Hey, look at dese!

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Hey, look at dese!

1EndofDiskOne
Apr 12, 2025, 3:54 pm

These feathers are great! Come have a closer look!

2bam2001
Apr 12, 2025, 7:18 pm

That rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide!

3GSSex-noob
Apr 13, 2025, 7:37 pm

>2 bam2001: He does look like he's about to attack her for using some of his relatives as boots. Just look how he's eyeing her foot.

Also, great lack of situational awareness. She's all about the feathers, wolf is looking the wrong way, ears forward and even bunny hasn't noticed the troop of demons coming down the stairs.

And her knees don't match.

42wonderY
Apr 13, 2025, 9:49 pm

>3 GSSex-noob: Neither do the shoulders. This is going to bother me for a long while.

5GSSex-noob
Apr 14, 2025, 3:13 am

>4 2wonderY: Does the poor girl have scoliosis? That'd explain her uneven shoulders. It might also be affecting the er, chest.

I really think all this would affect her effectiveness as a warrior.

6bam2001
Apr 14, 2025, 3:42 am

Perhaps this world operates by old style video game rules and you get loot when you kill a monster, only it's magic feathers rather than gold coins.

(Sorry. I'm tired)

7AndreasJ
Apr 14, 2025, 5:01 am

>5 GSSex-noob:

Given the awkward pose she's holding the sword in, and the fact that she doesn't seem to have a scabbard for it, she's probably not so much a swordswoman as someone who's picked up someone else's sword, perhaps for self-defense against whatever she's looking at (the reader?).

82wonderY
Apr 14, 2025, 6:37 am

>5 GSSex-noob: she may just be made up of spare parts the artist had lying around. He didn’t seem to have any female hips. I’d worry more about her effectiveness in childbearing. (If she chose to go in that direction.)

9TorMented
Apr 14, 2025, 9:10 am

Actually, the spare parts obviously are from Raquel Welch.
https://www.tpr.org/arts-culture/2017-03-10/one-million-years-is-more-than-fuzzy...

10GSSex-noob
Apr 14, 2025, 8:47 pm

>8 2wonderY: Frank(enstein)ly I'm wondering how anything about her moves. Or even holds together.

11bam2001
Apr 14, 2025, 10:53 pm

>9 TorMented: They could only afford factory seconds.

12TorMented
Apr 16, 2025, 8:52 am

>11 bam2001: I think the use of Welch's image helps explain the arms in the cover art. Welch's arms are down in the famous photo and artwork, so the cover artist for the book had to improvise the raised arms.

13GSSex-noob
Edited: Apr 17, 2025, 8:07 pm

>12 TorMented: @2wonderY at #8 was right, then! Spare parts improv. Also correct is @bam2001 that they were factory seconds.

She's a Temu Raquel.

14Hammy_JLK
Apr 20, 2025, 10:14 pm

>13 GSSex-noob: GSS! for "Temu Raquel."

Either she's mismatched spare parts, or she has the worst example of a dislocated left shoulder I've ever seen....