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
Followed in turn by the emergence of a goo girl, in lovely absinthion green no less.
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…
The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Seven, Page Ten
As usual, law enforcement arrives rather too late to actually do much about the mad science.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Seven, Page Ten 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.)
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.
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.
Awe-inspiring liquid girl
Liquid Destiny, done by Australian artist Thomas Egan. I won’t post the image — it’s not mine — but encourage you to have a look at the image here and also to Egan’s whole site here. He’s doing very impressive work.
Exquisite blue liquid girl
This is one of the more striking examples of the liquid girl genre I’ve seen in a while.
Click for full size. She appears to be in a state of ecstasy to me.
Unsure of the ultimate provenance, but found her here.
Update: Link to source broken before. Fixed now.
The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Three, Page Fifteen
Corwin extracts and combines parts of Nanetta and Anwei’s liquid essences to make…something quite mysterious.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Three, Page Fifteen 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.)
The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Three, Page Fourteen
The discussion between Corwin and Moira turns philosophical, touching on issues of personal identity and ethics. Derek Parfit, please call your office.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Three, Page Fourteen 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.)
The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Three, Page Thirteen
In Corwin’s laboratory can be heard the bubble and hiss of liquid girls being distilled.
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Apsinthion Protocol Chapter Three, Page Thirteen 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.)
