Grrl Power #1465 – Trope police
It’s hard to see, but there is a door behind Dabbler’s little drafting table, if you need to know where Anvil came from. Anvil obviously can’t teleport or anything, but her Sergeant Sense was tingling. It’s been a low buzz ever since Sydney became one of her subordinates. Dabbler isn’t really one of her direct reports, but she definitely raises the chaos floor, and Maxima has fully authorized Anvil to whoop Dabbler if she’s getting truly out of control.
I’m personally not into the femdom thing… though I don’t know if it’s really femdom when it’s two women. I guess that’s lezdom. In any case, it’s safe to say that Dabbler has most reasonable fetishes. The word “reasonable” admittedly doing some heavy lifting there, as a succubi’s tastes would be considered quite extreme by most people. Their fetishes have both breadth and depth, but usually have hard cut-offs at the fringes. What I’m saying is that there’s plenty of stuff on the Terran internet that Dabbler has seen and gone, “Yeah, I don’t get it.” I won’t give any examples, you’re all “internet worldly.” But we’ve all seen stuff that 1, we’re confused that there’s any sort of audience for, and 2, that there’s someone so into that very specific, particular thing that they took, in some cases, a lot of time to create it and put it out there.
Dabbler did change her top since the last page (or really just glamored up a different design – presumably she’s just enough clothes most of the time so that if her glamor is somehow disrupted, Maxima won’t yell at her, and she changes the style whenever the whim strikes her) because I had the pencils of her in that top panel sitting around from some other picture I’d started but hadn’t found a use for. I just liked the scoop neck that shows off the inside semi-underboob if you get the angle just right.
Sexy bodymod news lady Gail has a special one-on-one interview with Tournament Quarter finalist Saraviah Nightwing! And if you subscribe to Gail’s Space Patreon, (which, due to the vagaries of Earth and Gal-Net’s DNS servers, happens to be the same as the Grrl Power Patreon, go figure) you can see that same interview in the nude! Well, eventually. The nude part of the interview, as well as the version that includes shading will be coming soon. Of course, you can view the interview in the nude now if you take your own clothes off. You know. Technically. Just put a towel on your chair first.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
don’t tempt fate when Sidney is in the play!
I don’t know whether the idea of Sydney with a Looney Tunes mallet is more awesome or terrifying.
Depends entirely whether you’re on the receiving end of it or not.
it would a a fantastic way to end any concentration-based attack.
ASMR? Was she listening for something?
Anvil is whispering sweet threatenings into her ear while choking her out.
ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and while it is often created by sound or a visual element it can be generated by other sensations.
No its still femdom, even though its 1 girl chocking out another.
Or it would be, if both had been into it.
Also. To be technical. What Anvil is doing is a Blood-choke.
It can be quite erotic for those into it.
And so Anvil 100% deserves this little lesson in “ask before you choke people”
She got icked and Dabbler had a good time, because she forgot consent.
And to get even more technical, a Blood-choke is also known as the “sleeper hold” when used by police and “rear naked choke” in MMA fighting. It’s internally banned by many law enforcement agencies as too dangerous (i.e., too big of a chance of lawsuits), but of course they all learn how to do it. Absolutely taught in the military where lethal force is more common. It blocks the carotid artery, slowing blood flow to the brain, while allowing the recipient to breath freely. The body as a whole still gets oxygen and the panic of not being able to breathe is eliminated. It’s somewhat safer than a breathe-choke because as soon as the hold is released the oxygenated blood instantly returns to the brain. In a breath-choke the entire blood stream becomes de-oxygenated and it takes much longer to recover.
Some people are into it (of course Dabbler would be), but it requires consent. I am not interested in trying it, but apparently a reduction in brain oxygen followed by a flood of oxygen at specific times can result in an intensely euphoric “O”. Some subs have a fetish around being choked, and some doms like to choke, and this method avoids crushing the windpipe / larynx which can cause major problems and a trip to the hospital.
Obligatory mention and this is extremely dangerous, and quite a few people die every year trying this.
Speaking as someone who’s had it (box choke) done to them out of curiosity, it really just hits the reboot button on your brain a little. First my brain was full of its usual amount of anxious and scattered thoughts, thinking about everything at once, and then my brain was full of TV static. Probably wouldn’t do it again, but it was a very interesting experience.
I bet your a tiny bit autistic?
They are likely one of the groups who benefit the mosts from the the system reboot a well done blood choke gives.
I would not call them extremely dangerous though.
Not the way Anvil does it with her arm. It is still something you should be careful with if you havent done it before. If you have its quite save.
I seen it done on WWF on TV, (yes, that long ago) so I asked about it. It’s been used since the late 40’s, just few understood it since it looked like a choke hold. I was teaching it to my sons, my god-daughter heard me explaining it, and insisted I use it on her. At the time she was a head-strong 15 y/o and refused to believe it was real. I held it for a count of 3, then caught her before she hit the floor. Never argued anything about my training after that LOL.
