They keep demanding a worthless quail bone bracelet, menacing with spikes of dolomite, and I hold my ground.
The furnaces with course with the metal of their melted armor, and the rivers shall run with goblin blood… and hallways because DF is weird with water pollutants.
Uhh huh huh… you said depth.
I think that’s the point of a rape whistle, people might ignore a call for help, but will instinctively look towards a shrill piercing whistle.
They might not help, but extra visibility might deter the attacker.
I’ll also toss A Way with Words on the pile too. It’s a long running NPR-adjacent radio show/podcast about linquistics.
My favorite was a dive they did on the descriptor “like a dead preacher” to refer to an annoying awkward thing to move.
I’ld be curious to see them revive Speedy with the less-than-flattering characters.
Every culture has a stereotype of a lazy/drunk/yokel, but there’s a proportion issue. A village of regular workin’ mice, one or two lazy slow or old mice and it’s no problem.
Apu wasn’t a problem at first, outside of him being voiced by a white dude doing Indian face, his orginal character was he was a hard working immigrant who had thinly veiled frustration for the lazy spoiled idiots he has to serve to make ends meet. Only to end it with the expected nice-ities expected of a clerk. As the series went on they leaned more into his Indian heritage, without there being any Indians on staff. They went out of their lane and the character suffered for it.
I’m not Indian though, and it’s been a while since I saw the early seasons. Grain of salt. Cutting him out of the show whole cloth sucked though, not a ton of Indian characters on TV.
Atleast Bob’s Burgers brought back Marshmallow when they decided to retool her a bit.
My mother loved the Taco Bell Chihuahua, we had like a half dozen talking plushes of him saying different things.
Was it racist? kinda probably yeah a bit, but it wasn’t hateful.
Trafficking in stereotypes at most?
Hell yeah man, Persist.
Outlive your enemies.👍
Hey OP, it’s me, Wetstew. You doing alright?
“You be careful Hank! Alabaster may be little but he’ll mess you up.”
“No offense, but he’s from Oklahoma”
Hol’ up, I wasn’t paying attention. Is Fields the name of OP’s new grandmother?
Seems like it is a protest against the dumb-ass anti-trans shit the people in power in this state are pulling.
Did anyone see the English language patch notes?
What was the thought process? Nightmares.
It started as a prank, but now fascists unironically use the ok sign.
It’s a dog whistle. They use something innocent to signal to others in their ingroup, and call people stupid when they call them out on it.
The tattoo is excellent, but to permanently have it on your skin is a level of irony poisoning I aspire to have one day.
An upside of apocalyptic environmental collapse due by the end of the century is The Elders™ trying to explain their very specific joke tattoos to the younglings.
IIRC, it’s more that they over time figure out what sounds and actions get their owner’s attention. We respond better, unconsiously or otherwise when they meow at us.
My old cat figured out, before I did, that if she knocks shit off the coffee table I get up and check if her bowl is empty.
Generally wild/feral adult cats are more or less mute outside of anger/mating/territory calls, but domesticated cats keep their kitten vocalizations if we respond to them.
My current cat is very vocal and we responded playfully to his meowing as he grew up.
Edit: Here’s a scientific american blog/article about it. I don’t think it’s something we have confirmation on, just a good hunch.