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Androgny in Fantasy

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65279529

Mar 13 at 12:16pmWeb
Show threadRhoeriMar 13
Do they mean anatomy?
Show threadcowfodderMar 13
No, they don’t
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 13
nope. androgyny. guess how angry people get when your nonbinary dude is a fat guy who is angry back with a beard and nonmasculine tits.
Show threadRhoeriMar 13
What?
Show threadBremboTheFourthMar 13
No damn way dwarves aren’t cheeked up. They literally spend all day carrying heavy loads and mining. They’re just short and covered in gear so you aren’t blinded by their majesty
Show threadQuandaleDingleMar 13
Deep Rock Galactic taught me that much. 😤
Show threadunalivejoyMar 13
Alternatively, humans are just really bad at telling the gender of other races.
Show threadRicky RigatoniMar 13
what fucking world do dwarves have no ass
Show threadgwl [he/him]Mar 13
TheYoungerWhatelyDaughter’s world, I’d assume
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 13
i think the dwarves are so hairy you can’t tell. like longhair kittens and tribbles
Show threadBladeFederationMar 13
You can tell if you knit your ass hair into a braid.
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 13
Question about dwarf ass hair beard braids (that is a clause I never thought I’d think). Does that come from on top of or between? Or heaven forbid both?
Show threadBladeFederationMar 13
Definitely both
Show threadOmegaMar 13
It’s like Squirrel Girl. You think she has a massive badonkadonk. But it’s really just her tail stuffed into her pants.
Show threadIron LynxMar 15
That’s gotta be uncomfy as hecc. Any Squirrel Person worth their salt would probably have some furgonomics applied to their clothes to let that tail swing free.
Show threaddumplesMar 13
If you’re dwarf women don’t have beards you are doing it wrong
Show threadnight_petalMar 14
Dwarf women do have beards. They’re just… lower.
Show threadCarl [he/him]Mar 13
kobolds: a hole is a hole
Show threadsirblastalot6d ago
cloaca
Show threadAngryCommieKenderMar 13
Except Konsi. She’s just fabulous.
Show threadGraniteMMar 13

Elf…no ass

Excuse you…

Show threadCornbreadMar 14
part of what i love about orcbarbies’ artstyle and worldbuilding. she makes hella spicy stuff, but it’s consistent within her world, and each race (primarily orcs and goblins) has its own unique gender characteristics. also they’re all hot as fuck.
Show threadbrown567Mar 14

In my little project worldbuild, elves have 4 sexes (possibly six, a topic of intense scholarly debate).

Dwarves reproduce by carving a sculpture and imbuing it with a portion of their soul. It’s usually a collaborative effort, with most dwarves having three to five parents (though it’s not unheard of to have only one parent, and royalty often have hundreds). They generally mimic human sex characteristics, but it’s up to the sculptors and most dwarves don’t see it as crucial to their identity

I haven’t quite worked out orcs yet, but I’m leaning toward them living in eusocial tribes, largely inspired by naked mole rats

Show threadHasturInYellowMar 14
I enjoy all of this world building. Proceed.
Show threadregdogMar 14
Orcs should reproduce asexually by releasing spores via their blood. So the more orcs fight (and the more orc blood is spilled) the more orcs will sprout from the ground.
Show threadbrown567Mar 14

That’s a really cool concept! But one of my design choices was to stick to D&D5e-compatible races in case I want to run a campaign in-world

So I needed in-world reasons why orcs and elves could hybridize with humans, but the other races couldn’t. For example, a human could participate in the creation of a dwarf, and it would contain part of their soul and be as much their child as its other parents’, but the result wouldn’t be a half-dwarf, it’d just be a dwarf =)

Show threadIron LynxMar 15
Isn’t that basically how 40k Orcs do it?
Show threadregdogMar 15
Yeah, I should have given credit to Warhammer in my comment