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Nadette has forgotten Long Tall 'Sali's Aunt Jaguar. That's a girl who knows how to accessorize the upper balcony.

I find it amusing that Atsali talks about what "kids" wear to coffee shops... Almost makes it sound like she's older than the crowd she expects to see there...

Nitpick: Nadette's speech balloon, in the second panel, looks like it's missing some words.

Nadette wrote:Just pick out something that will show how thoughtful and smart.

Seems to me that the words "you are" should be there, at the end of the sentence...

Either that, or, since there wouldn't be enough space to fit it in, replace "show how" with "say:", and put "thoughtful and smart" in quotes. Although it would be better yet to replace "will show how" with "says"


Meanwhile, I must commend Nadette for not running out on Atsali, in spite of the discomfort this whole situation is putting her in. That would severely affect Atsali's self-confidence.

lake_wrangler wrote:Nitpick: Nadette's speech balloon, in the second panel, looks like it's missing some words.

Nadette wrote:Just pick out something that will show how thoughtful and smart.

Seems to me that the words "you are" should be there, at the end of the sentence...

That's how it already shows up for me. I'd guess Pablo already fixed it, and you are seeing a stale cached copy?

Meanwhile, I must commend Nadette for not running out on Atsali, in spite of the discomfort this whole situation is putting her in. That would severely affect Atsali's self-confidence.

She may not have the strength to run... all her blood is rushing to her ears

Speaking of... since she's shown this same reaction when aroused no less than three times, it's probably not just a matter of getting distracted and being unable to hold her human form... it's gotta be a true, adaptive sexual cue or response in ursamorphs. Like y'all say, an ear-boner. Its exact role... it could just be an arousal display (like an erect nipple). Or, it might actually be functional... big ears make hearing both more sensitive and more directional... maybe Nadette's ancient ancestors were solitary hunters, who had to track down and locate a mate in the forest using sound as their primary cue when mating season arrived?

jayessell wrote:Oh. By the way and completely off topic...

One of the Old Time Radio shows...
Maybe it was Obbler's* 'Lights Out'...
Had a demon or ghost or something that killed people
by turning them inside-out!
Of course, it's one thing to put that in a radio script
and another for the sounds effects guy to figure out
what that would sound like.
His solution?
Squeaky Balloons!!!

Supposedly, the deep, scraping sound of Orson Welles' Martian spaceships was actually a mason jar lid being slowly opened inside a toilet bowl.

The ear can do amazing things to/for the mind, and vice-versa!

But let us all not forget the MAIN point: Namely, Atsali looks really good here. She apparently has a sense of fashion, even if she has no confidence in it.

I hope ear boners aren't uncomfortable...

Dave wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:Nitpick: Nadette's speech balloon, in the second panel, looks like it's missing some words.

Nadette wrote:Just pick out something that will show how thoughtful and smart.

Seems to me that the words "you are" should be there, at the end of the sentence...

That's how it already shows up for me. I'd guess Pablo already fixed it, and you are seeing a stale cached copy?

Indeed, it would appear I was. I had not moved my tab from the page from last night.

jayessell wrote:Oh. By the way and completely off topic...

One of the Old Time Radio shows...
Maybe it was Obbler's* 'Lights Out'...
Had a demon or ghost or something that killed people
by turning them inside-out!
Of course, it's one thing to put that in a radio script
and another for the sounds effects guy to figure out
what that would sound like.
His solution?
Squeaky Balloons!!!

I think it was Inner Sanctum. From what i read, it was a motorcycle inner tube. Cut it to make a rubber tube, run a rope through it, tie the rope to one end, wet the rubber, grab the rope and the tube, and pull the rope...

There was another radio play where the characters were lost in a cave system. They come to a huge room they have to cross. Oh my god! The floor is covered with thousands of giant spiders!". Fifty pounds of seedless green grapes and a pair of old shoes you don't mind getting icky...

That outfit is something that Aunt Monica might have helped her pick out.

I don't know about any of you, but I half expected her to come out in an 8-Ball Tee shirt and jeans. But it is wintertime in the Twin Cities...

jayessell wrote:

Drakkenmensch wrote:Does anyone else see Nadette's ear boners happen and fill in the lack of a sound effect with the sound that you get when you kick a door stopper spring?

No.
That's the sound for the other type of boner.

Squeaky balloons? No... That would be Atsali.

Hmmmm... Champagne glasses toast sound? Ting!

Since the ears are furry, I give it kind of a fwoomp.

