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Grrl Power #1003 - There's two of... uh, both of them
🕑 Added 2021-12-06 11:00:05 +0000 UTCThanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.
Yeah, it's no surprise that Dad was the larger influence on Sydney. More on that soon.
Lots of talk about genetics under the last page. And yes, I know brunette hair plus blond hair doesn't necessarily equal dirty blonde, or dark blonde or light brunette or whatever Sydney is, but really, a lot of traits tend to skip generations. My paternal grandfather's pinkies both tilted slightly inward on the last joint. My dad doesn't have that, but I do. (It's fairly slight, it makes no difference when wearing gloves or typing, in case you were thinking I have crazy pinky claws or something.)
The purple uniforms aren't so weird looking, are they? I know some people were like "Purple dress uniforms? Ehhh…" I just wanted the team to have a unique color from the other branches, and yellow and orange were definitely off the table. Granted, they're a dark, desaturated purple. English doesn't have a lot of words to describe desaturated colors, which is a shame, because I think a medium-light desaturated purple is one of my favorite colors. There's just no word to describe it. There are words for non-primary colors like "gun-metal blue" but even those have a much larger range than "yellow." What some people call gun-metal blue are straight up violet, so if I google some paint swatches and say "mauve" that could be anything from pale orange to peach to lilac to periwinkle to fuchsia. Honestly I think having only like 9 solidly defined colors is a real failure for English.
Speaking of books, is anyone aware of a series in which the MC get transported to a world/time that's hugely patriarchal, like 1500's Europe or another world where women are uneducated baby machines/homemakers, only the MC is a woman who's an ex-Army Ranger or a Valkyrie or even a bio-weapon super soldier or a cyborg or something? I think that would be fun to read. If it was well written. If it was just a series of "Women can't drink beer in this bar" -One Fight Scene Later- "We were ignorant men! Thank you for showing us how wrong we were! Please drink all the beer you want!" then that would get boring quick. It would still be gratifying to read probably, but not 400 pages of just that. I'm thinking more of the requisite scenes in Isekai books where the MC invariably shows off some odd advantage they have like being 50% stronger than the typical denizen of the destination world or learns their language in two weeks or whatever. And I don't mean like a story where a woman does math then gets chased out of town for being a witch, more like a horde of orcs attacks, and the men won't let the women help defend, and they start getting their asses handed to them, then the ex-Valkyrie grabs a spear and annihilates the orcs like they're 1 Hit Dice monsters and she's a Tarrasque. Those scenes are always fun to read. I've just never seen it done with a female protagonist.
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Timothy Mayfield
My favorite name for a color is from an '80s Honda CRX brochure: Screaming Yellow Bonkers. If you want a name for the not so brilliant purple is maybe Serious Purple.
Martin Croft
I'm sorry Dave, but the only person who could get into that centre panel is Picasso
Ha. Sydney dad in 80's jacket.
Jonathan
"a world/time that's hugely patriarchal, like 1500's Europe " Well, it wouldn't be 1500s Europe, for one. The female protagonist would end up as quite the celebrity, so long as she was willing to adopt masculine dress. I don't mean pretend to be a man, either. Women who fought and dressed like men absolutely fascinated Europe in the 1500s (also much earlier going by Petrarch's glowing description of Maria of Pozzuoli and Jean le Bel's admiration of Jeanne de Montfort). Women in this period were also far more than uneducated babymakers. Those of the town were mostly literate and numerate, running the financial side of their husband's business in addition to often working in the workshop. Country women were as educated as their husbands and can be frequently found working the same jobs. The "May Wives" who accompanied armies were an integral part of the logistics and engineering side of things as well.
