Grrl Power #448 – Motivated gourmet
Yes, I’m aware I used the sound effect “KA-BUN” on the previous page and not “KA-HARE.” Basically just because KA-BUN was funnier sounding. And Sydney glossed right over it so we should too…
The species drift thing with the lycans seems like something that could make for some interesting drama… if this was a comic about lycanthropes. As it is I’ll leave it for one of the multiple spin off comics I’ll never have time for. Let’s see, so far there’s Arc-LIGHT adventures, as briefly glimpsed on this page (by the way I’m well aware blood banks don’t keep open swirling vats of blood around, panel 3 is just what Sydney is imagining happened.) Basically it’s BPRD meets Fringe. Then there’s Demon High, as briefly glimpsed here. There’s actually probably some others I’m forgetting about.
Anyway, Katrina is slightly off about it being intra-genus drift, or at least she’s simplifying it for brevity’s sake. Basically there’s like a 1 in 10-12 chance of an intra-species drift, so a werewolf might spawn a were-dog, a 1 in 40 chance of an intra-genus drift, so a werewolf might spawn a were-jackal. Roughly 1 in 100 chance of an intra-family drift, so werewolf to were-fox, and about a 1 in 750 chance of an intra-order drift, so werewolf to were-tiger. From there it spikes. ~1 in 10,000 chance of intra-class drift (werewolf to were-rabbit or were-gazelle) and no one knows if there’s a chance of an intra-phylum drift because as far as anyone knows lycantropy is restricted to mammals. No were-fish or were-birds. That isn’t to say the Grrl-verse (I guess that’s really the term I’m using) doesn’t have humans who can turn into bird of fish hybrids, but they’re something other than lycans.
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Guy walks into a bar sees a huge German Shepard laying on the floor next to a guy drinking beer. He says “When did we start allowing pets in here?”. The German Shepard says “Don’t worry he’s house-broken.”.
In a story I’m writing:
Character: “Monica… that’s… that’s a bear.”
Bear: “Hi Monica. Who’s your observant friend?”
Something like this scene is part of a story that lives in my head. The dog is fully sentient due to some factor that I haven’t totally fleshed out yet. They guy he’s with is a Veteran with some real issues and a problem with alcohol caused by those issues. The dog is what you might call “Military Grade” and owes the guy for freeing him (and faking his death). They are on the down low but take no shit from anybody. They do joke on each other though hence the scene. If the guy drinks more than 3 beers the dog will bite him enough to draw blood so he has to go to the ER. It only happened a couple of times.
Read the Callahan series by Spider Robinson ;)
Ralph! (I need to dig out my copies again. It’s been too long without a fix!)
Ralph was first introduced in the story named, “A Doy Day’s Night.” Ralph has appeared in various other stories written after that point.
I’ve implemented (and mostly, argued for) a cat race in Dungeon Crawl. Not a human with furry ears and a tail, but a cat that can talk (sentient…) and that’s it. It’s fun how many actions you take for granted are impossible with no thumbs. Open a potion bottle? Hold it in front paws and uncork with your mouth. Unroll a scroll? Also doable. Pretty much anything else? No go.
So I wonder how you dealt with such problems with that sentient dog in your story.
Typing is doable. And becomes positively easy, with a custom-built one, to suit paws and claws. Plus that can be used to control all sorts of other useful devices. Getting them into a dungeon? Well, clever players will find a way.
if a man who is only able to move his eyeballs can write multiple books and steadily press our scientific envelope forward, i think a Siamese with an int of 16 can trace an arcane sigil into the air with it’s tail. or a doberman can, i dunno, beg it in the air in front of him. i’m more of a cat person, really.
Go read the strips on Krosp on Girl Genius.
Use the GG wikia to find the Krosp pages.
The Foglios take a few liberties but it works.
And while you’re at it check out Larry Niven’s (and assorted other authors) Man-Kzin Wars and when you’re done with those, go play the “Wing Commander” video games.
Backstory on the Kzinti was they stole the technology they have now from one of their slave races who used them as Mercs. Humans have more adaptable brains and thanks to the Puppeteers better luck. The average Kzin’s idea of tactics is “Scream and Leap”. Humans despite being puny “Monkey-boys” beat them every war. Not without some loses though. But the real ass-kickers are the “Protectors” who are thankfully mostly extinct.
