its my birthday today
Posted 12 years agoWoot its my bday im so pumped. Going to the zoo today love it
beware
Posted 13 years agoIt is that season again...i am speaking of the mkst deadly season ever. Puddleshark season. Becareful everyone.
My arizona trip
Posted 13 years agoWent to AZ this past weekend. IT was a lot of fun. Stayed with knightwolf balto and syber. Was so nice of them to let me stay there. attened some parties and stayed drunk most of the time XD. Went to lucky's party and one at kamo's house. You all were great thanks for having me out there. It was nice to meet everyone and look forward to seeing some of you at FC coming up ^^
relationship meme
Posted 13 years ago1. Who eats more?
Me usually unless its candy. Swear he is a candy coon
2. Who said “I love you” first?
Me
3. Who is the morning person?
I'm an anytime person and he is definitely not a morning one.
4. Who sings better?
Him cause I sing awful or really hick
5. Who’s older?
He is XD
6. Who’s smarter?
Ahh I'm gonna say the same. Just different subjects.
7. Whose temper is worse?
Mine and I'm very vindictive soo yeah.
8. Who does the laundry?
We both do our own :3
9. Who does the dishes?
The dishwasher?
10. Who sleeps on what side of the bed?
When we do sleep together I sleep on the right side. ^^
11. Whose feet are bigger?
About the same
12. Whose hair is longer?
Mine and wow this fur needs cut
13. Who’s better with the computer?
HE is I'm rarely use them.
14. Do you have pets?
No sadly we gonna get some though ^^
15. Who pays the bills?
Both we split them.
16. Who cooks dinner?
Him usually
17. Who drives when you are together?
Him most of the time. Thank goodness I only like to drive at night.
18. Who pays when you go out to dinner?
We take turns :3.
19. Who’s the most stubborn?
Ohh that is all me.
20. Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
Iunno really we haven't argued yet that i can remember.
21. Whose family do you see more?
Ummm we don't really see each others family. I have met his mom though.
22. Who named your pet?
Don't have any yet.
23. Who kissed who first?
I'm a kissy person so I'd say i went first.
24. Who asked who out?
He asked me out :3 I like it that way ^^.
25. What did you do on your first date?
Hmm first date was the usual dinner and a movie ^^. Oh so traditional XD
26. Who’s more sensitive?
Him hes a senstive little coon :P
27. Who’s taller?
me hes a little coon coon. XD
28. Who has more friends?
Me :P but mine are gonna be his too ^^.
29. Who has more siblings?
Me i have 4 bleh
30. Who wears the pants in the relationship?
I do I'm the wolf after all.
Me usually unless its candy. Swear he is a candy coon
2. Who said “I love you” first?
Me
3. Who is the morning person?
I'm an anytime person and he is definitely not a morning one.
4. Who sings better?
Him cause I sing awful or really hick
5. Who’s older?
He is XD
6. Who’s smarter?
Ahh I'm gonna say the same. Just different subjects.
7. Whose temper is worse?
Mine and I'm very vindictive soo yeah.
8. Who does the laundry?
We both do our own :3
9. Who does the dishes?
The dishwasher?
10. Who sleeps on what side of the bed?
When we do sleep together I sleep on the right side. ^^
11. Whose feet are bigger?
About the same
12. Whose hair is longer?
Mine and wow this fur needs cut
13. Who’s better with the computer?
HE is I'm rarely use them.
14. Do you have pets?
No sadly we gonna get some though ^^
15. Who pays the bills?
Both we split them.
16. Who cooks dinner?
Him usually
17. Who drives when you are together?
Him most of the time. Thank goodness I only like to drive at night.
18. Who pays when you go out to dinner?
We take turns :3.
19. Who’s the most stubborn?
Ohh that is all me.
20. Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
Iunno really we haven't argued yet that i can remember.
21. Whose family do you see more?
Ummm we don't really see each others family. I have met his mom though.
22. Who named your pet?
Don't have any yet.
23. Who kissed who first?
I'm a kissy person so I'd say i went first.
24. Who asked who out?
He asked me out :3 I like it that way ^^.
25. What did you do on your first date?
Hmm first date was the usual dinner and a movie ^^. Oh so traditional XD
26. Who’s more sensitive?
Him hes a senstive little coon :P
27. Who’s taller?
me hes a little coon coon. XD
28. Who has more friends?
Me :P but mine are gonna be his too ^^.
29. Who has more siblings?
Me i have 4 bleh
30. Who wears the pants in the relationship?
I do I'm the wolf after all.
halloween horror nights
Posted 13 years agoWee halloween horror nights tonight. Cant wait gonna have so much fun
itssss octoberrrr
Posted 13 years agoOmg fuck yeah halloweennn
gonna be at rainfurrest
Posted 13 years agoWee can't wait to be bouncing around at rf again. This time though my head is complete so tidal has been brought to life. I hope to get some pics and dance the night away or drink whichevdr comes first. If ya see me stop me and give a hug. Also if your gonna be there and wanna hang out let me know.
this august
Posted 13 years agoThe Wolf Agenda
Posted 14 years ago1. Howl
2. Hunt
3. Mate
4. Kill all foxes.
There TARAH A NEW JOURNAL
2. Hunt
3. Mate
4. Kill all foxes.
There TARAH A NEW JOURNAL
bah humbug
Posted 14 years agoI really don't like christmas its a depressing time for me and this year has just compounded to it. Before i left work I got depressing news that one of the patients I have taken care of for the past couple of weeks will probably be dead before I go back into work. No one should have to have a family member die on christmas. I'm a blue blue wolf this holiday. ITs also the first time in 8 years my dad won't have any visitors cause they have him locked in the hole at prison and he didn't even do anything. Not that visiting him is great see all the familys whose dads are locked up in there little children babies its soo sad.
