Grrl Power #1431 – Booptions
Sydney doesn’t really have A-Cup Angst. She doesn’t walk around fuming that all her teammates are better endowed than her. She’s even gotten a little used to the communal showers. It’s not her favorite thing, but she’s a lot more self-conscious about feeling a little spongey around the midsection than she does about breast-size. What she doesn’t appreciate, is one of her enboobened teammates trying turn the watch party into a mixed-company show and tell.
It’s a failure of Sydney’s imagination that holo-boobs didn’t occur to her already. In her defense, the last time she stepped on the holo-plinth, she was presented with a galaxy’s worth of cosmetic character customization options. Choice paralysis is one of Sydney’s long established traits.
Here is Gaxgy’s painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.
I did try and do an oil painting version of this, by actually re-painting over the whole thing with brush-strokey brushes, but what I figured out is that most brushy oil paintings are kind of low detail. Sure, a skilled painter like Bob Ross or whoever can dab a brush down a canvas and make a great looking tree or a shed with shingles, but in trying to preserve the detail of my picture (eyelashes, reflections, etc) was that I had to keep making the brush smaller and smaller, and the end result was that honestly, it didn’t really look all that oil-painted. I’ll post that version over at Patreon, just for fun, but I kind of quit on it after getting mostly done with re-painting Max.
Patreon has a no-dragon-bikini version of of the picture as well, naturally.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
LOL! If Sydney does, she may want a holo-emitter herself, full time! How about it, do we want a remake of Sydney as another Max, or keep her cute, skinny gal look? Sure, it’d be great for pranks, but that’s about all.
Finally a Weapon of Math Destructrion.
The spontanous boob generator
I wonder if there’s a ranged model, so you could…put “additions” on other people.
Give Math his own pair. That’ll keep him busy for a week or two.
You almost made me spit out my tea, I salute you!
Now I’m wishing they had a month or two lead time so Digit could make a mech and enter it in the tournament.
FYI, small boobs have one major advantage. More nerve endings per sq in of skin.
AND you are closer to girl’s heart when you give her a hug.
I wondered if that was true, and chanced upon the funniest research paper I ever met.
“This study thoroughly assesses tactile acuity on women’s breasts” is a hell of an opener. Hey, we severely touched boobs for science!!!
“Our basic understanding of the tactile capabilities of the breast remains poorly understood in comparison to the hand or face despite the fact that the breast plays a major role in the lives of those with breasts.” This reads like a scientific article found in a fanfic. Or anything written by Stephen King, really.
“we sought to characterize the spatial acuity of the female breast which has roles in lactation, affective touch, and sex. These functions set it apart from other regions of the body.” – this sentence did not pass sneer review.
“The nipple is a unit” okay this one is just because I’m Internet-brained. An absolute unit, that it is.
Every other guy in their departments were jealous of Sliman and Charles for getting to be the only guys who worked on the study.
I am reminded of the cartoon from the BeforeTimes when Dilbert was funny in which Wally almost succeeded in tricking the PHB into making it his job assignment to download porn on the company network.
I am shocked. Shocked I Say! That this study was not even nominated for an igNobel price.
It was published late last year, so I’m assuming there’s still time.
My friend who has been working in the biology field for just over 20 years says that’s a pretty reputable journal, too.
ElfScience is a legit journal? o_O
On this planet? O_o
You’re missing a couple vowels, there.
Marshmallow Hell can be nice, but so can getting washboarded. :D
That’s all fun and games, but we will get some more tournament action, right?
Ironically, after going through Basic Training, Sydney’s probably in the best shape of her life.
Now I am wondering why Maxima looks nearly anorexic in the picture.
Or is she meant to have the body of a bodybuilder in an unhealthy fragile cutting phase?
Just your average superhero body? Max is as ripped as…Hiro… for one… Her abs have abs..
I was more thinking all the ribs sticking out and the sunken in stomach without the slightest hint of a protective fat layer.
You… do know that your ribs (and stomach) are in the top part of your chest, right?
Ribs, in particular, do not extend to your your waist
Yes but they’re not usually prominent enough in a healthy individual that the visible spaces between them could be used as grips.
Most of her ribs are covered by the wings (all we are seeing are the bottom of the ribs)
Indeed, and that we are seeing them prominently at all would be very concerning for their health if we were looking at a living woman. no?
Just as if you saw a male bodybuilder with abs but also prominent ribs sticking out at the bottom, yes?
Not necessarily: not all pecs (male or female) cover the entire of the upper chest, the bottom part (as demonstrated by Golden Idol) tends to still be visible
And again, the ribs are above the abs (at least on Terra-based hyu-mons)
If you mean the vote incentive, being able to see the bottom two ribs when you’re sitting in the position she’s in in pretty normal for a person of healthy weight, let alone somone that muscular. Depending on how hard someone sucks in their stomach and inflates their ribs, being able to see ALL of them can be normal in a person of healthy weight.
