Marta is very diligent in taking census polls of her subjects. Nobody ever rates her less than a 10.
Well, they don’t do that more than once anyway.
Marta has a strong opinion on the consent-related aspects of being picked up and carried around. If it's a Yes, have fun with it. If No, prepare to lose some blood.
Only thine fiancé shall up thee and thee upped be done only by thine fiancé!
XD Well,that’s adorable. And how strong is he?
A bit sronger than average, it helps that Marta’s a small-framed person.
Still pretty cute.
I think so too! 😀
Also that way of holding people is among the easiest ways to carry a person. You still need a bit of strength because humans are heavy but a small framed woman like Marta probably gives him little to no stress on his lower back which is what you actually hold a person with.
He could probably carry her for hours.
Hmm. That’s pretty cool,thank you for this. :3
No problem. I was on the wrestling team in high school so I learned a lot of leverage and weight distribution. Interestingly, firemen carry people that same way because it’s easier and less fatiguing on them.
So if you ever want a shoulder ride like that, catch your house on fire. Just kidding, don’t do that.
Also taught in basic training, and for EMTs
I wasn’t being sarcastic btw. This is pretty good info. 🙂
The love on their faces in the first panel is a delight to see ^^
Oh now that is just TOO cute. No seriously, it’s too cute: Stop it!
Secret police have been alerted to the excess of cuteness in this area. Please remain calm and you will all be rounded up for decontamination at the undisclosed location that is definitely not the abandoned mineshaft outside of town.
Awwww… There was a point in time I was small enough and my guy was muscly enough to do that—except I hated being picked up). Oddly it seemed like the first thing a lot of dudes (and tall ladies) wanted to do on dates.
“Ohmygersh! You are so teeny! I must pick you up.”
“WTF?! I am a person! Not a toy—dammit!”
And I still don’t get the obsession with lap sitting. Never cared to do it. It’s weirder now, because even as a small adult sitting on a larger adult’s lap I feel like I’m going to fall off.
Yes, I am weird alien.
I have joked with my friends that if I dated a midget I would probably abuse that right. Whenever I want to irritate her in an argument instead of arguing, just toss her onto my shoulder like a sack of potatoes and walk off.
We big people can abuse the hell out of our height given the chance.
I know Marta is petite but these make her look like she’s the same size as the kids. The proportions just look a little off to me. Maybe it will look more balanced once it’s colored in.
I think it’s the very awkward posing. Not really showing very well that she’s kind of curved her torso to lay across his shoulders like that.
It’s not too crazy. Some of my friends’ 9 year olds are as tall or even a little taller than me. And while I’m short (5’1″) I’ve met a number of women who are actually smaller.
Is it bad that my first thought was, “Marta, you can’t make that kind of joke in front of kids!”?
Ha ha, the original draft was a bit more suggestive. “Trust me girls, when you’re eighteen you’ll love having some guy sling you over his shoulders.”
wait… outside the dungeon… Marta just got a LOT more interesting… or maybe im just a bit of a perve… okay.. aLOT of perve.
?? What’s so pervy about D&D?
I think that’s more a B & D dungeon, than D & D.
I have run pervy D&D campaigns. Beware the Pink Beholder.
Or the purposefully flamboyantly gay elf
That one was not my fault! I just give out bonus xp for role playing…..and all elves are kind of flamboyantly gay. You never see a manly lumberjack elf for instance.
I object to the over-muscled male elves in World of Warcraft… so much that for one character, I gave him a female elf’s body just to better play to my conception of the character (of note, I was basing him off a genderless shapeshifter from a book, so it wasn’t too far-fetched).
That being said, “manly ranger elf” is a thing. They’re not ALL girly/gay.
We had a Pathfinder whores campaign once. Three whores and a bouncer get sick of the gal who runs the brothel, go out of their way to run her out of business, then skip town and end up in shenanigans.
Early on, the GM handed each player a paper with a description of the client for a different player, and we role-played off each other. My character in a previous campaign had at one point been teased about the planking craze, and had used the word “languorously” which just led to more teasing, so the GM had managed to work both ideas into the client I got, and we all laughed our heads off.
What’s funniest to me is that I had no trouble playing through this scene, but in a later campaign had an extremely negative reaction to being put in a situation where I had to role-play courtship. Personality-wise, I’m against indiscriminate sex and very monogamous-minded, so I learned something about my ability to deal with these concepts in-game.
…and then later in the whores campaign I got flustered by a social encounter I had to run myself (convince a lumberjack to give us information), and ended up going “Look, can we just stop talking and have sex?” (He accepted. I caught “Boot Soup” and later had to burn my own feet to stop the infection.)
This is absurd and hilarious. I love it.
Amanda? Calling for a truce? With Selkie? That’s real progress!!! 😀
Fried meat is involved. Old rules must be reevaluated in new light.
She must protect the bacon. Everyone protects the bacon eventually.
Priorities, meat > bullying apparently.
I’m tiny and my guy is huge ^_^
I’m 5’7″ and weigh 90lbs, and my Mitch is 6’4″ and 350lbs. He picked me up without permission and slung me over his shoulder when we were in high school (uh, that was 20 years ago)… but he’s picked me up more recently without any problems. Cuz he had permission, and we’re actually in a relationship now. Not just my giant friend grabbing me and threatening to throw me in the river 😛
I saw Marta draped across Steve’s shoulders and read “I’m a boa” and immediately thought ‘feather boa’. But those boas don’t hiss… as far as I know. ;-}}
Well they can, but the snakes don’t like it when you glue feathers onto them.
Those tracking Smith Family Trivia, we now have a pretty strong indicator that Marta’s age is twenty-three. (Assuming I haven’t missed a birthday and Selkie and Amanda are still eight.)
Sounds like Marta is playing at the part of Modest’s momdusa (from Modest Medusa), wehich means that would make her fiancé the Vampire Prince. 😀
It does, doesn’t it? I hope the operative word there is ‘playing’. ‘Momdusa’ and the Vampire Prince are not, er, ‘pleasant’ people. Nothing major, ya know, just a few little things like, oh, prolonging your life by eating your own children?
Yeah, Yeld? Not first choice for a relaxing vacation.