Grrl Power #1326 – Conniption of the lepus
Just admit you’re a furry, Sydney! Your current boyfriend is covered in the stuff, and not because you’re dating Dan Hedaya or still-alive Robin Williams.
Is a were-reptile in hybrid form room-temperature-blooded? And what would that mean for their metabolism?
I like to think Kat goes to a “Lame Weres Anonymous” meeting. A support group for people bummed out by their animal… uh. Not their animal form so much, but their… spirit animal? No. Their therio-genus I guess. You know what I mean. The bunny rabbits, the naked mole-rats, the Proboscis monkeys, the Aye Aye (unless you already looked like Bobcat Goldthwait or Father Jack, then it wouldn’t feel like a downgrade), the furless Sphynx Cat. No matter what you personally think of those wrinkly gargoyles, if you could turn into a hybrid one and had to stand there next to an actual fucking were-tiger or were-ocelot or panther or something, you would feel robbed. And probably cold.
Kat especially, since she was an accidental were. Or, not accidental, but it wasn’t something she chose. I’m sure there’s some line of were-Sphynx Cats who tell themselves it’s a proud and noble legacy. That might mitigate some of the bum-out factor. The Twilight Council and the Weres in particular try to prevent a bunch of uninformed and/or accidental propagation. The first few transformations can cause disorientation and aggression, especially if they don’t know what’s going on, and that makes for incidents that then have to be covered up at best, and a propagation cascade at worst.
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I dunno, seems to me that “lycanthrope” kinda REQUIRES part-wolf, because, you know, the “lycan” part. So going by the meaning of the word, she isn’t one.
Theriothrope is the unspecified term
Isn’t that therianthrope ?
I assume that’s why most non-wolves I’ve seen in media just say “shifter”, “whatever-morph” or “were-whatever.”
IIRC, werewolves in “True Blood” get hella pissed if any other shifter calls themselves a “were.”
Well that’s just dumb. Wer is the Old English word for human. Anybody who can transform into an animal has just as much right to call themselves weres as the wolf-men do. When people call it a were-whatever whenever someone transforms into an animal, it’s one of the few times in fiction where it’s actually linguistically correct. As opposed to, say, calling a specialized magic user a whatever-mancer.
Unless they’re specialised in divination using whatever?
Yeah but that’s never how it’s used in fiction. A necromancer isn’t someone who raises the dead to fight their foes, they only ask the dead what the future holds in store. But people writing books and video games and whatnot don’t care because they still need something to call the class of people who are raising skellingtons from the dead to torment the yeomanry
Actually, the ‘wer’ comes for the Norse ‘to hold power’. It was a loan word to the English, and the English used it as it was most generally used in the Norse, as in reference to heads of household (which was a non-gendered term). Similarly, wif was the social inverse in Norse culture (one the Wer held power over, also gender neutral), but when the English borrowed THAT term, they gendered it, turning it into “wife”, as a way to begin enforcing Roman patriarchy (and then that bled back into Norse culture and… bleg). As Catholicism took hold, the idea of a person NOT being beholden to a god (or more specifically, the Christian god), and holding their own power was antithetical to the belief system, and there was effort to rebrand a wer as “just a man”, and eventually came to mean as such (in the gender neutral mankind sense of man).
That said, all that is just me nit-picking etymology.
Either way, “wer-whatever” (or the more modern “were-whatever”) still works, because they hold the power of the animal.
So wer-bunny, wer-crocodile, wer-triceratops, etc. all work just fine.
Though, worth noting one difference in the terms, that in the original and proper sense of the term, Jiggawatt could be considered a wer-lightining.
meanwhile in Japanese the phrase “a so” (which is pronounced “ah so”) translates actually means “ah so” in English. Neither language got it from the other.
Also, the Ancient Egyptian word for “cat is “mao” which is pronounced nearly identically to the Mandarin “mao” which in Mandarin means “cat”.
If two languages can independently come up with the word or same phrase with nearly identical pronunciation, and it has the same meaning in both languages, surely two languages could come up with words that sound identical to each other and have completely different meaning.
I don’t even have to speculate, could name some for you.
BTW, Wer did mean “human” or “man” in Old English. It’s derived from the Proto-Germanic weraz, which also means “man” or “male human.” It is related to the Latin vir, which means “man” (as seen in words like virile).
I am unable to corroborate that Norse had a “wer” as a word at all, nevermind with that meaning. The closest I can find is the word “víri” which means “power” or “might” in a physical strength rather than political sense. Old Norse on the other hand does have a word for werewolf though. It’s varúlfur. It’s var meaning man, and úlfur meaning wolf. Var has an identical etymology to the Old English Wer.
I am interested in what sources you have where Norse or Old Norse having the word “wer” meaning what you claim
Wifwolf is such a cute word
The term lycanthrope comes from King Lycaon of Arcadia, the first werewolf.
Theriothrope then
Dinothrop, Xoanathrop the”Throp” suffix is acceptable to all human hybrids on R34
Triceratops (and all dinosaurs) were not cold blooded.
This is because they weren’t reptiles.
They were warm-blooded, just like birds (which are also dinosaurs) are.
Still no breasts (that we know of), but also not cold-blooded.
Just saying.
Of course birds have breasts! They don’t have mammaries, I grant you; but I definitely ate some chicken breast just yesterday.