FC MEME
Posted 14 years agoArrival and Departure:
Thursday thru monday evening.
Staying at:
Main Hotel
Mode of Transportation:
Big metal bird then iunno taxi i think
Room Share:
Knightwolf
yiffdakat
zorinfox
peachespanda
t0ra
Major Plans at the Con:
hanging out with friends and parties
Who Will I be with:
Roomies and many others ^.^
Do you do free art?
no my stick figures cost millions you can't afford them.
Do you do trades?
ummm sure Ill trade you cookies for shiney things
Do you do commissions?
Yes you can pay me to undies dance
Do you have prints/ CDs ?
vidoes of me undies dancing sure
Fursuit(s):
*cry* not yet damn bills
Attending Parties:
I sure as hell hope so
How best to find me:
whatttt you don't know how to find the blue bitch?
Stage Performance:
all the world's a stage and I'm always on ;)
Drink:
you buying? yes please ^^
Smoke:
no thanks
Hugs:
I demand it XD
Talk:
so much people wish i wouldn't
What is your gender?
Ohh want to find out hehe
How old are you?
24 weeeee
Can I touch you?
you know it baby
Can I buy you lots of drinks?
who would say no to this? not I. I love boozy. The bartenders know me by name XD
Can I give you lots of money?
Yes please tuck them in the undies ;)
Can I hug or snuggle with you?
YESHHHH lots of both please
How tall are you?
six foot baby
You look pissed off out of suit. Can I come up to you?
sure a hug might make it better ^^
Are you nice?
No I am mean and i kick babies
Are you cliquey?
nope I love you all :P
Can I stalk you?
please don't just come up ^^ i'll turn you into a friend
If I see you, how should i get your attention?
Just yell UNDIES DANCE or BLUE BITCH or TIDAL WOLF :p they all work
Can I take a picture of ya?
No those evil devices steal my soul
Can I steal ya away for *censored*?
I charge 99 cents for the first min then 2 dollars for each additional min
Would ya like to get a commission done of ya?
OF course ^^ i love art
Thursday thru monday evening.
Staying at:
Main Hotel
Mode of Transportation:
Big metal bird then iunno taxi i think
Room Share:





Major Plans at the Con:
hanging out with friends and parties
Who Will I be with:
Roomies and many others ^.^
Do you do free art?
no my stick figures cost millions you can't afford them.
Do you do trades?
ummm sure Ill trade you cookies for shiney things
Do you do commissions?
Yes you can pay me to undies dance
Do you have prints/ CDs ?
vidoes of me undies dancing sure
Fursuit(s):
*cry* not yet damn bills
Attending Parties:
I sure as hell hope so
How best to find me:
whatttt you don't know how to find the blue bitch?
Stage Performance:
all the world's a stage and I'm always on ;)
Drink:
you buying? yes please ^^
Smoke:
no thanks
Hugs:
I demand it XD
Talk:
so much people wish i wouldn't
What is your gender?
Ohh want to find out hehe
How old are you?
24 weeeee
Can I touch you?
you know it baby
Can I buy you lots of drinks?
who would say no to this? not I. I love boozy. The bartenders know me by name XD
Can I give you lots of money?
Yes please tuck them in the undies ;)
Can I hug or snuggle with you?
YESHHHH lots of both please
How tall are you?
six foot baby
You look pissed off out of suit. Can I come up to you?
sure a hug might make it better ^^
Are you nice?
No I am mean and i kick babies
Are you cliquey?
nope I love you all :P
Can I stalk you?
please don't just come up ^^ i'll turn you into a friend
If I see you, how should i get your attention?
Just yell UNDIES DANCE or BLUE BITCH or TIDAL WOLF :p they all work
Can I take a picture of ya?
No those evil devices steal my soul
Can I steal ya away for *censored*?
I charge 99 cents for the first min then 2 dollars for each additional min
Would ya like to get a commission done of ya?
OF course ^^ i love art
RAINFURREST
Posted 14 years agoI WAS THERE DEAL WITH IT WASHINGTON
Birthday and other stuff
Posted 14 years agoWell well well time to update my Journal i guess. First my birthday was tuesday and it was a ball :3. My panda friend cooked for me. Such a yummy meal I nommed the hell out of it
knightwolf bought me an ice cream birthday cake. IT was so great having him down here :P he made the birthday lots of fun. But the saturday before my birthday we all went to Disney's Animal Kingdom. WEEEEEE that was great. Got to see animals and I rode a roller coaster which I haven't done in forever cause well I'm scared of them but there we are.
Knight got to experience the glorious Florida weather which include lots of rain till his last day here then it was sunny hot and humid. Ahhh florida isn't she grand.
