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.
62 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 139”
Athelind Llewellyn Long
Her little happy face in panel 5. 💕
Sen
I read the package on the fridge as “Spores Chalk” and my mind was thinking of genetically modified fungi that grow chalk or something until I realized it probably says “Sports Chalk”. Dang mind. Thinking too complicated again.
Ruby
Hmmm, bone
Wordman
The munching cruncher
Paroxysmall
she eat the bone to greet the bone (antlers)
eaugh
Talita’s bedhead is very cute. (also goddamn I wish I were that jacked.)
GRUMM
stronk horse, wooo, mamma
Kai
Damn. I can’t help but imagine Talita’s ancestors doing that to some poor prey animal’s arm or leg. Brutal. I can’t remember off the top of my head if it mentions this in the centaur tab, but did the species evolve as pursuit or persistence predators? I could see both working honestly. Both are equally terrifying. Imagine being a prey animal and having something talita’s size and shape RUNNING you down in seconds. Then imagine being that same prey animal and having one of them just… follow you. For DAYS. I’d love to see more creepy art of centaurs. I know they are sophonts and all but I think in the right context they can be terrifying.
Fallen
Considering how fast Talita can run, I’d say pursuit predators, though there is the possibility that Centaurs’ prey is faster somehow.
JoB
> did the species evolve as pursuit or persistence predators?
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For the actual killing act, they seem to rather be *ambush* hunters:
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“Centaurs’ evolutionary ancestors were savanna pack predators who used ambush to hunt prey, nomadically following prey animal herds as they traveled round the global continent every year.”
https://jayeaton.site/RunawayToTheStars/Sophonts/Centaurs/Biology
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I suppose the nomadic lifestyle qualifies as a persistence *aspect*, but. Anyway, I guess the prey’s been seeing them peeping over the horizon ALL YEAR LONG. >;->
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> imagine being that same prey animal and having
> one of them just… follow you. For DAYS.
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I’ve evolved as a “specialist for non-specialization”. I’d try swimming across a fjord or crossing a terrain of jagged rocks preferably, and climbing a tree when out of other options.
furubatsu
There is a small comic on the tumblr where Idrisah expresses amazement at the speeds Talita can reach on the treadmill while Talita confesses that she still can’t believe that humans can keep running for hour(s) so centaur’s certainly aren’t persistance predators.
Vinemaple
It’s good to see that Eid present again… we never really got to see her *enjoy* it, she was so nervous the whole time! And I knew people were not going to be normal about the panel where she snaps the bone, and the comments section did not disappoint!
MyUniverseinaBox
I can’t get enough of the way centaurs faces are shaped
it’s so cool looking
anonymous
O///O
Paroxysmall
I really love the transcript notes. I think it’s kind of a shame that you can’t include them in the printed book, but I guess they are intended to be an alternative/supplement to the pages. I really like hybrid comic/writing books like the Dragonbreath series and what Paranatural is doing. I also like clarification and Talita crunching on the bone happily
Boxthing
Dang, look at those STRONK MASCLES on Talita! Is she butch or what? <3
Vinemaple
And then in the next panel? Cute little google eyes.
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. 😉
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(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.
Flori
I was taught the opposite. Do not, under any circumstances, give dogs chicken bones! Cooked or uncooked they splinter like mad. Other bones are fine uncooked. Though I wonder how this applies to chicken feet, since those seem safe but have bones in them….
A Box Of Fox
Vertebrate feet have lotsa little bones in ’em, maybe those are small enough to be digested whole?
Paroxysmall
has anybody ever eaten bones soaked in vinegar? i guess that would prevent splintering?
Peter Jensen
When I eat chicken, the bones all go in the freezer to make stock once I’ve collected enough. To help release the collagen from the bones, I add a little bit of vinegar, and by the end of the simmering, the bones are basically spongy and can be broken with just your fingers. I suppose cooked *that* way it would be safe for dogs to eat, but there would be no point in doing so, since most nutrition and taste went into the broth water.
JoB
> I suppose cooked *that* way it would be safe for dogs to eat,
> but there would be no point in doing so, since most nutrition
> and taste went into the broth water.
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Considering the addition of vinegar, chances are that your dog wouldn’t *want* those bones anymore, too. :-3
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(Disclaimer: Don’t trust any “advice” of mine re: animal husbandry without *triple*-checking it. I read up back when *my mother* had a dog, but you *don’t* want to trust a pet to *me* long term.)
Mr. Skeleton
That good cronch.
zofifi
Scary.. but also hot. … Who said that
creetur
👀
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 🤔
0xabad1dea
I’ve seen my husband use chalk for weightlifting. Grip is also important there even if both feet are on the ground 🙂
BlenderheadIll
can confirm
JoB
And yet, she’s keeping that box near her larder, rather than outside next to her workout doodads. 😉
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?
Phasma Felis
Freezing things only hardens them if they’ve got a lot of water in them.
I’ve got a brownie recipe, butter, chocolate, flour, sugar, salt, vanilla, and eggs. I tried freezing most of it so I wouldn’t be able to eat the whole 6000-calorie tray in one day. Unfortunately it turns out frozen brownies are *delicious.* I was expecting an ice cube, but no, it just turns real chewy and fudgy.
JoB
Heheh, you got “lucky”, then. I had to replace my fridge’s thermostat lately because it chose to go “full power 24/7!!!” and got everything to -12°C. It sure takes the fun out of snacking when you have to let sit even YOGHURT on the counter for a couple hours before you can enjoy it. :-3
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).
Mineral Nerd
Based on Jay’s comments, it sounds like animals from the Centaur homeworld have bones with magnesium carbonate rather than calcium carbonate (which is plausible since both calcium and magnesium have 2 valence electrons). But other than that you’re probably correct!
JoB
> Also loving the fridge magnets, hoping we can
> zoom in on what the magnets are in the future!
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They look a lot like HDD magnets to me …
https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1846761310/12-neodym-magnete-aus-recycelten
Chrysalis
Crunchy food is the best.
Eux
BIIIIIIIIG CRONCH
also talita waking up is me waking up. the perils of alarms 🤝 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.