The little line of drool coming down from Dabbler’s mouth really sells the scene.
And the slowly increasing flush to the face.
Good catch! I didn’t see that at first.
And the ear wiggles
While I do trust Dabbler to be smart enough to develop the hammer, I don’t trust her enough to believe she won’t add anything fanservice-y to it, just like how her warm up spell she cast on Sydney had her run to her Edward Elric Dakimakura.
But tbf. I would not call that “something going wrong”, at least from my point of view. At the very least, instead of seeing stars the characters should see those pixie type ladies like the one we saw fight Maxima recently.
Yes, but really, the hammer is like a blow up hammer you have in a children toys, with some special effects. It is not like the victem is undressed by one slash? It is safe! right? what could go ….
scribes are working around the clock to answer the question. they are up to several hundred pages. yes, they are using AI to compile the list several have refused to help.
A mind-numbing hammer in Sydney’s hands: Imagine if she accidentally uses it durring an international summit.
One Trump is already an issue , imagine multiple ones.
But it’s possible Maxima might borrow it to hit Deus. A pretty good revenge without lasting effects.
And it’s less dangerous than Halo orbs.
I would have an irresistible need to shout “Pow Hammer” while wielding such a weapon.
Whamma Hamma! That’d be my catchphrase for it. But mostly I’d just let it squeak for itself
Dabbler is smart enough to realize that anything too fan-servicey would make Sydney not use it, and I think she wants to see Sydney use it. Or at least hear tales of same.
Sydney (two galaxies away): DONT FORGET THE TWEETY BIRDS
Dabbler: AH KNOW AHM ADDIN EM grazza razza frazzin…
Kenya did pay attention to Sydney’s genre savynes, and Fate tends to have very good ears and likes to take time for extensive lists (probably even scarier than ‘THE LIST’ Sydney keeps in her back pocket).
Honestly surprised this hasn’t happened before. Dabbler clearly has a type besides generally everyone.
Yeah it seems like Dabbler really want Maxima to dom her.
Giving Sidney that hammer is one thing.
Asking that question in regards to Sidney shows a clear lack of understanding of the forces in play.
Giving Sidney a cartoon weapon and cartoon logic may enter the field and if you want o know where that can lead…
just watch the Death Battles between Pinkie Pie and Deadpool or Popeye and Saitama.
Dabbler has most “reasonable” fetishes. So, with full malice aforethought, I must now ask- Is she into… feet?… :P
Let’s make it broader and call it “appendages”, and I assume so. Like, if I look at the sort of stuff that Dabbler and other succubi have done during the historical run of this webcomic, I’d say there’s vanishingly little stuff that she has hard limits against. Like, at first I thought “she doesn’t want to violate consent”, but then I remembered that she has used a lust aura to push other team members beyond their usual mental barriers, and that she has literally mind controlled Jabberwocky by kissing her. I think that the only things that I don’t think she’ll be comfortable doing (or at least not as part of the canon events in the comic) is the really disgusting stuff, like doing things with kids or animals. Because there’s no chance in the world that Dave is going to toss away his entire webcomic by even remotely implying that one of the main characters in the story is THAT kind of sex pest…
I wouldn’t necessarily rule out animals as long as they display advanced sentience. Dabbler is an alien/demon and we’ve seen many forms of intelligent life already including a dimension of tentacles and we know Dabbler has had sex with a horse man. I actually don’t know what to call it now I’m sure there’s a line between sentient animal like species and bestiality though.
I think that in context “animal” implies “nonsapient”.
We should remember with Jabberwocky.
That it was in the middle of a fight. Lethal force were being applied.
Thats ABSOLUTELY where you get to dig the mind control out. No questions asked.
And as for her Lust Aure thing. Ehh. She made people a bit uncomfortable.
But i think calling it pushed past mental barriers are overselling it.
I believe Dabbler is “into” giving and receiving pleasure. I don’t believe she would be into looking at random feet (or appendages). But I believe she would be into it if someone else was into showing her their feet. She wouldn’t get exited about the feet; she’d get exited that the other person was getting exited by her reaction.
So you should absolutely send your feet pics to Dave so he can show Dabbler.
(And that, kids, is how you get banned from commenting on a comic strip)
Worth noting that succubi feed off of sexual energies, so it’s likely she is often ‘into’ something even if she isn’t normally, simply because she’s getting the high from her playmate. That might actually be another source of the bad rep demons get, really–a succubus could easily feed off of someone who is being utterly depraved of their own accord, and because the succubus was there, they get the blame for the deviant conduct.
ah, one of the top ten line never to say when doing something, even if its just getting a glass of water from the sink!
anvil/kenya’s face in the last panel look like something out of lilo and stich!