Now for a bit of sad news shino and I broke up. IT wasn't a bad one we are still friends and everything but yeah it was a good 5 years. He came to my birthday party which was nice ^^.
So a big thanks to everyone that came to my party at disney :3
knightwolf
Agralewyn
zeig
shinokorosha

Peaches my favorite panda
Her dobby doggy hubby

Knight got to experience the glorious Florida weather which include lots of rain till his last day here then it was sunny hot and humid. Ahhh florida isn't she grand.
Now for a bit of sad news shino and I broke up. IT wasn't a bad one we are still friends and everything but yeah it was a good 5 years. He came to my birthday party which was nice ^^.
So a big thanks to everyone that came to my party at disney :3





Peaches my favorite panda
Her dobby doggy hubby
Birthday time again
Posted 14 years agoBLEHHHHHHH It is august. The birds are singing the flowers and blooming and it means it is my birthday time again. Last day of the month. The 31st what a miserable day that is. I get older. *looks at his muzzle fur turning gray* dear lord soon people won't be able to tell me and tarah apart :P.
Here is to hoping this birthday is better then the last ones. Hopefully something really good happens :P
Here is to hoping this birthday is better then the last ones. Hopefully something really good happens :P
megaplex con report
Posted 14 years agoIunno I was drunk for most of it XD.
Got to see some of my friends and got to meet a lot of new ones. You guys rock my socks off really. First night there which i will count as friday cause thursday was crap, My friends from jax came down oddly enough one was a furry and the other was not well by the end of the first night he was. XD HE wore my paws and was drunk running around playing with people. HE now wants a fursuit. Silly dobby's. I was drunk too danced quite a bit with lots of pretty people, YESH YOU ARE ALL PRETTY.
Second night bounced around and ran into people i knew same with the last night. Last night there i was drinking by 4 and out by 11. IT was so much fun XD. Not much else to talk about there i suppose. I remember most but not all of it which means it was a damn good con XD.
This wolfy had no sex but lots of snugs and cuddles and kisses weeeeeeeeeeeeeee what a fun place to be I luv ya furries.
Got to see some of my friends and got to meet a lot of new ones. You guys rock my socks off really. First night there which i will count as friday cause thursday was crap, My friends from jax came down oddly enough one was a furry and the other was not well by the end of the first night he was. XD HE wore my paws and was drunk running around playing with people. HE now wants a fursuit. Silly dobby's. I was drunk too danced quite a bit with lots of pretty people, YESH YOU ARE ALL PRETTY.
Second night bounced around and ran into people i knew same with the last night. Last night there i was drinking by 4 and out by 11. IT was so much fun XD. Not much else to talk about there i suppose. I remember most but not all of it which means it was a damn good con XD.
This wolfy had no sex but lots of snugs and cuddles and kisses weeeeeeeeeeeeeee what a fun place to be I luv ya furries.
going to megaplex so if you see me say HIII
Posted 14 years agoYeah going to be at megaplex ya better say hi or i will cry big boohoo saddy sad wolf tears and no one wants that. I will drown the whole con.
past two weeks
Posted 15 years agoWell last week was an awesome week. I went out to cali again and got to hang out with
and
ohh and can't forget the bunny
. Got to watch some movies while Tarah worked. Got to get drunky while watching the anime little mermaid and the ghetto looking Wizard of OZ. Seriously tarah I don't know where you find this shit. Also Dago was there and you can't get more awesome then that XD.
Got to go to the fur meet there and meet some new peoples. ^^ It was really fun all together, and I also got to pimp Mar around. If you don't know who Mar is, he is Tarah's Favorite husky. But then after all the fun T-T I had to leave and come back to jacksonville and go back to work BLEH.
Which brings me to this past week. What the hell is all I can say. First night i have Patients needing IV's and people not giving me enough info about them before I call the doctor and zomg just a really shitty night but I survive. Next night not great but sooo much better. Get a lot done all the patients behave -_-. Then and this is hte kicker sunday all hell breaks loose again and i manage to deal with all of it till the next morning when I get off and ...THE NEXT NURSE DOESN"T COME IN. I was soooo pissed to say the least I had a shitty weekend no one came in to relieve me. So i don't get to leave till 8 which is just some shit after working 12 hours. Thank god the other nurse waited on me and we went to denny's fuck yeah nachos fix everything.
None of this includes other emotional shit I was dealing with but yeah WEEE ZOOM WOW WEE I need another vaction.



Got to go to the fur meet there and meet some new peoples. ^^ It was really fun all together, and I also got to pimp Mar around. If you don't know who Mar is, he is Tarah's Favorite husky. But then after all the fun T-T I had to leave and come back to jacksonville and go back to work BLEH.
Which brings me to this past week. What the hell is all I can say. First night i have Patients needing IV's and people not giving me enough info about them before I call the doctor and zomg just a really shitty night but I survive. Next night not great but sooo much better. Get a lot done all the patients behave -_-. Then and this is hte kicker sunday all hell breaks loose again and i manage to deal with all of it till the next morning when I get off and ...THE NEXT NURSE DOESN"T COME IN. I was soooo pissed to say the least I had a shitty weekend no one came in to relieve me. So i don't get to leave till 8 which is just some shit after working 12 hours. Thank god the other nurse waited on me and we went to denny's fuck yeah nachos fix everything.