Most people of healthy weight don’t have abs that defined, true, but that’s the superhero body as established in this comic, even if we don’t factor in the fact that Max has, you know, *gold skin* that changes how light interacts with her definition. There’s a reason body builders use bronzer.
sign me up lmao
Sydney’s still spongey after all the PT ? :)
Compared to the average person, absolutely not. She probably has a little bit of ab definition herself if she tenses and poses just right.
But compared to the other women she sees in the showers every day (see: Daphne here and Max in the Vote Incentive), yeah, maybe a tad spongey.
“Spongy” for someone who spends all her time with superheroes every day.
Superheroes in this universe get the kind of body that realistically requires perfect genetics, obsessive diet and the right exercise, and usually also things like dehydrating yourself just before the photoshoot.
Except for them there’s no effort or attention required at all. This almost certainly changes her perspective on what a body should look like.
I’ve run into this since I started lifting. You can tell yourself that you’re already much stronger than anyone else who isn’t lifting, but your brain doesn’t really get that. It’s comparing you (poorly) to all the lifters you see on social media.
Why aren’t you lifting more? That girl outlifts you! Yeah, sure, she’s less than half your age and trying out for the Olympic team. So what?
Which is why I don’t watch the social media of lifters anymore.
One of my now-best-lifting-buddies at the Y is literally one-half my body weight. She looks fit but not bulky, so when I started the class, I figured, ok, I’ll ease into things by putting on my bar whatever she does, and work up from there.
This was an error.
She was training for the nationals, which the year after she won for her age and size by deadlifting 150% of my bodyweight.
Do the math!
Lifting is a lot of fun, has been great for my aging body, and our community has a lot of positivity and mutual support … but I’ve had to accept that the only meaningful competition is with myself.
I’ve had the same experience with rock climbing. I’m a tall, reasonably strong guy; theoretically, my body should give me an advantage. Nope. I get outclimbed by tweens, teens, and women a foot shorter than me and sixty pounds lighter. I need to remind myself that it’s not about the body, it’s about the skill and the mindset, and that I’m only competing with myself. (And, when I look at the tweens and teens, that square/cube law means that the power to mass ratio is heavily in their favor. :>)
If anybody’s confused about square/cube, check out Veritasium: https://youtu.be/za_HO2E3JEU
It kinda sucks the magic out of “a squirrel is actually a super,” but understanding the science is a nice compensation.
And presented with the option of being an adorable kobold. Adorablold.
adoppaibold
… sounded better in my head lol
Koborable.
She should holodress as a busty lizard just because it’s a silly concept.
the lusty (shortstack) argonian maid
Adorkoboldable. Get the ‘dork’ in there too
“I like coffee, I like tea, I like cup size from A to D.”
You say you like tea, but you don’t like a T cup?
as someone who prefers petite women
idk what they worry so much about, they, on my opinion, are much sexier! then again i’m 1.67m so maybe thats why
Nearly everyone has something(s) about themselves they don’t like, and prefer something(s) someone with a different body type (or shape) has
Go A team.
“In 2022, a lightly-endowed female commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These women promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them….maybe you can hire The A-Team.”
I prefer more petite women myself, but I have noticed an apparent societal conditioning that bigger is better, especially when it comes to boobs and asses. This was before social media became a thing and amplified it by several magnitudes.
Nothing to really say but that this is some good, sexy comedy.
I would like a decent string of pages focused on the combat afterwards, though.
I don’t mind the direction this is taking, but I am always ever so slightly annoyed that due to (self) censorship rules these story lines end up being bait and switch,
Though it is mildly entertaining to see examples of creative censorship smoke that do not feel hopelessly contrived.
I feel Syd wouldn’t go further than a C because it’d feel almost cruel to herself if she went further. As a bloke I’d maybe go from the average to maybe a step and half up, but any more would just remind me what tge reality was.
I would agree with you if this were a permanent change. I have no problems with natural breasts of any size; the best boobs are the ones I have access to. I have enjoyed playing with As to saggy post-breast-feeding Hs; as long as the woman enjoys the attention, I enjoy the breasts. But from both an aesthetic and fun-to-play-with perspective I find natural Cs to be ideal.
Back to Sydney, and only discussing a holo-projection to try out, without the back pain from a massive front-loaded center of gravity? Absolutely she’s going as big as she can, even if only for a few minutes to see what it looks like.
