Worf, from the Deep Space Nine episode Homefront:
“Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth.”
That’s the best way to describe what a Klingon is; Zero fucks, 100% of the time.
What a prompt
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Mac@mander.xyz 7 months ago
this is why cats are untrustworthy.
why do you approach me? i have nothing to offer you. oh, friendly are you—purring amd rubbing against me? what tricks do you play?
you’ll not fool me, feline. 🧐xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 months ago
If the cat thought you had nothing to offer, they wouldn’t be coming to you. I’m pretty sure most house cats have been trained to think humans are magic food dispensers.
angrystego@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They love the pets and scritches too.
theneverfox@pawb.social 7 months ago
It’s actually really fascinating - cats seem to rapidly learn culture while they’re weaning
Cats in Japan are very friendly and trusting of humans, cats in America are more cautious and wary
Japan has folklore about multiple variations of cat yokai that range from fickle trickers to malevolent supernatural ones. Cats are considered good luck, killing them invites bad luck. They have euphemisms like being in no position to refuse even a cats help, and their presence being a good omen
America has folklore about cats being bad luck, and tied to witchery. We still use euphemisms about skinning cats, letting them out of bags, swinging them, etc. Killing cats wasn’t abnormal behavior even a century ago
And apparently, if you bring a female Japanese cat to America, it’ll take several generations for the descendents to localize to the culture. They even meow differently
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh that was me in reverse. Waking up to a pack of coyotes wondering if I was the same human. Alas I sat up too quickly, scared them off, and now I’ll never get adopted by a pack of coyotes.
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
dude i think they were trying to see if you were dead so they could get an easy meal
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah I know that. But if not friend, why friend shape?
gmtom@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How is this a science meme?
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 7 months ago
Yog Sothoth cares not for your meaningless mortal science. Ia.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 months ago
Terrazoology and cosmozoology
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So that’s what’s the matter with me
Infynis@midwest.social 7 months ago
Why did you think warlocks are like that?
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Selling your soul is an easy choice when it gets you a 1d8 cantrip that deals a damage type that is almost impossible to be resistant to.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Horny? Tentacles?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
my god is inside me and god wants enchiladas
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 7 months ago
This guy is definitly not Lovecraft
TheHarpyEagle@pawb.social 7 months ago
Clarity_daffodil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve thought about things like this. What if humans could be kept by aliens as pets? What would that be like? Can any extremely bored writer reading this come up with something?
TheHarpyEagle@pawb.social 7 months ago
I’ve talked to my roommates about this, how we’d eat like a bowl of canned chili every day with a dollop of peanut butter as a treat.
Axiochus@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Don’t exclusively eat peanut butter! Apparently it produces some toxin!
Clarity_daffodil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lmaoo that’s so oddly specific, were you guys high af?
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Funny, I actually have a running story in my head like this. People kept in little cages like hamsters, aliens choosing breeding pairs, or training them to fight each other. Some aliens would be debating the ethics of it all while others go, “Humans are much stupider than we are, so it’s okay to treat them like this.”
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There was an episode of The Orville that was kinda like this.
Clarity_daffodil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Whoaa that’s pretty brutal 😭 creative though lol
Sabata11792@ani.social 7 months ago
All it dose is sleep, eat, and stare at a self illuminated window all day.
bamfic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Fred Kwan in Galaxy Quest.
invertedspear@lemm.ee 7 months ago
This is effectively how “On a Pale Horse” by Piers Anthony starts.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not to be confused with “Behold a Pale Horse” by William Cooper. Vastly different subject material.
Zexks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or they’ve never met a human. It’s a learned fear.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 7 months ago
Or they met one that fed them.
Zexks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is a bigger problem. I do enjoy the natural lessons Yellowstone gives to so many visitors though. Those vids are usually amusing to a degree. I’m a sucker for schedenfraud.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
ot really. Not-fear is learned, running away is instinctive.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I always like the analogy of man’s relationship with an ant is how it would be with a fae or elder species and man.
Like if an ant managed to attract the attention of a human and requested it kill a specific ant, the human would respond by simply killing the entire colony as they can’t distinguish one individual ant from another.
That’s what the fae do.
Comment105@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I don’t know what it is about a certain kind of nerd and everything “fae” recently, but I feel like too many things are being associated with faeries, and put under an umbrella term named after them.
It’s like the words magic and supernatural have been replaced by faeit to make it all fairy-esque. Godzilla is a fae, Thor is a fae, Bigfoot is a fae, Kraken is a fae, C’thulu is a fae, Jehovah is a fae.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 7 months ago
At the same time, old folk tales portray these creatures as wild and powerful. Generally not malevolent (certainly not godly), but not something you should mess with.
But I agree it’s the new spooky supernatural go-to. Goblincore is the new zeitgeist and I’m here for it!
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.”
I wouldn’t call Sir Terry Pratchett all that new, and his interpretation of elves and the fay in general comes from myths and legends that predate Tolkien as well as Tolkien himself.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Hasn’t been anything “recent” for me. Check out the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. My favorite depiction of “fae” in a modern setting. Yeah, you still have dew drop fairies and gnomes and shit but you also have giant fuckass murder ogres and insane kelpies and war unicorns.
The second Hellboy movie also did a great job bringing that sort of grimdark feel to the fae lore imo.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
*Godzilla stomps through downtown Tokyo causing wanton destruction*
“Pfft, typical fairy.”
DangedIfYouDid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Basic alt girls with floral/bird tattoos who think making soup was alien enough to be considered magicks love BG3 and DnD. Now their orbiting nerds have accepted their new definition to not be cast out.
It’s another personality substitute after the tattoos, hair dye, and Lovecraft obsessions stopped feeling edgy.