Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Two, Page Twenty-Four

Knowing what Jill already knows about the scanner, you might have to be brave to enter it. Fortunately for mad science, Jill is very brave.

Jill naked in the scanner -- a color page.

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Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter Two, Page Twenty-Four written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Now I was originally planning on putting a pendant illustration for this post Lon’s clever animation showing a girlscanner at work, but I then recalled that I’ve already posted that. But I then remembered that Lon did an even earlier animation which has never posted here at Erotic Mad Science, although it was posted elsewhere as an easter egg for dedicated readers of the Tales. Well, it’s now long past Easter, so I guess I’ll present that animation now. Ladies and Gentlemen (and others), an animation of the Apsinthion Protocol in action.

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Apsinthion Protocol Animation written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Seventeen

Ever experienced something that you thought was had to be a nightmare, but was in fact real?

Aloysius questions the liquid Tricia.

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A girl in a beaker on one’s desk is an old pulp trope. A more literal example of it:

Image found at one of my favorite tumblrs, Fifi-Feeling is First.

Progress in Research: Chapter Five, Page Sixteen

Aloysius does his desperate best.

Aloysius does his best to save the remains of liquid Tricia.

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Kitty’s lamentable condition has perhaps been in the back of my mind since I had the pleasure of perusing a book by Jane and Michael Stern called The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, which, perhaps predictably, has an article on “Enormous Breasts.” Said article devotes an entire page to a photograph of Chesty Morgan, an exotic dancer and star of such movies as Deadly Weapons (1974) and Double Agent 73. Here’s an alternative representation of Chesty.

Image found at Insomnia Notebook. As we can see Kitty has surpassed even Chesty.

Superheroine liquid girl

Ever on the lookout for examples in the culture of my own peculiar obsessions, I’ve come up with a superheroine named Aspen Matthews, the principal character of a series called Fathom created by the late Michael Turner. Aspen’s powers include dissolving into water, something explicitly (and sexily) depicted on the cover of the first issue.

(Image found at this Aspen comics forum.) Apparently there was for a while a proposal for a Fathom movie staring Megan Fox. One image (found here) appears as an example of the liquid girl meme.

A movie which most likely we will have to imagine rather than see. If it is any consolation, perhaps it will be better in our imaginations than in reality.

TF for science!

I have to say I just love what’s going on in this three-panel story sequence created by DeviantArt-ist AzureChromatic.  We have a mad science potion and gender bending:

Followed by an episode our gender-bent subject turning into a liquid girl

girl turns to liquid

Followed in turn by the emergence of a goo girl, in lovely apsinthion green no less.

TF in the name of SCIENCE! by AzureChromatic

green goo girl (or slime girl) emerges from the liquid girl

All published here by kind permission of the artist. Evidence, perhaps, that some themes occur rather oftener than one might suspect. The post is based on a story, “Jiggle – Goo Girl TG-TF” by a DeviantArt writer, dragon8writer, whom I encourage you to read if you like this sort of thing.

Liquid Girl in serious fiction

Reading Nicholson Baker‘s House of Holes: A Book of Raunch has been on my “yeah, I should get to that” list for a while now, but Susie Bright‘s charming interview with Baker on this week’s edition of In Bed with Susie Bright got me motivated to actually get a-reading.  I have not been disappointed:  this is the work of an erotic master.  It is infeasible for me to do justice to the weird dream-logic the governs the fictional setting that makes up the interconnected stories that make up the book, but they are unified around the topos in the title, a “House of Holes,” an imagined place of orgiastic gratification that you get to via portals which might be, well, almost any kind of hole.

And that makes possible the following, which should give you a taste of the book, in the chapter “Cardell Has a Sherry Cobbler,” in which Cardell, an urban planner longing for erotic release, takes a woman named Jackie to a bar.  Drinks are had, specifically sherry cobblers drunk through straws.  After some merriment, Sherry announces

“…I’m just going to make an excursion to the House of Holes, where I can be a total tramp for a day or two. They let you do what you want there, you know.”

Her face began to blur and liquify, and then she poured herself down into the straw and was gone.

Cardell picked up the straw and looked through it.  There was no blockage. “Jackie?” he said.  The bartender stood watching him, holding a glass.

“What just happened?” Cardell said.

“Your lady friend seems to have been sucked into that straw,” the bartender said.

“That’s what I think, too,” Cardell said.

The bartender shrugged.  “It happens, man.”

Squee!  And that incident is perhaps not the strangest in that chapter alone…

Audrey Tautou as liquid girl

Here’s a cinematic sighting of the liquid girl trope in an unusual place, with Audrey Tautou doing the fluidic turn in the beyond-charming Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001). And it’s sure worth burning up the bandwidth with an animated gif.

Audrey Tatou turns to liquid in Amelie

Amélie, played by Tautou, is reacting to romantic disappointment if I remember correctly, so not exactly mad science. So does it belong here? Are you kidding? I would watch an infomercial for toilet brushes if it had Audrey Tautou in it and let’s face it, so would you.