Grrl Power #1412 – Always good to learn something new about yourself
Happy Thanksgiving to Americans, if they indeed have anything to be thankful for.
Garamm isn’t, strictly speaking, a “dragon guy.” Yes, he has scales, but despite generally seeming to be a good guy most of the time, or at least an emotionally supportive guy, when he isn’t kidnapping college students, he is still a criminal, and not the kind doing something for a righteous cause. You know, Robin Hooding or freeing his people from systematic oppression or anything like that. He was in it for the money. So Maxima never looked at him in “that way.” Plus he has a weird head shape. And Maxima will likely never have a tail, so mutual disinterest there.
Also, Max might have a slight bias for gold scales, for reasons unknown.
Yes, Max does have a boyfriend currently, and she’s not the kind of woman who will use the fact that she’s only been on two dates (barely) with him and the fact that she’s 3,700 light years away off in deep space to give her a one-night stand free pass. Not that she’s ever been into one-night stands. Doesn’t mean she can’t admit she likes the way a guy looks, even if kissing someone with a snout would be fairly awkward. I assume. I’ve definitely never given that any thought. Though if I had, I assume two people with snouts could probably kiss okay. If their snouts more of less matched. Not like if a fox-person tried kissing a horse person. That would be mechanically similar to a fox person kissing a human, I guess. But I’ve totally never thought about it. I’m talking about French kissing, obviously, not a peck on the lips. Anyone could do that.
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Canines can’t do the kissing motion with their lips, so it’s easy to argue that not everyone can give a peck on the lips.
You need to define what constitutes as a peck though.
According to Google, a peck is a measurement of eight dry quarts.
For the record that was supposed to be a thumbs up.
A cockatiel can peck your lip.
You won’t enjoy it, though.
It’s nice to see Max come out of her shell
Or she’s channeling Sydney’s love of spicy food, and big tall guys… I wonder if Dabbler is selling that “big guy” potion in bulk to Sydney.
9 lightyear rule.
you all know the rest.
Or she is trying to create a persona for Egoma that is different enough to differentiate from her own, but similar enough to not be forgettable.
A food-themed webcomic update on thanksgiving in the us featuring Americans in disguise, even with a cook!
*Chef’s kiss
So Sydney is a furry and Maxima is a scalie. They are not as different as you may think.
Need more warties. Bufonophobia and ranaphobia are real
Phobia or philia?
To each their own.
When Maxima isn’t in disguise, her skin color is a close match with dragon-guy’s.
At least it looks like to me. Dave B., did you plan that?
P.S.: Happy Thanksgiving!
Dragons <3 Gold.
Gold x Dragons.
Maybe max is a fan of Anne McCaffrey’s “Pern” series. Golden dragons and all.
Pretty sure Max would want a Bronze.
She *probably* wouldn’t get a Bronze. Pernese dragon Bronzes and Golds exclusively pair with their own gender. And Max is straight, so if she paired with a Bronze she’d have issues come mating flights. And I doubt Max would want a Brown, Green or Blue.
Fire Lizards, on the other hand, are a lot less picky. Do we know if Max is a cat or dog person?
But also, pretty sure Max could out-fly any Pern dragon there is. Just imagine, she gets a Gold, but rarely flies her Gold because she can fly faster than her dragon. The only advantage to being dragon back for Max would be their teleportation ability.
I mean, “teleportation through time” is a pretty good way to out-race anything.
And she’d fly *with* her Gold, not *on* her.
The advantage of being dragonback for Max would be the same as the reason she carries a gun.
To have something gold and shiny between her legs?
Page 327…
Was a lewd joke (still highly intimidating ;) )
I didn’t say “Impress” I said “want”
Was gonna say, Dragonriders of Pern suggest that a fondness for dragons isn’t that unusual for young girls.
Pern was a horsey book where the author wanted to “fantasy” it up a little, probably to move it into the fantasy genre about the time that LOTR was taking off.
The telepathy was due to “psionics” (magic, explained as Science!) being popular at the time as well. It certainly doesn’t move it out of the horsey category where the protagonist communicates and has a special relationship with her mount.
It also made it easier to edge it into science fiction territory later (the humans on Pern were apparently from a semi-failed colony brought there by starship). Though it’s science fiction that’s somewhere between Star Trek and Doctor Who in hardness level.
So, very soft science, heavy on the handwavium then :P
Let’s not forget that Max is a D&D girl. Plenty of opportunities to come up with interesting ideas about dragon men.
Is it just me, or does Gaxgy remind anyone of Chef Rush?
its the arms
There’s a typo in “sophonts” (is currently “sohponts”)
And the expression is that you’re “an x extraordinaire”, not “an x extraordinary”. You can be “an extraordinary x”, but the expression uses “extraordinaire”
Though that could be a deliberate choice by Gaxgy (Gygax?); perhaps a pun in his own language that does not fully translate.
> Not like if a fox-person tried kissing a horse person.
I don’t know, based on some furry animations I’ve seen, that may work out better than you think…
*sees full name*
Ok… I admit that is WAY better.
Dinner is still probably technically on Dabbler’s starforge.
Gaxgy means he’ll smear dinner all over his body, so Esoma can eat it off of him. Preferably with her tongue.
Ah, so that’s why she has gold body paint and dragon scaled wig in her foreplay closet. ;) :p
(Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone celebrating.)
