Jeanie Bottle 823
Dec03
on December 3, 2024
at 12:00 am
and modified on December 4, 2024. at 6:15 am
Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
Yeah, seriously. WHAT?!
Welcome to
Normally Updates Weekly
Usually Tuesday or Thursday
Yeah, seriously. WHAT?!
Yeah, this is going to be a very interesting relationship. Also, just poof to Neil or have him poof to you have magic to do so.
Has it been established if that requires any knowledge of where the person is for it to work?
I believe that one episode of the show ran with the premise that Jeannie couldn’t find Anthony and one of the movies followed the same premise.
Good, there’s that. And to the degree, in this story, that Sid learned these rules from Rouyaa and applied them to his show, that would be make it a rule. But this comic has deviated form the—sometimes contradictory—show rules, which in this storyline would mean Sid created rules that don’t match with “reality.” Still, that would be a good limit to impose, perhaps with rare artifacts that help find people or allow for successful blind jumps.
I used the show’s logic in at least two of the fanfiction stories, The Disappearance of Rodge Heeny and A Mermaid’s Tale. Jeanie knew who she searched for but not where to search.
Drop Ifta off with Gilligan and crew to give Mary Ann a vacay? Or, go home, summon Neil, replace with Ifta, and eat some popcorn?
I don’t think dropping another genie in range of that artifact is good idea.
4th panel… although you can do what’s written, I suspect the intended statement was that “she’s going to BEAR the prince’s child.”
As written, she’s apparently going to yank off the diaper and bare the child. 🙂
Well … if Genies don’t come potty-trained from birth, she will need to do that many times.
Darn spell check.
Please. The PROPER term is “AutoCorrupt!”
Thanks for the heads up. I knew something looked *off* about that line, but I couldn’t place it, and spell-check of course gave it a gold star… I wish Photoshop had Grammar Check.
“Just magic up some real ones.” Genies may have a different definition of “real” than mortals, I think.
I think she means “real gold” as opposed to gold-colored plastic.
Also, as far as we have seen, any nonliving thing that a genie magics up can be indistinguishable from the real article.
Hey ifta didn’t steal it was given to her! Unwillingly! Sorta… well she wished it but .. I think a trial at least would be needed.
… also what’s with the arm bands being proofed…
Sure, they can trust Genies’ judicial system
Jehane didn’t get a trial.
Oh yeah .. I’m sure she’s fine.
We don’t know what happened to her in the canon, but when we last saw her, she was in chains.
Oooooh… kinky!
Jehane will become the next arc villain.
Might want to remove the sidebar link to Body Suit 23. They moved to a new web address
Ifta: “So, what is that “plastic” and how is made?”
(a long explanation later about the extraction, polymerisation and polycondensation of petrochemicals)
Ifta: (mindblow)……..soo, magic?
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” –Arthur C. Clarke.
At the most recent LosCon (an annual regional science fiction/fantasy/horror/etc. convention in the Los Angeles area put on by LASFS), during a discussion panel about magic systems in stories, this quote was brought up multiple times.
LASFS = Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
Ifta may have already been familiar with celluloid, which was used for many of the things that we now use plastics for back in the 1880s-1920s. Just tell her that it’s like celluloid, but derived from petroleum.
Thanks for the heads up. We’ll get it fixed.
Called home?
How many signal-bars are in whatever dimension where genies live? (I doubt copper wires run in that “direction”)
That really should not matter at the moment.
They’re still in Mortal Miami, probably on or about a 10th floor judging by the angle of the buildings in the background.
Also, poor, poor New Ifta.
No, but maybe Starlink satellites can be accessed. Even Guano knew about cell phones.
I believe it’s been established that Haji’s Palace is just on a mountain on Earth somewhere. And most genies seem to live there.
I don’t think choosing armbands with blue gems is the best idea. Especially considering what happened with the Blue Genie.
To me, they look more purple than blue.
So what gem are they? Sapphire? Aquamarine?
Lapis lazuli, maybe. Wrong shade to be turquoise or blue topaz.
I’ve got it! They’re probably Benitoite. A brilliant, fluorescent blue stone, it’s one of the rarest gems on earth, found only along active tectonic plate boundaries. It costs about twice as much per carat as diamond… and is MUCH harder to find. It’s the state gem of California. And given the armband stones, magic is about the only way you would ever get anything that big.
More genie politics…
Yay…
Shula can be so delightful at times and has such a cheerful personality.
She does a great job of demonstrating what kind of logic Genie-borns can have. Possessing what they think you shouldn’t have in any means is enough for punishment, as far.
Well, that has plenty of parallels in human culture. Dating. back to the Romans, at least, where laws were etched on walls in public areas, so that they were clearly available to be seen by all. Thus yielding, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
Well, at least Shula is warning Ifta. Ifta could benefit by knowing ahead of time what the situation is likely to be viewed as. “Forewarned is forearmed.”
Perhaps they’re mood armbands.
In that case, the price listed was even MORE outrageous.
Oh, god, Jeanie needs help. This is not the crew for this mission. It’s a good thing it’s entertaining, yeah? 🙂
Shula seems to be intelligent when she’s not going off on something that triggers her emotionally. She’s the “brain”, while Ayla is the “heart” of their group.
I thought she was more the mouth.
Pick! Picky!
Well, I’ve read all the fan fic. That was good. I’m looking forward to new ones.
I’m glad you enjoyed them.