None of this includes other emotional shit I was dealing with but yeah WEEE ZOOM WOW WEE I need another vaction.
Friday was a sad day for me
Posted 15 years agoI'm a nurse and with my career choice I have to deal with all kinds of things. The worst one is the loss of a patient and that is what happened to me my Friday night shift. Even though it happened Saturday morning it was still part of Friday for me. I lost a patient and it happened so suddenly fine one second dead the next. It really hurt me I have never cried so much. I got so attached to this patient and I didn't see it coming. The patient was close to leaving the facility and then for this to happen. It really broke my heart. Thanks to my friends I'm doing better but yeah it caused me to be a mopey wolf for a bit.
Why am I posting this here? Because I just needed to write it down and get it out. Thanks for reading.
Why am I posting this here? Because I just needed to write it down and get it out. Thanks for reading.
FC Report
Posted 15 years agoWow what a time I had. It was really great getting to fly out to cali and meet
tarako
conejo
exdra and
Knightwolf They are all great. Got to meet a lot of knew friends :P like Dago and Bongo you two are awesome and janko seriously awesome hair.
I got to run into an old friend Maru meet Yuri and Tsen and can't forget about the pimp Emma.
The 7 hour ride to the con didn't feel like more then 2 it was great being in a car with knight and tarah and bunny and exdra plus i didn't have to drive so WEEEEEEEE.
The con itself was great it was my first big con and everyone there made it awesome. I had a few complaints but they aren't worth mentioning cause it was just a blast.
I got to go around and suit a bit :P I can't wait to get mine done. I have paws and tail now just need the head.
Anyway back to the con XD. Was great good people good dealers den my only large complaint is not enough money for all the wonderfull stuff.
To finish off though I have to say. LOLLIPOP GOT JIPPED.




I got to run into an old friend Maru meet Yuri and Tsen and can't forget about the pimp Emma.
The 7 hour ride to the con didn't feel like more then 2 it was great being in a car with knight and tarah and bunny and exdra plus i didn't have to drive so WEEEEEEEE.
The con itself was great it was my first big con and everyone there made it awesome. I had a few complaints but they aren't worth mentioning cause it was just a blast.
I got to go around and suit a bit :P I can't wait to get mine done. I have paws and tail now just need the head.
Anyway back to the con XD. Was great good people good dealers den my only large complaint is not enough money for all the wonderfull stuff.
To finish off though I have to say. LOLLIPOP GOT JIPPED.
Gone to FC
Posted 15 years agoSEE ya in a week FA don't post too much art while i'm gone
WARNING
Posted 15 years agostolen from
evajanus
If I came with a WARNING label, what would it say?
Answer it and post it in your own journal.

If I came with a WARNING label, what would it say?
Answer it and post it in your own journal.
done under therat of puddlesharks
Posted 15 years agorespond to this journal and...
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you which song or movie you remind me of.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wondered about you.
8. I'll tell you my favorite thing about you.
9. I'll tell you my least favorite thing about you.
10. If you play, you MUST post this on yours.
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you which song or movie you remind me of.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wondered about you.
8. I'll tell you my favorite thing about you.
9. I'll tell you my least favorite thing about you.
10. If you play, you MUST post this on yours.
I'm Officially a Registered Nurse
Posted 15 years agoThat is right. I have officially passed my License test. I have decided to celebrate allllll day. XD I'm so excited
RAWR DRIVING ME CRAZY
Posted 16 years agoI can't think of the title of this movie i want to watch. PLEASE HELP ME. It is about two animal teams playing football against each other. I don't remember too much about it. I remember the bear quarterback for the good team was accused of throwing the game because they found a check with his name on it.
They took him off the field and to an interigation room. He almost comitted suicide but didn't. He came back on the field ot win the game for the team.
They took him off the field and to an interigation room. He almost comitted suicide but didn't. He came back on the field ot win the game for the team.
I love this article or whatever XD LONG BUT FUNNY
Posted 16 years agoMan of Steel,
Woman of Kleenex
By Larry Niven*
Things of the form (*text*) are footnotes in the original text.
He's faster than a speeding bullet. He's more powerful than a locomotive. He's able to leap tall buildings at a single bound. Why can't he get a girl?
At the ripe old age of thirty-one (*Superman first appeared in Action Comics, June 1938*), Kal-El (alias Superman, alias Clark Kent) is still unmarried. Almost certainly he is still a virgin. This is a serious matter. The species itself is in danger!
An unwed Superman is a mobile Superman. Thus it has been alleged that those who chronicle the Man of Steel's adventures are responsible for his condition. But the cartoonists are not to blame.
Nor is Superman handicapped by psychological problems.
Granted that the poor oaf is not entirely sane. How could he be? He is an orphan, a refugee, and an alien. His homeland no longer exists in any form, save for gigatons upon gigatons of dangerous, prettily colored rocks.
As a child and young adult, Kal-El must have been hard put to find an adequate father-figure. What human could control his antisocial behavior? What human would dare try to punish him? His actual, highly social behavior during this period indicates an inhuman self-restraint.
