Mmmm nothing like some delicious magnesium carbonate to satisfy that bone growth induced craving. She saved this bone from her Eid present btw.
Transcript
SFX: BEEDLE BEEDLE BEEDLE BEEDLE BEEDLE
Talita wakes up to the sound of her alarm and scratches at one of the pointed, velvety brown nubs growing on either side of her lower jaw with a feeling of dull irritation. She gets out of bed shirtless and opens her freezer, taking out a long, thick bone in an opened plastic bag. Clamping down on the knobbed end with her sharp molars, she twists her head and snaps it in half like a breadstick.
SFX: SNAP
She crunches on the bone happily.
SFX: bing!
Her tablet sounds out a notification and she picks it up to check the text message.
UNKNOWN #: Need help welding again.
37 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 139”
Boxthing
Dang, look at those STRONK MASCLES on Talita! Is she butch or what? <3
Zuorai
Muscular woman sleeping in undies… breaking bones with her teeth…
I like the emphasis on her alarm whenever she wakes up, like it’s a routine expectation for both her and the readers
JoB
Heh. Panel three doesn’t bode well for the RL folks trying to establish some kind of matrix code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode#Matrix_(2D)_codes
as a successor for the current GTINs …
creetur
Delectable bone marrow :] Wish I could do that with bone, probably has a good crunchy feel.
JoB
You probably can – try a roast chicken. ๐
ยท
(I remember the time when dog owners were told that they shouldn’t give their dogs actual bones to gnaw, period, because they can splinter and the splinters threaten to perforate their guts. That was later amended to say that chicken bones are OK, because the bones of current-day farmed chicken have become too soft to splinter …)
K
Sorry to be this guy but this isn’t true, don’t feed any cooked bones to your dogs! No veterinary authority recommends it. I think you might be thinking of osteomalacia, which is the softening of bones in laying chickens due to nutritional deficiencies. This isn’t going to affect chickens commercially sold for meat as frequently and doesn’t make the bones literally soft in a way that would be safer to eat.
From personal experience gnawing on cooked chicken bones for marrow they absolutely can and do shatter past the soft ends of the joints. But yeah, as a human who knows what they’re doing the risk can be worth it.
Mr. Skeleton
That good cronch.
zofifi
Scary.. but also hot. … Who said that
creetur
๐
Kage
amazing panel of talita showing off both her muscles and bite power :3
and also… is that climbing chalk? for eating? I don’t think she needs it for weighlifting ๐ค
0xabad1dea
I’ve seen my husband use chalk for weightlifting. Grip is also important there even if both feet are on the ground ๐
BlenderheadIll
can confirm
JoB
And yet, she’s keeping that box near her larder, rather than outside next to her workout doodads. ๐
1d4Nadg
Yup! It’s the easiest way for her to supplement her diet in magnesium carbonate, which is the stuff her bones (and the centraur-planet bone she is currently gnawing on) are made of!
Accursed Dirt Boar
Man she is actually so ripped tho
JoB
Umh … the transcript says that she takes that bone straight out of her FREEZER. Is that meant to have it made *extra* crunchy, or does the centaur-homeworld-fauna biochemistry work with a different (lower) temperature as its typical “freezing point” … ?
Varyon
Storing it in the freezer keeps it from spoiling, particularly if there’s still some meat on it. I could certainly see it making the bone crunchier as well.
Granted, I’m not certain the microbes on Dirtball would be able to do much to it, but better safe than sorry. Besides, she may have bacteria-analogues living in her mouth (humans certainly do) that would have gotten on it when she ate it, so freezing it prevents those from proliferating on the bone and ruining it for consumption.
furubatsu
Extra crunch also probably helps in filing down her teeth. Iirc centaur teeth are constantly growing and need filing down, I assume an extra firm bone helps with that naturally.
Enai
Maybe that’s the closest a centaur gets to something like icecream?
Hubert
It’s like a pitbull and a horse had a baby.
JoB
… and a somewhat quirky dentist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(James_Bond)
TotallySomebody
Mmmmm bones I love eating bones
Greenjoe
Mmm cronchy bones
Light_In_The_Fog
CRONCH! I bet that antler progress is taking up a lot of calcium! Are those calcium supplements on the fridge(?) as well, or something else?
And is this bone left over from a meat import or does Talita order separate bone imports specifically?
Also loving the fridge magnets, hoping we can zoom in on what the magnets are in the future!
Varyon
Meat import; the author’s note below the comic states this is leftover from the gift her friends gave her for Eid (their little get-together back in chapter 2).
Chrysalis
Crunchy food is the best.
Eux
BIIIIIIIIG CRONCH
also talita waking up is me waking up. the perils of alarms ๐ค no matter the time period
JoB
Two takeaway facts from looking at Talitas fridge(?):
1) That curvature … is that a *blast* door on it??
2) HDD magnet collector detected.
3) There also seems to be a stash of *calcium* carbonate sitting atop of it … ?
JoB
… derp. *”Sports” / gymnasts’* chalk actually is (more) *magnesium* carbonate nowadays …
un_pogaz
You know, there always comes a time when an asshole manages to piss off even the calmest and nicest persons to the point where they strikes.
I definitely wouldn’t want to be the guy who discovers this point with Talita.
zaratustra
https://jayrockin.tumblr.com/post/763210525901471744/you-said-centaurs-could-threat-bark-could-you#notes
Greebus
I keep forgetting that Talita is ridiculously shredded
bug ferret irl
best birthday present i could ask for is talita crunching through a bone like a carrot thank you jay
K
Ooh, antler progress is a clever way of showing a passage of time has taken place. But how long would is normally take for antlers to go form nothing to that level of growth?
JoB
I can’t find the post offhand that did IIRC outright say it takes two weeks for them to *fully* grow in, but this graph seems to more or less agree with that:
https://jayrockin.tumblr.com/post/667962256720527360/is-it-just-me-or-do-we-only-see-talita-with-fully
Claire
Antler construction: Underway!
Graham_Cheshire
That shot of her chomping on that bone does a great job reminding how jacked Talita is (even compared to other centaurs), beautiful.