Then there’s a guy who walked into a bar, with a bullfrog sitting on the top of his head. The barkeep asked, “What’s up with this?”
“It started as a wart on my @$$,” the frog replies.
I see these two becoming fast friends. They’re both new to the world of the fantastic.
Isn’t Sydney a little too young to have to deal with grey hares?
ba dumm tishhh
Why would humans be the base origin species? Weres shouldn’t be restricted to a human turns into a ? Sometimes. What about the rabbit that occasionally turns into a Tasmanian devil or kangaroo that turns into a armadillo? As this can work from extinct species how about “my dog turns into a Tyrannosaurus rex”
Many real viruses have trouble infecting other species, barring some rare mutation (at that point, people flip their sh*t). A magical virus is probably less likely to mutate in that way. Maybe it will mutate at some point in a way that will make it able to infect some non-human species, but even then, an individual lycanthrope with that mutation would have to bite and not kill the specific animal that is susceptible to the strain. Heck maybe lycanthropy already can infect the star-nosed mole, but no lycanthrope has non-lethally bit one (or some other species).
Heck, it probably originates from a shaman who had a head cold when the virus mutated. Or maybe just a wizard with too much time on his hands.
That card totally does not rule out non-humans being were’s
Can you imagine a canine that turns into a feline? o_O
stopping halfway would make it a fox?
Oooo, ooo, ooo, does that mean i could become a Cybertronian Were-Wolf? Go Transformer, become a RC plane, go wolf, pee on stuff…
Stop halfway and pee on stuff as you fly over it.
XD I like the way you think…
Maybe humans are one of the few species able to control their mutation because of their unique brain adaptations. Maybe your hamster can turn into a platypus once, but not back. Or the mosquito keeps on switching to an earthworm and back, eventually starving because no side stays “active” long enough to gather enough food to sustain itself. I’m not saying it’s impossible to train your hamster to switch on command, but imagine how hard it would be considering how hard it is to teach them any “normal” tricks.
Is there such a thing as a were-human? You know, a human that, on the full moon, or whatever, turns into a totally different human, who looks nothing like the first human?
There’s The Nutty Professor…But he relied on a potion that he concocted to do that, similar to Dr. Jekyll.
Maybe ll those conventions of lookalikes are actually pack meetings of were-weres.
Nope, all weres are human at the base by definition – ‘wer’ is the Old English word for ‘[hu]man’. (There’s mention of ‘werwulf’ in the Anglo-Saxon laws. Likewise, the ‘anthro’ in lycanthrope is a root word for human). There may be comparable diseases that affect other animal species and turn them into a different species, but on linguistic grounds a goat, for example, that turned into a wolf would not be a goat-werewolf, that would be redundent. Instead, it would just be a ‘gatwulf’ :)
Do not forget the “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, of Biblical origins. Perhaps a sheep-wolf lycan? Or a traditional werewolf, wearing a sheep-skin jacket.
If we’re completely ignoring the “lycan” part, what makes you think the “thrope” will be adhered to?
Sticking with Greek roots, if “lycan-anthrope” is a human that becomes a wolf, a goat that become a wolf should be “lycan-aiga”, or with the same criteria that “tragey” a “lycan-trago” but that is specifically a male goat (don’t know if there’s a special name in English).
Now that I think about it, doesn’t “wer” share the same root that Latin “vir”? (pronounced “wir” as in “wire”). If so it would be “male” rather than “human”.
Nope. Wer is only cognate to the Latin (i.e. both were from the same root). As is “were.” Whereas it is actually from the from Proto-Germanic “weraz” and the Proto-Indo-European “wiHrós”. Both of which we can only speculate on, as they are reconstructed languages. However both of those are thought to have meant “man” and “husband”.
Although we might think it to be synonymous with “man”, and therefore having been used to indicate the species (as in “mankind”), that is not actually the case. That usage
So, yes, the archaic usage of “were” was “male-human wolf”. However the modern usage is:
Uh…
D.S. : doesn’t “wer” share the same root that Latin “vir”? “
Yorp: Nope. Wer is only cognate to the Latin (i.e. both were from the same root).
D.S.: If so [“wer”] would be “male” rather than “human”.
