sitting on a couch…
Or,if you’re familiar with a French film Marius from 1931,Max sees three men playing cards in the corner and are caricatures of the actors Paul Dullac, Fernand Charpin and Robert Vattier.
Or she encounters a caricature of Pierre Tchernia…?!?
Now I suddenly want that gender flipped author to make a brief cameo and encounter Maxima during this night out.
That first guy really just said that because it would be rude not to.
Seriously? Guys, can’t you start with the word “hello”??
Greetings, salutations, and well met tall and stature Valkyrian. After we have finished our beers would you by chance be game to then partake in each other’s genitalia?
“Impress me with your silence” comes to mind. She wasn’t in the mood to talk to ANY man at that point, remember what the one general said at the de-briefing? Even if she wasn’t a feminist, she’d shoot down anyone that tried to talk to her. Only if she wanted to, would she accept any conversation.
I am extremely amused by DaveB’s Shaun White story of if he was a woman being hit on and that amusement grows the more times I read it.
“I want to be your pants.” So this is what he wants?
https://www.oglaf.com/skin-tight/
you should probably warn people when you link to something sexual, especially extreme fantastical versions of it.
that said I wish I could find the Sluggy Freelance page where a goddess trapped a man’s soul in her clothes and he remarked “this is less sexy than I thought it’d be”
My bad, the coffee hadn’t kicked in yet.
I don’t remember that one.