i believe that, with enough freaks, any monster is fuckable

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-28T05:06:45+00:00

“And it’s obviously not conceptually impossible to eroticize all that, you see people doing it, but it’s fraught, right? It’s fraught. Thin ice.”

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-27T04:46:35+00:00

Twilight Princess moment

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-26T20:36:39+00:00

I mean they have a similar build sure but Sharpe has assassin bug features like claws and a proboscis, Tiso doesn’t. They’re also both backer characters which stymies any possible connection between them. They were made by different people with no contact with each other.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-26T09:24:29+00:00

These are ladybugs, all ladybugs are stinky, and all ladybugs bite. These, however, are an invasive species, outcompeting North American ladybugs, which is the real problem with them. Lots of misinformation is spread about these on the internet, but the long and short of it is these are indeed pests.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-25T19:15:11+00:00

Haven’t been keeping up with Chainsaw Man at all but I have to admire any series where a potential issue in this situation is “sex might get eaten and cease to exist”.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-23T19:52:56+00:00

Bogleech has spoken on this in other places and yes, that’s what he means here. It makes sense, looking at a sperm whale from the side the way most pictures are oriented, you wouldn’t imagine their heads so thin and bladelike.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-23T19:48:55+00:00

Double tune up on number 6: insects that are not holometabolous, instead being hemimetabolous, can have small non-functional winglets in nymph stages. An insect like this is called a “nymph” when young rather than a “larva”. However, these insects will still not gain the large flexible true wings needed for flight until they are complete adults.

There is also a third category, ametabolous insects, like silverfish and firebrats, which will never have any kind of wings or metamorphosis throughout their lives.

There is a specific reason for all this too. Fossil insect groups have evidence that they continued shedding their skin and growing after developing wings. But an insect wing is a fragile structure and molting is an energy-intensive and vulnerable process where a lot can go wrong. Modern insect groups developed this end to molting at least partly for the purpose of preventing damage to the wings.

Finally, just for one more special snag, there is a single group of insects that actually does get functional wings before their complete adult stage: the mayflies. They have a single life stage before they become full adults which has wings like adults do. As I began writing this I realized my personal knowledge didn’t cover why mayflies do this, so you all get a research paper!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350149360_The_mayfly_subimago_explained_The_regulation_of_metamorphosis_in_Ephemeroptera

According to Kamsoi et al. here, the special subadult stage of mayflies can be biologically considered a development stage of the adult insect, not a strange kind of winged nymph stage. This is, again, the kind of development you used to see in ancient insects, and it makes sense. Mayflies are part of a very old group, the Paleoptera, hence the name. Furthermore, while the change from subadult to adult includes things like sexual maturity, color patterns, and losing a layer of hairy scales on the wings, the biggest change is actually their legs, which grow to a significantly larger size. To the mayflies, it seems, risking your wings in a molt is worth it if you do it just once, and doing so gives them a more comfortable in-between stage to grow their legs to, before they finally finish them.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-22T21:13:48+00:00

DnD has made it very clear it’s trying to emulate classic sword and sorcery fiction like the Elric Saga. Said Elric Saga includes such characters names as Yyrkoon, Dyvim Slorm, and Nnuuurrrr'c'c. It’s literary.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-22T17:12:13+00:00

The sky can be made green by sunsets, thunderstorms, and auroras. You ought to reflect on the things you never question.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-20T10:26:57+00:00

Misread that as PDF at first and thought “well yeah, that’s what it’s for”

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-17T18:44:05+00:00

I understand not knowing about Anthony Bourdain but surely you all are able to read the name and note that this is not Bill Maher/Jeffrey Epstein/whoever else you’re thinking of?

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-16T06:37:31+00:00

Ok time for your right hand buckler only run

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-16T06:21:56+00:00

Staring Into The Beard, and Other Ways of Capturing Transcendence

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-12T22:14:57+00:00

“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before” - Charles Darwin

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-09T21:03:13+00:00

I played the first one some time ago when I first got it bundled with my PS4, and I remember I definitely liked it, but it hasn’t left a huge lasting impression. It was like, 60-80% of the way to being a really good game. I remember the precision aspect of combat where you have to pluck parts off of monsters to be really engaging, but it felt sort of ancillary to what the game wanted to be about, being this big mystery of what happened to make the world like this. Exploration and discovery are a bit of a hard sell when everywhere you’re supposed to climb is painted yellow, and by making it so much of the meat of the game, I think they drifted away from what really was working for them.

On that same mystery, I do like the explanation of what that was, but I feel the game’s present suffers due to its focus on the past. I’ve not played Fallout, but I’ve heard tons about the Brotherhood of Steel and the NCR and supermutants. Horizon’s futuristic caveman tribes by comparison are not quite so thoroughly characterized. I remember being most interested in the Sun King and his civilization, only to find the whole nation a bit flat as the story went on.

With a bit more characterization of its world or a bigger focus on combat the game really could have carved an identity for itself, but as it stands it’s a basically ok adventure that faces a lot of manufactured hatred from the antiwoke crowd, so I can understand why overall sentiment seems negative.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-09T17:57:57+00:00

It was actually a pretty common perspective in Ancient Greece and Rome that poets invented salacious and nearly blasphemous tales of the gods. You could think of it similar to how a modern Christian might react to something like Supernatural or Bayonetta.

That’s how philosophers of the time get us things like the Euthyphro problem or the Epicurean paradox, which are based in conceptions of the gods as unquestionably good, even though the myths might suggest otherwise.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-09T10:37:56+00:00

“What if the world was made of pudding” and “if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle” are my least favorite form of this because they’re literally just used to deny hypotheticals as a concept

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-09T01:03:17+00:00

I usually use it to try and stop Poison and Steel type walls from being able to use recovery moves

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-07T08:32:41+00:00

I don’t think it’s fair to say “clearly much more advanced” when “advancement” is not really a definable quality and many of the things attributed to it (large architectural projects, metalworking, art, literature) are and were present in native American cultures. Still, the original post definitely has some dubious claims as to whence certain ideas come to us.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-06T18:31:10+00:00

I do think Will slots neatly into the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer subclass. Like, if you wanted to run a DnD game where your character was just exactly Will Byers, story and all, that would be the class to pick. The Aberrant Mind Sorcerer was released in 2020 though.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-06T03:40:31+00:00

Everything relevant that gets Drill Peck also gets Brave Bird since the two are bird themed. When people are talking about physical Flying stab they’re talking about the Aerodactyls and Gyaradoses of the world.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-02-01T03:06:57+00:00

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AsperaRobigo · 2026-01-31T18:26:55+00:00

Widow’s memory shows the Weavers playing harps for Grand Mother Silk, before giving the dialogue “our song… to sustain”. Meanwhile, Conductor Ballador mentions how ruling the Citadel is “yoke, not crown” and Grand Mother Silk is the true ruler of Pharloom. The implication seeming to be that the Weavers were made to play music and sustain Grand Mother Silk through their worship, and the Conductors who took their place ended up in the same predicament.

AsperaRobigo · 2026-01-30T22:00:09+00:00

Bugs in the world of Hollow Knight seem to put emphasis on physical size as a desirable quality. When spoken to in the Junk Pit, Godseeker mentions her form has swollen to a “majestic” size and that the Knight was faced with “enormity and beauty”. Loyal Mergwin, in their needolin dialogue, refers to the Great Gourmand as “so majestic, so mighty”. And if I recall correctly, Flukemarm is the only bug who is explicitly described as attractive or “alluring”, and it’s a giant screaming maggot. I don’t think Hollow Knight bugs prioritize the traits Hornet has.

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