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being someone who's passionate about their interests when you're a horror fan really is a special layer of hell because every interaction you have with another person where the conversation turns to your hobbies and personal entertainments is a trial where if you show too much unrepentant glee at getting an opportunity to talk about your preferred subject you get to watch them mentally move you onto their list of untrustworthy individuals to avoid in the future in real time

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Source: The New York Tattler, July 8, 1909.

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Female werewolves were a major part of my master's thesis! We do see SOME female werewolves in pop-culture but mostly in "cult classics" like Ginger Snaps (2000) and Cursed (2004). Ginger Snaps does an especially good job of addressing the disruption of gender and gender roles that comes with lycanthropy. Still, they are far and few between.

Historically female werewolves are also fairly rare. Though tales of werewolf-like beings have been around for as long as people have told stories, many of the documented stores and published literature of werewolves feature men. Still, we see an instance of female lycanthropy in "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" (1839).

In TWWotHM, a step-mother is the one who transforms into a beast. This story also addresses the disruption of gender roles as she -pretty horrifically- fails in her role as a mother-figure. This story also illustrates the dangers of people's attempts to "tame" that which is wild.

So, in short, I absolutely agree that female werewolves are rare and when they do appear in both pop-culture and historical literature, it's almost always as a commentary of femininity and gender roles!

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

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babe i love you but your confusion of the anglo saxons and the britons was just fucking embarrassing. and to make matters worse you even then called Shakespearian English "old english" instead of early modern English. get out of my room already

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When I say I cackled...

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The REAL polyam mood. Everybody brace yourselves for this DOOZY, this ALL TOO REAL look INSIDE THE MIND of a polyamorous person:

I like it when people love me and consider me special :) I would like as many people to do this as is feasible :))

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Actually I think Veilguard should include an option where your inquisitior was romancing Solas but it's been 10 years now and she's settled down with a nice guy named Garry. You get to design Garry but no matter what Garry shows up. He's really boring and he talks about fire safety all the time. Idk man I think that'd be really fucking funny.

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man if I saw an elf nobody would be able to stop me

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so funny in dragon age inquisition where everyone was like "hoooly fuck. can solas shut up. can he stop talking about spirits and the fade for 5 fucking secondsss." is like if you had a coworker who texted you nonstop like "broooo I love surfing i love the sea 💦🏝⛵🌊 haha water and shit yo. man let's hit some waves let's cowabunga let's swim with the fishiessss haha hmu" and then you find out he's poseidon

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"i miss when the dragon age companions were mean" y'all can't even handle vivienne

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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

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cephalopodssss

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Chicago Tribune, Illinois, November 19, 1920

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If I ruin my sleeping schedule for you, consider yourself special.