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Yah, that puts you above me.

This is likely the most fun Pandora has had since summer. As for "this sort of thing coming up more often", it's probably rare to have an entire second person completely within one's clothing while transforming (in utero instances of a fetus transforming together with the mother notwithstanding), since it requires that one of the two people be quite small. If the other enchantments are now linked/shared because of this, then two things may happen: 1: Catgirl enchantment leaking onto Rhoda. 2: Sizechange enchantment leaking in either direction, causing either Rhoda to shrink below regular size, or Catalina to grow too large to hide in the jacket.

Well, in my case it is of the "dripping onto everything and literally wringing the liquid out of my t-shirt several times per hour" level, which means also that I do not want to do it if I do not have immediate access to showers and change of clothes afterward. Competition these days is humans competing against each other rather than humans competing against other species. Threats from large predators became trivial after the development of convenient portable firearms (17th century). Threats from vermin and disease became minor after the discovery of poisons that will kill them but not us (late 19th-early 20th century). Also, the criteria for what makes successful interpersonal competition has changed. Because most modern forms of productivity (agriculture, manufacture, media, etc.) are either capital-intensive or require a combination of several specialties, almost nobody outside of small merchants and service technicians can operate a true solo business. This means that the ability to do the job efficiently now takes a back seat to the ability to placate potential employers--in other words, what matters is that the boss (or Human Resources Department, or whoever else decides hiring and firing) approves of you. This in turn leads to the advantage going to those who can put up the best facade of being valuable, whether there is substance behind the facade or not. Mr. A. can now gain the advantage by bullying or charming his co-workers into shouldering his workload as long as he can conceal this action from his supervisors. Thus, the ability to acquire praise (and other fruits) for work done by other people is the "killer app" skill in modern society. In DnD terms, Strength, Constitution, and even Dexterity are hardly important any more, and Charisma dominates everything.

Probably, given that I think I am younger than you . . .

Yeah, I was just having fun playing with the old "in MY day" stereotype. By the way, it really was four miles from my house to my high school, but I rode the city bus.

But beware that thou dost not thrice speak the name of the star Alpha Orionis.

I was using "must get consent from the people who would be depowered" as a hypothetical reason why depowering would not be as straightforward as empowering under Immortal Law.

One mile? Why, in MY day, sonny, we walked FOUR miles to school, EACH WAY.

Y'all should read the book "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves".

I thought that Pandora placed the clog herself, but she needed someone else to remove it because Depowering has different rules about it than Empowering? (e.g. she couldn't Depower Moperville and all of the Mages in it without getting permission from a large enough majority of them first, which in turn would require way more time and explaining than doing it this way?)

Notice what Tedd says in the first panel of http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=598 "Dirty secret affairs that you would have never thought possible"--that phrase almost certainly hit a sore spot with Susan, and is probably what contributed the most to her losing her temper.

That phrase would totally be appropriate for Bartleby, the Scrivener.

They sell Chicken 'n' Dumplings in a frosted mug?

Nanase's line at the end is pure snarky gold.

Well he was tougher than the toughies, and smarter than the smarties.

Tensaided does say "woman" rather than "girl", so he probably perceives her as being older than student-age.

I like swimming as exercise for the aforementioned cooling factor--I overheat and sweat so easily normally that the overheating and sweating itself is my biggest disincentive to exercising.

Rhoda's chest in this form looks pretty average-sized by the standards of Dan's current art style.

IMO her chest looks the same as it did when she was Tall Rhoda before she cast the most recent enchantment.

It's only been the last dozen generations or so that it has been more common for humans to have health problems from excess calories than from insufficient calories, and Evolution only works that fast when a large proportion of people are dying from something in just a few generations (e.g. a pandemic). Our bodies just haven't adapted fast enough.

On the other hand, acting as though a seemingly-concrete object (e.g. a wall) doesn't exist for philosophical reasons does nothing to spare you from the perception of pain when you seem to collide with it.

I had to look up what that stuff was.

$1k a month per each obese person would come close to outweighing the entire medical industry and would bankrupt the entire economy--we're approaching ten percent of the total national GDP at that point.

That depends on how loosely one defines "chocolate chips". There were certainly no pre-formed tiny conical droplets of chocolate purpose-made to be chips before Toll House, but cookies with pieces of chocolate melted inside or on top did exist here and there under different names.

Ok, but seriously, I don't like the idea of tossing out Grandma's recipe just because she came up with it in the 1920s or whatever.