Yorp: Although we might think it to be synonymous with “man”, and therefore having been used to indicate the species (as in “mankind”), that is not actually the case.
[from link]”…and “adult male”, which developed after Old English’s distinct term for the latter (wer)…
Aren’t we saying the same?
Just in case: in my op I was commenting about Arachnecrosis’ statement:
‘wer’ is the Old English word for ‘[hu]man’
Darn it, I misread your statement as ‘traces its roots back to the latin “vir”‘. Whereas I knew that it actually came from the others I listed, hence leaping into my reply all-too hastily.
When I am being more conscientious, before hitting the “submit comment” button, I go back to re-read the original comment, and see if my reply properly addresses it. This time I failed. Sorry.
*retreats into dog-house and puts paws over head*
No problem, I have done the same more than once.
I’m guessing Sydney has never played Bloody Roar and had to deal with that rabbit lady.
She probably never played the Steve Jackson Games RPG called “Bunnies & Burrows” either.
The edible doormouse can hibernate for up to a year at a time, making were’s of that nature excellent astronauts, and incredibly long lived
And if one can shrink to dormouse-size and hibernate, there’s much less need for life-support during travel time.
Just make sure the capsule is not dormouse-sized to save costs…
Plus, if there is a survival situation, and life support runs short, ‘edible’ has its uses.
A number of scenes in this series would benefit from using different art styling for current action vs flashback vs character imagination.
Dave will probably be working on a thought-bubble type solution, per a reply on the previous page.
Love the world you’re building. One errata note: the way you have it worded, it looks like Sydney is saying that “herbivorous predator” is redundant. Actually it’s an oxymoron (unless you are saying a herbivore preys upon plants, and predation is a more “active” activity than grazing).
“Carnivorous predator” is redundant, though. “Vegetarian herbivore” would certainly be redundant and a humorous inflection of “carnivorous predator.”
Yup, that’s true. I wonder if I should fix that. Sydney is one of those people who can be grammatically critical of others but isn’t necessarily a stickler when she speaks.
I took Sydney’s comment as a two parted response.
First she went with making the ‘as opposed to’ joke where you try to find an opposite to something that normally has none.
Then her verbal buffer caught up with her brain and she realized that the original description of ‘carnivorous predator’ was redundant and she said ‘sorry’ in regard to that phrase.
So, the apology was for two sentences back, not one.
No, don’t fix it, just pass it off as Sydney not knowing she made a difference, or edit it so Kat corrects her (or correct her in-world)
Tired of people complaining about grammar in webics, when most times, the ‘error’ is common in everyday speech (typoes need to e corrected, but grammar should not, unless it is something in error for that character, but then it can be passed off as an ‘in the heat of the moment’ slip, like someone reverting back to their native language when angry or startled)
Both terms are right, see my reply below.
Well, if there are sentient and mobile plants, and there are herbivores who hunt and eat them, I could see the term herbivorous predator.
It minds me briefly of a small Billy and Mandy skit where General Skarr turns into some sort of garden monster and while out stalking Billy, they run across some vegetarians who ask if they can borrow the bush following Billy around. Episode Herbicidal Maniac, about 5 and a half minutes in.
“Feed me Seymore”
The way I read it, Sydney notices the redundancy of “carnivorous predator”, and self-ironically equates it to a strict subset of all predators, as if the qualifier ‘carnivorous’ was actually necessary (thus necessitating the existence of non-carnivorous predators to distinguish from). So, the “herbivorous predator” line is not serious, it’s meant to be a comment on redundancy, and the phrase “that was redundant” also refers to “carnivorous predator” (and, as such, it’s redundant itself).
(Although seemingly not enough. :D)
I remember an old school exercise I did where we had to invent an island and a couple species on that island for a food-web. My ‘Producers’ were fish with a transparent bubble in their back, in which grew plants that provided 02 and sugars for the fish, while the fish provided water and nutrients for the plant- and so the Herbivores of the island were predatory, with long claws and sharp teeth, in order to catch the fish, tear them open and eat the plants inside.
Viciously clever.
There is too a type of herbivore-predator. You can see him in the Ice Age movies. It’s Sid!
“Hey, I see a leaf & I eat it. That’s my tracking skill.”