While Anvil might not be able to teleport, her powers probably allow her to full on sprint without much in the way of sound by absorbing the energy that would’ve normally caused the sound of footsteps. She has already somewhat demonstrated this ability when she airdropped quietly enough to sneak up on Sciona’s golem.
Commit to it Dave and tell us where Dabbler draws the line.
She doesn’t, as far as we can tell.
Did Anvil just come out of hammerspace?
Mwahahaha!
You win!
“Sergeant sense?” According to your cast page, shouldn’t she be having a “lieutenant sense?” (Did you forget you upped her rank on the cast page shortly after Galytn?)
Really not surprised that Dabbler would find that to be a turn-on. Really, I’m more surprised that Anvil didn’t consider it!
This is definitely a tangent question only loosely related to this comic but Harem’s been featured a bit lately and I’m just windering where white hair Daphne’s been this whole time? We’ve seen Blondie, Pinky, Punky, and now Goth but we haven’t seen White hair Daph in some time. Is that just like a coincidence? I figure maybe she’d be chilling with the Deus crew cause that seemed like her thing but she’s not over there or at least I didn’t notice her there and I haven’t seen her around ARC either.
I remember when She had lifted Dabbler by her hair when she showed up when Anvil was having Max try on close for her dinner with smug D, just the act of holding Dabs by her hair against the wall got her even more excited at the prospect of Max wearing sexy clothes because of the domination. She was squirming and squeezing her legs together, then when Dabs started to speak Kenya grabbed her tongue and finding out it just kept coming “like a tape measure.”
So yeah, a succubus would be into any and all cosplay/roll-play. Never was my cup of tea, teasing is one thing but choking or hair pulling, naa…
Gothamer changed her hair? Use to be black with lilac ‘Sydney bangs’, now it looks like dark purple purple extending to the ponytail
Thought it was Gwen at first
Dave…. Why is Dabbler’s drawing board an actual drawing board?
The tablet RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU could have had a cameo.
Just speaking for myself. I can do enough CAD to laser cut stuff to three decimal places of accuracy but sometimes the drawing board with paper and pen drafting is just more satisfying.
Could be for the same reason she likes to wear a lab coat or a sexy teacher outfit when she’s explaining things. Anything to help her to attract her next “meal.” Sometimes I wonder why they don’t let her “feed” on bad guys to drain them and leave them weak and sleepy… and content lol. Hell I wouldn’t mind it, but I’m afraid my heart wouldn’t handle the strain ;)
Because that would be rape. And Max doesn’t approve.
Rape? Just look at Dabs, more so when her glamor and lust aura is going, I doubt anyone would complain… It’s 99% Max, and while she claims to not be a prude, she has an axe to grind about men saying and doing things to women, if the woman wants it, it’s none of Max’s business. And I’m sure if Dabbler didn’t want it, she’s more than able to stop any human.
And when her lust aura is going, it’s not clear whether or not the people affected are actually consenting.
They have, at least once. I forget who it was, but Syd called him “Barbarian.”
It was this guy who was a barber for supers who had super strength. He technically wasn’t a criminal because he was part of the bystanders that got coerced by Vehemence’s aggression aura.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-310-dabblers-happiest-meal/
This also shows that Sydney’s whole amnesia mallet is actually just a long term callback to Dabbler’s own shenanigans which is really funny.
The Barberarian. He does her hair now. Maybe even Maxima’s. Has diamond-edged shears! Comes back every week or two for another workout
Pleasantly surprised that no one here is blaming this situation on Dabbler. Yes, that would be weird and wrong, but a lot of folks here are frequently weird about Dabbler
I feel that Dabbler would not get the attraction for feet. I don’t get it either, but this isn’t just me projecting. Dabbler doesn’t have human feet, so she likely would be less disposed to being attracted to feet and more disposed to an attraction to hooves. This doesn’t prevent it entirely, and she may be attracted to the foreignness of them, but there’s another reason. In humans, one of the main reasons people are attracted to feet is due to the way our brain’s sensory cortex is mapped. The area for feet is directly next to the area for genitals, so a lot of people’s neuron activities bleed over and trigger the genitals. Aliens have completely different brains, so their mapping would likely be different.
The flipside is that she’s a succubus. Triggering a partner’s fetish is going to give her a rush of tantric energy, even if it’s not something she’d normally start out being into. And exposure to enough fetishists, over time, would quite likely build up a bit of an innate response–essentially, she’d ‘learn’ new fetishes through exposure.
So it’s quite likely there’s only two categories of fetish she doesn’t have:
1: Things she’s never encountered before, and which are outre enough that she doesn’t just instantly ‘get it’. There’s not a lot on Earth that’s going to fall into this category, I suspect, as she’s been here awhile and has been fairly voracious in experiencing what our Little Blue Dot of a planet has to offer.