I’ve started re-reading. It looks like Rita’s story starts in the Natalie-verse and then moves into the Neil-verse at some point. It’s not a problem, Natalie wasn’t an important part of Rita’s story. I just like the idea that in either timeline, Rita gets her head straightened out. 🙂
Others might disagree, but Librarian Natalie is (or was) Neil Prime, having been left behind to grow up female. The others (Nell and Neil in subsequent Jeanie stories) are replicants. If we assume Jeanie returned to her own reality and not some spin-off, then Rita and Jeanie share the same reality.
There are actually 4 Neils mentioned in the fanfiction and 2 other Ritas that never have been.
Neil Prime became the librarian.
Neil 2.0 became Nell.
Neil 3.0 was brought to Nell’s bottle and left behind, again. Nell took care of that problem.
Neil 4.0 returned to the main timeline with Jeanie.
The Librarian and Nell timelines each contain a Rita that was never fleshed out. I suppose it’s possible that in those timelines, she may not have gotten her head straightened out and ended up as a spinster aunt with only her cat to keep her company.
Just so you know, I’m working on a book that will compile all the Rita stories, with each individual story being a single chapter. Additional information will be included that makes Natalie’s act of kindness in the mall a bit more important to Rita’s arc.
After further consideration, you’re correct that I somehow combined the timelines. That would mean that The Librarian and Neil 4.0 share the same timeline. Fancy that.
I’m finding all that very confusing. How I can follow is we have:
1. The Jeanie-verse, written by Rudd.
2. The Neil-verse, where Jean is Jeanie, the Dukettes are waiting to go back to normal, Anne is armed and fabulous, Rita’s taking names and prodding some serious buttock, our favorite North Korean spy’s living small and eating whatever the hell he wants, a pair of Greek captains have come to terms with rather a lot, Rita ad Jeanie have become besties, Alex has one weird experience after another and Jeanie has given a very confused Neil permission to go after a very nice engineer.
3. The Natalie-verse, where Natalie was abandoned, made a life for herself, became good friends with Zoey and Neil who wind up together, becomes a redhead, is linguistically confused (it’s O.K., really) and is currently living through Roman foreign affairs and Jean’s likely learned a thing or two off-screen.
4. The Nell-verse, where Nell’s on the edge of a dangerous and complicated plot and her adoptive grand-dad’s about to show everyone why the Haji’s such a damned stickler. More Roman-style politics.
I’m a fan of them all.
These are your stories and they can be whatever you want. But for my money, Natalie’s small kindness was not a game-changer in Rita’s life. Mina’s is. Her friendship and that fall from a pyramid seem to have shaken the empathy loose. Natalie isn’t needed for that. Without Mina, I can see Rita graduating with a communications degree and being a small-market news-anchor moving from town to town up and down the dial (see, I get these references). And it’s nice to know Mina was there to drag Rita in and give her some true friendship.
Anyway, that’s my two-cents worth, and may not be worth even that. Keep the good work up!
Wow! Just Wow! You describe it better than I do, and I wrote it.
I’ve been thinking about it.
I just realised. Given the genie population is only in the low hundreds having a new child must be a really really big deal. The entire population would be interested. Imagine that…
I think the blame for the magic lies more with the original Iifrit who left her body in a bottle whlie going off as a mortal or th genies who didn’t bother to check on her. So she’s in a stable enough relationship to be looking forward to child birth interesting.
I just noticed that Guano’s harem armband has been added to Jeanie’s costume in the banner. I know he didn’t do it (Guano has no sense of fashion), so I assume Jeanie created it but there’s no indication which of the genies actually summoned them.
Poor Ifta. Bannished, executed or pregnant. Not any really good choices, but considering the choices go with pregnant.
I miss Jehane and Rouyaa.
I think a more concise term would be fertile. Pregnant assumes that the couple has already done the deed, and we know that Jeanie has not. I believe that it’s a three-step process.
1. Receive the Habun Jadid from Haji and speak The Oath. (In Jeanie’s case, Blue stole the Habun Jadid and blackmailed Guano to speak the oath. The Genie Council later decided that the oath was still valid.)
2. The couple has intercourse. (At this point, we don’t know if Ifta mated with Aazim, but we can assume that they did not because if they did, why would she go off into the mortal world? We know that Jeanie hasn’t.)
3. Produce a baby genie. (The duration of gestation is unclear but concludes with the infant genie entering its totem.)
(2) – it really hasn’t been established yet that this is a necessary, or even valid, step. As per Kazom, “genies are creatures of magic” and even though they may (sometimes) have a human-like appearance, their biology may not follow human norms.
“if they did, why would she go off into the mortal world?”
I can think of multiple possible reasons, starting with “Sowing some wild oats”, and ending with “She’s lost interest in him and wanted to get away.” The fact that Aazim, himself, might have been unaware of this proves nothing; as previously noted, genies aren’t always the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Lahab’s conversation with Jeanie on page 601 strongly implies that mating is required.
Hmm – I just went back and re-read #599 through 602. Lahab is using the term “mate” in multiple contexts. I assume what you are referring to is in Panel 2, where Lahab says “there is no rush for you two to mate”. But there is no further explanation given as to what, exactly, “mating” involves for magical beings.
Kazom’s comments, on the other hand, indicate that there is some magical component to it, and that intercourse alone isn’t sufficient.
So it’s an open question, and any assumption we might make is, at best, not canon.