“unless you are saying a herbivore preys upon plants,”
Yup. Although the common use imply an animal prey, biology sees herbivorous as predators of plants, there are terms like “seed predators”.
” “Carnivorous predator” is redundant,”
Nope. Scavengers are carnivorous that are not considered predators.
Both terms Syd is using are right, even if she is not aware of it.
Sorry, I misunderstood, the second part do not correspond.
Anyway, both terms are right with just the first statement, predators can be carnivorous or herbivorous.
BTW: A “vegetarian herbivore” could have sense, since “vegetarian” is a decision while “hervibore” is a biologic predisposition.
Sydney:I hope you’re not offended by what I’m about do…
Katrina:Why should I be???
Sydney:Well,it’s from an old movie starring James Stewart and….!
Katrina:Show me!!
Sydney:(throwing arm around Katrina,while holding up camera phone) Say ‘hello’ Harvey!
Snaps pic!
But Sydney does not need Kat to recreate that scene. Nobody can see Harvey.
If her truesight orb could reveal X to her, Sydney should be able to find Harvey with it. Then they could pose foe real!
To REALLY see Harvey requires probably a huge amount of alcohol!
In common usage “carnivorous predator” is not strictly redundant. We don’t normally think of insectivores (that are not themselves insects) or the critters that eat small sessile animals (corals, some bivalve molluscs) as predators.
(Technically, of course, they ARE predators.)
No were-birds unless you count Swanmays, or maybe some variant of harpie.
Or sirens
If they can drift from species to species, could you get someone who is a were-human?
now all those lookalike meetings make sense, they are were-weres!
We are one step closer to catgirls being a possibility as the ban on creating chimera creatures in America has been lifted. We will now be allowed to splice human and animal DNA legally.
Seriously? Looks like it’s vacation planning time.
Where are Faust and Eliza when you really need them?
I haven’t seen them recently, but last known place I saw them was at Peppermint Helmet. They must’ve had some kind of problem & sealed up The Compound, I guess.
Oh?… Towards or Away from said labs?
Mad scientist/chilli blogger living in britain here. I think you can guess the rest.
:-D
very LOL
No, it hasn’t. FACT CHECK TIME!
The National Institutes of Health is proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, under certain carefully monitored conditions. Researchers might be able to better study heritable human diseases, and find drugs that work against these diseases, by using chimera animal models. Perhaps the most widely discussed implication of the research is its potential to create animals that contain human organs, which could then be transplanted into patients.
Because of the ethical concerns, though, the experiments would go through an extra layer of review by a special committee. That committee would, for example, consider experiments designed to create animals with human brain cells or human brain tissue. Scientists might want to create them to study neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. But the experiments would undergo intensive scrutiny if there’s any chance there might be a “substantial contribution” or “substantial functional modification” to an animal’s brain.
It’s also worth noting that the changes are proposed, not approved.
I wish America would apply the same degree of concern to other areas. For instance putting in similar precautions for nano-technology.
Currently you can wander into any supermarket and pick up a packet of detergent with “special micro particles”, in one of a variety of brands. The makers can, quite truthfully say that they meet all safety requirements. However as there are no regulations to cover nano-particles, that is a very simple requirement.
So they are able to pollute our water supply completely unregulated. Note that the particles are too small for the kidneys to filter out. Likewise they will pass through mains water filtration like it did not exist. Which means that even though I carefully avoid buying such products, I am at risk of having my brain cells, and other organs punctured, because other people are blindly buying it whilst world governments are simply ignoring the whole field!
Wasn’t Swan Lake the ballet based on a story about children cursed to be swans?
Yeah, but they didn’t get to change at will.
Lycanthropy translates to “wolf-man” in latin, specifically referring to werewolves (through the many humans-who-turn-into-wolves-or-wolf-like-beings in mythology/folklore). Therianthrope would be the “proper” blanket term for humans that turn into animals. D&D uses “lycanthrope” for all were-creatures and so do everyone thus far in the Grrl-verse so I’ll go by that. Maybe the relation between the different lycanthropes made it make sense to use that term while “therianthrope” is used as blanket term for all types of human-to-animal shapeshifters, some of which aren’t infectious (kitsune, selkies, etc.)
