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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not 🌙 wolf / 🌕 werewolf. Unless there's a different kind werewolves I don't know about.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You need to read some Terry Pratchett. There's a lovely story about a lady werewolf who's embarrassed by her condition, and a wolf that turns into a wolf man type thing.

They kiss.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] scholar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I think it was a different couple from Reaper Man who were part of the club that Windle Poons joined. The girl was Mrs Cosmopolitan's daughter if I remember. And the man was only a man three nights a month.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ludmilla and Lupine, I think they were from reaper man.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

What happens if you bite a werewolf?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They kiss.

Now you just lost like, 90% of Lemmy with these wild, unrealistic stories of fantasy situations they've never imagined even possible.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Argh. That doesn't work. The "were-" in "werewolf" means "man" and there are no humans in that comic.

Unfortunately there don't seem to be many ancient synonyms for "house" like there are for "human", so it's not really possible to obfuscate the meaning in the way that "were-" does.

house-warehouse doesn't really roll off the tongue well, and it's open to the misinterpretation of "houseware-house", which is something else entirely.

Badly translating back into Old English gives hūswāruhūs, which, if you corrupt vowels to "huswarahus", does kind of sound like a cryptid.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago

It still works as a pun, and is funny.

Comedy is not meant to be logical.