2: Things she genuinely has a moral objection to. This is probably going to be a fairly narrow field, as well. Sure, she isn’t likely to be into pedophilia, as such, but I wouldn’t rule out her shapeshifting/glamouring herself to look like a minor girl and feeding off some pedo that way. (Except, of course, that DaveB is unlikely to include such material because he’s not likely to court that sort of backlash.) After all, the principle reason for pedophilia being taboo is that young children cannot meaningfully consent to such activity, and we’ve already established that Dabs’ relationship with consent between adults is a bit more fuzzy than most folks’.
I feel like Dabbler’s moral boundary would fall somewhere around “just don’t cause lasting harm to someone who didn’t deserve it.” Even that can get kind of fuzzy if you aren’t careful but it would cover most circumstances. In the Grrlverse there do seem to be limitations even with immature succubi.
Rather than Dabbler “learning” a new fetish I would see it as more adding a new tool to her tool box. For instance learning to proficiently perform oral sex can be satisfying as a skill gained and a pleasure given but that doesn’t make it a fetish.
So, if I close my eyes and say ‘Snu Snu’ three times, will Kenya appear behind me? Delighted to see her again.
Yaaa Anvil… That is in fact the correct reaction here…
She already has a hammer for this, she just needs a glyph and maybe a few tweaks.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-310-dabblers-happiest-meal/
This one had me laughing so loud people from two rooms over came in to check on me.
Deserved, tbh. At least Dabbler had some fun.
All fetishes are weird, which by the Syndrome principle means all fetishes are reasonable. QED, Dabbler has all fetishes, as one would naturally expect.
First, Sydney knocks over a couch thinking about the hammer. Then, Dabbler knocks over a couch thinking about the hammer. This hammer is looking more and more like a bad idea.
Sydney didn’t knock over the couch, she fell over it. Also, technically, it was Anvil that knocked over the couch. Dabbler was the tool she used to knock it over.
And that’s a comfy chair, not a couch
Yeah? Where is the comfy cushion? Didn’t expect that response, did you? :P
Now Anvil can see how Max is creeped out by Dabbler
It’s a wonder that they can control Dabbler at all.
Honestly, they can’t. She is really just playing along in order to not be ostracized. If this were a more serious comic, I’d suspect that eventually, this would be a major plot point.
To paraphrase a line from Good Omens: “She is just a succubus who goes along with the laws of humans as far as she can.”
I’ve been on the internet for a long time, yet every so often, I hear about a new fringe fetish and am reminded that there’s still magic n
in the world. And that some magic is dark magic.
Yesterday I heard that there are not one, but TWO fetishes called “cardiophilia.” One is people turned on by the sound or feel of another’s heartbeat, which is actually kind of cute. The other is being turned on by the sight of a heart, which is…less cute.
Something tells me that Dabbler actively enjoys the first, and occasionally enjoys the second while dungeon delving with friends and lovers…
Not gonna lie. This had me cackling. Poor Anvil looks so cute in that last panel and in dire need of a platonic hug.
As we have learned from Sidney the only ways to NOT elicit a sexual response from a succubus is going for something either really painful or REALLY weird; like punching their gazorpazov or licking their eyeballs…
And note that eyeball-licking was done to a young succubus. As I remark above, it’s quite likely that over time, succubi who feed on people with a particular fetish are eventually going to develop a conditioned response to that stimulus. So if there’s someone who is really into eyeball-licking, and they spend a lot of time together, she could end up with just that sort of thing being a turn-on.
No, I am totally not jealous of Dabbler. Not at all. Nope. Not me.
*internally*: THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!! NOT HER!!!
If this were the times of ancient Gaul, Dabbler brews up a magic potion and would always tell Anvil, “No Anvil you can NOT have any more magic potion…!”
Anvil replies, “Why not Druid Dabbler?”
Then Dabbler says, “How many times do I have to tell you, when you fell into a cauldron of magic potion when you were eight years old, it had a permanate affect on you and thus you don’t need anymore potion!”
Anvil and Halo cosplaying as Obelix and Asterix should make a good vote incentive picture.
I mean, giving Halo a non-lethal option that she will actually (gleefully) reach for instead of some real estate shredding archeo-tech, that will ALSO play really well in the media seems like a win/win to me
It’s a good thing Dabbler is into it because getting physically assaulted and choked out over someone else’s superstitious belief is a HR nightmare.
Cue Deus calmly glancing as a giddy sydney runs by several times with a hammer.
“So..”
Maxima “Yes, she can use poppy dog eyes”
Anvil seems to be knows the tropes well. You NEVER finish that sentence without consequences…
Change Blindness? Grace would approve. https://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1912