I wonder if intra-phylum drift is possible, but it is so rare that it hasn’t ever happened (or was never recorded nor propagated when it did that one or two times in history). Perhaps the transition from human into something so far unrelated is too traumatic, making it extremely difficult or even lethal. Maybe no one infected in this way had the willpower/physical ability to initiate the transformation.
Pretty sure zoanthrope is the accepted “medical” term.
Hey, I use ‘Girlieverse’ so you could be doing worse…
Okay, I’m sorry to be THAT guy, but what the hell kind of incompetent blood-bank operation puts blood in a vat? Let alone leaves it exposed to the open air like that? That is a COLOSSAL health hazard that would’ve had that place shut down by the FDA and the CDC inside of five minutes. Blood needs to packaged, sealed, and frozen for it to be of any future use. That vat is just a giant petri-dish of bacterial infection waiting to happen. If anyone was actually receiving transfusions from this blood-bank, a were-virus would be the LEAST of their problems. I mean, Christ, gross bacterial hazard aside, is any of that blood even separated by type?
Read the commentary, Sydney just has a mind that focuses on drama over logic.
lol damn dude, read the artists comments under the comic.
(by the way I’m well aware blood banks don’t keep open swirling vats of blood around, panel 3 is just what Sydney is imagining happened.)
Ah ok, I see it. I missed the parenthetical when I read through it the first time.
while i know it was a movie, and thus Hollywoodized, but the same company that designed THIS blood bank must have been the same company that designed the blood bank in the Mila Jojovich movie “Ultraviolet”, at least they learned from their mistakes here… that one was at least SEALED…
since the “potential is hidden” , there is a chance that before fact is revealed and even after it was revealed since they are basically humanoids that someone who is a were-wolf(or potentially) gets married to a were-sheep (or potentially) than we could have kids that might be humans (if the lycra genes are recessive and have one gene or both fully human ) or were-wolf or were-sheep (depending which of the 2 is less recessive ) or if both are equally strong, a wolf in sheep’s clothing ;)
I love the lion in the Hawaiian shirt — If this ever happened to my family, that would be my brother, right there. Complete with the big hair and that grin.
Everything goes fine until ‘that look’ happens when they find out “What do you mean the burgers aren’t ready yet?”
https://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/34b0aadf7a0dffa54444a4cf660353bc
Well chosen image.
If the infection is virus based, and does include the DNA of all its “lines” (i’m assuming that the virus records each species it infects hence the slightly random nature of the transform); then that opens up the ripe possibilities of science replacing the dna in the virus with specific tailored versions.
Imagine if you took your own DNA from a stem cell, then replaced the animal DNA inside the virus with your own, Allowing you access to all the benefits of both “wereism” and the ability to temporarily activate your cells greatest potential by boosting all of them with the stem cell’s dna strands.
Or a tailored version that merges a human with, say, an incredibly long lived tree species.
“…say, an incredibly long lived tree species.”
That sounds like an idea that could actually take root.
*giant redwood lands on you*
What a Groot idea!
Geez guys, you’re going out on a limb here…
Let me give you tree words. “Eye yam Groot.”
so you would be a were-self, with the ability to turn into your past self?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752869.Wind_Dancers#
This series had the were’s be artificial, they had three forms, human, animal, and wind
So THAT’S how the “Trees of Earth” were created in Dr. Who!!
Actualy being a werebunny is a very good superpower when I think about it. Because anyone who messes with good and not demonic bunnies and rabbits will get on Doomguys shitlist. You realy don’t want Doomguy as a enemy.
It’s pretty lame if you’re the girl bunny. Ten seconds of action and the guy drops off in a faint…
That just means more bunny-girls for everyone else, man.
Except that it wasn’t. Not in the slightest way funny. There were endless possibilities open to you, and you chose the absolute worst one available. Congratulations.
I did get a chuckle out of the celery neck bit, however.
To some of us, yes it damn well was funny, pray tell what word you would have used instead of simply criticizing the artist and the readers?
HareDUN, KerFUZZ, KaLAP, they all fall short of kaBUN.
I dunno, KerFUZZ kinda works. I have to agree with Oberon just a bit… I didn’t find Ka-BUN very funny either. Maybe KA-(whatever) has been overdone, I dunno.
How about DUN-done-BUN?
