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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 98 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.website 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 points 8 months 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.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago

The goblin swinging a club on the other hand...

[–] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 25 points 8 months ago

Beggars can't be choosers.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why is your dream a tiny filthy goblin? You can do better.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 82 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am a big filthy goblin pretty much. A hobgoblin, if you will.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago
[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Holding out for orc husbando myself.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

then hit me up if your still looking

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 8 points 8 months ago

I think that might just be a hobgoblin?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't think I could go with someone who's like 2 feet tall.

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

You! You…height-ist!

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 months ago

Hey, that's not fair to the goblin.