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parttimetrickster
delphinidin4

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dramaticowl

[Image description: several tweets re a Christmas Carol:

Tweet 1: by James Felton @JimMFelton:

“Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol:

  • long
  • reading
  • what the fuck, no muppets?

A Muppet’s Christmas Carol:

  • fuckload of muppets
  • no cheeses for us meeces
  • actually contains Charles Dickens
  • twice the number of Marleys for your buck
  • Rizzo

Tweet 2: by Chauncey Sugarsweets @yourpalchauncey:

“director: okay so it’s a Christmas Carol, but with muppets so. You know. Feel free to have fun with it. Be a little silly

Michael Caine: I am going to play this entire thing as serious as a car accident”

Below that is a screenshot of Michael Caine as Scrooge from the Muppet Christmas Carol. He is looking to his right and has a grim expression.

Tweet 3: by Dave Probert @DaveJProbert: “Michael Caine deserved an Oscar for The Muppet Christmas Carol purely for his delivery of the line ‘This is old Fozziewig’s rubber chicken emporium’ like it was a line straight from Dickens” Tweet 4: by ALJ Dredd @UnionSaltBae: “I think it’s high time that those of us in movement work start using the Muppet Christmas Carol method of shaming public figures. Every time a bad person leaves a building, 100 people should jump out and start singing a song about how bad they are (puppets optional)” /End ID.]

nudityandnerdery
probablybadrpgideas

Discussing the whole "always evil species" thing I'm genuinely annoyed by how much more sense D&D lore makes if elves turn good when they're above ground and evil when they're below ground.

Your elf buddy goes down to get something from the basement and immediately starts cackling and kicking your stuff. "Dammit Bob!" you say, trying to get him up the stairs so he turns good again.

probablybadrpgideas

Anyway my personal headcanon after the discussion is that, as elves are beings of nature, each subspecies governs a different aspect of nature. Wood Elves are tasked with protecting the beautiful parts of nature, the flowers and the deer, while the Drow are charged with protecting the repellent parts, the scavengers and the vermin. They're not evil- cockroaches are just as important to the ecosystem as butterflies, and the majestic lion is far more dangerous then any venomous scuttling thing. But alas, it's easy to assume about the figure who speaks for the spiders and the mould.

High Elves, for their part, are tasked with guiding domesticated nature, protecting nature as it intertwines with civilization, which is why they live in cities and work to interact with the other species.

nudityandnerdery

...okay, but consider for the original "elves go evil when they're underground" applied to the idea of a rivalry between elves and dwarves.

"I don't know why the dwarven settlements refuse to visit! We're perfectly nice!" "The last time you visited them, you committed three distinct acts of arson and asked a very racist line of questioning about if gnomes were just 'short dwarves who had a sense of humor,' and that was just during the welcoming ceremony."