In the last comic I provided a criticism that was far more than just “It sucked.” Not that a simple “It sucked” is in any way lessened as a critique. It only lacks in not being constructive, which a criticism is in no way required to do.
But I provided a complete and constructive criticism. You can refer to that post if you managed to miss it, I don’t see any point in repeating myself for you if you can’t be bothered to read and recall what has been said previously.
Had read it, just didn’t recall you coming up with an alternative to “KA-BUN”
Yes, I said then, and I still maintain, that providing a list of alternatives would only be a distraction from the main point.
If you’d like me to prove that I am always right, then bang on,
hairsI mean here’s the distraction:BUNBUN
BUNNY
WHAT’SUPDOC
HARETODAY
HARE
RABBITSEASON
WABBIT
That’s only 7, but it took me less than 60 seconds to make this list. The author could have potentially done better, given that he has said that each comic takes him hours to make and he could be pondering the potentials all the while. Literally anything would be better than re-using an old and tired non-joke that wasn’t even humerus (sic) in the first appearance.
Ka-done.
So about the myth of vampires being able to turn into bats.
Would those be vampire/werebat hybrids?
Probably just vampire imposters who are werebats.
or just the stories getting mixed together
Some of the vampire legends come from Germany. The were-bats probably originated from another extinct species: the Dire Fledermaus.
The whiskers are missing every-where on this page
Wouldn’t that be every-‘were’ ?
Were-hare?
Where’s the hair of the were hare? Is she aware that when a were her hair is not there?
If she decided in her will to leave a locket of her own hair to her daughter, then it would be the were hare heir hair.
Hare? Nah ther.
I know it’s a Syd imagination spot, but panel 3 does answer the question I asked a couple of days ago, “What does it take to make Pixel not look bored?”. Seems that stopping arch villains plots does the trick.
That last panel looks like something out of Deviant Art o_o
Or WereWorld.
On Deviant Art they usualy have less clothes on.
True. That means this must be the pre-orgy barbecue.
Why on earth do they have all the blood in a giant vat? Pasteurization?
No. Because Sydney has a vivid imagination. Read the artist’s comments:
The sound effect was appropriate. For hares, pikas, and rabbits, the scientific term is ‘bun’.
That is how I like them. With some mayo and onion.
As long as they aren’t brioche. That stuff’s better for breakfast than it is for burgers.
a were-rabbit or were-hare could potentially have an easy time learning kickboxing and jumping long distances and have super hearing and super eyesight and some added factors included (like peter Parker did with his intuition aka spider-sense, not just super strength and able to stick to walls )
I’m surprised Sydney dropped the opportunity to make a Wallace and Gromit reference. Shame.
That’s a fairly obscure reference though, for an American, isn’t it? o_O
Not given the number of Oscars they won, over the years. I imagine they are quite well known.
Curse of the Were-Rabbit had a decent impact on my childhood. I grew up watching it/Aardman in general and me and Sydney are about the same age.
So, is it a man or a woman? the Hare-were. I mean the last page went from one to the other and I think here(s)he has boobs?…its weird…
the were-hare’s name is Katrina, as shown here:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2187
It was originally written as “Katarina”, her two subsequent entries on the “Who’s Who” has it spelt “Katrina”
How many male Kat(a)rina’s do you know of? o_O
But yes, Kat is female (unless you would like to take her behind a screen and examine her yourself… ;) )
Weak argument, lots of names have different gender in different cultures, also there’s always someone who don’t know or don’t care.
Knew someone would bring that up about gender, but personally have ever heard of a male with the name of Katrina or Katarina
Me neither :P
Oh, wait, but I do know a girl called “George”: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=385
And then there was A Boy Named Sue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIMgEEASoWQ
Or even, A Sioux Named Boy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXJBPbxvM5U
The were-hare would be called she ether way (see comment below) as all hares are called she.
And what if the species did drift to the point that there were were-humans? They just turn into another… human…
Thank you so very much, I may never get the picture of a giant vat of blood(hopefullly not mixed between the different blood types) with the villain out to contaminate it while flies and other things most likely fly into it out of my mind…. Good one, damn this evil sense of humor that seems to infect us…
Love Sydney’s imagination with that giant vat of blood.
Gasell back away from the grill slowly you have many reasom too live.
that piccture it looks like the gasell is planing a too take his own life by barbeque and lion eating frenzy.
