Acceptance of the diversity of life does nothing for comedy but enhance your repertoire.
Acknowledgement of diversity without acceptance reduces all "jokes" to the same core of hatred, inherently limiting your comedic potential.
Once you learn to accept life's many forms and expressions, you can finally make jokes as diverse as the universe you're a part of.
The dragon noodled around the delicious smelling box.
"What is it?" He sniffed excitedly, and I was thankful he was only a little thicker than my thumb, as he was as long as I was tall.
"Seafood pizza," I answered.
He yipped, "With shrimp?"
I nodded, and he looped onto my shoulders.
"Family! Come! Our new human friend Fyn--" he paused and glanced at me.
"They."
"Our new human friend Fyn, they brought us a most esteemed offering!"
a use of language i really hate, humancentrism
I hate it when people say things like "they treated (person) like a dog".
As if the natural state of things was to treat dogs badly, or at least as inferiors, and the true horror was not that the person was treated badly but that they were treated in a manner "befitting" a "lesser" species.
PSA about the word human
Please stop using the word human when you mean something else or talking about everybody or a group, not every body, being, person, individual or system is or contains human(s) and it can be quite discouraging, upsetting and dysphoria inducing when being called such. Thank you.
The cats followed, silent and almost unseen, but the young merchant was keen eyed enough to notice.
It was unnerving... Were the rumors of a witch living in this town true? A witch who kidnapped unwary travelers?
A witch whose wit and wiles and wicked ways were thoroughly depraved and carnal.
The merchant ducked into a dark tunnel, pausing midway.
"Take me to your mistress," she said as the cats caught up, "She sounds... fun."
#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Caturday #Fantasy
@nautilee infected me with this idea, and I had to make it happen.
(Audio includes gunshots from a video game and glass breaking)
Synthy three-headed sharkdragon running kobold hivemind software that enjoys all things technical and endlessly chipping away at optimization problems.