First time posting. Looking at these comments, some people need to get a refresher on how taxonomy works. Reptiles are a Clade, that includes turtles, lizards(and through them snakes) and all archosaurs living or extinct(including living and extinct crocodilians, Pterosaurs, Rauisuchians and dinosaurs(and through them birds)) and probably some other groups I can’t name do to being either rare or extinct.
You can’t evolve out of a group, just into a new subdivision, which means that birds are ultimately a type of reptile(but not a lizard, which is what seems to be tripping people up).
And as for the “warm-blooded” thing, Dinosaurs(being a very large, old and long-lasting group composed of many different divergent subgroups and species) actually ran the gamut. Some were cold-blooded, some were warm-blooded, and some were actually this middle of the road approach that was not quite cold-blooded and not quite warm-blooded that doesn’t really exist today in modern species.
Birds for instance are naturally descended from a dinosaur group that went warm-blooded but that doesn’t mean all dinosaur groups were. Or even if they stayed warm-blooded(modern crocodilians are descended from a warm-blooded ancestor that eventually went back to being cold-blooded because it suited their lifestyle better).
Not every taxonomic system is cladistic. “Reptiles” are still taught in schools as a class of vertebrates, alongside fish, birds, mammals, and amphibians, and classified based on shared characteristics. With our modern understanding of dinosaurs, they would not fit in this class.
While in terms of cladistics, it’s probably better to use Sauropsida, since that’s explicitly defined using the cladistic approach. In common usage, though, paraphyletic groups are still useful even if they’re not as precise as cladistics.
I love that you know who Father Jack is, that is wonderful niche knowledge.
DRINK! FECK! ARSE! GIRLS!
Hmm Maybe a Were-otter
A Wotter?
a Wooper
I have a feeling Katrina was a dinosaur girl when she was a kid, she probably wanted to be a dinosaur.
Warning: Do not approach angry bunny if your name is Ed Gruberman.
Whaaa whaaa!
Observe closely, class.
BOOT TO THE HEAD! (Swooosh-Thunk!)
Ed: OW! You booted me in the HEAD!
I’m just trying to figure out what that thing she kicked was, cement mixer spilling concrete or burial urn spilling ashes?
From the people in the second frame, it would have to be a very large urn.
I’m going with cement mixer.
I think it is important to note that Miss Legs there sees in Therioscopic Vision™.
Has nobody ever been played bloody roar? A bunch of confused and unhappy animal hybrids are in danger of getting the x-men treatment.
Years ago, I played in a TTRPG where we were all supernatural creatures. My character was a linguist and researcher, and an ovanthrope.
Yeah. A weresheep. The smart guy in a bunch of people who are basically Hellboy and friends. Totally useless. Until he’s the only one who can read the weird glyphs, reverse the demon portal and save the world. (And then throw up.)
Then you’d like this movie called ‘Black Sheep.’
Not the one with Chris Farley and David Spade. The other one. Written in 2006. Takes place in New Zealand. I won’t spoil it for you but here’s the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oH_KUN_rZU
Classic Kiwi movie :)
Y’all need to introduce this girl to Basil Stag Hare from Redwall. He’s one of the coolest characters in the books.
Is that one of the ‘friendly’ vampire girls next to Anvil in the second last panel?
as i noted at the bottom of page one, yes. I was wondering if the ‘construction workers’ are Achilles and Mr. Amorphous.
If you can impress a ‘cool-ass dinosaur’, you have nothing to be ashamed about
Poor Kat has been focusing so much on what she is, she has overlooked what she can do :(
In the last panel she looks like the rabbit mom on Winnie the Pooh.
Sydney question: what happens if you get bite by two separate animal forms at the same time? Do you become a hybrid. Or half and half. Or does one takes over the other?
Whatever, I’d rather be a were-rabbit. Rabbits are awesome.
Now if you were to say were cat, then we’re talking. But Dinosaur? Impractical.
I would just like to point out that despite dinosaurs “being cool”, modern life more highly evolved, and thus, overall, capable of much more.
For example, as thrilling as the Jurassic Park movies are, human bodies (and in fact, the bodies of most things on Earth) would be so toxic to dinosaurs thanks to the biological toxins arms race that happened after the asteroid, that not only would they immediately back off after getting a taste of human blood, they’d probably fall over dead in moments. And humans are among the more toxic to the point to where our raw poop can’t be used for fertilizer: we’re too toxic for even plants. In fact, the list of creatures that can eat a human and survive is surprisingly small.
And that’s only one of the advantages. There’s a lot more.
Typically only herbivore and bird poop is useful for fertilizer, it has nothing to do with asteroids or a toxin arms race, it has to do with the differences between carnivore and herbivore gastrointestinal tracts.
What the heck kind of evolutionary advantage is there to poisoning something that eats your poop? That’s just absurd.
I found this webcomic like, a week ago, if that.
and now I’m very upset because I’ve run out of new pages.
Poor little bunny. Having become a 12 is such a hard fate to bear.
Dare you to call her a ‘poor little bunny’ to her face
Depends on how well she knows me. But since all interaction would happen on paper, no problem. She could beat me up on paper.
Kat looks like a koala facially now :(
Rabbits are plantigrade, not digitigrade. Meaning their rear feet are structurally more like human feet… they have a heel and everything just like human feet. A hybrid form should have a really big human like foot… You could go so far as to say they have feet, not paws.
strictly speaking, dinosaurs aren’t reptiles. they’re more like birds.
I request further examination of the big dino lass! For uhh…. science! Yeah science! I’m part of the research team!
Test.