{"id":3124,"date":"2014-04-09T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:23","slug":"beatrice-the-biologist-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/beatrice-the-biologist-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatrice the Biologist strikes again! &#8220;Some superhero suggestions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3125 alignnone\" alt=\"Beatrice the Biologist: Superheroes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/superheroes-01-630x1024.png?resize=604%2C981\" width=\"604\" height=\"981\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love these ideas more than is probably healthy. I find myself being inspired by these superheroes\/supervillains(?) and might have to do some research.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a superhero come to arrest some baddies, but oh no! It&#8217;s Sea Cucumber Woman, gross! While she makes off with her bag of stolen goodies, she casually reaches in through her mouth and pulls out something pulsing and squishy purple. You try to dodge out of the way, but &#8230; Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Amoeba Woman absorbs you into her amorphous body and begins to <em>squeeze<\/em>. You struggle and attempt to break away, but once she&#8217;s got you in her grasp, the only escape is the GRAVE!<\/p>\n<p>Fungus Woman may look like she&#8217;s got a serious skin condition, but once you get close enough to catch a whiff of her alluring spores, it&#8217;s already too late. Lulled into a state of dreamy reticence, you don&#8217;t even notice the almost silvery webbing forming over your skin, strands of frothy white forming as you are consumed alive.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a title=\"Beatrice the Biologist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beatricebiologist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.beatricebiologist.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love these ideas more than is probably healthy. I find myself being inspired by these superheroes\/supervillains(?) and might have to do some research. You&#8217;re a superhero come to arrest some baddies, but oh no! It&#8217;s Sea Cucumber Woman, gross! While she makes off with her bag of stolen goodies, she casually reaches in through&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/beatrice-the-biologist-strikes-again\/\" title=\"Beatrice the Biologist strikes again! &#8220;Some superhero suggestions&#8221;\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beatrice the Biologist strikes again! &#8220;Some superhero suggestions&#8221;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95],"tags":[155,401,402,686],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-inspired","tag-beatrice-the-biologist","tag-inspiration","tag-inspired-2","tag-superheroes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-Oo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2917,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/what-you-dont-know-beatrice-the-biologist\/","url_meta":{"origin":3124,"position":0},"title":"What, you don&#8217;t know Beatrice the Biologist?","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"January 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Is there any wonder why I've fallen in love with the Beatrice the Biologist webcomic? 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