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What? No. The reptilian version was not because of a connection to mines, and the dogmen kobolds had nothing to do with a misinterpretation by Asian artists, and neither had anything to do with folklore beyond the name. They were both because of D&D. That's it. They were D&D depictions. A lot of things that people now take for granted in modern fantasy gaming originated in D&D, and both the dog and reptile versions of the kobold are among them.

There was no detailed description of kobolds in the first-edition D&D Monster Manual (just that they had horns and no hair, and their color so players knew what colors to paint their miniatures), and they had no connection to mines. (Yes, in the original folklore kobolds were associated with mines, of course, but not in D&D. Gary Gygax just needed more humanoid enemies of different power levels and borrowed the name without using any of its other associations.) The artist, however, chose to depict them as... sort of scaly dogmen.

(If there were dogman kobolds in Asian fantasy works, it's because they took them from D&D. It wasn't at all uncommon for Japanese fantasy games to borrow from D&D; heck, half the monsters in the original Final Fantasy were straight-up D&D ripoffs.)

By second edition, however, while the text of the Monstrous Manual still described them as scaly, they weren't depicted as so obviously such in the illustrations, and they were given more canine features; the Monstrous Manual described them as "smell[ing] of damp dogs" and having a language that "sounds like small dogs yapping". Here's a second-edition kobold illustration by Tony DiTerlizzi:

One influential second-edition boxed-set adventure, however, Dragon Mountain, centered around a large tribe of kobolds that lived in a dragon's lair and served the dragon. At the time, this was supposed to be unusual; that's how this kobold tribe chose to live their lives, but this kobold tribe was exceptional; that wasn't the norm. But the Dragon Mountain kobolds were popular enough that in third edition Wizards of the Coast just decided that's what kobolds were now; they were little guys that loved dragons, and so what the hey they were now little dragon-people because why not.

And that's what kobolds have been in D&D (and highly D&D-derived games like Pathfinder) ever since.

Neither the dog kobold nor the reptile kobold had anything whatsoever to do with kobolds of folklore beyond the name; those were both 100% D&D things, just in different editions. The WoW rat kobold may not be any more "accurate" than the D&D kobolds, but it's not any less so, either. I'm not a big fan of World of Warcraft, but if D&D can get away with making dogman kobolds and dragonman kobolds, I don't see why it's any less valid for WoW to make ratman kobolds. Not everything has to (or should) copy D&D.

I might be the wow apologist, but I can never forgive them for what they did to their kobolds

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I have been weaning myself away from Microsoft products; I've started using LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office (and I never used Outlook in the first place) and am currently actively looking for a replacement for OneDrive (it's not that I haven't found any viable replacements; it's that I've found too many and I have to look further into them and decide between them), but yeah, the prospect of abandoning Windows for Linux is kind of daunting. Not that I don't plan to do it eventually, and not that in the long run it's not very possible I'll end up liking Linux better; but the actual process of transitioning to Linux is something that I am not super eager to do. Currently my plan is that the next time I get a new computer I'll get one with Linux, but I don't think I'm going to try installing Linux on my current computer...

Installing Linux was fucking painful

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There are many things wrong with me.

"Firefox sucks" "firefox is clunky" "firefox doesn't work" with all due respect what the fuck are you talking about

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False. I currently have 40,080 open tabs divided among six Firefox windows and it's working just fine.

"Firefox sucks" "firefox is clunky" "firefox doesn't work" with all due respect what the fuck are you talking about

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Not that it detracts from the point here, but the top picture is the Pacific Palisades/Malibu fire, not Pasadena. Pasadena is an inland city; it's not that close to the ocean.

(Again, this doesn't detract from the point, of course; both fires happened at about the same time and for basically the same reasons...)

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Since first one was really popular, here is my next vampire comic. This one is inspired by old anime and....it is the tale about me and my friend and our love for vampire romances :D

(I put both of my comics on Gumroad if you want to support me https://chechula.gumroad.com/ ....well, it is same thing as here just in the PDF x_x )

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spreading my attention across several things at once to make no progress on any of them at maximum efficiency

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I feel like these are very much not mutually exclusive...

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Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.

The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.

The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.

The “get stuff done while you wait” method.

The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.

The “break the task into smaller steps” method.

The “treat yourself like a pet” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.

The “put on a persona” method.

The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.

The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.

The “wait for a trigger” method.

The “do it for your future self” method.

The “might as well” method.

The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.

The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.

The “make it easy” method.

The “junebugging” method.

The “just show up” method.

The “accept when you need help” method.

The “make it into a game” method.

The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.

The “trick yourself” method.

The “break it into even smaller steps” method.

