Ambulocetus in the Light
The world is haunted by a past far older than ours. Whales once walked on land. Sometimes the land remembers them--or they remember the land.
Homage to history and my beautiful but fraught Pacific Northwest.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL
“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”
Imagine a person who only consumes Batman-related media. That is, they only watch movies and TV shows that have Batman in them, only read books that are novelisations of Batman media, only play licensed Batman video games, and so forth. This is not so absurd an idea; Batman-related media is sufficiently popular, varied and widespread that restricting one's media consumption in this way is completely feasible. However, I trust we can agree that if you actually do this, you will be left with very strange ideas about what popular media looks like.
The next step in this analogy is undestanding that if the only tabletop RPG you're acquainted with is Dungeons & Dragons, you have the same grasp of the tabletop roleplaying hobby as our hypothetical Batman Guy has of popular media.
I think if we got vane on hot ones he'd ignore the white bald dude and just hunch over like and dog and eat every single wing right to the bone not a single drop of sweat. nd he'd eat the cartilage too. and then he'd wipe his saucy hands on the table and get up without answering a single question