In A Side Cup 2016-06-08

[Dave]

She's definitely not 100% Sphinx... still has a nice collection of very human quirks and foibles, which even custard can't eliminate.

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/in-a-side-cup/

[GlytchMeister]

SHE TAKES BITES OUT OF ICE CREAM ON A CONE?

[oldmanmickey]

Has he got all his facts right? i didnt think she was invulnerable. I will coincide though it probably would take something near god level to kill her.

[Catawampus]

Shelly has seen Digit before, but I wonder if they've had to spend time together yet?

Has he got all his facts right? i didnt think she was invulnerable. I will coincide though it probably would take something near god level to kill her.

Well, given who her mother is, she could be described as titanic. So she may have a weakness to ice. And perhaps to iced custard, too.

[Opus the Poet]

Justin did not say she was invulnerable, he said "Nothing on Earth can hurt you". That still leaves lots of things (and people) NOT on Earth that can hurt and/or kill her.

[AnotherFairportfan]

She got her girly ruffles back!

[AnotherFairportfan]

"High maintenance? Well, aside from the ten pounds of raw beef every day..."

[shadowinthelight]

SHE TAKES BITES OUT OF ICE CREAM ON A CONE?

It's definitely the best way to do it when you are eating flavors with stuff in it like chocolate chip cookie dough or peanut butter cup. Now I'm hungry. Mmm... Braum's ice cream...

[illiad]

SHE TAKES BITES OUT OF ICE CREAM ON A CONE?

whaddaya want, a 'tongue shaped' cutout ????

[KnightDelight]

He failed to mention that little quirk about her killing and eating sentient beings (other sphinxes) who cross her. Just like grandma, she likes them raw. Sphinx sushi. At least I guess she does. We didn't get to witness her turf battle loser feast. For all we know she and granny had a barbeque. Tina and her demons may have catered it. Naw, probably not. They're none too comfortable around sphinxes. Especially sphinxes who are currently dining on one of their own and high on a victory celebration. Tina's demons could become dessert.

But we do see another advantage of being a sphinx. Large bites of ice cream without getting brain freeze.

All in all, I think she is dwelling on the downside of being a tomboy. In spite of it all, she still wants to be a desirable woman. Human woman. She may be feeling that part of her slipping away and wants to do things to bring back some degree of femininity to her soul. I would say her biological clock is ticking louder than usual, but she has an eternity to have kids. Still, you never know when a sudden rush of estrogen may overwhelm you. The feelings she has must mean something. Have to wonder. Do they truly love each other down to their core or are they just comfortable together? Justin may not be treating her much like a girl and too much, like she said, "a bro?" I guess they're still not actually married. A while back she was kinda down about others around her getting hitched and she wasn't.

Also wonder, where Justin is concerned, is it difficult to treat someone who has so many muscles like a woman? Most men don't really want a hard bodied female in bed. They want soft and feminine. As long as Shelly insists on being like one of the guys physically, I don't think anything will change. Perhaps she needs to learn to shape shift better. She can to a certain extent now. A few lessons from grandma on how to present herself in a more girly form could be in order. Phix can do a pretty good job of it, after all. Monica's boss was smitten instantly. And, unbeknownst to him, had sex with a very powerful sphinx ... and lived. Not so much as an earlobe bitten off in the heat of passion. Probably really enjoyed it even. To have had that distinction and never know it would be a bummer though.

[FreeFlier]

He failed to mention that little quirk about her killing and eating sentient beings (other sphinxes) who cross her. Just like grandma, she likes them raw. Sphinx sushi. At least I guess she does. We didn't get to witness her turf battle loser feast. For all we know she and granny had a barbeque. Tina and her demons may have catered it. Naw, probably not. They're none too comfortable around sphinxes. Especially sphinxes who are currently dining on one of their own and high on a victory celebration. Tina's demons could become dessert.

Eat what you kill.

But we do see another advantage of being a sphinx. Large bites of ice cream without getting brain freeze.

I was thinking that!

I read something recently that says "brain freeze" is actually a narrow short-lived form of migraine.

. . . Monica's boss was smitten instantly. And, unbeknownst to him, had sex with a very powerful sphinx ... and lived. Not so much as an earlobe bitten off in the heat of passion. Probably really enjoyed it even. To have had that distinction and never know it would be a bummer though.

Don't know about that . . . how long has it been since we've seen him?



--FreeFlier

[Graybeard]

Also wonder, where Justin is concerned, is it difficult to treat someone who has so many muscles like a woman? Most men don't really want a hard bodied female in bed. They want soft and feminine.

You do realize, don't you, that you're talking about a guy whose ex was a werewolf who made him have sex with her while she was changing from human to wolf form? Shelly comes off as positively dainty compared to that.

