Maybe-Mathematical Musings

It must be possible to build a horror property based on Winnie the Pooh that makes use of and engages with the source text in an interesting and thoughtful way rather than falling back on the cheap shock iconoclasm of "Oh, look, Pooh is killing people." Same for Thomas The Tank Engine, same for, I don't know. Teletubbies. Those first two were the only two where there's a really obvious angle of any kind that I'm frustrated about people ignoring, now I'm just naming shows for small children. Gesturing wildly

Are you familiar with GURPS Fantasy II from GURPS 3e?

There is absolutely no reason you should have been, to be clear. But given this repeated desire, you should go read that review, because they seem like you would be interested.

okay so lots of people acknowledge that the riddle in samson is bullshit, because like, its based on a random thing that happened to samson, but even KNOWING about the lion-honey thing, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?“ is a nonsense answer to “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet”, which is just like….a phrase? and not even a riddle? in any sense of the word? if anything, its more like a werid password

I once read a thing by a folklorist who was trying to argue that bees and honey were, like, a universal myth representing hidden things found by cunning, and tha this justified what otherwise seemed like a total non-sequitur, but it…wasn’t that persuasive. (He liked the theory that Beowulf was actually bee-wulf.)

Huh, I thought it was consensus that "Beowulf" means "Bee Wolf" which means "hunter of honey" which means bear.

Behold the slayer of Grendel: