Grrl Power #1326 - Conniption of the lepus
Added 2025-01-30 11:00:19 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Just admit you're a furry, Sydney! Your current boyfriend is covered in the stuff, and not because you're dating Dan Hedaya or still-alive Robin Williams.
Is a were-reptile in hybrid form room-temperature-blooded? And what would that mean for their metabolism?
I like to think Kat goes to a "Lame Weres Anonymous" meeting. A support group for people bummed out by their animal... uh. Not their animal form so much, but their... spirit animal? No. Their therio-genus I guess. You know what I mean. The bunny rabbits, the naked mole-rats, the Proboscis monkeys, the Aye Aye (unless you already looked like Bobcat Goldthwait or Father Jack, then it wouldn't feel like a downgrade), the furless Sphynx Cat. No matter what you personally think of those wrinkly gargoyles, if you could turn into a hybrid one and had to stand there next to an actual fucking were-tiger or were-ocelot or panther or something, you would feel robbed. And probably cold.
Kat especially, since she was an accidental were. Or, not accidental, but it wasn't something she chose. I'm sure there's some line of were-Sphynx Cats who tell themselves it's a proud and noble legacy. That might mitigate some of the bum-out factor. The Twilight Council and the Weres in particular try to prevent a bunch of uninformed and/or accidental propagation. The first few transformations can cause disorientation and aggression, especially if they don't know what's going on, and that makes for incidents that then have to be covered up at best, and a propagation cascade at worst.
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I kinda want to see dinosaur girl as a NSFW vote incentive. Err... for the science.
Shyster
2025-01-31 20:48:32 +0000 UTCThanks!!
Merle Blue
2025-01-31 17:35:26 +0000 UTCAnyone who's ever read Watership Down should have mad respect for lagomorph combat abilities.
Hugh Eckert
2025-01-31 17:33:35 +0000 UTCHighly recommend the Common Descent paleontology etc. podcast. Will and Dave are a) very good at sci-comm, b) super enthused and entertaining, and c) complete nerds.
Hugh Eckert
2025-01-31 17:31:45 +0000 UTCSome kind of *hopper*. Heh.
Hugh Eckert
2025-01-31 17:29:25 +0000 UTCThanks, I'll bow to your expertise. I'm not going to go around sniffing rats, unless they are very, very domesticated.
John Anderson
2025-01-31 06:59:40 +0000 UTCCome on. She looks like a grown up Baby-Bop. It is not easy to get cuter.
Mark Nach
2025-01-31 05:35:03 +0000 UTCLook-- one of the weres in this scene reminds people of Barney. The other probably brings to mind Lola Bunny.
ufgrat
2025-01-31 04:41:01 +0000 UTCSome pointers from Math and she'd be unbeatable. Also very annoying.
eddi_TBH
2025-01-31 04:25:10 +0000 UTCJust relax. Really relax. You may not want to come back.
eddi_TBH
2025-01-31 04:23:36 +0000 UTCI think they are all Arc members or Shadow Council. A tough bunch to damage. Neither Slam or Sydney seem worried and Kat is just embarrassed.
eddi_TBH
2025-01-31 04:18:42 +0000 UTCThe similarity in diet means a similar general scent.
eddi_TBH
2025-01-31 04:14:21 +0000 UTCIt's a size thing. She is the smallest were she knows. And note, she doesn't get any larger in her hybrid size. Her full monty is probably even cuddlier with a twitching nose.
eddi_TBH
2025-01-31 04:12:57 +0000 UTCLook at those ears. Aren't they cute? First one to call her "Flopsy" gets kicked into Lunar orbit.
eddi_TBH
2025-01-31 04:09:42 +0000 UTCPoor Kat. If she just accepted the simple fact that a were-hare is still a powerful form to have.
Mark Nach
2025-01-31 00:51:50 +0000 UTCThis may be the best post I’ve ever read in a Comment section.
John Anderson
2025-01-31 00:26:35 +0000 UTCI don’t think I could tell the difference with a sniff test. Although to be honest, I have never tried, nor intend to.
John Anderson
2025-01-31 00:21:59 +0000 UTCAt the risk of dating myself, they were lumped with the rodents when I learned classification. My sensitivity about lagomorphs may be a result of having had to learn the difference.
John Anderson
2025-01-31 00:21:12 +0000 UTCYes, but can YOU tell the difference with a sniff test? The similarities between rodents and lagomorphs led them to be classified together until the 20th Century. Now, instead of being a group in the order Rodentia, lagomorphs are their own order, but still considered to be closely related.
Louis Richards
2025-01-30 20:21:16 +0000 UTCThe sound effect seems to have come from hitting the metal container. I was talking about the construction worker who seems to have been knocked off of it. His skin tone seems darker than Achilles.
Stefan J Neylon
2025-01-30 20:14:26 +0000 UTCAt least hares are more badass than rabbits.
Stephen Gilberg
2025-01-30 20:14:07 +0000 UTCScientifically, yes. Casually, they count as "rodents."
Stephen Gilberg
2025-01-30 20:13:27 +0000 UTCThe first wererabbit was a pest control incident gone wrong in Wigan, England
SheepFace2000
2025-01-30 19:01:27 +0000 UTCThe super headquarters was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
John Anderson
2025-01-30 18:26:23 +0000 UTCBunnies are lagomorphs, not rodents.
John Anderson
2025-01-30 18:23:08 +0000 UTCThat's the problem with super powers - fits of anger can lead to big destruction.
Jared Juetten
2025-01-30 17:52:34 +0000 UTCFrom the sound effect I think it was Achilles.
Jared Juetten
2025-01-30 17:51:17 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure almost all of the half-form lycans were 98% created by hollywood's earliest film days, when gluing fur to someone's face and arms was a realistic choice but training a wolf was not. I suspect it grew out of stage "transformations" where a man wore a wolf pelt and the audience was supposed to suspend disbelief and accept that he was now playing an actual wolf despite looking like a man wearing a pelt.
Richard Riley
2025-01-30 17:13:44 +0000 UTCThunderbird was already taken anyway, we had to make them thunderlizards for copyright reasons.
Richard Riley
2025-01-30 17:00:27 +0000 UTCHave we covered what happens if you get double lycanthroped? I still feel sorry for Kat who the heck makes a were-rabbit in the first place? ... I wonder if the space people have a cure for lycanthropy? Don't feel too bad Kat, you're still a badass!
IvyReed
2025-01-30 16:53:31 +0000 UTCAt some point in the mythos, it became popular to pit lycantropes against vampires as a kind of natural enemies/rivals of spookyness. And given that vampires are often superhumanly strong, fast and so on lycantropes with merely the strength of normal wolves wouldn't exactly amount to much of a contest.
Aclys
2025-01-30 16:39:50 +0000 UTCDid she just kill a man? It looks like one of them is about to land on his head.
Stefan J Neylon
2025-01-30 16:34:26 +0000 UTCWell, current theories consider dinosaurs more closely related to birds than lizards, and birds are warm-blooded.
Town Crier
2025-01-30 14:26:30 +0000 UTCAye! Man, I really need to start reading paleo journals again
Merle Blue
2025-01-30 14:26:21 +0000 UTCMost of the animals in the dinosaur+pterosaur group probably had body temperatures that were significantly elevated over ambient. The degree of homeostasis is questionable -- we are within a degree or so of 98F unless we're sick because we have strong homeostasis, but across the whole group of dinos (and the huge range of body size) we can assume there were different approaches.
Greg Morrow
2025-01-30 13:56:42 +0000 UTCThe growth rate in the littles also suggests elevated body temperature.
Greg Morrow
2025-01-30 13:52:16 +0000 UTCPerhaps in his earliest comic form, but AFAIK for animation supes has always been super human being "faster than a speeding bullet" and "able to leap tall buildings (skyscrapers) in a single bound". But now? yeah damn. God like powers eh? amazing
Immortal_Knight
2025-01-30 13:34:30 +0000 UTCThat makes sense, cool
Nathan Wilson
2025-01-30 13:14:11 +0000 UTCLooks like a cement mixer to me.
gaijin 99
2025-01-30 13:05:11 +0000 UTCCan't tell what that thing she kicked off was supposed to be. Some kind of hopper? That was attached to a mailbox looking thingamajig
Nathan Wilson
2025-01-30 12:52:32 +0000 UTCAre there any were-insects?
Martin Drkoš
2025-01-30 12:50:13 +0000 UTCThe amount of power in your cool character that you're telling stories about tends to creep up over time. Look at Superman. AFAIK the original version was stronger than a human (throwing a car) and therefore could jump really far. After 20 years or so of stories (and other competing characters), he's moving the Earth around in space and able to fly faster than light.
Mark Magagna
2025-01-30 12:40:34 +0000 UTCArt she "accidentally" saw? Syd sure scalied that one excuse back real quick.
You_With_The_Face
2025-01-30 12:19:48 +0000 UTCShe can even claim she wasn't a catalyst, just an innocent bystander for a change.
Anton Schleef
2025-01-30 12:16:35 +0000 UTCShort version: Triceratops MAY have been semi coldblooded but used its sheer size and digestion to stay a consistent temperature, but that wouldn't work for baby dinos, so they might have STARTED warm blooded and then cooled off as adults
Merle Blue
2025-01-30 12:14:54 +0000 UTCThere are a few legends that implied they had enhanced strength and speed, but more near the upper limits of what a determined human can achieve through training and not super-human levels. Heck, even the super-healing and being hard to hurt are mostly newer aspects to the mythos as well.
Anton Schleef
2025-01-30 12:14:44 +0000 UTCOh, man, I just did a mini dive into the current research on warm/cold bloodedness in non-theropod dinosaurs and it is a WILD ride
Merle Blue
2025-01-30 12:13:08 +0000 UTCI find myself wondering, when did the whole super strength concept become attached to the idea of lycanthropy (and similar assorted animal transformations)? Because the original versions for millennia seem to have just been men who transformed into vicious animals. It seems like it's only in semi-modern versions that we get the part man / part beast super strong and fast variety.
Madcat6204
2025-01-30 12:07:26 +0000 UTCWere sloth. I just haven't found out how to morph yet.
Madeleine
2025-01-30 11:39:16 +0000 UTCI really beg to on your sphynx cat part. Just look at the video "straight up villain / animation meme" by wingedwolf95 on youtube. I could see that hybrid in your world as a drug gang leader who tattoos magic onto her followers.
BigKumaDM
2025-01-30 11:20:38 +0000 UTCIf the Bloody Roar series taught me anything it's that WereRabbits are strong as fuck
DonnieRamesJio
2025-01-30 11:19:58 +0000 UTCLook at it this way, Kat, you can always enroll in competitions for superpowered Muay Thai or Capoeira!
Michael Obert
2025-01-30 11:10:40 +0000 UTCAt least sydney didn't cause the damage. This time.
Michael O'Driscoll
2025-01-30 11:08:41 +0000 UTCKat really regrets her Weregacha luck.
3of4
2025-01-30 11:03:16 +0000 UTC