Wow, Cuke has a very wide reach in the galaxy! Last time I saw that brand of soda was when Harem was drinking it on Earth.
If it isn’t a demon made drink I’d be surprised. They have the branding and nothing could advertise Cukẽ quite like a gaggle of suckubi. Though you would have to wonder just what the add’s must be rated. Or even the tagline.
“Gaxgy”… that name seems SO familiar somehow…
as in Gary Gygax? Yes. Another DnD reference.
Is that Heptapod-B on the sign in the last panel? We already know what you’re going to order!
so in the background we have a coke derivative machine called cuke, with what look like a spurt of white something, and its a harem station, did you make a cuck juice machine?
Fresh cucumber juice :P
That ‘squirt’ is meant to imitate the Coke design
Should have been the Dungeon consultant. Because nobody knows Dungeons like Dragons, like this Guy Gax.
Dongeon or Donjon , the second is the castle Keep …
And in France Dongeons&Dragons is translated Donjons et Dragons even if it’s not the same thing ..
A Dongeon was in 11th century castles under the Donjon
In french Donjon means castle keep and according Denis Greyfalcon Gerfaud , “You’d better let the dragon sleep”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%AAve:_the_Dream_Ouroboros
A pun about a well known french pen and paper RPG dating back to 1985.
And the son of Donjon is an actor
Maybe those who don’t have flat-fronted faces show mandibular appreciation in other ways… not so much trying to figure out where your noses go, but more the “how do I not crush every whisker in the muzzle-nuzzle” (for those that have whiskers) vs. “one direction only else we end up scraping” (for those who are scaly).
In fairness to Garamm, dragons do have a propensity for kidnapping princesses (at least in folklore), and a college student is probably the closest he could find on short notice.
If nobody else noticed, there’s a slight typo in “sophonts” in panel 3. Easy to miss after the tongue-mangling xenonym =P
Also I’m 10000000% certain that the Furry community has figured out how kissing between every possible snout/muzzle/beak/chelicerae/etc. combination works, so you could always ask them for pointers.
The mechanics of kissing require one to be able to form a suction zone with their lips. This requires that one have lips, and perhaps more importantly, cheeks. Humans have cheeks because we’re descended from arboreal primates, who, like squirrels, evolved fleshy pouches around the jaws to hold food while they climbed. Most carnivores lack these, and would find kissing difficult.
Now, LICKING, otoh, and nuzzling, would be more popular and meaningful for carnivores.
Gaxgy seems to have some amount of lip. He is able to smile and cover his teeth. It my not mean the same things it does with us primates but it seems he can do it. The lips do look a little scaly though. With that full on smile in the last panel I’m thinking those look more like omnivore teeth. It might not be his strong suit but I wouldn’t rule out kissing.
Isn’t she already dating someone? A firefighter if I recall.
as dave said, nothing wrong with appreciating the menue even if you’ve already chosen a dish.
I like the way you put that.
Can also appreciate a nice skill set as well when you’re an adventurer or a combat-type job role. He can cook and watch their backs.
A Firefighter who is also a Doctor.
This is the female version of “this better not awaken something in me”
Maxima: Too late!
Being otherwise committed doesn’t mean you have to stop flirting… it just means being polite about indicating how serious you are ir are not.
“MMMMMMM, yourself.”
Heh? What does that even mean? What is Maxima trying to say here? Is this a reaction to something? It’s like watching her reacting to a completely different conversation.
It’s her return volley to Gaxgy going “MMMMM!” at her on the previous page.
Haven’t checked… Dic we establish whether Egoma’s full name continues with “Niacal”?
> “I’ve definitely never given that any thought … But I’ve totally never thought about it.”
We definitely all believe you, Dave.
“Sohponts”? I think you meant “sophonts”.
“Happy Thanksgiving to Americans, if they indeed have anything to be thankful for.”
Was that meant to sound snide? It sounded pretty snide, and bitter. Anyway, we have more to be thankful for than most places. ^^
I’d say (or, rather, I hope) most people would find it difficult to be overall thankfull when their country firmly descends days after days in third world country territory, as least intellectually / politically.
Got a typo in panel three. Interposed letters in sophont
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There was a lot of gossip. Not because they were both very old, and famous. Not only because both used the same pronouns. Mostly because they were different species.
How do they do it?
“Like everybody else,” the heir to the Elven throne said.
The dragon smiled. “With love, care, and enthusiasm.”
“Gold scales” that’s brass and you know it
Happy thanksgiving wherever you are and whatever you have going. I’m thankful for you being here.
it may be an alien dragonewt, but its a GOLDEN alien dragonewt
Why do I get the feeling “on me” will be taken literally?
I have unfortunately witnessed dogs “French kissing” before. It was fascinating, yet also disturbing. Mainly because I’m pretty sure they are inbred siblings from a puppy farm, and this “kissing” went on for an uncomfortably LONG time, but I digress. It basically just amounted to them pressing their snouts together and licking the inside of each other’s mouths. They have more than enough tongue reach to not have to open their mouths very much to do this. Lips definitely were not a necessary component in this equation.
Garry might appreciate a certain dungeon master. :p
On that RuneScape grindset.
What about the other guy Maxima was seeing? Is she considering cheating? Say it ain’t so! D:
Is it still cheating if he’s in a different light cone?