What wonder if Superman drifted gradually into schizophrenia? Torn between his human and kryptonian identities, he chose to be both, keeping his split personalities rigidly separate. A psychotic desperation is evident in his defense of his "secret identity."
But Superman's sex problems are strictly physiological, and quite real.
The purpose of this article is to point out some medical drawbacks to being a kryptonian among human beings, and to suggest possible solutions. The kryptonian humanoid must not be allowed to go the way of the pterodactyl and the passenger pigeon.
I
What turns on a kryptonian?
Superman is an alien, an extraterrestrial. His humanoid frame is doubtless the result of parallel evolution, as the marsupials of Australia resemble their mammalian counterparts. A specific niche in the ecology calls for a certain shape, a certain size, certain capabilities, certain eating habits.
Be not deceived by appearances. Superman is no relative to homo sapiens.
What arouses Kal-El's mating urge? Did kryptonian women carry some subtle mating cue at appropriate times of the year? Whatever it is, Lois Lane probably didn't have it. We may speculate that she smells wrong, less like a kryptonian woman than like a terrestrial monkey. A mating between Superman and Lois Lane would feel like sodomy-and would be, of course, by church and common law.
II
Assume a mating between Superman and a human woman designated LL for convenience.
Either Superman has gone completely schizo and believes himself to be Clark Kent; or he knows what he's doing, but no longer gives a damn. Thirty-one years is a long time. For Superman it has been even longer. He has X-ray vision; he knows just what he's missing. (*One should not think of Superman as a Peeping Tom. A biological ability must be used. As a child Superman may never have known that things had surfaces, until he learned to suppress his X-ray vision. If millions of people tend shamelessly to wear clothing with no lead in the weave, that is hardly Superman's fault.*)
The problem is this. Electroencephalograms taken of men and women during sexual intercourse show that orgasm resembles "a kind of pleasurable epileptic attack." One loses control over one's muscles.
Superman has been known to leave his fingerprints in steel and in hardened concrete, accidentally. What would he do to the woman in his arms during what amounts to an epileptic fit?
III
Consider the driving urge between a man and a woman, the monomaniacal urge to achieve greater and greater penetration. Remember also that we are dealing with kryptonian muscles.
Superman would literally crush LL's body in his arms, while simultaneously ripping her open from crotch to sternum, gutting her like a trout.
IV
Lastly, he'd blow off the top of her head.
Ejaculation of semen is entirely involuntary in the human male, and in all other forms of terrestrial life. It would be unreasonable to assume otherwise for a kryptonian. But with kryptonian muscles behind it, Kal-El's semen would emerge with the muzzle velocity of a machine gun bullet. (*One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy's puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?*)
In view of the foregoing, normal sex is impossible between LL and Superman.
Artificial insemination may give us better results.
V
First we must collect the semen. The globules will emerge at transsonic speeds. Superman must first ejaculate, then fly frantically after the stuff to catch it in a test tube. We assume that he is on the Moon, both for privacy and to prevent the semen from exploding into vapor on hitting the air at such speeds.
He can catch the semen, of course, before it evaporates in vacuum. He's faster than a speeding bullet.
But can he keep it?
All known forms of kryptonian life have superpowers. The same must hold true of living kryptonian sperm. We may reasonably assume that kryptonian sperm are vulnerable only to starvation and to green kryptonite; that they can travel with equal ease through water, air, vacuum, glass, brick, boiling steel, solid steel, liquid helium, or the core of a star; and that they are capable of translight velocities.
What kind of a test tube will hold such beasties?
Kryptonian sperm and their unusual powers will give us further trouble. For the moment we will assume (because we must) that they tend to stay in the seminal fluid, which tends to stay in a simple glass tube. Thus Superman and LL can perform artificial insemination.
At least there will be another generation of kryptonians.
Or will there?
VI
A ripened but unfertilized egg leaves LL's ovary, begins its voyage down her Fallopian tube.
Some time later, tens of millions of sperm, released from a test tube, begin their own voyage up LL's Fallopian tube.
The magic moment approaches...
Can human breed with kryptonian? Do we even use the same genetic code? On the face of it, LL could more easily breed with an ear of corn than with Kal-El. But coincidence does happen. If the genes match...
One sperm arrives before the others. It penetrates the egg, forms a lump on it's surface, the cell wall now thickens to prevent other sperm From entering. Within the now-fertilized egg, changes take place...
And ten million kryptonian sperm arrive slightly late.
Were they human sperm, they would be out of luck. But these tiny blind things are more powerful than a locomotive. A thickened cell wall won't stop them. They will *all* enter the egg, obliterating it entirely in an orgy of microscopic gang rape. So much for artificial insemination.
But LL's problems are just beginning.
VII
Within her body there are still tens of millions of frustrated kryptonian sperm. The single egg is now too diffuse to be a target. The sperm scatter.
They scatter without regard to what is in their path. They leave curved channels, microscopically small. Presently all will have found their way to the open air.
That leaves LL with several million microscopic perforations all leading deep into her abdomen. Most of the channels will intersect one or more loops of intestine.
Peritonitis is inevitable. LL becomes desperately ill.
Meanwhile, tens of millions of sperm swarm in the air over Metropolis.
VIII
This is more serious than it looks.
