• Zozano@aussie.zone
    1376·
    1 year ago

    I mean, cute in a 2D depiction, with a lot of detail missing, but think of the reality of the situation.

    Probably smells like shit, literally. Bathes as frequently as she hunts fish.

    Probably has no idea what a toothbrush is, chunks of meat stuck between teeth until the enzymes in her saliva break it down over weeks.

    Anatomically incompatible, probably.

    • Technus@lemmy.zip
      1012·
      1 year ago

      Bro, the genre’s called fantasy for a reason.

      Why you gotta ruin my dream of finding someone who loves me for myself? Unrealistic though it might be…

      • SpeakingColors@beehaw.org
        22·
        1 year ago

        If that’s the same criteria you use for looking for that someone, and you proceed with an open and courageous heart: it won’t be a dream.

        And I would say that we have general artistic conventions of depicting elements the previous commentor suggested: smell lines, meat in teeth, etc… Their absence from the scene leads me to believe the commentor’s interpretation is far from the artist’s intentions.

        • Technus@lemmy.zip
          16·
          1 year ago

          I appreciate the heartfelt advice but I’m mostly just riffing.

          My real problem is that staying home and playing video games is less work and more immediately gratifying than getting out and trying to meet someone, but I recognize that complaining about that just means I’m trying to have my cake and eat it too.

          • exocrinous@startrek.websiteEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Wouldn’t it be eat your cake and still have it? Typically you have cake before you eat it, but you don’t have cake after you eat it. So the eating would go first in the sentence, right? Unless the saying is that you want to have your cake after eating it. Either way you gotta use a word that implies the directional flow of time, because technically you do have cake for most of the duration that you’re eating it.

            • Technus@lemmy.zip
              4·
              1 year ago

              Wouldn’t it be eat your cake and still have it?

              The idiom is generally phrased “have your cake and eat it too” but yeah that’s rather confusing. The way you said it is how I actually understand it in my head.

              I think the way English Common has evolved doesn’t help either, because “to have” is now synonymous with “to eat” in the context of food, but I don’t think it was that way when the idiom was coined. It’s actually about 500 years old according to Wikipedia.

      • strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        181·
        1 year ago

        She doesn’t love you, you’re the first thing she could grab with a heart beat and two legs

        • bastion@feddit.nl
          4·
          1 year ago

          Not true! She ate a monkey yesterday. …and she grabbed it before she ate it.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
        2915·
        1 year ago

        Haven’t smelled too many wild animals have you? They generally do smell like shit.

        • Syd@lemm.ee
          311·
          1 year ago

          No they don’t, who’s your wild animal guy? Somethings wrong.

        • AbsentBird@lemm.ee
          11·
          1 year ago

          What wild animals are you smelling? Farm animals often smell bad, but those are domesticated. I’ve been close to deer, sparrows, rabbits, none of them smelled bad. Some snakes smell bad, but I think that’s on purpose, like a defensive stink.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        You ever smelled a coyote or a raccoon?

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      14·
      1 year ago

      you’re aware humans have existed in the wild for millions of years and we regularly fucked other human species, ye? and people can be in relationships without having sex.

      Goblins that are capable of intelligent speech and understanding and desiring the concept of a husband are well within the limits of acceptability.

      • Zozano@aussie.zone
        41·
        1 year ago

        Anatomically incompatible meaning… Well… You ever tried to put a sausage inside a garden hose?

    • Kedly@lemm.ee
      10·
      1 year ago

      I mean, the many half races in DnD implies that most races arent anatomically incompatible

        • trolololol@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          Minotaur and Centaur is a nope, but Minotaur and dragon is a yes!

          And clearly biped

        • Kedly@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 year ago

          I should have figured there’d be a cross breedability guide!

        • Ithi@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          With the exception of using magic as pointed out at the bottom so I guess if they tried hard enough…

          • bastion@feddit.nl
            31·
            1 year ago

            Family is family, even if it must be created by magic and held together by compulsion. …right?

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      101·
      1 year ago

      Fiction can be whatever you want it to be. There’s no Right way to depict fantasy races/creatures.

    • exocrinous@startrek.websiteEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      Bathes as frequently as she hunts fish.

      Bruh she has two toned hair and it looks good. That woman knows how to use hair dye well. I bet she bathes every day. Or every second day, goblins probably have healthier bathing habits than humans. Humans are so obsessed with cleanliness they don’t give their bodies time to apply its own natural measures. You’re not supposed to wash your hair with shampoo every day, you’ll damage it. And no conditioner above the neck. Your hair’s natural oils will come in and you’ll have healthy locks that shine. Constantly stripping your hair’s natural oils away will just make you dependent on shampoo and conditioner.

      • Zozano@aussie.zone
        41·
        1 year ago

        Does your doctor prescribe your copeium, or is it synthesised in your bathtub?

    • pjnick@ttrpg.network
      3·
      1 year ago

      Clean shaven arms and legs, combed hair (with highlights?), and an earring all imply that the goblin does care about and maintain her hygiene/appearance

    • paragade@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Making a lot of assumptions and claims about a literal fantasy creature.

      • Zozano@aussie.zone
        12·
        1 year ago

        Sure, but I’m probably right, based off franchise lore.