Honestly, was thinking she would only go B, for the same reasons you stated
She might try bigger for a few seconds just to see what they would look like (with a, possibly, once in a lifetime opportunity, why not?) before going back down to B or C
I think there would be a difference between trying on and going for keeps. Who among us wouldn’t try on some H cups or a 10 inch penis. Or both for that matter, if it was temporary. One question is, would the projection have sensation? I imagine Cora has the technology to pull it off. Given that she grew Peggy a new leg I don’t see why she couldn’t biologically enhance Sydney’s bust if that was what she desired.
I think it was previously stated (in commentary, not the comic) that their hardlight disguises have some degree of sensory transmission, like touching Sydney’s kobold snout feeling to her as though someone was touching her face. So I think that would be an option for some embiggened boobage. I don’t know if that would work just using the holograms the ship can produce on the fly, however – those disguises included full-body suits IIRC, which would make it easier to transmit sensations.
Cora’s limbs are hard-light projections with full tactile feedback, so Sydney could in fact pull Cossette’s “I’m a G cup!” from Excel Saga episode 26.
I’d actually like to see Max’s expression if she did.
“I imagine Cora has the technology to pull it off.”
Phrasing!
The whole CONCEPT of “Taking a pair for a spin.”
[Elvira’s spinning tassles clip]
Re: the comic tag “if you were to offer an A-cup all wisdom…” I wasn’t happy with A-cups, and now that I have D-cups I am, in fact, much happier. I already was wise though, so maybe that helped.
I don’t know how people with implants feel, though. I grew them myself, maybe there’s a difference in self-image or maybe there isn’t. Does everyone make up weird rules for everything in their head about which differences count in life and which don’t?
No trag for Harem?
Ok, I love that Max’s bikini is a fire-lizard giving her a hug :D
Stupid of me to not see that’s what it was.
Regarding the invotive: now that is a sexy kini, and the shoulder piece is a nice touch :)
LOL! Holo-boobies is the way to go! I have ‘D’ cups and would MUCH prefer ‘B’ cups or smaller. The weight of these things does cause some back-ache, but nowhere near as bad as one of my friends who has ‘H’ cups. She very much enjoyed learning that corsets gave her SO much more support than any bra ever did.
That’s because corsets tend to add back support moreso than bewb support
Butt, it also depends on the individual (and the corset)
As a woman, I’ll have to say I really don’t want bigger boobs than I have. Ignoring the back-ache issue, my smaller cup size means I can more easily go braless in public without the blow-back and unwanted attention unfettered larger breasts would get.
Also, they are less likely to get in the way. I think men over-estimate how much women really care about big boobies.
At first you notice that the well endowed girls get more attention.
Then you grow up and come to appreciate the difference between quantity and quality, which is an inverse relation in this particular case.
Getting more attention can be a net negative
From what I’ve heard from people who have large breasts… I would not wish for anything particularly large. :-X
i feel robbed knowing that we can’t have a Frix wearing a maid uniform, a sad day indeed.
… Since genetic customization is such a thing in this part of the universe, couldn’t she just get her chest bumped up a cup size or two with about no trouble what so ever if she wanted? Just say’n, the means are right there and simple enough for them.
Realistically, I can’t help but think that the advanced space tech could give Sydney a permanent fix to her ADHD, as well as giving her… Shall we say an all natural method for giving her a bigger chest?
And… if she doesn’t want either?
Hence “could” and not “should.” I understand that personality traits are very personal, and eliminating ADHD, although possibly a good thing, but would definitely be life-changing.
My only reason for thinking Sydney might want to do the “permanently remove ADHD” thing is that she’s already taking medication for it. Most adults don’t still need meds for ADHD, and I know from experience that not all ADHD meds work as intended. If I could do a one-time procedure to get rid of my own brain issues, I’d definitely go for it.
As for the cup size change, that’s just me talking nonsense, although Sydney has multiple times demonstrated dissatisfaction at being a card-carrying member of the itty bitty titty committee. She’s also physically kinda…well, a bit of a string bean. I used to be a string bean guy before I started trucking, and it was kinda annoying being so skinny and, to an extent, weak. For some people, no amount of PT will change that part of our physique; we’re just stuck like that until our 30s.
Yeah, I really needed to go on anti-depressant meds a couple of decades ago.
It had the unintended side effect of ending my extended (days-long) bursts of creativity and inability to sleep during those periods because so many stories were trying to get out of my head and onto paper.
I mean, it’s great to not have depression as bad. But I also can’t get an extra third of a book written every other month anymore.
Which is ironically depressing.