Consider: these sperm are virtually indestructible. Within days or weeks they will die for lack of nourishment. Meanwhile they cannot be affected by heat, cold, vacuum, toxins, or anything short of green kryptonite. (*And other forms of kryptonite. For instance, there are chunks of red kryptonite that make giants of kryptonians. Imagine ten million earthworm size spermatozoa swarming over a Metropolis beach, diving to fertilize the beach balls... but I digress.*) There they are, minuscule but dangerous; for each has supernormal powers.
Metropolis is shaken by tiny sonic booms. Wormholes, charred by meteoric heat, sprout magically in all kinds of things: plate glass, masonry, antique ceramics, electric mixers, wood, household pets, and citizens. Some of the sperm will crack lightspeed. The Metropolis night comes alive with a network of narrow, eerie blue lines of Cherenkov radiation.
And women whom Superman has never met find themselves in a delicate condition.
Consider: LL won't get pregnant because there were too many of the blind mindless beasts. But whenever one sperm approaches an unfertilized human egg in its panic flight, it will attack.
How close is close enough? A few centimeters? Are sperm attracted by chemical cues? It seems likely. Metropolis had a population of millions; and kryptonian sperm could travel a long and crooked path, billions of miles, before it gives up and dies.
Several thousand blessed events seem not unlikely. (*If the pubescent Superboy plays with himself, we have the same problem over Smallville.*)
Several thousand lawsuits would follow. Not that Superman can't afford to pay. There's a trick where you squeeze a lump of coal into its allotropic diamond form...
IX
The above analysis gives us part of the answer. In our experiment in artificial insemination, we must use a single sperm. This presents no difficulty. Superman may use his microscopic vision and a pair of tiny tweezers to pluck a sperm from the swarm.
X
In its eagerness the single sperm may crash through LL's abdomen at transsonic speeds, wreaking havoc. Is there any way to slow it down?
There is. We can expose it to gold kryptonite.
Gold kryptonite, we remember, robs a kryptonian of all of his supernormal powers, permanently. Were we to expose Superman himself to gold kryptonite, we would solve all his sex problems, but he would be Clark Kent forever. We may regard this solution as somewhat drastic.
But we can expose the test tube of seminal fluid to gold kryptonite, then use standard techniques for artificial insemination.
By any of these methods we can get LL pregnant, without killing her. Are we out of the woods yet?
XI
Though exposed to gold kryptonite, the sperm still carries kryptonian genes. If these are recessive, then LL carries a developing human foetus. There will be no more Supermen; but at least we need not worry about the mother's health.
But if some or all of the kryptonian genes are dominant...
Can the infant use his X-ray vision before birth? After all, with such a power he can probably see through his own closed eyelids. That would leave LL sterile. If the kid starts using heat vision, things get even worse.
But when he starts to kick, it's all over. He will kick his way out into open air, killing himself and his mother.
XII
Is there a solution?
There are several. Each has drawbacks.
We can make LL wear a kryptonite (*For our purposes, all forms of kryptonite are available in unlimited quantities. It has been estimated, from the startling tonnage of kryptonite fallen to Earth since the explosion of Krypton, that the planet must have outweighed our entire solar system. Doubtless the "planet" Krypton was a cooling black dwarf star, one of a binary pair, the other member being a red giant.*) belt around her waist. But too little kryptonite may allow the child to damage her, while too much may damage or kill the child. Intermediate amounts may do both! And there is no safe way to experiment.
A better solution is to find a host-mother.
We have not yet considered the existence of a Supergirl. (*She can't mate with Superman because she's his first cousin. And only a cad would suggest differently.*) She could carry the child without harm. But Supergirl has a secret identity, and her secret identity is no more married than Supergirl herself. If she turned up pregnant, she would probably be thrown out of school.
A better solution may be to implant the growing foetus in Superman himself. There are places in a man's abdomen where a foetus could draw adequate nourishment, growing as a parasite, and where it would not cause undue harm to surrounding organs. Presumably Clark Kent can take a leave of absence more easily than Supergirl's schoolgirl alter ego.
When the time comes, the child would be removed by Caesarian section. It would have to be removed early, but there would be no problem with incubators as long as it was fed. I leave the problem of cutting through Superman's invulnerable skin as an exercise for the alert reader.
The mind boggles at the image of a pregnant Superman cruising the skies of Metropolis. Batman would refuse to be seen with him; strange new jokes would circulate the prisons...and the race of Krypton would be safe at last.
Reprinted from All the Myriad Ways © 1971 by Larry Niven. Reprinted with permission.
Converted to HTML by Steve Walstra
This article has been translated into Italian!
In existence since December 1, 1994; last modified Sun Nov 17 11:58:16 PST 2002
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Woman of Kleenex
By Larry Niven*
Things of the form (*text*) are footnotes in the original text.
He's faster than a speeding bullet. He's more powerful than a locomotive. He's able to leap tall buildings at a single bound. Why can't he get a girl?
At the ripe old age of thirty-one (*Superman first appeared in Action Comics, June 1938*), Kal-El (alias Superman, alias Clark Kent) is still unmarried. Almost certainly he is still a virgin. This is a serious matter. The species itself is in danger!
An unwed Superman is a mobile Superman. Thus it has been alleged that those who chronicle the Man of Steel's adventures are responsible for his condition. But the cartoonists are not to blame.