OK let us assume that the plan is to integrate lycans into society, the same way that supers are. So Arianna will need to be able to promote their usefulness to society.
• Were-beaver for aquatic construction
• Were-seals for oil-rigs and undersea pipeline work
• Were-bats for night-time reconnaissance and elite special forces infiltration squads
• Were-gorillas for construction and security
• Were-elephants for construction and emergency rescue work*
• Were-foxes to be professors of cunning, at leading universities
• Were-flying squirrels for the entertainment industry (flying trapeze, aerial photography and outdoors broadcast reporting).
* Fly a team to the disaster area, in human form, and have them transform when heavy lifting, pushing or pulling is needed. Local infrastructure is often ruined, so conventional machinery may not be available. Plus trunks can explore crevasses, sniffing and feeling for any unconscious survivors. Further they can carry survivors through deep water. Finally they will be the best individuals to ask, for survivors seeking missing relatives. They do not forget.
But the Were-Flying Squirrel has to be teamed up with a Were-Moose.
+2 for great reference.
Currently pursued by Russian headhunters, for employment.
“Be vewy, vewy quiet. We hunt moose & squirrel. He-he-he-he-he!”
Were-german shepherd for policework. Those dogs would be perfect cops with more intelligence.
…And they happen to stand at just the right height to get a perp’s full attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoZVglR9Xio
So is this comic zootopia yet?
Caaaaaaaan I get a better shot of that tigress? =3
Yea, you would probably want a more elevated position, to be out of the lion of sight. But you are probably best of waiting until you find out whether or not you need silver bullets.
However do bear in mind that she may not be evil.
Good thing Kat is female seeing as all hares are referred to as “she” no mater the physical gender. (Kinder like ships, maybe). I can see a male were-hare getting called she and people asking if he was transitioning. Que comedic misunderstanding.
I have never heard of that. But you can guarantee that would not be applied to were-hares. For the reason you stated.
However you are right that the first person, to make such an assumption, could make the hare mad. :-D
*Smirk*
He might have been an idiot for Propagating a lot, but at least he picked a Species that could not come back to bite him.
You have obviously never raised rabbits. They CAN bite and they CAN cut chunks out of you when they do it.
I can confirm. This is correct. I can also confirm that they taste delicious if you cook them correctly.
That is news to me. I was told they kick defensively, but wouldn’t bite.
You can tell this is a comic book universe. Instead of preserving blood in carefully labelled blood bags in large fridges, it’s just one huge boiling open-top vat right under a badly railed walkway that’s easy to fall into Joker-style.
You can also tell that you didn’t read DaveB’S comments.
:-D
Good thing there’s been no mention of a sperm bank, then. Women especially would need to be careful on those walkways.
There’s probably a porno of that somewhere. “Overdrawn at the Sperm Bank.”
This forum sure put akward pictures in my (admittedly very silly) brain. I’m going to have to buy my brain bleach in the big economy pack from now on.
After that comment, I’m starting a discount on Brain Bleach™ if bought in bulk. With a purchase of 1 gross-(out) or more, I’m even throwing in a free package of Inter-Cranial Sandpaper™ as a trial sample.
I’ve been told I tend to increase sales of brain bleach. Personally, I think it wouldn’t be so much a problem if the rest of y’all didn’t have such dirty minds.
Hey, at least it had a hand-rail!
Can’t have that, you might lean on it.
Nope, Yorp doesn’t have any hands, so a handrail is useless to him anyway.
Fortunately it doesn’t matter. Or at least it won’t once he becomes a famous singer.
I am hoping for a number one.
I see a new TV show in the making; “German (Shepard’s) got Talent!”
No matter what scars you bear,
Whatever uniform you wear,
You can fight like a Krogan, Run like a leopard,
But you’ll never dance better than Commander Shepard.
Sorry. Those are some parody lyrics based on Miracle of Sound’s lyrics for a song about Commander Shepard. After seeing “German (Shepard’s) got Talent”, I couldn’t resist. You can watch the original video here:
https://youtu.be/HiRDJLcYua0?list=PL90229471516D05ED
(And if you liked the Metro 2033 / Metro Last Light games, check out “The Day The World Died”; if you liked the movie Pacific Rim, DEFINITELY check out “The Crush”.)