Darastrix Sthyr
Is it wrong of me to be slightly disappointed that you DON'T have "crazy pinky claws", after hearing that that was an option of things I could imagine?
recurve33
The type of story you are describing is similar in concept to David Weber's "Safehold" series, but it's a little more complicated than you outlined (it always is...*sigh*)
Manuel Vasquez
Maybe I'm just a colorblind barbarian, but I thought you were drawing dress blues in a shadowy area. Did not know their uniforms were intended as being purple
Anton Schleef
Well, I'm glad that someone around here has been able to fill in your isekai request. The only ones I know of with a female protagonist are more advanced in how they treat women. I think I've encountered a couple with a male lead dropped in the matriarchal version of that society, to varying degrees of enjoyability, but I can't place any like what you wanted.
Eric
I like Sydneys dad. He seems like a grea t guy
Thisguy
I’ll be honest. The dress uniforms look fine to me. Very… blackish? Honestly, the purple is too subtle for my eyes to make out. Which incidentally segues into genetics. My maternal grandfather could not tell the difference between red and green, and while it skipped my mother’s generation, I have the same issue. Which also encompasses a whole lot of shades. I have to look very closely and have a compassion in order to determine some shades.
Stephen Gilberg
They still look black to me. Of course, not much of what we call "black" truly is.
For something close to your Isekei MC request, check out this series: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Files-Henri-Davenforth/dp/B07PGLGQW2
SteveKeiler
Heads up, there's a typo in the first panel. "I've being curious about" should probably be "I've been curious about" or "to being curious about"
Kile Mullen
You may want to try “Magic and the Shinagami Detective” by Honor Raconteur. The MC is a federal agent pulled into world like Victorian England but with magic. She has to convince the locals she’s not some delicate flower to be protected but a capable detective and peace officer. She ends up paired with a local ME (Magical Examiner) to solve murders and mysteries.
Paul Gabbard
Sydney's hair has an unruly history, she has her dad's bangs.
Immortal_Knight
Okay damn I see the purple now? I honestly at first thought the uniforms were black lol. Also I never noticed this before but the frames of sydneys glasses are weird in that they seem to defy all normal conventions of glasses or at least the ones I've seen.
Noise
I have a t-shirt that's close to the "Long DIstance" shade on that page. One odd bit of trivia: faded and desaturated purples are often very, very good camouflage in dark and low-light environments.
Town Crier
"Shades of 'End of Days', Batman!" "Exactly, Robin!"
Justaguy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKvtbH8qUWU&ab_channel=MilanRecordsUSA That's the 14 minutes of music that plays through the Climax at the end I think.
Swedish Chef
The important question is : Kaneda theme or Tetsuo theme ?
Justaguy
This may be handy on your purple naming scheme, I think there's 140+ shades of purple here? https://www.color-meanings.com/shades-of-purple-color-names-html-hex-rgb-codes/
CyberSkull
It is late and my nerd brain isn't able to pull up the right music.
Teach Minchew
Not exactly what you’re asking for but similar- Apocalypse Troll by David Weber. Female MC from the future gets sent to the present and she is the one who has to save the world despite the patriarchy trying to slow her down. She is in all ways superior to current humans but… yep, men don’t like that.
Aclys
Beneath the dragoneye moons has the patriarchy thing going, mc is female though a healer/mage type cause magic is awesome, right? And women in the land she grows up in are essentially the property of their fathers, husbands etc, which is not to say that All women live their lives accordingly, there are paths though none of them safe. Elaine, the mc of said story, probably wont go ham exterminating hordes of badguys by herself, but she absolutely does bring some modern medicine type isekai know-how to revolutionize the healing arts and kick butt in a life-saving way! Azarinth Healer is another great one if you want to read about a lady protagonist kicking ass and taking names, the world has Some bias against women being frontline asskickers but that's not really the central theme. The central theme is instead mc fighting monsters, inhuman and otherwise using the skills of her main class (the name of which is the title of the story) and an often relentless disregard for her own mortality while exploring and adventuring in this new world she's in.
I don't know why, but I find "I'm so proud I could shit!" to be far funnier than it should be.
Steve Ronuken
The pantone colors exist for a reason ;)
Thisguy
How many pins is she using to keep her hair back?