For me the sound is more a plop like dough hitting a counter since its not just the ears but the whole head morphing.

AnotherFairportfan wrote: I think it was Inner Sanctum. From what i read, it was a motorcycle inner tube. Cut it to make a rubber tube, run a rope through it, tie the rope to one end, wet the rubber, grab the rope and the tube, and pull the rope....

Arch Oboler's Lights Out episode 'The Dark', a free download at Archive.org in the audio section.

And Mr. Oboler said it was rubber gloves being pulled off.

To those who are afraid of saggage: Atsali Sirena isn't quite human...

She's also a teenager.

(Sidelong glance @ Thor)

Thor wrote:

zachariah wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/just-relax/
Why would she ever think she needed a push-up bra???

So she could keep things straight. At that size there is sag and droop just from the volume and mass.

Not necessarily. She is very young and those boobs are only about a month old. The ligaments could still be resisting gravity at this point. (In fact, from the way she looks when she's cavorting around braless at home, they seem to be impervious to gravity.) Plus, magic. She's a half-siren/half-incubus, so her magic is going to invested in her appearance...keeping everything perky beyond the laws of physics. The push-up bra is rather superfluous.

Not to split hairs, but wouldn't that be that she is half succubus since she's female? Pretty sure Succubus is the distaff of incubus and that each term exclusively refers to one sex.

Gyrrakavian wrote:

Thor wrote:

zachariah wrote: So she could keep things straight. At that size there is sag and droop just from the volume and mass.

Not necessarily. She is very young and those boobs are only about a month old. The ligaments could still be resisting gravity at this point. (In fact, from the way she looks when she's cavorting around braless at home, they seem to be impervious to gravity.) Plus, magic. She's a half-siren/half-incubus, so her magic is going to invested in her appearance...keeping everything perky beyond the laws of physics. The push-up bra is rather superfluous.

Not to split hairs, but wouldn't that be that she is half succubus since she's female? Pretty sure Succubus is the distaff of incubus and that each term exclusively refers to one sex.

I used incubus there to indicate that the "*-bus" gene-donator was the father.

If I hadn't, then someone would say "'Half-siren/half-succubus'? Both of those are females! Who's the father?"

Damned if I succu-, damned if I incu-.

Man, I thought the panel of Atsali I've been using for my wallpaper of her would never change, I was wrong.

Thor wrote:

Gyrrakavian wrote: Not to split hairs, but wouldn't that be that she is half succubus since she's female? Pretty sure Succubus is the distaff of incubus and that each term exclusively refers to one sex.

I used incubus there to indicate that the "*-bus" gene-donator was the father.

If I hadn't, then someone would say "'Half-siren/half-succubus'? Both of those are females! Who's the father?"

Damned if I succu-, damned if I incu-.

Depending on the demonology/mythos, they could just be the gender-forms taken by the same creature. Metamorphs are like that. But as for Atsali...

She's a sirenubus.

Clever Pablo. Here we've seen her agonizing over being seen as a siren, when what she fears is becoming a soul-eating succubus with siren powers.

Yamara wrote:Clever Pablo. Here we've seen her agonizing over being seen as a siren, when what she fears is becoming a soul-eating succubus with siren powers.

"Love me for who I truly am, or be helpless before me and die forever."

Yeah, that'd be one hell of a tag-line. As bad in her way as what Galadriel would have turned into, if she'd accepted the Ring from Frodo and taken on Sauron's power. "In place of the Dark Lord you would set up a Queen, beautiful and terrible! All shall love me, and despair!"

(That is, if a Wapsiverse incubus is indeed simply the male counterpart of a Wapsiverse succubus. I recall Pablo making the point here in the forum that the characteristics of Wapsiverse mythics such as demons and succubi do not match the popular portrayals of the beings with those same class-names in popular literature. A Wapsiverse incubus might be something else entirely... possibly more of a Pan-like or satyr nature?)

(I'm reminded a bit of the story "The Region Between" by Harlan Ellison in the "Five Fates" anthology... one of five wildly different stories by five authors, which all start from the same two-page prologue). Ellison's story involves a being known as the Succubus, who stole souls. Nothing at all sexual about it... the Succubus was reselling them (or leasing them out) to fill a demand in the market. He was gold, he was dry, and he had immense amounts of face.)

Today - on the 20th - Paul posted a new picture - Atsali and Nadette - but there is no corresponding page to post comments named that. Am I to think that this posting is just an ad for art ? That seems to be the only reason that comes to what's left of my mind.