#fissilingual

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Almanach Vermot 1939 Textes et anecdotes animaliers : L'île des monstres  ( l'île de KOMODO )

Dragon (Varan) de Komodo Il y a quelques mois le Jardin Zoologique de Rome a annoncé qu’il venait de s’enrichir d’un ” varano “. Qu’est-ce qu’un ” Varano ” ? C’est un mot italianisé pour désigner le varan. Et qu’est-ce que le varan, allez-vous demander ? C’est un animal appartenant à la famille des reptiles sauriens fissilingues, famille comprenant une trentaine d’espèces de l’Afrique et dont…

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Sucks to be u achilles

“You’re too old to have your chest hanging out like that,  fissilingual woman.”

[simonalkenmayer]

Are there any cryptid or mythical creatures you don't find offensive/think are a reasonable representation of your kind?

Let’s be clear. I don’t find all human versions of my species offensive. Most are just misunderstandings, and many of them, like the Wendigo, become engrained in a culture as a fairly large cultural unit carrying a tremendous amount of social structure, morality, ethics, religious significance. I don’t find those offensive, because in many ways, that’s simply how it is when two groups collide. So too, is it true that those cultural units are important, impactful, meaningful. They do beneficial things. The Wendigo, for example, since I’ve used it above, is a kind of morality play. First Nations peoples believe any human can become one if infected with negative emotions. It’s a kind of stabilizing tale. I don’t feel offended by it. I wish it wasn’t necessary for humans to vilify my species to improve their own ability to survive, but it’s how things are.

On the other hand, modern fictions like the vampire and werewolf, creatures you’ve altered drastically with fiction after fiction, slowly folding yourself into the myth, torturously transforming it into something you want to fuck...is a bit offensive. I also find it offensive when people throw that at me as an insult, use it as if I’m one more cast-off nonsense piece written by humans. It offends me greatly when my personal boundaries are not respected. 

So essentially, I find it mildly annoying when humans borrow my species and use it in a self-correcting way, without taking our feelings into account, but I understand that this comes rom fear and from the fact that my species isn’t fond of hanging about to have a beer and talk about its feelings. I find fictions that involve fabulist humans forming me or mine into foils, fops, fraternizing fellows, fissilingual, facinorous fagins or any other festering facile flamm to be farcical and won’t they please fuck right off?

My honest opinion. In alliterative detail.

[the-lexicographer]

Word of the Day

Fissilingual, /fis’il-ling’ül/ - Having a forked tongue, like a lizard. 

       Source: Webster’s Unabridged New Twentieth Century Dictionary, 1956