#17: Rated X for Xenophile, Part II: Hard Sci-Fi

RealityJockey on Feb. 22, 2025

The trade-off of pushing toward ever-longer strips is that when you get an update, it's a big one. I just feel the need, maybe compulsively, to end on a punch-line wherever I can. Alfie's line about not wearing pants is “weak tea” as far as a knockout punch goes, but it'll do the job as I finish up my indulgent response to the M rating with some very off-colour sci-fi porn parodies.

The OTHER narrative that is tributed here is that one that plays out online, time and time again, when men who think they know everything keep trying to gatekeep their fandoms, and shut out the women who, as it turns out virtually every time, know far more about the material than they do.

I'd say this week marks the first appearance of Kat's Video Library. That's really just a spinoff branch of her esoteric collection of curios, which has already included lost European crown jewels, military-grade experimental superlasers, and an impressive collection of other people's teeth. But the longer she keeps that closet door shut, the closer her collection comes to achieving sentience and becoming a character all its own.

What will the fallout be of the Traveler learning all his Modern English from bad X-rated sci-fi parody dialogue? Stay tuned to find out!