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Grrl Power #1005 - Dads be like...
🕑 Added 2021-12-13 11:01:02 +0000 UTCThanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.
Obviously Cora launched that FTL Comm Relay. Otherwise that conversation with Frix would have taken thirty years.
I'm not sure conflating Terrans with super powers and mass stupidity in the minds of the alien public is going to be a formula for reasoned discourse, but the space internet is as the space internet does. Let's just hope their space news-feed algorithms are a lot less echo chambery than ours. Even so, that Einstein quote about there being only two or fewer infinite things feels exceedingly appropriate lately.
I have to imagine space-reddit has to have subreddits like r/Species_X_be_like, cause especially if there a bunch of monocultures like ferengi or klingons, stereotypes will abound. Also, I'd like to think that most alien species wouldn't be a bunch of snowflakes. Like if you make a joke about a klingon starting a bar fight, I'd think most klingons would be all "Yeah, we totally would." I'd hate to think that humans would be the snowflake race. Well, we wouldn't be, at least not monolithically. Humans are always the "Anything we can do, you can selectively do better, but the point is we can do anything" race.
Woofs are the "date your daughter without too much fear of some dad taking a swing at them" race. Well, they're in that group, along with the bugs from Starship Troopers (not that they date much, but most dads aren't going to step up to one of those) Xenomorphs, Yautja... actually it's probably a pretty long list, but then I guess it might depend on what race your dad is. It's a chart with at least two axes.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
It's done! And by done I mean it's about ready to send off to the people who volunteered to spot check all my weird uses of 'and' when I meant to type 'an.' I'm going to give the new scene a once-over and send it off.
I really did not think it would take six months from when I started posting these updates, but at least the updated kept me on track better than me going "Oh, yeah, wasn't I working on a book?" once every six weeks.
Comments
Donald Randolph
You mentioned Xenomorph (Dzedin) & Yautja right next to each other. Seen any of "Out Of Cruel Space" by KyleKKent over on r/HFY? Poor Hebert is married to several of them :}
D.A. Lamont
Also, I wonder if Galactic-Reddit has a r/HFY. Anything humanity does is 9x crazy, and we're psycho AF. 😏💪😈
D.A. Lamont
Daughter: "Dad, he's tall, a mechanic, and an intergalactic bounty hunter." Dad: [daughter is smol, boyfren protec, attac, and add height to the family tree!] "Welcome aboard, son!" 😏
FeyOne
Somehow, this is the first I've heard of "Wearing the Cape". I've tried to look it up online, but keep running into "buy now on Amazon" links that don't tell me anything at all about what I'd actually be getting. Are these: books? graphic novels? short stories?... As you seem to be a fan, can you tell me a bit about them? If there is more Sydney Scoville in them at all, then that alone is a good recomendation. :)
Evgeny Sandu
I suppose that the similarity between Dad's and Frix's jackets is intended, right?
The Fire Piper
So we know the story of Cora getting a boyfriend / power conduit, but who is her Daddy? ;) is there a Cora's Mom? Or was she created?
furry
yes, i think sorta, but his response is more like "finally we get some HEIGHT into our family gene pool". As i doubt he is all that happy being small either. (most people do not like being in one edge of the gene pool, be it too tall or too short)
DonnieRamesJio
I feel like Sydney Scoville Sr. is the kind of guy who only operates at 100%, regardless of direction.
Les Bonser
I follow Grrl Power and support you on Patreon solely because I'm a fan of Sydney. I started following you after her appearance in Wearing the Cape, Book 6, "Team-Ups & Crossovers." So I've really enjoyed these last few pages--meeting her parents. Keep up the great work!
Nicholas Grey
Was that intended to be taken as “my boyfriend is too big for you to threaten”? Because it came across (to me, at least) as Sydney Sr having a height requirement for his daughter’s prospective suitors - “ah yes, he’s more than tall enough to be acceptable, very good.” (Immediate turnaround, but nothing in his expression or words that indicates fear or intimidation)
Stephen Gilberg
Sydney's second-to-last statement could have been taken to mean, "You don't have to worry about us having sex; he's too big for me." But she and her dad are on the same wavelength.
William Elliott
well, so do Indians, Pakistanis, Russians, Chinese, British, French...have you SEEN British comedy? Or French?
Talespinner Lore
"A chart with at leat two axes." More axes dependant on the number of arms/tentacles/grasper appendages your species may have. Minimum of three dimensional axes as well, barring some special cases.
Justaguy
"I'm not sure conflating Terrans with super powers and mass stupidity in the minds of the alien public is going to be a formula for reasoned discourse, but the space internet is as the space internet does." Americans have nukes. Same thing.
codesurfer
"Your dad calls me SIR" vibes
Marc Vun Kannon
"You fear the Klingon. There is no shame in this."
