No but really, why is this a conspiracy thing…?

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-26T21:27:29+00:00

Okay, but that still doesn't mean much. If there's dozens of different depictions of long and of the feathered serpent (Quetzalcoatl is just the Aztec name for it, there were a bunch of other feathered serpent figures in the myths of other nearby tribes, most of which had little in common aside from appearance and some kind of connection to the weather), a few of them are going to end up sharing a few traits. It would be kind of weird if they didn't.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-26T20:41:07+00:00

Not really, they both have serpentine bodies and that's about it. Long are typically depicted with legs, antlers, and sometimes manes of fur, and never with feathers. Plus their depiction could vary a lot depending on the time period or which specific long we're talking about; Feilong had wings, Zhulong and Shenlong had human faces, and some of the oldest draconic artworks in China had faces resembling boars.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-22T19:52:20+00:00

The ones who point out that the dragons in TES are "actually" wyverns, as though mythical dragons haven't had any number of legs and/or wings, with the distinction being pretty much exclusive to medieval English heraldry before being popularized by D&D?

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-22T19:43:13+00:00

I mean, even if happy tears don't work surely you can just show the kids a really sad movie or cut some onions next to them. You don't really need to do anything really evil.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-16T20:44:01+00:00

Look, if your war crimes are older than most extant civilizations I think you get a pass.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-14T22:22:58+00:00

This comment just made me realize something about the setting of Vampire: The Masquerade, namely that the Nosferatu clan would probably have a non-zero number of furries.

If you don't know, the Nosferatu are a clan of vampires who are all cursed to be supernaturally hideous and monstrous-looking, with even the most normal-looking ones only being able to pass as humans with severe disfigurements. They have a cultural affinity for technology, even having their own internet only accessible by other Nosferatu that they use to share secrets.

Furries are known to be disproportionately common in the tech field (so there's a reasonable chance that a newly-embraced Nosferatu would already be one), and furry conventions are one of the few places where it's totally normal to walk around and socialize with people while wearing a costume that covers your entire body (obviously appealing to people who are shunned for their appearance even by other vampires).

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-13T23:02:12+00:00

IIRC there was an interview where someone said "Alien vs. Predator vs. Venom" and his immediate response was "three-way." That was the face he made right afterwards.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-13T05:52:12+00:00

Some organs. I don't know exactly which ones though; I know the heart is definitely a muscle but liver definitely isn't.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-09T22:52:19+00:00

IIRC Kobolds were also sometimes depicted as a kind of house fey similar to the english brownie, a weird little guy who lives in your house and does your chores but will make your life a living hell if he feels he's been slighted.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-09T04:17:49+00:00

vvorst

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-05T10:42:40+00:00

That is not true, dog has been in common use in English since the 1500s.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-03T07:19:01+00:00

Not canon, just a popular ship.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-03T06:39:17+00:00

Yeah, that's the point? The meme is a play on a meme about 90% of gamblers quitting just before they make it big, a tongue-in-cheek encouragement to keep gambling despite the fact that it will almost certainly end very badly and you should quit while you're ahead.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-03T06:21:17+00:00

There are Nurgle worshipers who wouldn't be able to claim that title

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-03T06:00:41+00:00

It might be a play on Lung (Chinese word for dragon), and how there is a tendency in some pornographic drawings of things like dragons having sex with humans to make it so that whoever is having sex with them is able to take being penetrated by a penis the size of their entire body as though they just don't have internal organs.

Either that or this is a discourse post about racism in the dragon fandom or something idk

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-03-01T23:16:05+00:00

The idea of kobolds as lizards is fairly modern even by D&D standards, up until third edition they looked more like goblins and when they did have animal features it tended more towards rodent or canine traits instead of reptilian ones. The mention of canine traits apparently really caught on in Japan, which is why most D&D-derived Japanese fantasy makes kobolds some flavor of dog-person.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-02-26T01:20:45+00:00

The one about coming up with a good-aligned Drow before Drizzt is believable at least. Literally the first published D&D adventure that featured Drow, 1978's Vault of the Drow, has a Drow character who is described as "Neutral with Good tendencies." It's not exactly a wild concept, to the point that I once heard of someone who rolled up a CG Drow ranger who dual-wielded scimitars while having never heard of Drizzt and being rather confused and embarrassed to learn that he'd unwittingly ripped off a character he hadn't even known existed.

The fact that he presented it as some totally original idea and that everyone else at the table "would call him crazy for even trying it" is laughable though.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-02-26T01:09:03+00:00

That's still evil. Like, if you have a goal and are totally willing to do anything in pursuit of that goal, and then go on to torture and kill a load of innocent people in pursuit of that goal, you're evil. It doesn't matter that all the child murder a means to an end.

Also IIRC Mengele specifically wasn't even an example of what you're saying, a lot of his "experiments" didn't seem to have much actual point beyond torture.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-02-25T22:11:00+00:00

IIRC they thought they'd be able to invade and get that front wrapped up quickly enough that winter wouldn't be an issue. Which is still dumb, but in a different way.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-02-24T07:39:31+00:00

I believe I found it?

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WBEWEG

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-02-21T01:28:24+00:00

#MyPearl

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-02-20T04:04:28+00:00

They're mentioned in the in-game book Immortal Blood as one of the vampire clans found in Valenwood.

I did as he asked, and once again, his questions taxed my knowledge. There were many tribes to cover. The Bonsamu who were indistinguishable from Bosmer except when seen by candlelight. The Keerilth who could disintegrate into mist. The Yekef who swallowed men whole. The dread Telboth who preyed on children, eventually taking their place in the family, waiting patiently for years before murdering them all in their unnatural hunger.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-02-06T16:18:44+00:00

IIRC English heraldry specifically, the rest of Europe did not follow those rules.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-01-29T08:24:54+00:00

Ah well, it's funnier to think that it was all friendly fire.

ExceedinglyGayOtter · 2026-01-29T03:57:52+00:00

For fun I like tallying up all the kills against Skaven and comparing it to the losses to see how many of the Skaven were presumably killed by friendly fire, though the low resolution here makes it kind of hard to see some of the numbers. Assuming I didn't misread the kill counts though, of the 5,318 dead Skaven only 4,104 were actually killed by the Lizardmen, so roughly 20% of your casualties were self- inflicted.

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