The “let go of should” method.

The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.

The “fork theory” method.

The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.

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Huh, okay, guess I live in Chile now.

chile's true form

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Sadly, I just got one of those ads yesterday. The king is apparently still in power.

On the other hand, now that I think of it I haven't seen any mobile ads with that rich jerk in suspenders lately...

notice how you used to constantly get ads with a cartoon king that had to be saved from dangerous puzzles but not anymore now? why? peasant revolution

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Look Scared.

P.S. I'm selling a set of limited edition signed prints for the next few days only! See them here: https://poorlydrawnstore.com/pages/ea_poorly-drawn-lines

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Well, just for the record, one of those things is not like the others. Mr. Blobby was never a genuine children's show character; he was always intended to be creepy, or at least annoying. Noel's House Party wasn't a children's show; it was a comedy variety show; and the character of Mr. Blobby was created for a prank segment where he was falsely passed off as an established children's show character and kind of took off from there. He did apparently years later make two guest appearances on a children's game show, but aside from that I think he's only appeared in adult shows. Mr. Blobby's whole thing is that he's a violent, incomprehensible parody of children's show characters.

The others in your list don't have that excuse, though.

whats with childrens tv shows being genuinely fucking creepy?

the Teletubbies, Noseybonk (from Jigsaw), Mr. Blobby (from Noel's House Party), Raťafák Plachta (from Slniečko), Pingu, the list goes on. I don't get it.

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Here's your daily reminder to click for Palestine!!!

U.S. residents, take 5 minutes and use this link to pressure your members of Congress to stop sending weapons to the Israeli military!!

(Letter variants you can copy/paste under the cut!!)

Original letter written by Jewish Voice for Peace:

I am writing as your constituent to ask that you do everything in your power to press the Biden administration to suspend all weapons shipments to the Israeli military, and oppose all future military funding to Israel. The Israeli government has vowed to push forward with a large-scale military operation in Rafah, even though President Biden has repeatedly said such an operation would be a "red line." On May 7, the Israeli military seized the Rafah border crossing, a crucial passage for humanitarian aid, and ordered 100,000 Palestinians in eastern Rafah to evacuate. The 1.3 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah will have nowhere to flee should a full invasion commence. Millions of Palestinian lives now hang in the balance. I urge you to do everything in your power to stop this unfolding catastrophe before it's too late. Thank you.

Slight variations I created (so that emails don't get marked as spam for being identical to each other)

Variation 1:

I'm writing to you as your constituent to ask you to do everything you can to pressure the Biden administration into suspending all weapons shipments to the Israeli military and opposing any and all future military funding to Israel! The Israeli government is pushing forward with a large-scale military operation in Rafah. President Biden has repeatedly said such an operation would be a "red line," yet his administration is still supporting this operation. On May 7th 2024, the Israeli military seized the Rafah border crossing, a crucial passage for humanitarian aid, and forced 100,000 Palestinians in eastern Rafah to abandon their homes. 1.3 million Palestinians have been displaced. Those sheltering in Rafah have nowhere to flee during a full invasion. Millions of Palestinian lives now hang in the balance. Their fate lies in the hands on Congress, in your hands. I urge you to do everything in your power to stop this unfolding catastrophe before it's too late. Thank you.

Variation 2:

I'm writing you today to ask that you do everything in your power to convince the Biden administration to stop funding Israel. We have to telk them to stop all shipments of weapons to the Israeli military and oppose all future military funding to Israel. The Israeli government has vowed to push forward with a large-scale military operation in Rafah... President Biden made it clear that such an operation would be a "red line," and yet he continues to fund them. On May 7th of this year, the Israeli military seized the Rafah border crossing, a crucial passage for humanitarian aid, and forced 100,000 Palestinians to flee their own home of Eastern Rafah. Should a full invasion commence, 1.3 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah will have nowhere safe to go. Millions of Palestinian lives now hang in the balance. I am begging you now, as your constituent, to do everything in your power to stop this unfolding catastrophe before it's too late... Thank you

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Right at this moment, no, but pretty much my entire wardrobe is green or at least has green in it, so I'm pretty much always wearing green if I'm wearing anything.

reblog for larger sample size :)

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Poseidon Entertainment ≠ Defunctland. The guy's voice is very similar to Kevin Perjurer's (at least it sounds very similar to me), but it's not him.

(Although I don't know the name of the Poseidon Entertainment guy, and I suppose it's possible his name is also Kevin. Or, heck, I suppose technically I can't actually prove that Kevin Perjurer doesn't also run Poseidon Entertainment as a secret second channel, but that seems... extremely unlikely for several reasons.)

kevin pls you're better than this