Crom, Kobold King @vahnj@awoo.space

@Mycroft or maybe later cuz i just realized i gotta get doing stuff today v_v

@Mycroft oh yeah Tanya, I volunteer for her at pax!

the podcast should still be around, lemme poke her and see if she knows what episode that was

@lizardsquid i'm so glad you're doing this

a lot of stuff about monsters in mythos are about putting a name and a story into fears about the world

for a lot of creatures, especially humanoids, unfortunately that's manifested in "these creatures are a stand-in for a particular people we don't like"

drow are like the most emblematic of this - an organized race of underground matriarchs who worship spiders sounds very much like the background of some african mythos i've read

is there a way to reclaim drow from being purely a racist caricature?

i don't really think so personally

orcs have been kinda recovered a little bit but LOTR orcs were definitely racist stereotypes

the thing about drow is they can also be said to be effectively dwarves of norse mythos - the svartalfar, which do match their descriptions in many ways - but i haven't studied it enough to know if that mythic creature was *also* borne of racial stereotypes

that was not something i wanted on the ptl

@typhlosion *hugs*

@Felthry @typhlosion welcome to Gender Queen and/or King how may i take your order