Rather than fix, I would go with modify. Granted, my ADHD is pretty mild. I’m old enough that the diagnosis was a new thing when I was in college. So I’ve always coped with out meds. With that as my baseline I would have to say there are some aspects of ADHD that I like and some that I wouldn’t mind dialing back. You could probably go the same way with Sydney’s physical attributes. When confronted with the opportunity she might reach the conclusion that she really didn’t want to change anything
Yes, would go with ‘modify’, because ADHD is part of Sydney’s super-power, and if you take that away, all she would have would be her balls
Make the drug(s) more effective, rather than upping the dosage to beyond Meth-levels, and remove the typical side-effects
Seriously messing with the way Sydney thinks (which has repeatedly saved the team’s butts) strikes me as a bad idea.
Yups, that’s why was thinking modifying the meds, not the ADHD itself, so they are more effective at allowing Sydney to be able to use them when she wants to and not end up in danger because she’s squirrel’d by something else
The upgrade on the vote incentive was more in line with what was expected. I can see why Gaxgy was so very, very committed to making this painting. The coins making it look like she had scales was a nice touch.
Heh. Is it just me or did DaveB get inspired by that recent Frieren meme about drawing a face from a low angle?
Because those first panels is him totally showing off with difficult face angles…
I understand supers have idealized bodies (little fat, no body hair, huge sexual characteristics, etc), I wonder if compared to them Cora also looks a little “spongey”? Though I imagine she could use alien super science to modify herself to an ideal as well.
How many seconds till Harem discovers she has a fang in her boob? That’s gonna hurt. A LOT
Are they fully holo or weighted? Because I see either a face smack/black eye or self smother/upside down event occurring.
Let’s hope no one points out that she’s not limited to just 2 boobs. Of course, it’s not HAVING big breasts that’s important, so much as having everyone LOOKING at your big breasts. So holoboobs are perfect. All the benefits without the weighty responsibility.
To have permanent surgery, (no matter how outer-space quick and convenient)? Have to think about that for a bit. There’s consequences, like needing a whole new wardrobe, the reactions of everyone she knows as it will be very very obvious she had work done (if not who did it) which also includes the Internet and everyone around the world as she is globally famous. Also that her current bustline matches her short frame, and no one offered to make her taller. Much to consider indeed.
But temporary holographic bewbs for a playful hour or so with no consequences whatsoever? Yeah, I think she’d jump at that… he’ll, so might I (a 45 year old straight cis male… for the hour.)
It is amazing that Sydney forgot The Most Common Superpower.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostCommonSuperpower
Sydney: “Turn me into American Hitomi Tanaka!”
Cora: “Excellent choice. Wanna try the tentacle room too while you’re- what’s wrong?”
Sydney: “I can’t see my feet.”
Sydney’s going to overdo this isn’t she? (I think she’d look silly with ‘D’ cups. … Unless I totally misunderstand how cup sizes are measured. ;-)
She would look downright cartoonish. But that’s how Syd rolls. I think if you framed it for her as cosplay she would totally try it out. Cora’s ship is the perfect place to play with it.
Like the main character of “Wapsi Square”, except she had rilly rilly long hair to counter balance the giant beach balls :P
You misunderstand. Cup sizes aren’t a fixed “unit”, they’re based on the difference between the band size (circumference of torso below breasts) to the bust size (largest circumference around breasts while bending over). Ironically, Sydney’s body is so small she may already be close to a “B” cup (2in difference between band and bust size).
If you see a measurement like 38D, that means the band (underboob) circumference is 38″ and the bust circumference is 4″ bigger.
A pair of 30D breasts on Sydney would be much smaller than a pair of 38D breasts.
1.) Why isn’t Harem in the Who’s Who? 2.) Have we known before this that this body had a tramp stamp?
No! Sydney! Stick as the smol bob rep! Big boobs are everywhere! Smol bobs are unique and cute and better!
Also you don’t want the back pain to go with them…
Well, since they’d only be holographic projections, back pain shouldn’t be an issue. For the same reason she’d likely get bored with them pretty quick. Frix too; he didn’t sign up for busty Sydney.
Yes, remember that “luv you just the way you are” moment when she asked him to choose an alien disguise.
Quite possibly a mind thing with Sydney that it wouldn’t be HER bosom on display but a hologram that covers her real body.
Considering her nerd side, I’m expecting she’s accustomed to cosplay and may take this much further than just bosom.
I’ve had everything from an A cup (HRT) to a M cup (That took a few surgeries…) over the course of my life. While everyone has different tolerances and particularly willingness to take risks with their body or desire to remain ‘natural’, there is also something to be said for going out and changing your body to be exactly what you want to have in life. I believe there is an appreciable life satisfaction and overall quality of life improvement if you do so and the end result makes you happy.
Sitting with longing forever isn’t worth it if you have the capacity to go out and fix it. I did exactly that myself.
“. . . where’s Digit?” when she hasn’t been seen for a while is a scary line by itself.