Nor is Superman handicapped by psychological problems.
Granted that the poor oaf is not entirely sane. How could he be? He is an orphan, a refugee, and an alien. His homeland no longer exists in any form, save for gigatons upon gigatons of dangerous, prettily colored rocks.
As a child and young adult, Kal-El must have been hard put to find an adequate father-figure. What human could control his antisocial behavior? What human would dare try to punish him? His actual, highly social behavior during this period indicates an inhuman self-restraint.
What wonder if Superman drifted gradually into schizophrenia? Torn between his human and kryptonian identities, he chose to be both, keeping his split personalities rigidly separate. A psychotic desperation is evident in his defense of his "secret identity."
But Superman's sex problems are strictly physiological, and quite real.
The purpose of this article is to point out some medical drawbacks to being a kryptonian among human beings, and to suggest possible solutions. The kryptonian humanoid must not be allowed to go the way of the pterodactyl and the passenger pigeon.
I
What turns on a kryptonian?
Superman is an alien, an extraterrestrial. His humanoid frame is doubtless the result of parallel evolution, as the marsupials of Australia resemble their mammalian counterparts. A specific niche in the ecology calls for a certain shape, a certain size, certain capabilities, certain eating habits.
Be not deceived by appearances. Superman is no relative to homo sapiens.
What arouses Kal-El's mating urge? Did kryptonian women carry some subtle mating cue at appropriate times of the year? Whatever it is, Lois Lane probably didn't have it. We may speculate that she smells wrong, less like a kryptonian woman than like a terrestrial monkey. A mating between Superman and Lois Lane would feel like sodomy-and would be, of course, by church and common law.
II
Assume a mating between Superman and a human woman designated LL for convenience.
Either Superman has gone completely schizo and believes himself to be Clark Kent; or he knows what he's doing, but no longer gives a damn. Thirty-one years is a long time. For Superman it has been even longer. He has X-ray vision; he knows just what he's missing. (*One should not think of Superman as a Peeping Tom. A biological ability must be used. As a child Superman may never have known that things had surfaces, until he learned to suppress his X-ray vision. If millions of people tend shamelessly to wear clothing with no lead in the weave, that is hardly Superman's fault.*)
The problem is this. Electroencephalograms taken of men and women during sexual intercourse show that orgasm resembles "a kind of pleasurable epileptic attack." One loses control over one's muscles.
Superman has been known to leave his fingerprints in steel and in hardened concrete, accidentally. What would he do to the woman in his arms during what amounts to an epileptic fit?
III
Consider the driving urge between a man and a woman, the monomaniacal urge to achieve greater and greater penetration. Remember also that we are dealing with kryptonian muscles.
Superman would literally crush LL's body in his arms, while simultaneously ripping her open from crotch to sternum, gutting her like a trout.
IV
Lastly, he'd blow off the top of her head.
Ejaculation of semen is entirely involuntary in the human male, and in all other forms of terrestrial life. It would be unreasonable to assume otherwise for a kryptonian. But with kryptonian muscles behind it, Kal-El's semen would emerge with the muzzle velocity of a machine gun bullet. (*One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy's puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?*)
In view of the foregoing, normal sex is impossible between LL and Superman.
Artificial insemination may give us better results.
V
First we must collect the semen. The globules will emerge at transsonic speeds. Superman must first ejaculate, then fly frantically after the stuff to catch it in a test tube. We assume that he is on the Moon, both for privacy and to prevent the semen from exploding into vapor on hitting the air at such speeds.
He can catch the semen, of course, before it evaporates in vacuum. He's faster than a speeding bullet.
But can he keep it?
All known forms of kryptonian life have superpowers. The same must hold true of living kryptonian sperm. We may reasonably assume that kryptonian sperm are vulnerable only to starvation and to green kryptonite; that they can travel with equal ease through water, air, vacuum, glass, brick, boiling steel, solid steel, liquid helium, or the core of a star; and that they are capable of translight velocities.
What kind of a test tube will hold such beasties?
Kryptonian sperm and their unusual powers will give us further trouble. For the moment we will assume (because we must) that they tend to stay in the seminal fluid, which tends to stay in a simple glass tube. Thus Superman and LL can perform artificial insemination.
At least there will be another generation of kryptonians.
Or will there?
VI
A ripened but unfertilized egg leaves LL's ovary, begins its voyage down her Fallopian tube.
Some time later, tens of millions of sperm, released from a test tube, begin their own voyage up LL's Fallopian tube.
The magic moment approaches...
Can human breed with kryptonian? Do we even use the same genetic code? On the face of it, LL could more easily breed with an ear of corn than with Kal-El. But coincidence does happen. If the genes match...
One sperm arrives before the others. It penetrates the egg, forms a lump on it's surface, the cell wall now thickens to prevent other sperm From entering. Within the now-fertilized egg, changes take place...
And ten million kryptonian sperm arrive slightly late.
Were they human sperm, they would be out of luck. But these tiny blind things are more powerful than a locomotive. A thickened cell wall won't stop them. They will *all* enter the egg, obliterating it entirely in an orgy of microscopic gang rape. So much for artificial insemination.
But LL's problems are just beginning.
