An interesting idea/ paycheck depleter

[Ri-chan]

Just a question for Ghastly, mostly: have you considered eventually coming out with bound (with that wording I'd think Zsa Zsa would be on the cover) collections of GGC?
I'm just hoping this hasn't been brought up already, or I'm gonna feel pretty silly-- anyway, just a thought.

Yeah, it would be expensive to put together -- I realize that -- but I was wondering if it's been considered at all.

Of course, there's one way that I'd probably do it-- bring a lot of paper to the university computer lab and hope no one notices the depleted color cartridge...

[Ghastly]

I've been actually contemplating doing graphic novels based on the GGC strip. I think it would be something better than just a collection of the strips in paper form.

Saddly I haven't found the free time to work on such a project.

[Ri-chan]

Woo, an even better idea! ... hell, if it ever happens, I'm interested...

[Maximuscoolman]

Just a question for Ghastly, mostly: have you considered eventually coming out

I'm going to stop reading there because it can only get worse.

[CJBurgandy]

there is nothing wrong with coming out... only I'm pretty sure Ghastly isn't Gay... maybe bi, but never gay.

[Squidflakes]

I just feel a bit too limited by the holy trinity of Gay - Bi - Straight

I propose a few new catagories specially tailored for this community.

Tentaclesexual - Which should be obvious, but it needs a catchy name. Like gay, which is fun cause it's a happy sounding word and it's easy to say, or lesbian because it just sounds to exotic, almost like a vacation destination. "Hey Janette, where are you going on vacation?" "Oh! I'm going to Lesbian!"

Trysexual - Not to be confused with tri-sexual, it just means you're open for anything. "Sure, I'll try it twice, three time if I like it."

Netrosexual - something I've been working on for a long time. It's not actually your orientation, but your online persona's orientation. A la "Yea, Bob's such a total netrosexual, he said he liked plants on this message board, but I bought him a sexy ficus, and he STILL hasn't fucked it."

Of course this is all theory at this point. For a sexual orientation to really be considered viable it needs to be mandatory/reviled by at least one religious group, it needs support groups, and it needs a cable TV show dedicated to exploring all of it's worst stereotypes.

Which leads me to the question, Ghastly, when is The Bakka Bakka Neko Neko Genki Super Fun Time Hour going to be on TV?

[Rage]

lesbian because it just sounds to exotic, almost like a vacation destination. "Hey Janette, where are you going on vacation?" "Oh! I'm going to Lesbian!"

I believe the Lesbians are from the Isle of Lesbos, in the Aegean Sea.

[Honor]

*grins* I love the categories, Squiddie. And yes, Rage, that's where the word comes from. Bonus points if you can entymologize Dyke, Tribade, Sapphist, Fricatrice, Ribaude, Tommy, and "Pseudo-Hermaphrodite".

(yes... in at least one place and time, it was assumed that any woman who sexually desired another woman was at least partially hermaphroditic.)

How about Polysexual for someone with, literally, many varied tastes, and the more absolute Omnisexual... For those who'll literally or figuratively get into just about anything.

[CJBurgandy]

I once did a report on Amazons for my mythology class.

The island of Lesbos is where most stories of Amazons take place. The word Amazon also means to have one breast... so I always giggle when my mom says she's been searching Amzon.com.

[Squidflakes]

*grins* I love the categories, Squiddie. And yes, Rage, that's where the word comes from. Bonus points if you can entymologize Dyke, Tribade, Sapphist, Fricatrice, Ribaude, Tommy, and "Pseudo-Hermaphrodite".

Dyke - From the Netherlands. Dykes are earthen dams used to reclaim land from the sea. The term was coined from the fable about the little Dutch boy who saved his town by sticking his finger in a dyke. The tale was actually written about a little dutch girl who saved her town from a band of maruading lesbians by fingering every single one of them to the point where they didn't much feel like marauding any longer.

Tribade - In use in the 17th century from the Latin tribus which means to rub. Since all the best lesbians are great at rubbing stuff, it seemed only natural to assign a classy word, derived from Latin, so that forbidden romance writters could have other words to use.

Sapphist - Derived from the poetry of Sappho, a greek woman who espoused the loving of greek girls by greek women. It's fully possible that she was just describing sisterly love, but come on! This is pre-Hellenistic Greece we're talking about here. A Greece where men were men and little boys were scared. What else was a girl to do? Other girls, that's what.

Fricatrice - An odd one, again 17th century English, probably borrowed from French or Italian, which of course is derived from Latin. This one describes loose women who loved to fellate. Maybe there was a disagreement about what was going in to who's mouth, or maybe these women just really liked it no matter who was doing it. Only reciently associated with lesbians.

Ribaude - A french term with a cloudy origin. There is a brandy sold as Calvados La Ribaude, marketed at the greater lesbian community with the pithy slogan "Betcha Can't Lick Just One!". The term also refers to a style of siege engine used by the french that was composed of several cannon mounted to a frame. I was confused by this until I discovered that the French are completely fucking insane, and just make shit up. You got me on this one Honor.

Tommy - Oft meaning a bit of bread carried by depression era workers for their lunch or a Thompson machine gun, Tommy is to lesbians as Nancy is to gay men. It's just one of them things. No one's really sure where it came from, but one thing's for sure. I'm never looking at Tommy Hillfinger jeans the same way again.

How about Polysexual for someone with, literally, many varied tastes, and the more absolute Omnisexual... For those who'll literally or figuratively get into just about anything.

Yea.. I guess you could use those.. so damn technical sounding though.

[CJBurgandy]

*grins* I love the categories, Squiddie. And yes, Rage, that's where the word comes from. Bonus points if you can entymologize Dyke, Tribade, Sapphist, Fricatrice, Ribaude, Tommy, and "Pseudo-Hermaphrodite".

Dyke - From the Netherlands. Dykes are earthen dams used to reclaim land from the sea. The term was coined from the fable about the little Dutch boy who saved his town by sticking his finger in a dyke. The tale was actually written about a little dutch girl who saved her town from a band of maruading lesbians by fingering every single one of them to the point where they didn't much feel like marauding any longer.

bwahahahahaahaha!

In my past life, I was that little dutch girl, I just know it.

[Delthir]

Is it just me, or does Squid seem to know a whole lot?

[Maximuscoolman]

Something which I find odd is, why aren't there any slang words for bisexual? It's either said as bisexual, or bi, which isn't a slang word it's just a shortening.

[Toawa]

I like my own personal, be-all-end-all-catch-all, which I would use to describe myself if I were ever asked...
...

Wait for it...

"C"

(for "complicated").

Anyway, that reminds me of an idea I came up with last night, and might try to do if I don't get distracted by something else, which is almost always the case...

A graph of paraphilias/sexual interests/etc. Starting from a root, parenting nodes to more overarching ones (IE, B, D, S, M, sepearetly, into BDSM, into "Power Exchange"), with other links between ones not strictly related but generally commonly found with one another. A sort of way of saying, "If you like X you might like Y." or "If you hate X, there's almost no way you'll like Y." where X and Y are pulled off the graph...

[Squidflakes]

Is it just me, or does Squid seem to know a whole lot?

It's just you