And of course, what "men" want in a relationship is irrelevant here. What is relevant is what JUSTIN wants. (And, as goes without saying, Shelly.) We already know that Justin is ... unique in his own ways.

I once dated a girl who was Shelly-like when it came to worrying about how she was perceived by me, to an almost pathological degree. It took a good twenty years to get her over that. Fortunately, she did get over it, and the last fifteen years have been great; anniversary number 34 coming up in a couple of weeks. Shelly, unlike my wife, has the disadvantage of being immortal, so she herself may not change in ways conducive to that. But if the relationship is strong, the relationship itself will.

Speaking of which, wonder how Alan and Jin are doing?

[Dave]

Has he got all his facts right? i didnt think she was invulnerable. I will coincide though it probably would take something near god level to kill her.

Phix said that Shelly and Monica could "take on the armies of the world and win." That may not mean complete invulnerability, but it's a pretty close approximation.

Remember that Shelly mother Bia, as a small girl, lived through the Chimera's fire blast that burned Lanthis down from a civilization to a howling desert, and apparently didn't even get a first degree burn. Conscience (an elemental) punched Bia so hard that the impact created a crater, and Bia wasn't more than dazed. Phix punched Bia out through a solid stone wall. Titans are tough.

Sphinxes too, it seems. Shelly-sphinx (not even knowing of her Titan ancestry) wasn't at all concerned about being right next to the plutonium-fueled Vimana cell, whose radiation was potent enough to kill Shelly-1 after only a few seconds of exposure.

I get the feeling that Bia's breeding program was intended to create a girl child who had the strengths of both Titans and Sphinxes.

Bia apparently didn't take arachnophobia into account, though. A battle between Shelly and Ungoliant might be a tough fight.

[lake_wrangler]

Speaking of which, wonder how Alan and Jin are doing?

Didn't you hear? She got pregnant, and had her baby in their Toyota Corrola, by the side of the road (in a ditch, actually), and poited to safety, when a bear was attracted to the scent of blood. He made short work of the rear seat... And a mixup involving unrelated persons got an amber alert started, with them as prime suspects...
(I looked for the fanfic, but can's seem to find it...)

[FreeFlier]

Speaking of which, wonder how Alan and Jin are doing?

Didn't you hear? She got pregnant, and had her baby in their Toyota Corrola, by the side of the road (in a ditch, actually), and poited to safety, when a bear was attracted to the scent of blood. He made short work of the rear seat... And a mixup involving unrelated persons got an amber alert started, with them as prime suspects...
(I looked for the fanfic, but can's seem to find it...)

Here.

--FreeFlier

[louisxiv]

. . . Monica's boss was smitten instantly. And, unbeknownst to him, had sex with a very powerful sphinx ... and lived. Not so much as an earlobe bitten off in the heat of passion. Probably really enjoyed it even. To have had that distinction and never know it would be a bummer though.

Don't know about that . . . how long has it been since we've seen him?

;)

--FreeFlier

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2010-07-18

[Catawampus]

Phix said that Shelly and Monica could "take on the armies of the world and win." That may not mean complete invulnerability, but it's a pretty close approximation.

Though it also depends on how much hyperbole was going on there.

I get the impression that titans are even more durable and stronger than sphinxes, given Phix's words to Bia and the sorts of things we've seen titans survive and sphinxes not survive. I'd expect that a direct hit from a good-sized cannon would likely totally ruin the average sphinx's day, but would just make Bia really annoyed. So just how much of Shelly's toughness is due to her titan ancestry and how much due to her sphinxiness may be important. Is she at sphinx level? Titan level? Upgraded sphinx or downgraded titan level?

[chicgeek]

Also wonder, where Justin is concerned, is it difficult to treat someone who has so many muscles like a woman? Most men don't really want a hard bodied female in bed. They want soft and feminine. As long as Shelly insists on being like one of the guys physically, I don't think anything will change.

Keep in mind right before they started dating, Justin was taking martial arts lessons from Shelly. He even feigned ignorance, so she'd had to take a more hands on approach with him. Doesn't sound like a guy who's put off by muscles to me.
And, yeah, she's strong, but she definitely isn't 'one of the guys' physically.
Being strong doesn't mean you can't be feminine, if that's something you want to be.
And, it isn't a question of her 'insisting' on being like anything-this is who she is. Who she's always been, from the start. I'm glad she has a guy who can appreciate her for who and what she is, without insisting she shapeshift to a frailer form, and act like someone she's not.
Just my 2 cents!

[Catawampus]

Being strong doesn't mean you can't be feminine, if that's something you want to be.

So I've heard.

[Warrl]

Being strong doesn't mean you can't be feminine, if that's something you want to be.

So I've heard.

And from the mouth of King Adelaide herself.