VII
Within her body there are still tens of millions of frustrated kryptonian sperm. The single egg is now too diffuse to be a target. The sperm scatter.
They scatter without regard to what is in their path. They leave curved channels, microscopically small. Presently all will have found their way to the open air.
That leaves LL with several million microscopic perforations all leading deep into her abdomen. Most of the channels will intersect one or more loops of intestine.
Peritonitis is inevitable. LL becomes desperately ill.
Meanwhile, tens of millions of sperm swarm in the air over Metropolis.
VIII
This is more serious than it looks.
Consider: these sperm are virtually indestructible. Within days or weeks they will die for lack of nourishment. Meanwhile they cannot be affected by heat, cold, vacuum, toxins, or anything short of green kryptonite. (*And other forms of kryptonite. For instance, there are chunks of red kryptonite that make giants of kryptonians. Imagine ten million earthworm size spermatozoa swarming over a Metropolis beach, diving to fertilize the beach balls... but I digress.*) There they are, minuscule but dangerous; for each has supernormal powers.
Metropolis is shaken by tiny sonic booms. Wormholes, charred by meteoric heat, sprout magically in all kinds of things: plate glass, masonry, antique ceramics, electric mixers, wood, household pets, and citizens. Some of the sperm will crack lightspeed. The Metropolis night comes alive with a network of narrow, eerie blue lines of Cherenkov radiation.
And women whom Superman has never met find themselves in a delicate condition.
Consider: LL won't get pregnant because there were too many of the blind mindless beasts. But whenever one sperm approaches an unfertilized human egg in its panic flight, it will attack.
How close is close enough? A few centimeters? Are sperm attracted by chemical cues? It seems likely. Metropolis had a population of millions; and kryptonian sperm could travel a long and crooked path, billions of miles, before it gives up and dies.
Several thousand blessed events seem not unlikely. (*If the pubescent Superboy plays with himself, we have the same problem over Smallville.*)
Several thousand lawsuits would follow. Not that Superman can't afford to pay. There's a trick where you squeeze a lump of coal into its allotropic diamond form...
IX
The above analysis gives us part of the answer. In our experiment in artificial insemination, we must use a single sperm. This presents no difficulty. Superman may use his microscopic vision and a pair of tiny tweezers to pluck a sperm from the swarm.
X
In its eagerness the single sperm may crash through LL's abdomen at transsonic speeds, wreaking havoc. Is there any way to slow it down?
There is. We can expose it to gold kryptonite.
Gold kryptonite, we remember, robs a kryptonian of all of his supernormal powers, permanently. Were we to expose Superman himself to gold kryptonite, we would solve all his sex problems, but he would be Clark Kent forever. We may regard this solution as somewhat drastic.
But we can expose the test tube of seminal fluid to gold kryptonite, then use standard techniques for artificial insemination.
By any of these methods we can get LL pregnant, without killing her. Are we out of the woods yet?
XI
Though exposed to gold kryptonite, the sperm still carries kryptonian genes. If these are recessive, then LL carries a developing human foetus. There will be no more Supermen; but at least we need not worry about the mother's health.
But if some or all of the kryptonian genes are dominant...
Can the infant use his X-ray vision before birth? After all, with such a power he can probably see through his own closed eyelids. That would leave LL sterile. If the kid starts using heat vision, things get even worse.
But when he starts to kick, it's all over. He will kick his way out into open air, killing himself and his mother.
XII
Is there a solution?
There are several. Each has drawbacks.
We can make LL wear a kryptonite (*For our purposes, all forms of kryptonite are available in unlimited quantities. It has been estimated, from the startling tonnage of kryptonite fallen to Earth since the explosion of Krypton, that the planet must have outweighed our entire solar system. Doubtless the "planet" Krypton was a cooling black dwarf star, one of a binary pair, the other member being a red giant.*) belt around her waist. But too little kryptonite may allow the child to damage her, while too much may damage or kill the child. Intermediate amounts may do both! And there is no safe way to experiment.
A better solution is to find a host-mother.
We have not yet considered the existence of a Supergirl. (*She can't mate with Superman because she's his first cousin. And only a cad would suggest differently.*) She could carry the child without harm. But Supergirl has a secret identity, and her secret identity is no more married than Supergirl herself. If she turned up pregnant, she would probably be thrown out of school.
A better solution may be to implant the growing foetus in Superman himself. There are places in a man's abdomen where a foetus could draw adequate nourishment, growing as a parasite, and where it would not cause undue harm to surrounding organs. Presumably Clark Kent can take a leave of absence more easily than Supergirl's schoolgirl alter ego.
When the time comes, the child would be removed by Caesarian section. It would have to be removed early, but there would be no problem with incubators as long as it was fed. I leave the problem of cutting through Superman's invulnerable skin as an exercise for the alert reader.
The mind boggles at the image of a pregnant Superman cruising the skies of Metropolis. Batman would refuse to be seen with him; strange new jokes would circulate the prisons...and the race of Krypton would be safe at last.
Reprinted from All the Myriad Ways © 1971 by Larry Niven. Reprinted with permission.
Converted to HTML by Steve Walstra
This article has been translated into Italian!
In existence since December 1, 1994; last modified Sun Nov 17 11:58:16 PST 2002
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